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What It Takes To Land A Job
Battalion Chief Paul Lepore
Landing a job in the fire service is truly a unique challenge. On average, there are over 100 candidates who apply for each opening. Since the competition is so intense, what does it take to be the top candidate?
Many candidates believe it is important to be the “most qualified” individual in the testing process. The truth is that we are looking for someone who will fit into our family. In short, we have an opening that we need to fill. Since we can choose whomever we want, we want to choose someone we like. Those candidates who become known to us either before or during the testing process have a better chance of scoring well on the exam.
The best way to become someone who stands out in the hiring process is to understand the role of a firefighter. This can best be accomplished by taking fire science courses at the local junior college or online. Another way to gain knowledge and experience in the fire service is to become a volunteer or reserve firefighter. These candidates will have made a name for themselves long before the testing process.
Candidates often volunteer for departmental activities. These activities include departmental BBQ’s, CPR training events for the community and any other opportunities that may arise to give a candidate a chance to be visible to the members of the department. As you are flipping burgers, it is entirely possible that a captain, battalion chief or even the fire chief will stop you and introduce him or herself. This is your opportunity meet influential people on the department. Once the introductions are made, the conversation often steers toward what you are doing. This is your opportunity to explain that it is your goal to become a member of the department.
Most departments have a minimum passing score for the written exam and physical agility tests. This leaves the bulk of the score (oftentimes 100%) for the oral interview. Since we are looking to hire people we like and want to have as part of our family, it is imperative that the oral board knows who you are before you walk in the door. This may be extremely difficult on a large department since there are just too many people to meet. On a smaller department it is possible to “make the rounds” to all or most of the fire stations before your oral interview. Imagine what an incredible opportunity it would be to take a practice interview with experienced firefighters.
It is important to note that you are establishing your reputation the minute you walk into the fire station. If you make a favorable impression, the firefighters will help you and maybe even pass positive information to the oral board. The same thing can be said if you make a poor showing.
It is impossible for the board to get to know you within a 20 – 30 minute interview. A candidate who maximizes his or her time before the interview by spending time in the stations and getting to know the firefighters can vastly improve his or her score. If the firefighters like you, they can put in a word to the oral board. If the oral board doesn’t have a good feel for you there is no way you will score in the top.
The way we score candidates is different than most people would expect. If the board consists of two or three firefighters, the minute you walk out the door we look at each other and try to decide if we want you on our crew. If the interviewers really like you they will score you in the high 90’s. If they thought you were the average “vanilla” candidate with the usual complement of fire science classes, maybe even the academy and a reserve firefighter position, you will be in the low to mid 80’s. If the board really doesn’t like your demeanor or feels like you were completely unprepared for the interview, you will be below the minimum score of 70%.
If you have already taken fire department examinations, reflect back to your oral interview scores and try to interpret what the board is trying to tell you. If you are in the high 90’s I would suggest that you make sure you are in top physical condition. You are on the brink of being hired. Don’t change what you are doing, as you are already on the right track.
If you have taken a plethora of fire science courses and are doing all the right things to get a job, but still find yourself in the low to mid 80’s, you need to re-evaluate how you are performing on your interviews. It is important to remember that it is not about having more qualifications than the next candidate; it’s about coming across as someone we want to have on our crew. If you already have all of the wallpaper (certificates and classes) and you are not scoring well, you have a serious problem. It’s time to seek some outside advice. Your best bet is to find as many people as you can to give you mock interviews. Hopefully someone can identify what you are doing wrong and stop you from spinning your wheels.
If you scored below a 70% and this was your first or second exam, don’t worry, as it’s a long process. Continue taking fire science courses and learn as much as you can about the fire service. The more you understand about our culture and idiosyncrasies, the more you will be able to prove you are ready for the position.
The fire service is a unique occupation. There is no matrix to follow to ensure you will be offered a position. It’s actually the opposite. A candidate can have all of the horsepower known to mankind and still not be offered a position, while a candidate who has never taken a single class is offered a job on his or her first examination. To an outsider it may be quite perplexing. To an insider we all understand it is about being the person we all want to have on our crew. It really is not that complicated. | <urn:uuid:77a47a40-f9dc-4a32-9518-f85cca19f2aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://firelink.monster.com/training/articles/148-what-it-takes-to-land-a-job | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00013-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973356 | 1,216 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Comics in the Time of Coronavirus
If you’re a genre geek like me, the past couple weeks have likely called to mind the opening chapters of Stephen King’s The Stand or the closing credits of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, watching a contagion fan out and flare up around the globe. With the cancellations of conventions, closing of publishers’ offices, and postponement or halted production of movies like New Mutants and Shang-Chi, it’s clear the comics industry isn’t immune to the effects of COVID-19 novel coronavirus. As we all stock up on antibacterial hand sanitizer, some thoughts on how to prepare for and survive the coming outbreak:
Make Social Distancing and Self-Quarantine Productive
Jokes have been made about how cartoonists and comic geeks are well-prepared for a long stint as introverted shut-ins, but there’s likely a kernel of truth to that punchline. As the empty grocery shelves can attest, people are preparing for a long duration of isolation, either as they recover from the illness or out of an abundance of caution. While it may be tempting to use this time to work through your Netflix queue or build forts out of your stockpiled rolls of toilet paper, it’s a good opportunity to embrace your inner cartoonist (and the kernel of truth in that joke).
If your schedule suddenly opens up as everything around you closes down, take the time to plot, script, or draw your comic. Even if you spend some time burning through your streaming backlog, keep a sketchbook or notebook handy to explore ideas and keep your creative juices flowing. In addition to making the most of a quarantine, it’ll give you a distraction from the worry of the outbreak, as art and creativity can help with stress and anxiety.
Support Your Local Comic Retailer
It’s understood that everyone’s wallets are preparing for a potential hit, especially if your income depends on a job you can’t do from home. Keep in mind that your local comics retailer holds such a job. so before you’re homebound, pay them a visit (assuming you’re not unwell) and support them if you can to help them weather the storm.
- Pick up your subscription. Not only will it help give your retailer some funds to help them survive the coming weeks as business dips, but it’ll give you some reading material to help bide the time.
- Stock up on bags and boards. Another way to spend the time would be to go through your long boxes and make sure your collection is protected and in good shape. (It’s also always a good excuse to revisit old faves and creative influences!)
Take Care of Yourself
Of course, the most important thing is to take the virus seriously, but don’t stress. Worry can weaken your immunity system, which is counterproductive during a contagion event. Pay attention to your mental and physical health! Step away from the drawing board or couch to get some exercise around the house, and get out into the sunshine every once in a while (just avoid large crowds or those at higher risk of the virus). Stay well, and we’ll get through this all together!
Editor, Artist, Letterer, Colorist Steve is the long-running cartoonist at the Charleston, SC alt-weekly Charleston City Paper, where he skewers politicians and criminals (and criminal politicians) alike with editorial cartoons and police blotter illustrations every issue. Steve was best known his indie comic book (and subsequent webcomic) BOONDOGGLE | <urn:uuid:4d784f47-95e5-40ee-bcff-66ac2c44bce9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sketchmagazine.net/2020/03/16/comics-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-by-steve-stegelin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.93453 | 761 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Over the past few years, Rollins College students have expressed their desire for a more sustainable campus, and faculty and staff listened. In recent years, Rollins has made changes which would make the campus more sustainable. Basic water fountains have been outfitted with hydration stations, which is simply an additional spout which can fill a reusable water bottle or jug with cold, filtered water. This made drinking water from reusable bottles more enjoyable. In addition to this, last school year, Sodexo, Rollins food service, sold boxed water. In addition, Sodexo provides biodegradable to-go boxes, which can be removed from the campus center for student use.
While these are all great ways of making the campus more sustainable, students still felt that the college was not doing enough to lessen our invironmental impact. In response to the plastic bag bans and taxes taking place throughout the United States, students expressed their desire to remove plastic grocery bags from all food service locations on campus. The Rollins Sustainability Coalition, with the support of student government, began to implement plans to remove plastic bags from food service locations during the 2016-2017 school year. In January 2017, students began to see positive change come to campus. Fewer and fewer grocery bags were provided for student use in the cafés, and in February the bags were completely removed from the cafés, and students were even urged to purchase reusable coffee cups.
Students saw big changes when they returned from spring break. During the week of March 20, Eco Rollins and Rollins Sustainability distributed free reusable bags for students. On March 27, all campus food locations stopped distributing plastic grocery bags to students. The Rollins C-Store, the convenience store on campus, one of the locations with the highest need to distribute plastic bags is now selling reusable bags for two dollars; however, students must purchase these bags with their own funding. Meal plan dollars cannot be used to purchase the bags.
While the removal of plastic grocery bags will be an inconvenience to some students at first, many students are taking this initiative … in stride. As college students, we may think that the purpose of our four years spent here is to simply prepare us for a career or graduate school; however, that is not the case. In college, we are also taught to think locally and act globally. One way to do this is by implementing sustainable practice on campus, so we can ensure a better tomorrow today. | <urn:uuid:68b16129-40a3-4fcf-98ff-9c9711754435> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/creating-tomorrow-today-rollins-college-removes-plastic-bags-food-service-locations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974339 | 494 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Beauty pageants have been the most important television event for many Americans but now researchers learned that those beauty competitions are bringing many problems to the whole society so pageants should disappear for the nations benefit Beauty pageants affect girls self-esteem making them feel down graded and ugly Young women and girls often feel very uncomfortable with their bodies because women in beauty pageants look thin sexy and voluptuous and that is the body ordinary women would like to have The pageants contestants often have a plastic surgery to make their boobs bigger have a face lift and many other things that makes contestants look gorgeous but the women who are not involved in beauty pageants think that the contestants are natural therefore average women feel bad about their bodies and often starve themselves in order to get thinner In the Unites States there are many girls undernourished because of they want to be as thin as a beauty queen in consequence those girls are becoming anorexics or bulimics bringing danger to their lives Beauty pageants should came to an end to stop all that disconfirming feelings of average women of being less than those women parading for millions of people competing for the queen title and a tiara Dr Benjamin Caballero director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins says Pageants officials should begin taking out contestants who are too thin Pritchard That measure can help girls to find out that being too skinny is not very important and that way girls can feel a little bit more secure about their bodies Caballero also said that people in the contest try to present an image that is healthy therefore if they dont accept anyone that has a BMI in the obesity range those people should not accept people with BMI in the range of under nutrition Pritchard There she isexhausted hungry taped up padded and probably in debt But shes smiling
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- "Caf? It's a bitter, uh, caffeinated beverage served hot."
- ―Khedryn Faal
Caf or caffa was a weak stimulant beverage brewed from caf beans native to the planets Garqi and Charra. On many planets, one could also buy instant caf, but most preferred it brewed the old fashioned way using a caf distiller, or with a caf dispenser. Sugar, milk, cream, and sweetener could be added to caf in order to vary the taste.
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The UK's 1,000-plus tax reliefs are confusing and help people avoid or evade tax, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said.
There are 1,128 different tax reliefs in the UK, creating a very complex tax system, according to a new report by the PAC.
The government spends £100bn every year on reliefs designed to promote jobs and growth, or investment in the arts. "Whilst well-intentioned, every one of these tax reliefs creates opportunities for avoidance and evasion," said Margaret Hodge, chair of the committee of MPs.
She gave the example of how film tax relief has been exploited by tax avoidance schemes.
The government has tried to simplify the tax system but so far it has only abolished 43 tax reliefs and another 134 have been introduced since 2011, the PAC said.
The committee said much more radical simplification of the tax system is required to "to get to grips with aggressive tax avoidance".
But some accountants, such as members of the UK 200 Group of independent accountancy and law firms, said tax reliefs are useful and aren't easy to scrap.
“The personal allowance is a tax relief. Does Margaret Hodge have a problem with that relief," said Paul Short, partner, at Lambert Chapman. "Where do you draw the line?"
David Whiscombe, director of tax at Berg Kaprow Lewis, said simple tax system is probably be less fair than a more complex one with more tax relief.
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We have been studying the worklives of engineers concerned with the outside plant part of the telecommunications network, the part between customer locations and the closest exchange. Outside plant engineers, we suggest, engage in work activities, which are characterized by their situatedness. This makes observation of factors leading to action more accessible. Our analysis, based both on user views expressed in a survey and on a series of field observations, has helped to identify critical aspects of the engineer's task that can be supported by future computer-based support tools. We believe this approach may yield similar benefits in other domains.
Most human mental activity involves conforming the specific and the general: To make sense of the particulars of the world in time and space, the human perceptual and cognitive apparatus strives to abstract meaningful and comfortable general mental structures. Suchman (1987) has recently extended this line of reasoning to a theoretical framework for building interactive machines that can truly support social and communicative behavior. The theory centers on the inherent situatedness of human action. According to Suchman, every human action occurs in a physical and social situation, which is central to interpreting that action. She suggests that a full account of action resides in the emergent properties of interactions between individuals and the environment.
Telephone operating company engineers work in larger organizational clusters. This organization maintains the integrity and readiness of the telecommunications network constrained by regulatory, technological, and business needs. Its activities involve a cycle of forecasting needs, planning to meet them, designing engineering solutions, implementing those solutions, meeting unplanned customer needs, and monitoring the network to provide feedback to the process.
The work of outside plant engineers is at the heart of this activity. It is triggered by requests from others in the company for changes to network facilities. In most cases underspecified information is presented for correction and adaptation to the local conditions (including geographic, construction and budget resources, and temporal constraints). This combination of varying job mix, required detailed local knowledge, and informational deficiencies provides the inherent situatedness of the engineer's work.
In a recent survey conducted in the Bell Operating Companies, outside plant engineers were asked to describe aspects of their work activities in their own words. This yielded a user-based view of their activities. Videotaped sessions were conducted of engineers performing their tasks in the field. The survey-based profile identified social and other situational characteristics of activities. Engineering support of held orders, for example, is a category of situation-demanded, unplanned activity not sufficiently supported by computer-based tools.
Our observation is that computer-based solutions have yet to play a major role in supporting these tasks. Early analyses indicate a number of pitfalls for computer aids designed without consideration of the task environment. We briefly describe two areas. The information flow to and from the engineer is asynchronous and often not under the worker's control. One result, then, is that any data-entry or form-generation system intended for engineers must be flexible or least have overrides for error correction and completeness checking.
A second observation notes the interaction of time-scale and interruptibility of an engineer's tasks. A planning task may extend over weeks, while the need to assign a line to a customer may only require minutes, but can override other tasks. The amount of time available for a given task will vary depending on the situation. A support system at a minimum has to conform by being interruptible and restartable; advanced systems will supply job context as needed.
Suchman, L.A. (1987) Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
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For us the Internet and is part of our lives, since we find the necessary information and clear to our work, is undoubtedly the toolthat we rely on daily to communicate with friends and family, quickly and easily, besides being an element of entertainment, we can also find the music that we like, their videos and their respectiveletters. In our view ends up being the quickest way of information, finding pages of newspapers, magazines, national and international sites, news updated minute by minute, downloadable books, pictures,diet, meet people from other countries, be in line TV programs through the twit, facebook, etc ...
2) Mention and explain all things you con doit
R: Through the following programs music from our computer went down:
* Ares: We click on the icon of Ares, then go to search tab, enter the name of what I want to download either the artist orsong name, I hope to complete the list of available sources and to I double-click those that are of better quality, represent more than three stars, I hope to be downloaded and is ready to listen tothe song.
From web sites can also download music, but have a separate charge and is more complicated to use and is not widely used by young people like us, if we use means easier and faster.
- Games also downloaded:
There are pages for downloading exclusive games such as:
After I enter the page, look for the category of our game, which may be of war, fights, car,etc ... and then press download and wait until the operation is completed and we have downloaded our game.
- Can you read news on the internet? Mentions pages:
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27th February 2007, 09:40 AM
Two counselors from a Girl Scouts camp asked me about instructional materials for kids. Which materials that are available work well for preparing kids from about age 8 to about age 15?
27th February 2007, 10:38 PM
Sb start, mistral N-trance and the Mistral Prodigy are the most commonly used introduction boards. Of thise the N-trance is the one with the biggest evolutionairy capacety. Sb Go isn't too bad eighter (the larger volumes) but these focus more on progressing then introduction.
Mistral and Gaastra also offer a range of beginner sails. So does fanatic if i recall. Neilpryde launched the 'one' sails and rigs this season.
Hope it helps.
28th February 2007, 09:24 AM
US Sailing and US Windsurfing may have some text books on windsurfing, but other than small pamphlets I don't know of anything specific to kids.
Starboard has some video's and DVD's. US Windsurfing has the Beth Powell "Simulator Drills" DVD. US Sailing may have a similar DVD done by Calema.
I'll check around and see what else I can come with.
Hope this helps,
28th February 2007, 09:55 AM
Thank you for responding, Crazychemical. I realize using the word, "materials" didn't clearly show I was looking for things like video's, DVDs or written items.
Thank you, Roger. I can see a marketing need for materials to teach kids how to windsurf and for materials that teach instructors how to teach kids.
Are you going to market your mast track extender?
28th February 2007, 07:02 PM
yeah, i was wondering .... i mean,n u own a lot, even a start, so i thoguht u were just seeing whatbelse is on the market. Anyhow, we're all trying to help i spose. Have fun with them scouts :)
28th February 2007, 07:29 PM
No, I have no plans to market the "auxiliary mast track".
I built that device just to prove to myself (and hopefully the design
team at Starboard) that the position of the mast foot, with sails < 2.0 m2, as indeed the problem with the smaller kids staying upwind.
I'd be glad to have someone else manufacture and market it.
I and provide some elemantary drawings, and a list of materials fairly easily.
Are your Girl Scout leaders trying to put together a windsurfing program for the Girl Scout organization, or just for their local Girl Scout Troops?
I'd be happy to work with them to obtain the DVD's and other materials and put together a program that works for the young women in the GS organization. I believe they still earn "merit badges" for different sports and projects and there's no reason that windsurfing cannot be one of those "merit badge" sports.
We could easily put together a program with the basics, as well as a look at some more advanced skills (like freestyle) so the girls could learn the basics and then have some room to "advance their skills" to higher levels.
Hope this helps,
1st March 2007, 12:03 PM
Roger, I will ask about windsurfing merit badges for Girl Scouts. The two counselors I talked to are college students who work during the summer at Camp Tanglefoot, a Girl Scout camp, with a few old windsurfers such as an O'Brien Excellerator. The campers come from quite a few different local Girl Scout troops, during the summer they have a staff of about 30 counselors or instructors.
Camp Tanglefoot is on Clear Lake at the town of Clear Lake IA, about 2.5 to 3 interestate hours ESE from Worthington MN (where I hope to see you again this year). I checked their website, in 2006 they opened 6-12-06, the Monday after the Worthington Regatta. The website says they serve about 3,000 campers with a staff of 30, so I'd guess they have at least 300 campers each week. Sailing is one of the activities they advertise.
When I started this thread I was dense and not thinking about the possibility that you might be able to fit them in on your Taste of Windsurfing Tour. My only contact so far was a few minutes with the two counselors who are local college students who saw me snowsailing with my modified tobaggon and recognized the sail as a windsurfing sail. I googled Girl Scout Camps in Iowa to find the Camp Tanglefoot name. Send an email to me directly, firstname.lastname@example.org and I can give you the email address I have for one of the counselors. They should know who to contact at Tanglefoot. Let me know what I can do to help. I can contact the camp and the North Iowa Girl Scout Council if you think the first contact should come from someone more local. Clear Lake is about 90 interestate minutes from where I live. A successful windsurfing program at that camp would definitely mean more windsurfers in my area.
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As the conservative Tea Party movement has picked up steam over the past year, leading national media outlets—many of which were slow to cover the movement at first—have begun to pay more attention. On Tuesday, the movement’s mainstream media profile was raised quite a bit, as The New York Times published a 4,500-word front-page story, the product of five months of work by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Barstow. On Tuesday afternoon, Barstow discussed his reporting process, and what he learned about the Tea Party, with CJR assistant editor Greg Marx.
Greg Marx: When did you first get started on this story, and what drew you to it?
David Barstow: As my editors in the investigative unit and I were watching the events of last summer—the town halls, the rise of the Tea Party movement—we were thinking about how to examine this more carefully, to figure out what’s going on. And as I was trying to think of a way to start wrapping my arms around the subject, it happened that the Tea Party Express bus tour was about to embark and cross the country, stopping at rallies all over the place. And it just seemed that one really good way to quickly get a sense of the people who are drawn to the movement was to get on that bus and go across the country with them. We stopped at thirty or more different Tea Party rallies during that fifteen-, sixteen-day period, and it gave me a chance to begin doing literally hundreds of interviews to see the thematic connections between the folks who were showing up at these events.
I realized fairly quickly, though, that the Tea Party Express in its own way was a somewhat anomalous creation. It was something that a group of political operatives in California had put together to serve a pretty distinct agenda, which was to try to harness the energy of the movement to flip congressional seats from blue to red. The people who were running that bus tour were not really representative of the Tea Party movement as a whole, which was very much a grassroots creation that was drawing in lots of newcomers who were extremely concerned about preserving their independence and not being co-opted. And that fear included the Tea Party Express—for example, people in Spokane, Wash., debated for days and days about whether or not they should even host the Tea Party Express.
In the end, the bus tour hardly figured into my story at all. That first phase of reporting was an opportunity to get a broad feel for the kinds of people, the kinds of issues that were connecting all of these different protests around the country. But what I really wanted to deal with was this idea of people being transformed by this movement, of someone like Pam Stout, who had never even given a campaign donation in her life, suddenly becoming president of her local Tea Party.
GM: When did you settle on that story?
DB: I’m not sure I could put a finger on it. But at some point along the way I was struck by the number of people who had really been transformed since the recession hit. You could not miss the number of people who were drawn to this movement because of the events of the fall of ’08. That was one theme that became really clear to me—their incredible anger at the economic pain that they were witnessing in their own lives and the lives of their friends and family, and their anger and disappointment at the government’s role in both the events that led to the recession and the response, especially the bailouts.
The other thing that came through was this idea of impending tyranny. You could not go to Tea Party rallies or spend time talking to people within the movement without hearing that fear expressed in myriad ways. I was struck by the number of people who had come to the point where they were literally in fear of whether or not the United States of America would continue to be a free country. I just started seeing that theme come up everywhere I went.
And at some point I knew I wanted to try to ground my story in a particular place. A limitation of traveling around on the Tea Party Express was that we weren’t in any one place for long enough to get to know the local leaders of this conservative uprising—and by the way, the uprising wasn’t merely about the Tea Party movement. You had the emergence of the 9/12 movement, you had the re-emergence of groups like the John Birch Society, you had the incredible strength of Campaign for Liberty, and you could see all these different groups—which are in many ways more aligned with Patriot movement ideology than they are with any Republican establishment organization—both drawn to the Tea Party movement but also coalescing within it. I wanted to find a framework to tell that particular story.
GM: How did you settle on the inland Northwest?
DB: Part of it was happenstance. A second bus tour was planned, and at that point I was thinking that I might do some reporting in a place where the Tea Party Express was going to arrive—see it come in, then see it leave, but still be writing about the people in that particular place. And it just so happened the Tea Party Express was going to be in Spokane in late October, at a time when I could be there.
I also was aware of the history of anti-government activism in that area, and I knew there was a very robust community of human rights and civil rights activists that had sprung up in response to some of the Ruby Ridge stuff. And in grounding my story in a place, I wanted to find a way to reflect how people who were coming at the Tea Party movement from a different point of view were evaluating it. I just thought it was important to find a way to deal with this story on multiple dimensions.
GM: Once you focused on a local area, was it still difficult to figure out who was in charge, what the networks were, who represented who?
DB: It’s certainly much easier once you’re in a particular place to figure out who the characters are and who’s doing what. On the other hand, while it’s completely true to say that this is a very difficult movement to report on because of its factionalized nature, you can make too much of that. If you spend enough time talking to people in the movement, eventually you hear enough of the same kinds of ideas, the same kinds of concerns, and you begin to recognize what the ideology is, what the paradigm is that they’re operating in.
There are exceptions, as I noted in the story, but generally it becomes very familiar: you begin to understand why it is that they’re so concerned about ACORN, why it is that they’re so concerned about global warming, why it is that they’re worried about the potential for things like FEMA camps. You understand why they’re so angry not just at Obama and the Democrats, but also at people like John McCain. You understand where they’re coming from on stimulus and bailouts and the Federal Reserve. If you scrape deep enough with people and spend enough time really listening to what they’re concerned about, it does tend to gel. There’s a fear that both parties have been complicit in this giant charade that has done enormous damage to ordinary Americans. It’s very complex, and yet at the same time there is something coherent about it.
GM: One of the things that readers seem to have responded to is the militia angle that you describe in the story. Is that something that’s nationwide, or a reflection of the region you focused on?
DB: The militia movement is on the rise in lots of different places, not just in the inland Northwest. I saw the people who were active in militia movements showing up all across the country. That is not to say that everybody in the Tea Party movement is part of a militia group; that’s absolutely not the case. But you will be hard-pressed to find people in the Tea Party movement who think there’s anything wrong with going out on a weekend with a bunch of other people and doing paramilitary training. There’s a much broader acceptance of that idea.
GM: Were the people you were writing about wary about being approached by a New York Times reporter?
DB: There’s obviously a large amount of mistrust toward mainstream media, including The New York Times and other news organizations that they see as being a part of the problem. You might get a weird look, or “You’re from the what?” But by and large, there’s a deep desire among the people who are in this movement to be understood. They want to be heard; they want to reach a bigger audience.
GM: Were there other reporters, or other journalistic institutions, whose work you found useful?
DB: I certainly tried to read everything I could that was written about the movement. But what is more important is to understand some of the books that are at its core. You really do need to read The Five Thousand Year Leap and understand who Cleon Skousen is. You need to know who Edward Griffin is, and how his book The Creature from Jekyll Island plays into this. You need to understand why Atlas Shrugged has become such a big seller in this country. It’s not just reading the stories about the Tea Party movement, it’s actually delving in to the body of books and magazines and Web sites that help form the walls and floors and ceilings of this political subculture. A big part of this movement that has not been well explained or understood by the media is that there is a robust intellectual subculture to it. These people are going to seminars on the Constitution; they are reading books; they are taking a new look at their country and how it got to where it is today, and that’s something I was trying to reflect in the story.
GM: Are there other points you think the media has not captured?
DB: I think a lot of stories approach the Tea Party movement from the frame that this is a fight about how conservative the Republican Party should be. And there’s obviously something important about that, and it should be explored, but the Tea Party movement that I’ve come to know is aiming higher than that. They are seeking a bigger transformation than just nudging the Republican Party a little bit to the right. You start seeing, for example, their feelings about wanting a drastically smaller federal government. And you’re seeing some of those ideas percolate up to the policy realm; look at Paul Ryan putting out a budget proposal that would phase out or seek to privatize Social Security. It’s not merely about trying to get rid of a couple moderate Republicans; it’s seeking a much more sweeping political reordering. I think sometimes the coverage has a hard time explaining that. A lot of the coverage is about how these people want smaller government and less taxation. That’s true, and yet it doesn’t completely get what’s going on.
GM: Did you come to any conclusions about whether that project is viable?
DB: I have no idea. I was just trying to do the best job I could to explain what it was what that I was seeing. That’s a hard enough job as it is, rather than trying to figure out whether or not it’s going to work.
GM: You started in September and didn’t write anything else while you were working on this story. Even in the investigative unit, is there any institutional pressure to hurry up and get the piece done?
DB: I think we all understood that when you embark on something like this, it’s not like you can go to a GAO report and read up on it quickly. It’s not like there was a body of literature that you can go out and quickly get up to speed. It requires more patience to spend enough time, and do enough interviews, to get to a point where you feel “Okay, I got it.” This is precisely the kind of story and precisely the kind of topic where having the resources and the time to go deep is not just a luxury, but really a necessity, in order to do a decent job explaining a movement that people are struggling to get a grip on. | <urn:uuid:53bc6f51-d02f-44c5-aed9-15f672487f10> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/qa_david_barstow.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984289 | 2,558 | 1.578125 | 2 |
‘The film has a classic three-part structure which is neatly directed to understand the story. There is a parallel edit of the present day character telling the story of her youth.’
The short feature Remember (Пам’ятати / Pamyataty) from 2016 is the first film by the young Ukrainian Roma director Petro Rusanienko. Based on historical facts, it tells the story of two brave women during World War II.
Lyalya, the only Roma survivor in her community, escapes from the Nazis and finds shelter with a young Ukrainian woman, Maria. The story is periodically narrated by Maria in old age, as she passionately recalls the events to her granddaughter. The film powerfully portrays female heroism, empathy and compassion through the short-lasting friendship between the two young women.
Although Maria does not initially want to hide Lyalya in her house ‘because she is a “Gypsy”’, Lyalya’s simple and sincere inquiry makes all the difference: ‘What makes us different? I was given a life just like you!’
After learning Lyalya’s tragic fate, Maria is moved and deeply sympathetic, although she was hesitant and uncaring at first. Lyalya’s song in Romanes reveals her inner strength and brevity; she decides to leave the shelter although Maria urges her to stay. Lyalya’s death deeply shakes Maria. At the end, the older Maria and her granddaughter lay some flowers at a memorial site commemorating Roma victims during the Holocaust (a statue of a caravan on rocks).
The film is highly relevant in terms of Romani history, and is packed with messages and emotions: the significance of honouring Roma war victims, the injustice faced by Roma, the importance of personal bonds, and the importance of passing on memories of the deceased to the new generation. Furthermore, the positive storyline aids understanding of the suffering of Romani communities. The fresh and realistic storyline contains traces of Romani culture, including music and original Romani lyrics, which makes it even more vivid and realistic.
Teaser from the movie presented on 27 January 2017, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, http://legalspace.org/en/component/k2/item/8753-pam- iataty-film- pro-podii- shcho-boliat- u- sertsiakh-milioniv- romiv
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Families come in different forms. Just because you aren’t married, have a same-sex spouse or can’t conceive naturally doesn’t mean that you can’t have children. There isn’t just one way to adopt a child. The two primary routes are domestic adoptions from within the United States and international adoptions. Understanding the hows, whats and whys of the adoption process is the first step to starting your family.
Types of Domestic Adoptions
If you plan on adopting domestically, you have several different options. You can adopt a child who is living in foster care -- including your foster care -- or opt for an independent adoption, according to the National Adoption Center.
Independent and infant adoptions may involve closed or open processes. You don’t receive any identifying information about, or have contact with, the birth parents in a closed adoption. In an open adoption, you may meet the birth parents, talk to them on the phone or communicate through letters and pictures. Each state has its own guidelines governing domestic adoptions. These include who can adopt, what is needed to adopt and the how the process works.
Pick an Agency
The first step in the adoption process is to pick a reputable agency. The agency must be licensed by your state; if not, seek one that is so you're ensured you are going through the proper legal channels. Different agencies may specialize in different types of adoptions. Some may place all children of all ages, while others may only place children of a specific age, such as infants. Visiting a few different agencies and talking to other adoptive parents in your area can help you make an informed decision.
Complete a Home Study
Every prospective adoptive family needs to complete a home study. This is true for both domestic and international adoptions. The home study has two purposes: to educate future adoptive parents about the process and evaluate the parents’ fitness to raise children. Each state has specific rules and requirements for home studies.
The home study includes a visit from a licensed case worker. The case worker inspects your home for safety and interviews you and your family. The interview may include questions about why you want to adopt, infertility issues, how you envision your adoptive child fitting in with the family, or how you handle challenging situations.
During this step you also need to provide different types of documentation. This may include a health statement, income verification, insurance verification and background checks.
Pass Background Checks
Even though every state differs when it comes to the adoption process, all states have some form of regulations regarding criminal background checks, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Child Welfare Information Gateway. The background check verifies that you’ve never been convicted of felony child abuse, spousal abuse, child neglect, a crime against children, child pornography, a violent crime, sexual assault or homicide. In 18 states, these offenses will disqualify you from adoptions. You may also need to be free from felony convictions for drug-related offenses, physical assault or battery in the past five years.
Not only must you pass the criminal background checks, but so must your spouse and any other adult living in your home. Some states also require additional local criminal background checks. If you are a foster parent adopting through the foster care system, you have already gone through these checks.
Find a Child
After you’re approved to adopt, you can search for a child. Depending on if you want an open or closed adoption, this may involve meeting with birth parents or reviewing case files. In an open adoption, the birth mother, and possibly father, will meet you and decide if you will be the "one." The birth parents may not have as much involvement in a closed adoption. You won’t meet them, learn their names or receive information about them.
Make a Match
When a match is made, the state will place the child in your care. In some states, you may get regular visits from a caseworker. The caseworker makes sure that everything is going smoothly and answers questions that you may have. The adoption isn’t final until a judge gives you a decree. When this happens, the child is legally your own.
International adoptions have some similarities with domestic adoptions, and some differences. While you’ll need to find an agency and have a home study, you also need to follow the laws and policies of the adoptive country. There are two primary ways that non-relatives can adopt internationally: Hague and orphan adoptions. Hague adoptions are from countries that are part of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. You must use a Hague-authorized adoption service provider agency if the country is part of the convention. You don’t need to use a Hague-authorized agency for orphan adoptions.
The specific adoption process happens in your child’s country. You need to visit the country to complete the adoption. Before you bring your child home, you need to complete all of the U.S. immigration applications and petitions that the Citizenship and Immigration Services requires. When your application and petition are approved, you can get an immigrant visa for your child. | <urn:uuid:5cbc7052-2aec-4739-b153-46c80c8a78ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://howtoadult.com/adopt-child-1688.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00516-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93889 | 1,082 | 2.296875 | 2 |
IJSRP, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2012 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
In recent years, emerging market economies (EMEs) are increasingly becoming a source of foreign investment for rest of the world. It is not only a sign of their increasing participation in the global economy but also of their increasing competence. More importantly, a growing impetus for change today is coming from developing countries and economies in transition, where a number of private as well as state-owned enterprises are increasingly undertaking outward expansion through foreign direct investments (FDI). Companies are expanding their business operations by investing overseas with a view to acquiring a regional and global reach. . Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India country assumed critical importance in the context of this liberalization. Though India is the tenth most industrialized country in the world, it is well known that it is mainly agro-based with around 70% population engaged in the farm sector. However, in the initial stage of liberalization, FDI was centered on the urban manufacturing sectors because of its civic infrastructure, labor availability, flexible taxation mechanism etc. The success story of FDI in these sectors is known to us. The present paper is an attempt to study the future prospects of FDI in India in pension funds. | <urn:uuid:11fb49a7-1444-4876-a21d-1248b7b5d2d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1212.php?rp=P12543 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.96396 | 265 | 1.539063 | 2 |
ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY... 15 years ago, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) held its annual Starrcade event on December 28th, 1997. Since the 1980's, Starrcade was the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Mid-Atlantic's top event and remained as such when the promotion was bought and renamed to World Championship Wrestling by "Billionaire" Ted Turner, owner, operator, and innovator of Cable Networks CNN, TBS, and TNT. The event used to be a Thanksgiving tradition until Survivor Series 1987 challenged its spot. Starrcade then became a December tradition and dominated that month for over a decade as WCW's #1 big show of the year. Starrcade was WCW's Wrestlemania, so to speak.
Starrcade 1997 was supposed to be the biggest Pay Per View of the 1990's. In fact, before Wrestlemania 14 in 1998 outdrew it a few months later to kick off the WWF "Attitude Era", Starrcade 1997 was in fact the #1 drawing Pay Per View of ALL TIME (well, maybe tied with WWF's Wrestlemania 5 in 1989). The hype for Starrcade 1997 was HUGE during 1997. WCW was the top promotion in the world and continued to extend its ratings streak for WCW Nitro over WWF's Monday Night RAW since 1996. WCW had the hottest angle in the land with the New World Order (NWO) heel stable and one of the deepest talent rosters of all time. Starrcade 1997 was supposed to be the show that further distanced itself from its main competitor, World Wrestling Federation (WWF) who had some rough times during 1997. After all, the WWF just gave away Bret "the Hitman" Hart to WCW by opting out of Bret's 20 year WWF deal. In fact, Bret Hart was actually booked to participate at Starrcade 1997.
The show featured what should have been the ultimate blow-off match between then WCW Champion and leader of the NWO "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan versus WCW mainstay and top babyface, Sting. With the New World Order assembling as a massive heel stable during 1996 (core members Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, the Giant [Big Show now in WWE], Syxx [Sean Waltman or X-Pac], and Ted Dibiase), there was a great need for a major babyface foe to square off against the NWO. Lex Luger did a great job during 1997 and even beat Hogan for the WCW Title on Nitro during the Summer of 1997 (Hogan won it back immediately at the Pay Per View). Diamond Dallas Page rose to fame with his Diamond Cutter and became a thorn in NWO's side. His feud with eventual NWO member, "Macho Man" Randy Savage was legendary and DDP is forever grateful for that awesome feud. NWO dismissed the Giant (again, Big Show now in WWE) from the group during late 1996 and he feuded with the NWO for much of 1997. Rowdy Roddy Piper joined WCW at Halloween Havoc 1996 to go after Hogan.
But with due respect to the talents of Lex Luger, Diamond Dallas Page, the Giant (Big Show now in WWE!!!), and Roddy Piper... They didn't defend the WCW shield like the man called Sting. Sting has been with NWA/WCW since 1987 and unlike about every major star in the industry, Sting never jumped ship to another promotion. In fact, he remained with WCW through the promotion's closure during March 2001, even fighting in the very last WCW match against Ric Flair. He was the perfect foe for Hulk Hogan and elements of that could be seen during a November 20th, 1995 edition of WCW Nitro when Hogan and Sting squared off on WCW Nitro. Yes, the famous "he's gonna break it Macho" match, with Hogan dressed in black ironically at the time (he was trying to show his dark side when feuding with the infamous "Dungeon of Doom" stable). WCW fans loved Sting and WCW embarked on a 1 year+ build-up of an eventual Hulk Hogan vs. Sting match-up.
The angle was quite awesome... With the NWO expanding with new members, WCW flirted with the idea that Sting was going to join the NWO. Before Fall Brawl 1996, with the NWO considering its team against Team WCW, Nitro ran a shocking ending for its September 9th, 1996 Nitro where "Sting" came out of a limo and attacked Lex Luger. Here, with "shades of 1990 Halloween Havoc" with Barry Windham dressing up as Sting to lose to Sid Vicious for the WCW Title, a guy dressed up as Sting came out of the limo and attacked Luger! The wrestling world was shocked when they thought that their loyal Stinger had joined the NWO!
But it wasn't Sting... Sting played up the fact that nobody believed his loyalty by showing up the Team WCW at Fall Brawl 1996 and then delivered 2 awesome promos: one with his back turned on WCW and the other in front of the NWO with a new look. Sting was beginning to grow his blond hair out, but in response to an inquiring NWO about joining, yet again, Sting debuted white and black paint like the comic book character the Crow and wore a black trench coat. This was a much darker Sting compared to the bright colored tights and the spiked blond hair. His response to the NWO was classic... "The one thing about Sting these days is nothing's for sure", dropping the microphone, and walking away to a baffled Hulk Hogan. Sting would lurk for much of the next 6 months or so from the rafters, often randomly attacking various WCW wrestlers with a new reverse DDT finisher called the Scorpion Deathdrop. The build up was incredible as his bizarre actions attacking random WCW wrestlers kept fans questioning whether he was still loyal to WCW or not. Great booking that just built the anticipation.
And then Sting struck the NWO. Following the Uncensored 1997 during March 1997 in which the NWO won a group battle match which granted them unlimited power in WCW to challenge for any title at any time, Sting dropped from the rafters and attacked the NWO! The fans in attendance went BONKERS! For the next 9 months, WCW slowly hyped the match that couldn't be avoided: Hulk Hogan vs. Sting. Eventually, the match was made for WCW's biggest show of the year, Starrcade 1997. This show was dripping with anticipation, as fans were already wearing thin on how dominant that the New World Order had become.
The New World Order (NWO), conceived initially as an unofficial WWF "Invasion" angle with a then unnamed Scott Hall and then Kevin Nash showing up unannounced at various WCW events. Hall and Nash would challenge WCW for a 3 on 3 match at Bash at the Beach 1996 in which a mystery 3rd member would be revealed at the show. Hulk Hogan, who was taking time off after the Uncensored 1996 debacle of a match, would end up being the 3rd man and thus turning heel. Hulk Hogan arrived in WCW during 1994 and Eric Bischoff pushed him hard initially as the Red & Yellow babyface he was known for with the WWF but many Southern wrestling fans disliked him because they disliked they Northeast WWF brand of wrestling. For almost 2 years, they had to endure Hulkamania and the cheers became less and less... The timing was perfect for a heel turn and becoming the 3rd man of the NWO fit the bill.
Hall, Nash, and Hogan became a dominant force in WCW, calling themselves the "New World Order of professional wrestling". The NWO name stuck immediately, as did the t-shirts and the awesome paid advertisement promos. They expanded the group almost by the month, at first having great additions but eventually adding almost half of the promotion. The NWO dominated the titles, held their own Pay Per View (Souled Outs in January), and Hulk Hogan had a stranglehold on the WCW Title. By late 1997, however, the NWO was beginning to wear thin on wrestling fans. Too many members, too much merchandise, and just the same repetitive stuff. WCW's Creative Staff, too, began to ditch long-term booking and were booking by the show. Hulk Hogan was beginning to use his contracted "creative control over his character" clause regularly and became too dominant at the top. One would figure that eventually, the NWO would "get theirs" and that WCW would share in the winnings. Many assumed that would be Starrcade 1997 in the possible blow-off match between Hulk Hogan vs. Sting.
