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Senator Warren in Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The Fed’s Aggressive Interest-Rate Hikes Risk Triggering a Recession, Calls on Congress To Do Its Part to Fight Inflation
“Rising costs are an urgent problem, and interest rates play a key role in maintaining price stability. But urgency is no excuse for doubling down on a dangerous treatment. As with any illness, the right medicine starts with the right diagnosis. Unfortunately, the Fed has seized on aggressive rate hikes—a big dose of the only medicine at its disposal—even though they are largely ineffective against many of the underlying causes of this inflationary spike.”
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal warning that the Federal Reserve’s decision to aggressively raise interest rates risks triggering a devastating recession.
Read the full op-ed here and below:
Wall Street Journal – Elizabeth Warren: Jerome Powell’s Fed Pursues a Painful and Ineffective Inflation Cure
July 25, 2022
By Elizabeth Warren
Even as the pandemic continues to take its toll, the U.S. has experienced a surprisingly strong economic recovery. Since President Biden’s inauguration, the U.S. economy has created nine million new jobs. Private-sector jobs have fully recovered. Yet the Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, is on the verge of sacrificing all this progress in its effort to tamp down inflation. With Mr. Powell expected to announce another round of aggressive interest-rate hikes, the Fed risks triggering a devastating recession.
Inflation is a global phenomenon inflicting significant financial pain on families everywhere. Rising costs are an urgent problem, and interest rates play a key role in maintaining price stability. But urgency is no excuse for doubling down on a dangerous treatment. As with any illness, the right medicine starts with the right diagnosis. Unfortunately, the Fed has seized on aggressive rate hikes—a big dose of the only medicine at its disposal—even though they are largely ineffective against many of the underlying causes of this inflationary spike.
Mr. Powell has acknowledged this. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee in June, he noted that elevated interest rates likely wouldn’t bring down gasoline or food prices. “There are many things we can’t affect,” he admitted in a June press conference—namely, the key causes of today’s inflation. Higher interest rates won’t end skyrocketing energy prices caused by Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. They won’t fix supply chains still reeling from the pandemic. And they won’t break up the corporate monopolies that Mr. Powell admitted in January could be “raising prices because they can.”
If the Fed’s interest-rate hikes won’t address many causes of today’s inflation, it’s worth asking: What would they do?
When the Fed raises interest rates, increasing the cost of borrowing money, it becomes more expensive for businesses to invest in their operations. As a result, employers will slow hiring, cut hours and fire workers, leaving families with less money. In the bloodless language of economists, that’s referred to as “dampening demand.” But make no mistake: If the Fed cuts too much or too abruptly, the resulting recession will leave millions of people—disproportionately lower-wage workers and workers of color—with smaller paychecks or no paycheck at all.
The likelihood that overzealous rate hikes trigger a recession is growing. Goldman Sachs cautioned that the Fed’s policy is more aggressive than necessary and doubled its forecast of the likelihood that the economy falls into a recession over the next year. Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond has warned about the substantial risk of a crash landing from the Fed’s aggressive approach. Mr. Powell has even conceded that the Fed’s actions may lead to a downturn, saying recession “is not our intended outcome at all, but it’s certainly a possibility.”
Despite these warnings, the Fed chairman still has cheerleaders for his rate-hiking approach. Chief among them is Larry Summers. “We need five years of unemployment above 5% to contain inflation—in other words, we need two years of 7.5% unemployment or five years of 6% unemployment or one year of 10% unemployment,” the former Treasury secretary recently told the London School of Economics. You read that correctly: 10% unemployment. This is the comment of someone who has never worried about where his next paycheck will come from.
If Messrs. Powell and Summers have their way, the resulting recession will be brutal. As in past downturns, Republicans in Congress will press for austerity—tax cuts for giant corporations and the rich, weaker regulation on big businesses, and little economic support for the most vulnerable. Democrats should be ready to reject the Republican playbook and prepared to help working families survive.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Biden administration recognizes the U.S. has many tools for fighting inflation that wouldn’t make the economy smaller and Americans poorer. The president has undertaken a range of actions. To relieve the pain at the pump imposed by Mr. Putin’s war, the president ordered the largest-ever release of strategic oil reserves and spurred one of the fastest declines in gasoline prices in more than a decade. To lower food prices, he dedicated $1 billion to expand meat-processing capacity. To straighten out supply-chain kinks, Mr. Biden has tackled shipping-container backlogs at our ports. And to combat corporate monopolies using inflation as an excuse to pad their profits, the president has empowered the most aggressive antitrust enforcers in a generation.
Congress should do its part to fight inflation. Investing in high-quality, affordable child care would lower costs by bringing more than a million parents into the workforce. Ending tax breaks for off-shoring and investing in American manufacturing would create good jobs and strengthen supply chains. Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for prescription drugs would lower healthcare costs. And giving the Biden administration more tools to bolster competition policy would help crack down on price gouging by large corporations.
Before the Federal Reserve triggers a recession, Mr. Powell should remember that the one medicine in his kit doesn’t treat every economic illness. Low unemployment and high inflation are painful, but a Fed-manufactured recession that puts millions of Americans out of work without addressing high prices would be far worse.
Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts.
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The search for the winners of The Earthshot Prize 2022 has begun and upon invitation PCAI has been selected as an Official Nominator. Launched in 2020 and with the first incredible winners announced in October 2021, The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious global environment prize in history, aiming to find new solutions to the world’s biggest environmental problems.
PCAI through its artistic director, Kika Kyriakakou, has become one of the organisations from across the world that were invited to submit nominations across all five Earthshot categories, selected for their ability to identify the most impactful solutions across all sectors, from grassroots to businesses. All organisations will be nominating individuals, communities, businesses and organisations whose solutions make the most progress towards achieving the five Earthshots –simple but ambitious goals which if achieved by 2030 will improve life for us all, for generations to come. The Earthshot Prize will consider solutions which make tangible progress towards one of the five Earthshots. They should be beyond idea stage, have tested their solution in-field or with target audiences, and are at a ‘tipping point’ for scaling their impact within the next five years. The Earthshots are
1. Protect and Restore Nature
2. Clean our Air
3. Revive our Oceans
4. Build a Waste-Free World
5. Fix our Climate
More about the Earthshot Prize
“The natural world on which we entirely depend is declining at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the dinosaurs. We know where this story is heading, and we must now write a different ending. This is what The Earthshot Prize was created to achieve.”
Sir David Attenborough
Launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in October 2020, The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious global environment prize in history, designed to incentivise change and help repair our planet over the next ten years.The Prize aims to turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism, by highlighting the ability of human ingenuity to bring about change, and inspiring collective action.
Taking inspiration from President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot which united millions of people around an organising goal to put man on the moon and catalysed the development of new technology in the 1960s, The Earthshot Prize is centred around five ‘Earthshots’ – simple but ambitious goals for our planet which if achieved by 2030 will improve life for us all, for generations to come.
The Earthshot Prize will award one million pounds to each of five annual winners whose solutions make the most progress towards our five Earthshots. The first winners were awarded in a glittering London Awards Ceremony in October 2021. Nominations will be subject to detailed assessment culminating in final selection by Prince William and The Earthshot Prize Council.
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Klara Hartmann was born in May 1930 in Miskolc in northern Hungary. Her parents were peasants who died young and she does not remember them. She was brought up by an uncle, a gendarmerie sergeant at Gönc. As the Red Army advanced in January 1945, her uncle and aunt fled, leaving her alone.She was arrested, interrogated and tortured for almost a year in prison in Kiev, then sentenced to ten years’ hard labour for spying for the Germans. At Vorkuta, she worked on building sites. Bullied by the Soviet women imprisoned for criminal offences, she was totally isolated, with no other Hungarian in the camp.
In 1949, she was transferred to the Steplag in Kazakhstan, for political prisoners only, where she benefited from the mutual help and solidarity of a mainly Ukrainian brigade. In summer 1953, after the death of Stalin, in Kiev on her way back to Hungary, she met her first husband, a young Hungarian peasant, recently released like her. She had no family of her own any more and started a new life in his village in north-eastern Hungary. After her divorce, she worked on various building sites, since the stigma of the Gulag prevented her from continuing her education. Thanks to an occupational health officer she trained to be a nurse and worked in a clinic for patients with dementia.
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There are only 57 days until Christmas.
If your kids are like most, they’ve already given some thought to what they’d like to see under the tree.
But have they thought about what they’d like to give?
It’s an important question to ask. The natural tendency to focus on presents can make it challenging for kids to remember and understand that the season revolves around a Savior who said “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35).
That’s why we, as parents, must intentionally teach our children the joy of giving.
As with most things, it’s a lesson best learned by doing. Children who experience for themselves the satisfaction that comes from serving others will better understand how true Jesus’ words are.
An easy introduction to giving
One practical way to get our kids excited about giving during this holiday season is by packing a shoebox through Operation Christmas Child, the yearly outreach of the international relief ministry Samaritan’s Purse.
Jean and I have been packing shoeboxes with our boys for years. It’s a fun tradition filled with laughs, together-time and excitement. But more than that, it’s a way we share the Gospel as a family.
Our boys know that the children who are served by Operation Christmas Child will receive our gifts at a local church. The event includes age-appropriate presentations of the Gospel – perhaps the only time these boys and girls will be introduced to Jesus. These children are deeply touched by the love the shoeboxes represent.
That real impact is why Focus on the Family has been working together for the past three years with Operation Christmas Child. Our collaborative efforts this year include:
- “A Guide for Serving Others as a Family:” This free, interactive booklet contains a wide variety of ideas on how families, couples and kids can model God’s love to others through acts of service in their communities.
- “Give a Plush Lamb” effort: Give a gift of any amount and Focus on the Family will donate a stuffed lamb for the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes
I encourage you to pack a shoebox (or more!) as a family, and to talk with your kids about why you’re doing it. As a family, pray for the child who will receive that box, asking God to prepare his or her heart to receive the Gospel and Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
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"Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" ~ Glinda the Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
When I was a child I used to gather my little friends together to play "The Wizard of Oz". The point to the game was not to find the wizard, to get home to Kansas, or to fight off evil flying monkeys. For me, my arrival on the scene in an imaginary bubble, just like Glinda, was the point to the entire game.
Although the Wicked Witch figured quite prominently in the book and movie, the image of the hooked nosed, green-faced, pointy hat-wearing evil woman never resonated in my psyche as the image of a 'witch'. Glinda, however, was what I considered a witch--magical, ethereal, helpful, beautiful, powerful and empowering--those were the images that came to my mind when I thought of witches.
Many old interpretations of witches call them bad luck, or representatives of ugly, treacherous women, or symbols of good old-fashioned evil. Ideas such as these reflect the typical notion of what a witch 'looks' like--a wicked woman with the power to do great harm.
In the past, witches were considered the quintessential evil--people who had either made pacts with or sold their souls to Satan in exchange for power. Though both men and women were accused of and executed as witches, the majority of witchcraft cases involved women. But the majority of those accused of witchcraft were practicing anything but. Usually they were midwives; women with the power to heal; or women who stood out in pretty much any way that was considered odd. In short, witches were women with power and in what is now known as "The Burning Times" powerful women were often not suffered to live.
Today, however, many people view witches in a different light. (At least I hope that statement is true!) The religions of Paganism and Wicca are reported to be two of the fastest growing religions in America. Even people who are not members of these religions may practice what may be considered some form of witchcraft--learning herbalism, lighting candles, or learning ways to influence their reality to help improve their own lives and/or the lives of others. What used to be kept in the broom closet is now spoken about openly on mainstream TV talk shows.
If a witch appeared in a dream, the key to interpreting her symbolic meaning lies in your association with witches. Your own association with any symbol always trumps any dream dictionary's interpretation--including this one!
If you are like me and identify positively with witches, then your dream is likely pointing to positive changes in your psyche. Seeing a witch probably symbolizes that you are in touch with your intuition, utilizing your power in positive ways, or becoming increasingly creative. This symbol might also be a sign that some heretofore unrealized gifts are manifesting in your psyche. The witch may also be pointing to progress you have made with owning your own power thereby becoming more self-actualized. The witch may also indicate a particularly potent time to pay attention to your dreams. Keeping a dream journal is a great way to do this.
However, if you associate negatively with witches, then the old interpretations may apply. For example, if you commonly refer to a cruel woman as a 'witch' then your dream may in fact be pointing to someone treacherous in your life, or the witch may be showing up as a 'shadow' symbol. More information on the shadow may be found here: Shadow
If a witch is showing up as a shadow symbol, it is important to realize that our shadow is not evil--it simply contains aspects of ourselves with which we are uncomfortable or attempt to deny. Seeing a witch in a dream might symbolize a discomfort with owning one's power or believing one's power to be evil. Many people who have had negative experiences with those in positions of power often attempt to keep their own power at bay. It is important to distinguish between authentic power and what is more accurately described as control. Control and power are not the same. For example, children who were abused were victims of controlling adults--not people with authentic power. Claiming one's own authentic power is an important part of self-actualization.
Remember, only you can answer Glinda's question about the witch in your dream!
Until next time, sleep well and dream out loud!
*~Aisling Ireland~* is an ordained Interfaith Minister, available for weddings and commitment ceremonies and a Spiritual Counselor providing dream interpretation and Tarot readings. To make an appointment check out her website at: Sang-Realta Spiritual Counseling
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Whilst it does not sound like a romantic thing to do, especially if you are making marriage plans, a prenuptial agreement often assists in making things easier should a divorce occur later. Naturally, no one wants his or her marriage to fail. Therefore, if you discuss a prenuptial agreement—also known as a binding financial agreement (BFA)—with your partner, you may get a less-than-receptive response.
However, if you have been previously married or are involved in a business with your partner, this type of agreement can be advantageous. For example, a prenuptial contract can safeguard the inheritance of your children and grandchildren from a prior marriage. It can also shelter a business from ending up in the hands of one of the partners during a divorce.
How the Contract Is Used
Often, a prenuptial agreement or BFA is drawn up to restrict the amount of spousal support that one of the parties has to pay in a divorce case. In the case of older people or people entering a second or third marriage, a prenuptial agreement can be used to secure their financial interests. Wealthy people who are entering a marriage also can benefit from this type of agreement.
Whatever your reason for contacting an Adelaide family law specialist about a BFA, the contract serves as a type of insurance. Hopefully, you will never need to use this monetary safety net. However, by looking into the agreement’s benefits, you are also playing it safe with respect to your legal and financial health.
BFAs Can Be Drawn Up for Married Couples
If you have already married, you can also draw up a BFA. This agreement extends to married couples as well as de facto and homosexual partners. Whilst the law related to a prenuptial agreement or BFA is the same for married couples throughout Australia, there are some variances for other couples amongst the states.
Therefore, if you are interested in drawing up a BFA, you need to talk to a family law solicitor about your situation. See if creating this type of agreement is in your best legal and financial interests. Again, if you work in a business with your partner, own substantial wealth, or are entering into a second marriage, you may want to further explore the facets of this type of contract.
Some important notes to consider – If you currently do not have children, and future children are not mentioned in the BFA, it will make the contract void. However, if spousal maintenance is mentioned in a BFA, it is binding and you cannot make any changes once it is included in the contract.
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More than fifty years have gone by since the death of Sawaki Rōshi, a leading figure in the world of Zen who was active from the twenties to 1965. Even today, the immense influence that he has had on our society can be felt.
Master Kodo Sawaki was born on the 16th. of June 1880 in Tsu-city in Mie Prefecture in the west of Japan. Kodo Sawaki was born the sixth child in a family of a factory worker, a well-off family of seven brothers, near to the shrine at Ise. He was called Tsaikichi. When he was five years old, his mother died and, at the age of eight, his father died too. His sisters and brothers were divided among the families of relatives or became servants, but none of his relatives wanted to adopt him because they said he was a very difficult boy to deal with. Eventually, Sawaki was adopted by an aunt whose husband soon died, so he had to move again. Then, Sawaki went to live in the house of a gambler and lantern maker named Bunkichi Sawaki, an unstable and lazy man who only believed in “tobacco and sex”, and who had had eleven wives. The latest of whom was a prostitute. They lived at the back of a brothel so that their house was a hotbed for a gang of hooligans, and a lot of gambling took place in their house, day and night.
At thirteen years of age, Tsaikichi was obliged to work in order to eat and, in this turbulent neighborhood, he became supervisor of the gamblers’ accounts. After having been present at the death of an old man of advanced age in a brothel, he was made brutally aware that he did not wish to end his life in such a dishonorable fashion. This incident drew him to the way of Buddhism.
He came in contact with the family of Morita Soshichi, well-educated people, honest and pure, who were scraping out a living in a run-down backhouse. The father glued calligraphy rolls while the son studied traditional Japanese painting. Tsaikichi felt drawn to this family, whose life, although it took place in the most impoverished conditions, had something very pure about it.
He began to come and go at the Morita home, where he studied old Chinese and Japanese history and literature from the father of the Morita family. Moreover, he learned the truth that there are things in life more important than money, position, and fame. Later, Sawaki Rōshi himself said that this was how the bud formed, out of which the fruit of his later life ripened.
He started frequenting a Shinshu temple and, when he was tempted to become a monk to escape from his family, a Shinshu priest suggested he could better orient himself towards Zen.
In 1896, at the age of 17, he left for Eihei-ji, taking with him no money, and having only two small packets of rice with him. Over four days and night, he arrived there. After standing at the gate of the temple for two days and nights, he was finally accepted as a temple laborer. Upon arrival, the problems began. Being a stranger, he could not become a monk and had to accept a place as a servant, which allowed him, in spite of everything, to learn zazen.
However, he said that he found that there are just ordinary people living at Eihei-ji, and many young trainee priests were very brazen and were just interested in eating lots of food and drinking lots of sake. Life at Eihei-ji was not what he expected, was not in a state of enlightenment. Consequently, he did not stay there for a long time. At the age of eighteen, he left Eihei-ji, and went to Soushin-ji in Kumamoto, which is in the southern part of Japan, and met Master Koho, who later gave him the precepts – tokudo (ordination), in the temple of Kyûshû, and he became monk with the the name Kôdô. He stayed two years with this teacher. Later, he met another teacher, in the person of Fueoka Sunum, who taught him the right way: don’t search for satori or any other thing. Simply sit in zazen.
This teacher-disciple relationship lasted a year and was interrupted by Kodo’s conscription into the army in 1900. In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese war, he was placed with the infantry where he was seriously wounded (and earned a golden medal). He then returned to Japan to receive medical care and to convalesce. In 1905, he was sent once more to China, where he remained until the end of the war. At the age of 26, in the year 1906, he returned to Japan.
After the war he entered the Academy for Buddhist studies in his home town. After which he transferred to the seminar of Hōryū-ji in Nara where he studied Yogacara philosophy under the abbot Saeki Jōin Sōjō. In 1912, he became the principal assistant in the dojo, the tantô, de Yôsen-ji. There, he followed a period of solitude concentrated on the practice of zazen, in a small temple in the province of Nara. In 1916, he abandoned this retreat to become a reader, kôshi, in Daiji-ji Sôdô.
Later, in 1922, he left Daiji-ji to live in the house of a friend. In 1923, he began traveling throughout Japan giving conferences and directing sesshins. When he was 55, he was appointed professor at Komazawa University where he gave conferences about zen literature, and where he directed the practice of zazen. At the same time, he became godō (a head teacher) at Sōji-ji, one of the two main temples of the Sōtō school. This began the period of Sawaki Rōshi’s greatest activity. Until just before the beginning of war, in 1940, Kôdô Sawaki also led a large temple in the mountain, the Tengyô Zen-en.
In 1949, he took responsibility for Antai-ji, a zen temple in northern Kyoto, but he was not a conventional abbot since he kept traveling throughout Japan to teach Zen and shikantaza.
In 1963, at 86 years of age, he fell gravely ill and he retired to Antai-ji (the temple which he had transformed into a place of pure practice). From his bed, he spent long periods looking at the mountain of Takagamine. There, three days before his death, he told a nun:
«Look! Nature is magnificent. I understand the problems of men. Never in all my life, have I met anyone to whom I should submit or whom I could admire. But Mount Takagamine looks at me always, saying from above: “Kôdô, Kôdô.”»
These were his last words. He died on the 21st of December 1965, at 13;50.
He was called “Kodo without a home” or “Homeless Kodo” because he refused to remain in a temple and always traveled alone. Kodo Sawaki never lived in his own temple and also did not write any books. He brought with him, a breath of fresh air to the moribund zen, reintroducing the universal practice of zazen.
Kodo Sawaki is the 82nd generation in Shakyamuni‘s legacy in Sôtô Zen tradition. He has been the teacher of many spiritual heirs in Japan among whom was Mokudô Taisen Deshimaru, who received monk ordination from him.
Sawaki Rōshi is known for his rigorous emphasis on zazen, in particular, the practice of shikantaza, or “just sitting” and he was the first in our era to reintroduce shikantaza in its pure form and revive it as being equally valid as kōan Zen. He often called Zen “wonderfully useless,” discouraging any gaining idea or seeking after special experiences or states of consciousness.
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Vibrations = Energy = Rhythm = … Happiness?
Chances are that you’re reading this because you’re considering taking music lessons (for yourself or your children) at The Music Studio Atlanta. If we’re right, then we have one big question for you: would you like even just a bit more happiiness?
That’s not an insubstantial question and it’s not rhetorical. If you’ve read any of our other recent posts, you’ll know we’re dead serious about the fact (yes, fact) that a musical involvement can bring you happiness.
But Many Stars Aren’t Happy!
I’m glad you pointed that out. You’re right, all musicians are not happy people. If you consider the lives of many of the stars you’ve heard or read about, you can see why.
But the problem is not the musicianship … it’s the stardom. Stardom brings challenges most people aren’t ready for. So, we’re not talking about that kind of musical involvement.
We’re talking about a musical involvement like learning music. Learning to play the music you enjoy just feels good. Okay, it won’t feel good all of the time (building any kind of muscle always has its challenges), but most of the time.
Are You Vibin’ With Us, Man?
As we say in a recent post, human beings are musical creatures … and some of us are more driven to participate than others. Does that include you? Most of the TMSA staff and faculty fall into that category and we’re serious about enjoying music.
This brings up an important point, one that is dear to our hearts. Fact: there are some children and youth who are so musically inclined that they will really suffer if they’re not allowed and encouraged to pursue their love of music. But that’s pretty far off the topic here, so we’ll devote another post to that soon.
Back to our main point, which is that musical involvement brings happiness. We hope this post will offer you some new ways of looking at that because we know it’s true. So on with it! Let’s dive into vibrations, energy, and rhythm.
What’s Rhythm Got to Do with Happiness?
We won’t get too esoteric about this, but before we consider rhythm we should probably spend a quick minute on sound energy. That’s because sound energy is one of the things that create and drive the rhythm, no matter what instrument you’re playing – including your voice.
Sound energy is indeed vibrations. Scienceworld has a cool way of defining how this works:
The source of a sound [your body, the saxophone, drums, or piano] vibrates, bumping into nearby air molecules which in turn bump into their neighbors, and so forth. This results in a wave of vibrations traveling through the air to the eardrum, which in turn also vibrates.
Solarschools presents sound energy a bit differently:
Sound energy is the movement of energy through a substance – such as air or water – in the form of waves. It is produced when a force causes an object or substance to vibrate. Vocal sound energy is created when expelled air from our lungs passes through the vocal folds.
Why Rhythm Can Change Your Mood
Why might sound energy be of interest to a music student? Because the more you know about something you’re involved with, the better your chances are of staying with it. Let’s take drum lessons, for example, because the drums are pure percussive rhythm.
Let’s say you’re just learning to play the drums. You have a pair or two of sticks and an assortment of drums and cymbals, and you’re learning to play different beats. That can feel great, and it gets even more exciting when you begin to play with others.
So imagine that you’re learning your beats and playing with others and it’s feeling awesome — and, since you understand the sound waves you (and they) are creating, you truly get how that energy is impacting all of you? The old-time phrase “good vibes” doesn’t refer to some hocus pocus … it acknowledges the fact that sound waves are energy, and that the sound energy is impacting everyone within earshot, whether they know it (or feel it) or not.
We’ve published a few posts lately on the emotional benefits of music, referring to thousands of studies with scientific proof that music changes your feelings. Considering the fact that sound energy travels as waves that cause vibrations and that we all are, as Einstein proved, just energy, it should be no surprise that sound energy can have such a profound effect on us.
Of course, if you’re a musician this is not new news. You know this from experience. Lucky you!
Does This Resonate with You?
Just like “good vibes”, the idea that something might “resonate with you” is a concept that gets dissed as new age hocus pocus. But it’s not.
Dictionary.com defines the verb “resonate” as:
To produce a positive feeling, emotional response, or opinion: an issue that clearly resonates with members of our community; a poem that resonates for me.
Remembering Einstein, and knowing that energy vibrates, why wouldn’t you have a visceral response (reaction) to music you like? Especially if you’re playing it!
Most of us have responses all day long, and they’re not always positive ones. Many spiritual traditions point to our negative thoughts and opinions (which result in reactions and responses) as a source of misery. And who wouldn’t like to be a little happier? Ah then, why not learn to play music you enjoy, so you can vibe and resonate… and be happy?
Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drummer
One of the best things about learning to play music is the ability to express yourself. Just be sure you’re playing music you really like … and you’re not just trying to sound like someone else.
When you’re expressing yourself it’s as if you’re having a conversation. If you’re playing solo, it’s a conversation with yourself. Think of it like this – you play the notes on the page (or ones you’ve heard) and you respond. It’s a totally non-intellectual, spontaneous process. And, by the way, it feels real. Right. Solid.
You might even think of it as resonating … it gives you a positive feeling and that, of course, makes you feel happier.
I realize this can all sound a little “out there”. But if you’re among the many who are beginning to reassess their lives and look for something different, maybe “out there” isn’t such a negative thing at all. Look at it this way – you don’t know until you try.
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HOUSTON - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announces the launch of the Moon Shots Program, an unprecedented effort to dramatically accelerate the pace of converting scientific discoveries into clinical advances that reduce cancer deaths.
Even as the number of cancer survivors in the US is expected to reach an estimated 11.3 million by 2015, according to the American Cancer Society, cancer remains one of the most destructive and vexing diseases. An estimated 100 million people worldwide are expected to lose their lives to cancer in this decade alone. The disease's devastation to humanity now exceeds that of cardiovascular disease, tuberculosis, HIV and malaria - combined.
The Moon Shots Program is built upon a "disruptive paradigm" that brings together the best attributes of both academia and industry by creating cross-functional professional teams working in a goal-oriented, milestone-driven manner to convert knowledge into tests, devices, drugs and policies that can benefit patients as quickly as possible.
The Moon Shots Program takes its inspiration from President John Kennedy's famous 1962 speech, made 50 years ago this month at Rice University, just a mile from the main MD Anderson campus. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade ... because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win," Kennedy said.
"Generations later, the Moon Shots Program signals our confidence that the path to curing cancer is in clearer sight than at any other time in history," said Ronald A. DePinho, M.D., MD Anderson's president. "Humanity urgently needs bold action to defeat cancer. I believe that we have many of the tools we need to pick the fight of the 21st century. Let's focus our energies on approaching cancer comprehensively and systematically, with the precision of an engineer, always asking ... 'What can we do to directly impact patients?'"
The inaugural moon shots
The program, initially targeting eight cancers, will bring together sizable multidisciplinary groups of MD Anderson researchers and clinicians to mount comprehensive attacks on:
Six moon shot teams, representing these eight cancers, were selected based on rigorous criteria that assess not only the current state of scientific knowledge of the disease across the entire cancer care continuum from prevention to survivorship, but also the strength and breadth of the assembled teams and the potential for near-term measurable success in terms of cancer mortality.
Each moon shot will receive an infusion of funds and other resources needed to work on ambitious and innovative projects prioritized for patient impact, ranging from basic and translational research to biomarker-driven novel clinical trials, to behavioral interventions and public policy initiatives.
The platforms make the program unique
The institution-wide, high quality scientific and technical platforms will provide key infrastructure for the success of the Moon Shots Program. In the past, each investigator or group of investigators has developed their own infrastructure to support their research programs. Frequently they were under-funded and lacked the high level management and leadership required to ensure that they were of the highest caliber and in particular that they were able to adapt to the rapidly changing scientific and technological environment. The moon shot platforms will be designed and resourced to provide expertise that will support the efforts of all of moon shots teams. The platforms will provide a critical component to the success of each moon shot and of the overall Moon Shots Program. In particular, they will leverage the investment across the moon shots.
These platforms include:
MD Anderson's "Giant leap for mankind"
A year ago, when DePinho was named MD Anderson's fourth president, he proposed the notion of a moon shot moment. "How can we envision what's possible to reduce cancer mortality if we think boldly, adopt a more goal-oriented mentality, ignore the usual strictures on resources that encumber academic research and use the breakthrough technology available today?" he asked.
Response from the faculty and staff took the form of initial moon shot proposals that targeted several major cancer types and involved large, integrated MD Anderson teams, sometimes numbering in the hundreds.
Frank McCormick, Ph.D., director of the University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center and president of the American Association for Cancer Research, led the review panel of 25 internal and external experts that narrowed the field to the inaugural six moon shots.
"Nothing on the magnitude of the Moon Shots Program has been attempted by a single academic medical institution," McCormick said. "Moon shots take MD Anderson's deep bench of multidisciplinary research and patient care resources and offer a collective vision on moving cancer research forward."
McCormick added, "The process of bringing this amount of horsepower together in such a focused manner is not normally seen in academic medicine and is valuable in and of itself."
Most ambitious program MD Anderson has ever mounted
The Moon Shots Program is among the most formidable endeavors mounted to date by MD Anderson, an institution ranked the No. 1 hospital for cancer care by US News & World Report's Best Hospitals survey for nine of the past 11 years, including 2012. As the program unfolds and grows, it will be woven into all areas of the institution. Researchers and clinicians concentrating on any cancer - not just the first set of moon shots - will link to new technological capabilities, data and clinical strategies afforded by the platforms.
In the first 10 years, the cost of the Moon Shots Program may reach an estimated $3 billion. Those funds will come from institutional earnings, philanthropy, competitive research grants and commercialization of new discoveries. They will not interrupt MD Anderson's vast research program in all cancers, with a budget of approximately $700 million annually. In fact, the program's efforts will help support all other cancer research at MD Anderson, particularly with improved resources and infrastructure, as the ultimate goal is to apply knowledge gained from this process to all cancers.
Implementation of the program will begin in February 2013, and is expected to reach full stride by mid-2013.
"The Moon Shots Program holds the potential for a new approach to research that eventually can be applied to all cancers and even to other chronic diseases," DePinho said. "History has taught us that if we put our minds to a task, the human spirit will prevail. We must do this - humanity is depending on all of us."
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Book: IF ONLY I KNEW - PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS by Rasheed Odunade Akande
categories: Book, Love, Loss, Misery, Dreams, Tragedy, Confusion, Poetry
Rasheed Odunade Akande about this book: this is my first attempt at publication. first attempt at picking the pen to write from my heart. first attempt at trying to be the person I have always dreamed to be. first attempt at everything good in my life. This collection of poetry stems from the attempt to be different from the lot in which i find myself, it stems from my attempt to record my life in poetic lines, it stems from my desire to be just me. this collection of poetry collates the earliest experiences of a child, an adolescent, a youth and a young adult. this attempt chronicles my life from its beginning, the loss, the confusion, the love, the dangers of living in a polygamous home. the writing of this collection spans ten years of attempts, picking the pen, being discouraged by learned friends in the area of poetry composition/ writing and editing, the encouragement from friends who really have no idea what its all about. this is my first and most cherished experience collated in a book. the first of every dream i ever had.
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Ready to sweat? Let's get groovin' with these upbeat tunes.
Sometimes working out is so easy. You just feel the energy building up inside of you, and need to get it out! Other times, it takes all your might to get going. That’s when you need these 3 top workout playlists to get moving!
It’s surprising how little things can motivate you: a new pair of sneakers, a matching get-up, a new workout class. But sometimes you start, and find all that fun energy quickly depleted. Your mind goes elsewhere. You start thinking about how hard your run is, how much time you have left.
That’s when you need music to get yourself movin’ and groovin’. And don’t be surprised if once you turn up the tunes your pace increases.
Research has found that music with a strong beat help’s people’s movements to stay steady during their workout.
Scientists have been enamored over the effects of music for quite sometime, and their research has led to some noteworthy discoveries, including its ability to help you improve your math skills, improve your mood, and help you move your legs a little harder.
One study had a dozen college students ride stationary bikes and listen to six different songs. The researchers found that the participants’ exertion levels altered when the same songs were played 10% faster, and 10% slower. When the songs were sped up, the students worked harder, and when the songs were slowed down, the students chilled out on their ethic.
And another study found that music is capable of improving athletic focus, as it distracts you from such things as your nerves, or a judgmental audience, therefore boosting your performance.
And just to give you one more reason to try out these 3 top workout playlists, another study found that listening to music boosts cognitive levels and verbal fluency skills in people diagnosed with coronary artery disease.
Considering coronary artery disease has been linked to a decline in cognitive abilities, the study’s results are worth taking seriously.
So without further ado, let’s help you see some serious results from your workouts with these top 3 workout playlists that are sure to make you faster and stronger.
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Why Science Fiction Needs God
By Alex Wilgus, Contributing Writer
Every moving fantasy adventure tale elevates its audience to some sort of transcendence. Luke discovers the ways of The Force, Frodo discovers the Ring, Neo discovers the Matrix, Harry discovers the world of wizardry, Jack discovers the secret power below the Island. In each story, the adventurers onscreen, and the audience vicariously, is invited to peek behind the curtain of reality to glimpse what it’s really all about. The transcendental power usually also functions as the story’s moral universe, showing our hero his true purpose for living. The adventurer, in order to overcome, must learn to act in concert with the transcendental power or use it as it was meant to be used. Luke has to discover not only the Force, but how to use it without succumbing to the Dark Side. Frodo can’t indulge in the power the Ring without being corrupted. This double purpose of enlightenment and morality shows the essentially religious character of the modern adventure fantasy. It could even be said that these stories feed off of the natural human desire for God: a setting out into the wild unknown, the discovery of a source of benevolent strength in the midst of strife, and a peaceful home reached at journey’s end.
In the 21st Century, a new deity has risen in fantasy adventure fiction: the multiverse. The multiverse is the idea that there are infinite variations of our own world that exist beyond our reality. It may not be merely fictional, it’s actually a scientific hypothesis that some very smart people believe is true. Without getting into whether or not it satisfies scientific or philosophical standards for explaining reality, we can certainly judge its effect on fiction and whether or not it satisfies our need for adventurous drama.
It is fitting that the most complete treatment of the multiverse occurred in a video game, as a change to a user-controlled medium parallels the change in self-centered theme. “Bioshock: Infinite” was one of the most anticipated video games of last year, the sequel to 2007’s “Bioshock.” “Bioshock” was a taut psychological horror trip through a dystopian underwater city. Its philosophical depth and clever plot twists were surprisingly affecting, and after finishing it, it leaves the player with the sense that they have just watched a good film. For its follow up, director Ken Levine and Irrational Studios prepared the ultimate American nightmare. A war between extreme nationalism and violent class rebellion set on a literal city in the clouds. The game does not disappoint. It is a mind-blowing trip through impressively rendered environments that seem at once as real as they do fantastical. The political savagery is well realized. The game’s two factions, The Founders and the Vox Populi, are affecting amalgams of real-life American extremisms. In the middle of it all, you, a disgraced hero, must rescue an imprisoned princess from a tower.
By the end the source of transcendence is revealed, but it is not very comforting. The story does take you beyond the plane of present experience, but there is no secret benevolence or source of strength to be found there. Instead, it is revealed that there are an infinite number of worlds out there and therefore, an infinite number of “yous.” As it turns out, you are all over the place. The game’s villain is actually another “you” from a timeline in which you became a fanatical zealot. The hero is a “you” that became an alcoholic. The princess in the tower is your daughter and the multiple histories your choices have birthed all inevitably come around to effect her harm. It is finally revealed that the only way to save her (and indeed, the world) is to return to your life’s critical moment of decision – not insignificantly, it is a baptism – and reject both absolution for your sins and a life spent trying to forget them. The only correct selection is suicide. As you drown in the baptismal waters, all the evil your choices begot dissipates around you.
