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U.N. – Russia trade allowance talks unlikely to help
A leading grain market economist doubts negation attempts by the United Nations with Russia to allow Ukrainian grain exports will open any trade.
Kenneth Scott Zuckerberg with CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange tells Brownfield the U.N. likely doesn’t have the authority to make a deal with Russia removing sanctions against the country.
“First of all, the U.N. isn’t in charge of the sanctions that are coming against Russia,” he said. “And then second, there’s a lot of speculation about whether they could get this deal done.”
He said even if the sanctions were lifted, and trade resumed…
“The war in Ukraine could end tomorrow and things would not immediately go back to normal,” Zuckerberg said.
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Ohio officials are preparing to impose new rules on owners of exotic animals – along with hiring more staff and writing new caretaking standards – without knowing exactly how many lions, leopards, bears and other creatures are living in the state.
That’s because until the governor signs the new regulations into law, which is expected in the coming weeks, Ohio’s restrictions on exotic pets have been among the nation’s weakest.
Efforts to strengthen the law took on new urgency after owner Terry Thompson released 50 animals, including black bears, mountain lions and Bengal tigers, from his eastern Ohio farm in Zanesville in October, then committed suicide. Authorities killed 48 of the animals as a public safety measure. Two others were believed to have been eaten by other animals.
The state Legislature cleared a bill last week that would immediately ban people from buying new dangerous exotic animals, such as cheetahs and crocodiles, once the measure takes effect.
Current owners could keep their creatures by obtaining a new state-issued permit by 2014. They would have to pass a background check, pay permit fees, obtain liability insurance and show inspectors that they can properly contain the animal and adhere to other standards.
Within 60 days after the bill’s effective date, owners would have to microchip their dangerous wildlife and register them. They’ll have to tell the state where the animals are, how many they have, what the creatures look like and who their veterinarian is, among other details.
State officials hope the registration process will give them a better handle on Ohio’s exotic animal population.
“We’re really kind of dealing with the unknown here,” said Dr. Tony Forshey, the state’s veterinarian, in a recent interview. “We don’t know how many is out there.”
Rough estimates by the department put the number of dangerous animals in the state close to 640, which includes venomous snakes. Officials acknowledge that figure is just a guess. It’s based on information from owners who already are licensed with state or the U.S. Department of Agriculture, along with reports from law enforcement.
Forshey said he expects that it will take time to figure out how many dangerous creatures are in Ohio. But, he said, the state is better equipped once the bill becomes law.
“Anything is better than what we had,” he said.
The state’s Agriculture Department hopes to get the word out to owners about registering their animals through organizations such as the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, zoo associations and veterinarians.
Officials are also preparing for what to do if the owners can’t meet the state’s new regulations, or if they want to get rid of the animals.
State agencies, the USDA and wildlife experts from as far away as California will meet next month to put together a list of potential animal sanctuaries and rescue facilities for unwanted or uncared for animals, Forshey said.
The local humane societies also anticipate becoming more of a resource for exotic animal owners.
While many shelters can take abandoned or neglected cats or dogs, very few are prepared for cougars, wolves or alligators, said Harold Dates, president of the SPCA Cincinnati.
“If somebody wanted to get rid of a lion today, and said, ‘OK. I’m done with it. Where can I take it, or can you take it?”‘ Dates said. “There’s probably not a lot of places that are going to say, “Yes, I’ll take your lion.”
Dates said there will have to be renewed collaboration between the state, dog warden, sheriffs’ departments and others to carry out the exotic animal restrictions.
The state’s Agriculture Department plans to hire a couple additional field staff members, whose expertise includes working with exotic animals – and not just cows, chickens and pigs, Forshey said. The agency will also rely on its four veterinarians and eight livestock inspectors out in the field to help with make sure owners are keeping up to code.
Getting a regulatory program started is expected to cost the state $600,000 to $720,000 in the first year.
The Legislature set aside $500,000 to help with the initial costs of the program. The administration hopes to help pay for it with permit fees from owners. Those dollars could start flowing into the state as soon as October, when the permit process begins.
Permits for bears, tigers and other dangerous animals would begin at $250 and could be more than $1,000, depending on the number of animals.
Forshey said figuring out whether there will be a shortfall of funds is difficult without an inventory of the animals in the state. But he said, “We’ll make adjustments as we go.”
He said he wasn’t too concerned about the possibility of owners going underground to thwart the state’s registration and permit requirements.
“These animals – especially the lions and tigers – they make noise,” he said. “They roar.”
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Project CARS (or Community Assisted Racing Simulator) is a racing simulation game that’s been on everyone’s radar since its drool-inducing visuals started to make the rounds as far back as 2012.
Like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport before it, Project CARS intends to deliver a highly realistic driving simulation. But to distinguish it from the pack, developer Slightly Mad Studios has made the game an open experience that allows players to choose from a variety of motorsports paths and grants immediate access to all tracks and vehicles.
Project CARS has been funded by the community and developers without financial aid of a publisher, which is the traditional route. During a lengthy closed beta period, contributors could buy ‘Tool Packs’ that allowed them access to development in roles like content creation, QA, and marketing media depending on the pack.
Project CARS was built on top of an improved version of the Madness engine, which was the basis for the Need for Speed: Shift titles. In short, the game looks amazing and is the most visually impressive racing simulator we have ever seen.
The game has some pretty hefty system spec requirements, too. For low graphics settings Project CARS calls for at least a quad-core processor running GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 5770 graphics. However if you want to enjoy the superb graphics that Project CARS can serve up then the developer suggests an Intel Core i7 or AMD FX-8350 processor — asking for a Core i7 over a Core i5 is interesting — while on the GPU front, the suggested spec is too vague to be particularly useful. Fret not, this is what this article is all about.
Despite a lengthy early access period, this racing sim hasn’t launched without its issues. Actually, it’s just one big issue: the game runs horribly on any AMD GPU. Somehow no optimization has been dedicated to AMD Radeons when at least one in three PC gamers own one.
Coincidentally, Project CARS is plastered with Nvidia logos in-game. Initial reaction from gamers was to lash out at Slightly Mad, claiming they were paid off by Nvidia to deliberately gimp the performance of AMD hardware. Slightly Mad Studios boss Ian Bell fired back with this…
“We’ve provided AMD with 20 keys for game testing as they work on the driver side. But you only have to look at the lesser hardware in the consoles to see how optimized we are on AMD based chips”.
So it seems AMD have been slacking off, something we have certainly noticed this year. After making a big fuss about their new Omega drivers, we haven’t seen an official update since December.
“We’re reaching out to AMD with all of our efforts. We’ve provided them 20 keys as I say. They were invited to work with us for years, looking through company mails the last I can see they (AMD) talked to us was October of last year”. He continued: “Categorically, NVIDIA have not paid us a penny. They have though been very forthcoming with support and co-marketing work at their instigation. We’ve had emails back and forth with them yesterday also. I reiterate that this is mainly a driver issue but we’ll obviously do anything we can from our side”.
Although we don’t expect frequent driver updates from AMD, waiting almost six months seems like a stretch. Last month’s Grand Theft Auto V optimized Beta driver could have become official by now.
AMD has responded they are working on a fix for pCARS, but in the meantime we’ve gone ahead and tested current generation Radeons, which will show the performance gamers are experiencing out of the box today. Once AMD releases an improved driver we will re-test not only current-gen GPUs but also cards of the previous few generations.
Today’s test is also comprised by the full range of Nvidia GPUs and CPU tests conducted using the GeForce GTX Titan X, so these results won’t need to be updated later.
Using the latest AMD and Nvidia drivers, we tested nineteen DirectX 11 graphics cards covering most price ranges. Our test rig was outfitted with an Intel Core i7-5960X to remove CPU bottlenecks that could influence high-end GPU scores.
Using FRAPS we recorded the first 60 seconds of a solo race at Nürburgring in Sprint mode with a Formula A car and 20 AI controlled opponents. The same conditions, track and cars we used each time and the results are based on an average of three runs Nürburgring in Sprint mode with a Formula A car.
Project CARS was tested at three resolutions: 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160. We selected the highest visual quality settings with FXAA enabled. Additionally, we tested using ‘clear’ and ‘rainy’ weather conditions, the latter being by far the most demanding.
- Intel Core i7-5960X (3.00GHz)
- x4 4GB Kingston Predator DDR4-2400 (CAS 12-13-13-24)
- Asrock X99 Extreme6 (Intel X99)
- Silverstone Strider Series (700w)
- Crucial MX200 1TB (SATA 6Gb/s)
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X (4096MB)
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 (4096MB)
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 (2048MB)
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X (3072MB)
- HIS Radeon R9 270X (2048MB)
- HIS Radeon R9 270 (2048MB)
- HIS Radeon R7 265 (2048MB)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X (12288MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 (4096MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 (3584+512MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 (2048MB)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan (6144MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 (3072MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 (2048MB)
- Palit GeForce GTX 760 (2048MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2048MB)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 680 (2048MB)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 660 Ti (2048MB)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 660 (2048MB)
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
- Nvidia GeForce 350.12 WHQL
- AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta
Even at 1080p using clear conditions we find that Project CARS is very demanding. Most GPUs fall well short of 60fps, with the (previous generation) GTX Titan averaging 59fps.
The GeForce GTX 970 did well, averaging 70fps and putting it just ahead the GTX 780 Ti and matching the GTX 980. Evidently there is a bottleneck limiting performance at around 70fps as the GTX Titan X was only good for 72fps.
Mid-range contenders such as the GTX 770 delivered 50fps, while the GTX 760 only managed 45fps. The GTX 960 delivered a surprising 57fps, making it faster than the GTX 780 which seems unlikely.
Unfortunately for the moment AMD users are limited to ~50fps with the R9 290X, though interestingly the R9 280X wasn’t much slower with 42fps. Moreover, the R9 265 was able to beat the GTX 660 with 36fps against 32fps.
Racing in the rain has a significant impact on performance and even high-end GPUs such as the Titan X dropped ~30% of its original performance.
No GPU was able to deliver anywhere near 60fps on the rain with maxed out settings, while none of the affordable mid-range GPUs were able to deliver what we consider to be playable performance. For Project CARS gamers will ideally want a minimum of 30fps and for that a GTX 780 Ti or faster is required.
At 2560x1440 gamers will require at the very least a GeForce GTX 780 Ti or GTX 970 for perfectly playable performance with all the eye candy turned up. Graphics cards such as the GTX Titan and GTX 780 struggled to average 50fps.
The Radeon R9 290X matched the GTX 770 with an average of 44fps, though it is interesting to note that most mid-range GPUs were able to average around 40fps including the Radeon R9 285/280X.
Those wanting to play in all weather conditions will require some serious GPU power, as the rainy conditions at 1440p reduced the GeForce GTX Titan X to just 46fps with a minimum of 39fps. Meanwhile the GTX 960 surprised again by delivering unexpected performance as it matched the GTX 780.
AMD Radeon GPUs struggle with current unoptimized drivers. The R9 290X was 3fps slower than the GTX 780.
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A website is a valuable tool whether it is used for sharing the opinions, pictures, products or to promote the business. The online web builder makes it easy for the business owners as well as for any individual to create a website without acquiring any technical knowledge.
A website can increase the customer base and audience, but one has to keep in mind the following things while creating a website:
- Selecting the suitable domain name
The domain name represents the identity of the business or individual on the internet. It must reflect the type of the products and services offered by the website. The domain name can be obtained from any reputable registration company. It should be simple and easy to remember. The online web builder like Web Start Today is offering the domain names at a very reasonable price.
- A hosting account
The hosting account is an intermediary platform that allows the domain pages to be visible on the World Wide Web. The online web builders also offer the hosting service to its clients at a very reasonable price or for free. The hosting company must allow the website owner to upgrade the hosting plan as per the requirement.
- FTP Software
The next step in building a website is to get the means that helps in transferring the files to and from the hosting company; it is known File Transfer Protocol.
- A web editor
At this stage one can start building the website but before flexing the creative instincts, a web editor is required. The feature of web editing is offered by various online web builders to make the website building an easy task for the individual.
- Designing and developing web pages
As the website owner is creating the website on his own, so he is well aware of the highlights of his work or business and he also knows the best way to attract the audience or customers. As we all know that the first impression is the last impression so it is essential for the website owner to spend time in perfecting the final design of the website. It is important to remember that the quality of the website reflects the quality of the products and services it offers.
- A quality content
It is very essential for a website to have a good quality and original written content in order to hold the viewer’s attention. The basic things like spelling and grammar should be checked carefully.
After the website owner is satisfied with the finished product then publishing the pages on the web is a simple task with FTP software. Having a web presence is not essential in today’s world as there is a considerable amount of effort that is required to be made in order to rank the website higher on the search engine like the traffic generation techniques and SEO optimization techniques, but it is essentially akin to establish and promote the business or any type of work in the real world for growth. | <urn:uuid:cfde8a25-a298-45ff-a3ab-8f9a0deeb0cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.webstarttoday.com/blog/website-builder/how-to-create-your-own-website-a-beginners-guide/ | 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 | 0.948088 | 557 | 1.804688 | 2 |
After the humiliation of defeat in 1870, the suffering of the tragic events of the Commune, and the indemnity to Germany of five billion francs in gold, France, in 1878 was ready to fight back, and committed itself to drastic reform. The Universal Exhibition was to be the manifestation of her success.
The real architectural novelty was the amazing Street of Nations, located on the Champ de Mars. There was an enormous contrast between the Haussmann Street and this one, where twenty-seven countries were represented by a façade typifying their golden age. In the Street of Nations it was all angles, colours, and the clash of primitive architecture with extreme refinement. Haussmann's style was sober, constrained by a strict order and uniformity.
These characteristics did not escape the commentators: "It is as if these streets had been brought together deliberately to highlight each architectonic style. In order to accentuate their physiognomy, nations with nothing in common have been placed next to each other so that this juxtaposition might emphasise more forcefully the unique artistic character of each".
For the Luxembourg pavilion, it was difficult for the architect to choose which of the Germanic, French or Belgian styles would be representative of the Grand Duchy, a genuine crossroads of Europe; especially as what were referred to as the "minor states" – Monaco, the Republic of San Marino and the Principality of Andorra – had been asked to share the same façade.
Placed between the Gothic architecture of Portugal and the Islamic architecture of Tunisia, Vaudoyer finally chose a Renaissance façade to express the character of Luxembourg. This concept must have satisfied the Luxembourgeois, who commissioned the architect again to design their pavilions for the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. | <urn:uuid:0aea7628-a921-4150-84a7-9c1edccf51a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire_id/the-luxembourg-pavilion-10692.html?no_cache=1&S=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973246 | 371 | 3.1875 | 3 |
It's in my genes to be a salt nut. My mom would salt everything from breakfast cereal to granny smith apples, and I'm pretty much the same (not cereal though ). Anyway, I'm currently cutting and haven't really watched my sodium. I do know I take in a hell of a lot sodium though. I've been searching this forum off and on for the past year and have yet to really see much evidence on too much sodium being harmful to the body. People always point out how high in sodium something is, but I never really hear why that's a bad thing except for blood pressure and water retention. I've also read that it doesn't really affect blood pressure, so I'm not sure how true the hypertension claim even is. I understand how water retention might be bad, but it really doesn't pertain to me at this moment. Does it just affect blood pressure and water retention? Or is there something much more serious? Is there really anything wrong with sodium? I'm not trying to make light of hypertension, but I don't see it as a problem as long as you monitor your blood pressure. | <urn:uuid:ad2e051a-6174-4e78-97d5-de7ab3588ea4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.offtopic.com/threads/is-there-really-anything-wrong-with-sodium.1740732/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978765 | 229 | 1.53125 | 2 |
On September 14 at 2pm, the Vermont Historical Society offers a Second Saturday Gallery Talk at the Vermont History Center at 60 Washington Street in Barre.
Middlebury College Professor Ilaria Brancoli-Busdraghi will present a short talk about the heritage and history of Italian-American stoneworkers in Vermont.
“While you’re at the History Center, you can explore the Vermont Heritage Gallery exhibit featuring “The Emergence of The Granite City,” which tells the story of Barre’s history,” said Amanda Gustin, Vermont Historical Society’s Public Programs Coordinator. “You can see examples of the tools and scenes that surrounded the stoneworkers of Barre, many of whom were first- or second-generation immigrants from Italy. Learn how this small Vermont town became a cosmopolitan city.”
The Society’s Leahy Library at the Vermont History Center is also open on second Saturday, offering hundreds of books, maps, photos and other collections that document all aspects of Vermont’s remarkable history.
The library is open Tuesday-Friday 9am to 4pm; Wednesday evenings until 8pm; and second Saturdays 9am to 4pm.
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Printing Press Profits Check Out Your Url
The Printing Press Profits course is very popular because of the decline in traditional print businesses. You may have heard of the opportunity rating, First Research’s estimate on industry performance and risk. You might be curious about what it is and how it works. Here’s a quick overview. Then, read on to learn how you can get the most out of this program!
Almost all commercial printers in the U.S. are privately owned and employ less than ten people. The four largest companies account for less than a quarter of the industry’s revenue. A survey by the National Print Owners Association found that 44 percent of members expected sales to rise in 2014, with moderate to significant increases. The results of this survey were analyzed by Sageworks, a financial information company. This company specializes on the financial performance and management of privately-owned companies.
The Printing Press Profits report also points out a trend that could help you predict future growth: the oligopolistic structure of the industry. The printing industry is currently transitioning to an oligopoly as a result of decades worth of consolidation. The smaller companies are growing while the larger ones are shrinking. This trend, while it may seem positive on the surface could spell doom for the industry.
The US economy has driven the rise in commercial printing over the past decade. Financial printing, which is an extension to advertising, has become more important. The stock market has an impact on commercial printing, but paper costs account for a quarter of the total. If paper prices are low, printing companies do not suffer. Low paper prices, however, encourage higher volumes, which increases profits. Meanwhile, oil and resin prices affect ink prices.
The Printing Press Profits report shows that customers demand faster turnaround times and shorter print runs as the industry moves towards mass customization. Printing businesses need to find ways to improve speed and still make profits. Although incremental improvements have been made to speed up the cycle times, they may not be sufficient to meet the increasing demands of the customer. The Printing Industries of America estimates that 30 percent of all printing will be done within a day by 2010.
Rising oil and gas prices could have an impact on the paper and other materials used commercially by printers. Already, paper prices have increased. Printing presses could have to pass these increased oil and gas prices on to their customers if they continue to rise. Printing press profits may be affected by rising oil and natural gas prices. If you can’t afford the additional costs associated with these raw materials, you should consider the Printing Press Profits upgrade.
You can start a profitable printing shop if you have strong management skills and entrepreneurial instinct. It’s worth noting that location is an important factor in printing shop profitability. You will make more money if your shop is located in a business area. But remember, most people don’t like to drive far to find a printing shop. Commercial space on a busy street will cost you a lot, so consider the expected sales before signing the lease.
Your business should not only be near other businesses, but also in a convenient location. Customers will be more likely to visit your business if you have many options for printed materials. Your printing staff should be able to perform multiple tasks. They should be able to perform all tasks. Your graphic designer should be able operate a D.I. machine and understand digital printing basics. You need to be able to print in all areas.
In today’s digital world, printers can differentiate themselves from their competition by offering value-added services. This will help them achieve their business goals and carry out their business more efficiently and cost-effectively. While these are small investments, they will be far less expensive than a professional 3D printer. Assuming you’re able to invest in your printing press, you’ll be on the road to making profits in no time.
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October, 2013:Color's Changing!
It is cooler outside at last and we are enjoying early autumn. Everything seems ready for beautiful fall colors. Even in the five boroughs of New York you can catch the explosion of glory in parks, with leaves fluttering in gold, crimson, green and brown. But sometimes other colors catch our eye. If you know someone who comes to work at Downstate wearing sunglasses to cover a black eye or who wears long sleeves to cover bruising, if it seems to recur, don’t be afraid to gently ask if the person is OK.
October 2013 is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If no one says anything while noticing many things, which may or may not indicate abuse/assault, then a horrible outcome could occur where we may regret not having tried to help. The best way to help is to offer to be there for the person, and to provide a pamphlet or website:
Another way children and young adults can be abused is through bullying. With the number of forms of social media in play currently, there are persistent images and statements that can drive vulnerable youth to hurt themselves after unrelenting bullying.
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer.
Born in Tucson, Arizona to a father of mixed Mexican and German ancestry and a Dutch Jewish-English mother, Linda Ronstadt began her career in the mid 1960s singing in Los Angeles, California clubs with the folk-rock group, the Stone Poneys. She scored her first hit single in 1967, as singer for the Stone Poneys, with the song "Different Drum," written by Monkees member Michael Nesmith.
Her first solo hit single came in 1970, with the country rock crossover single, "Long Long Time." She achieved her greatest commercial success during the 1970s, with a string of platinum albums, as she branched out from the earlier country rock sound to include more conventional rock, often covering early classics from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Her breakthrough year was 1974, when she released a series of hits beginning with the single "You're No Good", followed by "When Will I Be Loved", "Heat Wave", "That'll Be the Day", and "It's So Easy". She hit #1 on the Billboard magazine charts with her 1974 album Heart Like a Wheel, and followed that up with the #1 albums Simple Dreams in 1977 and Living in the U.S.A. in 1978. In 1980 she released an album of new wave covers of such artists as Elvis Costello and The Cretones, an album which continued her streak of hits with "Hurt So Bad," "How Do I Make You," and "I Can't Let Go."
Throughout this period Ronstadt was perhaps the leading female sex symbol in rock music, reaching the peak of attention in 1976 when Rolling Stone published an alluring collection of photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz. Ronstadt later said that she had mixed and troubled feelings about this level of attention. Ronstadt gained further general media focus when she dated Jerry Brown, then Governor of California, in the late 1970s.
In addition to pop-rock hits such as her popular version of the Roy Orbison hit, "Blue Bayou", and duets with Aaron Neville that received much critical acclaim, her long singing career has been filled with an eclectic mix of recordings, including Big Band sounds, Mexican canciones, an album of old-time country music, an album of Latin music, and an album of rock classics redone as lullabies. Her recording of three albums of pop standards with Nelson Riddle helped spark a revival of that form among younger audiences in the early-mid 1980s.
After appearing in the Broadway play, in 1983 she co-starred with Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury in The Pirates of Penzance, a motion picture based on a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
In 1987, Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris released their long-awaited "Trio" album, which they first conceived ten years earlier, to critical acclaim. The album won a Grammy and spawned four top-ten country singles. (They followed it up with a second album, "Trio 2" in 1999.)
Showing her versatility yet again, in 1996 Ronstadt released Dedicated to the One I Love, an album of children's music. In a career spanning four decades, she has recorded more than forty albums, her latest a return to her roots in pop-rock ballads.
Ronstadt caused some controversy among conservative Christian groups by telling the San Diego Union-Tribune in an interview published July 15, 2004: "It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know."
On July 18, 2004, during a performance at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas, Ronstadt praised Michael Moore and his documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11. It was reported that some members of the audience walked out, tore down posters, threw drinks, and demanded she be removed from the stage. Initial reports were that Aladdin president Bill Timmins escorted her out of the premises without having a chance to go to her hotel suite to obtain her property, and vowed that, as long as he was running the casino, she would no longer be welcome. At the same time, it was reported that the angry shouts and boos were overpowered by cheers and people clapping. However, Ronstadt says that the media reports were inaccurate. She was not aware of anyone throwing drinks, was not escorted off the premises, and it wasn't until later that she learned Aladdin's management was angry. "I didn't know they were mad at me until we were gone, and I didn't know what they were mad at me about until about an hour later, when apparently they called up one of the people that was traveling with us and went, 'She's talking about Michael Moore, and this is a place for entertainment, not politics,'" Ronstadt said. Ronstadt had previously been quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that she was not fond of playing in Vegas, and hoped that she would annoy them enough to not ask her back.
The Aladdin is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, however, and Robert Earl, CEO of Planet Hollywood, the corporation which will be taking controlling interest of the Aladdin when it emerges from bankruptcy protection, was quoted as saying that he would like to take Moore up on the film maker's offer to join Ronstadt on the Aladdin stage to sing "America the Beautiful".
- 1969 Hand Sown Home Grown
- 1970 Silk Purse
- 1972 Linda Ronstadt
- 1973 Don't Cry Now
- 1974 Heart Like A Wheel
- 1975 Prisoner In Disguise
- 1976 Hasten Down The Wind
- 1976 Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits
- 1977 Simple Dreams
- 1977 A Retrospective
- 1977 The Southern Belle
- 1978 Living In The U.S.A.
- 1980 Mad Love
- 1980 Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits Volume 2
- 1982 Get Closer
- 1983 What's New
- 1984 Lush Life
- 1986 For Sentimental Reasons
- 1986 Round Midnight
- 1987 Trio (With Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris)
- 1987 Canciones de Mi Padre
- 1989 Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind
- 1990 Mas Canciones
- 1992 Frenesi
- 1993 Winter Light
- 1995 Feels Like Home
- 1996 Dedicated To The One I Love
- 1998 We Ran
- 1999 Trio II (With Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris)
- 1999 Western Wall (with Emmylou Harris)
- 2000 A Merry Little Christmas
- 2002 The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
- 2004 Hummin' To Myself
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In the middle
Your GCSE or A-level pupils will have departed in the summer, trailing streams of data behind them. If you are a head of subject, your department inquest is probably already under way. It is easy to be sidetracked by banner headlines and the Government's unrealistic expectation of year-on-year improvement. Each subject will have had an impact on the overall school statistic, but it is your job to pick out the data that yields more quality information. The breakdown of marks will allow you to look closely at candidates' strengths and weaknesses, while value added data will answer your questions about possible underachievement and which of your colleagues need support.
As for the new arrivals joining "big" school, they will be blissfully unaware of the cartloads of data that accompany them. Teacher expectations are prone to being dented by crude data, but Key Stage 2 results can be dangerously unreliable and graphs depicting cognitive ability, verbal scores etc. can easily cloud the teacher's first judgment.
If you are a pastoral leader, you are likely to be more interested in the "softer" data that comes from primary teachers and outside agencies. The record of behaviour of individual children, social services involvement and home circumstances, for example, is often the sort of "soft" data that will help you decipher the "hard" facts.
Ultimately, the best data is probably the kind you create yourself. For example, quality formative assessment coupled with a central database of children's interests is a powerful mix that describes the whole child. It will have significant impact on standards and pupilteacher relationships.
Perhaps caution and a healthy degree of scepticism are the best attitude to take towards data at this time of year. Whatever you do, the key to improvement is your ability to transform information into insight.
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BISBEE, Ariz. - When talking about the U.S. - Mexico border, national security, illegal immigration or drug smuggling usually come to mind, not raw sewage. But that's the stink happening near Bisbee.
For months, a broken down Mexican sewage treatment plant has been dumping raw sewage into a wash that flows into Arizona. It's a smelly situation that could get serious if the area's water supply is threatened.
"Here we are, three months into the deal and no one's done a thing about stopping it," said John Ladd.
His family's ranch, The San Jose, shares more than 10 miles of land with the U.S. - Mexico border. Most of that border is protected by a fence to keep illegal aliens and drug smugglers out.
"The big thing is when Trump got elected, just his rhetoric.. just the illegals coming.. pretty well stopped here on the ranch because the threat of them going to jail if they got caught," said Ladd.
But so far, no one has stopped this: raw sewage flowing from a Mexican water treatment plant in nearby Naco, Sonora. Until someone invents "smell-a-vision" you're going to have to take our word for it. This really stinks.
"Mexico doesn't spend a lot of money on it, Naco is broke so there is raw sewage flowing into the U.S.," he said.
In this part of Arizona, water flows south to north. So does this sewage. Right into Ladd's ranch and dangerously close to the only water supply for homes in the area.
"It comes in right on the west side of Naco, Arizona from Naco, Sonora, runs down a draw right to the water wells for Bisbee," he said.
And it's been flowing for months now.
"It's been happening since June."
The Border Patrol keeps an eye on it, but "that isn't the Border Patrol's problem.. they've talked to the State Department and everyone else," said Ladd.
One agency no one apparently talked to was Arizona's Department of Environmental Quality, our state's agency responsible for keeping the environment clean. They didn't know about the problem until we told them about it. But after investigating, they told FOX 10, "ADEQ is pleased to report that the agencies with authority are making progress toward both short- and long-term solutions."
