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There might not be any Six Nations to quench your violent-team-sport thirst this weekend, but you can get your rugby fix from checking out the kit the Frenchies are training with before next weekend's show-down. In addition to torn ears and broken bones, players risk spinal damage when in the scrum, which is why this six-legged rugby-bot teaches the French National Rugby Team how to move the pile in unison without breaking their individual necks.
Rugby's most well-known play, the scrum, occurs in order to restart action after the refs blow a play dead following a minor infraction or unplayable ball. The eight forwards from each team lock arms together in two rows and engage the similarly-formationed opposing players. The ball is then placed in between the two groups, upon which they farm it out to their waiting teammates in the rear while driving the opposing team off the ball. Problem is, repeatedly ramming your head and shoulders into an opposing wall of humanity tends to wreak havoc on your spine, especially if you aren't working in unison with the rest of your line. But that's where the Thales Scrum Simulator comes in.
This six-legged, hex-axis training device was developed by the Thales Group and acts as both an training opponent and safety monitor. Players line up in their conventional scrum formation then engage the machine via a shoulder pad-equipped beam. The beam not only recreates scrum conditions accurately—moving vertically, horizontally, and rotating in opposition to the humans—it also measures the force generated by individual players through sensors installed in the pads and reacts in real time.
"The scrum members need to make the formation move as a single man," says Serge Couvet, project engineer at Thales. As such, if one member isn't exerting an equal amount of force as the rest of the line, the entire scrum can destabilise, potentially resulting in injury.
"The simulator is a real revolution," says Dr Julien Piscione, senior research consultant in biomechanics and head of the FFR's science division. "The secret behind this innovation lies in its ability to generate proprioceptive inputs. These allow players to decide how to move and push against the simulator, which reacts accordingly."
The simulator has been a permanent part of the French national rugby training center outside of Paris since June 2010. It should be noted that almost immediately following the installation of the simulator, the French national team reached the Six Nation finals for just the third time in the country's history in 2011, where they received a kiwi-flavored beat down at the hands of the New Zealand All Blacks. And yes, even with all their tech, I'm still banking on a good old-school British thrashing next weekend. [Oh Gizmo - Thales Group 1, 2] | <urn:uuid:20f7cf72-5bd4-4622-89a5-15b86fe06f0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/meet-the-french-rugby-teams-six-legged-scrum-bot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96008 | 589 | 2.40625 | 2 |
ERP has long been a staple in the manufacturing industry for a number of reasons, but the importance of modernizing or adopting the latest versions of these systems is vital to the ongoing success of many companies. It's not so much that these platforms can help a business improve their current operations – which they can – but more that the positive effects they provide will be felt years down the road.
Perhaps the biggest current and ongoing benefits of adopting ERP in manufacturing in particular is that it gives executives and workers a bird's eye view of the production process, according to a report from The Manufacturer. By implementing these systems as a type of inventory management software, it can be easy to spot potential hiccups in the supply line and remediate the issues as soon as possible to reduce production hang-ups, or eliminate them entirely.
Added flexibility in inventory management
In addition, ERP can also be used as a NAV barcode scanning solution to speed up the physical inventory count process, the report said. That kind of effort, in turn, not only makes that process more efficient – thus freeing up plenty of man hours that can be better allocated elsewhere – but it also makes it more accurate.
This way, everything has a barcode that can be scanned as it comes into a facility, enters the production process and leaves the building, the report said. As a result, there's an overarching top-down view that gives companies far more power to improve their overall efficiency.
Making the right choice
Of course, it's not always easy for decision-makers to determine exactly which system is right for them, according to Enterprise Apps Today. As a consequence, it's vital not to simply pick an ERP system and hope it works out, but rather to investigate all possible options and figure out which will provide the right types of features they need to succeed on a long-term basis. Often, there are base programs that will provide a workable overall structure, as well as third-party add-ons that provide additional and significant value for businesses in the sector.
The fact is that there are so many ins and outs to ERP software that just about any manufacturing company will find its various general needs met by at least a few options. After that, customizing systems to their more individualized requirements can be relatively simple as well, the report said.
Not only do these systems provide inventory management solutions that can improve themselves on an ongoing basis (thanks to ever-increasing data on how companies operate), but they also help to streamline overall operations when it comes to things like worker time collection. As a result, the right ERP system is something that can be seen as helping to pay for itself on a long-term basis.
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The possibility of Wikipedia being taken over by attackers was just foiled by quick action on the part of Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, with the help of Check Point, the security firm that discovered the critical security hole in its code.
“It is conceivable that someone who discovered this vulnerability could have executed code that may have made it possible to access user data,” says Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh. But it was Check Point researchers who discovered this vulnerability first in the MediaWiki project Web platform, which is open-source code used to create and maintain wiki websites.
Check Point says what its researchers uncovered was a remote-code execution flaw in MediaWiki 1.8 onwards where the attacker could potentially gain complete control of the vulnerable web server. A patch “was applied to the software within 45 minutes of discovery,” says Walsh. WikiMedia has also released the patch today so others can apply it to the open-source code as well.
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This is only the third time since 2006 that a remote-code execution flaw had been identified in MediaWiki open-source code. If an attacker had discovered it first, then it would have been a “zero-day” vulnerability without a patch, says Patrick Wheeler, head of threat prevention product marketing at Check Point.
Check Point says if the vulnerability hadn’t been discovered and fixed, an attacker could have been able to control the Wikipedia.org web server or any other ‘wiki’ site running on MediaWiki, and potentially inject and serve malware-infecting code to users visiting those sites.
This would have been a disaster to the millions of visitors to the site each month, and a blow to the respected open-source project that has helped foster the popular online Wikipedia encyclopedia.
Charles Henderson, director of application security services in Trustwave’s SpiderLabs research division, says it’s not that vulnerabilities are “necessarily better or worse” in open source as compared with closed source, proprietary code. The point is that open source code has become so widely used, including by business, any serious security issues in it that crop up can’t be ignored.
Some open-source projects do a good job of managing security updates, says Henderson, while others seem more lax. But the openness of how code is developed and if necessary, patched, means that attackers can monitor open source development fairly easily, he says.
Sonatype CEO Wayne Jackson says the security of open-source code is getting more attention from those in the federal government, for example, who want to know more about how it gets developed. Jackson says there have been a string of security incidents associated with identified open-source vulnerabilities, such as last summer when a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework was sold as an automated attack script in Chinese circles online. The Struts vulnerability was also tied to a cyber-intrusion into a Chicago-based trading exchange around that time, Jackson adds.
It’s not unusual to find commercial software of one sort or another integrating open source. Jackson says one example is Sydney, Australia-based firm Atlassian which last summer publicly identified the Struts critical vulnerability in its software. He pointed out that Cisco also issued a security advisory last October related to Apache Struts remote-code execution vulnerability in its products.
It’s often simple to identify sites built on open-source code such as Struts through a Google search, Jackson says.
Open-source code represents the modernization of software development, based on the idea of a “meritocracy” of achievement by software developers contributing into code they all share, Jackson says. But the downside is that “the ecosystem has treated open source like this huge sugar store, living off the sugar high of productivity.”
One basic question about open-source is whether the organizations making use of it are even aware of it. “It’s a fundamental problem,” says Jackson. Sometimes it seems like the “bad guys are way more efficient than the good guys” in keeping track of open-source developments and usage.
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Bengaluru: On Monday, May 24, Karnataka’s Opposition Leader, Siddaramaiah, revived the beef prohibition debate by claiming that he was a Hindu who had never eaten beef before, but that he would eat beef if he wanted to.
While attending a public event in Tumakuru district, the Congress leader, accusing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of building barriers between religions, said that beef eaters do not belong to just one community.
“I am a Hindu. I’ve not consumed beef till now, but if I want to, I will have it. Who are you to question me?” said Siddaramaiah at the event in Tumakuru.
“Beef eaters don’t belong to just one community, even Hindus consume beef, Christians consume it as well. Once, I have even said it in the Karnataka assembly. Who are you to tell me to not consume beef?” said Siddaramaiah.
The Beef Ban Law In Karnataka
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All varieties of cattle are prohibited from being bought, sold, transported, slaughtered, or traded under this rule. Cows, bulls, buffaloes, and oxen are all included.
Only buffaloes above the age of 13 and terminally ill livestock are exempt from this rule. They can, however, be butchered only after being certified by a veterinarian.
Those who break this rule face a sentence of up to seven years in prison and fines ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh.
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18-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Saturday, March 29, 1913: Ma and I went to Milton this morning. The chief object of which was the buying of me a graduation dress. It is a plain white batiste to be trimmed with lace insertion and edging. I got some other things besides. Ma bought a piano. I’m so glad for now I can learn to play.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
What a fun shopping trip!—It’s amazing that Grandma and her mother bought BOTH a graduation dress and a piano on the same trip.
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There are many reasons to guard your heart. After all, we all know what it feels like to be hurt by people we cared for or have our hearts broken. When you are in the middle of a break up, you might even feel a pain in your heart, perhaps that is where the term “broken heart” actually comes from.
Over the years I have had the opposite of a guarded heart. My problem is that my heart is too open. I want to give and I want to help and I want to share a piece of my heart with everyone I meet. Maybe this is a good thing but it also allows just anyone in and it only leaves me feeling heart broken in the end.
But perhaps the key lies in learning to open your heart at the right times and then learning to guard it when necessary. Maybe on our journey we must learn to trust and let people in, but also learn when and where to turn people out.
Since my forté is opening the heart, I have created this list as a way to help people learn to connect with their hearts. I do add a warning to not open your heart for the wrong people (trust your instinct), or keep your heart unguarded and ready for attacks. As you learn to open your heart, remember that it is always safe to keep it a little guarded: build a picket fence not a wall.
1. Watch Your Body Language
Crossed arms are the easiest way to show the world that you are guarding your heart. Body language experts call cross arms and legs the classic sign of “defensiveness and resistance.”
The best way to begin the process of opening your heart is to watch your body language. What non-verbal cues are you giving people. Open your heart by leading with your heart. Walk with your shoulders up and your chest open and relaxed. Sit with your arms to your side or with your palms together (and up) on your lap. In social situations, notice the way your body language might drive people away. People that look defensive are not easy to approach.
2. Invite In the Green
The heart chakra, known as the “Anahata chakra,” is part of the Hindu metaphysical belief system of the seven chakras. Each chakra represents different energy points in your body and the heart is really the core. In yoga (and in any exercise) you learn that in order to support the rest of your body, you have to build a strong core. Therefore the heart and keeping a strong heart is vital to keeping a long and healthy life.
The anahata chakra is represented by the color green, so to stimulate the heart chakra it is suggested that you invite green into your life. Wear more green, eat more green fruits and vegetables, and take long and vigorous walks in nature.
3. Imagine Your Cup is Full
Sometimes when we are left broken hearted, we find it hard to learn to give love and accept love again. It is important to give love and accept love equally. If you give too much love, then you are running on fumes, your cup is empty. If you are taking too much love, then your cup is overflowing, you are probably hurting others in the process. A wise person once said to me, “If you are giving 110% then what is he giving?” Relationships should be a road of 50-50, you should give as much love as you receive and anything less is unacceptable.
As you learn to give love, so will you learn to receive. Do simple things like donating your time to charity, open your heart by talking to strangers or doing something kind (for no reward). Learn to accept love more by accepting compliments, taking care of your appearance, and feeling good in your own skin. You have to imagine your cup as already full. It is not depleted, you are not desperate for a drink, but at the same time the cup is not overflowing, you have the perfect amount.
3. Cry, Yell, Scream, Then Get Over It
I don’t know why there seems to be so much shame about crying. Not only are you allowed to cry, you are allowed to scream, and yell, and have a little fit if you want to. You are allowed to release any negative emotion that you have pent up inside of you. Why? Because you are a human being. That’s what human beings do. If something is bothering you, by all means let it out. The absolute WORSE thing to do is hold it inside yourself and go around acting like everything is okay when it is not.
Once you have cried and screamed and expressed yourself, begin the process of healing. Accept the faults of others but also accept your own faults. What did you contribute to the situation? Forgive others but also forgive yourself. It’s ok to mess up, it’s ok to not be perfect. No one is. Forgiveness is the only way to move forward and close a chapter in your life. You must forgive the person who hurt you but you must also forgive yourself.
4. Love is All Around You
You do not need to seek love, love is seeking you. People will spend so much time actively seeking a romantic partner and the minute they give up the search, that special person walks right into their lives. I know it sounds cheesy, but you have to surround yourself with the idea of love. Let go of the bitter, let go of the anger, let go of the fear. Instead, start reading about love, take a poetry class, watch a romantic movie, remember and hold close to you the idea of being in love.
Just like our childhood movies used to say, “I know you I walked with you once upon a dream.” Maybe you do know that significant person. Maybe you always knew him or her and you only forgot. Instead of trying desperately to find that person, and instead of caving yourself away never to find anyone, how about practice the moderate path of believing they are out there and then leaving it up to fate? | <urn:uuid:79de39a8-9839-421b-8cfc-46a0d228313d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sookton.com/4-ways-to-open-your-heart-chakra-and-find-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.964652 | 1,260 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 6:32
Subject: Re: mount command
>Right. stat() can find it, but readdir() can't. Try making the
I assume you mean 'mkdir c:\home'
So I have done done the following:
umount /home (hopefully this will clean out the reg)
rm -r /home
Exit from cygwin and start it again
Whoops it created it in c:/temp.
OK that put it in the right place where I had it before
mount D:/ /home
running mount gives the output:
Device Directory Type Flags
D: /home native text!=binary
C: / native text!=binary
and ls -F gives
So everything looks correct, as before.
find / -name .bashrc -print
.bashrc is on drive D and it is not found.
Oh well, no magical fix.
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Issue Position: Environment
Environmental protection and stewardship are important to the health of our families, the strength of our economy, and the future of our planet. America has made great progress in many areas, but on issues such as climate change, clean air, and clean water, we can do much more.
Air pollution continues to pose severe health risks to all Americans. Despite a campaign pledge to control carbon output, as well as clear and convincing evidence that demonstrates the harmful effect pollution has on human health, the Bush Administration continues to advocate a "Clear Skies" initiative that would loosen emission caps on airborne toxins. The health of Americans is not the only thing at risk from pollution. There is a strong scientific consensus that emissions are leading to dangerous global climate change. President Bush insists it is unclear whether this change is manmade or natural, despite the scientific community's findings and the opinion of his own EPA, which in 2002 said that global warming "is real and has been particularly strong within the past 20 years do mostly to human activities."
The United States must make a serious commitment to environmental stewardship. If we ignore the warning signs and fail to take the necessary steps to protect our planet, we face serious consequences that will have a long-term impact on future generations. Solutions such as drilling in pristine wilderness areas are not going to solve our energy crises, and will only do more harm than good to the country. Greater investment in solar, hydrogen, and fuel cell technology can significantly reduce energy consumption and lead to cleaner air. | <urn:uuid:de236df4-1450-46ca-b2b3-dcbf140737a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://votesmart.org/public-statement/340219/issue-position-environment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948526 | 307 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Marie Bankuti from Tether Free Vision presented “Help Me Help You! How to Proactively Educate Your Business Stakeholders for Greater Project Success” this morning at BAWorld Boston. She discussed the typical challenges to project success that we see on projects and had the audience contribute. The ideas the audience came up with included conflicting interests, trouble articulating a vision of success, business users were cocky and thought they could do it without IT’s overhead, no time from the business, and pressure to hit dates and cannot focus on what is really needed in that time.
To summarize Marie’s suggestions:
- Understand your stake, meaning vision or mission. Understand yours, your users’, your IT groups’, your and company’s.
- Nurture your relationships, including understanding the people who you work with, their pains, and even what they do outside work.
- Explain your process. Do this through things like case studies of it working or not, and just explaining why it’s needed.
- Define expectations. Make sure it’s clear how you each will communicate, what the roles and responsibilities are, and what accountability there is.
- Ensure credibility. This means things like disagreeing tactfully and with respect, collaborate, follow through on commitments, but in general model the behavior you seek from the teams you work with.
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Bats have long been demonized as symbols of Halloween lore (or worse), but the critters themselves have been dying of disease at an alarming rate in parts of the country—and the problem could spread to the Rockies. Colorado is home to 18 species of bats, and in a twist fit for a Batman movie, wildlife officials fear that humans may be transmitting a disease called white-nose syndrome—fatal to bats (not to people)—via fungal spores carried on shoes, gear, and clothing. The white fungus infects bat appendages and awakens the animals prematurely from hibernation, which ultimately causes starvation because the spring insects on which they feed have not emerged. So, much to the disappointment of high-country spelunkers, the U.S. Forest Service issued a protective emergency order in July to close all caves and abandoned mines on National Forest land in the Rocky Mountain region for a full year. Long live the Bat Cave. | <urn:uuid:73e077d2-013c-47b5-b0ed-6dd32cd104d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.5280.com/magazine/2011/10/taking-flight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952711 | 193 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Fair In Progress At Bombay Maidan 1932 Old Photo
This is an old photo of the fair or exhibition at the Maidan in Bombay, now Mumbai. A news photo from the British India era of 1932. The massive open areas of the Oval Maidan, Azad Maidan, Cooperage, and Cross Maidan composed of the Esplanade. Mahatma Gandhi at the peak of the Quit India movement addressed one of the largest meetings at Azad Maidan in December 1931.
Ar the time of the British India years exhibitions were common on the Maidan or Esplanade. See my post- Antique Print Royal Visit To Bombay 1883. Very interesting to view a fair in progress in 1883 on this same grounds. On one side we all perhaps secretly admire the British for creating broad roads, magnificent buildings, open spaces, gardens, and so on. Despite, however we may feel of the shortcomings of colonial rule.
Read about- Oval Maidan.
Did you know- the maidan from being evening recreational areas to becoming the mecca of cricket.
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Recent events in the small city of Steubenville, Ohio have drawn national attention to the small community across the river from West Virginia. Members of a much loved local football team are charged with raping a young woman, while controversy flares concerning the possible involvement of several others. An inflammatory video has surfaced showing another team member laughing, joking and making crude remarks in reference to the victim. Meantime allegations of a cover up to protect the local team are flying wildly around the internet.
Regardless of how events in this case shake out, they underscore a distinct and troubling social problem in the United States.
Team sports are, by nature, aggressive. The “win at any cost” mentality has infused sports with an aggressive demeanor, arguably necessary for victory but totally at odds with the old notions of sportsman like conduct and gentleman athletes. This is a pity. It also goes hand in hand with the growing combative nature of politics in our nation, which has contributed mightily to the gridlock in Washington. Abusive attitudes toward women found in rap and hip hop music also may exacerbate the problem.
At what point does our society have the opportunity to step in and try to prevent this kind of hyper aggressive behavior from taking root in our young?
The answer is in our schools.
Progress and civilisation depend upon cooperation and understanding. As humans we are dependant upon one another in order to build a safe and secure society for everyone.
Hyper aggression and anti-social behavior are psychological problems that endanger all of us. Taking care to avoid these from taking hold at an early age is essential to the proper functioning of our society as a whole.
So when is the right time to begin.
As early as possible.
Anti-social and sometimes violent behavior is often rooted in lessons learned (or not learned) in elementary school. Playground bullies sometimes grow into adult rapists. So Elementary school seems an appropriate time to intervene in order to try and prevent these behaviors from getting started, and to replace them with patterns of behavior designed to facilitate a smooth integration into adult society.
Effective programs or schools are now available which make this possible. Several different proven effective anti bullying programs have now been designed for implementation in neighborhood schools. One of these is the well know Olweus program. Another, Bullies 2 Buddies, is the result of work by renowned New York child psychologist Izzy Kalman. Others are undoubtedly available as well. If you have not explored ways to integrate such a program in your school, it is never to late to start.
Once you do, you will find that an integrated assembly program is a great way to kick off or reinforce your program. Mobile Ed offers two assemblies, Stronger Than a Bully and The No Bully Zone, each designed to support the teachings of the two regimens mentioned above.
Inaction is inexcusable. The events in Steubenville are merely one small sign of the troubles we face. The actions we take today may well prevent some future teenaged girl from falling victim to a similar brutal tragedy. I have a daughter myself. I can only begin to imagine what the girl in Ohio and her family are going through. If we can prevent this from happening again, to not do so would be unforgivable.
Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN | <urn:uuid:9e38ec75-bf4f-4113-9906-5809b37c8c3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mobileedproductions.com/blog/bid/93747/Steubenville-Ohio-Rape-Case-Underlines-Bullying-Problem-In-US | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955837 | 772 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Also, if you were someone's friend, you shouldn't make fun of them nor hurt their feelings. People have feelings and they wouldn't like it if somebody just tortures them. So, being a friend to a person should not let them down and make them feel less comfortable.
Friends also trust each other and believe in them. And if they break your promises and tell other people what you say to your friend as a secret, then they're not trustworthy. It's better to choose a friend that will always be there for you and can be able to be trusted.
And finally, friends solve each other's problems by telling them how they feel and by even helping them to make things better. Especially by apologizing ; trying to change things to make it more better.
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Some of us want drugs during labor. And so drugs they get! There's a new drug of choice gaining popularity in labor and delivery rooms right now ... and it's one that was used long ago. It also was Demi Moore's apparent drug of choice a couple of years ago when she was apparently having a hard time with her Ashton Kutcher break-up. Not when she was pregnant. Say what? It's nitrous oxide. People call it whip-its or laughing gas. And they say it works wonders for mamas in labor. Even many natural birth advocates give it a thumbs up.
Is it better than an epidural? Sure seems like it. And now more hospitals are offering it.
Nitrous sure sounds better than a huge epidural needle in your spine and then having to deal with that numbness. Nitrous instead is said to help you keep your mental clarity, you know to "run" that marathon called birth, and it's something that you can take in a little or a lot. I think this is huge! There's been murmurs of nitrous making a comeback and now it's really happening.
This could help breastfeeding rates, help mama feel more back to "normal" after, minimize drug complications -- sounds perfect. I know a doula and midwife who fully supports the use of nitrous for laboring mamas.
One of the first hospitals in the United State, Holyoke Medical Center in Massachusetts offers nitrous oxide as an inhaled sedation for labor pain management. It can be taken at any time when mama is laboring. Ginny Miller, certified nurse midwife with Holyoke Medical Center’s Midwifery Care, said that nitrous "was used in this country till about the 1970s, and then when epidurals (regional anesthesia given through injection in or around the spine) became more available, and the machinery (for nitrous oxide) was not being made anymore to the concentrations you need for labor and delivery, it went out of favor. Now, there’s a new company that makes the equipment."
It's half nitrous and half oxygen and given through a mask over the patient's face. Mama in labor can breathe in as much or as little as she needs. And if she feels she needs more, she can still get an epidural if wanted. Another advantage is that the laboring mom doesn't have to be confined to the bed and she can walk around, which has been known to get labor moving along -- that whole gravity thing.
I welcome this! A little bit can help mama keep that edge off and allow her to have the birth she wanted without too much intervention, and perhaps a faster recovery time. I hope more hospitals offer it.
What do you think of nitrous oxide for use in labor pain management? Would you try it?
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In 2019, OpenAI released GPT-2, a language model capable of generating whole paragraphs of text at a time. GPT-2’s output, stripped of inhibition and ego, offers delightful linguistic surprises run after run.
As exciting as it is to watch a machine produce something so convincingly human, the novelty eventually wears off. When it does, we’re left to wonder: how do we make this statistical trick — an assembly of words no longer contingent on an author’s intention — mean something to us?
In Exercises in Meta-cohesion, my mechanical co-writer (GPT-2) and I tell two stories. First, we tell a fictional tale of characters whose connections to each other, fragile as they are, build a society out of selves. Underneath this surface, we tell our own tale of human and machine working together through formulas, improv, and endless material to put words artfully together.
Read more in the Hindsight Reader.
In this project’s namesake, Exercices de Style, Raymond Queneau writes the same story ninety-nine times, changing the style with each iteration. Here, GPT-2 and I execute our own collaborative procedure twelve times, changing the texture of the language each time.
I give GPT-2 a narrative scaffolding in the form of four fixed prompts: I wish people understood me better; I just want one thing; Why? Because; and Maybe we’re not that different. I ask GPT-2 to continue each prompt for one to three sentences before moving to the next prompt.
Once GPT-2 has filled in the narrative scaffolding, I remove the scaffolding from the final surface form.
This process is repeated twelve times; for each iteration, I change GPT-2’s tuning corpus, giving rise to twelve distinct personalities. As a final step, each personality is linked to another through manually-written narrative threads.
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Arthur‚ M.W.‚ Hawkins‚ J.D.‚ Pollard‚ J.A.‚ Catalano‚ R.F.‚ & Baglioni‚ A.J. (2002). Measuring risk and protective factors for substance use‚ delinquency‚ and other adolescent problem behaviors: The Communities That Care Youth Survey. Evaluation Review‚ 26(6):575-601.
Prosocial Involvement‚ Opportunities and Rewards
Seattle Social Development Project
Arthur‚ M.W.‚ Hawkins‚ J.D.‚ Pollard‚ J.A.‚ Catalano‚ R.F.‚ & Baglioni‚ A.J. (2002)
1. In my school‚ students have lots of chances to help decide things like class activities and rules.
2. There are lots of chances for students in my school to talk with a teacher one-on-one.
3. Teachers ask me to work on special classroom projects.
4. There are lots of chances for students in my school to get involved in sports‚ clubs‚ and other activities outside of class.
5. There are lots of chances to be part of class discussions or activities.
1. My teacher(s) notices when I am doing a good job and lets me know about it.
2. The school lets my parents know when I have done something well.
3. I feel safe at my school.
4. My teachers praise me when I work hard in school.
These items measure students’ perception of the extent to which opportunities and rewards are available within the school setting. Respondents are asked to indicate how strongly they feel each sentence is true for them. While this seems like an assessment of the school‚ what it actually measures are the youth’s perceptions‚ so this may be valuable for programs attempting to improve school connectedness.
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WHERE TO FIND OR DOWNLOAD
This instrument can be found on pages 44-45 of Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes‚ Behaviors‚ and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools‚ available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/YV_Compendium.pdf
FEES AND REQUIREMENTS
Used in previous research with students age 11–18.
