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It happened in India
In 1586 AD, water shortage forced Emperor Akbar to abandon his new capital, Fatehpur Sikri, after just 10 years.
‘Sin City’ Las Vegas is running out of water -- and time. Southern Nevada Water Authority estimates that the city’s available water resources will be exhausted any time after 2010. Rapid depletion of Lake Mead, the main source, will make its water level dip below the first pump intakes. The city will now need to install new, more powerful pumps at the lower intake, at a cost of $45 million (Rs 217.35 crore). But that’s only a stopgap arrangement. For the long term, the city will need to find new sources of water, cut down consumption and recycle a lot of its waste.
Australia’s ‘City of Light’, Perth, could become the world’s first ‘ghost metropolis’ — a city abandoned for want of water. The Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation has assessed it as the city ‘most profoundly affected’ by climate change.
Perth’s main potable water resource is an aquifer, containing 40,000-year-old reserves. Thanks to a thriving mining industry and high standards of living, Perth’s population is nearing 20 lakh. Meanwhile, low rainfall over the last 40 years has drastically lowered the water table.
Another culprit is the citizens’ love of gardening. Typically, 90 per cent of domestic consumption is for watering, and there are roughly 1.5 lakh unlicensed borewells in the city!
So, what’s the way out? Perth generates 11,100 crore litres of waste water every year. It is now planning to treat and pump it into lakes to recharge groundwater. It is also meeting 17 per cent of its drinking water need from desalinated seawater. | <urn:uuid:2bb58f2f-f526-4dda-b495-8d88603942ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/dry-runs-past-and-present/story-GSL9YTL1n0LJtQWZv3hFXN.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91882 | 389 | 3 | 3 |
He said that race plays a role in every facet of the criminal justice system, but the notion that “the people making these decisions [about death penalty sentencing] are just a bunch of racists who don’t care about these things, is just unfair.” SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
Troy Davis was executed in Georgia in 2011 despite serious doubts of his guilt.
Five years ago today, Georgia put Troy Davis to death. With a mountain of doubt about his conviction and allegations that witnesses were coerced, the entire world was watching Georgia the night of September 21, 2011 –Amnesty International had mobilized its entire global movement – joined by luminaries around the world like Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, and Pope Benedict XVI — to call on authorities in Georgia to stop the execution. Georgia ignored the voices of over one million activists worldwide and put Troy to death.
Troy was on death row for over two decades before he was finally executed. In that time he became a leader himself in the movement to end the death penalty, with his steadfast spirit and unshakeable faith in justice inspiring activists around the world. His case became a rallying cry that ignited the abolition movement, drawing hundreds and thousands of people to devote their time and energy to achieving justice. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
Five years ago today, on September 21st, I became an activist. I didn’t sign my first petition or attended my first rally. I found my passion, my anger and my hope as an activist, all things which keep me in the fight for justice every day.
It was a late summer evening and I was standing under the outstretched arm of Tom Watson’s statue in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. I was surround by hundreds of activists holding signs stating “Not In My Name” and “I am Troy Davis” in bold letters. Troy Davis. Troy was the reason hundreds of us came together to huddle in anticipation and hope. Troy Davis was a black man from Savannah, Georgia who spent 20 years on death row. Seven of nine key witnesses in the case against him, which rested primarily on witness testimony, recanted or changed their testimony, and some alleged that they were coerced by police. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
As death sentences and executions dwindle around the country and most states are abandoning the death penalty, a few states are determined to keep executions rolling. Top of the list is Texas, the state that’s now gearing up to execute a man who never killed anyone.
Jeffrey Wood is scheduled for execution on August 24th, but he didn’t commit murder. He was waiting in a car while Daniel Reneau committed a robbery and, ultimately, killed Kriss Keeran. Reneau was executed in 2002, but according to the “law of parties,” Wood is considered equally culpable simply for sitting in the car outside. The law of parties has only been invoked for execution ten times, and five of those were in Texas. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
To mark 1 June – International Children’s Day – Raha Bahreini from our Iran team describes how Amnesty has managed to raise awareness about the death penalty and save juvenile offenders from the gallows in Iran.
It starts with a panicked phone call.
Our contact tells us that a juvenile offender (a person aged below 18 at the time of their crime) has just been transferred to solitary confinement – the final step before execution.
This is often our first glimpse of this young person and the desperate situation they are in. Why? Because the families of those on death row often fear reprisals if they publicize the plight of their loved ones. They sometimes believe that international lobbying and public campaigning will only complicate the situation and hasten the execution. At times, the authorities themselves give families false assurances, claiming that if the family does not publicize the case, their loved ones might be spared. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
In a significant ruling from the Supreme Court yesterday, the Court reversed the conviction and death sentence of a Georgia man on the basis that prosecutors intentionally discriminated by excluding blacks from the jury. Timothy Foster, an 18-year old black man, was convicted by an all-white jury in 1987 of murdering an elderly white woman. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are doing everything they can to jumpstart executions after over a decade without them—and with the largest death row in the country, they could fast track dozens of cases for execution.
That’s dozens of humans killed at the hands of the state. We can help stop them since the CDCR is required by law to listen to us!
Today, Amnesty International released its annual report on the use of the death penalty worldwide. 2015 was a year of extremes – the number of executions worldwide skyrocketed, but here in the United States executions dropped to their lowest in decades. Here are 10 reasons why it’s time to abolish the death penalty now:
1. There was more than a 50% increase in 2015 executions from 2014. Amnesty confirmed 1,634 executions in 2015, 573 more than the previous year and the highest Amnesty has recorded in 25 years. That figure excludes executions in China, which likely executes more than the rest of the world combined but considers the data to be a state secret.
2. The death penalty in the United States continues to decline. 2015 saw the fewest executions in the U.S. in 24 years and the fewest death sentences in 25 years. All 28 executions in 2015 were isolated to just six states, and only three states – Texas, Missouri, and Georgia – were responsible for 85%. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
By Rachel Livingston, Field Organizer at The Delaware Repeal Project
There is a growing call from the Black community throughout the nation for reform of the criminal justice system. We hear the bellowing of the now-famous phrase “Black Lives Matter” because Black and Brown citizens of the world are demanding that they have value and that the world should be outraged by their deaths just as much as the world is outraged at the death of most human beings.
Repeal of the death penalty is another piece of this movement that cannot be divorced from this struggle for Black Lives.SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
Ali al-Nimr was just 17 when he was arrested on 14 February 2012 a few months after taking part in anti-government rallies. He was sentenced to death, despite being a minor when he was arrested and following a deeply unfair trial based on “confessions” he says were obtained through torture. He now awaits his execution. His mother, Nassra al-Ahmed, tells their story:
When I first heard the verdict to execute my little boy, I felt as if a thunderbolt was hitting my head. It rendered me bereaved and rid of the most cherished and beautiful things I have.
His absence has exhausted my heart. My eyes shed tears automatically, yearning for him. I am overtaken by missing his angelic features. His smile never leaves my mind and memories prompt me to weep each time I see one of his pictures. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
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GPU VPS is a new type of virtual private server that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to speed up the performance of the server. This type of server is becoming more popular because it offers a faster and more efficient way to handle large amounts of data. GPU VPSes are also more affordable than traditional virtual private servers and are designed for smaller businesses that don’t need the extra features offered by traditional virtual private servers.
- What is a GPU VPS?
- The benefits of using a GPU VPS?
- How is a GPU VPS different?
- Why You Should Buy a VPS With a GPU?
- How to choose the best VPS with GPU?
- What is a GPU VPS and why should you care?
- Final Words
What is a GPU VPS?
A GPU VPS is a virtual private server that uses graphics processing unit (GPU) power to speed up the performance of your website. This type of VPS is designed to take advantage of the powerful processing power of GPUs to give you a faster, more efficient site.
While traditional virtual servers use CPUs for tasks like web browsing and email, GPUs can be used for more complex operations like rendering 3D graphics or video. This means that a GPU VPS can handle tasks much faster than traditional servers, making your site load faster and providing you with better overall performance.
There are many factors to consider when selecting a GPU VPS. Factors include price, features, and compatibility with your site. To get started, contact us today to learn more about our selection of GPU-powered virtual servers.
The benefits of using a GPU VPS?
GPU VPS servers have a number of benefits that make them an attractive choice for web developers and other software professionals. For one, they provide significantly faster performance than traditional servers. This is due to the fact that GPUs are much more powerful than CPUs when it comes to tasks such as rendering graphics or crunching numbers.
Additionally, GPU VPS servers offer greater flexibility and security than traditional servers. They can be configured in a way that allows you to run multiple applications simultaneously on separate virtual machines, which increases your productivity. Finally, GPU VPS servers are typically less expensive than traditional server options, making them a good value proposition overall.
How is a GPU VPS different?
A GPU VPS is a server that runs graphics processing units (GPUs). GPUs are powerful processors that can be used for a number of tasks, such as rendering graphics or performing medical imaging. As a result, GPU VPS servers have become increasingly popular in recent years. Here are some key differences between a GPU VPS and a traditional server:
-A GPU VPS allows you to access the power of GPUs more easily. This makes it perfect for tasks that require high-performance rendering or image processing, such as video encoding or scientific computing.
-GPUs are significantly faster than traditional CPUs when it comes to certain tasks. This means that you can achieve higher speeds and lower latency with a GPU VPS than you can with a traditional server.
Why You Should Buy a VPS With a GPU?
When it comes to choosing the right virtual private server (VPS) for your business, you have a lot of options. But what about GPU-powered VPSs?
There are a few good reasons to buy one: first, they can let you run more powerful applications. Second, they offer improved stability and performance over standard VPSs. And finally, GPU-powered VPSs can give you an edge in terms of graphics processing power.
So if your business needs a boost in computing power and graphics performance, consider investing in a GPU-powered VPS. It could be the difference between success and failure for your business!
How to choose the best VPS with GPU?
When choosing a VPS with GPU, it is important to consider your needs. There are several factors you should take into account when selecting the best VPS for your needs. For example, the number of cores and threads on the VPS, the type of GPU VPS available, and the price. Here are some tips to help you choose the best VPS with GPU:
- Consider your needs. When choosing a VPS with GPU, make sure to consider the number of cores and threads on the server, as well as the type of GPU available.
- Look at reviews. Reviews can be helpful when choosing a VPS with GPU. Review sites like APC and BestVPN will list different types of GPUs and their corresponding prices.
- Compare specs.
What is a GPU VPS and why should you care?
GPU VPS stands for “Graphics Processing Unit VPS.” These servers are specifically configured with high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) to provide the best possible performance for your digital content.
Regular VPS servers can handle a certain amount of traffic, but if you want to handle more traffic or require faster speeds, then a GPU VPS is the perfect solution. A GPU VPS can handle multiple requests at once, meaning that your website will load much faster than on a regular VPS. Additionally, because GPUs are specifically designed for crunching numbers and rendering graphics, they offer an unparalleled level of performance when it comes to handling data-heavy tasks like MMOs and video streaming. If you have a website that relies heavily on graphics or needs to quickly process large amounts of data, then a GPU VPS is the perfect solution.
In conclusion, GPU VPS are a great way to get the power of a dedicated server without the hassle and expense. With options available that range in price and performance, there is surely one that will fit your needs. So why wait? Give us a call today to discover how we can help you take your business to the next level. | <urn:uuid:e1b145a3-91b6-4e0d-9e9d-bd53fe3f20ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gpurdp.com/how-to-choose-the-right-gpu-vps-for-your-needs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.935725 | 1,198 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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The Igniting Hope Ministries declarations "clicker" (tally counter) is a powerful and practical tool to help believers renew their minds with truth by helping them tabulate the number of times they speak biblically based declarations. Bill Johnson has said that "physical obedience brings spiritual release." Many have found that the physical act of clicking a tally counter while speaking declarations dramatically increases faith in the truth being spoken.
- Declare from a Daily Declarations List. Steve's book Declarations: Unlocking Your Future has declaration lists for many areas of life. You can also write your own list or use Steve's Daily Declarations on
- Conduct a 30-Day Declarations Experiment. See what happens to your thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and circumstances by intentionally speaking truth for a month straight. We suggest speaking at least 100 declarations over your life a day for 30 days and using your clicker to keep track. Many have done this and have sent Igniting Hope Ministries incredible testimonies.
- Exchange Lies for God's Truth. Next time you find yourself believing a lie from the enemy, catch it and exchange it for truth. If you hear, "I am worthless," intentionally declare the truth instead, such as, "I am a chosen, set-apart, beloved child of God!" Then, give your declarations clicker a "click."
- Focus on Specific Lies. One way to get the most out of your declarations clicker is to seek the Lord to identify specific lies you're believing in key areas of life like finances, your future, identity, relationships, etc. and declaring biblical truth until your mind is renewed in those areas. | <urn:uuid:cc8ded0a-bc66-4eb2-9f48-a87deeace55c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://shop.ibethel.org/products/declarations-clicker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00450-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935248 | 340 | 1.578125 | 2 |
by Graham Shelby
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear hasn’t decided if he’ll sign a bill that would make medicine containing the meth ingredient and decongestant pseudoephedrine available by prescription-only.
The Governor says he wants to reduce the number of meth labs in the state, but is concerned about the effect of the measure on law-abiding citizens. In addition, he says it’s hard to know if any new law enforcement system is going to be effective before it’s implemented.
“When we first put our system that we have now in, for about the first two years, the lab numbers really dropped, and then of course they came back up as people figured out somehow how to get around the system. And I’m concerned that I don’t know how effective it will be,” he says.
Beshear says he intends to listen to the debate in Frankfort before making up his mind. That debate will continue next week. Proponents of the bill say the measure would drastically limit meth-makers access to a key component of the illegal drug methamphetamine. | <urn:uuid:8d42e7de-c9fd-4126-b8ab-29b9760280be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wfpl.org/beshear-unsure-on-pseudoephedrine-bill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.953895 | 235 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Brush, Leaf & Yard Waste Collection
Beginning in April, the regular brush pickup service will commence. Pickup will be on the first and third Monday of each month through the summer and ending mid-October (weather dependent). Brush should be stacked or piled at the curbs by 7:00 AM of the pick-up day, but no sooner than 6:00 PM Sunday night before a brush pick-up day.
Brush Pickup Quick Facts:
- 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month (April – mid-October, weather dependent)
- The brush should be stacked neat and orderly at the curb (NOT in the street)
- Branches should be no greater than 4 inches in diameter
- Branches only…NO full trees
- DO NOT place the branches in garbage cans or bags
- DO NOT put other yard waste in with the brush
The Village of Butler is happy to provide the brush pick up service to its residents, but your cooperation is vital to ensure efficiency and safety. Please understand that if the above-mentioned instructions are not followed, your branches may not be picked up. If you have any questions about the brush pickup service please feel free to contact Village Hall at 262-783-2525. Thank you for your cooperation.
Beginning in October, residents may rake their leaves into the street at the curb where the leaves will periodically be vacuumed up by the Department of Public Works. There is no set schedule for leaf collection, just rake your leaves to the curb and they will be collected within a week.
DO NOT BAG THE LEAVES! If the leaves are bagged, they will NOT be vacuumed up.
Also, DO NOT put branches under the leaves. Leaf collection runs through the end of November, weather dependent.
Yard Waste Collection
The Village does not provide regular yard waste collection to residents. A fee-based subscription yard waste program is available through Johns Disposal from April 1 through November 31 annually. . Please contact Johns Disposal at 262-473-4700 to enroll in the program. | <urn:uuid:63ccb898-dbe1-4d28-accb-122468afbfe7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.butlerwi.gov/services/community-services/brush-leaf-yard-waste-collection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.933543 | 433 | 1.570313 | 2 |
One out of every 18 Colorado households has investable assets of $1 million or more, the Phoenix Global Wealth Monitor estimates in a report released Wednesday.
“A lot of households have been quietly amassing wealth through wise investing and their own businesses,” said David Thompson, who oversees the monitor for Phoenix Marketing International in New York.
The monitor estimates 113,914 Colorado households had $1 million or more socked away in 2013, up from 111,534 in 2012 and a marked improvement from the low of 89,092 reached in 2009 following the financial crisis.
About 5.54 percent of households here are considered in that high net worth category, ranking Colorado 16th among all states for the share of the population considered affluent.
Maryland has the highest concentration of wealthy households, at 7.7 percent, while Mississippi had the lowest, at 3.63 percent. Households increased wealth at the fastest pace in North Dakota, where the spillover from an energy boom has pushed the affluence ranking from 43rd in 2012 to 29th in 2013.
Business owners make up a large share of the affluent, but many wage earners are doing so through consistent savings, Thompson said. Both groups were helped by the best year for U.S. stock markets in 2013 since 1997.
The survey doesn’t measure less liquid forms of wealth such as home equity and the value of a business, so it understates the total net worth of affluent households.
Nevertheless, $1 million isn’t worth what it was in past decades.
A retiree putting that much money in safe 10-year U.S. Treasuries could expect to generate under $30,000 in income a year at current interest rates.
As some Americans are gaining wealth, a significant share of the population reports being strapped. A CashNetUSA.com survey last summer found that 22 percent of Americans report having less than $100 in cash, and 46 percent have less than $800 available to deal with emergencies.
A Gallup survey Wednesday showed that 42 percent of U.S. households considered themselves worse off financially now than a year ago and only 35 percent said they were better off.
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Medical Industrial Oxygen Plant , Pure Cryogenic Oxygen Plant
Place of origin:China(mainland)
Model number:KDO, KDON SERIES
Production capacity:50-1000 m3/hour
Power :76-1000 KW
Life:20 years with proper maintenance
After-sales service provided: Engineers available to service plants
Usage: medical (oxygen, liquid oxygen,nitrogen,liquid nitrogen)
UIG Air separation plants are designed for a vast range of
capacities and products summarized below: FOR OXYGEN 99.7 % AND
(100 L/h )
(200 L/h )
(300 L/h )
(500 L/h )
(800 L/h )
Air→ Air compressor → Pre-cooler → Purifier →Rectification column
and Turbo-expander →liquid oxygen tank or liquid nitrogen tank
Air enters the suction air filter and after being removed of dust
and other mechanical contaminants in it, it is compressed to the
pressure of 1.0MPa by air compressor. Air from the air compressor
is cooled to 10℃ in the air precooling system and separated
condensing water in water separator. after the water being
separated its condensed water, taken into the molecular sieve
adsorber for removing H2O, C2H2 and CO2.
Then the cleaned air is divided into two streams, one of them is
taken into the rectifying column and cooled by the return waste
nitrogen, oxygen,expander air through the main heat exchanger. The
steam-liquid air mixture is taken into the lower column for
rectifying, and herein the pure nitrogen from the top of the column
enters into the evaporator-condenser and condensed by liquid oxygen
from the upper column. A part of the liquid nitrogen is fed to the
lower column as reflux. The other part after subcooling apart two
parts after throttled. One part enters into the top of the upper
column,other part enters storage tank as product(LIN).
Another cleaned stream is compressed in booster end of the booster
expansion turbine, then enters the main heat exchanger. air from
the middle and cold end of the main heat exchanger enter into the
turbine expansion to generate most refrigeration for need of the
plant's operation. After the expanded air return to heat exchange.
The LOX is drawn from oxygen side of the evaporator-condenser, some
of them enters storage tank as product.
To meet different demands from customers, different processes like
air cycle process ,nitrogen cycle process, high and low temperature
booster turbine expanding processor low temperature refrigerating
process etc. are adopted to reduce the power consumption. In order
to achieve stable and reliable operating of plant, PLC control
system or DCS control system are recommended.
we supplied to many countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines, North Korea, Mongolia,
Equatorial Guinea, Botswana, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania) .
It adopts up-to-date air separation technics flow and reasonable
equipment schemes, having the virtues as low working pressure,
simple operation, less maintenance fee and good discontinuous
It adopts the nitrogen-water pre-cooling system with back cooler
and regulated packing, needing much less water in the system.-It
equips inter-lock device to avoid water into purifier.
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The Mystique Of Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson is a fascinating character of the Civil War. His battlefield successes, Robert E. Lee calling him his right-hand man, his nickname of Stonewall, his legendary 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, his personal eccentricities, his strong faith in God, and his death from friendly fire, have all made him larger than life and created a mystique about him. Note that Jackson would not gain his nickname of “Stonewall” until the First Battle of Bull Run.Thomas Jackson’s early life was a sad and difficult one. He was born on January 21, 1824, and when he was two-years-old the month of March 1826, would bring tragedy to his family. On March 6, 1826, his sister Elizabeth died of typhoid fever. On March 26, only the day after mother Julia gave birth to Thomas’ sister Laura Ann, his father Jonathan also died of typhoid fever. Julia Jackson was now a widow at age twenty-eight, deeply in debt, and with a young family to support. She refused to accept charity. To pay off the debt, Julia sold family belongings, moved her family into a small rented house, sewed, and she taught school. Julia married again in 1830 and died the following year giving birth to Thomas Jackson’s half-brother. Her health had been poor for some time prior to her death. Julia’s declining health caused Thomas and his younger sister Laura Ann to leave their home and live with their half-uncle Cummins Jackson at Jackson’s Mill, Virginia (now West Virginia). Cummins Jackson owned a farm and a grist mill at Jackson’s Mill.
Young Thomas Jackson worked at his Uncle Cummins farm at Jackson’s Mill. He had a sheepdog to help him herd sheep, he drove teams of oxen, and there were crops such as corn and wheat to be harvested. Jackson’s education was not full. He attended school classes sporadically, it was now and then, but never enough.
Thomas Jackson wanted to make something of himself by attending West Point. It was hard for him to pass West Point’s entrance examinations, but in 1842 he became a cadet at The United States Military Academy. Jackson was not prepared for the difficult West Point academics as his prior education was lacking, especially when compared to other cadets with more fortunate backgrounds. Academically, he was near the bottom of his class. Thomas Jackson was not lacking in determination and he set himself on a course of working and studying very hard to keep up with West Point’s demanding academics. Over his years at West Point Thomas Jackson steadily increased his class standing. He eventually worked his way up to finish with a respectable class ranking of 17th of 59 cadets in the 1846 West Point class.These quotes are by and about Thomas Jackson during his time at West Point. They give us understanding into Jackson’s character, his personality, his experiences, and the challenges he faced as a young man during his development as a cadet at The United States Military Academy.
“Knowing that he had no influential friends to urge his appointment, and that even if he secured it, he was poorly prepared to pass the preliminary examination, I at first discouraged him in his purpose. Seeing that his mind was made up, I did all I could to advance his interests.”
The words of William E. Arnold. In 1842, Thomas Jackson was hoping to obtain an appointment to West Point after an earlier attempt had failed. Jackson’s fortune would change. A young man who had received an appointment to West Point instead of Jackson had found life at West Point too unsuitable and he returned home. Jackson now had another chance at West Point but he needed to gain support from his community to obtain the appointment. Thomas sought out William E. Arnold, whom he’d known all his life, for his advice and for an endorsement. Despite having reservations about Jackson, Arnold saw that Thomas Jackson was determined to attend West Point and provided him an endorsement.
“I know that I shall have the application necessary to succeed. I hope that I have the capacity. At least I am determined to try, and I wish you to help me to do this.”
… Jonathan M. Bennett was an attorney with influence. Thomas Jackson wanted Bennett to write him a letter of introduction to Congressman Hays in Washington, of whom Jackson hoped to obtain his West Point appointment. Jackson showed up at Bennett’s law office on a rainy afternoon, wet and dripping water on Bennett’s office floor. Bennett was leery of Jackson’s chances of success at West Point and questioned his ability to survive in such a competitive academic environment. This was Thomas Jackson’s reply to Jonathan M. Bennett. Bennett did write Jackson the letter of introduction.
“a meritorious young man… quite a smart youth in every respect for his age and opportunity… a youth… with many noble facultys of soul and great moral worth… a fit and proper person… a young man of industry and perseverance”
… When Thomas Jackson arrived at Congressman Hays’ office in Washington, he brought with him a collection of recommendations which he presented to Congressman Hays. These are a few excerpts from the recommendations.
“An orphan in early age, he has inspired by his conduct, confidence in his rectitude, and won the acclaim of the community. Descended from a family which has discovered much of the country, and with nothing but his individual exertions to advance him in life, we consider him as having a claim upon the country as great as that of any other young man.”
… Friends of “Thomas J. Jackson” from Lewis County, Virginia wrote this glowing recommendation for Jackson as he attempted to obtain an appointment to West Point. Note that these friends added the middle initial of “J” to Jackson’s name for this recommendation.
“Personally and intimately acquainted ”
“Fine athletic form… manly appearance… good moral character… improvable mind”
… Congressman Hays’ appointment for Thomas Jackson to West Point to Secretary of War John C. Spencer included these words.
“Thomas J. Jackson”
… When Secretary of War John C. Spencer gave Thomas Jackson his appointment to West Point, Jackson signed his name on the acceptance certificate in this way. It is significant because from now on the middle initial of “J” for Jonathan would be included in his name. Later in the Civil War, Thomas Jonathan Jackson would gain a nickname that immortalizes him in history.
“That fellow looks as if he has come to stay.”
… On June 19, 1842, Thomas J. Jackson arrived at West Point. A fellow Cadet named Dabney M. Maury made this observation of Jackson to other classmates.
“to show my interest in a fellow country-man by being humorous and feigning an air of authority.”
… On Thomas J. Jackson’s first day at West Point, he is assigned along with other new Cadets to a policing detail to rid any trash or litter from the campus. These are the words of Virginian Cadet Dabney M. Maury who was included in this policing detail. Maury attempted to get to know Jackson by playfully speaking to him in the manner he describes here. Jackson’s response was to give Maury a blank stare.
“Mr. Jackson, I find that I made a mistake just now in speaking to you in a playful manner—not justified by our slight acquaintance. I regret that I did so.”
… West Point Cadet Dabney M. Maury trying to make amends with Thomas J. Jackson. Maury had teased Jackson in an attempt to draw him out and meet him while the two were busy picking up litter and trash from the campus grounds during a policing detail.
“That is perfectly satisfactory, sir.”
… Thomas J. Jackson’s reply to Cadet Dabney M. Maury accompanied with another blank stare, after their above-described exchange of words.
“Cadet Jackson, from Virginia is a jackass!”
… Cadet Dabney M. Maury’s judgment of Thomas J. Jackson after their initial bad exchange while working a litter and trash policing detail at West Point. Maury spoke this to Birkett D. Fry, A. P. Hill, and George E. Pickett, all of whom were fellow members of Jackson’s West Point class. Jackson, Maury, Birkett, Hill, and Picket would all become generals for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
“His whole soul was bent on passing. When he went to the blackboard the perspiration was streaming from his face, and during the whole examination his anxiety was painful to witness.”
… Thomas J. Jackson had to pass his admission examination at West Point, this was the observation of another cadet as Jackson went to the blackboard to work his exam’s math problem. Jackson successfully solved the math exam problem.
“Tho. J. Jackson”
… Thomas J. Jackson’s name appeared in this way on the list of those West Point cadets who passed their admission exam. Jackson’s name was last on the list and he confessed that he had passed only “by the skin of his teeth.”
“[…] ready extensive contact with the world foiled the boys in their fun. Among the more advanced cadets he soon made warm friends.”
… When Thomas J. Jackson began at West Point, he was older than most of his fellow classmates, but all of them were subject to the usual hazing and harassment eagerly offered by the upper cadets. However, in Jackson’s case, his older age and experience in the world shielded him somewhat from the hazing and harassment.
“The fare of the mess hall is miserable… it would be quite a luxury to miss a meal.”
… An opinion by cadet John Buford of the food at West Point. John Buford would later play a significant role and gain fame at the Battle of Gettysburg. Thomas J. Jackson apparently was so wrapped up in his studies that he paid not much attention at all to the food offered to the cadets. Jackson’s attention was focused elsewhere.
“Our course of studies is a difficult one to accomplish and requires great industry under the many restrictions and deprivations of military discipline—not at all agreeable to a young man not fond of study for its own sake.”
… These are the words of one of the faculty regarding the academic standards of West Point. Thomas J. Jackson found this quote to be true. Jackson began as one of West Point’s “Immortals,” which was what those of the poorest academic standing were called. However, Jackson worked very hard and with great determination. By the time he graduated from West Point in the Class of 1846, Jackson’s class standing was seventeenth.
“under great disadvantage—others were trained at the start but his mind was still the unbroken colt, shying here, tottering there, and blundering where his companions already knew the difficulties of the ground.”
… William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones was a classmate of Thomas J. Jackson. Jones realized that Jackson was not as well prepared for West Point as most others in regards to academics and social skills. In the Civil War, Brigadier General “Grumble” Jones was a Confederate cavalry officer known for complaining. Jones was killed at the Battle of Piedmont on June 5, 1864.
“He seemed to me, far from quick of apprehension, & acquisition of knowledge was a labor. I was much attracted by his determination to get through, his application, & his modesty.”
…West Point Cadet W. H. Chase Whiting was the leader of the third class at West Point and he had the highest academic ranking. Thomas J. Jackson was struggling with his studies and he asked the older and better student Whiting for help. Whiting was gracious to Jackson and often tutored him.
“Efforts at the blackboard were some times painful to watch. No matter what proposition was assigned to recite on, he would hang to it like a bull dog and in his mental efforts to overcome the difficulty great drops of perspiration would fall from his face, even in the coldest weather, so that it soon became a proverb with us that whenever ‘Old Jack’ … got a difficult proposition at the blackboard, he was certain to flood the entire room.”
…Cadet John Gibbon’s humorous observation of Thomas J. Jackson. Union Brigadier General John Gibbon was a Pennsylvanian who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, there is a monument at Gettysburg National Military Park to honor him. Ironically, Gibbon had three brothers who fought in the Confederate army.
“was the most honest human being I ever knew—painfully conscientious, very slow in acquiring information, but a hard, incessant student.”
… These words about Thomas J. Jackson are supposedly from Ulysses S. Grant, West Point class of 1843.
“No one I have ever known could so perfectly withdraw his mind from surrounding objects or influences.”
… Parmenas Turnley. Turnley was Thomas J. Jackson’s first roommate at West Point.
Maxims of Thomas J. Jackson:
“Through life let your personal object be the discharge of duty.”
“Sacrifice your life rather than your word.”
“Let your conduct toward men have some uniformity.”
“Temperance: Eat not to fullness, drink not to elevation.”
“Silence: Speak but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
“It is not desirable to have a large number of intimate friends.”
“Never weary your company by talking too long or too frequently.”
“Never try to appear more wise and learned than the rest of the company.”
“You can be whatever you resolve to be.”
… Thomas J. Jackson began keeping a five-by-eight-inch book of maxims while at West Point. His entries covered many facets of life. All were meant as goals or advice to himself in order to improve his character. His maxim: “You can be whatever you resolve to be.” has become the most famous of all.
“[…]henceforth his was a gaining race. Everytime he left scores behind—increased labor seeming only to increase his speed.”
… Although Thomas J. Jackson began West Point behind his classmates in academic ability, his steady hard work improved his standing. Cadet William Jones had this observation of Jackson’s scholastic improvement.
“His military deportment & his general conduct were exemplary.”
… Praise for Thomas J. Jackson from upperclassman Chase Whiting, who helped Jackson with his studies.
“After a year of endurance the plebe becomes a third classman and changes from the persecuted to the persecutor. It is probably the proudest moment of his whole life. He enters on his new career with all the zest of disimprisoned youth, and all the skill of a doctor just out of disease. The enjoyment is exquisite and in proportion to the perplexities inflicted.”
… Cadet William Jones speaking of the joy experienced when West Point cadets advance to a new year of study. They now had the class standing to harass and haze younger cadets. Thomas J. Jackson was an exception to this. Jackson did not spend his time causing grief for the younger cadets, he kept his nose to the grindstone so as to improve his studies and himself. He did not participate in any recreational activities, except for an occasional brisk walk.
“Yes. I remember one overt act, but it was the only one in which I consciously did what I knew to be wrong. I stepped behind a tree to conceal myself from an officer, because I was beyond bounds without a permit.”
… Thomas J. Jackson’s reply when asked if he had ever purposely broken the rules at West Point.
“My health is far better than it was when I parted with you, and indeed more flattering than it has been for the last two years. …The examinations closed a few days since, and rather to my advantage, as I rose considerably in mathematics, and a few files in the French language, though in the same time I fell a few files in ethics and drawing. There was only one Virginian found deficient in my class. …I am also homesick, and expect to continue so until I can have a view of my native mountains, and receive the greetings of my friends and relatives. …It is the anticipation of one day realizing them that fills my heart with joy, and causes me to urge forward and grasp that prize which will qualify me for spending time with them in peace and honor. I feel very confident that unless fortune frowns on me more than it has yet, I shall graduate in the upper half of my class, and high enough to enter the Dragoons. Be that as it may, I intend to remain in the army no longer than I can get rid of it with honor, and means to commence some professional business at home.”
… Thomas J. Jackson and his sister Laura corresponded for seventeen years, beginning with this letter that Jackson wrote to her from West Point in January 1844. The Dragoons used a horse to get to and move around the battlefield, but they would dismount to fight. Civil War cavalry fought while mounted. It is interesting how in this letter Jackson indicates he has no plans for continued military service and preferred to use his schooling to work in business. Thomas J. Jackson was like many of us, he could become homesick.
“Oh, I tell you I had to work hard.”
… Thomas J. Jackson regarding his challenging his studies at West Point.
“During my furlough I was made an officer, consequently my duties are lighter than usual.”
… From West Point in August 1844, Thomas J. Jackson wrote to his sister Laura the good news that he’d been appointed as a sergeant.
“These were such quiet neighbors I scarcely knew they were there.”
… Thomas J. Jackson’s roommate his junior year at West Point was George Stoneman. Stoneman and Jackson were both focused on their studies, they were contemplative and pensive with none of the rowdy behavior as might be expected from young men. George Stoneman was from New York and in the Civil War, he would be a Union cavalry general. This is a quote from John Tidball who roomed near Jackson and Stoneman.
“In consequence of a somewhat shambling, awkward gait, and the habit of carrying his head down in a thoughtful attitude, he seemed of less stature than he really was.”
“His voice was thin and feminine—almost squeaky—while his utterances were quick, jerky and sententious, but when once made were there ended; there was… no hypothesis or observation to lead to further discussion.”
“There were occasions, as I observed, when his actions appeared strangely affected; as, for instance, a drenching shower caught sections returning from recitations, or the battalion from the mess-hall, and ranks were broken to allow the cadets to rush for shelter to the barracks, Jackson would continue his march, solemnly, at the usual pace, deviating neither to the right nor to the left.”
… John Tidball wrote of his experiences at West Point which included his recollections of Thomas J. Jackson.
“My sincere desire, is that you may both enjoy all the blessings which a bountiful Providence can bestow. I think that if happiness exists in this world, matrimony is one of the principal factors.”
… Jackson’s sister Laura married a man named Jonathan Arnold in October 1844, but Thomas J. Jackson did not learn of the marriage until four months later. Considering the closeness of brother Jonathan and sister Laura, this delay in relaying the news of Laura’s marriage seem odd. Jonathan Arnold was twenty-four years older than Laura and this was his third marriage. This quote is from a letter Jackson wrote to Laura in February 1845.
… Thomas J. Jackson wrote a letter to his sister Laura in February 1845, and he instructed her to use the letter “J” as his middle initial in his name for future correspondence. There was now another cadet at West Point whose name was Thomas K. Jackson and the “J” was needed in order to avoid confusion between the two Jacksons.
“I expect to commence taking exercises in riding in a day or two.”
… In his February 1845 letter to sister Laura, Thomas J. Jackson mentions this. The future cavalry officer Jackson is about to begin training in horsemanship. In his case, it was much-needed training. Although as a young man Jackson had been a jockey, he was now rather inept at riding a horse.
“[…] awkward and uncomfortable to look at upon a horse…. We used to watch him with anxiety when his turn came… he seemed in imminent danger of falling headlong from his horse.”
… Thomas J. Jackson took exercises in horse riding at West Point, Jackson was not a skilled horseman. This is cadet Dabney Maury remarking on Jackson’s equestrian abilities.
“In the riding hall I think his sufferings must have been very great. He had a rough horse and, though accustomed to horseback-riding, was awkward, and when the order came to cross stirrups and trot, ‘Old Jack’ struggled hard to keep his horse.”
… A fellow cadet of Jackson’s describing Jackson’s horse riding ability during their West Point horse riding exercises.
“The annual examination will commence in about two weeks. …If fortune should favor me in a degree corresponding to the past, I will have a better standing in my class than I formally had.”
… It was now May 1845, at West Point and Thomas J. Jackson’s important annual examination looms close. He had steadily advanced in class standing as he always improved overall in his studies. Jackson would not be disappointed in his annual examination results. He would improve his class ranking to the top third of his sixty-two cadet West Point class.