Ladd doesn't think anyone cares. He says this remote part of Arizona is used to being ignored.
"If it happened in Scottsdale, what do you think would happen?"
In the meantime, the sewage keeps flowing. The smell keeps smelling. A real stink for those who have to live with the stench.
"It's raw sewage, I've got a problem with that," said Ladd.
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In our today’s time, money increases its importance to every individual. Each one of us has different lifestyle, lifestyle that will dictate our need for money. Money is the main source of all our basic needs, without these it would be hard for each individual to compete with the world’s growing aspiration. Filipinos are known to be resourceful in terms of building a business. They are usually after its profitability and its ability to satisfy the needs and wants of the customers.
Business is defined as an activity which involves exchange of goods or services for the benefit of both the owner and the customer. In our own perspective, we think of a business that will establish a new trend of Beauty Salon. A Beauty Salon combined with a massage spa open for 24 hours. The beauty salon is where a woman goes to have their hair and nails done. Through this study, we want to change every woman’s concept about beauty salon. Our beauty salon is not merely about transformation, we can also offer new relaxing services.
Beauty and make up are like the wheels of a cart or the two sides of a coin. Women are naturally beautiful in themselves, but a little make-up does help a lot in removing the stress mark. Speaking of stress mark, we decided to improve the ways on how we remove our customers’ strains through offering different massage services. Every woman and man wants to be presentable regardless of their age, so the beauty salon is the place to go. Beauty salon and spa is also like a temple; however, the difference is that we go to worship in the temple while in the salon or spa; we go to be served and worshipped by therapists and beauticians.... | <urn:uuid:96403dfd-178b-4ab7-b7bb-631780031485> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Salon-And-Spa/144591 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963224 | 344 | 1.625 | 2 |
Extracts from Kenneth May's papers
We present below short extracts from eight of the many papers by Kenneth May. Indeed there are many for in [P Enros, Kenneth O May - Bibliography, Historia Mathematica 11 (4) (1984), 380-393] 287 publications by May, many of them reviews, are cited. We choose the papers, and the extracts from them, to illustrate May's views on teaching mathematics and, in particular, on the history of mathematics. We present the extracts in chronological order.
- Which way pre-college mathematics?
The Mathematics Teacher 47 (5) (1954), 303-307.
It is encouraging that many mathematics teachers, in both high schools and colleges, are dissatisfied with mathematical education at all levels, and that they are .searching for ways to bring it in line with the increasing demands of the times and with the dramatic development of mathematics in this century. In spite of long hours, large classes, low salaries, distracting extracurricular activities, disciplinary problems, the legitimate needs of the majority who are not going to college, and the general anti-intellectual atmosphere, high-school mathematics teachers are doing a commendable job of preparing pre-college students. ... The present crisis in mathematics is due not to any deterioration in the work of mathematics teachers, but to an urgent national need for more and better mathematics at a time when administrators and the public have for years slighted mathematics and, indeed, discouraged all vigorous mental effort in the high schools. The high-school program seems better suited to meet an urgent shortage of athletes and club-joiners than of scientists and other professionals. In athletics and other "co curricular" activities, there are numerous awards and keen competition for them. In contrast, excellence in scholarship is permitted, but mediocrity is considered more "democratic." Our high schools, while claiming to prepare students for real life, have established a system of status and rewards that is just the reverse of that in the world. When school is over, income and status for most people depend on how they do on the job, whereas in school success is made to depend on how they do in recreational activities. The contrast is especially sharp for pre-college students, whose future is determined primarily by the soundness of their understanding of subject-matter and only secondarily by their extracurricular experiences. It is high time that scholarship be appropriately recognized, publicized, and rewarded as the main job of students. Athletic and other extracurricular activities should be given a subordinate place as essential parts of a rounded education.
- Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.
The American Mathematical Monthly 65 (4) (1958), 241-246.
A creative mathematician is the intersection of several unlikely events. For the most part we are ignorant of the nature of these events and of their probabilities. Some of them are at present quite beyond our control. An example is the probability of a genetic composition necessary for intensive and highly abstract thinking. Others are clearly subject to our influence. For example, the probability of an early acquaintance with living mathematics and with the joy of mathematical achievement is determined by educational practices. ...
Examples of research activity.
After solving the familiar problem of the sailors on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts, one student conceived the idea of generalizing the problem to an arbitrary number of sailors and an arbitrary sequence of discards before each division of the pile. By using difference equations and some ideas from number theory he worked out an algorithm for solving any problem of this kind. His formulation of the problem and his method of attack were conceived without any faculty assistance. A faculty member helped him to polish up some details of the solution. He presented his results at a state meeting of the Mathematical Association. In a course in number theory, the professor wrote every day on the side board some difficult problems which the students might attack if they became bored. Students who did such problems were invited to present their results to the class. One such presentation inspired a freshman student to generalize the problem and discover new results. His work stimulated a sophomore to discover that the number of representations of an integer as a sum of consecutive integers is equal to the number of odd divisors not including one. The professor collaborated with the students in polishing up the proofs of these results. The later discovery that the result had been published about thirty years ago, far from discouraging the students, confirmed the significance of their original work.
- Finding out about "modern mathematics".
The Mathematics Teacher 51 (2) (1958), 93-95.
In the last few years there has been considerable discussion about the possibility of introducing into the secondary school curriculum topics such as logic, theory of sets, Boolean algebra, and the set theoretic approaches to relations, functions, and other topics of elementary mathematics. For lack of a better term such material has come to be called "modern mathematics." It is only in very recent years that these topics have appeared in college courses; and, until very recently, there were virtually no books dealing with this material at the elementary level. Hence it is in evitable that few teachers are familiar with it. However, several books written recently for use in elementary college courses could also be used by high school teachers as sources of information on the ideas involved and even as sources of materials that could be used in the high school classroom.
- Small Versus Large Classes.
The American Mathematical Monthly 69 (5) (1962), 433-434.
Since the teacher shortage is causing many departments to consider large classes in mathematics, our experience with a freshman lecture of 250 may be of interest. The entire group met together for a lecture three times a week. In addition each student had a weekly two-hour laboratory with about 15 or 20 students led by a regular staff member. Detailed assignments in two textbooks, along with sample quizzes and laboratory problems were contained in a syllabus supplied to all students. Daily papers were turned in at the lecture, corrected by a crew of about 10 readers, and returned to the students through campus mail the same day. A laboratory session began with a substantial quiz which was immediately discussed by the instructor. The rest of the session was devoted to student questions and the working of problems with help from the instructor and undergraduate student assistants. ... Our conclusion is that students may be taught as effectively in large sections (and our methods could have been used just as well with a class of 2000 as with one of 200), provided the work is very carefully organized and provision is made for easy feedback and consultation. The smaller size class group is more enjoyable, however, for both students and staff
- Undergraduate Research: Some Conclusions.
The American Mathematical Monthly 75 (1) (1968), 70-74.
Original contributions to mathematics by juveniles have a long tradition. Indeed precocity and early involvement in creative work appear to be characteristic of practically all of the most productive mathematicians of the past and there seems no reason to think that mathematics has changed enough to make this any less likely in the future. The term "undergraduate research" has a somewhat different meaning. It refers to an educational activity designed to increase the output of creative mathematicians and scientists by giving young people the experience of original work in addition to the standard courses in which they "learn" what has been discovered by others. Undergraduate research activities may, and often do, lead to new publishable mathematical results, but this is not the goal. The activity may be considered successful if it enhances and accelerates the student's development as an original thinker. the important manifestations are an effort involving independent work and results that are original for the student, regardless of their newness to other mathematicians or significance for current mathematical research.
An ideal programme?
None exists but a very good one would involve the following:
- A student run colloquium.
- A student run publication.
- A student mathematics club that supports these activities and engages in others appropriate to the local situation.
- A faculty member who keeps a friendly eye on things and helps as needed.
- Some link of these activities with the curriculum.
Ideally, research-like activity should be part of every course (the quantity and quality varying with the context) and should be officially recognised by graduation honours, special courses, and the like. In short, undergraduate research should become a normal part of the curricular and extra-curricular educational process.
- Very Interesting.
The American Mathematical Monthly 77 (10) (1970), 1120-1121.
The experience of examining virtually every English mathematical book published during a four year period has been most enjoyable and instructive. A goodly proportion were undistinguished pot boilers. Some were mathematically and pedagogically unsound, the first most common for the numerous remedial level books, the second too often true of advanced texts and treatises. Nevertheless the general impression is of improving quality. There is a healthy trend away from a show of rigor and toward genuine motivation, clear explanation, and closer links with applications. More books at the elementary level reflect genuine meditation about the problems involved, and more advanced books display scholarship as well as mere technical proficiency. It is to be hoped that these healthy tendencies will continue, since the unquestioning acceptance by the public of anything dished out by mathematicians, including publications and graduates, is likely soon to become a thing of the past. Sources of funds, employers, and students are likely to be increasingly insistent in their questions about the social utility of mathematics and mathematicians
- History in the Mathematics Curriculum.
The American Mathematical Monthly 81 (8) (1974), 899-90.
The history of mathematics has always played a role in the mathematics curriculum insofar as teachers have found it useful to introduce historical information in courses organized along essentially deductive lines. Separate courses in the history of mathematics have also long occupied a modest position in the undergraduate curriculum. Less common, but beginning to gain popularity, are courses in which content is arranged historically. Such courses do not ignore the logical component in mathematics, but they present it and all other aspects of the subject in historical perspective. It is the purpose of this note to describe these roles of the history of mathematics in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at the University of Toronto.
Four courses with significant historical content and orientation are offered to undergraduates. The first, entitled "Introduction to Mathematics," is designed for first-year students ... The course is described: "The nature and role of mathematics, illustrated primarily by the development of numerical and geometric ideas. Lectures, films, study of mathematical literature, and the writing of an essay. Tutorials will provide the opportunity for doing mathematics as well as talking about it." The course does not attempt to present a systematic chronological history of mathematics, but rather to give a survey of mathematics as a living, historically developing component of culture. ... The second course, entitled "Development of Analysis," is intended primarily for second-year students and may be elected by those having taken at least one university mathematics course. It focuses on the development of the basic themes and concepts of calculus, including a study of 18th and 19th century rigor, and the development of the concept of the integral in recent times, with detailed examination of selected examples ... The third course, intended primarily for third-year students, is entitled "20th Century Mathematics." Its purpose is to give the student "a survey of the different trends in the mathematics of this century, their interplay, social function, and effects in science and technology. ... At the senior level is offered the first course in the history of mathematics.
- What is good history and who should do it?
Historia Mathematica 2 (1975), 449-455.
The answer to this question can be given in two words: it depends. Or in five: it depends on the purpose. And one might add that the infinity of possible motivations suggests caution in asserting dogmatic criteria. The alleged invariance of absolute standards may be mere inflexibility in wishing to ban personally uninteresting or offensive purposes. ...
Are there any universal criteria of quality in historical work, counterexamples to my initial claim that "it depends". Perhaps the following might be candidates:
- There should be a purpose, stated or implicitly clear, and this purpose should be achieved.
- Assertions should be supported by evidence and argument. This requirement corresponds to insistence on proof in mathematics. In learned articles it involves careful citation and close reasoning. In popularizations it is sufficient to indicate where the missing evidence can be found.
- There should be clarity and complete disclosure. This corresponds to the mathematical requirement of rigour. ...
The mathematician is quick to detect mathematical errors in historical exposition, and he may even blame the historian for an error that he is merely honestly reporting without comment because he is interested in describing and understanding the past rather than judging and correcting it. On the other hand, the historian finds hilarious such naive historical mistakes as assuming that words have fixed meanings or that a brilliant mathematician of past centuries must have understood a concept or had a proof because these would be evident to lesser lights today. Historians become bored with the mathematician's preoccupation with priorities, which are important to the persons concerned but become elusive when viewed historically and throw little light on historical issues. And of course the historian is as sensitive to technical errors in bibliography and to inept or uncritical use of sources as is the mathematician to clumsy manipulation of symbols, even though the one is no more the essence of history than is the other of mathematics. On the other hand, historians are tolerant of mathematical errors if they do not seem seriously to affect the historical purpose, just as mathematicians are tolerant of historical sloppiness that does not impinge on the mathematics.
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Today, it comes as NO surprise to read the following:
Sources at NATO headquarters in Belgium and in the United States have indicated in recent days that two marine battalions being sent to southern Afghanistan for seven months this spring with specific orders to assist the Canadians are likely to be followed by even more marine battalions in 2009 and 2010. This was possible because the Pentagon has begun to slowly wind down combat operations in Iraq and because the marine leadership has been pressing hard for a bigger role in Afghanistan.
The officer, who did not wish to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the issue, said U.S. help for the Canadians had been in the works for several months.
“In the works for several months”, which confirms the disingenuous demand. Manley presents the demand, as though Canada’s future participation is contingent, and yet he knew full well that the support was already in the cards. In other words, the threat was a ruse, designed to make it appear as though Canada was hardening its position, Canada would accept nothing less.
The fact that the Manley panel presented the NATO troop increase as an unknown, something to be decided, when the panel knew otherwise, speaks to the fact that this endeavor is nothing more than a public relations exercise. If the panel was honest, it would have acknowledged the reality that plans are already in place to provide Canada with what it requests. Instead, this point is omitted, which projects a false premise, clearly meant for political consumption, rather than an accurate read of the situation. This demand is nothing more than appeasement, present a stance which makes it look like Canada’s continued role is conditional, when really the path is already determined.
Instead of applauding this report, people should be asking why Manley presents a false choice, why he fails to acknowledge that NATO already has plans to do what he “demands”. This disingenuous choice speaks to credibility, speaks to motivations and is intentionally misleading.
Two panel members admit the demand is easily achieved:
In a meeting Wednesday with the National Post editorial board, Mr. Manley suggested it should be relatively easy to muster the additional troops.
"It should be achievable, it should not be that difficult," he said...
Derek Burney, another panel member and former Canadian ambassador, said both the United States and France are likely candidates to provide additional troops. He noted the U.S. last week committed to sending 2,200 marines to southern Afghanistan for seven months.
If just half of those troops were stationed in Kandahar permanently, it would fulfill the panel's proposal, Mr. Burney noted.
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By Tammy Zhu • November 14, 2016•Careers, Law School, Pre-Law
I write as a form of activism and because I love writing. The recent election has taught me that many of our peers are willing to overlook disrespect and threats to women, people of color, and others who are different from themselves – in exchange for paying lower taxes or securing a better job for themselves and their families. These peers include almost half of college graduate voters and more than a third of voters with graduate-level education: these are well-educated people, some of whom probably follow law blogs of some sort or are in social circles with people who read law blogs.
Writing for a law blog is an effective way for any lawyer, law student, or person interested in becoming a lawyer to practice and hone our writing skills. It is an excellent way to learn about legal issues that interest us – a mechanism that pushes us to research and engage with our topics of interest. It is a great way to join a community, expose our ideas, and creatively make a name for ourselves.
But especially for those of us interested in bringing about social and political change in the legal community, writing for a law blog gives us access to an audience of not only like-minded people who cheer for the same values we do and vote the same way we do, but also access to a potentially wider audience including those who disagree with our positions but whose perspectives we can potentially inform and influence. Writing for a law blog can thus be a tool for activism, an act to bring about social and political change in the legal community. | <urn:uuid:ea10dec4-ee29-4588-b11c-154d7789c621> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ms-jd.org/blog/article/why-write-for-a-law-blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00293-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972093 | 322 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Hold a piece of history
A unique hand keyring made from 2,000 year old oak.
Large planks and beams uncovered during the excavation of the deep anaerobic layers at Vindolanda are not conservable and after carefully recording these pieces they would normally be re-used as part of the backfill of the site.
Now local craftsman David Wayper has been able to create a bespoke range of Vindolanda souvenirs which are made using some of this 2,000 year old oak. All the proceeds from the sale of these items goes directly back to supporting the ongoing excavation programme.
The front of the keyring has the letter SPQR and the reverse is laser engraved with a plan of the Vindolanda fort and civilian settlement with the words "2000 year old oak from Vindolanda Roman fort" around the plan. We have a very limited number of these in stock.
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Accountability, Policy and Administration
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- Determines the accountability status of schools and districts, including implementation of the self-assessment process for schools with special circumstances.
- Identifies Reward Schools, Schools in Good Standing, Local Assistance Plan Schools (LAP), Focus Districts, Focus Schools, and Priority Schools. Click here to access the accountability status of schools and districts. Click here to access the methodology documents used to identify schools and districts.
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- Assists in the development of growth, value-added, and teacher and principal evaluation systems.
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Every decade or two, Heaven cranks out one extra special human being. Seven decades ago it was Carol Rollick, one of the most enthusiastic and passionate individuals to ever set foot… and heart… on Planet Earth.
Carol, an accomplished fine artist and interior designer, is totally, happily consumed by her art. She says, “I just can’t help myself. Art is my existence. I do it because it is my passion. I have no choice in the matter.”
Today’s economy has made many artists rethink their creative commitment, but Rollick remains unflappable. Her dedication is infectious, so she is asked to address art clubs and guilds to inspire those who are flagging.
When speaking she has a prop, a cat toy called d’bird that she whisks about to dramatize her story. She begins, “I have two cats, Eddie Puss Rex and Jack The Ripper. I play with them every day with this toy.” She swirls the toy in tempting little cat teaser jumps. “Eddie will roll on his back and bat at d’bird, caring very little whether he hits it or not. Jack, on the other hand, launches himself at it, throwing his body over and over again in the air to catch it.”
She continues, “When he pounces on it, he flattens his body, pinning the toy to the ground waiting for the praise he knows I will give him. He purrs in ecstasy while I tell him how good he is, how brave and smart. Then we do it again. Time after time he gives it his all, leaping not so much for the d’bird, but for the praise.”
She says that is the way it is with artists. Some of them try, but not very hard. They never give it their all. Some, like Jack just can’t help themselves. They throw themselves over and over again at their art hoping for the reward, that feeling of accomplishment, the rush of attainment, the joy of having someone appreciate their work, either with praise or financial reward.
She finishes her little tale with, “While we hope to sell, finding it a validation of our work and giving us the resource to do more, we also value praise, just like Jack. We make art because we must, just like Jack will continue to attack d ‘bird. We do it because it is our passion.”
Her words are met with abundant applause, the equivalent of her praise for Jack, ten times over. Knowing she has done her part to keep art alive sustains her, and luckily for us, it feeds her desire to keep creating and encouraging us to do the same.
To see her art first hand, visit the Macon County Art Association Uptown Gallery, 30 East Main Street, Franklin, or visit her website at: www.thebloominggenius.com. d’bird is d’word. Check it out!
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The term Market-on-Open refers to broker instructions to buy or sell securities at their market price and at the beginning of the trading day. Unless trading is halted on a security, a Market-on-Open order will be executed once trading starts for the day.
While an At-the-Opening instruction can be combined with a limit order, a Market-on-Open (MOO) instructs the broker to purchase shares at the prevailing market price once trading on an exchange begins. This type of order cannot be executed at any other time during the day.
A MOO on the NASDAQ can be placed, amended, or canceled anytime from 7:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) until two minutes before the opening bell (9:28 a.m. EST). MOO activity typically increases during the earnings season, when companies are reporting their quarterly results. Many companies make earnings announcements following the market's close. If the company's earnings exceed the market's expectations, the price per share of the company's stock may increase the following trading day.
As is the case with all market orders, execution is guaranteed; however, the price paid for the security is not guaranteed.
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Sweden (CK) – Sweden introduces tax breaks for repairs in bid to cut waste
The Swedish government has proposed several tax changes designed to incentivize consumers to repair broken items instead of discarding them.
Lawmakers from the ruling Social Democrat and Green Party coalition added provisions into the most recent budget, reducing Sweden’s value-added tax for all bike, clothing and shoe repairs to 12 per cent from 25 per cent. In addition, households that pay to repair appliances such as washing machines will be eligible for a tax deduction. The two initiatives are projected to cost the national treasury $114 million annually, but will be partially offset by a controversial new levy on electronics that contain chemicals the government describes as dangerous to humans. These include the fire retardant pentaBDE, often found on cellphone covers. The initiatives will be voted on later this month, but are widely expected to pass.
Deputy finance minister Per Bolund argues this change will nudge Swedes to pursue a more sustainable form of consumption that values quality goods over disposable items. The government is looking to bolster the domestic repair industry, which has been aided in recent years by the rise of the maker movement and the sharing economy more broadly. Tax incentives will act to even out the current imbalance between the cost of repairs and replacement, which is often cheaper due to the pool of inexpensive labour available abroad.
“We also know that repairs are more labour-intense than production, which has been largely automized, so expanding repairs could actually contribute to an expanding labour market and a decrease in unemployment,” said Bolund in a recent interview with the World Economic Forum. “Especially because repair services often require high skills but not very high education, so we believe there’s a currently unemployed part of the labour force that could benefit.” Most of the repair jobs created will stay in the country, providing further economic benefits, he says.
Sweden has made great strides in tackling carbon emissions, cutting emissions 23 per cent over the past quarter-century. But it has struggled to address the global environmental impact from Swedish consumption patterns, along with the difficulties associated with disposal. The country diverted 58,000 tonnes of electronic and household goods from landfills in 2015.
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Gender of the name Narice: Girl
Color of the name Narice: Blue&Pink
Origin of the name Narice: Greek
Prononciation Of Narice
Here is how to pronounce the name Narice:
The Meaning Of The Name Narice
Definition of Narice: sea nymph
The Picture Of The Name Narice
Consider your name Narice as a picture. How would it look like? This will be funny! Using the meaning of Narice, we prepared this picture. Do not bother the gender. =)
Statistics Of The Name Narice
How many people in the U.S have the name Narice: 43
Rank of the name Narice in the U.S.: 105,553rd
How many letters are in the name Narice? 6
Numerology Of The Name Narice
In the table below, you can find the letters that the name Narice contains and its alphabet numbers. After you sum up these numbers, it is your name numerology number.
Destination Number Of The Name Narice
To calculate the destiny number of the name Narice, please look at the table below. There is a number for each letters of the name Narice. Add up these numbers and that’s your destiny number.
n (5) + a (1) + r (9) + i (9) + c (3) + e (5) = => 3+2 = 5
Destiny Number: 5. Here is your name analysis according to your destiny number.
Narice Destiny Analysis
Analysis Of The Name Narice
Here is the analysis of the name Narice.
|N||You have a great common sense and a higher ability in life. You see thing much before they happen.|
|A||Your sense of analyzing life is stronger. You are known as a reasonable person.|
|R||You have always been an indecisive person and you will be in the future. You hardly even cann’t decide what to eat! Hesitation is the biggest part of your life.|
|İ||You are the most emotional person. Your heart can be easly broken and you are very sensitive.|
|C||You are very emotional and you are interested in fine arts.|
|E||You have a very complicated emotional world. You can be sad and happy at the same time and never ever recognise it.|
Narice Character Analysis of MeaningHere is the characteristics of Narice in details.
- You would be happiest in positions where you are free to express individually and creatively and where opportunities are not restricted; you desire freedom, and do not tolerate being possessed by others.
- You have large ambitions, and it is difficult for you to be tolerant and understanding of those who desire less in life or who are more slow and methodical by nature.
- You are very self-confident and feel you can accomplish anything you set out to do, and you can, although, this name does not allow proper completion of undertakings, and forced changes cause financial losses and bitter experiences.
- When under strain, tension could affect the stomach and solar plexus.
- Patience is not your forte.
- This name also creates caustic expression and moods which prevent harmony and happiness in close association.
- There is a tendency for you to worry.
- You appreciate change and travel, and the opportunity to meet and mix with others, and to influence them with your creative ideas.
- You are ambitious and aggressive by nature.
- You do, however, have leadership ability and would never be happy in a subservient position.
- The name of Narice creates a quick, analytical, and clever mind; you are creative, versatile, original, and independent.
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In this session you will learn the fundamentals of how to apply advanced analytics using Apache spark in Azure databricks. We will focus on how to build and deploy a machine learning model, then I have a look at how you can get started with graph based processing, using graph frames in Apache spark. The combination of big data, machine learning and graph based processing, helps to fully realise the full spectrum of advanced analytics.
You will learn the fundamentals of Spark and how it is enabled on Databricks. Then we will look at how you get started with Machine Learning and Graph based processing
You will be able to begin to work with Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics in Spark.
Spark is one of the most desirable skills on the market. Integrating with big data pipelines is fundamental to the success of Machine Learning with Big Data.
The ability to analyze time series data at scale is critical for the success of finance and IoT applications based on Spark. Flint is Two Sigma's implementation of highly optimized time series operations in Spark. It performs truly parallel and rich analyses on time series data by taking advantage of the natural ordering in time series data to provide locality-based optimizations.
Flint is an open source library for Spark based around the
TimeSeriesRDD, a time series aware data structure, and a collection of time series utility and analysis functions that use
TimeSeriesRDDs can leverage the existing ordering properties of datasets at rest and the fact that almost all data manipulations and analysis over these datasets respect their temporal ordering properties. It differs from other time series efforts in Spark in its ability to efficiently compute across panel data or on large scale high frequency data.
|Spark Version||2.3 and 2.4|
|Python Version||3.5 and above|
Scala artifact is published in maven central:
Python artifact is published in PyPi:
Note you will need both Scala and Python artifact to use Flint with PySpark.
To build from source:
Scala (in top-level dir):
Python (in python subdir):
python setup.py install
pip install .
The entry point into all functionalities for time series analysis in Flint is
TimeSeriesRDD (for Scala) and
TimeSeriesDataFrame (for Python). In high level, a
TimeSeriesRDD contains an
OrderedRDD which could be used to represent a sequence of ordering key-value pairs. A
Long to represent timestamps in nanoseconds since epoch as keys and
InternalRows as values for
OrderedRDD to represent a time series data set.
Applications can create a
TimeSeriesRDD from an existing
RDD, from an
OrderedRDD, from a
DataFrame, or from a single csv file.