HOW TO ADMINISTER AND SCORE
Pencil and paper self-report. Items are scored as follows:
· YES! = 4
· yes = 3
· no = 2
· NO! = 1
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Action: A Case Study of a Middle School Digital Documentary Project
In recent years researchers in educational technology have begun to look closely at the complexity of integrating technology in K–12 classrooms. The development of the notion of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) provides a useful theoretical framework to explore the requisite forms of teacher knowledge required to effectively integrate technology in classroom work. This case study explores the three domains of teacher knowledge and their intersections in a sixth grade digital documentary project.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2008
The article recommends new reading and writing skills, mirroring an ever-expanding definition of literacy, new college and K-12 curricular programs that redefine digital media are popping up all over the country. The intent of this article is to share information and provide guidance for preservice and in-service teachers about a mediated alternative instructional strategy that has the ability to reach reluctant and struggling readers. Findings are presented from a pilot study that evaluated a new Web-based tool that links the interests of media-centric students with their natural fondness for story.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2008
The Impact of a NCLB-EETT Funded Professional Development Program on Teacher Self-Efficacy and Resultant Implementation
In response to the need to train teachers to effectively integrate technology into elementary and secondary education, a teacher professional development program funded by a federal grant provided a selection of instructional technology integration courses to K-12 teachers. This study investigated the impact of these courses on the course participants' self-efficacy in learning about and implementing instructional technology. The study also explored the differential effects of these courses on participants' self-efficacy due to different demographic characteristics. The positive perceptions of the course effectiveness from the participants suggested an overall success of the program.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2008
In this article the model Educational Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) is examined. The methodological issues with the model are presented. The author considers it the model most sophisticated value-added model.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2008
Benefits and Constraints of Distributed Cognition in Foreign Language Learning: Creating a Web-based Tourist Guide for London
The purposes of this paper are (a) to describe how the open-ended knowledge construction and communication tools TEE (The Electronic Exercise) and EF-editor (Exercise Format Editor) can serve socialconstructive language learning from a distributed cognition point of view, (b) to report how TEE and EF-editor have been used in a foreign language classroom with 25 seventh grade students for creating a Web-based tourist guide to London, and (c) to present the results of an evaluative study investigating the benefits and constraints the teacher and students experienced through this learning scenario.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2008
The article explores how the Internet is used in the classroom and if its use benefits students' understanding. 127 web sites reported by teachers were analyzed. From the data, most K-12 educators view the web either as a lesson planning tool, or a place for supplemental information. Most sites were not interactive.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2008
The article provides a framework that integrates recent institutional analysis guides for theorizing K-12 public education in the United States. The author introduces three constructs and applies the, to a case study of district reading and mathematical reform.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2008
This paper presents a mixed methods study exploring the impact of a summer robotics camp on middle school students’ physics content knowledge and scientific inquiry skills. It was found that the camp enhanced students’ physics content knowledge but failed to improve their skills in conducting cientific inquiry. Qualitative data provided an explanation of the findings.
Updated: Mar. 09, 2008
This article examines the gap between the practicesthat beginning teachers learn in university teacher preparation courses and those they reencounter in the K-12 classrooms in which they learn to teach. The authors describe the theory of horizontal expertise and how its use can address the problem. They then identify three processes essential to the development of horizontal expertise: the exchange of tools, the negotiation of social languages, and argumentation.
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Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published its final Environmental Assessment (EA) for wind energy development offshore North Carolina. The EA finds that there would be no significant impacts from issuing wind energy leases or approving Site Assessment Plans (SAPs) within three Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) offshore North Carolina, totaling approximately 307,590 acres.
The final EA takes into account new information since the publication of a draft EA this January, including a proposed rule by the National Marine Fisheries Service to expand critical habitat for North Atlantic right whales in the North Atlantic, which overlaps with portions of two of the proposed WEAs. The final WEAs also reflect input from the North Carolina Intergovernmental Task Force (Task Force), including the National Park Service, the U.S. Coast Guard and coastal residents.
The release of the final EA is an important step toward opening the federal waters off the coast of North Carolina to wind energy development in a region that has among the highest wind potential along the Atlantic coast. A number of additional steps will take place over the coming weeks before the WEAs are opened to leasing. BOEM has announced a public meeting of the North Carolina Task Force, which will take place on October 7 in Wilmington and will address BOEM’s proposed approach for an offshore wind auction. Next, the agency will publish a Proposed Sale Notice in the Federal Register, which will include a 60-day public comment period. The successful bidder would have an exclusive right to begin site characterization and site assessment through meteorological towers and/or buoys. The subsequent construction and operation of a commercial-scale wind facility would require a site-specific NEPA analysis and further approval by BOEM of project construction and operations plans.
This announcement marks another important step in the Interior Department’s efforts to promote wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf. North Carolina will be joining Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia, where BOEM has already awarded nine commercial wind leases. BOEM has also announced it will hold a competitive lease sale offshore New Jersey later this year. | <urn:uuid:9acdf9a3-f43b-43d9-9061-ff581850b579> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c4885770-9f0b-4f80-8a12-580b0f72a1fa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00213-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940798 | 423 | 1.945313 | 2 |
House Bill 315, which passed this year and goes into effect March 1, 2013, does away with the current motor vehicle sales tax (which currently ranges from 6-8 percent depending on the county) and the annual ad valorem tax or "birthday tax" (based on the market value of your car and the local millage rate) and replaces them with a single title fee that is charged whenever a car is registered in the state.
- The one-time title fee will start at 6.5 percent in March 2013, go up to 6.75 percent in January 2014, and end at 7 percent in January 2015.
- The title fee would apply to new car purchases, but by 2023 all car owners will be taken off the annual property tax system.
- If you buy a car between Jan 1, 2012 and Feb 28, 2013, you can opt out of the ad valorem tax starting March 1, 2013. If the sales tax and ad valorem tax paid before March 1, 2013 are equal to or greater than the 6.5 title fee, then nothing more is required and you will no longer have to pay the ad valorem tax.
- The title tax will apply to casual sales and title transfers between individuals, unless between immediate family members, as well as out of state auto purchases.
The budget policy institute estimates this will be the big revenue generator for the state, bringing in $503 million during the next three budget years and helping to offset many of the tax breaks included in the bill.
While the bill will bring in money to the state, it is likely to greatly reduce revenue earned by local counties over time. Since the 7 percent sales tax and 7 percent title fee essentially cancel each other out, residents are saving money by not having to pay annual taxes on their car.
The state captures only a very small portion of that annual ad valorem, or property, tax; however, local governments depend on property taxes for much of their revenue.
Rockdale received about $7.7 million from motor vehicle taxes in 2011 with 66,345 cars on the digest, according to Tax Commissioner Dan Ray. Motor vehicles make up 7.75 percent of the digest revenue for the county and 8.03 percent of the digest revenue for the schools. | <urn:uuid:e5e2ee96-a3c4-4aed-b553-1806c855897c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.covnews.com/rockdale-archives/tag-tax-revamp-how-it-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.970893 | 464 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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How do sonny his brother try to escape the past Is sonnys brother able to accept the past Sonnys Blues Learning To Accept The Past What is the past Websters Dictionary defines the past as a persons history or background The experiences of the past help make people who they are It is the sorrows and joys the losses and the victories of the past that shape and mold people into what they become The past can affect someone for the rest of his life James Baldwins story Sonnys Blues is a story about two brothers who grew up in the ghetto of Harlem As adults they both try to find themselves and escape their past in Harlem Sonnys brother tries making a better life for himself He uses his family and his success as a schoolteacher as a way of overcoming his childhood On the other hand Sonny uses his drug addiction and his love of music as means of escape from the past The idea of the story is that no matter how hard they try to escape the past they will never be able to The past is a part of them and until they learn to accept that fact they will never truly know how it feels to be free One of the most important messages in this story is the description of Harlems stultifying environment a place where children are smothered Some escaped the trap most didnt Those who got out always left something of themselves behind as animals amputate a leg and leave it in the trap Baldwin p109 The implicit assumption here is that childhood is a holistic state whereas the process of growing older maims the individual Perspectives on James Baldwin Approaches to Reading and Teaching Sonnys Blues Throughout the story Sonnys brother unknowingly returns to the past for comfort One example of this is when his daughter Grace dies He grasps for the one
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A Swiss-based clean energy provider, The meeco Group, has completed the structural installation of its first solar photovoltaic (PV) project using an innovative solar power mounting structure, the sun2rope.
In a company statement, the Group explained that the eco-friendly system consists of PV modules mounted on tailor-made rope structures, specifically designed for the project.
The sun2rope PV energy installation, a first of its kind, is purposed to provide clean energy to the renowned Kenyan eco-retreat Cottar’s 1920 Camp, which is located close to Kenya’s famous national park, the Masai Mara.
The multi-award-winning Cottar’s 1920 Camp spreads over an area of 1,500 hectares, with a large concentration of watchable wildlife, and provides ten tents to host nature-loving safari tourist.
To supply the eco-resort with renewable energy, seven rows of 168 highly efficient polycrystalline PV modules, with a total capacity of 54 kWp have already been installed. Once the site is completely finalised and commissioned, the generated energy is intended to charge the batteries of the energy management and storage system sun2safe and inter alia for hot water treatment and for charging the sun2move e-bikes of the safari camp.
The modules are mounted on special long-life, exceptionally resistant technical ropes supported by robust wooden poles. These ropes are distinguished by their extremely high breaking strength and very low weight. Thus, the sun2rope solar PV structure is designed to resist wind speeds of up to 36 meters per second.
The core of the rope consists of a special UHMWPE (Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene) braid with a coat made of black UV resistant polyester braid. The technical ropes have been developed and engineered in conjunction with Gruschwitz Textilwerke AG, an enterprise from Germany (Baden-Württemberg), that has been engaged in this industry for more than 200 years.
With sun2rope the impact to the natural environment is minimised by the fact that heavy steel structures are replaced with rope and sturdy wood. It additionally contributes to achieving other targets, such as reducing the logistic costs by making use of the locally available wood from the controlled planting areas against steel structures with long shipping delays. This way the CO2 footprint of the installation is scaled back dramatically.
Being one of the eleven Global Ecosphere Retreats worldwide, the Cottar’s 1920 Camp is committed to the protection of nature and wildlife, as well as the preservation of the original culture and the lifestyle of the neighbouring Masai tribe, by combining cultural responsibility with animal welfare, sustainable management and soft tourism.
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How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
Lindsey German has an excellent knowledge of women’s history, and has written two perceptive books about women in the second half of the twentieth century, Sex, Class and Socialism (Bookmarks 1998) and Material Girls (Bookmarks 2007). As is well-known, she is also the National Convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, the biggest ever mass movement in Britain, and the one which organised the largest demonstration in British history on February 15, 2003, against war in Iraq. She is therefore the perfect person to write a book about women and war over the last one hundred years, and no one who reads How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women will be disappointed.
The book deals mainly with England, sometimes with Scotland and Wales, but not with Ireland, probably because of the very different experience of war there in the twentieth century, including the War of Independence from Britain. It is an informative, comprehensive, concise yet clear and accessible historical account of the major wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the roles women played. It is also a consideration of why women are at present taking a major part in anti-war movements in Britain and what that implies for the future. It is written in response to two questions: "Why did [the Stop the War] movement become such a vehicle for women’s political action, and what does that tell us about the position of women today?" (p. 1).
To answer those, the author interviewed 24 women (myself included), some of whose oral testimony goes back to World War Two, yet her use of similar material from memoirs in the chapter on the First World War means there is a continuity of style, which is lively and dramatic. For example, that chapter opens with the memory of a young woman "attending to ducklings" on an isolated Yorkshire farm which suggests a nineteenth-century pastoral scene, but it is abruptly shattered:
…a shell whizzed past my ear from the direction of the river. This was November 1914 and I refused to believe a farm boy who told me England was at war (p.10).
This perfectly illustrates the huge gulf between the life of a working woman not quite one hundred years ago and today. Within a few years, changes in the lives of working women and the proliferation of mass media would ensure that no one was quite so uninformed again. Chapter 6 opens in a similar isolated Yorkshire place, "outside the Menwith Hill spy base … on the afternoon of 11 September 2001" (when news came of the attack on the World Trade Centre). But this time, although the men give the woman (Helen John) the news of the attack, it is she who has the information the men are seeking; "two Ministry of Defence police officers … came to ask what I thought this meant" (p.135).
The First World War brought bereavement and hardship to most women but also the experience of jobs in munitions factories, on buses and trams, in the post, on the land and as bank clerks. Many argue that it was this work that led to women being granted the vote, but I am glad to say Lindsey is not one of these; she includes other factors such as the suffrage movement and the Russian Revolution.
After the war, however, she explains that there was a greater opening for women in education and in jobs outside the home, and a relaxation in dress. The Second World War brought more wide-ranging changes. A time of terror and tragedy: the Blitz, the loss of life, conscription of women as well as men, which was greater than in other countries, (p.43), yet it was also a time of greater freedom for single women. They were working in dangerous jobs and in areas of great danger, yet they faced it all with calm courage. Because they were working, they had more money and could go out to the pub, cinema or dance hall to meet men. Also, sexual attitudes were more relaxed, although this was still not equality and they did not get equal pay.
Lindsey shows that while women in England in the First and Second World Wars may have had to give up their wartime jobs at the end of the war, they never simply went back to domestic service in which they had largely worked before 1914. More women took up other job opportunities after 1945 in particular. Yet many of the women interviewed felt that war should not be the vehicle of change in women's lives. Elaheh Rostami Povey's remark suggests the progress that could be made in a world at peace: "You see movements can develop much more when there is no war, even when there are politically economic and cultural difficulties" (p.203). This, as Lindsey concludes, will require challenging the market and the profit structure (p.233).
In World War One, women from the suffrage movement were divided into those who opposed and those who supported the war. Those who opposed the war formed a group with an international outlook which wanted to join their European counterparts at the women's conference at The Hague in 1915. Yet there appears to have been no such group either between the wars or during World War Two in England, although there was another international conference in 1934. There were pacifist women during World War Two, as Angela Sinclair's testimony shows, but they were or became members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) or the Peace Pledge Union.
In the 1950s and 60s women were active in CND and were involved in the anti-Vietnam war campaigns. These were university educated women who were also involved in the women’s movement. In 1981, women began to camp outside the RAF air base at Greenham Common in protest against the US cruise missiles being based there. Some of those women went on to become active in the Stop the War Coalition, but for many women who opposed war it was not possible to camp outside the base. It would take a movement like Stop the War to involve women as a whole.
Perhaps the most interesting chapter for me is the one which describes the role of Muslim women in Stop the War and explains their greater involvement. Salma Yaqoob and Rania Khan were both shocked at the way the media immediately demonised Muslims after the World Trade Centre attack. They began to become active spokeswomen for their communities. Rania Khan said she "knew instinctively Muslims were going to be subject of a backlash … That is when I decided to wear my hijab, believing that I could promote my religion in a positive light." However, wearing the hijab caused a "wave of hostility" as Salma Yaqoob says: "Some of my female friends were abused and attacked. I was spat on as I walked with my three-year-old son in busy Birmingham city centre" (pp.137 and 135 respectively).
Muslim women were angry at the way in which the invasion of Afghanistan was portrayed as a mission to save Muslim women from oppression, symbolised as the wearing of the burqa. "Bikinis equal freedom; sex is emancipation" (p.174). A young British woman expressed her frustration at the ignorance and prejudice towards Muslim women: "They can't imagine we choose it … They just think we have no education, that Muslim women are stupid" (p.190). Yet, the women in Afghanistan have suffered the horrors of war and are suffering worsened oppression (p.176). An Afghan woman said that the dress was not the problem: "The problem is lack of security, lack of employment, lack of education and health" (p.177).
Rania Khan credits the anti-war movement with giving her "confidence, encouragement, knowledge of local and global issues, a voice when I felt voiceless and most importantly … a lot of love and support" (p.196).
Kate Connelly, still at school in 2003, also felt that the movement had educated her and that she had gained a lot of confidence and experience. Stop the War's conscious effort to encourage women as speakers was noted by Tansy Hoskins (p.206). Women like Jane Shallice brought their earlier experience of campaigning to the movement. Women are more prominent in today's anti-war movement but those interviewed disagreed over whether this is because war, as opposed to any other issue, politicises women for biological reasons. Most prefer to "feminise" mixed organisations rather than to organize separately, and have also taken up roles in the climate change and anti-cuts movements. Certainly, women are not going to leave the political arena and are not going to be returned to the kitchen sink!
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A List of the Catholic Top Ten
Inside the Vatican named its top ten Catholics of 2011 in January. No two Catholics would choose the same ten, but some of these have news stories or library articles on CatholicCulture.org. They are:
- Fr. Cassian Folsom, OSB, a Massachusetts native who refounded the monastery in Norcia, Italy, the birthplace of St. Benedict.
- Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God, a convert from Judaism born in Brooklyn, who founded her own order within the Benedictine family—Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope—in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, born in Shanghai, and a fearless defender of the Church in China as the sixth Chinese cardinal in Church history.
- Birgit Wansing, a consecrated German woman in the Schoenstatt Movement, who for 25 years has transcribed the writings of Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict from pencil-written drafts to the computer.
- Sister Patricia Murray, from Ireland, a Loreto Sister who leads 170 religious communities in the “Solidarity with South Sudan” project.
- Marino Restrepo, a Colombian native whose kidnapping in 1997 caused him to return to his faith, obtaining altar vessels and vestments for poor churches and founding the lay mission Pilgrims of Love.
- Dr. Ornella Parlini, an Italian scientist who specializes in the study of placental cells in effective stem cell therapies, rendering embryonic cells unnecessary.
- Mercedes Wilson, born in Guatemala, living in Washington, DC, and a tireless pro-life advocate who has served in Vatican delegations at United Nations conferences.
- Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Swiss theologian who now heads the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Pontifical Council for Religious Relations with the Jews.
- Archbishop Pietro Sambi, selected posthumously after playing a long, significant and courageous role in the Church’s diplomatic service.
You may have your own top ten. For me, the Pakistani martyr Shabhaz Bhatti comes to mind. Each of these men and women illustrates a different mode of service to Christ, the Church and the world.
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953(d) Elections: The Basics
Editor's note: Some non-US domiciled captive insurers may elect, under section 953(d) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), to be taxed as if they were domestic companies. In an IRMI.com expert commentary article, titled "Has the IRS Lost Its Collective Mind?," the late Donald J. Riggin wrote the following.
The main reason [a non-US captive insurer would volunteer to be taxed by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)] is that the U.S. shareholders of a foreign captive are subject to U.S. taxation anyway. Since 1986, owners of what are known as controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) must declare such ownership and pay taxes commensurate with their respective earnings. The captive itself, as a CFC, is not taxed, but the shareholders are, which washes out the pre-1986 tax advantage of forming a CFC.
In Taxnotes, Volume 152, Number 11, September 12, 2016, from KPMG, Sheryl Flum, Jean M. Baxley, and Liz Petrie shared the following.
US-source premiums of a US-controlled foreign insurance company are subject to federal excise tax (FET), adding "1 percent or 4 percent [based on the type of coverage provided] to the cost of insurance for the U.S. insured." A non-US insurer electing to be taxed as a US company is not subject to FET "on premiums paid to foreign insurers and reinsurers," which can improve the insurance company's competitiveness in the United States.
Thereby, "a foreign corporation that makes the election is subject to U.S. income tax on its worldwide income" as well as state and local income tax.
"Also, a foreign insurance company engaged in a U.S. insurance business is subject to a branch profits tax on its … [specific] earnings and profits … at a statutory rate of 30 percent."
The following article from Saren Goldner and P. Bruce Wright provides a basic overview of requirements, procedures, and compliance aspects surrounding the 953(d) election.
The IRC allows certain non-US insurance companies to elect under IRC section 953(d) (a "D election") to be subject to US federal income tax as if they are US domestic corporations.
In order to make a D election, the following four requirements must be met.
- It must, in general, be a 25 percent US-owned and controlled foreign corporation.
- It must qualify as an insurance company (which would include a reinsurance company) for federal tax purposes.
- It must meet the requirements that the secretary of treasury prescribes to ensure that taxes imposed by the IRC are paid.
- It must make a D election and waive all benefits to such entity granted by the United States under any treaty.
Making a D Election—Procedure
In order to make a D election, the following must occur.
- The electing corporation must file an "election statement" to which must be attached a list of all US shareholders as of a date no more than 90 days prior to the date of the statement. The list must be updated each taxable year that the election is in effect. Also in the election statement, the electing corporation must include an agreement to produce its books and records or a true and accurate copy in the United States upon request by the IRS.
- The election must be filed by the due date (including extensions) for the return that is due if the election becomes effective. Once approved, the election is effective from the first day of the first year for which it is made. Thus, for example, if the election is to be effective January 1, 2018, the due date for the return would be October 15, 2019.
- An electing corporation must determine the tax due on its income as if it were a domestic corporation and "timely file the US tax return that is due when the election becomes effective and must timely pay any US taxes due (including estimated payments)" (emphasis added).
It is important to note that the IRS currently takes the position that the election statement cannot be filed with the IRS until the year for which the election is to be effective has closed.
In addition, the electing corporation must comply with one of the following requirements.
- It must maintain an office or another fixed place of business within the United States and own assets physically located in the United States with an adjusted basis equal to 10 percent of its gross income for the base year.
- Its affiliate (in the case of membership in a US-consolidated group) must comply with the above office test. If this option is selected, the affiliate must enter into a closing agreement with the IRS and agree to be liable for the federal excise tax FET in the event that the election is revoked or terminated.
- The electing corporation provides a letter of credit of 10 percent of gross income (but not less than $75,000 nor more than $10,000,000).
For the above purposes, a property and casualty company's "gross income" is gross premiums written less return premiums and reinsurance premiums ceded plus gross investment income (and any other income listed in IRC section 832(b)(1)). The base year is the taxable year immediately prior to the election year, or if there is no income in such year, then it is the first election year. If the first year is not a full year, gross income is earned on an annualized basis. A later year will become a base year if the gross income in that year is 120 percent of the original base year's income.
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Saskatchewan’s highway infrastructure is paving the way for an economic boom, as billions of new investment dollars are pouring into the province as part of an economic growth plan.
“In the last year or so, we have seen $15 billion of private investment in the province,” said Saskatchewan’s new Highway Minister Jeremy Cockrill, who came to the cabinet post in June. The influx of new investments includes the largest potash mine development in the world and new forest industry manufacturing facilities and ventures.
“We know there is going to be more traffic on the highways and there is going to be heavier truck traffic,” he said, as the province looks to upgrade and improve its highway structure. “We know we have to make that investment of government to accommodate new industry.”
Last year Saskatchewan spent $830 million in highway improvements and the 2022 budget calls for investing another $479.5 million. Major two-lane arterials are being twinned and passing lanes added to address increasing economic vehicle traffic.
Cockrill estimates 1,100 kilometres of road within the provincial roadway will be built or upgraded in 2022.
“It is still early in the year,” he said, as the exact tally isn’t determined yet, and some contractors have fallen behind because of a wet spring, but he is confident the ministry will still make its commitment.
The estimate will add to the target set out in Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan 2020-2030 which aims to build or upgrade 10,000 kilometres of provincial highway over the decade.
Saskatchewan was ahead of schedule last year with 1,350 improvements bringing a 2020 and 2021 total to 2,350 kilometres upgraded so far.
The ambitious growth plan calls for increasing the population by 1.4 million, bringing in as much as $16 billion annually in new investment, creating 100,000 new jobs, increasing the value of exports by 50 per cent, increasing international markets by $1 billion, increasing agri-food exports to $20 billion, and doubling the size of the forest industry as well as bringing potash sales to $9 billion.
“The plan really impacts everything we do,” said Cockrill.
Cockrill said Saskatchewan has one of the largest road networks per capita in Canada with an extensive grid that covered the entire southern half of the province. Major four-lane highways include Highway 1 (connecting Regina, Moose Jaw and Swift Current), Highway 15 and Highway 11.
“It is the two-lane highways where we have made a targeted effort,” he said, focusing now on those areas that are impacted by economic growth or corridors that serve large-volume vehicle traffic such as municipalities, industrial and agricultural areas.
Safety is also a major concern on highways and intersections. Cockrill said the province has made a concerted effort to make intersections safer after the 2018 Humboldt truck and bus crash that saw 16 killed and 13 injured.
In 2019, a five-year $100-million program was launched to improve intersection safety which includes intersection design improvements, improving sightlines, eased entry from small roads onto busier highways and rumble strips.
Another area of focus has been the Saskatoon to the Alberta border, said Cockrill, as it is a major corridor to markets such as Calgary and to West Coast ports.
Twinning of Highway 7 has occurred from Saskatoon to Delisle and passing lanes have been installed along the route with the latest west of Kindersley.
More twinning is now occurring on major routes.
Cockrill said twinning is occurring on Highway 3 from the intersection on Highway 2 to the Shell River Bridge for a distance of eight kilometres. The design, provided by Associated Engineering, also included passing lanes between Shellbrook and the Shell River Bridge, which opened late last year. The twinning project is expected to be completed by fall 2022.
Highway 5 is also undergoing a three-phase upgrade concluding a 10 kilometre section of twinning slated for the area from Saskatoon to Old 27 Road. The proposal calls for tenders for this third phase to be made in the winter of 2022 with construction carried out in 2023 to 2025.
Highway 5’s first phase, now complete, included about 10 kilometres of repaving, widening and sightline improvements through the hills and valleys east of Old 27 Road to Blucher Road. Contractor HJR Asphalt of Saskatoon carried out the work. HJR Asphalt has five portable asphalt plants and produces the majority of Saskatchewan’s cold mix asphalt used in maintenance work.
The second phase is being carried out in two contracts to limit road construction over the 30 kilometre stretch of highway from Highway 2 to Blucher Road. Langenburg Redi-Mix of Regina is the contractor for the first segment work from Highway 2 to about 15 kilometres west. The work includes repaving, widening, sightline improvements and the construction of eastbound and westbound passing lanes.
Design work is nearing completion for the second segment of Phase 2, which will stretch the final 15 kilometres to Blucher Road.
In addition, the ministry this spring provided funding to 13 short-line railways, which service the grain industry, totalling over $500,000 to improve rail lines, bridges and intersections.
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What do you think?
Opinion: I think this shade of blue best fits our brand.
Agreement: We’ve all decided to go with this shade of blue.
Fact: This is one of many shades of blue.
Objectivity is not nearly as common as we’d like to believe. If you really analyzed your day-to-day experience, you might notice how many opinions are thrown around under the guise of truth.
This is both the benefit and drawback of creative work. On the one hand you cannot be objectively right, and on the other hand you cannot be objectively wrong.
What do you see, and how does it make you feel?
When you create something for someone, what matters is how it makes them feel. What matters is whether or not they like it. What does not matter is whether or not it is factually correct as that is not an option.
This is easy to see when giving weight to a single individual’s opinion. Where things get tricky is when you have multiple people’s opinions in agreement. The greater the number of people in agreement about some thing, the more substantial that opinion feels. If everyone agrees, it must be true. It is presumably given more weight.
It is important to note nothing is necessarily any more true simply because more people agreed in their opinion.
Is this good?
What if I told you it’s a Picasso?
What if I told you it’s someone trying to paint in Picasso’s cubist style?
Does it change your opinion of the piece? Would it change the agreement among art critics? Can you make a factual statement about its quality?
How about this?
What does she see, and how does it make her feel?
Opinions, Agreements, and Facts
More often than not, we conflate our opinions with facts. We do this even more often when others agree with it.
It’s a trap of the human mind.
There’s nothing wrong with having opinions. There’s nothing wrong with seeking out agreement to move forward.
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Alice C. Linsley
This essay should be read along with this essay: Are Adam and Eve Real?
In this short entry we explore the nature of the biblical figures Adam, Eve and their relationship. I believe that Adam and Eve are archetypal ancestors, or meta-historical figures, who represent the first created couple. In this sense they represent something true and real, but the Biblical details that pertain to them should not be taken as history.
Archetypes in the ancient world were regarded as real in the Platonic sense. Plato, who studied for 13 years in Egypt, likely borrowed the concept of Forms or Archetypes from the ancient Egyptians.
Whether taken as historical or meta-historical, Adam and Eve represent the first created humans in the Bible. Since the oldest human fossils are about 3.4 million years old, we would have to place Adam and Eve back at least that far, if they are historical. If they are meta-historical it would be futile to attach a time period to them. Either interpretation leads to the conclusion that these were the ancestors of the Genesis Kings and the Mighty Men of Old.
Archbishop James Ussher believed Adam and Eve were historical and he attempted to calculate the age of the Earth using the generations listed in Genesis. Ussher failed to recognize that these lists are not generational. They are regnal, that is to say, they can't be used to count generations because they are king lists and some kings ruled simultaneously, others ruled for short periods, and still others ruled for longer than a generation (40 years).
