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Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
The play opens with two tribunes discovering the commoners of Rome celebrating Julius Caesar‘s triumphant return from defeating the sons of his military rival, Pompey. The tribunes, insulting the crowd for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, attempt to end the festivities and break up the commoners, who return the insults. During the feast of Lupercal, Caesar holds a victory parade and a soothsayer warns him to “Beware the ides of March,” which he ignores. Meanwhile, Cassius attempts to convince Brutus to join his conspiracy to kill Caesar. Although Brutus, friendly towards Caesar, is hesitant to kill him, he agrees that Caesar may be abusing his power. They then hear from Casca that Mark Antony has offered Caesar the crown of Rome three times. Casca tells them that each time Caesar refused it with increasing reluctance, hoping that the crowd watching would insist that he accept the crown. He describes how the crowd applauded Caesar for denying the crown, and how this upset Caesar. On the eve of the ides of March, the conspirators meet and reveal that they have forged letters of support from the Roman people to tempt Brutus into joining. Brutus reads the letters and, after much moral debate, decides to join the conspiracy, thinking that Caesar should be killed to prevent him from doing anything against the people of Rome if he were ever to be crowned.
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Here’s a cool technique derived from the movie poster for From Paris with Love starring John Travolta. The poster layout made very cool use of masking images with letters and shapes. Here, we’re going after a similar effect entirely in Illustrator. With so many new productivity enhancements, Illustrator CS5 is so much more robust with image compositing.
1 CREATE NEW DOCUMENT; SET TYPE
Choose File>New to create a new Basic RGB document, and click OK. Select the Type tool (T) and click on the artboard to set a text object. In the Control panel, set the Fill color to black and the Stroke to none, then type the letters LVE in Impact font at 300 pts. Set four spaces between the L and the V. To tighten the spacing a little bit, select all the letters with the Type tool, open the Character panel (Window>Type>Character), and set the Tracking to –50. We’ll create the O later by using a shape.
2 BUILD A SHAPE
Select the text with the Selection tool (V), choose Type>Create Outlines to convert the text to regular vector shapes, then choose Object>Ungroup. Shift-click on the L to deselect it and keep the VE selected. Select the Shape Builder tool (Shift-M) and hover your cursor over the V to highlight it. Now click-and-drag across the top of the V to the E, including the area where they overlap, to merge the shapes together as one.
3 CREATE SPATTER; CLEAN IT UP
Choose Window>Symbol Libraries>Grime Vector Pack. In the panel that appears, locate Grime Vector Pack 09 then click-and-drag it onto the artboard. Click the Break Link button in the Control panel to convert the symbol instance into a basic vector shape.
This spatter needs some adjusting. Choose the Direct Selection tool (A), select the small shapes that aren’t attached to the main spatter, and then delete them. This leaves you with only the main big shape.
4 WARP SPATTER; ADD COLOR
Choose the Warp tool (Shift-R) and use it to push in the longer spatter lines closer to the main shape so that these protrusions don’t get in the way of the copy we’ll add later. When you have the shape looking the way you want, it’s time to add some color. Because this is an action movie and we’re portraying a blood spatter, it obviously needs to be red. Choose the Selection tool (V) and select the spatter. Open the Swatches panel (Window>Swatches) and select a dark red to fill the spatter shape. Also set the stroke color to none.
5 MOVE SPATTER INTO POSITION
With the Selection tool still active, click-and-drag the spatter between the L and V—it will play the part of O in our scene. If necessary, scale and rotate the spatter to better fit in the area and for the composition. With the shape in place, choose Edit>Copy to save it to the clipboard. Don’t move the spatter.
6 ADD TO THE SELECTION
With the spatter still selected, Shift-click on the VE to add them to the selection. As we did in Step 2, use the Shape Builder tool to combine the shapes. You can make multiple passes over the shapes and it will continue to add to the current shape. When it’s merged, choose the Selection tool and press D to set the Fill and Stroke colors to their default white and black, respectively. Then go ahead and set the Fill color to none in the Control panel.
7 PASTE SPATTER; CHANGE BLEND MODE
Remember the spatter we copied to the clipboard? Now we’ll put it to use. Choose Edit>Paste in Place. Assuming you haven’t moved the art, it will paste the copy right on top of the spatter. Open the Transparency panel (Window>Transparency), click on the Normal pop-up menu, and select Color.
8 PLACE PHOTO
Choose File>Place and navigate to the photo you want to use (or to the download file). Because this is a cool action movie, we’re using an image of a hitman pointing a gun at a very dramatic angle. In the Place dialog, you can either Link the image or uncheck the Link option to embed the photo. Just know that embedding a photo will increase the file size. Select the file and click Place.
9 POSITION AND SCALE THE PHOTO
Choose Object>Arrange>Send to Back, then position the photo in the layout. If you’re having difficulty with placement because you can’t see the splatter and text shape, set the Fill color on the text/spatter shape to none and the Stroke to white to make it easier to position the image. Scale and rotate the image to best fit in the area of the text and the shape.
10 MAKE CLIPPING MASK
Shift-click the text/spatter shape to add it to the photo selection, then choose Object>Clipping Mask>Make. This will mask the image inside of the shape. (Note: Make sure the red color shape isn’t selected. If you’re having difficulty making the clipping mask, select the layers using the Target icon [circle] to the right of the Layer’s name in the Layers panel instead of the artboard.)
11 ROTATE AND SCALE GRAPHIC
Now choose the new Artboard tool (Shift-O) to resize the artboard. In the Control panel, set the width to 8″ and the height to 5″. (Note: If your artboard isn’t visible, got to View>Show Artboards.) Grab the Selection tool, select the entire graphic (photo, text, and shapes), and place it inside the artboard. Scale and rotate it so the corners of the first and last letters go off the edge of the artboard.
12 THE FINISHING TOUCHES
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Ryan Zinke could have a tremendous positive effect on reservation economies.
As the centennial celebration for our national parks comes to an end, not all is right within our parks.
Land managers should pursue negotiation instead of litigation when settling access disputes.
Congress should stop acquiring more federal land for the park system and start maintaining what we’ve already got.
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Federal funds from the LWCF are limited to land acquisition and cannot be used for the care and maintenance of existing federal lands.
Nearly half of the West is owned—and badly managed—by the feds. States want to step in. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, PERC's Shawn Regan provides an overview of the issue.
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13 Gadgets That Can Save the Planet and Your Money
In recent years, the emission of carbon dioxide from energy consumption in the United States amounted to approximately 5.1 billion metric tons. Apart from that, there’s also a high level of food and water waste. Just take a second to think about how many times you’ve forgotten to turn off your lights. The level of pollution is huge and it’s very important that each of us does something to save the planet!
We at Bright Side found some devices that will help you to make your life more eco-friendly, and help you save money and the planet in the process.
1. Drumi by Yirego washes clothing anywhere without electricity.
Drumi by Yirego is a non-electric washing machine. Yirego promises that it’s good for your wallet, your health, and the environment! Sounds great. This cute machine will wash laundry for you anywhere.
It’s also very compact and you can even take it along with you on your adventures or use it at home if you happen to have a small apartment.
2. The Anti-pollution Wearable Air Filter by Paul Shen will save your health and money in the long term.
Big city life is hectic and can sometimes be bad for our health. But there’s a solution! This wearable air filter can reduce air pollution. It’s comfortable and effective, so the producers say. Breathing fresh air will preserve your health and save you money on doctor visits.
3. The Nebia Spa Shower can relax you and “make the planet better”.
Showers take up a lot of our time so we may as well make them more enjoyable. The Nebia company offers an amazing product that turns the “daily routine into a unique and memorable experience”. The company claims that it’s already saved over 100 million gallons of water. That’s pretty great!
4. The Sink Twice reduces water use.
Sink Twice cuts your water bill and reduces needless water consumption. It was designed as a “drought-buster” and it’s not only effective in lowering individual water bills, but it also has an impact on preserving our precious fresh water resources.
5. This intelligent drain by Roca keeps track of your water.
Roca has come up with an interesting device called the intelligent drain. It determines the amount of water consumed per minute. It is installed under the sink and all the information is on the display. Now you will always know how much water you use when, for example, you wash your hands.
6. Twist is the next generation of lighting that saves energy.
Twist is an adaptive light that saves energy! Just like the sun, Twist automatically transitions from white light in the morning to yellow light in the evening. You get just the right amount of light every hour of the day. In addition, Twist lamps have a speaker that plays music, even if the light is off.
You also can control the lighting from the Twist Home app! It’s a must have!
7. The Altered:Nozzle can minimize your water use by 85%.
The secret to this great gadget is based on its spray mode. Just turn the handle and our spray mode will fill your glass instantly. In comparison to regular taps, it saves about 85% of the water that is normally used. It fits Standard, Junior, and Tom Thumb-sized taps.
8. This Durable Practical Energy Saving LED Socket will help you to save electricity.
The Durable Practical Energy Saving Socket LED will save electricity at your house, plus it will show you the way at night. It is not just a smart, eco-friendly device, but a nice decorative addition to your home.
9. The PUR Advanced Faucet Water Filter can be a good way to reduce contaminants.
The PUR Advanced faucet water filter easily attaches to your sink’s faucet and it has an LED indicator that displays the filter status, so you know when it’s time for a replacement.
This filter reduces over 70 contaminants, including 99% of lead.
10. The Uji Shower can help you to save time and money.
The Uji Shower head sprays water so that the water flow is super-efficient. In addition, a light indicator is built into Uji that gradually changes from green to red depending on the duration of the shower, promoting shorter, more efficient showers.
11. The iBamboo speaker by designer Anatoliy Omelchenko needs no electricity.
This is a cool invention and could be a nice gift! The simple-yet-chic design consists of a single piece of bamboo. The natural shape of the speaker produces a pseudo-stereo effect that requires no electricity.
12. Bruno is the world’s first smart can and vacuum that cuts down all allergens.
This trash can named Bruno, has a powerful vortex vacuum feature. It will deliver every dog hair, Cheerio, and grain of dirt directly into the trash bag. It cuts down on all the allergens in your surrounding environment, and your room will feel more fresh.
Place the broom in front of the vacuum feature to start the powerful vortex suction and Bruno will do the rest. Bruno will also remind you to take the trash out on trash day, so your house will be completely free of bad smells.
13. Re-Q makes your own at-home eco-soap.
Re-Q is an eco-friendly soap maker that recycles domestic wastewater and the last wedges of used soap! So there’s no more waste and no more pollution! It has a 3-step process. The machine purifies grey water, mixes it with soap bits, and then processes it into new soap! Brilliant!
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 3.1: Schematics of the Reservoir model
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
API American Petroleum Institute
EOR Enhanced Oil Recovery
FOE Field Oil Efficiency
FOPT Field Oil Production Total
GOR Gas – Oil Ratio
MMP Minimum Miscibility Pressure
PVT Pressure Volume Temperature
1.1 Background of the Study
An average hydrocarbon field project is expected to move from the exploration stage up until the production stage before abandonment. While still at the production stage, which is the most critical and important stage, it comes to a point where there is a drastic drop in production as the rate fall subsequently. In conventional oil recovery projects, the decline of primary production to an uneconomic level led to the development of various schemes to improve the oil recovery efficiency before abandonment of a reservoir. The term enhanced oil recovery (EOR) principally refers to the recovery of oil by any method beyond the primary stage of oil production. It is defined as the production of crude oil from the reservoirs through processes taken to increase the primary reservoir drive. These processes may include pressure maintenance, injection of displacing fluids, or other methods such as thermal techniques. Therefore, by definition, EOR techniques include all methods that are used to increase cumulative oil produced (oil recovery) as much as possible (Al-Anazi, 2007).
Enhanced oil recovery can be divided into two major types of techniques: thermal and non-thermal recovery. Non-thermal recovery methods can be split into: water flooding, gas injection (including: LPG miscible slug, enriched gas miscible process, high pressure lean gas miscible process, carbon dioxide process) and chemical processes (including: micellar polymer flooding, caustic flooding, polymer flooding). Thermal recovery refers to oil recovery processes in which heat plays the principal role. The most widely used thermal techniques are in situ combustion, continuous injection of hot fluids such as steam, water or gases, and cyclic operations such as steam soaking (Taber, et al., 1997).
In gas injection processes there are two main types of gas injection, miscible gas injection and immiscible gas injection. In miscible gas injection, the gas is injected at or above minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) which causes the gas to be miscible in the oil. On the other hand, in immiscible gas injection, flooding by the gas is conducted below MMP. This low-pressure injection of gas is used to maintain reservoir pressure to prevent production cut-off and thereby increase the rate of production (Selamat, et al., 2008).
Thus, reservoir pressure is decreased by exploitation and production, leading to reduction in production. And since the role of oil and crude oil in International market and the world economy non-negligible, the adoption of appropriate contraptions and optimum enhanced oil recovery methods to improve efficiency and increase production have been a priority in Oil and gas industry.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Primary recovery or natural production is applied for oil extraction under natural driving mechanisms in a reservoir without the use of external energy. As earlier mentioned, a reservoir has a natural economic production short span, hence it is obvious natural energies can’t provide appropriate power for optimum recovery of oil to the surface. Thus, the need to explore enhanced recovery methods such as gas-injection.
1.3 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of using gas injection to improve oil recovery. The objectives of this study are:
(i) Build a model to evaluate Primary recovery
(ii) Introduction of one and two injection wells to enhance recovery
(iii) Carry out sensitivity studies.
(iv) Evaluate increment recovery from the gas injection wells
(v) Try different gas injection patterns
1.4 Significance of the Study
The significance of this project will include:
(i) Carry out economic justification of the project
(ii) The study will help to stop gas flaring but rather proper utilization of gas
for improved production.
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North Carolina Set To Compensate Forced Sterilization Victims
North Carolina could become the first state to compensate people who were forcibly sterilized in programs across the country that began during the Great Depression and continued for decades, targeting individuals deemed feeble-minded or otherwise unfit.
In a proposed budget, lawmakers have set aside $10 million for one-time payments to an estimated 1,500 people still alive who were part of a state program that sterilized 7,600 men, women and children from 1929 to 1974. The amount of each payout would be determined by how many people came forward.
North Carolina is among 32 states that ran so-called eugenics programs, although may states abandoned them after World War II because of the movement's association with the practices of Nazi Germany. By contrast, North Carolina actually expanded its program in the postwar era.
Advocates of eugenics believed that involuntary sterilization of individuals deemed inferior would strengthen the gene pool and reduce poverty.
Julie Rose, of member station WFAE in Charlotte, N.C., reports on Thursday's All Things Considered that fewer than 200 people have come forward so far, meaning each of them could get as much as $50,000, but possibly far less. If 1,000 people seek compensation, for example, each one would get only $10,000.
The payments wouldn't be made until 2015. And The Associated Press notes, "as lawmakers have debated the issue, hundreds of aging victims are thought to have died."
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Auto parts can be broadly divided into two categories, original (OEM, or “original equipment manufacturer”) and duplicate auto parts. The original parts tend to be
more reliable, more durable and safer of the two, since these parts are backed by big brands or the actual car manufacturer.
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a duplicate part and that would not last as long as the original part would nor will it give the same performance.
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duplicate parts claiming that they were the original ones.
With the technology to manufacture these auto parts becoming even simpler and cheaper, the tendency of people to develop these cheaper, less safe, auto parts will only
increase and this will ultimately give rise to issues which will create suffering for all involved. This trend should be discontinued as although these cheaper parts
increase profit, it does so by placing people´s lives at risk and ignoring the safety of the consumers which is a very dirty strategy of doing business.So be sure to
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With the academic year under way in Kazakhstan, the country's education system is back in the spotlight. In connection with President Nursultan Nazarbayev's desire to turn Kazakhstan into one of the world's 50 most competitive economies, officials want to make rapid progress in raising education standards.
There is a lot to be done. Specialists say the system, as presently configured, has numerous shortcomings. "The main problem is that it's not really producing the people the country needs because the focus of the education system is not on producing people with the analytical and transferable skills they need to survive in the modern world," Paul Bartlett, Almaty-based teacher trainer and education consultant, told EurasiaNet.
The government reform plan is nothing if not comprehensive. Education funding -- some $4.7 billion this year -- has grown by seven times over the last 10 years, according to the Education and Science Ministry. The state now plans to boost spending from 3.6 percent of GDP currently to 7 percent.
The reform plan contains a large amount of funding for school construction/renovation, as well as a move in 2010 from an 11- to 12-year program of schooling. There is also money for opening 30 specialized language schools to achieve Nazarbayev's goal of producing students who are able to speak Kazakh, Russian and English. In addition, the Education Ministry is expanding computer access and wants to double the number of schools with an Internet connection to 96 percent, a ministry official, Farkhad Kuanganov, told EurasiaNet in written responses to questions.
Another major element of the plan is boosting notoriously low teacher salaries. Teachers got a 30 percent salary increase in 2007, and will enjoy pay hikes of 25 percent in 2009 and 2010, and 30 percent in 2011, bringing average monthly salary to 64,000 tenge ($530). "The correlation of the salary of a Kazakhstani teacher to GDP per head of the population remains significantly lower than in OECD countries, and lower than in Russia," acknowledged Kuanganov.
Some education specialists in Kazakhstan wonder whether the spending increases will produce desired results. "If they're putting that much money into education and they're not paying the teachers [high salaries], where's the money going?" asked a Western professor based in Kazakhstan, speaking to EurasiaNet on condition of anonymity. "I would suggest corruption. Whose pocket is it going into?"
"[Pupils] are bribing their way through high school," the Western professor said. "There are terrible attempts to bribe their way into university. ? The bribery continues at the professors' level." The graft stems from low pay for teaching staff but "makes the system really rotten," he added. The Education Ministry points to its anti-corruption plan, with measures including confidential phone lines and postboxes for reporting bribery, along with computer-based state-controlled testing to eliminate opportunities for graft.
In a public opinion survey on the education system, bribery ranked only as the third most serious concern among respondents. The poll -- conducted by Berkut Monitoring in April and May, and published in the Respublika newspaper in July -- revealed that citizens are more concerned about the poor quality of teachers and the lack of adequate textbooks.
Bartlett suggested that teachers may not be so much poorly-qualified as they are ill-equipped to deal with reforms, as teacher-training initiatives fail to trickle down: "It's coming from the top down and I think they maybe need to develop things from the bottom up."
Some observers argue that the Unified National Test (ENT), a standardized exam introduced in 2004, promotes rote learning and makes it more difficult for students to thrive in the Western-style learning environment that Kazakhstan wishes to embrace. The ministry disagrees, saying it provides an objective knowledge assessment and assists decision-making for education managers. Public opinion is evenly split on ENT, according to the Berkut Monitoring survey, with 41.9 percent positive and 40.3 percent negative. A report in July that a teacher at a military college in Petropavl was arrested on suspicion of selling ENT responses for $400 fuelled suspicion that the test is subject to corruption, though the ministry says the answers are "state secrets."
Another question is whether everyone is really behind the move to Western standards. "Education is in turmoil here," the Western professor said. "I want to say that it's heading in the right direction, but there are factions in the Education Ministry who want a Western education and there are factions with the old dinosaur mentality."
One sign of the administration's commitment to improving standards is the Bolashak grant program that sends 3,000 Kazakhstani students abroad to study annually. Despite controversy over the program, including claims of nepotism and graft in grant allocation, observers say students often return with a sound education and altered mindsets that benefit the country. New quotas this year will give rural students more opportunities to study abroad.
To improve things back home, the government has moved to weed out poorly performing universities, closing 36 higher education institutions that were deemed not to meet national standards. In addition, Kazakhstan has committed to the Bologna Process, which aims to harmonize European education standards, and is planning to seek international accreditation of higher education institutions. Over 30 million tenge of budget funds has been allocated for five universities to work towards international accreditation this year, Kuanganov said.
No matter how much money is poured into the education system, the Western professor expressed the belief that things will change "only when those people rooted in the old Soviet education system are gone."
"That may take 20-25 years," the professor added.
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I enjoyed reading a recent Newsweek article titled, “The Comeback Country,” which pointed out that America’s pursuit of efficiency, innovation and our ability to “do more with less” is what drives this country’s greatness. While the article tempered optimism with realism in looking at our economic progress through the recession and beyond, the author reminded us that those elements that made America great to begin with are still with us.
San Antonio has certainly always done more with less – from the defense of the Alamo to building the River Walk to Hemisfair to the creation of the Medical Center to seizing the BRAC opportunities, we have looked to the future with optimism and hope and worked together to reach seemingly impossible goals.
We have most of the elements of a growth economy that we need to enjoy not only a comeback as a city but to take a giant leap forward. In Economics 101, we learn that the resources needed to create wealth are land, labor, capital and ability. Whether it’s personal wealth or the prosperity of a city with more than one million people, these basic elements do not change.
Available, affordable land and buildings are critical to a growth infrastructure, and San Antonio is well positioned with both. Our labor pool is sizeable, young and bilingual – all critical elements in this new global economy.
Capital is an area San Antonio must continue to build, seeking new ways to bring in venture capital and seed money. But, we can do it. We have the ability and that American innovative spirit. We have continued to strengthen our position in the cybersecurity and IT industries, and we have been able to leverage our strength in healthcare with our long history as a military city to bring the headquarters for military medicine to San Antonio. This is efficiency, innovation and making the most of what we have.
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Meet Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel has spent his career standing up for democracy and transparency in government. He is a former U.S. Senator from Alaska, having served two terms from 1969-1981. Before that, he served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963-1966, and as Speaker from 1965-1966. He ran for the Democratic Nomination for President in 2008.
In 1971, Mike Gravel engaged in a five month, one-man filibuster that forced an end to the Vietnam Draft. Mike Gravel is responsible for the official release of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the lies of three presidential administrations that led the United States into the Vietnam War. Mike Gravel believed his constituents needed to know the truth about their government if democracy was, and is, to survive. Soon after, he published The Pentagon Papers in 1971, and was prosecuted by the Nixon Justice Department all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
Mike Gravel is the author of Jobs and More Jobs and Citizen Power, and is also the coauthor of A Political Odyssey and The Kingmakers. He is the Founder of The Democracy Foundation, which sponsors the meta-legislative proposal, the National Initiative for Democracy: Mike Gravel’s proposal for enabling citizens to make laws by initiative.
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Removing the old replica log from the disk itself is simple. What we need to make sure is that all potential outstanding operations on the deleted log are handled properly. In particular, we don't want any potential IOException due to the missing log causes the broker to halt.
1. All read operations are ok since we already handle unexpected exceptions in KafkaApi.
2. Writing to the log by the producer request, the replica fetcher or the log flusher: We need to make sure that after the log is deleted, no more writes/flushes will be attempted on the log. This can be achieved by:
2.1 For producer requests, the delete partition operation will synchronize on the leaderAndIsrUpdate lock.
2.2 For replica fetcher, this is already handled since the fetcher is removed before the log is deleted.
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Arguing with Pro-Life Derpers 101
On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we can all pat ourselves on the back for making it one more year without a theocratic take-over of our own personal wombs. Good work, everyone!
Sure, self-proclaimed life enthusiasts say they just care deeply about babies, but it’s important to cast a skeptical eye on a person’s self-reported motivations before you hand over the keys to your womb with modest, downcast eyes. They love the sinner, and hate the sin, too, and that doesn’t work out too well for the sinner.
There are somewhat graphic descriptions of bad things that can happen during pregnancy and to cause it. A trigger warning bunny is in effect.
So, they hate abortions – which, for clarity, we’ll define as the intentional halting of a pregnancy in progress. A pregnancy is a process in which a genetically distinct, developing embryo attaches itself to some tissue, commonly the endometrium, suppresses its parent’s immune system and produces its own hormones, such as hCG, the one urine pregnancy tests measure, that circulate within the parent and can cause various complications, syndromes, and side-effects, including death. This process, left untreated, will end in one of two ways: a miscarriage (or spontaneous abortion), or in a live birth. Both results can have major psychological and physiological consequences for the pregnant person.
Notice anything these two images have in common? If you guessed, “they completely erase the existence of the pregnant person who privately owns and manages the womb in question,” you win! The first line of the accompanying text is worth highlighting as well:
A fetus located in the womb has no protection under Canadian law.
How unfair that Canadian law ignores those poor fetuses located in the womb, when fetuses who are located in their one bedroom apartments and spend their days walking their dog and self-actualizing up a storm enjoy the full protections and responsibilities of citizenship! What an outrage that:
when it changes location and travels a few inches out of the birth canal, it is suddenly recognized as a precious little person. [Italics mine, bold in original]
“The birth canal.” Otherwise known as my vagina. It’s not Ellis Island! I do actually have complete authority when it comes to what exits (and for that matter, what enters) my vagina and when, and for how long. That’s the thought that keeps them up at night: that I, a lowly woman, helpmeet to Adam, might be using my own personal nethers as I see fit, saying no to some people, yes to others; no to some fetuses, yes to others. To the creators of that image, though, the birth canal is the only part of the woman worth mentioning when discussing pregnancy. The fetus suddenly (there are many accurate adjectives for giving birth. This is typically not one of them) moves a few inches, so what’s the difference? The location of the fetus is irrelevant only if women are irrelevant.
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And that’s the core of the issue: the erasure of women. Our health is irrelevant. Many of you no doubt remember John McCain putting up air quotes when he contemptuously uttered the phrase, “health of the mother.” But many of Queereka’s readers are probably too young to remember another phrase that was once common knowledge: septic abortion ward. Not giving a shit about women’s health was kind of the thing to do in the 70s: doing a big study on the symptoms of heart attacks? No need for female test subjects! Need data on depo provera? Informed consent is such a hassle; just give it to Puerto Ricans.
Before Roe legalized the most common outpatient surgical procedure, women still needed it, and they sought assistance from unscrupulous individuals who also cared little or nothing for their health. If they were lucky, they were put in touch with a network like Jane, which actually did facilitate safe, illegal abortions by trained medical professionals. As a last resort, they would attempt to self-abort, leading to the iconic coathanger as the symbol of that era. The main purpose of the coathanger was not actually to complete the abortion, but to cause enough blood loss that a doctor would diagnose a spontaneous abortion and complete it in a hospital. Women bled to death by inadvertently puncturing one of the large arteries that feeds the uterus, or by perforating their uterus and contracting an infection at the site. The infections could lead to septicemia, which is when the infection spreads to the blood stream (hence, septic abortion) and is an incredibly painful condition that can be fatal.
To show how much has changed, consider that according to the CDC’s abortion surveillance and maternal mortality surveillance, more women die every year from childbirth than have died in every year from legal abortion since Roe combined. Since 60% of people who get abortions already have at least one child, that’s a lot fewer motherless children. Abortion is simply safer than continuing a pregnancy to term, and that means fewer people who are permanently disabled in some way by being pregnant. It means fewer people out of work for months while their c-section scar heals. It means fewer people with post-partum depression, fewer bodies that give out from multiple pregnancies, even fewer murdered women (a woman’s risk of being murdered goes way up when she’s pregnant. Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women).
Pregnancy is dangerous business. I admire anyone who does it, because actually building another person (rather than merely surrounding them until they take the bold, few inches move) is nothing short of phenomenal. So phenomenal, so important, in fact, that religions take that credit and that power away from women and give it to men, or to male gods. People who can literally build other people are then scolded by the representative of the Cosmic Dudebro.
This pervasive belittling of the enormous work and sacrifice of a person who becomes a mother angers me to the point of apoplexy. I hate it when someone asks, “If you’re an atheist, then who do you think made you?” as if the answer isn’t so obvious as to make the question obscene. My mother made me! And her mother made her! And it turns out, it’s been mothers making mothers for quite some time now. It’s a tale as old as sexual dimorphism.
This erasure is the dictionary definition of contempt: the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. It’s hatred of women. And talking to someone with that mindset is just hard – it’s emotionally draining, infuriating, and humiliating to explain to yet another blowhard why I am not the scum of the Earth for having sex while female, why that doesn’t have anything to do with whether I am entitled to the full menu of medical options to which I can give my informed consent, and where he can go pound sand. Here are some pointers for how to keep these conversations short and to the point by recognizing what kind of fetus fetishist you’re dealing with so you can bait them, slam them with their own bullshit and get on with your day.
In my grand experience as a professional Internet Feminist, I’ve encountered two major species of forced birth advocates.
The first group just does not give enough of a fuck to actually learn anything about pregnancy, the history of abortion rights, or which policies actually reduce the abortion rate. They’re the first to cry, “baby murderer!” but when asked how much time a person should spend in prison for this “murder,” will get a blank look. Convinced you’ve tricked them somehow, they’ll backpedal to a stance of compassion and forgiveness, or occasionally admit that they haven’t given it any thought (often framed accusingly as, “I’m not a lawyer so how should I know?”).
This type will not have the faintest idea what a pregnancy actually entails, mistakenly believing that life “begins” despite the mountain of evidence that life has continued in an unbroken chain for several billion years (there’s a strong overlap with people who believe in a literal biblical creation, but I digress).
They imagine that as soon as a man ejaculates, a tiny homunculus is born and immediately endowed with a soul. No matter the circumstances of conception, this homunculus has the absolute right to colonize the womb and emerge from the birth canal when it sees fit. Sometimes, hammering at them with actual facts can change their minds, or at least force themselves into a rhetorical box. Don’t get angry with them – yet.
I encountered this species in the wild last night, after I posted the seed of this rant to a debating group.
This argument is surprisingly common despite making absolutely no sense. The reason for an abortion is that you have found yourself pregnant, and you desire to be unpregnant. I questioned him further, asking if he really believed that abstaining from sex would end a pregnancy, or if he was so unfamiliar with the mechanism of action of birth control that he thought it caused an abortion (and if so, how/why he thought this was an alternative to an abortion). I philosoraptored about whether there is no reason get a cast, when you had the option of not breaking your leg.
The irony of a dudely paean to the importance of caution in preventing unplanned pregnancy, as if that’s why he’d never gotten pregnant, was lost on him. We went around several more times, but he could never just focus on the fact that it’s fundamentally impossible to prevent a pregnancy you’re already pregnant with. This type may not hate women the way the second type does, but he assumes, with the slimy certainty common to all mansplainers, that he is smarter than any mere lady, and must be right, for he is the man in the conversation.
The second group are the more active haters. They know women will be maimed and killed by their policies. They don’t care, in several ways. Some don’t care because in their mind, the life of a precious proto-male is innocent and therefore superior to the life of a grown member of the sex-class whom we know for sure has had the sex, rendering her impure.
Some might – might – relent and approve of an emergency crypto-abortion-by-hysterectomy to save the life of the woman if there is no hope for the fetus. But everyone involved has to pretend that the abortion is an unintended side effect of removing the fetus from the body. For this fiction to be maintained, the woman must be sacrificially maimed.
Generally, they will take the position that anyone who finds themselves possessed of a uterus must avoid sex at all costs unless they receive prior authorization from their local priest, imam, boyfriend, or father. If they have sex with a male person of their own accord, they must have known pregnancy was a possible result, and must be punished with ‘consequences’ for their ‘irresponsibility.’ A man has sexed her – and we have proof! – so therefore, he must pay her father 40 shekels and buy, er, marry her, and she shall cleave to him, for she shall only earn 70 cents on the dollar and cannot support these children she was forced to have on her own.
This is nonsense, of course, as this is the same camp that campaigns tirelessly against sex education for minors that would let them know what kinds of sex can result in pregnancy, accessible birth control for minors that would allow them to have heteroprocreative sex responsibly, and acceptance of homosexuality as an alternative to abstinence. A sincere person would recognize that gay sex is just as effective as abstinence – but with sex! Alas, the Cosmic Dudebro only permits PIV sex without a condom in the missionary position after marriage.
Here’s a tricky example:
Here’s an example of a politician, Sharron Angle, saying that God uses rape to bless women with babies:
” I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. “
It can be hard to tell immediately whether Sharron Angle is actively chugging the haterade or is just willfully and maliciously ignorant (camps 2 versus 1, respectively). She may be a mix of both, but here is how you would find out. First, be skeptical of the very idea that someone could actually think that being raped is a “life hands you lemons” situation.
She’s no plucky ingenue just making her way in life with nothing but her bright attitude and faithful Collie, Kendell, at her side; and so we can safely assume she’s encountered people in her life who have experienced sexual assault. And when those individuals told Sharron their story, she either acted like a human being and empathized with their pain, or she had a lot of sugar in her purse that day.
She’s also old enough to understand the difference between life handing you lemons, and someone choosing to attack you. So try to pin her down on other violent crimes. I would never advocate kicking someone in the shins to make a point, but it’d be a useful thought experiment to pose to her to see whether she’d call the police and handle it like a normal person, or decorate the bruises with glitter and Lisa Frank stickers.
Finally, the dead give-away is that she stipulates that this child had a “very at risk, difficult pregnancy.” She is fully informed of the risks, but hates those girls so much that she’s willing to risk their lives and their health so that a rapist can have an heir.
In the time it took me to write this post, Rick Santorum santorum’d out another example of this fetid trope where God gives women the gift of rape:
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And so to embrace her and to love her and to support her and get her through this very difficult time, I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you.
Rape: God’s gift that keeps on giving! If burglars broke into Santorum’s house and started a fire, would he scold the firefighters for not accepting God’s broken gift of arson? Does he stand resolute between paramedics and car crash victims, because God sent them the broken gift of broken necks? What a mystery that women are singled out for state mandated presents from Jesus.
Beware Santorum’s chocolate baby-love. If you bite into it, you’ll have a mouth full of the gross Kirsch cherry center of misogyny. You can’t spit it out, either; God sent Santorum to make sure you swallow.
By this point, your subject should have talked himself into a box or said something so horrifyingly misogynist that even the most disinterested dudebro onlooker is taken aback. Good. Now is when you break out the big guns.
Pro-choice policies lower the abortion rate.
The countries with the highest abortion rates are the countries where abortion is illegal and women are imprisoned for decades. These are also, unsurprisingly, countries with really terrible maternal and infant mortality rates. The countries with the lowest abortion rates have safe, accessible abortion. They’re also the countries with easily accessible contraception, gay rights, and comprehensive sex education.
The reason that this is the case is obvious for those of us who understand that women are human. Who has the most incentive to prevent an unplanned pregnancy? People who can get pregnant! So who should we target with the most methods and information about pregnancy prevention? People who can get pregnant! Who cares most about making sure children are raised by loving, healthy parents in a nurturing environment, at a time when the parent is financially stable enough to support that child? Why, the people who are having the kids!
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The L6 vertebra
Most people have five vertebrae in their lumbar (lower back) region, which are named L1 to L5. However, some people possess an additional lumbar vertebra located below the L5. This extra vertebra, known as the L6, is called a transitional vertebra. About 10 percent of adults have some form of spinal abnormality caused by genetics, and a sixth lumbar vertebra is among the most common of these abnormalities.
More about the L6
More often than not, the existence of an L6 does not contribute directly to troublesome spinal conditions. In fact, this vertebra is subject to the same potentially debilitating conditions most people experience at the L5 level. Another difference is the way physicians refer to conditions associated with this transitional vertebra. Rather than speak of it in terms of the L5 to L6 level, it is generally referred to as the L6 to S1 level – denoting an association with the sacral region just below the lumbar vertebrae.
Spinal conditions affecting the L6-S1
Occasionally, the L6 vertebra can become “sacralized,” or attached to the sacrum by a rudimentary joint that creates additional motion – and therefore a greater potential for motion-related stress that can lead to lower back pain. Other conditions that affect this vertebra include a herniated disc, a bulging disc, spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis – all of which can occur at any level of the spine.
Treatment for L6 conditions
Physicians who discover the presence of a sixth lumbar vertebra through the use of an MRI, X-ray or CT scan are likely to prescribe the same type of conservative treatments for chronic pain management as they would for someone without an L6. These methods of treatment include pain medication, physical therapy, behavior modification and more. Occasionally, conservative treatment proves ineffective and a physician might suggest surgery as an option. Rather than settle for traditional open back surgery, contact Laser Spine Institute to learn about the advanced techniques our surgeons utilize that lead to shorter recuperation periods^ when compared to traditional open spine operations. Our minimally invasive procedures are performed on an outpatient basis, and we have helped tens of thousands of patients find relief from back pain. | <urn:uuid:6b61920a-970a-4ffe-9433-d5d2a66fdbe3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.laserspineinstitute.com/back_problems/vertebrae/l6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952726 | 483 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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Thousands of people have witnessed the launch of what has been hailed as the UK's most powerful destroyer.
HMS Daring was sent down the slipway into the River Clyde in Glasgow by the Countess of Wessex.
The ceremony at the BAE Systems shipyard in Scotstoun was also attended by Defence Secretary John Reid.
The Type 45 destroyer is the first of six to be built in Glasgow and the Navy claims it will be the most advanced warship in the world.
With a price tag of £605m, the 150m long vessel weighs in at 7,350 tons. It will officially come into service in 2009.
Each D-class destroyer will have more firepower than the combined fleet of Type 42s.
People of all ages were represented at the event, with babies in prams, school children and their parents and elderly ship launch veterans among the crowds.
A full brass band played as balloons were released and crew members on deck waved as the ship moved into the water.
About 680 tons of drag chains had to be used to slow down the ship and stop it moving too close to Braehead shopping centre on the south bank of the river, where hundreds more stood watching the launch.
The vessel has been designed to defend UK forces from air attacks and weaponry includes the Principal Anti-Air Missile System, which will provide airspace cover for hundreds of miles around.
Lt Cdr Dean Woodruff said: "The combat system is the cutting edge of technology and we've gone to a full electric propulsion system."
The six Royal Navy destroyers are said to have safeguarded more than 2,500 shipbuilding jobs in Glasgow and Portsmouth.
Vic Emery, managing director of BAE Systems Naval Ships, said: "The current contract for six Type 45s will keep this company busy for at least the next six to seven years.
"We are looking for two more Type 45s and we have a bid on the table with the Ministry of Defence to make a class of eight ships. That would reinforce our position."
He added: "The successes we have had in the construction of Daring and the improvements we are delivering on the subsequent ships demonstrate that the Clyde is still the natural home of warship building in the UK."
