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Orthodontics is the specialized branch of dentistry that deals with malocclusions (bad bite). A malocclusion occurs when the jaw and the lips aren’t quite lined up properly, resulting in crooked or misaligned teeth.
Causes of Orthodontic Problems
Most of the time, you develop malocclusion because it runs in your family. Many of our patients who have spacing, crowding, and protrusion issues have it in their genes.
Malocclusions may also be the result of missing teeth, accidents, poor hygiene, illness, as well as destructive oral habits.
The orthodontist usually uses braces and other orthodontic appliances to treat malocclusions. Once your bite is even again, you’ll be able to chew your food properly and your smile will improve too.
The Importance of Orthodontic Treatments
Orthodontic treatments should be given as early as possible. The consequences can be serious if the treatment is delayed or even overlooked. Crooked and crowded teeth can make it hard for you to clean your teeth properly. This can lead to tooth decay, tooth loss and gum disease.
The teeth may also show uneven wear in the surfaces and you may find it harder to talk normally and chew properly. Various types of jaw joint problems can arise due to the extra stress on the gum tissue and supporting bone.
Orthodontic issues also have a psychological component. You may lose your self-confidence. You feel embarrassed to smile or open your mouth naturally. A teenager whose orthodontic issues remain untreated can get into the habit of frowning continuously, and they may be unable to talk without covering their mouth.
Delayed treatments are also invariably more expensive.
When to See an Orthodontist
The American Dental Association recommends that all children should see an orthodontist by the age of 7. But no matter how old you are, you should see an orthodontist if you notice spacing, crowding or protrusion in your teeth. Braces and other orthodontic appliances work for adults as well, and about 20% of all orthodontic patients are over the age of 18. Adults today enjoy advances in orthodontist appliances that make them less visible.
Types of Braces
If you need braces, you have several options.
- Metal braces are extremely durable, though they’re very noticeable. However, some adults are unembarrassed by metal braces and they may even be considered fashionable.
- Invisalign braces in contrast are virtually invisible. They’re also very easy and comfortable to wear. But they’re not designed to treat more complicated orthodontic problems.
- Ceramic braces combine the best traits of metal and Invisalign braces. They can treat the orthodontic issues that Invisalign aligners can’t, yet ceramic braces are also clear so they’re not as noticeable as the metal ones.
Treatment Duration and Cost
Orthodontic treatments usually take 1 to 3 years. After the braces are removed, you’ll be required to wear retainers for a period of time.
Orthodontic treatments are now more affordable than ever. The exact cost will depend on the severity of the malocclusion and the duration of the treatment. You should discuss the cost and financing options before you begin your orthodontic treatment.
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If making the months-long journey to Mars sounds a bit outside your comfort zone, how about a luxurious week cruising around the moon? A century from now, according to Richard Branson, such a journey may be as common as visiting Disney World or traveling across the sea. Of course, the 66-year-old billionaire is keen to make the experience as comfortable as possible — just ike his other brands here on Earth.
"I'd like to have really sexy Virgin hotels in space where people can go and stay in pods, head off in little spaceships around the moon, where they wake up in the morning and then they go back to their pods in the evening," he told Mashable during a Facebook Live interview.
While Branson loves to divine the future, he says his more pressing concern is enabling the creation of a more connected planet. To that end, he's eager to move forward on the launch of his satellite constellation project. The high-tech campaign would see the deployment of a fleet of 648 micro-satellites capable of providing "low-latency, high-speed Internet access" directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.
"Imagine the possibilities for the three billion people in hard-to-reach areas who are currently not connected," Branson said last year. "We're excited for the opportunity for Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne program to help make it possible through low cost, reliable and frequent satellite launches."
As for Virgin Galactic's space tourism plans, the company is slowly putting its new Virgin Spaceship Unity craft through the early stages of aerial testing. Last month, the craft soared in the air for the first time under the wings of its massive mothership, marking a return to the skies for the space company since a tragic accident in 2014.
While Branson has stopped giving deadlines for when he believes the first tourists might hitch a ride to space, he still firmly believes the experience is one that eventually will be pursued by nearly everyone.
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Statistics cannot deny how Facebook and other social media has become part of peoples’ lives. In a study conducted by students in the Philippines, it was found out that most students get hold of news or information not from the traditional media outfits but through social media through Facebook.
Though Facebook is an avenue of freedom of expression, some people tend to go beyond what others find as acceptable online behaviors. Though it is understood that people are from different cultures, there are still general norms that everyone should observe online.
The following are considered unacceptable online behaviors users should avoid.
1. Bringing fights online. Posts such as “bitch, what are you fighting for;” “Don’t mess with me;” and others and the lists go longer and longer. These are very derogatory. Misunderstandings can be solved with proper communication. Social media is not the proper avenue for personal arguments. They involve people who don't even know what the post is all about.
2. Salary braggart. Salary enables people to provide for their basic needs but it does not need to go online. What is the purpose? For people to know how much a person receives and be praised? It might even lead to tragedy. They might be held up somewhere.
3. Anger with the boss. Frustration and anger are normal. All people felt that. Cool down and face the concerns. You might even be fired he following day.
4. Round the clock update. Those “good morning,” “happy lunch,” “going to bed” posts do not deserve public consumption unless the friend is a celebrity that warrants public attention. People want to read sensible posts and not hourly update from their Facebook friends.
5. Excessive hashtags. Hashtags allow others to discover posts that are related to their interests. A post with many hashtags composed of long words makes it appear an attention-seeker.
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Secure Shell is a great means to manage remote Linux and UNIX systems, but a poor SSH server connection can be...
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If a connection goes idle, you get disconnected. If you're logged in to one server, it's easy to reestablish the connection. If you're logged in to multiple servers simultaneously with a complicated connection, connection problems can turn into a real annoyance.
Connections must be handled wisely. Every connection uses system resources; to deal with resources as efficiently as possible, idle connections need to close. This is what happens when you experience frequent disconnects from your SSH server.
Two parameters for connections
The ClientAliveInterval parameter allows the Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) process to check periodically if a connection is still in use. If you set the value of this parameter to 300, for example, the SSH server checks if the connection is still actively in use every 300 seconds. By default, this will never happen -- after a couple of minutes of inactivity, SSH sessions get disconnected.
The ClientAliveCountMax setting lets the administrator specify how often the server verifies connection use. This value is a multiplier to the ClientAliveInterval parameter, meaning that (ClientAliveCountMax * ClientAliveInterval) defines the time that an SSH server session may be unused before the sshd automatically disconnects it. If the ClientAliveInterval is set to 300 and the ClientAliveCountMax setting is specified as 10, your session will stay open for 3000 seconds, even if nothing is happening in the session. Every time you do something in an active session, the timer restarts.
In some cases, server admins cannot access the SSH server settings and have to use similar settings on the SSH client. With Linux, use the configuration file /etc/ssh/ssh_config to apply it as a global setting, or ~/.ssh/config to apply it as a setting for an individual user. The parameters to set are ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, and they work exactly the same as the settings on the server.
The second parameter is TCPKeepAlive. Without this parameter, a connection may die undetected. The session is only released when the SSH process on the server stops, which can happen on a server reboot. As a client, you will experience a hanging session -- you don't return to the local shell environment and the only solution is to kill your SSH terminal window and start over again. Should this happen, you cannot restart the session by selecting the last command from the history list.
To manage this behavior, use TCPKeepAlive to ensure that SSH sessions will work much better and without interruption. This option has the function to monitor that connections still exist, and should it break, it will automatically disconnect.
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Verse 6. The tabernacles of Edom. Nearest of kin, yet first in enmity. Their sire despised the birthright, and they despise the possessors of it. Leaving their rock built mansions for the tents of war, the Edomites invaded the land of Israel.
And the Ishmaelites. A persecuting spirit ran in their blood, they perpetuated the old grudge between the child of the bondwoman and the son of the freewoman.
Of Moab. Born of incest, but yet a near kinsman, the feud of Moab against Israel was very bitter. Little could righteous Lot have dreamed that his unhallowed seed would be such unrelenting enemies of his uncle Abraham's posterity.
And the Hagarenes -- perhaps descendants of Hagar by a second husband. Whoever they may have been, they cast their power into the wrong scale, and with all their might sought the ruin of Israel. Children of Hagar, and all others who dwell around Mount Sinai, which is in Arabia, are of the seed which gendereth to bondage, and hence they hate the seed according to promise.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS
Verse 6. The tabernacle of Edom, etc. The prophet having entered his suit and complaint in general, he comes to particulars, and tells God who they are that had done this. God might say, Who are these that conspire against me, and against my people, and hidden ones? Lord, saith the prophet, I will tell thee who they are... He names some ten nations that joined together against one poor Israel. It is a thing you should observe, that when the people of God are conspired against, God rests not in general complaints, but he will know who they are. As I told you, He is the Lord of Hosts, the great general. When there is mutiny the general asks, what officer, or what corporal, or what sergeant, or who did begin the mutiny? and it is a fearful thing when the poor persecuted saint shall bring thy name as a persecutor before the God of heaven. When a poor saint shall go home and say, There is a confederacy in London, a conspiracy against the saints of God; and when a poor saint shall say, such a magistrate, such a minister, such a man in such a street, such a woman set her husband against the saints, and against thine ordinances; it is a fearful thing. Therefore I remember a blessed woman, if it be true that is reported of her in the Book of Martyrs, that when the wicked abused her, and reproached her, and oppressed her, she would say no more but this, "I will go home and tell my Father" give over, or else I will bring your names before God, and tell him: there was all, and that was enough; for he would presently take it up. A man may better bear a pound of dirt on his feet, than a grain of dirt in his eye; the saints are "the apple of God's eye." Walter Cradock.
Verse 6. Hagarenes. These people dwelt on the east of Gilead; and were nearly destroyed in the days of Saul, being totally expelled from their country, 1 Chronicles 5:10 , but afterwards recovered some strength and consequence. Adam Clarke.
Verse 6-8. It may be observed that these were on all sides of the land of Israel; the Edomites, Ishmaelites, and Amalekites, were on the south; the Moabites, Ammonites, and Hagarenes, were on the east; the Assyrians on the north; and the Philistines, Gebalites, and Tyrians, on the west; so that Israel was surrounded on all sides with enemies, as the Lord's people are troubled on every side, 2 Chronicles 4:8 ; and so the Gog and Magog army, of which some understand this, will encompass the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city, Revelation 20:9 . John Gill.
Verse 6-8. The enemies of Israel, as enumerated by the psalmist, fall into four main divisions: 1st, those most nearly connected with the Israelites themselves by the ties of blood relationship, the descendants of Esau and Ishmael; 2ndly, the two branches of the descendants of Lot along with their respective Arabian auxiliaries, viz., the Moabites, who had engaged the assistance of the Hagarenes, and the Ammonites, who had gathered round their standard the Giblites and Amalekites; 3rdly, the inhabitants of the coast, the Philistines and Tyrians; 4thly, the more distant Assyrians. Of all these the bitterest in their hostility to Israel were those who were the most nearly allied to them in blood, -- the Edomites. Their hostility was founded upon hatred. From their conduct to the Israelites through a long course of years it would seem as though in them were lastingly perpetuated that older hatred wherewith their forefather Essau had hated Jacob because of Isaac's blessing. And though they had once and again succeeded, according to the prophecy, in breaking Israel's yoke from off their neck, yet they never could wrest away from Israel the possession of the birthright, and with it of the promises, which their ancestors had profanely despised; from Israel, not from Edom, was the Redeemer of the world to spring, and in Israel were all the families of the earth to be blessed. The Edomites may accordingly be appropriately viewed as the types of those whom the Church of Christ has ever found her bitterest foes, the sceptics who have refused to acknowledge that redemption through a personal Redeemer, on which, as on a basis, the church is founded, whose intellectual pride is offended by the humbling doctrines of Christianity, and who hate those that hold them for their possession of blessings which they have wilfully neglected; whose human learning has nevertheless all along been subservient on the whole to the edification of the church, in spite of the violence with which they have striven, and for a while, as it should sometimes appear, successfully, to gain the mastery over her by opposing her, and to exercise a temporary dominion. Dwelling themselves in tabernacles, they cannot bear that others, more blessed that they, should have the houses of God in possession: "owning themselves to be astray, and unable to find the way to the truth, they are yet most importunate and imperious that others should come away from the ancient paths, and try to join them, or at least, wander as they are wandering." In conjunction with the Edomites, the psalmist makes mention of the Ishmaelites. And these, as the descendants of the bondwoman, may fitly represent those Jewish opponents of Christianity, still, perhaps, locally, if not generally, formidable, who in their rejection of Christian doctrine have been swayed by the same feelings of intellectual pride as the sceptics of Christian descent; who professing to hold fast to that covenant of Mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage, persecuted, so long as they were able, those born after the Spirit.
In the descendants of Lot and their Arabian auxiliaries, we have the types of a different class of foes. The historical origin of the former marks them as the appropriate representatives of the slaves of sinful lusts; who hate the church not for the humbling tone of her doctrines, but for the standard of holiness which she exacts and for which she is continually witnessing. And experience shews how such persons are wont, in their attacks upon the church, to enlist into their service those who are more wildly, but at the same time more ignorantly, unholy than themselves; how in order, if possible, to uproot those fences and safeguards of the law of holiness on which, having transgressed them, they hate to look, they appeal to the unbridled passions of the lawless multitude by whom the very existence of the fences had been utterly disregarded. From the enemies of the Church who are animated by feelings of positive hatred we pass to those who act from calculation rather than passion, and whose proceeding are all directed with a view to their own earthly aggrandisement. The Philistines and Tyrians had engaged in the hostile confederacy with the hope of obtaining Israelitish captives, from whom they might reap a profit by selling them abroad as slaves. It does not appear that they regarded the Israelites in themselves with other feelings than those of mere selfish indifference. Both nations had tendered their service to Israel in the days of Israel's prosperity; for the Philistines had probably furnished the Cherethites and Pelethites of David's body guard, and the Tyrians had furnished Solomon with materials and workmen for the building of the temple: both nations were now seeking to enrich themselves at Israel's expense in the days of Israel's adversity. And these then are the fitting types of all who in their varying professions of friendliness or hostility to the Church of God are actuated by the mere mercenary desire of lucre; favouring, and even zealously favouring her interests, when they can procure a good recompense for their services; unhesitatingly combining with her bitterest enemies to vilify and despoil her, whenever the opportunity offers of increasing their worldly substance thereby. The last class of enemies are those of whom Assyria is the type; the worldly potentates, whether ecclesiastical or temporal, papal or imperial, who are unscrupulously ready to employ all means for the ultimate accomplishment of their one object, that of extending and consolidating their dominion.
Such potentates seem to represent most truly that determined and resolute selfishness, which, to eyes that are not dazzled by the grandeur of its proportions or the gorgeousness in which it is arrayed, must ever appear as one of the most terrible embodiments of the enmity of the world to God. Pride of intellect and unbelief, -- unholiness and lawlessness of life, -- covetousness, -- worldly ambition, -- such are the characteristics of four important classes of those by whom God's church is threatened. Joseph Francis Thrupp.
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Lloyd Price (born 9 March 1933 in Kenner, Louisiana) was an early rock and roll musician who had a big hit with “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”, a track he wrote (featuring Fats Domino on piano) that topped the R&B charts for seven weeks in 1952. Staying with Specialty Records, Price then released “Oooh, Oooh, Oooh”, “Restless Heart”, “Tell Me Pretty Baby” and “Ain’t It a Shame”. He was then drafted and ended up in Korea from 1953-1956.
After returning from the military, Price became more financially savvy than many of his fellow early Rock n Roll and R&B artists, and in 1957 decided to launch his own label KRC (Kent Record Company) and retain control of his masters, leasing his tracks to labels like Atlantic and later ABC-Paramount in an arrangement that likely inspired Ray Charles to do the same.
His first single after returning from Korea was “Just Because”, followed by a massive hit, “Stagger Lee”. Television host Dick Clark insisted the violent content of the song be toned down when Price appeared on the popular but highly sanitized show American Bandstand.
Price’s biggest year was likely 1959, during which he had four hit records: “Personality,” “Where Were You (On Our Weddin...
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Bingham, Robert Worth
8 Nov. 1871–18 Dec. 1937
Robert Worth Bingham, newspaper publisher and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, was born in Mebane, the fourth child of Robert Bingham, headmaster of Bingham School, and his first wife, Delphine Louise Worth. His maternal grandfather, John Milton Worth (1811–1900), a brother of Governor Jonathan Worth, operated a general store in Asheboro, held considerable mining interests, and served as state treasurer of North Carolina (1870–85).
Bingham was graduated from the Bingham School in 1888 and attended The University of North Carolina from 1888 to 1891. There he won the Representative Medal in 1890 for his oration "Manifest Destiny and Manifest Duty." After two terms of graduate work at the University of Virginia, he taught at the family's school for two years, then reentered The University of North Carolina in 1896 to study law, finally receiving the LL.B. degree from the University of Louisville in 1897. Later, Bingham received honorary doctorates from Louisville and from the universities of London (1933), Cambridge (1935), and Oxford (1936). In 1899 he endowed The University of North Carolina's Robert Worth Bingham prize in debate.
After a year of postgraduate study at the University of Michigan, Bingham commenced practice in Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as county attorney for Jefferson County, Ky., and he was elected in his own right to a full four-year term the following year. In 1907 he was appointed interim mayor of Louisville for a few months, after both regular candidates were disqualified for election irregularities. In 1911 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as chancellor of the Jefferson County circuit court, but he declined further nomination.
In August 1918, Bingham acquired a two-thirds interest in both the Louisville Courier-Journal and the afternoon Louisville Times, buying out the remaining third of each the following year. Under his management as publisher, the Courier-Journal retained the national prominence it had gained under Henry Watterson (Bingham himself went on to become a president of the Associated Press) but adopted a decidedly more liberal editorial stance, advocating prohibition and women's suffrage. Watterson, who had remained on the staff as "editor emeritus," resigned in 1920, when Bingham came out in support of ratification of the League of Nations Treaty.
When prices for burley tobacco dropped disastrously in 1920, Bingham, who had been impressed during a tour of California with the success of the citrus-growers' cooperatives, arranged a meeting between Aaron Sapiro, legal counsel for the co-ops, and representatives of burley interests. The result of this April 1920 conference was the organization of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, to which Bingham lent considerable editorial and financial support.
An independent Democrat, Bingham engaged in continual warfare with Kentucky's regular Democratic organization for nearly fifteen years. In 1932 he was among the earliest and most fervent supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a long-time acquaintance, for the Democratic presidential nomination, reportedly donating fifty thousand dollars to his campaign. On 13 Mar. 1933, Bingham was appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James; the appointment was confirmed nine days later. Bingham's religion (unlike his Presbyterian forebears, he was a devout Episcopalian and a vestryman in his Louisville church); his love of fishing, hunting, and yachting; and his known respect for British culture (he had toured the Islands several times and had married his third wife in London) made him eminently acceptable to British officials. In fact, he was criticized by several congressmen as being too Anglophiliac, and his speech on arrival in Britain on 31 May 1933, prematurely pledging mutual tariff reductions, caused the administration considerable embarrassment.
Although Bingham lacked previous diplomatic experience, he proved a capable and fairly successful ambassador. He chaired several conferences in London in 1935 on world wheat control; played a major role in American response to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and the Japanese invasion of China; and conducted conversations on Anglo-American naval policy in the wake of the Japanese renunciation of the Naval Armaments Treaty of 1922. His primary mission, to negotiate an Anglo-American reciprocal trade agreement, proved a more difficult problem. He proposed tariff reductions and stabilization of the dollar and pound, policies bitterly opposed in Congress from fear that gains made by domestic price rises in the economy would be canceled. Primarily because of such fears, Bingham was passed over as American representative to the London Economic Conference (12 June–27 July 1933), and Roosevelt repudiated stabilization in his 3 July message to the conference. Nevertheless, by the time of Bingham's death, plans for opening intensive trade negotiations were already well underway.
A trustee of Berea and Centre colleges, and a president of the Kentucky Children's Home Society, Bingham remained deeply concerned throughout his life for the welfare of his adopted state. He was a director of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the American Creosoting Company and founded WHAS, Kentucky's first radio station. He was also a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, an active Mason (he was awarded the honorary title of past grand senior warden of the Lodge of Great Britain when George VI was made past grand master), and an accomplished amateur organist and cellist.
On 20 May 1896, Bingham married Eleanor E. Miller of Louisville, who died in an automobile accident in 1913. The couple had three children, Robert Norwood, Henrietta Worth, and George Barry, who later became copublisher of the Courier-Journal and Times with his father. On 15 Nov. 1916, Bingham married Mary Lily Kenan Flagler (d. 28 July 1917), the sister of William Rand Kenan, Jr., and the widow of Henry M. Flagler. Her will, after being bitterly contested, left Bingham $5 million and endowed the Kenan professorships of The University of North Carolina. Several sources suggest that Bingham himself originally suggested the endowment. On 20 Aug. 1924, Bingham married Aileen Muldoon Hilliard of Louisville (d. 18 Mar. 1953).
Bingham died at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
James McGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1937).
William E. Connelly and E. Merton Coulter, History of Kentucky, vols. 2 and 4 (1922).
DAB, vol. 22, supp. 1 (1940).
National Archives, Washington, D.C., Record Group 84, for MS material on Bingham.
Julius W. Pratt, Cordell Hull, vols. 12 and 13 in The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, ed. Robert H. Ferrell and Samuel Flagg Bemis (1964).
Raleigh News and Observer, 19 Dec. 1937, 6 July 1941.
Joseph C. Robert, The Story of Tobacco in America (1949).
Elliott Roosevelt and Joseph P. Lasch, eds., FDR: His Personal Letters, 1928–1943 (1947–50).
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Hyde Park, N.Y.), for MS material on Bingham.
Bingham, Robert W. (11/8/1871-12/18/1937), Smithsonian Instititute: http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_10929
Robert Worth Bingham Supplemental Papers, 1894-1944 (bulk 1895-1913), 1894, Kentucky Digital Library: http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt78pk06x69b/text
Robert Worth Bingham Papers, Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012054.pdf
Robert Worth Bingham in WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88-218560
Robert Worth Bingham, US Department of the State Office of the Historian: http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bingham-robert-worth
Images of Bingham in the University of Louisville Libraries: http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/search/field/people/searchterm/Bingham,%20Robert%20Worth,%201871-1937/mode/exact
"U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain reports to State Department. Washington, D.C. Aug. 31. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, entering secretary of State Hull's office today where he discussed conditions in Europe and the Orient with the Secretary. Bingham said he will go to Hyde Park tomorrow to confer with President Roosevelt and will return here for further discussions before returning to London in about two weeks. He denied he had any intention of resigning his post. 8/31/37." Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Available from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009009987/ (accessed May 17, 2013).
Robert Worth Bingham and Henrietta W. Bingham of Louisville, Kentucky, 1931. Image courtesy of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. Available from http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/heraldpost/id/1296/rec/12 (accessed May 17, 2013).
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The move to bimodal teaching in 2020/21 created additional challenges in delivering teaching with some or all students and staff on campus for some of the time. The introduction of new technology to University teaching rooms allows the opportunity to adopt a hybrid approach to teaching; hybrid teaching does not assume that a student will be on campus or online but offers easy student transition between the two. Equipping rooms with enabling technology will give the University the capability to deliver synchronous teaching in the classroom and to remote students at the same time, which has benefits for both students and academics.
In Spring 2021, LRAT commissioned its AV supplier to procure ‘Zoom Room’ equipment for two rooms in the Teaching and Learning Building and a project team was established, which includes representatives from LRAT, HEFI , IT Services and Registry. Academic colleagues were asked to consider key requirements for a hybrid teaching solution against which the equipment could be evaluated. In addition to the equipment installed in TLB, the scope of the project was widened to look at other solutions, particularly those which require less infrastructure works to deploy to smaller teaching spaces
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This piece is excerpted from an address written in May 2012 by theologian and long-time Collegeville Institute board member Margaret O’Gara. Margaret hoped to deliver the address at the annual convocation of Regis College, Toronto, Canada, in November 2012 on the occasion of being awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. However, she died in August 2012. At the November convocation she was awarded the honorary degree in memoriam, and her address was read by her husband Michael Vertin. A version of this piece appears in No Turning Back: The Future of Ecumenism, a collection of Margaret O’Gara’s papers that was edited by Michael Vertin and published by Liturgical Press in 2014.
Last year I was standing in line at the bank, waiting to be helped by the teller, when I overheard two young men talking to each other right behind me. They were discussing career options. The first one said, “I want something with constant opportunities for lifelong learning.” “Yes,” said the second, “and it should have global outreach.” “Right,” said the first, “and it should be meaningful.” I almost turned around to them and asked, “Have you ever considered studying theology?”
But, what was I thinking of proposing? What exactly is the study of theology? The author of the Letter to the Colossians writes in chapter 3: “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (v. 2-3). Our life is hidden now with Christ in God. And what has happened to us in this hiding place? Because we have put off the old self and put on the new self, the writer explains, our new self “is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator” (v. 9-10).
All Christians are being renewed in knowledge, according to Colossians. Studying theology allows us to deepen the renewal in knowledge that is happening to all Christians as they live in their secret hiding place with Christ in God.
But what does it mean to be renewed in our knowledge, for our knowledge to be made new? In the account of the beatitudes provided in the Gospel according to Luke (6:20-26), Jesus gives us some hint of how our knowledge can be turned upside down and become totally new. There we hear that people who now are hungry can know already that they will be filled. People who are poor today can see themselves in a new light: the kingdom of God actually belongs to them. The knowledge they had of themselves has been changed. Those who are weeping today learn through the Gospel that someday they will laugh. And even those who are persecuted and excluded and reviled and defamed because of Christ are urged: “rejoice in that day, and leap for joy” (Luke 6:22-23). By renewing the knowledge of those hidden in God with him, Jesus Christ has turned their view of the world upside down. And he also has served woeful notice on those who are laughing and rich today: their perspective, he warns, is a false one.
The Colossians text gives us another example of this renewal of our knowledge. Here we read: “in that renewal, there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all” (3:11). This is an interesting list because it shows that the divisions imposed by our culture or even by our religion can conceal the deepest truth about ourselves as God our creator has made us. There is neither slave nor free, there is not even circumcised or uncircumcised, but Christ is all and in all. To say it again: the renewal of our knowledge means that what we think we know can be turned upside down, can turn out to be false. It must be replaced by the truth.
We have good news to announce, and we have to get it right. Sometimes that means turning even our initial knowledge of our Christian faith upside down. Theology helps us do that. Sometimes this overturning is tumultuous, a sudden breaking apart of the edifice of what we thought we knew about our faith, to have it replaced with a deeper and truer perspective, built on a more solid foundation. But usually the overturning is more gradual, a slow maturing of our understanding as we put aside the things of the child and put on the mind of Christ.
So theology helps us renew our knowledge. But once our knowledge is renewed, it must also be shared. The author of the First Epistle of Peter tells us that we must always be ready to give an account of the hope that is in us (3:15). That’s where theology comes in. Theology is the discipline that readies us to give an account of the hope that is in us. For us who study theology it is not enough to have our hope in God: we must be ready to give an account of this hope. Theology can help us do that.
And the world is longing to hear a reason for hope. The hungry are eager to hear that food is coming. Those who weep are yearning for the end of their sorrows. People are aching to hear a hopeful word, and we Christians know that people in fact are hungering and thirsting for God and for the liberation that God wants and brings for the world. This longing has been put into all people by the God who made them, and nothing can take it from them. It is our privilege and our responsibility to respond to this hungering and this thirsting with a nourishing, thirst-quenching Word.
But learning theology in order to give an account of the hope that is in us brings with it a very broad responsibility to be accountable. For one thing, we are accountable to the church throughout the entire world, in New Delhi and Munich, in Sydney and Rio de Janeiro, in New York and Nairobi and Tokyo and Toronto: to all the Christians living in all of the many local churches who live their faith in so many different ways but who believe together with the same faith that we share and celebrate.
For another thing, we are accountable to the past. We are accountable to dead people, to all the Christians who have gone before us and whose understandings of the faith we must also take seriously: to Paul and Irenaeus and John Chrysostom and Augustine; to Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena and Julian of Norwich; to Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola and John Calvin and Teresa of Avila and John Wesley; to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth and Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar and Dorothy Day and Bernard Lonergan—so many people to whom we must be accountable. For a third thing, we are accountable to the future, to those who will follow us in the faith: our children and their children, who will live in a world different from our own. We need to be seeking an understanding of the faith that can be heard and lived by them in a future that is likely to look quite different from the past and the present.
The need for theology to be accountable to the whole church, the entire community of Christians, past, present, and future, entails a further feature: theology at its best is a collaborative exercise, not a competitive one. Collaboration, especially in ecumenical settings, means a willingness and ability to listen to and cooperate with fellow scholars who hold very different views. Understanding and agreement are among the very highest goals of serious scholarship, not competition and individual display.
Finally, studying theology takes time. No wonder it requires that we engage with so many Christian thinkers past and present, that we consider so many perspectives, that we read such demanding articles and books, that we write such precise essays and dissertations, and that we give ourselves time to grow into what we are learning. The deepened renewal of our knowledge is not finished in a year, and in truth it is not finished in the three or six years of studying for a degree. The deepened renewal of our knowledge that is theology is the calling of a lifetime, and indeed of many lifetimes from one generation to the next generation in the church. But in fact, it’s worth it: theology is worth a life! | <urn:uuid:5b9218fe-82d9-4b64-82ca-4f344c99253c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collegevilleinstitute.org/bearings/renewed-in-our-knowledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.972986 | 1,765 | 1.75 | 2 |
Common name: Messmate
Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér. APNI*
Synonyms: Eucalyptus obliqua var. degressa Blakely APNI*
Eucalyptus obliqua var. megacarpa Blakely APNI*
Eucalyptus obliqua var. pilula Blakely APNI*
Eucalyptus nervosa F.Muell. ex Miq. APNI*
Eucalyptus fabrorum Schltdl. APNI*
Description: Tree, usually to 50 m high and sometimes 90 m; bark persistent to smaller branches, grey to red-brown, shortly fibrous to stringy, smooth above, white to grey, shedding in ribbons.
Juvenile leaves disjunct, ovate to elliptic, glossy green.
Adult leaves disjunct, broad-lanceolate, 10–15 cm long, 1.5–3.3 cm wide, green, glossy, concolorous. Umbellasters ≥ 11-flowered; peduncle terete or angular, 4–15 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–6 mm long. Buds clavate, 4–7 mm long, 2–4 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra hemispherical, shorter and as wide as hypanthium.
Fruit globose, ovoid or urceolate, 6–11 mm long, 5–9 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves enclosed or rarely to rim-level.
Distribution and occurrence: Locally dominant, in wet sclerophyll or grassy forest in cold areas of high rainfall on deep fertile soils; south from Qld border, near Legume.
NSW subdivisions: NC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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Other conditions it could be is Melanoma, but that usually has a slightly raised surface. Hence you should consult your doctor for this if it persists to have this checked up.
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Too much emphasis on the quick draw
Perhaps the generations of Hollywood westerns that dominated the American cultural mindscape from circa 1950 to 1970 are to blame: the vast majority of the founders and rulemakers of these sports are Baby Boomers, whose cultural formation took place in the Cowboys and Indians period.