Starrcade 1997 card was set...
-Dean Malenko vs. Eddie Guerrero for the Cruiserweight Title
-NWO (Scott Norton, Vincent, Randy Savage) vs. Steiner Brothers/Ray Traylor
-Bill Goldberg (early in streak) vs. Steve "Mongo" McMichael
-Perry Saturn vs. Chris Benoit
-Buff Bagwell vs. Lex Luger
-Diamond Dallas Page vs. Curt Hennig for the US Title
-Kevin Nash vs. the Giant (BIG SHOW!!!)
-Larry Zbyszko vs. Eric Bischoff (LOL - see Bischoff's "loaded foot" kick)
-Sting vs. Hulk Hogan for WCW Title
Seems like a normal WCW Pay Per View for 1997 with the biggest match of the year at the top. One would think that Sting would just go over cleanly versus Hulk Hogan, right? WCW surely wouldn't hype this match for 9 months and botch the finish of what the fans wanted and deserved, right? WCW wouldn't drop the ball on their biggest show of the year, right?
WCW dropped the ball, bigtime ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY.... All 650,000 households who bought the Starrcade 1997 were able to witness the official PEAK of the WCW promotion. Heading into Starrcade 1997, fans didn't realize that 3 years and 3 months later, WCW would be dead as a promotion and purchased by the #2 promotion at the time, WWF. This was the beginning of the end. The match was probably supposed to be a dominating match by Sting and then a clean finish. However, what we got was utter bullshit. Hulk Hogan dominated the match as the heel wrestler. Despite Hogan getting whipped by Sting throughout the last 9 months on demand, Hogan controlled the tempo and flow of the match. Even with Hogan refusing to play the "**** heel", the clean finish could still work. The NWO biased Nick Patrick was the referee and after a Hulk Hogan big boot/legdrop combo, he counted 1, 2, 3 in what appeared to be a normal count.
WHAT?!? Hulk Hogan won the match and cleanly? This is where the Hogan vs. Sting match, to quote Spaceballs, goes from SUCK to BLOW. Bret "the Hitman" Hart, fresh off of his Survivor Series 1997 controversy, comes down to argue with referee Nick Patrick and eventually punches him. Hart was claiming that Nick Patrick counted 1, 2, 3 too fast. Clearly, if you watch the video, Nick Patrick counted normally (see 3:35 below):
Hart, who acted as the "special guest referee" for the Eric Bischoff vs. Larry Zbyszko match-up, must have continued his temporary referee license for another match... He ordered a restart of the match to which Sting would become NEW WCW World Champion by defeating Hulk Hogan with the Scorpion Death Lock. Completely botched finish that ruined Sting's night and moment with loyal WCW fans.
The aftermath was much, much worse... Because of the controversial ending, WCW actually vacated their WCW Title with Commissioner JJ Dillon making the on-screen decision on the first ever edition of WCW Thunder on January 8th, 1998. The title was up for grabs at the Superbrawl 1998 event and Sting won the belt, thanks to Randy Savage turning on Hulk Hogan during the match and cost Hogan the title. Sting was a WCW loyalist since 1987 and its biggest babyface star, yet this was how the promotion booked him. Amazing. Sting wouldn't hold the title for long. Just 2 Pay Per Views later, Randy "Macho Man" Savage defeated Sting at Slamboree 1998. And guess who beat Randy Savage the following night on WCW Nitro? You guessed it, "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan.
Problem with WCW was their refusal to evolve past the NWO storyline with Hulk Hogan as the centralized figure. Certainly, the NWO and Hulk Hogan did great business during 1996-1997, but wrestling fans were hungry for something new. After all, the WCW stacked with many former WWF greats acquired during 1995-1997 along with many great younger wrestlers hungry for a chance. Instead, we had Hulk Hogan running the NWO and being World Champion. During early 1999, WCW's big proposed storyline was to reunite the NWO and you guessed it, make Hulk Hogan champion again. Eric Bischoff simply refused to let go of the two things that saved his career as the WCW chief executive: Hulk Hogan and NWO. Both things saved him from his rough early goings in WCW (see 1993 WCW, ouch!). Instead of letting Sting win cleanly at Starrcade 1997 (transitioning into a "dream match" between Sting vs. Bret Hart for WCW Title to essentially make it title vs. title based on Survivor Series 1997's screwjob events) and then have a storyline where the NWO falls apart, WCW ruined Sting AND Bret Hart while kepping that NWO train going with Hogan as its conductor. WCW had a rising Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash gettig over as "Big Sexy", a hungry Diamond Dallas Page, and a returning Curt Hennig who were all chomping at the bit to take the ball and run with it. Others were growing impatient with WCW's booking and jumped to the WWF during 1999-2000 (Giant or Big Show, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn, etc.).
But instead during 1998, we had Hogan as champion again by the Spring and the NWO growing into 2 factions: NWO Hollywood and NWO Wolfpac. Meanwhile, the WWF was pushing new stars like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and the Rock with a great anti-establishment storyline with real life WWF owner Vince McMahon as the main heel. WWF unloaded their developmental territories and pushed anybody who wanted it. Compared to WCW in 1998, WWF was fresh and hip and had new faces to represent wrestling. That, and great storylines... For 1997-1999, Vince McMahon went with more adult themed storylines and brought on a hungry magazine writer named Vince Russo who wrote interesting storylines. When Russo wore thin through the Summer of 1999, Vince McMahon let him jump to WCW knowing that Russo unleashed could be bad for a promotion. Russo struggled to turn around a sinking ship that was 1 year and 10 months in the making from the aftermath of Starrcade 1997.
By 2000, with the Time Warner corporation merging with America Online to form "AOL / Time Warner", the bean counters began to look at WCW's profitability or lack thereof. It became quite apparent that Eric Bischoff's administration overspent on free agent wrestlers with guaranteed contracts. Making matters worse was all of the promised "creative control" clauses in the contracts as well, with several wrestlers actually receiving promises of a World Title runs (I remember Curt Hennig in particular). The collection of overpaid WCW stars who each had creative control made things tight creatively for WCW. In addition, WCW's production costs skyrocketed through 1998. Expensive television and Pay Per View sets that took many production trucks to haul. It was adding up but the ratings were sinking. WCW Nitro was pushing into being below a 2.0 by the end of its life cycle. Thus, WCW was put up for sale by AOL/Time Warner but limited buyers by canceling WCW Nitro on TNT and WCW Thunder on TBS during early 2001. This allowed for the WWF Corporation to swoop on in and buy WCW for under $5 million, a bargain considering the many years of WCW's video library that the WWE could sell on video.
Makes you wonder how the WWE would react through 2012 if it had legitimate competition as it did during 1995-2001 against World Championship Wrestling. For those of you who HATE John Cena and his dominance at the top, imagine if you could flip the channel on Monday nights to another wrestling promotion if you were sick of Cena. Fans during 1998 could just simply change the channel from WCW on TNT to WWF on USA Network when disgusted with the WCW product. Instead, without a real competitor, the WWE can push who they want and when they want without significant fan reaction. Sure, WWE's numbers are down from years ago, but the company is still profitable (at least when it's not lending $45 million to THQ). The NWO never ending angle should also teach the WWE not to run something into the ground and over-exploit it. After all, the WWE does own the WCW video library and could just watch the tapes...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana, 1905/1906
Starrcade 1997 also shows you the consequences of how a BAD FINISH can harm a wrestler, especially over a World Title. WWE wonders why several of its Money in the Bank winners aren't getting over when they cash in their briefcase and win the title. There is no shame in losing a match cleanly as long as EFFORT by the losing wrestler exists (hence, the phrase "losing effort"). Too much politics over match finishes, as maybe that's what the WCW era created with the end of squash matches and regular roster wrestlers having too much say over their protected spots. The WWE is very protective, especially, over their developmental "Class of 2002" mainstays, John Cena and Randy Orton, while having no hesitation of pushing and quickly demoting other wrestlers. Someone like CM Punk can't get clean wins, let alone a Main Event slot as long as protected John Cena is on the roster. Dolph Ziggler is losing everytime to John Cena without much of an upper hand.
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Conflict with the Serpent, the Woman, and the Son - Part 2
Topic: Sermons Verse: Revelation 12:7–17
What can we learn about the spiritual warfare of the Church?
1. Satan is the enemy of the Church (vv. 7-10, 13).
2. God is the defender of the Church (vv. 11-12, 14-17) (see Aug. 8th Part 3 sermon).
More in Revelation of John
March 27, 2022Five Final Exhortations
March 20, 2022The New Creation - Part 4
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More than 400 Srebrenica massacre victims are being honored with proper burial. The victims were killed in one of the worst massacres in history. Over 8,000 Muslims were executed by Serbian forces in July 1995.
As reported by ABC News, the 409 victims honored today were recovered from a mass grave. The remains were eventually identified through genetic testing, allowing for closure and a proper burial. The 409 victims include one newborn baby and 44 teenage boys.
Nearly 6,000 people joined the funeral march, which followed a 48 mile path. The route was the same one used by victims attempting to flee the genocide.
The friends and family ended their journey at a special cemetery built to honor the Srebrenica massacre victims. Coffins, which were draped with green cloth, awaited the mourners.
For many, the ceremony was bittersweet. However, most were thankful that their loved ones were located and identified for proper burial.
As reported by Fox News, in 1995 Srebrenica was under the protection of the United Nations. On July 11, 1995 Bosnian Serb forces breached the safe-zone, slaughtering over 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
A majority of the victims were forced into trucks and transported to another location where they were executed and thrown into mass graves.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was eventually charged with genocide for ordering the massacre. A total of 38 officials were identified and convicted for their involvement.
Over the last 18 years, thousands of bodies were exhumed for identification and burial. More than 5,500 victims have been identified and buried to date. The remains of over 2,000 victims remain missing or unidentified.
Munira Subasic will bury her son today. The remains of her husband are still missing. Subasic discusses the tragedy:
“Eighteen years later, I have found only two bones belonging to my son… But I decided to bury him as I do not have another life to wait for the remains of my son to be found.”
Zumra Krdzic, who is also present at the memorial, lost her son, husband, and numerous other relatives. She explains that “A book would not be enough to list the names of everyone [she has] lost.”
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The trip included September 12 meetings with Hungary’s leaders… and, later that same day, Slovakia’s Jesuits
Pope Francis began his first visit to Slovakia, a Catholic-majority country of 5.5 million, on September 12, after spending most of the day in Budapest, Hungary, where he celebrated the closing Mass of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress and met Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
It was the first papal visit to the country since 2003.
In Slovakia, he met political authorities, bishops, religious, and priests in the capital city of Bratislava. He also visited a center for the poor and homeless run by the Missionaries of Charity in one of the city’s most impoverished suburbs.
The Pope later met with young people, celebrated a Byzantine Divine Liturgy, and spoke to the minority Roma (gypsy) community in the Luník IX ghetto in eastern Slovakia.
Do not fall into “interior bondage”
After he arrived in Slovakia September 12, Pope Francis exhorted the country’s Ecumenical Council of Churches to prefer God to comfort and security.
Noting the rise of religious freedom in Slovakia in recent years, “after the years of atheistic persecution” of the communist government, Pope Francis implored Christians not to fall into “interior bondage.”
Pope Francis noted “how difficult it is to live your faith in freedom. For there is always the temptation to return to slavery, not that of a regime, but one even worse: an interior bondage.”
“Dear brothers, may this not happen to us! Let us help one another never to fall into the trap of being satisfied with bread and little else,” he said at the meeting.
“Then our goal is no longer ‘the freedom we have in Christ Jesus,’ his truth that sets us free, but the staking out of spaces and privileges, which, as far as the Gospel is concerned, are ‘bread and little else’.”
“Here, from the heart of Europe, we can ask: have we Christians lost some of our zeal for the preaching of the Gospel and for prophetic witness?” he asked.
“It is hard to expect Europe to be increasingly influenced and enriched by the Gospel if we are untroubled by the fact that on this continent we are not yet fully united and are unconcerned for one another.”
The Pope proposed two suggestions in response to the challenge: contemplation and serving the poor.
“Unity is not attained so much by good intentions and agreement about some shared value, but by doing something concrete, together, for those who bring us closest to the Lord. Who are they? They are the poor, for in them Jesus is present,” he said.
“May the gift of God be present on the table of all, so that, even though we are not yet able to share the same Eucharistic meal, we can welcome Jesus together by serving him in the poor,” he said.
He pointed to Sts. Cyril and Methodius, ninth century missionary bishops who are recognized as the “Apostles of the Slavs.” They adapted the Greek alphabet into a script for the Slavonic language, creating the “Cyrillic” alphabet used to translate the bible into Slavonic. “As witnesses of a Christianity still marked by unity and zeal for the preaching of the Gospel, may they help us to persevere on our journey by fostering our fraternal communion in the name of Jesus,” Pope Francis said.
“Some people wanted me to die”
In a subsequent private meeting with Jesuits on September 12, a Jesuit priest asked the Pope how he was doing, to which he replied: “Still alive, even though some people wanted me to die.”
“I know there were even meetings between prelates who thought the Pope’s condition was more serious than the official version. They were preparing for the conclave,” he added. “Patience! Thank God, I’m all right.”
The text of the Pope’s private September 12 meeting with Jesuits in Slovakia was published by Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica on September 21.
During the encounter, one priest spoke with Pope Francis about tension in the Catholic Church in Slovakia, saying that some people see Francis as “heterodox,” while others “idealize you.”
“We Jesuits try to overcome this division,” he said, asking: “How do you deal with people who look at you with suspicion?”
Pope Francis noted that “there is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the Pope.”
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil,” he said.
“Some people accuse me of not talking about holiness,” he continued. “They say I always talk about social issues and that I’m a communist. Yet I wrote an entire apostolic exhortation on holiness, Gaudete et exsultate.”
Condemning “every form of anti-Semitism”
Pope Francis on Monday, September 13 recalled the great suffering endured by the Jewish community in Slovakia during the Holocaust and encouraged Jews and Christians to be united in condemning violence and anti-Semitism.
“Dear brothers and sisters, your history is our history; your sufferings are our sufferings,” the Pope told Slovakia’s Jewish community in Bratislava. “Now is the time when the image of God shining forth in humanity must no longer be obscured. Let us help one another in this effort,” he said.
Francis noted that, “in our day too, so many empty and false idols dishonor the Name of the Most High: the idols of power and money that prevail over human dignity; a spirit of indifference that looks the other way; and forms of manipulation that would exploit religion in the service of power or else reduce it to irrelevance.”
“But also forgetfulness of the past, ignorance prepared to justify anything, anger and hatred,” he added.
“I repeat: Let us unite in condemning all violence and every form of antiSemitism and in working to ensure that God’s image, present in the humanity he created, will never be profaned.”
Bratislava had a large Jewish minority for centuries, with the first record of the Jewish community in the city dating to 1251.
In 1930, 15,000 Jews lived in Bratislava, which at that time had a total population of 120,000. During World War II, almost all of Bratislava’s Jews were deported to concentration camps or labor camps. Around 11,500 Jews then living in the city were murdered in the Holocaust.
Today, Bratislava has the largest Jewish community in Slovakia, numbering around 500.
Confession is the “Sacrament of Joy”
Pope Francis told young Slovakian Catholics at an event on Tuesday, September 14, that confession is an “infallible remedy” for the times when they are feeling down.
Responding to a question from Petra Filová, a 29-year-old student, about how to overcome obstacles to God’s mercy, he said: “Today, there are so many disruptive forces, so many people ready to blame everyone and everything, spreaders of negativity, professional complainers.”
“But when we feel downcast — because everyone in life is a little down at certain times; we all know this experience — what are we to do? There is one infallible remedy that can put us back on our feet. Petra, it is what you said: confession.”.
The live-streamed event took place at Lokomotiva Stadium, attended by an estimated 25,000 exuberant young people, began with an introduction by Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, followed by three testimonies.
The Pope encouraged youngsters to see that God’s mercy, not their sins, is what lies at the heart of confession.
He said: “I will give you a little piece of advice: After each confession, sit still for a few moments in order to remember the forgiveness you received. Hold on to that peace in your heart, that inner freedom you are feeling; not your sins, which no longer exist, but the forgiveness that God has granted you, the caress of God the Father. Just hold on to that; don’t let it fade. And the next time you go to confession, remember: I am going to receive again the embrace that did me so much good. I don’t go to a judge to settle accounts. I go to Jesus who loves me and heals me.”
The Pope also answered a question about the value of chaste love, posed by Peter Lešak, a 37-year-old company manager who is married with three daughters.
The Pope said: “Love is our greatest dream in life, but it does not come cheap. Like all great things in life, love is beautiful, but not easy.”
While love may begin with an emotion, he noted, it should not be reduced to a mere feeling.
“Love is not about having everything now; it is not part of today’s throwaway culture. Love is fidelity, gift and responsibility,” he commented.
The Pope also offered the example of a local, Blessed Anna Kolesárová. Lokomotiva Stadium was the site of the 16-year-old Slovakian laywoman’s beatification on September 1, 2018, a martyr killed “in hatred of the faith.”
In 1944, Soviet troops were passing through Kolesárová’s district. When a soldier entered her home and found the family in hiding, he attempted to rape Kolesárová, threatening her with death if she did not comply. Kolesárová refused, and the soldier shot her in front of her family.
The Pope told young people that Kolesárová taught youth to “aim high,” describing her as a “heroine of love.”
To remain standing beneath the cross
At Slovakia’s national Catholic shrine on Wednesday, September 15, Pope Francis said that Our Lady of Sorrows is a model of how to live the faith with compassion and care for the suffering.
“Mary, Mother of Sorrows, remains at the foot of the Cross. She simply stands there. She does not run away, or try to save herself, or find ways to alleviate her grief,” the Pope said during Mass on Sept. 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
“Here,” he said, “is the proof of true compassion: to remain standing beneath the Cross. To stand there weeping, yet with the faith that knows that, in her Son, God transfigures pain and suffering and triumphs over death.”
On the final day of his visit to Slovakia, Pope Francis offered the livestreamed Mass outside the country’s National Shrine of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in the young town of Šaštín. According to local authorities, around 60,000 people attended the Mass.
The basilica in Šaštín was built to honor the image of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, a figure so important to the people of Slovakia that Pope Pius XI declared her the country’s patroness in 1927.
Before Mass, Pope Francis prayed with Slovakia’s bishops inside the basilica, reciting a prayer of entrustment to Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows.
“Mother of the Church, Consoler of the Afflicted, with confidence we turn to you, in the joys and struggles of our ministry,” they prayed. “Look upon us with tenderness and open your arms to embrace us.
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Fun with a new data set: Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover camera data
Posted By Emily Lakdawalla
28-01-2016 19:08 CST
In a recent guest blog post, Quanzhi Ye pointed to the Chinese version of the Planetary Data System, and shared the great news that Chang'e 3 lander data are now public. The website is a little bit difficult to use, but last week I managed to download all of the data from two of the cameras -- a total of 35 Gigabytes of data! -- and I've spent the subsequent week figuring out what's there and how to handle it.
So, space fans, without further ado, here, for the first time in a format easily accessible to the public, are hundreds and hundreds of science-quality images from the Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover. I don't usually host entire data sets (PDS-formatted and all) but I made an exception in this case because the Chinese website is a bit challenging to use.
- Chang'e 3 Yutu rover panoramic camera (PCAM) data released as of January 20, 2016
- Chang'e 3 lander terrain camera data (TCAM) released as of January 20, 2016
I think that last one is my favorite.
These are not the only two image data sets available, but they were all I was able to download last week, and the website has not worked at all for me this week; you need to log in to download data, and the login function is not working. But I'll keep trying. The next one I'm going to try to grab is the descent camera data set. There are also ultraviolet telescope data. As far as I can tell, there are no engineering camera data available, unfortunately, so there is not much in the way of animateable imagery just yet.
I know from publications by the Chang'e 3 team (like this one, which is a gzipped PDF file) that neither of these two data sets is complete. Both were first used the day after landing, with the first TCAM image at 11:01:38 and the first PCAM image at 12:44:50 UT on December 15, 2013. From then to March 17, 2014, PCAM obtained a total of 780 photos, operating over a total of four lunar days. TCAM, on the other hand, failed over the first lunar night; I don't know how many photos it took, in total.
So far, the data center contains 797 unique observations from TCAM, and 578 for PCAM. For both cameras, both the earliest and the last image data are not yet in the public archive. In particular, the initial PCAM 6-frame mosaic of the lander is not in the database, and the final TCAM images of Earth are also not in the database. So there are more goodies to look forward to.
Some facts about the cameras: the two camera systems are very similar. TCAM consists of a single camera, while PCAM is a stereo pair separated by 27.0 centimeters. They both have CMOS detectors, 2352 by 1728 pixels in size, with Bayer filter arrays for color. The PCAM field of view is 19.7 by 14.5 degrees. The PCAMs were sometimes used in a "panchromatic" mode, in which the images were downsampled by a factor of 2 before download, which also removes color information. Most of the observations are available as both grayscale versions (which haven't been demosaiced to turn them into color), and as color versions. The color in the PCAM images is fairly consistent, but I get weird results with some of the TCAM images.
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By Dr. B. S. Foad
This book was written so that Muslims can understand the basic concepts in the Torah, and how it relates to the Qur’an, and discover many similarities without minimizing differences. It also allows Jews reading this book to understand the Qur’anic point of view and understand the emphasis that the Qur’an placed on the Children of Israel and their efforts and struggles, and why they were favored by God at one time over other nations because of their faith and patient perseverance despite the difficulties they encountered.
Muslims believe in the Torah as a Divine revelation from God to Moses, God’s messenger to the Children of Israel. The Qur’an explains how God rescued the Children of Israel from their oppression and bondage in Egypt and describes God’s many blessings over them. We learn from their good example and avoid the mistakes they made. God is always true to his covenant, it is man who disobeys God and wrongs his own soul.
The Qur’an gives us guidelines that govern the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. We are ordered to treat non-Muslims with kindness and justice and respect their right to their faith and not force anyone to become a Muslim against his will. We are to work together to improve life for all.
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“Mauritius’s state building success came on the backs of relentlessly exploited slaves and indentured labourers. Sugar planters compelled the government to ignore mistreatment on sugar estates, implement unreasonable fines and annual passport fees in the name of preventing ‘vagrancy,’ and harass those workers who tried to search for a better life in urban professions. Planters’ actions were expressly designed to subjugate and repress the politically powerless in order to maximise their economic power. Moreover, the fact that class divides coincided with racial difference meant that economic and political contention between elites and labourers on Mauritius became imbued with what was, at times, virulent racism. The worst of these endeavours were related to the planters’ quest to secure an adequate labour supply in the four decades after 1825. Later initiatives, such as railway construction and research and development programmes, were fairly benign. Together, these undertakings transformed the island’s economy and governmental capabilities. In Mauritius, then, one finds something of a developmental paradox: although the long- term consequences of state building have led to a regional ‘miracle’, the way in which the island’s elite and government laid the groundwork for it was normatively reprehensible.”
That is Ryan Saylor writing in the latest edition of Review of African Political Economy.
The paper mostly focuses on the success story that was Mauritian state (capacity) building. But this paragraph is a reminder to those who imagine a whiggish history for much of the developing world to go take a hard, honest look at history.
Throughout most of history, in order to have barons that successfully limited the power of the king or his equivalent (thus creating the roots of post-enlightenment democracy) you needed barons who could extract the life out of peasants. Wars that made states killed lots of young conscripts, confiscated private property and led to the demise of whole peoples’ ways of life (Not all French had French speaking ancestors, for instance). And speaking of the French, they went through lots of republics and dictatorships to become what they are today. Further afield, following its own civil war the institutions of government designed to protect human rights in the US had to look the other way until the 1960s in order to preserve its democracy. In the 20th century, decades of intolerant Kemalist ideological orthodoxy laid the foundation for the Islamic world’s most resilient democracy in Turkey.
Will Egypt, Rwanda, Kenya and the rest escape these patterns if they are ever to become Denmark, the supposed paragon of liberal democracy?
How does one go about state-building in a modern world with sacrosanct borders and a saner human rights regime?
Recent events in the DRC and CAR confirm the urgency with which we ought to address the question of state-building in the developing world in general, and in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular (see map).
Wars of conquest (which probably would have resulted in Rwanda, Angola and Uganda carving up the DRC) are no longer kosher. Add to that the demands of a tighter and saner human rights regime and you are left with little room to maneuver if you are trying to create an effective state (which occasionally may involve curtailment of political rights). Unless you can somehow insulate yourself from the so called stakeholders, including the International Bleeding Hearts Industrial Complex – like much of east Asia did through the 70s and 80s – you are left with a rather tricky situation of trying to forge a unified state with a million and one centrifugal forces with communal rights backed by threats of donor sanctions. The same system ensures that every rebel group that can cobble together a few guns gets to sit at the table (see Sudan, Mali, Burundi, DRC, CAR, Chad). The UN or some Nordic state pays the hotel bills. Western observers and their sponsoring organizations write reports. Some of them meticulously document human rights abuses by rebels and government troops alike.
Meanwhile censuses are never taken. Taxes are never collected. Little economic activity takes place. And millions of people continue to live just a little bit better than they would in some stateless state of nature.
The present international consensus appears to be one that believes in state-building through democracy and institutions. Lived reality for much of world history appears to contradict this consensus. In most cases democracy and the phantom great institutions appear to lag state-building.
The challenge for those of us interested in state-building is to think of ways to go about the effort in a manner that is sensitive to the present human rights regime and structure of the international system. The present urgency, occasioned by widespread human suffering in the less governed spaces of the globe, requires that all reasonable options (including some uncomfortable ones) be put on the table. | <urn:uuid:8c3d2d04-9f69-4252-9e7f-b3c4a5c88bbc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://kenopalo.com/2012/12/28/5485/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=5d5a17dad5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958074 | 993 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Average student feels at least some level of anxiety before an important exam. But for some individuals, that stress can be severe. As schools administer an increasing number of standardized also high-stakes college admissions tests, it is important to learn how to combat that anxiety. Following five strategies can help you overcome exam-related stress.
Close your eyes also take three deep breaths. Pause a moment after inhaling, long enough to mark change from in two out. Then exhale evenly also fully before beginning again.
Breathing may sound too easy to be useful, but deliberately expanding your chest to take a deep breath relaxes your muscles also encourages them to work normally again. As a bonus, increased flow of oxygen helps energize your brain. Best of all, this technique takes only a moment, so use it just before your test begins or during a particularly difficult section.
This technique worked for me when defending a doctoral dissertation in microbiology. Standing in front of committee of professors could barely squeak, let alone try for eloquence.
2. Set aside time for yourself:
You may feel tremendous pressure to dedicate every waking moment to studying, but it is still important to allot part of your schedule to resting also reconnecting with people you love. Go on a walk to enjoy fresh air, eat dinner with your family, play with your pets or brew a cup of tea.
This is not permission to procrastinate. Research shows that your brain requires time to integrate knowledge. If you never slow flow of information, your mind becomes saturated at a faster rate than you can store new data. Downtime is a prescription for becoming more focused also capable, when used in moderation. Set a timer if you must, but do not neglect your joy, especially while preparing for an important exam.
Multiple studies have proved that physical exercise is a remarkably effective antidote to stress. Like breathing exercises outlined above, exercise prompts you to focus on your body rather than your worries. Many students carry their stress in their bodies also exercise moves your muscles, increases blood flow also works out a good percentage of body knots. When you return to studying, your focus will be much improved.
most useful side effect of increased blood flow is increased circulation that extends well beyond end of your exercise session. Blood carries oxygen also your brain must have oxygen to work properly while you review. Nothing will decrease your test stress faster than realizing that you are learning also making progress.
There is a persistent also damaging myth that pulling an all-nighter indicates your seriousness when preparing for an exam. In truth, studying all evening is worst possible response to anxiety. Not only is it nearly impossible to remember material read at 3 a.m., but a lack of sleep clouds your mind next day also perhaps into week beyond.
Worse, fatigue damages your resilience. Stress is hard on your body. Breathing exercises, downtime also exercise can alleviate effects of anxiety, but none of them will be as effective as sleep. Sleep is how short-term memories formed while studying become long-term memories that can be recalled during test-taking.
5. Take control of your preparation:
Too often, academic stress comes from feeling a lack of control over situation. While other people will be writing test questions also grading your answers, you have power to prepare. Creating a schedule with concrete goals will give you a sense of progression as you complete required tasks before big day. For example, one of my students came to me after struggling with preparation for verbal section of an exam. I gave her goal of memorizing a list of 500 vocabulary words over course of two months.
It sounded like an intimidating also ambitious goal, but when broken down into pieces, she realized that 10 words per day was a very achievable task. Even when she struggles with other parts of test preparation, she can look to her growing stack of index cards as tangible proof of her progress. At times, stress is unavoidable, especially when preparing for major exams. A little stress is a strong motivator, but a lot of stress is harmful also hurts your performance. Use techniques outlined above to keep your balance. | <urn:uuid:37a16083-8aa0-444a-9b80-ae98e7bfba1e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.expertsmind.com/blog/post/five-methods-to-control-anxiety-in-exam-day-7193.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00567-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954408 | 835 | 2.328125 | 2 |
PVPA Curriculum Overview
At Park View we plan the wider curriculum to match the needs of our pupils. The links below will allow you to find out what your child will be learning about this year. These subjects are often linked and are always embedded into our reading, writing and maths teaching. We will also provide knowledge organisers, books, videos and apps that engage children in their learning and that they can share at home.
Please visit the galleries on our subject pages or year group pages below so that you can see the wonderful work produced by your children. You will then be able to post your comments there and share any home learning the children have taken part in. | <urn:uuid:3da739fd-391b-4846-ad03-93ff4ae50a0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pvpa.org.uk/curriculum-overview/pvpa-curriculum-overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.959502 | 136 | 2.578125 | 3 |
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE)- Millions of students graduating from college this year will have a shadow hanging over their heads. An estimated two-thirds are burdened with student loans—$25,000 on average. And graduate school can push debt much higher.
Student loans are different from other types of loans. They can't be erased if you
declare bankruptcy. And lenders can take money from your wages, tax refunds, and
even Social Security if you don't pay up.
Consumer Reports advises taking out Federal loans such as Perkins or Stafford with
fixed rates, rather than private loans from banks with variable rates. And with Federal
loans, you get more flexible repayment options. Generally, with a Federal loan you don't
have to start repaying until six months after you graduate or if you drop below half-time
at school. At that time you may qualify for any number of payment plans.
For instance, Federal loans may offer:
A standard repayment of at least 50 dollars a month for 10 years.
Extended repayment that gives you up to 25 years to repay.
Graduated payments, which start small and get bigger when you're likely earning
Income-based payments, which may forgive some of the loan after 25 years.
Another advantage to Federal loans: If you are having trouble making your payments,
the government will usually work with you to negotiate a deferment or a new repayment
plan. But no matter what kind of loan you have, Consumer Reports says, talk to the
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From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
The Brie Bomb is a weapon of nearly incalculable destructive power. It has been used only once, to destroy the rogue nation Azczecsutonia. The absolute horror of the bombing impelled the rest of the world to erase every trace of Azczescutonia from its collective memory. You've never heard of that nation, have you, dear Uncyclopedia reader? See, we write only the truth.
Brie is one of the gooiest of the 12 Fundamental Cheeses. It is also uniquely unstable.
In layman's terms, it is the proportion of milk-fat to nauseum which determines the stability of a cheese. Naturally occurring isotopes of brie have a ratio of 81.3% milk-fat to nauseum. If the milkfat is enriched to over 90%, then the brie molecules ("cheeseballs") become so repulsive they cannot stand themselves, and they split apart. This fission liberates a tremendous amount of energy. Early experiments by Marie "Hot Hands" Curie showed that the fission of just one microgram of brie liberates enough stench energy to disembowel a flock of llamas at a distance of 300 meters.
(Parenthetically, the Uncyclopedia staff would like to draw attention to the contributions of women to the field of science. As noted physicist Dorothy Parker said, "If all the coeds at Yale were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.")
Ernest "Spank My Vacuum" Rutherford expanded on Curie's studies, and proposed that if enough brie were suitably enriched and then compressed it would form a fissile (technically, super-nauseating) mess. This mess would then explode as the milk-fat repulsion overcame the force of nausea. However, Rutherford's hypothetical brie bomb remained untested until 1945. (Actually, what with the war and the price of milk, research was slow. 1945 turned into 1946, 1946 passed into 1947, then 1950. The first test of a brie bomb was eventually postponed 30 times, until 1962 and the Cuban Erectile Crisis.)
A brie bomb consists of a slightly sub-nauseating mess of enriched brie surrounded by a shell of conventional cheddar. Detonators inserted in this outer shell initiate an explosive decomposition of the cheddar, squeezing the whey out of the brie and forcing it to become super-nauseating. An homogenization device, the exact nature of which we decline to explain due to security concerns, ensures that the mess of brie fissions evenly and thus achieves maximum explosive yield.
(Incidentally, the home experimenter can easily demonstrate explosive decomposition -- conventional, non-nuclear decomposition -- of cheddar and other suitable cheeses. Simply place the cheese and a small amount of water or skim milk in a closed container and leave it in a warm place. After six weeks, put the container in a box along with a live cat. Use a stick to puncture the container without exposing yourself to the decomposition products. You will observe the cat convulse rapidly, become blurry, and enter a state of quantum disgust which is neither gagging nor vomiting but rather a superposition of these states.)
edit Status of World Brie Armaments
Since the first use of a brie bomb on a date which has been eradicated from historical accounts, a number of nations have created brie-based arms. Dweebs and twinkies who worry about such things fret over the proliferation of cheesy weapons of mass disgust (WMD). However, real men with hairy chests, and hairy legs, and hairy buttocks, and hairy ears embrace the macho bragging rights that come with the ability to bomb the civilized world back to the mud age.
edit Confirmed Nuclear Cheese Powers
- 2. Russia, with 23,000 brie weapons. Many of the weapons of the former USSR are unaccounted for since the dissolution of the Soviet empire. The whiff of rogue brie pervades the former Soviet states.
- 3. Great Britain, with 17,600 brie bombs and missiles. GB has the advantage of vast supplies of cheddar, the most effective detonation trigger for initiating a nuclear cheese explosion.
- 4. France, with 5,300 brie-armed devices. The French are the only ones to also construct a le roule bomb, or dirty cheese bomb. These rely more on the effects of secondary disgust than on the sheer explosive power of the cheese fission.
- 5. China, with 1,200 bombs. The Chinese have attempted to construct a thousand-year-old-egg fission device, but without success. Western physicists believe such a device is impossible.
- 6. India, with 300 bombs and a large stockpile of curried brie.
- 9. North Korea, with 3 devices. The North Koreans have a missile capable of carrying a brie bomb all of 13 kilometers, enabling them to almost attack their own border outposts if they so desired.
edit Suspected Nuclear Cheese Powers
- 10. Israel probably has between 5 and 8 brie devices. Satellite-bourne instruments have detected the stench of a brie explosion in the Negev.
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|*Not to be confused with "Holey" Cheese|
|The 3 Noble Cheeses|
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‘Continue to remember … those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.’ (Hebrews 13:3)
Our hearts are breaking at the atrocities taking place in Iraq. In the last two months a staggering 850,000 people have fled their homes in terror as Islamic State (IS) fighters have swept across the north of the country. An estimated 10,000 people have lost their lives, most of whom are civilians.
Religious and ethnic minority groups, such as Yazidis, Christians and Turkmen, have been particularly targeted, and many have been subjected to unspeakable brutalities. It’s estimated that a quarter of Iraq’s Christians have now fled, threatened by IS at best with fines, at worst with forced conversion or death.
Thousands of Iraqis, mainly from the Yazidi community, are currently trapped on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq by IS fighters after facing similar threats. They are in desperate need of food, water and medical care, and symbolise the plight of so many more Iraqis who are the innocent victims of this crisis.
We know that God is a God of love, compassion, power and justice, who is ‘mighty to save’ (Isaiah 63:1). As we struggle to find words to respond in the face of such horror, remember Paul’s words in Romans: ‘We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.’ (Romans 8:26).
- Ask God to stop the hand of those set on violence, bloodshed and intimidation in Iraq. Pray for a lasting peace to be established where all people groups will be accepted and protected.
- Pray for all those who have fled their homes and are living in fear and uncertainty.
- Ask God to keep them safe, provide for their needs and pour out his comfort and healing on all who are grieving.
- Thank God that thousands of Yazidis were able to escape from Mount Sinjar at the weekend, aided by Kurdish forces, and pray for protection, provision and a rapid rescue for those who remain.
- Give thanks for the aid that has already been delivered, and pray that more supplies will arrive safely and reach the most vulnerable.
- Lift up leaders in Iraq and around the world, praying that God will give them wisdom as they seek a solution to the crisis.
The situation in Iraq is so bad that Tearfund has launched an emergency appeal in order to respond. Please prayerfully consider whether you can support this fund. You can find details about how to give and prayer here.
We pray because we're desperate for God - to walk with him... in step with his will for the world.
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The components that comprise the BI Cluster Server feature are
- Oracle Business Intelligence Cluster Controller
- Clustered BI Servers
- Master BI Server
- BI Scheduler
- Cluster Manager
Oracle Business Intelligence Cluster Controller
Whenever a new request arrives from BI Presentation Services and other clients, BI Cluster Controller serves as the first point of contact.The Cluster Controller determines which BI Server should be selected from the cluster to do the work or process the request.The Cluster Controller determines which BI Server in the cluster to direct the request to, based on BI Server availability and load. It monitors the operation of servers in the cluster.
The Cluster Controller is deployed in active-passive mode.
- Primary Cluster Controller : This controller is the active cluster controller.
- Secondary Cluster Controller : This controller is the secondary cluster controller.It assumes the role of the primary cluster controller if the primary controller is unavailable.
Clustered BI Servers
The BI Cluster Server feature supports up to 16 BI Servers in a network domain to act as a single server. BI Servers in the cluster share requests from multiple Oracle BI clients.
Master BI Server
A clustered Oracle Business Intelligence Server is designated as the Master BI Server. The Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool connects to the master BI Server for online repository changes.
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As a recruiting tool, the U.S. Navy built a battleship in New York City's Union Square. It was there from 1917-1920.
Watch a video of a 57-story modular skyscraper go up in 19 days.
The chicken tax: why there are so few (relatively speaking) imported trucks in the U.S.
Top 10 Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters.
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a newly found photo of Vincent Van Gogh from 1887, a re-creation of how the Romans lifted wild animals into the Colosseum, and using lasers to burn away mental illness. | <urn:uuid:7d239803-0aab-488e-b8e0-a925bf4c44d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2015/06/monday-links_29.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939874 | 135 | 1.65625 | 2 |
DoE completes roadmap for renewable energy
MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Energy has completed a national roadmap for the renewable energy industry, providing a more stable direction toward the development and more efficient use of these sources.
“The National Renewable Energy Plan (NREP) outlines the policy framework that is in the law. This will provide the strategic building blocks that would allow the Philippine renewable energy industry to fly,” said Energy Undersecretary Josefina Asirit.
On the sidelines of a House energy committee hearing on Tuesday, Asirit explained that the NREP would provide a “continuing and well-coordinated effort to drive development in the RE industry, to promote technological advancements, and achieve economies of scale.”
Specifically, the NREP will contain targets for the renewable energy industry, the vision, mission and all other mechanisms and incentives as provided for under the Renewable Energy Law of 2008. Also included in the plan are timetables for these incentives and mechanisms, such as the RE market and RE registrar, feed-in-tariffs, renewable portfolio standards, green energy option program and net metering, among others.
In a nutshell, the NREP will allow the government to fulfill its targets, particularly when it comes to national energy security.
The RE industry needs such directions to prevent lags in the implementation of some mechanisms. For example, the feed-in tariff system should have been developed within six months of the signing of the implementing rules and regulations governing the RE Law. The law was signed in November 2009.
Asirit also pointed out the need to harmonize and rationalize the entire industry as the government now expects a great number of these projects coming in over the next three years, especially with the expected issuance of the feed-in-tariffs and installation targets.
Also, Asirit further disclosed that the DoE would soon sign new service contracts for RE—a positive signal to local developers eager to start work on their respective power projects. | <urn:uuid:ceee34c7-62e6-4e62-83f9-3fc2834fbc0c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://business.inquirer.net/2458/doe-completes-roadmap-for-renewable-energy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00082-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936513 | 407 | 1.796875 | 2 |
THE programme has succeeded again this year - all likely locations for Giant Hogweed on the Tyne and its tributaries have been surveyed, and due to the hard work of the farmers and volunteers we have eliminated all plants which are flowering, or likely to, this year. And all this despite lockdown. All that is left is a few locations with some very young plants, and the occasional surprise new sighting. The map on 1 August shows every section with the green tick - meaning it is clear of the plant.
After some years of sporadic attempts to deal with the problem, now with this properly organised programme, it is the second year in a row we have cleared the entire river catchment of all growing plants. So again, no new seeds have entered the seed-bank. Which means next year we are really hopeful of seeing the population reducing.
