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THE WHITE HOUSE AT WORK
Monday, June 8, 1998
CONTINUING THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS
Our nations came here because we all understand that nothing destroys lives, families, and communities more than illegal drugs. Let us leave here determined to act together, in a spirit of trust and respect to win the global fight against drugs and build a safe and healthy future for our children.
President Bill Clinton
June 8, 1998
Today, President Clinton addresses a special session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss worldwide efforts to combat the use and production of drugs. The President outlines efforts the United States has taken to reduce drug supply and usage, and calls for international cooperation to fight drugs.
Fighting Drugs Requires A Worldwide Effort. Ten years ago, the United Nations established the UN Drug Convention, which provides a comprehensive framework for international cooperation in combating illicit drugs. During that time, many nations have made progress in the fight against drugs, cocaine use is down 70 percent in the United States since 1985, Mexico's drug eradication efforts hit record levels in 1997, and last year, Latin American and Caribbean nations seized over 166 metric tons of cocaine. While these numbers are encouraging, a global effort is needed to ensure that the strides which we have made in the war against drugs continue.
Providing International Leadership In The Fight Against Drugs. The President announces several new initiatives which will help countries combat drugs worldwide:
- The Virtual University for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse will allow experts from around the globe to share knowledge and strategy on reducing drug demand. This course will bring officials from Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador together with drug abuse and gang prevention experts from the United States. The course will be available via satellite from the U.S. Information Agency's Worldnet system, allowing for access around the globe.
- Internet postings of drug prevention and treatment workshops conducted by the National Institute for Drug Abuse will allow anyone with a computer and a modem to gain the latest, most advanced medical knowledge on drug treatment and prevention.
- The International Drug Fellowship Program will bring professionals from around the world to the United States where they will work with our drug-fighting agencies in meeting the goals of the UN Drug Convention.
A Presidential Strategy For Fighting Drugs In The United States. The President has made drug interdiction and demand reduction a top priority. The Clinton Administration has:
- Provided a National Drug Control Strategy aimed at cutting drug use and access by over half in the next 10 years through stronger law enforcement, tougher interdiction, improved treatment, and expanded prevention efforts.
- Launched a major Anti-Drug Youth Media Campaign which sends the message through television, radio, and the Internet that drugs are bad and can kill you. The President calls on Congress to extend this program through 2002, enabling this public/private sector effort to continue educating children on the dangers of drugs.
Building A Brighter Future For Our Children. As our world has grown closer and the barriers which used to separate people have given rise to a global community, the cooperative efforts of all nations are needed to continue the fight against drugs. The President's firm commitment to the eradication of drugs and his vision for a comprehensive, international cooperative effort amongst is helping to ensure a safer future for our children. | <urn:uuid:daf168ff-1a1b-40a3-a7de-41c7bccc7af5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov/WH/Work/060898.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.918418 | 674 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Vaastu for Multi-Storey Building
Vaastu Shastra is an important element in every house. You cannot expect to have a successful life if you build your house in any format. Today architects and designers do follow the essentials of Vaastu Shastra. They build houses basis these requirements. You might find it difficult to construct houses or zones after considering all the perfect locations. It might get difficult to construct areas via perfect assigned directions. You will have to wonder about couple of bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchen in a multi storey apartment.
You might tend to re-arrange the directions and might faultier sometimes. In case of multi-storey apartments kindly follow these guidelines. The flats must be built in a rectangular or square format. This means each house must be built in a rectangular format. All bathrooms must be located in the North-east direction. There needs to be a separate corner away from the bathrooms for temples. The kitchens in all apartments must be planned in the South-east direction. The kitchen must never be close to a bathroom or the temple. The second kitchen in any room could be planned towards the North-west direction. You could position your master bedroom towards the South-western direction. All other beds can be placed towards the eastern or north-western direction. The centre area of your room must always be kept free. It should never be cluttered with toys or goods. All flats must have windows and ample ventilation towards the Northern and Eastern direction. The store room in any multi-storey apartment should be placed towards the South-west direction. All main gates should open from the inside of the room. The gates should be in sliding format. The main gate of your building should be placed in the South-west direction.
The tube well must also be placed in the eastern, northern or north-east direction. All kinds of water resources must be placed towards the north-east direction only. All open spaces in the building must be positioned towards the western, eastern and southern direction. The overhead tank must also be positioned towards the south-western direction. The drainage of this multi-story apartment needs to be channeled towards the north-western or south-western direction. The parking for vehicles in a complex with multi-storey apartments must be planned towards the mid-northern or western direction. | <urn:uuid:7f527bca-3c69-4003-b905-821683e65a91> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pandit.com/vaastu-for-multi-storey-building/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00459-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956625 | 476 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The Prime Minister Quotes in Mrs Dalloway
How he scolded her! How they argued! She would marry a Prime Minister and stand at the top of a staircase; the perfect hostess he called her (she had cried over it in her bedroom), she had the makings of the perfect hostess, he said.
Nobody looked at him. They just went on talking, yet it was perfectly plain that they all knew, felt to the marrow of their bones, this majesty passing; this symbol of what they stood for, English society. Old Lady Bruton… swam up, and they withdrew into a little room which at once became spied upon, guarded, and a sort of stir and rustle rippled through every one, openly: the Prime Minister!
Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English! thought Peter Walsh, standing in the corner. How they loved dressing up in gold lace and doing homage! | <urn:uuid:ae592831-45a5-44ec-8559-d619ad493fcb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.litcharts.com/lit/mrs-dalloway/symbols/the-prime-minister | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984899 | 193 | 1.867188 | 2 |
As Colstrip's representative in the Montana House, Duane Ankney no doubt believes that he must do all he can to further the mining and burning of coal, and so he argues in a recent letter in the Independent against the elimination of tax subsidies for the fossil fuel industry in Sen. Max Baucus' proposed reforms of our nation's tax laws (see "Letters," Jan. 23). If Baucus were to do as Ankney desired, he would abandon his responsibility to lead, by failing to address what informed people believe is the largest problem facing our country and world.
Incredibly, Ankney even claims in his guest editorial that there are currently no tax subsidies given specifically to the fossil fuel industry! The respected and conservative Brookings Institution carefully documents the specific tax subsidies written into the current tax code for the fossil fuel industry and concludes that "the U.S. government effectively transfers by way of tax expenditures more than $4 billion annually from taxpayers to fossil fuel producers."
I am really sorry that some good-paying jobs and state tax revenue will be lost as we transition from burning fossil fuels to getting our power primarily from nonpolluting renewable sources. I used to make twice what I do now when I was a radio officer on merchant ships. That job vanished as satellite communications made the mandated Morse-code safety system obsolete. Similarly, the smart and good people of Colstrip will survive and adapt to flourish in other endeavors, as I had to do. And if Montana fully exploited its wind resources, we would raise more tax revenue from wind power than we ever could from coal.
The weather extremes we've seen in the last decade—the beetle-kill decimation of our pine forests, the storms of unprecedented magnitude on the Gulf and East coasts—are the gentle, opening prelude to the devastation that is coming soon if the leaders of industry and government don't focus all of their energies on reducing fossil fuel combustion and maximizing both energy efficiency and nonpolluting renewable energy development. Seven billion people relying primarily on fossil fuels have caused the dramatic changes that are occurring in the Earth's climate due to the loading of the atmosphere with concentrations of greenhouse gases that are higher than they've been in many thousands of years. If Baucus does not eliminate tax subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and if he does not create strong tax incentives for the most robust development possible of nonpolluting renewable energy sources, then he will be abandoning his leadership responsibility, and our children and their children will blame him for not acting to stop the devastation of their world, even though science and early catastrophes were clearly portending what needed to be done.
I used to swear by the name of Charlie B's. It was a holy place of sorts, a Mecca of good times and stiff pours, boasting a clientele of true grit and worth. In my mind, it had secured its place in the Pantheon of American Dive Bars.
Sadly, it seems those days are over.
Nowadays when I stumble into Charlie's, my ear drums are bombarded with obnoxious dance club music, a symphony of bump and grind, the noise of the mindless mob. This sordid atmosphere is ill-fitting for a bar of such renown.
It's interesting that Charlie's books bands such as Cash For Junkers and Lil' Smokies—bands that play string-driven American roots music—for their live music nights. Judging by the music the bartenders play on a typical Friday or Saturday night, it seems likely that live music nights will soon feature hipster DJs, fog machines, seizure-inducing strobe lights and barrels of ecstasy.
Charlie's does not need to become the next Am Vets. If its young bartenders feel compelled to assault its bar patrons with their plebeian musical tastes, perhaps they would be better off pouring drinks at Feruqi's or Bodega's.
It's a grievous insult to those with their black and white portraits lining the walls of Charlie's to have their likenesses associated with this cheap, auto-tuned, synthetic musical garbage. I probably speak for the majority of these people when I say it's high time this auditory trash is thrown out the back door and into the alley where it belongs.
Merle Haggard asks if the good times are really over for good. Are they, Charlie?
It’s very gratifying to have the “High Court” rule in favor of the vast majority of the Montana public after fully evaluating the very complicated issues dealing with the historic use of prescriptive roads and bridges, which have been used for decades.
It is really disheartening for longtime residents to see Montana changed into a playground for the very rich. The large tracks of Montana that the wealthier are buying contain segments of public land, which have some of our best hunting and fishing resources, and the public isn’t welcome.
There will be continued attacks on our cherished Stream Access Law by these selfish property owners because they want everything for themselves. The only consolation that Montana residents have is that these greedy individuals will not be able to purchase a place in “The Here After,” nor will they be able to bribe the devil from their fire-proof money belts. Montana has the most bullet-proof stream access law in the nation.
Montana Coalition for Stream Access
The first time I saw the word “watermelon” used satirically was in a National Review article about a year ago (see “War on watermelons,” Jan. 2). It was used then as a rejoinder to the liberal use of the terms “Uncle Tom,” “Uncle Tomahawk,” “coconut” and “banana” to describe and disparage, respectively, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans who display a conservative point of view. (Coconuts are brown on the outside, white on the inside, bananas are yellow …) The “watermelon” reference to describe liberal environmentalists who are “green on the outside, red on the inside” seemed a logical, classy and clever retort to the undeniably racist and hurtful terms used earlier in the National Review article, considering it is inspired by ideology rather than skin color.
I thought this would be of interest to Independent readers.
Sen. Max Baucus has one major piece of unfinished business he’s scrambling to complete before he officially leaves office. Last year, he took on the mammoth task of completely overhauling our nation’s tax structure—an undertaking that is sorely needed to help our economy and create jobs. Moreover, comprehensive tax reform is the senator’s last best chance to repair his legacy after being sullied by his role in crafting Obamacare.
Unfortunately, it’s looking like Baucus’s tax legislation might turn out to be another poor mark on his report card and further degrade his popularity.
A faction of Congressional Democrats is pushing major tax changes aimed squarely at damaging our energy industry. That would have an immediate, negative impact in Montana where our job growth has been dependent, in large part, on the booming oil and gas development in Eastern Montana.
But eliminating energy jobs is exactly what environmental groups like the Sierra Club would love to see result from changes to tax policy.
We often hear rhetoric about “subsidies” received by traditional fossil fuel companies. Those claims are blatant mistruths. To be perfectly clear, there are no government subsidies for oil and gas producers. Certainly nothing like the government payouts received by companies involved in generating solar or wind power.
When D.C. politicians talk about eliminating “subsidies” for oil and gas companies, what they’re really talking about are the type of basic tax deductions that firms in every industry receive to account for the cost of doing business. The truth is, they’re proposing to single out petroleum producers including those in Montana, by eliminating standard tax practices almost all other manufacturers receives. If that happens, American energy producers will be less competitive and have fewer resources to create new jobs.
It would also drive up the cost of energy at all levels. That’s bad for consumers, who will face higher prices for gasoline, electricity and home heating, to name just a few items. It’s also bad for energy-intensive industries, like agriculture and manufacturing.
But, again, higher prices for energy is exactly what some environmental groups would love to see. They’d rather Americans pay artificially higher prices in order to make the heavily subsidized alternative energy sources marginally more competitive.
The anti-worker, anti-consumer agenda of the environmentalist movement has no place in our tax code. It would distort our economy, inflate prices and ultimately cost us thousands of jobs. But these types of policies are receiving actual credence by some members of Congress, and these policies have worked their way into the legislation discussion drafts being circulated by Baucus and his staff.
There is no doubt that tax policies singling out the energy industry would have a disproportionate impact on Montana where energy is such a large part of our export economy. Hamstringing industry is certainly is not the legacy that most of us are hoping Baucus will leave our state.
But Baucus still has time to set things right by showing leadership among his Democratic caucus in the Senate. He needs to establish fairness and equity as key tenants of tax reform. He needs to emphasize that tax reform absolutely should not result in some industries gaining at the expense of others as a result of inequitable policies.
At the very least, the tone Baucus sets now will be valuable guidance for whoever succeeds him in office. Because energy is such an important area of Montana’s economy, our state’s Congressional representatives will be in a pivotal role to shape energy tax policy as part of the reform package.
It’s unfortunate that Baucus has to leave office before he is able to see his final, major policy objective completed. But he still has ample time to have a significant influence on the outcome for tax reform. The senator should make sure Montana’s priorities are protected by supporting fair tax policies across the board and not harming one of our most valuable industries.
State Rep. Duane Ankney
I would like to thank Congressman Steve Daines for his work on HR 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, which passed the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support. The Boone and Crockett Club, along with many hunting organizations, have strongly supported this legislation. Why? Because millions of acres of our national forests are overcrowded, dying from insect infestation and susceptible to uncharacteristically large, hot wildfires. If you hunt and you care about improving the health of our national forests, as the club does, then you realize that we need real changes to help the Forest Service get back in the woods performing active management. Study after study has shown that improvements to forest health, including the resilience of fire prone forests, can be restored through active management.
As Congressman Daines and the bipartisan members of the House pointed out when they passed HR 1526, we need aggressive forest management to improve game populations and enhance game habitat. The club will continue to fight for access to public land to hunt and shoot, and to enhance the habitat that supports important game populations like elk and deer. HR 1526 will improve the quality of habitat for all wildlife species while also creating healthy timber based jobs in rural communities in Montana and across the country.
William A. Demmer
Boone and Crockett Club
On Dec. 9, the Board of Oil and Gas Conservation canceled a scheduled public comment hearing on Energy Corporations of America’s oil well planned along the Beartooth Front. Because of their decision, affected landowners and concerned Montanans had no opportunity to officially voice their concerns about its development.
The BOGC’s repression of citizens’ voices indicates that the loyalty of the Board may lie with the industry. Given the BOGC’s membership is comprised of three representatives of the oil and gas industry, one landowner with mineral rights, one landowner without mineral rights, one from the public and one attorney, it’s clear the industry holds a majority over any other group impacted by oil and gas development.
Because of the oil and gas industries’ overwhelming representation on the BOGC, it’s not surprising they acquiesced to ECA’s last-minute demand to deny Northern Plains Resource Council and Carbon County Resource Council comments because, although ECA and the BOGC had timely received the complete file, a certificate of delivery had been not included. When this was brought to the councils’ attention, and the valid certificate being promptly provided, it’s also not surprising that the board refused to accept it and allow the public comment hearing to proceed.
Apparently, the board is against hearing Montanans’ concerns and in favor of ECA’s chief executive officer’s publicly stated goal that he “would love to bring something like the Bakken … to the area in the Big Horns and other areas in Montana.”
In the midst of partisan vitriol in today’s politics, one Montana legislator stands out from the rest. Forbes listed Rep. Daniel Zolnikov, R-Billings, as one of its “30 Under 30.” The 32 of us who have signed this letter are also all under the age of 30, and come from all corners of Montana. We want to congratulate Rep. Zolnikov, and thank him for his work to protect our privacy rights.
Zolnikov, 26, achieved the Forbes honor by pioneering legislation last session to protect our civil liberties. He argued that government officials should have to obtain warrants to conduct searches of cellphone data even before Edward Snowden blew the whistle on massive, unconstitutional (according to two federal judges) NSA surveillance. Once the Snowden scandal broke, Zolnikov’s work received international praise. He has become a voice of a new generation of public officials who are committed to protecting our freedoms in the digital age.
As a young legislator, Zolnikov made Montana an example for the rest of the nation, and even other countries, to follow. Laws similar to his requiring government to obtain warrants before accessing cellphone location data have now passed in numerous other states, and more privacy protections are on the way.
The current heated debate over digital privacy has broken down party lines and unified many in our generation. We are the ones who will live through a new age of groundbreaking technology and innovation. While these technologies provide exciting new opportunities, they can also create new threats to privacy and freedom if left unchecked.
Daniel Zolnikov is on the cutting edge of securing smart policies that will protect our rights for generations to come. We look forward to seeing more great work from him in the future, and again offer our gratitude and congratulations.
Candidate for SD 49
as well as 29 others
The Mule Deer Foundation Chapters of Montana would like to end 2013 with a big "thank you" to our sponsors, banquet attendees, members and our partner agencies and organizations that care for our public lands and wildlife. Celebrating our 25th year in 2013, MDF chapters in Montana had a record-breaking year in fund raising. With 12 chapters in Montana this year, MDF chapters were able to donate funds to the following projects in Montana:
Big Hole Watershed Project, White Pine Ridge noxious weeds project, Mount Haggin Bitterbrush project, Upper Big Hole Restoration, Madison County Weed Project, Madison Aspen Project, Tongue River Ranch Riparian Fencing project, Lazy J Ranch Easement, Poacher Cam (Region 3), Robotic Mule Deer Decoy (Region 3 & 5), 4H Shooting Program, and $22,000 to other Montana youth shooting programs.
The Mule Deer Foundation is a nonprofit wildlife habitat conservation organization dedicated to ensuring the future of mule deer, blacktail deer and their habitats. With 44,000 members and more than 140 chapters nationwide, MDF has raised funds for management-related research, habitat acquisitions, conservation easements and habitat improvement projects, and introduced our youth to the outdoors and shooting sports since its inception in 1988.
The Mule Deer Foundation Chapters of Montana look forward to 2014 and riding on the momentum we generated in 2013. We are planning to work with Montana Fish & Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service to add access easements to our funding goals in 2014. Again, none of this would be possible without the support of concerned hunters and outdoors enthusiasts.
Mule Deer Foundation
Earlier this past year, Rep. Steve Daines earned nods from the conservation community for his introduction of the North Fork Watershed Protection Act, legislation that completes a transboundary agreement with Canada to protect the North Fork drainage from potentially harmful resource extraction. Despite Denny Rehberg's equivocation on the matter, protecting the North Fork, the western boundary of Glacier National Park and one of the least trammeled river drainages in Montana, isn't exactly a bold, unprecedented move. Canada passed analogous protections a while back, and even the energy and mining companies holding leases have offered to release those claims in the name of the public good. Purportedly, it's the bipartisan cooperation that appeals to Daines with regard to the North Fork (his words), which makes his reluctance to support the two other made-in-Montana public land management bills before Congress seem a bit regressive. Most remarkably, during a congressional session singularly characterized by brinkmanship both Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act and Max Baucus' Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act enjoy substantial bipartisan supportthe Heritage Act unanimously soas they both have moved out of Senate committee.
Rather, Daines has decided to co-sponsor a bill introduced by Rep. Don Hastings from Oregon, legislation that advocates forest clearcuts and other antiquated notions of forest management, and as a result has virtually no chance of moving beyond the House. This isn't news to Daines, who is thus willing to back a bill doomed to failure for the sake of scoring cheap political points instead of working constructively with his democratic counterparts in the Montana congressional delegation to seek a way forward for all Montanans.
Daines will rightfully receive my adulation when he actually demonstrates some level of leadership with respect to these pieces of legislation and conservation more broadly, rather than rehashing the same failed strategies of his unemployed predecessor. | <urn:uuid:f6253c37-4bcd-4cf6-87d8-497c62416261> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2014/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00188-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954553 | 3,818 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Videoart output format
What is a truly realistic portrait? This question inspired a project about going beyond physical appearances and attempting to render the interior world of a human being, through memories, emotions, relationships and personal story. All of it organized around a portrait painting metaphor: brushes loaded with meanings instead of paint would render a portrait using my “generative video painting” techniques.Painting a Videorative portrait (a generative, narrative and interactive video portrait) starts with collecting personal videos of the person portrayed, tagged by him/her with relevant concepts and descriptions. Then, using a custom tool, the artist “paints with meanings” and generates a video portrait, subtitled with generative personal narratives. In the interactive installation version of the work, the viewer can “navigate” through the subject’s mind, opening his/her video memories, accessing their thoughts and revealing hidden connections between the meanings, using online access to Wikipedia to infer related emotional states. These “data visualization” create new and unexpected interpretations of the portrait.The subject portrayed can add more video memories, tags and descriptions to “increase the likeness” of the portrait over time, all his/her life, creating a never-ending collection of personal documentaries.Videorative portraits are the result of my experiments to build a more “realistic” contemporary portrait of the physical and the psychological. A comment on the art of portrait painting. A visual metaphor of the memory, heavily distorted, chaotic, fragmented, obsessively replayed. A window to the subject’s personal experience and intimate world. A picture of memories. A map of emotions.
My immense gratitude to filmmaker Randall Okita for accepting the challenge of exposing himself in these portraits.
Credits:All video sources, by Randall Okita.Music: “I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor”, by Chris Zabriskie.
Selected festivals, exhibitions and honors:
- 2015: Short Film Festival Cologne (KFFK), Germany
- 2012: Alpha-ville 2012 Future of Moving Image Award - Finalist. London, UK
- 2012: 5th annual Imagine Science Film Festival.New York, USA
- 2012: Imagine Science Dublin Festival. Dublin, Ireland
- 2012: TheLeonardo Museum. Salt Lake City, USA
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G. laboth n. “a hare” (Category: Animals (other))
A noun appearing as G. laboth “a hare” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a cognate of ᴱQ. lapatte (GL/52).
Neo-Sindarin: I would retain ᴺS. laboth “hare, rabbit” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, based on the later verb S. laba- “hop” in Labadal “Hopafoot” (UT/60).
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But that’s not the worst part
Andrew Gelman passes on this infographic from the Carbon Trust
His correspondent points out that the colour scheme is awful, and that the hourglass metaphor would only make sense if the ‘pinch point’ in the hourglass was ‘now’, not 3-5 years in the future.
But that’s not the worst part: Andrew points out that the teeny orange area is actually highest rate per year over the whole time period, a fact that’s masked by the design.
But that’s not the worst part. The data in the graph come from telephone interviews with some unspecified set of senior executives (CEO, CIO, CTO, COO, etc) selected in an unspecified way with an unspecified response rate, from companies of varying but unspecified size in varying but unspecified industries, so it isn’t really as if the numbers mean much anyway.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley » | <urn:uuid:8e200bd8-7f8e-4f7b-ba9e-f88504cb0cdd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.statschat.org.nz/2013/02/25/but-thats-not-the-worst-part/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00489-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927657 | 266 | 1.71875 | 2 |
African violets have a mixed reputation. Their delicate, colorful flowers and furry, soft leaves make them a favorite among home gardeners and growers. But the striking plants are often regarded as temperamental: a precise recipe of light, moisture, warm temperatures, high humidity, and fertilizer is required to encourage african violets to grow and flower.
A recently published study by scientists Julia C. Brotton and Janet C. Cole from the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Oklahoma State University (in a recent issue of HortTechnology) could provide african violet enthusiasts with important care information about the finicky flower.
Because of their brightly colored flowers and hairy leaves, people are attracted to african violets and often want to touch the leaves and flowers. But how does all this attention affect the plants? The research team set out to determine the effect of "brushing" african violet leaves on plant growth and quality. Cole explained, "Because (african violet) growers work in conditions that can contribute to the development of dry, irritated skin, many growers use body lotions to help soothe and moisturize their dry skin. Many consumers also use these products. Our study researched whether touching or "brushing" african violet leaves causes damage, particularly when body lotion or other skin care products have been applied to hands before touching the plants."
Although previous studies have investigated the effect of various methods of mechanical conditioning, including brushing, on the growth and quality of vegetable and bedding plants, this was the first reported study of the results of plant response to tactile mechanical stress, or "thigmomorphogenesis" on african violets.
Plants of two cultivars of african violet (Saintpaulia ionantha), 'Michigan' and 'Gisela', received five brushing treatments during the study: no brushing, brushed for 30 seconds with a latex-gloved hand, brushed for 90 seconds with a latex-gloved hand, brushed for 30 seconds after applying lotion to a nongloved hand, and brushed for 90 seconds with lotion on the nongloved hand.
After five weeks the plants were harvested. At harvest, plants were rated on a scale of 1 to 5 (no damage -- dead/near dead). Plants that were brushed by a gloved hand had lower damage ratings, greater leaf areas, and greater leaf numbers than plants that were brushed with a nongloved hand to which lotion had been applied. The cultivars varied in their response, with 'Michigan' exhibiting more damage from brushing than 'Gisela'
Summarizing the results, Cole remarked that "the study suggests that repeated brushing reduces plant size and quality of african violets, particularly when done with a bare hand to which lotion has been applied. Brushing leaves of african violets is not recommended because repeated brushing can decrease plant quality and size."
The next time you are tempted to touch that pretty african violet in your kitchen window, remember -- for a healthier plant, keep your hands off!
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This Holiday, Create a Colorful Feast
As you prepare for this season of celebrations, consider recipes that offer a fresh approach to the traditional holiday menu.
With its sweet simplicity and vibrant color, a garnish featuring California grapes can make your meal presentation even more enticing. Keep those mealtime traditions intact by serving favorites like Brussels sprouts, but pair them with sweet California grapes in a salad for the perfect balance of flavor and crunchy texture.
A beloved side dish, such as cornbread dressing, will exceed all expectations with ingredients like red and green grapes, butternut squash, walnuts and pancetta. Complete the meal with a new twist on a trifle that results in a rich dessert worthy of any gathering for the holidays and beyond.
Helpful Tips for the Perfect Holiday Turkey
- When shopping for your turkey, look for one with a pop-up timer.
- To thaw your turkey, keep it in the refrigerator based on its weight. For example, it should remain in the refrigerator for 24 hours for every 5 pounds. To thaw quickly, place it in the sink and cover with cold water, changing the water every half hour per pound.
- Once the turkey has thawed, always refrigerate or cook immediately.
- When you’re ready to cook, baste the bird with extra virgin olive oil. Place turkey with the breast up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan in an oven preheated to 325°F. Loosely cover turkey with foil to prevent over-browning.
- The turkey is done cooking when the meat thermometer reads 180°F, or if the red stem on the pop-up timer is up and the drumstick feels soft or moves easily.
- Always allow the bird to rest for at least 20 minutes for easy carving.
- Present your turkey on a platter with a fresh and colorful garnish, such as California grapes.
A Tasty Tradition
A Spanish custom spanning back to 1895, those who practice “the twelve grapes of luck” are said to be provided with a year of prosperity. Add this festive ritual to your celebration by eating a grape with the ringing of each bell at midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Raw Vegetable and Grape Salad
- 2 cups shredded or very thinly sliced Brussels sprouts
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 cup thinly sliced fennel
- 1/2 cup cooked, chopped bacon (6 slices)
- 4 cups green and red seedless California grapes, halved
- 1/2 cup sliced green onions
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Toss all salad ingredients together in large bowl. Whisk together all dressing ingredients in medium bowl and drizzle over salad. Toss until ingredients are well coated with dressing.
Peanut Butter and Grape Trifle
- 1 (16-ounce) container nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt
- 8 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 (8-ounce) container lite whipped topping, divided
- 1 (16-ounce) store-bought pound cake, sliced into 1-inch cubes
- 3 cups red seedless California grapes, plus more for garnish
- 3 cups green seedless California grapes, plus more for garnish
- 1/4 cup honey-roasted peanuts, chopped (optional garnish)
- In medium bowl, stir together yogurt, peanut butter and honey until well combined. Gently fold in half of whipped topping. Set aside.
- In clear glass trifle dish or bowl, layer half each of pound cake cubes, peanut butter mixture, red grapes and green grapes. Repeat layers a second time and top with remaining whipped topping. Garnish with additional grapes (sliced in half) if desired, and chopped peanuts, if desired.
Cornbread Dressing with Roasted Grapes, Walnuts and Pancetta
- 2 cups red seedless California grapes
- 2 cups green seedless California grapes
- 2 cups cubed butternut squash
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 6 ounces diced pancetta
- 3/4 cup sliced celery
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 cups coarsely crumbled cornbread (either store-bought or prepared from a mix), toasted
- 3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
- 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
- 1 egg, beaten
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Toss grapes and squash cubes together in large bowl with oil, salt and pepper, to taste. Spread in single layer on baking sheet and roast for about 20–30 minutes, until grapes have begun to slightly shrivel and squash is tender. Set aside.
- Heat large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and cook pancetta until it begins to brown slightly. Add celery and onions and cook until tender and onions are translucent, about 5–6 minutes. Add garlic and cook for one minute more. Remove from heat.
- In large bowl, combine cornbread, pancetta mixture, grapes, squash, walnuts, sage and salt and pepper to taste, if desired. Set aside.
- In medium bowl, whisk together broth, butter, vinegar and egg. Pour over cornbread mixture and toss well to combine.
- Spray 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Spoon dressing evenly into dish. (At this point, you can either bake immediately or cover and refrigerate overnight to bake the next day.)
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About the Author
Among contemporary writers of Iran, the majority of whom are men, one woman stands out: Simin Daneshvar. Her work has developed and matured since the late 1940s, and today she is known as one of Iran’s best fiction writers. Her masterpiece novel Savushun (Mourning for Siavash), published in 1969, is considered the climax of Persian novel writing. Daneshvar, like most contemporary Iranian writers, came from a middle-class family. Born in 1921 in Shiraz, she was educated in a missionary school and became fluent in English. She began her writing career as early as 1935, when she was still an eighth-grader. Her first article, “Winter Is Not Unlike Our Life,” was published in a local Shiraz newspaper. She entered Tehran University and majored in Persian literature.
When her father, a physician, died in 1941, Daneshvar was forced to find a job, as the family’s only source of income had been her father’s salary. She was employed at Radio Tehran, where she wrote a series of programs entitled “The Unknown Shirazi,” for which she received scant pay. In acute need of money, she even wrote articles on cooking. Eventually, her fluency in English enabled her to become assistant director of foreign news. But she soon became dissatisfied with the routine nature of this job and left Radio Tehran for a newspaper called Iran, for which she wrote articles and did translations. The relaxed social and political environment of the forties, marked by some degree of democracy and freedom of speech, prompted Daneshvar to choose journalism as a potential career. During her year at Iran (1941-1945), she decided to try her hand at fiction writing. Later, without prior knowledge of story-writing technique, she wrote Atash-e Khamoush (The Quenched Fire) in 1948, at the age of twenty-seven. Although seven out of sixteen stories are O. Henry inspired, and Daneshvar had the book published in first draft form, the major elements of her style are evident. Daneshvar had become familiar with O. Henry as a student, and like him she deals with the basic issues of life, death, love and self sacrifice.
Typical of writers of the 1940s, Daneshvar dwells on issues within Iranian society. She juxtaposes the opposing values of right and wrong–such as poverty versus wealth, or the carefree life of the rich versus the sorrow of the poor–and for moral reasons condemns one while praising the other. Daneshvar’s characters in The Quenched Fire are generic types like “professor,” “mother,” or “daughter,” characters without time, place or class who hardly possess a personality. Her lifelong concern with women and their place in society is apparent in her narrative as early as The Quenched Fire. However, at this early stage, Daneshvar does not analyze the socio-economic dependence of women; rather, she is concerned with the general position of women in society. Technically, Daneshvar’s major preoccupation at this time was her conscious distinction between the “I” of the author and the “I” of a character. Dual narration in some of her stories made them technically weak. The Quenched Fire, however, was well received, despite its shortcomings–perhaps because it was the first collection of short stories published by an Iranian woman. Later, Daneshvar refused to have the book reprinted, stating that she would never again turn in a first draft to a publisher. The year following the publication of The Quenched Fire, Daneshvar received her Ph.D. in Persian literature from Tehran University.
Subsequently, she became acquainted with Jalal Al-e Ahmad, the famous contemporary writer and social critic, during a trip from Isfahan to Tehran. They were married in 1950. Two years later, Daneshvar received a Fulbright scholarship and left for Stanford University for two years. During this time, she published two short stories in English in The Pacific Spectator. Upon her return to Iran, she joined Tehran University as an associate professor of art history, a post she held for twenty years. Daneshvar was never granted a professorship–not for the lack of credentials, but due to the influence of SAVAK, the secret police, as she would learn later from the president of the university. She had always been an outspoken and articulate lecturer who believed that her primary responsibility was to her students. Precisely for this reason, she would have many confrontations with the SAVAK throughout her years at the University. Daneshvar published her second collection of short stories, Shahri Chon Behesht (A City as Paradise), in 1961.
Meanwhile, her translations of Chekhov, Shaw, Hawthorne, Schnitzler and Saroyan had become a valuable addition to the collection of foreign works available in Persian. In A City as Paradise, Daneshvar’s prose style had matured considerably, coming closer to the language of the people, no longer as formal as it had been in The Quenched Fire. Instead she had developed a short, clear and concise sen- tence structure. It was from this time onward that she tried to bring her writing closer to cinematographic realism. Her earlier preoccupation with the presence of the “I” of the author is, however, still present in some of the stories in this volume. It is only in The Playhouse, the last story, that she finally succeeded in freeing her prose of this distracting element. Her other preoccupation, which began at this stage, is with the concept of time. Similar to Al-e Ahmad and Sa’edi, she felt the need to remind her readers constantly of the passage of time in the form of days, weeks, months or seasons. In The Accident, the length of the argument between the husband and wife over the purchase of the car is made clear by: “It took three weeks for me to surrender,” or “In three months and eleven days my wife . . .” Daneshvar asserted her devotion to recording women’s conditions in Iranian society in A City as Paradise. Here she no longer dwells on the general characteristics of women; rather, she assumes a neutral position and avoids passing judgement on them; she merely portrays the women and their lives as she saw them. Her characters are able to speak for themselves and demonstrate where their major strengths and weaknesses lie. She is also quite successful in creating the real, as well as the imaginary, worlds of her characters. In Bibi Shahr Banu, Daneshvar cleverly depicts the actual lives of her characters, juxtaposed against the lives they wished they could have had.
In The Playhouse, her handling of Siah’s character and his secret love for the girl is subtle, yet far-reaching. In her portrayal of the girl as a victim of society and of her own ignorance, Daneshvar surpasses all of her prior stories. At the time A City as Paradise was published, Daneshvar was still under the shadow of her husband, Al-e Ahmad, who was an imposing figure in Tehran’s literary circles. Al-e Ahmad had begun writing in 1945 and by 1961 had published seven novels and short story collections, establishing himself as a notable writer and critic. It was not until the publication of Savushun, Daneshvar’s masterpiece novel, in 1969, that she attained recognition as an indispensable writer of modern Persian literature, surpassing even Al-e Ahmad in literary importance. Savushun was the first novel written by an Iranian woman and from a woman’s perspective. The book has been reprinted sixteen times and to this date remains the single most widely read Persian novel. In Savushun there are no longer traces of weak technique, structure, or style. The story, told from Zari’s perspective, depicts a Shirazi landowning family which has become entangled in the dirty politics of the 1940s, instigated by foreign intruders and local opportunists. The hero, Yusuf, Zari’s husband, resists the foreigners’ demands that he turn over his crop to feed the occupying army. To do so would result in the starvation of his own peasants. He pays for his stubbornness with his life. The last scene of the novel is that of Yusuf’s burial procession, which is on the verge of turning into a mass demonstration. However, government troops disperse the demonstrators, leaving his body to be carried by his brother and Zari. This scene is among the most moving and well written passages in Persian literature. In Savushun, Daneshvar integrates social events, traditional customs, and beliefs, creating a beautifully narrated story.
Daneshvar’s husband died a few months before the publication of Savushun. After Al-e Ahmad’s death, Daneshvar continued her involvement in the activities that had been important to her husband. She assumed a leading role in the Writers’ Association, which Al-e Ahmad had helped to found, encouraging young writers in their efforts. In her understated yet resolute way, she provided moral support for intellectuals and dissidents opposing the Pahlavi regime. She specifically concentrated her efforts on assisting her students financially and academically. When she refers to political issues in her writings, it is within the broad context of unjust political systems, for Daneshvar never adhered to a particular political ideology. During the mid-1970s Daneshvar kept a low profile. She maintained her position as associate professor and became the chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology. In addition to her work at the University, she wrote a series of short stories. A few of these were published in magazines and finally compiled in 1980. To Whom Can I Say Hello? established Daneshvar as a good short story writer, as well as an able novelist. In the stories Traitor’s Intrigue, To Whom Can I Say Hello?, and The Accident, Daneshvar upholds the standards of excellence she had attained in Savushun. In this last collection, Daneshvar expands her earlier convictions. The diversity of her characters and her choice of themes reflect her thorough understanding of the multi-faceted Iranian society. She captures the mentality, the ideals, aspirations, lifestyles, manner of speech, and popular expressions of Iran’s various social strata. Her well-rounded characters are representative oftheir time and place, presenting a colorful view of Iranian behavior. This quality in her writing affirms the faithfulness of her work as being a true mirror of society. Daneshvar’s stories reflect reality rather than fantasy. They contain themes such as child theft, adultery, marriage, childbirth, sickness, death, treason, profiteering, illiteracy, ignorance, poverty and loneliness. The issues she deals with are the social problems of the 1960s and 1970s, which have immediacy and credibility for the reader. Her inspiration is drawn from the people around her. In her own words: “Simple people have much to offer. They must be able to give freely and with piece of mind. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.”
Daneshvar depicts the lifestyles of the lower classes, the traditional middle class, and the bourgeoisie with equal clarity. Through her characters one becomes familiar with these various classes. A few examples will help illustrate the diversity of her female characters. Nadia in The Accident is a bourgeois woman who sacrifices her marriage (and potentially the happiness of her children) to further her desired social image. On the other hand, Zari inSavushun is a traditional middle class, educated woman from a feudal family. She nobly accepts her husband’s self-sacrifice, devoting herself to carry forth his principles of justice and humanity. In contrast, the protagonist in another story, Anis, is a lower middle class woman with aspirations of social mobility. A maid who has come from a village to Tehran, she is impressed by the bourgeois lifestyle. Seeking to emulate it, she abandons her self respect, individuality, and economic independence. Marmar in Vakil Bazaar is a careless maid who foolishly loses her master’s daughter because she cannot tear herself away from a shopkeeper’s flirtations. Daneshvar does a brilliant job reproducing Marmar’s language. The expressions and idioms Marmar uses are common among the women of her class. Bridging the gap between the spoken and written language has been a major preoccupation of contemporary Persian writers. It is mainly through dialogue that a writer can exercise this practice. Daneshvar, however, is successful in reproducing the cadence of spoken language throughout the whole text, not merely in the dialogue.
