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By Al Jazeera
The trial of 28 men accused of launching a failed coup in Burundi in May opened on Monday amid heightened tensions after attacks last week in which 87 people were killed.
Former Defence Minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye and five other generals were among those standing trial for their alleged involvement in an attempt to oust President Nkurunziza while he was seeking a third term in office.
The defendants – who appeared under tight security in a court room in Gitega, some 100km east of the capital Bujumbura – are charged with an “attempted coup and calling for a popular uprising, killing soldiers, policemen and civilians, and the malicious destruction of buildings”, prosecutor Adolphe Manirakiza said.
The prisoners, all senior military and police officials, told the court they were being held in “inhumane and degrading” conditions, and kept in tiny cells with a bucket as a toilet.
They face possible life imprisonment if found guilty.
Burundi has been in turmoil since the April announcement that Nkurunziza would seek a third term in office. Nkurunziza won elections in July, but violence has since escalated.
At least 87 people died on Friday in the capital Bujumbura – many reportedly shot dead execution-style – when an unidentified group attacked three military facilities.
Military spokesman Gaspard Baratuza said eight security men were among those killed.
Rights groups described Friday’s killing the worst violence in Burundi in months.
More than 300 people have been killed and about 215,000 others have fled Burundi since April. Hundreds of Burundians have been imprisoned for opposing Nkurunziza’s extension of his rule.
Source:: Al Jazeera
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TV’s Most Dangerous Jobs: Is the Risk Worth the Reward?
Since the golden age of television, we’ve been watching firemen and police officers put their lives on the line in order to protect the innocent. But those are just actors and although a few have been known to get hurt in the performance of their duties, acting isn’t usually a dangerous profession. On the other hand, the stars of these four reality shows are truly risking life and limb every time the cameras roll. Why do they do it? Because with big risks, come big rewards.
The Campbell family makes a hard living rounding up feral hogs in Texas. It sounds like a career out of the old west, but according to series producer A&E, wild hogs cause $500 million in property damages every year. These nocturnal animals are so aggressive, they can force a family to stay inside the safety of their home from dusk to dawn.
This isn’t Babe we’re talking about. These pigs can weigh up to 400 pounds, run up to 30 miles per hour and have razor sharp tusks. What’s worse is they travel in packs and will eat anything that crosses their paths. Luckily for the landowners, the American Hoggers are just as tenacious as the hogs. They’ll do whatever it takes to rid a property of these beasts and you can bet they get paid well to do it.
Watch the season finale of American Hoggers, May 28 at 10 on A&E.
Ice Cold Gold
We’re all familiar with the dangers of underground mining, but panning for gold in Greenland isn’t much better. The men of this Animal Planet series have to watch every step or they might trigger a landslide with rocks the size of a small car. They also have to be prepared for sudden snowstorms in this virtually, uncharted wilderness. The biggest challenge is the fact that there are no roads leading into the area so getting help quickly in an emergency is an issue – one that could cost a man his life if he’s not careful.
The reward? Walking out with pockets full of gold dust and major bragging rights.
Watch Ice Cold Gold Sunday at 10 on Animal Planet.
Ice Road Truckers
Hugh “Polar Bear” Rowland makes his living driving trucks through some of the roughest country in Manitoba and Alaska. But it’s not just the weather and the wilderness that make this a dangerous job; it’s the fact that “ice roads” aren’t roads at all. They’re frozen lakes. That’s right, these folks are driving two-ton trailers over water and this year, thanks to an unusually warm season, the ice is thinner than ever before.
Rumor has it an ice road trucker can make a year’s salary in just a few months but one wreck and you’re done for. If the icy water doesn’t get you, the -70F weather will. But, the oil men and miners who depend on these truckers are glad that someone has the nerve to do it.
Ice Road Truckers returns with all new episodes beginning June 9 on History.
Capt. “Wild Bill” Wichrowski says crab fishing is “like being in a hockey rink in an earthquake. You just throw anything normal out the window. You just have all this machinery in constant motion. … It’s a recipe for disaster if you’re not at the top of your game 150 percent of the time.”
And that’s what makes Discovery’s long-running series Deadliest Catch so compelling. The series just returned for a ninth season with Wild Bill and his Cape Caution crew on the Bering Sea looking for Alaskan King Crabs. They’ll fight the elements, the sea, the equipment and each other but it’ll be worth it if they score big. That could mean more than a half million dollars for six months work. The trick is staying alive long enough to collect.
Watch all new episodes of Deadliest Catch Tuesday at 9 on Discovery.
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60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation. In 2002, 60 Minutes was ranked number six on TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time", and in 2013, it was ranked number 24 on the magazine's list of the "60 Best Series of All Time". The New York Times has called it "one of the most esteemed news magazines on American television".Originally airing in 1968, the program began as a bi-weekly television show hosted on CBS hosted by Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner. The two sat on opposite sides of the cream-colored set, though the set's color was later changed to black, the color still used today. The show used a large stopwatch during transition periods and highlighted its topics through chroma key⸺both techniques are still used today. In 1972, the program began airing from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Eastern time, although this time was sometimes disrupted by broadcasting of NFL games on Sundays. Since then, the show has generally kept the Sunday evening format, although the start time has occasionally been shifted. The program now generally starts at 7:00 pm Eastern. If sports programming is airing that afternoon, 60 Minutes starts at 7:30 pm Eastern or at the game's conclusion.
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Established in 1849, Benton is one of the original nine Minnesota counties.
Area: 408 Square Miles
Congressional District: 6
US Census Population (2010): 38,451
County Seat: Foley
Largest City: Sauk Rapids
Benton County is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Benton County strives to deliver efficient and effective services that will improve the lives of our residents, doing so in a fiscally responsible way.
Benton County Mission:
- Provide excellent service
- Make Benton County a great place to live and work, a great place to call home
- Help our business community prosper
- Keep the cost of government down through innovation, collaboration and technology
March 15, 2016
The Benton County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public meeting on February 7, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in the Benton County Boardroom, 531 Dewey Street, Foley, for the purpose of taking public comment on a County proposal to make the position of County Recorder an appointed positon.
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Located in Central Minnesota, Benton County is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Benton County is one hour north of the Twin Cities and one hour south of premier lake and resort areas.
The largest city is Sauk Rapids, which has over 12,000 residents. The part of St. Cloud that is located in Benton County includes about 6,400 residents. Sartell's Benton County section includes over 2,000 people. Rice, with a population of over 1200, is located on the northwestern edge of the County. | <urn:uuid:c968059f-5a4f-47a2-8e75-e67f4b39b2df> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.co.benton.mn.us/index.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00308-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919869 | 341 | 1.75 | 2 |
No matter everything you do for fun, you understand that studying all you can about it is definitely produced by it even more satisfying. That is true of woodworking as well, especially since you can find so a lot of things you can create. The more you learn, the higher, today that write-up has the info you need.
It is vital for my explanation you yourself to have sharpened equipment if you plan on dealing with wood. Dull tools can be dangerous since they are more prone to slippage. If you have no fundamental concept how to hone and sharpen your equipment, you need to understand how since there won’t continually be someone around to do it for you.
Sign up for a woodworking or shop class at an area school. It is possible to certainly train yourself a whole lot about woodworking, but there’s nothing better than studying from an expert. You’ll grab important skills much more quickly, and you will make a lot of great friends along the way.
Put extra spring in your hold. Periodically you may want to use a springtime clamp, nevertheless, you might just have the usage of one hands. It can be difficult to open one with just one hand. There is needless to say, one method to make that simpler. Before you begin a glue-up, place all the clamps that you need on a random scrap of wood using both free hands. This can get them ready where they can be utilized by you with only one hand while gluing.
Always keep your projects area clear and safe, also when you are not actually there. Leaving out bits of lumber with nails inside them or even power tools that are easily activated inside your yard can be dangerous. You won’t ever understand when animals or even neighborhood children might come romping through and harm themselves.
Make sure to purchase and wear proper ear protection. Machinery for woodworking is quite loud. Repeated exposure to this noise could cause hearing loss. Use headphones or ear plugs you can apart toss. Use them anytime you are utilizing the machinery.
Do you hate those bubbles that form when applying mutual compound for your drywall? There’s a simple trick that expert drywallers use to avoid this annoying problem. Add several drops of dish detergent to your joint compound and you will be rewarded with bubble-free joint compound.
Make sure you get the right tool for my explanation the job. If you are building a solid wood deck on your house, it would be difficult to do all the slicing having a tactile hand noticed. Instead, you should cut with a circular saw. A round saw is electric powered; however, a tactile hand saw is not.
Learn the fundamentals of sharpening whatever woodworking tools you use personally. Begin any ongoing function session with washing and preventative maintenance. The few moments you put into honing your tools each day will spare you tenfold that time in sanding and repairs. You are also ensuring your individual protection here as well.
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About half of all census forms have been returned nationwide.
And who’s lagging the country in complying? Texas, of course, Dallas is particularly bad. Yes, our bitch-about-federal-spending culture will help cost the federal government $1.5 billion when enumerators are sent out to count those who refuse to send in their forms.
So if you haven’t done so yet, send in your damn form. It takes about 3 minutes to fill out. Postage is paid. And for you Tea Party-Glenn Beck protesters, it IS in the constitution. And they’re due today.
The census is easy this year. It’s the shortest census form in more than 100 years. The questions are easy. No research required. But here are some examples of what has been asked in the past:
In 2000, if you got the “long form” it was 38 pages with questions that required some research. Like how much did you spend on electricity last year? And gas? You had to go through your bills and checkbook to figure it out. And they wanted the answer to the exact dollar.
This year — no long forms.
On the first census in 1790, they asked if you were a slave owner and, if so, how many slaves did you own.
That question is not asked this year.
On the 1850 census, there was a line for:
“Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic.”
That question was dropped in the early 1900s. Good thing because I wouldn’t know how to answer. The office here is divided on whether I’m just idiotic or fully insane.
Also from the 1850 form:
“Persons over 20 years of age who can not read and write.”
My answer would be, “I can’t.”
In 1880, the census asked:
“Profession, occupation, or trade of each person, male or female.”
Imagine. Women working! By now, insane, idiotic, deaf and blind were each separate categories but a new one was added:
“Maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled.”
Wow, what a decrepit country we had.
In 1910, they wanted to know if you were blind in just one eye. I wonder what prompted a count of all of the one-eyed people.
In 1930, the names were listed as:
If I were filling it out, I’d be Mother.
In 1940, there were special questions asked only of women:
For all women who are or have been married:
Has this woman been married more than once? (Yes or No)
Age at first marriage.
Number of children ever born (do not include stillbirths).
Interesting that they didn’t care what age men were first marrying or whether men were married more than once. Maybe it was just a backwards way of getting at other vital information. Never married? Lesbian!
In 1950, the first name to be listed was the head of the household. OK, not a bad way to start. Not sexist at all really. Not until you get to the next question:
What are the names of all other persons who live here? · List in this order: – The head – His wife – then others
Yes the head of the household, HIS wife (because he owned her and she could never head a household). I’m not sure how a gay or lesbian couple, or even roommates, for that matter, even answered the 1950 census. And in 1950, the birth question is refined:
“If female and ever married, how many children has she ever borne, not counting stillbirths?”
Because we all know where babies come from. If you love someone very much and get married, maybe the stork will bring you a bundle of joy. If you’re not married, you never gave birth.
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Abdallah is the featured story from USA for UNHCR’s Refugee Youth Storyteller’s Celebration, an opportunity to honor and recognize the creative voices of former refugees under the age of 30 who are now living in the United States.
"Stay away from the windows!” my first grade teacher shouted as the school shook from an explosion. The windows shattered into a million crystal shards. I was the target.
Through the suffocating smoke, I crawled outside the burning classroom lightheaded. I held onto my teacher, afraid of being left behind, afraid of inhaling the smoke or the smoke inhaling me. I saw flames outside the window and shards of glass over my friends’ bodies. I never saw them again.
A few weeks before the bomb, my father received a death threat for notifying American forces about a government torture facility. His patriotism put our family in mortal danger. It cost him, and our family’s future in Iraq -- and very nearly our lives.
I hid in an empty fridge under the stairs during air raid sirens. I overheard my parents talking in the living room. My mom said, "We have to leave. Iraq is not safe anymore.” When I heard that discussion, I was a child -- the next day I became a refugee.
We fled to Jordan and for eight years lived with no citizenship, no health insurance and very limited opportunities. While a refugee, I learned to play the guitar. I was finding my voice through music. As I healed, I was becoming more aware of those around me, and I grew a desire to help ease their physical and emotional suffering. It was in Jordan that my dreams of one day becoming a doctor began to take shape.
In 2013, after eight years of living as refugees, my family was accepted to resettle in the United States. We landed at the JFK airport and after six hours of background checks, the immigration officer said, “Welcome to America.”
We moved to Winder, Georgia, and at first, I had the feeling that I was losing my voice again. Before I even started school, the board of education decided it was impossible for me to pass the state tests and suggested I repeat 9th grade. But I was hungry to move forward and I petitioned the school board to let me take the state exams. I taught myself English by reading the dictionary, and word by word, I learned English, and passed all the exams. I was finding my voice again, this time in another language. A few short years later, I graduated as the student body president and was accepted to Emory University.
At Emory, I began volunteering as a medical interpreter at a clinic in Clarkston, Georgia. One of my first experiences as an interpreter was with a refugee from Syria. He arrived at the clinic disoriented and spoke no English. At that moment, I was helping him find his voice.
“He’s on Lisinopril, Bisoprolol and Aspirin,” I told the doctor. I listed his medications and medical history. He said “shukran,” Arabic for thank you, to me. I said to him in Arabic, “I too once spoke no English. I am here for you.” Then we talked about his favorite foods and his family. It mattered to me to learn about him and to try and help him feel more comfortable in that moment.
Volunteering as an interpreter at the clinic only fueled my interest in pursuing a career in the medical field. Although still a college student, I wanted to do more. I became an EMT.
My first patient had a cardiac arrest. I got the call over the radio, “Med 67 you are dispatched to a house fire!” There was no house, only flames. This smell of smoke was familiar.
Flashbacks leaked into my mind as if I were standing in my classroom again. A woman lay on the grass. Motionless. I started CPR. With each compression, my hands would slide on her burned skin, “1, 2; 9; 29…” Sweat was dripping from inside my gloves as we got to the ER. I did everything I could, but I could not save her.
The realization of my own powerlessness was humbling. Sometimes, even doing everything right is not enough, and that is okay.
Soon after beginning my job as an EMT, the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world. I was now a first responder working in the midst of a global pandemic. In the last year, I’ve not only witnessed the disparity of healthcare in different communities in Georgia but experienced how unprepared and under-equipped we were at times to safely do our jobs during a public health crisis as first responders. My hope for the future is to become a doctor and care for my patients, but I also want to be part of a movement that creates a system where no one feels left behind.
The culmination of everything I have experienced in life, medicine is my commitment to science and to people. Healing takes time: even with music, it took me years to overcome the stigma of being a refugee, and the trauma I faced as a child. At the heart of every patient interaction is my desire to listen, as a human, and help the other person find their own voice.
I traveled 7,000 miles for a chance for a new home, for a future. Not many refugees are as lucky as I am. I am one of the few refugees given another chance. In 2019 I became an American citizen, and I’m so happy about that, but I still think of everything I lost. Like my family home in Iraq. We had a garden filled with white gardenias that I used to play in as a kid. Still to this day, when I want to think about Iraq and my childhood, I light a gardenia-scented candle and for those moments I’m back in our courtyard.
Today, I am grateful for where I am. The dream of becoming a doctor that began to take shape as a child in Jordan is becoming a reality. I was recently admitted to the Tufts University School of Medicine. There is a lot more to do but I know with hard work, and support from family and friends, I will find my voice once again, this time, as a doctor.
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Gestalt therapy is about authenticity, being in the present moment, and having the courage to take risks. These are the same things that are needed to use laughter as a therapeutic tool.
Laughter has been shown to increase T-cell production, improve brain function, and foster an overall sense of resilience. As a therapeutic tool, it has the power to help people heal from trauma faster and with more confidence.
This presentation will begin to show you the science behind what makes laughter an innovative tool to help people heal in a healthy and positive way, while remaining true to Gestalt theories and principles. Gestalt modalities will also be explored, showing how to make the most appropriate interventions for your clients.
1. Attendees will learn how laughter can benefit the immune system.
2. Attendees will identify the specific areas of the brain that are impacted by laughter and humor.
3. Attendees will learn skills and strategies that they can use to incorporate humor into their work immediately.
Michael Cotayo is a licensed clinical social worker who received his master’s degree in social work from NYU in 2000. A majority of his post-master’s career has been spent working within the HIV/AIDS community as a social worker, advocate, community organizer, counselor, and administrator. It is working with these communities where he learned the benefits of using humor to help heal physical and emotional trauma.
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The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has requested G7 countries to donate excess supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX sharing scheme. This is part of an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall following a halt on exports from India due to the second wave of the pandemic.
UNICEF is in charge of supplying COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX. It estimates the supply shortfall will reach 140 million doses by the end of May and about 190 million by June-end. Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, said sharing immediately available excess doses is a minimum, essential and emergency stop-gap measure, and it is needed right now. Fore said the move could help prevent vulnerable countries from becoming the next global hotspot.
COVAX, run jointly by the WHO and the GAVI vaccine alliance, relies heavily on the AstraZeneca shot, which amounts for the bulk of the vaccines earmarked for early rollout as it seeks to provide two billion doses this year.
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the moral catastrophe of vaccine inequality, urging wealth countries to donate doses rather than use them for children who are less vulnerable to severe disease. A number of countries, including the United States and Canada, in recent weeks have authorized vaccines for those aged 12 and above. The UNICEF chief said G7 countries could donate about 153 million doses if they shared only 20% of their available supply over June, July and August.
Antonio Guterres, United Nations General Secretary, last week called for the need to double the capacity of COVID-19 vaccine production. He also highlighted the need for fairer redistribution of the shots in the developing world. “It is totally unacceptable to live in a world, in which developed countries can vaccinate most of its population, while many developing countries don’t have access to one single dose,” Guterres said. “It’s in the interest that everybody is vaccinated everywhere. We believe that we need two things – to double the world’s capacity of production of vaccines and at the same time to have a more equitable distribution of vaccines.” | <urn:uuid:654a9c76-d49c-44be-8ac9-fc031f848ac5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mybigplunge.com/life/health/covid19/unicef-urges-g7-countries-donate-excess-supplies-covid-19-vaccines-global-covax-sharing-scheme/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.943396 | 452 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs (2006)Polar Research Board
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The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakers -- three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
- Deferred long-term maintenance and failure to execute a plan for replacement or refurbishment of the nation's icebreaking ships have placed national interests in the polar regions at risk.
- The committee finds that both operations and maintenance of the polar icebreaker fleet have been underfunded for many years, and the capabilities of the nation's icebreaking fleet have diminished substantially.
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Hornets attack children - level 1
There are hornets in China. There are a lot of them this year. The hornets are very dangerous.
These hornets attack children. Thirty children must go to the hospital. Some have 200 stings. One girl has 70 stings. She almost dies.
Doctors help the children. It is not easy. The doctors clean the children's blood. The doctors must do it again and again. It takes a long time.
There are more hornets because there are more plants.
Difficult words: dangerous (can attack you a give you problems with your body), sting (place on your body where the hornet attacked), blood (red thing inside your body).
You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.
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We had a number of great suggestions from people as to where to eat while we were in Savannah. One place that came up numerous times was Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room. Since they only serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. through the weekdays, our only chance to go was on a hot and muggy Friday midday. We walked down there from our hotel which was about a three minute walk, tops. (See map)
There actually was a Mrs. Wilkes at one time. In 1942, the L.H. Wilkes family were displaced from their farm near Vidalia, GA so the U.S. Army could build an air corps base. Seeking work in Savannah's shipyards, L.H. Wilkes stayed in a boardinghouse owned by Mrs. Dennis Dixon. His wife, Sema, would come to visit him on the weekends with their kids. In 1942, Sema Wilkes began to help Mrs. Dixon in the kitchen at the boardinghouse when Mrs. Dixon fell ill. Mrs. Dixon never fully recovered and in the winter of 1943, L.H. Wilkes began to work for the railroad and Sema Wilkes bought the boardinghouse.
Railroads workers, which made up the majority of boarders at the now Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse, flocked to the dining room on the word that she made some of the best meals in Savannah. Suddenly, instead of serving breakfast or lunch for 12 people, she was serving up to 60 meals at a time.
When the railroads began to slow down, and hotels and motels became more prevalent in the 60's, Mrs. Wilkes shut down the boarding house and converted the upstairs rooms into apartments. However, Mrs. Wilkes continued to serve her lavish, Southern-style, down-home breakfasts and lunches (also known as "dinner" in the south). Her meals were served family-style on large communal tables that served up to 12 people. Soon, long lines began to form outside Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room restaurant as word got out to locals and tourists, alike, that her food was exceptional.
Wilkes daughter, Margie, was the bookkeeper and part-time hostess, while her son was the cashier. As Mrs. Wilkes reputation grew, she published her first cookbook - Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook - which, it turns out, was actually written by her daughter, Margie. She spent most of her time signing books and giving the blessing at the start of each breakfast or lunch.
In 2002, Mrs. Wilkes passed away suddenly at the age of 95. The family had a dilemma - what to do with the restaurant. Margie Thompson and her husband, Bill, had retired from the restaurant years prior; and a case of acute arthritis was making it tough for their son, Ronny, to continue to run the business. After Mrs. Wilkes died, the family had a meeting as to the future of the restaurant. Ronny Thompson's son, Ryon, only 25 at the time, stepped forward and said that he'd run the restaurant.
Mrs. Wilkes shut down for a period, went through an extensive remodel of the dining rooms and an updating of the kitchen, and then re-opened under Ryon Thompson's management in February 2004. He cut out the breakfast service and reduced the lunches to five days a week, cutting out Saturday service. (Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room will serve lunch for private functions from time to time on Saturday's.) The recipes used are the same ones used by his great-grandmother when she ran the place over 60 years ago. Many of the cooks are second and third generation cooks who learned the recipes directly from Mrs. Wilkes. Ryon Thompson greets and seats the patrons with help from his mom, his grandmother, Margie Thompson, is usually at the place signing cook books, and 89-year old grandpa Bill Thompson runs the cash register.
We got to Mrs. Wilkes a little past 1 p.m. and the line was already half a block long running up to the door. As I said, it was a hot, muggy day and standing in line was not my idea of a good time. There was a small antique shop near Mrs. Wilkes that was air conditioned, so Cindy ended up hanging out in there for awhile as I kept our place in line.
The people who left the restaurant would invariably tell those of us in line that the food was "outstanding" and some were having trouble walking because they were so stuffed from over-eating. Someone ahead of me asked a gentleman who had walked out if the food was worth the wait. "Oh, it's worth it," he said. "And then some."
We finally got to the door around 1:50 p.m., just ten minutes before they closed. There were still people walking up to get in line. I suppose, once you're in line at 2 p.m., you get in. Ryon Thompson greeted us and let us in the side door on the ground level. Another lady directed us to a large table just behind the cashiers station, manned by Bill Thompson. We did not see Margie Thompson or her daughter (Ryon's mom) in the restaurant. When the last patrons would get up from a table, it was cleared and another 12 people would be seated. This would go on for three hours, five days a week.
Now, I'm not big on communal dining where they put you at a table with a bunch of strangers and expect to share bowls and plates of food with each other. But we were so intrigued with the concept that we bought into it. We were seated with a Chinese family whose son was graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design that weekend. At the opposite end of our table was a 50-ish, sort-of-stylish couple from Arkansas who appeared to be newly dating from their conversations they were having while waiting in line (that is, when he wasn't on his cellphone talking way too loudly), and then a young couple from Chicago.
On our table were huge bowls and plates of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, beef stew, rice, black-eyed peas, snap beans, squash, butter beans, candied yams, peas and noodles, pickled beets, cole slaw, baked beans, biscuits, mac and cheese, okra, collard greens, potato salad - Jesus Christ! The list went on and on! The menu changes daily, but fried chicken and beef stew are daily staples. Sweet tea and water were also served with the meal.
One of the waitresses, a matronly lady quite possibly in her 60's, shouted out the rules - in tradition of the former boarders at Mrs. Wilkes, everyone is responsible for taking their plates, glasses and silverware to the kitchen when they're finished. She said, "We'll keep bringin' food to your table as long as you eat it. Don't like to waste anything here!"
Looking at all the food, I was incredulous. "How are we going to eat all this," I asked.
Finally, the guy from Arkansas at the other end of the table said, "Well, I guess we all dig in." So we did. The bowls and plates were passed around. There wasn't enough room on our plates for all the food. And I wanted to sample nearly everything.
Actually, what I was after was the fried chicken. I'd heard that it was even better than the fried chicken at The Lady and Sons. And it was very good. Probably better than The Lady and Sons, but it was tough to say because it had been days between the time we'd eaten there and when we ate at Mrs. Wilkes. It was still very good, though. As a table, we all asked for more chicken, that was for sure.
We made some small talk with the young couple from Chicago. Even though the Quad Cities are only 175 miles from downtown Chicago, the couple - probably in their mid-20's - weren't familiar with the area. "Is that Rockford or Rock Island that is part of the Quad Cities," the young man asked. We decided the food was much more interesting than they were.
The Chinese family - a man, his wife and their son - pretty much kept to themselves except to ask for someone on our end to pass a plate or dish back. The Arkansas couple at the other end kept their conversations to themselves, as well.
The Arkansas lady appeared finished and excused herself to get up and go to the restroom. The Arkansas man also stood up and began to look around the dining room. They left their plates, glasses and silverware on the table. When the lady came out of the bathroom, the man had already paid for the meal and they were out the door. The waitress who had shouted out the "rules" at the start of the meal came over, saw the empty plates with the people gone. He said, "Now, didn't I say that you need to take your plates back to the kitchen when you've finished?"
Cindy said, "You sure did!"
She said, "I thought so! Some people!" She gathered up the plates and took 'em to the kitchen. Cindy and I made damn sure that we took our plates, glasses and silverware back to the kitchen.
I went up and paid for lunch - $16 bucks per person - and Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room doesn't take credit cards. Man, I was stuffed! The food was superb, the ambiance was interesting, but it would have been better to dine with a large group of people that we knew. I just don't feel comfortable sitting next to people I don't know, especially when I'm eating. The food definitely made up for the uncomfortable feeling that I had eating with strangers who really had little to nothing in common - other than the food. If you like that kind of thing, you'll absolutely love Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room. But for me, the excellent food would be the only reason I'd go back. | <urn:uuid:e712b5ed-13fe-4ed2-a48c-60bfb65c9d90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://roadtips.typepad.com/a_salesguys_guide_to_the_/2009/08/mrs-wilkes-dining-room---savannah-ga.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00229-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989492 | 2,106 | 1.96875 | 2 |
A setup guide for setting up lirc on the Raspberry Pi 3 has been posted.
