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The pandemic has been a boon to plastics makers. Nowhere is that more obvious than in hospitals. It seems nearly everything in the hospital is plastic, single-use.
They once provided a cup of ice and a pitcher for the patient to have a steady supply of water. Since the pandemic set in, water refills come each in a new cup, which goes, when emptied, in the landfill.
Another plastic peskiness comes with take-out food. I have to remember to tell the person handing my dinner that I am eating at home and have no need for another set of plastic knives and forks.
Continue reading Call for reusable cups
Nine state legislatures are considering bills to make plastics manufacturers responsible for their products end-of-life.
Pennsylvania is not one of them. It should be.
The concept is not a new one. Battery makers must process their products when they no longer start our cars. We buy new tires for our chariot and pay to have the dealer dispose of them.
Continue reading Make plastics-makers responsible for their product
More than a decade into the boondoggle that has been the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, residents of the 22 counties that have produced 90 percent of the treasure obtained from fracking Marcellus Shale find themselves with a paltry share of the proceeds bad water, overburdened roads, and carved-up state forests.
Continue reading Promises and other tall tales
There is nothing good about all the people who have died from the virus, many of them unnecessarily. And I do not know which is worse: discovering how long is takes to spool up vaccine production and delivery, or discovering we’d been lied to about how long it takes to spool up vaccine production and delivery.
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PG&E was the heavy in Hollywood's 2000 blockbuster Erin Brockovich. In 2001, stung by California's energy crisis, the company declared bankruptcy. It emerged in 2004 after distributing $10.3 billion to hundreds of creditors. A year later, PG&E was one of the most profitable companies on the Fortune 500 list, with $4.5 billion in profits. After the bankruptcy, a new team of executives was brought in, top to bottom. One of the first positions the company hustled to fill? CIO.
In addition to an MBA, you have a degree in technology management. How does that relate to computer science, and the technology expertise one might expect a CIO to have?
Patricia Lawicki: The reason I have a B.S. in management from Purdue is that I started to work in the field before I graduated. I was lucky enough to start with an internship and then get a full-time job programming. What I found was that it was more important that I pay attention to a lot of the financial aspects and to have a broad business background. The technology, because I was working in the field, became less important from a schooling perspective than the other aspects.
Was there a moment when the light bulb went off that programming might not be the be all, end all for an IT professional?
Lawicki: As I got involved more and more in programming, I realized what I was doing was really solving business problems and trying to address or improve a business process. So, if I was working, for example, with the marketing department, or with finance, or in the manufacturing sector, what was important was really understanding what they were doing as a company so I could do my job better.
You worked in the gas and electric sector before joining PG&E. Is domain expertise irrelevant for a CIO? Does it come in handy in your case?
Lawicki: Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. So, for example, I was [CIO] at an Indiana utility company prior to coming to PG&E, but I think the CIO skills themselves are definitely transferable. Industry knowledge is a plus, I would say, versus a definitive have-to-have.
When you're hiring your senior-level staff, what do you look for in terms of experience and expertise?
In very senior staff, obviously, I look for what have they accomplished and the ability to run multiple, large initiatives. That's a make-or-break factor and something I truly look for. Then, of course, at that level, they need excellent communication skills. How will they represent my organization? How well will they be able to communicate with the business?
Getting the top IT position at a large utility company obviously means you have great communication skills. Is that something that came naturally to you?
Lawicki: I kid everybody that I am a learned extrovert. I went into the field because I loved the technology, I loved the programming. I don't know how many CIOs now have programming as their core base, as I did, and moved up from there. But it became evident that communication skills, presentation skills, trying to translate the technology into business terms, is very key.
One of the ironies of working for a utility now is this push for energy conservation. In the good old days I think it's fair to say utility companies wanted their customers to use as much gas and electricity as possible. Do you have to worry about energy consumption in your own department?
Lawicki: At this company one of our core values is environmental responsibility and energy conservation. There is a program called LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design]. We took our buildings and are looking at what level of LEED we can make them into. We took one of our historical offices and was able to turn it into a LEED Gold facility.
What were some of the things you did to get a LEED Gold rating?
Lawicki: We replaced the old CRTs with more energy-efficient monitors; we also initiated automatic timeouts on machines and will make that part of our desktop buildout now. We worked very closely with facilities on how we could help. We have actually changed cubicle configuration to allow more natural lighting to come in, to reduce the lighting that we need.
What has been the response from the workforce with things like automatic shutoff? Was the cultural change hard?
Lawicki: Once the purpose is understood that this is for greening, for attaining a legal standard to conserve energy, it was very well received.
I read you are also addressing power consumption in your data center. You'd think that at a power company the one thing IT would have is a surfeit of electricity.
Lawicki: I always relate it back to -- we need to eat our own cooking. We did take our data center and made some very progressive improvements to it. But another reason we did it is that we are going through a major transformation from a platform perspective and a software perspective here. We are in the midst of a several-year program where we are virtually replacing hundreds of legacy applications on to some core SAP and Oracle platforms. With that, I knew that my computing capacity -- because we are going from manually based processes to automation -- was going to increase by 50%. So I challenged my team and said, 'We don't want to draw another kilowatt of energy into that data center. What can we do?'
Any metrics so far?
Lawicki: We consolidated 300 servers down to six. And with that our computing capacity has increased by 50% and we have actually decreased the amount of energy drawn for that particular data center. What was really exciting for me is that we were working with all these other high-tech companies on how they produce more energy-efficient products in general. When you look at just racking and stacking new servers, while they are more energy efficient, if you don't place those in your data center correctly, you could actually increase your consumption of energy.
Lawicki: The cooling. It's like your house, if you put a sofa over one of your vents. We did a thermal study where we actually had a robotic device go in and measure on a 24/7 basis, and at different heights and different times. I don't know many data centers that are doing this now. Some of the technology we really prototyped with IBM. We saw different areas ran hot or cold based on the time of day and the height they were located at. So that's when we moved some aisles, moved some equipment around, and built something called a snorkel, which helps recycle the air within a server. We brought in water cooling. And it was over a short period of time. We've been working on it for less than a year. This is all beta type work. And it's fun, working with some of our business partners to help bring some products to the market that could help everyone.
The company has had its share of hard times and bad press, bankruptcy, class actions lawsuits related to environmental problems. Do you think the bankruptcy opened up some opportunities to be innovative that might not have been there if things were humming along?
Lawicki: Absolutely. The point is so valid. IT and many companies really need that burning platform issue, to use an old term, to change. In this case, during the energy crisis that brought you the Enrons and books like The Smartest Guys in the Room, what it did for PG&E was highlight how little investment had been made in improving processes. There was so much spent on just keeping the lights on, ensuring customers got service, on how we were going to get power, much less improve processes and invest in new technology.
One of the positions that PG&E came after right away [after emerging from bankruptcy] was a new CIO. That was what attracted me to the position -- that the leadership was insightful enough to come and say, 'We don't have to just move our technology to next-generation; we have to leapfrog, we want to be the leader.' I wasn't out looking. They came knocking. They did some convincing and once I came on board, it's just been wonderful, honestly.
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50 years of success
THE BOBCAT has become such a familiar presence at the modern farm that it is difficult to remember a time before its existence. However, it has been only about 50 years since a small Midwest manufacturing company named Melrose first demonstrated its compact loader for the public at the Minnesota State Fair in 1958.
This brief but eventful history of Bobcat is captured in a new book written by Marty Padget and entitled Bobcat Fifty Years. The book is a handsomely illustrated and briskly written history of how an obscure North Dakota company emerged as a world leader through timely innovation and marketing.
The author recounts why farmers could see the benefits of an affordable, compact loader for a multitude of chores. One person could now complete repetitive hauling jobs with a fraction of the time and labor previously needed. Much has changed, but this book demonstrates how one great idea continues to be the basis of 50 years of business success.
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Islam in the Digital Age
Islam in the Digital Age E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments
Gary Bunt explores how the application of electronic media has affected Islam and Muslims. He discusses how the increased speed of communication and information transmission, depending on bandwidth, has altered perceptions of time and space, bringing people together on a single platform to discuss and debate a wide range of ideas and notions.
Bunt explores the whole new life of cyber jihad, imams, and Muslim online communities. He defines the themes that characterize the Islamic lane on the cyber highway.
His work is pioneering in that no other scholar has aimed to launch a flight into the Islamic cyber world. He suggests that internet technology not only provides a platform for Muslim dissenting opinion but also a place where Muslims can obtain religious and spiritual guidance. In this sense, the internet serves as a unifying force amongst Muslim communities.
Bunt looks into e-Jihad which has had a very real presence on the internet, prior to September 11. Earlier efforts encouraged Muslims to fight the oppression being faced in different parts of the world such as Palestine, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Kashmir. Many of the websites contained graphic images of victims of oppression as a means of gearing support. Online recruitment could then take place. However, it seems that the author is exaggerating the connection between the internet and jihad as he was not able to provide any hard data.
After September 11, the American government began to crack down on all these forms of open resistance, which they deemed as ‘terrorist in nature.’ This resulted in the closing down of many ‘jihadi’ websites and the disappearance of hundreds of web pages. Many scholars who encouraged jihad were also condemned and no longer found a voice of expression on the World Wide Web. “As a result the US has intensified its scrutiny of websites and is moving to intercept any email traffic generated by the websites. Western intelligence agencies are also routinely snooping on visitors to extremist Muslim websites.”
This solicited various responses from Muslims all over the world. Online activism in the name of Islam, as described in Virtually Islamic, is an area in which tensions might escalate as internet technology becomes more widely available and accessible.“ Various ‘Islamic’ groups, especially in relation to conflicts in Chechnya, Palestine, Kashmir and Afghanistan, have proved this in online campaigns seeking to promote their cause, and at times disrupt the online activities of their ideological and military opponents.”
Others Muslims waged cyber warfare on whom they claimed were the real terrorists: the US and Israel. They hacked into American/Israeli websites, databases, and servers to send viruses, defamatory messages, and or replace words/images on the existing sites, a phenomenon which the author defines as hactivism.
“By September 2002, ‘pro-Islamic’ hacking had increased substantially, with various groups under the Unix Security Guards banner making 355 attacks between May and September 2002, including denial of service attacks and ‘protective hacking’, highlighting security loopholes in Islamic sites and advising site administrators of these deficiencies.” However, not all the messages were derogatory in nature. Some were decent but straight to the point.
And finally, some Muslims opted for a more peaceful approach. They created educational websites relaying perspectives from a Muslim point of view. They aimed to handle themselves peacefully through organizing protests, sending letters, and or signing petitions to express their points of view.
Missing from the author’s otherwise comprehensive survey is a reference to salaam.co.uk, a Muslim internet portal with over 50,000 pages of information and resources. The site is informative and enlightening, and has become very popular amongst Muslims in Britain.
The author seems to focus on the negative aspects related to Islam and the internet. He does not pay enough attention to the sites doing e-dawa. There are hundreds of sites that aim to educate the user about Islam and Muslims. These sites also provide an interconnectivity between new Muslims, reverts, and other Muslims, giving them a channel to express their views.
The author also identifies new trends amongst the Muslim online community. He points to the tendency of Muslim youth to obtain online fatwas when facing problems. While traditionally Muslims have preferred paying a trip to the mosque to speak directly to an Imam, now the interconnectivity between users and content providers has increased and so Muslims have opted for sending in a problem via e-mail, saving time and maintaining anonymity.
Both Sunni and Shia websites were explored and issues affecting Muslims were highlighted. Fatwas, often categorically divided, come under the general headings of Faith, Jurisprudence, Marriage, Worship, Women’s Issues, and Innovations.
The author also explores another dimension to the issuance of online fatwa which is how the Islamic community views the validity of online fatwas. Many of those issuing online fatwas are not even scholars and so their opinion is not recognized by the international Muslim community. Efforts are currently underway to establish an online legitimate legal council to oversee all of what is taking place online.
Bunt illustrates how internet technology has played a major role in redefining relationships between Islam, Muslims and the West. Online identities, cloaked in anonymity, have allowed for free expression of thoughts and ideas. Chat rooms, discussion boards, and forums have turned into political platforms where people have challenged each other. Without doubt, the dialogue has greatly intensified after September 11. | <urn:uuid:6111012b-311b-437a-bb0f-632655bba9e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.salaam.co.uk/bookshelf/islam-d.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95833 | 1,124 | 2.4375 | 2 |
We Don't Need No (For-Profit) Education
With summer nearly over, the nation’s college campuses are bustling once again. For many students however, the rites of passage associated with higher education won’t be rushing a sorority, winning the big game or planning a spring break trip to Florida. No, looking back, a growing number of students will regale their children with horror stories about being ripped off by a for-profit college. Of late, the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee has been investigating the booming multi-billion dollar for-profit college industry -- think Kaplan University or DeVry for example. What it has found thus far is not pretty. According to a report released by the committee earlier this summer, some major players in the field are spending about as much on marketing and recruitment as they are on educating students. Those numbers are worse at exclusively online for-profit institutions. So, just what type of marketing and recruitment is all of that money buying? An undercover investigation by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) this summer found that of fifteen for-profit colleges tested, four encouraged undercover applicants to “falsify their financial aid forms to qualify for federal aid” while all fifteen “made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements.” “Fictitious prospective” applicants that filled out online forms indicating their interest were met with a barrage of aggressive phone calls at all hours of the day and night with one GAO applicant receiving “more than 180 phone calls in a month.” One GAO investigator was actually offered a $14,000 massage therapy certificate and told it was “a good value” despite the fact that the same certificate cost only $520 at a local community college. These hardball recruitment tactics work out quite nicely for the bottom lines of these big corporations but students end up paying a hefty price far more life-changing than the degrees or certificates they may end up receiving. Take for example, the recently reported case of Michelle Zuver. After finishing a for-profit college program she was left $86,000 in debt, all for a degree in criminal justice that is not even recognized by many police agencies. Sadly, Zuver is not the only student left buried in debt and unable to pursue the career promised by her for-profit education. Many more share her story. These marketing and recruitment activities along with the troubling lack of quality are funded in large part by taxpayers. Up to 90 percent of the money for-profit colleges bring in each year is in the form of federal student aid dollars. In fact, University of Phoenix -- the Wall-Mart of for-profit colleges -- saw at least 86 percent of its $3.77 billion in revenue last year paid by taxpayers. These shocking percentages are likely even larger because the figures do not include federal funds from other programs like the G.I. Bill. Numbers like these should make conservatives lose their tea in anger but it is Republicans who have shown little interest in solving this problem. During Senate hearings on the matter, GOP members of the upper chamber demonstrated an interest only in providing political cover for the for-profit industry and some softball questions for its mouthpieces. And why would they care? After all, it was the Bush administration that created the regulatory environment that encouraged these for-profit institutions to go for broke pillaging the system in the first place. When the for-profit college industry is offering prospective students certificates and degrees that are too-often useless after badgering them into signing up for federal student loans that they may never be able to repay, the broken system cries out for fixing. This is about real people trying to better their lives with an education and the for-profit college industry is taking many of them for a ride. Unfortunately, Republicans in the Senate have yet to step up and join their Democratic colleagues and the Obama administration in seriously addressing the problem. Perhaps these GOP Senators are enrolled in a special online course in “creative problem avoidance” at University of Phoenix. Luckily for us, the certificates are likely worthless. Karl Frisch is a syndicated columnist and progressive political communications consultant. He can be reached at KarlFrisch.com. You can also follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube or sign-up to receive his columns by email. Cross posted at Cagle. | <urn:uuid:002788d2-4a1c-4bbe-9dfe-79aa00dafe4b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/09/we-dont-need-no-for-profit-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00282-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964654 | 896 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Taylor is already seeing the effects of higher gas prices. She has a new job but unlike the 8 minute commute to her old one she now drives an average of 21 miles each way.
“It’s getting harder and harder living from paycheck to pay check,” said Taylor filling up her small sedan at a busy station in Riverside. “My paycheck used to last four days now it might last half that long.”
Rising gas prices are pushing many paychecks to the breaking point but surveys show more Americans are better prepared.
The price of oil has had an unnerving ability to stretch paychecks and blow up family budgets. The Middle East has often provided the spark.
Taylor whose parents migrated from Ethiopia in the early 80s is torn. “On one hand I’m happy to see the people of Egypt and now Libya fighting for their freedoms, on the other I’m not happy to see what it’s doing to our gas prices.”
Taylor who works as a billing clerk for a soft drink distributor rattles off a history of Mideast oil shocks:
The Arab oil embargo of 1973; the Iranian revolution in 1978-79 and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 – all reminders of pain at the pump.
The increase in energy prices is beginning to resemble the rise in 2008. But this time, like many middle and low income Americans the part-time college student and single parent is better prepared for higher fuel costs.
She started driving less in December, when gas hit $3 a gallon. "It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop, seeing just how high those prices will go. I knew I needed to gain some control over the situation."
Experts say you can start by checking online to find the lowest prices in your neighborhood.
Or make sure your car is well maintained -- get the oil changed, put air in low-pressure tires, and replace a dirty air filter -- to increase gas mileage.
“I’m using more cash and making fewer credit card purchases. I’m driving to work 3 days and working at home 2. I started planning my errands,” she said.
“Fill up the gas tank, but make fewer trips to the hair and nail salon. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner. I buy healthy discounted food at Wal-Mart and eat out less. I’m the family breadwinner. I’m at a breakpoint so I have to manage every penny.”
Taylor says she and her sons collect cans and bottles and exchange them for cash at a local recycling facility. She and her neighbors sell oranges, lemons and grapefruits from their backyard fruit trees.
“My boys love juice. Instead of paying $3.00 for a half gallon at the supermarket, we’re squeezing our own using a juicer I bought from Goodwill.”
Last semester she had to borrow text books from classmates and plans to continue buying used books to stretch her paycheck.
She says the food pantry in her neighborhood, which distributes foodstuffs to the needy, is on life support.
“They were always my backup when I got into trouble. No more,” she said.
Experts say families living from paycheck to paycheck are hurt most because of lower income levels and longer commutes.
Working families with two full time commuters spend more than 14 percent of their after tax incomes on gasoline.
From neighborhood convenience stores to mega retailers like Wal-Mart, merchants are already seeing the effects said Kiley Rawlins, a spokesperson at Family Dollar.
“We’ve noted that more customers are running out of basic essentials like food, and diapers sooner in the month.”
At this busy market on East Highland Avenue in San Bernardino, a shopper is buying deeply discounted bananas and lunch meat because he can’t afford the rising prices at the nearby big chain supermarket.
He’s hoping to get a gas voucher from a nearby church. He admits that’s iffy.
“Since gas is so expensive we now have more people coming who are saying, I need a gas voucher to get to work, or to get to the hospital.” said church volunteer Ed Cleveland.
“Sadly, we’re only giving vouchers to the neediest people.”
As for Taylor, these days she’s happy to have a job and a smaller car.
“"You might only save a few dollars but at least you'll feel like you've gained some control, like you're sticking it to Libya’s Qaddafi. Sure, these prices are painful but fortunately more people like me are better prepared.”
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A few weeks prior to Halloween I gather up the videos that have been stored so we can view them again. Winnie the Pooh – Frankenpooh is one of those movies I first purchased when my children on the Autism Spectrum were five and six. The video actually consists of three separate stories with the total running time at thirty-two minutes. The stories are meant to be frightfully fun and filled with treats for the viewers.
Winnie the Pooh - Frankenpooh begins with many previews of Disney videos including more Winnie the Pooh selections as well as other stories. The first segment is entitled, Monster Frankenpooh with Tigger, Rabbit and Gopher sitting around Piglet’s house while he prepares to tell a scary story about a scientist. As Piglet begins with the daytime setting of his story Tigger changes the picture to be nighttime for the added scary effect. Piglet and Tigger go back and forth creating the backdrop for the story of the scary scientist. Tigger suggests the scientist should create a monster so Doctor Von Piglet makes a Monster Pooh.
Monster Pooh is in search of honey and stomps his huge feet and body all over Rabbit’s garden and heads toward Gopher’s house. A frightened Piglet is in his home hearing the rumble through the Hundred Acre Wood knowing that the Monster Pooh is heading his way. At this point Piglet tells Tigger he does not like the story and is sorry. Rabbit explains to Piglet that he really must learn the difference between what is real and what is not. As Rabbit asks Pooh to confirm what he is saying we see Pooh is still the size of the Monster Frankenpooh.
The second segment is entitled, Things That go Piglet in the Night is about spookables and a wild goose chase. Piglet, Tigger, Owl and Pooh are swinging along in the Hundred Acre Wood while Eeyore sits near by wondering when he will ever have fun. Gopher climbs out of the ground only to get snatched up by Tigger and taken on the swing for a ride too. When Gopher complains to Tigger that he can’t get any sleep Tigger drops him back into the ground and informs the others that it is time to go home. Rabbit says he will be back first thing in the morning for his turn while Piglet is the only one left on the swing. Tigger tells him to go home because he would not want to be alone with the bumpities and spookables.
During the night there is a sound that frightens Pooh and then Tigger hears it and decides to investigate what the noise is. Piglet hears the sounds too and also sees a reflection from outside on his wall. Those watching the video can tell the sound is Eeyore and the shadow is him on the swing with his voice echoing through the Hundred Acre Wood. Piglet runs out into the night but with a sheet on him that he is unaware of. He ends up tripping on a tree and ending down the front of Pooh’s house. Pooh meanwhile is in his bed with his shotgun in hand and heads to the door to see what he thinks is a ghost. A lot of silly antics in true Pooh fashion happen until they learn it’s only Eeyore practicing his swinging skills.
The third and final segment inside Winnie the Pooh – Frankenpooh is entitled, Pooh Moon. Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit and Piglet are on a camping trip hanging around the campfire in their sleeping bags waiting for Tigger to finish the popcorn but it ends up all over the place so Gopher suggests toasting marshmallows instead. Pooh realizes as he is looking up at the moon that his honeypot is no longer full. Pooh asks Piglet if he has ever heard of a honey-moon and Piglet says it does sound familiar.
Tigger tells a ghost story that is loaded with spookables and grabme gotchas, before retiring in his sleeping bag. Rabbit announces he was not scared by that story as he lays down in his sleeping bag only to be scared by finding Piglet in it as well. It is quite dark and spooky on their camping trip says Piglet.
Pooh decides to stay up keeping Piglet company, who is taking care of the corn in case the grabme gotchas come by. Pooh thinks that the moon would fit nicely in his empty honeypot and ponders with Piglet whether there would be any honey on the moon. Pooh and Piglet eventually fall asleep in the basket of corn only to wake when the corn pops them out and moves the basket in the process.
Pooh and Piglet land far away from the others who have woken up thinking that the two have been snatched by the grabme gotchas. Piglet and pooh emerge from the muddy waters thinking they have arrived on the honey-moon. Back at the campsite, Tigger tells Rabbit they must be quiet so the spookables don’t come after them. Tigger bounces around trying to find Pooh and Piglet and runs into them. Pooh and Piglet think what they just saw was a giant moonbeam.
Rabbit tells Tigger and Gopher they are just scaring each other silly by disguising themselves with mud and tree branches. Pooh and Piglet have already fallen down into one of Gopher’s tunnels thinking they are in the moon and continue to look for moon honey. Gopher throws a ladder down the tunnel calling out to the grabme gotchas and Pooh responds thinking he will find honey.
Pooh and Piglet finally make their way back to the camp site telling the rest that they were frightened by three moon creatures that seemed to fit their descriptions when Piglet told them. Rabbit, Tigger and Gopher assumed the grabme gotchas had them and they all hugged happy to be back home.
Matthew has really enjoyed watching Winnie the Pooh - Frankenpooh over the years. The silly antics are just normal Pooh stories that will delight all youngsters for years to come.
Adapted from a previously published review on Epinions. Winnie the Pooh - Frankenpooh is available at Amazon.
Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops?
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Pregnancy is a special time in the life of a woman, but it is fraught with worry of different kinds. The most common one is that associated with spotting or bleeding during pregnancy. Though it is quite common in the first trimester, there are times when one must assume the worst and let their doctor intervene before it’s too late. This article discusses the phenomenon of pregnancy spotting or bleeding, what might cause it and what to do about it.
Spotting or bleeding…What’s the difference?
Spotting is when there are just a few spots of bloody discharge on your underwear or panty liner. It is light enough to not stain the entire liner or pad. Heavier discharge that fills up the pad or liner and/or stains the clothing, is bleeding.
What causes it?
There are several causes for pregnancy bleeding. In the first trimester, it is most commonly caused by the implantation of the fertilised egg on the uterine wall – this happens within six to 12 days of conception. It is light and lasts for a couple of days. Another reason for first trimester bleeding is the presence of an infection in the vagina or cervix, mostly due to STIs
The most common reason is miscarriage, which normally occurs in the first trimester. However, it does not automatically mean that you will miscarry. If the ultrasound detects a foetal heartbeat, the doctor can deal with the bleeding and also prevent a miscarriage
Ectopic pregnancy also causes pregnancy bleeding. This happens because the foetus implants inside the fallopian tube and does not have space to grow. It ruptures the tube and causes pain and bleeding
Bleeding may also be causes by sexual intercourse, use of douches or undergoing a pap smear test, all of which can trigger extra bleeding in the cervix
When you should worry…
It is said that one in four women experience some spotting or light bleeding during their pregnancy. It might occur at any point in the pregnancy cycle, from conception or later during the pregnancy. But that is not to say that pregnancy bleeding is without its risks. Whether spotting or bleeding, it is most commonly associated with foetal distress and in the worst cases, a miscarriage or complications like placental abruption.
Even if the spotting or bleeding stops in a few hours, it is best to err on the side of caution and call your doctor for a check-up.
What NOT to do if you spot/bleed during your pregnancy
- Use vaginal douches. You may use an intimate wash for women on the vulva, but do not wash inside the vagina
- Have sexual intercourse
- Use tampons or menstrual cups. If there is bleeding or spotting has increased, use a panty liner or a sanitary pad
- Ignore spotting if it goes away after a day or two. It might reoccur, and become heavy enough to soak a sanitary pad
What to do if you spot/bleed during your pregnancy
- Call your doctor right away. It may be a minor thing, but the doctor needs to be aware of it and check it at the outset to prevent future problems
- Keep tabs on the colour of the blood. It might be pinkish, brown, rust red or bright red
- Keep tabs on how many panty liners or sanitary napkins you used from the time you noticed bleeding, till the time you met the doctor
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In the New Testament book of Revelation, Jesus had specific words for a church that was engaged in compromise. This church was located in the city of Pergamum, the capital of Asia.
A person can argue all day with you about certain facts. But they can't argue with your personal story of how you came to faith.
I want you to discover the adventure of being used by God, especially in this area of telling others about Jesus.
I think we all have a drive to believe in something, to worship something. But at the same time, we like to do our own thing. We don't like someone to dictate to us how we are to live. Thus, we go about trying to recast God in our own image.
In his search for meaning, Bowie admittedly tried pretty much everything this culture offered, but did not find the meaning he sought. He was filled with questions throughout his life.
We are living in a selfie culture.
Imagine—being at the business end of a semi-automatic weapon and being asked the question, "Are you a Christian?" You know that if you tell the truth, this will most likely not end well for you. But what other alternative is there? Deny what and who you know is true?
God said in the presence of Isaiah, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" In a sense, God is still asking this question. Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? Will you go? Will you stand in the gap?
The Bible tells the story of a man who had everything this world says one should have to feel happy and fulfilled: power, wealth, influence, and fame. But along with that came an emptiness that sent him on a search for God. As secretary of the treasury for a powerful nation, he was second only to the queen. But there was a hole in his heart, so it led him on a search to the spiritual capital of the world, Jerusalem. He did not find what he was looking for, but as he was returning home, he unexpectedly found the answer to his questions. He had an appointment with God that resulted in his conversion and complete transformation.
I heard the story of three ministers debating the best posture for prayer.
One man or woman outside the will of God can be a menace to themselves and to everyone else. A case in point: Jonah. The Lord had told Jonah to go and preach to Nineveh, and Jonah said no. Then he boarded a boat going in the opposite direction. A storm came, and the boat was shaking and tossing back and forth in the sea. Everyone was affected because of Jonah, and they figured out that he was the problem. He told the men, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me" (Jonah 1:12). So off Jonah went, and the storm stopped.
As believers, we are interconnected. The sin of one will affect many. That is why the apostle Paul said the church should never tolerate evil. He said, "And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it" (1 Corinthians 12:26).
The story of the Israelites' victory over Jericho is of the greatest stories ever told. But after Jericho came Ai. It was a small city compared to Jericho, which was lying in smoldering ruins. The Israelites apparently thought they could have essentially done this one in their sleep. They didn't even need the whole Israeli army, they reasoned—just a few thousand. This argument was based on the supposition that Israel had captured Jericho.
I remember when I was a child and we would drive by Disneyland on the freeway. I would look up at the Matterhorn jutting out above the park, and I remember making a vow: "When I become an adult, I will go to Disneyland every single day!"
Have you ever noticed that Jesus never really healed people in exactly the same way? Sometimes He would touch a person, and sometimes a person would touch Him. At other times He would speak the word, and they would be healed.
Have you ever been talking with someone who wasn't paying attention? Or to put it another way, have you ever been talking with someone who was texting? You're saying, "And so I said this—are you listening to me?"
How was Jesus known when He walked this earth? He was known as "the friend of sinners." We might think that sounds like a compliment now, but it wasn't meant as a compliment then.
In the song, "Positively Fourth Street," Bob Dylan sings, "I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you."
God wants us to be constantly reassured that He will keep us. We need this reassurance in such an evil and uncertain world because we worry about safety and security for ourselves and our families. And sometimes believers even wonder about their personal salvation. Even mature believers may have times of doubt when they wonder whether they are saved.
We use the word bless a lot. It's an apropos response to someone who is sneezing, or we might use it to end a conversation: "Well, it's really good to see you! God bless!" And sometimes we may hear someone who has no interest in Jesus Christ say this or that is a blessing. But they don't even know what the word really means.
Believers and nonbelievers both die. Believers as well as nonbelievers get cancer, have auto accidents, have heart attacks. But, as believers, we have the promise that we will go straight into the presence of God at death.
We may look at the life of Moses in the Scriptures and say, "I wish I could have been Moses. I wish I could have a friendship with God like he had."
When Jesus laid out for His disciples what it really meant to follow Him, many of His so-called disciples left. Then Jesus turned to Peter and the others and said, "Are you also going to leave?" (John 6:67).
My youngest granddaughter, Allie (short for Alexandra), has a little rabbit that her older sister, Rylie, named Fuzzie.
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Mumbai: There is no official word about this from the world’s largest social networking site Facebook Inc., but many users who have the upgraded WhatsApp installed on their Android phones can now make voice calls to their friends or contacts who also have the app.
This development makes India’s over-a-decade long debate over Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP—the ability to make a voice call over the Internet—almost redundant since most companies anyway use a closed user group (CUG) network for VoIP calls which is legal. However, it will surely give Indian telecom services companies that are already burdened with high spectrum charges more cause for heartburn as they worry about a dent in their data revenue from over-the-top, or OTT, services providers like WhatsApp, WeChat, Line and Hike.
OTT refers to delivery of instant messaging, video, audio and other media over an open Internet connection directly to user, without the need for carriage negotiations and without any infrastructure investment on the part of the provider. They have numbers that telcos need to reckon with.
WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in February 2014, had 700 million global users as of March, according to online statistics company Statista Inc. Of these, an estimated 10% users are from India. Facebook Messenger, on its part, has 600 million global users. Facebook.com itself has around 1.3 billion global users and about 110 million in the country.
As of now, a voice call made from WhatsApp will depend on the bandwidth that your data plan offers. It is similar to how you would use similar OTT applications and services like Skype, that is now a Microsoft Corp. product, Facebook Messenger or even Google Hangouts. But how long will the party last? Much will depend on how India’s telecom regulator handles the debate of security and telcos losing potential revenue to OTT services providers.
Whatapp’s voice calling feature has been launched at a time when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or Trai, is seeking comments on its consultation paper on ‘Regulatory Framework for Over-the-top (OTT) services’ that it released on 27 March. All comments and counter comments have to reach Trai by 8 May. | <urn:uuid:574d2896-6da6-4e37-9dec-6f36c95e1aec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theindianpanorama.news/topics/whatsapp-launches-voice-calls-in-india-telcos-feel-threatened-33458/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00500-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951556 | 471 | 2.046875 | 2 |
NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space
Saturday, February 2, 2008
This will mark the first time music has been sent into deep space. The song will be transmitted from the DSS-63 radio antenna at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain at 12:00 am UTC.
The broadcast celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song's recording, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, and the 50th anniversary of NASA itself.
NASA's press release includes statements from Beatle Paul McCartney, who tells NASA to "send [his] love to the aliens", and John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, who sees the event as "the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
"It never had the highest profile and is a bit of a forgotten classic," Lewis said of the song. "But it has universal appeal. It transcends ages, borders, language and other barriers."
NASA invites astronomy fans and Beatles fans alike to play the song simultaneously as it is being transmitted into space.
- "Paul McCartney to be "beamed up" in first live concert to be broadcast in space" — Wikinews, November 12, 2005
- Richard Luscombe. "Beatles to be beamed across the universe" — , February 2, 2008
- "NASA and The Beatles Celebrate Anniversaries by Beaming Song 'Across The Universe' Into Deep Space" — , January 31, 2008
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Not all hackers are bad guys. But understanding what motivates them can make you less vulnerable to an attack.
It might be an old computer industry term for programmers that dates back to the 60s, but the word "hacker" has become firmly fixed in the public mind to mean people who break into computer systems.
Not true, say the hackers CIO spoke to. They are members of the Sydney chapter of 2600 Australia, a loose-knit collection of people who share a common interest in computer security - and ways of getting around it. Most of the hackers in 2600 haunt the Net round the clock, sniffing out insecure systems and searching for their vulnerabilities. But the aim of the game is not to steal or vandalise, they say, but to demonstrate one's technical prowess. For them the thrill of hacking lies in the hunt, not the kill.
Besides, as the 2600 guys are only too happy to point out, why rip someone off when you can earn $100K a year hacking professionally? Make no mistake about it, today's hackers have the skills to pay the bills.