“It became my duty as artillery instructor to “set him up at the Gun” — a duty which I found at very difficult to perform, because he was saw-boned, still jointed, and totally devoid of all grace of motion.”
“I found it hard to make any kind of an artillery man out of him, much more a graceful one.”
“Again he would be put in position and again the same result. Over and over this was repeated, until at last losing all patience I had learned to practice in drilling awkward cadets, I exclaimed, ‘d- -n it, Mr. Jackson, how often must I show you this simple movement?'”
“Instantly regretting my improper exclamation I cast my eyes from his feet to his face and became filled with remorse. The face revealed a soul touching patience and suffering of the “Ecce-homo.” No anger, no impatience, only sorrow and suffering. It was a hot July day and the sun was blazing down upon us. The perspiration was rolling down his face and dropped from his chin—a mosquito had fastened upon his nose, and yet his hands hung by his sides.”
… These four quotes are from Thomas J. Jackson’s artillery professor, Lieutenant Daniel Marsh Frost. It is seen here in Frost’s words how challenging it was for him to get the clumsy and awkward Jackson to perform the movements of precision necessary in artillery loading. Frost indicates in later words not provided here, that Jackson was able to learn how to load artillery in the correct way.
“preferable to any other”
… Thomas J. Jackson’s words. He found the subject of ethics to be his favorite one at West Point.
“That Jackson’s mind possessed a certain peculiarity is evidenced by the fact that though he stood low in all his studies during three years, when he entered the first class & commenced the study of logic [ethics], that bug-bear to the root majority of others, he shot like a meteor from near the foot of class to very near its top.”
… Fellow cadet John Gibbon’s observation of how Thomas J. Jackson’s strong aptitude for the study of ethics came through at West Point. Note that John Gibbon would fight for the Union during the Civil War. At the Battle of Gettysburg, Gibbon’s men were at Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, where they had a major role in beating back Pickett’s Charge. Gibbon was wounded during the fight and while recovering he was present at Gettysburg when President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
“[…]while there were many who seemed to surpass [Thomas J. Jackson] in intellect, in geniality, and in good-fellowship, there was no one of our class who more absolutely possessed the respect and confidence of all.”
… Parmenas Turnley about how Thomas J. Jackson was thought of by his fellow cadets. Turnley was once a roommate of Jackson’s at West Point.
“It grieves me to think that in a short time I must be separated from amiable and meritorious friends whom an acquaintance of years has endeared to me by many ties.”
… As the end of his time at West Point came near, Jackson knew he would miss his friends.
“Scarcely an evening when both of them were off duty but they walked together around the promenade of the Point and every Saturday evening they explored the extreme limits of cadet bounds and some times ventured a little beyond. Their stride was long and quick, more like business than pleasure—passing rapidly all walkers in their way.”
… Thomas J. Jackson and his roommate Parmenas Turnley would take walks together their last year at West Point. This quote is the reminiscence of another cadet. Jackson was always concerned about his health and these walks were his attempt to improve his physical well-being. We should consider that Jackson was ahead of his time with his walking. We know well today how important regular exercise such as walking, is to good health.
“My constitution has received a severe shock, but I believe I am gradually recovering.”
… Thomas J. Jackson to his sister Laura regarding his health concerns. Jackson was strange in his thoughts about his health. At the time of these words to Laura, he was believing that he may have consumption (which meant that he was having lung problems with wasting of the body), and dyspepsia (which meant that he was having indigestion problems). He was also suffering from some other non-described health complaints. Jackson also indicated that he hoped that exercise would have; “the desired effect of restoring me to perfect health.” He would take long walks, and at other times Jackson would “pump his arm for many minutes, counting the strokes” as forms of exercise. Jackson’s exercises would be good for us.
“[Jackson] complained that one arm and one leg were heavier than the other,” and “[he] would occasionally raise his arm straight up, as he said to let the blood run back into his body, and so relieve the excessive weight.”
…West Point Cadet Dabney Maury describing the oddness of Thomas J. Jackson’s health beliefs and practices.
“Rumor appears to indicate a rupture between our government and the Mexican. If such should be the case the probability is that I will be ordered to join the army of occupation immediately […] and the next letter you receive from me may be dated from Texas or Mexico. […] I shall continue to love you with a brother’s love.”
… Thomas J. Jackson writing to his sister Laura in early 1846. Jackson was to graduate from West Point that spring and he began to think of what may afterward be in store for him. Indeed, on May 13, 1846, the United States declared war against Mexico and the West Point class of 1846 knew what was in their immediate future. Thomas J. Jackson would begin his service in the First Artillery Regiment.
“He attracted great attention and looked every inch a soldier, many who knew him spoke of the great change made by West Point in his appearance.”
… Thomas J. Jackson returned to Jackson’s Mill, Virginia in July 1846, after he finished at West Point. He went to Weston, Virginia to see and meet with friends he had not seen for a long time. This quote is the impression Jackson made on one individual during his visit to Weston. West Point had created a new Thomas J. Jackson.
On July 22, 1846, Thomas J. Jackson received his orders. He was ordered to report to Captain Francis Taylor, the commanding officer of Company K of the First Artillery at Fort Columbus, Governor’s Island, New York. He was twenty-two-years-old and on his way to Mexico to serve his country, The United States of America. | <urn:uuid:9b2c1875-8afe-4819-bab9-1c974d0d4f42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nellaware.com/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986757 | 6,320 | 3.46875 | 3 |
In New York City, education officials announced that they will be closing 6 schools and merging three others after the schools, which were part of the Renewal program, failed to improve, Chalkbeat New York reports.
One of the schools faced a threat of a state takeover at the end of this school year.
When he ran for mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio promised big changes for the city’s schools. He spoke of turnarounds for failing schools rather than closures. However, as Stephen Eide notes in an article in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next.
De Blasio’s first three years in office attest to the significant constraints progressives across the country will face in trying to roll back education reform, even when faced with no significant political opposition at the local level. These constraints stem from state government’s role in education policymaking, limits on available resources, and tensions within progressivism itself. All of them will likely continue to frustrate de Blasio and other progressive mayors in their attempts to develop an alternative to the education-reform agenda.
Eide also notes that de Blasio rejected the idea of giving schools letter grades as a way to motivate improvement.
Fariña and de Blasio’s collegial approach to managing the DOE, and their lack of interest in data-oriented policymaking, have caused them to weaken accountability frameworks that Bloomberg put in place. In 2007, the Bloomberg administration rolled out a system of “School Progress Reports”—report cards for schools that assigned A–F letter grades. But as part of the mayor’s plan to “lower the stakes on testing,” the de Blasio administration replaced the report cards with a “School Quality Report” system, which is based on similar metrics but does not give schools a letter grade. In a recent analysis, my colleague Marcus Winters compared the final batch of School Progress Reports with the 2014 de Blasio School Quality Reports to see if F-quality schools notched as much progress without the letter grades as with them. He found that “improvement dissipated immediately after summary letter grades were dropped.” This conclusion comports with research about the motivating effects of school report cards that Winters and others had published long before de Blasio and Fariña made their decision to eliminate the Progress Reports.
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Over the past few months, I’ve written about several free online hiking guides here at Go Visit Hawaii. Since those guides were scatter through the site, I thought it would be useful to consolidate all the hiking resources in one post. I plan to keep this post updated as I hear of new guides and helpful information. So, if you know of any new resources, please add them in a comment. (Note: The photo on the left was taken from a hike into the Waimea Canyon on Kauai.)
Na Ala Hele
Let’s start this list with the official state of Hawaii’s hiking trail guide, Na Ala Hele. This guide covers hikes from all the islands, including Lanai and Molokai. It gives you basic trail information such as distance, difficulty, elevation, and approximate time to allow for the hike. The web site provides directions to the trail head and an overview of what you will see. The guide also includes free basic trail maps, which is useful, but lacking in details.
Hawaii State Parks Hiking
The Kauai Explorer online hiking guide is awesome. The only thing they can do to improve the site is to add more hikes and I think they are working on it. In fact their web site says they are expanding statewide. This guide covers all the basics, plus has hike reviews and virtual tours of the hikes. I look forward to seeing this site expand.
Go Visit Hawaii’s Favorite Hikes
- Big Island: Article about hiking the Waipio Valley rim. This trail is on private land, so you have to pay for the guided tour.
- Big Island: A great hike in the Hawaii Volcanoes Park – Kilauea Iki.
- Big Island: Pololu Trail
- Big Island: Tips for hiking to the active volcano lava flow.
- Oahu: Advice for hiking Diamond Head
- Oahu: Makapuu Lighthouse Trail
- Oahu: Puu Pia Trail
- Oahu: Manoa Falls Trail
- Lanai: Koloiki Hiking Trail
- Lanai: Puupehe (Sweetheart Rock) Hike
- Kauai: Advice for hiking Kauai’s Kalalau trail, arguably Hawaii’s top hike.
Additional Hawaii Hiking Resources
- Maui’s Haleakala National Park online hiking information provides some overviews of hikes, but you will need to contact the park for more details.
- Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park has quite a bit of hiking information including journals written by park visitors. They have this list that includes miles of great day hikes.
- You’ll need a good hiking shoe or sandal, so see my article on a great universal shoe for hiking and playing in Hawaii.
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In what seems to be an attempt to avoid catastrophic failure senior year (with the WASL), the Seattle schools announced to 20% of high school sophomores that they are being held back until they have more class credits. With more high school credits under their belt, it was hoped, more would be able to pass the WASL exams to gain a diploma.
"This year's 10th-graders are the first group that must pass the exam to earn a high-school diploma. In high school, students take the WASL for the first time as sophomores, and if they fail, can retake it up to four more times. (The exam is given in earlier grades as well, but without the same high stakes for students.)
If the past is a guide, a majority of students won't pass on their first try. Last spring, 42 percent of sophomores statewide earned the required scores in reading, writing and math — the three subjects that are part of the graduation requirement. In Seattle, it was 35 percent...
An estimated 20 percent of Seattle high-school sophomores, part of the first class of students who must pass a state exam to graduate, won't have to take it this spring with their classmates after all..."
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Gang life in the Dominican Republic is no different from gang life in any other
part of the world. Large groups of mostly young disenfranchised males, find
themselves caught in the ‘live or die’ mentality of gang activity, with little
or no prospect of ever finding a way out. Many who enter into the gang lifestyle
do so because they seemingly have no other choice. |
Many who live outside this world argue that there are other possibilities rather
than just surrendering oneself to the ‘eat or be eaten’ codes of big city
living, but a drive through some of Santo Domingo’s most impoverished
neighborhoods, some almost completely controlled by the youth gangs, quickly
challenges this train of thought.
Young people aged between 15 and 35 make up close to 36% of the total Dominican
population, almost 3,082,599 people. Of these, almost 63% can be found in urban
areas, while only 38% of Dominican youth resides in rural areas of the country.
It is these urban youths, such a large proportion of the total youth population,
who are at highest risk of succumbing to gang life.
Gang members, or bandoleros, in Santo Domingo and throughout the Dominican
Republic, aren’t the king pin drug Mafiosi so commonly portrayed in Hollywood
movies, or the types we see on nightly news reports. Instead they are a loose
collection of individuals who use the gang lifestyles and mentalities for
protection, and are consequently used as pawns in international crime rackets.
Equally dangerous and burdensome on the Dominican correctional system are the
many jailhouse gangs within the country’s prisons, who control life behind bars,
and wield a tremendous amount of power over society, even after they have been
What has added to the gang problem in the DR, and has become problematic in
recent years is the emergence of internationally linked gang activity present in
the country. It is a known fact that there are many Dominicans living in the
United States, and these Dominicans send remittances worth billions to the small
Caribbean country, but, unbeknown to many, this is how even gang activity has
been exported from the United States to the Dominican Republic.
Member gang nations, or naciones, of some of the United States biggest gangs,
like the Bloods, Crypts, Folk, and Latin Kings, have spawned disciple gangs in
the Dominican Republic and follow the rules set forth by gang life, not by
police authorities. Dominican gang members flash colors, protect their “sets,”
and hold allegiances to their gangs, above anything else. These gangs are active
here in the DR, as they are on the streets of New York or LA, and are just as
defiant of any authoritarian efforts to control them.
In turn there are, though it may be hard to believe, youth gangs around the
Dominican Republic who are the antithesis of gang members. At first glance they
have every opportunity available to them. Gangs like los Cielos or los Dorados
are made up of the children of middle or upper class Dominicans who, for reasons
known only to them, engage in gang and criminal activity. They can be found
living in some of the Dominican Republic’s nicer neighborhoods, but below the
“nice-boy” façade are young people who are just as dangerous as their more
What is lost in the rumble of gang life in the Dominican Republic is the
reasoning behind the need to be part of this lifestyle. Most young people who
enter into gang life don’t do it because it is a glamorized lifestyle they want
to be a part of. For them it is a lifestyle they feel they need to join in order
to survive. For these youths, gangs provide protection from other people or
gangs who may want to hurt them. Gangs provide the concept of brotherhood that
may be missing in their lives, and also provide a source of revenue, in some
cases. For some youths gangs provide something to be proud of. Inclusion into a
group, in contrast to the exclusion they might face from family or society at
large is something that some young people crave, and existing members prey on
The majority of gang members are in their early to late teens, with some members
being as young as 8, or as old as 30. Because of the violent lifestyle they
lead, older gang members are not so common. | <urn:uuid:a3ff43ec-095e-4292-9e8d-d45422a85e0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dr1.com/articles/gangs.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945841 | 960 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The BRIT Library supports botanical research and education in Texas and around the world. Our collection has been carefully curated and is a valuable research tool for those studying systematic botany, horticulture, natural history and ethnobotany. The BRIT Library houses one of the largest and finest collections of botanical works in the southwestern United States.
Our collection is non-circulating, but we are open to the public for use as a reference library Monday – Friday, 10am to 4pm. To ensure that someone is available to assist you with a specific request, please make an appointment before stopping by, though walk-ins are also welcome!
BRIT Librarian, Brandy Watts, interviews Barbara Thiers, Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, who she discusses funding natural history collections and the Extended Specimen Network.
BRIT Librarian, Brandy Watts, interviews John Atwood, Research Specialist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, who discusses the Herbarium’s Bryophyte Collection and the Peter H. Raven Bryology Library. | <urn:uuid:4eb3c37b-9deb-49ee-ac4b-76ea64d5c33d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fwbg.org/research/library-special-collections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.900112 | 228 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In addition to the laws and regulations governing fitness training, professional fitness trainers are expected to abide by basic rules of ethics when training others. A trainer's employer or the professional organization through which he is accredited will often provide a specific code of ethics the trainer must follow. When a specific code of ethics is unavailable, trainers are nevertheless expected to abide by basic ethical rules, according to the National Sports Conditioning Association. These include obeying the law, accurately representing their credentials and not discriminating against potential clients.
Ethics is the practice of setting rules for right and wrong behavior, according to the University of Tennessee at Martin's Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Most professions expect their practitioners to avoid wrong actions and perform right ones, and many provide specific codes of ethics for their practitioners to turn to if they have a question about right or wrong behavior. Many codes of ethics for fitness trainers cover the same basic ethical points. For instance, the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the National Council on Strength and Fitness include in their codes of ethics a responsibility for trainers to avoid discriminating against their clients.
For fitness trainers, professional codes of ethics are available from organizations including the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the National Council on Strength and Fitness, the American Council on Exercise and, in the United Kingdom, the National Register of Personal Trainers. A trainer who is registered with or accredited by any one of these organizations is expected to follow that organization's code of ethics and to seek help from the organization or another member if she is confused about an ethical point. Trainers who work for a specific organization -- a gym, club or university pp may also be expected to follow their employer's code of ethics for personal trainers as well. For instance, Marquette University has its own code of ethics for athletic training.
Codes of ethics for fitness trainers generally cover the same basic points. These include avoiding discrimination when choosing, charging or working with clients; keeping the health and welfare of the client as a primary concern; complying with all laws related to your work as a personal trainer; and being honest about your credentials as a fitness trainer. Some ethics codes, including those adopted by the NSCA and the ACE, also explain how to report an ethics violation. Fitness trainers who work with athletes may also be expected to follow the ethics codes of the athletic organization that governs their athletes, such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to Marquette University.
Fitness trainers who are receiving a degree in the subject may be required to take an ethics class related to personal fitness. For instance, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, offers ethics classes for students seeking master's degrees in sports medicine, including specialized training for those studying sports psychology. NASM also offers continuing education materials for fitness trainers and sports medicine practitioners, such as a module on the ethics of using dietary supplements to promote an athlete's performance.
When choosing a fitness trainer, consider choosing one certified by a national fitness training organization, including the American Council on Exercise, or the National Council on Strength and Fitness. These trainers will be expected to follow their organization's ethics guidelines and may face sanctions from their organization if they don't. Sanctions for failing to follow ethics rules are usually tailored to the degree of the ethics violation, but may include suspension or revocation of a fitness trainer's credentials, according to the ACE. | <urn:uuid:12659833-c24d-4bf9-86d5-d1ef8543db21> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/292506-ethics-in-fitness-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00056-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955799 | 673 | 2.59375 | 3 |
One of the biggest deciding factors in our choice to add or upgrade to digital imaging is cost. Despite being the most common question, no company can tell you exactly what the price is without discussing your specific needs with you. Today, most computed radiography (CR) or cassette imaging solutions are priced below $20,000 clinically, while digital radiography (DR) solutions are typically priced closer to $30,000. However, several factors often affect the cost of making such changes in your business. The three most influential factors are the X-ray source, clinic needs and additional components.
1 X-ray source
First, do you already have an X-ray source? This is one of the keys to the question of total cost, and of course also depends on your equipment. If your clinic does not yet have an X-ray source or needs new equipment, this will have a significant impact on the cost of adding a digital imaging solution. New X-ray sources may also require new wiring and shielding, as well as protection schemes. Of course you may also want to upgrade your existing X-ray source for more power.
2 Clinic needs Most clinics consider two different imaging options when adding a digital imaging solution. CR system is digital processing based on cassette, which has almost been eliminated in the Chinese market, while DR is digital image processing of direct capture, which is more convenient and fast to process images. High-volume clinics should consider the efficiency of DR, but also have the highest average cost and may lack flexibility compared to CR systems.
3, Additional parts If you choose to use the DR system, also need to consider wired or wireless detectors. In fact, many radiology rooms use wired tablets that connect directly to computers, but there are also many applications that require or benefit from mobile wireless DR. If you also want to add a Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) to view your images on other computers, add a protective or load-bearing cover to your device, and other accessories you can of course add.
If you also need DR equipment, you are welcome to contact us!
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The Classics Department Presents: Palmyrene Funerary Portraits, A Roman Period Portrait Habit
12:00 am | 10/21/2016 | 308A Doe Library
Rubina Raja, Aarhus University School of Culture and Society
Palmyrene funerary portraits make up the largest group of representations of individuals from antiquity arising out of a single urban context. The ancient city of Palmyra was rediscovered in 1751 by British travellers. Though many sculpted portraits still remain at the site, large numbers of Palmyrene funerary portraits have made their way into numerous art collections around the world. In 2012 a project was initiated at Aarhus University, Denmark, to document all known examples. Since then more than 3,000 have been recorded, which makes this the single largest surviving corpus of funerary portraits from anywhere in the Roman world.
As a result of the escalating conflict in Syria, this project has since assumed particular importance: it is the sole source of documentation for a large number of extant portraits which were still in-situ before the civil war broke out. This lecture will address Palmyra’s archaeology and history, its unique funerary portrait tradition, and the cultural heritage catastrophe that the civil war in Syria has brought about.
Rubina Raja is professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark. She studied in Copenhagen, Rome, and Oxford, before taking up a post-doctoral fellowship in Germany and subsequently one in Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2015 she has held the chair of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University and is the director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. She initiated and is director of the Palmyra Portrait Project, financed by the Carlsberg Foundation. She also directs an international excavation project in the Decapolis city of Gerasa in modern Jordan. She has published extensively on urban development in the ancient world and religion in the Roman period as well as portraiture in the Roman world. | <urn:uuid:7f546906-a18c-4176-9cd6-5e15749169d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/events/the-classics-department-presents-palmyrene-funerary-portraits-a-roman-period-portrait-habit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947174 | 413 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Installing pavers is one of those deceptive jobs, as it can look easier than it is. Like many things in life, perfecting it can be an art because it all comes down to leveling and arrangement. The good news is that there are no paver police who will be slapping you with a fine if your interpretation of the gap between pavers is different from the norm.
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Minding the Gap
It can be tempting to scoff at the precision needed in spacing pavers. Why not just press them together and be done with the fuss? It's important because the elements are always a factor, and the pavers always respond to the elements. They'll swell and contract — not enough that you'll notice but just enough to be a problem if you dare to disregard the gap.
The recommended distance the pros advise is a gap of 3 millimeters, or roughly 1/8 inch. Stack two quarters on top of each other and that's the thickness you're after for your standard paver gap. It's not much, but it's just enough to provide movement with the sand fill no matter the season.
Size Considerations for Gaps
From traditional brick pavers to large-format concrete pavers, the choice in gap size is as much aesthetic as it is practical. A good maxim is "less is more" so you avoid too much movement over time, but it really depends on where the pavers are going. Then, it depends on your material of choice. Some bricks look great with 1/2-inch gaps, while large concrete pavers are best with the minimal 1/8-inch approach.
For instance, for a walkway with 16- or 20-inch concrete pavers, wider gaps are fine and can be part of the aesthetic. You can even do the distant stepping stone approach with 6 or 8 inches of gravel or sod between those walkway pavers. But if you're decking out a new backyard space for your umbrella-covered table, keep them snug and sturdy with narrow gaps so the patio surface remains stable with use.
If you're anxious about consistent gaps, the old-school method uses spacers for the right distance between pavers. Today, there are lots of click-and-lock-style products with built-in ridges to get a precise space between paver. If you have a large project, such products could save you some time and exasperation with consistent gap-making for something like a patio or driveway.
Preparation Is Everything
Installing pavers isn't a job you want to rush because fixing a problematic install down the line will be an even bigger headache than doing it the right way the first time around. Don't cut corners when preparing the base and you'll have a far easier job laying the actual pavers. The base is the most important part of your paver installation because it is what ensures it will be level and solid for years to come. | <urn:uuid:0417f6f4-7e01-43b2-bb8c-3c8ce0281836> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hunker.com/12586027/how-much-of-a-gap-to-leave-between-pavers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.940339 | 604 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Occasionally I still see liberals lashing GW Bush for the failures of Louisiana's Democratic governor and New Orleans' Democratic mayor after the Katrina hurricane. Until the present administration, the federal government wasn't allowed to barge in without invitation. Also, in the recovery, Louisiana had so many arcane and restrictive regulations to protect their local businesses, it was virtually impossible for private contractors to get across state lines with aid quickly. However, apply that to the complete FAIL of the federal government to take care of the unaccompanied children from Central America streaming across the boarder at the President's invitation. The government actually advertised for service providers 6 months before the crisis, and still couldn't keep vulnerable children out of crowded camps and is dumping them on unprepared state and local governments.
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It’s easy to poke fun at companies that treat sensitive information recklessly, sending or receiving plaintext passwords via unencrypted email or chat, or storing customer information in ways that are far from secure. But it can be a logistical nightmare to let multiple remote employees log into a shared account in a secure fashion.
Luckily, there are a few options to make this a little easier. Here’s a quick run-through of some of the best options.
Like most password managers, LastPass lets users to log in with just one master password; the tool stores all of their other passwords. Among other things, this makes it easy to create long and complex passwords and to use different passwords for each login account.
In addition, LastPass’ enterprise accounts will let you share login data between individuals and across teams, with customizable permissions. That means that you can choose who has access to which folders, and make changes that are synced automatically. Enterprise accounts cost anywhere from $18 to $24 a year per user, depending on the number of users.
It’s also possible for a Premium account holder to share password information in a single file with up to five other LastPass users, which could be useful for tiny startups, partnerships, or people needing to share passwords with friends or family members. Premium accounts cost $12 a year, and only the main account holder needs to have one.
Because LastPass is cloud-based, it makes things easier for people logging into multiple computers, but has some drawbacks as well. For instance, you’ll be uploading your passwords—though not your master password—to the cloud, though in encrypted form.
In addition, “[a] third party service [like LastPass] will be able to see which sites you have an account on … not the password itself, but when you’re accessing each password,” says privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik, technical advisor for Freedom of the Press Foundation.
“Keepass and Keepass X may not be as pretty as all the other tools, but it is open source, it is free, and it works,” Sandvik says. This password manager is one you have on your computer, so no third party knows when you access different sites. However, you do need to make sure you’re backing up the database frequently. (Let’s just say that losing your database of passwords would be … bad.)
To share passwords with others, you need to create a database, enter the password, send the database to another person, and somehow securely send them the password to open the database. We’ll discuss that a little later.
OneLogin is another cloud-based option. OneLogin allows users to log into multiple cloud services using a single sign-on account. It can integrate with a company’s “active directory” of user accounts and permissions.
Another benefit is that OneLogin can integrate with a large variety of enterprise applications. Plans range from $2 to $8 a month; there’s a free version as well.
1Password is a personal privacy manager tool that allows users to create several password vaults, and share a single password vault with a group of people who also have 1Password installed. However, you do need to use Dropbox to synchronize the data.
“That is a sharing solution is suitable for a family and a small team, but it’s not an enterprise solution or one for a big company,” says security adviser Per Thorseim, founder of the Passwords hacker conference. Licenses cost $49+.
SplashID Safe for Teams
SplashID is an enterprise product that allows large teams or companies to share passwords and other information with larger groups of people, such as entire departments or large companies. The IT team can create users and groups and permissions, so only people who need access to passwords can see them, or to review logs of records and usage.
Dashlane for Teams is yet another privacy tool that works on the company level. It syncs passwords within a team, which is helpful any time someone needs to change a password, as the change will get pushed out to all team members and their devices.
Dashlane also sends security alerts to users’ devices when an account may have been compromised. A security dashboard provides tips for making an account even more secure.
Licenses cost $39.99 a year for each user. There’s also a freemium version with very limited features.
Strip is another enterprise solution that has team password sharing. It allows synchronization over Dropbox, Google Drive, and local Wi-Fi, and creates local backups of data.
Don’t Forget Two-Factor Authentication
LastPass, 1Password, and Onelogin support two-factor authentication, which adds an extra step to checking a user’s identity when they log into a website. For instance, logging into the service require not just a password, but an authorization code that’s texted to a user’s phone.
Two-factor authentication is challenging to use with tools like Twitter if you have a distributed team, since a single phone number must be used, but there are often other options. Google, for example, allows users to generate backup codes, which can be shared with remote users who don’t have access to the mobile device to which the SMS code.
How To Safely Share Just One Password
Suppose you need to send someone just one password, and would rather not deal with the hassle of setting up shared-passworld tools. Or, similarly, say you sent someone a KeePass database, but then also need to send them a password so they can open it.
“The challenge is that even if you were to store a shared password, you’d still need a password to get into the database in the first place,” Sandvik explains. So what’s the easiest way to safely share that single password?
Options might include sending encrypted emails, which require a bit of technical know-how, or using encrypted phone or messaging apps. Open Whisper Systems’ RedPhone (Android) and Signal (iOS) apps are particularly user-friendly.
SnapPass is open-source software used at Pinterest that allows people to send a URL to someone that links to a password. It may require a bit of tinkering to set it up; it stores passwords in a Redis database on the user’s own computer system.
“The URL leads to the password,” says web operations consultant Dave Dash, a former internal tools engineer at Pinterest who built SnapPass. He continued:
You can only click on it once and it expires after a few days. If I need to set up an account on any system for someone, I could send them the URL, and then they’d have the password and could then change it for added security.
Dash recommends that anyone setting this up make sure that the application and database aren’t publicly accessible. It’s also wise to limit the number of people who have access to the running application and its associated database.
Of course, there are non-technical solutions as well. You could, for instance, send a password through a different channel than the one used for login information—you could send one through email and another via chat, for instance.
This is the same concept that banks use when they send a debit card in one envelope and a temporary code in a separate one, and mail them out on different days, although of course it’s not foolproof. “That’s an option, but it assumes that NSA isn’t the entity you’re worried about,” Sandvik points out.
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Portion control -- how the government plans to dictate what's on your dinner table in 2014
By Baylen Linnekin/
Published January 03, 2014/
Would you rather sip on unpasteurized milk or a cold glass of soda? Do you prefer Saturday lunch at a fast food joint or a farmers market?
Regardless of your choices, your food freedom -- your right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want -- is under attack. Here are ten food freedom issues to keep an eye on in 2014.
1: FDA May Ban or Restrict a Growing Number of Food Ingredients. The FDA has proposed banning oils containing trans fats, an ingredient found in foods like coffee creamers and muffins. If you think that’s an overstep, consider that the agency is also likely to propose unprecedented new restrictions on food ingredients like sodium and caffeine in 2014.
2: Raw Milk Bans Drawing Fire. Unpasteurized (“raw”) milk is increasingly popular, but because consuming raw milk carries some risk, the FDA and some states ban its sale.
Yet the risks of drinking raw milk are similar to those posed by eating a medium-rare hamburger, spinach, cantaloupe or other foods that rightly warrant nothing more than a government warning sticker. Look for continued fights over overly strict raw milk regulations in 2014.
3: New York City’s Soda Ban Not Dead Yet. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ham-handed attempt to ban large sodas earned him scorn from Jon Stewart and the New York Times editorial board. It also forced a broad coalition of unions, soda makers, restaurants, and minority businesses to sue to overturn the ban. Nevertheless, Bloomberg’s successor Bill DeBlasio has vowed to forge ahead with the soda ban. After two stinging losses, the city has filed a last gasp court appeal that should be decided in 2014.
4: Farm Subsidies Will Prop Up Big Farms, Cost Taxpayers Billions. Farm subsidies administered by the USDA shift taxpayer money to mostly large, already profitable farmers so they can do things they’d already be doing (like, say, farming) or things that don’t make much sense (like planting more crops than consumers want to buy). That may or may not have been a good idea in the 1940s, when federal farm subsidies first arose, but it’s been nothing but a terrible boondoggle since.
Everyone knows this, and yet Congress will still pass a Farm Bill in 2014 that features some form of wasteful farm subsidies.
5: FDA’s Menu Labeling Rules Could Be a Colossal Mess. One underreported element of ObamaCare is that it requires the FDA to enact nationwide menu labeling rules. The rules would require many chain restaurants to provide calorie counts on most menu items, but what about pizza delivery chains like Domino’s which has 34 million different ways to order a pizza? What about grocery stores with a salad bar? Even as study after study shows that menu labeling is actually counterproductive, the FDA will have to answer these questions in 2014.
6: Some Cities Still Kicking Food Trucks to the Curb. 2013 was a pretty good year for food trucks around the country. Washington, D.C. opted not to crack down on its vibrant food truck scene, instead enacting new rules that appear to have brought some tasty peace to the nation’s capital. New Orleans did the same.
How will food trucks fare in 2014? They still face existential threats from regulators in cities nationwide—including Alexandria, Va., Birmingham, Ala., Lexington, Ky. and San Diego, Calif.
7. Soda Taxes Still Being Pushed in San Francisco. San Francisco has proposed a 2014 ballot measure to make its residents “healthier” by adding nearly $1.50 in taxes to the cost of a six-pack of soda.
Good idea? Hardly.
Research shows food sin taxes don’t work. So does real life. After Denmark implemented a series of food sin taxes, the country was forced to scrap the laws because they were bad for business, caused job losses and didn’t work.
8: Rise of Voluntary GMO Labeling. To borrow a phrase from prognosticator extraordinaire Nate Silver, the noise is that 90% of voters want the government to force GMO labeling on consumers. The signal—specifically from voters in California and Washington State, who’ve both rejected mandatory GMO labeling—is that Americans prefer a different approach. As we’ve seen with companies like Whole Foods and Chipotle, some restaurants and grocers are responding to demands from their own consumers that they label or move away from GMO foods on their own. Expect consumer choice on GMOs to continue to trump government mandates in 2014.
9: FDA’s Proposed Food Safety Rules Could Hurt Farmers, Raise Food Costs. Advocates for small farmers were up in arms in 2013 over proposed FDA food safety rules that could bury them in pointless, costly red tape. Even the FDA admitted the rules, which would cost nearly $1 billion each year, would only make food up to 5.7% safer. While the FDA recently scrapped the proposed rules and will go back to the drawing board in 2014, there’s no promising the next round of proposed rules will be any better.
10: Government to Consider Restrictions on Food Marketing to Kids (Again). Companies that advertise foods that parents buy for kids are often vilified by a segment of the public health community.
Food companies may indeed want kids to nag parents to buy their foods, but parents and guardians—not kids—determine what kids eat.
If you’re a parent and you (and Santa) didn’t buy Johnny or Susie all the toys they asked for at Christmastime, then you already know when, why, and how to say no to your kid. But that bit of common sense likely won’t stop the government from considering new food marketing restrictions in 2014. | <urn:uuid:2bec7ede-a36a-455f-8e0f-174d734afc44> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://runawayhorses.alldiscussion.net/t9584-portion-control-how-the-government-plans-to-dictate-what-s-on-your-dinner-table-in-2014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00551-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943163 | 1,257 | 2 | 2 |
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I am researching the McLauchlan family from Perthshire Scotland. James McLauchlan and his wife Ann Galletly came to new Zealand on the ship "Clontarf" in 1860 and settled in Cust, North Canterbury. They were sponsered out by Peter Galletly and wife Marjory, along with Alexander Galletly and family.
Previously John McLauchlan a widower, and his family sposonsered Peter and Marjory. John McLauclan settled in Lincoln.
We are trying to find the connection, if there is any, between John McLauclan and James McLauchlan.
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|Did you know?... Valentine's Day is named after
Valentinus. Valentinus, according to legend, believed in romance to
the point that at peril to his own life, he married soldiers who were not
suppose to get married. Valentine cards are one of the romantic things we do
today to show our feelings. Vintage valentine cards are a collector's item.
Many people collect vintage Valentine day cards and frame them as art work.
Most of them are quite beautiful. | <urn:uuid:0182e44e-2718-46cc-9b31-8beadd293e37> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.allthingsclipart.com/04/vintage.valentine.cards.clipart.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967741 | 115 | 2.078125 | 2 |
This work is chicken soup for the souls of those who ardently believe in the public significance of philosophical discussion and it is an excellent introduction to public philosophy for the uninitiated. Its chapters are as insightful and exciting as the book as a whole is comprehensive. It will be of great interest to anyone with an appetite for the practices of philosophy beyond the lecture hall.
Joshua Forstenzer, Faculty Fellow in the Social Sciences, Lecturer in Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Philosophy and Community makes a powerful case for philosophical analysis, argument and imagination to be practised within communities, rather than simply applied to them. To be effective, public philosophy needs to be properly understood, and by rigorously examining both theory and practice, this important work helps unlock the rich potential of philosophy to enhance communal flourishing.
Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, U.K
This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.
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The growing fashion for less conventional slimming solutions has seen companies continue to innovate in reduced sugar food and beverages sweetened with natural high intensity sweeteners: Stevia – and now also monk fruit. Organic-reduced sugar is being born. While stevia sweetened products are thriving in the US and the chase for the first global brand in Europe is on, monk fruit, in direct competition to stevia, is already on the horizon. Could this be the end of obesity?
Although obesity is multifactorial, i.e. caused by a number of diverse factors, sugary drinks, in particular, are routinely being blamed as a major contributory cause of the global obesity epidemic. From a common sense point of view, the logic behind the accusation is compelling: one litre of a standard cola carbonate contains 420kcal, and all from sugar. The consumption of eight litres of cola (or any other standard carbonate beverage) per week, which is not an unrealistic quantity by any means, amounts to the caloric equivalent of 1lb of body fat. So, it is quite easy to see how substituting standard carbonates with low-calorie alternatives might make quite a significant difference to a person’s body weight in the medium-to-long term.
Only natural low-calorie drinks could stop rocketing childhood obesity levels
Low-calorie carbonates, however, have traditionally been suffering from two major handicaps: first of all, consumers are irked by their slight aftertaste, and, secondly, they are burdened by their perceived artificiality. Stevia’s natural halo, by contrast, shines brightly, and the ingredients industry is on the cusp of resolving the aftertaste issue. And monk fruit extract has it all going on: not only does it tick the natural box, it is also aftertaste-free. Its penetration into mass-market soft drinks is currently still hampered by its relatively price compounded by a supply bottleneck, as well as having to await legal approval in some geographies, like the European Union. It is only a matter of time until these hurdles are overcome.