Status on 1 August 2020
We record all the sightings on our Google map; the yellow colour means it's been removed or sprayed. If we spot any Japanese Knotweed, that gets recorded too - see map (purple are this year's, brown previous years). Note these are all "layers" of THE Online Map, which you can easily switch on/off individually.
The infestation now clearly splits into two areas, above Pencaitland and below Haddington. This GH-free gap should hopefully get wider next year.
Sightings in 2020
Compared with Last Year
So how does this all compare to last year? Well, we've seen roughly the same number of plants, in roughly the same number of locations. The number we have seen flowering has reduced a lot, particularly above Pencaitland, although this is partly due to the end-of-year mop-up being earlier. The bar charts below show the numbers and trends. (NB: Excludes Tyninghame and Bellyford Burn, as we no comparable data. NB2: Comparing years is tricky, because of the different number of surveys, by different people, at different times.)
- Landowners Meeting
In February, James again held a start-of-season meeting in the Town House in Haddington for the landowners - about 20 arrived, and some new spotters also came along. Topics included a review of last year, what we need to do differently this time, advice for spotters, and how to use the online map. And the Roundup which Bayer had donated to the project was handed out.
- Spotter Training
Last year the whole river was surveyed by just four people, so we made a call for volunteers to take ownership of small sections, and become "Spotters". Over 20 people responded. We organised two training sessions to get people familiar with using a mobile app to record their sightings. The first took place at JW's house to practice with the app, then a spotting practical on-site at Phantassie. Then Covid started, so we replaced the second with individual online sessions.
Then Covid turned into lockdown, putting all our plans into disarray. The farmers are essential workers, so fortunately spraying largely continued. Spotting in pairs was largely out of the question, but several of us who live near the river were able to convert our daily exercise into spotting sessions. Thanks to all those who spotted - it can be tricky work, but many hands make light work.
In June, JW & DQ visited all the known sightings, and the sections which hadn't been surveyed, and removed all the plants found. It looked like we could declare the Tyne clear of GH!
Then an eagle eye spotted a bad infestation on the Bellyford Burn, and a group of us (socially distancing of course!) spent some hard hours dead-heading and bagging, see our blog
- Outwith the Tyne
With the increased awareness, we are now getting more reports of GH in other places, so these are being added to another online map, which covers the whole of East Lothian. Some of the volunteers on the Bellyford Burn expedition are now confident enough to deal with new sites they have spotted, by themselves (you know who you are, Joyce & Chris!)
And So Next Year?
- Hopefully the state of Covid-19 will allow us all to monitor our own sections, and in pairs
- After the scare with the Bellyford Burn, there are more small tributaries which we should double-check
- More farmers are encouraged to be more thorough in their spraying
- Our previous sponsors decide to help the programme again
- Acquire more waders to enable more thorough spotting
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Lent is an annual search, which might explain the popularity of this post. I continue to hear from writers — Christians and non-Christians alike — who are curious about the meaning and significance of Lent. The season is all about the appeal of story; the dramatic power of the Passion narrative. We’ve decided to re-publish this post with updated dates in hopes that it can be a literary companion for the next few weeks — and that it might demonstrate the diversity and range of ways that writers have imagined the season.
“Lent,” wrote Thomas Merton, “is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but for realizing what we had perhaps not seen before.” Lent is the most literary season of the liturgical year. The Lenten narrative is marked by violence, suffering, anticipation, and finally, joy. Jesus Christ’s 40 days of fasting in the desert are the spiritual and dramatic origin for the season that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday.
While Advent is a time of giving, Lent is a time of reflection, penance, and reconciliation, all revealed through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Holy Week is a solemn sequence of days leading to the grace of Easter. It is a different form of joy than Christmas; Easter joy is cathartic and transformational. Lent, then, is a time of complex and contrasting emotions. Highs and lows. A time to be shaken and surprised.
Jamie Quatro, whose collection I Want To Show You More arrived like a literary revelation, says that reading is like “the mystery of the Lord’s Supper…a form of communion: author, text, and reader rapt in an intimate yet paradoxically isolated collusion of spirits.” Here is a literary reader for Lent: 40 stories, poems, essays, and books for the 40 days of this season. (Sundays have never been part of the Lenten calendar). Some pieces are inspired by feast days and Gospel readings, while others capture the discernment of the season. Some works are written by believers, while others are crafted by writers who choose the literary word over any Word. This reader is intended to be literary, not theological; contemplative rather than devotional. Bookmark this page and come back each day. Save it for upcoming years. The dates will change, but the sequence of readings and reflections will stay the same: a small offering of communion that might transcend our isolation.
Day 1: Wednesday March 1
Reading: “Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot
Lent begins with dust and darkness. Black-crossed foreheads are the rare time when true ritual bleeds into public view. As Lent is a time of change, it is appropriate to start with Eliot’s famous conversion text. Eliot said “skepticism is the preface to conversion;” The Wasteland and “The Hollow Men,” however desolate, capture the impersonal sense of art Eliot would associate with his new faith. “Ash Wednesday” is the start of a labor. When he writes “suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood,” he knows belief is not easy.
Day 2: Thursday March 2
Reading: Townie by Andre Dubus III
In Luke 9:22-25, Jesus warns his disciples that following him will be a struggle. Self-denial must be followed by a willingness to suffer “daily.” The disciples act on the hope of salvation, much like children following a father. In Townie, Andre Dubus III writes of his father, a man he both loved and hated. Dubus père dies in the final chapters of the memoir, and Andre and his brother Jeb build their father’s coffin, “a simple pine box.” It was a promise, the final chapter of reconciliation to heal a broken family.
Day 3: Friday March 3
Reading: “The Habit of Perfection” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
This Friday is the first real test of fasting for most (Ash Wednesday services make for strength in numbers). William G. Storey writes that fasting “help[s] the body share in the sufferings of Jesus and of the poor.” Hopkins, a 19th-century British Jesuit who has influenced as many secular poets as he has religious ones, dramatizes the ascetic life in his verse. His poems press against the borders of his forms; he wrings multiple meanings out of his language. “The Habit of Perfection” is an acceptance of denial: “Palate, the hutch of tasty lust, / Desire not to be rinsed with wine: / The can must be so sweet, the crust / So fresh that come in fasts divine!” What others think sour, Hopkins turns sweet.
Day 4: Saturday March 4
Reading: “Why I’m Still a Catholic” by Nicole Soojung Callahan
If I could suggest one single essay that dramatizes the difficulty of faith, the struggle of this season, it would be Callahan’s heartfelt essay. She sometimes feels like a “bad Catholic” in the same way as her adoptive parents, who were “lapsed old-school Cleveland Catholics brought back into the fold by a firecracker of a nun in Seattle.” Callahan notes that as “a child, my faith was almost the only thing in my life that made me feel that I was part of something larger —– the only thing that constructed a kind of bridge between my own little island and the larger continents on which other families and clans and communities seemed to reside. Letting it go would mean jettisoning a huge part of who I am, severing that long-cherished connection to a kind of universal family.” Like so many, Callahan is sometimes frustrated with the institution of the Church, and yet this Catholic identity formed by her youth — “annual May crownings, years of lectoring and serving at Mass, First Communion and Confirmation parties, and that dusty bottle of holy water on our bookshelf that my mother never allowed to run dry. I had a catalog of prayers I knew by heart; ancient hymns paired with terrible folk-Mass songs written in the 1970s; the familiar rhythm and beauty of the liturgical seasons” — is something she will always be grateful for, and that she has passed on to her own children. The final section of her essay is lyric, poetic, and worthy of being read aloud: as fine a credo of measured faith as I can imagine.
Day 5: Monday March 6
Reading: “The Tree” by Dylan Thomas
The feast day of Saint Polycarp, who, according to John J. Delaney’s Dictionary of Saints, “was ordered burned to death at the stake…[but] when the flames failed to consume him, he was speared to death.” Polycarp’s martyrdom is one of the oldest, and helps usher the peculiar Catholic genre of saint tales. Polycarp’s fantastical narrative is matched by “The Tree,” a story by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Although a “holy maker” who became “tipsy on salvation’s bottle” as a child, Thomas was no fan of Catholicism (his friend William York Tindall said Thomas was “essentially Protestant without being Christian”). “The Tree” is no devotional tale. Surreal and imagistic, it is the story of an inquisitive but easily misguided boy who crucifies a transient to a tree on a hill in Wales.
Day 6: Tuesday March 7
Reading: “Disgraceland” by Mary Karr
A week into Lent, one’s patience might begin to wear thin with all of this suffering (few human endeavors go awry as quickly as devotion). Mary Karr is the antidote to complacency. In “Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer,” Karr outed herself as a Catholic convert, “not victim but volunteer…after a lifetime of undiluted agnosticism.” “Disgraceland,” from her 2006 collection Sinners Welcome, begins with an account of her birth, whirled into this world to “sulk around” while “Christ always stood / to one side with a glass of water.” She ends on a gorgeous note: “You are loved, someone said. Take that / and eat it.”
Day 7: Wednesday March 8
Reading: “The Teaching of Literature” by Flannery O’Connor
Today’s reading from Luke 11:29 sounds rather harsh: “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” This sign will be revealed in the death and resurrection of Christ, which makes this indictment of a crowd feel particularly heavy. While it might be heretical to wait seven days to introduce the work of Flannery O’Connor into a Lenten reader, this is the moment she becomes appropriate. Her fiction will appear later in the reading list, but today is in the spirit of her essay, “The Teaching of Literature,” most often collected in Mystery and Manners. O’Connor laments how fiction is taught to students, particularly when fiction is used as mere symbol: “I have found that if you are astute and energetic, you can integrate English literature with geography, biology, home economics, basketball, or fire prevention — with anything at all that will put off a little longer the evil day when the story or novel must be examined simply as a story or novel.” Pity the generation that sparks O’Connor’s ire.
Day 8: Thursday March 9
Reading: Radical Reinvention by Kaya Oakes
Christ tells his disciples “seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Secular criticism of religion offers the refrain that faith — as practiced by those who claim to be religious — often sounds like certainty, and certainty leads to judgment. (Most believers would benefit from conversations and friendships with atheists). Kaya Oakes’s memoir of rediscovery, Radical Reinvention, traces her search from skeptic to measured believer to reinvented believer. Oakes is funny and thoughtful, and shares the wisdom of her spiritual directors, including a Father Mellow, who says “The Church is both sinner and holy. So are all of us.” She is still undergoing her search, but one thing she’s discovered is that “living a life of faith is not about following marching orders. It’s about finding God in other people, feeling the movement of the Spirit, living the compassion of Christ as best we can.”
Day 9: Friday March 10
Reading: Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows died from tuberculosis at 24. Gabriel’s popularity in America is marginal, based on his supposed patronage of handgun users (an absurdly apocryphal tale where Gabriel shoots a lizard to scare off Giuseppe Garibaldi’s soldiers). A more likely tale is that his devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Passion were a correction to the extreme vanity of his youth. Gabriel reflects the titular character of Ron Hansen’s novel, Mariette in Ecstasy, a 17-year-old novitiate at a convent in upstate New York. She is first introduced in the novel while standing naked in front of a floor mirror, aware of her beauty, and thinks “Even this I give You.” Hansen’s novel is what would happen if James Salter’s A Sport and a Pastime converted. Now a deacon in a Cupertino, California parish, Hansen continues to write powerful fiction.
Day 10: Saturday March 11
Reading: “You Are Not Christ” by Rickey Laurentiis
In today’s Gospel selection from Matthew, Christ tells his disciples to “love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.” He ends his exhortation with a call to be “perfect,” a sharp expectation, an impossible goal. I often think of Laurentiis’s title in relation to that call. It arrives, first, as a phrase of forgiveness, but Laurentiis’s verse is unforgiving: “For the drowning, yes, there is always panic. / Or peace.” Only nine lines, the poem unfolds and exits like a deep breath, and, like much of Laurentiis’s poetry, weds the sensual with the spiritual. Lent is nothing if not the most physical of seasons.
Day 11: Monday March 13
Reading: “Idiot Psalms” by Scott Cairns
March begins with a scene from Capernaum: Jesus drives an “unclean spirit” from a man. Exorcisms are the perfect fodder for Hollywood — black-clad heroes chant Latin while they struggle with demons — but have a less theatrical role in Lent. Unclean is not a permanent condition. The narrator of “Idiot Psalms” “find[s] my face against the floor, and yet again / my plea escapes from unclean lips.” He seeks forgiveness, which is not as dramatic as Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller performing the Roman rite, but his desire “to manage at least one late season sinlessly, / to bow before you yet one time without chagrin” is palpable.
Day 12: Tuesday March 14
Reading: “The Didache” by Paul Lisicky
Lisicky’s short piece appears in his book Unbuilt Projects. The title is a reference to an apocryphal, anonymous document of early Jewish-Christians, although Lisicky’s narrative is focused on his relationship with his mother. “The Didache” begins with a question: “What were you like the last time I saw you whole?” The piece follows with more questions and considerations, while noting “It’s funny how we end up where we do.” The language of the final sentences becomes comfortably Biblical: “As the broken bread was scattered on the hillsides, and so was gathered and made one, so may the many of you be gathered and find favor with one another.” The lines are a lyrical refiguring of a Didache hymn, and lead toward the conclusion of Lisicky’s piece: “Take. Eat, says the mother, given up and broken, and pushes the sandwich into the lunch bag, and sends me on my way.” A nice reminder that our present, prosaic world is capable of being legendary and graceful.
Day 13: Wednesday March 15
Reading: The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey
Variations of faith sustain the characters of Bailey’s novel in the face of despair. The novel contains several first-person narratives, beginning with Susan Hazen, who says her parish priest “plants the wafer that leavens hope in my palm.” Susan’s faith is tested, along with that of her husband, Gary David (an act of violence cleaves their family). The book ends with Gary’s narrative section: “The pines have reawakened me to something that as a forester I’ve long known by heart: The work we live to do is work we’ll never see completed. The snow will continue to fall. The geese will come back, just as they will continue to go. I have my faith. The strength of belief. But this is the truth in our story the pines need to relate. This, they whisper, this is the grace that keeps this world. Honor it.”
Day 14: Thursday March 16
Reading: “The Our Father” by Franz Wright
“The Our Father” appears in Wheeling Motel, Wright’s 10th collection of poems. The poem’s relative brevity is inversely related to its power. To title a poem after such an iconic prayer is to locate the work as both ritual and rhythm. The first stanza reads: “I am holding cirrhosis / with one hand and AIDS / with the other, in a circle.” Wright’s poetry is so pared, having the feeling of being wrung through the emotion of being and distilled into the truest possible language. This first stanza establishes the sense of community: this is truly a collective father. As is often true with those suffering from addition or disease, that which causes the pain overwhelms the self. Wright’s lines break from those diseases toward the shape, “a circle,” that leads to comfort and forgiveness (Wright has written about how his own conversion has helped lift his life from addiction). “The Our Father” moves forward from this first stanza to the actual prayer, which is “simple” and “august,” though Wright compares and connects the bareness of the phrasing to the profound nature of Christ’s life: “you briefly took on tortured / human form to teach / us here, below–” The poem’s honesty continues, though, because the final lines speak to an awareness of the ephemera of existence: “What final catastrophe sent / to wean me from this world.”
Day 15: Friday March 17
Reading: “After Cornell” by Joe Bonomo
Bonomo’s essay, which appears in his collection This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began, reflects on the darkness and silence of the traditional confessional box: “To intellectually comprehend moral and ethical transgressions—regardless of how domestically petty they might feel to the confessor (last night I bit my little brother) — the confessor must shed anatomy’s garment and step in unencumbered. The fragmented reminder that we are always flesh filtered through the shadowy screen between priest and penitent, and such a reminder could not have been allowed to distract.” Bonomo laments the shift to face-to-face confessions, though he has prepared himself for the change, and the previous box felt “akin to stepping into the Old Age, of black, black, black.” Bonomo’s words bring me back to the confessions of my past: I made the same shift from darkness to (uncomfortable) light. Now my parish opts for the face-to-sheet-to-face confession in a lighted room, and we are given printed Acts of Contrition, columned in the center on a pink sheet. I agree with Bonomo, that something has been lost, or at least transferred, in this coming to light.
Day 16: Saturday March 18
Reading: “Second Avenue” by Frank O’Hara
Critic Micah Mattix writes that “O’Hara believed that poetry was a ‘testament’ of the self and that love was real. Drawing from his Catholic schooling and James Joyce’s aesthetics, in some poems he expressed the view that the artist was as a sort of Christ-figure who suffers to renew our experience of the world.” Mattix notes that O’Hara’s long poem, “Second Avenue,” although a “sprawling amalgam of absurd images, disconnected phrases and quotation, newspaper clippings, short dramatic scenes, anecdotes, gossip, and literary artistic references,” also reinforces this idea of “the image of the artist as God,” and “reverses…the biblical trope of God as light.” Mattix’s reading has altered my perception of O’Hara’s verse, which I have always thought as being more interested in play than profundities. Lent truly is the season of change, as long as one’s eyes are open.
Day 17: Monday March 20
Reading: “The Heart, Like a Bocce Ball” by Luke Johnson
Johnson’s poem begins with the characters “dead drunk,” “cannonballing across the lawn, gouging / handful divots, each of us still nursing / a tumbler of scotch brought home from the wake.” Although temporarily wasted, these “sons and brothers and cousins” aren’t wasting away: they are players, certainly, in this simple game of bocce, but there’s a real sense of connection here. The poem ends with the lines “The heart, like a bocce ball, is fist-sized / and firm; ours clunk together, then divide.” If there were ever a poetic form made for brief devotions meant to stretch throughout a day, it would be the sonnet.
Day 18: Tuesday March 21
Reading: “Their Bodies, Their Selves” by Andrew McNabb
Dray and Sarah Maguire “had lived a clothed life,” but “An accident had changed that.” The center of McNabb’s tight story unfolds in less than an hour, but stretches across the years of this elderly couple’s relationship. One Saturday afternoon, while using the bathroom, Dray falls, smacking his skull on the porcelain. Sarah, “scarred from shingles, melanoma, three ungrateful children and an undiagnosed depression,” fears blood, but instead sees her husband nearly bare (he’d gotten used to taking off his pants when using the bathroom “so he wouldn’t get caught up when he stood”). Sensing her husband’s embarrassment, Sarah undresses herself. Their bodies are in the open; “That is just you, and this is just me.” What starts as a moment of communion becomes a daily act, a presentation of bodies as a means of preservation.
Day 19: Wednesday March 22
Reading: Love & Salt by Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith
Andrews and Griffith met in a graduate school creative writing workshop, and their shared literary interest in God soon became personal searches. Love & Salt is their collected correspondence, as well as letters that remained, unsent, as notes. Their epistles are layered and lyric, documents of friendship that are as intimate as they are inviting. In Griffith’s first letter, she longs to finally get Lent right, to live up to the words of Saint Ephraim’s prayer: “How many times have I promised, / Yet every time I failed to keep my word. / But disregard this according to Thy Grace.” The collection will make you long to find as worthy a correspondent as Andrews and Griffith (each of their letters could serve as daily devotions, bringing to life the statement they share from Vivian Gornick: “The letter, written in absorbed silence, is an act of faith.”).
Day 20: Thursday March 23
Reading: “From a Window” by Christian Wiman
Halfway through Lent, the heart can harden. Reflection leads to regret. Christian Wiman, the former editor of Poetry magazine, is the perfect poet for this time. Wiman’s verse has the uncanny ability to swiftly and believably transition from melancholy to joy. His memoir, My Bright Abyss, documents his unlikely journey back to Christian belief after being diagnosed with incurable cancer. Speaking about his return to belief, Wiman says “I have no illusions about adding to sophisticated theological thinking. But I think there are a ton of people out there who are what you might call unbelieving believers, people whose consciousness is completely modern and yet who have this strong spiritual hunger in them. I would like to say something helpful to those people.” “From a Window,” written during an admitted time of despair, says something. “Incurable and unbelieving / in any truth but the truth of grieving,” Wiman watches a flock of birds rise from a tree, “as if the leaves had livelier ghosts.” He presses his face against the window and wonders if the birds were “a single being undefined / or countless beings of one mind,” and admits that their “strange cohesion / [is] beyond the limits of my vision.” He pulls back, his skeptic’s mind reassured that the tree he is watching with a shaken heart is no different now save for the observer, and yet that same independence of existence — the fact that this beautiful, simple moment did not need him to observe it, and that recognition “is where the joy came in.”
Day 21: Friday March 24
Reading: “I Was Never Able to Pray” by Edward Hirsch
Gabriel, Hirsch’s book-length poem about the life and death of his adopted son, contains an unbeliever’s admonition: “I will not forgive you / Indifferent God / Until you give me back my son.” “I Was Never Able to Pray” predates his loss, but presents a similar song. Why would an unbeliever care about God? Designations of believer and atheist, pious and heretic are only useful as generalizations. Hirsch’s critical interests have always dealt with God-wounded writers (including James Joyce and W.B. Yeats), so it is not surprising to see that language extend to his own narrators. In this poem, the speaker wishes to be taken to the shore, where the “moon tolls in the rafters” and he can “hear the wind paging through the trees.” His lines of unbelief arrive on the tongue of faith: “I was never able to pray, / but let me inscribe my name / in the book of waves” as he looks up to the “sky that never ends.”
Day 22: Saturday March 25
Reading: “The Widow of Naim” by Thomas Merton
The non-fiction meditations of Thomas Merton could fill an entire Lenten reading schedule, but his poetic considerations of faith and Scripture are also worthy. Merton studied poetry at Columbia, and was “turned on like a pinball machine by Blake, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Meister Eckhart, Coomaraswamy, Traherne, Hopkins, Maritain, and the sacraments of the Catholic Church.” Yet like Hopkins, Merton lamented his more creative self, “this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister.” Although less than half of Merton’s verse was specifically religious, he did enjoy recasting Scripture into poetry (in pieces like “The Evening of the Visitation,” “An Argument: of the Passion of Christ,” “The Sponge Full of Vinegar,” “The House of Caiaphas,” “Aubade — The Annunciation,” and “Cana”). The Naim sequence only lasts seven verses, and is often lost between the Capernaum centurion and Christ’s reflection on John the Baptist. In Luke’s version, Christ arrives at Naim along with his disciples at the same time a man “who had died was being carried out.” Christ tells the mother of the man, the titular widow, to not weep. He touches the bier, a support for the coffin, and the “bearers stood still.” Christ tells the dead man to arise, and he does. Merton’s poetic recasting begins by moving the initial focus from the arrival of Christ to “the gravediggers and the mourners of the town, who, ‘White as the wall…follow / to the new tomb a widow’s sorrow.’” The mourners meet a crowd of strangers who “smell of harvests…[and] nets,” and who question the mourners: “Why go you down to graves, with eyes like winters / And your cold faces clean as cliffs? / See how we come, our brows are full of sun.” These strangers allude to the “wonder” of the miracle to come. Yet Merton’s twist arrives as an address to the reader that the “widow’s son, after the marvel of his miracle: / He did not rise for long, and sleeps forever.” The man was resuscitated, not resurrected; his gift of life was an ephemeral one. This allows Merton to place the miracle along a continuum, to place the weight of an ancient tale on the shoulder of modern humanity, the crowd.
Day 23: Monday March 27
Reading: “Girls” by Andre Dubus
Dubus contemplates the altar girl at Mass, she being the “only altar girl I have ever seen.” That observation opens to a short reflection about Mary, the “first priest.” He catalogues her potential fears, which begin with her encounter with the angel Gabriel, continue with her need to find shelter to have the child, and then the knowledge “she would lose Him because he was God.” He thinks about how he and this girl at Mass see the “cross as a sign of love,” but for Mary it was “wood and a dying son and grief.” I’ve written a few appreciations of Dubus, but in brief: pair “Girls” with his fiction, particularly “A Father’s Story,” and you have a portrait of a writer, a father, for whom faith is essential.
Day 24: Tuesday March 28
Reading: “Back in Ireland” by Thomas McGuane
St. Patrick would be proud of McGuane’s prose, as close to an American Joyce as possible (particularly his earlier, more sardonic novels like The Sporting Club). His more recent content has moved out West, capturing the spirit of breeding and raising cutting horses in Montana, but his prose retains its Celtic rhythms. “Back in Ireland” is the memory of a long-ago “meandering trip” to fish in southern Ireland: “I was at that blissful stage in my life when my services were sought by no one. I didn’t know how good I had it.” He is thankful for the guidance of a local angler, the type of person “who could never recall when they began fishing, so undivided was it from the thread of their lives.” McGuane notices that the entire town blessed themselves nearly constantly, “a rakish bit of muscle memory that I found myself imitating.” Church might have been a bit too much of a commitment, but the shadow of devotion “seemed to help before a difficult presentation…[of] the listless slob of a brown trout, curd fattened at the outlet of a small creamery on the Loobagh River.” McGuane’s sentences slather as heavy as fellow lapsed Irish-Catholic Joyce: “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
Day 25: Wednesday March 29
Reading: “Prophecy” by Dana Gioia
Gioia’s poetry, essays, and arts advocacy have long made him an essential writer. His recent, spirited essay, “The Catholic Writer Today,” has reignited the debate about the role of writing of faith within secular literary culture. Gioia’s own poems never proselytize. “Prophecy” contains a few direct questions, but is all wonder. What does a child staring out of a window think about? “For what is prophecy but the first inkling / of what we ourselves must call into being?” The prophetic sense can’t be prayed or willed into existence, there is “No voice in thunder.” The necessary “gift is listening / and hearing what is only meant for you.” “O Lord of indirection and ellipses,” the speaker says, “ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction…And grant us only what we fear.”
Day 26: Thursday March 30
Reading: “Life of Sundays” by Rodney Jones
Years ago, Jones visited my first undergraduate poetry workshop, and was given a packet of student work. My poem about fishing was in the bunch. Jones read the poem aloud to the class, and then went on to praise my lines. I don’t think they were worthy of his good words, but he wasn’t there to criticize. I might think that he was merely playing a part, but Jones’s poetry tends to be rather forgiving and observant. “Life of Sundays” is no different. Although the speaker doesn’t go to church anymore, “I want to at times, to hear the diction / And the tone.” What happens at the service “is devotion, which wouldn’t change if I heard / The polished sermon, the upright’s arpeggios of vacant notes.” He wonders: “What else could unite widows, bankers, children, and ghosts?” Although his belief has passed, he feels “the abundance of calm” from this ritual of Sundays, a day when the “syntax of prayers is so often reversed, / Aimed toward the dead who clearly have not gone ahead.” “And though I had no prayer,” the speaker says, “I wanted to offer something / Or ask for something, perhaps out of habit.”
Day 27: Friday March 31
Reading: “First Day of Winter” by Breece Pancake
It is difficult to not write about Breece Pancake in elegiac terms. Even one of his closest mentors, the great James Alan McPherson, said “there was a mystery about [him] that I will not claim to have penetrated.” His friend John Casey felt the same way, saying Pancake, who converted in his 20s, “took faith with intensity, almost as if he had a different, deeper measure of time.” Pancake’s fiction does arrive with an almost overwhelming sense of inevitability, from “The Way It Has To Be” to “Time and Again.” “First Day of Winter” is equally unsparing, although Pancake wrings a drop of hope from these characters. “Hollis sat by his window all night, staring at the ghost in glass, looking for some way out of the tomb Jake had built for him.” That tomb is his parents’ farm. His mother’s “mind half gone from blood too thick in her veins,” his father blind. Jake would not take in his parents at his own home. Hollis wrestles with a car that won’t start, its “grinding echoed through the hollows, across the hills.” His knuckles bloodied from the cold, he tells his father about Jake’s rejection, but Jake is the prodigal son. Hollis’s plan is no better: he intends to take his parents to the state nursing home. As often occurs in Pancake’s stories, there seems no way out, particularly not for Hollis, whose jealousy of his brother is clear (he has to watch his mother fawn over a photo of Jake and his family). Hollis snaps and tells his mother of Jake’s rejection, and that breaks his father’s spirit. They leave the room, and Hollis goes outside, where their “land lay brittle, open, and dead.” Back inside, Hollis hears “the cattle lowing to be fed, heard the soft rasp of his father’s crying breath, heard his mother’s humming of a hymn.” Like that, in the span of a sentence, Pancake breaths light, however faint, into this world: “The sun was blackened with snow, and the valley closed in quietly with humming, quietly as an hour of prayer.”
Day 28: Saturday April 1
Reading: The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
Echoing the language he used to describe his writing of Emma Bovary, Flaubert said “I was in Saint Anthony as Saint Anthony himself.” Flaubert began the novel in 1848 but it was not published until 1874. An early audience of friends said he should burn the book and never speak of it. Flaubert, undeterred, said “It is my whole life’s work.” That work is a novel in the form of a play, a dramatization of St. Anthony’s tempestuous night in the desert. Michel Foucault called Flaubert’s phantasmagoric masterpiece “the book of books.”
Day 29: Monday April 3
Reading: Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson
Johnson was once asked how he would “characterize the theological questions you ask about religion or to God in your work,” and responded in turn: “Ah, now — this is a question I’ve learned to run from, and it’s the chief reason I avoid giving interviews. If I’ve discussed these things in the past, I shouldn’t have. I’m not qualified. I don’t know who God is, or any of that. People concerned with those questions turn up in my stories, but I can’t explain why they do. Sometimes I wish they wouldn’t.” He owes the question to Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, a novel the main character of which fails at the action of the title, and then replaces despair with drugs and work as a radio DJ. Leonard English “didn’t kneel in prayer each night out of habit, but fell to his knees on rare occasions and in a darkness of dread, as if he were letting go of a branch. To his mind, God was a rushing river, God was an alligator, God was to be chosen over self-murder and over nothing else.” He prays to sleep with a woman he likes, but he doesn’t “pray anymore for faith, because he’d found that a growing certainty of the Presence was accompanied by a terrifying absence of any sign or feeling or manifestation of it. He was afraid that what he prayed to was nothing, only this limitless absence. I’ll grow until I’ve found you, and you won’t be there.”
Day 30: Tuesday April 4
Reading: “The Lord’s Day” by J.F. Powers
Although Powers won the National Book Award in 1963 for his novel Morte D’Urban, critic Denis Donoghue writes “I think Powers knew that his native breath was that of the short story.” Powers was the poet laureate of the Midwestern priesthood. His “priests are shown in the world, quarreling with their colleagues and pastors, grubbing for money, angling for promotion, playing golf, drinking beer, passing the time. If they have an intense spiritual life, we are not shown it…[and yet] no matter how commonplace or compromised the priest there is still are relation between him and the Christian vision he has acknowledged.” The daily life of a priest is not a sequence of miraculous highs and ecstatic visions. It is hard, slow work. A priest is a counselor, writer, politician. Powers capture this splendid service like no other writer. “The Lord’s Day” is the best introduction to his work, a slice of clerical domesticity. An unnamed priest has been stung twice by bees attracted to a mulberry tree near the rectory porch. Despite the pleading of a nun, he takes an axe to the tree. His body, “a fat vision in black,” is a contrast to the 12 women of the house, “the apostles” (“It was the kind of joke they could appreciate, but not to be carried too far, for then one of them must be Judas, which was not funny.”). Their shared home is not quite the picture of joy. The house is “sagging” and “daily surpassed itself in gloominess and was only too clean and crowded not to seem haunted.” The sisters sit around a table to count the collection from Mass. The parish has bills to pay. One nun says “Come on, you money-changers, dig in!” Another: “Money, money, money.” Powers smirks his way through his tales (my own experience with nuns is that they are the most hilarious and pious people I have ever met, their Baltimore Catechism shadows long since replaced with light). Not all the sisters find humor in this work; some wish Sundays were days of rest. It is a day of rest for the priest — he is off to a round of golf. The lead sister, “determined to make up for the afternoon, to show them that she knew, perhaps, what she was doing,” creates a ruse to hold-up the priest. She asks him to inspect the stove, which has been smoking. Annoyed, he says the problem is not the stove, but the only remaining mulberry tree, the one he’d spared. “If you want your stove to work properly, it’ll have to come down.” Rather than end the story with grace, Powers leaves the reader with the nun’s curt thanks. Frustrated, she leaves the priest, “only wanting to get upstairs and wash the money off her hands.”
Day 31: Wednesday April 5
Reading: “Annunciation Overheard from the Kitchen” by Mary Szybist
Szybist’s Marian poems appear in Incarnadine, which won the National Book Award. Szybist’s epigraph for the collection is from Simone Weil: “The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.” Szybist’s entire book is concerned with the Annunciation. As a young Catholic, Szybist “reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.” In “Annunciation Overheard from the Kitchen,” the narrator is “washing the pears in cool water,” listening. This might not be the annunciation, but it is an annunciation. That leveling of experience is not meant to devalue the precedent — Szybist might be lapsed, but she is certainly not spiteful — but to rather raise the contemporary moment. The speaker more than simply listens, she is open to sound as “Windows around me everywhere half-open– / My skin alive with the pitch.”
Day 32: Thursday April 6
Reading: “Blessing the Animals” by R.A. Villanueva
Villanueva crafts quite the scene to begin this poem from his debut, Reliquaria: “In a parking lot beside the church, cleared / save for bales of hay and traffic horses,” are goats, llamas, border collies, and terriers. Someone “will garland parakeets with rosaries.” Cats are held like children as the priest crosses himself “beside the flagpole where I learned to pledge allegiance.” The narrator’s daily ritual is to fold the flag into triangles and bring it to the headmaster. Villanueva’s poems contain two planes: the devoted, lyric representations of faith and tradition, and the mischievous human impulse to break free. However responsible the narrator might be, he is still a young man who would dare a friend to “throw a bottle of Wite-Out” at the statue of Jesus in that same parking lot, who would taunt God one moment while kneeling to pray to him the next.
Day 33: Friday April 7
Reading: “Quid Pro Quo” by Paul Mariani
Mariani’s poem is set in an empty university classroom, where a colleague asks the narrator “what I thought now / of God’s ways toward man” after his wife’s miscarriage. The colleague merely expects a downward gaze, a smirk. Instead, the narrator raises his middle finger “up to heaven,” taunting God. Later, the narrator and his wife have a successful birth; it’s no small feat, this miracle, and the narrator is aware, leading to his wonder: “How does one bargain / with a God like this, who, quid pro quo, ups / the ante each time He answers one sign with another?”
Day 34: Saturday April 8
Reading: “The Road to Emmaus” by Spencer Reece
Reece, an Episcopal priest, has found inspiration in the “spiritual journey” of T.S. Eliot, often feeling “in conversation with him.” Although “The Road to Emmaus” alludes to a resurrection appearance of Christ, Reece’s verse, like so much poetry in the spirit of Lent, brings the ancient world to our seemingly mundane present. His first line, “The chair from Goodwill smelled of mildew,” sets the atmosphere for a conversation the narrator has with Sister Ann, a Franciscan nun. “Above her gray head, / a garish postcard of the Emmaus scene…askew in its golden drugstore frame.” Cleopas and an unnamed disciple, while speaking about the disappearance of Christ, are joined by the “resurrected Christ masquerading as a stranger.” The narrator of the poem has lost a love, and Sister Ann comforts him as he reflects on the past, including an AA meeting in a Lutheran church basement, when they “ate salads out of Tupperware,” but felt “like first-century Christians — /a strident, hidden throng, electrified by a message.” The poem moves in many directions, not least of all Sister Ann’s grace when she tells him “Listening…is a memorable form of love.”
Day 35: Monday April 10
Reading: “Gilding the Lily” by Lisa Ampleman
If we think of Lent as a season of re-naming, of reconsidering who we are and how we are, then Lisa Ampleman’s prose poem, “Gilding the Lily,” is a perfect representation of the season. “To keep anxiety at bay, my friend called chemo dragonfly love.” Ampleman’s poem is like a work of pastoral care; her narrator shows how we may weather grief and suffering by transforming them. Her friend “called nausea erotica. Just the same, we name our storms to lessen them — not a tropical cyclone, but Arabella, with ballet shoes and bun…Not hair loss, but deep conditioning.” The poem’s final line is terminal: “At the funeral I learned she was born Passalacqua: to cross the river, to pass a glass of water.” Our contemporary idea of the religious sense is hampered by the criticism that religion or belief feels like a whitewashing, or worse, an opiate. This is to misunderstand and neuter the power of faith. Poems like “Gilding the Lily” remind us that poems, like prayers, can be small salves. Sometimes they are enough.
Day 36: Tuesday April 11
Reading: “Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star” by Mary Biddinger
Biddinger’s Saint Monica chapbook places St. Augustine’s pious mother in a Midwestern present. Young, modern Monica is imperfect. She fails. She even gives incorrect “details / outside the psychic’s booth at the fair.” Monica, like Walker Percy’s Binx Bolling, is transfixed by film. She has always wanted to be different, but “Who could blame / her, though? They lived in Michigan, / where nothing ever changed.” While working at a local pub, Monica wonders what would happen if she breaks a pint glass while washing it: “Would she have to wait for the flush / of blood, or would the transformation / be instantaneous?” Biddinger’s poetry makes any transfiguration seem possible.
Day 37: Wednesday April 12
“The River” (pdf) by Flannery O’Connor
Although “Greenleaf” (pdf) has been considered her “Lent” story, O’Connor’s entire canon is fodder for the season. “The River” is the story of Harry Ashfield, a boy of “four or five” years, who spends the day with a sitter, Mrs. Connin. She is the prototypical O’Connor character: stern, judgmental, witty, and closer to God that anybody else she knows. She decides to take the boy to the river, where a preacher has been healing believers. The boy smirks his way through the story, and takes on the name of the preacher — Bevel — before the sitter learns his real name. She feels it is her Christian duty to right the wrongs of his upbringing. O’Connor tells the story filtered through his voice, and his day with Mrs. Connin is illuminating: “He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall, a fat man with a yellow mustache who gave him shots and thought his name was Herbert.” Later, Mrs. Connin presents Harry to the preacher for baptism in the river, and also says “He wants you to pray for his mamma. She’s sick.” The preacher asks the boy for explanation, and it is simple: “She hasn’t got up yet…She has a hangover.” O’Connor’s next line — “The air was so quiet he could hear the broken pieces of the sun knocking the water” — captures the atmosphere of her fiction. O’Connor’s Catholic sense was a skeptical sense. Her skepticism can easily be misread as cynicism. The boy is baptized, but, like so many of O’Connor’s stories, “The River” ends on a solemn note. Yet that is not why she is appropriate to Lent. O’Connor belongs to this season because she offers no easy paths toward God. In fact, those who think they know the route — who might even deny it from others in word or deed — are due the severest rebuke.
Day 38: Thursday April 13
Reading: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
If there ever were a writer willing to dine with “tax collectors and sinners,” it was Greene. If I ever get too sentimental about faith, reading Greene keeps me in check. He was the first to admit he was no saint (he would probably admit to being the antithesis), but novels like The Power and the Glory capture the tension between belief and sin. Greene’s novel plays it serious, but his essays and letters about his conversion are predictably wry. He once received useful advice from a Father Trollope: “See the danger of going too far. Be very careful. Keep well within your depth.” Greene’s novel about an atheist lieutenant chasing a “whiskey priest” across Mexico is part thriller, part theological treatise, all Lenten document. Take off work on Holy Thursday, get this book, and read it cover to cover.
Day 39: Friday April 14
Reading: “Today is Friday” by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway claimed to receive “extreme unction” from a priest while on an Italian battlefield in July 1918. A decade later, he would claim to be a “very dumb Catholic,” and planned to not speak about his Catholic conversion because he knew “the importance of setting an example.” Matthew Nickel, one of the few critics to resurrect Hemingway’s found faith, explains what while Hemingway was not publically “comfortable being known as a Catholic writer,” he was no nominal believer, having “performed the rituals of Catholicism for forty years: attending Mass, eating fish on Fridays, having Masses said for friends and family, donating thousands of dollars to the churches in Key West and Idaho, celebrating saints days, and visiting and revisiting important pilgrimage sites and cathedrals.” The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and “Hills like White Elephants” hit loud and soft religious notes, but “Today is Friday” has always unsettled me in a particularly Lenten fashion. Only hours after Christ is crucified, three Romans soldiers are drinking at a bar with a “Hebrew wine-seller” named George. Add Hemingway’s oddly contemporary speech (“Lootenant”), and “Today is Friday” is an odd play. Two soldiers banter about the wine while one feels sick; his pain is “Jesus Christ.” The first soldier says “He didn’t want to come down off the cross. That’s not his play.” The second soldier wonders “What became of his gang?” The first soldier, who “slip[ed] the old spear into him…because it “was the least I could do,” says Christ’s disciples “faded out. Just the women stuck by him.” “Today is Friday” sounds like how Hemingway would have explained the Passion while seated at a bar. The uncomfortably comedic play ends with a sting. The soldiers leave the bar and the third, uneasy soldier speaks truth: “I feel like hell tonight.”
