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What are you willing to do or sacrifice to own or maintain your home?
And how prepared are you in the event of a loss of income?
These questions were recently posed in a recent survey conducted by Genworth Financial Canada. The results are impressive for a 4 obvious reasons:
- The desire for home ownership, particularly among first- time buyers, remains very strong.
- So much so that people are willing to go and do without, put up with inconveniences, delay buying to save, put off other valued life goals and again buy modestly.
- Such behavior speaks to a back to the future new normal that mirrors values of a bygone era.
- People, too, will go to great lengths to protect and keep an asset as essential as their home.
Some of the findings when asked what people would be willing to do or sacrifice to own a home:
- 68% of renters said they would be willing to delay major purchases.
- 51% would be willing to give up vacations.
- 47% would buy a less expensive home further away from work.
- 45% would be willing to rent out part of their home.
- 41% said they would take on a second job.
- 39% would put off having children.
- 33% would keep living with or move back with their parents to save for a downpayment.
Findings of what homeowners would be willing to do if unable to keep up with mortgage payments:
- 82% of homeowners would be willing to give up vacations.
- 65% would take a second job.
- 57% would take on a 2nd mortgage or refinance.
- 44% would rent out part of their house.
In the event of an unexpected loss of income:
- Only 16% of Canadians feel very prepared.
- 49% feel somewhat prepared.
- 35% do not feel prepared at all if income were disrupted.
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Improve Your English
What Kind Of Dictionary Do You Need?
There are lots of different kinds of dictionaries to choose from.
The two most common dicationaries are bilingual and monolingual, but there are more and before you buy one or two it's useful to know how they differ:-
A bilingual dictionary can be used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. They usually consist of two sections, each listing words and phrases of one language alphabetically along with their translation. In addition to the translation, a bilingual dictionary usually indicates the part of speech, and grammar clues to help a non-native speaker use the word.
A monolingual dictionary defines words and phrases in one language instead of translating them. They are usually listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciation, and other information. Some monolingual dictionaries are written specifically for the language learner.
Some dictionaries concentrate on specific subject fields, such as medicine, law, accounting etc.
A pocket dictionary is a dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket, but because of the size, the number of words and length of description are restricted.
Visual dictionaries primarily use pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. They are often organized by themes, instead of being an alphabetical list of words. For each theme, an image is labeled with the correct word to identify each component of the item in question. They can be monolingual or multilingual, providing the names of items in several languages.
An etymological dictionary discusses the history of the words listed.
A crossword dictionary is designed to be used to help to solve crosswords or other word puzzles. Words are grouped together by the number of letters in the word.
A rhyming dictionary is a specialist dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words which rhyme with one another. They will also typically support several different kinds of rhymes, and possibly also alliteration as well.
A scrabble dictionary is designed to be used with the board game Scrabble. Words are listed alphabetically, along with varient spellings, and often no description is given. Interestingly only two to eight letter words are included.
A thesaurus is a book in which words with similar meanings are grouped together, it shows synonyms and related concepts for individual words, and sometimes antonyms. | <urn:uuid:7ca0f557-4586-4fe5-82ff-36fe3ee7aca4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.learnenglish.de/resources/dictionaries.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00075-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921056 | 507 | 3.828125 | 4 |
The institution of monarchy in Britain is in deep crisis. Scarcely a day goes by without some new revelation about the private life of some or other of the royals splashed all over the tabloid newspapers, and public interest in the House of Windsor is more feverish and obsessional than ever. Royal books written by journalists and royal watchers are ten-a-penny and all, without exception, concentrate on the private lives and traumas of their subjects.
This is the only book to take the present Queen seriously as the subject of historical biography, and to examine in depth the influences that formed her and the ideas she represents.
Ben Pimlott treats the Head of State - who has been uniquely placed at the centre of the national stage since childhood - to the rigorous and objective scrutiny he has applied to major political personalities, using a wide range of new sources, including interviews, diaries and letters, and papers in the Royal Archives.
Pimlott looks at the social, political and psychological aspects of his subject in detail, as well as at the changing role of the monarchy in the British Constitution. In the process, the book displays all the author's formidable analytic and narrative skills, and provides a gripping yet sensitive account of one of the most publicised - yet least known - figures of our time. It is vital reading for all those who care about public life in Britain – past, present and future. | <urn:uuid:8837df96-df7e-4874-8b5c-8670e5ca327a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.qbd.com.au/the-queen-elizabeth-ii-and-the-monarchy/ben-pimlott/9780007114368/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00293-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958234 | 291 | 2.4375 | 2 |
One of the great things about online publishing is the town square aspect — people can add their 2 cents by engaging in public dialogue, sharing their thoughts and the ideas of others in a big community conversation.
When it’s all polite and civil, no problem. But of course it’s often not. It can easily
become a cesspool for all manner of ugly, hateful, racist speech. That’s often the way it appeared several years ago, when we used the Topix commenting system on marinij.com. We were amazed at the nastiness out there, and we were forever patrolling the comments section to weed out unacceptable posts — mostly anonymous.
We moved to a Facebook-based commenting system in part because, though it’s not perfect, most Facebook commenters are who they say they are — and because of that they’re reluctant to spew venom. It has largely worked, though we hear from many people who don’t want to have to comment via Facebook for a variety of reasons. We have no idea how many people are turned off by Facebook and therefore shy away from commenting on our site.
So now we’re trying something new — Disqus. Pronounced “discuss,” it is designed to give readers more options for ways to comment beyond just Facebook, although Facebook is still an option. The Disqus commenting system is already in use on hundreds of news websites and handles more than 1 billion unique visitors and 20 million comments per month.
It does allow someone to register with a pseudonym, but we are told by our colleagues at other newspapers that it’s a much easier system to patrol and has not led to the problems we were seeing in Topix.
Some of the benefits of Disqus:
- If you are not on Facebook or not comfortable using Facebook credentials to log in, you can log in with Twitter or Google, or simply your email address and a password.
- You can share comments on multiple platforms, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and email.
- You can alert us to inappropriate comments, and we have given many people in our newsroom the ability to hide such comments.
- Disqus is plugged into multiple anti-spam services and has its own as well, so spam is greatly reduced.
Here are some things you’ll probably have questions about:
Will I have to register with Disqus to comment?
Yes. You may have already created a Disqus account with your Twitter account or Facebook account on another site. If so, you can use the same one to comment on marinij.com. But if not, yes, you’ll have to create a new account. Disqus has some helpful information about registering.
What about all my old comments?
Unfortunately, old comments will not be visible on stories once the change is made.
Where can I find out more?
Visit www.disqus.com for basic information and FAQ’s that address many questions; also, you can send us email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Feel free to let me know what you think of the new system. | <urn:uuid:208b5197-e58d-4a73-8a3f-c7b6abf44d70> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.marinij.com/notesonnews/2014/05/19/discussing-disqus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954924 | 654 | 1.726563 | 2 |
By Dave Welch
US Pastor Council
The unbelievable escalation of government spending, debt and ultimately control over our lives through ungodly and unconstitutional actions such as takeover of health care by federal bureaucrats is a symptom of a national narcotic addiction. We have become a nation of O.P.M. Eaters just as surely as those snared in the trap as described in "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," written in 1821 by Thomas de Quincey. (I would like to credit a friend, Ron Kuest of Olympia, Wash., for introducing me to this comparison some years ago.)
De Quincey became the visible symbol of a raging problem of opium and laudanum use/abuse that was undermining social, economic and political stability in Great Britain and far beyond even to this day (e.g. poppy fields in Afghanistan). What is fascinating is his descriptions of the stages of opium dependency:
- The Pleasures of Opium
- Introduction to the Pains of Opium
- The Pains of Opium
The real reason we have a government gone wild is the generational clamoring for local, state and federal governments to provide for us what God and the Constitution intended for us to provide for ourselves. The short-term pleasures felt by opium, alcohol, crack cocaine and taxpayer-funded "pleasure" are the traps by which we are enslaved, because they destroy rather than empower.
We are well familiar with the statement by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that the problem with socialism is that sooner or later we run out of other people's money (O.P.M.). A century before she stated that principle, another well-known figure was confronted bluntly that it is "not yours to give."
While the story's accuracy has been challenged by some, this widely distributed and printed speech by Rep. Davy Crockett is based on his being confronted by a farmer in his district for voting for a FEMA-type action. By today's standards that would be a no-brainer – unfortunately. Crockett quotes the farmer:
… you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution … you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. … It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. … If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other.Tragically, the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt that birthed massive government "emergency" programs designed to be temporary, the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson that launched the Welfare State and the governmental institutionalization of "benevolence" have made the Opium Eaters crisis look like a tempest in the teapot. The Beast of Big Government is now so ravishingly hungry it is nearly unstoppable.
In some states well over one-half of the workforce are on the government payroll, and Sen. Jim DeMint reminds us that government dependency is not without great cost:
"More people expect government to pay the price and establish the values. This expectation has created a competing vision of America that replaces the principles of freedom with a reliance on government."The bottom line from a Judeo-Christian perspective – which is the basis for our culture, our laws and our economic system – is that by embracing government as our provider, we are rejecting God as our provider as well as the duty to work and to care for others:
Abraham called the name of that place The [YHWH-jireh] LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it will be provided." (Genesis 22:14)The battle over Obama/Reid/Pelosi Care and even whether it includes abortion funding is only the visible aspect of a much larger crisis.
Who is our God? Who is your God? Who is my God? Who is our, your and my provider? We need to be less concerned (NOT unconcerned!) about the 10th Amendment and more concerned about the 10th Commandment.
The political wars will not change until the church in this country once again begins en masse teaching our people the whole Gospel, executing the complete Great Commission and producing godly, biblically grounded disciples who reject both opium and O.P.M.
Obamacare 3.0 should be euthanized and its life support terminated – but so must our dependency on government.
Biblical Principles: Basis for America's Laws - Faith Facts
National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says - Washington Post
Democrats Voice Health Bill Doubts - Wall Street Journal
Does Government Have To Do Everything? - Intellectual Conservative
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Two years ago, sometime in the spring, I stepped outside my apartment in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district to find the block plastered with gone-missing posters for a small black cat named Sergeant Pepper. The cat belonged to the Red Victorian, an intentional community and “experimental hostel” around the corner. During the Summer of Love, in 1967, the Red Vic had been a flower-child flophouse; in 2017, its tenants subleased the front of the building to a vintage shop called Sunchild’s Parlour, which trafficked in fringed suede and psychedelic synthetics and often flung open its doors to attract tourists. Maybe it was through those doors that Sergeant Pepper had escaped.
On the posters, the words “HALP,” “LOST,” and “KTHX” had been superimposed over a blurry photo of Sergeant Pepper’s face. It was a brand of humor popularized by Cheezburger, Inc., a startup that operates the Web sites “Know Your Meme” and “I Can Has Cheezburger?” and has, to date, raised forty-two million dollars in venture capital. The flyers flapped against parking signs and building gates; some were taped to a construction crew’s portable toilet, which was padlocked every night against the neighborhood’s growing population of homeless people. The missing posters struck me as emblematic of the new San Francisco. Millennial communitarians, carrying the torch for a neighborhood that had incubated the sixties counterculture, were using the visual currency of the Internet to send up a flare to their neighbors, many of whom were recently transplanted tech workers paying exorbitant rent for drafty, bay-windowed bedrooms so that they could participate in our generation’s gold rush. I was in the target demographic, having moved from New York, in 2013, to work for a startup.
I glanced around idly for the cat. I remembered that the former C.E.O. of Cheezburger, Inc., Ben Huh, had recently been tapped to run a research initiative called New Cities, funded by the startup incubator Y Combinator and charged with imagining how to build an optimized, tech-centric metropolis from scratch. I asked myself who would choose to live in a city engineered by a startup incubator. I wondered why successful technocrats were fantasizing about “seasteading” communities and special economic zones. Was it San Francisco’s sclerotic, democratic bureaucracy? Its progressivism, small-scale community orientation, and dedication to processes that were often inefficient? At the time, I considered this collision of cultural references and affiliations uniquely San Franciscan. I still found it charming.
Market Street is downtown San Francisco’s main thoroughfare. Last week, rideshare drivers gathered on the sidewalk there, outside of Uber’s headquarters, as part of a daylong global strike against Uber and Lyft. The interior of the Uber office looks like the company’s app—gleaming black elevator banks, hot-white light arrangements that evoke Dan Flavin—but the building itself is pure nineteen-seventies Brutalism: a beige concrete tower reminiscent of an air purifier. Originally, it housed a data center for Bank of America. Now it also holds offices for Square, the financial-services firm, and The We Company, which owns WeWork. On the day of the strike, the front entrance was roped off and guarded by private security, while employees slipped in and out of a temporary side exit.
The demonstration drew about two hundred and fifty people. It was lively and passionate. There was a significant turnout by the media, and protesters seemed energized by the attention. There was also a sense of solidarity, defiance, and creative resistance—a feeling that the strike marked a sea change. A group carried signs in Chinese: one read “Uber exploits drivers,” employing a homonym for Uber that translates, loosely, to “the thing that removes skin.” Others held signs addressing Uber’s C.E.O., Dara Khosrowshahi: “Dara, I can’t pay my rent. How’s your $17 million mansion?”
The protesters marched around the block, obstructing traffic. Marching with them, the Brass Liberation Orchestra—a local group that has been performing at progressive demonstrations since the early aughts—played a rendition of the Eurythmics song “Sweet Dreams.” The procession passed a cashless food truck selling Filipino-fusion burritos and a matte black, twenty-six-foot mobile trailer run by Studio Dental, which has been dubbed “the Uber of dentistry.” (The company offers a tech-forward experience: inside, patients are greeted by remote support staff who appear via video chat, on tablets; they’re offered noise-cancelling headphones and encouraged to “catch up on Netflix” while their teeth are cleaned.) Behind them, the Salesforce Tower loomed. It opened early last year; it’s the city’s tallest building and looks like a gigantic nose-hair trimmer. “We want our dignity back,” a protester chanted, into a megaphone. People wearing tech-casual outfits glanced out the windows of a Peet’s Coffee with expressions of mild curiosity.
I told one of the band members, a fiftysomething woman named Lauren Swiger, that the protest felt like something from an earlier version of San Francisco. Swiger, who was holding a snare drum and wearing a yarn bolo tie clasped with a red flower, nodded vigorously. A massage therapist and single mother, she began driving for Lyft four and a half years ago, after going through no-fault eviction from a rent-controlled apartment in the Mission. “You’re feeling the energy,” she told me. “That’s ’cause it’s real San Francisco. They can’t cover that up. We’re not going away.” Solidarity, she explained, would be the key to holding tech companies accountable. “We need our passengers as allies. The healing—part of the medicine, the antidote—is this connection that’s happening. And we know how to make it grow.”
I thought of something I had read on Twitter a few days earlier. Andrew Chen, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who, for a time, led growth teams at Uber, had floated a hypothesis about the company, presumably in response to the criticism it received during the run-up to its I.P.O. “The primary way that techy bicoastal millennials interact with the vast underclass of millions of hourly workers is in Uber cars,” he wrote. “Riders talking to drivers. Uber is creating the forum for folks to learn about each other, and what we’re learning disappoints us. In turn, this emotion is redirected at the company, when in fact we all need to get smarter about what’s going on in our economy.” Chen went on to detail the various factors contributing to economic inequality and instability—hourly wages, high turnover, debt, automation. He concluded that, while driving for Uber was preferable to service work, the precariousness of hourly pay was “something that needs to get figured out.”
I looked at the drivers with their protest signs. I wondered why I’d expected to read a nuanced socioeconomic take written by a venture capitalist. I thought about how it often seems as though people in Silicon Valley—capitalists and contract workers; activists and entrepreneurs; technocrats and socialists—are talking past one another. At the beginning of the current tech boom, it seemed that “old” San Francisco—activists, artists, immigrants—might continue to set the terms of the city, as it grudgingly acclimated to, and resisted, the influx of entrepreneurs and tech workers. The enraged, joyous protest outside Uber felt like a revival of that spirit. But in the argument over the tech industry’s role in exacerbating income inequality, its consolidation of capital and power, and its subsequent social and civic responsibilities, the winner almost always turns out to be whoever has the loudest voice—the longest staying power.
The protesters wound their way back up to Market Street. Two Square employees paused on the sidewalk to watch. I asked them if the demonstration had any bearing on their workdays. Both men shrugged. “Not really,” one said. “To us, it’s just a circus.”
Journalists, recently, have been asking what will happen in San Francisco after Silicon Valley’s wave of initial public offerings finally crests. (“When Uber and Airbnb Go Public, San Francisco Will Drown in Millionaires,” ran a recent headline in the Times.) Thus far, the I.P.O.s have been a mixed bag. But the financial impact is more staggered than it might seem at first glance. Some employees have already got their windfalls, via private buyback programs at their companies; others are waiting for their “lockout periods,” during which they can’t sell their shares, to expire. The startup ecosystem seems likely to experience an influx of newly minted entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; already, two former Uber executives have created a fund to back companies founded by fellow ex-employees, perhaps in a bid to create this generation’s “PayPal Mafia”—a tight network of former colleagues who reinvest their time and wealth in each other’s investment portfolios. And all eyes, of course, are on the housing market, where the median home price hovers around $1.4 million.
For most residents, though, the specifics of tech I.P.O.s hardly matter. The money is already here—and has been for years. In the midst of a housing crisis, an injection of cash into the superheated real-estate market seems likely to cause an uptick in evictions and displacement. Earlier this month, a small, Kelly green single-family home in the Mission erupted into flames, displacing eighteen people—all of whom were sharing the three-bedroom, one-bathroom house. In recent years, a spate of residential fires in the Mission, specifically in low-income or rent-controlled buildings, have inspired speculation about whether property owners might be torching their own properties. (The thinking is that, for owners impatient to redevelop, legal evictions are costly and slow.) The San Francisco Fire Department has taken pains to dispel these rumors: in fact, it says, the number of fires in the Mission has decreased. Still, it’s telling that San Francisco has become a city in which many people find the idea of widespread for-profit arson plausible.
Almost everyone I know is down on San Francisco these days, and for good reason. Few can envision a future here. The city is undergoing an accelerated identity transformation. On pastel blocks, developers are gutting elegant Victorians and mid-century homes and painting them staid shades of gray. Traffic congestion is spiking, boosted by rideshare vehicles. Fundamental civic infrastructure is in crisis, despite the city’s new wealth: teachers are leaving, and the 911 dispatch center is understaffed. The emerging city is a tapestry of boutique fitness studios and finicky New American restaurants, of private clubs (including one for dogs) and cryotherapy spas. Fast-casual restaurants cater to the efficiency-oriented; a newly opened salad shop, Mixt, offers a mood-lit, wallpapered “salad lounge.” Upscale cafés proliferate, some of them backed by venture capital: investors have put seventy-five million dollars into Philz, a local third-wave coffee chain.
These are infrastructural changes, and changes to the built environment, but they are also renovations of the ethos or spirit or soul of the city. (“What soul?” a friend joked last week—a writer who has lived here for fifteen years and whose rent-controlled building just went up for sale. “It’s gone.” She gestured through the window of the pie shop where we sat; its owner has become an activist of sorts, refusing to work with delivery startups and pressuring the Board of Supervisors to question the legality of classifying gig workers as contractors rather than employees.) San Francisco, where streets are named after union organizers and Mexican anti-imperialists, and local landmarks include murals from the Depression-era Public Works of Art Project, is becoming a paradoxical urban space: a homogenous corporate campus run through with threads of public pain. People struggling with addiction and mental illness sleep on the streets outside unicorn startups and shoot up in front of City Hall. Some of the companies that the city has incubated are now seen to be invasive, rapacious, extractive, creepy; in the local economy and national imagination, they eclipse serious work being done elsewhere in the Valley, in industries such as biotech and robotics.
Not all of this is new or unique to tech—other streets are named after landowners and gold-rush pioneers—but this is a small city. The effects of a dominant industry compound and are not easily absorbed. The city is being reshaped in the image of the tech industry—and by those who wish to sell that image.
On Monday, walking through the Mission, I stepped into a new business occupying the ground-floor retail space of a condo development that was completed in 2018. (Some of the apartments have become rentals: a two-bedroom, ground-floor unit was recently listed for $7,500 a month.) The store displayed high-end kitchen and grill tools, sets of cheese knives, truffle-flavored potato chips, wine, small-batch chocolate, Wagyu beef jerky, buckets of flowers, and a variety of small, high-design jars containing the sorts of transactional condiments and ephemera that often circulate as hostess gifts: preserved lemon paste; pork lard; red-pepper jam; hand-poured candles. Chunks of pink Himalayan salt were packaged with miniature graters near a Scandinavian-looking guacamole press. The offerings felt like algorithmically generated retail—the physical manifestation of an overworked twentysomething’s Instagram Explore tab. A small wooden crate contained a bag of local coffee, a vintage milk bottle stuffed with citrus candies, and a San Francisco-scented candle: a label identified it as a seventy-nine-dollar “Nostalgic San Francisco Gift Set.”
Back on the sidewalk, a man carrying a blanket quietly ranted his way down the street. A few blocks later, as I passed Psychic Horizons, a healing clinic and meditation school, a tear-off flyer taped to the window of an adjacent retail space caught my eye. It read: “Interested in a tech career?” | <urn:uuid:b2132735-66d5-4430-a8f2-cac7fa10e988> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/in-san-francisco-tech-money-doesnt-buy-happiness?utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.958537 | 3,166 | 1.710938 | 2 |
VAT was introduced in Zimbabwe with effect from 1 January 2004 to replace sales tax. The VAT legislation is contained in the Value added tax Act (Chapter 23:12). The VAT system is administered by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), the head of which is the Commissioner-General.
Rates and scope
Rates Zimbabwe has two different VAT rates:
the standard rate of 15%; and
the zero rate of 0%.
VAT is not charged on commodities as such, but rather on the supply of commodities, and is imposed at the prescribed rates on the following:
the supply of any goods and services in Zimbabwe by a registered operator in the course or furtherance of a trade (enterprise);
goods imported into Zimbabwe under certain circumstances; and
services imported into Zimbabwe under certain circumstances.
A registered operator is a person who is registered or is required to be registered for VAT. It is the person, not the trade, who is registered for VAT. A person is only registered once for all the trades/divisions/branches carried on, unless permission is granted to register them separately.
has no fixed place of abode or business;
does not keep proper accounting records;
has not opened a banking account; or
has previously been registered as a registered operator under VAT or under the repealed sales tax Act and failed to perform his duties under either Act.
Any person who carries on or intends to carry on any trade(s) in the course of which taxable supplies (including zero- rated supplies) are made, and whose taxable value of supplies exceeds the prescribed limit, must register for VAT.
Group or branch registration
Group registration is not permissible, as the law requires each separately registered entity to register individually. In exceptional circumstances, separate persons carrying on specified trades may, under an anti-avoidance provision, be deemed to be one for purposes of registration.
A person is liable to register at the end of any month when the total value of all his supplies of goods or services (turnover) has exceeded the prescribed amount in the preceding period of 12 months, or there are reasonable grounds for believing that the total value of supplies of goods and services that will be made in the following 12 months will exceed the prescribed amount.
The threshold for compulsory registration (with effect from 30 January 2009) is US$60,000.
However, registration will not be required if the prescribed amount has been or will be exceeded as a result of:
sales due to cessation of or reduction in the size of the business;
sales due to replacement of capital assets; or
abnormal circumstances of a temporary nature.
A person may apply for voluntary registration even if the total value of taxable supplies is less than the prescribed amount. The person must satisfy the Commissioner that a trade is carried on. However, no minimum threshold has been set by the Commissioner and a decision to register is made on an individual basis.
The Commissioner may refuse to register a person for voluntary registration if the applicant:
A registered operator may apply for separate registration of its different trades, branches or divisions carried on by it, provided they are separately identifiable and there is an independent system of accounting for each such division or branch.
A nonresident can only register through a resident representative registered operator.
Application for registration
Application for compulsory and voluntary registration must be made on the prescribed registration form (VAT1), together with any other documents that the Commissioner may require from time to time (such as company registration particulars and bank details
VAT2 and VAT3). For compulsory
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Patrick Murphy (1834–1862) was an Irish giant, born in County Down, who exhibited himself as a means of income. He originally worked on the docks in Liverpool, England and later became a waiter at a hotel. Because he was a man of extraordinary height, Murphy attracted crowds everywhere he went. He eventually decided that he could make an honest living being tall.
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A lot of people as they age take aspirin to simply help prevent heart-attack and stroke. But a recent study discovered that mixing pain medications may be dangerous. It showed that taking aspirin with common pain relievers might damage the stomach. These include Aleve (naproxen) and Advil (ibuprofen). Be taught further about partner sites by visiting our riveting encyclopedia.
This study looked at health records of close to 50,000 people with pain. These people took over-the-counter (OTC) ibuprofen and naproxen. These drugs are called non-specific non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ns-NSAIDs). The study found that getting aspirin with (OTC) naproxen harms the stomach. Visit heart shaped waffle maker website to learn the inner workings of this hypothesis. The chance of ulcers and stomach bleeding doubled in comparison to naproxen alone. For ibuprofen, the danger tripled.
'Aspirin raises the risk for stomach problems,' said Dr. Joseph Biskupiak. H-e light emitting diode the analysis and is in the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. OTC drugs should be taken as directed. 'While you can purchase them inside your drug store, it generally does not mean there's no threat.'
The research also showed the injury from utilization of these ns-NSAIDs alone. The NSAIDs reviewed raised the chance of stomach issues on their own. Harm to the stomach from ns-NSAIDs continues to be known for a while. Actually, annually ns-NSAIDs put more than 100,000 people in the hospital for stomach dilemmas. And they've caused the deaths of thousands.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers of those drugs to add stronger warnings of serious stomach problems to their brands. The drug manufacturers were also expected to revise their labels to add significant skin reactions. This staggering heart shaped waffle maker link has a pile of stately suggestions for where to mull over this hypothesis. They have to also explain the possible danger to the heart. All OTC NSAID brands state never to get them for over 10 days without speaking with a health care provider.
'Most people don't realize that OTCs are serious drugs. They have gains, but they may have dangers too,' said Biskupiak.
'I urge individuals to read the labels of OTC pain drugs. They have to take these drugs the proper way. Also, they need to think twice before taking them with aspirin. Individuals who need pain relief must talk with their physicians about which pain medicine may be appropriate for them.'
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Aziz Hazara is tracking an unusual shipment - 20 tonnes of rubbish collected from Bagram air base, formerly the largest US military base in Afghanistan. It is making its way west, back to its source. It’ll pass through Karachi and the Gulf, sailing the Indian Ocean and crossing the Atlantic to return to the US.
The artist, who currently works in Kabul and Berlin, estimates that the journey could take up to a year as it carefully retraces what he refers to as the “supply chain of the global war on terror” – the route along global ports and cities that American soldiers and weapons passed through to get to Afghanistan during the war. When it finally lands on US soil, it is home. Hazara calls it his “gift to the American people”.
To skirt regulations on refuse imports (the US prohibits such shipments even though it exports tonnes of its own waste to South-East Asia every year), he has labelled the junk-filled container as art. Having checked the rules, Hazara explains that if it makes it to the country successfully, it cannot be shipped back. “When it arrives, it belongs to the Americans. Once it is in America, you can’t undo it,” he says.
The ongoing work has been commissioned for the 2022 Carnegie International, a major art exhibition held every three to four years, which will take place in Pittsburgh in September.
When US troops withdrew from Afghanistan last year, after a 20-year occupation, they left behind death, chaos and rubbish. Bagram air base, where more than 100,000 American troops had served from 2001 to 2021, had a shopping centre and fast food restaurants. Now, heaps of rubbish, toxic plastic, scrap metal and electronic waste are all that remain, and the Taliban have taken control of the airfield and the rest of Afghanistan.
More than a gesture, A gift to the American people (its working title) considers the legacy of war and the idea of circularity as weapons, equipment and military detritus manufactured in the West make their way into the hands of the Taliban after the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, furthering death and destruction. It also critiques political and economic complicity in an age of globalised conflict and proxy wars.
Born in 1992 in Wardak, a province in Afghanistan’s central region, Hazara and his family moved to Kabul when he was a child. Life in the capital, which has been marred by the Soviet-Afghan War, civil conflicts and the US invasion, shaped much of his memories and world view.
“Part of childhood in Kabul is on one side, a horror show," he explains. “On the other side, war is so normalised that you don’t realise it until you see it from a distance.”
Ranging from video and photography to installation and performance, his works contemplate war and occupation, both Soviet and American, and their lingering effects. Hazara often features children in his works, a choice that he says reflects his “obsession” with his own childhood.
In December, he won the $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize from the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, for his work Bow Echo (2019). The five-channel video installation shows young boys struggling to climb rocky mounds along the hills of Kabul as fierce winds attempt to knock them down.
The children blow on toy bugles, producing bleak sounds diminished by the howling gales. The futility of their efforts is palpable, one almost runs out of breath with them, as they clamour for a kind of control or recognition.
In another work, Rehearsal (2020), the artist’s young subjects play a different game. A boy recreates the sound of gunfire as he sits on the shoulders of another who swings him side to side like a weapon mount.
Hazara says many children in Afghanistan have mastered the mimicry of such noises, even recognising the differences between the Taliban-used Kalashnikovs and the US military’s M16 rifles. “War has become very normalised,” he says. “We grow up with it, we die with it. We commemorate it, we celebrate it and we remember it.”
As the video’s title suggests, Rehearsal shows the children mirroring what they see around them, performing what is expected of them, especially as young boys, and practising for what may be ahead. What begins as children’s games may become more sinister later on, and in the context of a war-stricken country, the outcome feels more fated.
'Rehearsal' (2020), a five-channel video installation by Aziz Hazara. Photo: Aziz Hazara / Experimenter, Kolkata
The artist’s characters not only underscore a loss of innocence, but another form of circularity, of war begetting war. Afghanistan’s crisis is the outcome of generations of conflict, constructed by invading forces battling out their own interests on Afghan land.
“The Taliban that we have in Kabul now are the kids that grew up in the refugee camps in Pakistan [in the mid-1980s and 1990s]. They have been through all these ‘J is for Jihad’ campaigns,” Hazara says, referring to a $50 million US-backed educational programme that promoted the use of “mujahideen textbooks”. Containing lines such as “Doing Jihad against infidels is our duty”, the books and lessons aimed to further religious war to help combat the Soviets.
“This process of radicalisation is an American project,” Hazara says.
The artist turns to a different kind of weapon in Eyes in the Sky (2020), where a drone follows children as they walk the arid mountainous landscape and gather to play around an abandoned tank. That their playground is made from a machine intended to kill doesn’t seem to bother them as they hop on to its metallic body carrying toy guns.
A still from 'Eyes in the Sky' (2020), a single channel video installation by Aziz Hazara. Photo: Aziz Hazara / Experimeter, Kolkata
Addressing the use of surveillance in modern warfare, Hazara considers the drone as a technological panopticon, keeping a watchful eye over its subjects. “Kabul is a city that is constantly under surveillance by the Americans, the Germans, the Brits, the French,” the artist says of the period before the American withdrawal. “There are all these drones, kite balloons, objects flying above you. They watch you 24/7.”
He is referring to the spy balloons that were scattered across Afghan skies from 2007 (they were first used in Iraq in 2004) to observe and record the movements of residents and gather intelligence on potential attacks, including suicide bombers. “They contain an archive of a city, a collection of images created after being constantly being watched without permission,” Hazara says.
Unsurprisingly, the drones were reviled by locals, casting a psychological effect that prevented them from living their daily lives. Men were afraid of sleeping on their rooftops, a common activity during hot summer months, and women were cautious about stepping out to their yards.
Towards the end of Eyes in the Sky, the boys turn their guns upwards, firing at the all-seeing eye. In real life, when American crews would take down the blimps for maintenance, they would note that they were ridden with hundreds of bullet holes.
Such wartime surveillance practices are distinctly American – high-tech, exportable and therefore highly bankable. This, too, has become a legacy of modern war. Formerly in the hands of the US, vast stores of data on the Afghan people, including digital histories and biometric data, collected over the years through a national ID and voter registration systems, are now with the Taliban, according to various reports, a shifting threat for which the implications are yet unknown.
But while the cameras of the military are intent on watching, Hazara’s camera is concerned with the telling of memories and stories. The artist’s fascination with the camera as an object that bears colonial and militaristic histories began as a “problematic relationship”, he says. This was largely influenced by his witnessing the ways foreign journalists in Kabul while growing up. “I didn’t like when people, especially white journalists, were walking around the city and photographing us without permission. I found that they were exoticising us,” he explains.
In his practice, he casts a different lens, one that rejects dehumanising images of conflict prevalent in international media, and presents stark views of Afghanistan’s landscape and those who live in it. “It’s my constant struggle to not depict [violence], but use visual devices that might appear well-composed, but on the other side are brutal,” he explains.