Daneshvar is particularly concerned with elderly single women who have worked their entire lives to earn a living, but find themselves poor and broken-hearted in their final years. In To Whom Can I Say Hello? Daneshvar sympathetically depicts Kokab Sultan, a hardworking woman who raises her daughter with great difficulty. Having devoted herself to creating the best possible life for her child, she is forced to sell her daughter into marriage when her only source of income is taken away. Daneshvar, who has adopted the plight of the lower classes, especially that of poor women, considers their economic dependence on men as the source of all their misfortune. She largely blames the structure of society for this condition. Muhtaram, the daughter of a poor cobbler in The Man Who Never Came Back, marries Ebrahim, a peddler. She is so thrilled with the few extra material things she finds at her husband’s house that she does not realize that she is still living in poverty. She becomes aware of the desperation of her situation one day when Ebrahim does not return home. Left with little money, no skills, and two small children, she is forced to acknowledge her complete dependance on her husband. This time, though, Muhtaram is lucky and Ebrahim returns home unharmed, saving them from starvation.
Although Daneshvar underscores the social factors contributing to the unfortunate situation of women, she nevertheless maintains her objectivity, at times turning her critical eye upon the individual. Her characters provide role models that are both positive (Zari in Savushun, Maryam in Bibi Shahr Banu, Kokab Sultan in To Whom Can I Say Hello?), as well as negative (Nadia in The Accident, Anis in Anis, the girl in The Playhouse). Out of the changing social milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, writers found it far more difficult to develop believable, progressive characters than to recreate negative characters that were easy to mock. For instance, in The Traitor’s Intrigue, one observes the colonel’s character development. An unsympathetic charac ter at the start, he evolves into a positive model by the end of the story. He finally stands on his own two feet, asserting his individuality in the face of the regime, disrupting the old order. Folklore and traditional Persian customs preoccupied writers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Much of Daneshvar’s work encompassed traditional customs and rituals. She reminds the reader of the virtues and vices of such traditions. Her fiction details superstitions that have survived for centuries, embedded in the extreme religiosity of the lower classes. The common practices of casting away evil spirits and unlocking misfortunes by resorting to magical prayers and witchcraft appear again and again in her stories. Kokab Sultan in To Whom Can I Say Hello? wants to learn the infamy prayer so that she can curse her son-in-law and win her daughter back. The family of the mullah in the Vakil Bazaar want to save their son from the evil spirit which has taken over his body by exorcising him, and offering ablutions and prayers. Daneshvar has no qualms with traditional religious ceremonies and rituals like visiting holy shrines, baking Nazri (an offering of food to the poor), and performing the daily prayers. She does, however, oppose religious superstition, which can brutalize people’s lives. In 1979, Daneshvar retired from her post at the University, and in the following year published To Whom Can I Say Hello?
In 1981, she completed a monograph on Al-e Ahmad, Ghoroub-e Jalal (The Loss of Jalal). This is the most moving piece she has written, as well as the best descriptive work on the personality of one of Iran’s literary leaders. Daneshvar relates her last days with Al-e Ahmad with great detail and emotional understanding. Her prose is formal, proving her mastery of Persian classical literature. Daneshvar currently resides in Tehran and has recently completed a new novel, Jazireh-ye Sargardani (The Wandering Island). Until the appearance of Daneshvar, contemporary Persian literature could boast of only two able women writers–Parvin E’tesami and Forough Farrokhzad–both poets. Daneshvar proved that women could also achieve excellence in prose. Her works stand as precious contributions to the world of fiction in Iran. As a woman and as a writer, she is a model of the up-and-coming women authors who want to address social concerns. Persian literature today has considerable value, especially when viewed as a mirror of society as well as a medium to influence it. Contemporary Iranian writers like Daneshvar have taken it upon themselves to create a link between literature and social change. | <urn:uuid:03fc0aa9-7e96-47c7-9d61-7a2674436abb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://magepublishers.com/authors/simin-daneshvar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.978411 | 3,710 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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Witnesses interviewed: 2. (N°451, 452). Nina Stepanivna R. (N°451): "The Jews were transported to the execution site, one truck after the other. The vehicles were open and full. The Jews were standing, carrying their children on their arms. They greeted everybody, making signs with their hands, many of them were crying. Some Jews told us: "They begin with us, and they’ll finish with you.' One woman managed to escape, now she lives in the USA."
RG-22.002M/7021-55/2: "In the first days of September, I don’t remember when exactly, the Gestapo came in Horokhiv from Lutsk and, without saying a word, started to stop the men of Jewish origin everywhere on the streets of the city. In all, 350 people were gathered in a park[…]. Everybody had to undress and then, in groups of ten or twenty they came closer to the pit. They were shot one-by-one in the nape of the neck at the edge of the pit."
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There is always something to learn. Right?
Recently I read “banana peels are good for gardens because they contain 42 percent potassium (abbreviated to its scientific name K), one of the three major components of fertilizer along with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and shown on fertilizer labels as NPK. In fact, banana peels have the highest organic sources of potassium.”
I have been gardening for years and never knew this till, well, now.
So, an experiment.
According to the Farmer’s Almanac:
“Homemade fertilizer teas, like “banana peel tea,” are all the rage right now because green-thumb gardeners know that these organic liquid fertilizers are the best way to get nutrients to your plants. While dry, granular fertilizers are a common way to add nutrients to your soil, liquid versions administer nutrients quickly, ensuring your plants get what they need to grow faster, have increased yields, and improved overall health.
“Banana peels are loaded with nutrients, such as potassium, phosphorus, and calcium, and when used as a fertilizer, help improve overall plant strength, stronger stems, stronger root development, and more robust fruits. While you can toss your banana peels directly into your garden (like in trench composting), making banana peel tea is a much more effective method of delivering those needed nutrients to your plants.
“To Make: Keep a pitcher of water in your refrigerator about ¾ full. As you eat bananas, place your discarded peels in the pitcher until it’s full. After about a week, strain out the liquid and reserve for your tea. (As you can see above I simply used one banana peel in one of our beloved Mason Jars–Susan just loves anything to do with Mason Jars!)
“To Apply: Dilute this concentrated liquid solution 5:1 (five parts water to one part tea) and apply to the base of your garden plants—this mixture is good for potassium-loving plants such as tomatoes and peppers. Note that this tea does not contain nitrogen, so it is not a complete fertilizer.
“Bonus: Adding this liquid fertilizer to your garden is also great for deterring aphids, as they detest the smell of bananas!”
So, my friends, stay tuned.
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A private retreat, a place to welcome friends and neighbors, a showcase for our most treasured possessions and memories -- each person's home is as different and unique as they themselves are. We live in and through the space we call our home; it is a space that defines and expands our sense of self, of who we are and of the world around us. In the revolutionary home design manual Zona Home: Essential Designs for Living, world-renowned interior expert Louis Sagar, using his decades of experience as one of the most innovative and influential lifestyle retailers in the world, reveals the best ways to create the ideal living environment and provides a creative interpretation of how the natural and sensorial world can be brought into the home.
Rather than viewing the home as just a place to hang your hat or to sleep off the stresses of the day, Zona Home offers suggestions for turning your abode into a vibrant, vital space that provides a comfortable haven from the trials of the outside world. Over 200 beautiful full-color photographs compliment a text woven from Sagar's reflections, anecdotes from Zona's history, and abundant practical information, providing a fantastic sense of the myriad possibilities for designing a home based on the inimitable style created by personal experience. The book is divided into four sections, which cover everything from conceptualizing your ideal home to fulfilling the real needs of your current living space.
Feeling at Home: Key concepts of the basic Zona philosophy ("Creating a Sense of Welcome" and "Bringing the Garden Inside," for instance) and describes the principles of comfort that will determine the kind of home you want to make.
Learing to See: How to develop personal style with the help of natural materials and a deeper understanding of your home's architectural environment.
Hitting the Road: An introduction to new sources for collectibles, and a stirring evocation of travel's importance as an inspiration for your homes evolving decor.
These sections are packed with honest, helpful features relating to all stages of home development, including "A Checklist to Plan for Your Ideal Home," "Making Visual Potpourri," "Decorating Your Walls," "Building Collections" and "At Home with Technology," that offer concrete solutions to hard-to-solve problems such as what to do with "too much stuff."
Sagar shares many of his trade secrets, acquaints readers first-hand with the numerous domestic and international craftspeople that Zona works with to create its definitive aesthetic, and provides a core list of titles that no home should be without. Throughout his career Sagat has bucked short-lived trends and emphasized quality, hand-crafted pieces and natural materials and the importance of the natural, textural, sensorial in the creation of a successful living space. From buying at antique shows to using rock salt and peppercorns as decorative elements, Zona Home contains unique, useful information that everyone can use.
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The ring once reserved for bulls’ nostrils has made its way onto celebrities Rhianna and Lady Gaga. Septum piercings, the hoop that goes in between a person’s nostrils, have become a trend.
Like all trends, though, be wary before you take the plunge. Piercing this area takes skill. The best way to minimize pain and support healing is to pierce the area between the cartilage and bottom of the nose. Reputable and experienced piercers, such as the ones at licensed tattoo shops, will be able to find that fleshy area. Like all piercings, there is the risk of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. Make sure your piercer is using sterile, single-use needles.
After you get your septum pierced, it requires some care. Alcoholic beverages can cause inflammation and swelling, so hold off on going out for drinks right after your piercing is complete. It’s also a good idea to avoid drinking before getting the piercing done. Alcohol thins the blood, making it more likely that you’ll bleed during or after the piercing.
But alcohol in your cocktails isn’t the only kind that can cause a problem. Facial cleansers can contain rubbing alcohol, which can irritate your piercing and cause redness and inflammation. You still need to clean new piercings, though. Wash your hands before using antibacterial soap on the area twice a day.
Your septum may take six to eight weeks to heal. If you see that the area is continually red, swollen or oozing pus, contact your piercer immediately.
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Apple turns to smart watches to combat fatigue among consumers
Apple has established itself as a leader in the realm of mobile technology. Despite the company’s dominance in this sector, it has been seeing a phenomenon often referred to as “Apple fatigue” throughout the world. Consumers are becoming jaded when it comes to the mobile devices being produced by Apple. For the past several years, many of the company’s devices have, essentially, been the same, with only modest variations in features and size. The iPad represented the first significant change that Apple had made to its mobile technology approach, but the device still offered many of the same features that could be found on older iPhones.
Wearable technology could be valuable to consumers
In an effort to buck the growing trend of Apple fatigue, the company has set its sights on smart watches. These devices are wearable pieces of technology that have features that are common on most of the world’s smart phones products. Smart watches are not entirely new to the technology scene, with several ambitious technology companies dabbling in research and development for such devices. Apple believes that smart watches could be a new and highly valuable product for consumers that are showing signs of disinterest in traditional mobile devices.
Apple watches rumored to include NFC technology
Little information concerning Apple’s plans for smart watches is currently available, but the technology company has been working with manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry to develop new devices that go beyond the categories of smart phone and tablet. Apple is suggested to be working on a device that can be worn, will feature the company’s famous voice assistant Siri, and make use of NFC technology for the purpose of mobile payments. The inclusion of NFC technology and its use in mobile commerce does not align with Apple’s stance on the issue of mobile payments, however, as the company has been outspoken in its belief that NFC is not suitable for mobile transactions of any kind due to security issues. Interestingly, Corning, the company behind the durable Gorilla Glass that is used in Apple’s mobile devices, last year announced that it had successfully produced a bendable glass that could fit around any cylindrical structure, such as a person’s wrist. The major engineering accomplishment could be further evidence of what may be in store for Apple in the future.
Apple may be poised to compete with Project Glass
Apple is not alone in its interest in wearable technologies. Its main competitor in this field is Google, which has been working diligently to develop its auspicious Project Glass. Google is expected to release information concerning the technical specifications of Project Glass in the coming week, but the company’s announcement may be derailed by Apple’s ambitious concerning smart watches. The technology company has yet to release any concrete information concerning its endeavors, so time will tell whether Apple has plans to compete with Google’s Project Glass.
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Reporting America : The Life of the Nation 1946 - 2004 Paperback
"Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on the key moments, movements, men and women of post-war America.
Alistair Cooke was the greatest, and most humane, of all modern reporters and interpreters of America, his adopted country, to his native Britain and to the world.
Starting with his first broadcast 'Letter from America' on embarking in 1946 for America on a ship filled with tearful GI brides, here are the stories of a nation: Korea, the McCarthy witch hunts, Civil Rights, JFK, the moon landings, the moving eye-witness account of Robert Kennedy's assassination, Nixon's resignation and Clinton's scandals, right up to the attacks of September 11th and the war in Iraq.
Also containing Cook's observations on the great, good and downright bad, and on the views of the ordinary people he met, as well as his daughter Susan's memories of her father, "Reporting America" is a tribute to an extraordinary man and the country he loved. "The voice of America...Here was a man who made intelligent, honest sense of decades of assassinations, scandals, elections, boom times and broken dreams ...an indispensable record of twentieth-century American culture". (Peter Kimpton, "Observer"). "Vintage Cooke". (David Dimbleby). "A rich picture of America, so vivid ...the fresh first pressing of history". (James Naughtie, "Sunday Telegraph"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television.
The Guardian's Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years and the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television and of the BBC series America, Cooke was, however, best known both at home and abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of US life, was heard over five continents and totalled 2,869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004, far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464 pages, 16 pp colour inset
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date: 03/06/2010
- Category: History of the Americas
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My first experience of really powerful and complex English prose came through Thomas Cranmer. Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, Dick and Jane and Spot were all good in their way, but imagine the effect on the young mind of such sentences as this:
Immortal and ever-living God, we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us who have duly received these holy sacraments with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our savior Jesus Christ, and dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness toward us, and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy son, which is the blessed company of all faithful people, and are also heirs, through hope, of thy everlasting kingdom, by the merits of his most blessed death and passion.
It’s a grammarian’s delight (and, on checking, I find that my memory made only two mistakes, neither breaking with the rhythm): a main clause to which are subordinated four “that…” clauses, each with its own attack and consequence (“for that thou dost vouchsafe… and [that thou] dost assure.. and [that thou dost assure us] that we are… and [dost assure us that we] are also heirs…”). Never a dull repetition; always a variant skewing back to the main point; the “members incorporate” of the long, ornate sentence admitting either an interpretation that would make them all equivalent, or one that would make them a series of differences fanning out from an initial act of grace (“we thank thee for that”).
We were off-and-on churchgoers in my family, to the point that friends, relatives and “the help” took us children to a variety of churches in our parents’ stead, but despite the lace and candles that I remember from the Catholic cathedral and the intense musical athleticism of the black churches, the language is what I remember from the Episcopal parish that we were supposed to call home– that and a smell of floor wax and a big brass cross whose nodal point was surrounded by a halo with a curious ring of wiggly flames. I remember a few hymn tunes from my childhood. Nothing about Sunday School. But those long, swerving, delaying and crosscutting sentences, absolutely. There was nothing else like it in my experience. Maybe those pieces my father liked to play on the piano, that started with a simple little tune and wound it up into so many layers of argument and chatter that you couldn’t keep up with them, that were called Bach.
James Wood, recently, wrote a birthday card in the New Yorker for the Book of Common Prayer (350 years old in its 1662 revision; 473 if you’re looking at Cranmer’s first attempt, which dates from 1539). He praises Cranmer’s ritual prose for its “simplicity and directness… ‘coziness’ or ‘comfortability.'” I wouldn’t think of simplicity first. Coziness? Well, anything that you’ve heard for decades tends to get cozy in your ear; that’s no explanation. “Comfortability” is a borrowing from Cranmer (the “comfortable words” are the exhortation to come forward to communion). What comes most to my mind is the slanted, scarred quality of Cranmer’s words, acknowledging and bewailing their impossible or insincere content under a perfect pastoral straight face. The words of administration of communion name the bread and wine as the body and blood, but in the next sentence specify that the congregant is to take and eat them “in remembrance.” To paraphrase a bit: “Yes, that’s what we would like to say about these mere material elements, but we can’t truthfully state that that’s what they are, so let’s follow up with this more commonsensical version of the presence doctrine which is all you’re going to get anyway.” Another fine bit of truthful and artful dodging is the way the officiant uses the subjunctive mood (a piece of old-fashioned English grammar one might have to learn from Cranmer, if growing up in Tennessee): the remission of sins is performed not by the priest, but (in hope and under conditions) by the Almighty who is invoked but not compelled. As with so many other grand churchly paragraphs left us by Archbishop Cranmer, the mustering of clauses and sonority might give one the impression that something wondrous has been done, but a closer inspection reveals that the operative clauses were shrewdly minimized: “Almighty God… have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, strengthen and confirm you in all goodness,” etc.: all in the subjunctive mood. The swinging of robed sleeves and censers, if any, is just decoration. The operative bit is no performative speech act, but a wish. It might happen, then again it might not.
And when burying someone, the Prayer Book says that it is done “in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life.” Clever Cranmer again: what’s sure and certain is not the resurrection, but the hope of it, and perhaps our hope is sure and certain only because it’s one of those things that are “meet, right, and our bounden duty” to say. I always found this escape-clause comforting, in a grim way, when consigning people I loved to the ground.
As James Wood does not say (perhaps he is reporting on the state of things in England), the old Prayer Book, last revised for US Episcopal churches in 1928, is no longer in use. The 1970s substitute offers a modernized version of all the services and “traditional” versions for some of them (1928 with light revision). Comparison shows what subtleties are lost. Where Cranmer had written these lines for the congregation: “We do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings,” the 1970s US Episcopalians go all touchy-feely: “We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.” This is getting it backwards, according to the somewhat cynical psychology of the 1539 service book. You repent first and then you have the luxury of feeling sorry. In the 1970s, you are subjectively, emotionally sorry first and you describe that as humbly repenting. I don’t know what an omniscient, omnipotent being would feel about anything, but my impression is that the 1539 people are playing their cards a little more carefully, allowing for more distrust of their own motives, and the 1970s people are unable to tell the difference between a feeling and a state of affairs.
James Wood’s article ends with cases of “reverent irony” in citations of Prayer Book language by Woolf and Beckett. I rather think the reverent irony was there to start with; but you have to discover it. In my case, it took memorizing those labyrinthine sentences and uncoiling them in my mind, again and again, over decades, to see what a Cheshire Cat of a shaggy dog the cautious archbishop had perched on the tree branch. | <urn:uuid:1a9c10aa-77f5-4fd6-8d59-44b14346ba4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://printculture.com/and-are-also-heirs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965049 | 1,555 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Cisplatin Plus Epinephrine in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Head and Neck Cancer
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known if treatment with cisplatin plus epinephrine is effective for head and neck cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized double-blinded phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of cisplatin plus epinephrine in injectable gel form in treating patients who have recurrent or refractory head and neck cancer.
|Study Design:||Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:||A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF CISPLATIN/EPINEPHRINE INJECTABLE GEL (PRODUCT MPI 5010) WHEN ADMINISTERED INTRATUMORALLY FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TREATMENT GOALS IN RECURRENT OR REFRACTORY SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK|
|Study Start Date:||May 1995|
OBJECTIVES: I. Compare the effect of intratumoral injection of a cisplatin/epinephrine gel (CDDP-e TI) to placebo gel for local control of recurrent or refractory squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. II. Assess achievement of a preselected (by the investigator) treatment goal for the most troublesome tumor in patients with recurrent or refractory squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck following up to 6 weekly intratumoral treatments with CDDP-e TI vs. placebo gel. III. Compare the effect of CDDP-e TI to placebo gel on total local tumor volume per patient. IV. Evaluate the time to response and time to progression for the most troublesome tumor after local treatment with CDDP-e TI vs. placebo gel. V. Assess the improvement in or stabilization of quality of life in these patients as measured by the FACT-H&N questionnaire. VI. Compare the histopathology of injected lesions that respond to local treatment.
OUTLINE: Randomized, double-blind study. Randomization weighted 2:1 in favor of Arm I. Arm I: Intratumoral Chemotherapy. Cisplatin (NSC-119875) and Epinephrine in a bovine collagen gel, MP 5010, CDDP-e TI. Arm II: Control. NS in a bovine collagen gel, PLCB.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Up to 120 evaluable patients will be studied to provide 80 evaluable patients on Arm I and 40 evaluable patients on Arm II.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002659
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What happens to your body when you stop drinking for 3 months?
After a few months of refraining from booze, all of the positive changes that come from abstinence add up to significantly improved long-term health projections. “Within a month to a few months, we start to see a decrease in heart-related issues such as high cholesterol and blood pressure levels,” Johnson says.
What happens to your body when you stop drinking for 6 months?
Liver Damage Control: Fat causes inflammation and turns into many liver diseases. Once you are sober for 1 month, your liver will start losing the excess fat and almost complete the process by 6 months, giving you back a healthy liver.
What happens to your body after 4 weeks of not drinking alcohol?
After 3-4 weeks of not drinking, your blood pressure will start to reduce. Reducing your blood pressure can be crucial as it can help to lessen the risk of health problems occurring in the future.
What are the side effects of not drinking?
- Clammy skin.
- Elevated blood pressure.
- Loss of appetite.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Rapid heart rate or palpitations.
What happened to me when I stopped drinking?
Withdrawal. If you’re a heavy drinker, your body may rebel at first if you cut off all alcohol. You could break out in cold sweats or have a racing pulse, nausea, vomiting, shaky hands, and intense anxiety. Some people even have seizures or see things that aren’t there (hallucinations).
What happens when you don’t drink alcohol for 2 weeks?
After two weeks off alcohol, you will continue to reap the benefits of better sleep and hydration. As alcohol is an irritant to the stomach lining, after a fortnight you will also see a reduction in symptoms such as reflux where the stomach acid burns your throat.
When is the best time to stop drinking?
This is why heavy drinkers should only stop drinking with medical supervision. 1 week: Sleep patterns are likely to improve, though it can take up to a month or longer for some people. 1 to 2 weeks: Between the one and two week mark is the point at which a clinical detox period usually comes to a close. 2 weeks
Why did I decide to give up alcohol for two months?
Which is why it might be surprising that I decided to give up alcohol completely for two whole months. Giving up alcohol: Why the heck did I do that? Believe me, I asked myself this question several times during my experiment. The short answer is that I wanted to do it because I wasn’t sure I could.
How long did it take for alcohol cravings to go away?
You get the picture. Although the first 48 hours were the hardest, it took about three months for my cravings to go away. And six more for me to quit thinking about drinking. Alcohol was my off button, a signal that it was time to unwind.
When did I quit alcohol for the first time?
I had quit alcohol for a month once before but was persuaded to try a longer three-month stint this time around. The longer break was recommended by a friend, Chris Raine, of Hello Sunday Morning. Hello Sunday Morning’s mission is to provide tools and support to help people assess their relationship with alcohol.
What happens when you drink for five months?
Sober for Five Months, I Drank. Here’s What Happened. Alcohol has always been part of my life… …the allure of my parents drinking Manhattans with glistening cherries. …the priest drinking “the blood of Christ.” …high school keg parties every weekend at the home of whomever’s parents were out of town.
How long has it been since I had a drink?
It’s been five months since I decided to embark on the Year of Living Drinklessly. It’s been fascinating to sit in that space between wanting a drink and not having one. Perching in that margin between, “Ah, a beer sounds good” and taking a sip of sparkling water.
When is the best time to stop drinking alcohol?
Finally, alcohol l owers the risk of endocrine-related diseases like diabetes. A Dutch study found that one or two glasses a day reduced Type 2 diabetes. Moderation is the key. So, when should you stop drinking alcohol? The answer is when you start experiencing the symptoms described above.
When did I stop drinking after brain surgery?
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Leasehold Extension Malaysia
Leasehold is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property. Ownership returns to the state once the lease expired. The common period for leasehold property are 99 years or 60 years.
Freehold land is where the owner of the land has no time limit to his period of ownership. The owner of the land/property holds the ownership of the property forever.
Leasehold is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property. Ownership returns to the state government once the lease expired. The common period for leasehold property are 99 years or 60 years.
When the lease is about to expired ( eg: less than 30 years left), then it’s extremely difficult for the owner to sell their property as the potential buyer is unable to secure a bank’s loan due to the lease.
The ownership of the properties is returned to the state government once the lease expired. So you basically lost the ownership of the property. The State government has the right to give/ sell the leasehold properties to any third party without your consent.
The market value of the leasehold properties with shorter lease is lower than those with longer lease.
Extension of Leasehold Land in Selangor & Kuala Lumpur
As of the date of this article, owners who wish to apply for lease extension can choose to either:
To pay a mere RM1000 for the extension of lease
This is provided that the owner does not sell the land to third party subsequently. Should the owner decide to dispose the property at a later date in the future, the owner shall pay the balance premium for the land valued at that time in the future according to the following formulae.
To pay the full rate of premium for the lease extension.
For this option, the Selangor State Government is giving a 30% rebate on the rate of premium at of the date of this article. In Selangor, the formula for calculating the full rate premium for lease extension for residential property is:
(1/4) X (1/100) x (Market Value of land) x (lease period – years remaining on the lease) x (land area)
For Selangor, the formula for calculating the premium can be found in the Selangor Land Rules 2003 & Selangor Quarry Rules 2003
For Kuala Lumpur, the premium for for calculating the premium for lease extension for residential property is:
(1/4) x (category of land use) x (value of the land) x (1/99) x (term of new lease minus balance of the existing lease)
For Kuala Lumpur, the formula for calculating the premium can be found in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur Land Rules 1995
For properties under strata titles such as condominiums and apartments, the application may be made by the management corporation on the authority of a unanimous resolution. This also means that the management corporation shall renew the lease of the master title as well as the strata title of the individual units at the same time.
The whole process may take approximately 1-2 years from the time of submission of the application until the issuance of the new title.
The documents required are as follows:
All the prescribed forms required under the National Land Code and State Authorities prepared by your lawyer;
Original title of the property;
Copies of the latest quit rent and assessment receipts; and
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Philonous arguments about material substances
Three crucial concepts analyzed in Philonous’ and Hylas’ dialogues are the master or conceivability argument, relativity arising out of perception and phenomenalism. Relativity brought about by perception proposes that a single item may have different traits owing to an observer’s viewpoint. Shape is not a factual trait since objective traits of objects can only be altered when an object intrinsically changes. Berkeley assumes Hylas to be his major modern-day philosophical antagonist and uses Philonous to advance his metaphysical ideas. Berkeley holds the philosophical view of Immaterialism; that material entities don’t exist.
Idealism, only mental items exist, is another of Berkeley’s philosophical notions. Another philosophical idea, Reconstruction of the physical world, proposes that material objects are complex notions. Esse est percipi suggest that ideas, complex or simple, must be essence apparent. Berkeley held that the Mind of God houses all notions and all notions are perceived therein (Berkeley, Robisnson, 1999, 23). Berkeley’s aim was to discount both philosophical and theological skepticism. He had the conviction that his philosophy entailed common sense. He argues that real objects are the ones that are immediately seen.
This is a rejection of cynicism and a perspective of the offensive. Berkeley also proposes that directly perceived objects are notions that are present in brains only. This represents philosophers’ viewpoints and is an end result of illusory arguments. Berkeley thus proposes that actual objects represent the notions. As regards sensible traits, Berkeley argues that physicals objects possess rational qualities like hardness and that these traits are only existent in the brain. He argues that any entity possessing rational qualities exists in the brain. He adds that material items must be existent in the brain.
Hylas retorts to Philonous’ arguments by noting that “sensible traits” encompasses ambiguities. “Sensible traits” could imply either of the following: a characteristic inherent in an entity that arouses notions in the mind upon perception of the entity or the notion that is generated in the mind upon perception of the object. Philonous responds by advancing an argument in opposition to abstraction. He states that defective reasoning occasions the concept of the existence of an entity separate from the ideas. He gives the analogy of seeing a blue object and envisaging the existence of blueness separate from the item to illustrate faulty logic.
Philonous further illustrates faulty logic by suggesting the existence of notions about an item and imagining the existence of the item separate from generation of the notions. To respond to Hylas’ critique on sensible traits, Philonous advances an argument opposing causal linkage. He states that a physical body can not generate the notions in the mind. Numerous philosophers at the time believed that if item B is made to acquire some trait by item A, then item A grants that trait on item B. However, a material item cannot grant a trait to a mental item since the two have different properties (Berkeley, Robinson, 1999, 31).
As regards material items, Philonous apparently attacks the reasoning of Hylas. Philonous critiques the likelihood of physical objects with a view of safeguarding common sense convictions and religious truths. Berkeley’s aim was to refute skepticism, religious doubts and atheism which were fast gaining acceptance in the intellectual world. Berkeley advances the idea of inconceivability (empiricism) by stating that conception is only possible for entities whose notions can be generated. He adds that non-ideas cannot be represented by ideas, thus, ideas of physical substances cannot be generated.
Material objects cannot be conceived. The dominant notion of objects at Berkeley’s time was in form a set of traits sustained through a fundamental substratum. Berkeley regarded this notion as incoherent since a substratum could not literally sustain the traits. He sensed some metaphor here which had no substitute (Bekeley, Robinson, 1999, 46). In Dialogue one, Philonous regards Hylas as a skeptic because the latter held that material matter did not exist and this triggers a philosophical exchange between the two. Philonous states that Hylas is the skeptic and vows to provide proof for this.
Hylas is systematically interrogated by Philonous as regards human knowledge of the world. Philonous scrutinizes secondary traits like heat in a bid to illustrate that these qualities exist only within individual intellects. Philonous then examines primary traits, for instance, shape and extension, and suggests that they depend on individual perceptions. He argues that a big mountain looks small at a distance and that microscopes greatly alter an object’s shape. Hylas has a concept of substance originating from platonic hypothesis of shapes or conceptual objects existing outside the logical world.
Philonous trashes Hylas concept of substance and abstract things existent out of the rational world. Philonous argues that since it is only rational qualities that make matter known, absence of the qualities makes it impractical to explain or envisage matter. Matter without rational traits loses its crucial traits. Philonous thus concurred with Plato who held that actual substance existed in a different dimension or plane from the earth and that the substance did not posses sensible traits. This view was dominant during Berkley’s time and thus his proposition was disastrous to the age-old platonic theory (Berkeley, Robinson, 1999, 52).
Philonous further argues that sensible traits aren’t intrinsic in substance but are endorsed and comprehended by the brain. Temperature, sound, color and shape are relative traits solely reliant on the brain; it’s impossible to envisage matter in the absence of a brain. To the question whether a falling tree produces sound in the absence of a human, Philonous answers that the presence of a human brain is not absolutely essential for the tree to produce a sound. He suggests that God’s brain, that grants substances sensible qualities, is present. Matter per se does not grant itself sensible traits.
Berkeley’s viewpoint was opposed by numerous philosophers aligned to Plato’s viewpoint. Philosophers in Berkeley’s time considered him vulgar since his views appeared to concur with those of lower castes. The prevailing conviction was that all things on earth were created by God and that these things were actual objects. Majority of philosophers didn’t believe that God existed. They held that substances existing on earth were merely imitations of real substances existent in another plane. Berkeley’s viewpoint concurred with the common belief at then time.
Berkeley was erroneously criticized as to be claiming that subsequences don’t exist. Other than advance such claim, Berkeley defended the widespread viewpoint. In Philonous and Hylas dialogue three, a basic self-comprehension stance is stated by George Berkeley. Philonous states that he, thinking, spirit substance, certainly existed as well as his ideas. He adds that he intuitively understood himself. However, Philonous’ and Hylas’ definition of self are different. Philonous defines the spirit, soul or mind to be an indivisible fixed entity that acts, perceives and thinks.
He adds that extended mobile objects are ideas whereas an entity that comprehends ideas, wills and thinks is not an idea nor does it resemble ideas. Philonous thus doesn’t explain why entities can’t perceive and be evident simultaneously. He postpones such a defense to when he advances the ontology (Berkeley, Robinson, 1999, 74). Philonous revisits the issue of how he arrived at comprehending himself. He argues that he intuitively comprehends his notions and mind. He suggests that he expressly comprehends issues as he reflects on himself.
While perceiving notions, Philonous realizes that an entity within him ought to be seeing the insights. He thus comprehends himself as regards how he thinks and comprehends himself. Philonous doesn’t deem it necessary to debate on his existence since he is well versed with his notions. He is also quite sure of a self that comprehends his notions. He doesn’t see t necessity for any additional thing on top of these basic self-comprehension intuitions. Hylas advances two protests to Philonous individual-knowledge theory. None of the objections are sufficiently strong and thus Philonous quickly disregards them.
Hylas initial objection attacks the apparent inconsistency in Philonous’ ontology. Hylas states that spiritual, and not physical, substance are admitted in Philonous’ ontology (Berkeley, Robinson, 1999, 105). Hylas suggests that Philonous’ lack of a notion on physical substance led him to reject the same in his ontology. Hylas implies that Philonous ought to either endorse material matter or denounce spiritual matter so as to be seen as being consistent. Philonous responds by explaining that he cannot, and will not, comprehend spiritual matter but can envisage it.
He adds that his idea of material matter is inconsistent and thus he rejects material matter and accepts spiritual matter. Hylas is not accorded ample time and opportunity to adequately advance his argument. Assessment of whether Hylas’ objection would have more weight is not thus possible. Philonous is thus allowed to juggle the idea of physical matter to suit his preferences. Philonous assumes his ontology in a bid to trash the idea of material matter as repugnant and inconsistent. Hylas protest does not have an opportunity to counter Philonous’ refutation
Hylas changes tack and points out that Philonous seems to be a structure of suspended notions without a supporting substance in the second protest. He thus arouses an apparent Humean idea of self. He adds that Philonous’ idea of spiritual matter has as little meaning as is Hylas’ notion of physical matter. Philonous thus ought to trash the notion of material matter as he did with spiritual substance. The idea of Hylas utilizing his opponent’s arguments to defeat the later appears to be effective. Berkley’s idea of self-comprehension would triumph if Hylas argument is defeated.
Philonous responds by merely repeating his argument without any elaborations to make it appear like it was obvious. He categorically states that he and his notions and sensible entities are distinct. Philonous doesn’t however elaborate his position since he assumes that it is intuitively apparent (Berkeley, Robinson, 1999, 146). Hylas questioning of the issue indicates that it isn’t intuitively apparent. Advancing intuition isn’t particularly a strong defense and hence Hylas’ argument appears to carry more weight. Hylas halts his objections and gives in to Philonous’disproof.
Hylas’ two objections don’t separately triumph since they don’t directly hit at the issue. Hylas never directly interrogates the ontology of Philonous. To be effective, Hylas ought to have attacked his protagonist at the instance when Philonous stated that it is disgusting for notions to exist in unseen entities or be generated by entities that don’t act. In most of the dialogue, Hylas is restricted to concurring with Philonous. Hylas’ attempts to advance ‘external items’ as defense is devoid of conviction and is easily depicted as weak by Philonous. Upon positively confirming on matter, Hylas struggles to prove his argument.
Philonous quickly trashes Hylas’ idea that physical objects support traits. To assert that basic secondary traits possess only a biased reality is to affirm that they are existent in ideas only, or are objects-in-perception. The remaining concept to illustrate is the non-existence of crucial disparities between secondary and primary traits. Thus Philonous’ arguments carry the day, not because they are excellent, but because of the weaknesses of his opponent. Works cited Berkeley George, Robinson Howard. Principles of Human Knowledge and the Three Dialogues: And Three Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1999).Sample Essay of PapersOwl.com | <urn:uuid:1573732f-deef-41bc-a8ec-6d3b2dbbef5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studyscanner.com/philonous-arguments-about-material-substances/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.941495 | 2,538 | 3.125 | 3 |
Create a virtual machine instance (zone: us-east1-b)
Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows
Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure.
You can run your Windows applications on Compute Engine and take advantage of many benefits available to virtual machine instances, such as reliable storage options, the speed of the Google network, and Autoscaling.
In this hands-on lab, you learn how to launch a Windows Server instance in Compute Engine and use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to it.
Setup and requirements
Before you click the Start Lab button
Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources will be made available to you.
This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities yourself in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials that you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.
To complete this lab, you need:
- Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).
- Time to complete the lab---remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.
How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud Console
Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details panel with the following:
- The Open Google Console button
- Time remaining
- The temporary credentials that you must use for this lab
- Other information, if needed, to step through this lab
Click Open Google Console. The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.
Tip: Arrange the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.
Note: If you see the Choose an account dialog, click Use Another Account.
If necessary, copy the Username from the Lab Details panel and paste it into the Sign in dialog. Click Next.
Copy the Password from the Lab Details panel and paste it into the Welcome dialog. Click Next.
Important: You must use the credentials from the left panel. Do not use your Google Cloud Skills Boost credentials. Note: Using your own Google Cloud account for this lab may incur extra charges.
Click through the subsequent pages:
- Accept the terms and conditions.
- Do not add recovery options or two-factor authentication (because this is a temporary account).
- Do not sign up for free trials.
After a few moments, the Cloud Console opens in this tab.
Create a virtual machine instance
In the Cloud Console, on the Navigation menu , click Compute Engine > VM instances, and then click Create Instance.
Select region us east1 and zone us east1-b.
In the Machine configuration section, for Series select N1.
In the Boot disk section, click Change to begin configuring your boot disk.
Under Operating system select Windows Server and under Version select Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, and then click Select. Leave all other settings as their defaults.
Click Create to create the instance.
Test completed task
Click Check my progress to verify your performed task.
Activate Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell is a virtual machine that is loaded with development tools. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs on the Google Cloud. Cloud Shell provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources.
Click Activate Cloud Shell at the top of the Google Cloud console.
It takes a few moments to provision and connect to the environment. When you are connected, you are already authenticated, and the project is set to your PROJECT_ID. The output contains a line that declares the PROJECT_ID for this session:
gcloud is the command-line tool for Google Cloud. It comes pre-installed on Cloud Shell and supports tab-completion.
(Optional) You can list the active account name with this command:
(Optional) You can list the project ID with this command:
gcloud, in Google Cloud, refer to the gcloud CLI overview guide.
Remote Desktop (RDP) into the Windows Server
Test the status of Windows Startup
After a short time, the Windows Server instance will be provisioned and listed on the VM Instances page with a green status icon .
However the server instance may not yet be ready to accept RDP connections, as it takes a while for all the OS components to initialize.
To see whether the server instance is ready for an RDP connection, run the following command at your Cloud Shell terminal command line:
If prompted, type n and press Enter.