Day 40: Saturday April 15
“Christ’s Elbows” by Brian Doyle
Novelist, essayist, and poet Doyle is the literary antidote to cynicism. I’ve never seen a writer so good be so positive, and do so without lapsing into sentimentality. Doyle’s Mink River is a gem of a novel, but his shorter pieces make for effective reflection. His essay “Joyas Voladores” is a personal favorite, and “What do poems do?” shows how Doyle turns every narrative moment into an opportunity for revelation and epiphany. The narrator visits a kindergarten, where children ask ridiculous questions before arriving at the eternal query of the poem’s title. Doyle delivers, starting with the observation that poems “swirl / Leaves along sidewalks suddenly when there is no wind.” The next 10 lines are the best appreciation I’ve ever seen of the power of poetry. Doyle’s poem should be required reading for all teachers. “Christ’s Elbows,” an essay from his collection Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies, is the perfect end to a season of change. Doyle asks us to think about the physicality of Christ, a man who died at his physical peak. He admits that scriptural “accounts of [Christ’s] body in action are few and far between,” so Doyle wants us to act on faith, imagining a young man serving as a carpenter’s apprentice or running in fields. Doyle wonders: “Did his hand swallow the hand of the girl he raised from the dead?” Christ, an itinerant preacher, likely had a form much like a marathon runner. Doyle considers the one moment — other than as he hung on the cross — when Christ’s physicality was in full view: “when he lets himself go and flings over the first moneychanger’s table in the temple at Jerusalem.” Like a good priest, Doyle pauses his discussion, and says “think of the man for a second, not the eternal Son of Light.” Think of a man charged and ready. A man who, after the drama of the moment, “would resume the life and work that rivet us to this day.” A life and work that “upends our world, over and over.” The glory and the grace of tomorrow will come soon enough, but for now, Doyle suggests, “Perhaps the chaos of our plans is the shadow of his smile.”
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This week, we've had a big focus on the school pond. For weeks, she's been out of action due to a blanket weed invasion...but last week, myself, Garry and Rufus managed to clear it.
So...dipping commenced and we discovered wonderful things: dragonfly and damselfly larvae, mayfly nymphs, greater and lesser waterboatmen, hog-louse...but most amazingly...oodles of stickleback fry and several mature male sticklebacks in their breeding colours (red and blue).
What's incredible is that 18 months ago, Mr Hull put seven stickle back fry into the pond - how successfully they have reproduced! Let us know if you want any fry for your pond.
Most classes started the week with Crazy Crow - a high octane game requiring Collaboration, Organisation and Communication. There were some incredibly competitive battles here which were awesome fun to watch.
In the wood, we found a letter from Flame...the munchkins loved our places of worship and have clans visiting next week for communal worship - the munchkin lady folk asked the children to make play areas to keep the visiting munchlings entertained.
DT skills were needed here and the children made some incredible attractions which I am confident the munchlings will love (much tool-use, Collaboration and Creativity were called for).
Others in LS took their turn at map drawing or made a marbe run.
Y6 children have undertaken some tasks in preperation for The Air Crash Challenge - cooking and bike building.
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It took me a while to figure out how to use authentication with Mongo DB, so I thought I would write a blog about it. This is useful for example, when using text search, your user needs to have admin rights for the database. It is also good practice whenever your database is hosted on a public server to use authentication, to stop just anyone being able to access your data.
Setting up the config file
The first thing to realise is that when you install MongoDB as a windows service you can install it with a config file option. This is the place where you can specify that the service should run with or without authentication.
You need to open the mongod.cfg file and add the following line: "auth = true"
Then when you install MongoDB as a windows service you can pass in the path to the config file as a parameter. For Example: “D:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe --config D:\mongodb\mongod.cfg –install”
But first you will need to start the service with authentication turned off in order to create an admin login that you can use. So you will need to open up the config again and set “auth = false”. It took me a while to realise this, but every time you start the service, it checks the config file that you specified when you installed the service.
Then you can start the service now that auth is deactivated. Use the command “net start MongoDB”
Creating a user
So then you need to access the mongo shell. Use the command "D:\mongodb\bin\mongo.exe" (or whatever path your mongo.exe is under). Then it is important to switch to the admin database, there will always be an admin database, a user with a login for this admin database has access to all other databases. To switch to the admin database use the command “use admin”. Then you need to create a user for this database. Use the command “db.addUser(‘username’,’password’)”. Then if you want to check that the user was successfully created and has access to the admin database you can use the auth command: “db.auth(‘username’,’password’)” This should return a 1 if the authentication is successful.
Once you have created the login, then you need to restart the service with authentication turned on. So open up a new command prompt and type in “net stop MongoDB” to stop the service. Then reopen the mongod.cfg file and set “auth = true”. Then go back to the command prompt and restart the service with the command “net start MongoDB”. Now you have MongoDB running as a service with authentication.
Changing the connection string
In order to connect to the MongoDB now, you will need to add the username and password to your connection string:
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“There is reason to be optimistic about the future”. How does the phrase strike you? What reactions do you notice in yourself? Not the intellectual reactions that we use to judge truth and accuracy, but the subtle inner responses like emotion, body sensations and comfort.
We all have automatic tendencies in the way we think. They can result in a kind of intellectual wrestling match as our inner pessimist vies for supremacy over our hopes and aspirations. While this is going on, our ring-side emotions are what really matter. Emotions have a big impact on feelings, on how we engage with life, and the outcomes we create for ourselves.
Teaching yourself to use learning optimism by choice can have far-reaching benefits. These go deep into our unconscious processes and create emotional and physical resilience. Even if it doesn’t suit you to take a positive outlook, becoming more resilient should be of interest for its proven advantages. It strengthens your responses to the unavoidable setback and adversity that life throws at you.
Learning optimism does not mean abandoning pessimism. If you are more comfortable with an intuitively negative outlook, then stick with it. Optimism and pessimism are generally seen as opposites, but that doesn’t mean they are mutually exclusive. They can co-exist. It’s possible to learn how to use optimism selectively, without abandoning the sense that all is generally hopeless. | <urn:uuid:5d048292-78b9-46fc-91db-fd69c5a2d405> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barrywinbolt.com/selective-optimism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.934273 | 290 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Two months ago, just 200 of us set up an encampment at Wall Street's doorstep. Since then, Occupy Wall Street has become a national and even international symbol – with similarly styled occupations popping up in cities and towns across America and around the world. A growing popular movement has significantly altered the national narrative about our economy, our democracy, and our future.
Late into last night, we on the Occupy Wall Street PR team were reflecting on the successes, challenges and the aims of our movement up to this point. Over the weekend, some 20 writers sent us their thoughts on their experience with direct democracy and the evolution of the movement. We sat in awe for a moment at the various perspectives, backgrounds and motives of each OWS contributor and their journey through this burgeoning movement.
At exactly 12.54am – as the PR working group was culling final articles for this very editorial page, the Outreach team nearby was developing orientation materials for the new initiative "Occupy Your Block", and the Movement Building working group engaged in a conference call about national plans for the Day of Action on 17 November – an alert rippled room to room. At 1.20am, our phones started buzzing off the tables, overloaded with text messages. Three blocks away, and within seconds, we knew that hundreds of riot police were arriving, dump-trucks rolling in, subway stops shutting down, and the Brooklyn bridge had been closed. Via Twitter we knew our fellow Occupiers were chanting, "This is what a police state looks like." Half the people in the off-site office space ran to Liberty Square, leaving their laptops, their wallets, their phones even, behind.
PR working group member Jason Ahmadi texted the team from a police van full of 13 arrestees, and we soon discovered that NYC council member Ydanis Rodríguez had been arrested and was bleeding from the head. One after another text message alerted us to the effect that those not yet arrested at Liberty Square were being chased up Broadway, towards Chinatown. Some of our people headed to Foley Square by City Hall, some to Washington Square, and others to Judson Memorial Church, where so many of our meetings have been held these past weeks.
Occupiers undeterred by the unprovoked brutality rained on them by police instantly regrouped and launched a fresh General Assembly, which took place at Foley square. More General Assemblies are planned throughout the day. An interfaith gathering planned for 9.00am aimed to offer comfort and encouragement to the occupiers.
At 2.43am, the New York Observer reported that photographers with credentials were barred from Liberty Square. Seconds later the director of editorial operations at Gawker reported that a CBS news chopper were ordered out of the sky by the NYPD. New York Times journalist Jarid Malsin went to jail in zipties. And 20 minutes later, we heard the NYPD was cutting down trees in Liberty Square, and from our office space we could hear the deployment of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a sound cannon. To be certain, we could see and feel that this operation had been planned carefully to exclude all media coverage, sending out a loud message about how dissent will be treated in this democracy.
But we are not deterred. Our spirits our high, our resolve indomitable.
This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic. The "us" in this movement is far broader than those who are able to participate in physical occupations. The movement is everyone who sends supplies, everyone who talks to their friends and families about the underlying issues, everyone who takes some form of action to get involved in this civic process.
This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all.
Such a movement cannot be evicted. Some politicians may physically remove us from public spaces – our spaces – and, physically, they may succeed. But we are engaged in a battle over ideas. Our idea is that our political structures should serve us, the people – all of us, not just those who have amassed great wealth and power. We believe this idea resonates with so many of us because Congress, beholden to Wall Street, has ignored the powerful stories pouring out from the homes and hearts of our neighbors, stories of unrelenting economic suffering. Our dream for a democracy in which we matter is why so many people have come to identify with Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement.
As of filing this morning, with 100 people sitting in jail, a judge has declared that we have a right to return with our belongings, while Mayor Bloomberg insists that the park will remain closed. It does not matter. We will reclaim our streets block by block: we will occupy our public spaces, everywhere, knowing that this idea cannot be evicted. | <urn:uuid:f67e982f-48ab-4d1a-9fe3-92ffdec51ca9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/15/occupy-wall-street-you-cant-evict | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00435-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967331 | 1,004 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Veggies take center stage
Cutting back on meat is a cost-saving, healthful tactic for many operators.
Published in FSD Update
Vegetables are having their moment: In recent years, trendy restaurants have capitalized on the farm-fresh trend by filling their menus with leafy kale salads, creamy cauliflower steaks and gratins, sweet braised carrots, bacon-infused Brussels sprouts and more. Now, non-commercial operators are starting to bring vegetable-based dishes into the spotlight, too.
The movement is driven by a combination of healthcare changes, response to the aforementioned restaurant trends and the general desire by many to eat better, says Matthew Cervay, executive chef at Kettering Health Network, in Dayton, Ohio. “All these things are driving plant foods to take center stage instead of 18-ounce T-bones. Not to mention [with] the growing price increase for chicken and beef, operators are going to have to look for other alternatives to cut costs and remain viable,” he says.
Cervay is creating a new menu that includes pappardelle with a medley of fall vegetables like pumpkin, butternut squash, red and golden beets and Swiss chard. The sweetness of the vegetables is tempered with tangy goat cheese, apple cider vinegar and a splash of white wine, and fresh scarlet runner beans and toasted pumpkin seeds add protein and crunch. And despite an impressive presentation, the dish is cost-effective. “Pasta equals pennies in cost, and root vegetables and legumes cost considerably less than traditional meat proteins,” Cervay adds.
Though pasta is certainly a popular way to add bulk to vegetable-centric dishes, it’s not the only option. Newton Medical Center, in New Jersey, serves a hearty cauliflower and green pea curry that packs a flavor punch with plenty of garlic, onion, parsley, turmeric, fresh ginger, cardamom and cumin. Taken from the book “The Fat Resistant Diet” by Leo Galland, M.D., the recipe has been a surprising hit. “The crowd here is very meat and potatoes, and really exotic, fancy stuff doesn’t usually go well,” says Food and Nutrition Manager Gregory Merkle. “But I was surprised to see that a lot of people who I didn’t think would even look at something vegetarian ended up liking it. About 30% of our population jumps on it.”
Prized for their savory flavor and meaty texture, portobello mushrooms are the star vegetable of choice at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, in Illinois. There, Executive Chef Jim Roth gives them the gourmet treatment, first brushing the mushrooms with olive oil and roasting until tender. After setting the mushrooms upside down to drain (which keeps them from becoming waterlogged), Roth fills them with a rich, cheesy polenta. Then, he tops the whole thing with a sun-dried tomato cornbread panzanella and a fresh herb gremolata packed with fresh basil, oregano, thyme and lemon juice.
Schools, too, are starting to get in on the vegetable action, though operators have the added challenge of dealing with children’s picky palates. But at Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota, students clamor for the corn and black bean salad with red and green peppers. Served at the taco bar, students love using the corn and beans as the centerpiece in a taco salad or spooned straight into a tortilla, says Nutrition Specialist Angie Gaszak. “Kids are used to seeing things like this at Chipotle or Qdoba, so they really like it,” she says. | <urn:uuid:6780a773-1850-461c-8017-f93c0b6ba9fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foodservicedirector.com/menu-development/creating-healthier-menus/articles/veggies-take-center-stage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943439 | 776 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A Selective Potentiometric Copper (II) Ion Sensor Based on the Functionalized ZnO Nanorods
2014 (English)In: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ISSN 1533-4880, Vol. 14, no 9, 6723-6731 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
In this work, ZnO nanorods were hydrothermally grown on the gold-coated glass substrate and characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The ZnO nanorods were functionalized by two different approaches and performance of the sensor electrode was monitored. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was carried out for the confirmation of interaction between the ionophore molecules and ZnO nanorods. In addition to this, the surface of the electrode was characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showing the chemical and electronic state of the ionophore and ZnO nanorod components. The ionophore solution was prepared in the stabilizer, poly vinyl chloride (PVC) and additives, and then functionalized on the ZnO nanorods that have shown the Nernstian response with the slope of 31 mV/decade. However, the Cu2+ ion sensor was fabricated only by immobilizing the selective copper ion ionophore membrane without the use of PVC, plasticizers, additives and stabilizers and the sensor electrode showed a linear potentiometric response with a slope of 56.4 mV/decade within a large dynamic concentration range (from 1.0 x 10(-6) to 1.0 x 10(-1) M) of copper (II) nitrate solutions. The sensor showed excellent repeatability and reproducibility with response time of less than 10 s. The negligible response to potentially interfering metal ions such as calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), potassium (K+), iron (Fe3+), zinc (Zn2+), and sodium (Na+) allows this sensor to be used in biological studies. It may also be used as an indicator electrode in the potentiometric titration.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Scientific Publishers, 2014. Vol. 14, no 9, 6723-6731 p.
ZnO Nanorods; Ionophore; Cu+2 Ion; Potentiometric Sensor; Indicator Electrode
Engineering and Technology
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A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
The Borg travel back in time intended on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
The stable wormhole discovered by the Deep Space Nine crew is known to the Bajoran people as the Celestial Temple of their Prophets. Sisko, as discoverer of the wormhole and its inhabitants, is therefore the Emissary of Bajoran prophesy. The wormhole's other end is in the Gamma Quadrant, halfway around the galaxy from Bajor. That section of space is dominated by the malevolent Dominion. The Dominion is led by the Changelings, the race of shapeshifters to which Odo belongs. As of the beginning of the sixth season, Cardassia has joined the Dominion, and together they are waging war on the Federation and their Klingon allies. The war is quickly becoming the most costly war ever for the Federation, and the Deep Space Nine crew must fight to protect their way of life. Written by
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The appearance of the Trill symbiont is different from when it initially appeared on the episode Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Host (1991). In that episode, the symbiont's appearance was made to resemble a caterpillar with the head of an octopus. According to Make-Up Supervisor Michael Westmore, the symbiont was re-made for this series to be more "stream-lined" to make it easier to handle. Also, the appearance of the Trill hosts had changed as well. In "The Host", the Trill people had semi-ridged foreheads and no body spots, but in this series, they have normal foreheads, and body spots. In "The Host," the Trill was also terrified of being transported, insinuating that it would damage the symbiont, but none of the Trills ever mentioned concerns with being transported. See more »
During the opening title sequence, the wormhole is shown at inconsistent angles to how it looks as the crew observe it from the station's windows. In the title sequence, the wormhole is angled upward at approximately a 40° angle. When the crew observes it from the station, it's pointed down at about a 260° angle. See more »
I have my eye on you, Quark.
[Jadzia Dax walks by]
And I have my eye on you, Jadzia.
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The opening credits for "Emissary" lacked the wormhole opening that all future episodes featured. Starting with Season 4, the opening credits included additional spacecraft and activity around the station, including the Defiant flying into the wormhole. See more »
I'm 21 years old, not many of my friends watch star trek, as a matter of fact, I don't know anyone in my age group who watches star trek, too uncool for them. I'm almost ashame to say that voyager was my first love. first because of 7 of 9, she was the sexiest thing i've ever seen.
But just out of curiosity I downloaded "Emissary" and "What you leave behind". I did the same for TNG, I downloaded "Encounter at Farpoint Station" and "All good things." Needless to say, I was most impressed with DS9. It was so real, well written and well acted.I downloaded as much episodes as i could find online. but I could only find about 50. Damn! so...
I had no choice but to get the whole 7 season DVD collection. It was so expensive too. I think it's the most expensive DVD set series out there. Anyway It was a good investment. The episodes were so good. I watch them over and over. each time i see something new in the episodes and I appreciate it more.
A part of me was wishing they would make a movie out of DS9 but after seeing what they did with TNG and nemesis..no way. Leave DS9 as it is. It's a thing of beauty. I only wished more people my age would give it a try. I mean i "loved" janeway,I thought she was great and the episodes were great but after seeing just a few episodes of DS9 i know it's the best and Dax is my girl...both of them. I love Kira too and Sisko(yea yea i know he's not as "charismatic" as picard but you know what, he's firm, direct and real. DS9 Pour Toujours
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The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons.
Caravaggio scholars estimate that between 60 and 80 of his works are in existence today. Many others, no one knows the precise number, have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy.
Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ; its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer working in Ireland, that she finally manages to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle.
The fascinating details of Caravaggio's strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages. Harr's account is not unlike a Caravaggio painting: vivid, deftly wrought, and enthralling.
©2005 Jonathan Harr; (P)2005 Random House, Inc.
"Harr's skillful and long-awaited follow-up to 1997's A Civil Action provides a finely detailed account." (Publishers Weekly)
This book was absolutely excellent, an easy listen with a wonderful cast of characters. The storyline flows nicely despite being very complex, surrounding the incredible discovery of a Caravaggio painting in the unlikeliest of places. The rich narrative seamlessly ties together diverse characters and the underlying mystery surrounding their connection, albeit unknown to them, to the lost painting. Throughout the story, the various personalities are fleshed-out as they are followed, and the truth of the painting's history unfolds. The details were wonderful, making it easy to visualize the different places visited, the people in the story, and the various levels of connection that are made as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. I love art and mysteries, and I loved this book. I was also pleasantly surprised by the brief but informative interview with the author. Highly recommended.
Jonathan Harr has written a story within a story, but not just the usual kind. This is a biography within a true story, a window on history glimpsed from the world of art historians. He has crafted a tale that is both suspenseful and full of human drama. The listener comes to care about the real people who populate this book, whether they are our contemporaries or lived 400 years ago in Rome.
I hated for the story to end. There is an interesting interview with Mr. Harr at the end of the book. His style is truly unique, a contemporay historian/journalist who writes non-fiction with the feel of a novel. He is writing shorter pieces now, but I hope that he will begin another full length work soon.
This story is small, compelling gem: three modern day characters hovering around the traces of genius from an artist now gone for nearly 400 years.
For some reason, this plot did not confuse me: Harr does an effective job of connecting the reader with each of the three main protagonists, and of explaining to me their separate fascinations with Caravaggio's wild brilliance. I felt the web of social relations surrounding each of the three, and the depth of their shared "Caravaggio madness", as a binding force in the book.
Harr's prose is well-suited to audio format: clear, crisp, very much to the point. He turns his fascination with technical detail into a strength: the detail takes on a life of its own at times, serving as the medium through which the searchers come into contact with the painting: and through it with Caravaggio himself. This is, after all, a story of a transformative search: one that alters the lives of two of the three main characters, and that reveals the life of the fourth.
This is neither an exhaustive assessment of the painting nor a thorough biography of the artist. Instead, it is (in effect) a thoughtful assessment of why we dig into the beauties of the past and on the pleasures and miseries of scholarship, even of obsession.
The reader is perfect: great sound, intonation and pace. Altogether a must-read.
Recorded books have changed my life as now I can experience hundreds of works I’d never have time to read traditionally.
Although I am a fan of Carvaggio, reader Campbell Scott and, of course, the new freedom Audible has given me to enjoy more books than I could possibly do if I had to read them in the conventional manner--"The Lost Painting" is a not a good choice for listening. The book recounts the arduous, often tedious work in tracking down and authenticating a masterpiece of art. In order to relay this story and give all the participants their due there are too many characters, places, and terminology to contend with, and for myself I often had trouble following who was who and where was where. If I had the book in hand (which I intend to do at the library soon) I would be able to go back over confusing bits in order to remind myself of specifics. I also suspect that the printed book is indexed and/or footnoted which would aid in studying this account and that there is a valid reason for doing this. Therefore, my low rating is directly aimed at "The Lost Painting" as a rating for an "audio" book and nothing against the writer, the story, or the fabulous reader Campbell Scott.
It's amazing that a book about art historians digging through archives can be so fascinating, but it is. This is a real tour de force; I cannot recommend it highly enough!
The book provided a wonderful listening experience for me by gracefully moving between the present and the past. As the author developed each of the present day charactors (historians, curators and restoration artists), he carefully described their roles in the story. At the same time, I found myself being walked through Caravaggio's tragic life and that experience brought greater life to the works of art he left behind.
This is an amazing story told with finesse. I really enjoyed the detailed descriptions of archival research and art restoration. You will learn a great deal about how paintings are painstakingly traced through historical records, and how their authenticity can be proven. No, it's nothing like the Da Vinci Code - this is real scholarship and far more interesting.
The reader is fine, although he has a sad, melancholic tone that drains the energy a little; a book with this much excitement and revelation needed more enthusiasm.
It was educational and like a bit of a detective story without the violence!
Worth the money. A great relaxing read!
Harr knows his art history, from the techniques of Caravaggio to where his paintings finally landed after 4 centuries of intrigue, war and auctions. If you want to learn that information, this is your book. But if you're looking for a plot, with at least some action, you're better off elsewhere. Nothing (and I mean nothing, nada, zip, bupkus) happens in this novel. I finished it because I thought the art history aspects of the book were interesting, but this has been (so far) the most boring audio book I've heard on Audible.
I liked this book which had been recommended to me. I am a Daniel Silva fan, so I couldn't help but think about his art restorer hero, Gabriel Alon. This book was very informative about the world of art, art restoration and provenance of artwork, but it was missing some excitement for me. I am not sorry that I listened, but wouldn't recommend it.
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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National School Choice Week begins today in Arizona and across the
country. There are 612 events planned in the Grand Canyon State to raise
awareness about K-12 school choice, and 16,140 events nationwide.
The events in Arizona, which are independently planned and independently
funded, include everything from information sessions and open houses at
schools to rallies, policy discussions, and movie screenings organized
by community groups. On Friday, January 29, thousands of supporters will
rally for school choice at the capitol.
Governor Doug Ducey, the mayors of Gilbert, Peoria, Phoenix, and
Scottsdale, and county leaders from La Paz and Santa Cruz counties have
issued official proclamations recognizing January 24-30, 2016 as “School
“Arizona continues to lead the nation in providing parents with a
diverse and robust menu of K-12 education choices for their children,”
said Andrew R. Campanella, president of National School Choice Week.
“Arizona families have more educational choices for their children than
families in most other states, and National School Choice Week will
shine a positive spotlight on these options – and on the benefits school
choice has provided to children and communities – so that more parents
can learn about the opportunities available to their kids.”
With a goal of raising public awareness of effective education options
for children, National School Choice Week will be the largest
celebration of education options in US history.
SCHOOL CHOICE OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR ARIZONA FAMILIES
According to National School Choice Week’s organizers, families in
Arizona can use the Week to look for K-12 schools for the 2016-2017
school year. Parents in the Grand Canyon State can choose from the
following education options for their children: traditional public
schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, online academies,
private schools, and homeschooling. Open enrollment policies allow
parents statewide to select the best traditional public school,
regardless of where the school is located. The state also has a
program allowing qualifying children, in some cases, to receive
scholarships to attend private schools.
ABOUT NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE WEEK
National School Choice Week is an independent public awareness effort
spotlighting effective education options for children, including
traditional public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools,
private schools, online learning, and homeschooling. The Week runs from
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Circuses End Performing Lions and Tigers in the United Kingdom
Big changes are underway under the Big Top in the United Kingdom. Traveling circuses have started their season but for the first time no circus will be entertaining the crowd with performing big cats. The Great British Circus was the last show to feature tigers doing tricks and they sent their cats to an operator in Ireland just in time before the new animal welfare regulations became active last month.
The Victorian era ushered in circuses with performing elephants, lions and tigers on tour. The last time the circuses toured without exotic animals was around 1768 when the first modern circus entertained the spectators with horses and riders performing daring feats. Wild animals did not debut in the circus until after the British empire expanded in the 19th century. Wild animals were captured and brought back to be put on display at a time when the average person had little chance of seeing a live lion, tiger or elephant let alone watch them performing tricks.
Over the last couple hundred years, our world is a very different place. We have access to learning about and seeing lions, tigers and elephants from many sources, whether that be a zoological park, a sanctuary, learning via the internet or nature programs on television. We also know more about the big cats that share our world and most people are concerned about how they are treated and find physical abuse unacceptable in modern society.
Lion and Tigers are confined in small cages all day except when performing
The cages that transport lions and tigers are quite often not big enough to allow the cat to stand up or walk around. In fact, many animals have been found to be chained in one place while being transported. Circus owners and operators claim they take good care of their animals, but being confined in small cages all day except when they are performing results in a life without essential physical needs such as sunshine and exercise let alone social freedom. Sadly, every major circus using wild animals has been cited for a violation of the Animal Welfare Act. These violations only result in a fine imposed upon the circus, not the removal of the animal.
In 2004, a two year old lion named Clyde, a member of the Ringling Bros. Circus died after being contained in a boxcar traveling from Arizona through the Mojave Desert to California. The temperature in the cars was recorded at 109 degrees and Clyde was not provided water or ventilation. This treatment is undeniably extreme cruelty.
The Emotional Side of the Big Cats
A lion would not choose to leap through a ring of fire and a tiger would not willingly sit up on their haunches while balancing on a stool. These big cats must be trained to perform and this training is usually the result of negative reinforcement in the form of physical abuse. Some animals are deprived of exercise time, food and shelter from the elements when they fail to perform on demand. Animals are subjected to beatings all across their bodies with sticks, metal rods, hooks and other brutal implements to force them to behave the way the trainer demands.
Big cats suffer pain and many in the scientific community think animals have emotions and feelings as well. And even if you are not sure, isn’t the humane and best path to proceed as though all animals are capable of not only experiencing physical pain but emotional distress too?
“When You Know Better, You Do Better” Maya Angelou
When I was a child, the circus came to our town and I remember being excited to go and see the elephants and tigers. I remember my mom telling us that she didn’t enjoy the show because of the way the animals were treated. I didn’t understand when I was younger but I certainly do now. And as society evolves and we learn more and we know better, don’t we have an obligation to do better? Knowing what we know now, is there any reason any animal should be forced to perform tricks to entertain crowds?
Circuses in continental Europe and the United Stated continue to draw big crowds with wild animals. Education and awareness will help these countries follow the footsteps of the UK and allow these animals to escape from the circus and relocate to reputable sanctuaries.
We know better. Let’s try to do better.
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Tahira Mahdi, Psychology
"Myopia and the Need for Cognition in a Community Sample of Adults"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shawn Bediako
Expected Graduation Date: May 2010
Need for cognition refers to the extent to which people enjoy and participate in effortful cognitive activities. This study is motivated by my observation that the classic definition of a “nerd” is very consistent with what the literature suggest are characteristics of a person who is “high in need for cognition”: both terms describe someone who enjoys solving complex problems and analyzing situations. Glasses, or need for vision correction, fit the prototype of such individuals who have been portrayed in popular media as conscientious and prone to engage in esoteric pursuits. Do people whose physical characteristics force them to attend closely to visual stimuli actually have a similar type of personality? A sample of 80 adults varying in age, educational background, and quality of vision will complete a brief demographic survey, the Need for Cognition Scale and two perceptual tasks. Significant group differences on the outcome measures in expected directions would indicate that individuals who are nearsighted possess a higher need for cognition compared to those who are not. The goal of this study is to provide evidence that personality traits - and the way we cognitively process information - may be uniquely related to physical characteristics.
How did you find out that you could do research in your field as an undergraduate?
I came to UMBC as a transfer student, and once I was accepted, I read the articles featured on UMBC’s homepage about the great things done by students, faculty, and even President Hrabowski. At Orientation, a speaker talked about Undergraduate Research Awards and I made it a goal to get one during my time at UMBC.
How did you decide on your research project?
My research idea, like many others in psychology, came from simple observation of real-life situations. Years before I started at UMBC, I noticed that a few of my friends who were very nearsighted had certain personality characteristics that seemed opposite of a few people I knew who were farsighted. In Dr. Blass’s Social Psychology class, I learned about the central and peripheral routes to persuasion and something clicked. I read more about the topic and discovered how need for cognition was related to the ideas I already had bouncing around in my head. The more I learned about need for cognition, the more I thought of nerds… and their stereotypes. Because I find UMBC to be a place where nerd can be a nerd, I knew the topic was worth studying.
Who did you seek out as a faculty mentor? How did you know that would be the right person? Was he/she easy to approach?
My advisor, Dr. Steven Pitts, recommended that I contact Dr. Shawn Bediako because of my interest in health psychology. I emailed Dr. Bediako to set up a meeting about working in his lab through the PSYC 397 Research Experience in Psychology course. Dr. Bediako emphasized that he expected me to be directly involved in a research project, from literature reviews up until a possible presentation at URCAD. After working with Dr. Bediako for a year through PSYC 397 and presenting at URCAD 2009, I felt that he was aware of my dedication to research and would be willing to mentor me on an independent project.
What courses or other experiences prepared you for this research project?
Before attending UMBC, I had a career in media that included television, radio, public relations, print journalism, and being a self-published author. Because I was trained to analyze audiences, study likes and dislikes based on demographics, and promote products/people, many social psychological concepts were very easy to grasp. I have always been interested in group stereotypes and media images, so it was natural to relate these ideas to my interest in nerds. Also, with my experience in speaking and presenting in front of audiences, I was very prepared for the oral presentations of my findings at URCAD 2009 and 2010.
What has been the hardest part of your research so far? The most unexpected?
I really thought that I would get all 80 of my participants on one day. I did all that I could to ensure it, but on the scheduled day, it rained! The hardest part was getting participants. Whenever I thought it would be easy to get people to participate, it was difficult; whenever I thought it would be difficult, it was easy.
What else are you involved in on campus during the time you worked on your research?
I was involved in off-campus community service activities pertaining to my self-published books.
What are your plans for after UMBC?
I am now now a Meyerhoff Fellow, starting UMBC's HSP doctoral program in Clinical/Community and Applied Social Psychology. I am very proud that I will be receiving my Ph.D. at UMBC after having been so well-prepared for graduate study by the undergraduate research opportunities here!
What advice do you have for other undergraduates about the research opportunities at UMBC?
Please do not underestimate the gold mine of support and opportunities we have here at UMBC. Bask in the greatness of the atmosphere and learn from faculty and fellow students! Engage yourself in these awesome research opportunities, especially because the staff works hard to make sure that we have them. It will pay off, not just when telling a graduate program why they should let you in, but when you feel the excitement about your own ability and potential. It’s just good LIFE stuff. | <urn:uuid:1c6a9a64-770f-4759-88aa-1a98b0e35ce2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/research/URA/scholars/mahdi.html | 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 | 0.974408 | 1,149 | 2.203125 | 2 |
MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (AP) - Mammoth Cave National Park says tests have confirmed that a bat from one of the park's caves had white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of bats in eastern North America.
Park Superintendent Sarah Craighead says the northern long-eared bat was found in Long Cave and euthanized two weeks ago. The undeveloped cave is not connected to Mammoth Cave and hasn't been open to visitors for more than 80 years.
The park said Wednesday that bats there tested negative for white-nose syndrome the last four years. The disease has killed more than 5.5 million cave-dwelling bats in the eastern third of North America as it spread south and west.
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Diaries, letters, writings, reports, financial records, instructions, statistics, and printed matter, relating to financial
and economic conditions in China, economic conditions in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Chinese-Soviet negotiations
for the return of Manchuria to Chinese control, and daily commodity prices of Chinese products, 1950-1957. Includes some materials
collected from Japanese organizations, calligraphy by Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, and letters by Chiang Kai-shek. Part of collection
also available on microfilm (11 reels).
27 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 4 panels of calligraphy
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THE EDIBLE GARDEN
Plan to plant heirloom vegetables this growing season. Heirloom plants are open-pollinated, which means their seeds can be saved and will grow true to type. Heirloom vegetable varieties have better flavor and texture than current varieties, but lack disease resistance. Find heirloom vegetable seeds at Seed Savers Exchange (Decorah, Iowa) at seedsavers. org/default.asp or call 563-382-5990.
Grow a garden in a bag. Fill a pint- or quart-size heavy-duty freezer bag with potting soil making sure to push the soil into the corners of the bag so it will sit upright on a windowsill. (Avoid sandwich bags, they will break.) Fill the bag to within a couple of inches of the top. Sprinkle seeds such as basil, chives or lettuce (such as 'Black Seeded Simpson' or 'Red Sails') on top of the soil and lightly cover with soil. Water lightly so the top 3 or 4 inches of the soil is moist and zip the bag shut. Place the bag in a sunny window. Check in a week or so for shoots. When you see green shoots, open the bag and water when needed.
Watch for insects on houseplants. Check your plants often because insect numbers can increase dramatically in a short period of time. Isolate infected plants from the rest of your collection. The following are some common houseplant insects:
* Whiteflies are tiny white insects with piercing-sucking mouthparts that cause yellowing and browning of leaves. They will fly around when the plant is disturbed. Very difficult to control indoors. Best to throw plant away.
* Mealybugs are insects that look like little bits of cotton found in the leaf and stem joints and on the undersides of leaves.They excrete a sticky shiny substance called honeydew. This is often the first sign of the infestation. Remove by wiping with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol or hit with a hard stream of water.
* Scales are small insects covered with a waxy coating looking like small brown, round or oval bumps on plant stems. They also excrete honeydew and cause leaves to yellow and wilt. Try to remove by hand by scraping off with a fingernail file or prune out infected areas.
For a fact sheet on houseplant insects, call 773-233-0476.
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Devon Cycle Routes
Devon is a beautiful county and is well served by a plethora of cycle routes and tracks.
Apart from the obvious splendid coastal scenery in the region one of the main attractions for cyclists is the wonderful Tarka Trail which is a 180 mile figure of eight stretch of footpaths and cycle paths in North Devon.
Highlights on the trail include the Exmoor National Park and some wonderful coastal views.
Please use the links below to view full route information including descriptions, elevation profiles, interactive maps and GPS downloads.
You can also view an overview map of all the routes in the using the Devon Cycle Map
There are several National Cycle Network signed routes in the county many of which have been mapped and can be viewed and downloaded below.
For more information on NCN routes in the county (including free cycle maps) please click here
For more information on cycle routes in Devon including tips, advice and free cycle maps please click here
|Ashclyst Forest||2 miles (3 km)||Enjoy miles of woodland cycling and walking trails in this large forest near Killerton. There are a number of waymarked trails to try starting from the National Trust Car Park. The forest is excellent for wildlife spotting with various birds and deer to look out for. It is also well known for its butterflies with white admiral, small pearl-bordered fritillary, dark green fritillary, purple emperor and silver-washed fritillary amongst the species. You can extend your exercise by heading to the nearby Killerton Park where there are more cycling and walking tracks to try.|
Ashclyst Forest is located just a few miles north east of Exeter.
|Axminster to Bridport||16 miles (25 km)||Follow NCN route 2 on this short route through the lovely Devon countryside along minor roads and tracks.|
The ride takes you from the pretty market town of Axminster in Devon through some pleasant rural scenery to the finish point at Bridport in Dorset.
|Axminster to Dorchester||34 miles (55 km)||Travel from Devon into Dorset following NCN route 2.|
The south coast is never far away as you travel through some lovely countryside on your way to the market town of Dorchester on the River Frome. The route takes you through many pretty Dorset villages including Little Bredy and Winterborne St Martin and has splendid views of the Dorset countryside and coast.
|Barnstaple to Tiverton||47 miles (75 km)||Follow NCN route 3 through Devon and Somerset from Barnstaple to Tiverton on the River Exe. |
The route begins with a lovely section along the River Taw before heading into Exmoor national park with its open moorland and variety of wildlife including red deer and the Exmoor ponies.
|Bellever Forest||5 miles (8 km)||Enjoy a cycle or walk around this lovely forest in the Dartmoor National Park. The circular route starts in the pretty hamlet of Bellever and passes Laughter Hole Farm, Laughter Tor, Bellever Tor and a number of interesting stone cairn circles. It's a delightful and peaceful area with lots of different walking trails to choose from. Cyclists are welcome but please keep to the stone roads. The East Dart River also runs through the forest so you can enjoy a waterside stroll and a picnic. Look out for Dartmoor Ponies as they graze the forest.|
The River Teign Walk starts from the northern edge of the forest at the car park at Postbridge. You could extend your walk by following the trail north to Fernworthy Reservoir and Fernworthy Forest.
The Lych Way ancient path also starts from the car park at Bellever. You could pick this trail up and follow it west across Dartmoor Forest to Longaford Tor and then on to Lydford.
|Bere Peninsula Circular||8 miles (13 km)||This circular ride takes you along the River Tamar and then the River Tavy with splendid views of the beautiful Tamar Valley AONB. You start at Bere Ferrers and head north along the River Tamar to Bere Alston before the route returns to its origin along the River Tavy. You will also pass near to the beautiful Lopwell Dam which is worth the small detour as you return. |
The ride is easy to access from Bere Ferrers railway. It includes a few steep climbs but with terrific views at the high points. Much of the route follows the Tamar Valley Discovery Trail so is also suitable for walkers.
|Bideford to Ilfracombe||31 miles (50 km)||This lovely route follows National Cycle Network routes 3 and 27 from Bideford to Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast.|
Much of the route is traffic free following first the Tarka Trail along the River Torridge and then the River Taw around Barnstaple. You then join the South West Coast path with its stunning coastal scenery, passing through the pretty villages of Woolacombe and Mortehoe as you go.
|Blackdown Hills - Hemyock Uffculme Culmstock Circuit||11 miles (17 km)||The Blackdown Hills AONB is a splendid place to cycle with so much beautiful countryside to enjoy. The Blackdown Hills AONB website has created a series of fantastic routes exposing some of the finest scenery of the area.|
This 11 mile circular route starts in Hemyock and passes Uffculme and Culmstock. There are views of the River Culm and a series of pretty villages to enjoy as you pass along several delightful country lanes.
|Bude to Bideford||40 miles (65 km)||Cross from Cornwall to Devon following National Cycle Network route 3 from Bude to Bideford. This section follows the Tarka trail: a popular off road cycle path which follows the River Torridge for a scenic and traffic free ride.|
You start by following the River Neet and the Bude Canal to Helebridge on a lovely traffic free path. Country roads then take you through Holsworthy and then Black Torrington before joining the Tarka Trail near Petrockstowe. This takes you all the way to Bideford on the River Torridge.
|Bude to Okehampton||35 miles (56 km)||Follow National Cycle Network routes 3 and 27 from Bude in Cornwall to Okehampton in Devon. You start by following the River Neet and the Bude Canal to Helebridge on a lovely traffic free path. Country roads then take you through Holsworthy and then Hatherleigh before a pleasant run through Abbeyford Woods takes you to Okehampton. There are also lovely views of the rivers Torridge and Okement as you approach Okehampton.|
|Burrator Reservoir||4 miles (6.5 km)||The area surrounding this reservoir in Dartmoor is well worth exploring on foot or by bike. As well as waterside paths along the reservoir there are miles of lovely woodland trails, brooks, streams and waterfalls in the surrounding area. You'll also pass a number of rugged Dartmoor Tors and the River Meavy at the western end of the reservoir. |
This route starts at the Nosworthy Bridge car park at the eastern end of the reservoir and heads to the dam along the trail at the southern side of the water. You'll pass mixed woodland and Sheeps Tor - one of Dartmoor's most imposing tors. The route then passes through the mixed woodland on the northern side of the reservoir, passing Peek Hill, Leather Tor and Sharpitor. The final section takes you into Norsworthy Woods to Leather Tor Bridge and then back to Nosworthy Bridge. Look out for Dartmoor ponies on your way through this lovely area.
If you enjoy this route then you could head to the nearby Plymbridge Woods for a great trail running along a disused railtrack.
Burrator Reservoir is located near to Yelverton and Tavistock.
|Devon Coast to Coast||99 miles (160 km)||This is the complete National Cycle Network route from Ilfracombe on the North coast of Devon to Plymouth on the south. The route follows NCN routes 27 and 3 through this beautiful county, making use of miles of disused railway lines. Most of the ride is traffic free making for a really fabulous cycling experience.|
The first section runs from Ilfracombe to Barnstaple and includes a coastal section around Woolacombe and a run along the Tarka Trail and the River Taw into Barnstaple.
You continue along the Tarka Trail from Barnstaple to Bideford with more waterside cycling along the River Taw and the River Torridge.
The next section runs from Bideford to Okehampton, along the Tarka trail and quiet country lanes. You'll pass Great Torrington and Hatherleigh while there are also waterside stretches along the River Torridge and then the River Okement into Okehampton.
