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The Estonian Press Council (Pressinõukogu) is a voluntary body of media self-regulation to handle complaints from the public about material in the media. The Council provides the public with a possibility to find solutions to disagreements with the media without the need to go to court. The Press Council discusses complaints about material that has appeared in the press, in online portals with journalistic content, and on public service broadcasting stations. No longer than three months must have passed since the material appeared. The handling of complaints is free of charge and quick - the Council meets once a month. The Council Statute can be seen here.
The Estonian Press Council has ten members, including six from the media sector and four lay members from the non-media sectors. The Press Council has a rotating chairman.
The Estonian Press Council (Pressinõukogu) was set up in 2002 by the Estonian Newspaper Association. In 2003, the main online news portals agreed to stick to the standards set by the Press Council regarding journalistic content of these sites. In 2005, the public service Estonian Radio and Estonian Television joined the system and Press Council members are also online-portal Delfi and commercial broadcasters Kanal 2 and TV 3, BNS, radio Kuku and Tallinn TV.
Estonian Press Council
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Edition 302 – Shortages
It started out with computer chips. A worldwide shortage that has had everyone from electronics companies to car manufacturers scrambling to solve the problem.
Next up was timber. I’m surprised at that in Australia, but it appears there’s currently a shortage of timber for the construction industry. As new house builds are a leading economic indicator, it will be interesting to see how this impacts not only the the building industry, but the economy as a whole.
A few weeks back, a client informed me the next shortage that is coming is for silicon. I must have looked stunned when he mentioned it to me, because he proceeded to explain just how much our lives relied on silicon. From water sealing to iPad covers, it’s incredible the widespread impact of something that most of us take no interest in whatsoever.
Today’s missive is not a rundown of what shortages are happening next. It’s about family business owners and managers taking a moment to stop and consider:
- What would happen if a key ingredient in your business all of a sudden was in short supply?
- What alternative products can you source to overcome any short supply of a key product?
- What impact will shortages and any possible replacements have on your budget bottom line and, therefore, on your current and future pricing?
- What delays to your current and future projects could you experience and what does that mean in terms of business performance and contractual obligations.
In September 2021, Toyota had to cut global production by around 40%, so impacted was the world’s second largest car company by computer chip shortages. In hard numbers, that’s 360,000 vehicles it couldn’t manufacture in the month of September alone. To put that in perspective, that’s about one third of the total annual car sales of the entire Australian new car market.
My guess is that most small and family businesses could not handle a 40% reduction in their output due to any factor outside of their control. Whilst the pandemic has created the greatest disruption over the past two years, the various Government COVID 19 support packages have helped to insulate most businesses against the impact of lockdowns and the associated uncertainty.
In my opinion, there is an extreme possibility that the shortages opening up in many areas of the market today will create the most significant financial impact on most businesses over the next 12 months to two years.
If you’re the owner or manager of a family business, what are you are doing to “war-game” the consequences of supply shortages in your business – and how long you can sustain the disruption?
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Having two chains purporting to be the "real Bitcoin chain" will be really messy, and I think the market will avoid taking that step unless the subsidy ends up being very wrong. It could happen, though. I'd prefer to anticipate the future market as much as possible in order to avoid that.
Won't the market regulate the fee by itself and provide enough computational power in doing so?
Not really. The block subsidy is a mandatory tax on all bitcoins, whereas the transaction fee is controllable by senders.
Right now the network is paying for 50 BTC of mining per block (not counting fees). If we instead pay 25 BTC per block, then we will get less computation, and we will be that much more vulnerable to attack. The reduction in computation happens because everyone who does not make 25 BTC of profit right now is eliminated after the reduction.
If there is no subsidy, then there will need to be 500 transactions (with 0.01 fees) per minute for the network to get the same amount of computation that a 50 BTC subsidy would buy. Otherwise, the computation provided by miners will be reduced because blocks will be worth less and people will be eliminated from the market.
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Health informatics -- Privilege management and access control -- Part 2: Formal models
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This standard has been revised by: ISO 22600-2:2014
ISO/TS 22600-2:2006 is intended to support the needs of healthcare information sharing across unaffiliated providers of healthcare, healthcare organizations, health insurance companies, their patients, staff members and trading partners. It is also intended to support inquiries from both individuals and application systems.
ISO/TS 22600-2:2006 supports collaboration between several authorization managers that may operate over organizational and policy borders.
ISO/TS 22600-2:2006 introduces the underlying paradigm of formal high level models for architectural components based on ISO/IEC 10746. In that context, the Domain Model, the Document Model, the Policy Model, the Role Model, the Authorization Model, the Delegation Model, the Control Model and the Access Control Model are introduced.
Document published on: 2006-08 Edition: 1 (Monolingual) ICS: 35.240.80 Status: Withdrawn Stage: 95.99 (2014-09-22) TC/SC: ISO/TC 215 Number of Pages:
Revised by: ISO 22600-2:2014
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Increasingly, it is becoming fashionable for mental health agencies and practitioners to become “trauma-informed.” Ostensibly, this is a good thing. But what is happening in reality is far from ideal.
There is a pressing need to understand how things such as abuse, poverty, oppression, injustice, racism, and other adversity impact our mental health and overall well-being. Common sense, of course, would tell us that it essentially drives a person mad over time. But in this day and age common sense is perceived as juvenile or less-than “science.”
Regardless, it’s imperative that any person or system in a helping position consider the context of suffering and what has happened in a person’s life that led to his or her current state of mind.
The thing is, this is time-consuming, complex, highly subjective, and individual — everything the system is designed against.
What appears to happen in reality when an organization or individual clinician becomes “trauma-informed” is that old formulas simply get re-mixed with all the trauma ingredients and check-boxes and with none of the actual meaning. It becomes yet another way to advance one’s career and feel good about oneself while pretty much doing nothing different. It’s once again about boxing-in human beings being human beings.
Of course, this is not universal — there are many dedicated genuine trauma-informed programs and workers out there that do help many. This article is not about them. But if you’re uncomfortable reading this or find yourself feeling defensive, it might be about you.
The following is a glimpse into the numerous ways in which mainstream services and trauma specialists within this mainstream are perpetuating harm while patting themselves on the back for being so progressive and aware.
Ignores invisible “trauma”
Perhaps one of the more problematic ways that studies of “trauma” have impacted larger society is the implicit message that if an experience is not considered traumatic by the DSM, then it isn’t “bad enough” to cause a person to suffer intensely and greatly.
The DSM specifically describes trauma as either directly experiencing or witnessing some life-threatening event, such as violence, war, or sexual assault.
Witnessing or experiencing literal threats of death is horrible. But what is considered to be life-threatening to a two-year-old is very different than to a 22-year-old. And what threatens our psyches on an existential level is not always tangible or easily identifiable.
What overwhelms the body’s capacity to cope or what leaves a person in a chronic stress state may not be an overt event like assault.
Take ostracism, for example. Being ignored, disliked, and left out, no matter how subtle, can be a death sentence for some. It can be more painful and more damaging than physical bullying or abuse. Yet, in the world of the DSM and mental health professionals, it barely counts at all. It’s just not bad enough.
Smoking cigarettes is vastly different than taking a gun to my head. But both are likely to kill me at some point.
In the 1960s and 70s, family-systems-oriented therapists seemed to grasp a pretty good understanding of the toxic and insidious effects of covert interpersonal dynamics, such as gaslighting, double-binds, and scapegoating. It was understood that psychological dysfunction tended to exist within the complex family or social system rather than within any one individual, even if one individual might take on the symptoms, so to speak, for the whole.
This complexity and holistic view has been lost in the age of diagnosis and individual disease, even within family therapy. Because none of these destructive dynamics count as trauma and, certainly, are nearly impossible to measure or capture on a questionnaire, they somehow become irrelevant or triggers of underlying disease.
The mental health and trauma fields have come to a place where, essentially, if something cannot be easily identifiable and measurable, it apparently doesn’t matter.
Questionnaires and manualized treatments commodify life experience
Just because something cannot be boiled down to a simplistic question and measured on a 5-point Likert scale does not mean that it doesn’t count.
No one can truly capture experiences of chronic oppression, microaggressions, or the struggle of injustice with an arbitrary rating scale. Not everything can be quantified. This doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist or profoundly affect those who experience such adversities.
What ends up happening is that if something cannot be conveniently measured and statistically manipulated, it’s either seen as somehow inferior to “real science” or is ignored altogether.
Qualitative research, which is based on the subjective and attempts to capture nuanced narratives, is predictably criticized by those who believe themselves to be serious scientists. In theory, quantitative research is supposed to be objective, unbiased, demonstrating new discoveries rather than common sense, reliable or consistent across studies and investigators, formalized, generalizable, and valid.
This is what social sciences value — predictability,lack of complexity, lack of subjectivity or emotion, and robotic-like formulas.
Yet, consider that the simple use of different statistical procedures can determine vastly different results using the same data. Or that millions of dollars are spent on brain research so that we can understand totally groundbreaking, non-common sense findings such as that sadness is associated with areas of the brain associated with emotions (and not even all the time!). Think about how researchers tend to find support for their particular affiliation (pharmaceutical, theoretical, etc.) more often than not, or that negative findings are almost never published. Do we really need 100s of studies to tell us that when bad stuff happens, it affects us and can drive us mad?
It’s fun to play with numbers and prove ourselves right. Who doesn’t like to be right? It also is super good for job security. But, it isn’t science. And it isn’t helpful.
Quite the opposite. It threatens to take a person’s subjective and very personal life narrative and shove it into a formulaic box that is then said to somehow lead to an explanation for why they suffer. Oh, you say that you never felt understood within your family? Like you were bad or not good enough for most of your life? You felt like no matter how hard you tried, nothing ever worked to help you get ahead or find validation and connection with others? Well, none of these things are on my validated trauma questionnaire nor is it included in the ACE’s scale. So nothing has ever happened to you. Sorry. You just have a chemical imbalance and are in need of expert treatment for your genetic mental illness.
Dictates understandable vs. not-understandable ways of reacting to stress
Even if a person is lucky enough to have their life experiences recognized and validated, there still is the problem of what is acceptable in response to such experiences. If a person can articulate his or her fear as directly related to the identifiable event that a mental health professional deems bad enough to warrant a distressed response, then it might be considered understandable. If the fear becomes diffuse or symbolized, or does not directly link to some overt event, now the person is paranoid or delusional.
If someone holds their pain and cries out in ways that disturb others, the person is almost guaranteed to be diagnosed with a non-trauma-related disorder that insinuates internal defect. If the person screams too loud or makes others feel their pain, their personality is said to be disordered. What does this even mean?!
This is preposterous. It is not science.
Diagnoses are almost entirely based on how any given individual clinician understands the person in front of them. One of the defining differences, for instance, between a dissociative disorder and psychosis is the story one puts to internal experiences.
If one feels that some “not-me” forces are controlling the mind or body and attributes this to “alters” or other people living in the body, well this is understandable and said to be dissociation. If the clinician believes that dissociative disorders don’t exist, then the person is told they’re making it up or just seeking attention.
Alternatively, if, instead, this possessive experience is attributed to aliens beaming radioactive light waves into the brain (which one might argue is more plausible), now the person has a genetic brain disease called schizophrenia that requires toxic drugs for life.
Basically, if a person is in extreme distress and seeks help from a mental health professional, the odds of getting understanding and trauma-informed care are vastly enhanced if you can articulate your experience and pain in a way that the professional understands, is not disturbed by, and can fit into a checkbox or validated scale.
Trauma theories have largely become just another disease model
There are many things that are helpful for understanding the correlates of what’s happening in the brain with sometimes confusing behaviors or feelings. When a person is in a freeze state, for example, the brain literally goes offline. Aside from basic functions for sustaining life, the brain is playing dead. Trying to talk to a person or forcing such a person to talk back when in such a state is a futile effort akin to making rain return to its cloud. Non-verbal techniques are prudent in this instance — getting angry and further pathologizing and blaming the patient for being difficult, of course, are much more common.
For sure, there are distinct brain changes that appear to be associated with child abuse, chronic stress, and other forms of adversity. The hippocampus tends to shrink, executive functioning is altered, the ways in which emotions are processed are different, and ventricles tend to be enlarged. BUT, this DOES NOT equal dysfunction or disease!
The brain is an amazing organ that adapts to its environment. One study that actually looked at cognitive differences from the perspective of adaptation showed how a group that had experienced trauma had difficulty with inhibition (i.e., they were “impulsive”). Yet, on the other hand, they were also better at quickly switching tasks and working in uncertain and stressful situations. These are people who might make excellent cops, paramedics, ER doctors, or soldiers. At the same time, they might make terrible librarians.
All we hear about, however, is how trauma damages the brain and impairs the victim.
And, of course, that a victim is a victim. Experiencing trauma and living with pain and suffering does not absolve a person of responsibility for his or her behaviors. Every perpetrator was once a victim. Too often, however, responsibility is conflated with blame, in that if a person is held responsible for his or her behaviors that person is somehow being blamed or is bad.
Victims are good. Perpetrators are bad. People who have experienced trauma are one or the other. Everything is simple.
Worse, there rarely is discussion of how the brain actually heals and can adapt to new, safer, calmer environments over time and with a healthy support system. It may get harder to overcome early experiences the older one gets and the more added layers of pain and adversity are added over the years, but the possibility for healing is always there.
Healing, though, just might mean something different to the person suffering than the professional needing to fix someone or feel good about his or herself for being a helper and getting rid of symptoms and disease like a real doctor.
Many things have been shown to alter the brain’s function and structure: yoga, meditation, relationship, therapy, aerobic exercise, nutrition, and more. And, for most of these, no mental health professional is needed.
Trauma can be incredibly damaging, toxic, and difficult to overcome. But it is not a disease nor is it a life sentence.
Modern Missionaries: Intervening where you are not needed or wanted
Mental health professionals love to tell the world how they should or should not behave, what are and are not acceptable behaviors, beliefs, and emotions, and how drugs and therapy are needed in almost any given situation. But what they love even more is showing how helpful and needed they are.
In the early 20th Century, Christian missionaries turned their efforts to sub-Saharan Africa. No doubt that they were benevolent in their efforts — believing wholly in the power of the gospel and the goodness of the words of Jesus, surely they wanted to give to others by sharing their knowledge and beliefs in far off lands. The outcome of these efforts, however, led to the eradication of centuries-old African customs and the eventual implementation of apartheid.
Similarly, it has now been widely recognized that when mental health professionals go into other cultures, especially after a natural disaster or other major tragic social event, they have made things worse. The idea that someone needs to “process” the traumatic event by specific trauma-informed therapy guidelines with a professional has led to prolonged suffering and worse long-term outcomes than those who were just left alone.
The book Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, by Ethan Watters, describes how the exportation of the American mental health industry has led to the loss of local customs and alternative ways of understanding and coping with human suffering. And some of those cultures were better off before our psychiatric missionaries intruded on their society.
In the end, any ideology risks becoming polemic and authoritarian; psychiatry has already crossed that line. When business and career interests bias those with a strong identity of being the “good guy” or “helper,” then any suggestion that they are not needed or are doing harm goes unheard and dismissed. Such individuals have incredible difficulty holding anger, acknowledging when they are wrong, saying “I’m sorry,” or, better, “I don’t know.”
In the process, the helper risks becoming the destroyer.
It is time we started embracing diversity, difference, complexity, and humility. Mental health professionals would do well to consider that we are a tiny speck among the history of healers, believers, story-tellers, philosophers, charlatans, snake oil salesman, lovers, judges, and ideologists. No checklist or questionnaire will ever change that.
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Okay, put away your books and take out something to think with. It’s time for the UMOSPQ, the Unexpected Moment of Science Physics Quiz.
You have a long metal tube that is curved. You also have a miniature golf ball that you are knocking into one end and out the other. How does the ball move after it leaves the other end of the tube? Does it move in a straight line or a curve? Perhaps it starts by moving in a curved line, then gradually straightens out? Or something else?
When this question was given informally to a group of undergraduate students, about half of them suspected some kind of curved motion would remain in the ball after it leaves the tube. This, however, is incorrect. Once the ball leaves the tube it will move in a perfectly straight line. What’s interesting, though, is that it wasn’t until the 17th century that this was realized to be the case.
For hundreds of years people thought that some aspect of the thing that moved an object stayed in the object. That sounds a little weird, but if you thought the ball would continue in a curved path, you were subscribing to this theory. Curved tube, curved motion.
Newton’s laws of motion stated that an object will always move in a straight line unless it is prevented from doing so. The curved tube prevents the ball from moving straight only as long as the ball is inside. Once free, however, it moves straight once again. And it will continue to do so as long as nothing interrupts this motion.
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Moroccoan military officers undergoing training. The United States was exposed through the WikiLeaks website for its support for the Monarch in Rabat and its efforts to prevent independence for the Western Sahara., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Thousands demand reforms in Morocco
Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:16
Thousands took to the streets of Morocco yesterday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February.
Desperate to avoid the turmoil that toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, authorities have already announced some reforms to placate demands that King Mohammed cede more powers and limit the monarchy's extensive business influence. Some 10 000 people joined the protest in Casablanca, the largest city in one of the West's staunchest Arab allies.
Marchers in the capital Rabat also denounced corruption and torture as well as unemployment, which is very high among youths.
Policing has been low key for protests by the February 20 Movement, named after the date of its first march, particularly compared to the turmoil elsewhere in North Africa.
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Associations anywhere between earlier in the day night’s sleep and then-go out activity – People simply
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The outcome of our studies let you know this new complex relationships anywhere between passion activities and you will sleep. The last night’s TST try adversely regarding the inactive date; for each more second away from TST, another day of sedentary date decreased by the 0.thirty two minutes. However, we don’t observe connections anywhere between TST or WASO with tips or MVPA regarding analyses one to provided both men and women. But not, on analyses you to definitely integrated the fresh new lady only, TST are on the MVPA. These efficiency partly hold the study’s next theory.
Our findings are similar to those by Pettee Gabriel and colleagues [ 21], who found that time in bed, which was used to estimate sleep duration, was negatively associated with next-day sedentary time. Their study relied on self-reported sleep from a sample of 10 086 females from the Women’s Health Study with a mean age of 71.6 (± 5.7) years. Similarly, a cross-sectional study of over 6000 European adults found that short sleep duration, defined in the study as <6 hours/night, was associated with greater screen time, a contributor to overall sedentary time, compared to normal sleepers [ 22]. In contrast, a study by Mitchell and colleagues [ 23] does not support our findings. Their study used objective measures of physical activity and sleep and had a similar sample in terms of age, sex, and race. No association was found between TST and the next day's sedentary time. The sample in their study engaged in approximately 534 ± 90 minutes of sedentary time/day compared to 639 ± 131 minutes/day in our sample. | <urn:uuid:89fca8bd-3c25-44a6-83f5-5b87b4a999ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mybagswithlove.com/2022/04/01/associations-anywhere-between-earlier-in-the-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.953687 | 901 | 1.71875 | 2 |
The world of electricity distribution network asset management has seen a significant advance in the UK in recent years, with the latest revenue model (RIIO-ED1), which runs from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2023.
The regulator for electricity markets in Great Britain (Ofgem) has introduced regulatory requirements for Great Britain’s distribution network operators (DNOs) to report information relating to both asset health and criticality. The license condition required distribution system operators to jointly develop a Common Network Asset Indices Methodology (CNAIM).
In that context, a Common Network Asset Indices Methodology has been developed by the six DNO groups (Northern Powergrid, Scottish Power, Electricity North West, Western Power Distribution, UK Power Networks and Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution) and Ofgem representatives. CNAIM is a standard for assessing condition-based risk for electricity distribution and transmission assets.
The context of the creation of the CNAIM and its content demonstrate the desire of UK’s electricity network operators and their regulator Ofgem for alignment with the fundamental principles of ISO 55000.
First, the regulator overseeing the entire portfolio of distribution assets in Great Britain is demonstrating its leadership through this license condition. Ofgem, as an important stakeholder in the whole organization of the UK’s electricity networks, is expressing its needs and expectations for a common reference for the evaluation of present and future asset failure risks. It shows here a top-down approach. In another hand, before its implementation in each DNOs, the CNAIM was created and approved by all DNOs. By proceeding in this way, the UK regulator ensures that the CNAIM will be accepted by DNOs. This situation shows a bottom-up approach.
Secondly, the creation and implementation of this standard by the DNOs is also part of an approach that respects the fundamental principles of ISO 55000, namely:
Integrated system: This method integrates the 4 major stakes considered by the main stakeholders in asset management: financial, safety, environmental and service continuity. However, a failure may have an impact on all four stakes. In this circumstance, how can the importance of a failure be determined when the stakes are expressed in different units? How express uniformly the impacts of an asset breakdown on stakes of the organization? What would be the most convenient way to uniformly express the impacts of a transformer fault that leads to one hour of downtime in an industrial area, a minor injury of a field worker during the corrective intervention, the transformer oil leakage into the river and the replacement of a major spare part in emergency? All these impacts can happen because of the failure of one single asset.
The solution adopted by CNAIM was to monetize the impacts of each stake. This solution allowed the use of a common unit necessary for the aggregation of impacts. The cumulated cost of failure impacting each stake enables DNOs to obtain an integrated picture of the risks considered.
Systems-oriented: The common methodology is designed and implemented simultaneously by the 6 DNOs that manage the entire UK electricity distribution asset portfolio. In any good asset management system, this asset failure risk methodology evaluation is necessary for the DNOs to make consistent trade-offs across their asset portfolios. For the regulator, this situation allows to make sure the whole UK electricity network has the same reference of asset failure risk evaluation, that will guide their asset management decision-making.
Risk-based: The purpose of this methodology is to precisely estimate the levels of major failure risks that need to be managed to ensure sustainable asset management. According to the ISO 55 000 principles, risk control with the costs and the performance, takes an important part in value extraction from a good asset management system.
Optimal: The estimated risk of failure is monetized (expressed in £/year). This effort for risk monetization allows the risk of failure to be compared to other elements of the organization’s management such as the capital for investment, as well as OPEX and CAPEX sustaining budgets. In addition, risk monetization facilitates the calculation of life cycle costs (LCC) and the estimation of paybacks of maintenance interventions. It is therefore clear that the result of this method is an important input into the decision-making process, in the short, medium, and long term. The results of CNAIM provide inarguably important insights for informed decision making, whether for short-, medium- or long-term strategic planning.
Sustainable: CNAIM does not only include the current estimation of the failure risk, but it further offers a projection of the risk over time up to 150 years. It is understood that through this projection, the objective is to identify the best asset management strategy over the medium- and long-term.
As a conclusion, CNAIM marks the beginning of a process of aligning electrical distribution asset management with the fundamental principles of ISO 55000. This process aims to build a global organization that is robust, reliable, self-improving, and integrating all disciplines for achieving optimal results.
Let us hope for the sake of all stakeholders that this example can be followed by other governments and regulators.
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In the view of above complications, there is a long-standing debate on whether the fiscal policy should be active or passive in nature. Note that in the Keynesian context; even a passive fiscal stance will produce the automatic stabilizer effect on the aggregate demand. How this happens? If AD falls, Y decreases; tax collection falls, the net income tax rate decreases, which is equivalent to the passive fiscal policy expansion. Also, when the AD and Y fall, unemployment increases; which means more people become adequate for unemployment benefit, which in turn makes government expenditure to increase, which
is again equivalent to the passive fiscal policy expansion. It is simple to derive the reverse situation: in which the AD increases and fiscal policy becomes passively contractionary.
Additionally to the above, there is an argument which active fiscal policy cannot be changed without the time lag. The government passes its budget on the annual basis, and therefore a mid-year change in AD which warrants the fiscal policy response should wait till the beginning of the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, the demand conditions may have changed by that time!
1. Other arguments against the active fiscal policy-led to the demand-management include effects of a fiscal expansion on the interest rates and subsequently exchange rate. As stated in the discussion on BOPs, the rising domestic interest rate will make the exchange rate to appreciate in the real terms (because of the interest parity condition). This, however, will make competitiveness to decline will drive down the exports and lead to the BOPs problems.
2. At last, expansionary fiscal policies can increase the national debt (as you know, national debt is simply the accumulation of the past fiscal deficits) which would have to be given off by the future generations, possibly through a painful rise in their tax contributions. | <urn:uuid:a024c38a-bd26-4e23-917a-d58ff36e0a60> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.expertsmind.com/questions/should-the-fiscal-policy-be-active-or-passive-3016890.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949457 | 362 | 2.5 | 2 |
I already posted about these « hidden » alleys and courtyards some four or five years ago. I then wondered what would happen to them. I passed by again a couple of days ago. They are being restored … and the possible fear that they would be demolished or being transformed to something fashionable only for “the wealthy” seems to be wrong. After a long battle by the people living and working there, the City has bought the premises and the occupants, mostly artists and artisans, seem in majority to be able to stay there after the restoration. Actually, many of them are still around during the ongoing important works.
You can find these courtyards and alleys – also known as the “Cours de l’Industrie”, along Rue de Montreuil, somewhere between Place de la Nation (see previous post) and the Bastille (see previous posts here and here).They date from the 19th century, when they were especially occupied by furniture artisans.
(If you wonder about the Chinese text: A friend told me that it reads "yong chun quan", translated to "boxe qui chante le printemps", a specific Chinese art of boxing.)
The buildings and alleys occupy part of which during the 17th century was the place of a very fashionable “country house” and park, known as the “Folie Titon”, now completely disappeared. Below, we can compare what the area looked like in 1760 and today.
In 1765 a wallpaper manufacturer, Reveillon, took over the place. He had of course good contact with paper manufacturers, including the family Montgolfier. This led in different steps to the fact that it was somewhere here that Etienne Montgolfier would be the first human to lift off the earth, in October 1783, in a tethered flight, in what was to become known as a “montgolfière”; for the balloon, paper was largely used. A couple of weeks later – in November – the first free flight took place over Paris (see previous posts here and here).
On one of the neighbour buildings you can find some commemorative plates and in another building entrance a mosaic, resuming the history of the place …. which actually also includes another event: “The Reveillon Riot”. The workers at the Reveillon wallpaper factory, upset about a rumour of lowered salaries, put the factory on fire, and a riot led to some 25 people killed. This happened a few weeks before the July 14th 1789 and was one of the first instances of the Revolution. The mosaic is too large for a single photo, so here is a patchwork. (We can recognize Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.). | <urn:uuid:34efb948-fcce-40f2-839b-4141e869b52b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.peter-pho2.com/2012/10/a-place-full-of-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00354-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980493 | 577 | 2.421875 | 2 |
I've discovered pigpio and am starting to learn to use it with Python. I thought I would use it to "discover" the pullup status of a pin before setting it, but while mode has both
.get_mode() methods as shown in this documentation, there is only the
.set_pull_up_down() method, apparently without a corresponding "getter method".
Question: Is there a way to read the pullup status of a GPIO pin in python with, or if not, without pigpio?
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“…be it unto me according to thy word.”
The virgin Mary was an amazing woman. She was willing to throw away her life for God. She was willing to take the scorn of having a child out of wedlock and possibly loose her espoused husband, Joseph. After all, who would want to merry a scandalous woman?
The key to Mary’s ability to trust in God is in the previous verses; Gabriel proclaims the greatness of Christ.
If I focus on my circumstances, it is hard to trust in God. I find myself wanting to nag God with questions about how He is going to pull me through trials and make straight my crooked path. Yet if I focus on God, if I recall all of His wondrous works, then I forget out my present circumstances.
Trusting God is not about trusting Him to do this or that. It is about trusting in His character. When I remember that Christ will reign forever, I remember His authority and goodness. Consider how wonderful it is to sit under Christ’s rule; He never judges falsely, always takes care of His own, and humbles Himself to serve us. What a wonderful King!
Forget your circumstance. Forget yourself. Look to Christ. Remember who He is, and all your doubts will vanish. | <urn:uuid:977cf60e-a038-45ea-962f-661e40c6692f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.melissabeaty.com/devotionals/daily-devotional-trusting-god | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.964472 | 302 | 1.59375 | 2 |
AFSH aspires to empower its students to have a holistic development, in scholastics and demeanour, supplemented with a sense of patriotism and complemented by an evolving curriculum and Co-Curricular activities.
‘Students First Education Always’ is our endeavour in grooming the students of the millennial by amalgamating the challenges of education and technology so as to bring about a dynamic transformation in the individual.
The school aims at strengthening the potentialities of the children by constructive and creative activities for all round development of personality. In addition, building of character, team spirit, dedication to purpose, patriotic outlook and sense of citizenship are inclucated in children.
- To pursue excellence and set pace in the field of school education.
- To initiate and promote experimentation and innovativeness in education in collaboration with other bodies like the CBSE, NCERT.
- To develop the spirit of national integration and create a sense of "Patriotism" among Children.
- To maintain the quality of teaching is kept reasonable high by maintaining an appropriate teacher pupil ratio and by appointing suitable teachers with high academic qualifications.
- To prepare students for the All India Secondary School and All India Senior.Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education
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Know if you'll hit your targets before pulling the trigger on any marketing plan
More than sixty five percent of new products are commercial failures, and if you compound this with a recession, now more than ever you can't afford to be wrong. In If You Build It Will They Come, business professor and strategy consultant Rob Adams shows you how to make sure you hit your target market before you spend a lot of money. He shows you the fast, systematic and proven approach of performing Market Validation in advance of making a large product investment.
Adams outlines a simple and effective market validation and testing strategy that is proven, giving entrepreneurs and managers the ability to dramatically improve the prospect of product success. He explains how to quickly gather information on competitors, directly interview members of your target market, and figure out what the market really wants to buy, versus what customers say they want.
- The steps to quickly understanding the viability of your market
- Where to go to gather the information needed to hit the market requirements
- How to follow through with the right product launched in the right way
- Adams cuts through the fancy terms and expensive market research that gives lots of data but no real product oriented information about usage, pricing, features and competitive forces. In the end you'll produce results on your first release of a far more mature product, shipped in a faster timeframe with features customers will actually use.
- This book is for anyone involved with designing, developing and launching new products. Its examples and advice cover everything from the fledgling start-up that needs their first product to work just to survive to the successful Fortune Class company establishing new worldwide markets. Examples cut across all major industrial sectors including consumer, retail, manufacturing, technology, life sciences and services. This book offers the step-based guidance you need to make sure failure is not an option.
Author : Rob Adams
ISBN : 047056363X
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How We Use Technology Can Make Your Visit More Comfortable
We think everyone will agree that we have never been more thankful for technology than we have been this year. Technology has given us the ability to work, attend school, and “see” our families during the difficulties of the past year. Zoom meetings, Google Meets, and FaceTime have become a part of many of our daily lives. In our office, we are thankful for the advancements in technology in relation to how dentistry is performed. Modern dentistry offers many benefits to our patients and we are proud to offer a number of state-of-the-art technology devices that will improve your care and experience in our office. Continue reading to learn more about the technology that you might encounter during your next examination or treatment in our office.
The addition of dental technology to our office has greatly improved the quality of care you receive, your comfort during your visit and, in many ways, will shorten the length of your treatment or exam. One of the major benefits of digital technology is the reduced exposure to radiation during treatment. Forms of technology you might see in the office are:
- Digital X-rays not only use less radiation, but they also offer multiple benefits to your treatment. Instead of using film that needs to be developed, digital X-rays are ready to be viewed immediately. We can also zoom in and really explain what you are seeing on the screen. The process of taking the X-rays is also much more comfortable.
Cavity Detection with Carivu
- In addition to digital X-rays, this device uses infrared light to help detect cavities. The enamel of your tooth will appear transparent, and any problem areas will be a darker color.
Digital Scanner for Impressions
- If you are interested in orthodontic treatments or are in need of a crown to finish a procedure, you will no longer need to endure the discomfort of goopy impressions. Digital impressions are an updated, more accurate method of getting a model of your teeth.
The next time you visit our office, pay close attention, and we can guarantee you will see some form of digital technology used during your appointment. As always, if you are in need of a hygiene examination or experiencing any discomfort in your mouth, please reach out to our office located in Denton, MD to schedule an appointment. We are always here to help you. | <urn:uuid:1810f78d-8047-4c25-963a-41ab0b306600> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smilesby.com/how-we-use-technology-can-make-your-visit-more-comfortable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.969225 | 501 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Book 1 Chapter 7. By: Lindsay Reicoff. Vocabulary. Criminality -The state, quality, or fact of being criminal -There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world –within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug peddlers and racketeers of every description.
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Book 1 Chapter 7
By: Lindsay Reicoff
-There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world –within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug peddlers and racketeers of every description.
-Great areas of it even for a Party member, were neutral and nonpolitical, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a warn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end.
-After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the party and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important.
-But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.
-But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's face ruinous face he saw that his eyes were full of tears.
-He picked up the children's book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.
-This is a simile, because it is comparing the proles shaking themselves off to horses getting flies off of them. This contributed to the text by giving us a vision of how strong the proles are showing us there power of being able to blow up the party at any time.
-The café symbolizes the old Soviet Union Coffee shop where the leaders of the government would meet to discuss their dominance over their disliked employees. It can also symbolize an old nursery rhyme that Orwell probably got its name from that was prevalent in the days when he was growing up. Its words were "under the spreading chestnut tree, I kissed you and you kissed me" but in 1984 he changes those words to "under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me.“ The café contributes to the text by giving us an idea of how the party members met and discussed things.
-This is a simile, because it is comparing the women fighting over the Cooking pots to Cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina. This contributed to the text by giving us a vision of how feisty the women were and how desperate they were to get a cooking pot, also how they were running and yelling at people to move so they could get a flimsy
mob of two or three hundred women crowding around the stalls of a
street market with faces as tragic as though they had been the doomed passengers on a sinking ship.
-This is a simile, because he is comparing the women's faces to the face of person who was on a sinking ship. This contributed to the text by showing how revengeful the women can be, so Winston was wondering why they couldn’t be like that towards the government.
1.Why does Winston think the proles are "unconscious?”
2.What doe Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford symbolize when winston sees them at the Chestnut Tree Café?
3.What does Winston mean by the Quote “If there is hope it lies in the proles?”
4.Why does Orwell keep referring to “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows?”
5.What would you have done with the picture Winston received through the tubes of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford? | <urn:uuid:a90cb415-cfbf-466e-8059-eb69b43946d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slideserve.com/gwennan/book-1-chapter-7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00490-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971307 | 833 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Homebrewing For Dummies
Want to become your own brewmeister? Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, gives you easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from making your first “kit” beer to brewing an entire batch from scratch. Before you know it, you’ll be boiling, bottling, storing, pouring, and kegging your own frothy, delicious suds.