Repeat the command until you see the following in the command output, which tells you that the OS components have initialized and the Windows Server is ready to accept your RDP connection (attempt in the next step).
RDP into the Windows Server
To set a password for logging into the RDP, run the following command in Cloud Shell terminal and replace
[instance] with the VM Instance that you have created and set
[username] as admin.
Would you like to set or reset the password for [admin] (Y/n)?, enter Y.
There are different ways to connect to your server through RDP, depending on whether you are on Windows or not:
If you are using a Chromebook or other machine at a Google Cloud event there is likely an RDP app already installed on the computer. Click the icon as below, if it is present, in the lower left corner of the screen and enter the external IP of your VM.
If you are not on Windows but using Chrome, you can connect to your server through RDP directly from the browser using the Spark View extension. Click on Add to Chrome. Then, click Launch app button.
Once launch, a window opens up where you use your Windows username admin and password from the output of above mentioned command to connect:
Add your VM instance's External IP as your Domain. Click Connect to confirm you want to connect.
If you are on a Macintosh, there are several freely accessible RDP Client packages available to install, such as CoRD. After installing, connect as above to the External IP address of the Windows server. Once it has connected, it will open up a login page where you can specify Windows username admin and password from the output of above mentioned command to log in (ignore the Domain: field).
Once logged in, you should see the Windows desktop!
Copy and paste with the RDP client
Once you are securely logged in to your instance, you may find yourself copying and pasting commands from the lab manual.
- To paste, hold the CTRL-V keys (if you are a Mac user, using CMND-V will not work.)
- If you are in a Powershell window, be sure that you have clicked in to the window or else the paste shortcut won't work.
- If you are pasting into putty, right click.
Test your understanding
The following multiple-choice questions can reinforce your understanding of this lab's concepts.
Finish your quest
This self-paced lab is part of the Google Cloud Essentials quest. A quest is a series of related labs that form a learning path. Completing this quest earns you a badge to recognize your achievement. You can make your badge or badges public and link to them in your online resume or social media account. Enroll in this quest or any quest that contains this lab and get immediate completion credit. See the Google Cloud Skills Boost catalog to see all available quests.
Next steps/Learn more
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Manual Last Updated August 5, 2022
Lab Last Tested August 5, 2022
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As Libya descends into a deeper civil war with no immediate end in sight, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed fear that the conflict would spill over into neighboring countries, particularly the Sahel region, which has already faced grave instability.
“Libya has been a center, a cancer for arms export and fighters export … and the most worrying impact is of course with the Sahel and Lake Chad. And more and more these things are interlinked,” said Guterres in an Al Jazeera interview in Davos, Switzerland.
“What we are having with the Sahel and Lake Chad is a war with terrorist organizations that we are not winning. Terrorism is spreading. It is now threatening the countries of the coast – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin,” he added.
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since Muammar Gaddafi’s regime fell after the NATO-backed 2011 Libyan revolution.
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since Muammar Gaddafi’s regime fell after the NATO-backed 2011 Libyan revolution, with rival factions subsequently vying for control of the country and its resources. Libya became awash with weapons and foreign fighters, with tribal and Salafist factions being key political players.
Regional countries have expressed worries about the regional risks. Algeria has tried to use its leverage to call for de-escalation and mediation in Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar’s latest assault on the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
Tunisia has likewise shown concerns and fears a large refugee influx from neighboring Libya even as GNA prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj has speculated Haftar’s current offensive could create a major refugee crisis for Europe.
Meanwhile in the Maghreb region, both Tunisia and Algeria have fortified their borders, fearing greater security threats.
However, this was largely a factor early on in the conflict. From the beginning, Libya’s civil war had created a new opportunity for regional fighters crossing into the country. Because of Libya’s initial instability following the post-Arab Spring regime change, there was a spillover of Libyan fighters into neighboring states.
“It is true that in July 2011, a substantial number of vehicles were used by Tuareg fighters to move lots of weapons [and] also lots of cash that had been given to them by the Qadhafi regime in order to fight on its side, but those seasoned Sahelian fighters decided to defect, cross Niger and go into Northern Mali,” Jalel Harchaoui, research fellow at Clingendael Institute, told Inside Arabia. “This incident actually played a role in catalyzing the conflict in Northern Mali in 2012.”
Regional fighters had then entered the conflict through Libya’s weakened southern border with Chad.
Regional fighters had then entered the conflict through Libya’s weakened southern border with Chad. Along with increased smuggling networks of people and goods, Sahel militias had used it as a training ground. Many of whom had actually posed a great security threat to Libya.
“More broadly, from 2011 through 2018, Libya acted as somewhat of a safe haven wherein jihadi groups from the Sahel could come, regroup, raise funds, rest, buy weapons, etc. Clearly here, it is legitimate to talk about the anarchy in Libya fueling the crisis in the Sahel, to some extent or other,” added Harchaoui.
Speaking to Inside Arabia, Tarek Megerisi, Libyan researcher at the European Council of Foreign Relations, said that nearby militias and extremists had chiefly used Libya’s chaos as an opportunity to gain more battle experience.
“The southern border had become very porous during Libya’s conflict, and Chadian militias have been able to come in, particularly in the early years after the revolution,” Megerisi said. “After becoming a stronger threat from their time in Libya, they would return home and fight against their government.” In effect, Libya had served as a sanctuary for foreign militias to gain more experience and carry out attacks at home.
“The West didn’t ask us our opinion when they attacked Libya,” Chad’s President Idriss Déby had publicly said. “They achieved what they wanted—the destruction of Libya, the death of Gaddafi,” he added, while reporting the instability it caused in his own country and the lack of responsibility taken by the NATO nations.
When the Islamic State in Libya gained success, from 2014 and 2016, the country had also served as a “training ground” for regional militants, mostly from Tunisia, who would later return to their country of origin or elsewhere in the region and carry out attacks. Tunisia suffered multiple extremist incidents in 2015. Attacks on tourists in the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March that year, and later in June, in Sousse, killed dozens of vacationers.
The incidents devastated the country’s economy due to the subsequent loss in tourism revenue. The gunman responsible for the Sousse beach massacre which killed 38 tourists had reportedly been among those Tunisian foreign fighters training in Libya, prior to returning to his own country.
“Investigations show Saif Rezgui was in contact with terrorists in Libya and that he is likely to have trained in a Libyan camp,” said a Libyan security official.
Jihadist threats inside Libya have consistently weakened from 2016 until today after they lost a key base: the northwestern city of Sirte.
Jihadist threats inside Libya have consistently weakened from 2016 until today after they lost a key base: the northwestern city of Sirte. Although the current violence between Haftar and the GNA has arguably reduced its presence too, considering that neither side would want to see the faction growing.
“However, ISIS has still managed to maneuver in pockets amid the fighting, and with much of the violence focused in Tripoli, this could give them room to carry out further attacks,” said Megerisi. Indeed, the UN in December still reported a noticeable level of foreign fighters operating in Libya.
France has backed Khalifa Haftar under the pretext of needing to create stability in Libya. Yet in Megeresi’s view, this is an absurdity as continued conflict could further risk spilling over into neighboring countries.
To be sure, the Sahel region has faced greater security threats and is more linked to the violence domestically. There are arguably other factors which have triggered the violence there.
Harchaoui notes that there is currently limited evidence of a flow of weapons and militias towards Libya’s southern border, and that claims from Guterres and others portraying Libya as a source of regional instability are exaggerated.
“Meanwhile, the jihadi groups have grown dramatically stronger in places like southern Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali. Not only that, but jihadi strength has attained a critical mass, and reached a local momentum that makes it self-sustaining and self-reinforcing,” Harchaoui said.
“I see no reason to claim that, right now, the mess in Libya — which boils down to a nasty internationalized civil war involving little actual terrorism and no full-blown jihadi group — fuels the crises in the Sahel.”
“The Libya conflict is mainly centering in the Tripoli area and — if anything — we might witness jihadi groups move into that mayhem and take advantage of it within the next several months,” Harchaoui added.
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Address: 3600 Snelling Avenue
Construction Date: 1958-1959
Architect: Irwin H. Kilstofte
Architectural Style: Vernacular with Mid-Century Modern Influences
Historic use: Church
Current use: Church
Date of Local Designation: 2018
Date of National Register Designation: N/A
Area(s) of Significance: Significant Events
Period of Significance: 1863-1963
As the first African American congregation in Minneapolis and Minnesota, St. James AME Church is historically significant to the city and state’s social history. The importance of African American congregations in America stems from the disenfranchisement of early African American communities. With few historical or cultural traditions surviving slavery, the church offered a vital cultural institution to the African American community. It became an imperative facet of early African American life in America, where communities were able to find newfound freedom and support they were otherwise restricted from. As African American populations grew in Minnesota, the church’s role evolved. Combined with Christian beliefs and supported by the church’s power in the community, congregations began fighting injustice and for the advancement of African Americans within the greater urban center. Launched by the establishment of St. James AME Church, the influence the African American congregation gave to its members has had a lasting effect on the social history of Minneapolis and Minnesota.
St James’ origins date to 1860, prior to the Civil War, when a group of freed African Americans started conducting house-to-house prayer meetings in the city of St. Anthony. These early gatherings began in the home of Paul Brown at 4th Avenue SE and 2nd Street and included his wife, their two daughters, Isaac Newton, and Mattie Williams. It is believed that many of these early members came to Minnesota traveling as workers on Mississippi steamers from 1836 to 1856. By March 1863, this small group had grown enough to formally organize the First African Methodist Church, later renamed St. James AME Church. In 1869, the church acquired a formal place of worship and a pastor, Reverend W. Hedgeman. Located at 6th Avenue Southeast and 2nd Street, the first church edifice was a small white frame building that had previously served a white congregation. Minneapolis city directories indicate the church and Reverend Hedgeman stayed at this location until around 1874. However, financial difficulties and unfortunate luck in real estate caused the church to relocate several times, slowly migrating south within the city.
St. James AME Church is currently at 3600 Snelling Avenue, where it has been since 1959. The current church is the only remaining church building that St. James AME constructed and is the longest place of worship for the congregation.
1963 - Minnesota Historical Society
2017 - CPED Staff
“St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Designation Study,” 2018.
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Hunt, K.J., Munih, M., and Donaldson, N. (1997) Feedback control of unsupported standing in paraplegia. Part I: optimal control approach. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 5(4), pp. 331-340.
This is the first of a pair of papers which describe an investigation into the feasibility of providing artificial balance to paraplegics using electrical stimulation of the paralyzed muscles. By bracing the body above the shanks, only stimulation of the plantarflexors is necessary. This arrangement prevents any influence from the intact neuromuscular system above the spinal cord lesion. Here, the authors extend the design of the controllers to a nested-loop LQG (linear quadratic Gaussian) stimulation controller which has ankle moment feedback (inner loops) and inverted pendulum angle feedback (outer loop). Each control loop is tuned by two parameters, the control weighting and an observer rise-time, which together determine the behavior. The nested structure was chosen because it is robust, despite changes in the muscle properties (fatigue) and interference from spasticity.
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|Authors:||Hunt, K.J., Munih, M., and Donaldson, N.|
|Subjects:||R Medicine > R Medicine (General)|
|College/School:||College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy|
|Journal Name:||IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering|
|Publisher:||IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC|
|Copyright Holders:||© Copyright IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC|
|First Published:||First published in IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering 5(4):331-340|
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The Message (MSG)
Why was The Message written? The best answer to that question comes from Eugene Peterson himself: "While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren't feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become 'old hat.'"
Peterson's parishioners simply weren't connecting with the real meaning of the words and the relevance of the New Testament for their own lives. So he began to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original ancient Greek writing straight out of the Greek text without looking at other English translations. As he shared his version of Galatians with them, they quit stirring their coffee and started catching Paul's passion and excitement as he wrote to a group of Christians whom he was guiding in the ways of Jesus Christ. For more than two years, Peterson devoted all his efforts to The Message New Testament. His primary goal was to capture the tone of the text and the original conversational feel of the Greek, in contemporary English.
Language changes. New words are formed. Old words take on new meaning. There is a need in every generation to keep the language of the gospel message current, fresh, and understandable the way it was for its very first readers. That is what The Message seeks to accomplish for contemporary readers. It is a version for our time designed to be read by contemporary people in the same way as the original koine Greek and Hebrew manuscripts were savored by people thousands of years ago.
That's why NavPress felt the time was right for a new version. When we hear something over and over again in the same way, we can become so familiar with it that the text loses its impact. The Message strives to help readers hear the living Word of God the Bible in a way that engages and intrigues us right where we are.
Some people like to read the Bible in Elizabethan English. Others want to read a version that gives a close word-for-word correspondence between the original languages and English. Eugene Peterson recognized that the original sentence structure is very different from that of contemporary English. He decided to strive for the spirit of the original manuscriptsto express the rhythm of the voices, the flavor of the idiomatic expressions, the subtle connotations of meaning that are often lost in English translations.
The goal of The Message is to engage people in the reading process and help them understand what they read. This is not a study Bible, but rather "a reading Bible." The verse numbers, which are not in the original documents, have been left out of the print version to facilitate easy and enjoyable reading. The original books of the Bible were not written in formal language. The Message tries to recapture the Word in the words we use today.
The Message text may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, or audio), up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses, without express written permission of the publisher, NavPress Publishing Group, providing the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible and do not account for 25% or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted.
Notice of copyright must appear as follows on either the title page or the copyright page of the work in which The Message is quoted: "Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group."
When quotations from The Message text are used in nonsaleable media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies, or similar media, a complete copyright notice is not required, but "The Message" must appear at the end of each quotation.
Permission requests for commercial and noncommercial use that exceed the above guidelines must be directed to and approved in writing by NavPress Publishing Group, Permissions, P.O. Box 35001, Colorado Springs, Co 80935. (http://www.messagebible.com)
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IMAGING, OPTIMIZATION & INTEGRATION
Fans are everywhere. In heat budgets though, they often appear insufficiently, inaccurately, or not at all. This is because their efficiency, caused by installation conditions, can not be determined without major measuring efforts. Accurate imaging of different fan types and their characteristics can be generated by CFD simulation. Therefore, all conceivable variables and framework conditions can be viewed independently of the physical object and its location.
- Simulation of Flow Resistance
- Determining Actual Bias Point
- Analysis of Operating Conditions, Efficiency and Flow Fields
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Understanding MLOps challenges and solutions play a key role for successful machine learning projects. Software Engineering is all about building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications. While Machine Learning seems similar to software engineering, it is much more iterative in nature involving data engineers defining and refining data, data scientists building, and experimenting models, and mlops team training, deploying, and monitoring models with observability.
Machine learning started to gain more traction in the 1990s with the onset of a data-based approach for solving problems. With the availability of GPUs, and various cloud companies offering hardware resources at a reasonable price have fueled the growth of machine learning. MLOps is a relatively new discipline formed after understanding the importance of collaboration among data scientists and the ops team needed to operationalize machine learning models.
In the early stages, there were very few machine learning models with limited datasets making it affordable to infer models from a single on-prem server. Hence Data Scientists used to deploy and monitor models by themselves without any trouble.
But as the data grew exponentially along with the number of models, deploying and monitoring models became cumbersome.
Machine Learning Project Lifecycle
The lifecycle of the Machine Learning project involves different phases starting from the business team defining goals, setting metrics to Data Scientists building models, and the MLOps team deploying and monitoring machine learning models in production.
Business Team: To start off, the business team identifies the machine learning use case, defines the goals for the project and the metrics to measure its success.
Data Engineers: Data collection, analysis, governance, security, and storage are an integral part of any machine learning projects as most of the time is spent by the data engineers processing the data.
Data Scientists: Once the data engineers are ready with the feature store, the experimentation phase kicks off. Model building involves Data Scientists implementing and experimenting their models with different machine learning frameworks and algorithms by fine-tuning the hyperparameters.
MLOps: After the model is ready for operationalization, either Data Scientist or MLOps team starts with the deployment and monitoring of machine learning models in production.
Each phase in the machine learning project lifecycle has its own challenges. The process of building models has eased over the years with the availability of different machine learning libraries, frameworks along with AutoML.
Even though there are mlops solutions from different cloud and machine learning vendors, moving models from POC to production is still a challenge.
Not all data scientists have expertise in Kubernetes
Containers started off as the Linux kernel process for cgroups and namespaces. Docker in 2013 popularized containers simplifying the deployment process. Later Kubernetes which was released in 2015, became the standard for container orchestration.
The iterative nature of machine learning makes it harder to replicate the environments between development and production. Since the advancement of Kubernetes, it is easier to replicate environments as it encapsulates both the hardware and software needed to run the model into deployable modules.
Any enterprise irrespective of its size needs to be an expert in Kubernetes to manage the model efficiently. Either companies need to allocate budget for the mlops team or data scientists need to learn and master Kubernetes to automate the deployment process.
Nightmare managing Deployment Pipelines
Deploying Machine Learning models is not that straightforward as it involves not just the model deployment but also the data needed to train the model. Moreover, the iterative nature of building machine learning models require frequent retraining and validating models before pushing to production. Manually performing all these deployment steps are both time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Model is only as efficient as its data quality
The quality of the model is closely tied to the data used for training the model. Data quality matters not just for model performance but also to eliminate any bias in considering the datasets. Many AI applications are outright obsolete as it was not trained with a broader variety of datasets.
Data growth demands more computing power
As the data increases in size, the machine learning model improves in accuracy as more data is used to train the model. At the same time, if the underlying resources are not flexible to data upticks like adding more storage and processing power, then the model usability declines drastically.
How to overcome challenges in operationalizing Machine Learning models? MLOps Solutions
Understanding the challenges of deploying machine learning models lets enterprises innovate by focusing more on the machine learning models and less on the hurdles to operationalize those models.
Increase Visibility into Machine Learning Projects
Machine Learning challenges varies with perspective and approach. For instance, management would like better visibility into machine learning projects with faster onboarding of Datascience teams and reduced cost.
Flexibility to choose any ML Libraries, Frameworks and AutoML
Data Scientists would require automated deployment pipelines which can integrate with the models implemented using any ML libraries, frameworks or AutoML of their choice. Models should be deployed automatically with minimal effort providing inference endpoints for applications to make use of the model.
Deploy effortlessly with automated CI / CD pipelines
Data Scientists experiment the models repetitively with different algorithms by tuning the hyperparameters for continuous improvement of model’s accuracy. After experimentation phase, the trained models are deployed to staging environment for evaluation before pushing to production.
Ever-changing data along with the iterative nature of machine learning projects mandates for an automated CI / CD pipelines wherein any new environment like staging, production are reproduced automatically with minimal effort.
There are readily available CI / CD pipelines from different cloud and machine learning vendors. But changing from one vendor to another demands revamping your entire CI / CD pipelines.
Enterprise needs the ability to store models in any cloud or in-house registry, deploy models to any cloud-agnostic environment without having to re-engineer their pipelines. Integrated MLOps should be able to deploy to any cloud, on-prem or hybrid based on the infrastructure of your choice by determining the cost for managing the computing resource and monitoring the performance of your machine learning models. Kubernetes based deployment with reproducible CI / CD pipelines makes it easier not only to onboard any new environment but also onboard new team with machine learning models along with the infrastructure needed to train and run the inference for the model.
Automatic scaling & Complex Deployments
Deployment pipelines should be capable of provisioning different resource types (CPU, GPU or TPU) with auto-scaling capabilities. It should also assist in complex model deployment scenarios such as A/B deployments, shadow and phased rollouts which have now become a common pattern in data-driven applications, all while providing real-time insights and recommendations.
End to End MLOps solution necessitates automated monitoring service inspecting model’s health score along with data drift, usage predictions and resource utilization.
The performance of any machine learning model is affected by any change in data, code or model’s behavior. For instance let’s consider a machine learning model approving credit application. Previously the model required only FICO score and income, but later enhanced to use customer’s digital footprint expanding the landscape of potential borrowers. This mandates for code change along with retraining the model with new training datasets with additional features. The CI / CD pipelines should be able to automatically detect these changes, retrain and deploy the trained model with minimal effort.
Monitoring should not only capture data drift but also monitor and auto-scale computing resource for better cost management. Machine learning models without diversified datasets tends to be biased. Enterprises with biased models lose their reputation increasing the customer churn rate.
MLOps solution should be able to go beyond deployment and monitoring with the ability to observe and act on insights with self-explainable capabilities justifying why a model behaved in certain manner.
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ATLANTIS AND THE POWER SYSTEM OF THE GODS starts with a reprinting of the rare 1990 book MERCURY: UFO MESSENGER OF THE GODS by Bill Clendenon. Clendenon takes on an unusual voyage into the world of ancient flying vehicles, strange personal UFO sightings, a meeting with a ''Man In Black'' and then to a centuries-old library in India where he got his ideas for the diagrams of mercury vortex engines. The second part of the book is Childress' fascinating analysis of Nikola Tesla's broadcast system in light of Edgar Cayce's ''Terrible Crystal'' and the obelisks of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia. Includes: Atlantis and its crystal power towers that broadcast energy; how these incredible power stations may still exist today; inventor Nikola Tesla's nearly identical system of power transmission; Mercury Proton Gyros and mercury vortex propulsion; more. Richly illustrated, and packed with evidence that Atlantis not only existed--it had a world-wide energy system more sophisticated than ours today. --The Ramayana and the amazing vimanas of ancient India; --Atlantis and its crystal power towers that broadcast energy; --Inventor Nikola Tesla’s nearly identical system of power transmission; --How gyros with electrified gas or liquids—plasmas—can have an anti-gravity effect; --Mercury Proton Gyros and mercury vortex propulsion; --The Crystal Towers that broadcast energy to the lost continent of Atlantis; --How these incredible power stations may still exist today; --The Earth as a giant power plant ; more.
ATLANTIS AND THE POWER SYSTEM OF THE GODS: Mercury Vortex Generators & Tesla’s Wireless Power by David Hatcher Childress with Bill Clendenon. 246 pages. 6x9 Paperback. Illustrated. References.
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Ecofeminism and the politics of identity in the developing world
There has been some reluctance to discuss the effects of modern technologies on the working lives of women, even among activists and scholars in the developing world. The discussion to them seems irrelevant and unproductive, as the technologies themselves are seen as incorporating values and moulding a future that are harmful to poor nations. The inappropriateness of modern western technologies for the third world is powerfully argued by eco-feminists, such as Vandana Shiva. She challenges the claims of the universality of western epistémé: 'Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing' (Shiva, 1993: p. 9). While asserting plurality in the knowledge system, ecofeminists do see the possibility for some common action, shared by women and men of different heritages and backgrounds, but only in drawing up an alternative, community-based economy in opposition to global capitalism. Maria Mies, from Germany, in the same spirit as Vandana Shiva, gives us a vision of this alternative framework, where technology is conceptualized from a perspective of subsistence. This perspective means not only a change in the various accepted social and economic divisions of labour, but also a process of substituting money or commodity relationships by principles such as reciprocity, sharing and caring, and respect for the individual. This subsistence perspective can be realized only within a network of reliable, stable human relations; it is incompatible with the philosophy of the atomized, self-centred individuality of the market economy (Mies and Shiva, 1993: p. 319).
A subsistence perspective demands a shift away from the prevailing instrumentalist, reductionist mode of technology, which, according to ecofeminists, has given rise to and maintained man's domination over nature, women and other peoples. In its place, an ecologically sound, feminist, subsistence science and technology could be developed in participatory action with the people. Such science and technology will not reinforce unequal social relationships and will lead to greater social justice.
As an activist, I admire the inspiring vision of such an ideal society. Yet, as a business economist, I find it difficult to be convinced of its feasibility. For strategic management, I believe, it is incorrect and unsound to set a goal that will lead inevitably to disillusionment. In the visionary ideal of ecofeminism, we are never told how to attain such a utopia without altering the power structure nationally or internationally. For women, for the third world, and for women of the third world, it would be even more difficult to shift the balance of power if they were urged to retreat to indigenous social and knowledge systems, in open opposition to modernization and modern technologies.
As the papers in the anthology demonstrate, women in the third world welcome modernization, as long as they can have some say in the manner in which the technology which is affecting the quality of their working and family lives is adopted. Women usually have insignificant power over decision-making when they are confined by traditions and constrained by the norms of behaviour in their communities. In this anthology, women, understandably, extol the liberating aspect of the information revolution, which, in the right circumstances, has begun to give them economic power, autonomy and the chance to escape the tyrannies of traditional societies. They make concrete demands, such as knowledge of and access to technical know-how and business skills; they welcome an international exchange of experience of organizing, inside and outside trade unions, to counteract the hazards of new technologies.
The critics of modernization, significantly, are themselves products of Enlightenment education and philosophy. Some caution is thus necessary, so that their voice does not muffle the appeals and aspirations of many millions of less privileged women and men, who are 'hungry' for the information revolution and advanced technologies. The word defines the world, and the term 'alternative', which the critics of modernization have so often used to describe their own position or vision, perpetuates, rather than questions, the notion of their own marginality. As Suniti Namjoshi's allegory, 'Dusty Distance' (1990, pp. 196-197), brilliantly suggests, the language of 'difference' and antimodernity, ironically, gives the politics of exclusion and Eurocentrism a new lease of life:
There were landscaped gardens, immaculate woods, and in one of these woods there was a Beautiful Lady [the first world woman] reclining gracefully against a convenient tree trunk. She was reading a book. As the Blue Donkey [the third world woman] approached, the Lady looked up and smiled at her. 'Hello,' said the Blue Donkey. 'What are you reading?' 'Poetry,' sighed the Lady. 'I think poetry is so beautiful. I feel I could live on poetry and fresh air for ever.' The Blue Donkey edged closer. 'Well, as it happens,' she ventured diffidently, 'I am a poet. Perhaps you would like me to recite some of my verse?' 'Oh. Oh no,' the Lady replied hastily, then she recovered herself. 'The fact is" she explained, 'that though I have studied many languages and my French and German are both excellent, I have never mastered Blue Donkese. And though I have no doubt whatsoever that your poems are excellent, I fear they would fall on untutored ears.' 'But please, I speak English.' The Blue Donkey could hear herself sounding plaintive. 'Oh,' murmured the Lady. 'But surely as a Blue Donkey, integrity requires that you paint the world as it appears to you. And consider: what have a lady and a donkey in common?'
1See, for example, International Federation of Information Processing, 1985, 1989, 1991.
Bhaba, Homi K. (1994), The Location of Culture, London and New York, Routledge Cockburn, Cynthia (1985), Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how, London, Pluto Press
International Federation of Information Processing (1985, 1989, 1991), Women, Work and Computerization, conference proceedings, Amsterdam, London and New York, North-Holland
Mernissi, Fatima (1994), The Forgotten Queens of Islam, trans. Mary Jo Lakeland, Oxford, Polity Press
Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva (1993), Ecofeminism, London and New Jersey, Zed Books
Namjoshi, Suniti (1990), 'Dusty Distance', in Lakshmi Holmström (ed.), The Inner Courtyard: Stories by Indian Women, London, Virago Press
Nicholson, Linda J. (ed.) (1990), Feminism/Postmodernism, New York and London, Routledge
Rose, Hilary (1994), Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences, Oxford, Polity Press
Rowbotham, Sheila (1992), Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action, New York and London, Routledge
Shiva, Vandana (1993), Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology, London and New Jersey, Zed Books, and Third World Network, Penang, Malaysia
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine, New York and London, Routledge
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A by-product of cholesterol can fuel the deadly growth and spread of breast cancer, according to a group of scientists. It raises the prospect that taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins could prevent cancer. The work, published in the journal Science, helps explain why obesity is a major risk factor for the disease. However, cancer charities cautioned that it was too soon to advise women to take statins. Obesity has been linked with many cancers including those of the...আরও দেখুন. | <urn:uuid:f0b9282a-b1bd-4d6f-beeb-bbf3c60eab39> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthprior21.com/tags/content/cholesterol+enhances | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00165-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973331 | 114 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Ethanol can be administered by the oral, nasogastric or intravenous route to maintain a blood ethanol concentration of 100-150 mg/dl (22-33 mol/L)
Oral or Nasogastric:
- Loading dose = 1.8 ml/kg of 43% ethanol, or 3 x 40ml shots of vodka in a 70 Kg adult. (No need to load if already under the influence!
- Maintenance = 0.2 – 0.4 ml/kg/hour of 43% ethanol, or 40ml shot each hour.
- Loading dose = 8 ml/kg of 10% ethanol
- Maintenance = 1-2 ml/kg/hour of 10% ethanol
- Depending on your institution the pharmacist will have to make this up otherwise is is made by adding 100ml of 100% ethanol to 900ml of 5% dextrose.
- The maintenance dosing will vary for each patient.
- It can cause hypoglycaemia in the paediatric population therefore, monitor BSLs.
- Maintain ethanol therapy until the toxic alcohol has been definitively treated with haemodialysis
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Selected Examples of National Laws Governing Space Activities: Norway
Act on launching objects from Norwegian territory etc. into outer space.
13 June. No. 38. 1969
� 1 Without permission from the Norwegian Ministry
2 concerned, it is forbidden
3 to launch any object into outer space from:
a) Norwegian territory, also including Svalbard, Jan Mayen and the Norwegian external territories.
b) Norwegian vessels, aircrafts etc.
c) Areas that are not subject to the sovereignty of any state, when the launching is undertaken by a Norwegian citizen or person with habitual residence in Norway.
Certain terms can be set for such permission as described in paragraph one.
� 2 The Ministry can issue regulations on control etc. of activities as described in � 1.
� 3 This act enters into force immediately.
1. The footnotes are not included in the official law
2. Ministry of Trade and Industry
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At a Palo Alto, Calif., breakfast hosted last Thursday by various computer companies, George W. Bush said, "Oftentimes when you listen to the rhetoric out of Washington, D.C., it sounds like some of 'em up there think they invented prosperity. They no more invented prosperity than they invented the Internet." Bush has been using this line a lot lately, and Chatterbox thought it might be worth examining.
Let's set aside the issue of Republican mirth at Al Gore's expense for saying he invented the Internet. Chatterbox thinks that the vice president, who acquired a propeller-head image a decade ago while advocating development of the "information superhighway," should get some credit for what we today call the World Wide Web. But Chatterbox is going to yield the point. Republicans have gleefully been noting that the Internet was actually invented 30 years ago, right around the time Gore graduated from college, for Pete's sake! And it's true Gore wasn't a science major.
Still, let's take a closer look at what Bush said: Washington "no more invented prosperity than they invented the Internet." If by Washington, Bush means "the government," he is clearly wrong. The Internet was in fact invented by a Pentagon organization called the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which spent taxpayer dollars to develop a system (initially called ARPAnet, later called the Internet) that connected big research computers around the country. It is commonly believed (especially inside the Pentagon) that the chief purpose of ARPAnet was to secure the nuclear defense network by allowing information to travel easily by multiple routes from computer to computer. However, according to Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, by Stephen Segaller (click here to buy the book), the scientists who used federal money to develop ARPAnet were only incidentally interested in assisting national defense (though they were grateful to have the budgetary justification) and were given great freedom to spend their research dollars as they wished. Here is what one of them, Larry Roberts of Lincoln Lab in Massachusetts, said to Segaller: "What I told Congress was that this was for the future of science in the world--the civilian world as well as the military--and the military would benefit just as much as the rest of the world. It was worthwhile being done under government and military sponsorship, but it clearly wasn't for military purposes." In other words, the Internet was invented with government spending that pretended to be for guns, but was really for butter.
Perhaps, by "some of 'em up there" in Washington, Bush means not "the government" but "the Democrats." If so, Chatterbox thinks a decent case can still be made refuting Bush. Taking the Republican line that the Internet was invented in 1969, one might perhaps argue that Richard Nixon invented the Internet. Alternatively, one might credit Dwight Eisenhower with inventing the Internet, because it was Eisenhower who, in the midst of the general post-Sputnik fury, created ARPA as a space-technology agency in 1958. (With the creation of NASA that same year, ARPA lost most of its original mission and turned to computers.) More plausibly, though, one would credit ARPA's Internet work to the Democratic administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, because they occupied the White House from 1961 through 1968, when the bulk of ARPA's Internet development occurred. Of course, it seems very unlikely that Kennedy and Johnson knew much if anything about what ARPA was up to. However, the prosperity-inventing private sector doesn't seem to have had a much better clue. Even in the late 1960s, companies such as IBM and Control Data Corporation and AT&T were saying that ARPA's computer network couldn't be built. Larry Roberts told Segaller that when he presented the idea in speeches to AT&T engineers, "they booed and hissed."
It is only fair to point out that big government's beneficial role in creating the Internet accelerated during the mid-1980s, when anti-big-government Republicans held the White House. As Bruce Sterling observes in a handy online history of the Internet, the National Science Foundation "set a blistering pace for technical advancement" in 1984. George Bush Sr. was vice president at the time, and later was president during much of the final run-up to the invention of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. But Chatterbox thinks it would be a stretch to say that Poppy invented the Internet. | <urn:uuid:3cdde856-16fd-4956-9a75-e3a53a697796> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/07/how_democrats_invented_the_internet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976287 | 932 | 2.28125 | 2 |
New Coalitions for a New Age
Summer is coming to an end as is evidenced by the return of children to school, the start of football season and the breezy hint of cooler temperatures to come. Looking at the political calendar, we are nearing the eight-month mark of the Obama administration and their allied, Democratically-led Congress.
So, as Congress sits in recess and the nation braces for the upcoming national health care fight, I thought it an appropriate moment to talk about the future of Republican politics. Not just how we can defeat health care or win more congressional seats in 2010 — but how we develop the coalitions necessary to ensure we are a party capable of standing strongly 10, 20, 50 years into the future. In essence, we must ensure we are a lasting party equipped to defend the principles of limited government, lower taxes, free markets, a strong national defense, and individual rights and responsibilities.
Today, with government spending increasing astronomically, with the prospect of one-fifth of our economy — in the form of the health care system — being turned over to government controls, these guidelines are all the more important. Thirty years ago, my father understood this, and that legacy has passed down to us.
Even as conservatives, we will not always agree, but if we respect those with dissenting opinions, we can grow even stronger in our determination to follow our shared values. Americans are increasingly, and rightfully, growing skeptical of policies that emphasize budget-busting government solutions, as opposed to empowering individuals, families and small businesses. Conservatives have a great opportunity and platform to move beyond the media stereotypes of Republicans as demoralized and dysfunctional and come together to reassert our strength and fight for our freedoms. Liberal, conservative or independent, there is much that unites us.
My father understood that good governance required strong coalitions. In order to move forward, this is something the Republican Party will need to understand as well. Today, as political maps show the Northeast and the Southeast entrenching further along party lines, the coalitions and partnerships which will shape our future are increasingly found in the West.
We have a new proving ground in the independent-minded West, with states like New Mexico, where the presidential election was decided by less than 6,000 votes in 2004 and by a mere 366 votes in 2000, and Colorado, a state so intensely contested between President Obama and Senator McCain in 2008. The West has always been a region of fierce independence and a willingness to buck traditions. The challenges we face today require that spirit and creativity.
Any new winning coalition must include America’s growing Hispanic population, which makes up over 20 percent of the population in six states from this Western bloc, as well as Florida. The Hispanic community has much in common with what I call conservative values, from an emphasis on family values to issues of law enforcement and education. I have seen this in my own home state of California.
Now is the time to win back the hearts and minds of all Americans and embrace the founding principles of this great nation. With so much at stake, this is an endeavor that will require all of our participation; no one group can do it alone. This undertaking will also require practical solutions and the leadership of young Americans, whose future is ever more on the line. We must build coalitions that honor our shared traditions and principles, or we will jeopardize our future. It’s time to come together. | <urn:uuid:c50a0d04-7631-4df3-a841-c2e53a7fa182> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://humanevents.com/2009/09/05/new-coalitions-for-a-new-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953662 | 699 | 1.507813 | 2 |
By Emil Danielyan
Armenia condemned on Friday eight former U.S. secretaries of state for jointly speaking out against the passage of a congressional resolution that refers to the 1915-1918 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as a genocide.
In a joint letter on Tuesday, the former officials urged the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to keep the resolution from reaching the House floor, saying its adoption would jeopardize America’s national security and further strain Turkish-Armenian relations. While recognizing the “horrible tragedy” suffered by Ottoman Armenians, the signatories -- among them Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger -- emphasized Turkey’s “geo-strategic importance” for the United States.
“Passage of the resolution would harm our foreign policy objectives to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia,” they said. “It would also strain our relations with Turkey, and would endanger our national security interests in the region, including the safety of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“It is quite unfortunate that eight experienced diplomats would buy into Turkish manipulation,” Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian responded in an extraordinary statement.
Oskanian specifically denied the former state secretaries’ claim that there are now “some hopeful signs” of a Turkish-Armenian rapprochement. “I regret to say that there is no process in place to promote normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey. Expressing concern about damaging a process that doesn’t exist is disingenuous,” he said, adding that Ankara is sticking to its preconditions for establishing diplomatic relations with Yerevan.
One of those preconditions has been an end to the decades-long Armenian campaign for international recognition of the genocide. Ankara also makes the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations conditional on a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that would satisfy Azerbaijan. Successive Turkish governments have refused to drop these preconditions despite pressure from the current and previous U.S. administrations.
Oskanian said he has written to Pelosi to “express our deep concerns and to dismiss as unfounded any implication that a resolution that addresses matters of human rights and genocide could damage anyone’s bilateral relations.”
The ex-secretaries’ letter was also condemned by Armenian-American lobby groups that were behind the genocide resolution’s introduction in the U.S. Congress early this year. “We are, as Americans, especially troubled that, in warning Congress not to make a simple anti-genocide statement for fear of upsetting Turkey, these officials would outsource our nation’s moral conscience to a foreign government,” Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, said in a statement.
The draft resolution calls on President George W. Bush to “ensure that the foreign policy of the United States reflects appropriate understanding” of the Armenian genocide and to “accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide.” It has already been co-sponsored by most members of the House of Representatives. Pelosi, who has backed similar bills in the past, is expected to put it to the vote this fall.
The Bush administration strongly opposes the bill’s passage with arguments similar to the ones made by the eight former secretaries of state.