On board, there is more recreational space for the crew, including the first purpose built fitness centre.
Large mess decks have been replaced by smaller cabins and instead of having to write home all crew will have an internet connection above their bunk.
HMS Daring was launched on the Clyde to cheers from onlookers
Mr Reid said it was a proud day for the Royal Navy.
He added: "Part of the deal is that in reducing the number of warships, that we make them more capable than ever before and this is an example, it's part of the biggest building programme we've had for decades.
"I'm delighted also for the workers on the Clyde because six years ago a lot of people had written them off.
"To see them producing this on spec, on time and on budget is a delight to me.
"And finally, if we salute, as we do, the courage and endurance of our service men and women, we have to make every effort to make sure they get the equipment as well as the training necessary to enhance their battle-winning capabilities and that's what this does."
HMS Daring will now move a few hundred yards down river to a dry dock where the remainder of the work will be carried out.
The vessel will be the seventh Royal Navy ship to bear the Daring name.
The £5.5bn Type 45 programme was ordered by the Ministry of Defence.
The six vessels - HMS Dauntless, Daring, Diamond, Defender, Dragon and Duncan - are all due to be launched from the Clyde.
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Syrian rebels on Sunday fired rockets into a regime-held district of Aleppo, killing three civilians and wounding 15, a monitoring group said.
They were the first casualties since a ceasefire took hold on Thursday in the battleground northern city where regime forces control western districts and the rebels are entrenched in the east.
The ceasefire is due to expire at 2101 GMT on Monday.
It comes as world powers push for a wider cessation of hostilities between rebels and regime forces and a resumption of UN-brokered peace talks.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a woman and a child were among the three civilians killed when the rebels rained rockets down on several districts of western Aleppo city.
Fighting in Aleppo flared up late last month and more than 300 people have been killed in the violence.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., April 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To support the growing number of Pennsylvanians who are trying to quit smoking as a result of the recent increase in federal cigarette taxes, the Department of Health today reminded smokers to call Pennsylvania's toll-free Quitline or visit www.determinedtoquit.com.
"The average smoker makes between five and eight quit attempts before being successful, but those who have support are more likely to succeed," said Secretary of Health Everette James. "The services we provide through our Quitline and Web site can boost your chance of success."
By calling the Quitline at 1-800-QUIT NOW (1-800-784-8669), tobacco users will receive counseling from highly trained intake specialists and cessation counselors. After their initial call, callers may receive up to five scheduled follow-up calls. For individuals who are not yet ready to quit, materials such as a self-help quit guide and tailored fact sheets along with local cessation-service listings are provided. Counselors also provide information on cessation coverage offered by health insurance plans and Medical Assistance.
Smoking cessation information also is available through www.determinedtoquit.com. The Web site provides guidance in developing a quit plan; the quit companion and calculator; and video blogs of other Pennsylvanians sharing their own stories about quitting. There is also information for friends and family members of smokers who wish to support their loved one in their quit attempt.
The Department of Health's anti-tobacco efforts are intended to help individuals to quit - or never start - using tobacco products, and to curb the retail sale of tobacco to minors.
Under the Clean Indoor Air law that took effect last September, smoking is now prohibited in most public places and workplaces across Pennsylvania.
CONTACT: Stacy Kriedeman (717) 787-1783
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A colleague at work said his cable company called with the triumphant news he now has 20 new channels coming into his home. He might as well have gotten a call from the neighborhood thrift store telling him he now gets to keep lots of other folks' useless junk in his basement.
He doesn't want 20 new channels. Also, he is not happy that, in order to enjoy the sports he wants to watch, he has to subsidize all of the rest, including MTV3, E!, and a host of other channels he would prefer not to have a remote-control click away from his grandchildren.
The Canadian government just announced that it will force cable companies up there to unbundle their services, letting Canadians pick and choose — and pay only for — the channels they want to watch.
Canada's minister of industry, James Moore, told NPR, "We don't think it's right for Canadians to have to pay for bundled television channels that they don't watch."
It hurts a little to have our neighbors to the north school us in the ways of the free market. It hurts even more when you realize the United States isn't likely to follow suit.
While Congress dithers over debt ceilings, nobody seems to notice the fire hose of toxic garbage most Americans have hooked to their television sets, or the toll this takes on families and decency. It could be that Washington is afraid. The cable industry spends millions to lobby Congress and to spread the word that civilization will crumble if we got to choose our own channels.
Dan Isett doesn't buy it. He's the director of public policy for the Parents Television Council. I reached him at his office in Northern Virginia, where he was more than happy to counter each argument the cable industry uses.
Chief among these is that once we get to pick and choose channels, we would end up with higher costs. Without the support of non-sports fans who were forced to subsidize them, the folks at ESPN would have to charge anywhere from $13 to $30 a month for that channel alone. Add in CNN and some classic movie channels and you would be broke.
You can look at your own cable bill and figure this one out (hint: the average cost has increased at four times the rate of inflation in recent years).
Isett says, "Think about this logically. Why would an industry argue against being able to charge more money for its product?" If market forces teach us anything, it is that the more choices we have, the cheaper things become. ESPN would have to charge a reasonable price or make do with a lot less viewers. The expensive course is the one we're already on.
What about the level of programming? Without cable bundles, a lot of little specialty channels would disappear, right? Isett likes to turn that one around and ask why a product should have a right to exist when nobody wants it.
Six large networks control virtually everything you see on cable. There are plenty of specialty channels you might like that don't have a prayer of wedging their way into your cable bundle. The current system actually inhibits diversity on television.
Nor does Isett believe raunchy programming would dominate an a la carte television menu. Plenty of evidence shows people want family-friendly programs. Isett said he believes people should be able to get smutty TV if they want it, he just doesn't think everyone else should be forced to subsidize it.5 comments on this story
Congress might shy away from TV choice because it believes the government shouldn't interfere with the television industry. Isett says, "The free market is simply not allowed to work," under the current system. In many communities, one provider has a monopoly.
So far, the only outspoken champion of TV freedom in Congress is Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. That might change if more consumers reacted angrily to getting 20 new useless channels, or to the content of shows they are forced to support.
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What is INBOUND Marketing?
Inbound marketing is based on the idea that your clients are looking for someone exactly like you. One of the best examples of an inbound marketing tool is the old printed Yellow Pages. The Yellow Pages was a book delivered to every home and business. These listings were divided up by types of business and locations of businesses.
Clients found businesses and services by searching in the yellow pages. Whether you needed a dentist, a shoe store, or a pizza, you could find it in the Yellow Pages.
Today, most businesses and households have stopped using phone books to find things they need. Instead, people look on the internet by either searching for what they want directly, or indirectly by doing research online.
Why Non-Interruptive Marketing?
Inbound digital marketing is any activity that helps your clients find you, rather than forcing you to go out looking for them. Another way to think about this type of marketing is to think about non-interruptive marketing. Interruptive marketing is anything that comes uninvited into the client’s space. Cold calling, mass email or mailings, TV commercials, and so on. That kind of advertising interrupts something your potential client is doing.
It’s harder to sell something to someone who has been interrupted.
Give Them Want They Want When They Want It
The easiest way for you to find good clients and customers is to offer them what they want or need, exactly when they are looking for it. An on-line presence allows you to be there whenever a potential client becomes interested in something you have to offer.
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Digital media resides in and through digital networking devices, in other words, on the Internet.
Originally, small and medium-sized businesses made themselves available through the yellow pages, newspaper, and/or radio ads.
With smartphones, computers, and mobiles devices becoming pervasive, fewer customers use the yellow pages to find providers.
Most businesses can get better results with a well-designed, easy to search website. Optional features like blogs, graphics, e-special offers, and frequently updated information items can make your site more likely to be visited.
Popular search engines have robots that look for new sites. They catalog and rate these sites based on a set of criteria. Sites that are considered to offer value to the searcher appear higher on the list of search returns. Also, if sites list an address, sites that are nearer to the user will be considered more relevant. This is especially important when offering a service that cannot be ordered by mail. Few people want an out-of-state bakery or plumber, for instance.
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The spirit of the Mighty Mites rose again Thursday in Fort Worth, this time not as an "orphans' home" but as one of Texas' newest public schools.
For more than a century from 1899 to 2005, Texas Masons and their fraternal lodges embraced children at the old Masonic Home & School, known for the Depression-era football powerhouse Mighty Mites.
Now, 550 children study there at new primary and middle schools in a Dallas-based charter system.
"These children are here for a better environment, education and opportunity, just like we were," said Arthur Calcaterra, a 1996 graduate visiting the new Uplift Mighty Prep, one of two Fort Worth schools opened this fall by Uplift Education.
Fort Worth advisory board Chairman George P. Bush couldn't make the reception. But Uplift's chief executive, former management consultant Yasmin Bhatia of Dallas, told Masonic Home alumni she hopes to "bring back the pride and make your story part of our school."
If you haven't heard, Uplift is the new public school system in town.
The renovated, $2 million-plus Uplift Mighty opened in August in school buildings behind what is now the ACH Child and Family Services agency, both sharing the former Masonic Home property.
Uplift Mighty offers kindergarten through second grades and also sixth and seventh grades, serving mostly children from Polytechnic Heights, Rolling Hills and Forest Hill. A second Uplift school, Meridian, opened in a former RadioShack service center on South Beach Street.
Most of Uplift's schools are rated "exemplary." The system is considered to be on the leading edge of public education reform.
Led by board President Kevin Bryant of Crow Holdings in Dallas, trustees want to double enrollment to about 15,000 with new schools in Fort Worth and Arlington.
Among the guests Thursday was the author who brought the Mighty Mites' story to a new generation, bestselling sports novelist Jim Dent of Allen ( Twelve Mighty Orphans).
One of the leading characters in Orphans is former Masonic Home and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Hardy Brown.
Dent retold the story of Brown's comment to the late NFL Films co-founder, Steve Sabol.
Sabol asked Brown, "How did you get so tough?"
Brown's reply: "At the Home."
"He said he'd never met anybody tougher," Dent said. "That's the legend of this place."
It's still Mighty.
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Technology innovation continues to grow and thrive in our modern world. Many innovative technologies once began with only a circuit board and a dream. One such invention was Steve Job’s original “Apple computer.” Working from within his parents’ garage with his friend and technical advisor, Steve Wozniak, Steve and Steve created one of the first working circuit boards to go in their first original computer that was meant for human consumption.
After this era of original discovery, the idea of creating one’s technology, ideas, and creative inventions spread. Today, it is possible to create your circuit board using a process that is verified and tested to be successful.
For computer manufacturers, this is especially important because the circuit board is the heart of a computer system. In essence, it is the “brain” of your machine from which you attach all other peripherals and components. But this process is complicated, even for the most tech-savvy professionals. Sometimes it helps to connect to professional engineers and others in the tech business to form a bond with people who can help you take your ideas to the next level.
If you are creating a circuit board from scratch, you need to make sure you get it right, especially if you are planning to include the board in your computers that you plan to ship to consumers. You may need the help of PCB design companies. The tricky part is creating a great product without the glitches so that you will not suffer financial hardship because you overlooked a serious mistake before you sent it to market.
How are printed circuit boards made?
Circuit boards are created by placing electronic components into a machine and by applying the photolithographic process in a similar way to how conductive paths in processors are made. You are putting in a board with soldier dabs that the machine reads are pathways to other components.
Once you do this, the PCB bakes in an oven that is created to create circuit boards and other components, and this melts the solder and puts the connections in place in a similar way to welding. Since most PCBs are made from glass-reinforced plastic or fiberglass with copper traces, this process usually happens quickly. But you need the equipment and the tools to do it.
Printed circuit boards come in options of one layer or up to 12 sheets for more complex devices. They can also be produced in any color.
It is possible to include as many layers as you want but you should make sure that your creation meets the standards of the computer industry before ordering the duplication of your invention. Your device should also be thoroughly tested before creating more units to avoid overextending your budget for a bad product.
This is known in tech circles as “lean UX” and involves the careful analysis of the quality of components before sending to manufacturing. This is very important to save you grief down the road and avoid a financial loss.
One of the biggest benefits of working with a PCB designer, you get the best available services for designing the ideal PCB that is both complex and functional coupled with cutting edge technology. Before enlisting the services of PCB company, it is important to make sure they are a reputable business in the printed circuit board industry. Once their credentials have been verified, there are many advantages of working with the professional services of a PCB designer.
One advantage includes the ease of making repairs and diagnostics. PCB design services make sure components are labeled on the board and placed in predetermined locations depending on their functionality, making the process of repairing and diagnosing issues quite simple. Another advantage, path lengths in the electrical current can be reduced, which minimizes low electrical noise by enlisting a PCB designer. This ensures limited pickup and low radiation of electromagnetic waves.
The ultimate advantage of working with a professional service is that PCB designers can reduce the cross-talk between traces and components, making the manufactured PCB function as required with the added benefit of having a design without any signal issues. In today’s marketplace, electronics are being manufactured at a breakneck pace because the demand for them is high; therefore, when it comes to a PCB design for your application, it needs to perform like a Rolex watch. | <urn:uuid:bf265d9a-c77c-466c-a394-7e9a67c7e447> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.codywildwestdays.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.965043 | 854 | 3.40625 | 3 |
By Alan Elsner
Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned the promotion of religion in public schools in 1963, the Bible has virtually disappeared from most American classrooms.
But in recent years, as evangelical Christians have grown in numbers and gained political clout in the United States, Bible studies have been creeping back into schools.
Now, a new textbook for high school students aims to fill a gap by teaching the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, in a nonsectarian, nonreligious way as a central document of Western civilization with a vast influence on its literature, art, culture and politics.
"It's not about belief. It's about crucial knowledge and knowledge belongs in our schools," said Chuck Stetson, a New York investment banker who is the driving force behind and co-author of "The Bible and Its Influence" -- a glossy, 387-page book recently released and now being tested in a small number of schools mainly on the West Coast.
Stetson knows he was stepping into a potential minefield. But he said polls have shown that over two-thirds of Americans want to see the Bible taught in public schools while only around 8 percent of schools were offering it.
The process of approving the book for use in schools differs from state to state and district to district. In some places, it can be added to the curriculum as an elective by the principal; other locales require the approval of a local school board and in some places the state itself would have to approve it. Stetson is hoping to see the book used by hundreds of school districts by the next academic year.
"This is the first student textbook we've had that is both constitutional and age appropriate," said Charles Hayes of the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center, a nonpartisan foundation that monitors free speech.
"It teaches the subject in a way that will satisfy people who take the Bible as their scripture, but it will also appeal to a broad range of students interested in becoming biblically literate," he said.
"The Bible and Its Influence" is not the only game in town. A North Carolina group called the National Council on Bible Curriculum in the Public Schools has a Bible course now being used in 316 school districts in 37 states.
'CROSSES THE LINE'
The Anti Defamation League has denounced this program, which uses the King James translation of the Bible as its text, saying it "blatantly crosses the line by teaching fundamental Protestant doctrine." But the group's legal counsel Mike Johnson denied this.
"Take the resurrection of Christ. A teacher cannot tell a classroom that it's a historical fact. That would be a violation of the Constitution. But a teacher can say that the Bible says it's a historical fact," he said.
"One can't teach that the Bible is objectively true, but one shouldn't teach that it's objectively false," he added.
"The Bible and Its Influence" sets out its ground rules and philosophy on its opening pages. "You are going to study the Bible academically, not devotionally. In other words, you are learning about the Bible and its role in language and culture," it tells its readers.
"You will be given an awareness of religious content of the Bible but you will not be pressed into accepting religion. You will study about religion as presented in the Bible but you will not be engaged in the practice of religion."
With prominent theologians of different religions and denominations among its editorial board, the authors made a serious effort to make sure that the book did not elevate one religion over any other.
"We caught quite a few factual mistakes, but I also looked for places where the Christian point of view was assumed. There were some and we made some changes," said Marc Stein, general counsel of the American Jewish Committee who reviewed the text before publication.
Still, there has been criticism of the book coming from both the political left and right. On the liberal side, Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said the book sanitized the effect of religion throughout history, by minimizing Christian support for slavery and Christian anti-Semitism.
"To teach religion objectively, you really have to teach the good, the bad and the ugly and this book only teaches the good," he said.
On the other side, Dennis Cuddy, a Christian conservative who has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Education, said the book raised doubts about God and prompted students to ask the wrong questions.
"If you are going to teach the Bible, are you going to teach it as if it were the word of God? At the least, it should be taught as truthful. It shouldn't be presented as something that is false," he said.
But Joan Spence, a high school teacher in Battleground, Washington, said she as well as students of her elective English class on the Bible appreciated it very much.
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Washington, DC…Yesterday, four Americans lost their lives after an attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador Chris Stevens and Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith were among those killed.
This morning, President Obama condemned that attack, which he called “outrageous and shocking” in a statement from the Rose Garden.
“We’re working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats,” he said. “I’ve also directed my Administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.”
Ambassador Stevens had a history of dedicated service in Libya, and as he spoke to reporters, the President described the work to which Stevens devoted his.
“At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi,” President Obama said. “With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there.”
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Working with our customers day in and day out, I tend to get a sense for what the language barrier is between someone in the vendor role against someone who is in the buyer role.
You probably won't be shocked that what may sound like simple language can get quickly confusing, misunderstood, and outright tuned out by either side of the aisle.
The point of this post is to attempt to dispel the misunderstanding behind what a solution architecture (at least in our context) is. If you're not interested, or don't work with vendors much, stop reading now, and know I won't be offended.
Alright... Since you're still reading I can only assume that this has caught your attention, and you're interested in learning more. Let's move on then!
First a little background...
The concept of a solution architecture has been over-used since I first heard it back in 1998 when we were putting in firewalls and wanted to design the most effective way to implement.
Over time the term has become widely over-used to the point where meaning is largely lost... and sadly most people on the buyer side of the aisle think it's just some marketing term, or a way to get you to buy more of whatever widget is being sold.
While I admit that the term has been tarnished, but I assure you that there is still value in it.
I've recently started using it more as my organization evolves. We've always been a "way more than just software" type of vendor - but putting words to practice has been this group's mission for a while now, and it's refreshing frankly.
What is a 'solution architecture'?
Alright then, if we're to pull the tarnish off the phrase, we need to give it a solid meaning that has substance and value. A quick check of the Internets reveals what I've already suspected - we have a great definition to start from:
Solution architecture in enterprise architecture is a kind of architecture domain, that aims to address specific problems and requirements, usually through the design of specific information systems or applications.
Solution architecture is either:
- Documentation describing the structure and behavior of a solution to a problem, or
- A process for describing a solution and the work to deliver it.
So Wikipedia knows best, once again. Our definition of a solution architecture is exactly those two bullet points above. And it starts by asking one critical question... "Why?"
Yup. We ask "why?" Let me be outright about this- if someone tries to tell you what you need without first asking why you're asking for it... fire them.
How can a electrician tell you what's wrong with your house's wiring without first asking you what type of home you live in, who built it, when it was built and other basic seeding questions.
Why should this be any different for your Software Security Assurance program? You can't reasonably expect to succeed with a vendor provided solution to a problem you haven't laid out and defined.
What you should expect next is a series of interviews, in-depth probative questions, analysis and a sprinkle of industry experience and expertise. In proportion and in the hands of a true industry expert what you will receive back is a prescriptive plan for execution... more than that, a plan for success.
Even more importantly, it's a plan that outlines success by your definition of success, within your organization's parameters, timeline and resources. How'd you like them apples?
What's the big deal?
The big deal is that many organizations simply dismiss this all-critical step as part of the sales motion. I guess I can't blame those who dismiss this opportunity... I've seen some bad solution architectures in my time.
Heck, I've seen solution architecture that were delivered independent of the customer, from marketing slides, or by someone who had no idea what they were doing... and that all goes to tarnish the true power of a great solution architecture.
Look, I'm not saying everyone's an expert... and I don't want you to think that I'm trying to sell you on my methodology (yes, yes these are the droids you are looking for!), or that what we provide is necessarily something magical.
My goal is to make you aware that if you're not taking an opportunity to interact with your SSA vendor on this deep level... you're doing yourself and your organization a disservice. Honest.
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A dead NASA climate satellite definitely fell back to Earth early Saturday morning — but we may never know exactly where, agency officials said.
The Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) re-entered Earth's atmosphere overnight Friday evening, most likely within 20 minutes of 12:16 a.m. EDT today (0416 GMT), Nick Johnson, chief orbital debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, told reporters during a news briefing Saturday. At that time, it would have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, well off the coast of North America, he added.
However, determining exactly when the satellite's plunge occurred, and where, is not an easy thing.
"We may never know," Johnson said.
That's because NASA and the U.S. Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California rely on ground-based radars and optical sensors at 25 sites worldwide to gather data about where dead satellites, like UARS, are located. These sensors make up the Space Surveillance Network. Sometimes, though, the spacecraft may not be passing over any of them. [Photos of NASA's Huge Falling Satellite UARS]
"One of the ways you find out a satellite is no longer in orbit is you have sensors in the Space Surveillance Network go look for it, and if they don’t find it then it has re-entered," Johnson explained.
To make sure a spacecraft has truly fallen back to Earth, it must have missed three opportunities to have been spotted by sensors. "In this particular case it took a while for the satellite track to go over three sensors," Johnson said. "Sometimes it happens, it's not uncommon at all."
For that reason, it took NASA several hours to confirm that UARS had re-entered, and the agency still isn't able to pinpoint exactly when. If the spacecraft fell even about five minutes after 12:16 a.m. EDT (0416 GMT), then it might have fallen over Canada. However, so far NASA has received no credible reports of people on the ground observing the spacecraft's plunge, Johnson said.
"UARS, whether it came in during the local day or local night, would have clearly been visible," Johnson said. "If we continue to have a lack of reports of seeing something that looks like a re-entering UARS, that would give further credence to the fact that it was probably over water."
There are, however, an abundance of incredible reports. Many people around the world have already exchanged photos and videos of what they think might have been the death plunge of UARS. Almost all of these people, however, were in parts of the world significantly removed from where the satellite was passing over at the time.
The $750 million satellite was launched in 1991 to study Earth's ozone layer, and was decommissioned in 2005. At 6.5 tons, UARS was the largest NASA satellite to fall uncontrolled from space since 1979. [6 Biggest Spacecraft to Fall Uncontrolled From Space]
NASA and the Joint Space Operations Center will continue to investigate the fall of UARS. But ultimately, officials said they anticipate being left with some mysteries.
"This is not an unusual event," Johnson said. "We do not always know precisely where these re-entries occur and this is not a unique situation to UARS."
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One of the most often asked questions I get at clinics is how to play fast tempos without tiring. To be able to play ANY tempo well, we have to make sure that a few things are correctly in place first.
The drum set is unique in that it is a collection of individual percussion instruments that must achieve a unified voice. It’s like a combo with four musicians; it has to sound unified, not scattered or disconnected. If one member of the band is out of sync, the whole band sounds bad; this same principle applies to our time feel.
The first thing we must master at the drums is that all four limbs are unified by a common pulse or beat. We also have to make sure that there is a sonic balance among all four limbs. By balance, I do not mean equal volume. Today, most drummers prefer the ride cymbal to be more dominant than the bass drum but this was not always the case. In the Swing era, the bass drum was played much louder. Use your best judgment or ask your teacher for advice or just listen to your favorite drummer to get a better idea.
Set your metronome to a comfortable quarter note pulse, somewhere between 100-120. If this is too fast for you, slow it down as needed.
1.) Now start with the ride cymbal playing quarter notes to match the click from the metronome.
2.) Once this is feeling good, add hi hat on 2 and 4 and make sure they line up with the metronome. I strongly recommend heel down with on the hi hat pedal but you may prefer heel up. Try both ways.
With just these two parts of the kit, we should be able to generate a good time feel.
3.) Next add a slight accent on 2 and 4 on your ride cymbal by raising your arm up after beats 1 and 3 in preparation for the strokes on 2 and 4. Think Moeller: upstroke after 1/downstroke on 2/upstroke after 3/downstroke on 4. (See photos 1 and 2). Your right elbow should move slightly away from your torso as you prepare for the downstrokes.
4.) We can now add the “skip” beat or dotted 8th/16th note feel to beats 2 and 4. Again, make sure the ride cymbal and the hi hat line up with the metronome click.
5.) Next we can add the bass drum playing a feathered (quiet) four to the bar or “four on the floor”. This technique is often misunderstood as being old fashioned but Alan Dawson straightened me out on it back in 1966 when, as a student of his, I had the same misconception about its use. The idea is to underscore the pulse played by the bass, not cover it up. It is essential in big band drumming but also very effective at certain tempos in small group drumming as well. When Alan told me that Tony Williams used this technique, which he learned from Max Roach, I was sold. However, as the tempo increases, you can change the 4 beat bass drum to syncopated beats.
We now have 3 separate limbs working together on the same common beat and we should be trying to make the metronome “swing”. This “swing” feel is achieved by finding a balance between the mechanical click of the metronome and where you place your beat. You have probably heard the terms “on the center of the beat, on top of the beat and in back of or behind the beat”. The center of the beat means right on the click so that the click practically disappears. On top of the beat would be slightly ahead of the click but not rushing (bassist Ray Brown was a very good example of this feel). Back of the beat is slightly behind the click without slowing down (The feeling of the Count Basie Band best exemplifies this feeling). When you are comfortable with the center of the beat, experiment with the metronome by laying back a bit so that it feels like the metronome is pulling you along; then try getting on top of the metronome so that you are pulling it along. Hopefully, this will help you to understand these different time feels.
Once we have these 3 limbs happening, we can add some easy comps from the snare drum. Try the upbeat or “and” of 1 at first then add the upbeat of 3 as well. Experiment with the left hand by playing all the available beats in a measure of 4/4, one beat at a time. There are many books that deal with the subject of coordinated independence at the drums so choose the one you like and practice with the metronome.
O.K., so now back to the issue of playing up tempo (fast) without tiring. One major reason I have discovered over the years for fatigue is a lack of relaxation when playing. You may have seen some drummers who look like they are working very hard when they play fast while others achieve the same thing seemingly effortlessly. One thing that has served me well over the years is the ability to stay relaxed at the drums. A very famous jazz pianist once described me as looking like a Gazelle when I play because of the motion in my arms!
While playing the previously outlined exercises, tune in to your body starting with your neck and shoulders. Ask yourself, “Do I feel tight in the shoulders? Do I feel tight in the arms or the wrists”? This relaxation should start at the neck and shoulders and continue to the tips of your fingers. This does not mean a loose grip or sloppy technique, but a controlled motion. Again, think Moeller in approach. The motion in your arms will assist you.
At slower tempos, the arm motion(upstroke/downstroke) is more exaggerated; as the tempo increases the motion condenses (gets smaller) but is still present and generated from the shoulders down to the fingers. The idea is to create a momentum that helps the arm achieve a perpetual motion.
Check out this video of Tony Williams on You Tube and watch his right arm flow. Most of the time he is altering the ride pattern but his motion is a very good example of what I am describing.
What I sometimes see from students is a locked arm position in both hands, but particularly the ride cymbal arm which then requires the wrist to work harder while playing time. (Photo 3)
It is possible to play this way, of course and many drummers do. For many of us, this would not be much of a problem at a medium tempo, but as we get faster it can be.
Compare the 2 approaches for yourself and decide if it is easier with a little more motion in the arm.
Now comes the hard part: you have to practice!
You should practice with a metronome but I also highly recommend playing along with recordings as I did as a kid. Pick a track that is around half note=90 and should be at least 7-10 minutes in length. As your ability improves, you can find tracks that are faster. Pay attention to how the drummer on the track you are playing along with interacts with the rest of the band and learn from this as well.
Remember to check your relaxation along the way because it is very easy to revert back to old habits. Take your time each step of the way to achieve full benefit from each step.
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Brain Lesions May Play Role in Alzheimer's, Columbia University Medical Center Study
2/20/2013 7:21:54 AM
New findings by Columbia researchers suggest that along with amyloid deposits, white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) may be a second necessary factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease. Most current approaches to Alzheimer's disease focus on the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. The researchers at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, led by Adam M. Brickman, PhD, assistant professor of neuropsychology, examined the additional contribution of small-vessel cerebrovascular disease, which they visualized as white matter hyperintensities (WMHs). | <urn:uuid:9d4a8640-418e-4166-9732-74da13aa6d99> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biospace.com/news_print.aspx?NewsEntityId=288094 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00149-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900706 | 153 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Out of curiosity, I went to Amazon online and searched under the title “leadership books.”
I guess I was moderately surprised that there were over 200,000 possible choices. Being an avid student of leadership for over ten years now, I have read extensively on this subject (not quite 200,000 books!) and if my experience is reliable, I can confidently state that if there are over 200,000 leadership books in print, there are an equal number of opinions regarding the principles of leadership.
My point is that students of leadership can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material pertaining to this subject: “Which leadership style should I adopt?” “Which leadership principles apply to my size business?” “How do I know that I am really leading?” All of these are valid questions that become recurring thoughts for aspiring leaders. Furthermore, the answers are so numerous that we may become the victims of paralysis by analysis. There is simply too much to digest.
Having personally suffered through this leadership dilemma, I have discovered one common theme that has served me well. What I have found is that, underlying this massive volume of scholarly opinion, there is one unifying concept and that concept is “abundance.” Everything else is simply commentary. People who live their life through abundance are natural born leaders, while aspiring leaders who dismiss the philosophy of abundance are doomed to struggle.
The concept of abundance versus scarcity was explained to me like this…Imagine a freshly baked pie. The abundant leader believes that there is enough pie for everyone to enjoy. On the other hand, the leader who lives through scarcity (the opposite of abundance) covets the entire pie, believing that sharing would only diminish their portion. The difference is that scarcity diminishes the potions for everyone, while abundance keeps making pies for others to enjoy.
An Abundant Leader believes the following:
- My Purpose is to Make Those Around Me Successful: This is perhaps their most distinguishing characteristic. Abundant leaders succeed by making others successful. The philosophy of enlightened self interest states that we do well by doing good. Abundant leaders are proof of this statement.
- I Succeed Through Others: They thrive in a team environment and take others with them on their journey, as opposed to scarcity leaders who are happy to go it alone.
- I Am a Catalyst: They believe that by lighting a spark they can ignite others. This brings them their greatest joy.
- I Can Lead from Behind: Scarcity leaders are always out in front coveting the glory and praise. Abundant leaders are the support team that allows others to step forward into the spotlight.
- Those I Lead are Capable: Abundant leaders believe that those they serve are capable and worthy of success. Scarcity leaders believe that they alone are capable and worthy of success.
The philosophy of abundance encompasses the major principles of successful leadership, without regard to any specific industry or size of the organization. What proves difficult for those that have not yet embraced abundance is that it is much more than a philosophy. It is, in fact, a way of life. Abundance is not something that we can superficially embrace. It is how we view the world. It is who we are.
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California-based Coast Citrus Distributors, a wholesaler of fruits and vegetables in the U.S. and Mexico since 1947, has completed a 432 kW rooftop solar system on its Union City, Calif., facility. Altogether, the company’s solar portfolio now totals 2.1 MW.
Coast Citrus also has 1.1 MW and 655 kW rooftop projects on its Los Angeles and San Diego facilities, respectively. Borrego Solar Systems developed, designed and built Coast Citrus’ projects. The systems are expected to generate approximately 4.1 million kWh of energy annually, which will significantly reduce Coast Citrus’ energy costs, says Borrego.
“After deciding to move forward with solar on our San Diego headquarters in 2015, we were convinced that it was the right economic decision for all of our facilities,” says Isabel Freeland, chief financial officer of Coast Citrus. “It simply makes sense for us, given our large warehouse buildings with open, flat roofs, the amount of energy we use, and the nature of utility rates in Southern California. Solar aligns with our aim to improving the value we provide for customers and being a more sustainable organization.”
Coast Citrus financed each of its solar projects with operational leases with Farmers and Merchant Bank. The leases enabled the company to go solar without paying any upfront costs and realize cost-savings as soon as the systems began operating.
“Coast Citrus’ facilities’ energy needs made solar an ideal choice for lowering its operational costs,” says Kyle Kearney, vice president of project development for Borrego Solar’s Western region. “Its use of ripening rooms, freezers, refrigerators and packing machinery use a lot of energy – making rising, volatile energy rates a risk factor for the growing company. With solar, Coast Citrus is able to reduce the amount of energy it needs to buy from the utility and minimizes its exposure to increasing energy costs while it continues to expand operations.”
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Knowledge Encoding and Retrieval Tool (KERT)
My masters degree in Computer Science at Michigan State University culminated in the first half of 1995. During this time I worked on my masters project, the Knowledge Encoding and Retrieval Tool (KERT), under the faculty direction of Dr. Carrie Heeter, Director of the Communication Technology Lab, and Dr. William Punch and Dr. Don Wienshank, both professors in the Computer Science Department.
KERT was derived from multidisciplinary research in the areas of Computer Science, Education, Cognitive Science, and Hypermedia. It is an attempt to resolve many of the deficiencies found in hypermedia systems. KERT is composed of an underlying hypermedia structure coupled with a comprehensive set of navigational and learning tools to more fully realize the power of hypermedia for thinking and learning. It is both a multimedia developers tool and an end-user environment.
Many of the concepts and tools constructed during this masters project, have been adapted and applied to various commercial products developed in the Communication Technology Lab, including Discovering Our Environment: A Case Study in the Virgin Islands and the American Identity Explorer.
The complete project write-up is available online.
The Case of the Salami Slicer
The course that changed my academic direction (and probably my life) took place in the Fall of 1994, Hypermedia Design (TC 466 with Carrie Heeter). The course was a blend of theory and practical hands-on experience, covering topics in user-interface design, multimedia authoring, and CD-ROM and Web publishing. Previous to this, I had been quite interested in multimedia, dabbling with Hypercard and Director. But it was this course that solidified my interests. At the time, the technical side of the course was based around Hypercard, but I went on my own and taught myself Director and did all the class projects in Director. The most notable of the class projects was an in-depth self-portrait. Rather than make the project an information based browser of facts about myself, I decided to frame it in the setting of a game. The interactive game combines full-color animation, digital video, and sound.
The setup: "You are a rookie in the competitive field of investigative reporting for the MSU State News. All that you need is just one big story and you will be famous throughout MSU. Unfortunately, you keep getting assigned to lame stories to investigate and today seems like no exception..."
In the game, you must investigate Brian Winn, a local computer hacker who is believed to have broken into the MSU Credit Union and "salami sliced" off the half cents from each account and forwarded into his own account. To do this, you must explore the FBI files on Brian through your computer, call and interrogate his friends via your video phone, and search his video library for any possible clues. When you have completed the investigation, you must publish the story in the MSU State News. But you have to be careful, if you report a false story, you may get sued...
Vehicle Navigation System
In the Fall of 1994, I took the graduate level Advanced Databases (CPS 880 with Sakti Pramanik) at Michigan State University. As a final project in the course, my partner, Ryan McFall, and I created a prototype Vehicle Navigation System.
The goal of the project was to design a query language suitable for a real time automotive navigation system. The language, dubbed Vehicle Navigation Query Language (VNQL), interfaced with a HiTi-Graph model Sybase database for road map information and a pseudo-global positioning system (GPS) for vehicle location. The language allowed several types of navigational and information queries a user could perform while driving. The project also investigated the human interface details that an on-line, real time navigation system would require. A prototype interface was constructed, given realistic hardware and cost constraints.
It is my understanding that further research and development has been done on the project during later offers of the course.
the summer of 1994, my friend, Scott Connell, and I took an
independent study course (CPS 890 with Jon Sticklen) to learn
To learn the language, we designed various applications for the Newton. The most notable of them was LlamaCalc, a powerful calculator with many features, include complete math, scientific, and financial operations, programmability, and graphing capabilities.
A Rule-Based System for an Intelligent Auto-Pilot
My strong interests coming into graduate school during the Fall of 1993 were in Artificial Intelligence. One of the first courses I took was graduate level Artificial Intelligence (CPS 841 with Bill Punch). For the final project in the course, I created a rule-based system that acts as an "autopilot" to fly multiple planes through an airspace to their destination while avoiding various obstacles and aircraft, while not violating any of the FAA rules of the airspace.
The tool created was a solid forward-chaining rule based system with variable bindings. Conflict resolution was based on rule-ordering. The tool was generalizeable enough to be applied to other domains.
The flight navigation system domain had on the order of 200 rules to drive multiple aircraft under fairly realistic conditions. The airspace was defined by a user-provided map descriptor file, which contained a bump map terrain, and various landmarks such as cities, airports, radio towers, and military testing areas. The aircraft flight plan was defined by the user through a series of flight plan descriptor files for each aircraft, which contained the aircraft's starting point and its desired final destination. The final destination could be an airport or an attitude, direction, and location to leave the given airspace. Information about aircraft avoidance, near and far miss situations, restricted zones and other information was tracked and reported.
Evolutionary Construction of Neural Networks
had worked with neural networks in the QSAR project (below),
but had not received any formal instruction on the subject.
So, during the Fall of 1993 I took Advanced Neural Networks
(CPS 885 with Anil Jain). For the final project, my partner,
Dave Pettigrew, and I created a system that would evolve neural
network topologies using genetic algorithms.
With the system, a user could provide the training and testing data. The system would then randomly create a population of neural networks. These networks would then be trained, using the backpropogation algorithm, and tested to assess their "fitness."
The system would then make use of a genetic algorithm to evolve the neural network topologies to a next general population of neural networks. The process of training, testing, and evolving would continue for several generations until an optimal network topology was found.
Additional information available online.
Analogical Reasoning Through Neural Networks: A Tool for Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Analysis
During the Spring of 1993 I partook in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). In this program, I worked with Dr. Timothy Colburn, a professor in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and Dr. Subhash Basak, a chemistry researcher at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI). The project researched the possibility of using emerging neural network technology in Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) analysis of anticonvulsant drugs.
After the completion of the research program, I stayed on and worked at NRRI for the summer of 1993, to continue my research. During this time I built a neural network construction and testing application, named MODEL, so the research could continue after I departed.