His work, he says, is a continuous search along “the border between being political and poetic”.
'Bow Echo' (2019). Photo: Aziz Hazara / Experimenter, Kolkata
Sound plays an integral part of it, too. Hazara once again draws from his childhood in Kabul, where the city’s soundscape blends the hum of drones, the whirr of “choppers flying in and out of the green zone”, recitations from “masjids calling you for prayers”, and on occasion, the sound of "suicide bombings".
“Sound becomes a constant reminder of your geography and that was important to translate into the work,” he explains.
The use of sound is perhaps most chilling in Monument (2019), one of Hazara's most powerful pieces. Running a little over five minutes, the double-channel video installation, shown at the Biennale of Sydney in 2019, takes place at a memorial site for the victims of a 2018 suicide bombing. Carried out by the Islamic State – Khorasan, an offshoot of the militant group borne out of another war between other nations, the attack targeted an education centre in a Shia neighbourhood in Kabul. A total of 48 students, men and women, were killed and 67 people were injured.
One side of Monument shows the graveyard and memorial site in a wide-angle view, an arrangement of flags and posters, while the second screen offers a close-up of the latter, revealing the faces of the students, mostly teenagers, their names and dates of birth and death.
There is no narration and little context needed. As these scenes play, we hear only a steady low noise: the wind and the flags flapping along, then auditory cues of war, looming helicopters and soaring jets.
The artist reminds us of what we know to be true, that war does not end with a withdrawal, and not even with the laying down of weapons. It scars, stains and sticks – it does not wash off, even if the US and its coalition may wish it so. Today, Afghanistan is not only faced with the grief of more than 170,000 dead (a conservative estimate by the Costs of War Project) and millions displaced, but also a humanitarian crisis that is rapidly worsening.
Contained in Hazara’s work is a ruminative condemnation of imperial violence and a tragic foreshadowing of the country’s future. Like the sound of Monument, the road ahead is vast, eerie and cold.
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|Name in Saurian|| Culeajaim (Cj)|
|Systematic name|| Unbiunium (Ubu)|
|Location on the periodic table|
|Previous element||Galilinium (120Gl)|
|Next element||Democritium (122Dm)|
|327.7145 u, 544.1826 yg|
|Atomic radius||188 pm, 1.88 Å|
|Van der Waals radius||214 pm, 2.14 Å|
|s||325 (121 p+, 204 n0)|
|Electron configuration|| [Mc] 8s2 8p1|
2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, 8, 3
|Oxidation states|| +3|
(strongly basic oxide)
|First ionization energy||555.0 kJ/mol, 5.752 eV|
|Electron affinity||22.2 kJ/mol, 0.230 eV|
|Covalent radius||187 pm, 1.87 Å|
|Molar mass||327.714 g/mol|
|Molar volume||25.270 cm3/mol|
|Atomic number density|| 1.84 × 1021 g−1|
2.38 × 1022 cm−3
|Average atomic separation||347 pm, 3.47 Å|
|Crystal structure||Face centered cubic|
|Melting point|| 950.13 K, 1710.23°R|
|Boiling point|| 1986.71 K, 3576.07°R|
|Liquid range||1036.58 , 1865.85|
|Triple point|| 950.12 K, 1710.22°R|
@ 394.65 mPa, 0.0029601 torr
|Critical point|| 3470.60 K, 6247.08°R|
@ 13.2523 MPa, 130.791 atm
|Heat of fusion||8.396 kJ/mol|
|Heat of vaporization||171.563 kJ/mol|
|Heat capacity|| 0.04344 J/(g•|
14.236 J/(mol• ), 25.624 J/(mol• ) ), 0.07819 J/(g• )
|Universe (by mass)|| Relative: 8.49 × 10−24|
Absolute: 2.84 × 1029 kg
Lavoisium is the fabricated name of an undiscovered element with the symbol Ls and atomic number 121. Lavoisium was named in honor of Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), who redefined the concept of elements, constructed the metric system, and stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass. This element is known in the scientific literature as unbiunium (Ubu), or simply element 121. It is notable for being the first g-block element of the periodic table, thus the first member of the namesake lavoiside series and located in the periodic table coordinate 5g1.
Unlike most metals, like gold, lavoisium is not silvery, but a pinkish peach (apricot) metal, due to certain exchange of energies between split 7p orbitals, full 8s orbital, and first electron in the 8p orbital. The electrons excite energies mostly at red, orange, and yellow regions of the visible spectrum while sometimes exciting at green region. Its density is approaching 13 g/cm3 and its molar volume is 25 cm3/mol. It forms face centered cubic crystal structure and converts to base centered monoclinic upon heating to 482°C. At room temperature, lavoisium atoms are separated by an average of 3.47 Å (347 pm) and there are 24 sextillion (2.4 × 1022) atoms in a cube measuring one centimeter across.
Like most metals, lavoisium is solid at room temperature with the melting point of 677°C and boiling point 1714°C. The melting point is the minimum temperature of being a liquid while the boiling point is the maximum temperature of being a liquid. Triple point is a point on the phase diagram in which temperature and pressure are just right which the metal is allowed to exist in all three phases. For lavoisium, it is 677°C and 395 mPa. Critical point is the minimum temperature and pressure where liquid and gas no longer exist, but instead it exists as a supercritical fluid, exhibiting properties of both liquid and gas. For lavoisium, it is 3197°C and 13 MPa (131 atm).
Since lavoisium is the first g-block element, it is expected that there should be first electron filling in the 5g orbital in the fifth shell from the nucleus and fourth from the edge of the cloud. However due to relativistic effectss, the first electron is occupying in the p-orbital as if period 8 doesn't have g-block, f-block, nor d-block, like periods 2 and 3. Since the p-orbital is in the same shell as its filled s-orbital, there are three electrons in the outermost shell. The electrons make up only 0.02% the mass of the atom, with the rest is found in its center comprising of 325 nucleons (121 protons, 204 neutrons).
The atom masses 327.7 amu. Its atomic radius, the distance between center of nucleus and outermost shell, is 1.88 Å (188 pm). But if atom is a hard sphere, which is not of course, it would have radius of 2.14 Å (214 pm). Its nucleus makes up only a tiny portion of the atom with a radius of 8.22 fm.
Like every other element heavier than lead, lavoisium has no stable isotopes. The most stable isotope is 325Ls with a half-life of 107⅔ years. It alpha decays to 321Nw. Another interesting isotope is 326Ls, whose alpha decay half-life is 51⁄6 months. 321Ls has a half-life of 33.3 days, beta plus decaying to 321Gl as well as alpha decaying to 317Nw.
Lavoisium has several isomers, the longest of which is 327m1Ls, whose half-life is 9.1 minutes. 327m1Ls is the only isomer with half-life at least one minute as the second longest is 58 seconds for 323m2Ls.
Since there are three outermost electrons, lavoisium's most stable oxistate is +3, meaning it can most easily give up all three electrons from its outermost orbital when bonding trivalently to other element and forms Ls3+ ions most easily in aqueous solutions in various colors depending on solvent. Lavoisium would resemble chemical properties with boron group elements due to an electron in the p-orbital, but due to its lower electronegativity and ionization energies, lavoisium is reactive. As a result, lavoisium behaves more like an alkali metal than a boron member. This element would tarnish in the air quickly to form an oxide (Ls2O3), reacts with water to form a strong base, Ls(OH)3, and as well as acids and salts.
There are wide variety of lavoisium compounds. Lavoisium oxide (Ls2O3) is a white solid formed when it burns in the pure oxygen atmosphere, emitting a yellow flame. Lavoisium hydroxide (Ls(OH)3) is a yellow powder formed when metal reacts vigorously with water. Lavoisium sulfide (Ls2S3) is a purplish pink solid when lavoisium is bonded with sulfur at 200°C. The metal reacts most vigorously with the most reactive family of nonmetals, halogens. Examples of halides are lavoisium fluoride (LsF3) which is a crimson crystals, and lavoisium chloride (LsCl3) which is a pale yellow crystals. Examples of lavoisium salts are lavoisium sulfate (Ls2(SO4)3), a white powder, lavoisium carbonate (Ls2(CO3)3), a green powder, and lavoisium nitrate (Ls(NO3)3), a white powder. Lavoisium reacts vigorously with phosphorus even at room temperature to form lavoisium phosphide (LsP), which is a bluish green solid with the density of 3.48 g/cm3. However, lavoisium does not react with nitrogen at ordinary conditions, an element right above phosphorus on the periodic table. Heat is required for metal to react with nitrogen to form lavoisium nitride (LsN), which is purple solid with the melting point of 308°C.
Occurrence and synthesis Edit
It is certain that lavoisium is virtually nonexistent on Earth, although in theory this element should exist on Earth as part of the decay chain of democritium, teslium, and maxwellium. This element can only be produced naturally in tiny amounts by biggest supernovae or colliding neutron stars due to the requirement of a tremendous amount of energy. Additionally, this element can also be produced artificially in much larger quantities by advanced technological civilizations, making artificial lavoisium more abundant than natural lavoisium in the universe. An estimated abundance of lavoisium in the universe by mass is 8.49 × 10−24, which amounts to 2.84 × 1029 kilograms or little greater than the mass of Proxima Centauri worth of this element.
To go along with other such civilizations, humans on Earth may soon have the capability to synthesize lavoisium. To synthesize most stable isotopes of lavoisium, nuclei of a couple lighter elements must be fused together, and right amount of neutrons must be seeded. This operation would be very difficult since it requires a great deal of energy. Here's couple of example equations in the production of the most stable isotope, 325Ls. | <urn:uuid:87486851-1fff-4fe9-b5db-e2c58ea0b4ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://planetstar.wikia.com/wiki/Lavoisium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.789836 | 2,136 | 2 | 2 |
Here’s why I think you should avoid the word boast in marketing. The meaning of words do shift constantly. One of the senses that the word ‘boast’ has taken on is of the possession of a feature that is a source of pride. In construction marketing, it often appears in the context of product features, the design elements of a building or external project.
In marketing, one of our objectives is to convey the best aspects of our product or service. Naturally, these are things that we are proud of.
However, the primary meaning of the word boast is to communicate with an excessive degree of pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities. For me the word has the negative connotations of a boxer at a press conference, a con-man or an untrustworthy politician. Do we really want to boast in marketing?
Using boasts instead of simply ‘has’ goes against the principles of construction writing as well as content marketing. Boasting about something has negative connotations and is a turn-off for your reader, in my opinion.
Sainsbury’s is one of the biggest retail brands in the UK. There’s really no need to boast about the number of transactions – the figures speak for themselves!
Sainsbury’s, which boasts more than 24 millions transactions per week across it’s 1,200 stores, is one of the best known names in retailing.
1Rebel is a boutique gym in The City of London. The interior has been designed to feel like a nightclub. Professional DJs create the workout music, for example. There are many carefully thought-out elements giving a customer experience unlike any other gym. While researching a product that had been installed in the fit-out, I came across the following:
1Rebel boasts a spacious changing facilities ‘fully stocked with top-end grooming and skincare products, sports-luxe retail zones and a post-grind workout courtesy of Roots & Bulbs cold-pressed juice bar.
Although this gym is proud that it has set itself apart, there should be no need to ‘boast’ about it. The images show something special and different, and I’m sure actually being there in person, it would speak for itself.
On the other hand, maybe boasting is a quality that is synonymous with obsessive workouts and building a muscular body! In which case, this would be an appropriate word choice.
Here’s a final example. In construction, ‘boasts’ tends to be included to strengthen a piece of text.
manufacturers of both play and sports equipment, boasting a dynamic design and sales’ team plus exemplary customer service
A boastful salesperson sounds like the worst kind, in my opinion! The negative associations are of bragging, crowing or gloating.
As an alternative, just write in plain English and use the word ‘has’. When describing a product, explain in some detail about why the features are beneficial and specifically how they will help the designer or end user. These facts should carry enough weight without having to boast. | <urn:uuid:fff450b3-c7fe-44da-85ec-0caa25f02fa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://owenphilipson.com/author/Owen/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.953244 | 656 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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Radiation in MRI's and CT scans
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http://www.listen-up.org/med/ct_mri.htm http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=CT+machine&aq=f http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+a+MRI+works&aq=f !!Test Questions!! 1.Which one of these two Scans does not have radiation?
A. MRI Scan
B. CT (Cat) Scan 2. AN MRI Uses _____ in their Machines.
A. Hydrogen atoms
C. CT scans 3. True or False?
The CT (cat) Scan procedure is when the patient lays on a bed and has their entire body entered in the machine. 4. An MRI costs ____ to/than a CT (Cat) scan.
C. More 5. True or False?
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“Drawing on the right side of the brain: A voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing” asserts that artists may have increased neural matter in the parts of their brains that deal with visual perception, spatial navigation and fine motor skills. Huffington Post-Apr 22, 2014
Goofy sort of research with elements of prank, but plausible enough to get a headline. It isn’t surprising that the physique of the athlete is generally superior to the average office worker. Athletes at all levels work their bodies in all sorts of ways beyond just practicing the skill-set for their particular sport to achieve a condition simply called ‘shape’. You can spot them in the supermarket loading up on bulk protein, a toned outline under tight skin, and maybe they inspire better choices among the rest of us, more fruit and less cake. Doing a brain-scan isn’t so convenient and even if it was true it would be beside the point. Of course the brains of artists are different because they ‘train’ -- they look at stuff. Does it make their brains bigger -- who cares? The fact is they see more and anybody can.
To do it requires no sweat but it does take energy. One has to apply consciousness to mundane surroundings wherever one happens to be, and a surprising thing begins to happen. It’s been widely reported -- the more you look the more you see. Vision becomes “the only form of eating that produces its own meat”, a translation I’m sure but the intent is clear. The difference between the perception of an artist and coequally the viewer of art, and the rest of the population can’t be seen externally but it’s there. They’re seeing more in the same places. Their perceptions are in shape. | <urn:uuid:82061492-b346-4510-a4df-d513c47860e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://owningart.blogspot.com/2014/04/artists-brains-different-from-you-and-me.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95428 | 377 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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shouts at his brother, "I want this train. You can't have
comes from the kitchen and says, "I see one train and two
boys who want it. You are clever enough to find a way to solve
it. If you cannot solve it we will have to put the train back
in the cupboard and let the bugs play with it. So how many different
ways can you solve this problem."
of you tell me one way to solve the problem that will please Allah
says, " I can grab this train and run as fast as I can to
my room. I can lock the door and play with it."
asks, "Will Allah SWT be happy with you if you choose to
replied," No Allah SWT will not be happy with me."
asks again, "So now tell me a way in which Allah S.W.T. will
be pleased with you."
says, "We can play together and Allah SWT will be very happy
says, "We can take turns to play with it and Allah will be
happy with us." "But who is going to play first?"
says' "Let us follow the way of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
When the Prophet s.a.w. went on a trip he had to choose one
wife to take with him. He found a way to decide which wife it
would be by asking the wives to pick a stick from a bundle.
The wife that got the shortest stick would follow the prophet
s.a.w. The other wives would not be upset as this was a
fair method of solving the problem."
[Al-Bukhaaree vol,7 103-104 no 138 and Muslim]
don't you two do the same. The first person can play for 15 mins.
The second person must not disturb the first person or the another
15 mins will be added for the first person. Once the timer rings
then the first person stops immediately and lets the second person
play. Don't get mad when the timer rings, your time is up and
you must hand over the train."
each pick a stick and Azman gets the shorter stick and says, "Alhamdulillah,
I can play first."
put the timer for 15 mins. Roslan goes and plays the computer
while patiently waiting for his turn to play with the train.
comes over and says, "Allah is very happy with those who
wait patiently for their turn."
reads the verse 3:146.
Hir Rahman Nir Raheem
Allah loves the patient.
timer goes off and Azman hands the train to Roslan, "It is
now your turn to play."
is happy to get the train at last. He noisily plays with it. Soon
he gets bored and calls Azman and suggest, "How about if
we play a game of traveling together. Let us pretend this
is a Muslim town."
[anta] can be my passenger and I [ana] can be the train driver.
Tell me where you [anta] want to go and I [ana] will take you."
says, "That will be fun. I [ana] want to go to the 'suuq'
replies, "Okay to the 'suuq' we will go. All aboard,
says, "Toot! Toot! Toot!"
passenger please say your doa."
says his doa.
train [qitaar] goes round the room with both boys running around.
" All passengers getting off at the 'suuq' [market] get ready,
here comes the stop."
"When will this train come to and end.
says"when Allah wants it to"...........................................................
you finish this story and send us your ending ?
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‘A merry heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.’ Proverbs 17:22 KJV
‘[Humanity] has unquestionably one effective weapon-laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution-these can lift a colossal humbug-push it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.’ Mark Twain
‘A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.’ Madeleine L’Engle
‘Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.’ Lord Byron
‘And keep a sense of humor. It doesn’t mean you have to tell jokes, if you can’t think of anything else, when you get my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you’ll get a laugh.’ Art Linkletter
‘As soap it to the body, so laughter is to the soul.’ A Jewish Proverb
My friend, Jeff, is a human joke machine! When we visit with him in Europe he has a phenomenal supply of funny anecdotes that keep us in stitches!
I have noticed that a person may be sad…but once their laugh mechanism is triggered…they are happy!
Laughter is rather magical…don’t you think? I can be totally involved in serious matters, at least serious for a 62 year, and out of no where…something strikes me funny! Immediately I am consumed with the joy of the moment and often find it difficult to re-focus my mind and spirit in a more serious vein!
Often when women are asked why they were attracted to either their boyfriend or husband…they will respond that he makes them laugh!
I am a Jerry Seinfeld fanatic! I have watched every episode in the long running series on numerous occasions. Seinfeld is a master of timing and witty observations regrading mundane life occurrences.
It has been said that even a fake laugh has health efficacy? Also that compelling yourself to laugh will brighten you mood.
I have noticed my friend, Ro, when she is presenting Stewardship issues to our church, has a light hearted delivery that makes the physical needs medicine…easier to swallow!
I always loved the circus! However, I am like Kramer of Seinfeld in that he was afraid of clowns…and I do not like them much either! Tomorrow Aaron and I are going to see the latest Stephen King movie, IT Two, about a demon clown!
We have been raised to be serious and responsible adults. When we were children…we understood that everything was not as grim and serious as the big people made things out to be!
The world is full of mystery and wonder and joy and discovery! Life is a glorious gift that is bestowed upon us without an instruction manual or a roadmap. So many things that we encounter on our walk back to Jerusalem..are laughable and delightful…and if we are the only person in the crowded movie theatre that laughs uproariously as the funny line of act on the screen…then we ‘got it’ while the silent masses once again failed to get their money’s worth!
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There are many alternative treatments that have been considered (and still are) as quack medicine by the all-seeing and all-knowing conventional medical model. However, as science and results began to prove their legitimacy, conventional wisdom was forced to acknowledge their efficacy. Acupuncture needles are one of those treatments that have gone from quack science to proven medical device, and scores of people are now experiencing its benefits.
How Acupuncture Works
In the 1960s, Professor Kim Bong Han and researchers in Korea attempted to prove the existence of meridians in the human body using microdissection techniques. They found evidence of an independent series of fine, duct-like tubes corresponding to the paths of traditional acupuncture meridians.
Fluids in this system sometimes flowed in the same direction as blood and lymph, but also traveled the opposite direction at other times. They realized that these ducts are different from the vascular and lymphatic systems that Western medicine had identified, and that meridians themselves might exist within them.
This meridian system was further validated by a French researcher, Pierre de Vernejoul, who injected radioactive isotopes into the acupoints of humans and tracked their movement with a gamma imaging camera. These isotopes traveled 12 inches along the acupuncture meridians within four to six minutes.
Vernejoul then challenged his work by injecting isotopes into blood vessels in random areas of the body rather than acupoints, and found that they did not travel in the same way at all, illustrating that meridians do contain a system of separate pathways within the body.
In 1997, acupuncture gained official credibility with the FDA reclassifying acupuncture needles from “experimental” to “medical device,” thereby acknowledging that it is a safe and effective medical instrument. In the same year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a statement endorsing acupuncture for a variety of conditions.
The Electrical Component of Acupuncture
Current research suggests that there is a specific relationship between acupuncture points, meridians and the electrical currents of the body.
In the 1970s, Robert O. Becker, M.D., and biophysicist Maria Reichmanis were able to prove that electrical currents did flow along the ancient Chinese meridians and that 25% of the acupuncture points existed along those scientifically measurable lines. They reasoned that these points acted as amplifiers to boost the minute electrical signals as they traveled along the body and that the insertion of a needle could interfere with the flow and block the stimulus of pain.
Conditions Improved by Acupuncture
The World Health Organization has noted over 40 conditions that acupuncture can treat, including:
• Common cold
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Tennis elbow
• Paralysis from stroke
• Inflammation of the eyes
Acupuncture has also been found to be effective in the treatment of a variety of rheumatoid conditions and brings relief to 80% of those who suffer from arthrosis, or osteoarthritis. There is also evidence that it can be used in the treatment of environmentally induced illnesses due to radiation, pesticide poisoning, toxic compounds and air pollution.
Even in acute abdominal conditions such as appendicitis or kidney stone and gallstone attacks, acupuncture can be used before further progression necessitates surgery.
Acupuncture is also considered a valid veterinary medical procedure used mainly for surgical anesthesia and alleviation of chronic pain. It has been shown to be effective in relieving symptoms in 84% of animals suffering from arthritic pain and other degenerative joint diseases.
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Two critically imperiled species of fish in the South Atlantic must be protected from overfishing immediately, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ocean Conservancy.
Speckled hind and Warsaw grouper are “extremely vulnerable to overfishing,” according to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), as they grow slowly, can live up to 40 years, and tend to spawn in groups. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature classifies Warsaw grouper and speckled hind as “critically endangered,” and they are listed as “endangered” by the American Fisheries Society. NMFS has listed both as “Species of Concern,” one step short of Endangered Species Act listing.
NMFS’s decided last month to lift protections for these two imperiled fish species, leaving them at risk by opening up deep waters they had previously protected in the South Atlantic, including the habitats where mature fish aggregate to reproduce. As a result, they are once again being caught unintentionally by fishing boats seeking other species that share the same waters.
“Speckled hind and Warsaw grouper are in trouble right now. The decision to remove protections without having an alternative ready was not only rash, but against the law. It is too risky to leave these fish unprotected, and the law requires that safeguards be in place,” said Chris Dorsett, Ocean Conservancy’s Director of Fish Conservation and Gulf Restoration. | <urn:uuid:6d7e0b16-b4f2-42f0-a220-be564b2d8002> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2012/06/08/groups-seek-safeguards-for-vulnerable-fish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00453-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958229 | 307 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Where can children put their hands in a black bear paw print, touch fossils from times long gone, and sneak a peek under a microscope to learn about Deep Creek Lake's under-water ecology?
The Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center, the Department of Natural Resources' interpretive environmental center, allows children to do all this – and much more! Nestled along the shores of Deep Creek Lake at Deep Creek Lake State Park, the Discovery Center is a one-of-a-kind educational venue for people of all ages. Through hands-on exhibits that showcase the natural resources of Western Maryland, families can learn about the flora and fauna, wildlife, cultural and historical heritage that have turned this former logging and coal mining region into a popular modern day vacation destination.
Through hands on displays, live animal programming, colorful artwork, photographs and artifacts, the facility's numerous natural resources exhibits provide a behind the scenes look into Deep Creek Lake and its watershed, and conservation issues facing the region today. History buffs will enjoy learning about the cultural and historical heritage of the region, including coal extraction from the former Old Brant Mine in an indoor replicated mine experience. The Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center also features many aquariums with native fish and other aquatic species from the lake and river. An aviary featuring live birds of prey, include red-tailed hawks and owls, numerous reptile and amphibian displays with daily up close encounters! While you are here check out our native plant gardens and Monarch Butterfly rearing tank and live underwater fish camera and discovery science stations.
On-site naturalists, rangers and volunteers lead daily educational programs, from leisurely hikes that focus on birdwatching, tree identification and wildflowers, to more extensive educational programming that touches on such subjects as black bear management, endangered species of the Youghiogheny area, submerged aquatic vegetation, boating safety, and trail stewardship.
Check out the Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center Schedule of Events.
The Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center's 6,000 square foot facility also includes a classroom and conference areas complete with audio visual technology including Internet wifi. Don't forget to stop by the Nature Shop, where you'll find a variety of environmental and educational gifts including toys, souvenirs from the region, field guides, and books with a natural resources theme.
The Discovery Center has summer hours of operation daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and winter hours of Friday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact the park for hours of operation and special programs during other times of the year. Deep Creek Lake State Park is located at 898 State Park Road in Swanton, Maryland. For more information about the Deep Creek Discovery Center call (301) 387-7067. Check out our volunteer website for program and workshop schedules at www.discoverycenterdcl.com
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If a child's interest, dividends, and other investment income total more than $1,900, part of that income may be taxed at the parent's tax rate instead of the child's tax rate. If the parent does not or cannot choose to include the child's income on the parent's return, use Form 8615 to figure the child's tax. Attach the completed form to the child's Form 1040 or Form 1040A.
Earned income includes wages, tips, and other payments received for personal services performed. It does not include investment income as defined later in this chapter.
Your child's support includes all amounts spent to provide the child with food, lodging, clothing, education, medical and dental care, recreation, transportation, and similar necessities. To figure your child's support, count support provided by you, your child, and others. However, a scholarship received by your child is not considered support if your child is a full-time student. See chapter 3 for details about support.
Use the following chart to determine whether certain children with January 1 birthdays meet condition 3 under When Form 8615 must be filed.
On Form 8615, lines A and B, enter the parent's name and social security number. (If the parents filed a joint return, enter the name and social security number listed first on the joint return.) On line C, check the box for the parent's filing status.
See Which Parent's Return To Use
at the beginning of this chapter for information on which parent's return information must be used on Form 8615.
If the parent and the child do not have the same tax year, complete Form 8615 using the information on the parent's return for the tax year that ends in the child's tax year. taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174291
If the information needed from the parent's return is not known by the time the child's return is due (usually April 15), you can file the return using estimates.
You can use any reasonable estimate. This includes using information from last year's return. If you use an estimated amount on Form 8615, enter "Estimated" on the line next to the amount.
When you get the correct information, file an amended return on Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.
Instead of using estimates, you can get an automatic 6-month extension of time to file if, by the date your return is due, you file Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. Extensions are discussed in chapter 1.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174292
The first step in figuring a child's tax using Form 8615 is to figure the child's net investment income. To do that, use Form 8615, Part I.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174293
If the child had no earned income, enter on this line the adjusted gross income shown on the child's return. Adjusted gross income is shown on Form 1040, line 38, or Form 1040A, line 22. Form 1040EZ cannot be used if Form 8615 must be filed.
If the child had earned income, figure the amount to enter on Form 8615, line 1, by using the worksheet in the instructions for the form.
However, if the child has excluded any foreign earned income or deducted either a loss from self-employment or a net operating loss from another year, use the Alternate Worksheet for Form 8615, Line 1, in Publication 929 to figure the amount to enter on Form 8615, line 1. taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174294
Investment income is generally all income other than salaries, wages, and other amounts received as pay for work actually done. It includes taxable interest, dividends, capital gains (including capital gain distributions), the taxable part of social security and pension payments, and certain distributions from trusts. Investment income includes amounts produced by assets the child obtained with earned income (such as interest on a savings account into which the child deposited wages). taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174295
For this purpose, investment income includes only amounts the child must include in total income. Nontaxable investment income, such as tax-exempt interest and the nontaxable part of social security and pension payments, is not included. taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174296
A child's investment income includes all income produced by property belonging to the child. This is true even if the property was transferred to the child, regardless of when the property was transferred or purchased or who transferred it.
A child's investment income includes income produced by property given as a gift to the child. This includes gifts to the child from grandparents or any other person and gifts made under the Uniform Gift to Minors Act. taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174297
Amanda Black, age 13, received the following income.
- Dividends — $600
- Wages — $2,100
- Taxable interest — $1,200
- Tax-exempt interest — $100
- Net capital gains — $100
The dividends were qualified dividends on stock given to her by her grandparents.
Amanda's investment income is $1,900. This is the total of the dividends ($600), taxable interest ($1,200), and net capital gains ($100). Her wages are earned (not investment) income because they are received for work actually done. Her tax-exempt interest is not included because it is nontaxable.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174298
If a child is the beneficiary of a trust, distributions of taxable interest, dividends, capital gains, and other investment income from the trust are investment income to the child.
However, for purposes of completing Form 8615, a taxable distribution from a qualified disability trust is considered earned income, not investment income.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174299
If the child does not itemize deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040), enter $1,900 on line 2.
If the child does itemize deductions, enter on line 2 the larger of:
- $950 plus the portion of the child's itemized deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040), line 29, that are directly connected with the production of investment income entered on line 1, or
Itemized deductions are directly connected with the production of investment income if they are for expenses paid to produce or collect taxable income or to manage, conserve, or maintain property held for producing income. These expenses include custodian fees and service charges, service fees to collect taxable interest and dividends, and certain investment counsel fees.
These expenses are added to certain other miscellaneous itemized deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040). Only the amount greater than 2% of the child's adjusted gross income can be deducted. See chapter 28
for more information.
Roger, age 12, has investment income of $8,000, no other income, no adjustments to income, and itemized deductions of $300 (net of the 2% limit) that are directly connected with his investment income. His adjusted gross income is $8,000, which is entered on Form 1040, line 38, and on Form 8615, line 1. Line 2 is $1,900 because that is more than the sum of $950 and his directly-connected itemized deductions of $300.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174303
Eleanor, age 8, has investment income of $16,000 and an early withdrawal penalty of $100. She has no other income. She has itemized deductions of $1,050 (net of the 2% limit) that are directly connected with the production of her investment income. Her adjusted gross income, entered on line 1, is $15,900 ($16,000 − $100). The amount on line 2 is $2,000. This is the larger of:
- $950 plus the $1,050 of directly connected itemized deductions, or
Subtract line 2 from line 1 and enter the result on this line. If zero or less, do not complete the rest of the form. However, you must still attach Form 8615 to the child's tax return. Figure the tax on the child's taxable income in the normal manner.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174305
Enter on line 4 the child's taxable income from Form 1040, line 43, or Form 1040A, line 27.
However, if the child files Form 2555 or 2555-EZ to claim the foreign earned income exclusion or housing exclusion, see the Form 8615 instructions.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174306
A child's net investment income cannot be more than his or her taxable income. Enter on Form 8615, line 5, the smaller of line 3 or line 4. This is the child's net investment income.
If zero or less, do not complete the rest of the form. However, you must still attach Form 8615 to the child's tax return. Figure the tax on the child's taxable income in the normal manner.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174307
The next step in completing Form 8615 is to figure a tentative tax on the child's net investment income at the parent's tax rate. The tentative tax at the parent's tax rate is the difference between the tax on the parent's taxable income figured with the child's net investment income (plus the net investment income of any other child whose Form 8615 includes the tax return information of that parent) and the tax figured without it.
When figuring the tentative tax at the parent's tax rate, do not refigure any of the exclusions, deductions, or credits on the parent's return because of the child's net investment income. For example, do not refigure the medical expense deduction.
Figure the tentative tax on Form 8615, lines 6 through 13.
If the child or parent has any capital gains or losses, get Publication 929 for help in completing Form 8615, Part II.
Enter on line 6 the parent's taxable income from Form 1040, line 43, or Form 1040A, line 27.
If the Foreign Earned Income Tax Worksheet (in the Form 1040 instructions) was used to figure the parent's tax, enter the amount from line 3 of that worksheet instead of the parent's taxable income.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174309
If the tax return information of the parent is also used on any other child's Form 8615, enter on line 7 the total of the amounts from line 5 of all the other children's Forms 8615. Do not include the amount from line 5 of the Form 8615 being completed.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174310
Paul and Jane Persimmon have three children, Sharon, Jerry, and Mike, who must attach Form 8615 to their tax returns. The children's net investment income amounts on line 5 of their Forms 8615 are:
- Sharon — $800
- Jerry — $600
- Mike — $1,000
Line 7 of Sharon's Form 8615 will show $1,600, the total of the amounts on line 5 of Jerry's and Mike's Forms 8615.
Line 7 of Jerry's Form 8615 will show $1,800 ($800 + $1,000).
Line 7 of Mike's Form 8615 will show $1,400 ($800 + $600).taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174311
If the net investment income of the other children is not available when the return is due, either file the return using estimates or get an extension of time to file. See Parent's return information not known timely
Subtract line 10 from line 9 and enter the result on this line. This is the tentative tax.