This friendly, hands-on guide walks you through each step in the brewing process at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. It fills you in on all the homebrewing basics with a comprehensive equipment list; instructions on keeping your hardware clean and sanitized; and loving descriptions of the essential beer ingredients, their roles in the brewing process, and how to select the best ingredients for you beer. You’ll also find out about additional ingredients and additives you can use to give your homebrew distinctive flavors, textures, and aromas. Discover how to:
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Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition is fully updated with the latest brewing techniques and technologies and features more than 100 winning recipes that will have your friends and neighbors singing your praises and coming back for more.
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Humboldt Beer Works is located in Old Town Eureka, on California's beautiful & rugged North Coast.
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This brief exploration of the essentials of abnormal psychology offers readers an engaging, innovative systems approach by integrating the biological, psychological and social perspectives in an interesting and concurrent story. Readable, reader- friendly research methods are mainstreamed throughout the text. Detailed case studies and briefer cases illustrate interesting clinical issues. A Getting Help< feature in each chapter directs readers to responsible sources if they are looking for help for themselves or others. Abnormal Behavior: Examples, Definitions and Methods of Study. Perspectives on Causes of Abnormal Behavior. Treatment of Psychological Disorders. Classification and Assessment. Mood Disorders. Anxiety Disorders. Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, and Somatoform Disorders. Stress and Physical Health. Personality Disorders. Eating Disorders. Substance Abuse Disorders. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. Schizophrenic Disorders. Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Psychological Disorders of Childhood. Mental Health and the Law. Anyone needing a brief, accessible introduction to the major topics of abnormal psychology.
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Even when the disaster is simulated, it scares the hell out of you.
Bayonne Fire Chief Greg Rogers arrived on the scene of this year’s simulated disaster in time for the extraction of victims from a collapsed parking deck.
“It was eerie,” he said, knowing deep down in his bones that it could become real in an instant, just as it had on that bright Tuesday morning back in 2001 when people went to work at the World Trade Center, only to find the world falling on in their shoulders.
But Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) drills have roots that go back farther than Sept. 11, 2001. The federal government knew as early as the mid-1990s that monumental disasters could strike anywhere and any time, and that the country was ill-prepared to deal with them.
Disasters elsewhere in the world – especially the threat of terrorism – told officials that they needed to gear up and be ready for something big which might occur here in the United States.
In 1997, Congress passed the United States Domestic Preparedness Program, which set up drills designed to improve emergency response times and provide practice for communicating with first responders for quick and safe patient evacuation techniques. Simulated communication drills in Hudson County were scheduled for the very week on which the attacks occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, and, in fact, the Port Authority had planned to a full scale emergency test in early 2002 simulating an attack on the World Trade Center.
9/11 accelerated need for preparedness
“Many of the changes made to how departments handle disasters came after the hard lesson on 9/11,” said Bayonne Public Safety Director Jason O’Donnell. “We need great interoperability in order to accesses other resources.”
In other words, agencies that do not normally work together side-by-side had to come together in case a large disaster required more resources than any municipality could provide.
What if disaster struck in one of the more crowded venues in area – not a mall, but the newly constructed sports facility in Harrison? Would firefighters be able to work together in order to rescue injured people and minimize the impacts?
That was the scenario that firefighters from six counties had to deal with in this year’s disaster drills at the MetroStars Stadium.
Rogers said Bayonne has been involved with training exercises under the Urban Areas Security Initiative for at least five for six years, and this year, they were among the area fire departments that became what was called “The Metro USAR Strike Team,” which participated in a four-day disaster training exercise in late April.
Bayonne firefighters worked side-by-side with firefighters from the Newark Fire Department, Paterson Fire Department, Hoboken Fire Department, Hackensack Fire Department, North Hudson Fire, Elizabeth Fire Department, Jersey City Fire Department, Morristown Fire Department, Middlesex County Fire and Port Authority Police to deal with a variety of scenarios that tested use of new and sophisticated equipment in search and rescue operations.
“Many of the changes made to how departments handle disasters came after the hard lesson on 9/11.” – Bayonne Public Safety Director Jason O’Donnell
Hosted at the Newark Fire Department training grounds, emergency workers gathered to practice and respond to multiple emergency props designed to test and perfect the special operations skills of area Metro Strike Teams.
The Bayonne Fire Department is equipped with a specialized rescue rig and tools issued through UASI funds, and the firefighters receive technical training to deal with high-level rescues. Over a period of four days, firefighters practiced rescuing entrapped victims from beneath concrete and crushed vehicles at a mock multistory parking garage collapse. Numerous rescue scenarios took place simultaneously and involved multiple agencies unified in their efforts.
Fabricated tunnels of collapsed concrete and steel served as props that entombed trapped victims making for difficult and challenging rescues. The firefighters worked for hours perfecting techniques and skills relevant to collapse and infrastructure.
Operated regionally with oversight from the state Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the UASI program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and designed to help protect the country’s urban areas most prone to potential terrorist attack.
“Bayonne firefighters train routinely for technical rescue operations, and the federal funds that are used to sustain hands-on training and drills ensure that our response personnel are prepared,” Rogers said. “The UASI drills are as realistic as they could be, and simulate a myriad of potential life threatening incidents. We are reminded by the anniversary of the death of [Osama] Bin Laden that we must maintain a vigilant presence.” | <urn:uuid:da0f2882-9b81-4fe3-90d4-4e286e39cf5f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/18505692/article-Just-in-case-Bayonne-Public-Safety-takes-part-in-regional-disaster-?instance=home_Most_popular | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960247 | 968 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Information on Petitions to Council
A petition to Council may be included as a point of discussion in a Council meeting. If you would like to submit a petition regarding your concerns, our procedural by-law indicates the following for petitions submitted to Council:
“Petition” means a document requesting Council’s consideration of a matter that contains more than ten (10) signatures and does not include an electronic web-based document.
10.11 Petitions, Communications or Correspondence: Every petition, communication or correspondence to be placed on an Agenda of a Regular Council Meeting or Planning Committee Meeting shall be delivered to the City Clerk by 12:00 o’clock noon on the second day preceding the day upon which the Agenda for that Meeting is issued (i.e. 12:00 o’clock noon Monday for Wednesday Agenda distribution). All communications or petitions received after the above delivery date and not pertaining to the matters listed on the Agenda for the Meeting shall be held over for consideration at the next Regular Meeting of Council or Planning Committee unless otherwise approved by the Head of Council and Chief Administrative Officer.
In dealing with a petition on an agenda Council may make the following motions:
- Receive the petition (meaning that the municipality will take no action on this issue other than filing the information);
- Refer the matter to City staff for consideration; or
- Direct City staff to report back to Council.
All other motions related to a petition shall be out of order.
The City Clerk shall refuse to place a Petition on the agenda where the subject matter:
- Involves current or pending litigation;
- Involves insurance claims;
- Involves administrative complaints that have not been reported and investigated through the administrative process;
- Is beyond the jurisdiction of Council;
- Is contrary to the provisions of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act; or
- It does not contain a contact person and their contact information.
Signatories to a Petition are deemed to have waived any expectation of privacy as a result of the record being created for review by the general public.
Petitions shall contain the printed name, signature, and some contact information of the individuals signing it. Signatures without contact information shall be redacted by the individual or group submitting the Petition or it will not be accepted by the City Clerk nor presented to Council.
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Women in Bangladesh have traditionally been excluded from taking part in social, political and economic activities by means of institutions such as the purdah (veil). However, the rise of the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh since the 1970s has provided women with opportunities to work outside the home for wages. This change coincided with changes such as a decline in the rural sector, increased emphasis on girls’ education and campaigns to improve women’s health and reduce fertility. As a result of these changes, the social exclusion of women has reduced considerably. This paper analyses existing literature on women’s employment in the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh using a social exclusion framework. It finds that the impact of the industry on women’s exclusion is mixed. Women have greater economic independence, respect, social standing and “voice” than before. However, harassment and exploitation persists. Given the important changes that this industry is helping to bring into women’s lives, stakeholders should focus attention on making the industry a more humane and sustainable option for women.
The Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh: A Means to Reducing Gender-Based Social Exclusion of Women?.
Journal of International Women's Studies, 11(1), 289-303.
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The Journal of American History provided some interesting information about ethics and plagiarism in the professional field of history. The first article in the “Round Table” comments on the crisis the field seems to be having of late, as high profile works are debunked as plagiarized. Joanne Meyerowiz wrote about this phenomenon hitting too close to home, drawing the Journal into scandal itself, and therefore calls all historians (including historians in training) to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
The following articles by various authors deal with the pitfalls and the recognition of plagiarism. I found Richard Fox’s article about student plagiarism the most relatable. He talks specifically about students and their seeming need to “plagiarize to survive”. Coming into the homestretch of the semester, I understand the need to give an extra reminder that theft of intellectual property is still a crime that you will get punished for by the intellectual community. I thought that the information was important and helpful when beginning the process of writing my own research paper. I also liked the dialogue of each article. It seemed more personal than a dry dissertation. | <urn:uuid:940b2956-decb-4c28-b7d9-0651282709e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hist299.umwblogs.org/2012/11/13/intellectual-property/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959921 | 229 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Building Secure Sun Fire Link Interconnect Networks Using Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 12K Servers
In a distributed computer system, data is sent from one computer over a network to another computer. The data that is being sent across the network may be readable by unauthorized users. Data transmitted over the network is sensitive to privacy, authenticity, and point of origin attacks so it must be protected. The Sun Fire Link interconnect software is part of a distributed computer system, so it must be fortified against these attacks.
Deploying a secure distributed computer system can be difficult. This article describes how to install and deploy the Sun Fire Link product so that it can be securely managed and operated and documents the software architecture and the steps needed to secure the Sun Fire Link interconnect. The commands used in configuration steps are either Fire Link Manager (FM) or Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) tools. This article requires a general knowledge of Solaris OE system administration and is written for advanced system administrators.
The article also includes a section on how to create, configure, and secure a Sun Fire Link fabric. The Sun Fire Link fabric is a collection of remote shared memory (RSM) partitions, compute nodes, and switch nodes.
This article covers the following topics:
"Sun Fire Link Hardware Overview" on page 2
"Sun Fire Link Software Overview" on page 4
"System Configuration" on page 7
"Fabric Configuration" on page 19
The main recommendations are:
Follow the guidelines in "Building Secure Sun Fire Link Interconnect Networks Using Midframe Servers" at: http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/0203/817-1656.pdf.
Follow the guidelines in "Securing the Sun Fire 15K and 12K System Controllers" article at:
Configure the wcaa to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Modify the FM keystore to include wcapp version 1.2 10/28/99.
The procedures for implementing these recommendations are located in the sections on "System Configuration" on page 7 and "Fabric Configuration" on page 19 following the Sun Fire Link hardware and software overviews.
Sun Fire Link Hardware Overview
The Sun Fire Link is a high-bandwidth, low-latency cluster interconnect used with Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 15K, and Sun Fire 12K servers to expand the high-end Sun Fire series system capabilities beyond the chassis. A Sun Fire Link cluster consists of up to eight Sun Fire 6800 and/or Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 12K nodes, connected to each other by a Sun Fire Link optical network. Each node has a separate instance of the Solaris OE running under a layer of clustering software, which can be either Sun Cluster software or Sun HPC ClusterTools software. This separate instance of the Solaris OE is also referred to as a domain. For some configurations, the interconnect hardware will include Sun Fire Link switches as well. A Sun Fire Link cluster also requires an Ethernet network to carry cluster administration traffic. This network connects all cluster components that exchange control and status or error information. A dedicated server to run the required management software is also recommended. The "Securing the Sun Fire Midframe System Controller" article discusses the midframe service processor (MSP). The MSP is a dedicated server that restricts access to the private System Controller (SC) network.
The Sun Cluster software and the Sun HPC ClusterTools software use the remote shared memory (RSM) interface for internode communication across a Sun Fire Link network. The RSM is a Sun messaging interface that is highly efficient for remote memory operations. For Sun Fire Link clusters of two or three nodes, the network connections can be either point to point (direct-connect topology) (FIGURE 1) or through Sun Fire Link switches (FIGURE 2). For larger clusters (four to eight nodes), a Sun Fire Link switch is required.
FIGURE 1 Direct-Connect Topology
The server's interface to the Sun Fire Link network is provided by a Sun Fire Link-specific I/O subsystem called the Sun Fire Link assembly. These assemblies are installed in standard server I/O slots. Each Sun Fire Link assembly contains two optical transceiver modules called Sun Fire Link optical modules. Each optical module supports a full-duplex optical link. The Sun Fire Link assemblies are installed in pairs to enhance availability and to support message striping for higher bandwidth.
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Understanding Success Rates
At Reproductive Science Center of New Jersey, we take pride in our success rates and believe that understanding what they mean is of utmost importance when choosing the fertility clinic that’s best for you.
The Society for Assisted and Reproductive Technology (SART) advises patients not to use success rate information to compare clinics because patient’s characteristics vary from facility to facility.
Statistics can be interpreted and presented in many ways, making it difficult to understand the effect they have on your ability to conceive.
Every patient desiring to conceive should be treated individually.
Some clinics may not tell every patient all options from least conservative to most invasive. Clinics may increase their success rates by selecting only patients with the best chance to conceive, turning down others who have lower probabilities of success. This results in selection bias. Additionally, clinics can choose what they report, as this is not uniform. As an educated consumer, we encourage you to read the fine print.
Our Success Rates
We welcome all patients, even those with difficult cases. We're proud of our IVF success rates, but we're more proud of helping everyone have a family.RSCNJ Success Rates
What are success rates?
There is no uniform way to report success rates associated with fertility treatments for all clinics. Pregnancy following less invasive treatment options, such as ovulation induction is not a reportable “success”. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) gathers and reports in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rate data for patients to measure fertility clinics’ expertise and the best treatment options. However, this information does not take into account that most fertility experts do not solely offer IVF.
For patients who undergo IVF, achieving pregnancy can be affected by many factors, including medical history, infertility diagnosis and age. All of these factors can impact success rates both positively and negatively.
Common misconceptions about success rates
All clinics treat patients equally. Some clinics recommend aggressive treatment to all patients. This often leads to more expensive treatment, which is not always most cost-effective. Patients aren’t treated on an individual basis. They are led to believe IVF is the only option to conceive, when treatment specific for their diagnosis could be successful without resorting to the most costly option.
All clinics report the same information. Pregnancy rate calculations vary from clinic to clinic. Some clinics may turn away difficult cases to increase the practice’s pregnancy rates. While most clinics provide information on the majority of their IVF cycles, others may calculate their success rates based on 60% of their cycles. This is transparent, but difficult to interpret in the SART registry. It is possible to verify this by comparing the number of total cycles reported to the addition of all number of cycles used in the calculation of each pregnancy rate in the SART registry. Rates vary widely depending on the population the clinic serves. The New York Times provides more insight into the problem of reporting success rates.
How we’re different
Our clinic will never select patients to increase our number of successful cycles. We welcome all patients, even when they are not the ideal candidates for success.
Our top priority is, and will always be to treat every patient individually, helping them build a family in the best way specific to their needs and desires.
We will always go to any length to find the right treatment choice for your specific needs, from most simple to the highest cutting edge treatment modalities.
And most importantly, we will always honestly report our success rates and answer any questions prior to choosing a path for treatment.
We know how important success rates are to you. We have summarized our most recent data for you. Feel free to look over these helpful graphs and FAQs to answer your questions. If you have further questions, please contact us and we would be happy to assist you.
***The Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) states that comparison of success rates between clinics may not be meaningful because patient medical characteristics and treatment approaches may vary from clinic to clinic.
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Success Rates FAQ
Q1: What is your IVF success rate?
This is the most commonly asked question among infertility patients trying to select a program. It seems like a simple question but, it has a complex answer. IVF statistics are dependent on how patients are selected for IVF treatment. Some programs will not let certain patients into their program if they feel these patients will lower their success rates. Our program is dedicated to educating the patient/couple and discusses the success rates, this allows a well informed decision to be made.
Q2: What are the most important factors in IVF statistics?
When trying to interpret IVF statistics you need to know how the results are reported, by clinical pregnancy rate (pregnancy sac at ultrasound), ongoing pregnancy rate (fetal heart beat seen by ultra sound) or by delivery rate? The denominator in these calculations could be number of couples entering treatment, those who underwent retrieval, or those who had an embryo transfer.
Q3: What is the best way to select a program?
Every case is unique and is affected by duration of infertility, type of infertility, maternal/paternal age and a variety of other factors. Below are some parameters to help with your decision process:
- Assess experience; Board Certification in OB/GYN and Reproductive Endocrinology.
- Generate your own opinion during your visit. Assess integrity, intelligence, responsiveness and compassion.
- Call the hospitals the practice is associated with to assess their reputation in the medical community. Talk to the chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
- An affiliation with a residency program gives certain credibility.
- Talk to your friends with infertility problems.
- Be weary of programs with very high pregnancy rates over the national average.
- Avoid programs with 100% guarantees.
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Let’s all get scared now! 🙂
Music Credit: Doblado Studios
Whether it is on Halloween evening or just sitting around a campfire with your closest pals, telling ghost stories is a well-known American tradition that goes way back. The concept of course is to inform a story that terrifies the listeners in a frightening yet entertaining way. Usually, these short stories center on a supernatural being or occurrence such as haunted home, vampires, white gliding ghosts, monsters and psychotic humans. While most stories are fictional or urban legends, many listeners still believe some of these as they hear them from a lot of sources. Telling scary stories is a exciting point to particularly if you’re already excellent at it as your young relatives and pals will ask you to tell them your ghost stories more than and over again. To be very good at telling ghost stories you have to hold three items in mind.
Prior to you commence searching for excellent ghost stories to tell, you ought to be aware of who your audience is 1st. Realizing who you are going to tell the story to is critical because people have distinct opinions and requires on subjects. If you’re arranging to inform a story with gruesome pictures, telling it to teenagers and young adults would be a protected bet, but not to kids as imagining horrible and repugnant scenes could be too much for their innocent small brains. That mentioned, usually keep in mind to match the level of horror your story has to the level of tolerance your audience has. Now, there are plenty of urban legends out there that you can use. These incorporate the “Mothman” in West Virginia, or the “Hunted Railroad Tracks” in San Antonio, Texas, or the local “Massive Foot” sightings, which always operates well with the kids. There are far much more quick stories that can be discovered in the net. Just go to your preferred search engine and variety the kind of story you have in mind.
Choose the proper venue and have props ready
To be truthful, setting the ambience is far more critical than the story itself. If you told a really scary story for the duration of breakfast, none of your listeners would get scared. In reality, laughter would probably be the much more acceptable reaction than getting scared. The point is you have to set the correct mood in order to tell a scary story successfully. You will need to have a dark area or dark outdoors, candles, firewood (if applicable), flashlights, atonal music, and a genuinely low voice. The a lot more props the better. Obtaining a companion to help you out in delivering the story is even far better as he can support you with the effects. For instance, you can have your companion turn a fan on the room briefly so the candles would flicker, or have him slam a door in the course of suspenseful point in the story. Be creative.
Practice tends to make best
When you happen to be accomplished with the setting and props, it really is now time to practice telling the story. Ideally, you must practice in front of a mirror with all the props present so that really telling the story will be automatic. This also assists you recognize the right voice tonalities on the components of the story that matter. Most importantly, find out the story by heart. Believe it, or at least make your audience believe you believe it. GP
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Google’s New AI Experiment Compares Your Pose to 80,000 Photos and Finds a Match
Google has unveiled some impressive artificial intelligence (AI) innovations as of late such as its hyper-realistic Google Assistant and its blood scanning technology. However, so far all applications have had useful purposes.
In a rather unusual turn of events, the technology firm has launched a new AI experiment that is completely purposeless. Google's Mirror Move is an online feature available to all that uses your device's camera to identify your pose and match it to more than 80,000 images of other people in similar stances.
Google makes a playful AI
The application also allows you to make GIFs and share them with loved ones. According to Google Creative Lab creative technologist Irene Alvarado, the purpose of this exercise is to show that AI can be used in "playful" ways.
"It feels like a magical mirror that reflects your moves with images of all kinds of human activity—from sports and dance to martial arts, acting and beyond."
"That’s why we made Move Mirror—an AI Experiment that lets you explore pictures in a fun new way, just by moving around," said Alvardo in a blog. "It feels like a magical mirror that reflects your moves with images of all kinds of human activity—from sports and dance to martial arts, acting and beyond."
Clicking on the Mirror Move website will lead you to a page where you will be asked permission for the system to access your web camera. Once you approve this security request, you are indicated to stand far enough away from your device that all your limbs can be captured inside your camera's frame.
Dancing on your own
The system can only analyze one person at a time so this is a solo mission. Once you are properly positioned inside the rectangular frame, the AI scans your body as you move and uses lines to indicate where your limbs are.
It proceeds to match your poses to a catalog of 80,000 pictures of people in similar positions and shows them on the right side of your image. Pressing a single green button allows you to then make a GIF of the process.
Google says the application is meant to show how computer vision techniques can be made available to anyone with a webcam and motivate coders to experiment with pose estimation. The system uses a Google real-time human pose estimation model called PoseNet.
PoseNet has the capacity to detect human figures in both images and videos through the recognition of their key body joints. The application does not process any personally identifiable information whatsoever on the figures it scans.
Instead, it simply estimates the location of key body joints and from there extrapolates the movements of limbs. PoseNet is powered by a machine learning library that runs models directly in your browser without ever storing your images.
That library is called Tensorflow.js and Google hopes it will attract many coders and machine learning enthusiasts.
"We’d love to see what you make — and don’t forget to share your awesome projects using #tensorflowjs and #posenet!" said Alvarez in a Medium post last May.
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A: The Bradford press is named after Jim Bradford, a superheavyweight Olympic lifter who won a silver medal at the ’52 Olympics and again at the ’60 Olympics. He was known for his overhead-pressing ability, and between those two Olympics his standing press improved from 308 pounds to 396 pounds, performed in a very strict fashion.
The Bradford press involves alternatively pressing a weight from behind the neck to the front of the neck, just clearing the head. I’ve never recommended it, as there is really nothing special about it and it could be stressful on the shoulder if an individual lacks rotator cuff flexibility. I just find there are other exercises that work better. | <urn:uuid:45179659-7766-4cdc-94ba-fb07ea0b0ce2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ironmanmagazine.com/the-bradford-press/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.97732 | 141 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In theory, when food energy is transferred from one trophic level
to another in a food chain
(from grass to bunny, bunny to hawk, etc.), only about ten percent of the energy is passed on.
So where does it all go? The remaining energy goes into maintaining the organism's internal body temperature, defending against predators, and generally running around being silly. Because so much energy is lost from level to level, from an efficiency point of view it is much better for the state of the world to get our energy straight from plants (or other autotrophs) which produce their own food from solar energy. | <urn:uuid:8c5b225d-7505-44d3-a2bb-de3a025f1328> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://everything2.com/title/ten+percent+rule | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952291 | 128 | 2.359375 | 2 |
The most temporal of plants- bright and vivid in the morning, wilted and weary in the night. Fragile to the touch, easily ripped, fragrant even when crushed. It’s intriguing how they seem to spring up almost overnight- seeds carelessly dropped, blown and tossed for miles and weary miles by ruthless winds. But they grow all the same.
Except of course for the noble few who take their time to breed them- who tend to their every whim. They make the light come just right; they make sure the flowers are watered just right; they “feed” the flowers just right. They get to see the joy of watching cold and lonely seeds and stalks sprout with new life- that fresh, dewy-sweet scent of newness. Don’t forget the thousands, the millions who see both the immediate finery and beyond that, the significance of each petal, each bud, each leaf.
Remember also the soil that supports them, trodden daily by the feet of harried beings- humans seking income, animals seeking refuge; machines seeking what lies beneath. Even the mortal remains of humans and animals occupy the soil. All the refuse packed in, all the buildings finding their foundation in the soil. The stinky dung we throw in- the earth just takes without complaining. With all the abuse, the earth still finds a way to respond to everything we put in.
The dung and the decay birth an uncanny fecundity in the earth; the salty urine and bones harden to form minerals- diamonds and even petroleum. Even daisies and dandelions find time to pop out of graveyards and abandoned fields. It’s like an act of defiance saying, “you treat me with such disrespect, but hey- we’ll meet one day. Here’s something to brighten your day.”
Flowers are the earth’s way of laughing- Jenna
“Our careless feet leaving trails
Never minding the fragile dirt we all end in”
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HUMAN RIGHTS organisations Liberty and Privacy International have informed a tribunal that MI5 has “continually breached” surveillance laws for many years, resulting in the Home Secretary issuing “unlawful” bulk surveillance warrants.
In a landmark case running from 25-29 July and being heard by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the organisations have asserted that, “in breach” of key legal safeguards, MI5 “unlawfully held and used individuals’ private data” that was “gathered by secret surveillance”.
This allegedly included breaches of safeguards around how long MI5 retained data, who had access to specific data and how MI5 protected legally privileged material such as private correspondence between lawyers and clients.
Through the course of this case, MI5 has admitted that it stored the public’s data when it had no legal right to do so and that it failed to disclose this to the Home Office and oversight bodies.
According to Liberty, the details of MI5’s law-breaking stretch over a ten-year period and were first disclosed in 2019 as part of the former’s separate legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, itself also known as the Snoopers’ Charter, in which the Government was forced to admit that MI5 had been unlawfully retaining and mishandling the public’s data for years.
As part of that case, the Government disclosed a number of documents in court, including correspondence between MI5 and its watchdog, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office, as well as correspondence between MI5 and the Home Office, so too reports of inspections carried out by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office after learning of MI5’s failings.
These documents revealed that MI5 itself called its data stores “ungoverned spaces” and that the Investigatory Powers Commissioner concluded MI5 had held and handled data in an “undoubted unlawful manner”. Many more documents have now been disclosed in the current case, duly revealing – suggests Liberty – the “scale and seriousness” of MI5’s lawlessness.
Broad surveillance powers
Although the information on exactly whose data has been mishandled is unavailable, it’s likely to include that of many individuals who are not suspected of any wrongdoing due to the nature of the broad surveillance powers given to MI5. Under the Investigatory Powers Act and other laws, state bodies including MI5 are allowed to collect and store wide-ranging data on any member of the public. Due to MI5’s breaches, though, this data could have been unlawfully retained and used.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has also been told that the Home Office and various Home Secretaries “overlooked and failed to investigate” MI5’s breaches, despite apparently having information to hand that indicated MI5 was acting outside of the law.
Surveillance warrants have to be approved by the Home Secretary and can only be approved if that individuals is satisfied legal safeguards around the handling of data are being met. However, Liberty and Privacy International have argued that successive Home Secretaries repeatedly ignored the signs of MI5’s unlawful handling of data and continued to sign-off on surveillance warrants unlawfully.
Liberty and Privacy International have told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that MI5 knew about systemic compliance risk as far back as 2010, but did not take steps to understand or fix these issues until many years later.
MI5 “failed to report” its non-compliance, as it should have done, to the Home Office and its regulators – and disclose it to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in relevant litigation – for “several years”. It’s also alleged that MI5 gave false information about its legal compliance to the Home Secretary and the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office, which then led to further surveillance warrants being granted.
Liberty and Privacy International have said that MI5 and the Home Office’s failings violate everybody’s right to privacy and free expression. The organisations have called for all surveillance warrants issued unlawfully to be quashed, all unlawfully retained data to be destroyed and for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to declare that the Investigatory Powers Act itself is unlawful “because it does not work in practice”.
Liberty’s lawyer Megan Goulding said: “We all want to have control over our personal information and data, but MI5’s law-breaking is yet another example of how the dangerous powers granted under the Snoopers’ Charter do not work for the public and how the Government and the Security Services continually violate our basic rights to privacy and free expression when they spy on us.”
Goulding continued: “This case shows that our surveillance laws are not fit for purpose. Surveillance safeguards can only protect us if they work in practice and they don’t. For ten years, MI5 has been knowingly breaking the rules and failing to report it, while the Government has failed to investigate clear red flags. There has been no proper investigation into MI5’s breaches by the Home Office despite having been put on notice by briefings. Instead, the Home Secretary has continued to issue unlawful warrants and MI5 has kept information from the authorities about how it mishandled our data.”
In conclusion, Goulding observed: “Mass surveillance does not make us safer. These powers breach our privacy and undermine core pillars of our democracy. It’s clear that so-called ‘safeguards’ are totally ineffective in protecting our rights. This case represents a step towards reining in surveillance powers and we very much hope that the Government will step up and create proper safeguards that protect our privacy rights.”
Privacy International’s legal director Caroline Wilson Palow added: “MI5’s persistent failure to follow the law is inexcusable. For years, the organisation has ignored safeguards put in place to protect us from abuse. These safeguards are a fundamental check on the vast power intelligence agencies can wield over all of us, and especially so when they engage in mass surveillance.”
Wilson Palow added: “Back in 2015, when we campaigned against giving the state unprecedented new surveillance powers under the so-called Snooper’s Charter, one of our key concerns was that the safeguards against abuse were just not strong enough. Here we are, seven years later, with even the rules that are enshrined in law being ignored in practice. Those rules need a radical overhaul.”
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Stargazing is one of the most popular and relaxing activities universally performed across the globe. There’s nothing like sitting in a large field of grass and looking up at the star-filled sky and contemplating just how small we all truly are. All around the world there are numerous locations where the universe looks close enough to touch based on how saturated the sky can get with stars. Here’s a list of some of the most widely-known destinations to view the night sky from:
The Atacama Desert, Chile: South America in general is known for its amazing stargazing. This desert located in the northern part of Chile is the driest place on the planet; besides the North and South Poles. It receives a couple millimeters of rain every year, however, the dry conditions mixed with the high altitude, minimal clouds, and near-zero pollution makes it perfect for viewing the night sky. The Tarantula Nebula, the Fornax Cluster of galaxies, the Southern Cross, and even the Large Magellanic Cloud are all visible from the desert. For this reason, locals refer to the desert as the best place in the world for looking at the stars.
The Atacama Desert
Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah: This national monument is located in Lake Powell, Utah, and was the first ever certified International Dark Sky Park, which is an accolade given to various areas of the world by the International Dark Sky Association, whose main goal is to combat light and air pollution worldwide. This designation advertises itself as having some of the darkest and clearest skies in the US and in the world. The biggest attraction is the “river of light” that appears at night which is created by the Milky Way’s reflection as it rises over the Owachomo Bridge. The bridge forms what looks like a clean-cut window into the night sky that “frames” the millions of stars visible with the naked eye. Locals recommend camping out under the stars for the best experience.
Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park, Japan: Japan is a country that’s known for it’s natural beauty. It’s cherry blossom trees and emphasis on nature in architecture make Japan one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It’s also one of the best places for stargazing, in the Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park especially, 84 out of the 88 constellations, that are recognized by the International Astronomical Union, are visible. The park is also an International Dark Sky Park.
Mauna Kea Observatory
Mauna Kea, Hawaii: The Mauna Kea summit on the Big Island is known as the most famous stargazing spot in Hawaii. The volcanic terrain and 13,800 foot high peak gives onlookers some of the most breathtaking views of the night sky imaginable. The Mauna Kea Observatory is located at the mountains peak, allowing for individuals to really look deeper into the night sky with it’s thirteen powerful telescopes.
Pic du Midi, France: Pic du Midi is located in the French Pyrénées mountains and is famous for being the spot where NASA scientists take photos of the surface of the moon. If that isn’t any indication for how amazing the stargazing is here then I don’t know what is. Individuals can easily take a cable car from La Mongie to the mountains summit where an observatory is located for ideal viewing.
La Fortuna, Costa Rica: This Costa Rican jungle may not seem like an ideal place for viewing the sky, especially considering tropical jungles are typically saturated in plant life making the sky nearly invisible, however, depending on the night, locals refer to this jungle as one of the few places where the Milky Way Galaxy becomes visible at night. The jungle is located right above the equator, which means during the dry season (December – April) visitors will have ample opportunity to view the stars.
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Energy Storage Solutions for Wind Generator Connected Distribution Systems in Rural Ontario
Rahman, Mohammed Nahid
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Environmental awareness and uncertainty about continued supply of fossil fuel has given rise to the renewable energy movement. Wind based power generation has been at the forefront of the motion to integrate distributed energy sources in the traditional power system. Due to various technical restrictions, wide scale penetration of wind generated power has been held back by most utilities. One such restriction is the variability of generation due to the technology’s dependence on Mother Nature. Energy storage devices can complement the wind generators by reducing this variability. These devices can store excess generation for supply during low generation periods. There are several promising technologies for both energy storage and power storage applications. Power storage devices provide short term fluctuation dampening capability while energy storage devices allow longer term storage. Pumped hydro, Vanadium Redox battery and Sodium-Sulphur battery are some of the viable energy storage technologies. This project provides a set of algorithms and guidelines to obtain the optimal configuration parameters of an energy storage device. To verify the efficiency of the algorithms, a model system has been obtained from a local utility. This system represents a typical radial distribution system in rural Ontario. The load demand, wind speed and energy prices for a period of one year have been obtained from utilities and Environment Canada. The main goal in determining the location of the storage device within a distribution system is to minimize the total cost of energy and the total energy loss during the period of analysis. Locating the storage device near the wind turbines or near the largest loads lead to the optimum results. Buses that are located near those elements can be considered as suitable locations for the storage device. The energy storage capacity and charge-discharge rate of the storage device are selected based on four criteria: maximize wind turbines’ load following capability, maximize capacity factors of the wind turbines, minimize system energy losses and minimize system energy costs. A weight based multi-objective optimization algorithm has been proposed to assign various priorities to these criteria and obtain a single solution. The larger the energy storage capacity of the storage device, the better the improvement in system performance. Lower charge-discharge ramp rates provide superior results. The parameters for storage device operating schedule, i.e. charge-discharge trigger levels, have been selected using similar criteria and weighted objective approach as for the capacity selection process. Higher charge trigger levels and moderate discharge trigger levels provide the optimum system performance. Once a set of parameters for the storage device has been selected, bus voltages over the period of study are analyzed. Voltage variations outside certain limits have been identified. Finally, a Monte Carlo based simulation approach is presented to obtain output parameter (system performance) variation ranges for pseudo random changes in input parameters. | <urn:uuid:4519017c-f48e-4977-81e7-9187f0483b4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/4849 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917664 | 561 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Children’s literature has many notable options when it comes to multigenerational. To help you find the right books for you and your young reader, we’ve compiled a list of the best kids books about multigenerational.