The discovery of stevia-based sweeteners as a natural alternative to the widely used – but much maligned – high intensity sweeteners, including aspartame, acesulfame K and cyclamate, can only be described as a Holy Grail moment for the industry. The perceived “chemical” nature of these sweeteners have put many people off, in particular parents, who are not at all keen on serving these products to their children. Needless to say, we are all aware of rocketing global childhood obesity levels. One 330ml can of a standard soft drink supplies almost 10% of the daily calorie needs of a ten-year-old child. Incidentally, fruit juice, which, for many parents, constitutes a preferable choice over a “fizzy drink”, does not fare much better in terms of caloric content.
Stevia sparks juice revolution
And it is precisely the juice sector, where stevia is really coming into its own. Right now, stevia-sweetened, low-calorie juices are in the process of revolutionising the sector. The naturally healthy aspect of juice is a major point of attraction, particularly for 100% juice, but its high calorie content – due to naturally-occurring fruit sugar – has made weight-conscious consumers wary of the category. Products with less than 100% juice tend to either have added sugar or artificial sweeteners, which is in direct conflict with its natural image, giving health-conscious consumers yet another reason to avoid juice. The magic of stevia, however, allows manufacturers to reduce the juice (and thereby calorie) content without sacrificing either sweetness or naturalness, and even allows organic low sugar varieties to emerge.
PepsiCo is one of the global soft drink companies that have struck gold with Stevia. It’s Tropicana Trop50 brand, a 50-50 blend of juice and water and sweetened with stevia, has been extremely successful in the US since its launch in 2009. In less than 3 years, Trop50 value sales reached US$160 million, claiming an 11% share of off-trade volumes in the nectars (25-99% juice) category in 2011. In May 2012, PepsiCo introduced its latest round of flavour & brand extensions, including a Red Orange variety, plus an entirely new line, combining juice and tea.
The company considers Trop50 to be one of the most successful new product launches over five years, and it is easy to see how a reduced-calorie, all-natural fruit juice fills a previously gaping niche. For consumers wanting keep their calorie intake in check while still enjoying a nice glass of “natural” juice with their breakfast, products like Trop50 offer the perfect solution. In this regard, monk fruit extract, by virtue of being derived from a fruit, offers even greater potential. Once this highly promising sweetener manages to overcome the few existing teething problems, low-calorie soft drinks, and in particular the juice category, are set to enjoy another serious boost in popularity. | <urn:uuid:01c1b736-322f-482f-8d46-2167ada31002> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.euromonitor.com/2012/05/end-of-obesity-on-the-horizon-with-stevia-and-monk-fruit-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00422-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951344 | 1,066 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Join your engineering community peers and take our EETech 2022 Global Engineering Survey. You’ll get a summary of the results once they’re released. And you’ll be entered for a chance to win an Amazon card prize!
August 09, 2022 by Jeff Child
Back in 2018, MIT broke the water-air wireless communication barrier. Now, a team at KIT has transmitted messages in a novel way from the Titanic.
August 08, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
After years of refinement, the specifications for Bluetooth LE Audio are finally ready for mainstream adoption.
August 01, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Designing its patented digital polar radio implementation into an SoC and a development kit, InnoPhase brings extreme low power to Wi-Fi IoT systems.
July 29, 2022 by Jeff Child
His name became legendary in the world of consumer audio, but Bose—professor, researcher, engineer, inventor—was much more than a business-savvy audiophile.
July 25, 2022 by Robert Keim
This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.
July 25, 2022 by Mouser Electronics
In a recent publication, researchers at Harvard demonstrated how they tuned and controlled sound waves on an integrated circuit for the first time.
July 14, 2022 by Ingrid Fadelli
By marrying a MEMS microphone, a pressure sensor, and an AI/ML algorithm, a PSoC MCU-based reference design lets engineers build very low-power smart alarm systems.
June 29, 2022 by Jeff Child
Responsible for the modern stereo and an advanced World War II radar, Alan Blumlein revolutionized sound engineering.
June 27, 2022 by Biljana Ognenova
NIST researchers recently built a custom headphone-like structure to boost the sensitivity of an atomic radio receiver a hundredfold.
June 02, 2022 by Darshil Patel
This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.
May 25, 2022 by Mouser Electronics
While balanced armature speakers have been a leading technology in true wireless earbuds, MEMS microspeakers are beginning to peak in popularity.
May 17, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Learn about charge amplifier limitations at low frequencies, the effects of time constants, and how the drift phenomenon can also introduce errors in low-frequency measurements.
May 15, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar
Learn about charge amplifiers which are used for charge output conversion of a piezoelectric sensor into a usable voltage signal.
May 08, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar
Three semiconductor companies have recently announced devices aimed at next-gen audio. These ICs aim to enable engineers to improve the quality and capabilities of their audio system designs.
May 03, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski
Six months after its Arm Total Solutions for IoT rollout, today Arm is growing the initiative with a new Cortex-M processor, expanded ecosystem tools, and new virtual hardware—all aimed at IoT.
April 26, 2022 by Jeff Child
Learn about how system nonlinearity creates distortion in audio signals that impacts the sounds we hear. We will examine sine waves, harmonics, and intermodulation distortion.
April 10, 2022 by John Woodgate
As 2021 draws to a close, let's reflect on what this year brought to the table, both in the form of technology and industry trends.
December 31, 2021 by Kimber Wymore
Learn about frequency response and bandwidth specification of MEMS accelerometers.
December 29, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar
As 2021 comes to a close, STMicroelectronics, GaN Systems, and EPC push through final gallium nitride (GaN) based products. Could 2022 usher in even more GaN innovations?
December 27, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.
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Any artist who would like to be invited to the “Monumenta” must work very hard as the “Grand Palais”, which is situated right next to the Champs Élysées in Paris, offers sufficient space to accommodate a huge work of art. Visitors to the Grand Palais can admire the latest work by the artist Daniel Buren until the end of June and this work would not have been possible without the help of RENOLIT.
This highly prestigious project which was organised by the French Minister of Culture is designed to underpin Paris' position as the international art capital. The Minister of Culture himself is responsible for inviting the artists. The artists Anselm Kiefer and Richard Serra have been previous exhibitors. And after Anish Kapoor exhibited there in 2010, Frenchman Daniel Buren is now the latest artist whose work has gone on display.
All artists are given the same task, namely to create a large work of art. A really, really large one! For Anish Kapoor’s exhibit, massive fiery-red spheres the same size as suburban apartment buildings were rolled through the 35 metre high hall. The exhibit was a great success and attracted 270,000 visitors over a period of six weeks.
This year, visitors are expected to flock to the Grand Palais in similarly large numbers. Although Daniel Buren's work is equally effective when it comes to filling the space available, it is a great deal more subtle. He has erected his trademark black and white pillars in the time-honoured hall and hung hundreds of steel rings from them at a height which allows people to walk under them. However, the most sensational features are the coloured yet transparent RENOLIT plastic films which are fixed within the rings. Whenever the sun shines through the glass roof of the Grand Palais and then through the film, the floor below is transformed into a sea of overlapping coloured circles. By moving around in the area beneath the rings, visitors can literally swim in colours and experience truly sensational impressions of the surroundings.
Most remarkably, Buren did not request any specially manufactured products when RENOLIT decided to sponsor the work. The film colours in stock were exactly what he had been looking for. The films he used met all his requirements – both in design and technical terms. This is further proof of the enormous range of potential uses for RENOLIT products.
What is known in architecture as a luminous ceiling and can be created using translucent RENOLIT film, looks almost modest when compared to Buren’s method. The reason for this is that Buren's work does not concentrate on the ceiling. Buren has positioned the coloured films as a third level between the roof of the hall and the floor, thus manipulating the traditional boundaries of the room. Buren’s work was created especially for the Grand Palais. It cannot be exhibited anywhere else. Nevertheless, this reference will give numerous architects and interior designers an idea of the sort of effects they could achieve with the help of RENOLIT films when carrying out their own projects.
Various major events, some of which were conceived by Daniel Buren himself and are tailored to his coloured circles, will compliment the main exhibit in the hall in the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibit will remain on show until 21 June. More than a quarter of a million people may very well be able to see the different ways in which RENOLIT products can be used. Further information is available by visiting www.monumenta.com.
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Diaphragmatic Pacemaker in Tetraplegic Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries
This study has been completed.
University of Sao Paulo
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Miguel L. Tedde, University of Sao Paulo
First received: June 23, 2011
Last updated: March 18, 2013
Last verified: March 2013
No Study Results Posted on ClinicalTrials.gov for this Study
|Study Status:||This study has been completed.|
|Study Completion Date:||December 2012|
|Primary Completion Date:||November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
Tedde ML, Vasconcelos Filho P, Hajjar LA, de Almeida JP, Flora GF, Okumura EM, Osawa EA, Fukushima JT, Teixeira MJ, Galas FR, Jatene FB, Auler JO Jr. Diaphragmatic pacing stimulation in spinal cord injury: anesthetic and perioperative management. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2012 Nov;67(11):1265-9. | <urn:uuid:ac97c4e6-83dd-4f9b-9b84-3b8af47ae69f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01385384 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00411-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.763966 | 232 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A business transformation game
This game was co-created with an international team of academic experts on inclusion. Prof Dr. Anthony Giannoumis at Oslo Met in Norway and his team from Inclusive Creation, joined forces with the entrepreneurs and behavioural scientists of The Forge (Belgium).
For one, when we play the game it's not called 'the inclusion game'. That would simply trigger social desirable answers during the game. Instead it's called 'the business transformation game' and you compete against other teams to get the growing business of Öber back on track and turn it into a success. During the game real life environments of time pressure, money targets and competition are simulated. The question is, will the teams still see the value of inclusion under these circumstances.
This game is not meant as a preachy game. It’s rather a gentle way to confront ourselves with our true behaviour. After playing the game, the participants take the time to reflect on inclusion, why we made the choices we made during the game and in our own teams and how they can apply these insights into their own team or organization.
In short, qualitative insights about inclusion, inspiration and entertainment, all in one game.
Up to 4 hours
Game can be played physically (live) in all of Europe or online (experienced technician and professional studio)
Up to 20 participants per facilitator
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Don't worry, be happy. Turn that frown upside down. Think positive. Ugh, please. Optimism has its place, but we all have days (or months...or a year!) when our outlook is more Aubrey Plaza than Anne Hathaway. So what a relief that a slew of new books is championing the benefits of negativity.
It's toxic to think we should 1) always try to avoid feeling bad, and 2) try to feel good all the time, says Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., coauthor of The Upside of Your Dark Side. Why? Traditionally "negative" emotions—anger, sadness, guilt, embarrassment—can ultimately drive you to be more successful and, irony of all ironies, happier, he says. No, you can't mope around like Grumpy Cat all the time, but you can harness your 'tude to create better health habits, stronger relationships, and a more kick-ass work life. Five pessimistic traits we should all try to embrace:
1. Jump to the Worst-Case Scenario
You dream of opening a bakery that will spawn the next Cronut-like craze. Imagining the endgame—people selling your hybrid baked good on Craigslist for $200—feels motivating but ignores the hard work it takes to get there. "Life isn't fulfilling and vibrant if you don't take risks, but you don't want to take ridiculous, catastrophic ones," says Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking. To find the right balance, focus on what you're willing to risk for success.
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The Happy Medium: Explore what Burkeman calls "the negative path": Think about what you would lose if your dream didn't work out (your biz could fail and you'd have to move back in with your parents), and ask yourself, Could I handle it? If this question fills you with dread, it may be your tip-off there's too much danger in your plan, so consider tabling the idea for now, says Burkeman. Nervous butterflies, on the other hand, usually indicate excitement and are a signal that you should take initial steps to move forward, such as interviewing bakery owners or testing out recipes, says Burkeman. Reassess again before making a bigger leap (like actually quitting your job).
2. Be Pissy
Women are often labeled "bitchy" or "difficult" when they drop some real talk, but bottle up your feelings and you're bound to explode. Your annoyance with your sister causes a big scene at the next holiday gathering; your rage at a coworker who took credit for your idea boils over into a nasty e-mail you accidentally cc to the whole office—making you look like an A-hole. "If we don't honor our feelings, they'll eventually make themselves known through our behavior," says counselor Tina Gilbertson, author of Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them. Another ramification of ignoring "negative" emotions: You miss out on an opportunity to strengthen relationships, says Kashdan. "If your bond hinges on your being positive and not expressing anxiety and fears, it's not worth much," he says.
The Happy Medium: Showing anger doesn't mean freaking out whenever you're mad. Cool off, then tell your coworker his actions were not okay, or inform your sister that she did a shitty thing by ditching you to have drinks with her buddies and, yeah, you minded. "We're allowed to call people out on their behavior as long as we do so appropriately. It may feel awful in the moment, but in the long-term it helps establish boundaries," says Kashdan.
3. Find the Flaws in Everything
Your new guy is awesome. He's helping run a start-up, your mom adores him, and he's so darn cute! Still, he always makes you drive to his neighborhood and he doesn't make you laugh enough...but no relationship is Brangelina-perfect, right? Stop. Your feelings can convey crucial information, says Gilbertson. What's more, research in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that we subconsciously use rational thinking—like weighing pros and cons or analyzing facts—to inform our gut reactions, which means that our instincts aren't totally random. So don't bury those suspicions; if it looks like a duck and acts like a duck...well, you know the rest.
The Happy Medium: Ask yourself (or even better, a trusted girlfriend): Am I being overly critical or selfish? If the answer is honestly "no," respect your expectations and let that validation spur you to action. We're not saying you have to break up with your guy—you're not required to obey each impulse. But it's empowering to say, "We need to talk about this." And if the same crap keeps coming up despite repeated attempts to address it, take it as a signal that the situation probably isn't serving you.
For two more ways to make your pessimism work for you, check out the January/February issue of Women's Health, on newsstands now. | <urn:uuid:db4ac5fd-5168-4974-9734-7529b135bdfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a19913723/benefits-of-pessimism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.958821 | 1,087 | 1.921875 | 2 |
At many church weddings the pastor or priest reads one of the most famous passages in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, which is commonly called "the love chapter." This chapter tells us what loves is and what love is not.
Love is a recurring theme in the Bible. We learn that God is love (1 John 4:8) and that because of God's loved us, He gave his only son for our salvation from the cost of sin (John 3:16).
This video posted on YouTube by GGBCMultitech is a visual reminder of what 1 Corinthians says about love.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV | <urn:uuid:1f0b0a05-2808-417d-a6ea-5474ebd9ebd1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.christianpost.com/videos/love-is-patient-video-12742/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00299-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948519 | 199 | 1.898438 | 2 |
International Human Rights Day: LGBT Around the World
In 1993, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights. This declaration reaffirmed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter and remains a blueprint for reaffirming human rights as a universal standard throughout the world. Today is International Human Rights Day and the U.N. is marking the 20th anniversary of the Vienna Declration. We recognize this day for its affect on promoting all freedoms--civil, political, economical, social and cultural--under a large umbrella. While sad, it almost seems appropriate that this day also marks the memorial to Nelson Mandela--that tireless fighter for human rights.
On this day, many are making a call for renewing a committment to LGBT rights. While we have much to celebrate in 2013, there is still progress to be made, both in the United States and around the world.
In the United States, 16 states have legal same-sex marriage and 33 states have same-sex marriage bans. Also, 21 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 17 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, outlaw discrimination based on gender identity or expression. We have to remember that these stats don't encompass the discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community every day in their schools, places of work or where they live.
According to Stonewall UK, "being gay is illegal in 78 countries across the world and being a lesbian is illegal in 49. In five countries same-sex sexual activity carries the death penalty.
Even where it’s legal to be gay other laws often stand in the way of equality. In some cases gay pride marches are not allowed and neither is literature that ‘promotes homosexuality’ - which often means it simply states its existence." Another breakdown from 76Crimes, lists 78 (plus 4) countries with criminal laws against sexual activity by LGBTI people.
On this International Human Rights Day, SAGE joins the chorus in calling for a better recognition of human rights for our community around the world and commends the work of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission. We encourage folks to watch this excellent video from the United Nations and share. | <urn:uuid:5f711934-e879-4a32-9564-30ae74a71da2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.sageusa.org/blog/2013/12/international-human-rights-day-lgbt-rights-around-the-world.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00020-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927522 | 465 | 3.4375 | 3 |
- Also known as
- Abdel Rahim
- Richard Colvin Reid
August 12, 1973
Richard Reid, in full Richard Colvin Reid, also called Abdel Rahim (born August 12, 1973, London, England) British Islamist militant who gained notoriety as the so-called Shoe Bomber in 2001 after he attempted—by igniting explosives hidden in the soles of his high-top basketball shoes—to blow up an airplane on which he and some 200 other passengers were traveling.
Reid was the only son of an English mother and a Jamaican father who divorced in 1984. His father spent most of Reid’s childhood in prison; Reid himself dropped out of school in 1989, and within a year he had been arrested for a mugging. He spent the next six years in and out of jail.
In 1995 Reid was released from prison, and he embraced Islam, changing his name to Abdel Rahim. Initially his conversion seemed a positive step, and Reid stayed out of trouble. By late 1997, however, he had apparently fallen in with a more-radical group. Reid became more vociferous and militant in his views, reportedly becoming estranged from family members who would not convert to Islam.
In 1998 Reid disappeared from London. He was believed to have traveled to Pakistan and then to Afghanistan, where he received training in terrorist activities at al-Qaeda camps. In the summer of 2001, he returned to England, but in mid-July 2001 he traveled to Israel and then to Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, and perhaps Afghanistan. In December 2001 he returned to Europe, flying to Brussels and obtaining a new British passport in an apparent attempt to conceal his recent travels.
Later in December Reid purchased with cash an expensive pair of basketball shoes and then took a train to Paris, where he bought (with cash) a round-trip ticket to Antigua on a plane that stopped in Miami. Reid was scheduled to leave on December 21, 2001, but his cash purchase of the plane ticket, his agitated state, and the absence of luggage triggered an extensive security check at the airport; he missed the flight. That evening he went to an Internet café and sent an e-mail to someone in Pakistan, asking advice. His correspondent instructed him to try again, and the next day he successfully boarded American Airlines Flight 63, flying from Paris to Miami. About 90 minutes after the plane took off, a flight attendant smelled sulfur and realized that Reid had lit a match. She made him put it out, but he lit another and attempted to set fire to the tongues of his shoes. When she intervened, Reid attacked her, knocking her down, and then bit another attendant. Passengers quickly responded, holding Reid down, tying him up with belts and cords, and dousing him with water. A doctor on board eventually injected him with sedatives.
After Reid was subdued, the flight was redirected to Boston, where investigators discovered that the soles of his shoes were packed with enough plastic explosives to punch a hole through the side of the plane. Although he was believed to have acted alone, his e-mails and other evidence revealed his connections to al-Qaeda.
In 2002 Reid was charged before a federal court in Boston and pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts. On January 31, 2003, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole on three counts, one of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. nationals outside the United States and two of interference with a flight crew by using a dangerous weapon. Reid was held in the same super-maximum security prison in Colorado that was home to the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; Terry Nichols, a conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing; Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph; and al-Qaeda bomber Ramzi Yousef. | <urn:uuid:faabcf1f-9d47-4f9c-92ea-63a74aae6eda> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Reid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985149 | 773 | 1.773438 | 2 |
? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our long-term goal is to determine how the aging-related breast cancer can be specifically prevented. This is an unanswered question largely because the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the aging-related increase in breast cancer incidence are poorly understood. We recently found that the percentage of mammary stem cells (MaSCs) in mouse mammary gland increases steadily with age. More significantly, both old (22-30 months) mammary glands and old MaSC-regenerated mammary glands obtained by in vivo transplantation showed significantly more foci of hyperplasia, atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) than young (4-6 months) mammary glands and young MaSC-regenerated mammary glands respectively. This is the first experimental demonstration that MaSCs are the precursors of spontaneous neoplastic lesions and aging predisposes MaSCs to neoplastic transformation. Whole genome RNA sequencing and gene ontology analysis revealed a significantly elevated senescence-associated inflammatory response (SIR) in aging mammary stromal cells and significantly elevated immune and inflammatory responses in aging MaSCs, which likely engendered the transforming property of MaSCs. Indeed, treatment with the anti-inflammatory/immune modulatory drug rapamycin for 5-10 days not only reverted the phenotypes of the old mammary glands and old MaSCs similar to those of young mammary glands and young MaSCs, respectively, but also resulted in the loss of the transforming property of the old MaSCs. Our most recent preliminary data show that aging is associated with increased levels of autophagy markers in old mammary glands, which were not further increased by rapamycin treatment suggesting that excessive autophagy in the presence of rapamycin might have caused hyperplastic and dysplastic cells in the old mammary gland to undergo apoptosis and/or autophagic cell death instead of cell survival and tumor progression. These novel observations led us to hypothesize that aging-associated mammary tumorigenesis may be due to the generation of aberrant MaSCs capable of forming neoplastic lesions and can be prevented through pharmacological interventions. We will test the hypothesis with three specific aims. Although rapamycin is known to inhibit breast cancer progression, whether short-term treatment with rapamycin can prevent mammary tumorigenesis via a MaSC mechanism is not known. Thus, in Aim 1, we propose to determine an effective dosage of short-term rapamycin treatment in abrogating the transforming phenotype of old MaSCs. We will also determine the efficacy of an mTOR kinase inhibitor in preventing old MaSC-mediated neoplastic lesion formation in mice. In Aim 2, we will investigate whether rapamycin exacerbates autophagy to cause autophagic cell death or apoptosis of human and mouse DCIS cells and attenuates immune and inflammatory responses in old MaSCs to abrogate their transforming activity. We will also investigate other age-related cellular pathways and processes regulated by rapamycin, which may cause the dysfunction of MaSC during aging. In Aim 3, we will carry out clinical studies to determine the effect of aging on human mammary stem/progenitor cell function and the efficacy of short-term rapamycin treatment in mitigating biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence in patients with DCIS. Completion of the proposed aims will fill knowledge gap and make a breakthrough in our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate neoplastic transformation by MaSCs during progressive aging. It will also establish a foundation for future clinical studies of interventional treatment and/or non-treatment trials in preventing aging-related breast cancer, which should particularly benefit the population at high risk for breast cancer.
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- National Institutes of Health: $395,434.00
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It’s shocking stuff. People seem to be making fewer trips by car and travelling fewer miles. Not only in the UK but across the western word. The worlds favorite way to get around is in decline.
This is tragic. Are our once beautiful roads going to end up empty like this?
What is the reason?
- People get the bus
- Space is taken away from cars and given to walkers and bicyclists
- People work and shop nearer home in cities
- They can’t afford the outrageous fuel price and tax
Check out Iain Jaques’ black & white postpeakcartastic images re-imagine all those lovely roads in a future beyond car culture PostPeakCarTastic
We must act now to get more people making more trips by car more often?
What can we do?
- Promote driving in school
- Offer free/subsidised driving lessons for young people
- Make it easier to pass the driving test
- Allow people to start driving younger and keep driving as long as they want
- Reduce public transport and make it much more expensive
- Slow down the trains
- Make bicyclists pay road tax and a high VAT rate
- Employers give incentives to people who drive to work
- Build more out of town shopping centres
- Raise speed limits across the UK and remove traffic calming
- Priority lanes on motorways for single occupancy vehicles
- Free driving helmets and gloves
Be sure to let us know any more ideas to get the nation driving again.
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Megan Squire Wins Best Paper Award
Megan Squire, associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, has been awarded the Best Pedagogical Paper award at the International Association of Computer Information Systems 2012 conference, held Oct. 3-6 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The conference, in its 52nd year, offers an annual award for Best Paper in the pedagogical, research and technology categories.
The paper, titled "Outline and Exercises for a Novel Introductory Course in Data Science and Visualization" describes her work in creating a cutting-edge course that teaches techniques for visualizing large amounts of data in diverse domains. Following the conference, Squire’s paper will also be published in the journal Issues in Information Systems.
Abstract for the paper Outline and Exercises for a Novel Introductory Course in Data Science and Visualization:
Data Science is an increasingly popular term for the deliberate, methodological study of the principles and techniques involved in the storage, management, mining, and visualization of large amounts of data, as used to solve problems in diverse domains. This paper provides a working definition of Data Science and examines the relationship between this emerging field and other, more familiar disciplines already established in the undergraduate curriculum. We then provide an operational framework (“The Six Steps”) for an introductory course in Data Science and Visualization. We provide a comprehensive description of concrete, relevant example assignments that fit cleanly into this framework, and a rubric for grading these. We conclude with examples of how this course can achieve secondary pedagogical objectives in the areas of Writing and Information Literacy. | <urn:uuid:ce1fb7e3-709e-45ef-97ae-c555dc7199ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/62836 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00045-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904515 | 335 | 1.625 | 2 |
...Plug, ball, gate, or butterfly valves can be used for closed shutdown with varying degrees of success. As a very broad statement, their effectiveness is a function of the abrasive or wearing qualities of the effluent controlled. Of course, the most effective safety valving is either full closed or open, protecting the sealing elements from being compromised by the effluent (except in the case of butterfly valves which have sealing surfaces fully exposed when partially or fully open). All parameters of the intended use must be examined in detail to provide a definitive assessment of the intended application.
Michael Karr, Executive Vice President, COO
Vulcan J.M. Intl., www.vulcanjm.com
Analog Valve Cant Do It
Two key safety principles come into play here: One, the safety system must be independent of the control system and, two, for process control the accepted safe state is the de-energized state. I suppose one could use an analog control valve for the first principle but don't see how it could be used for the second principle. I would say that a control valve cannot be used as a safety shutdown valve.
...Being in the intrinsic safety isolator business, I also must note that the leading companies in our business do not rate analog I.S. isolators for Safety Integrity Levels.
...I must add that the mechanism for the shutdown must allow for quick action when the power is shut off to the valve and I do not think that a control valve is designed for this response.
Mike McElroy, Business Development Manager
NC Solenoid Valves Suffice
Generally speaking, two-way and three-way normally closed solenoid valves with synthetic rubber seals are considered to be "safety shut-off" valves, and are usually listed with an agency like UL as such. This means that in the event of loss of electrical power to the coil, the valve fails in the closed position, which is most desirable. These solenoid valves can be used anywhere that it is required to shut off gases or liquids in the event of power loss.
Mark Emond, Technical Service Representative
Parker Fluid Control, www.parker.com
More Trouble Than Its Worth
Sure it can be done. The reason it hasn't may be due to one or more of the following:
- Pneumatic valve positioners are much more expensive than conventional solenoid-operated valves.
- Not too many safety PLCs on the market offer a certified 4-20 mA output (some do; for example the Quadlog system offers a TUV-certified 4-20 mA analog output module).
- Control valves often aren't designed for tight shutoff, they are typically designed for better control (hence the added cost).
- Typically, the vendors that manufacture and sell control valves and valve positioners have not sought the necessary failure rate data to meet the IEC 61508 standard.
- Due to their operational nature, control valves require more maintenance than shutoff valves and have a higher demand on compressed air.
...Most of todays safety shutoff valves are solenoid-operated shutoff valves. The solenoid valve sits on top of a valve actuator and responds to a discrete (on/off) signal from the safety system. The solenoid will either allow compressed air to drive the valve closed or release air while a spring closes the valve.
...An electrical/pneumatic (I/P) positioner works on top of a control valve actuator. The positioner receives a 4-20 mA signal from the safety system and allows the valve to go to any position between full open and full closed. Some of the possible benefits of using a control valve are:
- Using the positioner, users can partially close the valve to validate system performance. Today, users would have to shut down the process to test shutoff valves.
- The positioners intelligence would allow users to obtain valuable diagnostics for preventive maintenance and safety records.
- Bus technology like Profibus, HART, or Foundation fieldbus are often available with today's positioners, adding additional advantages.
Charles Fialkowski, Product Manager, Safety Systems
Siemens Energy and Automation, www.sea.siemens.com
Its Your Call
A control valve can be used in lieu of a separate safety shutdown valve for SIS applications. One technique is to install a solenoid in series with the valve positioner, downstream of the positioner output. The solenoid valve is operated by a SIS signal when a process incident occurs, and its output supersedes that of the positioner to drive the valve to the shutdown position. In many cases this operating setup eliminates the need for an additional safety valve, piping, and installation space.
...While a control valve can be used for control and as a safety shutdown valve for SIS applications, there are tradeoffs to consider. Upside:
- Using the control valve will eliminate the cost of an additional valve and associated piping.
- The DCS will check for the availability of the modulating valve and will record valve travel as a way to document operation. This is not the case with discrete on/off solenoid-operated valves.
- When the control valve is equipped with a digital valve controller (DVC), the DVC can record valve travel, actuator pressure, setpoint, and other parameters for valve diagnostic purposes.
- A control valve uses a better designed/matched actuator and instrument package than does the typical on/off valve, with the result being tighter control.
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Guidelines for Posting Student Images on District 214 Websites
In conjunction with the district’s technology procedures relating to student safeguards, "No students will be identified, except in cases of public performances, such as athletic and theater events."
• In cases of public performances, such as athletic and theater events, students may be identified with name and photo.
• Photo without name – Okay to post (Photo by itself does not identify student.)
• Name without photo – Okay to post (Name by itself does not identify student.)
• Name with photo – Need parent consent (Name/photo combination does identify student.)
• Articles with group photos but no names underneath – Okay to post, as long as the article does not identify student(s).
*Parental consent may have been given via the online registration process.
Students who are 18 years old can give their own consent.
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ON JUNE 11 Cathy Evelyn Smith pleaded no contest to manslaughter and related drug charges in the death of actor John Belushi. Smith faces up to eight years in a penitentiary because a plea of nolo contendere is the equivalent of a plea of guilty in the state of California. Smith's plea cannot, however, be used against her in any resulting civil suits.
The criminal justice system in this country is supposed to be just that -- a just, fair and equitable system for all citizens. But Smith is being prosecuted and persecuted because Belushi was rich, idolized and a highly public figure.
Poor drug addicts die every day in Watts, Harlem, even Orlando. Most die by their own hand, some with help, but no one is prosecuted. The bodies are merely tagged and sent off to the nearest morgue. Smith was guilty only of being associated with a famous addict.
Belushi was a fast train on a track to oblivion, a la Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. With or without Smith's help with an injection, the end result would have been the same for Belushi.
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All of a sudden, DNA has no reason to feel special. For decades it seemed that only a handful of molecules could store genetic information and pass it on. But now synthetic biologists have discovered that six others can pull off the same trick, and there may be many more to find.
The ability to copy information from one molecule to another is fundamental to all life. Organisms pass their genes to their descendants, often with small changes, and as a result life can evolve over the generations. Barring a few exceptions, all known organisms use DNA as the information carrier.
A host of alternative nucleic acids have been made in labs over the years, but no one has made them work like DNA.
This problem has now been cracked. “This unique ability of DNA and RNA to encode information can be implemented in other backbones,” says Philipp Holliger of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.
“Everyone thought we were limited to RNA and DNA,” says John Sutherland of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, who was not involved in the study. “This paper is a game-changer.”
Holliger’s team focused on six XNAs (xeno-nucleic acids). DNA and RNA are made of a sugar, a phosphate and a base. The XNAs had different sugars, and in some of them the sugars are replaced with completely different molecules.
A key hurdle for the team was to create enzymes that could copy a gene from a DNA molecule to an XNA molecule, and other enzymes that could copy it back into DNA.
They started with enzymes that do this in DNA only. Over the years the team made incremental tweaks until they produced enzymes that could work on XNAs.
Once they had created these enzymes, they were able to store information in each of the XNAs, copy it to DNA, and copy it back into a new XNA. In effect, the first XNA passed its information on to the new one – albeit in a roundabout way. “The cycle we have is a bit like a retrovirus, which cycles between RNA and DNA,” Holliger says.
This is the first time artificial molecules have been made to pass genes on to their descendants. Because the XNAs can do this, they are capable of evolution.
“The immediate question is whether these XNAs can be introduced into cells,” says Farren Isaacs of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Once the XNAs were installed, they could replicate and evolve on their own. “That would be remarkable.”
Journal reference: Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1217622
Origin of life
The finding is a proof of principle that life needn’t be based on DNA and RNA. Astrobiologists have long suspected as much.
“This is very interesting with respect to the origin of life,” says Jack Szostak of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Nowadays, all life-forms use either DNA or RNA to store genetic information. Many biologists suspect that the first life-forms used RNA, and DNA was adopted later. But we don’t know why those two molecules were chosen: are they the best possible storage media, or were they simply the only things available?
Holliger suspects RNA was an opportunistic choice. “Clearly, there is no overwhelming functional imperative to use DNA and RNA,” he says. Instead, life may have started with RNA simply because it was made in large quantities on the early Earth.
Most biologists think life on Earth began with RNA because it can both store information and catalyse useful reactions. In his latest experiment, Holliger has now shown that one of his XNA’s – 1,5-anhydrohexitol nucleic acid, or HNA – can fold into a 3D shape and bind to specific target molecules. This is the first step in becoming an enzyme. The same thing had previously been done for threose nucleic acid (TNA).
This suggests XNAs might form the basis of life on other planets, where different environments led to different chemistry. “I would be surprised if we find truly extraterrestrial life that was based on DNA and RNA,” Holliger says. “There might have been an XNA-world on a different planet.”
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For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sat Feb 8 22:26:23 CET 2003
Jp Calderone wrote:
> > You can't get short circuiting behavior by writing a function,
> Yes you can, as you admit below.
> > ... unless
> > you want to do obtuse things like alternately eval different
> > passed-in
> > strings in the function.
You could get it by doing something obtuse, obnoxious, and inefficient.
Not surprisingly, that doesn't present itself as a good solution.
But if you'd read that, you would have understood the point, instead of
making a point which I already made.
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Malawi Trip Planner
Plan your customized trip plan for Malawi. Choose from Top Toursim cities and tourist attarctions of Malawi using trip planner.
Malawi a landlocked country in South Africa formerly known as Nyasaland is the warm heart of Africa. It is bordered by Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. Malawi is a good destination for a trip of few days. Malawi travel guide is here to give you an overall idea of before set in for the warm heart of Africa. Lilongwe is the capital city here. English is the main language of this country.
Having visa and getting in
Nationals of Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa and some other countries are allowed to travel without Malawi visa. These nationals can stay here for up to 90 days. Citizens of other nationals like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Egypt etc. require to have a visa to travel here. Visa on arrival is available here for 90 days. Visa on arrival is necessarily being paid in US dollar. It is advised to visit nearest Malawi embassy for detailed information regarding Malawi.
Soothing time to visit Malawi
Most of the Malawi plateau is more than 1000m high which leads to moderate temperature. Hottest period comes into existence during the autumn season. Winter, lasting from April to October is coolest and chilliest here. Though winter is cold the best time to visit Malawi is the winter season when it makes itself most attractive. The average temperature here remains from 25C to 30C.
Famous sites to visit
One of the massively diversified beautiful landscapes can be found in Malawi among all the countries of South Africa. Several lucrative spots are spread all around the north, southern part of Malawi. Best place to visit in Malawi is the ninth largest lake in the world, i.e. Lake Malawi. It has crocodiles, hippos and other animals. Nyika national park, kande horse stable, Liwonde national park, and several other spots are there which attracts the tourists.
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As a traveler the first question arrives in mind is how to reach Malawi. Cross continent travelers as well as cross country travelers may avail planes to Malawi. If one is traveling from nearby nations then trains or car is a good option. Once you are in, then to travel local sites or to roam around, public transport is a good medium. A number of the local tour &safari operators also offer car hire. Here you can find famous Ilala vessel which is vital means of communication around Lake Malawi.
Availability of Foods and roofs
Malawi is known for its excellent fish dishes. Around Lake Malawi, fish dishes are available abundantly. Most of the hotels provide western dishes. Soft drinks are easily available here. Beers and spirits such as Malawi gin and South African wines are cheap priced and well available. Drinking packaged water is safer than drinking tap water here. Western-standard hotels can be found at the capital city. Resorts are there near Malawi Lake to carter international tourists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine, along with his implied threats of nuclear weapons use against any who would interfere, has raised the specter of nuclear conflict.
The breakout of the conflict in Ukraine and the following imposition of heavy Western sanctions
on Russia are causing sharp price increases
in food and energy commodities —of which both Ukraine and Russia represent key exporters — as well as disruptions to global supply chains, impacting the post-pandemic economic recovery.
The five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council (UNSC) – UK, US, France, China and Russia – have exercised their veto powers primarily to protect their own national interests or the interests of their close political and military allies.
As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 are bleak, particularly for developing countries.
The unprecedented flow of arms to Ukraine, and the rising miliary spending by European nations to strengthen their defenses, are threatening to undermine development aid to the world’s poorer nations.