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Kufic script, a heavy monumental Arabic script used mostly in stone carvings, appeared in the earliest surviving Quran manuscripts. The diacritical marks over the letters are sometimes highlighted in red, with gold decorations between Surahs contrasting with the heavier black script. In the Seljuk period, a more cursive flowing script, Naskhi, developed. The two styles were often used for contrast in architecture and decorative contexts.
The Naskh Script
Naskh, which means “copying,” was developed in the 10th century, and refined into a fine art form in Turkey in the 16th century. Since then it has become the generally accepted format for writing the Quran. Naskh is legible and clear and was adapted as the preferred style for typesetting and printing. It is a small script whose lines are thin and letter shapes are round.
Thuluth is the medieval Islamic style of handwritten alphabet. Thuluth (Arabic: “one-third”) is written on the principle that one-third of each letter slopes. It is a large and elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations. It took on some of the functions of the early Kufic script; it was used to write surah headings, religious inscriptions, and princely titles and epigraphs. It was also used for many of the large copies of the Koran produced from the 13th century.
The Ta’liq / Nasta’liq / Farsi Scripts
Ta’liq is a cursive style of lettering developed in Iran in the 10th century. It is thought to have been the creation of Hasan ibn Husain Ali of Fars, but, because Khawaja Abdul Mali Buk made such vast improvements, the invention is often attributed to him. The rounded forms and exaggerated horizontal strokes that characterize the Ta’liq letters were derived primarily from the Riqa’ script. The ornateness and sloping quality of the written line had roots in the Towqi script of Ibn Muqla (died 940). Designed specifically to meet the needs of the Persian language, Ta’liq was used widely for royal as well as daily correspondence until the 14th century, when it was replaced by Nasta’liq.
Nasta’liq was the predominant style of Persian calligraphy during the 15th and 16th centuries. The inventor was Mir ‘Ali of Tabriz, the most famous calligrapher of the Timurid period (1402-1502). A cursive script, Nasta’liq was a combination of the Naskh and Ta’liq styles, featuring elongated horizontal strokes and exaggerated rounded forms. The diacritical marks were casually placed, and the lines were flowing rather than straight. Nasta’liq was frequently incorporated into the paintings of the early Safavid period (16th century) and is traditionally considered to be the most elegant of the Persian scripts.
The Riq’a Script
Riq’a, the simpler style of everyday writing is very economical and easy to write. It is popular for writing both Turkish and Arabic.
The Diwani Script
The Diwani script is a cursive style of Arabic calligraphy developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks (16th-early 17th century). It was invented by Housam Roumi and reached its height of popularity under Süleyman I theMagnificent (1520-66). As decorative as it was communicative, Diwani was distinguished by the complexity of the line within the letter and the close juxtaposition of the letters within the word.
A variation of the Diwani, the Diwani Al Jali, is characterized by its abundance of diactical and ornamental marks.
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This past summer’s Fourth of July fireworks were more spectacular than usual. My four-year-old daughter was seeing them for the first time in her life, and I was blown away by her reaction.
She was laughing, yelling out joyously at each new decoration in the sky, and even shaking in her chair. Witnessing her remarkable response allowed me to view that moment through her young eyes — to turn something ordinary into something extraordinary.
We sometimes have special moments in life that are so profound we don’t even know how to describe them. Maybe you just spotted a rainbow, watched a video about our expansive universe, or witnessed the birth of your child. The emotion you feel is hard to grasp — an overwhelming mix of wonder, joy, and sometimes even fear.
These moments are so exhilarating that we get goosebumps on our arms, feel tingling up and down our spine, tears flood our eyes, and our jaw drops.
This is called awe. Awe is an emotion that has a powerful effect on our body and mind. It’s a feeling very hard to put into words. David Delgado, a visual strategist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of the Museum of Awe who spoke at the Greater Good Science Center’s recent Art and Science of Awe conference, describes awe as an instant when you can’t quite grasp something. “It feels like magic, amazement, mystery, reverence. It’s the moment when we realize it’s a gift and privilege to be alive.”
How we feel awe
Awe has been addressed throughout history by the amazing works of great writers and scientists like Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and John Muir. However, researchers have only recently begun to study how awe impacts our well-being.
In a key 2003 paper, “Approaching Awe, A Moral, Spiritual And Aesthetic Emotion,” psychologists Dacher Keltner of University of California, Berkeley (now the director of the Greater Good Science Center) and Jonathan Haidt of New York University presented how awe works and the effects it has on us. They found that awe consists of two core qualities:
- Perceived vastness — something we think to be greater than ourselves in number, scope, or complexity,
- It challenges or alters our understanding of the world.
Awe allows us to transcend the ordinary, tests our concept of time and scale, gives us the sense of being small in a grand universe, and helps us to truly be in the moment.
Awe can be triggered by different things for different people. It can result from profound beauty; spending time in nature; feeling connected to others; remarkable human accomplishments; scientific discoveries; or great works of architecture, art, and music. According to award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg who created the Gratitude Revealed film series, “It doesn’t matter what pathway it takes, or what your belief system is, or what the story is. We just want to feel it. What is important is…to be moved.”
How awe transforms us
On average, we feel awe only about two-and-a-half times per week, Dacher Keltner explains. As our culture becomes more self-focused and over-worked, awe provides an amazing tool to instill a deeper sense of worldliness, kindness, and peace in our children. Recent research shows that awe can make us happier and healthier in a number of significant ways.
1 | Broadens social connection
Awe changes our perspective of the world. We feel smaller and as though we are in the presence of something greater than ourselves. A study at the University of California, Berkeley concluded that awe makes us lose our awareness of “self” and feel more connected to the world around us. This helps get rid of dangerous “us versus them” thinking. Additionally, when we witness a remarkable moment, we want to share it with other people, causing us to bond with family, friends, and even strangers.
2 | Stimulates curiosity
When we observe something awesome — like images of Earth from space, a fascinating science experiment, or a talented athlete — we want to learn more about how it’s all possible. Curiosity is so critical to children’s growth and success. Even though their constant questions may be trying at times, it is ultimately what we want them to do so they’re always craving new knowledge. What’s even more incredible is that people who are curious tend to get along better with others.
3 | Expands creativity
Awe inspires us to be more creative because we begin to view the world in a broader sense. This expansive thinking helps us consider new perspectives and see beyond our present situation. In a 2012 study from Tel Aviv University, one group of children was asked to look at a series of photos, starting with basic everyday objects and then shifting to vast or faraway things like the Milky Way galaxy. The other group was shown the same images but in the opposite order. The children who saw the objects from small to expansive performed significantly better on creativity tests.
4 | Leads to kindness and generosity
Paul Piff, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior at University of California, Irvine, has found that “awe boosts a person’s generosity, willingness to help others, willingness to behave in ethical ways, to take on needs of others, and de-prioritize their own needs. Awe connects us to things larger than ourselves and motivates us to care for others and the collective good.”
His experiments prove that when people experience a moment of awe, they tend to be more generous. He had participants first either look up into tall, beautiful trees or at a large building. They then came across a person who needed assistance. Those in the tree group were more apt to help to the person in need.
5 | Changes our perception of time
In our hectic 24/7 lifestyle, don’t you wish we had more time? Awe has been shown to give us the illusion that we do have more time and no longer need to rush. A 2012 Stanford University study published by Psychological Science found that participants who watched awe-inspiring videos featuring whales, waterfalls, and other nature scenes were more likely to report feeling like they had more time.
6 | Guides us to find our purpose in life
Positive psychology researchers have discovered that people who have a clear purpose in life experience less pain and anxiety and are less depressed. By being connected to something larger than ourselves through awe, we are more likely to be inspired and motivated to face new challenges and reach our goals. Research shows that children who grow up with a sense of purpose are typically happier, have a more successful career, and have stronger relationships later in life.
7 | Makes us grateful
Awe gives us a sense of hope and the ability to see the bigger picture. It teaches us that there might be something magical in everyday life that we can be grateful for. Louie Schwartzberg says that, “Awe inspires us to open our hearts and minds to engender gratitude.”
8 | Improves our immune system
Researchers at Berkeley have discovered that awe reduces the level of pro-inflammatory proteins (called cytokines) that cause our immune system to work harder. This is important because high levels of cytokines cause illness. “That awe, wonder, and beauty promote healthier levels of cytokines suggests that the things we do to experience these emotions…has a direct influence upon health and life expectancy,” suggested Dacher Keltner, co-author of the study.
9 | Reduces anxiety and depression
Feelings of awe boost our mood. Our nervous system reacts in the opposite way to awe than anxiety. Instead of the “fight or flight” response kicking in, awe keeps us still and relaxed, benefiting both our body and mind. Additionally, elevated cytokines have been linked to depression. As discussed earlier, awe reduces these cytokine proteins, therefore reducing depression.
Ways to help our children experience awe
The world offers so many opportunities for us to feel awe, but how can we capture these moments for our children? The key is to seek out experiences that 1) involve a sense of vastness and 2) alter their perspective.
Fortunately, children are born with a sense of wonder and amazement. “They are naturally curious and interested, with a great imagination and a special ability to see beauty and good all around them,” explains Dr. Brenda Abbey, educational consultant and director of Childcare by Design in Australia.
However, children need direction from their parents who can share these moments with them. “We need to model, identify, respond to, preserve, nourish, enrich, and sustain these special moments in our lives.”
By visiting, recording, viewing, and listening, our children will be exposed to many potential awe-inspiring moments. To make the most out of these experiences, take the time to ask your children how these encounters make them feel. Reflection reinforces the positive energy and encourages curiosity.
Andy Tix, professor at Normandale Community College in Minnesota who writes about awe on his blog Reflections on Mystery and Awe, notes that “awe seems more likely to thrive in an environment of inquisitiveness and questioning.” So ask lots of questions and allow your children to do the same.
1 | Visit
In order for children to truly understand awe, they need to experience it. Andy Tix believes that travel provides endless opportunities for awe because we are exposed to stimuli that are out of our typical routine. He suggests families take “awecations,” instead of just vacations, to places that can inspire awe. If you can’t get away, look for local spots to explore. Remember to consider your child’s age, interest, and attention span when you choose where to take them.
We can find awe just about anywhere. Here are a few ideas for your next awe adventure:
Nature: zoos, mountains, forests, hiking trails, beaches, waterfalls, clear starry nights, sunsets, sunrises, botanical gardens, canyons, caves
Urban: historical monuments, skyscrapers, subway systems, large sports stadiums
Indoor: libraries; art, science, and history museums; cathedrals; concerts; musicals and other performances; planetariums; aquariums
2 | Record
Writing: Developing an awe narrative is an effective way for children to capture an awe-inspiring moment. Julie Mann, high school teacher in Queens, New York who also spoke at The Art and Science Of Awe conference, added journal writing to her curriculum as a way for students to reflect about awe for time, space, amazing events, and people who impact their lives.
Artwork: Ask your children to create their own masterpiece to reflect something that brought them awe. Tap into their talents using drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, or collage.
3 | View
Media: If you are unable to visit a place in person, the next best thing is to observe it using various media tools such as videos, photographs, slideshows, and even 3D or 4D movies at an IMAX theater. Images of nature’s beauty, such as sunrises, sunsets, weather events, and rainbows, tend to easily evoke feelings of awe. Check out these nature documentaries, Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe, and Louie Schwartzberg’s Gratitude Revealed.
Science experiments: Observing the incredible way science works can be quite powerful for a young child and pique their interest to learn more.
4 | Listen
Stories: Read awe-inspiring books, poetry, and short stories to your children, such as biographies about great heroes and descriptions of nature, scientific discoveries, great places, and historical events.
Music: Listen to touching music or play your own. From piano ballads of the great composers to rap songs about changing the world, your child will discover what moves them.
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Some of the hardest working members of law enforcement, first responders and security units don't get paid in money. K9 units have grown significantly due to the increase in drug-related crimes, terror attacks, immigration issues and global travel which makes the world a global village where illnesses, viruses and diseases are no longer local.
The duties and responsibilities for K9 units vary depending on the situation. K9s are trained to be obedient and are expected to follow both verbal and hand commands from their handlers. In most cases, K9s are trained to locate evidence and people using their superior sense of smell. Compared to humans, K9s have 225 million scent receptors while humans have only five million. Utilizing this ability saves valuable time and resources, and with greater certainty for all the above mentioned forces.
K9 tasks include: Game violators in wild life sanctuaries detection by finding physical evidence, locate firearms and shell casings in hunter related shootings and other offenses consisting of firearms; traditionally tracking human scent and finding missing people including suspicious activities of people after they have left the area. Further tasks include: Drug and food detection in airports, security patrols, detecting life in disaster stricken areas and much more.
In all the tasks mentioned here, K9 are always accompanied by their handlers, often with a leash, operating as ultra-high scent and sensitive extension to human's abilities. The K9 and handler work together as a team on-site and at the scene. Today, with wireless technology this human-K9 team and extension can be further enhanced and elongated to deliver better results and efficiency.
By equipping K9s with miniature communication units, K9s can proceed ahead beyond the handler's site and into the scene, building, area and by audio and voice units embedded into the communication devices, can scan the area first based on handler's commands while transmitting back to the handler HD video from the communication unit. This enables K9 units to obtain better information from the scene prior to arrival and asses' onsite situation prior to on-ground activities.
There is several wireless communication solutions out that can leverage todays' K9s tasks into a planned operation. From a simple GoPro camera that delivers video limited to a relatively small radius to high-tech technologies used in leading forces. Simple mounted cameras can provide video and receive voice command from handler however their coverage is very limited both in terms of circumference as well as LOS (Line-of-site) only.
They cannot venture into N-LOS (Non-Line-Of-Site) areas, buildings, distances, disaster-stricken areas and will be limited to video and voice transmission only. These solutions will not include transmission of any data from the area. These cameras and solutions will often depend on Wi-Fi availability, which in most cases is nonexistent.
MESH Wireless Communication
Higher-end technology and solutions that are used today in K9 units worldwide rely on technology that does not depend on existing communications infrastructures such as cellular or Wi-Fi but create their own independent wireless private network. Such technology includes COFDM, Wi-Fi MESH and Mobile MESH based on 4G technology. The first two MESH options (COFDM and Wi-Fi MESH) are not 4G based and therefore have some limitations in transmission options, will not provide full IP/Ethernet network (COFDM). Mobile MESH based on 4G technology will of course provide the highest quality and availability including broadcasting, multicasting and unicasting modes.
Leading technology will enable for human- K9 team operation to work in multiple constellations:
K9 to handler HD video and VoIP including broadcasting capabilities allowing for numerous viewers to observe a scene or situation and a single handler operating a single K9.
From point-to-point with broadcasting abilities
From multi-point-to-multipoint with broadcasting capabilities
Overcoming N-LOS challenges
K9: Man's Best Friend
Collaborating today's K9 units with the right technology can elevate the unit's performance, lower the risks involved and deliver greater precision and certainty to any task involved. K9s are an integral part of the unit and support every task with ultra-high senses and abilities far beyond any human ability.
Yossi Segal is the Co-Founder& VP of Research and Development for Mobilicom
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On June 10, 2018, some of the brightest minds in the field gathered at the 2018 Washington DC Gluten-Free Education Day and Expo to discuss opportunities and challenges associated with living a gluten-free life.
The one-day expo focused on how the food we eat affects our brains, how to dispel gluten-free myths and how to think outside the box with new recipes and cooking demonstrations from local restaurants, bakeries and chefs.
Keynote speakers for this year’s symposium included Benny Kerzner, M.D., medical director, Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National, Jocelyn Silvester, M.D., director of Research, Celiac Disease Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Ian Liebowitz, M.D. from Pediatric Specialists of Virginia.
Additionally, Edwin Liu, M.D., from Colorado Children’s Hospital and Ilana Kahn, M.D., from Children’s National gave a joint keynote on the autoimmune connection, focusing on conditions related to celiac disease and the gut-brain connection.
Teen mentors gave a panel discussion for the 13+ age group attending the conference in a session called “For Teens from Teens!” during which they discussed the challenges of navigating a gluten-free lifestyle as a teen.
In addition to the useful educational sessions, attendees visited many of the 57 vendor tables with gluten-free product samples voting for the best sweet and savory winners.
The Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National Health System started in 2009 to improve the way pediatric celiac disease is diagnosed and treated. Working in partnership with concerned members of our community, our Celiac Disease Program brings together a team of expert physicians, nurses, nutritional consultants and professional counselors dedicated to developing a national model for detecting and treating celiac disease in children. | <urn:uuid:9d039ed4-cc4c-4d40-8e6c-e6a046e03431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/dispelling-gluten-free-myths-and-patient-education-headline-the-2018-washington-dc-gluten-free-education-day-and-expo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.927434 | 383 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesFew symbols are as important to a brand's identity as its logo.
Apple, Microsoft, Sony. Seeing their logos can evoke an emotional response, linking their userbase with their ideals. On the flip side, if poorly designed, these symbols can also make a company look out of touch or a little strange.
As tastes and trends change, some brands change their logos to keep up, or realize that their original vision may not be representative of what they want their most public image to be.
Here are some examples of logos that haven't quite held up to the test of time.
This logo has fallen far from the companyWikimedia Commons
The simplicity synonymous with Apple's brand is actually absent from this portrait of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree. The company course corrected only a year later to the significantly more iconic colored Apple logo, but this still remains a part of its history.
Interestingly enough, the company name actually didn't come from Newton's apple (a common misconception), but instead from one of Steve Jobs' "fruitarian diets").
The future that never came.Sony
The font Sony uses for its logo is sleek, giving off the same impression as some of its products. The logo the company used in 1958, however, eschewed the idea of timelessness in an attempt to seem futuristic.
Amazon's original logo lacks the subtlety of its "A to Z" design. Instead, it's a river (or road) leading into an A. This image lasted until 2000, but it's strange that Amazon's logo didn't depict its main product at the time, books. That stands in contrast with ...
The store, not the musical.Best Buy
Best Buy launched in 1966 under the name "Sound of Music." The logo resembles more of a CD than a record, but at least the logo matched the product.
Xerox may have had a fall from grace in the public eye, but no one should forget that it was the company's PARC division that invented the graphical user interface. Its original logo, however, gives off a slightly different context than it did in the 1950s.
Playing a different kind of game.Nintendo
Nintendo was in the games space nearly a century before its Mario video games came along. Though the company has soared in popularity over the past three decades, it had its humble start as a card company. This logo, used from 1950 until 1960, illustrates that.
Keep your eye open.Logitech
Many of the logos here are a brand's first attempt. This was Logitech's third, and while it's the first iteration of its current logo, its seemingly free-form design hasn't stood the test of time.
As with Logitech, Microsoft's original logo was pretty solid. The one the company used from 1980 through 1982 looks like a company trying to be edgy and cool, just a sign of the times.
Wikipedia recently turned 15, and its site has stayed largely the same in its overall design, but that's not the case with its logo. The site that has given billions of people a chance to contribute to arguably the most organized set of information on the web didn't have much of a logo at its start in 2001.
BONUS: Delta Airlines
Have a nice flight.Delta Air Lines
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Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life. You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail. – (Proverbs 19:20-21, NLT)
Listen to advice and accept discipline; then you, too, will become wise. People might make many plans, but what the Lord says is what will happen. – (Proverbs 19:20-21, ERV)
Heed counsel, act on instruction, and you will become wise later in life. The impulses of the human heart may run wild, but the Eternal’s plan will prevail. – (Proverbs 19:20-21, VOICE)
The heart of this is that we are created for community. From the start, the intent was for us to be in relationship with God and with those around us. As we seek the Lord and His will, and listen to the wise counsel of the trustworthy whom God has placed among us, we will become wise in His ways and walk according to His plan. On our own, we might make many plans, yet when checked through the lens of the Lord, only that which aligns with His, will remain. May we ever seek the Lord and the counsel of those whom He has placed in our lives, so we will walk in His way, rather than running with whatever whim our hearts desire.
Choose to seek advice,
Accept all you can;
It’s how wisdom grows,
Learn to understand.
Though many our plans,
The Lord’s will prevail;
As we pursue Him,
His heart will not fail.
He’ll show us the way,
Grant wisdom and grace;
For all of our days,
As we seek His face.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that as we listen to advice and accept discipline and counsel, we grow in wisdom. Thank You that though we may make many plans, Your plans and purposes prevail. Forgive us for going our own way and pursuing our own plans, rather than seeking You. Teach us to seek advice and act on instruction in all things, so that we may grow in Your wisdom as we walk out our days. Show us how to love those around us with wisdom and grace, so that all might long to seek Your face. May many come into a lasting relationship with You. Be glorified O God, as we listen to advice and instruction from You and those whom You have given to us as wise counsel, and grow our hearts in Your wisdom as we walk in Your ways. Amen.
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Coloured Glass for Interiors
SGG Planilaque Evolution for SP Infocity, Gurgaon
The SP Infocity brand of architecture has come to reflect an amalgamation of top-notch construction quality along with an astute sense of design.
Its facility in Gurgaon has tastefully used coloured glass for interiors, creating a classy and contemporary appearance. Along with aesthetic grandeur, the architectural design factored in space flexibility, employee comfort, operational cost savings, and overall environmental efficiency.
Saint-Gobain’s coloured glass for interiors – SGG Planilaque Evolution – was used extensively in the interior design. Right from the reception, where Planilaque Solar Yellow vibrantly greets visitors, the play of glass and colour is evident throughout the interior spaces. Once inside, the warmth of Planilaque Fusion Orange emanates from the panels to create a serene ambience.
The reason why SGG Planilaque was the preferred choice as the coloured glass for interiors was clear. For an office space, there is the need for a glass that scores on both form and function. Planilaque Evolution comes in a palette of 15 diverse shades, offering the opportunity to mix and match the colours with those of the existing interiors. It can be used across a variety of applications in the office, from panels to pillars to even as a writing board – which is what makes SGG Planilaque aesthetic and functional.
As a coloured glass for interiors, Planilaque Evolution has a range of other benefits as well. It is easy to install, clean and maintain. Being moisture-proof and scratch-resistant, it is hygienic to use and can withstand the rigours that come from use in an office.
In the age of eco-friendliness, SGG Planilaque adheres to stringent standards that make it a sustainable material. The negligible amounts of VOC, and the complete lack of copper, formaldehyde arsenic, and lead, are an endorsement of Planilaque being an environmentally friendly coloured glass for interiors.
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October is the time of the year when we celebrate and raise awareness around mental health. This year the theme of the Mental Health Day (10.10.) is mental health inequality.
Centre for Mental Health Commission for Equality in Mental Health published a fantastic report which hopefully will provide a good start for the improvements in the mental health provision. You can find the full report here and the additional links (including the factsheet below) here.
You can watch the live stream recording about this report and the relevant topics here.
We should talk about mental health inequality, call it out and work hard towards more equal access to mental health support for all every day. However, it is also incredibly important to join in the conversations on Mental Health Day this Sunday to include more and more audiences in it. Let’s make the digital landscapes work for this important change. Download the digital assets and find out more here.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu’s speech on Sunday didn’t contain much that was new, although it may be the first time Mr. Netanyahu said in so many words that he would accept the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state (albeit a demilitarized one).
President Obama responded that there was a “positive movement” in Mr. Netanyahu’s statements which implied the possibility to restart serious negotiations.
But representatives of Israel’s ‘moderate peace partners’ of the Palestinian Authority (PA) disagreed, and were absolutely livid, suggesting that Netanyahu had destroyed all possibility of agreement and threatening — as always — violence:
“Netanyahu’s speech is a blow to Obama before it’s a blow to the Palestinians and Arabs,” an Abbas aide said. “It’s obvious, in the aftermath of this speech, that we are headed toward another round of violence and bloodshed.”
Abbas’s office issued a terse statement in which it accused Netanyahu of destroying efforts to achieve peace in the region.
“The speech has destroyed all initiatives and expectations,” the statement said. “It has also placed restrictions on all efforts to achieve peace and constitutes a clear challenge to the Palestinian, Arab and American positions…”
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior PLO official closely associated with Abbas, launched a scathing attack on Netanyahu, calling him a “swindler and liar.”
PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said “Netanyahu will have to wait 1,000 years for someone to agree to talk to him.”
The parts that particularly infuriated them were Netanyahu’s insistence that a Palestinian state be demilitarized, his demand for “a public, binding and unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people”, and that “the Palestinian refugee problem be solved outside Israel’s borders”.
There are two interesting questions:
- Why these issues?
- Why are they risking exposure as being — shudder — ‘anti-peace’ and rejecting an offer of statehood out of hand?
The answers shed light on the true intentions of the ‘moderate peace partners’ and show how far we really are from meeting the aspirations of all groups in the region, as President Obama described it.
One might well ask why — if we are talking about a Palestinian state — they care so much about the nature of the Jewish one. Why do they continue to argue that there is no Jewish provenance in the Land of Israel, and indeed that there is no Jewish people, if they simply want a state alongside Israel?
Of course the answer is that they don’t, which is why they demand to resettle hostile ‘refugees’ in Israel, to demographically overwhelm the Jews and destabilize the Israeli government — at which point, the presence of a Palestinian army in a non-demilitarized state next door will become highly relevant to the outcome.
In 1974 the PLO’s Palestinian National Council, of which Mahmoud Abbas was a member, adopted a program that has been called the “Phased Plan”. It can be summarized as follows:
- Through the “armed struggle” (i.e., terrorism), to establish an “independent combatant national authority” over any territory that is “liberated” from Israeli rule. (Article 2)
- To continue the struggle against Israel, using the territory of the national authority as a base of operations. (Article 4)
- To provoke an all-out war in which Israel’s Arab neighbors destroy it entirely (“liberate all Palestinian territory”). (Article 8)
Shortly thereafter (1977), Abbas became one of the first PLO officials to call for a “two-state solution”.
His present behavior is explained well by the hypothesis that for Abbas, the “two-state solution” is the Phased Plan.
To answer the second question — why are they so out front about their anger — I think that they believed that Obama is handing Israel to them on a silver platter. I think they are (or were) convinced that he, too understands and accepts the ‘Phased Plan’ — why else, in their mind, would he be pressuring Israel so hard? So they think that there is nothing to lose by showing their hands.
In this I think they are mistaken. Immersed as they are in Mideast politics, it never crossed their mind that an American president would be so naive. Although I’m sure that some Obama advisors understand quite well what the consequences will be of forcing the creation of a Palestinian state under conditions acceptable to Abbas, I believe that Mr. Obama himself actually thinks that he can find a way to end the conflict peacefully and satisfy the aspirations of both sides.
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Satan s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort
Paul J. Vanderwood is Professor Emeritus of Mexican History at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books including Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint, also published by Duke University Press; The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development; and Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico’s Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910–1917.
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip.
Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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So for example …What Does The Betterhelp App Cost…
Not everyone is totally persuaded that moving psychological health care online is the method forward. “For me, what operate in treatment is when you fulfill somebody face-to-face, in the exact same space,” states London-based psychotherapist Sandra Tapie. “You learn more about not just what it resembles to speak to the person, but how it feels to be in a space with them. Utilizing Skype is the next best thing: it’s ‘good enough’, however it does not develop the closeness, the intimacy, that actually gets people to open up and explore things.”
” I have actually carried out some research into Skype counselling,” states London-based psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick, “and it’s not the ‘functional equivalent’ of conventional counselling; it’s just not quite the same thing. It’s really essential that people who participate in it know that it’s a different experience from being in the room with somebody, speaking in person.”
” In terms of accessibility, it’s a good start and certainly better than nothing. It’ll hopefully lead them to ultimately showing up in the room.
In cases of mild depression, the NHS is now directing some patients towards online programmes instead of in person counselling, a phenomenon that concerns Dr Balick.
” My fear is that it’s occurring increasingly more for economic reasons, rather than because it’s what’s finest for individuals. That’s not good if it’s rolled out just to save money and there aren’t vital questions being asked about these services. But then, I’m always really sceptical of people who are either really very pro or extremely really against online mental healthcare. It’s a case of asking the right concerns.”
Well, if the future of mental healthcare is all about IMs, FaceTime and ‘OMG, which neuroses R U?’ tests, I chose I ‘d find out what that brave brand-new world would resemble. I registered for four very various online mental health services– ranging in expense from free to , 100 a month– and ran my anxieties through them all, simultaneously, for a week. Here’s what I discovered.
Does BetterHelp use licensed therapists? What Does The Betterhelp App Cost
What I’m doing here is examining my experience of using each mental health service, rather than its effectiveness – since even the most wizard-like therapist isn’t going to ‘cure’ you in just one week. Okay, cool – let’s mental health!
How does it work?
As seen on FB (by me, anyhow), US business is the corporate leviathan of the e-counselling video game. They claim to have 500 certified counsellors working for them, each with at least 3 years of experience.
After filling in a survey to determine what particular flavour of psychological you are, you’re coupled with a counsellor, who you can mercilessly switch for a various one at any time. (I got Dr. Laura Dabney, from Virginia). You then start an instant messaged treatment session that both you and your counsellor can drop in and out of, and which could, in theory, continue until among you ultimately passed away.
What does it cost?
You get a totally free seven-day trial – much like a complimentary Netflix or Amazon Prime trial, except with method more concerns about what your youth was like. After that, it costs from , 24.50 a week for endless message-based counselling and one ‘totally free’ phone session with your counsellor each month. Yeah, I don’t get how it’s totally free either, but whatever.
How much is BetterHelp monthly?
If you discover the concept of baring your soul to a stranger a bit awks, filtering that through immediate messaging might be handy. You will not get the exact same connection similar to face-to-face counselling, but the semi-anonymity may make it easier to open up if you have actually been consuming 2 bottles of rum and dancing around in your dead nan’s wedding dress every night.
She first ascertained the scale of my stress and anxiety, what activates it– social circumstances, meeting people for the very first time– and after that dived headlong into my fractious childhood (divorced parents, strained familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was pretty nosey tbh, however then that’s her task, isn’t it?
In general, the service is remarkably slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty at times, but it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I anticipated. I even got quick reactions to messages over the weekend, which was unforeseen.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can edit messages prior to sending them indicates you’re unlikely to blurt out something revealing and vulnerable in the heat of the minute. So profound minutes of realisation might be difficult to come by if you can’t get a relaxed circulation going.
Who do I believe it might it be good for?
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In the heat of a crisis, what the urban landscape looks like is low on the list of priorities. But, as time goes by, and as people rebuild, their environment takes on greater importance. Witness the case of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Last month, some of the internally displaced people from the conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia planted 1,000 trees with the support of the Red Cross of Georgia.
These internally displaced people have themselves proposed which kind of fruit and conifer trees they’d like to plant. They’ve chosen native trees, familiar to them, so that they can care for the them as they grow.
The trees were planted near one of the public buildings provided by the state to house more than 100,000 of the estimated 300,000 internally displaced people in Georgia.
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Items & Artifacts associated with Arthurian Tradition
At the heart of many of the Arthurian legends are the artifacts, symbols and equipment used by King Arthur or the knights. The most obvious and famous was the Round Table itself, given to King Arthur as Queen Guinevere’s dowry when they were married. The Table became the epicenter of the Knights and symbolized equality, unity, and oneness.
Perhaps the three most iconic symbols of Arthurian Legend are the Round Table, the Holy Grail, and the magical sword Excalibur.
In addition to the Round Table was the sword, Excalibur, given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake. Excalibur was extremely powerful and at the Last Battle of Camlann, Arthur had Sir Bedivere throw Excalibur back into the lake from where it had come. And the quest for the Holy Grail is the most famous quest in history… the search for the cup of Christ, the chalice that Jesus drank out of at the Last Supper. The Grail quest was begun after a vision of the Grail by the Knights around the Round Table. The three grail knights, Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, and Sir Bors embarked on the quest to find the cup that caught the blood of Jesus Christ while he hung upon the cross. | <urn:uuid:739ec000-7f3f-4708-b244-d065a273e28d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kingarthursknights.com/arthurian-artifacts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.964895 | 279 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Subquantum Kinetics (nontechnical summary)
(a nontechnical summary)
Subquantum kinetics is a novel microphysics paradigm that incorporates concepts developed in the fields of system theory and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. One of its distinctive features is that it begins at the subquantum level for its point of departure. By comparison, conventional physics and most alternative physics theories begin with mathematically quantified observations of physical phenomena at the quantum and macrophysical level and attempt to deduce physical theories based on those observations. Since the conventional approach must take into account numerous experimental observations, the end result is a fragmented and often contradictory set of theories which must later be sewn together with mathematical acrobatics. Such “unified field theories” more closely resemble a patchwork quilt than a contiguous fabric.
Instead of beginning with physical observations, subquantum kinetics begins by postulating a set of well-ordered reaction processes that are proposed to take place at the subquantum level. Collectively, these reaction processes compose what is termed the transmuting ether, an active substrate that is quite different from the passive mechanical ethers considered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It further proposes that the concentrations of the substrates composing this ether are the energy potential fields that form the basis of all matter and energy in our universe. The operation of these ether reactions causes wave-like field gradients (spatial concentration patterns) to emerge and form the observable quantum level structures and physical phenomena (e.g., subatomic particles with mass, charge, spin, and force field effects and electromagnetic waves).
So, subquantum kinetics: a) begins with a mathematical model of subquantum processes; b) it then computer simulates this model to generate quantum level phenomena; and c) it compares the model’s simulated results to actual observations. The model’s mathematical parameters are then “fine-tuned” so that its simulated results accurately reflect experimental observation, thereby making the model a realistic representation of the physical world. Because, it begins with a single reaction system model as its point of departure for describing essentially all observable physical phenomena, subquantum kinetics qualifies as a unified theory. By comparison, conventional physics begins with many theories conceived independently from one another and later attempts to “sew” these together. But the result is far from unified, being instead a self-contradictory aglomeration.
In choosing an adequate model to represent subquantum process, subquantum kinetics turns to the macroscopic natural world, to theories describing how certain reaction systems spontaneously evolve well-ordered wave patterns. This self-organization phenomenon, for example, is seen in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction, a chemical reaction first discovered in 1958. Slowly moving concentration fronts called chemical waves, or “reaction-diffusion waves,” can be discerned when a dye indicator is added to this reacting solution.
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Machine tool supplier to Ford and Bosch transforms machine accuracy without design changes
Most CNC machine tool manufacturers invest heavily in machine developments that improve accuracy but by using the latest calibration systems at its factory in Istanbul, Turkey, leading manufacturer Spinner has improved specified machine accuracies without the need to change designs.
The key to this improvement is the use of Renishaw's laser calibration systems which are used to calibrate linear axes on all machine models and calibrate every sub-spindle on CNC lathes. The Renishaw QC10 ballbar, designed for rapid machine diagnostic testing, is also used by Spinner to complement the more extensive laser calibration routines; with a final ballbar check being made at a customer's site after a new machine has been delivered. The benefits of this increased accuracy are being felt by customers such as Ford and Bosch Rexroth, who are producing respectively crankshafts and pumps within Turkey.
Several years ago Spinner did not use these systems, instead carrying out a basic set-up which did not take into account all the factors affecting machine positioning performance. Some machine tool suppliers still take this approach, not realising that this creates many more problems for their customers and increases their own customer support costs.
Rotary axis compensation
Mr Nurhan explains one of the areas in which Spinner has seen most benefits from laser calibration, “We test and calibrate the rotary motion of every sub-spindle fitted to our turning centres because the encoder on the motor, although repeatable enough, does not position as well as we want. Some encoders are only accurate to 6 arc minutes but by using the Renishaw RX10 rotary calibrator unit, we can guarantee better than 1 arc second repeatability. This is done by testing the sub-spindle on the finished machine. Errors detected by the RX10 are corrected by adding compensation values generated by the RX10 software to registers in the controller. The sub-spindle is tested again to check the new positioning accuracy and provide a traceable calibration certificate, with options for formats according to various international standards.”
The RX10 is an accessory for Renishaw's laser calibration systems, allowing the comparison of the programmed rotation of a drive or rotary table to the actual rotation as measured using a traceable Spinner - sub-spindle laser calibrationlaser source. This is done by mounting the RX10 on the rotary axis, then programming the rotary axis to rotate in defined steps. After each axis move, the RX10 unlocks, and rotates back to the previous position, re-locking on a highly repeatable Hirth coupling, accurate to 1 arc second. Angular optics are mounted on the RX10 and any angular error compared to the previous starting position is recorded. These error values are used for compensation.
Testing linear axes on turning centres
Currently, one-in-five of Spinner's CNC turning centres have their linear axes fully calibrated, in response to a customer's request for higher accuracy machines. On those machines that are not calibrated, the machine positioning is checked at only two positions, 0 and 300 mm, adding a single compensation value to the machine's register and not taking into account anything in between. Spinner turning centres can be supplied with three main axes, X, Y and Z, and also the moving axis for the sub-spindle.
Mr Nurhan explains the advantages of using the Renishaw laser calibration system, “Backlash can change along the length of the axis and repeatability is not consistent, so the step by step measurement we can perform with the laser is ideal. We set the movement steps to 10 mm, the same as the ball screw pitch, to pick up on backlash at each point. The tests are done before and after error compensation to see the difference.” To prove machine capability to customers, Spinner delivers all tested machines with a calibration certificate, traceable to international standards.
Shortly Spinner will be calibrating all linear axes on all machines as standard, whether or not a customer requests it. Mr Nurhan feels that the benefits fully justify this, “Spinner has employed an engineer dedicated to machine calibration, and his job will be to test all the axes on every machine.
We test and calibrate the rotary motion of every sub-spindle fitted to our turning centres because the encoder on the motor, although repeatable enough, does not position as well as we want. Some encoders are only accurate to 6 arc minutes but by using the Renishaw RX10 rotary calibrator unit, we can guarantee better than 1 arc second repeatability.
QC10 ballbar tests
Complementing Spinner's laser calibration system are two Renishaw QC10 ballbars which allow rapid tests of a machine's positioning performance. A single test, typically taking around 15 minutes, is all that is required, analysing 22 possible sources of error and producing reports to international standards, including single figure indicators of overall performance (circularity and position deviation). Spinner uses the ballbars for two separate tests on every machine.