The final section takes you from Okehampton to Plymouth through Dartmoor National Park following a series of quiet roads and traffic free paths along National Cycle Network route 27. The first section takes you along the Granite Way to Lydford on a lovely off road path. You then continue on road to Tavistock with the impressive Brent Tor a highlight on this section. After passing through Tavistock you cross the Grenofen Bridge over the River Walkham before a long traffic free woodland section takes you through Bickleigh Vale to Yelverton and Clearbrook. You then join the River Plym and the West Devon Way taking you to Plymouth.
|Exe Estuary Trail||16 miles (26 km)||This splendid, largely traffic free ride takes you around the beautiful Exe Estuary on the south Devon coast. It runs along National Cycle Network route 2 from Exmouth to Dawlish. The ride takes place on mostly well surfaced, flat cycle paths so it is quite an easy ride. Most sections are suitable for families or beginners looking for a nice introduction to cycling.|
The route starts off in Exmouth and heads north along the river with splendid views of the Exe Estuary Nature Reserve. The RSPB reserve is great for birdwatching so look out for lapwings, redshanks and Cetti's warblers as you go. You soon come to the village of Lympstone with its pretty harbour and the 19th century Italianate riverfront brick clock tower known as Peter's Tower. You continue to Exton, passing Nutwell Park and the Georgian neo-classical Grade II listed mansion house of Nutwell Court. The next stage takes you through Topsham, passing the Exe Reedbeds Nature Reserve before coming to Lower Wear. Here you cross a bridge over the river to the western side where you pass the Riverside Valley Park and the Exeter Canal.
On the western side of the estuary you head south passing RSPB Exminster Marshes and Powderham Castle. The Grade I listed building is a major highlight on the route with its lovely gardens and fine fortified manor house. From the castle you continue through Starcross to Dawlish Warren. This lovely area includes the Dawlish Warren National Nature reserve which consists of grassland, ponds and a huge variety of birdlife to look out for. The final section takes you along the coast to the finish point at the town of Dawlish.
If you'd like to extend your cycling in this area then you could head to Exeter along route 34 or follow the excellent Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton Railway Path.
You can virtually explore some of the route around Powderham by clicking on the google street view link below.
|Exe Valley Ride||7 miles (11 km)||This lovely easy ride or walk follows the River Exe, the Exeter Canal and NCN route 2 from Exeter to Exminster.|
Highlights include Exeter's attractive quay, views of the Exe esutaury and the Riverside Valley Park.
Please click here for more information on this route.
|Exeter to Dawlish||16 miles (25 km)||Follow NCN route 2 along the River Exe from Exeter to Dawlish. Much of this route is off road following the Exe Estuary Trail and the Exeter Canal before a short on road section along the south west coast path, finishing near the train station in the pretty town of Dawlish. Route highlights include the lovely views of the river and canal, with the lovely deer park and castle at Powderham another draw. The final stretch into the seaside town of Dawlish is also delightful.|
|Exeter to Exmouth||12 miles (20 km)||This easy route follows NCN route 2 from Exeter to Exmouth.|
The route starts near Exeter train station and heads south along the River Exe to the coastal town of Exmouth.
Much of this route is off road and very flat making it a comfortable ride.
Highlights on the route include the river views, the Exe Reedbeds Nature Reserve and the nearby River Exe Country Park.
|Exmouth to Axminster||34 miles (55 km)||Follow NCN route 2 through Devon from Exmouth to Axminster. |
This ride includes some beautiful coastal scenery and attractive countryside as you travel through Devon. Highlights on the route are the spectacular scenery along the Jurassic Coast and the lovely seaside towns of Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth and Seaton.
|Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton Railway Path||4 miles (7 km)||This is a nice easy cycle or walk along the disused railway path running from Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton.|
It runs along NCN route 2 through rolling countryside and woodland. The path is ideal for families looking for a safe, easy route.
If you enjoy this ride you could pick up the Exe Estuary Trail at Exmouth and follow the route to Dawlish. It's another great, largely traffic free ride with wonderful views of the Exe Estuary Nature Reserve, the Exeter Canal and the Devon coast.
|Exmouth to Lyme Regis||31 miles (50 km)||Follow NCN route 2 through the Devon countryside from Exmouth to Lyme Regis. You will cross the border from Devon to Dorset on this attractive route which follows the spectacular Jurassic Coast. The route starts near Exmouth train station and heads east along off road paths and a dismantled railway line to Budleigh Salterton. A series of quiet country roads then takes you onto Sidmouth and then Seaton before finishing in Lyme Regis.|
|Exmouth to Sidmouth||12 miles (20 km)||This short route takes you along NCN route 2 from Exmouth to Sidmouth. The route starts near Exmouth train station and heads east along off road paths and a dismantled railway line to Budleigh Salterton. A series of quiet country roads then takes you onto the finish point at Sidmouth. |
Highlights include the wonderful coastal views as you approach Sidmouth and the Otter Estuary Nature reserve near Budleigh Salterton.
|Granite Way||11 miles (18 km)||This lovely, largely off road trail runs from Okehampton to Lydford through the
Dartmoor National Park. It passes along a disused railway path and forms part of National Cycle Network Number 27 but is suitable for both cyclists and walkers.|
The route begins in Okehampton and takes you towards Meldon where you will pass Meldon Viaduct and a delightful bluebell wood. You continue onto the pretty village of Sourton before passing Lake Viaduct where the scenery is particularly lovely. The final section then takes you to the village of Lydford where you will pass the noteworthy castle and church. You then come to the finish point at the impressive Lydford Gorge with its dramatic scenery which includes waterfalls and and a series of whirlpools known as the 'Devil's Cauldron'.
For an excellent full guide to the trail please click here
|Haldon Forest Park||2 miles (3.5 km)||Enjoy miles of cycling and walking trails in this 3500 acre forest near Exeter. The cycling trails are well laid out and colour coded according to difficulty. There is a nice easy trail named the 'Discovery Trail' which is well surfaced and great for families looking for a safe ride or for walkers looking for a pleasant stroll. It has fun features for children and takes in some stunning views over Exeter and Dartmoor. |
The blue Challenge trail is a moderate mountain bike trail with a combination of surfaces, some narrow sections and gentle gradients for intermediate cyclists. More experienced riders can try the red graded 'Ridge Ride Trail' which is a technical, fast and flowing trail with tight corners and lively descents to test your reflexes. Bike hire is available from Forest Cycle Hire. Walkers can enjoy a number of waymarked trails of varying lengths and difficulty. The Butterfly Trail is a three mile circular walk with views across the forest and over the Teign valley. The Mamhead Trail is an easy 1.5 miles trail with it breathtaking views over the Exe estuary and along the Jurassic Coast. The Raptor Trail and Tree Trail offer more challenging walks with some steep climbs.
Haldon Forest Park is located about 6 miles south west of Exeter town centre.
|Ilfracombe to Minehead||39 miles (62 km)||Travel through Devon and Somerset along Regional route 51 and enjoy the splendid countryside and coastal views of Exmoor.|
You start in Ilfracombe and head east to Lynton via Combe Martin. There are splendid coastal views to enjoy at Combe Martin Bay and Woody Bay before arriving at Lynton with its pretty harbour.
From Lynton you continue east towards Porlock with a pleasant riverside section along the East Lyn River. At Porlock you will pass the beautiful Porlock Bay and the Bird of Prey Centre near Allerford. The final stretch takes you through the countryside to the finish point at the train station in Minehead.
This route is fully signed from start to finish and includes several challenging climbs. You will be rewarded, however, with some spectacular views. Most of the route takes place on country lanes, although there are some short off road sections to enjoy too.
|Ilfracombe to Ossaborough Railway Path||5 miles (8.5 km)||This is a nice easy short walk or cycle along the disused London and South Western Railway Ilfracombe Branch Line, from Ilfracombe to Mortehoe and Woolacombe railway station.|
The route starts off by the pier in Ilfracombe and soon joins the railway path on the outskirts of the town. It then heads south passing Slade Reservoirs while giving a great view of the beautiful surrounding countryside. The route follows NCN route 27 for the duration and with most of it traffic free it's a good choice for families.
|Killerton Park||3 miles (5 km)||The Killerton Estate is 6,400 acres of parkland and countryside containing over 60 miles of footpaths and cycle tracks. It is located near Broadclyst in the Exeter region of Devon.|
The estate also contains a beautiful landscaped garden with rhododendrons, magnolias and rare trees surrounded by rolling Devon countryside. The walk also passes Killerton House - an 18th-century house with a marvellous collection of 18th- to 20th-century costumes.
The route below is devised for walkers but there is also a cycle track at Killerton. It is great for families and follows a safe circular route around the beautiful parkland at Killerton, starting and finishing at Killerton's stable-block. Please click here to download the gpx file for the Kilerton Park cycle route (it follows a similar path to the walk).
If you'd like to continue your exercise then you could head a couple of miles east to Ashclyst Forest where there are more cycling and walking tracks to try.
|Mount Edgcumbe Country Park||3 miles (5.5 km)||With 865 acres of parkland, beautiful landscaped Cornish gardens and stunning coastline, Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is a fantastic place to visit. |
This circular walk begins at the parking lot, near the Cremyll Ferry which you can catch from Plymouth to the park. The path then joins the coastal path to Raveness Point, passing the beautiful Barn Pool (see video) and the Raven's Cliffs. You continue to Picklecombe Point before returning to the start point through the delightful deer park, passing the magnificent Mount Edgcumbe House on the way.
NB. The route below is designed for walkers but National Cycle Network route 2 runs through the park. Also see the Plymouth to Looe cycle route for a ride through Devon to Cornwall which runs through the park.
|Newton Abbot to Brixham||16 miles (25 km)||This route starts near Newton Abbot train station and heads south east along future NCN route 28 towards Torquay. You'll then follow a coastal path to Paignton and then onto the finish point at Brixham breakwater.|
Highlights on this route include the splendid coastal views at Torbay.
|Newton Abbot to Totnes||22 miles (35 km)||This route starts near Newton Abbot train station and heads south east along future NCN route 28 towards Torquay. You'll then follow a coastal path to Paignton before heading inland towards Totnes on a series of quiet roads and tracks. You'll finish by crossing the River Dart in Totnes.|
Highlights on this route include the splendid views of Torbay.
|Okehampton to Plymouth||40 miles (65 km)||This lovely route passes through Dartmoor National Park and follows a series of quiet roads and traffic free paths along national cycle network route 27 from Okehampton to the popular port of Plymouth. The first section takes you along the Granite Way to Lydford on a lovely off road path. You then continue on road to Tavistock with the impressive Brent Tor a highlight on this section. After passing through Tavistock you cross the Grenofen Bridge over the River Walkham before a long traffic free woodland section takes you through Bickleigh Vale to Yelverton and Clearbrook. You then join the River Plym and the West Devon Way taking you to Plymouth.|
|Plymbridge Woods||4 miles (6 km)||This is the delightful Plymbridge Woods family cycle trail. It runs alongs the trackbed of a disused railway line through oak woodland, with the River Plym by your side for part of the ride. It's largely flat and uses a well surfaced track so it's a nice safe ride for children or for anyone looking for an easy introduction to cycling. You'll pass a series of viaducts, a disused railway station and pretty bridges over the river. There's also an abundance of wildlife to look out for including butterflies, foxes and deer. Birdlife includes dipper, grey wagtail, little grebe, grebe, heron and kingfisher. From the Cann Viaduct you may also see peregrine falcons breeding in the summer months. |
The route starts at the National Trust car park at Plymbridge Woods and follows the Great Western Railway track north passing Cann Wood and Bickleigh Vale before finishing at Dewerstone Woods. It's a lovely trail which is suitable for cyclists and walkers.
If you'd like to continue your exercise then you could head to the nearby Burrator Reservoir which has miles of footpaths and cycleways to enjoy. Also nearby is the Cadover Bridge to Dewerstone Rocks walk which also runs along the River Plym.
If you head south you can visit Saltram Park where there is a great cycle trail along the River Plym estuary.
|Plymouth to Looe||22 miles (35 km)||This route follows NCN routes 27 and 2 from Plymouth in Devon to Looe in Cornwall. The route starts on the south west coast path in Plymouth following it to the Cremyll Ferry which will take you across the water into Cornwall. There is then a nice off road section through Mount Edgcumbe Country Park before rejoining the South West Coast path with its splendid views of the beautiful Whitsand Bay (below). The route continues to Looe with more spectacular coastal scenery to enjoy including views of Tregantle fort and the lovely seaside village of Seaton.|
|Plymouth to Tavistock||20 miles (32 km)||Follow NCN route 27 from Plymouth to Tavistock on this attractive largely traffic free route. The route starts near the Plymouth town centre and then heads north along the River Plym and the West Devon Way, passing by the impressive Saltram House - a George II era mansion. There is then a long traffic free stretch through woodland taking you through Bickleigh Vale to Clearbrook and Yelverton. You then cross the Grenofen Bridge over the River Walkham before an on road section takes you to Tavistock on the River Tavy.|
|Plymouth to Totnes||27 miles (43 km)||This beautiful ride along NCN route 2 , takes you through Dartmoor National Park and the South Devon AONB.|
You start at the marina in Plymouth and follows the River Plym towards Longbridge. The ride continues to Ivybridge on a mixture of on road and traffic free sections. At Ivybridge you will cross the River Erme before heading through the countryside on quiet country lanes towards South Brent, Harbourneford and Dartington. The final traffic free section from Dartington to Totnes is very pleasant with a short spell along the River Dart to finish.
|Roadford Lake||9 miles (15 km)||This beautiful 730 acre lake and country park in Dartmoor is perfect for a waterside cycle or walk. The route starts at the car park by the lakeside cafe and then takes you around the lake on quiet country lanes.|
There are also two way-marked cycle trails starting near the cafe/visitor centre. The green trail is an easy ride through the woodland and as ideal for families. The blue trail is more adventurous and will suit anyone looking for a fun off road trail.
For walkers there are 5 way-marked trails taking you to the cob shelter, bird hide and Jubilee Sundial. Look out for a wide variety of wildlife in the woodland and on the lake.
|Saltram Park||2 miles (3.5 km)||Enjoy a circular cycle or walk around Saltram Park and the River Plym estuary on this easy route in Plymouth. National Cycle Network Route 27 runs along a splendid traffic free trail through Saltram Wood and along the River Plym. There's also lots of walking trails to explore 500 acres of woodland, farmland, beaches, saltmarshes, meadows and river estuary.|
The West Devon Way runs past the estate so you could pick this up to extend your outing. If you follow it north you will come to Plymbridge Woods where there is a great family cycle trail along a disused railway line.
|Slapton Ley||6 miles (10 km)||This walk takes you along Slapton Sands and the Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve in Devon. The lagoon at Slapton Ley is the largest natural freshwater lake in South West England. It's a beautiful area with the lovely shingle beach and the ocean on one side and the stunning lake on the other. There are a number of walking trails taking you through the reserve, including a family trail which takes about 45 minutes. You can also easily continue to the nearby village of Slapton.|
The reserve is fantastic for wildlife with a number of bird hides around the lake. Look out for Cetti's warbler, Swallows, Badgers and Otters as you make your way through the reserve.
For cyclists there is a super coastal road taking you past the lake and Slapton sands.
The South West Coast Path runs past the site so there is scope for continuing your walk along the coast towards Dartmouth or Salcombe.
|Sticklepath Cycle Route||29 miles (46 km)||This circular route takes you through some splendid Devon countryside around Okehampton and Sticklepath.
You first head north from Sticklepath to Hatherleigh, enjoying a stretch along the River Taw before a wooded section through Abbeyford Woods. You then cross the River Okement and continue through Honeychurch and Sampford Courtenay. The final stretch takes you back to Sticklepath through Taw Green and South Zeal with more fine views of the River Taw.
The ride takes place on a series of country lanes and involves a few challenging climbs.
|Stover Country Park||2 miles (3 km)||Explore over 114 acres of woodland, heathland, grassland and lakes on this circular walk through the peaceful Stover Country Park, near Newton Abbot in Devon. The walk takes you around the delightful Stover Lake before following the canal outlet through the woodland. The park also includes the Ted Hughes Poetry Trail which takes in specially designed Poetry Posts each displaying a poem by Ted Hughes on a theme relating to wildlife of the natural world.
The route below is designed for walkers but there is also a designated cycle route through the northern part of the Park. See this leaflet for more information about the park.
The Templer Way runs through the park so you could pick this up to continue your walk. Heading north would take you to Bovey Tracey while heading south would take you along the Stover Canal to Newton Abbot.
|Tiverton to Bridgwater||39 miles (62 km)||Travel from Devon into Somerset on this lovely largely traffic free ride along NCN route 3. |
You start with a cruisy long stretch along the Great Western Canal before country roads take you to Taunton. At Taunton you can enjoy another waterside stretch along the Bridgwater and Taunton canal which takes you all the way to Bridgwater.
|Totnes to Ivybridge||19 miles (30 km)||Follow NCN route 2 through Dartmoor National Park from Totnes to Ivybridge. The route starts nears the River Dart in Totnes passing Totnes Weir before heading through the pretty village of Dartington and into the Devon countryside on off road paths. There is then a long on road stretch through the beautiful Dartmoor National Park taking you to Ivybridge on the River Erme. You finish near the tourist information centre in Ivybridge.|
|Totnes to Salcombe||25 miles (40 km)||Follow the Dart Valley Trail and other tracks and minor roads through the beautiful Devon countryside from Totnes to the Salcombe ferry. You start in Totnes and follow the trail along the River Dart before heading on road through Blacklawton and Slapton to the coast. A lovely coastal section then follows through Slapton Sands to Torcross with some splendid scenery to enjoy. You then head inland towards Salcombe on quiet roads via Chivelstone.|
|Woodbury Common Devon||2 miles (3.5 km)||Enjoy miles of walking trails through this large area of common land in Woodbury, Devon. The common consists of heathland, gorse, heather and pebblebeds from rivers which once flowed across the basin.
You can also climb to the ancient hill fort of Woodbury Castle where there are great views of the Exe estuary, Haldon Hills, Otter Valley, and Portland Bill on the coast. The fort was built around 500-300 BC and has a moat which you can walk through. |
The area is a really good place for wildlife spotting. Look out for birds such as Dartford Warbler and butterflies including High Brown Fritillary and Silver Studded Blue. You can extend your walk by continuing south to Bystock pools nature reserve where there is a lilly-pad filled lake, heathland, wildflower meadow and boardwalks. It's a great place to look out for dragonflies and birds such as willow warblers, blackcaps and stonechats. Also at the southern end of the common you will find Blackhill Quarry and its lake.
This circular route starts from the car park near the Woodbury castle. The whole of it is more suitable for walkers but the area is also good for mountain biking. Start from the same start point and follow the tracks to Colaton Raleigh Common and then round to the quarry for a fun off road ride.
The East Devon Way runs through the common so you can pick this up to continue your walk. If you head north east you will come to the Hawkerland Valley and the Aylesbeare Common RSPB nature reserve. To the south west is the town of Exmouth and the lovely Exmouth Nature Reserve. Also nearby is the River Otter and the Otter Estuary where you can enjoy waterside walking trails and a variety of wading birds. | <urn:uuid:8d57dc21-3f1e-4d4e-8c3f-7ec15a60ef14> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gps-routes.co.uk/routes/home.nsf/county-cycling/Devon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00183-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934714 | 6,982 | 1.796875 | 2 |
At night, they're behind bars. During the day, some Pueblo County inmates are on the streets, cleaning up the community and saving the county money.
The chain gangs have been working in Pueblo for three years now. They walks the streets chained together in groups of five, picking up trash, old tires, and broken tree branches. In exchange, the earn time off their sentences, called "good time." For each month an inmate works, he gets 13 days off his sentence.
Women can also volunteer to work. The only difference is, they are misdemeanor offenders and they're not chained together. But, like the male inmates, they look forward to spending time outside.
The inmates work an average of eight hours a day, four days a week.
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This presentation transcript will explore the potential role of enterprise search technology in pinpointing, retrieving and analyzing valuable data stored in big data systems, including Hadoop clusters and NoSQL databases. It will offer a vendor-neutral overview of the big data capabilities of enterprise search tools -- both commercial and open source -- as well as expert advice on the best practices, deployment strategies and potential hurdles that organizations should consider for successful implementations. | <urn:uuid:03931706-8dfc-4948-b9ef-da36684c1db0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1348083606_507.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00120-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892669 | 152 | 1.742188 | 2 |
New Holocaust Museum & Education Centre To Open in Adelaide.
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”
The launch of the capital campaign to fund the establishment of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre will be on Sunday 25 March 2018 at 2.30pm at the Fullarton Park Community Centre, 411 Fullarton Rd, Fullarton, South Australia.
Adelaide Holocaust survivor and educator Andrew Steiner OAM is developing a Holocaust Museum and Education Centre in Adelaide. The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre will be located in the historic Fennescey House, at 31-33 Wakefield Street Adelaide. It will offer Holocaust education and remembrance for future generations and commemorate the six million Jews and other innocent victims murdered by the Nazi’s between 1933 and 1945.
This unique museum will work closely with the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne to offer the best educational experience and ensure the intergenerational transfer of stories of survival to future generations. Links with other diverse communities in Adelaide who have fled persecution and/or genocide, with a goal of promoting tolerance, compassion and human rights will be developed.
The Keynote speaker is Alpha Cheng, a high school teacher, Multiculturalism and Diversity Advocate and 2017 ACT Young Australian of the Year Finalist and son of the late Curtis Cheng who was tragically shot by a 15-year old extremist outside NSW Police Headquarters in 2015.
Alpha participated in the Gandel Holocaust Studies Scholarship for Australian Educators that year and through this experience of meeting Holocaust survivors, Alpha was inspired by their strength to spread the message of hope and tolerance. Now an advocate for gun control and speaking out against racism, hate and prejudice, Alpha is the inaugural Ambassador for Courage to Care Victoria, championing Holocaust education for a modern audience.
Exciting Lead Pledge Announcement
The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre Trustees are thrilled to announce that Gandel Philanthropy has generously pledged to match all donations, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000 to launch our fundraising campaign. This significant leading pledge comes from one of Australia’s largest independent family philanthropic funds based in Melbourne. We urge the community, businesses and individuals to help us raise the matching funds that will enable the establishment of a Holocaust Museum and Education Centre in Adelaide, South Australia in 2018.
We are so pleased that John Gandel AC and his wife Pauline Gandel, and the Trustees of Gandel Philanthropy share our vision and are supporting the development and establishment of this Centre. As a leader in Holocaust Education, Gandel Philanthropy sees this Museum and Education Centre as vital to ensure all people, particularly students, learn about the Holocaust, its relevance today, and Human Rights in general.
The matching grant from Gandel Philanthropy will fund the design and fit out of the Museum’s main gallery and the permanent Holocaust exhibition. The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre plan to raise a total of $270,000 with public donations funding the renovations and fit out of the two smaller galleries.
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The proposal from the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was first listed among her proposals to rein in Washington lobbying in September, but she is now providing extensive details.
She would place a 35% tax on annual lobbying expenses above $500,000 for corporations and trade organizations. The tax rate will increase to 60% for expenses over $1 million and then 75% for spending exceeding $5 million.
The income generated by the new tax will be placed in a “Lobbying Defense Trust” that will be used to help fund congressional support agencies, such as a reinstated Office of Technology Assessment and the Congressional Budget Office, and heavily lobbied executive branch agencies. It would also create an Office of the Public Advocate to help regular people better influence government decision-making.
The general idea is that a tax on lobbying creates a market-based mechanism to discourage corporate spending that seeks to gain from making back-room deals rather than creating wealth. Currently, there is a strong incentive for corporations and other special interests to spend heavily on lobbying to obtain beneficial treatment. All combined, more than $3 billion was spent on reported lobbying expenditures in each of the past 10 years. Corporations make up the largest share of this spending.
Total revenue from the proposed lobbying tax would have raised $10 billion over the past 10 years, according to an analysis provided by the Warren campaign.
Fifty-one corporations would have been hit with the highest proposed tax rate of 75% for spending above $5 million. These companies and trade groups include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Koch Industries, Exxon, Boeing, Microsoft, Pfizer, Walmart, Google and Facebook.
The lobbying tax is one of many proposals Warren has introduced to crack down on corruption in Washington. She has proposed banning elected lawmakers and top officials from lobbying, expand the definition of lobbying to increase disclosure, ban foreign lobbying and ban lobbyists from donating or raising campaign money, among other things.
The thinking behind Warren’s tax on lobbying expenditures is slightly different ― maybe even opposed to ― the restrictions on lobbying usually considered by Congress. It can be argued that some of these restrictions have simply had the effect of making lobbying less transparent ― as more people involved in the influence industry find loopholes to evade registering as lobbyists. The tax, however, is simply a mechanism to deter excessive lobbying ― or at least impose a cost on it.
This is what Luigi Zingales, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, thought when he proposed a tax on lobbying in his 2012 book, ”A Capitalism for the People.” The Warren campaign consulted him when crafting the proposal.
“If you tax lobbying in a progressive way then it reduces the influence of the largest companies on the important decisions,” Zingales told The Economist in a 2012 interview. “People lobby because there’s a high return, but if you start taxing them and using some of that money to subsidise the opponents then it evens out.”
And that is Warren’s thinking, too.
“My new lobbying tax will make hiring armies of lobbyists significantly more expensive for the largest corporate influencers like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, and Comcast,” Warren said in a post explaining the new tax policy. “Sure, this may mean that some corporations and industry groups will choose to reduce their lobbying expenditures, raising less tax revenue down the road ― but in that case, all the better.” | <urn:uuid:786590c4-3d4e-43f4-9d9b-5613be2c5009> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-lobbying-tax_n_5d93c202e4b0019647b05afc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.961335 | 708 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule that would require certain shippers, receivers, and carriers who transport food by motor or rail vehicles to take steps to prevent the contamination of human and animal food during transportation. Part of the implementation of the Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2005, the proposal marks the seventh and final major rule in the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) central framework aimed at systematically building preventive measures across the food system.
The proposed regulation would establish criteria for sanitary transportation practices, such as properly refrigerating food, adequately cleaning vehicles between loads, and properly protecting food during transportation.
The proposed rule would apply to shippers, carriers, and receivers who transport food that will be consumed or distributed in the United States and is intended to ensure that persons engaged in the transportation of food that is at the greatest risk for contamination during transportation follow appropriate sanitary transportation practices. The requirements in the proposed rule would not apply to the transportation of fully packaged shelf-stable foods, live food animals, and raw agricultural commodities when transported by farms.
The FDA intends to hold a public meeting on the rule on March 20 in College Park, Md. The proposed rule is available for public comment until May 31, 2014. | <urn:uuid:20405472-ac84-49e1-b31f-ba70b9dd024f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ift.org/food-technology/daily-news/2014/february/04/fda-issues-proposed-rule-on-sanitary-transportation-of-food.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00148-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954863 | 256 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Often a fuse box must be replaced to upgrade the home's wiring system or to install additional wiring to another part of the house. This might seem like a project for a home contractor, but you can get the job done just by following these steps.
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Purchase a new fuse box. Fuse boxes and their hardware can be found in kits sold at any home improvement store such as Home Depot or Lowe's.
Determine the amperage of the home's electrical system. This information will provide the basic configuration of the new fuse box. Much of this information can be found on the fuse box door's inner panel. Provide the home improvement store employee with this information when you purchase the new box.
Disconnect the power to the existing fuse box from the home's electric meter. This may be located outside, yet it is often directly under the fuse box itself. Ensure that all electricity has been shut off to the entire home. Contact the local electric company immediately if unsure about this procedure.
Remove the box's front panel, usually held in place with four screws. Always stand on a grounded mat and have grounded tools.
Unscrew all fuses in the fuse box. Discard if replacing fuse box with a breaker box or retain to replace.
Detach the wires from each of their connections to the fuse terminals. Take care not to over manipulate the wires as this may cause fraying issues after re-install.
Take the old box to the home improvement store to match size and specifications to the new fuse box.
Bring new box home and install according to these steps working backwards.
Tips and warnings
- When working on electrical systems, it may become necessary to contact or hire a qualified electrician to either oversee the project.
- Label each wire as it is removed for easier identification at re-installation.
- You must turn off all the electricity at the pole or at the electrical meter before undertaking any electrical work. Otherwise, you risk severe or even fatal injuries.
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The advent of techniques of graphical representation and mathematical characterization of biomolecular sequences has seen the growth of a genre of non-alignment methods for analyses of their similarities/dissimilarities. The new descriptors are important and convenient to provide a quantitative measure of the composition and distribution of the basic units, allow discrimination amongst members of a family of similar sequences with a low computational overhead and hold promise for discovery of new systematics. These opportunities led to a plethora of models for graphical representation and numerical characterisations, but the question is how far the various sequence descriptors derived by these different mathematical approaches encode non-redundant information. We briefly consider the issues that when comparative studies of biomolecular sequences are undertaken, it is important to consider which properties are being considered and choose models that allow for computational closure and non-redundancy. We believe graphical representation and numerical characterization models have a significant role to play in non-alignment similarity/dissimilarity analysis of bio-molecular sequences, but the issues have to be approached with an eye to specific properties being investigated.
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Some Comments on Mathematical Descriptors of Biomolecular Sequences and their Characteristics
Published: 16 November 2017 by MDPI in MOL2NET'17, Conference on Molecular, Biomedical & Computational Sciences and Engineering, 3rd ed. congress CHEMBIOMOL-03: Chem. Biol. & Med. Chem. Workshop, Rostock, Germany-Bilbao, Spain-Galveston, Texas, USA, 2017
Keywords: grahical representation, numerical characterization, bio-molecular sequences, non-redundant information, similarity.disimilarity anallyses, sequence descriptors | <urn:uuid:1ed40a18-4e0b-4d26-8c7b-d5d4c93984a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciforum.net/paper/view/4967 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.890862 | 371 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Of course, the number of fans who see a brand's wall post is likely far less than the number of people who have "liked" the brand. Implying that every fan sees a wall post is no more accurate than implying every email subscriber receives and opens a message; this is because, just like email, Facebook communications have to pierce a spam filter firewall that protects Facebook users.
Facebook doesn't say it has a "spam filter;" instead, it has a "News Feed." As noted in Facebook's Help section, the News Feed "is a constantly updating list of stories from people and Pages that you follow on Facebook." The center column of your Facebook home page isn't a pure stream of posts by friends and brands but a distilled view of the posts and shares you'll find most interesting.
How does Facebook know what's interesting to you? "The News Feed algorithm bases this on a few factors: how many friends are commenting on a certain piece of content, who posted the content, and what type of content it is." Put another way, Facebook knows you don't sign on to the social network to find out what your underarm deodorant or favorite retailer is doing but to interact with the content your friends create and share. Friends' content makes it through the filter; brands' content largely does not.
Here's how you can tell just how much brand content is being hidden from your eyes. The following assumes you have friended a number of brands on Facebook, and if you haven't, why not start by friending USAA? (In the event it isn't perfectly clear, let me disclose that I am an employee of USAA.)
First, sign into Facebook and check out the News Feed on the home page. Review the posts made in the past eight hours and count how many of them come from the fan pages of brands. Since the "Top News" feed isn't in strict chronological order, it is an inexact science to count the posts made in the past eight hours, but you need not be exact to recognize the point being made.
Tonight, I counted approximately 30 posts on my News Feed, not one of them from a brand. Does that means the brands I follow had an off day? To find out what your favorite brands posted today:
- Step One: Click "Most Recent" at the top right of your News Feed (see image below.)
- Step Two: Click the tiny arrow that appears next to "Most Recent" and select "Pages."
- Step Three: Count how many wall posts were made by brands in the past eight hours.
Tonight I counted 52 brand posts made in the past eight hours, and not even one of them earned its way onto my News Feed. I wouldn't have known a single one of them existed had I not specifically checked the Most Recent Pages feed. (Give Facebook credit for playing by its own rules--as noted in the image below, despite the fact a Facebook wall post garnered 1,048 comments and 4,486 likes, it still did not make it through Facebook's filter and into my News Feed.)
What does this mean to you if you manage a brand page? First, posting to your wall is nowhere near the same thing as delivering a message to your fans. Second, your Facebook content strategy has to be focused not on what you want to tell your fans or even on content your fans will read; instead, if you want to pierce the Facebook spam filter, your content must get fans actively engaged. If you get them reading but not commenting or sharing, your wall post will only be seen by those few people who visit your page before that post scrolls off the bottom. (How often do you visit brand pages on Facebook, and how frequently do you navigate beyond the first page?)
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On the night of the 13th of March, at the residence of her son, Mr. Wm. M. NETTLES, Mrs. Elizabeth NETTLES, wife of Mr. John E. NETTLES, formerly of Chatham county. Mrs. NETTLES belonged to one of the oldest families in the county. A family noted for their integrity, fidelity, and high sense of honor. She was no exception. With her heart open to every cry of distress, her sympathies entered the house of mourning with her person, and her hand was ever ready to administer to the comforts of those around her, and her self-sacrificing disposition was apparent to all who knew her. Her old friends and neighbors of Chatham will cherish her memory. She was a member of the Methodist church. During a protracted and painful illness, she exemplified that she was no stranger to the promises of God - showing a resignation to His will that could only emanate from a heart that had yielded to the wooings of the Holy Spirit. "Precious in the sight of the Lord tis the death of His Saints."
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(APA-87: dp. 7,080 (lim.); 1. 426'; b. 58'; dr. 15'; s. 16 k. cpl. 849)
The eighth Niagara (APA-87) was laid down 20 November 1944 under Maritime Commission contract by Consolidated Steel Corp., Wilmington, Calif.; launched 10 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Fred G. Gurley; acquired by the Navy 26 March 1945; and commissioned at San Pedro, C5alif., 29 March 1945, Lt. Comdr. Allan C. Hoffman, USNR, in command.
Following amphibious warfare training out of San Diego, Niagara sailed 26 May 1945 with cargo and 887 Marines, whom she landed at Pearl Harbor 1 June. In the following weeks she transported troops, cargo, ammunition, and mail between the various Hawaiian Islands. She stood out of Pearl Harbor 1 July bound, via the Marshalls and Carolines, for Okinawa, arriving Buckner Bay 5 August. After debarking 903 Army troops and their combat support weapons and eargo, she departed 8 August with 40 officers and 771 men of the 31st Naval Construetion Battalion for debarking at Guam in the Marianas. She arrived Apra Harbor on the morning of 15 August, the day of Japan's capitulation.
Niagara transported Navy passengers from Guam to the Philippines, arriving San Pedro Bay 20 August. She then set course for Cebu to embark the Army's 164th Regimental Combat Team, sailed 1 September, arrived Yokohama the 8th, and landed her occupation trooDs. She again headed for the Philippines 16 September to embark men of the Armv's 305th Infantry, 77th Division, landed at Otaru, Hokkaido,
Japan, 5 October. From there, she oarried men of the Navy's 128th Construetion Battalion to Apra Harbor. She stood out from Apra Harbor 22 October with an Army signal battalion bound for China. The attack transport reached Tientsin 29 October and sailed 10 November for the Marianas. Joining the "Magic-Carpet" fleet, she embarked Army troops in Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Marianas; sailed the 20th; and reached San Francisco 4 December.
Niagara departed San Francisco 20 December for Samar Philippine Islands, arriving 10 January 1946. While there, she received word that she would participate in the atomic bomb tests of Operation "Crossroads" as a unit of Joint Task Force 1. She put to sea 3 February to prepare at Pearl Harbor, then sailed to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls, arriving 31 May. A target ship, she survived the atomic explosions of 1 July and 25 July. She departed Bikini 21 August for Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor en route to San Francisco, arriving 16 September.
Niagara remained on the west coast until she departed San Diego 7 November, steaming via the Panama Canal to Hampton Roads, Va. She arrived Norfolk 2 December and decommissioned there 12 December 1946. After serving to test the effcets of special conventional explosives in the Chesapeake Bay, Niagara was sold for scrapping 5 February 1950 to the Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Niagara VIII APA-87 - HistoryDenise Ascenzo , Niagara's History Unveiled, Series Special to Niagara Now
Many might not know the history of Our Western Home, an orphanage for young girls that was operated out of the old courthouse on King Street, where Rye Street Heritage Park is now located.
On Dec. 1, 1869, a woman named Maria Rye (Miss Rye) bought the courthouse and surrounding property to be used as a transitional home &mdash or as others might call it a distribution centre &mdash for young orphaned girls brought from England. She called it Our Western Home and from its opening in 1869 until its closing in 1913, more than 3,500 girls transitioned through the home.
Rye began her charitable work in the 1860s, escorting young, single, middle-class women to Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of husbands. However, the cost of that became prohibitive, so she turned her attention to the plight of much younger girls, some as young as 2-years-old, who she felt needed her help more.
Rye and her sister Elizabeth purchased a house in Peckham, England, calling it the Little Gutter Girls&rsquo Home, and Rye petitioned for many young girls to be removed from the workhouses in Liverpool and from the streets of London.
Some of these girls had families that could no longer care for them, while others were orphans, and it soon became apparent there was a great need to find homes for these girls.
With few places taking in young children in England, Rye turned her attention to Canada.
The government of England had felt sending young orphaned children to Canada would afford them a better opportunity with fresh air, plenty of food and loving families to care for them. For many children this was true, but there were also horrible stories of abuse.
On the journey to Canada, Rye would have the girls stay in the Peckham house to get them cleaned up, fed and healthy. Then, in groups of 60 to 80, she would personally escort them to Our Western Home. The girls&rsquo clothing and transportation costs were paid for by the Board of Guardians of England.
Upon arrival in Canada, the older girls would be given training in housekeeping, cooking, laundry, sewing and gardening, while some who showed potential were trained in the stationery business that Rye owned. Once the older girls were trained, they would do work placements in homes as household help or in shops as clerks.
They were paid, though the money was put into a trust account they couldn&rsquot access until the age of 21.
Younger girls were expected to learn basic chores before being placed for adoption into suitable Christian families. These families would be vetted and had to sign documents to state their intent to house, educate, raise them in the Church of England and look after the girls as if they were their own child.
Despite the good intentions of Our Western Home, inspections were not undertaken to ensure the girls were being properly educated and well-cared-for, and instances of abuse surfaced. In cases where it was brought to light, the girls were brought back to the home.
Some girls were also returned to the home by guardians who deemed them unfit, undisciplined or dull-witted. Rye did not permit these girls to live in Our Western Home as she was concerned they may negatively influence the younger girls. Instead, she boarded them close to the home in a red brick house at the corner of King and Cottage Streets, so they would be looked after until other arrangements were made.
By 1895, Rye retired and returned to England, donating both her property in Canada and the Peckham house in England to the Waifs and Strays Society of England. At that time a woman named Emily Bailey took over running Our Western Home.
In the book Bicentennial Stories of Niagara-on-the-Lake (1981), there is a delightful story by Doris Sheppard as told to the editor, John Field.
Sheppard tells of arriving at Our Western Home in 1902 at the age of 14, and describes how one of her first duties was to take care of the laundry and to put the younger girls to bed. She did not receive any pay for her work, just room and board, nonetheless she recounts how lovely the home was compared to where she had come from.
After residing in the home for a year, the cook for the home quit and Sheppard took the opportunity to take the position. She had no idea how to cook, but Bailey convinced her she could learn &mdash and she did.
She soon had a new navy dress and hat and was paid $3 a month for her work.
Sheppard lived and worked at the home for ten years, eventually earning $10 a month, before leaving the home at the age of 24.
When she left she was permitted to access the money in her bank account &mdash a staggering $750.
Our Western Home closed in 1913, a few years later and the entire building was torn down after World War One.
A small side note: I spoke with one of the town&rsquos maintenance workers who was on hand when trees were planted in Rye Street Heritage Park as part of the Canada 150 initiative. He said &ldquoeverywhere they dug holes they had to remove red bricks.&rdquo
On Sept. 28, 2018, the Niagara Historical Society and Museum, joined by the British Home Child Group International will be unveiling a historic plaque on the site of Our Western Home in Rye Street Heritage Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake to commemorate Miss Rye&rsquos girls .
Further details will be provided at a later date.
The British Home Child Group International has some interesting statistics on the children of Great Britain who were brought to Canada. One stat says 10 per cent of the Canadian population can trace their ancestry through children brought to Canada from England between the 1860s to the 1930s.
More information on these children can be found at, britishhomechild.com.
Note: The Niagara Historical Society and Museum has a trunk on display that belonged to Eliza Morris, one of the young girls who arrived in Canada on May 12, 1873.
Eliza was born in England around 1861 and died in Wentworth, Hamilton on Sept. 4, 1889 at the age of 28.
In St. Mark&rsquos Anglican Church graveyard there is a plot bought by Maria Rye for any child who died in her care. The plot is marked by a large monument with a Celtic cross. The stone is inscribed &ldquoSacred to the memory of Our Western Home Niagara. Waiting for adoption, to wit the redemption of the body, Rom. VIII XXIII."
Bailey is buried in this plot with six children from the home.
To learn more about the topic of this story you can visit the Niagara Historical Society & Museum website at, www.niagarahistorical.museum, or visit the museum for yourself.
The Niagara Historical Museum is located at 43 Castlereagh Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake in Memorial Hall.
Using interpretation of "ambiguous designs" to assess an individual's personality is an idea that goes back to Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. [ citation needed ] Interpretation of inkblots was central to a game, Gobolinks, from the late 19th century. Rorschach's, however, was the first systematic approach of this kind. The ink blots were hand drawn by Rorschach.