If line 7 is blank, skip lines 12a and 12b and enter the amount from line 11 on line 13. Also skip the discussion for lines 12a and 12b that follows.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174314
If an amount is entered on line 7, divide the tentative tax shown on line 11 among the children according to each child's share of the total net investment income. This is done on lines 12a, 12b, and 13. Add the amount on line 7 to the amount on line 5 and enter the total on line 12a. Divide the amount on line 5 by the amount on line 12a and enter the result, as a decimal, on line 12b. taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174315
In the earlier example under Line 7 (net investment income of other children),
Sharon's Form 8615 shows $1,600 on line 7. The amount entered on line 12a is $2,400, the total of the amounts on lines 5 and 7 ($800 + $1,600). The decimal on line 12b is .333, figured as follows and rounded to three places.
The final step in figuring a child's tax using Form 8615 is to determine the larger of:
- The total of:
- The child's share of the tentative tax based on the parent's tax rate, plus
- The tax on the child's taxable income in excess of net investment income, figured at the child's tax rate, or
- The tax on the child's taxable income, figured at the child's tax rate.
This is the child's tax. It is figured on Form 8615, lines 14 through 18.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174318
A child may be subject to alternative minimum tax (AMT) if he or she has certain items given preferential treatment under the tax law. See Alternative Minimum Tax
in chapter 30.
For more information on who is liable for AMT and how to figure it, see Form 6251, Alternative Minimum Tax—Individuals. For information on special limits that apply to a child who files Form 6251, see Alternative Minimum Tax in Publication 929.taxmap/pub17/p17-169.htm#en_us_publink1000174320
The following example includes a completed Form 8615. Form 1040A is not shown.
John and Laura Brown have one child, Sara. She is 13 and has $2,800 taxable interest income and $1,500 earned income. She does not itemize deductions. John and Laura file a joint return with John's name and social security number listed first. They claim three exemptions, including an exemption for Sara, on their return.
Because Sara is under age 18 and has more than $1,900 investment income, part of her income may be subject to tax at her parents' rate. A completed Form 8615 must be attached to her return.
Sara's father, John, fills out Sara's return for her. He completes her Form 1040A through line 27, then begins completing her Form 8615.
John enters his name and social security number on Sara's Form 8615 because his name and number are listed first on the joint return he and Laura are filing. He checks the box for married filing jointly.
He enters Sara's investment income, $2,800, on line 1. Sara does not itemize deductions, so John enters $1,900 on line 2. He enters $900 ($2,800 − $1,900) on line 3.
Sara's taxable income on her Form 1040A, line 27, is $2,500. This is her total income ($4,300) minus her standard deduction ($1,800). Her standard deduction is limited to the amount of her earned income plus $300. John enters $2,500 on line 4.
John compares lines 3 and 4 and enters the smaller amount, $900, on line 5.
John enters $48,000 on line 6. This is the taxable income from line 43 of John and Laura's joint Form 1040 return. Sara is an only child, so line 7 is blank. He adds line 5 ($900), line 6 ($48,000), and line 7 (blank), and enters $48,900 on line 8.
Using the column for married filing jointly in the Tax Table, John finds the tax on $48,900. He enters the tax, $6,504, on line 9. He enters $6,369 on line 10. This is the tax from line 44 of John and Laura's Form 1040. He enters $135 on line 11 ($6,504 − $6,369).
Because line 7 is blank, John skips lines 12a and 12b and enters $135 on line 13.
John subtracts line 5 ($900) from line 4 ($2,500) and enters the result, $1,600, on line 14. Using the column for single filing status in the Tax Table, John finds the tax on $1,600 and enters this tax, $161, on line 15. He adds lines 13 ($135) and 15 ($161) and enters $296 on line 16.
Using the column for single filing status in the Tax Table, John finds the tax on $2,500 (line 4) and enters this tax, $251, on line 17.
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A type of crocheting, latch hook makes rugs by pulling yarn through a canvas grid with a latch hook needle. The pattern is generally printed on the canvas grid, making latch hook a simple project for adults and children. Latch hook can be used to make a number of items in addition to rugs, such as pillows. Finishing a latch hook rug helps to ensure the rug holds up to the test of time, and it requires little more than rug binding and a sewing machine.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Easy
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Things you need
- Rug binding
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine
Cut all of the edges of the finished rug, leaving two complete, empty squares all around. That should leave about 1/2 inch of the canvas grid on all sides. This space gives you room to attach rug binding.
Secure rug binding to each empty canvas edge. Choose a binding that matches the colour of the rug. Press the binding edge on top as close to the edge of the finished rug as possible. Use straight pins to secure the rug binding in place. Sew the binding to the canvas using a sewing machine. Then remove the straight pins. Cut a new strip of rug binding for each edge of canvas, and attach it in the same way.
Attach the non-sewn end of rug binding to the bottom of the latch hook rug. Bend the non-sewn ends of the binding to the rug's bottom. Pin them in place with straight pins. Use a needle and thread to secure them in place with an overcast stitch. Remove the straight pins when all the ends are secured.
Tips and warnings
- If you prefer not to use a sewing machine to attach the binding, you can complete the project by hand with a needle and thread. That method, however, is not as tight and secure as the sewing machine method.
- For a tighter looking corner, use an iron set to low steam to press the rug binding.
- If you want to hang your finished latch hook rug, leave the ends open on the top piece of binding and insert a small dowel rod through the hole. Then tie a piece of rope to the ends of the dowel to hang it.
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LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned artists for der TANK, the exhibition space of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the heart of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design’s campus in Basel.
# Curated by Chus Martínez and supported by [N.A!] Project, the artistic projects conceived between 2016 and 2021 by Mathilde Rosier, Julieta Aranda, Cecilia Bengolea, Eduardo Navarro, Ingela Ihrman, Teresa Solar, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Alessandro De Francesco, and Gil Pellaton all share a common denominator: their interest in exploring the multi-layered dimensions of our relationship with nature, and the slow but continuous change of the art system’s perception and engagement with the natural world.
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The "all or nothing" methods of problem solving never fails to amaze me. Here's the latest example. A private school in Maryland used the adjacent park for recess. It seems that preschool parents complained that the older school kids were taking over the park, playing inappropriately, and leaving trash.
The result was to ban the school kids from entering the park between 9-4.
Why not ask the school to increase supervision? Students who are supervised are less likely to leave trash or stand on infant swings as alleged.
Better yet, how long can recess last anyway? Does it make sense to ban the school from using the park when they most likely use it for only 30 minutes maximum per day. Isn't that what parks are for? Isn't more better in terms of park usage? How about suggesting to the preschool moms to avoid the park for 30 minutes a day during the lunch recess period?
Banning kids from the park all day everyday seems like an over reaction. What do you think?
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- We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of
Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood drenches
them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven
in her family are dead. An American Marine murders a woman because she
happens to be standing next to a man in a uniform. "I'm sorry,' he
says, "but the chick got in the way."
- Covering this in a shroud of respectability has not been
easy for George Bush and Tony Blair. Millions now know too much; the crime
is all too evident. Tam Dalyell, Father of the House of Commons, a Labour
MP for 41 years, says the Prime Minister is a war criminal and should be
sent to The Hague. He is serious, because the prima facie case against
Blair and Bush is beyond doubt.
- In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal rejected German arguments
of the "necessity' for pre-emptive attacks against its neighbours.
"To initiate a war of aggression,' said the tribunal's judgment, "is
not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole.'
- To this, the Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi adds, "a
deep and unconscious racism that imbues every aspect of Western policy
towards Iraq." It is this racism, she says, that has cynically elevated
Saddam Hussein from "a petty local chieftain, albeit a brutal and
ruthless one in the mould of many before him, [to a figure] demonised beyond
- To Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, the Iraqis,
like all Arabs, were "niggers', against whom poison gas could be used.
They were un-people; and they still are. The killing of some 80 villagers
near Baghdad last Thursday, of children in markets, of the "chicks
who get in the way' would be in industrial quantities now were it not for
the voices of the millions who filled London and other capitals, and the
young people who walked out of their schools; they have saved countless
- Just as the American invasion of Vietnam was fuelled
by racism, in which "gooks' could be murdered with impunity, so the
current atrocity in Iraq is from the same mould. Should you doubt that,
turn the news around and examine the double standard. Imagine there are
Iraqi tanks in Britain and Iraqi troops laying siege to Birmingham. Absurd?
Well, it would not happen here. But the British military is doing that
to Basra, a city bigger than Birmingham, firing shoulder-held missiles
and dropping cluster bombs on its population, 40 per cent of whom are children.
Moreover, "our boys" are denying water to the stricken people
of Basra as well as to Umm Qasr, which they have controlled for a week.
It is no wonder Blair is furious with the al-Jazeera channel, which has
exposed this, and the lie that the people of Basra were rising up on cue
for their liberation.
- Since 11 September 2001, "our' propaganda and its
unspoken racism has required an imperial distortion of intellect and morality.
The Iraqis are not fighting like lions, in defence of their homeland. They
are "cowardly' and subhuman because they use hit-and-run tactics against
a hugely powerful invader - as if they have any choice. This belittling
of their bravery and disregard of their humanity, like the disregard of
thousands of Afghans recently bombed to death in dusty villages, confronts
us with a moral issue as profound as the Western response to that greatest
act of terrorism, the wilful atomic bombing of Japan. Have we progressed?
In 2003, is it still true that only "our' lives are of value?
- These Anglo-American invasions of weak and largely defenceless
nations are meant to demonstrate the kind of world the US is planning to
dominate by force, with its procession of worthy and unworthy victims and
the establishment of American bases at the gateways of all the main sources
of fossil fuels. There is a list now. If Israel has its way, Iran will
be next; and Cuba, Libya, Syria and even China had better watch out. North
Korea may not be an immediate American target, because its threat of nuclear
war has been effective. Ironically, had Iraq kept its nuclear weapons,
this invasion probably would not have taken place. That is the lesson for
all governments at odds with Bush and Blair: nuclear-arm yourself quickly.
- The most forbidden truth is that this demonstrably militarist
British government, and the rampant superpower it serves, are the true
enemies of our security. In the plethora of opinion polls, the most illuminating
was conducted by American Time magazine among a quarter of a million people
across Europe. The question was: "Which country poses the greatest
danger to world peace in 2003?' Readers were asked to tick off one of three
possibilities: Iraq, North Korea and the United States. Eight per cent
viewed Iraq as the most dangerous; North Korea was chosen by 9 per cent.
No fewer than 83 per cent voted for the United States, of which, in the
eyes of most of humanity, Britain is now but a lethal appendage.
- Only successful propaganda, and corrupt journalism, will
prevent us understanding this and other truths. Rupert Murdoch has been
admirably frank. In lauding Bush and Blair as "heroes', he said, "there
is going to be collateral damage in Iraq. And if you really want to be
brutal about it, better we get it done now.' Every one of his 175 newspapers
carries that sinister message, more or less, as does his American television
network. The 80 villagers rocketed to death on Thursday are proof of the
urgency he describes; other victims in other countries are waiting.
- For those journalists who see themselves as honourable
truth-tellers, there are difficult choices now: rather like the choice
of the young woman at the GCHQ spy centre in Cheltenham who allegedly leaked
documents revealing that US officials were trying to blackmail members
of the Security Council; rather like the two British soldiers who face
court martial because they exercised their right, enshrined by the Nuremberg
judges, to refuse to fight in a criminal war that kills civilians.
- For journalists who are not "embedded' and are deeply
troubled by the kind of propaganda that consumes even our language, and
who, as James Cameron put it, "write the first draft of history',
similar courage is required. Brave Terry Lloyd of ITN, killed by the 'coalition',
demonstrated this. The threats are now not even subtle, such as this from
our Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon. "One of the reasons for having
journalists [embedded],' he said, "is to prevent precisely the kind
of tragedy that occurred to an ITN crew ... because [Terry Lloyd] was not
part of a military organisation. And in those circumstances, we can't look
after all those journalists ... So having journalists have the protection
of our armed forces is both good for journalism. It's also good for people
- Like a mafia boss explaining the benefits of a protection
racket, Hoon is saying: do as you are told or face the consequences. Indeed,
Donald Rumsfeld, Hoon's superior in Washington, often quotes Al Capone,
the famous Chicago mobster. His favourite: "You will get more with
a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.'
- How do we face this threat to all of us? The answer lies,
I believe, in understanding the extent of our own power. Patrick Tyler
wrote wisely in the New York Times the other day that America faced a "tenacious
new adversary' - the public. He says we are entering a new bi-polar world
with two new superpowers: the Bush/Blair gang on one side, and world opinion
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The Campaign’s aim to tear down the Wall is aligned with the Palestinian desire for liberation—for those of us inside and in exile, the young and old, those who have died, and those yet to be born.
We are part of the struggle to protect our birthright to not only exist, but to reclaim our history and our ancestral land, and ensure a just future for the Palestinian people. Our vision is built upon our strength of will and steadfastness, which, like the roots of our ancient olive trees, run deep within our struggle and continue to feed our resistance. We stand firmly in the belief that these basic principles of our cause must no longer be betrayed or compromised. We will not relinquish our right to our lands, and we will not stand by while a new Nakba descends upon our people.
"The Wall is an integral part of the Zionist project to remove Palestinians from Palestine."
We strongly believe that the wall can be torn down, and with it, the racist ambitions of Zionism. We know that our struggle will not be won tomorrow, and we are not in a hurry. Our road ahead is long, and so we must build a strong foundation of resistance by staying honest and true to our principles. Generation after generation, we have to provide the youth with the lessons, guidance and trust they need and deserve so that they can continue to lead our struggle until one day we will be free and able to return to our homes. The Palestinian struggle is, at its core, a basic human instinct and drive for self-determination. It is a fight against expulsion and subjugation under Occupation. We ask the world to recognize this and support our path towards liberation without imposing conditions upon this aim.
Head of "Stop the Wall Campaign", Jamal Juma.
In this section:
Since the Wall's inception in 2002 the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (or Stop the Wall) has been the main national grassroots body mobilizing and organizing the collective efforts against the Apartheid Wall. It is based on the efforts of popular committees in the villages affected by the Wall where people can meet, organize, strategize and mobilize. A coordination mechanism in each West Bank district allows regional coordination as well as West Bank wide coordination. The Stop the Wall coordination office works to ensure national networking, research and international outreach. The immediate goals of the Stop the Wall campaign have been sanctioned by the decision of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of the Wall (July 9 2004) and are:
- The immediate cessation of the building of the Wall.
- The dismantling of all parts of the Wall and its related zones already built.
- The return of lands confiscated for the path of the Wall.
- The compensation of damages and lost income due to the destruction of land and property in addition to the restitution of land.
Salwa, member of "Stop the Wall Campaign"
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Stop the Wall considers the Wall as an integral project of Israel's occupation, colonialism and apartheid and hence understands the struggle against the Wall as part of the overall effort of the Palestinian people to achieve self-determination, equality and the return of the refugees. Stop the Wall believes that at this stage it has to be a national priority to reinforce popular resistance - the united struggle by a people that are educated, critical and actively mobilized to contribute to the overall goals of the national body. After the failure of the “peace process” and years of 'bureaucratization' of the Palestinian struggle during the Oslo period, Stop the Wall works to bring back protagonism to the grassroots fostering the participation of the farmers, the workers, the youth and the women in the political decision making and popular action. Stop the Wall calls for accountability, participation and transparency in the decision making and implementation of Palestinian politics. The decisions that are to be made regard the most fundamental questions of our national and human rights and can't be left in the hands of a small elite. Stop the Wall acts as well at international level because the Palestinian question has been created by the colonial powers and until to date the Israeli project of ethnic cleansing and apartheid is sustainable only due to continued international support. Our call for justice and human rights connects us with the majority of the people around the globe. We count on their support to develop effective pressure on institutions, corporations and governments to hold Israel accountable and stop international support to Israeli occupation, colonialism and apartheid.
Head of "Stop the Wall Campaign", Jamal Juma.
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Stop the Wall on the Ground
Popular resistance action
Stop the Wall is formed by and expression of the popular committees against the Wall and the settlements. We organizes meetings in affected communities and supports the efforts of the committees. We facilitates community activities against the Wall and coordinate popular resistance action, demonstrations and protests at national level.
NGO and National Mobilization
Stop the Wall lobbies for Palestinian civil society to work together in creating and promoting policies against the Apartheid Wall, ensuring that all Palestinian institutions are engaged in the same goals within a unified national framework. We further encourage organizations to support and respond to people’s needs for resisting colonization of their lands and not to engage in projects that may aid or abet the situation created by the Apartheid Wall.
Information and awareness raising
From the inception Stop the Wall has placed substantial energy into information collection and dissemination. Our publications (factsheets, powerpoint presentations, photo exhibits, newsletters, briefings and books) document the destruction of Palestinian communities and are tools of mobilization and advocacy which contribute to debates around resistance to the Apartheid Wall and Israeli occupation. They are available through our internet outlets.
Stop the Wall acts as a platform for progressive and democratic forces to come together and develop joint action. We join common efforts as a key mobilizing force during national events such as Nakba Day or Land Day.
Stop the Wall is a central actor in the Land Defense Coalition, a coordinating body consisting of grassroots groups working with the people on the ground. The coalition aims to promote the spirit of cooperation and to co-ordinate efforts to face the challenges imposed by the occupying forces and settlers against our people.
Stop the Wall forms as well part of a number of other Palestinian coalitions, such as: the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the Civic Coalition for the Protection of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, the National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba.
Support for the Palestinian youth movement
Since 2006, Stop the Wall has been working on education and mobilization of Palestinian youth encouraging the construction of independent decision making mechanisms and youth leadership. Today, we support where necessary the consolidation and efforts of various youth initiatives.
Stop the Wall Globally
Targeting public opinion
Stop the Wall raises awareness about the effects of the Wall and the settlements, their illegality and role within the overall Israeli project of expulsion and ghettoization of the Palestinian people. We underline the obligation of the international community not to recognize and not to render any aid and assistance to Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and international law.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Stop the Wall has been working since the beginning towards the Palestinian Unified Call for BDS, issued by over 170 Palestinian organizations on July 9 2005, exactly one year after the decision of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the Wall. We have been a key player in the formation of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) and are now in the BNC's secretariat. Stop the Wall contributes significantly at national and international level to the BNC’s efforts. In particular we focus our efforts on:
Military embargo against Israel
The urgency for an end to military relations with Israel and the defunding of its military and homeland security complex is evident to each of the activists struggling on the ground against the Wall and the settlements and facing Israeli military repression. In memory of the martyrs of the popular resistance, we ask the world to urgently act upon the Palestinian call for a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo issued on July 9 2011 by the BNC.
Stop the Wall calls for divestments and boycotts of this Israeli company that plays a key role in the construction of the Wall and provides the drones used in “targeted assassinations”, the 2006 war against Lebanon and the attacks on Gaza in 2008/9 and 2014. Over 13 financial institutions have already excluded the company from their portfolios. For more see:
Mekorot is Israel’s state-owned water company responsible for implementing ‘water apartheid’ on Palestinians, including the international crime of pillage of natural resources in occupied territory, discrimination against the Palestinian people as an ethnic group and vital support for the illegal settlement enterprise.
It is now the time to intensify pressure on public authorities to exclude Mekorot from public contracts and hold the company accountable for its water apartheid.
For more see: www.stopmekorot.org
Outreach to the global south
Stop the Wall that solidarity is truly global only if it integrates the global south. We believe in the importance of building common struggles against colonialism, racism and exploitation. Furthermore, the emerging markets in the south of vital importance for the economic sustainability of Israeli apartheid and the active participation of the global south in the BDS movement is therefore crucial.
Protection of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)
Israel has escalated repression against HRDs and Human Rights organizations, particularly against those involved in popular resistance against the Wall and the settlements in West Bank and in the promotion of the global BDS movement. These activists, committees and organizations need better protection so that popular resistance is not drowned in brutal repression. Our research shows that arrests and violence inflicted on individuals is not accidental but follows an established pattern. Killings and injuries are inflicted in systematic waves. Some villages are regularly raided by Israeli soldiers. Youth and children are arrested with the aim of extorting confessions about prominent community leaders advocating against the Wall. Activists in general, and youth in particular, are continuously intimidated and threatened. We need to continue to mount pressure to stop Israel from its brutal clamp down on popular resistance.
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1) Does Stop the Wall support a one-state or two-state solution?
Stop the Wall does not explicitly support one solution against the other. We believe that our struggle has to focus on gaining our human and national rights. Within the consensus on the achievement of our rights, members, volunteers and supporters of Stop the Wall have and may keep different opinions about the best solution in terms of statehood.
However, it is clear for all that there is no space for a two-state solution as long as the Wall continues to rip apart the West Bank and creates a de facto Bantustan and ghetto situation. A two-state solution cannot be a cover up for a de facto Bantustan option. The Wall has to be torn down to make any lasting and just peace and solution possible.
Further, Stop the Wall sees the struggle against the Wall as an integral part of the overall struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people. Therefore, the struggle to tear down the apartheid wall is part of the broader struggle for Palestinian rights as defined by international law and UN resolutions, namely:
The end of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, as well as the dismantling of the Wall.
Implementation of the right of return for the Palestinian refugees to their homes and lands from which they have been expelled.
End of racial discrimination and apartheid against the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
None of the above rights can be compromised.
2) Does Stop the Wall support some Palestinian political parties?
Stop the Wall does not support any political party in specific. Stop the Wall supports the unification of Palestinian political actors to promote popular resistance and to uphold Palestinian fundamental rights.
Affiliation to its popular committees is on individual basis and activists in the popular committees come from many different political, ideological and social backgrounds.
Stop the Wall is a national secular platform created by people and organizations with different party affiliations and without party affiliations meet and on which they unify their actions against the Wall and the settlements and for ongoing popular resistance against the occupation.
Stop the Wall is an active member in a number of broad Palestinian coalitions and is a key actor in promoting initiatives that bring Palestinian secular parties and activists together.
3) Has Stop the Wall contacts with some Israeli organizations which support the Palestinian struggle?
Stop the Wall does have contacts with Israeli organizations which support the Palestinian rights.
Stop the Wall popular committees decide on a case to case basis how they structure their relationships with Israeli organizations and activists supporting their efforts, such as Israeli Anarchists against the Wall.
Stop the Wall exchanges information with Israeli organizations on a case to case basis on specific initiatives.
Stop the Wall insists that cooperation with Israeli organizations is to be based on:
The refusal of Zionism and the full respect for Palestinian rights, including the right of return and the right of Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality.
A critical understanding of cooperation between colonizer and colonized (even if the former struggles against this situation, the privileges are still present) and acceptance of Palestinian leadership in the struggle.
An understanding that the most important task for Israeli organizations is creating spaces of contradiction and change within Israeli society and to support the Palestinian struggle at international level.
4) What is the strategic vision of Stop the Wall?
As a popular resistance movement we aim to give an example of resistance and – through our popular committees and support to the fledgling Palestinian youth movement – of structures of resistance that contribute effectively to the wider struggle of the Palestinian national democratic movement. It is our vision as a popular resistance movement to work towards the national aspirations, above all the right of return, self-determination and an independent, democratic Palestinian state with its capital as Jerusalem and based on pluralism, rule of law and respect for human rights and social justice. We reinforce the unity of Palestinians throughout the 1967 and 1948 territories and the Diaspora.
Stop the Wall believes that at this stage it has to be a national priority to reinforce popular resistance - the united struggle by a people that are educated, critical and actively mobilized to contribute to the overall goals of the national body. One of our most important goals is to find a way to implicate the national forces to put their full weight behind the popular resistance, to make it their top priority. After the failure of the ‘peace process’ and years of 'bureaucratization' of the Palestinian struggle during the Oslo period, Stop the Wall works to bring back protagonism to the grassroots fostering the participation of the farmers, the workers, the youth and the women in the political decision making and popular action. We have to give particular attention and support to the growing new generation of Palestinians and provide the youth with the lessons, guidance and trust they need and deserve so that they can continue to lead our struggle until one day we will be free and able to return to our homes. The decisions that are to be made regard the future of us all and the most fundamental questions of our national and human rights and can't be left in the hands of a small elite.
As a popular resistance movement we educate and mobilize people in protests and public events. However, we insist on our right to resist military occupation with all internationally sanctioned means and believe that it is up to the Palestinian people to tactically prioritize and choose the most effective forms of struggle.
At international level, we believe in the importance of truly global solidarity and the unity of anti-colonial and social justice struggles of people across the world. The global solidarity developed during the times of the anti-apartheid movement in the 80s, gives clear indicators how citizens all over the globe can support the Palestinian efforts and can effect change even from across the oceans. Therefore our focus on promoting boycotts, divestment and sanctions campaigns.
We further believe that the United Nations – who have rubberstamped with UN Resolution 181 our expulsion, occupation and colonization – have an important role to play in order to hold Israel accountable for its crimes. In particular, the decision on the legal consequences of the Wall by the International Court of Justice has to be activated together with a series of other measures that hold Israel accountable, including a military embargo on Israel.
5) What forms of resistance does Stop the Wall promote?
Stop the Wall promotes popular resistance; this is grassroots and people-driven activism in defense of human rights. This takes a myriad of forms, such as awareness raising seminars, festivals, media events, protests etc. The actions are aimed to oppose Israeli policies of occupation, colonization and apartheid and include an active support for the boycott and anti-normalization movement within Palestine. Stop the Wall further promotes initiatives to support Palestinian farmers and communities to stay on their threatened land and under extreme conditions of ghettoization imposed on them through the Wall and its related infrastructure.
For photos of Stop the Wall’s activities see our Flickr page.
6) How can you support the popular resistance promoted by Stop the Wall?
The most effective support for Palestinian popular resistance is a combined action of awareness raising and ending international complicity with Israel.
We ask you to:
Use our resources to raise awareness about the Wall and Israeli policies of occupation and apartheid
Join the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement to stop international complicity with Israeli policies.
Ultimately, only the end of international financial, political, military and cultural support to Israeli apartheid will bring about the necessary support to the Palestinian struggle that will allow to achieve effective and lasting change and bring justice and liberation to Palestine.
You can help Stop the Wall’s international outreach by volunteering – online or in our offices – in the preparation of resources, translation and research. Please contact: firstname.lastname@example.org.
7) Does Stop the Wall support specific parties or government internationally?
Stop the Wall does not support any government or political party as such.
Stop the Wall seeks to work closely with any government, organization and party that are ready to work towards the achievement of Palestinian liberation and to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, if this is done within a framework of universal respect for human rights.
Stop the Wall recognizes and is grateful for the positive steps done in this respect as well as certain openness on behalf of some government to address continuing forms of complicity with Israeli apartheid and to take further action to promote Palestinian rights.
Stop the Wall measures its position regarding parties and governments to the degree to which they act or promote action to support Palestinian rights within a framework of universal respect for human rights. This, however, cannot be understood as an overall evaluation of the parties or governments as this is not the task of Stop the Wall.
8) Does Stop the Wall accept donations?
Stop the Wall accepts private and organizational donations. So far, we cannot provide you yet with an online donation option. However, you can contact email@example.com in order or effect bank transfers or send cheques.
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Continuing the Transportation section of the How To Live Totally Free series this time I discuss why you should live in a walkable city. Not only will this save you money since walking is free, but you will improve your health by exercising. So is this a good option for you? Let’s review the pros and cons.
Live In A Walkable City By Moving To One
If you want to totally get rid of all forms of transportation and just walk but don’t have good walkability in your current city then you’ll need to move. Unless you are fine walking several miles to and from whatever you need to go. There are some people who don’t mind doing this. If you’re one of those people then this tip (or this article) isn’t for you.
So how can you find a town or city that’s good for walking? A good way to to search online. I found the website Walk Score which gives a grade to towns and cities regarding walkability. All you have to do is enter an address or a neighborhood and get the score. From there you will get results showing how walkable and bikeable the location is. Thus, if the area you’re looking at is car-dependent you’ll learn from the website. Yet, if it has a high walkability score then that’s a city you should consider moving to.
Live In A Walkable City And Get Healthy
Walking is a great form of exercise. It’s not hard on the joints and it doesn’t require you to push yourself. You can walk as slow or as fast as you choose. If you choose to live in a walkable city you will get healthy over time. And if you walk quite a bit daily (20,000+ steps) then you’ll drop weight fast.
The average American doesn’t walk enough. Most only take 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day. Health experts want us to walk 10,000+ steps a day. A great way to accomplish this is to walk to and from the store, or to and from an appointment. And you can do this if you don’t own a car or a bike.
Save On All Transportation Costs
When you decide to live in a walkable city and give up all modes of transportation then you will save money on all those costs.
No longer will you have to pay a car payment or insurance. You don’t have to worry about replacing bicycle tires or paying for repairs. Finally, you can save on electricity costs by not having to recharge batteries for a scooter.
You can talk all that money and invest it into a nice couple of pair of walking shoes because you’ll need it.
Here’s The Downsides When You Live In A Walkable City
OK, now it’s time to discuss the downsides of this decision.
It requires good planning and some luck. You need to live within suitable walking distance of places fitting your lifestyle. That is going to include a grocery store, medical service, recreation, and whatever else you need. Although you can get almost anything delivered nowadays through an app, you still need to have the ability to walk to a store if you need something in a hurry. Finally, this areas may have expensive housing costs. It depends on the location.
This is going to suck if you live in a sweltering or freezing climate. Yet, you can choose to walk during the cool of the morning/evening during the Summer or the warm part of afternoon during the Winter. I can tell you from experience that walking with the sun beating down you or below freezing isn’t fun. Remember, people do it all day everyday across the world so you could get used to it too.
Another downside is transporting your goods. If you need to carrying many groceries or heavy items then you need to buy a trolley or a wagon. A good thing is that you can buy foldable versions that don’t take up much space in your home. However, it can be difficult to walk and push/push if you have a heavy load.
Finally, if you’re not used to walking long distances then your body is going to rebel at first. You’ll be sore, your feet with ache, and you’re going to sweat quite a bit. That’s why I suggested you buy good pairs of walking shoes. Spend a few hundred dollars if you must. You gotta take care of your feet. Yet, the more you walk your body will get accustomed to the exercise.
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Tips For A Greener Home
Believe it or not, making small adjustments to your lifestyle can make a big impact on the environment. Think about it. If everyone made small adjustments on their own, the cumulative effect can be significant. Because of this, you shouldn’t wait for someone else to make the first move. Likewise, you shouldn’t assume you can’t make a difference individually. Right now is the perfect time to start making subtle adjustments to your home and lifestyle to make it a greener place.
One of the best things you can do is start recycling. 9 out of 10 homes have recycling collection. Because of this, you need to ensure you’ve got yours from your local council.
One of the biggest areas where you could be wasting a lot of energy is your heat. It’s best to avoid heating your home to tropical temperatures. Instead, you could easily throw on some more clothing or blankets. This can keep your home hot and help you avoid having to make it too toasty. Ensure that your radiators are working efficiently, take a look at this guide from Corgi Home Plan.
Vintage is “in” right now. Because of this, you could always consider shopping at thrift stores and getting your clothes second-hand. It gives the clothes new life. If you are buying new clothes, try to stick to brands committed to organic materials. You will find a lot of trendy organic brands like People Tree, Traidcraft, and more.
You want to stick to using organic, chemical-free, and cruelty-free products. You’ll find a lot of good brands doing this including Dr. Hauschka, Ren, Spencer, and more.
Try to avoid over-boiling water when you are making your tea. You also want to stick to using organic milk and sugar. When done with your tea and/or coffee, you can always throw the used leaves and grounds into the compost for your garden.
Don’t overuse harsh chemicals. Try to go for more natural products. White vinegar makes for the perfect base for disinfecting things. It also makes for a good natural stain remover. You can use lemon juice for whitening and cleaning. You can always put a coat of olive oil on your wood to keep it shiny.
When you are looking to improve the greenness of your home, you want to focus on the lighting. The lighting is another area where you are likely spending a lot of unnecessary money and wasting electricity. Try to swap out your bulb for LED bulbs. This can help you get longer-lasting bulbs and it can reduce your lighting energy consumption by as much as 90% in most cases.
8. Hot Water
You want to try to check to ensure you aren’t heating your water too much. You don’t want to set it above 140 degrees Farenheight. You also want to look for any potential leaks. Leaks can be a big waste of hot water. In a single week, it could waste as much as half a bath.
9. Loft Insulation
The last thing you want to do is heat your entire home only to have the heat rise out through the roof. Instead, you’ll want to add insulation to your roof. This can save you a lot of money.
10. Air Fresheners
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Distance from Kekri to Injambakkam
Distance from Kekri to Injambakkam is 1,541 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 958 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Kekri and Injambakkam is 1,541 km= 958 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Kekri to Injambakkam, It takes 1.71 hours to arrive.
Kekri is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||25° 58´ 16.7520'' N |
75° 8´ 59.7120'' E
Kekri Distances to Cities
|Distance from Kekri to Deoli||681 km|
|Distance from Kekri to Bah||358 km|
|Distance from Kekri to Dharuhera||297 km|
|Distance from Kekri to Dig||273 km|
|Distance from Kekri to Amet||143 km|
Injambakkam is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||12° 54´ 58.3200'' N |
80° 14´ 55.6800'' E
Injambakkam Distances to Cities
|Distance from Injambakkam to Kultali||1,318 km|
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The Australian Government today welcomed plans for a comprehensive Indigenous training and employment package to be delivered in rural and remote Australia through the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC).