The first is at the factory, mainly to set up the machine control systems. One aspect in particular that they can quickly sort out is axis synchronisation, ensuring that all axes during combination moves arrive at their destination at the same time. The second ballbar test is run when the machine is delivered to a customer's site, this time to examine the mechanical and structural characteristics, helping to adjust and level the machine. The ballbar test results show whether the axes are square to each other, giving exact values for any adjustment required. This test is repeated after adjustment to give final proof that the machine is level.
The Renishaw XL-80 laser calibration system
Renishaw has recently introduced the XL-80 laser interferometer measurement system to replace its previous market leading ML10 laser system, used by thousands of customers worldwide. The XL-80 system is more compact, with higher accuracy, and is quicker and easier to set-up. The dimensions of the XL-80 make it very portable, so an engineer can easily transport it by car, and even carry it as hand-luggage on a flight. Accuracy of the laser is more than sufficient for machine tool calibration at ±0.5 micron/metre, with maximum linear resolution of 1 nm, and a maximum linear measurement speed of 4 m/s.
Each XL-80 is certified to international standards during its manufacture and servicing, using Renishaw's in-house reference laser, which is traceable to the UK's National Physical Laboratory iodine-stabilised reference laser. This is recognised as those equivalent to many other national length standards such as those used at PTB (Germany) and NIST (USA).
Spinner goes from strength to strength
The Spinner plant opened in Istanbul in 2000, producing seven machines a month. This increased to 30 machines a month in 2007, and with 160 employees, the factory is a hive of activity at every stage of production. Spinner is aiming to be despatch 50 machines a month in 2008, and by 2010 plans to employ more than 500 people. Clearly, they are in the middle of a carefully planned expansion, a good example being the training of an engineer solely to act as a calibration expert.
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The prostate is a small gland in men.
It is part of the male reproductive system.
The prostate is about the size and shape of a walnut. It sits low in the pelvis, below the bladder and just in front of the rectum. The prostate helps make semen, the milky fluid that carries sperm from the testicles through the penis when a man ejaculates.
The prostate surrounds part of the urethra, a tube that carries urine out of the bladder and through the penis.
How does the prostate change as you get older?
Because the prostate gland tends to grow larger with age, it may squeeze the urethra and cause problems in passing urine. Sometimes men in their 30s and 40s may begin to have these urinary symptoms and need medical attention. For others, symptoms aren’t noticed until much later in life. An infection or a tumor can also make the prostate larger. Be sure to tell your doctor if you have any of the urinary symptoms listed below.
Tell your doctor if you have these urinary symptoms:
- Are passing urine more during the day
- Have an urgent need to pass urine
- Have less urine flow
- Feel burning when you pass urine
- Need to get up many times during the night to pass urine
What prostate changes should you be aware of?
Growing older raises your risk of prostate problems. The three most common prostate problems are:
- Inflammation (prostatitis)
- Enlarged prostate (BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia)
- Prostate cancer
One change does not lead to another. For example, having prostatitis or an enlarged prostate does not increase your risk of prostate cancer. It is also possible for you to have more than one condition at the same time.
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Special Issue "Challenges in Alternative Energy"
A special issue of Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2013)
Alternate, or renewable energy science, engineering, deployment and policy are both dramatically changing globally, and in many regions scaling up significantly. At the same time, equally dramatic changes in other energy sectors -- including conventional and unconventional natural gas, the coal sector, nuclear energy -- are resetting the baseline energy cost and supply landscape. Questions of distributed versus centralized energy systems, evolving requirements for low-carbon energy, and the interactions of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fossil energy systems, as well as the future of transmission and distribution, energy storage all impact the costs, benefits, and opportunities for alternate energy in the coming years and decades. Further, changes in hydropower availability due to other demands for water and due to climate change all impact the environment for alternate energy deployment. This special issue will provide a forum for the exploration of all of these issues, as well as the emerging systems science of the integration of both alternative, nuclear, and fossil-fuel energy systems.
Prof. Dr. Daniel M. Kammen
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Challenges is an international peer-reviewed Open Access biannual journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. For the first couple of issues the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.
- alternate and renewable energy
- energy science
- climate change
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Type of Paper: Article
Title: Biomass Incineration: Dirty, Expensive, and Not Sustainable
Author: Kristin Shrader-Frechette 1,2
Affiliation: 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 100 Galvin Life Sciences Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; E-Mail: Kristin.Shrader-Frechette.firstname.lastname@example.org
2. Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Abstract: Those who claim biomass incineration is a clean, inexpensive, or sustainable energy technology are wrong, at least in the case of biofuels like Miscanthus. This paper argues for 5 main claims. (1) Burning biofuel crops like Miscanthus is far more hazardous to health than burning coal because of ultrafine-particulate pollution. (2) It is uneconomical partly because it is much cheaper for farmers to grow crops like soybeans. Also, (3) given climate-change-induced drought conditions, such crops often require irrigation, making biomass even less cost-effective. (4) Given the preceding problems, current biomass subsidies for crops like Miscanthus is neither economical nor ethical. (5) Wind and solar-photovoltaic are preferable to biomass energy both because they are cheaper and because they require no incineration and its dirty by-products. | <urn:uuid:ab082088-3b34-4caa-b925-e951f17fd747> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges/special_issues/challenges-alternative-energy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00039-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904464 | 854 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The Internet's security problems could be corrected by exploiting existing standards and protocols for Web services, security, identity, and authentication, writes Roger A. Grimes. Such protocols include Web Services specifications and extensions, Security Assertion Markup Language, Simple Object Access Protocol, WS-Security, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OpenID, and Security Token Service. "Essentially all these open standard protocols and specifications will allow huge, interconnected identity and authentication systems to be created between multiple, disparate parties," Grimes writes. "In relation to cloud services, these standards are often the way you will connect to them." In other words, "the specifications . . . allow the identity and authentication services necessary to connect to cloud services to be 'clouded' themselves," he says. Users will be able to receive one or more security tokens from one or more authentication providers and employ them as they desire, while each token can have one or more claims, which is any information characteristic associated with a specific identity. Grimes says these new specs and standards will facilitate the construction of massive identity metasystems in which large circles of trust can be organized through the linkage of many disparate identity/authentication systems. This would eliminate the boundaries created by every commercial Internet service's own isolated authentication system, he concludes.
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Should I Pay My Taxes with a Credit Card?
Under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, the IRS gave consumers the right to make their tax payments with a credit card. Sounds easy and convenient, especially if you’re able to pay the balance off at the end of the month, right?
And what about the credit card rewards lovers out there? If you’re planning to pay off the balance anyway, and have the cash on hand to do so – why wouldn’t it make sense to take advantage of the rewards perks? Here are some downsides to consider before using a credit card to pay your taxes.
The Considerable Price Of “Convenience”
Usually, when you swipe your credit card for a purchase, the merchant pays what’s called an “interchange” fee to a third party payment processor in order to “process” the transaction. This fee, more commonly known as a “swipe fee,” is equal to a small percentage of the total amount charged on the card.
The IRS, however, doesn’t cover this fee and because the fee has to be paid in order for the payment to be processed — the fee is passed on to the taxpayer (aka, YOU). The IRS won’t accept your payment directly, but rather they provide a list of third-party companies that they’ve authorized to accept tax payments on their behalf. And since these companies won’t be collecting the fee from the IRS, they’ll charge you a fee of anywhere between 1.88-4% of your total tax payment and call it a “convenience fee.”
Rewards That Don’t Add Up
For all the diehard reward lovers that would rather pay their taxes with their credit card just to earn rewards–whether it’s cash back, points or miles, the math just doesn’t add up. Let’s start with cash back rewards as an example.
If you consider that most cash back rewards programs pay 1% of your purchases but you’re paying 1.88-4% in fees — it doesn’t take a math whiz to figure that one out. Arbitrage is not in your future. Then there are the points and miles rewards, where some may argue that rewards would offset the fee. If you’re paying interest to subsidize your own reward, the math also doesn’t add up.
Stay with me here…let’s say you use an airline rewards card to pay a $10,000 tax payment in order to earn 10,000 miles. The convenience fee will cost you between $188 and $400, and considering that most airlines require a minimum of 25,000 miles to earn a free flight–the cost still doesn’t add up. Instead of spending the money on the fee, it would make more sense to use that money to just buy the ticket outright.
Large Charges Equal Lower Credit Scores
Before you charge a tax payment it’s also important to consider the possible impact to your credit score. Because a large portion of your credit score is based on your credit card utilization (the balance to limit ratio), using a credit card to make a high dollar tax payment could have significant impact on your credit score.
As an example, if your tax payment is significant, like the $10,000 example I used previously, it can quickly eat into your available credit limit by running up your balance and spiking your revolving utilization–which can in turn, tank your credit score. Granted, you could minimize the impact by choosing a card with the highest credit limit – but even then there will be a negative impact.
Using a Credit Card to Pay Your Taxes May Be Cost-Effective If You’ve Underpaid
If you owe taxes due to having paid too few estimated quarterly taxes throughout the year (which apply to freelance, self employment, or capital gains you may have realized) you may be subject to an underpayment penalty. Though there are many factors to the exact amount you’ll be charged, it’s essentially based on a penalty rate of about 3%. Because the formula considers the number of days that have passed since the underpayment, resolving it as soon as you can is in your best financial interest.
If you have a 0% interest credit card that you can put the payment on in order to “stop the clock” on the penalty and are confident you can pay the balance off before the card’s rate increases, charging the tax bill may be a more cost-effective solution than waiting until you’ve got the cash on hand.
Regardless of whether you’ve been granted an extension to file your return until October 15th, you must figure out what you’ll owe the IRS (if anything) by April 15th and pay the bill, or make arrangements for how you’ll pay it, by that time. After April 15th, late payments are subject to a “failure-to-pay penalty of ½ of 1% of your unpaid taxes, which applies for each month or part of a month after the due date and starts accruing the day after the tax-filing due date,” according to the IRS’ website.
If you find yourself in this situation, placing your tax bill on credit may be worth considering if you have a lower interest credit card, and know that the charge will not push you past a 30% debt utilization ratio. But, if charging your taxes means you’ll carry the balance on a higher interest credit card for awhile, you’ll have to consider if paying the IRS’ credit card processing fee, the interest rate on your card, and possibly lowering your credit score because you’re using too much available credit is a more positive scenario than establishing a payment plan with the IRS–which can include processing fees as high as $120. | <urn:uuid:cc7f4393-a7c0-4904-b567-f5f5e1586fde> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.creditcardinsider.com/learn/taxes-and-your-credit-card-what-you-need-to-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960687 | 1,236 | 1.765625 | 2 |
William Bentley. Diary, October 9, 1815-March 15, 1818. William Bentley Papers. [catalog record]
Bequest of William Bentley Fowle, 1866.
William Bentley is best known today for the voluminous diaries he kept between 1785 and his death in 1819. They contain rich details about events in Salem, Massachusetts, and its environs. Bentley recommended that his manuscripts be destroyed, but his nephew preserved them, later bequeathing them to the Society. The entry for August 15, 1817 (shown) includes an account of a sea monster reported off the Massachusetts coast.
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1. How many people have actually enrolled? This is the big one. I’ve written about it a lot for a reason: The headline sign-up numbers are often described as enrollment numbers. They’re not. A significant portion of people who sign up for coverage aren’t paying their first month’s premium, and are therefore never enrolled. In California, it’sabout 15 percent of sign-ups. In Wisconsin and Georgia, it’s closer to 20 percent. In Nevada and Vermont, it’s more than 30 percent. Until we know how many people have paid, we won’t know how many people got covered.
2. What percentage of those who are enrolled are between the ages of 18 and 34?After the launch of the exchanges last October, the White House repeatedly emphasized that they were less focused on the total number of enrollments and more concerned with the demographic mix—specifically, the number of young adults signing up. Young adults tend to be less expensive to insure, so their premiums are needed to balance out the costs of the older, more expensive enrollees. Early on the administration had been clear that it was aiming for 40 percent of enrollees to be in the youngest cohort. But so far, the administration’s reports have indicated that only about 25 percent of sign-ups are young adults.
3. Are the young people who are enrolling actually healthy? This one will be hard to answer, but it’s important. In the population as a whole, young adults tend to be healthier, and therefore less inclined to use lots of health care services, than their elders. But the characteristics of the 6 million or so folks who end up in the exchange population may not mirror the population as a whole. It’s entirely possible that the young adults who do end up signing up will be sicker, on average, than their peers. If so, that will complicate premium pricing down the road. | <urn:uuid:67271eef-13d2-4596-a31c-5265b1c07f20> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/03/31/41982/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965554 | 407 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Hi! The current version of ESET AV 4 is 126.96.36.199. Yesterday I received a call from my sister informing me her laptop wouldn't boot anymore. Upon booting, it showed a BSOD and nothing she could do about it. She then told me right before this problem started, the antivirus crashed saying something about security failed, and ESET had to close. Then she rebooted, and she received the BSOD. When booting into safe mode, she had Windows troubleshoot the problem. Microsoft’s crash report page indicated her version of ESET was out of date, and the cause of the crash. I advised to perform a system restore, and this indeed solved her problem. So far the background info. When back into Windows, I checked if there were any updates ESET didn't find any. However, this was the version installed: Then I checked against another pc, also running ESET AV 4. This one also seemed to be out of date: I manually updated both pc's, and didn't find any problems so far. However... Why were both installations out of date in the first place? I can imagine little updates aren't pushed by ESET, but when they cause Windows crashes and Microsoft indicates ESET should be updated, I would say it's a serious update that needs to be installed for proper protection. When ESET crashed, two dump files were created, memory.hdmp and minidump.mdmp. It's contents: memory.hdmp minidump.mdmp Also, the Windows log files show a tremendous amount of Windows application faults right after ESET crashed. | <urn:uuid:6821f3f6-4869-45ab-bf4f-96866870c932> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/question-about-out-of-date-eset-and-crash-caused-by-it.286875/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00032-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972999 | 336 | 1.515625 | 2 |
On "Fox and Friends" Wednesday, Heather Nauert brought us an update on a controversial homeschooling policy in one Virginia town.
The Goochland County School Board has now voted down a new policy that would have forced homeschooled children justify their religious beliefs within 30 days of their 14th birthday.
The board's vote was in response to a flood of outrage by parents in the area. There is one more vote left to be taken on this issue.
Stay tuned to "Fox and Friends" to hear the latest.
Read the original story below.
Virginia parents are outraged over a new policy that demands homeschooled children justify their religious beliefs to a school board within 30 days of their 14th birthday.
The controversial rule passed by the Goochland County School Board states, "Any student who together with his/her parents seeks an exemption from compulsory attendance due to their bona fide religious training or beliefs must submit a written application to the school board, setting forth the reasons for the request."
Doug Pruiett, a Virginia father who is homeschooling his children under the religious exemption, said on "Fox and Friends" that he was stunned and disgusted when he heard of this new policy.
Pruiett said that he and his wife contacted the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and the organization began representing them in this case.
The HSLDA says the school board's policy violates Virginia state law, which allows children undergoing religious training to be taught at home without having to defend their beliefs.
"We've been homeschooling our children in Goochland County for over 10 years under the religious exemption," Pruiett explained. "We were granted a very clear and unconditional approval to homeschool our children, and so when this letter came, it really surprised us."
According to Pruiett, the letter says that now when homeschooled children turn 14, they must submit a sworn affidavit of their own personal religious beliefs within 30 days. He added that they are also subject to being brought before the board for interrogation regarding their beliefs.
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During those early years of exploring the dazzling possibilities of computers in the classroom, I attended a technology conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event, organized by the local state supported university, was broader in focus than just education. Although I couldn’t think of any arena within which computer technology could be any more exciting than education, I attended with hopes of finding some new insights about tech in the classroom.
Toward the end of the day and my walk through the exhibit area I met David Alan Smith, the founder of a Cary, North Carolina company called Virtus Walkthrough. I didn’t know that I was conversing with someone who was already a luminary in the field. Among other accomplishments, David had recently created and launched The Colony, the first 3D interactive video game—a precursor to first-person shooter games. The Colony had just been named “Best Adventure Game of the Year” by MacWorld Magazine. Smith would later be involved in projects with Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, and James Cameron. He would also go on to be a principal architect of the Croquet Project, an alternative to SecondLife.
In developing The Colony, he had created a software tool that he used to easily create and modify 3D virtual environments. Because this tool seemed to generate as much excitement as his award-winning game, Smith spun off another company, Virtus Walkthrough, offering the 3D virtual world building software as an end product. As I played around with it in his booth on a standard Mac, I began realizing all kinds of possibilities that I had only dreamed about until then. Intoxicated with excitement, I started asking about various educational applications. Probably in an attempt to get me out of his booth, Smith gave me a copy of the software and challenged me to take it as far as I could.
I played around with it, building and furnishing a small house that you could walk through and explore with a mouse. One of my last projects was a 3D water molecule. It included the oxygen atom that was represented by a sphere with a central nucleus, protons and neutrons, and eight electrons orbiting at the surface of the sphere. The oxygen atom shared two of its electrons with two similarly constructed hydrogen atoms, linking the three together.
One evening I was invited to participate in a careers event at my children’s elementary school. At some point, two 5th graders came over and asked what I did. I opened my Mac and showed the boys my 3D water molecule. They took over the mouse, moving themselves inside of the oxygen atom, asking questions, and gliding through and out of the other atoms and back in again.
They spent about five minutes driving through the inside and outside of the connected virtual structures, chattering the whole time. As their parents started to call, I asked the two students several questions about the nature of molecular structure, and they provided far better answers than I had been capable of after high school chemistry.
I learned about atoms from 2D representations on paper and chalk board, and descriptions that I read and was taught. Yet these 10-year-olds seemed to be grasping how atoms and molecules operate, because they not only had a 3D representation, but one that they could personally experience. I suspect that they learned because it provoked them to use their imaginations—and not to just simply understand. | <urn:uuid:ccee4532-69cb-4abe-8e82-028eeea9e840> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techlearning.com/resources/walking-amongst-atoms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.983009 | 692 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Penguin Longman Publishing Penguin Readers 4 The Time Machine
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Shark Embryos Devour Each Other in the Womb: Sibling Rivalry at its Finest
Talk about sibling rivalry. Shark embryos actually cannibalize their littermates while still in the womb; the largest one eats all but one of its siblings. Now, new research reveals why sharks are such bad brothers.
In order to find out why this phenomenon occurs, researchers analyzed shark embryos found in sand tiger sharks which, despite their name and their in utero behavior, are a non-aggressive species. They are only known to attack humans when bothered first. In order to better understand these embryos, the scientists examined them at various stages of gestation. They discovered that the later the pregnancy is, the more likely the remaining shark embryos had just one father.
So what does that mean exactly? Before now, researchers weren't sure whether females mated with just one partner or with multiple partners. After a bit of DNA testing, researchers discovered that litters that possessed five to seven embryos had at least two fathers. It's possible that females mated with even more males, though; at the start of gestation, there can be as many as 12 littermates. It could be that the other littermates with different fathers had already been eaten.
The cannibalization itself is actually a useful strategy for the sharks. It allows the two remaining babies to grow large enough to be relatively unbothered by predators once they're actually born. What is more surprising, though, is the fact that the two sharks are usually full siblings as opposed to half siblings. This suggests that the largest embryo actually targets other embryos that are from other fathers.
"Basically, that loser father ultimately provided food for a rival male," said co-author Demian Chapman, a marine biologist at Stony Brook University, in an interview with LiveScience.
Currently, it's still a mystery as to what makes one father's embryos successful over another's. Yet the researchers do have some theories. It's possible that the embryos from the first male to fertilize the female simply get bigger first and devour their littermates.
The strategy could actually encourage females to select good mates. Since shark mating involves violent biting, this cannibalism may allow females to avoid resisting and being too picky about what males she mates with while still ensuring high-quality offspring.
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The ferraiolo (also ferraiuolo, ferraiolone) is a type of cape traditionally worn by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church on formal, non-liturgical occasions. It can be worn over the shoulders, or behind them, extends in length to the ankles, is tied in a bow by narrow strips of cloth at the front, and does not have any 'trim' or piping on it.
The colour of the ferraiolo is determined by the rank of the cleric, being black for secular priests, violet for supernumerary protonotaries apostolic and bishops and scarlet watered silk for cardinals. A ferraiolo of watered silk also denotes the wearer is an apostolic nuncio or is attached to the Papal household. The Pope does not wear a ferraiolo.
Even in modern times of the 21st century, the Order of Canons Regular of Premontre (Premonstratensians, Norbertines or white canons), the Camaldolese, the members of the Orders of Our Lady of Mercy and of the Holy Trinity, and the Olivetans, as well as a few other orders who wear a prelatical costume have the privilege of wearing the ferraiolo entirely of white cloth. The Premonstratensians also have the privilege of wearing this garment with a white four-cornered biretta of the same material. Some white canons even choose to wear white shoes when dressed in this formal attire. The additional items traditionally worn by the clergy, i.e. cincture or sash are also entirely white. The Canon Regular is allowed to wear a surplice for any liturgical circumstance and the rochet for non-liturgical events, but not worn with the ferraiolo. The Premonstratensian canon, as a simple priest, deacon or seminarian is permitted to wear the (filed or textured charmeuse) ferraiolo, band cincture/sash with braided fringe and biretta (without pom) entirely made of white cloth, unlike the secular priests who must wear a black wool ferraiolo. The Premonstratensian Abbots regiminis, as well as Abbots nullius, are permitted to wear the ferraiolo of watered silk and add to their monastic habit the pectoral cross and the ring. This same regular prelate or abbot, who also as a Canon Regular, may wear a biretta (with pom). In addition to wearing the other privileged items, the mantelletta, made of the same cloth of his monastic habit, may be worn by an abbot who is not in his own monastery of record but worn without the ferraiolo.
Three documents affected the simplification of Latin Rite clerical dress after the Second Vatican Council, which together comprise the present ecclesiastical law on clerical dress. The first is the Instruction of the Secretariat of State of 31 March 1969, Ut sive sollicite (USS) on the dress, titles, and coat of arms of cardinals, bishops, and lesser prelates. The second is the Circular Letter of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy of 30 October 1970, Per Instructionem on the reform of choir dress, which applied the prescriptions of USS to canons, beneficiaries, pastors, and, by explicit extension, all other ecclesiastical ranks. Neither of these documents provided synthetic schemata of the forms of dress of all secular and religious clergy of the Latin Rite, but rather amended the preexisting paradigms. A more systematic list of the forms of dress, that relied on these two previous documents and partially augmented them, was provided by the first appendix of Caeremoniale Episcoporum (CE) on the dress of prelates. However, even CE did not provide every detail, as it presupposed the sartorial customs of the Latin Rite and did not treat the dress of ecclesiastics under the rank of prelate and canon. For the pre-conciliar paradigms and for the perduring sartorial customs of the Latin Rite concerning details of which these documents were silent, reference is to older documents, the best of which is Nainfa's Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church. The customs and documents of the Church can only express the dignity of wearing such formal dress in the appropriate venues, such as academic commencements, formal balls, dinners, and other local or state gatherings that mandate wearing formal attire.
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In a Friday afternoon dispatch issued in the wake of the government's jobs report earlier that day, Christopher Rugaber and Josh Boak at the Associated Press wrote that "most economists ... forecast a strong rebound in economic growth - to a 3.5 percent annual rate in the current April-June quarter. And growth should reach nearly 3 percent for the full year, up from 1.9 percent in 2013, they expect."
There are two problems with that prediction. The first lies in how strong the third and fourth quarters will have to be for the economy to get "nearly 3 percent" for the full year, given the tiny first-quarter annualized growth of 0.1 percent reported on Wednesday. The second and perhaps more crucial issue is that the full-year estimate significantly exceeds the "altered assessment" at the Fed concerning how fast it thinks the economy can grow without running the risk of igniting inflation.
The math problem is: "If economic growth in the first quarter remains at an annualized 0.1 percent and economists' predictions of 3.5 percent for the second quarter come true, how fast will the economy have to grow during the second half of the year to achieve 2.9 percent growth for the entire year?"
The non-Common Core solution (ignoring a tiny amount of compounding): "The sum of all four quarters' annualized growth will need to be 11.6 percent (4 times 2.9). If the sum of the first two quarters is 3.6 percent (0.1 plus 3.5), the final two quarters will have to come in at a combined 7.8 percent (11.4 minus 3.6). This means that annualized growth during the last two quarters will have to average 3.9 percent (7.8 divided by 2)."
The economy has had two quarters with combined growth rates totaling 7.8 percent or more only three times since the turn of the century, all during the unbelievably miserable and awful (/sarcasm) Bush 43 administration:
- Q4-2004 and Q1-2005 — combined 7.9
- Q2-2003 and Q3-2003 — combined 10.7
- Q3-2003 and Q4-2003 — combined 11.5
The closest result achieved during the Obama administration was the combined 7.6 seen in Q4-2011 and Q1-2012.
Readers may say, "Well, at least there's a slight chance this might happen, and the first quarter might get revised up."
Except for one thing (besides how the more likely first-quarter revision result seems to be pointing down instead of up): In none of the previous three instances noted above was the Federal Reserve consciously worried that such growth might cause inflationary problems. A Bloomberg report by Rich Miller published Friday morning, over seven hours before the AP pair's report, said exactly that. It was accompanied by a clear expression of concern about the economy's future course (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Yellen’s Fed Resigned to Diminished Growth Expectations
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues have lowered their sights on how fast the economy needs to expand to meet their goal of cutting unemployment.
No longer are they saying growth must accelerate from the 2 percent to 2.5 percent pace it has generally averaged since the recession ended. Instead, they are stressing the importance of preventing the expansion from faltering.
Exhibit number one: the Fed chief herself. Yellen said on April 16 that a key question facing the central bank is what “may be pushing the recovery off track.” Contrast that with her comments on March 4, 2013, of the importance of seeing “a convincing pickup in growth.”
Most FOMC (Fed Open Market Committee) participants forecast gross domestic product growth of 2.8 percent to 3 percent this year and 3 percent to 3.2 percent in 2015, according to projections released March 19.
... policy makers ... (marked) down their estimates of the economy’s potential growth rate: the speed at which it can expand over the long run without generating faster inflation while holding unemployment steady. Most FOMC participants pegged that rate at 2.2 percent to 2.3 percent in their March 19 projections. That’s down from the 2.5 percent to 2.8 percent range they saw in April 2011.
Something's got to give between the FOMC's 2014 and 2015 predictions and its "potential growth rate" assessment. They seem not to believe that the economy can chug along with growth of over 3 percent for seven quarters without igniting inflation — but that's what they're predicting anyway.
It appears that if the Fed really saw nearly 4 percent growth materialize during the third or fourth quarters, it would seriously consider raising interest rates to pull it back to prevent it from happening.
One leftover point is that the Fed is still concentrating on the official unemployment rate, and almost seems to be writing off the long-term unemployed. In the nearly five tepid years since the recession as officially defined ended in June 2009, they have languished. Many have given up looking for work. Long-term growth of just over 2 percent isn't going to change that. Imagine the howls of outrage we'd be hearing from the left and the leftist press if this course was undertaken by the Fed during a Republican or conservative presidential administration.
Another annoying element of the AP report is its headline: "AMERICAN ECONOMY BOUNCES BACK FROM BRUTAL WINTER." How many times when the news is bad have we been told, "We shouldn't draw conclusions from only one month." Yet here the AP is, celebrating one month of nice payroll growth in its headline, even though Rugaber's and Boak's report noted other serious problems:
... the (unemployment) rate fell that far because many fewer people began looking for work in April, thereby reducing the number of unemployed. The proportion of Americans who either have a job or are looking for one dropped to a three-decade low.
And the monthly employment report the government released Friday showed that worker pay has yet to pick up - evidence that the job market has not fully recovered.
... Many of the long-term jobless stopped looking for work last month. Their ranks fell 300,000 - the sharpest drop in 2 1/2 years - to 3.5 million.
But people who only look at the headline will be cheered. That's a "mission accomplished" for the AP's headline writers.
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There is a famous Zen story.
A monk called himself the ‘Master of Silence’. He was actually a fraud and had no genuine understanding. To sell his humbug Zen, he had two eloquent attendant monks to answer questions for him; but he himself never uttered a word, as if to show his inscrutable ‘silent Zen’.
One day, during the absence of his two attendants, a pilgrim monk came to him and asked: “Master, what is the Buddha?” Not knowing what to do or to answer, in his confusion he could only look desperately round in all directions — east and west, here and there — for his missing mouthpieces.
The pilgrim monk, apparently satisfied, then asked him: “What is the dharma, sir?” He could not answer this question either, so he first looked up at the ceiling and then down at the floor, calling for help from heaven and hell.
Again the monk asked: “What is Zen?” Now the Master of Silence could do nothing but close his eyes.
Finally the monk asked: “What is blessing?” In desperation. the Master of Silence helplessly spread his hands to the questioner as a sign of surrender.
A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wifeopening a package. ...
But the pilgrim was very pleased and satisfied with this interview. He left the ‘Master’ and set out again on his journey.
On the road the pilgrim met the attendant monks on the way home, and began telling them enthusiastically what an enlightened being this Master of silence was.
He said: “I asked him what Buddha is. He immediately turned his face to the east and then to the west, implying that human beings are always looking for Buddha here and there, but actually Buddha is not to be found either in the east or in the west.
I then asked him what the dharma is. In answer to this question he looked up and down, meaning that the truth of dharma is a totality of equalness, there being no discrimination between high and low, while both purity and impurity can be found therein.
In answering my question as to what Zen was, he simply closed his eyes and said nothing. That was a clue to the famous saying:
‘If one can close his eyes and sleep soundly in the deep recesses of the cloudy mountains he is a great monk indeed.’
Finally, in answering my last question, ‘What is the blessing?’ he stretched out his arms and showed both his hands to me. This implied that he was stretching out his helping hands to guide sentient beings with his blessings. Oh, what an enlightened Zen Master! How profound is his teaching!”
A professor was teaching about living things in a class. He has two caged rats, one male a ...
When the attendant monks returned, the ‘Master of Silence’ scolded them thus: “Where have you been all this time? A while ago I was embarrassed to death, and almost ruined, by an inquisitive pilgrim!”
Master of Silence – Philosophical Stories
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Adobe Runtime Error is one of the most common system errors that any PC user will come across. Adobe Runtime Error always happens when there is a battle in the path of your operating system. When you try to open some files, applications or just start up your computer then Adobe Runtime Error pops up on the PC screen. To fix Adobe Runtime Error, you should identify the specific cause of this Adobe Runtime Error.
First, let's have a look at the causes ofAdobe Runtime Error：
* DLL file was improperly deleted.
* Deletion of a shared DLL file when an application is uninstalled causing missing DLL errors.
* A virus or trojan deleted or infected the shared DLL file.
* Invalid or incorrect DLL entries in the Windows registry.
* DLL files were corrupted.
How to fix Adobe Runtime Error?
1. Fix Adobe Runtime Error by reinstalling the applications which is reporting the Adobe Runtime Error. If the Adobe Runtime Error comes from a 3rd party software, try to uninstall and reinstall it again. Some applications save you the trouble from doing that by including a "Repair" option when you try to uninstall it. This method can help you retrieve the missing dll file in order to fix Adobe Runtime Error.
2. Try downloading a copy of the DLL from the Internet to fix Adobe Runtime Error. Most of the dll files are available downloading on the Internet. The new dll files can replace the missing or corrupted one so that you will remove Adobe Runtime Error after restart your computer.
3. Copy the same dll file from a networked computer.If you have a computer running on the same OS or having a similar set of programs installed, do a search in that computer and see if the error can be fixed by that.
4. In order to fix the Adobe Runtime Error you need to fix Windows registry.The registry is the directory that contains information to run all software and hardware on your computer. When Adobe Runtime Error comes to registry problems, registry cleaners do the job well. Don't bother pressuring yourself in reinstalling because even a simple registry fix can put things in order and even optimize your system.
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The riots in Budapest, incited by leaked tapes that show Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany openly admitting that his government had lied for over a year about the country’s dire finances, are but the latest evidence that things are going seriously wrong across Eastern Europe.
Last June, the Slovaks evicted the government that brought the country out of the international isolation and economic malaise that it had suffered under the autocratic regime of Vladimir Meciar. Mikulas Dzurinda, whose reforms provided the country with growth and economic stability, was replaced by Robert Fico, a leftist who, having forged an alliance with Meciar and a neo-fascist party, has also adopted a worrisomely populist tone.
That same month, Hungary reelected Gyurcsany, who had pursued a supposedly reformist program, but also oversaw a massive accumulation of public debt. Earlier plans to adopt the euro quickly have now been shelved, with the target date pushed back to 2011 or 2012. But even that may be wishful thinking. Meanwhile, financial markets fret about the country’s budget deficit and talk of a serious crisis.
Meanwhile, the Czechs managed to elect a perfectly hung parliament. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is an advocate of urgently needed reforms, but he lacks a parliamentary majority and is pressing for a fresh general election in the first half of 2007. With no means of stemming election-year fiscal expansion, the Czechs, too, have been forced to abandon their 2010 target date for euro adoption. | <urn:uuid:a0d2c013-2f8b-4658-a373-80798856dd0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/new-europe-s-old-problems?barrier=accessreg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963028 | 315 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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For my final project I decided to create a series of animations inspired by the work of John Whitney, an animator and inventor often regarded as the pioneer of computer graphics.
produced by: Harry Wakeling
I was introduced to Whitney’s work as I have always been interested in early examples of computer animation and film. Over the last few years I have experimented with video art, utilising techniques such as video feedback and circuit bending to produce psychedelic motion-based pieces. Through this experimentation I was introduced to the oscilloscope, one of the first devices to display real-time visual output from a computer. It was used by Whitney and his contemporaries to control the movement of electronic beams, visualising signals such as sine waves to display vector graphics; this was used to create some of the first examples of video games and computer-based animation. I felt it would make an interesting project to produce an animation in Processing that could be displayed on an oscilloscope, combining contemporary software with a device that formed the foundation of digital art.
After studying his animations I realised that he made frequent use of sine and repetition. In order to create work that effectively paid tribute to his style, I felt it was important to implement these within my animations. All 4 scenes include geometric shapes that have been animated with sine, as well as repetition using for loops. The project also saw me delve into object-oriented programming. I had experimented with this briefly in a previous assignment and I was interested in learning about it further; I felt this would be necessary if I were to create a sketch where the user toggles between different scenes smoothly. The ability to store data and functionally into separate objects proved to be very useful, as it made organising and structuring my work a lot easier. I implemented code that allowed the user to toggle between each animation by pressing different keys. I also set up sliders that allowed the user to modulate each animation, as well as the colour of various shapes.
After I had completed the animations, it came time to figure out how to display them on my oscilloscope. I came across the work of Ted Davis, an artist and programmer who created a Processing library called ‘XY scope’. This library allowed the user to convert vector graphics into audio signals, enabling them to display animations on oscilloscopes and CRT displays. After some experimentation and tweaking, I was able to get my animations to appear on the display.
How to use
Use buttons 1, 2, 3, and 4 to toggle between each scene. The user can also modify each animation using sliders.
I conclusion, I feel happy with the work produced on this project. I am glad to have learnt the basics of object-oriented programming, as I feel this will prove to be very useful going forward on the course. I am also particularly happy that I got the animations to display on my oscilloscope; I believe this was an important part of my project in terms of creating a piece reminiscent of Whitney’s style. I believe this project has the potential to be developed further; I would like to implement more interactive elements using the oscilloscope, for example getting it to work with a Kinect, or perhaps displaying real-time data. I would also like to experiment with other vector displays on a larger scale, for example a CRT screen. | <urn:uuid:2ae70d9b-e66e-4428-b504-ab751bcd3d7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://doc.gold.ac.uk/compartsblog/index.php/work/electronic-abstraction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955396 | 872 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Dame Barbara Hepworth
T07009 The Scalpel 2 1949
Oil and pencil on board
492 x 727 (19 3/8 x 28 5/8)
Inscribed in pencil 'Barbara Hepworth | 1949' b.r. and on back '51 | Barbara Hepworth | "The Scalpel" | 1949 | oil & pencil' centre
Accepted by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in lieu of tax and allocated 1995
Purchased from the artist by her parents, Mr & Mrs H.R. Hepworth, thence by descent to Lady Summerson
New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, Lefevre Gallery, London, Feb. 1950 (51)
Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective Exhibition of Carvings and Drawings from 1927-1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, April-June 1954 (128)
Around the middle of 1947 Barbara Hepworth was invited to observe an operation at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Exeter by Norman Capener, the surgeon who had earlier treated her daughter Sarah's osteomyelitis. The artist made numerous subsequent visits to operating theatres in Exeter and in London at the National Orthopaedic Hospital and the London Clinic, where she made rapid pencil sketches and notes in a sterile pad. These resulted in a significant number of hospital pictures made between 1947 and 1949, which were shown at the Lefevre Gallery in April 1948 and in New York in 1949. They stimulated considerable critical interest and were seen as a radical departure in the artist's work indicative of a more general shift in art production after the war.
Some of the works are pencil or chalk drawings, but many, including The Scalpel 2, 1949, were executed in pencil and oil paint on a gesso-like ground. In this way, they may, like Hepworth's contemporaneous nudes (see Tate Gallery T00269), be seen as both paintings and drawings. The work has a primary support of thin composite board, which is faced with a thin layer of paper. The support of The Scalpel
lacks mechanical strength, and its liability to fracture due to its brittle nature has led to some losses of ground and paint. It appears to have been trimmed after the work was completed.