As an example, the following creates a
TimeSeriesRDD from a gzipped CSV file with header and specific datetime format.
import com.twosigma.flint.timeseries.CSV val tsRdd = CSV.from( sqlContext, "file://foo/bar/data.csv", header = true, dateFormat = "yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss.SSS", codec = "gzip", sorted = true )
To create a
TimeSeriesRDD from a
DataFrame, you have to make sure the
DataFrame contains a column named "time" of type
import com.twosigma.flint.timeseries.TimeSeriesRDD import scala.concurrent.duration._ val df = ... // A DataFrame whose rows have been sorted by their timestamps under "time" column val tsRdd = TimeSeriesRDD.fromDF(dataFrame = df)(isSorted = true, timeUnit = MILLISECONDS)
One could also create a
TimeSeriesRDD from a
RDD[Row] or an
OrderedRDD[Long, Row] by providing a schema, e.g.
import com.twosigma.flint.timeseries._ import scala.concurrent.duration._ val rdd = ... // An RDD whose rows have sorted by their timestamps val tsRdd = TimeSeriesRDD.fromRDD( rdd, schema = Schema("time" -> LongType, "price" -> DoubleType) )(isSorted = true, timeUnit = MILLISECONDS )
It is also possible to create a
TimeSeriesRDD from a dataset stored as parquet format file(s). The
TimeSeriesRDD.fromParquet() function provides the option to specify which columns and/or the time range you are interested, e.g.
import com.twosigma.flint.timeseries._ import scala.concurrent.duration._ val tsRdd = TimeSeriesRDD.fromParquet( sqlContext, path = "hdfs://foo/bar/" )(isSorted = true, timeUnit = MILLISECONDS, columns = Seq("time", "id", "price"), // By default, null for all columns begin = "20100101", // By default, null for no boundary at begin end = "20150101" // By default, null for no boundary at end )
A group function is to group rows with nearby (or exactly the same) timestamps.
groupByCycleA function to group rows within a cycle, i.e. rows with exactly the same timestamps. For example,
val priceTSRdd = ... // A TimeSeriesRDD with columns "time" and "price" // time price // ----------- // 1000L 1.0 // 1000L 2.0 // 2000L 3.0 // 2000L 4.0 // 2000L 5.0 val results = priceTSRdd.groupByCycle() // time rows // ------------------------------------------------ // 1000L [[1000L, 1.0], [1000L, 2.0]] // 2000L [[2000L, 3.0], [2000L, 4.0], [2000L, 5.0]]
groupByIntervalA function to group rows whose timestamps fall into an interval. Intervals could be defined by another
TimeSeriesRDD. Its timestamps will be used to defined intervals, i.e. two sequential timestamps define an interval. For example,
val priceTSRdd = ... // A TimeSeriesRDD with columns "time" and "price" // time price // ----------- // 1000L 1.0 // 1500L 2.0 // 2000L 3.0 // 2500L 4.0 val clockTSRdd = ... // A TimeSeriesRDD with only column "time" // time // ----- // 1000L // 2000L // 3000L val results = priceTSRdd.groupByInterval(clockTSRdd) // time rows // ---------------------------------- // 1000L [[1000L, 1.0], [1500L, 2.0]] // 2000L [[2000L, 3.0], [2500L, 4.0]]
addWindowsFor each row, this function adds a new column whose value for a row is a list of rows within its
val priceTSRdd = ... // A TimeSeriesRDD with columns "time" and "price" // time price // ----------- // 1000L 1.0 // 1500L 2.0 // 2000L 3.0 // 2500L 4.0 val result = priceTSRdd.addWindows(Window.pastAbsoluteTime("1000ns")) // time price window_past_1000ns // ------------------------------------------------------ // 1000L 1.0 [[1000L, 1.0]] // 1500L 2.0 [[1000L, 1.0], [1500L, 2.0]] // 2000L 3.0 [[1000L, 1.0], [1500L, 2.0], [2000L, 3.0]] // 2500L 4.0 [[1500L, 2.0], [2000L, 3.0], [2500L, 4.0]]
A temporal join function is a join function defined by a matching criteria over time. A
tolerance in temporal join matching criteria specifies how much it should look past or look futue.
leftJoinA function performs the temporal left-join to the right
TimeSeriesRDD, i.e. left-join using inexact timestamp matches. For each row in the left, append the most recent row from the right at or before the same time. An example to join two
TimeSeriesRDDs is as follows.
val leftTSRdd = ... val rightTSRdd = ... val result = leftTSRdd.leftJoin(rightTSRdd, tolerance = "1day")
futureLeftJoinA function performs the temporal future left-join to the right
TimeSeriesRDD, i.e. left-join using inexact timestamp matches. For each row in the left, appends the closest future row from the right at or after the same time.
val result = leftTSRdd.futureLeftJoin(rightTSRdd, tolerance = "1day")
Summarize functions are the functions to apply summarizer(s) to rows within a certain period, like cycle, interval, windows, etc.
summarizeCyclesA function computes aggregate statistics of rows that are within a cycle, i.e. rows share a timestamp.
val volTSRdd = ... // A TimeSeriesRDD with columns "time", "id", and "volume" // time id volume // ------------ // 1000L 1 100 // 1000L 2 200 // 2000L 1 300 // 2000L 2 400 val result = volTSRdd.summarizeCycles(Summary.sum("volume")) // time volume_sum // ---------------- // 1000L 300 // 2000L 700
Similarly, we could summarize over intervals, windows, or the whole time series data set. See
One could check
timeseries.summarize.summarizer for different kinds of summarizer(s), like
In order to accept your code contributions, please fill out the appropriate Contributor License Agreement in the
cla folder and submit it to firstname.lastname@example.org.
PySpark is an interface for Apache Spark in Python. It not only allows you to write Spark applications using Python APIs, but also provides the PySpark shell for interactively analyzing your data in a distributed environment. PySpark supports most of Spark’s features such as Spark SQL, DataFrame, Streaming, MLlib (Machine Learning) and Spark Core.
1 - Installation & Configuration
This video will show you how to install and configure Apache Spark on a Linux machine.
Notice that in newer versions of Spark, "Slave" has been replaces by "Worker".
2 - Interacting with Apache Spark Cluster
You will learn the general rules on how to interact with an Apache Spark cluster.
3 - Reading in Data
You will learn how to read in different types of data into Apache Spark with pySpark.
4 - Select, Filter, and Sort
You will learn about the most basic operators of pySpark. You will be able to select columns, filter rows and sort your dataframe.
5 - Aggregation
You will learn how to aggregate your dataframe.
6 - Functions
You will learn how to apply functions to your data. With these functions, you can create new or change existing columns in your dataframe
7 - Join, Union, and Pivot
You will learn how to join, union, and pivot your dataframes.
8 - User Defined Functions, Pandas, and Collect
You will learn how to wrangle your data if pySpark has no solution out of the box.
9 - Writing Data
You will learn how to write your Spark dataframes.
#pyspark #python #apachespark
In this video we are installing Debian which we will use as an operating system to run a Hadoop and Apache Spark pseudo cluster.
This video covers creating a Virtual Machine in Windows, Downloading & Installing Debian, and the absolute basics of working with Linux.
2 - Downloading Hadoop
Here we will download Hadoop to our newly configured Virtual Machine. We will extract it and check whether it just works out of the box.
3 - Configuring Hadoop
After downloading and installing Hadoop we are going to configure it. After all configurations are done, we will have a working pseudo cluster for HDFS.
4 - Configuring YARN
After configuring our HDFS, we now want to configure a resource manager (YARN) to manage our pseudo cluster. For this we will adjust quite a few configurations.
You can download my config file via the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11FL12RHSAug_aQtvaG4r2KJP1RhMw3Pk/view
5 - Interacting with HDFS
After making all the configurations we can finally fire up our Hadoop cluster and start interacting with it. We will learn how to interact with HDFS such as listing the content and uploading data to it.
6 - Installing & Configuring Spark
After we are done configuring our HDFS, it is now time to get a good computation engine. For this we will download and configure Apache Spark.
7 - Loading Data into Spark
Having a running Spark pseudo cluster, we now want to load data from HDFS into a Spark data frame
8 - Running SQL Queries in Spark
Let us learn how to run typical SQL queries in Apache Spark. This includes selecting columns, filtering rows, joining tables, and creating new columns from existing ones.
9 - Save Data from Spark to HDFS
In the last video of this series we will save our Spark data frame into a Parquet file on HDFS.
#hadoop #apachespark #bigdata
Learn the method to integrate Kafka with Spark for consuming streaming data amd discover how to unleash your streaming analytics needs
Kafka is a messaging broker system that facilitates the passing of messages between producer and consumer. On the other hand, Spark Structure streaming consumes static and streaming data from various sources (like Kafka, Flume, Twitter, etc.) that can be processed and analyzed using a high-level algorithm for Machine Learning and pushes the result out to an external storage system. The main advantage of structured streaming is to get continuous incrementing of the result as the streaming data continue to arrive.
Kafka has its own stream library and is best for transforming Kafka topic-to-topic whereas Spark streaming can be integrated with almost any type of system. For more detail, you can refer to this blog.
In this blog, I’ll cover an end-to-end integration of Kafka with Spark structured streaming by creating Kafka as a source and Spark structured streaming as a sink.
Let’s create a Maven project and add following dependencies in
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId> <artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId> <version>2.1.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId> <artifactId>spark-sql_2.11</artifactId> <version>2.1.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId> <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId> <version>0.10.2.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId> <artifactId>spark-streaming-kafka_2.10</artifactId> <version>1.6.3</version> </dependency>
Now, we will be creating a Kafka producer that produces messages and pushes them to the topic. The consumer will be the Spark structured streaming DataFrame.
First, setting the properties for the Kafka producer.
val props = new Properties() props.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092") props.put("key.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer") props.put("value.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer")
bootstrap.servers: This contains the full list of servers with hostname and port. The list should be in the form of
host1: port, host2: port , and so on.
key.serializer: Serializer class for the key that implements serializer interface.
value.serializer: Serializer class for the key that implements the serializer interface.
Creating a Kafka producer and sending topic over the stream:
val producer = new KafkaProducer[String,String](props) for(count <- 0 to 10) producer.send(new ProducerRecord[String, String](topic, "title "+count.toString,"data from topic")) println("Message sent successfully") producer.close()
The send is asynchronous, and this method will return immediately once the record has been stored in the buffer of records waiting to be sent. This allows sending many records in parallel without blocking to wait for the response after each one. The result of the send is a
RecordMetadata specifying the partition the record was sent to and the offset it was assigned. After sending the data, close the producer using the
Now, Spark will be a consumer of streams produced by Kafka. For this, we need to create a Spark session.
val spark = SparkSession .builder .appName("sparkConsumer") .config("spark.master", "local") .getOrCreate()
This is getting the topics from Kafka and reading it in Spark stream by subscribing to a particular topic that is to be provided in option. Following is the code to subscribe Kafka topics in Spark stream and read it using
val dataFrame = spark .readStream .format("kafka") .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092") .option("subscribe", "mytopic") .load()
Printing the schema of the DataFrame:
The output for the schema includes all the fields related to Kafka metadata.
root |-- key: binary (nullable = true) |-- value: binary (nullable = true) |-- topic: string (nullable = true) |-- partition: integer (nullable = true) |-- offset: long (nullable = true) |-- timestamp: timestamp (nullable = true) |-- timestampType: integer (nullable = true)
Create a dataset from DataFrame by casting the key and value from the topic as a string:
val dataSet: Dataset[(String, String)] =dataFrame.selectExpr("CAST(key AS STRING)", "CAST(value AS STRING)") .as[(String, String)]
Write the data in the dataset to the console and hold the program from exit using the method
val query: StreamingQuery = dataSet.writeStream .outputMode("append") .format("console") .start() query.awaitTermination()
The complete code is on my GitHub.
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Warm up with this vegetarian twist on a popular Greek classic. Bursting with flavours and textures, it’s surprisingly simple to prepare.
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Perfect as a snack or side, this dish will give you some winter goodness during the cooler months. It is easy to prepare, healthy and delicious.
Try this simple and creamy recipe to warm you up on cold winter days. Pumpkin is rich in antioxidants and vitamins to help boost your immunity.
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In what could prove a landmark ruling for oppressed Christians, the European Court of Justice has ruled that people who are persecuted in their native countries due to their religion have the right to apply for asylum in Europe.
Confirming the ruling of a German court, the European Court of Justice – the highest court within the EU – decided that if a person’s right to public worship was ‘gravely infringed’ – they should be granted asylum.
Furthermore, the Court ruled that being limited to private prayer was not a legitimate alternative to the inherent right of public worship – rejecting the notion that religious minorities should limit their profile in the public sphere.
The case in question began when two Pakistani’s of the Ahmadi denomination fled their homeland when faced with increasing threats and state repression. Attention should now turn to other oppressed religious minorities within Pakistan and the wider area, in particular the beleaguered Christian communities, whose plight was recently highlighted by Lord Alton, Chairman of the British Parliament’s Cross-Party Working Group on Human Dignity.
Following the court ruling, Lord Alton told the Institute of the potential consequences: “For too long European nations have continued with a policy of apathy towards the persecution of Christian minorities in distant lands. However, with the possibility of religious communities now fleeing to Europe for asylum, Western governments may finally be spurred into tackling the root cause.
While the question of asylum is a matter that should be properly handled by sovereign national governments (not least because of the additional load to the taxpayer), and not a panel of international unelected judges, the ECJ should be congratulated for recognising the importance of persecuted minorities – and the figures of which are growing.
We have already seen a trend of Christians being forced to flee their homelands. Over 100,000 Coptic Christians fled Egypt last year, while Iraq has seen its own Christian population decrease from 1.4 million in 1987 to fewer than 150,000 today. In addition, the continued violence in Syria is beginning to turn Christian populations away from the Levant.
I would encourage all European governments to recognise that the consequences of inaction are no longer limited to the villages of Pakistan or the streets of Cairo. Failure to act now will result in a greater burden of responsibility for us all further in the future.” | <urn:uuid:11eaea41-d46d-4a41-9c55-ecdec46923d7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dignitatishumanae.com/index.php/landmark-ruling-for-oppressed-christians/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00114-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959903 | 471 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Unamused Face Emoji to Copy and Paste 😒
A yellow face with slightly raised eyebrows, a frown, and eyes looking to the side. May convey a variety of negative emotions, including irritation, displeasure, grumpiness, and skepticism, as if giving the side-eye.
Similar, but not the same as with 😏 Smirking Face, which features similar eyes but a wry smile.
Unamused Face became permitted and joined Unicode 6.0 in 2010 in addition to joining the Emoji Keyboard1.0 in 2015.
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Heads up, Cambridge, you’re going to hear a lot of gunfire tonight starting at 8 p.m.. But that’s a good thing; Police are testing a new gunshot detection system.
How do you test and calibrate a ShotSpotter gun detection device? You shoot guns nearby. Cambridge Police will close off fields near Inman Square and Area 4 Tuesday night and fire up to 36 rounds at each location for the test.
“We’re actually firing the rounds into a bullet trap in both locations,’’ said Cambridge Police spokesperson Jeremy Warnick. “It’s a very controlled training exercise.’’
The system relies on multiple units triangulating the location of the gunfire, so it has to be tested after installed, according to Warnick.
“The sensors themselves have been installed in places where historically there has been gunfire., and that’s not in the woods,’’ said Warnick.
The ShotSpotters have been up and running since early July in a sort of soft launch for the system. Warnick said the goal was to get the devices installed before the Fourth of July, and the system was used to locate gunfire as early as July 3. Boston’s had the system in place for years.
The system is also designed to differentiate between gunfire, fireworks and engine backfires.
“It uses a pretty extensive algorithm on the back end,’’ said Warnick.
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Man can you weave a tale to try to excuse or explain away anything, can't you?Kids are forced to take things in high school that they may have no real interest in or no aptitude for. People are tested on the ACT in areas that they may have no aptitude for and will NOT even take in college. As a result their GPA may be lower in high school because of certain courses and their ACT may be lower for the same reason.
For example, let us take a person who simply loves the Social Studies and wants to be a teacher of History. In high school they have to take several years of both Math and Science. They have no interest in either nor any particular aptitude in either so they do as little as possible and never apply themselves to those courses. They get straight A's in their Social Studies courses however.
In college they take no math or science or perhaps a single course where they must. Their transcript is loaded with social studies classes at which they excel.
Your high school GPA was not a proper measure of if they are smart or not. The ACT with sections on both Math and Science is not a proper measure on if they are smart or not because they are being tested on areas they will not study nor use in their profession.
To stress those sort of rubrics as standards of intelligence and then to conclude that their other grades ( in their actual field plus education courses) are the ones in error is simply ridiculous. It should be the other way around.
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Since January 5, 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has not released further statistics concerning the unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan City. As of January 9, the total number of cases remained at 59. The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) was just notified by China that the pathogen among the unexplained pneumonia cases had been preliminarily determined to be a novel coronavirus. A total of 15 cases of positive results of the new coronavirus were detected by nucleic acid testing method, the genome sequence of the virus had been obtained, and the typical coronavirus pattern was shown under the electron microscope. Taiwan CDC pointed out that the available information has been anticipated and obtained. As Taiwan has made relevant preparedness and response efforts concerning quarantine, diagnostic and testing, as well as medical supplies, Taiwan will continue to implement those efforts.
In response to the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, Taiwan CDC has implemented onboard quarantine of all direct flights arriving from Wuhan since December 31, 2019. Thus far, a total of 14 flights and 1,317 passengers and cabin crews have been inspected. As of now, a total of 10 individuals have displayed symptoms. Among them, 1 was sent to the hospital for medical attention after meeting the requirements of having developed fever and coughing and had been reported to the competent authority for testing. As the other 9 individuals have all recovered, hospital visit has been deemed unnecessary for them. Nevertheless, they will be continuously followed up by the local health bureau. On the other hand, 3 individuals have met the reporting criteria of pneumonia case with fever and travel history to Wuhan, China. 1 individual who did not display symptoms during onboard quarantine was tested positive for the H3N2 influenza virus. 1 individual was tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus. The test result of the other 1 individual who was sent to the hospital after being assessed during onboard quarantine is still pending.
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OVER THE PAST several months, some members of the Portsmouth City Council have questioned the activities of the Greater Portsmouth Development Corporation.
As the president of the nonprofit Portsmouth Partnership, an organization of dues-paying volunteers dedicated to supporting Portsmouth and its citizens, and a participating organization in the GPDC, I wish to present the facts.
For nearly 20 years, the GPDC has been one of the most elegant and effective tools in Portsmouth's economic development kit. Effective? You bet. Years ago the IRS saw that cities like Portsmouth were long on the need for redevelopment, but short on cash. Accordingly, as Washington decreased redevelopment dollars to cities, the IRS increased tax incentives for private investment, including the implementation of a provision called a "Bargain Sale." It worked.
For Portsmouth, the GPDC — a redevelopment tool created in 1997 to combine the efforts of the city, the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and the Portsmouth Partnership — has turned underperforming properties into successful ones, sparking additional investment and creating jobs and tax revenue in the process.
A Bargain Sale provides that, when a qualifying 501©(3) organization purchases a property for a discounted price, the seller realizes a tax deduction for the difference between the current market value and the lower sale price. The GPDC is a qualifying 501©(3) entity.
Thus, a bargain sale to the GPDC accomplishes three important things. It: 1) compensates a seller for accepting a discounted sale price, 2) places the property in the GPDC's hands at a low purchase price, and 3) provides a low purchase price for the next owner.
In 2008, the GPDC purchased the former Holiday Inn on the downtown waterfront, where the previous owner's looming debt and tax burdens prevented any further investment. The "bargain sale" tax benefits totaled $3 million. The result? The previous owner's debt and tax obligations were satisfied, and the GPDC gained control of this valuable property. City cash required? Zero.
While minutes of recent City Council meetings would indicate otherwise, the Holiday Inn property's narrative since then is really quite simple: the GPDC borrowed $6.7 million from BB&T to acquire the property, and it continued to operate the hotel for four years; the GPDC set in motion a request for proposal process involving both local representatives and industry experts; the City of Portsmouth, in order to save interest expenses, paid off the BB&T loan, leaving the property's marketing and sale responsibilities in the GPDC's hands; the GPDC borrowed $1 million in 2012 to demolish the structure and, since then, each of the three parties has paid its third of the interest payment each month.
While the RFP process yielded a clear winner — a winner approved unanimously by the RFP committee's experts, by the committee itself, by the Portsmouth City Council, by the PRHA board, and by the Portsmouth Partnership's board of directors, the recession's effects have since put a temporary hold on development.
But the GPDC's efforts have produced more than just "bargain sale" transactions.
Earlier purchases are now the sites of iHop and Rally's on Frederick Boulevard, Harbor Vista Apartments on Crawford Parkway, and Roger Brown's Restaurant and Sports Bar, which has consistently employed over 90 people since opening in 1998.
In its 18 years of existence, meetings of the GPDC's partners have been marked by cooperation and a mutual desire to bring new development to our city.
Any money going into the organization has stayed within it; any rental income or sales proceeds have remained within it to fund future investments or to pay down debt.
For reasons that are unclear to us, some City Council members and the PRHA board have recently accused the partnership of "operating in the dark," withholding information, altering documents. Not true.
In fact, we have recently delivered to the city manager and to a PRHA board attorney reams of documents including copies of leases, settlement statements, invoices, checks, by-laws, originating documents, minutes, and more — including copies of audited financial statements for every year of GPDC's operation. Note that these are documents that each participant already had in its possession.
Clearly, given the current climate, the GPDC is no longer able to carry out its purposes. Accordingly, one of its directors has filed for its dissolution in accordance with Virginia law. That filing includes a list of all current holdings, and it also requests that the court appoint an independent receiver to take control of the GPDC's assets and operations and implement an organized plan of liquidation.
Long after the GPDC's assets have been liquidated and its corporate existence dissolved, its two decades of good work and promotion of economic development will continue to benefit Portsmouth.
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The WordPress dashboard is both incredibly simple and incredibly complex at the same time. When users first log into the dashboard, not only does a splash screen of informational widgets potentially overwhelm them, a sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen gives them all the options and features for their site without any explanation of what any of it is or does. That’s why we want to walk you through the WordPress dashboard, piece by piece, so that you can be sure to know the ins and outs of the part of your website you’ll spend the most time with.
The WordPress Dashboard at a Glance
The WordPress dashboard is really your one-stop overview of your entire website. When a new user logs in, depending on their permissions, they will see some variation of this page. By default, the page is made up of 5 widgets that connect you to your site in various ways, but also the larger WordPress community.
- Site Health Status
- Recent Activity
- Upcoming WordPress Events and News
- Post Quick Draft
Each of these can give valuable insights that you need to see before you begin digging into your other tasks.
Site Health Status
The Site Health Status box is arguably the most important part of the dashboard. If you log in and see the site health is in the Red or Yellow, you should probably click into the _Site Health Screen_ that’s linked and check out what’s going on. Often, the issues that come up are simply plugins or themes that need updates.
However, the widget will also notify you of security issues, PHP foibles, and various server-side snafus that need your attention ASAP.
At a Glance
The At a Glance widget is a simple overview of your entire site. It displays the overall number of posts, comments, and pages on the site, as well as your current WordPress version, theme, and various other pieces of useful information (such as the search engines discouraged message above).
Th Activity widget is pretty self-explanatory in function. It displays the most recently published posts and the most recently written comments on the site. Using this widget, you can easily make sure that your site is on schedule as soon as you log in.
Additionally, if a spam comment (or an inappropriate one) makes it through, you can delete it or mark it as spam with a single click through the widget itself. It’s really handy.
Think about Quick Draft as a notepad. You cannot publish via this widget, but you can save as many drafts as you want. We don’t recommend using this widget to draft an entire post, but getting the title and basic outline or premise down is perfect for it. Using this widget can save a great deal of time when you have a specific project, but need to quickly make a note for later. It lets you do so without extra plugins and without having to click through multiple menus and screens, and without loading the editor.
WordPress Events and News
One of the best things about WordPress is the community, and the WP Core team has built in a direct line to that using the WordPress Events and News dashboard widget. Each time you visit this screen, you will see not only the top WordPress news across various sources, from the official WordPress.org blog, but also sites like WP Tavern. So if there’s something going on in the WP world, you won’t miss it.
Additionally, you can see new events that are nearby to your set location. With WordCamps and Meetups becoming staples among WordPress users, you can see if any official community events are nearby. Or, if they’re online, the soonest ones you can sign up for.
Additional Widgets for your WordPress Dashboard
You can also customize your WordPress dashboard with widgets of your own. Depending on the plugins that you use, some of them might have the option of setting up shop in your WordPress dashboard.
One of the most prominent non-default widgets comes through Jetpack. You can insert a summary of your latest site stats in a widget, and you can use basic filters to customize the widget’s date ranges.
In the screenshot above, you can also see the Site Kit Summary from the Google Site Kit plugin that gives you a companion to the Jetpack stats because you get your Analytics and Search Console stats in a WordPress dashboard widget, too. Yoast SEO, one of the top SEO plugins out there, also automatically pops in a dashboard widget so that you can get an idea of how your site is doing SEO-wise.
Fully Custom WordPress Dashboards
If you need more than a couple new widgets, a number of plugins give you complete control over your WordPress dashboard. This control can even extend into the different individual users on your site having different dashboards. You can also choose what they see based on their roles and permissions.
One of the strongest plugins in this area is called Ultimate Dashboard. With it, your WordPress dashboard can go from a nice login bonus to the full hub of your site, eliminating the need for navigating the often-too-cluttered sidebar.
With Ultimate Dashboard, you can not only customize the WordPress dash widgets, but also the login screen itself, the admin bar across the top of the screen, and the admin menu sidebar.
Picking and choosing and creating your own dashboard is as easy as using your favorite page-builder plugin or editing the widgets in your WP sidebar.
If you don’t want clients, even the site owners, to have access to the Users or Theme Editor parts of the dashboard, you can remove those for them using this plugin. It is an incredibly in-depth tool that lets you take full advantage of both the WordPress backend and the dashboard (and its widgets).
Custom WordPress Dashboard with Divi
If you’re an Elegant Themes member, you can use the Divi Admin Dashboard Layouts plugin to bring the power of our page builder to the dashboard. Not only can you add specific widgets to the site, you can create a fully custom design, editing every aspect of the page, not just the kind of widgets or user-role accessibility.
As a designer, there are many reasons to customize the WordPress dashboard. First, you want to keep your clients’ experiences as frictionless as possible. The better they can use their site, the more likely they are to either recommend you or come back to you themselves.
Second, you can make it easy to contact you in case there are issues, creating widgets designed to provide direct access to you along the channels you prefer.
And third, you can use the dashboard to create a training area for your clients on how to use the site that you’ve made for them. Within a widget in the dashboard (or an entire dashboard screen!), you might create a list of useful WordPress resources that explain common issues that new WP users come across or embed a YouTube playlist from your own channel that walks them through your customizations.
On first viewing, the WordPress dashboard page may seem kind of superfluous. But the amount of information at your fingertips the widgets provide has the potential to make your workflow quicker, simpler, and more efficient. With the right plugins, you can also fully customize the WordPress dashboard for yourself, your staff, and your clients, giving everyone the perfect experience in the backend of the site. Whether it’s at-a-glance statistics, spam filtering, finding the right WordCamp, or going through an entire training course, you can do it through the WordPress dashboard.
How do you customize and set up your WordPress dashboard?
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SCIoT launch event
Last month saw the launch event for the South Central Institute of Technology – an evening packed full of useful and informative sessions.
The sessions covered a variety of topics, from equality, diversity and inclusion, to digital careers and the legacy of tech in Bletchley, as well as a live Q&A at the end of the event with questions from the audience. The SCIoT is grateful for everyone that attended, and hope that those who joined the event were able to learn something new.
If you missed out on the live broadcast, weren’t able to make it, or would like to revisit the different talks, you can watch the whole event back by following this link: South Central Institute of Technology Launch.
You can also view the individual sessions on demand via the SCIoT YouTube channel here:
1. An introduction to the South Central Institute Of Technology by Dr Julie Mills
2. What are Institutes of Technology & higher level technical qualifications with Gillian Keegan MP
3. Equality, diversity and inclusion at the South Central Institute of Technology
4. What’s it like to be a learner or digital apprentice at the South Central Institute of Technology?
5. What is the South Central Institute of Technology?
6. South Central IoT – what will the sites in Oxford and Reading be like?
7. The legacy of technology in Bletchley
8. Why are digital careers so important? From South Central Institute of Technology partners KPMG
9. What are the South Central IoT’s purpose and values?
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An open source platform based on the widely used server side scripting as well as programming language PHP; OsCommerce is the well known ecommerce platform mostly preferred by the online business developers due to its various functionalities.
With its capacity to develop user friendly, search engine friendly e- stores, Os Commerce has become widely popular in the industry. Apart from OsCommerce; many such open source platforms are used for ecommerce development. Few of them are Zen cart, Open cart, Presta shop, Magento and the list is endless as day by day new ecommerce platforms arrive in the market.
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There a number of things that organizations can do to better secure their infrastructure protect against security breaches.
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Backups are the best protection against data loss. This case study shows the value of backups and how they saved a customer from losing his entire business.
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Port Development & Operations
Port services and Development
- Design, development, and operations of ports and terminals.
- Management of vessels’ traffic in the ports. Provision of harbour Pilotage and harbour tugs services.
- Provision of emergency towage and salvage services.
- Business process re-engineering and outsourcing in the port.
- Implementation of Quality, Safety, and Environmental management systems for the port.
- Development of various other port plans and systems (ballast water, waste management etc.) to ensure statutory and policy compliance for the port.
- Optimisation of port business processes.
- Risk assessment in the ports.
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YNP: 12″ More Snow, 55 MPH Winds Through Saturday Morning
Yellowstone National Park will continue to get hammered with snow and gusty winds until Saturday morning with a Winter Weather Advisory. Up to 12" of fresh snow could fall and visibility may be near zero during this time.
According to the National Weather Service:
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM SATURDAY.
WHAT...Snow and blowing snow. Snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches for most locations, with isolated accumulations up to 12 inches in the highest elevations.
Winds gusting as high as 55 mph will produce blowing and drifting snow. Travel in the surrounding area could become dangerous, especially during dark hours. A simple breakdown could become a much more serious event.
Blowing and drifting snow can make roadways impassible and dangerous. Visibility will certainly be an issue during this time period.
WHERE...Yellowstone National Park.
WHEN...Until 5 AM MST Saturday.
IMPACTS...Travel over passes will be difficult. Blowing snow is likely to significantly reduce visibility.