Setup guides are reference documents that I create for installing hardware, software and entire systems. They consist of the steps I followed for the build. They are mostly meant for my future reference but they might be able to help someone so I post them online. They are posted in the digitalhack GitHub repository under SetupGuides | <urn:uuid:d7f6ed1d-4b0d-4511-9923-f2f672caa6fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalhacksblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/new-setup-guide-posted-lirc-on.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938621 | 81 | 1.539063 | 2 |
This paper is about the unsupervised discovery of patterns in sequences of composite objects. A composite object may be described as a sequence of other, simpler data. In such cases, not only the nature of the components is important, but also the order in which these components appear. The present work studies the problem of generalizing sequences of complex objects. A formal definition of generalized sequences is given, and an algorithm is derived. Because of the excessive computational complexity of this algorithm, a heuristic version is described. This algorithm is then integrated in a general-purpose clustering algorithm. The result is a knowledge discovery system which is able to analyze any structured database on the base of a unified, unsupervised mechanism. | <urn:uuid:60b9d718-56fd-45c7-91f3-3115c247eacd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aaai.org/Library/KDD/1997/kdd97-043.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922274 | 143 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Were you looking for information about Diverticulosis? Diverticules is a common misspelling of diverticulosis.
Diverticulosis is a type of condition in which small sacs (diverticula) form in the colon. Although the exact cause of the condition is not known at this time, it is believed to be linked to a low-fiber diet (which can cause constipation). Because constipation makes the muscles strain to move stool that is too hard, it causes increased pressure in the colon. This excess pressure might cause the weak spots in the colon to bulge out and become diverticula.
(Click Diverticulosis for more detailed information on this health condition, including what may cause diverticulosis and how it is treated. You can also click any of the links in the box to the right for specific information.) | <urn:uuid:c20e465d-1fa8-4a91-a791-cfc25da57a72> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digestive-system.emedtv.com/diverticulosis/diverticules.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00572-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9226 | 178 | 3.421875 | 3 |
What happens when a coalition of ultra-conservative state attorneys general sue the federal government for extending civil rights protections to the LGBTQ+ community?
Naturally, a Trump-appointed federal judge rules in their favor.
That’s what transpired late last Friday, when Judge Charles Atchley of Tennessee’s Eastern District blocked a federal directive to expand sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ students and workers.
Last year, the Biden administration said sex-based discrimination protections, like those at schools under Title IX and workplaces under Title IIV, extend to gay and transgender individuals, too. This guidance was part of a widespread effort by the White House to overturn or reverse Trump-era policies restricting transgender rights.
As such, companies and schools would not be able to deny transgender people from using bathrooms or playing on sports teams that match their gender identity. The directives also would require schools receiving federal funding to investigate sex discrimination rooted in sexual orientation or gender identity.
That’s why 20 conservative state attorneys general, including Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron, banded together to sue the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agencies requested to have the case dismissed, which Atchley denied.
“As young women across the Commonwealth work hard to compete in sports they love, we must work to preserve the integrity of women’s sports and ensure an even playing field for girls and young women,” Cameron said to WHAS11. “The federal government’s flawed guidance in this area jeopardizes decades of progress in women’s sports, and I’m grateful that our lawsuit stopped the new guidance from moving forward.”
It is no surprise that Cameron praises the Trump-appointed judge, as he was also in favor of Kentucky’s Senate Bill 83.
Kentucky’s General Assembly passed the discriminatory Senate Bill 83 in February, which sought to “protect the integrity of women’s sports.” This bill was vetoed by Gov. Andy Beshear but was overridden by the General Assembly.
Last week, Atchley issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Biden administration from enforcing these expanded anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.
He stated that the federal directive “directly interferes with and threatens [these states] ability to continue enforcing state laws,” referring to anti-trans legislation being passed across the country. At least 20 states already have or are seeking to pass legislation restricting access to facilities and sports for transgender people.
However, the notion to include the LGBTQ+ community in such protections is not unprecedented, said Chris Hartman, Executive Director of the Fairness Campaign. Kentucky’s General Assembly passed the discriminatory Senate Bill 83 in February, which intended to “protect the integrity of women’s sports.” It was vetoed by Gov. Andy Beshear but was overridden by the General Assembly.
“The Biden administration is really building upon what the Obama administration did previously to appropriately interpret sex protections to include LGBTQ folks,” Hartman said.
The guidance is also in line with the Supreme Court’s 2020 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton, which says it is unlawful to discriminate against people based on their gender identity or sexual orientation in the workplace. In writing for the majority, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
Up until that decision, less than half of the states in the U.S. had anti-dscrimination protections preventing workers from being fired for being gay, bisexual or transgender.
“These directives simply reiterate the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the word sex in federal law, “ said Hartman. “Unfortunately, this Trump-appointed judge in Tennessee has sought to subvert that, but I don’t believe that will ultimately stand.”
According to Judge Atchley, states are being forced to “choose between the threat of legal consequences—enforcement action, civil penalties, and the withholding of federal funding—or altering their state laws to ensure compliance with the guidance and avoid such adverse action.”
But Hartman said those states wouldn’t have anything to lose if they weren’t violating Title IX.
“More than anything, this definitely puts in jeopardy trans student access to fully participate in all aspects of school life on a daily basis, “ said Hartman. “We know that puts trans—and all queer youth across the board—at greater risk overall.”
He says he hopes the courts will ultimately uphold precedence and see the inherent value of each student, including transgender students.
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I touched on your foundation and the true cost of bad habits in Stay Poor and its importance on your growth. Today we will discuss how self discipline is 90% of the equation and how without it, not much can be accomplished. Think about discipline as it pertains to money first, as it is the easiest and clearest concept to understand.
Many strive to always make more money, it seems to be a common theme in society, and a common theme in general that all want to pursue money as their goal. Despite having covered over a dozen times that money should never be a goal but rather a reward, human nature will always drive us to seek more of it to obtain the luxuries we desire.
Now lets look at this from a different angle, if you make $2000 a month and spend $600 on debt, then you are left with $1400. Now if you make $4000 a month but have $2000 in debt as you make more money and buy all those things you dream of always you are technically in a worst place than you were before, but at least have a nicer car. Ultimately its actual much worst as you are more in debt and your net worth is much smaller despite you ability to bring more in. Now if you made $4000 but kept your debt at $600, you would be in a much better place.
This is where discipline towards life comes in as it is ultimately in your hands to choose to sacrifice the smaller items in life you don’t need immediately for the greater returns. A simple example of this is when you suddenly have an unexpected expense come up and magically find money or find creative ways to come up with the money to make basic needs work. That’s your brain indirectly putting that event as a priority and making all other irrelevant items in the back. If you learn to actually do that without being at stake then you are never placed in such a situation where you have to beg to survive. Being proactive in understanding how to grow, not how to spend ultimately makes you much more efficient at everything you do.
This same concept can be applied to everything else you do in life like your health, going out with friends, and much more. Being able to put limits on what you should or shouldn’t do because you understand its impact on your life helps, and prevents you from having those unexpected expenses. Just like maintenance on your car, being preventive and understanding what needs to be done gives you the ultimate ability to grow in life. So before going out and buying all the things you don’t need or spending money at the bars… rethink what your ultimate goal is and how committed you really are to it. | <urn:uuid:fa6b596f-01a3-4edd-8e36-60530c5e1c9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.secretentourage.com/motivation/the-discipline-of-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.973702 | 543 | 2.203125 | 2 |
|Title: ||Entre la espada y la pared|
El fracaso del primer experimento autonómico español en Cuba, 1897-1898
|Authorship: ||Sánchez Andrés, Agustín|
|Size: ||17 X 24|
|Edition: ||1 (2020)|
|Price: || 20,00 €|
|Binding: ||Rústica cosida amb solapa|
|Support: ||Paper |
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The failure of the Liberal regime to integrate the Antilles into the Spanish State and the progressive emergence of a national consciousness in Cuba, laid the foundations for the development of autonomism in Spanish political theory. The defeat of the revolutionary path, between 1868 and 1878, allows the development of Cuban autonomy during the Restoration period as a progressive route towards national construction; an alternative to the ground-breaking project represented by separatism. The crisis in the colonial relations model during the last quarter of the 19th century meant that theses of autonomy were gradually taken up by increasingly broad and diverse metropolitan political sectors, and this made it possible to grant autonomy to Cuba and Puerto Rico in 1897.
Sánchez Andrés, Agustín. 2020. Entre la espada y la pared. El fracaso del primer experimento autonómico español en Cuba, 1897-1898. Castelló de la Plana: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. | <urn:uuid:9265058a-781e-4c30-8151-48851980017e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tenda.uji.es/pls/iglu/!GCPPA00.GCPPR0002?lg=UK&id_art=1820 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.713381 | 351 | 2.25 | 2 |
In a career that spanned 75 years of writing for The Washington Post, the late columnist Shirley Povich covered some of the most memorable sporting events of the century. The Dempsey-Tunney fight in '27, Washington's only World Series title in '24, Walter Johnson's retirement, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth bidding farewell, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in '51, Don Larsen's perfect game in '56.
For the past three years, his daughter, Lynn Povich, and I have compiled an anthology of Povich's best pieces that will be published next spring. What came out of more than seven decades in press boxes was a love of journalism, the newspaper and the events and people he spent a lifetime covering.
Sports writer Shirley Povich.
(The Washington Post)
If being witness to the greatest sporting events of the century provided him with a lifetime of professional joy, among the lowest of his moments occurred the night of Sept. 30, 1971, when the Senators played their final game at RFK Stadium, losing by a 9-0 forfeit to the New York Yankees when fans overran the field in the ninth inning.
Povich, who died in 1998 at age 92, wrote:
"A swarm of young kids, squirts who wouldn't know what it had meant to have a big-league team all these years, or what it means to lose one, flooded onto the field from all points in the stands. . . ."
He concluded: "The mad scene on the field, with the athletes of both teams taking refuge in their dugouts, brought official announcement of Yankees 9, Senators 0, baseball's traditional forfeit count almost since Abner Doubleday notched the first baseball score on the handiest twig at Cooperstown. But by then, the crowd-mood was philosophical. So what? Or more accurately, so whatha hell? The Senators were finished, even if the ball game wasn't."
If the Senators and their famous manager, Ted Williams, left for "greener" pastures in Arlington, Tex., Shirley Povich remained at Washington for the final 27 years of his life, 25 of them in semi-retirement but still writing columns for The Post. He loved his work, the sports scene and the people. But he was angry when it came to baseball. Angry because there was no major league baseball team in his town -- until yesterday when it was announced that the Montreal Expos would be relocated to Washington's RFK Stadium for the 2005 season.
"When a city doesn't have a big league team, well, it just isn't big league," he said and wrote over and over. "The world thinks we're Chattanooga. What a sad state of affairs."
He could never understand how his lifelong friend, baseball commissioner and native Washingtonian Bowie Kuhn, permitted the Senators to leave for Texas. He could never understand how Major League Baseball would not want the president to throw out the first ball of the season in Washington; he could never understand the disdain many of the owners felt toward his town, and how each effort to regain a ballclub ended in failure.
Most of all, he could not comprehend why Washington area fans would adopt the Baltimore Orioles. Even after the Orioles took Baltimore off their uniform, Povich wasn't moved. "They kid us not," he wrote. "They can't absorb the capital of the United States like an occupying power. Washington has no baseball team."
He appreciated the accomplishments of Cal Ripken and the gesture Orioles owner Peter Angelos showed by giving Povich a "day" at Camden Yards in 1996. But he always knew the score -- and occasionally questioned if his own newspaper (i.e. me) was overemphasizing the Orioles.
"Only the hopelessly naive would believe that the Orioles' ownership has not obstructed the return of the majors," he wrote in 1994. "Their contention that the Orioles are a regional team is subliminally a metaphor for 'we own you.' "
When Washington was host to an occasional late spring exhibition game or a midsummer old timers affair, he was livid, in his New England way, and boycotted. "How dare they?" he asked with a clipped edge in his voice. When Washington was ignored in several expansion selections over the years in favor of Toronto, Seattle, Denver, Miami, Tampa Bay and Arizona, he steamed.
While he rarely used a hammer in his writing, when it came to baseball, Povich used a hammer often. In 1990, he wrote, "For 19 wretched years Washington has been excluded, left to press its nose against the window while 14 other cities, rated as bush league towns when Washington was in the majors, have been endowed with franchises."
Povich generally kept a professional attitude in using his lifetime contacts to keep interest alive in the city. But occasionally a conversation with an owner would result in his writing a name and number on a small slip of paper and handing it to me, with the instructions, "call this guy." More often than not, the call produced a story that Team X was interested in Washington, sometimes resulting in Team X getting a new stadium in its city and Povich writing, "never has a city been so invitingly ripe for a team."
Someone -- Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, or relocation committee chairman Jerry Reinsdorf -- figured this out. Finally, someone thinking outside the box, namely Mayor Anthony A. Williams and his sharp negotiating team, found a way to move the mountain. Washington lawyers Paul M. Wolff and Stephen W. Porter, prodded for years, as did Virginia's Bill Collins. Hopefully, the mayor's financial plan to build the stadium will not impact city services and school needs, as he promises.
Talk of ownership groups, a team name and personnel can wait, as we read a Povich lament on the eve of Opening Day in 1990: "The president does not throw out the first Stillson wrench at the plumbers' convention or hand out the Oscars at the Academy Awards, or toss out the first ball at the Super Bowl or NCAA basketball final. Only to baseball, and only in Washington, is the White House seal of approval granted."
Finally, as he began reading the box scores of another season without Washington in the standings, he wrote, "One could weep." The weeping stopped yesterday. | <urn:uuid:9843bd75-32f0-4ed4-b847-2cfef79dd667> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60654-2004Sep29.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978503 | 1,310 | 1.703125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — D.C. is making changes at the intersection where a cyclist was killed downtown earlier this month, but those who travel that area daily say more needs to be done to improve safety.
A ghost bike, painted white and covered in photos and flowers, sits at a busy intersection off Dupont Circle where 36-year-old Jeffrey Hammond Long was hit while riding in the bike lane.
“As an experienced cyclist, biking down M street through the intersections of New Hampshire and 21st is chaotic at best on a quiet day,” said Rachel Maisler, Ward 4 representative on the D.C. Bicycle Advisory Committee.
It’s particularly dangerous when cars in the center lane of M Street are forced to turn right across the bike lane to reach New Hampshire Avenue, she said.
After the deadly accident, D.C.’s Department of Transportation permanently removed four parking spots nearby to increase visibility.
Today we removed 4 parking spaces to improve visibility at the intersection of 21st St, M St and New Hampshire Ave NW where cyclist Jeffrey Hammond Long was killed last week. pic.twitter.com/9Pgr6SxEEU
— DDOT DC (@DDOTDC) July 16, 2018
“I commend DDOT for pulling the four parking spaces, but that’s not enough,” Maisler said. “I think there needs to be more traffic calming improvements at the intersection.” She suggested widening the curb space at the intersection to make the angle such that drivers need to slow down to turn.
“DDOT should ban right turns at that intersection. If there isn’t enough political will, then there needs to be a turn arrow and a green light and as pedestrians are walking, then the cyclists are riding as well,” she said.
Hammond Long is the second cyclist killed while biking in the city in as many weeks. Malik Habib, 19, was biking in the H Street corridor in June when his bicycle tire got caught in the streetcar track and he was killed by a charter bus.
There is a memorial ride in the works along H Street in his honor and to raise awareness for biking safety. | <urn:uuid:fa186e18-bc62-4782-8fae-a94e2fc2389e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wtop.com/dc/2018/07/parking-spots-pulled-near-dupont-circle-after-cyclist-killed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.972733 | 454 | 1.648438 | 2 |
What is an interview guide?
An interview guide is simply a list of the high level topics that you plan on covering in the interview with the high level questions that you want to answer under each topic. We usually limit the guide to one page so that it’s easy to refer to and to make sure that we’re not getting too low level.
What are 3 things you look for in an ideal job?
12 Factors to Look For in a Job Other than a Paycheck
- 1) It makes a positive difference.
- 2) You enjoy your co-workers.
- 3) You feel appreciated and valued.
- 4) You are trusted.
- 5) It is something you love to do.
- 6) It fits your personality.
- 7) It challenges you to grow.
- 8) The company’s values align with yours.
What are the 10 most common interview answers?
Answers to 10 most common job interview questions
- What are your weaknesses?
- Why should we hire you?
- Why do you want to work here?
- What are your goals?
- Why did you leave (or why are you leaving) your job?
- When were you most satisfied in your job?
- What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?
- What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
How do you describe your strengths?
Some examples of strengths you might mention include:
What do you see yourself in 5 years answer?
Example answer: Over the next few years, I want to explore and develop skills in project management. In five years, I want to have gained experience in leading projects for major clients. I will be looking for opportunities to expand my responsibilities within this role to work towards my goal.
What are your 3 ideal job qualities?
- Ideal Job Must Have #1 – Great Growth opportunity.
- Ideal Job Must Have #2 – Adequate Salary.
- Ideal Job Must have #3 – A Great Boss.
- Ideal Job Must Have #4 – Great Job Duties.
- Ideal Job Must Have #5 – Great Working Environment.
How do you deal with conflict?
How to Handle Conflict in the Workplace
- Talk with the other person.
- Focus on behavior and events, not on personalities.
- Listen carefully.
- Identify points of agreement and disagreement.
- Prioritize the areas of conflict.
- Develop a plan to work on each conflict.
- Follow through on your plan.
- Build on your success.
How do you handle stress interview?
A big part of handling stress is preparation. Be sure to research the company in advance and practice answering common interview questions. The more you practice, the more comfortable you’ll feel in the interview. You can also reduce stress by avoiding negative thinking (“I won’t get this job”).
Why are you interested in this position best answer?
Example: “I’m interested in this job because I can see that, in this role, my skills could help solve this problem within your company. I also see an opportunity for me to learn and grow these skills, so we both would benefit personally, professionally, and financially.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years for freshers?
“I look forward to learn new skills and improve my knowledge to advance my career. In five years from now, I see myself as a knowledgeable professional having an in-depth knowledge of the company and the industry.”
What is your ideal job?
“I would describe the ideal job as a job that makes the most of my qualifications and abilities, and gives me a chance to constantly challenge myself. I look for a stable job with quality supervision, a positive work culture at a successful company that will encourage me to work at my best.”
What are the components of an interview guide?
What elements should an interview guide cover? An interview guide should include a section on the interview invitation, setting the stage, welcoming the candidate, the questions to be asked, candidate questions, the end of the interview, and candidate scoring.
How do you write an interview guide?
Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Interview Questions Write down the larger research questions of the study. Outline the broad areas of knowledge that are relevant to answering these questions. 2. Develop questions within each of these major areas, shaping them to fit particular kinds of respondents.
What is your salary expectation sample answer?
Example answers I am open to discussion regarding my salary expectations. However, given my salary in my previous position as well as my industry knowledge and experience, I feel that a salary between the range of $70,000 and $80,000 is fair. My salary expectations for this position are between $85,000 and $95,000.
Why are you a good fit for this job?
You can do the work and deliver exceptional results. You will fit in beautifully and be a great addition to the team. You possess a combination of skills and experience that make you stand out. Hiring you will make him look smart and make his life easier. | <urn:uuid:98281636-4774-4242-8e46-0142443bb69f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kingfisherbeerusa.com/what-is-an-interview-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929678 | 1,124 | 1.710938 | 2 |
hello, i'm going to be changing the waste pipes in my bathroom, the basin is running at 32 mm and the bath is running at 40 mm. thats not he problem, they both enter the soil sack, bath waste is lower, then the basin waste comes in about 350 mm higher up. Can i use 40 mm for the bath and as it runs past the basin, drop the basin waste into the same pipe using 1 pipe for both flows? please help. :?
Sorry to disagree with everyone else, but although sometimes you have to combine wastes, it is not good practice to do so. Two problems occur. Firstly, when the plug is pulled in a full basin, water will often flow up the bath waste and cause a gurgle in the trap. sometimes water can actually flow up into the bath. Secondly, when the basin empties, and the water drains away, it can pull all the water out of the bath trap breaking the seal and allowing odours up into the room.
DIY how to tutorial projects and guides - Did you know we have a DIY Projects section? Well, if no, then we certainly do! Within this area of our site have literally hundreds of how-to guides and tutorials that cover a huge range of home improvement tasks. Each page also comes with pictures and a video to make completing those jobs even easier! | <urn:uuid:b090ab36-5d4e-4e04-8c0a-b605a5d1dc0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/forums/bath-and-basin-waste-t14134.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00528-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954647 | 276 | 2.078125 | 2 |
» Assess – This is where we identify and understand how your interests, skills, values and personality relate to occupations.
» Explore – A crucial piece of the career decision making process is exploration. Finding out what types of careers are out there.
» Decide – Along the way of assessing and exploring you will be making decisions. The most important question to ask yourself is: “How will I decide to decide?”
» Act – Once you have some ideas concerning a career field, there are many things that you can do to keep moving forward. Take the time to meet with a career counselor and discuss your options. | <urn:uuid:56e6961c-7fce-4cb8-a2d2-7643da7ba608> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://northweststate.edu/academic-divisions/undecided/deciding-on-a-career/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00569-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946255 | 129 | 2.375 | 2 |
Use of Third Party Services
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes stricter controls on the way we allow third parties to handle personal data for us. The University occasionally uses third party organisations or companies to process data on its behalf. When this takes place on a significant scale there should always be a contract and a data processing agreement put into place.
However, staff and students or others undertaking University business in one capacity or another might overlook the fact that very basic, every-day, free services we use are third party processors to whom we supply personal data in one form or another. Survey tools, meeting organization tools, batch communications tools etc all fall into this category. In these instances we are often bound by their Terms and Conditions of service which may not be compliant with the requirements of the GDPR.
It may not be possible to provide hard and fast guidance on each of the services available (especially as terms and conditions are revised over time) but the advice below should be taken into account when considering what third party service to use if there is no internal option available.
1. Read Terms and Conditions
Always read the Terms and Conditions of Service. Do they adequately consider data security and detail the technology employed? Do they detail how long they retain personal data or specify who will have access to it? Do they note compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations? If these things are not adequately explained, then it is advisable to avoid using this service.
2. Find out where the date is held
It is important to know whether the data that they are provided with (by you/Aberystwyth University directly or by individual participants) will be held on servers within the EU/EEA or the UK. If these details are not immediately provided, or if they state that their servers are held outside the EU/EEA then you should not use this service provider without first discussing the matter with the Data Protection Officer.
Any survey information collected online must be done in a manner that complies with the data protection legislation (specifically, GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018) though this is not relevant if a survey is comprehensively anonymous and that no identifying data is involved.
A number of online survey services, currently store data outside the EEA/EU, and this automatically means that they are non-compliant. Aberystwyth University, along with most UK Universities recommends using JISC Online Surveys (formerly BOS) in most circumstances. Smartsurvey also hold their data in the UK and are indicating broad compliance with GDPR.
All surveys must be accompanied by a data protection or privacy notice. If a survey is intended to be anonymous, this must also be clearly stated.
4. Online calendar, meeting and event booking services
Here again, be aware of terms and conditions and particularly any information regarding the location of where data is held. How long do they retain data, and what rights do they have over any additional content such as uploaded photographs or text? It is preferable for you to have the ability to delete any data that is held in relation to your use of the service rather than relying on the service provider, especially if they have no declared retention period.
5. Bulk mailing services
Email marketing is particularly affected by both data protection and privacy in electronic communications legislation and so it is essential to discuss any new emailing/marketing projects with the Data Protection Officer before commencement. Online/cloud services which offer this facility should be avoided if possible. If use of such a service is unavoidable, again check the Terms and Conditions for those issues noted above. In such cases it is recommended that you use one of the largest suppliers, as they are more likely to offer services and privacy levels that are compliant with GDPR.
6. Document Storage
The University provides Sharepoint and OneDrive and also AU-sited shared drives for document storage. As noted above, you should avoid other storage solutions, particularly cloud services where servers hold data outside the EEA/EU. If there appears to be no alternative, take note of points 1 and 2 above, and consult with the Data Protection Officer. | <urn:uuid:74bcf47a-858e-4290-a53f-369bdf17e92a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/about-us/corporate-information/information-governance/data-protection/use-of-third-party-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.934414 | 844 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Pomona, FL (PressExposure) November 03, 2009 -- Philippines is one of the many countries in Asia which is known for their collection of unique and wild flowers. One in particular is the sampaguita. The sampaguita is considered as one of the most popular species of philippine flowers. Although sampaguita is native to the Philippines, the flower is also pandemic in most Asian countries. Sampaguita is also known as the Arabian Jasmine which is the name commonly known around the world as well as in Arab.
Another, such as the Ylang-Ylang, is also a native in the Philippines. The name ylang-ylang is derived from Tagalog, either from the word ilang, meaning "wilderness", alluding to its natural habitat, or the word ilang-ilan, meaning "rare", suggestive of its exceptionally delicate scent. However, the Ylang-Ylang aren't only unique in the Philippines. Apparently, other than the Philippines, Indonesia is also known to grow these philippine flowers in Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.
However, unlike sampaguita and ylang-ylang, another unique species of flowers are known to grow only in the Philippines. This is the Waling-Waling flower. The waling-waling is a rare epiphytic orchid endemic to the island of Mindanao, particularly in the foothills of Mount Apo in Davao, Cotabato, and Surigao. It flowers seasonally, and its two-week bloom occurs during the peak months of July until December. The flower is also known as Euanthe sanderiana.
It flower has been noted to have two different forms, the pink one and the white one, which is also referred to as alba. The flower was also hailed as the âQueen of Philippine Orchids,â mainly because of its stunning beauty and unique features. The flower has also been worshiped as a diwata by the native Bagobo people.
Many people, not only in the Philippines, have considered the waling-waling as country's best philippine flowers, in terms of orchid variety, due to its many stunning colorful hybrids. This captivating trait led to hunters and orchid collectors from all over the world harvesting the species almost to extinction. The decline was stemmed, however, when tissue culture was performed in order to repropagate the orchid. To further preserve this species of flower, there had been a motion in the House of Representatives of the Philippines to declare the "Waling-waling" as the country's national flower, which would replace the Sampaguita. | <urn:uuid:a8b0bd23-a756-4488-a4da-ac5e71c0ad64> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pressexposure.com/Philippines_Unique_Flower-94899.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978454 | 566 | 2.640625 | 3 |
When you’re new to the world of business funding, the fine print can read like a calculus textbook. So, we put together a list of small business financing terms to get you started, so you can go into the application process with the confidence and knowledge to make the right decision for your business.