Though the grounds of these works are generally described as gesso, the artist told Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Conservation Department: 'I have always made my own grounds by building up several layers of the best flat paint procurable, and each surface I rubbed down or scraped down until I got the hardness and depth that I required. The paint that I used during the years in question 1948-1951 was Ripolin flat white' (R.A.C. Cobbe, ‘Examination of Modern Paintings: Technical Information Received from Artists', Studies in Conservation, vol.21, no.1, Feb. 1976, p.27). The ground of The Scalpel 2
appears to be of a similar nature to that of Fenestration of the Ear
(Tate Gallery T02098), which has been identified by Tate Gallery conservators, drawing on this account, as combining Ripolin Flat white (an alkyd resin-based household paint), white lead and chalk. The rich golden brown oil glaze that dominates the work was thinly painted over the ground. This layer was then rubbed and scraped with a blade so that areas of white ground became more visible and the texture of its brushwork was accentuated. The basic design appears to have been sketched in first, possibly with a pencil and certainly, in places, with a blade. Areas of brown paint were then abraded or removed according to the composition and blue and green colouring added in places. The detailed drawing was, thus, the final stage of the process, though adjustments were clearly made: some lines and shading have been partially rubbed away, some hard pencil line has been strengthened and pencil was used to block out areas where too much ground was visible.
The appearance of the hospital pictures, in common with their materials, has an archaic quality that reflects the artist's admiration for the painters of the early Renaissance. They are characterised by a solid figure style, reminiscent of Masaccio's frescos in the Brancacci Chapel combined with a concentration on the elongated, thin eyes of Giotto. A Masaccio-like aspect had been seen recently in Henry Moore's wartime drawings, which Hepworth greatly admired, and she had earlier told Herbert Read of her love for Masaccio's 'virility, humanity and vision' (letter to Herbert Read, 8 Dec. , Sir Herbert Read Archive, University of Victoria, B.C.). Read, in his turn, identified in the 'austere humanism' of the hospital pictures' style the artist's consciousness of abstract form (Herbert Read, 'Barbara Hepworth: A New Phase', Listener, vol.39, no.1002, 8 April 1948, p.592). In many of the works - The Scalpel 2 for instance - this quality is emphasised by the formality of the composition. A sense of human identity is also established by the artist's concentration on the figures' hands and eyes.
Hepworth explained that the formal harmony was not simply an artistic device but symbolic of the common purpose of the doctors and nurses. 'From the moment I entered the operating theatre', she wrote,
I became completely absorbed by two things: first, the extraordinary beauty of purpose and co-ordination between human beings all dedicated to the saving of life, and the way that unity of idea and purpose dictated a perfection of concentration, movement and gesture, and secondly by the way this special grace (grace of mind and body) induced a spontaneous space composition, an articulated and animated kind of abstract sculpture very close to what I had been seeking in my own work.
(Herbert Read, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, 1952, section 5)
For Hepworth, the idea of a common purpose, which the compositional formality symbolised, had a social as well as an interpersonal dimension. These images may be seen to embody the principles of the collective society which was an increasing concern for her during the 1940s. It has been suggested that the hospital drawings were celebrations of the National Health Service, which had been planned since 1944 and was inaugurated on 5 July 1948 (Chris Stephens, 'From Constructivism to Reconstruction: Hepworth in the 1940s' in David Thistlewood (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, 1996, pp.140-2). Stephens has argued that the NHS, a central plank of the Welfare State which was established by the 1945-50 Labour government, must have been of great importance to Hepworth, a staunch Labour supporter who had long campaigned for better social provision. The emotional and financial strain of her daughter's protracted and serious illness, it's suggested, would have imbued it with an even more poignant significance.
While some hospital pictures bear the names of specific operations - notably the Fenestration of the Ear
series - it is more common for them to have general titles; in this, The Scalpel 2 may be seen as typical. The painting might be considered as a reworking of a smaller painting of the previous year - The Scalpel
(Mr & Mrs R.E. Nagelschmidt). Both consist of three half-length figures - two male doctors and a female nurse - ranged horizontally across the composition. However, in contrast to the symmetry of the first version, the focal point of The Scalpel 2, the eponymous scalpel, was moved to the left hand side. The highly burnished area of ground between the two male figures and the gaze of all three figures draws the viewer's eye across.
It may be more useful to associate the Tate's work with other images of three figures arranged formally. In contrast to the Fenestration of the Ear
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Written by Lloyd Hutner, For Duty and Destiny: The Life and Civil War Diary of William Taylor Stott, Hoosier Soldier and Educator, now available from the Indiana HIstorical Society Press, explores the career of Stott, a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College. Stott later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy in 1872 to its place as a leading liberal arts institution in Indiana by the turn of the century.
The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was not confined to the school’s parameters. Stott was an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, and a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863.
Stott’s diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar in camp and on the march, one who took every available moment to read theology, philosophy, great literary works, the classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and a few novels. He was as familiar with Burns and Byron as he was with ramrods and knapsacks.
Hunter is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Franklin College. While at Franklin, he founded and directed the American Studies Program and occupied the Roger D. Branigin Chair of History. Hunter received recognition by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education as the 2003 Outstanding Indiana Professor of the Year.
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We are all familiar with the KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid (which I like to substitute for “silly”). Certainly, KISS is the best way to approach language learning. You need to let go of your inhibitions and just roll with it. For me, as a Spanish Language Specialist, the KISS principle has a different meaning: learning the language because your significant other is Spanish-speaking. But aside from wanting Spanish romance and more KISSES, what are some reasons why learning the language can be so attractive when your loved one is Spanish-speaking?
The driest place in the world is in Atacama, Chile. The highest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Argentina. The first street of the Americas is in the Dominican Republic. There is so much to be learned about and from Spanish-speaking countries, and a great way to access that knowledge is through language. Spanish is the language of 21 countries around the world. Chances are you will travel to several of these countries at some point in your life. That, paired with the richness of the cultures and people of Latin America and Spain, will give you enough reasons to pursue Spanish language learning.
Have you ever been told to remember where you come from? Well, nothing says respect like trying to understand your loved one’s past, culture and native tongue. Showing reverence for a culture that is so innately their own is the ultimate expression of love and respect. Furthermore, if your in-laws live in Latin America or do not speak English, by learning their language you are making tangible efforts to communicate with them. Bonding, making that ultimate connection, is your goal.
With globalization on the rise and such a competitive market worldwide, bilingualism is sure to become a prerequisite to access a myriad of opportunities. If you plan on having children, ideally you’d make Spanish the first language in the home in order to give them a solid foundation that remains untarnished when they immerse themselves in a mostly-anglo world outside. This must be reinforced as they grow older.
If you have learned, or are in the process of learning Spanish, don’t be shy. You have a native speaker with you that could help you on this journey. Your prospects really couldn’t be any better than that. Don’t fall into the trap of speaking English at all times because it is more comfortable or because you feel self-conscious. It will get easier.
The quintessential Spanish lover… We’ve all heard about his passion and charisma. And of all the ladies that are trailing behind him! Although certainly many of these ideas have been romanticized by films and good old stereotypes, a small percentage of my male students admit to learning Spanish because they like “Spanish women.” To this I say the more power to you, but remember, when you succeed, do not to tell your South American girlfriend that you like Spanish women. She won’t understand why you are dating her. Spanish is not Latin American.
Love is in the air! Isn’t that enough? For the romantic readers, love is more than enough of a reason. I couldn’t agree more.
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Emergency food storage is an important component of the prepping journey. Whether you buy survival food from online stores or just buy some extra food at the supermarket each week, all those supplies will overwhelm your kitchen storage. If you also store water, you will quickly run out of storage space and you will need to improvise if you want to store everything.
Although it may not be obvious at first, your home has a lot of available space that can be used to store your emergency food. All you need is to properly identify the spaces available at your property and establish the pros and cons of each one.
Before you start using the available space from your location, you have to make sure it has all the ideal conditions for storing your emergency food. Here are the recommendations for food storage:
- The selected space should provide a cool temperature (ideal temperature is around 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit).
- The selected space should not be exposed to sunlight. You need a dark environment because sunlight exposure can spoil your food.
- The selected space should be in a dry area. A place that is humid is not recommended because it can damage metal containers.
- The selected space should not be exposed to temperature variations. You need a stable temperature to prolong the shelf life of your emergency food. Temperature fluctuations will accelerate the deterioration of your food.
- The selected space should not be near heat production appliances. All the appliances you have like refrigerators or stoves will create temperature variations and will affect your food over the long term.
This article will tell you more about the food storage mistakes one should avoid.
Now that you have a generic idea of what makes a good food storage space, we can move forward and identify the spaces in your house and evaluate the various options you may have to store all your extra emergency food.
This is probably the most obvious space for storing your emergency food and it might be an ideal location. If your basement is completely underground it will stay cool all year round and it most probably has a lot of room that can be organized to create a food rotation system. However, most basements are designed to accommodate the house heater and this may become a problem. You will need to position your food storage as far away as possible from the heater to prevent temperature fluctuations. There is also the humidity problem we need to address and many basements are not well insulated to keep a dry space. This problem can be fixed easily by installing a dehumidifier and checking it from time to time to make sure it does the job. Your basement floor will get damp, especially if you place the cans directly on the concrete floor. Make sure you have some wooden pallets to place your food on and keep an air flow between your emergency food and the floor. Pests shouldn’t have access to your basement and just to be sure, you can set mouse traps. Think about the elderly if you decide to use your basement as a food storage location. It can get tiring to take large quantity of food downstairs or upstairs.
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Although it is not a very good space to store food long-term, it is a location that can be used to store your goods for a short period of time, until you move them to proper storage location. In most climates, the garage is exposed to temperature and humidity extremes, and unless it is very well insulated, you can’t store your food there for the long-term. You can use your garage to store other survival supplies and once you free some space, you will be able to move your food there. You also have to keep in mind that in a post-SHTF world, your garage will be targeted by those who scavenge for supplies. Therefore, it is recommended keeping there only the supplies you can live without.
The attic, like the garage may not be an ideal place for food storage, but there can be exceptions. If you have finished attic storage that is well insulated and ventilated (some even have AC for their attics) you can store some of your food there. The same rule applies, keep it there only for short periods of time until you manage to free up some other house space. You can apply the same strategy and move in the attic some of your supplies, tools or anything that you are not using on a daily basis. The space you save up, can be then used for storing your emergency food.
I’ve developed a habit of clearing my closets once a year. The stuff I’m not using anymore I give away and I try to make some space for my supplies. Closets are great spaces to store food and sometimes, they are not exploited to their full potential. Most closest usually have a consistent height and it is rather easy to install shelves. Just make sure there isn’t a humidity buildup in your closets and that you can easily access the food to check their expiration dates. Don’t bury food in the back of the storage and forget about it because you will just waste money and space.
The space under the stairs
Some people have a two story house and usually, the large storage space under the stairs remains unused. It is being closed off and they forget about it. If you hire a skilled carpenter, this space can be made accessible and transformed to serve your needs. It can be lined with shelves and used to store your emergency food. The space under the stairs can be used to store all sorts of things and I’ve seen some using it to even hide their guns. However, if you live in a humid climate, a closed space like this one can become humid and you need to make sure you have a dehumidifier installed there.
The space under the bed
This is one place that most people overlook when exploiting the house space for storing supplies. This is an unused storage space for many, a space that is ideal for food storage. There are multiple ways you can utilize this space and you can improvise based on your location. You can use plastic tubes that can slide under your bed or you can build some underbed drawers or storage boxes. By doing so you will be able to access your food easily and you will not let it expire. This is a good storage space because it provides a stable temperature, it is a dry place and your food will not be affected by sunlight.
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The extra room
The main living space from your house was probably designed to include an extra room. A room that can be used as an office, a play room, a mancave and anything you may think of. The problem is that most of these rooms are not used and they never convert into the personal project they were destined to become. I for one, I’ve turned half of my office room into a food storage location and I’ve installed some rows of shelves that make food rotation easier. These rooms can provide a large space that can be optimized to fit your food storage needs and all it remains for you to do, is to properly organize and label your foods.
Although this is the most obvious place to keep your food, some may lack space. By the time you equip your kitchen space with everything you need like pots, pans, glasses, etc. there isn’t enough space left for food storage. Some may be lucky enough to get a few cabinets free, while others will have a small pantry. Regardless the space left, make sure it is well organized and that all your food is labeled correctly. The kitchen is a good place to keep your food supplies that have a short expiration date or the ones you want to experiment with. For example, my wife keeps a cabinet full with various foods that she uses to experiment. Every once in a while, she sets a week in which she cooks with only what can be found in that cabinet. She does this as practice for a scenario in which we would have food restrictions, she tries to cook with less and see if she can improvise with what is available.
These are just a few recommendations and I’m sure that if you look around your house, you will find a lot more unused space that can be turned into an ideal food storage location. It all depends on the living space you have and your imagination. Whatever you improvise in your house, make sure you use your food storage plan on regular basis so that you never have to throw away food.
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About Laser Scanning
3D laser scanning is fast, accurate and safe! 3D laser scanning involves the following elements: The hardware (The Laser Scanner), the software (deliverable of information i.e. Point Cloud, CAD and BIM format), and the knowledge and experience of the operator.
KME Laser Scanning uses LIDAR technology to accurately and efficiently capture 3-Dimensional data regardless of size, surface features or complexity of the structure. The 3D scanner uses line of sight technology and documents anything that is viewable from the point the scanner is placed. The 3D laser scanner captures millions of points and records with extreme accuracy the coordinates and locations of each of these millions of points that represent the existing building conditions. By combining the points collected from the scan (the raw data) our software can merge the multiple scans taken to create a cohesive (“processed”) file known as the “point cloud”. From this file, anyone can view the existing space in the 3D environment and extract measurements. The point clouds can also be imported into CAD or BIM software to assist in developing accurate drawings and 3D models of the existing conditions.
Step 1 – Collecting the Data
The Process of field verifying existing conditions starts by using the 3D laser scanner to capture the information. The scanner is set on a tripod and spins to collect data within the 360-degree view of the scanner. The operator moves the tripod and scanner to multiple locations to increase accuracy and ensure all elements are within view of the scanner and have been collected.
Step 2 – Processing the Data
After we have collected the data on-site, KME Laser Scanning will process the multiple scans into one cohesive 3D “point cloud” model. This point cloud will contain all the information of the areas that were scanned and allow users to extract information such as measurements, 360-degree photos and 3D image model.
Step 3 – Deliverables
Once the files are processed in step 2, the data file has a wealth of information to be used in a variety of aspects. For some of our clients, the processed file is all they require; however, KME Laser Scanning is happy to provide multiple types of deliverables to clients that would require it. From the processed file, we can provide clients with traditional floorplans, elevations, sections, 3-D BIM models, fly throughs and just about any type of information that the client requests.
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- Architectural Design
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- 3D Modeling
- Commercial real estate
- Documenting Construction Progress
- Animated fly-throughs
- Historical building surveys
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- Speed and Efficiency
- Reduced cost
- Avoid missed or forgotten data
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Using MRI brain scans, computational models and a large quantity of YouTube videos, University of California, Berkeley researchers have demonstrated how people’s dynamic visual experiences can be reconstructed. The image at right shows the source video image and the reconstructed image. The videos themselves can be seen on YouTube.
Reporting on their work in the journal Current Biology, the researchers say it is a major step toward reconstructing internal imagery. “We are opening a window into the movies in our minds,” said neuroscientist and study co-author Jack Gallant. Importantly, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, Gallant believes the work paves the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees, such as dreams and memories.
Previously, Gallant and fellow researchers recorded brain activity in the visual cortex while a subject viewed black-and-white photographs. They then built a computational model that enabled them to predict with accuracy which picture the subject was looking at. In their latest experiment, the researchers say they have solved a much more difficult problem by actually decoding brain signals generated by moving pictures.
Co-researcher Shinji Nishimoto said that decoding video from the brain was a time consuming business, with volunteers having to remain still inside the MRI scanner for hours at a time. While in the scanner, they watched two separate sets of Hollywood movie trailers.
The brain activity recorded while subjects viewed the first set of clips was fed into a computer program that learned, second by second, to associate visual patterns in the movie with the corresponding brain activity.
Brain activity evoked by the second set of clips was used to test the movie reconstruction algorithm. This was done by feeding some 18 million seconds of random YouTube videos into the computer program so that it could predict the brain activity that each film clip would most likely evoke in each subject. Finally, the 100 clips that the computer program decided were most similar to the clip that the subject had probably seen were merged to produce a reconstruction of the original movie.
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Resolution: “I will lose weight this year”
Solution: “Don’t diet…change your lifestyle”
This is the time of year when many of us resolve to lose weight and exercise more. How many years has this been your resolution? Isn’t it discouraging to set a goal, NOT accomplish it only to set it again next year? Of course it is!! How about rephrasing this resolution to “I will strive to be healthier this year”. The weight loss will be a secondary benefit! It’s like that line from the Kevin Costner movie “If you build it…they will come”, “If you do what’s necessary…you will be healthier”.
I’m talking about “A lifestyle change…not a diet!”. Trust that your body knows what’s good for it and fuel it with the energy it desires to produce fantastic results. Start an exercise regimen by walking outside or on a treadmill for 15-20 minutes with the goal of increasing to 30-60 minutes. Don’t psych yourself out by “biting off more than you are ready to chew” (figuratively and literally). In my opinion 95% of eating healthy and being healthy is motivation and willpower…most people don’t want to admit this! As soon as you are convinced that you have to exercise and you have to make healthy food choices, you are on the path to long lasting success.
Here are my simple, painless steps you can take to get started on this path to lifelong success:
DIANE’S DOZEN SUREFIRE TIPS TO START THE YEAR OFF HEALTHY
- Give your refrigerator and pantry an overhaul…stock up on healthy foods!
- Leave the junk foods at the grocery store where they are not in easy reach and never go grocery shopping hungry!
- Learn how to read labels…an educated consumer is a healthy consumer!
- Deprivation leads to overindulgence…treat yourself to small portions of the higher calorie foods on occasion!
- Learn how to cook with less fat, salt and sugar…healthy food can be both nutritious and delicious!
- If you have a setback, keep moving on…lifestyle changes do not happen overnight!
- Watch your portions and choose nutrient dense foods…calories are still at the core of weight loss and weight gain!
- Exercise at least 30 minutes (cardiovascular and resistance training) most days of the week!
- Keep yourself hydrated…chose water & seltzer over other beverages!
- Get in your zzzz’s…sleep is important for good health!
- Accept the fact that there are no quick fixes…visualize success and take it one day at a time!
- Visit my website www.dianehenderiks.com!
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rowyourboat wrote:Hi Kirk,
Thank you. Now which bit of that 'definition' of nibbana is unconditioned?
rowyourboat wrote:Hi Kirk,
So you do agree with me (mind the reification) that there is something in nibbana other than just the absence of lobha, dosa and moha, which are conditioned? Or are you saying that there is only the cessation of lobha, dosa and moha and that nibbana, apart from that, doesnt exist?
They have traced the path back and forth, cutting away at the grasses and weeds. One mental moment they trace things forward, and the next moment they trace them back. In other words, they focus on the phenomenon of arising and passing away, and then are able to know through the power of liberating insight that there in the midst of physical and mental phenomena exists something that isn't subject to arising and passing away.
The path to stream-entry is the act of focusing on physical and mental phenomena, back and forth. When events are traced back and forth — sometimes two times in succession, sometimes three, depending on the power of one's insight — physical and mental phenomena disband and change-of-lineage knowledge arises in the same instant, enabling one to see the quality within one that isn't subject to arising or passing away.
When the qualities of virtue, concentration, and discernment are brought together in fully mature form, the mind is released from physical and mental phenomena through the power of discernment, in line with the teaching,
paññaya paribhavitam cittam
sammadeva asavehi vimuccati:
"When the mind has been matured through discernment, it gains complete release from all mental effluents." The mind is able to let go of physical and mental phenomena. Physical and mental phenomena are not the mind; the mind isn't physical and mental phenomena. The mind isn't virtue, concentration, and discernment.
sabbe dhamma anatta:
The mind doesn't identify any quality as itself, or itself as any of these qualities. It simply is — deathlessness. This is called disbanding because passion, aversion, and delusion have disbanded completely. There is no more becoming for the mind, no more birth, no more involvement with the elements, aggregates, and sense media, and — unlike ordinary run-of-the-mill people — no longer any intoxication with any of these things. As a passage in the Canon puts it:
mada-nimmadano — no longer intoxicated with the three levels of existence;
pipasa-vinayo — no longer thirsting for sensual pleasures;
alaya-samugghato — involvement with the aggregates has been withdrawn, leaving the aggregates free to follow their own natural state;
vattupacchedo — the cycle through the three levels of existence has been cut absolutely;
tanhakkhayo — craving is done with;
virago — passion is done with;
nirodho — unawareness has disbanded without leaving a trace;
nibbana — the mind is freed from its shackles and bonds.
The Deathless is reached. Birth, aging, illness, and death are eliminated. Ultimate, unchanging ease is attained. The aggregates disband without leaving a trace, in line with the synopsis of dependent origination: "Simply with the disbanding of this unawareness — with no trace of remaining passion — fashionings disband... consciousness (with regard to the six senses) disbands... physical and mental phenomena disband... the six sense media disband... sensory contacts disband... the three kinds of feeling disband... the three kinds of craving disband... the four kinds of clinging disband... becoming disbands... birth disbands... aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair all disband and no longer appear as stress."
The mind is Dhamma, free from effluents, because it has gained insight into all fashioned things. It is released from all unawareness, craving, and clinging, and has cut all ten fetters. This is the fruition of arahantship. Those who have reached this level have completed the religion. They have no more defilements or cravings; no one has anything further to teach them. Even the Buddha himself doesn't have it within his power to formulate any further instructions for them. This is why they are said to have completed the religion. If you were to describe their virtues, they would be infinite.
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Once in a while, the CEO of a large organization, let’s call her “Leslie”, purchases one of our apps.
When she has a problem, the support ticket we get is never from “Leslie”. It’s usually from “Steve”, the assistant to the executive assistant of the person in charge of the IT department. By the time we get the email, it has made its way through 6 people in the organization, 2 separate internal help-desk systems, and is already 4 days removed from the time “Leslie” sent the original email.
We received one such email from “Steve” recently. “Leslie” noticed that our spam filter app wasn’t filtering spam as well as it should. She wanted to know why.
I requested that someone click the “send debug” button inside the app, so that I can take a look at the debug log and find out what’s going on.
Two days later, a response arrived from one of their internal help-desk systems. A ticket has been opened requesting that someone click the “send debug” button.
Five days later, the second response was an update from another internal help-desk system, notifying us that several members of the IT department, and at least two executive assistants were added to the ticket requesting that someone click the “send debug” button.
The debug log arrived 2 weeks later.
The first line in the debug log revealed that the application was turned off.
Thirty seconds after receiving the debug log, I sent a response explaining that the application was turned off, and providing instructions for how to flip the ON/OFF control in the app settings to ON.
Two days later, a response arrived from one of their internal help-desk systems. A ticket has been opened requesting that someone “flip the ON/OFF control in the app settings to ON.”
– “Leslie, do you like that spam filter app?”
– “You know, the app is great, but you have one problem, and it takes a month to get a response from those people!”
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Colleagues say the DuPont chemist credited with inventing the body armor component Kevlar has died at age 90.
Her friend, Rita Vasta, told The Associated Press that Stephanie Kwolek (KWOH'-lehk) died Wednesday in a Wilmington hospital. Vasta says she doesn't know the cause of death but that Kwolek had been ill for about a week.
DuPont says Kwolek made her discovery in the mid-1960s while working on specialty textile fibers. She invented a liquid crystalline solution that could be spun into exceptionally strong fibers. Kevlar is widely used in protective equipment by police and the military.
Vasta says Kwolek was proud of her invention and worked to get more women into science.
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Description: The Gate Piers and Gates, About 22 Metres North North West of the Church, and All of the Boundary Wa
Date Listed: 29 August 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 261676
OS Grid Reference: ST6842234816
OS Grid Coordinates: 368422, 134816
Latitude/Longitude: 51.1118, -2.4525
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BRUTON CP STATION ROAD (West side)
The gate piers and gates, about
22 metres North North West of the
Church, and all of the boundary
walls and other gateways, Church
of Saint Mary
Boundary walls with gate piers and gates. Mostly C18 and C19. Local and Doulting stone, with cast iron gates. North
boundary wall averages 2.5 metres high, with coursed rubble capped with pitched coping stones; near gates a plaque
recording flood levels; central gate piers of square ashlar with pyramidal caps on which are set C20 wrought iron
lights; fine pair cast iron gates in Gothic style; similar gate piers in North West corner, with ashlar sweep wall to
Vicarage (qv), C20 wooden gates. West wall averages 2 metres high, with stepped pitched coping; rubble, with some old
tombstones set in. South wall has vertical stone copings to rubble, again with tombstones set in; opposite East wall
of chancel is a 4-centred arched gateway, possibly the private gateway for the Berkeley family, owners of the former
Abbey; to left of gateway is fragment of chest tomb of Thomas Hill, died 1637. East wall also rubble, rather lower in
average height. The North and East walls are important elements in the street scene; the South and West walls define
the limits between churchyard and Bruton Abbey, finally demolished in 1786. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey
Press, Sherborne 1972).
Listing NGR: ST6839334794
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
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With just two months to go until the Model Railroad Garden opens, one dedicated group of volunteers undertook a big job this week: cleaning and retouching the 500+ miniature figurines that accessorize the garden’s landmark buildings.
Led by Becky Maganuco, volunteers got out the toothbrushes and toothpicks, the glue and the triple-zero paintbrushes, and set to work.
Over the course of several days, they washed (the cars, trucks, and tractors were especially dirt encrusted), touched up paint (eyes and eyebrows are the trickiest), and glued back the tiny hands and feet that are inevitably broken (weather, errant human footsteps) during five months spent outdoors in the Model Railroad Garden.
I always look forward to the May days that Becky and fellow miniaturists, many of whom are members of Northbrook’s North Shore Miniature Society, accessorize the garden. It takes them a couple of days to layer in all the right details: the barber pole on Main Street…the sunbathers and sailboaters on Cape Cod…the lone wolf and the bears in Yellowstone National Park…even Bo the dog at the White House.
Their work makes the buildings come to life, and never fails to delight—key factors in a garden that’s especially for children, for whom the magic and humor of the small will always trump the realities of life-sized.
There’s a practical side to their miniature work as well: “Visitors take close-up pictures and use telephoto lenses a lot in this garden, so it’s nice to make the details look a little more real,” says Becky.
What’s new for 2013? Volunteers are mulling how to accessorize the most recently added landmark, the Lincoln Memorial.
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Five justices to watch as the Roberts court evolves
|Last Edited||J.R. May 13, 2006 12:52am|
|Media||Newspaper - USA Today|
|News Date||Thursday, May 11, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0|
|Description||The death of former chief justice William Rehnquist and the retirement of former justice Sandra Day O'Connor make the current term the first in 34 years in which the Supreme Court gained two new members in a single term. But the changes are more momentous than in 1972, when Rehnquist and Lewis Powell joined the court, for two reasons: They involve the important post of chief justice and the replacement of O'Connor, the court's most influential member. |
For more than a decade, the moderate O'Connor was able to steer decisions, sometimes toward the court's more liberal members — John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer — and sometimes toward its conservatives: Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Anthony Kennedy often was in the middle with O'Connor, but more to the conservative side.
President Bush cited the conservative credentials of new Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito when he appointed them, but it isn't clear how they will affect the nation's law. As Roberts and Alito begin to define their roles, other justices are redefining theirs. Five to watch:
1. Anthony M. Kennedy: From the middle, an emerging power broker
2. John Roberts: New chief shows he'll likely be a force on the bench
3. David H. Souter: Shy justice begins to show an edge
4. Samuel Alito: New justice shows his conservative streak
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The Australian Medical Association of Queensland (AMAQ) says the federal budget will hurt patients in the hip pocket.
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan last night delivered his sixth budget, with the baby bonus abolished and a program of cuts to bring the budget back to surplus in four years' time.
The net medical expenses tax offset is being phased out and the Medicare safety net threshold will increase from $1,200 to $2,000 from 2015.
AMAQ president Dr Alex Markwell says patients will pay more.
"The freeze on indexation of Medicare benefits schedule will mean that patients will end up paying more for their health, which is a great concern for the Australian Medical Association," she said.
"We don't want patients to have a greater out-of-pocket expenses and this budget move certainly does look that patients will be affected significantly."
Dr Markwell says there is also a delay in the rebate on fees for seeing a doctor.
"There doesn't appear to be discrimination when it comes to this freeze," she said.
"We know that veterans will also be affected and that the safety net threshold will be increased, so overall this will see Australians paying more out of pocket to have their health care."
Meanwhile, the Rural Doctors Association (RDA) says it is disappointing to see no change to the classification scheme for regional doctors in the budget.
RDA national president Dr Sheilagh Cronin says the scheme has incentives for doctors to move to regional areas, but it does not make enough distinction between remote areas like Mount Isa and coastal cities like Cairns.
She says the RDA will continue to lobby for change because it would help to get more GPs in remote areas.
"The Minister has just received an updated report on the classification system so we are expecting the Government to actually make some modifications," she said.
"We don't want it scrapped but we think it does need to be modified so that it more truly reflects added problems in getting doctors to go to places such as Mount Isa or Kalgoorlie."
Dr Cronin also says the freeze on the Medicare rebate until July next year could lead to less bulk-billing clinics in regional areas.
"You might have 10 or 20 doctors [in a practice that] may be a financially supported by having in-house pathology and radiology and those practices largely don't exist in rural areas," she said.
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Powerful pollywood duo unites at World Conference of Women’s Shelters to raise awareness for domestic violence.
By John Arundel
Reese Witherspoon, an Avon Global Ambassador, spoke about the realities of domestic violence before presenting this year's Avon Communications Awards. Courtesy Photo.
There are probably no two human beings on Planet Earth today who can make the men cheer and the women swoon (and vice versa) better than the perky Reese Witherspoon and commander-of-all-crowds Bill Clinton.
And there they were last Wednesday Feb. 29 at National Harbor, the two modern legends of screen and politics in flesh and living color, putting the much-needed spotlight on battered women at the World Conference of Women’s Shelters at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center.
Witherspoon, an Avon Global Ambassador, spoke about the realities of domestic violence before presenting this year’s Avon Communications Awards.
“As a mother, daughter and a sister, I cannot accept the fact that one in three women will be a victim of violence in her lifetime,” she said.
The Oscar-winning actress told the audience that she has even talked about domestic violence with her children Ava, 12, and Deacon, 8.
Though she said that her kids were shocked to hear how one in three women are abused in this country, Witherspoon said it was important for them to be aware of the problem, especially her daughter who is almost old enough date.
At a time when bullies are responding with violence, she said parents must educate themselves and their children about social media and “what constitutes harassment, what is acceptable and what is not.”
Domestic violence is a topic in many songs, including Miranda Lambert‘s “Gunpowder and Lead,” where she sings about shooting an abusive husband.
“These songs create retaliation fantasies, which are a very important part of our psychology,” she said. “But they don’t replace the effectiveness of going public about domestic violence..Talking publicly creates empowerment among women and helps them feel they’re not alone. It gives them the courage to go to a shelter or take legal action that could save their lives.”
Former Prez Bill Clinton was the conference’s special surprise guest last Wednesday. “What you’re doing today, just remember this, every time you take in a woman who’s been beaten … you are striking a blow against one of the oldest problems in human kind,” Clinton said.
Also attending were actress Natasha Bedingfiled, Avon chair and CEO Andrea Jung, Sue Else, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Carol Kurzig, president of the Avon Foundation, Henrique Duarte, Delta Goodrem, Lea Salonga, Theresa Balayon, and Lisa King.
Later at the luncheon, Witherspoon presented awards to global leaders in the fight against domestic violence at the first-ever Avon Communication Awards.
“I’m proud to be honorary chairman of the Avon Foundation for Women, an organization that has the conscience and the courage to tackle the quiet epidemic of violence against women around the world,” Witherspoon said. “I have the privilege to present demonstrate that violence against women is a global tragedy affecting women of every class, race and ethnicity.”
"What you're doing today, just remember this, every time you take in a woman who's been beaten ... you are striking a blow against one of the oldest problems in human kind," Clinton said. Courtesy Photo.
"As a mother, daughter and a sister, I cannot accept the fact that one in three women will be a victim of violence in her lifetime," Witherspoon said. Courtesy Photo.
Bill Clinton and Sue Else, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Courtesy Photo.
Resse Witherspoon and Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO of Avon. Courtesy Photo.
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-CA.) Courtesy Photo.
Getting fired up for Gloria Gaynor, who sang her hit, "I Will Survive." Courtesy Photo.
A workshop on Reaching Men. Courtesy Photo.
Witherspoon presented awards to global leaders in the fight against domestic violence at the first-ever Avon Communication Awards. Courtesy Photo.
Attendees from around the world. Courtesy Photo.
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Discussion in 'Economy' started by Kevin_Kennedy, Oct 21, 2009.
Unbridled capitalism is the problem
capitalism must be restrained if the masses aren't to be bent over by the big corporations
capitalism cannot sustain itself without borrowing from socialistic thought and idealism
Capitalism is the solution.
Maybe this should have been a poll.
What unbridled capitalism are you referring to? Our Federal Reserve regulated economy suddenly constitutes unbridled capitalism?
No one that's without the ability to think outside the box is ever going to understand that correlation, Kev. Sad as it is.
I say its neither.
the government is the cause, keeping the government away and reducing its role is the solution.
Keeping the government away sounds like an argument for free market capitalism.
Ever since I educated myself on economics and the markets, capitalism (be it unbridled or whatever else) has never caused me a problem.
In fact, my first 7 months of ever investing in securities has seen a growth in my initial portfolio by almost 200%.
It's not the capitalism that's the problem. It's the lackadaisical and apathetic attitude of the majority of the everyday average people who are counted on to maintain the system.
Even without perfectly symmetrical information, one can still profit in capitalism. Unbridled, or otherwise. A great example is the smart people sold their houses when they realized the spike was too high to be sustained, and the dumb thought the spike would last forever. If there were enough smart people to counteract the dumb ones, there wouldn't have been NEARLY as many houses even SOLD during that boom period, and we'd have almost been guaranteed simply a normal period of true growth without an overloaded inventory of overvalued homes that were bought.
Well, as true as growth can be when your currency is still manipulated by a select few powerful bankers.
Who needs anti-trust laws, food safety laws, OSHA, labor laws, or a paycheck anyway, right?
When you lose your job to a machine or a chinaman, get back to me with your views on true freemarket capitalism.
Also, let's repeal all the laws the unions fought for
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“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden,” God allowed, “but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die (Genesis 2:16).” He thus warned them of the tragic consequences of violating his prohibition. It was a caution they chose to ignore.
“I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt,” the Almighty likewise assured Moses. “So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of the land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:7-8).” Slavery was not a desirable situation, especially under these oppressive conditions.
While illustrations abound, it seems obvious God is not always pleased with what transpires. Moreover, this solicits divine initiatives to rectify persisting problems. In this regard, we might describe God as an eternal realist — in that he deals with existing situations. He thus sets a precedent for others to emulate, which involves both ideals and creative strategies.
C.S. Lewis concluded God expresses his love toward us in context of a fallen world. As such, it qualifies as complex love rather than uncomplicated. Not unlike that of a parent when dealing with some problem that has arisen in the family.
Lewis also allows that because God loves us, he strives to make us lovable. This is sometimes described as hard love, as that which strives for excellence. In this regard, “Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything (James 1:4).”
What else might be said concerning divine intent? In brief, God delights in turning obstacles into opportunities. “Jesus doeth all things well,” the prolific hymnist Fanny Crosby earnestly wrote. When only 6 weeks old, she lost her sight because of a doctor’s error. “I have always believed,” she subsequently allowed, “that the good Lord, in His infinite mercy, by this means consecrated me to the work that I am still permitted to do.”
Did God want her to lose her sight? Decidedly not. However, he seized upon this adverse circumstance as a means of extensive blessing. In conclusion, Crosby affirmed “This my song through endless ages: ‘Jesus led me all the way.’”
“To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations,” Paul observes, “there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me (2 Corinthians 12:7).” What was this thorn in the flesh? We cannot say for certain. Perhaps some physical malady, social constraint or combination of factors.
“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me,” the apostle continues. “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” His priorities were refined in the process.
So it is that adverse circumstances can only be attributed to God’s will only in a qualified sense, and in the light of his gracious intent. Consequently, we are also assured that “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble (Psalms 46:1).” And the best is yet to come. | <urn:uuid:7b278e2d-2a78-4c9b-a415-c2c19fe5a20b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/17389116/article-God-s-will- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970095 | 757 | 2.21875 | 2 |
According to the Journal of Pediatrics, dairy and calcium intakes are inadequate in four- to 18-year-olds. In fact, only 30 percent of the US population two years of age and older get the recommended level of calcium or more. Plus, most kids do not get enough Vitamin D, potassium and protein, either. The good news — all of these important nutrients are found in milk.
Shelf safe milk provides an easy and convenient way for moms to make sure their children are getting the nutrients they need.
What is shelf safe milk?
It’s grab ‘n go wholesome milk for your family, that requires no refrigeration until the package is opened. Shelf safe milk is great in lunch boxes, sport coolers, diaper bags and purses. Try freezing the single serving size cartons, so by mid-day they’re just the right temperature. Just one carton of shelf safe milk has 8 grams of protein and 9 essential nutrients – calcium, Vitamins A, D and B12, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, riboflavin, niacin and zinc – nearly half of the daily recommended vitamins.
So how does it work?
Shelf safe milk is Grade A fluid milk with no additives or preservatives that is pasteurized at an ultra high temperature (UHT) to eliminate bacteria. It’s then packaged it in a special carton that keeps out light, air and harmful contaminants. When opened, the milk should be refrigerated and consumed within 7-10 days. But unopened, shelf safe milk can stay good up to six months. This means you can stock up when the milk is on sale, and keep it stored in your pantry. You’ll never find yourself scrambling for a cereal topping again.
Is this new?
Actually, shelf safe milk has been around for a while, since the 1960s! It represents the majority of milk consumed in Europe. It is hugely popular in there for its convenience and in many other parts of the world that have less than ideal chilled distribution chains, or that are subject to power outages. We are a late adopter of this technology.
Where can I learn more?
Head over to Milk Unleashed for more information and the latest news on shelf safe milk. You can find out where to purchase the products and play fun online games with your family. There’s a great page of tips for children who don’t like milk – including ideas of flavoring the milk with honey or yogurt. And make sure to follow them on Twitter @milkunleashed.