The quickest draw, of course, is the one where the gun is already in your hand, and people know this even if event organizers don’t. In an actual defensive situation, it may well be more important to draw the gun with stealth than with speed. But “practical” shooting goes for quick-draw flash every time.
This complaint could actually be more generalized: these sports overemphasize speed in general, leading to risk-taking in the interests of speed. This is an incentive badly aligned with the needs of military and police forces. The quick draw and the snap shot are advanced skills to be pursued only when aimed deliberate fire is not possible.
Not enough emphasis on good judgment
When there are lasting consequences from a shooting in the military or police, it’s seldom because the shooter wasn’t quick enough. It’s almost always because the shooter could have exercised better judgment. Speed pressure is, of course, corrosive of judgment. When to shoot is almost always a decision of subordinate importance to whether to shoot. Exercises that test that judgment don’t fit into the speed/accuracy/penalty scoring paradigm of most events.
For decades, aviation safety experts pursued better pilot skills, but in the last 20 years of wo they’ve fully internalized the idea that most mishap involve, in some way, a pilot of perfectly adequate stick and rudder skills being tested in his judgment and found wanting. This has led to an air safety revolution, as the training and evaluation base has added judgment analytics, scenario-based-training, desicision-making exercises and counteraction of hazardous attitudes to its toolbox. Combat weaponscraft is ready for a similar revolution.
Almost every tragic combat shooting story we cover here is a tale of judgment. Why isn’t this part of practical shooting events?
Optimizing vs Satisficing
Those are two approaches economists and decision-theory wonks see as alternative decision modes. Optimizing is well understood. It is done by evaluating the possibilities and getting the absolute optimum one. Satisficing is a much less frequently encountered word, even though it’s a much more commonly used decision strategy — one that recognizes that time spent optimizing is itself a steep opportunity cost.
Satisficing means, essentially, setting a bar (threshold) and accepting any outcome that crosses that bar. Real gunfights are like that: if you’re alive, your opponent(s) dead, and no friendly fire or collateral damge has taken place, that’s a win. So in the real world every disabling shot into a human target has equal value: there is no x-ring. In the competitions, there’s great weight on very minute variations in speed and accuracy. It’s probably impossible to design a “practical” competition that’s weighted the way combat is.
Encouraging gimmicky weapons and holsters
How practical are these rigs, really? In some events you see 6″ barreled 1911s with trigger jobs that are not safe off the range and mounted optics, dangling in gimmicky mid-thigh holsters. Carry that for a week and let us know how it’s working for you.
Adding a real field-oriented test or two to the stages might bring some reality back. Like thrust the gun in a 55-gallon drum of mud before a stage. How you like your red dot now?
The scoring rings on the IPSC target, also, are somewhat unrealistic. But there’s no really realistic way to render the way that the human organism absorbs shots — because there’s so much individual variation and chance involved. The IPSC rings are a trade-off, and while we have to think there has to be a better trade-off, we don’t have one to suggest right now.
Wrong penalties on the wrong things
The penalties assessed for time are probably too high, and those assessed for missing the target are too low. Particularly shooting a “hostage” or “bystander” — that should be not just a stage forfeit, but a tournament misconduct. Pushing speed and going mild on collateral negligence is not practical. In the real world, there are no backstops: solid hits are at a premium.
The bottom line
The bottom line on these sports is that they are, well, sports. They’re not without value — nothing motivates like competition, and speed and accuracy are things that are worth pursuing. But you should never mistake these stylized sports for actual preparation for combat. Two different animals.
There’s an irony in that, of course: the ATF recognizes none of these sports as sports, just as it is blind to game hunting with modern sporting rifles. Its idea of what is “sporting” is frozen in 1968.
In the end, competitive “practical” shooting is about as useful preparing you for a combat or defensive gun use as the Daytona 500 is to prepare you for your morning commute. So why do it?
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At present, every person is going through some level of insecurity, worry, and fear, as we have never experienced a situation like COVID-19 before. It is normal to have anxieties about your health, family or loved ones, or the upcoming year. When your mobile phone is buzzing, your boss wishes to speak to you, and your spouse wants to know what’s for dinner; well, stress is all around.
Mental health can have a dangerous impact on a business. Research has shown that about 80% of adults with depression reported problems with work, home, or social activities because of their depression. Sadly, conditions like anxiety and depression often go undetected for months or years. Unlike physical illnesses, mental health problems are more challenging to identify. How companies can take care of employee mental health in the time of Covid-19? Many have not been able to cope with an unexpected, long-drawn-out change to the Work from Home culture, Zoom fatigue has set in, causing burnouts and low productivity. One of the best ways to build a culture that helps mental health is to make sure workers experience their jobs in a meaningful and focused way. This can be achieved by giving employees autonomy and resources. If your team has support and freedom, and that you trust them to do what they should do, they will be happier at work, which will decrease the risk of mental health problems.
Generally, the employee with depression will not speak to the human resource team about work changes, but it is likely that your team member or their coworker will speak with you first. Connect with your employees online to get their warning signals, you need to prepare ahead of time and learn about depression and its symptoms. These include loss of interest, reduced energy, feelings of low self-esteem, disturbed sleep, and poor focus.
Flexible Work Schedule
Sleep problems are widespread in depression and can involve oversleeping as well as problems falling asleep. Allow a Flexible Schedule, helping an employee with a work plan is a practical accommodation and is supported by research. Research suggests that flexible work hours in reality increases productivity, loyalty to the organization, and retention.
Streamline Work Flow
Depressed employees can tell you their amount of work feels too difficult. Depression can affect mental function. Intellectual functions can also be disturbed due to a lack of sleep. A good administrator can help by breaking up large projects into smaller tasks. The advantage of giving smaller, more convenient tasks, is that it allows employees to achieve more frequent experiences of success.
Distribute Deadlines with Other Workers
Several targets can be crushing to everyone especially to those suffering from depression when they have low expectancies about their ability to deal with hectic events. Distributing deadlines with several workers as small tasks can decrease the pressure and increase satisfaction.
Give Positive Feedbacks
Individuals who are depressed can be reticent, instead of highlighting their failures, concentrate on encouraging and praising their success when employees meet targets.
Some companies provide free online mental health services for employees, several types of online mental health services are available since the COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020. Online mental health education with communication apps like WhatsApp and WeChat have been widely used during the outbreak for employees working remotely at home. Several online resources on COVID-19 prevention, control, and mental health education have been published and free electronic copies are available.
Even though the idea of virtual workplaces has grown steadily over the years, no one was ready for a 100 percent shift to remote working so suddenly brought in by the Covid-19 pandemic. While some have succeeded to adjust to the sudden transition well, others have struggled significantly with it.
But, remember; when stress is getting the best of you, you may well hit the mat and give yoga a try. Many aspects of yoga, such as breathing exercises and meditation, can help calm your tiring mind and support in releasing stress. Given the several stress decreasing advantages of yoga, it is not surprising that yoga can be a tool in managing anxiety, panic, and fears.
Employees should be inspired to take collective breaks while they work and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with each other online, just as they did during coffee and lunch breaks in the office. Companies need to use all their resources to preserve their most valuable asset – the ‘mental health of their employees’. If employees remain in a positive mental state and good emotional health, in the coming days, the battle to regain lost ground will get the best start possible. | <urn:uuid:d289b5ad-3884-4466-b8fe-bbd656804c69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://farsighttechnologies.com/2020/11/04/nisi-accusantium-molestias-qui-deserunt-ut-non/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.96684 | 925 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Anytime there's a national or international emergency, people are quick to open their wallets to help others. However, on the flip side, there are many people waiting to take advantage of that generosity as well.
Before breaking out your checkbook or signing your savings over to an anonymous charity fund, use your common sense and do some investigating. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the best thing you can do is give to an organization that you're familiar with.
Where to Donate
Some places are generally safer than others. For example, choose to give to:
- Your company's charitable foundation. Not only will the charity get your help, but you company may even match your donation
- The local chapter of the Red Cross
- Some other organization with a mission and management team you can trust, like your church or other religious organization
Beware that familiar groups may not sponsor funds with similar names. For instance, a fund called "The Red Cross Trust For Freedom and Peace" may not be affiliated with the Red Cross.
There are also ways to text your donation, but be sure the receiver is verified.
Research before You Give
If you're not sure about a charity, check it out before sending money. To research potential charities, contact:
- Your local Better Business Bureau
- The charity registration office in your city
- The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for information on tax exempt organizations
Don't be afraid to ask questions before sending money. Make sure your donation will be used the way it's intended for: To help those in need. Scam charities have been a problem for years. Sometimes scammers keep the money for themselves, other times donated funds are used for illegal activities. In some instances, the lion's share of money donations goes to promoters and solicitors, with only a small percentage of the money going to the people in need.
Ask for Proof
Follow the steps above when considering a donation. Also, ask for written materials about how the charity spends the money it receives. How much goes to expenses and how much actually goes to help the people in need? The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), a renown watchdog organization, suggests that 60% or more of your donation should go directly to the people you're trying to help, with the remainder going toward the charity's administrative and fund raising expenses, such as paying staff, mail costs, etc.
The AIP and other watchdog groups, such as the Charity Navigator, offer help in selecting charities that "do the most good" with the dollars you send and what to look for in a charity. And they remind us that charities should be willing and able to give you detailed information about their operations.
Take the same cautious approach when someone calls you on the phone.
It's probably best to give your donation directly to the organization or charity. That's because solicitors cost money - money that doesn't go to the victims or their families.
If you do donate over the phone, give absolutely no personal or financial information. If someone asks you for details, such as your social security number or bank account information, hang up and contact the organization directly to report this incident. The last thing you want is to give to a charity and have your identity stolen in the process.
If you get a call from someone claiming to be from the police or fire department, keep in mind that even if the caller claims to have ties to your community, there's no guarantee that your money will be used locally or even for neighborhood safety programs.
Don't be tempted by promises of special treatment for donating - you're still getting that ticket for speeding whether you donate or not. Although there are many noble causes sponsored by police and fire departments, no solicitor should make you feel pressured into donating. Ironically, any one who does should be reported to the authorities.
Ask questions and demand answers. Request written information about the charity and how it will use your money.
In the end, make your check (don't send cash!) payable to the formal name of the charity.
An important issue to bear in mind, especially at the end of the year, is whether your gift is tax deductible. A gift to a tax-exempt group (one that doesn't have to pay taxes) may not be deductible from your federal income tax return. So, ask if the organization is tax-exempt and whether your gift is deductible. Always ask for a receipt showing the amount of your contribution and how much of it's deductible.
Remember - giving a gift to charity is worthy, but making sure that your gift is used for those in need is priceless.
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We prepare economic, financial or accounting reports for companies for appraisals in legal proceedings, analysis of related party transactions or calculations of the basic tender price for public administrations, among others.
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We implement an analytical or cost accounting system to be able to determine the commercial margin by economic activity, or by each product or service.
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|Bronze statute of Dame Margot Fonteyn|
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Peggy Hookham was born this day in Reigate exactly 96 years ago. She is of course better known as Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, prima ballerina assoluta and probably one pf the greatest dancers of all time. I won't attempt a biography. There are plenty around as well as her own autobiography. For those who want to research her life and career the Wikipedia article provides a good starting point.
I shall confine myself to some personal memories. Although I saw her on television many times as I was growing up I did not see her on stage until I went to university. This was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when she was entering her fifties. One of the roles that I saw her dance was Juliet in Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet from which a remarkable film was made. You can still see on YouTube. I saw her in most of the other great classical roles as I was a Young Friend of Covent Garden and practically lived at the House in the Christmas, Easter and first part of the Summer vacations between 1969 and 1972.
My last memory of Fonteyn was not on the stage but in the Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn. She had been invited to dine with the benchers on Grand Day. This is an occasion when prominent individuals in public life visit the Inn. Usually the benchers and their guests enter and leave the hall in silence. After their name is read out they are greeted with a bow which they usually reciprocate. But when Dame Margot left the Hall there was an explosion of applause as though she had danced Odette-Odile. Her smile will remain with me to my dying day. | <urn:uuid:68bcd8ee-bea0-46f9-a330-915891a63532> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jelterps.blogspot.com/2015/05/margot-fonreyn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.987071 | 384 | 1.59375 | 2 |
As is not surprising, you can find something about the sources for the name Narnia online; in Professor Downing's essay on names in the Narnia books, one learns, "As to the world in which we meet all these characters, there is an actual place called Narnia. It is best reached, not by climbing into a wardrobe, but by boarding a northbound bus from Rome. Narnia, now called Narni, is a mountain village in the Italian province of Umbria. Lewis would have encountered the name as a passing reference in Tacitus, Livy, and other Latin authors, and he probably liked the sound of the name."
As he had such marvelous libraries available to him for browsing and reading, I'm wondering if he peeped into Johannes M. Watterich's Pontificum Romanorum Vitae (Leipzig, 1862.) Montague Summers describes a matter contained in it this way:
A very extraordinary circumstance is related by Wipert, Archdeacon of the celebrated see of Toul, who wrote the life of Pope S. Leo IX, a Pontiff, who had been for more than twenty years Bishop of Toul, and who died in March, 1054. The historian [Johannes Watterich, I believe he intends here] tells us that some years before the death of S. Leo IX, the citizens of Narni, a little burgh which is picturesquely situated on a lofty rock at the point where the river Nera forces its way through a narrow ravine to join the Tiber, were one day greatly surprised and indeed alarmed to see a mysterious company of persons who appeared to be advancing toward the town. The magistrates, fearing some surprise, gave orders than the gates should be fast closed, whilst the inhabitants incontinently betook themselves to the walls. The procession, however, which was clothed in white and seemed from time to time to vanish among the morning mists and then once again to reappear, was obviously no inimical band. They passed on their way without turning to right or to left, and it is said they seemed to be defiling with measured pace until eventide. All wondered who these persons could be, and at last one of the most prominent citizens, a man of great resolution and courage resolved to address them. To his amazement he saw among them a certain person who had been his host many years before Ascoli, and of whose death he had been recently informed. Calling upon him loudly by his name he asked: "Who are you, and whence cometh this throng?" "I am your old friend," was the reply, "and this multitude is phantom; we have not yet atoned for the sins we committed whilst on earth, and we are not yet deemed worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; therefore are we sent forth as humble penitents, lowly palmers... --Montague Summers, The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960The account goes on from there, as the living friend has a fit from astonishment and is ill for twelve months. Let that me a warning to you not to have truck with ghosts! And it's a reminder to me that 12 days (thus far) is not all that bad...
What strikes me is the "picturesque" little "burgh" on "rock" at the point where one water meets another water--here, it is where the Neva joins the Tiber. What we know as the royal seat of the Narnian world changes a great deal over time, but it fits--at one time or another--this description. Cair refers to walled city or castle. (Paravel most likely stems from tenant paravail, or the feudal concept of tenant-of-a-tenant, but that goes in another direction entirely, with the idea of the ruler as servant to Aslan, who is in turn servant to his father--and also with the idea of ruler as servant to those ruled.) At an unknown time, either in hope of fulfilled prophecy or for use, Cair Paravel was built where one great water meets another; that is, where the Great River, not long after it is joined by the Rush River, flows into the Eastern Ocean. Sometimes in its history, Cair Paravel is surrounded by city, other times not. Sometimes it is sited on a peninsula, and sometimes the sea takes it for an island, and it becomes a palace with protective walls of water. It is, like the "little burgh" of Narni, seated on rock.
Summers' retelling of the story of a ghostly pilgrimage passing by Narni suggests bonds with Narnia and Cair Paravel having to do with "thin places," where one world verges on another. The Narni of Watterich's account is a place on earth where world and the spectral meet and may even converse. It's a "thin place" where our world impinges on the realm of the dead. Likewise Cair Paravel is a border place, sited in the eastern coast and so suggestive of the unknown realm belonging to the Emperor Beyond-the-Sea who is the father of Aslan. The eastern edge is the closest one can come to him in the land of Narnia.
That's why the ruling seat of Narnia is neither at Lantern Waste (where the first human king and queen ruled), nor somewhere central like the spot where the White Witch set her camp. As the Eastern Ocean surrounds what was once a peninsula, Cair Paravel becomes more and more a "between" place that exists on the boundary between earth and water. Even its design reflects this identity. While it may be built stone on stone, the cair has an eastern door that can be flung open onto the Eastern Ocean, where the mermaids sing. As a "thin place" and as a border spot, it mediates between earth and water, between the four human kings and queens and the realm of nature, between civilization and the wild, and between all Narnia and the world beyond ruled by the Emperor Beyond-the-Sea, the King of all Kings.
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As my husband said, you can just imagine Lewis and Tolkien talking this story over in the Bird and Baby (more properly, The Eagle and Child, and less properly, Fowl and Foetus), one nabbing the name and the other daydreaming about an army of wanderers who have to work out their redemption by a particular task--one dayAragorn will hold them to their crime and allegiance. | <urn:uuid:fa81facd-4829-4c5c-9657-32a21ce78877> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2013/01/narnia-and-cair-paravel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.971068 | 1,385 | 2.46875 | 2 |
NASA Ranks Tops Among Federal Agencies in Effective Leadership
NASA rates highest in effective leadership among federal agencies, according to the recent analysis of survey data gathered by the White House Office of Personnel Management by the Partnership for Public Service, a non profit focused in improvements to government service, and Deloitte, the business consulting group.
Effective leadership contributes to job satisfaction and worker commitment, according to the Partnership’s report on the annual survey for 2012, Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, Analysis, Federal Leadership on the Decline.
NASA, as it turns out, is not declining. The space agency received a 68.1 percent rating, up from a 67 rating in 2011. In all, six of 19 federal agencies reflected year over year improvements. NASA rated at the top, just above the nation’s intelligence gathering community and the Department of State.
The score for 2012 throughout the federal government was 52.8 for 2012, a 2.1 point decline from the previous year, and a focus for concern by the Partnership in its report.
Established in 1958, NASA is focused on the human and robotic exploration of space and advancing aeronautics.
Key missions include operations and scientific research aboard the six person,U. S.led International Space Station, efforts to develop the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and the Space Launch System, the human spacecraft and powerful rockets that will enable human explorers to reach deep space destinations, including the moon, asteroids and Mars.
In addition, NASA is partnered with the private sector to develop new commercial orbital transportation services for astronauts headed to the space station and other orbital destinations.
NASA has been led since 2009 by Charles Bolden, a former astronaut and retired Marine Corps major general. The agency’s deputy administrator is Lori Garver, a former special assistant to the NASA administrator and senior policy analyst for the agency’s Office of Policy and Plans. She is a former executive director of the National Space Society as well. | <urn:uuid:0dded339-ffce-48ff-85b9-975256374174> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.spacefoundation.org/media/global-space-news/nasa-ranks-tops-among-federal-agencies-effective-leadership | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00128-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938194 | 407 | 2.171875 | 2 |
We can see art everywhere, from the designs of houses, to how our clothes are made in a fashionable way. Art is not something that produces words but you can compose words out of it. Art has many forms, and so is the communication. It has been a thought for some, that if they see someone else’s art, they think, “Oh, maybe he’s sad about something” or “I think she’s contented with her life right now”.
Art in many forms
We are entitled to think and feel what we want when we see art. Art does not limit you to what emotion you should feel but is making you feel appreciative in return. Sometimes, what a verbal communication cannot demonstrate, art can.
There are rather a lot of dance genres that can show a lot of emotions. It may express love, betrayal, happiness, marriage, brokenness, dreams, and the list goes on. Dance doesn’t need words to impart these emotions to people who will be watching. By some hand strokes, body movement, and transitioning of steps are enough to connect with the audience.
We often wonder when we see a painting, specifically the abstract ones, is what does it portray? We often leave the museum with questions unanswered. However, art in a form of painting has always, and will always have a deeper meaning to it. Just like the painting of Vincent van Gogh of “The Starry Night”, we may have the right interpretation, or we may have not. But, that’s what art is!
Music is one of the things many people can’t live without. It’s another way of improving one’s mood through the use of music. Music can be a guitar instrumental, drum solo, or never-ending notes of the piano. It is more often to feel emotional when music is played, if the music is fast it may portray a message of happiness, otherwise, it is a sad music. See how the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, Photographed by Andy Hall, played the piano? No words were spoken, just her fingers rolling around the piano keys say it all.
Art in sculpture always amazes us. Not only the time is taken for it to be finished, but the results are always astonishing. You tend to think outside the box, “What’s in the mind of the sculptor?” And we have the freedom to analyze these amazing works. On the right side, the art “Coffee Kiss” is by Johnson Tsang.
Hearing More about Art as Communication
· Art is: A Form of Communication
· “Art to me is non-verbal communication. One of the ways that we connect with people without using words. Dance and music, and painting, and sculpture fall into that. Just to express an idea that’s even more universal than talking.” – Whitney Hall, Artist, Painting, oil
· Art as Communication
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Report Guides Efforts to Accelerate Delivery of New Lupus Medicines
We take our leadership role to solve the cruel mystery of lupus very seriously and speed development of new treatments for lupus. Part of our responsibility includes asking the difficult, unanswered questions, addressing the gaps in lupus research and exploring the most complex areas others thought to be too challenging.
In 2009, we commissioned a landmark report to gain better understanding of the obstacles that stand in the way of developing new medicines for people with lupus. The Lewin Group authored the report, “Overcoming the Barriers to Drug Development in Lupus,” which is the first-of-is-kind to detail obstacles and provide a roadmap for the Foundation's activities now and into the future.
The Foundation responded. We began working immediately with key stakeholders to address each barrier. These efforts have resulted in a collection of far-reaching initiatives that seek to do the following:
- Improve lupus clinical study design
- Develop new and precise measurement tools to evaluate how well a potential medicine works
- Provide the lupus research community with standardized training on disease activity measurement tools used in lupus studies
- Connect people interested in participating in a research study with active clinical trials
The Lewin report provides a landmark set of findings and recommendations that help us more effectively advance our understanding of lupus. Our initiatives are strong, each providing new data, discoveries and connections. We are confident that their continued success will help usher new medicines to people with lupus faster and bring us closer than ever before to solving the cruel mystery of lupus. | <urn:uuid:902051ef-fe7d-4c2f-89e6-d16456d562e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lupus.org/research/overcoming-barriers-to-lupus-drug-development | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9376 | 334 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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You've probably heard the terms calico or tortoiseshell, but may not know exactly what they mean. Calico tortoiseshell refers only to the color of Kitty's coat, and not what breed she is. If your lovely kitty is mostly white with orange and black patches of color, she's a tortoiseshell calico.
What is Calico?
White spotting is a genetic mutation that causes patches of white fur to cover up the tabby or other coloring of Kitty's coat. These can be small spots, such as white toes or a white chest, to a mostly white coat. If Kitty has large areas of white fur mixed with patches of orange tabby and black fur, she's considered a calico. If instead of orange and black, she has gray and pale orange tabby, she's called a dilute calico.
What is a Tortie?
Kitties with the tortoiseshell pattern are often called torties for short. Tortoiseshell is a mix of red and cream tabby markings and black fur. These patches can be small and evenly mixed all over her coat, or large, distinct patches.While the orange patches may look like they're solid, especially if they're small, they actually have tabby markings.There is no solid red color; all red or cream colors contain tabby marking, and she'll probably have the tabby “M” on her forehead.
If a kitty is a calico tortie, it's almost certain to be a female. The gene for orange tabby is carried on the X chromosome. Since males have just one X chromosome, if he has one red gene he'll be some variation of orange tabby. A female has two X chromosomes, so she would have to have the red gene on both chromosomes to be a solid red tabby. If she has a red gene on one chromosome and black on the other, she'll be a tortie. Torties who appear to be males occur, but it requires a genetic abnormality in which he has two X chromosomes, XXY, instead of one, XY. This is very rare, and these kitties are usually sterile.
Tortie Calico Breeds
Calico tortoiseshell refers to a coat color and not a breed. A number of breeds have the coloration. Many domestic shorthairs, which are mix-breed cats, have this coloration. If you're looking for a pedigree cat, Persians come in the calico color variety. Persians have a extremely fluffy coat and a distinctive “smooshed” face appearance, and are known for being laid-back lap cats. The Turkish Van is a fluffy cat who has a mostly white body and can have tabby or calico coloration on the tail and forehead. These cats are great if you like to take a dip in the pool. Turkish Vans are called “swimming cats,” because unlike most cats, many love to go for a swim.
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Iranians in Canada have staged a protest outside the US embassy to mark the the fifth anniversary of deadly attack on refugees in Camp Ashraf by Iraqi forces in 2009 that killed 11 and injured more than 400.
Demonstrators outside the embassy in the capital Ottawa paid their respects to the victims and laid a wreath on a portrait of the eleven men who were killed in the outrage.
US forces at the camp failed to intervene to halt the carnage, despite all the victims holding identity cards issued by the US recognizing them as protected persons under the Geneva Convention.
A Fox News report on August 24, 2009, even showed an American soldier 'taping the attack' by Iraqi security forces on the defenceless residents.
Then when the residents appealed for help, she and another soldier got in a vehicle and drove away, exposing the US to criticism from human rights organizations that they had failed to honour their promise to protect the camp and its residents.
At the Ottawa protest, Iranians called for protection of all former Ashraf residents who are now in Camp Liberty in Iraq.
They urged the US government to uphold commitments made to the residents, who have been targeted with missiles on four separate occasions, with the latest attack on December 26, 2013.
Iraqi forces also refrain from taking measures to provide security for the camp, which is still vulnerable to further attacks.
Protesters including members of families of those in Camp Liberty express fears that the Iraqi government’s open hostility toward the camp's 2,000 residents, and the Iranian regime’s desire to annihilate all opposition members could see the the situation of worsen in the coming months.
The protesters said: "More humanitarian disasters will surely happen unless the UN and US government take action to ensure the safety and security of the residents."
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Disaster and Recovery Initiatives Along the Atlantic Coast
Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012, BOEM has
supported localities, states, and federal agencies with their need for OCS sand for beach nourishment
and coastal restoration projects (see fact sheet). The MMP's emergency response to Hurricane Sandy
entailed developing a streamlined process to respond to requests for OCS sand needed to recover from
the effects of the hurricane. By creating an expedited process to manage OCS sand requests, the MMP
aided in the restoration of a number of coastal areas by providing additional protection against future
storms, renourishing beaches for recreational use, both of which provide public benefit, and supporting
coastal ecosystems and associated biota such as turtles.
The immediate and long-term areas of focus for the MMP included the following:
- Communicating with stakeholders in areas of need to understand the level of restoration that
could be requested
- Evaluating what OCS sand resources have been previously identified as suitable for coastal restoration
- Identifying environmental concerns in preparation of potential projects.
- Working with the states to update their data bases and maps of offshore sand resource areas to
respond quickly if sand resources are needed in the future.
Department of Interior Hurricane Sandy Response Web Map,
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Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Initiatives
In 2013 BOEM received $13.6 million through the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act and in 2016 an additional $2.7 million to address critical needs for OCS sand and gravel throughout the coastal areas undergoing recovery and rebuilding (Department of the Interior Hurricane Sandy Spending Plan). BOEM has utilized approximately $6 million of these funds for cooperative agreements with the Atlantic coast states to support identification of OCS resources for projects as well as determine future sand needs (See state-by-state information here).
BOEM is also using approximately $6.2 million to conduct geophysical and geological surveys in priority data gap areas located 3 – 8 nautical miles offshore from Massachusetts to Miami, Florida in order to identify and delineate new potential OCS sand resources. This initiative, called the Atlantic Sand Assessment Project (ASAP), is providing valuable information on offshore sand resources for potential use in coastal restoration projects (see fact sheet ). BOEM anticipates that OCS sand will be needed for restoration activities to mitigate Hurricane Sandy impacts on beaches, communities, and State and Federal land, as well as support regional coastal resiliency efforts. In addition to supporting these project needs, BOEM is working with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Core Repository to store archived halves of the vibracores collected and make them available to researchers addressing such topics as climate change and sea level rise.
BOEM evaluated potential impacts that could result from conducting geophysical and geologic surveys to map OCS sand resources. Specific mitigation measures were included as part of the proposed action in the planning stage to avoid or minimize effects on environmental resources and historic properties. BOEM prepared an Environmental Assessment for this purpose, and signed a Finding of No Significant Impact.
Research and Resources Available
BOEM, through the Marine Minerals Program, was invited to participate in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study – Reducing Risk and Building Resilience. The purpose of the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study was to develop a strategy to reduce risk and increase resiliency to populations affected by Hurricane Sandy and those areas vulnerable to tidally-influenced flooding and storm surge in areas within the boundaries of the USACE North Atlantic Division. The intent of this study is to bring together Federal agencies, States, local, and Tribal governments, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations together to gather information and input on how to build resilience and reduce risk for those areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Participants will identify actions that can create resilience and reduce risk along the coastline. For more information, see the USACE North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study. | <urn:uuid:231f6e55-9a0b-4f3d-a136-9ba4991d5f96> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.boem.gov/Disaster-and-Recovery-Initiatives-Atlantic-Coast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00397-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9398 | 824 | 2.625 | 3 |
The sparkling waters of the Rideau Canal, Ottawa River or St. Lawrence River are often irresistible, especially if you own a boat and are an avid boater. However, a fantastic fun-filled holiday on the water can quickly lose its charm if you have a boating accident that results in injuries to you, your passengers or others in the water. According to the Red Cross Society of Canada, about 200 fatalities are recorded each year on Canada’s waters. This shows how dangerous boating accidents can be.
Under the Marine Liability Act (MLA), any individual who was injured in an accident on a pleasure craft can file for damages against the owner or operator of the vessel. If you sustained injuries caused at least in part by the other party, you may be able to obtain financial compensation from that party’s insurance through a personal injury lawsuit (i.e., a tort claim). Similarly, if a third party sustained injuries on your vessel that were caused by your negligence or fault, you could be exposed to substantial legal liability.
The MLA presumes that fault or neglect is that of the carrier (i.e., boat owner) unless there is evidence to the contrary. The no-fault insurance laws applicable to motor vehicle accidents in Ontario do not apply to boating accidents, even though pleasure crafts are subject to aspects of both motor vehicle law and marine law.
A carrier could be found liable if he or she knew or should have known of a danger or a risk of danger and did not address the concern. For example, the carrier would be liable if the accident was caused because the boat was unseaworthy or ill-equipped or the owner knew that the operator was unskilled to operate the vessel or was impaired by alcohol or drugs.
If a carrier can prove that the personal injury or death of a passenger was caused or contributed to by the fault or neglect of the passenger, the court could exonerate the carrier wholly or partly from his liability in accordance with the provisions of the law of that court. In other words, if the other party was found to contribute negligently to the accident, then the carrier could potentially be absolved of his or her liability for the accident.
Liability is deemed to be proportionate to the degree to which each party is respectively negligent or otherwise at fault, according to the MLA. If it is not possible to determine different degrees of fault or neglect, then liability of the parties is equal, as it is written in the MLA.
Liability does not require a collision to occur. An owner or operator can be liable, for example, if his or her passengers suffered serious health issues from carbon monoxide poisoning or burns from a fire outbreak while traveling in the boat.
Where the operator of a pleasure craft is found guilty of a criminal offense (e.g., operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol or drugs), further penalty and involvement of criminal lawyer could result. Under the MLA, it is possible to have a ship detained by law enforcement authorities and the court may authorize the ship’s sale. The law assumes that the boat operator is fully aware or ought to be aware of safety regulations and the high risks involved.