Now, since the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s attention has been focused on the war’s terrifying levels of death, destruction and suffering.
In the eyes of the Kremlin leadership, the basic precondition of the successful war against Ukraine has been the perceived power of the Russian Armed Forces and possible superiority over the Ukrainian forces.
The other day a friend asked me “Can Russia be expelled from the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority?”
Almost impossible to do that, I responded.
A legendary quote attributed to Joseph Stalin most likely applies to the United Nations too. “How many divisions does the Pope have?” asked the Soviet leader, interrupting a speech by Winston Churchill in a bygone era.
When Madeleine Albright was nominated to be the first female US Secretary of State back in 1997, some apparently questioned whether “a woman could go toe-to-toe with world leaders”.
“Madeleine quickly quashed those misguided doubts,” says Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a tribute to Albright, who passed away last week at the age of 84. “There was simply no doubt that, in any room, she was as tough as anyone and often tougher. That said, it wasn’t always easy.”
In an opinion piece published in PassBlue on 15 March 2022, historian Stephen Schlesinger asked, "Where is the UN's Guterres?" as Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine has been dominating the world’s headline news.
Ukraine is on fire. The country is being decimated before the eyes of the world. The impact on civilians is reaching terrifying proportions.
Countless innocent people – including women and children – have been killed. After being hit by Russian forces, roads, airports and schools lie in ruins.
Conventional arms have been a central, and at times controversial, component of the U.S.-Ukraine relationship since 2014. Indeed, former President Trump’s impeachment proceedings originated with an alleged quid-pro-quo related suspension of military aid to Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was certainly not a surprise and has unambiguously exposed the West’s weakness. The question is what lesson the United States and its allies should learn from it and what measures they must now undertake to prevent Putin or any future ruthless Russian autocrat from ever daring to invade another country.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has raised the question of expulsion or suspension of the Russian Federation from the United Nations. As is known, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its UN seat was transferred to the Russian Federation.
Georg Hegel once stated: ”What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” Nevertheless, self-taught historian Vladimir Putin has learned to interpret history in his own manner. During COVID he went down in Kremlin’s archives and after studying old maps and treaties he wrote a lengthy essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
, while declaring that ”the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state is an aggression directed against Russia.”
The overwhelming condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine—which triggered a veto from Russia and an abstention from China last week – has raised a challenging question about the legitimacy of UN memberships of both countries which are permanent members of the Security Council.
This aphorism which dates back to the late 1940s points out that one’s position on issues (where you stand
) is shaped by your relationship with the events taking place (where you sit
The majority of the world wants peace. This is clear by now. Just consider the many large-scale anti-war demonstrations taking place around the world; and the outpour of solidarity and support for the people in the Ukraine and the more than one million Ukrainians who fled from their country.
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OAKLAND, California—We flooded into the Oakland Coliseum in 1969 with memories of the Cow Palace in 1966 – but this time there weren't any twelve-year-old kids kicking over the seats and wetting their pants. The Sixties are over – the first thing that hit you when the Stones came out on stage was the evidence of the years in Mick Jagger's face. It seemed to have fallen into place for good. His features were no longer supple and loose; they were hard and thick, like the marble ridges of a statue. But that's a long way from the House of Wax. He still looked beautiful.
Jagger was dressed right out of Sympathy for the Devil, but for me the costume didn't take hold until near the end of the show, when it no longer seemed like a costume. Black tight pants with silver studs up the side; a black blouse with a beige horseshoe on it, special astrology for the warlock's tour; an Uncle Sam hat out of Ginsberg; and a red scarf that might have been ten feet long. Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, even Mick Taylor, they all looked like Rolling Stones; but they weren't stepping out. They put the weight on Mick, and he was carrying it. The band was nervous, and it wasn't all that clear whether or not they were going to make it this time.
Listen to the audience on the live cuts from Out of Our Heads or December's Children or to Got Live If You Want It! There must have been a time when the Stones played to crowds that didn't rise up screaming the moment they hit the stage, kids possessed with that Stones' demon that made them charge the bandstand with every new song, keeping up the clamor until the Stones had played their last encore and left for good—but if there was such a time it's been a long, long while. Those times are here again, and both the Rolling Stones and the audience had to take this night and make a great show out of it regardless.
The screams don't come so easy any more. The flashing excitement of simply looking at the Stones is displaced. Dylan doesn't tour, the Beatles don't tour, and it's been three years since any of us have seen Mick Jagger. So we had to look at him to make sure he was really there. The giant TV screen up above the stage held images that in an odd way were more real than the show itself— somehow it made more sense to see a picture of Mick Jagger than to see Mick Jagger himself. We were all quite out of time.
"So happy to be here, and all that bullshit," said Mick, after the opening shot, a metal-hard "Jumping Jack Flash." He was clearly pissed that the crowd had clapped with merely uncertain enthusiasm for both his entry and for his first vocal. He'd danced stiffly on that first number, feeling out the stage, but the audience had been feeling out Mick. It was as if there were complaints that this band had been, you know, "over-hyped."
Things had not gone smoothly during the first set, some hours before. Richards' amp had blown, and he'd tossed his see-through plexiglass guitar into the air and walked off stage. The Stones had been forty-five minutes late – not, as Jagger told the audience, because no one came to pick them up at the airport, but because Tina Turner had put on such a dynamite show the band hadn't wanted to follow her too quickly. Then in the middle of "Satisfaction" Bill Graham and the tour manager got into a pushing and shoving match right on stage. A hassle all around. That was what some people talked about when they left the first show – that and the bad sound.
It was 2:30, the Stones had been on for ten minutes, and while Jagger pranced with growing enthusiasm and Richards stung the hardest notes from his guitar, the sound system booming in perfect balance, the audience was still warming up. "Oh, Carol" – "Oh, groovy, Chuck Berry, hmmmmmmmmm . . ." "Sympathy for the Devil" somehow slipped past. We were, I think, judging the music, not responding to it, and this too must have been new to the Stones. Years ago we'd just groove with the loud hum of the band and the ranging dark cheer of the crowd into one giant instrument: THE STONES! And us. Now we heard the guitar solos.
Mick sneered at the audience. "Since you're all so quiet tonight . . . Since you're all sitting down, well then, we'll sit down too." He and Keith Richard squatted down for two slow southern blues: "Prodigal Son" from the last album and a new one, "Gotta Move." They were a lot of fun. Keith played a very classy old steel guitar, and Mick found the night's best moment up till then when he let out with a soft, low Robert Johnson moan – very moving, very intense – while he mugged at the audience and rolled his big eyeballs.
There was a queer distance between Mick and the Stones – this devastating band and their devouring leader – and the audience. It'd be easiest to think the reason was the massive Oakland Coliseum, but it was more than that. We've grown up with the Stones, and we are more likely closer to where they are than we were four or five years ago – we have influenced them too – but somehow this closeness of spirit increased the distance between the Stones as performers and ourselves as the audience. Or perhaps it was another incident that brought the new feel of the concert home. I walked upstairs to the men's room between acts, and sitting on the can I noticed two cats blowing each other in the next stall. Somehow I can't imagine that having happened at the Cow Palace in 1966. The transfiguration of wet pants has come – She blew my nose, and then she blew my mind . . . closer and farther away. Mick kept trying to catch it.
They did "Love In Vain," one of the most beautiful of all the songs by the great Robert Johnson. It was a triumph. Mick Taylor handled the break with a finesse of his emotion, and Jagger used the spaces of the tragic blues to summon up all of his power: "The blue light . . . was mah bay-bee . . . and the red light . . . was my mind . . . "
And it's hard to tell and
It's hard to tell and
It's hard to tell . . .
All my love's in vain . . .
The music got better and better and the applause was just applause. Into and out of "I'm Free," a rollicking "Under My Thumb" with Mick breaking loose on stage and still looking for his audience. Kids were moving down the aisles, sort of wandering along, as if they hoped no one would notice. They were eagerly and persistently hustled back by the floor crew. The guard near me was an old black man with a tam-o'-shanter. Would have been a respectable job for Hayakawa.
"Slowly rocking on," as Mick put it, frowning, they went into their new numbers. "Midnight Rambler" was the first. It'll rank with "Sympathy for the Devil," "Salt of the Earth" and "Goin' Home" as a Stones classic. What an amazing song! On and on it went, Mick now looking the part his clothes had created, falling to his knees, the notes from the two guitars surround him and finally us – a dark, evil song, dripping with the spirit of the Rolling Stones. There was movement in the band, and the audience was on the edge of real excitement. Jesus! On the edge! It was that hard, even in the midst of such brilliance. "Live With Me" was next, beginning with the line, "I got nasty habits, baby . . . " Chuck Berry riffs flew in and out of the choruses, Mick spinning, clapping his hands, one-two-three-four over his shoulder, dipping his scarf low, forcing a memory of how fabulous he'd been in "Sympathy for the Devil" forty minutes before. "Yesss, pleased to meet you, baby" – whooshing into a mannered bow – "Hope you . . . guess my name . . . " And the concert was finally catching up with us. Then a dramatic, shouting "Gimme Shelter," Mick dancing faster, Keith Richard beginning to move out, and the place was getting itchy. A girl was bopping in her seat and the guard told her to stop. She didn't.
"I can't see anyone," yelled Mick. "We wanna see who we came to play for. Turn on the lights!" All the light went up and the aisles began to fill with real urgency. Mick played to the crowd, pushing them on. If he couldn't make them rush the stage, pushing to get to him, waving their arms and forcing everyone else to stand on their seats and wave their arms, then he'd have had it as MICK JAGGER OF THE ROLLING STONES. He'd be Mick Jagger, Movie Star, or Mick Jagger the Recording Artist, but that was not what it was about and that was not what mattered. And now, with the lights on, perhaps it was embarrassing to be calm and restrained, or perhaps the Stones were more real, out of the spotlight and just part of the celebration. But Mick had brought it off; he'd really had to do it himself.
"He could play a guitar just like ringing a bell," and Keith Richards can do that, but by this time he was playing as if a bomb had just gone off in Chuck Berry's bell-tower. Huge notes and titanic bursts of sound commanded the crowd up to the stage and pushed more people up against the vanguard as the Rolling Stones powered in to "Satisfaction." It was like a blur. Devils dancing on stage. No more feeling it out. The stage was showered with joints. The Stones flashed grins at each other and now that the big TV screen had faded the music seemed louder and you realized that some of the audience was really that close to grabbing Mick's scarf.
This wasn't any ritual that the Stones and the audience were acting out in respect for something that had happened years before. Mick and the band had reached for it and won. It was real . . . Bump-Bump-Da-Dump-Da-Dump-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis . . . The blur moved faster, Mick mincing beautifully, finally shooting his arm out in one motion and twirling it above his head in another: I met her on the boulevards of Paris . . . Keith bent down almost to his knees, shaking notes out while Mick Taylor carried the solo, Mick flying from one side of the stage to the other, whirling to a dead stop, grabbing the mike and blurting out more lines: The lady, she covered me with roses. . . .
They ended it past three-thirty in the morning with "Street Fighting Man." Jagger seemed to draw himself up over his own height as he gestured for the words – the hall was fully lit, as if we were stealing a thrill from someone's closed-door idea of what the concert was supposed to be. It got away. Mick waved his arms until the crowd waved back and then stepped to the edge of the stage and blew astonishing kisses – with both hands – to everyone. Mick Jagger singing with his rock and roll band – a glorious moment.
I knew it had really happened that way when I got home around five A.M. Pinned to the icebox was a note: "Just came by after the concert. Wasn't it great!!! We got within five feet of Mick!" And not without his help. In a way, that was the best part.
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The new Assuta Hospital was opened in 2009, and claims to be the most modern hospital in the middle east.
The Davidoff Center for the research and treatment of cancer is one of the most advanced facilities in the Middle East for the treatment of malignant diseases, delivering medical treatment to approximately 15% of Israel's cancer patients.
Deputy Head of the Davidoff Cancer Center's Department of Urology
A major medical center in Tel Aviv operating three hospitals under its lead, and serves as a teaching and research center as well.
The largest medical centre in Israel and the Middle East, internationally renowned for it's medical excellence. Around 31,000 inpatients are treated annually.
A private hospital located on the shorelines of Herzliya, just off Tel Aviv, offering healthcare services to both local and foreign patients. The hospital is affiliated with over 500 Israeli physicians, many of whom hold high level positions at public hospitals.
General Surgery, Oncological Surgery
One of the largest hospitals in Israel with 900 beds and 700 physicians. The hospital serves 1000 medical tourists annually, providing advanced medical care at the highest western standards.
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April 13, 2022 ( Wednesday of Holy Week )
Jesus spends a week in Jerusalem, and John tells us little about it. The other Gospels have Jesus in Jerusalem only in that week. John has Jesus going back and forth a few times over the course of three years. Jesus arrives for the Parade in John 12:12. from 21:13-50, Jesus talks with his disciples about a few things, including his death. Then chapter 13 is the Last Supper with the foot washing scene.
In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, they record all kinds of events and stories about Jesusin in the last week. Usually John is wordier, but here is not. But, the Last Supper is a really long scene for John. From chapter 13 through chapter 17 is Jesus telling the disciples many things. The other Gospels have mostly, the bread and the cup. No foot washing scene is included by them. The words here in John at the final meal, seem to be a summary of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Sit with John 12:27 today:
“Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!” —- words from Jesus of Nazareth.Jesus is telling his best friends that he is going to die. It is an awkward and not easy discussion for Jesus and his friends to have in Jerusalem. They had hoped for a different ending to the week. They were looking for a new Kingdom, and not death of their leader and Saviour. Sit with the disappointment felt by Peter, Andrew, James , John….. What would you have said to Jesus ?
Grace and peace for our community of faith and life.
Chaos in the winds
Scattering my troubled thoughts
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September 2, 2021
Hurricane Ida Remnants Update #3 (Final)
Last night the remnants of Hurricane Ida dropped inches of rain across the state bringing thunderstorms, tornado watches and warnings, power outages, flash flooding and road closures. Some portions of the state experienced record rainfall in excess of 3 inches of rain per hour and totaling over a foot of precipitation.
In Marlboro, while there were some localized incidents last night involving fallen trees and flooding which we responded to, overall, as a community, we fared relatively well.
At 10:00 pm last night, Governor Murphy declared a State of Emergency, allowing immediate assistance to towns in need. Although no driving ban is in place, many roads throughout New Jersey remain flooded and closed. If you do not have to drive, please stay off the roadways and allow crews to clear and open the roads. Do not drive through flooded roads and obey all detours and barricades.
Our thoughts are with the residents in Mullica Hill as they deal with the cleanup and restoration from the devastating tornado that ripped through their suburban area last night. This serves as a reminder that weather disasters can strike anywhere at any time. Please have a family plan in place by visiting Ready.nj.gov Hurricane Survival Guide.
Stay safe and have a good afternoon,
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Learn about the types of cutting systems that are available, the capabilities each variety provides, and the production issues you need to consider before selecting a system for your operation.
By Tom Kleeman
For many screen printers, the decision to invest in substrate-cutting equipment is inspired by the desire to add new products and attract new customers. But far too often, printers purchase cutting machinery with only their current or short-term needs in mind and don't consider how this equipment will fit in with their future products and production goals.
While simple cutting equipment may be all that some screen-printing companies ever require, other shops need equipment that is flexible enough to take on a broad range of applications and fast enough to keep pace if production demands should increase. To ensure that the right machine is selected for the applications and the production environment, it's important to understand the pros and cons of the various cutting machines available today. Finding the right piece of equipment is a key step in streamlining finishing operations and realizing the greatest efficiency--and profitability--from the cutting process.
Available cutting equipment
The term diecutting applies to systems that use a steel-rule or hard-tooled die to cut materials, but other cutting systems are also available that screen printers may consider. The various cutting machinery offered today falls into six general categories:
* clamshell diecutting presses
* flatbed diecutting presses
* rotary diecutting presses
* gap diecutting presses
* cutting plotters
* laser cutting systems
For jobs with relatively loose requirements for cut-to-print registration, clamshell diecutting presses are still quite popular. These presses are generally hand-fed, so high-tonnage presses are most desirable. The high tonnage makes it possible to cut more pieces per press cycle, which helps offset the labor time associated with manually loading and unloading substrates on the press.
Like clamshell presses, flatbed diecutting presses are also good for situations where you need high output but have relatively low requirements for cut-to-print registration. These machines, some of which support automated material-feeding systems, usually use wide-format steel-rule dies and can cut a large number of parts simultaneously. Specific job requirements (the type of material to be cut, internal features such as creases or perforations, part perimeters, etc.) determine if low- or high-tonnage flat-bed presses are required.
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In April this year the national living wage (NLW) was introduced by the government with the aim of increasing living standards for UK workers and subsequently reducing the burden on the benefits system.
The burden on employers to balance the requirements of increasing mandatory legislation, however, has certainly increased in the short-term. The introduction of the NLW has obvious cost-implications for companies in terms of staff pay, but also places additional administrative requirements on businesses, such as a need to review HR systems and update payrolls accordingly.
A Resolution Foundation report last year highlighted the magnitude of the impact of the NLW, stating that the rise from the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of £6.70 to the NLW of £7.20 represented a 7.5% nominal increase, the largest seen since 2004. In addition, the report highlighted the possible ‘spill-over’ effect of the NLW where higher earning staff might expect a pay increase to reflect the historic difference in pay levels when compared to staff on the new NLW.
In the wake of these cost implications famous brand names have hit the headlines with B&Q reporting to have forced staff to sign away additional benefits, whilst the waiting staff at Zizzi have allegedly had the amount they earn from tips cut. These reports are just a sample of many that claim employers are removing or cutting staff benefits as a method of compensating for the increased spending on staff salaries. Whilst the legality of any changes to remuneration, benefits or working hours will ordinarily be rooted in employees’ contracts of employment and will be specific to each individual employer, age discrimination affects all employers equally. It's an area that, once again, has been thrown into the spotlight following the introduction of the NLW.
The NLW only applies to workers age 25 and over, effectively creating a two-tier pay system with employees entitled to either the NLW or the NMW based on their age. Could employers to be tempted to favour the under 25’s in recruitment exercises and to consider dismissing older workers in order to avoid the NLW? Such policies would be in serious danger of falling foul of age discrimination legislation; an employees’ age is a ‘protected characteristic’ under the Equality Act and any action that adversely affects an employee by virtue of their age will be discriminatory.
Such discriminatory actions can be justified in certain circumstances. To defend a policy that is discriminatory as regards to age, employers need to demonstrate that they are pursuing a legitimate aim, such as promoting access to employment for younger people or facilitating the participation of older workers in the workforce. Employers may feel that the increased costs of the NLW are a sufficient reason to, for example, reduce the staff headcount of those eligible for the NLW, but case law tell us that using cost as a justification is not enough to avoid being caught by the age discrimination legislation.
In addition to the legal ramifications of age discrimination, employers will want to avoid the reputational damage that circumventing the ‘spirit’ of the NLW might cause; the government has previously called for employers to be ‘publically shamed’ who have cut overtime and bonuses in relation to the NLW.
Employers should therefore avoid:
- implementing a recruitment policy that favours under 25s;
- unilaterally imposing a cut in benefits/pay;
- factoring in NLW eligibility in redundancy exercises; and
- dismissing any employee on the basis that they are eligible for the NLW.
Yet the NLW is here to stay and is forecast to reach £9.02 by 2020. So what options are available to employers to help alleviate the cost burden of the NLW without incorporating any discriminatory practices?
The CIPD has suggested that employers should see staff pay as an ‘investment rather than an expense’ and encourages employers to think laterally when it comes to alleviating costs. Rather than slashing benefits/incentive schemes across the board, employers could examine the take-up of particular schemes and potentially withdraw schemes that do not appear to have a high uptake. In addition, a focus on creative ways to improve productivity would help mitigate costs and chimes well with the intention of the NLW - to stop the perceived cycle of ‘low - pay, low productivity’ in the UK.
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Ruth Mosko Handler unveils Barbie Doll
At the International American Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959, inventor Ruth Mosko Handler unveiled one of the most loved, emulated, and criticized toys of the 20th century. The Barbie Doll, named after Handler's 15-year-old daughter, and modeled after a sex toy called Lilli, which Handler had seen on a trip to Germany, rocketed the Mattel company to nearly overnight success and became an icon of American culture.
Although Barbie has been roundly condemned by feminists as promoting an unrealistic body shape to young girls, Handler originally conceived the doll as a way for girls to imagine their futures as adult women. "I believed it was important to a little girl's self-esteem," she later said, "to play with a doll that has breasts." The development of the doll was also influenced by Handler's daughter's preference for adult paper dolls over the baby dolls that then dominated the toy market.
Although it was Mattel's first big success, the Barbie Doll was not the beginning of Handler's career as an inventor. While working at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Handler first went into business with her husband producing picture frames. Mattel, named for Handler's husband and a business partner, was incorporated in 1945. In its early years, the company produced a toy ukulele and toy guns; it was among the first to market toys directly to children, sponsoring a year's run of the Mickey Mouse Club television show. After the runaway success of Barbie, the company added Ken, named after Handler's son, and later additional dolls named for Handler's grandchildren.
After losing a breast to cancer in 1970, and leaving Mattel in 1975, Handler turned her attention to helping other breast cancer survivors. Unhappy with the available breast prostheses, she invented her own, which she sold through a new company called Nearly Me.
Handler received numerous awards for her accomplishments. The Los Angeles Times named her "Woman of the Year" in Business in 1967, the United Jewish Appeal named her its first "Woman of Distinction," and the Toy Industry Hall of Fame inducted her in 1985.
Ruth Mosko Handler died in 2002. Although often a subject of satire and social criticism, Barbie lives on, with more than 100 million sold annually. Professional outfits and ethnic Barbies have updated the original, but the grown-up doll continues to entrance both young girls and older collectors.
Sources:Ruth Mosko Handler, Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story (Stamford, CT, 1994); www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/handler.htm; Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 591-592; M.G. Lord, Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (New York, 1994); Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1967, December 15, 1967; New York Times, April 29, 2002.
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Definition of Anostraca
1. Noun. Small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Branchiopoda, Subclass Branchiopoda
Member holonyms: Artemia, Chirocephalus, Genus Artemia, Genus Chirocephalus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anostraca
Literary usage of Anostraca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
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I know there are many online resources for introducing and practicing math skills for preks-Ks, but how do you go about implementing math with your little ones during your daily activities. I'll share with you that one of my 4yro daughters responsibilities as a Happy Helper is too fill the hallway drawer with baby diapers. She and I talk about how many diapers we know will fit in there neatly, then we see how many are still in there (if any) and we do the math together on our fingers. We also count often, it seems everything needs counting with my pre-ks, lol. We also take note of pairs of things and patterns.
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What is a Grain Bag?
A Grain Bag is simply a long PE (polyethylene) bag that comes in sizes of;
9 ft. x 200 ft. with a capacity of around 8,200 bushels of wheat or 8,000 bushel of corn. (empty bag weight is 270 lbs.)
9 ft. x 250 ft. with a capacity of around 10,260 bushels of wheat or 10,000 bushels of corn. (empty bag weight is 335 lbs.)
*Amount varies with moisture content, specific weight and bagger pressure settings.
The bag is sealed airtight with a life of 1 to 1.5 years in the open, preventing the development and reproduction of fungus and insect. This airtight environment can eliminate the need for chemicals with an average bag cost of 7¢ cents per bushel of stored grain.
These unique Grain Bags allow for storage amounts to vary by simply cutting the bag and resealing it again.
What makes Grain Bags unique?
The Grain Bag is a laminated mix of three layers of polyethylene, with the first two layers acting as a UV filter. The third layers is black and is designed to keep out the sunlight.
The bags are designed to stretch to a maximum of 10% measured during the filling process to prevent overfilling.
The unique, specialized-design of Grain Bags allow for storage versatility, whether in the field where harvesting is taking place or a grain storage site, as long as the bags are placed on clean ground with good drainage and free of sharp objects.
How do you fill a Grain Bag?
The Grain Bags are filled by a specially designed bag-filling machine that can be filled from the combine, grain cart or similar types of machinery.
The loading capacity of the filling machine is about 7,000 bushels per hour depending on the grain type.
How do you unload a Grain Bag?
The Grain Bag is emptied by a machine that rolls the bag up as it augers the grain out at up to 7,000 bushels per hour.
This E180T Akron unloader can be used to empty bags of fertilizers.
Grain Bag Storage System Advantages
The harvest will not be delayed waiting for storage to become available on farm or elsewhere.
The Grain Bag can be put in the field where harvesting is taking place or anywhere on the farm.
Grains can be stored as to their variety, grade, protein, and moisture or for any other reason.
Bag cost of 7¢ cents per bushel of stored grain.
The high price of freight during harvest can be avoided by negotiating a freight rate on a back load or by shopping around for after harvest rates.
Grain can be freighted after harvest, freeing up time during harvest.
Quality Assurance Control.
The opportunity to grow, store and market, niche crops on farm.
Grains retain their quality, including color.
Gives the producer control and time to market the crop.
Hasty decisions on pricing your commodities at harvest when pricing can be complicated and can cost you money.
Marketing your commodity knowing that you have the crop in the bag rather than before harvest, hoping you can achieve the bushels to fill contracts.
Storage in a bumper season is unlimited.
The Grain Bags are sealed airtight, therefore chemicals are not required. No withholding period.
Perfect for organic commodities.
Reduced reliance on chemicals helping to delay resistance.
Eliminated costly on farm storage systems, tying up capital.
Flexibility at all times from harvest to marketing and feeding of commodity.
The equipment that makes Grain Bag a System
We can put together the correct equipment to meet your specific needs. Click below to learn more about each product.
Akron Baggers & Unloaders
Mainero Baggers & Unloaders
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Akron Baggers & Unloaders
Akron baggers and Akron unloader models
The Akron 9250 grain bagger's user friendly features:
Disc Brakes...the dual hydraulic brakes are controlled by a single crank. This simple crank and pressure gauge ensures the bagger to move straight and fill the bag evenly.
Bag loader...the self-contained bag loader mechanism prevents climbing on the tunnel to install the bag.
The Akron EH 180T bag unloader... will load out over 7000 bushels/hr. This heavy duty, roll-up style unloader will even load out fertilizer. The EH 180 empties the bag while rolling up the bag on an on-board, hydraulic powered roller. Lights are standard equipment.
The Akron EG 180T bag unloader...can move from field to transport quicker and unloads at 6000 bushels/hr. The 16" auger hydraulically folds down for more compact transporting.
Mainero Baggers & Unloaders
Mainero baggers and Mainero unloader models
The Mainero 2230 grain bagger's user friendly features:
Disc Brakes...The dual hydraulic brake pressure control is regulated by one single valve. This constant and even pressure controls the bagger so it moves straight and fills the bag evenly.
Over-sized Hopper...The filling hopper can be offset to load grain in hopper more easily. The see-through window on the filling hopper makes for easy viewing while filling bagger.
"Easy-load Bag system...Mainero utilizes a self contained bag loader mechanism for easy, fast & safer bag loading; no climbing on a slippery bag tunnel to install bag.
Self-propelled option available
The Mainero 2330 unloader...the ultimate flat storage unloader has over 4500 bu./hr. capacity. The 2330 can empty bags or flat storage.
Once the grain is bagged, the bag consumes the available oxygen and produces carbon dioxide, thus suppressing the respiratory process and assuring an optimum preservation. This new atmosphere keeps stable over time, preventing the development and proliferation of fungi and insects as well as the increase in grain temperature. Some grains can be stored in airtight bags at slightly higher moisture levels than what is considered safe for storage in bins.
IpesaSilo grain bags are made of state-of-the-art raw materials from Dow Polisur; three-layer UV protected; 18-month warranty; and not any recycled material in their formulation.
Dry grains: soybean, corn, sorghum, wheat, sunflower, millet, oats, rice, barley, etc.
Wet grains: corn, sorghum, wheat, etc.
Technical Papers on Storage of Grains:
Corn (known as "Maize" outside of the US) - Soybeans - Wheat - Sunflowers
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Grand Island, Nebraska 68801
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The Guardian’s Business blog team are live-blogging events following the ‘bolt from the blue’ that was the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou calling for a referendum on the ‘rescue package’. And there’s an emergency Greek government cabinet meeting at 4pm [GMT].
BBC business editor, and still everyone’s hero, Robert Peston, looks at “the price of Greek democracy”.
Opinion polls wouldn’t suggest there’s a high probability of Mr Papandreou winning the day. But views can change.
What’s in it for the Greek people? Well, their country is to receive an additional 100bn euro of bailout loans, so that it can continue to pay its bills. And there is a non-binding agreement with banks to cut what the Greek government has to repay them by half.
But this rescue package will deliver only a modest reduction in the back-achingly heavy burden of Greek indebtedness.
Even if all goes to plan in a fiscal sense – and it hasn’t done that in Greece for years – the ratio of public-sector debt to GDP in Greece would still be 120% in 2020.
Which is still a good 20 percentage points above the ratio considered the upper limit for what would allow private sector and economy to thrive.
Or to put it another way, the rescue does not promise a bright new dawn for Greece any time soon. Or to put it another way, the only way for the referendum to be won by Mr Papandreou would be for him to demonstrate that the alternatives are far worse.
For the rest of the world, those alternatives look shockingly bad.
They could include, in no particular order of probability or potentially devastating impact on the stability of financial market, default by Greece, exit by Greece from the eurozone or a much more generous rescue deal.
It’s that final possibility that has the Guardian’s Larry Elliot suggesting that “Papandreou is in a stronger position than people think.”
The second thing in Papandreou’s favour is that if Europe is a problem for Greece then Greece is actually an even bigger problem for Europe. If ever there was a case of “when you owe the bank €1000 you have a problem but when you owe €100bn the bank has a problem” then this is it. The question for Greece’s partners in the single currency and for the International Monetary Fund is whether they want to push the Greeks so hard that they vote no to the deal, or whether they are prepared to soften the terms in order to safeguard against a disorderly default and all that implies.
My hunch is that even if the Greeks vote no then it will still get enough money to prevent it defaulting because the stakes for the rest of Europe are so high. Europe does not have a Plan B in the event of a Greek default. Let’s be honest, it still doesn’t have a fully worked out Plan A. It needs time to get its act together (assuming that it is actually possible) and will probably be prepared to buy time by making life easier for the Greeks.
Perhaps… As BBC Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, notes
The referendum will only be held after the details of the latest deal with the EU are worked out.
That, of course, will enable the Greek government to barter for softer terms in the hope that may sway the voters.
The Greek government has become adept at playing Europe’s leaders.
On the one hand they plead for European solidarity; on the other they know that a Greek default is feared because it could spark contagion in the eurozone.
Except that, as Robert Peston goes on to point out
This might be the least worst option, but it would be painful for eurozone taxpayers and banks.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, European stock markets have tumbled – and shares in big banks are down around 10% or so.
All or any of these frightening scenarios would make it harder and more expensive for European banks to borrow – which has negative implications for European economic recovery and (in a worst case) could see a few banks falling over.
Nor is it especially comforting that Mr Papandreou’s government could tumble before a referendum. Any immediate general election would be the equivalent of a plebiscite on the bailout deal, and would therefore be just as destabilising to markets.
All that said, last week’s eurozone rescue package could unravel long before political events in Greece take their course.
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The SnapSling is a universal sling that weighs 10 oz (300 grams) and goes anywhere you go--because it doubles as a belt.
We combine 2" webbing and two industrial loops (rated at 5,000 lbs each) to create a strong, versatile sling that doubles as a belt.
Use it when you are unexpectedly under load. When it's your belt, it's always handy.
- You run out of gas. The nearest gas station is a few miles away. Hand carrying a heavy gas can is going to get old after half a mile.
- Your kid is riding his bike and you’re walking with him. He gets tired and doesn’t want to ride anymore. The bike is too small for you to ride, too low for you to push comfortably, and uncomfortable to carry as-is.
- You’re portaging a canoe. Some guys put it on their heads and others team up and each grab a side. Neither technique is comfortable or efficient.
- You are on the third floor of a burning building and need to escape out the window. You found 20’ of rope. You need an emergency Swiss seat and a carabiner.
- You’re biking on the trail, fall, and bend your wheel so bad that the bike no longer rolls. You’ve got to carry it back.
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1. Indian-origin Ashok-Alexander Sridharan sworn in as mayor of Bonn in Germany
Indian-origin Ashok-Alexander Sridharan sworn in as the mayor of Bonn in Germany. Bonn is the 18th most populated city in Germany and the provisional capital of erstwhile West Germany.
Sridharan was elected to the office as a candidate of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party in an election held in September 2015.
With this win, Sridharan became the first Person of Indian Origin (PIO) to be elected as the mayor of a major city in the country.
Further, he also became the city’s first mayor from an immigrant background.
It was for the first time in 21 years that a candidate from the CDU won the Bonn mayoral election leaving the Social Democratic Party (SPD) out in the cold.
2. US President designated Brett McGurk as Envoy to US-led coalition fighting ISIS
US President Barack Obama on 23 October 2015 designated veteran Iraq expert Brett McGurk as Special Presidential Envoy to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS). President Obama described McGurk as one of his most trusted advisers on Iraq.
He succeeded General John Allen who will retire from the post on 12 November 2015. Allen played a key role in trying to hold together the disparate 65-member coalition and steps down after a year marked by setbacks, policy reversals and increasing regional chaos.
3. Nasser Khan Janjua appointed as National Security Advisor of Pakistan
Retired Lieutenant General Nasser Khan Janjua has been appointed as the new National Security Advisor (NSA) of Pakistan. He will take the charge from Sartaj Aziz who was earlier holding dual offices of NSA and Adviser on Foreign Affairs with status of a federal minister. Now Mr. Aziz will only concentrate on foreign affairs. Janjua’s immediate task will be to concentrate on security ties with Afghanistan in the west and India in the east.
4. Indian mountaineers climbed an untouched mountain peak, named it after APJ Abdul Kalam
Two mountaineers Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar in third week of October 2015 created history by becoming first people to climb 6180 meter high unnamed peak in Himachal’s Spiti Valley. The duo named the peak as Mout Kalam, in honour of former President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam.
Newly named Mt. Kalam is located near Bara Shigri Glacier, largest glacier located in Himachal Pradesh. Bara-Sigri glacier is the second longest glacier in Himalaya after Gangotri both are around 30 km long.
Vajpai and Kumar hailing from Noida and Bulandshahr respectively started the expedition on 8 October 2015 from Noida and completed the climb on 14 October 2015 and hoisted the Indian national flag. They returned back on ground on 20 October 2015.
5. Justin Trudeau Elected as Prime Minister of Canada
Canada’s Conservative leader was ousted in a national vote Monday after almost a decade in power, as voter discontent and a souring economy helped the son of long-serving Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sweep into the top office.
Justin Trudeau’s centrist Liberal Party secured a majority government, with his party elected in 184 of the 338 districts across the country, after a hard-fought contest with incumbent Stephen Harper.
6. First World Indigenous Games begins in Palmas, Brazil
The lavish opening ceremony of the multi-sport event was attended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The first of its kind international multi-sport event will involve around 2000 indigenous athletes belonging to different indigenous ethnic groups from 30 countries. Participants from countries like Ethiopia, Brazil, Mongolia, Australia, Philippines, Russia, Ethiopia and New Zealand are participating. The first World Indigenous Games will host sporting events like archery, canoeing, spear tossing and a race through the forest. Besides, non-competitive events will be also hosted to showcase different traditions of indigenous ethnic groups.
7. Hurricane Patricia batters Mexico as one of strongest storms ever
Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts. Hours after making landfall, the storm weakened but still packed winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour). There were no reported casualties and officials said the damage might not be as catastrophic as feared.
Patricia slammed into a stretch of sparsely populated coastline near the popular beach getaway of Puerto Vallarta, where 15,000 tourists were evacuated to avoid torrential rain and potentially lethal winds. There was flooding in parts of the city, though it escaped the worst of the immensely powerful storm. Visitors and residents weathered the hurricane's onslaught in emergency shelters hoping it would not do as much damage as the last storm of this magnitude, Typhoon Haiyan, which killed thousands of people in the Philippines in 2013.