The package will provide 530 certificate-level training places and employment for up to 400 Indigenous graduates in the pastoral, tourism and resource sectors and in ILC businesses, including beef cattle and sheep production, horticulture, maintenance, transport and administration.
The ILC has committed $9.1 million with the Australian Government providing $5.7 million for the three-year training and employment program. The program is expected to attract further Australian Government funding.
The Government is committed to halving the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade by creating job opportunities and giving Indigenous people the skills and training they need to get and keep a job.
Employment contributes to personal, social and economic development and is central to the national economic interest.
The Government applauds all efforts by the private sector increase the employment of Indigenous people.
The Government is working to make people job-ready so they can benefit from employment opportunities.
The Government is supporting the Australian Employment Covenant, a private sector initiative led by the CEO of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest, to create 50,000 jobs for Indigenous Australians.
This support includes pre-employment training, facilitate post-employment support and mentoring for Indigenous people which industry and independent employers, especially in rural and remote Australia, are not often equipped to provide.
ILC businesses will help fill this gap by providing on-site training infrastructure, including personnel, residential training centres and operational equipment for on-the-job training.
The three-year package will provide Indigenous Australians with accredited training, certificate-level qualifications and jobs in the paid workforce through the AEC. The ILC is a participating employer in the AEC.
An important element of this package will be the development of relationships with key mining, oil and gas industries over the next three years to broaden job choices for graduates.
The ILC operates 14 businesses across Australia ranging from large cattle stations, and tourism operations in the north to wool and sheep properties in the south.
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HOUSTON – The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is experiencing a little internal turmoil.
Deputy Carl Pittman is suing Sheriff Adrian Garcia in federal court. Garcia’s alleged crime?
His new social media policy, which went into effect in July.
Pittman, a former candidate for Harris County sheriff, says the policy violates his First Amendment rights.
According to the official complaint, the policy “prohibits employees like Pittman from engaging in speech…that may be the slightest bit critical of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.”
The sheriff’s office released a statement about the suit, saying the social media policy was modeled after reviewing similar policies and parallels the conduct expected of all employees.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is not alone – social media restrictions are becoming common in the workplace.
Can the policies be annoying? Sure. But a First Amendment violation?
The First Amendment does give you the freedom to say what you want — no one can send you to jail for giving your opinion.
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A new generation of architects is on the march. Leaving their rulers and compasses behind, these builders are trading in their blueprints for algorithms and putting the finer details of design in the hands of robots. This December, two Swiss architects and an Italian robotics engineer will, for the first time, build a tower solely by flying robots.
The demonstration, called “Flight Assembled Architecture“, will take place at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France. Fifty quadcopters will take to the air simultaneously and work together to position all of the 1,500 prefabricated foam blocks. When it is completed the tower will stand 6 meters tall (19.7 feet) and 3.5 meters wide (11.5 feet). That’s a significant chunk of the 10 x 10 x 10 meter airspace that the 50 quadcopters get to work in. Custom built electronics and onboard sensors enable the precise control needed to dance together so dangerously close. The robots can be pre-programmed for flight paths that might include arcs and spirals, and a fleet management program takes over when the vehicles fly too close to avoid collisions. The program also automates take-offs and landings. A state-of-the-art motion capture system will track the robots simultaneously at a rate of 370 frames per second with millimeter accuracy. The tracking computer will send flight commands wirelessly from a control room nearby.
The coordination and precision required to build the tower with 50 quadcopters accident free will be challenging. But watch them in action, dancing beautifully through the air in the following video and I think you’ll agree that they’re up to the task.
The tower was conceived by Swiss architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler at ETH Zurich and robotics engineer Raffaello D’Andrea from Italy. Gramazio and Kohler’s research at the university explores the new area of additive digital fabrication. You can think of their robots as large scale 3D printers, building layer by layer. To harness the power of digital tools in architecture design and construction, the team is formulating algorithms that intertwines both structural logic and aesthetics. They call it “informed” architecture.
The tower is just the latest of Gramazio and Kohler’s digital constructions. In 2008, R-O-B, their large, one-armed robot built a 100-meter, meandering wall at the “Explorations” architectural exhibit in Venice. Building the sculpture, called “Structural Oscillations,” is not as simple as it might seem. Being placed in the exhibition’s pavilion, the wall – essentially a stack of unmortared bricks – had to not topple over and crush attendees as they walked past it. A straight wall would have been dangerously unstable, and the oscillating curvatures added structural support. But the robot had to decide just how curved each segment would be. Segments varied both in amount of curvature and brick rotation. Places where the wall straightened would lean, but the swing of the entire wall would pull taut and compensate with increased stability. I mention these architectural elements only to highlight the complexity of the robot’s task. And it accomplished its task, in the end, placing 14,961 individually rotated bricks with its algorithms.
The quadcopters will work the same way, but in addition to adjusting to the placement of the blocks, they’ll have to adjust to each other as well. D’Andrea, a professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, brings expertise in autonomous systems to the team. With an emphasis on adaptation and learning, he hopes to change our perception of architecture from a standardized process to a dynamic one. He developed the Flying Machine Arena, the “controlled sandbox” for mobile robots that the quadcopters performed in in the video. D’Andrea is also the co-founder of Kiva Systems, the warehouse robots that fetch merchandise instead of people.
If you happen to be in the Orléans area and want to check out the exhibition, it will begin December 2nd and run to February 19 of 2012.
Although the team strives to push the boundaries of automated architecture, at the moment their creations are more like works of art. No doubt it will be quite some time before humans begin handing over their mortar shovels and bandsaws to the robots. Right now the emphasis on algorithm-driven materialization is more philosophical than practical. But letting computers take over the creative process can yield some truly stunning creations. Who knows what robots might build in the future by following their structurally sound yet unpredictable algorithms? It could be said that Gaudi followed a similar rule. | <urn:uuid:5d6304a7-f48e-4df5-bc07-e91fa2eab200> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://singularityhub.com/2011/12/01/robotics-meets-architecture-50-quadcopters-will-autonomously-build-twenty-foot-tower-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947107 | 978 | 3.375 | 3 |
Barrington Startup Incubator
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to teach web development at the Barrington High School Business Startup Incubator, a new full-year program at Barrington High School that takes select students from business idea to launch, as well as giving teams an opportunity to receive seed investment.
The program's curriculum follows Lean Startup, along with a series of individual modules (eg. legal, marketing, accounting) taught by industry professionals with subject matter expertise. I was invited to teach a 2-day module on web development.
The program exists as a normal class during the school day, so the students enrolled in the program are split up over seven 45-minute school-periods. Each class is divided into teams of about 5 students based on the business they are developing. A special classroom has been created for the program, modernly furnished with LCD screens, Macbooks, and inspirational quotes on the walls.
Planning my module was a challenge. I had two 40-minute sessions per group of students, which meant I had a total of 80 minutes to try and teach web development to 16-year-olds with no prior knowledge. On top of that, the program director had requested that the students leave my module with the capacity to build websites with dynamic capabilites such as payment forms and blogs.
I knew I wasn't going to be able to get too technical with students in 80 minutes. That's not nearly enough time to even scratch the surface of HTML and CSS, not to mention web hosting, databases, payments, etc. So instead, I decided to focus the first day entirely on concepts and planning (I've shared my syllabus below), then toss the students into SquareSpace on the second day with faith that they'd be able to figure it out from there themselves. By spending the first day developing SOW's, sitemaps, and wireframes, my hope was that at the very least, students would leave my module with good documentation that clearly captured the specifications of their website, and that from there they could either build it themslves or take it to a web development company.
Here are the documents I prepared for my class:
Kids are amazing
The kids killed it. They leapt from task to task without blinking, and made SquareSpace look like it was as easy as Facebook.
After 8o-minutes of class time, they had produced documentation better than most of what I've seen in the industry, and had professional-looking websites online and under construction.
Their curiousity and energy was inspiring. Several students approached me with questions about advanced programming, mobile development, and the tradeoffs between SquareSpace and other DIY tools.
Project-based learning wins
The first day of my module was began with 15 minutes of me explaining web development terms and concepts, followed by 30 minutes of letting students work on their SOW's, sitemaps, and wireframes.
Since I repeated the same class 7 times over the course of the day, it was very easy for me to notice the difference in energy between lecture time and project time. While I explained terms and concepts, I felt like I was racing to sprint through my material before students fell alseep, whereas during the project portions of class, the room came alive with energy and excitement.
Short class periods are challenging
Since I am accustomed to teaching in a fully-immersive educational environment, in comparison, 45-minute class periods felt like I was playing musical chairs.
As an instructor, the time constraint completely changes your mentality and forces you to control the speed and flow of the class with precision so as to not let precious time fall to waste. It also makes it difficult to have deep, thoughtful conversations with individual students, so that others in the class who may need your attention aren't neglected.
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Happy Tuesday Framers!
This Tuesday we are highlighting…..
When you’re happy, you don’t count the years
Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911. Her mother, known as Lelee, went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he allowed the doctor to use forceps and the baby died. She was kidnapped by her father several times until her mother took him to court. Ginger’s mother left her child in the care of her parents while she went in search of a job as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and later to New York City. Mrs. McMath found herself with an income good enough to where she could send for Ginger. Lelee became a Marine in 1918 and was in the publicity department and Ginger went back to her grandparents in Missiouri. During this time her mother met John Rogers. After leaving the Marines they married in May, 1920 in Liberty, Missouri. He was transferred to Dallas and Ginger (who treated him as a father) went too.
Ginger won a Charleston contest in 1925 (age 14) and a 4 week contract on the Interstate circuit. She also appeared in vaudeville acts which she did until she was 17 with her mother by her side to guide her. Now she had discovered true acting. She married in March, 1929, and after several months realized she had made a mistake. She acquired an agent and she did several short films. She went to New York where she appeared in the Broadway production of “Top Speed” which debuted Christmas Day, 1929.
Her first film was in 1929 in A Night in a Dormitory (1930). It was a bit part, but it was a start. Later that year, Ginger appeared, briefly in two more films, A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929) and Campus Sweethearts (1930). For awhile she did both movies and theatre. The following year she began to get better parts in films such as Office Blues (1930) and The Tip-Off (1931). But the movie that enamored her to the public was Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). She did not have top billing but her beauty and voice was enough to have the public want more. She suggested using a monocle and this also set her apart. One song she popularized in the film was the now famous, “We’re in the Money”. In 1934, she starred with Dick Powell in Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934).
It was a well received film about the popularity of radio. Ginger’s real stardom occurred when she was teamed with Fred Astaire where they were one of the best cinematic couples ever to hit the silver screen. This is where she achieved real stardom. They were first paired in 1933’s Flying Down to Rio (1933) and later in 1935’s Roberta (1935) and Top Hat (1935). Ginger also appeared in some very good comedies such as Bachelor Mother (1939) and 5th Ave Girl (1939) both in 1939. Also that year she appeared with Astaire in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). The film made money but was not anywhere successful as they had hoped. After that studio executives at RKO wanted Ginger to strike out on her own. She starred in her final film with Fred Astaire in 1949 in The Barkelys of Broadway replacing Judy Garland after Garland was suspended from MGM due to her tardiness.
She made several dramatic pictures but it was 1940’s Kitty Foyle (1940) that allowed her to shine. Playing a young lady from the wrong side of the tracks, she played the lead role well, so well in fact, that she won an Academy Award for her portrayal. Ginger followed that project with the delightful comedy, Tom Dick and Harry (1941) the following year. It’s a story where she has to choose which of three men she wants to marry. Through the rest of the 1940s and early 1950s she continued to make movies but not near the caliber before World War II. After Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) in 1957, Ginger didn’t appear on the silver screen for seven years. By 1965, she had appeared for the last time in Harlow (1965). Afterward, she appeared on Broadway and other stage plays traveling in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. After 1984, she retired and wrote an autobiography in 1991 entitled, “Ginger, My Story” which is a very good book. On April 25, 1995, Ginger died of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 83.
Fred and Ginger- Too Hot to Handle
Ginger Rogers and Lucy Do The Charleston
Fred and Ginger- Bouncing the Blues from The Barkelys of Broadway
Facts about Miss Ginger Rogers
Was given the name “Ginger” by her little cousin who couldn’t pronounce “Virginia” correctly.
Sort-of cousin of Rita Hayworth. Ginger’s aunt married Rita’s uncle.
She didn’t drink: she had her very own ice cream soda fountain.
Was Hollywood’s highest paid star of 1942.
Her first teaming with Fred Astaire, Flying Down to Rio (1933), was her 20th film appearance but only Astaire’s second.
A distant cousin of Lucille Ball, according to Lucie Arnaz.
She and Fred Astaire acted in 10 movies together: The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), Carefree (1938), Flying Down to Rio (1933), Follow the Fleet (1936), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Shall We Dance (1937), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Swing Time (1936) and Top Hat (1935)
Rogers holds the record for actresses at New York’s prestigious Radio City Music Hall with 23 films for a total of 55 weeks.
One of the celebrities whose picture Anne Frank placed on the wall of her bedroom in the “Secret Annex” while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Holland.
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Paul is a Director of UltimakerGB ltd the UK & Ire operations for Ultimaker. Having studied International Management at the University of Hull, Paul proceeded to a career in management with Enterprise Rent a Car. The excitement of 3d printing and it's potential applications proved too much to resist and along with Alex Mayor UltimakerGB was born. Ultimaker has just launched the CREATE Education project and are excited about sharing 3D printing with everyone!
Advances in the science industry tend to bleed into the education sector. Paul Croft, director at Ultimaker, briefly explains how the maker movement is important for STEM subjects, and the opportunities offered by this development.
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Bhai Bachitar Singh
Bhai Bachitar Singh was born on 6th May 1664 and took Amrit on the historic day of Vaisakhi on 30th March 1699. Bhai ji is most famously remembered as the Singh who attacked a drunken elephant.
The sakhi goes as Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and a small number of Sikhs were defending their position in Lohgarh fort of Anandpur Sahib, which was under attack by numerically far suprior forces under the rule of the Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb and the Hindu rulers of the Hill States. Despite superior numbers, the besiedging forces were unable to penetrate the heavily-defended fort. They brought forth an armoured, druken elephant to batter in the gates. Bhai Bachittar Singh was tasked with stopping the elephant, armed with a nagni barcha (snake shaped spear), a type of spear. Bahi Bachitar Singh ji rode out of the fort on horseback and attacked the elephant, thrusting his spear into the animal's forehead and cutting its trunk with his sword. The wounded elephant retreated, disrupting the attackers' ranks.
In December 1705, when Guru Gobind Singh Ji decided to evacuate Anandpur Fort, they came to the River Sirsa. Whilst crossing the river, the Chotte Sahibazade along with Mata Gujri ji were separated from Guru ji. Guru Gobind Singh ji along with 40 other Sikhs came to Ghanaula village before reaching Macchiwara jungle. Some of the 40 Singhs included Guru jis two older Sahibzade, the Panj Piare, Bhai Sant Singh Ji, Bhai Jeevan Singh ji and Bhai Bachitar Singh Ji.
After resting at Macchiwara Jungle, Guru ji asked Singhs to do Asa di Vaar Kirtan. Around the same time some Mughal forces had manged to catch up with Guru ji. Guru Ji asked a few Singhs to fight against the oncoming forces whilst some did Asa di Vaar Kirtan.
Sahibzada Ajit Singh ji along with Bhai Jeevan Singh ji and Bhai Bachitar Singh Ji fought agianst the oncoming enemy. The enemy recognised Sahibzade Ajit Singh ji as the Son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji and decided to try and kill them. In this battle, Bhai Bachittar Singh ji was seriously wounded. Bhai Madan Singh and Sahibzade Ajit Singh ji carried the injured Bhai Bachittar Singh ji to Malikpur Rangharan, to the house of Nihung Khan. Guru Gobind Singh asked Nihang Khan to look after Bachittar Singh, after which he proceeded with the remaining forty or so Sikhs towards Chamkaur. Guru Gobind Singh ji before his departure bestowed upon Nihang Khan a sword, a dagger and a shield.
Rumors spread as quickly in those days as they do today, so hearing that Nihang Khan was sheltering some Sikhs, the Mughal troops searched his house while the mortally wounded Bachittar Singh lay in a small room attended by Nihang Khan's daughter. Living up to his name, Nihang Khan maintained his cool and succeeded in keeping the search party from entering the room by telling them that his daughter was nursing her very sick husband. Mughal soldiers believed in what Nihang Khan said, but confirmed from Bibi Mumtaz , '' Who is inside with you''?? Mughals asked.
''Its me and my husband here inside, he is sick'' replied Bibi Mumtaz!
Confirming that Guruji was not in house or village of Kotla, Mughal Army started its pursuit of Guruji.
Thus the danger was averted, but the life of Bhai Bachchittar Singh could not be saved. He succumbed to his injuries and breathed his last on 8 December 1705. Nihang Khan had the cremation performed secretly the following night.
Today that village is known as Kotla Nihung Khan. The sword, dagger and shield presented to Nihung Khan by Guru Gobind Singh ji were preserved and passed through generations in the family, but no shrine was raised to the Guru's visit in that most fateful night of peril - until Gurdwara Bhattha Sahib was constructed by Sant Baba Jivan Singh (1833-1938) of Buddha Bhora on the site. The construction was commenced in 1910 and completed in 1923. When the Pathan family left India, following the partition of 1947, they presented the sword and the dagger at the Gurdwara, but the shield was taken by the family who next occupied their house. | <urn:uuid:9bba7c07-63a3-4f03-9622-271b84f72389> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.allaboutsikhs.com/guru-sakhis/bhai-nihang-khan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974289 | 1,000 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Supplemental Analysis of Children's Diet, Exercise, and Safety: Self-Reported Results from the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries (HCSDB): - Issue BriefObjective: A special study using data collected from the 2005 HCSDB to assess special clinical needs and conditions of MHS children between the ages of 1-17.
Results: The 2005 HCSDB measures key health risk behaviors among children of military families, including physical activity, watching television and playing videogames, eating fast food, using seat belts, and wearing a helmet when biking and rollerblading. Results from the survey show that, for children served by the MHS, unhealthy behaviors of all sorts are more common among adolescents than among younger children. They also show that children of active duty are more likely than are children of retirees and Prime enrollees are more likely than children in other enrollment groups to take important safety measures. EXERCISE: The proportion of children with no exercise rises from 4 percent of children aged 6 to 12 to 13 percent of teenagers. Similarly, the proportion exercising at least 3 days per week falls from 84 percent of children aged 6 to 12 to 70 percent in the teenage group. Age differences in exercise are evident in both active duty and retired families, while the family’s beneficiary category is not itself significantly related to exercise frequency. Eighty-five percent of children with an active duty parent in the younger age group exercise at least 3 times per week compared to 83 percent of retirees’ children, while in the teenage group, 72 percent of children with an active duty parent exercise compared to 70 percent of retirees’ children. Leisure Activities and Eating Habits Leisure activities and eating habits that may promote obesity increase with age. Watching television 3 or more hours per day increases with age, from 24 percent of children aged 6 to 12, to 32 percent of teenagers. Video game use increases still more. The proportion playing three or more hours per day increases from 8 percent among children aged 6 to 12 to 20 percent of children 13 to 17. Teenagers also eat more often in fast food restaurants than do younger children. Twenty percent of teenagers compared to 10 percent of children aged 6 to 12 eat 3 times per week or more in fast food restaurants. By contrast with exercise and leisure activities, the number of fast food meals varies by beneficiary category. Though exercise and television watching and video game playing do not vary significantly with beneficiary group , children of retirees in both age groups are more likely to eat fast food than are children in active duty families. Nine percent of children aged 6 to 12 with an active duty parent eat at fast food restaurants 3 or more times per week compared to 12 percent of children in that age group with a retired parent. Among teenagers, 22 percent with a retired parent eat 3 or more fast food meals per week while 18 percent with an active duty parent eat fast food as often. Safety Habits Children’s behavior gets riskier with age. Safety belt use is almost universal and changes little with age. Ninety-nine percent of both teenagers and younger children usually or always wear safety belts according to their parents. However, teenagers use helmets when biking or rollerblading less often than younger children. The proportion of children usually or always wearing a helmet when bicycling falls from 75 percent among younger children to 58 percent of teenagers, while the proportion that usually or always wears a helmet when rollerblading falls from 74 percent to 54 percent. In both age groups, reported use of bicycle helmets is greater among children with an active duty parent than among children with a retired parent. Among children aged 6 to 12, 78 percent with an active duty parent usually or always wear a bicycle helmet, compared to 69 percent with a retired parent. Among teenagers, 64 percent with an active duty parent use helmets, compared to 53 percent with a retired parent. Children in active duty families are also more likely to wear a helmet when rollerblading than are retirees’ children. These survey results show that unhealthy behavior increases with age among children in the MHS population as in the civilian population, and that this relation persists across beneficiary categories and health plans. Older children may require more creative interventions to encourage healthy habits, such as safety measures, exercise and healthy eating. In addition, the results suggest that Prime enrollees and children from active duty families are more likely to take safety measures than are other enrollment groups and children of retirees. If parents’ reports are correct, this finding suggests that it is possible to influence health-related behaviors and that Prime, or the active duty environment promote child safety. 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In Greek legend, before Ulysses embarked on the Trojan War, he left his young son Telemachus in the charge of a wise old man named Mentor. Under Mentor’s guidance, Telemachus became skilled in archery, wrestling and hunting. The twist to this tale is that Mentor was actually the Greek goddess Athena, in disguise. So the point of this story is to look beyond the stereotype of white haired old man for mentorship. Your mentor may take the form of Greek goddess!
Recently, the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association in Baltimore, USA held a session on “How to have a productive meeting with your Mentor/Mentee” that featured postdoctoral researcher Jenifer Calvo (JC) and professor Rajini Rao (RR). Moderated by postdoctoral researcher Irina Duff, the Q & A session covered best practices and proposals for better mentoring of postdoctoral fellows. Their discussion follows, together with excerpts from Rao’s annual lecture on Mentoring from the Johns Hopkins Responsible Conduct of Research course.
When you picture a bee, the honey bee with black and yellow stripes may come to mind. A social insect introduced to the North American continent in the 17th century, the honey bee is often kept for honey and for pollinating food crops. We’ve heard a lot about honey bees in the news due to the risk of colony collapse and the agricultural impacts it could have. However, honey bee research overshadows attempts to identify and analyze the numerous native bee species living in the wild. One scientist working to close the knowledge gap is ecologist and environmental data journalist Joan Meiners. I interviewed her to understand the significance of her work, the daily life of a bee researcher and her role as a woman in STEM.
Meiners recently published a research paper on the native bee biodiversity in Pinnacles National Park, about 40 miles east of Carmel in California. Following up on a previous survey of the region, she and her colleagues wanted to sample the area to monitor the level of native bee biodiversity. Compared to honey bees, native bees live more solitary lifestyles and have more selective habits when it comes to pollination.
Meiners and her team took pleasure in the process of identifying about 50,000 different bee specimens. “Bees are beautiful and fun to identify. They can be metallic blue, bright green, have little mohawks of hair on their heads or interesting ridges on their exoskeletons.” Even the delicate patterns of the wing veins provide species variation clues. In total, she and her colleagues found 450 different bee species in the surveyed region.
And while this number seems impressive upon first glance, Meiners pointed out that there are relatively few studies available for comparison, citing just 23 similarly extensive surveys in the entire United States. She emphasized that Pinnacles National Park is the only area where scientists have surveyed native bee populations over multiple decades, allowing scientists to better track trends over time. “Without repeated sampling, what we know about wild bee decline is complicated by all this natural fluctuation and actually pretty restricted to agricultural areas, where we know they don’t really live.” In short, Meiners would like to see more native bee research done in the future.
Meiners’ research not only helps to advance our knowledge about native bee populations in Pinnacles National Park, but it also lays the foundation for further research. “In the paper, I really tried to highlight this point that more studies like ours are needed to really understand the value of natural habitats (before they’re gone) and the status of native bee decline”. By researching native bees with their uniquely interdependent relationship with plants, scientists can gain insight into the overall ecological health of a region.
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The goal is to recognize the critical role of girls and women in the scientific and technological communities. As we commemorate this day, it is also vital to remember minority women scientists who have made significant advances in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) fields.
In this guest post, Sophie Okolo presents the life of Marie Maynard Daly in the context of her experience as a minority woman in STEM.
Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003) was an American biochemist and the first African American woman to obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. She was awarded her doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1947. I first heard about Daly when I was researching the history of women in STEM for a multimedia STEM project. As a woman and a minority, it was wonderful to learn that she made a significant impact on chemistry and biochemistry. Daly overcame the dual hurdles of racial and gender bias by conducting several important studies on cholesterol, sugars, and proteins.
Chemistry was one of my favorite subjects in college, and it was great to learn about the chemical reactions and equations that Dr. Daly established. Daly’s outstanding work continues to have a lasting impact on scientific research. As a young girl, Daly was an avid reader. She had a budding interest in science and became inspired by her father’s love of science. He had been forced by economic circumstances to drop out of Cornell University, where he had been pursuing a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Due to her father’s experience, Daly was committed to developing programs to increase the enrollment of minority students in medical school and graduate science programs. She established a scholarship fund for African American science students at Queens College in honor of her father.
There is great interest in understanding why the technology industry and wider STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) fields have low participation by women. In this guest post, Lucy Wright summarizes some key studies that address this disparity and offer solutions to increase diversity.
Much has been written about the dearth of women working in the technology industry. From an apparent low interest in technology-related subjects at school through to the small number of women employees in tech companies today, there is a serious and undeniable under-representation of women in the tech industry. This is despite the fact, that women have been some of the most innovative pioneers of technology historically.
Key statistics are below:
Women own only 5% of start-ups in the US
In the UK, only 5% of women are in a technology leadership role
Only 3% of British high school students say they would choose the technology sector as a career choice
Only 16% of women have had a career in tech suggested to them
Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai founded MathsThroughStories.org, a non-profit research-based initiative which sets out to encourage teachers and parents globally to help children learn mathematics more effectively and, equally important, more enjoyably through storytelling. The website offers various evidence-based and freely available resources, including support for children to make their own stories. One of the research projects he leads, Representation of Girls and Women in Mathematics-specific Picturebooks, finds that female characters are significantly underrepresented in mathematical picturebooks when compared to their male counterparts.
Can you start off by telling us a little bit about your research that led to this project? In particular, why is it important to feature gender and race/ethnic diversity in learning mathematics through storytelling?
MathsThroughStories.org draws from a body of research over the past three decadesthat highlights pedagogical benefits of teaching mathematical concepts through storytelling, particularly in the form of story-picture books. One of these research projects has been conducted in a few different countries (including England, Ireland, and Malta). It is an investigation into teachers’ self-reported frequency of using story-picture books in their mathematics instruction as well as their perceived barriers to (and perceived enablers for) the integration of stories in mathematics teaching. A key finding is that while early years practitioners regularly make use of storytelling as part of their daily mathematics teaching, teachers of primary (elementary) school children (5-11 years old) are much less aware of such teaching approach. The principal reported barrier is the lack of awareness (and hence pedagogical knowledge) of how story-picture books can be incorporated into mathematics teaching. Thus, MathsThroughStories.org wants to help raise teachers’ awareness in this area, and to essentially encourage them in giving this approach a go.
In terms of why it is important to feature gender and race/ethnic diversity in mathematical stories, I draw from the idea of Weitzman, Eifler, Hokada and Ross (1972),that picture books are read to children when they are most impressionable and when they are forming their self-images and future expectations of themselves. Imagine a classroom where the teacher only reads mathematical stories where boys and men are always the protagonist solving problems using their mathematical knowledge and skills, while girls and women are secondary characters lurking behind a tree. If you are a girl listening only to stories with such characteristics, how would you see yourself in relation to mathematics now and in the future? Thus, as educators and parents, we need to critically examine what otherwise seems to be a very colourful, cute and harmless educational resource.
Men dominate media: in news rooms and stories, they get more exposure on camera, more by-lines and are quoted more often. An analysis of 2,353,652 news articles covering 12 topic categories from over 950 news outlets over a six month period ending in April, 2015 showed that mentions of men ranged from 69.5% in Entertainment to 91.5% in Sports. The only exception was Fashion, where women edged out men slightly at 54%. A more recent analysis by science writer Ed Yong of his STEM stories was similarly discouraging: only 24 percent of his quoted sources were women. Worse, 35 percent of his articles featured no female voices at all. Why does this matter? As journalist and editor Adrienne Lafrance noted in The Atlantic, the extreme gender imbalance in the media implies that the best voices are not those of women and misses out on diverse viewpoints, experiences and ideas. Journalist and field geophysicist Mika McKinnon is acutely aware of this gender differential in reporting and makes it a point to ask both men and women for expert comments. When making press requests, she is typically turned down more often by women. One case stood out: not one of 74 women requested for an interview obliged, contrasting with 11 of 15 men who agreed, including two who stated that they were not experts. She tweeted her frustration.
I made 74 press requests for women & 15 for men on [topic]. No women give interviews (although several suggested other names). 11 men gave interviews, 2 stating they weren’t experts.
This tweet was seen over 792,000 times with more than 16,000 interactions, clearly demonstrating that the topic touched a nerve. We asked Mika to share her experience and her thoughts on the gender imbalance in journalism reporting.
Sitting in a conference hearing a male colleague speak about the mentors who’d supported his career, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Professor Anita Sengupta realised that, as one of the few women in her field, she’d never had this type of support.
“I sat there thinking, I’ve been working here for 10 years, and I never had that… I’m also a professor at University of Southern California, and there are very few female professors in hard science and engineering fields. So, there aren’t enough female role models girls can look up to and feel like this kind of thing is normal. It’s a huge detractor. There aren’t enough role models pulling girls in.”
An American longitudinal study can shed light on how Professor Sengupta’s individual experience is part of a broader pattern affecting women engineers.
The research examined the reasons why women engineering students drop out before completing their course. Contrary to public perception, the study finds that family plans and self-confidence in STEM knowledge (such as math abilities) do not have a significant impact. Instead, the study shows that women tend not to finish their engineering degrees because they lack “professional role confidence.” This idea encompasses a person’s assessment that they can fulfil the roles, competencies, and identity required of engineers.
Today we take a look at various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science. We start with Dr Harriette Chick, who was a microbiologist, nutritionist and the first scientist to show sunshine impacts health. Particle physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, is the first woman leader of CERN. You likely know Florence Nightingale for her contributions to nursing, but did you know she was the first woman awarded the Order of Merit, and the first scientist to develop graphical statistics? Astronomer Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to discover what the universe is made of, though few people understand her tremendous contributions to the field of physics. Did you know that the word “scientist” was invented to describe the research contributions of Mary Somerville? She trained as a mathematician, astronomer and historian. Finally, Dr Jane Cooke Wright was a “first” in many senses, as a Black woman physician, cancer researcher, and the first woman elected president of the New York Cancer Society.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that only around 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women (1). Similarly, according to the Economics and Statistics Administration of the US Department of Commerce only 24 per cent of STEM jobs are held by women (2), with individual disciplines like Engineering having a significantly worse gender bias. There’s also extensive literature on biases against women in STEM (3), affecting all aspects of academia, including hiring, publishing, citation counts and teaching. Given these disheartening statistics, it is clear that there is still a long way to go before we can even start thinking about gender equality in STEM.
Why am I, a man in STEM, writing about this? Because to me these statistics also show another thing: men, who are dominating these fields, have an obligation to support women in STEM and help level the playing field. But how can men help to facilitate change and support women in STEM? All the things I try to implement are the result of listening to women – who sacrificed their spare time to educate me – and taking their advice. Thus, maybe the single best, most actionable thing is this: step back, shut up, give women space, and listen to them.
This 12 September 2017 is the 25th anniversary of Dr Mae Jemison’s flight on space shuttle Endeavour as the first Black American woman to travel in space. Dr Jemison began her career as a physician who served in the Peace Corps, before making history as an astronaut. To celebrate Dr Jamison’s achievements, let’s take a look at her contributions and the trajectory of other iconic women in spaceflight.
While there have been many iconic women pioneers in space travel, their ascent has been a triumph over gender inequity. Up until the 1980s, the media largely focused on women astronauts’ looks, making disparaging jokes about their femininity getting in the way of their missions. Thus they ignored the mental and physical stamina required to go into this field, not to mention the high level of education demanded of astronauts, who are qualified scientists. For example, the first woman to travel in space in 1963, Dr Valentina Tereshkova, did so after acquiring a Phd in engineering.
Only 50 years a go, astronaut John Glenn dismissed the scientific qualifications of women astronauts using biological determinism. He told a USA Subcommittee: “The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order. It may be undesirable.” | <urn:uuid:2d13dbb2-0c90-4d46-b2c9-81ed89c59c32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stemwomen.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.961511 | 3,263 | 3.109375 | 3 |
How many different iris varieties do I grow? How many roses are in my garden? Are my daffodil blooms in the thousands by now? I don’t know.