In his annual messages to the Armenian-American community, Bush has described the 1915 slaughter of more than one million Armenians as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century but stopped short of calling it a genocide. He has at the same time cited a 2002 international study which concluded that the massacres meet the internationally accepted definition of genocide. | <urn:uuid:304656b8-a273-405e-8bdf-0eb8266a7526> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.azatutyun.am/a/1590697.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959052 | 790 | 1.679688 | 2 |
CrossWalk: Fairness-Enhanced Node Representation Learning
Keywords:AI For Social Impact (AISI Track Papers Only)
AbstractThe potential for machine learning systems to amplify social inequities and unfairness is receiving increasing popular and academic attention. Much recent work has focused on developing algorithmic tools to assess and mitigate such unfairness. However, there is little work on enhancing fairness in graph algorithms. Here, we develop a simple, effective and general method, CrossWalk, that enhances fairness of various graph algorithms, including influence maximization, link prediction and node classification, applied to node embeddings. CrossWalk is applicable to any random walk based node representation learning algorithm, such as DeepWalk and Node2Vec. The key idea is to bias random walks to cross group boundaries, by upweighting edges which (1) are closer to the groups’ peripheries or (2) connect different groups in the network. CrossWalk pulls nodes that are near groups’ peripheries towards their neighbors from other groups in the embedding space, while preserving the necessary structural properties of the graph. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness of our algorithm to enhance fairness in various graph algorithms, including influence maximization, link prediction and node classification in synthetic and real networks, with only a very small decrease in performance.
How to Cite
Khajehnejad, A., Khajehnejad, M., Babaei, M., Gummadi, K. P., Weller, A., & Mirzasoleiman, B. (2022). CrossWalk: Fairness-Enhanced Node Representation Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(11), 11963-11970. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21454
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Chaplains in the navy have been told that they may perform gay marriages in navy chapels, if they are legal in the particular state and if the chaplain is willing to do so:
Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies — if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.
The advisory came in the form of an April 13 memo issued to all chaplains, in which the Chief of Navy Chaplains, Admiral Michael Tidd, said the Chaplain Corps was revising its Tier I training manuals, which had previously indicated that same-sex marriages are not authorized on federal property.
Instead, Tidd called for chaplains to comply with service-wide efforts underway to be more accepting of homosexuality and same-sex marriage as the end of the military policy on homosexuality nears.
Citing “additional legal review” by Navy attorneys, the admiral said the Navy “has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation neutral.”
“If the base is located in a state where same-sex marriage is legal, then the base facilities may be used to celebrate the marriage,” the admiral’s directive states.
The admiral’s memo also gives chaplains permission to “marry” homosexual couples – but would not force them to perform ceremonies.
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Childminder Forest Learning
Stay 'n' Play
GROW responded to a plea from a local registered childminder who was enthusiastic about being able to attend Forest School sessions with the children that she cares for during the week. Being well networked, the childminder said that a number of other 'minders were also keen to attend forest sessions with their toddlers, but that as they work from home and mostly work on their own, they don't have the resources to provide forest school learning environments in a way that schools or nurseries are able to.
GROW started planning to put sessions specifically for childminders in place, and, after consulting with a wide group of childminders, have scheduled sessions on alternate Wednesday and Thursday mornings from the start of the Autumn term 2018.
As always, GROW recommends regular attendance at Forest School sessions to enable children to develop a real connection with the natural environment and familiarity with the woods, resources, and people! Hopefully Wirral childminders will continue their love affair with the forest and we'll be able to maintain the group through the coming seasons!
You can see for yourself in the gallery above how the young children attending have engaged and connected with the woods!
*GROW childminder sessions are very popular and well attended. If you find that there are no available spaces to book, and are interested in attending regular childminder forest learning sessions, please contact GROW here and we will notify you of spaces as they become available.
If there's sufficient interest, we may even set up another group!
Balancing on a log & making a Seesaw!
A lovely moment from our Childminder stay’n’play’ sessions.
Balancing on an uneven log, this little boy asked whether the log could be made into a seesaw... after some shared thinking and co-construction, a seesaw was created.... and after an initial bumpy trial, with a friend, it worked quite well, don’t you think? 💚 😊
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'👍 such a brilliant day ... cannot thank you enough... all the minders agree is way great 👍'
'Just an amazing day at forest school ... the children all did amazing and were really engaged.. makes all the planning worth while'
'it was lovely to watch the children today, they are really gaining in confidence as they get used to the environment. They got so much out of today's session and it was great that it was so child-led, the children loved having the freedom to explore and were full of great ideas!’.
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Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty is dead
WASHINGTON-The Associated Press
A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race.
The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Aug. 2. If they choose not to extend or replace the larger New START treaty when it expires in early 2021, there will be no legally binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time in nearly a half century.
The U.S. blames Russia for the demise of the treaty, saying that for years Moscow has been developing and fielding weapons that violate the treaty and threaten the U.S. and its allies, particularly in Europe.
But without the constraints of the treaty, the Trump administration says it can now counter Russia - and China. The U.S. has complained for years of an unfair playing field - that Russia was developing weapons that violated the treaty and China, which wasn't a signatory, was developing similar weapons that would have violated it, too.
President Donald Trump hasn't committed to extending or replacing New START, which imposed limits starting in 2018 on the number of U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear warheads and launchers. Trump has called New START "just another bad deal" made by the Obama administration, and Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said in June that it's unlikely the administration will agree to extend the treaty for five years, which could be done without legislative action in either capital.
The Trump administration thinks talks about extending New START are premature. The administration claims that with China's growing arsenal of nuclear warheads, Beijing can no longer be excluded from nuclear arms control agreements. Trump has expressed a desire to negotiate a trilateral arms control deal signed by the U.S., Russia and China.
"We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. "I will say Russia would like to do something on a nuclear treaty and that's OK with me. They'd like to do something and so would I."
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said this week that the collapse of the treaty means a bit of security in Europe is being lost.
"We regret the fact that Russia has not done what was necessary to save the INF treaty. Now we call all the more on Russia and the U.S. to preserve the New START treaty as a cornerstone of worldwide arms control," Maas said. "Nuclear powers such as China must also face up to their responsibility on arms control - they have more weight in the world than at the time of the Cold War."
Arms control advocates remain worried about the future.
Laura Kennedy, who formerly represented the U.S. at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, warned Americans not to let their eyes glaze over when confronted with the complex diplomacy of arms control. She said they should raise the issue now with Congress and all candidates running for the White House in 2020.
"This isn't 'wonkiness.' It's our future and the future of the planet," Kennedy said. "Nuclear issues are so consequential that we simply cannot abandon a serious arms control effort. Nor can the U.S. afford to cite its concerns over INF or other issues as an excuse to let the New START treaty lapse."
Over its lifetime, the 1987 so-called INF treaty led to the elimination of 2,692 U.S. and Soviet Union nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles. Until its demise, the treaty banned land-based missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,410 miles).
David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said withdrawing from the treaty was "shortsighted." He said it will trigger a competition in conventionally armed missiles that will undermine stability.
Wright also noted Russia's has complained about U.S. missile systems in Poland and Romania. Wright said they are intended to launch interceptor missiles in defense, but appear to be capable of launching offensive cruise missiles as well.
"To claim the United States is justified in pulling out of the treaty because of Russian violations does not take the full picture into account," said Wright, who accuses the Trump administration of being averse to any negotiated agreements that constrain U.S. weapons systems.
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“You are only limited by your own imagination” - Benny Bellamacina
Let me congratulate everyone who delivers training using the power packed authoring tool ‘Articulate Storyline’. Why are instructional designers all over the world in awe of Storyline? Because it aids free thinking in instructional designers. It offers countless opportunities to create complex interactivities, assessments, games and learning activities without having to depend on computer programmers, and helps you develop courses that are more interactive and sophisticated.
Let us see some of the countless options offered to a creative instructional designer by Storyline.
1. Logical Presentation
Storyline is the best tool for presenting content in a well-structured and logical manner. It offers ready to use templates and highly interactive presentation patterns.
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|Images/ Diagrams||Single select|
|Rollovers||Drag and drop|
These are just a few examples of interactive presentation and effective assessment patterns that are easily done through Storyline.
Articulate Storyline is very handy to create engaging and cost-effective stories. This tool has a good collection of characters, both real and cartoon, with different poses and expressions. There are male and female, white and black, young and old characters to use depending on the requirements of the story. Built-in callouts of Storyline can be used to show the conversations providing enhanced visual output. All these features of Articulate Storyline help in developing visually rich and engaging stories in e-learning.
Here is an example of an interactive storytelling approach with different characters used to narrate a story.
Articulate Storyline makes it possible for instructional designers to think out of the box, and turn those ideas into reality. Apart from the built-in components available in Articulate Storyline, we can also customize the components just how we want them. The best part is that the components are readily available for you.
Check out the gamified example below.
It is a well-known fact that scenarios grab the learner’s interest and help in knowledge retention and retrieval. This strategy is ideal when training employees on compliance, harassment, safety, and related topics.
Storyline has many built-in scenario packs, with different characters, choices and options. Each character is available in 10 different poses, which helps in create engaging and interactive scenarios.
Check out the example below.
4. Interactive Videos
Instructional designers opt for interactive videos mainly for content-heavy courses related to product, process, HR or procedure trainings. Videos are best for software simulation and for brief introductions. Storyline helps create interactive and appealing videos by adding controllers, graded and non-graded questions over the video, etc.,
As you’ve seen, using the features of Storyline can help you create unconventional and innovative courses. Please share your thoughts and opinions on the same!
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Well once again the state government is acting just like the federal government. They both are going to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and the children.
In the Feb. 23, Empire on Page 3, a story said that thousands of families will no longer receive checks to pay for child care. This would include the welfare-to-work programs.
The representatives and the senators are still receiving $171 a day for being in Juneau. Remember this is not wages, it is just for being here.
When will the big shots understand that by balancing the budget on the poor and the children is wrong? When will they understand the fact that by making the poor children live as poor as possible just makes it harder to rise the standard of living for those children?
The state is now teaching the children to be poor and keeps them on the welfare roles as they grow up by saying the wages we get paid is more important then your child care.
If we cannot afford to help our children who are born poor, why is it that the representatives and senators make at least $10,000 per month and they haven't had a cut in pay of any kind in the history of this state?
If we cannot keep care of the children who are born poor, then we cannot afford to pay any person that is in any office or works for any government more than $2,000 per month.
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In Codependent No More, Melody Beattie introduced the world to the term codependency.
Now a modern classic, this book established Beattie as a pioneer in
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I heard a doctor talking on the radio the other day about this very thing. They were saying hospitals were giving babies shots without getting the parents permission. This doctor did not believe that infants were ready for all of these vaccinations and some are now being recognized as problematic, causing autism and more. I would research this very carefully if I were you.
I know there is a lot of hoopla about babies and immunizations but I can tell you this...I would have never forgiven myself had I forgone the Hep B vaccine for my children and they had caught it as infants. Now, THAT could be deadly.
Hep B is spread rather easily. Why take the risk by not getting your children vaccinated?
Before you vaccinate a baby, especially one whose immune system is just building, and especially vaccines that contain mercury, or thimerosal, please read this document:
They can always get one later. Vaccinosis, I call it. Don't forget, autism is one of the side effects, SIDs is another. The companies that make vaccines cannot be held responsible if a child has a reaction to them. Your choice.
I have a friend that home schooled so they didn't have to get them. They are in their teens now, and the healthiest kids I've seen. Never sick.
The following document was provided by
Burton A. Waisbren, Sr of the Waisbren Clinic
UNIVERSAL HEPATITIS B VACCINATION:
A MORATORIUM SHOULD BE PLACED ON THIS EXPERIMENT
By Burton A. Waisbren, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.P., F.I.D.S.A.
Note: The information on this website is not a substitute for
diagnosis and treatment by a qualified, licensed professional.
My position is that the program of universal hepatitis B vaccination in the United States (U.S.) is an experiment being performed on our babies. A moratorium should be placed on this experiment until risk/benefit ratios are clearly defined.
First, I will explain why and how this experiment was implemented. I will then analyze the rationales used to sell the program to the public health establishment, state legislatures, and then the pediatricians. I will discuss the methods used to implement the experiment. Finally, I will offer opinions as to why a moratorium on universal hepatitis B vaccination would be beneficial to all concerned.
The concept of universal hepatitis B vaccination in the U.S. was conceived by Dr. Harold Margolis, the head of the hepatitis branch of the CDC and his staff. The concept was based on the following assumptions: Hepatitis B vaccine is safe; the attempt to vaccinate high risk individuals in the U.S. is failing to stem the spread of the disease; five percent or more of the individuals in the U.S. can be expected to get this disease; hepatitis B infection is spread by those without known risk factors; the "only way" to solve the problem of hepatitis B infection in the U.S. is by universal vaccination of babies.
Let us first examine these rationales.
1. Hepatitis B vaccination is safe.
Safety is not even mentioned in the initial presentations regarding universal hepatitis B vaccination. In later discussions flat assertions are made that the vaccine is safe.
We all know that no vaccine, medication, or procedure is completely safe. The question always is, how safe? One wonders how the CDC continues to claim safety for this vaccine when they must be aware of thousands, yes thousands, of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of adverse events that followed hepatitis B vaccination. Included among these are numerous autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (M.S.), Guillain Barre
I did not vaccinnate my youngest when he was a baby, though the vaccine was available. About the only way I can even imagine a child contracting Hep B is if they were in a group day care situation and they were maybe bit by another child breaking the skin. I signed waivers for him with the schools until they were all teens and then I did send them into the doc for vaccines. My family doc did the same thing with his kids who are the same ages roughly as mine. It's been many years since the vaccine became available so perhaps even my doc is encouraging parents who have children in a risk situation to vaccinate, I'm just sharing what I did. The vaccine was not available when my older kids were babies so it was never a decision to be made. I'm not hugely big on some of the newer vaccines like chickenpox etc. because I don't believe that enough time has gone by to prove the efficacy. I'm not even a huge proponent of the Heb B vaccine as a life long lasting vaccine - too many people seem to have to go get "revaccinated".
One other thing, the original poster says "the disease is spread rather easily". I'm wondering what they mean as I thought it was not "easily spread" much like Hep C which if my aging brain cells can remember back 15 years ago is what my doc said. I thought it was Hep A that was easer to catch from food and things and that Hep A is acute and does not become chronic?
Hi Everyone- Well I wasn't even educated enough to 2nd guess any vaccinations for my kids, but I can say this. Both my kids got double Hep B vaccinations- one right after birth I think, the next at the 1st Dr visit. And they were fine. They got extra Hep B vaccines cuz I'm Hep C+ and they said the vaccine had some effectiveness against the kids getting Hep C from me. I wonder if that's true or just what they thought "back then"? My kids are ancient- 9 and 13- lol.
Anyway, just my input. My kids also had ther live polio vcaccine, and now I guess they just give the "killed" vaccine. Anything regarding your kids is so hard- we want the best for them and just wish we ALWAYS knew what it was!
The rate of autism has dramatically increased, currently 1 out of 250 kids and lots of scientific minds are pointing to vaccines. Although most of us had vaccinations since the '50's with seemingly few problems, they have more vaccinations today, different formulations and frequently inject 4 or more at a time. Since Hep B is spread sexually and through blood transfusions I don't think the benefits outweigh the risk of vaccinating babies. I pointed this out to a hospital nurse who was trying to persuade us to vaccinate my day old grandson and she became so rabid I wondered what was really at stake. The drug companies are really pushing this one.
Speaking of drug companies pushing, I live in Texas where Governer Rick Perry unilaterally signed an executive mandate that every girl age 12 and over would be vaccinated against HPV (contracted sexually) in order to attend public school. HPV can cause cervical cancer but there are 17 strains and the vaccine was effective against only two. Not to mention that long term side effects were unknown. Thankfully there was such a public uproar over this invasion of privacy and body that the legislature overturned the order. The manufacturer Pfizer is on a campaign to have the whole nation of preteen girls immunized and stands to make billions.
So bottom line is I would consider very carefully the risk/benefit and if you choose to have them try to do one or two at a time so the baby's system doesn't get overwhelmed. And you don't have to be vaccinated to attend public school. All you need is a letter from the doctor saying that it would be detrimental to that individual's health.
You just do not understand the whole concept of immunization. If all of us felt this way that you do years ago we would have not received the smallpox vacine and it woud still be around today. The fact is it was pretty much eradicated in the US due to imunization. It's not about immunizing the baby. It's about the adolesent that was immunized as a baby will now be protected against this terrible disease. I promise you it is a terrible disease. The physicans and nurses only get upset when you do not immunize because they feel it is a risk the children need not have. Your little bit of money you pay them for a shot in the grand scheme of things is very small. I was just looking for information on side effects and stumbled on this site. I hope that this is just a small group of people that beleive this way. The bad diseases need to be abolished.
Ridiculous. Merck pharmaceutical is pushing this Hep-B vaccine in neo-natal wards and that's why we hear about it so much. It's big Pharma, plain and simple. Remember just a few months ago when it was almost mandatory that all little girls be vaccinated for HPV? Guess what? Merck lobbied hard for mandatory vaccinations since it was their vaccine that was being offered. Public outcry finally put a stop to this fiasco. I would hope public outcry would do the same for the Hep-B vaccine.
Look, if we use the hovering parent model, we should vaccinate a child for every possible disease. Typhoid vaccine just in case they get around some bad water? How about yellow fever vaccine in case one day they might go to Africa. And oh, let's start them on anti-malarials right now because you just never know about these mosquitos now days.
If the mother has Hepatitis or if there is a documented specific risk of contracting Hepatitis, then fine, take the shot. Otherwise, leave your kids alone to develop the strong natural immunity that nature bestowed on them.
when you get hbv when a baby the immune system cannot fight the virus and you have almost 90-100% probability of cronic hepatitis B
when adult you have 5-10% probability of cronic hepatitis B so maybe only adults can be so risky and not make a vaccine
this is why i would vaccinate my children, plus hepatitis B can Be deadly (cirrhosis, liver cancer and on a small percentage you dye in about 2-3 weeks, i don't know the name in english i think acute liver failure) and all medicines are not allowed on babies, so just make your choice...
hbv is more than 100% times more contagious than hiv, plus if you want to kill it you need about 2-3 hours boiling water at 100°.when hbvdna is very high you find the virus even in the saliva.
if i was vaccinated when a baby my liver was not cirrotic now...and i would have very low risk for liver cancer
try to study the virus and hepatitis B and after make your choice about what is more risky between the potential deadly virus and the almost free sides vaccine and also check the spread of it before the vaccine..in family we all have it (aunts and cousins as well) and my house street 90% of people my age or older has got it...todays after vaccine against hbv is mandatory nobody
forgot to say my mother has already had liver transplant, 3 parents have died from it several years ago, i have cronic hbv and corrhosis my sister cronic hepatitis B, only my father cleared the virus
i think vaccine would have all saved us from hepatitis....
My wife just tested positive for Hepatitis B. She must have got it in the last 2 years, because she was tested when she had our first kid. She is currently pregnant with our second kid and I'm researching what Hep B is all about. Currently we all need to get tested to see if we all have it. Likely she just recently got it while we were on vacation in Dominican. If an infant under 5 gets it, they are 90 percent likely to have chronic symptoms for the rest of their lives. And 38 percent of infants will get it from their mothers before they are 5 years old, if their mother has it and they are not vaccinated.
So I am kinda freaking out that my 2 year old has already gotten it, and that unborn one will get it. 10 percent of infants born to HepB mothers catch it, IF the babies are vaccinated as soon as they are born. As an adult the virus isn't that scary - but to kids it's pretty deadly.
they are 90 percent likely to have chronic symptoms for the rest of their lives.
98% chances to get cronic without vaccine at birth and until adults, this is the way hbv persists in the world because adults clear it 98% times
even with vaccine there is a risk of 5-10% cronic infection
your wife must be hbeag neg (hbeag can infect thru placenta) and hbvdna und naturally by her immune system or if immune system can t by antiviral tenofovir, this way the babay can be saved from hbv close to 100%
Likely she just recently got it while we were on vacation in Dominican.
no hbv is transmitted by sex or blood, unlickly.healthcare settings and dentists can be an easy way to get it in US too
she is probably infected from birth if you find other infected or that cleared in your family
so just make sure your wife take antivirals and baby gets vaccine and immune globulins at birth
as for hbv don t worry that's kind of benign illness if you know you have it and monitor if any liver damage happens and only in case there is liver damage you lower replication by antivirals
hbv in babies is usually not dangerous without any damge to them, they are used by virus as a mean of transimmiting infetion by immune tollerance with very high hbvdna, in this phase there is no damage to the liver because there is no immune reaction at all.when they get adults and start fighting infection liver damage happens and a treatment might be necessary
hbv is not a deadly disease, only if not monitor it can make other deadly diseases like cirrhosis and liver cancer but this happens late in the life not as young
Well my wife didn't get it from birth, because when she had our first kid 2 years ago, they tested her and she didn't. She was vaccinated against it 7 years ago.... So I don't know whats going on. Maybe the first test didn't show it - or the second test is a mistake? I cant believe she had an affair or did drugs - we just arent in that lifestyle. But me and my daughter went to get tested and are waiting for the results. I'm not too worried about me getting it - it seems manageable for adults. It seems to me that the person most at risk is our 2 year old.
getting infected after vaccine is very very unlikely, a recent study also showed that vaccine is still protective even if antibody goes lower than 10miu/ml.
did they check if she responded to vaccine 7 years ago by hbsab test?about 10% don t respond to vaccine so a blood test for hbsab must be made
the only occasion i saw losing antibodies for hbv was if an hcv infection occurs or maybe transmission of hbv+hdv coinfection.
did they check all other viruses C,D,E?
i think that helthcare settings are the most probable way but also a cut with infected objects can
there is also another very rare possibility but this is too rare, getting infection by an immune escape hbv mutant.these are very rare and develop on rare genotypes naturally (E or G) or on those treated in 2000-2005 with very weak drugs like lamivudine or adefovir which make many hbv mutants and even these hbsag immune escape
check all the tests and post them if you like, also be sure you are seeing an expert liver specialist not a normal doctor
Thanks for all your info again Stefano. The lab results came back from our blood tests today (I cant believe how fast that was). Good news! Me and my daughter have not gotten the virus, also neither of us is immune - so we are going tomorrow to get the shots. And it's free (Canada).
So now we need to vaccinate the unborn one as soon as he/she is born and with any luck, it will just be my wife with it, which should be manageable.
I don't think there as any follow up test for my wife when she got vaccinated with twinrix, so maybe it didn't take? Still - I'm so curious how she got it. In 2008, the overall reported rate of acute hepatitis B infection in Canada was less than one per 100,000 people living in Canada. So she would have had to try really hard to get it here I think... But anyway, I think we good for now.
I don't think there as any follow up test for my wife when she got vaccinated with twinrix, so maybe it didn't take?
in that case she might have it already, if she is hbeag neg it is difficult she can trasmit the virus since hbvdna can be und for long periods and flactuate
just make sure that she is hbeag neg and hbvdna undetactable for delivery because vaccine fails easily if hbeag is positive and high hbvdna (during pregnancy there is also activation of virus usually), in that case she just need to take tenofovir to make hbvdna und and hbeag neg
I got some awesome news last week! We went to the Center for Disease Control, and talked to the specialist there, and he said the test results were bizarre, so re-did the blood test, and my wife does NOT have Hep B, and never did! What a relief! He seemed to say that although it was very rare to see a bad test - that there were "huge implications" and the testing process would have to change. Imagine if I had freaked out and seperated from my wife or something... Thanks for all the help. Good luck!
I have a very seriously ill son that is now 17 years old. He has an IGE level of 27,000. Now, if you are a Dr. you understand that is nuts. He is being treated with T-cells now and it is helping a little. We have struggled since his "Birth". He is one of 5 children in NY state to be documented as "born with allergies". However after constant research, was he "born with allergies"? I think his immune system was compromised when he was given his first Hep B inoculation in the hospital without our permission.
To blindly not realize that this inoculation COULD have caused this issue, is not looking at all the options. I personally feel that it did and now my son will deal with this for the rest of his life. I also feel blessed that he did not suffer brain damage or autism, but he will suffer chronic allergies and asthma for the rest of his life.
Our children are were/are used as controlled lab rats in the herd manipulation. http://thinktwice.com/hepB_sho.htm
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Every spring break, social media is inundated with pictures and posts chronicling students’ vacations around the world. For many college-minded sophomores, juniors and admitted seniors, these vacations include at least a few college visits.
Though spring break is a very common time for students to visit colleges, it is not the end of the world if you have yet to step on a college campus. There is still time for you to explore the place that may become your future home.
“I enjoy college visits because of the inside view they provide into the lives of students at the school,” junior Catherine Franceski said.
The opportunity to see dorms, talk with students and learn the history of the school is vital to envisioning yourself at the college, and deciding whether it is the right environment for you.
According to the November 2014 Campus Visit Checklist given to juniors by the CHS Counseling Department, “there is no substitute for seeing a college yourself.”
Pictures and interactive maps of the campus only provide a limited view of campus life.
Students are given five excused days for college visits each year, and while missing school is not ideal, sometimes being able to spend an entire weekend at a college might be worth it.
According to the Campus College Checklist, college visits include more than just meandering around the campus alone.
In order to make the most of your next college trip, here are a few important tips you should remember.
To get a feel for the atmosphere of the school, students should interact with other students and observe life on the campus.
“The main thing I looked for when I visited colleges was the atmosphere,” senior Luke Hall said. “I wanted it to be very welcoming.”
According to the Campus Visit Checklist, one can look at bulletin boards, eat in the cafeteria with students, listen to the college radio station or read any school publications on their visits.
The students on the campus are valuable resources when determining what your life will be like as a student of the college.
According to a March 2011 U.S. News & World Report article, prospective students should ask current students what they like most about the college and why they chose to attend it.
Students can also be valuable in letting you know what vices the college has. No college is absolutely perfect, and information from a current student might save you from a disappointing college experience.
Making stops at all the places where you would spend the most time as a student is a final important tip.
According to a list on CollegeXpress, an college-help website, students should stop at “quad and hangout spots,” student dorms and dining halls, classrooms, the health center and the gym or athletic facilities.
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Deepening moats has been a lively topic in UK politics recently. One British MP expensed the public for the cost of deepening the moat at his castle and has been forced to resign. We discussed FOI and the MP expense scandal recently.
We have, of course, followed with some considerable amusement the contortions of the UK Met Office to avoid disclosing data. Last year, we reported how John Mitchell, Chief Scientist at the UK Met Office, obstructed compliance with an FOI request for his IPCC review comments by wrongfully claiming that his IPCC correspondence had been destroyed and then that it was his “personal” property, resiling from these absurd claims only when asked whether the Met Office had paid his salary and expenses for trips to IPCC destinations.
Recently, we’ve followed the amusing contortions at the Hadley Center webpage as they are conflicted between their use of Phil Jones’ land station data (CRUTEM3) and Phil Jones’ absurd campaign to keep CRU station data secret.
The Met Office webpage for downloading CRUTEM3 data http://hadobs.metoffice.com/crutem3/data/download.html presently says:
Station data: Most of the station data was given to us under conditions that don’t allow us to redistribute it; but the CLIMAT reports we use to update the data in near-real time have no such restriction. Summaries of these reports are available on this page.
Although many Met Office pages can be retrieved from the Wayback archive, this particular page has a robots.txt block and is not available at the Wayback archive. I wasn’t able to locate a google cache (though perhaps someone else can.)
The statement here raises an interesting question:
1) who is it that it is attaching conditions to the station data and, by what authority are they doing so?
2) If it’s Phil Jones, who is also subject to the UK Environmental Information Regulations, does he have the authority to attach conditions to the Met Office use of this data?
3) If the Met Office can’t show their underlying data, maybe they should discontinue the use of Phil Jones’ data and use data that they can show
4) Maybe whoever is funding Phil Jones (and I believe that the US Department of Energy is one of his funders) should require him to deliver the data back to them.
Update: The following sent to CRU on June 25, 2009:
Dear Mr Palmer,
Pursuant to the Environmental Information Regulations, I hereby request a copy of any digital version of the CRUTEM station data set that has been sent from CRU to Peter Webster and/or any other person at Georgia Tech between January 1, 2007 and Jun 25, 2009.
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During a speech by H.E. Dr. Mohammad Y. Al-Hashel, Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait at the Global Informatics Forum, His Excellency outlined a list of fintech initiatives by the bank to “revamp and upgrade the IT infrastructure” of existing financial systems in Kuwait, in a bid to follow what he called “global best practices”.
However, it should also be noted that these additions will take some time to implement, even the one already in the midst of a rollout.
Some central bank initiatives that were brought up include:
1. The Kuwait National Payment System (KNPS)
One of the key components, Dr. Mohammad opines, is that startups and entrepreneurs could interact with and benefit from an improved payments system.
Therefore, the KNPS mega project is being developed with local banks and payment gateways and set to roll out in two phases—one in 2019 and the other in 2020.
The system will encompass other initiatives by the central bank, including the Government Electronic Banking System and digital currency (two segments mentioned below), along with others like Wages Protection System, digital currency, and Automated Clearing House.
2. The Government Electronic Banking System
The goal is to replace paper-based processes and improve efficiency by executing all government transactions online. The process is an online automated cycle that is instantaneous and more accurate compared to existing protocols.
The system is already live and slowly being rolled out to all government bodies.
3. Infrastructure for Digital Currency
The Central Bank of Kuwait is in the midst of a plan to prepare infrastructure for digital currencies. The infrastructure is being built in anticipation of the bank issuing their own digital currency, where if Kuwait does choose to head in that direction, the central bank would by then already have the tools ready to go live.
The plan would include a Digital Kuwaiti Dinar, which the bank aims to facilitate exchange against tokenised assets.
4. The Launch of a Regulatory Sandbox Framework
The Central Bank of Kuwait has also announced the Regulatory Sandbox Framework, a monitored and safe space for fintechs to experiment with innovative products and services. Usually, while regulators are keeping an eye on fintechs in a sandbox, regulations are lighter to encourage experimentation. Fintechs in the sandbox could benefit from fast-tracked approvals or, as the central bank opines, lower capital requirements.
The central bank will even take on an advisory mantle for projects in the regulatory sandbox, particularly regarding information security effectiveness, operating model design and most crucially, regulatory compliance.
The central bank is looking for ideas that are secure, useful and beneficial to society.
The central bank will also treat startups differently based on their size and sophistication, with proportionate rules at different scaling levels. Regulations would also be tailored to specific risks inherent in their different business models, and provide a chance for the smaller, less complex firms.
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From Chapter 20: "But as she put on her hat she burst out laughing. Love was a unlike the article served up in books: the joy, though genuine, was different; the mystery an unexpected mystery."Ahh. This rings so true to me.
I got off on the right foot with Helen and her letters to her sister. First she is in love, then whoops! No, she's not. That whole story might have annoyed me if it weren't for the reason: Paul's reaction to her the next morning. Scared! Men who are scared of what their family will think, I have known a few. It is very tiring. To strong-willed women at any time of history or even today, men who fear their fathers or are too stupid to think for themselves (as Charles often appears) are hopeless. And if you think you can change a male who is that way, you are wrong! How sharp of Helen to run the other way.
Although I don't have a sister and I will never really know sisterly love, I felt the relationship between the Schlegel women to be true through to the end. Mrs. Bast seemed like a plot device as did their Aunt Juley. But I suppose we have all known some people in superficial ways, and I wouldn't say my meddling neighbor is a plot device in my life, but I could.
I wish someone would defend Mr. Bast. I think he was sort of crazy. There's probably a historical reason for his actions being London and industrial and his desire to improve himself. The sister's claimed they were thinking of his well-being, but it certainly seemed to me that they were making him a bit of a pet. It seemed Tibby was their pet too, but less so, and he was detached, probably because he was raised without a mother's love.
Much of the prose in the book went to describing the beauty and ugliness of England which movies can do with one good brush stroke, so I lucked out when I discovered it was on television one weekend. I've seen it before in the theater years ago. It came on in the afternoon with no commercials, no breaks for 2 1/2 hours. Vanessa Redgrave's performance was way over-the-top. (She played the first Mrs. Wilcox.) However Anthony Hopkins's Mr. Wilcox was perfection.
Midway through the book I started to think of each character was an element of a whole being. Helen, the idealistic youth; Leonard Bast, the insecure dreamer; Dolly, the mouth without the brain; Margaret, the reasonable matron; and so on. I found this diminished my desire for the story, so I chucked that idea after a couple of chapters. It was as if I was watching myself read a book for the purpose of talking about what I was reading. Do you know what I mean? And is there any way to get around this when you know you have to say something and it better be in complete sentences?
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New York—July 22, 2011
While research from the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows that almost one-third of skateboarding injuries occur in beginners, experts at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York say the increasingly extreme nature of stunts performed by more experienced child and adolescent riders, coupled with improper use of protective equipment, is a major risk factor for injury.
“The number of young amateur skateboarders performing extreme stunts like freestyle skateboarding down high railings and stairwells is on the rise,” says Shevaun Mackie Doyle, M.D., a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery.
Extreme skateboarders aren’t the only ones getting injured; city kids who use skateboards as a primary mode of transportation are at high risk, too, says Dr. Doyle. In 2009 alone, nearly 75,000 skateboarding injuries were recorded – the majority of cases being children under the age of 15, almost a 25 percent increase since 2004, according to the CPSC and Safe Kids USA.
Not wearing proper protective equipment like wrist guards or a helmet is often to blame.
Dr. Doyle most frequently sees wrist and shin fractures caused by skateboarding falls, which can put riders out of commission for up to four weeks with a cast or splint. Head injuries, some potentially life-threatening, are another common skateboarding injury that typically occurs when a rider slips off the board either doing a trick or hitting uneven pavement, hitting his or her head on the ground.
“Falling as little as two feet can cause skull fracture and brain injury,” says Dr. Doyle.
Safe Kids USA estimates that wheeled sports such as bicycling, skateboarding and inline skating account for almost 50 percent of head injuries that occur in children engaged in recreational activities, including football and soccer.
These injuries are also common in BMX biking, another popular X-Games event, when young riders mimic the extreme antics seen on television in parking lots, parks or off-road. Flipping over handlebars can result in fracture and concussion.
As autumn fast approaches, Dr. Doyle reminds children not to imitate the extreme riders they see in the X-Games as they ride their skateboards back to school. She advises parents and children to keep the following tips in mind to prevent skateboarding injury:
“Following these simple safety rules will help reduce preventable and potentially life-threatening injury to our children, making our streets, skate parks and playgrounds safer,” says Dr. Doyle.
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Strategies of commitment and other essays / Thomas C. Schelling
- Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Strategies of commitment -- Climate and society. What makes greenhouse sense? ; The economic diplomacy of geoengineering ; Intergenerational and international discounting -- Commitment as self-command. Self-command in practice, in policy, and in a theory of rational choice ; Coping rationally with lapses from rationality ; Against backsliding -- Addictive drugs : the cigarette experience ; Life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness ; Should numbers determine whom to save? -- Economics and social policy. What do economists know? ; Why does economics only help with easy problems? ; Prices as regulatory instruments -- Weapons and warfare. Meteors, mischief, and war ; Research by accident ; Vietnam : reflections and lessons -- Social dynamics. Social mechanisms and social dynamics ; Dynamic models of segregation -- Decisions of the highest order. The legacy of Hiroshima.
- Schelling--a 2005 Nobel Prize winner-- has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why. These essays convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. This perspective has several characteristics: it is strategic in that it assumes that an important part of people's behavior is motivated by the thought of influencing other people's expectations; it views the mind as being separable into two or more parts (rational/irrational; present-minded/future-minded); it is motivated by policy concerns--smoking and other addictions, global warming, segregation, nuclear war; and while it accepts many of the basic assumptions of economics--that people are forward-looking, rational decision makers, that resources are scarce, and that incentives are important--it is open to modifying them when appropriate, and open to the findings and insights of other social science disciplines.--From publisher description.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Twenty years ago, the health trend was fat-free food. Then as people learnt about the benefits of fat and the difference between good fats & bad fats, the focus moved away from avoiding fats to avoiding sugar. The sugar-free movement increased the use & popularity of artificial sweeteners to replace sugar. Now the latest research has Sydney experts suggesting that these sweeteners could actually be causing you to eat more and therefore put on weight.
University of Sydney – artificial sweeteners research 2016
In an attempt to discover why previous studies had found those who ate artificial sweeteners put on more weight than those who did not, the University of Sydney Charles Perkins Centre performed a study over 5 days on two groups of fruit flies. Both were given healthy food, but one group had artificial sweetener added. The group that ate the sweetener ate one third more food. Researchers found the brain sensed both sweetness and lower energy intake and adapted appetite (ie. increased it) in response. They found the reward centre of the animal’s brain associates sweet foods with higher energy intake but then when it doesn’t receive the higher calorie intake the brain thinks it is starving and seeks to eat more calories. The study also found the sweetener caused hyperactivity, insomnia and reduced sleep quality, replicating a fasting state.
Which artificial sweetener was used in the testing?
The research used Sucralose, commonly known as Splenda, although researchers said their findings were likely to apply to most artificial sweeteners.
Does this research translate to humans?
There is no research to confirm this yet, Associate Professor Greg Neely said although the animal results do not necessarily translate to humans, the good news is they “found it was reversible, when animals stop taking artificial sweeteners for three days their responses go back to normal.”
Should we eat food with artificial sweeteners?
I am not an expert in the area, however it appears there is not enough evidence to say that artificial sweeteners have no negative effect on you – in fact studies like this, suggest otherwise. My advice would be not to avoid sugar all together and replace it with sweeteners, but rather focus on eating and enjoying natural sugars that are found in fruit. We know these are much easier than refined sugars for the body to process. Fruit is also packed with health benefiting vitamins, minerals fibre, polyphenols & antioxidants.
Of course a sustainable healthy diet needs treats every now and again so having treats with refined sugar or choosing healthier dessert recipes like this apple cake that has small amounts of artificial sweetener (although this one uses Stevia which is a plant based sweetener & likely better for you), isn’t going to kill you, or ‘ruin your diet’ forever. Moderation is key, but natural sugars via fresh produce is always best!
Have you ever noticed an increase in appetite whilst eating food with artificial sweeteners?
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Lucuma (Pouteria lucuma) is a popular nutritious fruit which is cultivated in Peru and some other countries of South America.
It has a wonderful and unique sweet taste - once you try it, you will certainly remember it.
Thanks to its smooth flavour and aroma, lucuma makes a great addition to desserts such as ice cream and cakes and everything else we can possibly imagine.
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I would disagree with Martin Kelly’s assertion that slavery was just one of many reasons for war. Ultimately, all of these reasons he mentioned has somewhere roots in slavery. The members at the Constitutional Convention knew the explosive nature of this one issue that they essentially left it for another generation hoping it would just go away. Looking at a good example of when slavery was not an issue in terms of session. The Nullification Crisis of 1832 ended so quickly not just because of Andrew Jackson bravado and his popularity, but also slavery was completely absent from discussion because both Jackson and South Carolina had slaves and Jackson had no ambitions to end the institution. In 1861 with the election of Abraham Lincoln, he tried to do the same thing as Jackson without much success not just because he was no where near Jackson’s character, but also the issue was not tariffs but the very heart of southern culture though out much of its history: slavery.