“Bioshock: Infinite” faithfully renders the hidden sadness at the heart of the multiverse. Despite a fantastical and even emotion-driven journey, it all ends with suicide. While the multiverse has some potential for psychological reflection, it ultimately spells the end of true transcendence in fantasy fiction. Instead of introducing the hero to ethical imperatives driven by hidden elemental realities, the multiverse just opens up more space and more possibile ways for you to screw things up (or do things well, but as “Bioshock: Infinite” explains, it doesn’t matter how many times you get it right, as it cannot ameliorate the amount of times you get it wrong). Instead of a secret Truth that shows you the right albeit difficult path to overcoming evil, it’s revealed that evil and good are really just the extreme ends of infinite possible choice. The only real way to cut the Gordian Knot is to eliminate the capacity for choice altogether.
Instead of an infinite God you are introduced to your infinite self. Could this be a perfected mythological realization of narcissism, like looking into a double mirror and seeing an infinite extension of reflections staring back? If so, this makes “Bioshock: Infinite’s” suicidal ending not only appropriate but archetypal for a multiverse story. Faced with an infinite inescapable self, the only way to avoid the consequences of your (inevitable) mistakes is to cease living. It all tends toward the abolition of man. Without transcendence, you’re stuck with yourself, an infinite menagerie of good and bad (mostly bad, if you’re as pessimistic as Ken Levine), and the only way to prevent your harm of others is to remove yourself from the equation. Tellingly, “Bioshock: Infinite” is not the first multiverse story to end in suicide. Richard Kelly’s DONNIE DARKO, a truly first-rate (and covertly messianic) psychodrama, ends the same way.
Here, it is important to note that Levine and Kelly should not be treated as cynics. Instead, their stories pay close attention to human emotion and the tragic nature of human fallenness. They ought to be appreciated as honest artists who are ready to take the multiverse to its only logical conclusion and even make it an emotional trip. But, the abolition of man is, after all, the end of consciousness and thus, the end of drama, and stories altogether.
The multiverse also poses challenges to the sequence of dramatic storytelling. Dramatic tension is necessarily dependent upon limits, and the promise of setting things right once and for all gives the audience hope that it all might turn out well and an accompanying fear that it might not. Choices have consequences that cannot be reversed, only forgiven or avenged, but factoring into the story other worlds where things go differently means that whatever happens to the main characters, there are always alternatives happening in parallel, so it makes it difficult to care about what happens to our immediate heroes. This makes multiverse stories much more likely to be psychological thrillers, in which drama is not found in the simple tensions of serial events, but rather in an atemporal and dreamy landscape of addled consciousness. Goodbye Errol Flynn, hello David Lynch.
Perhaps transcendence in the form of the multiverse amounts to a maturing of the genre, but if it does, then it is likely that Christians will find themselves with little stake in the future of fantasy fiction. We have swallowed whole the notion that religion amounts to immaturity as it creates a big cuddly deus ex machina in the sky (an image not so subtly inserted into “Bioshock: Infinite,” in the character of a monstrous mechanical bird that keeps the princess locked up in her tower) projecting the comforting feeling of parental love onto the unknown. If religious believers project a cosmic person, then proponents of the multiverse may be charged with imagining a cosmic dice-roll: mathematics and probability posited as metaphysical reality, and this is no great source of comfort to the adventurer, as “Bioshock: Infinite” unflinchingly proves. Both dramatically and philosophically, a Deus ex Machina is to be much preferred. At least it makes for a good story. It’s not that the multiverse breaks logic, it breaks drama and leads to an uncomfortably de-humanizing self-effacement. Maybe some sorts of stories were never meant to “mature” or at least maturity has been mistaken for a kind of spiritual isolation in which our heroes must learn to find some Pyrrhic solace in an unfriendly and random cosmos.
The multiverse is not a passing plot point, but will continue to become a more frequent fantasy staple in film and popular novels for one reason, and it’s not a surprising one given the state of the entertainment industry. “There are infinite worlds” means there are infinite ways to retell, repackage, reboot, and resell the same story. In a way, the multiverse is the perfect excuse to not write anything new. It is already a well-worn conceit in comic book fiction, the accepted canonical metaphysic of both the Marvel and DC universes. The multiverse will endure in fantasy fiction ultimately because it is profitable.
Christian themes have arguably been better represented in fantasy fiction than any other genre. THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA were prototypes for successful franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter. As in most cultural arenas, those Christian themes are being forgotten. The multiverse is the first thoroughly secular cosmology and its entrance into fantasy fiction is saddling adventure tales with the same costs that the decline of religion is costing America: a decline in the hope and the faith that no matter how dark the road, there is a redeemer beyond the “grey rain-curtain” of this world – as Tolkien had it – “and beyond. . . a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
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Hector M. Figueroa works as an industrial hygienist, which he simplifies to “controlling workplace hazards.”
Student Profile: Hector M. Figueroa, Professional Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health, OSHA Training Institute
His workplace is in the Imperial Valley, doing a job he enjoys because “I learn something new every day.”
With the Imperial Irrigation District, Figueroa keeps a sharp eye out for dangerous situations that could threaten his co-workers’ health and safety.
“I’m strictly in-house, looking out for our 1,400 employees,” he said. “That’s our main goal, to make sure we’re in full compliance with OSHA’s workplace standards.”
Figueroa grew up in Calexico, then went to Imperial Valley College before transferring to San Diego State, where he earned a degree in environmental health science. He then earned a master of management degree from the University of Phoenix.
After some 10 years in San Diego, he decided in 2007 to return home to raise his family. Before returning, he earned his Professional Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health from UC San Diego Extension.
“Until I got the formal training, I didn’t fully realize that every one of the OSHA regulations exist for a reason,” he said. “All those regulations are written in blood. They are there because something bad happened to someone. That really got to me.”
He still finds resistance from a few fellow workers.
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The landscape of growth, transportation, and open space has a big impact on our quality of life. Together they affect our cost of living, time spent commuting that could be spent with friends and family, air we breathe, how we enjoy our free time, and the neighborliness of the communities in which we live, among many other things. The Wasatch Choice for 2040 (WC2040) Vision, originally adopted by the Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) in 2007, considers how growth, transportation, and open space can be shaped for the next few decades, in ways that will improve the lives of residents in the Wasatch Front area. WC2040 will be replaced by the new Wasatch Choice 2050 Vision, scheduled for completion in 2019.
The WC2040 Vision was the result of participation of thousands of residents. Beginning with the Envision Utah effort that led to the Quality Growth Strategy in 1999, residents from across the region came together to explore a variety of potential future scenarios and the benefits and shortcomings of each. Through additional workshops and public input, that vision was refined to a more specific vision for the Wasatch Front region. Through this process participants coalesced upon nine Regional Growth Principles and a Vision Map, that focuses on a few distinct strategies for growth.
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BEACH MOUNTAINS. The Beach Mountains are located two miles northwest of Van Horn in southwestern Culberson County (with their center at 31°08' N, 104°51' W). Their highest elevation is 5,827 feet above sea level. The mountains are a domed and faulted block of Ordovician and Cambrian rocks, some 500 million years old; Precambrian rocks more than 570 million years old are found on their western flanks. The Beach Mountains, along with the Baylor and Sierra Diablo Mountains, form an uplifted block along the western edge of a broad valley of salt flats. They are steep and rocky and surfaced by shallow, stony soil that supports live oaks, piñons, junipers, and grasses. The mountains are named for J. H. Beach, a pioneer settler who arrived in Van Horn in 1886.
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Our posts about political language are usually reactions to things that politicians say, or things that pundits say about politicians. But this one is about something that mainstream pundits are not saying. Or more precisely, no longer saying very often.
The "President Me, Myself and I" meme — the false idea that Barack Obama uses first-person singular pronouns unusually, even unprecedentedly, often — seems to have slithered back into the swamp grass and gone dormant. It continues to infest the American Thinker (e.g. recently here), and it occasionally scurries out of the website weeds in places like Forbes, where one John Mariotti recently made a casual reference to the conventional falsehood in promoting his forthcoming book:
No other presidents in history have made so many speeches, appeared on television so many times, and used the pronouns “I” and “my” so many times.
But this sort of thing is not now regularly featured in the Op-Ed pieces of mainstream gasbags like George Will, Peggy Noonan, and Stanley Fish, as it was a few years ago.
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In 2019, Foard County, TX had a population of 1.28k people with a median age of 51.2 and a median household income of $43,625. Between 2018 and 2019 the population of Foard County, TX declined from 1,408 to 1,275, a −9.45% decrease and its median household income declined from $46,354 to $43,625, a −5.89% decrease.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Foard County, TX are White (Non-Hispanic) (72.1%), White (Hispanic) (10.1%), Two+ (Hispanic) (6.82%), Other (Hispanic) (5.33%), and Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.9%). 0% of the households in Foard County, TX speak a non-English language at home as their primary language.
97.8% of the residents in Foard County, TX are U.S. citizens.
In 2019, the median property value in Foard County, TX was $46,400, and the homeownership rate was 83.1%. Most people in Foard County, TX drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 15.8 minutes. The average car ownership in Foard County, TX was 2 cars per household. | <urn:uuid:0a919ee3-04d7-4ea6-afe1-cb51ba44ecc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flint.datausa.io/profile/geo/foard-county-tx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.969066 | 270 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Aster flowers do look like tiny daisy stars, and these American natives are stars of the garden each fall. I have many New England and New York asters in my garden, and I love the pink, blue and purple colors of the blooms and the carefree nature of the plants. I also enjoy the tiny, white “wild” asters that self seed easily and pop up all through my garden.
There is the wood aster (A. divaricatus) that grows 1 to 2 feet and produces loose clusters of three-quarter-inch flowers in fall in zones 4 to 8.
Another tiny, white flower is produced in profusion on the heath aster (A. ericoides), which has more slender leaves, but it also self seeds and produces clusters of small, white flowers in zones 3 to 8.
I think of the wood and heath asters as bonus flowers, as they produce millions of tiny blooms that provide a softness in the landscape and the vase, creating an effect that is similar to baby’s breath.
These easy care plants are self perpetuating, and the tiny white stars appear each fall, tying together the other flowers in my garden beds as if by magic. | <urn:uuid:2c95d5d5-2070-491b-be16-6afe84ea0be0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/focusonflowers/tiny-white-asters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00491-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940516 | 255 | 1.976563 | 2 |
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to the South Pacific this week, working to boost key U.S. alliances while pressing Japan to resolve a damaging dispute over a critical U.S. military base.
Clinton's nine-day trip will start in Hawaii -- where she will meet Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Tuesday -- and proceed to Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand, all of which have warm links with the Obama administration.
China is not on the itinerary, but will nevertheless be on the agenda as President Barack Obama's top diplomat seeks to assess how old U.S. allies are grappling with Beijing's growing economic and military might in the region.
Any major power in the western Asia Pacific region is wrestling with the rise of China: what that means for its own politics, its own foreign policy, its own economy, said Michael O'Hanlon, a security expert at Washington's Brookings Institution.
Each one has its own potential weaknesses or vulnerabilities or limits.
President Obama, on his own Asian tour in October, described himself as America's first Pacific president and Clinton has signalled she will put a priority on mapping out the future of Asia-Pacific ties.
The shifting dynamic has been clear in Japan, where Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government is in a dispute with Washington over relocating the Marines' Futenma base in Okinawa -- a concrete example of the U.S.-Japan security alliance which marks its 50th anniversary this month.
Hatoyama's new Democratic Party government has sought to strike a more independent foreign policy and is stalling on plans to relocate the Futenma base on Okinawa island, frustrating Washington.
U.S. officials say Clinton will press Okada to pledge to uphold a 2006 plan to move the base to a less crowded part of Okinawa -- rather than off the island entirely as many Okinawans demand -- although few are expecting any immediate breakthroughs.
We just hope that they can come to some resolution on this as quickly as possible so that we can get back on track, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters.
ENVIRONMENT, TRADE -- AND AFGHANISTAN
Clinton will also give a speech on U.S. Asia-Pacific policy before going to Papua New Guinea, where she will highlight environmental issues as the Obama administration keeps a focus on climate change after last month's rocky Copenhagen summit.
Clinton's next two stops in New Zealand and Australia should be easier, although the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, nuclear and trade issues will all be on the table along with frank discussions about China and the deadlock over Iran's nuclear program, analysts say.
In New Zealand, Clinton will meet Prime Minister John Key on Friday to cement ties with his centre-right government whose victory in 2008 ended nine years of Labour Party leaders who often struck an anti-American tone.
New Zealand is particularly keen that Washington put muscle behind talks on the Trans-pacific Partnership free trade pact, which would group the United States, New Zealand, Vietnam, Brunei, Australia, Singapore, Chile and Peru.
In Australia, Clinton will meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday before joining U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates for an annual meeting with their Australian counterparts likely to feature discussions of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
There are about 1,500 Australian troops in Afghanistan, the biggest non-NATO contingent in the war against Taliban extremists. Washington is pushing allies to contribute more to match its own deployment of 30,000 new troops, but Australia is unlikely to increase its military presence there.
I don't detect any appetite in the government for increasing the troop contribution, and it doesn't appear that anybody in Washington is manhandling them, Australian political analyst Michael Fullilove of Sydney's Lowy Institute said in an interview.
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I’ve only gone and made a gin!!!
I thought it was about time that there was a suitably global gin for World Gin Day and therefore collaborated with That Boutique-y Gin Company to create the official gin of World Gin Day, using botanicals from all seven continents!
The 7 Continents Gin features one botanical sourced from each of the world’s seven continents. This includes:
- Juniper from Europe
- Liquorice Root from Africa
- Cinnamon from Asia
- Coriander from Australia
- Angelica Root from North America
- Lime from South America
So far, so good. But if you can count you’ve realised we’re one short: Antarctica. If you know much about Antarctica you’ll know that this is where things got a little tricky. Firstly, it’s a flippin long way away, and chartering a helicopter there is pretty damn expensive (yes, we looked into this). That’s before you get to the problem that very few things grow there, and whatever does grow is restricted from being removed by the Antarctic Treaty of 1959.
So, we employed a little bit of creative thinking and realised that currents of water can freely leave the continent, so we were able to source sea salt harvested from currents of water originating in the Antarctic Ocean – which is added to the gin post-distillation. World:0 World Gin Day Gin:1.
World Gin Day 7 Continents Gin (Batch 1) was a limited release of 880 bottles. Sadly it sold out, but the good news is, BATCH TWO IS EQUALLY AWESOME! Get over to Master of Malt to pick up a bottle now! | <urn:uuid:4e815482-8e53-4b07-a301-cbe22f4e7e01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ginmonkey.co.uk/2017/06/08/world-gin-day-gin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.934465 | 356 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Several Palestinian Arabs from Gaza complained that they had been prevented from entering Israel for medical care over documents they intentionally marked with the wrong terms.
According to AFP, 70 Palestinian Arab patients from Gaza were prevented from crossing into Israel after they intentionally marked their documents as "State of Palestine" instead of "Palestinian Territories."
The term "Palestinian Territories" has been used for years in documentation between Hamas-controlled Gaza and Israel.
However, sources in Gaza claimed Wednesday that the logo was changed after the UN accepted 'Palestine' as an observer state in 2012 - even though the recognition was granted to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which administers parts of Judea and Samaria, and not the Hamas administration which rules Gaza.
But Hamas officials said it was Israeli authorities who were playing politics.
"This is a political decision from the Israelis to exert pressure in the negotiations," a senior Palestinian Arab official at the Gaza-based Document Coordination Office complained to AFP. "The Israeli side informed us that following a decision from COGAT, they won't give any permits to any patients with that logo."
Israel regularly allows medical patients from the territory, whose leadership has threatened Israel with genocide, to cross into Israel for treatment - between 40-70 people per day.
A spokesman for COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry unit responsible for coordinating civilian affairs in Gaza and the PA, confirmed that the permits had been refused because they were submitted on stationary bearing the problematic logo.
"Upon receiving the documents stamped 'State of Palestine', it was decided to return them to the DCO without considering them and demand they be refiled
in the accepted way," he said in a statement sent to AFP.
He did explain, however, that several of the more urgent cases were approved despite the mix-up and sent for treatment anyway. | <urn:uuid:6718bc11-97e5-4998-a8af-54081bf5b48a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177397 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00477-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978435 | 370 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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Personal Energy Management
Are you facing these situations?
You are stressed, fatigued and looking for ways to increase your energy.
Health is a concern. You wish you could take your health in your hands and get in control over your mind-body system.
There are so many career choices that you don’t know which one is appropriate for you based on your personality.
You wish to know yourself better. Why do you feel so many emotions? What are psychosomatic ailments? How should you heal yourself?
What is the secret of the Universe? What is there in it that you haven’t yet understood?
What is your purpose in life? Are you on your that path? If not, how should I get on it?
Job loss, insecurity, this hopelessness – how should you deal with them?
All these questions deal with your energy. The way you feel at any given point depends on how well energy is flowing in you. Some people are good energy managers; some are not. Their ability or inability to ‘manage’ their energy will determine how good or bad a life they lead.
When you start understanding yourself as an energy body, you will realise how you are just an electromagnetic being. Your body generates electricity and magnetism – which is what creates the ‘vibes’, frequencies, wavelengths, intuitive feelings, telepathy, sixth sense and the “I just know it” feelings.
What is Personal Energy Management?
Personal Energy Management (PEM) is the art and science of knowing yourself in terms of vibrations, frequencies and wavelengths. It is about decoding everything – yourself, your relationships, career, wealth, health, education, knowledge, opportunities, purpose, spirituality, religion, rituals and the way you have created your world.
It is about learning and speaking the language of the Universe. Remember, the Universe is made up of pulsations and it does not speak English. You, therefore, need to learn its language if you want the Universe to work for you.
How you will benefit
PEM can heal you on all levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, simply because you start to understand your body and mind better. You begin to connect the dots, understand how breath creates your frequency, and how that frequency is creating your world. If you want to change your reality, it’s simple, just change the way you breathe.
Know yourself better
How much do you know yourself and the way your body works for you? Hardly isn’t it? PEM helps you to understand yourself in terms of frequency, vibrations and wavelengths. It will provide you a completely different perspective to health, wealth, career, success and purpose in life.
Do you suffer from bad relationships? Why do they go bad in the first place? Is it to do with energy? Yes. PEM helps because when you understand everything in terms of frequencies, you will be able to understand how to correct the frequency imbalances in your relationships.
Way to more wealth
How much money do you want in life? Are you clear about it? If you get that money, will you be able to manage it? Money is after all, energy, and when you don’t manage energy, it starts to manage you. When you start seeing money as a frequency and not as notes, your approach towards wealth will change.
Which career to choose
Students often don’t know which career to choose and end up in wrong career choices which wastes their productive years. This will not happen if you know yourself better. Are you right-brained or left-brained? What is your core nature? Which stream improves your frequency and which doesn’t.
How you live in 4 worlds
We don’t live in one world; we live in four. Your inner world, the world you create for yourself, the outer world which is the earth and the last one being the Universe, which takes care of all these three worlds. If you want to be healthy, you need to know the secrets about how these worlds are inter-connected.
Follow your Ikigai
Do you know your purpose in life? The Japanese have a term for that – Ikigai – which means the “reason for getting up in the morning.” When you start knowing your energy better, you will be in a better position to know why you are on Earth and what is your larger purpose in life that will give maximum happiness?
Tales of Transformation
Numerous participants of PEM workshops and members of Connect-Ticket have experienced incredible transformations in life when they changed their energy patterns and starting to live life the ‘energy’ way!
From increased confidence, maintaining a sense of equilibrium when dealing with difficult situations and being able to speak up for yourself to becoming strong and independent – they experienced it all.
Besides learning how to heal relationships or heal themselves or even others, they got into a position to safeguard and conserve your energy and more significantly know how to utilise energy in a proper way. Not forgetting to mention the huge shift in thinking that they experienced that’ll make you understand and made them look at everything in terms of ‘energy’ and ‘energy movements’.
Pick your course
Check out our various offline and online courses in Personal Energy Management for individuals, corporates, teachers and students.
Have a question?
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Different Types of Cancer?
One of the primary differences between conventional and alternative medicine is in how cancer is defined. Conventional doctors see a malignant growth in the body and call that the cancer. Consequently, their treatments consist primarily of attacks against the tumor. Their preferred choices are surgery (cut out the tumor), radiation (burn the tumor), or chemotherapy (poison the tumor). If the tumor is removed or even reduced in this fashion, the doctor pronounces that the therapy is a success, and we often hear such reassuring statements as "We got it all." All-too-often, however, the malignancy returns either to the same location or spreads to another, and another, and yet another. At that point, we are told that the cancer has returned, and the attack against the new tumors is repeated as before.
By contrast, practitioners of alternative medicine do not consider the tumor to be the cancer, but merely the symptom of the cancer. They are more concerned with what caused the tumor to grow in the first place. They reason that it is more logical to fix the cause of the tumors than to attack the tumors themselves. If they can accomplish that, then the malignancies will stop growing, become harmless lumps, and eventually be re-absorbed and discarded by the body.
When a farmer sees black spots on the leaves of his corn crop, does he run around the corn field cutting the spots out of the leaves? Of course not, because he knows that the spots are caused by tiny organisms called blight. Even if he could succeed in cutting out all the spots, by the next day, they would be back on other parts of the leaves and there would be twice as many as the day before. The only way to get rid of the spots is to treat his entire crop to get rid of the organism that causes them. This is the approach of alternative medicine. Under microscopic examination, malignant growths usually appear to be quite different from each other, depending on their location and maturity. Since doctors of orthodox medicine think that these growths are cancer, they conclude that there are many different types of cancer. They give them distinctive names and often have a different approach for the treatment of each of them.
The doctor of alternative medicine, however, sees all malignancies as merely different manifestations of the same disease. What makes them appear different is that they take on some of the characteristics of the organs in which they grow. However, the more malignant the growth, the less they resemble their host organs and the more they resemble each other. The most malignant growths of all are practically indistinguishable from each other. They are, for all practical purposes, the same. (For a more complete understanding of this phenomenon, see World Without Cancer; The Story of Vitamin B17, by G. Edward Griffin, referenced in the Sources of Information section of this website.) The doctor of alternative medicine, therefore, views cancer as a general, systemic disease rather than a localized, organ-related disease. Consequently, the treatment is aimed primarily at strengthening the patient's natural defense mechanisms and assisting the whole body to overcome the malignancy.
In some cases, especially those where a malignancy has become life-threatening due to its proximity to a vital organ – such as the heart or brain – most doctors of alternative medicine will prescribe surgery to remove the immediate threat. But they do not consider that to be treatment of the disease. It is merely a procedure to buy valuable time in which to apply the slower-acting therapies of re-building the natural defenses.
However, since prevention and early detection is important, we have set up a page to let you know what some of the symptoms of cancer can be. We also have a page devoted to tests for detecting cancer.
In addition, many have asked for information regarding specific types of cancer, so we are developing pages on different kinds of cancers as time permits. We have started putting together information on the following cancers:
Counting chromosomes to predict chance of oral cancer
Doctors at the University of Oslo have found an easy way to predict one of the world's most deadly cancers - oral cancer.
More than 300,000 people around the world, and about 30,000 in the United States, are diagnosed each year with oral cancer, making it the 11th most common cancer in the United States, and the ninth most common worldwide. More than half of those people die within five years, largely because the cancers are hard to diagnose early.
The most common sign that cancer may develop is a white patch inside the mouth, called oral leukoplakia. The patches don't always signal cancer, but doctors often remove them because they have no way to know whether the patches will develop into cancer.
In a study done by Dr. Jon Sudbo and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine., it was found that the number of chromosomes one has can help predict oral cancer.
Oral cancers usually develop from white patches that can develop into cancer. It was rare for patches made up of cells with the normal 46 chromosomes - 23 from each parent - to develop into cancer, but it increases when the cells have double the usual number of chromosomes, and it occurs most often when the number was not a multiple of 23 - what doctors call “aneuploid.”
Thirty to 50 percent of all oral cancers have the normal 46 chromosomes and the test can't predict those cancers, but it is at least a predictor and may help identify some oral cancer sooner so it can be treated.
Many mouth cancers can be prevented by staying away from tobacco and alcohol.
Clear Out Negative Thoughts and Influences
Become an empowered patient, learn all about your condition and accept nothing passively. This will help you when you have to fight for your right to have alternative therapies, especially if your doctor or family are opposed to this.
Negative thoughts and emotions can be extremely toxic to the body's anti-cancer defense system. It is therefore important to address the mind/body connection when treating cancer. Stress or disorder can affect all levels of human functioning and can increase one's susceptibility to cancer. Therefore, one should avoid or reduce obstacles including negative attitudes, lack of sleep, and dysfunctional relationships when treating cancer or for cancer prevention. The more positive ones mental attitude, the better the immune system appears to be in helping fight cancer. Attitude clearly matters in fighting cancer. It appears that those with positive attitudes, with a strong will and purpose for living, with commitment to struggle, with an active response to aiding their own treatment and not just a passive acceptance of anything doctors say, tend to live longer.
There are many approaches that can be used in the "mind/body" approach. These may include: biofeedback, visualization, meditation, counseling, psychotherapy, even art and music therapy.
Will to live is very important, along with "hope". Cancer does not have to be a death sentence.
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Success Stories from Alternative Cancer Clinics
On April 5, 2002, Marv Taft, Windsor, California sent in the following testimonial:
I contacted the Cancer Cure Foundation and they gave me a world of information regarding the various clinics in Mexico. I started shopping on the internet and chose Dr. Castillo because he was so generous with his time in telling me all the things I wanted to know "up front". I was especially interested in the 25 pages of testimonials of his patients, with not only their names but most with addresses and photos and telephone numbers. I even called two of them.
I called for an appointment just eight days after my last surgery, and his office manager even made my reservations for the International Motor Inn in San Ysidro California.
I found the clinic to be immaculate, the technicians very pleasant and professional, the doctors very informative and professional, with the latest diagnostic equipment. The pharmacy is in the same building, which was very convenient.
My first visit was for 21 days of IV's that consisted of all naturals to build my immune system and to treat my cancer, my diabetes, my cholesterol, and my heart. With all the concentrated vitamins, minerals, DMSO, laetrile and Chelation, I did not have any reactions. After just five treatments, I started to feel like my old self again, and in the first 21 days of treatment, my tumor markers dropped 75%.
I returned in 30 days for a maintenance program for 10 days, and in that time, Dr. Castillo says my tumor markers were in a remission state. I stopped taking Zocor and my heart Rx.
I thank God for Dr. Castillo for giving me such hope. I feel that with my present remission I will be cancer free for the remainder of my life.
The following excerpts are from a patient who went to the Immune Institute in Huntington Beach, from the November 2000 issue of the magazine "Alternative Medicine. You can read the complete testimonial by going to Alternative Medicine's website.
The name of the cancer itself is frightening: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma - a type of vascular cancer inside the blood vessels. She had one 12-centimeter (4.75") and two 2-centimeter tumors on her liver, and metastases throughout her lungs. She was in extreme pain and experiencing rapid weight loss (cachexia). Because of the rarity of this type of cancer and the fact that it wasn't localized, oncologists at several other hospitals... all concurred--there was nothing they could do. She would be dead within six months.
Says Anoush, "For me, that was a green light. That was the best thing that they could have said to me. I just took that biopsy report, left the hospital and went directly to church to pray." At her church she met a woman who, learning of Anoush's situation, told her to wait there, then left and returned with a box filled with supplements. "God has sent you here today," the woman said, "so you could have these immune modulators so your body can be fixed. Your immune system can be normalized so that your body can fight the cancer itself."
The friend from church later called and told her she knew of an "incredible immunologist" who was going to give a lecture: Dr. Darryl See. This was before Dr. See opened the Immune Institute, but he agreed to see Anoush as an outpatient. Over time Anoush's condition stabilized, and then started improving. As of now, her tumors have stopped growing, her liver and blood panels are normal and various cellular parameters show excellent health. Two years after being given her "death sentence," she is in remission.
For a great list of people who have successfully treated their cancer, go to the list of Cancer Victors put together by the Cancer Control Society. We have removed this section from our website as Cancer Control Society has put their list on the internet. Go to http://www.cancercontrolsociety.com/directory.html - Patient's directory - View all. This list gives people who have successfully treated their cancer and tells what therapy they used, what doctor or clinic they went to, and where the cancer was located.
We would love to hear your experience using alternative treatments and feedback on any of the doctors you have used on your journey. Send your story to Cancer Cure Foundation at PO Box 3782, Thousand Oaks, California 91359 or Contact Us. If you would like to discuss your situation, call us at (800) 282-2873.
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In OpenCV, a mask image is of type
uint8_t. Pixels of value
0xFF are true and pixels of value
0 are false.
A mask can be applied on an image of the same dimensions, but of any type. By applying a mask
M on an image
I, the pixels of
I whose corresponding pixel in
M are true are copied into a new image. The rest of the pixels in the new image are set to
Applying a mask in OpenCV is easy:
cv::Mat in_mat; // Already created cv::Mat mask_mat; // Already created cv::Mat out_mat; // New and empty in_mat.copyTo(out_mat, mask_mat);
Note that the input and output image should not be the same! OpenCV does not throw an error, but the behavior is undefined.
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Updated: March 26, 2011
Windows can go kaput. Fact. Happens to the best and worst of us. The only thing that separates a monkey from a code monkey is one's ability to quickly and painlessly recover from a disaster. In this regard, we're talking both system and data. So you have your pictures and porn backed up to an external media. Good for you. But would you not like your machine to be able to boot once more, without going through a long and tedious task of installing and configuring it all over again.
In today's piece, we will discuss Windows recovery tools, both those provided by Microsoft and third-party companies, live CD tools, even Linux. All of these can be used to rescue Windows from malfunction. There are many tools and options available. We shall check them all!
Windows XP does not have a very remarkable built-in recovery mechanism. However, with the installation CD, you can still do a handful of useful things. Better yet, if you're using a live bootable Windows CD, then you can do a whole lot more.
This is one of the most common tasks, especially if you hazard into the world of dual-booting your Windows XP and Linux. Not to worry, boot from Windows installation disk and do the magic, as explained in Microsoft instructions:
So far, so good. However, like I mentioned earlier, you may want to try BartPE or even the more powerful Ultimate Boot CD For Windows (UBCD4Win). This is the Swiss Army Knife of the Windows world, the Windows equivalent to a fully fledged Linux live CD, with tons of great programs and tools that can make your live healthier.
Windows 7 has more robust recovery options. The top-end versions of Windows 7 actually create their own 100MB recovery partition, which stores the critical system data. Sort of like OEM-provided hidden restore functionality on laptops.
I've shown you an example of Windows 7 recovery in live action in my second dual-boot tutorial, with Windows becoming unbootable after Ubuntu was installed. We sorted it out fairly easily. In fact, here's the long snippet - the problem starts here:
This is exactly what I wanted you to see! Don't panic! Whenever you use a partitioning tool against an installed system, there's a chance of a problem, filesystem corruption and who knows what else. There is no guarantee for success. Re-partitioning of installed operating systems is risky. This is why you should always create your setup BEFORE installations, so you never have to face this kind of problem.
What went wrong?
Well, my guess is the resizing (shrinking) messed up the filesystem. No worries, we will fix it. Luckily, we can solve this one rather easily. The error message itself suggests the course of action - boot from Windows installation disc, choose Language settings, click on Repair your computer and let the built-in Windows tools do the job. Let's do it, then.
Repair unbootable Windows installation
Following the instructions, we will boot from the Windows installation disc.
Click on Repair your computer:
And you will see this menu:
Let Windows repair itself. It should do a pretty good job. Indeed, we're up and running. Windows 7 will start booting and recommend you run checkdisk against your disk, offering yet another hint that the resizing procedure messed things up a little. You should indeed let the tool run.
And soon, you'll see the login menu:
The problem ends here ... Looking good.
Now, after you're convinced that it works, let's see what else the recovery console can do. When booting, hit F8 - or wait for a failing system to offer the console. Select Repair Your Computer and wait for the rescue system module to load.
Now, before you do that, please take a moment to go through all other available options. There's boot logging and debugging, starting with the last good known configuration, disable driver signature enforcement, and several other features. If you're not really sure what they do, just go with the default, which should be enough in most cases.
Choose your language:
Enter your password (for any administrative account):
Next, go through the options.
What do we have here?
System Repair is your best bet. Let Windows do all the hard work.
System Restore will try to restore Windows to an earlier time.
System Image Recovery will restore a system image, but only if you use Windows for this. It will not restore images created in third-party imaging software.
Windows Memory Diagnostic is like running memtest on Linux.
Command Prompt is what it is - a place to hammer wise commands, like fixmbr and similar. We will see a few more Windows 7 specific options a while later.
We want the first option. Windows will try its magic:
Luckily, Windows 7 will find a problem and fix it.
Now, some other tricks ...
Windows 7 uses a somewhat different notation for fixing the broken MBR. The idea remains the same, but the command line has changed a little.
Optionally, you may also need to run bootrec /fixboot. Voila!
Let's review several other tools, as well as the useful tips and tricks for system health.
You should have a sound and well-tested strategy for your system, as well as data. System backup refers to imaging. Data backup is, well, self-evident. Very important and often neglected by users, until a disaster, often a simple hardware failure, strikes.
On top of that, you may want to backup your browser data and your drivers. To this end, there's Double Driver, which will neatly package all of your system drivers into a single archive. And if you happen to be using Firefox, then you will like the FEBE & CLEO extension combo, which can backup your profile, completely or selectively. On my recommended Firefox addons list.
Sounds weird, but it works. Whether you go for dual-boot or run Linux from live CD, it can help you fix your Windows. The problem may only be the bootloader, but you may also require salvaging data or cleaning up malware. There are many Linux tools that can do the job, we'll mention just a few. Taken from my Forensics introduction article:
This is a live CD specifically geared toward rescue and recovery. The tools package includes some of the most important tools available for Linux user, like GParted, PartImage, Grub, Lilo, sfdisk, TestDisk, and more.
PartImage is a powerful, friendly disk/partition imaging software, allowing you to quickly and easily backup and recover your entire disks or individual partitions, including the Windows NTFS filesystem. PartImage is included with the SystemRescueCD.
Speaking of imaging software, CloneZilla is another powerful candidate for disk / partition backup and recovery; see the tutorial above.
Another extremely important tool is TestDisk. This tool allows to recover lost partitions, make not-bootable disks boot again and restore delete files. It is one of the more effective and powerful utilities on the market. When everything else fails, TestDisk won't. TestDisk is included with the SystemRescueCD.
Super Grub Disk is intended to run from a floppy disk or CD and is used for system rescue. Most importantly, it can be used to restore boot loaders, including GRUB, LILO and even Windows boot loader. Super Grub Disk works with both GRUB Legacy and GRUB2.
This is another nifty tool that can do the job. I have not introduced it before, so now it seems like a good time. ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft fixmbr to a hard disk or sys <letter> to a floppy or FAT partition, except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written. For example, to fix Windows MBR, run the following command:
ms-sys -m /dev/sda
This is assuming that Windows is located on the first device, as it ought to be. Furthermore, you need to be familiar with Linux notation to do this. And we're done.
I hope you liked this tutorial. As most support & help articles, it's not just a narrow-minded point-and-click guide. It embraces the recovery doctrine as a whole and tries to present a universal approach to potential problems.
You now have specific commands for both Windows XP and 7, full live CD systems capable of repairing your damaged Windows installations and you've learned about a handful of Linux programs that can do the trick. Most importantly, you are familiar with the Windows recovery console and what it can do. If you ever need to restore your Windows, for whatever reason, you have the tools for the job, may you never require them.
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Age, genes and gender are some factors that influence the competitive attitudes… (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles…)
We compete for prizes ... for promotions ... for parking spaces.
We compete to see who's fastest ... who's strongest ... who can eat the most hot dogs in 10 minutes.
"Competition makes the world go 'round," write Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in their book, "Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing," to be published Tuesday.