Sometimes there is no liability, such as where an accident is no one’s fault. This could be a situation where an accident is caused by hostile weather, such as strong winds and/or heavy rain, especially when the weather changes suddenly. Boats are at higher risk of lightning strikes, which can injure or kill passengers and/or damage the boat. Exposure to cold water or rain for long periods of time can also lead passengers to experience hypothermia. Comprehensive marine insurance can provide some protection in these situations.
In situations where no fault is found and no insurance was in place, there may be no ability for an injured party to recover losses. This could be the situation for a boater who opts to sign the liability waiver instead of purchasing insurance to rent a Sea-Doo® or jet-ski and thereafter gets into an accident on his or her own after losing control. Fortunately, marine insurance to protect against high risks and fatal accidents is important to the majority of boat owners. Additional insurance in the event of personal injury or death may also be required of some marina owners in the form of marina insurance.
If you have been involved in a boating accident, you need to report it to the authorities immediately. You are obliged to contact the local Canadian Coast Guard rescue coordination centre or local law enforcement agency (i.e., the police) as soon as you can after the accident and provide clear details about what happened and where. You are also required to inform the Transport Safety Board of Canada about the incident.
Consulting an Ottawa boating accident lawyer is recommended as soon as possible. The best time for us to represent you is just after the accident occurs, as your memory of what happened is fresh and it may be possible for us to investigate the facts. It is best to call us even if you caused the damage or injury but have not been held liable yet. If fines, charges or penalties were levied from the accident, this is also critical information you should share.
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By Jane C. Bernasconi and Nancy E. Smith
The book, Aerial Dance, includes a DVD. Special sections in the book, called "Look Up!" give readers a chance to view and reflect on video clips of aerial dance. Below is one Look Up section excerpted fromthe book.
View the “Mission Wall Dances” on the DVD. Jo Kreiter directed this interdisciplinary public art project in collaboration with muralist Josef Norris, the dancers, and the composer. Included are interviews with the displaced residents of the apartment building that was destroyed by arsonist’s fire.
- In this dance, think about all the components (getting approval to use the building, engineering the apparatus to the buildings) that went into organizing this dance. If you were the artistic director or choreographer, where would you begin? Make a list of all the considerations that wouldgo into planning and organizing this project.
- In both of Ms. Kreiter’s works (“Grim Arithmetic of Water” and “Mission Wall Dances”), what do you think a rehearsal process would be like?
- Imagine that you were commissioned to choreograph a community work. What type of project would you choose, and why? How would you begin?
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The Area Commander for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue has said the widespread use of lateral flow devices (LFDs) has been a ‘vital resource in protecting teams and allowing the Service to operate at full capacity’.
According to Stuart Smith, regular testing using Innova’s lateral flow tests has proved pivotal in supporting staff wellbeing and ensuring the Service can continue to operate as normal focusing on the job at hand – protecting lives across the region.
The Service introduced the LFDs, which enable a rapid test of infectiousness for Covid-19 to be carried out, for staff in December 2020. Since then, around 200 colleagues across its 28 stations have had access to their own test kits, which are being used twice a week.
Stuart said: ‘Since December, we’ve conducted over 1,200 Lateral Flow tests, of which, eight have come back positive – six of these were from asymptomatic individuals. If it wasn’t for the tests, this outbreak could have spread among the team and left us without a particular watch or more for 10 days. Luckily all have since recovered, but it had the potential to infect many more individuals.
‘The devices are our front line in identifying cases across our teams, even from asymptomatic individuals. As they provide us with results within 30 minutes, the tests have enabled us to quickly adapt shift patterns and isolate positive individuals, with all positive results corroborated with subsequent PCR tests.
‘Despite Covid, the Service hasn’t seen a great drop in demand for call-outs; in fact we have been slightly busier than usual at times. We’ve got 120 staff also volunteering across the county supporting with the vaccine rollout, staff working in hospitals support the fitting of personal protective equipment and helping supporting ambulance crews.’
The Service is rolling out two testing regimes among staff: those who regularly mix with others – from cleaning staff and those in fire control rooms, to full-time firefighters and training-centre staff – all receive kits which allow them to test at home twice a week, in line with healthcare workers; and secondly, ad-hoc tests on a weekly basis, for those who don’t interact regularly – such as on-call fighters, senior leaders and support staff who can test when they need it – rolled out across 17 station testing sites.
A firefighter working on the front line said: ‘I am really happy we’ve implemented the use of Lateral Flow Tests at CFRS. It gives an extra bit of peace of mind, knowing that if someone isn’t showing symptoms, they will know they’re positive. It not only helps us protect each other but the community we work in and also our families at home.’
Stuart added: ‘Our daily automated testing system means a results table is sent to the leadership team daily, meaning we have a holistic view of the data which shows how many tests have been taken in the last day, week and month. If an individual has been in a certain shift and has shown to be positive, we can intervene quickly to stop cross contamination between shifts.
‘There’s definitely an analogy between fighting Covid and fighting fires. The sooner you can get to a call-out, the greater chance you have for extinguishing the fire and saving lives. It’s the same for the pandemic too.
‘The Innova tests are like our fire alarms. They provide a real benefit as they give us near-immediate warning within 30 minutes, rather than a PCR test which can take a day or more to give results. The sooner we know people have Covid, the faster we can intervene, isolate and lessen the impact.
‘It’s been a really tough time for everyone across our region but especially so for front-line workers, such as those in the Service, who have had to continue their service despite Covid. I’d like to say a thank you to our staff for their relentless hard work over this time and their support in take up of the tests.’
Numerous scientific studies have shown that rapid antigen tests are an important tool for identifying infectious people quickly and accurately, even when they may not have symptoms of Covid-19, in ways that simply are not possible with slower, more expensive lab-based tests.
While the virus continues to morph its genetic ribonucleic acid (‘RNA’) to generate new and potentially more contagious variants, Innova’s antigen test, which instead looks for multiple proteins in the virus, is effective in detecting the emerging variants.
In response to the global pandemic, Innova developed an end-to-end ecosystem of rapid diagnostic and screening tests, along with digital reporting and tracing applications to help organisations manage the Covid-19 crisis.
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Welcome to The Henryetta
In 1983, the dilapidated building was moved to its current location at 410 W. Moore and restored to its original condition, with the addition of a small kitchen and an indoor privy.
The Museum, besides being the first school, also served as Henryetta’s first public library, First Presbyterian Church, VFW, American Legion, Boy Scout headquarters, Red Cross headquarters, dentist office and courtroom. It now, once again, plays an important role in the community as a center of activities and a major tourist attraction for our town.
The museum is the official home of the Joseph W. Hardin photography collection. Hardin was the official photographer for Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and for the Frisco Railroad, was invited to presidential inaugurations for over 40 years, and even worked on the Panama Canal.
In addition to the photographic collection, the museum houses exhibits of two famous Henryetta citizens - football great Troy Aikman and Jim Shoulders, 16-time World Champion Cowboy and inventor of the mechanical bull. Jim Shoulders' 1955 championship saddle and other memorabilia are on display.
Coal mining, oil drilling and other local historical artifacts give the museum a unique quality not found in larger museums.
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Welcome to spring 2020, today is the first day of spring 2020 season, let us discuss the things we love about spring, the queen of all seasons. The spring is the season of flowers, colors, love, hopes and goes green. It depends upon whether when the spring is starting.
First Day of Spring 2020
Meteorological, one year is divided into four seasons and according to that spring starts on 1st March and ending on 30th April. According to astronomical spring starts this year on 19th March 2020. It is one day earlier the same as 124 years ago in 1896 the spring arrived earlier. Astronomically seasons observed on the position of Earth’s in relation to Sun.
The start and end of seasons may impact our lifestyle, eating habits, wearing styles, traveling plans, seasonal events, etc. But this year the whole world is panic of coronavirus pandemic, some countries announced lock-down including Italy, Spain, China, and my country too.
I would like to welcome Spring here through this blog with my readers, bloggers and writer’s community, also pray for early recovery of all infected peoples and safety of the whole world.
Personal hygiene is our prime responsibility, and we have to include the practice of social distancing during this emergency situation. The spring is the season of hopes so, I hope the arrival of this spring will decrease this panic and will create a romantic environment through spreading the fresh air with the fragrance of different flowers.
Things we love about spring
The spring is the queen season, so we love all aspects of spring.
Goodbye weighty cloths
We are just happy and breathing in the fresh air, and we have left heavy blankets, dark colored jackets, puffy jackets, warm cloths. We have opened the windows and ventilators of our houses we are happy because the temperature is rising up and up. It also depends upon the conditions of your living area; be careful the cold can catch you if you are so early to coming of spring.
Enjoy outside with the perfect temperature
The perfect environment with perfect temperature enjoys the outside trips and say goodbye to winter. Early walk, night gatherings, some classical music nights, light drinks, some Ice-cream there are so many things are waiting for you and your friends, really spring is calling you. (Just remember and take care of yourself and others, if you are living in coronavirus affected area)
Spring Entertainments, flower everywhere
I love flowers and love to decorate my interior with colorful flowers and nurture new flowers. After four months period of chill winter, spring is coming with dazzling flowers. Lush green landscapes of beautiful valleys are ready to sing romantic songs with you. This is the time to enjoy the natural fragrance of different flowers and spend more time outside and set out your new travel plan and the next adventure also makes worthwhile memories for life!
Spring has so many colors but bright colors are the common choice of every person in spring. Our light and bright colors make a romantic match with an outside colorful environment.
Enjoy the season of colors, enjoy your colorful Easter, spend more time with your loved ones with a smile on your face! (lifestyle guru)
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Overview of Disability
Disability Back Pay
Requirements for Disability
Applications for disability
Tips and Advice for Disability Claims
How long does Disability take?
Winning Disability Benefits
Common Mistakes after a Denial
Mental Disability Benefits
Denials for Disability
Appeals for denied claims
Disability Benefits from SSA
Child Disability Benefits
Qualifications and How to Qualify
Working and Disability
Disability Awards and Notices
Disability Lawyers, Hiring Attorneys
Social Security List of Conditions
What Social Security considers disabling
Medical Evidence and Disability
Filing for Disability Benefits
Eligibility for Disability Benefits
SSD SSI Definitions
SSDRC authored by Tim Moore
Ask a question, get an answer
How Likely are You to Win Your Disability Case?
The likelihood of winning a disability case depends on several factors, such as--
1) Your medical history. If you can document the severity and ongoing nature of your disability through medical records, preferably from your treating physician, you are more likely to win benefits.
2) Your age, level of education, and work history. In general, those who are under 55, possess marketable work skills, or a higher level of education are less likely to be awarded Social Security Disability (SSD) or SSI disability benefits.
The logic behind this, at least from the Social Security Administrationís point of view, is that younger, more educated people with a variety of job skills and/or work experience are better able to switch to a different job or be trained in another line of work.
However, having said this...many cases involving younger individuals are won, particularly at the hearing level, because a claimant's representative will be able to prove that the individual has the types of exertional limitations (e.g., lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling) and nonexertional limitations (e.g., restrictions in reaching, grasping, bending, seeing, hearing, concentrating, remembering, etc) that make it impossible for them to A) go back to their past work and B) do any other type of work.
Obviously, this is where knowledge of the disability system and the regulations and medical vocational rules guiding decisions comes into play. A good representative will have strong familiarity with medical impairments and the types of functional limitations that SSA is looking for, the meaning of vocational skill levels, specific rulings and regulations to support a case, and how to build a successful argument for winning the case.
3) Persistence. Statistically most initial applications for SSD and SSI are denied (the denial rate nationwide is about 77%). If your application for disability is denied, you should take it in stride, realizing that very few applications are immediately approved. After a disability application is denied, the next step is to file a social security appeal, called a request for reconsideration.
Reconsideration appeals are even more likely to be denied than initial applications, probably due in large part to the fact that the same agency that denied the initial application (the state disability determination services agency, or DDS) is in charge of evaluating all first appeals. If you have no new pertinent medical evidence to add to the record, your first appeal doesnít stand much chance of being approved.
So why persist in pursuing your disability case if the odds of approval are so slim? Because, if your reconsideration appeal is unsuccessful, you can and should file a second appeal. This second appeal will be reviewed by a federal administrative law judge (ALJ), and typically ALJs are more likely to award disability benefits than the claims examiners at DDS.
Note: More than half of all claims previously denied by DDS are later approved for disability by an administrative law judge (see Tips for Getting Disability Approved When you File with Social Security). That amounts to a stunning reversal based on A) how long a person decides to stick with their case and B) whether or not their case has been properly prepared for a judge to review.
The very worst thing a claimant can do is to give up on their claim for two very profound reasons.
The first reason: it is a historically established fact that when claimants continue to pursue their claims through the appeals process, the likelihood is that they will win their disability benefits, especially if the right evidence has been gathered and submitted
This is because at the second appeal level, the disability hearing, the rules actually do change. Administrative law judges regard the opinions of a person's treating physician differently and this practice is supported by Social Security rulings, whereas at the lower levels, the opinion of your doctor is likely to receive very little consideration.
Also at the hearing level, when consideration is given to what jobs may still be available to a person based on their age, education, functional limitations, and work skills (this is where Social Security may attempt to deny you based on the idea that you can do "other work"), only the jobs available in the claimant's geographical location are considered---whereas at the disability application and reconsideration appeal levels, a disability examiner will cite other jobs you can do, even if those jobs barely exist and are located as far away as Hawaii or Alaska...
Which, logically, means that you really can't do them because A) you can't find them and B) you can't get to them.
The second reason: many individuals will give up on a claim by not appealing a denial. They will let the case lapse. Then, months or years later, they will try again by filing a new claim. They will, in effect, start with a new filing date. And that means potentially sacrificing not only months of time (that were consumed on the original disability application) but also thousands (or even tens of thousands) of dollars in back pay.
In summation: a claimant is far less likely to win a disability case when they initially apply. However, the odds go up substantially when they follow the appeals process, do not miss filing deadlines, and make sure that the case is supported by the right evidence and is presented in a way that illustrates that they do not have the capability to do their past work, or switch to form of other work.
Return to: Social Security Disability Resource Center, or read answers to Questions
How can I win Social Security Disability benefits?
How do you Win Benefits under Social Security Disability or SSI?
What kind of cases win disability benefits?
How Likely are You to Win Your Disability Case?
Winning a Social Security Disability Appeal or SSI Appeal
What Will a Disability Lawyer Do to Win a Social Security Case?
What are the chances of winning a Social Security Disability Benefits hearing?
Preparing for a Disability Hearing to Win Social Security or SSI Benefits
Winning Social Security Disability Benefits For Mental Disorders
Can a college student get benefits if their parent gets Disability?
Information on the following topics can be found here: Social Security Disability Questions and in these subsections:
Frequently asked questions about getting Denied for Disability Benefits | FAQ on Disability Claim Representation | Info about Social Security Disability Approvals and Being Approved | FAQ on Social Security Disability SSI decisions | The SSD SSI Decision Process and what gets taken into consideration | Disability hearings before Judges | Medical exams for disability claims | Applying for Disability in various states | Selecting and hiring Disability Lawyers | Applying for Disability in North Carolina | Recent articles and answers to questions about SSD and SSI
These pages answer some of the most basic questions for individuals who are considering filing a claim.
Filing for disability - How to file for SSD or SSI and the Information that is needed by Social Security
How to Apply for Disability - What medical conditions can you apply and qualify for?
Applying for Disability - How long does it take to get Social Security Disability or SSI benefits?
What happens if I file a disability application and it is denied by a disability examiner or Judge?
How to Prove you are disabled and qualify to win disability benefits
How do you prove your disability case if you have a mental condition or impairment?
Social Security Disability Back pay and How Long it Takes to Qualify for it and receive it
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Debate: Earthquake in Afghanistan
The Kurdish-Islamist newspaper Doğru Haber is dismayed by the Islamic world’s failure to offer help to the Afghan folks:
“Muslims ought to have mobilised all their assets for the folks of Afghanistan who’re struggling the results of the earthquake, and who’re additionally battling restricted assets, financial hardship and critical issues corresponding to poverty and drought. … One would have anticipated the Islamic world, which is much faraway from Western understanding, to react extra sensitively to the earthquake in Afghanistan and to defend its personal values. However sadly that has not occurred.”
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Statement on Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision
ACCESS Health International believes in the right to access high-quality healthcare for all people to live healthy and productive lives. Restricting access to safe and legal abortion services significantly jeopardizes a person’s physical and mental health.
In the US, a 1973 court ruling Roe v. Wade made access to safe and legal abortion a constitutional right for all American women. That life-saving right has now been stripped. The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a profoundly negative effect on women and their families in the US, and widespread public health consequences. Over decades, researchers have found that restrictive abortion laws do not result in fewer abortions. Instead, such laws will only serve to increase rates of unsafe abortions. Banning abortion in the U.S. will likely lead to a 21% increase in pregnancy-related deaths.
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This is open enrollment season for those workers fortunate enough to (1) still be employed and (2) still be offered a health benefit.
It’s also the season of economic decline. According to Watson Wyatt, these workers are making different health and benefit decisions in this fiscally-constrained era.
Watson Wyatt has released its 2008 version of the report, Employee Perspective on Health Care. Some of the most dramatic health behavior changes this year include:
- Only 19% of employees are willing to pay higher premiums to keep deductibles and copayments lower. In 2007, 38% were willing to do so.
- 66% of employees are trying to take better control of their health, an increase from 62%.
These survey results are based on a poll taken in May and June, 2008.
According to Watson Wyatt, employers are trying to nudge employees toward disease prevention as a cost-saving strategy.
But as a result of short-term economic preservation, employees may be undertaking anti-health behaviors that could increase their costs in the longer term, Watson Wyatt warns. The firm said that 17% of employees avoided a recommended doctor’s visit in 2008 to save money. 40% of insured workers said they go to the doctor only for what they see as serious conditions.
17% did not comply with a prescription drug instruction, such as filling the Rx or skipping a dose of medicine. Last year, 13% did so.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Suze Orman (one of my personal heroes who motivates me to save $), would be unhappy with another impact of higher health costs in the workplace that Watson Wyatt uncovered: 13% of workers are decreasing contributions to their retirement plans. 20% of workers say that health costs are reducing their ability to save for retirement. Furthermore, health costs have other negative impacts on workers: 11% say they’re depleting personal savings, and 10% need to borrow money.
The Edelman Health Engagement Barometer (which I covered in-depth here in the October post, Health Engagement and Patient Activation) found that 8 in 10 “health info-entials” (those people most engaged with their health), citizens value financial health as a component of their overall wellbeing just after physical health, mental health, and physical appearance.
Watson Wyatt’s data were gathered in the middle of 2008 — several months before the major implosion of the stock market, workers’ 401(k) plans, the near-bankruptcy of GM, and the loss of nearly one million jobs in the U.S. economy.
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The Saddest Game Ever Made
by TeachThought Staff
We’ve talked about the difference between gamification and game-based learning (GBL) in the past, as well as examples of games suitable for game-based learning.
We’ve also explored the unfortunate juvenile connotation of video games, and celebrated the medium’s narrative abilities, consistently over the years primarily because here at TeachThought, we also play them ourselves. A lot. (Fallout 4 and Until Dawn are among the games that currently have our attention.)
If you’ve got an iOS device, there’s a game you should at least be aware of called That Dragon, Cancer.
That Dragon, Cancer
That Dragon, Cancer got our attention last year on Steam (PC gaming platform), and now it’s available on mobile–which means that there really is no excuse not to play/experience it. The game is “an immersive, narrative experience that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative interaction that explores themes of faith, hope and love.”
Wired has already done a fantastic deep-dive into the game’s creation, but it gives a lot of the game away–which is also kind of okay because the game isn’t about action or suspense or points or levels. It’s about a child’s battle with brain cancer–and it’s even more gut-wrenching to play than you’d expect.
A brief overview appears below.
“Green began working on That Dragon, Cancer in November 2012. Joel, who had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer just after his first birthday, was approaching the age of 4. Green and his wife, Amy, lifelong devout Christians, saw this longevity as a miracle; back in November 2010, when Joel developed a new tumor after several rounds of chemotherapy, the doctors had declared him terminal, placed him on palliative care, and given him at most four months to live. The Greens had spent much of the next two years celebrating small victories and enduring crushing setbacks. Tumors that shrank, or even disappeared, then reemerged with greater vigor months later. Steroids that filled Joel with a powerful rage. A tumor that pressed on Joel’s optic nerve, causing his right eye to turn inward.
Green’s idea to make a video game about Joel came to him in church, as he reflected on a harrowing evening a couple of years earlier when Joel was dehydrated and diarrheal, unable to drink anything without vomiting it back up, feverish, howling, and inconsolable, no matter how Green tried to soothe him. He had made a few games since then and had been thinking about mechanics, the rules that govern how a player interacts with and influences the action on the screen. “There’s a process you develop as a parent to keep your child from crying, and that night I couldn’t calm Joel,” Green says. “It made me think, ‘This is like a game where the mechanics are subverted and don’t work.’”
Play it–or don’t. It’s both breathtakingly beautiful and emotionally brutal.
You can find That Dragon, Cancer on facebook as well.
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School: Stanford University
Registration Link: Technology Entrepreneurship
Start Date: January 6, 2015 (7 Weeks)
Workload: 10-20 Hours Per Week
Instructor: Chuck Eesley
Credentials: An entrepreneur who has founded three companies and worked for two venture capital firms, Chuck Eesley understands what it takes to successfully launch and grow firms in the technology, education, and life sciences sectors. After earning his Ph.D. from MIT Sloan, Eesley joined Stanford’s Management, Science and Engineering department as an assistant professor. In his research, Eesley focuses on how regulations, accepted practices, and industry environments influences the success of entrepreneurial endeavors.
Graded: Students will receive a signed statement of accomplishment for completing the course.
Description: A two-part course, Technology Entrepreneurship has drawn over 200,000 students in seven offerings. Using a process framework, students will learn how technology entrepreneurs start companies. Over seven weeks, students will how to do the following: “1. Articulate a process for taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of alternative theoretical models). 2. Create and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital. 3. Create and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea. 4. Generalize this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into opportunities that can be used in larger companies and other settings.” As part of the course, students will form start-up teams to develop business models and pitch their solutions to potential investors.
Review: “I have worked in product development for a number of years but taking this course certainly added rigour and discipline to my approach. The first 5 weeks were very useful, I was particularly thankful for being shown how to professionally set out business models as opposed to business plans – the distinction is real and very important. It also helped me to think of the startups as iterating around experiments, instead of being forced to go to market with a viable product (or what I think is viable) on day one. Being shown the best tools of the trade also saved a great deal of time.
BUT…Oh the team work! Yes, working in a start-up is necessarily a team experience. But on a MOOC you must expect a number of team members not to bother participating. This means some work very hard (if you do the course right, its a lot of work), but others do nothing…Secondly, you must elect your own start-up idea very quickly, all group work revolves around that idea. You can tailor the concept, but there isn’t time to go back to square one and radically change it – which would happen in real life. So after initial research you may feel you’re pursuing a business idea simply for its convenience on the course, which can be a slog – especially when trying to hold together a team of people from around the world.” For additional reviews, click here.
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Nomenclature of essential oils
AFNOR standard of essential oil
Only an essential oil obtained by the distillation of a botanically defined plant in a alambic using low-pressure water vapour corresponds to the AFNOR standard (AFNOR NF - T75.006 - 10/87)
The product, obtained by mechanical expression on citrus should be called petrol and not essential oil.
There is a nomenclature specific to essential oils that will allow you to identify in a certain way essential oil which you are looking for:
- The Latin name
The French name is insufficient to recognize it. For example, there are several kinds of lavender essential oils. The properties can vary from one way to another. Always refer to the Latin name that has been prescribed by a naturopath.
- The chmotype
The chmotype allows to identify the majority biochemical components of a essential oil. For more information, see our lexicon on essential oils.
- The extraction process
Apart from some plant species such as citrus fruit extracted by cold expression, most essential oils are obtained by distillation. But there are several distillation techniques. To improve yield, some producers use solvents or other essential oils, which destroys certain substances originally present in plants. We advise you to choose pure and natural "AB" (Biological agriculture) oils, which attests that oils are obtained by distillation process at controlled temperature and at low pressure.
- The origin of extraction
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The Republican Party and the National Rifle Association constantly state that the way to minimize deaths and injuries in mass shootings is to make sure more people are armed. They honestly state that the solution to American gun violence is to have more guns in the hands of citizens, not less. Like all the ridiculous ideas the GOP assert, their gun argument is not based on fact. Studies overwhelmingly show that states with the most restrictive gun laws are safer than those with the least restrictive gun laws.
Let’s use the two newest states – Alaska and Hawaii – as an example. In order to purchase a handgun in the Aloha State, one must have a permit, pass a background check, and have the gun registered. Furthermore, there is a 14-day waiting period. Hawaii does not have a “stand your ground” law, and it is almost impossible for an ordinary citizen to obtain either a concealed or an open carry permit.
Alaska has virtually no gun laws whatsoever. Anyone can walk into any store, plop down their cash, and walk out with a hand gun. They can carry it at will, either under a jacket or on the hip. Oh – and Alaska does have a “stand your ground” law.
In 2013 (the most recent year for which statistics is available), the death rate for gun victims in Hawaii was under three out of 100,000 persons. In Alaska, it was nearly 20 out of 100,000 persons.
Kristen Brand of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) doesn’t think so – and statistics back up her opinions on the issue. She told KHON (Honolulu) television news that “reducing exposure to firearms and having stronger gun laws saves lives.” She added:
Each year, the data consistently show that states with strong gun violence prevention laws and low rates of gun ownership have the lowest gun death rates in the nation. The highest gun death rates are in states with weak gun violence prevention laws and easy access to guns.
But don’t take Ms. Brand’s word for it – nor ours. Check out this chart, courtesy of the National Journal – and make up your own mind. The statistics overwhelmingly show that states with strict gun laws have the fewest shootings per population size, and those that have lenient gun laws have the highest number of shootings per population size.
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Subtitles and Transcript
0:11 I'm kind of tired of talking about simplicity, actually, so I thought I'd make my life more complex, as a serious play. So, I'm going to, like, go through some slides from way back when, and walk through them to give you a sense of how I end up here.
0:24 So, basically it all began with this whole idea of a computer. Who has a computer? Yeah. O.K., so, everyone has a computer. Even a mobile phone, it's a computer. And -- anyone remember this workbook, "Instant Activities for Your Apple" -- free poster in each book? This was how computing began. Don't forget: a computer came out; it had no software. You'd buy that thing, you'd bring it home, you'd plug it in, and it would do absolutely nothing at all. So, you had to program it, and there were great programming, like, tutorials, like this. I mean, this was great. It's, like, you know, Herbie the Apple II. It's such a great way to -- I mean, they should make Java books like this, and we've have no problem learning a program. But this was a great, grand time of the computer, when it was just a raw, raw, what is it? kind of an era. And, you see, this era coincided with my own childhood.
1:19 I grew up in a tofu factory in Seattle. Who of you grew up in a family business, suffered the torture? Yes, yes. The torture was good. Wasn't it good torture? It was just life-changing, you know. And so, in my life, you know, I was in the tofu; it was a family business. And my mother was a kind of a designer, also. She'd make this kind of, like, wall of tofu cooking, and it would confuse the customers, because they all thought it was a restaurant. A bad sort of branding thing, or whatever. But, anyway, that's where I grew up, in this little tofu factory in Seattle, and it was kind of like this: a small room where I kind of grew up. I'm big there in that picture.
1:57 That's my dad. My dad was kind of like MacGyver, really: he would invent, like, ways to make things heavy. Like back here, there's like, concrete block technology here, and he would need the concrete blocks to press the tofu, because tofu is actually kind of a liquidy type of thing, and so you have to have heavy stuff to push out the liquid and make it hard. Tofu comes out in these big batches, and my father would sort of cut them by hand. I can't tell you -- family business story: you'd understand this -- my father was the most sincere man possible. He walked into a Safeway once on a rainy day, slipped, broke his arm, rushed out: he didn't want to inconvenience Safeway. So, instead, you know, my father's, like, arm's broken for two weeks in the store, and that week -- now, those two weeks were when my older brother and I had to do everything. And that was torture, real torture. Because, you see, we'd seen my father taking the big block of tofu and cutting it, like, knife in, zap, zap, zap. We thought, wow. So, the first time I did that, I went, like, whoa! Like this. Bad blocks. But anyways, the tofu to me was kind of my origin, basically. And because working in a store was so hard, I liked going to school; it was like heaven. And I was really good at school.
3:13 So, when I got to MIT, you know, as most of you who are creatives, your parents all told you not to be creative, right? So, same way, you know, I was good at art and good at math, and my father says, he's -- John's good at math. I went to MIT, did my math, but I had this wonderful opportunity, because computers had just become visual. The Apple -- Macintosh just came out; I had a Mac in hand when I went to MIT. And it was a time when a guy who, kind of, could cross the two sides -- it was a good time.
3:43 And so, I remember that my first major piece of software was on a direct copy of then-Aldus PageMaker. I made a desktop publishing system way back when, and that was, kind of, my first step into figuring out how to -- oh, these two sides are kind of fun to mix. And the problem when you're younger -- for all you students out there -- is, your head gets kind of big really easy. And when I was making icons, I was, like, the icon master, and I was, like, yeah, I'm really good at this, you know. And then luckily, you know, I had the fortune of going to something called a library, and in the library I came upon this very book. I found this book. It's called, "Thoughts on Design," by a man named Paul Rand. It's a little slim volume; I'm not sure if you've seen this. It's a very nice little book. It's about this guy, Paul Rand, who was one of the greatest graphic designers, and also a great writer as well. And when I saw this man's work, I realized how bad I was at design, or whatever I called it back then, and I suddenly had a kind of career goal, kind of in hot pursuit.
4:45 So I kind of switched. I went to MIT, finished. I got my masters, and then went to art school after that. And just began to design stuff, like chopstick wrappers, napkins, menus -- whatever I could get a handle on: sort of wheel-and-deal, move up in the design world, whatever. And isn't it that strange moment when you publish your design? Remember that moment -- publishing your designs? Remember that moment? It felt so good, didn't it? So, I was published, you know, so, wow, my design's in a book, you know? After that, things kind of got strange, and I got thinking about the computer, because the computer to me always, kind of, bothered me. I didn't quite get it. And Paul Rand was a kind of crusty designer, you know, a crusty designer, like a good -- kind of like a good French bread? You know, he wrote in one of his books: "A Yale student once said, 'I came here to learn how to design, not how to use a computer.' Design schools take heed." This is in the '80s, in the great clash of computer/non-computer people. A very difficult time, actually. And this to me was an important message from Rand.
5:46 And so I began to sort of mess with the computer at the time. This is the first sort of play thing I did, my own serious play. I built a working version of an Adobe Illustrator-ish thing. It looks like Illustrator; it can, like, draw. It was very hard to make this, actually. It took a month to make this part. And then I thought, what if I added this feature, where I can say, this point, you can fly like a bird. You're free, kind of thing. So I could, sort of, change the kind of stability with a little control there on the dial, and I can sort of watch it flip around. And this is in 1993. And when my professors saw this, they were very upset at me. They were saying, Why's it moving? They were saying, Make it stop now. Now, I was saying, Well, that's the whole point: it's moving. And he says, Well, when's it going to stop? And I said, Never. And he said, Even worse. Stop it now. I started studying this whole idea, of like, what is this computer? It's a strange medium. It's not like print. It's not like video. It lasts forever. It's a very strange medium. So, I went off with this, and began to look for things even more.