It has been suggested that Rorschach's use of inkblots may have been inspired by German doctor Justinus Kerner who, in 1857, had published a popular book of poems, each of which was inspired by an accidental inkblot. French psychologist Alfred Binet had also experimented with inkblots as a creativity test, and, after the turn of the century, psychological experiments where inkblots were utilized multiplied, with aims such as studying imagination and consciousness.
After studying 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects, in 1921 Rorschach wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test (after experimenting with several hundred inkblots, he selected a set of ten for their diagnostic value), but he died the following year. Although he had served as Vice President of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, Rorschach had difficulty in publishing the book and it attracted little attention when it first appeared.
In 1927, the newly founded Hans Huber publishing house purchased Rorschach's book Psychodiagnostik from the inventory of Ernst Bircher. Huber has remained the publisher of the test and related book, with Rorschach a registered trademark of Swiss publisher Verlag Hans Huber, Hogrefe AG. The work has been described as "a densely written piece couched in dry, scientific terminology".
After Rorschach's death, the original test scoring system was improved by Samuel Beck, Bruno Klopfer and others. John E. Exner summarized some of these later developments in the comprehensive system, at the same time trying to make the scoring more statistically rigorous. Some systems are based on the psychoanalytic concept of object relations. The Exner system remains very popular in the United States, while in Europe other methods sometimes dominate, such as that described in the textbook by Evald Bohm, which is closer to the original Rorschach system and rooted more deeply in the original psychoanalysis principles. [ citation needed ]
Rorschach never intended the inkblots to be used as a general personality test, but developed them as a tool for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. It was not until 1939 that the test was used as a projective test of personality, a use of which Rorschach had always been skeptical. Interviewed in 2012 for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Rita Signer, curator of the Rorschach Archives in Bern, Switzerland, suggested that far from being random or chance designs, each of the blots selected by Rorschach for his test had been meticulously designed to be as ambiguous and "conflicted" as possible.
The Rorschach test is appropriate for subjects from the age of five to adulthood. The administrator and subject typically sit next to each other at a table, with the administrator slightly behind the subject. Side-by-side seating of the examiner and the subject is used to reduce any effects of inadvertent cues from the examiner to the subject. In other words, side-by-side seating mitigates the possibility that the examiner will accidentally influence the subject's responses. This is to facilitate a "relaxed but controlled atmosphere". There are ten official inkblots, each printed on a separate white card, approximately 18 by 24 cm in size. Each of the blots has near perfect bilateral symmetry. Five inkblots are of black ink, two are of black and red ink and three are multicolored, on a white background. After the test subject has seen and responded to all of the inkblots (free association phase), the tester then presents them again one at a time in a set sequence for the subject to study: the subject is asked to note where they see what they originally saw and what makes it look like that (inquiry phase). The subject is usually asked to hold the cards and may rotate them. Whether the cards are rotated, and other related factors such as whether permission to rotate them is asked, may expose personality traits and normally contributes to the assessment. As the subject is examining the inkblots, the psychologist writes down everything the subject says or does, no matter how trivial. Analysis of responses is recorded by the test administrator using a tabulation and scoring sheet and, if required, a separate location chart.
The general goal of the test is to provide data about cognition and personality variables such as motivations, response tendencies, cognitive operations, affectivity, and personal/interpersonal perceptions. The underlying assumption is that an individual will class external stimuli based on person-specific perceptual sets, and including needs, base motives, conflicts, and that this clustering process is representative of the process used in real-life situations. Methods of interpretation differ. Rorschach scoring systems have been described as a system of pegs on which to hang one's knowledge of personality. The most widely used method in the United States is based on the work of Exner.
Administration of the test to a group of subjects, by means of projected images, has also occasionally been performed, but mainly for research rather than diagnostic purposes.
Test administration is not to be confused with test interpretation:
The interpretation of a Rorschach record is a complex process. It requires a wealth of knowledge concerning personality dynamics generally as well as considerable experience with the Rorschach method specifically. Proficiency as a Rorschach administrator can be gained within a few months. However, even those who are able and qualified to become Rorschach interpreters usually remain in a "learning stage" for a number of years.
Features or categories
The interpretation of the Rorschach test is not based primarily on the contents of the response, i.e., what the individual sees in the inkblot (the content). In fact, the contents of the response are only a comparatively small portion of a broader cluster of variables that are used to interpret the Rorschach data: for instance, information is provided by the time taken before providing a response for a card can be significant (taking a long time can indicate "shock" on the card). As well as by any comments the subject may make in addition to providing a direct response.
In particular, information about determinants (the aspects of the inkblots that triggered the response, such as form and color) and location (which details of the inkblots triggered the response) is often considered more important than content, although there is contrasting evidence. "Popularity" and "originality" of responses can also be considered as basic dimensions in the analysis.
The goal in coding content of the Rorschach is to categorize the objects that the subject describes in response to the inkblot. There are 27 established codes for identifying the name of the descriptive object. The codes are classified and include terms such as "human", "nature", "animal", "abstract", "clothing", "fire", and "x-ray", to name a few. Content described that does not have a code already established should be coded using the code "idiographic contents" with the shorthand code being "Idio." Items are also coded for statistical popularity (or, conversely, originality).
More than any other feature in the test, content response can be controlled consciously by the subject, and may be elicited by very disparate factors, which makes it difficult to use content alone to draw any conclusions about the subject's personality with certain individuals, content responses may potentially be interpreted directly, and some information can at times be obtained by analyzing thematic trends in the whole set of content responses (which is only feasible when several responses are available), but in general content cannot be analyzed outside of the context of the entire test record.
Identifying the location of the subject's response is another element scored in the Rorschach system. Location refers to how much of the inkblot was used to answer the question. Administrators score the response "W" if the whole inkblot was used to answer the question, "D" if a commonly described part of the blot was used, "Dd" if an uncommonly described or unusual detail was used, or "S" if the white space in the background was used. A score of W is typically associated with the subject's motivation to interact with his or her surrounding environment. D is interpreted as one having efficient or adequate functioning. A high frequency of responses coded Dd indicate some maladjustment within the individual. Responses coded S indicate an oppositional or uncooperative test subject.
Systems for Rorschach scoring generally include a concept of "determinants": These are the factors that contribute to establishing the similarity between the inkblot and the subject's content response about it. They can also represent certain basic experiential-perceptual attitudes, showing aspects of the way a subject perceives the world. Rorschach's original work used only form, color and movement as determinants. However currently, another major determinant considered is shading, which was inadvertently introduced by poor printing quality of the inkblots. Rorschach initially disregarded shading, since the inkblots originally featured uniform saturation, but later recognized it as a significant factor.
Form is the most common determinant, and is related to intellectual processes. Color responses often provide direct insight into one's emotional life. Movement and shading have been considered more ambiguously, both in definition and interpretation. Rorschach considered movement only as the experiencing of actual motion, while others have widened the scope of this determinant, taking it to mean that the subject sees something "going on".
More than one determinant can contribute to the formation of the subject's perception. Fusion of two determinants is taken into account, while also assessing which of the two constituted the primary contributor. For example, "form-color" implies a more refined control of impulse than "color-form". It is, indeed, from the relation and balance among determinants that personality can be most readily inferred.
Symmetry of the test items
A striking characteristic of the Rorschach inkblots is their symmetry. Many unquestionably accept this aspect of the nature of the images but Rorschach, as well as other researchers, certainly did not. Rorschach experimented with both asymmetric and symmetric images before finally opting for the latter.
He gives this explanation for the decision:
Asymmetric figures are rejected by many subjects symmetry supplied part of the necessary artistic composition. It has a disadvantage in that it tends to make answers somewhat stereotyped. On the other hand, symmetry makes conditions the same for right and left handed subjects furthermore, it facilitates interpretation for certain blocked subjects. Finally, symmetry makes possible the interpretation of whole scenes.
The impact of symmetry in the Rorschach inkblot's has also been investigated further by other researchers.
Exner scoring system
The Exner scoring system, also known as the Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS), is the standard method for interpreting the Rorschach test. It was developed in the 1960s by Dr. John E. Exner, as a more rigorous system of analysis. It has been extensively validated and shows high inter-rater reliability. In 1969, Exner published The Rorschach Systems, a concise description of what would be later called "the Exner system". He later published a study in multiple volumes called The Rorschach: A Comprehensive system, the most accepted full description of his system.
Creation of the new system was prompted by the realization that at least five related, but ultimately different methods were in common use at the time, with a sizeable minority of examiners not employing any recognized method at all, basing instead their judgment on subjective assessment, or arbitrarily mixing characteristics of the various standardized systems.
The key components of the Exner system are the clusterization of Rorschach variables and a sequential search strategy to determine the order in which to analyze them, framed in the context of standardized administration, objective, reliable coding and a representative normative database. The system places a lot of emphasis on a cognitive triad of information processing, related to how the subject processes input data, cognitive mediation, referring to the way information is transformed and identified, and ideation.
In the system, responses are scored with reference to their level of vagueness or synthesis of multiple images in the blot, the location of the response, which of a variety of determinants is used to produce the response (i.e., what makes the inkblot look like what it is said to resemble), the form quality of the response (to what extent a response is faithful to how the actual inkblot looks), the contents of the response (what the respondent actually sees in the blot), the degree of mental organizing activity that is involved in producing the response, and any illogical, incongruous, or incoherent aspects of responses. It has been reported that popular responses on the first card include bat, badge and coat of arms.
Using the scores for these categories, the examiner then performs a series of calculations producing a structural summary of the test data. The results of the structural summary are interpreted using existing research data on personality characteristics that have been demonstrated to be associated with different kinds of responses.
With the Rorschach plates (the ten inkblots), the area of each blot which is distinguished by the client is noted and coded—typically as "commonly selected" or "uncommonly selected". There were many different methods for coding the areas of the blots. Exner settled upon the area coding system promoted by S. J. Beck (1944 and 1961). This system was in turn based upon Klopfer's (1942) work.
As pertains to response form, a concept of "form quality" was present from the earliest of Rorschach's works, as a subjective judgment of how well the form of the subject's response matched the inkblots (Rorschach would give a higher form score to more "original" yet good form responses), and this concept was followed by other methods, especially in Europe in contrast, the Exner system solely defines "good form" as a matter of word occurrence frequency, reducing it to a measure of the subject's distance to the population average.
Performance assessment system
Rorschach performance assessment system (R-PAS) is a scoring method created by several members of the Rorschach Research Council. They believed that the Exner scoring system was in need of an update, but after Exner's death, the Exner family forbade any changes to be made to the Comprehensive System. Therefore, they established a new system: the R-PAS. It is an attempt at creating a current, empirically based, and internationally focused scoring system that is easier to use than Exner's Comprehensive System. The R-PAS manual is intended to be a comprehensive tool for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Rorschach. The manual consists of two chapters that are basics of scoring and interpretation, aimed for use for novice Rorschach users, followed by numerous chapters containing more detailed and technical information.
In terms of updated scoring, the authors only selected variables that have been empirically supported in the literature. To note, the authors did not create new variables or indices to be coded, but systematically reviewed variables that had been used in past systems. While all of these codes have been used in the past, many have been renamed to be more face valid and readily understood. Scoring of the indices has been updated (e.g. utilizing percentiles and standard scores) to make the Rorschach more in line with other popular personality measures.
In addition to providing coding guidelines to score examinee responses, the R-PAS provides a system to code an examinee's behavior during Rorschach administration. These behavioral codes are included as it is believed that the behaviors exhibited during testing are a reflection of someone's task performance and supplements the actual responses given. This allows generalizations to be made between someone's responses to the cards and their actual behavior.
The R-PAS also recognized that scoring on many of the Rorschach variables differed across countries. Therefore, starting in 1997, Rorschach protocols from researchers around the world were compiled. After compiling protocols for over a decade, a total of 15 adult samples were used to provide a normative basis for the R-PAS. The protocols represent data gathered in the United States, Europe, Israel, Argentina and Brazil.
Comparing North American Exner normative data with data from European and South American subjects showed marked differences in some features, some of which impact important variables, while others (such as the average number of responses) coincide. For instance, texture response is typically zero in European subjects (if interpreted as a need for closeness, in accordance with the system, a European would seem to express it only when it reaches the level of a craving for closeness), and there are fewer "good form" responses, to the point where schizophrenia may be suspected if data were correlated to the North American norms. Form is also often the only determinant expressed by European subjects while color is less frequent than in American subjects, color-form responses are comparatively frequent in opposition to form-color responses since the latter tend to be interpreted as indicators of a defensive attitude in processing affect, this difference could stem from a higher value attributed to spontaneous expression of emotions.
The differences in form quality are attributable to purely cultural aspects: different cultures will exhibit different "common" objects (French subjects often identify a chameleon in card VIII, which is normally classed as an "unusual" response, as opposed to other animals like cats and dogs in Scandinavia, "Christmas elves" (nisser) is a popular response for card II, and "musical instrument" on card VI is popular for Japanese people), and different languages will exhibit semantic differences in naming the same object (the figure of card IV is often called a troll by Scandinavians and an ogre by French people). Many of Exner's "popular" responses (those given by at least one third of the North American sample used) seem to be universally popular, as shown by samples in Europe, Japan and South America, while specifically card IX's "human" response, the crab or spider in card X and one of either the butterfly or the bat in card I appear to be characteristic of North America.
Form quality, popular content responses and locations are the only coded variables in the Exner systems that are based on frequency of occurrence, and thus immediately subject to cultural influences therefore, cultural-dependent interpretation of test data may not necessarily need to extend beyond these components.
The cited language differences can result in misinterpretation if not administered in the subject's native language or a very well mastered second language, and interpreted by a master speaker of that language. For example, a bow tie is a frequent response for the center detail of card III, but since the equivalent term in French translates to "butterfly tie", an examiner not appreciating this language nuance may code the response differently from what is expected.
Below are the ten inkblots printed in Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates, together with the most frequent responses for either the whole image or the most prominent details according to various authors.
The Rorschach test is used almost exclusively by psychologists. Forensic psychologists use the Rorschach 36% of the time. In custody cases, 23% of psychologists use the Rorschach to examine a child. Another survey found that 124 out of 161 (77%) of clinical psychologists engaging in assessment services utilize the Rorschach, and 80% of psychology graduate programs teach its use. Another study found that its use by clinical psychologists was only 43%, while it was used less than 24% of the time by school psychologists.
During World War II, United States Army Medical Corps chief psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelley and psychologist Gustave Gilbert administered the Rorschach test to the 22 defendants in the Nazi leadership group prior to the first Nuremberg trials, and the test scores were published some decades later.
Because of the large amount of data used to interpret the test, psychologist Zygmunt Piotrowski, began work to computerize ink blot interpretation in the 1950's and 1960's. This work included over 1,000 rules and included no summary nor narrative conclusions. A subsequent computerized interpretation of Rorschach test scores, that included summary and conclusions was developed in the 1970's by psychologists Perline and Cabanski, and marketed internationally. This computerized interpretation of the test was used to interpret the set of scores developed by Dr. Gilbert on Nazi Hermann Goering along with several other Nazis while awaiting trial at Nuremberg Prison.
In the 1980's psychologist John Exner developed a computerized interpretation of the Rorschach test, based on his own scoring system, the Exner Comprehensive System.
Presently, of the three computerized assessments, only the Exner system is available on the market.
The arguments for or against computerized assessment of the Rorschach is likely to remain unresolved for some time, as there is no absolute correct interpretation against which the different markers (scores) denoting mental health can be compared. Although scores for a theoretically typical healthy adult have been proposed and reasonable attempts to standardize the computer interpretation against these scores have been obtained, more work in this area needs to be done.
Many psychologists in the United Kingdom do not trust its efficacy and it is rarely used. Although skeptical about its scientific validity, some psychologists use it in therapy and coaching "as a way of encouraging self-reflection and starting a conversation about the person's internal world." It is still used, however, by some mental health organisations such as the Tavistock Clinic. In a survey done in the year 2000, 20% of psychologists in correctional facilities used the Rorschach while 80% used the MMPI.
Shortly after publication of Rorschach's book, a copy found its way to Japan where it was discovered by one of the country's leading psychiatrists in a second-hand book store. He was so impressed that he started a craze for the test that has never diminished. The Japanese Rorschach Society is by far the largest in the world and the test is "routinely put to a wide range of purposes". In 2012 the test was described, by presenter Jo Fidgen, for BBC Radio 4's programme Dr Inkblot, as "more popular than ever" in Japan.
Some skeptics consider the Rorschach inkblot test pseudoscience, as several studies suggested that conclusions reached by test administrators since the 1950s were akin to cold reading. In the 1959 edition of Mental Measurement Yearbook, Lee Cronbach (former President of the Psychometric Society and American Psychological Association) is quoted in a review: "The test has repeatedly failed as a prediction of practical criteria. There is nothing in the literature to encourage reliance on Rorschach interpretations." In addition, major reviewer Raymond J. McCall writes (p. 154): "Though tens of thousands of Rorschach tests have been administered by hundreds of trained professionals since that time (of a previous review), and while many relationships to personality dynamics and behavior have been hypothesized, the vast majority of these relationships have never been validated empirically, despite the appearance of more than 2,000 publications about the test." A moratorium on its use was called for in 1999.
A 2003 report by Wood and colleagues had more mixed views: "More than 50 years of research have confirmed Lee J. Cronbach's (1970) final verdict: that some Rorschach scores, though falling woefully short of the claims made by proponents, nevertheless possess 'validity greater than chance' (p. 636). [. ] Its value as a measure of thought disorder in schizophrenia research is well accepted. It is also used regularly in research on dependency, and, less often, in studies on hostility and anxiety. Furthermore, substantial evidence justifies the use of the Rorschach as a clinical measure of intelligence and thought disorder."
The basic premise of the test is that objective meaning can be extracted from responses to blots of ink which are supposedly meaningless. Supporters of the Rorschach inkblot test believe that the subject's response to an ambiguous and meaningless stimulus can provide insight into their thought processes, but it is not clear how this occurs. Also, recent research shows that the blots are not entirely meaningless, and that a patient typically responds to meaningful as well as ambiguous aspects of the blots. Reber (1985) describes the blots as merely ".. the vehicle for the interaction .." between client and therapist, concluding: ".. the usefulness of the Rorschach will depend upon the sensitivity, empathy and insightfulness of the tester totally independently of the Rorschach itself. An intense dialogue about the wallpaper or the rug would do as well provided that both parties believe."
Illusory and invisible correlations
In the 1960s, research by psychologists Loren and Jean Chapman showed that at least some of the apparent validity of the Rorschach was due to an illusion. At that time, the five signs most often interpreted as diagnostic of homosexuality were 1) buttocks and anuses 2) feminine clothing 3) male or female sex organs 4) human figures without male or female features and 5) human figures with both male and female features. The Chapmans surveyed 32 experienced testers about their use of the Rorschach to diagnose homosexuality. At this time homosexuality was regarded as a psychopathology, and the Rorschach was the most popular projective test. The testers reported that homosexual men had shown the five signs more frequently than heterosexual men. Despite these beliefs, analysis of the results showed that heterosexual men were just as likely to report these signs, which were therefore totally ineffective for determining homosexuality. The five signs did, however, match the guesses students made about which imagery would be associated with homosexuality.
The Chapmans investigated the source of the testers' false confidence. In one experiment, students read through a stack of cards, each with a Rorschach blot, a sign and a pair of "conditions" (which might include homosexuality). The information on the cards was fictional, although subjects were told it came from case studies of real patients. The students reported that the five invalid signs were associated with homosexuality, even though the cards had been constructed so there was no association at all. The Chapmans repeated this experiment with another set of cards, in which the association was negative the five signs were never reported by homosexuals. The students still reported seeing a strong positive correlation. These experiments showed that the testers' prejudices could result in them "seeing" non-existent relationships in the data. The Chapmans called this phenomenon "illusory correlation" and it has since been demonstrated in many other contexts.
A related phenomenon called "invisible correlation" applies when people fail to see a strong association between two events because it does not match their expectations. This was also found in clinicians' interpretations of the Rorschach. Homosexual men are more likely to see a monster on Card IV or a part-animal, part-human figure in Card V. Almost all of the experienced clinicians in the Chapmans' survey missed these valid signs. The Chapmans ran an experiment with fake Rorschach responses in which these valid signs were always associated with homosexuality. The subjects missed these perfect associations and instead reported that invalid signs, such as buttocks or feminine clothing, were better indicators.
In 1992, the psychologist Stuart Sutherland argued that these artificial experiments are easier than the real-world use of the Rorschach, and hence they probably underestimated the errors that testers were susceptible to. He described the continuing popularity of the Rorschach after the Chapmans' research as a "glaring example of irrationality among psychologists".
Some critics argue that the testing psychologist must also project onto the patterns. A possible example sometimes attributed to the psychologist's subjective judgement is that responses are coded (among many other things), for "Form Quality": in essence, whether the subject's response fits with how the blot actually looks. Superficially this might be considered a subjective judgment, depending on how the examiner has internalized the categories involved. But with the Exner system of scoring, much of the subjectivity is eliminated or reduced by use of frequency tables that indicate how often a particular response is given by the population in general. Another example is that the response "bra" was considered a "sex" response by male psychologists, but a "clothing" response by females. In Exner's system, however, such a response is always coded as "clothing" unless there is a clear sexual reference in the response.
Third parties could be used to avoid this problem, but the Rorschach's inter-rater reliability has been questioned. That is, in some studies the scores obtained by two independent scorers do not match with great consistency. This conclusion was challenged in studies using large samples reported in 2002.
When interpreted as a projective test, results are poorly verifiable. The Exner system of scoring (also known as the "Comprehensive System") is meant to address this, and has all but displaced many earlier (and less consistent) scoring systems. It makes heavy use of what factor (shading, color, outline, etc.) of the inkblot leads to each of the tested person's comments. Disagreements about test validity remain: while the Exner proposed a rigorous scoring system, latitude remained in the actual interpretation, and the clinician's write-up of the test record is still partly subjective. Reber (1985) comments ".. there is essentially no evidence whatsoever that the test has even a shred of validity."
Nevertheless, there is substantial research indicating the utility of the measure for a few scores. Several scores correlate well with general intelligence. One such scale is R, the total number of responses this reveals the questionable side-effect that more intelligent people tend to be elevated on many pathology scales, since many scales do not correct for high R: if a subject gives twice as many responses overall, it is more likely that some of these will seem "pathological". Also correlated with intelligence are the scales for Organizational Activity, Complexity, Form Quality, and Human Figure responses. The same source reports that validity has also been shown for detecting such conditions as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders thought disorders and personality disorders (including borderline personality disorder). There is some evidence that the Deviant Verbalizations scale relates to bipolar disorder. The authors conclude that "Otherwise, the Comprehensive System doesn't appear to bear a consistent relationship to psychological disorders or symptoms, personality characteristics, potential for violence, or such health problems as cancer". (Cancer is mentioned because a small minority of Rorschach enthusiasts have claimed the test can predict cancer.)
It is also thought [ by whom? ] that the test's reliability can depend substantially on details of the testing procedure, such as where the tester and subject are seated, any introductory words, verbal and nonverbal responses to subjects' questions or comments, and how responses are recorded. Exner has published detailed instructions, but Wood et al. cites many court cases where these had not been followed. Similarly, the procedures for coding responses are fairly well specified but extremely time-consuming leaving them very subject to the author's style and the publisher to the quality of the instructions (such as was noted with one of Bohm's textbooks in the 1950s ) as well as clinic workers (which would include examiners) being encouraged to cut corners.
United States courts have challenged the Rorschach as well. Jones v Apfel (1997) stated (quoting from Attorney's Textbook of Medicine) that Rorschach "results do not meet the requirements of standardization, reliability, or validity of clinical diagnostic tests, and interpretation thus is often controversial". In State ex rel H.H. (1999) where under cross-examination Dr. Bogacki stated under oath "many psychologists do not believe much in the validity or effectiveness of the Rorschach test" and US v Battle (2001) ruled that the Rorschach "does not have an objective scoring system."
Another controversial aspect of the test is its statistical norms. Exner's system was thought to possess normative scores for various populations. But, beginning in the mid-1990s others began to try to replicate or update these norms and failed. In particular, discrepancies seemed to focus on indices measuring narcissism, disordered thinking, and discomfort in close relationships. Lilienfeld and colleagues, who are critical of the Rorschach, have stated that this proves that the Rorschach tends to "overpathologise normals". Although Rorschach proponents, such as Hibbard, suggest that high rates of pathology detected by the Rorschach accurately reflect increasing psychopathology in society, the Rorschach also identifies half of all test-takers as possessing "distorted thinking", a false positive rate unexplained by current research.
The accusation of "over-pathologising" has also been considered by Meyer et al. (2007). They presented an international collaborative study of 4704 Rorschach protocols, obtained in 21 different samples, across 17 different countries, with only 2% showing significant elevations on the index of perceptual and thinking disorder, 12% elevated on indices of depression and hyper-vigilance and 13% elevated on persistent stress overload—all in line with expected frequencies among non-patient populations.
The test is also controversial because of its common use in court-ordered evaluations. [ citation needed ] This controversy stems, in part, from the limitations of the Rorschach, with no additional data, in making official diagnoses from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Irving B. Weiner (co-developer with John Exner of the Comprehensive system) has stated that the Rorschach "is a measure of personality functioning, and it provides information concerning aspects of personality structure and dynamics that make people the kind of people they are. Sometimes such information about personality characteristics is helpful in arriving at a differential diagnosis, if the alternative diagnoses being considered have been well conceptualized with respect to specific or defining personality characteristics". In the vast majority of cases, anyway, the Rorschach test wasn't singled out but used as one of several in a battery of tests, and despite the criticism of usage of the Rorschach in the courts, out of 8,000 cases in which forensic psychologists used Rorschach-based testimony, the appropriateness of the instrument was challenged only six times, and the testimony was ruled inadmissible in only one of those cases. One study has found that use of the test in courts has increased by three times in the decade between 1996 and 2005, compared to the previous fifty years. Others however have found that its usage by forensic psychologists has decreased.
Exner and others have claimed that the Rorschach test is capable of detecting suicidality.
Protection of test items and ethics
Psychologists object to the publication of psychological test material out of concerns that a patient's test responses will be influenced ("primed") by previous exposure. The Canadian Psychological Association takes the position that, "Publishing the questions and answers to any psychological test compromises its usefulness" and calls for "keeping psychological tests out of the public domain." The same statement quotes their president as saying, "The CPA's concern is not with the publication of the cards and responses to the Rorschach test per se, for which there is some controversy in the psychological literature and disagreement among experts, but with the larger issue of the publication and dissemination of psychological test content".
From a legal standpoint, the Rorschach test images have been in the public domain for many years in most countries, particularly those with a copyright term of up to 70 years post mortem auctoris. They have been in the public domain in Hermann Rorschach's native Switzerland since 1992 (70 years after the author's death, or 50 years after the cut-off date of 1942), according to Swiss copyright law. They are also in the public domain under United States copyright law where all works published before 1923 are considered to be in the public domain. This means that the Rorschach images may be used by anyone for any purpose. William Poundstone was, perhaps, first to make them public in his 1983 book Big Secrets, where he also described the method of administering the test. [ citation needed ]
The American Psychological Association (APA) has a code of ethics that supports "freedom of inquiry and expression" and helping "the public in developing informed judgments". It claims that its goals include "the welfare and protection of the individuals and groups with whom psychologists work", and it requires that psychologists "make reasonable efforts to maintain the integrity and security of test materials". The APA has also raised concerns that the dissemination of test materials might impose "very concrete harm to the general public". It has not taken a position on publication of the Rorschach plates but noted "there are a limited number of standardized psychological tests considered appropriate for a given purpose". A public statement by the British Psychological Society expresses similar concerns about psychological tests (without mentioning any test by name) and considers the "release of [test] materials to unqualified individuals" to be misuse if it is against the wishes of the test publisher. In his 1998 book Ethics in Psychology, Gerald Koocher notes that some believe "reprinting copies of the Rorschach plates . and listing common responses represents a serious unethical act" for psychologists and is indicative of "questionable professional judgment". Other professional associations, such as the Italian Association of Strategic Psychotherapy, recommend that even information about the purpose of the test or any detail of its administration should be kept from the public, even though "cheating" the test is held to be practically impossible.
On September 9, 2008, Hogrefe attempted to claim copyright over the Rorschach ink blots during filings of a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the Brazilian psychologist Ney Limonge. These complaints were denied. Further complaints were sent to two other websites that contained information similar to the Rorschach test in May 2009 by legal firm Schluep and Degen of Switzerland.
Psychologists have sometimes refused to disclose tests and test data to courts when asked to do so by the parties citing ethical reasons it is argued that such refusals may hinder full understanding of the process by the attorneys, and impede cross-examination of the experts. APA ethical standard 1.23(b) states that the psychologist has a responsibility to document processes in detail and of adequate quality to allow reasonable scrutiny by the court.
Controversy ensued in the psychological community in 2009 when the original Rorschach plates and research results on interpretations were published in the "Rorschach test" article on Wikipedia. Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, a German company that sells editions of the plates, called the publication "unbelievably reckless and even cynical of Wikipedia" and said it was investigating the possibility of legal action. Due to this controversy an edit filter was temporarily established on Wikipedia to prevent the removal of the plates.
James Heilman, an emergency room physician involved in the debate, compared it to the publication of the eye test chart: though people are likewise free to memorize the eye chart before an eye test, its general usefulness as a diagnostic tool for eyesight has not diminished. For those opposed to exposure, publication of the inkblots is described as a "particularly painful development", given the tens of thousands of research papers which have, over many years, "tried to link a patient's responses to certain psychological conditions." Controversy over Wikipedia's publication of the inkblots has resulted in the blots being published in other locations, such as The Guardian and The Globe and Mail. Later that year [ when? ] two psychologists filed a complaint against Heilman with the Saskatchewan medical licensing board, arguing that his uploading of the images constituted unprofessional behavior. In 2012 two articles were published showing consequences of the publication of the images in Wikipedia. The first one studied negative attitudes towards the test generated during the Wikipedia-Rorschach debate, while the second suggested that reading the Wikipedia article could help to fake "good" results in the test.
Publication of the Rorschach images is also welcomed by critics who consider the test to be pseudoscience. Benjamin Radford, editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, stated that the Rorschach "has remained in use more out of tradition than good evidence" and was hopeful that publication of the test might finally hasten its demise.
The main watershed of Wales runs approximately north-south along the central highlands. The larger river valleys all originate there and broaden westward near the sea or eastward as they merge into lowland plains along the English border. The Severn and Wye, two of Britain’s longest rivers, lie partly within central and eastern Wales and drain into the Bristol Channel via the Severn estuary. The main river in northern Wales is the Dee, which empties into Liverpool Bay. Among the lesser rivers and estuaries are the Clwyd and Conwy in the northeast, the Tywi in the south, and the Rheidol in the west, draining into Cardigan Bay (Bae Ceredigion). The country’s natural lakes are limited in area and almost entirely glacial in origin. Several reservoirs in the central uplands supply water to South Wales and to Merseyside and the Midlands in England.
Thomas Alexander "Gus" McKie VIII | 2021 | Obituary
Thomas Alexander &ldquoGus&rdquo McKie VIII, 82, of the Town of Niagara, passed away after a brief illness on January 19, 2021 while under the care of Orchard Rehab and Nursing Center, Medina, NY.
A member of the Snipe Clan of the Tuscarora Nation, he was born in Niagara Falls, NY the son of the late Thomas Alexander McKie VII and the late Hattie Williams McKie. In 1964, he married the love of his life, the former Myrtle Kay Patterson. They were happily married until her death in 1995.
Gus was employed as a union roofer working through Roofers Local 74 for over 25 years until his retirement in 1989. Upon his retirement Gus remained active working on local farms and with H. A. Treichler & Sons in Sanborn. Along with farming enjoyed traveling, watching sports, especially football and wrestling, tractor pulls and the History Channel. He was known for his excellent memory of was often called upon to relive events through his ability to recall oral history.
Gus is survived by his loving children, Marion (Bill Falls) and Timothy (Jolene) McKie, along with his cherished grandchildren Mia McKie, Kayleigh Falls and Will (Cristy) Falls. Gus was the brother to William &ldquoNick&rdquo (Louise) McKie, the late Alfred (late Amy) Printup, the late Bernice &ldquoLovey&rdquo (late George) Kraft, the late Rose Baliukonis, and late Claire (late Joseph) DellaValle, Sr. Gus was also cherished by his in-laws, Susan Schandreau, Neil (late Francine) Patterson, Sr., and the late Franklin &ldquoBig Man&rdquo (Phyllis &ldquoBink&rdquo) Patterson, Jr. along with many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Peter Lampman (1749 - 1834)
Peter Lampman, German church, Dec. 28, aged 86 years. [One of the earliest settlers near Thorold. Came from New York in 1783. His tombstone in the graveyard of the old Lutheran Church describes him as "a pious, faithful member of the German Lutheran Church." He resided fifty years in the Township of Niagara.]
The statutes of Upper Canada CHAP. XLIIL
AN ACT authorising the payment of Pensions to certain Militia during the late War with the United States of America, under certain restrictions.
WHEREAS John Ryan, of the Township of Toronto, in the Home District Peter Lampman, of Niagara, in the Niagara District. and Adam Stull, of Grantham, in the Niagara District, have petitioned the Legislature, praying to be restored to the Militia Pension List of this Province : And whereas, the said John Ryan, Peter Lampman, and Adam Stull, were wounded during the late war with the United States of America, and enjoyed a Pension up to the year one thousand eight hundred and twentyone, and it is expedient that they should be restored to the Militia Pension List of this Province : Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province" and by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor of this Province, upon the said John Ryan, Peter Lampman, and Adam Stull, respectively, producing the certificate of the Board authorised to be established by an Act passed in the first Session of the present Parliament, entitled, An Act authorising the payment of Pensions to Militiamen disabled during the iate war with the United States of America, under certain restrictions to cause the name of the said John Ryan, Peter Lampman, and Adam Stull, or either of them, to be restored to the Militia Pension List of this Province,and the said John Ryan, Peter Lampman, and Adam Stull, or either of them, on their or either of them being restored, shall from thenceforth be entitled to receive a Pension of Twenty Pounds per annum, in the same manner as other Militia Pensioners.
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AN ACT to provide Pensions for the Widows and Children of Militiamen killed during the late Rebellion, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
- Fact: Christening (24 September 1749) Athens, Greene, New York, United States
- Fact: Burial (1835) St. Peter's Cemetery Welland, Canada West, British Colonial America
- Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Peter Lampman was a United Empire Loyalist who came to Canada from New York and settled in Grantham.
Peter Lampman was originally buried in St. Peter's Cemetery. His remains were reinterred in Lakeview Cemetery because of further construction on the Welland Canal.
The Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier, Inc. (ETF) was founded in 1979 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of human and natural resources from chemical and radiological contamination in the Western New York area and within the Great Lakes eco-system. Its mission and purpose addressed the physical, psychological, social, economic, moral, and ethical issues inherent in the environmental concerns that impact persons and communities.
Organizationally, the ETF was made up of approximately 75 voting members and a 25-person Scientific and Technical Advisory Board, selected annually. The Executive Board was elected from ten Western New York denominational institutions. From 1979-1988 Sister Margeen Hoffmann served as Executive Director of ETF and later Pat Brown took over the position from 1989-1991.
To promote its mission of educating the public on the hazards of chemicals and toxic waste dump sites, the ETF expended resources in its public education programs. They participated in many local and national environmental conferences and presented informational talks to several religious, governmental, and educational organizations.
Often it was necessary for ETF to pursue legal action. The ETF became involved in civil court cases against chemical polluters. When able, the ETF represented Western New York residents affected by toxic waste in litigation as an amicus curiae. For this, the Scientific and Technical Advisory Board was called to present testimony and scientific analysis for alternative remediation and technology.
A large part of the ETF's work was dedicated to providing direct relief for victims of hazardous waste exposure in the Love Canal area. Prior to the relocation of remaining Love Canal residents in 1980, they provided counseling, temporary shelter, and other services to affected residents. Later they also served as intermediaries with state and local officials to facilitate the relocation process. Retained by the Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency, the ETF coordinated the review of all technical data on Love Canal issues and made impartial recommendations with respect to the habitability of the Love Canal area.
Although the Love Canal disaster was the ETF's main focus, it was not the only one. They also worked for the betterment of the community after various chemical corporations including CECOS International, Inc. and Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation were responsible for the contamination of other local area sites such as the Hyde Park Landfill, the S-Area Landfill, and Forrest Glenn.
See Series VIII. Hazardous Waste Management Facilities, Chemical Companies and Other Toxic Waste Sites for more information on ETF's work for these other contaminated areas.
The ETF dissolved in the early 1990's.
Patricia A. Brown was a resident of the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, New York. After toxic chemicals from the nearby chemical dumpsite were discovered seeping into residents homes, Brown took action and volunteered with the newly formed Ecumenical Task Force. Soon she was employed as the executive secretary for the organization and later became the ETF Resource Center manager, developing and operating the organization's library.
In 1989 Brown took over as Executive Director and continued to expand the ETF's programs in research, activism and education. She gave speeches, and participated in government hearings and committees. Personally she continued to develop her activism beyond the ETF by becoming involved in the Niagara Falls Hazardous Materials Advisory Committee, the Environmental Liaison Committee, the Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce, the Toxics in Your Community Coalition (based in Albany, NY), and the Niagara County Legislature Citizens Advisory Committee.
Pat Brown died in February 1999
Niagara VIII APA-87 - History
Seminary of Our Lady of Angels
(Digitized by Charles Keyes)
Below you will find the digitized version of the Diamond Jubilee History of Niagara University published in 1931. To view the chapters, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Please note that these pdf files files are large and will take a few minutes to download with a dial-up modem. The files under "Images" on the left side of this page are in jpeg or gif formats and should be viewable within your browser.
II. The Voice of Many Waters Pages 11-24
III. Clashing Arms and Warring Rapids Pages 25-35
IV. How Far to Niagara Falls Pages 46-53
VII. Hic Habitabo, Quonaim Elegi EAM Pages 85-104
VIII. "God Answers Sharp and Sudden on Some Prayers, and Thrusts the Thing We Prayed For In Our Face" Pages 105-125
IX. "If I Laugh at any Mortal Thing, Tis that I May not Weep" Pages 126-139
X. "And There Followed hail and Fire, Mingled with Blood" Pages 140-152
XI. The Commencement of '62 Pages 153-178
XII. The Days of Reconstruction Pages 179-193
XIII. The Dawn of Prosperity Pages 194-211
XIV. The Mysteries Sorrowful and Glorious Pages 212-227
XVI. The Crusaders of Wits and Whacks and Worship Pages 255-267
Past Faculty Who are Still Living Pages 317-339
Past Faculty Who Have Died Since the Golden Jubilee of 1906 Pages 340-348
Silverman, Helaine. The Nasca
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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Silverman, Helaine Proulx, Donald A., 1939-
Published By: Original publisher Malden, Mass. Oxford: Blackwell. 2002. xix, 339 p. ill., maps
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication Helaine Silverman and Donald Proulx
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 2015. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Nazca (SE51)
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document This is a synthesis that aims to reconstruct the societal context for the existing archaeological record of Nazca material culture. The authors describe ceramics and iconography, sites and settlement patterns, the religious center of Cahuachi, agriculture, warfare, religion, ritual, and sociopolitical organization. They consider only phases 2-7 (ca. AD 1-700) as truly "Nazca," although coverage ranges from Nazca 1 or "Proto-Nazca" through Nazca 8 or "Loro" (ca. 200 BC-AD 800) all have been indexed for content within this collection.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 6
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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. -327) and index
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document 1983-1985, 1988-1995, 1997, 1999
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor 2 - fair 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent 4 - excellent secondary data 5 - excellent primary data Archaeologists-4, 5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. Sarah Berry 2013
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southern Cañete province, Lima region, Ica region, and Caravelí province, Arequipa region (south coast), Peru
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Nazca culture//Nazca pottery//Nazca Lines Site (Peru)//Nazca (Peru)--Antiquities
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APA citation. Ott, M. (1912). Pope Urban VIII. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15218b.htm
MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "Pope Urban VIII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15218b.htm>.
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The political course of Washington while President produced the alienation of the two Virginians whom he most closely associated with himself in the early part of his administration. With Madison the break does not seem to have come from any positive ill-feeling, but was rather an abandonment of intercourse as the differences of opinion became more pronounced. The disagreement with Jefferson was more acute, though probably never forced to an open rupture. To his political friends Jefferson in 1796 wrote that the measures pursued by the administration were carried out "under the sanction of a name which has done too much good not to be sufficient to cover harm also," and that he hoped the President's "honesty and his political errors may not furnish a second occasion to exclaim, 'curse on his virtues, they've undone his country.'" Henry Lee warned Washington of the undercurrent of criticism, and when Jefferson heard indirectly of this he wrote his former chief that "I learn that [Lee] has thought it worth his while to try to sow tares between you and me, by representing me as still engaged in the bustle of politics & in turbulence & intrigue against the government. I never believed for a moment that this could make any impression on you, or that your knowledge of me would not overweigh the slander of an intriguer dirtily employed in sifting the conversations of my table." To this Washington replied,—
"As you have mentioned the subject yourself, it would not be frank, candid or friendly to conceal, that your conduct has been represented as derogating from that opinion I had conceived you entertained of me; that, to your particular friends and connexions you have described, and they have denounced me as a person under a dangerous influence; and that, if I would listen more to some other opinions, all would be well. My answer invariably has been, that I had never discovered any thing in the conduct of Mr. Jefferson to raise suspicions in my mind of his insincerity; that, if he would retrace my public conduct while he was in the administration, abundant proofs would occur to him, that truth and right decisions were the sole objects of my pursuit; that there was as many instances within his own knowledge of my having decided against as in favor of the opinions of the person evidently alluded to; and, I was no believer in the infallibility of the politics or measures of any man living. In short that I was no party man myself and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them."