People recreating in the backcountry could become disoriented with such gusty winds. Normal landmarks may not be visible during snow storms.
Make sure your emergency kit is well stocked in your vehicle. Check your windshield wipers along with the wiper fluid. Good tires are important, along with all the other basic vehicle safety points.
Cell service is often spotty in rural areas in Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding areas.
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25 Jul 2011
I’m not the best person to write an article on emphasizing the importance of eating breakfast from a health standpoint. Granted, there are countless studies showing improvements in attentiveness, performance and health from eating something to start the day – and additional studies showing the incremental benefits of actually eating something healthy to start the day. However, I went my entire childhood and adolescent life without ever eating breakfast. That’s right, never. The only thing I put in my body before 12pm between the ages of 8 and 23 was a cup of coffee – which is typically not advisable for those younger than adult age. I became accustomed to the burning feeling that is a cup of acidic coffee in an empty stomach. For me, that was the feeling of ‘good morning’.
As soon as I reached thinking age, I decided to introduce breakfast to my daily routine. This started off small – it would typically be a breakfast bar and a round of the type of cheese that comes with the red wax around it. I would eat it in a hurry on my commute, sitting at my desk, or in a classroom. Over time, I started to introduce increasingly better for you choices. This brings me to today, where I consume either a bowl of Erewhon Raisin Bran with skim milk, or Uncle Sam Original mixed in plain non-fat yogurt, in addition to a banana and coffee. Neither is particularly complex or interesting, yet it provides me with a healthy start to my day.
But what’s healthiest to me isn’t the fiber, absence of added sugars, natural protein, or 100% whole grains. It’s also not the comfortable feeling of having healthy food in my stomach, which I lived without for most of my life. For me, the importance of a healthy breakfast is more subtle and psychological. To me, it’s starting the day off right – with a good choice. My days can be so busy, where I inevitably make trade-offs. Perhaps it means not going to the gym as planned, or having take-out instead of a healthy home cooked meal, or getting 6 hours of sleep instead of 7 or 8. Those trade-offs are common, if not inevitable. But breakfast is something where I draw a line in the sand. In spite of the compromises I make in life, I choose to start my day off in the most healthy way possible, from a nutrition standpoint. To me, the importance of breakfast is the importance of making good choices. While I know that I’ll eventually get off course at least a bit, I know that I’ll always at least start off right.
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If a ball is thrown vertically upward from the roof of a 64 foot building with a velocity of 80 ft/s, it's height after t sexonds is s(t)=64+80t-16t^2. What is the maximum height the ball reaches? What is the velocity of the ball when it hits the ground?
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15 days ago, Kepler-10b (or the almost a.k.a. The Economist is pushing for, “Vulcan”) was “discovered” right here in our very fair-weathered Seattle. I’m sure they discovered it a bit before announcing it. How cool. Seattlites discovered the “Vulcan.”
Geeks and Nerds RULE!
On my walk to work this afternoon, I was reading The Economist (don’t be impressed. I hardly understand a thing in it and sometimes I think The Economist is written by a bunch of assholes but that’s just me) when I looked up to see a car “crawling” on the street (It was a young man driving slowly). For as many times I have been hit on in this city, I haven’t seen any ways reminiscent of where I grew up: Toledo, OH. For those unfamiliar, Toledo is 45 minutes south of Detroit. In short, it’s ghetto.
This was the most polite “drive-by flirtation” I have ever encountered. First I thought I must have been smiling. This often causes the men to stop.
Ladies in Seattle: You look mean and then complain about the men. Apart from the homeless or drug using individual, most of the men I have been hit on by have been attractive, polite, charming people! And all of them were nice. Yes, even the homeless and even the drug-inspired cat calls. Ladies, what is wrong with you? Seriously. Stop scowling.
But it couldn’t have been smiling since I was reading. I don’t think I’ve ever smiled while concentrating.
Men in Seattle! What is wrong with you?! Why would you stop for a frustrated looking woman?! This is a perpetual cycle. Strange people.
Maybe the drive-by admirers thought The Economist was sexy to read. I have run into that before. Well, I don’t know why they stopped but it put a smile on my face. *laughs* Maybe that’s why they did it! Bah! I have so many theories.
If that is the case then they were sweet people. Seattle is such a good town. As I was walking down the street, the young man now on the sidewalk said, “Well, well, fancy meeting you here!”
“Indeed we have. Makes sense though since I’m still walking in the same direction and you’ve decided to park.”
“It would seem that way.”
We exchanged smiles. I had already told him I wasn’t in the least interested (but thanked him, of course) when he was in his car driving just minutes before so there was no need to do this again. We wished each other a nice day. Seattle is great.
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Distance from Bicol to Santa Catalina
Distance from Bicol to Santa Catalina is 456 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 283 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Bicol and Santa Catalina is 456 km= 283 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Bicol to Santa Catalina, It takes 0.51 hours to arrive.
Bicol is located in Philippines.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||13° 25´ 15.5640'' N |
123° 24´ 49.2120'' E
Bicol Distances to Cities
|Distance from Bicol to Manila||293 km|
|Distance from Bicol to Cebu City||347 km|
|Distance from Bicol to Tarlac City||380 km|
|Distance from Bicol to Quezon City||289 km|
|Distance from Bicol to Lopez||135 km|
Santa Catalina is located in Philippines.
|GPS Coordinates||9° 20´ 1.3200'' N |
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All right, now, let's talk a little
bit about the left hand technique, here.
So as I was saying, before, you wanna
just, have the bar resting on the strings.
Your left hand should be relaxed.
It should be able to move.
And I basically grip the bar with these
three fingers, the thumb,
the middle and the index fingers, should
grip it just like that.
And these two fingers should just sort of
be loose, on the neck.
They can just sort of, you know, don't
make them too stiff,
they want to be able to just sort of be
And they serve a purpose,
really, which is to mute, the excess noise
that would be happening behind the bar.
If you, [SOUND] do like this you can hear
there's a lot of excess noise.
If you put these left fingers, and they're
just loose, on,
on the strings then it's gonna help mute
some of the excess sound.
Cuz, one thing that we know ,uh.
Probably you've figured out already, is
that when you pick up the Dobro it's,
it's hard to sort of get some of those
extraneous sounds under control.
So this is one easy way.
So the left hand should just be
just place it on the fifth fret, we'll say
So you want the bar to be directly over
the fifth fret.
This is a C chord.
And so you want, when you look from here
I'm very visual when I'm trying
to get intonations so I look at and I try
to just line this up.
If you want, when you're first starting
you can get right over the bar and try and
make sure that, where the bar is resting
is directly over that fret.
So, and then there's two things to be
aware of with the left hand.
One is playing chords, and the other is
playing single notes.
So, they are a little bit of a different
So, playing a chord is pretty simple, you
just press the bar,
let's say on the fifth fret.
And just strum all the strings with your
And you get a nice chord.
So you want to give it a little bit of
pressure, you know,
you don't want it to be too gentle so that
you get rattling.
You don't want the rattle, but you don't
want to push too hard on it either.
If you push hard you're gonna affect the
So just, just play press down just hard
enough so that all the notes ring cleanly.
So, that's about a good pressure.
Should be relaxed, but there's a little
bit of pressure there.
So that's a playing a chord is pretty
And you just want the bar to be straight
if it's turned either direction you're
gonna get, out of tune chords.
So you just want it to be level with the
There you go, pretty easy.
Now the other technique with left hand, is
playing a single note
well just one note at a time, and that's a
little bit different.
What you're gonna want to do in this
say we wanna play the fifth fret of the
third string, so that would be right here.
So, in this case,
when I wanna play a single note, I only
want the bar to be on that one note.
I don't want to just have the bar resting
on all the strings and play that note.
[NOISE] You can.
[SOUND] But ideally what you're gonna
wanna do is, just have so
that one note is being touched by the bar.
So what you do is you angle the bar up
like this so that, you know,
[SOUND] none of these lower strings are
being touched by it.
And the tip of the bar only goes so far as
that third string, so
these strings are also not being touched
So you're just touching the one string.
And you angle your bar up just a little
And that way you can get a nice tone, and
you know if you want to give it a little
you don't have the other strings sort of
So, try playing a few single notes here.
That's the highest string,
the first string on the fifth fret.
Once again I've got the bar angled, so I'm
only playing that one string.
And you want to use the, you know, the
front of the bar for that.
[SOUND] Now if I wanna play a low note, I
move my bar all the way back so
I'm just [SOUND] playing the one note
As opposed to this.
[SOUND] You hear, you can get a little
Or, you know, you might get some other
strings ringing, so just try that.
Just try playing some single notes.
You angle the bar, put the tip on the, on
the bar on the string and just try that.
So that's the single note technique.
The chord technique, [SOUND] and that gets
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Someone once said “there’s nothing new under the sun”. Except maybe format changes. With social learning being one of the buzzwords today, here are a few thoughts on the topic.
Is social learning a new thing? Cut back to the past, where cavemen gathered around their evening fires, telling each other stories of their hunt, also sharing a couple of best practices on hunting techniques and challenges no doubt. Less experienced huntsmen huddled around, lapping up all the collective wisdom being shared, getting ready for the day when they would be able to start recounting their stories toinspire, teach, and of course to brag.
Fast forward to the present. Has a lot changed? Technology-wise, everything of course – we are not using a sharpened stone to carve our success stories on the walls of caves, but are broadcasting them within our communities of practice using sophisticated discussion and collaboration tools. The sharing of our experiences continues, like never before. Web 2.0 and social media has changed the way users ‘talk’ to each other, individually and within a community of fellow users. Our powerful collaboration and communications tools such as discussion boards, live chat, virtual classrooms, journals, groups and blogs, enable connections between like-minded individuals around the world. We congregate around virtual evening fires, warm our hands, recount our stories, share our problems, get opinions from experts within our communities of practice, celebrate our successes and learn from each other’s failures. So what’s new? Nothing- and yet everything, in a sense. It’s still all about participating with others and engaging with them to co-create value and arrive at shared understanding and meaning. That said, technology has been a game changer as far as the reach and format of our learning and sharing goes.
So welcome to the brave old world of social learning -of the people, by the people, for the people -that’s the simple beauty of it all. Now we come to the interesting aspect of it – How do we harness the power of social learning and integrate it into our eLearning solutions? Thoughts anyone?
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HMS Belfast - Things to Know Before Visiting
The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2JH, UK
Contents in This Page
About HMS Belfast
Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy, now permanently moored as a museum ship. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany.
Attractions Near HMS Belfast
Historic castle founded towards the end of 1066. A grand palace early in its history, the Tower has served variously as an armoury, a treasury, a menagerie, the home of the Royal Mint, a public record office, and the home of the Crown Jewels of England. The Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat.
Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, the 95-storey Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244 metres (801 ft).
A combined bascule and suspension bridge built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal tension forces imposed by the suspended sections of the bridge. The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, for which an admission charge is
202 feet (62 m) in heigh, the monument commemorates the Great Fire of London. It stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 feet west of the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2 September 1666.
Located on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. One of the most famous and most recognizable sights of London. Its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, has dominated the skyline for over 300 years. At 365 feet (111 m) high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1967.
Documents the history of London from prehistoric to modern times. The museum is the largest urban history collection in the world, with more than six million objects.
Where is HMS Belfast
Discover More Attractions in Greater London, Where HMS Belfast Is Located
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NASA's Aqua satellite and the GOES-13 satellite both captured their own unique views of the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile this week. One satellite provided a high-resolution image of the ash plume while the other provided a video showing the plumes movement over several days.
NASA's GOES Project released a satellite animation of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano that shows the movement of the ash plume over several days. The NASA GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. created the animation from images obtained by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-13. The GOES series of satellites are operated by NOAA.
The GOES-13 animation includes visible and infrared imagery from GOES-13 that runs from June 4 at 1745 UTC (1:45 p.m. EDT) to June 6 at 1445 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT). On June 4, the plume was blowing to the southeast. Through June 5 and 6, the winds shifted and viewers of the animation can see the plume start turning in a counterclockwise motion to the east, northeast and then north as high pressure moves in (In the south high pressure system winds rotate opposite they way they do in the northern hemisphere, so they shifted the winds from southeast to the north.
A visible image was taken on June 8 at 18:30 UTC (2:30 p.m. EDT) by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The plume from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile has now expanded to the south and is now covering a much wider angle than earlier this week. The image shows the plume of ash now blowing to the east over Argentina in what almost appears to be a 90 degree triangle.
The MODIS Rapid Response Team is also located at NASA Goddard, and creates images from the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites.
According to MSNBC on June 8, flights in and out of Chile, Argentina and Buenos Aires, Brazil were suspended or delayed over the last several days and travelers should check with their airlines. The Associated Press and CBS News noted that the organization in Chile that monitors volcanic eruptions: the National Geology and Mines Service considers the eruption moderate so far, but it could change.
Meanwhile, satellite data from NASA and NOAA will help airlines determine the direction of the ash plumes and whether air travel can resume.
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This hybrid circuit uses a mixture of transistors, an IC and a relay and is used to automatically
open or close a pair of curtains. Using switch S3 also allows manual control, allowing for
curtains to be left only partially open or closed. The circuit controls a motor which is
attached to a simple pulley mechanism, to move the curtains. I first started this circuit over
20 years ago and apart from now using metal gears, very little has changed.
The circuit can be broken down into three main parts; a bistable latch, a timer and a
reversing circuit. Toggle switch S3 determines manual or automatic mode. The circuit as
shown above is drawn in the automatic position and operation is as follows. The bistable
is built around Q1 and Q2 and associated circuitry and
controls relay A/2. S1 is used to open the curtains and S2 to close the curtains. At power
on, a brief positive pulse is applied to the base of Q2 via C2. Q2 will be on, and activate
The network of C3 and R4 form a low current holding circuit for the relay. Relay
A/2 is a 12V relay with a 500 ohm coil. It requires slightly less current to keep a relay
energized than it does to operate it. Once the relay has operated, the current through the
coil is reduced by R4, saving power consumption. When Q2 is off, C3 will be discharged, but
when Q2 becomes active (either at switch on or by pressing S1) capacitor C3 will charge very
quickly via the relay coil. The initial charging current is sufficient to energize the relay
and current flow through R4 sufficient to keep it energized.
Q1 bias is applied via R3 which is tied to Q2 collector. As Q2 is on, the
collector voltage will be low, close to 0v and therefore Q1 and LED L1 will be off. As Q1 is
off, its collector voltage will be high, and Q2 bias voltage is applied via the chain L1, R1
and R2. The curtains should already be fully open.
If now S2 is pressed, the base voltage of Q2 will become 0 and Q2 will switch off. In
switching off, its collector voltage will rise to the supply voltage and Q1 will now be
forward biased via the relay coil A/2, R4 and R3. LED L1 will now be lit, relay A/2 will be
de-energized and as Q1 collector will be low, Q2 will be off and the circuit latched in this
At the same time as S2 is pressed, the trigger input of IC1, a 555 timer (normally held high
via R7 will be taken low. A timing sequence now commences. Duration is controlled by preset
P1 and C6 and the timing is adjustable between about 1 and 12 seconds. This delay is adjusted
so that the motor will run for sufficient time to fully open or close the curtains. The output
of the 555 turns on Q3, fed via R8 which now applies power to the motor via relay contacts A1
At any time the motor is in operation, and for any direction, LED L2 will always be lit.
Contacts A1 and A2 reverse the polarity of the voltage appearing at the motor terminals,
for more help on relays and switch contacts, visit this page
in my practical section. A running motor generates a back EMF and D4 and D5 prevent this
voltage from destroying the IC and transistors.
The medium power transistor BD139, Q3 is the workhorse in this circuit providing drive current to the motor. The case style is TO126,
which is shown left. Note that the terminals are if E, C, B order.
All transistors are like having two diodes back to back. The BD139 can be tested with a digital meter set to read resistance in range 2k.
Between E-B in forward bias (red lead base, black lead emitter) you will get a reading, my test BD139 showed 1.284k. The opposite way should
be a very high reading, greater than 2Meg. Testing between C-B also gave a reading of 1.274k, testing between B-C gave no reading. A shorted
transistor will be approximately the same reading across the E-B or C-B junctions.
If the toggle switch S3 is changed to manual mode, operation is slightly different as
outlined below. The bistable latch formed around S1, S2, Q1, Q2 and associated circuitry
operates the same way as in automatic mode.
S1 and S2 set or unset the bistable circuit which control relay A/2 and determine the
direction of the motor. In addition, as long as either S1 or S2 is held pressed, a bias
current will flow through either D1 or D2 and R6 into the base of PNP transistor Q4. This
small base current results in a larger collector current flowing via R9 into the base of
Q3. The BD139 will now be fully switched on and drives the motor as long as either S1 or
S2 is pressed. Hence it is now possible to partially open or partially close the curtains.
If you prefer a manual control then the following simpler electrical circuit is available.
The close switch applies power to the motor via the relay contacts. The 1N4001 diode prevents
the relay from operating. When the open switch is pressed, the relay is operated and power
is again applied to the motor, though this time the contacts have changed and the motor
will turn in the opposite direction.
This is not the best mechanical system and I am always open to new ideas and suggestions.
Originally I started out with a plastic worm gear and plastic 50 tooth gear, always in
contact with each other. Then one day I forgot the gears were engaged and manually closed
the curtains ruining the gears! I now use metal gears though plastic gears are perfectly
suitable for this project.
This mechanism is suitable for the plastic or metal flat strip curtain rails only. Two
pulleys are used at each end of the rail and a loop of string is passed around the pulleys
and kept in place by a tension spring, see below. To get a better "grip" on the string metal
pulleys with serrated flanges can be used; alternatively wooden pulleys may be used. The grooves
may be slightly ruffled with a file to aid grip.
The string will always travel in opposite directions and a small hook or piece of wire is
attached to each end fastener of each curtain and also to opposite sides of the string loop,
Each pulley is spaced from the wall with a bracket or small piece of wood. This is supported
by a bracket or block of wood. A small Axel passes through each bracket, one end will have a
collar, see below, the other end will have a gear that is driven by the motor.
At the motor end, I used two pieces of wood screwed together for the bracket. This now allows
the motor to be moved away from the driven gear and un-mesh the gears. As each curtain is
attached to the loop, moving just one curtain also moves the other curtain on the loop.
Friction - Friend or Foe ?
This mechanical design relies on one important property and that is friction. If there is too
much friction the motor may not move the curtains at all and the pulleys may just slip. If
there is not enough friction in the loop applied by the tension spring, the motor will drive
the pulleys which will just turn and not move the loop at all. To overcome this, I use a
silicone based furniture polish on the plastic rail, this reduces friction greatly and allows
easy movement of the curtains along the loop. To tension the loop of string, fasten one end
first to the spring then pull the free end of the string to tension the spring and fix it
with cable fasteners or glue, see below.
This may require some adjustment to get right. To answer the heading friction in this case
is both friend and foe, as the spring requires friction, the motor does not. The motor with
drive engaged is shown below.
Depending on the length and weight of the curtains, the motor may have to be changed. I used
a 12V hobby motor from Maplin electronics, I had to slightly enlarge the motor shaft with
some brass tubing available from most hobby shops. The torque of the motor was not great,
but if the output speed is reduced with gears, the torque (twisting force) is increased
by the same amount. A worm gear has 1 tooth, and I used a 57 tooth gear, giving a reduction
speed of 57:1. The torque of the motor (at the 57 tooth gear) is now increased 57 times. A
light grease or machine oil may be applied to the gears, too much and it will splatter all
over the walls and curtains!
This is best done with the curtains open, and motor gear un-meshed. Move one of the curtains
by hand. They should move easily and meet in the centre of the rail, if not apply some
silicone polish to the rail and alter the fastening on the wire.
Next switch the circuit to manual. With the curtains open, press the close switch. The
curtains should start to close as long as the switch is pressed and stop moving when the
switch is released. Then press the open switch. The curtains should now move as before but
in the opposite direction. If all is well, open the curtains with the switch and then
fully close them and use a watch to time this. The motor should be sufficiently slow and
take a few seconds (about 3 in my case but my room is small).
Finally open the curtains, adjust the preset P1 to minimum resistance and set S3 to automatic.
Press the close switch, the motor will run for a second or so and curtains will start to close.
Switch back to manual and open the curtains, increase P1 slightly and switch back to auto and
press close again. Repeat until the timing is sufficient for the curtains to close. Now press
open (with S3 still in manual) the curtains should be timed to open fully.
Should you have problems with this circuit, you first need to determine if its mechanical or
electrical. Mechanical problems will happen on both manual and automatic settings, and
be related to the opening or closing mechanism in general.
If electrical, check the power supply first, then L1 and L2 indications. If nothing works
at all build the single manual relay circuit above and once perfected, return to the
I am not mechanically minded so any suggestions or improvements towards a better mechanism
can be included here; or if any of you have also made electric curtains, I will be happy to
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Electric skillets heat evenly, hold their temperature and can be used in settings outside the kitchen. Keep main dishes warm at the dinner table, make breakfast at the campground or keep sauce warm at a barbecue. Precise temperature settings take the guesswork out of heating, and nonstick surfaces ensure easy cleanup.
Pancakes and Baked Goods
Prepare the pancake batter or French toast custard. If your electric skillet came with a baking rack, separate refrigerator biscuits or croissants and set them on a cookie sheet until you're ready to bake them. Make savory biscuits by dusting them with dried salad dressing or dip mix. Prepare cake mix or muffin batter and pour into a pan or baking cups.
Plug in the skillet and heat it to between 350 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on what you are preparing. Use a lower temperature for foods such as pancakes and French toast and a higher temperature if you are preparing muffins or biscuits. Consult your user's manual's instructions on how to know when the pan is the right temperature.
Pour the pancake batter into the skillet by the half-cupful. If you're making French toast, place each slice of toast into the skillet. After a minute or two, flip the French toast and cook until done. Flip the pancakes when bubbles start to form around the edges. If you are baking in the electric skillet, place the muffins, biscuits or cake on the rack in the skillet. Put the lid on the skillet and cook for the time directed in the recipe.
Frying and Sauteing
Plug the skillet in and set the temperature. Follow the manufacturer's instructions until you're comfortable with choosing the right temperature yourself. Cook eggs and thinner cuts of meat, such as bacon, fish fillets or cubed steaks quickly at a higher temperature. Use lower temperatures for thicker cuts that take longer to cook. A temperature of 325 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal if you are cooking delicate foods such as fish.
Place the food in the skillet, taking care not to overcrowd the pan. Putting too much food in the pan at once cools the pan down and causes uneven cooking. Cook in small batches if necessary. If you're cooking vegetables, start with the ones that take longest to cook and cut them in similar shapes and sizes.
Cook the food as you would on the stove top, tossing or flipping as necessary. Use a probe thermometer to check the doneness of larger pieces of meat. Add flavor to your dishes by seasoning them with salt, pepper and herbs, or use a time saving premixed product.
Items you will need
- Skillet-friendly recipes
- Baking rack (optional)
- Probe thermometer
- Wooden or silicone utensils
- Using a baking rack keeps the food on the bottom of the pan from burning as it bakes.
- Many electric skillets are nonstick so you do not need to add much oil when frying.
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Wal-Mart Canada Corp. acquired the Woolco chain in 1994 and established its stores, according to Wal-Mart's corporate website. The Canadian headquarters for the chain is located in Mississauga, Ontario. Up until 2006, only discount stores were established in Canada.
The discount chain has received criticism for allegedly driving out local businesses. Some competitors, including Kmart Canada, have suffered financial setbacks since Wal-Mart opened stores in the country. In fact, the city of Vancouver voted against a proposal from Wal-Mart to build there. There have also been labor disputes and claims that the company would not negotiate with unions, which led to their decertifications.Learn more about Corporations | <urn:uuid:aba0ee8f-6dee-4fc7-a0e1-aacc3abf4555> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/business-finance/walmart-stores-throughout-canada-d17d84f39e21ee3c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00107-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983287 | 138 | 2.0625 | 2 |
I have a book on my shelf called Practical C Programming published by O’Reilly (the cow book) by Steve Oualline. I still love it today because although I don’t code in C any longer, the book remains a great example of good technical writing.
That book has some relevance to SQL today. Instead of memorizing the full list of operators and their precedence, Steve gives a practical subset:
- * (Multiply), / (Division)
- + (Add), – (Subtract)
Put parentheses around everything else.
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... FOSSIL FUEL EXPORTER.....
SEEKING TO OVERCOME GLOBAL WARMING
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Grief and loss is very painful. What will those in grief feel about certain images left on the internet? In many instances, social networking sites and blogs allow another glimpse into the life of those that are missed. Could these memories be sought out when the time is appropriate? It could be just as well to hesistate about removal of sites from the web.
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This is the perfect song to accompany the Global Warming or the AP Desafíos Mundiales unit in your Spanish class! This song by Puertorican singer RESIDENTE has a lot of vocabulary related to the environment and what will happen if we don´t take good care of the Earth. Students find the song interesting and love the rap style of it as well.
The full resource includes:
-Comprehensible vocabulary plus Quizlet
-Quiz plus key
-Word search plus key
-Comprehensible crossword plus key
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National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, B.S. in Soil Science
Washington State University, M.S. in Soil Science
Purdue University, Ph.D. Agronomy (Soil Science)
2004 – present
Research Leader, USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Lab, W. Lafayette, IN
1998 – present
Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Lab, W. Lafayette, IN
1998 – present
Adjunct Professor, Agronomy Department, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN
1988 – 1998
Research Scientist, Agronomy Department, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN
1984 – 1987
Research Scientist, Division of Environmental Mechanics, CSIRO, Australia.
1982 – 1984
Research Associate, Hydrology and Water Resources Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Professional Activities and Development
- Soil Science Society of America: International Soil Science Award Committee (S479), 1996-97; Associate Editor, 2001-2003.
- Association of Chinese Soil & Plant Scientists in North America: Vice President 1993, President 1994-95, Board of Directors, 1996-2000.
- National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), Great Lakes Committee, ARS Agency appointed Technical Advisor, 2001-2010
- Co-Editor, with John Laflen and Junliang Tian, “Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming”, a 720-page book published by CRC Press and Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2000.
- Co-Topical Editor (With Dennis Flanagan) for Soil Erosion, Enclyclopedia of Soil Science, Published by Marcel Dekker, 2002.
- Served 60-day detail as Acting National Program Leader – Soil Erosion at USDA-ARS National Program Staff, Beltsville, 2003.
- Served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for International Soil Management Conference, delivered a keynote speech and chaired sessions (Turkey, May 2006).
- Served as Co-Chair of the International Conference for Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming at Yangling, China (October 2006),
- Served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for International Gully Erosion Conference, organized and chaired sessions (Spain, Sept 2007). Currently is the Co-Chair for the 2016 International Gully Erosion Conference to be held at W. Lafayette, IN.
- Served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Agro-Environment (2008, Turkey; 2010, Mexico; and 2014, Brazil, 2016 USA, 2018 China, 2021 Mexico). Invited as a keynote speaker at the 2014 and 2018 meeting.
- Served 60-day detail as Acting Associate Area Director, USDA-ARS Mid South Area at Stoneville, MS, 2011
- Served 60-day detail at USDA-ARS Office for National Programs at Beltsville, MD, 2012.
- Served 120-day detail as Acting Associate Area Director, USDA-ARS Midwest Area at Peoria, IL, 2018.
- Served 120-day detail as Acting Associate Area Director, USDA-ARS Midwest Area at Peoria, IL, 2019.
- Currently, serving as the US coordinator for the Sino-US Joint Centers for Soil Erosion and Environmental Protection between USDA and Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
Selected Journal Publications
- Nouwakpo, K., C. Huang, P. Owens and L. Bowling. 2010. Impact of vertical hydraulic gradient on rill erodibility and critical shear stress. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:1914-1921.
- De-Campos, A.B., C. Huang, and C.T. Johnston. 2012. Biogeochemistry of terrestrial soils as influenced by short-term flooding. Biogeochemistry. 111:239-252.
- Nouwakpo, S.K., and C. Huang. 2012. A simplified close range photogrammetric technique for soil erosion assessment. Soil Science Soc. Am. J. 76:70-84.
- Nouwakpo, S.K., and C. Huang. 2012.The role of subsurface hydrology in soil erosion and channel network development on a laboratory hillslope. Soil Science Soc. Am. J. 76(4):1197-1211.