Our list includes board books, picture books, and chapter books. Board books are best for babies and toddlers from ages newborn to 2 or 3. Picture books are generally great options for toddlers and for preschool and kindergarten age children. Picture books are especially enjoyable for adults to read aloud with young kids. The chapter books on our list are generally best for elementary through early middle school age tween kids. You can filter to sort by the best book type for your kid.
We hope this list of kids books about multigenerational can be a helpful resource for parents, teachers, and others searching for a new book!
Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today. Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along, that’s true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. It’s easier to remember what’s important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup.
How do you give your granny a hug when she lives far away? Send it through the mail, of course!
Owen’s hug travels across the country in a series of hilarious, sometimes awkward, always heartfelt embraces between animals of different shapes and sizes. Valeri Gorbachev’s adorable artwork pairs beautifully with Sandra Horning’s charming text, and makes for a fun, funny, and educational read-aloud. An unexpected twist at the end will delight readers and have kids asking for this book again and again.
A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn’t having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn’t speak much English, and May can’t understand Chinese. She’s hungry, and bored with Gong Gong’s errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong’s friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals he’s been paying more attention than she thought. With lighthearted, expressive illustrations by Elaine Chen, this charming debut expertly captures life in the cityand shows how small, shared moments of patience and care–and a dumpling or two–can help a child and grandparent bridge the generational and cultural gaps between them. A glossary at the end of the book features translations of the Chinese words from the story into Chinese characters and English.
A young boy’s original game coaxes a grieving grandpa to reconnect with the world in a touching intergenerational story of love and resilience. Henry loves talking with Grandpa, but Grandpa has stopped listening. Mom says to just give him time. But Henry wants to talk to Grandpa now. So Henry tries his favorite game: Top Threes. And something amazing happens: Grandpa starts talking again. Out of a tale of favorite sandwiches and zoo animals, outings and trains, emerges a moving story about love, loss, and the wonder of grannies and grandpas.
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond. When Chicken has a “meltdown”, Cat’s the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She’s always knows what he needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat is the glue holding her family together. When a summer trip doesn’t go as planned, Cat and Chicken end up spending three weeks with grandparents they’ve never met. With their help, Cat can be a kid again for the first time in years, and the journey she takes shows that even the most broken relationships can be healed if people take the time to walk in one another’s shoes. Perfect for fans of Lynda Mullaly Hunt and Ali Benjamin, this special novel features an unforgettable voice and is brimming with heart.
Rosie Revere, Engineer - Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal—to fly—Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt’s dream come true. But when her contraption doesn’t fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie’s contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. From the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion. Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck’s class, is available in September 2016.
When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree - “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator’s careful–and funny–instructions, she discovers that the tree might be exactly what she wanted after all.
The Matchbox Diary - Follows a girl’s perusal of her great-grandfather’s collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
All the Places to Love - A picture book celebration of love by the Newbery Medal–winning author, Patricia MacLachlan, with luminous paintings by Mike Wimmer. Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventually passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: “All the places to love are here . . . no matter where you may live.” This stunning picture book is the perfect gift for parents of a new baby.
A 2019 Schneider Family Award Honor Book!
What’s Happening to Grandpa meets Up in this tender, sensitive picture book that gently explains the memory loss associated with aging and diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
James’s Grandpa has the best balloons because he has the best memories. He has balloons showing Dad when he was young and Grandma when they were married. Grandpa has balloons about camping and Aunt Nelle’s poor cow. Grandpa also has a silver balloon filled with the memory of a fishing trip he and James took together.
But when Grandpa’s balloons begin to float away, James is heartbroken. No matter how hard he runs, James can’t catch them. One day, Grandpa lets go of the silver balloon—and he doesn’t even notice!
Grandpa no longer has balloons of his own. But James has many more than before. It’s up to him to share those balloons, one by one.
A young girl loves her grandpa so much! When they spend the day at the beach, she holds his hand as they go for a walk, and they build sand castles together. But sometimes, it is difficult, because Grandpa has become forgetful. Grandpa’s memories are like the tide, Mommy explains. Sometimes, they are near and full of life. Other times, they are distant and quiet. A story about families, laughter, and how we can help a loved one with dementia live well.
This hilarious, offbeat picture book from the creator of Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School reveals that there is more to the older generation than meets the eye. Grandpa Frank doesn’t have any interesting hobbies, unless you count complaining about how everything was better in the old days. He doesn’t speak Italian like Paolo’s mom, or play the drums like Tom’s uncle. He’s just a grandpa. So when the young narrator of this story is forced to bring Frank to school for show-and-tell, he’s sure it’s going to be a disaster. But Frank has a trick—make that a tattoo—up his sleeve! And a story to go with it. After all, the longer you’ve been around, the more time you’ve had for wild adventures.
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
When is an old truck something more? On a small, bustling farm, a resilient and steadfast pickup works tirelessly alongside the family that lives there, and becomes a part of the dreams and ambitions of the family’s young daughter.After long days and years of hard work leave the old truck rusting in the weeds, it’s time for the girl to roll up her sleeves. Soon she is running her own busy farm, and in the midst of all the repairing and restoring, it may be time to bring her faithful childhood companion back to life.With an eye-catching retro design and cleverly nuanced illustrations, The Old Truck celebrates the rewards of determination and the value of imagination.
Big Papa and the Time Machine - Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstrom (One Day in the Eucalytus, Eucalyptus Tree) and Shane Evans (Chocolate Me!) that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford. A little boy who lives with his grandpa isn’t reprimanded for being afraid to go to school one day. Instead, Big Papa takes him away in his time machine—a 1952 Ford—back to all of the times when he, himself, was scared of something life was handing him. Full of heartfelt moments and thrilling magical realism, Big Papa and the Time Machine speaks to the African American experience in a touching dialogue between two family members from different generations, and emerges as a voice that shares history and asks questions about one family’s experience in 20th-century black America. *“Wasn’t you scared?” “Oh, I was scared,” Big Papa said. “Sometimes you gotta walk with giants if you ever gonna know what you made of. That’s called being brave.”*
The Gardener - By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers’ faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece – an ambitious rooftop garden – which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small’s illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting. The Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book.
Ocean Meets Sky - It’s a good day for sailing. Finn lives by the sea and the sea lives by him. Every time he looks out his window it’s a constant reminder of the stories his grandfather told him about the place where the ocean meets the sky. Where whales and jellyfish soar and birds and castles float. Finn’s grandfather is gone now but Finn knows the perfect way to honor him. He’ll build his own ship and sail out to find this magical place himself! And when he arrives, maybe, just maybe, he’ll find something he didn’t know he was looking for.
Grandma - Told in diary form, Oscar relates how his grandmother becomes less able to look after herself and enters a nursing home, with information about dementia to help children discuss their feelings and adjust to the changing relationship.
Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue Climbs out the window . . . Tiptoes over to the front door . . . And rings the doorbell. Ding dong. When her mother answers, she doesn’t see Eleanor Sue. She sees A cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen in this whimsical picture book by award-winning author/illustrator Tricia Tusa.
A sweet friendship spanning age and culture blooms in a shared backyard. Khalil lives in the upstairs apartment with his family, which is big and busy and noisy. Downstairs lives Mr. Hagerty, who is quiet. Khalil and Mr. Hagerty don’t appear to have a lot in common, but hot summer days have a way of bringing people together. As Khalil looks for buried treasure in the yard, Mr. Hagerty tends to his garden. Both help each other navigate language – whether it be learning new words or remembering those seemingly forgotten. Before long, an unlikely friendship is born, full of treasure, thoughtfulness, and chocolate cake. Through well-cultivated details and vibrant cut-paper collage, author Tricia Springstubb and illustrator Elaheh Taherian nurture a heart-tugging tribute to the love of good neighbors and to the strength of intergenerational and intercultural bonds.
Much has been written about war and remembrance, but very little of it has been for young children. As questions come from a young grandchild, his grandpa talks about how, as a very young man, he was as proud as a peacock in uniform, busy as a beaver on his Atlantic crossing, and brave as a lion charging into battle. Soon, the old man’s room is filled with an imaginary menagerie as the child thinks about different aspects of wartime. But as he pins medals on his grandpa’s blazer and receives his own red poppy in return, the mood becomes more somber. Outside, the crowd gathered for the veterans’ parade grows as quiet as a mouse, while men and women – old and young – march past in the rain. A trumpet plays and Grandpa lays a wreath in memory of his lost friend. Just then, the child imagines an elephant in the mist. “Elephants never forget,” he whispers to his grandpa. “Then let’s be elephants,” says the old man, as he wipes water from his eyes and takes his grandson’s hand. Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion has relevance to a growing number of families, as new waves of soldiers leave home.
A family celebrates Día de Muertos, a holiday for remembering those who have passed. When the monarch butterflies return to her Mexican countryside, Lupita knows that Día de Muertos, “the Day of the Dead,” is near. She and her favorite uncle watch the butterflies flutter in the trees. When a butterfly lands on Lupita’s hand, her uncle reminds her that she should never hurt a monarch because they are believed to be the souls of the departed. Lupita and her family get ready for the holiday. When the first of November arrives, the family will go to the cemetery to honor the memories of their loved ones. But this year is different—Lupita’s uncle cannot join them. Now, Lupita learns the true meaning of the celebration.
A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma’s old farmhouse. “This is Thunder Cake baking weather,” calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time!
Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma–her Babushka–helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco’s vivid memories of her grandmother’s endearing answer to a child’s fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration!
Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.
Auntie Claus - A deluxe gift edition of the modern Christmas classic, featuring an access code to a printable Christmas party kit, plus downloadable audio read by Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn! Auntie Claus is just another eccentric New Yorker—or is she? Young Sophie has often wondered about her unusual great-aunt, Auntie Claus. She lives in penthouse 25C at the Bing Cherry Hotel and is so curioso! After all, Auntie Claus serves Christmas cookies all year long and her tree is always the best-decorated in the city. And then there’s her annual “business trip,” right around the holidays. This year Sophie is determined to get to the bottom of Auntie Claus’s mysterious ways. Put on your mittens and bundle up for an adventure beyond your wildest dreams. Ho, ho, ho!
What Grew in Larry's Garden - Grace thinks Larry’s garden is one of the wonders of the world. In his tiny backyard next door to hers, Larry grows the most extraordinary vegetables. Grace loves helping him - watering and weeding, planting and pruning, hoeing and harvesting. And whenever there’s a problem - like bugs burrowing into the carrots or slugs chewing the lettuce - Grace and Larry solve it together. Grace soon learns that Larry has big plans for the vegetables in his special garden. And when that garden faces its biggest problem yet, Grace follows Larry’s example to find the perfect solution. Inspired by a real person, author Laura Alary has written a heartwarming story about how amazing things can grow when you tend your garden with kindness. In this case, Larry, a teacher, is helping to grow community. He has his students grow tomato plants that they then give away to their neighbors with personal notes. It offers a powerful lesson on the influence of generosity, while encouraging young children to become community activists in their own neighborhoods. This uplifting story fosters an appreciation for neighborhood and community at a time when that sentiment seems to be eroding. The book also contains an environmental message about harvesting your own vegetables and, with Kass Reich’s colorful illustrations, works beautifully for a life science exploration of growth and changes in plants. There are character education connections to caring, cooperation, empathy, kindness, perseverance and teamwork.
Alma and How She Got Her Name - What’s in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from – and who she may one day be. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; Jose, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all – and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her author-illustrator debut, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.
Big Cat, Little Cat - A 2018 Caldecott Honor book There was a cat who lived alone. Until the day a new cat came . . . And so a story of friendship begins, following the two cats through their days, months, and years until one day, the older cat has to go. And he doesn’t come back. This is a poignant story, told in measured text and bold black-and-white illustrations about the act of moving on.
While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.
Georgie visits her Grandpa at the home where he lives, but he doesn’t always remember who she is. He does, however, remember how to make newspaper hats, and together they fold enough for all his friends. Touching moments portray the difficulties and nuances of memory loss from a child’s perspective, and an uplifting ending leaves readers with hope. A poignant and age-appropriate story about a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease.
National Bestseller Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc’s life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn’t swim. But what was most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the King of the Jungle. When Marc’s mother tells him that his Uncle Jake is coming to stay for the whole summer, Marc can’t wait. Uncle Jake is a for real, super-cool Navy SEAL. And Uncle Jake has a plan. He’s going to turn Marc into a warrior. Becoming a warrior isn’t easy. It means a lot of pull ups, sit ups, pushups, squats, swimming, eating right, and studying harder than ever before! Can Marc transform himself into a warrior before school starts in the fall - and finally stand up to the King of the Jungle himself? The Way of the Warrior Kid is a new illustrated chapter book by #1 New York Times-bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.
A children’s picture book about a grandmother bonding with her granddaughters as she teaches them how much they can learn from nature just by being curious. Grandma knows that there is wondrous knowledge to be found everywhere you can think to look. She takes her girls to their special garden, and asks them to look over their collection of rocks, crystals, seashells, and meteorites to see what marvels they have to show. “They were here long before us and know so much more about our world than we ever will,” Grandma says. So they are called grandfathers. By taking a close look with an open mind, they see the strength of rocks shaped by volcanoes, the cleansing power of beautiful crystals, the oceans that housed their shells and shapes its environment, and the long journey meteorites took to find their way to them. Gathered together, Grandma and the girls let their surroundings spark their imaginations. This is a wonderful book to foster a loving intergenerational family bond. With its dazzling illustrations and poetic text, it’s also the perfect book to encourage the curiosity of little ones and cultivate an enthusiastic approach to learning.
Yoomi wants a yellow belt. But she’s afraid to break the board. Grandma to the rescue!
Yoomi and her friends are ready to take on the test for their yellow belts in taekwondo. But Yoomi is afraid to break a board. Meanwhile, Grandma is struggling to learn something new, too.
But Yoomi and Grandma encourage and inspire each other. Yoomi discovers how, with persistence, focus, deep breathing, and above all, a loving Grandma, even the toughest challenges can be overcome.
This companion to No Kimchi for Me emphasizes self-confidence, determination, and the value of family. Backmatter about taekwondo, including some Korean vocabulary, is included.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story - In this deeply moving nonfiction picture book, award-winning author Caren Stelson brings Sachiko Yasui’s story of surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and her message of peace to a young audience. Sachiko’s family home was about half a mile from where the atomic bomb fell on August 9, 1945. Her family experienced devastating loss. When they returned to the rubble where their home once stood, her father miraculously found their serving bowl fully intact. This delicate, green, leaf-shaped bowl–which once held their daily meals–now holds memories of the past and serves as a vessel of hope, peace, and new traditions for Sachiko and the surviving members of her family.
Our Favorite Day - Charmingly detailed illustrations help tell a touching tale of the bond between grandparent and grandchild in a quiet yet powerful debut. “Thursdays are my favorite days.” “Mine, too.” Every morning Papa follows his normal routine. He drinks his tea, waters his plants, tidies up, and takes the bus into town. Papa enjoys his daily tasks, but there’s one day each week that is extra special. That’s the day he might visit the craft store, get two orders of dumplings to go, and possibly pick some flowers he sees along the path. With its spare text and wonderfully warm watercolor and cut-paper illustrations just begging to be pored over, Joowon Oh’s tale of the singular love between a grandfather and granddaughter will nestle within the heart of every reader.
Clean Getaway - From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations. How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma: Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.Fasten Your Seatbelt: G’ma’s never conventional, so this trip won’t be either.Use the Green Book: G’ma’s most treasured possession. It holds history, memories, and most important, the way home. What Not to Bring: A Cell Phone: Avoid contact with Dad at all costs. Even when G’ma starts acting stranger than usual. Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, take a trip with this New York Times bestseller and an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn’t always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren’t always what they seem–his G’ma included. Truly a delight. -Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Newbery Medal winner Bud, Not Buddy
Love by Sophia - The precocious Sophia and her pet giraffe Noodle learn how to look at life, love, and art in this latest installment of the series that Kirkus Reviews calls “fun, clever, and empowering.” Sophia loves her family and her wonderful pet giraffe Noodle, so when she gets an assignment to draw something she loves, she wants to make it extra special. Taking her teacher’s advice, Sophia uses a little perspective and creates a work she calls Love. Before she can place her masterpiece on the refrigerator, her whole family has to approve of the painting. But this is the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Louvre of refrigerators. Can Sophia persuade them to take a chance on a new perspective, so they can see love from her point of view?
When you live in the arctic in winter, everything is a shade of white. A young girl looks around her home in the arctic and sees only white, white, white . . . but one day her grandfather takes her out on a journey across the tundra. And at the end of their cold walk, the dark opens up to show the Northern Lights dancing across the sky–blue, green, and purple.
Everyone remembers their secret imaginary world…but what if you discovered that yours was real? When Arthur and Rose were little, they were the heroes of Roar, a magical world they invented where the wildest creations of their imaginations roamed. Now that they’re eleven, Roar is just a distant memory. But it hasn’t forgotten them. When their grandfather is spirited away into Roar by the villain who still haunts their nightmares, Arthur and Rose must go back to the world they’d almost left behind. And when they get there, they discover that Grandad isn’t the only one who needs their help. This enchanting, action-packed novel is perfect for readers who’ve always dreamed of exploring Narnia and Neverland.–Booklist
In honor of the special day, Lizzie wakes up super early, as any good chef should, to prepare the perfect meal for her grandmother, whom Lizzie lauds as the greatest chef in the world.
A father’s love for his son goes zoom, swoosh, vroom, boom! in this energetic, adventurous, action-packed board book tribute to fathers and sons.
The bond between a father and his son is as powerful as a rocket ship blasting into space, a giant whale splashing across the ocean, and booming, colorful fireworks lighting up the night sky. Celebrating that one-of-a-kind relationship between Dad and his favorite little guy, If My Love Were a Fire Truck is a rhyming love song from fathers to sons that will become a cherished part of their lives for many years to come.
The creators of Pick a Pine Tree are back with a joyful, energetic celebration of a Halloween tradition. Pick a pumpkin from the patch. Tall and lean or short and fat. Vivid orange, ghostly white, or speckled green, might be just right. Pairing a wonderfully rhythmic read-aloud text with expressive retro illustrations, author Patricia Toht and illustrator Jarvis capture all the excitement and familial feeling of a favorite holiday tradition. Readers will be happy to follow along with each step, from picking out the perfect specimen at the pumpkin patch (be sure to stop for cider and toffee apples) to carting it home, scooping out the insides, carving a scary face, and finally lighting a candle inside – savoring the familiar ritual of transforming an ordinary pumpkin into a one-of-a-kind glowing jack-o’-lantern.
Hike - Take to the trails for a celebration of nature – and a day spent with dad. In the cool and quiet early light of morning, a father and child wake up. Today they’re going on a hike. Follow the duo into the mountains as they witness the magic of the wilderness, overcome challenges, and play a small role in the survival of the forest. By the time they return home, they feel alive – and closer than ever – as they document their hike and take their place in family history. In detail-rich panels and textured panoramas, Pete Oswald perfectly paces this nearly wordless adventure, allowing readers to pause for subtle wonders and marvel at the views. A touching tribute to the bond between father and child, with resonant themes for Earth Day, Hike is a breath of fresh air.
Freedom Bird: A Tale of Hope and Courage - In this inspiring story in the tradition of American black folktales, an enslaved brother and sister are inspired by a majestic and mysterious bird to escape to freedom in this dramatic and unforgettable picture book. There was nothing civil about that war. They should have called it what it was: a big, bad war. Brother and sister Millicent and John are slaves on Simon Plenty’s plantation and have suffered one hurt and heartbreak after another. Their parents had told them old tales of how their ancestors had flown away to freedom just as free and easy as a bird. Millicent and John hold these stories in their hearts long after their parents are gone. “Maybe such a time will come for you,” their parents said. Then one day a mysterious bird appears in their lives. The bird transforms them and gives them the courage to set their plan into motion and escape to freedom.
Cleonardo, the Little Inventor - Cleonardo’s father is an inventor. So was her grandfather, her great-grandfather, and all the great-greats before them. Cleo wants to be an inventor too. She tries to help her father in his workshop, but he never uses her great ideas. Can Cleo invent something big and important and perfect all by herself? This imaginative story of a father and his daughter brings the magic of creativity to little inventors everywhere.
Going Down Home with Daddy - “On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcases and a cooler full of snacks. He says there’s nothing like going down home.” Down home is Granny’s house. Down home is where Lil’ Alan and his parents and sister will join great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Down home is where Lil’ Alan will hear stories of the ancestors and visit the land that has meant so much to all of them. And down home is where all of the children will find their special way to pay tribute to family history. All the kids have to decide on what tribute to share, but what will Lil’ Alan do? In this rich and moving celebration of history, culture, and ritual, Kelly Starling Lyons’ eloquent text explores the power of family traditions. Stunning illustrations by Coretta Scott King Honor-winner Daniel Minter reveal the motion and connections in a large, multigenerational family.
“Three bouncing little bear siblings, wrapped tight in their winter clothes, can’t wait to tromp through the snow for Baking Day at Grandma’s! In a rhyming text that begs to be sung, the bears and their grandma pour and mix and stir-with breaks for hot cocoa and dancing-to create the perfect wintry treat. Then they wrap it up in ribbons to show that sweets are even better when they’re shared. With a recipe in the back, this is a perfect family feel-good story for the fall, winter, and any holiday spent with grandparents.”
In this delightful story, by the same author who wrote When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree, a boy is disappointed with his grandfather’s gift—until he learns he can use it to build exactly what he wanted with his own two hands, and a little help from grandpa, of course!
You asked for a special house for your dolls; but instead Grandpa gives you a toolbox! What do you do? Launching it into outer space is a bad idea. So is feeding it to a T. rex! Instead, be patient, pay attention, and you might find that you’re pretty handy. And just maybe, with grandpa’s help, you’ll get that dollhouse after all. This clever story celebrates kindness, hard work, and community, as well as variety in gender expression: the male main character proudly engages in activities that might be considered typically girl (playing with dolls) and typically boy (building with tools).
George loves Saturdays.
That’s because Saturdays mean time with Grandma Stella. The two of them love going on adventures downtown to visit the dinosaur museum and ride on the carousel! Even when they stay in, George and Stella have fun together, making cinnamon rolls without popping open a tube and sharing the biggest, best hugs.
Then one day Stella is gone, and George is ready to cancel Saturdays. But when a new addition to the family arrives, George finds a way to celebrate the priceless memories he made with his grandma―while making new ones too.
“When summer started, I got Grampa’s stopwatch,” a small child says. “I don’t want his stopwatch. I want him.” Grampa used to time everything. A race to the end of the street and back: 24 seconds. Eating bubblegum ice cream: 1 minute, 58 seconds. But now, Grampa’s gone. “There are no more Grampa minutes, Grampa seconds,” the child says. “Time just stops.” As the seasons come and go, the stopwatch becomes a cherished symbol of remembrance, and the child uses it to carry on Grampa’s favorite pastimes and traditions.
Loretta Garbutt uses subtlety and sensitivity to explore the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) in this moving picture book story of loss. It features a gender-neutral main character (no first name or pronouns are given) making the story universally relatable. This is a perfect choice for fostering discussions with children about their emotions, particularly the feeling of loss. It also offers a poignant representation of an intergenerational relationship between a grandfather and grandchild. Carmen Mok’s expressive and thoughtful illustrations employ a limited color palette to convey the character’s emotional trajectory. There are curriculum applications here in social-emotional development as well as character education lessons in caring and resilience.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions–doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela.The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free. Plus don’t miss Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land!
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Raleigh, N.C. — Paula Trantham figures her phone at Millbrook Elementary Magnet School in north Raleigh will be ringing more than usual on Feb. 5, the date when parents and the public first get a look at new A-through-F letter grades for all public schools in the state.
The grades are meant to give parents a quick snapshot of how a school is performing. But principals such as Trantham and other school administrators say that snapshot is likely to be out of focus because the new grading system will lean more on raw test scores than measures of how much students learn during a year – what is known as "student growth" among educators.
"Our students don't always come to us ready (to learn). We have kindergartners who walk in the door and don't know the alphabet," she said.
So, while Trantham can pile up reports showing students better than expected progress and show off a school that lets students soak up art and music as well as math and English, she knows little of that will be reflected in Millbrook Elementary's grade.
The Department of Public Instruction is not releasing information about how schools did on the new grading scale until Feb. 5, and school administrators have been forbidden from talking about the data behind the grades until then. But schools do know that 80 percent of the grade will be based on "achievement," a measure largely based on how students do on end-of-grade tests. Only 20 percent will be based on growth.
For schools with a high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch students – a shorthand measure for poverty in the student population – those test scores tend to drag for a number or reasons. Students from lower-income families don't begin their academic year with the same advantages of students whose parents can afford outside learning opportunities such as preschool, educational camps or even books for home reading. Roughly 70 percent of Millbrook Elementary's population is enrolled in the free and reduced-price lunch program.
"We had tremendous growth last year – some of the top in the county – but that's not going to be reflected in our grade," Trantham said. "This is going to be a huge thing for us, and we're probably going to have a huge conversation around it."
Millbrook Elementary will be far from the only place where that conversation is happening. Across the state, school boards and administrators have asked lawmakers to reverse course, saying the scale will unfairly tar schools with a D or an F despite teachers who are helping students master more than an academic year's worth of work over the course of nine months.
"We think our schools should be graded more on what they actually accomplish during the school year and where their students were starting from," Durham Public Schools Superintendent Bert L'Homme said during a county Board of Education meeting Thursday night.
L'Homme says, over the next two weeks, he will go to schools in his district to congratulate them on outstripping state-established goals for student achievement.
"At the same time, I'm going to have to tell them that their school got an F. That does not tell the story of what is happening in our schools. The formula is not fair for our schools," he said.
Lawmakers watching carefully
The idea for the letter grades were part of a 2012 education reform measure put forward by Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and championed by the state Senate in 2013. Berger, R-Rockingham, was drawing on a larger national reform movement led by conservatives who have called for "tough medicine" to heal ailing public schools.
"A–F school accountability system recognizes and rewards success. It exposes failure, and it does this in a way that any parent who has ever seen a report card can instantly understand," reads a policy brief for the Foundation for Excellence in Public Education, a think tank associated with former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a potential presidential candidate.
In North Carolina, grades released next week will reflect student performance during the 2013-14 school year. Grades reflecting the 2014-15 school year are due to be released in September.
"Everybody's on pins and needles over it as to what's going to happen, what's going to be the impact," said Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, who helps oversee the state's education budget. "I'm hopeful that we will get some agreement to re-look at this thing."
Horne said an A-through-F grading scale can be useful for parents, but the current formula does a disservice to both parents and schools. Lawmakers, he said, should make the split between achievement and growth closer to half and half of the calculation.
"In my opinion, (the current system) doesn't properly represent what's going on in a school," he said.
Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, one of Berger's top lieutenants and the Senate's education point man, said he also has concerns, but he doesn't want to change the growth-achievement calculation yet.
Tillman acknowledges that "high-flying" schools that are "already on top because of demographics, they'll be your A schools." But the new rating scale should be given a chance to work, he said.
"I want to see what it actually shows for two or three years," he said.
In theory, he said, schools that receive D or F grades this February should be able to improve over the course of a few years.
"If that experience shows me they can't, then I would be willing to look at a change," he said.
The debate over grading schools is not happening in a vacuum. Republicans legislative leaders came into office four years ago vowing to address sagging education rates and to remake budgets they viewed as bloated with too many central administrators. The school letter grades were part of a package of educational requirements that included requiring students meet certain reading benchmarks by the end of third grade as well as budget changes under which many schools chafed.
Backers of the grades say they will help parents more than more descriptive designations or complicated comparisons of student performance against state averages.
"Right now, we have labels like 'school of progress.' Those labels don't have a whole lot of meaning to parents," said Terry Stoops, director of education studies at the conservative John Locke Foundation.
The grades, he said, are a form of transparency.
However, Stoops says he is "hesitant" about the current weighting of achievement versus progress. A 50-50 split, he said, would better represent the work schools are doing.
Other critics say the grades are a deliberate swipe at public schools that already struggle with teacher salaries and could prod more parents to seek state-funded vouchers for private schools or look to charter schools.
"I think it will lead to some parents being dissatisfied," acknowledges Tillman. "You may see some move toward charter schools or some toward private schools, but most parents will be willing to hang with it a year or two."
The new grading system could especially complicate matters for magnet schools such as Millbrook Elementary. Those schools hope to attract students from outside their base areas to create a more balanced blend of incomes among families. Magnets work to persuade parents to make their move from their base schools, a sales job that likely gets tougher with a poor letter grade, Trantham said.
Discussions with parents, community expected
North Carolina is not the only state with a grading system for schools. More than 15 states have put them in place over the past decade.
Bush has championed the grading scale he helped pioneer in Florida, and the foundation he started says putting grades on schools spurred improvement.
"Florida had more D and F schools than A and B schools," the foundation said in its report. "Today, there are eight times as many A and B schools as D and F, and the bar for achieving the higher grade has been raised several times."
However, since Bush left office, school administrators in Florida have pushed for a revamp, calling the system "no longer credible." Other states are also seeking revamps. Virginia's legislature began its work this month, and lawmakers there are calling for revisions to the commonwealth's year-old grading system.
While it's too soon to say what North Carolina lawmakers will do, it's fair to say school districts will pressure them to reform the grading scale. Several districts are preparing to release figures that show how their students would perform if growth and achievement were equal parts of the scale. In Durham, the local teacher association and parent teacher association will hold a public meeting the night the grades come out.
Wake County Superintendent Jim Merrill said the A-through-F school grades will play a prominent part in his State of the Schools speech, due to be delivered the night before the grades roll out.
No parent, Merrill said, would accept a school report card that just had a single letter grade on it without breaking out how a student did in various subjects. Neither, he said, should they accept a letter grade that doesn't reflect the different facets of how a school operates.
"Parents know what's going on in their schools. I don't think they need a single grade to tell them," Merrill said, calling the idea that parents can't digest a broader amount of information "insulting."
He said he was less concerned about how parents might react than how pundits and policymakers might use the grades as part of the broader public education debate.
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Situated in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, Bengal is one of the world’s densely populated regions and home to over 250 million people.
Bengal is renowned for having a rich heritage; the region boasts historical influences from the Muslims, Dravidians, Aryans and the Europeans. Bengal, which is now separated into the Indian state of West Bengal and independent country of Bangladesh, is particularly renowned for its cuisine, of which many dishes are mimicked in regions across India and beyond.
The cuisine of northern regions of West Bengal draws many similarities to the cuisines of Assam, Bhutan, Nepal and Sikkim. The abundance of countryside provides ample space for cattle farming and agricultural, with a lot of the produce ending up on Bengalis’ plates.
Seafood is a staple of Bengali cuisine, owing to the numerous shores, lakes and ponds which dot the land. However, rice is certainly considered to be the staple crop of the region and is served alongside almost all meals.
The richness of Bengali soil, along with the rainfall, means that rice grows extremely well. In fact, it is harvested three times per year, resulting in a variety of preparations.
The best variety of rice in Bengal is Gobindobhog, with West Bengal being the main harvester. Around 80% of Gobindobhog produced stays in Bengal for the locals to enjoy, whilst a mere 20% is exported to other regions. The Indian state of Hyderabad is one of the largest markets for Gobindobhog, using it in the preparation of its world-famous Biryani. There is also increased demand for Gobindobhog during Hindu festivals which take place in regions across northern and eastern India.
Gobindobhog is a short grain rice and is slightly aromatic with a sticky texture. Its name derives from its use in the preparation of offerings to the family deity of the Setts of Kolkata, called the ‘Govindajiu.’
As well as being more flavoursome than other rice varieties, Gobindobhog is has numerous medicinal properties; it is a good source of fibre, contains antioxidants and vitamin B, all of which helps to stave off illness.
Gobindobhog is used in a number of Bengali dishes such as Pualo, which also contains ingredients including ginger, cloves, green cardamom, cinnamon, almonds, raisins, nutmeg and saffron.
As well as savoury dishes, the rice is also used in the preparation of a number of desserts such as Kheer, an Indian rice pudding. To make Kheer, rice is soaked in water for a couple of hours before it is dried and blended into a powder. Boiled mix is then added to the powder and it is stirred continuously until the texture is thick. Once thick, ingredients such as coconut, sugar and cardamom powder are added and it is garnished with dried fruit before serving.
A simple ingredient it may be, but rice needn’t be bland. If you want to sample rice in all its glory, either as a main dish or as an accompaniment to a mouth-watering curry, book yourself a table at one of London’s best informal Indian restaurants.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
One hundred and fifty years ago today, readers in London flocked around newsstands to get the last installment (and read the famous last sentence above) of a rare foray by Charles Dickens into historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities, a sweeping story of the French Revolution through the personal stories of a few people, particularly the Englishman Charles Darnay and the Frenchman Sydney Carton. Sydney is a better man, but is in love with Charles’ wife, whose father has been imprisoned and… Well, it all ties together.
When people disparage classics as boring, stuffy books nobody wants to read, it’s clear they haven’t read Dickens, whose books are crammed with excitement, great characters, and everything we want a novel to be. That’s hardly surprising, since what we expect of a novel has largely been formed by the works of DIckens in the first place..
All that being said, this is one holds up even better than other Dickens novels for 21st Century readers. Why? Because it is historical anyway, so the dated clothes, speech, and ways of life are supposed to be dated and there’s no distance between the author and us. What’s more, as one of his shorter novels, a reader isn’t likely to stall out half way through, as I have done many times with books like David Copperfield and Great Expectations, or one tenth of the way in, as I did with Bleak House.
What about young readers? My brother read this when he was 12 or 13 and I was 10. I remember well his pronouncements of the grotesque delights he found… “There’s a guy who gets his hands cut off!” he’d tell me. “You should read it!” He’d get a few pages further. “There’s a guy who gets stuffed full of straw!” So yes, it is a perfect book for boys who never read the classics. | <urn:uuid:197de36a-b760-423d-8b48-41919f7ef385> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://kurtisscaletta.com/2009/11/25/do-the-gute-a-tale-of-two-cities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00400-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971339 | 457 | 1.929688 | 2 |
A pair of carved leaf shell earrings is the combination of scarab
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You can create templates of a complete budget including budget items. If you want to create a budget template out of an existing budget, you can do so in the respective Project Budgets directly. You can also create a budget template from scratch in the InLoox Options. There you can also edit and delete existing budget templates.