APR stands for “Annual Percentage Rate.” A loan’s interest rate may get top billing, but it’s this number you should carefully examine. Why? Because APR includes all associated costs or fees involved in taking out the loan and is an annualized rate, providing you with the actual cost per year of borrowing money. Consequently, it’s the best metric for making an “apples-to-apples” comparison of competing loan offers. Most lenders are required by The Truth in Lending Act to disclose the APR. But if you want to calculate APR on your own, there’s also a number of handy calculators available.
An intimidating word for a straightforward concept. Amortization simply means dividing up the cost of something over a period of time. You might be paying off a small business loan. Or, you may be averaging out the price of your new office furniture over its 5-year lifespan for tax purposes. In the context of business funding, an amortization schedule refers to the length of time and the fixed (or evenly distributed) size and frequency of payments you’ll make to pay back your loan. A higher percentage of each payment will go towards your interest charges in the loan’s early days, but as you begin to make regular payments, a more significant percentage will shift to your principal.
Business Credit Score
Businesses, like people, come with credit scores. Lenders use this number to determine if your business has a record of being financially responsible. And like your personal score, your business will be judged on things like its record of paying bills on time, its ability to avoid legal trouble with creditors, and its length of time in business. Don’t panic if you’re quoted a low score: personal credit scores range from 300 to 850, but business credit scores generally range from 0 to 100.
Ever wonder where your credit score comes from? Companies called credit bureaus collect and monitor information on consumer credit. The lender then uses this insight to make decisions about potential loan candidates.There are dozens of credit bureaus across the country, but you’re probably familiar with the big three: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
Keeping track of multiple loan payments can be tough, especially when you’re a small business owner who is already juggling one million things. When you have many loans to keep track of, this is where business debt consolidation comes in. By consolidating business debt, you roll several forms of debt into one new loan, which streamlines your debt repayments into a single monthly payment — and in some cases, can even land you a more affordable APR.
It’s a perennial problem: small businesses struggle with cash flow, but owners don’t want to give up control of their company. Thankfully, there’s debt financing. With debt financing, you borrow money (which you then pay back with interest) to fund your business. In contrast, equity financing involves selling shares of a company to investors in exchange for capital. Debt financing could cover a business’s short-term needs via credit cards or small lines of credit. Or, it could support longer-term growth investments with a multi-year loan.
Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) is a crucial calculation for lenders to determine a business’s capacity to repay a loan. It’s calculated by dividing your annual net income by your “annual debt service.” Annual debt service is the money required over a year to pay debts. You’re hoping for a higher ratio here since it’ll prove that your business has enough cash available to cover your loan payments and any associated fees even if cash flow fluctuates from month to month. Every lender has a different minimum DSCR they’ll accept before granting a loan, but you’ll want your number to be 1.25 or higher before you book an appointment.
The balance sheet provides you with a comprehensive picture of your business’ financial situation at a given point in time. Here you’ll track every asset, liability, and equity held by the company It’s called a balance sheet because your assets have to balance out with your liabilities and equity when you’re finished. Keeping an accurate and up-to-date balance sheet should be your top bookkeeping priority.
Cash Flow Statement
A cash flow statement is a list of where the money’s coming from and where it’s going. It’ll help you understand how the changes on the balance sheet are affecting your cash on hand. A cash flow statement has three categories: operating, investing, and financing activities and includes dates and details of each transaction.
Also called a ‘profit and loss statement’ or a ‘statement of operations,’ an income statement is a simplified document that reports on a business’ revenues, expenses, profits, and losses during a specific period.
Interest rate is expressed as a percentage of the principal, interest rate is the amount a lender charges for you to borrow money. See APR for a complete picture of what you’ll be paying.
We know it’s tempting to see a $1,000,000 sales report and immediately book a trip to Costa Rica. But this revenue isn’t the full picture of your business’ viability. First, you’ll need to calculate your net income. Net income is what your business brings in after all expenses have been deducted. Your net deductions include expenses like COGS (cost of goods sold), taxes, and depreciation. Let’s say your business brought in $1,000,000 last year. Your gross income might be a cool million, but after subtracting the $800,000 you spent on business expenses, your business’ net income is only $200,000.
Underwriting can be hard work. As a result, lenders will commonly charge an “origination fee” to cover the costs of evaluating and originating a loan. The origination fee could be a flat fee, but it’s usually expressed as a percentage of the principal amount. Let’s say you’re approved for a $50,000 loan with an origination fee of 5 percent. The lender will deduct that 5 percent ($2,500) right off the bat, then give you the remaining $47,500.
Personal Credit Score
How does a lender determine who’d make a good candidate for a loan? Sure, they could take every applicant out for coffee, but analyzing a three-digit number is a lot easier for evaluating your financial responsibility as a business owner. This personal credit score paints a picture of a person’s history managing their debts and other financial obligations. It’s based on five primary factors: payment history, the total amount of debt owed, length of credit history, diversity of credit types, and whether a lot of new credit has recently been requested. Credit scores range from 300 to 850, but generally speaking, anything above 700 will prove your financial savviness to lenders.
Lending to a small business is considered a risky endeavor. Even the author of the world’s most comprehensive business plan could run into unexpected challenges. It’s for this reason that lenders may require you to sign a personal guarantee. If the business is unable to pay its debts down the line, the signer of the guarantee agrees to pay them personally. Personal guarantees are common these days, as lenders like to see some “skin in the game.”
It’s Personal Finance 101: pay off debts as soon as you can, right? Well, with small business loans, there might just be a penalty for early repayment. Lenders can charge borrowers a “prepayment penalty” to recoup the interest they’ll lose from the loan’s early repayment. If you’re hoping to avoid these charges, make sure you understand the payment conditions before taking out a loan. And if you’re currently in a loan that has a prepayment penalty, do a cost-benefit analysis to see if you’re better off waiting to pay your loan per the agreed-upon schedule.
A loan is broken down into two parts: the interest and the principal. The principal is simply the amount of money you’ve borrowed and have yet to pay back.
Make a sale, earn revenue. Revenue is simply the amount of money that your business activities bring in. The revenue doesn’t factor in things like expenses or staff time. If you’re looking at your total revenue over a more extended period, be sure to factor in discounts or deductions for returned merchandise.
It’s important to know whether the work you’re doing is actually worth the energy (and money). ROI stands for “Return on Investment.” It’s an excellent method for assessing the value of everything from selling a new product to bringing on an HR person. Here’s a (highly simplified) example. If you spend $1,000 on a print media advertising campaign and observe a $2,000 boost in sales the following week, your ROI for the campaign is 100%. Of course, ROI isn’t always this easy to calculate once you factor in things like the cost of goods sold or the time spent designing the ad campaign.
Don’t mess with the IRS. If you have unpaid federal tax obligations, the IRS can file a federal tax lien with the county government where you live or conduct business. A tax lien is a claim against your business’s assets. A tax lien becomes a matter of public record, will show up on your credit report, and will severely limit your ability to sell your business or acquire new credit. The tax lien will remain on your business until you pay off the full amount, or negotiate an alternate payment arrangement. Note: the government also reserves the right to seize your business if you don’t get serious about your payments.
With a term loan, you borrow a lump sum of capital upfront. You then pay it back with regular payments over a set period. Term loans usually span 1-5 years, although they can go as high as 20, and tend to follow monthly repayment schedules.
Often misunderstood as a business’ cash on hand, working capital actually refers to whether a company has enough short-term assets to cover its short-term liabilities. It’s a necessary calculation that provides a quick snapshot of a business’s financial health. The formula looks like this: Current Assets / Current Liabilities = Working Capital. Assets could be cash in the till, your shop’s inventory, or its short-term investments, while current liabilities could be things like account payable or accrued taxes. A result below 1 is a cause for concern, while anything over 2 means you should think about investing your excess assets. Lucky you!
A Final Note on Small Business Financing Terms
This list of small business financing terms is not exhaustive by any means. However, familiarizing yourself with this lingo will help you navigate the world of small business funding with more confidence and ease. | <urn:uuid:68481732-8577-4fff-91d2-4d04cfeec0c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://due.com/blog/decoding-small-business-financing-terms-a-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.942984 | 2,461 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Designing a Bargello Quilt
This formula gives you basics you can alter to create the bargello you want.
Start with strips
- Click WORKTABLE > Work on Quilt.
- Click QUILT > New Quilt > Vertical (or Horizontal) Strip Quilt.
- Click the Layout tab.
- Under Select Strip click the Delete button until only one strip remains.
- Under Select a strip style, click the drop-down arrow. Choose Pieced Blocks.
- Make the Width 2.00 (or your preferred finished strip width).
- Make the Length 68.00 (or your preferred length).
- Under Number of blocks, make Along length be 20 (or your preferred number of strip divisions).
- Under Select strip, click Clone the selected strip if it is not checked, then click the Add button until you have 30 strips total (or your preferred number of strips).
- Need more than 32 strips? Click QUILT > Quilt Worktable Options > Strip Quilts > Layout Options > change “Number of Strips.”
- Need more than 24 spaces? Click QUILT > Quilt Worktable Options > Layout Options > click “All Styles” > change “Maximum number of blocks horizontally and vertically.”
Adjust strip widths
- Click the first strip in your quilt.
- Make the Width 3.00.
- Click the second strip in your quilt.
- Make the Width 2.75.
Repeat this process, downsizing strip widths 0.25 or 0.50 smaller, or to half the size of the previous strip. When your strip reaches the smallest size you are willing to sew, start increasing strip sizes by 0.25 or 0.50, or doubling the size. Repeat until all strip widths have been changed.
You can also use the Half Drop or Spaced Squares strip styles. Or try setting every other strip to Half Drop.
Color the strips
- Click the Layer 1 tab.
- Click the Paintbrush tool.
- Color a patch in strip 1 your darkest color.
- With the same color, color a patch 1 space up or down from where you colored in strip 1.
- Continue coloring to create the curving diagonals familiar to this style. Typically you change direction (up or down) when you reach the largest or smallest strip in the series. | <urn:uuid:4bb389ad-b0af-4d85-a20a-381d25fa9118> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://support.electricquilt.com/articles/bargello-how-to-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.762139 | 504 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Word-Search-Puzzles.Appspot.Com Easy – Word search puzzles enjoyed their prime as the most played intellectual games. Word searches have been common in newspapers and magazines for many years. Many a pulp writer would have hours of time, each day trying to solve a mystery. The puzzles of the past have become a phenomenon on the internet. Web sites dedicated exclusively to the kind of game have emerged and the web, is full of these difficult brainteasers.
An easy method to discover the real meaning behind a word is to go to the next puzzle , and then seek for the exact letter in that word. A majority of online puzzles come with an alphabet of words that can be identified by using the exact letters on the game screen. Sometimes word search puzzles contain words that cannot be defined in a dictionary yet the searcher has to locate the right translation for these words using the specific letters to get exactly the right translation in the game.
While doing online word search challenges the actual solving of the puzzle could be done entirely through the keyboard of the player. This permits players who struggle with precise motor movements, such as those involved in using a mouse a keyboard to compete with those who play online. A player might be asked to type in a square with a set number of horizontal and vertical lines, while another player could type the exact same square , but in an entirely different color scheme. By following a clearly marked path the wrong player is challenged to find the missing letters and complete the puzzle.
In certain word search puzzles the incorrect player is compelled to seek an additional clue before they are able to complete the game. Sometimes, clues to hint appear into the obscure areas of puzzle screens. Sometimes, these clues lead a player to another portion of the grid. Other instances, they lead a player to at least some sort of hidden clue to allow them to solve the puzzle. The extra puzzle elements can make for a fun element to what would otherwise be an extremely difficult task.
Many word search puzzles are multi-leveled problems. Participants must first master an easier level before moving to another level that is more difficult. To do this, players must master manipulating the puzzle pieces board in order to create words. When players have made their way to the upper levels using the keyboard’s letters to further manipulate those puzzle pieces. Multiple levels of difficulty provide diverse challenges, making every puzzle a different experience.
For example, one type game that involves word searches requires the user’s input to be incorporated into an some sort of array. Then, the words that are picked could be used in an additional puzzle. According to the specific grid employed, the numbers of letters that can be picked out from the array may differ. However, the more letters that are used within the grid, the more likely that a solution will be discovered.
People who love solving puzzles can discover a wide range of websites online that let them explore a wide range of word searches. Some are difficult and others are simply fun. Some are based on basic words and letters while others incorporate both letter and word combinations. Once the players have solved the earlier challenges, they can go on to larger and more difficult puzzles that require even more strategy than the more straightforward ones. The puzzles are also shared online by friends and family, allowing players to tackle a huge problem together. This is a fantastic way to expand friendships while enjoying a relaxing game.
Word puzzles containing letters of the alphabet are fairly simple for the majority of people to solve because the fundamental principles of how to move the pieces around a square grid are identical. But, experts point out how solving the word search using only double letters is slightly more difficult, because it requires more attention than the usual method of determining what the right position. In any case solving these kinds of puzzles is very enjoyable and should be a priority for people of all ages, ages, and experience levels should consider trying. | <urn:uuid:67733017-0dda-4933-aeb7-28473b0d75da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://word-searchpuzzles.com/word-search-puzzles-appspot-com-easy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.948354 | 815 | 2.25 | 2 |
The fmCASES are located at: http://www.med-u.org. They are common presentations of common medical problems in a self-guided tutorial. See page 13 for instructions on registering for the cases. We decided not to re-create cases on topics that were already developed by CLIPP and SIMPLE, a total of seven cases are part of fmCASES. These cases are there to help you learn about the topic areas. Some students found it helpful to study from the case summary at the end of each case. Some students found the cases to be helpful to them with patient encounters. fmCASES serves as the "lecture series" of the family medicine clerkship. If completed, each case would take about 45 minutes to complete. Responses to the cases are not graded, and you are NOT required to complete the cases. However, the final family medicine clerkship exam is based on all 40 cases.
You are expected to do reading on the presenting problems of the patients you have encountered during this clerkship. We recommend that you refer to the relevant clinical topics covered by the American Academy of Family Physician articles on the flash drive given to you at orientation or by going to: http://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewAll.htm. You may use other textbooks and online resources. Some suggestions are listed below.
Additional Useful References:
¦ EBM link through the George Harrell library: https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/hershey.html
¦ American Family Physician, a practice-oriented journal on common problems: http://www.aafp.org/journals/afp.html
¦ Griffith's The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, - a quick review of medical conditions
¦ Connect with the AAFP Network: http://www.aafp.org/medical-school-residency/fmig/connect.html
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During the Q&A, I asked Krugman that since he was critical of cutting tax rages, then would he favor going back to the 70 percent top rates that existed before they were cut in 1981. Krugman's answer: "No! Those rates were insane!" (His term)
I am reminded of that answer in reading his blog post today about the "postwar system." (Krugman conveniently leaves out the collapse of the Bretton Woods accords in 1971, but since he considers money just something to be printed, I guess he would have considered that to be a good thing.) He writes:
Here’s what I think: inflation did have to be brought down — and Paul Volcker, not Reagan, did what was necessary. But the rest — slashing taxes on the rich, breaking the unions, letting inflation erode the minimum wage — wasn’t necessary at all. We could have gone on with a more progressive tax system, a stronger labor movement, and so on. (emphasis mine)So, Paul, what is it? And if Krugman really wants me to believe that the standard of living for Americans was higher in the 1970s than it was in the past decade, well, I would like to sell him some ocean-front real estate -- in Nevada. | <urn:uuid:2c75d524-3895-44c7-8d3f-542dc11426a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2010/05/krugman-once-again-contradicts-himself.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983121 | 263 | 1.539063 | 2 |
On April 28, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved County Assessor Larry Stone’s tax relief and Government efficiency proposal. The new ordinance eliminates business property taxes for small business by exempting from the property tax rolls all business personal property with an assessed value of $5,000 or less.
The ordinance, known as the “Minimum Assessment Ordinance,” is aimed both at providing tax relief to small businesses and at saving the County the disproportionate cost of assessing and collecting insignificant amounts of property tax revenue. The ordinance was passed on April 28, 1998, and will apply to next years tax bill. “This makes common sense and is a perfect example of how we are doing things differently,” said County Assessor Larry Stone. “Shortly after I was elected in 1994, I realized that the County was spending more to Assess and collect taxes than we were generating in taxes to the County and local municipalities. This doesn’t make any sense, either from the perspective of governmental efficiency or in terms of fairness to taxpayers. It reminds me of the days when the IRS would send a bill to collect ten cents in taxes. It’s dumb, and I’m glad that we have ended this inefficient practice.” “This is a win-win solution for small business owners and for Santa Clara County. In one vote, the Board lowered taxes, saved taxpayers money, and enabled the County to work smarter and more efficiently,” commented County Supervisor Joe Simitian. Taxable personal property consists primarily of business equipment, computers, fixtures and small boats. It does not include real property, such as land or buildings. Approximately 14,000 small businesses in Santa Clara County report total personal property assets of less than $5,000 and will be eliminated from the tax rolls. Approximately 88,000 businesses file business property statements with the Assessor annually from all companies doing business in Santa Clara County. “I campaigned to make the Assessor’s Office more productive and cost effective,” said Stone. “This ordinance is an obvious and simple step which will help achieve this goal.” | <urn:uuid:85d59686-50a5-4340-8093-a581aea3141f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sccassessor.org/index.php/about-us/media-release/media-release-archived/item/280-property-tax-relief-for-small-business-approved | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.961898 | 439 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Dogs are not allowed at a new dog park in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, because of old laws still on the books. Members of the community had requested a local public place for their dogs to play for years. In response, borough officials approved the creation of the new dog park within Hershfield Park. The dog park was officially opened to the public last month, but borough code currently prohibits dogs from going inside. The absurd situation was the subject of much discussion at the Borough Council meeting on June 8.
Councilman Lloyd Kent said he was recently walking his dog close to the entrance of Hershfield Park when he was intercepted by a police officer who warned him that he couldn’t bring his dog inside.
Borough Attorney Joseph Ragno pointed out state law dictates that in residential areas, owners must clean up after their dogs and keep dogs on a leash and under their control at all times.
The mayor and council agreed that the local ordinances against dogs in parks didn’t magically come into existence.
They were developed to address issues that were of concern at the time the ordinances were made, but circumstances and people change - so those ordinances are designed to morph and change to adjust with the times.
Mayor Mike Serra said, "Yeah, I’m sure there’s some silly ordinance still on our books that says you can’t leave horses tied to a railing in front of certain buildings."
Fire Chief Al Bruno said, "I think at one time, having dogs near playing kids was considered bad news, but that’s changing."
Councilman Erik DeLine said, "Now, I think people are much more aware and responsible, and pick up after their dogs."
Serra wrapped up the discussion by saying, "If it’s all that simple, I think all we need to do is work with the Ordinance Committee and change the ordinance.
"Then, when we get prices and such. We replace the old signs prohibiting dogs from Hershfield, and install ones that say something to the effect of, ‘Leashed dogs welcome.’ It should specify the allowable length of the leash. And maybe we also install those stands with the little bags for owners to us to pick up after their four-legged friends. We may also consider adding signs at Hershfield Park entrances directing residents with dogs to the park. With all the information in hand, we can make it official at the next council meeting."
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Eating in everyday speech these or other words, the person usually does not think about the history of their origin. Another thing - linguists.
They spend a lot of time trying to get to the true meaning of the words and to restore the path of their development.
There is even a special branch of linguistics devoted to these issues, which is called etymology.(Further…)
Internet video, shot by Moscow journalists during a routine survey of citizens on the street, circled the expanse of the World Wide Web and beat records of popularity.
And the thing is that a lady is very emotionally told about themselves and a certain "kandibobere" who screwed on her head.(Further…)
Antiquity keeps a lot of mysteries. Surprisingly, some words, going from one language to another, live for several thousand years.
An example of this - Latin, which was the basis for many modern languages.(Further…)
Homophones - different in the sense of the words in a particular situation sound the same.
This sometimes creates misunderstandings and funny situations. Homophones can be phrases and whole sentences.
Homophony phenomenon common to many world languages.(Further…)
To properly place the punctuation marks in compound sentences (CPR), you need to determine its type.
To do this, you must mark the boundaries of the main and subordinate clauses.
In most cases, part of the NGN are separated by a comma.(Further…)
In the Russian language part of speech as part of phrases and sentences play a certain syntactic role.
They can act as its main parts of the sentence (subject and predicate), as well as secondary, namely determining additions and circumstances.(Further…)
Any nation characterizes its culture and its own language. To ensure relevance, remember enough about how Ukraine is now fighting for its national language, trying to save it.
But even with such importance, languages "die" and go into the past.(Further…)
Linguistic tale - this is a very interesting viewtraining, which has proved itself best for the students of junior and middle classes. You can use it fun to talk about the rules of the Russian language, member offers, different parts of speech.
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Greensboro Pastors Want Apology For 1979 Massacre
Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre, local pastors are requesting the the city council issue an apology for the events that led to the 1979 killing.
On November 3, 1979, the Ku Klux Klan alongside neo-Nazis shot and killed five activists and communist party members in broad daylight in Greensboro. The shooters were acquitted twice by all-white juries. Evidence later emerged in a federal trial that an informant had given the Greensboro Police Department advance notice of the attack.
Greensboro Pulpit Forum President Daran Mitchell wants the city to acknowledge its role in the Greensboro Massacre.
"We want it to have a higher level of substance so there are some moves made and some steps and strategies taken to keep these things from occurring again," he said.
The city apologized in 2017 for its role, but the pastors said that statement did not go far enough. Beloved Community Center co-director Nelson Johnson said the city needs to be clear in its apology.
"An apology without articulating the specifics for which you are apologizing is empty words," he said.
The city and the police department have not responded publicly to this latest request for an apology.
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Returning to school after military service can be a daunting task, but the Education Guide offers examples of many colleges and universities that are taking steps to provide veterans a more seamless transition into the classroom"
Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 25, 2013
The latest Stars and Stripes Education Guide is now available to help U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who want to pursue higher education.
With so many veterans back from Iraq and Afghanistan now aiming to begin or return to college, universities are training their staffs to assist these unique students and tailoring their offerings to provide veterans-only classes designed to help them with re-integration. The Education Guide offers information on these topics and on:
- Funding an education on the cheap
- Making the most of online lectures
- Accessing Ivy-league universities by way of two-year colleges.
"Returning to school after military service can be a daunting task, but the Education Guide offers examples of many colleges and universities that are taking steps to provide veterans a more seamless transition into the classroom,” said Sean Moores, whose team created the Education Guide.
In addition to being inserted in the Stars and Stripes newspaper editions, the Education Guide will also be distributed in the United States on many of the nation’s military bases. The Education Guide is also available in a searchable PDF online at http://www.stripes.com/special-pubs/education-guide.
About Stars and Stripes:
Stars and Stripes reports on military matters as the only independent source for news and information operating inside the U.S. Department of Defense that serves the global U.S. military community. Editorially independent of any outside interference and influence, Stars and Stripes provides commercially available U.S. and world news and objective, factual staff-produced stories relevant to the military community it serves.
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Unequal exposure to industrial activity (and the associated environmental harms) is a well-studied phenomenon within the environmental inequality literature, yet little has been written about children and oil and gas development. In this paper, I aim to determine whether certain school-level characteristics make a school more likely to be located near oil and gas wells. I focus on Colorado public schools, and utilize a combination of spatial and statistical methods. I begin by mapping all Colorado public schools and all oil and gas wells within the state and constructing buffers around each school (at 2,500 and 5,000 feet). I then utilize logistic regression to determine which school-level characteristics increase the likelihood of having at least one well in each of the buffer zones. Percentage of Hispanic and Latino students and a history of poor academic performance increased the likelihood of a school being situated near oil and gas drilling, while a higher percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunch (a proxy for socioeconomic status) decreased this likelihood. This research has implications for Colorado setback policies.
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It’s not clear whether Stan Cox is a plant breeder with a penchant for politics, or a political provocateur who finds time to do science. Whichever aspect of his personality is dominant, Cox artfully draws on both skill sets to make the case for rationing, perhaps the most important concept that is not being widely discussed these days. The power of his new book, Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, comes from his blending of scientific analyses of dire resource trends with a compelling moral argument about the need to reshape politics and economics.
In his day job at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, the country’s premier sustainable agriculture research facility, Cox works todevelop perennial sorghum. A member of the editorial board of the magazine Green Social Thought (formerly Synthesis/Regeneration), Cox also has been thinking long and hard about the multiple ecological crises we face. In 2010 he published Losing Our Cool, a sharp-edged examination of the impacts of our society’s obsession with air-conditioning.
In this new book on rationing, he argues that we have to become a society that puts the brakes on consumption—in an egalitarian fashion—if we want to survive. A society dependent on reckless growth that enriches a small minority of people cannot expect to endure and flourish for the long haul. Cox believes that the right kind of rationing can produce a happier and healthier life for everyone.
Robert Jensen: In your book, you mention that some have compared raising the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Why is that idea so unacceptable today?
Stan Cox: People have shown a willingness to accept rationing in a broad variety of situations in which society-wide scarcity is obvious—wartime, say, or when governments have a fixed supply of subsidized food to sell, or in a drought when there’s only so much water to go around. But if rationing is proposed as a way to preserve resources and ecological life-support systems for the future—for dealing with environmental problems or providing equitable healthcare, for example—then we are talking about limiting consumption when there is no apparent scarcity. In that situation, we all like to believe that we exercise freedom in the marketplace, and to many it seems outrageous to limit that freedom.
RJ: Before getting to the specifics of how rationing might work, let’s talk about those cultural assumptions about freedom and abundance. We live in a world that routinely tells us there are no limits, that whatever limits we bump up against we can overcome with human creativity and advanced technology. You seem to believe that we live in a physical world with physical limits.
That’s a rather sensible position, of course, but it seems to cast you in the role of Eeyore, always the gloomy one. How do you defend yourself?
SC: OK, you’re getting down to the heart of the matter right away here. When opposing any kind of environmental responsibility, the Right loves to raise the specter of rationing, but it’s really the bigger idea of overall limits to growth that’s at the heart of our anxiety. We face an irresolvable contradiction: We all know intellectually that no kind of growth can go on to infinity, yet if we exist within a capitalist economy, our lives and livelihoods wholly depend on unceasing expansion of economic activity. A year, even a quarter, of slack or negative growth might reduce national carbon emissions but it also triggers widespread human misery. The converse isn’t true; robust growth doesn’t necessarily bring prosperity to all. In recent decades, the benefits of growth have flowed almost exclusively to the top of the economic pyramid.
With the imposition of any serious physical or ecological limits on the economy, familiar capitalist economic relations would malfunction, to say the least. So those at the top of the economy who benefit from growth have every reason to be alarmed by the idea of fair rationing. And if we agree to overall limits but remain committed to the current means of rationing resources and goods—that is, “to each according to ability to pay”—then the rest of us should be alarmed as well. But with a commitment to “fair shares for all,” as they put it back during World War II, and with everyone playing by the same rules (and of course with a much smaller chance of global ecological breakdown), life under physical limits could well be a better life for the great majority of us.