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"Brace for impact," US Airways Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's three chilling words reached his passengers before echoing around the world.
It was Sullenberger's experience, airline safety expertise, and military training that contributed to his Miracle on the Hudson. Aviation is not just his livelihood; it is a lifelong passion.
"I have a clear recollection that at age five I already knew I was going to spend my life flying airplanes," Sullenberger, a tall, thin, distinguished-looking 59-year-old man, reminisces.
Early lessons in a single-engine crop duster had him soaring above Denison, TX, his hometown, as a 16-year-old. He earned his pilot's license before his license to drive a car. His first commercial flight found him accompanying his mom, a first-grade teacher, to her state PTA convention. This constituted both his (at age 11) and his mom's first flight.
The world witnessed one of the most amazing days in aviation history when Sullenberger landed a crippled US Airways 76-ton Airbus with 155 people onboard onto the Hudson River. Both plane engines had been blown out after striking a flock of Canadian geese.
"It was the worst, sickening, pit-of-your-stomach-falling-through-the-fall feeling I felt in my entire life," he explains emotionally. "I knew immediately it was very bad, that this was unlike any flight I'd had in 42 years, that it wasn't going to end with an airplane undamaged on a runway."
At a low altitude, traveling at a low speed, in an aircraft with no working engines, Sullenberger had few choices. He quickly surmised that the Hudson was long enough, wide enough, and, on that day, smooth enough to land his plane and have it remain intact. But it wouldn't be easy. If he was only an inch or two off, the airliner would cartwheel and flip over on the frigid waters of the Hudson. A devastating outcome would ensue.
"I had less than five minutes to get everything right," he recounts. "I had to touch down with the wings exactly level, the nose slightly up, at a descent rate that was survivable, just above our minimum flying speed but not below it. I needed to make all of these things happen simultaneously," he says, reliving that precarious situation. "I saw the river ahead of me, with boats on the south side that could facilitate our rescue. Ninety seconds before hitting the water, I instructed, 'Brace for impact.'"
"Heads Down! Stay Down!"
That command signaled to flight attendants Doreen Welsh, Donna Dent, and Sheila Dail the seriousness of the situation. "Through the cockpit door, I heard the flight attendants shouting their commands, chanting in unison over and over. 'Brace, brace! Heads down! Stay down!' I felt very comforted by that. I knew immediately they were on the same page, and if I could land the airplane they could get the passengers out safely. I was sure I could do it," enthused Sullenberger.
The Right Man for the Job
Many believe there couldn't have been a better man for the job. Sullenberger, who holds two master's degrees, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy on June 6, 1973, and was named "Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship." He trained to become a fighter pilot but was never in combat, as his career coincided with the United States at peace.
"The fact that I have spent a lifetime always trying to learn, trying to grow both professionally and personally, trying to know the why as well as the how, that I was naturally curious and I always tried to make the next flight better than the previous one, helped. Just paying attention and caring as much as I did for 40 years made all the difference," he says in the calm demeanor that defines him. His father, a dentist and World War II veteran, ingrained in him to always be prepared for the worst and that a commander is responsible for everyone in his care.
Sullenberger touched down the plane, and it slid along the Hudson at 145 miles an hour before coming to a stop, river water splashing over the cockpit windows. He opened the cockpit door and bellowed, "Evacuate."
Once the plane emptied he walked down the center aisle, shouting, "Is anyone there? Come forward!" He took that same walk a second time, making sure no one was left behind. This time the water in the back of the plane was so high he had to walk on the seats on his way back. By the time he stepped onto a raft, boats had surrounded the airplane. Fourteen boats assisted in the rescue, the first one reaching the airplane in just under four minutes.
Physically, Sullenberger may have been okay, but mentally, he was consumed with worry about the well-being of his passengers. Some were ferried to the New Jersey side of the river and others to New York, and he anxiously awaited confirmation that everyone was okay. It took more than four hours for him to receive word that all passengers were safe.
"I felt the most intense feeling of relief I'd ever felt in my life. It was like the weight of the universe had been lifted off of my heart," he divulges. All would be returning to their families, and for that, Sullenberger says he will be forever grateful. "If even one person had not survived, I couldn't have celebrated any of this. Success for me meant a complete success or none at all," he declares.
A month after the miracle, Sullenberger as well as the rest of the crew met with dozens of Flight 1549 passengers and their families at a reunion in Charlotte. "Thank you for not making me a widow," one woman cried to Sullenberger. Another thanked him for letting her three-year-old son have his father.
It was then that Sullenberger realized the true scope of what he had accomplished. "One hundred fifty-five is a number, but when you put faces to it, it's not just 155 faces. There are so many others: wives, daughters, sons, fathers, mothers, brothers. It gets to be a pretty big number quickly."
Although most of the attention has been directed at Sullenberger, he emphasizes that this was a team effort. "I've become the public face of this event and have received more attention than the rest of my crew rightly or wrongly in spite of my best efforts," he says self-effacingly. "This was a group effort that includes the passengers themselves, who behaved admirably. The ferries, the first responders, the rescue workers…thank you seems totally inadequate. I have a debt of gratitude that I fear I may never be able to repay." Every step of the way, he shares the praise with his crew.
The images of the passengers standing on the plane's wings, as if they were walking on water, gave many hope. Immediately, Sullenberger was hailed a hero, not a title he initially embraced. Just an ordinary man doing his job, he points out. But as the accolades flooded his home, he realized people needed to grasp onto a story with a happy ending, and he let them.
"This happened during a time when the world was in crisis, as a financial meltdown was underway and people were worried. They wanted a reason to feel hopeful again. This was a life-affirming event," Sullenberger says of the landing that attracted worldwide attention.
He jokes about achieving Santa Claus status. Letters from around the world flood his mailbox, even those addressed to "Hero Pilot USA" or "US Air Captain, California." The letters are awe-inspiring.
One of his favorite letters reads, "Yesterday I received a voicemail from my 84-year-old father, who lives on the 30th floor of a building with river views of Manhattan. Had you not been so skilled, my father and others like him, in their sky-high buildings, could have perished along with your passengers. As a Holocaust survivor, my father taught me that to save a life is to save the world, as you never know what the person you saved or his or her progeny might contribute to the peace and healing of the world. Bless you Captain Sullenberger, New York Loves You."
In the time since the incident, Sullenberger has become a highly sought-after corporate speaker and, along with his first officer on that fateful flight, Jeffrey Skiles, a public advocate for the piloting profession and airline safety.
He has testified before Congress, speaking about the landing as well as broader issues affecting airline crews. "September 11, bankruptcies, fluctuating fuel prices, mergers, loss of pensions, and revolving door management teams who have used airline employees as an ATM have left the people who work for airlines in the United States with extreme economic difficulties," he testified. "I am worried that the airline piloting profession will not be able to continue to attract the best and the brightest. The current experience and skills of our country's professional airline pilots come from investments made years ago in aviation. The bottom line is that the single most important piece of safety equipment is an experienced, well-trained pilot."
A recent success he celebrates is the Aviation Safety Bill that the House approved in July. The bill requires all pilots that fly for a passenger-carrying airline to have an Air Transport Pilot certificate, effectively raising the number of flying hours an entry-level pilot must have, from the current 250 hours to 1,500.
After 9/11, with the airline industry ailing, Sullenberger was one of many pilots who lost 40 percent of his salary. To add insult to injury, the US Airways pension he thought he could count on was terminated in 2004. Trying to supplement his income, he founded Safety Reliability Methods, a consulting company designed to help those in other occupations benefit from the airline industry's tactical and strategic approaches to safety. The company encourages others to establish initiatives that mirror the extensive checklists pilots follow.
"Raise the fares," Sullenberger insists when asked what will improve the airline industry. "This will make all the airlines more profitable, and a more profitable company is more likely to make the investments necessary in things and people to keep making aviation safer."
Sullenberger retired from US Airways in March, after 30 years, but continues to fly recreationally. Along with First Officer Skiles, he is a co-chairman of the EAA Young Eagles Program that has provided inspirational and educational flight experiences for 1.5 million people thanks to the volunteer efforts of EAA member pilots.
He is trying to make a difference not only in the airline industry, but in causes that are important to him, including St. Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and Guide Dogs for the Blind. "I'm trying to make as much good come out of this as possible," Sullenberger promises.
His book, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, reveals the important lessons he learned from childhood, his military service, and as a commercial pilot. It reminds the reader that life's challenges can be easily overcome if one is properly prepared. By living this mantra, Sullenberger saved the lives of 155 people.
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ASU Herberger Academy student becomes youngest person to obtain Intel job
Joey Hudy, a 16-year-old Herberger Young Scholars Academy student, always liked to make things before he even understood the definition of a maker.
“When I was younger, I used to take random toys apart that didn’t work,” he said. “I’ve always liked making things.”
At only 16, Hudy has already met President Barack Obama, received numerous awards for his engineering creations, been named as one of the 10 smartest kids in the world by Brilliant.org, has been offered a job at the Intel Corporation and is an active participant in Maker Faire. On Tuesday, Hudy sat inside Michelle Obama's box along with 25 other invited guests at President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address.
According to the White House, "invitees are considered extraordinary individuals, Americans who exemplify the themes and ideals laid out in the State of the Union Address."
Hudy said his talents began to become well-known when he met a man named Jeff Coda from Elenco Electronics. Coda convinced Hudy to start attending Maker Faires.
Maker Faire is an event created by MAKE magazine that gathers tech enthusiasts and crafters of all ages to show what they have made and share what they have learned. It is primarily designed for forward-thinking makers interested in innovating with new technologies.
Hudy has attended Maker Faires in San Mateo, Calif., Detroit, Rome and New York. He has also been to a mini-Maker Faire in Phoenix. This April he will be attending a Maker Faire in Shenzhen, China.
Hudy said Maker Faire is essentially a show-and-tell event among makers.
The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing technology-based interests that typically include electronics, robotics and 3-D printing. The rise of maker culture is associated with the rise of hackerspaces, which allow hackers and programmers to come together to share ideas and skill sets.
Hudy’s motto, “Don’t be bored — make something,” used to be on a bracelet that helped him raise funds for travel expenses so he could attend Maker Faires and do-it-yourself events around the world.
Although Hudy always had an interest in making things, he only recently started to seriously build things. His first serious invention was his Extreme Marshmallow Cannon, which he brought to the White House.
Meeting Obama, manufacturing products
At the 2012 White House science fair, during which Obama announced his plan to request funding for new U.S. Department of Education competition supporting math and science programs, the president examined projects presented by more than 100 students across the country.
Hudy said Cognizant, a company that specializes on information technology, and MAKE were asked to send two kids to the White House Science Fair. They chose Hudy to represent them.
“MAKE asked me, and Cognizant sponsored me,” he said.
Hudy chose to present his Extreme Marshmallow Cannon at the science fair. The cannon, at 30 PSI, can shoot a marshmallow up to 176 feet. Obama partook in assisting Hudy with demonstrating his cannon inside the White House State dining room, during which Obama commented, “The Secret Service isn’t too happy about this.”
Hudy said the president was really cool and nice and that it was really neat to see the White House.
“He seemed very impressed with my cannon,” he said.
Hudy was invited back to Washington on Tuesday to sit in the first lady’s box with other honored guests.
Among several inventions, Hudy also manufactures his own products. One of them is a SMD Arduino shield kit, which helps the user learn to fuse surface mount components as well as providing a bright display for an Arduino.
An Arduino is a single-board microcontroller intended to make interactive applications more accessible. Arduino boards can either be purchased pre-assembled or can be sold as do-it-yourself kits.
Hudy has also produced a 3x3x3 Cube Arduino Shield. The product comes in red and green and can be modified into customizable animations and displays. Both of these products can be found under his blog.
Hudy said his build list is endless. Not only is he passionate about making things, he also wants to share “how-to instructions” with others.
By posting videos on his YouTube channel, he performs tutorials on how to solder, how to Ocilliscope and how LEDs work.
Internship at Intel
When school is out for the summer, Hudy will be going to Santa Clara, Calif., to begin his first day as Intel’s youngest employee.
Hudy was at the Maker Faire in Rome in October giving a speech and Intel was in the audience. That is when the opportunity was presented to him.
“It turned out that Intel was watching and they asked if I wanted a job there,” he said. “The CEO offered me a job on the spot, and a couple weeks later they sent me an application.”
The internship, which is typically given to given to college-age students, was given to Hudy without hesitation.
Vaadra Martinez, an intern program manager at Intel, said in an article by America Now that she hopes to forge a long-lasting relationship with Joey.
Hudy was accepted into a paid internship program and will be working in the new devices group’s project development organization. He will also be working with wearable technology.
On Dec. 16, Hudy attended the Intel new hire orientation. He said the people there were very nice and very friendly.
“I am hoping to keep this job at Intel, even after the internship is over,” he said.
Hudy said he enjoys going to a hackerspace called HeatSync Labs during his free time.
“I used to go there every Friday,” he said. “Now that my schoolwork is more rigorous, I can’t go as often as I used to.”
HeatSync Prototyping consultant Jacob Rosenthal said he met Hudy at a Maker Faire.
"His mother showed us his marshmallow cannon," Rosenthal said. "She wanted Joey to meet people who could speak his language."
Rosenthal said since meeting Hudy, he has been mentoring him on his projects.
"An ongoing joke between Joey and I is that he has finished products on the market and I don't," he said. "Mine are still a work in progress."
Rosenthal said he wasn't particularly surprised when he found out that Hudy had gotten an internship at intel.
"I know a lot of Intel guys, and they are smart," he said. "So is Joey."
Rosenthal said Hudy's mother, Julie, is big reason why Joey is where he is now.
"She drove him to Maker Faires and other events like soccer moms take their kids to soccer practice," he said. "She is an important part of what he has become.
On Jan. 18, Hudy participated in his first Hackathon. The event was hosted by HeatSync Labs and was dubbed #hackPHX. Hudy had to compete against 10 other teams to construct an Arduino wearable in less than 24 hours.
Hudy’s team made a dog carrier that was designed to measure dog activity. Hudy said lights go on and off as dog activity increases.
“DAUG stands for Dog Activity Units — Germany,” Hudy said.
The lights on DAUG go from blue to red to green. The DAUG carrier promptly displays feedback through six Neopixel LEDs. Red means there is little-to-no movement, blue means there is some movement and green means there is extreme movement
Hudy's girlfriend, Katie Baerwaldt, was also part of Hudy’s team. Like Hudy, she is a student at the Herberger Academy.
Hudy's team was unique, because it was the only one that made a wearable item for a pet.
“They never said we had to make something that is wearable by humans,” Baerwaldt said.
Two years ago, Hudy left a traditional high school environment for a high school that would help him accelerate through high school. Hudy is completing his high school math and science track at the Herberger Young Scholars Academy at ASU.
The academy is part of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. They follow a STEM curriculum which improves competitiveness in the world of math, science and technology. The coursework involved in the STEM curriculum is far more rigorous than a traditional high school curriculum.
Kim Lansdowne, executive director of the academy, said it follows a system called integrated learning.
"Students are given activities that integrate all kinds of different subjects. We don't use textbooks," she said. "Though we all wish our students to continue into Barrett at ASU after graduating, we want them to have the chance to go to any college they want."
Hudy said he found out about the Herberger Academy at a New York Maker Faire.
“Someone came up to me and told me about the school,” he said. “I visited the school, took an IQ test and got in.”
Hudy said although the work is more rigorous than a traditional high school, he is happy to be a student at the Herberger Academy.
The academy is also where Hudy met Baerwaldt.
Hudy said he hasn’t looked at colleges yet, but would like to go into electrical engineering.
“I’ve thought about going to MIT for electrical engineering if they accept me,” he said.
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As confusion grows over Paralympic seating for wheelchair users, a disabled mother calls for change after being told she may have to sit separately from her two young children.
A Locog ticket agent also said that her children should not have been sold tickets without an accompanying adult, Ms Chapin told Channel 4 News. “I explained to her that I am an adult, and she had to backtrack and admit she meant a non-disabled adult.”
Locog’s aim to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games the most “accessible and inclusive ever” has been well publicised, and it says it exceeded the usual number of wheelchair space provision in other UK sports venues.
However, there is growing concern that this is not enough, with politicians such as John Prescott joining the debate: “Come on @sebcoe. Let’s allow families with disabled parents enjoy the Paralympics together,” he tweeted.
And Ms Chapin is not the only wheelchair user to have had problems with Paralympic ticketing. Beth Davis-Hofbauer [pictured below], a mother of two who uses a wheelchair, also says she was told she would not be able to sit with her children when she tried to get tickets this week.
She says the Locog ticket office told her there is a policy that wheelchair users can only be accompanied by one other person – something Locog denies. Ms Davis-Hofbauer booked four tickets but was told only one person could accompany her in the wheelchair area. Her husband is her carer, and her four-year-old autistic son and 19-month-old daughter are also attending the event.
I explained to her that I am an adult, and she had to backtrack and admit she meant a non-disabled adult. Melissa Chapin
She launched a Change.org petition, urging organisers to change their policy, which now has almost 25,000 signatures.
A Locog spokesperson said the availability for all spectators – including wheelchair users – was now an issue as some events are selling out in the weeks approaching the Games, meaning that tickets together are more difficult to obtain. More than 2.1 million tickets have already been sold for the Paralympics.
Q and A: How to get Paralympic tickets
Ms Chapin bought tickets for herself and her carer, as well as her eight-year-old twins last September.
They are hoping to attend sitting volleyball at the ExCel arena and have day passes to attend other general admission events, including boccia, table tennis and powerlifting.
“This is about the kids. They’ve been looking forward to this for over a year. They shouldn’t be penalised just because their mummy happens to sit on wheels,” she said.
Wheelchair users not ‘separate’
Despite the confusion, a Locog spokesperson said the sitting volleyball tickets Ms Chapin purchased are not allocated, so are made available on a first come first served basis.
“As we have designed our venues such that accessible seating will be located around the new venues at different price points, this means that wheelchair users will be able sit with their friends and families rather than in a separate designated area,” he told Channel 4 News. “Children can be accompanied by any responsible adult, whether a wheelchair user or otherwise.”
Our situation highlights an important issue, namely that planners in this case, but also society generally, haven’t considered that disabled spectators might have children, spouses and friends who are not their carers. Melissa Chapin
Ms Chapin said she is now confident about volleyball seating. “But my concern is the other open events,” she said.
“I don’t think as a wheelchair users will be able to roll in to any event and be able to sit with my children. And I’m worried for people who don’t have tickets yet.
“Our situation highlights an important issue, namely that planners in this case, but also society generally, haven’t considered that disabled spectators might have children, spouses and friends who are not their carers,” she told Channel 4 News. “It’s not Locog’s fault – you don’t know what disabled people need unless you ask them.”
In addition to wheelchair users’ difficulty in securing seats next to their family members, they have been forced to book tickets via telephone, rather than online.
Locog stopped selling wheelchair tickets online last November, and users now have to call up an 0844 number. Locog said this was because of a “separate quota” for wheelchair tickets, and the Disability News Service reports that some users have been put on hold and forced to put up with greater inconvenience as a result.
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The San Diego Convention Center is ground zero for the annual invasion of comic book, movie, and science fiction fans known as Comic-Con International, but diverse businesses throughout the county receive an economic boost from the massive event.
“Anytime you have 150,000 people coming into your community, a good portion are from outside San Diego, and a large portion are from outside the U.S,” said former San Diego Tourism Authority president and CEO Joe Terzi.
“Those people have a huge impact on everything from restaurants to transportation to attractions. You could say from the corner grocery store to SeaWorld and the (San Diego) Zoo.”
Attendees often to explore the region, spending their money throughout the San Diego area, said Jaymie Bradford, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. “It provides the opportunity to showcase our different neighborhoods that typical conventioneers wouldn’t go to.”
The economic benefits extend well beyond the San Diego city limits, said Elvin Lai, president of the San Diego County Lodging Association. It’s not unusual to see fans dressed as super heroes commuting to the convention center from hotels as far away as Oceanside and Chula Vista. Some innkeepers arrange convention transportation for their guests.
While hotels are a big beneficiary, 70 percent of the money Comic-Con visitors spend is for purposes other than lodging, noted Terzi. According to San Diego Convention Center Corp., well over 135,000 people were in town in July for Comic-Con 2019. Attendees were responsible for direct spending of $91 million. They had a regional economic impact of $155 million. That included $31 million spent for lodging; $13.2 for meals and beverages; $6 million on retail shopping; $3.4 million on attractions; and nearly $4 million on local transportation.
Among annual events in San Diego, Comic-Con “is huge” said hotelier Robert Rauch, president and CEO of RAR Hospitality, which operates nine hotels within the county. “It’s a powerful event that comes at a time of high demand to begin with. You see the same thing when the Super Bowl comes to town, but the advantage of Comic-Con is that it happens every year.”
A Fortune in Free Publicity
News coverage of Comic-Con gives the San Diego region worldwide publicity and promotes it as a tourist destination. Comic-Con has been based at the convention center, since 1990, said Clifford “Rip” Rippetoe, president and CEO of the San Diego Convention Center Corp.
“When Comic-Con is here, all eyes are on San Diego,” he said.
The event generates more news coverage than major sports events, said Terzi. “We get placement all over the world. It’s a huge benefit to us as a tourism community. We couldn’t pay for all of that.”
Because of its popularity, the event has maxed out space in the San Diego Convention Center, which is contracted to host the event through 2024. The agreement, which includes a discount for renting the center, was reached despite concerns that the event has become too large for the venue.
“We’ve had to cap our attendance,” said David Glanzer, Comic-Con International’s chief communications and strategy officer. “We have a lot more people who would like to attend.”
The Spillover Effect
Unable to get tickets, many people simply gather in the Gaslamp Quarter to people watch and take part in related festivities. During San Diego Comic-Con, many related events are held offsite in city park space or in hotel ballrooms. Some movie studios rent out vacant commercial space to create elaborate interactive displays for fans called activations, noted Michael Trimble, executive director of the Gaslamp Quarter Association.
“It’s a great financial and economic boost for the Gaslamp Quarter and its merchants as well as all of downtown,” he said. “We have multiple studios doing things in hotels, restaurants, and retail spaces.”
A half-century old, Comic-Con has come a long way from its first incarnation as a small gathering in the basement of downtown’s US Grant hotel in 1970. At the time, it was called the San Diego Golden State Comics Convention. Despite the presence of renowned science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, it was a comparative low-key affair, drawing a little more than 200 attendees.
Today many companies take part in the event as a means of promoting products. Motion picture studios use the event to gain insight into the type of films the public wants to see. They “pick the brains of the people who are buying tickets,” explained Glanzer.
Some businesses take part in Comic-Con to introduce their wares to an international audience, said Miro Copic, a marketing lecturer at San Diego State University. Among them are local mobile game developers.
“This is a true worldwide media event,” Copic said. “You have attendees from over 80 countries. You have international media.”
Changing With The Times
Most Comic-Con attendees fall between the ages of 17 and 34, and there is almost an even division of males and females, noted Glanzer, who began attending comic conventions in San Diego as a fan in 1978.
“It’s a wide spectrum,” he said. “Comic-Com started as comic books, film, and science fiction. Now you will see a lot of costume building and designing, multimedia, and virtual reality. It’s an event that changes with the times. If there is a secret to our success, it’s that we are a bunch of fans. We try to put together the type of convention events we would like to go to.”
A Different Animal
Among the economic beneficiaries of Comic-Con event are businesses near the waterfront that lease land from the Port of San Diego. In addition to bringing in tourists to patronize bayside restaurants, harbor cruise companies, and sports fishing businesses, Comic-Con is a magnet for local residents who normally would not visit the waterfront, said Sharon Bernie-Cloward, president of the San Diego Port Tenants Association.
“It reminds people of what is on the bay,” Cloward said. “Comic-Con hits a big sector of our tenant business.”
Waterfront businesses within all five of the port’s member cities — Chula Vista, Coronado, Imperial Beach, National City and San Diego — benefit, she said. “People will stay at a hotel or an Airbnb, but they will look for activities to do. It goes far beyond a typical convention.”
Ken Franke, president of the Sportfishing Association of California trade group, agrees. “When Comic-Con shows up, everything gets busy on the whole waterfront area.”
Keeping the Faith With Fans
Despite all the growth, glitz, and glamour, Comic-Con, hasn’t lost touch with the comic book and science fiction enthusiasts who gave it its start, Glanzer said. The focus remains on creating a memorable experience for pop culture fans.
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Why This Market Meltdown Isn't a Repeat of 2008 … The end isn't nigh … The U.S. economy and financial system are in a very different place. Notably, debt ratios within the U.S. aren't nearly as high outside the government. – Wall Street Journal
Dominant Social Theme: 2008 is ancient history. Let's focus on what's good about the present.
Free-Market Analysis: There's a difference between being optimistic and unrealistic. This article, above, seems a tad unrealistic. However, we have to consider the source. The Wall Street Journal is not apt to be overly negative about Wall Street or its main business of stock trading … not even if it is warranted.
This is one reason why the Journal often seems mildly surprised when market disasters occur. The meme that the Journal and other mainstream media ascribes to is that the financial system is basically healthy. When things go wrong there are reasons and these reasons can be rectified.
After things have gone wrong, the Journal is apt to compose and post articles suggesting the appropriate palliatives. Once they are applied in some form, the Journal and other influential publications tend to lapse into silence, reporting the financial news as it happens until another disastrous interlude occurs.
These occur regularly, as does the Journal's damage control.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled Friday, falling more than 500 points at one point, as steep declines in oil prices and a bear market in China heightened anxieties that have pushed global stocks lower this year.
But there are crucial differences between now and those dark days, at least for the U.S. While losses could continue, the U.S. appears, at the moment, to be in a better position to weather them. That could keep a market downturn from morphing into a full-blown financial crisis that then leads to an economic one.
… After 2008, many investors have come to fear that every episode in financial markets is another black swan. They should remember there are white ones, too.
One individual who believes that current economic conditions ARE leading toward a "full blown crisis" is Michael Pento, president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Pento recently wrote a column for CNBC entitled "A Recession Worse Than 2008 Is Coming."
In simplest terms, Pento understands, as most do, that recessions – as generated by the current global economy – occur on average about once every five years. Thus, the West, especially the US, is overdue.
Here's how the article begins:
A recession worse than 2008 is coming … The S&P 500 has begun 2016 with its worst performance ever. This has prompted Wall Street apologists to come out in full force and try to explain why the chaos in global currencies and equities will not be a repeat of 2008.
Nor do they want investors to believe this environment is commensurate with the dot-com bubble bursting. They claim the current turmoil in China is not even comparable to the 1997 Asian debt crisis.
Indeed, the unscrupulous individuals that dominate financial institutions and governments seldom predict a down-tick on Wall Street, so don't expect them to warn of the impending global recession and market mayhem. But a recession has occurred in the U.S. about every five years, on average, since the end of WWII; and it has been seven years since the last one – we are overdue.
Pento is focused in particular on the US economy, and in this article he cites a number of reasons why the US's situation is fragile. These include both domestic and overseas influences. He also believes, as we can see above, that the upcoming recession will not be an average "garden variety" one.
"This one will be worse," he predicts. "The market will drop 20% in 2016."
For Pento, China's unraveling is a big part of the reason why 2016 will be a difficult one and why the upcoming recession will, in his view, be more severe than usual.
The megalomaniac communist government has increased debt 28 times since the year 2000. Taking that total north of 300 percent of GDP in a very short period of time for the primary purpose of building a massive unproductive fixed asset bubble that adds little to GDP. Now that this debt bubble is unwinding, growth in China is going offline.
If China were a small problem, the country's difficulties would be relatively insignificant from a global perspective. But according to Pento, "China is not growing at the promulgated 7 percent, but rather isn't growing at all."
Even worse: "China accounts for 34 percent of global growth, and the nation's multiplier effect on emerging markets takes that number to over 50 percent."
Pento believes the US economy is dangerously overextended. Equity valuations and real estate are overpriced. Additionally, higher rates and the cessation of quantitative easing have removed the nation's monetary safety net.
He doesn't believe, contrary to the Journal's stated position, that banks are much healthier now than in 2008. His reasoning here is that regulators are overstating bank capitalization because bank assets are composed of Treasuries – and when the next recession hits hard, even Treasury prices will be subject to a good deal of additional stress.
Pento points out that interest rates remain low despite the Fed hike and thus the Fed goes into the next recession with very limited ability to reduce rates and add liquidity. This probably explains some of the talk about negative interest rates.
Another point Pento makes is that the US federal government has upped publicly traded debt by $8.5 trillion. As with interest rates, this number leaves the Fed with little room to do another such "ramp up" because of the danger of an interest rate spike. Between low rates and high public debt, the Fed faces the possibility of recession with little in the way of solutions.
Pento's grim conclusion: "Look for chaos in currency, bond and equity markets on an international scale throughout 2016. Indeed, it already has begun." For us, Pento wins the argument based on timing alone. The US is overdue for a recession and the modern economy is predictably cyclical.
There is another reason as well that we have often pointed out on these pages and that is that is that predictions of a recession may be unnecessary because the US never actually left recession. What Pento calls a recession is just a continuation of the 2008 slump that was cosmetically ameliorated by central bank money printing.
Within the context of this argument, the financial system in the US and indeed around the world never purged itself of subprime excesses. Large businesses still can't tell if their counterparties are solvent or not. In other words, the current recovery is an entirely monetary one, boosted literally by hundreds of trillions in central bank currency printing and disgorgement.
Predictably money has circulated and found its way into various kinds of asset classes causing troublesome bubbles. But the underlying economy for the most part has NOT improved because the market itself is not engaged by the Fed's top level stimulus.
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Biomass Based Co-generation Project in Paper Mill
at Village Rupana, Punjab, India
The project is located in Satia Industries Limited (SIL), one of biggest Wood and Agro based paper plants in India manufacture Paper using wood chips, veneer waste, wheat straw, sarkanda etc. The company has manifested itself as quality producer of writing/printing paper.
The project is a capacity expansion project situated in Village Rupana, District - Muktsar, State – Punjab. Before project activity the SIL had an installed capacity of 180 MT per day. After project activity the installed capacity of the plant would be 300 MT per day.
Waste rice husks are used for electricity and heat generation. The project is installing 1×75 t/h AFBC rice husk combustion boiler and 1×12.5 MW (Power Generation of 9.6 MW) steam turbine, which consumes 161,236 tonnes of rice husk per annum and is expected to generate 909 TJ/annum of heat and 60,826 MWh/annum of electricity.
The GHG emission reductions are from electricity generation. It would substitute electricity generation of Northern grid of India dominated by coal based power plants, and thus would reduce coal consumption. The estimated annual average GHG emission reductions from this project are 86,282 and total GHG emission reductions over the ten year period are 862,820.
Following a QAS approved carbon footprint calculation, this projects meets the requirements under the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting. As part of this we are audited to ensure all offsets sold are retired on appropriate registries within 12 months of you purchasing.
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One ministry offers this advice to children when they face temptations: they should remember what they have learned; reflect on the danger of their actions; run away from the situation; and rely on God. That is good advice. When Jesus met Satan in the wilderness, Jesus came with a set of values based on the Scriptures. He responded to Satan based on these values. As Jesus faced crucifixion, He relied on prayer to enable Him to resist the temptation to turn back. We read this in Luke 22 as Jesus arrived at the Mount of Olives. He told his disciples, “Pray that you will not give in to temptation.” He walked away, about a stone’s throw. And knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. Then an angel from heaven appeared and strengthened him. He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood. At last, he stood up again and returned to the disciples, only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.” So we — after fortifying ourselves with the values of God’s word, we can turn to God in prayer for strength to say No to sin. | <urn:uuid:df6d2131-e09d-4acc-b1bd-b3da2e259da1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://urbanfaith.com/2011/12/how-can-a-person-resist-temptation.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.974085 | 305 | 2.9375 | 3 |
BMW has halted manufacturing at two German factories. Mercedes is slowing work at its meeting crops. Volkswagen, warning of manufacturing stoppages, is searching for various sources for components.
For greater than a 12 months, the worldwide auto business has struggled with a disastrous scarcity of laptop chips and different very important components that has shrunk manufacturing, slowed deliveries and despatched costs for brand spanking new and used vehicles hovering past attain for thousands and thousands of shoppers.
Now, a brand new issue — Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine — has thrown up yet one more impediment. Critically essential electrical wiring, made in Ukraine, is all of a sudden out of attain. With purchaser demand excessive, supplies scarce and the conflict inflicting new disruptions, car costs are anticipated to move even greater properly into subsequent 12 months.
The conflict’s harm to the auto business has emerged first in Europe. However U.S. manufacturing will possible endure ultimately, too, if Russian exports of metals — from palladium for catalytic converters to nickel for electrical car batteries — are reduce off.
“You solely have to miss one half not to have the ability to make a automobile,” stated Mark Wakefield, co-leader of consulting agency Alix Companions’ world automotive unit. “Any bump within the street turns into both a disruption of manufacturing or a vastly unplanned-for price enhance.”
Provide issues have bedeviled automakers for the reason that pandemic erupted two years in the past, at occasions shuttering factories and inflicting car shortages. The strong restoration that adopted the recession brought on demand for autos to vastly outstrip provide — a mismatch that despatched costs for brand spanking new and used automobiles skyrocketing properly past total excessive inflation.
In the US, the typical value of a brand new car is up 13% previously 12 months, to $45,596, in response to Edmunds.com. Common used costs have surged much more: They’re up 29% to $29,646 as of February.
Earlier than the conflict, S&P International Mobility had predicted that world automakers would construct 84 million automobiles this 12 months and 91 million subsequent 12 months. (By comparability, they constructed 94 million in 2018.) Now it’s forecasting fewer than 82 million in 2022 and 88 million subsequent 12 months.
Mark Fulthorpe, an government director for S&P, is amongst analysts who suppose the provision of recent automobiles in North America and Europe will stay severely tight — and costs excessive — properly into 2023. Compounding the issue, consumers who’re priced out of the new-vehicle market will intensify demand for used autos and hold these costs elevated, too — prohibitively so for a lot of households.
Ultimately, excessive inflation throughout the economic system — for meals, gasoline, hire and different requirements — will possible go away an unlimited variety of odd consumers unable to afford a brand new or used car. Demand would then wane. And so, ultimately, would costs.
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“Till inflationary pressures begin to actually erode shopper and enterprise capabilities,” Fulthorpe stated, “it’s most likely going to imply that those that have the inclination to purchase a brand new car, they’ll be ready to pay high greenback.”
One issue behind the dimming outlook for manufacturing is the shuttering of auto crops in Russia. Final week, French automaker Renault, one of many final automakers which have continued to construct in Russia, stated it might droop manufacturing in Moscow.
The transformation of Ukraine into an embattled conflict zone has damage, too. Wells Fargo estimates that 10% to fifteen% of essential wiring harnesses that provide car manufacturing within the huge European Union had been made in Ukraine. Previously decade, automakers and components corporations invested in Ukrainian factories to restrict prices and acquire proximity to European crops.
The wiring scarcity has slowed factories in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere, main S&P to slash its forecast for worldwide auto manufacturing by 2.6 million automobiles for each this 12 months and subsequent. The shortages may cut back exports of German automobiles to the US and elsewhere.
Wiring harnesses are bundles of wires and connectors which might be distinctive to every mannequin; they can not be simply re-sourced to a different components maker. Regardless of the conflict, harness makers like Aptiv and Leoni have managed to reopen factories sporadically in Western Ukraine. Nonetheless Joseph Massaro, Aptiv’s chief monetary officer, acknowledged that Ukraine “shouldn’t be open for any kind of regular business exercise.”
Aptiv, primarily based in Dublin, is attempting to shift manufacturing to Poland, Romania, Serbia and probably Morocco. However the course of will take as much as six weeks, leaving some automakers wanting components throughout that point.
“Long run,” Massaro informed analysts, “we’ll should assess if and when it is smart to return to Ukraine.”
BMW is attempting to coordinate with its Ukrainian suppliers and is casting a wider web for components. So are Mercedes and Volkswagen.
But discovering various provides could also be subsequent to unimaginable. Most components crops are working near capability, so new work house must be constructed. Corporations would want months to rent extra individuals and add work shifts.
“The coaching course of to deliver up to the mark a brand new workforce — it’s not an in a single day factor,” Fulthorpe stated.
Fulthorpe stated he foresees an additional tightening provide of supplies from each Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of neon, a fuel utilized in lasers that etch circuits onto laptop chips. Most chip makers have a six-month provide; late within the 12 months, they may run quick. That might worsen the chip scarcity, which earlier than the conflict had been delaying manufacturing much more than automakers anticipated.
Likewise, Russia is a key provider of such uncooked supplies as platinum and palladium, utilized in pollution-reducing catalytic converters. Russia additionally produces 10% of the world’s nickel, a vital ingredient in EV batteries.
Mineral provides from Russia haven’t been shut off but. Recycling may assist ease the scarcity. Different international locations could enhance manufacturing. And a few producers have stockpiled the metals.
However Russia is also a giant aluminum producer, and a supply of pig iron, used to make metal. Almost 70% of U.S. pig iron imports come from Russia and Ukraine, Alix Companions says, so steelmakers might want to change to manufacturing from Brazil or use various supplies. Within the meantime, metal costs have rocketed up from $900 a ton a number of weeks in the past to $1,500 now.
To this point, negotiations towards a cease-fire in Ukraine have gone nowhere, and the preventing has raged on. A brand new virus surge in China may reduce into components provides, too. Business analysts say they haven’t any clear thought when components, uncooked supplies and auto manufacturing will move usually.
Even when a deal is negotiated to droop preventing, sanctions towards Russian exports would stay intact till after a last settlement had been reached. Even then, provides wouldn’t begin flowing usually. Fulthorpe stated there can be “additional hangovers due to disruption that may happen within the widespread provide chains.”
Wakefield famous, too, that due to intense pent-up demand for automobiles the world over, even when automakers restore full manufacturing, the method of constructing sufficient automobiles will likely be a protracted one.