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- Visible for all users – By default, the budget is only visible to yourself, but you can mark it as visible for all users.
- Name – Give your budget template a clearly distinguishable name so you and your team members can easily find it later.
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Discounting MBA programs at Harvard and Stanford, where growing demand is related to entrepreneurship - particularly with Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the following business schools are found to have the highest rate of job placement successes with employers as McKinsey & Co., Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Bain & Co.
On Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors named four men tied in the JPMorgan Chase hack last year, which was considered as the largest data breach of its kind ever discovered. Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein, all from Israel, were charged in a 23-count indictment with alleged crimes targeting 12 companies, including 9 financial services companies and media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal.
JPMorgan Chase is taking the necessary steps after its illegal methods of collecting debts from its card holders have been exposed. The nation's largest bank is now willing to pay $100 million just to settle the lawsuit that sprang from its controversial debt-collecting gesture.
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In 1914, Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent. He was educated at the National University of Mexico in law and literature.
Under the encouragement of Pablo Neruda, Paz began his poetic career in his teens by founding an avant-garde literary magazine, Barandal, and publishing his first book of poems, Luna silvestre (1933).
In his youth, Paz spent time in the United States and Spain, where he was influenced by the Modernist and Surrealist movements. His sequence of prose poems, Aguila o sol? (Eagle or Sun?, 1951) is a visionary mapping of Mexico, its past, present, and future.
His collection Piedra de Sol (Sun Stone, 1957) borrows its structure from the Aztec calendar. This long poem, and Paz’s sociocultural analysis of Mexico, El laberinto de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950), established him as a major literary figure in the 1950s.
In 1962, Paz became Mexico’s ambassador to India and resigned six years later in protest when government forces massacred student demonstrators in Mexico City.
His later work shows an ever-deepening intelligence and complexity as it investigates the intersection of philosophy, religion, art, politics, and the role of the individual. “Wouldn’t it be better to turn life into poetry rather than to make poetry from life,” Paz asks. “And cannot poetry have as its primary objective, rather than the creation of poems, the creation of poetic moments?”
His various collections of essays engage culture, linguistics, literary theory, history, and politics with a level of originality and erudition that is unrivaled; these and his poems form a breadth of work that expresses, in the words of novelist Carlos Fuentes, “the existence of a plurality of possibilities for harmony and truth, outside the limited range of our inherited dogmas.”
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BBC: The Making of The King James Bible
What Medieval catacombs have to do with remix culture and the evolution of the English language.
By Maria Popova
This week, the King James Bible celebrated its 400th anniversary. The third official translation of the Bible in English, it was completed by 47 scholars from the Church of England over the course of 7 years, with the grand goal of bringing new life to the churches. To this day, the King James version is commonly considered the greatest piece of English Literature ever produced (regardless of whether you consider it fiction or nonfiction) and remains a key to understanding not only one of the world’s largest religions but also a pivotal era of European scholarship, the history of collaborative creation. and even the evolution of the English language. (Did you know that many modern phrases and idioms — “by the skin of your teeth,” “flesh and blood,” “labour of love” — originate from the KJB?)
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible is a fascinating new BBC documentary exploring the surprising story of the great volume, from it uncanny similarity to the Millennium Dome to rare recently discovered 17th century manuscripts to the actual translation process itself, revealing why this antique work of art and science is anything but antiquated.
17th-century England was a chaotic, violent, often bureaucratic place. The most unlikely beginnings for a book that would change the world. So how did they make it happen? In this program, I look back to a world of religious power and majesty, of immense seriousness and linguistic skill, fraught with religious and political passions, to show how and why it produced the greatest book of all time.” ~ Adam Nicolson
For a related journey into the history of the epic tome, do see the newly released documentary, KJB: The Book That Changed the World (trailer), in which beloved Welsh actor John Rhys-Davie tours historical landmark and explains essential relics that shaped the culture and context of the King James Bible.
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Tips for deeper and more meaningful meditation
Updated: Jul 23, 2019
Meditation is the total Silence of the Mind - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Asanas prepare the Physical body for long periods of meditation. This was the original intention of the Asanas. Pranayama enhances and enables the prana in the body to flow without inhibition into a sattvic state. When that state is achieved, one can sit for a considerable time in meditation.
The first and foremost requirement for meditation is the develop the ability to sit cross legged without any discomfort. So practice asanans that allow the hips, ankles and feet to become flexible and supple. Start sitting for a few mins every day until the body gets used to it.
Use a pillow/ bolster or blanket. Sit on the edge with the hips tilting forward and the knees on the ground/mat.
Sukasana and Siddhasana are ideal postures. Padmasana(lotus posture) is considered quite advanced and can be tried later
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601st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron Reunion
A reunion organization for former members of the 601st and the 615th AC&W Squadrons stationed in Germany
601st, 615th, Pruem, Prum, Celle, AC&W, Rothwesten, Germany, Hessen, Air Force, Aircraft Control, Hanson, Gunpost, St. Andreasberg, Wasserkuppe, Kassel, Biloxy, Keesler, Reunion, Fuldatal, WW2, WWII, 1943, Fulda, Simmershausen, Winterburg, Hann Münden, Fritz-Erler-Kaserne, Standortschliessungen
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Preserving Our Digital Pre-History
I've spent a significant part of my life online. Not just on the internet, I mean, but on modems and early, primitive online communities. Today's internet is everything we couldn't have possibly dared to imagine twenty-five years ago, but there is a real risk of these early, tentative digital artifacts -- and for some, the beginnings of our Hacker Odyssey -- being lost forever in the relentless deluge of online progress. Sure, every single thing that happened in 2004 is documented exhaustively online. But 1994? 1984? Not so much.
That's where Jason Scott comes in.
A wonderful thing happened in the 1980s: Life started to go online. And as the world continues this trend, everyone finding themselves drawn online should know what happened before, to see where it all really started to come together and to know what went on, before it's forgotten.
When a historian or reporter tries to capture the feelings and themes that proliferated through the BBS Scene of the early 1980's, the reader nearly always experiences a mere glimpse of what went on. This is probably true of most any third-party reporting, but when the culture is your own, and when the experiences were your own, the gap between story and reality is that much wider, and it's that much harder to sit back and let the cliche-filled summary become "The Way It Was." You want to do something, anything so that the people who stumble onto the part of history that was yours know what it was like to grow up through it, to meet the people you did, to do the things you enjoyed doing. Maybe, you hope, they might even see the broader picture and the conclusions that you yourself couldn't see at the time. This is history the way the chronicled want it to be.
BBS: The Documentary was a major milestone in his ongoing effort to document our digital pre-history. But it's only the beginning; there's also a huge documentary on text adventures, Get Lamp, that's been in the works for a few years now. Unfortunately, progress has been slow. Because while being a digital historian is great, it's not exactly something you get paid to do.
But maybe we can change that. Witness Jason's kickstarter proposal:
Throughout all this, I had a day job - computer administration. It paid well, but I paid for it with my health. When my most recent employer and I parted ways, I decided I'd take this time finish some of the bigger projects I've been working on.
I suddenly thought back to Kickstarter and got this crazy idea - what if I simply asked the world and fans to contribute a bit of money towards keeping me somewhat solvent, and give me the opportunity to go full-time with computer history? If I was able to get all these things done over the years, what if I just asked people to subscribe or give me some patronage and in return I fill their free time with cool stuff to look at, learn from, and enjoy?
There are so many people whose online presences I greatly admire. But very few of them will go on to become part of the permanent written history of this era. I have no doubt whatsoever that Jason Scott is one of those people who will, thanks to his tireless efforts to preserve the flotsam and jetsam of our digital past, stuff that would otherwise be overlooked by the mainstream and lost forever.
I've pledged $100. It is an honor to support his ongoing work of preserving our shared digital pre-history. His history, is my history, is our history. A history of geeks, dorks, dweebs, nerds, and generally computer-obsessed misfits, but nonetheless -- it's something we all share.
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The Division of Obliging Workers shared an spell binding article on student debt. They contend that it’s miles a critical disaster facing mavens. As of 2021, there had been over 42.9 million American citizens with such debts.
The biggest quantity at 1.59 trillion greenbacks became in federal student loans. Banks and financial establishments funding personal college students had been yet to recover over $138 billion.
With increased training becoming a critical qualifying ingredient for many roles, college students don’t personal any replacement nonetheless to apply for such loans. Sadly, the associated charge of coaching has gone up over the years. It extra exacerbates the disaster due to the excessive debt quantities that cripple recipients for a undoubtedly prolonged time.
So what are one of the crucial causes why college students can no longer repay debt? It is an spell binding subject salubrious of extra discussion.
1. Financial Instability
Financial instability would perhaps perhaps also merely completely be even handed one of the end causes why college students fight to pay their debts. They’re going to be willing to fabricate it, nonetheless whatever they’ve is no longer enough. Looking to navigate thru financial responsibilities with cramped earnings makes it easy to drop the ball in the case of loan reimbursement.
For many, first-time jobs space them at decrease earnings levels. Whatever they accumulate barely covers all their day-to-day payments.
2. Dejected Financial Habits
Have faith again to the day that to in discovering your first job. There would possibly perhaps be a level of pleasure to having your fill cash. Let’s be lawful; no longer many folk will build debt reimbursement as even handed one of the priorities.
The same applies to graduate college students working in their first jobs. There is without warning so mighty to fabricate and so shrimp cash. Many of us will admit to no longer residing within a funds. The cash appears to exit faster than it’s coming in.
Financial prudence requires self-discipline and dedication. At the same time as you happen to would perhaps perhaps even be on this disaster of funds mismanagement, there are steps you would possibly perhaps preserve.
Signal in to Chunk finance to accumulate an outline of your budget. Tracking earnings and expenditure is the finest come to fabricate withhold an eye on of budget. The platform will ship notifications on spending thresholds, balance updates, overdraft charges, and design more. They moreover personal some fantastic guidelines on debt paydown to diminish charges coming up from interest charges.
Scrutinize knowledgeable wait on on withhold an eye to your budget. The experts can wait on attain up with a financial statement for you. The purpose is to be obvious you would possibly perhaps build one thing apart for debt reimbursement every month.
3. High-Interest Rates
A Industry Insider Africa article talks about excessive-interest charges being a causes why some college students glean it no longer easy to repay debt. You use years making payments and barely make a dent within the general quantity.
One of many interviewees left college with $117,000 in student debt. At age 32, she smooth owes $98000, having paid off $70,000.
Now, let’s express she accomplished her undergraduate training at about age 24. It design that in 8 years, she is smooth at the very space, debt-wise, she became when leaving college. Indeed, the atmosphere appears to prefer lenders design more than the borrowers who need the cash.
4. Dejected Debt Compensation Ideas
It is miles clear-cut to default on any loan without the lawful debt reimbursement solutions. Allocating sporadic quantities of cash, when out there, is no longer the come to accumulate out of debt. Here is amazingly lawful if the student is facing a total lot of loan balances.
Some workable debt reimbursement solutions consist of:-
- Snowball debt reimbursement is where you sure the bottom balances sooner than shifting on to the subsequent.
- Avalanche debt reimbursement starts from the finest loan balance to the bottom.
- Debt consolidation brings together all loan balances into one quantity. Then you positively preserve a low-interest loan to sure all of them.
- Develop extra payments to the major quantity anytime you personal gotten extra cash. Now would perhaps perhaps be a wonderful time to personal in mind an aspect job for that extra.
- Mortgage renegotiation or refinancing for one with better price phrases and interest charges.
When all else fails, you would possibly perhaps also continuously apply for loan forgiveness applications. Construct uncover what’s appropriate to your speak. Some personal strict eligibility requirements to qualify. Others are handiest out there to public servants, academics, and members of the Armed Forces.
Possess the time to fabricate a shrimp learn to hunt down out whether or no longer you would possibly perhaps also qualify for any of them.
5. Unwillingness to Pay Debts
Overview reveals that those that did no longer full their stage applications glean it onerous to pay the loans. Delinquency charges amongst such groups are as excessive as 31%.
One trigger of this would possibly perhaps be decrease incomes energy. A student who doesn’t full their college training would perhaps perhaps no longer be at the the same earnings level as those that did.
There is moreover the psychological disclose to it. The inducement to pay for a loan whose again you’re no longer seeing can moreover be advanced.
Some borrowers would perhaps perhaps also moreover defer payments due to the financial disorders. It goes to change into no longer easy to resume payments after time has passed. Lack of repayments at some level of the deferment duration design that the loan balances persisted to develop due to the interest.
This can space extra stress on the borrower, who is already struggling to sure the original quantity. It turns into more uncomplicated for them to withhold on deferring payments till they no longer can.
6. Fascinating Compensation Processes
The trip with lenders when repaying can affect whether or no longer they continue or no longer. A focal level crew discussion on the Pew Trusts web suppose highlighted some key disorders. Some lenders personal advanced processes that confuse borrowers.
Earnings-pushed plans, as an illustration, wait on borrowers preserve consistent payments. Alternatively, the advanced application processes and annual recertification most frequently is a deterrence. Such applications moreover appear to cater particularly to those that non-public in discovering earnings sources. By ignoring different payments, the plans will no longer work for those with unstable incomes.
Student loans most frequently is a lifesaver if you’re seeking to pursue extra training nonetheless can no longer glean the cash for to fabricate so. However, as many will attest, paying them again is no longer easy. The interest on the loans will vastly prolong how mighty it’s miles needed to pay. Payment would perhaps perhaps also preserve years, in particular in case you fabricate no longer personal a successfully-paying job.
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(Nairobi) – The Burundian government is cracking down on activists, journalists, and demonstrators following protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term.
The announcement on April 25, 2015, by the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) that Nkurunziza would be its candidate in June elections triggered widespread demonstrations in the capital, Bujumbura, on April 26 and 27.
“The Burundian authorities should respect people’s right to demonstrate peacefully,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Police in Burundi should be given strict instructions to avoid excessive force.”
A heavy police presence prevented many demonstrators from reaching the city center, but there were numerous clashes between police and demonstrators in the suburbs, with police using teargas, water cannons, and live ammunition, Burundian and international journalists and human rights activists told Human Rights Watch. Some demonstrators threw stones at the police and burned tires in the streets. Burundian journalists and other local sources reported that at least two people were shot dead and others injured during the clashes.
On April 27, police arrested a leading human rights defender, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, who had gone to give an interview at Media House (la Maison de la Presse), a gathering place for local media. The police kicked and roughed up Mbonimpa, aged 66, journalists at the scene told Human Rights Watch. Mbonimpa, president of the human rights group APRODH, has been an outspoken critic of abuses by the government, including during recent events.
“The Burundian authorities should immediately release Mbonimpa and let him carry out his human rights work,” Bekele said.
On April 26, the government banned live reporting from the sites of the demonstrations by three popular radio stations – Radio publique africaine (RPA), Radio Isanganiro, and Radio Bonesha FM, suspended their broadcasts outside the capital, and cut off their telephone land lines, journalists told Human Rights Watch. On the afternoon of April 27, the government completely shut down RPA’s broadcasts, including in the capital, and shut down la Maison de la Presse.
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21st Century Challenges in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Governance
Elgar Intellectual Property and Global Development series
Edited by Dana Beldiman
Chapter 10: The ACTA/TPP country clubs
After three years and 11 rounds of formal negotiations among developed and like-minded countries, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was finally adopted on 15 April 2011. Negotiated by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and the United States, this highly controversial plurilateral agreement aims to set a new and higher benchmark for international intellectual property enforcement. Out of the 11 negotiating parties, all of them except the European Union and Switzerland have since signed the Agreement. As of this writing, ACTA is still awaiting ratification and has not yet entered into force. Japan, which serves as the Agreement’s depositary, remains the only country that has ever ratified ACTA.Commentators have widely criticized the ACTA negotiation process for its lack of transparency and accountability. They are also concerned about the multiple threats that the Agreement has posed to access to information and knowledge and the protection of due process, free speech, privacy and other civil liberties. In addition, by ushering in a new ‘country club’ approach to setting international intellectual property norms, the negotiations have raised important international concerns. This approach is likely to have serious ramifications for both the structural integrity and continued vitality of the existing international intellectual property regime.As China and India noted at the June 2010 meeting of the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, ACTA has raised a wide variety of systemic problems within the international trading system.
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CSE 120 Nachos Project 3: Virtual Memory
Due: June 7, 2009 at 11:59pm
In this lab you will extend Nachos to support demand paged virtual
memory. This new functionality gives processes the illusion of a
virtual memory that is larger than the available machine memory.
You will implement and debug virtual memory in two steps. First,
you will implement demand paging using page faults to dynamically load
process virtual pages on demand, rather than initializing page frames
for each process in advance at Exec time as you did in Project
2. Next, you will implement page replacement, enabling your kernel to
evict a virtual page from memory to free up a physical page
frame to satisfy a page fault. Demand paging and page replacement
together allow your kernel to "overbook" memory by executing more
processes than would fit in machine memory at any one time, using page
faults to "juggle" the available physical page frames among the larger
number of process virtual pages. If it is implemented correctly,
virtual memory is undetectable to user programs unless they monitor
their own performance.
The operating system kernel works together with the machine's
memory management unit (MMU) to support virtual memory. Coordination
between the hardware and software centers on the page table structure
for each process. You used page tables in Project 2 to allow your
kernel to assign any free page frame to any process page, while
preserving the illusion of a contiguous memory for the process. The
indirect memory addressing through page tables also isolates each
process from bugs in other processes that are running concurrently. In
this project, you will extend your kernel's handling of the page
tables to use three special bits in each page table entry (PTE):
This project has four parts:
- Valid bit: The kernel sets or clears the valid bit in each
PTE to tell the machine which virtual pages are resident in
memory (a valid translation) and which are not resident (an
invalid translation). If a user process references an address
for which the PTE is marked invalid, then the machine raises a
page fault exception and transfers control to your kernel's
- Use bit: The machine sets the use bit (aka reference bit) in
the PTE to pass information to the kernel about page access
patterns. If a virtual page is referenced by a process, the
machine sets the corresponding PTE reference bit to inform the
kernel that the page is active. Once set, the reference bit
remains set until the kernel clears it.
- Dirty bit: The machine sets the dirty bit in the PTE
whenever a process executes a store (write) to the corresponding
virtual page. This informs the kernel that the page is dirty; if
the kernel evicts the page from memory, then it must first
"clean" the page by writing its contents to disk. Once set,
the dirty bit remains set until the kernel clears it.
- [35 pts] Implement demand paging. In the first part, you will
continue to preallocate a page frame for each virtual page of each
newly created process at Exec time, just as in Project 2. As before,
return an error from the Exec system call if there are not enough free
page frames to hold the process' new address space. But for this
part, you need to make the following changes to AddrSpace:
- In your AddrSpace initialization method, initialize all the PTEs
- In the same method, remove the code that (1) zeros out
the physical page frames, (2) preloads the address space with the code
and data segments from the file, and (3) prevents programs that
require too much memory from proceeding. You will do this on demand
when the process causes a page fault -- you will continue to allocate
physical page frames in AddrSpace for each virtual page, but delay
loading the frames with data until they are actually referenced by the
- Handle page fault exceptions in ExceptionHandler. When the
process references an invalid page, the machine will raise a page
fault exception (if a page is marked valid, no fault is generated).
Modify your exception handler to catch this exception and handle it by
preparing the requested page on demand.
- To prepare the requested page on demand, add a method to
AddrSpace to page in the faulted page from the executable file. Note
that faults on different address space segments are handled in
different ways. For example, a fault on a code page should read the
corresponding code from the executable file, a fault on a data page
should read the corresponding data from the executale file, and a
fault on a stack frame should zero-fill the frame. For pages that
hold the arguments to the process, you will fault on them when the
child writes the arguments to its address space (using WriteMem) when
the child thread first starts running in the Nachos kernel and before
the program starts running.
- Once you have paged in the faulted page, clear the page fault
exception by marking the PTE as valid. Then let the machine
restart execution of the user program at the faulting instruction --
when you return from the exception, do not increment the PC as you did
when handling a system call so that the machine will reexecute the
If you set up the page (by initializing it) and page table (by
setting the valid bit) correctly, then the instruction will execute
correctly and the process will continue on its way, none the wiser.
As you make the changes above, keep the following points in mind:
- Remember, a virtual page may contain portions of two segments,
such as the end of the code segment and the beginning of the data
segment. A fault on that page will require you to load from both the
code and data segments into that page. You need to handle this
boundary case for all situations where two segments can overlap on a
page (code, data, stack, and argument).
- If you use ReadMem (or WriteMem) to implement a system call, it
is entirely possible for those functions to reference a page that has
yet to be loaded into memory (since you can give them an arbitrary
address in the process virtual address space). If this happens,
ReadMem will return FALSE because it triggered a page fault when it
tried to access the address you gave it. You should not
consider this an error. Instead, you should retry the operation
assuming that the referenced page was successfully loaded. If it is
FALSE again, then return an error.
- StartProcess and Exec closed the executable file after creating
the address space. You no longer have this luxury, and will have to
keep it open during the life of the process.
Testing: Start by testing with one process running at a
time. During debugging, you will probably want to print out the
arguments that you are giving to ReadAt and bzero when initializing a
page during a page fault to make sure that you are loading the correct
parts of the executable file into the virtual page. Then test with
multiple processes; this should work automatically since these changes
should be independent of the number of processes running.
- [35 pts] Now implement demand paged virtual memory with page
replacement. In this second part, not only do you delay initializing
pages, but now you delay the allocation of physical page frames until
a process actually references a virtual page that is not already
loaded in memory.
- Start by completing the gutting of your code that creates an address
space. In part one, you removed the code that initialized the virtual
pages. Now, remove the code that (1) allocates page frames and (2)
preinstalls virtual-physical translations when setting up the page
table. Instead, merely mark all the PTEs as invalid.
- Extend your page fault exception handler to allocate a page frame
on-the-fly when a page fault occurs. In part one, you just
initialized the virtual page when a page fault occurred. In this
part, allocate a physical page for the virtual page and use your code
from part 1 to initialize it, mark the PTE as valid, and return from
You can get the above two changes working without having page
replacement implemented for the case where you run a single program
that does not consume all of physical memory. Before moving on, be
sure that the two changes above work for a single program that fits
into memory (e.g., array).
Now implement page replacement to free up a physical page frame
to handle page faults:
- Extend your page fault exception handler to evict pages once
physical memory becomes full. First, you will need to select a victim
page to evict from memory; for now, keep this simple and just choose a
convenient page. Then mark the PTE for that page as invalid.
- Evict the victim page. If the page is clean (i.e., not dirty),
then the page can be used immediately; you can always recover the
contents of the page from disk. If the page is dirty, though, the
kernel must save the page contents in backing store on disk.
- Read in the contents of the faulted page either from the
executable file or from backing store (see below).
- Implement a BackingStore class to handle page in and page out
operations. An important part of this project is to use the Nachos
file system interface to allocate and manage the backing store.
Implement methods to allocate space on backing store, locate pages on
backing store, push pages from memory to backing store (for page out),
and pull from backing store to memory (for page in).
- Use the FileSystem class to create files for backing store (see
filesys/filesys.h). After creating the backing store file, use the
FileSystem class to open it. Opening the file will return an OpenFile
object, which allows you to do reads and writes (see
filesys/openfile.h). The Makefiles are setup to compile with
FILESYS_STUB defined, so be sure to look at that version of the
As you implement the above operations, keep the following points
- As in the first part of the project, the first time a page is
touched it needs to be initialized (from the executable file for code
and data, bzero'd for bss and stack, or initialized when writing
arguments; see part 1 above). If this page is subsequently evicted to
backing store, it will be read from there on further page faults.
- You are not limited to one file for backing store for the entire
system, and might find it more convenient to have a backing store file
for each process (doing so makes locating evicted pages convenient).
However, do not create backing store files at finer granularities;
e.g., do not use one file per page.
- Be sure to clear the dirty bit when you mark a PTE for the victim
page as invalid.
- When running multiple processes, you may select a victim page
from another process. As a result, you will need to update the PTE in
the page table for that process, not the faulting one.
Finally, you should only do as many page reads and writes as
necessary to execute the program, and as dictated by your page
replacement algorithm. You will soon discover that the first page
fault is different than subsequent ones on code and data pages. On
the first fault you need to read from the executable file, and on the
second you need to read from the backing store. Your implementation
needs to be able to handle this situation. It might be tempting to
just copy the pages from the executable file to the backing store when
the process is first created, or on a page-by-page basis when the
first fault occurs, but both of these cases introduce extra unecessary
disk I/Os and should not be used.
- [15 pts] Testing. In this project, programs can use more virtual
memory than physical memory, and pages are brought into memory only if
they are actually referenced by the user program. To show that you
only initialize pages that are referenced on demand, write one test
program that references all of the pages in memory, and a second test
program that only references some of the pages. You can use the
pagein and pageout counters (below) to convince yourself that you are
only initializing the pages that are referenced by the process. For
example, accessing a two-dimensional array selectively (e.g., all
rows, some rows) can give different page reference behavior, and not
calling a function will only execute a subset of the code in an
executable file. We do not particularly care if the test programs do
anything useful (like multiplying matrices), but they should generate
memory reference patterns of interest.
Your test programs should also demonstrate the page replacement
policy and correct handling of dirty pages (e.g., allocating backing
storage and preserving the correct contents for each page on backing
store). Implement additional test programs that (1) generate good
locality (most references are to a small subset of pages), and (2)
generate poor locality (everything is referenced repeatedly in a
pattern), and (3) random locality (pages are effectively referenced
randomly). If necessary, try reducing the amount of physical memory
to ensure more page replacement activity.
Here is an example test program that is larger than physical
memory and uses the console to draw a "snake" wandering around on the
- [15 pts] Maintain counters of page faults and pagein and pageout
events. Print out these counters when Nachos exits. This will aid in
debugging, and indicate how well the page replacement algorithm is
working with the processes running in the system. You might also want
to print out a DEBUG message when each of these events occurs as the
process is running (and identify the process that caused the event so
that you can disambiguate among multiple executing processes).
In particular, add two new counters to the Statistics class in
machine/stats.h, numPageOuts and numPageIns, and
update the constructor and Print methods in stats.cc to initialize and
report the values of those counters (ignore the top of the file where
it says to not change the file). Increment the "PageOut" counter
whenever you write a page to the backing store (e.g., "clean" pages
should not cause a PageOut). Increment the "PageIn" counter whenever
you read a page from (1) the original executable file and (2) your
backing store. Print the values of those counters on the same line as
the numPageFaults counter.
With backing store implemented, your operating system will use
main memory as a cache over a slower and cheaper backing store. As
with any caching system, performance depends largely on the policy used
to decide which pages are kept in memory and which to evict. As you
know, we are not especially concerned about the performance of your
Nachos implementations (simplicity and correctness are paramount), but
in this case we want you to experiment with one of the page
replacement policies discussed in class. For project 3, use a simple
algorithm to implement page replacement such as FIFO or random
replacement. For extra credit, you can implement LRU or an LRU
approximation (see below). In any case, document your replacement
algorithm choices in the project writeup.
In your project writeup, create a table that reports the values of
the paging counters for all of the test programs that you used to test your
page replacement algorithm. If you implemented more than one
replacement algorithm, report the values for all of the algorithms
that you implemented. Here is an example:
Physical memory size: 32 pages.
Page replacement policy: Random.
Program PageFaults PageOuts PageIns
halt 3 0 2
matmult 112 45 74
sort 755 624 722
Note that the exact numbers of page faults and disk I/Os is
implementation dependent, so do not be surprised if your
implementation results in different values.
- (Extra Credit) [4 pts] Implement LRU or an LRU approximation for
your page replacement algorithm, examining and clearing the use bit in
each PTE in order to gather information to drive the policy. Make it
possible to run your nachos executable with your original algorithm as
well your LRU algorithm (e.g., with a new command line switch to
main.cc). Using the counters and experiments with test programs,
demonstrate that LRU does a better job of replacing pages than your
original (FIFO or random). Extend your page fault table in your
writeup to include the values for your LRU algorithm. Design a test
case where LRU does a worse job.
Submitting The Project
As with the previous projects, we would like a short README.VM
document describing what changes you made, how well they worked, how
you tested your changes, and how each group member contributed to the
project. Please include this writeup in your userprog
Remove compiled files from your code directory, create a tar file
of the code directory, and use turnin to submit.
$ cd nachos-3.4/code
$ gmake clean
$ cd ..
$ tar cvf project3.tar code
$ gzip project3.tar
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ALBERT AWANUI HAMON™
Albert Awanui Hamon™ is a diverse multi-disciplinary artist. From painting realism and surrealism through to carving wood, bone, pounamu or vast murals, he is at home in any artistic environment.
"What I learnt from my father Rei was not only the discipline of fine arts but to
have compassion for all lifeforms and our interconnection with the universe."
Matua - Rei Paul Francis Hamon CBE, Māmā - Maia Pohoiwi.
Second child in the whānau - Joseph, Awanui, Phyllis and Tina.
Tribal Affiliation - Ngāti Porou. Lived along the Thames Coast on the Coromandel Peninsula NZ.
Completed Commercial Art Course through correspondence with the Australian Art Training Institute Melbourne.
Created 4 beautiful tamariki - Huia, Francis, Azalia and Jason.
Albert Awanui Hamon™ has travelled throughout his home country of Aotearoa (NZ) through Australia, Asia and South America including the Amazon. While travelling to the United States of America he visited 11 states from Los Angeles to Miami, Bahamas, Mexico and Hawaii. He has a lifelong love for love surfing, sailing and rugby.
Albert Awanui Hamon™ has been part of the art gallery world and a pou (stronghold) for the family business 'Rei Hamon Gallery' and Hamon Art NZ. He has been organizing art exhibitions for his father Rei and his own work throughout Aotearoa (NZ) and Australia and continued to do this till his father retired as an artist.
After managing the gallery in Thames, his family moved to Timaru and worked as Art/ Bone carving and Ceramic Tutor for Aoraki Youth Trust where he helped re-design and set up Motueka and Timaru Museum Natural History, Māori and Early European settlement sections.
The NZ Government commissioned him to design and complete a large multi-disciplinary piece titled “Aoraki Family” for the new Social Welfare Dept building in Timaru, a mix of wood, shell and paint methods.
He was elected to Represent Kai Tahu (South Island Māori Tribe) and Royal Forest and Bird Society to make recommendations to Government to create Marine Parks and worked with Timaru Council to establish a Marae and help with planning stages. Heading back to the North Island, he settled back in Hauraki (Thames) close to his parents and tutored bone carving at Thames High School. He also tutored at Matai Whitu Marae at Kopu in Art design and bone carving.
In Rotorua Awanui was “Artist in residence” at Rotorua Boys High School teaching in all areas of arts from year 9 to year 13 for 7 years. He designed and implemented Māori Art Courses into RBHS Curriculum which were taken on by other NZ Secondary Schools. Through Secondary school government nomination, he was selected to be part of a Māori Teacher Hui to identify new initiatives and strategies to improve Māori student education in Secondary Schools. He became Head of the Art Department at RBHS and finished teaching to travel.
During all this time Albert Awanui Hamon™ was a practising artist holding exhibitions and doing commissioned artwork.
Now a published author of 'Ozzma and Kauai' series 'The Jade Hook' and 'The Forbidden Wave', he is truly diverse as an artist and writer.
Rei and Albert Awanui Hamon™ have donated many originals and limited edition lithographs of their own artworks to raise funds throughout Aotearoa for many conservation charities, fundraising to save several species of birds that are endangered especially the Kōkako and the native Dotterel. This is a lifelong passion of both Awanui and his late father Rei. Awanui continues to advocate this through his current works.
Albert Awanui Hamon™ has travelled Australia where he is currently working on a series of Australian birds and Natural features. The Wedge-tailed Eagles is a part of this series (see his artworks) and these will feature in his next exhibition.
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This article offers the Suitable PI controller design of the parallel synchronous buck converter using the genetic algorithm. The mathematical model of the power electronics control system is proved from the generalized state-space averaging method, which is used as an objective function instead of using a physical model on a computer. The results show that the suggested design method can allow more control efficient responses of the DC output voltage of parallel synchronous buck converter than traditional methods. In terms of the rise times, settling times, and percent overshoot, which equal to 1.01 seconds, 1.04 seconds, and 0 percent, respectively. In addition, the suggested design methods in this article can use for application to other DC-to-DC converters.
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This Wednesday, take a mini tour of the Cure Porch on Wheels with our Oral History Coordinator, Kayt! When it's not on the road bringing history and the arts to you, the Cure Porch on Wheels lives in the back yard of the Saranac Laboratory Museum. We're going to be sharing messages of thanks for essential workers in our community in the windows of the porch - submit yours today!
To learn more about the Cure Porch on Wheels and our project to thank essential workers, visit www.cureporchonwheels.org!
Saranac Lake’s tuberculosis economy depended on the labor of many essential workers. In honor of today’s heroes, here are a few favorite stories of brave helpers in local history.
Nurses and doctors risked their own health providing care and companionship to tuberculosis patients far from home. Our museum archive is full of hundreds of photos and stories of these courageous women and men. In her book, Wish I Might, Isabel Smith writes warmly about her doctor, Francis B. Trudeau. He is somewhat overshadowed in history by his famous father, founder of Saranac Lake’s TB industry, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau. But Francis was widely respected for his kindness and his fierce dedication to his patients. Ms. Smith described his “inimitable hearty roar of good spirits which, then and always, enveloped me like a blaze of sunlight.”
Members of the clergy provided essential support to patients in need of spiritual comfort. Alone and facing a dreaded disease for which there was no cure, many patients felt lonely and afraid. Serving as the Parish Visitor for the First Presbyterian Church, Christine Burdick visited two thousand bedridden patients in just one year.
Hardworking wilderness guides were the backbone of the local economy. They made possible the recreation of wealthy sports from the city, bringing welcome cash into what was largely a barter system. The hotels and great camps of the Adirondacks depended on the guides’ deep knowledge of the woods, lakes, and wildlife. Dr. E. L. Trudeau counted local guides Fitz Greene Hallock and Albert McKenzie as lifelong friends and hunting companions. A group of guides purchased sixteen acres on Mount Pisgah as a gift to the doctor and the site for his sanatorium.