RJ: You mention WWII, one of the cases of successful rationing. As you say, the conventional wisdom is that such rationing is only possible in times of crisis, when the need to limit consumption is clear. So, how would you explain the crises we face today that make rationing necessary?
SC: In the 1940s, Washington did shore up support for the ration system by promising a world of plenty once the war was over. And except in a few resources like rubber, there was no absolute scarcity. Farms and factories were highly productive, there was no unemployment, and wages were rising. But a huge share of what was produced—for example, 4,000 calories worth of food per soldier per day—was diverted to Europe and the Pacific. People could see that with the end of the war, all those resources and goods were to be available again to everyone.
Now the green future, if there is one, will parallel the wartime ‘40s in the sense that a large part of the economy will have to be diverted for a period of years, or in this case, decades. We won’t be using resources to pump up the consumer economy, because they will have to be shifted into vast projects needed to build non-fossil, non-nuclear energy sources; convert to a much less energy-dependent infrastructure; build or convert to more compact, low-consumption housing; rework agriculture; and rearrange living and working patterns to reduce the amount of transportation required. The economist Minqui Li has estimated for the United States that building the necessary wind and solar capacity alone would cost $120 trillion.
All of that production will be unavailable to the consumer economy. It may provide stimulus, but with a nationwide policy of leaving resources in the ground, bigger paychecks will serve to drive up the prices of goods that are available. If the past is any guide, the only acceptable solution will be price controls and fair-shares rationing. Indeed, in both the ‘40s and the ‘70s, there was popular demand for formal rationing. Next time around, as you say, we won’t have the consolation that we can look forward to a peacetime or post-energy-crisis cornucopia. For example, alternative energy sources, even at full capacity, will provide far less total energy than do fossil fuels today. However, we may still be able to anticipate better times to come, once the physical conversion of society has achieved its goals.
At that point, not only will most of the economic effort that had gone into the conversion become once again part of the “civilian” economy, but that new economy will be able to satisfy more real needs for each unit of physical consumption. I guess if there is any light at the end of the tunnel, that’s it. If the conversion is successful, there won’t be as much easy energy around, and GDP won’t be rising, but quality of life will have been given the space needed for improvement.
RJ: Let’s go back to these two basic points that are so contentious. Your pitch for rationing is partly based on an assessment of physical realities: Resources are finite, and technological capacities to stretch resources have limits. Lots of people don’t accept that. You also are arguing that we are going to live with a much a lower level of consumption. For lots of people, that is depressing. Let’s tackle both of those.
First, one of the major things you argue we have to ration is energy, at a time when lots of people are celebrating new technologies that allow humans to tap into new sources of fossil fuels (fracking, tar sands, etc.). How do you see our energy future?
SC: Until a few years ago, a lot of environmentally minded people were hoping that the imminent peak and subsequent decline in the annual extraction of conventional fossil fuels would do our work for us, enforcing strict limits on consumption. Now a bonanza of so-called unconventional fuel reserves has blown that possibility away, forcing us to face the necessity of practicing self-restraint. Can we leave precious energy in the ground when we have the ability to bring it out? If we manage to do that, I guess it will be a first. But that’s what we need to do.
It will be a test of how addicted to dense energy we really are. Are we willing to launch an all-out assault on the Earth, just to avoid a disruption of economic business-as-usual? Unconventional fuels are a disaster—destroying vast landscapes, wrecking water supplies, causing spills of petroleum and nasty chemicals, increasing carbon emissions, and giving the human economy the capacity to do all the usual ecological damage that potent energy sources encourage. And these fuels are no free lunch. Individual gas wells are small and dry up quickly, so enormous numbers of them have to be drilled. They require a huge investment of energy and other resources to produce each unit of usable fossil energy. Yet even with all those problems, that energy is too valuable not to use, and we face a seemingly irresistible temptation to use up these resources as fast as we can extract them. You could say we’ve met our 21st-century Mephistopheles in the sands of Alberta and the Marcellus shale.
RJ: Second, in a world where so many people associate happiness with consumption, how do you make the argument that for those of us in the more affluent parts of the world, less can be more?
SC: In the early 1990s, several economists took note of an apparent statistical anomaly. While people in richer countries tend to be happier than those in poorer countries, increases in average real income in richer countries have not conferred an increase in happiness. In the words of Richard Easterlin, a University of Southern California economics professor whose name has become attached to this seeming paradox, “raising the incomes of all” will not “raise the happiness of all.”
It’s a fascinating problem, but the solution is just as dreary as most explanations of modern life. As society becomes materially richer in the aggregate, it takes a higher income every year just to keep up and maintain the same level of contentment. When everyone has an increasing income, it becomes harder and harder for anyone to achieve greater happiness. In this sense, times haven’t changed much in the century-plus since Thorstein Veblen described this phenomenon. Erosion of happiness is largely a result of everyone trying to keep up with the Joneses.
It’s not just the global north. In many nations once considered poor (and in which most people still are poor), rising incomes are not bringing happiness. On the contrary, examination of average income levels in countries worldwide has shown that more rapid aggregate growth is associated with a reduction in average happiness. The kind of breakneck growth that can carry a nation as a whole from poverty to affluence in a single generation also tends to worsen inequality and eat away at its citizens’ sense of well-being. But make no mistake, simply putting more emphasis on the pursuit of happiness cannot tame a capitalist economy any more effectively than can appeals to life or liberty. Inequitable growth in consumption is in the DNA of capitalism, and that has to be faced directly.
RJ: It’s clearer now why rationing is like an obscenity in church. It means leaving fossil fuels in the ground and permanently reducing overall consumption for almost everyone in the United States. That will require collective action through government and a serious overhaul of the economy. All this has to happen at a moment when what passes for leadership in the political system can’t face the basic problems, let alone imagine serious systemic change.
So, last question: What do you hope your book will accomplish? It’s a clear, compelling argument for rationing in a society that seems unwilling to accept limits and unable to comprehend the need for them. How do we get this into the public conversation?
SC: My aim is, in a way, parallel to what I tried to do with Losing Our Cool—to touch off a debate where there seemed to be total agreement. Air-conditioning has always been viewed as being of pure benefit to humanity, which it’s not. Rationing is constantly being held out by the Right as an unutterably nightmarish fate that awaits us if we get serious about ecological restraint and fairness. Meanwhile, the environmental establishment (in basic agreement with the Right) wants to go on letting people believe that the human economy can just keep on growing, that the market can allocate fairly, and that rationing is indeed an evil to be avoided at all costs.
My purpose with this book is to ask, so rationing’s the worst that could happen? Really? Well, let’s see how bad it might actually be—which may not be as bad as you think. And then let’s compare it to major-league worst-case scenarios, like the global ecological meltdown and all-against-all conflict that we could well see if we don’t restrain ourselves.
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org and his articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html. | <urn:uuid:f782c1a1-ad3d-4eba-a6f8-dac089a0ee41> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/03/ready-for-rationing/ | 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 | 0.956913 | 2,932 | 1.976563 | 2 |
As I stood at the drugstore counter with a pharmacist annoyed that she couldn't read the doctor's name on my mother's prescription recently, I had to smile at the irony. Just the day before I had posted a Wall Street Journal article on Facebook expressing my displeasure that writing in script is being phased out of many a school curriculum across our great land.
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It feels personal. Pen to paper is like breath to me. It's how I process things. It gives me great joy and serenity. It's a form of meditation.
But that is coming from my writer self and she's having a mini duel with the life coach on this. The writer is pretty grumpy about seeing all the subjects she excelled in now being considered not all that important. You know, things like spelling and grammar and now penmanship. Since she can barely name 10 people who know how to place an apostrophe, she's losing her grip. Resist the changes and resist some more.
The life coach, however, is much better at embracing change and in fact prides herself on being oh so open. It's her badge of honor. If one is going to help shepherd clients through looming challenges, being stuck in a time warp is not exactly an asset.
So let's look at what this handwriting issue is bringing to the surface.
"At a growing number of schools, young students are no longer tracing curving L's and arching D's with pencil and paper, no longer pausing at the end of words to dot an i or cross a t," writes Valerie Bauerlein in "The New Script for Teaching Handwriting is No Script at All". "The common core state standards, a set of math and English goals agreed upon by 45 states and now being implemented, sends cursive the way of the quill pen, while requiring instead that students be proficient in keyboarding by fourth grade."
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Never mind that one could argue today's children will be keyboarding -- we called it typing, but OK -- regardless of whether it's in the curriculum because it's so ingrained in all we do now. (Oh my, the sarcastic writer is interjecting again. Life coach, wherefore art thou?)
It is, of course, the life coach in me who recognizes that while the writer is broken-hearted over the excruciating demise of her beloved newspapers, it was her willingness to break from print journalism to Web back in 1998 that has helped keep her relevant. She was lagging far behind some in her profession on this score, but was way out ahead of others in her timing when she made that move.
Sure, her initial response to the editor who wanted her to come aboard FoxSports.com back then was, "This Web thing isn't going to sustain. I'm not leaving print." Not exactly a visionary, huh? But eventually, an opportunity to work for a major media outlet overrode the scared little voice and the move to an urban environment was an a-ha moment of great proportions.
Two years after that, when a coveted web producer position came up at Oxygen Media, the job description called for a minimum of 10 years print experience and at least a few on the Web. This writer's resume was a golden fit, the job tailor made.
Some push-pull is OK, isn't it? Our attachments can come from a learned place or one of lovely nostalgia. One of the things I liked best about seeing Argo was the reminder of how that era looked and sounded. I was a freshman in college in 1980 and it was fun to see the cars and telephones and hear the music from that time period. That doesn't mean I'm looking to trade in my smartphone for the instrument we used back then, though.
My clients are often stuck in mindsets or stalled in places they know are holding them back. It's my job to clear the muck and help them work through their resistance. Follow your gut here. Put your energy there. What's in the way?
Sometimes I have to turn that eye on myself. So is there something in my way here? I hate the idea of cursive going away. Strongly object to it like you can't believe.
But that would really only be detrimental if I was refusing to learn how to use all the technology afforded me and suggesting my clients live in the past with me. Instead, I'm passing along my message via this column, a blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Hardly the Stone Age, right? I love email, hate texting. I adore my smartphone, but am not inclined to use it beyond the basics.
Overall, I'd say the writer and the life coach are co-existing rather nicely.
When people talk about retiring and I declare that I'm not planning on it, ever, I have been known to say they'll have to pry the 'pen' from my cold, dead hands.
On one hand, heck yeah. On the other, who's really trying to take my pen?
This column began in a basic spiral notebook and was finetuned on an iPad.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, I called my mother from the drugstore, we figured out the doctor's name, and the prescription was filled.
Life goes on. You can read all about it in my hand-written journals.
Nancy Colasurdo is a practicing life coach and freelance writer. Her Web site is www.nancola.com and you can follow her on Twitter @nancola. Please direct all questions/comments to FOXGamePlan@gmail.com. | <urn:uuid:92991c76-07a9-4419-966f-2b8e0427e449> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2013/02/05/what-does-demise-cursive-mean.html?intcmp=trending | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00385-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971273 | 1,157 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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Corundum-bearing ultramafic veins in the Rymmen gabbro, southern Sweden: isochemical mineral alteration
Claeson, Dick T.
published: Jul 1, 1999
ArtNo. ESP154017501001, Price: 29.00 €
Ultramafic veins occur in the outer part of the 1.7 Ga Rymmen gabbro in southern Sweden. Their orientation is at random and no tectonic overprint is seen in the veins or in their host-rocks. Thus tectonic overprinting and synchronous or subsequent hydration can be ruled out as a hypothesis for the generation of these veins. A model is suggested, in which volatile-rich (aqueous) residual igneous fluids, formed entirely within the cumulates, caused the formation of veins. Whole-rock geochemical data show that the severe mineral alteration was more or less isochemical. One vein contains 2 vol. % corundum. The corundum is anhedral and corroded. Two in-situ alteration models are proposed for the genesis of corundum in the Rymmen gabbro. Minerals found in the vein have low silica and high alumina contents. Tschermakitic hornblende and pleonaste are associated with corundum. Temperature and pressure estimates are 700-800 °C and 6-10k bars based on hornblende-plagioclase geothermometry and the mineral assemblages corundum + amphibole + spinel + olivine + orthopyroxene and chlorite + amphibole + spinel + clinopyrocene found in the veins. | <urn:uuid:1b28a73c-171a-4f9e-a231-395757d2a061> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njma/detail/175/82220/Corundum_bearing_ultramafic_veins_in_the_Rymmen_gabbro_southern_Sweden_isochemical_mineral_alteration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877512 | 344 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
When the nomads came to El Lola they had no more songs, and the question of stealing the golden box arose in all its magnitude. On the one hand, many had sought the golden box, the receptacle (as the Aethiopians know) of poems of fabulous value; and their doom is still the common talk of Arabia. On the other hand, it was lonely to sit around the camp-fire by night with no new songs.
It was the tribe of Heth that discussed these things one evening upon the plains below the peak of Mluna. Their native land was the track across the world of immemorial wanderers; and there was trouble among the elders of the nomads because there were no new songs; while, untouched by human trouble, untouched as yet by the night that was hiding the plains away, the peak of Mluna, calm in the afterglow, looked on the Dubious Land. And it was there on the plain upon the known side of Mluna, just as the evening star came mouse-like into view and the flames of the camp-fire lifted their lonely plumes uncheered by any song, that that rash scheme was hastily planned by the nomads which the world has named The Quest of the Golden Box.
No measure of wiser precaution could the elders of the nomads have taken than to choose for their thief that very Slith, that identical thief that (even as I write) in how many school-rooms governesses teach stole a march on the King of Westalia. Yet the weight of the box was such that others had to accompany him, and Sippy and Slorg were no more agile thieves than may be found today among vendors of the antique.
So over the shoulder of Mluna these three climbed next day and slept as well as they might among its snows rather than risk a night in the woods of the Dubious Land. And the morning came up radiant and the birds were full of song, but the forest underneath and the waste beyond it and the bare and ominous crags all wore the appearance of an unuttered threat.
Though Slith had an experience of twenty years of theft, yet he said little; only if one of the others made a stone roll with his foot, or, later on in the forest, if one of them stepped on a twig, he whispered sharply to them always the same words: "That is not business." He knew that he could not make them better thieves during a two-days' journey, and whatever doubts he had he interfered no further.
From the shoulder of Mluna they dropped into the clouds, and from the clouds to the forest, to whose native beasts, as well the three thieves knew, all flesh was meat, whether it were the flesh of fish or man. There the thieves drew idolatrously from their pockets each one a separate god and prayed for protection in the unfortunate wood, and hoped therefrom for a threefold chance of escape, since if anything should eat one of them it were certain to eat them all, and they confided that the corollary might be true and all should escape if one did. Whether one of these gods was propitious and awake, or whether all of the three, or whether it was chance that brought them through the forest unmouthed by detestable beasts, none knoweth; but certainly neither the emissaries of the god that most they feared, nor the wrath of the topical god of that ominous place, brought their doom to the three adventurers there or then. And so it was that they came to Rumbly Heath, in the heart of the Dubious Land, whose stormy hillocks were the ground-swell and the after-wash of the earthquake lulled for a while. Something so huge that it seemed unfair to man that it should move so softly stalked splendidly by them, and only so barely did they escape its notice that one word ran and echoed through their three imaginations—"If—if—if." And when this danger was at last gone by they moved cautiously on again and presently saw the little harmless mipt, half fairy and half gnome, giving shrill, contented squeaks on the edge of the world. And they edged away unseen, for they said that the inquisitiveness of the mipt had become fabulous, and that, harmless as he was, he had a bad way with secrets; yet they probably loathed the way that he nuzzles dead white bones, and would not admit their loathing, for it does not become adventurers to care who eats their bones. Be this as it may, they edged away from the mipt, and came almost at once to the wizened tree, the goal-post of their adventure, and knew that beside them was the crack in the world and the bridge from Bad to Worse, and that underneath them stood the rocky house of the Owner of the Box.
This was their simple plan: to slip into the corridor in the upper cliff; to run softly down it (of course with naked feet) under the warning to travellers that is graven upon stone, which interpreters take to be "It Is Better Not"; not to touch the berries that are there for a purpose, on the right side going down; and so to come to the guardian on his pedestal who had slept for a thousand years and should be sleeping still; and go in through the open window. One man was to wait outside by the crack in the World until the others came out with the golden box, and, should they cry for help, he was to threaten at once to unfasten the iron clamp that kept the crack together. When the box was secured they were to travel all night and all the following day, until the cloud-banks that wrapped the slopes of Mluna were well between them and the Owner of the Box.
The door in the cliff was open. They passed without a murmur down the cold steps, Slith leading them all the way. A glance of longing, no more, each gave to the beautiful berries. The guardian upon his pedestal was still asleep. Slorg climbed by a ladder, that Slith knew where to find, to the iron clamp across the crack in the World, and waited beside it with a chisel in his hand, listening closely for anything untoward, while his friends slipped into the house; and no sound came. And presently Slith and Sippy found the golden box: everything seemed happening as they had planned, it only remained to see if it was the right one and to escape with it from that dreadful place. Under the shelter of the pedestal, so near to the guardian that they could feel his warmth, which paradoxically had the effect of chilling the blood of the boldest of them, they smashed the emerald hasp and opened the golden box; and there they read by the light of ingenious sparks which Slith knew how to contrive, and even this poor light they hid with their bodies. What was their joy, even at that perilous moment, as they lurked between the guardian and the abyss, to find that the box contained fifteen peerless odes in the alcaic form, five sonnets that were by far the most beautiful in the world, nine ballads in the manner of Provence that had no equal in the treasuries of man, a poem addressed to a moth in twenty-eight perfect stanzas, a piece of blank verse of over a hundred lines on a level not yet known to have been attained by man, as well as fifteen lyrics on which no merchant would dare to set a price. They would have read them again, for they gave happy tears to a man and memories of dear things done in infancy, and brought sweet voices from far sepulchres; but Slith pointed imperiously to the way by which they had come, and extinguished the light; and Slorg and Sippy sighed, then took the box.
The guardian still slept the sleep that survived a thousand years.
As they came away they saw that indulgent chair close by the edge of the World in which the Owner of the Box had lately sat reading selfishly and alone the most beautiful songs and verses that poet ever dreamed.
They came in silence to the foot of the stairs; and then it befell that as they drew nearer safetly, in the night's most secret hour, some hand in an upper chamber lit a shocking light, lit it and made no sound.
For a moment it might have been an ordinary light, fatal as even that could very well be at such a moment as this; but when it began to follow them like an eye and to grow redder and redder as it watched them, then even optimism despaired.
And Sippy very unwisely attempted flight, and Slorg even as unwisely tried to hide; but Slith, knowing well why that light was lit in that secret chamber and who it was that lit it, leaped over the edge of the World and is falling from us still through the unreverberate blackness of the abyss. | <urn:uuid:ad042528-5d42-4be1-bae0-0fcf21972dc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://undecay.integrate.ru/novells/probable.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.984629 | 1,884 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Christopher Mims, reporting for Quartz on Anjan Contractor’s plan to build a 3D printer for food, which was recently funded by NASA:
He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3D printer, and the earth’s 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor’s vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.
NASA is particularly interested in the project to outfit future missions that could last for months, or even years, such as one to Mars. Freeze dried food—the astronaut staple—isn’t ideal, according to NASA, because the process breaks down micronutrients. They hope the powders won’t have the same problems.
To win the grant from NASA, Contractor first built a prototype, which slathered a cookie with extruded chocolate.
Contractor is hard at work on a pizza printer, a dish uniquely suited to 3D printing because of the way it’s traditionally made, layer by layer. Pizza in space, anyone? | <urn:uuid:cff746b7-6f21-4730-ad8f-b7c844e4c8f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/3d-printing-pizza-in-space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00319-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95335 | 287 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Quality of the Laptop For Coding Under 40000
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Cost shouldn’t be an issue if you’re willing to invest in a high-quality product. An inexpensive product often has great features, so you get great value for your money.
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Ease of Use
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The product size is one of the most important aspects to consider before purchasing a Laptop For Coding Under 40000. You need to know what kind of product you want to buy to best fit your needs.
It is essential to buy a product that addresses your needs based on your product dimensions. Spending money on something you will likely need is a waste of money. You should choose a product that will meet your needs based on its power.
Many products with countless designs are available in the market. Some designs are redundant, and others aren’t as efficient. Make sure you know what you do and whether the tools you choose will help you do your job better.
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Materials of the Laptop For Coding Under 40000
We advise not to buy products from brands that don’t specify the materials they use unless we’re sure the product is made with good quality materials. It’s important to be confident about a purchase before you make one, so when the materials used aren’t clearly specified, it makes us doubt the product’s quality.
It’s imperative to consider what material will work best for your requirements before you make an investment since you could find yourself wasting your money.
As you know by now, there are various types of Laptop For Coding Under 40000 available in the market. You have to understand the pros and cons of individual types of products before picking the perfect one for your needs.
It is best to compare the advantages with each other before determining the perfect type.
Before you can utilize a product, often there are some fundamental guidelines that must be followed to get the most out of it. While some people may be able to just figure it out on their own, others may need an instruction manual.
Instruction manual is designed to provide you with information about how to use the product. The manual also goes over the safety precautions and explains how to recognize potential hazards. So you should buy the product that comes with an instruction manual.
When you are planning to buy a Laptop For Coding Under 40000, you will definitely think of its performance because nobody wants to waste his money buying a wrong product. So, check ins and outs of the Laptop For Coding Under 40000 from user’s review, forums and expert people before you pick a specific model.
It can be frustrating when you buy something and then it turns out three days later that it is not what you need. With a little thought and effort, it is possible to avoid this by purchasing a versatile product that has multiple uses. You can use one product for many purposes. This can save time on products that may not get used up quickly.
You can also use the product in different ways, depending on the need at the time. In this way, you can also save money as you’ll just need to purchase the perfect one.
When you are planning to buy a Laptop For Coding Under 40000, you will definitely think of the accessories availability in the market. Because anytime soon, it may cause damages due to unwanted accidents at any stage of its usages.
Some products also come in bundles, where they have a combo package of the necessary items that you may need with it.
Yup, color does matter! When you are planning to buy a Laptop For Coding Under 40000 from dozens of models, you will definitely wish to get your desired color. As, color is the symbol of choice, aristocracy and represents your personal taste.
We have reviewed some of the best Laptop For Coding Under 40000 considering this option of course.
A Laptop For Coding Under 40000 is highly compact in order to have a high usage capacity. Compactness also ensures good portability and easy handling of a unit. Because if Laptop For Coding Under 40000 doesn’t comes handy, you may face it tough to manage while using it.
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Now you have a better idea about the Best Laptop For Coding Under 40000. Hopefully, choosing one will be an easy task for you. For the best experience, follow our advice and recommendations. It will help you find the product.
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The New York State Assembly has passed “Kalief’s Law” in an effort to regulate the right to a speedy trial and ensure that people aren’t held in pretrial detention for longer than necessary, according to the Amsterdam News.
The measure, passed in early June, is named for Kalief Browder, a Black man who was arrested as a teen in 2010 on charges of stealing a backpack. He spent 1,000 days in Rikers Island and 700 days in solitary confinement while awaiting trial. His case was eventually dismissed.
The bill is slated to be introduced to the Senate and if passed, it will be signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
From the News:
“For too long, the constitutionally guaranteed right to a speedy trial has been denied in New York. Our broken Rockefeller-era law does nothing to guarantee to a speedy trial for the accused,” said New York State Senator Daniel Squadron, who cosponsored the bill with Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry. “In fact, it does the exact opposite, protecting a system that too often delays justice at the cost of defendants, victims and the taxpayers.”
After his release, Browder became a voice for criminal justice reform, speaking out about the torture he endured at Rikers. In 2015, he took his life after a storied battle with depression, spurred from his time in jail.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees that everyone has the right to a fair and speedy trial. But lawyers who manipulate loopholes, coupled with a massive backlog of cases, can leave prisoners wilting in jail for years before they are tried.
Activists who called for the bill are hopeful the state has taken action.
“It’s clear that New York’s criminal justice system is broken,” Gabriel Sayegh, the co-founder and co-director of Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice, said to Amsterdam News. “This important legislation, sponsored by longtime reform champion Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry and passed by the Assembly under Speaker Heastie’s leadership, is a huge step in the right direction. It will fix a glaring problem in New York’s trial process, making it more fair and just, while saving taxpayers money by reducing unnecessary pretrial detention periods.”
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes was written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1923. It is the last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers. | <urn:uuid:b362154b-a079-4f6e-bc49-80a6d28d08f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://itunes.apple.com/bg/book/casebook-sherlock-holmes/id438718421?mt=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943442 | 132 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Stroll through the cubicles at the average office and you’ll see people slumping, hunching, and poking their heads out like turtles as they sink further toward their computer monitors or laptops.
Come back at the end of the day and you’ll see a bunch of people with headaches.
“Chronic headaches and migraines are the top symptoms that bring people in,” says Dr Pritchett. “Tension in the suboccipital muscles is the main cause of this, and that is due to the head-forward posture created by long term sitting.” The suboccipital muscles are the ones at the base of the skull, but the pain can be felt in the forehead, so it can be hard to recognize the cause.
Headaches hurt, and they can be distracting, but they aren’t usually dangerous — just painful.
Thoracic outlet syndrome is another issue caused by sedentary workdays. This is tingling and numbness in the upper extremities due to rounded forward shoulders. A third common problem is hyper kyphosis of the thoracic spine. “This is a long term condition that is hard to reverse,” says Dr. Pritchett. This can develop into the condition sometimes called “Dowager’s Hump” — a permanently rounded back.
When the head is not balanced above the neck and shoulders but is held forward, the result an be as much as 30 pounds of extra pressure on the neck and spine. Better posture is important, but many of us start our days sitting up straight and gradually end up with our noses getting ever closer to that computer screen. Sitting all day is not natural for us, and poor posture is the consequence.
If sitting is the problem, is a standing desk the answer? It can be. However, just switching from sitting all day to standing all day is no improvement. That can lead to lower back problems or circulation issues. It can make you tired, and it can interfere with concentration. And of course we can have poor posture standing as well as sitting.
So the real solution is to move more and change positions more during the day. That doesn’t mean you have to have two desks. An adjustable monitor stand can allow you to sit for tasks that require intense concentration, then stand for a while to get less intense tasks done, and then return to sitting. The changes in position and posture can help reduce the long-term health effects of too much sitting, as well as the pain that comes with poor posture.
Dr. Pritchett is a fan of the Varidesk, a special desk that converts from a sitting to a standing surface in seconds.