- Nouwakpo, S.K., C. Huang, M.A. Weltz, F. Pimenta, I. Chagas, and L. Lima. 2014. Using fluidized bed and flume experiments to quantify cohesion development from aging and drainage. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39(6):749-757.
- Zhao, L., C. Huang, and F. Wu. 2015. Effect of microrelief on water erosion and their changes during rainfall. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 41:579-586.
- Mamedov, A.I, C. Huang, E.A. Alievm, and G.J. Levy. 2016. Aggregate stability and water retention near saturation characteristics as affected by soil texture, aggregate size and polyacrylamide application. Land Degradation and Development. 28(2):543-552. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2509.
- Selen, D.S., C. Huang, D.C. Flanagan, and G. Erpul. 2017. Functional relationships for soil erodibility factors of two different soil erosion prediction models (USLE/RUSLE/and WEPP). Journal of Hydraulic Research. 56(2):181-195.
- Ding, W., and C. Huang. 2017. Effects of soil surface roughness on interrill erosion processes and sediment particle size distribution. Geomorphology. 295:801-810.
- Wei, X., C. Huang, N. Wei, H. Zhao, and T. Wang. 2018. Reducing soil loss using surface application of stem juices. Land Degradation and Development. 29:1705-1713.
- Botero-Acosta, A., M.L. Chu, and C. Huang. 2019. Impacts of environmental stressors on nonpoint source pollution in intensively managed hydrologic systems. Journal of Hydrology. 579:124056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124056.
- Scott, Isis S.P.C., C. Huang, and L.C. Bowling. 2020. The use of electrical conductivity to develop temporally precise breakthrough curves in tracer injection experiments. Journal of Hydrology. 588:124998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124998.
- Weltz, M.A., C. Huang, B.A. Newingham, J. Tatarko, S.K. Nouwakpo, and T. Tsegaye. 2020. A strategic plan for future USDA Agricultural Research Service erosion research and model development. Journal of Soil Water Conservation. 75(6):137A-143A.
- Nouwakpo, S.K, C. Huang, L.C. Bowling, P. Owens, and M.A. Weltz. 2021 Inferring sediment transport capacity from soil microtopography changes on a laboratory hillslope. Water. 13(7):929. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13070929. | <urn:uuid:9768bd64-9120-474f-a956-d77b975428e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ag.purdue.edu/department/agry/directory-pages/chi-hua-huang-profile.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.789017 | 1,617 | 1.640625 | 2 |
- Certificate: Kitchen Cook - AHLEI Certificate in Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management - Florence Academy of World Cuisine
- Duration: 2 years
- Uniform: T-shirt, Apron, Cap, Chef Coat & Kitchen Kit
Diploma in Food & Beverage
A diploma in Food and Beverage is a 2 years course that deals with the aspects required for adequate food production and service. Food and beverage, as the name implies, is all about preparing food and beverages. F & B are significant departments in the hospitality industry, which is in constant demand for skilled manpower. Candidates aspiring to build their career in this field can surpass by mastering various aspects of F & B, such as preparation techniques, cooking techniques, kitchen management, food cost handling, beverages, service styles, banqueting, etc.
The Diploma in Food and Beverage program at Florence is affiliated with NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation) and AHLEI (American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute). This course aims to enhance the student's skills to bridge the gap between the industry's requirements and potent professionals. The institute’s advanced course curriculum helps students learn the nuances of the department and the industry, as well as the experiential pedagogy followed by it, aiding them to attain balanced theoretical knowledge and practical training in the hospitality and allied services sector.
1st Year : July-2022 to April 2023
1) Hospitality today: an Introduction (103) – AHLEI
2) Kitchen Cook : AHLEI start
3) National Skill Development Corporation – Sous Chef
4) Restaurant Server – AHLEI start
5) The Food production Principals – AHLEI
6) Advance Bakery & Confectionery Level – 1 (Florence)
7) Communication Skill (Florence)
2nd Year : July 2023 to April 2024
1) Managing Service in Food Beverage Operations (349) – AHLEI
2) Food Safety: Managing with the HACCP System (245) – AHLEI
3) Advance Bakery & Confectionery Level – 2 (Florence)
4) Advance Communication Skill (Florence)
5) 6 Months of Industrial Training in Hotel & Restaurants
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COURSE
–6 months of industrial training in hotels and restaurants.
–6 international certificates from AHLEI, and 1 national certificate from NSDC.
–Advance bakery and confectionary certificate and Diploma in F&B certificate from FLORENCE -AWC.
–Other student development programs: ODC, workshops, guest lecture field trips & educational tours, etc.
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Swimming and water-based recreation are a popular way to have fun, stay active and keep cool in Greater Bendigo. Maintaining water quality at aquatic facilities is very important to minimise the risk of transmitting infections and to keep our community safe. Water quality in public aquatic facilities relies heavily on two protective measures.
- Maintenance of chemical additives that work to minimise pathogenic microbes in the water.
- Healthy swimming practices by bathers such as pre-swim showering, avoiding swimming when ill or after recent illness, and helping young children avoid faecal accidents with close monitoring and support.
Updated Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations
The changes are designed to reduce illness and disease outbreaks associated with aquatic facilities and improve oversight of aquatic facilities with infection control risks.
The new regulations are effective from December 14, 2019, replacing the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2009. The new regulations apply to two categories:
Category 1, a swimming pool, spa pool or interactive water feature that –
a. is used by members of the public, whether free of charge or on payment of a fee; or
b. is used in association with a class or program that is offered free of charge or on payment of a fee; or
c. is located at the premises of an early childhood service, school or other educational institution; or
d. is located at premises at which residential aged care services are provided; or
e. is located at any of the following premises:
i. a public hospital;
ii. a multi-purpose service 1;
iii. a denominational hospital;
iv. a private hospital;
1 The functions of a multi-purpose service are the provision of any or a combination of the following – (a) public hospital services; (b) health services; (c) aged care services; (d) community care services; and further criteria as defined in the Health Services Act 1998.
Category 2 applies to businesses such as hotels, motels and residential apartment complexes with aquatic facilities used by their guests.
Category 1 Aquatic Facilities
In order to operate a Category 1 aquatic facility, the facility must be registered with the relevant local Council.
To apply to register your Category 1 aquatic facility, please use this application form.
Fees apply to registration. For further information on fees and other charges related to registration of an aquatic facility, please contact Environmental Health.
Operation Requirements for Aquatic Facilities (Category 1 & 2)
Operators of Category 1 and 2 aquatic facilities have an obligation to:
- Maintain aquatic facility water quality to reduce the risk of transmitting infectious diseases
- Ensure all staff operating the facility are adequately trained to keep water quality safe
- Develop and implement a water quality risk management plan
- Test water quality regularly when the facility is open for use
- Periodically test for disease causing microbes present in the water
- Keep record of test results and corrective actions taken on water quality
- You may receive periodic visits from a Council Health Officer to discuss the operation of your pool and how you are protecting the community from infectious diseases
Training and knowledge
There are no minimum training requirements for operators of aquatic facilities, but it is important to understand how water quality is impaired, how to maintain water quality and how to correct water quality issues. Various certificates and short courses are available for aquatic facility water quality management. On the job training and staff experience can all contribute toward your team having the necessary skills and knowledge to maintain a safe water environment.
Category 2 aquatic facilities may find more information on water quality management by speaking to their local pool supply shop or pool service agent.
It is worth your time to reflect on what level of skills and knowledge are required to keep your aquatic facility safe.
Water quality risk management plans
Changes to the regulations have also introduced a new requirement for water quality risk management plans (WQRMP) to be developed and implemented by aquatic facilities. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have developed a template that you may choose to adopt. You do not require a risk management plan in order to register but we strongly encourage you to begin developing your plan now. Our Environmental Health Officers are here to assist and support you while you develop your plan.
Access the DHHS template WQRMP here.
Resources for water quality management
For more information about environmental health please contact our office on 1300 002 642 or [email protected]
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A recent study from the University of Canterbury proclaims that depictions of violence in LEGO set catalogs and the number of weapons in LEGO products has increased significantly as the result of a metaphorical “arms race” between toy manufacturers. The article’s authors include Qi Min Ser, Elena Moltchanova, James Smithies, Erin Harrington, and Christoph Bartneck, builder of the life-sized Unikitty and author of The Ideal Order.
The study looked at LEGO sets produced between 1978 and 2014 (excluding Duplo and Junior lines) and found that nearly 30% of today’s LEGO sets contain at least one weapon brick. It also explained that the chances of observing violence in LEGO catalog pages has increased steadily by 19% each year. Currently, around 40% of all catalog pages have some type of violence. “In particular, scenarios involving shooting and threatening behaviour have increased over the years. The perception of nonverbal psychological aggression increased at a similar rate. The atmosphere of the violent acts is predominately perceived as exciting.” The study concludes that “violence in LEGO products seems to have gone beyond just enriching game play” in attempt to attract more customers.
Turning to the online LEGO community, both the photo above by Brick Police and the one below by Hammerstein NWC use LEGO minifigures and weapons to create graphic, violent scenes that may be considered offensive or unsafe for children. But these images highlight a huge oversight in the University of Canterbury’s study: builders, many of whom are adults, who want to incorporate realistic weapons into their builds cannot get them from LEGO directly. The Danish company refuses to sell such weapons even though there is a high demand for them. Instead, builders must turn to third-party companies like BrickArms, BrickWarriors, Citizen Brick, or Modern Brick Warfare to get their fix of tiny, plastic violence.
If a metaphorical “arms race” among toy manufactures truly exists, LEGO is finishing dead last. As the Canterbury study pointed out, LEGO competitor Megablocks offers sets based off violent games and films like Terminator, Call of Duty, Halo, and Assassin’s Creed, while LEGO refuses to partner with such franchises. And there are no plans for LEGO to overtake their competitors in the arms race. Mads Nipper, LEGO’s former Senior Vice President in Global Innovation in Marketing declared that “We will never produce realistic toys for playing war.”
There’s no denying the facts of the study. LEGO has included more and more weapons and scenes of violence on their products over the years, starting with the introduction the very first LEGO weapons in the 1978 Castle theme (sword, halberd, and lance) and obviously continuing with trademarked themes like Marvel and DC. But the study leaves several important questions unanswered. Should we shield children from violent toys? Is there a causation between violent toys and games during childhood and actual violent tendencies in adulthood? Should LEGO reduce the number of weapons and scenes of violence in their products? And would such a change impact customer satisfaction positively or negatively overall?
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I’ve been reading [read as: listening to the audiobook of] The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick the past few days. It is an awesome read (listen) so far. In one section he talks about language and the creation of Morse Code, or more specifically, that the letter “t” was the most used letter in the english language…or was it “e”? Either way that got me thinking about the English language. What letter came in second? Third? How many nouns and adjectives? And so forth. Now I am not the best linguist in the world (specifically struggling with punctuation, spelling, and… well, most of it) but I’m curious. So here is a little glimpse at the breakdown of the second edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. | <urn:uuid:b4a089ad-5d51-433f-a4df-d05a008ed629> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://infographicimages.com/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00072-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912355 | 183 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken over the world in such a short period of time. It has made a large impact on many different aspects of everyday life, such as health, jobs, communities, and sports. One sport season in particular that the virus has affected is the upcoming winter basketball season. Sports everywhere, especially contact sports, have been put on hold to limit the spread of the virus. Greenville University’s Men’s Basketball Coach George Barber commented on how Covid-19 will inevitably change the season. “The NCAA released several weeks ago that teams could begin the first official practice on October 1, 2020.” This is different than the usual start date of October 15. In reference to when the first games will be played, Coach Barber commented, “It’s still in the air because our first game was scheduled to be at Washington State. We were going to fly out on November 5, 2020 and play a couple of scrimmage games. We were also going to play CCIW schools around Chicago, but their administration canceled all of their non-conference games. For now, all other games are on hold.” Many teams are still figuring out what their season will look like.
Coach Barber went on to talk about other schools and how pandemic sports will work in their state. Washington State is one of the schools Greenville was scheduled to play in Washington this season. Barber explained that the state of Washington is primarily focused on people’s health. Therefore, gaining money through sports is not their top priority – the health of the residents is. This will play a part in the decision to follow through with the games. Many fans are wondering if there will be a conference championship this year. Coach Barber said, “I wish we could. There is a push for all ACC schools such as Duke, North Carolina, and Louisville to have a championship. All ACC schools have signed a form which states that they would like to have a conference season, conference tournament, and an NCAA tournament where every team is eligible. The NCAA is pushing to do a bubble as the NBA has done.” GU fans are also wondering how many games will be on the schedule this year. Barber said, “It’s 25 games in all, but it’s still yet to be determined due to the pandemic. The rule is that we can only play conference teams, and there are 8 teams in our conference. We will play each team twice, so if we only play conference teams, there will only be 16 games this season.”
The pandemic has effected everyone’s communities and everyday life, and the GU men’s basketball team is no exception. The new regulations not only affected the sports world, but all had to adapt to the new norm. Basketball has always been a way to bring the youth and communities together, and all of that has been disrupted. Hopefully, the COVID-19 curve will eventually flatten and the season can move forward as normal.
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The Woodsworth College Academic Writing Centre offers one-on-one help with all aspects of writing in all subjects, at all stages of the writing process: understanding the assignment, developing a thesis and an argument, citing sources correctly, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing.
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A number of recent reports seem to suggest that various segments of the corporate and consumer markets—perhaps even Ben Bernanke—are feeling more confident about the direction of the economy, a suggestion punctuated Wednesday by the release of Spectrem Group’s Millionaire Investor Confidence Index (SMICI), which rose to its highest level in nine months.
The SMICI, which measures monthly the confidence level of financial decision-makers in households that have $500,000 or more in investable assets, rose 6 points in February to a positive 4, which Spectrem said was its highest level since May 2011. Spectrem has been conducting research on attitudes and trends among the high-net-worth consumer for 20 years; it began publishing its Millionaire Investor Confidence Index in 2004.
George Walper (left), president of Spectrem, said in an interview Tuesday that the most important finding in the February index is that millionaires “are feeling more confident for many months in a row” and that the index is on a “nice, steady upward tick” which “gives you a pretty good sense that people are feeling better.” Millionaires, he said, tend to be more sophisticated in their view of the state of the economy, and in Spectrem’s research, the level of U.S. unemployment has been their primary issue since the 2008-2009 markets and economic crisis, so millionaires’ confidence level has risen as the jobless rate has declined.
Placing one-month’s findings into context, however, Walper points out that the confidence level of millionaires has only returned to where it was in May 2011: “It’s been V-shaped since then to now,” he said, indicating “lots of positive trending.” When asked in the February survey “What factors affect your investment portfolio?” the major concerns of millionaire respondents were international issues, the political environment, the deficit and unemployment, trailed by oil and gas prices (see chart below).
But Walper warns that the recent sharp rise in gasoline prices will affect the confidence levels of both consumers in general, such as in the Consumer Confidence Index, and of the more affluent. “Gas prices will start affecting everyday Americans pretty quickly…that’s what Main Street America relates to, which drives consumer confidence and our overall affluent index,” he argued.
More Signs of a Turnaround?
As for other indicators of a possible turnaround at least in American consumers and corporations’ confidence, if not in the actual economy, the Conference Board reported Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index, the CCI, increased in February to 70.8, compared to 61.5 in January (based on a 100 reading in 1985).
In a statement accompanying the release of the CCI, Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center, noted that the Index is now close to the 72.0 level found in February 2011. She said that consumers “are considerably less pessimistic about current business and labor market conditions than they were in January. And, despite further increases in gas prices, they are more optimistic about the short-term outlook for the economy, job prospects, and their financial situation.”
Another closely watched barometer of the economy, the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index, also improved in February. The Chicago PMI, published by the Institute for Supply Management, stood at 64.0% in February compared to 60.2 in January, its highest level since last April. New orders hit an 11-month high, according to MarketWatch, order backlogs moved out of contraction and employment had the biggest one-month gain since March 2008.
Even Ben Bernanke (left) seems to be feeling a bit more sanguine about the economy. In his semi-annual testimony on Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee, the Federal Reserve Board chairman first said that “the recovery of the U.S. economy continues, but the pace of expansion has been uneven and modest by historical standards.” He went on to say that he has seen “some positive developments in the labor market,” that “new claims for unemployment insurance benefits have also moderated,” and that the decline in the unemployment rate over the past year “has been somewhat more rapid than might have been expected.”
He also noted that “household spending advanced moderately in the second half of last year,” while warning that “the fundamentals that support spending continue to be weak,” and said positive things about housing affordability and manufacturing production growth. “Consumer sentiment,” he warned, “which dropped sharply last summer, has since rebounded but remains relatively low.” Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics commented that on the jobs issue, “Bernanke admits the Fed is perplexed about the speed of the drop in unemployment and he made the point that a rise in their estimate of the sustainable unemployment rate might require a policy response. In short, this sounds like the start of the beginning of a process.”
Politics and Confidence
So returning to the issue of consumer confidence raised by Bernanke, politics is a major issue in this primary season. Is the confidence level of wealthier Americans affected by politics, such as in the runup to this year’s Presidential election? Wolper says that up until the last 18 months or so, historically the only time that national elections have affected Spectrem’s index has been in the period from Labor Day until the election. That has changed, he says, with the political environment remaining a concern among the high net worth.
“It didn’t fall off like it usually does after a national election,” Walper pointed out. He recalled that in 2004, Spectrem’s research showed that “the election concern was over the process,” referring to the contested Presidential election of 2000 which needed to be settled by the Supreme Court. However, the political environment, which he surmised was at least as much about political deadlock in Washington as it was about Presidential politics, “remained the number two concern of respondents over the last 18 months. I don’t know if we’ll see that ratchet up” as the election nears. | <urn:uuid:c2c0b3e1-8148-4321-b9c8-c3ef35cce4b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2012/02/29/have-we-turned-the-confidence-corner-millionaires?t=economy-markets&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970297 | 1,307 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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This is the first in a series of articles that will follow the Koser family as it rebuilds after Hurricane Harvey.
The house on Turf Valley Drive in the Bear Creek neighborhood of Houston had never flooded before — not once in the 26 years since Larry and Brenda Koser had moved in, not once in the 41 years since the subdivision was built. So although the couple and two of their grown children, Matthew and Micah — had packed bug-out bags just in case, they didn’t think they would use them as Hurricane Harvey arrived.
And, at first, they didn’t. The night of Sunday, Aug. 27, was rainy, Monday morning more so. Then, by 4 in the afternoon the water was knee deep on the front lawn of the single-story home, making it impossible to use any of the cars that were parked uselessly in the driveway. So the Kosers grabbed their bags and left through their backyard, cutting a hole in their fence and wading to a nearby community center that was serving as a makeshift shelter.
Two hours later, though, the water was threatening the shelter, too, and they moved to the home of friends, and then on Tuesday morning moved again to the home of their oldest son, 44-year-old Larry Jr., who made his way to them in his truck, taking more than two hours for what is normally a 30-minute drive from his home in the town of Katy.
As wrenching as it was to flee their home, it was worse to return. On Tuesday afternoon, Larry and Larry Jr. borrowed kayaks and paddled back to Bear Creek, where water nearly covered the mailboxes and almost lapped the roofs of cars. Reaching the house on Turf Valley Drive, they floated through the front door on three and a half feet of water. When they returned the next day it was almost a foot higher, owing to the controlled release from a nearby dam by the Army Corp of Engineers.
The house beneath all that water had long been “the heart of everything” for the family, Larry Jr. said. “This is where everybody gets together. Now you come here in a kayak and you’re floating around in a house, and all your belongings are just kind of floating around. To see everything like that, it’s surreal. It’s just sad.”
Photographer Erich Schlegel was paddling by as the Kosers first entered and came back again during the next few days as the water began to recede. He plans to return regularly over the months to chronicle what it takes to rebuild the lives of one of the thousands of families upended by Harvey. This is the first installment of what will likely be a yearlong project for Schlegel — chronicling the story of one typical family among thousands. No one story can stand for all, however. “There are people who have it a lot better, and there are people who have it a lot worse,” Larry Jr. says.
In the early visits, he says, the goal was to “salvage a few little treasures for each person,” necessarily small and light because that was all the kayak could carry. Photo albums. Passports. Documents from the safe. The purse that 19-year-old Micah had left on her bed, and some of the most recent canvases she had painted, which she had propped atop a tall dresser.
At one point a pocketknife floated by, and Larry Sr. felt something that was almost happiness. “My son had given that to me on my retirement,” he says. (His career had been as a speech pathologist.) He’d lost it soon after, and “I had turned that freaking couch over, I don’t know how many times, trying to find it because I knew it was in here. I knew it was in the house, I just couldn’t find it, and I couldn’t bear to tell him that I had lost the knife.” Harvey had found it for him.
Once it became possible to drive up to the house, the real work began — hauling out furniture and belongings, creating a pile 8 feet high on the front lawn. Yanking out the Sheetrock down to the studs. Bringing in fans and dehumidifiers. Treating everything with peroxide to fight mold.
They are all bunking at Jr.’s three-bedroom, two-bath, 2,100-square-foot home in Katy. The youngest son, 22-year-old Matthew, takes the couch. Their biggest challenge is getting around the sprawl of Houston without any of their four cars, which were all destroyed in their driveway. All four were paid for, and they carried only liability insurance, so the adjuster has offered them just $900 total. For the moment they are borrowing from family and friends.
The insurance on the house was also insufficient. The house too is paid for, and they had flood insurance, but only up to $100,000 for the building and $40,000 for the contents, far short of what it will take to replace. And even were they to bring the house back to livable condition, Larry Sr. says he is not certain he would want to move back in.
“I’m not sure what we’re going to do with regards to living in it,” he says. “Maybe we will rent it or sell it, assuming I can do either of those, but I don’t know whether I want to go back there.”
He fears that by returning he risks re-losing it all, should the impossible happen twice. “It’s disheartening to see all the contents of your life lying ruined in a pile outside,” he says. “I can’t go through that again.”
For the moment he is trying to focus on what he has — the photographs taken gingerly from their albums, wiped off with antiseptic and dried on the floor; the few pairs of underwear, pants and shorts that he carried in his bug-out bags; the gifts of more clothing from church groups and friends; and his good fortune in having a bedroom to sleep in.
“We’ll get through this,” he says. “We’ll be a stronger family.” He reminds himself that there are others who are struggling more than he is, saying “I was blessed I had someplace to go.”
And in about a month there will be something to celebrate — Larry Jr. is getting married. His father sees that as both a blessing and a looming complication. “We don’t want to upset the newlyweds,” he says. “You want to have some kind of privacy when you are just married. I’m not sure where we’re going to go after the wedding.”
His son assumes they will stay. “It’s not a new relationship, we’ve been dating for 12 years,” says Larry Jr. “We really don’t need the privacy. Family comes first.”
“He’ll probably try to move out and we’ll try to keep him there as long as we can. I can’t imagine what it feels like for him, to be recently retired and then to watch everything you built, everything you had, just completely gone.”
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According to reports, Ujaas Energy has bagged a Rs 13.35 crore order from the ministry of new and renewable energy for setting up a 1.75 mw roof top solar panel installation at four cities.
Solar Energy Corporation of India ( SECI), a division of MNRE invited bids for setting up roof top installation in Hyderabad (250 KW), Bhubaneswar (500 KW), Jaipur (500 KW) and Noida/Greater Noida (500 KW).
The company intends to set up these power generation equipment on educational institutions, IT Parks and big industrial roofs the company and it will be executed within 6 months.
The performance of these plants will be directly monitored by the utility and the ministry. The company is also a SP 2A rated company and is an accredited channel partner of MNRE with superior ranking as a system integrator for the off grid and decentralized solar projects under JNNSM.
Ujaas Energy is one of the first companies to install a solar power plant under renewable energy certificate (REC) mechanism in March 2012. The company has started setting up an innovative offering called as ‘UJAAS Park ‘, that provides complete plug & play solution to the investor for putting up a solar power plant at an affordable cost in time.
The services include land identification, registration, EPC, O&M, power sale, identifying third party buyer, REC trading etc.
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Expert Group in support of implementation of the framework for action on Black Carbon and Methane
The expert group was established at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Iqaluit 24 April 2015. The objective of the expert group is to periodically assess progress of the implementation of the Arctic Council’s Framework for Action on Black Carbon and Methane, and to inform policy makers from Arctic states and for participating Arctic Council Observer states. This includes preparing, on a once every two-year cycle of the Arctic Council chairmanship, a high level “Summary of Progress and Recommendations” report, with appropriate conclusions and recommendations.
Ecosystem-Based Management Expert Group
The Ecosystem-Based Management expert group, which started its work in 2011, has developed four background documents and a final report addressing the group’s recommendations, which include a policy commitment, a definition of EBM in the Arctic, a set of principles for EBM in the Arctic, and a set of high-priority activities for coordinating and improving the EBM work of the Arctic Council. Examples include the need to develop an overarching EBM goal for the Arctic Council, implement international EBM initiatives, and ensure coordination and reporting for EBM activities of the Arctic Council and its working groups. The Expert Group concluded its work by delivering its final report to the Kiruna Ministerial Meeting in May 2013. | <urn:uuid:c69de6bb-6183-4f68-8359-30c68324d99c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://arctic-council.org/index.php/en/about-us/subsidiary-bodies/expert-groups | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925925 | 278 | 1.882813 | 2 |
But How Do I Give a Reading Grade?
I have heard this question many times during the past several months. I have been working with a number of teachers who are in various phases of implementing a workshop approach for reading and/or writing. Most of us who have moved to a workshop approach have at some point asked this question and have had to reconcile doing what we know is best for kids and fulfilling our obligation to report to parents and administrators where kids stand.
When I am asked this question, I usually begin by clarifying the difference between assessing and evaluating our students. For me, assessment takes place every minute of the day as I observe my students, listen to them, confer with them, watch them interact with text and other students, read what they have written, etc., etc. I assess to inform my teaching and to guide my instruction. Evaluation happens when I put a value judgment on the assessments I have made. How do I come up with a grade? I wish I could tell you that I have this magic formula into which I plug a bunch of numbers and out comes a grade. It doesn’t work that way. The best I can tell you is that when I am diligent about observing and taking anecdotal notes on my students in every area of their reading development (sight words, fluency, retellings, book chats, partner discussions, written response logs, reading logs, at-home reading, etc.), I have a clear picture of where each child’s strengths and weaknesses are and it is much easier to give a report card grade. You can read about about some of my assessment tools by clicking here.
In addition to my tools, I want to share with you a book that I just purchased. When a teacher shared it at a recent workshop, I knew I had to have it, so I came home and immediately ordered it. It is called Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop Making Informed Instructional Decisions in Grades 3-6 by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak. When I saw who the authors were, I knew I would like this book—they are the authors of Beyond Leveled Books and Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6. When the book arrived just a few days later, I immediately began reading it. Here is how chapter 1 begins:
“Good teaching begins with knowing our students. We can teach wisely and well when we have taken the time to understand them, think about what they need, and plan ways to move them toward independence. We need to know them as learners and as human beings. And, of course, as teachers of reading, we also need to know them as readers.”
That’s all I needed to read to know that this would be my kind of book. It is filled with numerous authentic assessment tools, and yes, the authors even share how they translate all of these assessments into grades.
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New study: we're not getting enough vitamin D
Official vitamin D recommendations are way too low, and Scandinavians are not getting anywhere near enough vitamin D.
Cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, poor semen quality, depression, and osteoporosis.
There seems to be no limit to the illnesses that vitamin D can affect.
Even though knowlegde connecting low levels of vitamin D with severe health issues is available, people are still getting far too little of the vital vitamin.
According to a new study that reviewed all the latest studies on vitamin D, Scandinavians need much more vitamin D than the health authorities have been recommending.
10 µg of vitamin D reduces mortality
Approximately ten per cent of the Danish population have extremely low levels of vitamin D.
Their levels are so low that they risk developing weak bones.
For this reason, the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations have been changed, now recommendning that people get 10 µg of vitamin D a day instead of the previous 7.5 µg.
"Vitamin D is a hot topic at the moment,” says Professor Inge Tetens from the National Food Institute at Denmark's Technical University (DTU), who sits in the working group under the Nordic Council of Ministers that is responsible for updating the Nordic nutrition recommendations.
"The review of the latest studies shows that people in Scandinavia need to get more vitamin D from their diet than recommended by the previous working group,” says Tetens.