Many of Saranac Lake’s first responders go down in history as pillars of the community. One such man was William Wallace. He served as chief of the Saranac Lake Police Force for twenty-seven years. Bill McLaughlin wrote that Chief Wallace “was as fine a chief of police in his quiet but forceful way as any village could ask for. He lived the job but he never let the majesty of the law outweigh his own sense of justice and mercy and everyone was the better for it.”
Cashiers and retail employees perform an essential service, and shopkeeper Charlie Green holds a special place in Saranac Lake history. He came here from England with TB after WWI. After his cure, he made Saranac Lake his home and became part of the fabric of the community. He generously offered goods on credit during difficult times, telling customers to pay him back only when and if they could.
It’s not easy to make a living in the Adirondacks. Then, like now, Saranac Lakers worked hard to survive. People risked illness working in the TB industry, often because they simply needed the money. Many young people delivered meals to TB patients to help put food on their own tables at home. One tray boy told the story of eating food that the patients left on their trays to stave off hunger.
For every person remembered in history, many more names slip quietly into the past. We know about far more doctors than housekeepers and deliverymen, but the TB industry relied upon their brave hard work as well. Here’s one story we know, told to us by a museum visitor. About 120 years ago, Edna Dubray was a housekeeper at the Trudeau Sanatorium. One day, a railroad deliveryman named David VanNortwick brought a package up to the San. Edna and David met and fell in love. Soon, they married, and Dr. E.L. Trudeau offered to let them honeymoon in Little Red, the first little cure cottage at the Sanatorium. The couple settled in the village and raised a family of nine children. Some of their children went on to serve in the second world war, and some became employees in the local sanatoria.
What stories do you know about helpers in our history? Contact us or share what you know on our wiki site at www.localwiki.org/hsl.
Would you like to thank an essential worker who is helping us get through this time? Please mail or email your thank you note to us at the address below. We will be decorating the Cure Porch on Wheels with your notes of appreciation!
Historic Saranac Lake
Images: Trudeau School Graduating Nurses, 1931. Courtesy of Jan Dudones. Historic Saranac Lake Collection. Guide carrying guideboat with "sport," c. 1905. Paul Smith's College Library Collection.
This Tuberculosis Thursday, we're doing something a little different! We put together this playlist representing some of the musicians who are included in our Art of the Cure exhibit. All of these artists had a link to Saranac Lake in the TB era, whether they were patients themselves, accompanied a loved one, or helped raise funds! Click the button below to head on over to Spotify to check out this eclectic mix!
Time for another Wednesday Mini Tour! Amy visited with Martha Reben at the Saranac Laboratory Museum to tell you a little bit about Reben's amazing life. Visit our wiki to learn more about her story!
Many Saranac Lakers find themselves heading outside during these unsettling times. In the woods around us we find a sense of peace, a place where human worries and sickness feel far away. In fact, the natural environment of the Adirondacks is at the heart of our history as a center for tuberculosis treatment. The fresh air and beauty of the region was believed to restore both body and spirit alike, and thousands came here from around the world in search of the fresh air cure.
Long before the TB era, Native American peoples lived in harmony with the rich natural resources of the area for thousands of years. In the 1800s, newcomers began arriving, seeking profit and recreation. The riches of the wilderness enticed settlers, loggers, miners, hunters, trappers, vacationers, and, eventually, health seekers.
Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau first visited the Adirondacks as a young “sport” from the city to hunt and fish at Paul Smith’s Hotel. He fell in love with the pristine setting and the excellent hunting opportunities. Then, in the 1870s, stricken with TB, he decided to come back to Paul Smith’s, expecting to die. But during the summer he spent at Smith’s hotel, his health improved dramatically. He credited the natural environment, and eventually he established his sanatorium in Saranac Lake so that others could benefit from the fresh Adirondack air.
For 70 years Saranac Lake grew and prospered as a health resort, becoming very much a little city in the heart of the Adirondacks. Trains came and went some 20 times a day. Main Street grew with many specialty shops catering to the tastes of city people. By the 1930s, when Isabel Smith was curing at Trudeau Sanatorium, the rugged Adirondacks had been drastically re-shaped by logging, railroads, and population growth. But for a city girl, Saranac Lake was a haven in the wilderness. Isabel developed a love of the natural world that sustained her through 21 years sick in bed.
The outdoor life belonged not just to the TB patients on their porches. Many year-round and summer residents describe some of their happiest memories as the times they spent outdoors in the Adirondacks. Historic Saranac Lake has documented hundreds of stories about summers at the beloved platform tents, camping at Fish Creek, hunting and fishing, the timeless historic Great Camps, and climbing the High Peaks. (We look forward to sharing this history in our future expanded museum, and invite you to contact us with your photos and stories!)
Wilderness author Martha Reben has inspired many outdoor enthusiasts. After a year of unsuccessful curing at the Trudeau San, Ms. Reben spotted an ad in the local newspaper for a different type of cure. Local boat builder and guide Fred Rice placed an advertisement seeking a patient to guide into the woods. Mr. Rice believed that TB patients who were spending their days in the village resting on cure porches would be better served by getting out into the forest. Martha answered the ad and spent much of the next ten years camping in the great outdoors. There she found freedom from sickness and joy in the wildlife around her.
In her book, A Sharing of Joy, Martha wrote about hearing a flock of birds flying over her campsite, “…suddenly I saw, in one of those rare moments of insight, what it means to be wild and free. As they went over me, I was there with them, passing over the moonlit countryside…The haunted voices grew fainter and faded in distance, but I sat on, stirred by a memory of something beautiful and ancient and now lost - a forgotten freedom we must all once have shared with other wild things, which only they and the wilderness can still recall to us, so that life becomes again, for a time, the wonderful, sometimes frightening, but fiercely joyous treasure it was intended to be."
Now, as the weather finally warms, the loons are returning. What do you hear in their calls?
Historic Saranac Lake
P.S. Now is a time to PAUSE, reconnect with loved ones, and find safe, healthy adventures close to home. We will be here when the time is right and look forward to seeing you sometime soon!
Images: Young Alex and Martha Dreyfoos with their mother at the family’s platform tent camp on Burnt Island, c.1937. Courtesy of Alex W. Dreyfoos, Jr., and The Healing Woods by Martha Reben.
In keeping with the theme of this week's Letter from the Porch, we are excited to share a Wednesday DIY Tour! Instead of watching us tour a site, you can now visit The Clio website or download the Clio app to get out for a walk and take a self-guided tour of our downtown. The tour will tell you the history of buildings downtown based on your location, so if there's a building in town that you've always wondered, "what about?!," now's the chance to take a stroll through town and find out!
And don't worry, when the museum reopens, we'll resume offering our popular guided downtown walking tour (and more!) for that personalized, behind-the-scenes information from one of our knowledgeable staff.
Thanks to Clio for offering this awesome app free of charge so we can all learn about history all around us! Not in Saranac Lake? You can still view the tour online or on your phone, AND you can see what historic sites have been added near you (and add some of your own!).
The old neighborhoods of Saranac Lake are lively these days, as people of all ages take a break from solitude to go out walking at all hours. Like the TB patients of the past, we are eager to stretch our legs, breathe some fresh air, and wave to a friendly face across the street.
Moderate exercise was a key part of the treatment in Saranac Lake. Doctors recognized that exercise could boost the immune system by strengthening the body and improving mental health. Not all TB patients were bedridden, and those who were well enough to get out of bed went walking on their doctors’ orders.
The Trudeau Sanatorium admitted people in the early stages of the disease, and so many of the patients there lived a pretty lively existence. They made crafts in the occupational therapy workshop, walked to meals in the grand dining room, and performed in plays in the auditorium. Walking provided a chance to spend time with a friend or romantic interest.
Doctors monitored their patients closely and prescribed increasing amounts of exercise as their health improved. Patients were expected to follow instructions exactly, as outlined in Dr. Brown’s “Rules for Exercise.” As we embark on ambitious long walks in these new times, we should keep in mind Dr. Brown’s sage advice such as, “remember always that you will have to return.”
As a young boy, Jim Meade lived in the superintendent’s cottage at the Trudeau San, and he remembers watching the patients taking their prescribed walks to the gate. Some wanted to go farther than the prescribed distance, and so they walked in a zigzag line to fit in extra steps before getting to the turnaround spot.
Other area sanatoria had their own walking trails. At Stonywold Sanatorium, signs on the Onchiota dirt road measured walks of 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and up to 60 minutes. At Will Rogers Hospital, walking trails wove in and out of the surrounding woods, providing cover for patients looking to grab a smoke out of the watchful eyes of the staff. Andy Rawdon tells the tale of being hired as a youngster to help police the Will Rogers trails. Andy managed to increase his income by accepting occasional tips from the smokers in exchange for keeping quiet.
One of my favorite photos is this one of Alice Gallup, shared with us by her son, Michael. Alice came from Pennsylvania to cure at the Trudeau Sanatorium in 1917. She recovered her health, but then her husband abandoned her to raise two young sons on her own. She made her home in Saranac Lake and supported her family by working as the organist in a local church and teaching piano. Alice maintained her joyful spirit in the face of adversity, a spirit you can see in this photo. Alice didn’t just walk to the sanatorium gate, she climbed it!
To sign off with a favorite phrase of one friend who lived to the ripe age of 107 --
Historic Saranac Lake
Images: Patients at Trudeau Sanatorium, courtesy of the Saranac Lake Free Library. Alice French Gallup at the gates of Trudeau Sanatorium, courtesy of Michael Gallup.
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The City of Krondor, Western Capital of the Kingdom of the Isles - Midkemia Online Online Help
10.4 The City of Krondor, Western Capital of the Kingdom of the Isles
The City of Krondor thrives on the stormy shores of the Bitter Sea. It is the western capital of the vast Kingdom of the Isles, second only to far-away Rillanon in the east, and Krondor is the seat of the Prince of Krondor: the heir-apparent to the Throne of the Isles. It is a bustling city, and one of the only true bastions of human civilization in the western Kingdom. The west is a land of rugged and untamed frontier, and so too are the people of Krondor, who are pragmatic, hardened, clever, and ambitious. The Royal Lancers and elite Pathfinders keep law and order under the aegis of the eagle banner, but simmering just below the surface is a flourishing underworld of criminal and darker activity, led by the shadowy Mockers guild. Caught in between are vying merchants, traders, and consortiums all competing for wealth and success. These twin worlds exist in constant competition and flux, lending an intoxicating and deadly game of chance and fate to the swarming port city. | <urn:uuid:1caaa73c-36b0-4c4f-af9c-20860f15272b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ironrealms.com/game/helpview/midkemia/the-city-of-krondor-western-capital-of-the-kingdom-of-the-isles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886007 | 266 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Land records provide the foundation for local government GIS. Not only are parcel records used for assigning landownership, managing valuations of land and associated improvements, and applying land-use and zoning designations, but they also act as a basemap for overlaying feature classes, such as building polygons or utility lines, which are constructed in relation to parcel boundaries. Thus parcel layers provide the framework for other GIS applications that maintain public infrastructure, encourage economic development, and optimize emergency response.
ArcGIS 10 introduces a comprehensive solution for land records creation and maintenance that consists of three key components: the parcel data model or parcel fabric, the Parcel Editor toolbar, and the Tax Parcel Editing template. This systematic approach uses topology to enforce data integrity, streamlines daily maintenance tasks, and can improve positional accuracy over time.
The parcel fabric is a map layer depicting land division that stores a continuous surface of connected parcels, or a parcel network. The parcel fabric dataset is a set of related feature classes, tables, and relationships in a geodatabase that supports the management, analysis, and mapping of land parcels. A parcel-based topology stores each parcel's boundary lines and the common corners shared by neighboring parcels.
There are many reasons to migrate parcel data currently maintained outside the parcel fabric in feature classes, coverages, or CAD layers:
The other two components of land records maintenance in ArcGIS are the Parcel Editor toolbar and the Tax Parcel Editing template. Available with ArcGIS for Desktop at the Standard and Advanced license levels, the Parcel Editor toolbar contains tools for performing splits, combines, and other common operations on parcel data using a streamlined set of workflows. The Tax Parcel Editing template provides a multiscale editing map that organizes the survey framework (Public Land Survey System and control), subdivisions, lots, tax parcels, and encumbrances in the parcel fabric data model that can be used with the Parcel Editor toolbar.
The parcel data model, additional parcel editing tools, and Tax Parcel Editing template can be downloaded from the Land Records section of the ArcGIS for Local Government resource center.Components of the parcel fabric dataset
|Parcel lines||Feature class||Store and preserve recorded boundary dimensions|
|Parcel points||Feature class||Store x,y,z coordinates derived from a least-squares adjustment|
|Parcel polygons||Feature class||Are defined by parcel lines|
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|Control points||Feature class||Contain the accurate, published coordinates for a physical location|
|Plans||Table||Store information about the record of survey|
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HTC OpenSense SDK now includes Infrared API. Better remote controls, anyone?
Infrared is so 1990’s. I remember IR being a premium feature on my old Nokia phones. Even up to the mid-2000s, my E-series Nokia featured an IR transceiver for data exchange. Well, who would’ve known that IR would be back in fashion? HTC, in introducing its latest flagship HTC One, has included an IR blaster in the phone’s power button. The company is now looking for developers to build apps on this technology with the inclusion of the IR API its OpenSense SDK.
See also: HTC One hands-on – first look!
Out of the box, the HTC One already has all the capabilities of a universal TV remote through Sense TV, which is part of Sense 5. The TV guide is updated with local content for watching and browsing programs. The API lets the phone “learn” key codes from other remote controls. HTC says that the API goes beyond television sets, as the infrared blaster can also be used to control other devices like digital SLR cameras, and the like.
IR is not dead, after all. Granted, infrared does have limitations as compared to other short-range communications technologies like Bluetooth and even Wi-Fi. But given the potential for legacy applications, such as controlling TV sets and photographic equipment, IR may still be relevant, and HTC is making sure the technology still has support from the developer community.
Hey, maybe someone would build an app for communicating with the old-version Furbies, which “talked” with each other through infrared. | <urn:uuid:092aabf4-bd90-403b-b6b8-3e049707cf2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.androidauthority.com/htc-opensense-sdk-infrared-apps-160212/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.944817 | 351 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Excluding refugees from the right to work as private security providers simply because they are refugees will inevitably foster a climate of xenophobia which will be harmful to refugees and inconsistent with the overall vision of our Constitution. As a group that is by definition vulnerable, the impact of discrimination of this sort can be damaging in a significant way. In reaching this conclusion it is important to bear in mind that it is not only the social stigma which may result from such discrimination, but also the material impact that it may have on refugees.
Carmel Ricard reports in The Weekender on a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to overturn the murder conviction of Jewell Crossberg, a Limpopo farmer who killed a man and then claimed he was shooting at baboons and suggests there are racial tensions to be viewed between the majority of judges and the minority opinion written by a black judge.
This week, however, the appeal court upheld Crossberg’s appeal , finding by a four-to-one majority that he had not deliberately shot to kill Dube or anyone else, but that he had been criminally negligent.
The court said there was a “fundamental misconception” that Crossberg’s defence was that he had mistaken the deceased for a baboon; that was not, in fact, the true nature of what Crossberg had claimed in his defence.
He had said he had fired two shots into the bush to scare off baboons he had seen crossing the road. He also claimed the shots were fired at sunrise, while driving east , and he could not see well.
In addition to clarifying the “baboon” issue, the majority of the court strongly criticised the state’s handling and presentation of the case against Crossberg. However, three decisions were written in connection with the appeal outcome, and they disclose significant tension between members of the bench about the correct approach to the matter and the outcome.
But Justice Danston Mlambo disagreed with this decision and wrote a minority opinion,
Navsa’s decision, supported by three of his four colleagues, was followed by a second judgment, written by Judge Mlambo, which adopted the opposite position. In his dissenting decision Mlambo said his colleagues’ criticisms of the state were misplaced and Crossberg had suffered no substantial prejudice because of the missing statements.
In his view, the farmer did not see a troop of baboons in the vicinity because there were none. Humans could be “effortlessly distinguished” from baboons and it was clear Crossberg had always known he was shooting at people and not animals. He would therefore have dismissed the appeal and upheld the murder finding.
Ricard seems to suggest that because the minority opinion was written by a black judge and because the case was seen as racially charged this suggests that there were racial tension amongst the judges. This may or may not be true but it is difficult to say by just reading the judgments.
It does suggests though that different judges can look at the same evidence and come to a completely different conclusion and that perhaps this process may be influenced by the perspective of the individual judge. Whether they drive a Porsche say, or not, might thus be relevant….BACK TO TOP | <urn:uuid:d5ed82f1-03c4-48db-8724-df5dae6e331f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/racial-tension-at-the-sca/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.989748 | 664 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Etiquette is a means of allowing people or groups of people to interface in a clean, smooth, and happy manner.
Properly observed, it allows one to interact with individuals or with a crowd,
to conserve energy while doing so,
and it allows others likewise the opportunity to likewise conserve their own energy.
Etiquette is the art of being invisible, of leaving the ego at the door, and at the same time
bringing the best of ourselves to any interaction.
In dancing, we have rules of etiquette governing individual interaction,
as well as rules of interaction with other couples on the dance floor.
MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE?
When you ask someone to dance, be sure to make eye contact with your prospective partner, offer our hand, and ask clearly, "Would you like to dance?"
If your partner says yes, smile, offer your hand, and escort him or her onto the dance floor and into dance position.
This will make your partner feel supported and at ease.
YES, THANK YOU, I’D LOVE TO DANCE
When someone asks you to dance, your response should be, "Yes, thank you, I'd love to."
In a social dance environment, it is customary to say “yes” when someone asks you to dance.
In order for dancing to be a joyous activity, it is important that social dancers are supportive and kind to each other at all skill levels.
YOU DANCE DIVINELY!
During the dance, be sure to be aware of your partner.
Smile and make eye contact, but don’t stare.
It is fun to dance with a partner who is gracious and appreciative.
At the end of the dance, ALWAYS say THANK YOU to your partner and begin to escort them off the floor.
WHEN TO SAY NO
When a person asks you to dance, it is appropriate to say no if you have danced with this person before and he or she has been physically or verbally abusive.
It is also appropriate to say no if the person is obviously drunk or threatening in some way.
If you feel that a dancer is physically dangerous to the other dancers, you should report the situation immediately to the host of the dance.
Unless someone is truly offensive, it is not appropriate to say no because your partner may have poor dance technique.
While dancing with this person may not be one of life’s peak experiences, a dance is only three minutes long and the experience will not kill you.
In a social dance situation it is appropriate to dance with a variety of people.
It is generally poor dance etiquette to partner up and dance with the same person all evening long.
Naturally, some people will prefer certain dance partners to others, but this should not prevent them from accepting an offer to dance from a new person.
If the same person asks you to dance repeatedly, for several dances in a row, it is acceptable to tell that person, “thank you, but I’d like to meet and dance with some other people for awhile.
I’ll be happy to dance with you again late in the evening.”
CLEANLINESS IS HEAVEN AT A DANCE
Social dancing is a quasi-intimate activity that requires a certain degree of physical closeness.
Good hygiene shows respect and consideration for the other dancers.
Dancers should bathe, use deodorant, use breath mints, and wear clean clothes that will not be too hot.
Some dancers sweat a great deal while dancing. In this case, it is considerate to bring a towel and/or change of clothes.
If you find yourself getting too sweaty on the dance floor, you should stop, dry off, and cool down for a few minutes.
Your partners will thank you for it. Dancers should also use a light touch applying perfume or cologne.
Some people may be sensitive to fragrances.
YOUR PARTNER’S TECHNIQUE
Unless someone asks you directly to make a correction of their dancing, you should never volunteer criticisms of your dance partner’s technique.
Know that your dance partner is doing the best he or she can.
If your partner is dancing off time, you should view the situation as a challenge to dance to the same internal rhythms as your partner.
Your partner is not dancing off time intentionally.
Again, he or she is doing the best he or she can. Do your best to respect each others rhythms.
If your partner is physically hurting you, it is probably inadvertent.
You should stop dancing for a second, and say "I'm sorry, but you're holding my hand a little tightly.
Could we try again?"
If you receive an inconsiderate response or your partner seems unwilling to modify his behavior,
it is then appropriate to say, "thank you, but I'd like to stop now."
Social dancing should never be physically painful or dangerous.
In order for a social dance to be enjoyable for all participants, it is crucial to be considerate and aware in your floor craft.
No matter how much you may want to swing out, on a crowded dance floor your primary consideration should be respect for the other couples on the floor.
You don’t have to dance big to have fun.
At times, collisions do occasionally occur in the heat of the moment.
When there is a collision, everyone involved should stop and apologize, regardless of whose “fault” it was.
If someone has been hurt, you should make sure that person is okay before you resume dancing.
Sometimes people are not okay after a collision.
In this case, you should escort the person off the floor to a chair and see if that person needs ice, a drink of water or medical attention.
Careful observation of the traffic lanes in a ballroom can prevent mishaps.
In Waltz, Foxtrot, tango, Quickstep and Samba, dancers move in a counterclockwise circle around the floor.
This circle is known as “line of dance”. The very outside lane of the line of dance is the “fast lane”;
it is generally used by very experienced dancers who cover a great deal of ground.
The inside lane is for less experienced dancers who may be moving a bit more slowly.
Beginners and those who would like to practice the basic steps without traveling can stay on the inside of the circle,
out of the line of dance completely.
In addition -- It is considered inappropriate to cut across the dance floor, especially when carrying food or drink.
And also, remember to move off the dance floor when engaged in conversation.
The above etiquette manual was shamelessly copied from the USA Dance Website
Please feel free to contact the webmaster with any comments or requests on the site.
The email is: webmaster (at) losalamos (dot) dance
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Workshop teaches ways to navigate a child’s trauma history
In April, the 8-week workshop Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma began at CCFH. The course is designed for parents raising children who are in, or have been in, the child welfare system. Recognizing that these children have often experienced trauma, the curriculum gives kinship, foster, and adoptive parents tools to understand and support their child.
The workshop is led by two CCFH clinicians and a parent facilitator, Gina Brown. The parent facilitator role is a unique aspect of the workshop, a nod to the importance of incorporating lived experience into the learning environment for parents.
And Gina Brown is a unique parent facilitator, having sought on her own to go through the 40-hour staff facilitator training, which is not required for parent facilitators. Brown, who brings her experience as a kinship parent and a member of the NC Child Welfare Family Advisory Council to the role, felt that being fully trained as a facilitator would best serve parents in the workshop.
“I really thought it was important; I thought it would be helpful to parents.”
When a child’s trauma history is shaping their current behavior, it can be stressful and isolating for the whole family. But in the workshop, parents learn alongside one another why a child behaves the way he or she does, making it easier to provide the support and care that a child who has suffered from trauma needs.
Brown appreciates the way that the workshop equips parents and communities with the knowledge that a child’s challenging behaviors are a response to trauma.
“If you use the trauma lens and give the child time and space to acclimate to feeling cared for, to feeling stability, to feeling positive emotions, to feeling structure, then you can start to build resilience. The time between when [a child] arrives and getting to that point can be long and hard…. but you’re not alone.” | <urn:uuid:0b9945ad-2312-40df-9d3d-7adb2eaf4918> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ccfhnc.org/resources/empowering-resource-parents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.962041 | 411 | 2.203125 | 2 |
|Ralph (left) and Wally (right)|
|PERFORMER||Joe Ponazecki Wally|
|Paul Price Ralph|
Wally and Ralph debuted on Sesame Street in Season 3. Many of their sketches were similar in style to the Buddy and Jim sketches; so much so, in fact, that at least one segment, the "Mirror" segment, was a remake of a Buddy and Jim skit. The theme music was composed by Joe Raposo.
- Suitcase: Wally and Ralph are about to go on a trip. They attempt to carry off an empty suitcase and a pile of stuff (shirts, pants, socks, tennis rackets, baseball gloves). They finally get the idea that it would be easier if they put the stuff in the suitcase. (EKA: Episode 0319)
- Rug: Wally and Ralph try to unroll a rug, but a chair in the way presents a problem. (EKA: Episode 0323)
- Wet Shirt: Ralph is standing between two trees, playing with a long piece of rope like a cowboy. Along comes Wally carrying a wet shirt. Together, they solve the problem of where to hang the wet shirt to dry. They tie the ends of the rope around their chests, stretch it, and hang the shirt between them. (EKA: Episode 0331)
- Mirror: Wally gives Ralph a mirror as a present. Wally looks at it, and says it is a picture of himself. But when Ralph looks at it, he sees a picture of himself. When they look at it together, they see a picture of both of them. This sketch was a re-shoot of a Buddy and Jim sketch. (EKA: Episode 0342)
- Swinging Door: The duo tries to figure out how to keep a swinging door open while they carry a heavy plant out of the room. (EKA: Episode 0344)
- Setting a Table: Wally and Ralph try to figure out how to set a table. Ralph puts two plates, two cups and two saucers on the table first, leaving Wally with the problem of how to get the tablecloth on under the dishes. (EKA: Episode 0351)
- Umbrella: The duo is outside in the rain. With access to a pushcart full of umbrellas, they open one after another and throw them aside on the ground. They are consequently puzzled as to how umbrellas keep you dry. Finally, when one of them suggests "taking the wrapping off" of it first (i.e., the cloth part), they reduce an umbrella down to the ribs just as the rain stops. It works! (EKA: Episode 0355)
- Glue: The duo buys a large jar of glue. The jar was unlabeled, so they get a label reading "Glue". But they cannot figure out how to get the label to stick to the jar. At one point, they accidentally spill some glue on the table; they use the label to wipe it up. Still with no solution, they decide to go out to dinner. So they put the label somewhere (on the jar!) and leave. | <urn:uuid:46ada3fd-1fd2-405d-9d10-060b7f19e6ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Wally_and_Ralph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971008 | 653 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Law student Kathleen O’Donnell claims Australia’s Office of Financial Management and its Treasury are deceiving investors by not disclosing climate change alongside other financial risks.
The Australian government will on Tuesday defend a class-action lawsuit that claims it’s misleading investors by failing to disclose the impact of climate risk in its bonds.
Amid a growing wave of climate litigation worldwide, 23-year-old law student Kathleen O’Donnell says the Australian Office of Financial Management and the Treasury are deceiving investors by not disclosing climate change alongside other financial risks in its exchange-traded debt. She wants all marketing halted until the disclosures are made.
The lawsuit comes as debt investors globally grapple with assessing the long-term effects of rising world temperatures and how much economic growth must be sacrificed for countries to adapt. Sweden’s central bank last year ditched its holdings of debt issued by Western Australia and Queensland — states that account for a chunk of Australia’s fossil fuel exports — amid increased concern about the threats posed by climate change.
“The concept that any debt issuance should consider and disclose the suite of material financial risks is not a novel one,” said Sarah Barker, head of climate risk governance at law firm Minter Ellison. “What is novel about that claim is that it is the first time that it has been litigated in a climate risk context.”
The Australian Office of Financial Management and Treasury declined to comment on the lawsuit, which is scheduled for its first hearing at the Federal Court in Melbourne Tuesday.
The case comes amid a surge in litigation from Europe to Mexico over the past five years as activists use the courts to pressure governments, companies and investors to act against global warming. Last week, a A$57 billion ($41 billion) pension fund sued in Australia over its disclosure of climate change risks settled the lawsuit with a commitment to net-zero emissions in its portfolio by 2050.
As one of the world’s biggest per-capita polluters, Australia gets almost one-third of its national income from industries exposed to economic disruption and risk from climate change, according to Deloitte Access Economics. Should it go unchecked, the economy could shrink by 6% over the next five decades — the equivalent to a A$3.4 trillion loss in gross domestic product, the firm said in a report last week.
Still, Australia’s government, a staunch supporter of the fossil-fuel export industry, has steadfastly rejected putting a price on carbon and is steering clear of the net-zero emissions goal that’s increasingly being adopted by countries around the world.
Chris Rands, a fixed-income portfolio manager at Nikko Asset Management, questioned whether the disclosure of climate risk would significantly impact demand for sovereign debt — particularly at a time the central bank has embarked on quantitative easing to keep yields low.
“If the government got forced to display the risks, it would really just end up as another line in a prospectus that just says ‘here’s what could occur’,” Rands said. “The meaningful change still needs to come from people voting in policies that they want.”
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USBASP to PPM2USB Conversion
The hardware of known AVR ISP Adapter "USBASP" can be obtained at E**y for a few euros. The schematic of the PPM2USB-Adapter is nearly identical to that of the USBASP. Therefore, it is easy to use this board as a PPM2USB-Adapter. Unfortunately, the ICP pin (Timer0, input capture) is connected to USB D+. Instead of reroute D+ to another pin, the hardware was kept 1:1 and the internal analog comparator is used. Advantage: You only need to solder one cable and the board remains compatible with the original USBASP firmware.
The Hardware-Modification is quite simple: It's a conection between the AIN1-Pin and the unused NC-Pin.
I've used a MX-USBASP 3.0 Board: | <urn:uuid:e1201967-c21b-4a87-adb4-bde70563de84> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thomaspfeifer.net/usbasp_to_ppm2usb_mod_en.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916911 | 185 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Church of St Chad, Dunholme
Dunholme shown within Lincolnshire
|OS grid reference|
|– London||125 mi (201 km) S|
|Sovereign state||United Kingdom|
|EU Parliament||East Midlands|
Dunholme has a post office and village shop, and St Chad's CE Primary School on Ryland Road.
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Chad, and is a Grade I listed building, built in Early English style. It contains a kneeling effigy to Robert Grantham (died 1616), and was restored in 1856 and 1892. | <urn:uuid:959143c5-be53-45ee-ae5d-de0b38d23f3b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunholme | 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 | 0.847879 | 129 | 1.695313 | 2 |
(See also Overview of Diving Injuries Overview of Diving Injuries More than 1000 diving-related injuries occur annually in the US; > 10% are fatal. Similar injuries can befall workers in tunnels or caissons (watertight retaining structures used for construction)... read more .)
Immersion pulmonary edema has become more widely recognized over the past 2 decades. Immersion pulmonary edema is not related to pulmonary barotrauma Pulmonary Barotrauma Barotrauma is tissue injury caused by a pressure-related change in body compartment gas volume. Factors increasing risk of pulmonary barotrauma include certain behaviors (eg, rapid ascent, breath-holding... read more or decompression sickness Decompression Sickness Decompression sickness occurs when rapid pressure reduction (eg, during ascent from a dive, exit from a caisson or hyperbaric chamber, or ascent to altitude) causes gas previously dissolved... read more . Instead, in susceptible individuals it involves development of hemodynamic pulmonary edema due to excessively high pulmonary vascular pressures due to blood redistribution from the periphery into the pulmonary vessels. Risk factors include exposure to cold water, a history of hypertension, lung disorders, and other cardiac disorders that involve abnormal left ventricular systolic or diastolic function (including valvular disorders and cardiomyopathy). This syndrome occurs in divers and at the surface in competitive open water swimmers.
Severe dyspnea develops, usually while the diver is at depth. Divers usually ascend rapidly and have cough, frothy sputum, scattered crackles throughout both lung fields, and sometimes cyanosis. Hypoxia Oxygen Desaturation Patients without respiratory disorders who are in the intensive care unit (ICU)—and other patients—may develop hypoxia (oxygen saturation 90%) during a hospital stay. Hypoxia in patients with... read more is often present.
Chest x-ray shows typical pulmonary edema. Cardiac evaluation usually shows normal right and left ventricular function and normal coronary arteries, but wall motion abnormalities, valvular dysfunction, and cardiomyopathies have been reported. Diastolic dysfunction can be documented by echocardiography.
Oxygen administration to treat hypoxemia, and sometimes inhaled beta-2 agonists are usually sufficient to allow immersion pulmonary edema to resolve. Diuretics are rarely required. Mechanical ventilation may be necessary for severe cases. Recompression therapy Recompression Therapy Recompression therapy is administration of 100% oxygen for several hours in a sealed chamber pressurized to > 1 atmosphere, gradually lowered to atmospheric pressure. In divers, this therapy... read more is not indicated.
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Prevention efforts aim to identify people at high risk. Individuals who have experienced immersion pulmonary edema should be screened for predisposing conditions such as hypertension Hypertension Hypertension is sustained elevation of resting systolic blood pressure (≥ 130 mm Hg), diastolic blood pressure (≥ 80 mm Hg), or both. Hypertension with no known cause (primary; formerly, essential... read more , valvular heart disease Overview of Cardiac Valvular Disorders Any heart valve can become stenotic or insufficient (also termed regurgitant or incompetent), causing hemodynamic changes long before symptoms. Most often, valvular stenosis or insufficiency... read more , cardiomyopathy Overview of Cardiomyopathies A cardiomyopathy is a primary disorder of the heart muscle. It is distinct from structural cardiac disorders such as coronary artery disease, valvular disorders, and congenital heart disorders... read more , and lung disorders. Silent coronary artery disease should be considered in individuals at risk. Immersion pulmonary edema tends to recur in susceptible individuals, thus before such individuals return to diving or competitive swimming they should be evaluated for treatable risk factors. | <urn:uuid:5eaf17b7-dfef-4006-b8cf-4fdf32c12f95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.merckmanuals.com/en-ca/professional/injuries-poisoning/injury-during-diving-or-work-in-compressed-air/immersion-pulmonary-edema | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.852786 | 1,018 | 2.59375 | 3 |
House passes 'No More Solyndras Act'
House Republicans passed a bill that would require the US Treasury to review loans given through the energy sector stimulus funds. The move is an effort to call attention to bad investments made through the stimulus program, according to Consumer Energy Report.
The Republican Party pushed a bill through the House that would eliminate ongoing federal loan guarantees that exist as a part of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package, enacted shortly after he assumed office in 2009. While the bill has no hope of successfully passing through the Democrat-rich Senate, it does stand to highlight one of the major shortcomings in Obama’s presidency mere months before he attempts to earn a second term in office.
Passing on a mainly party-line vote at 245-161, the bill would require the United States Treasury to review and approve any further loans given through the energy sector stimulus funds while reiterating the law that forbids subordinating loans, allowing for private investors to be repaid before the government.