Most of the rulers had two wives so there were two first born sons. Ussher didn't take this into consideration, which is another reason his chronology cannot be used to determine the age of the Earth. The children of the first wife (a half-sister) were born when the royal heir was a young man. The children of the second wife (a patrilineal cousin or niece) were born after than heir had ascended to the throne. Typically, there was a span of about 30 years between the two marriages.
In fact, the first verifiably historical persons in Genesis are the kings listed in the Genesis 4 and 5 king lists. Analysis of the Gen. 4 and 5 kinship reveals that the founder of the lines descending from Cain and Seth is not Adam, but Enoch.
Sorting the historical from the legendary and the mythological
Sometimes it isn't easy to sort the historical from legend or from myth. King Menes probably lived, but he is veiled in legend and myth to the degree that some believe that he was not historical.
In the ancient world people didn't make sharp distinctions between mythological and historical. For example, the ancient Egyptians began their official history with a king named "Meni" or Menes. Menes was credited with founding the First dynasty of Egypt, around 3100 BC. He may have been an historical figure or he may be a mythical founder similar to Romulus and Remus for ancient Rome. We don't know, but that doesn't lessen the significance of his story or minimize the reality of founders of whole civilizations.
The name Meni or Meri has associations with Noah. Mount Meri is likely the mountain where Noah's ark landed, probably in the area of modern Kenya or Tanzania.
Whether historical or archetypal ancestor, Adam and Eve are the founders of the human race in biblical parlance. They are the first Father and first Mother, the first Husband-Wife relationship. It is self-evident that the human race propagates through biological reproduction and this involves a father and a mother. Clearly, at some point in the past there was at least one original set of parents, but their names are not known as they lived many millions of years ago.
The Afro-Asiatics from whom we receive the Bible called the first parents Adam and Eve. These names intend to explain the function of the Father and the Mother. Adam is of the earth/dust yet he lives by the breath of God. He is the one from whom Eve receives her material substance since she is made from his body. Eve is the “mother of all the living” which indicates her function as the birth-giver. The meaning of these names is not prototypal, but archetypal. An archetype has symbolic value. It represents all the others in a group or class, in this case all humanity.
It is genius to use an archetype to represent humanity when there is no knowledge of the prototype of humanity. And the archetype stitches biblical theology together, for without the First Adam (humans in the condition of sin) we would not be able to understand the Second Adam (humans as they are in Christ).
The relationship of Adam and Eve serves as the archetype for the relationship of Christ and His Church, for just as Eve received life through Adam’s body, so the Church receives life through Christ’s Body. The symbolism is so rich! The kinship pattern of Abraham's Horite people speaks of many mysteries revealed in Jesus Christ.
The relationship of Adam and Eve gains further dimension when they are explored in light of the Patriarchal narratives. To receive his own kingdom, Abraham had to leave his father’s house. Likewise, Genesis 2:24 says, “For this reason a man will leave his Father and his mother and cleave to his wife…”, so Christ left His Father’s house to become one with His Bride.
Before Isaac could receive the kingdom from his father, he had to marry. Likewise, Christ will marry His bride before He receives the eternal Kingdom from His Father. As Abraham and the rulers of his people had two wives, it is likely that Isaac married a sister-wife as well as Rebekah, his patrilineal cousin. This was the pattern of the Horite ruler-priests. This is why Abraham went to great pains to see that Isaac married his second wife before he died. Here is a wonderful mystery: before the Father delivers the Kingdom to the Son, the Son must marry his Bride, the Church. Christ has said that until that great day He shall not drink of the fruit of the vine.
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First of all - please don't give me warnings if I write something that is not correct here. I'm just trying to understand the Big Bang theory, and I have some problems with it. OK, the red shift. What does it indicate? I don't believe it indicates velocity and distance, because there are numerous observations of quasars that seemingly have an arm connection to a galaxy, but where the galaxy and the quasar have very different red shifts. How can this be explained? | <urn:uuid:b4b02553-5022-413e-aaed-2952b564bff0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-red-shift-what-does-it-indicate.233276/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00403-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971418 | 99 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The state has cited Grand Rapids Public Schools for suspending a “significantly disproportionate” number of black and special education students -- a move that has forced the district to shift $1 million in federal funds to address the problem.
The district is reexamining policies and creating early intervention strategies, but it has not stopped suspending students for serious offenses, Superintendent Bernard Taylor said this week, seeking to dispel misconceptions.
”It is a misnomer that anyone has been told not to suspend students,” he said.
“Every concerted effort is being made to address issues around safety,” Taylor said. “We have built a support structure around students that is designed to keep them in school -- but not at all costs. We are not talking about weapons violations, bomb threats or fights.”
He said the district is under sanction by the state Education Department requiring it to redirect $1 million in special education funds into general education “to deal with the over suspension of special education students and African American males.”
The state monitored Grand Rapids for rates of suspension and expulsion greater than 10 days for black students with disabilities, and for all students with disabilities.
“They were selected for monitoring because the data reported by GRPS indicated a significant discrepancy in the rate of suspensions for all students with disabilities as well as African American students with disabilities,” the state reported.
GRPS was directed to develop a plan and be in compliance within a year.
The state’s findings came in the spring of 2010, but they were disclosed by Taylor this week because of growing public questions about suspension policies.
The report, which reviewed 2008-09 data, revealed that out of 268 special education suspensions/expulsions, 186 were black, 34 Hispanic, 29 white, 18 multi-ethnic and 1 Asian. Ottawa Hills had the most of the high schools with 22, all black students.
The building principal ultimately makes the decision whether someone warrants suspension, administrators said.
The state said GRPS was required to reserve 15 percent of its federal IDEA (Individuals with Disability Education Act) funds for early intervention services.
The state says this is not a financial sanction, but a requirement that more special education funds be used for programs to prevent high rates of suspension and expulsion.
“We began last March doing some pretty comprehensive planning involving principals and departments such as student services, to figure out how we could not suspend as much and also come up with some alternative interventions,” said Veronica Lake, the district’s executive director for accountability and compliance.
For example, she said, intervention rooms were implemented this school year.
Taylor said what gets students suspended often is that catch-all category, disruptive behavior.
’”I think direction from the board is going to have to be obtained in order for us to seriously deal with this issue about over-representation of student groups that comprise the highest number of suspensions,” Taylor told his board Monday.
The district has nearly 19,000 students and blacks represent more than 40 percent of the population.
Taylor said the issue of minority suspension rates has come up in previous decades.
“It is clearly something that is not a recent phenomenon.”
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U.S. flag shipping interests called on the federal government to strictly enforce cargo preference laws.
Testifying before the U.S. House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee on behalf of the USA Maritime, former Maritime Administrator William Schubert said "perhaps nothing is more important to the viability of the privately owned U.S. flag commercial fleet than adequate cargo preference enforcement. MarAd must substantially improve its cargo preference efforts to prevent a significant decrease in the number of vessels under U.S. flag.
"Almost exactly two years ago — on Sept. 30, 2011 — MarAd held a listening session on what it could do to improve its administration of cargo preference," he continued. "Industry commenters universally demanded that MarAd do its job and promulgate regulations to implement the 2008 cargo preference amendment enacted by Congress as soon as possible. Now it is two years later, and nothing has been done. The industry can no longer wait for MarAd and implores this subcommittee and the full committee to use its influence to institute the long overdue regulations."
His comments echoed remarks by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the subcommttee who said that in 2008, Congress strengthened MarAd's ability to "properly enforce our cargo preference laws. Unfortunately, the administration continues to drag their feet and refuses to promulgate rules to implement the law. Meanwhile, the number of ships flying the U.S. flag in overseas trade continues to dwindle.
"The inaction on implementing the 2008 law," he added, "coupled with the president’s misguided efforts to restructure the Food for Peace Program, has left me baffled. It would appear by their actions that this administration simply does not understand or care about the critical role the U.S. flag industry plays in expanding our economy and ensuring our national security."
Acting Maritime Administrator Paul Jaenichen said the agency is "engaged in an intensive rule-development process" to update the cargo rules.
"I acknowledge the frustration that has been expressed about the delay in implementing this rule," he said. "However, significant efforts have been put into a proposed rulemaking by the Department of Transportation and MarAd over the past several years. These efforts will inform and guide the proposed rule MarAd currently is drafiting." - Chris Dupin | <urn:uuid:717a56b4-e93e-42b8-824e-57d17c940a8f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://americanshipper.com/Main/News/55067.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956175 | 474 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The Ultimate Guide to Different Types of Tenders
Table of Contents
- 1. Request for Quotation
- 2. Request For Proposal
- 3. Invitation to Tender/ Invitation to Bid
- 4. Framework Agreements
- 5. Expression of Interest
- 6. PreQualifications
- 8. Conclusion
We all seem to get confused when we are faced with a new concept, a new subject or a new industry. It's the same thing when you are new to tendering.
There are quite a number of tendering terms that you need to understand. There are many different types of tenders, and you can easily become confused. For example, you may find out that one buyer is asking for an Invitation to Tender (ITT) and another one is asking for an Expression of Interest (EOI). So what do these mean? What's the difference?
In this guide, I will walk you through all the types of tenders that you may encounter when looking for tender opportunities, especially government tenders. For each type of tender, you will be able to learn what it is, their purpose and how your bids or proposals or offers are evaluated.
The three phrases, “bids” or “proposals” or “offers” are nothing to worry about. These terms basically mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably.
Now, let's dive in.
1. Request for Quotation
It is a request for pricing and payment information about a very clear and specific solution or goods and services e.g. “Supply and delivery of Air Filters for ACO3 Compressor”. As you can see, the buyer knows the type of compressor that’s involved as well as the exact type and the number of air filters that he or she wants.
The purpose of an RFQ is to inform you as a potential supplier that: “Here is the solution that we want to pursue. We would love a cost breakdown of how much you can offer it for”.
A RFQ is typically used for :
★ Products/Services for day to day operations
★ Low value Purchase Orders or contracts
★ Standardized, off the shelf products/ services
In simple terms, a Purchase Order is a one page agreement with just a few terms. On the other hand, a Contract has many pages and detailed conditions outlining the agreement.
When it comes to evaluation, all your offers are evaluated based mainly on price since the goods or services may be standard in nature. Here you are only required to submit product price, a correct description of the technical specification of the product, payment terms and delivery period.
One good thing about RFQs is that the buyer is definitely committed to making a purchase. And these usually take less time to award a contract because the requirements are standard and not too detailed.
Here are some RFQs from Tendertube :
2. Request For Proposal
Now, let's take a look at Request for Proposal (RFP).
It is a request for a solution from different vendors so that they can be compared based on merits, demerits and pain points they intend to solve.
The purpose is to inform you as a vendor that, “Hey, we are looking for a solution for this problem. Can you give us your offer? Tell us why your solution is the best for our particular needs? And why are you the right choice for the solution?” So, the Buyer is not looking for the cheapest price. Instead, they are looking for the most flexible or innovative solution to meet their organizational needs.
The information that is requested typically includes:
★ Basic Corporate information and company history (What is your reputation and past experience? Are you credible?)
★ Financial Information( Can the company deliver without any risk of bankruptcy?)
★ Technical Capability/ Methodology to deliver your proposed solution
★ Key personnel with experience and qualifications to deliver the offered solution
★ Implementation Schedule/Timeline to deliver the solution
★ Cost of the solution offered
In most cases, this type of tender is normally used for consultancy services or other intellectual services.
When it comes to evaluation, your proposals are evaluated against a weighted criteria i.e experience, understanding of the assignment, technical method, key personnel and lastly on price . Sometimes, making the right decision when you have a number of options can be tough. That’s why buyers use a weighted criteria as a tool to help them in the decision making process.
So what is a weighted criteria? It is simply a table with multiple options( consultants/service providers in this case) listed across the top and criteria (e.g., Methodology, Key personnel, Experience) listed in the leftmost column. The criteria are weighted relative to their perceived importance and then each consultant is scored against each criteria.
In addition, you have to know that once an organization issues out an RFP, it is definitely committed to make a purchase
In addition, you have to know that once an organization issues out an RFP, it is definitely committed to make a purchase
In addition, you have to know that once an organization issues out an RFP, it is definitely committed to make a purchaseThe key idea here is that an RFP is more than a price quote. Detailed information is required. Why? Because a service is not touchable and the quality of the solution offered depends on the quality of the company and personnel delivering the solution. To add on to that ,consultancy tenders may involve large amounts of money which can even go up to millions.
Therefore the evaluation is very thorough and offers side by side facts based on vendor capabilities.
3. Invitation to Tender/ Invitation to Bid
The third type that you need to know is the Invitation to Tender (ITT). It is sometimes known as an Invitation to Bid (ITB).
It is a request to suppliers, contractors or service providers to supply goods or bid for works contracts. It is openly advertised to everyone in the newspaper or online tender portals such as Tendertube.
An Invitation to Tender can come in two types. The first one is Invitation to Domestic Competitive Bidding. With these Domestic Tenders, only locals are allowed to participate.
The second one is Invitation to International Competitive Bidding. With these International Tenders, locals as well as international players are allowed to participate. This type of tender is normally used in large value and complex contracts.
Just like the RFP, your offers are evaluated in two stages, first on qualitative factors and then lastly on price. The criteria for the first stage of evaluation is based around financial stability and trading history, previous experience, core competence, capability and process and quality standards.
Be sure to keep in mind that the evaluation criteria differs with each type of tender. There is no one size fits all. What this means is that the evaluation criteria for goods is totally different from that of works. And Buyers include the evaluation criteria in the Invitation to Bid.
When an organization issues an ITT, it is very intent on purchasing. So the more you understand the assignment, the better chance you have at winning that bid.
Once again, detailed information is required. The evaluation is very thorough.Why? Because we are talking about the complexity of goods and works required and that large amounts of money that may exceed millions is involved. It's a huge risk. Therefore more documentation is required to determine the supplier or contractor with the best technical capacity and capability.
Here is an example of an Invitation to Tender(Domestic):
3. Framework Agreements
Now, let's move on to Framework Agreements.
It is an agreement between a buyer and a group of suppliers offering the same standard goods or services . It sets out the terms and conditions under which goods or services can be awarded throughout the period of agreement.
These terms might include price, quality, quantities and time scales. And the Framework Agreement can last for a period of about 1-5 years.
It is used when a procuring entity intends to acquire a series of standard goods or services over a period of time but before the details of the particular delivery time, place and quantity have been identified. The terms and conditions are agreed at the time of entering the Framework Agreement. You can have a Framework Agreement with unit prices already agreed or without unit prices.
When a specific quantity of goods or service is required, the suppliers under the Framework Agreement are invited to submit a quotation. This process is called a Mini Competition. Suppliers can even offer better prices than those that were included in the Framework Agreement.
The Buyer then issues a Call Off Contract to allow the supplier to proceed with delivery. Stay with us… we’re throwing another term in the mix but it's relevant. A Call Off Contract is an individual contract that falls under Framework Agreements. Simply, it is more like a Purchase Order.
The reason why buyers use Framework Agreements is to avoid issuing repeated tenders for the same goods/ services.They do not have to go through the tender process each time thereby reducing administrative burden in terms of time and costs. However, winning a Framework Agreement is not a guarantee of work. It's just an agreement that sets out the terms and conditions that would apply for an order or Call Off Contract.
To give an example of how the Framework Agreement actually works, let's say a government entity decides to use a framework agreement for the provision of accommodation and logistic services for its foreign diplomatic/business visitors.
During the first round of competition, a pool of service providers with experience in this type of service are selected and Framework Agreements are signed. This can be with unit rates or without unit rates.
And then, when the visits are scheduled, a second round of competition is used to choose one of the service providers with competitive rates to handle each specific visit.
So the first round will be evaluated more like an RFP to enter into a Framework Agreement and the second round will be evaluated more like an RFQ to issue an order.
Although some more work is required to win the contract, Framework Agreements are highly beneficial for small businesses in the following three ways:
1. It can provide you with the opportunity to work with high profile buyers
2. It can significantly enhance suppliers reputation and prestige/ profile
3. It can help build a long term relationship with the buyer
Here is how a Framework Agreement works:
4. Expression of Interest
The other type of tender that you should look out for is Expression of Interest.
It is a request that is used when searching the market for potential suppliers or service providers. After that the buyers will then go back to the market later with a detailed request. So it is the first stage before issuing out an RFP to shortlisted bidders.
EOIs are important especially for those who specialize in consultancy services. The purpose of the EOI is to shortlist suppliers who have the capacity to perform the contract.
This means that, it is your opportunity as a supplier or service provider to demonstrate your suitability, interest and availability in relation to the opportunity.You need to provide important information about organisational capability and resources, financial viability, sustainability principles and value addition.
However, winning an EOI is not a guarantee of work since it's basically the first stage in a bidding process. . Remember the general intent of issuing an Expression of Interest is not to immediately enter into a contract with the shortlisted companies. But rather it is a process to ensure that the RFP is only issued to suppliers who have the capability to provide the needed solution.
Plus, EOI often doesn't require a price estimate. For that reason, an EOI will involve a further request such as a Request for Proposal or an Invitation to Tender.
Here is an example of an Expression of Interest
Last but certainly not least ,let's discuss Prequalifications.
This type of tender is used to ensure that eligible and capable contractors who are able to perform the works contract are selected. Prequalifications are important for those who specialize in large works contracts such as construction projects.
The reason why buyers use Prequalifications is:
1. To ensure experienced capable contractors or with qualified personnel and other resources will submit bids
2. To prevent unqualified bidders from incurring expensive bid preparation costs
3. To save time during evaluation of complex bidsThis means that, it is your opportunity as a supplier or service provider to show your suitability, interest and availability in relation to the opportunity.
The evaluation criteria includes the following:
★ Past experience in similar works
★ Technical capability and resources
★ Financial strength
★ Management strength and availability of qualified key personnel
However, winning a Prequalification is not a guarantee of work. The general intention is not to enter into a contract Instead, it is to shortlist qualified contractors with technical and financial capacity. For that reason, a prequalification is likely to be followed by a further request such as Invitation to Tender to those shortlisted firms.
Here is an example of an Evaluation Report for a Prequalification using a pass or fail criteria:
Whether you are a supplier, contractor, service provider or consultant, you now know the types of tenders that you should look out for, how they work and what is involved.
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Accession Number : ADA299015
Title : Military Police Operations in the Okinawa Campaign.
Descriptive Note : Master'e thesis 2 Aug 94-2 Jun 95,
Corporate Author : ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
Personal Author(s) : Emerson, James J.
PDF Url : ADA299015
Report Date : 02 JUN 1995
Pagination or Media Count : 127
Abstract : During the World War II campaign to seize the island of Okinawa, Operation Iceberg, U.S. Tenth Army employed a significant U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps military police structure. However, the challenges posed to these units by military traffic, nearly 300, 000 enemy civilians, and over 10,000 prisoners of war are issues largely neglected by historians. This study analyzes the overall effectiveness and value of the largest joint military police operation in the Pacific theater. It evaluates military police force structure and operations by assessing pre-campaign planning and results of operations with extant historical doctrine, operational setting, and historical information. Historical military police doctrine is discussed to identify standards which existed in 1945. Intelligence or other information about the operational environment is examined for relevance to doctrine. Finally, historical accounts or information about military police operations are contrasted with doctrine and operational setting. Historical information is assessed within five mission areas; traffic control operations, prisoner of war operations, civilian handling operations, security operations, and law and order operations. Within these mission areas information is further organized by unit, time, and relation to the tactical situation. Detailed assessment and evaluation reveal Tenth Army military police overall effectiveness and value in Operation Iceberg.
Descriptors : *MILITARY HISTORY, *MILITARY POLICE, *OKINAWA, MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES), MILITARY OPERATIONS, CONTROL, GLOBAL, THEATER LEVEL OPERATIONS, MILITARY DOCTRINE, MILITARY VEHICLES, MISSIONS, AREA SECURITY, PACIFIC OCEAN, PRISONERS OF WAR, HISTORIANS.
Subject Categories : Sociology and Law
Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
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Dizzy And Vertigo Institute Of Los Angeles
Vertigo is usually the feeling of the whole globe, moving, rotating, or rocking all of a sudden when a person is standing flawlessly still. Some people also use words vertigo to define various signs, ranging from wooziness to queasiness and balance problems. The following therapy options are frequently made use of to treat dizziness and vertigo. Dizzy And Vertigo Institute Of Los Angeles
If your dizziness or vertigo has actually been diagnosed as a result of any hidden clinical condition, you must consult your doctor instantly prior to starting any type of workouts. Even if the signs and symptoms you are experiencing are not because of a clinical condition, you need to still see your physician to ensure that your symptoms are not a result of another thing. Your medical professional will likely recommend a number of exercises or other measures to treat your vertigo.
Dizzy And Vertigo Institute Of Los Angeles
Lightheadedness and vertigo are caused by physical aspects. Nonetheless, some people are born with a slight difference in their internal ears, which can cause them to really feel lightheaded. This is most typically called sensorineural hearing loss or more typically described as wooziness. Various other physical aspects consist of poor muscle tone, including the muscles of the tongue and also the facial muscle mass, and/or abnormalities of vision. Some signs that are thought about milder versions of wooziness are: the feeling of running out your body, a feeling that gravity is kicking you in the tummy, lightheadedness, vomiting, supplanting the ears, sensations like you are mosting likely to pass out, feeling detached from your body or world, feeling like you are going bananas, or sensations that absolutely nothing makes sense. Dizzy And Vertigo Institute Of Los Angeles
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No therapy is long-term or necessary. Dizziness will resolve itself. If you continue to have signs after two days or if your lightheadedness lasts for greater than three days, you should check out a medical professional. The medical professional will certainly perform a series of tests to determine the cause of your signs. Some reasons for lightheadedness might be short-lived problems such as rest apnea or equilibrium troubles triggered by a just recently identified disease. Some conditions such as diabetic issues, Parkinson’s disease, and hyperthyroidism can also cause dizziness as well as need to be assessed and also dealt with.
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This is a set of five volumes of the spectacular 6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inch, very heavily illustrated brown and tan half-leather hardcover series that officially documents the history of the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Das Dritte Reich (The Third Reich) was written by Gerd Rühle and published in the 1930s by Hummelverlag of Berlin, Germany. These books provide the most comprehensive documentation and photos available of the important events and the day-by-day milestones of each year in the growth, stabilization and expansion of the political power of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Authorized by the NSDAP, the text portion of these books covers virtually every aspect of the history and personalities of the Nazi Party. Each book contains approximately 500 pages and at the back of each one there is a section of about 100 pages of archival photos, newspaper reproductions, portraits, and ephemera that are simply unavailable elsewhere.
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These are extremely rare books which were published in annual volumes of the same size, color and format. This set of books is fundamental to any study of the subjects of Nazism, Hitler, the Third Reich and its personalities, Nazi medals, orders and decorations, Nazi Party advertising and propaganda, early Reichs Party Days, etc., etc. The text and photos in these books are simply not available elsewhere.
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Das Dritte Reich - Documentary Depiction of the Building of the Nation, Volume III, 1935
Das Dritte Reich - Documentary Depiction of the Building of the Nation, Volume IV, 1936
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The attention Seneca attracted in his lifetime and succeeding generations not only preserves information about his biography: it also merits interpretation as a cultural phenomenon on its own terms. This paper argues that the life of Seneca achieved exemplary status because it enabled Romans to think through issues critical to the preservation of social order. As a new man who rose to power as the republican noble families were dying out, Seneca posed the question of imperial succession in an acute form. As a member of an imperial elite that was increasingly inclusive in its recruitment strategies, Seneca validated reliance on education and key cultural competencies as markers of elite status and legitimacy. His renown articulates a shift in emphasis within Roman culture from gloria-the old republican ideal based on zero-sum competition for honor-to claritas, or claritudo-distinction for special achievement or characteristics that grants entrée to a collective elite. The specific cultural competencies demonstrated by Seneca and noted by those who spread his renown alert us to practices the Romans especially valued, namely theatricality, the use of writing to display a persona, the mastery of general discourse, and the interpretation of politics in ethical terms. As an exemplum Seneca could be-and was-the target of both praise and blame. The story of his close relationship with Nero and subsequent tragic death placed him among the sacrificial victims Romans seemed to regard as legitimizing a social order based on domination by a well-defined elite. In addition to various of Seneca's writings, this essay considers in particular the Tacitean narrative of his relationship with Nero, Quintilian's analysis of his achievement and influence, and his depiction in Octavia.
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Lowland South America, including the Amazon Basin, harbors most of the last indigenous societies that have limited contact with the outside world. Studying these tribes, located deep within Amazonian rainforests, gives scientists a glimpse at what tribal cultures may have been like before the arrival of Europeans. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have used satellite images to assess the demographic health of one particular village of isolated people on the border between Brazil and Peru. Remote surveillance is the only method to safely track uncontacted indigenous societies and may offer information that can improve their chances for long-term survival.
Rob Walker, an assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Science at MU, collaborated with Marcus Hamilton, postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. They used Google Earth satellite imagery to estimate the area of the fields and the size of the village belonging to the tribe, as well as the living area of the tribe's temporary housing, and compared that with similar estimates for 71 other Brazilian indigenous communities.
"We found that the estimated population of the village is no more than 40 people," Walker said. "A small, isolated village like this one faces an imminent threat of extinction. However, forced contact from the outside world is ill-advised, so a non-invasive means of monitoring the tribe is recommended. A remote surveillance program using satellite images taken periodically of this group would help track the movements and demographic health of the population without disrupting their lives."
Using information captured from remote surveillance, scientists can help shape policies that mitigate the threats of extinction including deforestation, illegal mining and colonization in these remote areas. Additionally, surveillance also can help locate isolated villages, track patterns of migration over time, and inform and create boundaries or buffer zones that would allow tribes to stay isolated, Walker said.
"Close to 100 uncontacted groups are thought to currently exist in Amazonia," Walker said. "Deforestation, cattle ranching, illegal mining, and outside colonization threaten their existence. Most of these tribes are swidden horticulturalists and so their slash-and-burn fields are observable in satellite images. But, they do move around, sometimes in response to external threats, and this movement requires constant monitoring if there is to be any hope of preserving their habitat and culture."
The study, "Amazonian societies on the brink of extinction," was published online in The American Journal of Human Biology.
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I just returned from Washington D.C. where I was involved in a series of meetings at the Association of Science-Technology Centers. In one of the meetings, I had an opportunity to meet David Herring from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He helps coordinate NASA’s Earth Observatory website.
Launched in 1998, the Earth Observatory has been one of the best spots on the Internet for learning about our planet’s dynamic systems. The site is nominated (again) for a Webby Award as Best Education Site and deservedly so. (You can vote here.)
The Earth of Observatory has been a source of inspiration, and a model that we’ve looked at in developing sites that utilize actual scientific data. In the past, Ideum has developed sites that present scientific data such as: Solar Max (2001), The Global Climate Change Research Explorer (2003), the Sun-Earth Media Viewer (2004), among others. So, it was great to meet someone else who has worked on sites with a similar focus.
In the meeting, David previewed NEO, which stand for NASA Earth Observations. The site provides a Flash 8 pan and zoom interface and will eventually provide access to a wealth of full-resolution earth imagery. At the moment, the Ocean section has the most in the way of data-sets. In NEO, the images are available in multiple formats and at the same resolution that NASA scientists use for research. This great for those of us who depend on high-quality, high-resolution images for exhibit development.
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Want to get the most out of your day? Learning what is block scheduling is the secret to supercharging your productivity without feeling frazzled and pulled in a million different directions!
Let me guess, you’ve got a to-do list longer than your arm. Oh, and most days, you’re lucky to even scratch the surface of this list. You run around all day and yet…. Am I on the right track?
Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent, working parent, student, or well, just a human being, you’ve probably fallen into the trap of putting way too much on your to-do list. And that doesn’t even touch on the dangers of multi-tasking. Many of us believe multi-tasking is the answer to our to-do list woes. Unfortunately, it can actually make things worse!
According to Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, “Research shows that shifting between tasks can slash productivity by up to 40%. Task-switching leaves ‘attention residue,’ which means we’re still thinking about a previous activity while we start the next one.”
So, what is the answer to getting things done?
Allow me to introduce you to block scheduling.
What Is Block Scheduling?
If you’re wondering what is a block schedule, you’re in the right place! The concept is actually pretty simple, and you may already be familiar without even realizing it. The idea behind block scheduling actually ties back to our academic system.
Once your kid reaches a certain age, he or she will almost certainly be on a block schedule at school. (And you may have experienced a block schedule yourself in high school or college.) This is where the school day is broken down into chunks, with each time chunk dedicated to a specific class. During that time, your kid will only think about that one class and all the topics surrounding it, such as math or history.
This concept can be carried over to any situation. So you can figure out what is a block schedule for work, home, school, etc.
So, what is block scheduling? It’s the practice of allocating designated chunks of time to related tasks. It is sometimes also known as “time blocking.”
For example, you may have a 90-minute block on Tuesday and Thursday mornings dedicated to cleaning. Within those blocks, you’d have specific cleaning tasks like scrubbing your bathtub or dusting the living room.
Bonus: If you know that your block schedule will include cleaning and you’d like some help listing all the tasks you need to cover, be sure to check out these cleaning schedules.
- Free Printable Cleaning Schedule
- 2 Daily Cleaning Schedule Printables
- 2 Printable Weekly Cleaning Schedule Templates
Benefits of Mastering What Is Block Schedule
Okay, so now you know the answer to what is block scheduling, but maybe you still aren’t sold on the system. After all, won’t converting to a whole new productivity concept take time? Time you don’t have….
While it may take a little trial and error to fully master the concept of block scheduling, there are a lot of benefits. (And my Rock Your Block Like a Boss system will help you get started on the right foot.) Some of the benefits of figuring out what is a block schedule for work, home, etc. include:
- Increased focus. Since you’ll be dedicating chunks of time to specific tasks, you won’t be just randomly running from one thing to the next—this will increase your focus. This system will also cut out distractions.
- Increased productivity. As mentioned above, multi-tasking actually decreases productivity and since block scheduling eliminates multi-tasking, you’ll see an increase in your daily productivity.
- More time. Since block scheduling increases your overall productivity you’ll have more time for the things you love, like spending quality time with your fam!
- Flexibility. If you’re a parent, you know just how important flexibility is to your schedule. Luckily, block scheduling provides that flexibility. If you prioritize your blocks, you can remove one if (or should I say, when) the day goes off the rails or rearrange them as needed.
- Clarity. Block scheduling allows you to see not only how you spend your day but also how much of the day you’re spending there. This can allow you to spot inefficiencies as well as understand if you’re prioritizing the wrong things.
Block scheduling can also increase your motivation. As you move through each block, checking off tasks, you’ll build momentum and find a whole new level of motivation to keep going! 🙂
What Is a Block Schedule Course, and Do I Need One?
If you do a Google search on “what is a block schedule course,” you will find some online resources to teach you how to block schedule, but the truth is that you probably don’t need one. Why? A few reasons:
- The idea behind what is block schedule is relatively simple.
- Figuring out what is block scheduling at work, home, etc. will depend heavily on your specific circumstance. For example, your day will look different if you have a newborn vs. a kid in middle school.
- When you purchase my Rock Your Block Like a Boss system, you’ll get helpful videos that give further info on developing a block schedule.
Rock Your Block Like a Boss System
I’ve spent the last three months developing a block schedule system that I believe will help you focus, improve your productivity, and keep you motivated all while providing the flexibility that us busy moms (and dads) need. This scheduling system is how real moms get more done! The Rock Your Block Like a Boss system includes:
- 7 daily block schedule templates.
- 7 weekly block schedule templates.
- The “Let’s Design Your Block Schedule” video.
- The “Learn Productivity Tips to Help You Rock Your Block Like a Boss” video.
- Printable 2022-2023 monthly planner pages.
- 9 task templates and lists.
- Access to a private Facebook Group, which provides you valuable support on block scheduling.
More Scheduling Printables and Resources
While I’m all in on block scheduling at work, home, and everywhere, you may find supplementing your block schedule with other schedules helpful. For example, you may block out time to workout each day but what specific exercises will you do? Use the printables and resources below to better flesh out your days.
- Printable Intermittent Fasting Schedule
- Printable Class Schedule Template
- Study Planner Printable
- Hour by Hour Schedule Template
- Weekly Planner Template Printable
- Free Homework Chart Printable
- Daily Planner Template Printable
- Free Printable Work Schedule
- Free Printable Weekly Schedule
- 3 Printable Hourly Schedule Templates
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Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
UT Southwestern Medical Center provides a quality animal care and use program to support faculty who use animals in research, testing, or teaching. This program assures that all animal use adheres to applicable requirements such as:
- Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
- Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NRC)
- Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
- U.S. Government Principles Regarding the Care and Use of Animals
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An account manager, sometimes called an account executive, is a salesperson who primarily develops and maintains relationships with a company's new and existing client base. She sells her firm and its products, ensures client satisfaction and develops new business opportunities.
An account manager has a set goal or quota and is responsible for meeting it. He establishes and develops long-term relationships, while also servicing existing accounts. He seeks out and identifies new business opportunities, initiating communication with decision makers to assess their needs and sell his company's products or services. He confidently presents his company to prospective, new and existing clients. He independently and successfully negotiates and closes deals.
Account managers are typically a part of the sales team within most organizations. This role is found within every industry, in companies large and small. Candidates seeking an account management position may apply directly to the company for which they would like to work. Account management roles are also posted on online job search boards such as Monster.com, Jobs.com and Careerbuilder.com. Professional organizations such as the Strategic Account Management Association provide an abundance of resources and networking opportunities for its members. A prospective account manager may also use the services of staffing firms that focus on the placement of sales professionals. Additionally, niche industry specific job boards such as Accountmanager.com and Accountmanagerjobs.net can be extremely effective in finding employment.
Most important, a successful account manager must have excellent interpersonal skills, as her primary responsibility is to establish and build relationships with others. She should be extremely organized because she will be working on multiple accounts at once. She should have an exceptional understanding of the sales process. She should also be customer service driven. Additionally, she must be able to work independently and be self-motivated.
Though a four-year degree is not required to become an account manager, many employers prefer successful candidates to possess a college degree within a field of study related to the line of business or product that he is selling (for example, if an account manager works for a company that sells computers to universities, the ideal candidate would possess a degree in computer science). In addition to any formal education he may have, a candidate should also have extensive professional sales experience.
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SuperNatural: A Database of Available Natural Compounds
Poster Nov 19, 2010
The majority of marketed drugs are natural compounds or derivatives thereof. The compounds' availability is often unclear. Therefore we have compiled a database of ~50,000 natural compounds from different suppliers. Starting point for in silico screenings are about 2,500 well-known, classified natural compounds or imported molecules. Possible medical applications can be detected and about three million conformers are computed to account for the flexibility during usage of the 3D-superposition algorithm.
High Throughput Rheological Characterization of Small Volume Biopharmaceutical FormulationsPoster
Importance of assessing viscosity fingerprints of small molecules.READ MORE
Applications of chemically modified synthetic guide RNA for CRISPR-Cas9 genome editingPoster
Our results indicate that MS modifications are required for experiments with co-electroporation of Cas9 mRNA and synthetic gRNA, yet have no impact on editing efficiency when delivered with lipid-based transfection reagents.READ MORE
Inecalcitol Stimulates CD38 Expression in Multiple Myeloma and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cell LinesPoster
Inecalcitol is a vitamin D receptor agonist currently in Phase II clinical trial in AML (acute myeloid leukemia). Inecalcitol increases the expression of CD38 at the surface of 5 multiple myeloma cell lines; therefore, inecalcitol could potentiate the clinical response of MM patients to a therapeutic anti-CD38 antibody
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BlackEnterprise.com: What are the policy implications for challenges in STEM education?
Dr. Kamau Bobb: In the context of computing and computational skills, the crisis in basic mathematics and literacy among so many students creates a challenge of policy priority. School districts are held accountable to students’ achievement in mathematics, reading, and social studies. Thus, they are the primary subjects tested in many states. There is a national consensus that students must have basic numeracy, literacy skills, and know something about the civic infrastructure of the country. Keeping school leaders accountable to only those subjects, however, means that those subjects receive a disproportionate amount of students’ class time. This is especially true in districts serving students of color. While education certainly requires the acquisition of rudimentary skills, it should not be limited to them.
As a process, education should also embrace unlimited opportunities for learning, exploration, and should promote critical thinking beyond the classroom. When testing season begins in the spring for millions of public school students across the country, particularly for those in challenged districts, their education is suspended in lieu of test preparation. Specifically, the education and knowledge that is built on basic literacy and numeracy is halted—an understandable, yet troublesome consequence of this crisis.
While standardized testing is ubiquitous in American education, this is a problem that affects students of color and poor students in ways that are vastly different than students of privilege. Teachers and school leaders rightly make the claim that it would be nice to educate our children, but they need to save them first—by arming them with basic skills they need to survive at a functional level. As a result of this triage system of education, innovation and other learning opportunities—like computing—are limited.
What does that mean for computer science (CS) education?
The surge of national emphasis on computer science education is having the positive result of changing education policy priorities. The Obama Administration initiative, CS for All, highlights how CS education is among the core set of proficiencies that all students need. It is moving computer science from the periphery of education to the center—alongside basic mathematics, reading, and civics. That shift is among the most significant policy outcomes.
School districts, like New York City Public Schools which has 1.1 million students and 1,800 schools, have declared that all of their students will have basic computer science education within the next decade. That is a fundamental shift in policy priority. It has unleashed a thriving array of grass roots social entrepreneurs looking to engage, excite, and encourage students of all kinds to pursue computing skills and STEM fields.
More structurally, it has led to a research agenda in the academy studying effective means of teaching computing, infusing computing into the traditional mathematics and science courses. If school leaders can be assured that, based on research evidence, the infusion of computing into core mathematics yields improved student performance, they are more likely to engage in innovative forms of instruction. It offers a tremendous opportunity for creative school districts to work collaboratively with the constellation of out-of-school programs to really complement student learning in STEM fields. | <urn:uuid:bb6739e5-5287-4103-bbd1-ae9b5a16b5a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blackenterprise.com/education/dr-kamau-bobb-dishes-on-policy-priorities-of-stem-education-part-iii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951979 | 629 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Engaging Students in Active Online Learning
Engaging Students in Active Online Learning" The Technology Source, July/August 2002. Available online at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1034. The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher.
Awakening an interest in the history of Western music in students who are studying to be scientists, engineers, and architects can be challenging for an instructor. For many of my students, the music of Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert lies well outside the sphere of their everyday musical experience. In my teaching, however, I like to demonstrate that films, newspaper articles, and their own family traditions offer ways for them to connect with classical music and its performers. I can achieve this in an ordinary classroom, but I find it works especially well in online courses delivered by distance education.
After years of classroom teaching, I began teaching two general interest courses, Introduction to Music (Exhibit 1) and its sequel, Masterworks of Music (Exhibit 2), about 5 years ago. Distance learning is a popular choice with students at the University of Guelph, and, in recent years, enrollment in these two courses has increased substantially since they were converted to a more flexible, individually paced format that employs online elements. The courses are also open to off-campus learners, many of whom work full-time or live in remote locations. Each class includes between 40 and 200 participants, and there are no face-to-face class meetings. For the larger classes in particular, a teaching assistant is a welcome addition for grading papers and for keeping up with the large volume of e-mail from students.
My primary objective in online teaching is to invite students to be involved in their learning experience by participating in discussions, sharing their own experiences, and working collaboratively. The following discussion illustrates how some of these objectives were realized in Masterworks of Music, but the same principles could easily be applied to other courses in the humanities or liberal arts.
Course Design and Development
After teaching Introduction to Music for many years in the classroom, I still found it challenging to develop materials that would enhance each student's learning experience in an active way. I learned that online teaching is very different from face-to-face teaching and that what works well in a classroom may not bring the same results in an online environment. Placing one's lectures or lecture notes on the course Web site, for example, does not motivate students any more than lecturing for a full hour in a classroom. I also found that creating a completely new course specifically for online delivery is, in many ways, easier than trying to adapt pre-existing material to a new delivery system.
At the University of Guelph, the development of a distance course begins with collaborative efforts on the part of the Office of Open Learning (OOL) and the instructor of the course. Even if the course exists in a classroom version, instructors are encouraged to develop new materials for online delivery, although this is not essential. Linda Gibson, an instructional designer from OOL, discussed the overall concept of the course with me from the initial idea stage throughout the preparation of assignments and course materials. We utilize online delivery whenever it supports the learning objectives of a course. For Masterworks of Music, we used Virtual University for online conferencing and the online grade book; the course template (Exhibit 3) and navigational structure were created at the university. While preparing course materials (during the semester prior to the first offering of the course), I met regularly with Ms. Gibson to discuss the types of materials that would suit my needs in the online environment. An undergraduate student, Erin O'Grady, who was completing the music program at the time, wrote a tutorial under my direction that helps students learn or review musical terms and concepts such as meter, rhythm, scales, key signatures, and chords. This tutorial (Exhibit 4) became an online resource to which students could refer at any time throughout the course.
During the summer semester of 2001, OOL began using software from Desire2Learn for most course requirements, such as conferencing, the calendar, the grade book, updates, and online assignment submission. The navigation bar is common to all online courses that Open Learning offers and is a feature that students appreciate when moving from one online course to another. My favorite feature on the navigation bar is the update function (Exhibit 5). When students log on to the course page, they immediately see the last "update" that the instructor has posted. I use updates as I would announcements at the beginning of class, and I try to add an update at least two or three times a week in order to announce an upcoming concert, an approaching deadline for an assignment, or even just a humorous remark. This strategy keeps learners engaged by offering them both a welcome to the class site and a reason to come back and check it frequently.
Linking Classical Music History with Modern Life
The Masterworks of Music course begins with the concept that a performance of a piece of music depends not only on the quality of the music but also on the skill of the performer(s). The way that musicians draw sound from an instrument or voice, as well as the physical characteristics of the instruments themselves, contribute significantly to the performance. A few well-chosen newspaper articles and reviews help students to see these issues as current ones in the musical world (Poole, 1999; Alberge, 1999). The difficulty of identifying an instrument maker's work, the possibility of hoaxes, and a recent review of a local performance that discusses the performers' skill in relation to their Stradivarius instruments form the foundation for students to reflect on their own family's musical experience.
An online group activity called "Is there a Strad in your attic?" functions as an icebreaker for the class as well as a way of talking about a family link with music history. After students read the reviews and newspaper articles, I invite them to post an online message about whether there are any antique or valuable instruments in their family and whether any family members are or have been musicians. Fran?ɬßois Giraud's 1998 film The Red Violin, which demonstrates what a long "life" an instrument can have in the hands of its owners, lingers in the memory of many students and often plays a role in this discussion.
Every semester the "Strad-in-your-attic" discussion has yielded fascinating stories about musical instruments that grandparents played or that have passed down from generation to generation, including a wonderful variety of pianos, organs, accordions, and violins, as well as a few references to Chinese or other non-Western instruments. As students get to know each other in this way, they also connect with the living history of musical instruments. For example, a student in my class recently described an old organ that still sits in her parents' home. It was made by the Thomas Organ & Piano Company in Woodstock, Ontario, probably during the 1920s. By her account, the instrument is beautifully ornate with very dark wood, but her family knows nothing else about it. After locating more information on the Web about Thomas organs through the Reed Organ Society, Inc., I was able to post some information for the class about Edward G. Thomas's founding of the organ factory in 1875 and its production of portable reed organs. Connecting this historical information with an instrument that belongs to one of the students provided an opportunity to connect classical music traditions with local history, and to invite students to visit nearby Wellington County Museum to see some examples of late 19th- and early 20th-century musical instruments from the local region.
The sense of community that students develop after this exercise is encouraging, and it makes their group work later in the course more enjoyable and effective. After this exercise, another student in the class contributed the result of his research by giving more information to the class about Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). A Stradivari Web site that the Division of Cultural History at the Smithsonian Institution created has an excellent biographical reference section, pictures of violins, links to other violin makers, and information on the authentication and appraisal of violins. Having a student explain why he selected the site and what it contributes to the class discussion sparks student interest much more than if I had asked the class to consult the site myself. It also allows them to participate actively as they learn from each other and follow their own curiosity generated from the stories told by their classmates.
Amadeus and the Issue of Historical Accuracy
A second activity that has generated thoughtful discussion from students focuses on Milos Forman's 1984 film Amadeus. After students view the video on their own (by renting it from a local store), I divide them into groups of four to six members and invite them to discuss issues that the film raises. Essays by three musicologists, A. Peter Brown (1992), Paul Henry Lang (1977), and Ross W. Duffin (1999), point out some of the film's historical inaccuracies and raise the larger issue of whether historical accuracy is necessary in films. Having identified ways in which these three authors' opinions differ, each group of students discusses and formulates its answer to the general question, "Is our appreciation of Mozart's music changed by the film Amadeus? Why or why not?" As they continue the discussion online for several days, I ask students to comment on whether the film raises historical awareness of other personalities who are less well known than Mozart, and, by the end of the week, I ask them to write a short essay expressing the consensus of their group.
Teachers could conduct this project in a regular classroom, but the online format encourages students to respond more often and in greater depth than a time-constrained classroom discussion usually permits. It attracts active participation for several days and has generated many thoughtful comments on previous postings. I have found that most groups tend to agree that the film does not change our appreciation of Mozart. Moviegoers, they argue, do not expect historical accuracy and feel that there is room for exaggeration of the "truth" when entertainment is the goal. Lang (1977) and Brown (1992) argue the opposite point of view: that historical films have an obligation not to obscure historical fact, especially when it bears directly upon musical production. Armed with their own opinions, groups can approach the writings of these two eminent musicologists critically and make their own case for an opposing point of view, if they wish. Occasionally, a group cannot reach a consensus; in this case, its members can argue both sides of the question, using evidence from the three essays as well as their own point of view without coming to a single conclusion.
Group activities such as the Amadeus discussion also help students learn from each other. The size of a group can range from three to six members, but groups of four or five students are usually ideal. Although group work has been successful, not all students appreciate it. Often, highly motivated students become disenchanted with group activities. They sometimes feel that their own work might suffer if their colleagues join the discussion late or contribute mediocre postings. I have used several strategies to overcome this problem, including posting an update to the class before a group project begins and informing students that they must contribute a posting by a certain date. I also assign a portion of the grade to the individual effort of each student. Still another strategy is to require each group to formulate some "ground rules" with which to operate. This procedure can help to ease the anxiety of working as a group for students who are more accustomed to face-to-face academic discussion and struggle with the distance format.
Meanwhile, students have access to an online help desk through the Office of Open Learning, and they can also phone or e-mail me or the help desk for assistance with problems that they may encounter during the semester. As the instructor, I also have reliable assistance from individuals in OOL who maintain the Web pages and respond quickly if problems arise. For new instructors, OOL also offers seminars to introduce them to the software and help them learn how to navigate and instruct in an online environment.
Online Teaching: Flexibility and Interactive Learning
Masterworks of Music exists now only as an online offering, and its enrollment has increased each semester that it has been offered. The current enrollment of about 40 is an ideal size for the group projects that form part of the course work and also for lively online discussions.
Feedback from students in the course has frequently highlighted contributions that only an online course can make to their learning, insofar as it allows for circumstances that could not be accommodated in a classroom situation. For example, a student recently sent me an e-mail message in the fifth week of the semester apologizing for being two days late with her assignment. She went on to explain that she had given birth to twins two weeks earlier. She added that her three-year old and her twin daughters were all listening with her and appeared to be enjoying the classical music, too. Another student's comment summarized what must be a common reason for the popularity of this new mode of learning: "The flexibility and the online classes were fantastic in helping [me] to learn independently and then apply it in groups as well."
I am delighted with the opportunities that Web teaching offers, and I am especially pleased when students are able to enroll in courses that they could not have attended otherwise. I hope that my strategies for active engagement with online learning have helped to deepen students' appreciation for classical music. Perhaps these strategies will help others begin teaching in this fascinating and flexible way.
Alberge, D. (1999, March 15). Oxford's Messiah is branded a fake. The London Times, p. 4.
Brown, A. P. (1992). Amadeus and Mozart: Setting the record straight. The American Scholar, 61(1), 49-66. Retrieved May 30, 2002, from http://www.mozartproject.org/essays/brown.html
Duffin, R. W. (1999). Period filmmakers botch the music. Early Music America, 5(1), 48.
Lang, P. H. (1977). The film Amadeus. In P. H. Lang (Ed.), Musicology and performance (pp. 155-162). New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Tony Dixon Soprano Whistles (Keys of high D, Eb, E)
Also called high whistles, penny whistles, or tin whistles
Note: the high C whistles are now called alto whistles and are on our
However, we have high C bodies below for the D & C polymer combos.
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Tony Dixon Traditional Brass D Whistle, called the "Trad"
TDSW1. Soprano D "trad" whistle by Tony Dixon. Brass body and black polymer head. (Note: this whistle is not to be confused with the heavy Dixon TDSW10 below). This is a standard penny whistle. 11 1/2" long. Weight: 1.0 oz. $22
Replacement whistle head: $9.
Tony Dixon Nickel Traditional D and Eb Whistles, Brass E Whistle, called the "Trads"
TDSW2. Soprano D "trad" whistle by Tony Dixon. Nickel body and black polymer head. Tunable. (This whistle is not to be confused with the more expensive aluminum whistle TDSW9 below.) 11 1/2" long. Weight: 1.0 oz. $25
Replacement whistle head $9
TDSW3. Soprano Eb "trad" whistle by Tony Dixon. Nickel body and black polymer head. Tunable. (This whistle is not to be confused with the more expensive aluminum whistle TDSW9 below.) 10 3/4" long. Weight: 1.0 oz. $25 Replacement whistle head $9
TDSW4. Soprano E "trad" whistle by Tony Dixon. Brass body and black polymer head. Tunable. 10 1/4" long. Weight 1.0 oz. $22. (We formerly had this whistle in nickel, but it is now only made in brass.) Replacement whistle head $9
Our customers sometimes ask us about the difference between brass and nickel instruments, since the nickel always costs more. The answer is that the nickel is a harder metal than brass and wears better, and doesn't show fingerprints as easily.
One-Piece Tony Dixon Soprano D Polymer Whistle
TDSW5. One-piece polymer penny whistle, key of D. Nontunable. 11 1/2" long. Weight: 0.8 oz. $18
Two-piece (Tunable) Tony Dixon Soprano D Polymer Whistle
TDSW6. Two-piece D whistle. 11 1/2" long. Weight: 0.9 oz. $27
Tony Dixon Tunable Soprano D Whistle/Piccolo Polymer Duo
TDSW7. Tony Dixon High D Whistle/Piccolo Duo. You get three pieces: a high D body, a whistle head and a piccolo head (a piccolo is a small flute). This means that you get two instruments out of the three pieces. Embouchure plate on piccolo head. Whistle is 11 1/2" long, piccolo slightly longer. 3-piece set $43.
Tony Dixon Individual Pieces for D & C Polymer Combos
Tony Dixon separate pieces for the TDSW6 and TDSW7 above. Normally you can add pieces to what you already have. However, over the years, Dixon has made some minor design changes, and it is possible that current pieces may not fit or be in tune with old ones.
TDSW. High C body. 9 1/2" long (C body only). $17
TDSW. Piccolo head only. $16
TDSW. Whistle head only. $16
Tony Dixon Polymer Tunable Soprano D Whistle with Brass Slide
TDSW8. Tunable polymer penny whistle with brass slide, key of D. Weight: 1.0 oz. $42
Aluminum Tony Dixon Soprano D Whistle and Whistle/Piccolo Duo
TDSW9. Key of D. Tony Dixon tunable aluminum soprano whistle, black polymer head, and nickel slide. This is a really nice whistle! Whistle players consider aluminum to produce a somewhat brighter sound than plastic.Weight: 1.8 oz. $62
TDSW9A. High D aluminum whistle/piccolo duo. This three-piece set has an aluminum body with nickel slide, and black polymer piccolo and whistle heads. $75
Replacement whistle head for the above aluminum instruments: $9
Replacement piccolo head for the above aluminum instruments: $14
Tony Dixon Solid Brass High Whistle in D and C
TDSW10. Solid brass tunable high D whistle with nickel slide. This whistle is considerably heavier than the ones with plastic or aluminum bodies. Weight: 4.4 oz. $86.
Replacement whistle head: $9
TDAWC3. The C version of this whistle is again available! Twice Dixon announced that he was not going to make this whistle any more and twice we have succeeded in getting him to make some for us. It weighs 5.7 oz, and has an overall length of 13". It looks like the D whistle, which we show above. $92
From a customer who bought this D whistle: "I just received my whistle and it was love at first note! Exactly what I wanted. It sounds sooooo nice. Crisp clear strong tone, beautiful notes, easy vibrato I'm very happy. Thank you!"
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Running a start-up comes with several challenges, be it spotting the right opportunity, executing a bright idea or raising the capital to do so. Something that rarely gets discussed—at start-up forums or venture capital (VC) seminars—is the legal aspect of starting and scaling a company. A start-up may be on to the next big thing, but if its founders cannot protect it legally, it could lead to a lot of time and money wasted on litigation.
Such risk could emerge in the form of a dispute between founders, legal manholes at the time of funding or even simple but critical regulatory approvals. In the past, Mint has written on what VCs look for in start-ups and how to find the right VC for your business. This time, we draw up a check-list of 10 legal points a start-up should keep in mind.
1) Whose IP is it anyway?
Legalities could creep in even before you begin. When you quit that job to start something on your own, make sure the IP (short for intellectual property) belongs to you. If you have worked on the idea at your previous employer’s office using its resources, or utilized parts of an office project to build your own plan, you could leave yourself open to questions later. Companies have been sued for “idea theft” before. Social networking site Facebook Inc.’s founder Mark Zuckerberg was sued by ConnectU Llc. in 2004. ConnectU’s founders alleged Zuckerberg had stolen their idea and code to start Facebook when he briefly worked with them as a consultant in 2003. The case was dismissed last year, but ConnectU has filed again and the case continues. Generally, such charges don’t stick but time and money on litigation can dilute your focus on your business.
2) Start right
How and where you register your company could make a lot of difference. In India, you could register a company as a private limited, proprietorship or partnership. The last two, however, are not fundable models. VCs want stock in a company, which cannot be given under a proprietorship or partnership. Vendor and customer companies also prefer dealing with a company that has limited stock. In a proprietorship, the sole owner is personally liable for risks the company takes. Registering a proprietorship is quicker and inexpensive, while a limited stock registration could take up to six weeks and cost between Rs12,000 and Rs20,000 for a company with Rs1-1.5 lakh paid-up capital. For this reason, many start out as a proprietorship but change later. A Bangalore-based Internet start-up, which did not want to be named, has operated as a proprietorship for more than a year and plans to change before being funded.
Several start-ups also go for a US incorporation. If the product or service is global in nature, and a potential exit—through initial public offering or acquisition—lies in the US, this makes sense. It is costlier than an Indian registration, but takes just two-three days to incorporate in Delaware state. “Most ramifications of a wrong incorporation relate to tax. You have to evaluate where you want to list, and choose accordingly,” saysAmitabh Nagpal, founder, Studyplaces Inc., an education start-up that chose a US incorporation.