When may the world produce an ample sufficient provide of vehicles and vehicles to satisfy demand and hold costs down?
Wakefield doesn’t profess to know.
“We’re in a raising-price surroundings, a (manufacturing)-constrained surroundings,” he stated. “That’s a bizarre factor for the auto business.”
Chan reported from London.
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as a neutral person to lead said teinds in his own barnyard (Reg. Privy Council, viii. 159), and Napier, in a letter to his son, expressed himself satisfied with this arrangement (Memoirs, p. 315).
In 1610 Napier sold the Pultrielands to Nisbet of Dean for seventeen hundred merks (Douglas, Peerage ii. 291); and to protect his property at Gartnes he entered, on 24 Dec. 1611 into an agreement with Campbell of Lawers, Stirling, and his brothers that 'if the Macgregors or other hieland broken men should trouble his lands in Lennox or Menteith,' the Campbells should do their utmost to punish them (Memoirs, p. 326).
A man of wide intellectual interests and great versatility, Napier, as a landowner, gave considerable attention to agriculture, which, owing to the disturbed state of the country, was at a low ebb, resulting in frequent scarcity of corn and cattle. He appears to have instituted experiments in the use of manures, and to have discovered the value of common salt for the purpose. The details of his method are explained in a pamphlet nominally written by his eldest son Archibald [q. v.], to whom a monopoly of this mode of tillage was granted on 22 June 1598 (ib. p. 283). His son's share in these experiments-- he was only twenty-three--cannot have been great. With somewhat similar ends in view he invented an hydraulic screw and revolving axle, by which, at a moderate expense, water could be kept down in coal-pits while being worked, and many flooded pits could be cleared of water and recovered, to the great advantage of the country. In order that he might in part reap the profits of his invention, the king, on 30 Jan. 1596-7, granted him a monopoly for making, erecting, and working these machines (Reg. Mag. Sig. vi. 172). In 1599 Sir John Skene published his 'De Verborum Significatione,' in which he mentions that he had consulted Napier whom he there styles 'a gentleman of singular judgement and learning, especially in mathematic sciences' in reference to the proper methods to be used in the measuring of lands. To mathematics Napier chiefly devoted his leisure through life; but soon after settling at Gartnes he interrupted his favourite study in order to cross swords with Roman catholic apologists. In 1593 he completed with that object a work on ' Revelation,' which had occupied him for five years. He had thought at first to write it in Latin, but the 'insolency of Papists determined him to haste [it] out in English.' It was entitled 'A Plaine Discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John,' and appeared at Edinburgh early in 1594. In his dedication to James VI, dated 29 Jan. 1593-4, Napier urged the king to see 'that justice be done against the enemies of God's church,' and counselled him 'to reform the universal enormities of his country, and first to begin at his own house, family, and court.' The volume includes nine pages of English verse by himself. It met with success at home and abroad (Memoirs, p. 326). In 1600 Michiel Panneel produced a Dutch translation, and this reached a second edition in 1607. In 1602 the work appeared at La Rochelle in a French version, by Georges Thomson, revised by Napier, and that also went through several editions (1603, 1605, and 1607). A new edition of the English original was called for in 1611, when it was revised and corrected by the author, and enlarged by the addition of 'A Resolution of certain Doubts proponed by well-affected brethren;' this appeared simultaneously at Edinburgh and London. The author stated that he still intended to publish a Latin edition, but, 'being advertised that our papistical adversaries were to write largely against the editions already set out,' he deferred it till he had seen their objections. The Latin edition never appeared, and his opponents' works proved unimportant. A German translation, by Leo de Dromna, of the first part of Napier's work appeared at Gera in 1611 (some copies are dated 1612), and of the whole by Wolfgang Meyer at Frankfort-on- the-Maine, in 1615 (new edit, 1627).
But other instruments besides the pen suggested themselves to Napier as a means of confounding the foes of his religion and country. On 7 June 1596 he forwarded to Anthony Bacon [q. v.], elder brother of Francis, lord Verulam, 'Secret Inventions, profitable and necessary in these Days for Defence of this Island, and withstanding of Strangers, Enemies of God's Truth and Religion' (the manuscript is at Lambeth). Four inventions are specified : two varieties of burning mirrors, a piece of artillery, and a chariot of metal, double musket proof, the motion of which was controlled by those within, and from which shot was discharged through small holes,' the enemy meantime being abased and altogether uncertain what defence or pursuit to use against a moving mouth of metal' (Memoirs, p. 247). A curious story of a trial of the last invention in Scot- land is given by Sir Thomas Urquhart in 'The Jewell ' (London, 1652, p. 79). Napier desired that these instruments of destruction should be kept secret unless necessity compelled their use.
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Foreword || A Review of the Economic Situation || The Perspective || Rate and Pattern of Growth || Financial Resources || Plan Outlays and Programmes of Development || Resolution of the National Development Council on Power and Irrigation Systems || Resolution of the National Development Council on the Fifth Five Year Plan || Annexures
I. Plan Outlays
The Draft Fifth Five Year Plan envisaged an outlay of Rs. 37250 crores in the public sector. The revised Plan outlay is now estimated at Rs 39303 crores excluding provision for inventories.
Public Sector Outlays
5.2. Not only has the Total Plan Outlay been increased from Rs 37250 crores to Rs 39303 crores but the outlay for the next two years has been reckoned at Rs 19902 crores as against the estimate for the first three years of the Plan which aggregate to Rs 19401 crores.
5.3. The break down of the revised outlay under major heads of development is as follows :
Five Year Plan Outlay-1974-79
not include an amount of Rs- 16 crores for which sectoral break-up is
not worked out.
The outlays for the remaining years of the Plan are based on the following broad considerations : -
5.4. There is substantial step-up in the outlays on irrigation and flood control, power and industry and minerals. In agriculture, education and social services sectors though the revised outlays for the Fifth Plan as a whole are smaller, the outlays for the last two years of the Plan are higher than the outlays for the first three years.
20-Point Economic Programme
5.5. The 20-Point Economic Programme was announced by the Prime Minister on 1st July, 1975. The various constituents of the 20-Point Economic Programme, especially those which require financial investment, have been identified. Priority has been accorded to the implementation of the schemes falling under this programme. The outlays of the Centre, States and Union Territories for the remaining two years of the plan1977-79 and the Fifth Plan are indicated below :
Annexures 21 and 22 indicate the proposed outlays for 1 977-79 in respect of different constituents of the 20-Point Economic Programme.
5.6. The distribution of the outlays by sectors, by Ministries, by States and by Union Territories is shown in Annexures 17-20, Briefly, the revised Plan outlays are as follows :
2. Agriculture and Irrigation
5.7. Agriculture Production: The methodology followed in arriving at the projections of foodgrains, important commercial crops, irrigated areas and other physical programmes has been explained in the chapter on the Rate and Pattern of Growth. These estimates relate to average weather conditions in a given year. However, in order to allow for variations in the effect of weather, provisions have been made in individual state plans on a slightly higher scale so that the total production is not materially lowered even if some part of the country is affected. If these outlays are utilised with a fair degree of efficiency and if weather conditions are favourable in all the states, the total production would naturally be much higher and could be of the order shown in the table below.
(mt-million tonnas, mh-million hectares, mb-million bales )
5.8. The expenditure on Agriculture and allied programmes during 1974-77 is likely to be about Rs. 2 I 30 crores. The outlays proposed for the last two years of the Plan period are of the order of Rs. 251 3 crores. The Sectorwise outlays are shown in Annexure 23 and the State-wise allocations are given in Annexure 24.
5.9. Performance of the important programmes, like DPAP, minor irrigation, production and distribution of high-yielding varieties of seed and distribution of fertilisers have been specifically examined and necessary provision has been made. The outlays for reclamation of alkline, saline and acidic soils and plant protection programmes have been suitably enhanced. Emphasis has also been placed on developing organic sources of manure and higher outlays provided for setting up biogas plants. Adequate provision has also been made for accelerating the minikit seed programme and strengthening of the extension services. Provision has also been made for augmenting storage capacity in the public sector.
5.10. The total irrigation potential likely to be created during the Fifth Plan period is placed at 13-1 million hectares ; 5-8 million under 'major and medium' and 7'3 million under'minor'. Allowing for certain adjustments the additional potential should be of an order higher than 11 million hectares.
Major and Medium Irrigation
5.11. During the first three years of the Fifth Plan the expenniture on major and medium irrigation projects is likely to be Rs. 1474 crores. For the remaining two years of the Plan, an outlay of Rs. 1 621 crores is indicated keeping in view the progress achieved on each project, new completion schedules, development of additional command and escalation in costs. Where work could be accelerated, higher, outlays have been provided for projects such as Nagariuna-sagar, Sarda Sahayak, Rajasthan Canal, Malaprabha and Kadana, Commitments to international agencies like the World Bank in respect of certain projects and obligation of States to provide matching funds in respect of inter-State projects have been kept in mind.
5.12. An Outlay of Rs. 1013 crores has been provided for new starts during the Plan period. In selecting new projects, priority was accorded to those located in drought prone areas. On the basis of the data furnished by the States and the discussions held recently, an additional potential of 5-8 million hectares is expected to be acnieved during the Fifth Plan period. Details indicating the outlays and benefits State-wise are given in Annexures 25 and 26.
5.13. Planning Commission has been laying great emphasis on modernisation of certain important irrigation schemes urgently, particularly those completed earlier to the Plan periods. Provision has been made for some schemes like Godavari Barrage, Tajewala and Okhia Barrages and Bhimgoda headworks.
5.14. According to the outlays available to the states for the first three years, a maximum potential of nearly 3'4 million hectares is likely to be created during the first three years of the Plan. The provision made in the following two years of the Plan almost equals the provision in the first three years. As a number of the projects are nearing completion, it is expected that an additional 3-9 million hectares will be brought under irrigation during the next two years.
Soil and Water Conservation
5.1 5. The programme for treatment of area in river valley catchment of major reservoirs and other soil and water conservation programme made a late start. A considerable step-up in outlays for implementation of these programmes has been made for the remaining two years'of the Fifth Plan. In some of the States, soil and water conservation programmes have also been taken up with institutional credit support and the targets of physical performance are likely to be achieved.
5.16. This important programme for optimising the use of irrigation water and utilisation of the potential created from selected commands of major irrigation works also took time to make a start. Now the Command Area Development Authorities have been set up and other infrastructure facilities developed. Therefore, the provision in the Central sector would be almost 22 per cent higher for the remaining two years as compared to the outlays for the first tnree years. The provisions in the respective states adequately match the provision made in the Central sector.
Investment in Agricultural Financial Institutions
5.17. More and more institutional finance is being extended to the development programme for rural areas which leads to higher physical achievements with less public sector outlays. Accordingly, for providing support to Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation, adequate budgetary provision has * been made in the Central Sector, which is almost 55 per cent higher than the outlay in the draft Fifth Plan. In the State, sector, provisions have also been made for investment in agricultural financial institutions which are higher by about 22 per cent. The provision made for the remaining two years in some of the States especially in the eastern region for strengthening of cooperative structure and development of loaning programmes by the Land Development Banks is almost 62% higher than the outlays available for the first three years. The total investment outlay is being raised to Rs. 129 crores. It is to be noted that the major portion of it will go to minor irrigation sector. This should generate sizeable investment and strengthen the operational capability of the Central/State Ground Water Boards.
5.18. Taking note of the fact that forestry development has assumed a significant dimension as a source of timber and fuel and for the maintenance of the natural ecological system, special programmes for social forestry and economic plantations have been given high priority. Accordingly, for the remaining two years of the plan, the provision made is almost double the outlays provided for in the first three years of the Plan. Adequate provision has also been made for 'project Tiger' and for the development of National Parks and for strengthening the reserch programme in the forestry sector.
Animal Husbandry and Dairy Farming
5.19. There had been some delay in giving a start to the special livestock development programmes through small and marginal farmers and agricultural labourers. By and large the targets under production oriented projects such as intensive cattle development projects, intensive poultry production-cum-marketing centres, sheep and wool extension centres and fluid milk plants and milk product factories are expected to be achieved in full. There are 85 subsidised projects for cross-breed calf rearing, 57 poultry production projects, 45 piggery production projects and 38 sheep production projects through small and marginal farmers and agricultural labourers in 148 districts. Intergrated milk production-cum-marketing projects would be implemented in the States of Meghalaya, Assam, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, J and K, Orissa and Kerala as a second phase of the 'Operation Flood' project. Emphasis will continue to be laid on cross-breeding in cattle through establishment of exotic cattle breeding farms and intensive artificial insemination measures. Particular emphasis will be laid on scientific poultry breeding programme. Programmes for the control of rinderpest and foot and mouth disease would be continued.
5.20. There has been some delay in the start of a few projects but the targets for mechanisation of boats, production of fish seed and development of fishing harbours are expected to be achieved in full A special Trawler Development Fund will be created in order to helo, in particular, smaller entrepreneurs and cooperatives to purchase and operate trawlers for marine fishries. Fish Farmers Development Agencies would be started in the states for augmenting inland fish production and exploitation of water bodies in rural areas.
5.21. The UNDP assisted palagic fishery project would be continued for exploration and exploitation of fishery resources and this scheme would be extended to cover both the West and South East coasts. A survey of the North West coast would be conducted. An intergrated fishery development project around two fishing harbours at Veraval and Mangrol in Gujarat would be taken up with world Bank assistance. A research vessel will be provided to the Central Marine Fishries Research Institute.
Research and Education
5.22. In spite of the fact that the trend of expenditure during the first three years has been low on account of ban on recruitment of staff, the research priorities in different fields of crop production and animal husbandry have been maintained to yield new innovations in developing farm level technology. The coordinated research programmes have been suitably strengthened with the active participation of the Agricultural Universities in different States. A new research complex has been established in the north-eastern region. New institutes have also been established for strengthening cotton research and for developing research programmes on farm tools, equipment and machinery. Provisions have been made for projects with collaboration of agencies of United Nations. The Educational programmes have been further strengthened by setting up new Agricultural Universities which now number 21 covering 1 6 States.
5.23. Taking note of the desirability of strengthening the cooperative structure, provision has been sufficiently enhanced for Agricultural Stabilisation Fund, rehabilitation of weak Central Cooperative Banks and assistance to cooperative credit institutions in developing States. Thus the revised outlay for 1977-79 is almost 60 per cent higher than the outlays for the first three years of the Fifth Plan. Similarly, adequate provisions have been made in the State sector to provide for strengthening of cooperative structure by organising Farmers Service Societies-and LAMPS in the tribal areas. Provisions have also been made for increasing the loaning programmes for m'nor irrigation, land development and supply of inputs.
5.24. The anticipated expenditure in the first three, years is likely to be of the order of Rs. 177-69 crores. For the next two years (1 977-79). an outlay of Rs. 167.59 crores has been indicated (Annexure 27).
5.25. Some of the .important schemes are the Patna City Protecton Works, flood protection works in North-Bihar and U.P., flood control and drainage works in Jammu and Kashmir, drainage works in Punjab, improvement of lower Damodar system in West Bengal and flood protection works in North Bengal. The provision also covers the flood control works in the Brahmputra valley for which provision has been rr.ade in the Central sector.
5.26. The Centre is also assisting in sharing the cost of flood control component of the Rengali dam in Orissa and anti-sea erosion works in Kerala. It also meets the cost of the flood forecasting system that has been set up in the Department of Irrigation.
5.27. In the Fourth Plan an additional 4280 MW of generating capacity was added, taking the installed capacity to 18456 MW. In the first two years of the Fifth Plan 3524 MW were added, and with the requisite efforts on the part of the project authorities, it might be possible to add 2387 MW capacity during 1976-77. In the first three years, the outlay on generation projects would be about Rs. 2145 crores. It is now expected that a total of about 12500 MW of generating capacity would be added during the Fifth Plan. Out of the projects which are currently under implementation, generating capacity of about 6000 MW would be still under construction at the end of the Fifth Plan. Experience indicates that management and techniques of construction and monitoring, would need to be considerably improved.
5.28. In finalising the Fifth Plan for Power, emphasis has been placed on the completion of on-going schemes as expeditiously as possible. In recommending outlays, the latest cost of each generation project, status of progress of major items of works, delivery schedules for the equipment and any constraints likely to be faced in implementation were all taken into account. Particular consideration has also been given to infra and inter-State transmission lines, setting up and strengthening of regional load despatch centres, and investments on distribution. Transmission and distribution losses are expected to be reduced. The needs of schemes covered by external assistance have baen also kept in view. Rural electrification will also be significantly higher than in the first three years of the Fifth Plan. The States will also be attracting institutional finance for rural electrification. The programme of energising pump sets will be accelerated. About 13 lakh pump sets are expected to be energised during the Fifth Plan period, as against about 6.3 lakh pump sets in the first three years. About 81,000 additional villages are also expected to be electrified in the Fifth Plan.
5.29. In planning advance action for the Sixth Plan, the power requirements till the end of the Sixth Plan are being kept in view. It has been assumed that the healthy trends In improved utilisation of capacity which have been observed in the Fifth Plan period and the progress in reduction of distribution losses, will continue. Special attention will be paid towards ensuring that regional grids are strengthened, that there is a balanced development of peaking and base load stations in each region, and that optimal use is made of these stations both by an integrated operation within the region and where necessary by cooperation between regions. With these considerations in mind, provision has been made for a number of new starts in the thermal and hydel projects including a centrally owned super thermal station. The views of the States were taken note of particularly in regard to aspects like readiness of projects, construction periods and escalation in cost. Many States expressed their willingness to raise additional resources to meet the requirements of new power projects.
5.30. The power position in northern and eastern regions will continue to be comfortable. But western and southern regions are expected to face both peaking and energy deficits.
5.31. Increased outlays are provided for training facilities for the operation and maintenance of power system, testing facilities for electrical equipment and R and D in such priority areas as geothermal and tidal power.
5.32. The revised outlays under the various categories are summarised below:-
Fifth Plan Power-Financial Outlay
5.33. The generation schemes which have been or are expected to be commissioned 'n Fifth Plan period are shown in Annexure 28. The regionwise break up of installed capacity is expected to be as in Annexure 29.
4. Industry and Minerals
5.34. The stresses and strains in the economy kept the industrial growth low :2.5% during 1974-75 and 5.7% during 1975-76. Even so, significant increase in production have been achieved in some of the basic industries like steel, coal, cement, non-ferrous metals and power generation. Decline was particularly noticed in industries like passenger cars, consumer durables and cotton textiles.
5.35. Some of the steps taken to correct this situation can be mentioned. 21 industries including cotton spinning, basic drugs and industrial machinery have been delicensed. In respect of 29 selected i ndustries, the existing units including foreign and MRTP companies have been permitted to utilise their installed capacity without limit. In order to promote exports of engineering goods, 15 engineering industries have been allowed the facility of automatic growth of capacity,at 5% .per annum or up to a ceiling of 25% in a Plan period in physical terms. Various facilities have been extended to non-resident Indians for the establishment of industrial undertakings and for investing their earnings in selected industries. The resources of I DBI and other term lending institutions are also proposed to be augmented. Conditions are now favourable for maintaining the tempo of growth in industrial production and investment, achieved during the last quarter of 1975-76.
5.36. In making revised allocations, speedy completion of projects and appropriate action for starting new projects with long gestation periods have been kept in mind. As against an outlay of Rs. 13,528 crores envisaged in the draft Fifth Plan, the revised figure is placed at Rs. 1 6,660 crores : Rs. 9660 crores in the Central and States Public Sectors and Rs. 7000 crores in private and cooperative sectors.
Central Public Sector
5.37. A detailed list of projects and programmes included in the Central sector of the plan is given in Annexure 30. The broad break up of certain important groups of industries in the public sector is as follows :
Outlays for important groups of industries
5.38. The targets of production visualised in the Plan for selected industries is given in Annexure 31. The average rate of industrial growth during the Fifth Plan is reckoned to be around 7% per annum. In view of the relatively lower rate of growth in the first 2 years of the plan, the growth rate in industrial production in the lernaining 3 years of the Plan will have to be maintained around 9 to 10%
5.39. The domestic demand for finished mild steel is estimated at about 7.75 MT by 1978-79, while the production is expected to be 8.8 MT including a production of 1.06 MT from the mini steel plants and re-roilers. Though a few special categories of steel will still need to be imported, on the whale the country has now emerged as a net exporter of steel.
5.40. The 1.7 MT stage of Bokaro is expected to be completed by the end of 1976. This plant, except the cold-rolling mill, is expected to expand to 4.0 MT by June 1979. The work on the expansion of Bhilai steel plant to 4.0 MT is expected to be completed by December 1981. Plans have also been drawn up for rehabilitation and modernisation of the IISCO plant.
5.41. Considering the longer gestation period in the steel industry, various alternatives for expansion and development are under consideration.
5.42. The Korba plant is expected to achieve its full capacity of 100,000 tonnes of aluminium along with associated fabricating facilities, before the end of the Fifth Plan. Along with the capacity existing in the private sector, this will contribute to the total capacity of 325,000 tonnes and will be adequate to meet the domestic requirements.
5.43. With the commissioning of the Khetri copper complex, the current smelting capacity is 57,000 tonnes per annum. Provision has been made for the development of mining projects at Malanjkhand and Rakha and expansion of copper mines in the Bihar belt. The Plan envisages a production target of 37,000 tonnes of copper from domestic ore by 1978-79.
5.44. The capacity for zinc production is expected to increase to 95,000 tonnes by 1978-79 with the completion of the expansion of Debari smelter (45,000 tonnes) and installation of a new smelter at Vizag (30,000 tonnes).
5.45. A provision of Rs. 468 crores has been made in the Plan towards the various schemes included for the development of non-ferrous metals and associated facilities.
5.46. The bulk of the investments is for completing the programme for the production of electric generation equipment and supporting facilities in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and for diversification of the production programme of Hindustan Machine Tools for the manufacture of lamp machinery, printing machinery, tractors and watches. Provision has also been made for balancing facilities at Heavy Engineering Corporation and for rehabilitation and diversification programmes of engineering undertakings taken over by the Government.
5.47. A large step up in scooter production is envisaged. The concept of a mother unit supplying components for assembly to a number of subsidiary units has been introduced in the public sector.
5.48. Provision has been made for the Hindustan Shipyard to achieve a production of three ships per annum of 21,600 DWT size. Cochin shipyard will have a capacity of two ships per annum of 75,000 DWT size by 1 977-78. The further expansion to four ships per annum will also be started before the end of the Plan. The establishment of one or more new shipyards is currently under consideration.
5.49. A detailed plan for the development of electronic industry on a scientific basis has been drawn up. Provision has been made for testing facilities and R and D support for the growth of the electronic industry.
5.50. The installed capacity for nitrogenous fertilisers is expected to reach 4.7 million tonnes by 1 978-79. Since a part of this capacity will be realised only in the last year of the Plan, the production target is placed at 2.9 million tonnes.
5.51. The demand for phosphatic fertilisers has not increased to the extent envisaged. Measures have been mitiated to stimulate consumotion of phosphatic fertilisers. Further expansion of phosphatic fertiliser capacity is being planned.
5.52. Apart from the new plants envisaged in the public sector, it is expected that additional capacity will be promoted in the private sector.
5.53. A total provision of Rs. 1 533 crores has been made in the Fifth Plan for fertilser projects as compared to Rs. 1093.28 crores in the draft Plan. This includes a lumpsum provision for new fertiliser projects and also fertiliser projects in the cooperative sector.
Oil and Natural Gas
5.54. Programme for the exploration and exploitation is being stepped up to intensify activities in the most promising oil bearing areas where the payback is likely to be quicker. Resources are, therefore, mainly being canalised to the development and production of oil from off-shore and selected on-shore areas.
5.55. A time-bound programme has been drawn to develop production of oil from Bombay High to a rated capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum by 1980-81. Studies for optimal exploitation of resources, transportation, processing and utilisation of the oil and associated natural gas are being currently carried out.
5.56. The draft Plan envisaged a step up of crude oil production from 7.2 million tonnes in 1973-74 to 12.0 million tonnes in 1978-79. The production target for crude oil is now placed at 14.18 million tonnes in 1978-79.
5.57. Taking into account the enlarged programme, the outlays for ONGC during the Fifth Plan, have now been revised to Rs. 1056 crores as compared to Rs. 420 crores in the Draft Fifth Plan.
5.58. The refinery programmes included in the Plan cover the completion of the Kaldia refinery, the expansion of Koyali and the establishment of refineries at Mathura and Bongaigaon. All these projects are expected to be completed in the Fifth Plan excepting Mathura refinery which is scheduled to be commissioned by 1980. By the end of the Fifth Plan, refining capacity will be stepped upto31.5 million tonnes. Provision has been made in the Planter these schemes.
5.59. The first major petrochemicals complex at Baroda will be completed during the Fifth Plan period. The Aromatic Project of the complex has already been commissioned. The defines and the downstream units are expected to be commissioned between August, 1977 and April, 1978. The polyester filament yarn project of Petrofils Cooperative Ltd. is also expected to be commissioned in phases between March and July, 1977. A provision of Rs. 349 crores has been made for the above mentioned schemes. A Refinery-cum-Petrochemical unit at Bongaigaon has been included in the Plan.
5.60 In consonance with the broad policy frame for the Energy sector drawn up by the Fuel Policy Committee, the Draft Fifth Plan envisaged a production target of 1 35 million tonnes by 1978-79. »
5.61. A comprehensive programme of advance action involving bulk purchase of standardised plant and equipment and various technical, managerial and administrative improvement together with a favourable industrial climate has resulted in higher production of coal.
5.62. The demand for coal, however, has not kept pace with production. After keeping in view the outlook for coal consuming industries and a review of the current energy situation, the likely demand of coal at the end of the Fifth Plan period has now been projected at 124 million tonnes. Provision has been kept for an export of 2.5 million tonnes of coal in 1978-79 as compared with 1.5 million tonnes envisaged earlier. Consistent witn the revised outlook in demand, the production programmes are being rephased, in a way which would not hamper the future growth.
5.63. Even with this target, the outlays for the Plan are likely to be of the order of Rs. 1025 crores as against the earlier provision of Rs. 747.60 crores. This includes the requirements for the setting up of 1 0 million tonnes of additional washery Capacity, of which, 4 million tonnes will be operational by 1 978-79. Two units of low temperature carbonisation plants are also contemplated. Adequate provision has been made for better housing facilities and other welfare activities etc.
5.64. The draft Fifth Plan made a provision of Rs. 39.80 crores for the Neyveli Lignite Project which was expected to reach a production of 6.0 million tonnes in 1978-79.
5.65. On the basis of the review now carried out, this provision has been increased to Rs. 122.25 crores, mainly on account of escalated cost of the specialised mining equipment which is to be imported. In view of the slippages in the implementation of the programme, a production of 4.5 million tonnes of lignite is now expected by the end of the Fifth Plan period, the production of 6 million tonnes being attainable by 1 980-81.
5.66. The production target envisaged for iron ore in the Draft Plan was 58 million tonnes. Due to slight fill in the domestic demand, the production now envisaged is 56 million tonnes,
5.67. As currently reckoned Donimalai, Bailadila-5 and Kiriburu expansion projects will be commissioned in 1976-77. The development of Meghahatu-buru project for meeting the requirements of Bokaro steel plant at the 4 million tonnes stage is expected to be taken up shortly. Provision has also been made for establishing pelletisation capacity. A notable feature in the field of iron ore development has been the decision to develop the Kudremukh magnetite deposit for a production of 7.5 million tonnes of magnetite concentrates at a cost of around Rs. 567 crores.
5.68. Based on current estimates, a provision of Rs. 107.57 crores, excluding the investments on Kudermukh Project, has been made in the Plan.
5.69. To achieve speedy implementation of licences issued and to make new sugar factories and expansion schemes economically viable, incentives were announced in September, 1975. The capacity is expected to increase from 4.3 million tonnes in 1 973-74 to 5.4 million tonnes in 1 978-79.
5.70. From a production of 7900 million metres of cloth in 1973-74, the production is expected to go up to 9500 million metres in 1978-79. The share of the mill sector is envisaged at 4800 million metres and the decentralised sector would contribute the balance of 4700 million metres.
5.71. The spinning capacity .is being expanded so as to ensure adequate availability of yarn to the decentralised sector.
5.72. To accelerate the modernisation of the textile industry, a scheme to extend long term finance at concessional rate is being drawn up. A provision of Rs. 104 crores has been made for the rehabilitation and modernisation of the mills of the National Textile Corporation.
5.73. The capacity in the cement industry is expected to go up to 23.5 million tonnes by 1978-79 from 19.7 million tonnes in 1973-74.
5.74. The share of the public sector (Central and States) in the cement industry is expected to increase from 2.30 million tonnes in 1973-74 to 3.88 million tonnes in 1978-79.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
5.75. The drug industry which was mainly confined to formulation activities and the manufacture of bulk drugs from penultimate intermediates has in a progressive manner entered into the field of manufacture of bulk drugs.
5.76. Public sector has been given a prominent role in the overall development of drug industry. A significant step up in production in the area of antibiotics, synthetic drugs and formulations in public sector is envisaged.
Vegetable Oils and Vanaspati
5.77. The production of vanaspati is expected to increase from 449,000 tonnes in 1973-74 to 610,000 tonnes in 1978-79.
Paper and Newsprint
5.78. The production of paper and paper board is expected to be stepped up to 1.05 million tonnes by 1978-79 from 0.77 million tonnes in 1973-74 Provision has been made for initiating construction of two new projects in the Central sector.
5.79. Production of newsprint is envisaged to be stepped up to 80,000 tonnes by 1978-79. The additional production will be contributed primarily by the expanded capacity of NEPA and the Kerala Newsprint project in the public sector.
5.80. A provision of Rs. 203 crores has been made in the Central Sector of the Plan for the development of paper and newsprint industry.
Industrial and mineral programme relating to atomic energy
5.81. The major programmes in this field are the completion of heavy water plants, the schemes under the nuclear fuel complex and the expansion of public sector undertakings under the Department of Atomic Energy. A provision of Rs. 184.18 crores has been made for these programmes.
5. Village and Small Industries Small Scale Industries
5.82. The number, volume and range of production of small scale industries have continued to grow. Schemes of extension services and increase in institutional finance have materially assisted in this increase. Regional testing centres have been established. A few branches of Small Industries Service Institutes have also been opened.
5.83. For the next two years, adequate provisions have been made both for the continuing schemes and for schemes to be formulated for margin or seed money to facilitate institutional finance and for supply of machines on hire-purchase terms.
5.84. Of 455 estates functioning by March, 1974, 347 were located in urban and semi-urban areas and the remaining 108 in rural areas. In these estates, about 1 0,1 40 units were functioning providing employment to 1.76 lakh persons.
5.85. Adequate provision has been made for the continuing schemes as well as some new schemes.
Khadi and Village Industries
5.86 Ihe employment in Khadi ragistered an increase from 9.78 lakhs in 1974-75 to 10.0 lakh persons in 1975-76. The increase in village industries was from 9.82 lakhs to 11.28 lakh persons.
5.87. A study has recently been completed by the Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad, regarding the viability of some village industries. Meanwhile, provisions have been made for expansion of the existing programmes.
Handloom and Powerloom Industries
5.88. Certain special schemes have been initiated for revitalisation and development of the handloom industry as a part of the 20-point Economic Programme. These schemes include intensive development projects (each covering about 10,000 handlooms) and export-oriented production projects (each covering about 1,000 handlooms).
5.89. Adequate provisions for continuing schemes as well as for the States to meet a part of the cost of intensive development projects have been made. For the powerloom industry, provisions have been made for processing facilities and setting up technical service centres. The value of exports of handloom fabrics and manufactures is expected to go up to Rs. 1 40 crores from the current level of about Rs. 1 00 crores.
5.90. During the last two years, schemes have been taken up for production of industrial bivoltine mulberry silk in Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
5.91. These schemes will be expanded during the next two years. The production of raw silk is expected to increase from the present level of about 3.2 m. Kgs to about 5.0 m. Kgs. by 1978-79 and the exports from Rs. 17.5 crores to Rs. 21.0 crores.
5.92. Recently, a high-powered Study Team has been set up to review the proQress and suggest measures for the development of this industry. Meanwhile, adequate provisions have been made for the continuing schemes. Over the next two years, the value of exports is expected to increase from the present level of about Rs. 19 crores to Rs. 22 crores.
5.93. Recently, a massive scheme for training 30,000 carpet weavers has been initiated which will help to promote larger exports of woollen carpets. Steps have been taken to develop a few selected handicrafts having a high potential for development.
5.94. The value of exports of handicrafts is expected to go upto Rs. 240 crores, as against the present level of about Rs. 190 crores.General
5.95. The levels of production and exports achieved by some industries are shown in Annexure 32.
5.96. The provisions made for the next two years in the Central and the State sectors for different small industries are shown in Annexure 33.
6. Transport and Communications
5.97. A sectorwise break-up of the provisions in the Central sector for Transport and Communications is indicated in Annexure 34.
5.98. The expenditure for the first three years of the Plan is likely to be about Rs. 1149 crores; while an outlay of Rs. 1053 crores is proposed for the next two years.
5.99. By 1978-79, the railways would be equipped to carry an estimated originating freight traffic of 250 to 260 million tonnes, of which the largest single commodity would be 98 million tonnes of coal. While finalising provision for replacement or acquisition of locomotives and wagons, emphasis has been laid on better utilization of existing track and rolling stock capacity by maximising movement in block rakes and reducing turn-round time.
5.100. In regard to non-suburban passanger traffic,outlays have been provided after taking into consideration past trends and possible growth in the next two years. Provision for suburban traffic takes into consideration the optimisation programmes of the Railways.
5.101. Full provisions have been made for completion of on-going traffic and project oriented lines. Some provision has also been made for new lines of promotional character to the extent permitted by the available resources.
5.102. Despite constraints on resources, the electrification projects of Virar-^abarmati, Panskura-Haldia and Tundla-Delhi sections have been completed. By the end of the Fifth Plan, it is expected that the Madras-Trivellore section will be fully electrified while electrification of Waltair-Kirandul and Madras-Vijayawada sections would have reached an advanced stage.
5.103. Adequate provision has been made for meeting the Railways' share of the investment in Road Transport Corporations. An outlay of Rs. 50 crores has also been provided for Metropolitan Rail Transport scheme.
5.104. Outlays on the different items of the Railway Development programmes are given in Annexure 35.
5.105. Main emphasis has been on completion of spill over works of the Fourth Plan, which included a number of missing bridges and road links. It is expected that during the last two years of the Plan, work will be largely completed on such of those works which were in progress at the commencement of the Fifth Plan. Besides, provision has also been made for certain new schemes of essential character, particularly those relating to safety of the traffic.
5.106. The revised outlays for the Central programmes are given below. The figures in the brackets refer to spill over schemes.
5.107. In the State Plans also emphasis has been laid on completion of the spill over works so that investments already made fructify early. Provision has also been made for rural roads under the Minimum Needs Programme.
5.108. The likely expenditure during the first three years, 1974-77 is reckoned at about Rs. 479.32 crores and the outlays for the next two years are kept at Rs. 423.04 crores.
5.109. The main scheme under the Central sector road transport relates to the Delhi Transport Corporation. At the beginning of the Fifth Plan, the D.T.C. had a total fleet of 1495 buses. During the first three years, the Corporation is likely to acquire 1137 buses, including 682 buses for augmentation and 455 buses for replacement. Provision has been made for acquisition of additional 389 buses based on consideration of traffic growth and efficient fleet utilisation and for construction of additional depots and terminals. A total outlay of Rs. 29.77 crores is envisaged against the Draft Fifth Plan provision of Rs. 23.00 crores.
5.110. In the State sector the estimated expenditure on Road transport during 1974-77 is likely to be Rs. 197.08 crores and an outlay of Rs. 205.87 crores is provided for the next two years.
5.111. The traffic handled at Major Ports is expected to increase from 65.84 million tonnes in 1974-75 to about 77 million tonnes in 1978-79. The main increase is expected to be in iron ore and general cargo,
5.112. With the completion of the major spillover projects at Haldia, Madras, Visakhapatnam, Marmugao and Mangalore during 1976-77 the capacity for handling traffic in bulk commodities like iron ore, coal and fertilisers will be considerably augmented. Provision has also been made for work in connection with replacement of oil pipeline at Bombay, Salaya off-shore terminal, and Kudremukh Iron ore export at Mangalore.
5.11 3. The draft Fifth Plan, provided an outlay of Rs. 308 crores for major ports including about Rs. 200 crores for spill-over schemes. The total outlay now envisaged is Rs. 521.46 crores including Rs. 363.55 crores for spill-over schemes.
5.114. In the revised Fifth Plan, an outlay of Rs. 49,67 crores has been provided for minor ports including Rs. 27.29 crores in the Plans of States and Union Territories. The provision for Central schemes is on account of Minor Ports Survey and Dredging Organisation and development of port facilities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.
5.115. In view of a number of major and far-reaching developments such as decline in the import of crude oil, opening of the Suez Canal, non-materialisation of the projected coastal movement of coal, and escalation in the price of ships, the target for shipping tonnage has been reduced from 8.6 million GRT to 6.5 million GRT. Details of the operative tonnage, tonnage on order and tonnage to be acquired are shown in Annexure 36.
5.116. Indian ships, whether new or old are acquired partly by the Shipping Companies out of their own resources and partly through loans granted by the Shipping Development Fund Committee (SDFC) at subsidised rates of interest. A provision of Rs. 410 crores for the Plan period has been made as against the original estimates of Rs. 243 crores.
5.117. Suitable provision has also been made for expansion of training facilities and programmes for the walfare of seamen and for loan assistance to the sailing vessels industry.
Inland Water Transport
5.118. Outlay of Rs. 14.73 crores for next two years includes development of Rajabagan Dockyard, operations of the Central Inland water Transport Corporation and operation of river services on the Ganga. In the Centrally Sponsored programme, the provision of Rs. 5.83 crores is mainly for dredging of Cum-berjua Canal in Goa, ferry services on Hooghly, improvement of Champakara-Neendakara Canal in Kerala and improvement of Buckingham Canal in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
5.119. In addition, a provision of Rs. 7.75 crores has been made for the development of Inland Water Transport in the States and Union Territories.