6:53 And so in Japan, I began to experiment with people. This is actually bad: human experiments. I would do these things where I'd have students become pens: there's blue pen, red pen, green pen, black pen. And someone sits down and draws a picture. They're laughing because he said, draw from the middle-right to the middle, and he kind of messed up. See, humans don't know how to take orders; the computer's so good at it. This guy figured out how to get the computer to draw with two pens at once: you know, you, pen, do this, and you, pen, do this. And so began to have multiple pens on the page -- again, hard to do with our hands. And then someone discovered this "a-ha moment" where you could use coordinate systems. We thought, ah, this is when it's going to happen. In the end, he drew a house. It was the most boring thing. It became computerish; we began to think computerish -- the X, Y system -- and so that was kind of a revelation.
7:50 And after this I wanted to build a computer out of people, called a human-powered computer. So, this happened in 1993. Sound down, please. It's a computer where the people are the parts. I have behind this wall a disk drive, a CPU, a graphics card, a memory system. They're picking up a giant floppy disk made of cardboard. It's put inside the computer. And that little program's on that cardboard disk. So, she wears the disk, and reads the data off the sectors of the disk, and the computer starts up; it sort of boots up, really. And it's a sort of a working computer. And when I built this computer, I had a moment of -- what is it called? -- the epiphany where I realized that the computer's just so fast. This computer appears to be fast - she's working pretty hard, and people are running around, and we think, wow, this is happening at a fast rate. And this computer's programmed to do only one thing, which is, if you move your mouse, the mouse changes on the screen. On the computer, when you move your mouse, that arrow moves around. On this computer, if you move the mouse, it takes half an hour for the mouse cursor to change. To give you a sense of the speed, the scale: the computer is just so amazingly fast, O.K.?
9:05 And so, after this I began to do experiments for different companies. This is something I did for Sony in 1996. It was three Sony "H" devices that responded to sound. So, if you talk into the mike, you'll hear some music in your headphones; if you talk in the phone, then video would happen. So, I began to experiment with industry in different ways with this kind of mixture of skills. I did this ad. I don't believe in this kind of alcohol, but I do drink sometimes. And Chanel. So, getting to do different projects.
9:32 And also, one thing I realized is that I like to make things. We like to make things. It's fun to make things. And so I never developed the ability to have a staff. I have no staff; it's all kind of made by hand -- these sort of broken hands. And these hands were influenced by this man, Mr. Inami Naomi. This guy was my kind of like mentor. He was the first digital media producer in Tokyo. He's the guy that kind of discovered me, and kind of got me going in digital media. He was such an inspirational guy. I remember, like, we'd be in his studio, like, at 2 a.m., and then he'd show up from some client meeting. He'd come in and say, you know, If I am here, everything is okay. And you'd feel so much better, you know. And I'll never forget how, like, but -- I'll never forget how, like, he had a sudden situation with his -- he had an aneurysm. He went into a coma. And so, for three years he was out, and he could only blink, and so I realized at this moment, I thought, wow -- how fragile is this thing we're wearing, this body and mind we're wearing, and so I thought, How do you go for it more? How do you take that time you have left and go after it? So, Naomi was pivotal in that.
10:41 And so, I began to think more carefully about the computer. This was a moment where I was thinking about, so, you have a computer program, it responds to motion -- X and Y -- and I realized that each computer program has all these images inside the program. So, if you can see here, you know, that program you're seeing in the corner, if you spread it out, it's all these things all at once. It's real simultaneity. It's nothing we're used to working with. We're so used to working in one vector. This is all at the same time. The computer lives in so many dimensions. And also, at the same time I was frustrated, because I would go to all these art and design schools everywhere, and there were these, like, "the computer lab," you know, and this is, like, in the late 1990s, and this is in Basel, a great graphic design school. And here's this, like, dirty, kind of, shoddy, kind of, dark computer room. And I began to wonder, Is this the goal? Is this what we want, you know?
11:38 And also, I began to be fascinated by machines -- you know, like copy machines -- and so this is actually in Basel. I noticed how we spent so much time on making it interactive -- this is, like, a touch screen -- and I noticed how you can only touch five places, and so, "why are we wasting so much interactivity everywhere?" became a question. And also, the sound: I discovered I can make my ThinkPad pretend it's a telephone. You get it? No? O.K. And also, I discovered in Logan airport, this was, like, calling out to me. Do you hear that? It's like cows. This is at 4 a.m. at Logan.
12:18 So, I was wondering, like, what is this thing in front of me, this computer thing? It didn't make any sense. So, I began to make things again. This is another series of objects made of old computers from my basement. I made -- I took my old Macintoshes and made different objects out of them from Tokyo. I began to be very disinterested in computers themselves, so I began to make paintings out of PalmPilots. I made this series of works. They're paintings I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of display that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art. What am I? I'm abstract. And so it keeps thinking out loud of its own abstraction.
12:53 I began to be fascinated by plastic, so I spent four months making eight plastic blocks perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress. Because of that, I became interested in blue tape, so in San Francisco, at C.C., I had a whole exhibition on blue tape. I made a whole installation out of blue tape -- blue painters' tape. And at this point my wife kind of got worried about me, so I stopped doing blue tape and began to think, Well, what else is there in life? And so computers, as you know, these big computers, there are now tiny computers. They're littler computers, so the one-chip computers, I began to program one-chip computers and make objects out of P.C. boards, LEDs. I began to make LED sculptures that would live inside little boxes out of MDF. This is a series of light boxes I made for a show in Italy. Very simple boxes: you just press one button and some LED interaction occurs. This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp: it's sort of a plastic rice lamp; it's very friendly. I did a show in London last year made out of iPods -- I used iPods as a material. So I took 16 iPod Nanos and made a kind of a Nano fish, basically. Recently, this is for Reebok. I've done shoes for Reebok as well, as a kind of a hobby for apparel.
14:07 So anyways, there are all these things you can do, but the thing I love the most is to experience, taste the world. The world is just so tasty. We think we'll go to a museum; that's where all the tastes are. No, they're all out there. So, this is, like, in front of the Eiffel Tower, really, actually, around the Louvre area. This I found, where nature had made a picture for me. This is a perfect 90-degree angle by nature. In this strange moment where, like, these things kind of appeared. We all are creative people. We have this gene defect in our mind. We can't help but stop, right? This feeling's a wonderful thing. It's the forever-always-on museum. This is from the Cape last year. I discovered that I had to find the equation of art and design, which we know as circle-triangle-square. It's everywhere on the beach, I discovered. I began to collect every instance of circle-triangle-square. I put these all back, by the way. And I also discovered how . some rocks are twins separated at birth. This is also out there, you know. I'm, like, how did this happen, kind of thing? I brought you guys together again.
15:09 So, three years ago I discovered, the letters M-I-T occurring in simplicity and complexity. My alma mater, MIT, and I had this moment -- a kind of M. Night Shayamalan moment -- where I thought, Whoa! I have to do this. And I went after it with passion. However, recently this RISD opportunity kind of arose -- going to RISD -- and I couldn't reconcile this real easy, because the letters had told me, MIT forever. But I discovered in the French word raison d'être. I was, like, aha, wait a second. And there RISD appeared. And so I realized it was O.K. to go.
15:44 So, I'm going to RISD, actually. Who's a RISD alum out there? RISD alums? Yeah, RISD. There we go, RISD. Woo, RISD. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Art Center -- Art Center is good, too. RISD is kind of my new kind of passion, and I'll tell you a little bit about that. So, RISD is -- I was outside RISD, and some student wrote this on some block, and I thought, Wow, RISD wants to know what itself is. And I have no idea what RISD should be, actually, or what it wants to be, but one thing I have to tell you is that although I'm a technologist, I don't like technology very much. It's a, kind of, the qi thing, or whatever. People say, Are you going to bring RISD into the future? And I say, well, I'm going to bring the future back to RISD.
16:28 There's my perspective. Because in reality, the problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make it more humane again. And if anything, I think RISD has a strange DNA. It's a strange exuberance about materials, about the world: a fascination that I think the world needs quite very much right now. So, thank you everyone. | <urn:uuid:5ea0853b-bec3-4c25-9010-343020dda313> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ted.com/talks/john_maeda_on_design/transcript | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00475-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984172 | 4,322 | 1.757813 | 2 |
|Home > National News > Article||Monday May 20, 2002|
The Catholic Archbishop, the Most Rev George Pell, yesterday refused Holy Communion to openly gay and lesbian parishioners, coupling his first Sydney confrontation over the issue with an attack on homosexuality.
Quoting the new conservative mantra of the church, Dr Pell told the congregation at St Mary's Cathedral: "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve and important consequences follow from this.
"Our Judeo-Christian religious tradition allows men and women sexual expression within the bounds of family life, a sexuality which is life-giving. Homosexual acts are contrary to the natural law, they close the sexual act to the gift of life."
Dr Pell's rejection of about 20 parishioners marked the first time members of the Rainbow Sash movement had sought communion from the archbishop since he moved to Sydney a year ago. As archbishop of Melbourne, he refused Sash members communion at least 10 times.
On the steps outside St Mary's immediately after the Mass, a Rainbow Sash spokesman and former Franciscan seminarian, Michael Kelly, told the crowd: "We're here to break the code of silence and invisibility that the church has imposed on gay and lesbian people as their price for involvement in the church for so many centuries.
"It's no longer sufficient for a small group of elderly celibate men to proclaim moral teaching and moral decision making for hundreds and hundreds of millions of people. Our voices must be heard. Our experience must be honoured."
Earlier, Rainbow Sash members had stood in quiet defiance as Dr Pell made an unprecedented address before the final prayer. "I deeply regret that such people, who profess the Catholic faith, would choose to mount an ideological demonstration during Mass," he said. "This is inappropriate."
Of the church's stance on homosexuality, he said: "The protesters must realise that the church's teaching on this matter cannot, will not, change."
Approached after the service, Dr Pell said he had nothing to add. But his refusal to even offer a blessing to sash-wearers, as he had done in his previous role as archbishop of Melbourne, suggests he is taking a harder line with the fledgling Sydney movement.
Television and photographic media were banned during the service, at Dr Pell's request.
At Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, Rainbow Sash members were also turned away from the Eucharist. Similar protests were expected to take place at Catholic services in London, New York, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis and Rochester.
Mr Kelly said the sex abuse crisis in the US Catholic Church was symptomatic of a culture of sexual repression, and secrecy.
"The Catholic Church is a closed club," he said. "And like all closed clubs, over decades it becomes diseased ... the only way forward is for the church to open its heart and start talking to people. George Pell managed to make it clear today he has no intention of doing that."
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With weeks to go until the US presidential election, the two main candidates have held their first TV debate.
Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton fought over the economy, national security and foreign policy.
Polls suggest the race for the country's top job is close.
Trump questioned Clinton's stamina, she accused him of hiding something in his tax returns.
Clinton highlighted her extensive experience while in public office as First Lady, then Senator, before becoming Secretary of State.
But Trump blamed her for many of America's problems including the threat of ISIL. He also accused her of not having the right look and temperament.
So, can televised debates change how people vote?
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Jocelyn Mitchell - Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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Square helps consumers to pay with card in a mobile environment. For a business that prefers to keep all sales information in a settled location, Square Stand is the choice. In contrast, if the enterprise is mobile, Square Reader is the alternative. With the aim to ease commerce, Square offers The Connect API. This application provides HTTP endpoints to retrieve reports for users' payments, refunds, and settlements. It also allows to manage merchant's items. Square Connect API is about point of sale transactions with cards using iPad, iPhone, and Android. Additional resources of transactions, OAuth, and eCommerce are available on Square site.
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Compiled By : Assoc.Prof. Chukiat Sirivichayakul
Assist.Prof. Achara Asavanich
Ms. Vipa Prariyanuphan
Produced By : Information leaflet committee, Faculty of Tropical Medicine,
Mahidol University and Department of Disease Control, Ministry
of Public Health
The causative agent of denfue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is dengue virus, of which there are 4 serotypes. When a person is infected with dengue virus for the first time, clinical signs and symptoms are usually mild. However, if he/she is reinfected with a different type of dengue virus, severe conditions such as bleeding or shock will occur and can be fatal. This disease is usually found in children less than 15 years of age.
Aedes aegypti is the main mosquito vector that transmits the dengue virus from person to person. When a female A. aegypti feeds on a dengue virus infected person, the viruses multiply in the insect body and remain there for the whole life span of the mosquito, approximately 1-2 months. Viruses are then transferred to another person being bitten by an infected mosquito.
A. aegypti can be found both inside and outside houses. They prefer to feed during the day. Their breeding places are containers with clear water, for example, jars, vases, ant traps, dishes, cans, pots, flower pots, tires, etc. The prevalence of DHF increases in the rainy season when the mosquito vectors are abundant and children often stay indoors during the day. However, in big cities such as Bangkok, this disease occurs sporadically all year round.
Approximately 80-90% of persons infected with dengue virus for the first time are asymptomatic. Hign fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, and minute bleeding spots under skin may be found in some cases. A second infection with a different type of dengue virus, however, causes more severe conditions, which can be divided into 3 phases :
Standard criteria of the World Health Organization for the diagnosis of DHF are high fever, easy bleeding (positive tourniquet test, bruises, nose-bleed, gum bleeding, etc.), abdominal pain at the right costal margin because of the enlargement of the liver, shock, decreased platelets, and hemoconcentration. Serological and/or virological investigations may be performed to confirm the diagnosis
There is no specific antiviral treatment. Symptomatic and supportive measures are most important. To lower the temperature during the febrile phase, acetaminophen should be given. Aspirin must not be used since it is known to cause bleeding. An antiemetic can also be given to prevent nausea and vomiting. Juice or oral rehydration solution in small amounts given frequently are helpful. Close observation for early signs of shock is necessary. The critical period is at the transition from the febrile to the afebrile phase. Parents should be advised about the warning signs of shock, such as, reduced urination, restlessness or drowsiness, coldness of extremities, or fainting. If these symptoms occur, the patient should be hospitalized immediately.
The goal for the prevention and control of DHF is the control of mosquito vectors by several means, such as :
1.Preventing children/adults from being bitten by a mosquito vector; using a bed-net, even during the day, is advisable.
2.Eliminating breeding places of mosquito vectors inside and around houses
- changing water in containers, such as flower vases, every week
- getting rid of unused, broken objects, such as old tires, flower pots
- putting guppies or other fish that feed on mosquito larvae into lotus
ponds or other water sources
- all water containers should be covered; the use of larvicidal sand
granules (temephos) in water storage tanks to destroy the
mosquito larvae is advisable
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Excitement is building in New York City with the visit of Pope Francis this September 24. A massive, hand-painted mural, 225-feet tall has been placed in midtown Manhattan at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 34th Street, close to Madison Square Garden, where the Pope will celebrate mass on the 25th.
A parishioner of St. John the Evangelist Church in Loveland, Colorado, Van Hecht-Nielsen has 10 years of experience painting billboards across the country. “People are getting excited and it is a blessing because I think it sends a message to the community,” he says.
The mural includes the public hashtags #PopeInUSA and #PapaEnUSA, and is expected to be seen by 700,000 people each week.
Attracting both workers and pedestrians, many have expressed a “thumbs up” opinion of the mural.
“As a tourist, I think it is fantastic. I am Catholic so I am happy to see them doing that mural,” Chilean Lorena Quezada told reporters. “It is impressive … I think the Pope is going to like it.”
The idea behind the mural is even more important, according to New Yorker Charles Wickliffe. He says that the mural makes people think about religion and God.
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There are many variables including machine, workholding, tooling, process, maintenance, and environment which affect the capability of a CNC machine to produce acceptable quality parts. When rejection levels are high it is a challenge for production and quality engineers to identify the cause. It is therefore very important to verify what is the contribution of the machine to low process capability index. There is a systematic approach to establish the capability of the machine to meet component specification. This systematic approach when carried out periodically would also help engineers to catch deterioration of machine performance over time. In view of this Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is organising an online training on "Systematic Approach for establishing Machine Capability". | <urn:uuid:a18607e4-1880-42c6-b451-19c5af0854fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imtmatraining.com/programme_library_details/249/online-training-on-systematic-approach-for-establishing-machine-capability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.929212 | 142 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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May Issue of Nature Methods
In the cover story of the May issue of Nature Methods, Matthew Attreed, a graduate student with Dr. Hannes Buelow reports a novel method that allows visualization of specifically modified heparan sulfates (Nat. Methods, 2012, 9(5):477-479). Heparan sulfates are extracellular sugars that are ubiquitous on the cell surface of multicellular organisms and modulate protein-protein interactions by way of their modifications. This work is significant because it describes a general strategy for the genetic analysis of non-genetically encoded molecules. On the other hand, this method hints at “…the exciting possibility of analyzing the physiological and/or tissue-specific roles of non–genetically encoded molecules such as different sugars or lipids in live worms” write Drs. Kulkarni and Wadsworth from UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in an accompanying News & Views piece. | <urn:uuid:10666a00-f99f-4d54-9bd9-2a0b357b89b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://einstein.yu.edu/departments/genetics/news-events/?nid=33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882472 | 199 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Michigan May End Mandatory Union Dues in Labor Bastion
Michigan, home to carmakers and labor’s United Auto Workers, may ban mandatory union-dues payments if Republicans who run the Legislature pass such a law, making it the 24th U.S. right-to-work state.
The issue has inflamed organized labor, which lost a costly ballot campaign in November to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the state constitution. Unions have urged members to visit the capitol personally to lobby lawmakers on the issue.
“Right-to-work is on the agenda; we are having discussions on it,” Republican Governor Rick Snyder told reporters in Lansing yesterday after emerging from a meeting with the party’s legislative leaders. “We haven’t made any decisions.”
A compromise may be forged with unions on the issue by tomorrow, averting a vote. No right-to-work legislation has been introduced for consideration in the lame-duck session that ends later this month. If such a measure passed, Michigan would become the second Midwest industrial state to adopt a mandatory dues ban in the past year, following Indiana in February.
Snyder previously dismissed the issue as divisive and “not on my agenda,” while stopping short of saying he’d veto a right-to-work bill. Last week, he met with UAW President Bob King to discuss the matter, according to Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for the governor. This week, the state Chamber of Commerce came out in favor of such a measure.
Before Indiana took action, right-to-work states were concentrated in the South, Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. Similar measures were considered in 21 other states this year, without passage. A right-to-work bill is being discussed in Wisconsin, where Republican Governor Scott Walker this year survived a recall after curbing collective bargaining for most public-employee unions.
Labor rights in Michigan, home to General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, carry historic weight. Walter P. Reuther, who led a bloody drive to organize Ford workers, later served as the UAW’s president from 1946 to 1970. Called “the most dangerous man in Detroit” by American Motors executive and future Governor George Romney, Reuther helped to unite the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor organization, in 1955.
James P. Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is a Michigan native. His father, Jimmy Hoffa, moved to Detroit as a child and led the union for 14 years, increasing its membership to more than 2 million.
Labor leaders oppose right-to-work laws, which make it harder for their organizations to raise money. The statutes generally let workers refuse to join unions or pay dues, even though they may benefit from contracts that labor groups negotiate, according to the conference of legislatures.
While no right-to-work bill is pending in Michigan, hundreds of union members have traveled to the capitol to lobby against it, according to the UAW’s website.
“It’ll take away our ability to collectively bargain,” said Dia Pearce, an organizer with Unite Here, a union representing hotel, restaurant, stadium and casino employees.
The issue is a matter of personal liberty, said Brian Pannebecker, a spokesman for Michigan Freedom to Work, a group of business groups and individuals lobbying for such a law.
“If the unions are providing a valuable service to the workers, the workers should be allowed to decide whether they want to join and financially support” them, said Pannebecker, 53, a UAW member at a Detroit-area Ford plant. He said many autoworkers resent paying dues to a union that almost exclusively supports politicians and policies that they reject.
Debate over right-to-work has dominated the state’s lame duck session, which includes lawmakers who are leaving office. Supporters of such a measure said a bill must be introduced by tomorrow to fit the legislative schedule.
“I’m more confident than I was yesterday we have the votes,” said state Representative Mike Shirkey, a Republican from Clarklake who has prepared a right-to-work measure.
States that ban compulsory union dues have greater growth in jobs, personal income and population than those that don’t prohibit the practice, Shirkey said.
Such a contentious issue shouldn’t be considered in a lame- duck session, said state Representative Richard Hammel, the Democratic Leader in the House from Mt. Morris Township. He said right-to-work states have higher jobless rates, and that such data should be considered in public hearings and in a full legislative debate.
Employees in right-to-work states make an average of $1,500 a year less than those that don’t have such a law, according to the Michigan AFL-CIO.
Hammel, who is stepping down because of term limits, said passage of a right-to-work bill now would “poison the water” for lawmakers entering the next legislative session.
“There will be no cooperation on issues that are important to a lot of folks,” Hammel said.
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Ask an engineer what he is doing and there is a good chance his answer will be, “I am debugging.” Day in and day out, project after project, engineers debug it’s part of being an engineer. Sometimes, it’s quick and easy, but sometimes it’s hard, not obvious, time consuming, and unpredictable. Everyone knows that debugging is a dreaded but necessary part of the design and verification process.
One alarming trend that is not necessary is the increasing proportion that debugging consumes in the design cycle. Within functional verification, it is the single largest component at approximately 60 percent and is projected to grow even larger. Broadly speaking, the reason for this trend is that traditional debug practices are not adequate for today’s problems.
Sooner or later, debug will get your attention.
Today, debug gets your full attention when problems occur. More specifically, not much thought is given to debug until it is actually performed. In such cases, according to Murphy’s Law, debug will get your full attention at the worst possible time.
For example, a dreaded bug will be found near the end of the cycle and the problem will be bounced like a ping-pong ball between multiple engineers consuming valuable time. The problem will be elevated to higher levels of management, making it both stressful and embarrassing for the technically savvy engineers. Of course, this leads to a “blame game” across groups since most tough bugs fall through the cracks of responsibility.
Can you avoid this scenario? Not entirely. Can you reduce its likelihood to occur and reduce its impact? Absolutely. The key is to give debug your attention sooner rather than later.
Here is some advice that takes relatively little time to develop, but can provide huge benefits.
Anticipate problems up front
When developing the testbench and checkers, engineers should not only think of checks that can detect problems, but should also anticipate the type of information that can help debug the problem. Some examples:
• When a problem is detected, is it possible to derive an expect/correct value?
• When a problem is detected, is it possible to determine at what time the failure occurred in the DUT (i.e. as opposed to the testbench)?
• If an expected value exists, is it possible to generate the corresponding value at different interesting module boundaries such as the design under test (DUT) pins?
• When a problem is detected, what other signal values or events would be interesting to know at the time of the failure?
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Microsoft today announced that WSL 2 will soon be available as part of Windows 10, version 2004. Also, the company changes the way the Linux kernel receives updated.
With the release of Windows 10 Build 18917, Microsoft introduced WSL 2 to Insiders, the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. It ships a real Linux kernel with Windows that will make full system call compatibility possible. This is the first time a Linux kernel is shipped with Windows.
WSL 2 is a new version of the architecture that powers the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows. This new architecture changes how these Linux binaries interact with Windows and your computer’s hardware, but still provides the same user experience as in WSL 1 (the current widely available version).
With version 2004, Microsoft has removed the Linux kernel from the Windows OS image and instead will be delivering it to your PC via Windows Update, the same way that 3rd party drivers (like graphics, or touchpad drivers). You can manually check for new kernel updates by clicking the ‘Check for Updates’ button, or you can let Windows keep you up to date just like normal.
For of the initial release of Windows 10, version 2004, and in the latest Windows Insiders slow ring preview build, you will temporarily need to manually install the Linux kernel, and will receive an update in a few months that will add automatic install and servicing capabilities. Microsoft will issue a patch later to ensure that all users in the initial general release of WSL2 will be serviced via this new dynamic model.
Temporary experience of manually installing the Linux kernel in Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Insiders slow ring
After updating to Windows 10 build 19041.153, when you run any of the following commands:
wsl(If a WSL2 distro is your default distro)
wsl --set-version <Distro> 2, –
wsl --set-default-version 2
wsl --exporttargeting WSL2
You’ll see a one-time message instructing you to update your kernel. It will instruct you to go to the link: https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel.
Follow the instructions to download the MSI package, run it to install your Linux kernel, and you’ll be finished and ready to use WSL2. When automatic install and update of the Linux kernel is added you’ll start getting automatic updates to your kernel instantly.
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Cape Ann is split into 2 main municipalities: the smaller Rockport and larger Gloucester. Rockport features many art galleries and is certainly the more quaint of the two. Gloucester, on the south side of the peninsula, was at one point the largest fishing community in the United States. The town was featured in Sebastian Junger's book "The Perfect Storm". This novel was based on actual events and chronicled the struggles of a band of Gloucester Fisherman that ultimately met their demise in a huge storm in 1991. The book was eventually made into a major motion picture staring George Clooney and Boston's Mark Wahlberg. Gloucester's prosperity was derived from the cod stocks that once populated the the George's Banks that lie several hundred miles to the east of Cape Ann. These cod stocks were once thought to be inexhaustible, but the lack of proper management over time has lead to the complete collapse of the fishery. Regulators have essentially closed the fishery on which Gloucester depends, and this is a very politically charged issue in the community. Here is a shot of a section of Gloucester harbor, and a map of my route today which totaled 23 miles.
OK, enough with the history and demographics. Let's get back to the birds! I had 6 target birds for today: harlequin duck, red-necked grebe, razorbill, black-legged kittiwake, king eider, and thick-billed murre. I easily got the harlequin duck, red-necked grebe, and razorbill at Andrew's Point on the north side of Rockport. There were also a dozen purple sandpipers, which although not new for my year, are a personal favorite. I have seen these birds here many times so this was completely expected. The shoreline was much too icy for photos today, so I have included some stock photos of these species from my website for reference.
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Harlequin ducks (from my stock)
Harlequin duck (from my stock)
Razorbill (from my stock)
Purple sandpiper (from my stock)
Andrew's point is particularly good when the wind is from the northeast as it pushes seabirds in towards the shore. However, today the wind was from the southwest so the seabirds for which I was hoping, most notably black-legged kittiwake, would not be found today. As I was about to pack up at Andrew's point, I got a phone call from a local birder, Miles Brengle, saying that he had found a thick-billed murre in Gloucester Harbor. THE CHASE WAS ON! I packed up the tripod, secured things on the bike, and sprinted the 5 miles back to Gloucester in time to tick the murre. I would have offered to buy Miles a beer but he's only 14! Keep your eyes open for this rising birding star, especially once he gets a driver's license! The bird stayed around most of the day, and was at times joined by a dovekie (maybe the same bird as yesterday). Cape Ann comes through again. This bird is tough to see in Massachusetts, and can't be reliably found anywhere south of the state. The murre today was too far away for photos so I have included a shot from last year instead.
Thick-billed murre (from my stock)
Well it was now 11am, and I had collected 4 of the 6 species. I decided it was time to head over to the eastern side of the peninsula to search for the male king eider that had been seen the last few days. In fact, this same bird has spent the last 6-7 winters in the exact same spot. King eider, like thick-billed murre, can be really tough to find, so having one staked out is key. As I arrived at the eider's haunt, folks informed me that they had him in the scope already! Bingo! 5 out of 6 by noon, it was a fantastic morning. I have unfortunately never photographed king eider. It's one of my most wanted birds for photos. One day......
With the wind from the southwest, the kittiwake wasn't going to happen today. I really did as well as I possibly could have today. Knowing that I'll have other shots at the kittiwake, I decided to take it easy in the afternoon and rest my legs. I am way ahead of schedule, and I am going to try to make it to Boston tomorrow to plan out my route south to Rhode Island. | <urn:uuid:5c21392e-6af4-4367-a0d2-fc6b3d6f637b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bikingforbirds.blogspot.com/2014/01/day-5-cape-ann-shines-with-thick-billed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.984544 | 964 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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Sweet and deadly
Most of the time, when people talk about high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), they talk in terms of waistlines and weight gain.
And now there’s new cause for concern–and it’s particularly frightening, because it deals specifically with our kids.
Most teens don’t think twice about guzzling a soda at lunch, another after school, and still another out at the movies with friends. And parents are usually pretty willing to, in the spirit of the high teenage metabolism, turn a blind eye.
But this spirit of “let them eat what they want while they’re young” could be doing far more harm than good. In fact, it could be opening the door to downright deadly risks.
Teens who consume lots of fructose, a form of which is HFCS (found just about everywhere in the typical teen diet) show evidence of heart disease and diabetes risk in their blood, according to a new study. Yep, these kids are already showing signs of risk for what are typically considered to be adult diseases.
In a study from the Medical College of Georgia, kids aged 14 to 18 with diets high in fructose (which research shows their growing bodies crave–a finding fully exploited by the food industry) had higher blood pressure, higher fasting glucose and insulin resistance (both measures related to diabetes), and inflammatory factors related to heart disease.
They also had lower levels of heart protectors like HDL cholesterol and certain proteins in their bodies.
And for kids carrying extra belly fat, the associations between fructose and these risk factors was even greater.
It’s time to put aside the notion that kids can eat whatever they want. Sure, many of them can burn it off, but that doesn’t help what’s going on at a chemical level. And of course, our eating habits as teens have a lot to do with our eating habits as adults (think of all the people you know who hated vegetables growing up and still won’t touch them), so it’s important to encourage healthy choices now. It could very well save your teen’s life.
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As COVID-19 vaccines start getting into American arms, a new issue for employers, students, and others is about to come up.
How do you prove you got the vaccine?
For most of us, it has always been a piece of paper issued by the health department. Now there is new technology on the horizon that might make the verification process faster and easier.
Right now there is no plan yet in place to prove someone has received the vaccine.
Pacific Business Group on Health, which represents big companies like Salesforce and Walmart, said it will not be as easy as self reporting.
"There is nothing our employers want more than for their employees to be able to come back to work," said Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO of Pacific Business Group on Health. They are under significant economic pressure in this recession, but it has to be done in a way that protects employees, and keeps people healthy.
Soon, there will be an app for that.
Vacmobile is one of several startups working to create a mobile app that collects and stores your vaccine data. The app would then send the information encrypted to your employer, school and anyone the user would want it delivered to.
"You would get a certified record from the state sent directly to your own personal digital vault stored in the cloud, for which only you'll have the key," said Jennifer Sparks, Vacmobile CEO.
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Frederick Hart Acrylic Sculpture Contemplation Sold For $2,115
This Hart Frederick acrylic sculpture ‘Contemplation” is from the Age of the Light Collection from 1985. Hart pioneered the use of acrylics in figurative sculpture. He called this technique sculpting with light. The figures Hart creates are classic. Yet his medium of clear acrylic is modern and technologically advanced.
About Frederick Hart (1943-1999)
Artist, sculptor, and stonecutter in the classical style, Frederick Hart was an apprentice at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. During his apprenticeship, Hart won a competition to design the facade of the National Cathedral. His thirteen-year masterpiece resulted in a 21′ x 15′ bas relief sculpture.
Frederick Hart designed theThree Soldiers bronze sculpture for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. This sculpture was realistic in style and contrasted with the abstraction style of Maya Lin. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in South Carolina, Hart was an opponent of most contemporary art. As a proponent of realism, Hart was made an honorary member of The American Society of Classical Realism Guild of Artists.