Still, many of us are ambivalent about it. We may praise the competitiveness of some (say, certain popular athletes), disparage the competitiveness of others (say, certain obnoxious colleagues) and deny that we ourselves are competitive at all (in order to suggest what nice people we are).
All of us compete to some extent. "But we have different makeups that make us different types of competitors," Bronson says. As it turns out, age matters. Gender matters. The gene for one particular enzyme matters. And that's just for starters.
Based on everything they knew about aging and competitive behavior, the authors of a 2011 study in the journal Psychology and Aging expected people to become steadily less competitive across their adult lives. But that's not what they found. In fact, people tend to become more competitive until about age 50, and only then does their competitive fire gradually begin to cool.
On average, women are less eager to compete than men — at first a rather disconcerting fact for Merryman. "I'm competitive," she thought. "Am I not supposed to be?" But there was more to the story.
As long as women have a reasonable chance of winning, they're every bit as willing to compete as men. They just don't like competing against all odds, whereas men seem OK with that.
Competing against all odds can pay off big-time, of course. Consider Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. But it can also backfire. One example in "Top Dog": elite schools. The odds of being a star student in an elite school can be pretty long. "For boys," Bronson says, "the competition can become overwhelming." And damaging. Average boys in elite schools can end up learning less than boys of similar capabilities who attend lesser schools. But that doesn't happen with girls. They're apt to recognize the odds and not fight them so hard.
Competition is often stressful. Some of us thrive on that. Some of us crumble. To a certain extent, we can't choose how we respond any more than we can choose to be tall or short. It's in our genes. But with enough preparation and repetition, crumblers can reduce their stress — and hold things together better — in situations they face often, Bronson says.
Good labeling can help too, advises Valorie Kondos Field, who coaches women's gymnastics at UCLA. "If you keep telling yourself how nervous you are, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy," she explains. "But your body gives you the same exact signs when you're excited as when you're nervous. So tell yourself you're excited. You'll do better."
We all know people (very different from ourselves!) we consider too competitive. Scientists might identify them as hypercompetitives — people whose main goal is to beat others. Scientists distinguish hypercompetitives from those whose main goal in competition is to develop their own abilities.
Both types of people can be equally competitive — try just as hard, want to win just as much — but they differ dramatically in other ways, says Richard Ryckman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Maine. His research suggests that hypercompetitives have a greater need for power and control over others. They are more narcissistic but less altruistic and less respectful. People of both types can be successful, he adds.
For centuries, philosophers have debated whether competition makes us perform better or worse. In an article published last year in the Psychological Bulletin, researchers analyzed the results of more than 175 studies and found no evidence that competition affected performance either way. But they didn't stop there. After additional analysis and three studies of their own, they concluded that when people are trying to excel — playing to win — their performance improves. When they're trying to avoid messing up — playing not to lose — their performance goes downhill. In their original analysis, these two opposite effects canceled each other out.
"Top Dog" cites examples when playing to win can be a winning strategy — penalty shots by professional soccer players. When making the shot will save their team from losing, they succeed 62% of the time. But when making the shot will give their team the win, they succeed 92% of the time.
The last word
Overall, Bronson and Merryman conclude that most of us naturally rise to the occasion when we compete. But they also believe that most of us could probably improve. "Whether you think you're a good competitor, or think you're not," Merryman says, "knowing the science of competition, understanding the mechanisms, can help you in tense situations. You'll know what to do and how to be better at it." | <urn:uuid:57c9a7e1-7f3b-4513-8d33-6ce71474fa99> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/16/health/la-he-top-dog-20130216 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00187-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974768 | 1,063 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Island Under Siege
Malta: Island Under Siege not only relates the decisive military action from World War II but also details the religious, historical and political events that led to the Axis forces' attempts to conquer and occupy Malta, putting the reader in the meeting rooms of the military leaders and politicians, on board the convoys, in the cockpits of the bombers and with the civilian population sheltering beneath Malta's fortresses while trying to live as normal a life as possible.
Wartime locations on the island, many often ignored by the guidebooks and tourist maps, are explored and their relevance to Malta's resistance examined alongside the people, on both sides of the conflict, who helped shape the Mediterranean island's destiny before, during and after the Second World War.
Malta is now a holiday destination to many, but it's easy to forget how much the people of the island, its British garrison and the sailors of the Merchant Navy and Royal Navy had to endure to ensure the Allies kept a toe-hold in North Africa and southern Europe at a time when Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy were threatening to sweep all before them.
The First Air Raids against Malta during WWII
11th June 1940
On 11 June 1940, the day after Italy declared war on Britain and France, aircraft of the Italian Royal Air Force attacked Malta. Most of its land forces had been committed for the upcoming invasion of Greece, so Italy resorted to aerial bombardment. On the first day, ten Italian Cant bombers dropped bombs on Grand Harbour, Hal Far, and Kalafrana. In seven attacks, eleven civilians and six soldiers were killed. In addition, roughly 130 civilians and some soldiers were injured.
Siege: Malta 1940-1943 (Paperback)
Situated midway between Europe and Africa, Malta played a central role in the battles for the mastery of North Africa. The island was the vital supply base for British and Imperial troops in the to-and-fro desert campaigns against, first, Italy and then Germany and Rommel’s Afrika Korps. The three-year siege of Malta was one of the longest in history. In this thrilling account the author, who first came to know and love Malta whilst serving with the Royal Navy during the Second World War, paints a vivid picture of the suffering of the island and its population. He draws on personal accounts…By Ernle Bradford
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By Michell K. McIntyre, Director of NCL's Special Project on Wage Theft What a way to start the New Year! This week saw three exceptional events that signal an optimistic outlook for 2012. President Obama not only decided to use his executive power to make recess appointments but he used them to appoint Richard Cordray to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and filled the three vacancies at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). With Cordray’s appointment to the CFPB, the Bureau can finally begin its vital mission of standing by consumers, demanding greater transparency about consumer financial products and pursing enforcement actions against financial firms who have defrauded consumers or otherwise violated federal rules. Without a director, the CFPB could not have moved forwarded with its critical work and consumers would be left at the mercy of financial institutions. Later that same day, President Obama appointed three very qualified individuals to the NLRB – Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard Griffin. With these appointments the NLRB can continue to police employers, unions, and workers. Without these bipartisan appointments the five seat NLRB would not have had a quorum, having only two seats filled as of January 3rd, and would have been paralyzed until the Senate confirmed the nominees. None of these events could have happened without President Obama taking the step to stop the nullification of these federal agencies by the minority in the Senate. According to USA Today, when the Senate minority filibustered Cordray’s nomination last month, it was the first time in history the Senate blocked an appointment in an effort to effectively shut down an agency. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stated, “We won’t support a nominee for this bureau – regardless of who the president is.” While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called it “the first time in Senate history a party blocked a qualified nominee solely because it disagrees with the existence of an agency that was created by law, through a bipartisan vote.” When President Obama stepped up to the plate on Wednesday and used his executive power to make recess appointments, he not only hit it out of the ballpark but he hit a grand slam for American consumers and workers. | <urn:uuid:c37f4e6e-af98-4ada-94bb-20a0d066a3ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nclnet.org/good_way_to_start_the_new_year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00282-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962698 | 449 | 1.601563 | 2 |
By Elaine Dunn | April 2022
For those who watched the Winter Olympics, you may remember the tiny four-athlete contingent from Taiwan entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremony minus the Taiwanese flag. They were announced as the team from “Chinese Taipei,” a place with a name that’s not on any map! Why?
It’s a long, contentious story involving the competing Chinas.
Taiwan had been competing under “Chinese Taipei” after communist China first made its Olympics debut at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Until then, Taiwan had been competing under the name the Republic of China. But Beijing petitioned in 1980 to disallow the use of that name by Taiwan and Taiwan athletes arriving at Lake Placid, New York, were not allowed to compete.
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party won the civil war against the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. The latter fled across the strait to the island of Taiwan, which, at that time, was transitioning from decades of Japanese colonization.
For two decades, the exiled Chinese, known as the Republic of China and known internationally as “Free China,” received international support and was recognized as “China.’ On the other hand, communist China, was shunned by the United States and many members of the United Nations as well as the International Olympic Committee. The mainland was known at that point as the People’s Republic of China and was not allowed to participate at the Olympics, unlike the Taiwanese team.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, both Taiwan and communist China maintained there was only “one China,” Taiwan or mainland. No country or entity was allowed to recognize both as “China.”
However, the winds began to shift during the 1960s when the U.S. began to see “normalizing” U.S.-Beijing relations was beneficial, if not essential. Growing Sino-Soviet rivalry provided the opportunity.
In July 1971, a secret diplomatic mission was set up by Dr. Henry Kissinger, then U.S. National Security Advisor, to solidify the U.S.-Beijing relation. The U.S. had a heavy price to pay: drop its longtime ally Taiwan and, drop its veto of the People’s Republic of China’s admission to the U.N. However, the U.S. still argued that Taiwan should remain a member of the UN. But Beijing would not hear of it, insisting on “One China.”
So Taiwan’s political fortune all changed on Oct. 25, 1971, when the UN General Assembly passed resolution No. 2758 with a two-thirds majority to admit the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan, which had been a member and held a seat as a permanent member of the Security Council since 1945 was expelled, just like that!
President Richard Nixon’s trip in 1972 to Beijing further warmed ties between the U.S. and communist China, leading to diplomatic recognition of the mainland in 1979. Also in 1979, the International Olympic Committee passed a resolution by which both Taiwan and Beijing agreed to abide – that Taiwan would compete as “Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee” and mainland China, “Chinese Olympic Committee (IOC).” (Hong Kong athletes compete under “Hong Kong, China.”) And, medal counts would be separate. In addition, during medal ceremonies, a “flag-raising anthem will be played instead of Taiwan’s and Hong Kong’s official national anthems.
Taiwan’s international recognition as an independent government has continued to dwindle, thanks to China’s political bullying.
Perhaps in defiance or perhaps it was an honest mistake, at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, a Japanese announcer referred to the Taiwanese team as “the team from Taiwan” instead of the “Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee.” Mainland Chinese officials were not happy!
To head off further “mistakes,” Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office modified the Chinese name for the team from Taiwan. Instead of “zhonghua,” it used “zhongguo.” “Zhonghua” refers to anything Chinese whereas the latter, “zhongguo” specifically applies to China, the country, thereby implying to Mandarin-speakers that the team from Taiwan is part of the Chinese team! Of course the Taiwan government protested its altered name!
In 2018, a former Taiwanese Olympian launched a campaign to change the team’s name back to “Taiwan.” But many opposed him, fearing that name change could result from Taiwan athletes being barred from competing, a high probability knowing how Beijing works.
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The (EASA) is ordering inspections of relatively high-cycle to assess the extent to which a new set of wing cracks are affecting the fleet.
The inspections and potential repairs could impact A380 operations, although so far the damage prompting the EASA airworthiness directive has been found only on two of nine aircraft inspected. The culprit is an L-shaped bracket that attaches the wing skin to the ribs.
An Airbus wing expert insists it is not a flight safety issue and that both a short-term fix has been identified in cases where cracking is detected, as well as a longer-term fix to avoid the stress cracks occurring in the future. The cracks have been found on the center section of the wing between the two engines.
The EASA directive addresses a similar parts fatigue problem with wing rib feet brackets initially found on aA380 and later seen on other aircraft. Those hairline cracks were deemed manageable and could be fixed at C-checks. Those cracks were found because the Qantas aircraft (MSN14) suffered an uncontained engine failure, giving engineers an opportunity to closely examine the wing.
The new cracking is slightly different and viewed as more significant, though. It has been seen on two A380s that have been more closely inspected. Originally, damage was found when a customer aircraft underwent a C-check around ten days ago. One of the brackets, rather than showing hairline stress cracks, on its vertical part had a more significant crack, prompting Airbus to notify safety authorities and also launch a wider inspection of nine aircraft at which point evidence of cracking was found on a second aircraft.
Each wing has around 2,000 L-shaped brackets (30-40 per rib, with 60 ribs per wing), so the failure of one bracket is not seen as a safety issue.
EASA decided to call for an immediate inspection regime rather than waiting for a regular inspection opportunity. Around a dozen aircraft are likely to be affected. The Airbus official notes that even without the extra attention to the issue caused by the findings on the Qantas aircraft, the cracks would have been found during routine maintenance activity well before becoming a safety issue.
Where cracks are found, the bracket has to be unbolted and a new one spliced into the section. Whether that is a permanent fix, or an interim measure is still being assessed.
The inspection is relatively simple, the wing expert says, requiring drainage of the relevant tanks for a visual inspection. However, the time to drain the tanks likely means an aircraft is out of service at least 24 hours, depending on local safety rules. If a bracket is found to have cracked, it needs immediate replacement, which could take a few days.
As part of the root cause analysis, Airbus instrumented one of its own aircraft to assess whether it had erroneously estimated the loads the wing would see, leading to the cracks. But the aircraft maker determined that was not the case. Instead, it found that the likely culprit is the assembly process, which imparts too much stress on the bracket when the wing skin is attached to the rib. The part itself is not being redesigned, but the assembly process is being changed for the long-term solution. | <urn:uuid:cef7b590-9a3b-479c-b470-8791ecd324e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aviationweek.com/print/commercialregiontabs-true/easa-demands-a380-wing-crack-inspections | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00321-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978327 | 652 | 2.125 | 2 |
Revolving credit is a financial necessity for many modern households. Whether you are a young professional establishing yourself in your career or a parent with a couple of children, you never know when there will be unexpected expenses that exceed how much money you have available.
Credit cards help people by giving them an opportunity to pay for something before they have the actual money in their bank accounts. Unfortunately, a slowly-growing balance due on a credit card can quickly reach a point where it causes hardship for the borrower.
Those coping with overwhelming debt may file for bankruptcy. What happens to your credit cards after you file?
Your lenders will likely freeze your accounts
Your ability to borrow money depends on your capability and willingness to repay the amount borrowed. When you file for bankruptcy, most of your unsecured debts will be eligible for discharge.
Creditors seek to protect themselves by turning off the borrowing power of those who file for bankruptcy, often the very same day that they file. Even a lender that does not have a balance on their account and will therefore not be part of your discharge will likely freeze your account and prevent you from using the credit card involved again.
The amount owed may be subject to discharge
Provided that you qualify for the kind of bankruptcy that you file and you complete the process, the courts will approve the discharge of the remaining balance on your unsecured debt, including your credit cards. You will no longer have to make payments on those accounts.
New cards will be an option within weeks, maybe months
There are rules that prevent you from filing for bankruptcy repeatedly in quick succession, so creditors know that shortly after your discharge is a good time to sign a new credit agreement with you.
You will likely have the option of opening a new credit card within a few weeks or several months of your discharge. Although the terms for those early offers may not be the best, they provide you with a chance to start rebuilding your credit. A few years later, you may become eligible for better credit cards with more favorable terms.
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Drilling Part 2
How to Drill Your Own Well - Part 2
The video below is a continuation of the instructional video begun in Part 1. It shows the well being drilled from 13 to 29 feet.
HOW TO DRILL YOUR OWN WELL - PART 2
Please pay particular attention to the water bearing sand in the video. Actually, any sand that is signficantly under the water table is water bearing sand and it is OK to place the well screen in it. Ideally, you are looking for sand that is just a little bigger than the other sand you have been digging through. The sand at the end of this video is that perfect water bearing sand. | <urn:uuid:08c5dbfc-ba84-4d15-8dab-8f14d4919359> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://drillyourownwell.com/Well-Drilling-Part-2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00047-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955694 | 137 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will finalize plans for what to do with its remaining research chimpanzees by the end of March, Wired Science reported. The decision follows years of arguments over the scientific value and ethical implications of using chimpanzees in the lab.
The agency will be deciding whether to follow recommendations from a report released earlier this year (January 22) by a working group of the Council of Councils, a federal advisory group, which recommended that the agency retire all but 50 of its approximately 450 research chimpanzees. The report is open for public comment until March 23.
Already this past September, after the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center declared it would not apply for renewal of its NIH grant to house its 110 chimps, the agency declared the animals ineligible for further biomedical research, citing a decreased need for research chimpanzees.
In January, New Iberia began to transfer the first of its chimps to Chimp Haven, a sanctuary also in Louisiana. The chimps now live among a total of 219 retired NIH chimps. “We believe that . . . it’s only fitting that we give back to [the chimps] and let them enjoy their retirement years in as close to a natural habitat as we can possibly create for them,” said Cathy Spraetz of Chimp Haven in a video created by the Human Society of the United States.
The NIH’s 50 remaining research chimps, which may be used in research into a hepatitis C vaccine or into developing new monoclonal antibodies, must be kept in naturalistic conditions, according to the Council of Councils’ report, with year-round outdoor access, foraging and nest-building materials, structures to climb, and a sufficient number of other chimpanzees to form social groups, as they would in the wild. But Wired Science said that no NIH facilities currently meet these standards.
The scientific community is split on the decision to retire the chimps. “Our culture has moved beyond this,” Daniel Povinelli, an anthropologist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a former member of the Council of Councils, told Wired. “Chimps are too close to us to turn around and do experiments on them.” But Dan Geschwind, a neuroscientist at the University of California and head of the Council of Councils committee, told Wired that the reduction in the captive research chimpanzee population is sufficient for now. “We’re talking about an immediate, 90-percent reduction,” he said. | <urn:uuid:2359197d-3e48-4bb9-9c3c-dc1b673b8576> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34680/title/Great-Ape-Research-Decision/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95336 | 530 | 2.75 | 3 |
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.” — Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist
If a cop wrongfully attacks you, you cannot fight back.
If a SWAT team wrongfully raids your home, you cannot defend yourself.
If a highway patrol officer wrongfully takes your money or your valuable possessions, you cannot get them back without a lengthy, costly legal battle.
It used to be that the Constitution served as a bulwark against government abuses, excesses and wrongdoing.
That is no longer the case.
Having been reduced to little more than a historic document, the Constitution now provides scant protection against government abuses, misconduct and corruption.
Not only are “we the people” painfully vulnerable to the whims of any militarized cop on the beat, but we are also sitting targets for every government huckster out to fleece the taxpayer of their hard-earned dollars.
We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die.
Because the government’s voracious appetite for money, power and control has grown out of control, its agents have devised other means of funding its excesses and adding to its largesse through taxes disguised as fines, taxes disguised as fees, and taxes disguised as tolls, tickets and penalties. For example, red light cameras, which were sold to the public as safety measures, have in practice become backdoor taxes aimed at swelling government bank accounts.
The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud Americans have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture schemes, the modern-day equivalent of highway robbery, astronomical health care “reform,” and costly stimulus packages.
Americans have also been made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, military empire, welfare state, roads to nowhere, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the taxpayers.
Those football stadiums that charge exorbitant sums for nosebleed seats?Our taxpayer dollars subsidize them. Those blockbuster war films? Yep, we were the silent investors on those, too. Same goes for the military equipment being peddled to local police agencies and the surveillance cameras being “donated” to local governments.
Now the government and its corporate partners in crime have come up with a new scheme to not only scam taxpayers out of what’s left of their paychecks but also make us foot the bill, and it’s coming at us in the form of a war on cash.
What is this war on cash?
It’s a concerted campaign to do away with large bills such as $20s, $50s, $100s and shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient.
According to economist Steve Forbes, “The real reason for this war on cash—start with the big bills and then work your way down—is an ugly power grab by Big Government. People will have less privacy: Electronic commerce makes it easier for Big Brother to see what we’re doing, thereby making it simpler to bar activities it doesn’t like, such as purchasing salt, sugar, big bottles of soda and Big Macs.”
Much like the war on drugs and the war on terror, this so-called “war on cash” is being sold to the public as a means of fighting terrorists, drug dealers and tax evaders. Just the mere possession of cash is enough to implicate you in suspicious activity and have you investigated. In other words, cash has become another way for the government to profile Americans and render them criminals.
The rationale is that cash is the currency for illegal transactions given that it’s harder to track, can be used to pay illegal immigrants, and denies the government its share of the “take,” so doing away with paper money will help law enforcement fight crime and help the government realize more revenue.
Despite what we know about the government and its history of corruption, bumbling, fumbling and data breaches, not to mention how easily technology can be used against us, the campaign to do away with cash is really not a hard sell.
It’s not a hard sell, that is, if you know the right buttons to push, and the government has become a grand master in the art of getting the citizenry to do exactly what it wants. Remember, this is the same government thatplans to use behavioral science tactics to “nudge” citizens to comply with the government’s public policy and program initiatives.
It’s also not a hard sell if you belong to the Digital Generation, that segment of the population for whom technology is second nature and “thefirst generation born into a world that has never not known digital life.”
And if you belong to the growing class of Americans—46% of consumers, approximately 114 million adults and rising—who use your cell phone to pay bills, purchase goods, and transfer funds, then the government is just preaching to the choir when it comes to persuading you of the convenience of digital cash.
In much the same way that Americans have opted into government surveillance through the convenience of GPS devices and cell phones, digital cash—the means of paying with one’s debit card, credit card or cell phone—is becoming the de facto commerce of the American police state.
It is estimated that smart phones will replace cash and credit cards altogether by 2020. Already, a growing number of businesses are adopting no-cash policies, including certain airlines, hotels, rental car companies, restaurants and retail stores. In Sweden, even the homeless and churches accept digital cash.
Making the case for “never, ever carrying cash” in lieu of a digital wallet, journalist Lisa Rabasca Roepe argues that cash is inconvenient, ATM access is costly, and it’s now possible to reimburse people using digital apps such as Venmo. Thus, there’s no longer a need for cash. “More and more retailers and grocery stores are embracing Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay,” notes Roepe. “PayPal’s app is now accepted at many chain stores including Barnes & Noble, Foot Locker, Home Depot, and Office Depot. Walmart and CVS have both developed their own payment apps while their competitors Target and RiteAid are working on their own apps.”
It’s not just cash that is going digital, either.
A growing number of states—including Delaware and California—are looking to adopt digital driver’s licenses that would reside on your mobile phone. These licenses would include all of the information contained on your printed license, along with a few “extras” such as real-time data downloaded directly from your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
Of course, reading between the lines, having a digital driver’s license will open you up to much the same jeopardy as digital cash: it will make it possible for the government to better track your movements, monitor your activities and communications and ultimately shut you down.
So what’s the deal here?
Despite all of the advantages that go along with living in a digital age—namely, convenience—it’s hard to imagine how a cashless world navigated by way of a digital wallet doesn’t signal the beginning of the end for what little privacy we have left and leave us vulnerable to the likes of government thieves and data hackers.
First, when I say privacy, I’m not just referring to the things that you don’t want people to know about, those little things you do behind closed doors that are neither illegal nor harmful but embarrassing or intimate. I am also referring to the things that are deeply personal and which no one need know about, certainly not the government and its constabulary of busybodies, nannies, Peeping Toms, jail wardens and petty bureaucrats.
Second, we’re already witnessing how easy it will be for government agents to manipulate digital wallets for their own gain. For example, civil asset forfeiture schemes are becoming even more profitable for police agencies thanks to ERAD (Electronic Recovery and Access to Data) devices supplied by the Department of Homeland Security that allow police to not only determine the balance of any magnetic-stripe card (i.e., debit, credit and gift cards) but also freeze and seize any funds on pre-paid money cards. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in June 2016 that it does not violate the Fourth Amendment for police to scan or swipe your credit card.
Third, as the ever insightful Paul Craig Roberts observes, while Americans have been distracted by the government’s costly war on terror, “the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.” Ultimately, as Roberts—who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan—makes clear, the war on cash is about giving the government the ultimate control of the economy and complete access to the citizenry’s pocketbook.
Fourth, if there’s a will, there’s a way. So far, every technological convenience that has made our lives easier has also become our Achilles’ heel, opening us up to greater vulnerabilities from hackers and government agents alike. In recent years, the U.S. government has been repeatedly hacked. In 2015, the Office of Personnel Management had more than 20 million personnel files stolen, everything from Social Security numbers to birth dates and fingerprint records. In 2014, it was the White House, the State Department, the Post Office and other government agencies, along with a host of financial institutions, retailers and entertainment giants that had their files breached. And these are the people in charge of protecting our sensitive information?
Fifth, if there’s one entity that will not stop using cash for its own nefarious purposes, it’s the U.S. government. Cash is the currency used by the government to pay off its foreign “associates.” For instance, the Obama administration flew more than $400 million in cash to Iran in January 2016, reportedly as part of a financial settlement with the country. Critics claim the money was ransom paid for the return of American hostages. And then there was the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills that the U.S. flew to Iraq only to claim it had no record of what happened to the money. It just disappeared. So when government economists tell you that two-thirds of all $100 bills in circulation are overseas—more than half a trillion dollars’ worth—it’s a pretty good bet that the government played a significant part in their export.
Sixth, this drive to do away with cash is part of a larger global trenddriven by international financial institutions and the United Nations that is transforming nations of all sizes, from the smallest nation to the biggest, most advanced economies.
Finally, short of returning to a pre-technological, Luddite age, there’s really no way to pull this horse back now that it’s left the gate. While doing so is near impossible, it would also mean doing without the many conveniences and advantages that are the better angels, if you will, of technology’s totalitarian tendencies: the internet, medical advances, etc.
To our detriment, we really have little control over who accesses our private information, how it is stored, or how it is used. Whether we ever had much control remains up for debate. However, in terms of our bargaining power over digital privacy rights, we have been reduced to a pitiful, unenviable position in which we can only hope and trust that those in power will treat our information with respect.
America’s founders, however, did not believe in trusting government officials or giving them too much power. In fact, they believed those entrusted with power will eventually pervert it into tyranny. As Thomas Jefferson observed, “Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
Unfortunately, that Constitution has since been shredded.
Our republic has been transformed into an oligarchy.
We have come full circle, back to a pre-revolutionary era of taxation without any real representation.
Lysander Spooner, a 19th century American abolitionist and legal theorist, was right when he concluded that the government is far more disingenuous and dangerous to the rights, property and lives of the citizenry than the common criminal or highwayman. As Spooner points out:
[Unlike the government,] the highwayman … does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit… He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a “protector”… He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands… In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.
How tragically apropos the analogy remains today.
We the people, once free citizens of a free nation, are now at the mercy of cutthroats and villains masquerading as government agents and elected officials.
We continue to be robbed at gunpoint, treated like cattle, tracked incessantly and forced to serve and obey.
We continue to be branded rebels and traitors and enemy combatants, shot without hesitation for daring to resist an official order or challenge injustice, and duped into believing all this was done for our “good.”
In the end, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we are no better than when we first started out more than 200 years ago as indentured slaves to a government elite intent on using us for their own profit and gain.
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Byzantine icon, Jesus and Caiaphas, hand painted in Russia.
After being arrested, Jesus is taken before Annas and Caiaphas; in this scene Jesus is in Caiaphas's house to be taken to trial. He is interrogated by numerous political and religious authorities and he is guilty of considering himself equivalent to God.
This icon is entirely hand painted in Russia with the technique of egg tempera on gold leaf by Byzantine Russian craftsmen who follow the antique and severe rules of Orthodox art.
Delivered in an elegant blue velvet box with satin insides, with certificate of origin and authenticity.
- Model: IC009156
- Shipping Weight: 0.4Kg
- Materials: Wood, tempera, gold leaf
- Origin: Russia
- Height: 27 cm
- Width: 22 cm
- Depth: 2.5 cm
- Height: 10.63 in
- Width: 8.66 in
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Solar landfill turns unusable land into green energyOctober 16, 2014
A 2 megawatt photovoltaic plant in Rutland Vermant is being constructed on a 9.5 acre closed landfill.
Although some Rutland residents have been opposed to plans for building large photovoltaic (PV) systems in the region, as the concern is the large, ground-mount solar arrays will blemish Vermont’s pastoral landscape, Green Mountain Power’s 2 megawatt (MW) PV plant has been welcomed because it will be built on a closed landfill, effectively making it a solar landfill.
Many cities and towns across the US are building solar farms on unusable land.
The number of solid waste landfills that accept household garbage is on a major decline in the United States. The number of these active landfills has gone from almost 8,000 in the late 1980’s to fewer than 2,000 by the mid 2000s.
With so many closed landfills in the country, as well as closed cells on landfills that are still active, this has left many wondering what to do with these massive areas of land that are completely unusable and underdeveloped. The trouble is the land is often disrupted or it is contaminated, which makes it unsuitable for the development of residential or commercial buildings. However, as it turns out, by converting these brownfields into solar farms, this is an effective way to save on energy costs and generate revenue.
Like Rutland, many cities and town across the United States have started to install solar panels at closed waste sites, including the states of Nevada, Colorado, Massachusetts and Georgia.
Solar landfills are usually cheaper and have less of a negative impact on communities.
It is typically less expensive to build a solar energy plant on a landfill site and fewer people in the community are concerned about solar installations compared to when they are built on a greenfield site. Furthermore, many municipalities do not have huge areas of green space, but there are plenty of old municipal landfills. In fact, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 of them in the US and many of them are located near existing utility grids.
Massachusetts is currently leading the way in turning its closed waste sites into solar landfills. Amy McDonough told the Rocky Mountain Institute that, “Putting a solar energy generating system on land that couldn’t be used for anything else and that will save the municipality millions of dollars over the terms of the PPA is a win-win situation.” McDonough is the senior project developer for Borrego Solar, the PV financing and contracting company that has done much of the work in repurposing landfills in the state. | <urn:uuid:b5584993-db0d-49e7-a213-86aeeae3fb42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/solar-landfill-turns-unusable-land-green-energy/8519976/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.967379 | 568 | 3.015625 | 3 |
18 years of Googling is certainly something to behold, but on this anniversary, ESET’s Ondrej Kubovič is keen to highlight the cybersecurity threat.
On Thursday, September 12, Duo Security, a young-but-respected vendor of two-factor authentication devices, announced the preliminary results of a study of over 20,000 Android devices from a two month old study they performed. Based on the results, they calculated that over half of Android devices on the market have security vulnerabilities that are, as yet,
As soon as Microsoft had released patches for security bulletin MS12-037 (which patched 13 vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer) Google published information (Microsoft XML vulnerability under active exploitation) about a new zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-1889) in Microsoft XML Core Services. Sometimes vulnerabilities are discovered at a rate that outpaces the patching process and so a temporary fix
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Hobbyists may see Freshwater Clams available as pets in stores.
Some hobbyists think Freshwater Clams are easy to care for and are interesting pets to keep. Other hobbyists think keeping Freshwater Clams is a big mistake, as they can be challenging to keep alive and can quickly cause problems in a tank. For hobbyists interested in keeping Freshwater Clams, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Pros: Freshwater Clams are peaceful, friendly and non-aggressive filter feeders. Their filter feeding helps remove debris from tank water, and they are great conversation starters. Freshwater Clams make good tank mates with other calm choices like Amano Shrimp, Red Cherry Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp, Bamboo Shrimp and Vampire Shrimp. Freshwater Clams can also do well with snails such as Nerite Snails, Mystery Snails, Gold Inca Snails, Ivory Snails, Trumpet Snails and Red Ramshorn Snails. Keeping Freshwater Clams with most community tank fish like Corys and Otocinclus Catfish can also work well.
Cons: Freshwater Clams can die soon after being placed in a tank. If not removed quickly, their decomposing bodies can cause serious water quality issues including foul smells, milky-white cloudy water, ammonia spikes and death to tank mates. Freshwater Clams can die while buried and hobbyists may not notice until the tank water becomes extremely troubled and ammonia levels spike through the roof.
Selecting Freshwater Clams
When selecting Freshwater Clams look for specimens resting on the tank bottom. Freshwater Clams should have their shells closed or slightly open. If slightly open, the clam’s inner tissues should be visible to the eye. A Freshwater Clam’s inner tissues should be white or off-white with hints of light beige and pink. If the Freshwater Clam shell is open more than a bit, or the inner tissues cannot be seen, the Freshwater Clam may be unhealthy, dying or dead. A healthy Freshwater Clam will likely slam shut if touched with a net, so look for slight shell movements before selecting.
Shell Size, Texture & Color: Freshwater Clam shells can be between one and two inches in size. In some cases the clams may be a larger. Look for Freshwater Clam shells that appear thick with a ridged texture on the exterior. Also look for shells that are free from cracks, splits, pits and other deformities. Freshwater Clam shell color can range from dark brown to light brown or tan. Freshwater Clams often have black stripes or other subtle designs. Freshwater Clam shells may also have areas that appear to be chalky-white. And it’s not uncommon for Freshwater Clam shells to be covered with small patches of green algae. A larger type of Freshwater Clam is the Asian Gold Clam.
Freshwater Clam Care Is Easy (Sometimes)
Keeping Freshwater Clams can be easy in many ways. Under the right circumstances and in the best conditions, Freshwater Clam care can be as simple as placing the clam upright on the substrate. But if circumstances and conditions are not right, Freshwater Clam care can be difficult. Freshwater Clams do not live very long if the environment and habitat are not able to meeting their needs.
Freshwater Clams spend their time resting on the tank bottom. They may slowly burrow into the substrate until they are nearly covered, leaving only the slightest glimpse of their shell and siphon visible. So make sure the substrate is fine enough and deep enough to allow the clam to bury itself.
Freshwater Clams do best in established tanks with stable water parameters, and they seem to like water within the tropical fish range:
Aquarium pH: 7.0 – 8.0; slightly lower is possible
Water Temperature: 70 – 80 degrees Fahrenheit; slightly cooler possible
Lighting: Standard community tank lighting
With aquarium pH, some hobbyists suggest that lower aquarium pH in the upper 6’s may also be acceptable to Freshwater Clams. Others try to keep aquarium pH above 7. Water on the acidic side may not be best for the clam’s shell over the long term. Ammonia and Nitrites should be 0 ppm, and Nitrate levels should be kept in check with regular partial water changes. Calcium is important too. Freshwater Clams need calcium for healthy shell growth, so it may be worth testing water for Calcium and supplement as necessary.
Take care to avoid medications with copper, as copper can be fatal to Freshwater Clams even in very small amounts. Also, be cautious with plant fertilizers. Freshwater Clams may be sensitive to some of their ingredients. Be sure to check with the store clerk before adding any plant fertilizers and medications to a tank when keeping Freshwater Clams.
Freshwater Clam Food & Water Conditions
Freshwater Clams are filter feeders subsisting on a diet of tiny bits of floating edible matter in the water column. The source of this “floating food” can be naturally occurring and from supplements.
Freshwater Clams like tanks that are not “too clean”. Aquarium water needs to have plenty of very tiny debris, detritus and decaying matter floating in it. This does not mean that the tank cannot be “aesthetically clean”, it simply means that aquarium water needs to contain sufficient levels of edible matter for the clam to eat. To this end, keeping Freshwater Clams in moderately or heavily planted tanks is a good idea. Live aquarium plants continuously shed edible plant matter into the water column.
In most cases, feeding a Freshwater Clam naturally occurring edible material is not enough. It may be necessary to supplement a clam’s diet with very finely ground Calcium enriched pellets or tablets, fish flakes or algae wafers. As these supplements dissolve, a Freshwater Clam will begin filter feeding them out. Keep in mind it’s important to avoid overfeeding as access organic matter in aquarium water will lead to water quality issues. Use common sense and test tank water for ammonia levels often.
Another important Freshwater Clam care issue relates to aquarium size and the amount of water it holds. There needs to be enough water in the tank to hold sufficient edible matter to support the clam’s nutritional needs. Some suggest one Freshwater Clam can be kept in small tanks like a 10 gallon aquarium. Small tanks may suffice, but in general, the bigger the tank the better. A 29 gallon aquarium may be a safer choice for one clam.
Note regarding overstocking: Its important to be mindful that keeping Freshwater Clams is like keeping other inhabitants in a tank. New hobbyists may think that because Freshwater Clams are “filter feeders” they will make water “cleaner” overall. On one level this may be true, but Freshwater Clams also add to the bio-load of a tank like other living organisms. Therefore, its important to avoid overstocking. This is another reason why keeping Freshwater Clams in larger tanks may be a safer bet than small tanks. The bio-load processing capacity of small tanks are pretty limited and the margin for error is thin.