The current generation of keyboard jockeys is paid to invade systems. If the first wave of hackers were true outlaws, often cracking systems in defence of the people's right to know as well as for personal gain, today's hackers are taking the family business legit. And much like the Mob or any other Machiavellian institution, their power derives not from the destruction they cause, but from proving to others that they can be destroyed at any time.
CIO: The word hacker means a lot of things to a lot of people. What's your definition of the word?in0m: I personally believe that hacking is mainly advanced networking skills. If you can put together a network - which is how most of these guys learned their skills - the more advanced you'll be at securing your network. And that's all hacking is: securing a network by knowing how to break it. avantguard: Hacking is a mentality, in that you see behind the shroud thrown over everything and see a system for what it's worth.
Anonymous Hacker 1: Everyone's mentioned software and systems, but it goes beyond that. Anything you do where you can take something further than what it was designed to do is a form of hacking.in0m: Whatever you do, we don't want to be seen as is criminals. We're not the kind of guys who go out and deface Web pages.
CIO: What's the difference? in0m: Most of these guys have access to large infrastructures and if they want to test something they can go into their own company and test it 100 per cent legally. I think the statistics are that something like 90 per cent of hacks come from internal sources. If you look at the St George bank hack from September, I think it's quite coincidental that they put 1400 people off the week before. in0m: I had a situation a while ago where a site in Perth was hacked. It was a static page, which means there was nothing the guy could've gained apart from just messing it around - real junior stuff. That guy was nothing more than an online graffiti artist. He wrote himself all over the Internet as being this Robin Hood hacker out to make security safer. Let me tell you, that's the kind of guy you want off the Internet. He should have his modem broken in half.
CIO: Is that the kind of person you'd describe as a script-kiddie?in0m: Yes, guys who do "point and click" hacking. They don't invent anything or come up with anything new, they just use tools that have been left lying around. They attack people with old stuff - other people's intellectual property - and don't do anything unique. Personally, I prefer to contact the administrator of a site and say, "Hey, your site's weak. Would you like some help fixing it up?"
CIO: If you're not doing it for personal gain, the big question is: why do you do it?avantguard: It really does blur. It's a hobby but it also crosses over into our careers because it's what we like to do.
Anonymous Hacker 2: I earn over 100 grand a year doing it.
CIO: Do you target any specific systems?
All together: Insecure ones!
CIO: Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick was released last year. Any thoughts on his case?
MneMoniX: The thing about Kevin Mitnick was he used a GSM mobile during most of his hardcore hacks, which was very atypical at the time in the US. They caught him because they traced his mobile phone.in0m: The first thing Kevin Mitnick will tell you is he never hacked anything that was hard. The reason he broke into sites was because 1) he used social engineering [verbally conning people into revealing their access secrets, such as impersonating a repairman], and 2) he exploited the top 10 security vulnerabilities. One of the things you should learn from speaking to people like us is that we're not these super-genius guys. Most of the time we're just using known holes - info about them is readily available and they're easy to patch. But people don't have the time to get to them or they're not paying attention to their security. Unfortunately, people are only paying attention to their security after the fact. After the Nazi party page has been stuck up on your Web site is not the time to start worrying about security.
CIO: Where does the name 2600 come from?
Dogcow: The name 2600 refers to a sound frequency. When making a long-distance call back in the 60s and 70s in the US, if you played the 2600 hertz tone on the line it would stop the billing, in which case you could continue to talk at zero cost. The 2600 tone was one of the things people used to explore the phone system in various ways. All the signalling was in band at the time and you could actually hear connections as they were made between exchanges. 2600 is also an organisation in the US that started in 1984. It centred around a magazine they used to put out and continued on from there. Over the years they started having meetings in cities around the US, and last year we decided to have a Sydney 2600 meeting. It was just people hooking up in a hotel for a few drinks and talking about stuff.
CIO: How big is the hacker community in Australia?
Dogcow: We have about 60 or 70 people who physically attend the meetings around the country, but counting our mailing lists there's probably between 400-500 people who in some way choose to associate with the group. 2600 can be found on the Web at www.2600.org.au.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1969-73
Using a whistle given away in a box of breakfast cereal, engineering student John Draper begins making long-distance calls for free by blowing a precise tone into the receiver that tells the phone system to open a line. Draper is hounded by authorities for phone tampering throughout the 70s.
Counterculture icons the Yippies launch YIPL/TAP (Youth International Party Line/Technical Assistance Program) magazine to help phone hackers (known as "phreaks") make free long-distance calls.
Two members of California's Homebrew Computer Club, Berkeley Blue and Oak Toebark begin making "blue boxes" - devices used to hack into the phone system. The two are in reality Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who later go on to found Apple Computer.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1974-1984
ARPANET moves away from its research and military beginnings and becomes commercialised.
William Gibson coins term "cyberspace" in his novel Neuromancer.
In one of the first arrests of hackers, the FBI busts the 414 gang (named after the local Milwaukee area code) after members are accused of 60 computer break-ins.
The film War Games is released.
The first issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is published.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1984-88
Two hacker groups form, the Legion of Doom in the United States and the Chaos Computer Club in Germany.
Veteran hacker Kevin Mitnick arrested for secretly monitoring the e-mail of corporate security officials. He is sentenced to one year in prison.
First National Bank of Chicago is the victim of a $US70-million computer heist Student Robert Morris releases a worm program that penetrates military and intelligence systems, crashing 6000 computers attached to the Internet.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1989-90
After AT&T long-distance service crashes, US government begins national crackdown on hackers, arresting Knight Lightning, Eric Bloodaxe and Masters of Deception trio Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak and Scorpion. Operation Sundevil, conducts raids in 12 major US cities.
Hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen (Dark Dante) is captured after a 17-month hunt, and is later indicted for stealing military documents.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1991-95
Russian Vladimir Levin creates a group that hacks into Citibank, getting away with more than $US10 million.
Kevin Mitnick incarcerated again, this time on charges of wire fraud and illegal possession of computer files stolen from Motorola and Sun Microsystems, among others.
Great Moments in Hacker History 1996-99
Hackers break into and deface US government Web sites, including the US Department of Justice, US Air Force, CIA, NASA and others.
The New York Times Web site defaced in protest over the imprisonment of Kevin Mitnick.
Two hackers in China sentenced to death for hacking into a bank and stealing money.
The Pentagon hacked by an Israeli teenager.
The hacker group L0pht speaks to the US Congress about security issues, warning it could shut down US access to the Internet in less than 30 minutes Unidentified hackers seized control of a British military communication satellite and demand money in return for control of the satellite.
Great Moments in Hacker History 2000
Russian hacker steals customer credit card numbers from online music retailer CD Universe and threatens to sell them if not paid $US100,000. When his demands are not met, details of 25,000 credit cards are promptly posted on a Web site.
Kevin Mitnick is released from prison. As a condition of his parole, he is prohibited from using computers.
The Web sites of Yahoo, eBay, CNN.com, Amazon.com, Buy.com, ZDNet, E*Trade, and Datek are targeted by an unknown hacker using denial of service. Months later, 16-year-old Montreal-area high-school student known as Mafiaboy is captured and agrees to plead guilty to the series of attacks.
Hackers penetrate the ASX Web site, causing an outage of four hours. The anonymous intruder, nicknamed "Prosthetic", breaks into the exchange's public information Web site for 30 minutes, leaving it littered with banner messages reading "Prosthetic owns the ASX".
The "I Love You" virus wreaks havoc on systems worldwide, causing an estimated $US8.7 billion in damage. A Filipino student is eventually arrested in connection with the bug, but is later released because prosecutors lack a law with which to charge him.
NY Yankees win US baseball's World Series. Next morning the team's Web site is defaced with a pornographic image and the words "Yankees suck!!!"
A hacker attacks the US Republican National Committee's Web site and plants a rambling tirade against Texas Governor George W Bush, forcing the site to be temporarily taken off-line on the day when voters are casting their ballots in the presidential election.
A 19-year-old Dutch hacker mocks software giant Microsoft by hacking into one of its Web servers twice within one week. Shortly afterward, Dimitri visits Microsoft's Dutch office and meets with the company officials to discuss the break-ins.
Security at the US Naval Research Laboratory is breached and an unidentified intruder downloads aerospace software that can be used to control satellites.
A hacker penetrates the computer network of a major hospital in Seattle, making off with files containing information about 5000 patients.
Malicious intruders plant the image of a nude woman on the Web site of Japan's top security organisation, the National Police Agency.
Creditcards.com is the victim of an extortion attempt by a cyber thief accused of hacking into its site and exposing more than 55,000 credit card numbers on the Internet.
Great Moments in Hacker History 2001
One day after a technical error shut down several of its Web sites, Microsoft announces that an outside attack is to blame for a second round of embarrassing outage. A denial of service attack hits the routers that direct traffic to several Microsoft Web sites when a hacker floods the company's equipment that directs traffic to its sites, blocking other users from reaching popular properties such as Expedia.com and Hotmail.com.
A group of malicious hackers go on a defacement spree, breaking into a string of corporate Web sites to replace text and graphics with digital graffiti. Among the victims of the hackers, who go by the name "Sm0ked Crew", were Web sites owned by The New York Times, Compaq Computer, Intel, AltaVista, Hewlett-Packard and Disney.
Brazilian police investigate an online attack on the country's largest Internet service provider, UOL, in which hackers succeeded in stealing credit-card numbers from over 10,000 users. According to Brazilian press reports, one of the suspects arrested is the son of a Brazilian congressman.
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Gamma oryzanol is a naturally-occurring mixture of plant chemicals called sterols and ferulic acid esters. Some evidence suggests that gamma oryzanol increases testosterone levels, stimulates the release of endorphins (pain-relieving substances made in the body), and promotes the growth of lean muscle tissue. [Rosenbloom C, Millard-Stafford M, Lathrop J. Contemporary ergogenic aids used by strength/power athletes. J Am Diet Assoc 1992;92: pp.1264-5.]
Gamma-Oryzanol is a mixture of ferulic acid esters of various sterols, such as campesterol, stigmasterol, and sitosterol, and triterpene alcohols. It is usually extracted from rice bran oil.
Gamma oryzanol is a natural component of rice bran, corn, and barley oils. Gamma oryzanol is also available as a supplement. Much of the human research with gamma oryzanol used 300mg per day. Healthy people do not appear to need this supplement.
Each year Japan manufactures 7,500 tons of gamma oryzanol from 150,000 tons of rice bran. Not surprisingly, most of the research on oryzanol has been performed in Japan.
Scientists are not certain how gamma oryzanol works. For menopause, it may affect a key hormone, luteinizing hormone. Gamma oryzanol may also interfere with the absorption of cholesterol into the body from food, thus reducing cholesterol levels in the blood.
Researched since the 1950s, this compound is listed in the Merck Index as an anti-ulcerative, anti-hyperlipoproteinemic, and also in the treatment of menopausal symptoms. It is most often found in products associated with soothing the lining of the gut.
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Trying to guess the meaning of seemingly familiar foreign words in German texts rather than using a dictionary can sometimes lead to serious misinterpretations. There are quite a few words in German that look or sound similar in English but they have a different meaning in each of the two languages. In linguistics these words are known as false friends.
Similar Words with Common Lexical Roots
German and English are West Germanic languages sharing many words with common linguistic roots and they are also borrowing words from one-another. In addition, both of these languages contain many common loanwords from Latin and French as well as from some other languages. These common words make it easier for English speakers to learn German but they can sometimes be a source of confusion if their meaning is contrastingly different in each language. Some false friends between English and German have a partial overlap in meanings which often produces further complications while others have completely different and even opposite meanings. Therefore, German learners must learn to distinguish false friends from true and the only way to do it is to memorise the most common pairs of German-English false friends.
There are various reasons why certain words with common etymologies have different meanings in German and in English. For example, some old Anglo-Saxon words may have lost their original meaning and developed a new meaning in one language while preserving their old meaning in another one. Likewise, certain loanwords from the third language (e.g. French) may have retained their full meaning in one of the languages whereas their meaning has been modified or they kept just one of their many original meanings in another language.
Moreover, a number of German loanwords from English have shifted in their meaning and acquired a different meaning from the original English term whereas some English words have been actually invented by Germans (good examples include ‘das Mobbing’ or ‘das Handy’ which is a noun in German). These in Germany invented English words are called pseudo-anglicisms. Some of them, such as ‘mobbing’, have caught on so well that many native English speakers now use it too when talking about workplace harassment.
Similar Words with Different Etymologies
In addition to words with common origins, there are also words that are spelled or pronounced identically in German and in English and yet they have different etymologies and therefore a completely different meaning.
Little Look-Alike Words
There are several little German words frequently appearing in texts while looking or sounding very English that can confuse unsuspecting beginners. However, these little false friends should not pose a major problem to the more advanced learners of German language. These include:
- vor vs for: the German preposition ‘vor’ means ‘in front of’ or ‘before’ while the English lookalike ‘for’ is ‘für’ in German.
- weil vs while: the German conjunction ‘weil’ translates as ‘because’ whereas the English word with similar pronunciation ‘while’ is equivalent to German ‘während’.
- wer vs where: the German pronoun ‘wer’ is equivalent to ‘who’ while a similar English word ‘where’ translates into German as ‘wo’.
- will vs will: in German ‘ich will’ means ‘I want’ whereas ‘I will’ translates into German as ‘ich werde’.
- wo vs who: the German adverb/conjunction ‘wo’ stands for ‘where’ while the English pronoun ‘who’ equates to ‘wer’ in German (see also ‘wer vs where’ above).
Top 100 False Friends between English and German
Even some advanced German learners may not realise that they attribute wrong meaning to certain familiar-sounding German words. This is particularly true for words that resemble foreign words they already know but differ in meaning. Unless they learn them by heart it can take years of practice to detect them naturally. To help German students avoid common mistakes caused by these little cheaters here is an alphabetical list of the 100 most frequent German-English false friends that any dedicated German learner should know.
- also vs also: ‘also’ in German means ‘so’ whereas the English word ‘also’ translates into German as ‘auch’.
- Ambulanz vs ambulance: though linguistically related to each other, ‘(die) Ambulanz’ is in German used for ‘outpatient accident & emergency room’ in a hospital whereas the English term ‘ambulance’ corresponds to the German word ‘(der) Krankenwagen’.
- Art vs art: the German term ‘(die) Art’ means ‘kind, sort or type’ in English while the English word ‘art’ translates into German as ‘(die) Kunst’.
- Bad vs bad: the German noun ‘(das) Bad’ is ‘bath, bathroom or spa’ in English. The German equivalent for the English adjective ‘bad’ is ‘schlecht or schlimm’.
- bald vs bald: ‘bald’ in German is an adverb and means ‘soon’ while the English adjective ‘bald’ stands for ‘kahlköpfig or glatzköpfig’ in German.
- Beamer vs beamer (or bimmer): in German ‘(der) Beamer’ is ‘a computer or a video projector’ and not a BMW vehicle as in English.
- bekommen vs become: this pair of lookalike verbs have completely different meanings in their respective languages. The German ‘bekommen’ means in English ‘to get or to receive’ while ‘to become’ is ‘werden’ in German.
- Billion vs billion: in German, just like in many other European languages, ‘(die) Billion’ means the same amount as ‘trillion’ in English. The German word for the English ‘billion’ is ‘(die) Milliarde’.
- blenden vs blend: these two verbs may look like twins but this similarity is purely coincidental. The German verb ‘blenden’ means ‘to dazzle or to blind’ whereas the English expression ‘blend’ stands for ‘mischen or verschmelzen’ as well as for ‘(die) Mischung’, depending on whether it is a verb or a noun.
- Bodybag vs body bag: in German ‘(der) Bodybag’ is a pseudo-anglisicm that has nothing to do with the English original (‘body bag’) and is therefore not used for transporting dead bodies. It is a ‘messenger bag’, a type of handbag that wraps around the body. The German term for ‘body bag’ is ‘(der) Leichensack’.
- Brand vs brand: ‘(der) Brand’ means ‘fire’ in English while the English word ‘brand’ translates as ‘(die) Marke or (das) Markenprodukt’.
- brav vs brave: only one letter separates these two and both of them describe positive, yet quite different qualities. The German ‘brav’ means ‘well-behaved or obedient’ whereas ‘brave’ translates into German as ‘mutig or tapfer’.
- Brief vs brief: in German ‘(der) Brief’ is a noun and means ‘letter’. In English ‘brief’ can be both an adjective and a noun and translates into German as ‘kurz’ or ‘(die) Instruktionen’.
- Chef vs chef: this is a loanword from French which kept its full original meaning (‘boss’) in German while its meaning in English is restricted to the French compound word ‘chef de cuisine’ which stands for ‘Chefkoch’ in German.
- Cracker: this is a pseudo-anglicism that Germans use to describe ‘a computer hacker’ rather than a type of cookie.
- dezent vs decent: the German adjective ‘dezent’ is equivalent to the English expression ‘discreet’ rather than ‘decent’. The German word for ‘decent’ is ‘anständig’.
- dick vs dick: ‘dick’ is an adjective in German meaning ‘fat, corpulent or thick’ and not a slang word (a noun) for a man’s penis.
- Direktion vs direction: the German term ‘(die) Direktion’ stands for ‘management or administration’ of a company whereas ‘direction’ is ‘(die) Richtung’ in German.
- Dose vs dose: in German ‘(die) Dose’ is a ‘can’ that usually holds a beverage. The German word for ‘dose’ is ‘(die) Dosis’.
- eventuell vs eventually: the German word ‘eventuell’ means ‘possible or potentially’ in English. ‘Eventually’ is equivalent to the German expression ‘schließlich’.
- Evergreen: ‘(der or das) Evergreen’ is a loanword from English that shifted in its meaning and describes ‘an old song that is widely known and still popular’. The English term ‘evergreen’ can be best translated into German as ‘(die) immergrüne Pflanze’.
- Fabrik vs fabric: the German ‘Fabrik’ stands for ‘factory’ whereas ‘fabric’ can be best translated into German as ‘(der) Stoff’.
- Fahrt vs fart: this pair of words has identical pronunciation but a completely different meaning as ‘(die) Fahrt’ means ‘journey’. The German equivalent for ‘fart’ is ‘(der) Furz’ or ‘furzen’, depending on whether it is a noun or a verb.
- fast vs fast: in German ‘fast’ is an adverb meaning ‘almost or nearly’. The German equivalent of the English adjective ‘fast’ is ‘schnell’ or ‘robust’, depending on the actual meaning. However, the English verb ‘to fast’ translates into German as ‘fasten’ and these two are true friends.
- faul vs foul: ‘faul’ is a common German word used for somebody who is ‘lazy’. The English term ‘foul’ best corresponds to the German ‘schlecht or verdorben’ although in sports terminology it can have the same meaning as in English when used as a noun ‘(das) Foul’.
- Fraktion vs fraction: these two words have very similar meaning but in German ‘(die) Fraktion’ is most often used in politics to describe ‘parliamentary group’. The ‘fraction’ in German is ‘(der) Bruchteil’ but it can also mean ‘(die) Fraktion’ when, for instance, talking about distillation.
- Genie vs genie: in German ‘(das) Genie’ means ‘genius’ while the English word ‘genie’ translates into German as ‘(der) Dschinn’.
- Gift vs gift: the word ‘(das) Gift’ is a good example of how diverse the meanings of two false friends can be. It means ‘poison’ in German. A ‘gift’ (present) is equivalent to ‘(das) Geschenk’ in German.
- graben vs grab: though looking like two twins, this pair of verbs have no common lexical roots. In German ‘graben’ means ‘to dig’ while ‘to grab’ translates into German as ‘greifen’.
- Gymnasium vs gym: the word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Ancient Greek term ‘gymnasion’ which was an institution that served as a training as well as educational facility for ancient athletes. Today, ‘(das) Gymnasium’ means in German and in many other European languages secondary school with a strong focus on academic learning. The English ‘gymnasium or gym’ is ‘(die) Turnhalle’ in German.
- Handy: ‘(das) Handy’ is a pseudo-anglicism meaning mobile phone in German and has nothing to do with its English counterpart which in German equates to ‘handlich, praktisch or geschickt’.
- Herd vs herd: the German term ‘(der) Herd’ means ‘stove, cooker or oven’ whereas the English noun ‘herd’ translates into German as ‘(die) Herde’ (BTW these latter two happen to be “true friends”).
- Hochschule vs high school: ‘(die) Hochschule’ means university in English whereas ‘high school’ is ‘(das) Gymnasium’ that was mentioned above.
- Hose vs hose: two identical words that linguistically have nothing in common. ‘(Die) Hose’ means ‘pants or trousers’ while the English term ‘hose’ corresponds in meaning to ‘(der) Schlauch’.
- Hut vs hut: these two identical twins have a completely different meaning in each language as ‘(der) Hut’ means ‘hat’ in English whereas the English ‘hut’ stands for ‘(die) Hütte’ in German (BTW ‘a hut’ and ‘die Hütte’ are true friends).
- irritieren vs irritate: ‘irritieren’ in German means ‘confuse’ rather than irritate while ‘to irritate’ translates into German as ‘ärgern’.
- Kaution vs caution: replacing ‘K’ with ‘c’ does not help when trying to understand this German word. The German ‘(die) Kaution’ means ‘deposit’ when, for instance, renting a flat while ‘caution’ in German is ‘(die) Vorsicht’.
- Kind vs kind: ‘(das) Kind’ is equivalent to ‘kid or child’ in English whereas ‘kind (of)’ corresponds to the German noun ‘(die) Art’. The English adjective ‘kind’ is also not related in meaning to its German counterpart and translates as ‘nett or gütig’.
- Konfession vs confession: these two German-English false friends are related but still different. ‘(Die) Konfession’ means ‘religious denomination’ while ‘confession’ best translates into German as ‘(das) Geständnis or (die) Beichte’.
- Konkurrenz vs concurrence: in German ‘(die) Konkurrenz’ means ‘competition or competitor’. The English lookalike ‘concurrence’ corresponds to ‘(die) Gleichzeitigkeit’.
- konsequent vs consequent: these two Latin-derived words are used very differently in each language. The German expression ‘konsequent’ means ‘consistent’ whereas ‘consequent’ can be best translated into German as ‘darauf folgend’.
- Konzern vs concern: ‘(der) Konzern’ stands for ‘a group of companies or holding’. The English term ‘concern’ is equivalent to German expressions ‘(die) Besorgnis’ or ‘(die) Angelegenheit’.
- Kraft vs craft: the German word ‘(die) Kraft’ means ‘power, force or strength’ rather than a result of skilled work. ‘Craft’ translates into German as ‘(das) Handwerk or (die) Kunst’.
- Labor vs labor: ‘(das) Labor’ is an abbreviated form of ‘(das) Laboratorium’, a German word for laboratory. The English word ‘labor’ simply translates as ‘(die) Arbeit’.
- Lack vs lack: in German ‘(der) Lack’ does not refer to shortage. It is equivalent to the English words ‘lacquer or varnish’. The English expression ‘lack (shortage)’ translates as ‘(der) Mangel’.
- Last vs last: ‘(die) Last’ is a noun in German and means ‘load or burden’. In English ‘last’ can be a noun, pronoun, verb or an adverb and in most situations it translates into German as ‘zuletzt’.
- Lektüre vs lecture: ‘(die) Lektüre’ is a loanword from French which borrowed the word ‘lecture’ from the Latin ‘lectura’ whereas the English ‘lecture’ comes directly from Latin. Thus, the German version ‘(die) Lektüre’ refers to ‘reading (e.g., a book)’ just like in French. However, the English version ‘lecture’ has a different meaning found only in Latin. The English ‘lecture’ translates into German as ‘(die) Vorlesung or (der) Vortrag’.
- Limone vs lemon: these two false friends both refer to citrus fruits. However, ‘(die) Limone’ means ‘lime’ not lemon. ‘Lemon’ in German is ‘(die) Zitrone’.
- Lokal vs local: although these two words have a common origin, the German ‘(das) Lokal’ has acquired a new meaning and translates into English as ‘pub (a place where locals go)’. The English word ‘local (an adjective)’ is ‘örtlich’ in German.
- locken vs lock: the German verb ‘locken’ means ‘to lure’ while ‘to lock’ translates into German as ‘sperren or verriegeln’.
- Lyrik vs lyrics: despite common lexical roots ‘(die) Lyrik’ is equivalent to ‘poetry’ rather than lyrics whereas ‘lyrics’ is ‘(der) Liedtext’ in German.
- Mappe vs map: the German noun ‘(die) Mappe’ stands for ‘a folder’ while ‘map’ translates into German as ‘(die) Landkarte or (der) Stadtplan’.
- Meinung vs meaning: although both of these nouns are derived from the same verb (to mean = meinen) they are not equivalent. ‘(Die) Meinung’ translates into English as ‘opinion’ whereas ‘meaning’ corresponds to the German noun ‘(die) Bedeutung’.
- Messe vs mess: ‘(die) Messe’ means either ‘fair’ or ‘mass (in church)’ while the German equivalent for ‘mess’ is ‘(das) Chaos or (die) Unordnung’.
- Mist vs mist: ‘(der) Mist’ in German is not a light fog but rather a ‘dung, rubbish or crap’ whereas the English word ‘mist’ stands for ‘leichter Nebel’.
- Note vs note: ‘(die) Note’ means ‘mark or grade (in school)’ or ‘musical note’ while the English word ‘note’ corresponds in meaning to ‘(die) Notiz or (die) Anmerkung’.
- Notiz vs notice: as mentioned above ‘(die) Notiz’ is ‘note’ in English whereas the English word ‘notice’ stands for ‘(die) Bekanntmachung or (die) Benachrichtigung’.
- Objektiv vs objective: ‘(das) Objektiv’ does not mean goal or objective in English but ‘lens’ such as camera lens. The English noun ‘objective’ translates into German as ‘(das) Ziel’. This is yet another pair of false friends with common linguistic roots albeit different acquired meanings.
- Oldtimer: in German ‘(der) Oldtimer’ is not ‘an old person’ like in English but ‘a vintage car’. This is a pseudo-anglicism.
- ordinär vs ordinary: in German ‘ordinär’ can have a similar meaning to the English word ‘ordinary’ but it can also mean ‘vulgar or rude’. ‘Ordinary’ can be also translated into German as ‘gewöhnlich’.
- Paragraph vs paragraph: ‘(der) Paragraph’ usually has a more specific meaning in German than in English and means ‘a section of law’. The English term ‘paragraph’ better translates into German as ‘(der) Absatz’.
- Pickel vs pickle: ‘(der) Pickel’ is equivalent to the English word ‘pimple’ while ‘pickle’ translates into German as ‘(die) Essiggurke’.
- Präservativ vs preservative: these two words have the same origin and still can confuse you. In German ‘(das) Präservativ’ means ‘condom’ whereas the German equivalent for the English word ‘preservative’ is ‘(das) Konservierungsmittel’.
- prägnant vs pregnant: the German word ‘prägnant’ means ‘concise’ while the English word ‘pregnant’ translates into German as ‘schwanger’.
- Probe vs probe: this word has the same linguistic root in each of the two languages but not so much the meaning. In German ‘(die) Probe’ means ‘rehearsal or test’ whereas the English noun ‘probe’ best corresponds to the German words ‘(die) Untersuchung’ or ‘(die) Sonde (in medicine)’.
- Promotion vs promotion: similar to the above, these twins share common linguistic roots but their meaning has deviated from each other. In German ‘(die) Promotion’ usually means ‘graduation or graduation ceremony’ while the English word ‘promotion’ stands for ‘(die) Beförderung’ or ‘(die) Werbung’ in German.
- Prospekt vs prospect: these two linguistically related twins can have confusing variations in meaning in each language. ‘(Der) Prospekt’ usually means ‘information leaflet or brochure’ whereas the English ‘prospect’ in most situations translates into German as ‘(die) Aussicht’.
- Provision vs provision: the German term ‘(die) Provision’ means ‘commission (fee)’ while the English word ‘provision’ can have a variety of meanings and usually translates into German as ‘(die) Bestimmung, (die) Vorkehrung, (die) Versorgung or (die) Berücksichtigung’.
- Prozess vs process: in German the expression ‘Prozess’ has a restricted meaning in comparison with its English counterpart and means ‘legal proceedings or legal trial’. The English noun ‘process’ is used in a broader sense and can be translated into German as ‘(das) Verfahren, (der) Vorgang or (der) Verlauf’.
- Publikum vs public: these two lookalikes have the same linguistic origin and similar meaning but they are not fully equivalent. The most common meaning of the German word ‘(das) Publikum’ is ‘audience or viewers’ while ‘public’ can be best translated into German as ‘(die) Öffentlichkeit’.
- Rat vs rat: any similarity here is purely coincidental. In German ‘(der) Rat’ corresponds in meaning to ‘advice or council’ whereas the German name for the small invasive rodent is ‘(die) Ratte’. However, ‘rat’ and ‘(die) Ratte’ are true friends.
- Rate vs rate: it is necessary to be careful with these two German-English false friends as the difference in meanings, though seemingly subtle, can be sometimes quite significant. In German ‘(die) Rate’ usually means ‘instalment’ whereas the English ‘rate’ is equivalent to ‘(der) Kurs, (der) Tarif, (die) Quote or (die) Rendite’.
- realisieren vs realise: the verb ‘realisieren’ has a restricted meaning in German and stands for ‘to implement or to carry out’. The English word ‘to realise’ can be translated into German as ‘begreifen or erkennen’.
- Rente vs rent: ‘(die) Rente’ means ‘pension (benefits paid after retirement)’ while the English noun ‘rent’ translates into German as ‘(die) Miete’.
- Rezept vs receipt: these two lookalikes are not related. The German word ‘(das) Rezept’ is equivalent to the English words ‘prescription’ and ‘recipe (e.g., das Kochrezept)’ whereas ‘receipt’ is ‘(die) Quittung or (der) Beleg’. However, the words ‘(das) Rezept’ and ‘recipe’ are true friends when discussing cooking.
- ringen vs ring: any similarity is a coincidence. The German verb ‘ringen’ means ‘to wrestle or to grapple’ while the verb ‘to ring’ is equivalent to the German ‘klingeln or läuten’.
- Rock vs rock: ‘(der) Rock’ means ‘skirt’ whereas the English ‘rock’ translates into German as ‘(der) Stein or (der) Fels’.
- Roman vs Roman: in German ‘(der) Roman’ means ‘novel’ while the English noun ‘Roman’ is equivalent to ‘(der) Römer’.
- Schmuck vs schmuck: there is no linguistic link whatsoever between these two identical twins. ‘(Der) Schmuck’ means ‘jewellery’ whereas the English word ‘schmuck’ can be best translated into German as ‘(der) Schwachkopf, (der) Dummkopf or (der) Depp’.
- Sekt vs sect: ‘(der) Sekt’ means ‘sparkling wine’ while ‘sect’ is equivalent to ‘(die) Sekte (religious sect)’. However, the latter two are true friends.
- sensibel vs sensible: the German adjective ‘sensibel’ means ‘sensitive’ in English and not sensible whereas ‘sensible’ translates into German as ‘vernünftig’. This pair of German-English false friends is a frequent source of confusion for many beginners.
- seriös vs serious: there is a slight difference in meaning between these two lookalikes. The German word ‘seriös’ means ‘respectable or honest’ while ‘serious’ can be best translated into German as ‘ernst’.
- Sinn vs sin: ‘(der) Sinn’ is ‘sense’ in English whereas ‘sin’ corresponds to the German noun ‘(die) Sünde’.
- Smoking: ‘(der) Smoking’ is a pseudo-anglicism and means ‘dinner jacket or tuxedo’ while the English noun ‘smoking’ stands for ‘(das) Rauchen’ in German.
- spenden vs spend: when it comes to money these two false friends have opposite meanings. In German ‘spenden’ means ‘to donate’ whereas the English verb ‘to spend’ translates as ‘ausgeben or verbringen (e.g., das Geld verbringen)’.
- spotten vs spot: ‘spotten’ is equivalent to the English verb ‘to mock’ while the English word ‘to spot’ best translates into German as ‘erblicken or erkennen’.
- Stapel vs staple: in German ‘(der) Stapel’ means ‘pile or stack’ whereas the English noun ‘staple’ most often translates into German as ‘(die) Klammer (e.g., Heftklammer)’.
- stark vs stark: the German adjective ‘stark’ means ‘strong’ while its English twin corresponds in meaning to the German terms ‘gänzlich, starr or krass’, depending on the context.
- Stern vs stern: ‘(der) Stern’ is a noun in German meaning ‘star’ whereas ‘stern’ in English is an adjective that translates into German as ‘streng’.
- Stock vs stock: in German ‘(der) Stock’ means ‘floor’ or ‘stick (such as walking stick)’ while the English word ‘stock’ can be translated into German as either ‘(die) Aktie’ or ‘(der) Vorrat’. However, ‘(der) Stock’ and ‘stick’ are true friends in at least one sense of the word.
- streng vs strong: the German adjective ‘streng’ means ‘strict’ whereas ‘strong’ equates to ‘stark’ in German.
- sympathisch vs sympathetic: if somebody calls you ‘sympathisch’ in German they mean you are a ‘nice, pleasant or likable’ person. The English term ‘sympathetic’ is ‘mitfühlend’ in German.
- Tablett vs tablet: ‘(das) Tablett’ is ‘a tray’ usually for serving food while ‘tablet (a pill)’ stands for ‘(die) Tablette’.
- Tag vs tag: the word ‘(der) Tag’ is one of the first German words anybody learns and means ‘day’. The English word ‘tag’ translates into German as ‘(das) Etikett or (die) Markierstelle’.
- Taste vs taste: ‘(die) Taste’ is a key on the keyboard while the English noun ‘taste’ is equivalent to ‘(der) Geschmack’. Hence, the German verb ‘tasten’ means ‘to grope’ and the English verb ‘to taste’ translates as ‘kosten or schmecken’.
- toll vs toll: luckily, the German word ‘toll’ has nothing to do with levying taxes and simply means ‘great or fantastic’. The English noun ‘toll’ is ‘(die) Maut or (die) Zollabgabe’.