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The Ramayana on the Need for a Proper Leader
By Stephen Knapp
Sometimes people think that the ancient Vedic literature no longer has any real usefulness in this day and age. That it is little better than an antique of foregone days. However, this article shows the universal and ever-relevant nature of the Ramayana, and how it explains the symptoms of society when there is no ruler, or when there is an unqualified leader. When there is no such ruler of a country, they describe an assortment of symptoms and problems in society that become prominent, and thus spoil life for the citizens. The descriptions are of a society that is falling apart, wherein the citizens are troubled by the lawlessness and corruption that abounds.
However, these symptoms are what we find so common in today’s world, which shows the timeless nature of the instructions given by these great sages.
Nonetheless, in other situations in the Ramayana, we find remedies for these problems. Such as when Vibhishana instructs Ravana on some of the duties of a king, which we briefly look at. However, Ravana did not like being instructed in this way because he was not interested in acting like a good king anyway, similar in ways to some of the rulers we see today.
Furthermore, the descriptions of Ayodhya when Lord Rama returns to lead the people shows the effects on society when there is a good and proper ruler, and how such a ruler should lead society for the ultimate good of everyone. It also shows the influence that such a king can have all over the land, which we obviously need more than ever in this world. So let us look at these descriptions.
THE RESULTS OF A LEADERLESS SOCIETY.
This especially points out how the Ramayana held views on the means for a harmonious society, and what helped provide or prevent it. This section outlines how a society without a leader, or without one that is qualified, will never be harmonious, and will actually exhibit symptoms that will prevent such a united society. Although these describe a time thousands of years ago when facilities were different, it can still be compared to what we would expect to see, or not see, in this day and age. Amazingly, many of the symptoms that are described are the same conditions as we see in society today.
The reason why I wanted to elaborate on these teachings is that as we look around this world, many parts of it seem to be falling apart with each passing day. How can we change things? It is time that people of the world understand what to look for in a leader if we are going to live harmoniously with ourselves or with nature. It is time that we know who to elect if we are going to have a leader who provides the right kind of protection and guidance, and who holds and practices the proper virtue if we are going to steer society in the right direction. And that is, unfortunately, not someone we often see today. It is not that the Ramayana is some kind of outdated book that no longer provides any wisdom, but we will see that it still holds practical advice that will help us correct our misguided aims of life by reconsidering the insight as given by the sages in the Ramayana. So let us take a look at some of these verses, and we will see many of the same indicators right now of a leaderless society that it describes.
This is from the Ayodhya Kanda, Canto 67, verses 9-38, as described by Markandeya and other great sages to urge Vasishtha to install a qualified prince onto the throne.
"In a land destitute of a ruler, the thundering cloud wreathed with lighting does not drench the earth with rain water." 9
So here we see that drought is common when there is no proper ruler, or when society is misdirected. In such a situation, people no longer work in harmony with nature so that it reciprocates with the needs of the people. People often feel that nature is something to dominate and control, to take what they want from it. But actually we are a part of nature and should be in harmony with it. Otherwise, nature merely reflects the mass consciousness of the people who inhabit the planet, and thus drought is not uncommon.
"In a rulerless land, handfuls of seeds are no longer scattered (for fear of uncertainty of crops). (Nay) in a rulerless land, a son is not amenable to the control of his father, nor his wife amenable to the control of her husband (there being no executive authority to enforce correct conduct)." 10
Herein we see that a leaderless society becomes lawless, with no respect for authority on any level.
"In a rulerless land, people do not construct assembly halls (for public gatherings, there being no such gatherings), nor do joyous men plant lovely gardens (for fear of their being destroyed by enemies of peace and order) or build sacred houses (such as temples and buildings for the free accommodation of travelers and strangers, etc)." 12
In this way, no one builds elaborate structures since the lawless or the enemies will come and destroy them because of a lack of respect for the culture, or to drive out those who are not of the same disposition or religion.
"In a rulerless land, festivals (in honor of deities) in which actors and dancers exhibit their art in a highly ecstatic mood, and convivial gatherings promoting the welfare of the state do not gather strength." 15
Again this shows how a sophisticated culture will be set to ruin by adharmic forces if there is not a ruler who can gather the means to defend the culture.
"In a rulerless land, parties to a law-suit are not able to have their dispute settled, nor are those given to hearing stories from the Puranas, etc., pleased with such stories told by those to whom the narration of such stories is agreeable." 16
It may be somewhat amusing to see this description being a result of a rulerless land, especially in India where lawsuits are known to take many months or even years. Without a qualified leader who can execute an efficient system of law and order, the court system becomes increasingly backlogged with cases that are not resolved, not because they can't be dealt with, but because of a lack of efficiency and honesty in the judicial system, and the interest of the courts to resolve such cases without accepting bribes or other complications before such cases are heard.
"In a rulerless land, virgins decked with gold ornaments do not for their part go united to gardens to sport at dusk (for fear of being abducted or violated by miscreants)." 17
These days no one can go out at night or even in daylight without the risk of being robbed or abducted. This is surely a sign of a lack of proper leadership wherein the citizens know that a crime will be punished, and people will be protected. Without good leaders, criminals know they can get away with many criminal acts.
"In a rulerless land, wealthy husband and cowherds, even though well protected (by their attendants) do not sleep with open doors (for fear of thieves and dacoits)." 18
Again, all doors to a house must be locked where there are criminals, or those who have no respect for authority, which means the authority is too weak to uphold the law and give appropriate punishment to criminals.
"In a rulerless land, the sound of plucking the bow-string with the palm produced by Kshatriyas uninterruptedly discharging arrows while practicing the use of bows is not heard." 21
This merely indicates that those like the police or soldiers meant to protect the people are in limited numbers, and are not around to help keep law and order. This is usually because the leaders put their interests and priorities in other directions rather than in protecting law abiding citizens or in building a strong military or police force to defend the country and citizens.
"In a rulerless land, merchants travelling far and wide do not safely move about fully equipped with abundant salable goods." 22
"In a rulerless land, nothing is one=s own in the eyes of anyone. Like fishes, men always devour one another. 31
Again, here we see that in a land without a qualified ruler, merchants cannot move about without the fear of being robbed or killed for their merchandise. In such a case, society is hardly civilized at all.
"In a rulerless land, there is no acquisition of property and no security of possessions. Nor is the army able in a rulerless land to vanquish the foes in a battle." 24
Even the army becomes ineffective and without proper direction when there is no qualified leader, thus leaving the country vulnerable and unable to oppose its foes, or uphold law and order.
"In a rulerless land, self-controlled ascetics moving all by themselves and contemplating on the Self with their own mind and taking up their abode wherever the evening falls do not move about (freely for want of hospitable householders)." 23
Herein it is described how ascetics who hold the knowledge of the spiritual path are not very abundant, prominent, nor are they often respected. People in general lose interest in such topics when there is no ruler to show by example how to uphold, respect or protect the Dharmic path.
"In a rulerless land, men well-versed in sacred lore do not meet (freely) holding disputations in forests and groves." 26
Again we see the lack of respect for those who hold within themselves spiritual knowledge, who no longer roam about ready to give such wisdom to the masses, knowing that they may simply meet with the contradictions and criticisms of materialistic people.
"In a rulerless land, flowers, sweetmeats and sacrificial fees are not brought together for the worship of deities by self-controlled men." 27
In fact, even proper worship, pujas, and Dharmic traditions are soon lost without a leader who will uphold their protection. This means that such a leader must follow or at least respect the Dharmic traditions and the deep spiritual knowledge that is preserved therein.
"A state without a ruler is really no better than rivers without water, a woodland without grass, and cows without a keeper. 29
"If there is no king demarcating good and evil in the world, oh, this world will be reduced to (utter) darkness as it were and nothing can be clearly perceived." 36
In other words, a land without a qualified ruler is a wasteland wherein the real goal of life is not understood, nor is it practiced, and mere existence with the attempt to avoid so many problems is all that is left to achieve, and that also only with great struggle. With this as the standard, such a society is reduced to utter ignorance of the true purpose of life.
WHAT THE KING IS MEANT TO BE
Now that we have seen some of what the Ramayana presents as dangers of a lack of real leadership, there are also a few verses that give insight to what a real ruler should be. This points out the power of such a king by these qualities, if he possesses them.
"(Just) as the eye ever strives for the good of the body (by serving as a guide to it and showing it the right path), so does the king, who is the fountain of truth and righteousness, ever strive for the good of the state. 33
"The king is truthfulness and virtue (incarnate); the king constitutes the nobility of birth in men of a high pedigree. The king is the mother as well as the father; the king is the benefactor of men. 34
"(Even) Yama (the god of retribution); Kubera (son of Vishrava, the god of riches), Indra (the ruler of gods), and the very mighty Varuna (the deity presiding over water) are outstripped by a king of excellent conduct by virtue of such conduct (inasmuch as he combines in himself the virtues of all the above-named deities)." 35
HOW A KING SHOULD GUIDE SOCIETY
A king is not only supposed to maintain law and order, but a real king, a Vedic king, should also provide the means that people can attain the real and spiritual goal of life. So now we look at the solutions to the above problems with how a king should give proper guidance to the people. This is described by Kumbhakarna while rebuking Ravana for all of his misdeeds. Naturally, Ravana, typical of many politicians today, did not like to hear such advice, simply because he had no intention of following it. But it is described in the Ramayana for our benefit.
From Yuddha Kanda, Canto 63, verses 7-21, it explains:
"Holding consultation with his ministers, he who takes into consideration the five aspects of the threefold duties (with reference to hostile kings) moves along the right path." 7
In this case the five aspects means: 1. The method of initiating an action, 2. The person or material to be worked with, 3. The time and place of action, 4. Provisions necessary to make it successful, and 5. The calculated chances of success. And these aspects are used in three kinds of circumstances when dealing with enemies, which are: 1. The way to attain peace through reconciliation, 2. Acceptance of their allegiance through the acceptance of gifts, or 3. Invasion to force coercion toward peace. A ruler must be strong enough to make these considerations or he will be pushed aside or removed by the enemy who will take over his territory.
"A king who seeks to determine his duty in accordance with the science of polity and perceive his friends too, along with the ministers, understand aright." 8
Herein, as explained, a king has to realize who he can trust among friends and ministers, and then he can move forward with confidence. This is essential if the king or ruler expects to stay in power or hold onto his position.
"The self-controlled king who, having deliberated with his ministers, bestows gifts, takes to (expedients of) conciliation and, sowing dissension among the hostile ranks, exhibits prowess, O prince of ogres, or resorts to them (all) together and takes recourse both to right action and the reverse of it at the right time and pursues virtue, worldly gain and sensuous pleasure at the proper time never meets with disaster in the world." 11-12
A self-controlled king means a king with spiritual wisdom and virtue. Without understanding what real virtue is, no one can fulfill the proper role of a leader, or for that matter even a husband, teacher, father, or one who employs others. But more important than merely knowing what true virtue is, is the need to follow it and live according to those virtues, which is especially expected for any ruler. Only by applying this kind of wisdom and virtue will a king encounter success and avoid disaster, not only in his personal life but also for his country.
"A king should take action (only) after considering what is salutary in consequence to him in consultation with his ministers who make their living by their intelligence and know the reality of things." 13
Herein the point is simple, that regardless of how intelligent a ruler may think he is, the saying is two heads are better than one, and a king must consult with his qualified ministers to make sure of the proper action to take. However, this verse also refers to ministers who know the reality of things, as opposed to those who are merely academically trained.
"People whose mental level is in no way higher than that of beasts, and (yet) who have been allowed to take their seat among counselors, desire to express their views through (sheer) impudence without fully knowing the import of the scriptures. The advice tendered by such people, who having no knowledge of the scriptures, are (equally) ignorant of the science of wealth, or who seek immense wealth, ought not to be followed. 14-15
"Men who tender unwholesome advice in a salutary garb through (sheer) impudence should be excluded from deliberation as they mar the (very) purpose (of the deliberation)." 16
Here is said the obvious, that those who are not qualified, though they may try to appear so by such things as academics, wealth, etc., and with pride may try to force their opinion on others, should not be given any consideration. No one should listen to them, not the citizens and least of all the king, because they will only take the country in the wrong direction, causing problems that will later take much time and money to correct. History shows many examples of this, from which we should learn. Furthermore, those who are not true friends of the king or of the citizens and have their own agenda, or who have been bought off by the enemy, will bring the ruler and the country to ruin, as explained in the next few verses:
"Getting united with shrewd enemies, (evil-minded) counselors in this world prevail upon their master to undertake wrong actions in order to bring him to ruin. 17
"A ruler should make out (the reality of) those ministers who have been won over by the enemy to their side (through bribe, etc.) and, thus, have become enemies though appearing as friends, (as discerned) through their (actual) behavior when a final decision is being taken after deliberation. 18
"Aliens find out the weakness of a ruler who is (easily) led away by false appearances and rushes headlong into actions ... A king who, disregarding the enemy, does not actually protect himself, undoubtedly meets with reverses and is dragged down from his position." 19-20
SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS OF RAMARAJA
What follows are descriptions of some of the symptoms of a proper and royal leadership, such as when Lord Rama ruled over the land. This shows the effects on society when there is a good and proper ruler, and how such a ruler should lead society for the ultimate good of everyone. It also shows the influence that such a king can have all over the land, and that any problems within the kingdom, at least in the olden days, was considered to be the fault of the king who then had to take responsibility and account for them through his own efforts, knowing it was his own lack of quality for the existence of such problems. Therefore, the people should make sure to avoid an unwanted and unqualified ruler and check that the leaders are properly qualified with knowledge and habits of virtue before being elected. Otherwise, the adversities and difficulties of life will be many.
This is from the Yuddha-Kanda, Canto 128, verses 98-106. This is when Bharata gives back the kingdom of Ayodhya to Lord Rama.
"While Sri Rama ruled over the kingdom (of Ayodhya), there were no widows to lament (over their loss) nor was there any danger from beasts of prey or snakes, nor again was there any fear of diseases. 98
"The world had no robbers or thieves, nor did anyone suffer harm. Nor again did old people (ever) perform obsequies relating to [the death of their] youngsters. 99
"Every creature felt pleased, (nay) everyone was devoted to righteousness. Turning their eyes towards Sri Rama alone, creatures did not kill one another." 100
This is the effect of a qualified leader, that his influence can change the whole atmosphere in the cooperation among people, in reducing or eliminating the criminal mentality, in the endeavor to work in harmony with nature, and in everyone to have empathy for all creatures and fellow citizens. This may not be wholly possible in this day and age, but a qualified leader can certainly move humanity in this direction. But if a leader is merely posing as a great personality while harboring wicked or materialistic desires and misguided intentions, the whole country will be directed toward ruin.
"So long as Sri Rama ruled the kingdom (of Ayodhya), people lived to an age of thousands of years, were blessed with thousands of sons, and remained free from diseases and grief. 101
"So long as Sri Rama ruled the kingdom, the talks of the people centered around Sri Rama, Sri Rama, and Sri Rama alone. (Nay) the world itself appeared (to them) as transformed into Sri Rama. 102
"Trees in Ayodhya ever remained firmly rooted and bore fruit and flowers perpetually. Clouds sent down rain (only) when desired and the wind was (ever) delightful to the touch. 103
"Remaining entirely free from avarice and satisfied with their own avocations, the Brahmanas (priestly class), the Kshatriyas (the warrior class), the Vaishyas (members of the mercantile class), and the Shudras (the laboring class), remained content in their own duties. 104
"So long as Sri Rama ruled, the people remained devoted to pious observances and never told lies. (Nay) all were endowed with auspicious bodily marks and all were given to righteousness. 105
"With his (three younger half-) brothers, the glorious Sri Rama ruled for ten and one thousand years." 106
THE KING IS FORCED TO ACCEPT 1/6TH OF KARMA OF HIS SUBJECTS
From the Ramayana we also understand how important it is for the ruler of people to watch or patrol over their territory to make sure that all unfairness, criminal activities, or unrighteous acts are immediately put to a stop. This is because all such actions produce contrary reactions, not only for the people and the country, but also for the ruler, which is reflected back on them through the acts of nature, disrespect from the citizens, and the dark future created for their next life. Therefore, this shows the importance of electing a ruler who will not neglect his responsibilities of leading the people properly, uphold virtue and spiritual wisdom, and protect and defend the citizens and country without hesitation.
In this regard, the Uttara-Kanda, Canto 74, verses 30-33, explains: "Whenever one performs unrighteous deeds not to be performed, and rooted in lack of prosperity, [such a person] indeed goes to hell, however the king also undoubtedly (goes to hell). Righteously ruling over the subjects, the king shares one sixth portion of the (merit) that accrues from pious deeds performed by study and penance. (However) the king also partakes of one sixth (of his subject=s bad karma) if he does not protect the subjects (by leading them properly). So you, O lion among kings, investigate your territory. Whenever you see unrighteous actions done, then make efforts (to put them right); thus righteousness and longevity will prevail among men [as well as for the king]."
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Dyslexia in the Foreign Language Classroom
A practical guide for teachers
Education is undoubtedly the birthright of all children. In this situation, the purpose of every nation is to produce literate, well-educated and intelligent residents who are able to contribute to the proper development and progress of the whole society. Schools cater to all needs of children coming from different classes and sections of the society. In these schools children form various backgrounds with different interests, expectations, needs and certainly learning styles and abilities meet. Unfortunately, among these pupils there are many smart and intellectually capable children who are not given an opportunity to present their knowledge and show their intelligence, instead they are often labelled as lazy, stupid and very often ineducable. In fact, these children are not ineducable, but suffer from a frequent and common processing problem - dyslexia. In every day practice, the number of very intelligent children who encounter difficulties in reading and writing is high and the phenomenon of dyslexia occurs profusely.
To many experts, dyslexia seems to be a very elusive condition. Some are still arguing over its nature, origin and symptoms, since dyslexia has many faces. Dyslexia manifests itself by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of writing, reading, speaking, listening, reasoning and mathematical abilities.
Through the past years there has been a significant increase in the amount of research on dyslexia conducted and the emerging data is far from conclusive. Some possible causes of dyslexia have been identified by researchers, but not all have been fully confirmed yet. There may exist many theories concerning the etiology of dyslexia, but the factors responsible for some specific learning difficulties include: genetic, environmental and neurological factors (such as brain impairment, deformation, dysfunction and backwardness, the brain's anatomical differences and the size of hemispheres), disorders happening in the prenatal period, disorders in sensory perception and motor functions and hearing problems in early childhood. Dyslexia, however, may be associated with some risk factors, such as: male sex and other family members affected with this dysfunction.
Going further with dyslexia, I would like to concentrate on the symptoms and remedial support. There are many warning signs and visible symptoms of this learning disorder which can be easily and early noticed by parents and teachers. Dyslexia is a diverse condition which can range from mild to severe symptoms. When one takes into consideration children with dyslexia, it clearly appears that they are not at all alike. Undoubtedly, each individual sufferer displays a different set of features, but there is one common problem all dyslexics face - it is difficulty with the written language, a failure to recognise and interpret what is perceived. Symptoms of dyslexia are closely related to the following areas: vision, reading, spelling, hearing, speaking, writing, balance and movement and memory. Most commonly, however, this learning dysfunction is characterized by problems with single word decoding, usually reflecting insufficient phonological-processing abilities. Apart form the symptoms related to the areas mentioned above, there are other warning signs of dyslexia which include: spoonerism, sequencing, trouble telling the time and physical clumsiness. In observing symptoms of dyslexia, a huge role is attributed to teachers. In the classroom process teachers can notice among dyslexics such warning signs as: changed or reversed shapes and sequences of letters and numbers, inconsistent and incoherent spelling, skipping words or lines while reading, poor concentration and high distractibility while reading, word blurring, doubling and size change. Furthermore, these can be: difficulties making some speech sounds and meaningful utterances, confusion between left and right, difficulties in judging distances, following directions, remembering instructions, repeating long words and finally illegible handwriting.
Dyslexia is a problem that many students face and have great difficulty coping with in a school environment. However, with the help and support of the teacher, dyslexic students can become successful learners. The role of teachers is to make educational adjustments to facilitate learning and create successful class environment. Educators ought to bear in mind that acquiring a great amount of knowledge about a dyslexic learner is the factor that may play an essential role in a child's later success. Therefore, teachers ought to collect as much information about a dyslexic, his family, friends and environment as possible. Whenever a dyslexic child is positively sure that the teacher recognises and is aware of the nature of the learner's difficulties and helps him/her to overcome them, it may increase the dyslexic's motivation as well as make him/her willing to learn.
Continuing with the teacher's role in working with dyslexic learners, it ought to be remembered that the curriculum needs to be designed in an appropriate way to suit the dyslexic's needs, and textbooks and materials selected with the dyslexic in mind. When choosing a suitable course book for a dyslexic student, it ought to be remembered that the book is well structured and clear. Moreover, schematic layout should be provided so that the student knows what to expect form a particular unit. When choosing the course book, the teacher should pay attention to the size of the font - the bigger the letters, the easier for a dyslexic to perform reading tasks. Certainly, as far as the content of the book is concerned, it should not be overloaded with new lexical items and grammatical structures. It is advisable for a teacher to choose a course book accompanied with a workbook with plenty of exercises for a dyslexic learner's individual practice.
Undoubtedly, there is no reason why a dyslexic learner ought to be taught different lexical items and grammatical structures than the rest of students. Certainly, the only changes the teacher is to introduce are in the strategy of teaching not the content. The basic rule for teachers is to bear in mind that gradual progress is the key to successful teaching. Presented material ought to be dealt with step by step, and the level of difficulty of the next lesson should not be higher than the previous one. Teachers ought to take into consideration the fact that while working with dyslexics, certainly more time ought to be spent on revising material already familiar to students rather than introducing new one.
School environment plays an important role for a dyslexic learner. A structured, predictable and ordered educational environment should be ensured by teachers, as children with learning difficulties work best and respond most favourably in such settings. A general approach, that is on one hand positive and on the other sympathetic, may diminish a dyslexic child's anxieties and doubts and remove unnecessary pressures. In a positive and encouraging environment, dyslexic learners experience the feelings of satisfaction, success and self-value. Many of the achievements as well as failures that happen in a dyslexic student's school life depend on the teacher's attitude to a great extent.
There exists much evidence illustrating that many strategies, teaching techniques and approaches incorporated by teachers into the teaching process may help dyslexic learners overcome their difficulties. One of such techniques is the multi-sensory approach. Multi-sensory means making use of all the senses in the learning process. This kind of teaching is based on a combination of aural, visual, tactile and kinesthetic aspects to improve and facilitate learning. Multi-sensory teaching emphasizes direct teaching of all new material, maintaining student-teacher interaction and suggests that the content ought to be mastered in such a way that a student gives an automatic response. It has been observed that children taught in multi-sensory programs have made remarkable progress particularly in decoding skills. Furthermore, multi-sensory teaching and learning may be provided not only for dyslexic learners; it is a technique the whole class benefits form.
Another teaching strategy for dyslexic learners which turns out to be very effective is confidence building. This corrective therapy, conducted by the teacher, is based on changing a dyslexic student's attitude towards himself or herself. It aims at making a dyslexic child aware of the fact that he/she possesses good as well as weak sides and that he/she might turn out to be better in certain aspects than a non-dyslexic child. It is claimed that in order to preserve self-confidence in a dyslexic child he/she ought to be praised and given credits not only for what is done at school, but also for that done afterwards.
In facilitating a dyslexic student's learning, the teacher's ingenuity and the circumstances can work miracles. Classroom arrangement (placing a dyslexic close to the blackboard or by the teacher's desk), allotting more time while testing, lowering educational requirements to a certain extent, as well as assigning homework ought to be taken into consideration.
Unfortunately, some scepticism is still expressed by teachers about whether students really encounter learning difficulties or intentionally avoid carrying out certain tasks. It seems to be a very common phenomenon for teachers to be particularly confused by the student whose consistent underachievement is due to factors such as lack of effort and carelessness. It is quite a common phenomenon for teachers to neglect dyslexia and other learning difficulties and attribute children's school problems to laziness, lack of concentration and absent-mindedness. Hopefully, with increasing teacher knowledge of learning difficulties, great deal of misunderstanding of children's behaviour may be avoided.
Summarizing, it can be concluded that one of the most significant factors enabling a dyslexic child to overcome his/her learning difficulties is the implementation of a wide variety of methods and approaches as well as the teacher's guidance and support. Having a dyslexic learner in class involves introducing certain changes in order to facilitate the learning process and make the learner feel safe and comfortable. Teachers need to be made aware of the fact that dyslexia is a serious learning difficulty which commonly exists, but can be successfully dealt with and diminished. | <urn:uuid:8c2dffb4-ed50-466f-9f9d-78174f9ba42a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/dyslexia.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964917 | 2,028 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Recently, I have been confronted with a rather unnerving situation where the sense of ethics of certain entities (could be people and/or organisations) was, to say the least, questionable. As I wondered how to react to this situation and how to convey my lack of trust in within the Open Badge Ecosystem, the idea of a Badge of Distrust came to mind.
As my take on badges is that they are trust statements (I’m working on refining that definition, but that will do for the time being), I realised that issuing distrust badges would put me at odds with my position where trust is understood as a positive value, as in I trust this person’s integrity. In my frame of reference, the utterance I trust that this person is a thief has a very different meaning coming from a gang leader looking at a prospective associate or from a law abiding citizen reporting a crime. For the gang leader it means “he/she is one of us” while for the law abiding citizen it means “he/she is one of them” — things can become quite convoluted when a thief steals from another thief…!
As one of the basic rules of the Open Badge Infrastructure is the recipient has the option to reject the badges they do not wish to collect, we could imagine a perfectly secure digital world where a thief would be very happy to collect a “master thief” badge from a gang leader as it could be beneficial to his/her idiosyncratic employability — crooks know how grow their own trust networks and prisons are their Open University! On the other hand, if a similar badge was issued by a law abiding citizen, it is very unlikely that he/she will ever collect it. A Badge of Distrust is not something that people are likely to collect — although, if someone like Tony Blair offered me such a badge, I would be delighted to promote it at the top of My Values badges. I would consider being distrusted by such an individual a badge of honour!
From the previous example we can foresee that accepting Badges of Trust from friends and Badges of Distrust from foes is a powerful means towards building and nurturing trust networks of all kinds — a property that should be fully explored in the development of the Open Badge Passport.
There remains the configuration of a Badge of Distrust sent to a foe. Why would a foe accept a badge of distrust? What would its value be if not collected? To explore that question further, we first need to reflect on why we would need to issue Badges of Distrust?
Why would we need Badges of Distrust?
The Open Badge Ecosystem is a conversational system, where things are not fixed once and for all. The value of credentials is not absolute, it varies across space and time, as well as with the position of the observer within the network. Looking at the dynamics of networks construction, their topology, how clusters are formed and relate to each other, will help us compute the level of confidence one might assume in making a decision based on the information provided by the network. Would the introduction of a distrust component, a Badge of Distrust (BoD), improve the quality of the decision making process? Are there potential risks associated with BoDs?
Trust is rarely an all-or-nothing affair. One entity might not be trusted for a specific thing while fully trustworthy for others. For example, the painter who is supposed to work on the windows of our house (who is definitely not the person at the source of the unnerving situation mentioned above) can be trusted for doing a great paint job while not really being trusted for delivering his job on schedule (two months delay and still not finished!). There are also different domains of (dis)trust: it is not the same thing not to finish within schedule and to be at odds with ethics. How could that be expressed within the Open Badge Ecosystem?
If the Regional Chamber of Trades and Crafts delivered to its members a series of badges such as qualified painter, on-time delivery, on budget, that clients could endorse, many endorsements of the qualified painter and on budget badges with very few for the on-time delivery badge would be an indicator of a trustworthy professional, that should probably not be hired if one is on a tight schedule! In the absence of such badges to (not) endorse, there is nothing I can do within the Open Badge Ecosystem to express that my painter cannot be trusted for on-time delivery. Yet it is a piece of information that would be useful to future clients — and to help the painter to reflect on his practice.
Now, consider a group of ten professionals declaring trust for each other by endorsing each others’ badges. Imagine that one of them has his behave ethically badge endorsed by only two colleagues, while the good presenter badge is endorsed by nine. One might be led to conclude that ethics is not his/her forte. If wondering whether the discrepancy in the number of endorsements is an accident (didn’t think to endorse it, my mistake, sorry!) or a conscious act (no way!) one means to confirm or infirm the initial impression would be to invite those who have endorsed the other badges to endorse the behave ethically one as well. None or too few responses could be interpreted as a confirmation of the initial impression. The negative message received from the lack of responses would be reinforced if, among the non-respondents, several had endorsed the behave ethically of other members of their communities.
The problem with this kind of inference (not endorsed, therefore not to be trusted) is that it is all wrong. Having no information about something cannot be taken as the basis for a negative inference! If we have no information relative to tomorrow’s degree of sunshine, it does not mean that we should expect rain. While a 20% rain forecast is equivalent to 80% dry, 10 people believing that one person behaves ethically is not equivalent to the rest of the person’s network minus 10 people believe that this person does not behave ethically. It is the kind of reasoning used by totalitarian regimes and warmongers — if you are not with us, you are against us! Moreover, as there is no reason to force everyone to have a behave ethically badge, not endorsing it is not even an option.
If we believe that a piece of information relative to distrust is critical to the efficiency of a trust network, then we probably have no option but to introduce something akin to Badges of Distrust.
How could Badges of Distrust Work?
As discussed above, Badges of Distrust will most likely not be collected by their earners, although they might be sent to them to give them a chance for reflection and a rebuttal. And if collected, it is very unlikely that the recipient nor the issuer, will make them public.
One possible solution would to keep a copy of a BoD in the restricted area of the Open Badge Passport of the issuer, an area only accessible to services and people holding the right credentials — e.g. having the right badges!
If the Badge Alliance offered a trust mapping service, this service could have access to BoDs to inform the map. A good trust mapping service should be able to differentiate between authentic BoDs and those that would come from trolls or other cyber-warmongers.
For example, if Amnesty International created a generic War Criminal Badge one might be tempted to create an instance for a certain T. B., keep it in their Open Badge Passport, then provide access to Amnesty International and other social activist networks. To avoid abuse, there could be conditions associated with instantiating such a badge, for example limiting it to Amnesty International members (i.e. holding an AI membership badge). As creator, Amnesty International would also also have the ability to revoke unfairly issued badges.
A BoD issuing sequence could go like this:
- Amnesty International creates a new Badge Class: War Criminal. Those badges can only be instantiated by one of AI’s officers.
- An instance of a War Criminal badge is created by an officer for a certain T. B. which is kept in the restricted area of Amnesty International Passport.
- Amnesty International members are invited to endorse this badge then share their endorsement within their trust networks as part of a campaign for the indictment of T.B.
- Members of the trust networks of AI members are invited to endorse the endorsement badge and invite the members of their own trust networks to endorse their own endorsement
The choice to “endorse the endorsements” scenario instead of endorsing the original BoD could make sense in a context where Amnesty International only accepts endorsements from their members and not from second degree connections. It is also a means to show how chains of trust could emerge out of chains of endorsements. In this example, a network of trust is expressing strong distrust towards a a war criminal.
Of course, once introduced, less reputable organisations and individuals will be tempted to use BoDs for less worthy goals such as flaming and bullying. While it is not a risk to be taken lightly, those things do not need BoDs to happen. What we should rather explore is how the information collected from trust networks could help smother any such attempt and confine trolls and other cyber-warmongers within their own trust networks — after all, creeps have the right to create their own communities of practice, in cyberhell!
At its current stage of development, the Open Badge Infrastructure, and practice has solely focused on positive credentials. The only negative action possible with a badge is its revocation. How can this be reconciled with what happens in the real world where positive and negative statements are being issued, e.g. recognise that one person a has high sense of moral integrity while another has a poor sense of ethics? At a more trivial level, how could I convey the information that my window painter works well but not on schedule?
While Badges of Distrust (BoDs) have been explored as a possible response to the need of expressing negative credentials, their introduction might have a perverse effect such as creating the conditions for slander, defamation, bullying, etc. Simultaneously, BoDs could trigger a reflection in the receiving party that could lead to further positive credentials this time — and/or the emitting party could revise an unjustified judgement after rebuttal.
Is it a path worth exploring? Is it safe or are we going to open a can of worms? Should those initiating their development deserve a BoD?
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IBM, Intel and AMD will take the stage at ISSCC 2011 conference and will talk about their efforts to develop high-performance, low-power processors, including a 5.2Ghz microprocessor chip, a 10-core Xeon and a dual-core Bulldozer processor running at 3.5+ GHz.
IBM will present a microprocessor chip for the IBM zEnterprise 196 system, which contains 4 processor cores running at
5.2GHz, and includes an on-chip high-speed 24MB shared DRAM L3 cache. To meet this high-frequency design objective, many challenges were met, including significant timing, power and noise problems which had to be resolved.
Intel will talk about a monolithic 10-core Xeon Processor designed in a 32nm 9M process with a shared L3 cache.
Low power modes are introduced to cut idle power compared to the previous generation processor. A 2nd order CTLE and temperature compensation are implemented in the I/O receiver to enable link
survivability even with low RX margins. Intel's core- and cache-recovery techniques maximize yield.
Intel will also describe a 32nm Itanium processor for mission-critical servers. The Itanium processor implemented in 32nm CMOS has 9 layers of Cu and contains 3.1 billion transistors. The processor's die measures 18.2?29.9mm2 and has 8 multi-threaded cores, a ring-based system interface and combined cache on the die is 50MB. High speed links allow for peak processor-toprocessor bandwidth of up to 128GB/s and memory bandwidth of up to 45GB/s, Intel says.
AMD will present design Solutions for its Bulldozer 32nm Soi 2-core processor. The Bulldozer 2-core CPU module contains 213M transistors in an 11-metal layer 32nm high-k metalgate SOI CMOS process and is designed to operate from 0.8 to 1.3V. This micro-architecture improves performance and frequency while reducing area and power over a previous AMD x86-64 CPU in the same process. The design reduces the number of gates/cycle relative to prior designs, achieving 3.5GHz+ operation in an area (including 2MB L2 cache) of 30.9mm2, AMD says.
In addition, AMD will present a 40-entry unified out-of-order scheduler and integer execution unit for the aMd Bulldozer x86-64 core. The 40-instruction out-of-order scheduler issues four operations per cycle and supports single-cycle operation
wakeup. The integer execution unit supports single-cycle bypass between four functional units. AMD implemented critical paths without exotic circuit techniques or heavy reliance on full-custom design. AMD's architectural choices also minimize power consumption.
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With hopes for an end to the pandemic in mind, the folks at Project Oceanology have just posted their summer program schedule. They currently have four camps planned, with multiple sessions of each- two overnight and two day camps, and, of course, they all look really great. They are:
Ocean Camp, a one-week overnight camp for students entering grades 6-12. Cruise the waters of Long Island Sound as you make new friends, conduct ocean science research, and have fun! Everyday campers will climb aboard our boats, whether our research vessel Envirolab to deploy the trawl net, or our small boats to explore local salt marshes and sandy beaches. Campers will also study and investigate rocky intertidal zones and nearshore marine life. Under the guidance of professional marine scientists, campers will use oceanographic research equipment such as sediment corers, salinity meters, nutrient test kits, dissolved oxygen meters, otter trawls, and seine nets.
Team-building and leadership activities will be woven into daily life as you forge lifelong friendships with your fellow campers and explore Long Island Sound! Each day consists of ample time outdoors working from an outdoor classroom space, the shore and aboard our boats.
Marine Science Research Camp, a one-week overnight camp for students entering grades 7-12.Marine Science Research Camp is a unique opportunity for students to participate in authentic science by designing and conducting their own independent research projects. Under the mentorship of professional marine scientists, students will learn how to use a wide range of oceanographic research equipment and techniques aboard boats, on the shore, and in our waterfront marine laboratories. Students and staff in this program become a close-knit community of scientists and forge lifelong connections as they design, conduct, and troubleshoot their experiments, analyze and communicate their results, and live together in our waterfront hostel. At the end of the program, students will present their findings in a poster presentation or symposium to their families, mentors, and peers.
Ocean Explorer Academy, a one-week day camp for students entering grades 5-7. OCEAN EXPLORER ACADEMY
Embark on a scientific adventure as you explore Long Island Sound’s rocky shores, salt marshes, barrier beaches, and more! Discover the vital role habitats play in our coastal ecosystems by using scientific instruments such as trawl nets, seine nets, plankton nets, and water chemistry kits. Back at Project Oceanology, we’ll reinforce what we have learned through games, art projects, and scientific experiments. On Friday, the last day of camp, families are invited to come out aboard the R/V EnviroLab for an afternoon cruise so that their campers can share the knowledge and skills they have gained.
Undersea Technology Camp, a one-week day camp for students entering grades 6-12. Each day consists of ample time outdoors from an outdoor classroom space, the shore and aboard our boats.
Dive into the technology of ocean exploration! Investigate the brackish environment of Long Island Sound using marine technology to collect samples of plankton and algae, map the ocean floor, track currents, measure temperature and salinity at depth, and locate objects hidden beneath the waves. Campers will collaborate to design and build SeaPerch ROVs. Teams will tackle daily challenges related to real-world marine engineering problems. Navigate through an ROV obstacle course, clean up a simulated polluted waterway, observe bottom – dwelling organisms and more at SeaTech camp!
This video is from 2020; the team will be releasing this year’s video in the spring:
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The marking of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation ought to be quite a milestone internationally. To help celebrate the event and our confessional roots, Scott R. Blazek has developed an affordable item to both introduce a whole new generation to this amazing turn of events that changed Western civilization, while reintroducing a jaded generation to the wonders of this “second greatest story ever told” since the New Testament. Written and illustrated by Blazek, “The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, 1517 – a True Story to be Retold – 2017” coloring book is available for the cost of a greeting card, and can be shared in both home schooling, parochial classrooms, Bible classes, Summer Sunday Schools (combining age levels) , VBS, give-aways to visitors or at church fair booths, and more. Please see Coloring Books link for information on ordering.