3) Friendship is fine, but put things on paper
Decide ownership of company and course of action in case of potential conflicts at the earliest stage possible. Put down everything on paper, legally. If one of the founders in a start-up decides to quit at a later stage, it is difficult to resolve the issue unless a framework is already in place. Last June, local search firm Burrp.com got into controversy as a former college mate of its founders accused them on a blog of not giving equity to three others involved at the beginning. “The (allegation) is baseless. We signed on a law firm very early, which helped us get documentation in place for ownership and other issues,” says Deap Ubhi, CEO and co-founder, Burrp Software Pvt. Ltd, adding it is key to institutionalize capital structure.
4) Term sheet is only an expression of intent
At a recent conference, a representative from a small business in the power sector was confused. His company had received a term sheet from an investor and in the belief that money would follow, the founders borrowed money from other sources in advance. Six months later, the deal still had not been sewn up. When a VC offers a term sheet to a start-up expressing interest in funding, it is just that. It is not legally binding on the VC. All it guarantees is confidentiality and exclusivity (for the VC) when due diligence is done. Typically, it takes less than six weeks from signing the term sheet to close funding, but it can drag on.
5) Start-ups foot most legal bills
During the funding process, legal counsel is usually hired by both the VC and the start-up to negotiate the details. When it was getting funded by Helion Venture Partners, mobile payment start-up JiGrahak Mobility Solutions Ltd decided to bring in a lawyer towards the end. “Talking to the investors is peer-to-peer, but talking to their lawyers got too complex, and it takes up too much time,” says Sourabh Jain, CEO, JiGrahak. Legal counsel is expensive, and the start-up typically bears the charges for both the VC’s lawyers as well as its own. The lawyers’ fee depends on complexity and size of the deal. Typically, the firm could charge 1-2% of the investment amount. If the VC offers to share legal representation during funding, you have to sign a document waiving off conflict.
6) Founder stakes are tied with employment
Just like funding is often tied to business milestones, the founders’ personal stake too comes with conditions. “At early stage, VCs invest in the team, so often there is an employment agreement tied in with the founders’ stake,” says Shantanu Surpure, managing advocate and attorney at law, Sand Hill India Advisors, which specializes in legal counselling for start-ups and early stage venture capitalists.
7) Founders can be replaced
Once you have investors, you have to report to a board of directors. Read the fine print. For example, a clause could state the board comprises one representative for the investor, one for the start-up founder and one CEO. And, a founder need not always be CEO post-funding, and can be replaced. Case in point, online travel company Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt. Ltd. After KPCB Ventures and Sherpalo Ventures funded the company, Sherpalo partner Sandeep Murthy took over as CEO and co-founder Hrush Bhatt became director (product and strategy). Murthy says the decision was an amicable one— it need not always be.
8) Use it right, get rights to use
When you are developing a product or service, check that you have the right to use all external technology that is part of your offering. For example, if you are building a product on an existing platform, ensure you have permission to use it. Open source is not a free lunch, it is freedom to access and modify. An open source software can be given away freely or sold, and the source code should be included or made available.
9) Outsource the work, but keep the IP in
Just as you ensure you cannot be sued, make sure the IP for the work you outsource rests with you. This means when you hire contract employees, external coders or companies that could execute part of your technology, make sure they cannot misuse your IP for their own use or share the information with others. Sign a master services agreement covering confidentiality and ownership terms.
10) The rest
Your check list should also include business partnership agreements, provident fund registrations for your employees, tax registrations and lease agreement for office space. There will be other compliances specific to the start-up. For example, online travel company Makemytrip India Pvt. Ltd needed two separate approvals from the department of telecommunication, as it operated an international call centre and a domestic one for customer queries. “These are not just things that are nice to have, they are mandatory. Without them, you cannot operate,” says Rajesh Magow, chief financial officer, Makemytrip. | <urn:uuid:7d5c4bf2-521e-470c-82bf-d160cbd0af7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livemint.com/Money/ZD4mFQrxDSRSaV22QhzH0J/Getting-the-startup-documentation-right.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00329-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969303 | 1,765 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Please check out the video for how to use the NoseFrida on kiddos 0-3 years. There is a written description below as well as some tricks of the trade.
Items you need before you start:
- The NoseFrida
- A blanket to wrap your child in
- A bottle of liquid saline
- The squeeze bottle, NOT the mist (usually comes in an aerosol can)
- A discard rag or something to put the mucus on
- A wet wipe does not work for this.
Three step process for suctioning with the NoseFrida:
- Put a couple drops up one nostril and suction. Repeat with the other nostril.
- This clears out the nostrils
- Saline flush- while suctioning out one nostril, simultaneously push a moderate amount of saline up the other nostril. Continue to flush out this side of the nose until you see only saline. Repeat with the other nostril.
- This creates a vacuum and is similar to a nedipot for adults
- This step clears out the sinuses
- **This step is the most important and the least desired by your child**
- Finish it off by suctioning each nostril one last time to get the remaining saline out. While suctioning out one side put your finger over the other nostril opening.
- This clears out the back of the throat.
- If you get mucus out at this point another saline flush is needed.
Wrapping up/ restraining your child:
- One person hold: While placing their arms by their sides tightly wrap a sturdy blanket or towel around them from the neck down. Wrap them so that the ends of the towel/blanket are behind them and tight enough that they can’t get their hands out.
- Two people hold: Use a towel/ blanket and wrap the child as described above with the exception of leaving their arms unwrapped. The person holding the child (the Holder) will need to place both arms above the child’s head (elbows to ears) and secure their arms by pushing them against their head (basically squeezing their head). This will allow the Holder to secure the head and arms at the same time.
- DO NOT pass out. It will do your kiddo no good if you’re on the floor!
- Take deep breaths in between each suction
- DO NOT stop sucking until you reach the discard rag.
- The NoseFrida is not a continuous suction device so when you stop sucking the mucus will fall out, usually on the kiddos face.
- When you reach the discard rag LIGHTLY blow the mucus out. You can blow the filter out of place if done too hard.
- If mucus is heard in the back of the throat or if your child is gagging/ continuously coughing it is recommended to suction out the mouth.
- ONLY put the NoseFrida down the sides of the mouth. Putting it down the middle will only cause more gaging and possibly cause vomiting.
- Saline is your best friend. If swallowed by your child it will not hurt them so do not be afraid to give a good squeeze when doing the flush.
- Use hot water and dish soap to clean and let air dry. Do this after each use and wash all parts, including the filter.
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On 18 November 2019 the Minister for Justice and Equality signed into law the European Union (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Regulations 2019 (Statutory Instrument No. 578 of 2019) (the ‘Regulations’). The Regulations amend the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts 2010 to 2018 (the ‘Acts’), and they include a section which has the effect of transposing into Irish law Article 61(3) of the Fourth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive 2015/849).
Further to this enactment Irish funds now have an obligation to ensure that they “have in place appropriate procedures for their employees, or persons in a comparable position, to report a contravention of [the Acts] internally through a specific, independent and anonymous channel, proportionate to the nature and size of the designated person concerned.”
Irish funds are already in scope of a number of enactments which require reporting of contraventions and provide protections for persons making disclosures to authorities, including the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 and the Criminal Justice Act 2011. Where information in relation to a contravention is reported internally, it is necessary to determine whether external reporting is required under one or more of these enactments.
It is recommended that any existing whistle-blowing framework is assessed as to whether it satisfies the obligations in the Regulations. AML policies and procedures may also be reviewed and updated to incorporate the new requirements as necessary. Most funds will have a whistle-blowing policy in place which should be broad enough to provide for reporting of contraventions of AML requirements, for example, by reporting these directly to the designated person responsible for regulatory compliance or to a member of the board. It may be considered efficient to adapt existing whistle-blowing procedures if necessary to incorporate any missing elements of these AML requirements, rather than having duplicate whistle-blowing processes.
The Regulations also include provisions which are not directly relevant to Irish funds: these provisions place reporting obligations and restrictions in relation to managers and/or beneficial owners of other types of entities which are subject to provisions of the Acts. They also require regulators to co-operate with other EU Member State regulators, implement risk-based AML supervision, ensure that their employees and officers have access to ‘relevant information’ on money laundering and terrorist financing risk, and outline certain ‘duties’ of regulators relating to functional independence, resourcing and professional standards.
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Note: In this article, Spanish is considered the native language, and English is considered the second language.
As a parent, you may be wondering whether you should be reading to your children in Spanish or English. You may be afraid that reading to them in Spanish will confuse them as they try to learn English, and that it will make it harder for them to read in English. You may also be concerned that you shouldn't read to them in English if you don't feel comfortable with your own English skills.
While it is important to encourage and support your child's efforts to learn English, research shows that children who are read to in their native language (such as Spanish) will have an easier time learning to read in their second language (such as English). The benefits are even greater for children who learn to read first in their native language. This means that by developing your child's literacy skills in Spanish, you will be making it easier for them to learn to speak, read, and write English in the future. This article provides information about the research done on this topic, and suggestions of ways that you can help your child develop his or her literacy skills in your family's native language.
Academic language: "the language necessary to speak, listen, read, and write in an academic environment" (Anstrom, 1999).
Cognitive foundation: the development of the brain's ability to process information
Native language: the first language a person learns to speak
Second language: the second language a person learns to speak
- Young children who were exposed to age-appropriate books and literature in their native language developed stronger pre-literacy skills than children who were only exposed to books in their second language (Association for Childhood Education International, 2003).
- Children who learn to read in their native language first will have an easier time learning to read in their second language than children who never learned how to read in their first language (Anstrom, 1999). Children who can read in their native language understand the process of reading, even if they need to learn new letters, sounds, and words to attain reading proficiency in a second language. Children who are learning to read for the first time in their second language have twice as much work to do because they are learning the process of reading from the beginning at the same time that they are learning a new language (Short & Fitzsimmons, 2007).
- Although children seem to learn new languages very quickly, without a strong cognitive foundation in their first language, children learning a second language "will tend to take much longer to acquire cognitive academic language skills in the second language" (Ramirez et.al, 1991).
- The first three years of a child's life are critical to brain development, and increased exposure to a child's native language lays an important foundation for strong literacy skills when the child is older (Department of Education, Archived Information). In addition, when a child's brain is exposed to language at a very young age, the brain develops a life-long capacity to learn language, including foreign languages (McGill University, 2002).
- Infants exposed to spoken language (reading out loud, talking, singing, and listening to music) show more language proficiency and better reading skills once they enter school than those who had not heard a lot of spoken language during their infancy (Center for Early Education and Development, 2001).
Creating a Print-Rich Environment in Your Native Language
- Reading books in Spanish with your child on a daily basis
- Talking about the stories you have read together
- Playing rhyming games and singing songs in Spanish together (Example: I'm thinking of an animal that rhymes with globo: lobo)
- Encouraging your child to write in Spanish
- Keeping Spanish print material in your home such as books, greeting cards, magazines, and newspapers
- Exposing your child to games, puzzles, and music in Spanish
- Encouraging your child to use Spanish to tell stories
- Expanding your child’s Spanish vocabulary by teaching him/her new words, pointing out and naming objects, and helping him/her improve pronunciation
- Visiting the public library regularly to check out books and other resources
Libraries, bookstores, and community centers in your neighborhood may offer books in Spanish that you can read with your children. Even if you can't purchase books to take home, you can make special "reading trips" to these places to enjoy books with your children. If you can't find any children's books in Spanish in your community, talk with other parents about ways to create a collection of books or Spanish-language resources that many families can enjoy.
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Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia, June 26, 1788. Virginia ratified the Constitution in two steps. The first was the declaration of ratification. The second was a recommendation that a bill of rights be added to the Constitution, and that a list of amendments also be added in accordance with Article 5. The following text is taken from the Library of Congress's Continental Congress Broadside Collection.
WE the Delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected in pursuance of a recommendation from the General Assembly, and now met in Convention, having fully and freely investigated and discussed the proceedings of the Federal Convention, and being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, DO in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will: that therefore no right of any denomination, can be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified, by the Congress, by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any capacity, by the President or any department or officer of the United States, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes: and that among other essential rights, the liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified by any authority of the United States.
With these impressions, with a solemn appeal to the searcher of hearts for the purity of our intentions, and under the conviction, that, whatsoever imperfections may exist in the Constitution, ought rather to be examined in the mode prescribed therein, than to bring the Union into danger by a delay, with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratification:
We the said Delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do by these presents assent to, and ratify the Constitution recommended on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, by the Foederal Convention for the Government of the United States; hereby announcing to all those whom it may concern, that the said Constitution is binding upon the said People, according to an authentic copy hereto annexed, in the words following:
A copy of the Constitution was included in the ratification document.
On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary of this Convention cause to be engrossed, forthwith, two fair copies of the form of ratification, and of the proposed Constitution of Government, as recommended by the Foederal Convention on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.
MR. Wythe reported, from the Committee appointed, such amendments to the proposed Constitution of Government for the United States, as were by them deemed necessary to be recommended to the consideration of the Congress which shall first assemble under the said Constitution, to be acted upon according to the mode prescribed in the fifth article thereof; and he read the same in his place, and afterwards delivered them in at the clerk's table, where the same were again read, and are as followeth:
That there be a Declaration or Bill of Rights asserting and securing from encroachment the essential and unalienable rights of the people in some such manner as the following:
1st. That there are certain natural rights of which men when they form a social compact cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life, and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
2d. That all power is naturally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates therefore are their trustees, and agents, and at all times amenable to them.
3d. That the Government ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people; and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind.
4th. That no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator or judge, or any other public office to be hereditary.
5th. That the legislative, executive and judiciary powers of government should be separate and distinct, and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression by feeling and participating the public burthens, they should at fixed periods be reduced to a private station, return into the mass of the people; and the vacancies be supplied by certain and regular elections, in which all or any part of the former members to be eligible or ineligible, as the rules of the Constitution of Government, and the laws shall direct.
6th. That elections of Representatives in the legislature ought to be free and frequent, and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, ought to have the right of suffrage: and no aid, charge, tax or fee can be set, rated, or levied upon the people without their own consent, or that of their representatives, so elected, nor can they be bound by any law, to which they have not in like manner assented for the public good.
7th. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws by any authority without the consent of the representatives, of the people in the legislature, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
8th. That in all capital and criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence and be allowed counsel in his favor, and to a fair and speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty (except in the government of the land and naval forces) nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself.
9th. That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, privileges or franchises, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property but by the law of the land.
10th. That every freeman restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to enquire into the lawfulness thereof, and to remove the same, if unlawful, and that such remedy ought not to be denied nor delayed.
11th. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is one of the greatest securities to the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable.
12th. That every freeman ought to find a certain remedy by recourse to the laws for all injuries and wrongs he may receive in his person, property, or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely without sale, completely and without denial, promptly and without delay, and that all establishments, or regulations contravening these rights, are oppressive and unjust.
13th. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
14th. That every freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his papers, and property; all warrants therefore to search suspected places, or seize any freeman, his papers or property, without information upon oath (or affirmation of a person religiously scrupulous of taking an oath) of legal and sufficient cause, are grievous and oppressive, and all general warrants to search suspected places, or to apprehend any suspected person without specially naming or describing the place or person, are dangerous and ought not to be granted.
15th. That the people have a right peaceably to assemble together to consult for the common good, or to instruct their representatives; and that every freeman has a right to petition or apply to the Legislature for redress of grievances.
16th. That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing and publishing their sentiments; that the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and ought not to be violated.
17th. That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free state. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.
18th. That no soldier in time of peace ought to be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, and in time of war in such manner only as the laws direct.
19th. That any person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead.
20th. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
1st. That each state in the union shall respectively retain every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this constitution delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the Foederal Government.
2d. That there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, according to the enumeration or census mentioned in the Constitution, until the whole number of representatives amounts to two hundred; after which that number shall be continued or increased as Congress shall direct, upon the principles fixed in the Constitution, by apportioning the representatives of each state to some greater number of people from time to time as population increases.
3d. When Congress shall lay direct taxes or excises, they shall immediately inform the executive power of each state, of the quota of such state according to the census herein directed, which is proposed to be thereby raised; and if the legislature of any state shall pass a law which shall be effectual for raising such quota at the time required by Congress, the taxes and excises laid by Congress, shall not be collected in such state.
4th. That the members of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be ineligible to, and incapable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States, during the time for which they shall respectively be elected.
5th. That the journals of the proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be published at least once in every year, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances, or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy.
6th. That a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money, shall be published at least once in every year.
7th. That no commercial treaty shall be ratified without the concurrence of two thirds of the whole number of the members of the Senate; and no treaty, ceding, contracting, or restraining or suspending the territorial rights or claims of the United States, or any of them, or their, or any of their rights or claims to fishing in the American seas, or navigating the American rivers, shall be made, but in cases of the most urgent and extreme necessity, nor shall any such treaty be ratified without the concurrence of three fourths of the whole number of the members of both houses respectively.
8th. That no navigation law or law regulating commerce shall be passed without the consent of two thirds of the members present, in both houses.
9th. That no standing army or regular troops shall be raised, or kept up in time of peace, without the consent of two thirds of the members present, in both houses.
10th. That no soldier shall be inlisted for any longer term than four years, except in time of war, and then for no longer term than the continuance of the war.
11th. That each state respectively shall have the power to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining its own militia, whensoever Congress shall omit or neglect to provide for the same. That the militia shall not be subject to martial law, except when in actual service in time of war, invasion or rebellion, and when not in the actual service of the United States, shall be subject only to such fines, penalties and punishments as shall be directed or inflicted by the laws of its own state.
12th. That the exclusive power of legislation given to Congress over the Foederal Town and its adjacent district, and other places purchased or to be purchased by Congress of any of the states, shall extend only to such regulations as respect the police and good government thereof.
13th. That no person shall be capable of being President of the United States for more than eight years in any term of sixteen years.
14th. That the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such Courts of Admiralty as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish in any of the different states: The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under treaties made, or which shall be made under the authority of the United States; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other foreign ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States, and between parties claiming lands under the grants of different States. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other foreign ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction; in all other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, as to matters of law only: except in cases of equity, and of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, in which the Supreme Court shall have a appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make: But the judicial power of the United States shall extend to no case where the cause of action shall have originated before the ratification of this Constitution; except in disputes between States about their territory; disputes between persons claiming lands under the grants of different States, and suits for debts due to the United States.
15th. That in criminal prosecutions, no man shall be restrained in the exercise of the usual and accustomed right of challenging or excepting to the jury.
16th. That Congress shall not alter, modify, or interfere in the times, places, or manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, or either of them, except when the Legislature of any state shall neglect, refuse, or be disabled by invasion or rebellion to prescribe the same.
17th. That those clauses which declare that Congress shall not exercise certain powers, be not interpreted in any manner whatsoever, to extend the powers of Congress; but that they be construed either as making exceptions to the specified powers where this shall be the case, or otherwise, as inserted merely for greater caution.
18th. That the laws ascertaining the compensation of Senators and representatives for their services, be postponed in their operation, until after the election of representatives immediately succeeding the passing thereof; that excepted, which shall first be passed on the subject.
19th. That some tribunal other than the Senate be provided for trying impeachments of Senators.
20th. That the salary of a judge shall not be increased or diminished during his continuance in office otherwise than by general regulations of salary, which may take place on a revision of the subject at stated periods of not less than seven years, to commence from the same such salaries shall be first ascertained by Congress.
AND the Convention do, in the name and behalf of the people of this Commonwealth, enjoin it upon their representatives in Congress to exert all their influence and use all reasonable and legal methods to obtain a RATIFICATION of the foregoing alterations and provisions in the manner provided by the fifth article of the said Constitution; and in all Congressional laws to be passed in the meantime, to conform to the spirit of these amendments as far as the said Constitution will admit. | <urn:uuid:bb06701a-0178-49c8-a5d0-21ab8b5d70ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://usconstitution.net/rat_va.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00352-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957412 | 3,435 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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So it looks like self-evidence might be the key to get both scientists and metaphysicans together. So they can open up for each others “truths”. For example the metahphor “to love beauty is to see light” might be viewed from both scientifical and metaphysician point of view. And their corresponding truths might turn out to amplify each other, provided they are open towards each others “truth”. Now wouldn’t that give science a whole new kickstart? Happy truth hunting! | <urn:uuid:b3684511-c84b-4d88-b9ce-682917dbf603> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://louisdietvorst.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/we-need-a-metaphorical-language-to-help-us-re-member-hidden-knowledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963152 | 235 | 1.539063 | 2 |
To show that beauty is more than skin deep, and that God sees beauty in each of us.
by The Revd Guy Donegan-Cross
Suitable for Whole School (Pri)
To show that beauty is more than skin deep, and that God sees the beauty in each of us.
Preparation and materials
- You will need a video of Shrek. If you cannot show the actual video, you could refer to the appropriate scene verbally.
- The words 'Love other people as you love yourself' written on 7 separate cards.
- A box with a mirror at the bottom. You will need to test this out in advance to check that there is enough light to see yourself when you look into the box. If necessary, cut holes in the sides of the box and cover them with tissue paper to let more light in.
- Show, or talk about, the scene in the film Shrek where Shrek keeps rejecting the donkey's offer of friendship when they first meet, believing himself to be ugly. (It's at 14 min 12 secs: 'Why are you following me?', to the arrival at Shrek's home - about a minute and a half long.)
Ask the children:
What does Shrek think of himself?
Why does Shrek keep telling the donkey to go away?
Why does the donkey like Shrek?
- Say that beauty is more about what is on the inside than what is on the outside. Show the box. Say that inside the box is something of great beauty. Invite a few children to look in the box - they will see themselves in the mirror. Take out the mirror and show it to all the children. Say that what they can see is something of real beauty to God.
- Give seven volunteers a word each from the phrase, 'Love other people as you love yourself', in random order. Say that Jesus said some really important things, and one of the most important was what is on these cards. Ask the children to arrange themselves into a sentence, guiding them towards standing in the right order, and then read out the sentence.
Ask the children: How can you love other people if you don't love yourself? Shrek didn't love himself, and so he couldn't love other people. But God wants you to know that you are beautiful inside and out. He wants you to love what he has made - you, because to him you are beautiful.
Time for reflection
In a time of quiet, ask the children quietly to thank God that he sees them as beautiful.
You see each one of us
inside and out.
You know how we are beautiful.
Teach us to bring out
the beauty in each other.
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An e-mail from BarackObama.com invites people to share their gun violence stories and reasons for supporting stronger gun control measures.
The “From” window of the e-mail says, “Sami Rahamim,” though replies go to firstname.lastname@example.org.
In the e-mail, Rahamim explains that one of his parents died as a result of gun violence:
“My dad, Reuven Rahamim, was killed this past September in a mass shooting. I was 17 years old, one of 15 children who lost a parent that day. I'm honoring his memory -- and those of many others who have fallen -- by doing something about gun violence.”
“Share your story,” he invites readers and provides a link to a submission page on the barackobama.com website.
Another page on the website displays "stories about gun violence," attributing the author’s first name, last-name initial and hometown.
Many of the stories are about gun violence involving schools and students. One, by “Kindra S.” of Chelsea, MI, describes how “a mentally unstable teacher went on a shooting tirade after school & killed our superintendent & attempted to kill our principal and another teacher.” | <urn:uuid:08181631-9b00-4e28-8860-c28b4d513720> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/barackobamacom-give-us-your-gun-violence-stories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00466-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968399 | 274 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Despite warnings from top US army generals, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld says the army is not over “stretched” and that no further troops are needed in either country.
He sharply questioned whether the US army needs larger deployments at a press conference on Tuesday.
With nearly 150,000 US troops occupying Iraq for the foreseeable future and 10,000 more in Afghanistan, questions have been raised about US military readiness if faced with a war in North Korea or elsewhere.
But Rumsfeld said the Joint Staff is currently "re-analysing" US war plans to determine whether existing US forces are sufficient to do what they are now doing and still be able to meet other potential contingencies.
He said the studies are finding that "mass is interesting but not necessarily determinative," given the escalation of resistance attacks on US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"And they are looking at other ways of achieving the kinds of effects that are desired in those contingency plans, and we find that often it requires fewer people than the existing information," he said.
"We're short infantry, we're short (specialists), we're short military police."
-General John Keane
Rumsfeld also said that more can be done to ease the stress on US forces without increasing their size.
Rumsfeld cited several possible measures:
- Filling more jobs now held by military personnel with civilians
- Finding more efficient ways to deploy and re-deploy forces
- Bringing in more Iraqi police and troops
- Increase the size of the international contingent
- Reducing the US military presence in places like Bosnia, Kosovo and the Sinai.
"At the moment I don't believe that anyone that I've talked to has evidence that argues that we have done those kinds of things sufficiently effectively that one could make a current case for increasing end-strength," he said.
But the issue has proven to be a major point of disagreement in Rumsfeld's relations with former army chief of staff, retired General Eric Shinseki.
Shinseki argued that the army needed to add 20,000 to 40,000 troops to its ranks to meet the increased requirements imposed by the invasion of Iraq.
There is disagreement whether
more US troops are needed in Iraq
Rumsfeld was also challenged by Shinseki before the war in Iraq when Shinseki said that several hundred thousand troops would be needed for an extended period of time after the war to occupy the country.
There was no reprieve from the issue when General Pete Schoomaker, Rumsfeld's choice to replace Shinseki, revived the debate late last month.
At a hearing to confirm his appointment, he told senators that the force needed to be rebalanced.
"But I'm going to take a little risk here and I'm going to tell you that, intuitively, I think we need more people. I mean, it's just that simple," Schoomaker said.
Irritated by the quote, Rumsfeld suggested the general had been misquoted and insisted that there was not much difference in their views.
General John Keane, the army's deputy chief of staff, told defence reporters at a breakfast Tuesday that before making a case for more troops the army had to free up more troops from jobs that could be performed by civilians.
But he said the army was "obviously stretched" by the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and he had "no doubt" more troops were needed.
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By the President of the United States of America
We approach that season of the year when it has been the custom for the American people to give thanks for the good fortune which the bounty of Providence, through the generosity of nature, has visited upon them. It is altogether a good custom. It has the sanction of antiquity and the approbation of our religious convictions. In acknowledging the receipt of divine favor, in contemplating the blessings which have been bestowed upon us, we shall reveal the spiritual strength of the nation.
The year has been marked by a continuation of peace whereby our country has entered into a relationship of better understanding with all the other nations of the earth. Ways have been revealed to us by which we could perform very great service through the giving of friendly counsel, through the extension of financial assistance, and through the exercise of a spirit of neighborly kindliness to less favored peoples. We should give thanks for the power which has been given into our keeping, with which we have been able to render these services to the rest of mankind.
At home we have continually had an improving state of the public health. The production of our industries has been large and our harvests have been bountiful. We have been remarkably free from disorder and remarkably successful in all those pursuits which flourish during a state of domestic peace. An abundant prosperity has overspread the land. We shall do well to accept all these favors and bounties with a becoming humility, and dedicate them to the service of the righteous cause of the Giver of all good and perfect gifts. As the nation has prospered let all the people show that they are worthy to prosper by rededicating America to the service of God and man.
Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, hereby proclaim and fix Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of November, as a day of National thanksgiving. I recommend that the people gather in their places of worship, and at the family altars, and offer up their thanks for the goodness which has been shown to them in such a multitude of ways. Especially I urge them to supplicate the Throne of Grace that they may gather strength from their tribulations, that they may gain humility from their victories, that they may bear without complaining the burdens that shall be placed upon them, and that they may be increasingly worthy in all ways of the blessings that shall come to them.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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They government are destroying our business in so many ways right now I don’t even know where to start.