The literary review that lead to this conclusion was assessed by nutrition researchers from Finland, Norway, and Iceland.
It consists of a systematic review of 1,706 studies published between 2000 and 2010 on the correlation between vitamin D, status, and health effects.
The review concludes that:
10 µg of vitamin D per day is necessary if health promotional effects are to be achieved for people resident in the Nordic Region, where the sun does not shine for much of the year.
There is solid evidence that adequate doses of vitamin D strengthens the bones and reduces overall mortality in the population.
It is likely that vitamin D also has a beneficial effect on the muscles.
There are signs, that vitamin D can help prevent cancer, diabetes and obesity.
"Much of our vitamin D requirement is covered by the Sun but in the Nordic countries the Sun doesn't shine very much for most of the year. Which is why we need more vitamin D through our diet," says Tetens.
Professor: upping the recommendation makes sense
One of Denmark's leading scientists in the field of vitamin D research is associate professor Lars Rejnmark from Aarhus University's Department of Clinical Medicine. He is not surprised by the new study's conclusions and applauds the fact that vitamin D recommendations have now been updated.
"It's indeed sensible to increase the recommended dose as vitamin D deficiency is common in Denmark, especially during the winter months," says Rejnmark.
Furthermore, Rejnmark is not surprised by the discovery that current evidence regarding the effects of vitamin D deficiency on diseases like cancer and diabetes is ambigious.
However, he pushes for more public awareness.
"I do agree that there's not yet sufficient evidence for us to state publicly that people should take vitamin D to help prevent cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease," he says.
Recommendations are not enough
Although Rejnmark appreciates that the Nordic recommendation has been increased, he emphasises that the health authorities' recommendations are not enough to have an effect on the amount of vitamin D people consume.
A report from 2010 shows that the Danes consume less than half of the 7.5 µg recommended by the authorities.
“Changing the recommendations doesn't make any difference,” says Rejnmark.
Instead people should get sun exposure a few minutes every day and eat fatty fish, such as salmon or mackerel a couple of times a week.
"A hundred grams of fish can contain as much as 25 µg a vitamin D, so if you eat fish a couple of times a week you're pretty much covered," says Rejnmark. "But you should be aware that farmed salmon often only contains a third of the vitamin D found in wild salmon."
Rejnmark believes that foods should be enriched with vitamin D in the same way as iodine is added to salt to ensure that people get what they need.
"If we're to take the Nordic nutritional recommendations seriously, I think we should consider enriching certain foods with vitamin D," says Rejnmark.
Translated by: Louisa Field
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Nactabaeus אחרון מלכי יהודה
Italian: Nactabaeus Re di Giuda
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About Nactabaeus, Pharaoh of Egypt (Fictitious Person)
Another thought about Nactabaeus.... (Covers the other options names for Scota's father's name - same person, although the names are very different depending on the source):
Scota was the daughter of Egyptian Pharaoh Smenkhkare. Smenkhkare was known by several other names and spellings of his own name. These include Smenkhkara, Smenkhkaron, Achencheres or Akenkeres (the Greek form, used in Manetho’s Egyptian King List), Cencheres (the version used by the Christian church-father Eusebius), and Cinciris or Cingeris (from early Gaelic history).
Kheperkare Nakhtnebef, better known with his hellenized name Nectanebo I, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, founder of the last native dynasty of Egypt, the thirtieth.
Nectanebo was an army general from Sebennytos, son of an important military officer named Teos (hellenization of the Egyptian name Djedhor). A stele found at Hermopolis provides clues that he came to power by overthrowing, and possibly putting to death, the last pharaoh of the 29th Dynasty Nepherites II. It has been suggested that Nectanebo was assisted in the coup by the Athenian general Chabrias. Nectanebo carried out the coronation ceremony in c. 379/8 BCE in both Sais and Memphis, and shifted the capital from Mendes to Sebennytos.
The relationships between Nectanebo and the pharaohs of the previous dynasty are not entirely clear. He showed little regard for both Nepherites II and his father Achoris, calling the former inept and the latter an usurper. He seemed to have had a higher regard for Nepherites I; this king has been considered to be Nectanebo's father or grandfather, although it is now believed that this view was due to a misinterpretation of the Demotic Chronicle. However, it has been suggested that both Achoris and Nectanebo may have been Nepherites I's relatives in some way.
Nectanebo had two known sons: Teos, who was his appointed successor, and Tjahapimu.
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- Walking is one of the best ways to improve and maintain our health.
- But to achieve these benefits, we don't have to stretch ourselves to do 10 000 steps a day.
- Research shows that even a two-minute walk can activate benefits that lessen our risk of developing diabetes.
You may be all too familiar with the health and well-being benefits of a daily stroll. From increasing your energy levels to strengthening your heart, lifting your mood and helping you enjoy a longer life, there are many reasons to get moving.
Experts have also long made a case for taking a walk after we eat. Apart from improving digestion, research shows that a post-meal walk can help control blood sugar spikes, which can help offset complications such as type 2 diabetes.
One study found that in older adults at risk for type 2 diabetes, walking on a treadmill for 15 minutes after their meal led to smaller blood sugar spikes in the hours afterwards.
But, it turns out that two minutes is all you need to activate these benefits - though a more extended walk will yield better benefits.
According to a new study, a two to five-minute light-intensity walk after a meal can significantly moderate your blood sugar levels.
Reporting their results in the journal Sports Medicine, the researchers suggest that "standing breaks have a small beneficial effect compared to prolonged sitting on [blood sugar levels], but walking breaks represent a superior intervention."
This may be an unsurprising result, they say. Still, their meta-analysis is the first to report such a statistically significant improvement when we interrupt our prolonged sitting with standing or walking.
Shorter walk: better benefits
In five of the studies reviewed, none of the participants had pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes, while the other two studies included participants with and without the condition.
The research team found that a few minutes of light-intensity walking after a meal were enough to significantly improve blood sugar levels compared to remaining sedentary. These benefits were even more significant when the participants went for a short walk.
The diabetes burden, globally and in SA
Adults as young as 20 live with diabetes globally, and more than 540 million adults are at risk of developing type 2, says the International Diabetes Federation. The illness claims more than six million lives each year and is the leading cause of death in women.
In South Africa, diabetes affects approximately 4.5 million people, largely due to excess body weight and physical inactivity, writes researchers at the University of Pretoria. It’s safe to say then that these findings have tremendous relevance for populations worldwide.
What about the 10 000 steps a day mantra?
Forget 10 000 steps - recent studies have offered a fresh perspective on the "need" for that many steps per day, which likely originated from a 1960s marketing campaign, to achieve health benefits.
While there is a lack of robust evidence to back up the impact of taking 10 000 steps a day on our health, reliable research has shown that, on average, around 4 400 daily steps - which most of us can cover in just over 30 minutes - may be enough to significantly lower the risk of death, particularly for women. These benefits may level off at around 7 500 daily steps.
READ MORE | Do we really need to walk 10 000 steps a day?
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This section summarizes previous research on the distributional impacts of policies, industrial changes, and situations. In assessing situations, we can only examine correlations or associations because causality between forests, forest-based industries and distribution has not been determined.
Impact of a project or situation can be assessed by assuming individuals maximize utility consisting of physical, amenity, financial/economic, and institutional/social factors (Xu 1994). Impacts on groups divided by age, generation, income, geography, place in the production chain (producers or consumers) and race can all be assessed. In this discussion, we focus on financial and economic impacts on groups divided by geography (urban/rural), race, and income class, largely because these are what previous studies have addressed.
Previous analyses of distributional impacts in forestry have focused on the (1) public land harvests and (2) tree planting programs (Boyd and Hyde, Wear and Hyde, Berck and others). In addition, several analyses of the impacts of changes in the industry (products of technology) have been conducted (Xu 1994, Alavalapati and others 1999, Marcouiller and others 1995). Other studies have assessed the association between forests, rural communities, and the economic benefits derived from forests, including tourism and wood products (English and others 2000, Bliss and others (undated), Bliss and others 1994, Lee and Cubbage 1994).
Rural communities are worse off generally than more urban communities. This disparity is attributed to a lack of human and human-made capital, even in the presence of a wealth of natural capital (Beaulieu and others). Social capital and other community attributes can also influence well-being in rural communities (Bliss and others (undated), Force and others 2000). A community needs a balance of many kinds of capital in order to thrive. Forests in the South are a major component of the region's natural capital, but forests are often associated with the absence of human and human-made capital (Joshi and others). Forests are unlikely causes for lower economic well-being, but the negative associations and correlations between well-being and forests have been well documented (Bliss and others 1994, Bliss and others undated, Lee and Cubbage 1994). Berck and others (1992) found that problems in rural communities resulted more from remote locations and subsequent transportation costs than from specific forest products industries. Using simulation, they found that maximizing the diversity of the rural community or replacing wood products with other manufacturing sectors did not improve the economic well-being of the community.
Use of private forests for timber and recreation production, however, does have potentially undesirable distributional consequences. Because forestland is owned by middle and upper income households, revenue from uses will go to these households (Marcouiller and others 1995). Subsequent wood processing, however, will lead to benefits for lower income households through increases in well-paid job opportunities (Alavalapati and others 1999). In contrast, increasing recreation production is likely to produce lower paying jobs locally, with the returns to capital accumulating to higher income households elsewhere. Adding race in to the mix (rural, forested, and large minority populations) makes it harder to correct problems of lower human and human-made capital and often exacerbates the regressive distributional effects of rural, forested locations (Bliss and others 1994). Changes in the nature of the wood products sectors can also have distribution impacts. In modeling an expansion of the pulp and paper sector (Alavalapati and others 1999) found that higher income households benefited, while a decline in the lumber sector hurt higher income households more than lower income households.
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Title: National Rural and Family Magazine (Chicago, Ill. : 1898) Alternate Title: City: Chicago, Illinois Country: United States Frequency: Weekly Language: English Subject/Audience: Agriculture Notes: Continues: Western Rural and Live Stock Weekly (Chicago, Ill. : 1896).
Absorbed by: Farmer's Voice (Chicago, Ill. : 1887).
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Format: Microfilm Call Number: FILM071.731C434we Location: History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library. 246 Main Library Notes: Preservation microfilmed by UIUC Library as part of the United States Newspaper Program. Reel 9-11. Some issues are missing.
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"Fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change. Their use is often advantageous because the Italian Government provides generous subsidies to these polluting and climate-changing sources, but this happens all over the world. 16 billion euros were granted by the Italian Government, directly and/or indirectly, to the oil&gas sector in the last year. Among the direct subsidies we find, for example, the exemption, for a certain amount of gas and oil, from the payment of royalties, which between 2017 and 2018 concerned about 30% of extracted gas and about 10% of oil, making the research and extraction of hydrocarbons in Italian territories and seas profitable."
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Receiving that ‘Congratulations…’ email after weeks of applications, interviews and stress can be a huge rush. You spring out of bed buzzing with energy, get to the office an hour…
It goes without saying that preparation for a job interview is essential to its success. Interviews can creep up on you and just like exams, good prep and planning is key if you want to pass! We’ve collated five tips we believe are essential to the interview planning process. While some of these might seem obvious, bear with us… Interviews aren’t a regular occurrence for most and it’s important not to forget the key steps.
It doesn’t matter what level a role it is you’re applying for, the planning process should be the same. Interviewers will expect it from every prospective interviewee so if you don’t plan, it’s quite possible you’ll risk losing out.
1. Write down your responses to the most common interview questions
Think about a 2-3 minute response that you can deliver comfortably. We find it helps to write them down as it further etches the details in your mind, however whatever works best for you in terms of memorising is fine! Questions such as ‘Tell us about yourself’ or ‘Walk us through your CV’ are good ones to have up your sleeve. It’s important to be able to talk comfortably about yourself with quiet confidence. No one has a perfect career history, so don’t worry too much about gaps in your CV or a stint of short-term roles. If you can talk through this period as a narrative without being too defensive, that’s absolutely fine.
2. Read the job and person specification
It goes without saying that you should research the business and familiarise yourself with any recent news stories relating to them. Equally, look at the skills and competencies listed on the job spec and link them to your corresponding traits and experiences. You want to be able to find examples in your experience that demonstrate the skills they’re looking for. Someone who is hiring an executive assistant, for example, might ask the question ‘How would you describe your organisational skills?’ Consider the two following responses. Which is the most impressive?
• ‘My organisation is quite good. In my last position I was asked to re-organise the digital filing system for the office. It was a big project but it really honed my attention to detail and enhanced my organisational skills significantly. Organisation is key to my day-to-day life now, in my personal life as well as at work!’
• ‘My organisational skills are very good.’
3. Think about the trickier questions
Some of the trickier questions might include ‘What are your weaknesses?’ or ‘Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?’ While in their own right these aren’t hard questions to answer (you could probably answer them right now without blinking), the secret in an interview environment is to respond with a positive nod to your prospective employer. For example, if one weakness is shyness, you could mention that while you can be a little shy, you’re working on it by making a conscious effort to initiate conversation with at least one new person every day.
4. It’s a two-way street
An interview is a two-way conversation and is an opportunity for you to ask questions too! While for the bulk of the interview they’ll likely steer the general direction and tone, don’t be afraid of asking questions along the way and encouraging more of a conversation. Questions relating to opportunities for progression, the culture of the team and management style are all valid. You could even ask the interviewer how they feel about working there.
5. Shine your shoes
General presentation is incredibly important. It does matter and it affords you the opportunity to demonstrate your professionalism. Keep your hair neat, make up minimal and always dress as professionally as possible – even if they have a casual dress policy. Work out where you’re going ahead of time so that you don’t experience anxiety about being late. We would recommend getting to the destination early and sitting down for a coffee nearby to relax. Take along copies of your CV with the job description and read them through over a latte.
After the interview, feel free to follow up to thank the interviewers for their time but keep the contact limited to that. Many businesses have a policy whereby they don’t give feedback before a set date. Of course, if you haven’t heard anything back from them before then, feel free to follow up again. If you’re super organised, write down the questions (and your responses) from the interview. It will inform your prep next time around!
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QUEENS — In early December, Pat Morgan went to the window of her Rego Park apartment, thinking she was seeing snow falling.
But she soon noticed that the falling objects were feathers instead.
“I wondered — did the squirrels get a hold of a pillow on a fire escape?” said Morgan, 56, a retiree who lives at 65th Avenue and 99th Street. “Then I heard a whoosh, thump and saw that wingspan.”
The feathers were not from a pillow, but from a bird being eaten by a rare hawk. After his meal, the raptor perched on a nearby tree.
Morgan said she grabbed her camera and took dozens of pictures “until I got the one of him looking right at me.”
“I was scared looking into those eyes because he seemed rather stern,” Morgan said. “He was beautiful.”
She sent her photos to New York City Audubon, where officials told her the bird was a Cooper's Hawk, a species seldom seen in this area.
“Of the raptors that nest in the city they are the rarest,” said Glenn Phillips, executive director of NYC Audubon.
Cooper’s Hawks can be recognized by their striped orange-and-white bellies and relatively long tail with dark bands. They are also smaller than the more common Red-tailed Hawks, Phillips said.
During Audubon's 2012 Christmas count, three Cooper’s Hawks were spotted in Queens, according to Phillips. During the same count, 21 Red-tailed Hawks were seen in the borough.
Cooper's Hawks usually live in forests, Phillips said. “Mostly they just migrate through the city, they don’t stop and breed,” he said, predicting that the Rego Park hawk will probably leave in another six to eight weeks.
Morgan said she sees the hawk, which she named Rego, about once a week.
Other residents had mixed reactions to their new neighbor.
Yvonne Cohn, a retiree who lives in the same building as Morgan, saw the hawk about two weeks ago when she was walking her dog.
“It went down, picked up a pigeon and peeled it,” she said. On her way back, she said, she saw a couple of bones and a pigeon’s head beneath the tree.
“I felt sorry for the bird, but that’s nature,” she said, adding that she was afraid the bird could attack her dog.
Phillips said that Cooper’s Hawks feed mainly on other smaller birds, unlike Red-tailed Hawks, which prefer squirrels and rats.
“I haven’t seen Mourning Doves recently,” said Morgan, who suspects they may have been the victims of Rego’s appetite.
Rego, she said, can sit for hours almost without moving, which experts said it typical for Cooper's Hawks.
Phillips said Cooper's Hawks will eat almost an entire bird, including its bones, and then need time to digest their prey. During that time, “if they don’t have to fly, they don’t,” Phillips said.
Raptors, which are attracted to the city by the abundance of food, have been increasingly common in the area, residents said. According to New York City Audubon, there are hawks nesting in nearby Corona Park and a Peregrine Falcon living in the Lefrak City complex.
Steven Feldman, 23, a journalism student who lives at 64th Road and 99th Street in Rego Park, said he spotted a number of hawks in the neighborhood in the past year.
Last summer, he said, a Red-tailed Hawk landed on his air-conditioning unit “looking really intensely at my kitten.” Feldman said ever since then he has not allowed his cats to go out on the terrace.
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Amenities and the labor earnings function
I was unable to copy/paste the abstract, but the paper argues that amenities exert an important effect on wage differentials over space. Indeed, we show that as much has half of the apparent effect of unionization on wages is actually compensation for less desirable climate in locations that are most unionized.
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[EN] The Ashburn Data Center Building Boom Hits New Heights
Two new data centers being built by Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) in Ashburn. The tenant is rumored to be Amazon Web Services. (Photo: Rich Miller)
October 6, 2016
To visualize how fast cloud computing is growing, take a drive along the eastern end of Gloucester Parkway here in Ashburn. A year ago, the south side of the road was an open field. Now the view is dominated by three huge new data centers that will house servers for Amazon Web Services. Behind this row of server farms is land that has been prepared for a major data center campus for Equinix. This is just the tip of the iceberg. In Ashburn, there are data centers being built almost everywhere you look.
Along the east side of Loudoun County Parkway, Digital Realty is moving dirt for a massive expansion of its Ashburn campus. Around the corner rises the sturdy cement framework of the future ACC9 data center being built by DuPont Fabros Technology. Make another turn, and you encounter signs for a pending 2 million square foot project from RagingWire. Drive a little further, and you pass by the construction for the first phase of Intergate.Ashburn, a major new data center campus for Sabey Data Centers.
Ashburn is the Internet’s boom town. It sits atop the world’s densest intersection of fiber networks, making it an ideal location to store and distribute data. It is unique in its connectivity, and its data center are laying the physical foundation of the digital economy.
Yet the current pace of construction is remarkable, even for Ashburn. And there’s more in the pipeline. Industry sources say three more data center companies will soon enter the Northern Virginia market, who will all move quickly to build new facilities.
Building for The Clouds to Come
Not everyone yearns for a horizon filled with data centers. But Americans want the Internet, and they want it all the time, everywhere they are. The growth of Internet infrastructure is driven by an insatiable demand for real-time news, sports, music and video – an ocean of data that will soon extend to virtual reality, self-driving cars and the Internet of Things (IoT).
As such, Ashburn is on the front lines of America’s relationship with the physical Internet. The data centers that dominate Ashburn’s commercial landscape lack the flashy logos seen on most corporate corridors. But behind these nondescript facades live hundreds of thousands of servers for Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn and virtually every other major web property.
The construction sites dotting the landscape are a leading indicator of the clouds to come. But Ashburn also offers an important window into how industry, government and communities handle the transition to a world with more data centers in more places. And that world is coming, sooner than you think.
A Unique Location for Data
Why is Ashburn, which lies about 30 miles west of Washington in Loudoun County, such an important site? It was home to MAE-East, the Internet’s first major interconnection point. A startup called Equinix built its first data center in Ashburn in 1998, providing a “carrier-neutral” facility where companies’ networks could tap into Internet backbones. The Equinix campus quickly become the Web’s busiest meeting place, creating a powerful network effect in which each new connection adds to the value of its digital ecosystem. Loudoun County is home to more than 60 data centers, with 6 million square feet of data center space and another 4 million square feet under development. Nearby Prince William County says it hosts an additional 2 million square feet of data centers.
“We’re in a very unique location that brought together the right elements at the right time,” said Jim Leach, Vice President of Marketing at RagingWire Data Centers, which operates two data centers in Ashburn.
That’s why data center projects are old hat. Buddy Rizer, the Executive Director of Economic Development in Loudoun County, likes to say that there’s been a data center under construction in the county every day for as long as he can remember.
But the current flurry of construction goes beyond business as usual. Data center growth is driven by a major societal shift to digital delivery of information and services. This trend has accelerated with the emergence of cloud computing, which is allowing data to move out of corporate IT closets and server rooms and into highly-efficient server farms operated by Internet titans like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Data center developers are scrambling to keep up.
“We’ve doubled down here,” said Donough Roche, the VP of Global Sales Engineering for Digital Realty. “It’s driven by our customers. Ashburn is the first mega-cluster. We’re seeing that pattern start to develop in other parts of the world as well.”
There’s more on the way. “There will be three new entries coming into the market very soon,” said Rizer, the point man for data center recruitment in Loudoun.
Rizer wasn’t at liberty to name the companies, but other industry sources say they have also heard three new players are on the way. New arrivals tend to build quickly, as was the case with CyrusOne, which opened its first data center in nearby Sterling in late 2014, and has completed two huge facilities, with its third and fourth data centers under construction already.
How big is the demand? In 2015, which was a boom year, Northern Virginia added 62 megawatts of data center capacity, according to Allen Tucker, Managing Director at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). This year demand has jumped, with 105 megawatts of space under construction and another 40 megawatts of capacity set to kick off before the end of 2016. That’s a total of 145 megawatts, or more than double the 67 megawatts in 2015.
JLL predicts that cloud adoption will double the size of the data center industry over the next five years. “Leasing activity is hotter than ever in the multi-tenant data center space, with cloud demand fueling much of the momentum,” JLL writes.
The Economic Benefits of the Digital Shift
What does 145 megawatts of new data center capacity mean to the economy? Leading data center developers spend $5 million to $8 million per megawatt to build new server farms. If you calculate using the middle of that range, 140 MW works out to an investment of $942 million in construction.
“This is an economic engine that’s viable and meaningful for the state of Virginia,” said Tucker.
That’s not even counting the servers and storage that lives inside the data centers. Since 2009, DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) and its customers have invested more than $3.3 billion at its Ashburn Corporate Campus. DFT and other data center companies receive exemptions for sales and use taxes if they invest more than $150 million in computer equipment and software.
Virginia recently extended those economic incentives through 2035, ensuring that the state can keep pace in an increasingly competitive environment for large data center projects.
Incentives Prompt Debate
Incentives for data centers have become a hot button issue in some states, with taxpayers and legislators questioning the value of perks for giant tech companies. The city of West Jordan, Utah recently sought to offer tax breaks Facebook for a huge data center project. But county and state boards balked at the size of the incentives, and Facebook opted for a site in New Mexico.
At least 23 states now have specially tailored incentives for data centers, most of which have been enacted or updated in the past five years, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.
Virginia has seen a strong return on its investment in data center incentives, according to an economic impact study by Mangum Economics, a Richmond-based research firm. That’s particularly true in northern Virginia. For every dollar in county expenditures, the data center sector provided approximately $9.50 in tax revenue to Loudoun County, and approximately $4.30 in tax revenue to Prince William County, the study concluded.
The first phase of Intergate.Ashburn, the new data center campus from Sabey Data Centers, is under construction. (Photo: Rich Miller)
The data center industry employed 12,533 workers in Virginia in 2014, with an average annual income of $105,942 per year. The industry “is a fast growing sector, that pays high wages, and those wages are rising at a rate that far outstrips the norm for Virginia’s economy,” Mangum noted.
That’s not true of the entire state. A recent article in The New York Times examined a huge Microsoft cloud campus in southern Virginia that appears to have provided little visible economic impact beyond temporary construction jobs. The tiny town of Boydton (population 400) illustrates that not all locales benefit from data center investments in a similar fashion. (It should be noted that The Times’ selection of Boydton as its test case may say more about the paper’s attitude towards the data center industry than the economic benefits of cloud campuses; other rural towns have had different experiences, which we’ll examine in future stories at Data Center Frontier).
Noise, Facades Prompt Discussion
Even with the local economic benefits, there have been some tensions in the relationship between Ashburn’s data center cluster and its neighbors. In 2013, residents showed up at local meetings to complain about the proximity of data centers to housing developments, noise from diesel backup generators, and the lack of aesthetic appeal of the facilities.
Loudoun County has navigated these disputes, which can easily become divisive, with some success. A factor in this is the presence of Rizer, who is widely hailed for his strong working relationship with the data center industry, but is also committed to striking a balance between commerce and quality of life in Loudoun.
So everyone talked. Members of the Loudoun zoning board met with data center executives as well as representatives of the affected residential communities. The discussion sought to balance the importance of the data center industry to the local economy and the quality of life concerns voiced by local residents.
In April 2014, the Loudoun Board of Supervisors passed a measure that made data centers a “by right” permitted use in specific areas, providing clarity on future development. The board also created guidelines on screening around equipment yards, as well as improvements to data center facades to improve their appearance. The board also said it would work more closely with data center operators on enforcing current ordinances on noise.
“(Data centers) are great users in the county, but it does come with the price of people having to look at these buildings,” Vice Chairman Shawn Williams told InsideNoVa. “Can we at least ask the people who are making a lot of money on these buildings to make them not look like an eyesore?”
Tag Greason is an EVP of Sales at QTS Data Centers, and also well acquainted with local politics as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Greason notes that data centers don’t place many burdens on the roads or schools.
“A lot of residents see this and say ‘oh, there’s another big ugly building,” said Greason. “What they don’t recognize is that all that revenue (from data centers) comes with very little burden. The average citizen doesn’t quite get that.”
More recently, the Loudoun board took a different approach with data center development along Route 50 in southern Loudoun County, reclassifying data centers as a “special exception use” rather than a permitted use in the commercial light industry zone. This effectively means that data center proposals in that area will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The move is a response to resident concerns about additional power lines needed to support the projects, as well as proximity to residential development.
The Road Ahead: The Metro is Coming
Data centers aren’t the only growth story in Ashburn. In coming years, a new Metro transit station will be built by the Dulles Greenway, near the current Digital Realty data center campus. The extension of the subway will create new possibilities for development in the area, prompting fresh demand for land around the station. Data center companies are keenly aware of the value of real estate in Loudoun County.
“Land is one of the key issues, but it’s not necessarily the cost,” said RagingWire’s Leach. “It’s the availability of land in a data center market that’s crucial.”
Another of the three new data centers being built by COPT, reportedly for Amazon Web Services (Photo: Rich Miller)
In recent months the surge in cloud demand has prompted a land grab around Ashburn, as data center developers have moved to lock down available properties to ensure room to grow as the building boom continues.
“The race for potential development sites has made land scarce, particularly in the area immediately around Ashburn,” noted William Hall, the Director of Data Center Research for Cushman & Wakefield, in a recent report. “Demand in the Northern Virginia market has prompted developers to compete to acquire available development sites in the region.”
“One of the things that I worry about is that the value of the data center is so much higher than all other use cases,” said Aaron Sawchuck, founder and chairman of Colospace. “Will the shopping centers be torn down to make way for a data center?”
Greason of QTS said developers will have to make the most efficient use of existing real estate, building taller and denser projects. This trend is already seen at Google, which is building four-story data centers, as well as in Silicon Valley, where developers in Santa Clara – traditionally home to single-story data centers – are now building two-story and three-story facilities.
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Shoulder to Overhead Barbell Warm-Up
Video by Gaje McDaniel
There are many ways to prepare our shoulders for overhead movements as we saw in Monday’s post. Dynamic, static and banded stretching are great ways to start warming up prior to grabbing a barbell. When we choose to finally warm-up with a barbell, it’s important to implement technique as we warm up.
This is a very simple drill and is also one of my favorites. We start with three movements: strict press, push jerk and split jerk. Each time we are adding more movement to allow for all muscle groups to get their chance to warm up and prep for the movements in our training session.
The overall points of performance to note when performing this warm-up are:
- Hands remain in full grip throughout all three movements
- Keep the bar close
- Strong and fast lockout overhead
- Make every rep a quality rep
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Though transportation is always an important issue in local elections, Seattle has passed a lot of major funding initiatives on the city, regional and statewide levels in recent years. With such major votes finally in the rearview mirror, other issues are likely to get more attention this time around.