Aquarium water also needs to be well oxygenated, and moving at a moderate and continuous pace. If the water current is adequate, Freshwater Clams will be better able to filter enough edible material to stay healthy. If the water current is inadequate, Freshwater Clams may be unable to filter enough edible matter to survive, even if the water holds a lot of food. It’s a good idea to keep Freshwater Clams in spots where tank water is really moving, like under a power filter return.
Freshwater Clam Lifespan
With a little luck, a Freshwater Clam can live 6 months or more. That said, one of the issues with Freshwater Clams is that a quick death is possible. Maybe it’s due to the shift in water parameters between the display tank and the home tank, the stress of being transported, hunger or other factors. Either way, it’s something to be aware of.
When keeping Freshwater Clams, it’s very important to be on the lookout for anything that suggests something is amiss. Telltale signs of trouble include: the clam shell opening wide, sudden ammonia spikes, deaths of tank mates, and tank water getting cloudy or developing a foul smell.
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By Jessica Delfanti | February 16, 2012
Director: Fernando Trueba
Writer(s): Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Fernando Trueba
Starring: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses
The days of animation resting in the children’s film genre is officially over. Dashing aside all conventions for the “cartoon,” Fernando Trueba’s Chico & Rita transcends its medium with a magically adult and sensual story about relationships, music, culture, and the importance of passion.
The film centers on three characters: Chico (Eman Xor Oña), an aspiring pianist; Rita (Limara Meneses), a singer with an incredible voice; and Havana in the year 1948. When Chico sees Rita performing in a nightclub, he immediately sets his sights on her for his partner in a competition that would bring the musical duo to New York City. Naturally, their partnership extends beyond piano keys and microphones, and their romance must battle the cultural and emotional obstacles characteristic of a classic love story.
Rather than being defined by the art, Chico & Rita’s animation and art style (spearheaded by illustrator Javier Mariscal) supports the story beautifully. The objects and characters seem to float through the sketched Havana without gravity, an effect that lends itself to scenes of dancing and music. Rita in particular is gracefully portrayed, a curvy temptress that floats from foot to foot, her body constantly shifting from one shape to another in a demonstration of extraordinarily illustrated femininity.
Perhaps the most impressive portrayal, however, is that of the city. The drawn images are remarkably detailed and richly colored. Due to the trembling animation style, the buildings appear to shift and shiver in the background, giving the impression that the city is living, breathing, participating.
This surrounding sense of color, movement, and energy goes on to support the generally vibrant tone of the film. The melancholy of the couples’ ballads, following in the bolero tradition, juxtaposes perfectly against the city’s frenetic energy. We can see from the calm elegance of their music that their love is something set apart from the hectic lives that exist in the background. The result is a very carefully painted picture that is balanced and engaging.
That Chico & Rita is a beautiful movie is clear from its opening frames; that it is a good movie is developed through every scene until the very end. While it may not add much to the classic romance formula, it works with the narrative devices that have served so well through history. In the end, it is a wonderful story of desire, both intellectual and physical, and the nature of the world, in which nothing comes easy. | <urn:uuid:cc683058-ac35-42da-9b93-f508c7700701> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://smellslikescreenspirit.com/2012/02/chico-rita-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948686 | 567 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Telemeter - camera measure 1.3.6
Telemeter - camera measure
Remote camera measure tools for planning your room, garden or outdoor activities
Telemeter is a bundle of tools for outdoor and indoor measurements for Android phones. The tools complement each other and are useful in such areas as moving (relocation), layout design, construction, room measurement and planning, house and room decoration and furnishing, trips and so on, where quick estimation of object dimensions, distance and size, orientation and exact horizontal, vertical or angular alignment are needed. Sometimes the traditional ruler or tape are very difficult to apply, especially if you measure long distances or big objects. In this case the Telemeter is a very handy solution that can immediately estimate all these values for you.
The App consists of following parts:
- Telemeter Tool for all kind of quick remote distance estimation without reference objects using only a camera
- SpiritLevel3D Tool for distant object alignment and tilt measurement using a camera with automatic plane orientation detection
- Augmented Compass Tool for finding orientation in the room or space for better room planning, angle measurements, electromagnetic interference and metal detection
- Calibration Tool to calibrate your phone before measurement
- Unit Converter to convert results into different length or area units.
- Detailed help and description of measurement situations and guide how to use the tools
Sound confirmation during measurements can be enabled. Size, length and distance measurements can be conducted in common measurement units: feet, meters, inches. Angles are measured in degrees.
With the Telemeter you can measure:
- distance from you (observer) to an object
- distance between points in direction 'from an observer'
- distance between two points in a plane
- object dimensions (depth, height, width, length)
- height from the ground level
- height of big objects
- height of the person
- angles between planes (e.g. between two walls)
- angles between two orientations in the space
You can also use Telemeter for:
- object alignment
- tilt measurement or tilt elimination
- checking orientation in space (cardinal directions)
- electromagnetic interference and metal detection
- marking a plane for object placement (for example, a wall for pictures and shelves mounting)
Please try also Partometer App, that uses common reference objects for measurements.
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As a business owner, you may not always employ staff on an ongoing, permanent basis. On occasion, you may decide to employ staff on either a fixed-term or maximum-term contract, particularly if you want to specify when a contract is to end. However, implementing such contracts can be complicated, especially if you’re unclear about the distinction between fixed-term contracts and maximum-term contracts.
A fixed-term contract:
- Is ideal when you require a specific employee for a specific role for a set period of time
- Clearly identifies the start date and end date
- Cannot be terminated early, either by the employer or employee
- Requires no notice of termination
- Incurs a liability for early termination
A maximum-term contract:
- Is ideal for assessing the suitability of an employee, or if you are unsure when a project may end
- Ends by a certain date, rather than on a certain date
- Can be terminated early
- Requires notice of termination
- Has no additional liability for early termination, although contractual and statuary obligations still prevail
Fixed-term employment contracts are used for specific tasks or projects. The contract operates for the specific period of time specified by the employer and the employee. When the end date is reached, the contract automatically expires without either the employer or employee needing to terminate it.
However, it’s important to note that if the employee works beyond the expiry date without a new fixed-term contract in place, it will be legally interpreted that the parties have agreed to indefinite employment.
Maximum-term contracts allow for the employment of an employee for a particular period of time, with the flexibility to terminate the contract, provided notice is given. Maximum-term contracts are useful for project- or seasonal-based work.
Fair Work Commission
Importantly, the Fair Work Commission says that allowing a maximum-term contract to expire does not exempt an employer from an unfair dismissal claim. The FWC formulated a five-point test around maximum-term contract unfair dismissal claims:
- Has the entire employment relationship ended?
- If the employee has not voluntarily left the employment relationship, has an action by the employer been the principal contributing factor in the termination?
- Have the parties to the contract agreed on both the contract ending at the expiry of its term as well as the employment relationship terminating?
- Is there a genuine contractual agreement that the employment relationship will end on a specified date and has the employment come to an end on that date?
- Are there any other relevant factors that need to be considered beyond the terms of the contract?
Given these five points from the FWC, it’s vital that employers implement watertight maximum-term contracts. The HR Dept can help you ensure your contracts are fair and correct – for both employers and employees. If you’d like additional advice or training on boosting employee engagement in your workplace, get in touch with the HR Dept. We can help! | <urn:uuid:6d84f633-d90a-44a5-9f51-fbc7f7f2aa90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hrdept.com.au/rockingham-kwinana-peel/blog/fixed-term-contract-versus-maximum-term-contract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.918498 | 608 | 2.015625 | 2 |
KOSiL – KICKOUT SIDDON LOOK is very concerned about reports of lead poisoning of children in Zamfara state. A BBC News report monitored on the 21st of April 2013 claims that over 460 children have so far died as a result of lead poisoning from gold mining in the area since 2009 with many others suffering different forms of long term and serious medical conditions. Some of these conditions include paralysis, deafness, and brain damage.
KOSiL applauds efforts being made by Médecins Sans Frontières in the provision of medical treatment for affected children. We applaud efforts by the villagers themselves to clean up the environment of lead poisoning in order to reduce the rate of infection in children and others in the areas.
KOSiL is however concerned about the seeming lackadaisical attitude of both the state and Federal Ministries of Health to the provision of medical care for affected children. We are horrified that so many children have perished from this preventable but hazardous condition without any serious efforts on the part of the government to protect children and others from the effects of lead poisoning in the area, which BBC estimates to be the highest anywhere in the world.
KOSiL condemns the insensitive excuse by the Minister of State for Health, Dr Mohammad Ali Pate, that this is a man-made disaster when government has done nothing to ban illegal mining in the area. We call on the government to prioritize the provision of necessary resources to help meet the emergency medical treatment of affected children, train medical staff, and clean up the villages affected to minimize the impact of lead particles in the environment.
We also call on the government to urgently ensure the end of illegal mining in order to protect lives. Awareness campaigns should be vigorously pursued and alternative employment opportunities should be provided to the villagers in order to dissuade them from this hazardous activity.
Notes to Editors
1. KickOut Siddon Look” is a political movement devoted to mobilizing grassroots support for capable leaders to emerge and lead Nigeria in 2015.
2. The primary objective of KickOut Siddon Look are to:
• Sensitize the masses ahead of the 2015 presidential election to the critical need to coalesce behind new types of leaders capable of improving the standard of living and the quality of life of the Nigerian people and laying a solid foundation for the future of the nation;
• Sensitize Nigerians to the deliberate landmines planted in the nation’s constitutional framework and ancillary laws that have made the attainment of good governance and true democracy near impossible tasks;
• Sensitize Nigerians to the need (and their right) to be more engaged in the political processes, not as an audience, but as the most important stakeholders whose decisions must count at the time when flag-bearers are being selected to the time when they would be subjected to public votes on election day;
• Mobilize our brothers and sisters, our parents and friends across ethnic, social and political lines to accept, and support, a candidate that fits the earlier stated profile as the new leader of the government of Nigeria; and
• Educate, and empower, our people – ahead of the 2015 general elections – to make a choice between having the choice(s) of selfish individuals imposed on them and ratified by a few of us in sham elections AND support for a candidate who has a history of standing on the side of the masses, has a proven track record of achievement and, also importantly, scores high on the 3 Es and I (namely Education, Exposure, Experience and Integrity).
1. For further information about KickOut Siddon Look and to join us, visit our website at www.kickoutsiddonlook.org
2. For media interviews please contact Tunde Fagbenle via [email protected] or [email protected]
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Extra pounds on your thighs can make fitting into your jeans difficult and keep you from wearing your favorite bathing suit. Fortunately, you can lose those excess pounds and slim your thighs. Spot-reducing target areas of the body, such as your thighs, is not possible. To lose weight on your thighs you must strive for overall body weight reduction. As your body fat percentage decreases, so will the weight on your thighs. Following a healthy diet and exercising on a regular basis will help you shed those pounds, while performing specific strength exercises during weight loss will tone the thighs. You should be able to see noticeable results within two weeks.
Healthy weight loss is achieved by incorporating healthy eating habits and exercise into your daily routine. To lose 1 lb. of fat you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you consume. You can burn an extra 250 calories each day with exercise and reduce your caloric intake by 250 calories per day and you should see a 1-lb. reduction in your weight after seven days. Healthy weight loss is considered 1 to 2 lbs. per week.
Diet and Cardio
Foods high in saturated fat and sugar are high in calories. These foods will prevent you from losing weight. Replace these unhealthy options with low-calorie, low-fat choices such as fruits, vegetables and whole-grains. These healthy food choices will help to increase your metabolism, aid in digestion and give you the energy you need for exercising. Cardiovascular exercise is important for weight loss and also has a number of heart-related benefits. Increase your heart rate for at least 30 minutes per day by jogging, cycling, playing your favorite sport or taking an aerobic class. This will burn calories and also speed up your metabolism.
Squat jumps are an effective outer-thigh toning exercise. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and squat down as if sitting in a chair. From this position, thrust yourself into the air raising your hands above your head. As you land back down on the floor, immediately go into your squat position. Repeat 20 times. The walking lunge tones your outer-thigh, inner-thigh, butt and abdominals. Begin by standing with both feet together. Step your right foot in front of you while bending your left knee and lower it until it is a few inches above the ground. Stand back up and bring your left foot next to your right foot. Repeat with your left leg. Perform 10 repetitions on each leg. Holding hand weights will increase the intensity and give you faster results.
Sumo squats are a great inner-thigh workout. Begin by standing with your feet together. Step your right foot out, double your hip width, with your toes slightly pointed out. Squat back as if you are sitting in a chair and hold for two seconds. Return to a standing position by placing your left foot next to your right foot and squeeze your butt muscles. Repeat, doing 10 repetitions on your right side and then switch to your left. Holding hand weights will increase the intensity of the workout and give you faster results. The scissor kick is another good inner-thigh workout. Lie with your back on the floor, arms at your side and legs fully extended about 45 degrees from the floor. Quickly open and close your legs by crossing your right leg over your left and then left over right. Perform 20 repetitions. Keep your abdominals tight so your back does not arch off the floor.
Following a healthy diet and exercising at least five days per week, along with doing the toning exercises three days per week should give you noticeable results in two weeks. It is important to maintain your healthy diet and exercise routine to continue seeing improvements. Always talk to your doctor before beginning any exercise routine and stop immediately if you experience significant pain.
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Magnesium is one of the healthiest minerals for our body. It affects numerous parts of the body- including testosterone.
What is Magnesium and How Does It Effect Testosterone?
Magnesium is a natural mineral that is found in the human body. The average person has an estimated 25grams of magnesium. Half of this number is present within the bones. Magnesium is a crucial mineral needed within the body, especially in bone growth and density.
Many of Magnesium’s functions include:
- Treatment for Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases
- Laxative for Constipation
- PMS Aid
- Raising Testosterone Levels
- Treatment for Kidney Stones
- Treatment for Diabetes
- CFS Aid
- Treatment for Anxiety
Magnesium has been proven to increase testosterone levels. It increases the amount of free plasma testosterone production. For this reason, it is a vastly used testosterone boosting supplement.
Using Magnesium for Sexual Dysfunctions and Deficiencies
When men age, their testosterone levels will naturally decrease. However, when testosterone levels drop below approximately 300ng/dL, it is known as a condition called hypogonadism.
Hypogonadism can cause sexual dysfunctions such as:
- Inability to Maintain Erections
- Diminished Erectile Quality (Particularly Late In the Evening and at Night)
- Lowering of Libido (Sex Drive)
Low testosterone is now considered a very common condition found in aging men. There are many different methods of testosterone replacement therapy, such as:
- Oral Pills
However, these methods use anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids are chemically made, and can have serious side effects- sometimes irreversible side effects. For this reason, many men have turned to natural supplements, such as Magnesium. Magnesium is a natural supplement that naturally triggers the body to produce testosterone.
Studies have shown Magnesium has been proven to:
- Increase Libido
- Intensify Orgasms
- Extends the Duration of Intercourse
- Enhance the Quality of Erections
Using Magnesium to Build Muscle Mass
Magnesium naturally causes your body to create more testosterone. This increase of testosterone will promote muscle mass, and it will aid to develop and shape your muscles quicker. Studies have recently shown that Magnesium affects the contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscles. Because of this, you will experience less muscle cramps and overexertion during exercise. It will also decrease the amount of down time needed in between work outs.
Magnesium is a natural ingredient, which means that it generally does not have any harsh side effects.
Reported side effects include:
- Upset Stomach
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding consult your physician before taking magnesium. Do not take Magnesium if you have kidney problems. Unhealthy kidneys have difficulty filtering Magnesium through the body, which can result in an overdose. Do not take a higher dose than what is recommended.
Symptoms of overdose include:
- Low Blood Pressure
- Irregular Heartbeat
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TOPICS: There is no division in everywhere – Challenging the mindset behind communism – Why the first fallen beings fell – How the fallen beings induced doubt – An internal frame of reference – Communism is based on doubt – You cannot change the law of God – A warning to Russia – You cannot awaken people by being nice – Congratulations to the Russian people – Overcome negative feelings about the Soviet Union –
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Ascended Master Archangel Michael, June 10, 2010 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
There is no division in everywhere
“Michael” is my name. “Archangel” is my title. “Archangel Michael” is the fohatic key, that summons my Presence to flow through your being. Yet take note of how easily words can be used to construe distance and separation. “Summon my Presence” may make it sound like you calling to me summons me to come to you from far away. Yet, that is putting a dualistic image upon me, and I am not a dualistic being. I AM a oneness being, out of the oneness of God, merged back into the oneness of God through my free-will decisions. And thus, I am not limited by time; not limited by space. For I am omnipresent. I am always at your side. I am always with you.
For did not Christ himself say “I am with you always?” And so I say too, playing on the words given by Jesus: “Which part of always do you not understand?” “Which part of everywhere do you not understand?” For you see, my beloved, can there be a “part” in always? Can there be a part in everywhere? Can you divide always? Can you divide eternity? Can you divide space? Can you divide omnipresence? Nay, you cannot!
There is no part in oneness, for oneness cannot be divided into parts that can be set apart from each other—and thus there can be conflict, or what seems to be conflict. But it is only conflict when you view it from the viewpoint of the separate mind, the mind that has been deceived by deception, by division, that has entered into division and therefore has forgotten its oneness.
The reality that I am cannot be divided, and thus it is indeed true, that there is no division in the spiritual realm. There can be no division among spiritual beings. For if a spiritual being was to enter into the consciousness of division, it would not be a spiritual being, it would have fallen into duality instantly. Thus, do you see the reality, that if I or any of my angels were to entertain the idea, that we are the enemies of the devil, or of any force on earth, and that it is our role, given to us by God, to fight and destroy that force in a dualistic battle, well, then we would instantly fall and become part of the problem instead of remaining where we are in oneness, where we can serve as an example of the solution, which is to transcend duality, to transcend division.
Challenging the mindset behind communism
Yet what does it mean to transcend division? It means to transcend the very key that created division in the first place—and that key is doubt! Thus I, Archangel Michael, come today to this place in the Russian nation, and I come with a dispensation from the Karmic Board of planet earth to send millions of my angels to Russia and to every nation that was part of the former Soviet Union, or was under the propaganda of the Soviet Union, or the physical power of the Soviet Union.
I come with a special dispensation to bring forth the Light of God in a specific measure, that will challenge the very mindset behind communism, which sprang out of the very fallen consciousness itself. Thus, I ask you to visualize millions of my angels descending, descending from the God Star Sirius – where they have received special instructions before this assignment – descending in a spiral, like an infinite spiral, like a spiral staircase, whereby they descend to earth and go to the farthest corners of any nation, any area, that has ever been affected by the consciousness of communism—which is virtually everywhere on earth. They go, and they do not go to fight anyone or anything. They go to take up their position there and to demonstrate the very flame that I AM, the Flame of the Will of God, but the immovability of the Will of God, that will not be moved of the will of man, or by the will of the fallen beings who see themselves as being in opposition to God. This is the Flame I embody. This is why I am with earth: to provide a frame of reference that there is something, that will not be moved by any force in this material universe, that will not be moved by the fallen consciousness.
For I AM so one with the Will of God, and so are my angels, that there is no force on earth, no argument on earth, no lie of the serpentine mind, that can cause us to doubt the Reality of God. We are immovable to any form of doubt! And thus, we are here to provide the frame of reference, that will enable those who are willing, that will empower those who are willing to step up higher, to also overcome the very doubt, that makes you vulnerable to the tempter, the serpent that comes with its arguments that make you doubt what you get from the Spirit within yourselves.
Why the first fallen beings fell
Take note of exactly how this doubt started. You heard the teaching given by Maitreya, that the original fall took place in a higher sphere. This sphere had been brought close to the ascension point by a majority of the beings entering a positive spiral. Then came the test, that those who had risen to a certain level, where they saw themselves as the leaders, were now asked to go down to the seemingly lowest point and allow their beings, their momentum, their attainment to be used to create the very next sphere.
They were not willing to bend the knee; they were not willing to do what they saw as a degradation of their position. For some of them, although they had been doing positive work to raise up the sphere, they still had some leftover of the consciousness of thinking they were doing this to reap a reward in heaven. So that when their sphere was ascended – they having been among the forerunners, or so they saw themselves – would surely be rewarded with a high position in heaven.
Yet, I come to reveal to you another understanding, another layer of understanding, of our unfolding, progressive revelation on this topic of the fall and the fallen consciousness. For you see, those who thought that they were the leaders were actually not the ones who had brought their sphere to the ascension point. As Jesus said, the meek shall inherit the earth. There were billions of lifestreams in that sphere who had truly embodied selflessness, because they had transcended the separate consciousness. They had no desire to be in a superior position to anyone else. Some of them did serve in leadership positions, others did not, they simply worked selflessly at whatever they felt was their calling, their divine plan, their desire to express their God-individuality. So the reality is, that those who were allowed to be among the leaders, were not necessarily allowed that position because they had attainment.
For some of them had indeed not overcome all remnants of the separate self, the separate consciousness, the force-based consciousness. They wanted to set themselves above, and they were allowed – mind you “allowed” – to be in leadership positions because by acting out this desire for superiority, they received another opportunity to overcome it, to have had enough of the experience, so that they could in the end choose to let go of that remnant of the separate self and merge with their divine individuality, and thus truly become part of the ascended masters.
For we have all gone through the process of completely letting go of the separate self. For how else could we enter the ascended realm, where all is oneness? Letting go of the separate self does not mean letting go of your divine individuality; it means letting go of the separate individuality, the separate self, that you have built in the world of form. So you see, there was a group of beings who had been allowed to assume superior positions, leadership positions in that sphere in order to give them an opportunity to let go of the need to feel superior, to accept that all self-aware beings are individualizations of God and therefore none can be superior to another. For it makes no sense that one expression of God is superior to another.
Thus, when the turning point came – when the point of no return came, where the sphere was ready to ascend – these beings were faced with this ultimate test. Could they now let go of the separate identity – in which case they could have stepped up and perhaps been assigned a leadership position in the spiritual realm – or would they not be able to let go of the separate self? And they were given this test by being confronted with the need to be the servant of all. And yet, they were not willing to be greatest among you by being the servant of all. They wanted to remain in what they thought was a position of being greatest among their peers while still being a servant of the separate self, seeking to elevate that self to a superior position. And thus, of course, they fell.
How the fallen beings induced doubt
Yet after having fallen, they felt they had been unjustly treated, for they saw that some of their peers, some of their former peers, were indeed raised up to positions in the spiritual realm. Yet they were not able or willing to see, that this happened because those lifestreams had indeed let go of the separate self and were willing to be the servants of all. So they thought – the fallen beings thought – they had been unjustly treated. And that is when they decided to deliberately and consciously oppose God’s plan by seeking to draw as many lifestreams with them into the fallen state as they possibly could.
And how did they determine to do this? We have earlier spoken about the consciousness of the accuser of the brethren that accused the beings in the sphere that was ascending, yet had not fully ascended. And thus, there were beings who were open to this accusation. Why could this happen? Why was this allowed? Because, again, there were beings in the ascending sphere who had not come to the point of fully becoming spiritually self-sufficient, of accepting and expressing their divine individuality, because they also had remnants of that separate self. And so, these beings also needed the initiation, the test: could they let go of the separate self and step up into oneness, or would they seek to retain some aspect of the separate self, because they were not willing to take full responsibility for themselves. They were not willing to express their God-given creativity to the point, where that God-given creativity could propel them to the ascended state.
Do you see, again, how these lifestreams had not understood, that the ascension is not a collective process? Do you see that when a sphere is in an ascending spiral, those beings who are part of creating that spiral do form an upward momentum? That upward momentum can pull up higher all beings in the sphere, and thereby all get the opportunity to become self-sufficient; to internalize the Ascension Flame. Yet the question is: Will a Being come to see that the Light of God is within itself? Or will it see it as coming from an exterior source?
As long as you think the Light comes from outside yourself – whether it be in a leader, in a messenger or in some spiritual guru – then you are not spiritually self-sufficient. And as long as you are not spiritually self-sufficient – by knowing that the Light of God is inside of you and thus you need nothing from the world of form – well, then you cannot ascend. For the ascension is a process where you individually ascend because you have become spiritually self-sufficient.
You have become the rocket that Serapis Bey talked about, that is now ready to take off, break free of the gravitational field of the earth and go into orbit. And thus, when a sphere does ascend, those that have not yet become spiritually self-sufficient must also receive the initiation. Can they ascend, can they let go of the separate self, or must they take another round in the world of form and therefore descend into the new sphere that is being created?
These many lifestreams, that had not become spiritually self-sufficient, received this initiation precisely by being confronted by the “higher” lifestreams – those who had set themselves up in leadership positions – by being confronted by their rebellion against God. And what exactly did the fallen beings do in order to pull other lifestreams with them? Well, they only had to do one simple thing and it is essential that you understand this.
In an ascending sphere there is a greater and greater sense of oneness. All beings in that sphere are at least aware of this oneness. All have not come fully into the oneness, but they are aware of the energy of oneness. And so, all are aware of the need to come into oneness and that oneness is the underlying reality. Yet those who have not yet experienced it, will see it more as a theoretical possibility, something they need to come into in some distant future.
Yet when the turning point comes, that distant future is no longer distant. It is NOW. Now the choice must be made. You can only have a certain time to grow towards the ascension in a particular cycle, in a particular sphere, and then there comes a cut-off point, where you must now make the choice. For you cannot have forever to postpone that choice, or free will would not be truly free. And so, there are those who have not internalized oneness, and therefore oneness is still somewhat of a concept that they understand with the mind but do not yet experience fully with the heart.
And that is why, when the fallen beings came out and demonstrated that they were in opposition to oneness, well, then all of a sudden they provided a frame of reference, that had not been there before; namely that there was something that was not only outside of oneness but was in opposition to oneness. And this then became what we might call a negative, or a separatist, frame of reference, as opposed to what I talked about earlier, that my angels and myself provide the positive frame of reference that we will not be moved from oneness. And so, you see that when the fallen beings projected their opposition to God through the consciousness of the accuser; those who had already come into oneness – those for whom oneness was no longer a distant external concept – they were not moved. They saw immediately, they read the vibration, that this was not oneness, and thus they were unmoved by the fallen beings.
Yet those more innocent life streams who had not yet come into oneness, many of those were indeed shocked by this demonstration of anti-oneness, and what did it do? Well, in their minds it caused doubt. Doubt crept into their minds. Is oneness really the underlying reality? If oneness is the underlying reality, how can these beings be allowed to separate themselves from oneness? Are they really right in what they are saying that God was wrong, that free will is not the ultimate way to salvation, that free will can only lead to disaster? Are they right, that maybe I am wrong?
An internal frame of reference
Do you see, my beloved, if you are not totally anchored in yourself, if you are not spiritually self-sufficient, then you do not have the frame of reference inside yourself in order to know what is real and unreal, in order to know that oneness is real. For if you do not experience oneness inside yourself, then you cannot fully know that oneness is the underlying reality. You may understand it intellectually but you do not “know” through gnosis, through oneness between the subject and object, between the knower and the known.
And then, when you do not have this firm inner frame of reference, your mind is open to an external frame of reference, that then makes you doubt yourself. And through that doubt, you then become open to the fallen consciousness, to the consciousness of separation and all of its lies and arguments and very subtle turning on its head every teaching you have been given before. Making you therefore doubt not only the teaching but first of all your own inner ability to know what is real and unreal by referring to something inside yourself.
You are pulled into focusing your attention on something outside of yourself, and then you think that external thing is or should be your absolute frame of reference for what is real and unreal. And that is how people are led into following a particular outer guru or a particular outer teaching, such as the Catholic Church. And thus you see again, the Peter consciousness represents precisely this: the desire for an outer frame of reference, that you will not give up even though you are face-to-face with the Living Christ. Even though you walk and talk with the Living Christ in a form that you can see, as Peter did, you will not give up that external frame of reference, you will not let it die. You want the Christ to validate your frame of reference, to conform to it, to come into your mental box. This is what Peter attempted to do to Jesus, it is what the Catholic Church has attempted to do to Jesus, to God, to Reality ever since. This is what every other system on earth has attempted to do, including the communist system, that you are familiar with as students who have been affected by the Soviet Union in any way.
Communism is based on doubt
Communism is nothing but an attempt to create a system, and it is based on the very essential doubt created by the fallen beings. It is attempting to pervert something that all people know in themselves – namely oneness – the need to come into oneness in a “community” not a “commune.” Come ye into unity! How can you come into unity? Only when you individually have reconnected and become one with your divine individuality. When you have vertical oneness with your higher being, then you know you are an extension of God. Then you know that your brother is an extension of God. And therefore, you can now come into horizontal oneness with your brothers and sisters, for you all see each other as extensions of God—none being superior, none being inferior. That is true unity.
What communism attempted to do was to create unity through sameness by destroying, by suppressing, individual expression, by turning people into mechanized beings who would blindly follow what they were told. This is not unity! You cannot create unity through force. You cannot create oneness through force. For force can only force apart. You cannot force together. What brings things together is not a force that is projected out, but magnetism that pulls together, and that magnetism is love. But it is not human love that so often seeks to control and therefore is expressed through the force-based consciousness. Instead, it is Divine Love, which is Unconditional Love.
Those who do not experience oneness with their higher beings cannot fathom unconditional love. For you see, you cannot understand unconditional love; you can only experience it. And thus, what the mind can understand is not Divine Love, it is a conditional force-based love that seeks to control. You cannot argue against unconditional love. If you argue against unconditional love, you demonstrate that you have not experienced it. And thus, what you are arguing against is not unconditional love; it is conditional love. And thus, you are not speaking a higher truth by arguing against unconditionality or by arguing against oneness.
You are instead demonstrating, that you have set yourself outside of oneness, outside of unconditional love, because you have not been willing to let go of the separate self. You are still seeking to glorify the separate self to the point, where it can feel superior, where it can feel that it is right, because it has this absolute truth or this absolute system, that has such power on earth by having such a following.
What is the superiority behind the Catholic Church? It is that they feel they have such a following that backs them up. What was the superiority behind Soviet communism? It was also the feeling that they were powerful and that they had suppressed other countries and that they thought they were on the way to suppressing the whole world. For the force-based consciousness can never feel at peace, but it thinks it will be at peace when it has forced all beings on earth to come into its own system, and therefore it must seek to expand its control, to expand its power indefinitely—it cannot stop.
This is what you saw in Adolf Hitler and his desire to conquer the world. This is what you saw behind Soviet communism and the desire to conquer the world. The force-based consciousness must expand until it feels it has total control. But you see, because of the second law of thermodynamics – and because of the size of the earth and the number of people and the complexity of suppressing people – it simply cannot be done. And therefore any system that attempts to expand itself to conquer the entire planet, will inevitably self-destruct. It cannot be otherwise, because of the Law of God that you cannot move. No matter how powerful of a system you create, you cannot move reality! You cannot change the Law of God!
You cannot change the law of God
And this is what the fallen ones already know deep within their beings, even though few of them will admit it with their outer minds. And that is why they are still trapped in this endless quest of seeking to get all people on earth to agree with one of their systems, so that they can feel they are secure and they have superiority.
This is precisely the illusion, that my angels and I have come to provide a frame of reference for, so that people can sense that there is no system on earth that will change the reality and the Law of God. Even when all people on earth believed that the earth was flat, it was as round then as it is today. Even when the Soviet Union was at the height of its outer power – even when a large portion of the people on earth believed in some form of communism or socialism – nothing that was done had changed the Law of God one bit! Nothing had changed the Reality of God.
This is precisely the change that needs to happen before Russia can move on from its current deadlock and move closer to the Golden Age. There must be a realization that “nothing we do will change reality, so we better find out what reality is. We better learn the Laws of God, realign ourselves and our society with those Laws of God, and then we can move forward.” This is not a process that is unique to Russia, but it is extremely important that Russia learns this lesson right now. Because otherwise Russia will not be able to move beyond the communist consciousness, that was so engrained in the collective consciousness and still is to this day.
A warning to Russia
And I must give you a warning, that it is absolutely necessary that Russia begins to move out of this consciousness before 2012. Because if Russia has not taken a decisive step to move out of this consciousness, then Russia will inevitably fall behind. And then, as is said in this latest invocation, the second law of thermodynamics will cause things to begin to break down at such a rate, that nothing can stop it, and that the Russian people will feel a sense of hopelessness and despair.
And this is the last thing that we of the ascended masters want to see, for we have extreme compassion for the Russian people. We know how difficult it was to live under and grow up in a communist system, in a communist consciousness. We know that there are many highly spiritual people, who have volunteered to embody in Russia and surrounding republics precisely to be here at this time to help promote this transition. We know they have made a great sacrifice. We know many of them have become extremely burdened by a sense of hopelessness, and that is why they have gone into escapism, such as drugs or alcohol or even materialism, where they have forgotten for the time being their spiritual mission.
We also know that it is time for them to step up, to awaken and realize, that no matter what they have done in the past, no matter what they have gone into in the past, this is all in the past. And you are here to demonstrate, that human beings as individuals can rise above their individual past, and then you will also demonstrate that Russia can rise above her past, regardless of what has been going on in the Russian nation under communism; regardless of the suppression, the murder, the killing, the propaganda.
Any of this can be transcended, when the people are willing to transcend, when they are willing to acknowledge, that this was unreality and that they are willing to align themselves with the Reality of God. Then, there is nothing that cannot be transcended. We desire the Russian people to have an awakening, but this is not an awakening, where they feel hopeless or where they come down on themselves and feel a sense of shame or guilt for the past of Russia. We desire them to acknowledge, that there were so many things that were an expression of the insensitivity to life; but then we desire them to awaken to that sensitivity, so they can see that this was not real, that they are more than this, that Russia is more than this. And therefore, there is a real potential to leave the past behind, to transcend it and come up higher and forge a new way, a new state of collective consciousness and a new awareness of the Golden Age and the potential for Russia to enter that Golden Age.
This is our desire. There is no condemnation in the Ascended Realm for anything that has happened on earth. We do not look at nations – no matter what has happened in their past – with a desire to shame or criticize the inhabitants of those nations. We have one desire only: to help people awaken from the consciousness of insensitivity that caused these atrocities to happen.
You cannot awaken people by being nice
And yet we cannot awaken people from insensitivity by being “nice!” We cannot awaken them from the mental box that is based on insensitivity by conforming to that mental box. We must remain firm, we must awaken people! My beloved, you all have alarm clocks. What is the purpose of an alarm clock? It is to produce a sound that is so abrupt, so distinct, so loud, that it disturbs your sleep, so that you awaken. You might say, that when you are asleep and in a dream state, you are perfectly happy and content. You can have the most wonderful dreams, but you are asleep, so would there be any purpose to an alarm clock that produced such a soft and nice sound, that it would enhance your dreams but would not wake you up?
Of course not. This would be nonsense. And you all know that any manufacturer that started making silent alarm clocks would quickly go out of business. So do not expect the ascended masters to be like silent alarm clocks! We are here to awaken the people on earth, and we cannot do that without making noise, we cannot do that without challenging your beliefs and your mental boxes, that are out of touch with reality. For we must provide you with a frame of reference, that your mental boxes have not and will never change reality! Otherwise how can we awaken anyone?
So this is indeed why I speak sternly and with power. For I have been speaking into the collective consciousness of Russia and surrounding nations. I have produced a sound wave of such magnitude, that it will penetrate even the densest areas of that mass consciousness, and thus give every state of consciousness found in Russia a frame of reference, that there is something outside itself. As Saint Germain said, this is the Aquarian Age: everything has changed! And that means that everyone by the Law of God must be given a frame of reference, that allows them to know that things have changed, that things cannot remain the same. There is no still-stand!
Having a frame of reference does not mean, that you make the choice to come up higher, for you may indeed deny, or refuse or argue against what the frame of reference is telling you. But you see, that in doing so you will inevitably put yourself in a downward spiral. For if you are not willing to go up, you must go down. And that means you become subject to the school of hard knocks and the second law of thermodynamics, where you will be confronted with the momentums you are not willing to see in yourself until they become so extreme, so pronounced, until they form such a loud alarm clock, that they can finally penetrate your state of sleep, and that you may awaken one way or another.