Dubbed the “No More Solyndras Act,” the move by Republicans is an effort to bring public notice to the taxpayer money lost in bad investments through the stimulus program, particularly the $500 million given to solar power company Solyndra LLC, a firm that went bankrupt in the face of Chinese competition soon after receiving its government loan.
“I’m stunned by the cavalier manner in which the administration squandered all of these tax dollars,” said Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, “yet says it has no regrets, no apologies, about its handling of the program. Burning money is one source of energy that the country doesn’t need.”
Members of the Democratic Party have dismissed the vote as partisan and not useful to the debate over stimulus funds, adding that the Republican claim that the Solyndra loan was made for political reasons remains unproven.
Source: House Votes to Stop Energy Loans
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The wind is weak and moderate, in the south and southeast, in the Basque and strong region, in the south of Banath, occasionally in storms, at the end of the day and during the weakening, the Hydrometeorological Institute announced.
Morning temperature from zero, in the southeast to 11 degrees in the basking region, and the highest daily 17-20 C, in the east about 14C.
In Novi Sad it will be mainly sun and width with moderate and strong southeast winds, which will weaken at the end of the day and during the night. Morning temperature around 10 C, the highest daily around 19 C.
According to the forecast for the next seven days, in Bessarabia, in the morning, in the valleys and in the depths of the river, one could expect a vague mist.
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Science points to a very easy way to be happier, have less stress, reduce your risk of dying from cancer and heart disease, and potentially live longer: Simply get married. Research overwhelmingly shows that married men are both mentally and physically healthier than single guys and, as a result, tend to outlive them.
"The differentials between married and unmarried men are pretty remarkable in terms of overall health and life expectancy," says Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Here's the proof: Last year, Harvard University researchers found that married people were significantly more likely than unwed folks to detect prostate, lung, colorectal, and other forms of cancer in their early stages and to get treatment for the disease. The study also showed that married people were much less likely than singles to die of cancer.
Similar results have been found for heart disease – the number-one killer of American men. Cardiologists at New York University's Langone Medical Center analyzed data from more than 3.5 million people nationwide and learned that, independent of other cardiovascular risk factors, married people age 50 and younger had a 12 percent less chance of developing any type of vascular disease than their unwed counterparts. Another large study found that men with wives were 46 percent less likely to die of heart disease than single guys – also after taking into consideration diabetes, smoking, blood pressure, obesity, and other major risk factors.
Studies also show that married people are happier and experience less stress – both of which play a big role in maintaining whole-body health. "Stress and depression undermine psychological health, which spills over to physical health," says Brown.
There are a couple of factors at play here. "Marriage is both a cause and a consequence of good health," says Michael Pollard, a sociologist with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization. "Research shows that healthier people are more likely to get married in first place and less likely to divorce. However, while this is definitely part of the equation, most of these studies suggest that marriage also causes good health and improves overall well-being – especially for men."
So why is marriage such a boon for men's health? It turns out guys, more so than women, rely on their spouses for emotional support and companionship, which leads to improved mental health. "When a woman is down in the dumps, she might call a girlfriend, but a guy will rely on his wife much more than his friends," Brown says.
Men also benefit from their wives keeping tabs on their physical health. "Women tend to be better than men about encouraging their spouses to maintain healthy behaviors like going to the doctor and eating healthy foods," Pollard says. "They also discourage risky activities like smoking and heavy drinking."
Of course, the health benefits of marriage can be severely diminished if the relationship isn't solid. Even though much of the research touting marriage's perks hasn't delved into the quality of the relationship, Brown says a contentious, unhappy marriage can undermine both partners' health. But if you're madly in love with your spouse, and you appreciate her care and companionship, you have a pretty great shot at living a long, healthy life.
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Last Friday, the Economic Times posted an interesting article concerning the history, fanatics and obsessives with South Indian filter coffee: How can filter coffee be so different, yet good? – Economic Times. The Economic Times is a business paper from the Times of India — and the world’s most widely read English-language business newspaper after the Wall Street Journal.
For Westerners without much exposure to the subcontinent, you might associate India with only tea. But the story of coffee in India is older than the USA itself and arguably larger (by capita) than its consumption of coffee. South India has grown coffee since the 1670s, and the article recalls how coffee consumption was particularly introduced to the Tamil households of South India by way of Britain in the 19th century.
Back then, “Tamil Brahmins resisted the tea campaign as too down-market, giving tea a working class (and Muslim) reputation it has never entirely shrugged off in the South.” The article even makes reference to a bottled coffee-chicory essence called Camp Coffee, first made by the Scottish company Paterson & Sons in Glasgow in 1876 and featuring a Sikh bearer on the label. By the 20th century, South Indians added sugar and milk, leading to its more widespread adoption.
When “the ‘perfect’ cup” has different forms of ‘perfect’
We fell in love with the stuff on our first visit to South India. It’s made as a sort of strange middle-ground between the popular fast-brewed hot coffee of espresso/pour-overs/Mr.-Coffee-makers and the slow, slow brewing of cold press coffee.
Traditionally it is made with chicory root (the article mentions a magic 15-20% range), a coffee substitute and additive known more in the West by its affiliation with New Orleans and colonial America. Here, as in India, it was introduced as a means of more cheaply cutting the more expensive pure coffee. However, in New Orleans the introduction of chicory as a coffee additive was of purely French origin: instigated by Napoleon’s initiation of the Continental Blockade of 1808 that deprived the French of much of their coffee supplies.
All of this cutting with chicory, milk, and sugar and the common use of fine coffee “powder” naturally leads most Westerners to a rather downscale impression of South Indian filter coffee. And for many examples of it, they’d be right. But that’s also the case with most coffee served here in America. However, it doesn’t help that my few attempts to make a version of it here with one of the unique South Indian filter brewers I purchased (on Mahatma Gandhi, aka “MG”, Road in Bangalore) produced some of the most undrinkable coffee I’ve ever made.
Of course, there are those who truly love coffee in its many shapes, forms, and varieties available. And then there are others who only like a rarefied, elitist, mutant sliver of coffee extract that’s possible with exacting farm origins, brewing methods, precision equipment, TDS ratios, and when the lunar tides are just right for four days out of the calendar year. While I very much admire and appreciate what can come out of the latter category, it might come as a surprise that I am a complete softie of the former variety.
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Brief Cease-Fire In Ukraine Lets Civilians Escape Renewed Fighting
An eight-hour cease-fire declared in Eastern Ukraine allowed hundreds of civilians to escape heavy fighting between the government and Moscow-backed separatists, NPR's Teri Schultz reports.
About 50 buses entered the city of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region, Teri reports, then took those who wanted to leave to refugee centers farther from the fighting. The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that the fresh round of intense fighting has brought the number of internally displaced Ukrainians to nearly 1 million — in the middle of winter. High temperatures in the region are expected to hover just above freezing for the next week, according to weather.com.
The UN reports that in addition to those internally displaced, more than a half-million have fled the country entirely.
"In addition, some 600,000 Ukrainians have sought asylum or other forms of legal stay in neighbouring countries, particularly the Russian Federation, but also Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Hungary and Romania, since February 2014."
The Associated Press reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande early Saturday, and that there would be a telephone call between the three leaders and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday.
The European leaders, supported by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, have been pursuing a longer-term cease-fire in the conflict, which reintensified in in the past two weeks after a month of relative calm.
Vice President Joe Biden questioned Putin's resolve, the AP reported, saying he "continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and that he has signed."
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Each proposal to site a peak-usage electricity power plant in the Chicago area has met with vocal opposition, and the latest one proposed for the far western suburbs is no exception.
More than 125 DuPage County residents showed up Tuesday at an Aurora City Council meeting to voice their concerns about a peaker power plant proposed for the city's far northeast side.
They came from more than a half-dozen subdivisions in Aurora and unincorporated Naperville and Winfield Townships to oppose or seek more information about the plant, proposed by Houston-based Reliant Energy Inc. for a 103-acre parcel southeast of Butterfield and Eola Roads.
"We will not go away," said Michael Dunker of Aurora. "We're concerned about these emissions, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, during peak-usage periods."
Steve Arigo of Aurora said, "I'm not sure whether this plant is good or bad, but I do have a lot of questions. It seems to me there needs to be a lot more study on this plant before a decision is made."
Residents from nearby Warrenville and officials of Big Woods Congregational Church also have expressed concerns about the plant, and hundreds of residents from the area have signed petitions opposing it, said Terri Voitik, an organizer in the grass-roots opposition effort.
The council sent the issue back to its Planning and Development Committee, which on Jan. 27 approved the final plan for the facility. That decision was appealed to the full council by Aldermen Robert O'Connor and Tess Wackerlin.
After that appeal, Mayor David Stover and aldermen agreed to hold a public forum on the facility at 6:30 p.m. next Tuesday, after which the Planning and Development Committee is expected to again consider the plan.
Because the plant is proposed for an area zoned for industrial use, which allows power plants, it is expected to win approval again. Stover has said turning down the plan would invite a costly lawsuit that the city ultimately would lose.
City and Reliant officials also maintain that the plant would pose no environmental threat to the area--whether in relation to emissions, noise, water usage, vibrations or odors--and would benefit the area by providing enough power for 250,000 homes and businesses during periods of peak-electricity usage, typically on hot summer days.
They also note Reliant must obtain an emissions permit from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency before proceeding with its plans. That agency enforces noise standards that would limit sound levels to that of a residential air-conditioning unit at the border of the site, they said.
"This body does not set clean-air standards," Bruce Goldsmith told the council.
Goldsmith is an attorney for DuPage Properties Venture Inc., which would sell land at its Butterfield Center for Business & Industry to Reliant for the plant. He said the plant poses no environmental hazard to the area.
"Sound levels at farther distances will be indistinguishable from road noise and other noise in the area," he said.
He added that the amount of water drawn from a 1,000-foot-deep well to be dug at the site would not affect the water supplies of the city or nearby residents.
"Although there are emissions from the plant, they do not pose a health risk to anyone in Aurora or the surrounding area," said Richard L. Benedict, director of business development for Reliant's wholesale group, who also contended the plant would emit no odors.
The plant would take up about 30 acres and be surrounded by about 73 acres of open space. It would include 10 natural gas-fired turbines that are cooled with water and include stacks that would rise about 90 feet high, although four larger turbines would obscure six smaller ones, Goldsmith said.
Reliant also has agreed to offer either the city or the Fox Valley Park District nominal cost, 30-year leases for land along Eola Road to be used for baseball and soccer fields.
Residents of the area said they believe that their neighborhoods are facing too much development pressure. They noted that DuPage County and Aurora plan to fund an Eola Road interchange on nearby Interstate Highway 88; the county wants to extend Eola north through Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; and DRH Cambridge Homes recently launched an expansion of the Butterfield Estates subdivision onto once-wooded land.
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Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Drawing of Mozart made by Dora Stock, Dresden, April 1789, Mozarteum, Salzburg
Detail from a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, 1804–05, Museen der Stadt Wien
Portrait of Carl Maria von Weber, c. 1825
Drawing of Heinrich Baermann, 1829, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
Art of the Motive
In 1781 Wolfgang Amadè Mozart moved to Vienna, where he wrote some of his most enduring operas and instrumental works. His first few years in this international city of about 250,000 was successful artistically and financially; he composed one of his most popular works, The Abduction from the Seraglio, and was in demand as a piano concerto performer and composer.
Other successes followed, but by the end of the decade, Mozart had not received a position (Imperial music director) as he had hoped; however, he was appointed court Kammermusicus (chamber composer), which required him to compose dance music for court balls. In May 1791, he was named assistant to the music director at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Soon after, he was asked by his friend and theater entrepreneur Emanuel Schikaneder to write Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).
On one level, the Overture to Mozart’s The Magic Flute sounds as if it is divided into two parts, each containing a shorter Adagio (slow) and a longer Allegro (fast) section. Three chords, separated by rests, characterize the Adagio sections.
The stability of these chords is counterbalanced by the frenetic energy of the main motive imitated throughout the Allegro sections. This motive, consisting of repeated notes followed by a quick melodic turn, is linked to an underlying three-part division in the overture.
Mozart changes the momentum without altering the pace within the Allegro sections using tension-filled chords followed by passages for winds, either in alternation with, or as a counterpoint to, the main motive.
The three chords of the Adagio section—related to the character Sarastro and, by extension, Masonic practice—return in the course of this singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) that centers on the prince Tamino and Pamina, a princess. In this Enlightenment fairy tale about choosing good (Sarastro) over evil (the Queen of the Night), the young lovers’ quest to be together faces a series of trials, which they surmount apart and together, and all ends happily.
A recognized piano virtuoso, Ludwig van Beethoven arrived in Vienna about a year after Mozart’s death to study with Joseph Haydn and establish his reputation as a composer.
(He had been to Vienna earlier in order to study with Mozart, but was recalled to his home in Bonn.) By the premiere of his Fifth Symphony in 1808, Beethoven was certainly well-known, with one audience member expressing his impressions in this way: “There we continued in the bitterest cold [from 6:30-10:30 pm] and experienced the truth that one can easily have too much of a good thing—and still more of a loud.” The concert that night included Symphony No. 6; Piano Concerto No. 4; a concert aria; movements from the Mass in C major, op. 86; a piano improvisation; and the Choral Fantasy.
Beethoven begins the first movement of Symphony No. 5 with a compact motive. In Beethoven’s time, the source of this motive was attributed to both bird song and the concept of fate itself. In the mid-20th century, it became a symbol of resistance in the Second World War. From this condensed introduction, Beethoven permeates the first movement with this motive, whether in imitation, as a counter melody to a new idea—which is also an expansion of the motive—or proclaimed by the whole orchestra as a unit.
The second movement, Adagio, is as expansive as the first movement is compressed. Two themes, one varied and the other essentially unchanged, provide the fodder for this theme and variation form. The initial, self-contained ascending theme begins in the low strings.
Next, another rising idea enters, but cannot move beyond its highest pitch. Beethoven then re-orchestrates this latest idea to include trumpets and timpani, recalling the rhythmic motive of the first movement. Still, no matter how many instruments play this final phrase, it feels incomplete and ultimately wanes.
As Beethoven continues to alternate between these two ideas, expectations are left unfulfilled, despite the strong closing to this movement.
The unease of the second movement is intensified in the Scherzo. Here, another rising idea in cello and bass mirrors the first theme of the previous movement.
And like its predecessor, it is not completed, but interrupted by a second idea, scored for horn, a permutation of the opening of the first movement now coalesced into a single pitch.
The most surprising moment, however, is yet to come as the third movement does not end decisively. Instead, Beethoven distills everything down to a single idea—the rhythm that opened the whole symphony—played in the timpani. Gradually, Beethoven adds other instruments, creating an unequivocal sense of expectation that is resolved with the first notes of the fourth movement.
For the fourth movement, Beethoven adds trombone, contrabassoon, and piccolo, expanding the orchestral palette. Like the inner two movements, this first theme is rising; however, whereas the previous themes went only so far, this one continues to a more logical musical conclusion.
Having such a glorious moment at the beginning of the movement leaves a compositional conundrum: where to go from here? Beethoven’s answer is inspired. He recalls the stunning transition from the third to the fourth movements, but shortens it so that what was a moment of anticipation becomes a way to propel the remainder of the movement forward.
Carl Maria von Weber lived only a few years longer than Mozart, his cousin by marriage, and was, like both Mozart and Beethoven, well-versed in the compositional techniques of what is now called the Classical style. But Weber was also steeped in theatrical traditions that inform his compositional voice as much as his studies with Michael Haydn, brother of Joseph. Weber’s exposure to the theater came from his father, as did the title “von,” which Franz Anton began adding to the family name in the 1760s or 1770s. (Beethoven, too, was known to have adopted this indication of nobility when to his advantage.) Carl Maria “inherited” the title without ever realizing its dubious origins.
Weber spent a great deal of his life traveling, but his time in Darmstadt launched his career as a composer in unexpected ways. Here Weber met the former soldier and clarinet virtuoso Heinrich Baermann for whom Weber composed his Concertino for Clarinet. The premiere of this work in Munich in the summer of 1811 caused such excitement that the then King of Bavaria immediately commissioned two new clarinet concertos from the composer. Weber wrote to a friend that because of the king’s support, “the entire orchestra is astir and wants to have concertos from me.”
Heinrich Baermann studied at the School of Military Music in Potsdam before joining a military band at the age of 14. He fought at the battles of Saalfeld and Jena, where he was captured. After escaping, he became a member of the court orchestra in Munich; he remained a part of that ensemble for the rest of his career even though he also toured throughout Europe regularly. On one occasion he arranged for Weber to join him; that tour would be another turning point in the composer’s career. Building on his new-found fame, Weber turned to mounting productions of his operas, the most enduring of which, Der Freischütz, remains a staple of the repertoire.
Weber described Baermann as “a truly great artist and admirable man,” praising his “evenness of tone and divinely tasteful phrasing.” These two qualities are fundamental to the Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, op. 73.
The first movement begins with a motive played in the bass, accompanied by violin and viola; the opening swells, holds on a fermata, and then continues to prepare for the clarinet entrance.
The clarinet line, marked con duolo (sorrowfully), transforms the rising idea of the orchestra’s motive into a descending one and virtuosic figurations exploit the range of the instrument. The suppleness in the exchanges between soloist and orchestra demonstrate Weber’s facility in presenting striking contrasts seamlessly.
Weber alternates and alters the two main ideas in the second movement. The first of these, a plaintive clarinet line,
ends with a harmonic question while the second is played by muted horns, which are soon joined by the clarinet.
When the first idea returns, it is more turbulent than before, accentuating the sense of release that follows. It is worth noting that the horns must change crooks to reflect the change of harmony from E-flat to C major in this movement.
The final movement, a Rondo, begins with the soloist playing a jaunty and folk-like theme.
The clarinet is in control at the beginning of this movement, but as the movement continues, the soloist and orchestra begin to trade material more freely and, with the last iteration of the Rondo theme, the orchestra shares in the playing of this theme for the first time. The coda is the final flurry of activity, one final moment for the clarinet to shine against the backdrop of the orchestra.
All three compositions build larger structures on comparatively little musical material. The shorter motives offer a glimpse of what is to come, enticing the ear, and establishing a mood, one that will be expanded or subverted by what follows. The scoring of each piece is critical to this outcome, whether in the solo clarinet passages of the Weber concerto or those for winds in Mozart’s overture and Beethoven’s symphony. Equally important, each composer balances the texture of the whole ensemble, using the intersection of the melodic line with the building of musical forces to guide each work to a masterful conclusion.
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The nexus sales tax is a tax that has recently been implemented in many states. It’s important to understand how this can affect your business because it could mean big changes to how you do business! This article will go over the nexus sales tax and how they can be applied.
Nexus Tax is Imposed on Certain Businesses
The nexus sales tax is a tax that is imposed on certain businesses. This means that if your business has a physical presence in a state, you are subject to the Nexus Tax. This means that you could owe sales tax to a state even if your business did not have a physical location in the state. The purpose of this tax is to make sure that companies are paying their fair share in taxes and ensuring that out-of-state businesses aren’t avoiding taxes by not having a physical presence in the state.
Nexus Tax Generates Revenue
The Nexus Tax has been successful in generating revenue for states. It is estimated that this tax will bring in an extra $23 billion over the next decade! However, as with most things, some negative effects are associated with this new tax. Some of these negative effects include increased prices for consumers, decreased wages for workers, and decreased employee benefits.
Negative Effects of Nexus Tax
Some of the negative effects of the Nexus Tax include increased prices for consumers, decreased wages for workers, and decreased benefits for employees. This is because companies will likely have to pass on some of the extra costs associated with this tax to their customers. In addition, businesses may be less likely to expand or relocate to states that have a Nexus Tax, leading to job losses.
How Nexus Tax Affects Your Business
So how does all of this affect your business? Well, it depends on your situation. If you are a business with a physical presence in a state that has implemented the Nexus Tax, you are subject to these taxes. You will need to start collecting sales tax from customers in that state and remitting it back to the state. If you have employees in a state with Nexus Tax, you may need to withhold and pay income tax on your employee’s wages from that state.
How You Can Reduce the Negative Effects of The Nexus Sales Tax
There are some things that businesses can do to reduce the negative effects of this new tax law. First, before expanding into a new market with multiple locations or hiring more workers, make sure there are not going to be any nexus issues! In addition, when considering where to relocate or expand your business, look at states without these taxes so as don’t increase costs for consumers and lose out on potential jobs due to an inability for companies involved in interstate commerce (like yours) to continue growing.
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Building on a “trajectory of unity” that had begun with the Security Council’s recent adoption of two important Middle East resolutions, Olof Skoog (Sweden), Council President for January, said the 15-member body would focus on issues ranging from Colombia to the Lake Chad Basin, hold a ministerial-level open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security and work to make its overall methods more results-oriented.
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In November 2015, more than 1,000 Cuban nationals were reported to be camped out at the Paso Canoas border crossing with Panama. In view of requirements for entering the country and the fact that these migrants did not meet them, a significant amount of people began to congregate in this border community, taking to living in the streets while they waited for a solution to their immigration status. The Costa Rican government issued permits allowing migrants to enter the country and continue on their way to the United States.
Hunger is not inevitable As 2016 comes to an end, almost 130-million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Throughout the year, natural hazards, conflict and protracted crises have placed a particularly heavy burden on the poor, who are often extremely vulnerable to shocks. Across 22-affected areas, 70-million people are currently in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or above.
Global Overview NOVEMBER 2016
The quest of the last 15 years to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) taught us that Global Goals can motivate and help sustain leaps in human progress. It also taught us that the specifics matter. In some places, the MDGs became a widely-recognized, consistent and important driver of local progress; in others, the role and impact of the MDGs was more ambiguous. A lot depended on way the MDGs were implemented: if local change agents made them meaningful locally; if local leaders drew on their legitimacy and visibility; if they were employed to solve real-life problems etc.
To Walk the Earth in Safety 2016: U.S. Global Leadership in Landmine Clearance and Conventional Weapons Destruction
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GIDAN GIMBA, NIGERIA — The health programs of The Carter Center have surpassed a major milestone: The organization on Nov. 4 celebrated assisting with the distribution of 500 million doses of donated medication to combat five neglected tropical diseases in 14 countries in Africa and Latin America.
Global Overview OCTOBER 2016
This bulletin examines trends in staple food and fuel prices, the cost of the basic food basket and consumer price indices for 70 countries in the third quarter of 2016 (July to September). The maps on pages 6–7 disaggregate the impact analysis to sub-national level.
CONSEIL DE SÉCURITÉ
7793E SÉANCE – MATIN
Seize ans après l’adoption, par le Conseil de sécurité, de la résolution pionnière 1325 (2000), force est de constater que les femmes sont bien trop souvent empêchées de participer pleinement aux processus de paix et de consolidation de la paix, alors que leur utilité n’est plus à démontrer, a déclaré, aujourd’hui au Conseil de sécurité, le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, M. Ban Ki-moon, venu présenter son dernier rapport à ce sujet.
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7793RD MEETING (AM)
NGO Working Group Urges Improved United Nations-Civil Society Engagement
Despite the vital role of women in preventing conflict and helping to forge peace, they were far too often prevented from participating fully in peacemaking processes to the detriment of society as a whole, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the Security Council today, as it began a day-long debate open on the subject.
IN 2015, ACTION AGAINST HUNGER’S GLOBAL NETWORK SERVED 14.9 MILLION PEOPLE IN 47 COUNTRIES.
El contexto de la situación actual
As of 30 September 2016, UN-coordinated appeals and refugee response plans within the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) require US$22 billion to meet the needs of 95 million humanitarian crisis-affected people in 40 countries. Together the appeals are funded at $9.4 billion, leaving a shortfall of $12.6 billion.
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Russia has organised a debate on UN cooperation with regional and sub-regional organisations, in particular the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
There will be two high-level briefings during New Zealand’s September presidency: one on the Middle East, with a Syria focus, chaired by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, and the other on counter-terrorism and aviation security, chaired by New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully.
Council members are expected to continue to hold straw polls to gauge the viability of candidates that have been nominated for the position of the next Secretary-General.
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Two years before the faithful servant and minister of Christ, Francis, gave up his spirit to God, he retired alone into a high place, which is called Mount Alvernia, and began a forty-days’ fast in honour of the Archangel St. Michael. The sweetness of heavenly contemplation was poured out on him more abundantly than usual, till, burning with the flame of celestial desires, he began to feel an increasing overflow of these divine favours. While the seraphic ardour of his desires thus raised him up to God, and the tenderness of his love and compassion was transforming him into Christ the crucified Victim of excessive love; one morning, about the Feast of the Exaltation of holy Cross, as he was praying on the mountain-side, he saw what appeared to be a Seraph, with six shining and fiery wings, coming down from heaven. The vision flew swiftly through the air and approached the man of God, Who then perceived that it was not only winged, but also crucified; for the hands and feet were stretched out and fastened to a cross; while the wings were arranged in a wondrous manner, two being raised above the head, two outstretched in flight, and the remaining two crossed over and veiling the whole body. As he gazed, Francis was much astonished, and his soul was filled with mingled joy and sorrow. The gracious aspect of him, who appeared in so wonderful and loving a manner, rejoiced him exceedingly, while the sight of his cruel crucifixion pierced his heart with a sword of sorrowing compassion.
He, who appeared outwardly to Francis, taught him inwardly that, although weakness and suffering are incompatible with the immortal life of a seraph, yet this vision had been shown to him to the end that he, Christ’s lover, might learn how his whole being was to be transformed into a living image of Christ crucified, not by martyrdom of the flesh, but by the burning ardour of his soul. After a mysterious and familiar colloquy, the vision disappeared, leaving the Saint’s mind burning with seraphic ardour, and his flesh impressed with an exact image of the Crucified, as though, after the melting power of that fire, it had next been stamped with a seal. For immediately the marks of nails began to appear in his hands and feet, their heads showing in the palms of his hands and the upper part of his feet, and their points visible on the other side. There was also a red scar on his right side, as if it had been wounded by a lance, and from which blood often flowed staining his tunic and underclothing.
Francis, now a new man, honoured by this new and amazing miracle, and, by a hitherto unheard of privilege, adorned with the sacred stigmata, came down from the mountain bearing with him the image of the Crucified, not carved in wood or stone by the hand of an artist, but engraved upon his flesh by the finger of the living God. The seraphic man well knew that it is good to hide the secret of the king; wherefore, having been thus admitted into his king’s confidence, he strove, as far as in him lay, to conceal the sacred marks. But it belongs to God to reveal the great things which he himself has done; and hence, after impressing those signs upon Francis in secret, he publicly worked miracles by means of them, revealing the hidden and wondrous power of the Stigmata by the signs wrought through them. Pope Benedict XI. willed that this wonderful event, which is so well attested and in pontifical diplomas has been honoured with the greatest praises and favours, should be celebrated by a yearly solemnity. Afterwards, Pope Paul V., wishing the hearts of all the faithful to be enkindled with the love of Christ crucified, extended the feast to the whole Church.
INTROIT John 19: 25
There stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother’s sister Mary of Cleophas, and Salome, and Mary Magdalen. (John 19: 26, 27) “Woman, behold thy son,” said Jesus; to the disciple, however, “Behold thy mother.” v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who, when the world was growing cold, didst renew the sacred marks of Thy passion in the flesh of the most blessed Francis, to inflame our hearts with the fire of Thy love, graciously grant that by his merits and prayers we may continually bear the cross and bring forth fruits worthy of penance. Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever.
EPISTLE Galatians 6: 14-18
Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Galatians. Brethren, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ: by Whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature: and whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them, and mercy, and upon the Isræl of God. From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me; for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body. The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.
GRADUAL/ALLELUIA Psalm 36: 30-31
The mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment. V. The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not be supplanted. Alleluia, alleluia. V. V. The poor and lowly Francis enters heaven abounding in riches; he is acclaimed with celestial hymns. Alleluia.
GOSPEL Matthew 16: 24-27
At that time: Jesus said to His disciples, “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall find it. For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels: and then will He render to every man according to his works.”
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Psalm 88:25
My truth and My mercy shall be with him: and in My name shall his horn be exalted.
Sanctify, O Lord, the gifts we offer Thee; and by the intercession of blessed Francis cleanse us from every stain of sin. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever.
PREFACE of the Common
It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God: through Christ our Lord. Through Whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the Heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with them we entreat Thee, that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted, while we say in lowly praise: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY…
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Luke 12: 42
The faithful and prudent servant whom the master will set over his household to give them their ration of grain in due time.
O God, Who didst in many ways demonstrate in blessed Francis, Thy confessor,the mysteries of the cross, grant us, we beseech Thee, ever to follow the examples of his devotion and to be fortified by constant meditation upon the same cross. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, For ever and ever. | <urn:uuid:d987dde0-7fdd-421d-be26-fce6df50f924> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brightonoratory.org/2018/09/17/carissimi-todays-mass-impression-of-the-stigmata-of-st-francis-of-assisi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.968868 | 1,799 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Asus few processor cores computers have good reviews on average and across all PCs Asus is one of the better rated manufacturers.
64-Bit Processor Operating Modes
This PC supports a 64-bit processor operating modes, which is the most commonly supported processor operating modes on PCs of a similar spec and age to it.
11 On-Board Graphics Adapter DirectX Version
This computer supports a 11.1 on-board graphics adapter DirectX version, which is typical of many computers of a similar age and type to it.
3 PCI Express Slots Version
This PC supports a 3 PCI Express slots version, which is typical of many desktop computers of this age and spec.
7.1 Audio Output Channels
The Asus K30AD has a 7.1 audio output channels which is better than most personal computers of this spec and age. Most few processor cores computers that are a similar age to it have a 5.1 audio output channels.
This computer's audio output (7.1) is in fact the best audio output across all desktop computers of this age and spec.
The worst audio output across comparable types of computer is 5.1.
DVD Super Multi Optical Drive Type
The optical drive type of this personal computer is DVD Super Multi, which is the most commonly found optical drive type on few processor cores computers that have been around for more than two years.
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Quite Slow Memory Bandwidth Supported by Processor (max)
The Asus K30AD has a very slow memory bandwidth supported by processor (max) (only 21.3 gigabytes per second) compared to most of the other PCs that have been available for more than two years. Few processor cores computers that have been around for around the same time as the K30AD have memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)s of between 6.4GB/s and 26GB/s.
Only HDD Storage Media
The storage speed of this personal computer is HDD, which is the most commonly found storage media on PCs of this spec and age. A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is the traditional storage method for computers. A HDD stores the information on magnetic disks. HDD drives are cheap, but they are slower than Flash and SSD bases storage systems.
It may also be worth considering one of the other HDD personal computers currently available including because of it's better review score, the Zotac ZBOX BI320[plb_2519448_price].
Only Supports Six Compatible Memory Cardss
The Asus K30AD has a greater number of compatible memory card than most few processor cores computers that have been around for a comparable time to it. This desktop computer supports an SD compatible memory cards, which is the most frequently supported compatible memory cards supported by computers of this age and type. The compatible memory cardss "Memory Stick (MS)", "MMC", "MS PRO", "SDHC" and "xD" are also supported by this personal computer.
Only Two Processor Threadss
The Asus K30AD is a two processor threads personal computer.
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Only Three USB 2.0 Ports Quantitys
The Asus K30AD is a three USB 2.0 ports quantity computer.
Only One PCI Express X1 Slots
Most desktop computers of this age and spec have between one and two PCI Express x1 slotss, including the Asus K30AD which has one PCI Express x1 slots.
The Asus K30AD is fairly heavy (8.6 kilograms) compared to most of the other few processor cores computers that were released more than two years ago. The lightest few processor cores PC that has been available for more than two years is 600g heavy and the heaviest is 14kg.
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Released Over Two Years Ago
Asus released the K30AD over two years ago.
Average Processor Frequency
With a processor frequency of 3.2 gigahertz, the Asus K30AD has a pretty average processor frequency compared to most of the other similar spec PCs that have been around for around the same time as the K30AD.
Average Total Storage Capacity
The Asus K30AD has a fairly standard total storage capacity (500 gigabytes) compared to most of the other few processor cores computers that are a similar age to the K30AD.
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Salt Lake City, UT – Renowned photographer Sabastiao Salgado turned his lens to the masses of humanity and the hard truths of urbanization, wars and persecution. The result of his seven year project is "Exodus," currently on display in Salt Lake City. This evening Salgado, along with one of Latin America's most important poets, Homero Aridjis and author Terry Tempest Williams, will participate in "An Evening of Conscience: Perspectives on Peace, Human Rights and Compassion." They join Doug Fabrizio for a look at some of the most difficult issues facing the world today.
- Learn more about Exodus. The exhibit runs through December 17, 2005 at The Leonardo, Library Square in Downtown Salt Lake City.
- For more information on "An Evening of Conscience," visit the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. The event takes place this evening, December 1, 7:00 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall. For tickets, call 801-581-7100.
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Situated just outside of the nation’s capital, College Park, Maryland, home of the University of Maryland, is on the verge of a transformation. A guest post by Patrick Wojahn, Mayor of College Park.
U.S. cities continue to reinvent themselves and demonstrate economic resiliency. While The University of Maryland-College Park (UMCP) has long had a reputation as a high-class research institution, its status has had a limited impact on the community surrounding it. With the evolving partnership between UMCP and the City of College Park, however, College Park is on the verge of becoming a hub for new innovation in the Washington, DC area.
College Park, and other college towns like it, are on their way to becoming centers of the regional and national innovation economy.
Steps toward an innovation economy
Although there are many different ideas of what a classic “college town” is, College Park has long been considered in terms of the elements that it lacks. Although about 30-35% of undergraduate students live on campus, and many more in the surrounding neighborhoods, College Park has historically lacked the eclectic cultural opportunities that make a college town great. Now, however, the University of Maryland is increasing its investment in opportunities for local innovation, and the city is supporting businesses that want to stay and work here. As a result, more non-student residents as well as businesses are relocating to the area. College Park is rebuilding itself as a college town based on an innovation economy.
While the number of employment opportunities in College Park and its immediate surroundings has increased with a new research park and nearby federal government facilities, it has rarely been seen as a hub for innovation. Most of the innovators who have gotten their start in College Park, such as Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus, and Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour, left College Park before they started the innovative work that made them famous.
This is changing. Recent upstarts in College Park, including FlexEl Battery, MedPrint, a medical 3-d printing program, and the Food Recovery Network, are all building their companies within College Park. College Park is becoming an example for college towns across the country, demonstrating towns how can best take advantage of the resources a major research university has to offer.