Yet we are told to “count our blessings.” Yes, it’s highly beneficial to dwell on the good things God has given us, while we plod along in a sometimes weary world of work and worry.
We must not let that saying become too literal. We don’t really know, nor can we know, how many blessings God showers upon us. When I survey the waves of blue and purple made by the Bachelor’s Buttons as they cover the emerging plants with their billowing button-like blooms, I really couldn’t count them, any more than I could count the stars in the heavens.
They are certainly a visual blessing, dead blooms and all. There will be some early flowers that will be spent and dry by the time the two-foot airy balls of floriferous splendor cover the gardens, but do I count the ones that are slightly dry but still have color? Well, I don’t look that closely. And who’s counting, anyway?
It is obvious to the garden visitor that there is an explosion of color before most gardeners have had a chance to put in some annuals to brighten up the beds. Overall, the effect is astounding.
In other seasons, zinnias or verbena can be “counted on” to burst forth into countless blooms. I may not appreciate each individual flower, but the mass effect can take my breath away.
We thank the good Lord for his gifts in general. Sometimes, we even thank him for specific blessings.
Am I thankful that the traffic is congested in the morning on my way to work? Do I count that as a blessing? Maybe I should. What if that delay kept me from slipping on a wet floor before the maintenance people could clean it up? We are not often thankful as we pay bills, but those bills represent good things that we enjoy, and the income that we use to pay for them.
“Shall we accept good from God, and not accept adversity?” Job 2:10b, NASB).
Job had it right in these words to his wife, even though he had no idea that God planned to bless him through his troubles
We can never be fully aware of what our blessings are, much less count them! Then there are the blessings that are not material.
All too often when we take stock of our blessings, it goes something like this: Food, shelter, transportation, health, happy times. We might miss some of the most important blessings: knowledge of God, the tough times that molded us into empathetic people, or circumstances that have brought us to Christ, for example.
What about the privilege of praying to the Almighty Creator in the first place, not only to thank him for the blessings he has given, and that we have the honor of speaking to One who can create worlds with a word!
God does answer each prayer. When we don’t get the answer we want, we might neglect to thank him.
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PLANS to quadruple the amount motorists can be fined for speeding on the motorway have been criticised by a leading police official.
Ron Hogg, police and crime commissioner for County Durham, said financial penalties were not the best deterrent against poor driving and instead called for longer bans to tackle speeding or dangerous drivers.
The Government announced proposals last week to increase the maximum fine for speeding to £10,000 as part of widespread reforms to strengthen the penalties that can be imposed by magistrates.
Mr Hogg, who has made speeding one of his policing priorities as commissioner, said road safety was a key concern for the public but that he did not agree with the Government that fines are the best way to target problem drivers.
He said: "The greater deterrent is the potential for short-term bans rather than increased fines.
“It is the loss of the right to drive that concerns most motorists.
“Additionally, any sanction ought to be linked to speed awareness training. Speeding is a very emotive subject, something we are working hard to address locally in County Durham and Darlington."
The proposals have also been criticised by Edmund King, president of the AA, who said: “For the vast majority of drivers the prospect of the existing £2,500 fine is a pretty good deterrent against excessive speeding on the motorway.
“We would not condone excessive speeding in any way but fines have to be proportionate to the offence and one has to question whether increasing the fines four-fold is proportionate, and it probably is not.
“If we had more cops in cars on the motorway that would be a much more effective deterrent.”
Under the proposals outlined to Parliament, as well as increasing the maximum fine for speeding on the motorway, the penalty for breaking the limit on dual carriageways and other roads will increase from £1,000 to £4,000.
Fines for using a mobile telephone at the wheel will also be increased.
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) wants to continue to dominate the smartphone market. This is why the company is reportedly working on a cheap $50 smartphone that could debut next year.
Talks of Project Ara continue
Google’s current project is titled Project Ara. This would include a slew of customizable devices that would give consumers more options for their device. Such options could include key specifications and hardware. It could also feature detachable components to further customize options.
India Today explained, “Originally, the Project Ara was announced by the Motorola with the aim of making modular phones in October, 2013. In January, 2014, Google sold its mobile business to Lenovo but didn’t let Project Ara go with the deal. It is still under the world’s biggest search engine. Now, Internet is abuzz with a Time’s report that has revealed fresh details about the project and Google’s plans to make modular phone a reality very soon. In fact, the report suggests that the modular phone could be available by first quarter of 2015. And, it is going to be cheaper than the most smartphones too.”
Google hopes to revolutionize their budget phone
Google also wants to transform hardware the way Android has transformed software. A smartphone that lets buyers customize it to their liking would be one way to separate it from all the others. This project is truly innovative and ambitious. However, like some of Google’s other experimental projects, this project might never make it all the way into consumers’ hands. Modularity could be just the thing the smartphone market needs, and Google could be just the perfect candidate to create it.
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New Purification System Can Produce Clean Water Using Sunlight and Hydrogels
Clean water remains one of the most important natural resources available to a growing population. Shortages in drinkable water continue to plague areas around the globe -- not just in developing nations. International natural disasters can plague affected areas for months in water scarcity.
A team of researchers have created a new type of low-cost technology that could be used in situations lacking clean water. The new gel-polymer hybrid uses ambient solar energy to produce clean water from any source, including water from the Dead Sea. (And yes, the researchers tried their creation on the saltiest body of water in the world.)
The team from the University of Texas Austin crafted the hydrogel under the leadership of Guihua Yu, an associate professor of materials science and mechanical engineering at the university. Yu's researchers created something truly unique: a cost-effective technology that's small enough to be user-friendly and is a gel-polymer hybrid. The material is both attracted to water (hydrophilic) and has semiconductive properties as it absorbs solar energy.
"We have essentially rewritten the entire approach to conventional solar water evaporation," Yu said.
Like other desalination purifiers, the system creates water vapor and then pumps the vapor into a condensing unit which results in freshwater. However, unlike more traditional set ups, the University of Texas researchers made a system that filters out contaminants better than others on the market. The use of this new hydrogel-based solar vapor generator also means that the purification system cleans water more affordably than alternative purifiers.
"Water desalination through distillation is a common method for mass production of freshwater. However, current distillation technologies, such as multi-stage flash and multi-effect distillation, require significant infrastructures and are quite energy-intensive," said Fei Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher working under Yu’s supervision. "Solar energy, as the most sustainable heat source to potentially power distillation, is widely considered to be a great alternative for water desalination."
The team wanted to put their process through the ultimate test. They attempted to reduce salinity from water samples from the Dead Sea. With a salinity of 342 g/kg or 34.2 percent salinity, the Dead Sea is nearly 10 times saltier than the ocean.
"Our outdoor tests showed daily distilled water production up to 25 liters per square meter, enough for household needs and even disaster areas."
By running the Dead Sea water samples through the hydrogel, the team successfully met the acceptable drinking water standards set forth by the World Health Organization and also the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"Our outdoor tests showed daily distilled water production up to 25 liters per square meter, enough for household needs and even disaster areas," said Yu. "Better still, the hydrogels can easily be retrofitted to replace the core components in most existing solar desalination systems, thereby eliminating the need for a complete overhaul of desalination systems already in use."
Yu and his team not only succeeded with difficult samples, but they also proved that hydrogels could help unlock filtering out other contaminants in water. This includes things such as lead, excessive fluoride, and other chemicals.
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Studies conducted at the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in New York indicate that people generally underestimate a meal's calories by about 20 percent--even as much as 50 percent after a tough workout, which means athletes often consume twice as much as they think they do.
Ellen Coleman, R.D., a sports dietitian in Riverside, California, lays part of the blame on the American food industry, which has supersized just about everything: Today's 6-inch bagel contains 210 more calories than the 3-inch versions that were the norm 20 years ago. And a 2005 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that people typically eat 92 percent of any food they serve themselves.
The problem is that as portion sizes creep up, so does our weight. Here are a few strategies for curbing those excessive portions before they slow you down.
Add It Up
Spend a week writing down everything you eat--it's the best way to evaluate what and how much you consume. It also lets you identify troublesome patterns: You may not realize how much snacking you do until you see it on paper. Says Coleman, "People are often surprised by what they see."
Don't Overeat Healthy Foods
Cyclists often think "healthy" foods are fine no matter the serving size. But cheese and nuts, though highly nutritious, are highly caloric, too. Pasta and bread portions are also worth watching. "Athletes think they can eat carbs with impunity," Coleman says. "But eating massive quantities of even low-fat foods can pile on the pounds." Vegetables are the exception: Eating lots of spinach, peppers and carrots won't spike your calorie count--as long as you don't drown them in fatty dressing.
Eat Now, Before It's Too Late
Never skip breakfast. Without it, your blood sugar plummets come afternoon, inducing a raging hunger that makes it hard to moderate portion sizes. The same thing happens when you head out for a ride after eating little throughout the day: "Recovery eating" becomes a pig-out. Eat early to avoid overindulging later.
Make Foods Look Bigger
Portion out foods, even snacks such as pretzels. "You lose touch with what you're eating if your hand's disappearing into a bag," explains Coleman. Transfer snacks to a smaller baggie, and eat meals on small plates. The 2005 JAMA study also found that people ate 56 percent more when they served meals in large bowls, because big dishes make generous portions appear smaller. If you reduce your dish's real estate you can't inflate your portions.
Eye Up Your Food
Weighing and measuring food is a sure way to monitor portion sizes, but it isn't always practical. Use these equations recommended by the USDA to estimate portions.
1 deck of cards = 3 ounces meat, fish or poultry or one slice of bread
1 Ping-Pong ball = 2 tablespoons peanut butter or 1 ounce nuts
4 stacked dice = 1.5 ounces cheese
1 die = 1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 baseball = 1 cup cooked rice or pasta
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Ephemeral wetland vegetation of Western Australia
Pignatti, Erika; Pignatti, Sandro
Vegetation with small short-lived species was first described from the SW corner of Western Australia (WA). This vegetation occurs on inselbergs and temporarily flooded areas in spring, after the rainy season. Several vegetation units have been described and on this basis in 1994 the Centrolepidi-Hydrocotyletea alatae vegetation class was proposed. Botanical investigations in desert areas of WA have been carried out during winter 2001 and 2002 in several localities of the Great Victoria, Gibson, Little and Great Sandy Desert. In all of them the presence of similar ephemeral vegetation in wet habitats has been observed. These communities also consist of short-lived species: germination occurs only after rare events of abundant, mostly erratic, rain and is followed in rapid life-cycles by flowering and dissemination; apparently the development of this vegetation is not concentrated in a particular season, because rainfall is unreliable and mostly linked to unpredictable La Niña events. Several communities can be recognized. They are rare and may occur around claypans, ephemeral ponds, natural and artificial pools. All of them are characterized by species of Centrolepidaceae, together with Cyperus, Marsilea, Triglochin, Stylidium, Scrophulariaceae tribus Gratioleae and insectivorous plants. A synoptic table gives the floristic composition of all the communities of the class Centrolepidi-Hydrocotyletea alatae, which is compared with ephemeral wetland associations of Italy as to vegetative adaptations and phytogeographical components. Data of intensity of PAR radiation, air and soil humidity and leaf temperature show that these vegetation types are adapted to very extreme microclimatic conditions, having the roots in the humid and relatively cool substrate, whereas leaves and flowers develop under dry atmospheric conditions, with elevated temperatures (over 30 °C in winter) at noon and frost during nights. Most of the species occurring in these communities are endemic. | <urn:uuid:e751841b-605e-40ae-923d-506095bb789b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/phyto/detail/35/61990/Ephemeral_wetland_vegetation_of_Western_Australia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938891 | 430 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Listen to part of the lecture in an Earth Science class. The class has been discussing volcanoes.
Okay. We know the Earth's surface, the crust, is made up of tectonic plates, and these huge slabs of rocky crust are slowly sliding over or under or past each other.
And we said that most of the world's volcanoes occur at the boundaries of these tectonic plates where you have hot molten rock squeezing up through gaps between the plates.
But some volcanoes occur not at the edges, but in the middle of a continental or oceanic plate.
The Hawaiian Islands, for example, are thousands of kilometers away from any plate boundary.
And yet you have vast amounts of magma, molten rock or lava, flowing up through the earth's crust, which means, of course,that volcanic activity there can't be explained simply by plate tectonics.
So, how do we explain these volcanic anomalies, these exceptions to the general rule?
Well, back in 1963, a geophysicist by the name of Wilson came up with a hot-spot theory to explain how this particular type of volcanic activity can occur, and can go on for maybe tens or even hundreds of millions of years.
Wilson's theory was that: hot spots exist below tectonic plates, and they're the cause of these volcanoes.
But what causes the hot spots?
Hmm, well, the most popular theory that's been proposed is the plume hypothesis.
According to this hypothesis, plumes, uh, basically columns of extremely hot magma,these plumes well up from deep inside the planet's interior,maybe even as deep as its core, and rise all the way up to melt through the Earth's crust.
Imagine a burning candle, and imagine moving a sheet of heavy paper slowly over the flame of the candle.
You're gonna get a series of burned spots in the paper.
Well, that's just like what's happening with the Hawaiian Islands, but instead of a sheet of paper, you've got a tectonic plate,and it's moving over this plume of intensely hot magma.
And rather than a series of burned spots in the paper, you’re getting a chain of volcanic islands... where the hot plume melts through the crust under the Pacific Ocean at one point after another—with active volcanoes on the younger islands that’re now just above the plume, and the other islands … well, the farther away from the plume they are now, the older they are and the longer ago their volcanoes went dormant or extinct.
Incidentally, volcanic islands may seem small, but the island known as the Big Island Hawaii is one of the tallest topographic features on the planet, more than five kilometers from the sea floor to the ocean surface, and almost that much again, up to its highest peak.
That's nearly ten kilometers from ocean floor to the highest point on the island, which makes it taller even than Mount Everest.
So, you can imagine the huge amounts of magma, or lava, that've flowed up to form even just this one island, much less the whole chain of islands.
Now, the Plume Hypothesis provides a pretty elegant explanation for a volcanic anomaly, like the Hawaiian Islands.
But, while it's hypothetically attractive, there's very little direct evidence to support the theory, because so far, no one's been able to actually observe what's happening that far beneath the Earth's crust.
Some studies have been done, seismographic, geochemical, where the data's consistent with the model, but they aren't definitive proof.
Even the model supporters are uncomfortable claiming that it explains every volcanic anomaly, and like any popular theory, I suppose, it has some determined critics.
These critics have put forth a number of alternative theories, all unproven so far.
But one well-regarded theory is the crack hypothesis, which assumes that hot spots are created when a piece of the crust gets stretched thinner and thinner and the resulting stress causes small cracks to open up at weak spots in the crust, and it's through these cracks that magma pushes up to form volcanoes.
Proponents of the crack hypothesis consider this a widespread phenomenon and believe that magma's not coming up from deep within the Earth's interior, but rather from just beneath the surface crust.
This hypothesis is attractive, because it fits with what we already know about plate tectonics and it fits what we know about some secondary smaller hot spots, but how well does it explain the Hawaiian Islands?
Could a series of random cracks produce that same particular string of Islands that's sequenced so neatly from old to young?
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Lip reading: Your third hearing aid
By Dr. Andrew Waits, Au.D.
Special to The Citizen
Have you ever heard someone say, “I hear better with my glasses on”?
Most people feel they hear better when they can see the person talking. That’s because they’re getting help from lip-reading.
You probably get important help from lip-reading too. Not as in some spy movie, where the hero understands every word from across a room just by watching the person’s lips. Some sounds are impossible to lip-read, so lip-reading when you hear no sound at all is extremely difficult and of limited help.
On the other hand, many speech sounds are easy to lip-read and most lip-reading happens automatically. Fortunately, the sounds that are hardest to hear are easiest to lip-read.
To illustrate: the sounds “th” as in “thin” and “p” as in “pin” are difficult to hear because they are such soft, high-pitched sounds. But with the help of lip-reading, it’s fairly easy to “hear” the difference between “thin” and “pin.”
Vowels are louder and easier to hear – but harder to lip-read. The vowels “o” in “toe” and “e” in “tee” are relatively easy to hear, but it’s difficult to lip-read the difference between the two vowels.
Some sounds are literally impossible to tell apart solely from lip-reading. For example, the sounds “p,b,m” look identical, so you can’t tell the difference in the words “pat, bat, ,mat” from lip-reading alone. With just a little help from hearing, however, it’s much easier to distinguish those words correctly.
Lip-reading was once taught in special classes as the major source of help for people with hearing loss. Today’s hearing aids have made special training less important, although practice and training can improve your ability to read lips. For most people, the following tips should provide enough help to make lip-reading as helpful as having a third hearing aid.
Make sure you can see the speaker’s face. It’s hard to read lips from another room, from more than 10 feet away, or if the speaker is turned away from you.
Watch the speaker’s face, not just the lips; facial expressions and gestures give important clues.
Make sure there isn’t bright lighting behind the speaker.
Concentrate on sentences and topics rather than individual sounds and words.
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From a quiet drift through forest wilderness to a white-knuckled, wide-eyed journey down turbulent rapids, rafting covers the full adventure spectrum.
The mountains of New Zealand’s interior feed a myriad of fast flowing rivers that run through the forests to the sea. Grade 1 rivers offer relatively tranquil waters, while grade 5 is regarded as an extreme sport. Trips ranging from a couple of hours to five days are led by qualified rafting guides who comply with established safety codes. All gear and special clothing is provided.
Rafting rivers in the North Island are mostly found in the central and east coast areas of Lake Taupo, Bay of Plenty and the Hawke's Bay. Lake Taupo's Tongariro River is home to three sections of white water, ranging from Grade 2 to Grade 4. In the South Island, you’ll get the chance to try rafting around the resort town of Queenstown, Christchurch and on the wild West Coast.
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Security Breach MasterCard
NEW YORK (AP) - MasterCard says it is investigating a potential security breach of its cardholders' account information.
The credit card company said Friday it has notified law enforcement agencies and issuers of the MasterCard accounts that are potentially at risk.
The credit card company only processes transactions - the credit cards are issued to cardholders by banks such as Citibank and also a number of retailers.
MasterCard wouldn't say how many cardholders, banks or issuing companies are affected.
The company advises cardholders who have concerns that they should contact the financial institution that issued their cards.
MasterCard says its own systems have not been compromised.
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Using credit cards has become a habit of individuals nowadays and that is the reason why the demand for credit cards is increasing day by day. Keeping this in mind, a lot of e-commerce companies and digital payment services providers have started providing their customers with the ‘Buy Now Pay Later‘ option that allows individuals to make purchases for which they can pay later. It is very similar to credit cards, but not exactly the same. You might have heard of ‘Flipkart Pay later,’ ‘Amazon Pay Later, ‘Paytm Postpaid,’ etc. All these facilities are examples of the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ options. But, how is BNPL different from credit cards? This article will make you understand the same. Keep reading to know more:
Difference Between ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Option & Credit Cards
In general, it is easier to get approved for ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ than for credit cards. When you apply for credit cards, the card issuer may take up to 30 days or even more to approve or reject your credit card application. But, in the case of BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later), your application is approved or rejected instantly after applying for it. Other than this, you need to have a credit history in order to get a credit card and the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ option gives you an opportunity to build your credit score from scratch. You may get approved for BNPL even if you don’t have a credit score, but a stable source of income.
Credit cards offer a higher credit limit as compared to the Buy Now Pay Later options. Credit Cards can provide you with a credit limit of up to 10 lakhs per month or even more, but you won’t get such a high limit with the BNPL options ever. For example, Flipkart allows you to avail of credit up to Rs. 10,000 under Flipkart Pay Later facility.
The cardholders can use their credit card anywhere and make any type of purchase, but this is not in the case of the Buy Now Pay Later option. Generally, online shopping apps and digital payment services-based apps like Paytm provide you with the BNPL facility and you can use this for selected purchases only. For example, you can use the ‘Amazon Pay Later’ facilities to make purchases on Amazon only, and similarly ‘Flipkart Pay later’ can be used to make purchases on Flipkart. However, Paytm Postpaid can be used for a lot of purposes, including mobile/DTH recharges, Departmental store purchases, ticket bookings, and many more.
With credit cards, you can avail of an interest-free period of up to 50 days, including 30 days of the billing cycle and 18-21 days of the grace period. But, Buy Now Pay Later options generally don’t provide you with such a long interest-free period, but it will only be of up to 35-45 days. However, some Buy Now Pay Later providers may even offer you a longer interest-free period, but it will hardly be longer than that provided by the credit card issuers.
Impact On Credit Score
Using both, Credit Cards and Buy Now Pay Later options, can impact your credit score equally. Therefore, you should make sure to pay the bills on time, no matter if you are using credit cards or BNPL. You should also keep other factors like credit utilization ratio, the average age of accounts, etc in mind in order to maintain a good credit score. It is always better to use both, credit cards and Pay later facilities so that you can maintain a good credit mix.
Suggested Read: Everything You Need To Know About Credit Score
Now, you might have understood the difference between Credit Cards and Buy Now Pay later options. Both are advantageous in their own ways. Buy Now Pay Later options can be used to make selected purchases only whereas you can use credit cards to make any purchase of your choice. Also, you get a lower credit limit with BNPL, but it doesn’t make the facility disadvantageous by any means. Even if you are using credit cards, you can consider signing up for the BNPL option on different platforms in order to maintain a good credit mix. It will only help you build your credit score if you use it responsibly and make the payments on time.
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Five groups that classify all living things
A group of animals within the animal kingdom
A group of animals within a pylum
A group of animals within a class
A group of animals within an order
A group of animals within a family
Comprised of the genus followed by the species
The animal group that the species belongs to
What kind of foods the animal eats
How long (L) or tall (H) the animal is
The measurement of how heavy the animal is
The fastest recorded speed of the animal
How long the animal lives for
Whether the animal is solitary or sociable
The likelihood of the animal becoming extinct
The colour of the animal's coat or markings
|Black, Brown, Grey, White, Tan|
The protective layer of the animal
The specific area where the animal lives
|Dense and coastal tropical forests|
|Average Litter Size:|
The average number of babies born at once
|Main Prey:||Fruit, Roots, Insects|
Other animals that hunt and eat the animal
|Leopard, Eagles, Snakes|
|Special Features:||Brightly coloured snout and long, sharp teeth|
Map of Africa
MandrillThe mandrill is a medium to large sized primate, natively found in a small pocket of tropical jungle in western-central Africa. The mandrill is most commonly known for it's red and blue coloured nose and it's multicoloured rear end.
The mandrill is not related to the great apes but is thought to be closely related to the baboon, another medium-sized African primate that is found in eastern and southern Africa. The mandrill was even once thought to be a sub-species of baboon but this is now not believed to be the case.
The Mandrill is found in the tropical rainforests and occasionally grasslands of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo in western-central Africa. The mandrill's habitat is bordered by the Sanaga River to the north and the Ogooué and Ivindo rivers to the east. Recent research suggests that mandrill populations north and south of the Ogooué river are so genetically different that they are in fact separate subspecies.
Mandrills have distinctively coloured noses and rumps which make them stand out in the forest. The colours of the females nose are much duller than the males, and the females are also nearly half the size of the male. The male mandrill has incredibly long teeth, which he bares as a caution to approachers. The male mandrill has these adaptations so that he can show himself off to other mandrill and also intimidate predators.
Mandrills are sociable animals and inhabit areas of forest in large groups known as a troop. The mandrill troop primarily includes female mandrills and their young who are led by a single dominant male mandrill. The alpha male mandrill both mates with his females and protects them. Most adult male mandrills that are not leading a troop tend to be solitary animals.
Mandrills are omnivorous animals and therefore eat almost anything. The mandrill primarily feeds on fruits, berries, seeds, nuts, roots, leaves, insects and even small mammals and reptiles. Most of the mandrills diet is found at ground level or just above.
Due to their large size, mandrills have few predators in their natural environment. The leopard is the main predator of the mandrill, along with large snakes and birds of prey, who prey more upon the mandrill young. The human is also one of the mandrill's main predators as they have hunted the mandrill over the years for meat.
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Originally posted by stars15k
reply to post by RisenAngel77
You cannot possibly tell the chemical content of something just by looking at it, especially from miles away.
Nothing over your head smaller than large hail is able to be felt by you. It will be blow away by the wind, and remain suspended for hours, even day, possibly forever.
Two facts that really cannot be refuted. You are mistaken if you think otherwise. There is no credible proof that "chemtrail" theory is real. Anecdotes and eyewitness are meaningless.
Sorry, but there are either "chem-" in those trails are there are not. It's empirical, not intellectual, spiritual, or moral.
Because Tasmania likely doesn't have anything NATO or others want at the moment, nobody to steal from, or to sicken or to kill. What would be the point?
C'mon Chad, you're still decades behind, I still don't think you're really trying.
Just one story, this one from the BBC that claims 'cloud seeding' experiments caused massive flooding and some deaths in the U.K.
While people can debate this story and choose to either accept or reject it, to think that weather mod. technology hasn't evolved the same way other technology has in the last 50 years I think is short sighted at best and disingeneous at worse.
Deny if you want but many people are seeing it and I think unfortunately (IMO) those around the Mississippi area are feeling it.
You are absolutely correct that the loss of UVB, from the global dimming caused by the constant INTENTIONAL modification of our atmosphere is causing a loss of vit. D intake which is *one* factor in types of chemical depression. But hey, it's good for billions of dollars of additional sales of SSRIs to Big Pharma, and keeps the money changing hands so...who's complaining
Originally posted by Tecumte
You are absolutely correct that the loss of UVB, from the global dimming caused by the constant INTENTIONAL modification of our atmosphere is causing a loss of vit. D intake which is *one* factor in types of chemical depression. But hey, it's good for billions of dollars of additional sales of SSRIs to Big Pharma, and keeps the money changing hands so...who's complaining.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by CouncilOfNine
Well that's exactly it, there are some chemtrailers who claim cloud seeding is chemtrailing, as in spraying out the back of a high altitude jet.
This is just plain stupidity, because as you say, to seed a cloud, you need a cloud.
Ahhh this garbage again, funny how "contrails" do not need a cloud to form, i take it that cloud seeding just doesn't cut it compared to a normal everyday jet.
How are clouds formed?
All air contains water, but near the ground it is usually in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor. When warm air rises, it expands and cools. Cool air can't hold as much water vapor as warm air, so some of the vapor condenses onto tiny pieces of dust that are floating in the air and forms a tiny droplet around each dust particle. When billions of these droplets come together they become a visible cloud.
Contrails are clouds formed when water vapor condenses and freezes around small particles (aerosols) that exist in aircraft exhaust.
/ In before retarded comment that is """cloud seeding is only done to produce rain***
Originally posted by ProRipp
It’s become nothing more than a killzone for the deniers to, assassinate character, belittle and ridicule the people who believe that this phenomenon is real.
1. Aluminum barium
2. Aluminum Oxide
3. Bacilli and Molds
4. Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
5. Pseudomonas Florescens
6. Bacilli Amyloliquefaciens
9. Serratia Marcscens
10. Human white Blood Cells-A restrictor enzyme used in research labs to snip and combine DNA 11. Enterobacter Cloacal
12. Other Bacilli and other toxic molds capable of producing heart disease and meningitis as well as acute upper respiratory and gastrointestinal distress.
13. Carcinogen Zinc Cadmium Sulfide.
Originally posted by tribaltrip
Don't worry, although I never visit this section of ATS- I too am curious about the streams left in the sky.
Even normal toxins from planes have to be doing something to our atmosphere,
On another point.
Didn't the annunaki come to earth because they needed gold to cure their atmosphere?
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Question: broken orchid
good morning to all, I had a phalenopsis orchid with two beautiful branches, both with buds, my grandchildren playing broke the twigs right where the gems were and now I see that, despite the leaves are beautiful, the branch is drying, moreover, the jar I bought it with is breaking because the roots are pushing, what can I do? thank you very much for your reply.
Answer: broken orchid
as you may notice, the phalaenopsis produce new floral gems right along the stem that previously bore the flowers; unfortunately if this stem is damaged, the plant will have to produce a new one before it can bloom again. Since your plant grows larger, it clearly means that you know how to grow it in the best way, only to wait a few more months before seeing the flowers again. As for the roots that develop by breaking the vase, it is a clear symptom of the fact that the plant is fine, and that it is in the best climate. Only you will have to repot it; in the nursery, buy a plastic vase for orchids, transparent, and specific soil for orchids, consisting of bits of sphagnum, bark, polystyrene. Extract the plant from the old pot, being careful not to damage the roots (if necessary, cut the old pot to extract the plant more quickly); move your phalaenopsis into the new container. If the bread of roots is very broad, you can also decide to divide it into two, thus producing two distinct plants; it is clear that in this case your phalaenopsis will hardly bloom soon, and with good probability neither one will produce more than a floral stem. During repotting, be careful not to ruin the roots; if they should accidentally break, clean the breakage point with a sharp scissor, making a clean and not frayed cut. The new pot will have to be made of transparent plastic, this is because the roots of orchids are generally aerial roots, they do not develop in the soil; it is clearly understood from the fact that they are green, that is they have chlorophyll inside them, which carries out photosynthetic activity. When a phalaenopsis root takes on a greyish color, it means that it has not received enough light. | <urn:uuid:873fb0f9-ee09-4219-9104-9ca7cdd1e8bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gm.stopsbs.net/1049-broken-orchid.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961475 | 528 | 2.703125 | 3 |
hp and ucla were granted a major patent in molecular circuitry. sander o. pointed out a link to the news item at excite, and our own samgeek shed a bit more light on the subject in a main news item. latenightcrawler sent us in a link to vr-zone which outlines where we will see hyperthreading in intel chips. for servers it's coming this year (shortly), but for desktop chips we'll have to wait until 2003 when a .09 micron process arrives–i assume that will be late 2003. interested in i/o? inquest put up an item on current and future i/o technologies a couple of weeks ago and i missed it when it went up. zdnet reports that .13 micron p4 chips (northwood) are being used in some mobile designs even though they are still “desktop” model chips. as always is the case when desktop chips are used in a laptop, this is mainly good for those people who need a mobile powerhouse and don't care about battery power or heat that much. it may be good for carrying around your own server product and demonstrating it when current laptops don't provide enough “oomph.” that is a small market, but one that is happy to be addressed, i'm sure.
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|carrying around your own server product (11:02am est sun feb 03 2002)
why do people always come up with imagined markets that don't exist?
ok, let's imagine you have a server side software. you demonstrate it's functionality with one client machine accessing it. you don't demonstrate the performance of your notebook. the server side software will likely be deployed on a more powerful server (and any serious customer would want a trial period to do some performance testing on his own server), so what's the point of this argument??
is it like when lcd's became popular that many journalists (and apple) thought it's for graphic designers (probably because they look good), the guys that most of all need accurate colors, something lcd still have a hard time with?
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Ah, kale. Superfood. Queen of Greens. High praise, indeed, for a garden crop that is among the easiest-growing of all vegetables. Kale is as high on the nutrition list as it is low on the maintenance list. Whether your goal is to grow a more diverse set of greens for salad, you want something healthy and hearty for soup, or you love to pack your morning smoothie with nutritious goodness, kale is ready to fill the role.
Kale’s formal classification is Brassica oleracea var. acephala. Acephala means “headless”—as compared to kale’s cousin the cabbage, which forms a tight head as it grows.
Kale is also cousin to the other members of the Brassica genus, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. Keep that in mind when you plan your planting; Brassicas shouldn’t be planted in the same place for three to four years because they’re all susceptible to the same soilborne diseases.
Kale’s a cool-weather-loving crop, so you can plant in the spring and fall and get two harvests, depending on the zone you live in. Kale doesn’t take up a lot of space, and you can grow it anywhere you get a full day of sunlight.
Kale likes soil with a pH between 6.0 and 7.5, so be sure to get your soil tested before you start sowing seeds. A lot of gardeners skip this crucial step and often find themselves disappointed with their harvest. Since different plants have different soil needs, it’s essential you have as much information about the composition of your soil as you can get.
University extension centers are usually your best source for a soil test; some vocational schools and garden centers provide the service as well. But a university lab will give you a detailed breakdown on your soil makeup, what it means, and how to adjust it for what you want to grow.
Sure, you could get one of those soil probes from the hardware store, but they’re no substitute for a thorough, scientific soil test. Plan ahead, take your soil samples, and send them in for analysis. Your garden—and your pantry—will thank you!
If you live in a zone that’s too warm for growing kale outdoors, consider growing some indoors for salad greens and smoothies. You can harvest the plants while they’re young and enjoy the nutritious, delicious leaves!
A Brief History of Kale
Kale may seem like a relative newcomer on the food scene, but it’s been on the menu of foodies in-the-know for at least two thousand years. The ancient Greeks and Romans grew and enjoyed kale of all shapes and flavors—broad leaves, curly leaves, with flavors both sweet and sharp.