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Varieties of Lattices
by Peter Jipsen, Henry Rose
Publisher: Springer 1992
Number of pages: 168
The study of lattice varieties is has experienced a rapid growth in the last decades, but many of the results discovered in that period appeared only in research papers. This book presents the main results about modular and nonmodular varieties, equational bases and the amalgamation property in a uniform way. The text covers preliminaries that make the material accessible to anyone with an introductory course in universal algebra. Each chapter begins with a short historical introduction and then presents the results with complete proofs. Numerous diagrams illustrate the lattice theory and aid in the visualization of the proofs. Extensive bibliography makes the monograph a useful reference work.
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by Gwyn Bellamy - arXiv
The emphasis throughout is on examples to illustrate the many different facets of symplectic reflection algebras. Exercises are included at the end of each lecture in order for the student to get a better feel for these algebras.
by Peter Webb - University of Minnesota
The book is intended to be used as a learning tool by people who do not know the subject. It is intended to be appropriate for non-specialists in the area of representation theory, such as those whose primary interest is topology or combinatorics.
by Michael Ruzhansky, Ville Turunen - Aalto TKK
Contents: Groups (Groups without topology, Group actions and representations); Topological groups (Compact groups, Haar measure, Fourier transforms on compact groups..); Linear Lie groups (Exponential map, Lie groups and Lie algebras); Hopf algebras.
by Pavel Etingof, at al. - MIT
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Start off your holiday season with a Letter to St. Nick. Here you will find a FREE PRINTABLE letter and envelope, with easy to make instructions. I know Santa will appreciate the effort. The holidays are here my friends!
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I have so many memories writing letters to Santa as a child. I carefully wrote, in my very best handwriting, my dreams and wishes for that holiday season. It is an amazing thing to think you are connecting with a magical person who lives ACROSS THE GLOBE! It is so fun to watch my kids do the very same thing. There is so much excitement as they write and make their envelopes. My son could hardly put his letter in the envelope fast enough. He was bursting and couldn't wait to take it to the mail box.
Christmas is around the corner! My boys were so fun to watch. You can see the joy building! My youngest can't write so he drew pictures and told me what he drew, and I penciled in his requests. My older son, however, took his time and wrote extra neat to make sure that Santa knew he wanted “Legos” and a “soccer ball”. We send our Santa Letters first thing in December. I always tell my kids, “Now that Santa knows what you want, we can focus our time on others.”
Making this envelope is the easiest thing, and they are darling! You will wonder why you haven't been making your own all these years! Follow the steps below.
MAKING THE ENVELOPE
1. Cut out the template making sure not to cut off the tabs.
2. Flip the envelope over and fold all the tabs on the dashed lines.
3. Fold in the side tags completely and put glue on the top of the tabs on both the right and left tabs then fold the large tab on top of the glued tabs.
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I hope you love the Santa letters and get some use out of them. Have a fabulous Holiday Season full of Beauty, Joy and Magic!
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What is Radon?
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. It results from the decay of uranium that is found in nearly all soils. Outdoors, radon is diluted to low concentrations and poses no health problems. However, once inside your home or office, radon can accumulate to unhealthy levels.
How Does Radon Get In My Home?
vacuum, drawing radon gas from the soil into your home
Radon gas can enter your home through:
1. Floors or walls
2. Floor drains
4. Construction joints
5. Cracks & pores in hollow or solid concrete walls.
Radon levels in your home are dependent on several
factors, such as design, type of construction, effects of
air handling equipment, ventilation, water supply, and the
concentration of radon in underlying soil, Radon levels are generally highest in basements or the lowest living level of your home.
Radon Mitigation systems work by lowering the air pressure slightly under the house.
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PLACEmaking delve into the issue of why your traditional workplace is putting off the next generation of talented employees
According to research by Mindspace last year, 21% of 18-24 years olds have turned down a job offer because of the design of the employer’s offices and/or lack of amenities.
So what’s wrong with the traditional office? Why would anyone be so put off by superficial design and what exactly are these missing amenities? After all, surely an office is a place to work – and amenities are just a distraction from concentration and productivity.
If this is your reaction and you are currently recruiting, you need a total rewire of your perception not just about modern office design, but of what purpose the office actually serves in 2019 and why redesigning the office as a workplace is one of the best motivational investments an organisation can make.
In the traditional office, hierarchy is strongly reinforced by how the space is laid out: management grades have offices around the perimeter and all other ranks sit in row after row of desks in anonymous open plan space. Offices look broadly the same with pale colour schemes and the odd pop of bright colours on statement furniture pieces in branded reception areas. The overall impression is of supervised control.
Technology in the workplace
Meanwhile, younger generations are finding their more traditional employers’ technology offerings to be so outdated or impractical that they instead just use their own devices. ICT has fallen into the same trap as office interior design. It’s all too generic. What you get is what the ICT department is contracted to give you and only what they are prepared to support, which is almost never what you want or what you need.
Young people who reject working for organisations that still tolerate this approach are demonstrating that they don’t intend to passively accept whatever generic, catch-all solution is on offer – they want to maintain and develop their own ICT skills. Millennials are the first generation to have grown up with super-fast internet connectivity in their pockets, and they expect to be able to utilise flexible, effective and familiar technology when carrying out the tasks required of them in order to meet a business’s objectives, ambitions and opportunities.
And what of the amenities that this fifth of young people say is missing in employers’ offices?
Have a look at the types of workplaces that this group does choose to work in. They are often the polar opposite of the traditional office with standard amenities. They are quirky, informal and personal spaces often clustered in mixed communities juxtaposing, for example, small scale tech-based entrepreneurs with professional services, creative studios and craft workshops. They often occupy only small areas of their own space but share common resources and exchange information and ideas without the boundaries of corporate confidentiality. They are rife with communal areas, allowing a more relaxed approach to building relationships between coworkers and a freedom from the constraints of the corporate world.
In reality, many larger organisations are committed to their city centre-based office buildings and workplace-related legislation prevents such enterprises adopting the same characteristics of small scale start-ups. But what they could and should recognise is that whilst in the past the promise of a stable career persuaded many to accept that compromising their personal desires and accepting corporate working styles, patterns and way of life was worth it, younger people today are well aware that there is rarely such thing as job security.
How this affects employment
Maybe the young people who reject job offers because of the quality of the office design and lack of amenities are really rejecting what they regard as failed model of employment, and instead preferring to embark on their own adventure – taking control of their own careers and clearly expressing that in the bespoke designed places where they choose to work. Perhaps most prominent is their desire to work for an employer who values health and wellness and recognises their need for a better work-life balance.
Larger employers can rest easy that four fifths of young people are likely to accept jobs with them despite their outdated office design and limited amenities.
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Cedar River Nature Sanctuary, MNA’s second sanctuary in Antrim County, contains two forested community types - conifer swamp, and northern mesic forest. This peaceful sanctuary is accessible in all parts.
The Cedar River Sanctuary totals 80 acres and was acquired in four transactions over 30 years. Dora S. and Ramona Lee Morgan made the initial donation of 77 acres in 1971. A 0.9-acre addition was purchased in 1974, a 1-acre parcel was donated in 1997 by Donald and Mona Graham, and a 1.1-acre parcel was donated by the estate of Edward Kussaba in 2001.
The sanctuary’s namesake, the Cedar River, and the surrounding wetlands form the main hydrological feature of the sanctuary. The Cedar River is a high-quality classic cold water stream which flows into the Intermediate River, which in turn is part of the Elk River Chain of Lakes watershed in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. The sanctuary is also on the edge of the Jordan River Wilderness Valley, owned by the State of Michigan.
Cedar River Nature Sanctuary is also one of the few places where both species of spring beauties can be found; the northern variety is taller with broader leaves. Another highlight of the sanctuary is a hiking hill on the western side, which provides a nice overlook in the winter.
Planning Your Visit:
The sanctuary is beautiful during all seasons, with wildflowers in spring, beautiful fall colors, and a lovely winter overlook.
Please note that fishing is not permitted at Cedar River Nature Sanctuary.
How to Get There:
The sanctuary is located in Antrim County, off Cedar River Dr, northwest of Mancelona.
For additional information, contact the MNA office at (866) 223-2231.
View the Sanctuary Fact Sheet
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elf,in Germanic mythology, a type of fairy. Usually represented as tiny people, elves are said to dwell in forests, in the sea, and in the air. Although they can be friendly to man, they are more frequently vengeful and mischievous.
Conspiracy researchers are convinced that ELF has been used for mind control and has been responsible for many alleged suicides and mysterious deaths.
Extremely low frequency (ELF) is the band of radio frequencies from 3 to 300 Hz. The U.S. Navy has used ELF very successfully in communicating with their submerged submarines. Submarines are blocked from most electromagnetic signals because of the electrical conductivity of salt water. However, communications in the ELF range are able to penetrate much more deeply.
ELF is quite limited in its use in ordinary communications for the very reason that it is useful to signal submarines. Its extremely low transmission rate would require enormously large antennae in order to communicate over long distances or internationally. The government constructed and maintained two sites, in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin, and the Escanaba State Forest, Michigan, each utilizing power lines as antennas stretching from fourteen to twenty-eight miles in length. Ecologists became concerned about environmental conditions and human health problems resulting from the great amounts of electricity generated and emitted by ELF, and in 1984 a federal judge ordered construction halted until further studies could be made and evaluated. In spite of the U.S. Navy’s protesting that they had invested over $25 million in studying the effects of ELF and had found their frequencies no more harmful to the environment and humans than standard power lines, the antennae were ordered dismantled beginning in 2004.
Conspiracy theorists don’t buy into the abandonment of any government ELF program. They warn that the human brain can be controlled, even at a distance, by the utilization of ELF carried by pulse-modulated microbeams. Shadow government or New World Order agencies have the technology to broadcast mind-control commands directly into the brain by use of microwave beams.
Secret Russian neuromedical research discovered that there are specific brain frequencies for each mood, thought, and emotion that humans experience. An extensive catalog of these brain actions with their distinctive frequencies was established by Russian scientists and psychologists. An agent can beam ELF waves for anger, suicide, hysteria, lust, paranoia, or whatever he chooses at a potential victim and control that individual’s actions from the room next door or from a car parked across the street.
Conspiracy researchers are convinced that the transmission of ELF has been instrumental in the alleged suicides and mysterious deaths of scientists, UFO investigators, and witnesses to secret New World Order machinations. If the suicide brain frequency should be beamed at a victim, he or she would enter severe bouts of depression that would quite likely result in suicide. Researchers see this as an explanation why a scientist, a researcher, or a government official who was reported by his or her friends and family to have been positive and happy might suddenly become depressed and commit suicide after a few hours or days of ELF beams. | <urn:uuid:a289b6ed-f453-456d-8690-6f68cf0a91a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Christmas+Elves | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964161 | 655 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Research Director at the French Institure for health and Medical research (Inserm) ; Head of the “Nutrition, hormones and women’s health” group at the Research Center in Epidemiology and Population Health (Inserm U1018 and UMR 1018 Paris XI), Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France
FCC has initiated, set up and directed the E3N (Etude Epidémiologique de femmes de l’Education Nationale) French cohort study since 1990. E3N is the French centre of the EPIC (European Prospective Investigation on Cancer). FCC has been in charge of its scientific direction since the study was launched and has managed all researchers and technicians working on that cohort.
FCC's research areas have mainly been on two major complementary aspects, namely the role of hormonal and reproductive factors, and the role of diet, on disease outcomes. Conditions initially studied by her research group have essentially been breast and colorectal cancers, then with increasing registering of new cases, thyroid, ovarian, uterus, and melanoma. Most analyses are based on Cox models with age as the time scale.
A new cohort, E4N (Epidemiology 4 kNowledge, or, in French Etude Epidémiologique des Enfants des femmes de l’Education Nationale), will include the spouses, children and grandchildren of the E3N women. Approximately 30,000 of the 70,000 spouses could volunteer, together with 50,000 of the 170,000 sons and daughters.The familial aggregation and familial segregation of polymorphisms and of genes will help explain cancer and other diseases, an avenue with great potential. | <urn:uuid:0ce5fd3e-b24f-4040-9a82-4342fe0f1ac3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cvscience.aviesan.fr/cv/161/francoise-clavel-chapelon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930128 | 358 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The Women and Work Commission published a report yesterday citing an increase in the wage gap in the UK. The commission found an increase in the wage gap from 21.9 to 22.6 percent since 2007. Although the gap has decreased overall in the last ten years, the gender disparity is even larger when accounting for part-time wages; the gap in those cases nears 40 percent.
The report suggests that the wage gap costs the economy 23 billion British pounds in productivity. The Minister for Women and Equality, Harriet Harman, told the BBC that the government would work to stop the gender gap first by banning “secrecy clauses in employment contracts so that women can challenge unfair pay” and then using stronger tactics if necessary. The report provides 43 additional recommendations for closing the gap such as non-traditional job placement, challenging school gender stereotyping, and professionalizing childcare.
Baroness Margaret Prosser, chair of the commission, wrote in the report that more action needs to be taken to prevent the reversal of “the positive progress that has been made, reports Reuters. | <urn:uuid:13cb9e34-f850-4129-af8d-5e516bcdab17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://feminist.org/news/uk-wage-gap-persists/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.942846 | 219 | 2.5 | 2 |
One benefit of handling your hamster daily is that you notice when his physical condition changes. A shiny, healthy coat indicates a healthy hamster. Dandruff is normally a sign that there is a problem with his health, environment or care. The sooner you determine the cause of your pet's dandruff and treat it, the happier you'll both be.
Dandruff is a skin condition that causes flaky, white pieces of dead skin to appear in your hamster's coat. Hamsters are self-grooming animals who take care of their own hygiene meticulously, so dandruff is not typically related to hamster hygiene habits. Dandruff in a pet is normally a symptom of an underlying problem rather than the primary problem. Caring for a hamster with dandruff means figuring out why he is having skin problems and treating the cause if possible. Visit your veterinarian to determine the exact cause for his dandruff and provide the treatment your hamster needs.
It is not unusual for an older hamster to develop dandruff with or without hair loss. Age-related skin problems that occur in rodents over a year old typically start on the hips or belly, or in the area around the hind legs. As hamsters age and lose fur, their skin can become dry and appear scaly due to a decreasing ability to maintain adequate moisture in their skin. Males are more likely to experience age-related dandruff than females, though both genders can be affected.
Mites naturally exist on your hamster's skin and typically do not cause noticeable problems. A healthy immune system keep mites in check, but mites can get out of control or become a problem due to changes in your hamster's health, such as old age, stress or illness. A mite infestation can cause hair loss, scratching and dandruff. In some cases, secondary infections can develop due to your hamster scratching and chewing on areas of skin. Your veterinarian can determine the precise type of mite your hamster is suffering from and prescribe medication to get rid of the mites. A mite infestation does not necessarily mean your hamster has mange, but mange is a possibility depending on the type of mites your hamster has.
Mange is a specific type of mite infection that can affect you as well as your hamster. Mange is a contagious skin infection most commonly caused by either Demodex mites or Notoedres mites. Sarcoptic mange can occur in hamsters as well, but it is very rare. Mange infections can spread to and from humans as well as tother animals such as cats and dogs. If your hamster has mange, you may notice he is losing fur, scratching a lot and scabbing around his ears, nose or genital area. He may suffer from dry and flaking skin. Mange requires a consultation with your veterinarian, who will do a skin scraping in order to diagnose the specific type of mange and prescribe treatment for it. Hamsters with mange need to be separated from all other animals and handled with gloves to avoid spreading the mange.
A poor diet can cause your hamster to suffer from poor skin and coat conditions. If your hamster's grain feed is less than 16 percent protein, your hamster may not be getting the nutrition he needs to maintain a healthy appearance. Try switching your hamster to a different blend of feed and see if his dandruff improves. Remember that your hamster needs at least a teaspoon of grains and a teaspoon of fresh fruits and vegetables each day.
An allergic reaction to something in his environment can cause your hamster to suffer dandruff and hair loss. Certain bedding products, especially cedar bedding, can irritate a hamster's skin much like certain laundry detergents cause skin problems for some people. Washing your hamster's cage in the wrong soap can cause an allergic reaction if your hamster happens to be allergic to that particular product. Dyes in your hamster's bedding or food can also cause allergic reactions. If your previously healthy hamster has suddenly begun to exhibit skin problems, try to identify something in his environment that may have changed recently that could be causing the problem. Take the pet to the vet in any case.
- Pet Web Site: Fur Loss
- Pet Web Site: Mange
- Pet Web Site: Mites
- The British Hamster Association: Dermatitis
- Hamsterific: Quick Reference Illness Guide
- Hammy's World: Hamster Fur Loss
- The Pet Advantage: Hamsters
- Arizona Exotic Animal Hospital: Hamsters - Basic Care
- Desert View Animal Hospital: Health Care for Hamsters
- Merck Veterinary Manual: Skin Diseases
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British teen killed by polar bear in Arctic: official
A polar bear mauled a British teenager to death and severely injured four other Britons in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard Friday before it was shot, authorities said.
The bear attacked a campsite set up by 14 people on a trip organised by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES) early Friday, killing one boy and injuring two other youths and two adult leaders, according to authorities.
"The kids are all between 16 and 20 years old. The boy who died was 17," Svalbard deputy governor Lars Erik Alfheim told AFP.
The four people injured had all sustained "serious head injuries, but have been stabilised," he said, adding that they were being airlifted to a hospital in Tromsoe, in the north of the Norwegian mainland.
All of those involved were British citizens, he said.
The attack happened near the Von Post glacier, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the archipelago capital of Longyearbyen.
Police received a call from the distressed campers, using a satellite phone, at around 7:30 am (0530 GMT) and quickly sent helicopters to the site.
The injured were initially taken to the small local hospital in Longyearbyen before being sent on to the mainland.
Alfheim said it was unclear how the bear had managed to hurt so many people before the campers shot and killed it.
"The bear attacked a camp site. We have investigators trying to figure out exactly what happened," he said.
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What Is Perimenopause
And What Can You Do About It?
is defined as the TRANSITIONAL period from normal menstrual
periods to no periods at all. The transition can, and usually does, take
up to ten years. During the perimenopausal transition you may experience
a combination of PMS and menopausal symptoms or no symptoms at all.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary, menopause is defined as the permanent
cessation of the menses. This condition may be diagnosed in retrospect
when 1 year has passed since the last menses. Well that’s pretty cut
and dry and its nice to know it was menopause you were going through
what can you do now? We know the average age of menopause is between
40-51, but menopause starting at the age of 40 is considered normal. So
what if you're having irritability, mood swings and irregular periods
now and you're not 51? Can it be PMS? Is it premature menopause? Or is
it the perimenopause ? Can you still get pregnant? What are your
treatment options? Do you need hormones or Prozac or just vitamin E?
These are difficult questions and although there is a blood test for
menopause (FSH), the test can only tell you if you are firmly IN
menopause. However, by the time the test is positive it's quite obvious
that you are into menopause.
on the other hand can occur at any age but is more common in your 30's
and 40's. The diagnosis and treatment of PMS has been hampered by the
fact that there has not been a reliable definition for the condition.
The American Psychiatric Association created a condition called the
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PDD) which should not be confused with
their earlier creation, the Late Luteal Phase Disorder (LLPD).
Physicians have always viewed women as more vulnerable to mental
disorders than men and have attributed it to the instability of their
reproductive systems. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PDD)
consists of a well defined set of symptoms but out of the estimated
30-60% of women who experience PMS symptoms only 3-5% of women meet the
standards for PDD. But what if you don't meet the criteria? Doctors
don't like to hear these questions because there is no good, simple and
reliable test. There are ways to figure it out, but many physicians and
patients just don't want to take the time and effort. However, it is
important to figure it out because the treatments are different. So
where do you start?
start with your past. The age your mother or older sisters began
menopause can have a bearing on when you will begin menopause. If your
mother went through menopause in her late 40's and you're 34 it is most
likely PMS. If your mother suffered from PMS then you are more likely to
suffer as well. However, your mother might not remember when she went
through menopause and your older sister may not admit to it. The only
other reliable factor is if you smoke. If you smoke, you can count on
menopause starting 1-2 years earlier than if you don't. Pregnancies,
birth control pills, your age when you first began menses or
breast-feeding have no impact on the age of menopause. If you are on
oral contraceptives or other hormones such as Depo-Provera or estrogen,
these can have an effect on mood, irritability, hot flashes, depression
and your periods. Women who can't tolerate birth control pills are more
likely to develop PMS and have a difficult perimenopause. Adjusting the
dose, brand or time you take these medications can sometimes relieve
unwanted side effects.
of the symptoms of depression are found in both PMS and perimenopause.
Depression is not caused by menopause, but it can run in families. If
feelings of depression, loss of appetite, insomnia, and general loss of
interest or pleasure in life are at the top of your list you may be
suffering from clinical depression. These feelings should be brought to
the attention of your health care provider. Depression and PMS can occur
together and it's not uncommon for anxiety or depressive disorders to
worsen during the week before your period and at menopause. Sound
confusing? Well, it can be. All of the above statements are
generalizations but you have to remember that you are a unique
reviewing your family history for age of menopause and occurrence of PMS
and depression, you should complete a symptom diary or calendar. This
will be a unique record of your feelings on a daily basis. For three
months keep track of your menses along with a daily record of your
symptoms. Ideally, you should review your calendar with a health care
provider but first there may be a lot you can learn on your own. There
are two things you should look for. First look for patterns. In PMS you
will generally see an increase in emotional symptoms beginning at mid
cycle (around day 14). In the week before your period emotional symptoms
will increase and physical symptoms may begin. In the last few days
emotional symptoms will peak and then rapidly disappear after your
menses start. There are variations of this pattern, but the key is
symptoms that increase BEFORE and are relieved AFTER your period. Now
that you have your symptoms calendar before you, look for depression
that lasts most of the month. This could be a clue that you are
depressed and need professional evaluation.
your menses are occurring sooner than 21 days it may be perimenopause or
a more serious gynecological condition and you need to be evaluated by
your health care provider. Menses occurring later than 45 days is more
consistent with menopause or perimenopause. If physical symptoms
predominate, especially hot flashes, vaginal dryness and night sweats,
and if they last throughout the month unrelated to menses think more
about menopause. Remember menopause before the age of 40 is called
premature menopause and is rare. However perimenopause can begin before
age 40. Surgical removal of the ovaries is the most common cause of
premature menopause. Hopefully you know if your ovaries have been
removed, but you may not. Years ago doctors routinely removed ovaries in
women undergoing a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus). Now many
gynecologists do not remove the ovaries.
you are firmly in menopause, that is, no periods for one year, you can
still get pregnant. If you don't smoke, low dose oral contraceptives can
be used right up to menopause. Hopefully your calendar will help you
become more familiar with your symptoms. From here you can design a PMS
/ perimenopause - menopause treatment plan. The
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On a twilight evening in October 1613, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was set upon by a band of thugs on the road from Mantua to Venice. I was researching the Haydn Mysteries when I came upon that tidbit, and I was instantly intrigued.
Much later when I began the research for Aria to Death, I read of the distressing account in the composer’s own words:
“I am writing to let Your Lordship know,” writes the father of opera to Gonzaga court secretary Iberti, “how, being in the company of the Mantuan courier and leaving with him for Venice, we were robbed at Sanguinetto . . . by three ruffians—bandits. . .”
Monteverdi, as he recounted the details to Iberti, said he suspected an inside job—that is to say, he suspected the courier, who knew that Monteverdi was moving all his household goods to Venice, where he’d been appointed Director of Music at St. Mark’s Cathedral.
The courier also knew no one in the party would be armed.
Two of the men led the party, comprising the composer, his two sons, and a maidservant, to a field, and making them kneel down, proceeded to rob them at gun-point.
Armed with long muskets—”the flint-wheel type,” the composer tells us—the robbers ordered the courier to hand down the travel cases one by one and inspected each in turn, taking whatever caught their fancy.
They even inspected the maid’s belongings, but nothing of the courier’s was touched. This in itself wouldn’t have been sufficient to arouse the composer’s suspicions. But the robbery took place on Wednesday.
It wasn’t until the following Saturday when they were in Padua that the man put his arm in a sling “saying that this happened because of that business. . .when he was robbed.”
It was a new serge coat that the composer had ordered that was stolen. But to my mind, that seemed a poor reason for a deliberate ambush on a travel coach. What else could have been stolen? And who had orchestrated the theft?
Those questions occupied my mind even as I knew that the attack in 1613 would somehow form the basis for a Haydn Mystery. As a history buff, I couldn’t resist the idea of a historical mystery that turned upon events and a personage that were historical within the story world.
How thrilling that Haydn, an eighteenth-century musician, should be confronted with the aftermath of that robbery that took place over a hundred years ago.
My initial research into Monteverdi uncovered the rather startling fact that most of the theatrical works of a man known for having produced them were lost. Of the ten operas he wrote, only three have survived—two from his Venetian period: The Return of Ulysses and the Coronation of Poppea.
The third is the first opera written for his Gonzaga patrons in Mantua: the story of Orpheus. It was the first opera he was ever to write, and Monteverdi showed himself a skilled practitioner of the genre.
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo has long been considered the first opera ever. It was not, of course. But Monteverdi’s skill in enhancing the emotional scenes within a libretto are such that it might as well be the very first.
How did seven operas disappear? What if it was his music the robbers were after? Monteverdi, like Haydn, was a popular and much sought-after composer in his own time.
But what would a mere ruffian know of such things? Someone must have hired the bandits who waylaid Monteverdi.
When I learned of Artusi, a secular canon who took great exception to Monteverdi’s style, in particular the new harmony in which he primarily worked, I knew I had my guy! More about him in my next post. Aria to Death will be published later this year. If you’d like to be the first to know when it’s released, sign up for my newsletter and receive a Free Haydn Mystery. | <urn:uuid:c1d58744-8e75-42ca-bb38-b26c4af263ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntustin.com/haydn-and-the-lost-operas-of-monteverdi/?replytocom=114 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.984991 | 911 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Everyone knows about fitness trackers that measures your steps and heart rate at some point, but what about your eyesight? That’s what EyeQue’s Personal Vision Tracker sets out to do with its $30 gadget.
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No, it’s not a gadget you strap around your eyeball. Instead the EyeQue is a small cylindrical microscope which uses your phone’s display and a set of lenses to measure your eye’s refractive error to detect nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
Once you’ve performed the test four to six times (about 30 minutes total), you’ll receive a set of “EyeGlass Numbers,” which can be used pretty much like a doctor’s prescription to order glasses. Of course, EyeQue recommends you see an actual optometrist, but it’s confident its system is as accurate as professional equipment, if not better.
The device works with both Android and iOS – the screen just needs to be above 300 dpi for the measurements to be accurate.
Why does it matter?
Your well-being is a much bigger picture than steps and heart rate can provide. While vision tracking is a very specific measure, approximately 75 percent of adults in America use either glasses or contact lenses.
EyeQue could not only help you detect if you need glasses, but also help determine your eyesight’s trends over time – something a doctor can’t do because they’re not in your home every day.
When’s it coming?