While still out to sea as a Category 5 hurricane, Patricia blew furious winds of 200 mph (322 kph). "The winds are really strong. It's amazing, even the cars are moving," said Laura Barajas, a 30-year-old hotel worker from the port of Manzanillo, close to where the storm reached land. | <urn:uuid:0fa98406-a344-42d4-94c0-86356c482f94> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.examguruadda.in/2015/10/current-affairs-of-24-october-2015.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00489-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962949 | 1,129 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The model that Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum propose consists of two four dimensional (Minkowskian) branes, bounding a five dimensional bulk between them. In their initial model the branes are very close together; this is not a "large extra dimensions" model. The motivation of the model is to explain the hierarchy problem. One of the branes is called the Weakbrane; it is the home of the particles of the standard model and their interactions. The other brane is the Gravitybrane and on it are defined the bosonic (non-supersymmetric) string theory gravitons; each of them is a vibration mode of a closed bosonic string. Each brane is at a characteristic energy, the Weakbrane as its name indicates is at the Weak energy scale, around a TEV, and the Gravitybrane is at the much higher string energy scale. The graviton, in traditional Randall-Sundrum fashion, can leave its brane and roam the five dimensional bulk space between the branes, Now in Einstein's physics, energy curves geometry, and both of these branes carry energy, so the geometry of the bulk between them is curved. This can be calculated from Einstein's equations in five dimensions. Randall in her book characterizes this curvature as the kind technically known as a warp. This means that sections taken within the bulk but parallel to the branes have the same geometry as the branes (i.e. "flat" Minkowskian), but differ by a scale factor, again having the technical name "warp factor" (hello Mr. Spock!). The definition of size actually differs from section to section! (hello, Alice in Wonderland!). The effect of the curved geometry is to alter the probabiity of finding a graviton (from distortion of its wave function); it is high near the Gravitybrane and low near the Weakbrane. I want to emphasize that this behavior is all deduced from the specification of the model; the curvature is calculated from Einstein's equations applied to the known brane energy, and the graviton wave function is calculated within the curvature. This graviton behavior provides the explanation of the hierarchy problem. From the book Warped Passages page 393: There is another consequence of the warp scaling in the bulk: from page 398: After Randall and Sundrum published this model, physicist Alex Pomerol suggested that it could account for the unification of the forces at high energies as well as the hierarchy problem. In Pomerol's version of the model the particles of the standard model travel through the bulk, and he shows the high energy behavior of the forces converge. He uses supersymmetry (as in the older Randall-Sundrum model) to address the hierarchy problem. But Randall shows you can get both unification and hierarchy without any supersymmetry if you only restrict the Higgs boson to the Weakbrane and let all the other standard model particles wander the bulk. Now in particuar note the graviton. Each graviton in the five dimensional bulk will have a five-momentum, and some of them will have five-momenta that have zero component orthogonal to the fifth dimension. The wave function of such a particle will have four-components in the Weakbrane that will have zero three-momentum and will therefore appear there as mass. So an interacting particle with mass about the TEV scale of Weakbrane physics is predicted to be detectable at the LHC. But there's more. The momentum of the graviton can have a quantized spactrum coming from vibration modes of the closed string as wound some number of times around the topology of the compacted manifolds. So these LHC particles will have a very characteristic mass spectrum of TEV, 2TEV, 3TEV, and so on. She can also calculate that unlike the free graviton, these particles are not as suppressed by the curved geometry; their interaction probability is 16 orders of magnitude higher than the free graviton (p. 408). How will the physics of these particle appear at LHC? On page 409 of her book Randall shows a (pop) Feynmann diagram: two protons collide and a quark interacts with an antiquark at the TEV energy scale producing one of these particles (along with jets of other particles), which then decays into something else, in her diagram an electron and a positron. The key here is the energy spectrum of the interaction; it should show the characteristic TEV, 2TEV, 3TEV, etc. pattern. Also all these particles will inherit spin 2 from the graviton and that will be an earmark. So an early show up might be the lowest level of them, about a TEV of energy and spin 2. Notice that although Randall likes to distinguish herself from some of the more fancy-dan string thorists, her whole model is built out of basic string theory. So it's not really true to say that "string theory predicts nothing", this little piece of it predicts explixit observable physics. And this model, at least is eminently falsifiable. | <urn:uuid:2633387e-5eb0-4243-aa38-e8a62e9008ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/randall-sundrum-observable-particles-at-lhc.119294/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00394-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930341 | 1,056 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Say Their Names
Thank you to everyone that has helped make these biographies available including:
LHAMAR Members and Lake Highlands High School National Honor Society
Aaron M. Campbell lived in Portland, Oregon. He was a father and a beloved son. Aaron had just recently lost his brother to heart and kidney disease and was suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts.
Abdirahman Salad was 15 years old at the time of his death. On a GoFundMe page to support the family his elder sister, Fatuma, said that Mr. Salad w as a "great brother and our oldest brother out of our 11 siblings." Neither of Mr. Salad's parents speak English and his dad is blind, so this contributed to the feeling that the family had of being voiceless and hopeless in seeking answers. A teacher described him as nice and respectful. A classmate described Mr. Salad, a Columbus, OH resident, as a good kid hanging around not so good people. Mr. Salad attended Horizon Science Academy and was reportedly assigned to the National Youth Advocate Program, an emergency shelter in the area, as he was having some troubles with the law.
The Thiam family moved from Mbour, Senegal (West Africa) in 2008 and lived in their Memphis home for seven years. Mr. Thiam was a Sheffield High School graduate who played soccer and spent a great deal of time with his father. His father says his son was a hard worker and always did what he was told. The family isn’t sure what led to the shooting. They say Thiam was outside at the time and his brother was inside the house when the police arrived. The family also stated Mr. Thiam had been given a mental health evaluation the prior year and was on medication as a result.
Abram Onkgopotse Tiro
Mr. Tiro was born in Dinokana, a small village near Zeerust North West Province, South Africa. He had 2 brothers and 1 sister, and his family greatly influenced his leadership skills at a young age. He was a hard worker, and participated early in life in student government. Mr. Tiro was a South African student activist and militant, with a lifelong commitment to advancing rights. He was expelled from the University of Limpopo in 1972 for his political activities, as he became an active member of the South African Student Organisation, out of which the Black Consciousness Movement grew. Following his expulsion, in 1972, he produced a scathing critique of the Bantu Education Act of 1953, and went on to teach history at Morris Isaacson High School near and around Central Western Jabavu (CWJ) in Soweto in 1973. Tsietsi Mashinini, who was an integral part of the 1976 student uprising, was one of Tiro's students during the time he taught at Morris Isaacson, and many of his students have recalled his impact on their own politicization during this period of student organization in South African history.
Addie May Collins
Addie Mae Collins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 18, 1949. She attended the 16th Street Baptist Church with her parents, Julius and Alice, as well as her six siblings. On the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, 14-year-old Collins was in the 16th Street Baptist Church basement room with a group of other children when a bomb went off.
Ahmaud Arbery was born and raised in Brunswick, GA. He graduated from Brunswick High School in 2012. He attended South Georgia Technical College to train for a career as an Electrician. He is survived by his mother, father, his brother and sister, many extended family members, and loving friends. Family and friends describe Ahmaud (nicknamed "Maud" by some) as humble, hardworking, and loyal. He loved sports, especially Football and Baseball, and always wore the number 21 on his jersey, which was passed down to him from his older brother. Friends said Ahmaud would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, and had a smile that lit up the room.
Mr. Gurley was born in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, then moved to New York City. He lived in nearby Brownsville with his partner, Kimberly Ballinger, her daughter, and their two-year-old daughter, Akaila.
Alexia was an Atlanta native and mother of 2 young boys. Her mom, Felecia, and sister, Ramada, spoke out about her tragic death. Women on the Rise and other members of her community came together to remember Alexia and speak out for justice.
Mr. Olango arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Uganda in 1991. He was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1978. Mr. Olango first came to New York with his mother and eight siblings as refugees in 1991. He married in 2001, having one child with his wife at the time. He worked at Toro manufacturing and McDonald's, and he hoped to one day open his own restaurant.
Alonzo Smith was a 27-year-old black man. He worked as an elementary school Special Education teacher. Smith lived in Southeast Washington and was the father of a 6-year-old boy. He also had two sisters, Shelita Smith and LaDon Thomas. Smith had a strong relationship with his mother, Beverly Smith, who also acted as his strongest advocate after his death and fought for justice to be served for her son. | <urn:uuid:85515ef1-6f6d-4066-9173-43073202bdf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lhamar.org/say-their-names | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.992845 | 1,161 | 1.898438 | 2 |
log4j - Useful Resources
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Useful Links on log4j
log4j - Official website of log4j, Apache Logging Services Project - Apache log4j.
log4j @ Wikipedia - A short tutorial available at wikipedia.
Sun's Site on JDBC - Sun Developer Network giving link on JDBC material.
MySQL Connector/J - MySQL Connector/J is the official JDBC driver for MySQL.
Useful Books on log4j
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Love and hope inspire a tale of the Goldfields
Choice and destiny are the underlying themes woven through the pages of a riveting tale of love and hope set in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder raised author Shirley Patton’s burning desire to move from her academic career as a published researcher to a fiction writer caused the Tasmanian-based author to delve back into her Goldfields roots.
Patton, who had not been to Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about a decade, has returned to WA’s gold mining hub to launch her debut novel, The Secrets We Keep, at Collins Booksellers on Wilson Street tonight.
Speaking with the Kalgoorlie Miner, Patton said she was inspired to base the story in Kalgoorlie-Boulder because of a lifelong connection with the area.
“When I started writing this book, I was feeling quite nostalgic,” she said.
“I was looking where I wanted to set the novel and I realised I had a lot of positive memories and I knew every building and every street — it was almost imprinted on my skin.
“When I was writing it, it felt as if I was walking the streets ... I was looking at the buildings and I could see the bush. “Thank goodness that it has come out as a sense of place, which the publisher felt was almost like another character in the book.”
The Secrets We Keep follows social worker Aimee, who arrives in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in pursuit of a fresh start.
She quickly realises a dark secret she holds close is somehow connected to the Goldfields.
Patton attributes beloved WA writer Tim Winton’s 1991 multi-award winning novel Cloudstreet, based in Perth, as her motivation to weave her story around Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
“Readers are going to find themselves in it,” she said.
“When I found somebody wrote a book about a place where I had walked or where I’d been, I got so excited.
“I am hoping that people that read it will feel that same connection in knowing ‘that’s my street, that’s my town and that’s where I went to school’.
“I hope people feel a sense that I’ve honoured the town.
“People are really strong and resilient in Kalgoorlie and they are in this book.”
Patton invited Kalgoorlie-Boulder residents to tonight’s launch at Collins Booksellers from 5.30pm.
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Troiano: What we're going to talk about is going to be kind of a review. And I like to just kind of point out some things which are important to practice.
Fixation of ankle fractures. Understanding the fixation of the ankle fracture means that we have to understand the anatomy. Now the anatomy, realistically, there's a lot of moving parts. It seems pretty simple like some of the pictures that Dr. Williams [phonetic] showed. Otherwise, screws are in great position; hardware is in great position. But when you think about it, the foot and ankle are very difficult to operate on. Because any other part that you operate on, you don't then put into a shoe on a 200-pound person and then say, âNow go carry me all around Las Vegas on the stripâ, right? If you operate on someone's neck, they cannot use the neck. Even a hand or what have you, they cannot favor it. But in actuality, if you operate on the foot and ankle, itâs a very difficult thing because itâs ever evolving and changing with activity, with weight, with shoe gear, and any stretch of that person's lifestyle. So understanding the anatomy, not just the bones, but also the soft tissue and what's occurring, is paramount to fixing any broken ankle.
Third malleolus, a trimalleolar fracture; something that I want to point out for a second. This is the posterior malleolus. So when you think of medial malleolus, lateral malleolus, you have to really concentrate on that posterior malleolus. Why? Well posterior malleolus, we were all taught in school, if it's not broken by about a third, you don't have to fix it. Anything greater than a third, you should fix it. But I've seen ankle fractures even when a fifth of the ankle joint has been disturbed, that the talus can recess posteriorly and actually sublux. So posterior malleolus is in proportion to the ankle because of the sets [phonetic] [0:01:50] ligament, because of the posterior capsule, because of the FHL that runs there. So there's a lot of rethinking of when to fix the posterior malleolus, going forward.
But it's really the injury due to the pull of PITFL, posterior aspect of the syndesmosis. And if you have injury to the posterior aspect of the syndesmosis and you don't fix the posterior malleolus, then you can expect bad things to happen. In other words, what looks good on the table, if you don't fix that posterior malleolus, the rear portion of the syndesmosis opens and then you start to stress the deltoid ligament. You get some of that stress on the medial malleolus, and that's how you create your nonunion.
Here's another one. While the lateral collateral ligaments are injured frequently in ankle sprains, they are the least injured ligaments in an ankle fracture. So that's not to say that it doesn't happen. But by and large when you see someone with the fibular fracture, it's usually the bone or the ligaments. It's not both. So if a fibular fracture, probably not the ligament. If the ligament, probably not the fibular fracture. With the exception obviously of the Maisonneuve fracture which we're going to get into.
The syndesmotic ligaments will stabilize the ankle mortise, alright. And I'm going to give a lecture after this about the syndesmosis. It's a half an hour lecture, again, that we're going to try to condense, but syndesmosis is paramount to fixing an ankle fracture. For some reason what I'm seeing more and more in the younger generation of surgeons coming out, is the syndesmosis is not fixed so many times. In other words, they inspect the syndesmosis and if there's a little bit of spring or what have you, they usually leave it alone. But rupture of syndesmosis leads to diastasis. Diastasis is going to tax the repair of your ankle fracture.
Alright, so bone healing. Dr. Williams did a great job of going through the stages of bone healing, so I'm not going to belabor it. But what I usually tell patients is you get a clot within that first 1-3 days, very similar to a nosebleed clot. That clot at about three days starts to turn into the consistency of an Italian ice or water ice [phonetic] [0:04:04]. After that Italian ice phase which is the fibrocartilaginous phase, 10 days to six weeks, we start to get a paste before we get to the epoxy.
So the earliest that you want to really start weightbearing someone is that about the four-week to five-week period, because that paste is starting to develop and this is a good time to cyclically load or dynamize the fracture to get the bone a little bit harder. So I would not weight-bear before four weeks, if you can avoid it.
With that said, early range of motion is obviously one of tenets of AO which we will go into soon. But range of motion is paramount as early as possible. As soon as the sutures come out or the staples come out, I would start your range of motion. I usually tell patients to do the alphabet. I tell them if you are watching a television show, take your CAM Walker off and just start with capital letter A, capital letter B, capital letter C, all the way through any commercial break. And then next commercial break, do it again, non-weightbearing of course.
Types of osseous repair, itâs direct and indirect. So indirect goes through hematoma, cartilage and callus ossification, and usually happens when the fracture is unstably fixed. Direct is the preferred way because it's more predictable. There's a cutting cone, stable fixations imparted, and it's not faster. There's just less torus. So the torus is the big haymaker here. Torus is that kind of bone callus that has to remodel over time. How many of us have seen the second metatarsal fracture? That's a stress fracture. It goes on to heal unremarkably, and the person has this big swelling in the middle of their foot because the second metatarsal fracture starts to impede the nerves on both sides. They start to get neuropathy or painful neuroma. So when you're aiming for surgical stability, you're looking for direct healing, because it's more predictable.
So primary versus secondary bone healing, again, not to belabor the point. They're separate processes, one is not better than the other. It's just the more stable, or direct primary bone healing is a lot more predictable.
Here's a good picture of the cutting cone. You can see the advancing of the cutting cone, the osteoclasts come through an âAâ forming resorption cavities. By the time you start to see âCâ, you start to see deposition of the osteoblasts in the reversal zone. And then the closing cone is the maturation and remodeling of bone. And this wave of cutting cone will go right across your fixation and you can literally see it happen microscopically as time goes on. So again, bony union, full six to eight weeks for the cutting cone across the primary bone repair to migrate.
Secondary bone healing; again, you get a hematoma. There is chondroblastic and osteoblastic differentiation into cartilage. And this happens under low oxygen tension or high oxygen tension over bone. So what does this basically mean? Well, this is the principal part in a nonunion [OFF MIC] because low oxygen tension, right? I.e. smoker, i.e. someone with a catastrophic injury. You're going to get more favoring of cartilage as a post high-oxygen tension, somebody who's responding well and functioning on no-room-air leaders or what have you, nonsmoker or athlete that can highly accept the oxygenation through the lungs. So, people who are aged, people who smoke, people who have high volume injuries are going to favor this cartilage, low oxygen tension relationship. Here, as opposed to primary bone healing, what looks like with pluripotent cells and making the callus or torus here. And hopefully, as these two bones unite with the preparation of the callus here, this callus gets resorbed and flattened, doesn't always happen though.
Biomechanics of callus healing. Hard callus can only form where interfragmentary movement is sufficiently reduced. So now we get into the principles of AO. The more rigidly fixated something, the more imparted something, not necessarily on compression, the likelihood that you're going to get direct healing. However, that is not to say that in order to impart stability, one needs compression, you just need stability. It is a fact that usually the more compressed, the more stable, and that's why when we do our Lapidus, when we do our ankle fracture or what have you, we really want to see the bone kind of scream as we tighten those screws down, because we feel better, but it's not necessarily the compression. Compression is actually osteoclastic, right? It's actually going to necrose the fracture site. But stability is usually imparted by compression. That's why it's important.
Again, if you're recertifying your Boards, taking your Boards, the big difference between primary and secondary bone healing is the fibrocartilaginous phases bypassed in primary bone healing. Doesn't make it faster, just makes it more predictable. So again, compression is not osteogenic. Cyclical compression causes increased strength, when it's about four weeks that you're doing it. Lack of motion at the osseous junction, not compression, is osteogenic. And in fact, compression is not osteogenic, it's contradictory.
So now we're going to see ankle fractures. So, in order to create an ankle fracture, youâre going to have torsional load, bending load, or a compression load. Compression is going to cause impaction, bending is going to cause a transverse fracture, torsional load causing spiral fractures. I call it the breadstick fracture. If you take a breadstick and you kind of turn it on both sides or pencil, you'll see that torsional load causing spiral oblique fracture. Obviously, this is one of the most common that we're going to see in an ankle fracture. Compression is probably the least common, and then the bending load is somewhere in the middle, usually seen on a metatarsal fracture.
So if we look at those types of fractures, transverse is the more stable, comminuted is the decreased or least stable, oblique and spiral are somewhere in between. So if we see a transverse fracture, many of these are not going to be fixed unless it's something like a medial malleolus whereby the deltoid ligament has to hang on for stability. Most of the transverse fractures we can kind of favor conservative therapy. Comminuted fractures by and large need to be plated in some capacity.
AO Philosophy, arbeitsgemeinschaft für osteosynthesefragen. After I finished my residency, I did a fellowship. It was AO fellowship. And you'll see that a lot of the principles that we impart in our everyday practice, we don't even know that we're doing AO philosophy. It's just the way we do it kind of here in the United States, whereby this hand down of the teacher and the professor to the student, is already AO philosophy and we don't recognize it. AO was developed in 1960. The four components are anatomic reduction, stable fixation, atraumatic technique, and early mobilization. Again, this does not necessarily mean early weightbearing, this just means mobilization, range of motion to that particular fixated area.
Fundamental principles in AO fixation are buttressing, which can happen via plate or an external fixator; splintage; IM nailing and Kirschner wires; and then of course interfragmentary compression with lag screw or tension band principle.
Starting with cerclage. Cerclage wire is something that I use on an everyday basis. Itâs is great for osteoporotic bone. There is no compression possible even with the heaviest gauge wire. So here in this example you can see cerclage wire around. You say, âWell if I tighten this, I'm going to get compression of the parts.â You're not going to. The wire is designed before you get compression, to break; so no compressions imparted with cerclage wire, great Board question going forward. You don't want to notch or bend the wire excessively. Why? Because it'll break. So where I use cerclage wire in ankle fractures, usually they kind of hunker down that butterfly fragment, and again, you just want to get it to lay into anatomical position. Butterfly fragment, okay to heal via indirect intention or secondary intention bone healing. Don't necessarily need a butterfly fragment rigidly fixated, right? You're just looking for the bone to increase its stability.
K-wires. Again, K wires are like cerclage wires. They cannot impart compression. The diamond trip wires cause less heat, but are less stable from the pullout because they're tipped into a recess. We talked about this yesterday. Wire diameter should not be greater than one third of the bone width. Any screw that you put in, any wire that you put in should not be greater than one third of the bone width, because after that it starts to disturb the blood supply to the bone.
The more perpendicular the wires are to one another, you can significantly improve stability. So if I'm doing an IPJ fusion of a phalanx or what have you, I barely use screws or anything. Two crossing state K-wires at 90 degrees I think are much more stable and will allow bony healing to take place. If the fracture is oblique, three parallel wire should be placed perpendicular to the fracture line. So in other words, as the fracture kind of rotates, you should pick three wires each being perpendicular to that fracture site independently to one another.
So here's an example of a fibular fracture. There was a high-level comminution here. So what I did was I used a neutralization plate, repaired the syndesmosis, and then whatever little pieces were left, I just kind of peppered in K-wires to hold the pieces into position. Obviously, the lion's share of the fracture I'm asking to heal via direct healing, indirect healing for the little pieces, understanding that these may need to come out at another point because they back out, but at least what you're doing here is you're making sure the collateral ligaments have a home to grow to if they are damaged. Again, not usually damaged, but if they are, and of course, the CFL and ATFL have little sets of ligament that comes off of it, and you're going to allow that to heal as well.
For it, K-wires are more stable and less likely to migrate but they're much weaker than smooth. Why? Because they're milled out for the threads. So they feel nice, they act like screws, they hold your pieces in the position, but they're going to break a whole heck of a lot easier. They're also difficult to get out if you plan to put them percutaneous, because you have to wait for the bone to reabsorb around the threaded portion before you pull it out. If an osteotomy is inherently unstable, K-wires will be unpredictable. So whether it be a fracture, if you're using comminuted pieces and you shoot your K-wires like I did in the prior example, there's no guarantee that that bones not going to die, and you're just going to have a floating K-wire. So, instability, K-wires look nice on the table, but they're very unpredictable. So that patient has to know, âLook, if I put some wires, then there's a very good chance that we're gonna have to take these out. But if the wires do their job, the bone will be more rigid, you'll have more bone stock and a more stable ankle conferred.â
Tension band wiring. This is a tricky one to look at. You know, everybody thinks it's pretty easy, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do tension band wiring, and a lot of it has to do with this. K-wires must be inserted parallel to one another. Alright? The reason being is what you're trying to do is you're trying to neutralize all tension forces acting on the fracture and create dynamic compression. Well, how do you create dynamic compression? You have to have eccentric forces placed on the fractured bone.
So in this example, this is a big example here in the hip, what you're looking for is, you're looking for two parallel K-wires, the wire going through the bone or your hanging screw here. And then as this person is walking, or as this person is going through range of motion, what's happening is the greater trochanteric pull is actually causing a reverse pull to the tension band wiring. So every step that this person takes, what it's doing is it's compressing on the tension side, the bone together. Where do you see that most commonly? Fifth metatarsal.
Everybody, if you're going to use tension band wiring, it's most likely going to be in the fifth metatarsal. I use it sometimes for smaller or more transverse pieces in the medial malleolus as well. The idea here that fifth metatarsal, its peroneus brevis is going to pull. As peroneus brevis pulls this fracture portion away, the tension band wire is going to fight the pull eccentrically and pull the fracture together. It is important to get even compression via parallel wires. If you don't have the parallel wires here, then what's going to happen is you're going to get one that's pulling away more than the other one. One's going to compress, one's going to distract, and you're now creating secondary healing, not the direct healing what you were hoping for in the first place.
So, here's an example of fifth metatarsal tension band wiring. Again. you can use a hanging screw here or you can drill through the bone. Fifth metatarsal, I usually try to drill through the bone. Medial malleolus and lateral malleolus, definitely try the hanging screw. So here's an example of hanging screw. Just a screw placed far away from the fracture site, my wires aren't perfectly parallel here, I had to kind of skew them in order to account for this transsyndesmotic screw. But here we are, you can see full compression at the fracture line here.
The other thing is, again, if you're going to use tension band wiring, this is a knotty mess here. There's a very good chance that this is going to have to come out at some point. You tell the patient itâs not a big deal, 10-day to 14-day recovery once the fracture healed. And you know at that same time, you can even scope the ankle if you want to, to kind of decrease in some of the impingement that's inevitably going to develop while they're in the cast for so long.
Now moving forward to screws. Fracture healing under absolute stability, primary bone compressions what you're looking for, there's direct healing without callus occurring. The weakest point is the run out of the screw. If you strip a screw, leave it in place, the bone will fill in and around the screw, alright. If you can still land another screw for your compression and leave the first screw in that stripped, fine. Wider screws are going to offer an increase resistance pull-out but again too wide you're going to break the cortex, so something to consider, again no greater than one third the radius of the bone.
Lag screws must be either partially threaded or over-drilled, so the threads only engage in the far cortex. If you're a resident in the room and you don't use a lot of screws, I would challenge you; go to Home Depot, go to Loweâs, get two pieces of board and start to play around with under-drills, over-drills, and screws. Fully threaded and partially threaded. Why? Because you can really see, if you have screws on both sides of the osteotomy, there is no compression that occurs if you have threads on both sides. You either need a partially-threaded screw to grab the far cortex and pull it in, or you need to overdrive drill the close cortex or near cortex to allow a glide hole for those screws to slide.
So here's a typical AO picture. This is straight out of McGlamryâs. I use it because I really like it, I think it really shows very nicely how a lag screw compresses.
Again, under-drill here across the fracture site, you're going to counter-sink so that the screw pushes into the bone and you get nice imparted compression, over-drill the near cortex, measure, and then tap if you need to, and then your screw goes in. And as your screw grabs this far cortex, it literally sucks this piece right in and you get nice compression. So grab the cortex is the take home in this. If you cannot grab a cortex, then thankfully we have cancellous screws which will help increase your landing zone for compression. But whenever you can, I don't care if you go through the cortex a little bit, grab what you can, it's going to be much more stable.
And here's an example here with a posterior malleolus fracture. You can see it's got a long spike to it, back into position anatomically. And I'm throwing screws both ways to impart even compression really get tightly together.
Alright, âfind a plateâ sounds simple stupid. However, there's a right way and thereâs a wrong way to apply a plate. The greater distance from the fracture line, the greater strength. You also at a minimum want to purchase three cortices on each side of the fracture. So many times I'll see put people put a plate on, theyâll capture a couple of cortices proximally, a couple distally and be done with it. You need at least three cortices. Now, locking technology counts as a cortex. If you lock a screw into a plate that counts as one cortex, the plate screw interface, then the second one is going to be the plate-bone interface. So right there, locking technology makes it more stable because it's harder for the plate to pull away from the bone.
With that said, a 10-hole plate with two screws on each side is similar to an eight-hole plate with four on each side. Meaning that the farther away from the fracture pattern you're going to get, the more stable. So a 10-hole plate, assuming that you're using the most proximal and the most distal plate holes, are going to be as strong as an eight-hole plate closer to the fracture osteotomy.
Of course, use lag screws whenever possible. You want to bend the plate a little bit away from the bone for axial compression, because as the screws bite into the plate, they'll push the fracture together if you bend the plate away. Why? Because the tension side of the fibula is the side that we're normally plating. The compression side is the more medial side. So when you think of a fibula, you have a compression side here and you have a tension side here. If you plate laterally which is the tension side, what happens is, it confers stability on the medial side. So for femur, for fibula, for fifth metatarsal, the sides differ. Femur laterally; fibula laterally; fifth metatarsal actually the undersurface is going to be the tension side, the compression side is going to be the dorsal.
Why do we do this then? Why do we plate second metatarsals dorsally? Anatomy, it's a whole heck of a lot easier to get. So although we would like to plate the tension side, we're not really going to dissect all the intrinsics away, and all the long flexors, the nerves and everything. Our cost benefit ratio is disturbed when we're talking about metatarsals. So, we usually get what we can get, and we plate the dorsal side, hopefully, although it's the compression side, we're not disturbing the anatomy.
Now, in order to understand plates, you have to understand why you're putting the plates in. So a fibular plate, a medial malleolar plate, oftentimes is a neutralization plate. Neutralization plate, what does that mean? That means the whole plate that you're inserting with all these screws, the whole purpose is to protect these two screws here. This whole plate, all the titanium, all the stainless steel, all the grabbing of the four cortices, all they're doing is protecting and neutralizing the bending forces from these two screws. That's the whole purpose of it.
So, you know, again, you don't necessarily need all these screws, you need three cortices proximally, three cortices distally, and that plate is going to stop the bending momentum and protect the screws. Here's an example of a neutralization plate. Again, neutralization plate is just protecting against the rotation of this fracture here. Again, another example.
Now buttress plate. Buttress plate is what I tell my residents, you know, when you're growing up and mom says, âClean your roomâ and you're in a hurry, you take all the stuff in your room, you throw it in the closet, you slam the door, and you hope that door catches. Because if it doesn't, all the clothes are going to fall back out. That's what you're doing with a buttress plate. You're basically throwing everything against the wall and whatever sticks is great. And then once you get everything to alignment, you're going to put a plate on it. And by the grace of God, hopefully it's going to heal. Happens sometimes other times it doesn't.
But a buttress plate is not without its charm. Where do we use a lot of buttress plates? The calcaneus. Calcaneus is a buttress plate, what you're doing laterally is you're taking all these comminuted pieces, and you're just throwing hardware against the bone hoping that it doesn't push back out. And you know, if you're lucky enough and you use them locking technology, then the plate doesn't pull away from the bone, and the calcaneus will heal and you get an acceptable result. Sometimes you don't. So patient has to be aware of that as well.
A compression plate can generate interfragmentary compression. Again, it has to be on the tension side of the bone to do so, and the most proximal screws have to be away from the fracture site. The idea here is as this screw head comes in and hits the plate, the bone below it is going to start to push against this side. If we use another screw here that's pushing back, we're going to get imparted stability or compression here. And as you can see the screw had going from the most far portion of the plate is now centered in the plate. Why? Because the bone moved along the screw head and same side here. And then you have compression at your osteotomy or fracture site. So compression plates or something that I impart with the neutralization plate as well, to also protect those screws and offer a little bit of compression.
We're going to spend about two minutes on classifications, because it's important to ankle fractures. Weber A, B and C are the same as Lauge-Hansen, SAD to PER. So supination adduction mechanism of injury is the Danis-Weber type A. This only accounts for 10% to 20% of all ankle fractures, and oftentimes do not need to be fixated. Again, you're going to get a transverse fibular fracture because a transverse fracture is so stable, that we don't usually need to fix it. However, if the ring of the ankle fracture is broken, and you get now a medial malleolus fracture, this confers surgical fixation.
Nondisplaced, weightbearing talus or short leg walking boot with repeated x rays, displaced ORIF. So, obviously this is a prime example of where you would use screws, where you have a big enough piece or put your hanging screw here and use tension band wiring if you can. If you can use one of those hook plates that Dr. William showed, theyâre great as well.
Now, supination external rotation ankle fracture; the injury begins at the level of the joint, it is the most common ankle fracture, 40% to 70%. However, again, I keep on seeing this new generation of surgeons come out and if the injury is starting anteriorly, like stage I here, they're breaking the syndesmosis. Stage II is the fibular fracture. Stage III is the posterior aspect of the joint. And then stage IV is the deltoid ligament or the medial malleolar fracture.
So if you've gotten stage I and stage II, you've already damaged the syndesmosis. People say do the hook test, do the cotton test, and they're all well and good, but boy are they positional. So, they are very dependent on how internally or externally rotated that person is on the table and what the C-Arm is doing at that particular time. So, you can get a lot of false positives and a lot of false negatives. When in doubt, fix the syndesmosis. Itâs is crazy not to. Here you can see simple SER fracture, we see no medial malleolar fracture.
Weber B are pronation abduction injury, again stable fracture stage I, stage III. This is surgical fixation indicated. Mechanism of injury, pronation external rotation, 7% to 19% of all ankle fractures. However, these are the bad ones that correspond to the Weber C, this of course, any fracture above the level of the ankle joint known as the Maisonneuve fracture needs to be fixated. Have your residents, when someone comes in for simple ankle sprain, absolutely check and document that there's no Maisonneuve fracture by the knee.
I've been burned several times where patient will come in, resident on call, itâll be two o'clock in the morning, how they sprained their ankle playing basketball, waited a little bit, pain got out of control. And you know, they're fine, theyâd put them in a splint, told them they can weight-bear to tolerance in a couple days. The swelling goes down. They start to weight-bear and what happens is that proximal fracture, that no one checked for, now starts to impinge on the common peroneal nerve, where you get secondary type torus healing and that impinges on the nerve going forward where you get shortening of the fibula. So absolutely, absolutely get your high tib-fib films close to the knee in any sort of ankle sprain that shows any pathology when you palpate by the knee and make sure your residents are documenting lack of findings in that area.
Prime example of a Maisonneuve fracture. Now spend one second on this. This obviously you're not going to fix. Why too close to the common peroneal nerve? If you can get length, don't fix it. Mid shaft? What do you do when itâs mid shaft? Well the answer is, if you can't properly reduce it on the table, it is okay to open up and fixate mid shaft. There's a study out of Tokyo showing the absence and the fixation results of mid shaft and the answer is about the same, the outcomes are about the same, but you need to gain length. Anytime you fix a fracture of the ankle, you're looking for medial and lateral malleoli length, restore it back to normal. So if you cannot do that with a mid shaft fibular fracture, then go ahead and open it up and repair it as needed.
Again, the Volkmann fractures, we're all taught 25% to 30% of the articulator surface involved. It requires fixation. I'm down to about less than 20%. If it's greater than 20%, it needs to be fixed as far as I'm concerned. I fixed some with 10% if theyâre too high displaced like this. If it's non-displaced, and it's just a little fracture, little chip fracture then I don't think you need to fix it if itâs around the 20% area, but certainly something as big as this needs to be fixed no doubt about it. How do you fix it? Well you can fix it from your lateral position, toggle it down with a dive punch, hold it together and then shoot a K-wire from posterior anterior, and then you can shoot the screw over the K-wire from anterior to posterior to grab this piece in and suck it down almost like a whirlybird.
Tillaux-Chaput fractures, again, pathognomonic for a child due to external forces causing avulsion of the anterior tib-fib ligament. These are syndesmotic injuries, in an adult. This is the reason why you have to fix this syndesmosis. The Wagstaffe or Le Forte fracture is avulsion fractures of the anterior margin of the distal fibula. So it's the same as the Tillaux-Chaput, right, except for one is off of the tibia, the others off of the fibula. That's the difference.
So avulsion fracture again indicates damage to the tib-fib ligament. Rarely is a bimalleolar fracture nondisplaced. By and large they need to be fixed. There are periods in an aged person, someone who's not active, that you cannot fix a bimalleolar fracture, but they are few and far between. So, if you see a bimalleolar fracture and you do not fix ankle fractures, at least refer it out, cover your butt, just to make sure you get somebody else's eyes on there. It is not standard of care to not fix a bimalleolar fracture without good reason.
Closed fractures should be treated within three weeks. After that you start to get bony healing. You should not cut through fracture blisters. If you do, you increase the infection rate, depending on who you read, up to 60%. Wait till the fracture blisters resolve. Hematoma block, conscious sedation to relocate the ankle.
Vassals principle is something that you should be comfortable with. The dominant fracture in any of those Lauge-Hansen classifications, once you fix that dominant fracture, the Vassals principal suggest that all the other smaller fractures are going to realign. What does that mean? It makes your fixation a whole lot easier. Doesn't mean that you don't need to fixate the minor fractures, just means that it makes him a lot more easily fixated because everything falls into line.
When do you fix clear space? 42% tibiotalar contact occurs with just one millimeter of lateral talar displacement. So if you see the talus is shifted from the medial position from a medial mortise, you're going to decrease tibiotalar contact 42%. What does that mean? That means greater than one millimeter of lateral talar displacement I fix in a healthy person; two millimeters, absolutely fix.
Lisfranc. If you're looking at Lisfrancâs, it's about two to three millimeters of displacement and thatâs okay, less so in the ankle. It's the higher weightbearing joints, more complex. If we're going to look, again, four millimeters of displacement here, less than two millimeters here, two millimeters here. So our overlap, this is one that you look at first and you say, âWell I don't know that I need to fix it.â Right syndesmosis is a little bit sprung here, but you can see a four-millimeter displacement here. Here certainly bimalleolar fracture you're going to fix.
Finally, treatment parameters for talocrural angle. This is an important one, talocrural angle you're seeing more and more. It is the inferior colliculus [phonetic] [0:34:32] here with the tip of the fibular malleolus and tip of the medial malleolus drawn, and then it is a perpendicular line between the two; 83 degrees plus or minus means that you've restored your syndesmosis and your fibular medial malleolar angles together. As you see more shortening, these lines become more parallel. So if you're looking for a good way to gauge whether or not you fixed the ankle fracture, look at the talocrural angle. Again, 83 degrees plus or minus, compared to the other side.