Congratulations to the Russian people
It is only a matter of how loud the knocks have to become, for by your own resistance to the first knock, that resistance creates the force that forms the second knock. But the second knock is multiplied by the cosmic mirror and thus comes back stronger than what you send out. And this will inevitably cause the downward spiral, whereby things must become more and more extreme. Your arguments must become more and more extreme, your accusations of others, your finger-pointing of others must become more and more extreme.
For it is not about others! It is all about you receiving an opportunity to awaken from your state of consciousness, your state of denial. But since you will not listen to anyone outside yourself, you can only receive that opportunity by acting out your state of consciousness in more and more extreme ways, until you finally awaken. Yet, it is of course always the hope, that this awakening can happen without conditions becoming too extreme.
And thus, I will indeed end this discourse by congratulating the Russian people for the very fact, that the transition from the communist system to at least what is less totalitarian, did happen without there having to be a major war with the West, that would have caused the communist, Soviet system to be defeated militarily. For I tell you, that if this war had happened, the Soviet Union would indeed have been defeated. This would have caused immense suffering, immense amounts of deaths. And one can argue whether anyone could truly have won such a war. But what I will tell you with absolute certainty is that had there been a military confrontation, the Soviet union would have ceased to exist. It would simply have collapsed after a certain amount of time, and therefore it would have been no more, it would have destroyed itself.
And so, it is a great rejoicing for all of us in the spiritual realm, that it was possible for this transition to happen. And I can assure you, that this happened only because so many spiritual souls, so many spiritual lifestreams had volunteered to embody in the Soviet Union and surrounding republics, holding the spiritual balance – even though many were not consciously aware of this – but nevertheless holding the spiritual balance for this transition to take place. Had these life streams not been in embodiment, then surely a war would have been inevitable. But precisely because they were here and held a spiritual balance, it was possible for even the leaders of the Soviet system to accept, that this system was not sustainable in the form that they had seen it in for now several decades.
They realized – even though they would have not formulated it this way consciously – but they realized, that the system was on a collision course with the laws of nature, the Laws of Reality. And therefore, the system could not survive, and it was “change or die.” But again, this would not have been possible, for I assure you that the leaders of the Soviet system were not high spiritual beings, many of them in fact being fallen angels, some even among the original fallen angels at least in the past. For surely, I must tell you the absolute truth that Lenin and Stalin and Trotsky were fallen angels, as were Marx and Engels. You see thus, that the communist system was created by fallen angels in embodiment. This is a truth that must be stated here on Russian soil, that people may do with it what they want.
Yet precisely because there were so many spiritual beings in embodiment, they could hold the balance, so that even the leaders of the Soviet Union could awaken. For I tell you, that even though there are some fallen beings that are beyond being reached, there are indeed some that will respond to hard reality. When they acknowledge that they cannot move a mountain, then sometimes they can be awakened and realize, that they need to change, for otherwise they will destroy themselves.
Overcome negative feelings about the Soviet Union
Hard realities! Hard lessons in the school of hard knocks. Yet consider as spiritual people embodying in Russia and the surrounding republics or states, that you have volunteered to embody here to give the majority of the Russian people, and the smaller groups of the Russian leaders, an opportunity to awaken from one of the systems created by the fallen consciousness. Consider that you did this out of love and that you need to reconnect to that love, so you can overcome any sense of regret, any sense of bitterness, any sense of sorrow about the past, but recognize that whatever happened in the past was part of the learning process.
You volunteered to be part of it out of love. If you reconnect to your original love, then that love can take you beyond anything you have experienced in this very difficult, very extreme situation that was the Soviet Union. Truly, even if you go beyond the annals of known history, but go back to past ages, the Soviet Union was one of the more extreme examples of how far the fallen consciousness is willing to go in its insensitivity to life, that leads to an almost total willingness to suppress any opposition, to destroy that opposition by killing people by the millions or by doing anything else possible to suppress their individuality, their divine spark, their creative potential.
This you should know: that even if you go back millions of years of history on this planet, there have been very few beings who have experienced such an extreme situation. And therefore, you should see yourselves as having given an extreme service in being willing to hold the balance, that gave so many other people an opportunity to experience such extremes, which has finally awakened many.
For there are many among the Russian people who either have awakened or are very close to awakening. And it takes only a final spark before you will see the formation of a positive upward spiral, that will make it obvious that Russia has left behind its past, just as you see Germany today having largely left behind its past. And thus, Russia can then move forward into a new and more Golden Age than anything the Russian people have even dared to dream of for the last several generations.
And thus, again I say, as Saint Germain has said earlier, the real problem that prevents the manifestation of a Golden Age is the lack of imagination. I am not talking about daydreaming that is not based on reality. But I am talking about you as the spiritual people reconnecting to the Flame that I have now anchored in your nation, the Flame of Reality, of Immovability. And then, when you reconnect to it, then you have a foundation for letting your Divine Imagination soar to new heights!
Dare to imagine what can happen in Russia and surrounding nations in the coming decades. Dare to envision and imagine changes beyond anything that the Russian leaders or the Russian people even dare to contemplate. Dare to imagine, dare to then see them through the power of the All-Seeing Eye within you as being not imaginings but as being the manifest reality that is already in the etheric, has moved into the mental, is starting to move into the emotional and can very quickly break through into the physical as well.
Hold that vision! Reconnect to the Reality that I AM! Reestablish that foundation. And then, when you stand firmly on that Rock of Christ, then lift your eyes towards the sky, that you may receive the vision that Saint Germain holds for Russia. A vision I, of course, will let him expound upon in due time.
Thus, I thank you for your attention, for your willingness to let your chakras and your beings be the open door. For as you have come from different parts of the former Soviet empire, surely you realize that you have a connection, and I have used that connection so that as you hear these words and absorb this vibration, that vibration has been streaming through your chakras to your places of home and thereby spreading out, challenging the doom and gloom of the collective consciousness. And for this I am eternally grateful. And with this, I bid you: Farewell.
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Weirdly, I forget about carrots a lot. I mean, not that they *exist *but that you can do other things with them besides snack on them raw. But, as this recipe from Westwood's Napa Valley Grille executive chef Taylor Boudreaux proves, you can prepare the veggie in lots of fun ways. It's got a health angle, too—the honey-ginger-carrot combination packs a big dose of vitamin A, vitamin C, and manganese (which helps to aid in digestion). Take a look!
Rainbow Carrots With Honey Ginger Butter
1 cup rainbow carrots, peeled and sliced on a bias
1 piece ginger
1 tbsp. honey
1 pinch ancho chili powder
2 tbsp. butter, cubed
salt and pepper
Blanch carrots in salted water. Poke with fork; when just tender, remove and place into hot saute pan with a little of the blanching water. Add honey and butter on top and saute. Butter will emulsify with the water to create glaze. Zest ginger to taste and toss into carrots along with chili powder. Season with salt and pepper.
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Hi, I don't know if this is an OS issue or hardware issue so please bear with me. Problem: I have a 3 year old Toshiba laptop. Last month, the frequency of overheating and sudden shut downs increased. This I believe caused my current problem (or not). The problem is that when I press the power on button, the laptop powers up, fans turn on, and the Toshiba logo appears, but then the screen is black (actually there is a faint backlight). The Power LED is on, but the hard drive LED is off and it will stay like this unless I press F1 (which I found out by random), which for some reason wakes up the hard drive and then start up continues and I get the black Windows logo screen with the loading bar. I was also told it could be that my hard drive is failing but I don't know if that is true. Measures taken: I have cleaned out the heatsink so now the laptop no longer overheats and shuts down. And I upgraded my RAMs. I used to have two 256MB memory modules, and I replaced one of them with a 512MB module. The computer runs smoother and faster, but the start up is still slow and of course won't work unless I press the F1 button at the black screen. I tried using one of the pinned Drive diagnostic utilities but they require a floppy diskette drive, which I lack. Bottom line: I am worried that one day the F1 solution won't work and then I will have no options. And if it’s the hard drive, then what do I do? Please help. Thank you! | <urn:uuid:c6c74b06-2eca-487a-8b29-0fce4750702e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/hd-wont-kick-in-at-start-up-unless-i-press-f1.68952/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00148-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958869 | 335 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Treasure Hunting in Southern Ural Mountains, Russia, page 5
Metal Detecting Ghost Town Svoboda (Story 7)
From studying the topographical map, I knew of another ghost village that was located 3.5 miles away. I told my friends about it. We were afraid of not having enough time for search but, being so curious about the site, we decided to hike there anyway after a short discussion.
According to the map, in order to get there, we had to cross a bridge over the creek. But the map was 30 years old and, therefore, availability of the bridge was questionable. Yes, the bridge had been destroyed but we managed to get on another side. I wish I did take pictures of our adventurous crossing the creek.
The rest of the hike was not difficult at all. When we got to the location of another abandoned settlement, the first strange object we came across was a huge ditch in the ground. The ditch was 50 yards long, 10 yards wide, and 5 yards deep, its walls were inlaid with stones. It had many fell rotten wood logs, remains of some structure, inside. We did not know what it was.
Retaining Stone Wall Of Some Structure
As we were walking further towards the village center, we noticed the foundations on each side of the road. We had only two hours of searching time so I began metal detecting without delay.
A Big House Used To Stand Here, Now Just Piles Of Bricks And A Foundation.
Another Homestead Used To Stand Here
To any treasure hunter, such a site would look like a dream site. But the more I was searching the site the more I was getting disappointed as I was digging only modern trash.
I hoped to find at least one old belt buckle or a spoon. It did not happen. All finds belonged to the 20th century time period. After two hours passed, I recovered only four keepers-early Soviet coins.
Oldest Coins Found At Both Sites
After I had analyzed my finds from this metal detecting trip, I concluded that both settlements were not built until after the Great October Socialist Revolution took place in 1917 and communists took power in Russia.
The dates on coins could prove my theory. Perhaps a collective farm was organized at the location of the old Nunnery during the Collectivization in 1930s.
The village was probably named Freedom following the initial idea of setting the Nunnery as a religious refuge in the middle of nowhere, away from any civilization, in the 18th century.
Most likely, the nuns did not possess coins as they did not have to use them back then. They could farm and grow vegetables in the surrounding fields, make dairy produce from livestock, and exchange the excess for goods and other essential foods at the markets in the villages around. That could explain why the old coins were nonexistent at the site.
This experience was one of those rare occasions when the site looked so promising in the beginning but produced nothing at the end. Sometimes, it is hard to avoid such results. A substantial research could help in avoiding the Empty Hand situations.
Still, I considered this outing a great one. I finally satisfied my 2-year old curiosity about the place. My friends were introduced to the great hobby of metal detecting and got a small taste of it. They enjoyed it! And we all just had a good time being in a beautiful place away from the hustle and bustle of civilized life, just for a little while.
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Generic Name: abobotulinumtoxina (Intramuscular route)
The effects of abobotulinumtoxinA and all botulinum toxin products may spread from the area of injection to produce symptoms consistent with botulinum toxin effects. These symptoms have been reported hours to weeks after injection. Swallowing and breathing difficulties can be life threatening and there have been reports of death. The risk of symptoms is probably greatest in children treated for spasticity but symptoms can also occur in adults, particularly in those patients who have underlying conditions that would predispose them to these symptoms. In unapproved uses, including upper limb spasticity in children, and in approved indications, spread of effect has reported at doses comparable to or lower than the maximum recommended total dose .
Commonly used brand name(s)
In the U.S.
Available Dosage Forms:
- Powder for Solution
Therapeutic Class: Musculoskeletal Agent
Pharmacologic Class: Botulinum Toxin Type A
Uses For Dysport
AbobotulinumtoxinA is used to treat the abnormal head position and neck pain that result from cervical dystonia (severe muscle spasms of the neck). This medicine is also used cosmetically to improve the appearance of deep facial lines or wrinkles between the eyebrows (glabellar lines). It is also used to treat upper limb spasms in adults.
AbobotulinumtoxinA is a botulinum toxin A product. It works on the nervous system to relax the muscles.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription and will be administered by your doctor.
Before Using Dysport
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of abobotulinumtoxinA in children with cervical dystonia or upper limb spasms. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Use of abobotulinumtoxinA to treat glabellar lines is not recommended in children.
Although appropriate studies on the relationship of age to the effects of abobotulinumtoxinA have not been performed in the geriatric population, no geriatric-specific problems have been documented to date. However, elderly patients are more likely to have side effects related to the eyes, which may require caution in patients receiving abobotulinumtoxinA for glabellar lines.
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There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Interactions with Medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Interactions with Food/Tobacco/Alcohol
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other Medical Problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) or
- Dermatochalasis (a skin problem) or
- Lambert-Eaton syndrome (nerve-muscle disorder) or
- Motor neuropathy (muscle and nerve problem) or
- Myasthenia gravis (severe muscle weakness) or
- Sebaceous skin, thick (oily or fatty skin) or
- Surgery on the face, history of—May increase risk for more serious side effects.
- Breathing problems (eg, asthma, emphysema) or
- Dysphagia (trouble swallowing) or
- Ptosis (droopy eyelid)—Use with caution. May make these conditions worse.
- Cow's milk protein allergy, history of or
- Infection at the injection site—Should not be used in patients with these conditions.
Proper Use of Dysport
Your doctor will give you this medicine in a hospital or clinic setting. This medicine is given as a shot into one of your muscles.
Your doctor will only use abobotulinumtoxinA (Dysport™) to treat your condition. Other botulinum toxin products may not work the same way.
Precautions While Using Dysport
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you should continue to receive it.
Serious muscle reactions have been reported within hours to weeks after receiving this medicine. If you start to have muscle weakness or trouble with swallowing, talking, or breathing, call your doctor right away. In some situations, these problems could be life-threatening and may require treatment in a hospital or clinic.
This medicine may make your muscles weak and cause vision problems. Avoid driving, using machines, or doing anything else that could be dangerous if you feel weak or are not able to see well.
One part of this medicine is made from donated human blood. Some human blood products have transmitted certain viruses to people who have received them. The risk of getting a virus from medicines made of human blood has been greatly reduced in recent years. This is the result of required testing of human donors for certain viruses, and testing during the manufacture of these medicines. Although the risk is low, talk with your doctor if you have concerns.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Dysport Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:More common
- Difficulty with swallowing or speaking
- muscle or bone pain
- muscle weakness
- sore throat
- voice changes
- Blistering, burning, crusting, dryness, or flaking of the skin
- body aches or pain
- cough producing mucus
- difficult or labored breathing
- ear congestion
- general feeling of discomfort or illness
- itching, scaling, severe redness, soreness, or swelling of the skin
- joint pain
- loss of appetite
- loss of voice
- muscle aches and pains
- stiff muscles
- stuffy or runny nose
- tightness in the chest
- trouble sleeping
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- Burning, crawling, itching, numbness, prickling, "pins and needles", or tingling feelings
- flushing or redness of the skin
- partial or slight paralysis of the face
- unusually warm skin
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:More common
- Bleeding, blistering, burning, coldness, discoloration of the skin, feeling of pressure, hives, infection, inflammation, itching, lumps, numbness, pain, rash, redness, scarring, soreness, stinging, swelling, tenderness, tingling, ulceration, or warmth at the injection site
- blurred vision
- decreased vision
- double vision
- dry eyes
- dry mouth
- eye pain
- itching of the eyes
- problems with focusing the eyes
- seeing double
- drooping upper eyelids
- pain or tenderness around the eyes and cheekbones
- swelling of the eyelids
- Change in color vision
- difficulty seeing at night
- dizziness or lightheadedness
- feeling of constant movement of self or surroundings
- increased sensitivity of the eyes to sunlight
- sensation of spinning
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
See also: Side effects (in more detail)
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There are two types of Tee used in piping, Equal / Straight Tee, and Reducing / Unequal Tee.
- 1 How do you identify a tee?
- 2 How many types of fitting are there?
- 3 What are the 5 different pipe fittings?
- 4 What is tee in piping?
- 5 Why equal tees are used?
- 6 What is a straight tee?
- 7 What is a 4 way fitting called?
- 8 How many types of elbow are there?
- 9 What is a street 90 elbow?
- 10 What are the different types of pipes?
- 11 How many types of holding tools are there in plumbing?
- 12 What is barred tee used for?
- 13 What is a branch tee?
How do you identify a tee?
Tees are generally measured from the “Run” to the “Bull”. The “Run” is the left-to-right or the length of the Tee. The “Bull” is the top part of the Tee. For example if a Tee is 3/4″ X 3/4″ X 1/2″, then the left inside diameter is 3/4″, the right inside diameter is 3/4″ and the top inside diameter part is 1/2″.
How many types of fitting are there?
Fittings are generally used in mechanical and plumbing operations for a number of different purposes. There are many different kinds of fittings, made from a variety of materials: some of the most common types are elbows, tees, wyes, crosses, couplings, unions, compression fittings, caps, plugs and valves.
What are the 5 different pipe fittings?
Different pipe fittings and their functions are explained below.
- Tee type.
- Cross type.
What is tee in piping?
Pipe Tee is a type of pipe fitting which is T-shaped having two outlets, at 90° to the connection to the main line. It is a short piece of pipe with a lateral outlet. Pipe Tee is used to connect pipelines with a pipe at a right angle with the line. Pipe Tees are widely used as pipe fittings.
Why equal tees are used?
The primary purpose of a Tee is to make a 90° branch from the main run of pipe. The equal tee (or straight tee) is used as the branch has the same diameter as the run-pipe. The reducing tee is used as the branch has a smaller diameter as the run-pipe.
What is a straight tee?
An equal tee, otherwise called straight tee, means the branch diameter of this tee is same with the main pipe (Run pipe) diameter of this tee. A pipe tee is defined “equal” when the bore size at the run and branch sides have the same diameter.
What is a 4 way fitting called?
The 4 way LT PVC pipe fitting, also known as a side outlet tee or 4 way corner fitting is commonly used to build the sides of a box or cube out of PVC pipe. It is also useful to make the ridge on PVC greenhouses or small PVC buildings. Some dog agility customers use the 4 way LT at the base of jump pole stands.
How many types of elbow are there?
Elbow mainly available in two standard types 90° and 45°. However, it Can be cut to any other degree. Elbows are available in two radius types, Short radius (1D) and Long Radius (1.5D).
What is a street 90 elbow?
These wrought (wrot) copper street elbows are used to connect a copper pipe to a copper fitting at a 90-degree angle. Manufactured to ASTM and ANSI standards from commercial grade C12200 alloy used by leading copper pipe fitting manufacturers such Nibco and Mueller.
What are the different types of pipes?
The 5 Main Types of Plumbing Pipes for Your Home Plumbing System
- PVC Pipes. Polyvinyl chloride pipes (PVC) are commonly used as part of a sink, toilet, or shower drain line.
- PEX Pipes.
- ABS Pipes.
- Copper Pipes.
- Cast Iron and Galvanized Steel Pipes.
How many types of holding tools are there in plumbing?
Mostly, two types of wrenches are used—adjustable and non-adjustable. These are useful particularly in case of odd-sized nuts and bolts. These tools hold a pipe and pipe fittings for screwing or unscrewing.
What is barred tee used for?
The shape of a barred tee is like a butt welding pipe tee with some bars in the branch of the tee. The bars are used for preventing the pig from running out in the branch of the main pipe.It is commonly used in a pigged pipeline,so it is also called pigged tee.
What is a branch tee?
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In an opinion Friday, Judge Cronan dismissed with prejudice a suit brought by Sparks Steak House against its insurance company seeking to recover for business interruption losses arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy covered, as is common in property insurance policies, “direct physical loss of or damage to property” at the premises, and Sparks argued that its inability to use the premises as a steakhouse fell within that language. Judge Cronan disagreed, using illustrations of how the policy language would be used in everyday experience:
The idea that “loss of use” does not constitute a “direct physical loss of or damage to” property resonates in ordinary experience outside the context of insurance coverage. Say, for example, a teenager broke curfew, and his parents punished him by taking away the keys to his car. The teen undoubtedly lost the ability to use the car. However, we would not say that there had been a “direct physical loss of or damage to” the car. The teenager was precluded from driving it. But the car’s physical condition remained unchanged, and its presence likely remained at the residence.
Similarly, imagine a fisherman visits a public pond each day to cast his line. One morning he arrived and found that the pond was closed for fishing because a nearby town was hosting its annual swim race. Did the fisherman lose the use of the pond for the day? Yes. He could not enjoy the premises for his intended use (i.e., to fish). But could anyone reasonably conclude there was a “direct physical loss of or damage to” the pond because he could not fish? No. The condition of the pond was not altered physically.
As noted in the decision, there have been many similar cases across the country, and “nearly every court to address this issue has concluded that loss of use of a premises due to a governmental closure order does not trigger business income coverage premised on physical loss to property.” Judge Cronan’s ruling is the first motion to dismiss decided in the Southern District, although in May Judge Caproni denied a preliminary injunction in a case raising a similar theory.
Disclosure: Steptoe and Robinson Cole represent the insurer in the Sparks case, and Steptoe represents the insurer in the case before Judge Caproni. | <urn:uuid:8efb3a3c-b002-41b7-85f2-5e6136082f51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sdnyblog.com/judge-cronan-sparks-steak-houses-business-interruption-insurance-policy-not-triggered-by-covid-19-because-the-pandemic-did-not-cause-direct-physical-loss-of-property/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.981135 | 478 | 1.65625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — President Reagan delivered a pep talk to 70,000 shivering anti-abortion marchers Tuesday and called for a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn. But both he and "pro-life" leaders also emphatically denounced the bombings of abortion clinics.
In the first public act after Monday's inauguration ceremonies, Reagan spoke by telephone from the Oval Office to the demonstrators of all ages standing in subfreezing temperatures on the Ellipse, a quarter-mile from the White House.
The protesters, marking the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, then marched two miles to the court, where 29 were arrested as they knelt in prayer on the steps.
Several demonstrators left a tiny, black-draped mock coffin on the steps of the court, where tight security was in force, as a symbol of their protest. Demonstration leaders later met with the President at the White House.
Reagan, who has said that he regards his signing of an abortion liberalization bill as his biggest mistake as California's governor, never before had addressed Washington's annual March for Life, although he regularly had been asked to do so.
While the President's staunch anti-abortion position appeals politically to the avid "pro-life" activists, there is continuing evidence in public opinion polls that the majority of Americans disagree with him.
Countering the "pro-life" marchers Tuesday, representatives of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights called a news conference in the United Methodist Building adjacent to the Supreme Court to plead for a "tempering of the rhetoric in this debate."
Fredrica F. Hodges, executive director of the organization, said the 30 bombings and arson incidents at abortion facilities during the last two years is "very intimidating. There is a sense of fear now among pro-choice organizations and the staffs of clinics."
The bombings also were denounced by Dr. J.C. Willke of Cincinnati, president of the National Right to Life Committee. The violence, he said, "undermines and destroys the very ethic we're working for. If there are potential bombers out there, let me say to them: 'Don't throw that bomb. In the long run, it will take longer to stop the killing (of fetuses), and you're not helping out.' "
Reagan, in his comments to the demonstrators, recalled that in his State of the Union address last year he urged Americans "to rise above bitterness and reproach and seek a greater understanding of this issue." He said such understanding "begins with the recognition of the reality of life before birth and the reality of death by abortion."
Then he added: "But the spirit of understanding also includes, as all of you know, a complete rejection of violence as a means of settling this issue. We cannot condone the threatening or taking of human life to protest the taking of human life by way of abortion."
The protesters applauded, as they frequently did throughout his six-minute remarks.
Sees Changed Attitude
Reagan told the marchers that "I feel these days, as never before, the momentum is with us. . . . There are already signs that we've changed the public attitude on abortion. The number performed each year is finally leveling off. The general feeling that abortion is just a small, harmless medical procedure that's simply a matter of choice has almost disappeared. We're making progress."
The President pledged to continue working with those "who believe, as I do, that abortion is the taking of life of a living human being, that the right to abortion is not secured by the Constitution and that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the life of each person before birth."
At the conclusion of his remarks, March for Life President Nellie Gray told Reagan that her previously divided organization now is united behind a proposed constitutional amendment that California Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove) intends to introduce in the House. Reagan replied: "Good for you, and I support you."
The proposed amendment states simply that "the paramount right to life is vested in each human being at the moment of fertilization, without regard to age, health or condition of dependency."
White House Assistant Press Secretary Anson Franklin said later that Reagan would support any "reasonable" legislation to prohibit an abortion "except when the life of the mother is endangered." Franklin said that supporters of the "paramount" amendment interpret its language as allowing for an abortion to save a mother's life because she would be acting in self-defense.
Anti-abortion forces in Congress throughout Reagan's presidency have been sharply split over what specific legislation to unite behind and the President has held back lobbying aggressively for some measure until, as Franklin put it, "they get their act together."
There is ample precedent for a President campaigning on behalf of a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling, constitutional scholars say. Stanford University law professor Gerald Gunther said Tuesday: "There is nothing improper about a politician using legitimate means to undo court decisions."
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By Dev K. Mishra, M.D.
In a previous Youth Soccer Insider we discussed recognizing signs of heat illness. Now we will discuss an even more important strategy -- preventing dehydration and possible heat illness through a good hydration strategy.
Start your summer sports activity by being properly hydrated.
One of the most important points is that the young athlete should start an exercise activity while well hydrated. The amount of fluid an athlete needs depends on the intensity and duration of the activity as well as weather conditions and the types of clothing and equipment worn.
In general, high school athletes require 10 to 12 cups of fluid (water, fruit juice, milk, etc.) per day consumed at meals and snacks so they start exercise properly hydrated. During exercise, athletes generally require 4 to 8 ounces of fluid every 15 to 20 minutes.
Here’s an easy way to tell if you’re hydrated: check the color of your urine. If it’s less than 2 hours before training for competition and you notice that your urine is dark in color, you are not properly hydrated and you should drink more fluids.
Tips to Prevent Dehydration and Heat Illness:
* Sports drinks are an excellent choice for hydration. Athletes can usually find a flavor they like, and the electrolytes (like sodium chloride) will stimulate thirst, help the body hold onto fluid, reduce the chance of cramping, and possibly improve performance.
* Water is fine too, for events lasting up to about two hours.
* Avoid any drinks with caffeine or high fructose corn syrup, and no carbonated sodas. “Energy drinks” such as Red Bull contain caffeine and should be avoided.
* I like low-fat chocolate milk as another after-game alternative.
* The athlete should have 12-16 ounces of fluid up until about 30 minutes before the game or practice (remember that most sports drinks come in 20 ounce bottles)
* Keep sipping sports drinks or water during the practice or match, about 4 ounces at a time at the end of periods or halftime.
* Start re-hydrating within 20 minutes of the conclusion of the match. Research shows that the first 20 minutes are the most efficient time to start refueling. Try to take in 20 ounces; no need to guzzle this down, but once you start drinking try to finish the bottle over the next several minutes.
Read “Heat Illness: How to recognize it in young athletes” HERE.
(Dr. Dev K. Mishra is the creator of the SidelineSportsDoc.com injury management program for coaches. He is an orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Burlingame, Calif. He is a member of the team physician pool with the U.S. Soccer Federation and has served as team physician at the University of California, Berkeley. This article first appeared on SidelineSportsDoc.com.) | <urn:uuid:1ca61bca-f580-4222-b903-18377d5aebdf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.socceramerica.com/article/47348/hydration-tips-for-summer-sports.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936929 | 600 | 3.25 | 3 |
|標題:||How NAT-Compatible Are VoIP Applications?|
Department of Computer Science
Pealtek NCTU Joint Res Ctr
|摘要:||Today, the Internet is very diversified, further complicating the classic NAT traversal problems. In order to solve these problems, there are many proposed methods classified into two categories. One enhances the NAT traversal techniques of applications, and the other tries to modify the behavior of NATs. In this article we focus on the former because NATs have been installed, and their behavior cannot be altered through endpoint users. Accordingly, in order to test NAT traversal techniques of five VoIP applications (Skype, MSN, Google Talk, X-Lite, and Linphone), three network topologies have been designed with two endpoints behind the same, different, or multilevel NATs. Through a series of experiments and from the experiment results, we observe that these VoIP applications use some traversal techniques, such as NAT mapped-address probe, peer discovery, path check, and relay first, proposed by STUN, TURN, and ICE to make a direct connection when endpoints are behind the same or different NATs with independent mapping rules. However, with multilevel NATs, no endpoints can establish a direct connection when they use the above mentioned techniques, even if hairpin behavior is supported by NATs.|
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Patients still report some level of pain 1 year after breast cancer surgery
In a study that included more than 800 women who had undergone surgery for breast cancer, the majority reported some level of pain 12 months after surgery. Factors associated with pain included chronic preoperative pain, chemotherapy, preoperative depression, and pain in the area to undergo surgery.
"Persistent pain following breast cancer treatments remains a significant clinical problem despite improved treatment strategies. Data on factors associated with persistent pain are needed to develop prevention and treatment strategies and to improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients," wrote the authors of the study, which was published in JAMA (2014;11:90-92).
Tuomo J. Meretoja, MD, PhD, of Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues examined the prevalence and severity and factors associated with chronic pain after breast cancer surgery and treatment. The study included 860 patients younger than 75 years with nonmetastasized breast cancer treated at the Helsinki University Central Hospital between 2006 and 2010. Among these patients, 57% received chemotherapy, 73% received radiotherapy, and 68% received endocrine therapy. A questionnaire was sent to patients 12 months after surgery, with assessments of the presence and intensity of pain.
At 12 months after surgery, 34.5% of the patients reported no pain, 49.7% mild pain, 12.1% moderate pain, and 3.7% severe pain. The factors associated with pain at 12 months were chronic preoperative pain, preoperative pain in the area to be operated, axillary lymph node dissection, preoperative depression, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
"These findings may be useful in developing strategies for preventing persistent pain following breast cancer treatment. To identify patients who would benefit from preventive interventions, a risk assessment tool is needed," the authors wrote. This research team had previously developed a six-factor model for pain at 6 months, but it did not include any treatment-related factors. | <urn:uuid:b931b9cb-d75d-42fb-b01d-3a21afd4e828> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/web-exclusives/patients-still-report-some-level-of-pain-1-year-after-breast-cancer-surgery/article/328798/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957774 | 404 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Apple gets a patent to improve battery life by tracking everything
At this year's WWDC, Apple made it clear that battery life was the number one priority for its new software updates this year. It spent quite a while detailing the ways both MacOS and iOS are going to reorganize how actions are performed in order to improve your battery life. Now, Apple has been granted a patent to improve battery life by tracking everything you do.
The new patent, named simply "Power Management for Electronic Devices", proposes methods where Apple would essentially learn your daily habits. It would take your daily location data and learn when you commute, or when you are usually on the road or away from home. By aggregating that data, Apple would be able to estimate how long it would be until you are able to recharge your device, and take necessary measures to ensure your battery lasts until you can charge it again.
Of course, this is a very reductive explanation of the patent, which is far more specific about how it tracks you, how it stores data, how it will change settings to improve battery life, and how all of these settings are altered based on when the device is plugged in or unplugged. Overall, it sounds like a good way to help improve battery life, but as with most patents granted by the USPTO, it seems more like a logical conclusion than a true creation. But, by now we can't be too surprised when the USPTO does something like this. | <urn:uuid:c9edb02e-6dd9-422c-b9cc-2ee87c297af8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-gets-a-patent-to-improve-battery-life-by-tracking-everything_id45731 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00208-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96955 | 300 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Artist: William Merritt Chase (American, Williamsburg, Indiana 1849–1916 New York)
Date: by 1908
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 45 1/16 in. (101.9 x 114.5 cm)
Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1908
Accession Number: 08.139.2
Beginning in 1904, Chase made many large-scale still-life paintings of fish, usually during his summer teaching trips to Europe. Executed with the bravura brushwork and dark palette of his early Munich period, this painting shows the influence of Chase's contemporary, the French artist Antoine Vollon, and of the seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes that Vollon also appreciated. The canvas shows a tabletop with a plate containing a striped bass and a salmon; a weakfish lies directly on the table and a bowl appears in the background. Chase's goal seems to have been to make what he called "an uninteresting subject so inviting and entertaining by means of fine technique that people will be charmed at the way you've done it."
Writing in The New Republic in March 1917, the American connoisseur and collector Leo Stein commented on Chase's still-life paintings of fish: "Of all non-sentimental still life . . . they are with their bulging mass and sweeping line the most expressive. Chase seems to take a saturated satisfaction in the swell and swing of the thick soft-bodied fish. They give far more result at a lesser price of organization than groups of smaller or less expressively shaped objects." | <urn:uuid:5c9089b7-bf51-4278-8e5c-226bb833461c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/08.139.2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00252-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954543 | 331 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Judah's Septere and Joseph's Birthright
Chapter 5 - The Sceptre or the Promise of a Perpetuated House, Throne and Kingdom to David
A Royal Remnant that Escapes When Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the Chaldean guard, gave Jeremiah privilege to go where he pleased, and provided him with all that was needful for the journey, the record further declares:
"Then went Jeremiah unto Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land," (Jeremiah 40:6).
The next verse of the same chapter states that the people who were still in the land were
"the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon." (v. 7)
This Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, was the man whom the King of Babylon had made governor of what little there was left in Judea; for he had taken the masses of the people into captivity to Babylon and made servants of them.
It seems that, since the capital city of Judea was now destroyed, Gedeliah had been compelled to set up a provincial government in some other city and had chosen Mizpah. Also, when the refugees from among the Jews who had fled into Moab, Ammon and Edom heard that the King of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea and had set a governor over them, then they returned and put themselves under him. So also did the several captains of small outlying forces until, all told, there was quite a goodly number in this remnant, as it was called.
But the little province did not prosper long, for the King of Ammon entered into a plot with Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to assassinate its new governor. Johanan, the son of Kareah, discovered this plot and told Gedeliah. At the same time he offered to slay secretly this Ishmael, the would-be assassin; but Gedeliah would not permit it, would not believe Johanan's story, and accused him of speaking falsely concerning Ishmael.
However, it was only a short time until the plot was successfully carried out; for Ishmael and nine of his confederates slew not only the governor, but all the Chaldeans, all the men of war, and all the Jews that were with him. His object in all this was that he might easily make captives of the rest of the people, who were unarmed, and carry them away into Ammon to increase and strengthen the kingdom of the Ammonites.
To show that this was the object, we quote the full text of the tenth verse of the forty-first chapter of Jeremiah. Still it is not of any very special interest to us to know that such was his object, but there is something in that text which is of the greatest possible interest to us. The reason for Jeremiah's going to Mizpah is there. The key to the possible fulfillment of Jehovah's promise to David is there. The possibilities of the success of Jeremiah's commission are there. The Divine support to our faith and an opening door for the complete vindication of God are there.
"Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the King's Daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, has committed to Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam; and Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites." (Jeremiah 41:10)
What! "The King's daughters?" we hear you exclaim.
Yes; but wait until we shall gather into one focus a few other points, and then we can see the way perfectly clear for Jeremiah to finish completely his God-given task.
When Johanan and the other captains of the fighting forces heard what Ishmael had done they gathered themselves together, started in pursuit and overtook him at Gibeon. At this juncture the Scripture says:
"Now it came to pass that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad. So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan, the son of Kareah. But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, escaped from Johanan with eight men and went unto the Ammonites," (Jeremiah 41:13,15).
After Johanan had retaken this captive company, and Ishmael, the traitor, had escaped, then he became afraid of the Chaldeans, and feared that the King of the Chaldean Empire, Nebuchadnezzar, who had placed Gedeliah over them, would, upon hearing what Ishmael had done, send his army and destroy them. So, under the distress and despair of the hour, Johanan, who was now their recognized leader, with all the captains and the people, from the least unto the greatest, made an appeal unto the prophet of God,
"and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and now pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us); that the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do." (Jeremiah 42:2-3)
In reply to this appeal Jeremiah told them that he would pray for them and inquire of the Lord for them, but that they must obey the Lord; for he would tell them just what the Lord said, whether it was good or bad, and that he would keep nothing back. To which they replied:
"Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God." (Jeremiah 42:6)
Then Jeremiah besought the Lord, and the Lord heard and gave instructions. Among other things the Lord told him to say to them,
"Be not afraid of the King of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord; for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand." (Jeremiah 42:11)
He also told them not to go down to Egypt, as was their intention, thinking they would be safe if they placed themselves under the protection of the King of Egypt.