5.120. As against the draft Fifth Plan provision of Rs. 12 crores for lighthouses and lightships, the revised provision is Rs. 1 3.66 crores. Of this, the provision for 1977-79 is Rs. 6.13 crores. The revised outlay includes Rs. 6.53 crores for Salaya Decca Chain and Floating Aids for approach channel to the Salaya Off-shore Terminal.
5.121. One Boeing 747 aircraft joined the Air India fleet of 5 Boeing 737 and 9 Boeing 707 during the Plan period. The outlay of Rs. 38.65 crores during "1977-79 has been made to cover this liability as well as other supporting facilities including interim arrangements towards establishing real time computer system.
5.122. Indian Airlines have already acquired during this Plan period 6B-737 aircraft and placed orders for 3 Air Buses (equivalent to 9B-737 aircraft) which are expected to join Indian Airlines fleet shortly. The old Turboprop aircraft are also to be replaced. A total provision of Rs. 99.45 crores has been made to cover the payment liability of the aircraft acquired or to be acquired and for interim arrangements towards use of real time computer facilities.
International Airports Authority of India
5.123. A sum of Rs. 27.67 crores has been provided for the programme of IAAI in the Fifth Plan. This includes a provision of Rs. 11 crores for a new International and Cargo Terminal Complex at Bombay.
Civil Aviation Department
5.124. The provision of Rs. 65.15 crores inter alia includes outlays on aeronautical communication services and works at aerodromes. Under aeronautical communication services, provision has been made for augmentation of calibration facilities and for improving the aeronautical fixed and mobile telecommunication net work. These would further improve the safety of aircraft operation. As regards works at aerodromes, the emphasis in the Draft Fifth Plan on the development of existing aerodromes rather than the taking up of new works has been continued.
5.125. The Plan provision of Rs. 39.58 crores includes the completion of 2.36 M Telescope by the Indian Institute of Astro-physics. This also includes a provision of Rs. 20 crores for Monsoon 1977 experiment, Monex 1979 and INSAT programme.
5.126. A provision of Rs. 23.62 crores has been made for the programme of Department of Tourism and that of Rs.17.12 crores for the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC). The programmes under the Department of Tourism include loans to hotel industry in the private sector, integrated development of tourist resorts at Kovalam, Gulmarg, Goa and KuliiManali and construction of a number of youth hostels,tourists bungalows and forest lodges. The programmes under ITDC include expansion of hotels and construction of travellers' lodges, motels and cottages.
5.127. In the State Sector also a provision of Rs. 33.21 crores has been mt.de for the development of tourism.
5.128. The Plan provision of Rs. 24.38 crores apart from covering the expenditure on opening or upgradation of 2520 post offices during the first three years of the Fifth Plan, is expected to enable opening or upgrading of additional 3800 post offices in the next two years.
5.129. The revised Plan outlay of Rs. 1129.45 crores would enable creation of additional exchange capacity of 8.42 lakh lines.
5.130. Adequate funds have been set apart for expanding the telegraph system and opening of about 45 Telex exchanges with 10,000 lines capacity.
Overseas Communication Services
5.131. The revised provision of Rs. 35.87 crores includes funds for INTEL-SAT Dehradun Earth Station, SPC Telex Exchange at Bombay and Indo-USSR Tropo Link. Token provisions have also been made for a wide-band submarine Link between India and Malayasian Peninsula as well as the new schemes relating to Indo-Afghan Tropo-scatter Link, Andaman Earth Station and Third Earth Station at Calcutta.
I.T.I, and Hindustan Teleprinters Limited
5.132. Adequate provision has been made for the continuing and the expansion programmes of these industries.
5.133. The statement below gives the programme-wise outlays:
Fifth Plan Outlay : Communications
5.134. The revised provision of Rs. 37.63 crores lays emphasis on completion of continuing schemes costing Rs. 32.52 crores. The balance provision is for initiating action for new Transmitter schemes, improvement of studio facilities, software requirements and construction of staff quarters.
5.135. The revised Fifth Plan outlay for TV is Rs. 50.98 crores, of which Rs. 33.41 crores is for continuing schemes and Rs. 17.57 crores for new schemes. The new schemes include setting up of 2 transmitters of 10 KW each at Hyderabad and Jaipur and 4 low-power transmitters of 400 watts at Gul-barga, Sambalpur, Muzaffarpur and Raipur. These transmitters would serve about 40 per cent of the villages covered under the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) programme after the termination of Experiment. For Community Viewing, provision has been made for about 3000 conventional TV sets and modificatipn of about 2400 special sets deployed under the SITE programme. The Plan also provides for software schemes to improve the quality of programme.
5.136. Plan outlays for education during the first three years of the plan have been somewhat modest because of the economic situation but the growth in the total governmental expenditure on education, both plan and non-plan, must be considered substantial. The total expenditure is estimated to rise from Rs. 1450 crores in 1974-75 to about Rs. 2287 crores in 1 976-77.
5.137. Elementary Education : Very high priority has been given to this programme. Adequate provision has been made for additional enrolment in terms of teaching personnel and construction of class-rooms, especially in backward areas.
5.138. The table below indicates the additional enrolments, which are likely to be achieved by the end of the Fifth Plan :
Growth of Enrolment (figures in lakhs)
5.139. In addition to the expansion of educational facilities, provision has been made for curricular reorientation, work experience and strengthening of educational institutions for teachers.
5.140. Secondary Education : The existing trend in the increase of enrolment has been kept in view. Against the additional enrolment of 1 5 lakhs likely to be achieved in the first three years, an enrolment target of another 15 lakh in classes IX-XI/XII has been proposed for 1977-79. The percentage of children of the age-group 1.4-1 71 8, enrolled in classes IX-XI/XII will increase from 20 in 1973-74 to 25 in 1978-79. While making provisions, note has been taken of the requirements on account of the introduction of the new pattern of education.
5.141. After detailed preparatory work, vocationalisation at the secondary stage will be initiated in selected areas during the next two years so that well-conceived and fully thought-out programmes are implemented.
5.142. University Education : The main emphasis in university education is on consolidation and improvement. Provision is, however, being made to provide additional educational facilities to weaker sections of society and in the backward areas. Facilities through evening colleges, correspondence courses and private study will be expanded. Post-graduate education and research will continue to be strengthened through the development of centres of advanced study, science service centres, common computer facilities and regional instrumentation workshops. Programmes of faculty development, like summer institutes, seminars and orientation courses will be stepped up. These figures are taken from Draft Fifth Plan. The Third Education Survey, however, indicated that the enrolments in classes l-V-and-VI-VIII in 1973-74 were 611 lakhs (80%) and 141 lakhs (33%) respectively. Assuming the Survey enrolments as the base figures, the loial enrolment in 1978-79 in Ihese iwo groups would be 741 lakhs (92%) and 199 lakhs (43 %).Figures in parenthesis indicate the proportion of children of respective age groups enrolled in Classes I-V and VI-VIII.
5.143 Non-Formal Education : With the strengthening of existing programmes of non-formal education, about 16 lakh participants are expected to be covered under these programmes. The existing programmes are intended to be reviewed.
5.144. Scholarships: 12,000 awards are being given every year from 1974-75 onwards, from the non-plan budget. The number of annual awards under the National Scholarship Scheme was 3,000 in each of the first two years of the Plan and 5000 in 1 976-77. Provision has been made to increase the number to 7,000 in 1 977-78 and to 10,000 in 1 978-79. Provision has also been made for continuing 20,000 yearly national loan scholarship awards during the Fifth Plan period. The number of national scholarships for talented children from rural areas, which was 1 0,000 each year during 1 974-77, will be increased to 1 5,000 per year during 1 977-79; thus increasing the number of scholarships per community development block from 2 to 3. Other programmes of scholarships will be continued.
5.145. Language Development: Provision has been made for the appointment of 2000 additional Hindi teachers in middle and secondary schools during 1977-79, in non-Hindi speaking States. These are in addition to 4,000 teachers appointed during 1974-77. This programme will be reviewed with a view to determining its benefits. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (Mysore), the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (Agra), the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (New Delhi) and the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (Hyderabad) will be further developed.
5.146. Other Programmes : Provision has been made for strengthening of the existing Nehru Yuvak Kendras and for setting up some more Kendras at approved places. While the coverage of the National Service Scheme will be expanded. National Service Volunteers Scheme is expected to be launched on a pilot basis. Facilities for games and sports, coaching camps and rural sports will be expanded. Provision has been made for the development of Central Libraries.
5.147. Technical Education : Generally, the emphasis is on consolidation and quality improvement in terms of faculty development, replacement of obsolete equipment and diversification of courses. Centres of studies in material science, cryogenic engineering, energy studies and ocean engineering are expected to be established in close collaboration with user agencies. Provision has been made for augmenting physical facilities at the existing Institutes of Management, and preparatory work will be started for establishment of the fourth Institute at Lucknow. Reginal Engineering Colleges and the Engineering Departments in the universities will be-further developed.
5.148. Cultural Programmes : Provision has been made, inter alia, for further development of the three national academies of Sahitya, Sangeet Natak and Lalit Kala, propagation of culture among college and school students, revision of district gazetteers and development of various activities of the Archaeological Survey of India.
5.149. 20-Point-Socio-Economic Programmes : Three components of this programme are provision of books and stationery to students at cheaper rates, supply of essential commodities to hostel students at subsidised prices and expansior if apprenticeship training programme. The capacity of the textbook printing presses is being developed further. Book banks will continue to be established in educational institutions. The coverage of apprenticeship scheme is being expanded.
5.150. Outlays : For completing the various tasks related to educational development, an outlay of Rs. 1285 crores has been provided for different sectors as indicated below :
In relation to the first three years, the proposed outlay in the next two 'ears marks a considerable step-up.
8. Health, Family Welfare Planning and Nutrition
Health Central Sector
5.1 51. In the draft Fifth Plan, an amount of Rs. 252.79 crores was provided for this sector The expenditure during the first three years is likely to be Rs. 1 52-93 crores. An outlay of Rs. 182'90 crores has been recommended for the last two years after assessing the performance of various major on-going programmes and after keeping in view the broad aspects of health strategy.
5.152. Among the Centrally sponsored schemes National Malaria Eradication Programme has been allocated Rs. 196-44 crores as against the original provision of Rs 96-71 crores in the Draft Fifth Plan. A substantial increase in the outlay for this programme has become necessary to contain the disease according to a revised strategy. Provision has also been made for more effective implementation of National Leprosy Control Programme and the National Scheme for prevention of impairment of vision and control of blindness. A pilot research project to develop a strategy for control of filaria in rural areas has also been included. Adequate provision has been made during 1 977-79 for establishing combined food and drug testing laboratories and for giving Central assistance to existing food laboratories in the States.
5.153. An outlay of Rs. 543 21 crores was provided in the draft Plan for various health programmes under the States and Union Territories. The total likely expenditure for the first three years of the Fifth Plan is estimated at Rs. 159-92 crores. For the remaining two years of the Fifth Five Year Plan i.e., 1977-79, an outlay of Rs. 185-91 crores has been recommended.
5.154. These provisions include the requirements of the on-going programmes and the reed for reasonable expansion, extension and development of rural health services. It has been ensured that all the primary health centres and sub-centres in the country would get drugs at the enhanced level of Rs.1 2,000/-per PHC and Rs. 2,000/- per sub-centre per annum. Adequate provision has also been made for medical education.
5.155. The revised total Fifth Plan outlay for the Health Sector thus works out to Rs. 681.66 crores. The break-up of the outlay for the Central and State Sectors is given below :
Family Welfare Planning Programmes
5.156. In the draft Plan an amount of Rs. 516.00 crores was provided for programmes relating to family welfare planning. The likely expenditure during the first three years of the Fifth Plan is expected to be of the order of Rs. 237.65 crores.
5.157. An outlay of Rs. 259'71 crores has been recommended for the period 1977-79. The family planning programmes wilt be carried forward in an integrated manner alongwith Health,Maternity and Child Health Care and Nutrition services on the basis of the strategy outlined in the draft Fifth Plan. Firm and bold steps envisaged in the National Population Policy to improve the tempo of the programme has been kept in view in recommending the revised outlays. To cope with the increasing demand for sterilisation, facilities will be expanded at 1000 selected Primary Health Centres and 325 Taluka level hospitals during 1976-79. Two hundred additional post-partum centres beyond the original targets in the draft Fifth Plan are also proposed to be opened. Another unit of the Hindustan Latex Ltd. will be set up at Farakka to meet the increased demand of Nirodh. The India Population Project with Sl DA/I DA assistance will be carr.pleted by the end of the Fifth Plan. Special multi-media motivation campaigns on pilot basis will be launched in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal. Maternity and child health programmes will be vigorously pursued and furds for this purpose will be made available on the basis of performance. Research and evaluation facilities will be strengthened. Funds for completion of incomplete buildings and for construction of essential buildings for Rural Family Welfare Planning Centres have been provided. 288 New Rural Family Welfare Planning Centres will be opened in a phased manner.
5.158. A total provision of Rs. 497.36 crores has been envisaged in the revised Fifth Plan. Summary of the outlays is given in the enclosed statement (Annexure 37).
Nutrition Central Sector
5.159. Indraft Fifth Ptan, an amount of Rs. 70 crores was provided in the Central Sector. Rs. 50 crores were earmarked for the Subsidiary Food and a Nutrition Scheme of the Department of Food, and Rs. 20 crores for the Applied Nutrition Programme of the Department of Rural Development.
Nutrition Schemes of the Department of Food
5.160. The likely expenditure during the first three years of the Fifth Plan is placed at Rs. 6.53 crores. Under the revised Fifth Plan an outlay of Rs. 6.70 crores has been provided during 1977-79 for production of nutritions foods. An amount of Rs. 1.27 crores has also been recommended during 1977-79 for other schemes like fortification of Food Stuffs, nutrition education through mass media, Pilot Research Projects etc. An outlay of Rs. 7.97 crores has thus been recommended for 1977-79 making up a Fifth Plan provision of Rs. 14.50 crores.
Applied Nutrition Programme (Deptt. of Rural Development)
5.1 61. The outlay of Rs. 20 crores provided in the draft Fifth Plan was meant for providing Central assistance to the on going Applied Nutrition Blocks, opening of 700 new blocks and maintenance of post operational blocks for one year after existence for a period of five years. Due to constraint of resources in the social Services Sector only 192 blocks were set up in the first two years (1974-76) of the Plan. The likely expenditure during the first three years of the Plan is Rs. 4.48 crores. A sum of Rs. 8.51 crores has been recommended for 1977-79. The total outlay under the revised Fifth Plan works out to Rs. 1 2.99 crores.
5.1 62. In the draft Fifth Five Year Plan, an amount of Rs. 330.00 crores was provided for the States and Union Territories, for the supplementary Feeding programmes, i. e.. Mid-day Meals Programme for the School going children and Special Nutrition Programme for the children in the age group of 0-6 years and expectant and lactating mothers. Likely expenditure during the first three years of the Plan is placed at Rs. 44.24 crores. The slow progress in the initial years of the Fifth Plan was mainly due to the financial constraint and non-availability of funds in the non-Plan budgets of the State Governments for meeting cost of food, administration and transport for the beneficiaries. For the remaining years of the Fifth Plan adequate provision has been made from the non-Plan resources of the State for beneficiaries cf special nutrition programme at the end of the Fourth Plan. After taking into account a reasonable expansion, a provision of Rs. 43.94 crores has been recommended by Planning Commision for 1977-79-The revised outlay under the Fifth Plan thus works out to Rs. 88.18 crores. A statement showing programme-wise break-up under the revised Fifth Plan is attached (Annexure 38).
9. Urban Development, Housing and Water Supply
5.163. Provision made in the State Plans for integrated Urban Development are being supplemented by funds provided for the scheme of integrated Urban Development in the Central Sector. This scheme provides loan assistance to State Governments for developing the necessary infrastructure. It is expected that over a period of time the State Governments will be able to build up a corpus of seed money for expansion programmes
5.164. Urban Development progrmmes were taken up in the three metropolitan cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras and nine other cities in 1974-75. Additional six cities were taken up in 1975-76 and it is expected that six more will be taken up during 1976-77. Work for the preparation of Plans for some other cities is in hand .
5.165. In view of the progress made so far, total provision of Rs. 256.13 crores has been made for Urban Development for next two years against a likely expenditure of Rs. 249.33 crores during 1974-77, as indicated in Annexure 39.Housing
5.166. The main thrust of the programmes in the Fifth Plan is directed towards ameliorating the conditions of the backward sections of the society. This is sought to be achieved by augmenting the programmes for the construction of housing colonies by State Housing Boards and by taking up on a large scale a programme for the provision of house-sites for landless labourers in rural areas. While the bulk of this programme is being undertaken in the State Plans, the activities of the Housing and Urban Development Corporation in the Central sector are being geared up to meet the expanding demand. A provision is being made to increase the Equity participation in HUDCO to enable it to generate resources of the order of Rs. 150 crores in the Fifth Plan period. Separate provisions have been made for the scheme of subsidised housing for plantation labourers and Dock labourers. AdeqLate emphasis has also been placed on research and development activities for generating better and cheaper designs. The outlays for various programmes in the State and Central sectors have been indicated in Annexure 40.
Water Supply and Sanitation Rural Water Supply
5.167. The main objective is to provide safe water supply in difficult and problem villages. At the end of the Fourth Plan period, it had been estimated that there were 1.13 lakhs of such villages. It is expected that in the first three years of the Fifth Plan with a provision of Rs. 201.10 crores, about 57,800 villages would have been covered. The allocation made for the remaining two years is on the basis of providing safe water supply for additional 53,900 villages. The provision which has been made is of the order of Rs. 180.14 crores (inclusive of Rs. 1 57.87 crores under the MNP). The revised Fifth Plan outlay would now be Rs. 381.24 crores.
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
5.168. Particular emphasis is being laid on completion of spill over schemes. In the first three years with an investment of Rs. 257.54 crores, about 266 towns are likely to be covered with water supply and 46 towns with sewerage and drainage systems. With an outlay of Rs. 281.63 crores for the remaining two years of the Fifth Plan, about 254 towns are likely to be covered with water supply and 38 with sewerage and drainage systems. The outlay mentioned above will be supplemented from the Central sector scheme of Integrated Urban Development in cities of national importance such as Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kanpur, Lucknow, Agra, Allahabad, Varanasi, etc. The outlay in the Fifth Plan amounts to Rs. 539.17 crores against the outlay Rs. 431.00 crores in the Draft Fifth Plan.
5.169. The revised Fifth Plan also provides for an outlay of Rs. 10.27 crores for supporting programmes such as public Health Engineering training to train about 3000 Public Health Engineering personnel and mechanical composting to set up 27 mechanical compost plants along with 60 mechanical sieve plants in different cities. A provision also exist for converting about 30,000-35,000 dry latrines into sanitary latrines.
5.170 The revised outlays for water Supply and sanitation are given in Annexure 41.
10. Craftsman Training and Labour Welfare Central Plan
5.171. In the draft Fifth Plan, an amount of Rs. 14.57 crores was provided in the Central Plan. The likely expenditure during the first three years of the Fifth Plan is placed at Rs. 4.01 crores.
5.172. For the two year period 1977-79 a provision of Rs. 10.17 crores has been made. This will cover (i) the requirements of the major on-going training institutions such as the Central Staff Training and Research Institute, the Foreman Training Institute, and the Central Training Institutes for instructors ; (ii) the strengthening/extension of the Advanced Training Institute ; (iii) the expansion of the Apprenticeship Training programme ; (iv) Vocational Training in Women's occupations ; and (v) Sche.nes relating to research, surveys and studies to be undertaken by various institutes.
Flans of States Union Territories
5.173. In the draft Fifth Plan, an amount of Rs. 42.37 crores was provided for States and Union Territories. The likely expenditure during the first three years of the Plan is placed at Rs. 15.69 crores.
5.174. For the two year period 1977-79, an .outlay of Rs. 20.27 crores has been suggested keeping in view the requirements of (i) the industrial training institutes ; (iiy-the expansion of the Apprenticeship Training Programmes in the establishments ; (iii) the strenghtening of the employment service organisations; (iv) the setting up of labour welfare centres, and promoting safety measures; and (v) the Employees' State Insurance Scheme,
Fifth Plan Outlays for Craftsmen Training and Labour Welfare
ll. Hill and Tribal Areas, Backward Classes Social Welfare and Rehabilitation
5.175. This scheme refers to the hill regions of Assam, Tamil Nadu, U.P., West Bengal and the Western Ghats region. Programmes of singnificance are funded party from the State Plan and partly from the sub-plan allocations. During the fisrt three years of the Plan, Central allocations would be of the order of Rs. 76 crores while the States are likely to invest about Rs. 68 crores.
5.176. With the experience gained so far, the programme is now expected to gather momentum. A provision of Rs. 94 crores is earmarked for the next two years in the Central Plan.
5.177. Tribal sub-plans incorporating programmes of particular significance to the tribal economy are being prepared for areas, with large concentration of Scheduled Tribes, in 16 States and 2 Union Territories. These programmes are funded through provisions in the State Plans, and Central assistance. So far about 40, out of 145 Integrated Tribal Development projects have been formulated and an amount of Rs. 65 crores is likely to be spent during the first three years of the Plan.
5.178. Initial difficulties are now expected to be overcome and it is expected that the rest of the lTDPs would be formulated and implemented in the remaining period of the Fifth Plan. On this basis, a provision of Rs. 125 crores of Central assistance is being made for the next two years.
5.179. Priority has been accorded to regional schemes of agriculture, power and communications forwarded by NEC for securing a balanced development of the north-eastern region. It is expected that in the first three years an expenditure of Rs. 28 crores would be incurred on such schemes. Due to initial difficulties in identifying and implementing schemes, the programme has had a slow start. It is, however, now gathering pace. A provision of Rs. 62 crores has been kept for the next two years.
5.180. A statement indicating the outlays for these programmes is given below :
Welfare of Backward Classes
5.181. The revised Fifth Plan outlays for the Centre and the States have been raised to Rs. 119 crores and Rs 208 crores respectively. The details are given in Annexure 42. In the Central Plan, emphasis has been placed on post-matric scholarships, schemes for coaching of students and girls' hostel. In the State Plans, provision has been made inter alia for educational incentives, subsidised housing, various agricultural programmes and requirement of development Corporations.
5.182. The revised Fifth Plan outlays for the Centre and States are Rs. 63.53 crores and Rs. 22.60 crores respectively. Details are given in Annexure 43.
5.183. These outlays are related to the progress reported in the implementation of the various schemes. Care has been taken to ensure that important programmes like Intergrated Child Care Services, Working Girls Hostels, Scholarships for Handicapped Persons in the Central Sector and women and child welfare Programmes and Programmes of Social Defence in the State sector are provided adequate funds.
5.184. The Draft Fifth Plan envisaged the resettlement of 65827 families. This figure has now been reassessed at 67067 familes. It is expected that against an overall expenditure of Rs. 47.62 crores in the first three years of the Plan, 35767 families would have been recently resettled. The outlays for the next two years of the Fifth Plan are based on the following considerations :
(i) Sri Lanka : Of the expected 28,434 families, 16,434 have so far been resettled at a cost of Rs. 14.17 crores. It is expected that 12,000 families would be resettled during the next two years at an approximate cost of Rs. 14 crores.
(ii) Dandakarnaya : Of the 9120 families in camp, 3120 have been resettled in the first three years at an approximate cost of Rs. 1 3.54 crores. It is expected that 6000 families would be resettled in the remaining period of the Plan at an approximate cost of Rs. 12 crores. Besides the direct cost of resettlement, the outlays include expenditure on major irrigation projects and other infrastructure development.
(iii) Residual problems of rehabilitation in West Bengal : On the basis of the recommendations contained in the report of the working Group set up by the Department of Rehabilitation, a provision of Rs. 10.20 crores has been made. This is based on an assessment that besides acceleration of the SFDA/MFAL programmes in areas where these migrants were concentrated and outlays required for the provision of medical facilities, 8000 plots in the colonies of displaced persons located in the Calcutta Metropolitan District and 4000 other urban plots would be developed.
(iv) Other Schemes : With regard to progammes for the resettlement of repatriates from Burma, West Pakistan, Uganda, Zaire and migrants from Indian enclaves in former East Pakistan, an expenditure of Rs. 1 7.73 crores has been incurred in the first three years of the Plan, to resettle 1 5843 families. It is expected that in the remaining two vears 11 300 families would require resettlement for which a provision of Rs. 1 7.39 crores has been made.
5.185. Scheme-wise outlays provided in the Fifth Plan are given in Annexure 44.
12. Science and Technology
5.186. In finalising the Fifth Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology (S and T) an attempt has been made to restructure research programmes as far as practicable into projects with predetermined time spans, costs and expected benefits. In a departure from previous practice, the S and T programmes of the different Ministries were the subject of separate discussions at which emphasis was placed on aligning research programmes to conform more closely with plan priorities and promoting quicker interaction between the users of research and the research agencies, so that problems ara more sharply defined and transfer of technology is facilitated.
5.187. Particular attention Fs expected to be paid to fuller use of existing facilities, avoiding of unplanned duplication of research into similar problems by different agencies, minimising sub-critical funding by spreading resources over too many projects, and closer monitoring of research programmes right up to the stage of their application in the field.
5.188. The thrust of the various sectoral programmes broadly remain as outlined in the draft Fifth Plan. In agriculture, specific emphasis will be placed on programmes to control crop diseases, crop sequencing, dry farming, agricultural implements, post harvesting technology etc. New agro-industrial complexes, setting up of a fish farm and increased support to agricultural institutes, animal sciences and fisheries institutes are envisaged in the Plan. Programmes for improving the technology used in village and rural industries are proposed to be intensified. Activities proposed cover bee keeping, pottery, palm gur, gur and khandsari. To acquire a closer insight into the problems of optimal management of water resources, an Institute of Hydrology is proposed to be set up. Steps will be taken to see that central R and D irrigation schemes are not sub-criticaliy funded and a mechanism is set up to see that research findings are expeditiously applied in the field.
5.189. In the area of energy, a multi-pronged approach to develop biogas technology, as well as new sources such as solar energy, tidal and wind power has been initiated. A major programme on magneto hydro dynamics is being undertaken as an inter-institutional project. Programmes for improved mining techniques, mine safety, transportation and gassification of coal have been given priority. Programmes for developing stowing materials, improved instruments, and processes for upgrading coal are being funded.
5.190 In power engineering, test facilities, specially those connected with high voltage/DC transmission lines have been given special attention. No significant departures from the draft Fifth Plan programmes have been proposed in the research programmes of the Department of Atomic Energy except for the power reactor fuel reprocessing plants and investment in facilities for making seamless steel tubes for ball bearings and power plants.
5.191. In steel, the major thrust in use of S and T has been to improve the productivity and capacity utilisation of the steel plants, utilise low grade materials, improve refractory quality, develop new alloys and work on new techniques for making sponge iron. A wide range of chemicals particularly pesticides, drugs, and intermediates hitherto imported, is being developed by several institutions, in particular by CSIR laboratories and the public sector companies in these fields. In heavy engineering, the setting up of a research institute for welding deserves special mention.
5.192. Special emphasis is being paid to surveying and research on developing the country's natural resources. The programmes of bodies such as the National Remote Sensing Agency, geological and other surveying agencies and National Institutes of Oceanography have been given high priority. These are being supplemented by the programme of the Department of Space for launching satellite with remote sensing capabilities and institutional research facilities for petroleum exploration and reservoir studies. Tree breeding and prevention of disease in important tree species have been given special attention. In meteorology, apart from strengthening the existing institutes, a major new programme is India's participation in Monsoon 77 in collaboration with USSR and Monex (monsoon experiment) as a part of a world-wide study of the factors which affect the weather. Provision has been made for INSAT-1, the proposed Indian-owned geo-synchronous satellite which will provide a variety of meteorological data.
5.193. In health, the focus has been placed on research into new methods of family planning, integrated system for delivery of health care services to infants, and control and prevention of communicable diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and cholera.
5.194. The priority area in housing and urban development is the development of new low cost housing designs and materials, rural sanitation and waste water treatment. Agencies concerned with environmental protection have been given due attention.
5.195. In the area of electronics, substantially more funds will be given to various institutions for research in the indigenisation of a large variety of electronic components. In addition, the Department of Electronics will establish major multi-user regional computer centres in certain metropolitan cities and set up a corporation for making semi-conductor devices. Support will be given to developing the infra-structure for electronic standards and testing techniques at various institutes like NPL and the national test houses. The Department has already established corporations for maintaining computers and developing trade and technology in electronic items. Tele-communication research will concentrate on indigenising many of the components hitherto imported and development work on electronic communication systems, the major emphasis being on instruments, transmission system and exchange equipment. An Asian Telecommunication Training Centre is proposed to be set up at Ghaziabad.
5.196. The major efforts in space research will be to gear up research work and develop components to enable a series of variants of the SLV 111 launcher being produced and more advanced satellites being launched in collaboration with other countries. The proposed INSAT-1 which, in addition to meteorological equipment will have various tele-cummunication and other capabilities, will give added relevance to these programmes.
5.197. Under the Department of Science and Technology, plans have been finalised for making a beginning with the national information system on science and technology (NISSAT). Provision has been made for the manufacture of fer rites and electronic ceramics by a new company and for a substantial step-up in funds for sponsored projects under the Science and Engineering Research Committee.
5.198. Considerable effort is proposed to be put into developing new instruments for operation, process control, measurement and research by a variety of agencies. Coordinating inputs are proposed to be provided by the Instrument Development Division of the Department of Science and Technology.
5.199. Testing facilities under agencies like the National Test House and Indian Standards Institution will be strengthened.
5.200. In order to stimulate indigenous research, industrial licensing regulations have been liberalised in the case of industries which are proposed to be set up based on R and D developed in-house or by national laboratories. The question of levying R and D cess is under consideration.
5.201 A Department wise distribution of the outlays for Science and Technology is indicated in Annexure 45. A provision of Rs. 5 crores has been included in the outlays of each of the Ministries of Information and Broadcasting and Tourism and Civil Aviation (Meteorology) for INSAT.
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At one point you had credit, and could get more when you need it. But then you checked out of the credit system for awhile. Perhaps it was a move overseas, a stint in prison, or a marriage to someone who kept credit accounts in their name only.
Whatever the reason, you now find your credit record has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. You feel like you’ve become invisible to lenders, a ghost in the world of credit, if you will.
How do you get back into the land of the living?
Your first step will be to find out whether your credit report is still live. To do that, you can request your free credit reports. You can also request a free credit score using a service such as Credit.com’s free Credit Report Card. If you are told that no credit report or score is available, then you’ll know you are going to have to build credit as if you were just starting out.
Most negative credit information remains on your credit file for seven years, while positive accounts are reported for 10 years. If you haven’t had any active credit accounts for that period of time, you may find your credit history has all but disappeared. “You have to start all over again,” says Rod Griffin, director of public education for Experian.
Your Credit History Doesn’t Travel
Even though some credit reporting agencies we’re familiar with in the U.S. also operate internationally, Americans who live or travel abroad for several years will find that their credit history doesn’t travel with them.
“Experian has business in 42 countries around the world,” says Griffin, but “your credit report and credit history does not cross national boundaries.” Different reporting systems and privacy laws specific to each country don’t permit an American’s credit history to follow them to other countries.
If you are heading overseas for an extended period of time, you may want to keep an account open in the U.S. “If you have an active account you will maintain an open active U.S. credit history,” says Griffin. You may be able to use a trusted relative’s address as your home base, but even that may not be necessary.
For the past three years, Warren and Betsy Talbot, founders of the blog MarriedWithLuggage.com have been traveling the world. During that time, they’ve maintained two credit cards. “The process has been extremely easy as we can pay all the bills online,” says Warren.
They have only run into one glitch: one of their cards “occasionally gets denied, despite having a perpetual travel notice on our account,” says Warren. “However, each time there is a block, we are able to call and clear it up immediately. Given that we have been traveling full-time for 36 months, I’m delighted to say we’ve only had this happen six to seven times and it never created a huge issue.”
Credit for the Incarcerated
In 2011, 688,384 people were released from state and federal prisons nationwide, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Most will face financial challenges as they try to rebuild their lives, and many will find they need to re-establish credit, as well.
Being incarcerated does not necessarily remove you from the credit reporting system, however. If you have maintained open active accounts, they will remain on your credit reports.
But maintaining your credit while you are in prison can be difficult. If you have a joint account with a spouse or relative and they continue to use the card and pay the bills, then those credit references will continue to be reported on your credit reports and help you maintain credit.
Still, many prisoners and their families aren’t able to maintain credit because they become impoverished. After all, the inmates aren’t able to bring in their normal salary. According to a study titled “Collateral Costs” by the Pew Charitable Trusts, “more than two-thirds of male inmates were employed and more than half were the primary source of financial support for their children” before they were jailed.
And there’s another worry for those who are behind bars: identity theft. “Sometimes (former prisoners) find out after they are released that family members or friends used their credit fraudulently. So they need to check their credit reports to make sure everything is as it should be,” Griffin warns. He says that prisoners who want to review their credit reports while they are in jail will need to get a letter signed by prison administration verifying they are a resident of that facility.
Credit After Marriage
Although it’s not as widespread a problem as it used to be, some people (especially women) find that they have no credit of their own after they become widowed or divorced.
Griffin says this happened to his grandmother. When his grandfather passed, she had no credit. “Everything was in his name,” he says.
The simple solution to this is to make sure you maintain at least one credit card in your own name so there are no questions or problems if something happens. Even parents who stay at home full-time to care for children should be able to get credit. If you can’t qualify for a traditional credit card. you may want to consider getting a secured card to establish credit.
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Life on earth is completing it cycle. The time is less. Quantum leap into the next evolutionary orbit, like cell division, can happen any moment. Transferring from one orbit to another is not prefixed. The satellites in the previous orbit will disintegrate if they are not ready for the quantum leap. Planets travel in their own orbits at a particular distance without colliding with each other. With the satellites of that planet departing, there is no change in the speed of that planet. But if that planet leaves that orbit, then those satellites cease to exist or lose their luster. Like orbit change happens in universe, same happens with constantly evolving humans. When the time is ripe for the moment of stepping into another dimension, then the consciousness of evolved human enters into it by being in the same body or leaving that body (death).
Those related to this evolved consciousness have the same situation (niyati) as that of the satellites of the planet. This pure consciousness is welcomed into the new orbit by the satellites of that frequency.
The ones on the vertical path should not be vain or arrogant. So it is mentioned in our shastras that when their collective good karmas are accounted for, they can also fall from grace. When one is with a truly evolved human, akin to a manifest planet, it is your destiny to be in total surrender or else imbibe the core attributes of that evolved human so that when time lapses and you are not tuned to take the quantum leap with Her into the new orbit, one can fill the vacuum left by Her and take Her mission forward. This is the dharm of a right, true and pure soulful manifestation tattva gyani (knower of the essence), spiritual mentor carrying the consciousness of the age. This resurrects the truth as shastras state – ‘as is human mechanism, so is universe’ -- YATHA PINDEY TATHA BRAMANDEY.
This is Truth
Truth is here
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MedUni Vienna is offering support to Ukrainian students to help them gain a foothold in the university environment in Austria and to continue their studies despite the war raging in their homeland. Currently, nine students from Ukraine have been admitted into the study programme. They are supported by "buddies," students who accompany and guide their colleagues during their orientation phase.
Numerous initiatives on the part of the Austrian university community are currently supporting researchers and students from Ukraine. Nine medical students (seven in human medicine, two in dentistry) from Ukraine have been admitted to MedUni Vienna for a limited period of time as part of the "Ukraine" Freemover programme created specifically for this purpose. The basic requirement was an adequate command of German (language level C1). The students were interviewed by teachers to ascertain their existing level of knowledge, so that they could be allocated to the appropriate year of the course.
Volunteer "buddies" accompany their Ukrainian colleagues through their orientation phase. The "buddies" study in the same small group as the Ukrainian students and are therefore on hand to help them find their bearings in everyday university life and also on a personal level. Pairings are made by the Academic Department. "The fact that 120 students signed up for this following an appeal by the Student Union is testimony to a great willingness to help and solidarity on the part of our students. We are delighted that the reception and integration of Ukrainian students at MedUni Vienna has worked so well thanks to the enormous commitment of everyone involved," comments Anita Rieder, the Vice Rector responsible for teaching. As well as the University Management Office, the Academic Department, the International Office and MedUni Vienna’s Student Union are also actively involved in implementing this offer.
At the end of the current semester, an evaluation will take place together with the teachers to assess the level of achievement, whether a student has been correctly placed and to discuss the next steps.
Other interested students who had applied to continue their studies at MedUni Vienna after interrupting their studies in Ukraine but who do not have the necessary German language skills, for example, currently have the opportunity to attend language courses or take supplementary scientific examinations as part of an Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation (ÖAD) pre-study programme. They will then have a chance to be admitted to the study programme in the upcoming winter semester.
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Metallic Wood-boring Beetle
Beetles represent the largest Order of insects, containing over 250,000 described species. Beetle groups include tiger beetles, ground beetles, water beetles, whirligig beetles, fungus beetles, rove beetles, stag beetles, scarab beetles, wood-boring beetles, click beetles, fireflies, dermestids, ladybird beetles, darkling beetles, longhorn beetles, blister beetles, leaf beetles, weevils and many others.
This giant metallic wood boring beetle from Ecuador has been frequently collected for its superb iridescent wing cases that reflect most colors of the rainbow. The elytra are used to adorn textiles worldwide and represent an exotic decoration without having to use expensive minerals. The Shaur tribes of Amazonia use the beetle to make decorative ornaments symbolizing wealth, well-being and personal power. This large beetle is a strong flier and is often attracted to freshly cut trees. | <urn:uuid:ee6387e3-fb80-413e-b6be-8f6c9e100690> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.insects.org/entophiles/cole_007.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00253-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93776 | 198 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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