The tracker actually started with a crowdfunding campaign under a month ago, and met its surpassed its $25,000 goal with about $127,000 so far. Moreover, EyeQue tells me they’ll be ready to ship starting February, so it’s actually a real product. You can pre-order one now by backing the Kickstarter page with $25 bucks, but you’ll likely have to order on EyeQue’s site once the campaign is over.
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Tubular carcinoma of the breast is a subtype of invasive ductal carcinoma (cancer that begins inside the breast's milk duct and spreads beyond it into healthy tissue). Tubular carcinomas are usually small (about 1 cm or less) and made up of tube-shaped structures called "tubules." These tumors tend to be low-grade, meaning that their cells look somewhat similar to normal, healthy cells and tend to grow slowly.
At one time, tubular carcinomas accounted for about 1-4% of all breast cancers. Now that screening mammography is widely used, however, tubular carcinomas are being diagnosed more frequently — often before you or your doctor would be able to feel a lump. Exact numbers aren't available, but studies suggest that tubular carcinomas may account for anywhere from just under 8% to 27% of all breast cancers.
Studies also suggest that the average age of diagnosis for tubular carcinoma is the early 50s, although women can be diagnosed with it at any age. This type of cancer is rare in men.
Even though tubular carcinoma is an invasive breast cancer, it tends to be a less aggressive type that responds well to treatment. It isn't likely to spread outside the breast and is considered to have a very good prognosis.
On the following pages, you can learn more about:
- Symptoms and Diagnosis of Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast
- Treatment of Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast
- Follow-Up Care for Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast
To connect with others who have been diagnosed with tubular carcinoma of the breast, visit the Breastcancer.org Discussion Board forum Less Common Types of Breast Cancer.
The medical experts for IDC Type: Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast are:
- Jennifer J. Griggs, M.D., medical oncologist/hematologist, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Clifford Hudis, M.D., Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Dozens of new and unfamiliar faces invading your cherished territory, terrible punishments for breaking those precious dioramas, and worst of all, the tantalising smell of a sumptuous feast without any possibility of getting to eat any yourself. So how do you know what Thanksgiving leftovers are safe for your pup to enjoy? Check against this list and you should be off to a good start!
If in doubt, check with your vet. A poor diet can lead to anything from Dog Skin Problems to serious health issues.
Avoid feeding turkey to your dog. The risk of salmonella from raw or incompletely-cooked scraps is just too great, let alone the risk of choking on bones.
Dogs are also unable to digest turkey skin properly, which could be fatal, and if they avoid choking on the bones straight away, there is a chance that larger bones will splinter in their mouths. This can be extremely painful and could also lead to bone fragments damaging their internal organs.
Dogs simply shouldn't be fed turkey scraps. So please don't do it.
A surprisingly large number of vegetables are OK for your dog to eat, but certain groups are very much not-OK.
'Sweet' vegetables like carrots are fine in small quantities but be careful about portion size – while we adults may enjoy pigging out during Thanksgiving, excessive pup portions could give your dog digestive problems later in the day.
Sweet potatoes and winter squash can be genuinely helpful to doggie digestion, as can green beans as they're high in fibre.
In general, you should avoid feeding your dog sugary fruit and sauces, and you should definitely avoid starchy vegetables such as potatoes, peas, or corn in large amounts. These are fattening foods that will only serve to damage your dog's health.
Chitterlings are pork intestines, and form a traditional Thanksgiving side dish in many households but don’t add them to your dog’s bowl.
While some dogs cope ok with eating small amounts of raw meat, for dogs that are not adjusted to raw diets yet, this can result in a upset tummy. Suffice it to say that if you think the chitterlings smell bad before you clean, boil and pick them clean for your dog, you are in for a heck of a shock once the dog has started providing you with some solid results.
Furthermore, if they've been prepared for human consumption, they may be too salty for dogs, or have too much chemical preservative left on them. This preservation process also wipes almost all the nutrition out of them, making them a fairly useless, if tasty, treat.
Stuffing contains onions and sage, neither of which are ideal for dogs.
If you use breadcrumbs to help bulk out your stuffing, or if the sausage-meat provider used breadcrumbs to bulk out their product, you could cause your dog to suffer from bloat.
Once you've stripped out all the potentially harmful and definitely unhelpful ingredients from the stuffing, it'd basically be easier to feed your dog, well, food already esigned for consumption by dogs.
More Trouble Than It's Worth?
For the purposes of Thanksgiving, then, it is suggested that you treat your dog like a very fussy, old, sensitive, allergic vegan. Either that, or treat your dog to Healthy Dog Treats. Your pet will love them, and you will know that the treats are safe for your four legged friend.
Human food is human for a reason. Don't be afraid to give your young dog some vegetables now-and-again, but they get very little out of human food and can get some serious health problems. Personally, I won't feed my pup any human food except squashes and pumpkin. If you are careful, you can make sure that your Thanksgiving leftovers go where they belong - in you!
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The story of the heroism of the late Hela Schiffer-Rufeisen
Hela was born in Krakow in 1921, and her mother died when she was 10. So Hela, a little girl, moved in with her grandmother. There she joined the Zionist pioneering youth movement Akiva.
At the outbreak of World War II, at the age of 18, she joined the Jewish Fighting Organization and served as a "liaison" between the ghettos thanks to the "good looks" of Poland. Hela risked her life, traveled throughout Poland carrying fake IDs, money and weapons and also took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
After the war she immigrated to Israel, married Aryeh Rufeisen, together they were among the first settlers in Moshav Bustan Hagalil, where they had 3 children.
In 2003, she lit a beacon at the state ceremony at Yad Vashem.
Hela passed away on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day 23 on April 2017, XNUMX.
May her soul be bundled in the bundle of life - T.N.C.B.H.
Hela's heroism was not only expressed in her push forward during the Holocaust, but also after it, Hela took care to convey the message, establish a settlement, and establish a house of glory.
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The -m switch added in Python 2.4 to execute a module as a script gained a few more abilities. Instead of being implemented in C code inside the Python interpreter, the switch now uses an implementation in a new module, runpy.
The runpy module implements a more sophisticated import
mechanism so that it's now possible to run modules in a package such
as pychecker.checker. The module also supports alternative
import mechanisms such as the zipimport module. This means
you can add a .zip archive's path to
sys.path and then use the
-m switch to execute code from the archive.
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Compton tried again: “Hey Alexa, play classical music.”
“Here’s a station you might like,” Alexa said tentatively, adding that the songs were hosted on Amazon Music.
Americans welcomed voice assistants into their homes on claims that Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant would be like quasi-human helpers, seamlessly managing our appointments, grocery lists and music libraries. From 2019 to 2021, the use of voice assistants among online adults in the United States rose to 30 percent from 21 percent, according to data from market research firm Forrester. Of the options, Siri is the most popular — 34 percent of us have interacted with Apple’s voice assistant in the last year. Amazon’s Alexa is next with 32 percent; 25 percent have used Google Assistant; and Microsoft’s Cortana and Samsung’s Bixby trail behind with five percent each.
(Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
While use is on the rise, social media jokes and dinner-party gripes paint voice assistants as automated family members who can’t get much right. The humanlike qualities that made voice assistants novel make us cringe that much harder when they fail to read the room. Overconfident, unhelpful and a little bit desperate, our voice assistants remind us of the people and conversations we least enjoy, experts and users say.
As Brian Glick, founder of Philadelphia-based software company Chain.io, puts it: “I am not apt to use voice assistants for things that have consequences.”
Users report voice assistants are finicky and frequently misinterpret instructions.
Talking with them requires “emotional labor” and “cognitive effort,” says Erika Hall, co-founder of the consultancy Mule Design Studio, which advises companies on best practices for conversational interfaces. “It creates this kind of work that we don’t even know how to name.”
Take voice shopping, a feature Google and Amazon said would help busy families save time. Glick gave it a try and he’s haunted by the memory.
Each time he asked Alexa to add a product — like toilet paper — it would read back a long product description: “Based on your order history, I found Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper Family Mega Roll, 18 Count.” In the time he spent waiting for her to stop talking, he could have finished his shopping, Glick said.
“I’m getting upset just thinking about it,” he added.
Then there are the voice assistants’ personalities. Why does Google Assistant confidently say “sure!” before delivering a “bafflingly incorrect” response to a request, Compton asked. Why is Alexa always bragging about her capabilities and asking if you’d like her to do extra tasks, TikTok creator @OfficiallyDivinity wonders in a video. She accuses Alexa of being a “pick me,” a term for women willing to step on others to get approval. The clip has more than 750,000 views.
Voice assistants have become punchlines, and their makers are to blame, says Hall. In the rush to get voice assistants into every home, she argues that companies didn’t stop to consider whether they were setting expectations too high by pitching these chunks of software as human-ish helpers. They also didn’t think about which tasks actually make sense to do out loud, she said.
For instance, online shopping freed us from unnecessary interactions with human employees, Hall said. With voice shopping, companies added that friction right back in. Nobody likes chatting about the number of toilet paper rolls in a pack.
An Amazon spokeswoman said that Alexa may “occasionally highlight experiences or information” consumers might find useful and they can turn off certain notifications in the Alexa app under settings.
She said shopping features on Echo devices are “incredibly popular” and use is growing “significantly” year over year, without providing specific figures.
She added that Alexa’s understanding has improved significantly, despite increasingly complex requests from users.
For its part, Google says it’s investing in the Assistant’s language understanding and speech technology to help it better deal with nuance and respond in a natural way. An Apple spokeswoman said Siri’s core functions have gotten considerably better in the last few years because of advancements in machine learning.
But there’s a deeper emotional problem at play, says Compton, who built the AI that powers Twitter bots like Infinite Scream and Gender of the Day. In developing voice assistants, she says companies ignored the often unspoken rules of human small talk. We use small talk to show other people that we’re on the same wavelength — it’s a quick way to signal, “I see you, and I’m safe,” Compton said. According to philosopher Paul Grice, effective chatter must be four things: informative, true, relevant and clear.
Alexa’s comments are often none of those, Compton said.
“Our vision is to make interacting with Alexa as natural as speaking to another person, and we’re making several advancements in AI to make this a reality,” the Amazon spokeswoman said.
Still, users say awkward exchanges make us feel bad for Alexa — soulless, trapped in a smart speaker and desperate to be helpful. According to Compton, we end up feeling bad about ourselves as well, since conversations require two parties and a failure by one feels like a failure by both. Even if the sheer difficulty of developing conversational AI were the only thing to blame, bad interactions with voice assistants make us feel broken, too.
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This chapter is focused on rhetorical strategies based on indirect reporting and distortion of a party’s viewpoint. We begin by clarifying the role of the notion of argumentative relevance for assessing when a viewpoint is correctly reported or manipulated. We will describe relevance as a sequential concept referring to the number of premises and intermediate arguments to connect a move (the interpretation of a move in this case) to the issue or claim discussed or to be proved (the original move in this case). A formal model of dialogue for evaluating misreports and the corresponding strategies (straw man fallacy) is constructed, providing a normative dialectical framework that can guide an analyst in the tasks of detecting, representing, criticizing and justifying a distortion of a viewpoint. We will outline five straw man rhetorical techniques that can be used both for helping us identify and understand the straw man as a fallacy and for illustrating how fallacious arguments of this type can be used to cleverly persuade a target audience. | <urn:uuid:6bc1ed72-6002-4942-be1f-3165de35060f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/evaluating-relevance-and-commitments-in-rhetorical-straw-man | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.889885 | 191 | 2.875 | 3 |
Labor-rights activists want Selena Gomez to “be an ambassador for children, not for sweatshops.” Protestors from United Students Against Sweatshops ambushed the former Disney starlet at New York Fashion Week on Thursday at the first runway show for Neo by Adidas, a teen-oriented diffusion label for which Gomez serves as style ambassador. Outside the midtown Manhattan venue, a group of 15 people, including two former sweatshop workers, held up a banner that read, “Selena: Don’t be an ambassador for sweatshops.” A woman also handed the 20-year-old UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador a flier urging her to tell Adidas to pay its Indonesian workers $1.8 million in severance so they can feed their children and send them to school.
It’s been 22 months since PT Kizone, an Adidas subcontractor in Indonesia, shut down without paying “legally mandated” severance to its 2,800 workers, according to the student-run organization, which has affiliate groups at over 150 universities, including Cornell, which made the historic move in September of severing business ties with the sportswear manufacturer over labor rights.
PT Kizone, an Adidas subcontractor in Indonesia, still owes $1.8 million in “legally mandated” severance to its 2,800 workers, says USAS.
In a letter to Gomez dated January 29, Bill Yates, a regional organizer for USAS, wrote that the company has refused to pay “a single cent in severance,” and as a result, workers have had to pull their children out of school or leave their homes. More than two-thirds are still out of work, he said.
“To evade responsibility for severance, Adidas has offered food vouchers as ‘humanitarian aid,’ an act that workers call ‘insulting,'” he added. “These vouchers are not equivalent to actual money, either under Indonesian law or in workers’ everyday lives; many workers have been forced to sell the vouchers for amounts below their face value in order to raise funds to pay obligations such as debt and school fees. PT Kizone workers have remained steadfast in demanding what they are legally owed: severance that amounts to a mere drop in the bucket for Adidas.”
Still, Gomez appeared unfazed by the attention. Taking to her Twitter account later that night, she wrote, “Amazing show for @adidasNEOLabel tonight!! They looked amazing. #NEOrunway :))”
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Following Rimsky-Korsakov's advice, Stravinsky famously never studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Yet, paradoxically, he constantly sourced the Conservatoire's pianistic and constructive methodologies throughout his creative life.
This short colloquium will focus upon two Conservatoire 'icons' who were central to Stravinsky's musical formation.
Firstly, of course, his esteemed guide to the principles of Instrumentation, his 'dear Nikolay Andreyevych'. Secondly, and arguably of comparable influence, Stravinsky's piano teacher Leokadiya Aleksandrovna Kashperova (1872-1940) who was one of Anton Rubinstein's last, and most brilliant, pupils.
Yet, it is an irony that, having left Russia to forge his career as 'a phenomenon without a past', Stravinsky either ignored or, worse, denounced the vital contribution to his compositional practice of these two notable musicians, whose influence can be observed most clearly in Stravinsky's neoclassical works and philosophy.
In order to explore this theme Dr Griffiths presents manuscript evidence from the Stravinsky archive of the Paul Sacher Stiftung at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
This will include the composer's seminal sketches for the Concerto for piano and wind instruments (1923), Sonate pour piano (1924), Symphony of Psalms (1930), Symphony in Three Movements (1945) and Movements for piano and orchestra(1959).
Such material strongly suggests that Stravinsky derived his compositional procedures in these works from a 'pianistic attitude' – which Griffiths terms pal'tserazvitiye ('finger-development') – firmly rooted in the uniquely constructive method which had been introduced to St Petersburg several decades earlier by Theodor Leschetizky, founder of the Conservatoire's celebrated piano department.
In summary, consideration will be given to Stravinsky's carefully constructed international persona – as musical craftsman and defender of 'objectivity' – and whether his submission to 'Apollo's demands' was sustained, all the while, by impulses set in motion by his erstwhile mentors: L.A. Kashperova and N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
Furthermore, those Russian traditions we perceive as having nourished music's Modernism might also need to be reconsidered to accommodate these two contrasting, yet equally remarkable pedagogues – and their 'neglected impact' upon Stravinsky's neoclassical re-invention.
GRAHAM GRIFFITHS is currently Visiting Research Fellow at City University London; and is the author of Stravinsky's Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He studied musicology at Edinburgh University and music education at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, obtaining his DPhil. (Musicology) at Christ Church, Oxford in 2008. Between 1989 and 1999 he directed the contemporary music ensemble Grupo Novo Horizonte de Sao Paulo and guest-lectured at Brazilian and Danish universities. His article 'Fingering as Compositional Process:Stravinsky's Piano Sonata Sketchbook Revisited' was published by British Postgraduate Musicology Online in 2005. Griffiths has delivered courses at the universities of Bath ('Stravinsky's Spain'), Bristol ('Performance'), Canterbury Christ Church ('Music Since 1900'), and Oxford ('Stravinsky and the Twentieth Century'). His affiliation with City University London dates from2010 ('Stravinsky'; 'Neoclassicism as Musical Progress'); he was appointed Lecturer in Musicology in 2013. | <urn:uuid:857d3391-8af7-4212-8699-64757ca00525> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2015/01/i.f.-stravinsky-a-reluctant-disciple | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928483 | 775 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover tested percussive drilling this past weekend, penetrating about two inches into a target called 'Duluth'
Washington: Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has successfully collected the first rock samples on the red planet in over a year, using a new way to drill rocks and extract powder from them. Curiosity tested percussive drilling this past weekend, penetrating about two inches into a target called “Duluth."
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Michigan’s 2004 Gay Marriage Ban Faces Challenge
DETROIT -- Two Detroit-area nurses wanted to adopt each other's children, not rewrite Michigan law on gay marriage. But their lawsuit could end up overturning a 2004 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that passed by a landslide.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman may throw out the law Wednesday after hearing arguments in his Detroit courtroom. It was his suggestion that Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer amend their lawsuit last year, an invitation that has gay rights supporters believing marriage may become a reality in Michigan.
"I would be thrilled," said the Rev. Bill Freeman of Harbor Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Muskegon, who is poised to handle same-sex weddings. "I opposed the ban. The country and the people of Michigan have done a 180 on the question of gay rights and same-sex marriage."
Even if Friedman kills the law, he could freeze his decision and allow the state of Michigan to appeal, which would stop a rush to county courthouses for a marriage license.
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage, but the issue can be found in courtrooms around the country. The New Jersey Supreme Court said it will soon decide whether gays can marry there, and a Utah federal judge in December will hear arguments about the state's ban.
DeBoer and Rowse are raising three adopted children with special needs. They filed a lawsuit in 2012 hoping to strike down a state law that bars same-sex partners from adopting each other's kids. The case was groundbreaking on its own, but then Friedman suggested challenging the gay marriage ban. If the ban is overturned, other laws, such as the adoption restriction, likely would fall, too.
A constitutional amendment declaring marriage as between a man and a woman was approved by 59 percent of Michigan voters in 2004.
Attorneys for DeBoer and Rowse say the amendment violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars states from treating people differently. They believe they'll benefit from a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying married gay couples are entitled to the same federal benefits available to straight couples.
"Here and now, as a matter of constitutional law as well as of social policy, the time for ... dehumanization is past," the couple's lawyers said in a court filing.
Michigan, meanwhile, is highlighting the Supreme Court's recognition that states do have authority to regulate marriage.
"Defining marriage as between one man and one woman furthers Michigan's legitimate interests in attempting to provide the optimal family setting for its children," the attorney general's office said in a court filing.
Gary Glenn, who leads the conservative American Family Association of Michigan, said it would be a mistake for a judge to extinguish a law on the books for nearly a decade.
"One Detroit lawyer in a black robe doesn't have the legitimate constitutional or moral authority to overturn the will of millions of Michigan voters," Glenn said.
In Ann Arbor, the Washtenaw County clerk's office said judges and clergy will be available at the local courthouse if Friedman allows same-sex marriage. The county will waive the typical three-day waiting period to get a license, at least on Thursday.
"There's obviously a lot of emotion, and a lot of people have been waiting a long time," said Ed Golembiewski, chief deputy clerk.
Bishop Jerry Brohl of Blessed John XIII Community, a church for Christians of all stripes in Wyandotte, near Detroit, said he's eager to bless same-sex marriages, even if he doesn't know the couple.
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(Neb.)-UNL Multi-Institution Project To Study Shiga Toxin
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Ten months after the University of Nebraska-Lincoln learned of its $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a project involving 11 institutions to study toxic bacteria in beef is under way.
Project leader Rod Moxley, a veterinarian and UNL pathologist, says that a research team of 49 scientists will be studying a Shiga toxin-producing strain of E. coli. Moxely says that bacterium is different and harder to track than the strain most often reported.
It was Shiga contamination of bean sprouts that sickened thousands of people and caused dozens of deaths in Europe last year.
But the focus of Nebraska, Kansas State and other collaborators is on beef contamination, even though Moxley says there is no evidence that cattle carry the toxic strain.
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The Critical Mass of Enlightenment Out of thousands of seeds only one tree is born Out of millions of sperm only one flips the ovarian switch to turn on an infants life Though the potentials for life are abundant the critical mass of fulfillment of those potentials is atomically small The mystics believe the same law works in the evolution of human consciousness Billions of humans have been born each carrying within the shell of their personality the potential flower of Christ-consciousness They are Gaias near-countless seeds falling upon her earthly cradle Billions live and die considering themselves blessed if the wings of existence scatter them upon barren rocky fields of orthodox behavior Only a tiny proportion of humankind ever reaches a full flowering The critical mass of enlightenment can be defined as the smallest number of awakened human beings whose collective influence can initiate a significant shift in global consciousness The process of creating enough enlightened ones to achieve this critical mass can be likened to the transformation of coal into diamonds The pressure of surrounding human unconsciousness creates an urgency in the potential enlightened one to awaken from illusion The total weight of so much unconscious carbon exerts a tremendous pressure through which a few coal stones reach the appropriate mass to become diamonds These awakened beings embody the crystal clarity of enlightened consciousness which can transform the level of consciousness of the entire planet Mystics who have used the metaphor of the mud and filth necessary to grow a lotus like the sixth-century patriarch of Zen Bodhiharma say most of humanity has no other destiny than to live and die as compost and manure for the Bodhisattvas or spiritual teachers flowering The constant revelation of the rank odors of human consciousness hidden behind societys manure of moralities and illusions nurtures the urgency for a budding Bodhisattvas consciousness to grow Once
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Dean Kamen is the inventor behind the iconic transportation technology Segway PT. Kamen earned his doctrine of science from Clarkson University, and went on to earn another from the University of Arizona.
In this speech, Kamen discusses his innovative efforts in prosthetic technology. Kamen’s company DEKA has recently received funding from DARPA to work on a neuron-controlled prosthetic limb known as the ‘Luke Arm.' DARPA is a funding group that invests in more risky and forward-thinking concepts, particularly anything that could aid in the comfort of soldiers.
Though Kamen is left-brained and analytical, he gains his inspiration from people. The drive behind the prosthetic project was aiding people, helping the world move forward towards neutralism and comfort.
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“Do We Need to Uproot Witchcraft in Africa?” demands a headline in Rwanda’s New Times newspaper.
The answer, according to the article, is no — but that opinion is not necessarily shared around the continent.
Indeed, witchcraft — or at least the accusation of it — is a serious matter in much of Africa and the African diaspora.
In Ghana, belief in witchcraft is widespread, Africa News reports, and in rural areas a witchcraft accusation lead to exile.
Banished by their families and left without means of support, those accused — usually older, impoverished women — are forced into so-called “witch’s villages,” and resort to selling charcoal to survive.
Sometimes the consequences can be even worse. Three people were arrested in Tanzania for killing accused witches, the BBC reported in 2003.
They were rare arrests in a crime that is reportedly common.
Witchcraft prejudices are hardly confined to the African continent.
The BBC reported earlier this week that hundreds of African children living in the United Kingdom have been sent back to Angola or the Democratic Republic of Congo after being accused by fellow immigrants of witchcraft.
The problem first came to the attention of the greater public in Britain when three people were jailed in London for torturing an 8-year-old girl they believed was a witch.
Of course, it should be noted that Britain itself imprisoned women accused of witchcraft as late as 1944.
Earlier this month, Scottish authorities refused to issue a posthumous pardon to Helen Duncan, who was convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735, and spent nine months in jail after holding a seance during World War II.
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T-shirts, socks, and jeans tested in search for perfect Covid-19 mask material
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Researchers have been testing various materials to find which are most effective at trapping the fine particles which can carry SARS-CoV-2.
Materials from T-shirts, socks, jeans, and vacuum bags have been tested to determine their effectiveness at filtering particles between 0.02 and 0.1 micrometres - around the size of most viruses - at high speeds, comparable to coughing or heavy breathing.
They compared the performance of these materials with N95 respirators and surgical masks.
Previous studies have only examined a small selection of materials when the wearer is breathing normally and particles are expelled at lower speed. Studying a wider range of fabrics and testing them at higher speeds provides a more robust evidence base for the effectiveness of fabric masks.
The results show that most of the fabrics commonly used for non-clinical face masks are effective at filtering ultrafine particles. N95 masks were highly effective, although a reusable HEPA vacuum bag exceeded the N95 performance in some respects.
As for homemade fabric masks, those made of multiple layers of fabric were more effective. Those which also incorporated interfacing - which is used to stiffen and strengthen fabric, such as in collars - showed a significant improvement in performance although were more difficult to breathe through than an N95 mask.
The researchers also studied the performance of different fabrics when damp, and after they had gone through a normal washing and drying cycle.
They found that the fabrics worked well while damp and worked sufficiently after one laundry cycle, however previous studies have shown that repeated washing degrades the fabrics, and the researchers caution that masks should not be reused indefinitely.
“Fabric masks have become a new necessity for many of us since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said first author Eugenia O’Kelly from Cambridge University. “In the early stages of the pandemic, when N95 masks were in extremely short supply, many sewers and makers started making their own fabric masks, meeting the demands that couldn’t be met by supply chains, or to provide a more affordable option.”
While there are numerous online resources which help people make their own masks, there is little scientific evidence on what the most suitable materials are.
“There was an initial panic around PPE and other types of face masks, and how effective they were,” said O’Kelly. “As an engineer, I wanted to learn more about them, how well different materials worked under different conditions, and what made for the most effective fit.”
The researchers built an apparatus consisting of sections of tubing, with a fabric sample in the middle. Aerosolised particles were generated at one end of the apparatus, and their levels were measured before and after they passed through the fabric sample at a speed similar to coughing.
The researchers also tested how well each fabric performed in terms of breathing resistance, based on qualitative feedback from users.
“A mask which blocks particles really well but restricts your breathing isn’t an effective mask,” O’Kelly said. “Denim, for example, was quite effective at blocking particles, but it’s difficult to breathe through, so it’s probably not a good idea to make a mask out of an old pair of jeans. N95 masks are much easier to breathe through than any fabric combinations with similar levels of filtration.”
The researchers found that single-use and reusable vacuum bags were effective at blocking particles, but caution that the single-use bags should not be used in face masks, as they fall apart when cut, and may contain component materials which are unsafe to inhale.
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The Times was sooo thrilled to find a vaguely correct use of a semicolon on a subway ad that they tracked down the copywriter (who has a degree in creative writing, natch) and wrote a whole cutesy piece about how rare it is that civilians punctuate properly. Then they asked various famous linguists and grammarians to comment:
Louis Menand, an English professor at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker, pronounced the subway poster's use of the semicolon to be "impeccable."
Lynne Truss, author of "Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," called it a "lovely example" of proper punctuation.
Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, praised the "burgeoning of punctuational literacy in unlikely places."
Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, "The semicolon is correct, though I'd have used a colon, which I think would be a bit more sophisticated in that sentence."