- Trunk vs trunk: the German term ‘(der) Trunk’ is not a nose of an elephant or a woody stem of a tree but ‘a drink’. A ‘trunk’ translates into German as ‘(der) Rüssel (elephant)’ or ‘(der) Stamm (tree)’.
- Unternehmer vs undertaker: sometimes common sense can be misleading. Although these two words were created by following similar logic, they describe very different types of professions. ‘(Der) Unternehmer’ means ‘entrepreneur’ while ‘undertaker’ is ‘(der) Leichenbestatter’.
- Warenhaus vs warehouse: just like the example above, these two compound words follow the same logic but mean different things in each of the two languages. ‘(Das) Warenhaus’ is ‘a department store’ while ‘warehouse’ translates into German as ‘(das) Lagerhaus or (das) Warenlager’.
- winken vs wink: there is some similarity between these two words but make sure you understand their exact meaning. The German verb ‘winken’ means ‘to wave’ whereas ‘to wink’ corresponds to the German verb ‘blinzeln or zwinkern’.
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August 3, 2015
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The Navy’s Command Center Of The Future
The new Navy Command Center Of The Future inspired by USS Enterprise?...
A prototype facility being built at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR) in San Diego, may become the Navy’s new command center. And looking at the images, the place is clearly inspired by Star Trek.
The The Command Center of the Future (CCoF) prototype is designed to bring together senior decision makers from remote locations to make strategic decisions, discuss specific military engagements, or communicate with subordinate personnel around the world.
The facility will have artificial intelligence, 135-inch screens built into glass walls, huge multi-touchscreen desks and a whole bunch of other high-tech gear providing teleconferencing and media feeds.
Even the CCoF conference room bears a resemblance to the USS Enterprise Observation lounge.
Although the CCoF is currently unfinished, military VIPs invited to see the prototype still get a sense of where future technologies are taking us.
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Real Clear Science published an interesting item the other day under a headline that read, “How the GOP Could Win the Climate Debate,” written by someone named “Eric Bradenson.”
Someone in the GOP needs to say it: conservation is conservative; climate change is real; and conservatives need to lead on solutions because we have better answers than the other side. […]
Republicans don’t have to choose between conceding to the left and denying the science. There are genuine pro-growth solutions that align with conservative values. Republicans can admit that 97 percent of scientists just might be right without having to embrace Democratic ideas that would grow government.
Given the prevailing winds, anytime a Republican is willing to break with climate deniers and acknowledge global warming, it’s a refreshing change of pace. But there’s something unique about this piece in particular.
As Joe Romm noted, “Eric Bradenson” isn’t the writer’s real name; it’s a pseudonym. In fact, the author needed to use a nom de plume, he said, “to protect his boss and himself.”
Got that? In 2013, with the threats posed by the climate crisis intensifying, a Republican staffer on Capitol Hill is only willing to acknowledge reality if he can do so pseudonymously.
Romm added that article “was awarded second place in the ‘Young Conservative Thought Leaders’ contest from the Energy & Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University.” The organizers at the Initiative agreed not to publish the author’s real name “for job security reasons.”
In other words, to write a piece making the case that Republicans can “win the climate debate” by pushing conservative solutions to a real problem, is to put one’s job in Republican politics in jeopardy.
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Google has launched a new service designed to let Web site publishers build their own search engines using Google’s massive index of page links.
The Google Custom Search Engine service will let anyone, from individuals to organizations, put a Google-powered search box on their Web sites that only searches certain sites and pages. That way, the publisher of a Web site about, say, hockey, could put a search box on his home page that only returns links to pages about that sport that he hand-picked. The service will also let publishers have a search engine that taps Google’s index in full but gives preference to results from Web sites they have pre-selected.
With Custom Search Engine, Google joins others that provide similar services, including Yahoo Inc. and Rollyo Inc. These custom engines are part of the social search concept, which taps users to refine the search engine experience by contributing, categorizing, tagging and sharing search results. For example, site publishers using the Google service can let others contribute to their custom index.
Designed to be extremely easy and intuitive to use, the service will let site publishers build their own search engine in a matter of minutes through the use of menus and wizards, said Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience.
The service is hosted on Google servers, so site publishers don’t get access to search query logs, a sensitive topic for users who are concerned about the privacy of their search activities. However, the entire search experience happens in the publishers’ sites, and they can personalize the search results page so that its layout is in tune with the rest of their pages, Mayer said. Google will display contextual ads with search results, but sites run by government agencies, nonprofit organizations and universities can opt out of this.
Google stands to benefit not only from sharing ad revenue with publishers but also from propagating the availability of its search engine, analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence said. “People are doing searches on all kinds of Web sites, not just search engines,” he said. “Search has become the Web’s navigational paradigm.”
Meanwhile, there is considerable demand from publishers for custom search engines because they realize that providing that capability makes their Web sites more attractive to their visitors, Sterling said.
The new service became available Monday night at
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The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments
By Valerie Ann Worwood
New World Library Copyright © 2016 Valerie Ann Worwood
All rights reserved.
Medicines Out of the Earth
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
— Ecclesiasticus 38:4
Essential oils provide us with a fragrant pharmacy full of remedies and delights for all aspects of our lives. This is an extraordinary fact. Already we know the earth provides us with food and water, but to realize as well that nature offers us a huge variety of plant essences capable of solving so many problems, and in addition giving us so much joy — well, that is something to rejoice in.
People have always found around them a number of plants that can heal — medicines out of the earth. But we live in a specially blessed time because we can look around the global village and take from around the world a huge variety of aromatic essential oils distilled from healing plants. This is new. We have a vast selection to choose from, never before available to humankind.
Essential oils are extracted from certain varieties of trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, roots, fruits, and flowers. The oil is concentrated in different parts of the plant. Vetiver oil is made from the roots of the grass species Vetiveria zizanoides; bay oil is extracted from the leaves of Laurus nobilis. Geranium oil comes from the plant's leaves and stalks, cumin oil comes from the seeds, and ginger oil comes from the rhizomes, while rose oil comes from the fragrant petals of the rose flower. Myrrh, frankincense, and benzoin oils are extracted from the resin of their respective trees. Mandarin, lemon, lime, grapefruit, and bergamot oils are extracted from the peel of the fruits, and pine oil comes from the needles and twigs of pine trees, while sandalwood comes from the heartwood of the sandalwood tree.
If you were to look at lavender under a microscope, you'd see the smooth round glands that contain the essential oil, surrounded by a forest of spiky nonsecretory trichomes. Many varieties of plants have similar sessile secretory glands that appear as round, distinct units with a cuticle, or outer membrane, protecting a package of secretory cells. In other species of plants, the essential oil–producing glands look like microscopic stalks. In seeds, the essential oil is stored in vittae, little pockets on the outer surface. In orange and lemon, oil cavities are found in the outer portion of the peel. In clove, a multitude of endogenous oil glands lie just beneath the surface, while in frankincense, resin globules are released from oil ducts. In ginger, the essential oil is found in secretory cells of parenchyma tissue, while in cedarwood the secretory cells line resin ducts.
The oil is extracted from the plant by a variety of means, depending again on the particular species. The most common method is steam distillation; other methods include CO extraction, expression, enfleurage, maceration, and solvent extraction. There are hundreds of species of eucalyptus tree, but they're not all used for the production of essential oils. Likewise, there are innumerable varieties of geranium, most of which are wholly unsuitable for essential oil extraction. Having said that, aromatherapy is a science that's expanding. New plants are being distilled into essential oils, adding to our assets in the fragrant pharmacy.
Each oil has its own medicinal and other properties. Research has confirmed centuries of experience of using the plants from which essential oils are derived. We now know that the fragrant pharmacy contains essential oils that are antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antineuralgic, antirheumatic, antispasmodic, antivenomous, antitoxic, antidepressant, sedative, nervine, analgesic, carminative, digestive, decongestive, expectorant, deodorant, restorative, circulatory, diuretic, vulnerary, and much more besides.
There is a wide range of methods of using essential oils for therapeutic purposes, including external application, inhalation, oral ingestion, and suppositories. Their small molecular size means essential oils can be absorbed extremely easily and quickly. Methods used externally include body oils, compresses, gels, lotions, and baths — including hand and foot baths. Inhalation methods include diffusers, room sprays, vaporizers, and a whole range of other environmental methods, as well as simply inhaling directly from the bottle or from a tissue. Although the food and drink and drug industries add essential oils to products that are ingested orally, they are seldom used this way for medicinal purposes in the home unless under the direction of a qualified healthcare practitioner.
The method of use that's chosen will determine both the rate and extent of absorption. Other factors to consider include a person's age, size, diet, and genetics. The rate of healing may differ too if a person has a metabolic disorder or a condition affecting the heart, liver, or kidneys.
Each essential oil has its own story to tell. In the case of jasmine, each flower is picked by hand on the very first day it opens, before the sun becomes hot, whereas the sandalwood tree could be thirty years old and thirty feet high before it's considered ready for distillation. Between these two extremes, a whole range of growing and picking conditions apply to the plants that will ultimately provide the precious essential oils. The price of each oil reflects these conditions; because it takes around 4 million hand-picked jasmine blossoms to produce 1.1 pounds of oil, you can understand why that is one of the most expensive oils on the market. Rose otto essential oil is also costly because it takes around 4,500 pounds of rose flower heads to make 1 pound of oil, while lavender oil is cheaper because it takes only 150 pounds of flower heads to produce the same amount. Obviously, yields vary from location to location, and this too can affect prices.
The trade in essential oils is worldwide, with consignments passing between the United States, France, China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Réunion, Australia, Argentina, Israel, the United Kingdom, Japan, Thailand, South Africa, Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Guatemala, Egypt, Somalia, and Spain, among many other places!
On average, an essential oil contains 100 chemical components. The main components fall within broader groups, such as alcohols, esters, ketones, phenols, terpenes, and aldehydes. But each oil also has a number of smaller trace compounds that even today cannot be identified. It's these mysterious compounds that distinguish essential oils from a simple collection of chemical constituents and gives them their complexity and unique properties. Think of it like this: the human body is 60% to 73% water, having a higher percentage at the obese end of the body mass spectrum — yet when we look in the mirror we don't see a big puddle of water. Likewise, an essential oil could be 30% to 60% linalyl acetate, but that's just the beginning of its story. Some essential oils have as many as 300 components, some as yet unidentified, and the idea that all the known phytochemicals could be put in a pot and made into that essential oil is as presumptuous as thinking a person can be reduced to a number of molecules, starting with the largest in terms of volume, water.
Essential oils are not complex just in terms of their chemistry. They have a whole range of interesting properties that together make them hugely vibrant. In terms of their electromagnetic frequency or vibrational signature, some have a higher megahertz reading than others. The electrical properties of essential oils are defined in terms of positive-negative and polarity. An aroma molecule might be negative and polar, negative and nonpolar, positive and polar, or positive and nonpolar. And even individual components have their own electrical characteristics. Some essential oils have optical activity and rotate light clockwise; some, counterclockwise — being dextrorotatory and levorotatory, respectively. Their components are crystalline in structure. Put all these things together alongside the body of a human being who also has these properties, and there can be a marriage of harmony and potential.
Essential oils are hugely versatile and also come in the most convenient form to exploit that versatility. A few drops of pure lavender oil applied to a minor burn effects the most remarkable cure as the skin returns to normal within days, whereas without it there could be a blistering patch and, eventually, a scar. You can return to the same small bottle when you have a headache — one drop rubbed on the temples often brings relief. And because lavender is a natural deterrent of mosquitoes and moths, among other insects, it can as easily be dabbed onto a ribbon and hung at the window to deter the former, or put on a cotton ball and placed in the wardrobe to deter the latter. The natural antibiotic and antiseptic qualities of lavender oil make it a highly effective wash for cuts and grazes and also a good addition to the wash water for cleaning tables, tiles, and floors. Its fresh aroma makes lavender a delight to use anywhere and any time, and it's great to include in an air freshener. One little bottle, used with different methods, can attend to issues both physiological and environmental, and just because lavender can be used as an air freshener that's not to say it wouldn't be of huge benefit to burn units in hospitals. Indeed, I can't think of anything that would be more appropriate to use as an air freshener in burn units! That's the thing about essential oils — they can do more than one thing at a time.
Plants are chemical factories inhabiting the interface between light and dark, sun and earth, drawing energy from each and synthesizing this into molecules of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. They provide our food, and the food of the animals we eat. Plant cells are similar to ours in that they have membranes, DNA, and a range of organelles including Golgi bodies and mitochondria. We're family. We've evolved together. We can't think of plants as inferior to us, because while they can live without us, we can't live without them. That's the relationship between us. So turning to plants for help is like turning to our extended family.
We're all increasingly aware of the number of synthetic chemicals in our lives today, whether we like them or not. They leach from carpets, flooring, and furniture. They're in home cleaning products. They're used in the production of food, in our public water systems, and in the products we put on our faces, hair, and bodies. They're in the very air we breathe. It may seem that escape from this onslaught of synthetic chemicals is impossible. However, for some jobs around the home we can replace the usual shop-bought products with essential oils, and we can make our own entirely natural body, hair, and face products, perfumes, and air fresheners. We can use essential oils in the garden to encourage plant growth and protect our plants from insects. We can use these powerful natural essences on our bodies to alleviate all manner of physical problems, and we can use them for the well-being of our family and friends. You can see from the contents of this book that essential oils are useful and effective in a staggering variety of ways. And each time we use them, we avoid using synthetic chemicals in our lives because we're lucky enough to have been given natural alternatives.
We have been given a huge gift from Mother Nature, and essential oils are something we can feel confident about using if we treat them with the respect they deserve. It might be easy to suppose that because they're so sweet smelling, the value of essential oils is their charm. This would be a mistake. Scientists in labs all over the world are discovering that when they compare the effects of a complete essential oil to those of its main chemical constituents, the essential oils come out on top. They might smell sweet and lovely, but they're potent and work very hard too.
We're All Individuals
In this book, as in the first edition, I very often recommend for particular physical or mental conditions not only specific blends but alternative essential oils, for the very important reason that not everyone is the same. That sounds obvious, but when it comes to using essential oils, although a particular essential oil might suit most people, there are likely to be some for whom that particular essential oil is not so effective. This has nothing to do with the efficacy of that particular essential oil, and possibly has something to do with genetics. Scientists are now realizing that some pharmaceutical drugs simply do not work for everyone, and they're increasingly researching the relationship between those drugs and the genes of these nonresponsive people. For example, a whole range of statin medicines have been examined for causing myotoxicity (a toxic effect on muscle) in some people, who appear to be having these symptoms because they have a certain genetic makeup. In the future, we may all have to accept the need for our medical records to include our full genetic profile. When using essential oils, don't be disheartened if a particular oil isn't as effective for you as it seems to be for others; simply choose another that has similar properties.
Essential Oils — Not So New
Don't think there's anything unusual about essential oils — they've been around a long time. The original recipe for Coca-Cola, invented by John Pemberton in 1886, included the essential oils of orange, lemon, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, and neroli. Chewing gum would never have made it off the ground without peppermint and spearmint essential oils. Today, essential oils are widely used in the food and drink industry to give natural flavor and aroma, and they are also used as preservatives. Essential oil components are even put in packaging film to protect food from deterioration. Manufacturers of cosmetics have long appreciated the cell-rejuvenating and beautifying properties of essential oils, and no respectable spa treatment would be without them. Indeed, the essential oil ingredients in products are often their chief selling point. In the past, the entire perfume industry was based on essential oils, although, unfortunately, today they've largely been replaced by synthetic ingredients — which is perhaps why so many people have negative physical reactions to modern fragrance products.
Essential oils are truly holistic in that they affect mind, body, and spirit. The mood-enhancing properties of certain essential oils ensured their inclusion in old-style perfumes. Put simply, they made people feel better. Also aromatics have always been used in spiritual practice — think about the frankincense and myrrh resin burned in huge quantities in certain churches, with great plumes of aromatic smoke engulfing the congregation. Native Americans put fragrant sage and cedar on hot rocks in the sweat lodge for ritual purification and spiritual connection. At the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the essential oils of neroli, rose, cinnamon, jasmine, and benzoin were included in the coronation oil with which she was anointed, the act that set the seal of God's approval.
Today there are around 300 essential oils easily available, but a well-chosen starting selection of around 10 essential oils will provide enough choice to meet the requirements of most home practitioners. Essential oils should be treated with respect, but also with confidence. Use your common sense, follow the instructions in this book, purchase with care and deliberation, and enjoy!
When the combination is more than the sum of the parts, there's a synergistic effect. Mixing together two or more essential oils creates a compound that's different from any of the component parts, and these blends can be very particular and powerful. A blend can increase potency without increasing the dosage. For example, the anti-inflammatory action of chamomile essential oil is greatly increased by adding lavender in the correct proportion. The interaction of particular essential oils with each other gives a vibrancy and dynamism to the whole that might not be achieved by using a single essential oil on its own.
The important point about synergistic blends is that the proportions should be correct, and sometimes it's necessary to prepare more, in volume, than initially needed so that the smallest component oils can be incorporated into the whole in the right proportions. Diluted in a body oil, you may have a component part that is only 0.001% of the whole, and yet that minuscule amount is integral to the whole.
Throughout this book you'll see there are instructions for making blends, and this is best done by mixing the essential oils in a separate bottle. You can use the exact number of drops shown, or multiply all the components in the formula by the same rate. In this way you get a larger volume of the synergistic blend for future use.
Several essential oils act as metabolic regulators. These adaptogens, as they're called, will instigate a reaction in the body that is appropriate to achieving a state of homeostasis, or balance. The reactions affect the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine system, and blood pressure, among others. For example, lemon essential oil works on the autonomic nervous system, acting as a sedative when needed, or as a tonic. Peppermint is another oil that might be found on both "relaxant" and "stimulant" lists, and this apparent contradiction can cause confusion unless you understand that these are adaptogens. Interestingly, there are other natural products that fall into this group, including the herb mint and the root ginseng. (Continues...)
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Iceland’s vote: a woman, an eco-warrior and a novice
Reykjavik — Three main candidates are standing in Iceland’s general election but Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is widely expected to win Saturday as she faces off against two less experienced rivals.
Considered one of the country’s most competent politicians, Sigurdardottir, a 66-year-old homosexual nicknamed Saint Johanna for her relentless defence of social causes, is the first woman to head an Icelandic government.
She was named prime minister on February 1, after the head of the conservative Independence Party, Geir Haarde, presented his government’s resignation in the wake of massive public protests over the country’s economic meltdown late last year.
Sigurdardottir heads an interim government made up of her Social Democrats and the Left Green Movement.
Sporting a fringed silver bob, gold-rimmed glasses and a slender figure, she has since 2007 repeatedly received the highest approval rating of all cabinet ministers despite a reputation for being firm and at times impatient, according to observers.
"Nobody knows exactly why but she has the confidence of the population. She is not a very good speaker but her authenticity and credibility explain that people like her," political scientist Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson told AFP.
A majority of Icelanders, 52.6 percent, want her to head the next government, according to a recent poll.
Only 11.5 percent want the job to go to the leader of the Left Greens, Steingrimur Sigfusson, while 25.8 percent favour Bjarni Benediktsson, the new head of the Independence Party.
Sigurdardottir began her working life as an air hostess from 1962-1971, and entered politics in 1978.
She is known for defending her opinions fiercely and during the campaign she has not hidden her goal: to lead Iceland into the European Union as soon as possible and adopt the euro within four years.
Her coalition partner Sigfusson, a 53-year-old former geologist and sports reporter, is in contrast considered a talented public speaker. He is the "backbone" of the Left Green Movement, according to observers.
He was able to draw benefits from the country’s financial crisis and boost his party’s credibility when he took over two powerful portfolios: he is both finance minister and fisheries and agriculture minister in the current government.
Curiously, his pet issues such as environmental protection and whaling have been largely absent from the election campaign, eclipsed by the issue of EU membership.
Sigfusson was elected to parliament for the first time in 1983, and held the position of agriculture minister in 1988 before serving as transport minister until 1991, when the conservatives came to power.
The newcomer to the scene is 39-year-old Bjarni Benediktsson, who was elected the head of the Independence Party less than a month ago to replace Haarde.
But this brown-haired, blue-eyed descendant of Iceland’s biggest political dynasty, who enjoys broad support within his party, is struggling.
"Benediktsson is new — he has not performed very well so far," Kristinsson said.
The Independence Party has been largely blamed for Iceland’s economic crisis, since it served in government from 1991 until early 2009 and oversaw the deregulation of the financial markets in the early 1990s.
"He has a very difficult job and it’s difficult not to sympathise because he is in a very delicate position. I’m not sure anyone else would handle it any better," Kristinsson added.
Benediktsson acknowledged that he faced an uphill battle.
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This post was originally published in 2011
The tips and techniques explained may be outdated.
I’ve always love browsing the amazing style of art known as Vexel illustration and recently I decided to finally give it a go myself. Follow this step by step tutorial for the making of my first vector art portrait of Tron Legacy’s Quorra. Learn how the portrait is carefully traced and vectorized in Adobe Illustrator to create an interesting vexel style design.
The portrait we’ll be working on features the beautiful Quorra character from Tron Legacy. The term vexel art matches the style of this illustration, where a semi-realistic image is produced from numerous layers, but to be fully recognised as a vexel illustration the artwork has to be pixel based. This design is created in Illustrator rather than Photoshop, which I think is the better tool for the job, but to keep the vexel purists happy we should refer to it as vector art.
When creating this type of artwork you can go as simple or as detailed as you like. The less layers, the more stylised and ‘artsy’ the illustration becomes, much like this piece. On the other hand if you have a good few days to spare a stunningly realistic design can be created using thousands of layers.
The first step when creating any vexel style portrait is to source a subject. I’m still buzzing from seeing Tron Legacy at the cinema so I’ve picked out this profile of the character Quorra. Open up the image in Photoshop and add a subtle Smart Blur to remove the finer details.
Next, make a duplicate of the layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Posterize and change the levels to between 15-20. As previously mentioned the more layers you create the longer you’ll be sat tracing, but the overall image will include a much deeper range of tones and will become hyper-realistic. Duplicate the Smart Blur layer one more time and place it above the posterized layer. Change the blending mode to Color to remove the ugly green and blue tones added by the posterization effect.
Take a snapshot of the base image and place it into Adobe Illustrator. The idea is to trace each ‘shape’ that has been produced from the posterization effect to recreate the image in vector format.
Use the Pen Tool to trace the brightest highlight on the cheek. Don’t worry about staying true to the exact outline, rounding off corners and drawing a more basic shape can often make for a better final image.
When the shape is complete, switch from the Pen tool to the Eyedropper and sample a tone from the base image. Switch out the default fill and stroke of the vector shape for this colour. Move onto the next level; trace; then sample the next tone.
Continue the process of tracing each subsequent layer and sampling the tones from the base image. Soon the portrait will begin to take shape. As two areas of the design meet, you may need to alter the stacking order by pressing the CMD+[ or CMD+] shortcuts.
The eyes of any portrait are the most important areas, so take the time to build up as many layers of detail as possible. Notice how the whites of the eyes are more than just white – They include a range of subtle colour changes which make for a more realistic image when viewed from afar.
As the facial features are added to the portrait the design becomes increasingly recognisable, yet it maintains that cool stylised effect with the visible layers and shapes.
Elsewhere on the artboard draw a wide, flat oval. Use the Pen tool to convert the anchors on each end to create sharp points. Press the ‘new’ icon in the Brushes palette to create a new brush setting.
Select ‘New Art Brush’ from the options box, then change the Method to Tints. This will allow us to change the colour of the brush strokes if necessary.
Use the Brush tool along with the new brush setting to add some extra definition and detail to the eyes. Outlining the eye and drawing a series of eyelashes really helps them stand out.
On a new layer use the Pen tool to roughly draw a shape to represent the basic hair line. It doesn’t matter too much about the awkward shape.
Use the brush tool with a 0.25pt stroke setting to draw in individual strands of hair to disguise the ugly hairline outline. If required, double click the Brush icon in the tools palette to alter settings such as ‘Keep Selected’.
Subtle highlights in the hair can be created by drawing thin 0.15pt strokes using brighter blue colours. A graphic tablet really comes in handy here.
Draw a few layers of hightlighting strokes, then change the transparency mode to Overlay and alter the opacity of each layer to tone down their prominence.
The portrait is really taking shape now the facial tones and hair are complete, so let’s finish off the design with a cool background.
Draw a rectangle to enclose the design and send it to the bottom of the layer stack. Add a radial Gradient fill using soft blue tones from the portrait.
Using a range of vexel style contour shapes in the background helps complement the style of artwork used in the portrait. Change these shapes to 15% opacity to tone down their prominence so they’re hardly noticeable.
A simple line of text finishes off the design nicely. Here I’ve added the name ‘Quorra’ in ulralight Helvetica Neue with super high tracking, neatly underlined with a thin border.
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Regardless of what season it is, we all need clothes. We want to make sure that they last as long as possible and don’t cost too much. That’s why this article is going to talk about the negatives of fabrics that you buy! There are many different types of fabric, but the fabrics on this list are some of the most common fabrics that have issues regarding durability and quality!
Cotton is one of the most widely used materials in clothing because it’s incredibly comfortable and breathable. It can be produced at a relatively low cost and has a soft texture that feels good on your skin whether you wear it for casual or formal wear. Unfortunately, there are some negatives to wearing cotton clothes as well.
The soft texture of cotton isn’t as strong and durable as other fabrics, so it rips and tears much more quickly. If you wear your favorite pair of jeans every day for a couple of weeks, expect them to get holes and splits in the seams and fabric! Cotton is also not very water-resistant at all. The surface of each strand doesn’t have scales as wool does, so moisture quickly gets into the fabric and causes it to stretch out. If you get caught in the rain while wearing cotton clothes, don’t expect them to keep you very dry!
Leather is a very durable material that is great for protecting your body from the elements. Leather is standard for many different types of clothing and accessories. You’ll most often see leather items in outerwear like jackets and coats, but you can also find leather pieces such as shoes, belts, wallets, etc. However, there are some downsides to buying and wearing leather.
The main problem is that it’s not machine washable. If you spill something on your leather item or get dirt or sweat on it, you have to be very careful when cleaning it, so you don’t ruin the item. You also have to take special care when storing leather items because if they come in contact with other cloth items, they will stick together and potentially damage each other. Finally, while leather is exceptionally durable, no material is invincible! If you wear your leather shoes every day for an entire year, expect to get a new pair at least once because leather stretches and breaks down over time.
Wool is a viral material used in clothing because it’s super hot and comfortable to wear! It has tiny scales on the surface of each fiber that help hold the warmth inside your body even when it’s cold outside. This also makes wool very water resistant! Moisture just beads up and rolls right off of it.
Unfortunately, some negatives to wearing wool clothes might negate these benefits. Wool is a very delicate material that can be easily ripped if caught on something sharp or snagged in the wrong way. It also has tiny fibers on the surface of each strand called ‘prickle’ that can irritate if they come in contact with your skin. Wool also doesn’t breathe and other fabrics because moisture has a hard time getting out. It takes a lot of energy to evaporate, so you may feel uncomfortable wearing wool clothes during warm weather.
Polyester is a solid material used in clothing, accessories, and many other places. It’s also highly affordable to produce, making it popular with companies who mass produce fashion items at low costs. However, there are downsides to polyester as well. One major downside is that polyester cannot absorb any moisture, so it’s not very breathable.
If you wear polyester clothes in warm weather, you can expect to feel extremely uncomfortable because your body won’t cool itself down. Another downside is that the fabric doesn’t have a natural feel, so many people don’t find it as comfortable as other fabrics. It’s very stiff and doesn’t drape as nicely on your body as cotton or wool does, so it can be uncomfortable to wear after a while.
Satin is often used to make formal dresses and gowns. It’s gleaming and reflective, so it tends to be the material of choice for expensive clothing, which makes it somewhat ironic that satin isn’t very durable! Satin has a skinny layer of fibers on its surface instead of scales like wool does, so it’s very fragile and tears easily.
The thin fibers absorb liquid very quickly, so the stains will be visible and problematic to get rid of. It also doesn’t breathe well because the surface of each strand is entirely smooth, which traps moisture inside. If you spill something on your satin clothing or get caught in the rain, don’t expect it to stay clean for long!
Nylon is a common material used in clothing because it’s very lightweight, water-resistant, and inexpensive to make. It has many properties as wool, like moisture resistance and warmth-keeping capabilities, but nylon offers one key advantage: elasticity! You can stretch out your shirt or pants without worries that they will tear, unlike wool, which is very easy to rip.
Nylon has many of the same downsides as satin in that it’s not very forgiving when it gets dirty or stained. Spilling anything on your outfit will leave a mark and be hard to clean up. You can get around this problem by wearing dark colors, so stains aren’t as noticeable, but you also sacrifice some of the material’s other great qualities. Finally, nylon tends to fade with time and become worn-looking. You have to be very careful while washing or drying it to avoid tangling up in other items.
Rayon is a synthetic material made from cellulose. It’s used to make many clothing and other fabric items because it has similar qualities to silk. If you’ve ever held rayon up to the light, you can see through it! That’s because rayon is very thin and pliable and drapes very well over the body. Like silk, it tends to be somewhat sheer and will show your skin underneath if you’re not careful with the color you choose. Rayon has similar disadvantages as satin and nylon when it comes to cleaning.
It’s difficult to get stains out of rayon because rayon is a very loose weave and the stains sink in between the fibers. When drying rayon, you also have to be careful because it clings to other fabrics easily, causing pilling if not separated carefully.
Hopefully, this article has given you ideas as to what to consider when looking for new clothes! There are many different fabrics used in clothing today, with both benefits and downsides. It’s essential to consider which properties you prioritize when choosing your clothes because some may not be as durable or comfortable as others. If you have questions about a specific item of clothing, it is best to consult a professional for their opinion. | <urn:uuid:030d66f3-9693-46cf-a6ca-6aea388bc44d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theoutdoorwear.com/negatives-of-common-clothing-fabrics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963786 | 1,458 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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At GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY, our scientists are actively testing alternative fuels and seeking to expand capabilities for use in a wide range of applications. GE has the ability to test nearly any fuel in full scale at world-class facilities like our Greenville Combustion Lab, or even at a customer site. We have successfully conducted over 100 field hours of biodiesel testing–ensuring that our gas turbines meet customer efficiency and emissions expectations on this fuel.
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Caffeine Increases Risk for Chronic Daily Headache
Before your reach for your next "cup-o'-jo," consider the consequences of excessive caffeine consumption. Caffeine has been shown to cause withdrawal headache, which may contribute to the development of chronic daily headache (CDH), or headache occurring at least 15 days per month.
To confirm such a hypothesis, researchers recruited population-cases and control subjects from three U.S.
metropolitan areas as part of a study designed to address caffeine's potential involvement in CDH. Control subjects reported two to 104 headache days annually (average: 30 days), while population-cases reported 180 or more headache days per year (average: 260 days). Current and past caffeine consumption was assessed by way of self-report.
Results: High caffeine exposure, defined as being in the upper quartile of dietary consumption or using a caffeine-containing over-the-counter medication as a headache treatment, was associated with onset of CDH. Approximately one-fourth of case subjects reported taking pain medication of any type daily for headache in the previous three months.
According to the authors, "High medicinal or dietary caffeine consumption at the time of CDH onset (e.g., pre-CDH consumption) was a modest risk factor for CDH onset. Secondary analyses revealed that pre-CDH caffeine consumption might be an initiating factor in a subset of CDH sufferers, with the high-risk groups being women and those younger than age 40."
Still need a "pick-me-up" in the morning, but want to wean off caffeine? Try drinking green tea instead, which contains substantially less caffeine than coffee and has been shown to have a host of health benefits, including antioxidant and anti-cancer properties.
Reference: Scher AI, Stewart WF, Lipton RB. Caffeine as a risk factor for chronic daily headache. A population-based study. Neurology, Dec. 14, 2004;63(11):2022-27.
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From the most delicate pastel tint to the boldest bright hue, color is a vitally important tool to you as an artist. Whether your preferred medium is acrylic, oil, or watercolor, a strong understanding of color and its applications is essential. includes in-depth information on color theory, important properties of color and light, and the fundamentals of color mixing. This comprehensive guide will teach you what color is, how it works, and how to make it work for you in your paintings.
- Books are written and illustrated by professional artists- Each provides instructions for artists aspiring to reach a new level of expertise- Series covers a wide array of art subjects and techniques
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William F. Powell is an internationally recognized artist and one of America's foremost colorists. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, Bill studied at the Art Student's Career School in New York; Harrow Technical College in Harrow, England; and the Louvre Free School of Art in Paris, France. His experience as an art instructor includes oil, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, and pastel-with subjects ranging from landscapes to portraits and wildlife. Additionally, Bill conducts painting workshops and produces instructional videos that employ unique methods of in-depth presentation and demonstration. Bill holds awards for his technical art, which has been used for major projects, such as space programs and environmental studies. He lives in Temecula, CA. | <urn:uuid:a70afafc-3ca6-4535-8bcd-53d5b86498b9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.powells.com/book/color-how-to-use-it-9780929261058 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00099-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941384 | 294 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Established in 1929 by the BC Forest Service, the Cowichan Lake Experimental Station has become renown for its work in forest genetics and tree physiology. The site was chosen for its close proximity to Bald Mountain lookout tower and the presence of a considerable acreage of 20 year old ìfine, thrifty Douglas fir.î One of its first projects in 1931, shortly after the depression, was Douglas fir thinning plots. In 1935 a ìYoung MenÃs Forestry Training Planî for the unemployed, hired sixty young men who built roads and trails, a cookhouse, bunk houses and a station residence, including a telephone service and a water system.
These men were paid $1.00 a day and morale was high. There was organized recreation as well as job training activities. At the end of 1935, 10% of these men found jobs in the logging camps and sawmills. Since road access did not exist the station maintained a couple of clinker built boats equipped with outboard motors. In 1936 a road was constructed linking the Research Station and the public road.
In 1939 the personnel at CLES included 21 men in the Forest Development Project, 34 in the National Forestry Program and 15 in the Youth Forestry Training Program.