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Henry Kissinger? Wallace Sayre? Charles Frankel? Samuel Johnson? Jesse Unruh? Courtney Brown? Laurence J. Peter?
Dear Quote Investigator: The following saying is often attributed to the prominent U.S. foreign policy figure and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger:
Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
But I have also seen it attributed to the political scientist Wallace Sayre. Could you examine this adage?
Quote Investigator: There are many different ways to state this basic idea. Here are some additional forms to help depict the range of possible expressions:
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
Politics on the university campus are the worst of all kinds of politics because the stakes are so small.
Campus politics are so nasty because the stakes are so small.
The republic of learning and letters works by especially bitter squabbling because the stakes are so small.
This exploration begins with a fascinating precursor in 1765 from the pen of the lexicographer and celebrated man of letters Samuel Johnson. In the following excerpt a “scholiast” referred to an academic commentator:
It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed. The subjects to be discussed by him are of very small importance; they involve neither property nor liberty; nor favour the interest of sect or party. The various readings of copies, and different interpretations of a passage, seem to be questions that might exercise the wit, without engaging the passions.
But whether it be, that small things make mean men proud, and vanity catches small occasions; or that all contrariety of opinion, even in those that can defend it no longer, makes proud men angry; there is often found in commentaries a spontaneous strain of invective and contempt, more eager and venomous than is vented by the most furious controvertist in politicks against those whom he is hired to defame.
Another precursor was delivered in 1964 by Robert M. Hutchins whose long career included service as Dean of Yale Law School and President of the University of Chicago. Hutchins called academic politics “the worst kind”, but he did not include the sardonic explanation given in the full version of the saying:
Though I do not know much about professional politics, I know a lot about academic politics — and that is the worst kind. Woodrow Wilson said that Washington was a snap after Princeton.
The earliest direct evidence known to QI of a full statement that fits in the grouping above was printed in the transcript of a speech given in February 1969 at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators. The speaker was Charles Frankel who was a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, but his phrasing indicated that the adage was already in circulation, and he provided no attribution:
It used to be said of politics on the university campus that it was the worst of all kinds of politics because the stakes were so small. We should be able to take at least minor comfort, then, from the present situation in the educational world: The stakes today are not at all small.
Here are additional selected citations in chronological order.
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Considering its international popularity, you should not be surprised that people all over want to know more about soccer. It is important to understand the game before trying to play it. Read this article for tips to help you improve.
Each soccer team has two or three play makers. These players are more talented than others and always get the ball since they are able to go past the other team’s defense. They will then score or pass the ball to a player who is ready to score. You can become one of these players if you practice.
If you want to be a great soccer mom, you must make it a point to attend your child’s games as often as possible. Simultaneously, you should be certain your child is secure enough to enjoy playing on the occasions when you are not there. A good soccer player plays for the team, him or her self and for supporters, in that order.
Make sure you are constantly tracking the ball’s location during the game. Soccer moves at the speed of light, and the soccer ball can be in control of another player in a flash. The opponent may possibly score a goal if you lose sight of who has the ball.
In order to become a good soccer player, you need to learn how to dribble. To properly dribble, keep your head down so you can see what you are doing, but still keep an eye on your opponent. Also, keep the ball near your feet at all times. Do this by using the outside and inside of your foot to carry the ball.
You can usually make a defender freeze for a few seconds by faking a shot. If you see a defender closing in on you, posture yourself as if you were about to kick the ball and make a long pass. The defender should stop and anticipate the pass you are faking.
If you are a beginner and you don’t know much about soccer, the best way to learn a bit more is to watch some players in action. You should go to watch a local game, and if none are available you can watch a few games that air on television.
Practice passing by placing two small cones approximately a foot apart. Kick the ball through the obstacles to help you learn to pass between opponents and get it to your teammate. As you get better at this passing technique go for longer passes and move the cones closer together.
When shooting the ball, make sure you are not using your toes. Instead, use your laces when shooting the ball. To effectively shoot the ball, point your toes down and strike the ball with the laces on your kicking foot. Be sure that your toes are pointing down, but they are not touching the ground.
There are three essential skills all soccer players must master. They are dribbling, shooting and passing. These skills can not be developed overnight. They require many hours of practice. By doing drills from a stationary position, a beginner can begin developing these three must-have skills. As a player becomes more proficient in these drills, add in some motion.
Good soccer uniforms are part of any successful team. When choosing soccer uniforms, look for one made of quality materials. Soccer is a contact sport, so you should look for jerseys that will withstand the constant abuse. Always think in terms of what will last along with the comfort level of your players.
When trying out for soccer, be very vocal with the coach. If he asks you to play a certain position and you cannot do it very well, be honest and let him know. if he insists that you play it, try your best and do it so you don’t seem argumentative.
Work on decreasing your weaknesses instead of increasing your strengths when it comes to soccer. Although this seems counter productive, it will actually help you improve your game. By working on improving your weaknesses, you will learn how to improve your strengths by using the techniques you learned when improving your soccer weaknesses.
Great soccer players are not born – they’re made. Being a good soccer player will require hours upon hours of practice on your part. Remind yourself of this when you get discouraged – most people will need to practice for a total of several hundred hours at least before they achieve a high level of competency.
Increase your speed. The ability to sprint is crucial in soccer. The speed at which you can cover between 10 and 40 yards is much more important than long distance speed. This will ensure you will be able to quickly get into position to be ready to get the ball.
There are many options for shin guards today. Many of them have Velcro. One advantage to this type of attachment is the ability to put on and remove shin guards easily. This also allows for adjustments to the tightness of the shin guard.
Don’t doubt yourself. Doubting yourself can ruin your game. If you tell yourself you can’t play soccer, it will become the truth. Always believe that you can achieve anything. You may not be very good at first or you may fail. That doesn’t really matter as long as you learn from your mistakes.
Watch a soccer game or two before you play a game. Watch footage of the best players in action. Analyze what these players are doing and what makes them so great. Watching skilled athletes play your favorite game can be a great motivational tool. It could mean the difference between winning and losing.
Be supportive of all your other teammates. Do not reign in your efforts because you’re not the one with the ball. That’s the time to step it up. Communicate with others, and it will pay off for you. Stay involved regardless of who is about to score the next goal.
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A nifty little breakout from our friends at Pimoroni that lets you access all of the GPIO pins while also running a HAT on your Raspberry Pi Model Pi 2, A+, or B+. The Pimoroni Black HAT Hack3r is ideal for debugging your HAT projects or combining a HAT with other circuits.
- HAT spec landing area with PCB standoffs
- Includes 40 pin GPIO ribbon cable
- All GPIO pins labelled with function, BCM pin number, physical pin number
- Rubber non-slip feet
- 4 mounting holes
- Comes un-assembled in kit form
The inspiration for the Black HAT Hack3r comes from the Pimoroni people debugging new HAT designs but finding it so useful that they turned it into a product!
- Black HAT Hack3r PCB
- 40-way black GPIO ribbon cable
- 3x 40-way pin header
- 4x PCB standoff for HAT mounting
- 4x Rubber non-slip feet
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saddam in the dock
In ordinary legal cases, justice seen to be done is as crucial as justice being done.
And in cases such as the one of today, which belongs to the special and curious category of political justice, perception is everything.
For this is not really a case to establish whether Saddam is guilty of ordering hundreds to be tortured or killed in Dujail. Even his ardent supporters concede the point. Rather, a case to prove or disprove that an ideology, such as espoused by its proponents and its beneficiaries, was worth the blood and suffering of its victims. The verdict will not be uttered in one hall of justice, but in the minds and hearts of all interested individuals across the Middle East, and perhaps beyond.
To be sure, this is a process that was micromanaged by the
For a starter, the presiding judge did not seem a good choice. He came across – on the surface at least- as a judge without that essential gravitas to instill the aura of the law. So far. A second issue is his ethnicity. Nothing personal against the Kurds (may they have free and independent
Saddam, on the other hand, succeeded in appearing pensive, defiant, and in full control of his verbal barrage.
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Archaeology: Cemetery Resources
Sarah Gardiner grave, North Kingstown (Photo: Michael Bell)
Cemeteries are among Rhode Island's most unique and most overlooked historic resources. Rhode Island contains at least 2833 historic cemeteries, from small family burial grounds to landscaped garden cemeteries.
Cemeteries contain information about local individuals and families, landscape and architectural design, grave marker artisanry and technology, religious beliefs, and community history. Many cemeteries and burial grounds are threatened by neglect, vandalism, and encroaching development; however, many resources are available to researchers and advocates.
- The Rhode Island General Assembly website makes state laws relating to cemeteries available online.
On May 9, 2012, the RIHPHC voted to approve new state regulations that establish standards for registering and protecting historic cemeteries. The new regulations were authorized by the General Assembly in 2011, and they have been endorsed by the RI Advisory Commission on Historic Cemeteries.
- The Rhode Island Cemetery Commission is a permanent advisory commission to study the location, condition, and inventory of historic cemeteries in Rhode Island and to make recommendations to the General Assembly relative to historic cemeteries in Rhode Island. The Commission aims to formulate and develop plans and programs to restore, rehabilitate, and maintain historical cemeteries and locate sources of funds such as grants and individual or corporate sponsors.
- The Rhode Island Cemeteries Database documents gravemarkers and burials in cemeteries around the state. This ongoing project relies on volunteer transcribers and published records. The website also contains information on gravestone carvers and other links.
- Some cities and towns have cemetery ordinances and commissions; others have delegated responsibilities to certain town officials. It is always important to check with the local government to determine ownership and how to obtain any needed permissions when planning cemetery clean-ups.
- The Association for Gravestone Studies website features articles, links, and frequently asked questions. Useful information includes "Gravestone Rubbing Dos and Dont's" and "Symbolism on Gravestones."
- Rhode Island genealogy websites include the Rhode Island pages at Rootsweb, Cyndi's List, and USGenWeb. Places to research in person include the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, Rhode Island State Archives, Rhode Island State Library, and town and city libraries.
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There is nothing quite like relying on nature to provide us with nourishment and sustenance – after all, that has been the way for far too long, and even until now, mankind continues to take what is free and turn it into a profit-making enterprise. Well, you might want to do your bit to help ease the consumption of power from the grid by relying on the power of the sun, using the £49.99 Port Solar Charger in your household, charging up those energy thirsty devices while you are on the move.
For instance, there is an integrated suction cup that allows you to stick it to any window, and it will connect to any other compatible device thanks to an integrated USB port. The Port Solar Charger is extremely light in nature and would be able to fit into just about any pocket easily, making this the ideal device to carry around on your travels. The Port Solar Charger comes with a 1,000 mAh battery that delivers an additional 65% charge to mobiles. If you’re going to travel outdoors this coming summer for long periods of time, I would like to think that the Port Solar Charger is an indispensable piece of equipment to own. | <urn:uuid:edd2d6ae-9979-4820-b6d7-dc36ea08af5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coolest-gadgets.com/port-solar-charger-helps-juice-naturally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.961118 | 243 | 1.96875 | 2 |
In the pilot episode of the NBC television series The A-Team, which airs on this day in 1983, the go-getting newspaper reporter Amy Allen (Melinda Culea) seeks the help of a mysterious group of Vietnam-veterans-turned-soldiers-for-hire to find her missing colleague in Mexico. An elite commando unit in Vietnam, the so-called A-Team was wrongly imprisoned by the Army. They escaped and began working as mercenaries, doing whatever needed to be done for their various clients while consistently eluding the fanatic Army officers sent to catch them. The A-Team went on to become a huge hit and make a star of the-then little known actor Mr. T.
Produced by Stephen Cannell and first envisioned by Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s president, as a volatile combination between films such as The Dirty Dozen, The Magnificent Seven and The Road Warrior and TV programs such as Hill Street Blues, The A-Team became a bona fide phenomenon during its five-year run. Despite its late entry to the 1982-83 ratings season, The A-Team was on its way to a No. 1 ranking by season’s end. It also topped a list of the most violent shows on TV, compiled that year by the National Coalition on Television Violence.
George Peppard, who memorably starred opposite Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), played the A-Team’s leader, John “Hannibal” Smith; he called his A-Team role “probably the best part I’ve had in my career.” The show also featured Dirk Benedict as Templeton “Faceman” Peck and Dwight Schultz as H.M. (Howling Mad) Murdock, but its breakout star was the mohawked, gold-bedecked Mr. T. Born Laurence Tureaud in a tough Chicago neighborhood, Mr. T got into show business after winning a contest as the “World’s Toughest Bouncer.” He was spotted by Sylvester Stallone, who cast him as a boxer in Rocky III (1982). As the surly A-Team mechanic B.A. (Bad Attitude) Baracus, Mr. T uttered some of the show’s most memorable catchphrases, including “You better watch out, sucker” and “Pity the fool.”
Campy and outrageously violent, The A-Team was particularly popular among children and teenagers, and with male audiences. Over the years, the show’s producers experimented with adding a woman to the mix–including Culea’s Amy Allen, Marla Heasley as Tawnia Baker and Tia Carrere (who later starred in Wayne’s World) as a Vietnam war orphan meant to provide a link to the soldiers’ past–but these stints were relatively short-lived, and the team’s testosterone-heavy vibe remained intact. By its fourth season, the show’s popularity was waning, due partially to its formulaic nature and partially to the growing trend towards family-friendly comedy that was being driven by the success of The Cosby Show. In the spring of 1986, Cosby-inspired shows such as Who’s the Boss? and Growing Pains on ABC were beating The A-Team handily in the ratings each week.
A-Team producers tried different tricks to win audiences over, including one episode centered on the popular game show Wheel of Fortune and various guest appearances by such prominent personalities as the pop star Boy George, the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and the Chicago Bears defensive lineman William “Refrigerator” Perry. The show hung on into a fifth season, but aired only 13 episodes, ending unceremoniously in March 1987. | <urn:uuid:eac90a08-af73-4cf6-8677-4f56db14473b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-a-team-debuts-on-nbc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966913 | 802 | 1.757813 | 2 |
A growing number of large public companies are disclosing their business risks related to extreme weather, droughts and other threats to the world water supply but the data they are reporting is still rather cloudy, according to a new report from sustainable business advocacy group Ceres.
The report, "Clearing the Waters: A Review of Corporate Water Risk Disclosure in SEC Filings," assesses information published by 82 large public companies representing eight water-intensive industries from beverages to semiconductors.
Close to 90 percent of the companies said they faced some exposure to physical water risk, up from 76 percent of the companies in 2009. Slightly more than one-quarter of the companies tied climate change to water scarcity, flooding or quality issues that could potentially affect their supply chains. Just two years ago, only 10 percent of the reporting companies suggested this could be a problem.
The report draws particular attention to the food companies considered in this report, noting that of the 11 companies considered only Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, PepsiCo and Smith seem to have a handle on the specific risk posed to their business by water scarcity. The rest cite this as a general worry.
According to some research, big businesses have about 18 years to really get a grip on their water consumption. That's because a study by McKinsey suggests that the world may face a water shortfall of 40 percent by the year 2030, if consumption continues growing at the current pace and weather patterns continue to shift.
Ceres identifies four sorts of risks that companies face due to water shortages:
- Physical risks
- Reputational risks
- Regulatory risks
- Litigation risks
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, commented on the report:
"Water issues are one of the most immediate and deeply felt impacts of climate change across the world, and leaders at Rio+20 are well aware of that reality. Whether through water scarcity, extreme weather or loss of property to floods, corporations and their suppliers across the globe are exposed to water risks and can do more to avoid them. Disclosure is the first step, and it must be followed quickly by action."
Among the recommendations that Ceres suggests water-intensive companies consider:
- Spend more time getting a grip on specific water-related risks, surfacing more relevant data.
- Add more quantitative data to SEC filings.
- Comply with the SEC guidance on water risk exposure.
- Provide investors with information on steps being taken to mitigate risks.
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In a hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Kansas City, Mo., Councilwoman Jan Marcason discussed the important role of clean water infrastructure investment in creating jobs, protecting the environment and improving the quality of life in cities and towns.
"The availability of clean water is the backbone of a modern society and a livable community, and the nation's water infrastructure systems are significant assets that protect public health, as well as the nation's precious water resources," Marcason said. "To the extent that America's water infrastructure is properly maintained and can adequately meet the needs of our communities, it will help ensure the long-term vitality of our communities.
Investment in water infrastructure and other infrastructure systems also helps create good paying jobs in our communities that are an essential component to a thriving economy, she said.
"Improving the infrastructure systems to protect our public health and promote our local economies requires substantial investment," Marcason added.
According to the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Watershed Needs Survey, the total wastewater and stormwater management needs for the nation were nearly $300 billion as of January 1, 2008. This amount includes $192.2 billion for wastewater treatment plants, pipe repairs, and buying and installing new pipes; $63.6 billion for combined sewer overflow correction; and $42.3 billion for stormwater management.
Given the level of need, NLC called on Congress to reauthorize and fully fund the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) program, an essential tool for providing clean water.
Marcason described Kansas City's 25-year, $2.5 billion program - the largest economic development project in the city's history - to improve the city's water quality. Kansas City's innovative and ambitious Overflow Control Plan (OCP) calls for overhauling the sewer system and implementing green infrastructure solutions such as rain gardens and bio-retention facilities to intercept, store and infiltrate stormwater runoff, thereby significantly reducing discharges of untreated sewage that overflows into nearby lakes, streams and rivers.
The Kansas City OCP is projected to create nearly 20,000 good-paying jobs over the life of the project, some in the area of emerging technologies, others in design, engineering and construction.
The plan that Kansas City developed is a cost-effective approach to addressing their aging infrastructure, as the green infrastructure solutions will reduce the cost of implementing the OCP. In the "Target Green" pilot project area of 100 acres, the city will save an estimated $10 million by implementing green solutions instead of the traditional retention tanks that were first proposed to address stormwater runoff.
"Kansas City's commitment to green infrastructure provides for the triple bottom line: creating economic, environmental and social benefits that make the city a better place to live and work," concluded Marcason.
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4 Ways Technology Can Make Your Music Lessons Sing
New tech tools that give students control over their music also inspire them to create and innovate.
Integrating technology into the music classroom can be a real challenge. For one thing, students don't have desks, so any device with a keyboard presents a logistical problem. Nevertheless, the potential payoff is big. By introducing virtual instruments and digital composition, teachers are empowering students to innovate in ways that were unimaginable 10 or 20 years ago, and are making their classes more engaging and interactive.
Yet some teachers still teach music courses much the same way they were taught in the 1950s. According to Christopher Russell, director of choirs at Oltman Middle School in St. Paul Park, MN, "Those teachers can be very successful and have very good programs, but they are missing out on tools that could help their students become better musicians." On the other hand, he added, "You can't force it on anyone, and if you do, it ends up being a tremendous failure."
When Oltman Middle School introduced a 1-to-1 iPad program in the fall of 2013, Russell was a step ahead of most teachers in other disciplines. He had already been using iPads in class for three years on a limited basis. "I already had the pedagogy figured out and I knew which apps I was going to use," he said.
Using Tablets Instead of Paper Music
Russell said he believes that the number one use for a tablet is as a substitute for paper music. Having the music in digital format has many benefits, including the fact that students no longer lose their music. "Talk to any music or band teacher, and they will tell you that is a huge issue," he said. With the music in digital format, students can access apps to annotate their scores. Russell can send students audio recordings that they can play along with as they practice. His students can use a music-writing app such as Notion to make their own practice tracks and compose their own songs. "That is a complete redefinition of what you do with students," he said. "It was inconceivable before they had these devices."
Russell said he is also excited about a relatively new app called NotateMe, which allows him to write musical notation and convert it to digital notation. The app also allows you to take a picture of a score and convert it to digital music. This means that music teachers can now scan music without expensive software and scanning equipment, he said. "I have used the app with students to compose music and also to dictate what they hear," he explained. "The free version allows a student to scan a single line. That might allow band and orchestra students, who get music with one part, to scan their music and edit it, either to hear what it should sound like, or perhaps to create their own music based on their own part."
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Although he knew what he wanted to do with students, Russell admitted that there have been challenges with the 1-to-1 iPad program. Last year, the biggest issue with sixth-graders was students getting distracted by playing games such as Minecraft. "There is no teacher that can always be as exciting as Minecraft," he said, "so at some point, kids are tempted to make bad decisions. The tools we have to deal with that are getting better. Apple has done a lot at the back end to fix those problems, and so have the mobile device management companies. Ours is Casper, and it allows you to lock students into a specific app."
Helping Kids Compose
Amy Burns, an elementary school music teacher at Far Hills Country Day School (NJ), said she started using technology because she thought it could help young students do things they couldn't do traditionally. Composing music with very young students can be difficult, even though it is among the New Jersey state music standards, she said. "But now with tools such as NoteFlight, second- and third-graders can create wonderful melodic compositions and play them on their recorder," she said.
Besides helping with composition and creation, technology can also enhance performance. Burns has students use Orff instruments such as xylophones and glockenspiels, but she also downloads virtual instrument apps onto an iPad and plugs them into the sound system. She doesn't use an autoharp in class because of the challenges of keeping it tuned, she said, "but the virtual autoharp enhances our ensemble beautifully. Virtual instruments are wonderful for students who have difficulty mastering fine motor skills. They are participating in the classroom and feeling so successful," she said.
Burns also uses tech tools to help with assessment. She uses an app called iDoceo to capture student performances. "In my instrument class, I record them in iDoceo and they can see their three performance tests throughout the year and how much they've improved," she said. "That redefines your classroom as you stop using paper and pencil for assessment."
Rehearsing Via Social Media
Looking back over her 14-year teaching career, Lori Pirzer, director of bands and music teacher at Oak View Middle School in Newberry, FL, said she can see how much larger a role technology plays now. "When I started we didn't have any technology or Internet access in the classroom at all. To check my e-mail I had to go to a media center on campus," she said. But seven years ago, Oak View became a technology magnet school and she started to get tools such as smartboards and software. "I am not sure I could teach without technology now," she said.
Pirzer now uses her Epson BrightLink interactive projector in conjunction with Smart Notebook collaborative learning software and apps such as TonalEnergy Tuner, which lets users understand and improve every aspect of their sound. Pirzer projects an image from the projector onto the whiteboard, which allows students to use the tuner. They can see if they are sharp or flat, and if they are playing in time. She also uses a program called SmartMusic, which offers students feedback on their performance. They can see the correct and incorrect rhythms and pitches onscreen. "I used to say, 'Put your finger on measure 3; I want you to circle it,' " she said. "This allows me the freedom to circle and notate on the board things that are in their music."
Pirzer also uses the Edmodo social media platform to communicate with her students and parents. She gave a recent example: "My symphonic band is taking a chair test. I just finished uploading it on Edmodo," she said. "Each section has a different piece of music, so I went to a program called Finale and created a sound file by inputting the music. I create MP3 files and post them on Edmodo. Students use their smartphone, tablet or technology at home to listen and practice with the sound file." She also has a few young composers who write music using NoteFlight and post their compositions on Edmodo for the other students to listen to.
Because she teaches in a technology magnet school, Pirzer finds that her students often innovate themselves. She had one student make his own pitch generator on a circuit board. "If you are going to teach at a technology magnet school, you have to be very open and adapt to it," she said. "To me, it speaks their language. You can use pen and paper or do old-school games, but when you put it in a video game setting, the kids have a lot of fun with it and learn really quickly."
Reworking Published Arrangements
Dan Schultz, who teaches middle school strings and general music at J.P. Case Middle School in Flemington, NJ, sees technology as a key tool in helping students become more creative. Many students go through a classical music education, he said, but they might never improvise or do composition at all. "They will just play notes off a page. It is not terribly creative," he said.
In his general music class, held in a 30-station music technology lab, Schultz has new students use programs such as GarageBand or Soundation to work on percussion compositions. "We create rhythms that work together and grooves that work in different genres," he said. "We record that into GarageBand and have them create loops." He then adds a unit on melody, then one on harmony. Students put those together in a multitrack recording with one line of melody, one of harmony and several lines of rhythm. The students can record, edit, save and revisit, assess and improve it. "That ability to revisit the music over a few days is awesome," Schultz said. "The process of revision is game-changing and easy."
Traditionally, orchestra students learned skills on their instrument but played other people's music. Schultz is having his students rework musical arrangements and try their hand at composition. "Last year we were playing a published arrangement and the ending was terrible," he recalled. "So we experimented with how to compose a different ending." At a concert the students used the ending they wrote. They learn how to load the music into NoteFlight and use a template to re-write sections of a piece. Since then, some students have started doing arrangements on their own during lunch on their iPads, he said.
"In seventh grade, we put the building blocks in place in terms of working with the software; then in eighth grade we take the leash away and give them the freedom to try more imaginative things. The ownership level changes dramatically," Schultz said. "They are interested in creating a piece, but they also want to have the skills to pull it off."
Schultz said he realizes that many of his students will not become musicians or play music after high school. "But hopefully they will become more creative, because that can carry over to so many areas," he said. "An engineer who doesn't have creativity is going to be lacking something."
The number of devices and apps for music is growing exponentially, and the array of choices can be overwhelming. Amy Burns from Far Hills said that some music teachers are given an iPad and are expected to use it as a teaching tool right away. "First you need to open it up and experiment just for you," she said. She suggested looking at music apps and finding one that might substitute for and improve on something you're already doing in class. Then once you get your feet wet, you can consider moving on to more sophisticated uses. "It can change the way you teach music," she said, "but you have to be ready to do that."
5 Tech Tools That Teach Music
Created by nonprofit music-media organization Listen for Life, Travels With Music is designed to introduce students to world cultures, using music as the gateway. The multimedia program explores the richness and diversity of 15 world cultures through the use of 300 video and audio segments.
Sibelius is a tool for learning and teaching music notation, composition and music theory. Educators can use its more than 1,700 built-in teaching resources and its classroom management features. Students can purchase a scaled-down Sibelius First to use at home.
Noteflight allows teachers and students to edit, display and play back music notation in a Web browser. The software is integrated with an online library of musical scores.
Aimed at 10- to 15-year-old students, O-Generator uses popular and world music to teach key music concepts. Students can learn and play along to original modern, Latin and African songs.
Music-making application Soundation4Education helps students create and record in school and at home — with full access to their work from any location. Students can manipulate existing audio loops or learn to record their own loops and then mix, add effects and build up tracks. | <urn:uuid:7760fc55-3024-476a-adc2-995e534406a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thejournal.com/articles/2014/12/03/4-ways-technology-can-make-your-music-lessons-sing.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.979272 | 2,464 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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The industrial technology department is comprised of three pathways of courses: Engineering, CAD and Architecture. Each of the three pathways is designed to teach students basic to advanced skills in their respective pathways. All of the programs in the Industrial Technology department are designed to introduce students to the career opportunities in the various fields related to the courses, but also to build each student’s skill set to prepare them for college level coursework in the fields. Students work in an assortment of settings from small groups to individual assignments and from simulation based learning to hands-on shop based projects. All of the classes utilize project-based learning methods with course content delivered both in a traditional paper method and electronically, helping students to develop online and offline organization and critical thinking-skills needed to be successful in the constantly evolving workplace.
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Floods: Forestry among blamed
The Daily Express / Malaysia
Published on: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Negeri Sembilan: GIANT timber companies and illegal loggers have been blamed for the frequent flooding that caused damage to properties as well as brought misery to the people in Tenom.
Kemabong Assemblyman Datuk Rubin Balang also held the Forestry Department responsible for the damage to the environment and disruption to the people's lives as a result of its "joint cooperation" activities.
"Logging activities carried out by giant (timber) companies, timber thieves and with the Forestry Department cooperation has caused soil and sand erosion from the hills," he said when taking part in the debate.
He said the soil and sand were then washed down to river tributaries and larger rivers such as Sungai Padas, Tomani and Tolokosan and further washed down to the Padas and Pegalan rivermouth that decreases the depth of the riverbed.
The situation has resulted in the rivers being unable to contain excess water during severe rainy seasons. Rubin also said the Tenom hydro dam in Pangi, also contributed to the heavy siltation.
"(In fact) the hydro dam is the largest contributor to the siltation."
He said the frequent floods have threatened the safety of the people, particularly in certain locations such as Kampung Pontungon Sapong, which he described as critical.
The Government, he said, had approved a large allocation to divert the Sungai Padas in the middle of Pontungan Sapong and Kampung Saga two years ago.
Unfortunately, the contractor concerned had to stop the project because a landowner prevented him from continuing the work. Rubin said he took the initiative to conduct several discussions with the community leader, Tenom Assistant Collector Land Revenue and Tenom District Officer.
During the discussions, he proposed the Government acquire the land from the owner using the existing land ordinance, which the District Officer agreed to.
However, he said the Tenom District Officer could not obtain the approval from the Land and Survey Department in Kota Kinabalu. "I raised the matter during the Tenom district development meetings and Land Utilisation Committee (LUC) meeting," he said.
To this end, he suggested the Director of Drainage and Irrigation Department meet with the Director of the Land and Survey Department to resolve the matter.
On the same issue, he suggested the people in Pontungan Sapong be relocated and that the Government prepare a settlement for them.
He said the settlement site has already been identified which is on five acres of land that belonged to Sime Darby Berhad.
He said the government could utilise its timber revenue to build the community housing project under the supervision of the Natural Resource Department.
Unfortunately, he said this proposal has yet to be implemented.
Rubin said the flood phenomenon in Tenom has resulted in the people blaming the Government and elected representative for not taking action.
On other developments, he urged the government to expedite the construction of a road to connect the villages within the Rundum Mukim to enable the villagers transport their farm produce as well as make it easier for the Government to carry out development projects in the Mukim.
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Sriharikota Island is important because of its rich vegetational diversity and for the fact that it is the site of a Rocket Launching Station built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). An aboriginal tribe called ‘Yanadi’ dwells in a few tribal pockets on Sriharikota Island. However, a few aged tribal men are still able to furnish information regarding their traditional practices of medicines and recipes. There is an urgent need to conserve their herbal wealth and preserve their traditional knowledge for the benefit of modern society. It is with this background, along with the need to give a primary scientific basis to the tribal medicinal lore of Sriharikota Island, that a preliminary screening of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) activity screening was conducted for 81 tribal medicinal samples based on their medicinal importance and endemism/rare occurrence on the island. Of these 81 samples, 28 have shown positive response for antimicrobial tests. Among these 8 species, namely Alangium salvifolium, Aristolochia indica, Ctrullus colocynthis, Datura stramonium, Ficus religiosa, Holoptelia integrifolia, Lawsonia innermis and Ventilago madaraspatana have shown congizable immunity zone of inhibition (i.e. above 20 mm). All the data is recorded in this paper. The results are mostly in conformity of the medicinal uses and they are discussed in detail in this article.
Kumar, R. Bharath and Suryanarayana, B.
"Antimicrobial Screening of Some Selected Tribal Medicinal Plants from Sriharikota Island, Andhra Pradesh, India,"
1, Article 171.
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As per the American Marketing Association, green showcasing is the advertising of items that are attempted to be earth safe. In this manner green showcasing joins an expansive scope of exercises, including item alteration, changes to the creation procedure, bundling changes, and also adjusting promoting.
While the move to “green” may give off an impression of being costly for the time being, it will turn out to be irreplaceable and invaluable, cost-wise as well, over the long haul.
How Green crusade created?
Driving a feasible way of life can be fulfilling and helpful to who and what is to come, however it isn’t without a lot of difficulties. With wise advertisers and the requirement for each item to have an upper hand, marking may not generally demonstrate that an item is genuinely green.