A key part of this is the strong partnership that has developed in recent years between UMCP and the City of College Park. This partnership is enabling the change that will make College Park an innovation center in future decades, and the fruits are already apparent.
Nearly half a dozen cranes currently tower over the chapel and greens on the UMCP campus. Several of these are new academic and research buildings, such as the Edward St. John Learning Center and the A. James Clark Engineering Hall, and some are part of a new commercial center in downtown College Park. Largest among those buildings is a new hotel and conference center.
More construction is on the way. The convention center will be the centerpiece of an innovation district, which already includes businesses such as the FlexEl Battery headquarters. In the next few years, the innovation district will include office space for innovative businesses growing out of research at the UMCP campus, co-working space, and incubator space for business concepts to develop.
College Park is setting the stage to facilitate the innovation economy and allow companies to stay in the city as they grow. The city and university are working together on an application for a Regional Institutional Strategic Enterprise (RISE) Zone, which will provide a range of tax credits and other incentives to businesses wishing to stay in College Park. These incentives will help create thousands of new jobs.
These companies will help create a renewed commercial center for College Park as well. The Hotel at the University of Maryland will include two high-end restaurants and a spa. The conference center will support at least two more high-end hotels and bring thousands of people to the city on a regular basis to patronize city businesses. Plans are in the works to redevelop significant areas of downtown College Park, including a new City Hall and public square, a grocery store, and multi-family residential development to accommodate young professionals who want to live near this growing innovation hub.
Transportation is innovation economy’s lifeblood
The change is perhaps most apparent in the ongoing efforts to redevelop underdeveloped space around the College Park Metro station. Two years ago, a request for development proposals here brought in one bid, which was ultimately unsuccessful. Recent requests for proposals for development (one Prince George’s County proposal for private land north of the station and one for the Metro property itself) were much more successful and will likely bring in the first true transit-oriented development ever at this decades-old Metro stop. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently approved the development of the new purple line, a light rail system that will include a stop in College Park.
Also changing is the opinion that UMCP faculty and staff about the city around them. As recent as five years ago, academic leadership at UMCP would actively discourage new hires from living in College Park. Currently, only 3-4% of UMCP faculty and staff live in College Park. Last year the College Park City-University Partnership instituted, with support from the University and a grant from the State of Maryland, a program to provide $15,000 forgivable loans to University employees who buy homes in College Park.
Academic and Economic Revitalization
This sea of change – opportunities for innovation, an increasingly vibrant downtown with a broader range of amenities for UMCP faculty, students and staff, and a greater range of new commercial businesses – will help establish the University-based culture that college towns are typically known for. The College Park of today is already unrecognizable to people who graduated even five or ten years ago, and the College Park of tomorrow will be unrecognizable to today’s graduates.
This is important not just for the D.C. Metropolitan area, which, according to a recent economic competitiveness report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, needs to collaborate to diversity beyond reliance on the federal government to remain economically competitive. It is important for our nation’s economy, which is increasingly relying on innovation in the tech sector for our national economy to thrive.
College Park is set to become a model for how college towns can collaborate with the universities in their communities to transform their cities and fuel a new innovation company across the region and across the United States.
Patrick Wojahn is Mayor of College Park, Maryland, and also serves as chair of the National League of Cities Transportation and Infrastructure Service Policy Committee. Patrick works full-time as Director of Government Relations at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, advocating for funding for trails and bicycle and pedestrian networks on the federal, state and local levels. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Patrick received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002. | <urn:uuid:1a14d47d-0e94-4eb1-baf4-f8b9a6b4aa25> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://globalriskinsights.com/2016/03/college-park-shows-how-college-towns-are-becoming-hubs-of-innovation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964171 | 1,403 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Building a new structure is pretty straight forward. Building a new structure that ties in to an old one seamlessly is full of complications.
First, if you like your existing house, you have to create temporary support for it so it won’t collapse when you tear down the existing walls transitioning into the new space.
In addition, the weight of the new construction, and the wider spans of many of the new openings, create a need for more permanent support.
Some people run unsightly soffits , beams, or lower the ceiling to cover up these support structures, but that screams “addition” and Dave will have none of that.
To create “in construction support”, we have to tear up perfectly fine existing walls and ceilings, add temporary support for them, and build the support beams and duct work into the walls. A lot of ” in construction structural support” had to be added above the new large openings in the kitchen and great room. This adds cost to the job, but it’s worth it.
These new structural microlams and posts were built into the walls and ceilings so they will not be visible or lower ceiling height.
And while we are talking about framing, can we take a minute to admire the way they did it 124 years ago?
Part of the fun of renovating a historic house, is discovering little bits of buried history along the way. We already dug up a beautiful brick cistern (see Dig Baby Dig) Today, the carpenters discovered these old beer bottles tucked under the eaves in the roof.
Of course I googled Schoenhofen Brewery and discovered it was a pre-prohibition brewery in Chicago with a rich architectural history of it’s own. It survived prohibition partly by making Green River and became one of the largest brewery in Chicago. read more here
Three beer bottles from another place in time. Three buddies after a long day of framing? Three teenagers sneaking a beer on the roof? How these bottles ended up buried in the eaves of my roof 124 years ago is anyone’s guess…. | <urn:uuid:0aa43d00-2ab8-4aa3-a3ca-ab11ff8a5607> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theoldhouserescue.com/2019/02/04/support-walls-beams-and-beer-bottles/?noamp=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.942006 | 434 | 2.453125 | 2 |
President Barack Obama has asked the Congress to approve $500 million to fund training and equipment for what he described as “moderate” Syrian opposition forces.
The funds would help Syrians defend against forces aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, the White House said.
The aid would also counter Islamist militants such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), it added.
ISIS’s advance in neighboring Iraq has led some in Congress to press Barack Obama to take action.
Barack Obama has asked the Congress to approve $500 million to fund training and equipment for Syrian opposition forces
Tens of thousands of people have died and millions more have been displaced in three years of civil war in Syria, as rebels fight troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad.
“This funding request would build on the administration’s longstanding efforts to empower the moderate Syrian opposition, both civilian and armed,” the White House said.
It will also “enable the Department of Defense to increase our support to vetted elements of the armed opposition”.
The money will help stabilize areas under opposition control and counter terrorist threats, the White House said.
The rebels that would receive the funds would be vetted beforehand in order to alleviate concerns of equipment falling into the hands of militants hostile to the US and its allies, the White House said.
President Barack Obama has been under strong pressure from some members of Congress to increase assistance in the area, although it is unclear whether and when Congress would act on his request.
Last month Barack Obama hinted at increased help for the Syrian opposition in a speech at the military academy at West Point.
Syrian rebels are being evacuated from their last stronghold in Homs, activists say.
Within the past hour, buses have begun leaving the Old City under a deal brokered by the United Nations.
At least two buses have arrived in rebel-held territory to the north, carrying a number of armed fighters.
Syrian rebels are being evacuated from their last stronghold in Homs
It marks the end of any rebel presence in the heart of the major city once dubbed the “capital of the revolution” against President Bashar al-Assad.
The rebel fighters and their families are sad and bitter as they say goodbye to a place they swore they would never leave.
They buckled finally after two years of siege – the government’s forces following a tactic of what some Syrian army officers called “surrender or starve”.
The siege of the Old City was tightened in recent months with intense shelling and air strikes.
The deal was brokered by the UN – which is also supervising the buses now heading into the Old City – and was agreed only after many months of negotiation.
The deal reportedly also involves easing a siege of two predominantly Shia Muslim towns in the north loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
The armed groups within the Old City were deeply divided about whether to accept a ceasefire.
The al-Nusra Front, which is affiliated to al Qaeda, wanted to try to break the siege with a series of suicide bombings. It attempted to do this, but failed, and al-Nusra fighters will be on the evacuation buses too.
One more district of Homs is still holding out, al-Wair on the periphery.
Fighters there have accepted a ceasefire and will leave, too, as soon as arrangements are made.
Syrian rebels have released a group of Greek Orthodox nuns, who were kidnapped in the Christian town of Maaloula in December.
The 13 nuns and their three helpers were said to have been freed as part of a prisoner exchange.
The women have been taken to the town of Judaydat Yabus on the Syrian-Lebanon border, Lebanese state media reported.
Rights groups say kidnappings by both rebel groups and government forces have become increasingly common.
The capture of the nuns had raised fears that Christians were becoming a target for the rebels.
Opposition fighters, including members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, seized the women from the Greek Orthodox convent of Mar Takla when fighters overran Maaloula, about 40 miles north-east of Damascus, in December, the Associated Press reports.
The Greek Orthodox nuns were kidnapped in the Christian town of Maaloula in December
The nuns, who are believed to be mostly Syrian and Lebanese, worked in the convent’s orphanage, the agency said.
They were reportedly held for at least part of their captivity in the rebel stronghold of Yabroud, now the target of heavy government bombardment.
The women reached the Syrian town of Judaydat Yabus overnight after a nine-hour journey.
“We arrived late, and we arrived tired,” the Associated Press quoted Mother Superior Pelagia Sayaf, the head of the Maaloula convent, as saying.
She said the women were mostly well treated by their captors.
“God did not leave us,” she said.
“The [Nusra] Front was good to us … but we took off our crosses because we were in the wrong place to wear them.”
About 150 female prisoners are to be released in exchange for the group’s freedom, Lebanese security chief General Abbas Ibrahim told Syrian television.
Top Syrian rebel commander Abdul Qadir al-Saleh has died of wounds he sustained in a government air strike on a rebel-held air base near Aleppo on Thursday, reports say.
Abdul Qadir al-Saleh, the leader of Liwa al-Tawhid, died overnight, a spokesman told the Associated Press.
Abdul Aziz Salama, the brigade’s political leader, had assumed overall command, the spokesman added.
Abdul Qadir al-Saleh has died of wounds he sustained in a government air strike on a rebel-held air base near Aleppo
Opposition activists had said Abdul Qadir al-Saleh, also known as Hajji Marea, was in a good condition in hospital last week.
Liwa al-Tawhid (Battalion of Monotheism) was formed in July 2012 to unite the many separate fighting groups operating in the Aleppo countryside. Later that month, it led a rebel offensive on the city of Aleppo.
Liwa al-Tawhid is now one of the main forces operating in the province, and is estimated to have between 8,000 and 10,000 fighters.
In January, it joined the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (SILF), an alliance of Islamist rebel groups that recognizes the Western-backed Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army but not the National Coalition.
According to leading United Nations investigator Carla del Ponte, testimony from victims of the Syrian conflict suggests rebels have used the nerve agent sarin.
Carla del Ponte told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof”.
However, she said her panel had not yet seen evidence of government forces using chemical weapons.
Syria has recently come under growing Western pressure over the alleged use of such weapons.
Carla del Ponte, who serves on the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said in an interview with Swiss-Italian TV: “Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals.
Carla del Ponte said there were strong suspicions that Syrian rebels used sarin
“According to their report of last week, which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated.”
Carla del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney-general and prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, did not rule out the possibility that government troops might also have used chemical weapons, but said further investigation was needed.
She gave no details of when or where sarin may have been used.
Her commission was established in August 2011 to examine alleged violations of human rights in the Syrian conflict since March 2011 and is due to issue its latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in June.
A separate United Nations team was established to look specifically into the issue of chemical weapons.
The team is ready to go to Syria but wants unconditional access with the right to inquire into all credible allegations.
Both the Syrian government and the rebels have in the past accused each other using chemical weapons.
Sarin, a colorless, odorless gas which can cause respiratory arrest and death, is classed as a weapon of mass destruction and is banned under international law.
Forty-eight Iranians held hostage by rebels in Syria since August have been freed, Iranian state TV reports.
The Iranians were released in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian authorities, a Turkish charity said.
Rebel fighters claimed the hostages had been carrying out a mission on behalf of Syrian government forces.
Iran said a number were retired members of the armed forces, but insisted they were pilgrims who had visited a Shia shrine in the south-east of Damascus.
Officials at the Iranian Pilgrimage and Travel Organization said the group included university students and some public servants.
Shortly after they were seized, the Free Syrian Army’s al-Bara Brigade said it had evidence showing that the Iranians belonged to the Revolutionary Guards and had come to Syria to “serve the regime”.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, Ahmed al-Khatib, told the AFP news agency that the hostages had been freed.
The Syrian government has not yet confirmed their release and Iranian state TV made no mention of a swap deal.
But earlier, the Turkish Islamic aid organization, Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), said 2,130 civilian prisoners would be released by the Syrian authorities in return for the Iranians.
Forty-eight Iranians held hostage by rebels in Syria since August have been freed
“Most of the prisoners to be swapped are Syrian citizens in exchange for Iranians, and there are a few Turks as well,” IHH board member Osman Atalay told Reuters news agency.
The head of the agency, Bulent Yildirim, was in Damascus to help co-ordinate the prisoner swap, which was already under way, he added.
The Turkish state news agency, Anadolu, said the deal was brokered by Turkey and Qatar, which have backed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, in which the UN says at least 60,000 people have died.
Meanwhile, the UN’s envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will meet top US and Russian diplomats in Geneva on Friday, Russia’s Interfax news agency reports, citing the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov.
The meeting will take place less than a week after President Assad dismissed any chance of dialogue with the opposition in a speech on Sunday, and called on Syrians to fight the “murderous criminals” he claimed were responsible for the violence in their country.
On Monday, a spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had been disappointed that the speech did not “contribute to a solution that could end the terrible suffering of the Syrian people”.
Ban Ki-moon and Lakhdar Brahimi strongly support the peace plan outlined by the Action Group for Syria in June.
The group called for an immediate cessation of violence and the establishment of a transitional government that could include officials serving under President Bashar al-Assad and members of the opposition.
Lakhdar Brahimi has said any plan must also include a “large, robust peacekeeping force” to ensure the ceasefire is observed.
The United Nations Organization says a video that appears to show Syrian rebels killing soldiers or pro-government militiamen could be evidence of a war crime.
The footage shows gunmen beating a group of prisoners cowering on the floor before opening fire at them.
It has been alleged that Islamist militants carried out the attack after seizing army checkpoints on Thursday.
Unconfirmed reports say troops have now quit all bases near the strategic northern town of Saraqeb.
The town lies near both the main Damascus-Aleppo highway and the highway linking Aleppo to the coastal city of Latakia – making it doubly strategic.
The army, meanwhile, continued its air strikes across Syria on Thursday.
In all, more than 150 people reportedly died in fighting, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group.
The SOHR said that among the victims were more than 70 government soldiers, 43 civilians and 38 rebels.
The claim has not been independently verified.
In a separate development, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby would meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the Syrian crisis, the Arab League announced.
The alleged shootings took place after the rebels overran the strategic army checkpoints between on Thursday.
The video purportedly shows agitated rebels kicking and pushing the soldiers or pro-government militiamen, known locally as “shabiha”, to the ground inside one of the seized buildings. Shots are then seen fired into the cowering mass of bodies.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said it appeared that the victims “were no longer combatants and therefore, at this point, it looks very like a war crime”.
Spokesman Rupert Colville added that the video – if proved to be genuine – would almost certainly form part of a future prosecution.
Meanwhile, Amnesty said in a statement: “This shocking footage depicts a potential war crime in progress, and demonstrates an utter disregard for international humanitarian law by the armed group in question.”
No group has so far admitted carrying out the alleged killings.
However, a rebel fighter from Idlib province, Abu Abdul Rahim, told the Guardian that a Salafi-jihadist group was behind the killings, which he said had occurred in al-Nayrab, to the west of Saraqeb.
He said the Salafists of the Dawood brigade and Suqur al-Sham did not answer to any military council affiliated to the rebel Free Syrian Army.
For months, activists have reported similar summary executions by government forces virtually every day.
But there has been mounting evidence of similar tactics being used by some rebel groups too, although many have signed a code of practice banning such abuses.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier warned that radical Islamist fighters were trying to hijack the Syrian revolution.
The comments have drawn an angry response from some opposition leaders, who say that it is the failure of the outside world to support the uprising with practical help that has left the field open to the radicals.
The SOHR more than 36,000 people have been killed since protests against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011.
The SOHR is one of the most prominent organizations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. It says its reports are impartial, though its information cannot be independently verified.
Recent alleged rebel atrocities
• 22 June – Damascus accuses ‘terrorists’ of killing 25 villagers in northern Syria and mutilating their bodies
• 6 July – footage shows a rebel questioning a soldier before shooting him – location unknown
• 1 August – four apparent Assad loyalists are seen put against the wall and shot in public in Aleppo
• 14 August – rebels are shown in a video throwing dead bodies of government snipers from an Aleppo roof
• 17 September – armed opposition groups are accused by Human Rights Watch of torturing and summarily executing detainees in Aleppo, Latakia, and Idlib
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By the end of September 2017, Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves stood at USD $129.4 billion, slightly up from USD $128.8 billion in the preceding month, hence hitting a new all-time record. Indonesia's central bank (Bank Indonesia) said this increase was primarily attributed to foreign exchange receipts from tax revenues, government oil & gas export proceeds, the withdrawal of government foreign loans as well as the auction of Bank Indonesia foreign exchange bills.
Meanwhile, these above-mentioned receipts surpassed uses of foreign exchange - primarily for repayments of public foreign debt and maturing Bank Indonesia foreign exchange bills - and therefore a new record-high could be achieved in September 2017.
Bank Indonesia stated that the nation's foreign exchange reserves position at end-September 2017 can adequately cover 8.9 months of imports or 8.6 months of imports and servicing of government external debt repayments, which is well above the international standards of reserve adequacy at three months of imports.
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This also means that Bank Indonesia has plenty of ammunition to defend the rupiah which is currently under pressure - like most other emerging market currencies - amid severe US dollar strength. US dollar strength is caused by rising expectations of another US interest rate hike before the end of 2017 and US tax reforms.
Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo said the record high foreign exchange asset position of Indonesia reflects the improving conditions in the Indonesian economy.
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James Cameron's assistant tries to distract him one more time – he is an hour late for an appointment – but he can't be stopped. Even when Cameron finally apologizes and says that he must go, I have to ask only one more question about the last hours of the Bismarck, the legendary German battleship, and he is up on his feet, colored felt-tip pens in his hand, drafting diagrams and schematics on the large board that runs along the meeting table in the Santa Monica offices of his production company, Lightstorm Entertainment ... drawing out the ship's construction, its armor belt, the "armored citadel" within it, the offset stairways ... sketching missile trajectories, torpedo paths, and listing angles ... exhorting the merits of plunging fire ... telling of the Swordfish torpedo that initially slowed the Bismarck and compromised its rudder with a one-in-a-million shot ("A great story! It's like Luke Skywalker attacking the Death Star!") ... and on and on, entranced by his own excitement at what he knows, and what you do not. His words are those of a smart, persuasive storyteller, part prosecutor, part scientist, clearly fluent in a wide range of disciplines, but his body language is that of an excited child in a bathtub, playing with his battleships.
Although he has dipped his toe into television by producing the sometimes-engaging, now-canceled Dark Angel, James Cameron has not made a feature film since 1997's Titanic, the most successful movie of all time. His next movie project will be announced before the end of the year, he says, but he has been concentrating on other adventures. This summer, for instance, he visited the Bismarck's wreck and became the first person to guide cameras inside the ship since it sank, in May 1941, with the loss of more than 2,000 German lives; a two-hour documentary airs on the Discovery Channel on December 8. At one point in our conversation, I mention that the keenest fans of his work, as much as all this interests them, might be wondering why he is not making movies.
"Because," he retorts, "I'm not living my life for them." And exploration is what has possessed him recently. "Hey," he says, "I was a wreck diver before I was a filmmaker. As far as I'm concerned, there are plenty of wrecks out there. And every wreck is a story. I've been doing this for 25 years, and I could do it for the next 25."
James Cameron was born in Canada 48 years ago, the oldest of five children. For most of his childhood, he grew up in Chippawa, just upstream from Niagara Falls, where his father worked as an electrical engineer at the local paper mill.
One day, when James was in grade school, his mother took him to the Royal Ontario Museum, where he saw an underwater habitat built by a Canadian scientist named Joseph MacInnis. It was called Sublimnos, and MacInnis was using it in the Great Lakes. It was large and yellow, and Cameron stared at it for a long time, while his mother kept trying to get him to go because they were going to miss the bus. "I understood exactly how it worked," he says. "There are certain moments when you just get it, and then you have to do something about it. You have to act."
Back home, he drew pictures of Sublimnos, then began working on his own version with his brother Mike, who's two years younger. The two were always building things: an elaborate tunnel system that ran under the neighborhood, model rockets they fired into the sky, a hot-air balloon made out of dry-cleaning bags and fueled by candles, which is said to have roused the attention of the fire department and appeared in the local paper as a possible UFO. The Cameron brothers, even then, were sometimes partners, sometimes rivals. "I was usually the instigator of the plan," Cameron says, "and Mike would sometimes go along with it. Or sometimes it would be a younger-brother competitive thing, and he would have to go and do his own plan."
For his Sublimnos project, Cameron used a mayonnaise jar, pieces of his erector set, and his pet mouse. He wanted to prove that life underwater was possible. He and Mike put the mouse in the jar, hung the contraption on a rope, and lowered it into Chippawa Creek. "The mouse went to the bottom of the river, sat there for half an hour, and then came back up," he remembers, and he still seems rather satisfied by this.
Young James was a dreamer, obsessed by science fiction films, as many boys are. "I especially loved films about exploring other planets," he recalls. But unlike other kids, he was always focused on ways of making his dream world come true: "I was never satisfied to just live in my head. I really wanted to go and do those things." This was the heyday of the space program, in the late sixties, and there was nothing cooler than being an astronaut. Cameron figured that, realistically, the odds were stacked against his ever getting to space, so he set his sights on something more attainable: going downward. Although he lived 400 miles from the ocean, when he was 15 he pestered his dad to let him take scuba-diving lessons. He dived in the only places he could, in the local lakes and streams. "With the ducks," he says.
As an adult, Cameron became a successful film director. His family had moved to the U.S. in 1971, and he studied physics at Cal State Fullerton. But he dropped out before graduating. He'd wanted to make films ever since he was a kid watching 2001: A Space Odyssey over and over and shooting amateur movies with homemade special effects on his father's super 8 camera. But he had short careers as a machinist and a truck driver before he got a job making models for low-budget exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman. He took what he learned there and established himself by writing and directing The Terminator in 1984. He developed a reputation for his potently brash, emotionally simple (and strangely romantic) effects-heavy movies – Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies – and for his forceful personality: a bullying, egocentric bighead to those who didn't like him; a focused and forceful visionary to those who did. Even during his greatest moment of triumph – Titanic's 11 Oscars at the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, when he stepped to the podium and hollered, "I'm king of the world!" – what many saw as the understandable celebration of a talented man getting his just reward for his obsessive, glorious labors, his detractors saw as a perfect example of the gracelessness and insensitive egotism they witnessed in both his working practices and the work itself.
In the meantime, Mike Cameron forged a career in aerospace technology, but over the years his older brother would call on him to help with his film business more and more often. The movies James Cameron wanted to make always seemed to require technical innovations and inventions that made possible something or other that had never been done before, and Mike was up to that kind of challenge. One can't help thinking that it's the very essence of James Cameron's nature to want what doesn't yet exist. As he puts it: "I have a hard time finding the exact line between fantasy and reality. I don't mean in any kind of delusional sense. I just think that if something is worth thinking about, it's worth doing."
It was in 1995, when Cameron set his mind on exploring what he calls "the ultimate shipwreck," the Titanic, that the two of them took on their first major technological challenge. The ship lay about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, 12,500 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Previously, people had filmed 35mm motion-picture footage at such depths only by shooting through the windows of submersibles. But Cameron wanted a camera outside the submersible so that he could pan it and tilt it and move it around as if it were in his hands. He approached people in the maritime community and was told it was impossible. "They seemed a little know-it-all and standoffish," he says, "and I just had this basic kind of truck driver's sense that it can't be that hard."
Mike, of course, agreed to try. They shrank the camera and then fitted it, as James says, "in a big-ass can with a really thick titanium wall" to withstand deep-sea pressure. Cameron's interest in the camera's success wasn't just financial or technical. A camera casing that imploded next to the submersible could kill them. "It would be like setting off a few sticks of dynamite right outside the window of your submersible," he explains.
He went on the first dive, two and a half hours down, the pressure slowly rising to almost 6,000 pounds per square inch. By 500 feet, it was pitch-black; the lights had to remain off to conserve battery power. The only hints of life were the occasional purple, pink, or blue iridescent trails of passing bioluminescent organisms. Cameron and two pilots sat squashed into a seven-foot sphere, heated by nothing but the craft's electronics and their body heat, condensation dripping from the walls. Down, down, down ... until, as Cameron would later recall with characteristic melodrama, they came upon the Titanic so quickly that they nearly crashed into it. The camera casing, however, was fine.
Over the next few weeks, they went down to the wreck 11 more times to get footage for the movie. Their exterior camera was encased in a large, 200-pound ROV (remote-operated vehicle) that was attached to the submersible by thick cables, meaning it couldn't roam inside the ship without running the risk of being snagged and lost.
On one of their last dives that year, however, Cameron took the risk and guided the camera inside the wreck. It couldn't go far, but it went in about 15 feet, just a little way down the grand staircase, far enough that he nearly didn't get it out again. (Most of the movie's footage of the underwater interior was shot on a set in Mexico, constructed by using the original manufacturer's detailed blueprints and a bit of imagination.)
The expedition was a success; the movie it spurred even more so. (It grossed $1.8 billion worldwide.) But that wasn't enough for James Cameron. In the back of his mind, it was driving him crazy: what he had seen down in the wreck, and what he had nearly seen. "It was dark," he remembers, "but in the dark was a deeper darkness, and just at the end of the lights you could see it." Something just out of reach of what was possible, just farther down the hall than anyone could see. "And I thought, Wouldn't it be cool to go down that hallway?"
It's these missions – on the edge of ambition and science and safety and possibility – that seem to most excite Cameron. I ask him what it is that he gets from being down there, under the sea, doing something no one has done before.
"I'm living the fantasy," he says. "And the fantasy is that I'm living in a science fiction story. I'm at the cutting edge of technology, I'm exploring, I'm in a little spacecraft and I'm seeing something that no one's ever seen before. I'm not just along as a visitor. I'm part of the process. I'm a crew member on the first human expedition to Jupiter. That's how I see it."
In following these passions, Cameron believes, he is simply fulfilling a
basic biological drive, one that many people have been distracted from. "I think exploration is a fundamental aspect of the human character," he says. "And I think as a culture we have sort of reached a point where we view exploration as a kind of extreme sport, like bungee jumping, with no greater value. But in fact, if you look at the history of human civilization and our survival to this date, and our accomplishments, the cultures that were dominant were always the ones with the strongest exploratory nature: the British, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Portuguese. You know, these are the cultures that have become technologically dominant, and therefore economically dominant."
I ask him whether he consciously thinks he's doing his bit for the future prosperity of North American civilization.
He laughs. "I don't give a shit about that," he says. "Not at all. I couldn't care less." For Cameron, his filmmaking is the excuse that justifies his exploration. "I think that it's much easier to find a moral justification or an ethical justification for going and doing these things if you're bringing the experience back, and you're sharing it," he says. "Let's say I want to spend $50,000 to have somebody guide me up Mount Everest. Mount Everest has been climbed. We have pictures of it. There are oxygen bottles lying all over it. To do that is to give oneself a $50,000 present of an experience. It's not something that gets shared with the human race."
When Cameron visited the Titanic for the first time, back in 1995, he said it was to collect footage for the movie. He now swears that the truth was the other way around. "I don't think the studio executives believe it, but I wanted to make Titanic because I wanted to dive the wreck. I thought: How can I dive the Titanic and get somebody to pay for it? I'll make a movie."
So, I clarify, the biggest-grossing movie in motion-picture history is just a little side effect of a personal whim?
"Exactly." He reconsiders the question, as though pondering whether I have somehow slighted him. "It's not a whim," he objects. "A whim implies 'I think I'll go play pool tonight.'"
"Quest," he agrees. Quest is a much more James Cameron word. "That's good," he says.
After all the hullabaloo of making Titanic was over, the Cameron brothers, along with a few friends, went to the Bahamas on vacation, on a dive trip to feed sharks. It was there that Cameron began to talk about how he was going to be able to see more of the inside of the Titanic (which, it was already obvious to him and anybody who knew him, would have to involve making some kind of new film).
What they needed was a much smaller ROV that could be launched from the submersible, one that wouldn't stir up the 90 years of delicate silt "as fine as cigarette ash" that had collected in the Titanic, and would be able to avoid the five-foot-long stalactitelike rust formations that, with no more than a bump from the camera, could crumble into clouds of red and turn the whole experience into something "like diving inside a bowl of minestrone."
The breakthroughs came slowly: building the vehicle's frame out of something called syntactic foam, the only known solid that's buoyant at a depth of 12,000 feet; using battery power for the ROV; using a much thinner filament to deliver control instructions to the ROV and download footage; overcoming the microfractures caused in parallel fibers at that pressure by suspending them in a thixotropic gel ... Cameron gets so excited talking about this stuff that soon you're nodding with near-thrilled agreement at each new ingenious solution. It's only later that you realize you have not even the faintest idea what a thixotropic gel might be.
Cameron decided to use these new ROVs – they built two of them and named them Jake and Elwood – to make an Imax movie about not only the Titanic but also the Bismarck, which sank 400 miles southwest of Ireland during World War II. Though Cameron would become as passionate about the Bismarck as he is about the Titanic, at this stage it principally offered a nice counterbalance as another deep-water wreck that had been discovered but little explored. When it was launched, the Bismarck was the largest battleship on the world's seas, and, like the Titanic, was considered unsinkable. But on its first mission, it was engaged by British ships and planes, harried, and – after a chain of events much debated by historians – sunk. Of the estimated 2,200 men on board, 115 survived. The film based on Cameron's new footage of these two wrecks would be called Ghosts of the Abyss. Before visiting the wrecks, he interviewed Bismarck survivors in Hamburg.
Then, in August 2001, he finally returned to the Titanic and guided the ROVs inside. His fantasy was becoming a reality. "That was a strange experience for me," he says. He had been through these corridors before, on the set he had built in Mexico. "I would turn a corner, projecting my consciousness into the ROV, and I would know what was going to be around the corner – the number three elevator on D deck – and I'd come around the corner and there it would be. And I had been in that elevator. Or a simulation."
James Cameron was at the bottom of the ocean at the wreck of the Titanic, on the ninth of his team's planned 12 dives, when a message came from the surface that something very bad had happened. It was September 11. The Bismarck expedition was postponed. Ghosts of the Abyss (which is now due in Imax theaters around April 2003) would focus on only the Titanic.
Not long after Cameron and his colleagues got home, they began to work out how to continue the Bismarck project. The Discovery Channel agreed to finance a two-hour television documentary, James Cameron's Expedition: Bismarck. "I tried getting somewhere with the other established natural-history expedition people – not naming any names – but they were dicks," Cameron says. "They were dicks. They just didn't get it. 'Oh, we don't do it that way. Show us your script and we'll think about it.' Fuck you. We're going to go and do something really cool. Then we showed it to the Discovery people, and they said, 'Hey, this is really, really cool.' "
Andrew Wight, who produced Ghosts of the Abyss and Expedition: Bismarck, and who has made many documentaries with both the Discovery Channel and the longer-established
National Geographic Society, suggests: "I think there was probably more of a potential for a pissing match with NGS. Discovery was quicker
to defer to Jim's judgment and experience as a world-class filmmaker. I don't know that he would have gotten the same latitude from NGS to do what he has done."
The expedition arrived at the site in the ocean 16,000 feet above the Bismarck's wreck on May 27 of this year, the 61st anniversary of the ship's sinking. The two German survivors they had brought with them, Walter Wentz and Karl Kuhn, threw a wreath from the back deck into the gray, rolling ocean. Two days later, Cameron did the first of six dives.
For Cameron, going inside the Bismarck was a very different experience from the Titanic. For one thing, he didn't know what was going to be around the corners. "The Bismarck had a much more threatening feeling," he says. "It felt grimmer. I mean, there's a romanticism around the Titanic. And you know when you're exploring those spaces in the bow, the dining room, you can appreciate them for their past beauty. But they're not in and of themselves the scene of the death, because most of the people evacuated abovedecks and went into the water or got to the stern. In the Bismarck, you're surrounded by death everywhere you look."
To get approval for filming, Cameron promised the German government that his crew would not be disturbing any human remains. Cameron's team argued that in high-pressure, low-calcium water, aided by opportunistic deep ocean bacteria, the bodies would have long since dissolved. When you die like this, everything dissipates over decades except whatever leather you were wearing. "What you get is – it's like something from a science fiction movie – there will be a set of clothes there," Cameron explains, "and the shoes."
From their dives, Cameron and his people pieced together what happened to the Bismarck in its final hours, and much of Expedition: Bismarck will deal with evaluating such evidence, particularly in relation to whether in the end the proud Germans scuttled the ship, as survivors have claimed. (Cameron's conclusion seems to be that they did, and that, though the ship would have sunk eventually, it was the scuttling that directly dragged it down.) Just as in his movies and in his life, Cameron is prepared to challenge the line between fantasy and reality in order to dramatize the truth as he sees it: He filmed a week of reenactments with about 25 actors in North Carolina.
His brother Mike was involved throughout the expedition, and they both have big plans for the groundbreaking new ROVs. In fact, when this story was first being reported, Mike agreed to take me out off the California coast to explore a wreck with one of the ROVs. Then word came that the brothers had fallen out, and Mike would no longer cooperate with the story. It was then that I recalled the look on James Cameron's face when we had been discussing his turbulent youthful collaborations with his brother. "It's always been like that," he had said, and smiled; maybe the falling out had already begun by then. "And the psychology of that persists today."
"That's called families, and that's called brothers," says Wight, who sometimes flies helicopters with Mike for fun on his days off from working with James. "One week they're not talking, the next week they are. And when you're close in age and you have one brother who has done exceedingly well publicly, and you reckon ... and you probably are as smart if not smarter ..." He stops and reconsiders. "Sibling rivalry, at any age, doesn't care whether there's someone wanting to do an article on you."