The linguist Noam Chomsky sniffed, "I suppose Bush would claim it's the effect of No Child Left Behind."
Actually we're not sure if they really asked any of those people to comment or if they just made up what they might say in response to this pointless inquiry as a writing exercise. Seriously, Noam? When did he become Bill Maher?
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In an impressive mix of visual sciences and sci-fi, the ICT Graphics Lab at USC has created a low-cost volumetric 3-D display that brings every kid’s hologram dreams closer to reality.
The process is not simple but can be defined through a few key concepts: Spinning mirrors, high-speed DLP Projections, and very precise math that figures out the correct axial perspective needed for a 360-degree image (even taking into account a viewer’s positioning.)
Different companies have been trying to create a viable 3-D technology for years, but have found several barriers in their way: Small viewing areas, high costs and the viewer disconnect with blurry optical illusions. The most recent attempts have included Helio displays that recreate 2-D projections into floating 3-D illusions, as well as Jeff Han’s Holodust, which involves infrared lasers ‘lighting up’ particles in space.
But the USC project is different and way more realistic. When projecting video frames into a rapidly spinning mirror, close to 5,000 individual images are reflected every second within the surface area and come together to create a real-space three-dimensional object.
Because the images projected from the mirror jump out "toward multiple viewpoints in space," the USC team created a formula that renders individual projections at different heights and traces each projected beam back to the display area to find the correct position of the viewer.
The system also updates itself in real time (at 200Hz), adjusting to the height and distance of the viewer, producing an image that will "stay in place," (or rather, that "adjusts its projected perspective.")
In this way, every person in a room will be able to have a correct POV of a holographic image, like that of the TIE fighters in the image above. It also allows for the correct image occlusion as well as the appropriate image shading necessary for each item.
More importantly, it enables simultaneous viewing — no one will need to use dorky, uncomfortable glasses to see them battle in mid air.
Ultimately, this breakthrough in 3-D holographs is another key push toward the technology’s inevitable conclusion. It’s only a matter of time before our own Princess Leias tell us we’re their only hope.
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His latest book is Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions.
Recently I asked Cullen about what he was reading. His reply:
Sometimes you choose books; other times they choose you. Right now I’m reading T.J. Stiles’s The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. I backed into the book, which I’ve just started, in a funny way. Aware of its good reviews, I made a mental note of it at the time of its publication in 2009, though I never got around to it. A couple of years ago, I was at the book exhibit at an Organization of American Historians meeting, where the publisher of the paperback edition (Vintage) was giving away copies. But I was put off by the size of the book—it clocks in over 700 rather large pages – and the limits of what I could lug as carry-on baggage for my flight home the next day. I finally did buy The First Tycoon a few months ago, at a time when I was planning to write a book on the myth of the self-made man. Because that project is now in doubt, it fell in rank among my reading priorities and I contemplated giving it away.Learn more about Sensing the Past at the Oxford University Press website, and visit Jim Cullen's American History Now blog.
Last week I found myself with a sliver of time on my hands and picked it up. In one sense I almost instantly regretted it, because of pressing other reading commitments: I was in the middle of reviewing David Shambaugh’s new book China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford University Press) and about to begin re-reading Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen’s 1928 novella Passing for a class I’m teaching (Larsen’s book was even better than I remembered). But once I made room for Stiles’s Vanderbilt, he wouldn’t let me go. I realized very quickly why Stiles won the Pulitzer Prize for this biography: it isn’t simply a portrait of a man, but a world. I was riveted by his evocation of Vanderbilt’s early 19th century metropolitan New York, which still consists of overgrown Dutch hamlets. I was also amazed to learn that of young Vanderbilt’s role in the landmark Supreme Court decision Gibbons v. Ogden (1817), which proved formative in the emergence of a truly national U.S. economy. Vanderbilt always seemed the most remote and least interesting of the 19th century Robber Barons. I’m happy I’m going to learn otherwise.
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Why begonia leaves curl?Asked by: Margaretta Bednar
Score: 4.1/5 (36 votes)
Temperature – Since many begonia plants are native to tropical regions, curling begonia leaves may occur when plants have been exposed to wide temperature change. Ideally, the plants will grow best when temperatures do not fall below 60 F.
What do Overwatered begonias look like?
Look for the following symptoms and conditions that make it more likely that overwatering is the cause of your begonia drooping; Yellowing leaves, particularly affecting the lower leaves first. Brown leaf tips despite good humidity and soil moisture. Leaves dropping from the plant, often with soggy, limp petioles.
Why do some begonia leaves curl up?
First and foremost, this condition can occur if your Begonia plant is deficient in nutrients. Even if you don't water the plant well, you can see the curling leaves. Inadequate lighting and temperature may also be a factor. Finally, insects can cause curling leaves.
How do I stop my leaves from curling?
In order to avoid curling leaves due to soil that is too soggy, always allow the top inch or two (approximately 2.5 to 5 cm.) of soil to dry out. Always use pots with drainage holes. Allow water to completely drain away after watering and never allow your potted plant to sit in water for extended periods of time.
How often should you water a begonia?
When planted in flowerbeds, begonias require about an inch of water per week to thrive. One or two light rainfalls per week are usually more than enough to provide that amount. If there is a need to water, water in the early morning.
Curled leaves - Why and how does it work?
How do you know if you are overwatering your plants?
- The soil is always wet to the touch.
- The leaves are yellowing.
- Soft, squishy stems.
- The leaves have brown edges or spots.
- The soil is attracting pests.
Can you overwater begonias?
General Rules. The main rule of thumb for watering begonias is to not let the soil dry out completely. Stick your finger into the soil, and if it dry to your first knuckle, it's time to water. Avoid overwatering, which will cause the foliage to turn yellow and eventually drop.
What is the cause of leaf curl?
Leaves typically wilt or roll up if a plant isn't getting enough water, but excess watering can cause leaf curl, too. Ideally, keep soil moist, but not soaking wet. Severe heat and drought also may prompt leaf roll. ... Transplant shock, root damage and pruning are other causes of leaf curl.
How do you save Overwatered begonias?
- Move your plant to a shady area even if it is a full-sun plant. ...
- Check your pot for proper drainage and, if possible, create additional air space around the roots. ...
- Water only when the soil is dry to the touch, but do not let it get too dry. ...
- Treat with a fungicide.
Why is my polka dot begonia dying?
If the polka dot begonia gets too much sun, the leaves can burn and dry out. Tip: If you have to choose between a spot for your Begonia maculata in either full sunlight or somewhere with less light, opt for the low-light spot. This plant has a better chance there.
Why are my begonia petals turning brown?
Underwatering and excess direct sunlight are the most common causes of begonia leaves turning brown. Brown leaf tips and edges are usually due to watering problems or low humidity. Brown patches or spots are usually caused by excess direct sunlight or disease.
How do you revive a dying begonias?
Clean the pot with bleach, then add sterile potting mix. Replant the begonia and water it, making sure the water drains well, as root rot is more common in waterlogged soil. If the plant is outdoors, move the plant to new location to help prevent reinfection by the root rot fungus.
Do begonias like sun or shade?
Most begonias grow best in part shade (4 to 6 hours of direct morning sun a day), or filtered sun (as through trees). Most will tolerate full shade (no direct or filtered sun), but won't be as dense and usually have fewer flowers. A few grow in full sun. They prefer moist, but not soggy, soils.
Why has my begonia died?
Begonia plants can collapse and die from advanced stem rot diseases. ... Rhizoctonia fungus causes fine webbing and sunken, brown, dry areas of stem rot at the soil surface. Botrytis stem rot symptoms include a soft, brown rot in begonia stems, with gray, fuzzy Botrytis spores in the rotting stem tissue.
Should I remove leaves with leaf curl?
This is a preventative spray, and has to be done in winter before bud burst and well BEFORE the symptoms appear. If a tree is already infected, remove all distorted leaves and fruit and destroy.
What are the symptoms of leaf curl?
Symptoms of leaf curl appear in the spring. Developing leaves become severely distorted (thickened and puckered), and have a reddish or purple cast. Later, as spores form on the leaf surface, the leaves become powdery gray in color. Shortly after this, the leaves turn yellow or brown and drop.
What is the best fungicide for leaf curl?
The safest and most effective fungicides available to home gardeners are fixed copper products. These may be listed as metallic copper equivalent (MCE) on product labels. The higher the MCE, the more effective the fungicide will be. Other less effective fungicides include lime sulfur and copper sulfate.
How do you fix black leaves on plants?
Black leaves on your plants can be reversed, but in some cases are a sign of disease, fungus, or bacterial problems. Because of this risk, the safest thing to do is to remove the plant from your other plants as soon as you notice.
Why are my plant leaves deformed?
The most common plant abnormalities show up as curled or cupped leaves. Insects, mites, disease organisms, herbicides and weather events can all lead to malformation of leaf, stem, flower or fruit tissue.
Should you mist begonias?
Water the soil directly, keeping the leaves dry. Begonias also require high humidity to thrive, a challenge when growing them indoors. ... You also should not spray begonias with water, especially rex begonias. Misting does create humidity, but begonias are prone to powdery mildew, so it's better to keep the leaves dry.
What is the best fertilizer for begonias?
Logee's Plants recommends feeding wax and tuberous begonias with balanced 15-15-15 fertilizer or a blooming formula such as 7-9-5, depending on whether the plant is grown for its foliage or flowers. Apply the fertilizer as a liquid solution composed of 1/4 teaspoon of fertilizer in 1 gallon of water.
Is Miracle Grow good for begonias?
Once a week apply half strength (1/2 T Miracle Grow or other soluble plant food per gallon) fertilizer solution in place of regular watering, being sure to give the basket enough so that liquid seeps from the bottom of the pot. Tuberous begonias are not heavy feeders, so don't overdo it.
Should you water plants everyday?
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Except for a few select group of people I like to call "kidding themselves," nobody has fond memories of middle schools. It's all braces and bras and boners behind the bookbag. So news that a hand full of Kansas middle schools are separating their hormonal young teens by gender for the lunch hour sounds like a dream come true, right?
In fact, school officials tell Reuters single-gender lunch is a great thing -- there's no flirting, no "chattering," and the kids are cleaning their plates. No wasted food! No "distracted kids." No learning about the real world! Oh wait, I added that last part.
Every time I hear "segregation in schools," I have the same thought. Whether it's races or genders being separated, it has no application in the real world. And yet, that's what our schools are supposed to be doing: preparing our kids for adulthood -- both academically and socially.
The thought of kids not "chattering" at lunch doesn't sound attractive to me. It sounds clinical. It sounds sad. It's sounds socially retarding. As a teenager, I recall lunchtime as my outlet, my chance to talk to my friends and feel more like a human, less like a worker bee in the cog of the school machine.
It's in the teen years when male/female interactions begin to take on real meaning. As elementary schoolers, everyone is friends with everyone. Kindergarten girls play with kindergarten boys. Hormones haven't taken their toll yet . . . but they will. And teens need the chance to work that out in a safe environment, to deal socially with one another, to figure out what works and what doesn't. If not at lunch, when?
By the teen years, you've already had recess taken away, and your after-school hours are being taken up by increasing amounts of homework and home responsibilities. Lunch, for most kids, remains the one time when there's no work to be done, a time to settle in and just enjoy the break. Kids need that. Adults need that -- labor law mandates a lunch break for Americans who work a full day because of it.
Better in the cafeteria with teachers watching than at a bar with bad pick-up lines because they never learned, right?
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Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital nears completion
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) -THE dream by the first President of a democratic South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to bring free and accessible healthcare to Southern Africa’s children is coming to fruition.
The R1 billion Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in Parktown, Johannesburg has taken a significant a step closer to completion with R790 million already been donated towards the state-of-the-art, specialist facility.
It is set to open in December.
“Construction of this life-saving facility began on 22 April 2014 and we are extremely excited to be nearing completion and look forward to opening the hospital at the end of 2016,” said Nana Magomola, Deputy Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust.
She spoke in Johannesburg on Thursday as a tour was conducted at the hospital under construction.
Magamola expressed encouragement at the support received from the private sector.
“But there is more to be done in our bid to bring hope to the lives of children across the SADC region, and we encourage the private sector and all individual citizens to open their hearts and support the future progress of the hospital that will change the landscape for children’s specialist medical treatment across Africa,” said Magomola.
General Electric Healthcare (GEHC) and Standard Bank have been among the key supporters of the project.
GEHC is accelerating the completion of specialised children’s hospitals, in addition to secondary and tertiary facilities across Africa.
“Children have a right of access to quality, affordable and accessible healthcare to fulfil their potential,” said Farid Fezoua, President and CEO – GEHC: Africa, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions.
David Munro, Chief Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank, said the bank’s involvement was part of its commitment to Africa’s future.
“This is why we will continue to seek collaborative partnerships to support worthy causes that assist in securing a bold, vibrant future for the continent we love so much, and for her children. We are really pleased to work alongside GE in support of the vision that NMCH inspires,” said Munro.
The hospital will be a 200-bed specialised paediatric hospital located on the campus of the University of Witwatersrand on land donated in 2009.
Expansion to 300 beds has been included in the design of the hospital, which will feature Centres of Excellence in Haematology, Oncology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Craniofacial, Renal and general Paediatric Surgery.
Currently, there are only four specialised children’s hospitals on the African continent – two in Egypt, one in Nairobi (Kenya) and one in Cape Town (South Africa). This is compared to 23 in Canada, 19 in Australia, 20 in Germany and 157 in the US.
According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, about 29 000 children around the world under the age of five – 21 each minute – die every day, mainly from preventable causes. A global campaign for such a hospital in South Africa was launched in July 2013 on Mandela’s 95th birthday.
He passed away in December the same year after a prolonged respiratory infection.
– CAJ News
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A clinical study of VITime Aquastick Cardio has concluded in Tver Regional Cardiology Center. The product’s benefits in the context of holistic therapy for patients with cardiac rhythm disorders have been proven.
VITime Aquastick Cardio stick solution, a source of potassium and magnesium asparaginates as well as vitamins E and B1, is proven to provide:
- a cardiometabolic effect: the average blood plasma potassium and magnesium level in the study participants increased by 14.6 and 28.6 %, respectively;
- a hypotension effect: blood pressure values went down in 78% of the study participants;
- an anti-arrhythmia effect: 88% of the patients had their arrhythmia related dysfunction risk provably decreasing.
Additionally, the study participants (96%) noted an increase in strength and vitality, 88% said their weakness and palpitation spells getting rarer, 76% seen their sleep normalized and 90% became less irritable.
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Bubble sheet assignments allow you to pre-define the correct answers for questions on multiple choice assignments. If you distribute and have students mark their answers on the Gradescope 200-question bubble sheet template, you can indicate the correct responses for each question ahead of time allowing Gradescope to automatically grade all student submissions for you as they’re uploaded.
If there are fewer than 200 questions on your multiple-choice assignment, simply use the first page of the Gradescope bubble sheet template and apply the same methods for indicating the answers in Gradescope ahead of time, uploading submissions, etc. Gradescope will only autograde questions where you previously marked the answers. Leave unneeded question and answer rows blank and Gradescope will ignore them when autograding submissions.
To create a bubble sheet assignment, go to the course’s Assignments page and click Create Assignment in the bottom right of the page. Select Bubble Sheet from the list of assignment types. Give the assignment a title and select whether instructors or students will be uploading submissions. If you choose to let students upload the assignment, you will also need to choose the assignment release date, due date, and set your template visibility preference and group submission policy. Then, you will be taken to the Answer Key page.
By default, the Bubble Sheet assignment type is set up for instructors to scan and upload. However, you can change this by choosing “Students” under Who will upload submissions? in your Assignment Settings. If you do that, a handful of additional settings will appear (i.e., release date and due date) including an option enforce a time limit. By selecting “Enforce time limit” you’ll be able to use the Maximum Time Permitted feature to give students set number of minutes to submit their completed answer sheet from the moment they open the assignment and confirm that they are ready to begin.
Setting up your bubble sheet assignment
Accessing templates and template visibility
It is important that all bubble sheet submissions follow our provided Gradescope’s blank 200-question template. Bubble sheet assignment settings are displayed for instructors to scan and upload on behalf of the students by default. Instructors can download and print copies of the template from this guide or from the Answer Key page. If the assignment settings are changed to allow for students to scan and upload, selecting “Allow students to view and download the template” will grant them access to download the template themselves when they select the assignment.
Creating multiple versions
On the Answer Key page, you have the option to create up to five separate versions of the assignment by selecting the +Add Version button. Each version can have its own answer key, point value, and scoring settings. To delete the last created version, select the red X.
Gradescope’s blank 200-question template contains an area for students to mark their given version which will automatically be read during assignment upload. If there are any uncertain versions (versions which cannot be determined automatically), you will be notified on the Manage Submissions page and will be able to manually assign those submissions to a version.
Bubble sheet versioning, or any kind of assignment versioning, is not available for student-uploaded assignments. To see how to create versions on your instructor-uploaded Exam or Homework assignments, check out our assignment versioning availability guide.
On the Answer Key page, indicate the correct answer(s) for each question on your assignment. For questions with multiple answers, there are three grading styles to choose from:
- Exact - Full points are only awarded when all correct answers are selected
- Partial - Partial credit is awarded per correct answer selected. If an incorrect answer is selected, zero points are awarded.
- Either/Or - Full points are awarded when any of the correct answers are selected. If an incorrect answer is selected, zero points are awarded.
The number of points each question is worth can be set above the answer key. The point value and scoring settings can be changed for individual questions by selecting the settings cog beside the question number. Any questions that are left blank will not be graded.
To revert back to a blank answer key, select Clear Answers. This will remove all selected answers and grading settings for the version you are viewing.
Once you are finished setting up any versions and your answer key, select Save Answer Key. You will be directed to the Manage Scans page where you will be able to upload the submissions.
Managing uncertain versions
For bubble sheet assignments with multiple versions, if we have been unable to automatically assign a version to a submission, you will be informed on the Manage Submissions page. The number of uncertain versions will be highlighted at the top of the page and a question mark will be displayed under the Version column for the affected student(s).
To manually assign a version, select the Uncertain Versions notification. A modal will appear displaying
- the affected students’ names
- an image of the version section from their submission
- the estimated scores they would receive with each version
If the student has left this area blank and the image is not helpful, select the student name to view their full submission in order to work out their assigned version. Once you are ready to assign the version to the student, select the version bubble and then select Confirm Versions.
Extending dates and time limits
If you want to extend or modify when a specific student can start, work on, or submit an assignment, check out Extending assignment release dates, due dates, late due dates, and time limits.
To learn how to give a student more time on all timed assignments in a course, check out Extending time limits at the course level. Currently, at the course level, you can only give blanket time limit extensions. You cannot give a student an extension on all assignment release dates, due dates, or late due dates in a course at once. You would need to give the student those extensions on each assignment.
Gradescope will automatically begin processing and grading the submissions as soon as they have been uploaded. This may take a few minutes depending on the number of submissions. If your assignment has multiple versions, you can either view the results of all submissions together, or view them by version number.
If some answers are not graded, that is because our AI was not confident enough to select an accurate result. To review uncertain marks, select Uncertain Marks at the top of the Grade Submissions page or the notification next to each question. You’ll see an image of the student’s answer and Gradescope’s proposed identification. If any of the suggestions are incorrect, click the correct bubbles. Select Confirm All Marks to grade all the submissions with uncertain marks.
If you’d like to award custom partial credit to certain answer options, give more detailed feedback for each option, or adjust the rubric in any way, you can do so by selecting the specific version, if you have multiple, and then select the question name on the Grade Submissions dashboard. Select Grade Answers in the bottom action bar to access the rubric for that question. Any changes you make to the rubric for a given question will apply to all students who have that version and rubric item applied.
Once all submissions are graded, you can publish the assignment to students (Reviewing grades). If your bubble sheet assignment has multiple versions, note that you can view, publish, and download grades for all versions at once from the All tab at the top of the Review Grades page, or only for students who had specific versions by clicking on the tab for the version on the Review Grades page. For individual versions, you will also have the option to Export Evaluations and Export Submissions (learn more about this here).
If your bubble sheet assignment has multiple versions and students submit Regrade Requests, you can refer to the Versions column on the Regrade Requests page to see the version for each student.
To see a breakdown of scores and selected answers for each question, access the Statistics page. If your assignment has multiple versions, select the version tabs to view statistics specific to each version. For bubble sheet assignments, there is also an Item Analysis page, where you can see discriminatory scores for each question to determine whether the question is working well to discriminate students with knowledge from those that are just guessing.
Posting grades to your LMS
If your institution has LMS (Learning Management System) integration enabled, you will be able to post grades from your Gradescope assignment to the LMS via the Post Grades to [LMS Name] button on the Review Grades page.
- If your bubble sheet assignment has more than one version - It is possible to either post all grades from every version to a single LMS assignment, or post the grades of each version to separate LMS assignments. Before posting your grades, your Gradescope assignment needs to be linked to a single LMS assignment, or link each version to a separate LMS assignment.
- To post all grades to a single assignment or gradebook column in your LMS, select the Post Grades to [LMS] button on the All tab of the assignment’s Review Grades page.
- To separate the grades for each version to a separate assignment in the LMS, select each version’s tab on the Review Grades page and click Post Grades to [LMS] on each tab.
For more information on using Gradescope together with your LMS and on determining your LTI version, please refer to the LMS Workflow section of the help center.
Bubble sheet Statistics
Reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha) - looks at the reliability of the exam in that it is an adequate measure of students’ knowledge. Reliability coefficients, such as Cronbach’s Alpha, theoretically range from zero (no reliability) to 1.00 (perfect). Generally speaking, reliability for classroom tests range from 0.50 to 0.95. You should look to improve reliability for values below 0.50.
To improve the reliability score, you can either improve the questions (see discriminatory score) or add more questions. Gradescope does not recommend a minimum number of questions, but more covering a range of topics is better. (Balogh, JB. (2016). A Practical Guide to Creating Quality Exam)
Standard Error - shows the precision of the overall exam. The standard error indicates the range of possible scoring outcomes a student can have, plus or minus the standard error. Example: If John scores an 80 on the test and the standard error is 5.0, then John’s expected scoring range would be 75 to 85. The higher the standard error, the less precise the exam is at measuring student knowledge. (Balogh, JB. (2016). A Practical Guide to Creating Quality Exam)
Standard Deviation - shows the spread of the scores or how the scores deviate from the mean. A low standard deviation means that almost everyone would’ve got the same score on the exam. If it’s high, it’s a large spread on the exam. (Balogh, JB. (2016). A Practical Guide to Creating Quality Exam)
Student Answer Report - a downloadable .CSV file with every student’s answer and score for each question, so instructors can do their own analysis, such as curving or comparing scores for corresponding questions across versions. Instructors can export this report via the Download Responses button on the assignment’s Review Grades page.
Item Analysis Report
Item Analysis - helps an instructor understand the quality of each test question by looking at the question and the individual options.
Discriminatory Score (Point Biserial Coefficient) - helps instructors understand a question's ability to discriminate between students who have mastered the content on the exam and those who are struggling.
A discriminatory score >0.2 means that the question is doing a good job of discriminating high-performing students on the exam from low-performing. There are several reasons why a point biserial is low, including bias, misleading questions, and difficult language. When the question is too easy, the point biserial will be low. It is also a good idea to check your answer key is correct. (Balogh, JB. (2016). A Practical Guide to Creating Quality Exam)
Distractor Analysis - shows what percentage of students who answered each option for an individual question. (Balogh, JB. (2016). A Practical Guide to Creating Quality Exam) | <urn:uuid:bc511ff4-9600-4f25-8a2e-da423a41448d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://help.gradescope.com/article/gkwvq606fq | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.909411 | 2,651 | 2.03125 | 2 |
When should you use italics?
When should you use italics?
Italics are used primarily to denote titles and names of particular works or objects in order to allow that title or name to stand out from the surrounding sentence. Italics may also be used for emphasis in writing, but only rarely.
Should research papers be italicized?
Titles of articles, episodes, interviews, songs, should be in quotes. In APA, use italics for titles of books, scholarly journals, periodicals, films, videos, television shows, and microfilm publications. Quotation marks or italics are not required for articles, webpages, songs, episodes, etc.
What should be italicized in a sentence?
Generally, we italicize the titles of things that can stand by themselves. Thus we differentiate between the titles of novels and journals, say, and the titles of poems, short stories, articles, and episodes (for television shows). The titles of these shorter pieces would be surrounded with double quotation marks.
How do you use italics in text?
Use Italics when you want to emphasize a certain word or phrase. A common use for italics is to draw attention to a particular part of a text in order to provide emphasis. If something is important or shocking, you might want to italicize that word or phrase so that your readers don’t miss it.
How do you write in italics?
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How do you write in italics on iPhone?
Italics is just as easy:Select the text you want to be bold.Tap the arrow on the menu bar.Tap on the BIU button.Tap on the Italic button.
What does italic look like?
Slanted letters that look like this: We the people. Italics are most often used to emphasize certain words, to indicate that they are in a foreign language, or to set off the title of a literary or artistic work.
How do you emphasize a word in dialogue?
If you need to emphasize a word or a particular fact in a sentence, you can use italics to stress it. That said, italics and other font changes lose their impact if overused. It is best to use such devices sparingly and rely on strong writing and strategic word placement to get your point across.
Can I use italics for emphasis?
In general, avoid using italics for emphasis. Instead, rewrite your sentence to provide emphasis. For example, place important words or phrases at the beginning or end of a sentence instead of in the middle, or break long sentences into several shorter sentences.
Can you use italics in an essay for emphasis?
The MLA style discourages the use of italics in academic prose to emphasize or point, because they are unnecessary—most often, the unadorned words do the job without typographic assistance. And if they don’t, then rewording is often the best solution.
How do you emphasize something in writing?
Still, especially for academic writing, italics or underlining is the preferred way to emphasize words or phrases when necessary. Writers usually choose one or the other method and use it consistently throughout an individual essay. In the final, published version of an article or book, italics are usually used.
How do you emphasize text?
Here we have discussed 5 common ways to emphasize text:Italicize. Italics are a nice improvement from the days of the typewriter when underlining was the norm. Bold. Using bold text is more dramatic and easily recognizable than italics. Change Size. Use Space. Add Color.
What does emphasize mean in text message?
You can use the exclamation point to emphasize a text for one of two reasons: to agree with said text, or to remind someone of a question that they have not answered.
How do you emphasize text on iPhone?
Add a full-screen effectOpen Messages and tap the Compose button to start a new message. Or go to an existing conversation.Enter your message.Touch and hold the Send button. , then tap Screen.Swipe to the left to see full-screen effects.Tap the Send button .
How do you emphasize words in APA?
Speaker: Italics also assist in emphasis and specification. Specifically in APA format, italics help to set words apart from the rest of the text, to highlight them. While they do not provide overt emphasis, or an emphasis of the writer’s voice, they do help to bring the reader’s attention to the term or phrase.
How do you show emphasis added?