So, surgeonsâ goal for absolute stability or no motion through the fracture site, screw fixation alone can only tolerate minimal loading, which is why you need a plate. Plate version has been employed to help alleviate the shear and bending forces across the fracture site. We're not going to go into a million different ways of looking at ankle fractures.
Final thing that I'd like to talk about here is the Coonrad-Bugg trapping, which I've seen from time to time. If you do a lot of ankle fractures, and even if you don't, sometimes you never get the proper reduction. So like here, this person fixated. They did a nice job, the fibular length or outer length here, and theyâre nicely compressing their syndesmosis here. Obviously, I would like another cortex here or another screw here. But if you have locking technology, assuming this screw is locking into the plate, which I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, that counts.
However, you see that this is not closed. The middle malleolus space is not closed here. Why? Because the Coonrad-Bugg trapping tells me that the posterior tibial tendon can be extra faceted [phonetic] right into this area. So oftentimes need to open up immediately, inspect, make sure there's nothing there and then manually take the talus and shift it over. Otherwise, again, what's going to happen is as this person starts to weight-bear, they're going to stress the syndesmosis. If there is a medial malleolar fracture thatâs fixated here, youâre going to start to see these screws fail and you're going to start to see re-breakdown of the Maisonneuve fracture. So absolutely, absolutely, absolutely -- fix the syndesmosis and make sure that your overlap is adequate.
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Pasargadae was the capital city of the Achaemenid Empire under the governance of Cyrus the Great which is also his tomb.
The main monument and all the other ones are listed as the World Heritage Sites of UNESCO in 2004.
Pasargadae is located in the northern part of Fars province in Dasht-e Murghab, about 120 Km to Shiraz, and 1,900 meters above sea level. So, when traveling to Shiraz, don’t forget to include it in your plans and have a visit to the monument.
Construction of the capital began in 546 by the order of Cyrus the Great; however, it was not finished by the time he died in a battle in 530 or 529 BC.
It is believed that Pasargadae has been cited as an early example of the Chahar Bagh (Chahar stands for four, and bagh for the garden) which is known as Persian Gardens currently.
The tomb of Cyrus the Great is the most important monument in Pasargadae area. It has six broad steps and a chamber on top. The chamber measures 3.17 meters long, 2.11 meters wide and 2.11 meters high. It has a narrow entrance.
There is an inscription on the monuments from Cyrus the Great which says:
I am Cyrus, king of the universe, the great king, the powerful king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the world.
The oldest building in the complex is the citadel, known also as Tall-e Takht or “throne hill”, which is located on a hill with a view to the complex.
The Palace of Cyrus with two units is located at the southwest of Tall-e Takht. The first unit is the residential one known as Palace P. This Palace was built from white natural stone. Another unit is a columned audience hall, named as Palace S. To reach the audience hall, visitors had to pass a gate and cross a bridge over the river Pulvar. In addition to these places, there are also the gardens known as pavilions A and B.
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To the recorded rings of Big Ben and the delicate shuddering of Union Jacks, Britain bade goodbye to the European Union at 11 p.m. on Friday, disavowing to the world’s biggest exchanging coalition after about 50 years and setting out on a dubious future as a fair size economy off the shoreline of Europe.
For Britain, having changed in the after war period from a globe-supporting domain to a hesitant individual from the European task, it was one more age making flight.
It is a flight that will overturn settled relations in essentially all territories of society, the economy and security matters, while going up against Britain with new inquiries of national personality. Three and a half years after the previous head administrator, Theresa May, broadcasted that “Brexit implies Brexit,” the British government will at long last need to choose correctly what that implies.
England should in any case arrange its future exchange relations with the European Union, a prickly procedure that could take through the year’s end, or more.
On Friday, the takeoff inspired both expectation and fear from Britons. Numerous basically were eased that the severe and disruptive discussion over Brexit is finished.
“This is the minute when the day break breaks, and the drapery goes up on another demonstration in our extraordinary national dramatization,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a location to the country on Friday night that he additionally posted on his Twitter account. Brexit, he stated, was an opportunity to “spread expectation and chance to all aspects of the U.K.”
Mr. Johnson, whose promise to “Complete Brexit” won him a directing dominant part in decisions a month ago, pledged to sew together a nation that had been part geologically and generationally by the Brexit banter. Indeed, even the fate of the United Kingdom presently appeared to be questionable, with Scotland taking steps to reestablish its drive for freedom and Northern Ireland pondering about unification with Ireland.
On Friday, Mr. Johnson’s bureau met in Sunderland, a modern city in the north, a conventional Labor fortification where the early returns after the submission in June 2016 anticipated the nation’s shocking choice to leave the European Union. The leader observed Brexit as a triumph for self-government, and vowed to attempt the “greatest recovery of our foundation since the Victorians.”
For all the verifiable reverberation, the festivals of Britain’s flight were strangely weakened. A commencement clock flashed on the obscured mass of 10 Downing Street, while inside the PM facilitated a get-together with British-sourced nourishment and English shining wine.
English international safe havens were told to hold relaxed undertakings — no uncommon occasions — and to abstain from whatever resembled “triumphalism.”
In a crisp Parliament Square, a few thousand Brexiteers assembled to sing “God Save the Queen” as the clock struck 11 p.m. Indeed, even the planning of the exit appeared to be a trade off: the European Union chose to make Britain’s takeoff powerful at 12 PM in its Brussels central command.
Some British reporters griped that the Europeans made a more prominent demonstration of Britain’s leaving, which they had contradicted, than Britain. Brussels arranged a light show in the Grand Place on Thursday, while individuals from the European Parliament serenaded their leaving British partners with “Days of yore.”
The inner conflict bore witness to the divisions that despite everything go through Britain. Ace Europe activists were hopeless, some directing their resentment into endeavors to help Europeans in London explore the truth of diminished rights and a progressively dubious life in a nation they had since quite a while ago made their home.
All things considered, even the most vociferous rivals of Brexit appeared to be anxious to end, or if nothing else suspend, the poisonous discussion, make the best of the result and attempt to produce another association with the European Union more just as they would prefer.
“England can change its political association with Europe, however it can’t adjust its authentic or topographical relationship and, at last, we’ll need to discover a method for cooperating,” Tony Blair, a previous head administrator and passionate rival of Brexit, said on Friday to remote writers in London.
“It’s a fate changing choice and clearly it’s one I’m significantly miserable about,” said Mr. Blair, who had his own battles with Britain’s erratic association with Europe. “Be that as it may, you must investigate this.”
As Britain pushes off from Europe, Mr. Johnson would like to develop his nation’s collusion with the United States, beginning with an exchange accord that the administration needs to haggle pair with its concurrence with the European Union. President Trump devotedly empowered Brexit and his emissary respected Britain’s new status.
“America shares your confidence and fervor about the numerous open doors the future will bring,” Robert Wood Johnson IV, the United States minister to Britain, said in an announcement.
However, questions stayed about what kind of an economic accord Britain could anticipate from President Trump.
“He puts stock in America first,” said Kim Darroch, the previous envoy to the United States, in a meeting with the Guardian. “What’s more, he accepts, especially, in compensating individuals who vote in favor of him — and that is American ranchers and huge American organizations.”
For Mr. Johnson, whose vast Parliamentary lion’s share leaves him with hardly any residential imperatives, the inquiry is which areas of the economy to organize and what exchange offs to make in the post-Brexit period.
His administration contends that by liberating itself from European guideline, it could turn into an innovator in new advances like computerized reasoning. As Mr. Johnson’s powerful guide, Dominic Cummings, when put it, Britain can turn into the best spot for the individuals who need to “imagine what’s to come.”
However in leaving Europe’s single market and customs association, Britain is relinquishing the smooth and frictionless progression of merchandise over its fringes — something organizations as of now underestimate.
Whatever the result of the exchange talks, exporters and merchants will more likely than not confront additional layers of organization and fringe checks. That will influence businesses, from aviation to nourishment, and could cost employments in parts of the nation where Mr. Johnson’s Conservatives won unforeseen triumphs in a month ago’s broad political race.
Formal arrangements among London and Brussels are relied upon to begin in late February or early March. Mr. Johnson has demanded they should close this year, yet pundits state the timetable is unreasonable.
In spite of the fact that the European Union is the far greater monetary element, it is careful about permitting Britain to turn into a contender with lighter guidelines, which could undermine European makers. Its objective will be to separate promises from Britain not to weaken its natural, work, or antitrust principles.
England will likely need to arrange everything at the same time, while likewise captivating in chats with the United States and different countries — a technique that it expectations will build its influence. In Sunderland, Mr. Johnson said he would have liked to strike bargains covering 80 percent of British exchange inside three years.
In time, Brexit will upgrade how the nation exchanges. However, a long time before that, the split has sent tremors through the lives of Europeans who make their homes in Britain, right away unwinding the guarantee that they could live and work there beyond a shadow of a doubt.
For British urban areas formed by floods of relocation, none more so than London, the change could be seismic. In shops, cafés and social focuses, Europeans discuss returning to their nations of origin sooner than arranged. They lament the application required to remain. Also, the individuals who may once have had their spot are progressively deciding not to come by any means.
“Through no issue of their own, kin who thought they had everlastingly fabricated their lives on their privileges as European Union residents are out of nowhere having the floor covering pulled out from under them,” said Maike Bohn, a fellow benefactor of the3million, a gathering that advances European residents’ privileges.
At the point when the connections among Britain and the European Union are cut off toward the finish of the progress time frame, European residents’ privileges to live and work in Britain will end, as will the privileges of Britons to move and work all through the coalition.
For Britons, as well, the date of Britain’s takeoff barely implies a conclusion to spiteful discussions that have part families and companions in the course of the most recent three years. The injuries stay crude. Furthermore, the names conceived of Brexit — Remainers who battled to keep Britain in the European Union, and Leavers who battled to do the inverse — still can’t seem to wear off.
Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson, a fellow benefactor of For our Future’s Sake, an adolescent drove bunch that crusaded to hold another Brexit choice a year ago, said there was just such a lot of mending that could occur while the fight over what sort of Brexit Britain should seek after furies on.
Originating from a family with numerous individuals who bolstered Leave, and from a piece of England that casted a ballot to leave, she said the three years of strife were all the while causing significant damage.
“We’ll have two or three months of individuals making an effort not to discuss it once more, attempting to imagine it is anything but a thing that is occurring, doing whatever it takes not to bring it up at supper,” Ms. Chetwynd-Cowieson said. “In any case, practically it won’t be arranged in a year. It will begin raising its head and opening divisions inside families once more.”
Mr. Blair, the previous PM, cautioned that Mr. Johnson would need to make a solid effort to forestall the separation of the nation, given reestablished calls for Scottish autonomy and Irish unification.
A larger part in Scotland and Northern Ireland casted a ballot against Brexit in 2016, and on Friday evening, the base camp of the Scottish government in Edinburgh was lit up in the shades of the European banner.
Mr. Blair recognized that the British had consistently been conflicted about European combination. In any case, he stated, “the disaster is that it was entirely a fruitful relationship.” Those who long for Britain rejoining the alliance one day should hang tight for some time, he included.
“Who knows?” Mr. Blair said. “The thing I’m certain about is that there’s no reason for possessing a ton of time on that now.” | <urn:uuid:d4c381ed-f485-4a56-859e-d04f9815f2b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elizabethblog.com.ng/2020/02/at-stroke-of-brexit-britain-steps.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.954342 | 2,268 | 1.617188 | 2 |
In this tutorial, I'll show you a creative process that gets you using your crazy brain. The workflow for creating the splashes involves taking photographs of thrown paint. Through photography you can capture amazing 3D images without the need for 3D software. Learn to make a splash in your next design.
Editor's note: This tutorial was originally published on Psdtuts in April of 2008.
We need three boat photos taken from a high view. For this tutorial, you can substitute boats with cars, shoes, or anything else.
Start to throw the paint from a cut plastic bottle. You can do it in front of a white wall or a green screen (if you have it) to obtain a good contrast on the edges of the splashes. The results will show better if you mix water and paint together. Be forewarned, stay away from the paint. In this attempt, we lost a cashmere pullover and a watch—irremediably stained.
Select the best splashes you photographed. If some parts of the paint are out of focus, don't worry. It's a fine effect and it will contribute to a sense of depth in the final result.
Use the Rapid Selection Tool or Magic Wand Tool to select the white background around the splashes. After you complete the selection process, go to Select>Refine>Edge and make some adjustments. Add Feather, Radius, and Expand or Reduce the selection until you find a nice result. Use a black background to remove excess white pixels on the edges. After that, go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection to hide the white background.
For each splash you need to repeat Step 5 and duplicate the layer every time. At the end, you may have a multilayer file like the image below.
Now switch off every Paint layer so we can concentrate our attention on the boats. Select the Pen Tool (P) and start creating a path in the shape of the first yacht. This is the only way to make it. Without a suitable green screen the edge becomes too complicated so you can't use any Photoshop tools to speed up this step.
After you create the path, click on the dotted circle icon at the bottom of the path box to create a selection. Select > Inverse and Delete the background (or create a mask to hide it). If your object is complicated, then your paths may take some time to create. Repeat this step with all the boat images (cars, shoes, or any images you've chosen).
Use three different layers to work on the boats. At the end, you should have a good composition like this.
Now the boats need some improvements. Start with the opaque glass. Select the Pen Tool (P) and create a path around the shape of the glass.
Go to the Path Palette. Click on the dotted circle icon at the bottom of the box to create a selection from the path.
Add a new layer called "glasses" over the boat layer and fill it with a gradient using white to black for the colors following the direction of the arrow shown below.
For the Blend Mode use Color Dodge. Also, set the Fill Opacity to 60%.
Repeat this step for all the boats. Now we must improve the color of the boats. Start with Select > Color range. Then pick a white point on the foredeck of one boat with the Eyedropper and set the Fuzziness to 123.
With this new active selection, copy the white color from the boat layer and paste it into a new layer called lights over the boat layer. For the Blend Mode use Soft Light and set the Fill Opacity to 100%. Repeat this on the other boats. Now the foredeck appears brighter.
Start revealing every single splash layer and move them below the boat layers. Keep in mind, you can put some layers of paint below one boat layer, while being above another boat layer. Mix and match until you have a nice composition, like the second image below.
The Warp Tool is the magician of this tutorial. From the Top Menu go to Edit > Transform > Warp. Move the anchor points creating the spray from the paint waves, bringing the splashes near the hull.
You can also create new splashes from your images by changing their shape with the Liquefy Filter. Go to Filter > Liquify. Use a medium brush to change the shape of the blue splashes.
Your design so far should look like the image below.
Create a new layer over the splashes. Select a brush similar to the one used in the image below. Set the Hardness to 0%. Then, with a dark blue color selected, draw shadows below the boats.
For each boat, duplicate a splash layer near the hull. Move this new layer over the boat. Call it "reflections." For the Blend Mode use Overlay. Then set the Fill Opacity at about 60%.
Select the Pen Tool (P) and create a path along the lower side of the yachts. Create a selection from the path. Then create a new layer above the boat layer. Fill the selection with a blue color picked from the blue waves. Call this new blue layer "Halo."
Deselect (Command/ctrl+D) and from the Top Menu choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Apply a Radius similar to the settings below. For the Blend Mode use Multiply. Then set the Fill Opacity to about 75%. Now you have a blue reflection on your hull. Repeat this process for every hull (which includes this step and the previous step).
After having completed the shadow and reflection, now we'll create a light background. Create a New Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N). Call it background. Put this layer below the others. Use the Elliptical Marque Tool to draw an Ellipse.
Then Select > Modify > Feather and set the Radius to about 40px. From the Menu go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Use white for the foreground and a light blue for the background. Set the Opacity to 70%.
Now we'll add a background using Photoshop Brushes. Select a Rounded Brush and play with options like Shape Dynamics, Color Dynamics, and Scattering to create a good distribution of random bubble patterns. On a new layer, called bubbles, draw a texture with a light blue foreground and a dark background. After this, select Color Dodge for the bubbles layer in the Layer Palette.
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China-Transportation Demand Management in Beijing: Mitigation of Emissions in Urban Transport
The project aims to improve transport demand management (TDM) in Beijing in order to manage the steadily increasing traffic density. The project provides capacity building for decision-makers and transport planners in Beijing to enable them to calculate baselines and assess reduction potential in line with internationally recognized MRV methodologies. It also supports the production of transport plans and the implementation of transport demand management measures.
Appropriate Transport Demand Management (TDM) strategies and measures can affect travel behaviour and therefore reduce transport energy consumption and GHG emissions. The TDM project in Beijing aims to indentify suitable non-technical measures for Beijing and evaluate GHG emissions reductions. | <urn:uuid:f0e8d850-2e15-4589-9c78-d23470f15f50> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://en.openei.org/wiki/Transportation_Demand_Management_in_Beijing_%E2%80%93_Mitigation_of_emissions_in_urban_transport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00178-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868441 | 147 | 2.109375 | 2 |
On 27 March 2020 measures concerning insolvency law (and other topics not dealt with in this paper) were approved by the Federal Council (where the state governments are represented) and enacted the same day by the Federal President. These changes came into force retroactively as of 1 March 2020.
However, these exceptions are only for problems caused or deteriorated by the (direct and indirect) effects of the pandemic (among the indirect consequences would certainly be the decrease of turnover or the voluntary shut-down of businesses due to the lack of customers or the quarantine of staff and not only shut-downs which were formally ordered by the authorities) AND only if there is a perspective that the unability to pay due debts can be overcome. In order to reduce legal uncertainty there is a (rebuttable!) presumption that the difficulties were caused by the spread of the Corona virus and that there is a perspective to continue if the company in question was able to pay what was due on 31 December 2019.
The special rules in insolvency law can be summarised:
- If creditors apply for insolvency between 27 March 2020 and 27 June 2020 the grounds for opening an insolvency must have been fulfilled already on 1 March 2020.
- Directors do not have to apply for insolvency within 3 weeks from knowledge of overindebtedness or unability to pay until 30 September 2020
- Reduced personal liability of directors until 30 September 2020 for payments to creditors made in the crisis (more exactly the maturity for insolvency), if the payments were necessary for the due course of business, i.e. particularly its continuation or resumption, or the realization of a restructuring plan.
- The insolvency administrator cannot attack repayments of loans made until 30 September 2023 less easily if these new loans or securities [in the continental sense of the word, not in the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act 1934] for these new loans were granted between 1 March 2020 and 30 September 2020, be it by banks, be it by shareholders or other nearstanding (or acts equivalent to granting a loan) and there will be no criminal liability of the grantors of such new loans for aiding the delaying of the insolvency.
- No subordination of new loans to the company by a shareholder or other near-standing persons if the application for insolvency is filed before 1 October 2023.
- Longer periods apply concerning loans granted by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau [the national bank used for government programmes].
The date 30 September 2020 can be extended until 31 March 2021 at the latest by decree of the Federal Minister of Justice.
There is no clarification in the act whether directors are (partly) relieved from their criminal liability for fraud (in the form of cheating contract partners into making a new contract with the already insolvent company).
Recommendations to the directors:
- document all efforts made for finding additional funding,
- obtain a positive prognostic for the continuation of business as per 31 December 2019.
The international scope is:
These rules apply not only to companies registered in Germany!
They apply to all companies who have their Centre of Main Interests in Germany, see art. 3 of the EU Insolvency Regulation. These rules are extended to persons and companies from other countries by §§ 335 and following of the German Insolvency Act (i.e. Denmark and non-EU-members; and the U.K. after the transition period).
The rules envisaged in no. 3 above are considered to be insolvency law (since the Kornhaas judgement of the European Court of Justice), not company law, so they – like the other rules above – apply to companies whose liability is limited (capital companies like private limited companies, public limited companies etc.) and recognised in Germany as such.
BUT: German international company law only recognises foreign capital companies as such
- if they also have their administration in the state of registration OR
- if these companies enjoy freedom of settlement under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Treaty on the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), the US-German Treaty on Friendship, Commerce and Shipping or under a bilateral investment protection treaty.
Foreign companies which German law does not recognise as capital companies (e.g. a Swiss registered limited liability company with its actual administration in Germany!) will be treated as companies of persons, i.e. with full personal liability of the shareholders.
Fachanwalt für Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht/Bar Certified Specialist in International Business Law
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From the dawn of time, men have fantasized about the ability to fly. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus and their artificial wings, entrenched in our collective identity, influenced the imagination of continuous generations of Europeans. In the second half of the 18th century, humanity took a giant leap towards conquering the skies, and Europe went crazy over a new phenomenon: ballooning.
Joseph Michel and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier knew everything about paper. This raw material, produced in their family manufactory in the south of France, was not only a source of income for them but also a material thanks to which they could express their creative energy. Joseph-Michel constructed kites and primitive parachutes, but the brothers’ greatest invention was a bit of a coincidence. The inspiration was the observation of the fire and dust particles floating above it. Following this thought, he constructed a device of wood and fabric, under which he lit a fire. Thanks to the hot air, the small structure lifted upwards. Joseph Michel was euphoric; he quickly informed his brother about the whole affair, and the two of them made bigger and bigger balloons. On June 4, 1783, near the city of Annonay, the brothers first publicly showed the world the possibilities of their invention. The balloon floating in the air for 10 minutes aroused admiration among the spectators.
The news of the remarkable achievement of the Montgolfier brothers quickly reached Versailles. The curious King Louis XIV summoned the inventors to his court to find out for himself the truth of these reports. On September 19, 1783, in front of the royal palace, the brothers launched a balloon called Aérostat Réveillon, which carried three passengers on board: a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. The entire crew landed safely, and the king ordered the brothers to continue their experiments. It was only a matter of time before the first man in the balloon took to the skies. This act was performed by Jacques Étienne on October 15, 1783, floating on board a colorful balloon in the Parisian suburbs. Reports of these sensational developments spread across the continent, and the Montgolfier brothers found numerous followers. Aeronauts, as balloon pilots were once known, appeared everywhere, and at the same time, modern aviation was born.
The news quickly reached the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well. In Gazeta Warszawska (Warsaw Newspaper) from November 1783 we can find the following note:
Weather that we have here [i.e. in Paris]for 7 to 8 days allowed Mr. Montgolfier to make his experiments: they had few witnesses; his machine, held each time by ropes, rose to 30, to 40 and up to 50 feet. One of the artisans, as well as Mr. Pilsastre du Rosier, and even J. Mr. Montogolfier himself, flew several times with this machine. (…) This way it is shown, and it has been proved, that this is possible, as they wish, to raise and lower this machine. Now we have to discover another secret: how it can be guided by a horizontal line, that is, if the gas can be renewed with such a matter as to give a flame that is alive and bright without any smoke and that lasts a little longer over the salt-lit flame.
The pioneers of Polish ballooning
The news from Paris very quickly captured the imaginations of many Polish researchers and scientists. Already at the beginning of 1784, the first successful attempts to fly a balloon were made in Krakow. The pioneers of Polish ballooning were the professors of the Jagiellonian University.
The first hot air balloon flight was organized in January 1784 in Wesoła, an area east of the Kraków Old Town. The university’s Botanical Garden was located there, with which the constructors of the balloon were associated. Among the gathered observers was the king himself, keenly interested in technology news. The whole experiment was set as a spectacle. The gentlemen repeated their attempts with the paper balloon in April this year, and they described their experiences in a fantastic booklet entitled Describing the Experience with the Air Dome. The very first paragraph expresses the enthusiasm and hope for the development of science:
The experience with the Air Dome, being one of the most wonderful to the eye, brings much glory to the human mind because man, using one element to conquer another, found access to the depths of the atmosphere, overflowing the whole earth, which had closed to him almost all the properties of his Machine; but perhaps bring still more glory by the use that may result from it for the companionship when talent, aided by the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, enlivened by the advantage of fame, touched by the benefits of the Universal, will happily overcome many more substituting difficulties.
The researchers then describe how they prepared three months for the experiment. In 1784 there were two ways to move the balloon. The first one was used by the Montgolfier brothers and consisted of using only living fire, kindled and kept by very dry combustibles. The best fuel was to be dry beech wood. The second way was due to the invention of Jacques Charles, who on August 27, 1783, launched a balloon filled with hydrogen in the Field of Mars. Therefore, balloons filled with hot air were called montgolfiers, and hydrogen – charliers. The scientists performed a series of mathematical calculations to ensure that the machine they constructed would successfully take off. The balloon hovering over Krakow was seen all over the area; even in Wieliczka town.
A public announcement had been issued for several days, which was posted in a public place to warn everyone of the experiment, which was to be held on the first nice day. The event was to be announced with a mortar firing. We sent tickets to enter the botanical garden, where the balloon was deflated with air.
The whole Machine, with great splendor, with the cries of all the Spectators, rose, and as it flew away, it accelerated its course more and more up.
Who was the first to conquer the skies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
It took a few more years for the first manned flight in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This achievement was made on May 10, 1789, and the brave daredevil was the French inventor, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, who took the flight together with the singer Joanna Cymerman. After numerous travels, this adventurous Frenchman, hungry for fame, came to Warsaw in 1789. On May 10, in the Foksal garden in Warsaw, an aerostat was prepared for flight under the watchful eye of numerous observers and among them was the king himself. Blanchard rose to air at 1:15 pm and drifted for 49 minutes, after which he landed in a forest in Białołęka, on the other side of the Vistula river. As in Krakow, the unusual event was announced by the firing of cannons. In the press of that time (Gazeta Warszawska, May 13, 1789) we can find a note:
Famous for his Aerial Sailing, Mr. Blanchard, a French native, from the City of Calais, with the salary of the King of France, member of many scientific Academies, made a strange spectacle in the capital with his (already thirty-fourth) Air Journey (…). The French Lady, who had already performed Air Sailing in Metz with him, accompanied him in Warsaw.
On the same day, Mr. Blanchard and Mrs. Cymerman were welcomed with great pomp at the Warsaw theater, and in the lounge prepared for them, there was a fake balloon, from which French poems praising aeronauts spilled out at the right moment. One of them was as follows: In vain the eyes are diminished, the one who pursues the Stars; the bigger in our thoughts, the less flicker in our eyes. Especially for this occasion, a commemorative medal was struck with the image of the aviator and the image of a balloon flight. There is a Latin inscription on it: Fearless does not dread the fate of Icarus. Was it created by order of the king, or was it an initiative of Blanchard himself? We don’t know, but considering that the Frenchman loved to make noise around him, the second option seems more likely.
Jan Potocki, first polish aeronaut
It is to Blanchard that we also owe the air travel of the first Polish aeronaut. It was Jan Potocki, who accompaniedBlanchard on his flight on May 14, 1790, a year after the brave Frenchman’s first visit to the Vistula River.
Who was Jan Potocki? This extremely interesting person is today known primarily for writing the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Potocki’s life could be the basis for a book, TV series, or movie. This very well-educated aristocrat spent his childhood abroad, where he also had an episode of military service in the imperial army. However, he spent most of his time traveling, including Mediterranean countries: Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt. Potocki was driven by his extraordinary curiosity about the world as well as ethnographic and archaeological fervor. He loved all antiquities and spared no effort to see as much as possible. He lived an adventurous life full of ventures: at one point he fought pirates in the Mediterranean Sea on ships of the Knights of Malta! He traveled through Egypt in a shaved head in Druze clothes and was delighted to see ancient monuments, including, of course, the pyramids of the ancient pharaohs and the statue of the Sphinx. As is customary (which may shock us today), he left graffiti on the pyramid.
After numerous trips and a stay in Paris, Potocki returned to Poland. From then on, he led an eccentric lifestyle in his homeland, although, which was noted with some surprise, he began to wear the Polish national costume.
Potocki was also responsible for the construction of the balloon, and the material was allegedly brought from his foreign travels. Eighteen craftsmen were to be hired for the production! Potocki did not enter the gondola of Blanchard’s balloon alone: he was accompanied by his Turkish servant, Ibrahim, and a white poodle. Once again, the aeronauts soared over Warsaw, watched by crowds of curious people. After a successful flight, the aerostat landed in Wola. | <urn:uuid:87dad8de-41c2-4029-87ea-79581e4a1fa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sylwa.eu/rerum/the-quest-to-conquer-the-skies-first-balloons-in-the-polish-lithuanian-commonwealth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.978999 | 2,214 | 3.421875 | 3 |
As millions converged on Washington last year to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama, security officials were concerned that among them were extremists traveling from Somalia to set off explosives as Obama took the oath of office, The New York Times reported on its Web site Monday.
The magazine report, to coincide with the first anniversary of Obama's inauguration, says that for 72 hours before the new president was sworn in intelligence agencies worked around the clock trying to figure our whether the threat was real and what, if anything, should be done if a terrorist struck while millions watched on the Mall and tens of millions more saw the ceremony on television.
“All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving quickly that had an overseas component,” Juan Carlos Zarate, President George W. Bush’s deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, told me in November. As the inauguration approached, signs of a plot “seemed to be growing in credibility and relevance.” Another senior Bush official involved in those tense events a year ago said last fall that protecting the new president was not enough. Even a failed attack would send a debilitating message to the world. “If something happens on the podium and there’s chaos,” this official told me, “that’s the first time you see the new president, and you really don’t want that.”
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the only Cabinet member who had been sworn in by Jan. 20, was spirited off to a secret location during the inauguration in case the worst happened. And if it did, officials planned, he would become next in line to be president.
As Obama publicly thanked the outgoing administration for its generous help in a smooth transition, privately his advisers and Cabinet-designees sat across the table from President George W. Bush's team to evaluate the information coming from the intelligence community and what should be done about it. The president-elect could do little beyond ask questions.
In the end, the report turned out to be false: No terrorists traveled here to attack the inauguration. The story was little more than a rumor, fueled by a false report from a rival organization. An explanation from the Times:
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Antonio Pky is an urban neighborhood in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, and it is home to a number of businesses. The median real estate price in Antonio Pky is $671,491, making it more costly than 48.7 percent of the neighborhoods in California and 86.5 percent of the neighborhoods in the United States, respectively.
Right now, the average rental price in Antonio Pky is $3,100 per month. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than the cost of renting in 66.4 percent of California’s neighborhoods.
Residential real estate in Antonio Pky is mostly comprised of modest (studio to two-bedroom) to medium-sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes, as well as apartment complexes and high-rise condominiums. The majority of residential real estate is occupied by a mix of owners and tenants, with the exception of a few vacant lots. Despite being founded, many of the dwellings in the Antonio Pky neighborhood are not old, having been constructed between the years 1970 and 1999. Between 1940 and 1969, a number of houses were constructed as well.
Most neighborhoods are made up of a mix of different ages of houses, but the Antonio Pky is notable for having nearly all of its residential real estate created in a single time period, especially between 1970 and 1999, which is generally considered to be established, but not old housing. When you walk about or drive around this neighborhood, you’ll notice that many of the houses have a similar appearance to one another due to the fact that they are all of a similar age. A staggering 89.9 percent of the residential real estate in this area was constructed during this time period.
The act of not commuting is a singular mode of transportation. Furthermore, an analysis of the Antonio Pky neighborhood reveals that 13.4 percent of the residents work from home, so eliminating the need to commute altogether. Even while this may not appear to be a significant number, it represents a higher proportion of persons who work from home than can be found in 96.1 percent of all neighborhoods in the United States.
The Antonio Pky area has more people of British and Iranian origin residing there than almost any other neighborhood in the United States. In reality, 4.5 percent of the population of this neighborhood are descended from British ancestors, whereas 1.8 percent are descended from Iranian ancestors.
The neighbors in the Antonio Pky area in Rancho Santa Margarita are upper-middle class, making it a neighborhood with a higher than average socioeconomic status. | <urn:uuid:9eea2995-7ac5-4b64-896a-e4d54524312f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://h2omoldrestorationgurus.com/antonio-pky-real-estate-neighborhood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.96742 | 528 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Using Polar Coordinates in After Effects
30 Days of After Effects: Day 2 – Master the Polar Coordinates effect in After Effects and create a GMunk inspired sci-fi space tunnel.
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Joey Korenman (00:21): What’s up Joey here at school of motion and welcome today to have 30 days of after effects today. What I want to talk about is an effect that a lot of people don’t really understand and it’s called polar coordinates. It’s this really geeky sounding effect, but with a little creativity and some know-how, it can do some incredible stuff. Now, this tutorial was inspired by a sick piece done by my favorite motion designer, Jima. I tried to recreate a little bit of it and I show you how I do it, and don’t forget, sign up for a free student account. So you can grab the project files from this lesson. Now let’s hop into after effects and get started. So like I said, the purpose of this video is going to be to introduce you guys to the polar coordinates effect. Um, and if you look at the final render that I put together, um, I kinda went a little bit overboard, um, and I obviously did a lot more than just, um, you know, put together a simple little demo here.
Joey Korenman (01:12): And, uh, I’m not going to be able to show you how I did every little piece of this. Uh, if that’s something you’re interested in, please let me know in the comments. Um, because you know, all of this stuff you’re looking at, there’s free information out there about how to use, you know, the sound effector in cinema 4d and how to create things that react with audio. What I want to show you in this tutorial is how to make this tunnel, this kind of rotating, 3d, infinite tunnel. Um, and it’s actually a lot easier than you think. Uh, I want to show you guys the G monk piece, and I know it wasn’t just G monk. Um, he probably worked with a lot of people on this, but he, he made this piece recently. And if you look at this part right here, this tunnel, and there’s a lot of really neat stuff going on here, and there’s some really fancy particle stuff, but this, this tunnel, this cool techie, Tron looking tunnel is what I wanted to try and recreate.
Joey Korenman (02:11): And I thought it would be a good way of using, um, the polar coordinates. In fact, in the end to show you guys how to use it. So let’s happen after facts. Uh, and first, let me try to show you what this effect does. Um, just on a very simple level. So I’m gonna make a new comp we’ll just call it test. All right. So what this effect does at its simplest level, okay, I’m just going to make a big horizontal line across the entire comp and I’m going to add an adjustment layer, and then I’m going to add the polar coordinates effect to it. Okay. So polar coordinates and only has two options, the type of conversion, and then the interpret, the interrelation is basically the strength of the effect. So if we, uh, if we set this to rectangular to polar, and then we up the strength here, all right, you can see what it does.
Joey Korenman (03:06): It basically takes that linear thing and it basically bends it into a circle. Okay. So that’s what the effect does. Um, and you might be wondering why is that useful? Well, like if, if you want to turn the tutorial off after this, this might explain everything for you. Okay. If I, uh, if I take this line, put it up here, actually, I got a better idea. Let’s put it way up here. Let’s actually move it out of the frame. All right. And let’s put a key frame on Y position and go forward one second and move it down here. That’s it. Okay. Now, when we play that, that’s the animation, that’s happening. Very simple. If we, uh, turn the polar coordinates strength all the way up to a hundred, and then we play it, well, now look what it’s doing. All right. It’s taking that vertical motion in our layer and it’s turning it into radial motion.
Joey Korenman (04:03): So that’s really why this effect is so cool. Um, so I’ll show you guys how I made the tunnel, but before I do that, I want to, I just want you to understand a little bit better. Some other ways that this effect can be used. Of course, we’re just scratching the surface here. Um, and there’s actually some, some other really cool things you can do. So let me first turn my adjustment layer off. Let me delete the shape layer. Um, and I’ll show you guys this example, um, that hopefully will, will start giving you some ideas of your own some cool experiments. You could run with this effect and see what you can come up with. So here we’ve got a star and what I’m going to do is I’m going to turn the conversion instead of rectangular to polar. I’m going to say polar to rectangular.
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Raise your hand if you have your smartphone with you right now. We all rely on technology to make every aspect of our lives easier — from finding an ATM to directing us away from traffic delays to checking the weather. So, the question I ask you is this: Why do we expect our employees to be any different?
When it comes to work, many business leaders get lost thinking that employees care only about salaries and perks. Sure, free yoga classes, weekly lunch buffets, and a ping-pong table in a meeting room may sound like fun. But they will not convince the most talented and qualified people to join a growing company and stay for the long term.
Technology Avoidance Takes Growth Out of High-Growth Companies
According to Oxford Economics study “The Transformation Imperative for Small and Midsize Companies,” two-thirds of executives believe that retraining programs for existing employees and business managers will benefit from technology. When learning is useful and productive, employees are more engaged and consistently prepared to do their part to deliver a great customer experience. In fact, the report states that increasing employee engagement is a key driver of revenue growth, ahead of strategies such as entering new markets, risk management, and merger and acquisition.
Some growing companies are hesitant to embrace technology, and this is a problem. Our world is changing as acceptance of digital experiences become a fact of life. Businesses that ignore the momentum of innovation may become obsolete. But if a deliberate commitment to digital investment is made, the workplace culture will mature with technology to the point where employee expectations are met without delay.