In 1941 the Station became a camp for reforestation and federal researchers. That same year a work camp was established to house conscientious objectors to war. These people developed a reputation for careful tree planting and also as fire look-outs for feared Japanese incendiary bomb devices.
In 1945 the Dominion of Canada established a field laboratory for insect and disease research and eight years later the first forest genetic experiments were begun by Dr. Alan Ewing with Douglas fir plantations.
During these early years, the Station served as a centre from which studies were conducted during the summer months. The objective of this research was to learn how best to manage forests for future use. The studies involved growth and yield, thinning, stem pruning and direct seeding. The experimental forest provided good opportunities for this and study plots were established, primarily in Douglas fir and alder stands. As well, a number of studies were done in soil mapping, site type classification and cone and seed production. Until the mid sixties and with the completion of the MinistryÃs planting program in the area, a definite camp atmosphere dominated the Station. All workers, from the foresters to the labourers, stayed in camp and used it as a base for their work.
In the 1950’s the Civil Defense Organization of the provincial government decided that the Cowichan Lake station was sufficiently remote to promote safe refuge for the Cabinet in case of a serious atomic bomb attack. The Reforestation Division was tagged with the responsibility of maintaining a large stack of canned goods at all times. It also stipulated that the stock be inventoried and replentished monthly. This inventory usually required the better part of a day for two people. Finally, in 1972, the practice was quietly eliminated and no one in Victoria ever noticed that it had come to an end.
In 1963 the nursery was established to produce stock for provenance tests and tree breeding programs. A major expansion was undertaken in 1979 and up to 25,000 grafts and 350,000 rooted cutting are grown annually. The camp and cookhouse operate on a full time basis and house training courses, Ministry work crews and visiting groups. With the closure of many logging company cookhouses, the station cookhouse is the only one of its kind in the area. In 1983 it was designated as a Forest Service Heritage Building.
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Promote Your Children's Book!
Whether youíve published through a large traditional publisher, a small independent press or have self-published, promoting your own book and your name as an author will get you noticed and, with persistence, will eventually get you more sales. If youíre lucky enough to have your publisher's publicist working with you, collaborate on your six-month or annual plan before you get started.
Here are some tips to help you get your feet wet.
Hone your elevator pitch. If you havenít ever heard of an elevator pitch, hereís a very quick introduction. Whenever sales people have two minutes or less to pitch their products, they perform their elevator pitch. When youíre asked about your book, be prepared at any time to tell the story of your book in a few simple, inspirational sentences.
Hereís an elevator pitch for my book, The Golden Cricket: A Story of Luck and Prosperity. One day a farmer and his family experience a devastating flood and they lose almost everything they have. After the flood, the farmer canít sleep, he tosses and turns in his bed. He worries about how he will keep his family fed and warm. But then he hears a mysterious sound. The source of this sound is the beginning of a journey that changes his life forever.
Notice that my pitch is concise, takes less than two minutes to say and best of all doesnít give away the whole story. And donít forget, the quality of your voice and the interest you inject into what you are saying makes a difference. A sing-songy or monotonous voice is not going to attract interest. Speak as if youíre performing in a play. Go for the Academy Award! Donít be shy!
Tell everyone you know about your book. OK, I admit this seems like a somewhat obnoxious thing to do but the way you do it makes a difference. Now when other people approach me at a party, get-together or professional event, in addition to explaining my day job as a mathematics editor, I mention that Iím a childrenís book author. Most of the time thatís all I have to do. If others are interested, they ask questions like: Who is your publisher? Whatís your book about? Whatís your website? These questions give me plenty of opportunities to perform my elevator pitch. The last time I did this was at my hairdresserís. Two other women overheard me and asked about my website. And my hairdresser has promised to offer my books for sale in her salon. Not too bad for a pitch that took less than two minutes.
Offer to do a book reading at a school, daycare center, church, professional gathering, motherís club, library or retirement center. Now that youíve worked on your elevator pitch, itís time to do some cold calling or a mailing to set up an event in your local community and do a reading of your picture book or of a chapter in your young-adult novel. A year ago I compiled a list of places in my community where I thought a reading might work and sent out a simple one-page flyer with a short bio, my photo, a photo of my book and my brief book summary. At the last minute, I added retirement centers to my list. Much to my surprise, I immediately got a call from a local retirement center that was having a Christmas party. I did a reading of my book, The Snowmanís Song: A Christmas Story there and sold over $100 of books in less than an hour. It was so much fun to perform the reading and sign the books. Next time Iíll alert the local press and try to get a blurb in the newspaper!
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david.nalley at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 23 18:00:05 UTC 2008
2008/11/23 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>:
> Suggestion came across the desk to have Fedora News accounts for
> useful microblogging services, i.e., identi.ca and twitter.com.
> Naturally, we prefer identi.ca, but there are a few good reasons to
> grab the twitter.com name as well. For example, identi.ca for this
> account is now configured to copy updates to twitter.com. That way we
> can use the identi.ca/fedoranews account exclusively for ...
> * Ongoing Fedora news updates
> * News flashes projected on walls at FUDCon and other events
> * All the other stuff people use these tools for :)
> ... while using just the open source, open content tooling directly,
> but supporting our Twitter using friends at the same time.
> I grabbed and configured the two accounts. Currently the email is
> sent to me (no alerts configured to email, though); this is because
> I've failed in the past by setting a mailing list as the account,
> thereby sending password reset notices to the world.
> From here, I think we should share the accounts as a group usage so
> that people working on Fedora News and Fedora Magazine have access to
> push *any* updates. Then we advertize the identi.ca link in FWN,
> etc. and see if people use it. :)
> Any other ideas?
> Who all should have access to the account?
> Any better idea on what to do for email? (E.g., is there a privately
> archived address FWN uses at all?)
> - Karsten
> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
> Fedora-news-list mailing list
> Fedora-news-list at redhat.com
Ohhh that's a great idea - if for no other reason than
twitter/identi.ca squatting is becoming rampant.
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Gabriel - at an event commemorating World War I with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls - warned of resurgent nationalist forces both within Europe and "in its neighbourhood".
He said that good news several months ago from Ukraine - including an end to bloody violence against protesters - had since given way to "an ongoing military confrontation" and the realization that "Russia is apparently willing to let tanks cross European borders."
"Suddenly, we are being dragged from the observer's position into a long smouldering and incendiary conflict, which is also demanding a price from Europe in the form of sanctions against Russia," he said.
Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, meanwhile, called the danger of Europe splitting a “real one”.
Responsible foreign policy has to make sure that this is prevented,” he told Swiss newspaper the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
“Whether this is achieved depends not only on us but also on what Russia has planned. Moscow needs to show whether it is ready to leave the route it put itself on by annexing Crimea,” Steinmeier added.
He told the paper that he believed Russia was testing the West through it's handling of Crimea. “It cannot be, seven decades after the end of the second world war and 25 years after the end of the cold war, that we start changing borders based on ethic, linguistic or religious factors.“
Berlin also said it saw indications Russia was supporting pro-Kremlin militias who seized government buildings in eastern Ukraine.
Christiane Wirtz, spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "There are many signs that the armed groups active in eastern Ukraine are receiving support from Russia,” she said, adding that Merkel had discussed the crisis with British Prime Minister David Cameron by phone on Monday morning.
"A look at the appearance, uniforms and weaponry of some of these groups hardly suggests that they are defence forces spontaneously formed by civilians," she said.
“We therefore see Russia as having a particular responsibility to prevent a further escalation, and to contribute to stabilizing the situation in Ukraine.
"This includes withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border, lowering gas prices and using moderate language. It must be clear that violence is not an option for resolving disputes, and this also goes for Russia." | <urn:uuid:0ec818e0-b6ef-445b-8164-e7f2cb2ce701> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.thelocal.de/20140414/german-leaders-voice-concern-over-ukraine-escalation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00394-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972137 | 471 | 1.773438 | 2 |
What is an implant?
An implant is a tooth root-sized titanium implant that replaces the root of a tooth. This enables it to support a new tooth/teeth or to hold a denture in.
We will need to assess your suitability for implant treatment. This involves a medical and dental history, photos, study models, 2-D and 3-D x-rays. This will help us to determine the quality and quantity of bone. Additional procedures (such as sinus lifting or grafting) may be required prior to implant insertion if there is insufficient bone. The consultation is done over two appointments. If you are suitable for implants, we will arrange for a time for implant surgery. Following surgery is a period of healing where bone fuses around the implant (osseointegration) to render the implant stable. Once that has taken place, further appointments are scheduled for the final crown or bridge to be created and fitted in your mouth. Implants need to be cared for as you care for your own natural teeth. Regular review and maintenance is required to keep the implant in good form. | <urn:uuid:f8cc8bd4-979e-4ac3-953b-8ef1ea871307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.strathfielddentists.com.au/services/dental-implants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.913437 | 235 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Laith A. Al-Anbary 1
Lower urinary tract symptoms are common during pregnancy and shortly after it ( puerperium period ). Those symptoms usually classified into filling symptoms like urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia, and dysuria. And voiding symptoms which consist of: straining, hesitancy, post void dribbling and weak stream. Over the last decades many researcher were alert to urinary incontinence and it is possible association with childbirth type, cesarean section versus vaginal delivery. The objective of this study is to estimate the effect of cesarean section procedure on lower urinary tract function in long term. The study was conducted at Al-Imamain Al-Kadhmain medical city, Baghdad-Iraq. During the period from (August 2020) to (January 2021). Retrospective cohort study design was chosen. Target population was women with history of previous cesarean section for at least 6 months ago. Data were collected by using structured questionnaire form. 176 women were included. The analysis of data was carried out by using Microsoft excel 2013. This study went with most of the previous researcher findings as it appears that lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) have generally low incidence among women with cesarean section. But this study showed a possible effect of multiple cesarean sections on LUTS development , namely pervious three , which can be explained by their higher percentage in our study sample ( about 20% ) as Iraqi families have a tendency to have more children .
In conclusion; this study concluded that LUTS have low frequency post caesarean section apart from the possible effect of multiple cesarean sections on LUTS development, namely pervious three .In general cesarean section could be protective against LUTS in comparison to normal vaginal delivery.
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Western Red, Incense, Port Orford and Alaskan Yellow cedars are grouped together for similar performance properties. The heartwood of these species is naturally durable against the harsh effects of exposure to the elements. They are favorites for decks, siding, planters, fences, and other outdoor amenities such as screened porches, greenhouses, pool-side structures, arbors, and trellises. The sapwood of these species also pressure treats well with preservatives for added durability.
Grades for cedar products can be very confusing to the uninitiated because every purveyor seems to offer their own grades. However, there are recognized standard and special grades for cedar products. It is important for designers and specifiers to learn the difference between ALSC-recognized grades (defined by ALSC-accredited agencies), the proprietary grades defined through buyer-seller agreements, and marketing names used primarily for promotional purposes.
Western Red Cedar is the largest and most abundant of all cedars in managed forests. It is non-resinous and has a strong spicy scent. Heartwood varies from dark reddish brown to a pinkish color and has excellent weather-resistant properties. Sapwood is light yellow. One of the lightest in weight of the commercially important softwoods, it is often used for houseboats. It is valued for paneling, decks, and greenhouses as well as for siding, posts, fencing, shingles and shakes.
Incense Cedar has a famously spicy scent and is widely available. Heartwood is light brown, frequently tinged with red and is extremely durable. A highly workable wood, it machines and weathers well. Used outdoors for amenities and landscaping applications, it is also used for paneling, chests, louvers and pencils.
Port Orford Cedar is limited in supply and availability. It grows only in a small area of southern Oregon and northern California, and very limited amounts are harvested from private lands and made available, usually only by request. It is priced accordingly. It has a pungent, ginger-like scent, is easily worked, and polishes well. In Japan, it is sometimes substituted for Hinoki when appearance is critical. It is used for small items such as wooden-ware, novelties and toys.
Alaskan (Yellow) Cedar is one of the most beautiful of America's durable softwoods and is sometimes overlooked in favor of more publicized species. However, it is reasonably abundant from Alaska and Canada. It has a fine texture and straight grain, and its nearly yellow color silvers exquisitely upon exposure. Strongly aromatic, it is moderately strong and hard. It is used where weather resistance, stability and work-ability are needed: bleachers, park benches, exterior cabinet work, stage construction, and marine and commercial landscape installations.
Western Spruces and Lodgepole Pine
The alternate (Western only) species combination of Engelmann Spruce and Lodgepole Pine (ES-LP) is well suited for truss design and other engineered applications. Additional information on ES-LP for truss design is detailed in WWPA's Tech Note No. 3 available from the Association's Technical Services Dept.
Engelmann and Sitka Spruces are nearly white in color with a distinctive, slightly pinkish-grey tone. Relatively small, uniformly distributed knots add to the appeal of the medium to fine texture and straight grain.
Lodgepole Pine has relatively straight grain, white to yellow sapwood with light, reddish-brown heartwood. Knots do not bleed through paint. It is used for interior paneling, joinery, structural timber and poles. When creating interiors or rustic designs with Western pines, remember that while Lodgepole resembles other Western pines in appearance, it is the strongest of the Western pines. This makes LP additionally useful for selected structural elements when a "pine aesthetic" is desirable.
This species combination, classed as moderately strong, is cross-continental in origin. Because of similar design values, the combination includes Engelmann and Sitka spruces, and Lodgepole Pine from the West, along with Balsam Fir, Jack Pine, Red Pine and several eastern spruces from the U.S. Northeast. SPF-S grademarked products may originate from either region and be graded either by or according to grading rules published by WWPA, the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau (WCLIB), or the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers' Association (NELMA).
SPF-S design values make it appropriate for general framing applications. In the higher, structural light framing grades, dimension products are appropriate for light trusses and other engineered applications. In MSR lumber, SPF-S lumber is interchangeable with Canadian SPF lumber because Western mills conduct mandatory quality control on the specific gravity for 2.0E grade if the 2.0E grade is run in combination with a higher E grade(s).
In a structural performance context, the term, "Western Woods" specifically indicates a combination of the Western pines (Ponderosa, Sugar, and Idaho White Pine), Mountain Hemlock and Alpine Fir because these species share similar design values. While these species are not the strongest among Western species, they can carry heavy loads when large members are used. Their real appeal and strengths are in the appearance grades: COMMONS, ALTERNATE BOARDS, SELECTS and FINISH, and in the Factory and Shop products.
The term "Western Woods", when not used in connection to assigned design values and structural performance, may also describe any non-specific combination of any or all Western species except Western cedars.
Douglas Fir-South (DF-S)
Products originating from trees grown in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah are designated Douglas Fir-South. Douglas Fir-South is set apart from DF or DF-L by its slightly lower design values for structural applications. DF-S is always marketed separately for design and engineering, but interchangeable with DF and DF-L in appearance grades.
Other Western Pines
Sugar Pine is the tallest of the Western pines, bearing enormous cones that can be well over a foot long. It is moderately strong with a fairly uniform texture. Sapwood is creamy white, heartwood darkens to a light brown and is occasionally red tinged. It has a faint odor, good dimensional stability, and is used for general joinery, foundry patterns, boxes and crates, paneling and shelving.
Idaho White Pine (also called Western White Pine) varies from nearly white to pale reddish brown and darkens with exposure. It is famous for its workability across or with the grain and is valued for joinery, foundry patterns, paneling, interior trim, furniture, boxes and siding. It is the preferred species for stage flooring in theaters. Availability is limited. | <urn:uuid:351aa54d-c92d-482b-9cd3-d4b97a06b677> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.wwpa.org/western-lumber/species/other-species | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.936897 | 1,439 | 2.171875 | 2 |
To make a margarita with beer, mix beer, tequila and limeade into a large or medium-sized pitcher depending upon the amount you want to prepare. A medium-sized pitcher yields up to 4 servings. Serve the beer margarita over ice immediately, and garnish the glasses with lime wedges if desired.Continue Reading
Start by gathering the necessary ingredients. Collect between two to four 12-ounce chilled bottles of your preferred flavor of beer, a 12-ounce can of frozen limeade concentrate thawed, one lime, chilled tequila, ice cubes, and Kosher or coarse salt. Prior to mixing the drink, you need a large or medium-sized pitcher and four margarita glasses.
Slice the lime into eight wedges, and set four aside. Take the other four lime wedges, and dip them in the salt. Rub the lime wedges around the rims of the margarita glasses, and set the glasses aside. In the pitcher, empty the bottles of beer. Add ½ cup to 1 cup of tequila and ½ cup to the entire can of limeade concentrate. Mix the contents together, fill each margarita glass with ice cubes, and pour the mixed drink over the ice. Trim the glasses with the remaining four lime wedges, and serve at once.Learn more about Beer | <urn:uuid:c0d1cbba-0e5a-4ec5-93a4-7985db4228f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.reference.com/food/make-margarita-beer-30a34ef210da66ac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00097-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886663 | 274 | 1.648438 | 2 |
A Degraded Gulf of Mexico
Wildlife and Wetlands Two Years Into the Gulf Oil Disaster
Douglas B. Inkley, Ph.D.
This report gives a snapshot view of the current status of coastal wetlands and six wildlife species (or groups of species) that depend on a healthy Gulf. The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed eleven people, with the ensuing spill releasing more than 200 million gallons of oil and very large quantities of hydrocarbon gas. Only a small proportion of affected wildlife are ever recovered after oil disasters, yet thousands of birds, hundreds of endangered sea turtles and hundreds of dolphins have been found dead in the disaster zone. That was only the beginning of the impacts of the oil spill on the Gulf. The growing evidence reveals that this oil spill is far from over.
Download the full report: A Degraded Gulf of Mexico (pdf)
Pursuant to the Oil Spill Pollution Act, the federal government is conducting a Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) to determine impacts of the Gulf oil spill. Only when the results of these confidential studies are finally released, will the publicfinally gain a better picture of the full impacts of the Gulf oil disaster. But already, the scant NRDA evidence that has been released and other scientific sources, hint at the toll the oil spill is taking on the Gulf of Mexico.
Dolphins: Indicators of Trouble in the Gulf
Since the spill commenced in 2010 through March 25, 2012, some 523 dolphins have been found stranded in the oil spill area. Only 5 percent of stranded dolphins were recovered alive, and their prognosis was usually poor. This is more than four times the historical average of stranded dolphins over the same period of time.
In 2010, the year of the Gulf oil disaster, dolphin strandings in Louisiana were seven times larger than the long-term average. The year after the spill, Louisiana strandings reached even higher levels: 179 dolphins were found stranded in 2011, nearly eight times the historical average. In coastal areas of Alabama and Mississippi, also heavily oiled, dolphin strandings in 2011 were four times and five times the long-term average, respectively.
There have now been a record-shattering 26 consecutive months of above-average dolphin strandings (24 of those months during the spill or after the well was capped). By comparison, in the last decade the second most consecutive number of months with above average dolphin strandings was 10. The current unusual mortality event (UME) is 2.6 times longer with four times as many stranded dolphins and still isn’t
over. NOAA observed that “this magnitude of strandings in the northern Gulf is unprecedented.”
Not surprisingly in light of the continuing UME, many of the dolphins studied in Barataria Bay, which experienced heavy and prolonged oil exposure, are in poor health. Symptoms include anemia, low blood sugar and abnormally low levels of hormones that regulate metabolism and the immune system. Some are underweight and show symptoms of liver and lung disease. Dolphins can inhale oil vapors, ingest oil when feeding, absorb it through their skin or eat contaminated fish.
As a top level predator, the poor health of dolphins in the most heavily oiled areas suggests possible ecosystem-wide effects of the oil that are now being borne out by other studies. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) components of oil from the Macondo well were found in plankton even after the well was capped.
PAHs can have carcinogenic, physiological and genetic effects. Killifish residing in coastal marshes showed evidence of physiological impairment even to low levels of oil exposurexi and corals hundreds of years old on the Gulf floor were killed by oil from the Macondo well.xii Given the huge quantity of oil spilled, its widespread distribution, the fact that even small amounts of oil can have significant biological effects and that effects may be slow to develop after exposure to oil, our understanding of the full scope of the Gulf oil spill’s effects will likely be unfolding for decades.
Other oil spill disasters have taken years to reveal their full effectsxiii and often recovery is still not complete after decades. Now, 23 years after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, clams, mussels, sea otters and killer whales are still considered “recovering,” and the Pacific herring population, commercially harvested before the spill, is showing few signs of recovery. Impacts of the Gulf oil disaster will likewise be unfolding for years, if not decades, and take even longer to understand. What is clear is that the disaster response focused on removing oil, with little action taken to address the long-term wetlands habitat degradation exacerbated by the oil disaster.
In order to restore the Gulf for all of its many cultural, recreational, commercial, environmental and aesthetic benefits, the most important actions needed are:
- Congress must enact legislation dedicating fines and penalties levied against BP and other responsible parties towards long-term restoration of America’s Gulf Coast.
- Federal and state agencies need to implement a comprehensive Gulf Coast restoration strategy that includes reversing ongoing wetland losses and makes measurable progress on reducing the size of the hypoxic (dead zone) area off the Louisiana Delta.
- Congress and the Administration must reform oil and gas leasing practices and permitting requirements to better safeguard wildlife and the environment.
- The amount of resources dedicated to long-term monitoring, assessment and evaluation of the Gulf oil disaster must be significantly increased.
- The parties responsible for the Gulf oil disaster must increase immediate funding for actions directed at remediation and restoration to effectively minimize and repair the damage they caused.
The future of Gulf Coast wetlands, wildlife and the way of life of local communities are depending on Gulf Coast restoration to provide a brighter future. | <urn:uuid:da1db699-2c56-4f7f-b31b-4bec9e6a5647> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Reports/Archive/2012/04-10-12-A-Degraded-Gulf-of-Mexico.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953609 | 1,180 | 3.21875 | 3 |
“It’s not about having the prisoners and their needs in focus. It’s about having their children’s needs in focus,” said Eva-Karin Eriksson, children’s officer at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården).
The project is called “Goodnight stories from the inside”, which the library and the prisons service hopes will become a permanent part of prison life.
The inspiration for the project comes from Britain, where there is a similar project called “storybook dads”. The prisons service is hoping to expand the project to all institutions across Sweden.
The idea is to strengthen the bonds between inmates and their children and families. The reading project has been enthusiastically received by the 60 or so inmates who have so far taken part, and also among their relatives.
At best, the project could lead to fewer repeat offenders, hopes Eva-Karin Eriksson.
“One can imagine that if family relationships are made stronger then there is more to lose by going to prison again.”
Study circles have been held in prisons in Malmö with prisoners recording the stories onto CD. Prisoners sometimes also sketch illustrations to cover the discs.
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Another Year of Mesmerizing Returns
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 10, 1999; Page H01
Dazzled by performance, indifferent to cost -- that's the description that mutual fund regulators, managers and analysts say fits most fund investors.
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Costs, typically a yearly charge of 1 percent to 3 percent of an investment but sometimes more, can eat up tens of thousands of dollars in 20 years on a $10,000 investment. Yet people who wouldn't buy a car or dishwasher without comparison shopping readily plunk their life savings into mutual funds without knowing how much they are being charged, experts say.
The trend is especially troubling at a time when individuals are increasingly shouldering the burden of saving for retirement through 401(k) or other investment plans, and when pundits are warning that the market's 10-year run of double-digit returns could end soon.
Fund costs overall -- which include operating expenses and sales fees -- have fallen in the past several years, but at rates that lag grossly behind the explosion in fund investing. For example, costs to invest in funds that focus on stocks -- equity funds -- fell by an average of 33 percent from 1980 to 1997, to $1.49 from $2.25 for every $100 invested, according to a study by the Investment Company Institute, the fund industry's lobbying group. Over the same time, investments in those funds grew more than 5,000 percent, to $2.37 trillion from $44.4 billion.
The lag has prompted concern that the industry isn't sufficiently passing on to investors cost savings gained through economies of scale. Experts largely blame consumers, who they say haven't held the industry accountable, either because they don't know how to find the cost information that is available, or, if they do, find it confusing or don't understand its importance. How to change that behavior has become a hot topic of debate among regulators, lawmakers, consumers and industry officials.
"People have been mesmerized by high returns," said John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, a fund company that has specialized in offering index funds -- low-cost funds that try to match rather than outperform a market index such as the Standard & Poor's 500. "Investors should make a New Year's resolution to look at cost first when buying a mutual fund. The record is crystal clear: The shortest and surest route to the top performance category is to be in the bottom cost category."
Steven E. Norwitz of T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. in Baltimore agrees: "The problem is that when investors get 20 percent-plus returns in the stock market, they're not as concerned about paying 1 to 2 percent for expenses. If we get into a tougher market, and you start getting minus 5 percent and you're paying 2 percent, you're going to notice. But you ought to notice all the time."
Consider this example from a consumer guide to fees published by the fund industry a few months ago: A $10,000 investment in a fund with an annual return of 10 percent and annual expenses of $1.10 for every $100 invested would grow to $302,771 in 40 years.
But if annual expenses are increased by less than one percentage point, to $1.74 for every $100 invested, the same investment for the same time period would grow to only $239,177, with the additional expenses taking $63,594 from the consumer's return.
Testifying to the House Commerce subcommittee on finance and hazardous materials, which oversees mutual funds, Levitt emphasized the dramatic effect fees can have on an investor's return by pointing out that a "1 percent annual fee . . . will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent on an investment held for 20 years."
Everyone understands that fees are necessary. Mutual funds incur expenses buying and selling securities, advertising and marketing for new customers and providing expert investment advice. And almost everyone agrees that fees have come down. The question, experts say, is whether funds are overcharging.
"It's legitimate to say costs have come down per $1 invested," said John Rekenthaler, director of research for Morningstar Inc. of Chicago, which tracks mutual fund performance. "But it's also fair to ask, 'Have they come down as much as they should have?' "
Vanguard's Bogle said the answer is clearly no. "Profit margins are excessive in the mutual fund industry," he said.
Performance hasn't justified such excess, he and others said. That fact has become a central part of Vanguard's marketing pitch for its index funds, such as the one that tracks the S&P 500.
In 1998, the average return for S&P index funds was 27.98 percent -- very close, not surprisingly -- to the S&P 500's gain of 28.58 percent, according to Morningstar.
By contrast, the 3,024 actively managed diversified equity mutual funds in the United States had an average gain last year of only 13.84 percent, and only 504 of these funds, or 16 percent of them, beat the S&P 500.
So why would anyone invest in a high-cost fund, especially one that delivers below-market returns?
Eager to answer is Heiko Thieme, manager of the American Heritage Fund, which has an outsized expense ratio of 5.85 percent -- $5.85 for every $100 invested -- and annualized losses of 10.32 percent for the three years ended Nov. 30.
His explanation is that his is a high-risk strategy that isn't for the faint of heart. When the fund does well, as it did in 1997, when it had a return of 75 percent, investors are happy, Thieme said. "And when we are down, we look ugly," he allowed.
The high expense ratio he explained as a simple function of his fund's comparatively small size, having only $6 million in assets. The largest funds have tens of billions in assets, he pointed out.
But costs, such as rent, lawyers, telephones and salaries, are fixed, and vary little for a fund that manages $10 million or one that manages $100 million, he said. But the average cost for every $100 goes down as the size grows.
"The real question," he said, "is whether there's any validity or logic to having a small fund." Only investors can answer that, he said.
Debate on mutual fund fees has been around for decades, said Barry Barbash, who was director of the SEC division that oversees the mutual fund industry until October, when he left to practice law in the Washington office of Shearman & Sterling.
Since 1988, the SEC has required funds to place in the front of their prospectuses a chart that lists shareholder fees such as sales commissions and operating expenses such as marketing costs (known as 12b-1 fees) and management fees. By comparing the prospectuses of several funds, an investor can compare expense ratios, which represent many of the costs a fund incurs for each dollar invested in it.
A company also must provide, near that chart, an example showing how much money in fees an investor would pay on a typical investment in its fund over several years. Until now, the example has used an investment of $1,000. Under new SEC rules adopted last year, the example will use $10,000, an amount closer to the $18,000 median investment that households have in funds.
Investors can also request a document called a statement of information that breaks down into more detail many of the expenses lumped together in the prospectus.
This information is a good start, experts say, but more needs to be done.
Expense ratios don't include sales commissions, called loads, which can be charged at specific times, such as the initial investment or the cashing-out, or in a variety of other ways. Trying to compare costs for a fund with no load but a high expense ratio with a fund that has a big load but a low expense ratio can be tricky for someone without a strong math background and a good calculator or computer program, experts say.
Another source of confusion is that in recent years funds are selling different classes of shares in the same fund. The shares offer consumers different expenses and timing limits, such as when they can pull out of a fund without paying a fee.
"I know people who are quite brilliant who don't have a clue about this," said Miles Livingston, a professor of finance at the University of Florida who has co-authored several studies of mutual fund fees. "They don't have time to figure it all out."
Bogle said that every prospectus, in addition to the chart and example, should carry a sentence stating clearly that costs "that seem minor when taken as percentage of total investment can consume a much higher percentage of returns over time."
He and others also favor requiring each prospectus to carry an average expense ratio for funds in similar categories so consumers could see whether the ones they are investing in fall above or below that mark.
John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, would like the SEC to require each fund to include "on every statement it sends to each customer what that customer paid in expenses and sales commissions for the quarter and for the year to date."
The SEC is considering many of these suggestions. In addition, last spring the agency launched a study that is expected to be concluded this summer on fees, including whether economies of scale are passed on to consumers.
And it is looking at how independent directors on fund boards perform their task of making sure fees are reasonable. It's an issue that has been raised in several recent lawsuits, including one by two Maryland investors against T. Rowe Price. Many independent directors serve on the board of several funds owned by the same company. Plaintiffs argue that such directors, who are paid for each board they sit on, aren't truly independent and therefore can't act impartially on investors' behalf.
Henry Hopkins, general counsel of T. Rowe Price, said the company has done nothing wrong. "Our fees were very reasonable," he said, ticking off the many services the company offers by computer and telephone, services that require sizable investments in technology. "The level and quality of services we produce today is so much greater than 20 years ago, and certainly our fees have stayed in the ballpark."
Investment Company Institute officials say evidence suggests that consumers do indeed gravitate to better-priced products. About 77 percent of the 150 million mutual fund accounts are in funds with below-average costs, said ICI spokesman John Collins.
And ICI economist John Rea said bigger funds do have lower expense ratios. His claim is supported by Morningstar research, which shows that the 10 largest diversified equity funds have an average expense ratio of 0.66, which means they have 66 cents in expenses for every $100 invested, while the average expense of 20 funds in the same category but of medium size is 1.46, meaning they have $1.46 in expenses for every $100 invested.
But no studies have been done to show whether people flocked to lower prices or whether lower prices occurred because they flocked to those funds. And still unanswered is whether the lower costs of big funds are sufficiently low given the industry's growth.
Many industry experts believe these questions need to be addressed not just for the good of consumers but also for the good of the industry.
"Someday markets will come down," Barbash said. "And consumers are going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we've been paying all this money and we're not getting much for it.' If people believe they are paying for something that isn't a worthwhile service, and are paying too much for it, that they are getting gypped, they will end up leaving. That could hurt the markets and the industry."
The bottom line will rest with consumers. Whether they will make better use of additional information than they have with what's currently available is anyone's guess. "People scream about paying $1 in an ATM fee, but many people pay many times more than that in mutual fund fees, in unnecessary fund fees," said Morningstar's Rekenthaler.
"The mystery remains: Why don't people care enough to become experts in fees?" said ICI's general counsel, Craig Tyle. "It puzzles many people."
Here are some of the top U.S. diversified equity funds , ranked by five-year return. The last two columns show what a $10,000 investment would have grown to over five years -- excluding fees and accounting for them.
*Click for additional data
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Systematic review design
Based on the clinical question: “Does physical factors e.g., temperature, humidity and altitude affect the analytical quality of Point of Care testing of blood glucose and does it affect the glycaemic control in individuals with diabetes?”, a search strategy is developed for EMBASE and translated for each database to incorporate relevant participants, interventions, comparators, and outcomes (PICO) [see Additional file 1]. Studies published in English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German are eligible for review. Systematic review and subsequent analysis will be conducted following methods outlined in the PRISMA 2020 statement (5). A populated PRISMA-P checklist is provided [see Additional file 2] (6)
Information sources and search strategy
The following clinical electronic databases with noted limits on dates will be used to identify relevant literature using a systematic search strategy [see Additional file 1]:
EMBASE (2000 - present)
PubMed (2000 - present)
CINAHL (2000 -present)
Academic Search Premier (2000 – present)
DANS Easy -former OpenGrey (2000-present)
Cochrane Library (2000 - present)
The technological development of devices measuring blood glucose implies that it is not relevant to use literature published before 2000
To ensure literature saturation, the reference lists of included studies or relevant reviews identified through the search will be scanned for eligible studies.
Population/participants included or excluded in search
Studies on blood glucose test systems with no limit in country and both in-hospital and non-hospital settings are included. Studies conducted in laboratories simulating physical settings or studies using Quality control samples or artificial sample material will be included. Observational studies will also be included.
Participant using Continuous glucose monitoring systems (CSGMS) are not included in the study.
Animal studies are excluded.
A broad range of blood glucose meters and matching test strips exposed to varying environmental conditions e.g., high/low temperature, humidity, or altitude. The interventions will be conditions that do not comply with the conditions approved by the manufacturers or conditions which are not within the testing scope of the manufacturer.
Zotero (7) will be used as the bibliographic management software. All found titles will be stored, duplicates will be removed, and all discarded references will be stored in a Zotero Archive.
To achieve a high degree of consistency in the selection process both authors will discuss and adjust the common understanding of inclusion and exclusion criteria by screening the first 100 titles. Both authors will screen the following titles and in case of disagreement, the study will be included for screening by abstract. After screening of all titles, the procedure will be repeated for screening and reading of abstracts. The degree of agreement between authors will be quantified and reported in percentages. Full text of papers selected by abstract will be assessed according to in- and exclusions criteria.
Data collection process and data items
A specifically developed data extraction form will be used for studies found relevant to the selection criteria. Information will include as a minimum:
General details: Title, Authors, reference/source/year of publication, country, setting, study design, sources of funding/competing interest.