How kale made the journey from its native territory of the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor and out to Britain and France is a topic of botanical debate. Some think the Romans took it with them as they expanded their empire; others credit the Celts beating the Romans to it. Either way, kale has consistently set down roots wherever it’s been introduced.
Its frost-tolerant nature makes it a natural for colder climes. In Germany, there’s an annual celebration dedicated to all things kale. In the Netherlands, there’s a traditional winter dish of mashed potatoes and kale. And in Scotland, where kale has been a staple for hundreds of years, the word “kail” in one local dialect means food. And if you’re “off your kail,” you’re under the weather.
Of course, now that we know all the health benefits of eating kale, it sounds like the Scots were on to something!
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Study contemporary music with a focus on music technology, techniques and associated equipment relevant to today’s music, entertainment and events industries. Students will look at ways to empower their musical intention in the recording studio and onto the stage while developing skills and knowledge through hands-on experience in audio production, sound design, song writing and performance. The Modern Music course looks at industry skills including but not limited to live sound engineering, music production, contemporary music performance, electronic music and sonic art creation. Learners enrolled in this course will be encouraged to create collaboratively and express imaginative thinking.
Pathways following from 12MM3 include Level 3 music, music industry internships, further study in music at Mainz, SAE, NZSM, UoA and music careers as creators.
Students need to provide evidence of prior musical engagement and a willingness and attitude to explore their self-identity through music. Acceptance into this course may include an interview/audition with the TiC/HoD
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The discourse of national greatness in Japan, 1890–1919
Wilson, S. (2005) The discourse of national greatness in Japan, 1890–1919. Japanese Studies, 25 (1). pp. 35-51.
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Between about 1890 and 1919, the dominant discourse in Japanese nationalism emphasised Japan's status as a great modern nation, in contrast to earlier concerns about weakness and vulnerability in the face of Western imperialism, and despite continuing insecurities of various kinds. This paper revisits the ‘discourse of national greatness’, focusing on its construction, limitations and consequences. Emphasis on Japanese greatness was evident in the press, in self-presentation at industrial expositions, and in substantial written works by Japanese intellectuals. Several factors explain the rapid spread of such a discourse, including the decline of class and regional identification, the considerable expansion of the press, and the stimulus of war. The consequences of the rise of the notion of Japanese greatness for the later development of Japanese nationalism were profound. They included the further subordination of regionalism, entrenchment of the gendered nature of Japanese nationalism, the further denigration of other Asian peoples and of Japan's own past, reinforcement of the yet fragile cult of the emperor, encouragement to conflate ‘nation’ and ‘state’, and a strong tendency to associate nationalism with military conquest.
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Geography students at Calvin College have created online national atlases for Eritrea, Thailand, and Nepal, with more on the way. The project benefits the Calvin students but also has the potential to benefit students in the countries for which the atlases are produced.
“Many students in developing nations do not have a comprehensive resource to study the geographical dimensions and spatial relationships of their country, and if [a national atlas] is available, it is often not current [nor] freely available online for public consumption,” explained geography professor Jason VanHorn. “This project is not intended to replace a true national atlas, but acts as a service to provide a simple one to those who do not have the resources available to produce one.”
VanHorn noted that his students started with Thailand because it ranks higher in the Human Development Index and thus more data has been produced on the country. That enabled the students to work through a series of methodological challenges before tackling the next atlas.
To create the online atlases, each Calvin student in Geography 261 completes a small number of maps using a standard mapping atlas template, then the maps are put together and posted online to form a complex atlas. VanHorn said the Calvin classes have thus far highlighted countries that have not been previously represented this way online.
A national atlas usually has general reference and thematic maps at the subnational level, often several hundred. Themes cover not only physical geography, but also population density, monthly income per household, number of students attending school, and religious distribution. The Calvin atlases also include such information as the geographic distribution of dentists in a country, where registered vehicles are located, and crime statistics.
Students who have been involved in Calvin’s Geographic Information Systems courses and the atlas project say it’s been a satisfying way to apply classroom learning.
Andrew Quackenbush, a 2010 graduate from Naperville, Ill., with degrees in geography and international development, said it felt good to be part of something that will make a difference for years to come.
“We’ve already had several emails from Eritreans, thanking us for doing this project,” VanHorn added.
The atlas project continues this upcoming school year, with students creating maps for Niger and Ethiopia. For more information, see the National Atlas for Developing Countries at http://gis.calvin.edu/atlas/index.html.
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By Paula Katinas
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
If you love American history, then the New Utrecht Reformed Church in Bensonhurst is the place to be this weekend (May 31-June 1).
Liberty Weekend, a two-day event sponsored by Friends of Historic New Utrecht, will take place on the grounds of the New Utrecht Reformed Church, on 18th Avenue and 84th Street. Visitors can delve into history by talking to Revolutionary War re-enactors, hearing a Civil War-era cannon being fired, enjoying looking at displays of artifacts, and attending lectures on US history.
And it’s all free!
“Unless you go to a museum, you’re not going to get to see history hands on like this,” Angela Sarro, the event’s coordinator, told the Brooklyn Eagle.
Liberty Weekend celebrates the 231st anniversary of the Liberty Pole, first erected on what is now the church’s front lawn in 1783. Liberty Poles were erected at several locations throughout the colonies to fly the American flag to declare victory over the British. According about.com, a Liberty Pole was also erected on the site of what is now City Hall. A replica stands in City Hall Park.
The New Utrecht Reformed Church, which was established in 1677, was located for many years on what is now 16th Avenue and 84th Street. In 1828, a new church was constructed on 18th Avenue and 84th Street.
On Saturday, May 31, the church grounds will be “taken over” by history experts dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers. The gates open at 10:30 a.m. and will remain open until 4 p.m. The Civil War cannon will be fired periodically. In addition, the church’s Parish House will be turned into a museum for the day, giving visitors a chance to examine old photos and other historic artifacts.
Also in the Parish House, lectures on American history will be offered. At 12:30 p.m., National Park Service Ranger Michael Callahan will present a lecture on "The French and Indian War. At 2:45 p.m. Dave Elligers, president of Friends of Historic New Utrecht, will discuss the history of the Liberty Pole. Elligers is also vice president of the New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association.
Elligers will also lead a tour of the Old New Utrecht Reformed Cemetery, located on 16th Avenue and 85th Street, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The cemetery, which has headstones dating back to the 17th Century, is located next to the original church site. Elligers will give a cemetery tour on Sunday, June 1, from 1-2:30 p.m.
Liberty Weekend is the only time during the year that the cemetery is opened to the public.
At 7:30 pm, the Symphonic Band from Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island will perform in concert at the Parish House. Paul Corn is the conductor.
A ceremony honoring the 231st anniversary of the raising of the first Liberty Pole on the site will be conducted at 3:30 p.m.
The church’s front lawn will also be a dessert lover’s paradise on Saturday, as members of the congregation of the New Utrecht Reformed Church hold a bake sale from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The members will also be selling jewelry. The sale is a fundraiser for the church.
On Sunday, June 1, New Utrecht Reformed Church invites the community to attend its Sunday service at 11 a.m. Also on Sunday, Elligers will conduct his cemetery tour.
Local school children will get a preview of Liberty Weekend at a special event to take place on Friday, May 30. The Revolutionary War reenactors will be on hand to talk to the youngsters about American history. More than 350 fourth and fifth graders from local elementary schools will visit the church grounds.
“It’s what I look forward to the most,” Sarro told the Eagle. “The kids come away with a lot. And they’re so enthusiastic. The teachers look forward to it too. I have teachers contacting me long before we even put our fliers up.”
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... among the very best books about American political life in the late 20th century. Making use of a mass of stories and new details, the authors portray Baker against the background of a different era ... The book is hardly a hagiography. Baker was involved over the years in some decidedly nonheroic activities, and his family life was at times messy. The authors include those parts, too ... It’s doubtful that any future historian will be able to gather as much information about Baker as the authors have ... Sometimes, this research served to penetrate Baker’s instinctive caution and caginess ... Above all, The Man Who Ran Washington works so well because of its anecdotes about Baker’s adroitness, for good and for ill.
The core tension that Baker and Glasser must overcome in The Man Who Ran Washington is making James Baker seem relevant today ... a reader can have the impression that the authors’ accounting of Baker’s achievements is tinted in sepia ... Yet the life story of the man Barack Obama’s national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon calls 'the most important unelected official since World War II' is relevant and timely for two reasons. The first is that it provides deep insight into Baker’s strengths at diplomacy — skills that will become even more important as America’s influence ebbs in the coming years. The former secretary of state’s experiences as a public servant offer timeless lessons in how to use personal relationships, broad-based coalitions and tireless negotiating to advance United States interests ... The second reason this book matters now is that even though Baker sees himself as temperamentally and philosophically opposite to Donald Trump, his silence in the face of Trump’s outrages reflects the broader complicity of the so-called 'Republicans who know better' ... Given Baker’s legendary reserve, one of the most touching parts of the book is its examination of the deep, humorous and also rivalrous friendship he maintained with Bush ... the authors do a splendid job reminding readers of the sheer number and weight of decisions that had to be made amid great uncertainty ... The authors rightly highlight the dimensions of Baker’s illustrious career that show so much about what is broken in the current American political system.
As Peter Baker (no relation) and Susan Glasser write in their enthralling biography, The Man Who Ran Washington, Baker’s record as a negotiator, implementer and enforcer is unsurpassed, and looks even more impressive in the current atmosphere of gridlock and hyper-partisanship ... The strength of this biography is that it draws on multiple sources and avoids Baker’s legendary desire to control the storyline. It pays due respect to a great public servant while bearing witness to the flaws of the man.
... an illuminating biographical portrait of Mr. Baker, one that describes the arc of his career and, along the way, tells us something about how executive power is wielded in the nation’s capital ... comprehensive ... thanks in part to the authors’ dozens of meetings and hours of conversation with their subject, often has the feel of a novel related by an omniscient narrator. The book is far from hagiography, but Mr. Baker is often allowed to communicate his perspective, clearly and comprehensively—the very approach that helped him succeed so spectacularly during his long and impressive run in politics.
... immensely informative, nuanced and judicious ... Rooted in a thorough review of published sources, government records and interviews with 170 people (including three former presidents, Cabinet officers, White House aides, foreign officials, family members and 70 hours with Baker himself), The Man Who Ran Washington, perhaps understandably, is not always able to determine the credit Baker deserves for domestic and foreign policies. The authors do not adequately explain the significance of currency reform and the revenue-neutral tax legislation. They lay out but do not always sort out foreign policy differences between Baker and George H.W. Bush.
... penetrating ... Baker and Glasser bring political acumen and thorough research to their absorbing biography ... Drawing on prodigious sources, including more than 210 interviews (70 hours with Baker), the authors offer a balanced view of a man praised for being pragmatic, scrupulously organized, and authoritative, and derided as manipulative, self-aggrandizing, and cynical ... With Baker as their focus, the authors afford a sharp, insightful view into Washington dealmaking ... An engrossing biography that is highly relevant in today’s America.
A bygone era of bipartisan pragmatism and statesmanship is elegized in this sprawling biography ... There’s plenty of West Wing backstabbing, situational ethics, and profane tirades in the authors’ vibrant narrative ... The contrast with the current White House is pointed, resulting in an engrossing study of a kind of government leadership that readers may conclude is both obsolete and sorely needed. | <urn:uuid:14741b26-4805-4fd0-af22-a1847c97f8c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/all/the-man-who-ran-washington-the-life-and-times-of-james-a-baker-iii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.952431 | 1,003 | 1.960938 | 2 |
When the Filipino American Museum (FAM) opens its first show at Soho’s Third Streaming on October 29, one of New York’s largest Asian communities will formally attain a museum institution of their own. The project, which received funding from an anonymous individual just four months ago, is the brain-child of Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) alumni Carolyn Cervantes Antonio and Nancy A. Bulalacao-Leung. Yet despite having conceived the museum during their tenures at MOCA, where Antonio and Bulalacao-Leung respectively held senior positions in external affairs and programming, their plan for FAM diverges from what they see as the more “historical” objectives of institutions like MOCA.
“We hope to be a hub for the Filipino-American community as well as the Asian-American community … MOCA was very focused on history and that’s something we are too but there are other Filipino-American organizations that are already doing that work and doing it well,” Bulalacao-Leung noted in an interview with Hyperallergic earlier today. “We want to be able to connect activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and historians; we are interested in seeking untold stories in whatever format and medium and presenting them in new and interesting ways.”
For the time being, FAM will float from space to space, a “roving” museum seeking locations that complement its programming, the first of which will be the October 29 sound-and-light piece by Stephen Decker, “Salvaging the Aether,” at Third Streaming. As for an eventual permanent home for FAM, “there are differing opinions among the 11 people who are involved [on the founding committee], personally I feel we need to be in Manhattan because we want to be easily accessible to all different types of individuals and communities,” Bulalacao-Leung said, adding that she is also sympathetic to other committee members’ advocacy for a Queens-based FAM.
The group also plans to launch a “web channel” for original multimedia content in January 2014; a story documenting the visit of several FAM founding members to the Philippines for the first time in at least a decade is also currently in the works for that medium.
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Underwood, G. (1977). Attention, awareness and hemispheric differences in word recognition. Neuropsychologia, 15, pp 61-67.
Underwood, G. (1980). Memory systems and conscious processes. In G. Underwood (Ed.)Aspects of Consciousness.
Underwood, G. (1994). "Subliminal perception on TV." Nature 370(6485): 103.
Determined whether a smiling face imposed subliminally on an expressionless face could effect the judgement of emotion. Results indicated that emotional judgements could be so effected.
Underwood, G. & Moray, N. (1971). Shadowing and monitoring for selective attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 23, pp 284-295.
Ungaro, R. (1982). The role of ego strength and alternative subliminal messages in behavioral treatment of obesity. Adelphi University. Dissertation Abstracts International, 42 (10-B), pp 4215-4216. ISSN: 0419-4209.
Urban, M. J. (1992). "Auditory subliminal stimulation: A re-examination." Perceptual & Motor Skills 74(2): 515-541.
Provides a review of methodological difficulties in the production of commercial subliminal audio tapes and comments and reliable methods of masking.
Urban, M. (1993). "Auditory subliminal stimulation: Methods." Perceptual & Motor Skills 76(3, Pt 2): 1103-1106.
A standard method for creating subliminal audio tapes is proposed.
Brigitte Valind and Lars Valind studied the effects of subliminal stimulation on homographs.
For this experiment, a picture was flashed on a screen at a subliminal exposure time.
This picture was related to 1 of the 2 meanings of a homograph, which was presented immediately after the picture, but at supraliminal exposure time.
The subliminal stimulus was shown to have an effect on verbal associations to the homograph, but not on latency.
This effect was evident only for homographs, where in a pilot study the subject's association could be traced equally often to 1 or the other of the 2 meanings of the homograph.
Van den Hout, M., N. Tenney, et al. (1995). "Responding to subliminal threat cues is related to trait anxiety and emotional vulnerability: A successful replication of Macleod and Hagan (1992)." Behaviour Research & Therapy 33(4): 451-454.
Replicated the findings of C. Macleod and R. Hagan demonstrating the correlation between threat relevant interference and trait anxiety. Researchers used the Stroop (MST) to investigate the relationship between subliminal threat cues and selective attention.
Van Selst, M. and P. M. Merikle (1993). "Perception below the objective threshold?" Consciousness & Cognition: an International Journal 2(3): 194-203.
Researchers conducted three studies to test the findings of M. Snodgrass et al suggesting that words are perceived even when forced -choice analysis fails to indicate so. Subjects were divided into groups. One group was allowed to say whatever "popped" into their heads. Results for the "popped" group revealed preference for one of the two task strategies used in the study deviated significantly more than chance.
VandenBoogert, C. (1984). A study of Potentials Unlimited subliminal persuasion self-hypnosis tapes. Grand Rapids, MI: Potentials Unlimited.
Carol VandenBoogert surveyed 600 Potentials Unlimited subliminal tape users.
It was found that success tended to increase after listening to subliminal tapes for more than 15 days, with many individuals needing longer exposure.
A consistent pattern of listening was not important.
She reported that subliminal tape users are able to carry on with their regular business without needing to follow a particular frequency or playing pattern.
Varga, M.P. (1974). An experimental study of aspects of the psychoanalytic theory of elation. New York University. Dissertation Abstracts International, 34 (8-B), pp 4062-4063.
Michael Varga performed this experiment in order to investigate experimentally the psychodynamics of elation.
The subjects all showed mood instability with both depressive and hypomanic trends.
The subjects were divided into four groups, and received one of following four subliminal presentations of various pictorial and verbal stimuli,
The subjects were primed prior to the presentation of the stimuli.
1) a picture of a person about to stab an older woman, the aggression stimulus,
2) a picture of a child crying over a coffin in which a woman is laid out, with the caption "I have lost mommy", the loss stimulus,
3) a picture of a woman nursing a baby, with the caption "mommy feeds me", the "oral-gratification" stimulus, and
4) either of two pictures of people standing side by side, with the caption "people are walking", the control stimulus.
The results supported the hypothesis that the arousal of aggressive drive derivatives may lead to depression since there was a highly significant drop in hypomania, and a significant rise in mood depression for subjects receiving the aggression stimulus.
a) the subliminal presentation of the oral gratification stimulus would reinforce images related to hypomanic denial, resulting in a hypomanic mood state, whereas
b) the presentation of the aggression and the loss stimuli would each results in a depressive mood state, the first through arousal of threatening depressive drive derivatives which would be turned innards resulting in depression, and the second through reinforcing depressive images and fantasies.
Vilenskaya, L. (1985). Firewalking and beyond. PSI Research, San Francisco, CA. PSI Research, 4 (2), pp 89-109. San Francisco, CA.
Larissa Vilenskaya reports observations of the Fear into Power:
The Firewalker Experience seminar in San Francisco.
The use of neurolinguistic programming techniques and Eriksonian embedded (subliminal) commands by the leader is described.
Vitiello, M. V., A. S. Carlin, et al. (1989). "The effect of subliminal oedipal and competitive stimulation on dart throwing: Another miss." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 98(1): 54-56.
Results of this study failed to show an improvement in motor skills
due to the presentation of SPA.
Voight, R.A. (1982). Stress reactivity of cardiorespiratory fit and unfit individuals after progressive neuromuscular relaxation training. University of Maryland. Dissertation Abstracts International, 43 (07-A), p. 2278.
Robert Voight used both neuromuscular relaxation training and
subliminal audio tapes to prepare fit and unfit subjects for response
It was found that the degree of fitness did not influence the effect of relaxation training, and that stress response was not related to level of cardiorespiratory fitness.
Vokey, J.R. & Read, J.D. (1985). Subliminal messages: Between the devil and the media. University of Lethbridge, Canada. American Psychologist, 40 (11), pp 1231-1239. ISSN: 0003 066X.
John Vokey and Don Read examined the controversial public issue
of subliminal messages in advertising and popular music.
The subjects completed a wide variety of tasks to determine whether any evidence exists that such messages affect behavior.
The results revealed no evidence to support such a claim.
It is suggested that the apparent presence of backward messages in popular music is more a function of active construction on the art of the perceiver than of the existence of the messages themselves.
Voronin, L. G., P. P. Novikov, et al. (1984). "Formation and development of temporary connections with participation of perceived and nonperceived sound stimuli." Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'Nosti 34(5): 855-860.
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Renilde de Peuter is a crochet artist who creates seemingly simple home products, like potholders, but uses color choices and interesting photographic decisions to make art of all she creates.
About Renilde de Peuter
Renilde de Peuter is a Belgian textile artist and crafter who has a lovely body of crochet work that she sells in various online stores including Mr. Kitly, KNOTS, Atelier Shop, and Fine Little Day. I first learned about her work from Remodelista, which shared that she is inspired by unique images around her that form the basis of a story upon which she builds her work. For example, she may see an antique photo that inspires her to create a domestic item for the home in crochet. Renilde also does knitting, embroidery and other textile work.
Renilde de Peuter’s Crochet Potholders
What is beautiful about Renilde de Peuter’s crochet work is that she takes utilitarian objects like potholders and elevates them to a new level of art. She does this in part through her smart choices in color and design. One of her main objects of crochet art is the humble potholder:
Other Renilde de Peuter Crochet
The Photography of Renilde de Peuter
What I think really makes Renilde de Peuter’s crochet work outstanding is the way that she chooses to photograph it. She uses mixed media objects and unique backgrounds to set her crochet images apart and those pictures in and of themselves are artistic.
Renilde de Peuter’s Other Art
Renilde de Peuter has a terrific simple style that is translated into other types of craft art as well. Some examples include:
Photo Credits: Most of these photos had multiple sources and I couldn’t identify the original Three of these photos reportedly belong to Alessandra of La Casita blog who did a great interview with Renilde de Peuter.
Other Similar Crochet Artists
I am reminded of the crochet potholder art of Finnish artist Anu Tuominen
Vanessa Chan is another artist who uses unique photography to elevate her crochet work to an artistic level
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EDA ASSIGNMENT 2
2375 words 10 pagesQUESTION 1
What international events influenced the development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability? List the key developments and events in a short 1-page point-form account providing the relevant names of events and dates/ years in which they took place
1) The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment – Stockholm
It led directly to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which became the first UN agency to have its headquarters located outside of Europe and North America – in Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa.
Among the first tasks given to the UNEP was to establish term ‘environmental education’.
Together with Unesco, UNEP organised the first International Workshop …show more content…
Environmental education must facilitate equal partnerships in the processes decision making at all levels and stages
Environmental education should empower all peoples and promote opportunity for grassroots democratic change and participation.
Environmental education values all different forms of knowledge. Knowledge is diverse, cumulative and socially produced and should not be patented or monopolised
Environmental education must be designed to enable people to handle conflicts in just and humane ways
Environmental education must stimulate dialogue and cooperation among individuals and institutions in order to create new lifestyles which are based on meeting everyone’s basic needs, regardless of ethnic gender, age, religious, class, physical or mental differences
Environmental education requires a democratisation of the mass media and its commitment to the interest of all sectors of society.
Environmental education must integrate knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and actions
Education must help develop and ethical awareness of all forms of life with humans share this planet, respect all life cycles, and impose limits on human’s exploitation of other forms of life.
The IUCN defines environmental education as follows:
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Vandals have targeted a black-owned art gallery in Soho for the third time this week — and its owner is now vowing to leave the smears of paint on display to send the message that “hate still exists in 2021.”
The Black Wall Street Gallery — which is featuring an exhibit on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre — was first vandalized sometime Sunday night into Monday, with white paint smeared on the window over the gallery’s name.
It was tagged again overnight Monday with various initials on the window, and then again Wednesday night — the latest act involving a message saying, “ETC REAL ART” scrawled in black marker.
“Continued vandalism is a sign of willful ignorance,” gallery owner Ricco Wright told The Post on Thursday. “Anywhere there’s a hate crime there should be more of a police presence.”
“I support graffiti as an element of hip hop, but don’t support vandalism.”
The gallery is commemorating the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, a thriving black neighborhood known as Black Wall Street.
“We’re in the middle of a very important exhibition and we’d like to focus on saluting the ancestors who lost their lives in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,” Wright wrote on Instagram Wednesday, showing some of the vandalism. “However, having to constantly deal with this level of ignorance is unbecoming.”
He added, “We’ve decided to leave the first two acts of vandalism on the glass to remind the world that hate still exists in 2021, even in New York City. But our plan is to keep on pushing like Curtis Mayfield. New vinyl will be installed above the vandalism very soon to show that we go high when others go low, as @michelleobama once advised.”
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating but has not determined if the same culprits were responsible for all three acts of vandalism.
It’s also prompted city officials to step forward — with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer holding a press conference there Thursday.
“What has happened at this particular gallery is horrific,” Brewer said. “The bad news is yesterday I was at a press conference in Chinatown where we all saw the hate perpetrated on a woman. The day before at another press conference on anti-Semitism, to fight that.”
“And here we have racists,” she said.
Among those joining her outside the Soho gallery was Brooklyn-born actor Michael K. Williams, who denounced the vandalism.
“We’re not having this,” said “The Wire” and “Broadwalk Empire” star. “Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem, Staten Island — I need all the artists from NYC born and bred on these streets to come out here to support our brother.”
“This is bigger than us, bigger than him,” he said. “This is about our legacy.”
Ricco added in his Instagram post that he would not be discouraged.
“It’s also apparent to us that some person(s) can’t fathom a black-owned gallery curating an important exhibition like this, but we have and we’ll continue to encourage people to see it before Juneteenth,” Ricco said.
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Purple Sandpipers in Brooklyn
The waterfront of Brooklyn on either side of the Verrazano Bridge is the best place in New York City to see Purple Sandpipers. Every year they winter there on the rocky breakwater mere feet from the path between lower New York Harbor and the Belt Parkway that innumerable joggers, walkers, and bikers use. Of course, most of the folks on the path are completely oblivious to the hardy little birds making their living on the wave-washed rocks. Should they pause to take a look they would see a chunky little shorebird with orange feet and legs and a droopy bill that is orange at the base and black everywhere else. They don’t usually look very purple but they are pretty cute, at least in relation to other shorebirds.
Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
My recent visit to the Brooklyn waterfront was on the same day that I spotted the White-winged Dove in Staten Island and it was a drizzly, cloudy, lousy light kind of day. Despite the annoying weather the sheer proximity of the sandpipers allowed me to get some decent images. Enjoy!
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For the purposes of this policy, “personal information” is defined as any identifiable information about the children in our care and their families, such as contact details, health information, living arrangements, background information, the child’s personal characteristics and behaviour styles.
WHY DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
When enrolling your child/children in our child care programme, as the parent or legal guardian, you are asked to provide certain pieces of information in order for us to provide you and your child / children with the best possible service. In addition to your contact details and the names and contact information of your family members, your child’s file may include the following information about your child:
• Living arrangements.
• Health information and special needs.
• Personal characteristics, skills and behavioural information.
• Incidents about the child as recorded by our staff.
Personal information is only collected for the following purposes:
• To identify the children in our care and their families;
• To monitor the health and wellbeing of the children in our care;
• To monitor developmental levels, skill acquisition and special needs of the children in our care;
• To establish a culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate programme for the children in our care;
• To understand the desires, concerns and opinions of the children in our care and their families;
• To establish and maintain good relationships with the children in our care and their families;
• To provide the responsible child care services expected of a licensed child care programme to the children in our care and their families; and
• To manage and enhance our business and operations; and to meet legal and regulatory requirements (if any).
Klay Schools Day Care never collects more personal information than is needed to fulfill these purposes, unless you have consented to such collection.
WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND TO WHOM
We will make sure that any required disclosures of personal information are made on a “need to know” basis, and where applicable, on a confidential basis. Personal information is never traded, sold or leased by us to any external companies. We may disclose personal information to:
• Klay School Day Care’s Board of Directors;
• INSERT ANY OTHER PERSON / BODY
• Therapists, volunteers, on placement with Klay School Day Care
When sharing personal information we release limited information as required for the function that will be performed by the representative on our behalf. We also ensure that every representative is clear on their obligation to protect personal information and only use the information for the purpose(s) for which it is being provided.
Examples of the representatives that Klay School Day Care may share your limited personal information with include professionals who may assist us in caring for the physical, emotional, social and / or intellectual wellbeing and / or safety of the children in our care
HAVE YOU CONSENTED
Having read this policy and by enrolling your child in our child care programme and by providing us with the personal information requested, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as specified herein.
If Klay Schools Day Care will be using or disclosing personal information for purposes that have not been stated in this policy and that we do not feel are obvious to you, we will first obtain your express consent. We may imply your consent if we feel we are using your personal information for purposes that are obvious to you. For example, if you tell us that your child has a food allergy, we may not seek your express consent before providing this information to our kitchen staff. With written notice you may withdraw consent at any time subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. You may contact us for more information regarding the implications of withdrawing consent.
In certain circumstances, personal information can be collected, used or disclosed without the knowledge and consent of the individual (or his/her parents/legal guardian). For example: If it is clearly in the interests of the individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way, such as when the individual is seriously ill or mentally incapacitated; if seeking the consent might defeat the purpose for collecting the information, such as in the context of an investigation of a breach of an agreement or if there is an emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened.
HOW LONG IS YOUR INFORMATION RETAINED
We retain personal information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the identified purposes, and in accordance with legal requirements.
Therefore, we will retain your child’s file as long as your child is enrolled in our child care programme and for a fixed period of time thereafter.Depending upon the circumstances, where personal information has been used to make a decision about an individual, we will retain the information for a period of time that is reasonably sufficient to allow for access by that individual (or his/her parent/legal guardian).
Klay Schools Day Care retains and securely destroys personal information in accordance with our internal record retention procedure. Our retention procedure takes into account retention requirements for financial and insurance records and the statutes of limitation relevant to injuries that occur while children are in our care.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
We have procedures and policies in place to ensure that personal information, in both paper and electronic format, are protected against the risk of loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, modification or destruction. For example, we have the following safeguards in place:
• All visitors are required to report to the office and will be escorted while on the premises.
• Filing cabinets containing personal information are only accessible to the directors, centre heads, Administration staff and the onsitesupervisors of our child care programmes. When filing cabinets are not in use and after hours they are locked.
• Access to electronic files is limited on a needtoknow basis depending on job function.
• Paper records containing personal information that are no longer needed are securely shredded.
• Password selection criteria and password expiry make unauthorized access to our systems extremely difficult. Klay School Day Care’s secure databases are well protected on servers equipped with enterprise firewalls that are immediately updated when new patches and fixes are released. Staff training on the importance of privacy and security is undertaken regularly.
HOW CAN YOU ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CHECK ITS ACCURACY
Klay School Day Care relies on the information provided by you when enrolling your child in our child care programme. You may at any time make a written request for access to your or your child’s personal information. Personal information will be provided in an understandable form within a reasonable time and at minimum or no cost to the individual.
However, in certain situations we may not be able to provide access to all of the personal information we hold about an individual (or his/her child). For example, we cannot provide access to personal information about another individual if they have not consented, or to information that could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual. Also, we cannot provide access to information that was generated in the course of a formal dispute resolution process. If we are unable to provide you with all the information contained in your child’s file, we will let you know.
Klay Schools Day Care strives to maintain accurate records of your personal information, however, this cannot be achieved without your help. In this ongoing effort, we ask you to provide us with uptodate information. Let us know of any personal information you have given to us in the past that is incomplete, inaccurate, or no longer relevant, or of any new issues or information that will help us in caring for your child. If you feel a record in your child’s file is inaccurate or incomplete, and we agree with your assessment, we will promptly correct or complete the information. Any unresolved differences as to accuracy or completeness will be noted in the file.
CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
Klay Schools Day Care takes full responsibility for the management, confidentiality and protection of the personal information we collect, use and disclose. If you have any concerns about this policy, or feel that Klay School Day Care is not abiding by it, please send an email to email@example.com or write to:
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Signs of Drywood Termites and Tips for Controlling Them
Termites usually live in burrows under the soil. However, there are certain types of termites that prefer to live inside wood. They are called drywood termites.
Drywood termites are mostly found in the coastal areas of South Carolina, Texas and the west coast of California. Their size ranges from 3/8 to 1 inch long. Their colors range from creamy white to light and sometimes dark brown
Detecting an Infestation
Drywood termites can cause a considerable amount of damage to any property. To avoid their destructive effects, be on the lookout for these usual signs of drywood termites:
- Wood damage. Drywood termites eat both across and with the grain of the wood, resulting in clean and smooth wooden galleries. You will find mounds of fecal pellets inside these galleries, where they have been pushed out of the way by the termites. The damage they inflict can be found in structural wood, trim, hardwood floors, furniture, and other wood items.
- The presence of termite droppings or fecal pellets. Termite droppings, also known as frass, are also found around the infested site. As already mentioned, they can be found in wooden galleries that they damaged. These fecal pellets are about 1/16 inch long, can be black or cream in color or both, giving them a “salt and pepper” appearance. Frass is often found in piles like tiny stones or pebbles.
Tips for Control
The first step to avoid a drywood termite infestation is to always keep firewood and other lumber materials at least 20 feet away from your home. You have to seal up any unfinished wood in and around the property. When sealing, use paint, varnish or sealant and make sure the coats are even. Make sure all nail holes and cracks are sealed, too. You should also consider installing fitted, type 20 mesh screen on all doors, windows, vents, and other openings, especially the ones that lead to attics and crawl spaces.
Once you or an expert has determined the presence of a drywood termite infestation, the first step that you can take is to remove the infested area. For instance, if the infestation is confined to a door or piece of furniture, you need to immediately remove and destroy the infested wood.
If the infestation is confined to a small piece of furniture, freezing it can destroy the termites. Wrap the furniture in plastic and place it in a large freezer for about two weeks. After removing the furniture from the freezer, leave it wrapped until it reaches room temperature to protect the wood from water marks due to the process of condensation.