Furthermore, he told them that if they did go to Egypt the very thing which they feared would come upon them, and they should be destroyed, saying:
"If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there, then it shall come to pass that the sword which ye feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof ye were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt, and there shall ye die." (Jeremiah 42:15-16)
The Lord also told Jeremiah that these people were dissembling in their hearts, when they sent him to pray for them and to make their request. So we are not surprised that it is recorded that Johanan said unto Jeremiah:
"Thou speakest falsely: the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: But Baruch, the son of Neriah, setteth thee against us, for to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captive into Babylon." (Jeremiah 43:2-3)
Neither are we surprised to read the result, which is recorded as follows:
"But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah that were returned from all the nations whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; even men, women and children, and the KING'S DAUGHTERS, and every person that Nebuzaradan, the captain, had left with Gedeliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and JEREMIAH, the prophet, and Baruch, the son of Neriah. So they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord. Thus came they even to Tahpanhes," (Jeremiah 43:5-8).
Baruch, the scribe, was the companion of Jeremiah in prison, when the Lord took them out and hid them. He was also his companion in persecution and affliction and accusation. Now, since we find his name mentioned as one of this company which Johanan compelled to go to Egypt against the direct command of God, there is just one prophecy concerning him which we need to mention before we proceed further. It is as follows:
"Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land ... but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey [booty or reward] in all places whither thou goest," (Jeremiah 45:2, 4, 5).
Furthermore, when that company had reached Egypt and were at Tahpanhes, the Lord again used Jeremiah to prophesy concerning their destruction, and also concerning the King of Babylon and his coming against Pharaoh-Hophra, the King of Egypt, and many other matters; but we will only give a small portion — that which pertains to the destiny of the people whose history we are following.
The prophecy opens with these words:
"The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt." (Jeremiah 44:1)
Note carefully the following:
"I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach," (Jeremiah 44:12).
The complete destruction of that company is foretold in those words; yet the Lord has in that company a few persons whose lives he has promised shall be spared. So, before the prophecy continues much further the following proviso is given: "None shall return but such as shall escape," (verse 14).
And before the prophecy is ended abundant provision is made for the very few whom God has promised shall live. Hence we find in the prophecy as it continues the following:
"Behold I shall watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt." (Jeremiah 44:27-28)
Remember that the masses of the house of Judah, of the Jewish people, were in captivity in Babylon, where they were to stay for seventy years. Also remember that this remnant which came into Egypt were only the ragged end of the nation, i.e., the poor of the land, and a few captains of small military forces. Now, the Lord proposes to destroy this rag-tag remnant, out of which "a small number shall escape." Now, let us take our bearings.
We have in this company, which has come down into Egypt from Judea, "the King's daughters." Since the plural form of speech is used there are at least two of them — history says there were three. These are the royal seed of the house of David, who are fleeing from the slayers of their father, Zedekiah, the last King of the house of Judah, and the slayers of their brothers, the sons of Zedekiah and princes of Judah.
In company with these princesses is Jeremiah, their grandfather, whom also the Lord has chosen to do the work of building and planting. In the princesses the prophet has royal material with which to build and plant.
In company with Jeremiah and his royal charge we have Baruch, his faithful scribe, whom expert genealogists prove to have been uncle to the royal seed.
God has promised that the lives of this "small number," only five or six at most, shall be to them a prey (reward) in all lands whither they shall go.
Prior to this, at a time when Jeremiah was greatly troubled, when in his great distress and anguish of heart he cried unto the Lord, saying: "Remember me, visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors"; then the Lord said,
"Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction... And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not," (Jeremiah 15:11-14).
Note the expression "thy remnant," i.e., Jeremiah's, for it is he who must build and plant that royal seed. Understand also that Jeremiah and his little remnant were well acquainted with Egypt, and since it was well known to them it could not have been their final destination. Hence. this escaping royal remnant must journey back to Judea, and then — whither?
"Into an unknown land!" Why?
"For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of Mount Zion [on which were the royal dwellings]. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah [royal line] shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward," (Isaiah 37:32-31).
Hear it! O hear it! Ye men of earth, HEAR IT! "Shall again take root downward" — be planted! "and bear fruit upward" — be builded! Where? God should tell us where in His Word, and he does. | <urn:uuid:139c7f2c-48d1-45ef-9d2e-7409a07ce60b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getrefbook&InfoID=1352642624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00268-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980944 | 3,073 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Gender Stereotypes Change Slowly, But They Can Change
How do you know if gender stereotypes are changing? Ask a kid to draw a scientist.
Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have analysed five decades of “Draw-A-Scientist” studies carried out since the 1960s, finding students are now depicting scientists as female more than ever — suggesting stereotypes that associate men with STEM professions have diminished in recent years.
“Given this change in stereotypes, girls in recent years might now develop interests in science more freely than before,” said study lead author David Miller, of Northwestern University. “Prior studies have suggested that these gender-science stereotypes could shape girls’ interests in science-related activities and careers.”
The study combines results of the “Draw-A-Scientist” project from more than 70 U.S. studies that included 20,000 children ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade. The first studies, conducted between 1966 to 1977, showed less than 1% of 5,000 children, when asked to draw a scientist, drew an image that resembled a woman. Almost all the drawings depicted men working beside laboratory equipment, wearing lab coats, glasses and with facial hair.
Between 1985 and 2016, more than a quarter of children began drawing female scientists. While both boys and girls drew female scientists, on average, girls drew them more often than boys did.
“Our results suggest that children’s stereotypes change as women’s and men’s roles change in society,” said study co-author Alice Eagly, a psychologist at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Science. “Children still draw more male than female scientists in recent studies, but that is expected because women remain a minority in several science fields.”
Children form gender stereotypes in grade school, the researchers said; kids below the age of 5 drew equal ratios of male and female scientists.
“These changes across children’s age likely reflect that children’s exposure to male scientists accumulates during development, even in recent years,” said David Uttal, a co-author of the study.
The process of changing these stereotypes is gradual and happens as the number of women entering STEM fields increases and as teachers and parents actively promote representations of scientists of both genders in education, conversation and popular culture.
But even as gender stereotypes change, it’s unclear whether actual parity is the result. Another, recent study shows that countries with greater gender equality have fewer women graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Interestingly, countries with less welfare support and less gender equality have more women entering generally high-paying STEM fields. It is thought that, in countries that provide better social security, women opt out of STEM fields by choice, as they have more routes to financial security.
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It is through the Florida state agency, the only babies that are up for adoption are babies that are taken from the birth mother because of drug use...I am excited and terrified at the same time! It is a foster to adopt program, meaning the baby can be taken from them before it is a year old, Florida parental rights end at one year old. After the baby turns one they will adopt, but I am terrified since this is an open adoption and birth parents have rights to visitation and such. Anyone here gone through anything like this?
They chose to do the foster to adopt because the alternative was to adopt an older child with all kind of emotional problems, sex abuse, physical abuse, and overall emotional turmoil from being in foster homes, and they could not deal with that. They are so excited about this, they have decorated a nursery with all the trimmings...they have big hearts and are taking this as at least a chance to give a baby a loving home if only for a few months in the worst case scenario.
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Energy Initiatives for Schools
STATE OF NEW YORK
GEORGE E. PATAKI, GOVERNOR
August 26, 2002
GOVERNOR: $7.8 MILLION IN ENERGY PROGRAMS FOR NEW YORK SCHOOLS
Programs to Reduce Energy Costs and Identify Efficiency Opportunities
Governor George E. Pataki today announced two new energy initiatives for New York's schools. The programs will help schools identify opportunities for energy efficiency upgrades as well as install solar electric photovoltaic panels to generate on-site power. The programs, offered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), will greatly reduce the costs associated with installing renewable energy systems and conducting the energy audits necessary to identify efficiency opportunities.
"Schools are a perfect environment for implementing energy efficiency and installing renewable energy systems because we can use these initiatives to encourage our children to make smart and sustainable energy choices," Governor Pataki said. "But, equally important, energy efficiency and the solar energy systems will help to lower the energy costs for our schools and reduce the environmental impacts of school energy use."
NYSERDA's $1.8 million "School Power...Naturally" Program will provide 90 percent of the $20,000 cost to help up to 50 schools in the State install solar energy systems. Solar Works, Inc. is a collaborative effort among the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, energy services firm AMERESCO, Pace University, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Earth Day Network, and Creighton Manning Engineering will assist NYSERDA in implementing this program by designing, installing, and maintaining the systems.
Additionally, AMERESCO will contribute $500 per installation, leaving the school's commitment at only $1,500. The Research Foundation of SUNY will use NYSERDA funding to develop and help schools integrate curricular materials into their lesson plans to educate children about renewable and solar energy options. These materials will be made available to any school interested, not just those installing solar energy systems.
Solar Works' Vice President, Richard Eidlin said, "The School Power Naturally program is taking a significant step towards informing thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers about the practicality of solar energy."
The 2-kilowatt solar energy systems to be installed generate enough power to meet roughly half of a typical home's energy needs. Fifty New York schools will take possession of a system starting in the Spring of 2003. Applications for this competitive program are due by October 11 and information is available on-line at www.schoolpowernaturally.org.
Also available to schools in the Fall of 2002, NYSERDA's $6 million "Comprehensive Energy Strategies in School" program, which will provide cost-shared technical assistance, analysis, advice and certified training to schools so that they can identify energy savings through a variety of energy efficiency upgrades and aggregated purchasing options. This program will help to make school districts more self-sufficient when it comes to energy use and facilities operations. This new initiative will be offered under NYSERDA's Energy Smart Schools program.
NYSERDA President William M. Flynn said, "These two programs present tremendous opportunities for our schools to take greater control over their energy use by giving them access to the information, data, and financial assistance they need to make smart and sustainable energy choices. Typically, schools are constructed on tight budgets that may not take into consideration the energy costs tax payers will pay over the lifetime of the building. These programs can help our schools to defray the costs necessary for making building improvements that will lessen those energy costs."
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Attacking foreign-owned international chains has long been a favorite for China’s state-owned CCTV. Previously, the state media had attacked McDonald’s, claiming that their ice cubes contained more bacteria than toilet water. This time, their target is the global coffee chain Starbucks. Starbucks is often hated for destroying local coffee culture, yet in China, it has really fully taken off. Thus, CCTV’s report focused on the fact that getting a cup of coffee in Starbucks costs way more than in other countries.
On October 20, CCTV posted a series of posts tagged #Starbucks Coffee Pricing Investigation# on Weibo:
“[The price of a 354 ml Grande latte] At the Starbucks in Beijing, a cup of 354 ml latte coffee sells for 27 RMB; In London, a cup of 354 ml latte sells for 24.25 RMB; In Chicago, a cup of 354 ml latte sells for 19.98 RMB; In Bombay, a cup of 354 ml latte sells for 14.6 RMB. What do you make of it?”
“[The price of a ceramic mug] A ceramic Starbucks mug is priced at 100 yuan at a Starbucks in Beijing, but at a Starbucks in Chicago its price is less than 60 yuan. These mugs are labeled “Made in China”, yet why does a cup made in China costs so much more than one shipped across the sea to the U.S.?”
Other posts include “Starbucks stores can recover its cost in one to two months”, “China and the Pacific Asia region have the highest profits”, etc. However, CCTV has not been able to instigate anger among Chinese towards the chain. While some do agree that a cup of coffee costs a lot, most netizens on Weibo are angry towards CCTV and the state, retorting with sarcasm and criticism.
An account named 星巴克Starbucks retweeted CCTV:
“Customers can choose freely. Personally, I think CCTV should focus more on actual social problems related to people’s lives. If the state could control the prices of daily necessities, if the state could strictly manage medical fees, if corruption and bribery could occur less and less, if the air quality would improve, if we no longer needed to worry about food safety, if…. if there’s no if, CCTV can talk about Apple and Starbucks when it’s got too much time on its hands!”
The account claims to be unofficial, but this didn’t stop 11,000 netizens retweeted the post, most applauding it. Under the trending topic 星巴克咖啡价格调查, yet more netizens have chimed in, voicing complaints to CCTV while supporting Starbucks. Ironically, it was reported that the first Starbucks stores in Beijing and Shanghai had to shut down due to the unaffordable rents. In addition, coffee itself is in fact generally highly priced in China.
Graph by The Wall Street Journal
太阳之鸟: The oil price in China is more expensive than in Taiwan, the internet costs more than in Hong Kong… You don’t have the energy to focus on those, and instead you are making a fuss over a cup coffee that one doesn’t need to drink? Why? The only reason: Starbucks, have you not advertised on CCTV?
Assice_Chen: Not even to mention the rent, just talk about the same cars, same gasoline, same phones, same clothes, which isn’t more expensive in China?
我我我我我我我我一身猪腩肉: I can choose not to drink the 31 yuan Starbucks coffee. Vegetables cost 5 yuan per jin, beef costs 31 yuan per jin, am I supposed to say I can drink only water. For a cold or small injury, it easily costs 1,000 yuan, am I supposed to say as long as I don’t die I’ll avoid it? The rent is sky high, am I supposed to say I like sleeping on the street?
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Synopses & Reviews
In this best-selling THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY text, noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a brief, balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history has been integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. The third edition continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history. This approach helps students to link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, thereby placing the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context. THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY is available in the following volume options: THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, THIRD EDITION (Chapters 1-29)
"This text is very readable, even for the student who knows very little history and is not a strong reader. However, the text is not "watered-down." It still provides the critical information that all of the students need; it is simply stated in language that all of our students can read and understand. ... Our previous text was full of facts and in-depth discussions. However, the chapters were long and dry, and the students simply would not read it! This text is short enough that the single mom with four kids who has gone back to school after fifteen years can actually find the time to read the chapters. I do not need a text that contains all of the information about a particular subject. Instead, I need a text that gives a general overview, and I can then elaborate on selected topics and fill in the gaps through lecture and other activities."
"[Strengths:] Breadth of coverage, primary source inclusion, and Internet supplement."
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Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time withTHE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY: to 1500. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. You can use the book's global approach and its emphasis on analytical comparisons between cultures to link events together in a broad comparative and global framework that places the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.
About the Author
William J. Duiker is liberal arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. A former U.S. diplomat with service in Taiwan, South Vietnam, and Washington, D.C., he received his doctorate in Far Eastern history from Georgetown University in 1968, where his dissertation dealt with the Chinese educator and reformer Cai Yuanpei. At Penn State, he has written extensively on the history of Vietnam and modern China, including the highly acclaimed COMMUNIST ROAD TO POWER IN VIETNAM (revised edition, Westview Press, 1996), which was selected for a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1982--1983 and 1996-1997. Other recent books are CHINA AND VIETNAM: THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT (Berkeley, 1987), U.S. CONTAINMENT POLICY AND THE CONFLICT IN INDOCHINA (Stanford, 1995), SACRED WAR: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN A DIVIDED VIETNAM (McGraw-Hill, 1995), and HO CHI MINH (Hyperion, 2000), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. While his research specialization is in the field of nationalism and Asian revolutions, his intellectual interests are considerably more diverse. He has traveled widely and has taught courses on the history of communism and non-Western civilizations at Penn State, where he was awarded a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the spring of 1996. In 2002, the College of Liberal Arts honored him with an Emeritus Distinction Award. Jackson J. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Moreana, Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, and American Historical Review. He also has contributed chapters or articles to The Social History of Reformation, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY HANDBOOK, the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies, and Utopian Studies. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western Civilization course, as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. His book HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY was published in 1987 (7th Edition, 2013). He is also the author of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, first published in 1991 (9th Edition, 2015). Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. During the year 1988?1989, he held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award. In 1996, he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty member, and in 2000 received the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award.
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What sound do turkeys make?
"Gobble gobble!" one girl answers enthusiastically. She's right, of course, but they also make another sound -- a yelping noise that Montgomery County naturalist Ruth King replicated by grating two squeaky pieces of wood against each other.
That's how the mother turkeys call their babies (12 to 16 per litter!), and also how a male turkey will respond if you make loud noises at him.
King was teaching a group of youngsters about the odd-sounding fowl at Norristown Farm Park. The county Parks and Heritage Department holds such events almost weekly, giving residents of all ages a chance to learn about local flora and fauna.
King let the children hold different kinds of turkey feathers and explained how they serve different purposes. "See how these ones are all fluffy?" she said, turning around a large stuffed turkey to show the downy bottom feathers. "That's to keep the bird warm."
The kids were not at all fazed by the taxydermied creature.
"I tell them it's real, but not alive," she said, adding that she doesn't name the models because she doesn't want the children thinking of wild animals as pets.
The kids listened attentively but probably didn't catch all of the anatomy -- carunkles and snoods and waddles.
They perked up a little more when King revealed that turkeys have better eyesight than humans, and they can run faster too. Apparently they can also swim.
After their wildlife lesson, the kids took to the craft table to color and glue their own paper-bag turkeys.
Tom Stralkowski, 65 of East Norriton, was helpful but hands-off as his grandkids worked on their turkeys. He babysits them now that he's retired, and said he often brings them to the park's educational events.
"We've been to quite a few of these," he said, calling it a fun activity for 4-year-old cousins Chase and Joslyn.
Other guardians got more hands-on. "Crunch it, crunch it, crunch it!" one mother joked as her daughter crumpled a piece of paper to use as stuffing.
There aren't many wild turkeys in Norristown Farm Park nowadays, King said. Deer, geese, coyotes and squirrels aplenty, but the turkeys have mostly relocated.
Around the turn of the century, the wild turkey (as opposed to the white-feathered Butterball variety) had been hunted nearly to extinction, King said. Conservation efforts have brought them back, and now there are six subspecies of wild turkey ranging across the United States -- including many places they didn't use to live.
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Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Issue 9, August 2003
Emerging Lesbian Voices
London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
184 pp. ISBN 0-7007-1702-1 Hardback £55/US$90
reviewed by James Welker
The first published book produced by and about the lesbian community in Japan, the collaboratively produced Onna wo Ai Suru Onnatachi no Monogatari [Stories of Women Who Love Women] appeared in 1987, while the first self-published Japanese lesbian newsletters [mini-komi] predate this book by nearly a decade. Further, articles reflecting on the history of and the current nature of the lesbian community have appeared on occasion throughout the 1990s in Japanese publications aimed both specifically at lesbian readers and in those aimed a wider audience, often in special gay-and-lesbian, or specifically lesbian-themed issues. Books by individual authors about lesbian lives began to appear in the early 1990s, and glossy lesbian magazines have been around since the mid 1990s.
Yet, while a number of academic books in English focusing on male homosexuality in Japan have appeared since the late 1980s, until now, lesbianism in Japan has been relegated to an occasional article or book chapter. More commonly, however, female-female homosexuality has been brushed away in brief asides in books and articles about Japanese women or about male homosexuality. It was not until 2000 that Marou Izumo and Claire Maree's memoir Love upon the Chopping Board was published, becoming the first book in English to focus on lesbian lives in Japan.
As the first academic book in English examining Japanese lesbian existence, Sharon Chalmers' Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan has been long overdue. While two valuable ethnographic studies of women who do not identify as heterosexual were published in Japanese in the late 1990s, Emerging Lesbian Voices paints a more in-depth, analytical portrait of the lives of individual lesbians and their ever-changing relationships with themselves, their families, their friends, society at large, and the Japanese lesbian community. Chalmers succeeds in shattering the myth of Japanese lesbian invisibility that has allowed previous English research on 'homosexuality' in Japan to side step an exploration of the realities and complexities of Japanese lesbian lives.
This groundbreaking work is based on interviews Chalmers carried out while living in Japan and participating in lesbian community activities between 1993 and 1994, followed up by interviews in 1998. Rather than providing a series of case studies, Chalmers explores narrative themes using her informants' experiences to vividly illustrate fragments of Japanese lesbian lives. Her informants are, themselves, quite reflective and analytical both about their own lives and about the lives of lesbians and the status of women in Japan in general. In this respect, Emerging Lesbian Voices adds to the growing discourse in Japanese and English which dispels any notion that Japanese women continue en masse to passively and unreflectively accept second-class status in- and outside the home at the hands of the patriarchy. By incorporating recent scholarship on Japan studies and lesbian and queer studies with her informants' analyses of their own experiences, Chalmers manages to create a well-balanced, critical portrait of Japanese lesbian lives.
In addition to offering a few Japanese lesbian voices and experiences to English readers, Chalmers' overview of the lesbian community and its history provides a great deal of information which was previously unavailable in English—or difficult to find. In particular, her friendship with and the extensive cooperation of Kakefuda Hiroko, writer of the groundbreaking 'Rezubian de Aru' to Iu Koto [On 'Being Lesbian'], has enabled Chalmers to share with her readers the ideas of the woman who, through her writing and media appearances, was often seen as the public face of Japanese lesbians in the mid-1990s. Kakefuda's comments add an invaluable critical perspective and counter-balance to the Western lesbian and cultural theory that Chalmers has used in her own discussion.
Emerging Lesbian Voices opens with a look back at lesbian sexuality in the early 20th century, including the influence of European sexologists and the role of the Takarazuka all-women musical review. The focus then turns to an overview of the beginnings of the more organized lesbian community which can be dated back to the late 1960s or early 1970s, predominately centered around the tachi/neko [butch/femme] world of the early lesbian bars and nascent lesbian feminist activist groups.
Chalmers then moves her discussion forward to the past decade to look at how women are able to negotiate their lesbian identities and imported concepts such as kamingu auto [coming out] with the seemingly rigid bounds created by the uchi/soto ['inside'/'outside'] dichotomy—which in Japanese society is considered to be the framework around which are structured individuals' relationships with people inside and outside the groups to which they belong. Throughout the book, in fact, Chalmers illustrates the liminality of the lesbian in Japan. As she explains, 'Although marginalised, Japanese lesbians are neither inside nor outside Japanese society but rather work in a variety of inter-locations within mainstream discourses' (p. 135).
As with the liminal position of the Japanese lesbian, the 'family', however it is constructed, resonates throughout the book. Three chapters specifically examine ways lesbians manage or fail to fit themselves into ever evolving Japanese extended and nuclear families. Indeed the family has both limited and liberated lesbian lives, and some lesbians, in turn, have worked to re-shape and re-create the notion of the family, at least for themselves. Because of the central role the family plays in all aspects of society, for lesbians who do not belong to a socially sanctioned family unit appropriate to their age, as Chalmers shows, unique challenges can arise in, for example, finding and keeping employment, housing and, for lesbian mothers, childcare and navigating the education system.
The last chapters explore the vital roles friendship and community have played in Japanese lesbian lives. Chalmers considers the construction of female friendship in Japan and how lesbians translate this into their friendships with other lesbians. For lesbians with children, in opposition to the 'ryōsai kenbo [good wife/wise mother]' image of Japanese women, their need for socialising plays a major role in their friendships with each other, as opposed to being 'an adjunct to their children's needs' (p. 108). Yet, they remain 'more than aware of how the moral precepts that define the idealised "Japanese family" and "motherhood" might affect their children' (p. 116).
As Chalmers explains, unlike women in the heterosexual sphere, 'lesbians must self-create spaces for "belonging"' (p. 104). Chalmers' informants are a part of the generation which built up lesbian spaces, social networks and a sense of community, affording some women the freedom to explore their same-sex erotic desire and develop a sense of identity. This community now has lesbian organisations, bars and frequent dance parties in a few major cities, a number of publications, semi-annual lesbian weekend retreats, and, in recent years, a proliferation of lesbian information available in Japanese on the Internet. Additional 'snapshots of lesbian visibility' (p. 140) are provided by annual lesbian and gay pride parades, film festivals and other events held in cities such as Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka.
One limitation of the book is the small number of informants and the fact that, as Chalmers explains, her informants, primarily in their late 30s or their 40s at the time of the interviews, only represent the 'first generation of women who accepted lesbian sexuality as part of their conscious subjectivity and one from which they could articulate their understandings and personal experiences' (p. 6). Thus we do not hear from younger lesbians who, like their heterosexual peers, are less and less constrained by social pressure to get married and have children, and who have grown up with access to or at least the possibility of being part of the ever more diverse and vibrant lesbian community. Further, all of Chalmers' informants were either living alone, with their children, or with their partners (p. 10), all presumably within the greater Tokyo area. Thus, unfortunately, we do not hear then from lesbians living with their families, nor married lesbians; nor do we hear about lesbian life in the hinterlands (which is also a problem in Japanese lesbian publications). Rather than seeing this limited focus as a deficiency, however, it is perhaps better to consider this book an exploration of but one loosely defined segment of lesbian life in Japan. As Chalmers herself aptly explains, 'no one lesbian discourse can constitute a transhistorical "Japanese lesbian culture"' (p. 135).
As the first full-length academic study of Japanese lesbian life, Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan makes an invaluable contribution to the fields of lesbian studies, queer studies, and Japan studies and should be of great interest to anyone wishing to more deeply understand the various and multifaceted lives of women in contemporary Japan.
Bessatsu Takarajima, no. 64, Onna wo Ai Suru Onnatachi no Monogatari [Stories of Women Who Love Women], Tokyo: JICC Shuppankyoku, 1987.
For example, the short-lived mini-komi Subarashii Onnatachi [Wonderful Women] 1976; Hikariguruma [Shining Car] 1978; and Za Daiku [The Dyke] 1978. The mini-komi Regumi Tsûshin [Regumi Communication] was first published in 1987 and is still being published today. See 'Komyuniti no Rekishi 1971-2001: Nenpyô to Intabyû de Furikaeru [Community History 1971-2001: Reflecting Back with a Timelines and Interviews]' in Aniisu, Summer 2001: 28-67; in particular the section 'Liberation,' pp. 38-41.
E.g., 'Onna wo Ai Suru Onnatachi no Shinjitsu: Rezubian no Hyaku Nin ga Kataru [The Truth About Women Who Love Women: 100 Lesbians Speak Out],' in Takarajima vol. 289, Feb. 9, 1994: 31-45; Ôya Akiyo, Shirakawa Kayoko, and Nakahigashi Motoko, 'Auto de Aru/ni Naru Koto: Tôkyô rezubian Gei Pareido wo Megutte [Be/Coming Out: Reflections on the Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade],' in Imago, vol. 6, no. 12, Nov. 1995: 52-69; and Izumo Marou, Hara Minako, Tsuzura Yoshiko, and Ochiya Keiko, 'Nihon no Rezubian Mûvumento [Japan's Lesbian Movement],' Gendai Shisô, vol. 25, no. 6, May 1997: 58-83.
The most prominent of these include Kakefuda Hiroko, 'Rezubian de Aru' to Iu Koto [On 'Being Lesbian'], Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1992; Izumo Marou, Manaita no Ue no Koi [Love Upon the Chopping Board], Tokyo: Takarajimasha, 1992; Sasano Michiru, Coming OUT! Tokyo: Gentôsha, 1995; and Ikeda Keiko, Sensei no Rezubian Sengen: Tsunagaru Tame no Kamu Auto [A Teacher's Lesbian Declaration: Coming Out to Connect], Kyoto: Kamogawa Shuppan, 1999.
Two issues of Phryné [Furiine] were published in 1995 and Anise [Aniisu] was published as a quarterly in 1996 and 1997, and started back up as a bi-annual magazine in 2001.
E.g., Mark J. McLelland, Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities, Richmond, UK: Curzon, 2000; Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999; Gary P. Leupp, The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995; and Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'ichi Iwata, The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, trans. D. R. Roberts, London: GMP, 1989.
See Jennifer Robertson, 'Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing "Female" and "Male" in Japan,' in Genders no. 5, Summer 1989: 50-69; Linda May Peterson, 'Rezubian in Tokyo,' in Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World, ed. Julia Penelope and Sarah Valentine, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990, pp. 128-135; Kittredge Cherry, 'Japanese Lesbian Life,' in Oceanic Homosexualities, ed. Stephen O. Murray, New York: Garland Publishing, 1992; Jennifer Robertson, 'Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan,' in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, Autumn 1999: 1-35; Hara Minako, 'Lesbians and Sexual Self-Determination,' in Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement, ed. AMPO-Japan Asia Quarterly Review, Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharp, 1996, pp. 129-132. There are also profiles of lesbian and bisexual women in Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transsexuals, ed. Barbara Summerhawk, Cheiron McMahill, and Darren McDonald, Norwich, VT, USA: New Victoria, 1998.
Marou Izumo and Claire Maree, Love Upon the Chopping Board. This work includes several chapters from Izumo's, Manaita no Ue no Koi, translated into English by Maree, as well as new material.
Sei Ishiki Chôsa Gurûpu [Sexual Consciousness Research Group], Sanbyakujû Nin no Sei Ishiki: Iseiaisha dewanai Onnatachi no Ankeito Chôsa [The Sexual Consciousness of 310 People: A Survey of Women Who Are Not Heterosexual], Tokyo: Nanatsumori Shokan, 1998; and Yajima Masami (ed.), Josei Dôseiaisha no Raifu Hisutorii [Life Histories of Female Homosexuals], Tokyo: Gakubunsha, 1999.
This paper was originally published in Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, with the assistance of Murdoch University.
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Kia cars are built at several different manufacturing plants, the majority of them located in Kia's home country, South Korea. Headquartered in Seoul, Kia Motors is South Korea's second largest automobile manufacturer. Its history dates back to 1944, where it started producing bicycles and steel tubes. In 1952, Kia started producing automobiles, motorcycles and trucks, mostly for the domestic Korean market.
In 1994, two years after the creation of its American arm, Kia Motors America, Kia branded vehicles appeared on the North American market. Since then, the company has consistently expanded its reach from its original Korean market, to markets in North America and Europe.
The first assembly plant in North America was opened in 2006, in West Point, Georgia. Having a domenstic manufacturing foothold helped the company increase production and gain a competitive edge in the market share, with sales surpassing their competitors such as Mazda and Chrysler. Kia also has an assembly plant in Europe, located in Zilina, Slovakia.
Since its debut in the American and European markets, Kia Motors has made significant advancements in both market share and new developments. This placed the previously unknown South Korean car manufacturers amongst the top selling automobile brands in the world.
How Do Kia Sedans Compare to Each Other?
Among Kia cars, there are three basic sedan models: the Kia Forte, Kia Optima and the Kia Rio. All three models come in various trim levels that range from the cheapest base trim up to the most expensive SX trim.
The base trim level option is only available with the Kia Rio, and not the Kia Forte or Kia Optima. With the base trim level option, the Kia Rio comes with a standard transmission and 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine that produces 110 horsepower. The base trim for the Kia Rio does not come with air conditioning. The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for a base trim level Kia Rio is $11,695.
The LX trim level is the entry trim level for the Forte and Optima models and an upgrade from the base trim level for the Rio. With the Rio, the LX trim level offers the same engine as with the base trim. However, the LX trim level offers an automatic transmission rather than a standard transmission option.
This trim level offers a two-liter four-cylinder engine in the Forte and a 2.4-liter engine in the Optima. At the LX trim level, both the Forte and Optima come with five speed electronically controlled Sportmatic transmissions.
The MSRP for a Kia Rio LX is $13,795. For the Kia Forte LX and Kia Optima LX, the MSRP is $14,390 and $18,690 respectively.
The EX trim is the middle level for both the Forte and Optima. The Kia Rio is not available with this trim. At this level, the Forte is available with optional 16-inch tires and a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
With the Optima, the EX trim level offers 17-inch tires and wheels, as well as upgrades for paint packages or the audio system. For Kia sedans equipped with EX, the Forte's MSRP is $15,995 and the Optima's is $20,995.
The SX trim level is the highest trim level available for all Kia sedans. With the Rio, the SX trim level offers an automatic transmission, front fog lights, a body color rear spoiler and metal trimmed accessories. The price for a Kia Rio SX starts at $14,895.
With the Forte, the SX trim offers premium upgrades such as 17-inch alloy wheels, tilt and telescopic steering column, trip computer and front fog lights. The MSRP for a Kia Forte SX begins at $17,495.
The Kia Optima SX offers upgrades similar to those for the Kia Forte. However, the SX version of the Optima also offers a black metal grill, paddle shifters and a larger 2.7-liter engine. MSRP for the Kia Optima SX starts at $21,795.
Kia Spectra Sedan and other High End Kias
The Kia Spectra sedan is a sporty, competitively priced, compact family car with a high level of standard safety equipment. There are several high end Kia models all of which are competitively priced.
The Spectra has a sleek new exterior body, smoother handling and a warranty of 10 years/10,000 miles. It is a better buy than the Hyundai Elantra, the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla or Mazda3, as it has more safety features, better crash safety ratings, higher performance and fuel economy. It also has more horsepower and a longer warranty. Hence, it gives better value for money than other vehicles in its class. The price for the Kia Spectra sedan ranges from $14,500 to $17,500.
This compact sedan is powered by 1,793 cc 1.8-liter front engine, capable of 138 hp at 6,000 rpm. It has a torque of 136 lb-ft at 4,500 rpm and a five-speed manual transmission with an optional four-speed automatic transmission. The vehicle is known for its fuel economy of 24 mpg in the city and 32 mpg on the highway.
It has safety features such as six airbags, side impact door beams, a supplemental restraint system, a tire pressure monitoring system and an anti-lock braking system. These safety features make the Spectra the safest compact sedan on the road. It also has a hipster look with simple and clean lines. Moreover it's practical and spacious and has a high quality cabin. The switchgear is functional. The controls are intelligently laid out and the steering wheel is uncomplicated without any buttons on it. To sum it up, it's a lot of car for not much money, as the Kelley Blue Book describes it.
The Sedona is a minivan with a 10 year/10,000 mile powertrain warranty. It has a 3.8 liter engine capable of 250 hp at 6,000 rpm, a torque of 253 lb-ft at 3,500 rpm and a fuel economy of 16 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway. It can carry seven passengers, and has a towing capacity of 3,500 lbs. However, it's more costly than the Spectra, with a base price of $22,195.
The Amanti is a mid-sized luxury sedan that is silent and powerful. Its base price is $25,500, making it more expensive than the Spectra. Although it has been classed as a luxury car by Kia, its steering wheel feels too thin, there isn't elbow room on the driver's side window, the gauges are small and the air conditioner isn't effective.
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August 7, 2012
I participated in another Connected Learning webinar yesterday. This time it was on Rafi Santo’s ideas around Hacker Literacies. The video is above and here on YouTube.
You should check out the rest at connectedlearning.tv
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3D Animation Workshop
webreference.com --3d animation tutorials and resources
Site contains many links to 3D resources many of which are 3D model sites (with a Sci-Fi bias).
Bob's omniVERSE Links Page
A POV-Ray specific links page maintained by Bob Hughes
3D Design Software and Accessories
Printed Circuit Board design
Computer Graphics Bookmarks
Has a very extensive listing of resources including links to siggraph papers
Cutting edge 3D computer graphics
Keeping you abreast of advances in the field of 3d computer graphics.
Daniel Skarda's Rendering and Graphics Links
This is an extensive collection of links even if a bit disorganized
DMOZ Open Directory of 3D Links
Nice collection of links to 3D resources including POV-Ray.
Dreams and magic links
A comprehensive source of links to 3D materials and activites
Exstream Guide to 3d on the Web
Comprehensive listing of links to 3D resources.
Favorite CG links
Maintained by: Henrik Wann Jensen
Favorite Links of Andrea and Friedrich Lohmueller
Has a nice collection of links to POV-Ray related sites. Also, take time to visit his raytracing and photo gallery - nice stuff
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3D search engine for 3d sites and 3d models
Graphics and 3D Links
Many outdated but a large # of links are listed
Graphics Resources for the Unix Desktop
Larry Gritz's Links Page
Larry is the author of BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools) and also an employee of Pixar who offers the commercial quality Renderman suite of software and brought you Toy Story to the big screen.
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Site contains and excellent section on sites that offer 3D utilities for the Linux platform. Many POV-Ray related resources are listed. Site is in French only.
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Information and links about 3D CAD/Modelling systems for UNIX Operating systems.
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A large list of 3D programs compatible with the Macintosh OS.
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The OpenDWG Alliance is an association of CAD customers and vendors committed to promoting Autodesk AutoCAD's DWG drawing file format as an open, industry - standard format for the exchange of CAD drawings.