Regardless of whether the mark designates “Earth Friendly” or “Green”, some publicizing will leave an eco-cognizant customer hoodwinked into purchasing a “phony” green item. Green item choice regularly includes making exchange-offs between various natural effects. We are here to help demystify green items and arm you with the information for making an educated feasible item choice.
For instance, an inn requesting that clients “spare nature” by reusing towels to moderate water won’t almost certainly be seen as green; rather, they’ll be viewed as endeavoring to utilize green talk to save money on washing costs.
Third, it ought to be straightforward. Customers require data about a business to assess its cases and notoriety; in this manner, the business ought to advance familiarity with its items’ chronicles, including beginning and assembling. Fourth, an item can be guaranteed green by an outsider (see Popular Green Certifications).
A few organizations do self-affirmation; nonetheless, for that to be trustworthy, an outsider should have the capacity to audit and support their accreditation forms.
There are numerous choices for green confirmation—nearly 400, in any event—with some gave to single characteristics (produced using reused segments, or being vitality proficient) and others assessing different traits.
In seeking after a green affirmation, organizations ought to keep away from “elastic stamp” accreditations, or attempting to go off inner confirmation as an outsider underwriting. Such strategies may have an underlying result, yet will undoubtedly result in backfire. What’s more, green informing on items ought to be clear.
An announcement like “fixings incorporate biodegradable surfactants (anionic and nonionic) and proteins” (found on a Tide bottle) can incite more doubt than certainty. “Green” can incorporate numerous things—water/arrive preservation, reusing, non-lethal synthetic compounds, diminished carbon impression, economical agribusiness—so it’s imperative to distinguish how precisely a specific item or brand is green.
For instance, when SunChips offered another pack that treated the soil effortlessly, yet delivered more clamor (enough to meddle with TV watching), shoppers dismissed the item. To them, the benefit of eating chips from the pack without clamor could easily compare to the benefit of fertilizing the soil the sack.
Green Products Defined.
Before we begin with how to recognize a green item, we need to comprehend what the meaning of a green item is. The expressions “green” or “maintainable” regularly allude to items, administrations or practices that take into account financial advancement while monitoring for who and what is to come.
We want to depict a green item as one that has less of a natural effect or is less impeding to human wellbeing than the customary item equal.
While on the subject of characterizing a green item, you should understand that no item will ever be 100% “green,” since all item improvement will have some effect on the encompassing condition. Everything comes down to degrees of effect and as we examined above, exchanging off between effects.
To comprehend the exchange offs you ought to understand that there are select characteristics that portray green items and administrations; we show them underneath to enable you to additionally comprehend what a green item genuinely is.
Green items are…
- Vitality effective, sturdy and regularly have low upkeep prerequisites.
- Free of Ozone draining synthetics, harmful mixes and don’t create lethal side-effects.
- Regularly made of reused materials or content or from inexhaustible and reasonable sources.
- Acquired from neighborhood producers or assets.
- Biodegradable or effectively reused either to a limited extent or all in all.
Green Product Certification
When searching for green items, there are several different ways you can guarantee you are not being hoodwinked into purchasing a phony, however, it very well may be dubious.
A walk around any general store will yield items marked “earth amicable,” “eco-accommodating,” “biodegradable” and numerous different popular expressions which will make you feel warm and fluffy about the buy, despite the fact that this could be false.
A decent standard guideline is to search for the accreditation naming, on the off chance that that isn’t on the item, continue strolling.
This leads us into what confirmation marks are accessible and what do they mean, which is the reason we have assembled the rundown underneath.
This isn’t a widely inclusive show, it will anyway give you the most well-known affirmations and their importance.
1. Energy STAR:
A marking program for vitality effective homes, building items, hardware and machines. Vitality STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Ecological Protection Agency and the U.S. Bureau of Energy securing nature through vitality effective items and practices.
Green Seal Certification guarantees that an item meets thorough, science-based administration measures. It is a real existence cycle appraisal-based marking program for building items, green tasks, and upkeep strategies. A green seal can be found on anything from an espresso channel to an inn.
3. Timberland Stewardship Council:
A confirmation program for wood items that originate from backwoods that are overseen in earth mindful, socially helpful, and efficient suitable way. They are a non-benefit association, not subsidiary with the administration, attempting to advance mindful administration of the world’s backwoods since 1993.
4. Authority in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED):
The LEED affirmation was made by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2000, it in a universally perceived standard for green building and structure. The rating framework works off 5 classes and is related to both business and private structures.
LEED centers around entire building supportability which can be utilized by different experts and government offices. You could search for the LEED seals when hoping to buy green homes or places of business, for instance.
5. USDA Organic Product:
When hoping to make strides toward environmental friendliness during supper many will search for affirmed natural nourishments.
The United States Department of Agriculture has actualized the National Organic Program, which will demonstrate whether a horticultural item was created so that coordinates natural, social, and mechanical procedures to preserve biodiversity and cultivate cycling of characteristic assets. By and large, this implies synth
Difficulties in Green Marketing
1. Need for Standardization
It is discovered that just 5% of the promoting messages from “Green” battles are completely valid and there is an absence of institutionalization to confirm these cases. There is no institutionalization to verify these cases. There is no institutionalization right now set up to affirm an item as natural.
Except if some administrative bodies are engaged with giving the affirmations there won’t be any evident means. A standard quality control board should be set up for such naming and authorizing.
2. New Concept
Urban educated and urban shopper is getting more mindful about the benefits of Green items. Be that as it may, it is as yet another idea for the majority. The customer should be taught and made mindful of the natural dangers.
The new green developments need to achieve the majority and that will take a great deal of time and exertion.
3. Patience and Perseverance:
The financial specialists and corporate need to see the earth as a noteworthy long-haul speculation opportunity, the advertisers need to take a gander at the long-haul profits by this new green development.
It will require a considerable measure of tolerance and no quick outcomes. Since it is another idea and thought, it will have its own acknowledgment period.
4. Avoiding Green Myopia
The primary guideline of green advertising is concentrating on client benefits i.e. the essential motivation behind why purchasers purchase certain items in any case. Do this right, and spur customers to switch marks or even pay a premium for the greener option.
It wouldn’t help if an item is created which is completely green in different viewpoints yet does not pass the consumer loyalty criteria. This will lead to green nearsightedness. Likewise on the off chance that the green items are estimated high, again it will lose its market agreeableness.
To wrap up with-
Green showcasing covers in excess of a firm and now this is the opportune time to pick “Green Marketing” all around. It will accompany solid change in the realm of business if all countries will make unforgiving jobs since green showcasing is important to spare world from contamination.
From the business perspective on the grounds that an insightful advertiser is one who persuades the buyer, as well as includes the purchaser in promoting his item.
Green showcasing ought not be estimated as only one more way to deal with advertising, however must be sought after with much better vitality, as it has a natural and social estimation to it.
With the threat of a worldwide temperature alteration posing a potential threat, it is critical that green showcasing turns into the standard instead of an exception or only a form. Reusing of paper, metals, plastics, and so on., in a safe and naturally safe way ought to wind up significantly more systematized and aggregate.
It needs to end up the general standard to utilize vitality-effective lights and other electrical products. Advertisers likewise have the duty to influence the customers to comprehend the requirement for and compensation of green items when contrasted with non-green ones.
In green showcasing, customers are prepared to pay more to keep up a cleaner and greener condition. At long last, customers, modern purchasers, and providers need to compel consequences to limit the unconstructive impacts on the earth inviting.
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When an abuse of power is uncovered, the best response typically isn’t to give the fox greater oversight of the henhouse.
In the case of the Internal Revenue Service’s admitted targeting of conservative groups, though, that’s what is happening. Just six months after the IRS inspector general confirmed that the agency had improperly flagged these groups and held up their applications for 501(c)(4) nonprofit status, the IRS in late November proposed new rules that will further restrict political speech by those organizations
These “social-welfare groups” are permitted some political speech as long as that is not the group’s primary purpose. They come in all political stripes, but the groups that were most active — and most disliked by the Obama administration — during the 2010 election cycle were conservative groups. The inspector general and other investigations into the matter found that the IRS targeted hundreds of groups, including at least 10 in Ohio, based largely on their ideology. The majority of groups singled out were conservative.
Now, though, unions and trade organizations, classified as 501(c)(5) and 501(c)(6) groups, are nervous. Labor unions in particular are big spenders when it comes to politics. Their spending largely has flown under the radar, thanks in part to the fact that much of their contributions are in-kind donations to assist candidate campaigns. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2012 that unions across the country spend more than $4 billion a year on politics and lobbying — about four times the amount that they formally are required to report to the Federal Elections Commission as direct donations.
OpenSecrets.org, a website dedicated to political-spending disclosure, recently compiled a list of top political donors over the past 25 years. Of the top 10, six were labor unions: The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the National Education Association, the United Auto Workers, Carpenters & Joiners and the Service Employees International Union. Collectively, the six gave more than $278 million over the time period examined, with most of it going to Democrats.
The Washington Post reports that when the IRS proposed the new rules for social-welfare groups, they also indicated that they are considering applying the same type of changes to trade associations and labor unions. Those who until now have brushed off the IRS’ move because they figure it applies only to conservative groups might be more concerned if they realize the changes could suppress political speech by liberal-leaning groups, too.
Of particular concern to unions is that the IRS proposes to define “things like get-out-the-vote efforts, voter-registration drives, voter guides and other mentions of candidates — including incumbents, near Election Day — as ‘candidate-related political activity,’ ” according to the Post. These are bread-and-butter activities for unions.
John Sullivan, associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union, said the proposed rules “would be totally inappropriate for unions,” and argued that they don't recognize that social-welfare groups and labor unions “are very different in terms of why they were formed and the role they play.”
But the IRS shouldn’t be in the business of choosing whose political activities are worthy of tax-exempt status and whose aren’t. Whatever rules are adopted regarding political activity should be absolutely clear and consistent across all 501(c) groups. | <urn:uuid:9b41ccec-f6de-4c8e-b204-dda88f886406> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2014/03/04/keep-playing-field-level.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00017-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964948 | 704 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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Could you kindly tell me the meaning of this UK military code ? It's on the back of a nice Dreyfuss watch. THANKS !
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The bottom symbol is called a Broad Arrow and was originally used to mark military and other items purchased by the Crown.
The tradition carried on and it still means pretty well the same thing. The "B" I can't help you with.
Google Broad Arrow and you should find what you need.
thanks, Lorne. Unfortunately the problem is the B 17493, and I'm still in the fog ...
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There is a way more reading here than I am into today but just over 1/2 way down is a pic of a case with an arrow, number and a B and somewhat of an explanation.
If you are into military timepieces this is a must see.
Link removed due to copyright issues, the information is contained in this book:
"A Concise Guide to Military Timepieces" by Zygmunt M. (Ziggy) Wesolowski
Hi Lorne. Thanks, I've got : according to the source you kindly gave me, it's a "stand by" pw, and I think that this means that it was used when a G.S. Mk II was not available. This makes sense because it clearly is a watch used on a panel on a vehicle or such, and so when the 'original' one is not available, a 'back up' should be anyway available. Thanks again, good help !
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attached you see a few more 'letter codes' of WWI pocket and wrist watches.
There is an F,R E,A,H,K,D,B,Q, C, H, W, S, R...
Though I long searched for a system, I did not find an explanation. With WWII watches it seems easier but not more logically.
. Gruesse/Regards/Salute Konrad Knirim
PS: Have a look at my books on Military Timepieces:
As you probably know, the main WWI British Army pocket watches have a strict allocation of vocab letter to supplier: D Ehrhardt, E White, F Williamson, R/S Elgin, with Q possibly reserved for 'miscellaneous'.
Other WWI pocket watches which are marked R.A. appear to use a different system, which I haven't studied in any depth, but the markings seem to be restricted. (24419 H in your post belongs to this group, even if not marked R.A.)
The WWI wristlets have a strict (but different again) system which is more complicated: I have shown my workings to a few people but I can pass the information on to you if you're interested. I don't publish widely because I believe it would allow convincing fakes of these scarce watches to be produced.
The A, B, K, Q letters in your post are post-WWI I believe.
Hope this is of interest.
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There are different types of taxes that your business needs to know to run smoothly. However, the Taxes are of different types and you need to manage all these. If you are unable to handle it, you may for the services of a third-party agency like Tax Place North Richland Hills.
Below, we have mentioned the common types of taxes you or your service provider have to handle.
Individual income taxation (or private income tax) is imposed on the salary, wages, investments, or alternative kinds of income person or household earnings. Many individual taxes are “innovative,” significance taxation rates rise because a citizen’s income rises, leading to higher-earners paying a bigger share of taxes compared to lower-earners.
A business income tax (CIT) is imposed by national and state authorities on industry profits, which can be earnings (exactly what a company makes in earnings) without prices (the price of conducting business). Organizations in the U.S. commonly fall under 2 categories: C corporations, that cover the company income taxation, and pass-throughs –including as partnerships, S corporations, LLCs, and only proprietorships–that “pass” their income “through” for their proprietor tax returns and pay the respective income taxation. While C corporations are expected to pay for the company income taxation, the duty of this tax falls not just on the business enterprise but on its consumers and employees through higher prices and lower salaries.
Payroll taxes are taxes paid to the salaries and wages of employees to fund social insurance plans. Most taxpayers will probably soon be knowledgeable about payroll from taking a look at their pay-stub by the conclusion of every pay period, at which the sum of payroll tax payable by their employer out of their income is recorded.
From the U.S., the most significant tax taxes would be a 12.4 percent tax to invest in Social Security and also a 2.9 percent tax to invest in Medicare, to get a combined speed of 15.3 percent. 1 / 2 payroll taxes (7.65 percent) are remitted directly by companies, with all the spouses borrowed from workers’ paychecks.
Sales taxes are a type of consumption tax imposed on international sales of products and services. If you reside in the U.S., then you’re probably familiar with the earnings tax against having seen it published in the base of store receipts.
The U.S. is among those very few industrialized states which still depend upon conventional retail sales taxation, which can be a substantial source of local and state revenue. All U.S. countries other than Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon collect annual earnings taxation, since doing localities in 38 nations.
Gross Receipts Taxes
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Why Healbe GoBe™ Uses Bluetooth® LE to Connect with Your Smartphone
When we set out to create a new kind of wearable device, we knew we couldn’t simply give consumers more of what was already out there. GoBe is the only wearable device that uses information from your own body to give you insights on calorie intake and burn, activity, hydration, stress, sleep, heart rate, and blood pressure—with no manual logging of meals and activities. What’s more, GoBe delivers everything you need to know to manage your whole-body health to your smartphone, effortlessly.
It’s a tall order, and one of the challenges we faced in designing the Original 100% Automatic Body Manager was this: How could we combine all these advanced technologies in one small device, while maximizing usability? We knew that it wasn’t enough for GoBe to tell you everything you need to know for whole-body health—it also has to be easy to use every day.
That's why we choose Bluetooth 4.0, also known as Bluetooth Low Energy, to enable communication between the automatic body manager and the GoBe smartphone app. The main differences between Bluetooth 4.0 and all formerly known wireless technologies are the data rate and the level of energy consumption. Bluetooth 4.0 allows GoBe to synchronize with your smartphone in under 0.005 seconds, maintaining this connection over a distance of up to 2 meters, or over 6 feet!. This version of Bluetooth also includes an updated error correction system, increasing the accuracy of data transferred.
How does Bluetooth LE work?
With Bluetooth LE, microscopic sensors built into the GoBe automatic body manager are activated only when sending data to your smartphone, while powering down between transmissions. This saves energy for both the automatic body manager and your smartphone. At the moment, thanks to Bluetooth LE, GoBe can run for up to 3 days in normal mode without recharging. Bluetooth LE technology has become very popular over the last few years.
What phones are compatible with Bluetooth 4.0?
- iPhone 5s, 5c, 5 & 4s
- Nexus 5
- Nexus 4
- Blackberry Q10
- Blackberry Z10
- HTC One, One Max
- Droid RAZR, Ultra, Maxx, Mini
- Moto G, X
- Samsung Galaxy Series
- Sony Xperia Series
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I was doing some minor electrical improvements in my home that was built in the 1960's. Ceiling fans, spotlights, etc. Then it dawned on me that maybe the wiring had asbestos insulation in it. It is 12-2 with black and white wires along with a bare ground wire. It also has brown paper covering the wires and a sheathing which I thought was fiberglass. Any way to tell if there's asbestos in there without sending it to a lab?
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Understanding the Compatibility View List
In recent versions, Windows Internet Explorer has dramatically improved support for established and emerging industry standards, such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). By default, Internet Explorer properly displays webpages designed to support these standards. Because some of these standards are still evolving, older websites may not fully support them. In addition, later versions of certain standards specify different behaviors than earlier versions of the same standard.
As a result, websites designed to support the earlier versions of these standards may display differently when viewed with web browsers designed to support current versions of the standards, such as Internet Explorer. In order to help such websites display correctly, Internet Explorer supports a display mode called Compatibility View, which displays webpages as if they were viewed by an earlier version of the browser.
The following list describes different ways that enable Compatibility View:
- You click the Compatibility View button in the Address bar when viewing a webpage. When displayed, this button appears to the left of the Refresh button and contains an image of a broken piece of paper. This enables Compatibility View for all documents in the domain of the website being viewed.
- The "Display all websites in Compatibility Mode setting" in the Compatibility View Settings is enabled.
- The "Automatically recover from page layout errors with Compatibility View" setting is enabled and a webpage stops responding or crashes the browser. When this happens, Internet Explorer opens the page in Compatibility View after recovering from the problem.
- Group policies that identify sites to be opened in Compatibility View are enabled by the administrator of your computer.
- You have used the F12 developer tools to change the browser mode to identify Internet Explorer as an earlier version of the browser.
- The Compatibility View List is enabled, which defines a list of websites that are automatically displayed in Compatibility View.
The Compatibility View List contains a number of websites known to have problems when viewed, by default, with Internet Explorer; when Internet Explorer opens a webpage from a site on the Compatibility View List, it automatically displays the page in a way that allows it to be viewed correctly.
Here we talk about the Compatibility View List, also known as the Compatibility List. You'll learn how the Compatibility View List was created, how to determine whether your site is in the list, and how to have your site removed from the list.
In this article:
- Introducing the Compatibility View List
- Understanding Compatibility View
- How the Compatibility View List Was Created
- Determining Whether Your Site Is in the Compatibility View List
- The Structure of the Compatibility View List
- Removing Your Site from the Compatibility View List
Introducing the Compatibility View List
Recent versions of Internet Explorer have steadily and dramatically increased support for established and emerging industry standards, such as such as HTML5, CSS3, and SVG. By default, this support is available only for pages displayed in IE9 Standards mode.
Web authors use doctype directives to specify whether their webpages should be displayed in standards mode or a compatibility mode called "quirks mode." Recent versions of Internet Explorer provide new document modes that supports industry standards more completely than the standards modes of earlier versions. By default, Internet Explorer uses the highest available standards mode to display standards mode webpages.
For pages built to support the features of earlier browsers, this can affect what the user sees when the page is displayed. For example, pages that displayed properly in IE7 Standards mode may appear differently when displayed in IE9 mode or IE10 Standards mode.
To overcome potential compatibility issues, Internet Explorer supports a feature called Compatibility View that allows users to display troublesome pages in IE7 mode. During the development of recent versions of Internet Explorer, users took advantage of Compatibility View and those choices created telemetry data that was later to determine which websites displayed better when viewed in Compatibility View.
Starting with Windows Internet Explorer 8, this user feedback is combined with information listing the most highly visited websites per region. This provides the Compatibility View List, which automatically displays websites in Compatibility View without further interaction.
The choice to view sites in Compatibility View is always up to the user and can be changed at any time. The Compatibility List can be enabled or disabled through the Compatibility View Settings.
The Compatibility List also provides web developers with additional time to update their sites to support the latest versions of industry standards. This will naturally take time. The Compatibility List is a short-term solution intended to bridge this transition and make it easier for end users to enjoy the web browsing experience.
For more information, see Internet Explorer Blog: Internet Explorer 9's Compatibility View List.
Understanding Compatibility View
Before displaying a standards-mode webpage, Internet Explorer checks to see whether the domain name of the website appears in the Compatibility View List. If so, the site is displayed using Compatibility View. If not, and the page contains no other direction, Internet Explorer displays the page in IE9 mode.
When a standards-based webpage is displayed in Compatibility View, the following changes occur:
Pages are displayed in a mode determined to be appropriate for the site, generally IE7 mode.
In the user-agent string, the browser identifies itself according to the document mode used to display the site. For example, if the site is displayed in IE7 mode, then the user-agent string contains
MSIE 7.0instead of
Conditional comments and version vectors recognize the browser as a browser corresponding to the selected document mode. For example, if the site is displayed in IE7 mode, the version vector will be reported as Windows Internet Explorer 7, rather than IE9 mode.
These changes help ensure that users can still use websites that do not fully support the current versions of established and emerging standards.
Note that the X-UA-Compatible header has greater precedence than Compatibility View. If a website is on the Compatibility View List and a page on that site includes an X-UA-Compatible header telling Internet Explorer to display a page in IE9 mode, the page is displayed in IE9 mode. This allows web developers to support standards mode on an incremental basis. For more information, see Defining Document Compatibility.
How the Compatibility View List Was Created
The Compatibility View List is based on feedback collected during the development of Internet Explorer. Several sources were used:
Additional feedback submitted through forums, comments, and other sources of community feedback.
This information was objectively reviewed and collated into a list of the most frequently visited sites, by region.
Note The Compatibility View List supports second-level domains, such as mydomain.example.com and fabrikam.contoso.co.uk. Administrators can use group policies to add specific second-level domains to an organizational Compatibility View List.
To disable the Compatibility View List at any time, use the Compatibility View Settings to disable the "Include updated website lists from Microsoft" setting. Additional settings allow you to further customize the Compatibility View Settings.
Determining Whether Your Site Is in the Compatibility View List
For recent versions of Internet Explorer, the Compatibility View list is an XML file maintained by Microsoft. You can view the list by typing its location into the Internet Explorer Address bar. The following list shows the location for recent versions of the browser:
- For Internet Explorer 10, the list can be found at"https://iecvlist.microsoft.com/ie10/201206/iecompatviewlist.xml".
- For Windows Internet Explorer 9, the list can be found at"http://ie9cvlist.ie.microsoft.com/ie9CompatViewList.xml".
Note For Internet Explorer 8, the Compatibility View List is stored in a binary format that cannot be viewed from the browser.
To determine whether your site is on the list, search the file for the domain of your website. If you do not find the domain, your site is not on the list.
Note If your webpages are displayed in Compatibility View and your site does not appear on the Compatibility View List, you may be able to use the Console object of the F12 tools to determine the reason. When Internet Explorer displays a page in Compatibility View, notification messages are written to the console. For more information, see How to use F12 Developer Tools to Debug your Webpages.
The Structure of the Compatibility View List
The Compatibility View List is an XML file that contains entries similar to the following (fictional) entries.
<domain>adatum.com</domain> <domain docMode="EmulateIE7">fabrikam.com</domain> <domain docMode="EmulateIE8">fourthcoffee.com</domain> <domain featureSwitch="createElementWithMarkup:false">northwindtraders.com</domain> <domain docMode="EmulateIE8" versionVector="8" uaString="8">woodgrovebank.com</domain>
domain element defines the domain name of a site in the Compatibility View List and the attributes of the element, if any, describe how the website is handled by Internet Explorer. The following list describes the effects of the most common attributes:
domainelement does not contain additional attributes, webpages on the affected site are displayed in IE7 mode if they contain standards-based doctype directives or IE5 (Quirks) mode otherwise.
docModeattribute, when specified, corresponds to a document mode value specified by an X-UA-Compatible header.
featureSwitchspecifies a unique and specific change applied to a very specific set of circumstances. The details of each circumstance vary according to the value of the
featureSwitchattribute. For example, the
createElementWithMarkupvalue indicates that the site relies on non-standard behavior of the
uaStringattributes control the way Internet Explorer identifies itself to the website; the attributes are generally necessary when a site attempts to serve specific content to Internet Explorer.
The Compatibility View List can also contain other elements, such as the
gpu element, that identify drivers known to cause problems with Internet Explorer 9.
Removing Your Site from the Compatibility View List
To remove your site from the Compatibility View List, start by ensuring that your site displays accurately in IE9 mode. Use the F12 tools to change the Browser Mode to Internet Explorer 8 and verify that your site works as expected.
The following tips can help you isolate and understand problems that prevent your sites from working effectively in IE9 mode:
For best results during this process, make sure your pages do not include any X-UA-Compatible headers and that Compatibility View is disabled, as described earlier.
The F12 tools let you display your webpages in different document modes; they also help you understand the relationship between the markup in the source of a webpage and the way the page is displayed. As a result, the F12 tools are particularly useful for isolating markup issues.
Press F12 or select Developer Tools from the Tools menu to activate the F12 tools. For more information, see Testing Browser and Document Compatibility Modes with the Developer Tools.
If the Compatibility View button appears when you display your webpage, you are viewing the page in IE9 mode. However, the reverse is not true. Several environmental factors can hide the Compatibility View button; for more information, see Defining Document Compatibility.
Alternatively, you can use X-UA-Compatible headers to tell Internet Explorer to use a different document mode to render your standards-based webpages. For more information, see Defining Document Compatibility. (This is recommended as a temporary measure while the underlying issues are investigated and resolved.)
To remove your site from the Compatibility View List (or to dispute the removal of your site from the list), have the overall site owner verify that the domain site appears in the Compatibility View List. If it does, send an e-mail to
email@example.com that contains the following information:
- Owner name
- Corporate title
- Company name
- Street address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Website address
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by James K. Bryant II
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Pp. viii, 248.
Illus., appends., notes., biblio., index. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 0786468785
The 36th USCT began life as the 2nd North Carolina (African Descent) in early 1864,
composed largely from former slaves recruited on the east coat of the Carolinas, who quickly earned the reputation of being "most reliable soldiers."
The regiment initially served on occupation duty in the coastal regions of the Carolinas. They performedlocal security duties and conducted sweeps into Confederate-held territory on the coast of North Carolina and in northeastern Virginia. In the latter role, the regiment helped liberate literally thousands of enslaved people. From mid-1864, however, the regiment joined the Army of the James. The 36th USCT took part in operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., fighting at Chaffin's Farm (Sept. 29-30, 1864), endured the hard winter in the trenches, and then marched into Richmond on April 3, 1865. After a few weeks on occupation duty, the regiment was transferred to Texas. It remained in Texas, helping keep an eye on the French puppet “Mexican Empire” until it was mustered out in on October 28, 1866, after three years service.
Historian Bryant not only covers these events adequately, but also looks at the men who composed the regiment, giving us their background, mostly former slaves, with something of their lives, their occupations, and at times their futures, in mini-biographies of several of the troops.
The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
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Agribusiness professionals, consultants and crop advisers who work with farmers will learn new strategies for identifying and responding to a variety of crop problems at two workshops beginning in June at Purdue University’s Pinney Purdue Ag Center near Wanatah, IN. Participants will gain practical knowledge that will help them assist farmers in managing the nutrient, pest and environmental factors that influence crop growth. The workshops are presented by experts from Purdue Extension Field Crops team. Registration is required at least one week before each diagnostic workshop. For more information, go to https://extension.purdue.edu/LaPorte/and click on “Agriculture” for a registration form and flyer. For specific details and available credits, please contact Purdue Extension at 219-324-9407.
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Lethal wetness. Feeding a massive kangaroo. Just some tigers at the Out of Africa Wildlife Park. Cat jumps to unbelievable heights. Spider Love Cocaine. Le saut d'un chat en Slow Motion. Gorillas... 98.6% Human. Grizzly bears catching salmon. 319539_o.gif (320×180) If you're having a bad day, then this dog video is for you. Boxer dogs refuse to go to sleep. Boxer dog's morning ritual. Jealous alpha male monkey "attacks" man. Masters of disguise: The gecko that resembles a leaf and nature's other camouflage experts.
By Wil Longbottom Updated: 07:29 GMT, 8 December 2011 Stare at these pictures for long enough and you might just spot some clever creatures playing the ultimate game of hide and seek.
This Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko is barely visible against the leaves in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar. These amazing animals are true masters at blending effortlessly into their environment as a means of survival in the natural world. Blending in: This Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko hides from predators in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar, or is it just a leaf? Nothing to see here: A Bat-faced Toad hides among dead leaves in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia Barking up the wrong tree: It's nearly impossible to pick out this Lichen Spider at the Erawan National Park in Thailand From frogs to fish and bugs to birds, this collection of images shows the animal kingdom's outstanding camouflage ability.
Animals use two basic methods of concealment in a bid to hide from predators and catch prey. QUADRI PED etc... Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla (small version) Oours Mimétisme. Hamster Drag Racing!!! How Animals Learn Language. Bearded Dragon playing Ant Crusher. Grenouille Jeu Vidéo. Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope's life... and play with him instead. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 19:36 GMT, 5 February 2010 Hello little antelope, would you like to play with us?
Coming from three deadly cheetahs, it's the kind of invitation that's best refused - but amazingly, this impala escaped unscathed from its encounter. Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry. No claws for alarm: Astonishingly, these cheetahs, whose instinct is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala That's because unlike other big cats, the cheetah hunts in the daytime, either in the early morning or late afternoon.
And that seems to be the secret to the antelope's survival, as it's likely it fell into the cheetahs' clutches when they were already full - and tired out - from an earlier hunt. Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw. New found friends: The new-found friends part with a farewell lick. Newborn deer. Tickling Slow Loris.
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We also did a Word Search and had the opportunity to draw a giant!
For March's Book Club, we will be reading The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.
At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it’s too late for apologies.
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For thus says the Lord:
Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘Save, O Lord, your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north,
and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,
among them the blind and the lame,
those with child and those in labour, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
With weeping they shall come,
and with consolations I will lead them back,
I will let them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path in which they shall not stumble;
for I have become a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Debates on immigration in the United States continue to move in the default direction of North/South. As such, the prominent debating points often direct public attention to the U.S./Mexico border fence and the Latina/o community. By sleight-of-hand, many in the mainstream media tend to recast a centuries-old U.S. immigration experience as a Latina/o problem.
Unlike the variety of migration stories in the Bible, the forces creating migration for many Latina/o families are closely tied to the issues of power and hyper-consumerism. Often as a last resort do immigrant families enter the northbound currents of low-wage laborers that, as Bishop Minerva Carcaño describes, feed “the economic machine in this country.”
Yet, ever present on their journey to “El Norte” (the North) are the faces of loved ones left behind and the hope of a joyous return.
Celebrating the Return Journey
Indeed, the lectionary text from Jeremiah 31:7-9 resonates profoundly with the immigrant theme of return from a northern country. Jeremiah revolves around the traumatic destruction of Jerusalem and the exile to Babylon which follows. In short, the book deals with faith in the wake of violence and migration. In 31:7, the prophet uses a series of commands that elaborate on the act of celebratory singing. For the Judean exiles, however, the destruction of Jerusalem had given way to lament and sorrow. As they expressed in Psalm 137:4, “How could we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” Only with the prospect of return in Jeremiah 31:6 (“Come, let us go up to Zion”) could their lament turn into a song of gladness (v.7). Jeremiah’s vision of return is teeming with hope.