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One”s native talent from its course
Cannot be turned aside by force;
But poorly apes the country clown
The polish”d manners of the town.
Their Maker chooses but a few
With power of pleasing to imbue;
Where wisely leave it we, the mass,
Unlike a certain fabled ass,
That thought to gain his master”s blessing
By jumping on him and caressing.
“What!” said the donkey in his heart;
“Ought it to be that puppy”s part
To lead his useless life
In full companionship
With master and his wife,
While I must bear the whip?
What doth the cur a kiss to draw?
Forsooth, he only gives his paw!
If that is all there needs to please,
I'll do the thing myself, with ease.”
Possess”d with this bright notion,:
His master sitting on his chair,
At leisure in the open air,:
He ambled up, with awkward motion,
And put his talents to the proof;
Upraised his bruised and batter”d hoof,
And, with an amiable mien,
His master patted on the chin,
The action gracing with a word:
The fondest bray that e”er was heard!
O, such caressing was there ever?
Or melody with such a quaver?
“Ho! Martin! here! a club, a club bring!”
Out cried the master, sore offended.
So Martin gave the ass a drubbing,:
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The Queen Anne neighborhood is one of the most affluent areas in all of Seattle — why would it need a food pantry, clothing bank, services for people being evicted from their home, services for residents who are sick and can’t afford medication, and services for single parents who want to go back to school but can’t also afford the grocery bills?
Lisa Moore, executive director of the Queen Anne Helpline, explains that, yes, even in Queen Anne there are many people who are low-income and need assistance — even if the need is not visible.
“There’s a perception that Queen Anne is an affluent community, and so people will ask, where is the need? But there is a need,” she said. “Firstly, the two ZIP codes we serve, 98109 and 98119, extend to a lot of subsidized-housing units and housing shelters.”
“No. 2, there are people losing their jobs and don’t have enough savings or safety net. Or people that have some sort of medical crisis in their lives and are unable to work or afford their medical bills,” she said. “These are people who aren’t necessarily living in shelters but are our neighbors and, because of a misfortunate position, are unable to pay their bills.”
The Queen Anne Helpline, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, assists individuals and families that are confronting short-term financial crisis. Services include an adult continuing-education program, a children’s tutoring program, a clothing bank, a nonperishable food pantry and bookshelves.
The Helpline helps those fighting hunger and homelessness by facilitating the move out of poverty. It helps qualified people to their pay utility bills and medication.
“We had a gentleman come in here, who always pays his bills but was diagnosed with cancer and was unable to work. He wanted to make sure he wouldn’t be evicted from his home while receiving treatment,” Moore said. “We have single, low-income people who are going back to school, and we offset some of those costs. This helps them stay in school so they can become self-sufficient.
“We pass these people on the streets every day, and you wouldn’t necessarily think are in need,” she said.
Working with, for neighbors
Hossein Soleymani, vice president of Helpline’s board of directors, was also fazed when first asked to join the board 10 years ago.
“At the time, I thought it was a crazy idea: No one needed help on Queen Anne,” he said. “But then I realized there are people who do need help — education, clothing and different things in many ways. We provide clothing, toiletries and back-to-school bags, all prepared by donations.”
The Helpline procures $200,000 a year for client services. Its two major fund-raisers are the annual gala and the Queen Anne Fun Run/Walk. The Helpline is a volunteer-run organization, except for Moore’s position as executive director. The 15-member board of directors is made up of community members, including business owners.
“We have an amazingly hardworking, involved board, and I’m incredibly fortunate that way,” Moore said. “I’m very grateful.”
The Helpline has a working relationship with Seattle Pacific University and looks to build more collaborative partners in the area. Moore said the Helpline works with local churches and food banks so that services do not needlessly overlap.
For Moore, this type of work is what makes her tick.
“When this position opened up, I was interested. It’s a community I care deeply about, and the fact that it’s a nonprofit working with marginalized people who are struggling, is work I love doing,” she said.
“One really wonderful thing we do every year is put together Thanksgiving grocery bags and deliver them to low-income seniors, working with John Hay Elementary School to help pack the food for deliveries,” she said.
The Helpline has a longstanding tradition of partnering with Boy Scouts of America Troop 72 to sell Christmas trees. Until Dec. 20, trees will be sold in the parking lot of the Queen Anne Hill Safeway, on the north side of the building. All the profit goes toward the Helpline and the Boy Scouts troop.
On Dec. 15, the Helpline will host a Santa party. Families are encouraged to stop by, eat, drink and take photos with Santa.
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Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
U.S. Custom House
|Location||1 Bowling Green
Manhattan, New York City
|Architect||Cass Gilbert, Daniel Chester French|
|NRHP Reference #||72000889|
|Added to NRHP||January 31, 1972|
|Designated NHL||December 8, 1976|
The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a building in New York City built in 1902–07 by the federal government, to house the duty collection operations for the Port of New York. It is located at 1 Bowling Green, near the southern tip of Manhattan, roughly on the same spot as Fort Amsterdam, the original center of the settlement of New Amsterdam. The building is now the home of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York; since 2012, it is also the home to the National Archives at New York City.
The building was designed by Minnesotan Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building, which is visible from the building's front steps. The selection of Gilbert to design the building was marked with controversy. Until 1893, federal office buildings were designed by government architects under the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. In 1893, the Tarsney Act permitted the Supervising Architect to hire private architects following a competition. The Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor picked Gilbert, who earlier had been his partner at the Gilbert & Taylor architecture firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. The scandal never quite blew over, and in 1913, the Tarsney Act was repealed.
Constructed between 1902 and 1907, the building is considered to be a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style, where public transactions were conducted under a noble Roman dome. It incorporates Beaux Arts and City Beautiful movement planning principles, combining architecture, engineering, and fine arts. Lavish sculptures, paintings, and decorations by well-known artists of the time, such as Daniel Chester French, Karl Bitter, Louis St. Gaudens and Albert Jaegers, embellish the facade, the two-story entry portico, the main hall parallel to the facade, the Rotunda, and the Collector's Reception Room.
Sculpture was so crucial to the scheme that the figure groups had independent contracts. The major work across the front steps, The Continents, also called the Four Continents, of Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, was contracted to French, with associate Adolph A. Weinman. Above the main cornice are standing sculptures representing the great seafaring nations, representing American seagoing commerce as the modern heir of the Phoenicians.
In 1937, during the Great Depression, the Treasury Relief Art Project (with funds and assistance from the Works Projects Administration) commissioned a cycle of murals for the main rotunda from Reginald Marsh.:62–63
The building sits on the site of Fort Amsterdam, the fortification constructed by the Dutch West India Company to defend their operations in the Hudson Valley. The fort became the nucleus of the New Amsterdam settlement, and in turn, of New York City. From 1799 to 1815, the first Custom House at this site was the Government House.
The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, for both its exterior and public interior spaces. The Custom House was one of the earliest designations of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, so in 1987, the completion of its preservation, spurred by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who saved the building from demolition in 1979, attracted much public attention: exterior and ceremonial interior spaces were cleaned, restored, and conserved, while old office space was renovated for Federal courtrooms and ancillary offices, for rental offices and meeting rooms, and for a 350-seat auditorium with state-of-the-art projection facilities. Upgrades of fire safety, security, telecommunications, and heating, air conditioning, and ventilating systems accompanied alterations. In 1990, Moynihan sponsored the law that renamed the building after Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Rotunda mural cycle by Reginald Marsh (1937)
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- Lee, Antoinette J. (April 20, 2000). Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512822-2.
- U.S. General Services Administration (2007). 100 Years of Grandeur: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. New York, New York.video, 17 min. 30 secs.,
- van Alfen, Peter. "Monuments, Medals, and Metropolis, part I: Beaux Arts Architecture". Archived from the original on 2014-01-12.
- "U.S. Custom House Murals – New York NY". Living New Deal. Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- O'Connor, Francis V. (Autumn 1969). "The New Deal Art Projects in New York". The American Art Journal. Kennedy Galleries, Inc. 1 (2): 58–79. JSTOR 1593876.
- White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (Fifth ed.). p. 13.
- Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. "Bill Summary & Status, 101st Congress (1989–1990), S.3046". Library of Congress.
- Pitts, Carolyn (August 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: United States Custom House" (PDF). National Park Service.
- "National Register of Historic Places Inventory: United States Custom House--Accompanying photos, exterior and interior." (PDF). National Park Service. August 1976.
- Durante, Dianne (2007). Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide. New York University Press. has a chapter discussing each of French's Continents in detail.
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- Official website GSA: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
- The short film "Years of Grandeur: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, NY (2007)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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Lint-free carpet (another name - mats) has come to us since ancient times. It is from time immemorial that carpets were made by hand, and the most diverse plant natural materials were used for their production - plant fibers of coconut, bamboo, sea grass, corn and agave.
Oddly enough, but along with soft floor coverings, hard and rough carpets made of natural materials, which we talked about above, have returned to fashion. Despite its distinctive features from classic soft coatings, lint-free carpet has been rapidly gaining momentum in its demand lately. I would like to focus on the direct relation of the material of the lint-free carpet to its durability. For years, lint-free carpet will delight your family with its unique and interesting design, and thanks to its rough material, it will not wear out quickly. "Refined simplicity" - this is the name given to the lint-free carpet among interior designers. The fact is that a lint-free carpet cannot accumulate an electric charge, and besides, it has unique antiseptic properties.
It becomes clear why lint-free carpet has an antistatic effect. It's simple - it is made from natural fibers, which maintain its such quality. The use of lint-free carpet in everyday life is more versatile than, for example, woolen tracks.
Lint-free carpet (that is, matting) will find application in the design of such rooms:
as well as in the decor of bar counters or partitions;
Lint-free carpet in decor
The ceilings, which are covered with a lint-free carpet, will look very original. Although we are accustomed to the fact that such coverings should be on the floor, the ceiling with a lint-free carpet looks quite peculiar and unusual. You can also use lint-free carpet in partial wall decoration, alternating plaster with carpet. This is all the cost of imagination, which is used even in such an exquisite design. Combining a lint-free carpet, for example, with plaster, as mentioned above, when creating a wall design in a room, you can make your exquisite taste and great imagination come true.
If you want to give a lint-free carpet a little softness, then choose a type of carpet that combines the presence of lint and wool. Thanks to the woolen component, the lint-free carpet will acquire softness.
Lint-free carpets in the online store citycarpets.com.ua
Our online store "Carpet City" sells lint-free carpet only on a plant basis, which is completely safe for your health and the health of your family, because it does not cause allergies. In addition, all our products are certified. Our selection is very varied, and lint-free carpets can be with some twists: for example, with edging tape, suede or tapestry. It is these nuances that make the lint-free carpet even more unique in its kind.
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“I wish you could know what it means to be me, then you’d see, you’d agree, everybody should be free, ‘cause if we ain’t we’re murderous” (Nina Simone, Montreux 1976)
Nina Simone can be said to have lyrically theorised the ontological state of violence constituting America’s racial order, but more effectively, she took it to the stage and performed it. And beyond this, her most radically productive move on stage was to reverse the racial power relation and amplify it, discomfiting and alienating white audiences through a bodily authorisation of counter-violence.
Simone’s rigorous training in classical piano had allowed her to bring classical method, command, and counterpoint to the jazz world, but it had also given her the dream of becoming the first Black classical pianist (“and that was all that was on my mind, that was what I was prepared to be”). This dream was ruptured when she was turned down by the Curtis Institute for, she believed, being Black – a rejection which would become one of her life’s most formative moments politically.
She later kept company with James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Lorraine Hansberry (With Lorraine “It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution – real girls’ talk […] Lorraine started off my political education and through her I started thinking about myself as a black person in a country run by white people and a woman in a world run by men”). Her political consciousness was otherwise magnified by the profound events of her time – including the Alabama bombings of 1963 – a politicisation which she experienced biblically; “the Truth entered into me and I came through.”
Daphne Brooks, Malik Gaines and others have read Nina Simone as Brechtian in her mode of political performance. Drawing, for example, on ‘social gest’ Nina would subvert the broad range of cultural genres she drew on and play with irony as a form of critique. In renditions of violent and grief-ridden songs (Mississippi Goddam especially) she would adopt an incongruous up-tempo style (Gaines 2013). But she diverted from Brecht in the sense that she inverted his prohibitionary stance on emotion in performance; instead Simone engaged a highly politic form of affect. In the words of Gaines: “Rather than orchestrating an alienation effect to undercut emotional affect, Simone deploys an affect effect to assert herself in excess of her alienated possibilities.” Through her subversive performance of Feelings, for instance, what was “a bourgeois ballad of self-pity” becomes instead “a social action”. And she bookmarks this characteristic subversion with an incredulous Marxian comment on the material backdrop to such emotional lyrics: “I do not believe the conditions that produced a situation that demanded a song like that!”
Another of her classic interjections punctuated the gentle lyrical appeal of I wish I knew how it would feel to be free with a moment of honest anger anticipatory of later political statements of no justice, no peace: “I wish you could know what it means to be me, then you’d see, you’d agree, everybody should be free, ‘cause if we ain’t we’re murderous.”
Gaines reads Nina Simone as performing a subjectivity which went beyond the ‘negative alienation’ of Du Boisian double consciousness; identifying instead an emancipatory ‘quadruple consciousness’, a multiple positionality which became a source of provisional power.
This positionality is indicated in Simone’s radical composition Four Women, which brings each of its female subjects into being through reference to her skin tone, then to the sexual power relation that either brought her into being or marks her existence (“whose little girl am I, why yours if you’ve got some money to buy”) and through an allusion to her labouring identity. This song builds an affective tension between the women themselves, the audience, and “Simone’s performing body” (Gaines 2013) and ultimately performed a disruptive raced and gendered consciousness making this exemplary of her most radical political work.
Malik Gaines (2013) The Quadruple-Consciousness of Nina Simone, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 23:2, 248-267
Simone, Nina with Stephen Cleary. 1991. I Put A Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone. New York: Pantheon Books.
Brooks, Daphne A. 2011. “Nina Simone’s Triple-Play.” Callaloo 34 (1): 176–197
What Happened, Miss Simone? 2015 Documentary by Liz Garbus
Brooks, Daphne A. 2006. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850– 1910. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
What was Nina Simone’s contribution to the politics of Black identity?
In what ways do gender and race interact in the work of Simone?
What critical methods did Nina Simone bring to political performance?
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Distance from Talaja to Palanpur
Distance from Talāja to Pālanpur is 315 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 196 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Talāja and Pālanpur is 315 km= 196 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Talaja to Palanpur, It takes 0.35 hours to arrive.
Talaja is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||21° 21´ 9.7200'' N |
72° 2´ 6.8640'' E
Talāja Distances to Cities
|Distance from Talaja to Sira||988 km|
|Distance from Talaja to Kheralu||287 km|
|Distance from Talaja to Sihor||40 km|
|Distance from Talaja to Himatnagar||267 km|
|Distance from Talaja to Latur||576 km|
Palanpur is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||24° 10´ 15.4920'' N |
72° 26´ 17.5560'' E
Pālanpur Distances to Cities
|Distance from Palanpur to Kheralu||37 km|
|Distance from Palanpur to Gulabpura||295 km|
|Distance from Palanpur to Nagda||314 km|
|Distance from Palanpur to Bantva||383 km|
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Health News of Thursday, 29 August 2013
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Hunger Project – Ghana (THP-Ghana) to formalise their partnership in delivering health services in remote and deprived areas in the country.
The Director-General of the GHS, Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, and the Country Director of THP-Ghana, Mr Samuel Afrane, signed for their respective institutions at a ceremony in Accra.
Present were the Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the GHS, Dr Erasmus Agongo; the Partnership Building and Resource Mobilisation Officer of THP-Ghana, Mr Isaac Olesu-Adjei; the Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant Project Officer of THP-Ghana, Mr Francis Osei Mensah, and a consultant to THP-Ghana, Mrs Anita D’Almeida.
Under the MoU, the GHS will integrate the 45 ‘Epicentre’ (community) clinics constructed by THP-Ghana, in partnership with rural communities and district assemblies, into the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) operational system of the GHS to ensure national recognition and support.
The GHS will also assist the clinics with the needed personnel, equipment and medicines, as well as train health personnel and community volunteers to ensure the attainment of health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with a focus on reducing child and maternal mortality in the rural areas.
THP–Ghana is a community development NGO which started operations in 1996. Currently, it is working in the Central, Ashanti, Volta, Greater Accra and Eastern regions.
The organisation’s vision is to help build a world where everybody lives healthy and fulfilling lives and in dignity.
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The focus of research at the GFZ is the solid Earth - from a regional to a global scale. The principle goal of our research is to understand and assess this highly complex non-linear system and its interacting sub-systems. Key issues include the observation of the effects of global change as well as research on natural hazards and resources.
Within the Helmholtz Association GFZ is part of the research fields Earth and Environment and Energy. Furthermore, we at GFZ take part in overarching Helmholtz research activities and also do programme-independent reseach. Information on our programme-independent reseach may be found on the section websites>> | <urn:uuid:a1277d04-cfe4-45f6-bd33-ab1b8065cf56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/research/overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933378 | 129 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Get a glimpse inside Roberta Bragg's book "Hardening Windows Systems" with this series of book excerpts. Below is the introductory excerpt from Chapter 11, "Harden Communications." Click for the complete book excerpt series or purchase the book.
Use Remote Access Policies
When remote access policies are used, user accounts in Windows Server 2003 and/or Windows 2000 domains are configured to control access through remote access policy. However, the default remote access policy is configured to deny all remote access requests. Do not delete the default remote access policy.
Remote access policies are used to provide remote access configuration. The beauty of remote access policies is that many policies can be created, each specifically designed for a group of clients, a time of day, or some physical device requirement. This allows for many models of remote access control. While it is not the most desirable response, you can create a weak policy for use with legacy clients, while retaining more secure authentication and encryption for others. The weakest connections do not have to dictate security for the entire organization. Hardening remote access connections can be accomplished by setting up proper remote access policies. The following list of hardening steps is presented during a walkthrough of remote access policy creation for connections by the custom-created Auditors group. When IAS is used to centralize RRAS, additional settings can be configured. Techniques for hardening connections according to policy conditions are listed in Table 11-4. A policy condition is checked when a connection attempt is made. If the properties of a connection match the policy condition in a remote access policy, then the remote access policy is applied.
To use remote access policies:
1. Right-click the Remote Access Policy node of the Routing and Remote Access console and select New Remote Access Policy. Then click Next.
2. Select Set Up a Custom Policy, enter a name for the new policy, and then click Next.
3. Click Add to add a policy condition. Select Windows-Groups and click Add.
4. Click Add and enter or browse to and select the Auditors group.
5. Click Grant Remote Access Permissions; then click Next.
6. Click the Edit Profile button to open the Dial-in Profile property pages, as shown here:
7. Restrict connection type to VPN by selecting Allow Access Only Through These Media (NAS Port Type) and then selecting Virtual, as shown here:
8. Harden authentication. Click the Authentication tab; then click EAP Methods.
9. Click Add and select Smart Card or Other Certificate, and then click OK.
10. Click all other checked authentication methods to deselect them.
11. Require Strong Encryption. Select the Authentication tab.
12. Click to deselect Basic Encryption, click to deselect Strong Encryption, and click to deselect No Encryption.
13. Click OK. Then click Next and then Finish.
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917 Living Legend
In just six months, a small team from Weissach developed a tribute to the 1970 Le Mans winner. The concept utilises adaptive aerodynamics and is painted the the Salzburg livery of the original. Under the Carbon Fibre skin only state-of-the-art technology is used. The chassis is based on a carbon fibre Monocoque. The front and rear suspension are based on 918 super sports car components, utilizing motorsport-inspired linkages and pushrods. A turbocharged eight-cylinder engine with up to 1,000 PS provides the power. A drivable prototype has, however, never been produced.
Engine: 8-cylinder Bi-Turbo
Displacement: 5,000 cc
Power output: 551–735 kW (750-1,000 PS)
Top speed: > 300 km/h
Back to the Future
The Porsche 917 stays in the memory long after its active service. This is evident not only from the 2013 study, with the shape of its front wings and flat nose. Designers and developers continue to gain inspiration from the multiple race winner and keep reinterpreting the legendary racing car. As early as 1970, when the car was still being raced, designers and developers were working on a model for the automotive future. The Style Porsche design department is answerable for the exterior and interior designs in pre-development projects and series implementation. The department is also responsible for the creation and design of the digital, virtual and physical models as well as for the design quality. The conception, layout and implementation of the designs for special models, market editions and small series and one-offs also fall within the remit of the designers. Their work has a major impact on the Porsche brand. | <urn:uuid:ff1fa99c-9305-4757-b331-020bef3702ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://presskit.porsche.de/museum/es/2019/topic/anniversaries/porsche-celebrates-50-years-of-the-917/917-living-legend.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.949186 | 369 | 1.945313 | 2 |
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A noncompensatory government payment to individuals, as for welfare or social security benefits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A redistribution of income in the market system initiated by a government, such as welfare, social security, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services
Sorry, no etymologies found.
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These courses are designed to teach students how to research, write, and present an APA style paper in order to prepare them for entrance into academic studies at an American university.
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It was a day of disparity in Canada's protracted battle against the novel coronavirus, with some provinces recording alarmingly high numbers of infections on Sunday while at least one province managed to whittle new cases to zero.
Ontario set a daily record with 3,945 COVID-19 cases, while neighbouring Quebec's elevated case load showed little sign of abating with 2,588 new infections.
The country's lopsided pandemic is evident when comparing those figures with provinces farther east, where Newfoundland and Labrador saw its first new case in several days on Sunday and Nova Scotia – the most populous province in Atlantic Canada – had none.
In the west, while Saskatchewan had no new COVID-19 deaths for the first time in a week, it still had 307 new infections while Manitoba recorded 151.
And on the same day that Alberta recorded 811 new cases of the novel coronavirus, New Brunswick had 14 – a massive gap even taking the large population differences into account.
Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada, said on Twitter that disease activity remains widespread and the country remains on a path of "continuing resurgence."
Though vaccines will help gain "lasting control" over the virus, she said an "all Canadian effort" is needed to keep up the pace of progress.
As cases continued to rise – or fall, depending on the province – new rules and strong words took aim at the pandemic's seemingly inexorable advance in Canada.
Quebec's new curfew is perhaps one of the most severe steps taken by a province to curb its rising caseload.
The tale of two pandemics: #COVID19 case numbers suggest growing disparity between provinces. #CdnPoli #COVIDCanada #Ontario
Dozens of residents are already facing fines for violating the province's 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford warned his province will see "turbulent waters" over the coming months.
"Our healthcare system is on the brink of being overwhelmed and we must take every precaution to keep our most vulnerable safe," he said on Twitter.
"I know it's been challenging. I'm asking one more time. We need to band together, we need to stick together."
Mass vaccination won't happen until spring, Ford said, saying that until then Ontarians need to continue practicing social distancing and hand washing.
Indeed, the underlying message from politicians and health officials on the weekend was the dire need to double down in the fight against COVID-19.
Even in Nova Scotia, on a day with no new cases, chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang said the province is "not out of the woods yet" and urged residents to continue following public health guidelines.
Federal politicians also weighed in on the virus's ongoing spread on Sunday.
The leaders of the federal NDP and Green Party were among those who descended on a Toronto-area nursing home to call for more action and urgency in vaccinating at-risk seniors and supporting overworked staff in such facilities.
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said her father died at the St. George Care Community during the first wave of COVID-19 in May. While he did not succumb to the illness, Paul believed the pandemic contributed to his death as staff members failed to realize that a catheter had been put in wrong.
“By the time the underpaid, overworked staff in this facility realized what was happening, it was too late,” Paul said. “He went to the hospital, he was dead hours later. No one in this country at any stage of life should have to die from a preventable bladder infection that can be treated with a course of antibiotics.”
St. George was one of 245 long-term care facilities in Ontario reporting a COVID-19 outbreak on Sunday.
The illness has ripped through nursing homes across the country, with seniors aged 80 or more accounting for 70 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in Canada, according to the federal government.
Paul went on to blast the federal and Ontario governments for not doing more between the first and second waves of the pandemic to protect seniors in long-term care homes, as well as what she described as the slow rollout of vaccines and rapid-testing kits for COVID-19.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh also criticized the two levels of government, saying both need to do more to protect seniors – and that Canadians don’t care whose jurisdiction it is.
The federal and provincial governments have been at odds over the slow pace of vaccinations, with each blaming the other for the problems.
“The federal government has to play a stronger role. They've got the resources and the know how. They've got to work with provinces to make sure we're actually getting the vaccines into people's arms, particularly the vulnerable populations,” he said.
“It's not enough to have doses available if we're not actually getting people vaccinated.”
– With files from Lee Berthiaume
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1. squint - noun
· abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
2. squint - noun
· the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
3. squint - verb
· cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"
4. squint - verb
· be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
5. squint - verb
· partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"
6. squint - adjective
· (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"
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|Major Challenges||Change from being merely a country of emigration (1/3 of those born in Portugal live abroad) to being also a country of immigration (10 % of the population is foreign-born). Subsequent need to find a new approach, adapt public hosting and support policy as well as adopting new regulations and social attitudes in everyday life.|
|Main Interpretations||Interpretation builds on a long-lasting intercultural experience: Going beyond multicultural co-acceptance and mutual respect to have a real encounter with the "other"; hosting the "other" within us and accept being transformed within that encounter ("OTHERNESS WITHIN"). Basis: Paradigm of an equal value of all cultures and cultural blends, claiming the richness of diversity and dialogue.|
Portugal is one of very few European countries where a single public body takes responsibility for policies on intercultural dialogue.
High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue
(Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e Diálogo Intercultural - ACIDI)
(http://www.acime.gov.pt/) (formerly High Commission for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities/ ACIME)
Directly under the Prime Minister, it is an interdepartmental support and advisory structure of the Government in respect of immigration and ethnic minorities. Created in 1992, it was changed in 2002 into a public body, recently being renamed and its scope of intervention being broadened.
Policies: The Commissions' priorities are: Making the State the principle source of help for the integration of immigrants; combating social exclusion; sensitising public opinion towards a spirit of welcoming and tolerance; working in a spirit of co-responsibility with the Immigrant Associations and NGOs. The national partnership strategy foresees the involvement of civil society through building a partnerships' network including all kind of actors within society. Culture and Education are seen as public key sectors for ICD. ACIDI has close working relationships - fixed by formal agreements - with around 100 local, regional and national Immigrant Associations. A new Immigration Law is being introduced, slightly enlarging the conditions needed to obtain residence permits. There is a broad national support system for immigrants functioning through a decentralized network of public assistance centres especially dedicated to the needs and questions of immigrants, consisting of:
National Immigration Support Centres (CNAIs)
There are two CNAIs, in Lisbon and in Porto, offering services for immigrants at national level.
Local Immigration Support Centres (CLAIs)
The approx. 60 CLAIs countrywide offer information, guidance and integration help for immigrants within a local context and including a large involvement from local authorities and local institutions from civil society. Immigrants are supported in such different and important areas as health or employment.
Mission for Dialogue with Religions
Was established by the Council of Ministers in 2004, shortly being integrated in ACIDI. Contains an approved Action Plan, including:
(a) courses on the administration of intercultural and religious relationships, designed for teachers and workers that have contact with people of diverse religious sensibilities;
(b) establishing an advisory group representing major religious communities; and
(c) publishing significant texts of various religions to promote knowledge, mutual understanding and appreciation.
Policies: Plan for Immigrant Integration (http://www.acime.gov.pt/docs/PII/PII_Ing.pdf)
The plan was approved by the Council of Ministers in May 2007. It proposes a framework for the development of an integrated public policy on the forthcoming years in view of social cohesion.
EYID-coordination body: ACIDI (see 1.)
National implementation strategy: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/dialogue/strategies_en.html
Ministry of Culture
Reinforce expression of cultural diversity in Museums and Cultural Centres; support initiatives which promote interculturality.
Centro Nacional de Cultura
a) Promoting, defending, disseminating and registering Portuguese cultural heritage,
b) promoting "cultural tourism" based on an integrated idea of tourism, environment, heritage and cultural itineraries, and
c) educating the younger generations on a feeling of global citizenship.
civil society (EX):
Centro em Movimento (CEM)
Lisbon-based Cultural association known for activities connected to dance and movement. It runs projects in schools and in the old Lisbon neighbourhood involving all kinds of audiences - a good example of ICD because of its integration in the milieu, the inclusion of diverse publics and collaboration with universities.
Coordinator of Multicultural Education Programmes; created in 1991 as a part of the Ministry of Education, it was integrated as the education and training section into ACIMI in 2003, thus opening at the scale of activities in a transversal way.
Central tasks: Development and systematisation of education and training methods for action in contexts of cultural diversities; Qualification of new trainers in matters of immigration and interculturality; Contribution to thematic debates, developing tools for intercultural mediation; Creation of public awareness of ICD through dissemination in media etc..
Ministry of Education
EX: Campaign "My school fighting discrimination", intending to acknowledge students group actions in the fields of information or training against racism and discrimination, promoting dialogue and cooperation between people with different cultural backgrounds (part of the EYEO 2007).
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
Awareness raising among the scientific community and university decision-makers of the importance of including interculturality issues within the curricula of university study schemes, namely in those of Human and Social Sciences areas.
Ministry of the Presidency, Secretary of State for Youth and Sports
Aims at promoting the social inclusion of children and youngsters from vulnerable social and economic contexts, particularly migrant descendents and ethnic minorities. It supports 120 projects run all over the country.
EX: "Choices" Programme.
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Commission for Equality and against Racial Discrimination (CICDR)
Official executive body involving many private and public organisms and acting independently, in close cooperation with ACIDI. Provides legal assistance and offers information on immigrant's rights and services.
Associations of minorities and immigrants residing in Portugal
The Office of International Cultural Relations (GRCI)
GRCI has administrative autonomy and works under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to contribute towards disseminating Portuguese culture abroad. The Office represents the Ministry of Culture in several international organisations, in particular the European Union, the Council of Europe and UNESCO, collaborating in the preparation and co-ordination of implementation in Portugal of projects directly related to cultural policy, for example, protection of world cultural and natural heritage and cultural diversity.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Providing support to the large number of Portuguese citizens living abroad.
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Spanning 1,360 km² of productive seascape and five islands off the coast of Mozambique, Bazaruto Archipelago encompasses terrestrial and marine habitats of unique ecological value.
The Bazaruto Archipelago National Park is the first marine reserve to fall under African Parks’ management. In 2017, the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) invited African Parks to manage its oldest national marine park, giving us the opportunity to protect this gem in the Indian Ocean. Declared a protected area in 1971, Bazaruto is made up of five islands, three of which are inhabited by 5,000 people. The archipelago boasts iconic megafauna, including whales, sharks, sailfish, manta rays, dolphins, marlin and nesting marine turtles, as well as the region’s last viable population of dugongs.
The sheer beauty of this seascape, along with the diversity of wildlife, has made Bazaruto a sought-after tourism destination. However, the historical overuse of natural resources, illegal fishing practices and poorly regulated tourism activities negatively impacted the area’s biodiversity and the livelihoods of those who live here. But over the last four years, the results of effective management have begun to crystallise and relationships with communities, tourism operators and government partners are helping to secure a more sustainable future for people and wildlife. The park’s management team has grown, infrastructure has improved, security has been enhanced and illegal activities have been curtailed. Bazaruto Archipelago has shown that its role is not only to safeguard biodiversity, but also help protect the wellbeing of its people.
African Park’s focus is on strengthening law enforcement to mitigate conservation threats and build support for the park through community engagement and development. Conservation monitoring, infrastructural development and skills-based training continue to uplift the community and enhance the sustainability of the park.
In December 2017, African Parks signed a 25-year management agreement with ANAC to restore, develop and manage Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, and revitalise it to become one of the leading and most productive marine protected areas in eastern Africa.View Partners
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Jews have always appreciated the importance and centrality of a strong family unit. In the areas of sexuality and the relationship between men and women, Judaism introduced some very significant innovations.
The Bible describes the relationship between man and woman:
A man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)
Judaism is teaching that a man and a woman are two halves of a whole. Far more than just a partnership or a team, your spouse is your other half, your soul mate. Together this "whole" not only helps bring new life into the world, but also raises and educates people to function as constructive members of society.
Jewish law requires a man to control himself physically and focus his sexual and emotional energy on his wife exclusively. Judaism was therefore unique in the world when it came out and forbade homosexuality, pederasty and bestiality – and held marriage as the ideal state.
This has tremendous implications on the status of women in society. Jewish law mandates that a man must love and respect his wife, even placing on him the legal obligation to satisfy her sexually. Not doing so is grounds for divorce in Jewish law.
Remember the Greek poet Palladus? "Marriage brings a man only two happy days: the day he takes his bride to bed and the day he lays her in her grave." What a difference. Do not underestimate the power of these Jewish ideas about relationship and their impact on the world. In terms of Greek and Roman culture, monogamy was a revolution that had a profound impact, not just on the stability of the family, but on society as a whole.