But while it’s unlikely the next Seattle mayor and City Council member will be tasked with drafting and passing a major transportation investment bill in the near future, it will be their jobs to make sure the city delivers what the voters were promised.
The top mayoral and City Council Position 8 candidates will debate transportation and housing Thursday during the Growing Seattle Forum on Transportation and Housing organized by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and a long list of supporting organizations (including Seattle Bike Blog, though I have not done much more than attend an organizing meeting). The forum starts at 5 p.m. at the Impact HUB in Pioneer Square. Erica C. Barnett of The C Is for Crank will moderate. It’s free, but you have to RSVP online to reserve a spot since it will likely fill up.
Passing good transportation funding measures is hard, but delivering on those promises is even harder. That means providing the political leadership needed to put the city’s Bicycle Master Plan on track, including difficult missing sections downtown. It means working with Sound Transit to make sure biking and walking access to stations is a major priority (like on Rainer Ave at Mt Baker and Judkins Park Stations). And it means supporting needed protected bike lanes and dedicated transit lanes even when there is pushback.
But perhaps more urgently, the next mayor and councilmember must be ready to take effective action to address our city’s housing shortage and prevent displacement of low-income residents who may not be able to afford another place to live in our city. Because while the city improves street safety and grows its network of affordable transportation options, we can’t also be pushing out people who could benefit most. Transportation is among the biggest hidden housing costs, and a strong city leader must have a clear vision about how these issues intersect.
More details from the event page:
Seattle is the fastest growing city in the nation, presenting both opportunities and challenges. How will Seattle’s next mayor and the city councilmember from district 8 lead Seattle through this time of growth and change? How will they solve our transportation and housing challenges as we experience this rapid growth? How do they see transportation, land use, and housing as being connected? How will our new leaders ensure all Seattleites have the ability to walk, bike, and take transit to where they need to go? What strategies will they implement to make living in Seattle’s beloved neighborhoods affordable to all? What does equity mean in the context of transportation and land-use decisionmaking?
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Discretionary effort is the level of effort people could give if they wanted to, but above and beyond the minimum required. Many organizations manage performance in such a way that motivates employees to do only enough to get by and avoid getting in trouble (negative reinforcement). Typically, these organizations manage by exception, providing consequences for worker’s performance only when it falls below the standard or minimum required. This approach gets immediate results, but just enough behavior to stop the threats and the potential for other negative consequences in the near future. It suppresses discretionary effort because there’s nothing in it for people to do more than the minimum required.
At Aubrey Daniels International (ADI), we understand that the only way organizations can earn discretionary effort is through the effective use of positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is any consequence that increases the probability of the behavior that it follows. The more likely that people experience positive and immediate consequences for their behavior, the more likely they will be to enjoy what they are doing and gladly go above and beyond the minimum required. People do it all the time in their personal lives. They also do it in organizations skilled in building positive reinforcement into the work itself and supporting that work process and self-reinforcement with positive reinforcement from peers, managers, and performance systems.
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When plants are happy and thriving the foliage grows above the soil while the roots grow below. If left in the same container for an extended period of time the roots can grow out of the bottom of the pot or start circling the inside of the container; they can become root bound. Eventually all thriving houseplants need to be repotted or transplanted to avoid being root bound. To check if a plant is root bound, spread your fingers over the top of soil, tip the plant upside down, and lift the container off to examine the roots. If the roots form a white mass circling the container it’s time to repot the plant. Houseplants typically respond best to transplanting in the springtime when they are starting active growth.
The first step in repotting your houseplant is to choose a new container. Whether you purchase a new container or reuse one, choose a pot that is only one to two inches larger in diameter than the current one. When reusing a pot, it's important to clean it thoroughly to avoid transferring pathogens and insects. A solution of twenty percent bleach mixed with water works well for disinfecting containers. Rinse well with plain water after scrubbing.
Next select a potting mix. Choose a good quality potting mix. Soil from the garden is not a good option as it does not provide enough drainage and has weed seeds and pathogens in it. Potting mixes are typically soilless blends with peat for moisture retention and perlite to improve drainage along with compost and fertilizer. If repotting orchids or cacti, choose a mix specifically designed for those types of plants.
Start by placing a small amount of slightly moistened potting mix in the bottom of the new container. If the drainage hole is large, place a small piece of porous landscape fabric, a coffee filter, or a small shard from a broken container over the hole to reduce the loss of potting mix through the hole while still allowing drainage.
Inspect the roots of the plant. Healthy roots are white and firm. Any that are black and mushy should be cut out and discarded. If the plant is root bound, tease the roots apart to encourage new growth. If the roots are too tightly bound, score them in a couple of places with a sharp knife. Place the plant in the new pot on top of the layer of potting mix. The plant and the top of the soil ball should be slightly below the lip of the pot, at the same level it was in the old pot. Add more potting mix to fill around the sides of the soil ball. Gently tap the pot on the potting bench to settle the soil in around the roots. Water thoroughly. If the new soil mix settles too much along the edge of the pot, add enough more to bring it level with the top of the root ball.
Keep the soil moist but don’t overwater.
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Gambling can be a highly enjoyable way to win some money, but what happens when it goes beyond being fun? If you’re struggling with a gambling habit, we have some tips to help you deal with it
Gambling is a fun and popular pastime around the world and has been for centuries. When it comes to playing at online casinos, however, it’s important to remember the implications and risks that surround such activities as well. Here at Planet 7, player safety and welfare are our highest priorities, and we take pride in being able to offer services and advice to those who may need a bit of extra support.
This is why we’re giving you an in-depth overview of the risks involved with gambling, what happens when you go too far, what prevention measures are in place, and what you can do if you or someone you know could be suffering from a gambling disorder.
How to Gamble Safely and Responsibly
Know When to Stop
Medical experts define a gambling addiction (sometimes also referred to as a gambling disorder, compulsive gambling, or pathological gambling) as an impulse-control disorder. Gambling disorders affect about 2.6% of American adults and sit in line with mental health conditions like pyromania and kleptomania.
Problem gambling does not just apply to those playing in a land-based casino either – it can affect people of all ages and come from playing online games too, like video poker, slots, roulette, blackjack, scratch cards and anything else involving monetary transactions. People who partake in online console games have been known to suffer from compulsive behavior in recent years as well, particularly in places like the UK – where the illegal trading of virtual goods is now posing a major problem for the country’s Gambling Commission.
In terms of severity, a person with a gambling problem can vary from having quite a mild habit to exhibiting a complete lack of control. Though any indication of problem should be a cause for concern, there are signs to pay close attention to if you suspect you or anyone you know may be suffering from a gambling disorder.
How to Recognize a Gambling Problem
Many online casinos implement smart protocols that can recognize unusual player behavior online; however, this is not always enough to stop it completely. According to the American Psychiatric Association, those at risk may typically show signs of:
All of these things can have serious repercussions on a person’s finances, as well as a negative impact on relationships with friends and family; even spur on other gambling issues that can develop later on in life. If any of the above seems familiar to you or could apply to someone you know, it is worth undergoing a psychological evaluation in order to determine whether there could be an actual underlying issue. This can also help rule out any other disorders or mental health conditions the person may not know about.
The causes of problem gambling are not very well defined, and research suggests that practically anyone can develop a problem. However, it is thought that a combination of genetic, biological and environmental factors can all play a part in whether a person could be at risk. To gain a better understanding of how a person could be affected, take a look at what experts consider the key contributors:
Pre-Existing Health Conditions
Family & Environment
What to Do if You Have a Problem and How to Get Treatment
Like most problems, there are ways to treat a gambling disorder. You’ll find helpful resources online and numerous places you can turn to should you suspect someone you know is struggling with a gambling problem. These include things like support groups, psychological therapy, important lifestyle changes, and revising your finances. In some instances, medication can also relieve some of the symptoms and urges associated with problem.
In addition to the above, you’ll also find independent organizations that provide support to people with gambling problems. These include www.gamblersanonymous.org and www.ncpgambling.org, both of which offer round-the-clock assistance, completely free of charge.
How You Can Help Others
Although there is no scientific or proven way to stop someone from developing a gambling problem, you can play your part by making sure the person in question is receiving all the necessary support. Don’t be afraid to talk to a professional or get treatment. Get a handle on the issue, then encourage others to do the same.
If you recognize the signs early on, you might just be able to prevent further problems down the line.
Planet 7 Casino (“the Operator”) and its related sites (“the Website”) offer you online gambling entertainment through our online gaming platform.
While most of our players gamble for entertainment purposes only, there are a small number of players who may lose control over their gaming. This is why we promote responsible gambling so players can continue to enjoy gambling safely and in moderation. Please read the following:
- Online gambling should be treated as a form of entertainment and not as a substitute for a paying job
- Always keep track of the time and money you spend gambling
- Set a reasonable limit to the amount of money and time spent gambling
- Prioritize your daily activities, like spending time with friends and family
- Never 'chase losses' or use gambling to solve financial troubles
- Don't borrow money, generate debts, or sell property in order to play
Discuss any gambling issues with your family or friends, or contact any of the support agencies below. If you find gambling is getting out of hand, there are many means of seeking help. The agencies below are available to help free of charge.
Resources for Responsible Gambling:
www.helpguide.com - Gambling disorders and problem gambling
http://www.scientificamerican.com - How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling
www.gamblersanonymous.org - 12-step program for people who have a gambling problem
www.ncpgambling.org - National Council on Problem Gambling
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The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.
The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have called martyrdom.
Or maybe I should have said, He's no better than Dick Cheney, since Cheney recently argued that some Gitmo detainees should simply be killed.
The idea that we would take detainees, charge them with capital crimes based on evidence we won't show, and then allow them to plead guilty and be executed without a trial represents the full circle breakdown of our society being a government of laws and not of men.
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clams, cockles, crabs, abalone, scallops, fish, fish eggs, octopuses
often 50 pounds and 15 feet across; sometimes larger
Japan to Alaska to Baja California
Masters of disguise
The giant Pacific octopus is an amazing creature—brainy and beautiful. The Aquarium's specimens are about six feet across, tentacle to tentacle—but that's a modest size for this species. Full-grown giant Pacific octopus often top 50 pounds, and the record was a creature weighing 200 pounds and measuring nearly 20 feet across.
They're usually reddish-pink with a delicate, veinlike pattern when you see them up close, fading to white on the underside of the tentacles. Its eight arms are covered with suction cups—2,240 of them in females, about 100 fewer in males—which give the octopus an iron grip as well as exquisite powers of taste and smell.
In our exhibit, you may have to look closely to find the octopus, as these animals can change their skin color to blend in with the rocks around them, and even this species, the largest octopus in the world, can squeeze itself into tiny, out-of-the-way spaces.
A mollusk without its shell
Octopuses are mollusks—boneless invertebrates related to clams. But they are no shell-bound mussel that lives in the mud. They're agile, smart and sneaky, armed with eight sinuous tentacles that are studded with suction cups.
An octopus is a little like a normal mollusk turned inside-out. It has a soft body, and its shell has been reduced to two small plates where its head muscles anchor, plus a powerful, parrot-like beak. Lacking a shell, octopuses protect themselves with one of the most sophisticated camouflage systems in the animal world.
Smart and solitary
Giant Pacific octopus spend most of their lives alone. They live in chilly (60 degrees Fahrenheit or colder) Pacific waters from Korea and Japan north to Alaska and south to Southern California. They live in fairly shallow, coastal waters down to depths of 330 feet or more. If you're lucky and extremely sharp-eyed you may find one in a tide pool.
Octopuses are very intelligent animals that can learn to open jars, play with toys, and interact with their handlers. Scientists long thought that animals were unlikely to evolve intelligence unless they were social (like us), so the octopus's clever, lonely life is something of a mystery.
The early days: life as a tiny octopus
The largest octopus in the world hatches from an egg the size of a rice grain. The tiny hatchlings are just over a quarter-inch long and weigh 22 milligrams (less than a thousandth of an ounce). On day one, their eight little arms already have about 14 tiny suckers each.
They drift in the surface waters eating plankton for up to three months, then settle to the seafloor weighing five grams. It takes another year for a young octopus to grow to about two pounds; a year after that it may weigh around 20 pounds and be ready to breed. Until they grow larger than about 10 pounds, life is very dangerous. Predators include lingcod, seals and sea otters—as well as mink, diving birds and other octopuses.
An octopus's garden
Adult giant Pacific octopus are stealthy hunters that eat a wide assortment of seafood, most commonly crabs, clams and other mussels. They catch their prey by surprise, using camouflage, jet propulsion and the sure grip that comes with having eight arms. With a quick bite from its hard beak, the octopus injects compounds that paralyze its prey and begin to digest its flesh. Then the octopus can return to its rocky den and settle down for a leisurely meal.
Using a hard, rough tongue called a radula, the octopus scrapes a neat hole in its prey's shell and extracts the contents. After picking it clean, the octopus discards the shell into a rubbish pile, called a midden, just outside its den. Scientists study these piles to learn about octopus diets.
Now you see me, now you don't
Like other octopuses, the giant Pacific octopus is a master of disguise due to a complex system of pigment cells, muscle fibers and nerves. Millions of elastic cells under the skin contain colored pigments. By stretching these open or squeezing them shut from moment to moment, the octopus adjusts its skin color. It can flash a warning signal or melt into the background, using its sharp eyes to match the patterns and colors of its background nearly perfectly. Experiments have shown that octopuses are color-blind, making these feats that much more mystifying.
Octopuses typically live alone, saving up energy for their one chance at mating near the end of their roughly three-year lives. Then a female chooses a male—typically one much larger than herself—and together they head for a den in deeper water (40 to 170 feet deep). A month or more after mating, the female lays 18,000 to 74,000 eggs (occasionally more), hanging them from the roof of a deep-water den in hundreds of strands of around 250 eggs each.
The mother octopus lives in the cave for up to seven months as the curtain of eggs develops, fanning the eggs with her arms or contracting her body to shoot streams of oxygen- and nutrient-rich water over them. She doesn't eat during this time and usually dies shortly after the young hatch.
Giant Pacific octopus have fairly short lives and produce lots of eggs, so their populations are naturally resilient. And even though they're popular in Asian and Mediterranean cuisine, they're not nearly as heavily fished as other seafood. So, happily, giant Pacific octopus populations are in pretty good shape.
They are commercially fished in both North America and Japan, both for food and as bait for species like Pacific halibut. An octopus has the advantage (unfortunately for the octopus) of being reusable as bait—a big savings for commercial fishermen who cast thousands of hooks into the water.
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Take back control!
There are multiple advantages in controlling your production material inputs in real-time:
- Accurate product costing at each production run,
- Accurate material losses map along the production lines,
- Easy identification of waste and improvement opportunities,
- Increased quality of the final product,
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Carl Menger wrote Principles of Economics (1871) [original title is Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre] and the entire book is dedicated to explain what the value of goods and services come from and to what extent values and prices are different.
Mises in "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" (1920) explains why a system devoid of property rights in the means of production cannot work efficiently as there are no prices and therefore no ability to calculate profits and losses to know where to allocate means of production, what to produce, in how many quantities.
Later, Hayek in "the Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) explains the crucial role that prices play in saving people information and search costs to make effective decision because prices crystallize the local knowledge that market participants use when they make their decisions that create price movements.
Understanding the market process and the role of prices in allocating scarce resources to their most valued uses is crucial. But as important is the understanding how any meddling with the market process and the price system can lead to dramatic consequences. To be effective in allocating scarce resources to their most valued uses, the price system must work as freely as possible. As soon as the price system is hindered whether with price controls, taxes, subsidies, tariffs, quotas, or inflation, it can no longer perform its primary function of allocating resources to their most valued sources. Often the primary outcome of such interventions is "malinvestment," a term used by Friedrich Hayek to illustrate the process of investing resources in lines of production that are not profitable.
It is true that sometimes when unhampered the prices can lead to overinvestment, underinvestment, overproduction, underproduction, over consumption, or underconsumption particularly the property rights are not well-defined resulting in tragedy of the commons or pollution levels that above the efficient level, or the underconsumption of goods with positive externalities. But one cannot ignore the products of these imperfections of the real world that can be minimized either by market mechanisms or government intervention.
I encourage every student to think of the world in terms of prices. What price am I willing to pay to get what I think I need to get? What am I willing to sacrifice to get what I want or what I think we should have? Why some prices are so high? Why housing prices are so low? Does a high price necessarily mean that a good or service is extremely valuable and very rare? Does the very low price make the good less valuable or abundant?
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113. Caxton woodcut
from The Game and Playe of Chesse (2nd edition) 1483
Original art work:
In circa 1300, Jacobus de Cessolis (c1250 - c1322) – a Dominican friar – produced, in Latin, the text ‘De Moribus Hominum et de Officiis Nobilium Super Ludo Scaccorum’ which translates roughly as: About the Customs of Men and the Noble Actions involving the Game of Chess.
Caxton’s text The Game and Playe of Chesse is an English translation of the original Latin text by Cessolis. Caxton did not translate directly from the original Latin into English, but made use of two French translations of the Latin text, namely by Jean de Vignay in Bruges, and a second translation by Jean Ferron. Christine Knowles (1954) argues that Caxton must have had access to the Latin original as well. Caxton completed his translation into English in 1474, and then printed the first edition of The Game and Playe of Chesse in 1476 whilst working in Bruges. He printed his second edition in Westminster in 1483. The second edition is largely a reprint of the first edition but with a new preface, new epilogue, various small changes, and, importantly, the addition of the famous woodcuts. The woodcuts do not appear in the first edition. For a detailed comparison of the first and second editions, see Wilson (1947).
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Making Sense of the Green Deal's Golden Rule
The Green Deal's success relies heavily on the experience of the early adopters. The government hope that these early adopters will spread the word and create a snowball effect which will inspire more and more people to jump on board. However, what is important is that these early adopters feel protected and secure when taking part in the Green Deal.
For this reason, the people behind the Green Deal have created the "Golden Rule" which will act as the back bone of the scheme and support future developments. The Golden Rule ensures that it is worthwhile for the Green Deal consumer to get involved and that they make savings on their energy bill. It also ensures that the money can be repaid via the savings in energy costs and that the Green Deal suppliers are paid back.
In layman's terms, the Green Deal will not pay for energy efficiency measures unless they are absolutely certain it will save you money.
The main problem with the Green Deal Golden Rule is the instability of the energy supplier industry. Nothing can be done to confidently predict the cost of future energy and even the energy companies themselves would never want to comment on the issue. This basically means that what the Green Deal saves you this year and next year, could potentially become obsolete the year after.
Investing in long term energy efficiency is a great idea but may be a little risky for some. Many people will be put off by this "risk factor" which will cause a much slower uptake of the Green Deal. As mentioned above, the long term success relies heavily on the speed of uptake in the early days.
Thermal insulation of a house roof via Shutterstock
Another issue with the Golden Rule is that the loan will be attached to the property, not the person who took out the loan in the first place. This has been done to encourage people to take up the Green Deal to improve their homes, even if they know that they will be moving from the property in the near future. After all, it is the new owners that would benefit from the improvements once the property is passed on. This is also why properties will be accessed on an individual merit. Many in the industry, however, are concerned that this will put people off as they fear it will be hard to sell a property which has inherent debt. For this reason, people may not be keen to partake in the Green Deal, if they have plans to move in the near future. After all, it is hard enough to sell property as it is!
For homeowners who have much bigger homes to insulate, the costs may be significantly higher and possible problems may arise when energy efficiency installations cost more than the Green Deal Golden Rule will fund. In this situation, the government have announced that Green Deal funding will be available to subsidise the work.
At the end of the day, the Green Deal is all about reducing the nation's carbon footprint and the government need everybody involved to reach their ambitious target of improving 14 million homes. The Golden Rule will prove a valuable tool for the Green Deal but it is important that the government allow a level of flexibility. What works at the beginning of the Green Deal role-out may not necessarily work further down the road. Long term strategy needs long term devotees. | <urn:uuid:00d2ded2-4176-434d-824e-e0e1cd21716f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://earthtimes.org/green-blogs/green-living/making-sense-green-deal-golden-rule-01-Feb-12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.962631 | 658 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Cannabis has been used as medicine for centuries throughout the world. In ancient times it was a trial and error approach to determine if something had therapeutic value. As the field of medicine evolved, research protocols were developed and safety standards set. Modern research on the efficacy of cannabis as medicine was halted with its prohibition. With the advent of the War on Drugs, the focus of any research on cannabis was limited to the potential harmful effects of marijuana.
The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been responsible for funding most of the studies conducted in the US and many other studies conducted in other countries. In order to receive grant funding and supplies of cannabis, researchers needed to submit study proposals that were designed to discover only its negative or harmful effects. A close review of some of the early studies will show that any positive results were buried or failed to get published and many of the negative reports were based on faulty designs or extreme doses.
Despite past national commissions that found no justification for the prohibition of cannabis, the federal government has continued to deny the efficacy of cannabis and drug warriors call for zero tolerance of “drug” users. Anecdotal patient reports that are favorable towards the medical use of cannabis are dismissed simply because cannabis is in Schedule I and therefore cannabis has no medical value. There is no science to support this circular thinking, only a biased ideology.
History in Medicine – History Timeline
We begin with an overview of the history of the medicinal use of cannabis or medical marijuana. You will find links to landmark studies and a timeline of significant events throughout world history. This history provides a wealth of information to form the basis of cannabis science.
Next we have a focus on the remarkable safety profile of cannabis. It is very significant that throughout its use since ancient times there has never been a recorded death. That cannot be said for most of the medications on the market today.
As verification of its’ safety and efficacy, we feature the Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Study of the federal I.N.D. patients receiving quantified shipments of cannabis from the U.S. government over many years. In 2001 Patients Out of Time received grant to conduct a study of the long term effects of cannabis on the patients who have been in the Compassionate IND program. This study was conducted on 4 of the federal patients.
All drugs/medications come with potential side effects or risks. The goal in prescribing medications is to ensure that the benefits outweigh the risks for each use. Risks will be examined regarding the use of cannabis. Patients Out of Time sees the greatest health risk is due to the cannabis prohibition. There is no quality control of the medicine, no consistency for patients and most healthcare professionals aren’t willing to educate patients on the safe use of cannabis because of its illegal status. The most frequently cited risk is the risk posed by inhalation of toxic materials when smoking cannabis. This is not an inherent risk of cannabis, but a subsequent risk of its prohibition.
Ironically, much of the research that focused on determining the harmful effects of cannabis has led to the discovery of the endogenous cannabinoid system or endocannabinoid system that is essential to life. This is an evolving field of study and shows much promise in helping scientists gain a better understanding of its various roles in human functioning. Cannabis is the only plant that contains similar chemicals, called phyto-cannabinoids, and common sense tells us that Cannabis and its components have the potential to provide the needed cannabinoids when our ECS is stressed or failing.
The most frequently sited indication for the medicinal use of cannabis has been for the management of chronic pain. The opioid-sparing section will present the growing body of research that shows the synergy between opioids and cannabis. Chronic pain patients who have been prescribed opioids to manage their pain usually decrease or eliminate the use of opioids when cannabis is added to their medication regime.
Finally, the clinical trials section will present the evidence-based studies on various patient populations using cannabis as medicine. We recognize that cannabis has great therapeutic potential and encourage clinical trials with various strains and preparations of this medicinal plant.Follow Us! | <urn:uuid:510ae538-15a1-405e-ace4-8b7192303c8f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medicalcannabis.com/Cannabis-Science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00149-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961443 | 845 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Background Magnesium is neuroprotective in animal models of stroke, and findings of small clinical pilot trials suggest potential benefit in people. We aimed to test whether intravenous magnesium sulphate, given within 12 h of stroke onset, reduces death or disability at 90 days.
Methods 2589 patients were randomised within 12 h of acute stroke to receive 16 mmol MgSO4 intravenously over 15 min and then 65 mmol over 24 h, or matching placebo. Primary outcome was a global endpoint statistic expressed as the common odds ratio for death or disability at day 90. Secondary outcomes were mortality and death or disability, variously defined as Barthel score less than 95, Barthel score less than 60, and modified Rankin scale more than 1. Predefined subgroup analyses were for the primary endpoint in patients in whom treatment commenced within 6 h versus after 6 h, ischaemic versus non-ischaemic strokes, and cortical stroke syndromes versus non-cortical strokes. Intention-to-treat and efficacy analyses were done.
Findings The efficacy dataset included 2386 patients. Primary outcome was not improved by magnesium (odds ratio 0.95, 95% CI 0.80-1.13, p=0.59). Mortality was slightly higher in the magnesium-treated group than in the placebo group (hazard ratio 1.18, 95% CI 0.97-1.42, p=0.098). Secondary outcomes did not show any treatment effect. Planned subgroup analyses showed benefit of magnesium in non-cortical strokes (p=0.011) whereas greater benefit had been expected in the cortical group.
Interpretation Magnesium given within 12 h of acute stroke does not reduce the chances of death or disability significantly, although it may be of benefit in lacunar strokes.
- ACUTE ISCHEMIC-STROKE
- FOCAL CEREBRAL-ISCHEMIA
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When a gunman opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in the early morning hours of June 12, killing 49 people and wounding dozens more, shock waves and heartache reverberated throughout the country. For Fusion, a news organization devoted to diversity, inclusion, and amplifying marginalized voices, the massacre—which targeted LGBTQ youth and claimed the lives of many young Latinos—hit especially close to home. Fusion's news team responded to the tragedy quickly and forcefully, sending more than a dozen reporters and VJs to Orlando to document the aftermath, interview survivors, and investigate the background of shooter Omar Mateen. The resulting real-time coverage set the standard for multiplatform coverage of a mass shooting, and sensitive, thoughtful treatment of a major world news event involving marginalized identity groups.
Fusion took a 360-degree approach to covering the Orlando shooting. Video teams were dispatched to Orlando to interview survivors and blood donors, text reporters sped to the scene and shot Facebook Live videos from peace vigils and press conferences, and columnists wrote moving tributes to the victims. (One such column, a piece by a former regular at the Pulse nightclub who called it a "safe haven" for exploring his identity as a gay man, remains one of Fusion's most-read stories.) Fusion reporters filed from the home of shooter Omar Mateen, interviewed former colleagues of his who warned of his violent tendencies and a possible "surprise attack" (the first such reports at any outlet) and broke the story of one victim of the shooting, a 33-year-old Mexican undocumented immigrant. Fusion's report included stories tracking the Orlando shooting's effect on many vulnerable communities: Muslim-Americans, Puerto Ricans, undocumented immigrants, and queer people of color among them. Social media played an important role as a kind of virtual vigil—tweeting biographies and photos of each of the 49 people killed at Pulse proved to be an effective and emotional way to pay tribute to the victims.
In all, Fusion's Orlando coverage totalled more than 80 stories and videos in two languages in the span of a week, reached an audience of millions, and garnered us a reputation as an outlet capable of handling stories involving vulnerable communities with sensitivity and rigor. One reader on Twitter said, "incredible coverage of Orlando all around by @Fusion. I've been thoroughly impressed."
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by Tim Christie - Thursday, November 21, 2013
Once you peer into the eyes of death— assuming you survive—you never forget those eyes, that look. Blind luck enabled me to survive a grizzly bear attack in 1986, and the look in the eyes of that bear is a vision tattooed into my psyche: menacing, intense, focused on one thing—the kill.
Last winter I saw those eyes, that look, again. One morning, while shaking the sleep out of my brain, I headed to the kitchen looking for some coffee. Glancing out the backdoor slider of our Arizona home, I encountered those same eyes of death. A coyote stood transfixed, staring at his prey: our 20-pound dog that was sound asleep. Only a thin pane of glass separated predator from unsuspecting prey. I hollered. In response, the coyote glanced up at me, turned and trotted into our backyard. Grabbing my camera, I stepped outside. The coyote seemed unfazed: It meandered next door, checked out the neighbors’ deck then went into their front yard. It had zero fear of me.
Why should it? In many modern urban and suburban areas, predators have become part of the daily landscape. Coyotes, black bears and mountain lions are expanding their hunting grounds into city streets and backyards, in some cases operating with apparent disregard for any consequences.
This year, newspapers and television have covered sensational stories of predator incidents throughout the country. In Colorado Springs, Colo., a black bear rolled a restaurant dumpster around and climbed inside for a midnight snack. A Cadillac, Mich., 12-year-old girl out jogging was attacked by a black bear that left her with cuts and gashes deep enough to require stitches. A mountain lion attacked a horse near the city limits of a small western Montana town. Sensational headlines reveal a pervasive and growing problem facing municipalities, animal-control and state wildlife agencies.