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Veterans' mental health treatment not as timely as contended
An internal investigation at the Department of Veterans Affairs released Monday says tens of thousands of veterans waited far longer last year to receive mental health treatment than what the VA contends.
An inspector general found that claims by the VA that 95% of its patients are both evaluated for mental health problems and begin receiving therapy within a 14-day goal set by the department are false.
In fact, only about half of mental patients were evaluated within two weeks. The remainder waited an average of seven weeks, the investigation found.
On the time it takes to begin treatment, the probe corroborated findings by a USA TODAY analysis published Nov. 9 which revealed that about a third of VA patients wait longer than 14 days to start treatment.
The VA Inspector General confirmed that only 64% are treated within 14 days, and the rest — a projected 94,000 patient appointments in 2011 — wait nearly six weeks on average before starting their treatment.
The VA's "mental health performance data is not accurate or reliable," the inspector general concluded, adding that the department "overstated its success."
For follow-up sessions, the VA says it meets its 14-day goal for 98% of its patients. But the investigation found that true only 88% of the time, with patients beyond that date waiting nearly eight weeks for follow-on care.
The VA said it concurred with the investigation results and would move "rapidly" to revamp its process for measuring delays. Department officials said last year they have had chronic difficulty monitoring access to mental health care, partly because of a 25-year-old computerized scheduling system slated for replacement.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have partly resulted in an increase every three months of 10,000 new patients arriving at the VA suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. The VA treats 1.3 million mental health patients, including 400,000 from the two conflicts, according to the department.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, requested the investigation in November after a survey of VA mental health workers last year revealed concerns about delays and staff shortages.
The VA announced Thursday it would immediately begin expanding its 20,000-member mental health staff by 1,900 to reduce delays in care.
USA TODAY reported this month that the VA has been unable to fill about 20% of its existing psychiatric positions in hospitals in large sections of the nation.
The inspector general confirmed that according to interviews with VA staff the "greatest challenge has been to hire and retain psychiatrists." Three out of four hospital sites visited by investigators lacked psychiatrists.
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To bring a first-of-its-kind cargo tracking solution to market, P.L.M. Industries needed to team with a global technology leader offering a powerful cloud-based development and hosting platform.
An IBM Cloud Garage team worked closely with the company to design, develop and launch a Smart Pro Tracking System prototype in an IBM Cloud hosting environment.
Accelerates time to marketwith hands-on guidance and design expertise from an IBM Cloud Garage team
Saves development costsby zeroing in quickly on the optimal design and functionality for the offering’s user base
Gains agilitywith development resources, cloud services and cutting-edge cognitive technology in one platform
Business challenge story
Bringing a new logistics concept to marketFor logistics and freight companies, poor visibility into cargo tracking results in massive losses each year. “Lost or stolen cargo is the industry’s biggest challenge,” says P.L.M. Industries founding vice president Vernice London. “FBI reports estimate up to USD 30 billion in annual losses through theft and human error.”
Familiar with the expense and limitations of standard radio frequency identification (RFID) platforms, the organization’s founders designed low-cost tracking devices to serve as part of a first-of-its-kind solution for end-to-end insight into logistics operations. To fully develop and bring the offering to market, the company needed to team with a global technology leader.
“We needed an IT partner to bring proper value to our platform and help us develop back-end functionality,” says P.L.M. Industries founding president Timothy Parker. “We also wanted an expert to give our user interface an overhaul and integrate our devices in the cloud.”
Teaming with a cloud and cognitive leader
Evaluating IT providers, P.L.M. Industries found IBM highly responsive to its needs as a small startup business. “We considered working with Oracle, but from our first discussion with IBM, everyone had the same spirit of taking a small startup like ours very seriously, getting us to the right resources and bringing IBM expertise to our project,” says Parker.
An IBM Cloud Garage team worked closely with P.L.M. Industries, delving into potential use cases and user personas to drive design for the company’s proposed solution. “The process allowed us to very quickly see what functionality wasn’t necessary and get laser focused on providing value for our users,” says London.
Launching a prototype of the Smart Pro Tracking System in an IBM Cloud hosting environment, P.L.M. Industries plans to incorporate the IBM Watson Analytics service in the near future. “Once we get our app perfected, we want to bring in Watson cognitive capabilities to revolutionize the way things are shipped all over the world,” says Parker.
Building a business and getting to market quickly
Teaming with IBM proved critical for P.L.M. Industries in its early stages as a new business. “IBM didn’t just come in and treat us like a customer,” says London. “The team taught us a process for making sure that what we build aligns with our business model. Instead of just developing and building a system, IBM actually helped build and develop a company.”
Plus, the collaboration helped P.L.M. Industries develop its offering quickly and cost-effectively. “The IBM process stops you from going to market with the wrong thing,” says Parker. “We could have easily put a couple million dollars and a lot of time into developing something that wasn’t right for our customer base.”
With the IBM Cloud solution providing access to development resources, cloud infrastructure and cognitive technology in one platform, P.L.M. Industries is well-positioned to keep up with customer demands. “In the IBM Cloud environment, everything we need to make changes is right there, “says London. “Every customer we work with will be a little different, and IBM Cloud gives us the agility we need to respond to virtually anyone’s needs.”
P.L.M. Industries formed in 2014 to create disruptive technology solutions for the automotive, communications, consumer products, energy and logistics marketing sectors. Based in Victorville, California, the company collaborates with design engineering firm IDNEO Technologies to develop its offerings.
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Over the last few days, I’ve posted several posts about liberal vs. conservative attitudes on a range of free speech questions, including “hate speech,” anti-religious speech, and more, both based on questions from the General Social Survey and based on an analysis of Supreme Court Justices’ decisions on these questions (whether from the 1970s to now or the 1990s to now). All the results show a similar pattern: (1) liberals tend to be somewhat more sympathetic to free speech protection, including for racist speech, than are conservatives or moderates, (2) the difference is fairly slight, and (3) all three groups are divided on the subject, often sharply divided.
As readers might have gathered, these posts have been triggered by the common argument that I hear from conservatives — for instance, in the comments to these very posts — about how liberals are supposedly eager to support restrictions on “hate speech” and on anti-Muslim blasphemy. Being someone who generally leans more conservative than liberal (and definitely more Republican than Democrat), I would have liked to endorse this argument, and see liberals as culpable in the occasional moves to impose such restrictions. But I think the argument is misguided, for four closely related reasons.
1. It’s factually unsound. Liberals are generally no more likely than conservatives to support restrictions on “hate speech,” and are probably somewhat less likely to do so (though the apparent distance between the groups generally isn’t that great, and is small enough that it’s possible that true distance is virtually nil).
It’s true that some “hate speech” restrictions, such as campus speech codes and even more aggressive restrictions, have been mostly proposed by liberals (in this instance meaning generally people who are left of center). But some of the leading opponents of such restrictions, such as Nadine Strossen and Harvey Silverglate, have likewise been liberals. And while I’ve seen no surveys that break down liberal vs. conservative public opinion on speech codes as such, the general support among many conservatives for restrictions on, say, speech that argues that blacks are genetically inferior suggests that many conservatives among the public would support speech codes as well.
2. It’s unfair. Liberals and conservatives, according to the GSS, are both pretty sharply split on such questions; even if a “hate speech” restriction is proposed by some liberals, it seems very likely to be opposed by a substantial share of liberals, perhaps even a majority.
I understand that our mental images of either group may be a lot more homogeneous — but I suspect that this is a reflection of our own limited experience and limited memories. I doubt that many of us have discussed these questions in details with large groups of liberals and conservatives, much less representative groups. We might remember a few prominent speakers on one or another side who have taken one or another view. But that doesn’t mean much about what “liberals” generally think or what “conservatives” generally think.
3. It’s ungrateful. We owe a great deal of our free speech protections — including protections against university speech codes, protections for alleged “hate speech,” protections for anti-Muslim speech, and so on — to many people, including many liberals, both past (such as Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Douglas, and many liberal lawyers and activists) and present or only very recently past (Justices Ginsburg and Souter, and many current liberal lawyers and activists). Even if we disagree with these people on many things, we should appreciate and respect their contributions on this issue, on which we are allied. And condemning the whole liberal movement, of which they have been integral parts, as supposedly being on the wrong side of this issue strikes me as a poor way of showing such appreciation.
4. It’s politically unwise. Any continued protection against campus speech code, “hate speech” bans, and bans on speech that offends religious groups generally and Muslims in particular can’t come from conservatives and libertarians alone, especially given the number of conservatives who don’t support protecting such speech. It can only come from a continuation of the coalition that has protected such speech in the past — a coalition that has contained many liberals, moderates, conservatives, and libertarians. Unfairly condemning liberals on this point may well alienate some of them from this coalition. And suggesting that supporting such speech restrictions is indeed the liberal way (even when that suggestion comes in the form of condemnation) might in some measure become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The Scoop on Poop
Park Ranger picks up poo, puts down details on dangers
If only dogs were this courteous. (Courtesy photobucket.com)
As a Seasonal Park Ranger at the only Vermont State Park that allows dogs off-leash in a designated area, I pick up a tremendous amount of doggie doo. Recently, I began thinking seriously about the impact of pet waste on our environment, and started doing some research.
Some common misconceptions that I hear from pet owners are: It's completely natural. It just goes away. It's fertilizer. Leaving it on the ground to decompose is more environmentally responsible than throwing it away and creating more landfill. If it's not left where someone can step in it, there's no need to pick it up.
According to the EPA, pet waste is 57 percent more toxic than human waste, and, in 1991 it was placed in the same health category as oil and toxic chemicals. The EPA also estimates that in two or three days, 100 dogs can produce enough bacteria to close a small bay with a 20-square mile watershed to swimming and fishing.
Dog feces contain high concentrations of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), and pathogens (bacteria, viruses, worms and parasites) that can cause serious illness in humans and pets. When your dog goes on the ground, it does not just go on the ground. Let's follow the cycle of poo and see what happens.
Assuming dog feces are NOT picked up, it can take up to a year to break down in the environment, depending on climate, the animal's diet and other factors. Some bacteria can even become airborne. The deposit site can become toxic to both dogs and people. Some pathogens can survive for years; for instance, roundworms and Giardia survive up to four years, E. coli can live up to four months, and salmonella up to 6 months.
Giardia can survive in lakes, streams, rivers or puddle water at temperatures below 50 degrees F for as long as 1-3 months, but it can also survive in the soil for approximately 7 weeks in soil temperatures as low as 39 degrees F. There are many other harmful pathogens that live in pet feces; these are just a few.
Once on the ground, feces become a non-point source (NPS) pollutant. NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt running over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away the nutrients and pathogens, and deposits them into groundwater, storm water run-off, streams, rivers and lakes. Non-point source pollutants come in many forms: excess fertilizers from residences and farms, bacteria and nutrients from livestock operations, boat pump-outs, and faulty septic systems. Unlike most NPS pollutants, pet feces contain pathogens that make people and/or pets sick.
Feces from yards and urban areas enter storm water run-off. Storm water may not be directed to sewage treatment facilities for removal of nutrients and pathogens. Holding ponds remove sand and sediment, but not nitrogen, phosphorus, or other disease causing organisms. Feces left in wooded or shoreline areas, such as parks, almost always bypass storm water run-off systems and directly enter waterways.
Once in fresh water, nitrogen breaks down to form ammonia, a process which removes the available oxygen from the water. If too much oxygen is removed in the breakdown process, there may not be enough left for fish to survive, resulting in fish die-offs. Pathogens, two of which are Giardia and E.Coli, remain viable and may infect pets or humans who consume the fresh water.
Once nutrients and pathogens reach the lake, excess nitrogen and phosphorus feed algae (that are always present at some level) and can cause algae blooms. When bacteria decompose an algae bloom, it removes oxygen from the water, which then kills fish and marine life. Some types of algae blooms, such as cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae), can produce toxins that are harmful to people and can be fatal to dogs.
Water recreation areas are frequently tested to see if harmful levels of E.Coli are present, and visually monitored for blue-green algae blooms. If unsafe levels or conditions are found to exist, areas are closed to all recreation, which results in loss of tourism and outdoor recreation opportunities.
Nature can easily handle the feces breakdown of wildlife and maintain a balance. Our environment cannot handle and effectively process high concentrations of pet waste, which create an un-natural balance. Simply stated, there is too much pet waste left behind which cannot be processed naturally, and the results are toxic.
So, what is the best way to dispose of pet feces? It does not "just" break down, or go away. If it is buried, it still leaves pathogens on site below the surface, and nutrients and pathogens can still enter the groundwater. Composting is only effective if temperatures can be maintained at or over 140 degrees extended periods in order to kill pathogens such as E coli and salmonella. Flushing it down the toilet works well (feces only but not a plastic pick-up bag) if you're on a city sewer system where it can be treated, but septic systems can't handle the load.
Scooping, bagging and disposing of feces in the garbage is the most ecological and responsible way to clean up after your pet. Landfills are specifically designed so that wastes are contained and do not leach into groundwater.
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I get into far too many disputes over things that people are not supposed to talk about. Sex, politics, religion, and country music or the proper consumption of bananas.
But it amuses me that I manage to aggravate people of both sides of the traditional American spectrum so easily. Bring up economics, and you're bound to be rubbing up against a neo-Keynesian view of the world at the high end, and people who support vast counterproductive measures of protectionism and immigration controls. Bring up civil liberties and war and you're bound to piss off a neoconservative. Bring up abortion or gay rights and again, social conservatives stand annoyed. The shading on these issues and the level of importance that individuals attach to them changes. But by and large I view most of these as best governed by impersonal forces like markets with very strict protections over human rights overarching those markets (for example to prevent people from being sold into slavery or to have their property and livelihood seized against their will or without a contract to that effect).
That puts me at odds with people enough that it may be necessary to use a more complicated term to define my politics. I put it as a liberal-right-wing progressive. Based on that sort of analysis anyway, which I find persuasive enough to cover most issues (excluding foreign policy, which varies widely).
In general, the idea of liberalism was at its roots a philosophy centered around the importance of individuals and protecting as much as possible their wants, needs, and rights. It is less clear what the modern definition seeks, though at times these goals are aligned (as in the case of civil libertarians). I seek whereever possible to look for systems that restore power to individuals, or at least reduce power granted to authorities over them. Much of the Constitution is based on the premise that a government which holds wide and arbitrary power over its subjects will abuse that power and thus most of its subsequent amendments are designed not to limit freedoms of individuals but to abolish or restrict powers otherwise seized by governments to those that are absolutely essential to the proper functions of government (law and order, court proceedings, the mechanisms to design new laws through public support, etc). I do not share a view that it is necessary to expand government operations in all cases in order to preserve or expand individual liberties, though on occasion such a view can be sympathetic if properly understood (such as public goods or externalities). In general I defer to authority only where the rules are properly framed and willing to be explained if needs be. If those explanations are inadequate, then rules will be challenged and violated if necessary.
Right-wing, like liberal, holds a perverse modern definition. I think of this as a meaning implying that a form of social justice is that which permits people their just rewards for their toil and sweat and innovation. In examining education I have some sympathy for the function of people on the lower end of educational attainment through public schools (or ideally, just "schools"). But I have a lot more sympathy for what happens with the educational elites through schools such that they can be properly developed and motivated when they emerge from those systems. The same applies to economic competition for jobs and products. The best skilled or most efficient and so on should be allowed to prevail where possible. I'm not blind to the problems of misfortune. Those need to be dealt with, in part because they can, if left unattended, cause serious problems for those more successful (crime for example). But I prefer a system that encourages success more than one that puts a measure of minimal comfort in place, and in particular the systems that define what the minimal level should be for all people in a paternalistic way, such as those we often presently use. I think people can figure out what their basic needs are and how to meet those by following rational signals without much government interference.
As for progressive, the now ubiquitous insult most favored by conservative windbags who think Woodrow Wilson was a worse stain upon humanity than Mao Zedong, it's basically a simple meaning that such people prefer looking toward a better future rather than assuming that the past should instruct the present. The manner of approaching or achieving that desired future thus varies on the basis of these other moderating influences. A person who favors largely individuals over institutions will seek to, far from apportioning greater sway and power to the state remove such powers wherever practical-able.
So in the context of the debate over "liberaltarians" or the proper scope and mission of libertarians themselves, I'd still say we're better off staying neutral and homeless on many issues. In large part because there are often limited constituencies of support on those matters. But it does make sense to tactically strike out to fight the growth of government programs which might intrude on civil liberties just as easily as it makes sense to strike down those which might intrude on economic and property rights. Such tactical moves would permit alliances of convenience just as much as they permit people like me to annoy everyone at once.
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Two weeks ago, a young woman at #OccupyWallStreet was raped in her tent. He was out on bail from another rape–and had been accused of assaulting another woman in the park.
Her rape was not the first. Another woman was raped in her tent at #OccupyCleveland–and was accused of being a spy from the government to make #OccupyWallStreet look unsafe. One woman was sexually assaulted and went to the police, only to be promptly dismissed with, “That’s what you get for sleeping away from home.” Needless to say, he did not pursue her assault.
In response to the rape at #OccupyWallStreet–which of course, is the one that is getting any press whatsoever–several women at Occupy Wall Street have united with Code Pink to make a women’s only “safe space” tent–a place where women can sleep without fear or risk of male intrusion and sexual assault.
Although the tent is durable and strong–a militaristic greenish gray, decorated with slogans like “we are strong women” and “strong women occupying wall street,” to me, it is an upsetting symbol of the feminine presence at #OccupyWallStreet. It is a crisis response–something that had to be erected because of the harsh realization that Liberty Plaza, a place that is supposed to be a beautiful symbol of the world that we wish to occupy (a world that is not only free of capitalism and corporate greed, but free of the systems of patriarchy, violence, racism, and discrimination that our current economic system institutionalizes) is not a safe space. Though the well meaning white people in the movement have claimed–and been criticized–for purporting that the movement is free from the race, gender, and class lines that once divided us, it has been made clear that these have not only shaped our pasts, but severely occupy our present.
The reality is, women are raped. This woman was raped, and she wasn’t the first and she will not be the last. The reality is, we are not in a social place where we can occupy a space equally without being preoccupied by concern for our safety.
The tent was erected the week following the rape. Though many people were supportive of the tent, and applauded the women who built it, plenty undermined its significance. In the park, some men grumbled that women claim that sexual assault is rape and overreacted to the situation. On the Internet, many commented articles about the safe space and the sexual assault problem with asinine comments like, “rapists are in the ninety-nine percent too.”
Here is the thing.
#OccupyWallStreet is a movement for economic justice. Unlike an ordinary protest–something where we have a protest permit, signs, and stand with megaphones on a street corner or in a public square for two hours–we have vowed to literally occupy the space until substantial change occurs in our system. There are no permits, as there is no respect for the traditional order that has governed and broken our system. Instead, there is a new system–something that has been built upon consensus, and now–due to the sheer size of the movement–is experiencing its own trials and evolution in political organization. At the root of this new system–no matter what the internal strife in operations–is the desire to model a society based on what we want to live in.
In this society, I don’t want to have to sleep in a tent away from everyone–a glaring symbol of my inequality and vulnerability. I don’t want to be segregated by my gender, because my gender is occupied by a certain set of issues and concerns.
As long as we are imagining idealism, and fearlessly advancing radical ideas, shouldn’t we be discussing a world without sexual violence? It is a necessary temporary fix to have a women’s only “safe space” in Liberty Plaza–but activism, and discussions around rape culture, rape accountability, and sexual violence should continue and be an integral part of a radical liberation movement. Ending the fight against sexual violence with a women’s only safe space effectively bails out rape culture–due to our broken justice system, and our propensity to easy fixes rather than discussions around systemic change, rape and sexual violence is not only ignored, but effectively enabled.
We need the same discussions around systemic roots, accountability, and collective justice surrounding sexual violence that we are building around corporate greed and financial terrorism (not to mention complete and utter disillusionment with our justice system). As long as we are exercising the radical imagination to reclaim our political, economic, and social system from the forces that have constricted and bound us in an eternal cycle of inequality, why claim ourselves a culture without sexual violence and educate and organize around #OccupyRapeCulture? | <urn:uuid:b5e8661a-7f8f-4886-839f-233bbb4bd8a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://whereisyourline.org/2011/11/on-rape-culture-co-opting-and-occupyingeverything/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00252-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961902 | 1,009 | 2.0625 | 2 |
is claiming that open source software infringes on hundreds of its patents, and plans to make the open source community pay to use them.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the open source projects are infringing on 235 of its patents.
The company claims that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft's patents, that the graphical user interface such as the Gnome and KDE projects fall foul of another 65 and that OpenOffice infringes 45.
Email programs account for another 15 violations and the remainder is claimed by various other open source applications.
The software giant did not identify any individual patents on which the software infringes because that could allow open source developers either to challenge the patent or change the software to circumvent the patent.
Microsoft suggested that the number of allegedly infringed patents indicated the scope of the problem, but at least one open source advocate disagreed.
"Numbers are not where the action is," Eben Moglen, long time counsel to the Free Software Foundation
and former head of the Software Freedom Law Center
, said in Fortune
. "The action is in very tight qualitative analysis of individual situations."
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has already warned of a forthcoming legal battle, but this is the first time that Redmond has been so specific.
"The only real solution that [the free software] folks have to offer is that they first burn down the bridge, and then they burn down the patent system," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel.
"That to me is not a goal that's likely to be achieved, and not a goal that should be achieved."
However, the US Supreme Court may also have a role to play. Last week the court ruled that many patents were not sufficiently novel to be patented and it has yet to rule on the software patent issue.
The patent threat against the open source community has been a hot issue over the past years, challenging the very existence of such software.
Patent owners such as Microsoft could file legal charges against individual users of open source software, companies supporting the products or individual developers.
The worst case would resemble that of the legal charges filed by SCO
and corporate Linux users for alleged copyright violations by the operating system.
SCO claims ownership of the so-called AT&T Unix source code and alleges that Linux developers copied parts of the code.
But the SCO case also demonstrated the risks of a legal campaign against open source.
Following the filing of its case, SCO has been isolated by several of its partners and competitors, and numerous customers have cancelled their contracts, causing its revenues to plummet.
Microsoft has been attempting to generate licence revenues from its patent portfolio in recent years. Most famously, the company inked a patent agreement with Novell
last November over its SuSE Linux software.
Microsoft began stepping up its patent programme in 2002, the year that Smith became general counsel. In 2002 it filed for 1,411 but by 2004 it had risen to 3,780 and has now passed 5,000.
The company is no stranger to patent law disputes. From April 2004 through to March 2007 the company paid US$1.25bn to Sun Microsystems, US$536m to Novell, US$440m to InterTrust, US$60m to Burst.com, US$6m to private inventor Carlos Amado, US$115m to z4 Technologies, US$74m to Korean company P&IB, and most recently, US$1.52bn to Alcatel-Lucent over patents allegedly infringed by Microsoft's software. | <urn:uuid:20ac8d1a-5624-47db-96eb-90f98605dad3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/81178,microsoft-claims-patents-on-linux-kernel.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957239 | 731 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Recommended biographies on modern American poets
Richard Poirier's The Work of Knowing - Dated but still one
of the best; there aren't any really good recent bios.
William H. Pritchard's Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered.
Hugh Kenner's The Pound Ezra - Still the bible; difficult, more
like an encyclopedia of modernism than a book on EP.
Noel Stock's The Life of Ezra Pound
Wendy Flory's The American Ezra Pound
Lyndall Gordon's 2-volumn Eliot's Early Years and Eliot's
Peter Ackroyd's T.S. Eliot
Bonnie Costello's Marianne Moore
Grace Schulman's study, Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement
John Unterrecker's Voyager: The Life of Hart Crane - Dated
but good; there is no recent bio.
Arnold Rampersad's 2-volumn bio, Life of Langston Hughes - Considered
William Carlos Willams
Paul Mariani's William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked -
Probably the best bio to date.
Milton Bates' Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self - An excellent
Joan Richardson's 2-volumn bio Wallace Stevens.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' H.D.: The Career of That Struggle
Janice Robinson's H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet
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Exploring Our Own Data: Practical Application of Data Management Skills to Library Data Sets
April 24, 2014, 1:00-4:00
The John Crerar Library,
The University of Chicago
Workshop held in conjunction with the 3rd Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium, April 25th, the John Crerar Library, the University of Chicago.
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As need for experience with managing data sets continues to grow, librarians need hands-on opportunities to work through the data life cycle and practice their own data management skills. Library data sets present a rich trove for exploration and expansion of this skill set. Join Abigail Goben and Rebecca Raszewski for a hands-on workshop using reference desk statistics to improve your data skills. Discuss challenges and pitfalls of working through the data life cycle, including licensing rights and the hazards of multiple hands capturing data. Explore creating forms and doing some preliminary statistical analysis with Google Tools. Utilize Open Refine, an open source tool for standardizing and transforming messy data, with an instructor-provided data set.
Abigail Goben, MLS Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences
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Have you ever wondered why Archangel Raphael, ruler of Mercury (Planet of Communication), is the main Healing Angel? What does communication have to do with healing?
Actually, the connection between healing and communication is quite clear. When we are well and our body is in a state of perfect harmony, all the cells communicate in their normal, healthy way. Toxins, traumas, and energetic blockages upset this normal cell communication and throw our health off-balance.
The link is perhaps even more immediately apparent when we look at love relationships. In a healthy love relationship, communication flows in harmony. A rift in the relationship is almost invariably down to problems in communication… and the key to healing the rift is… you guessed it – communication.
Archangel Raphael is not mentioned in the modern versions of the Old Testament but he does get a mention in the pseudo-apocryphal book of Tobit. The story there goes that Archangel Raphael brought Sarah and Tobiah together after teaching Tobiah how to drive away the demon that killed Sarah’s husbands on their wedding night and prevented her from consummating her marriage. Archangel Rapahael also cured Tobiah’s father, Tobit, of blindness.
Because he brought these two Biblical soul mates together, Archangel Raphael gets pride of place as the angel at the top of the RWS Lovers card which corresponds with Gemini (ruled by Mercury). Hopefully, this also clears some of the confusion about why Gemini is the astrological correspondence for The Lovers Tarot card. There are always many layers of meaning to peel away when we dive deep into the occult correspondences for the RWS deck and its many clones.
There are many ways to connect with and invoke the assistance of this wonderful Healing Angel, whose name means ‘God Heals.’
The simplest and most immediate way is to simply ask or pray… and if you like to use crystals, the colours you would need to use are green (harmony/homeostasis) or yellow (communication). Peridot is a yellow-green (olive) crystal that is wonderful for connecting with the healing energy of Archangel Raphael.
Now, some of you may think, ‘Hang on a minute! Aren’t blue crystals used to enhance communication?’ Yes, however, they are more associated with expression than the act of communicating. The difference is that the aim of communication is to bring together, integrate, and synthesise, whereas expression is about putting your point across (dissemination). The colour yellow helps us stay alert and quick-witted. Gold aids assimilation of spiritual truths.
As for the main healing colour, there isn’t one… in fact, all colours carry a healing vibration, but green is for harmony and as close as it gets if we had to pick just one, which is why it is often seen on hospital walls. However, energy healers channel white healing light and set the intent for it to go (and be refracted) where/how it is needed.
For inflammatory conditions, blue may be needed to soothe and restore the balance. For poor circulation and hypotension, red may be needed etc. Archangel Raphael and his healing angels can assist with the energy healing process, which is why energy healers like to call on him for assistance before the start of a healing session.