Dennis Prager, a well-known writer and speaker on Jewish topics, had this to say about the subject:
Man's nature, undisciplined by values, will allow sex to dominate his life and the life of society. When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage it changed the world. It is not overstated to say that the Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex made the creation of western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can, to a significant extent, be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity. (Dennis Prager, Ultimate Issues, April-June 1990)
The Jewish people are highly attuned to the idea of being responsible to society and the world. Jews give charity in far greater proportion than others. For example, the United Jewish Appeal raises $750 million annually, making it the third largest charity in the U.S., after the Red Cross and the United Way. Keep in mind that Jews constitute about 2% of the total population of the U.S.
When you see a human being in distress, you have an obligation to help him. Judaism mandates positive behavior, which is a unique innovation in law. In other legal systems, it's not a crime to be a bystander, even in America today. In Judaism, however, social consciousness is a legal obligation, as the Torah states: "Do not stand by your neighbor's blood" (Leviticus 19:16).
"I'm a good person, I don't hurt anyone" is not the Jewish understanding of a "good person." Being a good person requires us to take action, not just avoid evil. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
The message that Judaism teaches is that you are responsible for the world. The Talmud teaches that every person must say to himself, "The world was created for me," not as a statement of ultimate self-centeredness, rather out of a sense of unique responsibility for the world. This is my world and I’m it’s caretaker. If there’s a problem, I’ve got to do something about it.
The obligation to "fix the world” is referred to in Jewish writings as Tikun Olam.
Jewish law is very specific about our obligation toward others, including how much money one should give to charity, what percentage of crops belong to the poor, hosting guests, visiting the sick and other acts of kindness. Every Jewish community throughout history had a social welfare infrastructure. Martin Gilbert, in A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, notes that 100 years ago, 5 million Jews lived in poverty and oppression in the giant ghetto of Eastern Europe called the "Pale" of Jewish settlement. Of those 5 million, none of whom were wealthy, 14-25% lived off community charity. That's a minimum of 700,000 people supported by the community.
Being responsible for the world includes animals and the environment. In Jewish law, you cannot eat before your animal eats. You're not allowed to be cruel to an animal. If you see an animal in distress, you have to help it. You can't cut down a fruit tree, even in a time of war.
Model for the Modern World
The humane values of the Bible became the basis for social welfare. This is the vision of social responsibility that was adopted by modern European and American thinkers over the last 200 years.
Thomas Huxley, English writer and biologist, writes:
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and oppressed; down to modern times, no state has had a constitution which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties so much more than the privileges of the rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. Nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare, in the long run, depends on the righteousness of its citizens so strongly laid down. (Gabriel Sivan, The Bible and Civilization, Keter Publishing, 1973, p. 77)
Huxley is saying that the Jewish vision of social welfare is the reality that we are all modeling ourselves after.
Kyman Abbot, an American preacher and publicist echoes a similar sentiment.
It would be impossible to mention any other people even at a much later age... whose law and constitution embodied an ideal so noble as that embodied in the Hebrew civil laws, or any people whose history shows the existence of such political institutions so essentially just, free, and humane... We Gentiles owe our life to Israel... It is Israel, who in bringing us the divine law has laid the foundations of liberty. It is Israel who had the first free institutions the world ever saw... When sometimes our own and Christian prejudices flame out against the Jewish people, let us remember that all we have and all that we are, we owe, under God, to what Judaism has given us. (Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews, 1901)
It is clear that Judaism has contributed to humanity a moral vision, a blueprint for an ideal world. Since antiquity, the Jewish people have stood for the six fundamental values that comprise our vision of a perfect world.
The Jews presented it to the world and, to a large extent, lived by it. Despite being subjected to horrendous persecutions, the Jewish people, maintained a level of humanity and caring that usually far exceeded the surrounding civilizations.
The question is: What gave the Jewish people the unique insight and genius to embody these values, something ancient Greece and Rome were unable to do?
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The Letter from Calcutta quotes this text from Dorotheus of Gaza on page 4:
“Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God.” (Instructions VI.)
Son of a wealthy family, very cultivated, so enamored of reading that he brought his library to the monastery, as a young man Dorotheus entered the community of Abba Serid near Gaza in Palestine. He became the spiritual son of Barsanuphius and John, two contemplatives known for the depth of their correspondence. These “great old men,” as they are called in the monastic tradition, moderated his absolute desire for contemplation and for this purpose suggested that he build a hospital for ill or elderly monks. The experience led him gradually to leave behind his properties, his books, his rich garments. He became the head nurse of the hospital built and paid for by his family.
His correspondence with Barsanuphius is famous for the “contract” which the two concluded: Barsanuphius would take Dorotheus’ sins upon himself (he suffered from an emotional life he had trouble controlling) on the condition that Dorotheus keep from pride, malicious gossip and needless words. In a moment of doubt, when he was thinking of leaving the monastery, he received these words of Barsanuphius which enlightened him: “Like the anchor of a ship, so will the prayer of those who are here with you be for you.” From these difficulties a strong attraction for the common life would be born, and the assurance that the prayer of others can support a vocation for one’s entire lifetime.
He would remember how sensitively these two “old men” accompanied him when, after their death, he founded his own community a few miles from his first monastery. For those who joined him there, he wrote down the “Instructions” that have come down to us. Characterized by a realistic outlook that does not ask for the impossible, he proposed a life made up of peaceful self-renunciation, with no excesses and resolutely communal. For him, the community forms a true body where each member exercises a particular function. A monk’s solitude does not imply isolation. He wrote: “We should do what is said of Abba Anthony: he gathered and kept the good he saw in each of those he went to visit—from one, gentleness, from another, humility, from still another, the love of solitude. In this way he had all the qualities of each person in himself. That is what we should do, too, and visit one another for this purpose.” (Letter 1, 181.)
Dorotheus inserted into the wisdom of the desert a significant contribution of pagan wisdom. He insisted in particular on the role of personal conscience, a divine spark in every person, and defined virtue in the fashion of Aristotle as “the middle-ground between excess and lack”.
Dorotheus emphasized “keeping the commandments”, the only thing able to bring the grace received in baptism to the roots of evil in us, and on “openness of heart” to the man or woman who accompanies us. He especially condemned monastic pride, ascetical competition among monks, and placed humility at the summit of the spiritual life. The advice he gave his monks to resist temptations without rigidity, but instead with calm and gentleness, still remains fully relevant today. At a time when many feel paralyzed by the fear of failure or doubt, these encouraging words of Dorotheus need to be heard again: “At the time of trial, remain patient, pray and do not try to conquer the thoughts that come from the tempter by human reasoning. Abba Peomen knew this, and stated that the advice ‘do not worry about tomorrow’ (Matthew 6:34) was meant for someone being tempted. Convinced that this is true, abandon your own thoughts, however good they may be, and keep a firm hope in God ‘who can do infinitely more than what we ask or think’ (Ephesians 3:20).” (Letter 8, 193.) | <urn:uuid:100f81ed-30f8-4527-9e12-2ad0090c71c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.taize.fr/en_article5234.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00283-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977436 | 946 | 2.609375 | 3 |
true or false questions study guide on House on Mango Street
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1) False- Esperanza will welcome thew homeless because she knows what it's like to be without a home.
2) False- Minerva writes poetry while the children are sleeping.
3) False- Experanza refuses to go on her family's Sunday outings.
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The drum beat against Goldman Sachs is growing louder. As the global economy collapsed last year and U.S. citizens sank under crushing house prices and job losses Goldman appeared to be flourishing (also see here). Despite doing more than just about any other firm to help create the housing bubble Goldman is now one of the greatest beneficiaries. But what was once nothing more than a conspiracy theory has now turned into a full blown public debate about manipulation and Goldman’s use of taxpayer bailout dollars.
It’s widely believed that the firm would not have survived the financial crisis without bailout cash and a few interesting moves in the AIG portfolio, but now as the market gyrates in odd fashion on a daily basis the U.S. taxpayer appears to be the one losing. Goldman’s close ties to the U.S. government have also raised some eyebrows lately. The routinely high program trading correlated with market ramps are odd as well:
Meanwhile, job losses continue to mount, wages remain flat and the stock market is 40% off its all-time highs. But Goldman Sachs is rumored to be having their best year ever. And they’re rewarding their employees for it. I’m not generally one for conspiracy theories, but something isn’t right when millions of Americans seem to be in so much pain while the firm that helped create much of this crisis is flourishing.
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What's the Latest Development?
After training six rats to locate LED-lit ports in a special chamber, Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team implanted electrodes into the sensory processing area of their brains and wired them to infrared cameras. When the camera detected infrared light, their whisker neurons would be stimulated, and the amount of stimulation would increase or decrease depending on the rats' proximity to the light. Then the team put them back into the chamber after replacing the LEDs with infrared signals. After 26 days, all of the rats were able to locate the ports. Details of the team's work was recently published in Nature Communications.
What's the Big Idea?
Months after the initial experiment, the rats could still respond to infrared light as well as to whisker stimulation, suggesting that the neurons are flexible enough to identify different types of cues. For humans, the ability to "train" sensory neurons to respond to things that go beyond current capabilities -- such as being able to "see" in infrared, or "feel" something with a prosthetic hand -- could mean a future in which all senses can be artificially magnified.
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You may wonder what exactly a B-School imparts in terms of professional development and personality moulding. As a B-School, at SVIM, we focus on the former rigorously and we do not just confine ourselves to the prescribed curriculum. The acid test of effective teaching lies in learning outcomes of individual learner who, in the end, should find himself professionally competent, master of techniques with the art of adopting and innovating them in real and unforeseen business environment and confident to take on uncharted paths.
We admit that with so many individual variants, like cultural and social backgrounds, individual aspirations and attitudes, there cannot be uniform strategy for personality development. We just allow it to happen in diversity of role-plays, leadership situations and individual assignments and projects, which provide wider scope for interaction with the Faculty and professionals, and simultaneously put a premium on creativity, lateral thinking and achievements.
We believe that if we think locally and also sincerely act locally, global dimensions are implicitly taken care of in due course. Perhaps, Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of it. This will ultimately lead to local acting of one being harmonious or consistent with global thinking of another. Managers of the future are to be sensitized to these aspects of the chasm between the desirable future of the society and the present society in terms of parameters of quality and dignity of life. These concerns are positively embedded in the psyche and learning here in every possible way. | <urn:uuid:1b88cf63-c768-47cd-8b1b-c66c7951c31c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.svim.ac.in/message-from-director/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.955805 | 292 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The French organist and harpsichordist, Jean-Patrice Brosse, completed his comprehensive artistic training at the Conservatoir du Mans (Paris) which included harpsichord, organ, chamber music and orchestral conducting, as well as at the Accademia Chigiana de Sienne and Architecture at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
At the age of 23 years, following a concert tour in the USA and South America, Jean-Patrice Brosse was appointed as a harpsichordist and organ player at the Ars Antiqua de Paris, the Ensemble Polyphonique (under the baton of Charles Ravier) and the Orchestres de la Radio. Thereafter he was associated with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse with whom he recorded for EMI.
Later on, Jean-Patrice Brosse accompanied leading artists such as Henryk Szeryng, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice André, Frédéric Lodéon, Arto Noras, Gundula Janowitz, Rita Streich, Hugues Cuénod, Isabel Garcisanz, Derek Lee Ragin, Michel Sénéchal and Cecilia Bartoli. He participated actively in the Jeunesses Musicales de France, with whom he performed numerous concerts and recorded his firsts CD's as a soloist, music of Purcell, Clérambault and Duphly as well as Bach Sonatas with Jean-Pierre Wallez. In addition, he peformed orchestral masterpieces such as Francis Poulenc's Concerto for harpsichord, Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony for Organ, concerts of de Falla and Frank Martin, Church Sonata of Sauguet - with leading ensembles such as : Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Holland under the batons of Georges Prêtre , Emmanuel Krivine, Jean-Pierre Marty, Marek Janowski and Michel Plasson. Henri Sauguet composed for Brosse his Church Sonata, Jean-Michel Damase his Pastorales for Organ and Joaquin Nin his Symphonie des Mystères.
Jean-Patrice Brosse founded the Concerto Rococo, a small instrumental ensemble playing on original ancient instruments, designed to perform Harpsichord and Organ musical pieces from the 18th century (J.S. Bach, Schobert, Balbastre, Michel Corrette, Mozart, Soler, Haydn...). As a researcher, he reconstructed forgotten liturgical music for Organ and Harpsichord from the Baroque, as well as Gregorean Chants such as Mass Agatange, Mass de Bordeaux, Voeu de Louis XIII...), and revised and edited masterpieces of Schobert and Soler.
As a soloist, concertist and chamber musician, Jean-Patrice Brosse regularly participated and was invited to prestigious French fetivals such as: La Chaise-Dieu, Sully, Septembre musical de l'Orne, Saôu, St. Riquier, Lessay, Nuits du Suquet, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Prades, Centre baroque de Versailles, Orangerie de Sceaux, Avignon, Aix, Art sacré de Paris, Toulouse les Orgues, Printemps des Arts de Nantes, Radio-France-Montpellier, Albi, Nuits d'Uzès, Festival baroque de Pontoise, Mai de Bordeaux, St. Lizier, Comminges, Maguelone, Déodat de Séverac à St. Félix-Lauraguais, Bourges, La Rochelle, Dijon. In addition, he appeared thrrouout Europe, the USA, South America, Far East. He also taught in master-classes during numerous prestigious festivals : Echternach, Brusselles, Anvers, Francfort, Berlin, Dresden, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, La Haye, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Istanbul, Milan, Naplesand Hong-Kong.
At present, Jean-Patrice Brosse records a series of Harpsichord pieces of Michel Corrette, Balbastre, A.L. Couperin, Royerand Duphly. Parallely, he published a book entitled Le Clavecin des Lumières. He is the Artistic Director of the Festival du Comminges, and is appointed as a Honorary Professor for Baroque Harpsichord and Organ at the 'École Normale de Musique de Paris. | <urn:uuid:0122e584-caab-41b4-a13b-b0e10673f96f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Brosse-Jean-Patrice.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00565-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.790929 | 1,045 | 1.789063 | 2 |
A research hub, based at the University of Wollongong, to help the steel industry improve innovation and competitiveness, has been officially launched in Canberra.
The facility will bring together scientists and engineers from steel manufacturers and research institutions, in a bid to develop manufacturing processes, innovation in new products, and better ways to get new products to market.
The research hub was announced last December and is funded with $5 million from the Australian Research Council, $5 million from BlueScope, and $2 million from UOW and other partners.
It is being officially launched by industry minister Ian Macfarlane at Parliament House today.
Product innovations named by the university include a project to develop a self-cleaning, anti-microbial organic coating for painted sheet steel, and thin-film solar panels that can be incorporated into roof sheeting.
Research hub director Oscar Gregory, a BlueScope veteran, said the steel industry has faced tough conditions since the global financial crisis.
‘‘Now that the industry is seeing some improvement, it is timely that the steel research hub brings together the combined skills and expertise of university and Industry researchers to transform the Australian industry into a position of sustainability and global competitiveness,’’ he said.
‘‘The hub will be a great example of university research contributing to industry and customer needs.
‘‘The investment by government and industry will accelerate the pursuit of product innovations that puts Australia at the forefront of the global steel industry.’’ | <urn:uuid:10663612-bd41-4a9e-9156-68752fb1512d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2536198/steel-determination-of-uows-new-research-hub/?src=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00451-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948455 | 308 | 2.046875 | 2 |
H. R. 5512
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 10, 2010
Mr. Perriello introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
To expand the boundary of Booker T. Washington National Monument, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the
Booker T. Washington Boundary
Boundary modification and corrections
The Act entitled
An Act to provide
for the establishment of the Booker T. Washington National Monument,
approved April 2, 1956 (16 U.S.C. 450ll et seq.) is amended as follows:
by striking section 4;
by redesignating section 5 as section 4;
by amending section 4(a), as redesignated by subsection (b), to read as follows:
Lands Added to Monument
The boundary of the Booker T. Washington National Monument is modified to include—
the approximately 15 acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled Boundary Map, Booker T. Washington National Monument, Franklin County, Virginia, numbered BOWA 404/80,024, and dated February 2001; and
the approximately 67.5 acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled ________, numbered ____ and dated _______.
by adding after section 4(c), as redesignated by subsection (b), the following new subsection—
Availability of Maps
The maps referenced in subsection (a) shall be on file and available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
by adding at the end the following new section:
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. | <urn:uuid:5b2fb19d-8ccf-4af0-92e4-5b2e680613d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr5512/text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00540-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910118 | 354 | 2.28125 | 2 |
US EPA adopts 2012 renewable fuel standards
5 January 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted the final 2012 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS2.
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) established the annual renewable fuel volume targets, reaching an overall level of 36 billion gallons in 2022. To achieve these volumes, every year EPA issues percentage-based renewable fuel standards for the following year. Based on the standard, each refiner, importer and non-oxygenate blender of gasoline or diesel determines the minimum volume of renewable fuel that it must ensure is used in its transportation fuel.
The final 2012 overall volumes and standards are:
|Cellulosic biofuels||8.65 million gallons||10.45 million gallons||0.006%|
|Biomass-based diesel||1.0 billion gallons||1.5 billion gallons||0.91%|
|Advanced biofuels||2.0 billion gallons||2.0 billion gallons||1.21%|
|Total renewable fuels||15.2 billion gallons||15.2 billion gallons||9.23%|
Percentage standards are based on ethanol-equivalent volumes, not actual volumes. The ethanol-equivalent volume is determined from the volumetric energy content of a biofuel in comparison to the volumetric energy content of denatured ethanol. Biodiesel and cellulosic diesel have equivalence values of 1.5 and 1.7 ethanol equivalent gallons respectively.
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"We finished installing them last month, so it takes a little time to get this system rolling," said Metro spokesperson Marc Littman.
Littman said the turnstiles are designed to work with TAP cards, the Transit Access Pass that was introduced in 1997. But about 40 percent of Metro's passengers are still using paper tickets.
In fact, Metro's ticket machines only sell paper tickets. That means the $46 million turnstile system is largely symbolic in what is still an honor-based system.
"The fact that these gates are here, even though they're not locked, we've seen an uptick in people going to the ticket vending machines and getting their fares," Littman said.
Metro said the turnstile will eventually save $13 million a year in lost revenue.
Until Metrolink and all of the county's interconnecting transit providers are using TAP, locking the gates at Metro stations won't work.
"In hindsight, should we have worked out all the deals with the municipal bus operators and Metrolink? Probably," Littman said.
Metro is hoping to have everyone on board in the next two years.
In the meantime, millions of Metro passengers favor the TAP cards.
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Rivers: A Poem
Rushing rivers flow around the world,
Flowing into the ocean,
Like thoughts of you that flood my mind,
But only drown my heart,
2 tributaries, side by side,
But never touching,
We only meet in the deep, dark ocean,
The great ocean of humanity,
Waves like heartbeats lapping on the shore,
The rhythm of reaching arms that never find their source.
- Hope Rises: A Poem
This is an encouraging poem about hope.
- Poetry to Escape In
I've been writing poetry since I was 13. It's something that flows naturally out of me like notes through a musician. I enjoy writing lines that contain visual words, with little focus or meaning, but rather convey an emotion or experience. Then,...
- A Windy Winter: A Poem
This poem is about a winter night scene.
More by this Author
This is a poem about a succulent plant.
This includes a poem about someone that is a night owl. Also, it contains owl facts and pictures.
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Pharmacology graduates work in a variety of roles within the pharmaceutical industry. These include drug discovery and development, clinical trials, toxicity and safety testing, and medical sales and marketing. Suitably qualified graduates can use their degree to enter medicine, dentistry or veterinary science. Many graduates decide to undertake a higher degree, leading to a research career either in academia or industry. Graduates also use their degree to work in teaching, medical writing, patents or regulatory affairs.
Studying pharmacology at Kingston provides you with both specific scientific knowledge and general transferable skills that will significantly enhance your CV.
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing has a specialist employability team. It provides friendly and high-quality careers and recruitment guidance, including advice and sessions on job-seeking skills such as CV preparation, application forms and interview techniques. Specific advice is also available for international students about the UK job market and employers' expectations and requirements.
The team runs employer events throughout the year, including job fairs, key speakers from industry and interviews on campus. These events give you the opportunity to hear from, and network with, employers in an informal setting. For example, here students are practising their interview skills with employers at a 'speed interviewing' event on campus.
In addition to building expertise in your own discipline, our courses will also help you to develop key transferable skills that you'll need for professional life or further study once you graduate.
As well as a range of careers and employability activities at Kingston, we also offer you the chance to apply and develop your skills in live contexts as an integral part of your course. Opportunities include:
In your final year, you'll get the opportunity to complete a major 'capstone' project where you can apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired to a range of real issues in different contexts. This is a great way to learn and is a valuable bridge to employment or further research at masters level.
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Hog Wars: Part 4
(. . . and factory farms)
by Patty Cantrell, Rhonda Perry & Paul Sturtz
This article is taken from the Missouri Rural Crisis Center publication "Hog Wars: The Corporate Grab for Control of the Hog Industry and How Citizens are Fighting Back". (Also see: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 )
Factory-scale, confinement livestock operations stick local residents with industrial-size messes while corporate executives count their cash in distant offices. Consider this:
Factory farms are, however, under no obligation to treat their city-size wastes other than to spread it over farmland. Studies of typical application rates show plant life cannot absorb the amount of nutrients the factories expel. Nearby rural towns with a few hundred residents, on the other hand, must raise money regularly to install costly municipal sewage treatment systems. The contrast is appalling to CAFO neighbor Martha Stevens of Harrison County, Mo.: "I can't see how a few people are a health hazard and 2 million hogs aren't."
Hog factories are not required to post bonds to cover clean-up costs should they fail. The state-estimated cost to clean up a typical 25 million-gallon lagoon is $100,000.
PSF has more than 150 lagoons (each holds 25 million gallons of slurry in a four- or five-acre space). The prospect of taxpayers getting stuck with acres of livestock sludge is real. Ask the taxpayers of Cherokee County, Iowa. A beef and pork confinement feedlot that went out of business there in 1980 left behind three leaky lagoons. The largest pit is a 17-acre lagoon with four to eight feet of solid manure at its bottom that will cost at least a half-million dollars to clean "assuming someone would be interested in buying it," says the county sanitarian.Odor/Gases/Air
Some people who don't live near the swine cities say they can take it, but most wouldn't have it. It's much more than just odor. The mist that permeates the homes and skin of thousands of people who live next door to these "farmers" commonly contains dangerous levels of such noxious gases as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane.
A citizen's test in Renville Co., Minnesota found that one-quarter of 32 tests taken near several manure lagoons exceeded Minnesota air quality standards for hydrogen sulfide. This poisonous gas, usually associated with a "rotten egg" smell, has caused symptoms such as nausea, headaches, blackout periods and vomiting. (Land Stewardship Project, Minnesota.) Clouds of manure mist come and go with the wind, but the odor itself sinks into human tissue, clothing and furnishings and is released slowly over time, according to Duke University's Susan Schiffman.
People living downwind from hog factories suffer a variety of psychological and physiological problems, such as depression, frequent vomiting and respiratory complications. More than half of the people living within two miles of mega-hog sites reported an increase in allergies, sinus infection, nasal blockage and a lack of energy, according to a Family Farms for the Future (Putnam Co., Mo.) survey.
Odors can be nearly as intense four miles downwind as they are at the site. Residents in northern Missouri around PSF's facilities report odors have traveled 15 miles.
Concentrations of gases inside confinement buildings endanger workers and animals and corrode equipment. The American Lung Association, with the University of Iowa, has found that nearly 70 percent of swine confinement workers experience one or more symptoms of respiratory illness or irritation and that 58 percent suffer chronic bronchitis. Unlike other industry, however, factory farms are not subject to OSHA regulations.
Odors that invade homes, sicken families and chase away visitors also destroy property values. Julie Jansen of Olivia, Minn., lives within one mile of two hog farms and says that the CAFOs have destroyed her family life and her home-based business: "We keep the windows and doors shut, the air conditioner running, but the smell gets in the carpet, the curtains, the furniture. When it gets really bad, we spend the night in a motel. I've had to close my day-care business because nobody wants to bring their children here. We'd like to sell the house and move, but who would buy it?"
In Platte County, Mo., a fast-growing suburban area, "real estate sales have ground to a halt," says Sally Radmacher, a local resident.Water/Soil
Whereas family farmers use their land to raise crops, livestock and families, factory farms see the soil as a place to dump manure. With mountains of manure to dispose of, companies' over-application of animal waste can become routine: one Missouri DNR audit in December 1995 cited PSF for rates that frequently exceeded permitted levels.
The manure slurry of factory farms is full of heavy metals like copper, nickel and manganese because the animals do not digest all that is in their feed as growth supplements. Spreading large amounts of these metals regularly over fields is dangerous. "Once there's a toxicity, you can't remove it," says soil scientist Fred Cox of North Carolina State University. "Plants won't grow there. The soil damage is permanent." But that's not the end of it. Runoff from the fields also flushes the metals, along with excessive nitrogen and phosphorus from the manure, into waterways and public drinking supply watersheds. Studies confirm that elevated levels of the heavy metals interfere with fish and wildlife reproduction. Excessive nitrogen and phosphorus also trigger overproduction of algae blooms, which can choke aquatic life, make drinking water smell bad and taste worse and, in some cases, release algal toxins that can cause gastroenteritis.
"Heavy metals won't break down," says Terry Spence, who has monitored the water around a neighboring Premium Standard Farms' facility. "The limit for manganese, for example, is 50 parts per liter. But it has run 170 times that" in the local stream.
Hog wastes contain parasites, bacteria and viruses, including salmonella, campylobacter, e. coli, cryptosporidium, giardia, cholera, streptococcus and chlamydia. Concentrations of hog manure in leaky lagoons increases the probability of drinking water contamination. Cryptosporidium and giardia, for example, resist conventional chlorination. These traveling pathogens come not only from leaky lagoons but also from on-site burial of thousands of dead pigs, according to the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service's swine odor task force.
Nine hog factory lagoon spills within just five months in 1995 brought home to Missourians the ecological and human health dangers that industrial livestock operations pose. The death toll for that spate of Missouri spills came in at a quarter of a million fish and 25 miles of stream habitat.
Other states reported spills and kills, too. In the first nine months of 1995 alone, four states reported a total of 16 spills.
Lagoon leaks are less visible but perhaps more common and threatening. Factory farm operators claim that the manure slurry commonly stored in earthen pits creates its own seal as solids sink to the bottom. But several scientific tests suggest that's not the case.
Hog factories are water hogs. They not only degrade water quality but deplete water quantity. Staggering volumes of water are needed to operate the new mega-farms, and they'll stop at nothing to get it.
To understand what this industry's resource consumption means to Missouri, let's look at the numbers. A typical Premium Standard 80,000- head finishing unit consumes over 200,000 gallons of water per day. That's over 73 million gallons per year for just one complex. Now multiply that number by Premium Standard's 17 complexes. Then add the over 365 million gallons per year at their slaughter plant. And the water consumption at their feed mills, concrete plants and the pumpdown operations at 127 lagoons. Now, multiply that number by other corporate swine cities.
Yes, most of the world's surface area is water but only a miniscule percentage is fit for human consumption. So when Murphy Farms in Vernon County, Mo., takes a deep drink of the underground aquifers, it's no wonder neighbors are affected. A 125-foot drop in well levels has been confirmed. "There are 17 wells in this area that have dried up," reports neighbor Gene Andersen. "And my cattle won't drink the water from the creek that comes across my land out of Murphy's,'' Andersen says. "The deer won't drink it either; they drink from my pond. All the aquatic animals are gone."
In Dresden, Missouri, 45 of 62 wells studied experienced problems due to one Tyson Foods well. One resident reported he had to drill 520 feet down to alleviate his water quantity problems, though it has done nothing to eliminate problems with odor and taste.Food Safety Concerns
Consumers spend only 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Of that 10 cents on the dollar, only one penny makes it back to the farmer's bottom line. The other 90 percent goes to processors, packagers and advertising.
Further industrialization of production agriculture will squeeze the farmer's last penny and make no difference in the cost of food.
Unfortunately this so-called "cheap food" should come with a warning label. Residues of the carcinogenic drug Sulfamethazine, for example, are commonly found in hog carcasses at U.S. packing plants. Says one Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official: "Residues from the use of Sulfamethazine in swine have been a serious problem for both government and industry."
One common antibiotic, Mecadox, has a withdrawal period of 70 days because of potential residues. This presents a segregation challenge for factories who use Mecadox as a daily feed additive meant only for piglets.
The large-scale indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animals invariably leads to antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause disease in humans, says the U.S. Center for Disease Control. This is because hogs and people use similar-type antibiotics. Also, the use of antibiotics for weeks at a time for non-therapeutic reasons like growth promotion can exacerbate the situation, writes Dr. Stuart Levy of the Tufts Medical School. (The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs are Destroying the Miracle, 1992.)
The USDA is ill-prepared to keep up with testing for the thousands of known and potentially dangerous drugs sold cheaply in mass quantities.
Consumers can help break the lock factory farming corporations have on domestic and, increasingly, international markets. Because of public concern about environmental degradation and the mistreatment of animals, some supermarkets in Minnesota and Wisconsin have pulled Premium Standard Farms' pork from their meat case. "People are beginning to understand there's a big difference between pork raised outside on a family farm and pork raised in complete confinement where they're shot up with drugs," says Maylene Johnston, a farmer in Breckenridge, Missouri. "There's a market for pork raised in a healthy manner but getting into those markets is tough because the big guys control the marketing channels."
MRCC is one group that has taken on that challenge. Its Patchwork Family Farms project is a marketing endeavor to stop factory farms at the grocery store and keep family farmers on the land. Patchwork is a group of family farmers raising pork the natural way without routine antibiotics or growth stimulants. Their hogs have access to fresh air, sunshine and quality feed. Patchwork producers follow standards which include environmental responsibility and stewardship of the land. Patchwork pork is sold at farmers' markets, supermarkets and consumer cooperatives.Animal Welfare
If corporations had to raise animals humanely, factory farms would not exist. As corporate executive L.J. Taylor put it to producers in National Hog Farmer magazine: "The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated, as a piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine." The results are cruel.
The abuse starts with the breeding sow. Locked in a narrow metal gestation crate no bigger than a toy box, she is restrained for her four-month pregnancy. As reported by the Animal Welfare Institute: breeding sows, which normally prepare clean nests and protect their offspring, suffer a constant state of distress by being nearly immobilized for years.
They are forced to live and give birth in these cramped cages. Piglets are removed from their mother in a matter of days, far less than the normal nursing period. They too are rounded into crowded and barren pens that are so stressful, they resort to unnatural behaviors like constant bar-biting and nervous tics. No factory farm hogs, young or old, ever see straw or other bedding. They live most of their lives on metal or concrete floors.
Hogs cannot survive the pollution and confinement of factory farms without routine doses of antibiotics and other drugs. According to the National Academy of Sciences: "The widespread use of antibiotics (in confinement livestock production) has reinforced a trend not to manage for disease prevention, but rather to accept the costs of antibiotic feeding as a routine production expense." This system is a far cry from family farmers who see their livestock as an integral part of a sustainable farming system.
|Published in In Motion Magazine December 6, 2001
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SHANGHAI: Chinese consumers have begun to push back against the high price of many products in the country as increased foreign travel and e-commerce reveals how much more they pay than their US counterparts.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, some of the price discrepancies are because of import tariffs and government taxes, but research from Shanghai-based consultancy SmithStreet has shown that many basic goods remain more expensive in China.
It compared the prices of 500 items of 50 brands in China and the US and found that clothing and other apparel is on average 70% more expensive in China.
Coffee and ice cream also attract a much higher premium. The research found a scoop of Häagen-Dazs rum raisin ice cream cost $5.40 in Beijing, but only $4.68 in Washington DC while a Starbucks grande latte cost nearly $1 more than in the US.
Many Chinese consumers complained last year after Starbucks increased its prices and took to social media to call for price controls. Starbucks argued that it faced higher real estate costs in China because consumers there prefer larger stores.
While Chinese consumers seemed willing in the past to pay a premium for the status value of imported brands, there is a growing trend for them to put off buying goods until they travel abroad, according to James Button of SmithStreet.
For example, it was widely reported earlier this year that Chinese consumers cleared out UK and Hong Kong grocery shops of baby-formula, which was cheaper than at home but also viewed as safer.
The Chinese authorities have taken note and regulators have launched inquiries into the cost of auto, pharmaceutical and baby formula brands.
However, some analysts have also pointed to the high cost of setting up a business in the country.
Rocky Lee, of Beijing-based law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, said opening a shop can take months and all the costs of bureaucracy are then passed on to the consumer.
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