Eligibility criteria: POCT brand, analytical method, number of tests performed, intervention type (humidity, altitude, temperature)
Results: duration of testing period, sample size for each intervention type, Standard deviation, percent coefficient of variation (CV%) and discrepancy
The following outcomes are evaluated:
Estimation of precision under varying environmental condition compared to precision recommended by manufacturer or clinical guideline.
Estimation of accuracy under varying environmental conditions compared to accuracy recommended by manufacturer or clinical guideline.
The clinical impact of the estimated precision and accuracy will be assessed.
Risk of bias
Since the review question is focused on the analytical quality of glucose meters exposed to different physical factors, the selection of patient groups is not relevant. The risk of bias will be evaluated by choosing an appropriate tool from acknowledged institutions i.e. Joanna Briggs Critical Appraisal for Systematic Reviews Checklist tools or the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP).(8)
Data analysis and synthesis of evidence
Data will be presented in different types of ranked summary tables for each environmental condition evaluated. A performance summary table will be presented for each type of Glucometer included in the study. Homogenous results will be pooled and summarized statistically for meta-analysis. Narrative synthesis will be performed for heterogeneous data that cannot be pooled for meta-analysis. Reporting will follow the Preferred Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis 2020 (PRISMA 2020). (5)
Histograms may be used to visualize and investigate the distribution of studies containing simulation of physical settings versus experiments in actual physical settings. Histograms may also be used to show the distribution of glucose meter characteristics.
Confidence in cumulative evidence
The quality of evidence for all outcomes will be judged using an adaption of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation).
As a result of applying GRADE, the overall quality will be rated as:
High - further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of clinical consequence.
Moderate - further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of clinical consequence and may change the estimate.
Low - further research is very likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of clinical consequence and is likely to change the estimate.
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- The act of writing nonfiction has always been an act of elision. Only when a writer knows what to leave out, does she know what to leave in.
- You see this so clearly in the work of Joan Didion and James Baldwin and Janet Malcolm and, more recently, writers like Sarah Manguso. This is not matter of style—a baroque sentence can still be as pointed as an icepick. This is a matter of choice.
- Elision is not the same thing as distortion, though it can result in distortions, some of which may be more truthful than anyone’s unabridged whole.
- Abridged is not the same thing as incomplete, which implies unfinished—a house without a roof, a winter without snow. An aborted thought is not the same thing as looking at snowdrifts with one eye closed.
- This is not news, but for some reason we keep needing to hear this report from the front, as if the frontline has ever been anywhere else.
- Elision comes from elidere, “to crush out.” This violence is generative, resulting in “omission” but also “join together, merge, esp. abstract ideas.”
- Any patient in an Oliver Sacks essay may be a composite character, an amalgamation of many patients merged into one, more useful person. This is not a secret. It does not put Sacks’ insights in danger. He has still seen what he has seen.
- “You can’t do that.” Yes, you can.
- “You shouldn’t do that.” Another matter, entirely. And utterly dependent on circumstance. Rules are only useful if everyone is playing the same game.
- Choose your game. Then elide.
Meehan Crist is Writer-in-Residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was reviews editor at The Believer and her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Lapham's Quarterly, The New Republic, The Believer, N+1BR, Scientific American, and Science. She is a founding member of NeuWrite, a collaborative working group for scientists and writers, and awards include the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship as well as fellowships from MacDowell, The Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, and Yaddo. She is working on a nonfiction book about traumatic brain injury. | <urn:uuid:14986be2-6022-4df3-b425-a8713e9e3ec7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.essaydaily.org/2013/12/advent-125-meehan-crists-10-thoughts-on.html?m=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.965675 | 521 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Birth of the Kieri
Known as the kieri or tree of wind in Wixárika (Huichol), he was once a very mischievous boy (lower center). Sometimes he would strike others with sticks or throw stones at them, until finally he was chased from his home on earth (rounded area at bottom center), leaving his clay toys scattered behind (odd-shaped figures).
He ran away to the top of a hill, but he soon came across Our Mother of the Earth and the Rivers, Tatéi Utüanaka (at lower right). With the power of her spirit (on her head) she stole him, pushing him up a path where he left the imprint of his foot steps (five bright spots leading up to the child's chest). Then she thrust him into the water-hole (symbolized by the yellow disk above) called Tatéi Matinieri, Our Mother who is born in the east, to whom all Our Ancestors belong. The child's tears during this ordeal are depicted as two blue dots on either side of this emblematic crown above his hair. The spot at the center of the water-hole symbolizes his resurrection.
He emerges, reborn and transformed into a kieri, a solanaceous psychotropic plant fastened to the top of a kawi, sacred red peak. It has five eye-like blossoms at the tip of its branches representing the fruits of wisdom that it spreads to shamans in the four cardinal points and in the upper center at midnight. There are nierikate, holes in the rock near the kieri that lend him special insight and allow him to follow the steps of his devotees. They are represented as two large hemispherical figures on the top left and right.
The first shamans who approached the kieri were awed by its power when they saw it release its pollen (two wavy pink forms outlined in blue at top) and four bees that were attracted to it were diverted from their course between its branches. The shaman on the right used his muvieri, plumed arrow, to understand and communicate with the kieri to learn how to heal and how to chant.
The shaman on the other side climbed to the top of the peak, depicted as a grey mound to learn more from direct contact with the kieri. He cuts off three leaves that rise above his head, symbolizing his ascending wisdom. During the course of six years, he returns to the peak to deposit offerings to the blue pink circled water-hole that is nearby. The wavy blue lines symbolize the winds blowing on the edge of the peak.
The shaman recognizes that the kieri transforms also into Tamatsi Wawatsari, Our Elder Brother Large Antlered Deer. The antlers of the deer are depicted as two pink horns striding the central red crag and its green ears; its eyes are depicted in the crag as maroon spots and on the trunk above as leaves. Flowers represent prayers for life and abundance in white, pink and yellow colors. Most of the sinuous lines represent emanations of the power of the wind, while the dual straight lines are grass blades and the dots are blood or chocolate offerings.
Interpretation by Juan Negrín based on a taped
explanation with the artist.
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[lin_video src=http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/embed/player.js?aspect_ratio=16×9&auto_next=1&auto_start=0&div_id=videoplayer-1366758429&height=480&page_count=5&pf_id=9624&show_title=1&va_id=4029389&width=640&windows=2 service=syndicaster width=640 height=480 div_id=videoplayer-1366758429 type=script]BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Nearly 22,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year. Of those 22,000 women, 15,000 will die from ovarian cancer every year.
In the past, cancer treatment has been a “one-size-fits-all” approach.
Dr. Laura Shawver, a researcher and ovarian cancer survivor, says when cancer recurs the treatment choices are not clear.
That caused Shawver to start the Clearity Foundation.
The foundation performs molecular profiling.
Tumors are sent to labs and analyzed, and patients are then provided treatment suggestions based on their tumor’s specific genetic makeup.
“We’re doing something that I feel the medical community and the insurance community should already be doing,” Dr. Shawver said.
The Clearity Foundation has profiled the tumors of almost 300 women.
The profiling process can cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000.
Insurance often covers the expense.
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Analysis of Satellite Air Terminal Systemby Inder K. Sud, Transp. Economist; Int. Bank for Reconstr. and Development, Washington, DC,
Paul Gray, Assoc. Prof.; Grad. School of Business Administration, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
Serial Information: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE, 1973, Vol. 99, Issue 4, Pg. 935-953
Document Type: Journal Paper
Abstract: A systems approach is used to analyze the satellite air terminal concept for large metropolitan areas. A mathematical model formulates the problem as a fixed charge selection-allocation problem, and computes optimum locations for the satellites in the megalopolis. The analysis also enables comparison among the transportation modes used to transfer passengers between the satellite collection ports and the main airport. A heuristic algorithm is used in conjunction with the model to compute locations for collection ports when a rapid transit network is used to transfer passengers to the main airport. To demonstrate the practical applicability of the models, a satellite air terminal system is designed for the San Francisco Bay Area. Depending upon parameters and 1980 traffic forecasts, up to seven satellite airports and four satellite collection ports connected to the San Francisco International Airport by rapid transit link extensions to the Bay Area Rapid Transit System are found to constitute an optimum system.
Subject Headings: Satellites | System analysis | Rapid transit systems | Airports and airfields | Ports and harbors | Bays | Passengers | Algorithms | Computer models | North America | California | San Francisco Bay Area | United States
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The payment of the denarius (El pago del denario)
This second part of the parable of The labourers in the vineyard shows the payment of wages. To the surprise of those who worked from the earliest hour, they receive the same wage as those labourers who came in later: a denarius. This symbolizes that all Christians will be received in Paradise equally.
«The last ones will be first»
Sitting on a bench, the steward ’p[ro]curator’ asks some boys to call the labourers. He abides by his lord’s commands: ‘So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.’ On the top left side some labourers may still be seen working, but most of them are marching already towards the house of the Pater familias, symbolized by a Gothic structure with slender columns, where they receive their denarius.
This scene is repeated on the lower left-hand side, in which the lord of the vineyard is crowned by two angels in the presence of the Holy Ghost. Those who began working early in the morning thought they would be paid more than those coming in the afternoon, but, on finding. The group to the right shows the protests; the labourers argued that ‘these last ones worked only an hour, and you made them our equals while we have endured the burden of the day and the heat’.
The chosen ones go to Paradise
Three scenes of a lesser size complete the story on the upper part. On the right, the
steward shakes hands with work, which goes to a Paradise symbolized by the
source of life, along with the rest of the chosen. The figure of
Faith emerges in the following group, in which there is an angel; and in the centre of the panel, another
woman gives crowns to the chosen.
Series The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard
Second tapestry in the series
Manufacture Brussels, Pieter van Aelst’s workshops?, c. 1500
Fabric Silk and wool, 6 warps per cm
Size 418 x 657 cm
Location Cathedral of Zamora, Cathedral Museum
Origen Arrived at the cathedral before 1558
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Fort Detrick, MD - According to scientist Dr. Orncay Olehay, a drought ready strain of corn has been developed that requires less water to grow. The recent devastating drought in the corn belt of the USA inspired this invention.
The new corn produces neither starch nor sugar. The new strain of corn is 100 times smaller than regular corn. This makes it possible for the farmer to grow the corn in a much smaller area. The area is small enough that the farmer can water the corn by simply urinating upon it.
Rather than produce starch or sugar, the genetic code of the new corn has been modified to produce aspartame. In addition to the normal cultivation techniques, the farmer is required to sprinkle small amounts of methanol on the plants as they mature.
The new corn can be used to easily produce sweeteners and makes an excellent popping corn. When popped, the corn tastes like caramel corn on steroids.
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Article Review Format Guide
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
RE: Why does e-business need IP?
Frommer, W.S., Colletti, R.E., & Lieb, S.J. (n.d.). Why Does E-Business Need IP?, Retrieved from http://www.buildingipvalue.com/n_us/132_136.htm
With the advances in technology over the past several years, business transactions and communication can now be conducted with a click of a mouse. This also means that the security of the intellectual property of any business is only a click away. As the law struggles to keep pace with the explosion of e-businesses, expansions in patent, trademark, and copyright laws provides for legal protection. Businesses must also be careful not to violate the intellectual property of others. LEGAL ISSUE
The article brought up many different subjects that could have their own legal issues involved, but the main one that was discussed was that of the “cyber-squatters”. Cyber-squatters would register domain names using famous trademarks and then sell the domain names for a profit; often to the trademark owners themselves (Frommer, Colletti, & Lieb). This was such a major issue that the United States Congress ended up passing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACCPA); giving trademark owners the right to take legal action against these offenders (Frommer, Colletti, & Lieb). MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE
Any symbol, name, visual word, or device that a person or business uses to distinguish their goods or services, is called a trademark. Proper registration of trademarks protects you from cyber-squatter theft, meta-tags, deep linking, and prevents others from claiming your domain name. It is essential to take an active role in protecting your intellectual property in order to maintain an edge on your competition.
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Would you please discuss “effect” used as a verb (as opposed to “affect”)?
This is a thorny issue! "Affect" and "effect" are often confused. Let's start with their most common usages.
"Affect" is usually a verb meaning "to influence": How will this quiz affect my grade?
"Effect" is usually a noun meaning "result" or "consequence": The quiz had a bad effect on my grade.
But both words have other meanings as well. "Affect" can be a noun meaning "display of emotion": The killer displayed no affect when shown photos of his victims.
This is a rather technical word, used by psychologists but not by most people. (It's also where we get the word "affectionate.")
And to answer Betty's question, "effect" can be a verb meaning "to bring about," "to cause," or "to achieve": He effected his escape with knotted bedsheets. You will effect these changes on Monday.
This is another "technical" word, more used by bureaucrats than by ordinary people.
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Being and Becoming Human A Maiz-based Ethos & Philosophy of Life In Lak Ech Panche Be Hunab ku Men K’ochil et p’iz Yaxche–baalche As taught in MAS, highlighting the responsibility one assumes in learning these ethos or concepts. They are gleaned from the works of Maya scholar, Domingo Martinez Paredez. They include: Un Continente y Una Cultura, El Popul Vuh tiene Razon, Hunab Ku, Parapsicologia Maya, El Hombre y el Cosmos Philosophical Foundation–What it means to be Human In Lak Ech Panche Be Tu eres mi otro yo To seek the root of the truth You are my other self (me) Hunab Ku To find the truth in the root(s) All Part of Creation “Movement & Measure.” The name the Maya gave to the equivalence of the Supreme Being or the Grand Architect of the Universe. “The Great Mystery” (Martinez Paredez, 1970) SER HUMANO BEING/BECOMING HUMAN NOT A COUNTERSTORY UNIVERSAL QUEST/LONGING FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME WHO ARE WE? WHO WE ARE NOT WHAT ONE PROFESSES, BUT HOW ONE LIVES ONE’S LIFE MAS STRUGGLE IN TUCSON (Outside of Western Civilization) Un Continente Y Una Cultura Raza Studies (MAS): A subset of Indigenous Studies. Indigenous Studies: not a subset of Chicano Studies MAS: Part of a thousands of years process culture, knowledge and history “This philosophy comes direct from “the cereal that was created by the ancient settlers of the continent: maiz… yes, the maiz, that creation of the savage beast, and that thanks to them, lies the hope for humanity.” – Maya Linguist, Domingo Martinez Paredez, 1960 Maiz: Who We Are – Where We Come From What we are made of – Our sacred sustenance Maiz: The only food in history created by human beings. Wild grass crossed with Teocinte Maiz: Peoples of Cemanahuak are the only peoples to create their own food, thus, own philosophy. Requires human intervention Maiz is civilizational impulse for Maya-Nahua (Mesoamerica) or Maiz culture Mesoamerican calendars based on maiz – developed entire continent Concepts predate the Maya. Were shared by peoples across continent. Martinez-Paredez Tamuanchanes Teotihuacanos Olmecas Toltecas Hul Nal Ye Spirit of Maiz Undergirding all: 7,000-year maiz culture While thousands of the ancient books were burned by Spanish priests, these Maya-Nahua concepts were not destroyed. They preserved and conveyed today via ceremony, oral traditions,[Indigenous] writings poetry, song and danza. 3113 BC-2012 – Maya Time Frame – Era of Maiz are Mexican/Chicano/Chicana De-Indigenization & De-Colonization Narratives Map of Aztlan Migration narrative 1,000 years old Mexica Story Popularized in U.S. 1960s-70s Maiz Quetzalcoatl Narrative Several thousand years old. Story of continent. Preferred narrative for MAS-Indigenous Indigenous Studies While the Maiz-Quetzalcoatl narrative is continental in scope, both equal an effort to be seen not as foreigners or U.S. minorities. The effort to understand In Lak Ech – Panche Be & Hunab Ku equal reclamation of a creation/resistance culture. Effort to embrace these concepts = decolonization. In Lak Ech– Panche Be – Hunab Ku Concepts can create better human beings & a better world for generations that will follow They connect us to cosmic energy, but also to struggles for peace, dignity & justice Zapatistas rose up Jan, 1, 1994 to protect way of life – maiz culture. 1st day that NAFTA went into effect At most profound level, these concepts – that we are all related and all one – exist in all cultures. All strive for teaching us to become better human beings and to take care of our sacred mother earth. (Nahuatl: Nehua ti Nehua). As adopted by Raza Studies in U.S. – Not Frozen Concepts In Lak’ Ech Tú eres mi otro yo. Si te hago daño a ti Me hago daño a mí mismo. Sí te amo y respeto. Me amo y respeto yo You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you I love and respect myself. Raza Studies-TUSD In Lak‘ Ech If we poison the earth, we poison ourselves. If we pollute the waters, we pollute our bodies. If we contaminate the earth; we contaminate our food and life itself. If we take care of the earth; the earth will take care of us. If we love the earth; we love ourselves. If we respect the earth; we live If we love ourselves, we will take care of ourselves. If we love humanity, we will not hate. If we protect our sacred mother, we live. If we understand our role in the universe, we create. In Lak Ech is Beyond Human Relations It is also about relations with all life (left) and our relation to the earth and universe (right) Universal Golden Rule Do unto others as you would have them do onto you Christianity ...You shall love your neighbor as yourself Yahshua, Matthew 22:39 Bahai: Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, 71 Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful Udana-Varga, 5:18 Confucianism: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you Analects 15:23 Hinduism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. Mahabharata 5:1517 Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself . Sunnab Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law: All the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31a Sikhism: Do not create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone Guru Arjan Devji 259. Guru Granth Sahib In Lak’ Ech A prescription for how to treat each other as human beings. Anti-thesis of dehumanization & first step toward rehumanization & viewing our fellow human beings not simply as neighbors, but as co-equals. In Lak Ech: It is the love of others, the love of ourselves, the love of humanity, the love of life, the love of the universe; it is who we are Mitakuye Oyasin: Lakota Sioux – Similar to In Lak Ech Panche Be To seek the root of the truth – buscar la raiz de la verdad. (Martinez Paredez 1970). To find the truth in the root(s) Panche Be – a pursuit and a lifelong journey. Panche Be – a way of life. Never satisfied with official truths, official histories or official narratives. Never complacent. Always in relentless pursuit of that which is hidden or obfuscated. Always in pursuit of peace and dignity… and justice. journalism ethos:”don’t believe the hype” = critical thinking Panche Be: Pursuit of Social Justice Pursuit of the root of the truth Pursuit of social justice Indigenous /Human Liberation Prism Defense of Raza/Ethnic Studies 2006–2012 mas-tusd Struggle against SB 1070-HB2281 The Forgotten Debate of 1524 To understand Hunab Ku, it should be contextualized within the 1524 theological “debate” between 12 Spanish friars & several indigenous representatives. Sahagun, Colloquios y Doctrina Christiana, 1944 The most notable exchange had to do with whether the Indigenous representatives “knew God.” A friar explained: “He is the true one & whom you call ypalnemoani, but you never really knew him.” (Sahagun, 1944: 67). “The Giver of Life” In the colonial-era book Huehuetlahtolli (1991), Sahagun in 1500s explains that Ipalnemoani is: “dador de la vida” - the giver of life: That for what we live for. By those definitions, Ipalnemoani – the giver of life is The Creator of the Universe. Maya scholar, Domingo Martinez Paredez, in Hunab Ku (1963: 41) connects Hunab Ku with Ipelnemohuani After the “debate,” priests proclaimed that Indigenous peoples were pagan, godless & demonic. All 1500s-1800s era codices/chronicles reflect this thinking. “Godless”: A Dark Ages Formulation Dark Ages formulation continues in modern times: women prohibited from attending banquet due to Aztec dancers (Minnesota, 2007); kid prohibited from learning maiz culture & Aztec dance: because told it’s “devil worship” (AZ, 2009). all peoples and cultures have their own way of explaining the universe. The idea that people are godless is also a Dark Ages formulation. Quetzalcoatl Through Chicano Serpentine Philosophy, (2007), elder and Nahuatl scholar Andres Segura explains Quetzalcoatl or the Feathered Serpent as the balance between the material and the spiritual. He expounds on this idea: “The feathered serpent represents the Unknowable, Unthinkable, Consciousness of the Giver of Life, The Giver of Time and Space, Ometeotl/Omecihuatl, God. Es consciencia de Dios – He/She is the Consciousness of God” (Macias, 2007: 77). Superstitious Minds European friars were superstitious, championed ignorance, punished scientific inquiry. Were product of bloody Crusades and were participants in oppressive Inquisition, including book burnings. Auto de Fe, 1562 Mani, Yucatan Recreation of Auto de Fe Performed Annually At Mani, Yucatan Psychic Shock Role of friars was providing a theological God-given blessing. justification for enslavement, genocide & land theft. Peoples humanity depended upon conversion: Even De Las Casas – ‘protector of the Indians’ believed this. Euros in no position to understand: In Lak Ech-Panche Be-Hunab Ku. Proclaiming peoples: pagan-godless-demonic permits dehumanization - not afforded full human rights. CREATES PSYCHIC SHOCK – DAMAGE TO PSYCHE Martinez Paredez Hunab Ku Hunab Ku is Grand Architect of the Universe & the Giver of Life; They mathematized this concept and declared it the ‘giver of movement and measure.’ (measure = death) There were no statutes or images to Hunab Ku. It was represented as a mathematical formula of a square (pyramid) inside of a circle. Parasicologia Maya, P25 ‘the Maya represent this with a concept of the circle and a square. The circle is represented by the # 13, the square by the # 4. 13 represents points of the body.’ Hunab Ku, Nature, Humans, Numbers: all one. El Hombre y El Cosmos, P47 In West, God often depicted as elderly man sitting in chair or somewhere in heaven. The Maya conceived of Hunab Ku in mathematical, as opposed to, metaphysical terms. “Science was their religion and their religion was science,” regulated by mathematics and astronomy. (Martinez Paredez, 1970: 68) Hunab Ku By most translations [limitations of European languages], this explanation of universe is equivalence of God: How people explain or make sense of universe. In English, also: “Supreme Being,” the “Great Spirit,” “Creator” or “The Great Mystery” Hunab Ku In the Nahuatl or from the peoples of Anahuac, there are several equivalencies; Tloque Nahuaque, Ypalmenohuani and Ometeotl. In explaining Hunab Ku, Dr. Arnoldo Vento writes In Amoxtli X: “Unlike the Christian model, it is not anthropomorphic. It is a scientific concept of the building of the universe in geometric symbols and numbers that comprise the mathematical order of the universe. It is a square within a circle.” (Vento, 2010, 8) Reciprocity and Balance Vento, who has studied under great elders further explains his understanding both the meaning and context of Hunab Ku and similar native understandings: “It calls for cultures engaging in relationships of mutual respect, reciprocity, caring for Mother Earth and all of its inhabitants. It is integration and participation, not a modification of Mother Earth that provides a positive and life affirming view. There is no hierarchical ladder, only reciprocity and balance. Everything is part of a circular pattern of sacred give and take.” (Vento, Amoxtli X, 2010, 9) Greek/Roman Gods “The Supreme Being of the Maya unquestionably represented the dynamic energy of the cosmos, and the unity and totality that Hunab Ku represented, was cosmic” (Martinez Paredez 1970:59-60). “Hunab Ku did not belong to them.” For the Maya, Hunab Ku belonged to everyone. Was not a Maya God. 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Luminex xMap technology is a bead-based multiplexed immunoassay system in a microplate format. The system can simultaneously detect many targets in a single sample — up to 500, depending on system design.
The microspheres used in the Luminex system have different spectral addresses (color codes). These unique spectral addresses are created by internally labeling beads with different ratios of two fluorophores, one in a red wavelength and the other in the far red. This is the xMAP technology.
Proteins including antibodies, ligands, and nucleic acids specific to the desired targets can be coupled to the beads. Bio-Plex assays use antibodies coupled to the beads. In the kits, every antibody to a different target is covalently attached to beads with a different single spectral address, giving each target its own unique address.
xMAP assays are available in magnetic or nonmagnetic bead formats.
In an assay using the Luminex system, the beads are incubated with a sample. After washing, the beads are incubated with a mixture of biotinylated antibodies against all the targets. After another wash, the beads are incubated with the reporter streptavidin-PE. For targets that are present in the sample, a sandwich is generated that is composed of: bead with attached target-specific antibody + target + biotinylated target- specific antibody + streptavidin reporter.
Using a dual laser system, the signature of each bead is identified, and the presence and intensity of reporter associated with the bead is detected simultaneously. This gives information about both the identity and concentration of targets in the sample.
Luminex xMap technology is particularly powerful when looking for changes in concentrations of multiple targets under different conditions. Two examples are tracking the progress of immune responses to a microbial infection and tracking the development of an autoimmune disease.
The Luminex xMAP technology has many advantages over other methods of detecting and measuring biomarkers.
Bio-Plex systems with Luminex technology enable fast, accurate flexible measurement of the upregulation and downregulation of multiple biomarkers in real time. There are several components of Bio-Plex systems.
Bio-Plex Suspension Array Systems: These systems are complete Luminex microplate assay systems. They include two lasers: the classification laser (635 nm excitation), for identifying the bead signatures, and the reporter laser (532 nm excitation), for detecting the target. Bio-Plex Luminex array readers have high-throughput fluidics, system tools for calibration and validation, and management software.
Bio-Plex Software: There are a range of software options for system management, calibration and validation, protocol design, data acquisition, data analysis, and data export and reporting. For clinical and other critical uses, the Bio-Plex Manager™ software, Security Edition provides all the tools necessary for complying with FDA CFR 21 Part 11.
Bio-Plex Pro™Assays: Kits are available for a wide array of studies including cell signaling, cytokines, cancer, diabetes, and angiogenesis. Assays are offered as premixed panels, custom mixes (designed by the Bio-Plex Assay Builder), or singleplex sets.
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While it is likely that most local people have never heard of the sculptor Raoul Josset, hundreds of Indiana and Illinois drivers pass by two of his major works every day. It was Josset who carved the pylons featuring Native Americans that flank the Indiana approach to the Lincoln Memorial Bridge.
The totality of Raoul Jean Josset’s life and career is too extensive to be given here, but the outline is as follows. Josset was born in Fours, France, on Dec. 9, 1899. He was educated at the Lycee of Lyons and Paris and the Beaux Arts School in Paris. He fought with the French Army in the First World War and later served as an interpreter with the American Expeditionary Force. He worked in his native country, designing various memorials in the 1920s. | <urn:uuid:34ba4b69-8efa-41e9-bdbb-699b9ff4ce78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.suncommercial.com/lifestyle/article_0d27afdf-3d89-53a3-8dd3-545f131dad01.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.988984 | 172 | 2.75 | 3 |
Vienna is one of Europe’s most popular and fastest-growing capitals – a challenge that the city on the Danube is turning into a virtue. It is employing smart ways to develop new residential spaces; in aspern Seestadt, for example, the technological planning was foregrounded and preceded structural work in selected buildings. The aim of this thoroughly digitalized approach: to prepare the grid for growing numbers of renewable sources and increase both the efficiency and lifespan of buildings. With success: Many smart districts around the world are already utilizing the insights developed in Aspern. By 2030, heat and electricity in the new development, which will be home to 20,000 residents, will come entirely from renewable energy sources.
Reference: A holistic and smart concept for aspern Seestadt
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project focus: Digitalization, decarbonization, electrification, Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, Smart ICT
Annual savings on the campus through the use of waste heat – e.g., from appliances – equating to annual heat recovery of around 195 MWh
Reduction in CO2 emissions* in a residential building with 300 rental apartments by combining photovoltaics, solar-thermal energy, and heat pumps
*Compared to a gas boiler heating system
Energy requirements of a thermally autonomous residential building with 300 units generated entirely from renewable sources.
ASCR takes a holistic view of the future of energy and is making the system available to experience live in its entirety.Robert Grüneis | General Manager | Aspern Smart City Research Gmbh & Co KG (ASCR)
In aspern Seestadt, we’re bringing end customers and technology providers together to develop an overall supply solution for the future of cities. Our focus is not on specific buildings or the power grid; instead, we always look at the overall system of a district or campus. The result: a smart district that acts as a blueprint for the future of energy.
Only by consistently thinking ‘outside the box’ can we optimize the urban energy system in a way that actually benefits the city and its residents.Robert Grüneis | General Manager | Aspern Smart City Research GmbH & Co KG (ASCR)
Working together, we can now test new technologies and services for our customers that will make the energy supply of the future climate-friendly.Michael Strebl | General Manager | Wien Energie GmbH | <urn:uuid:1692f1f7-4349-4bae-a0ae-5c6c2c5dc03f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://new.siemens.com/global/en/markets/urban-communities/references/aspern-viennas-urban-lakeside.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.895812 | 519 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The concept of a Long Island Rail Road trip to Grand Central Station is no longer a trick, but rather a “real treat” that New York commuters will finally begin to enjoy next year, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul.
On Halloween Sunday, Oct. 31, Hochul rode the first passenger Long Island Rail Road train into a new station deep below Grand Central Terminal — marking a milestone in the long-delayed East Side Access Project set to open to the public next year.
Hochul took a test train with transit and union leaders from Jamaica, Queens, to the new tracks about nine stories below Madison Avenue and 46th Street around 8 a.m. Sunday, and the trip took about 27 minutes.
“This is how I celebrate Halloween, I come out and say this is a real treat for the New York City region and Long Island,” Hochul told reporters during a press conference after alighting. “This is the greatest region on the earth, and it deserves to have the best transportation networks as well.”
The $12 billion transit infrastructure expansion is scheduled to wrap by December 2022, offering a new 350,000 square-foot concourse — a little more than seven football fields big — and four new platforms with eight tracks underneath Grand Central for the LIRR.
The iconic Beaux-Arts train hub has been limited to Metro-North Railroad trains and subways, and LIRR commuters have to detrain at Penn Station or other stations in Brooklyn and Queens.
The new terminal is 140 feet below Park Avenue and straphangers will have to descend 182-foot long high-rise escalators between the concourse and the mezzanine.
Trains come in from the Harold Interlocking — North America’s busiest passenger railroad intersection in Queens — through an East River tunnel at 63rd Street, construction of which started more than 50 years ago — all the way back in 1969 under then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
The project stalled for decades but was revived in the 1990s and construction started on both sides of the East River in 2006.
“People have been talking about East Side Access for generations,” said MTA acting Chairperson and CEO Janno Lieber. “Now it is close to becoming a reality.”
Lieber took over the project when he became the agency’s head of construction and development in 2017.
Earlier this month, the MTA’s 21-member board green-lit the creation of a new subsidiary with fewer than 10 staff to oversee the revenue from 25,000 square-foot of private retail in the space, while unionized LIRR workers will still conduct train operations, according to the board’s monthly meeting documents.
Before Sunday’s ceremonial debut, MTA workers rode the very first test trains through the tubes last week, according to an agency spokesman.
East Side Access promises to increase LIRR capacity going into Midtown Manhattan by 45% and shave off about 40 minutes off commutes roundtrip.
Pre-pandemic, the MTA estimated the new facility would serve some 162,000 riders, but many office buildings in Manhattan’s business district remain largely empty due to more remote working options and a resurgence of COVID fueled by the Delta variant earlier this year.
Coronavirus infections are down to 1.38% across the city, according to the latest data, Hochul predicted that commuters will return in greater numbers by late 2022 thanks to the additional transit option and increasing vaccination rates in the Big Apple, which stand at 67% as of Oct. 31.
“By the time this is done and people see that they can have a much better commuting experience than they had pre-pandemic, that’ll also be an enticement to say ‘I’m going back to my job in Midtown,’” said Hochul. “In a matter of one year, I really believe that there’ll be a dramatic sea change in people’s attitude about where they want to do their work and it will be back in the city.”
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by Maria Spilioupoulou, Liu Yongqiu, Chen Zhanjie
ATHENS, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Recovering from the most severe economic crisis in decades, Greece today is in a better position than ever to become a valuable partner for China, said Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
In a recent exclusive written interview with Xinhua, the prime minster said Greece nowadays is considered an "island of stability" in a region that is experiencing a wave of destabilizing geo-political events.
In terms of both economics and politics, Greece has "greatly improved its credibility vis-a-vis the rest of the world, and it is now unleashing its growth potential," Samaras said.
"So yes, we are now in a much better position -- actually better than ever -- to become a valuable partner for China in our part of the world," he stressed.
The Greek-Chinese bilateral relations have been improving for many years, said the prime minister.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's successful visit to Athens and Crete in June and President Xi Jinping's trip to Rhodes in July boosted the China-Greece strategic partnership, which is established on cultural affinity, friendship, respect and the understanding that the two peoples have been walking down similar historical paths for millennia and have forged compatible identities, said Samaras.
This cultural and psychological background is essential for a positive bilateral relationship to evolve into a strategic one, the prime minister added.
Referring to the economic aspect of bilateral cooperation, Samaras said the Greek government will encourage Chinese involvement in all projects that can help develop Greece into a "gateway" between China and Europe.
"Greece is not just another partner for China. It can well become a strong 'link' between the European Union and China as well as a 'gateway' of commercial and cultural relations between China and Europe," he noted.
"We know that there are some problems for the improvement of commercial ties between China and Europe. But things are improving and as a European leader I am doing my best to help surpass all current problems and all outstanding obstacles between China and Europe," the Greek prime minister said, referring to a recent example of the "constructive role" Greece has played to bring the two sides closer.
A few months ago, with the contribution of Greece which held the Presidency of the European Union Council in the first half of 2014, a foreign trade conflict was avoided over the dispute about imposing anti-dumping measures on Chinese photovoltaic products.
"We strongly believe that Europe and China have a lot to gain by improving their commercial ties based on a balanced approach of honest negotiation and mutual benefits," he added. | <urn:uuid:a61bb562-7287-43b2-8555-1b05ae9b78e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/22/c_133576568.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963113 | 557 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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You can considerably decrease swimming pool heating costs by having a pool cover. Swimming pools lose water in a number of ways, but evaporation is definitely the largest source of water loss.
An automatic retractable swimming pool cover minimizes the evaporation of both outdoor and indoor pools. Covering the pool when it is not in use is the most effective way to reduce the cost of heating the pool.