As proof upon proof of Jefferson's secret enmity accumulated, Washington ceased to trust his disclaimers, and finally wrote to one of his informants, "Nothing short of the evidence you have adduced, corroborative of intimations which I had received long before through another channel, could have shaken my belief in the sincerity of a friendship, which I had conceived as possessed for me by the person to whom you allude. But attempts to injure those, who are supposed to stand well in the estimation of the people, and are stumbling blocks in the way, by misrepresenting their political tenets, thereby to destroy all confidence in them, are among the means by which the government is to be assailed, and the constitution destroyed."
Once convinced, all relations with Jefferson were terminated. It is interesting in this connection to note something repeated by Madison, to the effect that "General Lafayette related to me the following anecdote, which I shall repeat as nearly as I can in his own words. 'When I last saw Mr. Jefferson,' he observed, 'we conversed a good deal about General Washington, and Mr. Jefferson expressed high admiration of his character. He remarked particularly that he and Hamilton often disagreed when they were members of the Cabinet, and that General Washington would sometimes favor the opinion of one and sometimes the other, with an apparent strict impartiality. And Mr. Jefferson added that, so sound was Washington's judgment, that he was commonly convinced afterwards of the accuracy of his decision, whether it accorded with the opinion he had himself first advanced or not.'" | <urn:uuid:3cf31b85-03bb-4859-a7a8-a277dd12e314> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.factmonster.com/t/history/true-washington/jefferson.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00087-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990412 | 822 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Clinton in Moscow to talk missile defense, nuke reduction and Iran
Clinton is also in Moscow to look for Russia's help in taking a tougher stance on Iran’s nuclear program.
The official part of Clinton’s first visit to Russia as US Secretary of State begins on Tuesday morning with talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In the afternoon she will meet with President Dmitry Medvedev.
The visit “will become an important stage in enhancing Russian-American interaction within the framework of future-oriented tasks set by the presidents of the two countries during their summit in Moscow in July,” said Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko.
Clinton’s search for Iran sanctions support
The Iranian nuclear problem is high on the agenda of Clinton’s visit. In September, Tehran informed the UN nuclear watchdog that it has a second uranium enrichment facility near the town of Qom, causing further concerns from the international community over the country’s controversial program.
News agency Interfax, citing official US sources, reports that the US Secretary of State intends to seek Russian backing for imposing new sanctions against Iran if the Islamic republic fails to prove its nuclear program is pursuing peaceful purposes only – something Tehran has been insisting on.
The US, France and the UK have strongly condemned Tehran’s action and have demanded that they immediately cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
At the latest talks on the issue in Geneva this month, Iran did show its willingness to compromise that some of its uranium could be enriched in other parts of the world and then returned to Iran, though nothing concrete has come out so far.
During her five-day tour in Europe, Hillary said that the world would not wait indefinitely for Iran to prove its peaceful intentions. This is why Clinton seeks to have Moscow back up the hard rhetoric coming from Washington.
The White House has said that sanctions would follow if Iran did not meet its promises and allow IAEA observers into its facilities. President Medvedev noted that sanctions rarely lead to productive results, but in some cases they are inevitable.
“The progress on the Iranian nuclear programme is not easy because the interests of Russia and the US do not coincide completely,” noted Evgeny Volk from the Heritage Foundation US think tank’s Moscow office. “Russia is engaged in high level cooperation with Iran’s civilian nuclear programme: constructing the nuclear plant in Bushehr and helping Iran to develop nuclear technologies. Of course, Russia is more interesting in preserving some cooperation with Iran. That is why for many years Moscow was reluctant to take tough sanctions against Tehran.
Missile defense: from foes to friends?
Anti-missile defense will also be on the agenda. It had been a stumbling block in relations between Russia and the US ever since the Bush administration announced plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. Moscow was strongly opposed to it, seeing it as a threat to Russia’s security.
However, President Obama recently announced that the US would drop plans to deploy parts of its missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic, which is seen as a huge step towards better cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Earlier this month, US Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow, in an interview with a Russian news agency, said the US is considering jointly using two Russian radars– one in Armavir in southern Russia and another in the Azerbaijani city of Gabala – as part of its anti-missile system. The idea was first put forward by Vladimir Putin in 2007.
“For the first time in two decades, Russia, the U.S., and NATO have a chance to become allies, more than allies, in fact – if they agree to build a joint defense system,” said Aleksandr Sharavin from the Institute for Political and Military Analysis. “I think cooperation in the missile shield is more important than Afghanistan.”
Further, Sharavin believes “We can’t miss this chance because it could bring commercial benefits”. He said Russian companies working for the defense industry would be able to receive orders from across Europe “to build S-300, S-400 and, in the future, S-500 units [long range surface-to-air missile systems]”.
“By collaboration in such a sensitive area, we can overcome the stereotypes of the Cold War,” he added.
Politics aside, on Tuesday evening Hillary Clinton will watch “The Love of Three Oranges” – an opera by Sergey Prokofiev – at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
On Wednesday, the US Secretary of State will speak on the Ekho Moskvy radio station and meet Moscow State University students.
Before flying home, she will also visit Kazan – the capital city of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan – where Clinton will meet with Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev. | <urn:uuid:28b6f05e-f729-48c4-a778-2751e9a3533b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/usa/clinton-moscow-missile-defense/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958147 | 1,023 | 1.90625 | 2 |
From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
- This article is about the publications given out at events. For the magazine of the video games, see Pokémon magazines.
- If you were looking for the Trainer class in the games, see Pokéfan (Trainer class).
Pokémon Fan is a small publication usually given out at Pokémon events and game releases. Sometimes, this booklet reveals new information, such as release dates, for upcoming games.
The cover of vol. 1 of Pokémon Fan.
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Children can learn everything they need to know for a happy life from their parents, and the Bible. School teaches children to be ungodly, and puts them on the path to sin and immorality. Children were not forced to go to school in Jesus time, and they should not be made to know either.
You can be very intelligent without school. The problem is kids love learning until they are put into the systematic factory of creating workers we call school. Kids should be able to choose what they want to learn so they continue to be enthusiastic about learning. If kids hate learning they will never truly absorb the info. On top of that what kids are learning is completely pointless and will not ever help them. The real use of school is to teach kids to sit down and deal with things they hate (what you will have to do in most jobs).
Kids need something to tell their kids right? Kids want to play. Not be locked up in a classroom all day fored to listen to a series of mumbles and old books. I want to be an architect when I grow up and my school has taught nothing about it. Kids need hands on experience and go out into the real world. Let the kids go outside not stare at the clock and being surrounded with smelly little brats.
You learn the essentials in elementary and some of middle school. However, when it come to late middle school (8th grade+) it is complete non sense. If a child has a career option in mind, then the best way to prepare him/her is to give them real world, hands on experience where they can be prepared to make money and support themselves, when was the last time you used algebra in your job?
I want to be a video game creator when I grow up. I have been in school for 9 years and I did not learn anything that relates to the job I want. I even asked my teacher if a video game designer job is good. The teaches said that kind of job is "stupid" and that I should choose another job that relates to what you were taught in school. It is a waste of time to learn stuff that you will not need in the future. I have to do a research paper on something stupid and boring and I had no choice. I cant even work on my game which I plan to release next year. School is a big waste of time.
School teaches students nothing-I don't even remember the stuff I learned from last semester. If anything, school tests your memory and your ability to totally B.S. Your way in life, not your intelligence.
I hate it. Knowing that everything I "learn" is a complete and utter waste. Who needs to know the midpoint formula when you're 37? It's messed up.
The schools base kids on how "smart" they are through their GPA or grades in the class. Colleges reflect on these and choose the "smartest". I have taught myself three foreign languages, cause and effects of human activity on the environment, and study international politics and relations every day, all of these on my own, yet because I don't care about math class, english class, or the same American history I have been learning since second grade, my GPA is low, inferring that I am not as smart as others. The high GPA and Grade kids just memorize facts from books and forget about it after. Then they go into college and life to contribute absolutely nothing to a society that needs change. We need people to be taught about the environment and not heavy math, international relations and cultural studies and not the American Revolution and the Civil War over and over again, and lastly to show that life isn't about the points, money, or useless material objects society deems important and successful. School's arbitrary point system leaves the brightest minds of individuals out and puts people who just want points ahead of everyone else. This is from an American high school junior.
You can have a nice job and become "rich" without going to school. I do YouTube videos for a living and make money off of that. I get about $20 per video I upload on average. You can probably tell that $20 isn't enough so you can probably assume how many videos I upload...... I do it because it is fun. I like to do it and school didn't teach me anything that has to do with it. That is my argument, enjoy! www.youtube.com/mrnoeggs7
Many students are too intelligent for a cookie-cutter system. They cannot be placed into the same exact system as their peers. For some kids, they are simply not capable of ever becoming a member of high-society, so they are completely wasting their tim in college, and arguably high school as well (they should just go to trade school and minimize their debt and wasted years aka earning potential).
Admittedly, school generally teaches us right from wrong, but we would learn that sooner or later in life anyway. The lessons... It feels like the teachers/schools just make the lesson more and more confusing rather than useful, and certainly as I have gone up through school, it seems as though they care less, like they are there purely for their pay check, not to actually teach us.
I couldn't care less about Pythagorean triplets and all this rubbish, I want to learn things that will be useful for me in life, how to pay the bills, how to buy houses, and apply for jobs. The lessons are also taught to us in a dull way. We have to do the same stuff lesson in, lesson out, copying off the board, and it just feels a massive waste of time, not only this, but the teachers see us as dumb, it is patronising, and it feels as though they are talking at us, rather than trying to teach us and care about our later lives. Only once in my whole school life have I learnt anything I feel to be useful, and that was a lesson on how to write a CV. School should prepare us for life. I feel as though I have learnt more from my friends and family than I have from any teacher. My friends teach me new things every time I see them, about the social aspects of life, and what do the teachers do...Teach us about quadratics...Thanks so much, I'm sure I'll use that later in life. You probably just see this as another ranting teen, and well, that's what it is, but this is a subject I feel strongly about. In my opinion, the school system needs to be changed, so the following generations feel like they had a full, useful 12 or so years at school and then all the others on top of that, spent at college etc. I don't want my future children to feel the same way I do about their school career. Charlie, 15 year old school boy.
Getting a job relies on getting qualifications, and all that school teaches you are extremely basic things like counting and how to pass tests. It is extremely difficult to get a job if you flunk everything. The vast majority of children whose parents cannot afford school want to go to school, and a much smaller percentage of people who go to school want to leave school
Really? So if Bill Gates never went to Harvard, and Tim Berners Lee never went to Oxford, you think you'd still be typing on this forum? I'll simplify it:
-No Windows operating system
-No World Wide Web
The education system exists to provide opportunity. Without mandatory education, otherwise ambitious children would be forced into their parents' careers and we'd go back to feudalism in no time.
Doing well in school provides opportunities for children to CHOOSE their trade when they reach adulthood. Will they all use that algebra or calculus they had to learn? Of course not - but several might. The world needs engineers, physicists, chemists, buisinesmen, etc. How to write an essay? Doesn't hurt to have a good understanding of language. Reading comprehension? I hope parents would want their children to have basic literacy at least. Our world needs writers. Of books, of magazines, of speeches. History? How can you understand current events without knowledge of the past?
Without a school system, we wouldn't have many of the fruits of technology and industry which we take for granted today. Without a school system, children would also be doomed to whatever career their parents are able to teach them.
How can it be a waste? If you want a job and a nice future/economy is it really a waste of time? Yes, if you read the meaning literally but NO if it is for the world's and yours future. So why is it a waste? You meet new people and learn new things, is it a waste to learn, should you just be a human without any logical thinking, grammar, knowledge etc? No.
School is the number one place to learn; whether it is elementary, high school, college, or post-secondary, going to school is a wonderful endeavor. If you don't learn, you stagnate and are resistant to change. In our emerging global economy, Americans need as much schooling as possible to keep up and pull ahead of foreign competition.
School is a place for development, both academically and socially. Socially, because there, we meet all sorts of people with different backgrounds, therefore opening new doors of influence. Think of it as a training ground for what life has to offer in the future. It IS definitely possible to 'succeed' in life without having to study in a proper school, however, it isn't bad to consider all your options. To quote Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken: "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Think about all of you complain about how school os so bad when it really opens up the most entertaining pathway you could imagine. Sure it can be boring and i have to admit some days i do wish i could go home, but If there was no education would there be video games, NO would there be computers,phones you name it. So saying school is not needed is very stupid and leads you to nothing unless you just want to sit up and do nothing your whole life, which is really much more of a waste of life then going to school plain and simple.
In school what do you learn? Here's an easier question: What did you learn out of school? School may be boring, but when you think about it's where we have learned almost everything. Without schooling, everything would be simple. Why do we have computers? Back in the Great Space Race, the way we participated is by getting an education. Why do you think Fredrick Douglass escaped slavery when he got smart? Not only does an education help you in every way of life, it also teaches you things to make life easier.
School is a wonderful way of allowing kids to fully develop several talents, schools have sports fields, science labs, art rooms and music rooms that are not found in the regular house hold. They have teachers and coaches ( who can be really mean at times) but they have opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise
School is where you learn knowledge on things relevant to society. They teach you things that will help you in your future career as it introduces you to the concepts and topics you will come across in higher education as well as provide opportunities for part time and full time employment.
There are some that would say so, but they're in a lunatic fringe of the GOP that even a majority of the GOP wishes would shut up. Education is important. I hated high school when I was there but I can't tell you I'd be better off without it because that simply isn't true, I fear those that think I would be. They exist. Know them, do your part as a citizen to vote them out of office if you have an opportunity to do so. | <urn:uuid:080262c3-9a48-41a1-8676-460ec81ce751> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-school-a-waste-of-time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00198-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98226 | 2,451 | 1.5 | 2 |
Black seed oil or black cumin are unique seeds from Southeast Asia called Nigella sativa. It is claimed to be a true panacea, because it is able to help treat everything. There were studies conducted and it showed that it is effective against multi-drug resistanct strains.
There are three phytochemicals found in black seed oil and are responsible for the benefits it gives our body.
Thymoquinone is the best antifungal compound among the three phytochemicals of black seed oil as tested against yeast and dermatophytes. It is an active ingredient of black seed that is antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer. These properties of thymoquinone help with encephalomyelitis asthma, diabetes and carcinogenesis.
Thymohydroquinone is said to be one of the potent natural inhibitors that stop enzyme activity and helps treat conditions like apathy, autism, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.
Thymol is the natural ingredient that makes thyme essential oil medicinal. It is used to kill TB and various viruses. It is used as disinfectant and pesticide and used for food flavorings, perfumes and mouthwash.
It include its ability to help prevent cancer, diabetes, hair loss and skin disorders.
Cancer. Black seed can help prevent cancer and aid in its treatment the same through anti-proliferation, cell cycle arrest, anti-metastasis, anti-angiogenesis and apoptosis induction. These mechanisms help reduce tumor cells.
Liver Health. Poor liver function brought about by the side effects of medication, alcohol consumption or disease could be helped by black seed oil by speeding its healing process. It helps liver function and helps prevent damage and disease of the same.
Diabetes. Black seed oil is known to help in both type1 and type 2 diabetes. It helps improve glucose tolerance and increases the concentration of insulin.
Restore hair loss. Due to the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of blacks seed, it can help promote strengthened hair follicles.
Protects skin from damage. Black seed oil is known to inhibit and promote melanin production. Melanin are the pigments that protects our skin and givers our eyes and skin their color. Black seed oil also help decrease severity of eczema.
Infections. Black seed oil helps kill the bugs that are resistant to antibiotics by slowing down or stopping its spread.
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Richmond is one of the independent cities in Virginia, and is the county seat of the Commonwealth of the state. The establishments in this city produce a kind of atmosphere that promotes arts, culture, and architechture and offer a glimpse of its dynamic political history. It is lush in destinations that offer a multitude of opportunities for learning and enjoyment.
Richmond is renowned for its museums, arts, and architecture. The city has different museums that display arts, history and architecture like the Virginia Center for Architecture. Thereby, it's not unexpected that this love for exquisite form and structure arts overflows to its industries such that roofing in Richmond has turned into one the most significant enterprises in the city.
The city is filled with wonderful architecture from classical to postmodern establishments. The Edgar Allan Poe Museum is one of the buildings erected prior to the 1700s, while a few of the more recent or rejuvinated facilities are the Virginia State Capitol and the structures in the University of Richmond campus. A great piece of architecture nevertheless, is not just determined by structures where significant events occurred. Even a home with a tough foundation and an appealing roofing system can also be viewed as a piece of art.
Just like most other dynamic places in the world, Virginia was hit by a natural catastrophe. The devastating hurricane Sandy left the city in shambles and destroyed the natural environment and numerous residential properties in the state. Credit is given to the laudable work of roofing contractors in Richmond VA who did such a fine task in reconstructing and restoring the state.
When hurricane Sandy hit Virginia late last year, people were not completely prepared for the worst that a natural calamity of such range can cause. In the end of the storm, they found out the need for tough roofing for their homes. Roofing systems are created to safeguard people from rough weather elements therefore its design and material must adjust to the climate in the area. Richmond property owners now give sufficient care to their roofing systems and choose service providers that can protect and assist them in case of another hurricane.
Richmond VA has went through several catastrophes and has gone through lots of reconstructions throughout its history. However, these have only made it more durable as it quickly rebounds from these man-made and natural disasters. Richmond is certainly home of great architects and house builders. To find out more, check out britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509178/roof.
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Erythromycin is an antibiotic. It can be taken by people who are allergic to penicillin.
Space your doses out evenly over the day and complete the full course of this antibiotic, even if you feel your infection has cleared up.
The most common side-effects are feeling sick and tummy (abdominal) discomfort. These are usually mild and may be reduced by taking your doses after a meal or snack.
|Type of medicine||A macrolide antibiotic|
|Used for||Infections (in adults and children), and for skin problems such as acne and rosacea|
|Also called||Brand names: Erymax®; Erythrocin®; Erythrolar®; Erythroped®; Tiloryth®|
Generic names: erythromycin stearate; erythromycin ethyl succinate
|Available as||Tablets, capsules, and oral liquid medicine|
Erythromycin is prescribed to treat short-term (acute) bacterial infections, such as chest (respiratory) infections, urine infections, skin infections, and mouth infections. It can be taken by adults and children. It works by killing the germs (bacteria) causing the infection. It is also prescribed for some longer-term skin conditions such as acne and rosacea.
Erythromycin is also available as an ingredient in some skin preparations used to treat acne - see the separate medicine leaflet called Erythromycin (with zinc) skin solution for acne for more information about this.
Before taking erythromycin
Some medicines are not suitable for people with certain conditions, and sometimes a medicine may only be used if extra care is taken. For these reasons, before you start taking erythromycin it is important that your doctor or pharmacist knows:
- If you are pregnant or breast-feeding. (Although erythromycin is not known to be harmful to an unborn baby, you should let your doctor know if you think you are pregnant.)
- If you have any problems with your liver or kidneys.
- If you know you have an unusual heart rhythm.
- If you have a muscle disorder called myasthenia gravis.
- If you have a rare inherited blood disorder called porphyria.
- If you are taking any other medicines. This includes any medicines you are taking which are available to buy without a prescription, as well as herbal and complementary medicines.
- If you have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine.
How to take erythromycin
- Before you start taking this antibiotic, read the manufacturer's printed information leaflet from inside the pack. The leaflet will give you more information about it and a full list of side-effects which you may experience from taking it.
- Take erythromycin exactly as your doctor tells you to. It is usually prescribed four times daily, although one or two doses daily may be sufficient for some conditions. Your doctor or pharmacist will tell you which dose is right for you (or for your child). Your dose will also be on the label of the pack to remind you. Space the doses out evenly during the day.
- Swallow erythromycin tablets and capsules whole, with a drink of water. Do not chew them. You may take erythromycin before or after food.
- When erythromycin is prescribed for a child, the dose depends upon the child's weight. Make sure you read the label carefully so that you measure out the correct amount of medicine.
- Even if you feel your infection has cleared up, keep taking this antibiotic until the course is finished unless your doctor tells you otherwise. This is to prevent the infection from coming back. A course of treatment for a short-term (acute) infection often lasts around 5-14 days. It may last for longer than this if you are taking erythromycin for chronic prostatitis, acne or rosacea - in these cases it is quite normal for your treatment to continue for several weeks or months.
- If you still feel unwell after finishing your course of treatment, make another appointment to see your doctor for further advice.
- If you forget to take a dose, take one as soon as you remember. Try to take the correct number of doses each day, but do not take two doses at the same time to make up for a forgotten one.
Getting the most from your treatment
- If you buy any medicines, check with a pharmacist that they are safe to take with erythromycin. If you regularly take an indigestion remedy, make sure your doctor knows about this, as some brands of erythromycin should not be taken at the same time as antacids. Check the label on your pack of erythromycin for more information about this.
- Some people develop thrush (redness and itchiness in the mouth or vagina) after taking a course of antibiotics. If this happens to you, speak with your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
- If you are using combined oral hormonal contraception (the 'pill'), additional contraceptive precautions such as condoms are not required during a course of this antibiotic unless you are sick (vomit) or have diarrhoea. If you need further advice about this, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
- This antibiotic may stop the oral typhoid vaccine from working. If you are having any vaccinations, make sure the person treating you knows that you are taking this medicine.
Can erythromycin cause problems?
Along with their useful effects, all medicines can cause unwanted side-effects although not everyone experiences them. The table below lists some of the most common ones associated with erythromycin. You will find a full list in the manufacturer's information leaflet supplied with your medicine. The unwanted effects often improve over the first few days of taking a new medicine, but speak with your doctor or pharmacist if any of the following side-effects continue or become troublesome.
|Common erythromycin side-effects||What can I do if I experience this?|
|Feeling or being sick, tummy (abdominal) discomfort||Stick to simple meals - avoid rich or spicy food. Taking your doses after food may help|
|Diarrhoea||Drink plenty of water to replace lost fluids. If the diarrhoea continues or is severe, speak with your doctor|
If you experience any other symptoms which you think may be due to this medicine, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
How to store erythromycin
- Keep all medicines out of the reach and sight of children.
- Store in a cool, dry place, away from direct heat and light.
- If you have been given liquid medicine, it will have been made up by the pharmacy and it lasts for a limited number of days only. Check the expiry date on the bottle and do not use it after this date. Store it in the fridge.
Important information about all medicines
Never take more than the prescribed dose. If you suspect that you or someone else might have taken an overdose of this medicine, go to the accident and emergency department of your local hospital at once. Take the container with you, even if it is empty.
This medicine is for you. Never give it to other people even if their condition appears to be the same as yours.
If you are having an operation or any dental treatment, tell the person carrying out the treatment which medicines you are taking.
Do not keep out-of-date or unwanted medicines. Take them to your local pharmacy which will dispose of them for you.
If you have any questions about this medicine ask your pharmacist.
Further reading & references
- Manufacturer's PIL, Erythromycin 250 mg Tablets; Aurobindo Pharma - Milpharm Ltd, The electronic Medicines Compendium. Dated October 2015.
- Manufacturer's PIL, Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate Granules for Oral Suspension 125 mg/5 ml, 250 mg/5 ml, 500 mg/5 ml; Aurobindo Pharma - Milpharm Ltd, The electronic Medicines Compendium. Dated July 2015.
- British National Formulary; 72nd Edition (Sep 2016) British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London
Disclaimer: This article is for information only and should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of medical conditions. EMIS has used all reasonable care in compiling the information but makes no warranty as to its accuracy. Consult a doctor or other healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. For details see our conditions.
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Use this activity to go outdoors with your students and observe plants and animals nearby. Plus, be in-the-know with PLT's monthly updates.
This hands-on activity helps students in grades K-2 observe habitats nearby - whether it's the school playground, a local park, or their backyard. Students will go outside, look for signs of animal life, and consider how animals in their area get food, water, and shelter.
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This supplementary curriculum is designed to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The activities present students with real-world opportunities to focus and observe using their senses and apply STEM skills.
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Create an interactive presentation to spark collaboration in class
Discuss is a powerful tool that encourages students to share their ideas in class. The content created forms a valuable shared knowledge base which can be accessed in the future for reviewing and assessing student progress as to inform future planning.
Class discussions & building a shared knowledge base
Engaging all students in the class, even the quiet ones
Tracking student progress
Informing teacher planning of lessons
1. Create a presentation
Upload from PowerPoint or create from scratch using text, images and videos. Questions and tasks for students can be added to key slides.
2. Share presentation in a lesson
You can ask your students to contribute using their personal devices at any point during the presentation.
3. Start classroom discussion
Students respond using their personal devices. They can also comment on each others' responses
4. Review student responses
You can spark further discussion in class by clicking 'shuffle,' inviting students to comment on each others' responses
5. Share discussion highlights
Pause the discussion at any time to bring students' attention back to the board - where high level ideas can be celebrated, triggering a verbal discussion. Common misconceptions can be addressed during the class.
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A new law will soon take effect requiring nursing home employees to notify police within hours of suspected abuse – or to call 911 if the situation is an emergency. “Peggy’s Law” will provide additional protections to nursing home residents by ensuring that law enforcement is promptly notified of possible criminal abuse cases.
Peggy’s Law was named for 93-year-old Peggy Marzolla, who died following injuries suffered while in the care of a nursing home in 2010. When Peggy Marzolla was taken to the hospital, it was found that she had sustained a broken eye socket, cheekbone, jaw, and wrist, as well as a badly bruised elbow, a gash on her leg, and welts on her back.
Staff members at the nursing home stated that she had slipped on some powder in a bathroom and fallen. Her daughter did not believe the explanation and spent the next several years lobbying lawmakers to better protect institutionalized seniors.
Governor Chris Christie signed Peggy’s Law on August 7, 2017 and it will go into effect 60 days later.
Peggy’s Law requires employees of over 900 state-regulated facilities to promptly contact police if they suspect abuse, exploitation, or other criminal harm involving an elderly resident. Contacting law enforcement will be mandatory once the law takes effect. Both the employee and the facility will be held responsible if the call to police isn’t made within a certain timeframe. Facilities can be fined $500 for a violation, and individual employees can be charged $2,500 for failing to report an incident. The law will apply to caretakers, social workers, physicians, nurses, and other staff members.
Under the current law, employees must report suspected abuse, neglect, and unexplained injuries to the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, which investigates allegations of improper care, injuries, abuse, and financial exploitation.
Peggy’s Law requires employees to contact police if they suspect a crime within 24 hours — or within two hours if an injury is involved. It also requires facilities to educate staff on the new mandate. The ombudsman’s office must include the new mandate in its outreach and materials. In addition, Peggy’s Law requires the ombudsman’s office to create a 24-hour hotline for complaints. | <urn:uuid:6b06cbd8-1298-4d62-a9f8-a00b6b7b7ad9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nursinghomelaw.stark-stark.com/2017/09/articles/peggys-law-protects-elderly-nursing-home-residents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.955583 | 477 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Project C.O.P.E. provides information to the community in Paterson, N.J. to encourage healthy relationships and prevent the spread of HIV among youth.
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Echo Request | definition of Echo Request by Medical dictionary
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PING Abbreviation for:
Preventing Infections Working Group
clear, sharp, high-pitched, metallic, musical note created by a flicking percussion stroke over a viscus containing gas under moderate pressure and a small amount of fluid; used extensively in the physical examination of the abdomen in cattle and horses.
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Extracting information from standard packets (ICMP echo requests
and high-port UDP packets); no application-layer transactions.
Data traffic composed of 200 million 1518-byte ICMP echo requests
was generated and sent across the cable at a BER of 10-12 or better.
Cardiff Credit Union told the Echo requests
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Diversity and distribution of subseafloor Thermococcales populations in diffuse hydrothermal vents at an active deep-sea volcano in the northeast Pacific Ocean
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The presence, diversity, and distribution of a key group of subseafloor archaea, the Thermococcales, was examined in multiple diffuse flow hydrothermal vents at Axial Seamount, an active deep-sea volcano located in the northeast Pacific Ocean. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) approach was used to determine if this group of subseafloor indicator organisms showed any phylogenetic distribution that may indicate distinct subseafloor communities at vents with different physical and chemical characteristics. Targeted primers for the Thermococcales 16S rRNA (small subunit ribosomal RNA) gene and intergenic transcribed spacer (ITS) region were designed and applied to organisms filtered in-situ directly from a variety of diffuse flow vents. Thermococcales were amplified from 9 of 11 samples examined, and it was determined that the ITS region is a better phylogenetic marker than the 16S rRNA in defining consistent groups of closely related sequences. Results show a relationship between environmental clone distribution and source vent chemistry. The most highly diluted vents with elevated iron and alkalinity contained a distinct group of Thermococcales as defined by the ITS region, suggesting separate subseafloor Thermococcales populations at diffuse vents within the Axial caldera.
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Keystone XL Pipeline, Texas Rep. Ted Poe blasted the Obama administration for delaying a final decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline at least a year, accusing the administration of being “at war with American energy production.”
Poe, R-Humble, said TransCanada Corp.’s proposed 1,700-mile pipeline for carrying tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas refineries could create thousands of domestic jobs and reduce U.S. oil imports from volatile Mideast nations. By delaying the decision, “we are just continuing down the road of high energy prices,” said Poe, whose district includes the Port Arthur region that has refineries that will receive the crude.
“The people I talk to feel like this administration is at war with American energy production,” Poe told Newsmax TV. “This is a perfect example.”
Environmentalists oppose the project because they say tar-sands oil is an especially dirty form of energy. They’re concerned that tar-sands oil takes more energy to extract than conventional oil, meaning more climate-warming greenhouse gases go into the air. They also are concerned the pipeline could spill and contaminate drinking-water supplies.
Poe said pipelines are “the safest way to transport crude oil in the whole world.”
“We have to get this oil to our refineries some way,” Poe said. “The environmentalists have not given us a solution except saying, ‘We don’t want this pipeline.’”
He added: “Why not trade with a stable partner rather than relying on Middle Eastern oil?”
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Lump in the thigh can be caused by a variety of conditions such as tumors, infections, trauma or inflammation. The cause of this lump will determine if it is painful, soft, firm, single or multiple. Simple remedies can help relieve certain symptoms, however, if the condition does not improve or you notice the symptoms getting worse, contact the doctor as quickly as possible to determine a more appropriate course of action.
Symptoms of Lump in Thigh
The root cause of this lump will help to determine the type of symptoms that accompany this condition. Evaluating these symptoms can help you and your doctor understand what might be causing this lump to appear so it can be accurately treated.
Pus, discharge, redness, warmth beneath the skin, bleeding, bruising, muscle weakness, muscle spasm, limited ability or an inability to move the leg and pain which may be a dull, burning, sharp, aching or stabbing sensation
May also be accompanied by lumps or other swelling throughout the body or a fever
Causes and Remedies of Lump in Thigh
In many cases the cause will be obvious based on the circumstances when the lump first appeared. In other cases you may need to evaluate your symptoms and work with your doctor to fully understand the root cause of your condition. It is important to treat both the root cause of your condition as well as any symptoms to ensure that you can minimize the chance of the lump growing, spreading or becoming worse.
Injury to the leg can case a lump to appear in the thigh. This might include hematoma, sprains, strains, bites or stings, contusions or fractures of the bone.
Hematoma is often treated with the RICE method or rest, ice, compression and elevation. Some believe that heat makes a good alternative to ice because it will encourage blood flow to the area. If your condition is causing pain, you can use over the counter medications to help manage this discomfort. Talk to your doctor if you are unsure what type of medication would be the most appropriate. For example, those taking anti-coagulation medications should use ibuprofen and those with liver disease should avoid acetaminophen.
An infection such as a boil, abscess, cellulitis or papillomavirus infection can cause lumps to appear in the thighs.
A simple boil can be managed with a hot pack or hot soak that will increase circulation to the area so your body can fight off the infection. Don’t try to open the boil if it is small and firm, but once it forms a head or becomes soft you should make a small opening to lance the boil. Larger boils should only be lanced by a medical professional. An abscess or boil should also be treated with antibiotics from your doctor to ensure that this infection will not spread to other areas of the body or the surrounding skin.
Benign or malignant tumors such as melanoma, fibroma, lioma, nevi, osteosarcoma or non-melanoma skin cancers can cause a lump to appear on the thigh or other parts of your body.
You should consult your medical physician for an MRI examination to determine what is causing this type of lump.
Life Threatening Conditions
Malignant tumors in the soft tissue or bone and osteomyelitis, a bone infection, can cause lumps to appear in the thighs.
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Voters long scared of the far right have grown bored of the centre
SINCE coming to power in 2007, Poland’s centrist Civic Platform (PO) party has notched up an unbroken string of victories in national elections. Voters unsettled by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party’s erratic performance in power from 2005 to 2007 apparently deemed it unelectable. That equation changed on May 24th, with the upset win of Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old PiS candidate, in Poland’s presidential contest. His defeat of the incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski by 51.5% to 48.5% points to widespread fatigue with PO. With a general election due this autumn, the question is whether Mr Duda won because of his own strengths as a candidate—or whether Polish voters are shifting from the centre to the right.
The heavily favoured Mr Komorowski, who ran a complacent campaign, was shocked after finishing second in the first round on May 10th. He made hasty efforts to recover before the run-off, scheduling a nationwide referendum on a proposal to switch the electoral system from party lists to single-member districts—a demand made by Paweł Kukiz, a former rock star who won 21% of the vote in the first round. Instead, Mr Komorowski dented his own credibility. Another desperate electoral gambit, to allow retirement after 40 years of work, was quietly withdrawn after his defeat.
Mr Duda, a little-known member of the European Parliament before PiS tapped him for the presidential race, proved a talented and energetic campaigner. (Indeed, the candidate did not seem to know when to stop: at 7am the morning after his election, he appeared at Warsaw’s central metro station to hand out steaming cups of coffee to passers-by.) Mr Duda presented himself as a moderate conservative, steering clear of the edgy nationalism critics associate with PiS.
Mr Duda’s calls for a more dynamic foreign policy also met with approval. Poland has become less visible on the international stage since the departure of Donald Tusk, the former prime minister who left to become president of the European Council, and his outspoken former foreign minister, Radek Sikorski. Mr Duda echoed PiS’s Eurosceptic slant and strong opposition to adopting the euro. But for the most part, he called for dialogue with opponents, promising that “the doors of the presidential palace will be open”.
Poland’s presidency is officially non-partisan, and Mr Duda has already announced his resignation from PiS. Centrists and liberals are concerned less about Mr Duda than about who stands behind him. Their chief worry is Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the veteran PiS leader and a former prime minister. (Mr Kaczynski’s twin brother, Lech, served as president before dying in a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010.) Critics fear that a PiS victory this autumn would herald a return to the domestic and international paranoia (particularly towards Germany) that marked its previous term. Mr Kaczynski’s response to Mr Duda’s victory has been evasive, prompting suggestions that he feels threatened by the younger, more popular politician.
Meanwhile, Mr Duda’s win presents a daunting challenge to Ewa Kopacz, the PO prime minister. Polish voters seem tired of the ruling party; Mr Duda won 60% of the under-30 vote. Faced with the smiling president-elect, PO’s well-worn strategy of scaring voters with the prospect of PiS’s return is less convincing. If Mr Kukiz, the former rock star, forms a political movement this summer, polls suggest he will take more votes from PO than from PiS.
Mr Komorowski’s loss has revealed cracks in the ruling party, which will only deepen over the summer. What was once its key asset, a promise of stability after the uncertainty of the post-communist years and two years of incompetent PiS government, is no longer enough, says Aleksander Smolar, head of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw. PiS will not be revitalised by just one new young star. But PO now “lacks leadership, a programme and the ability to offer hope,” says Mr Smolar. These qualities are hard to come by, and the clock is ticking.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Youthful conservatism"
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Ukraine needs to show progress on the battlefield. But its army may not be ready
Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for an attack behind enemy lines
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Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union resume months-long indirect talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal, even as international inspectors have acknowledged the Islamic Republic has begun a new expansion of its uranium enrichment.
The resumption of the Vienna talks, suddenly called yesterday, appears not to include high-level representation from all the countries part of Iran’s 2015 deal with word powers. That comes as Western officials express growing skepticism over a deal to restore the accord and the EU’s top diplomat has warned “the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.”
Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, has arrived in Vienna for the talks, Iranian state media reports. Tweets show he has met EU diplomat Enrique Mora. As in other talks, the US won’t directly negotiate with Iran, instead speaking through Mora.
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US Special Representative for Iran Rob Malley is also on hand, tweeting yesterday that “our expectations are in check.”
The US hasn’t had direct talks with Iran since then-president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018. Mora has also met Russian Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov, who has represented Moscow’s interests in the talks.
Going into the negotiations, Iran has laid out a maximalist stance. Through its state-run IRNA news agency, Tehran denies that it has abandoned its effort to get the US to delist its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization as a precondition to the talks. Meanwhile, IRNA also quotes Iran’s civilian nuclear chief as saying turned-off surveillance cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency only will be switched back on once the West abandons an effort to investigate manmade traces of uranium found at previously undisclosed sites at the country.
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Any owner would say yes. Here’s what the science says.
Dogs have behavioral and circulating hormone responses to the presence or absence of their owner — and in interacting with their owner — that parallel what we see when humans interact with other humans with whom they share a bond: close friends, family members, and children.
That suggests that biological correlates of the human-animal bond are similar — at least in some ways — to human-human bonds.
And we know that humans get very distressed if someone they care about and have a close bond with dies.
That’s one line of evidence. Another is that, phenomenologically, we can see examples of dogs that show evidence of distress when they’re separated from their owner even for a short period of time.
When the owner goes to work, a lot of dogs have separation anxiety.
Or if the owner does die, then dogs commonly exhibit distress that can take the form of destructive behavior or something that might look like reduced activity levels — what depression looks like in humans.
Dogs are a really unique window on how brains change across generations when there’s selection pressure on behavior.
One thing we don’t know is to what extent biological bonding mechanisms within a group of wolves are similar to the mechanisms that support bonding between dogs and humans.
Another thing we don’t fully understand is to what degree different dog breeds might have different patterns of bonding with humans.
It seems like a reasonable hypothesis. Some breeds of dogs have been selected for cooperative working behaviors with one individual human — really one-on-one cooperation.
Examples of that could be border collies, Australian shepherds, and other livestock herding dogs that interact closely with a human handling livestock.
Other breeds don’t have that cooperative working arrangement with a single human. A livestock guardian dog seems to form strong social bonds with the livestock rather than with the human. And then there are other breeds of dogs that have been developed for human companionship.
It’s possible that they might show different patterns of bonding, maybe less with one person and more with an entire household — but that’s speculation.
Aside from genetic differences across breeds, individual dogs’ histories of positive interactions with individual people must also play a big role.
From the basic science perspective, I think dogs are a really unique window on how brains change across generations when there’s selection pressure on behavior.
We have all these different breeds that have been selectively bred for different behavioral profiles, different types of cognitive abilities, different skills, and so forth.
And there’s nothing else really like that in the animal kingdom. Studying them is a way for us to understand brain evolution in a more precise way than we can get from studying any other species.
I think we’re at a point in dog research where we’re just starting to get empirical evidence of things that people who have interacted with dogs take as a given.
For example, there were a few papers over the past few years establishing that dogs experience jealousy, and I think anybody who’s ever had more than one dog in their house at once knows that that happens.
And this question — whether dogs would care if their human dies — is along the same lines. But it’s still important to get that empirical validation and not just go off of our gut understanding of how their minds are working.
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Return on investment is key for every corporation, organization, nonprofit, etc. With the profits generated, the investment of capital gets attractive and adds value to your business. Same goes with sponsorship programs. Nothing new there, right?
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Is there a way to display contour intervals in certain areas and a different contour interval in other areas? We want to show 1' contour intervals along some ridges and go to 5' contour interval for the drop in elevation to the valleys. The only way to do this with our current knowledge would be to draw certain boundaries around our desired 1' interval locations, break at that boundary, and then outside of said boundary delete all 'undesired' 1’ contours so only 5’ contours remain. Is there a better way? Thanks for your contributions and time.
To clarify...does anyone know of a software function that would allow to specify some sort of weeding tolerance when contours get too close to one another? It would be great if users could set a tolerance when the contours get to close to each other in a 2D plane, then the operation would weed interval contours and keep only index contours...i must be dreaming now. Any help would be a Godsend.
Perhaps there is only one solution and that is to edit these contours manually, 1x1, using boundaries to clip or break and delete. What we are currently doing is creating a boundary around the 1’ contours and breaking those at the boundary where we wish to transition to 5’ contours.
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I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have made a regular practice of going to a place, talking with strangers, and asking questions. I’ve gathered a few notes on my research for the course, what we’ve done, and what we’ve discussed.