City limits continue to expand. As more and more people migrate into suburbs, wild land succumbs to development. The wildlife species impacted either flee or move in with their new neighbors. Whitetail deer have long been a problem at the fringes of urban centers. Rabbits, squirrels, Canada geese, ducks and other small game also do well in less-than-wild environments. Predators like coyotes, foxes, bears, bobcats and mountain lions willing to tolerate human interaction follow suit. Why not? The hunting in urban and suburban areas is great.
Coyotes present the greatest problems. They’re prolific, reproduce quickly and adapt effectively in almost any environment. Today you’ll find them sharing the streets in megalopolises like Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Phoenix and New York, as well as in small communities nationwide. In some areas, like our Arizona suburb, coyotes are born and raised, live and prosper with little human interference. The neighborhoods are rich hunting grounds replete with desert cottontails, quail, cats and small dogs. Residents are warned not to approach coyotes, to be watchful when letting out their cats and dogs and to be cautious when walking pets. Reports of dogs on leashes being pulled away from people are rare, but such things have happened. When coyotes are sighted, neighborhood patrols warn people walking for exercise or with their dogs. In most places discharging firearms within city limits is illegal, so people are encouraged to carry a loud whistle.
Those who fantasize that a whistle will deter a coyote might take note of the real-world experiences of some people.
Oklahoma resident Frances Curtis put her dachshund, Heinrich, out in the back yard, only to hear it bark in a way she’d never heard before. Stepping out the back door, she found the dog in a fight with a coyote. There wasn’t enough time to retrieve her gun, so she picked up the nearest object, a shovel. The coyote ran off only after she whacked it twice with the implement. Heinrich was tended to by a veterinarian, but Curtis remains shaken by the brazen viciousness of the incident.
In Riverside, Ill., a forested community on the banks of the Des Plaines River, a resident let out his dog before going to bed. Not long thereafter, the dog came running with four coyotes in pursuit. Shutting the glass slider didn’t deter the pack. The coyotes broke several panes of glass on both the outer door and the main entry door trying to get at the barking dog inside. The critters left only after the resident shot two of them with a high-powered BB gun.
In another incident in Riverside a few weeks earlier, a 7-month-old bichon-poo and a larger 70-pound dog confronted coyotes in their back yard. Injuries to the bichon-poo proved fatal.
Coyotes likely attack cats and dogs for food. The Cook County, Ill., Coyote Project (urbancoyoteresearch.com) has done exhaustive research on coyote attacks on both pets and humans. Its website reports that the average number of coyote attacks on domestic pets in the Chicago area increased from zero to two in 1990 and from six to 14 in 2004. Attacks on humans are rare, but have occurred. Two people, a 3-year-old girl in 1981 in California and a 19-year-old woman in 2009 in Nova Scotia, died from coyote attacks. Most human attacks involve coyote bites; some of the coyotes have carried rabies.
While these statistics pale in comparison to the numbers of people annually bitten or killed by domestic dogs, they represent a burgeoning problem. Prudence suggests that any coyote behaving with little concern for humans should be reported to local police, animal-control or wildlife agencies.
Black bears present the greatest problems when their traditional food sources become scarce. A classic case occurred in 2012, when Aspen, Colo., police responded to 1,040 bear calls. Widespread drought had destroyed traditional food sources such as berries and acorns, prompting bears to scrounge through residential garbage, dumpsters and other human-provided enticements, including barbeques, and bird and pet food. Of those cases, only a handful involved bears breaking into homes or cars. Two bears were euthanized, one relocated. This year, natural food supplies for the bears have been ample, and Aspen police have thus far responded to 12 calls. Yet the old adage “a human-fed bear is a dead bear” is hard to dismiss. Confronting a black bear rummaging through your garbage is a scenario best left to fright movies. In the long run, the bears usually lose.
People living on the fringes of cities where bears roam are certain to experience such conflicts. Some experiences have led to puzzling responses. In 2012, Connecticut newspapers reported that an 82-year-old man killed a black bear he claimed was raiding his bird feeder. Because black bear hunting is not allowed in Connecticut, the man was arrested.
Florida black bears are a threatened species. In 2009, their protected status prompted the arrest of a Fort Meyers resident after he shot one and claimed he was protecting his family. A media frenzy this past summer erupted in Massachusetts after a man shot a black bear in his rural back yard, fearing it was threatening a litter of puppies there. When the local police posted the incident online, a flood of responses—many critical of the man who shot the bear—forced the police to shut down their Facebook page.
Grizzly bears menace property, too. They’ve mauled people near urban areas in states with grizzly populations. Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho have extensive bear-aware programs that promote safe garbage disposal and appropriate use of pet and bird food.
Of broader national concern are mountain lions. Commonly called cougars or pumas, they are one of North America’s most reclusive predators, and they are proverbial killing machines. Fear rises quickly when one stares into the golden eyes of a crouched lion, its tail twitching.
North Idaho’s Zach Smeltzer can tell you about that feeling firsthand. Days before leaving for college in California, he was bowhunting within sight of his home on opening day of 2012’s archery season. A whitetail buck he’d patterned was leaving a field, and Zach, in full camouflage, was waiting in ambush. Hearing a noise behind him and thinking it was another deer, Zach drew his Quest Compound G5 bow and turned to see a crouched mountain lion staring straight at him only 14 feet away. Never anticipating such an encounter, Zach wasn’t carrying a pistol. With the small of the cougar’s back his only target, he aimed and released his arrow. The lion jumped, turned and bounded away.
“I really wasn’t afraid until that point,” Zach says. “But as I covered the 400 yards to my house, I began to shake.”
He called his dad and a friend, and two hours later the three of them returned with handguns. After a while they found the cougar 80 yards from where Zach had shot. Not wanting to waste the meat, they dressed the cat and put it in a freezer. Idaho has a mountain lion season, but unfortunately for Zach, it wasn’t open in that area. Idaho Fish and Game cleared the incident as self-defense. Zach didn’t get to keep the lion, but the event remains a lifetime memory.
Reflecting on the fact that the cougar was on the property of an 80-year-old Korean War veteran, an Idaho Fish and Game official told Zach, “This could have turned out very differently. It would certainly have become a problem we would have had to deal with. You did us a favor!”
Unlike many grizzly attacks in which the bear is protecting a kill or its cubs, attacking black bears or mountain lions usually have one intention—to kill you. Bears habituated to humans, either by food or constant exposure, present the most danger. Young cougars, typically hungry males searching to establish a territory, are often the most aggressive. Old, injured, malnourished lions driven by hunger also have been known to become aggressive. Young children or small adults are most vulnerable to attack, yet lions have killed adults, including some athletes running or biking.
Mountain lions are expanding their range from Western states and Florida. Actual sightings or physical evidence have been noted in 11 Midwestern and Eastern states. Though most biologists believe populations of mountain lions are healthy in Western states, in recent years anti-hunting movements have arisen to protect mountain lions, particularly opposing hunting with dogs. Essentially, banning or restricting hunting options limits biologists’ ability to control cougar populations. California residents in 1990 passed Proposition 117, which banned all mountain lion hunting and made the animals a “specially protected species.”
This fall California further expanded its oversight of mountain lion control. The governor signed into law a bill requiring California Department of Fish and Game officials to use nonlethal procedures when responding to mountain lions not designated as public health threats. Finding a mountain lion in a back yard apparently is no longer enough to justify wildlife officers’ use of professional expertise to deal with such incidents.
In Oregon hunting for cougars is allowed, but not with dogs. This year Oregon’s House of Representatives passed a bill reintroducing hunting with dogs in an effort to return to a practice banned by voters in 1994. The bill died in the Oregon Senate, despite increased sightings of mountain lions throughout the state.
In 1996 Washington voters passed a statewide initiative—I-655—banning cougar hunting with dogs. Cougars continued to be hunted without dogs in a liberal general season. Dogs were used only under WDFW authority to address specific public-safety issues with cougars. In 2004, in response to complaints of lions killing livestock and other conflicts with humans, particularly in the northeastern part of state, the legislature approved limited cougar permit hunts with dogs in some game management units. In 2011 the legislature dropped the permits with dogs. At the same time, overall cougar hunting harvest was reviewed, based on cougar population research. In 2012 Washington standardized the cougar hunting without dogs season (Sept. 1-March 31) that uses harvest guidelines and closes units after Jan. 1 when harvest guidelines are reached. Today, dogs can be used on cougars in Washington only under WDFW authority to address public safety issues.
Control of predators certainly incites impassioned controversy. Phil Cooper, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game information officer, said it best: “Anytime we have a problem with any predator, someone is unhappy. Those who lose a pet or livestock are mad that we can’t control the situation. When we do remove a problem animal, someone always complains that the animal was only doing what wild animals do. As humans move deeper into what have always been wild lands, these problems will continue to plague us. We may not like it, but it’s a problem we must learn to live with.”
As this is written in September, St. Maries, Idaho, school officials this week locked down their schools. A mountain lion was seen strolling through an alley near the local grade school. The drama, the problem, continues.
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Metabolic Reprogramming of Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease
We will explore whether manipulation of a specific metabolic pathway in the brain’s primary immune cells (microglia) can protect against Alzheimer’s pathology.We will genetically inhibit a specific metabolic pathway in microglial cells and address three aims in two mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Aim 1 will be to analyze pathological hallmarks, e.g. whether microglia can clear more amyloid plaques or can better shield the brain from their toxic effects. Aim 2 will be to assess which molecular pathways and functions of microglia are altered and may underly changes in pathological hallmarks. Aim 3 will test whether these changes in microglial responses are sufficient to preserve cognitive function in the mouse models.
We have found that a specific pathway in microglia can limit the cells’ beneficial functions in models of Alzheimer’s disease, but the underlying changes in microglial immune responses and functionality are unknown. We will test for the first time whether inhibition of this pathway can alleviate pathological hallmarks and improve the functional outcome in models of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. In this project, we will establish whether reprogramming metabolism in microglial cells is sufficient to improve brain function in Alzheimer’s disease. If this is the case, it will open up new therapeutic opportunities to combat this devastating condition. | <urn:uuid:cc7ff443-7a8c-44cc-9014-b96f736a2d22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brightfocus.org/grant/metabolic-reprogramming-microglia-alzheimers-disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.83046 | 299 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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By Joel Shurkin, Inside Science -- The notion that Earth’s climate is changing—and that the threat to the world is serious—goes back to the 1980s, when a consensus began to form among climate scientists as temperatures began to rise noticeably. Thirty years later, that consensus is solid, yet climate change and the disruption it may cause remain divisive political issues, and millions of people remain unconvinced.
A new book argues that social scientists should play a greater role in helping natural scientists convince people of the reality of climate change and drive policy.
Climate Change and Society consists of 13 essays on why the debate needs the voices of social scientists, including political scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists. It is edited by Riley E. Dunlap, professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, and Robert J. Brulle, of Drexel University, professor of sociology and environmental science in Philadelphia.
Brulle said the physical scientists tend to frame climate change "as a technocratic and managerial problem."
"Contrast that to the Pope," he said.
Pope Francis sees it as a "political, moral issue that won’t be settled by a group of experts sitting in a room," said Brulle, who emphasized that it will be settled by political process. Sociologists agree.
Sheila Jasanoff also agrees. She is the Pforzheimer professor of science and technology studies at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and did not participate in the book.
She said that understanding how people behave differently depending on their belief system is important.
"Denial is a somewhat mystical thing in people’s heads," Jasanoff said. "One can bring tools of sociology of knowledge and belief—or social studies—to understand how commitments to particular statements of nature are linked with understanding how you would feel compelled to behave if nature were that way."
Parts of the world where climate change is considered a result of the colonial past may resist taking drastic action at the behest of the former colonial rulers. Jasanoff said that governments will have to convince these groups that climate change is a present danger and attention must be paid.
Some who agree there is a threat are reluctant to advocate for drastic economic changes because they believe the world will be rescued by innovation and technology, Jasanoff said. Even among industrialized countries, views about the potential of technology differ.
Understanding these attitudes is what social scientists do, the book’s authors maintain.
"One of the most pressing contributions our field can make is to legitimate big questions, especially the ability of the current global economic system to take the steps needed to avoid catastrophic climate change," editors of the book wrote.
The issue also is deeply embedded in the social science of economics and in the problem of "have" and "have-not" societies in consumerism and the economy.
For example, Bangladesh sits at sea level, and if the seas rise enough, nearly the entire country could disappear in the waters. Hurricane Katrina brought hints of the consequences of that reality to New Orleans, a city that now sits below sea level. The heaviest burden of the storm's effects fell on the poor neighborhoods, Brulle said.
"The people of Bangladesh will suffer more than the people on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," Brulle said. He said they have to be treated differently, which is not something many physical scientists studying the processes behind sea level rise have to factor into their research.
“Those of us engaged in the climate fight need valuable insight from political scientists and sociologists and psychologists and economists just as surely as from physicists,” agreed Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author who is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. "It's very clear carbon is warming the planet; it's very unclear what mix of prods and preferences might nudge us to use much less."
Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer in Baltimore. He was former science writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island. He has nine published books and is working on a tenth. He has taught journalism at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He tweets at @shurkin. Reprinted with permission from Inside Science, an editorially independent news product of the American Institute of Physics, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing, promoting and serving the physical sciences. Top image: Matt Jiggins via Flickr, http://bit.ly/1M6iSlZ. Rights information: Creative Commons 2.0 | <urn:uuid:1befed16-0b59-43b9-907e-6b1571d9df04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.science20.com/joel_shurkin/climate_debate_needs_more_psychology-157486 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.960258 | 958 | 2.84375 | 3 |
GAZA—Despite a long night of bombing, I woke early Tuesday morning to the sound of voices drifting through the window of my room, newly displaced people taking refuge in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency school across the street. In the last two weeks thousands have been forced to leave their homes on the coastal side of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun to avoid being killed by a shell from a tank or a warship. They have brought with them little but their desire to survive and have traveled toward Jabalia, the neighborhood I have lived in all my life. Jabalia is itself a refugee camp, established after the 1948 Nakba when thousands were forced to leave their villages and towns across the country that was Palestine. Already the most densely populated camp in the Gaza Strip, Jabalia is now receiving a new wave of refugees after 66 years.
From my window, which overlooks the school, I can see old women, exhausted, sitting down on the little steps in front of the playground, their children clinging to them, many of them crying; old men are looking nervously up to the sky where drones are still hovering, making a noise that they will not forget in the years they have left. The UNRWA man is trying to organize everything in this chaos. Monday night was a terrible chapter in the history of Gaza—especially for the eastern part of Beit Hanoun. Tanks moved in from the border toward the residential areas, destroying everything in their paths, erasing every building, every school, every orchard. You do not know whether the next shell will fall on your head. When you will be reduced to another number in the news. You think about what it means to disappear from the world, to evaporate like a drop of water, leaving no sign of your existence, and the thought drives you mad.
A shell killed a family of six people three days ago. Cousins of my neighbor Eyad. They were sitting around their food waiting for the prayer to break their fast. The four children were killed instantly, and the parents were mortally injured. Eyad told me that one of the dead girls vanished completely; they found no sign of her body. No bones, no arms, no legs. Nothing that might suggest it belonged to her, that a little girl of 9 years existed in this place just a few seconds ago. Apparently the rocket hit her body directly.
In two hours the newcomers are settled in the classrooms and in the tents set up in front of the school. The UNRWA man gives his instruction through his megaphone, explaining that everyone needs to follow his orders. The sound of his voice echoes around my head as I try to go back to sleep. You have to sleep when you can in this war, as most nights you will not sleep a wink. You have to gather sleep up, as much as you possibly can, and store it, as they say in Arabic, “behind the eyes.”
Images fly though my head; memories are jostling for position with old songs, old ambitions, and hopes. I cannot always distinguish what is a memory and what is hope. My boy, Yaser, is trying to move slowly across the room without making any noise. I see him walking on tiptoes. He doesn’t want to wake me up. Smiling, I follow his footsteps. He takes the charger and his iPad. I realize that the electricity is now back on after a 15-hour blackout. My kids are adapting to this war—they fight eagerly every time the power comes on to charge their iPads—so they can enjoy playing on them when it drops out again. They have their own ideas about how to waste their time during the day.
The first question I ask when I open my eyes is, “When is the truce?” Everybody is asking the same question. After 16 days of attacks, you wish, even harder than at the start, that it is all just a nightmare. Many times I have closed my eyes and thought, “What if I were just sleeping, and everything I saw was a dream?” I shake my head and look around. Everything looks real: The tree in the school yard moves in the wind, the sun shines, the lady next door is sitting in front of her house with other old ladies of the neighborhood, everything looks normal. No sign that this is a dream, a nightmare.
On Monday, more than 100 people were killed in Beit Hanoun and Shijaia. While sitting with my friends Faraj, Abu Aseel, and Wafi in Faraj's place, smoking nargila as we do every night, Faraj keeps turning the dial on the radio, searching the news, trying to find an announcement that might calm him down. The voice on the radio announces that the total number of people killed during the last two weeks is 567. He starts to break this number down according to where they lived, according to their ages, their genders, the method of attack, and so on. A few hours ago a shell decapitated three kids. They were carried to the hospital headless. The radio reporter continues his presentation of the situation. The number of people injured has reached more than 3,300. Some 670 houses were destroyed, and more than 2,000 were partially damaged.
Everything is turned into numbers. The stories are hidden, disguised, lost behind these numbers. Human beings, souls, bodies—all are converted into numbers. While watching the breaking news feed along the bottom of the screen, you can’t help but follow these numbers being updated every minute. Before you can take another breath, the death toll changes. In the first two hours of this attack, they would give the victim’s name and keep it on the screen. Now the victims are just there as digits. The names are gone. From time to time, the total figure leaps suddenly—a meteoric leap—and then the news carries on.
Imagine it. Imagine what it must be like to be converted into a number. That you are not “Atef Abu Saif” any longer; you are “victim No. 568.” You are merely a digit in a much larger number, one that just keeps on growing. Your entire life is reduced to a number. In a crowd of other numbers, the importance of every number disappears, because what is important is the Big Number. Every time the sum increases, the unwritten exclamation mark that accompanies it grows bigger, and the unheard screams that accompany each one grow louder. Journalists like catastrophes; they like numbers, statistics, data. They like the sight of tears and emotions in front of the camera. Destruction is a rich meal for the camera. Their cameras do not observe the fast of Ramadan; they devour and devour.
When a human being is made into a number, his or her story disappears. Every number is a tale, every martyr is a tale, a life that was lost. Or rather, part of that life is lost; the rest tells another tale. The tale after. When a father is killed, or a mother, there are kids left behind who are not heroes, just humans, with their sadness and sorrow; they are kids who lost a father or a mother. There is a tale that is lost, and a tale that has yet to be pursued. The four children that the gunships tore to pieces while playing soccer on the beach were not the number four. They were four stories, four lives. Kawari—the family from Khan Younis that the drone prevented from enjoying a meal on the roof of their small building under the moonlight—they were not just six. They were six infinitely rich, infinitely unknowable stories that came to an end when a missile tore their bodies apart. Six novels that Mahfouz, Dickens, or Márquez could not have written satisfactorily. Novels that would have needed a miracle, a genius, to find the structure and poetry that they deserved. Instead they are tales that have cascaded into the news as numbers. Moments of lust, onslaughts of pain, days of happiness, dreams that were postponed, looks, glances, feelings, secrets … every number is a world in itself.
I do not want to be a number, to be a piece in the news, a name mentioned by a beautiful TV anchor waiting impatiently to finish reading news from Gaza. I do not want to be a small number in a large one, a part of the data. I do not want to be an image among thousands of images that the activists and sympathizers share on Twitter or post on Facebook, rained down on with likes and comments.
My other neighbor, Ahmad, did not want to be a number when he was killed trying to save his family in the Al Nada border area. None of the killed or injured wanted it. And nobody will ever ask to hear the stories behind these numbers, either. Nobody will uncover the beauty of the lives they led—the beauty that vanishes with every attack, disappears behind this thick, ugly curtain of counting. | <urn:uuid:1e8759fd-e9ef-4019-b85a-2faf6bf777b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/atef_abu_saif_on_life_amid_the_bombing_of_gaza_israel_s_missiles_are_erasing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978637 | 1,877 | 1.921875 | 2 |
From Vladimir’s diary, dated December 18, 2009:
Well, here we are, less than 18 months later.
A little context: Gasoline prices (national average, all grades) peaked over $4.00 per gallon for a couple of months in the summer of 2008.
Prices bottomed in December 2008 at $1.66. By December 2009, at the time of the writing of the linked diary (reproduced below), the price had rebounded to $2.60 per gallon. Since then, the price is up 50%, and Our President is acting both clueless as to the reason, and powerless as to the solution.
Not only were higher energy prices totally foreseeable, they were part of the plan all along. High energy prices were considered necessary to boost green energy. Not only does Mr. Obama not have a solution, he does not want a solution.
Despite Kyoto, despite Copenhagen, despite the New Green Economy and despite the Democratic Party, world oil demand is expected to increase by 0.8 to 1.5 million barrels a day in 2010, depending on the source of your forecast. That kind of increased demand could lead to a substantial increase in oil prices; when demand exceeds production capability by just a little bit, the price reaction is usually pretty strong.
What has the Obama Administration done to prepare for such an eventuality?
Nothing. Well, nothing positive.
- In February, Interior Secretary Salazar extended the comment period on the 2010-2015 five-year offshore leasing plan by six months and has not taken any additional action.
- Likewise, the Administration has failed to make progress on Lease Sale 220 offshore Virginia that was planned for 2011. It’s estimated that the Sale 220 area could contain 1.14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 130 million barrels of oil.
- Sec. Salazar cancelled oil and natural gas leases on 77 parcels of federal lands in Utah, then announced that 60 of them would be removed from development–eight permanently and 52 indefinitely.
- The administration’s fiscal 2010 budget contains at least $80 billion in tax increases on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. These increases will depress investment in new domestic oil and natural gas projects, weakening the nation’s energy security and doing nothing to defray the impact of higher world oil energy prices on America.
Even as the climate change community is starting to realize that clean, abundant, domestic natural gas is part of the solution, the Administration promulgates policies that delay and discourage domestic production. It’s time to encourage domestic oil and natural gas production to benefit all Americans by raising supply levels, creating well-paying jobs, and improving the nation’s energy security.
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Inhabitants of communities throughout the country will be able to practice again in controlled groups under technical supervision, aerobics, yoga, pilates, functional exercises, among others, informed the Minister of Sports, Hernán Solano, announcing the approval of the “Specific Protocol for Physical and Recreational Activities”.
It is a protocol that seeks to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 -in compliance with the measures dictated by the Ministry of Health-, while allowing people to recreate under a responsibility to protect themselves against the Pandemic.
Among the measures established, the protocol includes prior appointment, compliance with the capacity established by the health governing body, distance of two meters, personal hygiene, constant cleaning and disinfection of the facilities, ventilation of closed spaces with the aim of not concentrating droplets and respiratory sprays.
In addition, the health guide emphasizes the prohibition of recreational practice if a person has fever, general malaise, cough, difficulty breathing, loss of smell or alteration in the perception of the taste of food.
Nor will the entry of those who have had family or household contact of people with flu symptoms or who are being suspected of COVID-19 in that case be allowed, they must register it in the log that will be at the entrance of the facility.
“This guide will make it easier for many residents of communities under established sanitary provisions – to resume the practice of activities that seek to bring physical and emotional health to people who have been affected by measures such as social isolation,” said the rector of the sport entity.
Sanitary measures established
Sanitary permit: Each sports or recreational organization (sports centers, academies, clubs, teams, etc.), must have a valid health operating permit.
Appointment: Schedule by phone call or use of digital media with the users appointments according to the schedules and available places for training in their facility.
Schedule: Between each session there must be a difference of 30 minutes to avoid the crowding of people at the entrance and exit of the facility and proceed with the cleaning and disinfection of the facility in this period of time.
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic conditions that affect the function of hemoglobin. Health experts are exploring gene therapy as a potentially new treatment to manipulate gene expression. With this technique, it may be possible to restore the shape of red blood cells (RBCs) and eliminate SCD complications.
SCD is a group of genetic RBC disorders that affects roughly
In this article, we will discuss gene therapy and its potential role in treating sickle cell disease.
However, in people with SCD, RBCs are rigid and shaped like a “C” or sickle, which is how the condition gets its name. As these C-shaped cells are misshapen, the body breaks them down more quickly than healthy RBCs. They can also become stuck and interrupt blood flow, which can cause pain and infections.
There are several types of SCD, depending on what genes biological parents pass on. The most common types include:
Gene therapy refers to a medical approach that aims to treat genetic conditions. This technique modifies gene expression to prevent gene changes from causing symptoms of a disease. Different mechanisms are available and
- replacing the gene causing the disease with a healthy copy
- inactivating the disease-causing gene if it is not functioning properly
- introducing a new or modified gene to help treat the condition
To begin this therapy, doctors will first collect stem cells either from a person’s bone marrow or a blood sample using a medication called plerixafor. This drug helps move stem cells from the bone marrow into the bloodstream. The doctors will modify these stem cells outside of the body.
Doctors then need a carrier to transport the new genetic material into the stem cells — they call this carrier a vector. Usually, the vector will be a virus that health experts have modified to make harmless and instead carry the new genes. Similar to how viruses replicate by injecting genetic material into living cells, the modified viruses insert the new genes into stem cells.
Before a person can receive these new stem cells, they first undergo a procedure called conditioning. Conditioning uses chemotherapy to create space in the bone marrow for the new stem cells. A person will then receive a blood infusion containing the new stem cells.
Researchers are also investigating a technique known as gene editing to treat SCD. Gene editing works by adding, removing, or altering genetic material to
Gene editing aims to stop the suppression of HbF by targeting a gene called BCL11A. By suppressing this gene, the body can resume producing HbF and, as a result, have healthy RBCs. This type of gene therapy involves similar steps of collection, a vector, and an infusion. However, instead of delivering new genetic material, the vector transports a gene editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9 to interrupt the BCL11A gene.
Although SCD will still be able to affect some of the RBCs in the body after this treatment, research estimates that a 20% level of HbF in the bloodstream can be enough to improve SCD symptoms.
New advances in gene therapy have led to several studies and trials that show promising results for the potential treatment of SCD.
A 2022 study investigated the effectiveness of a gene therapy for SCD called LentiGlobin and found that a one-time treatment led to a sustained increase in nonsickling hemoglobin in participants’ blood. This treatment led to a reduction in hemolysis and resolution of severe vaso-occulusive events. This refers to a type of
A 2019 study notes a successful trial using a modified vector to transfer a healthy HbF gene to people with SCD. In both cases of using this technique, individuals saw improvements in the SCD symptoms.
Similarly, a 2021 study notes a successful trial where CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing techniques were successful in targeting the BCL11A gene. After treatment, the individual had higher levels of HbF and no vaso-occlusive episodes.
Although gene therapy research for SCD is ongoing, early trials seem to be yielding positive results. The technique can potentially increase the level of healthy, functioning hemoglobin and reduce severe pain crises.
A potential risk from gene therapy comes from the need for a person to undergo chemotherapy beforehand to prepare their body for new stem cells. Potential side effects of chemotherapy may include:
- nausea and loss of appetite
- hair loss
- higher risk of infertility
- increased risk of cancer
There have also been
Since health experts tailor gene therapy specifically for each individual using their own cells, it is a time-consuming and expensive procedure. This high cost may significantly limit its availability for many people.
A further limitation is that since research into new gene therapy techniques is still new, healthcare professionals do not fully understand the long-term effects and safety of these treatments.
The only current curative treatment available for SCD is a bone marrow transplant. This procedure works similarly to gene therapy, but the healthy RBCs come from the bone marrow of a compatible donor.
Other treatments aim to manage symptoms, lower the frequency of sickle cell crises, and reduce the risk of complications. Such treatments
Sickle cell disease is a group of genetic conditions that affects hemoglobin. These genetic alterations result in health complications, as red blood cells cannot function correctly. Gene therapy is a potentially curative treatment that aims to encourage the production of more healthy RBCs to alleviate symptoms.
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