Juniper and Lemon are the two main essential oils that I associate with Archangel Raphael. Lemongrass, lime, lavender and eucalyptus are other oils that can be used. Obviously, you can ask Archangel Raphael to bless any of your oils that you intend to use for healing purposes.
If you are a bit further along as an energy healer, you may wish to experiment with making your own vibrational Archangel Raphael essence. For this, you can use herbs, crystals, and Tarot cards. You may for instance choose to make a peridot crystal elixir with the direct method, adding a flower of choice and charging the clear glass bowl over The Lovers (Gemini), The Magician (Mercury) or The Hermit (Virgo). Depending on what sort of healing you are seeking for yourself or your loved one, you may wish to let this sit in direct sunlight or overnight on a full moon.
Solar healing magick under the auspice of Archangel Raphael is best for when your vitality levels are low, such after recovering from a long period of illness. Lunar healing magick with Archangel Raphael is great for all kinds of healing and should be performed on a Full Moon in Virgo (physical) or Gemini (mental/emotional).
Candle magick for healing can be done any day of the week, which is handy because we don’t always get ill on a Wednesday which is the day of the week ruled by Mercury/Archangel Raphael. Use a light green or yellow/gold candle. If you don’t have any of the essential oils mentioned above for dressing the candle, almond or olive oil both work really well.
Because Archangel Raphael is the ruler of the Element of Air (intellect/communication/East) as well as the Patron of Healers, you can ask him for help and inspiration in creating your healing spell. If you wish to write it down, the traditional method is black ink on green paper.
Doing the Tarot spread below can be handy before you cast your healing spell…
THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL HEALING TAROT SPREAD
1. Your ability to self-heal – Shows how and to what degree you are capable of self-healing. ‘Lucky’ cards here would be The Magician, The Sun and The High Priestess
2. What blocks communication – The main factor leading to miscommunication in the cells
3. Factor slowing healing down (avoid) – A contributing factor
4. This supports healing – A positive factor in your environment or someone in your social circle
5. Do this to heal (action advice)
6. Outcome in the near future, provided advice is acted on
I hope you enjoyed getting to know Archangel Raphael a bit better. I would love to hear from you if you decide to try the healing Tarot spread out and am happy to help if you get stuck on a card.
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Section markers can be used to label certain sections of a publication. When a section marker is included in a text frame on a master page (Type → Insert Special Characters → Markers), the section marker will appear in its place on the document pages. On the master page itself, it is represented by the placeholder text "Section".
The section marker is made up of three parts: Text Before, Field, and Text After.
- Text Before and Text After allows for the inclusion of literal text strings (any text you want).
- The Field value is sourced from either a Typefi Section or a Typefi Project Field value.
During page composition in InDesign, the section marker data is inserted as: Text Before + Typefi Field data + Text After.
The section marker data entered in the Typefi Section Options dialogue populate the section marker value in InDesign’s Numbering & Section Options during page composition.
Specify the Section marker
To specify the section marker for a Typefi Section:
- Open the Typefi Section panel (Window → Typefi → Sections).
- Open the Typefi Section Options dialogue: select the name of a Typefi Section, then go to Panel menu → Section Options. Alternatively, double-click the name of a Typefi Section.
- In the Section Marker row:
- Enter any text you want in the Text Before field.
- Choose a Typefi Field from the Field pop-up menu.
- Enter any text you want in the Text After field.
- Click OK.
Remember to include spaces after Text Before and Text After if you want space between that text and the following text.
The section marker for the Section "Chapter" has been configured to insert the text "Chapter " (note the space after the word), followed by the contents of the ChapterNumber field.
Similarly, the section marker for the Section "Backmatter" has been configured to insert the text "Appendix " (note the space) followed by the contents of the ChapterNumber field.
The section marker is used in several places on various master pages:
CO-Chapter Opener (above the chapter title)
CC-Chapter Continued (in the running head)
We can reuse the CO and CC master pages for both Chapters and Backmatter Sections because the only difference is the word "Chapter" or "Appendix", and the section marker will provide that based on the kind of Typefi Section it is.
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Ernest Hemingway spent two years in the 1930s living on Bimini, where he loved to indulge his passion for sea fishing from his boat Pilar. Today the islands, Bahamas' closest point to Miami, are considered one of the world's best big game fishing spots, and continue to attract anglers who dream of catching a giant Blue Marlin. Bimini has two main islands -- north and south -- as well as the smaller east island and a series of tiny cays with beautiful, deserted beaches.
The most western point of the 700 islands that make up the Bahamas, Bimini has just one small airport. However, it is also the closest Bahamian district to the United States. It is a mere half an hour hop from Florida's airports, while the Bahamas capital, Nassau, is double the distance. Surrounded by ocean, an alternative is to arrive by sea plane.
Bimini International Airport is set on the South Island, a short water taxi ride or ferry away from the North Island. Little more than a single-story concrete building, the airport is served by daily flights from Nassau, Grand Bahama and Florida. United Airlines' regional carrier Silver Airways flies scheduled services out of Fort Lauderdale International Airport. Western Air offers convenient connections from Nassau's Lyndon Pindling International Airport. The airline also has scheduled services from Freeport in Grand Bahama, as does Regional Air.
There are plenty of charter services that fly into South Bimini airport. Pioneer Air Service, Island Wings, Island Air Charters and RMG Flight Services all operate out of Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Noble Air has flights from Opa Locka Executive airport, while Hughes Flying Service and Luxair both have charter planes from Tamiami Executive Airport in Miami.
The closest international airports to Bimini are Fort Lauderdale and Miami, both just 60 miles away. The smaller Florida airports of North Perry, Opa-Locka and Pompano Beach are all around the same distance by charter plane. Flying in from the capital of the Bahamas, Nassau, on New Providence Island 130 miles away, also takes 30 minutes, while there is a 20-minute service from Freeport on Grand Bahama, as it is half the distance.
Those who want to head straight to the North Island will need to use the surroundings seas as their runway. Tropic Ocean Airways runs scheduled flights from Miami Seaplane Base and Sheltair at Fort Lauderdale four times a week. The float plane lands in the harbor in front of North Bimini's Big Game Club. Miami Seaplane Tours and Charters also has services from downtown Miami to the north island.
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A community group appealing the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's approval of Record Hill Wind, a 51 MW development in the west-central part of the state, is citing potential for excessive noise from the project's proposed 22 Siemens wind turbines. "There's an awful lot of misinformation about the sound effects of wind projects," says Rob Gardiner, co-founder of start-up developer Independence Wind. "They've convinced themselves that it's going to keep them up at night with noise. So they're opposed based on wrong information." Gardiner and his business partner, former Maine governor Angus King, decided to enter the wind business three years ago after seeing others experience difficulty getting projects approved. "We thought we would be able to navigate that process more successfully," Gardiner says. The first-time developers have contracted experienced consultants to strengthen their team as they begin building roads and tackling other pre-construction work. They are close to finalising a power purchase agreement, expect to take delivery of turbines in July and plan to be finished by early fall 2010. The appeal process should be resolved within a few months. "We really do have a situation here where opponents have succeeded in putting sand in the gears and slowing down the process," Gardiner says. "But our project is absolutely solid in terms of its ability to withstand that kind of scrutiny. | <urn:uuid:5a6a6163-4ca8-4864-9bb0-e67ead9a1608> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/973970/wind-wire-record-hill-opposition | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.978104 | 270 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Feb 25, 2015
Trees are very important for our survival in many ways. They clean the soil by filtering sewage and chemicals used in farms. They help control noise pollution and reduce flash flooding.Trees absorb carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming. They also clean the air by absorbing pollutants like carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide. They also help to lower temperatures. They give shade during the summer and act as windbreaks during winter if they are located on the windward side.They also prevent soil erosion. It is seen that the presence of trees in an area can increase property values by at least 15%. For all these reasons it is very important for us to save trees and increase the green cover of the earth. We can start by planting more trees in our neighborhood.If we see any indiscriminate felling of trees, we can petition the authorities to stop it. Using less paper products is also a way to save trees for the paper industry needs trees to make paper. Using the computer to store data reduces the need to use paper. In all these ways we can help save trees. | <urn:uuid:66aaaac5-c607-4dbb-b1d4-a84e23c7de82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.multiwood.in/blog/importance-trees2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.952278 | 263 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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To view a complete list of each GE business' jobs, click "View All," or search for the jobs you are interested in. The Transition of Sales and Operations Planning to Integrated Business Planning Companies have been achieving improved business performance for close to three decades by implementing and operating with an integrated business management process known as Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
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... surface receptors that impact cell behavior. During cancer growth, this bioactive meshwork is remodeled and enriched in newly formed blood vessels, which provide nutrients and oxygen to the growing tumor cells. Remodeling of the tumor microenvironment leads to the formation of bioactive fragments that may...
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... stages of disease and during treatment, with elevated levels of PMPs a key and relevant marker [ 26 ]. Many reports have shown that these PMPs can release nucleic acids such as miRNA which can also alter the tumor or the local tumor microenvironment. More tantalizing is the ability of PMPs to bind...
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...Mohammad Zahied Johan; Michael S. Samuel Reciprocal biochemical and biophysical interactions between tumor cells, stromal cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM) result in a unique tumor microenvironment that determines disease outcome. The cellular component of the tumor microenvironment...
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Like bits of food in your loved one's beard, leftover lunch in your office keyboard is at best unsightly, and at worst unhygienic. While over the years messy office workers have come up with numerous ways to clear the clutter from in between their keys - blowing air on the keyboard, shaking it furiously or folding up bits of paper with which to dig the damn stuff out - it now could be a simple matter of wash and go.
Unotron's new SpillSeal keyboard can be immersed in anti-bacterial washing-up liquid to remove nearly 100% of germs, with no risk of the water leaking into electrical contact points or damaging your computer equipment.
Recent health horror stories have claimed that an office keyboard is 14 times more contaminated with bacteria than a typical toilet seat, and with more and more employees eating lunch at their desks, often while still working on their computer, the potential for picking up germs is high.
There's also a risk of hampering your keyboard's functionality - nothing like some sticky soy sauce to make the spacebar jam.
Malcolm Gillies, marketing director of Unotron, says: "The computer keyboard is possibly one of the dirtiest pieces of equipment in the office. It may get dusted but it rarely gets cleaned. People eat their lunch at their desk and a keyboard does spread germs."
Gillies recommends getting into a regular routine of cleaning your keyboard, or making it one of the duties of the office cleaners. Employers should also think about the consequences of colds and flu being transmitted by a keyboard used by more than one person, he says. "When you take the cost of people taking time off work for illness into account, [this keyboard] can be a big benefit," he says.
The SpillSeal keyboard has also been clinically proven to kill the bacteria staphylococcus aureus, making it a wise choice for hospitals and other sensitive workplaces. It could even help allay concerns about the role such day-to-day equipment can play in the spread of infections such as MRSA.
The SpillSeal keyboard, which looks like traditional models, works only with PCs that have the operating system Windows 98 or upwards. It costs about the same as a traditional model - about £20 for a corded keyboard and £50 for a wireless one - and comes in black and grey. For more information and to buy, visit www.unotron.com.
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"Back Pain From Sitting"
Back pain from sitting is almost always caused by poor sitting postures.
Since poor sitting posture is so habitual for many people, it is almost undetectable most of the time. And unless we know what good sitting posture should look like, how would anyone know the difference?
Sometimes the key factor to healing back pain can only be a matter of improving one's sitting posture.
Eliminate Back Pain from Sitting
An easy way to eliminate back pain while sitting is to restore proper sitting posture.
Observe the following instructions to sit properly in your chair:
- Your head should be directly in line with your neck. Having your chin tucked in slightly. Keep the ears over the shoulders.
- Both shoulders should be level.
- The middle of your back should be straight.
- The hips should be in line with the shoulders and the ankles should be in line with the hips.
- When sitting the hips and knees should both be at 90 degree angles.
- Maintain a natural curve in the low back (referred to as your lordosis).
Why Do We Get Back Pain from Sitting?
As we deviate very much from the proper sitting posture, which often happens when we are forced to sustain sitting positions for long periods of time, postural dysfunction can occur. Whether we are working at our desk for hours at a time or commuting to the workplace, our lower backs can become rounded and the natural lordosis lost.
As ligaments in your lower back become stretched and weakened, or lumbar discs become distorted, you will find that going from a seated position into standing is uncomfortable for a few minutes. These are your early warning signs. The reason you feel this way is because the soft tissue in question has to change length and recover from being overstretched or distorted.
When we create an environment that impacts our sitting posture, nasty things can happen to our lower back. Ligaments and muscles in the lower back become stretched out (and weakened). It may also cause a distortion of the lumbar discs that are located between the vertebrae.
I would recommend you spend time focusing on using the postural muscles of your lower back in sitting. Over time, they will become strong enough to keep up with your current demands. Only use lumbar supports (lumbar roll or soft corset) if absolutely necessary. It will be difficult at first to sustain a proper sitting posture and absolutely worth it in the end.
Two easy steps you can take to relieve back pain from sitting:
- Start paying attention to how you sit! This means that during prolonged sitting periods, you must maintain the natural curvature of your lower back (back should be arched and the butt is sort of sticking out). Keep to the above guidelines for proper sitting posture.
- Break up your long periods of sitting as it exceeds more than one hour. It is important to note that these breaks should occur before any symptoms of pain start. Do not wait until you are hurting to take a break because it will be too little, too late. If you must, set a timer or use the alarm on your cell phone to alert you when it is time to stand up!
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“Development of the climate change learning materials and delivery of the teacher trainings”
Within the project “Youth Environmental Impact (YENI)”, P220002
Caritas Switzerland (CACH) is an independent Swiss NGO, engaged in Switzerland and more than 20 countries worldwide, including Kosovo. Our mission is to prevent, combat and eradicate poverty in a sustainable manner. To achieve this goal, CACH employs a policy of equity: we support inclusive communities with opportunities for everyone regardless of their ethnic background, group affiliation, or gender. CACH has been working in Kosovo since 1999, focusing on social inclusion, rural development and rehabilitation. Based on the Strategy 2021-2025, our central themes are Income, Climate Change and Migration. For more than twenty years, CACH has worked closely with municipalities to increase incomes in agriculture and preschool education, and for three years for the sustainable (re) integration of returnees.
The YENI project
As of January 2022, CACH implements the YENI project which is designed to help the Kosovar local authorities to increase their capacity to address the country’s climate change vulnerabilities by focusing long-term on youth via schools and education in the local context. To accomplish this overall goal, the project activities are focusing on tackling existing barriers to make behavioral change constructively possible. YENI project, aims to provide youth with a climate engagement and vision, as well as complementing skills, to enable them to become active citizens and make their contribution to mitigating or adapting to climate change Therefore, the project will facilitate the strengthening of the role of youth as agents of climate change in the municipalities.
BACKGROUND OF THE ACTION
Environmental pollution and degradation of natural resources have taken an increasing rate during the past two decades in Kosovo, in addition to the existing problems linked to the limited capacities in addressing poverty, public health and employment. Nevertheless, Kosovo authorities have taken several steps toward creating a legal basis for addressing these issues. In 2018, Kosovo endorsed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which among others emphasizes the importance of taking immediate actions in combating climate change. Furthermore, the Sustainable Development Goals – SDG 4 (Quality education) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) emphasize the special importance of environmental education and awareness-raising on topics related to climate change and its associated impacts. Education is a crucial component of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Increasing environmental awareness and education on the climate crisis can contribute to the effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to adapting to a changing climate in both the short and long-term. Education systems need to acquire the knowledge, skills, tools to prevent and manage risks associated with climate change. Education is thus seen as a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development as an essential tool for good governance. Environmental awareness, including climate change perception, is still weak among all generations in Kosovo. The existing curriculum for secondary school students in Kosovo is not environmentally holistic in a way that it doesn’t include climate change and environmental applicable measures and behaviour, even though they take prominence in affecting the wellbeing of secondary school students in many ways.
Therefore, the main goal of this action is to develop learning materials for upper secondary schools in Kosovo on topics about how to deal with climate change, previously limited in the existing school curriculum, to achieve an impact towards maintaining and creating a healthy environment through youth activism. Thus, through this action, the project will contribute to the overall goal of YENI: “Improved climate action and environmental protection in Kosovar municipalities through active engagement of youth”.
Moreover, the specific outcome to be achieved is the empowerment of teachers at upper secondary schools with new knowledge, skills and tools on climate change. These skills and information will enable the teachers of biology and ecology to convey the new knowledge on climate change to the students more practically thus the younger generation can actively participate in civil society activities, research and educational projects and even politics, in shaping a society that is actively aware of environmental problems and the challenge of climate change.
Through this activity teachers of biology/ecology will be provided a training tool that can be deployed in schools for climate change education, awareness and behavioral change. Such training is expected to increase the understanding of the community, especially young people, of climate change, the threats to health and society and actions that can be taken to mitigate and adapt.
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The main purpose of this assignment is to develop a set of four (4) training modules on climate change for upper secondary school students, as well as to deliver trainings to teachers of (biology and ecology) on the topic of climate change in Kosovo’s upper secondary schools, as well as to prepare all necessary handout learning materials for teachers of Ecology and Biology. This assignment will focus on combining some of the globally leading approaches to tackling climate change, youth learning materials and toolkits which focus on the adolescent role in environmental protection. These materials will be built with the aim of creating a culture of environmental stewardship from an early age. Furthermore, they will also be aligned to the existing Kosovar curricula on subjects of biology, ecology and other, with the focus on developing Learner Exit Profiles (the coherent, unified expression of skills set that teacher have mastered upon successful completion of their programme).
Through these materials and knowledge, teachers will be able to generate ideas for applicable projects and for addressing environmental problems and climate change impacts (mitigation and adaptation). These materials will also be created with the idea of aiding secondary school teachers in addressing properly these issues, which are otherwise lacking in the school curricula.
Specific objectives of the assignment
The specific assignment objectives are:
The first step toward achieving these objectives is the development of four (4) learning materials/books on Climate Change and Youth. The modules on climate change are as follows:
The second step is foreseen to be the training of 90 teachers in different municipalities in Kosovo on the topic of climate change. The new knowledge on Climate Change would be designed to give teachers confidence in facilitating climate change and sustainability education inside and outside the classroom. This enables teachers to help students to understand the causes and consequences of climate change, bring about changes in attitudes and behaviors to reduce the severity of future climate change and build resilience in the face of climate change.
The foreseen activities will be science-based, understandable for the target group and adapted to the local environment and culture. These activities contain inquiry, investigation, questioning, reasoning, and problem-solving, promotion of critical thinking skills, analyses, synthesis, and information evaluation, all for the sake of informed decisions and innovative and creative input related to climate change and the environment.
The four modules on climate change should be drafted in Albanian language (these materials will be translated by CACH in English and Serbian language). The trainings for the teachers should be delivered in Albanian and Serbian languages.
EXPECTED TIMEFRAMES AND WORKPLAN
A total of 144 days were assigned to draft the four modules (80 days) and to train the teachers (64 days) for the above tasks in the one-year span starting from 01 September 2022 to 30 September 2023.
Through establishment of the informal online network of biology/ecology teachers at upper secondary high schools the master trainers can follow up follow up the climate change module feedback.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Accredited higher educational institutions of Kosovo that have established department on the topics of Biology, Ecology, Environment. Other research institutions and environmental NGOs that have a track-record in the environmental education sector.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE EXPERTS
All interested applicants should submit the application in English of their expression of interest/proposal, signed/stamped in PDF, by 21st of August 2022 (CoB), with the subject “Development of the climate change learning materials and delivery of the teacher trainings”, to the following email addresses: firstname.lastname@example.org , CC: email@example.com .
The application must submit the following documents
The offer will be evaluated by using the best value for money approach (combined scoring method). The technical proposal will be evaluated with 80% weight, whereas the financial one will be evaluated with 20%. The delivery of the first module learning material and initial training in the first municipality will be probation and subject to the continuation of these modules in other municipalities. The award will be given to the applicant whose offer follows the terms of references (ToR) instructions.
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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider Natural Power has commenced service delivery on the 12-turbine, 58 MW, Moanvane Wind Farm in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
Fulfilling the roles of project manager, owner’s engineer and project supervisor design process (PSDP) on behalf of Statkraft’s Moanvane Wind Farm Ltd, Natural Power was selected for this project due to the team’s track record of delivering similar services on onshore wind and solar PV projects in Ireland and follows on from the successful delivery of Statkraft’s Taghart wind farm in County Cavan, which recently achieved the significant milestone of being the first RESS-1 wind project to be energised.
Seán Manley, country director for Natural Power Ireland, said: “Natural Power is delighted to be working with Statkraft again to manage the Moanvane project through the construction phase. As onshore wind continues to be a leading technology in the Irish renewables market, projects such as Moanvane will have a crucial role to play in decarbonising energy supply, safeguarding energy security and contributing to Ireland achieving 80% renewable electricity required under the Climate Action Plan.
Moanvane was granted planning permission in 2018, and it is envisaged that it will be operational in 2024. Statkraft will fund, build and operate the site. As part of the project, a 6 km amenity trail will also be developed, offering additional opportunities for biodiversity enhancement in the area.
Barry Maher, Statkraft project manager, said: “Renewable energy projects are now, more than ever, a critical part of Irelands net-zero targets, and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Moanvane Wind Farm is another step towards this goal and by procuring some of the most productive turbines in the country, will be one of the most efficient. It’s great to get this project into construction and reassuring to have the experience of Natural Power managing the process to commercial operation. We look forward to working with local businesses and providing the added benefit of the recreational trail to local communities for years to come.”
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Okay, many people in India particularly from Telangana (where she belongs to) and Andhra Pradesh (earlier Telangana was part of Andhra Pradesh) are searching for Caste of Badminton player PV Sindhu.
The search of PV Sindhu caste was so high that it started trending in Google Search. Many news paper made this news at their breaking news saying "People are more interested about PV Sindhu's caste than her achievement" or something like this.
Even foreign media slapped this activity of Indian and labelled as bias or 18th century though process.
Now the question is why and who are the people searching for PV Sindhu caste? Here might be some of the reason
Even now when India is growing at the fastest rate in the word, we have reached to the moon and many other planets there are politicians/people who are looking for chance to get benefited in elections by any hook and crook.
To those who are looking for caste of PV Sindhu, here is the answer based on what we thing.
PV S I N D H U
So if you notice above, her name contains "IND" that is the first 3 letters of our country India. So you can easily guess that her caste is Indian ;)
So please treat her as Indian, not specific to her sub caste, color or religion. Be proud of her and many others who play, work, fight for the country.
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Infographic: Alcohol-impaired holiday traffic fatalities
Updated April 28, 2015
Statistics show that people are much more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle crash than they are at work. And holidays are a particularly hazardous time to be on the road. Check out this infographic about the most dangerous holidays for motorists and passengers, and drive safely.
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Submitted to: Journal of Chemical Ecology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/26/2013
Publication Date: 8/25/2013
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/58294
Citation: Davis, T.S., Landolt, P.J. 2013. A survey of insect assemblages responding to volatiles from a ubiquitous fungus in an agricultural landscape. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 39:860-868. Interpretive Summary: Reduction of the use of pesticides on agricultural crops is a primary directive of basic biological research within the Agricultural Research Service. One way this can be achieved is through integrated pest management approaches that utilize odor sources to trap pest insects and attract beneficial insects. Recent studies have shown that microorganisms represent a novel source of odors for attracting insects. Researchers at the USDA-ARS in Wapato tested cultures of an environmentally common fungus and volatiles identified from fungal headspace for attractiveness to insects. They found that odors from a common yeast-like fungus attract beneficial pollinators and predatory insects, as well as plant pests. Synthetic chemicals attracted significantly more predators and herbivores, but pollinators responded similarly to fungal cultures and synthetic test chemicals. Our results suggest that odors from an abundant microbe may be useful for developing lures with broad-spectrum bioactivity in agricultural landscapes.
Technical Abstract: We report here a first survey of insect orientation to fungal cultures and and fungal volatiles from a community ecology perspective. We tested whether volatiles from a ubiquitous yeast-like fungus (Aureobasidium pullulans) are broadly attractive to insects in an agricultural landscape. We evaluated insect attraction to fungal cultures and synthetic compounds identified in fungal headspace (2-methyl-1-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol, 2-phenylethanol) in a spearmint (Mentha spicata L.) plantation. Three important findings emerged: (1) 1,315 insects representing seven orders and 39 species oriented to traps, but 65% of trapped insects were Dipterans, of which 80% were hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae); (2) traps baited with A. pullulans caught 481% more insects than unbaited control traps on average, and contained more diverse (Shannon’s H index) and species rich assemblages than control traps, traps baited with Penicillium expansum, or uninoculated media; and (3) insects oriented in greatest abundance to a 1:1:1 blend of A. pullulans volatiles, but mean diversity scores were highest for traps baited with only 2-phenylethanol or 2-methyl-1-butanol. Our results show that individual components of fungal headspace are not equivalent in terms of the abundance and diversity of insects orienting to them. The low abundance of insects captured with P. expansum suggests that insect assemblages do not haphazardly orient to fungal volatiles. We conclude that volatiles from a common fungal species (A. pullulans) are attractive to a variety of insect taxa in an agricultural system, and that insect orientation to fungal volatiles may be a common ecological phenomenon. | <urn:uuid:8eacad34-0f5c-4564-9efc-42d20a7ca4e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=291614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896386 | 699 | 2.546875 | 3 |
How a healthy mouth contributes towards this important process.
Many patients tend to think of teeth as solid objects, whereas they actually consist of several layers. The exterior enamel layer is hard and offers the necessary strength to chew and bite our food.
The layer beneath, the dentin layer, is softer and porous and allows ‘access’ to the nerves which are stored in the root canals of the tooth. It is the enamel layer which we see when we look in the mirror though, and what many of us may be unaware of is, that when we eat, we lose some of the minerals from this layer, causing it to soften just a little.
This softening is not something that our Wickford patients would notice, but for a short period of time, with the loss of some of these minerals which include calcium and phosphate, our teeth are a little more vulnerable to problems such as decay and acid damage.
A word about brushing your teeth
Before we move on to discuss the remineralisation process, it is probably a good time to mention that, due to the softer nature of our teeth following a meal, it is a good idea to allow at least 30 minutes to lapse after we have finished eating before we brush our teeth. If we brush before then, the enamel is softer and more vulnerable and may result in some enamel erosion. Doing this on a regular basis can cause significant long term damage to our teeth.
What happens during remineralisation?
As we lose minerals from our teeth when we eat, so these are restored afterwards, or at least where our overall oral health is good. The minerals that are used to restore the enamel of our teeth are contained in our saliva. Finishing a meal with something that promotes good saliva flow is an excellent idea as this will help to speed up the remineralisation process. Cheese is ideal for this as it not only stimulates saliva flow but helps to reduce the potentially tooth damaging acid environment in our mouth as well.
It is also important that we stay well hydrated in order to keep a healthy saliva flow. This should be done by drinking sufficient water, not only in hot weather, but in cold too. High sugar drinks are not a suitable replacement for water and their high acid levels are also likely to contribute to further mineral loss.
Signs of demineralisation
Providing that the demineralisation and remineralisation processes are kept in balance, there is every chance that our teeth will remain strong and healthy, providing that we look after them correctly with regular cleaning and professional supervision from one of the dentists at the Cygnet Dental Practice. When this becomes out of balance though, and our teeth do not remineralise effectively, there are a number of potential symptoms that may be present.