Blazek has also developed the concept and executed designs for the on-going medallion series: “Countdown to the Reformation’s 500th Anniversary, 1517 – 2017″, produced by the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau. Eight medallions in the nine piece series are now available including: # 1. Luther (lightning storm) Vows to Become a Monk – 1505; # 2. Luther Ordained a Priest – 1507; # 3. Luther’s Trip to Rome – 1510-11; # 4. Luther Made Doctor – 1512; # 5. Luther’s Tower Revelation – 1513; # 6. Frederick the Wise Blocks Teztel (2014), # 7. 600th Anniv. of Jan Hus’ Martyrdom (2015), and this year’s # 8. 500th Anniv. of Charles V, King of Spain (2016). The dies for the ninth and last medallion (2017) in the series are being worked on at the time of this writing. While inventory lasts, these medallions may be acquired by visiting www.alpb.org and are available in three types: .999 fine silver (one ounce); antiqued bronze and aluminum with a gold anodized finish. (See “Coins and Medallions – Available” link.) The aluminum version is affordable to purchase in quantities to give to Sunday School or parochial students or worshipers on a special Sunday, like Reformation Sunday. Also available from ALPB (for the cost of a greeting card) is a custom 9 x 12 inch “Countdown Collector Board” (suitable for framing) to display all nine medallions plus an opening for one obverse medallion. The reverse side of the board has a detailed description of each medallion. Those individuals, churches or schools collecting this series should find a renewed interest in the richness of Lutheran history which will especially enhance the gala celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. | <urn:uuid:475271ec-0c57-443e-a221-643cfd98b369> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://scottrblazek.com/500th-anniversary-of-the-reformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.896101 | 602 | 1.96875 | 2 |
A STATESMAN eminent for
patriotism and integrity is a national instructor. The record of his
life, his services, and his opinions, is, to some extent, an exposition
of the spirit and progress of the people whom he represents; and the
people have the right to claim it, not only as a memorial of the past,
but as an inspiration for the present, and a light for times to come.
Pre-eminently may this be
asserted in regard to the distinguished man whose biography we now
purpose to write.
Holding himself steady to
his noble purposes, he was so prominent an actor in the remarkable
events of the last twenty years, he was so identified with the life of
the republic, that an account of his official career becomes, in some
respects, the key to the history of the country for that period; while
in the development of the principles of freedom which he made, in the
consistent life he led, and in the counsel he imparted, we have our
hopes in the permanency of popular government brightened, and our steps
directed as we rise to national strength and grandeur.
In making a register of
his life, the authors have had access to original sources of
information, and have availed themselves of every aid within their reach
for the verification of their statements as to matters of fact. They
have endeavored to present opinions frankly and fairly, and to render
this biography as complete as the allotted time and space would permit.
If this book, in spite of
any errors, tends to do justice to the character and course of one of
the representative men of the present times, to give dignity to labor,
to inspire working-men with confidence in themselves, and stronger love
for our country, the end for which it is written will be attained.
The Colbaths. —Fannington People In 1812.—Mr. Winthrop Colbath and
Wife. - Introduction of Son to Mrs. Guy's School. - School-Books of
those Days.—Change of Residence.—Visit to Mrs. Eastrnan.—Testament. Hard
Times In the Family. —Young Colbath goes to live with Mr. William
Knights. —His Labors on the Farm. -Kindness of Mrs. Eastman. -Young
Coibath's Love of flooks. — His readlng. — Faithfulness to his
Employer. - His Frugality. - Freedom. - Compensation. - Change of Name.
- Character. - Search for Labor. - Resolves to go to Natick and become a
Journey to Natick. -Visits Bunker Hill and the Office of "The
North American Review." - The Town of Natick. - Shoemaking. - Lets
himself to learn the Trade.—Makes Forty-seven Pairs and a half of Shoes
without Sleep. - Forms a Debating Club. - Improves In Speaking. - Deacon
Coolidge. - Health impaired. - Visits Washington In 1836. - Opposition
to Slavery. — Williams's Slave-Pen. — His Own Account of his Visit. —
Attends Academies In New Hampshire. - School-Teaching. - Studies. -
Attends an Antislavery Convention at Concord. N.H.—Loss of Funds. —
Returns to Natick. - Improvements in the Village.- He begins to
manufacture Shoes. - Character as a Business-Man. - Amount of Business
done.— His Regard to Principle
The Rev. E. D. Moore: his Views, and Regard for Mr. Wilson.—The Rev.
Samuel Hunt: his Influence.—Bible-Class.-- Presentation of a Watch.—
Marriage. - Mrs. Wilson's Character. —Her Influence over her Husband.-
Their house and Home.—Birth of a Son.—Mr. Wilson's Regard for Tern. perance. — Speech. — Candidate for General Court.—Defeated on the
Fifteen-gallon Law. - Enters the Harrison Campaign. - General Enthusiasm
of the People. —He makes his first Political Speech. —Addresses more
than Sixty Audiences. - His Manner. - Elected to General Court. - Story
of the Farmer. - His Industry. - This Views of Slavery. - Advocates
Repeal of Law against Intermarriage of Blacks and Whites. - Defeated as
Candidate for Senate—Elected to that Body the Next Year, and for 1845.
-Contends for the Right of Colored Children to a Seat In the Public
Schools. —Remarks thereon. -Advance in Public Sentiment.—Mr. Wilson's
ills Military Turn of Mind, -Reading. -Views of War. —Views of the
Militia System. —Election as Major, 1543.—Colonel and Brigadier-General,
L846. - Regard for Discipline. - Popularity with Soldiers. - Speech in
the Senate. - Peace and War. - Preparations for more Important Duties. -
His Regard for Temperance. - Speech at Natick, 1845.— A Citizen at Home.
- Appreciated by his Townsmen
Southern Efforts to annex Texas to the United States.— Mr. Wilson's
Amendment to Resolutions against Annexation in the Senate adopted.—Cali
for a Convention. —Opposed by Whigs.—Held in Faneun Hail, Jan.
27.—Address to the People.—The True Reformer. —Meeting at Waltham.—Mr.
Wilson's Views. — Convention at Concord, 1845.—Mr. Hunt.—Meeting at
Cambridge, Oct. 21.—Address of Mr. Wllson. — Persistent Efforts—Carries
Petitions to Washington. -Refuses to take 'Wine with Mr. Adams. - State
Representative in 1846.— Introduces Resolution on Slavery. - Eloquent
Speech thereon. —Mr. Garrison's View of it.—Regard for the Constitution
Regard of the People—Delegate to the National Convention.—Withdraws from
that Body.—Origin of the Free-soil Party.—" Boston Republican." —Editor
of—Its Principles and Influence. —Chairman of Free-soil State
Committee.—Member of the house, 1850.—Mr. Webster's 7th-of-March
Speech—The Coalition.—Election of Mr. Sumner to the United-States
Senate, 1851.—Mr. Sumner's Letter.—Mr. Wilson made Chairman of the
Senate that Year—Address on taking the Chalr.—A Contrast.—" The
Liberator."— Harvard University.—Thanks of the Senate, and Closing
Address. —Delegate to Pittsburg. — Candidate for Congress,
1852.—Chairman of the Senate, 1S5'2.—Ills Course in the Senate.— Welcome
to Kossuth.—Sympathy between them.— His Punctuality. —Gold Watch
A Friend of his Pastor,— hard Study.—Temperance.—Books and Authors. —The
Source of Civil Liberty. —No "Back-Blows."—Cheerful Spirit.— Home. -
Gift to his Minister. - Revision of the State Constitution. - Elected by
Natick and Berlin. - Punctuality. - His Course. - how he looked at a
Legal Question. - Chairman pro tern. - Speech in Favor of Colored
Troops. —On the Death of Mr. Gourgas of Concord.—On the Course of
Harvard College in Respect to Prof. Bowen. - Address to his
Constituents.- Reason for Defeat of the Amendments. - Cost and
Influence of the Convention
Candidate for Governor. - Defeated. - Not disheartened. - Visit to
Washington. — His Grand Idea. — Ready to surrender Party for
Principle.—Convention at Worcester, 1854. - Again nominated for
Governor, and defeated. - State goes into the American Organization. -
His Views. - Southern Domination. - Antislavery Sentiment increasing.
Sumner. - If 'Wilson nominated United-States Senator. - His Firmness. -
His Election. - United. States Senate-Chamber. - His Fitness for the
Place. - His Personal Appearance.—His First Speech. —Letter from Mr.
Ashmun.—Extract from Mr. Parker's Sermon, and Letter from the Same
Defection of the American Party. - Southern Influence. Resolution.
Interesting Letter. - .Address in New York. - Antislavery Cause in
Peril. - Brattieborough, Vt.—Delegate to American National Council,
June, 1855. —Stand for Freedom—Protest—Defiant Speech. — Letter from
Amasa Walker. - Remarks of" The Tribune." - Activity in forming a New
Party. —Speech at Springfield. - Twenty-one-Years Amendment. -Opposes
It. - Friendly to Foreigners. - Letter to Francis Gillette. - Catholic
Troubles in Kansas. - Slave and Free Labor Antagonistic. - Reply to Mr.
Toucey. - Mr. Douglas. - Assault on Mr. Sumner.— Aided by Mr. Wilson.
—Scene In the Senate-Chamber. — Challenge of P.8. Brooks. — Reply. — How
received. — Letter of Mr. Harte.—Reply to Mr. Butler of South Carolina.
- Letter from 'Whittier. -Labors in the Senate.-Views on Slavery.—Speech
July 9.—Musket-Bail.—Speech against sending Military Supplies to
subjugate Freemen in Kansas
Philadelphia Convention, 1856.—Platform.—The Campaign.—Sons of New
Hampshire. —South for the Dissolution of the Union.—Kansas and Nebraska —Speech on the Republican Party.—Opening of the Grand-Trunk
Railroad. — Speech at Montreal. — Activity in the United-States Senate.—
Measures proposed. - Speech on the Leeompton Constitution. - Letter from
the Hen. George T. Bigelow; also from the Hon. G. R. Russell
Character of his Reply to Mr. Hammond.—"Cotton is King."—Southern
Institutions. — A Contrast. — Social Condition of the North and South. —
Mud-sills.—Free Labor of the North. —Conclusion of his Argument.— Reply
to Mr. Uwlu's Challenge.— The Affair amicably adjusted
Re-elected by a Large Majority. -Reasons for it. —ills Industry.
—Patronage. -Advocates Central Route for the Pacific Railroad. -Extract
from his Speech. - A Radical Southern Party. - A Personal Interview. -
ills Course. -Temperance Meeting. -Printers' Banquet.-Paul Morphy. -
Fourth of July at Lawrence. - His Address. - Ills Course in respect to
the Raid of John Brown.— Meeting at Natick.—Reply to Mr. Iverson.—Vote
of Thanks by the General Court. -Speech on the Slave-Trade
Mr. Lincoln nominated.—Mr. Wilson's Energy In his Support—Speech at
Myrick's.—East Boston.—Free and Slave Labor—Letter. of Mr. Packard.
—Secession of the Southern States.—Mr. Wilson Fearless.— Speech In the
Senate. -Labors in the Military Committee with Mr. Davis. - He foresees
a tremendous Contest. —His Position. — Great Speech on Mr. Critten.
den's Compromise. - Letters from Mr. Whittier, Mrs. L. M. Child, Gerrit
Smith, Amasa Walker. - Vote of Thanks
The Beginning of Hostilities. - His Advice to the President. —Activity. - Labors as Chairman of Military Committee. — Bills introduced by him.—
Letter from Gen. Scott. - The Soldier's Friend. - Battle of Bull Run,
July 21.—He raises nearly Twenty-three hundred Men. - Made Colonel of
the Twenty-second Regiment.—Goes with it to Washington—Character of this
Regiment.— Aide-de-camp to Gen. McClellan. —Letter of Gen. Williams. -
Receives no Compensation for Service.- Unfounded Charge of Mr.
Russell.-Mr. Wilson's Letter.- His Record. - Rebellion strengthens.-
Character of the Republican Leaders. - Measures introduced and carried
through Congress by Mr. Wilson.—Letter of Mr. Cavneron.—Emancipation in
the District of Columbia.—An Early Aspiration realized. —Letters from
Lewis Tappan and John Jay
The Conflicting Powers. - The Army and Congress. - Position of Mr.
Wilson. —Bill for Sutlers.—Signal Service.—Pay to Officers—Medical
Department. —Volunteers. - Seniority of Commanders. -Storekeepers.
- District of Columbia—Medals—Pay in Advance.—Abolition in District of
Columbia. - The Confederates. - Militia Bill.- President's Proclamation.- Rosecrans. - Bureau of Emancipation. -Enrolment Bill.-Remarks.- Colored
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Reed.—Fall of Vicksburg.—Conference with the Cabinet.—Battle of
Gettysburg. —Gen. Grant.—Address before the Antislavery Society.— Thanks
to the Army. — Bounties. — Ambulances. —Colored Soldiers Free.
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Children of Colored Soldiers Free.—Fourth of July at Washington. — Gen.
Grant.— "New-Bedford Mercury. - A Letter
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"The Boston Journal." - Freedmen's Bureau. - Military Appointments. -
Visit to Fort Sumter—Death of Mr. Lincoln.—Mr. Wilson's View of him.—
Speech at Washington July 4.— Mayor Wallach. - Advice to the Colored
People. - The Course of the Executive. - Silver Wedding. - Description
of. - Articles presented. - Respect of his Townsmen. - Record of Anti.
slavery Measures ln Congress. — Character of the Work.—Opinion of "'the
Atlantic Monthly."—Summary of the Work—Slaves used for Military Purposes
made Free. -Fugitives. -District of Columbia.—" Black - Witnesses. -
Schools. - Railroads. - Territories Free. - Emancipation. —Captives of
War.—Rebel Claimants of Slaves. —Hayti and Liberia.— Slaves in Military
Service. - Fugitive-slave Acts. - Slave-Trade. - Courts, Testimony in. -
Reconstruction. - United-States Mail. - Wives and Children of Slaves.
—Bureau of Freedmen.—Amendment of the Constitution. - The Negro a
Citizen.— Colored People indebted to the Labors of Mr. Wilson
Course of the President. —Reconstruction Difficult. —Mr. Wilson's View.—
No Desire to degrade the South. -Bill to maintain the Rights of the
Freed. men. -Supports Mr. Trumbull's Bill to enlarge the Freedmen's
Bureau. - What he means by Equadity.—Honorable Sentiments. —Joint
Resolution for disbanding Military Organizations. - Speech on the
Resolution of Mr. Stevens against the Admission of Southern
Representation. -The Nature of the Struggle.—Condition of
Freedmen.—Mistake of the President.— Gen. Grant.—Legislative Labors.—Speech
In Boston. —Natick.—Defence. Son of the President. —Massachusetts. -
Congress a Co-ordinate Branch of the Government. —Tour through the West.
- Speech at Chicago. - Elective Franchise in the District of Columbia.
—Corporal Punishment.— Buying and selling Votes.—Address on
Religion—Testimony of Statesmen to Christianity.-An Admonition. -Death
of his Son. -Monument. -Address at Quincy.-Good Advice. - His Work on
Military Legislation In Congress. - Its Character
Peonage.—Whipping.—Colored Persons In the Militia.—Bill to facilitate
Restoration. - Speech thereon. - Feelings toward the Rebels. -
Temperance In Congress. - lion. Richard Yates. - Reception at Tremont
Temple. - Remarks of W. B. Spooner. - Mr. 'Wilson's Address. - Mr. Yates
Is. - Liquors banished from the Capitol. —Enforcement of the Law. —Visit
to the South. —At Richmond, Va.—Petersburg.—Animosity of Goldsborough,
N.C.Reception at Wilmington. - Mr. Robinson. - At Charleston May 2. -
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Speech.—Gen. Sheridan.—Hopeful View of the Republic.—Speech at
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Appeal—Speech at Bangor.—Gen. Grant -Speech In Faneull Hall.—Friend of
Working-Men. - Reconstruction Measures. - Style and Subject-Matter. —A
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Europe. —American Missionary Society. —Rise and Fall of the Slave-Power Extract.
- Nomination as Vice-President. - Letter of Acceptance. - Address at
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Credit Mobilier. —Mr. Sumner's Course regretted. —Election as
Vice-President. - His Poverty
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his Health. - His Retirement from Labor. - Visit to New Hampshire. -
Letter to "The Springfield Republican." - The Bounty Bill. - Death of
Charles Sumner. - Health Improving.— The Second Volume of "The Rise and
Fall of the Slave-Power in America." - his Back Pay as Senator. - his
Opinion of President Grant. - His Tour to the South-west. - Summer at
Saratoga. - The Republican Convention at Worcester. —His Last Sickness
and Death. - The Autopsy
The National Grief at the Death of Mr. Wilson. - President Grant's
Order. - honors paid to the Remains at Washington. - Dr. Rankin's
Address. - The Baltimore Fifth Regiment. —Honors at Philadelphia; New
York.— Announcement of Coy. Gaston. - Remarks of Mr. Stebbins; of Judge
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Address of Gen. Banks. —The Remains in Doric Hail. -Memorial Services In
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Natick. —Address of the Revs. E. Dowse and F. N. Peloubet. -The Burial
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Episode 2 – Saltwater Crocodile
• Global warming/climate change devastates coral reefs, causing coral bleaching. This affects whole ecosystems, including bigger animals up the food chain, like crocodiles
• Destruction of mangroves and coastal development threatens the beaches where crocodiles lay their eggs
• Rubbish is also a big threat to the whole marine eco-system and marine mammals. Seven billion tons of rubbish is dumped into our oceans every year.
American Saltwater Crocodiles and Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on Earth and the variety of life they support rivals that of the tropical forests of the Amazon or New Guinea.
Coral reefs, and the mangroves and sea grass beds that often surround them, are a crucial for a lot of fish and other animal life. For example, the American Saltwater Crocodile lays its eggs on beaches which have mangrove areas because the baby crocodiles need the mangroves for the first few months of their lives. The American saltwater crocodile is considered one of the most threatened species in Belize. Although they are still occasionally hunted as nuisances or for their skins, the primary threat stems from the loss of their nesting habitat to coastal development. To be able to try to plan and implement sustainable coastal development it’s important to know where the crocs are.
Reefs are the nurseries for about a quarter of the ocean's fish, and thus provide revenue for local communities and national and international fishing fleets. By helping to maintain healthy fish stocks, reefs also provide food security for thousands of coastal communities which depend almost entirely on fish for protein.
Coral reefs are very important for humans as well. The latest estimates suggest that reefs provide close to US$ 30 billion per year in benefits, including fishing, tourism and coastal protection.
But more than a quarter of all the world's coral reefs have already been virtually destroyed, and 50-70% of coral reefs are threatened by human activities. We are at a pivotal point in history where the future of the oceans depends on our choices. In recognition both of the biological, social and economic value of reefs, and of the severe threats - which could destroy more than 60% of the worlds reef coverage within as little as 50 years - WWF has invested substantially in reef conservation through; marine protected areas, more sustainable fishing practices, increased awareness and education, combating the causes of global warming.
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WWF and the University of Belize at Turneffe
Approximately 48 kilometers long and 16 kilometers wide, Turneffe is the largest and most biologically diverse coral atoll in its hemisphere. It supports a number of threatened and endangered species, including American Saltwater Crocodiles and manatees. Turneffe is unique in that it is one of the few atolls in the Caribbean containing excellent reef development around its margins, as well as intact mangrove and sea-grass habitat in its interior.
Turneffe also provides jobs to thousands of local people, mainly in fishing. Because of the role of the reef in supporting the local economy, its protection is not only important for the conservation of marine life but also for the thousands of people that depend on it for their livelihoods.
WWF has been working here for several decades helping to reduce pollution and over-fishing and to establish a network of protected areas.
The University of Belize runs the Calabash Caye field station that is home to students, teachers and researchers from Belize and around the world. It’s currently the headquarters for the authorities in Belize to maintain the unique biodiversity of the Turneffe Islands atoll.
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WHO DETERMINES FARM PROGRAMS? AGRIBUSINESS AND THE MAKING OF FARM POLICY
Alston, Julian M.
Carter, Colin A.
Wohlgenant, Michael K.
Political-economic analyses of the causes and consequences of agricultural commodity policies typically emphasize farmer and consumer (taxpayer) interests and underplay the role of agribusiness. A more complete understanding of agricultural policy requires paying attention to the important role of agribusiness interests. Policies that benefit farmers (e.g., price supports, supply controls, deficiency payments) may either enhance or reduce agribusiness profits. The type of policy instrument preferred by agribusiness varies among commodities, depending on the technology of the marketing processes beyond the farm gate and the elasticity of final demand. This paper emphasizes the idea that instruments of farm policy are chosen in response to pressures from both agribusiness and farmers at the expense of taxpayers and final consumers.
farm programs, farm policy, agribusiness, political economy, Agricultural and Food Policy,
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The Possibility of Uniformity on Halal Standards
inOrganization of Islamic Countries (OIC) Country
Mustafa Afifi Ab. Halim and Mohd Mahyeddin Mohd Salleh
Faculty of Syariah and Law, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia,
71800 Bandar Baru Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the Halal standards among OIC
Country specifically on preparation of food standard. One of the reasons why the Halal
industry cannot grow faster, despite rising demands for Halal products worldwide,
is because there is no consensus on a Halal standard.
Each country has its own certification body, which leads to disagreements over animal feed,
slaughtering methods,packaging, logistics and other issues. Indeed, all sectors of the market
from inter-government agencies to the smallest trader have recognized the need for one global
Halal standard that is recognised by all importing countries.
Amidst the growing number of agencies issuing Halal certificates, there is also an increasing
trend for local government departments to take charge of Halal certification as a result
of the increasing demand for the export of Halal goods. It would be very difficult for countries
to collectively agree on one global Halal standard as this would mean surrendering their
As a conclusion, uniformity and consensus especially among OIC Countries is very much
important in order to ensure Halal standard for OIC Countries can be develop or otherwise
it will be a dream forever.
Implication of this paper is to educate people and industry on the importance of having
uniformity for Halal standard.
Hence, in the future research, it is suggested to study on the establishment of International
Accreditation for Halal.
Read : http://idosi.org/wasj/wasj17(TTHTA)12/2.pdf
Halal Standards Wordlwide
World Applied Sciences Journal 17
(Towards the Traceability of Halal and Thoyyiban Application):
06-10, 2012ISSN 1818-4952
© IDOSI Publications, 2012
Corresponding Author: M.S. Mahyeddin, Faculty of Syariah and Law, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia,
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Arctic Daily Update: June 6, 2013
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Witness the Arctic | Volume 17, Number 2 - Spring 2013. The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) released its Spring newsletter featuring multiple articles detailing new Arctic developments, studies, and perspectives. Included is an article by the US Arctic Research Commission delineating our 2013-14 goals and summarizing our recent activities. ARCUS
Arctic needs a new Arctic Ocean Council, says Greenlandic politician. "Arctic peoples may be small in number, but they must take their place on the global stage as economic superpowers shift attention to their huge lands and resources, says Greenlandic politician Josef Tuusi Motzfeldt, who wants to see the creation of new 'Arctic Ocean Council.'" Nunatsiaq Online
Bering Sea canyons may become new marine wildlife preserve.
The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, NPFMC, the Federal agency responsible for commercial fisheries in the Bering Sea, is considering classifying the Bering Sea Canyons as a wildlife preserve. This would be a landmark decision according to some. The NPFMC is conducting its meetings in Juneau this week. The Federal agency is comprised of fifteen (15) members from Alaska, Washington State, and Oregon. Alaska's Governor nominates five candidates to serve on the Federal fisheries council. KYUK.org
Canada's Amundsen icebreaker back in service, headed to Arctic. "The Canadian Coast Guard research vessel Amundsen is on its way back to the Arctic after spending last year in dry-dock for repairs. The ship was launched on Friday in St. Catharines, Ontario. There were significant repairs to its engines and new generators were installed. A news release said it was a $6 million contract for Seaway Marine and Industrial." Alaska Dispatch
China's CNOOC Eyes First Foray Into Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling. "China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CEO), or CNOOC, is partnering with Iceland's Eykon Energy in an application for a license to explore and produce oil and gas in Arctic waters offshore Iceland, the country's hydrocarbon licensing manager told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday. If the application is successful and a license is awarded, it would mark the Chinese company's first foray into offshore Arctic oil drilling. The industry's biggest players are scrambling to enter this new area in efforts to replenish reserves, an area which has become increasingly controversial." Wall Street Journal
Arctic Council Ministerial meeting anticlimactic as Canada assumes chair. "On the face of it, the Arctic Council Ministerial that took place on May 15 was largely business as usual. The biggest story of course was the acceptance of five Asian states (Japan, India, China, South Korea and Singapore) as Observers and the delay, but not denial, of the European Union, pending a resolution with Canada over its seal product ban. There may have been some eleventh hour politicking, and the outcomes were not foregone conclusions. But it must be conceded that the real story here was that the EU and major Asian nations wanted to be admitted as observers to the Arctic Council in the first place -- and that is a story that began in 2006." Alaska Dispatch
China plans to open Arctic research centre. "China plans to expand its study of the Arctic's resources as well as the region's shipping and economic potential, the Chinese institute for polar research said June 6 on the official English-language website of the China News Service. ENCS said the Polar Research Institute of China plans to set up a China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre in Shanghai to increase awareness and knowledge of the Arctic, promote cooperation for its sustainable development, and provide opportunities for Chinese and Nordic researchers to conduct Arctic research." Nunatsiaq Online
Arctic Broadband Connection in the Works. "A Norwegian project aims to achieve the ambitious goal of bringing broadband to the Arctic. A broadband network that could transmit large amounts of data over many channels would benefit the oil and gas industries, search-and-rescue operations and shipping traffic communications, among other things. The Norwegian Space Center Telenor and the Scandinavian company MARINTEK are proposing such a project to link up the far north." LiveScience.com
Rosneft and Gazprom both awarded Arctic Shelf permits. "Gazprom and Rosneft are officially the only companies with the right to explore the Russian Arctic shelf, as they both received exclusive extraction licenses in return for large cash payments. In 2009, Rosneft agreed to pay 1.4 billion roubles ($450 million) and Gazprom 1.2 billion in a resolution passed by the state Duma, but the exact amount paid on Wednesday for the licenses is unknown." RT
Major study assesses sea level changes due to ice sheet losses. "Improved satellite measurements and computer simulations of ice sheets are creating a more accurate picture of the current and future rise in the global sea level, according to an international team of climate experts including Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz." Phys.org
The argument against oil drilling in Arctic Seas. "The Natural Resources Defense Council has issued a statement concluding that recent events - most notably the grounding of a Shell Oil drilling rig in Alaska - show the oil industry is not ready to safely, cleanly drill offshore in the Arctic. I agree. There's no logic for pushing fossil-fuel frontiers this extreme while neglecting energy-efficiency measures at home." New York Times Opinion
Funding cuts to major aboriginal political groups undermine 'potential for progress,' Chief Shawn Atleo says. "The Harper government is slashing funding to several major aboriginal political organizations - including the Assembly of First Nations - a surprise move that the group's national chief says flies in the face of the government's stated intention to work with First Nations. A letter from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, sent to 43 Aboriginal representative organizations and obtained by Postmedia News, outlines changes to the way the groups will be funded, including sharp reductions in dollars." Ottawa Citizen
Oil company gives up exploration licenses in Canada's Mackenzie Delta. "MGM Energy Corp. has surrendered its exploration licenses in the Mackenzie Delta region of Canada's Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), saying without the Mackenzie pipeline, it can't get its natural gas and oil to markets. The plan to build a 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) pipeline down the Mackenzie Valley is on hold due to weak natural gas prices." Alaska Dispatch
The House Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a subcommittee hearing on H.R. 2231, "The Offshore Energy and Jobs Act" (Hastings of WA) at 10 am. This legislation seeks to increase energy exploration and production on the Outer Continental Shelf. Additionally, it would provide for equitable revenue sharing for all coastal States and also implement the reorganization of the functions of the former Minerals Management Service into distinct and separate agencies. Committee Site
The Science and Stewardship of Coast Hazards Response in Protected Areas, June 7, 2013 (Washington, D.C.). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists in conjunction with Congressman Sam Farr and responders will highlight how they access and interpret science to keep communities safe and commerce moving through a hypothetical California-based scenario impacting a National Marine Sanctuary, walking participants through each step of the response. The scenario will cover: oil spill response, marine debris tracking and removal, early Natural Resource Damage Assessment efforts, information management, and public involvement. There will be many opportunities for audience engagement and discussion.
Hundreds of Earth and space scientists, students, policymakers, and industry professionals will discuss key Earth and space science topics that address challenges to our economy, national security, environment, and public safety. This meeting will focus on the science that helps inform policymakers' decisions related to energy, natural hazards, technology and infrastructure, climate, oceans, and the Arctic (see 6/25 forum titled "US Government Investment in Arctic Change Research"). The event is hosted by American Geophysical Union (AGU), a Washington, D. C.-based international nonprofit scientific association.
7th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology (September 9-13, 2013) (Madison, WI). The event is sponsored by the Ice Drilling Program Office- Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDPO--IDDO), International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS), International Glaciological Society (IGS). Following in the footsteps of the six previous ice drilling technology workshops held between 1974 and 2006, the Seventh International workship on Ice Drilling Technology will take a comprehensive look a the latest innovations in ice drilling technology, including ice coring, borehole logging, subglacial sampling, core logging and handling, and field logistics.
Arctic Exchange (September 16-17, 2013) (Stockholm). The Exchange brings an evolutionary concept in networking and business information delivery. The concept is designed to meet specific business objectives during two days for promoting cooperation, coordination, and interaction among the Arctic communities addressing key issues such as sustainable business development and regional protection. As more and more data has confirmed that the Arctic is extremely rich in oil and gas reserves, locations such as Greenland and the Barents Sea have seen a huge growth in interest from the hydrocarbon industry. Despite the opportunities offered, there are many challenges that may hinder operations. The presence of cold temperatures, ice and a lack of infrastructure pose logistical problems that make exploration expensive and risky.
The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit, October 8-10, (Akureyri, Iceland). The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit is a multidisciplinary event expected to draw together several hundred industry officials, scientists, academics, policymakers, energy professionals and community leaders to collaborate and share leading approaches on Arctic energy issues. Building on the work done at the highly successful 2007 Arctic Energy Summit and Technology Conference, the 2013 Summit will address energy extraction, production and transmission in the Arctic as it relates to three thematic areas: richness, resilience and responsibility. The 2013 Summit will be hosted by the Institute of the North in cooperation with local host Arctic Portal.
The Inaugural Meeting of The Arctic Circle, October 12-14, 2013 (Reykjavik, Iceland). The inaugural Arctic Circle will be held October 12-14, 2013. Subsequent Arctic Circle gatherings will be held in a different Arctic location each year, so that participants can become familiar with the challenges, needs and opportunities presented by these unique environments. The agenda for the first Arctic Circle gathering will include plenary sessions with international leaders on emerging topics of interest, such as: Sea ice melt and extreme weather; Security in the Arctic; Fisheries and ecosystem management; Shipping and transportation infrastructure; Arctic Resources; and Tourism.
Community Oil Spill Response in Bering and Anadyr Straits, (November 7-8, 2013) (Anchorage, Alaska). This workshop will bring together a diversity of stakeholders to learn more about and respond to community desires to be part of oil spill first-response efforts that help protect food security and other local resources; come to agreement on the multiple roles local community members can play in responding to oil spills; and create an action plan for moving forward on this topic. The workshop is sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Arctic Cities, Global Processes, and Local Realities, December 2-4, 2013 (Rovaniemi, Finland) The conference is organized jointly by the City of Rovaniemi and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. The goal of the conference is to present the latest scientific research and knowledge about the global processes as they become local realities. Even if the Conference is scientific in orientation, it aims to bridge science and knowledge into action by bringing top scholars to share their research results, and to organize joint discussion with the leaders of the Arctic Cities. Sessions include: Rovaniemi Process: past, present, future; Arctic responses to global environmental problems; people and extractive industries; tourism in the Arctic; the Arctic in global economy; climate change in the Arctic; indigenous peoples in cities; and, Arctic global flows. Cross cutting themes include: Arctic cities and global processes; management and governance in the Arctic; and, Arctic together with non-Arctic.
Sciences Association (IASSA) announces the 8th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII). ICASS is held every three years, bringing together people from all over the world to share ideas about social science research in the Arctic. ICASS VII, held in Akureyri in June 2011, attracted 450 participants from 30 different countries. ICASS VIII's theme is Northern Sustainabilities. By using the plural, we underscore both that "sustainability" has social, cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions, and that definitions of the concept vary. | <urn:uuid:69ca4ae2-94b8-43e0-9405-86899743b35d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/June-2013/Arctic-Daily-Update-June-6-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00252-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931536 | 2,646 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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ART LUDWIG is an ecological systems designer, researcher, author, and activist. He has consulted for the states of New York, California, and New Mexico on water reuse policy and building codes and has developed numerous innovations which have been adopted worldwide, incorporated in building codes, etc.—all of which he has published in the public domain. Art has authored numerous articles as well as the books Water Storage, Principles of Ecological Design, and Create an Oasis with Greywater.
Find Art online at www.oasisdesign.net.
Remarkable about Art’s installation is how much he focuses on firesafety. His homestead, rigged with firesprinklers, fireproof doors on his home office, and nestled in the firezone of the central California coast, he doesn’t take any chances. When he first built his stove, his was the longsest exhaust pipe we knew of, at about sixty feet.
Art introduced me to the notion of the dangers of any flammable materials close to the hot surfaces of your stove, can actually LOWER their flash point. So even though you may have allowed for plenty of clearnace from your wooden wall members or structural support –or wall studs–over time, they require less to flame up, all depending on the materials themselves, their exposure length, and distance.
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COM+ is an extension to the Component Object Model (COM), which is one of the world's most widely adopted frameworks for creating interoperable code. This book shows how to apply the COM+ model creatively and effectively to solve everyday programming problems. Emphasis is on programming advanced COM+ applications using the Microsoft DNA framework. Part I examines the Component Object Model and its relationship with the Microsoft DNA framework and gives design principles for multi-threaded architectures. Section II covers advanced COM+ programming techniques and Section III looks at the Microsoft Transaction Server and COM+ Services. Section IV covers asynchronous component programming.
There is a lot of good material in this book. Every chapter is devoted to another part of the COM+ riddle. The book addresses many key aspects of what is sometimes considered, a problematic and complex technology, in a clear accessible way. However, most of the discussions on MTS (Microsoft Transactions Server) were from MTS 2.0. COM+ with its new threading interfaces was not mentioned. Event classes, Queued components and MSMQ components were only discussed in a very superficial manner.
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Teachers have started getting training to help identify youngsters with problems.
Beach Hut Crime Is Down In Poole
The number of thefts from beach huts in Poole has fallen thanks to action taken by the Parkstone, Penn Hill and Canford Cliffs Safer Neighborhood Team.
Following an increase in reports in June, police officers stepped up their patrols - accompanied on several occasions by a police sniffer dog -and worked with beach hut users to increase security. Officers from Borough of Poole have also been patrolling the beaches at key times.
As a result, there were two reported thefts from beach huts in July this year, compared to 10 reports (some relating to thefts from multiple beach huts) in June. There has been one theft so far in August.
Beach hut users across the Borough have been invited to join a 'Hut Watch' scheme to receive messages from the police about local crimes, crime prevention advice and appeals for information. They have been offered reduced-price beach hut alarms and have been given advice about how to secure their beach hut against thieves.
Sergeant David Parr, of the Parkstone, Penn Hill and Canford Cliffs Safer Neighbourhood Team, said:
"I would advise beach hut users to secure their hut whenever it is not in use and to consider investing in a beach hut alarm.
"Never leave any valuables in your beach hut at night - offenders have been known to watch beach huts during the day to identify valuable items and then target those beach huts later that night.
"If you notice anything suspicious, please report it to a beach warden or the police by calling 101. If a crime is in progress or life is in danger, please dial 999."
Councillor Judy Butt, Portfolio Holder for Public Engagement and Participation, with direct responsibility for Poole communities, Borough of Poole, said:
"This is an excellent result that shows the value of partnership working. We will continue to work alongside the police to keep our beaches safe for everyone."
To contact your Safer Neighbourhood Team, call Dorset Police on 101 or visit www.dorset.police.uk
More than 150 distracted motorists were pulled over in Hampshire and the Thames Valley in a week-long operation.
Southern Rail's Putting On Extra 200 Trains.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Leonne Weeks, 16, who was found dead on a path in Rotherham.
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Three quarters of the forest ________ burnt to ashes, and the rest _______ cut down for construction.
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E-mail, as well as telephones, ____ an important part in daily communication.
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_____ of the students who took part in the military training is 450
A. A number B. A lot C. Lots D. The number
When and where we _____the meeting ______still a problem.
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Large amounts of money _______ spent on the bridge, which ________ to be completed the next month.
A. was; was expected B.were; was expected C. was; expected D. were; expected
They each______a new dictionary.
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Now 20 per cent of the wildlife park ________ used in this way.
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Not only I but also Li Juan and Mary _______ tired of taking so many exams.
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The manager toghther with some workers _____ visiting a factory now.
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The gas works near the city,
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The number of the people who cars increasing.
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It is reported that many a new house _____ at present in the disaster area.
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We have dealt with a large part of the problems, and the rest ________ by you.
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The most impressive sight in China, one of the wonders of the world, _______ the Great Wall.
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It is reported that many a new house at present in the disaster area.
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PSEA is a community of education professionals who make a difference in the lives of students every day.
Emily Nell came back to teach art and make an impact after spending 14 years as an independent artist working in schools and holding benefit auctions.
Pennsylvania’s public schools should be the safest and healthiest places for students to learn and grow.
PSEA is committed to making changes aimed at protecting everyone who works and learns in our schools.
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HARRISBURG, PA (August 31, 2021) – Gov. Tom Wolf today announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued an order requiring all students, staff, and visitors to wear masks in K-12 school buildings, beginning on Sept. 7.
PSEA President Rich Askey issued the following statement:
“PSEA supports the Wolf administration’s order today requiring universal masking in all K-12 school buildings.
“Months ago, PSEA said a full, safe return to in-person instruction should be our top priority for the 2021-22 school year. Masking up in our schools is a simple, proven way to help make that a reality.
“Last year, we used maximum protective efforts – including masking – to minimize the spread of a dangerous but less contagious COVID-19 variant. Reports of schools in other states shutting down or quarantining large numbers of students because of the more contagious Delta variant show that it is just too risky to teach students in person with dramatically fewer protections than we used last year.
“This isn’t a choice between masking or not masking. It is a choice between keeping schools open for in-person learning or forcing far too many students to learn from the other side of a screen.
“Making sure that our schools can safely begin the school year in person, continue in person, and end in person continues to be PSEA’s top priority. We know that is the best learning environment for Pennsylvania’s students. That’s why it is so important to follow CDC guidance and put universal masking policies in place as students return to school.
“Universal masking in schools will reduce serious health risks for students, staff, and their families, help keep students in the classroom, and significantly reduce unnecessary interruptions to in-person learning.”
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Olive butter is a thick moisturizer for the skin. Unlike lotion, olive body butter will not wash off your skin easily, making it a rich emollient, which is good for very dry skin. Esthetician Keeley Selvage says lotions are typically made of 70 to 90 percent water, which makes them more water soluble. Butter gets rid of the water and preservatives leaving you with a rich, thick substance made mainly of oil. Selvage says the body butter may feel heavy at first, but easily soaks into your skin in a few minutes.