Those U.S. immigrants here out of economic necessity would likely find great comfort in Jeremiah’s celebratory vision of return even though the anxiety, fear, and harassment endured by many undocumented immigrant families may render this vision unrealistic. Yet despite their everyday struggles, immigrant communities in the United States are able to sustain their joyous memories of homeland through songs, murals, names, and foods. These cultural expressions bring immigrants a sense of "home" in an unfamiliar land. They become mini-return moments in which they are transported to the sights and sounds of home.
The exiles’ journey home begins, as verse 8 states, “from the land of the north” and “from the farthest parts of the earth.” Rather than being a self-initiated return, it is God who coordinates the exiles’ return trip. This divinely planned return makes provisions for even the most vulnerable among the exiles to be included in the journey. From the blind and the lame to women and children, they are all “a great company.” Cherished as such, the Judean exiles are no longer captured laborers at risk of inhumane and violent treatment. Both weak and strong in the exilic community are given divine worth.
This approach to repatriation stands in stark contrast to current U.S. policy initiatives whereby undocumented immigrants are arrested, detained, and ultimately deported. Without any regard for the deportees’ U.S. familial ties, the current policy initiatives sever household relationships, which can stretch to a lifetime. As a result of losing loved ones, immigrant families suffer emotional, financial, and psychological trauma. Deportees return to their home countries in an unplanned and usually unwanted manner. Those dropped off at the border are vulnerable to increased cartel violence. Different from a divinely led return, the current policy initiatives make no provisions to ensure a safe and humane return of detained undocumented immigrants. Under current policy initiatives, undocumented immigrants are given little worth. Yet, the pathways for return in Jeremiah invite a contrary view.
Seemingly out of place in this passage are the words in verse 9, “with weeping they shall come.” The “weeping” described here refers to the sorrow felt after the loss of a loved one. With decades living in exile, many may not have lived long enough to return. The bones of their exiled ancestors were most likely left behind. Their sorrow, however, is not left unattended. God’s return plan is to lead the exiles back “with consolations.” Apart from God being attentive to their emotional state, God’s return plan also includes “brooks of water” and “a straight path in which they shall not stumble.” With the care of a parent, God's return plan is comprehensive, attending to the exiles’ emotional, physical, and psychological needs. They do not return home alone but rather in community.
In some States, laws have been passed that force undocumented immigrants to self-deport. There is nothing more contrary to the return plan of God in Jeremiah than the compound policy of “self” and “deportation.” Implied in this policy is the inhumane reality that immigrants are to return alone along winding pathways and with few provisions. The “self” part of this policy suggests minimal emotional and psychological support on the part of the state. The state sanctioned forces provoking their departure incite trauma rather than song.
It is the duty of all people of the Christian faith to welcome the stranger, in both practice and policy. The state may be powerful, but more importantly, God's people should act out of love for the neighbor that they see every day. The prophet Jeremiah spoke powerfully to a people uprooted from their homelands and in search of God’s help.
Today, immigrants continue to call out to this God and that God continues to promise to walk alongside the exile and the immigrant. Today also, the prophet’s words call us all to open the doors of welcome and not build new fences of division.
The Rev. Dr. Gregory Lee Cuéllar serves as Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. His most recent book is Voices of Marginality: Exile and Return in Second Isaiah 40-55 and the Mexican Immigrant Experience. His forthcoming book is Archival Criticism: The Interrogation of Contexts and Texts in Early Modern Biblical Criticism. Cuéllar's ON Scripture post appears via the Odyssey Network, through a grant from the Lilly Foundation. Follow ON Scripture on Twitter @OnScripture.
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“Hurry up and dig” was the most memorable line from the original song performed by eager first graders at the recent groundbreaking ceremony for Pierce Terrace Elementary School at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C.
The song was one of several performed by the students on a beautiful, warm day where six shovels pierced the ground for the first time on the site of the new school. The Charleston and Savannah Districts are partnering together to construct the new $27 million 21st Century School, which will be open for 325 students in August 2019.
“We can think of this day as the start of something special,” said Dr. Raymond Burk, principal of Pierce Terrace. “In approximately two years, we will have a new home that our entire learning community deserves. Our new home will provide us with all of the learning, collaborative, and community amenities we need as we continue our transformation towards an exceptional 21st century learning environment.”
Pierce Terrace will be the Department of Defense Education Activity’s newest 21st Century School design, featuring expandable walls to adjust to year-over-year classroom size changes, grade “neighborhoods,” outdoor amphitheater, butterfly garden and an energy dashboard that will monitor the energy use from each classroom.
“The Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, the Department of Defense Education Activity, our own Garrison Directorates of Public Works, Emergency Services, Family and MWR, and many more all worked together diligently behind the scenes to make this project a reality,” said Col. Stephen Elder, Fort Jackson Garrison Commander. “Their dedicated service directly supports Fort Jackson Soldiers and their families. On behalf of these deserving families and their children, I thank you all.”
The Charleston District is overseeing the design and construction contract from the Fort Jackson Resident Office using the requirements package created by the Savannah District. This ongoing partnership is typical of the Corps in order to best-utilize the talents and resources of the South Atlantic Division. The new Pierce Terrace Elementary School will be a much-needed upgrade and a wonderful culmination of efforts by all involved. | <urn:uuid:d30b9f41-19ae-4650-88ef-3f88058b30a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sac.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/1390138/pierce-terrace-elementary-groundbreaking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.947832 | 442 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Gallery: Clone banks keeping popular rare tree’s account in the black
17:30 31 July 2014
DNA science and dedicated conservation work is helping to save one of the East Anglian countryside’s most iconic species
Across East Anglia there are “ballerinas” who like getting their feet wet but have a somewhat embarrassing personal problem in their relationships with the opposite sex.
That may well sound bizarre, saucy and surreal. But if we dig deeper into the story, however, we find that there is a serious side to it.
The “ballerinas” in question are perhaps the rarest trees in Britain – the native black poplars which once featured strongly in the landscape of many an East Anglian river floodplain and wet meadow but which have now become increasingly scarce. Their little personal problem hasn’t helped. But conservationists are using a combination of old-fashioned tender loving care and cutting edge DNA science that involves clone banks to ensure that the black poplar’s account does not slip into the red and the species can remain as an East Anglian emblem – a poplar that can populate our landscape for years to come.
One of the region’s most passionate black poplar proponents, Suffolk County Council’s senior ecologist Sue Hooton, is one of a dedicated team of conservationists working hard to give the tree a future.
There were thought to be less than 8,000 specimens left in Britain, she said, and the black poplar was designated as a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species as it so vulnerable. In Suffolk, a county register containing records of about 430 specimens is held by the Suffolk Biological Records Centre and Mrs Hooton is the county’s official recorder for the species.
“The black poplar is one of our most iconic trees and it is very beautiful,” she said. “It is often dubbed the ‘ballerina tree’ because it can tower up and go into a very graceful ‘Y’ shape reminiscent of a ballerina’s arms, but it is a ballerina who likes to have wet feet and who does have a bit of a problem with sex.
“The tree is associated with wet meadows, river valleys, streams, ditches and farm ponds. Females produce masses of fluffy white seed that some people regard as a nuisance and so they were rarely planted. For the tree to regenerate naturally male and female trees must grow fairly closely together and fertilised seed must fall on bare mud or silt which must then remain moist until autumn for the seedling to establish.
“This habitat has become very rare due to floodplains being drained for agriculture or development and so now the tree is usually regenerated from cuttings.”
Hence the clone banks – two of which are located at sites in the valleys of the rivers Stour and Waveney which although are not exactly top secret, are rather low-profile and rarely visited by anyone other than black poplar aficionados.
The Stour Valley clone bank is being masterminded by Neil Catchpole, who is one of the countryside officers for the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Stour valley Project.
The current site had been in use since 2012, following work carried out for 14 years at another clone bank nearby at Daws Hall, Lamarsh, which had been established in 1997 by his predecessor, Peter Ennis, said Mr Catchpole.
Almost 1,000 cuttings had been produced at the original location and supplied to various people across East Anglia but the bank had to close in 2011 due to what appeared to have been a fungal disease outbreak and the process had to be started again from scratch.
A move to the current site took place in the winter of 2012/2013, and valuable lessons had been learned about the specific requirements of the species, he said.
Cuttings were currently in their second growing season and, following DNA testing carried out by the Forest Research arm of the Forestry Commission, the bank was known to contain 14 different genome types.
After pollarding, the cuttings would be transferred to a nearby nursery plot and in perhaps four years time they would be ready for a new life in suitable habitat across the valley and beyond.
The species had suffered as a result of the changing times, said Mr Catchpole. “Its timber is noted for being fire-resistant and so used to be used for the frames, fireplaces and floorboards in buildings and it is a spongy shock absorber so it was ideal for carts and wagons. But in the 18th and 19th centuries new strains of poplar were introduced from aborad and these hybrids were even faster growing and produced straighter timber.
From the middle of the 19th Century the native black poplar ceased to be planted and virtually all the trees remaining today date from around that time.
“It would be such a shame to lose it completely. It is very much a landscape-type of tree, not a woodland one, and it is also very important for many kinds of wildlife, especially for insects such as the poplar hawk moth, and it provides nesting sites for owls and roosting sites for bats,” said Mr Catchpole.
“It is a part of our East Anglian heritage and we want to make sure many future generations can enjoy seeing in the same way that we do.”
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The author of the book: Doris Grumbach
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Edition: Beacon Press
Date of issue: 1 October 1997
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The IBA covers a 150 km section of the southwest scarp of the Ustyurt plateau, from Garabogazgol Bay and 50 km to the southeast along a low ridge known as "Ersary-baba mountain".
The avifauna of the IBA includes 200 species. Rare migrants listed in the Red Data Book of Turkmenistan (1999) are: Aquila chrysaetos, Falco cherrug, Bubo bubo, Haliaeetus leucoryphus, Circaetus gallicus and Buteo buteo.
Criterion А1 applies for: Aquila heliaca, Falco naumanni,Circus macrourus and Falco cherrug.
Non-bird biodiversity: Mammals - more than 40 species, half from which are rodents (20 species), the others are predators (8), chiropterans (5), insectivores (4), ungulates (2). Reptile are represented by 30 species.
Flora: more 370 species of higher plants have been recorded. The vegetation in the depressions is represented by halophytes and salsolas. Fixed sand support a few species of Calligonum and the rare Salsola richteri and Xaloxylon sp.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Currently the ecosystems of the IBA are considered to be in a stable condition because of the remoteness of the site from populated areas. Potential threats are illegal hunting - trapping of saker falcons and their nestlings.
Conservation responses/actions for key biodiversity
The only work carried out is that of the zoologists of the Dashoguz antiplague stations studying the number of rodents (1960-1980).
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The comics theorist Scott McCloud has a status no one in the comics community should have. At the MLA Conference in Vancouver last January, I attended a comics studies panel at which the respondent chastised academics who cite McCloud and only McCloud, ignoring the 22 years of scholarship that followed the publication of his book Understanding Comics. McCloud compares himself to Sigmund Freud. He may be wrong about everything, he says, but he was the first in his field — or almost the first — and everyone still has to grapple with his ideas.
Whatever his status, McCloud is really a professional amateur, a journeyman who’s spent most of his career pursuing a series of intriguing small projects. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, he wrote and drew Zot!, an independent black-and-white superhero series. He maintains a website, where, pivoting off of ideas from his 2000 book Reinventing Comics, he develops “inventions” that rethink the comics form for the digital age. In 2006, he wrote the instructional book Making Comics. Last month, First Second published his first graphic novel, The Sculptor, which one approaches with the curiosity one once approached the first novels of Lionel Trilling or James Wood. It is the ambitious first attempt by an important critic to write and draw if not the Great American Graphic Novel, then at least a good American graphic novel.
The Sculptor tells the story of a 26-year-old man trying to make it as an artist in New York. He strikes a Faustian bargain with Death that allows him to sculpt any matter his hands touch into the visions he carries in his mind’s eye. In return, he will die in 200 days. He has no immediate family left, and only a few friends he will be leaving behind. After agreeing to the deal, he falls in love with a woman.
I talked to McCloud in Seattle on February 12. We met at a café in the U-District a couple hours before his appearance at the University Bookstore. The following is a pared-down transcript of a one-hour conversation.
The Millions: After reading the [Understanding Comics] trilogy and looking at all the experiments you’ve been doing online, it surprised me to discover that The Sculptor is, formally-speaking, a very conservative book.
Scott McCloud: I agree. I’d describe it the same way.
TM: You’re not playing any tricks. There’s no Chris Ware Building Stories attempt along the lines of “let’s see all the games I can play with this idea called the book.” These are the tried-and-true techniques of graphic-novel storytelling. Why was it so conservative?
SM: Well after trying to make visible all of these various techniques, I wanted, as much as possible, to bury them, to conceal them. I am something of a formalist and one of the formalist tricks that we like to check off as we’re going down the list of things we can do is to impersonate our opposite number. To become a more intuitive pure storyteller and not necessarily call attention to formal artifacts that previously we were hoping to call attention to.
At the same time, I don’t think it was necessarily backwards looking. I was trying to move towards a sort of comic that I wasn’t seeing being done. I would say that in the past decades, there weren’t that many comics like this one, in terms of the way it incorporates reader participation, [which is] something I see in manga but rarely see in American comics. The use of lettering and coloring choices [are] geared towards mapping out the intention and consciousness of the protagonist. I haven’t seen that done much, but I was employing [these concepts] all in the interest of the story. So they lurked quietly in the background and they helped buttress the story.
TM: The question of reader participation is a tricky one. I can read a prose novel and forget that I’m reading words on a page, but it’s impossible for me to read a comic and remain unaware of the fact that I’m reading a comic. That awareness leads to reader participation.
SM: I agree with you to an extent about there being a fundamental reader participation component to comics and that achieving that transparency in comics is a lot harder than it is in novels. But I don’t think it’s impossible. And I think younger readers achieve it much more often than we do as adults. And I wanted to see if I could get that across. It wasn’t easy, but I think I achieved it and I am getting a lot of feedback from people who do have that sensation of being lost, and getting caught up in the story and just seeing the characters as human beings.
In comics, if you open with a street scene, people are going to see drawings of a street scene. And every time they move from one artist to the next those drawings are going to be different. And each change of style just becomes a reiteration of the fact that those are just lines on paper. And I don’t think that’s the case with film and I don’t think that’s the case with prose because…they both relate a world in a relatively seamless way. In the one case [it’s] from the verisimilitude that comes from straight photography. In the other case, [it’s] with the verisimilitude that comes from the consistent texture of our imagination.
Comics puts up a lot of barriers. I think one way to get around those barriers is consistency of approach and length. This is a very long book, so people have time to adjust to my style. It’s not just a little 22-page packet. [Hopefully in my case], by paying close attention to the rhythms of real people in conversation and things like facial expressions and body language, [I] managed to bring a little life into the characters so they pop from the page more than in things I’ve done in the past.
TM: Your characters are good-looking. This isn’t Daniel Clowes.
SM: No, they come from a more attractive, heroic tradition, partially because I don’t have the skill to pull off something less generic.
TM: Are there any other reasons for that?
SM: I’m drawn as a viewer to that, and as a romance I think it would have been entirely possible to tell a story like this while creating characters that were physically unappealing, but I’m just not that good. And so this fell into that general familiar realm of a romance in which both characters are on some level attractive. It’s not a barrier I was prepared to cross when I was trying to cross so many others. Certainly, the business of learning to write and of learning to draw was going to keep me busy from beginning to end. Trying to do something more subtle or more unconventional with the character design just wasn’t within my skill set.
TM: Zot!, by your own admission is filled with many mistakes. It’s not slick.
SM: No, not at all. It was my very first book.
TM: You were learning. The movements aren’t right. You don’t always know where your eye is supposed to go based on the composition of the page. I won’t continue on, because that’s just mean. I have to say for myself that part of what drew me to reading comics or what drew me back to comics when I was 19, wasn’t so much about looking for masterpieces. It was about enjoying the mistakes, enjoying comics as a form of handwriting, enjoying the lack of slickness. I often feel that what we call great comics have a problem, because the better and more slick you make them the more you lose something. This medium makes these mistakes look aesthetically pleasurable in a way that they’re not in a prose novel.
SM: I’ve long been aware of that way of looking at comics and sometimes I share that perspective. But then there are other artists who are prominent exceptions to that. It’s not my primary passion to look for that. It’s not what I hope for in comics. It’s something I accept as something that can make comics warmer and more appealing. But it’s not a prerequisite for things I love in comics. And I do enjoy comics that are much more finely tuned.
I think that Jim Woodring, for example, very rarely has a line out of place. His craftsmanship is absolutely impeccable. I don’t wish that his line was more unsteady or that his pen would run out of ink halfway through. I’m glad that those lines are complete because I think it enhances the work. Likewise, I think Chris Ware’s control is one of the elements of his work that I value.
Nevertheless, when I was working on The Sculptor, even though it was done digitally, I went through great pains to make sure that the line that I used was, if anything, somewhat uneven. [I designed] my brushes in photoshop [with] a pretty grotty line. If you look closely you’ll see that it’s very knobby and imprecise. But that’s simply because I thought it gave it a warmth that I liked rather than that clean vector line.
TM: You made a point in Understanding Comics about how time equals space in comics. These full-page panels at the end of The Sculptor are meant to represent the elongation of a moment. [Note: We are not showing you these pages in order to avoid spoilers.] It’s the comics equivalent of slow-motion. As a reader, I feel it’s my responsibility to read these pages very slowly.
SM: Actually, could I just say that as an artist and writer I don’t feel that it’s the reader’s responsibility. It’s the responsibility of me as the storyteller to give the reader cues that would encourage them to quite naturally read at a slower pace.
TM: Yes, but it’s very easy to flip through this and not feel the duration of time.
SM: My hope as a storyteller is that I embedded enough density of detail, enough narrative density that the eye would begin to slow as well. That I put enough speed bumps [in] the growing complexity of those pages, that people would more naturally slow down. I can’t control that, but it’s my intention to give the eye more incentive to move more slowly through those pages, to slow down time. I don’t think the reader has any responsibility at all. The reader, technically, doesn’t have any responsibility to read from left to right. But it’s usually to the mutual benefit of reader and artist to do it that way.
TM: So you don’t believe the reader should be doing work?
SM: No, I just don’t believe in the idea of responsibility. The reader should encounter the work in whatever way the reader thinks is beneficial to themselves. And 99 times out of 100 that means reading the work in the expected way.
TM: How do you handle the differing experiences various readers will have based on the various paces with which they will approach these pages?
SM: Well, there’s an ideal duration and I’m trying to pitch the delivery in such a way that to the best of my abilities most readers will experience it as I intended. I just accept that it’s not mine to control. I can only encourage it.
TM: In a review I wrote of Best American Comics 2014 [which McCloud guest-edited], I noted that great comics, unlike great fiction, are allowed to be sentimental. I think The Sculptor is a case in point. It is a very sentimental book.
SM: I think so. I think that’s fair.
TM: Is sentimentality something you’ve run away from or is it something you’ve actively embraced?
SM: Neither. I’ve just come to recognize it. I’ve been aware of it for some time. It was pointed out to me early enough. I’ve tried to reign it in when I felt it was toxic. In this particular story, I tried to maintain a balance to the benefit of the story. I’ll leave it to others to gauge whether I’ve managed to achieve that balance. I’ve never been sentimental as a deliberate aesthetic choice. It’s more just a natural outgrowth of my own personality. My protagonist in the book is described at one point in the book as having an “irony deficiency.” This is a phrase I copped from Leonard Bernstein’s kids who described their dad that way. I always thought that was pretty funny and also pretty on the mark. And when [I heard] it I realized it was probably true of me too. And so I’ve tried to gain a wider aspect of that part of myself. And to try to be more on guard for the ways that can trip up my work.
In this particular story, I tried to earn whatever emotional effect it might have on people through a number of avenues that I felt at least would cut that sentimentality with something else. But I was looking for a strong emotional effect. It’s what I felt when approaching these themes. I had strong emotional associations with them. So I wanted to convey that, but I wanted to earn those emotions, not just try to go straight from A to B, which I think is one of the downsides, one of the toxic effects of excess sentimentality. Quickly, cheaply conjuring strong emotions, especially sadness. But there’s no way I’m going to completely change my stripes overnight. I’m not going to stop being a sentimental person, no matter how I approach the work. All I can do is just try to be more self-aware in that respect. And I do think that the book is far more self-aware than say my early stuff like Zot!, where I think I was too eager to go from A to B, A to Z in that emotional journey.
TM: What are the talents that you don’t have that you would most like to have?
SM: Simplicity. Eloquence. An automatic drawing instinct that would allow me to invent life naturally in improvisation, rather than having to refer to models, which was a necessary evil in this book. I needed to get a lot of life reference, to get across these gestures. I still feel strongly that the very simple rendering approach can be effective. It just wasn’t appropriate for this particular story, so I was stuck in a more realistic mode of drawing than I might have necessarily chosen. You know I tried some early experiments where this was rendered in a much more simple style and it just wouldn’t have worked, partially because of the sensuality that was involved in parts of the story and partly because it was very much concerned with people as things and that’s better conveyed by a more representational style.
Mostly though, in terms of what I want to improve, it’s not so much that I want to improve it as that I want to expand. There are other things I want to do. I want to explore color. I want to explore much more radical styles. I still have a very, very long wish list in terms of digital comics that I would like to embark on. So yeah, I just want to run to all four corners of the globe, if that’s not a mixed metaphor.
TM: In Reinventing Comics in 2000, you noted that we have yet to get the War and Peace of comics. What for you is the closest we’ve come?
SM: I think for me my favorite graphic novel right now is Market Day by James Sturm. I wouldn’t compare it to War and Peace. I think that’s silly. Actually, I think using War and Peace as a comparison point was silly, but I was younger. I don’t know. There’s a lot we’re still waiting for. But we’re beginning to build that shelf of reliable, strong, perennial works that can give us some comfort that this form does have this potential that we’ve talked about. I pick Market Day because it is one of a very small number of works in comics that I consider bulletproof. I think it’s a bulletproof book. And that’s something I’d like to see more of.
TM:What do you mean by bulletproof?
SM: There’s not a line out of place. There are no excess artifacts to the book. It’s the visual equivalent of the perfectly crafted sentence. I think if it was just all words then E.B. White would be proud of the way he omitted everything needless [if he had written it]. And I think the story is very moving. What it says to me is sufficiently inscrutable that it rewards repeat readings. I like that book a lot.
TM: Do you feel the graphic novel is overrated? At least within the medium. Do you think we grant it a certain prestige that unfairly places it above other forms the comic may take?
SM: I think some graphic novels are overrated. But it goes project by project. I don’t think Jim Woodring is overrated.
I think some people treat us with kid gloves. You know there’s an arbitrariness to critical perception. I think a lot of what you’re asking has to do with the arbitrariness of critical communities’ approach to graphic novels. We have a long critical bias against comics as a form. And I think as that bias has melted away, I certainly think some are willing to give us a pass and be much gentler with some of our flaws.
TM: I’m sorry, Scott, but I don’t think you’ve heard me right.
SM: Oh, I’m sorry. Let’s do it over.
TM: Okay. Do [you think] we honor the graphic novel above webcomics or comic-book serial storytelling in a way we shouldn’t? For a very long time we all considered television beneath movies, but now we consider it the place where really innovative work is being done. Is a similar thing going on in comics?
SM: No, actually I don’t. And the reason is that I think right now the most impressive work that’s been done in the last 20 years is in graphic novels. In my favorite work, the most complex, the most ambitious, and the most gratifying work to me as a reader has been in that realm. There’s some great work in webcomics, but it’s scattered. I think there’s some great work in rethinking serial comics. But I think there’s a reason why the best and the brightest in comics are moving towards lengthier works.
Obviously, it would be a mistake to think there’s something inherently better about the format. There’s not. It was just a mountain a lot of very good climbers wanted to tackle. And that’s still true. I know some people hate the term “graphic novel,” because some people still use it [to signify] an art form. It’s not. It’s a format. But there’s an implicit challenge in the words “graphic novel.” I think a lot of cartoonists see in their mind’s eye when they hear it something they think is worth making but that very rarely comes into existence. And so it makes sense that they would like to give it a try themselves.
“Comics Not Just For Kids Anymore, Reports 85,000th Mainstream News Story,” The Onion announced on July 10, 2012. There’s truth there, but only so much. Critics in The New York Times Book Review, Slate, NPR and The New Yorker now appraise individual comics without questioning the value of the medium as a whole. The cliché still appears in outlets whose editors should know better, but it’s unlikely The Onion could tell the same joke in another 10 years.
The best way to kill a debate is to avoid acknowledging it and comics artists are as guilty as anyone else of prolonging the argument. In 2004, I attended a talk by Art Spiegelman on his September 11 book. He explained his layout methods in detail. It was a good discussion. He also kept defending the right of comics artists to sit at the adults’ table. That was irritating. In 2006, Houghton Mifflin added comics to its Best American series list. Alison Bechdel, the guest editor of the 2011 edition, was ambivalent about working in a “newly legitimized art form.” The problem is generational. Younger comics writers and artists tend not to defend the seriousness of their vocation. If they inhabit the margins of culture, they know there’s nothing intrinsic to the medium that places them there.
Scott McCloud, the guest editor of the 2014 edition of Best American Comics, — the series editor is now Bill Kartalopoulos — is famous for improving the debate. In the early ’90s, McCloud wrote Understanding Comics, a comic book about comic books that explained how the medium reinvents time and space and imagines realities that can’t be adapted to other media. Reinventing Comics, which was published in 2000, was a prescient analysis of how the Internet and the digital world would affect comics readers and creators. He can be as defensive as Spiegelman, but he’s also a smarter interpreter. Like the earliest political philosophers, McCloud points out the obvious and makes it sound profound only because no one before him wrote the obvious down.
The Best American Comics 2014 reads as a sequel to McCloud’s theoretical studies. Previous guest editors instructed readers to thumb through the anthologies and choose work that interests them most just as they would browse the shelves in a comics shop. McCloud asks that you read his anthology in order, cover-to-cover, and that you treat it as a critical narrative. He divides his book into discrete sections, presenting a taxonomy of genres. The book is an argument on the state of comics in the second decade of the 21th century.
What makes a great comic great? McCloud summarizes the criteria:
Is the story built around quiet everyday events or autobiography? Check. Does it have a dark satiric undercurrent? Check. Does our protagonist have a low opinion of him/herself? Check. Is there a complete absence of anything that might remotely remind you of a superhero comic? Check.
He’s being facetious, but the gatekeepers, those who honor what Ted Rall once told me was “the Fantagraphics crowd,” seem to always honor comics that follow at least one of these criteria. Many of the comics McCloud selected from an enormous pile Kartalopoulos gave him follow at least one of the first three and pretty much all of them follow the fourth. (McCloud wanted but was unable to include Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye comics.)
“Great Comics” are not the same as “Great Fiction” or “Great Non-Fiction.” Any New York Times critic would have savaged the sentimentality in Craig Thompson’s Blankets if it came packaged in a prose novel. Bechdel needs her images to sell her wit; in a comic the famous “Bechdel Test” is astute, but the average male reader would roll his eyes if he first encountered her theory in one of the online essays it spawned. A great comic does not have to be sentimental nor simple, but sentimentality and simplicity are not problems for comics.
“High Road to the Shmuck Seat” by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb from Best American Comics 2014 edited by Bill Kartalopoulos. Originally appeared in Viewotron #2. Copyright (c) 2013. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
That much is obvious in the opening section of McCloud’s anthology, dedicated to the recent work of old masters. In “High Road to the Schmuck Seat,” R. Crumb portrays himself as a happily married aging pervert and not as a raging Mickey Sabbath. His grotesque line drawing, which he’s used throughout his career to express an unrelenting sexual anxiety, now obscures a sweet loving heart. In Charles Burns’s The Hive, teenagers bond over anatomical drawings. Burns’s cleanly-drawn entrails sit comfortably next to his old-before-their-time adolescents. It’s a touching scene. Call it dark sentimentality.
“Drama” (excerpt) by Raina Telgemeier from Best American Comics 2014 edited by Bill Kartalopoulos. Originally appeared in Drama. Copyright (c) 2012. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
“Dark sentimentality.” I put the phrase in a Google search and out came a list of indie rock reviews. Take from that what you will, but it’s the dominant mood in the anthology and it bleeds from one comic to the next and one section to the next, from adventure comics to family memoirs. “Raising Readers,” a section dedicated to children’s comics, contains excerpts from two devastating depictions of childhood loneliness, Raina Telgemeier’s Drama and Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault’s Jane, the Fox and Me. The excerpt from Drama ends with a full-page panel of an empty playground. A small-scale strip from Chris Ware’s Building Stories, which McCloud names as the best book of the year, serves as a grim counterpoint with its depiction of a mother discovering the pain of solitude as her child grows older and more independent. Ware and Raina Telgemeier understand the eerie power of bold block colors and negative space. They make clichés sublime. They make small emotions huge.
Hip Hop Family Tree” (excerpt) by Ed Piskor from Best American Comics 2014 edited by Bill Kartalopoulos. Originally appeared in Hip Hop Family Tree. Copyright (c) 2013. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
You may not have to adjust your mood from one comic to the next or one section to the next, but you do have to adjust your eye. The “Testimonials” section includes excerpts from two histories of American music, Frank M. Young and David Lasky’s wonderful The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song and Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree. Both books are infused with melancholic nostalgia in as much as modern country and hip hop no longer express the joy of emerging subcultures. They are staid institutions. And Lasky and Piskor explore that nostalgia by employing the grammar of vintage comics. Lasky borrows from early 20th-century comics strips. His stars achieve iconic status thanks to his careful, simple lines. The panels follow a clear linear trajectory, like the steady beat of a country song. Hip Hop Family Tree is a campy re-rendering of a 1980s de-saturated comic. The motive for each comic is the same, but like the subjects they depict, they belong to separate realms.
McCloud asks his readers to notice the ways the comics in his anthology talk to each other. They do talk to each other, but they spend more time talking to themselves. With the exception of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, not a single character from one comic here could find a home in another. Everyone owns the particularities of their sadness.
In Reinventing Comics, McCloud admitted that no one has written the War and Peace of comics. In the 14 years since, we may have come closer with Fun Home and Julio’s Day. The Japanese may have come even closer, but the truth is comics, at least American comics, don’t need a Tolstoy any more than country music or hip hop needs a Beethoven.
Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half, the most widely read comic in this collection, could only have come from someone robbed of worldly ambitions. Her crudely-drawn webcomic describes the wreckage of mental illness, outwardly describing exactly how a depressive feels herself and the world around her. Her style is primitive and humorous and according to McCloud “rewire[s] a million ideas of what ‘good’ comics look like.” She’s writing postcards from the abyss and she’s giving her audience fleeting moments of comfort. And that should be enough. Question: Why does “Great Non-Fiction” about depression produce a William Styron, but “great” comics about depression produce an Allie Brosh? Why do we accept dark sentimentality from our comics but not from our novels?