Site contains several resources for Bryce and 3D graphics in general. Includes links to free model sites, Poser resources, texture and plugins links, plus others.
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List of links to Internet sites related to POV-Ray (In Spanish). Lista de las principales direcciones de Internet relativas al POV Ray: Libros, tutoriales, objetos, texturas, plug-ins, FAQs, listas de correo, grupos de noticias, etc.
POV-Ray Resources on the Net
POV-Ray Ring Japan
This is the main page of the POV-Ray Web Ring in Japan.
A Directory of Pov-Ray related sites and their content - French based
A web ring dedicated to users of the program POV-Ray
POV-Ray.ORG Links Page
This is the official povray.org links page hosted by the makers of POV-Ray. This is a very comprehensive list of links related to POV-Ray and 3D graphics in general. You are encouraged to contribute links to this site so that it's usefulness to others may grow. Contact email@example.com to contribute links.
Procedural Texture Page
Links to sources of info on Proceedural texturing
Ray Tracing Link Page
List of POV-Ray - Artists, Graphics, Modelling, etc. links
Renderman Links Collection
This link site, posted by DotCSoftware inc. is a collection of every known renderman compliant renderer made, from 1987 to the present.
Freeware, 3D Studio IPAS, POV-Ray, PwrBasic, Gifs, Links & ?
Siggraph 98 Links
Collection of links to Sigraph 98 papers on the web
Large Links section to sites with info on parametric surfaces
Thomas' PoV-Ray Corner
Nice collection of links to POV-Ray users sites, but is dominated by invitations to download SpyWare.
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You hear a lot about data binding in AngularJS, and with good reason: its at the heart of everything you do with Angular. I've mentioned data binding more than a few times in my guides to directives and filters, but I haven't quite explained the internals of how data binding work. To novices, it seems like straight sorcery, but, in reality, data binding is fundamentally very simple.
My directives post seems to have gone over well. I've received emails and comments from readers expressing how much it helped them, so I figured I'd write a post about one of the simultaneously oldest, most useful, and most under appreciated AngularJS features.
Displaying prices in different currencies is a common internationalization task for web developers. However, this task can be a bit tricky:
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In last week's blog post, I showed you how to install all of the basic tools that you need to get up and running with the MEAN Stack. Didn't catch that one and need help getting started with the MEAN Stack? You can find everything you need in Introduction to the MEAN Stack, Part One.
I've received several emails asking for instructions on how to set up a basic MEAN stack app. I'm going to take it one step further and give you guys a two-part post that will walk you through creating your first MEAN stack app- from installing the tools to actually writing the code. In Part One we'll go through the setup and installation process. Next in Part Two we'll walk through the steps for building a very simple to-do list. Part One consists of seven steps, although only the first two are are strictly necessary.
If you've ever tried to build any kind of website, odds are you've had to create some way of validating and saving input from a form. Back in the bad old days this used to be a huge pain, because there were no good frameworks to help get the job done right. The three primary pain points that you have to deal with when trying to validate a form without the aid of a framework are:
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As the season closes I wanted to finish with a story that had an Indian connection. One I’ve slowly tracked down over a year or so. I first come across it many years ago with passing mentions in autobiographies. When I set out to track down the details, it proved something of a challenge. Several sources offered a few morsels and a couple attempted to unmask the hidden past but there does not seem to be a comprehensive record. I have gathered together the detail I have discovered. It’s the story of professional players touring India whilst part of the British Armed Services during the Second World War. Whilst only three Tottenham players were involved I hope your find it and this part of the development of the game in this country interesting.
During the war thousands of servicemen were stationed in the country. Being a long way from both home and the conflict the services encouraged sporting events to keep men active and maintain morale. Local service teams formed their own leagues and these would include ‘local’ teams. The professional players stationed in India were ‘rounded up’ and sent out on goodwill tours of the country ‘performing’ for both military and the local populations. We know at least five tours (possibly more) took place. These tours were planned to avoid the worse of the monsoon weather.
The first tour I could trace was in September - October 1944. With a second one in February - April 1945. Then in September - October 1945 at least two teams toured at the same time. These would some times meet up and play each other. These two teams became known by their captains names. Dennis Compton’s XI and Tommy Walker’s XI. The final tour was in February - April 1946.
Games were scheduled for the evening to avoid the highest temperatures. The games were reduced to 30-35 minutes each way. Pitches throughout tended to be rock hard. The games were played in venues from the bigger sports grounds such as Calcutta FC to sites at little more than clearings big enough for the pitch to be encircled by spectators. One game undertaken By Compton’s team was in Kutupalong on a field said to be 80 yards square. A Tottenham man writing home described the event as being played “On a field where rice was grown and being worse than Tottenham Marshes.”
Some of these games were between the touring players themselves, sometimes against a local unit or one of the local sides. To encourage the troops stationed in the various areas games would often become England V Scotland. That first tour led by Compton started in New Delhi and some games was watched by a crowd as large as 10 - 15,000. That Tottenham letter writer recalled one game at Imphal “Believe me, the boys enjoyed that game more than watching all the ENSA concerts.”
ENSA, was the organization that sent out “concert parties” to entertain the troops. It stood for Entertainments National Service Association and not Every Night Something Awful, as the troops on the receiving end called it.
The tours experienced problems with injuries or players going down with a fever. At one point Compton’s goalie was recalled to the UK and his team did not have a recognized keeper. Another player, (Ashworth of Blackpool) in attempting to catch up with the team flew 1500 miles in five days and upon arrival fell ill. That first tour ended with two games in Calcutta. One V Mohun Bagan and the other V Indian FA XI.
This success led to the other tours and spread to Ceylon. The second tour included Tottenham’s Ted Ditchburn. (2) One player (Lancelotte of Charlton) later wrote “ we flew 30,000 in five weeks. We would drop into the jungle and play a local battalion or we would play England V Scotland where we kicked one another to death.” Compton’s second tour went into the North West . One game in Waziristan in a ‘lawless tribal area’ involved a 130 mile journey by horse drawn carriage. The game was watched by two battalions of men who were all armed ‘in case the locals decided to intervene.’
Other tours were arranged for a hockey team and by boxer Freddie Mills. The Australians sent two cricket teams on similar circuits. Then at the end of 1945 a team of Indian players also toured the country. The Tommy Walker tour of late 1945 included Tottenham’s Bill Whatley. Whatley a full back played for Spurs from 1932 - 1947. Scoring twice in his 254 games for the club and won two
Les Bennett (1) was involved in one of the teams that involved Compton. Although exact details have not been discovered to this date just passing mentions in various books of the time.
The tours certainly achieved their target as Compton wrote 40 years after the war that he still regularly received letters who watched the games.
Dennis Compton was an England test cricketer who also played football and played for England 12 times. Tommy Walker was a Scottish international. I appreciate some of the places may have changed their names since those days I have simply used the place names as they appear in the various sources and as they would have been at the time.
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Relationship between Hjelmslev and De Saussure
He developed a new theory on language coining the word Glossematik (in English, glossematics) the word was partially derived from the Greek "glossa" which means "tongue" or "language") and mathe (“study”)
Glossematics resemble the work De Saussure that language is a form ,not a substance.
Hjelmslev conclude that in language study entails an investigation of linguistic relation independent of phonetics or semantics.
The basic concept of any language in the conventional sense:
According to the prolegomena to a theory of language:
1. A language consist of a content and a expression.
2. A language consist of a succession or a text and a system.
3. Content and expression are bound up with each other through commutation.
4. There are certain definite relations within the succession and within the system
5. There is no one-to-one correspondence between content and expression.
PROLEGOMENA TO A THEORY OF LANGUAGE
• Prolegomena is prefatory remarks or observation.
• His most well-known book, Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse, or in English translation, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, first published in 1943, critiques the then-prevailing methodologies in linguistics as being descriptive and not systematising. He proposed a linguistic theory intended to form the basis of a more rational linguistics and a contribution to general epistemology. Like Ferdinand De Saussere(1857-1913), he accepted language as a system of sign, from the point of view of language use.
• Prolegomena divided to following section. There are:
1.The study of language and the theory of language
• Language is studied as the relation of human characteristic.
• According to Hjelmslev make a prolegomena as an attempt to formulate and find a premises from linguistic to establish the method and to indicate its path.
2.Linguistic theory and Humanism
the object of linguistic is language. As another science, language must have a constancy.
Humanist may object human activities cannot be studied in the same generalized.
Hjelmslev has his own view that it would seem to be generally valid thesis that for everyone process, there is a corresponding system.
3. Linguistic theory and Empirism
• Hjelmslev distinguished glossematic from other linguistic theories on the basis of his “empirical principle”: the description shall be free of contradiction, exhaustive and as simple as possible.
• The name of the principle could be changed, of course, but the requirements are basic to glossematic.
4. Linguistic theory and Induction
• The source of difficulties in previous linguistic theories has been inductive investigation. It cannot ensure a self-consistent and simple description.
• Hjemslev suggested that we start with the data, which impose the opposite direction on the investigator. This method may be termed deduction, even though the use of the term disturbs epistemologists.
5. Linguistic Theory and Reality
• De Saussure had remarked in passing that “ the point of view creates the object .“
• He decided that the term “theory” can be used in more than one way. Hjelmslev pointed out, there are no axioms or postulates, since those required are not peculiar to linguistics but are the sort necessary to any science
6.The Aim of Linguistic Theory
• As hjelmslev understood it, the aim of linguistic theory is to provide a procedural method by means of which object of a premised nature can be described self-consistently and exhaustively.
7. Perspectives of linguistic theory
Hjelmslev required that linguistic investigation begin with a circumstance of the scope of linguistic study. In this approach he relied on the method of Decartes four rules: 1. to accept nothing is true 2. to divided each difficulty I should
8. The System of Definitions
In Hjelmslev’s approach to linguistics definitions play central role, as the method sketched above suggest. Each definition is to be clearly connected with the others that premise it. Operational definitions will also be admitted at various stages of the analysis.
9. Principle of the Analysis
The principle of the analysis is not to vary from one text to the next, an Hjelmslev recalled de Saussure’s saying that “language is a form, not a subtance”, in order to stress the invariable nature of the procedure. This is a movement from class to component until further analyis is no longer possible and is based on this particular conception of what linguistic “form” is.
10. Form of the Analysis
Hierarchies are classes of classes, and there are two main sorts: processes and system. The analysis of these two hierarchies, and the results of the analysis, require distinc terminologies. The analysis of the process is termed a partition. The analysis of a system is called an articulation. The classes within a process are referred to as chains, but the classes in a system are paradigms. The components of chains are called parts, and the components of system are named members. These distinctions are the result of individual analysis, but when analysis is continued, we must discuss the derivates of a class in a hierarchy.
A precise terminologi will required to distinguish and state the kinds of dependences that hold among linguistic items, and Hjelmslev proposed such a terminology in the section called “Function”. A function, then, is a dependence that fulfills conditions for an analysis, so that there is a function between a class and its components. The terminal of a function are called functives, and a functive that is not itself a function will be called an entity.
12. Sign and Figurae
When we consider language in and for itself, we must
Conclude that :
1. Language is first and foremost a sign system
2. But, it is not a pure system
3. It consist ultimately of a system of nonsign,
the figurae which are used to construct sign
13. Expression and Content
De Saussure had allready shown that we cannot consider expression or content alone and arrive at a worthwhile study of language.
We thus recognize in the linguistic content, in its process, a specific form, the content-form, which is independent of, and stands in arbitrary relation to the purport and forms it into a content-substance.
14. Invariants and Variants
Hjelmslev considered that the distinctive factor as the relevant one in registering invariants and for distinguishing between invariants and variants.
15. Linguistic Scheme and Linguistic Usage
Language best compared to bring out their similiarities and differences based on their meaning.The linguistic hierarchy is called the linguistic schema and the nonlinguistic hierarchies, when they are ordered to the linguistic, are called the linguistic usage.
16. Variants in the linguistic schema
Variants in the linguistic schema can be considered free or bound. It is called “combinatory” variants. Bound variants are found in the chain, and they can be called varieties, while the free variants are.
17. Functions and Sum
• A sum is a class that has function to one more classes within the same rank and a syntagmatic sum called a unit and a paradigmatic sum is called a category.
• Functions are always present either between sums or between functions in other words every entity is a sum of variants.
• Syncretism is generally a fusion of two or more forms(for example, different cases) that were originally different.
• Hjelmslev definition about syncretism is in ter of suspension , since “the commutation between two invariants may be suspended under given condition”.
• We call a dominance obligatory and optional dominance can therefore be distinguished, since the obligatory type is found when the dominant, with respect to the syncretism, is a variety and the optional when the dominant is an invariant
• Catalysis is the unexpressed or missing term should be supplied , and the procedure Hjelmslev’ proposed.
• An example of the need for such a procedure, he mentioned the latin preposition since, which occur only with the ablative case.
• Hjelmslev definition of catalysis is thus a registration of cohesion through the replacement of one entity by another to which it has substitution.
20. Entities of the Analysis
The entities that Hjelmslev dealt with are not the same as those treated by other linguist or by traditional grammar. Linguistic theory as he understood it requires us to analyze a text, a method that leads us to recognize the form behind the “substance” which is empirically accessible, and behind the text, a system consisting categories.
21. Language and Non-Language
A language may be defined as a paradigmatic whose paradigms are manifested by all purports’ and a ‘text correspondingly as’ a syntagmatic whose chains. If expanded indefinitely are manifested by all purports
22. Connotative semiotics and Metasemiotics
• A denotative semiotic, it is described a language whose meanings are referential, not connotational, since emotional and stylistic differences of meaning are not included.
• Demotative semiotics is established the connotative semiotic can be related to it and then , a metasemiotic and a metasemiology must be considered
23. Final perspective
• There are two seemingly opposed result of this method of studying language as a set of dependences or as functions between constants and variables.
• Linguistic theory is led by an inner necessity to recognize not merely the linguistic system.
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By Anthony Faiola and Jerry Markon
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, December 8, 2010; A01
LONDON - The detention Tuesday of Julian Assange, the elusive mastermind behind the WikiLeaks Web site, has pulled him from behind his laptop and into the international justice system.
But his potential extradition to face sexual assault allegations in Sweden could significantly complicate any U.S. attempt to quickly try him for releasing thousands of classified documents on the Internet.
Assange, who has been taunting world leaders by revealing sometimes embarrassing U.S. secrets, is now the center of an international tug of war, with his opponents calling him a dangerous agent against state secrecy and his supporters calling him a champion of the public's right to know.
British authorities were holding Assange without bail after the 39-year-old Australian surrendered at a London police station early Tuesday following weeks of living under the radar. He now faces a legal proceeding next Tuesday to fight extradition to Sweden for questioning in connection with the alleged sexual assaults, which he denies.
But to bring Assange to trial on American soil could be increasingly messy. Not only would the United States need to come up with creative charges that may be difficult to prove, it would also have to launch a laborious extradition request with Sweden, a country known for protecting asylum seekers.
In addition, if British authorities grant the Swedish request, Assange would be flown to a country that shares a significantly stricter extradition treaty with the United States. Swedish authorities said Tuesday that they would seriously weigh any request but noted that their treaty with the United States does not cover crimes that are political or military in nature.
"If and when a U.S. request comes, it must be built with some sort of evidence and would be complicated if the same act is not punishable under Swedish law," said Nils Rekke, head of the legal department at the Swedish prosecutor's office in Stockholm. It would also depend, he said, on whether any crime "is considered political or military, which are omitted" from the extradition treaty.
Assange has argued that the allegations against him are politically motivated.
U.S. officials have been investigating whether Assange, as head of WikiLeaks, can be charged for disseminating sensitive documents, including detailed accounts of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and embarrassing personal opinions of world leaders held by U.S. diplomats.
Given the broader extradition treaty Washington enjoys with London, analysts say that going after Assange while he is still on British soil would prove the surer path. Nevertheless, his arrest may not affect the pace of the investigation in the United States, according to U.S. officials and experts on the laws of extradition.
The U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria and the FBI are conducting what Justice Department officials have described as an aggressive criminal probe that sources familiar with the inquiry say could lead to charges under the Espionage Act. But prosecutions under the 1917 act are highly complex, and sources familiar with the investigation have said that no criminal charges are imminent.
U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the probe, indicated Tuesday that they were unlikely to quickly put together a criminal case just to seek Assange's extradition. That could mean that Assange is instead extradited to Sweden to face the sex crime charges there.
One U.S. official said that could give the Justice Department time to decide whether - and how - to bring a criminal case in the United States.
Allen Weiner, director of the program in international and comparative law at Stanford Law School, said that such an outcome "would be lucky for the U.S. government. If we don't want him to be running around the world doing more WikiLeaks type of activity, we will have caught a break if he ends up being arrested, tried and convicted of a completely unrelated crime."
Despite the closing net around the organization's international financial and technical operations, WikiLeaks representatives vowed that Assange's arrest would not interrupt the release of more documents.
"We are on 301, and there are 250,000 secret cables," Mark Stephens, one of Assange's attorneys, told reporters in London. He referred to WikiLeaks' latest cache of State Department documents, the most recent of which was released Tuesday night.
Nevertheless, Assange suffered a blow Tuesday when a judge in Britain, Howard Riddle, denied him bail despite the support and financial backing of noted British personalities, including celebrity heiress Jemima Kahn. While a media horde and a smattering of WikiLeaks supporters gathered outside the courthouse, Riddle said that not only is the nomadic Assange a flight risk, but he is potentially at risk of harm from "unstable persons" if released.
Appearing stoic in a dark-blue suit, Assange told the court that he declined to give fingerprints or DNA samples on the advice of his attorneys, according to accounts from the courtroom. Assange, the court heard, had spent two months living at the Frontline Club, a media watering hole near Paddington Station, though more recently he had been living with a female friend. When asked if he would willingly agree to the extradition, he said he would not.
Though his extradition trial next week could potentially take only a day, legal experts said it could also drag on for weeks. Assange's attorneys are stating their case that there is no need for him to go to Sweden to answer prosecutors' questions, arguing they could interview him through videoconferencing or come to London themselves.
Britain and Sweden, as members of the European Union, share an extradition treaty that is designed for rapid and streamlined dispatching of suspects. Proving a political motivation for extradition may be one way to fend off the Swedish request. But Riddle made it clear that the burden of proof would be high.
"This case is not, on the face of it, about WikiLeaks," Riddle said in the courtroom. "It is an allegation in another European country of serious sexual offenses alleged to have occurred on three separate occasions and involving two separate victims."
On Tuesday, British authorities offered additional details of the thus far murky allegations against Assange in Sweden. During a trip in August, when Assange was scouting out Sweden as a potential new base of operations, a woman alleged that he had unprotected sex with her despite her protests, and that he additionally used his body "to hold her down in a sexual manner."
A second woman, authorities said, alleged that Assange had unprotected sex with her while she was asleep.
Assange has yet to be formally charged; rather, he is still being sought only for questioning by Swedish authorities. If found guilty of the most serious of the allegations, he could face up to four years in jail under Swedish law.
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Glued to their screens, they graze on information without really taking any of it in. This has turned into a cliché of modern life, simply because people are constantly being bombarded with content in the form of ads, blogs, social posts and news articles.
They’ve reached information overload and it’s a content writer’s nightmare. How, then, can this new menace to marketing be defeated and how do we create content which cuts through the noise?
Despite the identification of smartphones, social media, and instant messaging as the chief culprits behind the public’s inability to focus, information overload is by no means a new problem.
Sociologist and structural theorist Georg Simmel wrote in his 1903 essay ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ that a person must develop a “blasé outlook” to cope with the constant influx of sights, sounds, people, products and experiences of the city. This results in a form of numbness which has the effect of a “protective organ against profound disruption”.
Simmel writes: “Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner”. This compels people when encountering fresh information to ask themselves: ‘Do I have time for this? Will this cost me anything? Do I have anything to gain? Is it really worthwhile?’
In response to reduced time and attention spans, people become more calculating, more quantitative and scheduled, and generally less responsive to new experiences or ideas.
Simmel also argues that, to the blasé city dweller, all things appear essentially similar, “in a homogenous, flat and grey colour with no one of them worthy of being preferred to another”. As a result, it becomes difficult for them to differentiate one product or idea from another.
One hundred and seventeen years later, we can now add ‘content’ to Simmel’s long list of things which fatigue people’s attention.
Reassuring as it may be to learn that information overload is no recent phenomenon, the question still remains as to how marketers can generate genuine engagement with their content.
Fortunately, Simmel may have an answer for this too:
In his essay, Simmel argues that, to avoid making people feel like “a single cog [in] the vast overwhelming organisation of things”, the metropolis “places emphasis on striving for the most individual forms of personal existence”. If we apply this insight to marketing, it highlights the need to find ways of making people feel recognised.
Creating content which makes audiences feel as though that it’s genuinely tailored to them as individuals requires research and insight which utilises specialist segmentation and personalisation.
Simmel writes that, with its multiplicity of information and choices, the city creates “the necessity to specialise one’s product”, primarily through differentiation, refinement and enrichment: “the seller must seek to produce, in the person to whom he wishes to sell, ever new and unique needs”.
Marketers, therefore, have to make sure they’re taking the time to make their brand’s message clear and articulate what is truly different about their product if they’re to break through people’s ‘blasé outlook’.
Simmel writes: “where quantitative increase of value and energy has reached its limits, one seizes on qualitative distinctions, so that […] the attention of the social world can be won for oneself”.
Following this observation, then, marketers can draw upon quantitative findings to create concise and useful content, but they also have to find meaningful ways to appeal to people’s messy and illogical feelings – to balance the rational with the emotional.
Simmel’s essay shows us that problems which appear to be brand new are in fact part of the common theme of human experience, and we can utilise thinkers of the past in order to overcome them.
Our job as marketers is to achieve a deep understanding of people’s lives, so we can find ways more personal and emotive ways to reach them.
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Hug Your Cat Day takes place on June 04, 2017. Give your cat or cats a big hug on this day! Hugs from cats and giving hugs to cats will lower a persons blood pressure, or mental goals, such as decreased stress. There is evidence that having a pet can help a person lead a longer, healthier life.
Cats are common pets in Europe and North America, and their worldwide population exceeds 500 million. For cats, life in proximity to humans and other animals kept by them amounts to a symbiotic social adaptation. They may express great affection towards their human companions, especially if they psychologically imprint on them at a very young age and are treated with consistent affection. (With material from: Wikipedia) | <urn:uuid:e91712f6-7d0e-4697-9cac-e1809dba75af> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cute-calendar.com/event/hug-your-cat-day/21635.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00415-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956245 | 145 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The Day of the Dead might seem flippant or mocking on first glance, with its artistic renditions of human and animal skeletons thoroughly enjoying the world of the living. But this Mexican holiday — Dia de los Muertos, which is often celebrated Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 — is about celebrating the lives of loved ones. The settings, clothing, and activities depicted in figurines, paintings, and other works reflect what the individuals did while they were alive.
The themes embodied in these figures (called “muertos”) seemed natural for artist Krissi Sandvik when, in 2006, she was asked to contribute a piece to the annual fundraiser for the Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary in Sacramento.
“The spirit of Dia de Los Muertos — that we remember and celebrate the lives of our loved ones — appealed to me, because animal adoption focuses on the personality of each individual animal to find them the right loving home,” Sandvik says. “I have always loved animals and strongly support pet rescue and adoption, so I was happy to create something for their auction.”
Seeking to add some of her personal aesthetic, she used “a kitschy, 1950s-style, long-necked cat as inspiration.”
Thus Skelekitty was born, and Sandvik’s artistic life was changed.
“I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into when I created that first Skelekitty art quilt,” she says. But a fellow artist, Nik Caesar, did.
“Get ready to make those cats for the rest of your life,” she remembers him saying. “And he was so right!”
Sandvik runs a small business selling her artwork — Skelekitty and some of her pals (including Skelepups) now show up in paintings, prints, art jewelry, and greeting cards. Other items include T-shirts, license-plate frames, and a shot glass. Sandvik sells her own Skelekitty items on Skelekitty.com. Skelekitty fabric is also available on a site called Spoonflower.
“I became fascinated with the Day of the Dead celebration during the 10 years I lived in the Mission” in San Francisco, Sandvik says.
Even though pet adoption and animal care is a serious topic, she says, “Skelekitty definitely represents the lighter side of my personality.” Still, sometimes her pieces lead people to ask, “What does that mean?”
Two of the more enigmatic iterations of Skelekitty that elicit that question are an angel-and-devil image and a mermaid, she says.
Sandvik and her husband have four animals, all of them rescues or adoptions. “Our Russian Blue/Tabby mix, Gracie, was rescued from a local wildlife sanctuary where she and her littermates were dumped in the farm animal corral,” she says.
“Mouse is our Alpha,” she says, “and keeps everyone in line.”
Then there’s the dog, Abby, a Jack Russell Terrier. Sandvik says Mouse is so alpha, she knows the dog’s commands. “If Abby doesn’t follow one, Mouse will swat at her,” she says.
Abby had a rough start.
“We found Abby one day when we were hiking at Sutter’s Mill [the place thought to be where the Gold Rush started in 1848],” Sandvik says, “so we always say we discovered gold there too.”
The fourth animal is neither cat nor dog, but a 60-year-old tortoise named Hercules (otherwise known as “Doodle”).
“He and Abby will often follow each other around the yard or nap in the same spot,” Sandvik says. “Abby is very protective of her tortoise.”
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For the Ministry of Agriculture in Cyprus, LG Sound b.v installed 33 LG Sonic, ultrasonic devices in the Limassol water treatment plant, to prevent bad odour and taste to the water caused by geosmins in the water.
The earthy taste problem persisted during summer of 2010 and various physical, chemical and biological tests were done in order to check the process efficiency, which showed problems at various locations in and outside the plant:
- Physical and chemical tests showed no significant deviation from standard values, except the higher dissolved oxygen in raw water which indicated excessive algal and macrophyte growth. Phytoplankton sample test in June confirmed that raw water had high phytoplankton biovolume.
- Despite that WTP uses chlorination as a common method to deal with bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses - disinfection in this case seems not powerful enough. Upon inspection of the water treatment plant, a significant amount of algae and slimy film were noticed in flocculation chambers and sand filters.
To reduce the volume of algae coming from the main water reservoir as much as possible, LG Sonic devices where installed in the break-pressure tank.
However, the growth of blue-green algae throughout the whole water treatment plant had to be reduced, in order to minimize taste and odour problems. Because a significant amount of blue-green algae and biofilm had been found in the flocculation tanks and sand filters, these parts of the water treatment plant where treated, along with the treated water reservoir, because this is the last stage before the water is being transported.
LG Sonic Technology
The LG Sonic technology controls algae, biofilm and actinomycetes by sending ultrasonic sound waves of several specific frequencies into the water, which control the algae by resonance and sound pressure.
The ultrasound waves will travel through the water reservoir, bringing algal cells in vibration on its path. When brought into vibration these algal cells may rupture leading to the death of the algae.
Biofilm deteriorates under the specific frequencies and bacteria are inhibited to settle to a submerged surface.
After installation of the LG Sonic products in several of the tanks in the treatment plant, a great deal of the taste and odour problems of the treated water was solved. Besides that, in various tanks biofouling was reduced, leading to less maintenance.
After installing the LG Sonic devices in sand filters, these would clog less fast and stay free of biofouling.
Also flocculation processes are improved because due to the ultrasonic soundwaves. Because less growth of algae and biofouling occurs, less chemicals are consumed within the water treatment plant.
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The weeks preceding the Michigan primary were rife with commercials for candidates still in the GOP race for the presidential nominations. Those of us who didn’t fast forward through them on our DVR’s may have noticed that very few of them were actually endorsed by the candidate. Instead, the ads were paid for by mysterious political action committees.
Most of the ads were attack ads, but told viewers few solid reasons they should not vote for the person the ad was attacking. Even the positive ads basically just said “Vote for me, because the other guy is a schmuck.” Few real issues were addressed, and gave voters little idea about what the candidates stood for.
Welcome to political advertising in 2012. What makes this year so much different than any other election year in the past? Citizens United v. FEC.
Citizens United was a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2009 that essentially declared that corporations and unions have the same first amendment rights as regular citizens, and therefore can spend as much money as they want on any political campaign they desire.
Since that time, our elected representatives have been paying less and less attention to the needs of their constituents. Simultaneously, they have been paying equally increasing attention to the needs of their top contributors, corporations and unions.
It’s no surprise that this has become the case. If your job security depends on name familiarity brought about by advertising, you would definitely listen to the contributor of, say, a million dollars to your campaign (i.e. a corporation or a union) versus the contributor of a hundred dollars (i.e. Joe the Plumber).
This is really great for the owners of a corporation, but what about the average person who wants to lobby Congress? They can do their homework, come prepared, and make an astounding case, but all the corporation or union has to do is come in and say “Gee, I’m one of your top campaign contributors. It really would be a shame to have to give that money to someone else.” Chances are, the average member of Congress is going to put Joe the Plumber’s $100 and the corporations $1 million on a balance and see which side weighs the most on their campaign.
Even our local elections are tainted by huge sums of anonymously donated cash plunked into funds that were used to pay for vacations, spa treatments, and most recently to pay for legal defense. I would talk about the no-bid contracts and extortion scams that have resulted from this, but then I’d be writing the first blog book.
One of the Court’s main arguments in Citizens United is that corporations and unions are groups of individuals and therefore must be treated like individuals in their guarantee of their First Amendment rights. However, I maintain that the very fact that they are groups of individuals exempts the corporation as a singular entity from First Amendment rights unless it is used for the express purpose of advertising their products.
Corporations and unions do not take into account the individual rights of their shareholders/members. When a decision is made about whose campaign to deposit dollars into, neither the workers nor the shareholders are contacted.
Indeed, it is most often the decision of a board of directors as who whose campaign represents the corporation’s/union’s interests. Therefore, people who are members of these entities may be paying for advertising they don’t approve of, which undermines their individual First Amendment rights.
Fortunately, the nation is waking up to the fact that we the people are being outspent by we the corporations/unions. The nation seems to realize that corporations/unions are getting their way simply by virtue of the amount of money they spend on elections. Most importantly, the nation is DOING something about it.
Already, 13 resolutions have passed state legislatures calling for an amendment to the Constitution that would forever limit corporate spending and overturn Citizens United. We need 2/’3 of state legislatures to call for a convention to amend the Constitution, so the work is just starting.
We need to seize control of our nation’s elections from the clutches of corporations and unions. We need to tell them and our elected representatives that a government by the people and for the people is not just for the 1%. It’s for everyone.
Visit http://www.resolutionsweek.org/ to find out how you can get involved in passing a resolution here. Forward the link to all of your friends, especially those who live out-of-state and tell them they can do something about corporate spending in public elections. The time to act is now, before we are living in the United Corporate States of America. | <urn:uuid:b8462ce2-7f41-433c-9f62-461e3f7fa80a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.noizenews.com/archives/6617 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00308-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978399 | 965 | 1.625 | 2 |
Truancy sweeps are an ineffective use of police resources and
most of the children stopped are not truanting, a new report
The survey of 120 councils, carried out by the children’s rights
organisation Action on Rights for Children, finds each police
officer took 82 minutes to pick up a truant, during sweeps carried
out last autumn.
It says more than 16,000 hours of police time are spent on
truancy sweeps each year – equivalent to annual working hours of 10
full-time police officers.
Terri Dowty, director of Arch, said figures were often quoted
for the total number of children stopped, incorrectly implying that
they were all truants.
“Sweeps may give the impression that something is being done
about truancy, but the misleading figures that are bandied around
only mask the fact that the truancy sweep initiatives are having no
effect on children who are missing out on education,” she said.
The charity called for resources to be switched to tackling the
causes of persistent truanting.
Stephen Mason, president of the National Association of Social
Workers in Education, said truancy sweeps raised the profile of
school attendance but did not tackle entrenched truanting.
“I would support investment [in sweeps] being given to dedicated
support for entrenched young people,” he said.
Charles Clark, the lead on youth matters at the Association of
Chief Police Officers, defended the use of police resources, saying
it “seemed like money well spent”.
A Department for Education and Skills spokesperson said that the
government “made no apology for taking a tough line on pupil
Meanwhile, a separate study has found that rates of unauthorised
absence have not changed in 10 years and permanent exclusions have
risen by 20 per cent since 2000, despite the government spending
more than £1bn on tackling poor attendance and challenging
The study, which was produced by New Philanthropy Capital, a
charity that advises donors on how to give more effectively, says
the government is hampered by the tension between being seen to be
tough on poor behaviour and the needs of all pupils.
- How Effective Are Truancy Sweeps? from Arch, tel: 020 8558
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A panel of former U.S. and foreign diplomats specializing in African affairs expresses hope that a peace deal being negotiated between the Sudanese government and a key rebel group will translate to peace throughout Sudan. The conclusion comes during a meeting in Washington Friday at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
The former ambassadors and experts on Africa say they are optimistic about an agreement signed Friday between the Sudanese government and the south's main rebel group, Sudan People's Liberation Movement. Khartoum and the rebels are vowing to reach a final peace agreement by the end of this year.
George Ward, former U.S. ambassador to Namibia, said the settlement could end the 21-year civil war between Sudan's mostly Muslim north and Christian and animist south. But he said it could also translate to a resolution in western Sudan's Darfur region, where government-backed Arab militias have been attacking black Sudanese, creating a humanitarian crisis. "This elusive final settlement being negotiated in Kenya under the auspices of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, includes power sharing, wealth sharing and other agreements that many feel will help to resolve the crisis in Darfur, as well as to prevent further violence in other parts of Sudan," he said.
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker said the negotiations between Khartoum and the rebel group provide an example of how to involve marginalized people in the peace process, as would be necessary in Darfur. He also said the new power-sharing government called for in the agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement would include rebel leader John Garang.
Mr. Crocker said he could be instrumental in ending the humanitarian crisis. "I cannot imagine John Garang joining a process where he's going to let Darfur continue to be managed the way it's now being managed by Khartoum. He's just not going to do it. If he sits at that table, he's going to make a difference," he said.
The most promising moment of the conference came when Steven Wondu, a rebel spokesman, stepped up to the microphone and explained that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement is committed to peace and is working on the details of a peace agreement. "We are committed to this. We signed an addendum this morning and at this point we are considering, we are now discussing among ourselves as to whether we should not take those agreements to our national liberation council for ratification, even as discussion continues on the annexes. So we are very focused on this and we are very serious about it," he said.
The civil war in Sudan, raging since 1983, has claimed an estimated two-million lives. World attention has recently turned to a separate conflict in the country's Darfur region, where tens-of-thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.5 million people have fled their homes since 2002. | <urn:uuid:909b0532-7718-496c-93ac-6d675bb3ec26> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2004-11-20-voa3/304648.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00313-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972604 | 601 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Jeremy Cothran, sensor web innovator, has been hard at work making it easier for ocean data platform operators to georeference their online data in Google Earth. He’s managed to automate the process by turning it into a free HTTP web service. Jeremy Explains:
I’ve put together a google based visualization tool for a basic observation catalog visualization via kml/google earth. Folks can either download and modify the base scripts or use it as an http service which when supplied a basic CSV file and observation types list produces a KML file. More technical details are listed here. [Just cancel out of the password request, twice.]
Might be useful for encouraging/engaging other observation systems to list their assets via KML. We are struggling as a community to provide some consistent metadata (xml schemas, controlled vocabularies/codelists, web services) across our organizations and I’m hoping KML and its easy visualizations can help provide some incentive (a carrot) towards this.
Here is a sample by Jeremy of his web service (hover over the link to see its guts), made from two referenced content files. Very smooth indeed. And so is this: That exact same link can be pasted into Google Maps to produce a Maps version of the KML. I’m still amazed Google Maps can do that. It doesn’t get much easier than this:-) | <urn:uuid:7c1680a7-a563-4a9c-bc8a-3bcd8cdfe1c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ogleearth.com/2006/07/got-sensor-web-put-it-in-google-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00557-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892455 | 294 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Total Knee Replacement
Knee joint replacement is one of the most successful operations in orthopaedic surgery. About 300,000 total knee replacements are performed per year in the United States and about 80000 in the UK. Long-term successful outcomes have been reported with most current designs of total knee replacements. Over 90% of patients have excellent relief of pain, good mobility, and the ability to return to most of their normal activities of daily living. Patient satisfaction is high (90%) after total knee arthroplasty and 93% of patients would have this operative procedure again. There are still concerns about the degree of functional improvement in TKRs and hence newer designs in knee replacements are attempting to improve kinematics and flexion. There are also a small percentage of patients with unexplained knee pain after TKRs.