The olive tree is one of the oldest known cultivated trees in the world, spreading from its native land of Asia Minor to the Mediterranean over 6,000 years ago. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, advised his followers to put olive oil on their bodies, and he applied the oil to his head. Since then, olive oil is found in many religions and used in religious ceremonies as an anointing oil. According to NaturalSkinCareSecrets.com, Cleopatra used olive oil as a beauty product over 5,000 years ago. Many people of the Mediterranean believe olive oil keeps the skin and body young, and that it not only works topically but also from the inside out. This is one reason the Mediterranean diet contains a large amount of olive oil.
Function and Ingredients
Olive butter is used to increase the skin's moisture by delivering moisturizing oils to the surface of the skin, then locking it in with waterproof butter. Olive butter is made using a Shea butter base then adding olive oil as a carrier oil. Selvage says you can incorporate cornstarch into the mixture if the basic butter and oil mixture is too greasy for your skin.
Olive oil is a natural, hypoallergenic way to moisturize your skin, according to OliveOilSource.com. Extra virgin olive oil contains antioxidants, including vitamins A and E, to help repair and renew skin that has been exposed to harsh, dry weather, sun and air pollution. According to OliveOilSource.com, these antioxidants stimulate cells naturally to return skin to a "firmer, smoother and healthier state."
Olive butter should be used on very dry skin. The rich emollients in the Shea butter may be too heavy for oily skin. Olive butter is best for the body rather than the face since the thick consistency of the butter may clog pores and lead to breakouts. Selvage says butters are good for those who wash their hands often because the butter is less likely to wash off the hands than a lotion.
Olive butter contains the moisturizing and antioxidant properties of olive oil with the deep moisturizing and skin nourishing qualities of Shea butter to create an extra-rich emollient for the skin. In a study performed by U. Kiechl-Kohlendorfer et.al. at the Innsbruck Medical University in Austria, the skin integrity of pre-term infants was tested using a water-in-oil emollient cream and an olive oil cream, and comparing the skin of both groups with the control group's, which did not receive cream. The study lasted four weeks, and found the olive oil cream to be superior to the emollient cream and that topical skin therapy lowers the risk of dermatitis. | <urn:uuid:9adce604-f8fc-47a7-911b-938bd3b5b86b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/305014-what-is-the-benefit-of-olive-butter-for-skin-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00529-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949455 | 683 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Eye-Popping Image of Daddy Longlegs Wins International Olympus BioScapes Photo Competition
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., November 17, 2010 - A weird, wide-eyed wonder has earned top prize in the 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz of the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Munich, Germany captured the image, which showcases the bug-eyed splendor of a Daddy Longlegs, also known as a Harvestman or Phalangium opilio. The photo reveals not only the eyes' lenses (two large ovals), but also the retinas and optic nerves (trailing down at center back) of the artistic arachnid. This stunning depiction, a depth color-coded projection of a confocal microscope image, was selected from about 2000 images and movies to earn First Prize - $5,000 worth of Olympus equipment.
Now in its seventh year, the Olympus BioScapes competition is the world's premier platform for honoring images and movies of human, plant and animal subjects as captured through light microscopes. Any life science subject is eligible, and entries are judged based on the science they depict, their aesthetics (beauty and impact of the image), and their technical merit. This year, in addition to Prizes 1-10, 59 other images and movies were recognized with Honorable Mentions or Technical Merit Awards. All images and the names of honorees may be viewed online at www.olympusbioscapes.com.
This year's winning images reflect the latest advances in neuroscience and cell biology, including the Second Prize image by Thomas Deerinck of the University of California, San Diego's National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research. His image of a rat hippocampus, part of the brain involved with spatial navigation and memory, resembles a beautiful undulating ocean wave as it might have been painted by an Impressionist artist a century ago.
Third Prize went to an electrifying image of coral captured by James Nicholson, Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility, NOAA NOS NCCOS Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, Fort Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, South Carolina. The brilliant orange image seems to shimmer with a vibrant, three-dimensional glow.
In addition to advanced research, some of the winning and honorable mention images reflect people's endless fascination with the little things in life such as mushrooms, fish scales, insects, roots, bandages and red wine. One Honorable Mention went to Ralph Grimm of Jimboomba, Australia for a delightful movie showing a water bear walking from underneath, as if it were on a catwalk above. Water bears, which resemble a beloved type of children's chewy candies, are tiny creatures that have legs, claws, eyes, skin and muscles and walk by lumbering from side to side like a bear.
The Top 10 and Honorable Mention images this year came from five continents and many nations including such far-flung locations as Brazil, Canada, Korea, Pakistan, Poland and Spain. Specimens included plants, along with human and animal subjects. For instance, Yanping Wang of Beijing, China earned Ninth Prize for a brilliantly composed image of wildflower seeds, and M. Reza Dadpour of Tabriz, Iran captured Fifth Prize for his poetic image of a flower bud.
BioScapes images and movies hold a mirror up to the complexity, beauty and grace of the living universe, said Osamu Joji, Group Vice President and General Manager, Scientific Equipment Group, Olympus America Inc. But even more, they tell stories about some of the most important and compelling research being done today. The BioScapes Competition, with entries representing more than 60 countries, allows Olympus to bring these fascinating science images and stories to the world. Twenty of the 2010 winning and Honorable Mention images will be displayed at the San Diego Natural History Museum from December 2010 to February 2011. The 2010 winners?tour will continue to venues in New York City, suburban Washington D.C., Providence, R.I., Baltimore and other cities. Simultaneously, other exhibits of winning BioScapes images will tour cities across the U.S., Mexico, South America and Canada throughout 2011.
Olympus selects outstanding authorities in microscope imaging as judges for the competition, which is open to users of any brand of light microscope equipment. This year's BioScapes panel of judges included the eminent Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Catherine Galbraith, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; and Douglas Murphy, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia.
In addition to Igor Siwanowicz (1st and 7th), Thomas Deerinck (2nd), James Nicholson (3rd), M. Reza Dadpour (5th) and Yanping Wang (9th), the other Top 10 winners include: Wolfgang Bettighofer of Kiel, Germany, for his image of living Licmophora juergensii on red alga (4th); Jerzy Gubernator of Wroclaw, Poland, for his image of Spirogyra (6th); Jan Michels of Kiel, Germany, for his depiction of a beetle leg (8th); and Laurie Knight of Tonbridge, Kent, UK, for his image of a weevil (10th).
To view the BioScapes gallery and see all of the winners, 57 Honorable Mentions and 2 Judges?Awardees for Technical Merit, visit www.olympusbioscapes.com.?For free access to the images, media members and other noncommercial users may contact email@example.com.
(Image captions: Sequentially from the beginning: Page 1: Igor Siwanowicz, Eyes of Harvestman (Daddy Longlegs), 1st Prize. Page 2 Top: Thomas Deerinck, Rat hippocampus, 2nd Prize. Page 2 Bottom: James Nicholson, Coral, 3rd Prize.?Page 3 Left to right: Yanping Wang, Wildflower seeds, 9th Prize; M. Reza Dadpour, Flower primordium (bud) of Tribulus, 5th Prize. Above, left to right: Wolfgang Bettighofer, Licmophora juegensii on red alga, 4th Prize; Jerzy Gubernator, Spirogyra, 6th Prize; Igor Siwanowicz, Damselfly eye, 7th Prize; Jan Michels, Adhesive pad of the front leg of a beetle, 8th Prize; Laurie Knight, Weevil, 10th Prize. All are winners in the 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. For high-resolution files of these or other Olympus BioScapes images, contact Ilene Semiatin at firstname.lastname@example.org or phone 914-684-0959.)
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Some birth control methods work better than others. The chart on the following page compares how well different birth control methods work.
The most effective way to prevent pregnancy is
. However, within the first year of committing to abstinence, many couples become pregnant because they have sex anyway but don't use protection. So it's a good idea even for people who don't plan to have sex to be informed about birth control.
Couples who do have sex need to use birth control properly and every time to prevent pregnancy. For example, the birth control pill can be effective in preventing pregnancy. But if a girl forgets to take her pills, this isn't an effective method for her. Condoms can be an effective form of birth control, too. But if a guy forgets to use a condom or doesn't use it correctly, it's not an effective way for him to prevent pregnancy.
For every 100 couples using each type of birth control, the chart shows how many of these couples will get pregnant within a year. The information shown is for all couples, not just teenage couples. Some birth control methods may be less effective for teen users. For example, teenage girls who use fertility awareness (also called the rhythm method) may have an even greater chance of getting pregnant than adult women because their bodies have not yet settled into a regular menstrual cycle.
We list the effectiveness of different birth control methods based on their typical use rates. Typical use refers to how the average person uses that method of birth control (compared with "perfect" use, which means no mistakes are made in using that method).
A birth control method that is rated:
completely effective means that no couples will become pregnant while using that method
very effective means that between 1 and 2 out of 100 couples become pregnant while using that method
effective means that 2 to 12 out of 100 couples become pregnant while using that method
moderately effective means that 13 to 20 out of 100 couples become pregnant while using that method
less effective means that 21 to 40 out of 100 couples become pregnant while using that method
not effective means that more than 40 out of 100 couples become pregnant while using that method
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Apple sold $6.5 billion in bonds on Monday, according to Bloomberg.
That's the same Apple that last week announced a record-breaking $18 billion profit over the holiday quarter.
It's reasonable to ask: Why would Apple — a company with $178 billion in cash — need a loan?
In short: taxes.
Most of Apple's cash hoard is held offshore.
Apple can defer taxes on that cash until it decides to bring it back to the US.
Apple doesn't want to bring the money home, though. It could pay up to 35% of whatever it brings back to Uncle Sam, which could easily be a multibillion-dollar tax bill.
Apple wants a tax repatriation holiday, like the one recently proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-California) and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).
The Boxer-Paul deal would tax cash Apple brought home at 6.5%, much lower than the rate the company would otherwise pay.
But the prospects for the Boxer-Paul plan aren't looking good. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has already expressed skepticism about it. And the bill hasn't even been introduced yet.
Meanwhile, Apple still needs cash in the US. The $6.5 billion it raised will go toward stock repurchases, dividend payments, and debt repayments, according to Bloomberg.
With corporate taxes so high, and interest rates so low, it's much cheaper for Apple to raise debt and pay it back with interest than to repatriate cash.
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Privy Council Documents: Introduction
In 1907 the then-separate countries of Canada and Newfoundland agreed that the dispute over the location of their common boundary in the Labrador Peninsula should be sent to arbitration. The highest court of appeal in the British Empire was the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which agreed to hear the case. The hearing took place in 1926. Each side submitted arguments and counter-arguments, and thousands of documents. The decision was announced in Newfoundland and Labrador's favour on 1 March, 1927.
The result of the case had important ramifications for both Canada and Newfoundland, and the 12 volumes of documents submitted to the court form a valuable historical resource used by students of Labrador history.
In 2003 the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site (NLHWS) began placing all 12 volumes on its web site in as close a layout to the original printed version as was reasonably possible. The project was huge totalling over 3300 web files.
In the summer of 2012 the site began upgrading from html 4 to html5 using a faceted design approach, and making the site responsive to mobile devices and tablets. To include the Labrador Boundary Dispute documents in this upgrade would have been prohibitively costly. Instead we decided to convert all 12 volumes into one pdf file. Its size, however, is huge, totaling more than 44 megs.
In the original web documents up to five printed pages were included in one web page, yet with some documents over 60 pages in length, visitors would need to be able to move from one web page to the next within any single document. To achieve this outcome we placed at the bottom of each of these web pages a bar containing hot-linked numbers. Each number corresponds to a web page of the document.
We retained these links in the pdf file and they still perform the same function.
Visitors can use the Find or Search feature in their browser to search a subject in the pdf file. | <urn:uuid:58fdfc0d-0b98-4fa8-ac8c-4aefb0a8f484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/privy-council-introduction.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.949004 | 397 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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Because of that I'm building and design my new power amplifier project called TH500-i. It is actually be an integrated amplifier but I would initially design and build the amplifier part first. It is a 250w per channel power amplifier. Design approach is to bring together the advantages of a voltage-feedback circuitry and no global-feedback circuitry together. Therefore the feedback will be made only in the Voltage Amplifier Stage(VAS). The driver stage and output stage there is no feedback loop whatsoever. In order to reduce the interference and unwanted distortion cause by feedback voltage from the loud speakers.
07 Feb. 2012, by Thanaporn.
This 100Wrms power amplifier was designed and construction since 1999. It was the first power amplifier I designed my own. It is the second power amplifier I built. The first one is power amplifier by kit which when I was a student. During that time the concept was to designed and constructed by pickup up my stock electronic parts as much as possible such as a transistor resistor capacitor and others. TH200-SE power amplifier design. The designed is like the most popular amplifier schematics. Differential amplifier circuit is used in the first stage. And of course for me a cascode circuit is used for this differential stage in order to increase linearity of the audio signal.
05 Feb. 2012, by Thanaporn.
PT06 is a preamplifier that was created in the same period of PT05 construction. I want to build this preamplifier to be a part of my main audio system. In fact an opamp based preamplifier is not my planned to build before. But after finding and Googled the LME49713H is a high fidelity opamp for high performance preamplifier. LME49713H are designed and manufactured by National Semiconductor (currently owned by Texas Instuments).It is an ordinary circuitry designed. Voltage gain of the PT06 preamplifier was set to about 12 times. The power supply unit of the preamplifier is a separate and independent of each other in order to reduce the cross-talk interference between channels.The dual 15VA Toroidal transfermers are used. Because of power supply is very important to sound quality. So same as PT05 the 2.1 voltage regulation power supply is used with the PT06.
19 Jan. 2012, by Thanaporn.
AudioQuest King Cobra is the analog. interconnects that is set to one step higher level than the AudioQuest Diamonback but lower than the AudioQuest Columbia. Dielectric-Bias. System (DBS) has not been applied to the King Cobra. Columbia and the higher level cables are DBS. Advantages in terms of conductor selection King Cobra is a pure copper conductor AudioQuest called PSC + (Perfect-Surface Copper +). The signal conductors are 3x21AWG solid PSC+ copper and the shielding conductor(drain wire) is Silver-Plated Long Gain Copper (SP LGC). The main Insulator made from PVC. and the outer cover is the black-red nylon braid. The 3 main cores have its own special insulator called PE Air Tube. AudioQuest is believed that the air is the best insulator so the air inside each PE Air Tube. Conductors and the plug is connected by a process called cold-welding. Listening tests AudioQuest King Cobra.
17 Jan. 2012, by Thanaporn.
PT05 is the upgraded version of PT03 preamplifier. The design is very similar. Designed to be used the independent power-supply circuit for left and right. Cascode circuit for the differential amplifier stage in order to reduce distortion and increase the linearity. Cancel the DC servo circuit. I have found that without DC servo brings the better sound quality and more natural. 2.1 stages voltage regulation power supply. The overall design. It is also 2-stage amplifier. The differential amplifier stage is a fully complementary transistor-based circuit and of course it runs in class A. The next stage is working with the first stage as well it is a fully-complementary. The cascode circuit is also in this place to improve linearity of the amplifiers. Cascode circuit requires a constant reference voltage biasing to make a cascode transistor on. We chose to use a transistor array as a voltage reference. Because it requires less current compared to the use of zener diode diode and LED and of course it has lower noise. The overall voltage gain is set to 12 times.The use of electronic devices.
15 Jan. 2012, by Thanaporn.
I have been using the JPS superconductorQ for some couple of months. It is 1meter long RCA version interconnects or unbalanced interconects. Alumiloy the name of the conductor is used to produce a SuperConductorQ analog interconnects and speaker cable. Alumiloy is a very high purity material consists of ultra-pure metals and other elements. Looking at the outside. It is a purplish blue outer insulator wire with the high quality RCA jacks with able to tighten up. I used SuperconductorQ to connect the cd player and preamplifier but mostly used to connect between the DAC and preamplifier. Listen SuperconductorQ
12 Jan. 2012, by Thanaporn.
Audio-gd NFB-1WM is an audio digital to analog converter(DAC) from Chinese manufacturer. NFB-1WM is dual WM8741 chips based DAC. Looking from outside it is black thick aluminum chassis with weight more than the most same size DACs. Come with a purple power LED and the sources selector knob is aluminum in white.The selection of high-grade electronic devices is the strength of this brand. 2 pieces of independent R-Core transformers for left and right circuits. DALE resistor Nover Capacitor and gain matched transistors to be in place. To get the most natural sound NFB-1 is used of no feedback discrete amplifiers. After a reasonable time period I run it to make sure that I have done enough burn-in. It would take about 100 hours I have turn it on.
24 Dec. 2011, by Thanaporn.
JPS Labs is well known among the players. JPS Labs have products that provide value for money. Interconnects cable Speaker cable Power cord cable and Digital cable are their main product lines. I am looking for a new power cord cable for use with my DAC and preamplifier. After visit a shop and look to that Cardas In-Wall cable it was a solid and hardly to bending so not this one I want actually. I'm looking for another brand and then finally yesterday I had it. I bought 6-foot length JPS In-Wall cable from my favorite shop. It is the standard length for the AC power cord cable. I was fitted it with a Wattgate 5266i and Wattgate 320i which is a economy Wattgate product family. | <urn:uuid:5f49b82f-f3f7-4aab-9c7f-09828cb946a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://audiodiyblog.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943393 | 1,659 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of an Endo-Xylanase Gene (xynA) from Bacillus stearothermophilus
Choi, Yong-Jin ; Cho, Ssang-Goo ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 117~124
A gene (xynA) encoding the endo-xylanase (E.C.22.214.171.124) from Bacillus stearothermophilus was cloned in E. coli, and its complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The xynA gene consists of a 636 base pairs open reading frame coding for a protein of 212 amino acids with a deduced molecular weight of 23, 283 Da. A putative signal sequence of 27 amino acid residues shows the features comparable with the Bacillus signal sequences; namely, the signal contains a positively charged region close to the N-terminus followed by a long hydrophobic string. The coding sequence is preceded by a possible ribosome binding site with a free energy value of -16.6 kcal/mol and the transcription initiation signals are located further upstream. The translation termination codon (TAA) at the 3 end of the coding sequence is followed by two palindrome sequences, one of which is thought to act as a terminator. The xynA gene has a high GC content, especially in the wobble position of codons (64%). Comparison of the primary protein sequence with those of other xylanases shows a high homology to the xylanases belonging to family G.
Nucleotide Sequence on Upstream of the cdd Locus in Bacillus subtilis
JONG-GUK KIM ; KIM, KYE-WON ; SEON-KAP HWANG ; JOO-WON SUH ; BANG-HO SONG ; SOON-DUCK HONG ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 125~131
A 3, 346 bp of the cdd upstream region in Bacillus subtilis was sequenced from the pSO1 (Song BH and J Neuhard. 1989. Mol. Gen. Genet 216: 462-468) and sequence homology was searched to the known genes in Genbank and European Molecular Biology Laboratory databanks. Five complete and one truncated putative coding sequences deduced from the nucleotide sequence were found through the ORF searching by Genetyx and Macvector software, and one of them was identified as the dgk (diacylglycerol kinase) gene and another, a truncated one, as the phoH (phosphate starvation-inducible gene) gene. The B. subtilis dgk gene, having a role for response to several environmental stress signals, revealed an open reading frame of 134 amino acids with 43.1% of sequence identity to the Streptococcus mutans dgk gene. The carboxy terminal 59 residues of the truncated phoH gene showed 52.7% and 34.5% of sequence identity in amino acids with the corresponding genes of Mycobacterium leprae and Escherichia coli. The four remaining coding sequences consisting of 115, 421, 91, and 91 residues were thought to be unknown ORFs because they have no significant similarity to known genes.
Preincubation without attB DNA inhibits In Vitro Integrative Recombination of P 1 Mutant attP DNA of Bacteriophage Lambda
Yoo, Seung-Ku ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 132~137
The lambda integrase (lnt) is believed to bind to several arm and core sites of attP DNA in order to facilitate intasome formation. We have done systematic mutagenic analysis on all 5 arm sites and found that P1 is absolutely required for integration while P2 is not. We also found that all 3 P' arm sites(P'1, P'2, and P'3) are required for efficient integrative recombination. P'1, which is an important binding site for excision, also seems to be crucial for integration when preincubation of attP DNA with Int and IHF is performed before recombination. Preincubation assay revealed that preincubation with Int and IHF improved the efficiency of recombination of wild type attP DNA and demolished recombinations of P'1 mutant attP DNAs.
Isolation and Characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis Strain BT-209 producing Cuboidal
Jung, Yong-Chul ; Kim, Sung-uk ; Son, Kwang-Hee ; Lee, Hyung-Hoan ; Bok, Song-Hae ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 138~142
Bacillus thuringiensis strain BT-209 was isolated from a soybean grain dust sample in Korea. The strain BT-209 produced two different sizes of cuboidal crystals and one spore in the cell. In the biochemical characterization, the strain BT-209 showed negative reactions on the production of urease, and the utilization of citrate and sucrose. Examination of its antibiotic resistance revealed that while the strain BT-209 showed higher sensitivity than B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-1 to ampicillin, bacitracin, chlortetracycline, gentamycin, neomycin, penicillin G, tetracycline and tobramycin, it was more resistant to methicillin than B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-1. The
-endotoxin crystal of strain BT-209 consisted of three proteins with apparent molecular weights of appoximately 148, 135 and 62 kDa on a 10% SDS-PAGE. The strain BT-209 had at least eight different plasmids with sizes of 4.1, 5.2, 6.3, 8.6, 14.6, 24.5, 67.6 and 77.6 Kb. The strain BT-209 showed strong lethalities of 70% and 87% against Bombyx mori and Hyphantria cunea larvae. at 72 h, respectively.
Volatile Components of Korean Soybean Paste Produced by Bacillus subtilis PM3
JONG-KYU KIM ; JI, WON-DAE ; SUNG-HO YANG ; MYEONG-RAK CHOI ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 143~148
A strain producing soybean paste flavor was isolated from traditional Korean soybean paste. The isolate was identified as Bacillus subtilis PM3. The neutral fraction representing the traditional soybean paste aroma was obtained from the whole volatile components produced by B. subtilis PM3 in cooked soybean. Each separated peak from the neutral fraction of gas chromatogram was identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and Kovat's retention index, and the aromas of each peak were investigated by a sniffing test with the exercise panel. The twenty-nine components, including six character impact compounds and twelve components of flavors of Korean soybean paste, were confirmed. Some regions of gas chromatogram represented the soybean paste odor. It has been confirmed that traditional Korean soybean paste can be manufactured with the strain B. subtilis PM3.
Culture Conditions and Growth Characteristics of Bifidobacterium longum
KIM, WANG-JUNE ; SEONG-KWAN CHA ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 149~153
A simple and low-cost medium was developed for the growth of Bifidobacterium longum KFRI 977. Of three bifidobacterial strains, B. longum KFRI 977 (ATCC 15707) showed the best growth in MRSC broth containing 0.3% oxgall, grew well in partially anaerobic condition, exhibited highest
-galactosidase activity, and was inhibitory against Clostridium perfringens KFRI 434. Of three developed media, the population of B. longum KFRI 977 was highest (1.9
/ml) in ISP based medium. The composition of ISP based medium is ISP (5%), glucose (1%), L-cysteine HCI (0.05%), Trypticase peptone (0.5%), yeast extract (0.5%),
(0.05%), Tween-80 (0.1%), and phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). Hydrolysis of ISP by Protease A was unnecessary, and the use of phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) prevented the formation of protein precipitate. Associative culture of B. longum KFRI 977 with Lactobacillus acidophilus KFRI 233 was proven to be deleterous to the growth of B. longum KFRI 977.
-Amastatin, MRK-22 as an Inhibitor of Aminopeptidase M produced by Streptomyces sp. SL20209
Kho, Yung-Hee ; Ko, Hack-Ryong ; Chun, Hyo-Kon ; Kim, Seung-Ho ; Sung, Nack-Kie ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 154~157
MRK-22, an inhibitor of aminopeptidase M was isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces sp. SL20209. The structure of MRK-22 was defined to be 3-amino-2-hydroxy-5-methylhexanoyl-valyl-valine, des-
-amastatin, by spectroscopic analysis and this was also confirmed by solid phase synthesis of the inhibitor. The molecular formula and weight of MRK-22 were
and MW 359(
), respectively, and its
value against hog kidney AP-M was 0.79
Fermentation of MR-387A and H, Novel Aminopeptidase M Inhibitors by Streptomyces sp. SL-387 : Carbon and Nitrogen Catabolite Repression of Inhibitor Formation
Kho, Yung-Hee ; Chung, Myung-Chul ; Chun, Hyo-Kon ; Lee, Choong-Hwan ; Lee, Ho-Jae ; Kim, Su-Il ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 158~162
The effect of carbon and nitrogen sources on the production of novel aminopeptidase M inhibitors MR-387A and B by Streptomyces sp. SL-387 has been studied. High D-glucose and ammonia concentrations (5$\%$ and 1$\%$, respectively) exerted a negative influence on the inhibitor formation. The suppressive effect of glucose on the inhibitor formation is probably caused by an effect of medium pH rather than that of cyclic AMP. To establish the optimum conditions for inhibitor overproduction, various nitrogen sources and ammonium ion-trapping agents were examined. The use of ammonia slow-releasing nitrogen sources such as soybean meal and fish meal, or ammonium ion-trapping agents such as kaoline, celite, and natural zeolite achieved the enhancement of inhibitor production. These results also indicate that inhibitor formation is affected by ammonium ion repression.
Chemical Modification of Macroporous Gelatin Microcarriers and Characterization of Cell Growth and Attachment
Lim, Hyun-Soo ; Kim, Jung-Hoe ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 163~166
Chemical modification of gelatin-based macroporous microcanier beads was achieved by increasing the charge density through incorporation of (diethylamino)ethylchloride-hydrochloride (DEAE:CI-HCI) or lysine, and this significantly improved the attachment and growth of HepG2 cells. When microcarriers were modified by the addition of 2% lysine, positive charge density was 0.95 meq/g-caniers. In case of modification of microcarriers with DEAE:CI-HCI, positive charge density was 0.6 meq/g-caniers. An increase in charge density of the microcaniers to improve cell attachment has facilitated the growth of the cells on macroporous gelatin microcaniers. Also, final HepG2 cell concentration cultivated on modified beads with DEAE:CI-HCI was increased up to
cells/ml. This was 2-3 times higher than that obtained with unmodified macroporous gelatin microcarriers.
Isolation and Characterization of a Methylotroph Producing 3-hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate Copolymer
JUNG HOE KIM ; KIM, PIL ; SEON WON KIM ; GYUN MIN LEE ; HYUN SOO LEE ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 167~171
A bacterial strain C-02 using methanol as a carbon source was isolated from Gumi Industrial Estate and selected based on its rapid growth and capability of poly-
-hydroxybutyrate accumulation. Characteristics of strain C-02 showed that it belongs to the Methylococcaceae family, Type II subgroup. Strain C-02 could incorporate valerate into the PHB chain to form 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyvalerate (P(3HB-co-3HV)). Among various nutrient limitation tests, the nitrogen limitation test resulted in the highest content of P(3HB-co-3HV) per dry cell weight, 50
. Under the nitrogen limited condition, the average molecular weight of P(3HB-co-3HV) obtained was determined to be approximately
Effect of Aspergillus niger Pellets on Citric Acid Production in a Bubble Column Bioreactor
Kim, Seung-Hwan ; Yoo, Young-Je ; Kim, Eui-Yong ; Kim, Min-Hong ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 172~176
Citrate is mainly produced from fungi and oxygen transfer has been known as one of the important factors in citric acid production. A bubble column bioreactor was used for citrate production after pellet was initially made using a stirred bioreactor for the inoculation. The relationship between the pellet size of Aspergillus niger and the oxygen transfer was elucidated by considering morphological characteristics of the pellet. The pellet size was determined by adjusting the impeller speed in the stirred bioreactor and the optimum diameter of the pellet was observed to be 2.2 mm under the experimental conditions. Pellet was maintained quite stable in the bubble column bioreactor and production of citric acid was significantly improved by maintaining optimal pellet conditions in the bubble column bioreactor.
Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide Concentration on the Polymerization of p-Phenylphenol in Organic Solvent by Peroxidase
Yoo, Young-Je ; Yeo, Joo-Sang ; Park, Tae-In ;
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, volume 5, issue 3, 1995, Pages 177~180
In horseradish peroxidase-catalyzing polymerization of phenol under the water/dioxane solvent system, the optimal concentration of hydrogen peroxide was found to be 10 mmol/I. Feeding of hydrogen peroxide at its optimal concentration improved the polymerization performance by reducing reaction time and increasing molecular weights. Monomer conversions and the molecular weights of the enzymatically produced polymer were in the ranges of 83.1~94.2
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) is the fourth and final facility in the Great Observatories Program, joining Hubble Space Telescope (1990), the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (1991-2000), and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (1999). Spitzer, with a sensitivity that is almost three orders of magnitude greater than that of any previous ground-based and space-based infrared observatory, is expected to revolutionize our understanding of the creation of the universe, the formation and evolution of primitive galaxies, the origin of stars and planets, and the chemical evolution of the universe. This review presents a brief overview of the scientific objectives and history of infrared astronomy. We discuss Spitzer's expected role in infrared astronomy for the new millennium. We describe pertinent details of the design, construction, launch, in-orbit checkout, and operations of the observatory and summarize some science highlights from the first two and a half years of Spitzer operations. More information about Spitzer can be found at http://spitzer.caltech.edu/.
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By DIANE S. WILLIAMS
William Vance is a Special Patrolmen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He works the day shift, where normally the museum is bustling with thousands of visitors touring and dozens of delivery trucks are coming and going at New York’s 150-year-old, iconic institution.
“It’s strange to walk the halls of a vastly empty museum,” said the Local 1503 member. Since the mid-March state-imposed shutdown of public spaces in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vance said, “I don’t see people.”
MMA houses rare collections of artifacts from ancient empires of Africa and Europe — Ghana, Mali, Egypt, Rome and Greece, rare photographs and films of New York and more.
Vance patrols the museum and maintains crowd control. As a Peace Officer, he can arrest unruly visitors, though it is a rare occurrence, he said.
Vance guards an MMA entrance where deliveries are trucked in daily, but as the global coronavirus pandemic continues, that has stopped. These are not normal times.
Museums are closed to visitors in response to the lethal viral outbreak. MMA invites visitors to take virtual tours online and practice social distancing to stave the spread of COVID-19.
“I watched as this developed and saw and read about what France and other countries were doing,” said Rawle Campbell, president of Local 1503. “I immediately started labor-management meetings to come up with solutions to possible schedule reductions. The local also uses its website and social media to keep members informed.”
Working skeleton crews similar to when the museum closes for three major holidays, Local 1503 members at MMA continue work to protect priceless art collections and maintain the buildings’ climates to preserve thousands of fragile antiquities housed at MMA’s three locations.
Security and three engineers, as required by law, work around the clock in three shifts.
Vance, a 13-year museum employee, is part of a rotating skeleton crew at MMA. Other union members work a flexible schedule, explained Campbell who with DC 37 leaders worked to have MMA management provide flex hours and pay, and face masks for its employees to wear during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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motherly, but is the like care taken with that excellent man, Mr. Ryle, who has not only delivered a great many political speeches, but has written pamphlets on the subject of Church and State? We trust our worthy brother has been nursed with much watchfulness, for he has the political disease very heavily upon him if we may judge from certain of his tracts. He is a fearful instance of a Political Churchman. We believe the High Church party consider him to be a Dissenter, and we rejoice to believe that they are pretty near the mark, judging the good man doctrinally; and if they are right in their views Mr. Ryle is a political Dissenter himself, only he is out of his proper place. Will some of his friends remind him of his danger ? And will they at the same time take note, that for every word upon politics spoken by us, pious churchmen can be found who have uttered ten or a hundred. In them it seems to be commendable, and in us censurable: how is this?
To the spiritual Churchman we would say :- Take the eighteen volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, and see if you can find eighteen pages of matter which even look towards politics ; nay, more, see if there be one solitary sentence concerning politics, which did not, to the preacher's mind, appear to arise out of his text, or to flow from the natural run of his subject. The abstinence of the preacher from such themes would be eminently praiseworthy, if it were not possibly censurable ; for he may have neglected a distasteful duty.
The truth is that many of us are loath to touch politics at all, and would never do so if we were not driven to it. Our life-theme is the gospel, and to deal with the sins of the State is our "strange work,” which we only enter upon under the solemn constraints of duty. To see Popery made the national religion has aroused the gentlest among us. An evangelical church, imposed upon us by the State, was a grievance and a wrong, but to force a shamelessly Ritualistic Establishment upon us as the national religion is a tyranny which no Englishman ought to bear. Is an Anglican priest to swing his censer in our faces in the name of the nation? Are the idols and breaden deities of Ritualism to be held up before us, with this exclamation, “These be thy gods, 0 England !" The case is so, and we protest for we are Protestants—we will not tamely endure it for we worship the living God. We will go on with our spiritual duties quietly enough if those in power will deal out equal measure to all "religions. We shall be delighted to have no more grounds of appeal to public justice, and no more reasons for difference with our fellow Christians. If we are political, give us our rights and we shall be so no more. If our spirituality be precious to our antagonists, let them deliver us from the temptation which puts it in peril.
For a Christian minister to be an active partisan of Whigs or Tories, busy in canvassing, and eloquent at public meetings for rival factions, would be of ill repute. For the Christian to forget his heavenly citizenship, and occupy himself about the objects of place-hunters, would be degrading to his high calling: but there are points of inevitable contact between the higher and the lower spheres, points where politics persist in coming into collision with our faith, and there we shall be traitors both to heaven and earth if we consult our comfort by slinking into the rear. Till religion in England is entirely free from State patronage and control, till the Anglican Papacy ceases to be called the national religion, till every man of every faith shall be equal before the eye of the law as to his religious rights, we cannot, and dare not cease to be political. Because we fear God, and desire his glory, we must be political—it is a part of our piety to be so. When nearest to God in prayer, we pray that his church may neither oppress nor be oppressed ; when walking in holiest fellowship with Jesus, we long that he alone may be head of the church, and that she may no more defile herself with the kinge of the earth. Let not our opponents mistake us : we dare carry our cause before the throne of God, and habitually do so. Our protests before man are repeated in our prayers to God. Our deepest religious emotions are aroused by the struggle forced upon us. We will not say that Nonconformists who are not abused as political Dissenters are not pious, but we will say that, if we shirked the work which makes us political, we should prove ourselves traitors to the Lord our God. The curse of Meroz would fall upon us if we came not up to the help of the Lord in this the day of battle. The history of the nation, and the destiny of millions, may depend uponthe faithfulness of Nonconformists at this hour, and our persuasion is that the day will come when it shall be fame rather than dishonour to have been reckoned-A POLITICAL DISSENTER.
BY VERNON J. CHARLESWORTH. Ro POWLAND HILL, the sixth son of Sir Rowland Hill, was born at
Hawkstone, August 23rd, 1745, and, as a boy, was characterised by a remarkable vivacity which distinguished him through life. The frankness of his disposition and the transparency of his character endeared him to all who knew him. His ambition as a child was betrayed when, in answer to the question proposed by his father, "Well, Rowly, and what should you like to be ?” he frankly replied, •I should like to be a baronet, and sit in a great chair." He had probably thought as little about it as the boy who, when he was told he could not be a king said, " Then, father, I should like to be a beadle." The official paraphernalia of the ecclesiastical functionary was as attractive to the mind of the youthful aspirant as the insignia of royalty. The desire to “ sit in a great chair was only a momentary impulse which never after influenced his mind, until, feeble with the weight of years and wearied with the incessant toils of an active life, he awaited the summons to depart.
His conversion in early life was attributable, in a great measure, to the influence of his elder brother Richard and his sister Jane, wbo
Although the subject is by no means new, our friend has produced a very interesting paper. It is opportune now that the new Surrey Chapel is about to be commenced, -Ed.
wrote to him, when at Eton, and urged him to decide for Christ. Mr. Sidney writes : “ The opening flowers of his mind were consecrated to God ; and his conceptions of the truths of religion, at this early age, were so luminous and distinct, that he never saw occasion to alter his first views in any essential particular." Having found the Lord himself, he sought the salvation of his school-fellows, and had the joy of knowing he had been made the means of blessing to many: These youthful converts incorporated themselves into a religious society, that they might be fellow-helpers of each other's joy and growth in grace.
From Eton young Hill was sent to St. John's, Cambridge, to qualify himself for one or other of the six livings in Norfolk, which were in the gift of the Hill family, and which were restricted to the fellows of St. John's College. Evangelical Christianity was at a discount at the University, but Rowland Hill was prepared to stand to his colours at all hazards. The new scenes and associates of college life were not allowed to divert him from his simple aim as a devout believer and a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. His godly life was an eloquent rebuke of the wordly dissipations of his fellow-students, who made him the butt of their ridicule, and the object of their affected contempt. “The old shoe-black at the gate was the only person,” he says, “who gave him a cordial smile.” There is a sublimity in the heroism of a youth who, in fidelity to the claims of conscience, dares to stand alone in defiance of the storm of abuse which a godly life provokes. Our national colleges, instead of being a nursery for the soul, have too often proved rocks and quicksands, on which many a young Christian has made shipwreck of faith and of a good conscience; and little hope of improvement can be cherished till Christianity shall again subdue the learning of the age to the authority of Christ.
Good John Berridge, of Everton, on hearing of the young Christian at St. John's, addressed him a letter in which he desired his acquaintance. The house of this saintly man proved an oasis to Rowland Hill in the spiritual desert of college life, and the society to which he was there introduced, was a source of comfort and strength to him in pursuing his studies and witnessing to the truth.
While anxiously seeking to promote the holy growth of his own soul he, at the same time, endeavoured to win his fellow students to Christ, and commenced preaching in the villages around the town of Cambridge. He sought out the sick at their houses, and visited the prisoners in the gaol. In these holy exercises he found a stimulus for his own piety, and gained by his early experiences much of the wisdom which characterised the labours of maturer years. His exertions in preaching the gospel being regarded by the authorities as irregular, he was threatened with various punishments, but this decided him the more to pursue the course he had taken. Having sought the advice of his prototype, George Whitefield addressed him a characteristic letter, dated London, December 27, 1769, in which he says—" Visiting the sick and imprisoned, and instructing the ignorant, are the very vitals of true and undefiled religion. If threatened, denied degree, or expelled for this, it will be the best degree you can take.”