Employees Are Key to It All – Give Them What They Want
All too often, businesses look at their people as resources or, worse, a necessary cost of doing business. This internal dialogue couldn’t be more wrong. Just like businesses need to put the customer at the center of every process, product, and service, HR organizations would do well to remember that the entire workforce is their most valuable asset.
In every industry, products and services are already commoditized by technology. The main thing that sets a company apart from the competition is its workforce. Growing companies need to replace outdated ways of working with technology-enabled processes that amplify the best outcomes for all employees – and HR organizations are a critical link to bring this to life.
When I reflect on my career, the times when I feel most engaged are when I know my work impacts the success of my employer. This is when I openly accept any opportunity to take on new responsibilities, learn new skills, and adopt new practices. By connecting my talent and time to a specific purpose aligned with the company vision, I am thrilled to devote myself to the ultimate success of the business.
If growing companies improve the way they work, they can better connect employees to the purpose of the business, which is the biggest opportunity of all. When people buy into what they’re doing and are treated as human beings, they’ll deliver better work because they want to be there. They’ll even work in the back shed if that’s what’s needed. What all your people really want to know is why they’re there – and what difference they’re making.
Prepare your growing business for digital transformation with strong technology to continually improve the total employee experience – from recruitment and reskilling to retention. Read the Oxford Economics executive study “The Transformation Imperative for Small and Midsize Companies,” sponsored by SAP.
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FORA.tv Speaker - Fariba Nawa
Fariba Nawa, an award-winning Afghan-American journalist, has made her selected work available on this site. She covers a range of issues and specializes in immigrant and Muslim communities in the United States and abroad. She is a correspondent based in the San Francisco Bay Area but frequently travels to the Middle East and South Asia. She lived and reported from Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007, witness to the US-led war against the Taliban and al Qaeda.
She has a master's in Middle Eastern studies and journalism and speaks Persian and Arabic. This collection of news articles, essays, radio reports and academic work include coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan, Muslim women's struggles and some pieces from her earlier reports on crime and criminal justice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her work has appeared in the Sunday Times of London, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. She also reports for radio, including National Public Radio (NPR). Her essays have been published in two books, March to War and Women for Afghan Women.
She's a speaker on Middle East and South Asian issues and has participated in talks at the World Affairs Council, major universities and has been interviewed by major television and radio networks. She is currently in the Bay Area working on a project about reconstruction and the drug trade in Afghanistan.
03.23.09 | 01:03:22 min
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India celebrates Ram Navami, the birth of the Hindu Lord Ram, on Friday. Anand Neelakantan, the author of “Asura,” and an expert on Hindu mythology, explains the origins and significance of the festival.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Neelakantan spoke about the Ram Navami myth, how a festival developed around it, and why Ravana, the ten-headed demon god, helped elevate Ram to divine status.
The Wall Street Journal: What makes Lord Ram such an important figure in Hindu mythology?
Mr. Neelakantan: Hinduism created Lord Ram to portray the ideal man: A son who gives up the throne to honor a vow made by his father, a husband who challenged the devil to protect his wife, a ruler who is forced to put his marriage to the test for the sake of his citizens.
Simply put, he is a man who in this world is considered far too ideal to exist. His character is symbolic of all that humankind is not and that one must strive to be.
WSJ: Tell us more about the origins of Ram Navami.
Mr. Neelakantan: Ram Navami, or the divine birth of Lord Ram, has its origins in an age-old Hindu tale.
King Dasharatha, the ruler of the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, had three wives but no children. To appease the Gods, he conducted a yagna, or a prayer ceremony, believing he would be blessed with the heir to his throne. During the ceremony, a sage presented Dasharatha a bowl of payasam, or divine dessert, a portion of which he first offered to his eldest wife Kausalya. A few days later, at noon, Kausalya conceives a son, Lord Ram.
The Hindu epic Ramayana claims this child was an incarnation of Vishnu, the creator of the universe, who took human form to end evil on Earth.
WSJ: How have festivities of Ram Navami evolved over centuries?
Mr. Neelakantan: Believe it or not, Ram Navami wasn’t celebrated in the second century, a time when Ramayana is believed to have been penned. Stories of Lord Ram would exist only as folk tales, there were no festivities as such.
Festivals in India came to be celebrated only when the Bhakti or the devotional movement, gained momentum in the 16th century. During this time Sufi saints and scholars popularized mythology — largely the Ramayana — through literature, poetry and devotional songs. The Hindu epic, originally a Sanskrit text, was also translated to regional languages, including to Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam. This far and wide movement was, to a great extent, responsible for elevating Lord Ram to the status of the supreme deity in India.
In the 21st century, Ram Navami is typically celebrated by fasting and prayer ceremonies in temples. Lord Ram’s idols are worshipped, religious hymns chanted, and teachings from the Ramayana traditionally read out loud by priests for devotees.
WSJ: Would Lord Ram still be as revered in India if he hadn’t killed the ten-headed demon king Ravana?
Mr. Neelakantan: Not at all. A great hero always needs a great villain.
Lord Ram was elevated to godhood only because he killed Ravana, which in mythology, symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. Without Ravana, Ram would be just another saint, another good man. There would be no question of elevating him to godhood.
WSJ: What pushed you to narrate the Ramayana from Ravana’s perspective in your book?
Mr. Neelakantan: I was born into a conservative family of Brahmins, a caste of Hindus who worship religion. As a child, my father made it a point to read out the Ramayana to me, a text which filled me with more questions than answers.
For instance, Lord Ram suffered only pain until his death following what, the scriptures said, was his righteous duty. Ravana, on the other hand, lived like a king and died like a king. ‘Just because Ravana is the enemy of Ram, a man we know to be god, that doesn’t necessarily make him evil,’ I would argue with my father.
The idea of narrating the Ramayana from Ravana’s perspective came from these very questions.
WSJ: Would you say this was an attempt to rehabilitate the demon god?
Mr. Neelakantan: That’s one way of looking at it. But more importantly, the message I want to drive through is that, Ram and Ravana are sides of the same coin. One is incomplete without the other.
Ravana, for instance, is symbolic of everything that humankind is at this point: angry, arrogant, conceited, proud and ambitious. There are shades of Ravana in each one of us. Ram, on the other hand, is what every human wants to be — sacrificing, dutiful, selfless and devotional – but cannot fully be. My book is an attempt to make the masses realize that everything cannot be black or white. Good and evil, both, co-exist in each one of us. | <urn:uuid:2482d384-e71e-45f1-86c1-fa22d5714354> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/19/qa-what-is-ram-navami/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00481-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96302 | 1,124 | 3.140625 | 3 |
In the book “Padre Pio’s Mass” written by Fr. Tarcisio of Cervinara, we again are given proof that the Holy Mass is the Re Made Present of The Holy Sacrifice of Jesus Christ offered once and for all on Calvary. At the Council of Trent in the 22nd. session it states:
“Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, ‘on the night that he was handed over’, left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.”
Padre Pio is the first priest to have received the “stigmata”, the wounds of Jesus in his body (hands, feet and side). St. Francis received them, but only as a deacon. This is important because Padre Pio offered the sacrifice of the Holy Mass and St. Francis was only able to assist.
Padre Pio’s Holy Masses would last from 3 to 4 hours. People came from all over the world to be present. They would have to get there very early to be able to get a place in the church. No one complained about it being so long and quiet.
The only person for whom it was excruciating long was Padre Pio. During the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, he would actually re-live the passion and crucifixion of Jesus.
First we need to be reminded that at every Holy Mass, Jesus is, in an un-bloody form, offering His life on the cross for the salvation of sinners. Then that the priest is truly an Alter Christus, which means the priest actually becomes the victim with Jesus Christ at the Holy Mass. This is shown by the priest saying: “This is My Body” and “This is My Blood”. The priest does not say: This is Jesus‘ Body or This is Jesus‘ Blood.
So when Padre Pio would offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, he would become literally this Alter Christus in suffering the crucifixion and bleeding in his wounds. One priest who was next to the altar during Padre Pio’s Mass, said he could never do that again because he could not stand to see Padre Pio go through that agony again.
Fr. Tarcisio: At what hour of the day do you suffer most?
Padre Pio: During the offering of the Mass.
Fr. Tarcisio: At what moment of the Divine Sacrifice (of the Mass) do you suffer Most?
Padre Pio: Always and increasingly.
Fr. Tarcisio: During the offering of the Mass, at what moment do you suffer most?
Padre Pio: From the Consecration to Communion.
Fr. Tarcisio: At what part of the Mass are you scourged?
Padre Pio: From the beginning to the end, but more intensely after the Consecrations.
Fr. Tarcisio: During the Mass, are the pricks of thorns from the crown and the scourging real?
Padre Pio: What do you mean? The results are the same.
Fr. Tarcisio: What should we do during Mass?
Padre Pio: Repent and love.
Fr. Tarcisio: How should we hear Mass?
Padre Pio: In the same way that the Most Holy Virgin and the Holy women assisted. In the same way that St. John assisted at the Eucharistic Sacrifice and the bloody one of the Cross. We priests are the sacrificers of Jesus, the Lamb of God during the Mass, while all of paradise reverently descends on the altar.
Fr. Tarcisio: What benefits do we receive on hearing it?
Padre Pio: It is not possible to number them. You will see them in Paradise.
So, in the actual life experience of Padre Pio, we see that the Holy Mass is truly the Sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary for the conversion of sinners and salvation of souls.
In every Holy Latin Mass this sorrowful atmosphere is protected and maintained. The silence, the kneeling, the sacred music and the reverence. For this reason we do not “actively participate” by holding hands, clapping, talking and moving around. Active participation is mystically participating in the Holy Sacrifice in our hearts and minds and by being aware of what is truly going on, Jesus at Calvary.
Mary and St. John the Apostle were not jumping around and celebrating Jesus’ sacrifice. They were there sorrowfully loving Him and praying. They reverently offered Him to the Father. They offered themselves to the Father through Jesus’ offering on the cross. Mary as His mother and St. John as a priest.
Padre Pio only died in 1968. You can see many movies about him and talk to people who knew him well. He was very very concerned about the masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church. He asked Fr. Luigi Villa to defend the Church from this infiltration. I have been to San Giovanni Rotondo several times. When I looked at the new church there, I noticed the movable roof looked like dragon wings. Fr. Luigi Villa in his “Chiesa Viva” magazine shows how the masons put their design through out this building.
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This typically includes lack of concentration, acting on impulse, and hyperactivity. The child will have particular problems with organising and planning. It can be difficult to get ADHD diagnosed in deaf children as behaviour associated with deafness may complicate the diagnosis. A small group of deaf children do have ADHD. On the other hand, some deaf children may be wrongly labelled as having ADHD. It is important to have a specific diagnosis of deafness and ADHD, as this is important in taking the right action. The assessment should be made by a team made up of different professionals. There is no single test for ADHD and a diagnosis can only be made after a range of information is collected, especially from parents. The symptoms must be obvious in most areas of the child's life. Managing ADHD may involve additional educational support, counselling and medication.
Further information: http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Attention_Deficit_Disorder__ADD_or_ADHD_
This term describes a range of disorders associated with poor understanding of social situations, poor communication skills, repetitive actions and resistance to changes in routines. The range of disorders includes Asperger's syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and Rett syndrome. Identifying an autistic spectrum disorder is complex. An assessment is based on observations and practical tests rather than medical investigations. Managing an autistic spectrum disorder may involve a mixture of behaviour management, education, speech pathology, medication and family support.
Information and support: http://www.aspect.org.au/
This condition varies a great deal in the way it affects children. The assessment of a child's ability to learn may be complicated by a child not being able to respond physically or through speech. Cerebral palsy may also make it more difficult to carry out and interpret hearing tests. It is very important to share information about your child's hearing and listening behaviour with your child's Teacher of the Deaf and audiologist. This helps to build a picture of your child's hearing. It is very important that any child with cerebral palsy has a communication method that is easy to use, easily accessible and allows for development
Information and support: https://cpaustralia.com.au/
CP Helpline on 1300 30 29 20.
Down syndrome is commonly associated with an intellectual disability, although the degree of this varies. Children with Down syndrome often have a hearing loss caused by a build-up of fluid in their middle ear. Like other children with additional needs, special care should be taken when analysing the results of hearing tests. Children with Down syndrome may also have a sensorineural (nerve) deafness. Many have a combination of both conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. So it important that hearing levels are checked regularly.
As children with Down syndrome have very small ear canals, this must be taken into account when hearing aids are fitted. Real ear measurements (measurements of the actual level of sound from the hearing aid recorded in the ear canal) should be used to make sure the hearing aid is set correctly and is not too loud.
Many children with Down syndrome go to local mainstream schools. The school may have a special class providing more one to one help from a teacher trained in Special Education. If a child with Down Syndrome is placed in a mainstream class, they should have assistance from a teacher aide and Teacher of the Deaf.
Further information and support: http://www.downsyndromensw.org.au/index.php
This is where there is a problem with the muscles that control speech. This is commonly associated with a general condition like cerebral palsy.
Some children have specific learning difficulties - they have problems in one or more areas of learning, but not in others. A child may find it difficult to understand that words are made of different sounds. A child may also have memory problems that make it hard for them to remember the structure of a sentence long enough for them to understand what it means. Children may find it difficult to solve problems and have a tendency to act on impulse.
Further information and support: http://auspeld.org.au/
Intellectual disabilities vary from mild to very severe. They frequently occur with a range of other disabilities. A person with an intellectual disability may learn and process information more slowly; have problems with abstract concepts such as time and money and difficulties understanding the subtleties of social situations and relationships.
Standard hearing tests are based on children at the usual stage of development for their age. Specialist expertise is needed to identify the specific hearing needs and appropriate support for deaf children with an intellectual disability and to monitor their progress. All children are unique, regardless of their IQ, and have their own preferences, abilities, personalities and behaviour. Communication may be very challenging, but it is essential families are given appropriate support from speech pathologists and Teachers of the Deaf to make sure communication is developed.
Information and support:
Children with Disability Australia
When children who can hear have a level of language that is well below their general ability, they can be classified as having a 'specific language disorder'. Language development may also be expected to be delayed if deafness is not diagnosed and managed early on. A language disorder may be thought to be present when a child has specific problems understanding spoken or sign language, or a specific problem using speech or sign, above what may be expected for the level and type of hearing loss. A disorder is difficult to identify without the input of an experienced speech pathologist who specialises in deafness.
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Last week started with a potential nuclear standoff, saw two elections go down to the wire, and ended with scientists marching on seven continents in defense of, well, science.
As of this article’s publishing, these events all remain unresolved.
Fortunately, the nuclear showdown was reduced to a simmer when it turned out U.S. warships hadn’t actually been dispatched to counter North Korean sabre-rattling, as officials had claimed. Closely-watched elections in France and Georgia will move on to runoffs after no candidate could achieve a majority. (Consensus is hard to reach these days.) And for the moment, the future of science remains hypothetical.
What’s not hypothetical are these five important stories that you likely missed among all the other headlines.
Activists from the group Chok3 stand next to a banner painted with their own blood during a protest against the constant discrimination and violence against the gay community in Chechnya and other regions of Russia, outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters
1. More details of the anti-gay crackdown in Chechyna emerge. A spokesman for the region’s leadership said gay men do not exist there.
At the start of April, an opposition newspaper in Russia, Novaya Gazeta, reported that authorities in Chechnya had been detaining and killing gay men in the region.
The newspaper reported that more than 100 men thought to be gay or bisexual had been arrested and taken to a state-sponsored detention center. Another three had been killed, possibly several more, in the anti-gay sweep in the conservative region.
Shortly after news of the police sweeps broke, an emergency hotline was created by the Saint Petersburg-based advocacy group Russian LGBT Network. More details of the crackdown emerged: Chechen authorities would beat, torture and subject the men to electric shocks. Some victims said they were lured by authorities, posing as friends, on social chat rooms. Under duress, the men were also coerced to give the names of their gay acquaintances.
As media took notice in the U.S., details of the crackdown were scarce. Reports were largely limited to Novaya Gazeta’s initial story and local human rights activists who said there was a state-sponsored detention center that rounded up gay and bisexual men.
This was in direct contrast with the response from the spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader. Spokesman Alvi Karimov called the initial report of the crackdown “absolute lies and disinformation,” saying that there is no anti-gay detention center in Chechnya because no gay men exist in the region.
“You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” Alvi Karimov, the spokesman, said. “If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return,” he added.
Several follow-up reports from CNN and The New York Times, among others, say otherwise.
Why it’s important
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in 2015. Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin via Reuters
Chechnya is a Muslim-majority region in southern Russia, where, as one resident told Andrew Kramer of the Times, “Under Islam, lying with a man is a sin.”
“People don’t approve of homosexuals here in Chechnya. If anybody tries to start a gay movement here, they will be killed,” the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, added. The man also told the Times that he was opposed to the current crackdown.
Russia, in general, has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses against LGBTQ individuals, including a 2013 law, signed by President Vladimir Putin, that banned “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations.”
Human Rights Watch also said in a statement back in January that Chechnya’s leader Kadyrov “has steadily tried to eradicate all forms of dissent and gradually built a tyranny within Chechnya,” adding that it’s been worse the past two years.
It’s all been done, too, “with the blessing of the Kremlin,” the international human rights group added.
Last week, Putin met with Kadyrov at the Kremlin, where the Chechnya leader brought up the reports of the anti-gay police sweeps — to reject them again. Putin, reportedly, did not comment.
There has been some international pressure, including from the U.S. State Department, on Russia to investigate the abuses.
Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch told BBC that the “chances of a proper investigation … are possibly rather thin.”
“But the chance that Russia’s leadership orders Kadyrov to stop the purge is there. It’s not everything, but it’s better than nothing,” she added.
2. A new look at America’s mortality
Does where we live determine how we die?
Researchers have argued yes. But the way medical examiners classify deaths can sometimes be vague, not always precise enough to map trends in any meaningful way.
Now, The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has designed a new model that could allow us to better predict and treat disease, addiction and other causes of death.
Five Thirty Eight visualized that data this week in an interactive map, which allows users to explore cause of death in every inch of the country over time.
Why it’s important
The new model gives us “more complete estimates of mortality across the country, one revealing regional and local variations in causes of death,” Five Thirty Eight writes:
Rural Appalachia stands out; nine counties in Kentucky and three in West Virginia make the list. Rising cancer rates and increased deaths from substance abuse in Appalachia have kept mortality rates high there, even while overall mortality rates in the U.S. have gone down.
Also high on the list: the Dakotas, dominated by Native American tribes on reservations, which have struggled with access to health care and treating mental illness.
It also gives a better glimpse at how certain causes of death have changed over time. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases were cut in half between the 1980s and 2014, as were those from transport injuries. Other causes, like mental health substance abuse disorders, nearly tripled in that time. This kind of information could better allow local and federal health officials to set priorities and direct funding where it’s needed most.
3. Fear of Chinese jihadists returning from Syria is a growing concern for Beijing
A man works on a security camera that was installed at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 2013. China’s domestic security chief believed a fatal vehicle crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in which five died was planned by a Uighur separatist group, designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and UN. Beijing, then, said the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was behind the attack. Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
As many as several thousand Chinese jihadists have traveled to Syria, most of them paying allegiance to the Turkestan Islamic Party, or TIP. The Islamic group, itself an offshoot of a larger Muslim separatist group, fights against President Bashar Assad’s government forces.
The number of Chinese fighters heading off to fight in Syria’s civil war has become a rising concern for Chinese officials in Beijing who worry about national security when these fighters return to their home country, the Associated Press reported.
As Council of Foreign Relations pointed out, TIP has previously taken responsibility for a pair of bus bombings in Shanghair and Kunming in 2009.
However, the number of Chinese jihadist fighters is a point of disagreement. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AP that it estimates that 5,000 Chinese jihadists, most of whom a part of TIP, are involved in Syria’s war. But, a terrorism expert at China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations told AP that the number of Chinese fighters in Syria is closer to 300.
Syria’s President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with China’s state television CCTV, in Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria’s national news agency, SANA, in 2013. Photo by SANA/Handout via Reuters
Besides Russia, China has been criticized as one of Syria’s steadfast backers in the ongoing civil war, vetoing several UN resolutions that would impose sanctions on the Syrian government.
China, along with Russia, vetoed a UN resolution in February that would have specifically directed sanctions at Syria over its suspected use of chemical weapons.
And what does Assad think of the Chinese jihadists? Last month, he reportedly addressed Beijing’s concern over this group in an interview with Chinese PHOENIX TV.
“They know your country more than the others, so they can do more harm in your country than others,” AP quoted the Syrian president as saying.
But, China has a history of using anti-terrorism crackdowns to repress local Muslim populations, such as the Uighurs, and to restrict religious practices of the nations’s minorities.
Earlier this month, the Chinese government barred parents from choosing a select group of names for their children, the Times confirmed. The “List of Banned Ethnic Minority Names” included two dozen banned names with “Muhammad,” “Arafat,” “Jihad” and “Medina,” among them.
The government said the ban was introduced to help “curb religious fervor” in Xinjiang, home to 10 million Uighurs in west China.
Rights groups condemned the ban, saying that the policy restricts religious freedom.
“Violent incidents and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang have been on the rise in recent years, but the government’s farcically repressive policies and punishments are hardly solutions,” Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “Instead, they are only going to deepen resentment among Uyghurs.”
4. In a northern district of Hanoi, villagers take police hostage
Released policemen (wearing dark uniforms) walk out from the communal house at Dong Tam commune, My Duc district in Hanoi.More than a dozen police and officials held hostage by Vietnamese villagers over a land dispute were released on April 22, state media reported, ending a week-long standoff that had gripped the country. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images.
It takes a village to raise a child, the popular proverb goes. It often also takes a village to force change, a thought embodied last week by residents of a northern Hanoi suburb who held dozens of police and city officials hostage as bargaining chips in a land dispute.
Residents of Dong Tam took 38 police officers hostage April 15 as the latest tactic in their unsuccessful campaign to get the government to reconsider a land deal. Originally, the 145-acre tract was intended for a military airport, one resident told the New York Times, but that project was canceled and more than a dozen families built houses on the land. In 2015, the government handed the land over to The Viettel Group, a military communications firm run by the government, the BBC reported; protests began this year as residents grew increasingly frustrated over what they said was unfair compensation for their land.
When police went to arrest four villagers for “disturbing social order,” the villagers fought back, capturing dozens of police officers and barricading the district to get the attention of the government, including Mayor Nguyen Duc Chung.
The villagers slowly released the police officers over the course of the week as talks continued. Over the weekend, they released the 19 officers that remained, after Chung agreed to address their concerns within 45 days and not pursue charges against the locals who held the officers hostage.
Why it’s important
A street is seen blocked at a gate in Dong Tam during a land dispute protest on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo by REUTERS/Stringer.
Like in many other places around the globe, proving land ownership in Vietnam, whose government is controlled by the Communist Party, can be tricky.
Residents can own property, but the government can also seize it at any time in the name of socio-economic development, the BBC points out — though how they define that remains largely unclear. Four years ago, the government made reforms to how they evicted families from their land, but the experts told the Times those changes were “largely cosmetic.”
The difference now: Residents are adopting new strategies. Not all are as drastic as holding dozens of police officers hostage. But before and during this latest incident, for instance, residents voiced their frustrations on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. In this way, they’re better able to document what is happening and broadcast it to the world.
Social media, particularly Facebook, “has quickly become a battleground for pro-government social media users and Vietnamese activists to argue about the stand-off,” the BBC writes.
How the government settles this land dispute could have broad implications for property rights in the country. As one economist warned the AP: something like the Dong Tam incident could happen again “if there are no strong changes in the legal system and the behavior of the authorities.”
5. A pipeline project has leaked millions of gallons of drilling fluid into Ohio wetlands
A screengrab from Google Maps shows the Tuscarawas River just outside of Navarre, Ohio.
The Rover Pipeline, a $4.2 billion dollar project that will carry natural gas through Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Ontario, Canada, leaked more than 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into wetlands close to Columbus, Ohio, officials discovered last week.
As reported by NewsHour’s Courtney Norris, about 50,000 gallons of drilling fluid — a thick gel-like substance used to cut through rock during pipeline construction — was released into wetlands near Richland County, Ohio, according to a violation notice made public last week. A much larger spill also took place April 13, which leaked an estimated 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into wetlands next to the Tuscarawas River.
The pollutants from the spill included bentonite, a clay mud used as a drilling lubricant, according to violation paperwork issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. It’s a mineral used to help cat litter clump when it gets wet and does not break down easily in water, making it difficult to remove from aquifers. A spokesman for the Ohio EPA, James Lee, told the Richland Source newspaper that the spill did not affect private wells or public water systems.
The Ohio EPA instructed Rover Pipeline LLC, which is owned by Energy Transfer Partners, to establish containment points and remove pollutants from affected surface water. Alexis Daniels, a spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners, told the Richland Source in an email that the company enacted its cleanup protocol upon recognizing the spill. Daniels also noted the drilling fluid released in the spill is non-toxic and not harmful to the environment.
A banner flies in the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. President Donald Trump has pledged to make it easier for pipelines to move forward. Photo by Terray Sylvester/Reuters
After receiving permits in February, ETP began construction of the 713-mile Rover pipeline earlier this month; the project was scheduled to be ready for service sometime in 2017. It’s not clear how these latest spills affect that schedule.
The spills come at a time when President Donald Trump is pledging to make it easier for pipelines to move forward.
Trump said he planned to expedite environmental reviews — including the one that allowed Dakota Access Pipeline, also owned by Energy Transfer Partners, to be completed, despite concerns and monthslong demonstrations from Native American and environmental protesters. Trump also gave the green light to the Keystone XL pipeline, a project former President Barack Obama rejected in 2015.
“The process is so long and cumbersome that they give up before the end. Sometimes it takes many, many years and we don’t want that to happen,” Trump said while signing an executive order in January.
Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, are urging the government step in to stop construction of other pipelines across the country.
PBS NewsHour’s Iman Smith and Courtney Norris contributed to this story.
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Wheat is a primordial basic food. The nature of wheat is such that it has been given symbolic meaning in mythology and religion. It is considered the fruit of the Earth, a gift of life and the gift of the gods. It is associated with purity, covenant and blessing. It may also be considered the basic food of immortality. In Greek mythology, a single grain of wheat was displayed at the wedding of Zeus and Demeter. Demeter was a great mother, a fertility goddess and was responsible for the seasons. A grain of wheat was symbolic of the cycle of the seasons and the cycle of life. When planted, one grain of wheat produces many on an ear of wheat. As a dream symbol, it may be pointing to your inner “food,” or the abundance that the unconscious holds. It may also represent the “plenty” that surrounds you in your daily life. Wheat may symbolize abundance and its ability to continuously regenerate itself. This dream may be a reminder from the unconscious, which tells us that abundance and prosperity is in our nature, as is rebirth of psychological, emotional and spiritual type. | <urn:uuid:3ad8d199-b887-4f7f-a333-774ff84dda74> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.edreaminterpretation.org/wheat-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974005 | 229 | 2.921875 | 3 |
National Organizations For Youth Safety Celebrates Global Youth Traffic Safety Month
WASHINGTON--May 5, 2014: In honor of the eighth anniversary of Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, local youth joined members of the National Transportation Safety Board, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Governors Highway Safety Association, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) and Safe Kids Worldwide today at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to address the issue of road safety on a global and national level. The U.S. Department of Transportation, Mazda Motorsports, NOYS and the Ad Council will also announce the winners of Third Annual Project Yellow Light Video Contest.
Following the event at the NTSB organized by NOYS, youth and representatives from member organizations participated in the 2nd annual Long Short Walk. The mile-long walk was created in memory of 13-year old Zenani Mandela, Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter who was killed as a result of a vehicular crash.
Summer months are especially dangerous for teens on the road. As summer approaches, many of our nations teens celebrate the end of the school year with long weekend nights and big events like prom and graduation. The increasingly nice weather also results in the highways and roads being more congested with driving youth. That's why May, before the start of the busy summer season, is designated as Global Youth Traffic Safety Month.
"Global Youth Traffic Safety Month presents an opportunity to call attention to the fact that vehicular crashes are the No. 1 killer of our youth worldwide and in the U.S.," said Anita Boles, CEO of NOYS. NOYS is fighting back against this epidemic by engaging young people in the solution."
After the Long Short Walk, over 100 teens will have the opportunity to take part in the hands-on "Teens and Trucks" initiative hosted by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) in Washington, D.C. The event and demonstrations will be supported by the Maryland State Police and Fedex Corporation. Through simulated demonstrations, teens will learn techniques for safe and cautious driving around trucks and commercial vehicles.
They will have the opportunity to sit in a machine, called a seatbelt convincer, and experience a simulated sudden 10-mile-an-hour stop in a vehicle and its impact, demonstrating the importance of wearing safety belts in the event of an incident. "Our message to teens everywhere – whether they are driving, walking or bicycling – is to stay focused and stay out of a truck's blind spots or 'no zones'," said Anne Ferro, Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
In addition, NOYS and The Allstate Foundation partnered for the seventh year to host "Act Out Loud" as a signature program of Global Youth Traffic Safety Month. Throughout April and May, teens in more than 200 high schools nationwide are hosting safe driving rallies as part of the "Act Out Loud" program. The program and contest encourages youth to educate their classmates and communities about three causes of fatal car crashes for teens: speeding, low seat belt use rates, and distractions caused by teen passengers.
"We continue to be amazed by the creativity and enthusiasm that the teens bring to their safe driving rallies," said Steve Sorenson, executive vice president of product operations at Allstate. "Each year, the teams rise to the challenge and find a new way to bring a tough subject to life for their classmates and their communities."
Participating "Act Out Loud" teams received free resources for their safe driving rallies and could earn up to $1,000 for submitting rally plans and teen safe driving designs for posters and t-shirts. Teams that submit a video or picture slide show of their rally are eligible for the grand prize of $10,000, and three runner-ups can win prizes of $2,000 each.
"To me, the 'Act Out Loud' rally really proved what our Traffic Education Saves Teens Club is all about," said Darby Leimer, a sophomore at last year's "Act Out Loud" grand prize winning school, Cookeville High School in Cookeville, Tenn. "We showed our community how and why safe driving habits are important."
With NOYS' focus on youth safety, Global Youth Traffic Safety Month helps organizations to engage teens in the solution and to help change such statistics as:
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The Mystery Quilt 2014 is almost here! Connecting Threads is offering a Mystery Quilt Quilt Along to celebrate National Quilt Month in March. Mystery Quilt 2013 was a big success with 459 enthusiastic and supportive members. Mystery Quilt 2014, our second mystery quilt adventure, promises to be lots of fun for all as well. We think you will enjoy making this attractive, instructional three-part pattern, suitable for confident beginners and experienced quilters. The catch is that you won’t know what the quilt looks like until Part 3!
The finished quilt will be a lap quilt or throw, approximately 52-1/2 x 64-1/2″, and requires six fabrics. It is time to select and order your fabric so you’ll be ready for Part 1 of the Mystery Quilt 2014, to be posted on Wednesday, March 19th. To help you choose fabrics, especially since you don’t know what you are making, the Fabric Selection Suggestions handout is now available.
How do I join the quilt along?
You may join the Mystery Quilt 2014 Quilt Along Group on Quilt with Us (QWU) or follow along here on Notions. Joining QWU, CT’s social network website, is free and easy. Many of you, who are already members, have experienced the fun and supportive CT quilting community.
What are the dates of the quilt along?
Part 1 – Wednesday, March 19th
Part 2 – Wednesday, March 26th
Part 3 – Wednesday, April 2nd
Conclusion – Wednesday, April 9th
Where will I find the pattern?
The Mystery Quilt 2014 pattern is written in three parts. The pattern and related tutorials will be downloadable as PDFs as part of the Mystery Quilt 2014 Quilt Along Group on QWU, with a link posted on Notions. Note: Ann will be responding to comments and questions only for the Mystery Quilt 2014 Quilt Along Group on QWU.
Would this be a good quilt for a beginner?
This would not be a good first quilt. Based on the CT ratings, the quilt is on the border between easy and intermediate. Having said that, it is an instructional pattern. Some of the piecing is easy, some requires more precise work. Each section is accompanied by detailed notes and photos for each step. A confident beginner, with experience sewing 1/4″ seams, may find the quilt a challenge but doable because I provide many helpful hints for successful completion.
How do I select my fabric?
The difficulty with a mystery quilt is selecting fabric when you don’t know what you are making. In the Fabric Selection Suggestions PDF, I show 12 combinations of Connecting Threads fabrics, in addition to the fabrics used in the pattern, that will work for this pattern. You may select from these fabrics or choose your own using the combinations as guidelines for light, medium and dark value placement.
Note: The fabrics in the Fabric Selection Suggestions handout were available as of 3/4/14. If a fabric is not available when you order, you will have to choose something else or substitute from your stash.
Any special tools required? Only general sewing supplies. One very helpful, but optional, tool would be the 81639 Omnigrip Neon 6-1/2″ Square Ruler.
What if I need extra help with piecing the Mystery Quilt?
I will answer questions in the discussions as part Mystery Quilt 2014 Quilt Along Group on QWU. Other participants are good about offering suggestions as well. Related tutorials will also be available to read or download. It may be fun and helpful to do the quilt along with a quilting buddy or group of quilters.
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6-Mercaptopuring is commonly referred to by docs and pharmacists as purinethol or the simple and easy to say 6-MP. 6-mercaptopurine has the CAS Registry Number 50-44-2. The CA name is: 1,7-dihydro-6H-purine-6-thione. Trade names include Leukerin, Mercaleukin, Puri-Nethol, Purinethol.
When isolated from aqueous solution, 6-MP forms yellow prisms of a monohydrate form, becoming anhydrous at 140 degrees centigrade and decomposing at 313-314 degrees centigrade. The LD50 in mice and hamsters is 157 mg/kg of body weight. It is listed as an antineoplastic and immunosuppressant. The Merck Index lists two relatively recent review articles (1988 and 1991) of its use in the treatment of leukemia, if you are interested.
6-MP is a DNA antimetabolite. This means that it mimics a substance necessary in DNA synthesis necessary.
Digging up an old biochem text, I found the following information. In the body, 6-MP is converted to the corresponding ribonucleotide. 6-MP ribonucleotide is a potent inhibitor of the conversion of a compound called inosinic acid to adenylic acid. Without adenylic acid, DNA cannot be synthesized. [DNA is made up of A (adenine), T (thymine), G (guanine), and C (cytidine), each of which is linked in turn to deoxyribose, a sugar]. It also inhibits the conversion of inosinic acid to xanthylic acid that is necessary for the synthesis of guanylic acid. A different text states that 6-MP also works by being incorporated into nucleic acids as thioguanosine, rendering the resulting nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) unable to direct proper protein synthesis.
Cancer Growth and Progression, Volume 10, Cancer Management in Man, written in 1989, validates these two mechanisms of action of 6-MP: (1) inhibition of purine biosynthesis and (2) incorporation into DNA. This is a good reference for detail on the mechanism of purine antimetabolites, 6-MP and 6-thioguanine. These are the only two purine antimetabolites that are currently used in chemotherapy . However, there are many experimental antipurines being tested as anticancer drugs.
6-MP can be administered either in tablet form (orally) or IV. Common side effects listed on the sheet we received from the hospital are:
During administration, the oncodocs will continue to monitor white blood cell counts and liver function. In our experience, 6-MP is one of the less nasty chemo drugs.
This is the only sheet we got at the hospital for 6-MP.
TPMT and 6MP. Some people have different forms of TPMT (thiopurine methyltranserase), the enzyme that metabolizes 6MP (and 6TG). In fact, 1 in 300 individuals cannot break down 6MP at all. Some oncologists advise patients to be tested for TPMT activity before any dose of 6MP is administered; some doctors do not. There is a chance that the 6MP will cause the ANC to plummet so far that the patient will die from infection. I advise you to read the article in the CCCF Fall 2003 quarterly journal:
6-MP should be taken at night. According to an article on PostGraduate Medicine Online, this drug should be taken at night. "The study found that the risk of relapse was 2.56 times higher in children who received chemotherapy in the morning than in those receiving the same treatment in the evening."
6-MP and milk/foods. Many (but not all) parents are told by their oncologists to give 6-MP on an empty stomach, and never to give it at the same time as milk. The first link is to a MedLine abstract that discusses this topic, the second is to an article on the Pediatric Pharmacotherapy web site.