Pain not resolving with routine analgesic medication is the main indication for TKR. Walking distance, functional limitations and night pain are also useful guides in deciding to proceed to surgery. Age, threat to independence, ability to work and care of dependents can also influence decision. Presence of arthritis on x-rays alone is not an indication for replacement surgery. Absolute contraindication to TKR is the presence of local or systemic infection. Patient dissatisfaction with TKA is mainly due to inadequate preoperative information and varying expectations from the replaced knee.
What About Delaying Surgery
In most situations there is no harm in delaying surgery. In occasional circumstances bone loss or progressive deformity especially in the valgus knee or prolonged immobility can affect the technical difficulty of total knee replacement or the postoperative recovery.
Age and TKR
Patients often perceive that Total knee replacement can only be offered when they are 60 years or above. There are no strict age criteria. Extremely young patients with juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis can require TKR at a young age due to multiple joint involvement and disability. Previous trauma, previous meniscectomy, significant malalignment or genetic factors can cause osteoarthritis in young patients requiring TKR. Unicompartmental knee replacements and osteotomies have to be considered in young patients with osteoarthritis prior to consideration of TKA. There are also special considerations of implant design in such active athletic patients needing total knee arthroplasty.
Design Options for TKR
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|Symmetric condyles vs. medial pivot knee|
|ACL + PCL retained||ACL + PCL retained|
Planning a Knee Replacement
Surgical approach to total knee replacement
Video of midvastus approach
Techniques in balancing a total knee replacement
Controversies in Total knee arthroplasty
Femur first or tibia first
To resurface the patella or not
Posterior cruciate substitution or not
Minimal invasive knee replacement
Infection– In a study on 69663 medicare patients, infection incidence within 2 years was 1.55%. The incidence between 2 and up to 10 years was 0.46%.
Wound problems– swelling, scar sensitivity, numbness around scar, haematoma, delayed healing
Knee joint– stiffness, residual pain, instabilty, polyethylene wear, loosening
Patella– pain, maltracking, extensor mechanism rupture or fracture
Peripheral– Nerve injury (common peroneal N), blood vessel injury extremely rare
General– Deep Vein Thrombosis involving proximal veins is about 5-10%. The rate is lower than that for Total Hip replacement. Serious Pulmonary embolism risk is less than 0.5%. There is a small risk of chest or urinary tract infection, heart attacks or strokes. | <urn:uuid:1a6c018e-4d13-4247-bf02-e38d6cb9c562> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kneejointsurgery.com/arthritis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.873389 | 916 | 2.15625 | 2 |
“Grazing Improvement Act” a Misnomer
|October 28, 2011||Posted by russmead under Wild horses and burros|
Federal Senate Bill 1129 is akin to the kid who has been handed a plate of cookies and then demands the entire batch.
It is no secret that grazing rights on America’s public lands represent a substantial giveaway of taxpayer money largely to big corporations.
The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service which manage the public lands, currently charge only $1.35 per cow and calf for grazing on public lands. As conservation groups told President Obama last year, that translates to an astonishing taxpayer subsidy of "$132 million each year, and independent economists have estimated the true cost at between $500 million and $1 billion dollars a year." This even though livestock grazing on public lands provides only 3% of beef produced in the U.S. More than that, the artificially low fee in no way provides the revenue necessary to take steps to mitigate the damage and restore the ecosystems of public lands destroyed as a result of livestock grazing.
The conservation groups also say the program "incentivizes destructive grazing practices".
"The Government Accountability Office reported in 2005 that the BLM loses $46.5 million every year administering its grazing program. This is equal to 5 percent of the agency’s 2011 budget request. The Forest Service loses at least $69.5 million dollars a year on its grazing program. This is more than 1 percent of its 2011 budget request."
But now, those that control these valuable grazing rights want more. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) has introduced S.B. 1129 under the misnomer, "Grazing Improvement Act of 2011".
The bill would amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.
The bill would broadly exempt any "renewal, reissuance, or transfer of a grazing permit or lease" from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") if the "current grazing management" continues. This means there would be no environmental assessment required for the continued use of an allotment on public lands for grazing.
Even renewals, reissuances or transfers that contain modifications of grazing permits or leases are exempt if the changes are "minor", whatever that means, and (1) the federal agency believes the "current grazing management has met, or has satisfactorily progressed towards meeting, objectives contained in the land and resource management plan" and (2) "the decision is consistent with the policy of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture, as appropriate, regarding extraordinary circumstances".
The agencies could allow grazing to continue pending appeals of a decision by a permittee.
The 10 year period for a grazing permit or lease would be extended to 20 years.
It would be up to the agency’s "sole discretion" to determine the priority and time for completing any environmental analyses required. The decision would be based on the "environmental signifcance" of the land and funding.
This bill would eliminate any accountability for environmental damage by grazing permittees and would mean they would continue to occupy public lands with even more rights at the same low price, all at taxpayer expense.
Go here for more on NEPA and a lawsuit brought last year that highlighted the difficulty already of getting the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to obtain environmental assessments, set appropriate fees, limit grazing or really do anything to protect public lands from overgrazing by cattle.
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If they are socialized enough, they get along well with dogs and pets. They are not moderate to strangers and do not hesitate to protect their family. They usually get along well with children, but should be careful when they spend time with very young children. Any movement that young children can do may harm them.
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Investigation on the photoconductive behaviors of an individual AlN nanowire under different excited lights
© Liu et al.; licensee Springer. 2012
Received: 12 July 2012
Accepted: 27 July 2012
Published: 11 August 2012
Ultra-long AlN nanowire arrays are prepared by chemical vapor deposition, and the photoconductive performances of individual nanowires are investigated in our self-built measurement system. Individual ultra-long AlN nanowire (UAN) exhibits a clear photoconductive effect under different excited lights. We attribute the positive photocurrent response of individual UAN to the dominant molecular sensitization effect. It is found that they have a much faster response speed (a rise and decay time of about 1 ms), higher photocurrent response (2.7×106), and more reproductive working performance (the photocurrent fluctuation is lower than 2%) in the air environment. Their better photoconductive performances are comparable to many nanostructures, which are suggested to be a candidate for building promising photosensitive nanodevices in the future.
KeywordsUAN Photoconductive behaviors Different wavelengths of illumination
Nanomaterials are very suitable for photosensitive device applications because their large surface-to-volume ratio and nanometer size are more sensitive to light illumination than in bulk materials. In recent years, many semiconductor nanostructures, such as In2Se3 nanobelt, ZnSe nanowire, CdS nanobelt, and ZnO nanowire[1–4], have been used to fabricate nanoscale photosensitive devices. However, most of the nanostructures are observed to have a low photocurrent response of <102 and a slow response time of >1 s, which cannot meet the basic requirement for practical application in photosensitive devices. Therefore, researchers have been looking for new nanomaterials as candidates.
As one of the important III-V semiconductors, AlN nanostructures have been paid much attention in recent years. It is known that AlN nanostructures have the same high thermal conductivity (K ~ W/m·k), high melting point over 2,300°C, and large direct bandgap (6.28 eV)[5–8] as those of their bulk materials, which are suggested that they should be the promising fundamental blocks in building nanoscale optoelectronic devices. Although there have been many research groups focusing on the synthesis methods of AlN nanostructures, a few reports are devoted to investigate their photoconductive performances. There are a series of difficulties existing in the research of the photosensitive properties of AlN nanostructures, which can be described as the following: (1) AlN nanostructures with uniform morphology are hard to synthesize in large scale; (2) AlN nanostructures have poor conductivity of about 10−8 to 10−6 Ω−1·cm−1 in most reports[9–11], which is too low to be applied on optoelectronic nanodevices in general; and (3) AlN nanostructures have relatively lower lengths (<2 μm) in many experiments, which is too difficult to manipulate for nanodevices. To promote the rapid development of AlN nanomaterials in photosensitive applications, the researchers must solve these difficulties in advance.
Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of ultra-long AlN nanowire (UAN) arrays by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The photoconductive behaviors of individual UAN under different excited lights are compared together. Moreover, their photoconductive mechanism is illustrated by a combination of two existing models.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (Tecnai-20, Philips Tecnai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) (RINT 2400, Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) techniques were used to research on the crystalline structures of UANs. Their optical property measurements were performed on a HITACHI F-4500 type spectrophotometer (Hitachi High-Tech, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) with a 325-nm He-Cd laser as the excitation source. In addition, the working performance of a single UAN under different excited lights was investigated in our self-built measurement system.
Results and discussion
where E is the photon energy, h is the Planck constant (6.63 × 10−34 J·s), γ is the frequency of the emission light, c is the light velocity (3×108 m/s), and λ is the wavelength of the emission light. Hence, the peak at 371.8 nm corresponds to the energy level of 3.34 eV in the bandgap; the peak at 413.8 nm comes from the energy level of 3.01 eV, and the peak at 450.6 nm is from the energy level of 2.76 eV, based on this calculation method. According to the reports of other researchers[16–18], the weak ultraviolet light peak centered at 371.8 nm and the blue light emissions at 413. 8 nm should be attributed to the existence of oxygen impurities in the nanowire. In general, the oxygen atoms substitute for nitrogen sites in the lattice, and they usually form the oxygen point defects,, nitrogen vacancies (VN), and complexes[19–21]. Their corresponding energy levels should be located in the mid gap of AlN nanowires, which result in the formation of the two PL peaks. The oxygen contents are suggested to have two possible sources: one is that the oxygen atoms can be released from the quartz tube used in the high-temperature growth process, and the other possibility is that the oxygen atoms are absorbed on the surface of the nanowire after the sample is removed from the preparation vacuum chamber. In our experiment, the 450.6-nm peak is related to the N vacancy due to the nonstoichiometric composition in the reaction[18–21]. The broadening of the PL spectrum of the AlN nanowire ascribes to the oxygen-related defects and the surface adsorbents. Because the deficiency of oxygen or nitrogen leads to the formation of the deep donor or acceptor levels in the AlN bandgap, the photo-generated electrons and holes simultaneously occur in the conduction band and the valence band under illumination of a 325-nm light. The deep donor levels can provide the recombination centers for these carriers in the energy gap of AlN, and radiative luminescence will be found in the PL measurement, as observed in Figure3c.
The work function of the Cr electrode is about 4.6 eV, which is higher than that of the AlN (3.8 eV). Thus, the Schottky barrier should occur when they are built in nanometer devices, which induces that their I V curves exhibit nonlinear relationships. Based on the improved metal-insulator-vacuum (MIV) model in our recent work, the I V curves at high voltage can reflect the native conductive behaviors of the nanowire because the Schottky barrier at high applied voltage will be tunneled through and will decrease much lower than the intrinsic resistance of the nanowire. In our measurement, the photocurrent at high voltage is almost proportional to the applied voltage, which proves that the photosensitive process of individual UAN under illumination should obey the improved MIV model. In other words, the photosensitive performance to several wavelengths of light resulted from single AlN nanowire rather than the Schottky barrier.
Comparison of the room-temperature photoconductive performance of single UANs with other nanostructures
Operation voltage (V)
The ratio of photocurrent to dark current (IP/ID)
Detector current responsivity (R λ ) (A/W)
Device stability fluctuation
Approximately 20 μs
Approximately 50 s
Approximately 1 s
Approximately 1 ms
In this research
UANs with length over tens of micrometers have been successfully fabricated in a large area by CVD method, and they are integrated into nanometer photoconductors by a simple ultraviolet photolithography technique. Individual UANs are found to have good photoconductive behaviors under some given excited lights, such as a faster response time of about 1 ms, higher photosensitivity (20), and more stable working performance. Their photosensitive mechanism is attributed to the combination of the molecular sensitization effect and the two-center recombination effect. UANs should be a very good candidate in photosensitive applications if their optical properties can be further controlled by element doping.
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Federal Report Outlines a State of Emergency that Demands Immediate and Decisive Action
Statement by Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation
The U.S. Global Change Research Program released a long-awaited, comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change impacts in the United States in June, 2009. It presented the first nationwide snapshot of our vulnerability to climate change since 2001 and represents the best available climate science in the United States. The report includes findings based on various global emissions scenarios which reflect a relatively rapid transition to a clean energy future versus business as usual reliance on fossil fuels.
On its release, Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of National Wildlife Federation said, “This report spells out a state of emergency for every state in the U.S., one that demands immediate and decisive action. If we had an enemy threatening public health, damaging our water supplies, bringing scarcity of water and food, and wreaking havoc on our coasts there is no question we would be at war.”
The report was released during a critical year for climate action. The House passed a comprehensive bill before breaking for its Independence Day recess, and the U.S. will play a decisive role in international climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen in December. Schweiger said the report was an urgent call to action: “We cannot hesitate to mobilize swiftly and decisively. If we act, the impacts and cost will be less severe.”
Among the report's key findings:
Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.
Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. (p. 13)
Climate changes are underway in the United States and are projected to grow.
Climate-related changes are already observed in the United States and its coastal waters. These include increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice-free seasons in the ocean and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt, and alterations in river flows. These changes are projected to grow. (p. 27)
Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase.
Climate changes are already affecting water, energy, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, and health. These impacts are different from region to region and will grow under projected climate change. (p. 41-106, 107-152)
Climate change will stress water resources.
Water is an issue in every region, but the nature of the potential impacts varies. Drought, related to reduced precipitation, increased evaporation, and increased water loss from plants, is an important issue in many regions, especially in the West. Floods and water quality problems are likely to be amplified by climate change in most regions. Declines in mountain snowpack are important in the West and Alaska where snowpack provides vital natural water storage. (p. 41, 129, 135, 139)
Crop and livestock production will be increasingly challenged.
Agriculture is considered one of the sectors most adaptable to changes in climate. However, increased heat, pests, water stress, diseases, and weather extremes will pose adaptation challenges for crop and livestock production. (p. 71)
Coastal areas are at increasing risk from sea-level rise and storm surge.
Sea-level rise and storm surge place many U.S. coastal areas at increasing risk of erosion and flooding, especially along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Pacific Islands, and parts of Alaska. Energy and transportation infrastructure and other property in coastal areas are very likely to be adversely affected. (p. 111, 139, 145, 149)
Threats to human health will increase.
Health impacts of climate change are related to heat stress, waterborne diseases, poor air quality, extreme weather events, and diseases transmitted by insects and rodents. Robust public health infrastructure can reduce the potential for negative impacts. (p. 89)
Climate change will interact with many social and environmental stresses.
Climate change will combine with pollution, population growth, overuse of resources, urbanization, and other social, economic, and environmental stresses to create larger impacts than from any of these factors alone. (p. 99)
Thresholds will be crossed, leading to large changes in climate and ecosystems.
There are a variety of thresholds in the climate system and ecosystems. These thresholds determine, for example, the presence of sea ice and permafrost, and the survival of species, from fish to insect pests, with implications for society. With further climate change, the crossing of additional thresholds is expected. (p. 76, 82, 115, 137, 142)
Future climate change and its impacts depend on choices made today.
The amount and rate of future climate change depend primarily on current and future human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases and airborne particles. Responses involve reducing emissions to limit future warming, and adapting to the changes that are unavoidable. (p. 25, 29)
The National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.
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Office desks have been used by people for a very long time. They are used, not only for work, but also to keeping things, and add to the beauty of a room. Most offices need a number of desks. When office desks are needed in large numbers, it is always better to buy them from wholesale stores. Office desks of different models and types are available in the market now days.
Usually, office desks that are sold in the wholesale market are offered, at discount rates to attract the interest of prospective buyers. The wholesale companies, sell a large quantity of a product in a single sale and hence they get better profits, even after offering discounts. Besides, the discounts placed on wholesale purchase, ensure that the individual or store buying wholesale gets a better bargain. Some times wholesalers also offer discount on office desks in order to sell off their old stock to make place for newer models.
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Other than wholesale stores, a good place to buy office desks wholesale are home trade shows. If a customer places an order, the dealers on the show offer a wholesale price, on the spot. They do so because on the spot offers, relieve them of the problem of storing their merchandise, as they can directly unload the product at the customer’s office.
People can also search for wholesale office desks on the Internet. Now days, wholesale desk dealers are offering office desks, on the Internet at wholesale prices, even for single purchases. This is possible because business done over the net needs very low overhead expenses. People favor this type of a purchase as these sales can be carried out online. Also most of these sales come with a money back guarantee, if the client finds defects in the merchandise or is not satisfied with it. Some wholesale companies also allow customers to personally inspect the office desks before making a purchase.
Used Office Desks
A desk has been used by people for a very long time, and is a necessary piece of furniture in most offices. Many of the offices in schools, hospitals, and most business concerns, require large number of desks at cheap rates. In such cases, it is a better option to buy used office desks, as these come at cheaper rates and hence will be more affordable.
A large number of used office desks can be bought at cheap prices from secondhand stores,flee markets or garage sales. Most such office desks are made of wood, metal, or plastic. The cost may vary depending on, the material of the desks, the number, and the model of the make.
A number of stores also specialize in selling used office desks on both, wholesale and retail basis. When bought wholesale, these stores provide larger discounts on the sales, as they get a better profit on selling a large number of desks in a single sale.
Customers who buy such used office desks should be very careful. These used office deskscan be defective. Wooden desks may be moth eaten, or be damaged due to termites, while metal desks may have rust on them. It would be a smart option to inspect, any piece of used desk that a customer wishes to buy.
The Internet is a very good source to search for used office desks. A large number of stores selling used office desks advertise their wares online. Most of these stores have large supplies of different kinds of desks such as U-sahped, L-shaped, and executive desks.
Some stores sell antique desks that can be used in an office. Most of these desks, usually cost a fortune. These are usually bought in single pieces as they are very expensive and rare and are not usually available in large numbers. Such desks are sold, at antique auctions and people buying these antiques should make sure that, they are buying authentic furniture which comes with proper certification papers.
Office Desks Prices
An office desk is required in most offices in large numbers. Buying office desks can be confusing, as they are available in different price ranges. There are a number of factors which contribute to the price of a desk, such as the material used, the quality of the material used, the model of the desk, the type of desk, the number of desks and so on.
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Office desks are usually made of wood, laminate, plastic and metal. Wooden desks are the costliest. The cost of desks made of wood varies depending on the the type of wood used. Usually these desks are made of rosewood, teak, cherry, oak, maple, birch, mahogany, and walnut.
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A large number of furniture stores selling office desks, have price catalogues which will give detailed information about, the cost of the different kinds of desks sold in their stores. Most of these store have sites on the Internet that also provide this information. These sites not only allow customers to browse through their merchandise but also allow them to place orders online. Desks are sold at lower costs on the internet as the overhead charges are very low. Other than stores and the net, desks can be bought at home trade shows and at wholesale outlets. The price of desks when bought from such places tend to be lower, than when bought from a retail store.
In some cases, when customers need the desks to be delivered to them , they will have to pay extra to make up for the delivery charges. Most stores charge, a little extra if the delivery has to be made within a short period.
Business Office Desks
A desk is an important piece of furniture in most offices. Most people go to a lot of trouble to select their business office desk. Business office desks are usually made of wood, laminate, plastic or metal. Some people also go for glass or granite office desks. The price of the office desks varies depending on the material used, and wooden desks are the most expensive of the lot. Thye are usually made of hardwoods such as rosewood, teak, cherry, oak, maple, birch, mahogany, and walnut.
Business office desks are available in different models like mission model, antique model, and queen anne model. Separate desks which are used to house laptops and computers are also available in the market.Business office desks are available in different types such as L-shaped desk, U-shaped desk, executive desk, conference or board room desks, training or meetingdesks, reception desk and foldable desks.
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Since well pumps undergo rigorous work, they often malfunction. The only solution is to call for an efficient repair service in Napa. Look for a company with strong experience in the field. In fact, look
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Ron Schott is hosting the latest Accretionary Wedge. He is asking us to recall the most memorable/significant geologic event that we have directly experienced. I have lived my life in very geologically stable places so this topic may seem a bit odd as my first entry for the Accretionary Wedge. There has been some neo-tectonic activity with small earthquakes in Namibia and the Western Cape, South Africa, but I have not felt any. There was also apparently an earthquake near Cape Town in my first year at university. I didn't feel that one either. I have traipsed across active faults and volcanoes but fortunately non ruptured or erupted while I was there. The youngest volcano I've lived next to is Regenstein, on the outskirts of Windhoek, and that last erupted in the early tertiary (the only age I can find; Pirajno, 1994) and is extinct. When it comes to geologic hazards, I have lived a sheltered life.
My sister-in-common-law and her husband used to live in Christchurch. It was scary when we couldn't contact them during the 22-Feb-2011 earthquake. Fortunately they were ok, although, their office buildings have been either demolished or condemned. There was a slim chance that we would be spending this christmas in Christchurch. However, they moved the week before we arrived in New Zealand. They now live on the North Island and I am charged with keeping them abreast of volcanic developments. My Partner was in Christchurch for the boxing day earthquake 2010 and in Brisbane during the floods in January 2011 (he just missed the cyclone). Me? I was in nice, stable and politicians aside, non-crazy Southern Africa. Windhoek, Namibia to be precise. What could I possibly experience in Windhoek that would fit the guidelines of Accretionary Wedge #41?
Windhoek is supposed to have an average rainfall of about 350mm per year. Normally we are grateful for rain. We might even consider investigating the merits of rain-dancing. When Windhoek rivers flow many (most?) people in Windhoek go down to the banks to watch the standing waves go by and children play in the parts flowing slowly. Summer in Windhoek, you see, is usually hot and dry.
|The hills on the southern edge of Windhoek. December 2010|
|Not very green and not much grass to speak of. December 2010. Jill Russell |
(aka Jilly Bean) smiling at the camera
In January last year it was different. Last year we had 383.6mm of rain in January alone. By the start of winter Windhoek had had over 1000ml of rain! By the start of winter we were all rather damp and sick of rain. Our roads were full of pot-holes and in some cases washed away all together. There are three bridges, I know of, across the Klein Windhoek River, Windhoek's main river. The roads the river crosses tend to be added to its sediment load.
This unusual rainfall occurred across the country. There was flooding in the North. The Sesriem Canyon was full of water and Sossusvlei was flooded in the South. I spent a weekend in Henties Bay. It rained on our first night. Henties Bay is in the desert. Rivers in Windhoek and across Namibia were still flowing in May. Unheard of! Then in winter it actually snowed. Just a dusting in Windhoek and a bit heavier in the South. It last snowed in Namibia in about 1995.
|Exactly the same slope as the first picture. January 2011|
|The hills on the southern edge of Windhoek, January 2011|
And there you have it the most significant earth science related event I have experienced directly, to date. As for Windhoek? So far this summer has been business as usual, piping hot and dry, with all the people I know in Windhoek looking at the sky, searching for the welcome glint of a cloud.
Pirajno, F. 1994. Mineral resources of anorogenic alkaline complexes in Namibia: A review. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, pp. 157-168.
More photos from Windoek. These are of Avis Dam on the eastern edge of the city.
|Avis Dam flood plain, Windhoek, December 2010|
|Avis Dam flood plain, Windhoek, January 2011|
|Rail bridge, and river feeding Avis Dam. Windhoek, beginning of January|
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Clinton, Hillary Rodham (rŏdˈəm) [key], 1947–, American lawyer and political figure, wife of U.S. President Bill Clinton, b. Chicago, grad. Wellesley College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (LL.B., 1973). After law school she served on the House panel that investigated the Watergate affair. She was in private practice from 1977 until 1992, becoming an expert on children's rights. After her husband's election as president, she initially played a highly visible role in his administration, co-chairing the task force that proposed changes in the U.S. health-care system. Less publicly involved in policy issues after that program failed to gain support, she won sympathy for her support of her husband during the Lewinsky scandal and impeachment proceedings. She became the first first lady to be subpoenaed by a grand jury when she testified about the Whitewater affair in 1996. In 2000, Clinton won election as a Democrat to the U.S. senate from New York, becoming the first wife of a president to win election to public office; she was reelected in 2006. A candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, she ultimately narrowly lost to Barack Obama, but she subsequently served (2009–13) as his secretary of state after he was elected president. Clinton is the author of It Takes a Village (1996) and the memoir Living History (2003).
See biographies by D. Radcliffe (1994), D. Brock (1996), G. Sheehy (1999), G. Troy (2006), Carl Bernstein (2007), and J. Gerth and D. Van Natta, Jr. (2007); W. H. Chafe, Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal (2012).
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Frog lovers (and anyone else who values the planet’s biodiversity) worldwide, rejoice! Last week the National Assembly of Panama passed a law that honors the significance of one of the most striking amphibian species, the Panamanian golden frog. The National Assembly declared August 14, today, National Golden Frog Day and we’re celebrating that important decision, both in the frogs’ native country and abroad.
We’ve written before about how beloved these animals are in Panama, where they appear on lottery tickets, t-shirts and decorative cloth molas made by the Kuna Indians. The overwhelming admiration of these animals has not abated since 2006, when the chytridomycosis disease swept through their home in western Panama, effectively annihilating the species. But all is not lost. Zoos and aquaria in the United States and Panama are carefully managing and breeding a captive population whose offspring will—we hope—be able to survive someday in their native home.
In addition to declaring August 14 National Golden Frog Day, the National Assembly passed a law on August 3 that makes the Panamanian golden frog one of Panama’s official cultural and ecological symbols. This flagship species for frog conservation is part of a narrative that is playing out now in eastern Panama, where we’re focusing our rescue efforts—and the Panamanian government is supporting that work, too. Last year the Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente (ANAM), the Panamanian government agency charged with protecting its biodiversity, joined on as a full financial and logistical partner to our rescue project.
So how can you celebrate today? If you’re in the United States far from the festivities in Panama, head to one of the zoos and aquaria that house these golden treasures, including:
- Smithsonian’s National Zoo
- Buffalo Zoo
- Central Park Zoo
- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
- Cleveland Metro Parks
- Dallas Zoo
- Denver Zoo
- Houston Zoo
- Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
- Oakland Zoo
- Philadelphia Zoo
- Sedgwick County Zoo
- Woodland Park Zoo
- Zoo Atlanta
- Zoo New England
Be sure to learn more about the Panamanian golden frog, whose beauty is only part of its charm:
- Their skin secretions are the most toxic of all frogs in their taxonomic family, Bufonidae. Those bright colors you see are meant to warn predators that taking a bite out of the frog isn’t such a great idea.
- In addition to a low whistling call, they can communicate by waving their hands to defend their territory or lure a potential mate. Some researchers believe they may even use this to greet one another.
- Golden frog eggs are light-sensitive, so females lay their eggs in dark crevices to keep the light out.
- The Panamanian golden frogs were thought to indicate good luck and would be gathered and placed in people’s homes to ensure the residents good fortune.
- Tadpoles have several rows of teeth that they use primarily to hold on to rocks and a stream bottom when the water picks up after a heavy rain.
Of course, you could always make a donation, big or small, to our rescue project in honor of this day. We’re focused on saving more than 20 other Panamanian frog species that demand quick and careful action if we want to keep them on the planet.
And we most certainly do.
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Protecting people and preventing damage to libraries or cultural collections are extremely important tasks for libraries, museums and archives. To help local administrators plan for disasters, a regional "Before Disaster Strikes" workshop was presented in Colby on Oct. 29.
Patty Nicholas, special collections librarian at Fort Hays State University's Forsyth Library, joined nearly 100 participants to learn the basics of creating and implementing a disaster preparedness plan. The workshop encouraged attendance from all cultural organizations regardless of where they might be in the planning process. There was a great deal of idea sharing for protecting statewide collections and the development of regional partnerships.
Disaster preparedness expert Tyra Grant, from the University of Kansas, presented a step-by-step plan at the all-day workshop to prevent emergencies from becoming disasters for cultural heritage collections.
The workshop was underwritten by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and coordinated by the State Library of Kansas. The workshop is part of a broader IMLS national initiative "Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action" to raise awareness and preserve shared cultural heritage collections.
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The Synergy River
Networking the Church: Part 8
“Just as we must trust ourselves to the buoyancy of water if we are to swim, we can relax into that flow. . . . The novices in Zen monasteries are called unsui, cloud-water. They are meant to move freely, to form and reform spontaneously, to seek a way around obstacles. In ancient traditions, consciousness itself is pictured as an emergent wave from the source. . . . "
--Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (J.P Tarcher, 1980) p. 380 [emphasis added]
“The prophetic streams across this nation are uniting to sound a clear trumpet for the future! This uniting of the streams will form the bedrock for revelation for the River of Revival! Prophets help to prepare the way for the Apostles to establish the Lord's Church.”
--National School of the Prophets Conference brochure, 1999.
“. . . [F]rom the Biblical revelation, the river normally represents the people of God. It is, in fact, a vivid picture of the people of God in motion: being fruitful, acknowledging the presence of God, experiencing the peace of God, receiving the provision of God, knowing the power of God to fulfill the plan of God. God's people in motion, as a source of spiritual life in a parched, dry world.”
--Luis Bush, “A Brief Historical Overview of the AD2000 & Beyond Movement and Joshua Project 2000, 1996.
“The River” is a network!
To understand the networking church, one must understand the metaphor of “the river,” which has been used as a motif for an endtime Latter Rain style signs and wonders “revival.” This "river" has been extensively written and talked about for the past several decades amongst the hyper-charismatic "prophets" and "apostles."
The architecture of a network corresponds to the imagery of a multitude of streams converging into one big river. Similarly, the tiniest nodes of the net connect with other nodes, forming networks. These networks begin by partnering and collaborating, then integrating and fusing, ultimately synthesizing and synergizing. New waves of this "river" come crashing in and create new networks. Walls are broken down from the cascading flood and more rivulets unite.
Unity in diversity. Each new co-mingling of the waves serves as a catalyst in which the whole becomes greater than the parts.
Think of all of the new movements within evangelicaldom the past 20-30 years. Each new movement is heralded as a new wave, a new force, an "emerging," a new work of the "spirit," a new "unity," etc. But all of these movements are streams that converge into this "River."
“The River” is a convergence, a new social force for cultural and spiritual change. It is a networking movement of the type described by Marilyn Ferguson in her book The Aquarian Conspiracy, operating like other New Age movements by stealth and design to infiltrate the old structures and create vast uncharted waterways for new structures, and methods of information and control. Ferguson wrote:
“We will look at the undercurrents of change in politics and the emergence of networks as a new social form—the institution of our age, an unprecedented source of power for individuals.” (p. 41) [emphasis added]
“The River” is also “emergent” – the birth of a new spiritual creature upon the face of the earth representing unparalleled global ecumenism, cooperation and syncretism. This spiritual anomaly is rapidly gaining strength and volume. It is devouring everything in its sight, reaching into vast uncharted territories beyond the Church body itself. It intends to flood across the culture – changing the tide of economic systems, governments, education, the arts, health care, and much more -- all streams merging into a behemoth Corporate Spiritual State with unprecedented power.
One of the cutting-edge organizations, working to network these new streams into "The River" is Transform World. Its Transformational Covenant describes its nature as:
“This is a ‘God-movement.’ Streams of transformation from all over the world are converging into one great river of transformation so that the people of God are beginning to move with the power, the presence, and the peace of God. This is bringing healing in the churches that is overflowing in the healing of the nations. Transformation is becoming a unifying vision of the church’s mission.”
Transform World is dominionist, serving as a high-powered catalyst for collaborations between church and state worldwide under the guise of missionary activity. Its leaders include Luis Bush, Ed Silvoso, Graham Power, and a host of other well-known leadership in the mission arena. Its “transformation” agenda, achieved via networking, has to do with changing governments, the workplace, society, culture and ultimately restoring paradise to the planet Earth.
Luis Bush articulates the various streams of this "River" movement in a paper he authored several years ago, which has been widely dispersed in various forms throughout the mission world, entitled “Transformational Streams are becoming one Fast-flowing River for the Healing of Nations.” Bush’s AD 2000 & Beyond Movement was lauded by C. Peter Wagner as ”the central catalytic movement of the decade for synchronizing the numerous worldwide forces for evangelism that God has been preparing for these times."
Bush identifies “Five Major Transformational Streams” in his article:
"Five major transformational streams are flowing across the world: the revivalist stream, the church growth stream, the city-reaching stream and the stream engaged in the transformational development of the poor and market-place redemption stream. These diverse transformational streams converge into the same “transformational river.”
". . .There are five main streams of transformation:
- Saturation church planting movements working in a spirit of cooperation, resulting in healthy churches in every class and kind of people, and within practical and relational reach of every person, that are permeating every segment of society with the love, truth and saving power of Jesus Christ.
- Emphasis on divine visitation and revival. God acts on the Church bringing revival and He acts on society bringing spiritual awakening. What is taking place in Fiji today is an example of this transformational stream. [Ed. note: This is George Otis's planetary "transformation."]
- City-reaching: Obedience to God as an apostolic people with an apostolic mission to transform peoples, places and the culture within which the Church lives.
- Pioneer marketplace redemption. The marketplace—the combination business, education and government—constitutes the heart of a nation. To change an individual his or her heart must be changed, and similarly, a nation transformed the marketplace must be transformed. An important key to take the Kingdom of God to the marketplace is found in Jesus' parable of the Minas (Luke 19:10-27) where believers are instructed to business to gain authority over cities by using Kingdom principles.
- Transformational development of the poor through community development. This involves creating a better future for the poor. Jajakumar Christian, World Vision, India, sees poverty as a set of disempowering systems. There is the biophysical system--body and mind--which represents the basic human needs of health and education. There is the cultural system in terms of inadequacies in worldview. There is the captivity to god-complexes of the non-poor and deception by principalities and powers, promoting anti-life and deception through the religious systems. These all interact and contribute to a the disempowerment and marred identity of the poor. [Bold in original, italics are added for emphasis, errors in original]
Luis Bush describes this mission transformation process in dominionist terms:
“An effort to define a comprehensive approach to transformation must be ‘rooted in the theology of the mission of the Kingdom of God and seeks to express the Lordship of Jesus over every aspect of life, economic, religious, personal, political. It does not give priority to any area of life as an area for mission . . . but this change will be effected whenever people address issues of life directly, rooted in a gospel perspective.’ As the head of the church Christ initiates and His body responds—as one body. Transformation associates are now gathering to contemplate then seek to cooperate with the beauty of God’s movements. The basic idea behind ‘transformation coordination’ is that, not only can we do more together than we can separately, but we move to a new ministry realm which operates on entirely new laws of input and output. Like the gushing forth of the waters the love of God through the people of God unleashes multiple mission initiatives in which divine resources are channelled through willing servants to meet human needs to the glory of God. A comprehensive movement to bless the nations includes many emphases." [bold added]
Bush concludes the document with this description of transformation:
“The word transformation and its cognates have emerged as an expression of mission throughout the Christian world today. For example, representatives from seventeen Christian relief and development organizations met in February 2004 and agreed on a statement that expresses their vision as a collective association that the whole Church become a transforming and transformed sign of Christ’s Kingdom among all people.
“Different transformational streams, each with its own approach, are flowing into a river of transformation. As the river of transformation moves across the earth individuals, churches, communities, cities and nations are being transformed by the power of God through the people of God for the glory of God.” [bold emphases added]
To see the new face of global missions carefully examine Luis Bush’s “Community Transformation Indicators” article, which has a graphic illustration of the confluence of all of these streams into a "Transformational Development Framework” with “Domains of Change” that encompasses the totality of society. This “World Vision’s Transformational Development Indicators” evidences extreme social controls, a globalized welfare system for the poor, and an exhaustive and intrusive data collection process with "inputs and outputs" continually evaluated with complex assessments. In other words, this is what C. Peter Wagner calls "sociologically verifiable transformation." This human development system obviously isn't going to be paradise for the poor on earth!
And this “Synergy River” of networking movements obviously isn’t about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
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