In July of the following year Rowland Hill returned home for the long vacation, where he met with no encouragement from his parents.
Their opposition, indeed, was a cross which he found it very hard to bear. His brother Richard and his sister Jane, however, to whom he owed so much for their pious letters, earnest prayers, and gracious counsels, received him cordially and wished him God speed. While at home he received another letter from Whitefield, who manifested great interest in his welfare. Nothing daunted, he spoke of the Saviour to the various members of his family, the servants in the house, and also to his father's tenantry. Such a light as his could not be hidden under the bushel of prudential reserve, or quenched by a time-serving expediency. How was his heart gladdened when he could write to his beloved counsellor, and tell him that his brother Brian had also decided for Christ!
Returning to college after the vacation, Rowland Hill was more determined than ever to devote himself to the work of the gospel, in spite of all opposition. He was heartily greeted by the few who were in sympathy with him, and especially by the people to whom he had ministered. The simple prayer with which he commenced the year 1768 was the spirit of every new year's prayer during the rest of his life~"Lord, grant us a deal of blessed preaching this next year.” About this time the authorities of Oxford resolved to stop those young men who, like Rowland Hill at Cambridge, were violating the proprieties of University etiquette by preaching in unconsecrated places. Accordingly six of the foremost of the young enthusiasts were summoned before the vice-chancellor, and the heads of houses, " for holding Methodistical tenets, and taking upon them to pray, read, and expound the Scriptures, and sing hymns in a private house.” Some of them, it was argued, Were of low origin, others were illiterate, and one had been a barber! Their principal, to his honour, be it said, defended their doctrines from the articles of the church, and bore unequivocal testimony to the purity of their lives; but failing in his plea, he observed that " as these gentlemen were expelled for having too much religion, it would be very proper to enquire into the conduct of some who had too little.” To what lengths will not bigotry go when inflamed by jealousy ! Did these grave professors never read the Saviour's anathema pronounced on those who offend one of his little ones? Had they never read the rebuke which he administered to their intolerant prototypes, “ He that is not against us is on our side” ? When men dig a channel in which the river of the water of life shall flow, they would rather dam it up at the spring-head than allow it to overflow the boundaries they have defined. As these young men were members of a society at Oxford, with some of whom Rowland Hill maintained a correspondence, he deplored their expulsion but was in no way discouraged from pursuing the same course he had ever done. While devoted in his attachment to the church, he would not profess absolute submission, and was therefore refused ordination by no less than six bishops! He could not compromise his conscience by mental reservation-a popular but pernicious expedient of modern days—but preferred to labour untrammelled, at the sacrifice of his social status and worldly prospects.
Prior to taking orders he returned home, and travelled from place to place as an evangelist. His father allowed him but a small sum annually, to discourage him in his course, but without avail. His friends at Bath purchased for him a saddle horse, upon which he rode to his preaching engagements. He was often without means to pay his night's lodging, but was never forsaken in his hour of need.
Sir Rowland Hill at length resolved to interfere and sent his son Richard to persuade Rowland to give up itinerant preaching and return home. He traced him to Kingswood, near Bristol, and found him surrounded by an immense multitude of colliers, to whom he Was preaching with great earnestness. The effect of the sermon was remarkable, and Mr. Richard Hill was much affected by the scene. Rowland guessed his brother's errand, and on concluding his sermon announced, “My brother Richard will preach here at this time to-morrow." Feeling it to be a call from the Lord, he resigned his commission in the army, and remained to preach.
In 1773 Rowland Hill was ordained by Dr. Willis, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, without any promise or condition whatever. He only received deacon's orders, not accepting those of priest, on the condition alone by which they were offered to him, namely, regularity, and so, as his drollery expressed it, “he ran off with only one boot on.” The same year he was married to Miss Tudway, who was a most worthy woman, and who accompanied him on several of his preaching tours. The stories of his treatment of his wife are pure inventions. When told of the remark he was reported to have made of Mrs. Hill's dress, he exclaimed with indignation, “It is an abominable untruth, derogatory to my character as a Christian and a gentleman. They would make me out a bear.” Nothing was more calculated to provoke his indignation than the stories which were fabricated respecting him. Those who were most intimate with him bear unequivocal testimony to the manliness of his character, and the consistency of his conduct as a gentleman. In private life he was always characterised by his fidelity to the claims of conscience, but he never scrupled to violate the conventionalities of polite life if they interposed to prevent the realisation of his all-absorbing aims. Referring with indignation to some who had given currency to certain baseless stories respecting him he said, “I have humbled myself in following these gentry in language almost as low as their own; like eels, they are now at liberty to sink into their own mud and dirt as their safest place of refuge."
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Chinese ISPs modified network routing tables on April 8
April 10, 2010
Chinese Internet service providers briefly modified network routing tables on April 8. This is the second time in less than two weeks that network admins in China have done so, and now some are wondering when a next similar network breach will happen.
Internet routing data for 32,000 to 37,000 networks was critically affected, causing them to be redirected through China instead of their normally designed path. Some 8,000 of the networks were located in the U.S. including those operated by Dell, Apple, CNN and Starbucks.
Some networks in Australia, India, New Zealand and elsewhere were also affected by the modified routing tables.
The bad networking information originated from IDC China Telecommunications and was soon retransmitted by China's state-owned China Telecommunications. ISPs including AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, Qwest Communications, UU-Net, Tiscalis and Telefonica soon incorporated the wrong data into their routing tables as well, IDG said.
This incident comes less than two weeks after a similar networking anomaly caused people in Chile to be redirected to Chinese networks, potentially blocking web sites such as Facebook and YouTube, which are already banned in that country.
This issue underscores the fragility of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) which is used to route traffic over the Internet. The core net underpinning remains susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks that can divert DNS traffic to imposter networks, or to sites that are hosting pornographic material or other undesirable content such as gamling or casino sites which are illegal in many countries.
But it's still unclear how widely felt Thursday's incident was outside of Asia, IDG said. Internet routers frequently subscribe to several BGP routes and follow the shortest path, in an effort to speed up network speed and throughput.
This means that networks that are physically located in the U.S., Canada, Europe and elsewhere may have totally ignored the tables that traveled through China. Others disagree.
Whether industry observers agree or not, one fact remains: it's still unknown at this time if this incident and the one less than 2 weeks ago were intentional or not. Some think it could have been intentional.
A little over a month ago, Google has decided to shut down its google.cn search engine after well publicized and ongoing privacy issues with the chinese government.
At the 2008 Defcon hacker conference in Vegas, Internet security researchers demonstrated a BGP attack that allowed them to redirect Internet traffic bound for the conference network to a system they controlled in New York.
Also in that same year, large chunks of the Internet lost access to YouTube and Facebook when BGP routing tables inside Pakistan spread to other countries in Asia.
We will keep you posted on this and other Internet security issues at home and abroad.
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Help The Environment By Recycling
Wondering how you can help the environment by recycling?
Recycling is the process of giving old or used things a new lease of life, by making new things out of the old materials (read more about what recycling is about
Recycling actually does a lot for the environment. As you will read about more below, recycling is one of the simplest, yet crucial things, you can do for the environment.
Help the environment by recycling – how it works
One of the most direct ways recycling contributes to a greener environment is through reducing waste.
Reducing waste is important because energy and natural resources (e.g. land for burial of rubbish) are needed in waste management. Pollution is also created in the process, regardless of the method of waste management employed.
What this means is that the more waste there is to handle, the more energy and natural resources will be used up, and the more pollution would be created. And this pollution could be in the form of land pollution (e.g. chemicals leeching from landfills), air pollution (e.g. fumes emitted from landfills or the incineration of waste like plastic) and water pollution (e.g. rubbish that end up in the oceanic garbage patches).
You can help the environment by recycling, because when you recycle, you actually divert substantial amounts of materials away from the waste management system, and re-channel these materials where they can be put to better use, instead of being buried or burnt. By recycling, you also help to reduce the pollution associated with landfills and incinerators.
Another reason why you can help the environment by recycling is because recycling reduces the need for virgin materials, which in turn helps to reduce environmental pollution related to extraction of virgin materials.
Because recycling channels used and unwanted materials back into the manufacturing process, it actually helps reduce the amount of virgin materials needed in manufacturing. For example, you might be aware that plastic is created from petroleum. Instead of creating from scratch (i.e. from petroleum) new plastic for plastic products, recycled plastic can be used to produce these plastic products. In this way, less petroleum would be used, and less plastic would have to be rendered as waste to be buried or incinerated. And less plastic would end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That is an important reason why you can help the environment by recycling.
With less need for raw virgin materials like wood pulp for paper, coal or metals, there would be less need for the various material extraction activities like deforestation and mining – some of the main contributors of pollution.
For example, when more of the paper you use at school or in your office can be produced from recycled paper fibres, less trees would need to be cut down to produce virgin paper fibres to make paper. This is important because the large scale felling of trees – deforestation, can bring about serious soil erosion and land pollution, disrupt biodiversity in existing forest land and contribute substantially to green house gasses.
In the same way, when metals like zinc, aluminium and copper can be recycled, less of these metals need to be mined from the metal ores in the ground. And this in turn helps the environment because mining activities are often associated with major water pollution and soil pollution. In fact, mining activities that are not well-managed can kill. For example, according to Wikipedia, the illegal extraction of ore by villagers in Zamfara State (Nigeria) early 2010 led to the death of more than 163 people, who come into contact with water, soil and tools polluted with heavy metal from the mining site.
What all these mean is that you can actually help the environment by recycling.
What about the carbon footprint of recycling?
Some people point out that there is a carbon footprint to recycling.
Yes, it cannot be denied that recycling does result in some carbon footprints.
For example, energy is needed to transport the recyclable materials to the recycling facilities. Energy is also needed to have these recyclables cleaned, sorted and at time reprocessed before they can be reused in the manufacturing process. For example, waste paper need to be repulped and waste metal melted, prior to reprocessing into new paper or new metal items. And given that we are currently very much reliant on fossil fuels for our energy today, the amount of greenhouse gas and the carbon footprint left behind by the recycling process is definitely not negligible.
So you might be wondering if you can still help the environment by recycling, given the carbon footprint associated with the recycling process.
I too have thought about this question, and what I think is that recycling is still our best bet. The ideal solution to helping the environment would really be that all of us reduce our consumption and waste production by reducing and reusing. But in the face of our strong consumerism culture today, it is very hard to convince people to reduce and reuse (try convincing your sister or sister-in-law to reduce her shopping), least to say ask them to practice reducing and reusing. Even if you manage to practice these two green principles (good for you!), it is not going to easy to convince others around you to do the same.
So like I said, the next best thing we can do for the environment is to recycle.
In looking at the carbon footprint left behind by the recycling process, we need to bear in mind too that by not recycling, there is an EVEN LARGER footprint left behind – in terms of the pollution we create in the waste management process, the pollution and destruction to the natural environment that we create when we seek to extract more and more resources from the earth (even when we know that these resources are finite), etc.
So that is why, I strongly believe that we can, and must, help the environment by recycling.
And it is not sufficient for only you and I to recycle – more people and organizations need to play their part and contribute as well.
That means that other than practicing recycling yourself, one of the other things you can do to help the environment is to encourage others to recycle too. Below are some tips you can share with those around you to help the environment by recycling.
Tips to help the environment by recycling
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Once you, and those around you, are convinced about the importance of recycling, here are some simple tips you can adopt:
- read about what you can recycle, and what you can’t – mixing the two can lead to the contamination of recyclable materials, in turn leading to wastage
- learn about the various recycling symbols and recycling codes and learn to sort out your recyclables accordingly, so as to facilitate recycling
- for recycling to be profitable (and hence continue to take place), there must be demand for goods made of recycled materials. Hence, to help the environment by recycling, you also need to choose products made of recycled materials over products made of virgin materials. In this way, the recycling loop can be closed.
And if you want to go a step further, seek to reduce and reuse (as mentioned above).
In fact, reducing and reusing comes first before recycling in the 3R waste management hierarchy
– producing less waste and pollution is much better than finding environmentally friendly ways to deal with the waste and pollution we have produced.
Do your part for the earth today – help the environment by recycling. Or even better, by reducing and reusing.
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Amid constant iteration in high-efficiency cell technology, domestic businesses have exceeded 23% in the efficiency of mass production at new PERC production lines in 2021, and managed to develop ceilings at an efficiency of almost 24%, which further solidifies the determination of domestic businesses in establishing additional production lines for the N-type cell.
N-type cells that have so far achieved a small-scale mass production (>1GW) include TOPCon, HJT, and IBC. According to the analysis of EnergyTrend, the capacity and market share of N-type cells started to elevate simultaneously since 2021, where the capacity of N-type cells is expected to arrive at 22GW at the end of 2021, while the market share is estimated to surpass 10% in 2023.
Riding the Fence on N-Type Cells Due to Relatively Weak Capacity Scale
Businesses are primarily focused on TOPCon or HJT for the expansion of N-type cells in 2021, and among the businesses that have initiated production for the N-type technology, most of the new HJT businesses are implementing a pilot scale production, while a large segment of TOPCon businesses are integrated. However, the relatively weak capacity scale of N-type cells owing to multiple factors, including large sizing, cost, and yield rate, coupled with the price fluctuations from the PV industry chain amidst the post-pandemic era, have prompted the deployment of N-type cells to remain centralized on businesses equipped with storage technology in 2021, and the market now concentrates on the capacity release of large-sized TOPCon cells and the progress of GW-grade HJT production lines.
First-tier module makers have confirmed the deployment of N-type technology for 2021. In terms of product arrangement, CSI and Trina Solar are planning to sell HJT modules, while Longi and Hanwha are going to sell TOPCon modules. Jinko Solar has already started selling TOPCon module products, whereas Risen Energy plans to release module products that contain the technology of TOPCon and HJT. Pertaining to the establishment of production lines, Risen Energy has commenced the mass production on HJT modules, while CSI will be building a pilot scale production line for HJT, and JA Solar has completed the pilot scale production line for TOPCon before constructing the HJT production line scheduled for the second half of 2021. Jinko Solar has started the mass production for TOPCon modules, whereas the TOPCon cell factory of Longi is expected to go into operation in 2021.
Integrated businesses are focused on TOPCon, while the new capacity for N-type is centralized on HJT projects. The market arrangement for the TOPCon technology is primarily seen from integrated businesses such as Longi, Jinko Solar, and JA Solar right now. Most businesses have preserved space for TOPCon upgrades in their new PERC capacity since 2020. Numerous businesses are engaged in the HJT technology, including professional cell businesses, module makers, equipment integrators, and new businesses. Among them, Risen Energy, Akcome, GS Solar, and Meyer Burger are all planning to establish GW-grade HJT projects.
Stability in Mass Production is Essential as Ceilings Constantly Rise for Efficiency
Judging by the current cell efficiency, Longi has achieved a conversion efficiency of 24.1% within the laboratory, which is almost the theoretical limit of 24.5% for PERC cells. PERC technology has officially entered the post-change cycle with cell businesses gradually shifting to new technology pertaining to the emphasis of R&D, while the industry is accelerating on the approval of pilot and mass production lines for TOPCon, HJT, and IBC, so as to actuate the laboratory efficiency of the N-type cells to over 25%.
Differences in Conversion Rate are starting to expand between N-type cell and PERC. According to the latest progress announced by businesses, N-type HJT, TOPCon, and the existing PERC have respectively arrived at 25%, 24.5%, and 23.5% (Tongwei) in terms of the highest mass production conversion efficiency. In addition, an enormous level of investment from businesses was injected into N-type cells, which prompted the imminent mass production of TOPCon cells, and multiple businesses are making smooth progress in the pilot production lines of HJT, before marching towards GW-grade production.
N-type cells are still climbing in the efficiency of mass production, with stability yet to improve further. However, it is evident that N-type HBC and tandem cell technologies are also in the midst of the R&D phase, with further room for improvement in terms of the conversion efficiency.
Cost Becomes an Essential Factor for the Simultaneous Advancement of TOPCon and HJT
The cost of wafers and slurry for N-type cells is yet to be optimized. Raw materials and production account for a higher ratio in the cost structure for HJT cells, and the former is largely occupied by wafers and silver paste. HJT consists of 50% a-Si cost, and the reduction of a-Si cost has become an important direction in lowering the cost of HJT. The cost per watt for TOPCon cells comprises of wafer, silver paste, and depreciation, which account for 62.5%, 15.8%, and 3.7% of the respective cost, and the decrement of future cost primarily comes from wafer thinning, consumption of silver paste, and cost reduction in equipment.
Most of the early production lines for N-type cells had adopted overseas equipment that are higher in cost, and an increasing number of fully localized production lines will be seen alongside the constant maturity of local equipment. A fully localized production line appeared from the tender of four 1GW production lines by Tongwei in 2020, and the debugging statistics for the four production lines are expected to be announced in 2021. The localization trend in the production lines and equipment for HJT cells is becoming evident. Regarding the cost of localized equipment, Shenzhen SC aims to achieve a conversion efficiency of 25% for HJT in 2021, and lower the investment for a single GW-grade equipment to RMB 350 million, which may help with the preliminary establishment of a new structure for the market of N-type cell equipment.
As pointed out by the analysis of EnergyTrend, the current yield rate of PERC cells is at more than 98%, and the lack of maturity for TOPCon and HJT cells on major technologies has become the primary constraint to the exiting development of N-type cells, while the trend of large-sized cells also further extends the lifespan of the PERC technology that possesses a higher degree of maturity. The mass production of N-type cells will remain focused on G1 and M6 in 2021, and the industrialization of N-type cells in the future would have to resolve issues, including the higher cost, efficiency and stability of mass production, and the challenges imposed by the yield rate, under the revolution of M10, G12, or wafers of larger sizes.
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division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because "in his days was the earth divided" ( Genesis 10:25 ). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other southward into Arabia.
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By Memphis Teaching Policy Fellows Meg Bounds, Celeste Brown, Austin Crowder, Katie Kaplan, Megan O'Connor, and Lydia Stoney
It's Monday and, like many of my colleagues, I am rushing frantically to the copier to try and beat the morning frenzy. I dig through my classroom closet, past piles of books, workbooks, and old materials to try and find something more valuable than gold: copy paper. After much digging...nothing. Without copy paper, there are no copies. Without copies, there is no homework to go home with my 60 students for this week. Without homework, I am doing my students a massive disservice.
Shelby County Schools is facing a 40 million dollar deficit, a huge amount that can only lead to one outcome: budget cuts. Budget cuts are generally felt in every affected field like a shock that reverberates through the building. In Shelby County, we're facing an earthquake-like rumble.
In our district, over 47% of our students are living in poverty; classrooms across Shelby County are filled with students who come to school without the materials they need to excel. It's not simply that our students do not have books or computers-many students are unable to complete their nightly homework because they do not have a pencil at home. Shelby County School Board must ensure that the looming budget deficit does not cut into student resources. As teachers, we believe that by making three prudent budget cuts instead, Shelby County can allocate available funds in the right places-to serve students.
Walk into any classroom in Shelby County and you will see stacks of untouched textbooks that sit on the shelves collecting dust. Since the introduction of the Comprehensive Literacy Improvement Plan (CLIP) and the implementations of the TNReady Standards, there has been a shift in the district to a more multisensory learning approach. Teachers are now hand-making materials and utilizing online resources to make sure their students both receive a 21st century education and meet the standards.
The new approach does not leave much room for standard textbooks or supplemental workbooks. Teachers like us only use the textbooks to make sure the content in our lesson plans is aligned to the curriculum. We can easily print whatever is valuable to the lesson from a digital textbook at our discretion.
The average textbook costs $70, and most classes are allotted approximately 80 books. There are classrooms with nearly $5,600 of textbooks lining the walls. And when you factor in the cost of four workbooks per student, there is another $800 per classroom collecting dust. The School Board should elect to cut the textbook budget, which would save Shelby County hundreds of thousands of dollars. This money could be used to supply teachers with copy paper and ink for printing-resources that teachers find indispensable and often have to purchase out of pocket. A cut in the textbook budget would ensure that teachers are able to use what is relevant and needed in their classrooms to better meet the needs of their students.
Every school in Shelby County is different, and within each school there are teachers with different needs. Despite this, professional development in Shelby County Schools is often a one-size-fits-all approach that is not reflective of the needs of our students and teachers.
We believe that professional development in our district should be at the discretion of each teacher based on his or her reflection of their strengths and weaknesses in their teaching practices, as well as their availability and personal schedule. Once a teacher has established his or her areas of needed improvement, the district should provide opportunities for the teacher to address their individual needs. Instead of outsourcing professional development, we should transfer it into the hands of the highest-performing teachers in our district who can use their own classroom experience to train their peers.
Want to cut your electric bill at home? Turn more lights off. If classrooms throughout the district were actively conserving energy, we could save up to thirty cents for every dollar spent on energy use and make a sizable dent in our 40 million dollar deficit.
Simple reminders to turn off any and all appliances (i.e. lights, computers, air conditioners, unused refrigerators, kitchen ovens, etc.) when not in use and at the end of each school day would help Shelby County Schools to not only conserve energy but also conserve money. Classrooms and entire school buildings can elect an in-house energy conservationist to root out any perceived energy waste. We need an all-hands-on-deck approach in order to reduce the current outstanding deficit; something as simple as turning off the lights each and every day brings us one step closer to doing this.
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I can never seem to find enough good books for my children. My daughter can devour an entire chapter book in a day or two. My sons can, too, but they tend to be more picky. Or perhaps there just isn’t a whole lot of wholesome quality literature written for boys between the ages of 8 and 12. Unfortunately, many books written nowadays just don’t make the cut. I want my kids to read books that will inspire and ennoble them, books that show them what it is to be heroic, courageous, and generous, books that help them develop a moral compass while appealing to their imagination. Books that preach without preaching.
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Ahhh… the lazy days of summer are here. School is over, and it’s time for a more relaxing and peaceful – “Moooommmmm!!!!” screamed my daughter. All-Star is bugging me!!!” “Well, she won’t let me play with her,” complained All-Star. “He keeps knocking over my dolls!” exclaimed Big-Sis. I could tell that All-Star was bored and looking for trouble. “Big-Sis, come here” I said firmly. He reluctantly came. And I handed my six year old a knife.
The summer time is often peak time for boredom among children. They have too much time on their hands and they often don’t know what to do with it. Boredom in children precedes trouble, such as nagging for new toys, self-pity, loneliness, bickering, and irate parents. So, aside from summer camps and field trips, how can we keep our kids happily busy and productive? Here’s my top-ten list:
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Some of you are going to think I’m nuts, but so be it. We’re doing something extreme this summer, something pre-historic and archaic, something that will make most parents shudder…
We’re going media free!
Well… actually, we’ve always been.
You know how there are no-smoking zones? Our home is a no video-game zone. None. Zilch. Zero. The rule is, “If you want to play a video game, you’ve got to program it first.” We’ve got Scratch and Bitsbox. If my kids want to be creative on the computer, they can do so (after all their chores are done). But they have to be producers, not consumers. Programming time is limited to half an hour a day. Even so, my kids would rather just not. And (I hope you’re sitting!) we don’t own a T.V. or an iPad.
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One of the big challenges of homeschooling is managing the household chores. Homeschooling often entails a lot of mess. Books are everywhere, science and art projects are scattered throughout the house, and school supplies find their way under couches and beds. This is especially true if you have little ones who try to occupy themselves while you’re working with the older kids. When we’re home all day with our children, the house gets dirtier faster. There’s more dirty dishes, more trails of mud coming in from the door, and more puzzle pieces and crayons strewn about the house. Let’s face it, homeschooling is really like having a full-time job, only your house is getting messy while you work. And it’s hard to feel peaceful when your house looks like a tornado ripped through it. But, as in all things, there’s a silver lining behind this cloud. In this case, it’s the opportunity to train our children to be orderly and to do chores well.
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How Can I Prevent High Blood Pressure?
You can prevent high blood pressure by:
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- Getting regular exercise : People who are physically active have a lower risk of getting high blood pressure -- 20% to 50% lower -- than people who are not active. You don't have to be a marathon runner to benefit from physical activity. Even light activities, if done daily, can help lower your risk.
- Reducing salt intake: Often, when people with high blood pressure cut back on salt, their blood pressure falls. Cutting back on salt also prevents blood pressure from rising.
- Drinking alcohol in moderation, if at all: Drinking too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure. To help prevent high blood pressure, limit how much alcohol you drink to no more than two drinks a day. The "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" recommends that for overall health, women should limit their alcohol to no more than one drink a day.
- Reduce stress : Stress can make blood pressure go up, and over time may contribute to the cause of high blood pressure. There are many steps you can take to reduce your stress. The article on easing stress will get you started.
Other nutrients may also help prevent high blood pressure. Here's a roundup of the research:
- Potassium . Eating foods rich in potassium will help protect some people from developing high blood pressure. You probably can get enough potassium from your diet, so a supplement isn't necessary (and could be dangerous without a doctor's
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- Calcium. Populations with low calcium intakes have high rates of high blood pressure. However, it has not been proven that taking calcium tablets will prevent high blood pressure. But it is important to be sure to get at least the recommended amount of calcium -- 1,000 milligrams per day for adults 19 to 50 years old and 1,200 mg for those over 50 (pregnant and breastfeeding women also need more) -- from the foods you eat. Dairy foods like low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese are good sources of calcium. Low-fat and nonfat dairy products have even more calcium than the high-fat types.
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In order fulfillment, warehouse managers need to ensure that their operations are running at peak efficiency. Not doing so can dramatically decrease warehouse productivity, increase inventory error rates, decrease customer satisfaction, and lower overall profitability. To keep customers from turning to competitors, managers need to properly optimize their order picking. Here’s an overview of the order picking process in a warehouse, and 7 ways you can optimize your facility’s picking operations.
What is Order Picking?
Order picking is one of the most important order fulfillment tasks in a warehouse. It involves picking an item, or components of an item, from inventory to fulfill a customer’s order and then delivering it to the next work zone or shipping. This can be automated or manual, depending on the specific needs of your business.
Order picking is one of the most labor-consuming applications in a warehouse. Up to 55% of a facility’s labor consumption can be dedicated to order picking.
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To optimize your picking process, it’s important to start by evaluating which order picking method works best for your facility. There are three software-driven order picking methods that are commonly used in a warehouse.
- Wave Picking: Wave picking combines principles from zone picking and batch picking, grouping orders together into a logical “wave.” Pickers then receive their assignments, and work through their zone to pick the required items. The wave is “static,” since it won’t change once a wave has begun.
- Waveless Picking: Waveless picking differs from wave picking in that waves aren’t static, but dynamic. In other words, new orders are continuously added into the wave as older orders are completed.
- Overlapping Waves Picking: Overlapping waves are similar to wave picking in that orders are grouped into a logical wave, but as a batch reaches its peak, the next wave is released to help keep labor operating at peak efficiencies.
Each of these methods can provide better efficiencies based on specific product and order profiles.Its critical to analyze your specific business operations and evaluate which picking method will maximize your efficiencies.
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Optimizing your picking process is incredibly important. It ensures you’re able to process your orders efficiently and in a timely manner. For example, in the retail space, approximately 69% of consumers are less likely to be returning customers if their order doesn’t arrive when promised. Whether you’re retail or B2B, it’s incredibly important that your operations run efficiently. Here are 7 warehouse picking optimization tips.
1. Optimize Your Layout
Optimizing your existing space is one of the first steps you should take in revamping your picking operations.
- Reduce travel time: Order picking is one of the most time-consuming activities in a warehouse. This is largely due to the time it takes to find each item and pull it from inventory. To combat this, try to make your warehouse easy to navigate, keeping similar items together to reduce walking time for just one order. This is also called slotting.
- Leverage vertical space: Vertical space is an incredibly effective tool for optimizing your floor plan. This area is often wasted, but can be an excellent place to utilize an overhead conveyor system, mezzanine, or vertical storage AS/RS system.
Improve safety of picking zones: Keeping your warehouse safe is incredibly important. Serious, non-fatal injuries cost the warehousing and transportation industry approximately $84.04 million each week. Prioritizing safety ensures more efficient warehouse operations, as well as employees’ health. Consider analyzing your picking zones to see if any areas could benefit from increased ergonomics, better signage, or more effective equipment for your employees.
- Keep floorspace clear: Don’t let your warehouse become messy. Forklift operators and order pickers don’t want to navigate through a maze to reach their SKU. Keep your floorspace clear to allow forklifts and employees to move easily.
- Clean your warehouse regularly: Bubble wrap, empty boxes, and other packing materials shouldn’t litter your warehouse floors. Neglecting to continuously clean your warehouse will likely cause unfortunate accidents, such as slips, trips, and more. Try to implement a regular cleaning schedule to prevent these incidents from occurring.
2. Select the Right Strategy
There’s no universal “one-size-fits-all” picking strategy. Each facility should select the method that works best for their business needs. There are several to choose from, including:
- Discrete: Also known as single order picking, discrete picking involves picking one order at a time. They select a single order SKU by SKU before moving to the next order. This method is one of the most labor intensive and time consuming, so it’s not the best fit for a majority of operations. But smaller operations that only handle a few orders at a time might find that it’s the best strategy for their needs.
- Batch Order: This strategy entails pickers processing several orders at once, typically batched based on the similarity of each order’s SKUs. Because pickers can choose the same SKU for multiple orders at once, batch order picking reduces their overall travel time and increases the efficiency of the pick. Operations that process orders that are close to Pareto Principle (80% of your picks come from 20% of your inventory) often utilize this strategy.
- Zone: Zone picking divides the warehouse into different sections, or “zones.” Each zone is assigned to a picker or multiple pickers, who travel within the zone to pick the SKUs for the orders being processed. Because they’re not navigating the entire warehouse, this strategy is often more efficient than others, reducing walking time and congestion. It also allows technologies to be implemented for similar SKU characteristics (size, weight, velocity and volume).
- Cluster: Cluster picking is similar to batch picking in that pickers process multiple orders at once. Where this method differs is picking orders that aren’t necessarily similar. Therefore, it’s not typically as efficient as batch picking, and is better suited for large operations that don’t typically process similar orders.
- Robotic: Robotic picking leverages automation to fulfill orders. With this picking strategy, a robotic component (such as a robotic arm) picks individual SKUs—whether pieces or totes—and packs them as they’re picked. This is a highly efficient method if you’re looking to reduce your warehouse labor costs.
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Whichever strategy you select, it’s important that it’s the RightFIT for your specific operations. Make sure you thoroughly analyze your business needs and objectives and choose a strategy that allows you to address them as efficiently as possible.
3. Track Inventory Error Rates
According to PR Newswire, the average U.S. retail operation has an inventory accuracy rate of just 63%. This is highly problematic since 16% of consumers will discontinue business with a retailer if they receive an incorrect order once, and 14% will take their business elsewhere if they receive a late order. With 34% of businesses shipping orders late—due to a lack of stock-level transparency—inventory accuracy is incredibly important. Ignoring your errors only means you’re more likely to repeat them, so track your inventory error rates and address your efficiency roadblocks.
4. Improve Your Organization
Staying organized is a must for warehouses. If your facility isn’t organized, it can run into issues such as increased walk and search time or inventory errors. Make sure to organize your inventory, workstations, and equipment storage. Here are a few tips to keep your facility well organized:
- Arrange your inventory on the shelves in an easy-to-find manner
- Ensure your shipping materials are organized properly
- Keep similar items together to make them easier to find
- Use picking bins, boxes, or totes to better compartmentalize your process
One excellent way to improve your organization is to use slotting, which is the process of organizing inventory in a warehouse or distribution center. Walking from product to product, manually retrieving orders can account for around 60% of a warehouse worker’s time. Effective slotting allows workers to pick items faster, and can reduce labor costs by nearly 20%.
5. Keep Your Employees Well-Trained
Training your employees regularly is an often overlooked method of warehouse picking optimization. However, if your workers don’t know what they’re doing, efficiency will suffer.
Training your employees can improve organization, and reduce injuries from avoidable hazards. Workers often rush tasks in an effort to complete them quickly, and in doing, ignore safety precautions. Continuous training can help prevent these injuries and shift the warehouse’s corporate culture to a safer and more organized work environment.
6. Use the Right Packaging
Evaluate the packaging you’re currently using for your inventory and consider whether an alternative packaging would be better. Your packaging should be sturdy enough so the item doesn’t suffer damage, but also compact enough so you’re not taking up valuable inventory space. For example, for smaller items consider using polybags. These bags aren’t as pricey as cartons and they don’t incur dimensional weight surcharges from parcel carriers.
7. Adopt the Right Warehouse Execution Software (WES)
Inventory management, automation management, shipping automation, and order fulfillment as a whole is incredibly difficult to do without software. Using the right WES is essential to the success of your facility, as it reduces labor, increases equipment’s utilization, and dramatically improves your operation’s efficiency. Whether you use automation or not, the right WES can help reduce the risk of human error, while being a modular and cost-effective way to improve your organization, tailored to your specific operation.
Choosing the RightFIT For Your Operation
Every warehouse is different, and not every solution is going to work for each facility. There’s a plethora of tools on the market to optimize your warehouse through automation, conveyor systems, and more. While each supplier is familiar with their own products, it’s important that your tools are the best fit for your business and operations, and that you’re able to integrate them effectively into your existing systems.
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Tripura is one of the famous holiday destination known for its hilly region. The tribal culture, Ujjayanta Palace Mughal gardens, and Neermahal Palace are some of the must visit tourist spots of Tripura. Plan your holiday with itinerary to cover Tripura and stay at famous hotels.
Roadways Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC)a state-owned road transport corporation of Tripura. Tripura is very well connected to neighbouring country and other parts of the Places like Kolkata, Guwahati etc.
Tripura has 4 operational airports at Agartala, Kailashahar, Khowai and Kamalpur. Agartala Airport is planning to do as a international Airport in Tripura know more.
AThe major railways stations in Tripura are Agartala, Dharmanagar and Kumarghat.Agartala is connected with important junctions like Guwahati, New JalpaiGuri, Sealdah and Anand Vihar at New Delhi.
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The Indian media and intellectual circles often fail to recognise the presence of Nobel Prize winning potential in the country. There are many persons going about their work with passion and commitment, not seeking acclaim, or lobbying for awards and titles. Because their work does not have media friendly dimensions and often involves taking on officialdom at every level, it is unlikely that they will be acknowledged, or provided the clout of a Padma Shri to become even greater nuisances. Awards should not just be given to individuals, but also classes of people who have served the nation and humanity well. Consider the scientists, aptly exemplified by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who have never studied or worked abroad, particularly because they were either from humble beginnings or they preferred to stay in India, yet managed to develop world beating skills in the dingy, ill-equipped and bureaucracy ridden laboratories. Individually, they may not have become Bharat Ratna awardees or President of the Republic, but their endeavours are no less Herculean. What about the millions of ordinary people living in terrorist infested areas, be it Kashmir, the North- East, the Punjab at one time, and the Maoist belt, who have not only courageously believed in the idea of India, but also resisted to the best of their ability, often making the supreme sacrifice in the process. Their sheer numbers have prevented individual acknowledgement, but their contribution to nation- building has been no less significant than that of the celebrated heroes. And, though much lip-service is paid to the officers and men of the Defence Forces, society is not sufficiently grateful to the sacrifices they make, or their largely indigenously developed fighting prowess. It is also a fact that too much of the acknowledgement has depended on the whims and fancies of those in power, as well as a patronage network assiduously developed to keep persons of ability beholden to the system. Considering that the ‘system’ has atrophied to the point that it is no longer sufficiently representative – for various reasons, not least the failure to recognise true ability – the space of ‘unacknowledged’ India is growing. The result can be seen not only in political developments, but also in the social and cultural spheres. The phenomenon is naturally evident in India’s economy. The close control sought traditionally to be maintained by government and those who think they know better, has pushed a massive proportion of money-generating activity into the informal and ‘black’ sectors. The ‘doers’ are not adequately compensated or rewarded enough, tending therefore to go abroad and make Kuber-like fortunes. The examples are many. The problem should be looked at as symptomatic of a general malaise that needs to be treated in a systemic way. At the root of it should be development of an objective, merit-based and just society. Only then will talent blossom as it should. | <urn:uuid:9fa9f3db-9bd0-4e57-b77b-ddc983537a37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://garhwalpost.in/recognising-merit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.972612 | 594 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Pathway building tool
This website hosts a pathway building tool based on the DDP Approach that allows to articulate physical and socio-economic transformations to develop new decarbonisation pathways.
You will need from one to a few hours to develop your first pathway, depending on your expertise and knowledge.
Starting from the development of your storyline, throughout eight categories of transformations, you can then visualize your pathway in six graphic categories. At this stage, you can compare your scenario with another one, validate and save its different elements (story, computation, dashboard and graphs) or go back to correct your storyline.
We also offer the possibility for external partners to join and support the community in:
Deep decarbonization pathways for transport sector
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Each year, Southern Nazarene University (SNU) recruits several top female leaders who, attend a Church of the Nazarene, have the potential to make lasting contributions to SNU student life, excel in the classroom and have the passion and desire to make a positive difference in the world.
This special female leadership program was started many years ago and has been successful in producing some outstanding campus leaders. Program recipients receive a $1,500 scholarship and will be enrolled in a fall (August) of 2016 leadership course for academic credit. This course will be taught by SNU's President and Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Loren Gresham. The course will consist of seminars, videos, excursions, book discussions, presidential mentoring and online asynchronous activities. Emphasis is placed on leading from the inside out, the study of leaders, with a focus on personal leadership development.
Dr. Loren Gresham, SNU President.
These female leadership recipients will develop a clear understanding of who they are and be able to articulate it; identify the people, places and events that have shaped their lives; articulate a philosophy of leadership; communicate clearly and effectively; demonstrate an ability to build and lead a team; create, develop and own a leadership portfolio; create personal mission and vision statements to guide their lives; own a leadership library with an annotated bibliography; gain a network of leaders; understand senior level leadership challenges from presidential mentoring; and understand the value of service and have led a service project.
The primary objectives of the program are to provide leadership exposure for program participants and to recognize females who have been leaders in academics, school activities, churches and communities during their high school career.
The qualifications are strictly reviewed to meet the criteria of the program to include: being a female who faithfully attends a Church of the Nazarene; a female with at least a 3.0 unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale; a female with at least a 23 on the ACT or 1030 CR+M on the SAT; a female who has a desire to make a positive impact in the world and finally a new, residential, full-time student (either freshman or transfer) who has successfully enrolled at SNU in August 2016
All applicants for this prestigious program should apply to SNU and be accepted for admission to Southern Nazarene University; complete the Presidential Leadership Program application; submit a resume; and submit a paper that was used for a classroom grade, 1,000 words or more. Deadline for these items by mail or electronically to email@example.com is July 1, 2016.
Online application form and complete information can be found at www.snu.edu/prezscholarship.
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