Wight describes how the Cameron brothers work together: "One will propagate an idea and then, like a terrier dog, one will pick it up and run with it and then claim it as his own and develop it, and then it'll bounce back to the other for more refinement, which usually results in the first major argument. It can be adversarial – they really push each other to the limit... . If you ever meet Jim's mother, she's quite a card when it comes to talking about Mike and Jim – she just wants to knock their heads together and make them grow up."
In recent years, the ambition Cameron abandoned as a child – when he decided to go down into the oceans rather than dream of space – resurfaced. He began talking to the Russians about visiting the Mir space station and making a film there. He went through the biomedical screening process in Russia for six weeks so he could qualify for cosmonaut training, and was negotiating to do a Soyuz launch to take him to the space station. When Mir was allowed to burn up during reentry in 2001, Cameron started investigating the only alternative, the International Space Station, and sought NASA's cooperation.
"We actually hammered out an agreement under the Space Act to develop a filmed space mission," he says. "It didn't mean they'd agreed. It meant that they wanted to explore it." Cameron had been planning to live in Russia for 18 months to go through the full cosmonaut training, because he wanted to be the first noncareer astronaut to spacewalk, and to take a camera with him. After September 11, he put the project on hold. He now intends to investigate a simpler mission: using an astronaut as a cameraman and directing him from inside the space station.
I ask him about Lance Bass, 'NSync's wannabe spaceman. Cameron approves; maybe he knows what it's like to be dismissed as a populist with overgrown dreams. "People are going to make fun of him, say, Oh, this is frivolous," he says. "Now, Lance Bass is going to go and have himself an experience. But what's the good that comes from it? You've got a bunch of kids who look up to this guy, and he's not some rapper with a bunch of gold chains and a big white Cadillac, squandering his money. He's saying, All right, I've got a lot of money now. What am I going to do? Get a bigger house? Buy a jet? No, I'm going to go do something that I think is important, something that all of this wealth, all of this American dream, doesn't give me." To Cameron, it's missions like these that lift us onto the first rung of the ladder to exploring the rest of the universe. "We're not going to go out there and meet all those cool alien civilizations and see other planets if we don't take the first step," he says. He's unstoppable now; I guess this is the James Cameron many love, and some loathe: forceful, evangelical, and entirely without self-doubt. "Learning to live in space for long periods of time is the true first step. Going to the moon was a sprint. Those guys were up there for only eight days. I can put up with anything for eight days. To go to Mars, the nearest planet that we can land on, that we could possibly physically explore and walk around on, the only one that stands any chance of being Earth-like enough to ever sustain life in some form, would take two to two and a half years – unless we have some huge breakthrough in propulsion."
Would you go?
"Mmmmm," he says. "Well, that's an interesting question. And it is something that I have my characters in my Mars story [one film project he is working on] struggling with, because when you have a family ..." He laughs at this pretense of weighing the pros and cons; he knows we both know the answer. He can't, and he won't ... but given the slightest chance ... | <urn:uuid:864104b5-c7ad-4176-bfd7-db4c3acbeefc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/deeply-obsessed-19691231?page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987558 | 5,531 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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"A Better Way: Our Vision for a Confident America" doesn't spend a ton of time dealing with K-12, but the plan from a task force of House Republicans and presented by Speaker Paul Ryan contains a few things worth noting for educators.
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With Congress poised to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, eyes are now turning to how congressional budget negotiations will impact K-12 aid.
November 10, 2015
Title I aid, the largest single federal grant program for public schools, is at the center of many of them, but it's not the only horse on the race track.
October 27, 2015
In theory at least, the deal could create more time for GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, the presumptive next House speaker, to focus on other legislation, including ESEA reauthorization.
October 26, 2015
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is poised to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. What does his record indicate what he could do regarding education policy?
January 06, 2015
Our hope for a busy education calendar is bolstered by the education committee chairmen, who have signaled their intent to get an Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization through committee by Valentine's Day.
July 31, 2014
The person best positioned to make an educated guess on that question is Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the top Republican on the Senate education committee. Alexander is the likeliest candidate to take over the helm of the Senate education committee if the chamber flips to GOP control in the fall.
July 24, 2014
The Senate Appropriations Committee officially released its education spending proposal for fiscal year 2015, and the House Budget Committee unveiled a series of education policy proposals.
April 01, 2014
A budget blueprint from Rep. Paul Ryan would dramatically alter the Pell Grant program and other K-12 spending by the federal government.
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By Les Leba
At the conclusion of the 2012 IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in October, the Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, decried the dollarization of the Nigerian economy to some Nigerian journalists, who were sponsored to that event in Japan. According to the Governor, his anxiety was equally shared by President Goodluck Jonathan.
It is possible that their concern may be linked to the misguided perception that increasing local adoption of the dollar may pose a threat to our sovereignty. In contrast, some countries such as Dubai and the Emirate States, bills can be settled and purchases made without hindrance, in either dollars or their local currency.
The government in Dubai is also apparently unfazed about any threat to their sovereignty or economic welfare; nonetheless, Dubai’s economy has remained relatively more stable and much more buoyant than our own Nigerian economy!
Undoubtedly, the dollar has increasingly become the preferred currency in Nigeria, because Nigerians find it to be a more stable store of value than our naira. Furthermore, the dollar’s relatively higher purchasing value vis-à-vis the naira makes its portability a major attraction in a largely cash based economy; for example, it is easier to carry $6,000 on one’s person than to carry the equivalent of over N1m.
The same advantage of portability has also endeared fraudsters and corrupt public servants to the dollar.
The dollar’s relatively stable value and portability have also led to its adoption as a store of value for personal and corporate savings; this, patronage has expectedly led to a flight from the naira to the dollar; for example, it has, according to Sanusi also facilitated the movement of over $11bn out of Nigeria this year; paradoxically this huge outflow is largely funded by CBN’s liberal supply of dollars to Bureau De Change!
Ultimately, dollar preference is the product of failure of naira to meet the challenge of portability and Naira’s inability to satisfactorily provide a stable store of value.
Instructively, however, the naira has not always been an orphaned child; indeed, I recall that on a return trip from abroad over 25 years ago, my offer to pay for the taxi ride from the airport to my house with dollars was promptly rebuffed by the cab driver, who insisted on payment with Naira as the Naira was more stable in value.
So how, and why did the table turn against the Naira over the years?
The root of our predicament is undoubtedly, the increasingly lower purchasing power of the naira. The naira has tumbled from its Olympian heights of about N0.50=$1 to the current exchange rate of almost N160=$1. It is paradoxical that the naira’s stronger exchange rate was supported by a paltry foreign reserve base of less than $10bn when crude oil sold for less than $20 per barrel, while the current rate of N160=$1 is founded on a foreign reserve base of over $40bn and over 20 months’ imports cover with average crude price above $100 per barrel. Our reserves are now more robust with surplus’ sums currently warehoused as Sovereign Wealth Funds and in an Excess crude account.
Some analysts have argued that Naira depreciation is the result of our collapsed industrial landscape and reduced foreign earnings; this may not be true, as naira exchange rate was stronger than the dollar, when our exports of industrial/consumer goods only contributed minimally to our foreign reserve accretions. Furthermore, the Naira was also stronger when crude oil sold for less than $20 per barrel and output was nowhere near the current 2.5 million barrels per day.
Fortuitously, crude oil earnings have generated relatively robust reserves, which should sustain the naira at a stronger rate of exchange than when our imports cover was barely six months. So, why did the naira still lose value against the dollar?
In reality, the naira rate has, inexplicably, tumbled inversely with increasing dollar reserves. The obvious reason for this anomaly is the systemic increase in naira quantum whenever export dollar revenue is wrongly infused into the economy with substituted bloated naira allocations. The resultant cash flush consequently pitches much more naira against paltry dollar sums which CBN auctions bi weekly; consequently, the more dollars we earn, the bigger the excess Naira in the system chasing less dollars; and ultimately, the weaker is the naira exchange rate to the dollar!
The result of this obtuse system is the flight over the years from a weak and unstable local currency, the Naira, to the relatively more stable and portable dollar.
However, the adoption of dollar certificates for the payments of allocations of dollar derived revenue will quickly resolve the lost glory of the Naira and make it the first currency of choice domestically !
SAVE THE NAIRA, SAVE NIGERIANS!
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A terrific mobile field guide for the season! Nothing beats Audubon mobile field guides! With 1 million downloads, they are the most trusted authoritative ...
A terrific mobile field guide for the season! Nothing beats Audubon mobile field guides! With 1 million downloads, they are the most trusted authoritative field guide collection in North America. Highest quality at an affordable price. ?? We are proud that 8% of every sale goes directly to Audubon to support its mission to conserve and protect nature's at-risk birds and wildlife. ??This app contains 437 species with in-depth descriptions, thousands of professional photographs, range maps, advanced search capability, and much more! Advanced gallery view for easy comparison and search; field mark call outs; and NatureShare - a social community of birders who observe, identify, and share their observations and photos in the mobile app and online. ??Features: ?? ? Professional color photographs detailing every species with extraordinary clarity. ?? Fifty-nine Frog and Toad sounds ? ? In-depth descriptions of every species, with authoritative information on range, habitat, breeding and much more. ? ? ‘Nature’ feature allows you to track and annotate you personal sightings by location, and share with friends by email or Facebook. ? ? Advanced Search features by color, region, size, and more ? Create a Personal Nature Account – post, keep lists, and share sightings with friends and followers to NatureShare and Facebook or via email with an easy and user-friendly interface.? ? Detailed reference section includes information on distinguishing types of reptiles and amphibians, illustrated diagrams, classifications, conservation and even how to start your own collection ??2010 Parent Tested Parent Approved (PTPA) Award Winner ?? “The next time you go for a hike or take the kids camping, you can whip out your iPhone to drop some nature-knowledge. Since it’s coming from your iPhone, it’ll also earn the ‘cool’ factor.”— Gear Diary ?? About Audubon Guides: ?Audubon Guides are a comprehensive suite of digital field apps created in alliance with National Audubon Society (NAS). For more information, please see: http://natureshare.com/home.html#apps. ?? About the Developer: ?Green Mountain Digital, the world's largest publisher of digital field guides, collectively generating over 1 million downloads; over 100 App Store promotions; and numerous awards. It was founded in 2009 in Woodstock, VT. The company has designed and published more than 75 mobile apps across multiple platforms, including Audubon Birds of North America, Orvis Fly Fishing: The Ultimate Guide, GardenMinder, Sailing World: Knots and Splices, FishBlue, and NatureTap. GMD is the creator of NatureShare, an innovative social platform that allows users to collect wildlife sightings and outdoor experiences and share them with others. ??Visit Us Today! ?www.natureshare.com Facebook: facebook.com/natureshare Twitter: @Nature_Share ? For any assistance, please email email@example.com
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Lobster keeps watch
Divers undertaking routine maintenance work in a British harbour have discovered a giant lobster standing guard over a barnacle-encrusted wristwatch.
The lobster, which is thought to be more than 30 years old, was spotted by members of a diving club in Blyth harbour, Northumberland.
On closer inspection they were amazed to find that the ancient crustacean appeared to be guarding the watch.
Incredibly, on their return to the surface the divers discovered that the watch - a Citizen Pulsar - was still telling the time accurately to within a few seconds.
Graham McDonnar, a member of the Lady Francis Dive Team, said: "We've estimated that the watch had to have been under water for at least three years due to its condition and what's even more amazing is that it's not even a waterproof model.
"We're all highly experienced divers and none of us has seen anything like this before.
"Not only is this the biggest lobster any of us have ever come across underwater but it's also the first sea creature we've encountered that can tell the time."
The lobster has been taken to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth where it is settling in well in the harbour tank display.
Blue Reef's Zahra d'Aronville said: "Lobsters are well known for being extremely territorial.
"Perhaps it identified the watch as part of its territory and has been standing guard over it ever since.
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'Liberator' captures fight against injustice
Published 2:13 pm, Thursday, October 2, 2014
"The Liberator" is a Venezuelan epic about the career of Simón Bolívar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish rule in the first decades of the 19th century. The filmmaking is grand scale, and the movie has the added advantage of Édgar Ramírez in the lead role, who is better looking than Bolívar and as magnetic as Bolívar must have been.
Two kinds of people will see this movie, people who know little or nothing about the history and people who know a lot. Speaking as someone in the first category, I was able to follow and enjoy the film, even as I could tell there were things I was missing. For example, some of the soldiers serving under Bolívar are introduced with a certain extra emphasis, in the way that Lafayette or Alexander Hamilton might be introduced in a movie about George Washington. Most viewers will catch that these fellows are important, even if they don't know exactly why.
At other times, there's the impression of information being conveyed in shorthand - shorthand that will go over the heads of most of an English-speaking audience.
Running time: 118 minutes
Language: in Spanish with English subtitles
Fortunately, the emotions and desires that "The Liberator" dramatizes are such that anyone can feel them and understand. Bolívar starts off the film as a very privileged young man, well-traveled and wealthy. But the Spanish powers, instead of treating the Venezuelans as partners, treat them as subjects, and resentment builds. Gradually, Bolívar's dissatisfaction and gnawing sense of injustice push him in the direction of action, and once he gets started, he doesn't stop.
If you don't have a lifetime's worth of associations with Bolívar's story, "The Liberator" won't have quite the impact it was intended to have. However, North American viewers will have one advantage over their South American brethren - the capacity to be surprised. We knew how "Lincoln" was going to end, but "The Liberator" is a question mark all the way to the finish. | <urn:uuid:44646804-e58b-4384-9377-e872f23fff1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Liberator-captures-fight-against-injustice-5796830.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00495-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975933 | 453 | 2.015625 | 2 |
To clear cookies on an iPad, you'll need to open your Settings app and go into the Safari menu. Cookies are convenient, but clearing them can help fix issues with Safari, and help your iPad run
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Tax Audit Lawyers in Mebane
A "tax audit" is a procedure in Mebane, North Carolina where the tax authorities investigate a taxpayer's (whether the taxpayer is a person or corporation) filings when it looks like there's some kind of discrepancy. However, many state and federal tax audits are the result of random selection, when the authorities don't necessarily think that a taxpayer has deliberately evaded their taxes.
The procedure of being audited in Mebane, North Carolina is typically pretty simple. If and when the tax authorities decide to audit you, they'll send you a letter in the mail detailing what's about to happen. If you receive such a letter, it's extremely important that you make sure it's authentic. Sometimes, scam artists will send fake audit notices to people, claiming that they owe the government money. They will then collect their "taxes" and disappear. You should do an internet search for the name of the tax authority that the letter claims to represent, and call them to verify that you are being audited.
Once you receive the letter, and confirm its authenticity, you will have to meet with an auditor at the time and place stated in the letter, and subsequent communications with the auditor. The auditor will tell you what documents and records you need to bring to the meeting. They will then ask you some questions to clear up whatever discrepancy they found in your tax return.
Reasons For a Tax Audit in Mebane, North Carolina
A tax audit in North Carolina can be performed for almost any reason at all
As considered earlier, an audit might happen due to a taxpayer being randomly selected. If this happens to you, and you have been forthright on your tax returns, it's unlikely that you'll have much to worry about.
Nonetheless, some people in Mebane, North Carolina are audited because the government suspects that they are underreporting their income. For instance, if you report that you only make ,000 per year, and then go out and buy an expensive sports car, the IRS and state tax authorities are going to want to discover where the money to buy that car came from.
Claiming an unusually-high number of deductions is another prevalent reason for tax audits in Mebane, North Carolina. A tax deduction is some expenditure that you can subtract from your taxable income, thereby reducing your tax liability. If you claim such a large number of deductions that your tax liability has been reduced to almost nothing, the IRS will probably want to make sure that all of these deductions are legitimate.
How Can A Mebane, North Carolina Tax Lawyer Help?
If you end up being tax audited, and you believe that you have not engaged in any wrongdoing, it's likely that you've been chosen randomly for an audit in Mebane, North Carolina. If this is the case, you shouldn't be worried. If you are found to have made a mistake on a past tax return, and paid less than you owed, you'll likely just be made to pay the balance due, plus a slight bit of interest, without incurring any additional penalties.
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Policy Language - Snacks
Goal #4: Ban sugar-sweetened drinks from snacks served.
Policy Writing Hints:
It is important to give examples of the sugar-sweetened drinks you ban and/or the allowable healthy drinks in your policy statement.
Sugar-sweetened beverages, including sodas, fruit drinks, lemonades, sweetened iced teas, and energy drinks, are not allowed to be served during program hours. We serve only unsweetened, unflavored water and milk.
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to refrain from serving sugar-sweetened drinks and specifies that the program will only serve water and milk. While juice is not prohibited in this policy, it is not listed as a beverage provided by the program, either. This policy also does not specify whether the milk has to be low-fat or skim milk, although it does ensure that only plain milk can be served. Before listing these restrictions, make sure that it is possible to follow through with this policy by checking with your food service provider. If you have little control over what is served because of your food service provider, you may want to modify the language.
Only water, milk, and 100% juice are allowed at the program.
Practice Implications: This policy also requires the program to refrain from serving sugary drinks, but does so by specifying only what drinks are allowed. The policy again does not specify whether milk has to be low-fat or skim, and also does not indicate that milk has to be plain. This policy is also lenient in terms of portion sizes. Again, check with your food service provider to make sure it is possible to follow through on this policy statement.
Beverages provided at the program will consist only of:
- Low-fat (1%) or fat-free unflavored milk (8 oz serving size)
- 100 percent juice (limit of 1/2 cup or 4 fluid ounces per day)
- Water without added ingredients, e.g., flavors, sugars, sweeteners (natural, artificial and nonnutritive), and caffeine.
Practice Implications: This policy also bans program-provided sugar-sweetened beverages by specifying what beverages are served through the program. This policy is more specific with regard to the types of beverages allowed, specifying the fat content of milk and that milk must be unflavored and specifying a portion size limit for juice.
Goal #5: Offer water as a beverage at snack every day.
We offer water as the primary drink at snack every day.
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to serve water at snack every day as the preferred beverage with snack. Allowing children to use a drinking fountain or water cooler or serving water in smaller cups than those containers used for serving other beverages would not fulfill this policy. This would require the program to serve water prominently at snack time using cups that are the same size as other beverages. It would also require staff members who serve snack to specify to children that water should be taken as part of snack.
Although we sometimes offer milk or 100% juice as a beverage option at snack, water is always offered either alone or in combination with other beverages.
Practice Implications: This policy also requires the program to serve water each day at snack, though it does not specify that water must be the primary beverage, so it could be served alongside juice or milk rather than promoted as the main drink. This policy would also require the program to serve water in cups at snack time; simply allowing children access to a drinking fountain or water cooler would not suffice.
Goal #6: Offer a fruit or vegetable option every day
Each snack always contains at least one serving of fruit or vegetables, such as peaches or carrot sticks.
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to provide at least 3/4 cup of cut-up fruits or vegetables or 1 medium-sized piece of whole fruit each day (using the serving size definitions of the National School Lunch Program). Check with your food service provider to make sure it is possible to follow through on this policy statement. If not, you can modify it to the number of times per week you are able to serve fruits and vegetables.
We offer children a fruit or vegetable option every day after school and three-a-day in all-day holiday and vacation programs.
Practice Implications: This policy also requires the program to provide at least a half cup of cut-up fruits or vegetables, 1 cup of leafy vegetables, or 1 medium-sized piece of whole fruit each day at snack, and also specifies that two servings must also be provided at lunch for full-day programs. Check with your food service provider to make sure it is possible to follow through on this policy statement. If not, you can modify it to the number of times per week you are able to serve fruits and vegetables.
Goal #7: Ban foods with trans fats from snacks served.
Our program never serves foods with greater than 0 grams of trans fats, as indicated on the nutrition facts label.
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to refrain from serving snacks (usually grain products like crackers, cookies, or muffins) that are listed as containing more than 0 grams of trans fat per serving on the nutrition label. The trans fat content of snacks is listed on the nutrition facts label underneath the listing for "total fat." You may want to check with your food service provider about the trans fat content of foods that are delivered to you without nutrition labels.
Foods containing trans fats or partially hydrogenated oils are not permitted.
Practice Implications: This policy is more stringent, and requires that all foods containing partially hydrogenated oils, which contain trans fats, are banned from the program.
Goal #8: Ban sugar-sweetened drinks brought in from outside the snack program.
Only beverages provided by the snack program are allowed at the program.
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to ban all beverages from outside the snack program, including beverages sent in by parents and beverages purchased by children at school stores or vending machines. It also requires that partner programs (such as Girl Scouts or special tutoring programs run by a local college) cannot bring beverages into the program either. It will require staff members to monitor whether children have brought beverages into the snack program and, if children do have outside beverages, to confiscate them until the program is over. This policy is easy to implement because it applies to all beverages and does not require staff, parents or children to try to distinguish between different beverage types.
Although children are allowed to bring in bottles of plain, unsweetened water to the program, no child is allowed to bring in sugar-sweetened beverages (sodas, fruit drinks, lemonades, sweetened iced teas, or energy drinks).
Practice Implications: This policy is less stringent and requires children to refrain from bringing in sugar-sweetened beverages only; water is allowed. This policy also does not require anything of partner programs who may bring beverages into the after-school site. It will require staff members to monitor what beverages children have brought in and to confiscate any beverages meeting the criteria of sugar-sweetened beverages. This policy is more complicated to implement because it requires time and extra training for staff to determine what counts as a sugar-sweetened beverages and which beverages should be confiscated.
Students should not bring food or drinks to the program (with the exception of those with dietary restrictions or allergies to specific foods).
Practice Implications: This policy requires the program to prevent students from bringing in all beverages and foods, with an exception for students with special dietary restrictions. This policy may also be easier to implement as it does not require program staff to devote time to figuring out whether a food or beverage is OK to have at the program. | <urn:uuid:326516a4-d503-4068-941f-d4b82268652b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://foodandfun.org/?p=change&user=staff&tool=Policy+Language+-+Snacks&category=Policy+Writing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.939069 | 1,704 | 2.625 | 3 |
Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a task traditionally performed by employees or contractors and opening it out to a large group of people. It’s mass collaboration to collectively achieve a task or refine something that already exists into something better.
- Set up a policy debate
- Open the debate to enable others to collaborate
- Graphically visualise the issues and inter-relationships within a debate
- Share and re-use the debates both on and offline
Here are David’s slides:
…and here is an example of a Debategraph in action.
Independent readers and the Debategraph community are collaboratively visualising intelligence to comprehensively map issues surrounding climate change before states begin formally negotiating a new international treaty to tackle global warming.
Thinking closer to home, Debategraph struck me as a potential step forward along the path of evolving online consultation, a path which has rapidly changed in the last 12 months.
Roughly, these are the steps I’ve seen:
- We’ve had consultations as lengthy, inaccessible PDF documents posted up on websites inviting return comments by email. They’re difficult to use and a surefire way to get a low response.
- Harry Metcalfe and Steph Gray of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (DBIS) came up with ConsultationXML, a way for web publishers to convert “horrid” PDF data into meaningful XML. The resulting XML can then be transformed into HTML which is then used to develop consultation websites for users to interact with.
- Large consultation documents can be broken up into chunks and displayed on a website deliberately structured to encourage commenting. WordPress was used as platform for the plain English version of Birmingham’s Big City Plan. DBIS released the Commentariat WordPress theme under Crown Copyright, which you can see in action on this low carbon industrial strategy consultation.
- … could this next step be visualised collaborative debate?
As Debategraph provides a definitive articulation of a debate—changes are iterative, open to anyone, can be rated and there are checks in place to prevent distortion by “blowhards” or commenters with an agenda—I think it might be interesting to see a debate where statistical evidence is involved.
It would be interesting to see emerging issues in a visualised debate of what people think inter-connected with the statistical evidence of what is actually happening.
Debategraph is a much larger world than I’ve been able to describe here. It’s also a creative commons project and ultimately a global graph of all debates, semantically interrelated. I’ve just used this post to jot down my ideas after the event.
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- Example debategraph: mapping the contours of climate change
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- ISBN: 9781607747932
- ISBN: 1607747936
- Physical Description: 233 pages : color photographs ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2016.
|Formatted Contents Note:|| Pt. 1. Drink up the beauty and ingenuity of a water-saving garden -- Pt. 2. Make your garden a water saver, not a water guzzler -- Pt. 3. Planting the water-saving garden -- Pt. 4. Oasis or mirage? Creating the illusion of water in the garden -- Pt. 5. 101 plants for water-saving gardens.
|Summary, etc.:|| "A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results."--Provided by publisher.
With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, conserving water is more important than ever - but that doesn't mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating outdoor spaces that are so beautiful and inviting, it's hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants, rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.--COVER.
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27955155155972 is nontrivially palindromic in base 10.
Almost surely, 227955155155972 is an apocalyptic number.
27955155155972 is a gapful number since it is divisible by the number (22) formed by its first and last digit.
It is an amenable number.
27955155155972 is a wasteful number, since it uses less digits than its factorization.
27955155155972 is an odious number, because the sum of its binary digits is odd.
The spelling of 27955155155972 in words is "twenty-seven trillion, nine hundred fifty-five billion, one hundred fifty-five million, one hundred fifty-five thousand, nine hundred seventy-two". | <urn:uuid:d3d5fcee-4d28-4acf-9ee5-90d01fd802bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.numbersaplenty.com/27955155155972 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.667367 | 376 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Net present value looks at all cash flows for a project over the project's useful life to determine if a company should commence with the project. If the net present value is more than £0, then the project will make a return above what the company wants to make and the company should commence with the project. As an example for net present value, a firm wants to add a tractor. The company expects the tractor to last three years and has a cost of £6,500. The firm wants a 10 per cent return and over the three years believes it will save £2,925 a year after all applicable taxes.
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Determine the cash flows on a yearly basis for the project. In our example, today there is a £6,500 cash outflow and then in years 1, 2 and 3 there is a £2,925 cash inflow each year.
Use the Present Value of 60p Table and find all applicable present value factors. In our example, use 10 per cent and years 1, 2, and 3, so the factors are 0.90909, 0.82645, and 0.75131 respectively.
Multiply the each cash flow by the applicable present value factor. In our example, £65,000 times 1 equals £65,000, £2,925 times 0.90909 equals £2,659.0, £2,925 times 0.82645 equals £2,417.30, £2,925 times 0.75131 equals $,3380.90.
Add together the positive cash flows and the negative cash flows to determine the projects net present value. In our example, £2,659.0 plus £2,417.30 plus £2,197.50 minus £6,500 equals £741.50. The projects creates positive cash flow.
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November 25 2008 / by Garry Golden
Category: Energy Year: 2018 Rating: 4 Hot
The way to improve fuel cells, energy storage devices and solar cells is to evolve our ability to control the way molecules and photons flow through materials and lead to other reactions. We do not need to overcome the Laws of Physics, just improve the design of materials at the molecular level.
Cornell University researchers have designed platinum nanoparticles that automatically assemble into complex, ordered patterns and can be used for efficient and low cost catalysts in fuel cells and other micro-fabrication processes.
“The challenge with metals is that their high surface energies cause the particles to cluster,” explains , led by Professor Uli Wiesner who led the team. “This tendency to aggregate makes it difficult to coax metal particles into lining up in an orderly fashion, which is a critical step in forming ordered materials.”
Instead of relying on the traditional (and imprecise) ‘heat it and beat it’ approach” to structuring metals, Professor Wiesner, Scott C. Warren, and their coworkers prepared their materials through self-assembly of block copolymers and stabilized platinum nanoparticles. This ‘bottom up’ approach can lower costs and improve the precision of material design.
Why is this important to the future of energy?
We need breakthroughs in materials science that make energy systems cost effective and clean. Nanoscale science (billionth of a meter) and engineering is the platform of future innovation.
Fuel cell costs are based on two main factors: the cost of membranes (MEAs) that enable the reactions and manufacturing techniques to build the device. The way forward is to reduce the amount of precious metal catalysts needed in membranes, and also lower the cost of manufacturing materials around self-assembly. These metallic structures developed by the Cornell team could take us further down the road towards lower cost energy systems that go beyond traditional combustion energy conversion.
Cornell researchers developed a “one-pot” process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more efficient fuel cells and solar cells.
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By Karl Terry: PNT Managing Editor
The first large-scale public vetting of the ongoing work on the Portales Transportation Plan drew lots of people Tuesday — most of whom seemed concerned about where a bypass might be located.
Scott Verhines and Clay Koontz of G.C. Engineering, the contract engineers for the study, explained the process the city of Portales is going through and the various alternatives being considered for relieving traffic congestion downtown. It is also hoped options would address safety as well as wear and tear on streets in Portales.
Verhines told the audience based on a computer model a relief route (truck bypass) is a good long-term option.
“We want to really have you understand where we are in this process,” Verhines said. “Do we believe a truck route is needed? Based on the group’s consensus the answer is yes. The analysis says a northwest route would be best.”
He cautioned the alignments shown on the maps displayed for the public weren’t set in concrete. He said some of the lines were strictly arbitrary until further study.
Maps showed a possible existing route might be Roosevelt Road 3 to the north and Roosevelt Road 6 to the south. The lines, which Verhines called arbitrary, were drawn outside those routes.
County resident Scotty Savage said she had concerns about maintaining the rural nature of her property.
“I bought out there and spent a lot of money on my home because I didn’t want a lot of traffic,” Savage said.
Kenny Combs, who also lives north of Portales, echoed Savage’s comments and urged planners to look as far north as possible for the alignment. He said that would encompass grassland and sandhills and have less impact on residents.
Short-term solutions outlined included things such as rumble strips, traffic lights and pedestrian safety enhancements. Mid-term solutions included looking at moving truck traffic through town on other existing routes, according to Verhines and Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega Jr.
County resident Steve Blakely questioned the wisdom of rerouting trucks in the mid-term on other streets.
“Will we get more money to maintain those routes,” Blakely asked? “You’re not even filling the potholes now.”
Other issues discussed were:
• Feasibility of in-close relief alignments, which the engineers said weren’t feasible mostly for financial reasons.
• Railroad crossing issues, both as associated with a bypass and just in general for moving traffic.
• High accident areas were discussed.
• Using roundabouts to address problems associated with odd angles in the city.
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Pai Gow Poker Strategy and Rules
Pai Gow Poker Strategy.
Pai Gow poker hands are ranked according to standard poker rules with one exception, the A-2-3-4-5 straight is the second highest straight:
- Five of a Kind (4 Aces plus Joker)
- Royal Flush
- Straight Flush
- Four of a Kind
- Full House
- Three of a Kind
- Two Pair
- One Pair
- High Card
The best two card hand is a pair of Aces. The two card hand cannot be a straight or flush since these hands require five cards.
One of the most important strategies in Pai Gow is how well you arrange your cards. Some software offers an option called the House Way. If you click on House Way, the software will divide your hands into groups using the same strategy as the Dealer's hand is divided.
The House Way is a safe strategy and unless you are a mathematical wizard it is hard to improve upon the results. If the House Way is not an option, carefully consider the strength of the two hands and make your divisions based on those strengths.
Pai Gow Poker Rules.
Pai Gow Poker is a card game played with a fifty-three card deck consisting of a standard deck of fifty-two cards plus a Joker. The Player and the Dealer receives seven cards which must then be divided into two hands (high hand with five cards, low hand with two cards). These hands are compared with the Dealer's two hands to determine the winner.
The basic rules of Pai Gow Poker are.
- The five card hand must rank higher than the two card hand.
- The cards are ranked like a standard poker hand using standard poker rules.
- A Joker can only be used to complete a straight, a flush, or a straight flush. Otherwise it counts as an Ace.
- The Dealer wins any copied hand.
The Player wins if both the High and Low hands outrank the dealer's hands.
The Player loses if the Dealer's High hand and Low hand outranks the player OR the Dealer outranks either one of the two hands and the other hand is a copy.
It is considered a 'push' if the Player wins one hand and the Dealer wins one hand.
The payout is 1:1 however winnings paid to the Player are minus a 5% commission. If you win the High hand and the Dealer wins the Low hand your bet amount would be returned to you minus 5%. If you won both hands, you would be paid your original bet amount plus a matching payout of the bet amount but the matching payout would be minus the 5% commission. | <urn:uuid:5e71d64b-49af-4cf3-a19e-fa225facf930> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gamesandcasino.com/casino-table-games/casino-poker/pai-gow-poker-strategy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921999 | 550 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Bst DNA-polymerase, a large fragment, a single polypeptide with the molecular weight of about 67 kDa.
The polymerase is highly processive. Bst DNA polymerase catalyzes the synthesis of DNA in 5’ - 3’ direction.
The ferment does not have 5' - 3' and 3' - 5' exonuclease activity, but have 5' - 3' displacement activity. The ferment has the activity marked on the label, at 65 °C and рН 8,8. Bst DNA-polymerase is purified from E. Coli strain, соntaining plasmid with the cloned full-sized gene of a large fragment of DNA-polymerase I Bacillus stearothermophilus. The ferment contains the bacterial DNA.
- Isothermal PCR.
- Reverse transcription.
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On this episode of the webcast, chef Chris Koetke welcomes Richard Young, the food services energy expert behind the development of the informative “Energy” module of Worldchefs Sustainability Education for Culinary Professional.
Trained as an electrical engineer, Richard started his career in alternative energy, changing from energy-generation to energy-efficiency when he joined The Food Service Technology Center research team over thirty years ago. With the principle of “Sustainability Beyond the Plate,” he has consulted thousands of hospitality management and staff on how to save money sustainably by purchasing, operating and maintaining kitchen equipment and system efficiently.
Join Chris and Richard to learn how to optimise the energy usage in your kitchen.
- Topic: Food Service Energy Efficiency
- Where: Zoom and Facebook Live
- When: November 3rd
- Time: 2:00 PM CET (Paris Time)
Looking forward to seeing you at the webcast!
About the Guest
Director of The Food Service Technology Center, Frontier Energy, Inc.
Beside his responsibility as the Director of FSTC, Richard Young is a contributor to the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and the EPA’s Energy Star program; a former member of the National Restaurant Association’s Conserve Advisory Council and a past Fellow of the Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability.
Richard focuses most of his efforts on translating Frontier Energy’s 32 years of food service research into practical information. He has lectured at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, taught a food service sustainability class at Diablo Valley College and is a member of the College’s Regional Culinary Arts Advisory Board. . He has created and delivered over 1000 presentations and classes during the last 30 years and authored numerous research reports and articles in magazines, newsletters, and on the web. He is also the creator and author of the online Foodservice Energy Efficiency Expert (Fe3) training and certification program.
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