It's best to use a specially designed cover for the pool. They are made of distinct materials, for example, UV-stabilized polyethylene, vinyl, or polypropylene. They can be opaque or transparent. Covers can even be light or dark in color.
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One of the lowest costs of quilts made specifically for the pool is a bubble (or solar) cover. The vinyl cover consists of a heavier material and has a longer life prospect than bubble covers.
A swimming pool cover will reduce the solar gain role to some level, depending on what type you are using. A transparent bubble cover can reduce the absorption of the solar energy pool by 5% -15%.
A totally opaque cover will reduce by 20% -40%. You need to consider this when choosing a swimming pool cover.
You also need to decide whether you want a manual, semi-automatic, or automatic pool cover. You can yourself pull the cover on and off, folding it and place it somewhere out of the way. | <urn:uuid:d4894d5b-b4ad-4037-9b3d-4733e07fa10e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thespotfood.com/know-about-swimming-pool-covers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.949759 | 296 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Many headaches are trigged by stress and those who suffer from them frequently will know how frustrating they can be. For the unlucky ones who are prone to frequent headaches, everyday activities like sitting in front of a computer at work or even just hearing the phone ring can make make life unbearable.
Hypnosis and other forms of alternative medicine can help with any kind of stress. Pain relief can be achieved through simple but effective deep breathing exercises, muscle relaxation and guided imagery. Calm and peaceful surroundings have been found to help balance the immune systems, change the chemicals released in the brain and make you feel less stressed.
Hypnotherapy works by lowering your blood pressure and easing the tension around your brain. In turn this will make the levels of stress in your system drop and your concentration and memory will improve so you don’t have to push yourself too hard afterwards. On top of the direct benefits of hypnosis, the confidence that hypnotherapy gives you will help you no end the confidence you experience and reducing stress and alleviating headaches. | <urn:uuid:814a7932-5ddf-45f3-a236-71bda77ae8fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/blog/2009/10/22/hypnotherapy-for-severe-headaches-and-migraines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00195-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942226 | 208 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Kansas: Liquor store owners oppose push for grocery stores to sell alcohol
Lawrence Brian Fadden, owner of Parkway Wine & Spirits in Lawrence, says that if a proposed bill to allow grocery and convenience stores to sell wine, liquor and strong beer passes, he'll likely go out of business. But he'll at least be able to find another job.
If many of the thousands of grocery and convenience stores in Kansas get liquor licenses, the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control office will have to hire lots of additional inspectors, he said.
"If I get put out of business, I'd be one of the first ones applying because they're going to need a bunch more agents to handle all these new accounts," Fadden said, adding that they can "barely get around" to visiting the 750 liquor stores in Kansas as it is.
Liquor store owners in Lawrence and elsewhere across the state are worried that House Bill 2556, which had a hearing before the House Commerce Committee last week, could put them out of business and hurt the state's economy by transferring profits to out-of-state corporations. Uncork Kansas, the consortium of grocery and convenience stores (notably Dillons and Hy-Vee) that is pushing the legislation, says the bill will make the state more consumer-friendly, preventing Kansans from having to buy their food and alcohol in separate locations.
In Kansas, a state with a long history of restrictive alcohol laws, grocery and convenience stores are only allowed to sell "cereal malt beverages" or beer containing 3.2 percent alcohol or less. Brewers specifically make the weaker beer for Kansas and the four states (Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah and Minnesota) with similar rules. Under the new proposal, grocery and convenience stores would be able to sell not only "strong" beer but also wine and hard liquor.
"Liquor stores have had it good. They have had a monopoly. They have had the government protecting their industry," said Jessica Lucas, spokeswoman for Uncork Kansas. "But what we're seeing is Kansans saying, 'We're not OK with this. We want the convenience, the choice and the cost savings that come from competition.' Competition is good because the consumer wins."
She argues that the law would help, not hurt, Kansas' economy by keeping consumers from traveling out of state to buy their groceries and alcohol in one place. She also says the legislation protects liquor store owners by not permitting any new liquor licenses to be issued for 10 years. That would allow the owners to sell the licenses if they wanted to get out of business, she said, though opponents worry that grocery and convenience would be the ones buying them. Grocery and convenience stores would be able to start selling regular-strength beer in 2017, wine in 2020 and spirits in 2024.
Alek Joyce, a 22-year-old Kansas University student, says if he wanted to make a gin and tonic, he'd have to get the gin at a liquor store then drive to a grocer to buy the tonic water (liquor stores aren't permitted to sell anything but alcohol and lottery tickets but, under the proposed legislation, would eventually be able to). "It's always seemed kind of backward that the two couldn't be sold in the same place," he said.
Though Joyce does worry about the law's effect on local liquor stores, he believes it is best for the consumer and what the free-market system is all about.
Christian Walter, owner of Myers Retail Liquor in Lawrence, said the law would hurt state tax revenues, by leading to lower alcohol prices, and, in turn, decreased sales tax receipts. He said the law's provision to allow 18-year-olds to sell booze would make it easier for minors to obtain it. And then there's the harm the measure would do the local economy, he added.
"My banker, my accountant, my janitorial staff would lose work. My (nine) employees would be out of jobs," Walter said. "This bill is awful for local business owners and good for the big corporations."
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American, Frenchman win Nobel Prize in physics for Particle control in a quantum worldPublished On: Tue, Oct 9th, 2012 | Physics | By BioNews
Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously thought unattainable.
The Nobel Laureates have opened the door to a new era of experimentation with quantum physics by demonstrating the direct observation of individual quantum particles without destroying them. For single particles of light or matter the laws of classical physics cease to apply and quantum physics takes over. But single particles are not easily isolated from their surrounding environment and they lose their mysterious quantum properties as soon as they interact with the outside world. Thus many seemingly bizarre phenomena predicted by quantum physics could not be directly observed, and researchers could only carry out thought experiments that might in principle manifest these bizarre phenomena.
Through their ingenious laboratory methods Haroche and Wineland together with their research groups have managed to measure and control very fragile quantum states, which were previously thought inaccessible for direct observation. The new methods allow them to examine, control and count the particles.
Their methods have many things in common. David Wineland traps electrically charged atoms, or ions, controlling and measuring them with light, or photons.
Serge Haroche takes the opposite approach: he controls and measures trapped photons, or particles of light, by sending atoms through a trap.
Both Laureates work in the field of quantum optics studying the fundamental interaction between light and matter, a field which has seen considerable progress since the mid-1980s. Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this field of research to take the very first steps towards building a new type of super fast computer based on quantum physics. Perhaps the quantum computer will change our everyday lives in this century in the same radical way as the classical computer did in the last century. The research has also led to the construction of extremely precise clocks that could become the future basis for a new standard of time, with more than hundred-fold greater precision than present-day caesium clocks. | <urn:uuid:c8fb4d0d-2c42-44a2-a4e6-d16212c62aee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.bioscholar.com/2012/10/american-frenchman-win-nobel-prize-physics-particle-control-quantum-world.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00215-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953157 | 431 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Turenscape completes new urban park for Shanghai waterfront
Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai's Huangpu riverfront. The park's constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in a aesthetically pleasing way.
The first challenge was restoring the degraded environment. The water of Huangpu River is highly polluted with a national water quality ranking of Lower Grade V, the lowest grade on a scale of I-V. The second challenge was to improve flood control. A conventional retaining wall would continue to limit accessibility and preclude habitat creation along the water's edge, so an alternative flood control design proposal was necessary.
A linear constructed wetland was designed to create a reinvigorated waterfront as a living machine to treat contaminated water from the Huangpu River. Cascades and terraces are used to oxygenate the nutrient rich water, remove and retain nutrients and reduce suspended sediments while creating pleasant water features. 2,400 cubic meters per day of water can be treated from Lower Grade V to Grade III.
The wetland also acts as a floodable buffer. The terrace design of the wetland alleviates the elevation difference between the city the river, safely reconnecting people to the water's edge. Crops and wetland plants were selected to create an urban farm allowing people to witness seasonal changes. The industrial materials from the site are reconfigured to create artful forms, new paving material for the boardwalk, and shelters.
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The Bee and the Eagle
Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806
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Bee and the Eagle by Alan Forrest
Book DescriptionThis volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.
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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
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Publish Date: 18-Dec-2008
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Books By Author Alan Forrest
War, Demobilization and Memory, Hardback (January 2016)
This volume examines the impact of the wars in the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1830, focusing both on the military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization that occurred immediately at their end, and their long-term legacy and memory.
Waterloo, Hardback (March 2015)
The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.
Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars, Paperback (August 2013)» View all books by Alan Forrest
This book studies the French republican myth that the nation can be adequately defended only by its own citizens.
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Peter H. Wilson is GF Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He co-edits the Studies in European History series, and specialises in early modern German History.
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Even in the thick of a historical tragedy, Tony Blair never seemed like a Shakespearean character.
He’s too rabbity brisk, too doggedly modern. The most proficient spinner since Rumpelstiltskin lacks introspection. The self-described “manipulator” is still in denial about being manipulated.
The Economist’s review of “A Journey,” the new autobiography of the former British prime minister, says it sounds less like Disraeli and Churchill and more like “the memoirs of a transatlantic business tycoon.”
Yet in the section on Iraq, Blair loses his C.E.O. fluency and engages in tortured arguments, including one on how many people really died in the war, and does a Shylock lament.Continue reading the main story
He says he does not regret serving as the voice for W.’s gut when the inexperienced American princeling galloped into war with Iraq. As for “the nightmare that unfolded” — giving the lie to all their faux rationales and glib promises — Tony wants everyone to know he has feelings.
“Do they really suppose I don’t care, don’t feel, don’t regret with every fibre of my being the loss of those who died?” he asks of his critics.
In Iraq, marking the transition to the “post-combat mission” for American troops, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was eloquent with an economy of words.
Asked by a reporter if Iraq would have to be a democratic state for the war to benefit U.S. national security, Gates cut to core: “The problem with this war for, I think, many Americans is that the premise on which we justified going to war proved not to be valid — that is, Saddam having weapons of mass destruction.” He added, candidly: “It will always be clouded by how it began.”
Iraq will be “a work in progress for a long time,” Gates said, and, “how it all weighs in the balance over time, I think remains to be seen.”
Blair writes that he thought he was right and that he and W. rid the world of a tyrant. But he winds up with a bitter anecdote: “I still keep in my desk a letter from an Iraqi woman who came to see me before the war began. She told me of the appalling torture and death her family had experienced having fallen foul of Saddam’s son. She begged me to act. After the fall of Saddam she returned to Iraq. She was murdered by sectarians a few months later. What would she say to me now?”
There is no apology, but Blair sounds like a man with a guilty conscience.
He concedes that the invasion of Iraq was more about symbols than immediate security, about sending “a message of total clarity to the world,” after 9/11, that defying the will of the international community would no longer be tolerated.
In other words, Osama bin Laden had emasculated America, and America had to hit back, and did so against a country that had nothing to do with him or 9/11.
Blair did not want to be W.’s peripheral poodle. He wanted to “stand tall internationally” with Britain’s main ally and not “wet our knickers,” to use a Blair phrase, when the going got tough (or delusional).
Blair fantasized that Saddam might someday give W.M.D. to terrorists. This, even though the dictator didn’t like terrorists because they were impossible to control, and even though, as Blair admits, (the secular) Saddam and (the fundamentalist) Osama were on opposite sides. (When Saudi Arabia felt threatened by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, Osama offered to fight the Iraqi dictator.)
It is criminally naïve, given the billions spent on intelligence, that Blair and W. muffed the postwar planning because they never perceived what Blair now acknowledges as “the true threat”: outside interference by Al Qaeda and Iran. So the reasoning of the man known in England as Phony Tony or Bliar amounts to this: They had to invade Iraq because Saddam could hypothetically hook up with Al Qaeda. But they didn’t properly prepare for the insurgency because they knew that Saddam had no link to Al Qaeda.
He knew Dick Cheney had a grandiose plan to remake the world and no patience for “namby-pamby peacenikery.”
“He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran,” as well as “Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.,” Blair writes of Cheney, adding: “He was for hard, hard power. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. We’re coming after you, so change or be changed.”
The religious Blair fancied himself a conviction politician who had intervened for good in Kosovo and Sierra Leone and would do so again in Iraq. So he did not, as he said others did, “reach for the garlic and crucifixes” when Dick hatched his sulfurous schemes.
If he had challenged W. and Cheney instead of enabling them, Blair might have stopped the farcical rush to war. Instead, he became the midwife for a weaker Iraq that is no longer a counterweight to Iran — which actually is a nuclear threat — and that seems doomed to be run one day by another brutal strongman.
Maybe Blair should have realized the destructive Oedipal path W. was on. At their first meeting at Camp David, W. screened “Meet the Parents.”Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:2f26f862-9665-4747-936b-055042f66baf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00311-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970302 | 1,212 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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14 August 2017
Re-issued as received
Vienna Energy Forum 2017 final report published
VIENNA, 11 August 2017 - The final report of the fifth edition of the Vienna Energy Forum that took place in the capital of Austria in May was published today by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The publication features a summary of the main events attended by 1,650 participants during the Forum, as well as the key messages. The messages highlight the catalytic role of energy for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.
In the foreword to the publication, LI Yong, the Director-General of UNIDO, wrote: "The Vienna Energy Forum 2017 has confirmed that the Sustainable Development Goals are tightly interwoven; none can be achieved without addressing the others. It has also stressed that we need to better steer the course towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. This requires that we all join forces in a common effort towards these goals. In this regard, I am pleased that the event was able to attract these very experts, practitioners and policy-makers who lead the way."
The event was co-organized by UNIDO, the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria (BMEIA), the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).
The final report is available here: Vienna Energy Forum 2017 Report
For more information, please go to: https://www.viennaenergyforum.org/
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Thanks to subcontract funding from the COPD Learn More Breathe Better campaign, the Lung Association talked with and distributed educational information about COPD to attendees at the "National Night Out Against Crime" Festival. Attendees completed pre- and post-surveys to gauge their knowledge of COPD, as well as took a spirometry test provided by the Lung Association.
The Lung Association also had on display a jar of tar, a jar of mucus, and a small model to show what healthy lungs, lungs with cancer, and lungs with emphysema look like. Participants were also allowed to pop a balloon to win a prize. The popping of the balloon represented the loss of air sacs in the lungs when damaged by tobacco smoke and/or other toxins.
We send out our special thanks to American Lung Association in Virginia's Team & Volunteers, as well as the Galax Police Department, who helped make this event a success.
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Ylva Söderfeldt reflects on the history of patient organisations and raises questions about how to redefine the histories of patient activism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the contradictory position of medicine in contemporary society has appeared more clearly than ever. One the one hand, it is now obvious to all of us the influence medical knowledge holds in the public sphere. We have seen how political reactions to warnings and recommendations from medical science came quickly and with tremendous force – whether it was quickly enough, or the right amount and type of force is another question. At the same time, calls to action from climate scientists have gone largely ignored. The same goes not just for the government level, but the sphere of personal preparedness. Clearly, most people across the world were remarkably willing to accept and self-enforce far-reaching restrictions to their personal freedom and daily lives when performed in the name of medical necessity. The same could probably not be said for other types of crises.
On the other hand, the COVID-19 experience also accelerated and made more visible the tendency to increased challenges, questioning, and outright rejection of medical science and regular clinical practice. For decades leading up to this pandemic, doctors have complained that their patients consult internet search engines and show up to the clinic with self-made diagnoses, or even circumvent mainstream medical outlets and knowledge and form alternative communities for unorthodox treatments and contested illness categories. During COVID-19, what had been fringe phenomena – e.g. conspiracy theories of Big Pharma, the state engineering disease, or anti-vaccine sentiments – became widely publicized and popular.
We seem to be at a moment where it is very unclear whether medicine is more powerful than ever – or if its power and authority is severely threatened. It is this ambiguity that inspired me to study patient organizations. I believe that understanding their historical role in shaping our medical landscape holds the key to understanding some of the key aspects of medical power today.
At Uppsala University, I am in the process of setting up a large-scale project called ActDisease to study the emergence and role of patient organizations as central actors in medicine in the 20th century. These organizations include allergics’ organizations that pushed for the acknowledgement of their ailments as somatic illnesses around 1900, diabetics’ associations that helped enable an advanced self-management regimen from the 1930s, and organizations for neurological diseases that coordinated rehabilitation resources in the 1950s. ActDisease seeks to understand how such organizations reshaped medical concepts and roles and in expanding the reach of medical modes of thought.
Previously, patient organizations have been studied in the context of the so-called ‘new social movements’ of the 1960s and 70s. The idea is that identity-driven movements – such as second-wave feminism, the student movement, the gay and lesbian liberation movement, and the disability rights movement – inspired people to organize both politically and in their capacity as patients to push for influence in decision-making processes, protection of personal and civil rights, and de-stigmatization. This is a plausible historical argument. Clearly many of the patient movements that have been studied so far, such as HIV/AIDS or breast cancer patients, are very much connected with other radical social movements of the late 20th century. However, in undertaking this new project, I seek to show that the phenomenon of organized patients as such cannot be explained simply as a result of those historical trends, especially because the first patient groups formed in the 19th century.
Furthermore, the focus on the late 20th century has distorted the larger epistemic framing of the patient organization phenomenon, making it appear more grassroots-based, more subversive, and critical than, I argue, it actually is. In fact, most patient organizations have been eager advocates for medicalization, and they have worked closely with medical establishments and the pharmaceutical industry to achieve better access to care and treatment. A general lack of awareness about this early context, I suggest, has fed into the dichotomy of medical power versus patient rights. In my thinking, this position obfuscates the position of medicine in society today. Through the ActDisease project, I hope to be able to present a new interpretation of the power relations in 20th century medicine.
About the author
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How much does it cost to Soda Blast?
How much does it cost? According to Armstrong, the price varies depending on the length of the vessel. For example, a 30-foot boat might be around $45 per foot, while a 100-foot boat would be around $130 per foot because of the increased beam. “Our average job works out around $35 to $45 per foot,” he says.
Is Soda Blasting better than sandblasting?
Soda blasting is often better for cleaning surfaces, especially when it comes to wood and easily damaged materials. While sandblasting should be used for especially difficult rust or paint removal, soda blasting can be perfect for this process in situations where a lighter blasting is needed.
Will soda blasting remove paint?
Baking Soda Blasting easily removes paint , coatings, grease, oils, gasket material and surface corrosion from a variety of metals, alloys, plastics, wood, masonary and composites without surface damage or distortion. Unlike other media, Bakig Soda does not use friction to remove coatings so there is no heat created.
What do you use for soda blasting?
The abrasive media used for soda blasting is not the baking soda that you buy in the grocery store. Companies such as Armex and Natrium manufacture varieties of sodium bicarbonate specifically for soda blasting . Most formulations of blasting soda have uniform particle sizes between 70 and 270 microns.
Can you rent a soda blaster?
Soda Blaster Rental is best for providing an effective, economical and environmentally superior method for general maintenance and cleaning, paint removal and de-greasing.
Does soda blasting remove mold?
Baking Soda Blasting actually kills mold spores and removes mold growth from virtually any substrate. As in smoke removal , the soda absorbs the odor during the process. Sodablasting for mold removal does not damage the surfaces, walls, wood etc.
Can you soda blast with a regular sandblaster?
While it is possible it is not an ideal situation for two primary reasons. However, while these enhanced features of a soda blast pot are nice, a regular sandblaster can be used for soda blasting . Because sodium bicarbonate shatters on impact, it is much gentler than sandblasting or media blasting .
Can you use regular baking soda in a soda blaster?
Can I use regular baking soda like I see in the grocery store? No. While all baking soda is chemically the same (NAHCO3) only ARMEX is formulated for use as a blast media and only ARMEX is manufactured by ARM & HAMMER™.
What grit is soda blasting?
Soda Blasting involves one of the softer abrasive blasting materials, rating an average 2.4 on the Mohs Scale of mineral hardness (1-10).
Is soda blasting messy?
Yes, soda is very messy . It’s easy enough to cleanup most of the time. Some sweeping and vacing and that gets most of it. Save it and you can make a smokey cake for the new tenant.
Will Walnut blasting remove rust?
Walnut shell blasting is a process which is frequently used to remove rust . It is effective because crushed walnut shells are definitely hard enough to dislodge the rust , but are also soft enough that they will not damage the surface being blasted .
Can you soda blast Chrome?
Soda blasters can be used to remove paint, grease, indelible stains, and caked-on dirt from virtually any surface, including steel, aluminum, wood, sheet metal, brick, concrete, granite, chrome , glass, and even fiberglass.
Will soda blasting etch glass?
It will pit and warp metal, tear up rubber & plastic and etch glass . Soda blasting has none of that. No metal warping, no flash rust, no more masking of glass , chrome and rubber!
What size compressor do I need for soda blasting?
25 to 100 psi
Is soda blasting dangerous?
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No contraception method is completely fail-safe but a new survey has revealed that a concerning number of women have been let down by some of the most effective ones.
A new report by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has underlined the fact that women cannot control fertility through contraception alone.
Its data reveals that one in four women who have an abortion at its clinics in 2016 were either using a method of hormonal contraception, such as the pill, patch or a ring, or a long-acting reversible contraception method such as injections, implants, IUD or IUS.
Over half (51.2 per cent) were using at least one form of contraception.
The report raises concerns that although clearly no method of contraception is 100 per cent effective, some family planning initiatives "frequently imply that abortion can always be avoided through the use of contraception".
But it says that is simply not the case, with nine in every hundred women using the UK's most effective contraceptive, the pill, becoming pregnant.
The figures say...
- Nine in every 100 women using the pill
Six in every 100 using the contraceptive injection
One in every 100 using the IUD (copper coil)
...will get pregnant each year in the UK
The data released this week by the BPAS shows that a quarter (24.1 per cent) of 60,592 women who had an abortion at its clinics were using one of the above.
The BPAS also revealed that the use of hormonal contraceptives is a factor in delaying identification of pregnancy, which means they will arrive for an abortion much later into the pregnancy.
Chief executive Ann Furedi said: "“The answer to unsafe abortion is not contraception, it is safe abortion.
"When you encourage women to use contraception, you give them the sense that they can control their fertility – but if you do not provide safe abortion services when that contraception fails you are doing them a great disservice.
"Our data shows women cannot control their fertility through contraception alone, even when they are using some of the most effective methods.
"Family planning is contraception and abortion.
"Abortion is birth control that women need when their regular method lets them down.”
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Firstfruits Are the Best
In His Presence: Leviticus 22:17-25
Whenever you give God your firstfruits, you not only give Him the first, you give Him the best. In Malachi 1 the Israelites brought God the worst of their leftovers for their sacrifices—the sick, blind, and lame animals. Sometimes that is what we bring God—our leftover time, energy, and devotion. We come to God when we’re not at our peak.
The story of Cain and Abel serves as a reminder that God is not pleased with those who do not offer firstfruits. “Abel, on his part also brought the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard” (Genesis 4:4-5). Cain wound up killing his brother over this incident. Abel brought God the best because he believed God desired and deserved the best. By his offering, Cain showed that he thought God only deserved something, not the best.
If we’re not worshiping God by bringing Him our firstfruits, we are likely giving our firstfruits to something else. What gets your best time and your undivided attention? You give those to whatever is your priority.
Regarding money, “firstfruits” refers to the tithe, or the tenth. You must bring the whole tithe before you bring an offering. Deuteronomy 14:23 says we are to give the tithe “that [we] may learn to fear the Lord.” Whenever we give the tenth first, we’re honoring God as God.
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God wants the prime cut of your life; He doesn’t want the leftovers.
Rather than viewing the cross as an historical event that will take us to heaven, we ought to view it as a current event containing everything we need to bring heaven to bear on earth.
In The Power of the Cross, Tony Evans carefully and pastorally applies the cross of Christ to life today. In three parts, he considers:
• What makes Christ unique; how Old Testament prophecy and typology looked ahead to Him; and how His humiliation, death and resurrection sets Him apart as Lord
• What was accomplished on the cross for us, how it is to be the centerpiece of our lives, and how it's a source of authority for us
• What is the power of the cross and the stability it provides, deliverance it offers, the power of its ongoing remembrance, and more
The cross is the hinge of history. How much more, then, is it the hinge of your life? It gained more for you than you may realize; do not make the grave error of overlooking it. As a thank you for your gift of any amount, we’ll get this brand new book, The Power of the Cross, out to you right away. | <urn:uuid:c146066a-db07-4085-bc3c-45c123fde25b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/alternative-view-with-dr-tony-evans/alternative-view-february-28.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00121-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95937 | 618 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Jesus said, “He that is not with Me, is against Me.” (Matthew 12:30).
William B. Travis made his mark in history when he drew his sword and placed that line in the sand of the Alamo courtyard. Those who crossed the line walked out of anonymity into renown, each one becoming part of an ongoing legend.
Jesus drew a line in the sand when He said, “He that is not with Me, is against Me.” He set it in cement when He added, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father but by Me.”
As one preacher said, “Christ is not one of many ways to God, nor is he the best of several ways. He is the only way.” Christ is the way unchanging; He is the truth infallible; He is the life everlasting. Jesus is the way that you might be saved. He is the truth that you might be sure. He is the life that you might be satisfied. Have you stepped across that line in the sand?
We are told in Scripture that Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient unto death on the cross. For this reason God highly exalted Him, and gave Him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
The Bible says, “There is salvation in no other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” There is only one name that opens heaven’s doors and God’s heart – the name of Jesus. There is only one name that breaks the power of sin and sets the captive free – the name of Jesus. There is only one name worthy of all praise, and deserving of your allegiance – the name of Jesus.
Far from being narrow and unfair – this is the most generous and fairest of all possible solutions. God did not leave us to ourselves to find a way back to Him – for who among us knows where God is that we could first find Him for ourselves and then chart the path for all others to follow?
God alone knows where He is. God alone knows where we are. And God alone knows what it takes for us to return to Him. The Bible says that God “longs for all to be saved and to understand this truth: That God is on one side and all the people on the other side, and Christ Jesus, himself man, is between them to bring them together, by giving his life for all mankind.”
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“With great power comes great responsibility”
This fits correctly for Civil servants (IAS/IPS officers ).No profession stands in front of civil services. It give you power, fame, respect and everything which anyone needs to live best life. As civil servants(IAS,IPS Officers etc) get best they are expected to do best for society.
For them work is considered not as a burden but as an opportunity to serve and constructively contribute to society.Public are not to be underestimated as fools.As Abraham Lincoln said,
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Civil servants must follow certain norms, rule and regulation to produce best outcome.That is why UPSC added new topic in syllabus Ethics, integrity and aptitude .
What is Ethics ?
In simple words Ethics tells us how to act rightly. Ethics aims at defining terms like right and wrong ,good and bad.Being ethical is not the same as doing “whatever society accepts ”because standards of behavior in society can deviate from what is ethical.Administrator would ensure that highest standards of quality in administrative decisions and actions and would not compromise with standards because of convenience or complacency.
In this Article I am going to put some points which must be follow to become good IAS officer . I will tell you what are the quality of IAS Officers.IAS/IPS officers are expected to honour public trust and not violate it.
So from the above discussion, Ethics and integrity in work is necessary for civil servants .Therefore following are the principles on which civil servants(IAS/IPS/IFS OFFICERS etc) are supposed to discharge their duties and responsibility.
1.Legal and rational action
Civil servants must follow the law and rules to govern and guide.
2.Responsibility and accountability
An administrator should hold himself morally responsible for his actions and should be willing to be held accountable.
3. Commitment for work
According to swami vivekananda ‘every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship.
4.Ensuring excellence in work
An administrator would ensure the highest standard of quality in administrative decision and action.
5.Responsiveness and resilience
He should adopt to environmental transformation and yet sustain the ethical norms of conduct.
6.Principle of utilitarianism
An administrator should ensure the his decision should lead to the greatest good of the greatest number.
7.Maximum of Compassion
A civil servant without violating the prescribed law and rules would demonstrate compassion for the poor, the disabled and the weak.
A civil servant should keep in view the impact of his action on his nations strength and prestige.
9.Principle of justice
Administrators must observe principles of equality, equity, fairness, impartiality and objectivity.
Civil servants will make decisions in a transparent manner.
11.Maximum of integrity
An administrator would undertake an administrative action on the basis of honesty and not use his power, position, and discretion to serve his personal interest.
What do you think ? Do you have any other points in your mind if yes then please share your valuable points with us...
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How to Start a Roller Derby League
A Checklist by WFTDA
Starting a roller derby league is like starting a small business. It will take time, hard work and perseverance, but the love of the sport has spurred many people around the world to successfully pursue that dream. Before you start recruiting your own team, check if there is an existing league nearby (WFTDA Member Leagues). If you want to play roller derby, it’s usually much easier to do it by joining an established league than by starting one from scratch. However, if you don’t have a within driving distance, you might consider starting a new league in your town.
If you’re striking out on your own, here are some key steps in the process:
- Recruit skaters and officials. Post recruitment fliers in gyms, community centers, bars and other hot spots in your town. Use social networking or classified ads to spread the word. About 10-20 skaters and 1-3 refs will get you off to a good start.
- Download the The Rules of Flat Track Roller Derby and Officiating Resources.
- Consult the WFTDA Risk Management Guidelines for information on required safety gear and other requirements.
- Start skating! Most leagues start by skating at open skate sessions or doing other public skating as a group. If there is room, you can start working on basic skating skills. See WFTDA’s “This is Roller Derby” Beginner Curriculum and supplemental resources for guidance for new participants entering the sport of flat track roller derby.
- Obtain private practice space. This is often the biggest hurdle that leagues face, but the beauty of flat-track roller derby is that it can be played anywhere, so don’t rule out parking lots, recreation centers, parks, or other underutilized spaces.
- Select a business structure. Many leagues form non-profit corporations, but you’ll need to do some research to find what structure works best for you. Check your state’s Secretary of State website for help with this decision.
- Create Bylaws and a policy manual. Talk to existing leagues and review derby forums for tips and ideas on governance structures. Some policies to consider:
- Practice attendance
- Leadership positions and terms
- Code of conduct
- Non-compete agreements
- Probationary period for new skaters
- Grievance and conflict resolution
- Primary health insurance requirements
- Depending on your location, you may need to arrange insurance for your league and skaters that provides liability and supplemental injury coverage for roller derby activities. WFTDA Insurance offers both liability and medical injury policies to flat track roller derby leagues in North America. Refer to the requirements and regulations in your country.
- Start scrimmaging! Starting to play roller derby is the most important thing to getting your league under way.
- Officials are essential! Make sure to recruit and train both skating and non-skating officials as part of your league.
- Separate into teams and elect or identify captains.
- Develop a logo and create social media accounts to start spreading the word about your new league.
- Apply for WFTDA Membership (or the derby organization that best fits your league).
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1. Life is short, Art
long, Experience not easily obtained, Judgment difficult, and therefore it is
necessary, that a Student not only exercise himself in considering several
Figures, but also that he diligently read the writings of others who have
treated rationally of this Science, and make it his business to find out the
true natural causes of things by experiments, to know the certain places and
processions of the Planets and Fixed Stars, Constellations, etc., but above all
to be a passionate lover of truth.
2. The Principles of Art are three: Reason, Sense, and Experience, but the Principles of Operations four, viz.: The Planets, The Parts of Heaven, The Fixed Stars, and the Site or Position of all those in respect of one another.
3. There are some things perfectly known, as the Circle of Ascension; some in a competent measure, as the Revolution of the Sun; some may be known although they yet are not, as the Revolution of the Superiors; some things fall under knowledge, yet cannot be exactly known, as the precise Ingress of the Sun into the Equinoctial point; some are neither known, nor can be known, as the complete commixtures and distinct virtues of the Stars.
4. It is much worse for an Artist to conceive he knows those things which he is ignorant of, than to be ignorant of those thing which he ought to know.
5. Mean learning with an excellent judgement, avails more than a mean judgement with the greatest learning, yet is judgement with the greatest learning, yet is judgement very much assisted and perfected by learning; but everything prospers better, and is far more easily perfected that has nature for its guide and favourable stars, than that which is attempted by human industry though never so diligent.
6. He that has too great a conceit of himself will be apt to fall into many errors in his judgement; yet on the other side, he that is too diffident, is not fit for this Science.
7. He that would truly promote Art must insist as much on the confutation of false opinions delivered by others, as in the declaration or truth.
8. An Astrologer is so far only true and honest, as he depends in his conjectures on principles of natural philosophy, and since those Arts which are inherent in their proper subjects, cannot promise any certainty concerning matters to come, the Astrologer ought never to pronounce anything absolutely or peremptorily of future contingencies.
9. Truths of themselves are to be desired, for Science itself is a certain good, now the expectation of future good very much delight us, and on the contrary, when future evils are foreseen, we may either avoid them, mitigate them, or at least bear them more contentedly.
10. Heaven is the instrument of the most High God, whereby he acts upon, and governs inferior things.
11. He that asserts things that can never be proved by experience is deceived and ambitious, but thus it always happens, those that are most ignorant of Art delights to boast of doing things different or wonderful.
12. It is all one as to promoting of Art, etc., and the knowledge thereof, either from nativities known, to predict what shall happen, or after accidents have happened, to discover the Nativities before unknown which are thereby rectified, but as to vulgar opinion, the first way far exceeds the last.
13. He that goes about to destroy Art, is far worse than he that is unskilled in it, for his mind is full of malice and idleness as well as ignorance.
14. Men may be said almost to be compelled by the Stars, even in voluntary actions, by means of their corrupt affections and ignorance.
15. Always deliver judgements from the Stars in general terms, or if thou dost otherwise let it be when thou hast very evident testimonies and in great and weighty matters.
16. We ought not to use arguments or tedious discourses in giving judgement, much less flatteries, but only to pronounce what is known by experience and firm reason.
17. A main reason why events are so rarely foretold by Astrologers, is because the Art is yet but imperfectly discovered, for hitherto those that have been most excellent in it, being commonly old persons, have despaired to live to see the fortunes of children newly-born, and the Nativities of persons grown up, being uncertain, they scarce thought them worth so much labour.