One of the earliest ‘warning signs’ that this process may be taking place is the presence of white spots on your teeth. Although not always the case, these can also be an early sign that tooth decay is starting. In fact, where we lose too many minerals from the tooth, it starts to weaken, and bacteria can then start to eat away at the enamel until the dentin layer is reached. At this stage, you will almost certainly need to have a filling. This can be done using a traditional amalgam filling, or one of the white dental fillings that we offer for our Wickford and Rayleigh patients.
What you can do to prevent excess demineralisation?
Apart from ensuring that you have a healthy saliva flow, which we mentioned earlier; you can help to keep the enamel on your teeth healthy in a number of ways.
Firstly, avoid an overly excessive acid diet. High sugar food and drinks are some of the worst things that you can consume from this perspective (as well as contributing to the well documented obesity crisis). Even ‘healthy’ foods such as citric fruits can contribute towards enamel erosion too, due to their highly acidic nature.
Brushing your teeth regularly, half an hour after eating, is also sensible. Not only will this help to remove any food particles from your teeth, but also reduce the number of potentially harmful bacteria too. Remember too, to use dental floss to keep the spaces between your teeth clean. Using a fluoride toothpaste is also important as this helps to strengthen the enamel and protect it against decay.
Regular dental checks are also essential. We will be able to spot early signs of excessive demineralisation and advise you how to counter this. In addition, we will be able to treat any early stages of tooth decay in a much less invasive way than if the problem was not detected for much longer.
There are also some tooth remineralising toothpastes that are now available. These may be useful, although the science of these is still in the relatively early stages and the benefits are likely to improve with time.
If you live in the Wickford and Rayleigh area and have any concerns about white spots on your teeth, or would just like to get your overall oral health back on track, we are here to help you. You can call the Cygnet Dental Practice for an appointment by calling us on 01268 733078. | <urn:uuid:18318ade-12ed-44dc-8e02-f63d7de8dc36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cygnetessexdental.co.uk/blog/advice/what-is-tooth-remineralisation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.957944 | 1,074 | 3.453125 | 3 |
This is a collection of writings from the Multimedia team on their work, challenges, and successes on the Structured Data project.
During Q3 and Q4, the Multimedia team focused on several different areas of work.
Search indexing for SDC
Cormac was responsible for adding various SDC concepts, namely multi-lingual captions and wikibase statements, to the search indices for 'parent' File pages of MediaInfo items, so that multimedia files can be found based on their MediaInfo content.
Implementing search using qualifiers is currently under way, and is considerably more complex, as it isn't clear how to represent non-item qualifiers (e.g. text/numeric fields) in a useful way in a document search engine such as elastic search. For example, an image whose metadata include "depicts -> dog, quantity -> 3" might be indexed, and searching for images that include three dogs would be possible, but searching for an image that includes more than 2 dogs is not so simple. Currently working with the search team to come up with some solutions (that will probably involve BlazeGraph and the Wikidata Query Service, or something like it).
File page integration
This work, primarily undertaken by Mark, was largely done in the Wikibase and WikibaseMediaInfo code bases.
First, Mark began familiarizing himself with the systems already present. Much of the system had already been defined, so this familiarization process took some time. Then, building on the API work done in Q1 and Q2, Mark added a hook to the file page that retrieved the MediaInfo page based on the existing system for determining that relationship.
The first attempt was to simply get the JSON representing the entity, and rendering it in a helpful way. This approach was complex, and would have significantly hindered future work, because it would split the code paths for rendering MediaInfo objects into two. Especially looking forward to the completion of MCR work, it didn't make sense to continue working on that path, so it was abandoned.
Second, Mark attempted to use the ParserOutput obtained from various MediaInfo entity objects to simply dump the rendered page onto the file page. This approach worked also, but had significant shortfalls - mostly, because the ParserOutput didn't have the proper context, and also, this would have been yet another splitting of code paths for very little benefit.
Finally, the file page prototype was completed by temporarily copying much of the code from Wikibase to render the MediaInfo entity in the file page hook. This solution also meant circumventing the usual TermsList placeholders by using a SimpleTermsListView object instead of the usual PlaceholderEmitting version. This approach should be used in other non-Wikibase pages to render an entity's TermsList.
During this time, Mark took on the task of learning about and modifying the existing MediaInfo code to modify how API requests, especially for wbgetentities, was handled for file page titles. The API work proceeded slowly at first due to Mark having a difficult time asking the right questions of WMDE folks, but ultimately, the API was successfully created and merged, and wbgetentities now does the right thing when asked for entities related to a file page. | <urn:uuid:ea7a6049-623d-4dce-bd29-34e74adaa583> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Multimedia/Structured_Data/Developer_Diary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945509 | 730 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Rapid Response: Did Jesus Think Jesus Was God?Wednesday, September 28, 2016
In our Rapid Response series, we tackle common concerns about (and objections to) the Christian worldview by providing short, conversational responses. These posts are designed to model what our answers might look like in a one-on-one setting, while talking to a friend or family member. What would you say if someone said, “I’ve read some of the Bible and I can’t find a place where Jesus actually said, ‘I am God’. I’m not even sure Jesus thought he was God.” Here is a conversational example of how I recently responded to this statement:
“You know, this is one of the claims I used to make with the Christians I knew because I wasn't a careful reader of scripture. It wasn't really until I started to use my expertise in forensic statement analysis (where we look at every little word a suspect says, his use of pronouns, how he introduces things and how he describes people), that I started to see things I used to miss. But you don’t have to be an expert in Statement Analysis to read between the lines of Scripture. In fact, anyone can do this by carefully reading the Bible.
Let me give you an example: When I first looked at the gospels and the Old Testament, I noticed the stark contrast between Old Testament prophets (I don't care if it's Ezekiel, or Isaiah, or if it's a minor prophet like Amos), all these prophets in the Old Testament, when announcing a truth claim from God, would say, "Thus the Lord Almighty says" or "The Lord God says" or, they would always announce that this information is coming from the Lord Almighty.
But Jesus never ever did that. There's not a single time you'll find him in the gospels saying, "The Lord Almighty says." Instead he'll say something, at least in the King James, "Verily, verily, I say to you" or in the NASB, "I tell you the truth." Jesus never says, “God says this.” Instead, Jesus says, "I am telling you this." Think about that for a minute. The people who heard Jesus in the 1st Century were accustomed to the prophets in every generation announcing a proclamation from God as "Thus the Lord God Almighty says to you.” When they heard Jesus proclaim, "I say this to you," they understood what he meant. Jesus' words gave him away. Even if you didn't have a direct claim from Jesus where he said, "Hey, by the way guys, I'm God," he used statements that included personal pronoun use indicating that he considered Himself to be God. He never felt compelled to say, "God's telling you this." Instead, he said, "I'm telling you this." Jesus understood himself to be the God of the universe, the Being who created everything.”
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Collection Summary: An interview of Liliana Porter conducted 2012 June 27-28, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Porter's home, in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Biographical/Historical Note: Interviewee Liliana Porter (1941- ) is a mixed media artist working in printmaking, works on canvas, photography, video, installations and public art projects in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is the former executive director for iCI in New York, N.Y.
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字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 So I assume you know that there's a lot of people on this planet. As of last week, Wednesday, I think, was when we turned over to seven -- I --, nobody knows. But nobody knows exactly how many people there are, it's kinda hard to keep track; it's a big planet. But there are about seven billion people on the Earth right now. And they keep getting born, all the time. In fact, for every 2 people who die, about 4 are born. Every second, there are about four babies introducing themselves to this world, and there are less than two people saying goodbye to it. So, easy math here, our world's population is growing by about 2.5 people per second. And as a reminder of this, during this video I'm going to have 2.5 ping pong balls being thrown at me every single second throughout the entire rest of the video. Who's hitting me in the face every single time? [Intro] Ok, instead of the balls, uh, were just gonna do a clock because I get nosebleeds pretty easily, and I don't want you to have to see that. So 7 billion people, it's hard to actually get your mind around how many people that is, maybe if you were to just like sit down and count to 7 billion, it would take you like 200 years or something. On the other hand, there is plenty of space for them. If you took 7 billion people and stood us shoulder to shoulder like we were at a Sting concert, those 7 billion people could fit in an area the size of Los Angeles. We can fit on the Earth. There's space for us all. So as long as there's space for us all, what's the big deal about having 7 billion people? Well it turns out people have been thinking about this for a long time, since around 1800, when the world first clocked 1 billion people. I know what you're thinking, you're like 1 billion, that's nothing, haha. Well at that time all the economies in the world were based on agriculture. How much stuff we could grow with human hands, farm animals, maybe a scythe and a wooden plow or something. So that kind of technology, a billion people was really pushing it. And the first like big-time thinker guy, to totally have a cow about there just being too many freakin' people was a British economist named Thomas Malthus. Thomas Malthus calculated that human populations tend to grow exponentially, while the ability of humans to feed each other tends to grow more linearly. And so our growth as a species tends to outstrip our ability to feed everyone. And when that happens, it's pretty obvious what happens, you get the famine, and the starvation. And for the people who are left over who don't die of those things, they can get taken care of by disease and war. Basically, Malthus thought that humanities natural state was to be cruel, miserable, pathetic and sniveling in a pile of dirty underpants. In his essay on the principle of population, Malthus observed... "The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should their success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world." Diseases also have an easier time taking hold, and of course starvation can kill off a lot of people as well. Though he did make some pretty good points, as long as humanity is well-fed, we're a pretty nice lot of people. But I have this problem too; when my blood sugar just gets a little bit low, I start killing all of my neighbors -- that's not actually true. When you and your family's lives are threatened by starvation there's a lot of things that you will do for food, including go to war. However, what Mister Doom and Gloom didn't predict was the frickin' Industrial Revolution- which not only allowed the production of much more food with far fewer laborers, it was also the impetus for this. Uh, yeah. What that there is, is uh, the population of the Earth busting through Malthus's ceiling and then his atmosphere and then his ozone layer and then his mesosphere and then his - probably be pretty impressed by this. If you're not impressed yet, ah, just keep staring at it. I can wait. I got all day. It took humanity fifty thousand years to go from zero to one billion people, and then to get from one billion to seven billion, about two hundred. So wow, Industrial Revolution, thank you for allowing us to grow more food using machines, and for the fast and efficient transportation that it takes to move all that food around to the people who needed it, and thanks for the medical advances too, which help us understand things like the importance of soap and the way that diseases worked, and as a result, humans now live about four decades longer than the average guy in the eighteenth century. Yeah! Industrial Revolution! So Malthus might have been right about how frickin' stupid it was to be a human if the Industrial Revolution had not happened. So now, the world's population is growing at about 1.1 percent per year, which is a tiny bit better than the 1.3 percent per year that got us here. If this current rate continues by 2050, we should have about 9.3 billion people on the planet. So the question is: at what point are these numbers going to outstrip our ability to feed all of the people on the planet? It turns out actually that the question isn't how many people can the Earth accommodate, it's more like: how many rich people can the Earth accommodate? Because people in general, they tend to demand stuff for their survival like uh, oxygen, water, and food. But rich people, we have different expectations. We, for example, in America have a lot of agricultural crops, and we have to use a lot of fresh water to water those agricultural crops. Do you want to take a guess at the number one irrigated crop in the United States of America? Unless you've heard this statistic before, you were wrong! It's grass! It takes more water to create lawns than it does to create all of the corn in America. We're using it like crazy; though it is a pretty scarce resource, we can use less than one percent of the water on our planet. Most of it is salt water that we cannot use to drink or irrigate crops, and 70 percent of our freshwater is frozen in glaciers. So clean freshwater, non-negotiable and scarce. So what's next? Ah, food. The world's combined food output could feed around 11 billion people, and yet, there are 1 billion people who need food. So yeah that's one of the most pathetic and infuriating things about our planet. So if there's enough food for 11 billion people, and there's 7 billion people and a billion of them are hungry, who is eating all of our food? Food, is eating all that food. A huge amount of the food that we grow in America gets uh, in turn eaten by livestock. It's so hard to say the truth, which is that, but, rich people can do what they want. Now when I say 'rich' it's important to note that I'm not talking about like, uh, the 99 percent versus the 1 percent rich. I'm talking about if you have running water, electricity that comes into your home, a computer that you can watch youtube videos on, and regularly can afford to eat meat - you are a rich person on the earth, and you, you know sometimes we just have to come to terms with the fact that we - even those of us who don't have it great in America - have it better off than a whole lot of other people. There's a lot of people in the world who don't get that. If you can have a hot shower, that's like the peak of luxury to me. So assuming that you are a first worlder, that you live in a developed country in Europe, or you live in America or Japan, you consume on average as much stuff as 32 Kenyans. And now the number of well-off people in the world is starting to increase dramatically and quickly, and this is what we've always wanted for the world. So now we have all these moderately well-off people walking around all over the planet, and it's great! Except that they require more. In the meantime though, a huge percentage of all of the babies that we're talking about being born right now aren't being born to these rich people in the developed world. They're being born in developing nations, and so the population isn't just growing. It's growing in this weird, sort of scary, lopsided way. Fact is, people in a lot of developed countries have kinda stopped having babies. Like Japan for example, everybody's like 'Japan what are you doing? Why aren't you having any babies??' and Japan's like 'Uhh don't know kinda don't feel like it.' So on average, Japanese people are having about one baby per household. They're not even replacing themselves, compared to two or three babies in America or like, five or six in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. So developing nations are having a baby boom, and that's what happens when you get, you know, vaccines and antibiotics and safe water and better sanitation. You get fewer babies dying, and we are all completely and totally in favor of fewer babies dying, I hope. But it also means that there are going to be a lot of new Sub-Saharan Africans in the next 50 years or so, and that is where a lot of the 1 billion currently hungry people are already living. So while those of us in the developed world are not having any babies at all and yet consuming enough food for like, four truckloads of babies, the governments in developing countries are struggling with where to put all of these new people and how to feed them all. And you also get what is known as a 'youth bulge'. A lot of developing nations are currently seeing a huge explosion in people between the ages of 15 and like 29. And all of those youth are out there, looking for the same jobs, all at the same time, feeling generally hormonal as youth do, and being pretty unhappy with their lot in life. Some social scientists conjecture that youth bulges like this have been responsible for nearly every insurrection in history, from the English revolution in 1640 to the more recent Arab Spring. And neither of those things were bad things, but we should be aware that there may be more of it coming. And another thing that Reverend Malthus never thought of is: what happens when humanity gets together and takes over the whole frickin' world? Seriously, because it turns out that there are actually supposed to be some other things living on this planet with us. Through our desire for more space and more stuff, we're putting pressure on pretty much every habitat on earth. So much so that worldwide, 52 species of mammal, amphibian and bird move one category closer to extinction every single year. You know, this world is pretty big, but there's only so much room and it turns out that Bengal tigers aren't particularly well-suited to high rise living. So the more there are of us, the fewer of literally everything else there is, except for like, things that we enjoy eating, and petting - dogs and cats as well; their populations continue to grow. So happy birthday new people, welcome to Earth. I'll try not to screw it up too much for you. If you're interested in more things to do with global population, please check out the description below. There will be links in there for our source materials. You can also ask us questions and leave ideas for future episodes of SciShow in the comments and get in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter as well. Goodbye. | <urn:uuid:d00e9cb4-20a9-4432-9976-db4e23aa5065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/41725 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.978704 | 2,568 | 3.078125 | 3 |
…and by “survive” I mean assuage your guilt by intelligently cutting back on water consumption.
I’ve been waiting for word about the drought to trickle into my social media channels, but Facebook and the rest have been somewhat barren. Did you know San Diego is currently under mandatory water usage restrictions?
- Stop or fix all leaks within 72 hours
- Water before 10am or after 6pm only
- Don’t water your yard “excessively” such that it drains past your property or down the gutter
- Don’t use a hose to wash down sidewalks or driveways
- Don’t let your pool overflow
- Don’t wash your car with a running hose
^ Fail to heed warnings for those and receive citations from $100-1000 or even criminal prosecution.
The restrictions show an overwhelming concern for outdoor water use, and it’s true that California households use way more water on landscaping than anything else. Forget just turning off the faucet when brushing your teeth, the best thing to do is find alternatives to a lush green lawn. If your front yard looks like a sad, tawny shag of neglected responsibility, consider yourself the hero of this story.
You also may or may not have seen this design for a BART poster:
I took FFAC’s advice and looked at the Mother Jones article which inspired the poster and learned a 6oz glass of milk takes 30 gallons to produce… and fuck fuck fuck two slices of cheese = 50 fucking gallons of precious water aaaaaaaah I hate myself. Like, 25 minutes ago I went to the fridge and just ate two slices of cheese right out of the package.
Go read the article right now so you can also hate yourself and we can commiserate. You’re not going to like the one about butter.
Don’t think you can get away with switching to almond milk, either.
What about beer? Beer never hurt anyone.
If you want to trust NPR’s numbers (though they seem low, breweries around the world have been striving to reduce beer’s water footprint since at least 2011) a 1:4 beer-to-water ratio means I don’t feel like I’m destroying the planet.
Again, with the NPR ratios and the Mother Jones serving sizes, 6oz of hard liquor costs ya the guilt of almost 2 gallons. Still way less than cheese.
Therefore, to save the world, quit dairy and drink beer.
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Although the LGBT community and our allies recently celebrated the veto of SB 1062 in Arizona, the fact that such a bill even made it to the governor's desk was distressing. Unfortunately, as we know, the LGBT community was not the first group to be singled out for discrimination in Arizona. Latino and immigrant communities have long felt targeted by laws like SB 1070, which forced law enforcement to inquire about a person's legal status—if they "suspected" them of being undocumented. Since blue-eyed blonde Canadians who've overstayed their visas are very unlikely to be "suspected" of being undocumented, SB 1070 was considered likely to invite racial profiling. Unfortunately that didn't stop Gov. Jan Brewer from signing the bill, which was later partially overturned.
Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson were found murdered by a dumpster outside of Galveston County in Texas. The Houston-based women, both 24 years old, were in a two-year relationship, and described by one neighbor as "soul mates."
Tennessee advocate and Spirit Day Ambassador, Marcel Neergaard, has written another essay for the Huffington Post. He described returning to school, what challenges he continues to face, and how he continues to advocate for LGBT students.
United Methodist Bishop Martin McLee and Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree announced that the church was dropping the case against Dr. Ogletree for officiating at his son’s wedding. Furthermore, Bishop McLee said in his statement “I call for and commit to cessation of trials.”
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has broadened their contractual requirements for Catholic school teachers and administrators.The stronger language in the contact teachers must sign is most likely due to high profile firings and lawsuits being filed by LGBT and allied Catholic educators. | <urn:uuid:6b776ecb-4349-48e6-8770-2deac8f2c876> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.glaad.org/issues/local-regional-news?page=70 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00314-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985264 | 369 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Can’t remember Windows 8 password? How to log into the computer without knowing the password? If you have been running Windows on your computer, chances are high that you haven’t assigned a password for the build-in administrator account. By default installation, Windows 8 has a built-in administrator account. Most computer owners don’t even know such an Administrator account is actually existed, don’t even mentioned they will create or set a password for Administrator user account.
The problem is that in normal Windows 8 Welcome Screen where you choose which user account you want to log onto, the Administrator account is not displayed and is not shown. You need to start your computer in Safe Mode and the administrator account will be visible in the login screen. Just left the password box as blank and you should be able to log into Windows. After getting into Windows, you can go to Control Panel and reset your lost or forgotten password for any other user account existing in your computer.
If the built-in administrator account is password-protected and you can’t remember the password, don’t worry! You can still log back into Windows easily but more instructions are involved. First you need to download the bootable ISO image of Reset Windows Password to a CD on another computer you can login, then use it to boot up your locked computer, the boot CD enables you to remove login passwords for any user account. After removing the password, restart your computer and you can then log into Windows 8 without a password. | <urn:uuid:956a5845-c306-4005-8e0e-5b206bd935e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.windows8-password.com/how-to-log-into-windows-8-without-knowing-the-password/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899684 | 309 | 2 | 2 |
Isaiah: Worshiping Our God of Salvation
From the revolt of Satan to the rule of the Savior-all is told by Scripture's most eloquent prophet Isaiah. He was the Shakespeare of the prophets and the Paul of the Old Testament. Isaiah has more to say about the greatness of God (40,43), the horrors of the Tribulation (24), the wonders of the Millennium (35), and the ministry of Christ (53) than any other book in the Bible.
Isaiah 53 is probably the most important and far-reaching chapter in the Old Testament, as it is quoted from or alluded to 85 times in the New Testament. Jesus said that Isaiah saw His glory and spoke of Him (John 12:41). This book is an extended commentary on Jonah 2:9, when that prophet exclaimed from the fish's belly, "Salvation is of the Lord"
· The word salvation appears 33 times in the writing of the prophets, and of these, 26 instances occur in Isaiah.
The Book of Isaiah is easily compared to the Bible.
· The Bible has 66 books; Isaiah has 66 chapters.
· The Old Testament has 39 books; the first section of Isaiah has 39 chapters.
· The New Testament has 27 books; the last section of Isaiah has 27 chapters.
· The Old Testament covers the history and sin of Israel, as does Isaiah 1-39.
· The New Testament describes the person and ministry of Christ, as does Isaiah 40-66.
This marvelous manuscript has been almost universally regarded as the greatest and grandest treatise on the greatest subject in the history of writing-Christ and His salvation. Its importance and sheer eloquence simply cannot be overstated.
The Book of Isaiah has three major themes. These may be summarized as:
1. CONVICTION: The overwhelming sense of sin and the wrath of God against sin. This is clearest in the 21x Isaiah uses the word "woe". In God's sight our good deeds are "filthy rags" [64:6-7];
2. CONFESSION: The all pervading awareness of the Power, Majesty and Holiness of God. And 23x he uses the Divine Name of "THE HOLY ONE OF GOD", a name nearly unique to Isaiah except for 5 other passages.
3. CONFIDENCE: The crystal clear sight of the Salvation and Coming Victory of Christ.
These themes are spread throughout the book. However, never as clearly as in the sixth chapter where all three converge in 8 verses- Isaiah6:1-8.
To continue reading this study on the book of Isaiah please copy and paste this URL into your browser bar: http://www.dtbm.org/sermon/isaiah-worshiping-our-god-of-salvation/ | <urn:uuid:b50aa63d-01cd-4794-90ad-c5c879d745ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/discoverthebook/discover-the-book-feb-5-2011-11645130.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934589 | 580 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A flash of silver in the night might be a lovely find-unless it’s moving! Wriggling like little fish, silverfish are common household pests that can cause some major damage to common household items like books, photo albums, clothing, and even wall paper and walls. Hiding in our damp basements and bathrooms and under our cabinets and refrigerators, these nuisances can breed to impressive numbers very quickly, to the peril of your cherished belongings! Learn more about silverfish, the damage they can cause, and how to get rid of them once and for all.
Silverfish are small, silvery gray, wingless insects that get their name from their fish-like movements. They are found on every inhabited continent, and they live in moist climates or places-like basements, bathrooms, closets, and attics. Females can lay nearly 60 eggs each time they breed, and the eggs take roughly two months to hatch. Once hatched, they can live anywhere between two to eight years. Silverfish subsist mainly on carbohydrates, like sugars and starches, but they also enjoy eating natural fibers, paper, and even glue.
Why They’re Pests
You couldn’t call a creature that infiltrates your home and proceeds to eat through your things anything other than a pest. Even though silverfish can live over a year without eating, when food is available, they feast. And nearly everything in your home is food: your books, your clothes, your food, and even your walls are all delicious to these silver pests. Considering how quickly their numbers can increase, the damage can add up.
Are They Dangerous?
Though they can contaminate food with their droppings, silverfish don’t pose any real threat to humans-just to books and other food sources. They are not known vectors for any human diseases, and they cannot really bite or sting.
Extermination and Control
The only way to truly control a silverfish infestation is to exterminate the entire population. There are DIY options available, but these do not destroy the eggs thereby making your efforts worthless. In less than two months, the eggs will hatch and a brand new infestation begins. Instead of putting yourself through an endless cycle of DIY attempts and new infestations, it’s best to take your problem seriously and turn to the professionals. Professional exterminators have the tools and skill to quickly eradicate your silverfish problem, eggs included. Your pest control experts may also offer you helpful tips to make your home less inviting to future silvery invaders. | <urn:uuid:3ab4509e-fb3d-44ae-970b-708b711a3cec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.northfultonexterminating.com/pest-profile-silverfish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.950788 | 530 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Early Childhood Education
Almy, Millie (1915-2001)
A twentieth-century leader in the field of early childhood education and psychology, Millie Almy played a critical role in shaping the science of child development, identifying the contribution of play to children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development, and interpreting and popularizing the theories of Jean Piaget. Dr. Almy’s career in early childhood education began during her undergraduate studies at Vassar College, where she majored in Child Study and worked in the Vassar nursery school. Following college and prior to attending Teachers College at Columbia University, where she earned her master’s and doctorate degrees, Dr. Almy taught in a day nursery and directed a regional alliance of federally funded nursery schools near Buffalo, NY, for the Works Progress Administration, as well as federally funded “Lanham Act” child-care centers established during World War II.
Dr. Almy is widely credited with bringing Piagetian theory into the discourse about young children in the United States, and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Piagetian interpreters and theorists in the world. She helped to explain how young children came to understand complex subjects such as science, mathematics, and literature through direct experience, manipulation, and visualization before they could understand abstract concepts. Her writings and research about play and observation of young children remain classics in the field. Her scholarship reflected her extensive “hands-on” experience with young children in early care and education programs. She served on the faculty of Teachers College at Columbia (1944-1948, 1952-1971) and of the Education School at the University of California at Berkeley (1971-1980), and was President of the National Association of Nursery Educators, as well as a delegate to the Mid-Century White House Conference on Children.
Dr. Almy recognized that the United States “needed greatly expanded programs for young children and their families.” She also believed that the success of early childhood programs depended on “the availability of a special kind of early childhood educator... described as a double specialist, one who could both teach young children and assess their development, work equally well with adults as well as with children, think concretely as one must in dealing with children, but also think abstractly and formally as one must in planning and executing programs and researching them.” To this end, she led an Interdisciplinary Program for Leaders in Day Care at the University of California at Berkeley from 1974 to 1978, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, reflecting her belief that teachers need information from diverse disciplines as well as skills from other professions. She favored professional training for those working with young children, and lamented the poor compensation and low status that drove many skilled practitioners from the field.
Beloved by her students, Dr. Almy continued to mentor graduates long after they had completed studying under her tutelage. Following her retirement, she continued to conduct research across the world, including as a Fulbright Fellow in New South Wales. She also served as a Visiting Professor at Mills College in Oakland, and as a docent at the Oakland Museum. See also Curriculum, Science.
Further Readings: Almy, M. C. (1966). Young children’s thinking: Studies of some aspects of Piaget’s theory. New York: Teachers College Press; Almy, M. C. (1975). The early childhood educator at work. New York: McGraw-Hill; Almy, M. C. (1979). The impact of Piaget on early childhood education. In Frank B. Murray, ed. The impact of Piagetian theory on education, philosophy, psychiatry, and philosophy. Baltimore: University Park Press; Almy, M. C. (1979). Ways of studying children: An observational manual for early childhood teachers. New York: Teachers College Press; Stewart, D. (1991). The oral history of Millie Almy, Ph.D. Unpublished manuscript, University of California at Berkeley; Lannak, Jane (1995). Millie Almy: Nursery school education pioneer. Journal of Education CLXXVII(3), 39-55. | <urn:uuid:dad8044d-ca66-4f34-b1c2-e15c6519eb10> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://schoolbag.info/pedagogy/early/9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961067 | 873 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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