The title of the workshop is based on the films of Swedish director, Vilgot Sjöman, I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and I Am Curious (Blue) (1968), both documentaries-within-films. In the opening scenes of I Am Curious (Yellow), Lena surveys passersby, microphone in hand, asking the question, “Do you believe Sweden has a class system?” Later, we see the director and his camera crew filming the documentary, but it is Lena’s intense curious energy that drives the film.
Another source of inspiration for the course was Hal Foster’s essay, “The Artist as Ethnographer” [in The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books, 1996)]. I have the vague suspicion that we may actually be performing the faux alterity or “outsideness” that he criticizes in applications of pseudo-ethnographic models in contemporary art practice. But sometimes you have to do wrong before you learn how to do right.
Artist Harrell Fletcher wrote a text called “Some Thoughts About Art and Education” (2007) based on his artistic practice and experience as a teacher. His observations about experiential education, the classroom environment, project research, and going on field trips, have influenced the way I approach teaching. For example, he writes:
I teach at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and I have a class currently where we started by having all of the students tell their life stories to everyone else. It took three classes to get through them all, but they revealed many interesting things that wouldn’t come out in more cursory introductions. Based on connections the students had we organized a series of field trips to places like a Veterans hospital, an alternative kindergarten, a campus fraternity, a high school geometry class, a Native American community center, a radio station, etc. From those experiences the students broke off into groups to develop projects like a radio show about grandmothers, and a lecture series in the frat house living room. Some of the field trips didn’t develop into projects, but were still valued as experiences. I like to think of this method as a way to lessen my role as the authority in the classroom and instead we share that role and all become collective learners.
On the first day of the workshop, I asked the students to tell me about their experience of the city of Nantes and the art school. They said that despite the school’s location in the heart of the town center, they felt isolated both from the public of Nantes as well as students from other universities. In France, college students typically focus on their area of study exclusively (e.g. law, biology, history) and that often determines their social circle.
Motivated by our conversation, we took a fieldtrip to the campus of the nearby Université de Nantes Faculté de Sciences et Techniques, the science and technical campus of the University of Nantes. One of the students said that they felt like tourists. By making the place “strange,” we were self-conscious of our role as outside observers. We noted that most of the students and faculty were walking briskly in the opposite direction as us, heading to the tramway for their lunch break.
One of the students became the de facto interviewer based on her outgoing personality and ease with approaching strangers. We approached a few young men hanging out by the entrance of the Resto Universitaire (cafeteria), who turned out to be students from the local lycée (high school) who come to the college campus to eat because they have trouble finding seats in their own cafeteria. We learned more about the university culture from a biology student and a mathematics student who were also waiting for the cafeteria to open. It was a modest exchange, but a step in the right direction.
The following week, a Grève Générale (general strike) took place in Nantes and across the nation in response to President Sarkozy’s planned policies of job reduction in the civil sector, budget cuts in education, and other proposals for increased privatization in France. Tens of thousands of people from different constituencies (unions, teachers, students, civil servants, hospital staff, and others) gathered for a demonstration and march in the city center.
Our workshop took place the day after the general strike. We discussed whether everything goes back to normal the day after a protest. This question is particularly relevant now because the French government has grown increasingly numb to the time-honored tradition of protest since its apotheosis in May 1968.
We took a field trip to the Préfecture, which is the main bureaucratic administrative office in the city of Nantes. People go there to apply for licenses and registration (e.g. for vehicles and hunting weapons), to register farm equipment, to seek asylum status, to process immigration and citizenship, etc. Basically, if you’re going to the Préfecture, you are going for a very specific reason. My students and I, on the other hand, went there with the intention to observe about the site and learn about the people who work there.
In the lobby, the waiting area was full of people who had been or would be waiting a long time for their number to be called. Their faces were expressionless and tension hung in the air. We decided to venture upstairs to find out about the other departments of the Préfecture. Compared to the waiting crowds downstairs, the upper levels were eerily quiet. The hallways were lined with closed doors with frosted glass windows and a sign indicating the function of the office.
We came across a sign that read “Éloignement,” which roughly translates to “remoteness” or “distance.” We weren’t sure what that meant exactly, so one of the students knocked on the door of the office. A woman opened the door and skeptically looked at the four of us and asked, “What do you want?”
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Lawyers in our firm continue to investigate violations of the False Claims Act across the country. A violation of the False Claims Act occurs when any person, business, or entity defrauds the federal government of the American taxpayers’ money. False Claims Act violations are generally reported by internal whistleblowers who step forward and do the right thing by reporting the fraud. Successful whistleblowers are entitled to a portion of the damages recovered by the federal government.
The majority of large Wall Street banks received a government bailout of taxpayers’ money as a result of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Without TARP funds, these large banks would have not survived the Great Recession. Despite receiving taxpayers’ money, several large banks are still conducting questionable and illegal mortgage practices that greatly contributed to the Great Recession and led the TARP Program in the first place.
One such bank is Citigroup. This big bank settled with the federal government and Sherry Hunt, former employee and whistleblower, in February 2012 for $158.3 million to resolve a False Claims Act case. Mrs. Hunt received $31 million out of the settlement paid by Citigroup for her role as the whistleblower.
Mrs. Hunt was a Vice President at Citigroup and was responsible for overseeing mortgage underwriters. Her duties included protecting Citigroup from fraud and bad investments. She witnessed mortgages with doctored tax forms, phony appraisals, missing signatures and other missing documents required by law. She witnessed this conduct before, during, and even after the financial crisis and into 2012. When Mrs. Hunt was asked to reduce her reports of defective loans, she refused to lie and decided to file a False Claims Act complaint. Five months later, in January 2012, the Justice Department intervened in her case and Citigroup settled within a month.
Citigroup, which took $45 billion in bailouts, along with the other big banks that took bailouts, must be held responsible and made to abide by U.S. securities laws and banking regulations. These Wall Street big banks, which only survived because of help from the average American on Main Street, can’t be allowed to continue to cheat and defraud taxpayers through their illegal mortgage practices. It’s bad enough that these banks were bailed out by taxpayers and are enriched by foreclosing on unfortunate homeowners, they now want to profiteer even more on those taxpayers’ backs by defying the laws and regulations designed to protect homeowners and ultimately the taxpayers.
Fortunately, the False Claims Act allows citizens who know of fraudulent schemes against the government the right to file a complaint and recover between 15% and 30% of the ultimate recovery. If you have any information regarding the rampant fraud occurring in the banking industry, healthcare industry, and government contracting, please let us know. Andrew Brashier, a lawyer in our firm, has been very busy investigating False Claims Act cases. He may be reached at 1-800-898-2034, or 334-269-2343 or Andrew.Brashier@BeasleyAllen.com.
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The British Royal Family appears to be the epitome of class and, in many ways, that is true. However, the royals have also had their fair share of scandal — especially when it comes to choosing suitors — beginning in the 1500s with King Henry VIII and his six wives right down to current day. The last century in particular has witnessed some of the most shocking royal relationships and that’s despite being under the strict Royal Marriage Act of 1772 and now the updated Succession to the Crown Act of 2013. It seems nothing can stop true love or, at least, forbidden love.
Let’s explore some of the most scandalous relationships from the past hundred years.
King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
According to BBC News, less than one month after American socialite Wallis Simpson divorced her second husband and after less than one year on the throne, King Edward VIII informed the Prime Minister of his intentions to marry Simpson. That went about as well as you might expect. Prime Minister Baldwin told King Edward VIII that the people would not accept Simpson as Queen. In return, the King informed Prime Minister Baldwin that he was prepared to abdicate the throne, but also proposed the idea of a morganatic marriage. This would mean he could remain as King but Simpson would not become Queen.
This plan was ultimately rejected and, in December of 1936, King Edward VIII did as he said he would and resigned as King. It is perhaps easiest to think of King Edward VIII as a man who gave up so much and you could ask, "For what?" For love and happiness, it seems.
In a BBC News interview with both Simpson and the former King nearly 32 years into their marriage, Simpson admitted, "I wish it could’ve been different but, I mean, I’m extremely happy." Later she reiterated, "We’ve been very happy," while reaching for her husband’s hand.
Princess Margaret and Captain Peter Townsend
If you’re a fan of the Netflix series The Crown, you may know a thing or two about Princess Margaret and Captain Peter Townsend. While the show is fictional, it is based on true stories. The show’s creator Peter Morgan has ample material. Morgan even called Margaret’s life "a terrific story" when interviewed by Radio Times.
According to The Telegraph, Margaret met Townsend when she was a teenager. He was nearly twice her age, married, and working for her father, King George VI, at the time. Townsend continued working for the family after Margaret’s father passed and he and his wife eventually divorced. Margaret, much like her Uncle Edward, fell in love with a divorcee, which was obviously quite scandalous! Soon, the press caught onto their secret relationship and, in an attempt to kibosh the rumors, Townsend was sent to work in Brussels.
In a letter to the Prime Minister in 1955, Margaret wrote, "[I]t is only by seeing [Townsend] in this way that I feel I can properly decide whether I can marry him or not. At the end of October or early November I very much hope to be in a position to tell you and the other Commonwealth Prime Ministers what I intend to do."
Ultimately, Margaret made the difficult decision not to marry Townsend. Margaret’s close friend Lady Mary Russell expounded on the decision in the article, "We still felt it wouldn’t be possible… for her in her position to marry Peter Townsend."
Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones
Some five years after deciding to let go of her love for Peter Townsend, Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, or Lord Snowdon, The New York Times details. Prior to getting married, the Cambridge-taught photographer and Princess Margaret dated for some time in secret.
Did Margaret finally get her happily-ever-after? Sadly, no. Margaret’s marriage to Armstrong-Jones dissolved just as her relationship with Townsend did. After 16 years of marriage and two children, the two separated.
With a legal separation, Margaret wouldn’t receive as much pressure to renounce her title as she would with divorce. Plus, a renouncement would mean she would no longer be entitled to her $70,000 (adjusted for inflation, that would roughly equal over $304,500 today) state allowance as well as all the other privileges that come with being fifth in line to the throne.
Two years later Margaret decided that, despite all of the possible repercussions, she did want a divorce after all. An excerpt from Ben Pimlot’s biography The Queen, reprinted by PBS, explains that times were beginning to change and The Church of England "treated her with gentleness." What a relief that must have been for Margaret.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana
Prince Charles and Princess Diana were often photographed together looking completely in love with one another. As it turns out, their relationship was a pretty scandalous facade.
Andrew Morton, author of the biography Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words — a book now known as having been made with full cooperation from Diana herself — wrote, "Her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 was described as a ‘fairytale’ by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the popular imagination, the Prince and Princess… were the glamorous and sympathetic face of the House of Windsor. The very idea that their ten-year marriage was in dire trouble was unthinkable — even to the notoriously imaginative tabloid press."
Dire trouble, indeed. Morton went on to tell what he learned about Diana, "It was like being transported into a parallel universe, the Princess talking about her unhappiness, her sense of betrayal, her suicide attempts and two things I had never previously heard of: bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder, and a woman called Camilla."
By royal standards, the two were a perfect match. However, it seems neither love nor happiness were present in their relationship. Cheating, however, was very much a part of their union.
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
In 1994, Prince Charles spoke publicly for the very first time about the end of his marriage to Princess Diana. After hemming and hawing for nearly a minute when asked about his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles and the impact that it may have had on his marriage, he called her a "great friend." Though, when asked later in the interview if he was faithful to Diana, he admitted he wasn’t.
A taped intimate phone conversation between Charles and Parker Bowles in 1993 supported his admittance of infidelity but also brought into question his relationship with Parker Bowles. The Mirror produced the transcript and published it in full. Some of it is too cringe-worthy to even share but one excerpt reveals that Camilla "can’t start the week" without Charles, who responded in turn, "I fill up your tank!" Charles also revealed that he "[needs Camilla] several times a week."
Eek! In 2005, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles became more than "great friends" and finally wed. According to The Times, the Queen gave her blessing on the arguably distasteful relationship. However, she chose not to attend the ceremony.
Princess Diana and other men
Prince Charles wasn’t the only unfaithful party in his marriage to Diana. Diana: In Pursuit of Love, another biography by Anthony Morton, revealed, "While she raged against her husband’s infidelity, she hid the fact that she had enjoyed a long if sporadic love affair with Captain James Hewitt from 1986 to 1990." According to the biography, at one point "… she had talked of buying a house in the country with her former love James Hewitt."
However, Hewitt wasn’t the only man with whom she considered running off. Per Diana, she also "fantasized about leaving England and buying a house in Italy with the art dealer [Oliver Hoare]." Her secret love affair with Hoare, much like her relationship with Hewitt, apparently lasted for four years.
In addition, Dianahad salacious phone calls of her own. In a leaked tape, a man by the name of James Gilbey can be heard calling Diana by the pet-name of "Squidgy" not once, not twice, but 53 times in one half-hour recording, according to The Telegraph.
Fidelity was apparently neither Charles nor Diana’s strong point.
Prince Andrew and Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson
Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson divorced the very same year as Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Much like Princess Margaret and her ex-husband, as well as Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Prince Andrew and Ferguson separated for a time before eventually calling it quits for good.
According to a profile of Ferguson with Harper’s Bazaar, Andrew and Ferguson split partially because of his demanding career. The newlyweds were only able to spend 40 nights a year together for the first five years of their marriage. It wouldn’t be difficult to understand if that’s why their marriage ended. However, work wasn’t the only thing tearing the two apart.
According to Diana, Ferguson had an affair with Steve Wyatt who is referred to in the biography as a "Texan playboy." Ferguson was later photographed in a compromising situation with another Texan, this time her financial advisor John Bryan. In an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, Ferguson recalled seeing the picture for the first time and thinking "Oh, no, Sarah."
"Oh, no, Sarah" is right.
Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence
According to BBC, Princess Anne and her husband Mark Phillips separated in the summer of 1989 and subsequently divorced in 1992. This means that all three children of Queen Elizabeth II are divorcees. As each child divorced, you can only imagine how the Queen must have reacted. Anne’s divorce was likely particularly troubling as she was involved in quite a scandalous affair.
While married to Phillips, Anne entered into a relationship with a man by the name of Timothy Laurence. He served the Queen in the same capacity as Margaret’s former love interest Captain Peter Townsend. BBC further explained that their relationship was outed when letters Laurence wrote to Anne were stolen from her briefcase and published by the press.
After officially divorcing Phillips, Anne and Laurence married in Scotland. As Prince Charles and Princess Diana had just separated, Diana did not attend the ceremony.
Prince William and Kate Middleton
Prince William and Kate Middleton are a great example of a modern royal couple. However, that doesn’t mean their relationship wasn’t scandalous.
Before the two wed, Middleton could be referred to as a "commoner." Essentially that just means she’s not from a royal family. The Washington Post pointed out that even as a commoner, she was "fabulously rich." Still, her social status was a point of contention. The article cites speculation that her standing as a commoner may have been why Prince William delayed proposing to Middleton for eight long years.
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We’ve all seen the First Aid kits you can buy at the store. Many of us have made our own. But does your child have one they can take to school without getting in trouble?
My kids go to public school. I like their schools, but there is no denying that public schools have a lot of crazy rules when eating a poptart into the wrong shape (a gun, in someone else’s opinion) can get a second grader suspended, even if that wasn’t the kid’s intention.
Signed forms are required for kids to get simple over the counter allergy medicine, and the school nurse has to dispense it. A “medicated” cough drop is considered medicine and kids are not allowed to have them at school or on a school bus.
A school nurse has to dispense cough drops. Seriously.
My son is very excited about emergency preparedness and wants to carry a First Aid kit wherever he goes, including school. Even in second grade, though, he knew he couldn’t have any medicine or sharp objects in school, so we set about making him a First Aid kit he could have at school.
All those crazy school rules make it harder to build a good First Aid kit. But it isn’t impossible to make school-friendly First Aid kit! It just requires thinking outside the box a bit.
Herbal remedies only require a few drops at a time, and aren’t considered medicine by the average school district. That helps a lot in creating a school acceptable First Aid kit.
A contact lens case is a great place to store liquids and gels! You can buy plastic bags in any size online. Another good option is a simple drinking straw, which you can get for free at restaurants. Melt the end closed, add the liquid or gel, cut the tube short, then seal the other end. Single use size! You can even buy straws in different colors so they are color-coded.
A homemade rehydration solution is 1/4 tsp of salt plus 3 teaspoons of sugar added to a half liter of water. If you read the previous link, you may notice that the amounts I listed are half of what they list. That is because half liter bottles of water are extremely common and it’s easier to carry two packets than try and guess how much half is if you make the full amount.
Also, little kids are, well, little. They really may just need a half liter.
Aloe gel is great for burns, including sun burns, but be aware that it can get sticky as it dries.
I would love to include essential oils, but really haven’t figured out a great, stable way to store them yet. I am uncomfortable with storing them in plastic, such as a straw, because they could easily interact with the plastic, altering their chemical composition or simply evaporating quickly.
If you have a great way to store and transport tiny amounts of essential oils, please share!
Non-Medicine to include:
- Aloe: for burns, including sunburn
- Honey: disinfect cuts (instead of Neosporin) – just make sure it’s raw, preferably local, honey
- Cayenne pepper: add 1 tsp to 1 cup warm water and drink to stop a heart attack; help wounds coagulate (stop bleeding)
- Rehydration solution: You can make your own with sugar and salt, or buy Pedialyte(TM) Powder if you think the school will be OK with it
- Essential oils: there are many articles on this, choose the ones to suit your child’s needs. Companies like Young Living sell individual packets that could be very easily packed in a first aid kit.
- Glucose tablets
- Hand sanitizer: can also be used to sanitize objects because of the high alcohol content, and definitely school accepted
- Salt for heat stroke
Bandages and More
There are some items that even schools allow. Bandages, for example. And tape.
- Bandages (the link goes to novelty bandages with mustaches, bacon, and more printed on them)
- Gauze pads
- Paper tape
- Plastic card, like a hotel room key, to remove stingers from bug bites
- CPR face shield: A very small child probably can’t use this, but it can be used on them and older children and teens can learn CPR.
- Non-latex gloves: Size small and large; small is for them to use; large is to be used ON THEM
- Finger splint: A popsicle stick and tape
- Vet wrap, in place of Ace bandages which have those terribly dangerous sharp, pointy closures (Hey, if a cough drop is dangerous, those must nearly be lethal weapons!) – Bonus: you can choose a fun color!
- Super Glue for closing wounds
- Small children’s safety scissors: They provide those in classrooms, after all, so they can’t be a danger.
- Toothbrush: Use this to debride a wound
- Syringe: irrigate a wound (I use free ones that come with medication.)
- Face mask
- Tick key
- Lanyard: part of a sling
- Electrical tape: It sticks to itself but not skin, making it great to hold gauze pads, splints, etc. in place for relatively short times
Non-Medical Emergency Items
Some items are just good to have in an emergency. These have many uses, including potentially being cut up.
- LED flashlight, preferably of the winding variety
- Silver emergency blanket
- Rain poncho
- Duct tape
- Lotion or oil – generally of the cooking oil variety, to help if a finger gets stuck somewhere it shouldn’t be
- Signal mirror
- Ear plugs: this is mostly because one of mine is very sensitive to loud noise
- Whistle: In an emergency like a tornado where a child could be trapped, this is useful for alerting emergency workers.
There’s a good chance your school won’t allow these, but some may. It’s worth checking.
- EMT Shears – scissors that, realistically, are less likely to hurt someone than even kindergarten scissors
- Safety pins – small ones, not big horse blanket sized (although those are a great addition to a regular emergency kit or a car kit), although it’s possible schools will have an issue with this
I bought 500 small plastic bags on Amazon. In addition to Lego, they have a ton of items in our First Aid Kits. I use a sharpie to label them, but it does sometimes wear off if it gets damp. For medicine, especially herbal remedies others may not know, I write instructions on the bags as well.
Now, put them all together in a bag. Personally, I currently favor something similar to a lunch box because, unlike a bright red First Aid kit, no one will ever even notice it, and my son loves eating school lunches. If your child is a regular lunch packer, you could simply use either an old lunch box or one they don’t like to help keep them from grabbing it by accident. Another option is a pencil box.
If you prefer, you can use one of little red First Aid bags you can pick up in any pharmacy section.
Voila! A first aid kit for your child, or for your travels.
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Being a psychology major
and, at the time, attending a large university
, I found it amusing to do things in the elevator
that would make people uncomfortable. Usually these were little things:
Standing with my nose almost touching the doors
- Leaning against the doors
- Facing the back
- Invading the other riders space
- Pushing all the buttons before anyone else gets on then blaming the people who just got off (even if there wasn't anyone)
Basically breaking every rule of elevator etiquette
As fun as this is, one time I actually had a cooperating passenger. I was in the lift in the library when I felt it slow prior to my floor. I turned and stood facing the corner of the small stainless steel box, like I was in time-out. Two people got on, the first took one look at me then went and stood in the other corner, much to my delight. The second person, who evidently did not know the first, became extremely uncomfortable standing unusually close to the doors and fidgeting anxiously. She got off at the next floor.
When she was gone I introduced myself to my unnamed accomplice, and we congratulated ourselves on a job well done. The great part about this event was that I was not in the minority. The "odd one," at least numerically, was the person who knew she was "normal," yet she was outnumbered. I can only imagine the feedback loop that was going on inside her little brain.
The best one I heard about was when some of the sociology students had a picnic in the over-sized elevators of the social behavioral sciences building.
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Re: Why the music is music and the noise is noise?
"Music is often perceived as
disturbing AS LONG AS it REMAINS ALLIED TO noise."
is slightly better in English, although Christian is right about the
impossibility to faithfully render the German meaning -- forget the rhythm...
At 01:12 AM 4/24/01 -0700, Jeff Bilmes wrote:
Here's one lossy (noisy) translation: "Music is often perceived as
disturbing because it is always associated with noise."
In the message dated Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:00:49 +0200
Christian Kaernbach <chris@PSYCHOLOGIE.UNI-LEIPZIG.DE> writes:
> Musik wird stoerend oft empfunden,
> weil sie stets mit Geraeusch verbunden.
> - Wilhelm Busch -
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ALL ABOUT EYES FOR KIDS
Did you know that your eye works like a camera that transmits pictures to the brain? Your brain processes what you are seeing. The light passes through the lens of your eye and is recorded in the retina in the back of your eye.
Your retina has two cells called rods and cones. The rods see black and white and the cones see color. They work together to turn the pictures you see with your eyes into electronic messages for the brain. Sometimes people can’t see all the colors and that is called color blindness. There is a blind spot on your retina which is not sensitive to light because there are no rods or cones there. It is the spot where the optic nerve is joined on to the retina. The optic nerve carries the electronical messages to the brain.
Dr. Cheri Wiggs has a fun video that explains to kids how their eyes work. Answering questions like, “Why is it harder to see colors at night?” or “What happens with your eyes when you go to sleep?”
Ask a Scientist: Eyes at Night video produced by National Eye Institute, NIH
Eyebrows and eyelashes help to keep the dust sweat from getting into your eyes. Tear glands located in the upper eye help to keep your eye clean and moist.
Our eyes are very important and we need to take care of them. Staring at a computer screen too long without a break can cause your eyes to become dry and sore. Be sure to take breaks often to give your eyes a rest.
Many of you play sports. Protective eye wear should be part of your uniform when you suit up. These glasses will help to prevent permanent injury should you get hit in the face with a baseball, hockey puck, soft ball or soccer ball.
Having an annual eye exam will alert your parents to any changes in your eyesight that may affect your ability to play sports or do well in school. If you begin to experience headaches or can’t see the board as clearly, tell your parents. Your eyes are important so we need to do everything possible to take care of them.
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In this the very first lesson in the course we're going to start Excel and open a new blank workbook.
Excel 2013 is available for two operating systems Windows 7 and Windows 8. There may even be a Windows 9 or a Windows 10 by the time you watch this video. Very few users of Windows 7 will have any difficulty opening Excel, but Windows 8 can cause some confusion.
The Windows 8 screen you're looking at now has just been installed on this computer. As you can see the Excel 2013 tile is nowhere to be seen, so I'm going to start typing on the keyboard EXC, and you can see that, on my computer at least, an Excel 2013 program icon has appeared. On your own computer you might have to type a few more letters or even some other numbers.
If you don't see the Excel 2013 program icon that's because Excel 2013 hasn't been installed on your computer yet.
But assuming that you do see the program icon I'm now going to add it as a tile to the main screen, to do that I point to the icon with the mouse and then right click. I'm then going to click Pin to Start from the Shortcut Menu.
Now nothing seems to have happened but we actually have added an Excel 2013 tile to the screen.
I'm now going to click on a blank area of the main screen and you still can't see Excel 2013. That's because it's over to the right hand side out of view. So I'll point to the Scroll Bar at the bottom of the screen and click with the left mouse button and drag to the right, and there's the Excel 2013 tile.
I'm now going to drag that tile to the left hand side of the screen. So I click and hold the left mouse button on the Excel 2013 tile and then drag it to the left hand side.
I'm now going to drop it right here on the left hand top corner. When I need to open Excel in the future, all I'll have to do now is to click on my new tile.
So I'll click on my new tile now to open Excel 2013. I point to the tile and click with the left mouse button.
From now on I'll simply use the term Click when I mean left click because the left button is the button you'll use most of the time. I'll only say right click when you need to click the lesser used right mouse button.
Now that Excel 2013 has started, Excel needs to know whether you want to create a new workbook or whether you want to open a workbook that was created earlier.
When creating a new workbook, Excel also offers to give you a flying start by using a template. Templates are sample workbooks that you can adapt and modify for your own needs. The idea is very good but in reality templates are not usually a good choice as it can take longer to adapt them to your true needs than to design from scratch.
You'll be learning a lot more about templates in Session 3 when you'll create your own custom templates that are very useful indeed.
But for now we're simply going to create a blank workbook. So I click on the blank workbook template and Excel opens a blank workbook for me. Let's keep this workbook open for the next lesson.
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One of the main goals of Neurdon, since its very beginnings, was to educate readers to tell apart fiction from reality. Nowadays, big companies are diving (or dive-bombing) in the field of neural computing with hyperbolic claims of being able to simulate biological brains, from feline to humans. One of such a claim comes, again, from IBM. This is the truth behind what IBM calls "cognitive computer". Read the rest of this entry »
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One of the major themes in the SyNAPSE project is developing chips that can learn meaningful information, and preserve it over time. In other words: memristors can learn, but we need to ensure that they are stably learning something useful for the system they are embedded in.
Some help to solve this technological problem comes from neuroscience. The question of how can the cerebral cortex develop stable memories while at the same time incorporating new information through an organism lifetime has been a central theme in many research groups. The talk posted on Neurdon describes one of these approaches. Read the rest of this entry »
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I'm a 4th-year PhD student in the Institute of Cognitive Science at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. When I entered the program, I was mostly interested in AI and evolutionary algorithms. I wanted to evolve a Go-playing program. But my interests shifted, especially in my first year when I read Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence. I thought it was great stuff, and I liked two things central to his framework: 1) The temporal aspect of cognition, and 2) The crucial role of feedback. He made a convincing case that every modality and skill is essentially a matter of learning and processing sequences. So that's where I started focusing my attention. Read the rest of this entry » | <urn:uuid:7db99ab8-28f9-4680-9674-30fec5b19925> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.neurdon.com/tag/stdp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00052-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955794 | 380 | 1.960938 | 2 |
THE leaders of the 28 EU countries and Turkey have unanimously reached a landmark deal aimed at halting illegal migration to Europe.
Under the controversial agreement, new migrants arriving in Greece from Sunday who do not qualify for asylum will be sent back to Turkey in operations paid for by the EU.
In the “one in, one out” deal, for every illegal migrant that Turkey accepts, the EU would resettle one Syrian refugee from Turkish camps, amid the biggest migration crisis since World War Two.
There is a target figure of 72,000 Syrians to be distributed among European states.
The aim is to reduce the incentive for Syrian refugees to board dangerous smugglers’ boats to Europe, as around 4,000 people have drowned while trying to cross the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
Following the two-day summit, Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the agreement, saying it could “significantly” reduce numbers of migrants crossing the eastern Mediterranean to enter Greece by boat.
And Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called it an “historic day”.
But there are doubts over whether the plan is within the law or workable, with Germany’s leader Angela Merkel admitting the pact will have setbacks and legal challenges.
The EU will also offer Turkey – currently home to 2.7 million Syrian refugees – up to 6bn euros (£4.6bn) in aid, faster EU membership talks and visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to the EU.
Last year, around a million migrants and refugees entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece and tens of thousands of others have arrived in 2016.
More than 46,000, who want to go to Germany and other richer nations, are currently trapped in Greece as their northern route is blocked after Austria and several Balkan countries stopped letting refugees through.
Greece wants refugees to move from the Idomeni camp by the Macedonian border to organised shelters.
European Council president and summit chairman Donald Tusk made the announcement of a deal in a tweet.
He wrote: “Now unanimous agreement between all EU HoSG (Heads of State or Government) and Turkey’s PM on EU-Turkey Statement.”
After a morning of talks with Mr Davutoglu, Mr Tusk recommended the 28 EU member states approve the text without changes and they rapidly agreed at a summit lunch in Brussels.
“Agreement with Turkey approved. All illegal migrants who arrive to Greece from Turkey starting March 20 will be returned!” Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka tweeted from inside the meeting.
Sky’s Senior Political Correspondent Sophy Ridge said whatever was agreed on paper may not deter the wave of desperate refugees on the move.
“Leaders may be desperate for a deal, but many think its unenforceable, some even illegal,” she said.
“The concerns over visa-free travel for Turks won’t go away. Turkey’s price, they say, is simply too high.”
She added: “The aim of this summit was to break the traffickers’ business model and to send a message that the unofficial routes to Europe will no longer work.
“But these are desperate refugees, and if one route closes to them they may make other, more perilous, journeys.” SkyNews
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It was during
Verdi’s presence in Paris for the production of Les Vêpres
siciliennes that he accepted a commission from the Teatro
la Fenice in Venice for the 1856-57 season. He decided on
the subject of Simon Boccanegra, based like Il Trovatore on
a play by Gutiérrez. It was an ideal subject for Verdi, involving
a parent-child relationship and revolutionary politics in
which the composer had always involved himself in occupied
Italy. Given the political background of the subject, and
despite the action being set in 14th century Genoa,
the Censors gave Verdi and his librettist, Piave, a hard time.
The composer held out and the opera was premiered on 12th
March 1857. It was, in Verdi’s own words ‘a greater fiasco
than La Traviata’, whose failure could be attributed to casting
and was quickly reversed. The critics of the time wrote about
the gloomy subject matter and the lack of easily remembered
arias and melodies. A production at Naples went better but
that at La Scala in 1859 was a bigger fiasco than Venice.
The composer had moved his musical idiom much too far for
his audiences and he wrote ‘The music of Boccanegra is
of a kind that does not make its effect immediately. It is
very elaborate, written with the most exquisite craftsmanship
and needs to be studied in all its details’. Verdi’s regard
for his composition, and he was his own sternest critic, meant
that although the work fell into neglect, the possibility
of revision and revival was never far from his mind. In 1880
Verdi had written nothing substantial since his Requiem in
1874 and nothing operatic since Aida ten years earlier. His
publisher, Ricordi, raised the subject of a re-write of Boccanegra.
Although in private he was seriously considering Boito’s proposals
for an Otello opera, in public he gave the impression that
he had hung up his pen. When Ricordi told Verdi that Boito
himself would revise the libretto the composer agreed to undertake
the task and the secret project codenamed ‘chocolate’, in
fact Otello, was put on hold. The revision was a triumph at
La Scala on March 24th 1881 and it is in this later
form that we know the opera today. This is the version featured
on this recording. When reviewing Opera Rara’s issue of a
1976 BBC performance of the original version (link),
I noted the claim that the performance was the first time
the original had been heard for over 100 years!
a major revision of the dramatic aspects of the score of Boccanegra
whilst leaving the more lyrical passages largely unchanged.
A major change was the addition of the Council Chamber Scene
which is the crowning glory of the revision (CD 1 trs13-17
). It is a scene of high drama into which Verdi poured his
mature genius and which makes considerable demands on the
baritone singing the eponymous role. There are two outstanding
recordings of the 1881 version, the most modern, marvellously
conducted by Abbado (1977 on DG), features Cappuccilli as
Boccanegra in one of his best recorded portrayals associated
as it was with staged performances at La Scala. The other
has Tito Gobbi as the Doge matched by the implacable Fiesco
of Christoff. Gobbi’s biting characterisation is unsurpassed,
but the 1958 mono recording now sounds rather dated and Santini’s
conducting lacks fire.
In this recording
Leo Nucci as Boccanegra cannot match Cappuccilli for tonal
weight, breadth of phrase or characterisation. In the Council
Chamber scene his Boccanegra does not dominate the assembled
patricians and plebeians (CD 1 tr. 16). Nor is there any tingle
factor when he calls Paolo’s name as Gabriele keeps his sword
(tr. 17). Here as elsewhere Solti’s conducting is curiously
uninvolved. He seems to have little feeling for the score
in either its dramatic or lyrical moments such as the lovely
opening of act one and Amelia’s Come in quest’ora bruna (CD
1 trs. 6-7). His renowned brio and dramatic thrust are lacking,
the effect highlighted by the rather flat recorded ambience.
The DG recording, made in the CTC Studio, Milan, in January
1977, has much greater warmth and presence.
It is perhaps
adding further injury to state that none of the other principal
soloists is a match for their DG counterparts. I must also
note that the printed libretto and English translation provided
is taken verbatim from the DG issue and acknowledged as such.
What is not stated is that this performance has brief cuts
here and there. Its total timing matches that of the 1973
recording on RCA conducted by Gavazzeni and is around eleven
minutes shorter than the more complete EMI and DG issues.
The only virtue of this is that the Council Chamber scene
is not split over the two discs.
might have filled a hole in the Decca catalogue of Verdi operas.
It has few other virtues that I can find, even without the
comparison of Abbado’s excellently sung, recorded and played
performance, also now at mid price. This performance will
not find space on my shelves alongside the other versions
referred to. I find little to commend in it.
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I recently came across an old (read: year 2000) paper which had a rubric for assessing the level of interactivity in an online course by Rablyer and Erkhaml at the State University of West Georgia: How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses? A Rubric for Assessing Interaction in Distance Learning.
With a quick Google search I discovered that the authors updated this rubric four years later in an article published to the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks.
Have a look at the newer rubric in this paper. I think it is pretty good. It focuses on five major elements that contribute to interactivity:
- Social and Rapport-building designs
- Interactivity in the Instructional Design of the course
- Interactivity with the Technology Resources
- Evidence of Learner Engagement
- Evidence of Instructor Engagement
I took the opportunity to run a recent course that I designed through the rubric and noted that this course scored approximately 18 out of a maximum 25 points. A score of 18 just barely places this course into the “High Interactive Qualities” category (range of 18-25). This rubric also helped me see where there is ‘room for improvement’ in the interactivity in this course. Run your course through this rubric to see where it lands. Let me know if you find this rubric useful and/or if you know of any other rubrics that assess interactivity in a distance course. | <urn:uuid:5a42b214-f150-456f-b716-13613cd88d65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://erictremblay.blogspot.com/2007/02/is-your-online-course-interactive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932809 | 300 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Contributed to by Anne, Cristina, and Heather The Deerfield Public Library stands with the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) in its recent statement condemning ongoing anti-Asian hate crimes that have permeated our country over the past year. Our Library strives to be a place of safety, inclusion, and diversity.
The Deerfield Public Library stands with the American Library Association’s recently released statement condemning racism and with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s statement condemning increased violence and racism towards Black people and all People of Color. Our Library strives to be a place of safety, inclusion, and diversity.
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It is a simple diagram. It got the name fishbone as the pattern of the diagram- with the issue at the head and the factors at the spine have.
The name associated with the fishbone diagram is.
The name is associated with the fishbone diagram. The Fishbone Diagram Template PowerPoint is a graphical representation of the various steps of an extensive complex process leading it to final results or can be used to showcase the multiple causes of a particular problem. Even though the foundation of developing on the actual diagram is to enhance the quality this method can be useful in evaluating different business operations like discovery of factors discovery of bottlenecks within the production operation development of numerous operations etc. Assessing the financial return of investments in quality.
This tool is used in order to identify a problems root causes. B evaluating defect. The Process Map See Appendix B Figure 1 illustrates.
The importance of the FBD is that it uses visual power to highlight the problems and the relationship between problems and their potential sources. A Deming B Crosby C Juran D Ishikawa E Taguchi 16 CORRECT The letters ROQ relate to. The Fishbone Diagram is a diagram-based technique used in brainstorming to identify potential causes for a problem thus it is a visual representation of cause and effect.
A fishbone diagram is helpful in a root cause analysis because it organizes information in a consistent way that makes sense. Cause Effect is a diagram-based technique that helps you identify all of the likely causes of the problems youre facing. Kaoru Ishikawa an innovator in quality management.
Fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram is a modern quality management tool that explains the cause and effect relationship for any quality issue that has arisen or that may arise. Like 5-Whys and Brainstorming which can be used to develop the bones the technique is simple to learn and apply. The issues are usually a result of one of more of causes related to people equipment methodology material environment or measurement.
With that said you need a team of different experience and specialisms to come. The other name of the cause and effect diagram is the fishbone diagram. Identify the areas broad level categories to be studied and branch them from the backbone.
Possible causes of the problem are listed on the individual bones of the fish. The letters ROQ relate to. Managers mostly use the Ishikawa diagram or the cause and effect diagram as a tool in finding out the deviations that are necessary to detect for business expansion.
A visual display that includes. The central horizontal line ends with the effect which is usually a quality related problem. A cause and effect diagram is used to examine the.
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Business Researcher Says Mismanagement and Bad Design Are Causing Signup and Supply Snafus at State, Local Levels
A member of the Georgia National guard helps manage traffic at a COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the Delta Flight Museum on Monday in Atlanta. Bad design and IT management at the federal level is slowing the nation's vaccination effort, a UMD researcher says.
Although the White House announced last week the U.S. was vaccinating 1.7 million people daily for COVID-19, public health experts have pegged 3 million shots a day as a better target for effectively controlling the pandemic and tamping down the spread of newer and more virulent strains.
So what’s dragging down the nation’s vaccination program? One obstacle is a mishmash of IT structures that suffer from “mismanagement and poor design” at the federal level and contribute to disjointed state and local efforts, said Henry C. Lucas, the Robert H. Smith Professor of Information Systems Emeritus.
“Apparently few lessons were learned from Healthcare.gov—the previous, huge public-facing information systems failure” that in 2013 resulted in endless waits for people trying to access the online insurance marketplace, Lucas said.
Early in the coronavirus pandemic last year, the federal focus was entirely on vaccine development, leaving planning vaccine administration to the states—a mistake.
“Systems planning should have started as soon as the nation realized the pandemic in early 2020,” Lucas said. “As a result, the country is confronted with a patchwork of systems cobbled together at state and local levels that require work-arounds to function.”
The patchwork has a number of components, and they frequently don’t play well together, he said:
The integrated federal system that’s sorely needed would work differently, tracking vaccine allocation to states, including shipping instructions to FedEx and UPS, all the way down to state allocations and distribution to each vaccination site, he said. A comprehensive system would also keep track of the vaccine lot and the location for each inoculation as well as any reactions to the vaccine.
It would allow for different prioritization approaches and algorithms for prioritizing recipients for each state and territory, and put the states in charge of registration for citizens to make appointments for vaccination at different sites. The system would also maintain records of which vaccine was used, lot numbers, locations and any adverse reaction for each patient, and tally state totals for inoculations and remaining inventory.
Designing such a system would require “a designated team to gather system requirements from all types of eventual users of systems, including the CDC, HHS, state and county governments, public health departments, and medical personnel and staff who operate vaccination sites, as well as people who will register and receive vaccinations,” Lucas said.
Although creating the system would be a challenge, it would be no more complex than other tracking and coordination systems in use by manufacturers, shippers and distributors, he said.
Lucas notes that several successful tech firms have volunteered to help with the COVID vaccination effort.
“How much better might IT support for vaccination be if the development team included people from Google, Amazon and Microsoft?” he said. “They have built impressive websites for various kinds of transactions and have expert knowledge of the Internet and cloud computing.”
It would come down to good design and responsible decision-making, Lucas said.
“The United States should be able to do better than its efforts to date to vaccinate the population against COVID-19,” he said.
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Ginkgo Bioworks sounds kind of like a mad science lab of the future. The Boston-based biotech company is currently working on a project with DARPA to treat antibiotic-resistant germs, using designer microbes to convert CO2 emissions into fuel and is somehow making yeast smell like roses.
Bioworks co-founder Jason Kelly considers these projects, and many others, the future of the pharmaceutical industry. “The designer organisms we create are solving a supply problem,” he says. “Instead of going to the agriculture industry or pharma we will eventually just use organisms.”
Kelly says this is the main reason he and his co-founders started Ginkgo while at MIT. The four students began discussing how inefficient it was to program microbes. It was too slow and tedious to make any real dent. It was also a good reason biotech didn’t get the kind of funding that other tech was used to. So they switched things up, added robotics and created the first organism engineering foundry. Their “organism engineers” now take DNA sequencing from nature and basically create designer microbes that can actually replace technology with biology. | <urn:uuid:535e703f-5e1a-46b2-bbdb-d793a1c90eff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/why-the-first-yc-backed-biotech-company-ginkgo-bioworks-yc-s14-may-just-be-the-future-of-pharma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.965491 | 238 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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