18. When true genitures exactly taken in accidents prove false or absurd, and not agreeable to the things signifies, they are to be accounted monstrous, and are to be avoided as anatomists do monstrous bodies in their dissections; for they overthrow Art.
19. Generals are to be gathered from Singulars, and Singulars from Generals, and an Artist ought always to learn to distinguish between that which is by itself, and that which is only by accident.
20. The strength and efficacy of Fixed Stars is to be considered from their magnitude, their splendours, their natures or properties, their nearness to the Ecliptic, their place in the World, their multitude, their first oriental appearance, the purity of their place, the similitude or agreement of the body or rays of a Planet with them and their circle of position.
21. The Light of the Time is the Sun in the day, and morning twilight; and the Moon in the night when she is above the Earth, and in her morning rising; so that sometimes their may be two Lights of Time, sometimes it so happens that there is none.
22. When a Planet is within five degrees of the cusp of any house, it shall be accounted to have virtue in that house though actually posited behind the cusp in another house.
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I dont believe it would pay nowadays to pursue the French language
for snob appeal; its not there anymore. But there are other
compelling reasons for learning French. A large part of the worlds
truly great literature is written in French and learning French is
the key to participating in this literature. Also, French is a beautiful
language for its own sake; it is a joy to hear it spoken or sung well.
French is also a key to enjoying the many beautiful regions of France
as well as its great cuisine.
As the following section of this book suggests, France has been an
important part of my life and that of Leticias. Together we
have enjoyed attending four of Frances regional universities,
and we have enjoyed life in our Château de Courcelles-sur-Vesle,
as well as living in Paris.
Gîte of Madame Levêque
Leticia and I arrived in France the first time together, anxiously
awaiting the total French experience. We started looking
for a place in the countryside not too far from Tours, where we would
Our first lead came from the Vicomptess de Bonaval. She is the gracious
wife of an authentic noble who has opened her château to paying
visitors, using the proceeds for restoration and upkeep of the beautiful
edifice and its spacious grounds, moat and lake. We chanced to stay
at her château on our way from Paris south to Lyons. During
one of our very nice discussions with her, she mentioned we should
look into the possibility of the Gîte de la Manoir de la Gatinière,
which was owned by the area director of tourism.
We thought no more about it but when we arrived in Tours a couple
of months later, we saw advertised a Gîte de la Manoir de la
Gatinière which was available for renting by Madame Levêque-Mirgan,
located in the country near Tours. Thus commenced our acquaintance
with Madame Levêque.
Our first telephone call to Madame Levêque made it clear that
we had found an extraordinary individual. She dominated the conversation
as she did subsequent ones as well. She wanted to know about us, where
we were from and what we were like. She in turn described all the
loving attention she and her Renaissance sons had put into the restoration
of the manoir itself and also what a truly special gîte they
had. The first step in consideration of our staying at the gîte
was to come and visit at a time when there was no one there. She would
never disturb an occupant! The second step was to pay a formal call
at her manoir, receive a tour and meet her Renaissance sons.
We were very busy at the time and were having a terrible time with
our car. This made it difficult to set and keep appointments, so we
tried to shortcut the procedure; in the end we had to make three trips
to her country manoir.
Our first trip involved a short but delightful drive through the country
and we were impressed with what we saw when we arrived. Particularly
moving were the candles in the little chapel at the far end of the
manoir. It was a showpiece.
She told us that she had been headmistress at an English school, that
the war (she didnt say which one) had deprived her of her husband,
and that she had been sad ever since. But that she was not to be pitied;
she was strong and she was happy with her memories, or something to
The Son of Madame Levêque
She said her sons were truly Renaissance men, particularly her oldest
who was an artist, musician, lawyer, and student of history! The climax
of our meeting came when we were to meet her son. She thought he would
be in the garden or in his library. It turned out he was upstairs
in the library. He came down the stairs with gracious dignity, a handsome
man in his loose-fitting silk blouse. He broadly suggested that if
we stayed at the gîte he would show us his harpsichord, which
The gîte itself was a little building next to the driveway,
not special on its own. The way it was presented was special. When
we finished visiting the gîte, I asked Leticia if she wanted
to rent it. She responded, How could we do anything else?
I asked her how she liked the Renaissance, gay son and she replied,
Well, what can I say? Of course, he is very handsome.
At that time I was equally charmed. How could we be so lucky to find
such a perfect situation?
During our interview, I had asked what the rent was. Madame Levêque
said It is really nothing. For the months that you would be
here (autumn), I am charging the same amount per month as I charged
for one week during the summer. I persisted in asking how much
that was, and she said 1,200 francs. So I said, Then for us
the rent would be 1,200 francs per month? and she said, Yes.
Twelve hundred francs was equal to about $250 per month, which was
about the going rate for small apartments in the country during off-season
months. Of course, all the utilities had to be paid in addition.
The Contract with Madame Levêque
Then another meeting would be needed to sign the contractshe
assured us it would all be very legal since her son was an attorney.
After all, there was no hurry since we wouldnt move in for six
weeks. When we returned the following week to sign the contract, she
carefully checked her schedule and said, Oh, by the way, I have
rented the gîte for two weeks during the time you wanted it
so you have to move out during that period. We were so sold
that we accepted this inconvenience. Then she told us more about her
house, how important it was, and how her Renaissance sons had contributed
so mightily. She kept saying that obviously we were very busy and
she wouldnt take more of our time than necessary. She handed
me a two-page contract (handwritten in French) and a pen showing me
where to sign.
I had a premonition that I was being rushed and instinctively said
I would take the contract with me to read and mail it to her. She
said, Dont hesitate about this matter because my phone
is ringing every day and the only way I can save the gîte for
you is with the contract signed. I told her we wanted the gîte.
Since we didnt want to make another trip and we trusted her
explicitly, we left a deposit of 1,200 francs, the amount she requested.
It seemed reasonable since it was a little less than a months
That night I deciphered her handwritten contract. At first, I couldnt
believe it; but it was apparent that instead of a contract for two
months, she had written the contract for two and a half weeks. Instead
of 1200F/month, she had written 900F/week. There were several other
clauses that could be sticklers. There was the implication that, in
the absence of any other agreement, the rent would continue at 900F/weekabout
three times the going rate. Other clauses suggested further deposits
on furniture inventory before moving in. All in all, it was quite
a different contract in French than the very clear understanding we
had previously had in her perfect English. We could have easily afforded
whatever she charged but we didnt like being tricked so we didnt
sign the contract.
When I questioned her the next day, she said, Any misunderstanding
was on your part. She also added that she would return our deposit
as soon as someone rented the gîte and that was that.
The gîte didnt even have a bathtub so it wasnt all
that desirable after all.
She made the business affair quite over complicated but she did put
on a terrific act for us. Her act was so good that it was probably
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Dehumidification Helps Provide Inviting Atmosphere
According to president and ceo Michael Winfield, the resort was originally conceived in the early 1900s. It was already considered an ideal location by Bermuda natives and visitors alike as a great spot to bask in the sun along its ample sandy beaches.
Its attractions include snorkeling, reef or deep-sea fishing, windsurfing, and scuba diving along one of five area beaches. Cambridge Beaches is also five minutes away from championship golf at Port Royal; resort guests have access to private and public courses. There are also tennis courts and sailing, and a short ferry ride takes vacation shoppers to nearby Hamilton.
Winfield, who has overseen the operation of Cambridge Beaches for nearly 20 years, said the resort started as a cottage community because that was the desired environment for resorts of the era, as opposed to the high-rise layout of many modern resorts.
Many North American visitors perceive Bermuda as having cold winters. The reality is that Ber-muda, a subtropical island, has balmy, spring-like temperatures in the winter but there are occasional days of wind/rain.
Winfield said the resort needed a year-round structure that gave a virtual weather guarantee so that guests could find themselves in a pampering environment even on the odd bad day. So in the mid- 1990s, management decided to create a new facility, the Aquarium Baths & Ocean Spa.
10,000-Sq-Ft ‘Cottage’John Kaufmann of Bermuda’s Tranquillity Studio Ltd. was selected for the task of designing and engineering the facility. As senior architect, it was his duty to create a structure measuring approximately 10,000 sq ft while still maintaining a cottage ambience.
As a result, Kaufmann em-ployed certain architectural techniques to fool the eye as to the facility’s sheer size and also create an all-weather effect throughout the building. Kaufmann included a number of aquatic features such as a Roman-style indoor pool, private whirlpools, and an exercise pool to swim against different current speeds.
With an abundance of aquatic activities throughout the facility, Kaufmann saw a need to install a dehumidification system to prevent excessive moisture buildup often associated with enclosed pool areas. So after some initial research into dehumidification systems, he discovered that a local Bermuda installer was familiar with the same company he was already leaning toward — Heat Recovery Technology, Inc., and its dehumidification system.
The aquatic features of the new facility were situated on two levels: the main floor, which includes the pools, solarium, and fitness center; and a lower spa level that houses a variety of mineral baths, whirlpools, and other relaxation treatments. The challenge facing Kaufmann was to design air distribution for the dehumidification system to work on both levels with equal efficiency.
Additionally, the upper level that housed the pools has a retractable roof that would remain open, weather permitting.
Keep the ViewKaufmann decided to install a PoolPak Model AW3500 for the main level for humidity control. According to the manufacturer, this model has a capacity of removing 59 lb of moisture/hr at 82°F/60% rh.
Kaufmann felt it had ample size to handle all the pools when the sunroof was closed. Total environmental control was critical to the success of the new building for a number of reasons.
“When we designed [the facility], we wanted a lot of glass, in the ceiling and walls extensively, to give the feel of being outdoors,” said Winfield. “The last thing we wanted was to have those windows, with some of the most spectacular views of Bermuda, fogged up from humidity.”
Also important was the comfort of guests. With the solarium located off of the main pool, guests would naturally be expected to lounge and enjoy the view. Therefore, it was necessary to maintain a constant temperature of about 82°, with low humidity, to provide optimal comfort.
Humidity control also acts to prevent corrosive condensation problems associated with indoor pools, such as mildew, rust, concrete percolation, and paint blistering.
Remove HumidityKaufmann also had to be concerned with the lack of ventilation in the facility’s lower level where various spa treatments took place, including the use of saunas and mineral baths. Because this area was located below ground level with no natural ventilation, temperature and humidity control had to be in operation at all times. For this area, he opted to install two smaller Model HCD150s, designed to remove 15.5 lb of moisture/hr, allowing for a separate environment control system on this level.
In Kaufmann’s opinion, many buildings are kept too cool, especially in warmer climates such as Bermuda, because air conditioners are on full time and at temperatures set for uncomfortable levels that do not promote moisture removal. “The best way to maintain a comfortable temperature is to remove humidity,” he said.
Kaufmann added that it makes sense to install a dehumidification system rather than depend on straight air conditioning or other means for comfort in an indoor pool environment.
Winfield has seen places without dehumidification systems, where “You can’t see out the windows because of the condensation, and the strong smell of chlorine mixed with the heat of a sauna” is enough to bring a person to their knees.
“I really like the [units’] ability to bring humidity down and the fact that a reheat condenser uses the same energy from the dehumidification process to return warmth to pool water or air space,” Kaufmann said. Although it rarely gets cold in the subtropical climate, there are still times when the units can return pool water to a desired temperature, even if the surrounding air is already at a suitable level.
“The most important aspect of these units, short of energy savings, is that they accomplish [humidity removal] in the most economical way for both cost and design concerns,” said Kaufmann.
Cambridge Beaches has received several awards over the years as an exclusive, world-class cottage colony resort, including the 1998 “World’s Best” hotel award from Travel & Leisure magazine; “Best of the Best in Bermuda” by Harper’s Hideaway Report; and it was recently ranked fifth of the Top 10 Resort Spas worldwide in the Condé Nast Traveler’s “Reader’s Choice Poll.” “With the addition of the new facility, we’re now a total year-round resort as opposed to an in-season one,” said Winfield. “We needed to diminish the false impression that it gets cold here in the wintertime. Having the facility has helped.”
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Hey, I hope that you are doing well? To be honest, have you ever noticed yourself running to the pantry when you are upset or bored? I am addicted to food, I can’t stop over-eating, and I am a chronic emotional over-eater. Does this sound like you?
Emotional Eating refers to eating in response to emotions and feelings other than hunger.
When food is used as a way for satisfying feelings instead of hunger is termed Emotional Eating. This sort of Eating is termed harmful as it results in a host of weight-related health problems.
Moreover, diabetes, high blood pressure, and fatigue are other instances. The examples prove how your body pays for it. Signs that you are an emotional eater-
- Changed eating habits
- Eating when you are full
- Eating to avoid dealing with a stressful situation
Stress Eating is bad or not?
After a stressful day, when you look for ice cream in the freezer to cool your emotions, it can be referred to as “stress-eating,” but Emotional-Eating suits you best.
Using food to cope with emotions is our basic learned behavior. No doubt that stress-eating is bad for you.
It is not bad- Humans are emotional creatures. A brain inside our head is hardwired to feel a range of complex or uncomfortable situations. It depends on the thoughts traveling through our brain synapses. So, how can we think that eating without emotions is possible?
Stress eating is ok as it is an acceptable way to cope with intense or uncomfortable situations.
Why is it harmful? – Stressful Eating increases the risk of obesity and other diseases. 5 demerits are listed below.
- May promote excess body fat
- May disrupt hunger regulation
- Impair brain functions
- Causes excessive gas and bloating
- It makes you tired or sluggish.
Things to do for avoiding it-
Snacking is a way to entertain ourselves. I repeat away, not a specific option for getting entertained. A list of other activities is also available that can lift our spirits. It is advisable to try them next time you feel bored.
- Call a friend– A good chat with a good buddy is capable of making you stress-free. Besides stress, you can share the good news and career objectives.
- Cleaning the room: The job will make you and your family members happy. A drawer, shampoo bottle in the bathroom and, old clothes in the wardrobe are some instances to be preferred.
- Go to walk with your pet or dear one– Increasing your step count for the day can be a great go-to when you are bored. Besides, a great way to the pet’s therapy.
- Execute your healthy eating plan for the week– Planning helps to throw the strategies together at the right time. You can prepare a shopping list, portion out healthy snacks, and draw up a menu.
- Books are your best friend- A book helps to improve your outlook by exploring a topic like mindful Eating.
- Maintain a balance between workout and listening to music– Pounding out a few mills on the treadmill while listening to music helps to make your workout fly.
- Becoming a volunteer for helping someone gives inner peace and satisfaction- The task of helping makes us feel good. Besides, it makes ourselves, and others feel proud of us.
- Take on a new hobby- Learning a new skill exercises our brain, gives us an idea to share at our next party, and increases self-esteem.
- Take a class- It’s good to learn something new at every stage. The class, besides improving your skill-set, provides an opportunity to connect with new friends and people. For instance, you can learn painting, a foreign language, or cooking.
- Inspirational quotes are to be noted for preparing your own. An inspirational quote by Mahatma Gandhi-‘Positive affirmations hit the pleasure centers of the brain’.
5 Strategies that help to stop stress eating-
The food you preferred for making you feel good can make you feel worse. Here are 5 strategies for making sure that your emotions don’t turn into diet damage in the long run.
- Get down to the root cause- A bad day at work or a fight with a friend are short-term issues. Stress eating can stem from issues like chronic stress, depression, and other more significant issues.
If these apply, it can be solved by counseling, stress management, exercise, and other techniques. Before going for it, you are recommended to address the true source of it.
- Ask, why are you eating? – It’s better to pause and ask yourself, are you hungry? Mindless Eating is easy, but by asking such questions, you recognize your motivation.
- Swap out your worst snacks- I bet that if you were hungry, you would eat the food that you hate the most. It is advisable to keep frozen berries ready. They can easily be thrown into a blender for making a healthy sorbet.
This is a great crunchy option to fill you up with protein and fiber.
- Choose food that fights stress- Have you ever noticed why tea is offered in emotional situations? It often contains antioxidants for reducing stress levels. The other suggested products are- dark chocolate, whole grains, and nuts.
- Make emergency packages- Emergency snack packages are your healthy snack options on an ongoing basis. The package contains- nuts, popcorn, or sliced veggies.
Beyond this, if you require any medical help, feel free to go for it. Your doctor will solve the issues with a full treatment plan.
Stress eating affects both sexes. It may be caused by a number of factors that include- stress, hormonal changes, or mixed hunger cues. Rather than eating, regular exercise is the best way to relieve stress. Regular exercise positively affects your mood by relieving anger, tension, depression, and anxiety that go hand in hand with stress.
Finally, Emotional Eating doesn’t heal emotional issues. Eat to fuel your body, not to feed your emotions.
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Tired yet of all the headlines and debate about job “outsourcing”? If not, chew on this:
As many petitions have been certified so far this year — seven — as in all of 2011 to provide assistance to local workers whose jobs have been sent abroad.
To be sure, we’re talking about just a handful of Capital Region companies laying off employees and moving work overseas. But the number shows that outsourcing, also called offshoring, isn’t merely a 1990s cost-containment strategy that has resurfaced as a cudgel in the Romney and Obama presidential campaigns.
Indeed, the practice is as current as Albany International Corp. shifting production of corrugator belts to a plant in Mexico, shutting down a Menands manufacturing line in January and laying off 28 workers. Or WellPoint Inc., parent of Empire BlueCross BlueShield, planning to close a call center at Corporate Woods in Albany by year’s end — laying off 72 — because an outside vendor has been hired and will do the work from India.
In all, the shifts — including outsourcing at three other Albany-area WellPoint offices, at LexisNexis in Albany and at GlaxoSmithKline in Greene County — will affect a couple hundred workers. But thanks to the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program, all will be eligible for help to get back on their feet.
That’s where the certified petitions enter the picture.
When a company cuts workers or reduces their pay or hours due to the impact of imports, or if work once done domestically is moved overseas, a petition for Trade Adjustment Assistance can be filed with the U.S. Department of Labor by the affected workers, their employer, their union or a state labor official. An investigator will weigh data collected in the case against qualifying criteria, then decide whether to certify the workers for TAA benefits, which can include skills retraining, income support, job search and moving allowances and help with health insurance premiums.
Workers apply individually for the benefits through a state Labor Department workforce program — in New York, a One-Stop Career Center.
The program, which dates to 1974, has been amended a couple of times, with the most recent changes expanding coverage to service-sector workers and adding to the list of countries on the receiving end of the outsourced jobs.
Nationally, 1,115 petitions were certified under TAA in fiscal 2011, covering more than 98,000 workers. Those totals included 8,900 workers in New York.
Locally, the seven petitions filed and certified this year through July 3 match the total for all of 2011, according to a searchable online database maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. In 2010, three local petitions were filed and certified; in 2009, six petitions were filed, but one was denied and one was withdrawn before a decision was rendered.
“They think they’re done,” local One-Stop staff report hearing from TAA-certified workers whose jobs have gone overseas, said Leo Rosales, spokesman for the state Labor Department. The program, though, becomes “a life-saver” because it gives them “an opportunity to transition to new jobs and emerging sectors of the economy.” Rosales said the Capital Region One-Stop centers worked with 27 TAA beneficiaries last year, 38 in 2010 and 99 in 2009.
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August 4, 2022
Businesses have used signs to help direct customers to (and through) their doors for hundreds of years for a reason. No matter the culture or time period, outdoor displays have proven to be an effective way to grab attention and inspire action. For those looking to understand the power of this essential promotional tactic, this article provides an in-depth exploration of outdoor retail signage, including recent ROI statistics, the latest advances in signage tech, and so much more.
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Outdoor retail signage is a public, open-air display used by consumer brands to advertise their goods and services. From roadside billboards to augmented reality (AR) displays, outdoor signage has become a staple marketing channel for many retail businesses due to its ability to significantly influence consumer behavior. According to Statista, retail has the second-highest out-of-home (OOH) advertising spend across all sectors, dedicating over 722 million dollars to this channel in 2021 alone.
The origins of exterior retail signage go back to the Greeks, the first known civilization to use signs to facilitate trade. The Romans would pick up where the Greeks left off, introducing, among other things, the famous red and white barber pole. But this would prove to be just the beginning of many innovations to come, as usage of signs would continue to evolve and spread throughout Europe over the coming centuries.
Outdoor signage technology has taken a giant leap forward in the last few decades. First came the introduction of digital signage technology, which gave businesses far more creative control and adaptability regarding signage content. Large, durable, high-resolution displays and centralized content management systems enable brands to continually refresh their outdoor advertising creative.
More recently, augmented reality (AR) and mobile device adoption have brought on another paradigm shift, as this technology empowers brands to reach unprecedented levels of customer engagement. AR enables retailers to create dynamic and engaging outdoor signage that they can use for everything from testing promotions to providing immersive brand experiences.
CVS combined the power of mobile with tech-forward signage for its award-willing Beauty Mark campaign. In response to growing awareness of the detrimental effects unrealistic beauty standards have on the health and happiness of many women, the retail giant decided to launch a campaign that pushed the beauty industry towards “healthier representations of women.”
The campaign's goal was to inspire women to share unedited photos of themselves on social media with the #BeautyUnaltered to normalize the celebration of authentic female beauty in American culture. These images were then proudly displayed on massive digital signage in Times Square that refreshed every few seconds — sending a clear message to thousands of onlookers that CVS stood for a new kind of beauty standard.
The campaign’s results were remarkable. In total, Beauty Mark generated 3.6B impressions, over 15M in shared social content reach, and 1700 earned media placements. It also prompted 11 major beauty brands to increase transparency in their marketing, boosted CVS’s average daily sales, and increased shopping frequency among aware consumers by 50%. Overall, the initiative was a massive success, providing an example of how tech-forward outdoor signage (combined with the right message) can more than move the needle for retail businesses.
The first goal of any advertising strategy is to increase awareness of a business among its target audience, and that’s exactly what tech-forward outdoor signage does. A 2022 Yodeck survey of 100 US retailer business owners found that 90% believe digital signage enhances retail brand recognition. The study also indicated that nearly half of that 90% strongly affirm digital signage's impact on consumer brand awareness.
As for cost, outdoor signage stacks up well against all other alternatives. A 2022 report by Solomon Partners and OAAA found that outdoor signage outperformed all other major advertising categories on a cost-per-thousand-impressions (CPM) basis, including online, television, radio, and print. CPMs for across outdoor signage types ranged from $2 to $9. The CPM rates for the other categories were far more expensive: Online advertising ranged from $0.80 to $40; television from $10 to $45; radio from $4 to $25; and print from $9 to $54. Outdoor signage also had a significantly lower average CPM than these channels.
Perhaps the single greatest impact outdoor displays can have on a retail business is the traffic they can generate. The Yodeck survey revealed that 75% of retail business owners believe that street-facing signage increases in-store foot traffic significantly. Respondents also believed that the use of this tactic translates to bottom-line growth, as nearly 90% of those surveyed reported that digital signage boosts the ratio of shoppers who make a purchase. In other words, digital signage lifts both the total volume of visitors and the number of visitors that convert.
Although physical signage will probably always play a role in retail marketing, new technologies like AR have opened up entirely new worlds of possibility in this space. Retailers can now use AR signage to rapidly test-drive promotional strategies, create interactive experiences, diversify their revenue streams, boost sales, and more.
To learn more about this brave new world of retail signage, download Resonai’s new Ebook: A Guide to the New Digital Infrastructure for Malls & Retail Properties. Or start your AR signage journey today by contacting our team and setting up your free demonstration.
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Digital signage drives significant ROI in retail environments.
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SEDUM 'CREEPING LIZARD'
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It’s what you touch
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. There’s a reason this popular saying exists—ownership is perceived to add value to a product. This phenomenon is called the endowment effect, and it’s hardwired in the human brain. Take this example: You’ve just won concert tickets. You’ll sell them to your co-worker for no less than $200. If your coworker was trying to sell the same tickets to you, you wouldn’t pay more than $150. You see, the tickets are far more valuable in your hand than they are in your coworker’s. At least, that’s how the endowment effect makes us feel.
Studies have shown that even the simple act of touching objects, like catalogs, brochures and direct mail, can trigger the endowment effect, subconsciously increasing the perceived value of the brand and its products in the eyes of customers.
It’s how it feels
Touch has power. In fact, one touch can color your impression of a person, place or product. This phenomenon is called incidental touch, and it works like this: Let’s say we’re conducting an interview. If we’re holding a resume printed on heavy, high-quality paper, we’re likely to perceive the candidate as more solid. If the resume is light or flimsy, we’re more likely to view the candidate as less solid and less deserving of the job.
One touch, no matter how fleeting, can significantly influence our judgment of something completely unrelated. The implications here are tremendous—the media we use to showcase our brand has a powerful impact on the way a consumer perceives it.
It’s whether you remember
Not all memories are created equal. Touch has the power to shift the brain into a deeper level of engagement, one more conducive to building lasting knowledge. This has significant implications—touch can make a stronger impact than sight or sound alone. In fact, a number of studies have found that communication through physical media, particularly paper, is more likely to lead to knowledge than communication via digital media.
A recent study performed by the Eagleman Lab took these findings further, discovering that even paper quality makes a difference. In this case, participants were more likely to recall information printed on heavy, high-quality paper than on low-quality paper. First impressions are everything, and touch can help ensure that impression is a good one. | <urn:uuid:2c0b4c37-a610-41b9-880f-accd8b0a8f35> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.sappi.com/neuroscience-touch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00302-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953488 | 521 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In most cases, Medicare does not include dental coverage. This includes coverage for dentures.
However, Medicare beneficiaries can still get dental insurance from other providers.
The Dual-Eligibles program may also help cover denture costs, but this will be dependent on what state the beneficiary is located in.
Healthy teeth and gums are vital for overall health. Gum disease and tooth damage do happen, however, and these scenarios may result in missing teeth. In these situations, special dental work may be needed. One option to replace missing teeth is to get dentures. But does Medicare cover it?
In most cases, Medicare will not cover dentures. This is because dentures fall under the category of dental services, which are not typically included as part of Medicare plans. However, Medicare beneficiaries can still enroll in a separate dental plan that does provide coverage for dentures. Some Medicare Advantage plans may offer additional benefits as well, including vision coverage, hearing, and dental.
What Are Dentures?
Dentures are dental apparatuses used to replace missing teeth, performing the functions of normal teeth. Most dentures are designed to be worn comfortably. Dentures are also removable, meaning they can be cleaned properly to keep everything hygienic and prevent further issues.
Benefits of Dentures
There are a number of benefits associated with dentures. These include:
Helps make chewing easier
Enhances social life and confidence
Does Medicare Cover Dentures?
Original Medicare doesn’t cover routine dental services such as dental procedures, dental care, or dental supplies. This includes:
Various dental devices
However, there are scenarios where certain dental services will be covered. For example, Medicare pays for dental services so long as they are directly related to a Medicare-covered procedure. For example, tooth extractions needed to prepare for radiation treatment for neoplastic diseases involving the jaw would be covered. However, Medicare will not cover dentures that may be needed after said tooth extractions.
Learn more about Medicare and dental at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website.
Do Medicare Advantage Plans Cover Dentures?
A Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, also known as Medicare Part C, is provided by private insurance companies that have been approved by the federal Medicare program. Medicare Advantage plans provide the same level of coverage as Original Medicare, including both Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B. In addition to the standard coverage, Many Medicare Advantage plans may provide dental benefits. However, exactly what dental services are covered will vary from plan to plan. A copayment and coinsurance may also be involved, as well as a higher monthly premium if dental benefits are included.
Medicare beneficiaries should consult their MA plan or insurance company for specific information on their dental coverage.
How Much Do Dentures Cost?
According to Fixodent, there are three main factors that contribute to denture pricing:
Material (acrylic or porcelain)
Type (Partial or full)
In addition, other factors that may drive up costs include:
Possible teeth extractions
Immediate dentures to be worn until the permanent set is ready
Potential follow-up appointments
Do Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans Cover Dentures?
Like Original Medicare, Medicare supplement insurance plans also do not offer dental coverage. This is because a Medicare supplement plan is meant to supplement Medicare coverage, meaning offsetting the costs of services already covered by Medicare, not uncovered services.
How To Pay For Dentures
If a Medicare beneficiary does not have a Medicare Advantage plan or another insurance plan that will cover dental services, they would be responsible for all costs.
Medicaid-Medicare (Dual-Eligibles) Program
Depending on the beneficiary’s location, dental services and dentures may be covered. Since Medicaid programs are state-run, this means these government programs can expand their offerings beyond federal guidelines.
Stand-Alone Dental Insurance
If available in the beneficiary’s state, stand-alone dental plans may help. These plans may also offer oral exams, fillings, and other preventative and routine dental care. Dental insurance plans may also help cover the costs of dentures, dental implants, or oral surgery. Dental benefits offered will vary per plan.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
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MANILA -- A children's welfare advocacy group, Save the Children Philippines (SCP), on Thursday assured that the enactment of the “First 1,000 Days Law” gives children the chance to grow and develop through health and nutrition programs.
Republic Act 11148, or the “Kalusugan at Nutrition ng Mag-Nanay Act” (The First 1,000 Days Law), was signed into law by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Nov. 29, 2018, nine days after 29th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It was co-authored by Senator Risa Hontiveros, the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality chairperson and Quezon City (4th District) Rep. Angelina Tan.
In a press conference in Quezon City, SCP chief executive officer Alberto Muyot said the newly-signed measure will provide children of indigent families an "optimum growth and development through health and nutrition programs in their first 1,000 days.”
“The enactment of the law is a welcome Christmas gift to children of poor and marginalized families who can now access better health and nutrition services,” Muyot added.
Hontiveros, meanwhile, echoed Muyot's remark, saying it is “a perfect Christmas gift to mothers and infants”.
"The challenge now is to ensure that RA 11148 will be immediately and effectively implemented, and that ample funding will be provided by government to support the many reforms the law introduces,” she said.
The lawmaker also urged the government to provide funding and the resources that the law requires.
“The state must be true to its mandate and promise of protecting mothers and their young children, whose development will determine the future of our nation,” she added.
The measure was co-sponsored by Senate Preside Pro-Tempore Ralph Rector and Senators Sonny Angara, Grace Poe, Nancy Binay, Bam Aquino IV, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Loren Legarda and Grace Poe, with inputs from Senator Cynthia Villar.
The new law ensures mothers are given proper nutrition and health care before, during and after giving birth. It also supports provision of health and nutrition services for children from conception up to two years old or known as the “window of opportunity” for every child.
It strengthens training for barangay health workers and support and training for mothers to ensure their health and their children's as well.
Even before the law was enacted, the cities of Malabon and Navotas have passed their respective ordinances pertaining to the “First 1,000 Days”.
Under the new law, the implementation of a comprehensive nutrition intervention program will be headed by the Department of Health, in coordination with the National Nutrition Council, Department of Agriculture, local government units, with other government agencies, for the benefit of infants during their first 1,000 days of life, as well as their mothers and other “nutritionally-at-risk” individuals like pregnant women, lactating women or teenage mothers.
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About 20 members of the Knights of Columbus set out from the San Fernando Mission Thursday morning as part of a statewide march aimed at persuading the Vatican to declare Father Junipero Serra California's first saint.
Members of the Roman Catholic fraternal organization are retracing Serra's footsteps across California, traveling from mission to mission. The Franciscan friar started the state's network of 21 missions in the 18th Century.
Tony Lammersen of Glendale, the Knights of Columbus project coordinator for the Los Angeles area, said the marchers who set off Thursday are expected to arrive Sunday morning at San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura.
Along the way, a wooden staff topped with a cross will be passed among marchers from various Knights of Columbus councils.
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Tax Court Lawyers in Fort Gibson
Tax Courts serve the same purpose as any other court: they're there to resolve legal disagreements in a fair and orderly fashion. Tax courts are simply specialized to handle tax disputes.
At the federal level, there is the United States Tax Court, which has courthouses all over the country, containing one in or near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
The U.S. Tax Court is where disagreements arising under federal tax law are resolved, if the tax debt in question has not already been paid. The U.S. District Court, which is the federal court of general jurisdiction, can only hear tax cases after the tax has been paid. This rule is meant to guarantee that as many tax issues as possible are actually decided in tax court, rather than the overworked District Courts.
Tax Court Procedure in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Any legal issue that concerns federal taxes in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, or anywhere else in the U.S., can go to tax court. It's most often the case that the IRS initiates legal action against a taxpayer, alleging that they have failed to pay all of their obligated taxes, or are delinquent in some other way. The taxpayer usually has 90 days to respond, which initiates adversarial tax court proceedings. Failing to respond may result in the taxpayer forfeiting their rights to contest the allegations against them.
U.S. Tax Court judges are assigned by the President. Their terms of office are legally set at 15 years. Nonetheless, the vast majority of tax court judges are simply assigned again when their terms run out, and there is no limit on the number of 15-year terms they can serve. As a practical matter, thus, Tax Court judges effectively serve life terms.
Federal tax court is somewhat distinct in that individuals who are not licensed attorneys in Oklahoma (or anywhere else) may represent taxpayers before the tax court, as long as they can pass an exam indicating that they have a good knowledge of tax law. Licensed lawyers do not need to take this exam to practice before tax court.
Most often, a resident of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma will find themselves in tax court because the relevant tax authority (usually the IRS), suspects that they have not paid all of the taxes that they are required to pay. To initiate a legal action against the taxpayer, the IRS will send them a letter laying out its allegations. Once this is received, the taxpayer has a moderate period of time (about 90 days) to go to the nearest U.S. tax court and respond. If you find yourself in this position, and want to dispute the allegations against you, you MUST file a response in a tax court in a timely manner. If you don't, you can easily lose your right to ever dispute those allegations again.
Do I Need a Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Tax Attorney?
Federal law allows some non-lawyers to represent parties in tax court. However, tax law is a fairly complicated and specialized legal field. Most lawyers who practice tax law do not practice any other area of law, giving you an idea of how specialized it is.