The modern novel is made up of words printed in a uniform font, but the comic is made up of drawings, clearly the work of another human being, the closest thing our culture still has to handwritten letters. Reading a comic, like reading a novel, is a private experience, but the texture of the thin paper of a comic is far more powerful than that of the pages of a novel, thanks to the presence of the communicator’s human hand. Even a computer drawing that you read on a laptop is connected to an organic body, in the sense that you can acknowledge the presence of a human hand on a mouse or a digital pen. When you read a comic, you are accepting a direct message from one singular honest soul. Your hand touches theirs. That soul can be strange. That soul can be sick. And it can also be oh-so earnest…
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Differential Root Growth of Four Setaria Taxa
P. L. Orwick and M. M. Schreiber
Vol. 23, No. 5 (Sep., 1975), pp. 364-368
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We studied the early root growth of four Setaria taxa: giant foxtail (Setaria faberi Herrm.), giant green foxtail [Setaria viridis var. major (Gaud.) Posp.], robust white foxtail (Setaria viridis var. robusta-alba Schreiber), robust purple foxtail (Setaria viridis var. robusta-purpurea Schreiber). Growth studies in controlled environments showed significant differences in root elongation among the taxa at three photoperiods. Seminal root lengths after 4 days followed the order presented for selectivity and metabolism of atrazine [2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine] and propazine [2-chloro-4,6-bis(isopropylamino)-s-triazine] (robust white foxtail > giant green foxtail = robust purple foxtail > giant foxtail). Giant foxtail had the greatest root diameter, resulting in the greatest surface area and volume when lengths were equated. The order of seminal root lengths or diameters changed little after 7 days. Robust white foxtail had the most and longest first order lateral roots. Diameter of first order laterals showed giant foxtail > giant green foxtail = robust purple foxtail > robust white foxtail.
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Eventually, the light of reality exposes distortion. This now appears to be happening in South Korea. Dangerously, the light is not the "sunshine" South Koreans had been promised, but emanates from a source more radioactive.
The lead news story on Thai television last night was a report that 2,000 people demonstrated on the streets of the South Korean capital against their government's “Sunshine Policy” which, say protestors, has amounted to appeasement of the North Korean dictatorship. They burned North Korean flags.
Curious about this development, I switched the channel to Arirang, the overseas broadcast service of South Korea (available on Thai cable). But on the South Korean news, not a word was spoken about the protests in Seoul, nor – more strikingly -- was there any mention of the fact that North Korea’s nuclear testing has caused turmoil in domestic South Korea politics (news that made the front page of the International Herald Tribune).
From what one long-time foreign resident of South Korea told me, the “mute approach” to the North Korea problem extends to local news coverage. In her opinion, the South Korean population had not been getting the straight facts about the North.
Integral to South Korea’s “Sunshine Policy” appears to have been an “Ostrich Policy.”
Some South Koreans with whom I have spoken are of the opinion that the North is their “friend” and the real "enemy" is the US (and Japan). This fantasy is analogous to the untenable belief held by so many Americans that “WMD were found in Iraq,” or the conviction of many Japanese that Japan's high school curriculum teaches “the facts” about Japanese imperialism in Asia.
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 47, July 1943 - April, 1944 Page: 253
GENERAL ARTHUR GOODALL WAVELL
AND WAVELL'S COLONY IN TEXAS
EUGENE C. BARKER
In Indian Information, July 1, 1943, Field Marshal Sir Archi-
bald Wavell mentions his grandfather's connection with the
colonization of Texas. Letters and documents in the manuscript
collections of the University of Texas, the Texas State Library,
and the General Land Office disclose this chapter of General
Wavell's career in considerable detail. The story begins in
Chile-or, perhaps, in Spain, where General Wavell served with
distinction in the Peninsular War against the French. In 1820,
at the age of thirty-five, he was second in command of the Chilean
national army with the rank of major general. The Chilean
government sent him to Mexico on a semi-diplomatic mission,
and there he met Stephen F. Austin and began his connection
with Texas. On July 4, 1822, he and Austin signed a partner-
ship agreement looking to the development of Austin's colony,
approval of which by the Mexican government seemed to them
then to be only a matter of days. Wavell was to enlist capital
and form a company in England to promote colonization, de-
velop mines, and carry on an extensive commercial business.
Lending Austin an unspecified amount of money to enable him
to remain in Mexico until his grant should be confirmed, Wavell
sailed from Vera Cruz in the French brig, L'Azema, about the
middle of August, 1822, expecting to reach Bordeaux in fifty
days. A pirate sacked his ship on September 3, and robbed
Wavell of $1700 and all his property. L'Azema then sailed to
Charleston, from which port Wavell continued his voyage on
the British ship London. He arrived at Liverpool, November
11, and between that date and May 22, 1823, wrote Austin
seven letters, the burden of which was that he could not make
financial arrangements without documentary evidence that Aus-
tin's grant was confirmed. Actually, it was not confirmed until
mid-April, 1823, and Austin seems to have replied to none of
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"User Experience (abbreviated: UX) is the quality of experience a person has when interacting with a specific design. This can range from a specific artifact, such as a cup, toy or website, up to larger, integrated experiences such as a museum or an airport."
"'User experience' encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products. The first requirement for an exemplary user experience is to meet the exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother. Next comes simplicity and elegance that produce products that are a joy to own, a joy to use. True user experience goes far beyond giving customers what they say they want, or providing checklist features. In order to achieve high-quality user experience in a company's offerings there must be a seamless merging of the services of multiple disciplines, including engineering, marketing, graphical and industrial design, and interface design."
Source: "User Experience - Our Definition." Nielsen Norman Group.
“Information architecture defines the structure of information. Interaction design enables people to manipulate and contribute to that information. Visual design communicates these possibilities to people and creates affinity to them. User experience is the summation of these considerations.”
User Experience Design
"[E]xperience design uses the interactions of customers with products, services and company branding to optimize the overall impressions left by these. User experience design takes a similar approach and applies it to a specific set of products– computer-related ones. For example, an experience designer may refine the customer service and ambience of a hotel, whereas a user experience designer will optimize the customer’s interaction when making a reservation online, interacting with the hotel website or will improve the staff’s systems for managing hotel operations. The key difference can be found in the examination of the word ‘user.’"
Source: "What is User Experience Design," Montparnas.
UXBASIS' model is based on a creative process of a four part cycle; plan, act, observe and refine. On top of that is Jesse James Garretts' five layers model for web development.
User Experience Designer vs. Information Architect vs. Interaction Designer
Jesse James Garret’s IA Summit 2009 Keynote sparked some discussion and debate about titles.
- "JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote." IXDA Discussion of Jesse James Garret's keynote at 2009 IAI Summit. 3/2009
- "Its Just UX." IXDA Discussion. 3/2009.
- "Experience Design User." Chris Fahey. Graphpaper. 4/1/2009.
- "Defining UX." James Kelway. User Pathways.
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Mary Lorenz, CareerBuilder writer
When it comes to your job, you’re like a competitor on a reality TV show: You didn’t come here to make friends. You came here to win. (And by “win,” you mean do your job, get your paycheck and get home to finish binge-watching “Making a Murderer.”)
And that’s OK. Maybe you don’t care if your co-workers like you; however, when you make yourself dislikeable, it can actually have a negative impact on your career. After all, the less likable you are, the less likely others are to collaborate with you, volunteer their help when you need it or recommend you for a promotion.
So what makes someone unlikable and – better yet – how do you change that? We asked experts for their thoughts, and here’s what they had to say:
1. You never share the spotlight.
“If people are only concerned with boosting their own names and careers, act superior to others, or steal someone else’s thunder, it’s pretty tough to like them,” says Josh Dziabiak, COO of a U.S.-based car insurance company.
How to fix it: Give credit where credit is due. “Great team members deflect attention and give credit to their teammates when things go right,” Dziabiak says. “When there is success, they recognise it’s not theirs alone.”
2. You don’t own up to your mistakes.
“Someone who makes a mistake and rather than fessing up, tries to cover it up or even blame someone else, is going to be disliked,” says Sarah Schewitz, a licensed clinical psychologist.
How to fix it: Let yourself be more vulnerable in the workplace by owning up to your mistakes, apologising for them and asking for help with the solution, Schewitz advises. “Not only will this increase your likeability, but also your authenticity and integrity in the workplace.”
3. You’re constantly complaining.
“We all feel unhappy with our circumstances at times, but a consistent pattern of negativity typically ruins the environment for others and pushes others away,” says Donna Lubrano, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University College of Professional Studies in the U.S.
How to fix it: If you’re consistently unhappy at your job, it may be time to look for a new one. In the meantime, focus on what you can do to change your situation now. In other words, look for solutions instead of simply identifying problems.
4. You’re anti-social.
“You don’t have to be joined at the hip with your co-workers, but those who don’t at least make an attempt to participate in some workplace social activities can be seen as isolationist, stuck-up, stuffy or even rude,” says Lubrano.
How to fix it: Make the effort to get to know your colleagues as people. Say “yes” to the occasional after-work social event or suggest lunch with a colleague. Not only will you be more likable, but research shows bonding with fellow employees can actually make you more engaged and happier at your job.
5. You have bad body language.
“It may surprise you to learn that bad body language can make people unlikeable,” says Carrie Glenn, founder of Etiquette at Hand, a professional etiquette consultancy. Yet, given that the majority of communication is non-verbal, it makes sense that certain behaviors (such as refusing to make eye contact, crossing your hands in front of your chests, slouching, etc.) can make you appear cold and unfriendly, turning others off.
How to fix it: Glenn suggests taking a yoga or ballet class to improve posture or taking a speech class to improve the way you present yourself.
6. You don’t respect others’ space and time.
“Bursting into someone’s office, invading someone’s space and being loud in an office (especially in an open-floor plan) can all make someone ‘unlikeable,'” says Chad Daniels, co-founder of buildthefire.com. These behaviours indicate a lack of consideration and respect for others who are trying to work.
How to fix it: Don’t assume your colleagues can drop everything at your convenience. Give them a heads up by giving them a call or email and asking if they have a moment to talk, Daniels suggests. Also, be mindful of the volume of your voice and try to meet with others behind closed doors so as not to disturb others.
7. You gossip.
Gossiping is one of those toxic workplace behaviours that often falls into the category of bullying – and nobody likes a bully.
How to fix it: Aside from not engaging in office gossip yourself, remove yourself from temptation by changing the subject or finding a way to excuse yourself.
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Outlook has been one of the applications in the Microsoft Office suite since the program was first offered many years ago. With each new release, Outlook has offered new and improved features and a continually improving Calendar tool, designed to help you set, track, and organize appointments, meetings, and events. The Calendar tool works seamlessly with your Mail (where you receive and send email), People (where you track and manage your contacts), and Tasks (where you list the to-dos you need to remember to complete).
For many of us, the Calendar tool is an underused feature in Outlook. If the company you work for has adopted Microsoft Outlook as its primary email and calendaring tool, you may be using the Calendar and sharing your calendar with others on your team using Microsoft Exchange. For those of us who don’t have access to Exchange, sharing calendars in Outlook 2013 requires that we incorporate Web calendars (like the Gmail calendar) in Outlook or we publish the calendar publicly online and invite others to view it. This article walks you through a number of Calendar techniques that get you headed toward managing and sharing your calendars effectively.
Choose Your Appointment Type
Outlook gives you three options for adding items to your calendar:
- You create a new appointment when you have somewhere to go—a client to see, a vendor to visit, an interview to complete.
- You can create a new meeting when the “something” you are doing requires the attendance of other people.
- You can create an all-day event when you’re going to a special activity that takes—you guessed it—all day.
Start by displaying Outlook 2013 in Calendar view and clicking the area on the calendar where you want to create the event. Click Calendar in the lower left of the Outlook window, and your calendar appears in the work area. In the New group of the Home tab, you’ll find the tools you need to add an item to your calendar (Figure 1). Click New Appointment to add an appointment, New Meeting to create a meeting, or, if you want to create an All Day Event, online meeting, or other schedule-related items, click New Items and choose the option you want from the list.
Figure 1 You’ll find the tools you need for adding an item to your calendar In the New group of the Home tab in Calendar view.
A window appears related to the type of item you’re creating. Figure 2 shows the Meeting window used to set up a new meeting and invite participants. Enter a subject for the meeting, set the Start and End times, and enter a location for the meeting. Click To and select the contacts you want to attend the meeting. Add a note in the description area to explain to invitees what you’re proposing, and then click Send. Outlook will track the responses and display the status of invitations in the lower portion of the Meeting window.
Figure 2 Enter the meeting subject and location, and invite the contacts you want to attend.
Drag and Drop
Here’s an easy and fast way to add new appointments to your calendar as soon as they appear in your Inbox. In the Mail view, select the email message with the information for the appointment. Drag the message to the Calendar selection (Figure 3) in the lower-left corner of the Outlook window and release the mouse button. The new appointment window opens.
Figure 3 You can drag and drop an email message to the Calendar selector to open an appointment window and add it to your calendar.
Add the information to the appointment window and click Save & Close to add the appointment to your calendar.
Change the Look of the Calendar Window
Outlook gives you a number of tools you can display or hide in the Calendar window to help you stay on track. The Folder pane appears by default on the left side of the Calendar window. The Reading Pane, which shows you the content of an item on your calendar when you click it in Calendar view, is turned off by default. And the To-Do Bar is customizable so that you can show Calendar, People, or Task items along the right side of the Calendar window. To add or remove any of these items, click the View tab and choose the tool you want in the Layout group (Figure 4).
Figure 4 You can change the look of the Calendar window by choosing tools in the Layout group of the View tab.
Share Your Calendar
Outlook gives you several options for sharing your calendar, but the one that actually says “Share Calendar” will be grayed out for you unless your business uses Microsoft Exchange. If you use Exchange, you can add others’ calendars to your calendar display easily so that you can find times that you’re all available to meet. But even if you don’t have access to Exchange, you can share calendar information with others three different ways:
- You can use the E-mail Calendar tool in the Share group of the Home tab to email your calendar to others (and choose the data you want to share).
- You can use Open Calendar in the Manage Calendars group to add a web calendar—like Gmail calendar—to your Outlook calendar.
- You can use Publish Online to publish your calendar to a WebDAV server online. WebDAV is an extension that allows documents to be created and modified on a web server. You’ll need to check with your Internet service provider to find out whether your server supports WebDAV.
Figure 5 shows the options available when you choose Open Calendar. If you want to add a web calendar to Outlook, choose From Internet. In the New Internet Calendar Subscription dialog box, paste the URL for your web calendar. Note that this URL can be difficult to find. In Gmail, for example, click Settings, Calendars, and Calendar Details; then scroll down to Calendar Address and click the green ICAL button. This displays the URL for your particular calendar in a format that will work with Outlook. Copy the URL and paste it into the dialog box; then click OK to add the calendar. The calendar will appear in the Folder Pane on the left side of the Calendar window; click the checkbox for that calendar to display it in your Calendar view.
Figure 5 Add a web calendar to Outlook by copying and pasting the calendar’s web address (ending with .ics) into the New Internet Calendar Subscription dialog box.
Like anything else, working with Outlook’s calendar gets easier with practice. If you use your calendar consistently, adding appointments, scheduling meetings, and sharing your information with others as needed, you’ll soon find it helps you stay organized and—who knows?—maybe even add a little extra time to your day. | <urn:uuid:0cb734d2-e299-4919-9128-52f6158db2ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2130759&seqNum=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00499-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868703 | 1,388 | 1.773438 | 2 |
SC3 Support Leads to Teacher and Student Success in Arkansas
The South Central Comprehensive Center (SC3) at the University of Oklahoma provided assistance to the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) and North Little Rock School District (NLRSD) to launch a pilot of Opportunity Culture at the district’s middle school for the 2017-18 school year. Through existing relationships with ADE, SC3 learned NLRSD needed additional expertise and support for this pilot. In response, SC3 facilitated early conversations, helped form partnerships, and introduced ADE and NLRSD to Public Impact (the developer of Opportunity Culture) and its partner, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center). SC3 brokered relationships and built connections with ADE, NLRSD, and Public Impact, which ultimately led to improved student outcomes at the pilot school.
The Opportunity Culture model includes structural changes within class schedules and teacher-student assignments. The pilot school now has multi-classroom leaders (expert teachers) who lead small teaching teams and provide guidance and coaching. Leaders are accountable for the results of all students in the team. This equity-focused structure provides students with greater access to teachers who get better-than-average results, and provides less experienced teachers with embedded professional development and mentorship. More teachers have leadership roles and advancement opportunities, which research indicates will improve career retention rates.
This structure has improved the everyday teaching and learning experiences at the pilot school. More students have daily interactions with excellent educators and individualized supports leading to increased achievement and other student outcomes. Student successes have bolstered support from families and the community; therefore, the NLRSD board of education has adopted policies and practices to leverage federal, state, and local funds to secure continued implementation of Opportunity Culture. NLRSD’s experience mirrors the research on Opportunity Culture in North Carolina and New York districts.
"...Opportunity Culture has greatly impacted student learning at North Little Rock Middle School. Discipline has decreased, and student achievement has increased on the interims for ACT Aspire. Through [SC3], all of this has come together. Tonight, we presented again at a school board workshop, and we have their total support. This is the first initiative in a long time that truly is making a difference,"said NLRSD Director of Human Resources Karli Saracini.
ADE included a 10-school Opportunity Culture pilot as a strategy in its ESSA State Plan. SC3 and GTL Center are partnering to build ADE’s leadership capacity to replicate this strategy. Districts participating in the upcoming pilot will use 2018-19 as a planning year and 2019-20 as the first year of implementation. As ADE scales up this model, Public Impact is facilitating the State Design Team process. SC3 serves on this team and continues to provide thought partnership and coaching feedback to connect to ADE’s other strategic planning projects. Both Centers will assist ADE with aligning the Opportunity Culture grants with state teacher leader licensure, local equity labs, and other teacher leadership opportunities.
The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and are intended for general reference purposes only. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education or the Center, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Some resources on this site require Adobe Acrobat Reader. This website archive includes content and external links that were accurate and relevant as of September 30, 2019. | <urn:uuid:e7da4a8a-b34d-47db-a78f-d05adc8999be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://outreach.ou.edu/educational-services/education/edutas/comprehensive-centers-archive/educator-excellence/sc3-support-leads-teacher-and-student-success-arkansas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.954636 | 716 | 1.867188 | 2 |
R. Ratra, A. Kar-Roy and S. K. Lal. The ORF3 protein of hepatitis E virus interacts with hemopexin by means of its 26 amino acid N-terminal hydrophobic domain II. Biochemistry, 2008, 47(7): 1957-1969.
戊型肝炎病毒的基因组结构及生物学功能研究进展Development of Genomic Structure and Function of Hepatitis E Virus
雷雅昕, 刘鹏, 王玲
戊型肝炎病毒, 基因结构, 开放读码框, 顺反应元件Hepatitis E Virus (HEV); Gene Structure; Open Reading Frame (ORF); Cis-Reactive Elements (CRE)
《Advances in Microbiology》, Vol.2 No.1, 2013-03-27
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is one of the most important pathogens of acute viral hepatitis prevailing in developing countries. There are four major genotypes of mammalian HEV, genotype 1 and 2 are restricted to human infection, and induce epidemic hepatitis E which is mainly transmitted by contaminated water; whereas genotype 3 and 4 are zoonotic causing sporadic cases which are common in developed countries. In recent years, much more attention has been paid to the structures of viral genes and the functions of viral proteins. The research progress achieved in such field will help us uncover the veil of HEV in pathogenesis and infection. | <urn:uuid:767fde6d-bd86-4b7b-8dbd-824a5b1783fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hanspub.org/reference/ReferencePapers.aspx?ReferenceID=10805&PaperID=9639 | 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 | 0.670502 | 384 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Most people start with a quote when they are ready to make the switch to solar energy. They shouldn't just choose the cheapest price, but there are other factors to consider. After deciding on the type of solar panels and figuring out how to finance it, the buyer is ready to make the most difficult decision: choosing the installation team.
The chosen team will work in one's home, or at their business. They will build a custom solar power plant. Solar installers are different in size, experience, reputation, and product offerings. It's also difficult to evaluate them using standard methods of financing, cost, and general benefits. Solar installation in lower plenty is not difficult. The job should go smoothly if the team involved is skilled.
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When looking for solar installers, consider the following:
- Expert Knowledge
- Insured and licensed
- Experience and track record
- Avoid Sub-Contracting
Sub-contractors are common for solar installers. Although it is fine to have "some", be cautious of companies that use a lot of sub-contractors. It can be great if they have particular expertise or have worked with the company for many years. There are many risks associated with too many sub-contractors.
Ask the company how they choose who to work with and what extra help will be responsible for and why. The property owner has the right to know the details of the job for which they are paying.
The best solar installers should also be advisors and interested in the project. They should be available to offer advice and a long-lasting relationship should new products become available. | <urn:uuid:8985aaf5-a0da-4da8-bef6-0d599ba4def0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gretnaoldparishchurch.com/tag/property-maintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966872 | 331 | 1.523438 | 2 |
As part of our class topic of Ancient Greek Myths and Legends, Year 5 have been looking at great detail at the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. We wanted the children to explore the idea of what it must be like to be trapped underground, as was the case for Theseus in the popular Greek tale. This idea is also linked in with the news story of the rescue of the Chilean miners from underground. This wonderful rescue mission has fascinated year 5, and so we decided to combine the idea of being underground into a piece of literacy work. We asked our Year 5 pupils to imagine what it must be like to be trapped in such a situation. We asked them to write a thoughtful piece addressing what they would miss if they were trapped underground. You can listen to some of the ideas being explored in the podcast below. | <urn:uuid:1cf9be4e-1dd1-49f2-9fef-470ef55dcb6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://michaelfaradayschool.co.uk/2010/10/18/year-5-literacy-podcast-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00197-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975781 | 166 | 3.5625 | 4 |
We will certainly make mistakes. We will be wrong at times. And yet, we are all capable of striving to be more reasonable, more fair in our dealings with others, and better models of the sort of behavior we would like to see more of from others. For example, we can learn how to:
- recognize that people are going to hold different political views and that the worth or dignity of a person is not tied to which candidate he or she supports
- resist our tribalistic impulses and reject divisive identity politics
- do effective moral triage so that we spend less time being outraged about trivial matters and more time working to change the things we can change
In the end, we must each come to terms with the realization that we cannot control what others do. We lack the authority or the means to shape others' behavior to suit our will. What we can do is strive to be more reasonable for our own sake and that of others around us. We can embrace reason and freethought. | <urn:uuid:8a341f8c-a2b1-4fc0-b685-86bb6c0d9249> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.atheistrev.com/2016/05/when-being-reasonable-seems.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96977 | 203 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Despite the number of farmers markets that continue to crop up across Los Angeles, the trend of locally-grown ingredients sold in a communal setting is nothing new.
Though people are more familiar with upscale shopping mall The Grove, the expansive market located just across the way from the glitzy stores is the first and original farmers market in Los Angeles. Founded on July 14, 1934, this first farmers market grew out of the idea that farmers from the surrounding areas (such as San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley) could sell their crops at stands in one central location.
“Roger Dahlhjelm, one of the founders, had a vision to help out the farmers who were more or less struggling through the Depression try to market their crops,” says Brett Arena, archivist for the A.F. Gilmore Company, which owns the land on which the farmers market operates. “It was his idea to try to get them to come down to the corner of Third and Fairfax, which was a vacant lot, as well as to invite artisans – weavers, cobblers and artists – to come and sell their wares.”
Dahlhjelm and his business partner Fred Becke approached Earl B. Gilmore, an oil mogul who owned the empty lot, according to Arena. “Gilmore’s own father was a farmer, so he loved the farmers market idea,” Arena noted.
On that fateful Saturday nearly eighty years ago, 18 vendors – 12 of whom were actual farmers – descended on the lot to sell their crops and produce. “The farmers showed up and they were charged 50 cents a day to sell their crops and Roger Dahlhjelm was the man who ran the show,” Arena says. “Soon, stalls were being built with canvas stretched over wood frames and these little stalls began to pop up after the market started.”
Today, more than 200 farmers markets take place each week in Los Angeles. Though produce stands continue to dominate many of these farmers markets, a number of vendors also specialize in other, more exotic, goods.
For instance, Chris Reid and Rhett Melbo, two twenty-somethings from San Diego, make frequent trips up to Los Angeles to sell oysters.
“We have to wake up at four in the morning and get to the warehouse in Carlsbad. We leave there at around 5:30 a.m. and head up to get here at 7 a.m. so we’re ready to open shop by 8 a.m.,” Melbo says.
Reid and Melbo spend much of their time selling their products at farmers markets (especially at the Hollywood Farmers Market, held on Sunday mornings), but the dynamic oyster duo also hosts a variety of events all over Los Angeles and supplies major bars and restaurants, such as L&E Oyster Bar in Silverlake.
But at the end of the day, a lot hasn’t changed for such vendors since the days of the original farmers market.
“We’re just an outdoor market shucking oysters,” Reid says.
And in that vein, farmers markets continue to support many smaller businesses that benefit from the crowds that arrive at the markets each week. Soledad Goats, a cheese stand run by Julian Pearce and his wife, Carol, serves as a perfect example.
“We were milking a herd in the U.K. of about 1,200 goat and we were selling liquid milk when we thought, ‘why don’t we start making cheese?’,” Julian Pearce says. “I’ve had experience making cheese since I was three years old, and there was a demand for it.”
The couple has 15 years worth of experience working with goats, and six years ago, they came to America to try their hand at crafting cheese. The duo visited Northern California, but ultimately saw more opportunity in Southern California and set up a dairy in Mojave.
“Northern California has a lot of goat farmers and a lot of cheesemakers who are all very successful. So why go with the crowd when we could do our own thing? We put a little herd of about forty goats together and now we’re milking around 300,” Julian Pearce says.
In addition to its original goat cheese, Soledad Goats also carries a number of uniquely flavored cheeses, including honey and lavender as well as tangy garlic and red-bell-pepper cheese.
But above all, Pearce prides himself on the principles his small business runs on, chiefly the no-kill policy that stands on his farm. “We are rescuers as well… we have a very humane farm and people say how magical it is,” he says. “We have dogs, sheep, chicken, goats, cows — all of them together in the same yard, and everyone’s happy.”
That policy is just one of many that differentiate farmers markets vendors from commercial producers. And whether the vendors are selling fruits or flowers or even oysters, you’ll find that an astonishing number of hours are put into each of these humble market stands, including the time it takes to personally raise livestock or crops as well as hours spent transporting products back and forth, from one farmers market to the next.
Though some markets, such as the Atwater Village and Los Feliz farmers markets, are somewhat farther away, there are also farmers markets located right in USC’s backyard.
Both the Pershing Square Farmers Market, which takes place every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Downtown LA Farmers Market, held every Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., are just short Metro rides away from campus.
And if you aren’t feeling very adventurous, USC has its own farmers market every Tuesday along University Avenue, right off Jefferson Boulevard. The market boasts fresh produce, kettle corn, pupusas and baked goods.
So take advantage of the warm weather that spring brings and make sure to visit at least a couple of these markets. Whether you’re looking to stock up on groceries or simply suddenly get a sudden craving for goat cheese, you’ll likely find something new and delicious to fall in love with. | <urn:uuid:c0e8fedd-8fed-48f2-98c8-f02e45cf0c2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailytrojan.com/2013/04/09/farmers-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.973199 | 1,323 | 2.25 | 2 |
A necropsy of a 10-day-old orca that washed up in Norway in 2017 has revealed that even as calves, these iconic whales are full of harmful chemicals, a new study finds.
The young killer whale (Orcinus orca) was one of eight deceased orcas that researchers in Norway examined. Of these, seven (including the calf) had levels of the banned flame retardant polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) that were high enough to cause health problems in the animals, the researchers found. And all had lower levels of some newer pollutants of which little is known and haven't yet been banned.
"Perhaps the most striking finding was that the neonate killer whale was as polluted as the adults," study co-researcher Eve Jourdain, founder and main investigator at Norwegian Orca Survey, told Live Science in an email. "This means that these new pollutants are also being passed on from mother to calf (maternal transfer through placenta and milking)."
The team carried out the animal autopsies to learn more about orca health in Norway's waters. Killer whales (which aren't actually whales, but the largest species of dolphin), are at the top of the food chain, meaning they're vulnerable to accumulating high levels of pollutants, Jourdain said. After the team had collected blubber and, in some cases, muscle and organ samples from eight whales that had died after stranding or getting caught in nets in Norway between 2015 and 2017, they got to work analyzing the cetacean tissues for human-made chemicals.
Overall, the team learned that "PCBs are still found at high levels in Norwegian killer whales, despite the fact that they were banned a long time ago," Jourdain said. The researchers also screened for new chemicals that aren't yet regulated, including brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and found the retardents pentabromotoluene (PBT) and hexabromobenzene (HBB) at low levels in the blubber of all eight whales, the researchers wrote in the study.
These chemicals were created as replacements for PCBs, but that's of little consolation to the whales. The study reveals that "these replacement chemicals have the same accumulation properties in killer whales' tissues" as PCBs do, Jourdain said.
The researchers also looked at perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down like other chemicals in typical environments, and total mercury levels. While still concerning, PFAS and mercury levels were lower in the orca calf than in the adults, "suggesting less efficient maternal transfer of these substances," the researchers noted in the study.
Some of the chemicals examined in the study — the BFRs, PBTs, HBBs and PFAS — are widely used on in countless products, including cosmetics, ski wax, textiles, leather, paper and foam-based fire extinguishing agents, Jourdain said. "These may end up in the ocean through local streams, sewage waters, etc. [and] then climb high and accumulate in the food chain, until reaching [their] highest levels in top predators like killer whales."
Previous research has also found PCBs in orcas, including in Lulu, an adult killer whale whose body was discovered on an island off the coast of Scotland in 2016. The PCB concentrations in Lulu's blubber were 100 times higher than what scientists deem safe for marine mammals, meaning she had some of the highest levels of PCBs ever recorded in a whale, Live Science previously reported.
Scientists don't know how harmful these chemicals are to orcas, but studies have linked legacy contaminants, such as PCBs, to impairment of immune and reproductive systems in whales, she said. "This means that killer whales may be more vulnerable to pathogens and diseases and less likely to reproduce."
The fact that the newer replacement chemicals seem to behave in the same way as the legacy contaminants, in the sense that they both accumulate in whale tissues, also concerned the researchers. "This is a concern since they are not regulated yet and since we know little about how harmful to wildlife they may be," Jourdain said.
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What You Need:
- Large lima beans
- Blue spray paint
- Small cup (3-ounce bathroom cups work well for this activity)
- Small index cards or sheets of paper
- Blue crayon
- Stapler or heavy string
What You Do:
- Before starting the game, spray paint the lima beans on one side only. When you’re finished, one side of each bean should be blue and the other side should be white.
- Now play the game. Ask your child to place five beans in the paper cup, shake the cup to mix up the beans, and then toss the contents onto the table.
- Give her the blue crayon and ask her to draw the total number of beans she sees on a piece of paper or index card, then color them in according to the beans' colors. For example, if your child’s toss shows 4 beans facing blue side up, and 1 bean white side up, she should color 4 beans blue and leave one not colored in, or white.
- Repeat step 3, encouraging her to continue tossing the five beans from the cup, until she thinks she’s discovered all the ways to make 5.
- Stack the pages or index cards and bind them together with string or staples to make a book showing all the different ways to make the number 5.
As your child’s curiosity about numbers grows, adjust the game by changing the quantity of beans until you get all the way up to 10. Addition is big news in kindergarten, and this game can grow with her throughout the year. As she matures, ask her to write the addition sentence that matches each picture on its bottom, for example, 2 + 3 = 5. | <urn:uuid:fc71bf58-a1a7-45d9-83c8-94e96ef0ac4f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.education.com/activity/article/bluebeangame_kindergarten/?coliid=692110 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00149-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89933 | 361 | 3.796875 | 4 |
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