6-MP and allopurinol. 6-MP is a substrate for xanthine oxidase (XO) which converts it to 6-thiouric acid by oxidation. This appears to be an important route for inactivation of the drug. Allopurinol, a drug used to prevent the hyperuricemia and uricosuria that often follow marked cell kill consequent to leukemia therapy, inhibits this conversion. When 6-MP and allopurinol are used together, the dose of 6-MP is usually lowered. Notably, XO is found in high concentration in cow's milk, thus explaining why 6-MP should not be taken with milk.
6-MP/6-TG metabolites levels. The drug dose is determined by body surface area, but not all kids have the same levels of metabolites in their bloodstream after treatment. There is some evidence that this is an important factor.
Gertrude Elion synthesized and co-developed two of the first successful drugs for the treatment of leukemia (thioguanine and mercaptopurine). Read the fascinating article below:
Some abstracts on 6MP and 6TG, on the K.O.A.L.A. site. (Excellent resource.)Designing Drugs: Gertrude Elion, on Invention and Technology
6-Thioguanine is closely related to 6-mercaptopurine, both in structure (see above) and in metabolism. Like 6-MP, 6-thioguanine is a purine antimetabolite. Thioguanine inhibits purine biosynthesis as does 6-MP, albeit at different steps: 6-TG is an analogue of huanine while 6-MP is an analogue of hypoxanthine. It is also incorporated into the DNA. (Please see the above discussion for 6-MP.)
Synonyms: 2-Aminopurine-6-thiol; Lanvis; Tabloid; TG; Wellcome U3B; X 27; 2-Amino 6MP; 2-Amino-6-mercaptopurine; 2-Amino-6-purinethiol; 2-Aminopurine-6(1H)-thione; 6-Mercapto-2-aminopurine; 6-Mercaptoguanine; 2-amino-1,7-dihydro-6H-purine-6-thione; THG; 6-TG. It is a pale yellow crystalline powder with a melting point greater than 360 degrees centigrade. The CA RN for 6-thioguanine is 154-42-7.
In our protocol (CCG 1961), 6-TG and 6-MP are used at different times for maintenance. I do not know the reason for this, except to assume that past studies found it effective. Historically, these are some of the older chemotherapy drugs, having been used for about 35 years. Both these drugs are given orally on arm B of CCG 1961. In general, 6TG shows greater liver toxicity. (A lot more information on the advantages/disadvantages of these two drugs is available; I'd advise a search of MedLine, the articles on the KOALA site, and Pui's book Childhood Leukemia if you are interested.)
Possible side effects:
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Generating electricity through magnets is possible, and there is nothing wrong in admitting it. Magnets are quite different from other objects. Because in magnets electrons in atoms at one end move in one direction and at the other end, move in the opposite direction. It causes some force of energy which we usually call the magnetic field.
When we push two magnets of the same polarity, this process may require some energy. Let us see in this article. What is the magnetic field, and how can we generate electricity using custom magnets bulk.
How is Magnetic Field Caused?
Let us start with the basics. That what causes a magnetic field? The phenomena are simple. Magnetic work differently as compared to the other objects. As in every object electron in an atom moves in one direction. It is not the case with the magnets.
It is because inside of a magnet. The atoms at one end of magnet particles move in one direction. But at the other end of the magnet atoms spins in the opposite direction. It produces energy around a magnet which we call the magnetic field. Now the question arises here is, can we generate electricity using magnets?
The answer is yes, and we can use magnets to generate electricity when a conductor is placed in a magnetic field. The electrons in the conductor move, which produces power. Depending on the type of magnets we are using. We can generate electricity in different ways.
How does it work?
A magnetic field pulls or pushes the electrons in different objects closer to them which enables the particles to move. Some of the metals like copper have electrons in them. They can easily be moved from their orbits likewise if you run a magnet fast through a coil of copper wire. It enables the electrons to move. Thus, it produces electricity.
How Is Magnetism Used to Generate Electricity?
Let us see in detail the phenomena of magnetism which is used to create electricity as a large amount of power can be generated with the help of solar panels. Most of the voltage can also come from the generators which use magnetic fields because magnetic fields are a great source of generating electricity. It discussed earlier in this article.
Let us see how these generators work? These generators are composed of coils of wires. Which can either rotate through magnetic fields or be stationary around the pole with rotating magnets? The reels of cables are then exposed to changing magnetic fields in any case.
These magnets can be permanent or electric magnets. Permanent magnets are most often used in small generators while electric magnets are usually made up of iron or steel wound with wire. The main advantage of permanent magnets is that you do not need any power supply.
The coils of wire are the conductors and when the electrons in the cable are exposed to changing magnetic field. They move to create the electric current in the cable. These wires are then connected, and the electricity leaves the power stations and goes to the homes and other places directly.
So, it is possible to generate electricity using magnets. Because generators using magnets store energy in the sort energy in the form of magnetic spring, which is a great source to generate electricity.
So, it is now evident as you have discussed this in detail. You can generate electricity from magnetism phenomena. Apart from making it through solar panels. As Michael Faraday says that when the magnet is moved inside of a coil of wire. It produces electric current inside the wire.
Now from this detailed description, you may get some of the clarity that we can generate electricity using magnets. And this can be easy if you use the right methods. Magnetic fields play an essential factor in this sense because they are responsible for generating energy.
An electromagnet is a standard method for producing electricity from generators. These generators have a series of insulated coils of wire. This detailed explanation will be quite helpful for you in understanding the phenomena that we can quickly generate electricity by using magnets in any mean. All you have to do is used magnets of the same polarity.
This article will take you through in-depth about how you can generate electricity by using magnets. It is a natural process. But you have to understand it. You can do this if you use magnets of the same polarity.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom, produces a line of single-board computers known as Raspberry Pi.
Since its first release in 2012, various revisions and variants of the Raspberry Pi have been made available. A single-core 700MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM were present in the first Raspberry Pi model, whereas the most recent edition features a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi has always been around $100 (typically around $35 USD), with the Pi Zero costing just $5.
Thousands of individuals across the world are using the Raspberry Pi for a variety of purposes including learning to program, building hardware projects, automating their homes, running Kubernetes clusters, and even running industrial applications.
You may control electronic components for physical computing and explore the Internet of Things using the Raspberry Pi, which is a low-cost computer running Linux with a set of GPIO (general purpose input/output) pins (IoT).
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High-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces is the Raspberry Pi Pico. Micro Python and C++ can be used to Programme the Pico. Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 microcontroller chip was developed in the UK. 264KB of SRAM and 2MB of on-board Flash memory are part of the dual-core Arm Cortex M0+ CPU, which has a clock frequency of up to 133 MHz.
Carrier boards can be soldered directly to the Castellated module. USB 1.1 with both host and device functionality is available Dormant or low-power modes Using USB mass storage for drag-and-drop coding 26 GPIO pins that can be used for a variety of purposes. SPI 2, I2C 2, UART 2, 3 12-bit ADCs, and 16 programmable PWM channels On-chip timer and clock. Sensor for measuring temperature On-chip floating-point libraries with accelerated performance PIO state machines (PIO) for bespoke peripheral support are available in 8
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The Raspberry Pi 4’s small, hackable, and stylish casing! The rainbow version has here! It’s important to know that the Pibow Coup only works with the Raspberry Pi 4. Features For the Raspberry Pi 4, only. The lid has a 40x30mm cutout for a heatsink or fan. SHIM Incredibly slim profile Compatibility with HAT Standoffs make this project a breeze! Defends your prized Pi from harm! The GPIO ports are disabled.
Useful laser-etched port names Allows access to all ports. Lightweight, high-quality, cast acrylic is used in its construction. A fantastic tool for tinkering and hacking. In Sheffield, England The Raspberry Pi 4 is clearly visible on the inside thanks to the case’s five distinct layers. When the layers are layered, they keep the Raspberry Pi 4 safe while allowing easy access to the main ports, such as the camera, display, and general-purpose input/output (GPIO). The case weighs less than 50 grammes, making it easy to attach to any surface. Assembly and disassembly require no tools. The item is 99x66x15mm in size.
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With the Raspberry Pi, you can use a regular keyboard and mouse to operate a low-cost, credit-card-sized computer. It’s a powerful small device that allows individuals of all ages to learn how to code in languages like Scratch and Python.
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The Arduino has a clock speed of 16 MHz, but the Raspberry Pi has a clock speed of roughly 1.2 GHz. Both the Raspberry Pi and Arduino can be used to generate software applications, although the Arduino is better for controlling LEDs and motors, while the Raspberry Pi can be used to develop software applications. However, this does not imply that we are unable to use sensors and LEDs with Raspberry Pi.
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Facebook members will soon have the ability to provide feedback on why they choose to hide content on their newsfeeds, according to recent reports.
Improving the Facebook Newsfeed
Facebook is a bundle of information with photos, status updates, videos and links, but not everything that appears in a person’s feed is liked or of interest to them.
Currently, Facebook offers users the chance to hide or report unwanted posts as spam, but after hiding a post they couldn't provide feedback as to why this was done. According to a report from ABC News' Joanna Stern, this is about to change.
Over the next few months what you will see from us is more on why people like and don't like certain things in their feed," Facebook's Product Manager for Ads, Fidji Simo, was quoted as saying in the ABC News article. "We are planning to refine those so users can tell us exactly the reasons they are hiding that piece of content."
There haven't been any details released on how the feature will look, just that Facebook will test it soon. Although Josh Ong noted that they might be similar to how users give feedback on sidebar ads. With this feature, when an ad is hidden a message will replace it saying “Ad Hidden: We’ll try not to show this again. Why did you hide it?” The responses that a person can choose from are Uninteresting, Misleading, Sexually explicit, Against my Views, Offensive, Repetitive and Other.
Digital Marketers Get Content Feedback
This new feature will help users make sure their newsfeed content is more relevant, engaging and concise and it will also help marketers see why customers and fans didn't like what was posted.
The tweaks are an effort to help Facebook feed users more relevant ads, ads it hopes users will click on more,” wrote Stern. “Simo said the new functionality will be rolled out for all types of feed posts, including ads and sponsored stories.”
Others noted that this feature might enhance the impact of other Facebook advertising tools and thus expand how well ads and other content does on the social network.
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How do companies allocate resources to achieve the objectives? How do companies mobilize plans into actions? How do results compare with the plan and are new actions needed?
In your discussion, respond to the following:
Explain the planning phase and its three steps.
Explain the implementation phase and its four components.
Explain the evaluation phase.
Allocating resources involves careful planning. The various departments in an organization must have their own plans and targets and resources must be allocated depending on these plans and targets.
BusinessLink (2012) suggests that "if a particular business unit or department has been given a target, the business plan should allocate sufficient resources to achieve it. These resources may already be available within the business or may be generated by future activity".
Since an organization is usually composed of various departments and the resources of the company may be limited, it is necessary that the allocation of resources must be prioritized. "It is important that resources are prioritized, so that areas of a business which are key to delivering the overall aims and objectives are adequately funded and if funding isn't available this may ...
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"I have a problem with high water content in steam turbine lube oil. Is it applicable to add anti-rust additives in the lube oil tank or do I need to drain all the oil and put in new oil with anti-rust additives?"
It is never a good idea to add additives yourself. This should be left to a lubricant supplier working with a product engineer to decide how much additive is remaining and how much should be added. Oil formulation requires a precise amount of base oil and a certain percentage of additives to protect your equipment.
Without eliminating the source of water contamination, the additives will do very little for you. You might receive a quick fix, but the problem will need to be addressed again. By adding rust and oxidation (R&O) inhibitor additives without solving your ingestion problem, the new additives will be used up and rendered useless.
Your first step should be to prevent the water from getting into the reservoir. Find out how the water is entering the sump. Next, make an action plan to eliminate any possible water entry. This includes any open ports or hatches that might take extra measures to seal properly. If water is entering because of faulty seals, these should be replaced as soon as possible. Water will wreak havoc on any equipment it enters. It will also change the viscosity of the oil, resulting in a film strength failure. With steam turbines that operate at high speeds and temperatures, the situation must be monitored very closely.
If your water ingestion problem can be solved, then you should bring your lubricant supplier onsite to start the testing and evaluation process. To make sure all traces of water are removed from the sump and the equipment, you will need some sort of water-removal tool. For lowly additized turbine oil, gravity separation may be the best option to remove the most water. With this method, the oil will need to stand for a period of time to allow all the water to settle to the bottom. Another solution would be to run the oil through a vacuum dehydrator. Oil analysis should be performed to determine how much water is remaining.
You might also consider replenishing your additive package, especially with larger oil volumes. For smaller sumps, it is often cost-effective to drain and fill, and then involve your lubricant supplier for re-additizing your oil.
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If shooting cannot be started and the camera display the words RCVER, MEDIA or a line of dashes (------) on the LCD screen, refer to the following:
- If RCVER is displayed, the management file of the memory card is being restored.
WARNING: There is a risk of data loss. If this error is displayed, do not insert or remove a memory card, and wait until the display disappears.
- MEDIA flashes if the memory card is inserted in an incorrect direction.
- (------) is displayed in the center of the screen if the memory card is inserted incorrectly or diagonally; the memory card is not recognized due to dirt. It is also displayed if the memory card is not inserted.
If you encounter errors such as MEDIA or lines of dashes (----), you can try the following:
- Eject the memory card and wipe the dirt off using a dry cloth or cotton swab.
NOTE: Do not touch the terminals or the metal objects. If the microSD memory card is not recognized, check if it is inserted in a wrong direction or in an inclined angle.
IMPORTANT: If the memory card is inserted in an inclined angle, the card may be stuck and cannot be ejected.
- When the LCD panel of the camera is facing downward, open the battery cover. This does not apply to the model, FDR-X1000V.
[A] If you use a microSD memory card, insert it with the printed side facing up until it clicks.
[B] If you are using a Memory Stick Micro (M2) media, insert it with the terminal side facing up until it clicks.
NOTE: You can insert the card straight and press its center.
Memory card failure can also be a possible cause. Try using another memory card. Inspect the camera if the same symptoms occur with more than one memory card.
If the video recording format is XAVC S, a memory card-related error message is displayed when a memory card other than recommended is attached. Use a proper memory card.
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The news out of Tanzania is that the country is open for tourism again.
The world has changed and who knows when things will get back to normal, if ever. The travel sector has been especially impacted … from flights, to tourism, to hotels and other travel related businesses.
The reality is that there is only so much we can do in light of the very real dangers and uncertainty of Covid-19.
But the question is, how long can the world remain locked down? How long can the global economy be kept on hold?
Maybe, little by little, we can start living with this virus and begin emerging slowly, listening to the experts and proceeding with a great deal of caution and common sense.
This seems to be the approach that Tanzania is taking as it prepares to welcome visitors again. Here are some preliminary things to know:
- There will be screenings. They expect that the airlines will screen passengers for the virus. Passengers testing positive for the virus will not be allowed to travel to Tanzania.
- Proof will be required upon arrival, verifying that a tourist is not infected with Covid-19.
- Airport staff will also be tested and will be required to wear protective wear such as facemasks and gloves, use sanitizers and practice social distancing.
- Tourism attractions and venues, hotels and other types of accommodations, etc., will be cleaned and sanitized before and after each visit.
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Weighing In On Demoting President Andrew Jackson
I have been intrigued over the past week to read varying perspectives on the decision to remove President Andrew Jackson from the $20 dollar bill. While I am most pleased that Alexander Hamilton did not lose his place on currency–given his title role in the financial history of this nation along with being my favorite Founding Father (long before the current rage)–I must say there is a smile on my face when it comes to the replacement of Jackson.
While Jackson makes for great historical reading, and clearly brought a modern touch to politics in his day there has long been a revulsion from within concerning his male machismo. He did not embody the type of inner core and personal traits that I find endearing. I am most certain he would not make–if it were possible–a comfortable dinner guest in our home.
Then there is the tragic outcome for Cherokee Chief John Ross (a relative of mine on my mother’s side of the family) and his fellow members of the Indian tribe. It was simply appalling what occurred and there is no way that Jackson should be allowed to have any honor on a bill for that reason alone. His military tactics in the Battle of New Orleans were excessive and needlessly brutal.
His whole makeup seemed to convey anger and brute strength when a reasoned and more educated man of his time would have made far superior choices.
So it comes as no great loss to see him replaced on the bill. As noted above I have been interested in seeing how others view the matter. On the side of approval comes the words of Cynthia Tucker.
It’s no accident that Trump — who is among the “birthers” who insist President Barack Obama is not an American — leads the Republican presidential field while denouncing Mexican immigrants and denigrating Muslims. There is a substantial minority of white American voters who are threatened by the loss of numerical advantage, furious over the election of a black president, and resentful of the growing racial and ethnic diversity in American life.
Trump and his supporters have dominated the political narrative in this election season and ignited a civil war inside the Republican Party. They have panicked the Republican establishment. They have set off alarm bells in faraway capitals.
Yet the racially intolerant are losing the battle for primacy in the American story. They no longer dominate the nation’s culture or mythology, as the changes in the currency illustrate.
A genuine American hero, she deserves the honor. As a young woman, she escaped the Maryland plantation that had enslaved her, and then made several trips back to assist others. Over a little more than a decade, she helped around 70 enslaved men and women find their way to freedom, traveling by night, using ingenious disguises and employing the hideouts established by the Underground Railroad.
On the opposite end of the political spectrum comes the harsh words of Pat Buchanan.
To remove his portrait from the front of the $20 bill, and replace it with Tubman’s, is affirmative action that approaches the absurd.
Whatever one’s admiration for Tubman and her cause, she is not the figure in history Jackson was.
Indeed, if the fight against slavery is the greatest cause in our history, why not honor John Brown, hanged for his raid on Harper’s Ferry to start a revolution to free the slaves, after he butchered slave owners in “Bleeding Kansas”? John Brown was the real deal.
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Surprise! NASA wants to commercialize the ISS before its 'deorbit' in 2031
All good things must come to an end.
NASA has just published new details on the final years of operation for the International Space Station (ISS) in its ISS Transition Report, marking the end of an era of unprecedented international collaboration.
In its report, the U.S. space agency explains that the "latest budget estimate for ISS life extension through 2030 assumes deorbit in January 2031."
An era of unprecedented global scientific collaboration
NASA describes the eventual demise of the space station as the end of a "beacon of international collaboration". Since its launch in 1998, the ISS has laid the foundation for scientific collaborations between global teams from Russia, the US, Canada, Japan, and the European Space Agency (ESA), making it arguably the most ambitious scientific undertaking in history. The orbital laboratory has led to countless breakthroughs including recent experiments with the Bose-Einstein Quantum state, or the "fifth state of matter."
When NASA does eventually deorbit the station, it will do so through a controlled re-entry over the Pacific Ocean, which will see part of the station disintegrate on re-entry and part of it fall into the ocean. "Eventually, after performing maneuvers to line up the final target ground track and debris footprint over the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area (SPOUA), the area around Point Nemo, ISS operators will perform the ISS re-entry burn, providing the final push to lower ISS as much as possible and ensure safe atmospheric entry," NASA said in its report.
Preparing for life beyond the ISS
Before the ISS ends its life by crashing into the Pacific, NASA explains in a blog post, it will transition to commercial operations over the next decade. The space agency says it aims to develop supply and demand of "the low-Earth orbit commercial economy."
NASA's new report comes shortly after the Biden administration committed to extending the ISS's operations through 2030. Prior to that point, operations were expected to last until 2024, Russia had given signs it would not renew contracts, and NASA had already begun the transition away from the ISS towards other upcoming commercial space stations. The agency recently announced three large partnerships with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin is building its space station in collaboration with Nanoracks, and it aims to launch what it calls the "first-ever free-flying commercial space station" in 2027. Blue Origin, meanwhile, is building a "space business park" called Orbital Reef that will enable cutting-edge research, filming in space and will also feature a space hotel.
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“S.A.P.” on his grand-uncle G. Venkatasubbaiah, the centenarian who edited the 9,000-page, 8-volume Kannada encyclopaedia and presided over the Kannada sahitya sammelana in Bangalore last year, in The Economist, London:
“To hear Venkatasubbaiah tell it, Kannada is threatened, but the situation is not grave. ‘Our modern literature is full of life. And Kannada has an ancient literature of great quality—especially epics and poetry. We are not going anywhere,’ he said. But if Kannada’s favoured position in Bangalore is at risk, he says, the state government is to blame. Most politicians in Karnataka speak Kannada as a first language, but their advocacy efforts are limp….
“He believes Kannada can be promoted alongside, and not to the exclusion of, languages like Hindi and English. He suggests that the government should strengthen primary education language requirements and sponsor more programs that instill in Kannada-speakers a sense of pride in their language….
“Venkatasubbiah recognises that his world is changing. But he is not motivated by the sort of aggrieved conservatism that characterises so many older linguistic commentators. He knows better: language changes. So even while he documents the influx of Hindi and English into the Kannada of his fellow Bangaloreans, he doesn’t despair.
“‘This trend isn’t of any evil consequence. Hindi and English borrowings have already been assimilated, welcomed into the local tongue,’ he wrote in an email.
“Yet he isn’t complacent. ‘Bangalore is changing. Hindi, Urdu, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, and Marwari are the languages heard on our streets,’ he said. His is, ideally, a Kannada city. ‘The multilingual quality of our Bangalore can be a great advantage, but no scheme would ever be complete without Kannada. If nothing is done, I am afraid that Kannada will be pushed back into second place here.’
Photograph: Prof G. Venkatasubbiah who celebrated his 100th birthday at his residence Jayanagar in Bangalore on 22 August 2012 (Karnataka Photo News)
Read the full article: Kannada, threatened at home
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There is a difference between Capitalists and Financialists, and rarely do we get a clearer example of this differentiation than in the Chicago Tribune’s interview with Citadel’s Kenneth Griffin.
Capitalism is an economic system in which private capital is channeled from areas of surplus to areas of shortage by the financial sector, for the purpose of the expansion, innovation, and development of our production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services.
“Financialism is an economic system where the primary activity consists of creating and manipulating financial instruments.[…] when financialism sets in, financial instruments become progressively further removed from their role in supporting commerce in the real world and develop a life of their own, a weird shadow dimension, a hall of mirrors, a distorted alternate reality that intersects and reacts with the real economy in unpredictable and destructive ways. […] Derivatives have a lot to do with it. Leverage and the abuse of easy credit are contributing causes. The shadow banking system is a symptom.” [Seeking Alpha]
Q. There’s some people who will see a lot of irony in that given the speculation that takes place in the financial industry.
A. I think there’s a huge difference. Gambling is entertainment. We have great destinations for that, like Las Vegas. Just not in Chicago. Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use. Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research. It’s not the prettiest way you can ever imagine to allocate capital. But if you look across the entire world, it’s the best way we know to allocate capital.
First, because Poker is an entertaining pastime doesn’t mean there aren’t some people who take the game seriously enough to become professional players. Nor do we conveniently re-define the employment of professional athletes merely because the games they play are also enjoyed by children. Speculation is speculation whether done by Saturday Night or professional players.
Secondly, let’s look at the core statement: “Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use. Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.”
What “highest and best use?” Is the highest and best use of our capital funds the investment in expanded factories, new equipment, or in the results of research and development? Or, in shadow financial sector bets on CDOs? Speculative trading in derivatives? The trading of derivatives based on synthetic CDOs?
Investors who do their homework should be rewarded with better returns. However, how is an investor to know if the investment banker hasn’t placed “a bet” against his or her position? It’s been done before, famously by Goldman Sachs.
Investors also have to be able to evaluate the financial products they are encouraged to purchase. What was the value of a share of Lehman Brothers before their collapse? We knew the price but not the value. What was the value of the two hedge funds run by Bear Stearns prior to the credit debacle? Again, the “market” told us the prices attributed to these firms, but nothing about their real value. We’re still trying to figure out the actual value of those infamous toxic assets bankers loaded onto their books before 2008.
How do we reward “research” when we have a plethora of information about the prices for various investments, but we can’t know the actual values because these might be skewed by the “reflexive, distorted reality,” brought on by the use and abuse of leveraging and derivatives?
Is this the best way to allocate capital? Obviously not. Not if this analysis by Asian bankers is any indication: “The value of global financial assets including stocks, bonds and currencies probably fell by more than $50 trillion in 2008, equivalent to a year of world gross domestic product, according to an Asian Development Bank report.” [Bloomberg] If a system in which losing $50 trillion worth of global financial assets in one year is a distinct possibility, then we’re quite evidently a long way from “the best way to allocate capital.”
“But at the same time, the government being involved in picking winners and losers invariably leads to a loss of economic freedom and encourages corruption. Solyndra is the poster-child of that. The backers of that entity gave a lot of money to the Obama administration. Was it $500 million (they lost)? A half billion dollars unaccounted for, for all intents and purposes. It’s gone.”
Really? By Mr. Griffin’s lights the United States of America would never have given the go-ahead to the transcontinental railroad? Was giving land to the Union and Central Pacific Railroad companies “picking winners and losers?” How about the decision by the New York State Legislature to back the financing of the Erie Canal? For the one example ultra-financialists love to cite (Solyndra) we can name several government sponsored or backed innovations and developments which are the poster children for economic success. As noted in a previous post, WE developed a national rail system, WE funded microwave research, WE pioneered systems to de-ice aircraft, WE funded an interstate highway system, and WE funded the research for the radial tires we use to drive on it.
A financialist isn’t concerned with the development of actual firms that produce, distribute, or exchange goods and services EXCEPT insofar as those firms are objects of the financialist’s research into the value of their stock prices. Or, into the value of their corporate indebtedness which may or may not make the company a target for mergers and acquisitions. Inventing, manufacturing, and selling aircraft de-icing equipment…not so much.
“Q. So do you or don’t you think the public should know if you’re giving this money?
A. My public policy hat says transparency is valuable. On the flip side, this is a very sad moment in my lifetime. This is the first time class warfare has really been embraced as a political tool. Because we are looking at an administration that has embraced class warfare as being politically expedient, I do worry about the publicity that comes with being willing to both with my dollars and, more importantly, with my voice to stand for what I believe in.
As government gets bigger every single day, how does my willingness to stand up for what I believe is right become eclipsed by my dependency on institutions that are ultimately controlled by the government? Remember I live in financial services, and every bank in the United States is really under the thumb of the government in a way it’s never been before. And that’s really worrisome to me, as someone who’s willing to say, ‘Wait, we need to step back and try to push government outside the realm of every dimension of our lives.'”
Class warfare, a political tool? Please. Warren Buffett described class warfare and famously noted that his class was winning it. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” [NYT] The follow graph confirms Mr. Buffett’s observation:
And, what says “winning” more than cutting the rungs from the social ladder out from under those who might follow? Cuts to higher education? Cuts to public school education? Cuts to programs to keep families out of abject poverty such that their children have an opportunity to advance? Cuts to programs that facilitate the health and well being of our citizen/consumers? Slashing the safety nets of Medicare and Social Security which give the ladder a firm foundation?
As the “government gets bigger every day?” Does Mr. Griffin mean an increase in the number of federal employees? If he does then he is mistaken by 273,000. ” By the end of 2010, the United States STILL has less employees on the books than we did back in 1980 even though the population has grown from 226,545,805 to approximately 330,000,000 in 2010.” [Quinnell]
Perhaps what is worrying our Financialist Mr. Griffin and his cohorts is the part in which there is more oversight of the banking sector. Now, why would the American people expect more accountability and oversight of a financial sector which lost $50 TRILLION IN GLOBAL WEALTH IN ONE YEAR?
The Financialists would have us forget that most of the housing bubble was inflated by PRIVATE sector banking, greedy for more loans to warehouse, sliced and dice into CDOs, and thence bet upon. Bankers, during the housing bubble, behaved more like teens in need of a curfew than adults in charge of transferring capital in a complex economy.
Returning to the Oracle of Omaha to explain how this happened:
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities — that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future — will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they nevertheless hate to miss a single minute of what is one helluva party. Therefore, the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There’s a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands.”
And, they don’t think they need adult supervision? Supervision “takes away their freedom?” Can anyone else recall this fundamentally adolescent complaint echoing through millions of American households? The usual response is something like: When you earn our trust you’ll have more freedom. Perhaps the Financialists would be better off if they worked as hard earning back our trust as they do financing candidates who will let them stay out as late as they want with their pumpkins and mice?
Example Four: Mr. Griffin explains we drove home prices too high, and there was a big bubble (we figured that out already) and he didn’t mention Wall Street, so the interviewer asked:
Q. So you don’t think Wall Street played a role?
A. I didn’t say that. The biggest role: Fannie (Mae) and Freddie (Mac). Look at the issue of economic freedom that I spoke to earlier. The GSEs provided more fuel to the housing bubble than any other entity in the world. And by the way, they had their own dedicated regulator. And, by the way, we’re all going to pick up the tab of several hundred billion to a trillion dollars in cleaning up the losses at Fannie and Freddie. The primary source of fuel to that bubble was policies that came out of Washington. And, by the way, why were Fannie and Freddie so above reproach for all those years? They put so much money into local congressional seats in one way or another. No congressman wanted to touch them.
Unfortunately, Mr. Griffin has “slipped the surly bonds of Earth,” and flown off into his own alternate reality at this point. It’s possible to conclude that the Financialist Word Salad offered above reflects the discomfort Financialists have with the actual origins of all the money that flowed into the subprime mortgage market during the bubble. McClatchy newspapers clarified:
Scroll down the list above — do you find Fanny and Freddie there? Of course not, those two GSE’s are in the secondary mortgage market, and they were pummeled by shareholders into lowering their underwriting standards because the Wall Street maw couldn’t be filled during Cinderella’s Black Swan Ball with enough “stuff” to churn into those bright shiny CDOs and related derivatives without lowering standards — and so they did. “But, but, but, Officer, I’m out after curfew because my parents gave me an excuse?”
Example Five: Mr. Griffin continues —
Wall Street had a role in this. The development of mortgage-securitization technology, like every other form of technology, had both good and negative attributes. The biggest negative attribute is that we failed to encourage the end lender of money to be as disciplined as we should have been. And (the rating agencies) didn’t call it right. But I’ll leave you with a thought on this. It’s very hard to know you’re in a bubble until it’s gone. The housing bubble hit a lot of people. The dot-com bubble hit a lot of people. And until it burst — and you look back and go, ‘What were we thinking?’ — it’s often really hard to know you’re in a bubble.
Discipline broke down among lenders. Discipline broke down among mortgage brokers. And discipline broke down among consumers.
This would be a lovely excuse (“Gee Whiz Officer We Didn’t Know What Time It Was…”) except that there were people trying desperately to tell you that things weren’t going well, and the Financialists at Cinderella’s Black Swan Ball didn’t want to listen.
Brooksley Born tried to get the reins on runaway derivatives trading which was beginning to worry her in the 1990s:
“In the late 1990s she was advocating more transparency and regulation of financial derivatives. In 1998, leading the CFTC, she declared that the unregulated contracts could “pose grave dangers to our economy.”
But derivatives turned out to be the precursor ingredient to the financial explosion a decade later. Without derivatives, a multitrillion-dollar market, the simple collapse of the subprime mortgage market wouldn’t have been so dire.
Born was also known as being stubborn. But she ran up against then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, Clinton Treasury secretary Robert Rubin and assistant Treasury secretary Larry Summers. The three men ultimately prevailed on Congress to stop her and limit regulation over derivatives.” [McClatchy]
Susan Bies, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board warned bankers very specifically in 2006 that the economy might not be able to absorb the shock when the bubble burst:
“The growing ingenuity in the mortgage sector is making me more nervous as we go forward in this cycle, rather than comforted that we have learned a lesson. Some of the models the banks are using clearly were built in times of falling interest rates and rising housing prices. It is not clear what may happen when either of those trends turns around.” [McClatchy]
And, of course we should include Sheila Bair of the FDIC:
She first became concerned about housing in 2001 as an official at the Treasury Department.
Bair, a native of Independence, Kan., became chairwoman of the FDIC in June 2006 and was soon warning about subprime mortgages. She said she “started hearing that lending standards had deteriorated in subprime. So we started looking into it.”
She apparently was the only actual bank regulator to raise alarms.
Again, she was essentially ignored. [McClatchy]
Strike Three. These three women weren’t the only ones raising flags and trying to get the “out after curfew at Cinderella’s Black Swan Ball” Financialists to pay attention to the ticking clock. Economists Paul Krugman, Dean Baker, and Nouriel Roubini predicted problems. Investment manager Peter Schiff saw problems in the offing. Financial strategist Med Jones came very close to the final picture. [EconPred] To say “No one saw it coming” is as self serving a claim as it is specious.
These five examples of Financialism at play in Mr. Griffin’s interview should be sufficient to convince the sentient among us that the Financialists are (1) intent upon placing the blame for their mismanagement of the economy during the housing bubble on anyone but themselves — those pesky borrowers, those GSE’s, ANYONE but themselves; (2) focused not on the transfer of capital into the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services BUT into the shadow banking world of profitable derivatives and perhaps even more derivatives of the derivatives; (3) certain that if “the government” (that would be the people of the United States of America) would just let them go back to their party as if nothing had happened everything will be AOK and hunky-dory.
Finally, they appear to be quite convinced that anyone who questions their judgment, influence, and power (after we’ve had such a lovely $50 trillion example of what happens when they are allowed to play without adult supervision) is preaching Class Warfare.
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Why is Running for President So Often Diminishing?
This weekend I saw something amazing -- a speech by Mitt Romney in which he was relaxed and natural, making jokes that weren't painfully awkward. After the speech, he took questions for 20 minutes, and answered them all thoughtfully and thoroughly.
Who was this man, I wondered. Certainly not the same Mitt Romney I've seen in the last two years or so. Had I entered a different dimension? Actually, I had: the fourth dimension -- because the speech was recorded in 2000. Romney was addressing the National Press Club about the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City that he had recently become the head of.
Yes, such was my Olympic fever over the weekend that I was watching 12-year-old speeches about the preparations for the 2002 games. Or maybe it was boredom. But I have to say, I found the difference between the Romney of 2000 and the Romney of 2012 astounding.
He talked about how the Olympics aren't about just branding and money, but character. He talked about how he loves the Olympics because they're an antidote to the world his kids see:
"In virtually every medium they touch, whether it's an Internet game, or it's TV, they see that luck is celebrated above preparation, they see that ease rises above hard work, that gratification excels over sacrifice, that violence is more interesting than charity, that winning comes above the rules, or respect, or sportsmanship and of course that money comes above everything."
So what happened to that guy? How did he come to be replaced with the tightly wound, dissembling, robo-candidate with a fake smile plastered on his face that we see today?
It made me wonder: Why is running for president so often diminishing? What is it about the process that turns thoughtfulness and confidence into desperation, insincerity and cynicism? Why is it assumed that the only route to the highest office is the lowest road possible?
We have 25 million people unemployed or underemployed. We're on the edge of falling back into recession and none of the problems that led to this seemingly endless financial crisis have been solved -- or even really addressed. And yet our presidential campaign has devolved into a never-ending contest to see which side can catch other side in the worst "gaffe."
Yes, highlighting the opposing side's gaffes has always been a part of political campaigns, but now it seems to be all it's about. The election has become little more than spokespeople or surrogates making charges and countercharges, and then the other side demanding apologies, followed by more charges and countercharges and ads and response ads. It's like the stalemated front-line trenches of World War I. Each campaign is dug in, the lines aren't moving, and each day the two sides just lob gaffe grenades back and forth at each other.
Of course, sometimes the meaningless gaffes don't happen often enough. That's when the campaigns just make them up. Back in January, according to the media, the biggest story in the world was that Romney had said: "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." Except it was obvious that what he meant was that he wants companies -- like the insurance companies he was talking about -- to have to compete for his business by providing good service.
The Romney campaign is no slouch at this ersatz gaffe generation, either. In June, they seized on the fact that Obama -- can you believe it! -- thinks the economy is "doing fine." Except it was obvious that what he meant was that the private sector was doing better relative to the public sector and that public sector cuts have dragged the entire economy down.
Which brings us to last weekend, when Romney caused the near-severing of all U.S./U.K. ties when he wondered out loud if London was ready for the Olympics. Sure, it could have been worded more artfully, but, really, did anybody watching the interview as it aired have their jaw hit the floor when Romney said that? It's one of those gaffes, as most are these days, in which you don't know it's a gaffe until you're told it's a Major Gaffe by the media or the attacks ads that dress it up as one.
What might actually move the needle is for one of the campaigns to try reconnecting the disconnected electorate to the race. What if one of the candidates tried appealing to our better angels instead of our worst instincts? Since the idea is to connect with human beings, what if the candidates just decided to take the risk of talking like human beings? Yes, there might be some instances in which an out-of-context statement would be cut into an ad, but, as we've seen, those kinds of things don't seem to work very much.
There's plenty to be outraged about when it comes to the real problems we're facing. The race for the most meaningful office shouldn't have to be so demeaning -- for the candidates or for us.
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