So, if you need to go to tax court, for whatever reason, you should seek the counsel of a good tax attorney in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. While a non-lawyer who's licensed to practice before the tax courts may well give you perfectly competent representation, there are still advantages to hiring a lawyer. The main advantage is that lawyers are far more regulated in their profession than most non-lawyers. So, if a tax attorney severely damages your case due to negligence or incompetence, you will have significant legal recourse against them. | <urn:uuid:118e7542-906c-475f-9f9d-cc3ba8812dac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxattorneys.legalmatch.com/OK/Fort-Gibson/tax-court.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.974372 | 739 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Adobe marked August 15, 2012—exactly a week ago—as the last day when users could download and install Flash Player on their Android devices if they didn’t have it yet. The company made this announcement so they can focus on Flash on the PC browser and mobile apps bundled with Adobe AIR. This change in focus also meant that Adobe will no longer develop and support Flash on mobile browsers.
Of course, it’s possible that some Android users have missed that deadline, so they venture on to other parts of the Internet in search of alternative download sites.
It’s no surprise to see that Russian scammers have, indeed, set up websites to lure users into downloading a fake Flash Player onto their Android devices. The Labs has been documenting such behavior from SMS scammers for quite some time now.
As of this writing, we’ve seen eight sites using Adobe’s logos and icons—all are linking to the same variant of OpFake Trojan disguised as the legit Flash Player for Android. All the Russian sites used different file names for their .APK files but they’re the same malicious variant. Below are just some of the file names that are used:
click headers to view website screens
GFI VIPRE Mobile Security detects this OpFake variant as Trojan.AndroidOS.Generic.A.
Note that this particular variant is currently touted by many fake Russian app websites as other applications, which they regularly repackage and distribute to new download servers every two to three days.
GFI Labs also found an English website that also hosts a fake Flash Player file named adobeflashinstaller.apk, which is bundled with adware from a company called AirPush.
This adware is activated upon installation of the app. It loads a screen where users can download more apps bundled with this adware. The app then loads a Home page containing instructions on how to get the fake Flash Player. Inexperienced smartphone owners would happily follow the step-by-step guide, not knowing that they’re actually rooting their smartphone devices.
Pro tip: A legitimate copy of Flash Player does not require a rooted device for it to work.
The app then connects to a forum post on XDA-Developers, a popular development community for smarphones and tablets, to download another .APK file, which is a hacked version of the actual Flash Player app. While it is not malicious in itself, Adobe does not support it—worse, it could cause some problems to the device. With a rooted device, future updates of this hacked app may grant or install new permissions users are not aware of.
Below are other noteworthy capabilities of this adware:
- Drops shortcut files, which leads to advertisements, onto the affected device. If users delete these shortcut files, the adware adds more of them.
- Changes the user’s Home page
- Sends pop-up ads to the phone’s notification bar every 15 minutes on the average.
- Start automatically in the background once the device is turned on or restarted. The only way to terminate it from running in the background is by manually doing a Force Stop from the Settings panel.
- Reads the user’s contact data and sends all phonebook contacts to advertisers
We detect this adware as Adware.AndroidOS.AirPush.A.
You may come across other websites claiming to host the latest version of Flash Player. In that case, better to steer clear from them and download only from Google Play.
Jovi Umawing (Thanks to Randall for finding this)
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New grants totaling nearly $30 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will underwrite dozens of new “early college” high schools, with a goal of more than tripling the nation’s supply of such schools over the next four years.
Often located on college campuses, early-college high schools are designed to enable disadvantaged students, in particular, to earn two years’ worth of college credits or associate’s degrees along with their high school diplomas. In recent years, a number of philanthropies, led by the Gates Foundation, have begun making grants designed to form a national network of such schools.
Upping its total commitment to that network to nearly $114 million, the Seattle-based foundation announced on Dec. 7 that it was making seven grants worth more than $22 million to start 42 early-college high schools. The foundation also announced a grant of $7 million to Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit organization based in Boston, to provide technical help to the network and set up a data-collection system aimed at evaluating the schools’ effectiveness.
The announcements ended a yearlong pause for the Gates Foundation in its education grantmaking, which has focused on spawning and supporting networks of smaller, more personalized high schools around the country. (“Gates-Financed Initiative Faces Instructional Hurdles, Report Says,” June 23, 2004; “Major Gates Foundation Grants to Support Small High Schools,” June 16, 2004.)
Tom Vander Ark, the executive director of education for the Gates Foundation, noted that high school students for many years have been getting a taste of higher education and earning college credits through dual-enrollment programs and Advanced Placement courses. While the early-college model is not for everyone, he said, it should be more widely available to students from disadvantaged circumstances.
“This initiative seeks to provide that same benefit to low-income and minority students in a highly supportive environment,” Mr. Vander Ark said during a teleconference. “It’s not our vision of high schools for all, but it’s one of the options that ought to exist in every urban area in America.”
Major Expansion Seen
For the Gates Foundation, the early-college high school initiative is part of a larger effort to improve the graduation and college-going rates among poor and minority students, largely by stimulating the creation of various kinds of smaller high schools with challenging academic programs. The foundation says it has committed $806 million to that broader effort, counting the new grants.
Foundation officials estimate that by fall 2008, the early-college network will have grown to include some 170 schools, serving more than 65,000 students, up from the 46 schools serving 8,000 today. The network has received more than $124 million since 2001 from the Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the W.K. Kellogg, Woodruff, and Ford foundations.
Most of the grants announced last month went to organizations that previously received money from the Gates Foundation.
As the recipient of the largest grant, Jobs for the Future is to strengthen the early-college network and to set up a student- information system that will result in public reports on student achievement in the network. That system will also enable schools to track their students’ progress over time and share data about student demographics and performance, foundation officials said.
Other grants include:
• $6.1 million to Antioch University Seattle, to add 10 schools targeting American Indian students to the eight schools that the university now coordinates in Washington state;
• $6 million to the New York City-based Middle College National Consortium, to add 10 more schools by 2008 to its existing network of 20 schools;
• $5.4 million to Portland Community College in Portland, Ore., to support nine new schools based on its Gateway to College model, which targets students who had previously dropped out;
• $2 million to the University System of Georgia and the Georgia education department to create six new schools in Atlanta and elsewhere;
• $1.2 million to the Knowledge Works Foundation of Cincinnati to add two more schools in Ohio;
• $1 million to the Rochester Area Community Foundation and the Rochester, N.Y., school district to support up to five new schools; and
• $891,000 to the National Council of La Raza, a Washington-based Hispanic-advocacy group, to develop a school design based on its existing network of 12 schools.
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Qnet offers life-enhancing products and solutions through a direct selling process. Their goal is to be the worldwide eCommerce leader within the direct selling marketplace. Qnet believes people are the world’s greatest asset, while service above self and being ethical are the cornerstones that help shape the world positively. This core philosophy is what guides Qnet’s business model and helps to explain their tremendous success.
Direct selling is the elimination of wholesalers, distributors, and retailers from the sales process. When these middlemen are involved in the sales process, consumers pay the maximum retail price. Direct selling, however, involves just the manufacturer and the end-user, thereby saving money and increasing demand. QNET uses a direct selling model of single-level, party plan, and multi-level marketing.
Single-level marketing is where a direct seller creates a customer base. The primary obstacle of single-level marketing is that it is only possible to operate in a small geographical area. Party plan marketing is where events are hosted and uses a sales approach where potential customers can have fun and try out merchandise directly. Multi-level is the most successful of the three categories and is where the seller sponsors teams of direct sellers and helps manage their overall client base. Very little start-up capital is required, and direct seller success is determined only by hard work and motivation. Read this article for more information.
With the rise of the gig economy and, especially since COVID-19, some very influential experts expect direct selling to grow significantly in India. QNET India is one of India’s leading direct selling companies and has a wide range of products, such as beauty, health and wellness, and home and living products, all sold through their successful direct sales approach. RYTHM – Raising Yourself To Help Mankind is the core value of Qnet, and Qnet created the RYTHM Foundation to sponsor children with special needs, community development, and community well-being.
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Revolutionizing the Fashion Industry to Become More Sustainable.
Sustainability is a modern concept that gets emphasized in all four corners of the world. It is apparent that the condition of the world has been dwindling by the minute making our ecosystems less sustainable. Pollution is just but one of the factors that have contributed to the destruction of our natural environment. Presently, the world is struggling to support its flora and fauna fully. Due to the alarming state of our environment, governments from all across the globe have made a call to action for all companies to adopt more eco-friendly tendencies.
However, there are quite a number of approaches that fashion-conscious corporations can employ to help preserve the environment. Since fashion is all about creativity, many textile companies have been recycling materials for use in garment production. In so doing, they have ensured that fewer wastes end up in the environment due to poor garbage management practice.
The textile industry has seen more corporations like the Nickis fashion for children take charge and adopt practices that allow them to make use of biodegradable items for manufacturing purposes. Organic cotton, hemp, and bamboo are the most commonly used raw materials in the textile industry today. By creating quality products, the need to replace clothes each time they wear out has more than declined.
Going green as a concept has also spilled over to textile storage. In most homes, you happen to find a clutter of old clothes lying around. Instead of getting more storage space for attire you no longer wear, you ought to give such items to the less fortunate or even sell some of these apparels for a quick dollar. Outsourcing old attire can help keep the environment clean and safe for habitation in more ways than one.
As a conscious shopper, you can always go for attire made from eco-friendly fabric. As a way of going green, the Nickis fashion for children ought to adopt manufacturing practices that release little to no wastes in their immediate environment. By using green energy sources, the textile industry can boost its production process. Solar energy is not only clean but also reliable. It is only when such manufacturers choose to use clean energy that they can help save our world from total destruction.
Green transportation infrastructure is another strategy that can get incorporated to help the Nickis fashion for children protect the environment from depletion. Instead of relying on gasoline and diesel engines, the Nickis fashion for children should make use of hybrid and electric cars renowned for not releasing harmful gases into the environment. Electric and hybrid vehicles are more than efficient when put to use. With the approaches mentioned earlier, we can give the world an opportunity to recover.
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The concert hall's grand elegance
With velvet seats and lacquered wood,
And silence echoed off the walls
In hushed anticipation.
A poster promised classics from
L. van Beethoven's repertoire.
The concert time was eight o'clock,
Announced the invitation.
"Come hear the modern debut,
An historic instrument
Unearthed near ancient Babylon,
A recent excavation."
This four-stringed sackbut had survived
With two strings missing, two intact.
Harp from Nebuchadnezzar's band
And Daniel's generation.
The sackbut player's grand entrance,
He held the cherished artifact.
A gasp rose from the audience,
A spellbound fascination.
But where to seat the sackbut?
The dilemma of this age.
Among the flutes? one flautist, though
Did flaunt his aggravation.
The maestro wildly waved his arms.
Musicians readied for their song.
An upbeat, first the downbeat, next,
Con brio orchestration.
At center stage the player stood,
His instrument, he cradled.
The string he plucked was rusted through
And snapped from oxidation.
'Twas the middle of the coda,
A shocked silence filled the hall.
The sackbut player's starched white shirt
Was drenched with perspiration.
A flush crept up the maestro's face
His anger seven times hotter.
A handkerchief cooled down his brow
And saved him from cremation.
The sackbut player's head hung down.
The flautist glowered, showed contempt.
And through a sneer he snidely said,
"Don't quit your day vocation."
When it was feared the song had failed,
Sackbutist's fingers slowly plucked
The fragile sole-surviving string,
Grateful for preservation.
A mellow note, melodious,
It soared and drifted 'round the hall.
Not heard for three millennia,
This musical sensation.
The audience burst out, jumped up,
With accolades and praises.
Down in their seats they plunked again
For encore's presentation.
But with profuse applause, a draft.
The music drifted off the stands,
The hasty grab for music sheets
In the confusion, songs were swapped,
The parts redistributed.
Musicians puzzled o'er new notes
A heart-sick palpitation.
The flautist's shock showed in his eyes,
He blamed the sackbut player,
And in derision hurled at him
A frothed expectoration.
Despite the classics' muddle
And the mixed-up sour notes,
The sackbut's voice resounded
To the listeners' elation.
Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy,
The jumbled songs' cacophony.
A modern fascination.
One thing the world may never know,
Did "Sackbut's Ode Sonata"
Cause Beethoven to roll over?
There'll be no exhumation.
Note: It is believed that the "sackbut" of Biblical times (Daniel 3 KJV)
was a triangular stringed musical instrument. It is also translated "lyre."
Copyright Beth LaBuff 2015
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Could you go a year without spending? These roommates are trying
By Kristin McGrath
October 4, 2013
“Spending fasts” and no-spend challenges are a staple of the personal finance advice world. The idea is to cut down on discretionary spending for a certain amount of time (often as little as a day) except for necessary bills. When done regularly, no-spend challenges can give your wallet a break, help you bulk up your savings and help you build up the willpower to say “no” to small incidental purchases.
Yet it can be difficult to keep up your no-spend endurance for more than a couple days at a time — which makes what these two Canadian roommates are doing all the more impressive. Julie Phillips and Geoffrey Szuszkiewicz, both of Calgary, have embarked on a veritable no-spending marathon that requires them to give up spending over the course of a year.
They’ll be easing into their zero-spend goal gradually, however. They started the project about two months ago and have divided their journey into three phases:
Phase 1 (Aug. 3, 2013 to Nov. 3, 2013): No consumer goods (for example, clothing and home furnishings).
Phase 2 (Nov. 3, 2013 to July 3, 2014): No services (such as meals out, gas and transit passes).
Phase 3 (July 3, 2014 to August 3, 2014): No food. For the final month of their experiment, Phillips and Szuszkiewicz will not be purchasing any food. They will eat what they can recover from supermarket dumpsters, what friends offer to cook for them and what they can grow themselves.
“Well good for them,” you might think. “But I’m not dumpster diving.”
Even if you’re not willing to go as far as these two, their project’s website is rich in tips you can use in your own (much less exteme) spending fasts. In fact, the entire framework of the plan is based on established behavioral modification techniques that can help you embark on the occasional spending fast or even talk yourself out of the occasional impulse buy. Here are a few you might want to borrow:
- Ease in: Remember those phases from above? If you’re looking to trim your budget, don’t hack off all discretionary spending in one chunk. Instead, borrow Phillips’s and Szuszkiewicz’s phase method. Perhaps you can’t stop yourself from buying new clothing and eating at restaurants at the same time. Consider restricting clothing purchases one month, and then concentrate on cooking and planning meals the next. By dividing a large goal into small but clearly defined steps, you’ll gradually build up the strength and endurance necessary to accomplish it.
- Reinforce good behavior: Rewards enforce behaviors. For example, when you go out to eat with friends, Phillips and Szuszkiewicz point out, you’re rewarded with convenience (you don’t have to cook) and good company, making you more likely to repeat the behavior. So, as the roommates explain, you need to make not spending rewarding, too. List the rewards you’re getting from not spending. Cooking at home, for example, makes you a better chef and helps you eat healthier. Walking to work instead of using gas helps you stay fit and soak up some sun.
- Get social support: Phillips and Szuszkiewicz are blogging about their endeavor, and the media attention their story is getting has given them a sizeable audience that’s rooting for them. That means lots of support — and lots of accountability. So consider telling others about your no-spending goals, asking a friend to keep you company at home on a no-spending day or encouraging your family to cook meals with you. Loneliness can increase the desire to shop — and a lack of accountability can increase the chance that you’ll break down and do it.
- Accept and commit: Phillips and Szuszkiewicz say they’re using a psychological intervention technique called “acceptance and commitment based therapy” (ACT) on their journey. The center of ACT is mindfulness — accepting negative thoughts (which will undoubtedly occur when you can’t buy food) and then recommitting to a lifestyle that reflects your values. The acceptance factor goes even further, the roommates explain. In addition to accepting the emotional lows, they will accept whatever help is offered to them by others.
Similar mindfulness techniques have been getting buzz for a while now in both the frugality and addiction realms. Acknowledging temptation and pausing to reflect on it can help you refocus your energy on your goal — not the mindless purchase you’re about to put in your shopping cart.
Have you ever undertaken a no-spend challenge? What’s the longest you’ve gone without spending? If you’re about to try a spending fast for the first time, prepare for your journey with these tips from personal finance bloggers.
Krystal Yee of Give me Back My Five Bucks describes her plan for 10 days of no spending — and the amount of planning necessary to pull it off.
Well Heeled Blog has a list of the pros and cons of no-spend challenges.
I Will Teach You to be Rich recommends setting aside one day a week as a no-spend day.
When Life Gives You Lemons Add Vodka points out that no-spending days help only certain types of people — and don’t do much for others.
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Andrew Wakefield, the doctor struck off the medical register for his discredited research that claimed to find a link between autism and theMMR vaccine, can add another honour to his list this Christmas: the inaugural Golden Duck award for lifetime achievement in quackery, set up by the science writer Simon Singh.
It is truly well-deserved, this is not simply a story about a medic committing fraud, but is a rather sorry tale that has an associated body count. He wrote a paper this threw doubt upon the MMR vaccine and as a result there are many thousands of unimmunised children born over the last 15 years whose parents decided MMR was too risky at the time, and so now Measles rates are up. In 2010, the Lancet formally retracted Wakefield’s paper and he was struck off the medical register after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct. Subsequent studies have found no credible link between MMR and either autism or Crohn’s disease.
Does all this fuss really matter, does speaking out against nonsense make a difference? Yes it does, Simon Singh makes the observation in the article that …
…it was part of a growing attempt by sceptic groups to organise and challenge bad uses of science and evidence in public. “We see a decline in homeopathy in the NHS and we see a decline in the number of homeopathic hospitals. We see sceptics using regulatory authorities or the Advertising Standards Authority to clamp down on misleading claims.
“I think gradually people that care about evidence and science are getting their message across. All the time what we care about is the consumer or patient.
“It’s not just an intellectual battle or a battle of ideas, it’s about protecting people from misleading information.”
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Presidential politics is not a game. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign says treating the election a little more like Candy Crush is already snagging more support.
The Hillary 2016 app, which launched on iOS in July and debuts today on Android, uses techniques borrowed from mobile games and the language learning app Duolingo to enlist the help of Clinton supporters who don’t have the time—or interest—in knocking on doors.
And it may be working.
Clinton’s app is meticulous and thorough. Trump’s looks haphazard and a little chaotic.
In the last two months, more than 100,000 users have downloaded the app, where they’ve completed some 750,000 activities on the app, like taking a quiz about Donald Trump’s incendiary soundbites or sharing pro-Hillary messages on social media. The campaign says half the app’s users have never before donated to the campaign, RSVPed to a campaign event, or volunteered in any official way. But, prompted by the app, thousands of them now have.
“We’ve expanded what it means to be active with the campaign with this app,” says Stephanie Cheng, lead product designer on Hillary 2016.
Of course, in the world of online gaming, 100,000 downloads is tiny. It’s tiny, too, compared to the 129.1 million people who voted in 2012, and it’s just a sliver of the more than 6 million people who follow Clinton on Facebook. But in the relatively new world of campaign apps, it’s actually quite substantial.
So far, Donald Trump’s America First app, which launched after Clinton’s in late August, has racked up 50,000 downloads, says Thomas Peters, CEO of uCampaign, the startup that built Trump’s app. He notes that the campaign plans to promote the app more in the coming weeks. Peters’ company also built Ted Cruz’s campaign app during the primaries. That app, Peters says, hit 90,000 downloads after nine months. The Clinton app has surpassed that figure in just two.
What these numbers mean for Election Day is still unclear, since this is the first election cycle where mobile has really served as the main digital platform. The Obama campaign had an app in 2012 and took advantage of Facebook and Twitter, but even Harper Reed, Obama’s 2012 chief technology officer, says the app the Clinton team has built is “light years different.”
Both the Clinton and Trump apps use game-like features to motivate people, awarding points for varying levels of involvement. Commit to vote and get 10 points in the Hillary 2016 app. Watch Trump’s latest campaign ad and get 50 points in the America First app. From these apps, people can donate, RSVP, check in to events, read campaign news, and share content on social media. They can also see how they stack up against other supporters on a leaderboard.
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But it doesn’t take a PhD in user interface design to see that the similarities end there. Cheng has been working on the Hillary 2016 app since last August with a team of 10 programmers and designers. It’s supposed to make users feel like they’re standing in the center of one of the Clinton field offices. And it does. Users can water the office plant, pet the office dog, Winnie, and move around the office floor by swiping left and right. It’s immersive, cartoon-like, and colorful, as if the cast of South Park could walk through the door at any moment.
The America First app, by contrast, looks like a minimum viable product. Peters’ team of four at uCampaign created a version for Cruz in just five weeks, and they pulled together the Trump app in just four. The app is a bare-bones stream of sans-serif text, complete with plenty of exclamation points and a smattering of all-caps. It’s like the Trump campaign itself, stripped down to the essentials. | <urn:uuid:827b870d-e216-434a-9215-f1c8e0c5febc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2016/09/clintons-app-trouncing-trumps-pretty-much-every-way/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.873041 | 1,409 | 1.539063 | 2 |
How to Connect a Laptop to a PC Printer
by Stephen Lilley
You don't need a desktop computer to use a printer. Even the most basic laptop will connect to a PC printer in a simple and easy way. The process is as simple as connecting both devices together using the right cable. By following just a few simple steps, you can have your printer up and running in no time.
Connecting to a Printer:
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Or parallel printer cable
- Locate your printer cable.
Most printers will come with a cable packaged into the box, though sometimes they won't.
- Make sure you buy the right cable.
Certain printer cables will allow you to connect the printer to your laptop via a USB port, while others will use a parallel port. Check your laptop for the proper connections. USB ports are small, rectangular ports while parallel ports are generally larger and have holes for several small pins to plug into.
- Plug one end of the cable into your printer.
This end is typically square in shape and plugs into the appropriately labeled hole on the back of the device. If you have problems locating this port on the back of your printer, consult the diagram in the printer's manual.
- Plug the other end of the cable into your laptop.
If it is a USB cable, then it plugs directly into a USB port. If it is a parallel port cable, then you need to plug the cable into a free parallel port on the back of your laptop and secure it into place using the two tiny screws on each side of the cable.
- Install any software that came with the printer.
Certain printers will work as soon as they are plugged in, while others come with a CD with the necessary software and drivers needed to make it work. If your printer came with a CD, then put it into your laptop's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive on your laptop and install the necessary software.
- Make sure your printer is plugged into a power source.
While some printers can be powered over the USB interface, others will need external power. Plug your printer's power cord into a wall outlet or power strip. | <urn:uuid:c1f64937-cb7f-4b00-805b-a18e521f05c9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.overstock.com/guides/how-to-connect-a-laptop-to-a-pc-printer?TID=LFTBUYGUIDE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918041 | 445 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A well-furnished warrior grave in the Viking age town of Birka, Sweden, has been found to contain female bones. So, a female Viking warrior.
And not just any warrior, but a senior one: she was buried alongside a sword, an axe, a spear, armour-piercing arrows, a battle knife, two shields and two horses. Gaming pieces — perhaps from hnefatafl, a sort of precursor to chess — suggest the female warrior from grave Bj was a battle strategist.
Was she unique, or were the Viking ranks full of women? Valkyrie amulets have been found depicting women wearing dresses and armour.
But historical fact has largely lagged behind the fictions. It took many years and, finally, genomic testing to establish the lack of a Y chromosome. Might the gaming pieces indicate only that she enjoyed board games? Were the bones — excavated and labelled in the 19th century — put with the wrong weapons?
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Or do these questions prove that we recreate the past in the light of our own prejudice? Nothing in the archaeology has changed — only the gender.
So how many more warrior bones have been pd male that might be female? There are thought to be further anomalies in Norway and Sweden. But they must have been there.
Shortcuts Archaeology. Does new DNA evidence prove that there were female viking warlords?
Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha in Vikings. Photograph: Bernard Walsh.
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Democrats in the Legislature could have picked from a broad range of issues on which to focus this session.
They could have kicked off their return to power with an assault on the tax cuts passed by the Republican-led Legislature in 2011, the Republican backed overhaul of the state’s health insurance regulations or Gov. LePage’s refusal to create a state exchange to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.
Any of those would lead to a spirited floor fight, a likely veto and plenty of opportunities for the parties to highlight their differences.
Those fights will likely happen someday, but the Democratic leadership’s decision to kick off the session with a focus on workforce development shows a interest in getting things done and not just framing issues.
Helping to better train unemployed, under employed and future Maine workers for good jobs that either exist now or will soon should not be a partisan issue, and it has been one of Gov. LePage’s priorities for his first two years in office.
This seems to be an issue that is ripe for bipartisan cooperation, and if it’s done well, would have a positive impact on Maine’s economy, for large employers, small businesses and employees.
Some Republicans grouse that this is one of their issues, but they would be wise not to let this opportunity to work on it pass them by. Successfully improving prospects for Maine’s workforce could restart a sluggish economy, and if that happens, there will be plenty of credit to go around. | <urn:uuid:3b771982-0600-4511-aceb-a4812d6b57d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pressherald.com/2012/12/23/skills-gap-right-issue-for-legislatures-focus_2012-12-23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00358-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96187 | 309 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Title. Research priorities for parenting and child health: a Delphi study
Aim. This paper is a report of a study to identify research priorities of clinical staff working with families at a Western Australian centre for parenting.
Background. Australian centres for parenting focus on children's needs while working in partnership with parents, families and their communities. These agencies incorporate primary healthcare strategies in their unique approach with families. Clinicians’ research priorities at these centres have not been explored in an Australian context.
Method. In 2005, a Delphi study was conducted in which clinicians were asked to provide a list of five important issues relating to care provided to children, parents and their families. Research topics identified were then ranked for their importance to the family and clinicians. Finally, the top 10 research topics were ranked for priority.
Findings. In round 1, 148 research topics were identified. Thirty-six topics were removed, due to the availability of existing evidence. Content analysis was used to collapse statements into 26 research questions, which were further classified into seven categories: parenting issues; sleep and settling issues; postnatal depression; evaluation and impact of programmes; staffing issues; centre marketing services and others. Issues relating to sleep and settling and postnatal depression were rated as top research priorities.
Conclusion. The priorities of clinicians working with families provide research direction for this Western Australian centre and potentially other centres in Australia and similar settings elsewhere in the world. The Delphi approach in determining clinicians’ perceptions of relevant research areas may be useful to direct research in other contexts. | <urn:uuid:5ed406bf-8794-4815-9431-d58b6b445414> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04278.x/full?globalMessage=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966352 | 311 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Linear scleroderma with partial anonychia
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Singh S, Kumar S. Linear scleroderma with partial anonychia. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2009;75:623-625
Linear scleroderma, a variant of morphea, is characterized by band-like induration of the skin, often with pigmentary changes, and it frequently occurs in children in the first or second decade. The limbs are most commonly affected followed by the face. Various studies have shown different rates of frequency of different morphologic variants of morphea. A study of 239 patients with morphea, of which 126 were children, showed that 22 (17.5%) of the children had linear scleroderma. Thus, although linear scleroderma is not a rare disease, yet, so far, no case of this condition with anonychia has been reported. We herein report a case of linear scleroderma with partial anonychia.
A 22-year-old Indian girl presented with hyperpigmented linear macular and thickened lesions extending from the ulnar side of the middle of the right forearm up to the ring and little fingers for the past 10 years. The lesion first appeared on the middle part of the ulnar side of the right forearm and gradually progressed to involve the dorsal aspect of the little and ring fingers within 5 years. This included involvement of the nail of the ring finger, which led to partial loss of nail plate. The disease process has remained localized and static for the last 5 years. There was no history suggestive of Raynaud′s phenomenon and there were no systemic complaints. Examination showed a brown-colored linear band-like lesion with irregular and sharp borders. The lesion was atrophic in the proximal part and demonstrated induration and binding down in the distal part [Figure - 1]. Hair was absent on the affected parts. The lesion was encroaching on the nail apparatus of the ring finger where partial anonychia with a small remnant of nail plate and loss of cuticle were present [Figure - 2]. There was ulnar deviation of the right ring finger and mild radial deviation of the little finger. Systemic examination was normal. Biopsy was taken from the proximal part of the lesion on the hand. Histopathology showed a sparse superficial and deep perivascular and periappendageal lymphohistiocytic infiltrate with occasional plasma cells [Figure - 3]. There was marked thickening of collagen bundles in the reticular and papillary dermis. The thickened bundles were generally parallel to the epidermis and were closely packed to give a hyalinized appearance. These findings were consistent with the diagnosis of scleroderma. As the lesion of scleroderma visibly involved the nail apparatus and biopsy from the lesion showed typical features of scleroderma [Figure - 3], we did not take nail matrix biopsy. Patient′s urinalysis (routine and microscopy) was normal. Her rheumatoid factor was negative and antinuclear antibody (ANA) test revealed equivocal result.
Some patients with linear scleroderma may be at some risk for developing systemic collagen-vascular diseases. The present patient is being followed-up closely due to her equivocal ANA result. Among different variants of morphea, there is only one report of anonychia in a patient with pansclerotic morphea of childhood. The same patient appears to have been reported again as part of a case series because several details (age, weight, laboratory investigations, treatment and outcome) of these two cases match. No patient with linear scleroderma has been reported so far with anonychia. Basically, the loss of nail plate results from the involvement of the nail apparatus due to the sclerotic process. This change will be irreversible. Anonychia is generally described in textbooks as a congenital anomaly; acquired causes are usually trauma and lichen planus. The present case shows, for the first time, that linear scleroderma can cause anonychia thus documenting a so far unreported cause of acquired anonychia.
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I recently visited the Boston Institute of Contemporary
AnolesArt (ICA) and snapped the following picture. Please accept my apologies for the blurriness and my excuse that this was taken with a camera phone from the ICA’s glass elevator while being shuttled to the art installations on the fourth floor of the museum.
I’ve captured a part of an approximately three-story piece of nature-themed art, made mostly from cardboard, bamboo, and paper cut-outs, that featured likenesses of animals from across the animal kingdom. It seems that anoles inspired the piece’s numerous lizard cut-outs. In the picture, you can see a lizard that is clearly not geckoid, the usual suspect in this sort of thing. Rather, it has a head shape and diamond back pattern strikingly reminiscent of a female Anolis sagrei. This was the only picture I was able to acquire yet the other lizards in this art piece also had the characteristic brown anole gestalt. | <urn:uuid:f4069464-fa52-413e-a1fa-a2b559dc5559> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.anoleannals.org/2012/12/27/brown-anole-in-boston/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967053 | 207 | 1.523438 | 2 |
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the part we've all been waiting for, the Young Adult Session. Alas, by this point, it was 3:50 already; and some people had left, because of things like train schedules and the like.
Jacqueline Woodson spoke about If You Come Softly. She spoke bluntly and beautifully about reading books, but not not being in the books she read; about asking whether she would be the only black writer on the panel, and how she wasn't sure whether to accept the invitation. Woodson spoke about the fear of other; and how that is always present. She spoke of addressing fear thru books, but also thru action, as she and her partner searched for a school where their child would not be the "other", but would see herself in her classmates, her teachers, and the books on the shelves. (She also mentioned how cold she is when she visits England and Aga stoves.)
Chris Crutcher spoke about Whale Talk; about being censored; and then told real life stories to illustrate why books like Whale Talk are needed. Basically, the books, while fiction, are true; there are children and teens who lead these lives; can we censor them out of existence? Why deny them their voice, their seeing themselves in books? One teen commented how stories can show you who to trust; when you're talking to someone, you can check out whether you can trust them with your story by how they react to certain stories.
David Almond was unable to make it; Midgley read his remarks about Kit's Wilderness, including the observation that storytelling is an act of hope against the darkness.
The analysts who spoke were Karen Gilmore, M.D. and Arietta Slade, Ph. D. Gilmore spoke about the idea of a character just appearing to an author brings both excitement and terror; she spoke about the core concerns of a young adult reader: bodily transformation; mental & psychological changes; start of abstract thought; and separation from parents. The books in this genre show the same intensity of the lives of the teens; offers a way to practice these transitions; and show teens that they aren't alone.
Slade said reading these books was eye opening; she had no idea that books like these were being written for teens. She also related an anecdote of speaking to her child's middle school teacher and being told that teacher's don't have the time/ avenues to find out about these books. Slade said that kids rely on parents, or other kids, for the information about these books. What was exciting about Slade's comments is that you could see that she "got it"; that she was excited about these books and saw value in these books; and was looking for ways to get these books into the hand of the teens who both want and need them.
And now the question and answer period, that was fast and furious.
Someone spoke about teens today not reading and spending all their time on media like computer games; both Woodson and Crutcher eloquently defended games, computers, TV, saying not to label; that they are no more addictive than other things; to look at what the child/teen gets from the experience rather than judging; and also noted that these things have story components, and can be about an inner journey as much as a book can.
A woman stood up to address the earlier question, where do you find these books? At the library. She mentioned the New York Public Library specifically and it's Books For The Teen Age.
At some point during the conversation, classics had been mentioned, in the context of what books are being taught in schools, kids not seeing themselves in these books, and so kids not being encouraged to read because the books they have to read don't speak to them or reflect their reality. Now, you bloggers know this argument backwards and forwards, so I don't have to repeat all this; Woodson spoke from the context of not seeing herself in classics, Crutcher in that the books don't reflect teens lives and it would be better to partner classics with current books. (One of the things I really liked is that Crutcher did NOT speak against classics; he said the problem is rather how classics are used.) This tied back into finding the books (see above, libraries.)
Anyhow, so this is when one of the audience members gave a rather impassioned defense of classics; including that the speak to the inner workings of people; and no book can teach us more or show us more than the classic story of Oedipus.
Now, that can be true of some people. Crutcher said he'd be hard pressed to think of a way to sell Oedipus to teens; and made the point that in terms of required reading, you don't want to use a book that turns that kid off reading and now means that they will miss out on the books that could touch them and teach them and help them. (I wondered at this point what interpretation and translation the audience member would use; and whether there's been a good, still in print YA version or interpretation; and man, talk about a book getting banned! Because I think a modern telling of Eddie, given up for adoption who then accidentally kills a stranger in a driving accident and marries the man's hot widow, and how that hot widow turns out to be his mom, would sell. All I can think of is Norma Johnston's Days of the Dragon's Seed)
And thus the day ended. I have a lot of pennies to save if I'm going to be able to go the UK part in 2007! | <urn:uuid:7b782a44-56c6-472c-b775-bf140dec91a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lizburns.org/2006/10/fear-and-fiction-part-iii.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982711 | 1,154 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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