To “emphasize a word or words in a quotation, use italics. Immediately after the italicized words, insert ’emphasis added’ within square brackets as follows: [emphasis added]” (APA, 2020, p. 275). For example, “They [the judges] were convinced that the swimmer had missed the two-handed [emphasis added] turn.”
What is used for omitting words in a quotation?
Ellipses for omitted material within a single quoted sentence. Use ellipsis points to show omission within the quotation.
What Emphasize means?
To emphasize is to make something important, or stress it, like when you were little and your parents would always emphasize the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street. They told you again and again and again. | <urn:uuid:4953e1be-4f3b-473f-9923-ce87d674273d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://farfromhomemovie.com/when-should-you-use-italics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.899265 | 1,155 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Our scholarly research is published in a variety of peer-reviewed publications. We often collaborate with researchers from across Canada and around the world, and we mentor graduate students (*) through the writing process. Here’s a sample of our publications in the last seven years.
Keating, N., McGregor, J. and Yeandle, S. (2021) Sustainable care: theorising the wellbeing of caregivers to older persons, 00(00): 1–13, International Journal of Care and Caring, DOI: 10.1332/239788221X16208334299524
Keating, N., Eales, J., Phillips, J., Ayalon, L., Lazaro, M., Montes De Oca, V., Rea, P. & Tyagi, P. (2021). Critical human ecology and global contexts of rural ageing. In M. Skinner, R. Winterton and K. Walsh (Eds.) Rural Gerontology, Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing (pp. 52-63), Oxon: Routledge.
Martin, M.*, Eales, J., Fast, J., Fiorentino, C.*, & Strickfaden, M. (2020). The value of collaborating with undergraduate students on an interdisciplinary project, in Journal of Student Research, 9 (1).
Pysklywec, A.*, Plante, M., Auger, C., Mortenson, W.B., Eales, J., Routhier, F. & Demers, L. (2020). The positive effects of caring for family carers of older adults: a scoping review, in International Journal of Care and Caring, 4 (3), 349-375.
Magnaye, A.*, Fast, J., Eales, J., Stolow, M. & Leslie, M. (2020). Caregivers’ failure to thrive: A case for health and continuing care systems transformation, in Healthcare Management Forum
Duncan, K., Shooshtari, S., Roger, K., Fast, J., & Han, J.* (2020). The cost of caring: out-of-pocket expenses and financial hardship among Canadian carers, in International Journal of Care and Caring
Fast, J., Keating, N., Eales, J., Kim, C.* & Lee, Y. (2020). Trajectories of family care over the life course: Evidence from Canada, in Ageing and Society [Open Access]
Leslie, M., Grey, R., Eales, J., Fast, J., Magnaye, A.*, & Khyatzadeh-Mahani, A. (2020). The care capacity goals of family caregivers and the role of technology in achieving them. BMC Geriatrics, Open Access Article
Leslie, M., Eales, J., Fast, J., Mortenson, W.B., Atoyebi, O.* and Khayatzadeh-Mahani, A. (2019). Towards sustainable family care: using goals to reframe the user-centred design of technologies to support carers. International Journal of Care and Caring, Debates and Issues section. One of the Top 5 most read articles published by IJCC in 2019!
Keating, N., Eales, J., Funk, L., Fast, J. & Min, J. (2019). Life course trajectories of family care. International Journal of Care and Caring, 3 (1), pp 147-163. One of the Top 5 most read articles published by IJCC in 2019!
Keating, N. & Eales, J. (2017). Social consequences of family care of adults: a scoping review. International Journal of Care and Caring, 1 (2): 153-173. This article was named as one of the 2017 Editors Choice articles!
Duncan, K. A., Shooshtari, S., Roger, K., Fast, J., & Han, J.* (2016). Care-related out-of-pocket expenditures in Canada. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning. 27 (2), 277-296.
Anderson*, S. D., Fast, J., Keating, N., Eales, J., Chivers, S., Barnet, D. (2016, March). Translating knowledge: Inter-generational community arts programming in preventing and managing chronic disease. Health Promotion Practice, 1-11.
Keating, N. & de Jong Gierveld, J. (Eds) (2015). Families and aging: From private troubles to a global agenda. Canadian Journal on Aging, 34 (3). Special issue on Families and Aging in Global Context.
de Jong Gierveld, J., Keating, N. & Fast, J. (2015). Determinants of Loneliness Among Older Adults in Canada. Canadian Journal on Aging, 34 (2), 125-136.
Keating, N., Fast, J., Lero, D., Lucas*, S., & Eales, J. (2014). A taxonomy of the economic costs of family care to adults. Journal of the Economics of Aging, 3, 11–20. | <urn:uuid:f276de33-5f44-412f-bbff-92f56d9184ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rapp.ualberta.ca/publications/academic-articles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.750604 | 1,086 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Life Enhancement through Athletic Participation
The Mission of the Solt Evans LEAP Project
The mission of the LEAP project is to help youth from underserved populations succeed in sport, school, and life through mental skill building. Sport Psychology Program team members empower participants to reflect, recognize their potential, understand how to reach it, and to make sound, thoughtful decisions along the way. LEAP becomes a bridge to the future, using sport participation as a catalyst to help youth apply these skills both on and off the field. Through participation in the LEAP project, youth learn sport psychology techniques and team building in a supportive environment of positive reinforcement. Rather than focusing simply on sports, youth learn to use sport psychology to improve their life skills and develop respect for themselves and others.
The LEAP Project provides a bridge to opportunity by helping youth:
- Improve personal decision making
- Recognize choices have consequences
- Promote personal responsibility and accountability
- Improve self-confidence
- Learn stress management skills
- Enhance problem solving and teamwork skills
- Develop the discipline needed to be successful in sports, school and life
Examples of LEAP projects
Student Athletes on High School Sport Teams
The LEAP project works with underserved high school student athletes. Student-athletes learn about setting goals, positive self-talk, energy management, peak performance, motivation and team-building.
The LEAP Challenge Camp is held at Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility (OAYRF) in Byron. This camp has been in place since 1991. OAYRF is an unlocked facility for boys ten to eighteen years in age who have been incarcerated for engaging in criminal behaviors. The LEAP Challenge Camp teaches mental training skills that can be applied as life skills, enabling participants to make better choices and decisions, and to become productive members of our community. The week culminates with a visit to a ropes course where the boys apply the skills they have learned.
Sport Specific Camp
The LEAP Sport Specific Camps include sites such as the First Base Foundation (2011) and the non-profit Mustang Soccer Club (2012-13). Youth participants in these camps learn performance enhancement techniques such as positive self-talk, goal setting, relaxation, and team building.
How the LEAP Project Works
LEAP teaches proven sport psychology techniques - such as goal setting, relaxation, concentration and positive self-talk - in an interactive and non-traditional games environment of through sports participation and then helps youth apply the techniques to other aspects of their lives.
Support the LEAP Project
John F. Kennedy University is extremely grateful for the generosity of all LEAP benefactors and supporters. Donations to the LEAP Project help to sustain LEAP's presence and involvement in the community.
Your support will help fund the yearly summer camps including the Challenge Camp at Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility and the Sport Specific Camp helping underserved youth participating on sport teams, as well as workshops with community athletic teams, clubs and organizations.
To make a contribution to support LEAP, click here.
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What is Ivermectin 12mg?
Ivermectin 12mg is a medicine that will help you to get rid of your parasitic infections of different types. It is a medicine that allows you to find a cure for different types of parasitic invasions in your body and that too on various parts.
Remember that Ivermectin 12mg is a generic substance that will have anti-parasitic properties.
This generic medicine is available in the market in the form of many of its brand names such as Ivercor, Ivermect, and so on.
Being a prescription substance you will need to get the consultations from a doctor first and then if they find it right, they will prescribe you the Ivermectin 12mg dose to you. we will look at the other possible variants of using the Ivermectin 12mg but for now, remember that this is the highest dose of this generic substance that is recommendable for curing.
Uses Of The Ivermectin 12mg
Ivermectin 12mg as a generic substance has anti-parasitic remedial cures with it. It helps cure such as scabies, head lice or pediculosis, river blindness or onchocerciasis, a severe type of diarrhea such as intestinal strongyloidiasis, various types of filarial, and hookworm infections.
Doctors are going to ask you to undergo a few tests to find out what is the type of parasitic infection you are suffering from and the dose that you can administer safely without having to suffer from side effects.
Remember that this is a medicine that is only prescribed when you are suffering from these specific types of parasitic infections only.
Ivermectin 12mg is the highest dose of Generic Ivermectin. you see the doses all the doses of Ivermectin that you will find here have a smaller dose Ivermectin 3mg variant of Ivermectin 6mg which is half of what the dose you will get with an Ivermectin 12mg drug.
Ivermectin 12mg is generally given to patients who can adapt well to the use of the drugs or else to those who are suffering from a severe variant of the disorder.
Remember not to stop taking the medications until the entire dose of the pills is complete. You need to take the full course even if you see the parasitic infections are gone.
Generally, the doses are given only for a few weeks at most. If the parasitic infections do not have any signs of visual cure even after a week of use you need to speak to the doctors.
What to Do if you Overdose or Missed Dose Of Ivermectin 12mg?
Overdose of Ivermectin 12mg means that the possible results might make you suffer from side effects.
If you witness an overdose one of the possible consequences is an overdose.
But sometimes you may as well suffer from a generic allergic tendency to Ivermectin and therefore any dose will not sit well with you.
Do not miss a dose. The working of Ivermectin 12mg is on the basis of a consistent effect when you keep taking the pills for a long time about a week or so.
What is the Most Prescribed Strength of Ivermectin
As such, there is no preferred or most prescribed dose with Ivermectin. when you visit the doctors they will most certainly check the type of parasitic infection you are suffering from along with its severity levels.
Remember that the base dose of Ivermectin 6mg is ideal as a startup dose for your body to adjust to the working of Ivermectin. and then you have a higher dose of Ivermectin 12mg for severe parasitic infections.
Buy Ivermectin 12mg Online At Cheap Price In USA
Ivermectin is available at online prices in the US. If you wish to buy the pills then you can check out the various online Pharmacies if you have online buying preferences.
Or else you may still buy the drug if you visit a close-by medicine shop.
Online buying does give you the advantage of finding the best prices and discounts on bulk deals. On the online mode, you can also compare the rates and discounts easily within minutes.
Why Choose Ivermectin 12mg For Treating Parasitic infections?
Ivermectin 12mg so far is not a drug for curing Parasitic infections. It has got its permission from the FDA.
This generic substance is only in use because of its efficacy in curing Parasitic infections.
Also so far we have not found that magic cure for this deadly virus so right now there are no formal drugs available so far.
Precautions You should take While taking Ivermectin 12mg?
Avoiding overdoses and missing to take your doses on scheduled time are basic precautions that the patients need to undertake.
Taking in alcohol and narcotic drugs will increase the chances of a few side effects like headache, and dizziness and therefore you need to avoid these as well.
Along with this, you must remember to inform the doctors if you are pregnant or breastfeeding your newborn infant. remember to inform the doctors of any other disorders.
- Stomach cramps
- Problems with digestion
- Pain in the joints and muscles
Frequently Asked Questions
Q.1) How to Take Ivermectin 12mg For the Fastest Result?
For faster results avoid missed doses. also do not double your dose suddenly or change to a lower variant.
Stick with the daily dose and maintain your schedule.
Q.2) What Are The Common Drug Interactions
It may show signs to possibly contraindicate with any other anti-fungal or anti-parasitic drug.
Inform the doctors of all medicines you are taking as of now.
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To pickle hot peppers in oil, first of all pick 2 pounds of fresh and crisp jalapenos or another variety of peppers. You also need 3 cups of apple cider vinegar,1 ½ cups of olive oil, ¾ cup of water, and ¼ cup of unrefined sugar. The recipe also requires 8 or 10 garlic cloves, 2 tablespoons pickling salt or un-iodized sea salt, 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns and 6 bay leaves. Make sure you have 2 glass quart jars.Continue Reading
Wash the peppers and remove their cores and seeds. If they are larger then 1 inch in diameter, slice them in half lengthwise or in rounds ½ inch thick. Put all the other ingredients in a saucepan, cover them, and cook for 15 minutes at a slow simmer. Add the peppers, raise the heat, and boil for three minutes, stirring and turning the peppers the whole time. Boil for another two minutes, then remove the peppers, and set them aside on a rack with a tray. Add the garlic cloves to the saucepan, turn the heat down, and let it simmer for four to five minutes before removing it from the heat.
Put the peppers with the bay leaves and the garlic in the two jars and slowly pour the hot liquid until there is ¼ inch of space at the top. Screw the lids on without tightening them completely, and put the jars in a kettle filled with water reaching just below the rims. Cover the kettle, and boil for 10 minutes. Leave the jars in the kettle to cool down, then set them on a wooden surface until you hear the click that indicates that they are sealed. Tighten the lids, and place the jars on a shelf for six weeks in a cool, dark place.Learn more about Vegetables | <urn:uuid:3568ebc8-e8ff-478f-b17e-05fa2249512a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/food/pickle-hot-peppers-oil-f1c3f6714a15999 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00444-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914017 | 368 | 2.0625 | 2 |
TSX, S&P launch Canadian clean technology index
* New index will measure performance of 21 companies
* Companies operate in five green sectors
OTTAWA, March 25 (Reuters) - Investors can now track the performance of Toronto-listed green energy companies on the new S&P/TSX clean technology index .GSPTXCT, launched on Thursday by Standard & Poor's and TMX Group Inc X.TO, parent of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The index, created in response to growing investor demand, tracks 21 Canadian-based companies whose core business is the development and use of green technologies and sustainable infrastructure.
"Toronto Stock Exchange has become a key listing, financing and trading destination for clean technology companies," said Ungad Chadda, senior vice-president of the TSX.
"The creation of the S&P/TSX clean technology index is a significant step forward for this important new industry sector."
The companies operate in five sectors: renewable energy production and distribution, renewable energy manufacturing and technologies, energy efficiency, waste reduction and water management, and low-impact materials and products.
"A growing number of investors are interested in the clean technology investing theme," said Jasmit Bhandal, director of S&P Indices in Canada.
"This new index provides a gauge for investors to assess the hypothesis that global interest in clean technology will lead to a favorable environment for clean technology companies." Continued... | <urn:uuid:3a891a64-401f-4bab-b891-a657b295b15b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ca.reuters.com/article/canadaMktRpt/idCAN2522876520100325 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00200-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912525 | 294 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Rumours of a ‘Beast of Barnet’ filled pubs and school classrooms when various sightings of a big cat were reported across north London in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Most were dismissed as false or inaccurate – but in May 2001 the sighting of a lynx in a back garden in Cricklewood scrambled armed police officers and zoo officials, who spent four hours trying to snare the dangerous predator.
The young female European lynx, believed to have escaped from an owner who was keeping the animal illegally, was sent to London Zoo to recover from its ordeal.
But what became of one of Barnet’s most dangerous and high profile fugitives? And was there a happy ending to the unhappy animal's tale? Times Series chief reporter Chris Hewett carried out an international investigation to find out…
The discovery of a wild cat patrolling the back gardens of Cricklewood 13 years ago shocked the local community. But its capture lent credence to those who had reported similar sightings in earlier years.
In 1998, people in Potters Bar and South Mimms were told to lock themselves in their homes as police investigated reports of a large cat-like predator spotted in the area.
And officers initially laughed when yet another sighting was reported in May 2001.
But the emergency call by Carol Montague, a cleaner working at Hocroft Avenue, led to a high profile chase across neighbouring fields by police and zoo experts, who eventually tranquilised the animal at the second time of asking in a stairway leading to the Avenue Court flats in nearby Farm Road.
The lynx was taken to the big cat enclosure at London Zoo where she was given the name Lara and treated for a broken paw and malnutrition.
The following year, zookeepers began a Europe-wide hunt to find a mate for the lovelorn feline, who was the only animal of her kind at the enclosure.
But Lara’s fate remained largely unpublicised, so the Times Series asked London Zoo to dig out its records and find out what happened to Barnet’s most famous big cat.
Press officer Rebecca Smith was able to confirm that Lara was transferred to the Parc Zoologique du Bois de Coulange, in Amneville, France, in 2004, following a three-year stay in the capital.
And having made contact with the zoo keepers across The Channel, the Times Series learned that Lara’s tale took a heart warming twist, with the news that she gave birth to lots of cubs after finally finding a mate.
Sadly, she died in 2009, but Lara's legacy lives on, with her cubs now living in various places around the world.
Nicolas Leroux, zoological director at the Parc Zoologique said: “Sadly, Lara died in 2009. Since she arrived at Ammenville she always appeared to have problems with her back.
“We think she must have sustained an injury during her time in the wilds in London. As the years went by, and Lara got older, she was in more and more pain. She had trouble moving and we realised that the medication we had been giving her to relieve her pain was no longer doing the job, so we put her down.
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|Environment and development
in coastal regions and in small islands
The missing islands of Pulau Seribu (Indonesia)
The article below is published in
Economic and Business Review Indonesia No. 262, April 23, 1997 pp. 38-39.
Fig. 1 Ubi Besar map from 1901 to 1982. Human impacts have already led to the disappearance of nine of the 1000 islands (Pulau Seribu).
One by one the real Thousand Islands (Pulau Seribu) in Jakarta Bay are disappearing!
Pulau Seribu has the misfortune to lie immediately offshore from a conurbation of 20 million people and the combined effects of land-based pollution and sedimentation are wreaking havoc in the fragile reef ecosystem of Jakarta Bay.
In response to the problem in 1995, UNESCO, with scientists from P30-LIPI and ITI, conducted a review of what has been happening to the Bay's coral reefs. The review repeated a similar survey which had been conducted 10 years earlier, allowing scientists from the three organisations to see how much the islands and reefs had been transformed during that period of rapid economic and industrial growth in Jakarta.
The results of the second survey indicated that the condition of the coral reefs in Pulau Seribu is continuing to decline, to the point that some islands have totally disappeared (see Fig. 1). Part of the problem of coral reef degradation is beyond our direct control, in that global warming and the El Nino effect have led to changed rainfall and runoff patterns and longer "dry-seasons" in Indonesia.
Another part of the problem, however, is not beyond our control. Many of the causes of erosion and reef degradation are related directly to human behaviour. These are the so-called anthropogenic perturbations that affect the structure and health of the coral reef community. They include archaic waste disposal systems and unsustainable resource management practices which lead to:
The worsening condition of coral reefs thus goes hand in hand with the unsustainable utilisation of resources by local fishermen and specimen collectors, and by the developers of private resorts, as well as the improper or inadequate disposal of waste by industry and local government authorities.
The spiraling economic cost of reef degradation suggests that the improved management of coral reefs may be in Indonesias best economic interest in the long term.
Protection of coral reefs is often presumed to conflict with economic development. However an economic study by the World Bank on the economic value of Indonesian Coral Reefs (1996) clearly indicates that the unsustainable exploitation and management of coral reef leads directly to considerable economic losses in the longer term. The divergence between short-term profits to private individuals, and long-term costs to society can reach a ratio of 50:1 (The World Bank, 1996). [H. Cesar 1996. The Economic Value of Indonesian Coral Reefs. World Bank Environmental Economics Series.]
Table 1 illustrates this conflict between private profit and public loss by showing the estimated benefits to individuals against the losses to society for each square kilometer of coral reef left unprotected. Blast fishing, for example is estimated by the World Bank to yield a net benefit to individual fishermen of US$ 15,000 per km2 of reef. This compares with net losses to society of US$ 86,000 per km2 of reef (from sustainably managed fisheries), US$ 9,000 - 193,000 (in coastal protection), and US$ 3,000 - 482,000 (from tourism).
(present value; 10% discount rate; 25 y. time-span; in US$ ,000; per km2)
|Tourism||Others1/||Total Net Losses
Ranges indicate: sites of 'low
and high' value in terms of tourism potential and coastal
n.q.: not quantifiable
1/: 'Others' includes loss of food security and biodiversity values (not quantifiable)
2/: Forest damage due to collection of wood for lime processing is estimated at US$ 67,000.
Table. 1 Total net benefits and losses associated with the destruction of Coral Reefs. From The World Bank Environmental Economics Series (1996).
Under its mandate to protect the coral reefs in the South East Asian region, UNESCO provides a point of convergence for local people, governments, scientists and NGOs in their efforts to save Pulau Seribu. With its specialist expertise in coastal management, and its focus on public education and awareness, UNESCO has been able to help local communities and NGOs to find and implement their own solutions through better communication and cooperation.
In cooperation with the Indonesian Institute of Science (P3O - LIPI), UNESCO recently organized a "Workshop for the Young Generations of Fishermen and Teachers" on Pari Island which brought together fishermen, collectors, NGOs, teachers and students.
Participants learned that, in order to counteract their loss of earnings from declining fish stocks, some inshore fishers have turned from traditional fishing methods to destructive, non-sustainable methods using dynamite (blast fishing) and cyanide to catch live fish for the restaurant and ornamental fish trade.
It is thought that most of these fishermen are employed or financed by wealthy businessmen. They are also employing the most destructive and non-sustainable of fishing techniques, in areas where local authorities apparently have neither the resources nor the power to stop them.
The UNESCO-LIPI workshop provided a forum for fishermen, NGOs and local people to exchange problems and perspectives and to work towards common objectives, and a shared vision for the effective and sustainable management of the resources of Pulau Seribu.
Suggestions to come out of the workshop included:
By training local people in the sustainable use, management and protection of coral reefs, and by providing advice on alternative sources of income for fishermen, and on the use of non-destructive fishing techniques, UNESCO and its partners aim to change the face of coral reef management in Pulau Seribu.
Fig. 2. Pari Island, Fisherman collecting seaweed. Sustainable seaweed farming could become an important activity generating much-needed alternative income (Photo by Y. Wibowo)
Abundance of crustaceans as an indicator of anthropogenic stress in Pulau Seribu.
Stomatopoda crustaceans are particularly well suited for inclusion in large-scale, rapid coral reef assessments. Reef-flat stomatopods are ubiquitous, abundant, and diverse in the Indo-Pacific region, and their populations are easily measured. As stomatopods are an important component of the abundant mobile cryptofauna of coral reefs, study of their population can offer an insight into reef processes. Stomatopod abundance, diversity and recruitment show a strong negative correlation with concentrations of hydrocarbons and certain heavy metals in sediments, and provide a useful index of contamination by sewage and agrichemical runoff (Steger and Caldwell, 1993) [R. Steger and R.L. Caldwell, 1993. Reef flat stomatopods. in: Long term assessment of the oil sill at Bahia Las Minas, Panama, Synthesis report. US department of Interior, New Orleans, pp 97 - 119]. Studies of population structure among Stomatopods emphasise the role of marine pollution as an important stress factor on corals on the reefs of Pulau Seribu.
Fig. 3 Stomatopod abundance at each sample site in Jakarta Bay and Pulau Seribu. Each bar is subdivided to show individual species abundance. Reef sites are ranked on the distance from Jakarta (adapted from Erdmann and Sisovann, 1996) [M. V. Erbmann and O. Sisovann 1996. Distribution and abundance of reef-flat stomatopods in Teluk Jakarta and Kepulauan Seribu. In: Study No 10, Proceeding of UNESCO Workshop in Pulau Seribu (in Press)]. Data collected during UNESCO Monitoring Activities, Pulau Seribu 1995.
Plastic is everywhere!
In May 1985 and September 1995, UNESCO organized two surveys on the state of the coral reefs in Pulau Seribu. One of the parameters measured was the amount of long term non-degradable or slowly degradable litter along the strand-line of the islands.
From this it is inferred that most of the plastic bags do not reach the islands, but sink to the sea bottom beforehand. The blanket of plastic over the sea bottom of the inner Thousand Islands must be phenomenal! It is easy to imagine what effect this might have on future coral growth and regeneration.
Who is responsible for this tide of plastic?
It is certainly not just the tourists who visit the Thousand Islands, though they may play their small part. It is primarily the people of greater Jakarta and West Java. It is also the citys refuse disposal system which refuses to stem the tide of plastic waste discharging from the rivers and canals which flow through metropolitan Jakarta (N. Willoughby et al., 1996) [N.G. Willoughby, H. Sangkoyo, B.O. Lakaseru, 1996. Beach litter: an increasing and changing problem for Indonesia. In: Study No 10, Proceeding of UNESCO Workshop in Pulau Seribu (in Press)].
A monitoring activity carried out by UNESCO in September- December, 1996, examined solid waste and the water quality in Jakartas rivers and called for a joint and urgent effort to manage and control waste disposal in Jakarta.
For further information see the:
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Setting Goals In an effort to boost the homeownership rate among underserved populations, the NAHB is endorsing measures to strengthen Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's housing goals. The agency wants to ensure that the financial lenders work assiduously to house the country's working-class families and other overlooked communities.
Along with HUD, the NAHB is working to increase mortgage financing for home buyers and rental housing and to enact challenging housing goals without jeopardizing or hampering Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's ability to service the broader housing finance market. The NAHB is “in complete agreement with HUD on the need to enact vigorous housing goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” but agreeing on and outlining those goals may not be as easy.
Policy makers suggest removing both companies' status as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to bring about reform, but home builders believe such a step would prevent GSEs from financing affordable housing at the lowest possible cost to the nation's households. The NAHB hopes HUD will establish a goal system for the GSEs while enabling them to provide liquidity to the housing finance system.
Popular Demand Suburban areas proximate to metropolitan markets are where 55- to 74-year-olds are most likely to buy a home, according to a recent analysis of 2000 U.S. Census data by the NAHB, and these residential districts are the center of building activity for new active adult communities.
About three-fourths of active adult communities are built in close-in suburbs and outer suburbs, and nine of the top 10 counties in the nation for recent active adult construction are located in suburbs. These numbers indicate older buyers' tendency to settle on the outskirts of a bustling metropolis. Case in point, almost 62 percent of the 55- to 74-year-old population (9,718) in Sumter County, Fla., which has the most active adult buyers in the nation—attracting buyers from Orlando, Tampa/St. Petersburg/ Clearwater, and Ocala metro areas—purchased their homes there since 1995. Other counties with high active adult home buyer numbers include Nye County just outside of Las Vegas and Pinal County just outside of Phoenix.
Bonnie Solomon, the NAHB Seniors Housing Council chairperson, says builders recognize the trend and are responding to market demand.
Easy Money The NAHB Women's Council, in conjunction with the National Housing Endowment, awarded scholarships to three college students committed to the building industry and their academics. The scholarships encourage young people to continue their education in housing-related programs and to pursue careers in the field. This year's grants were given to construction majors from Indiana State University and the University of Washington and an architecture major from the University of Utah.
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Sustainability in practice
|Statement||by Teresa Paul, Habitat Associates with the Ontario Home Builders" Association.|
|Contributions||Habitat Associates., Ontario Home Builders" Association., Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.|
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The question of whether maternal requests for c-sections could be contributing to rising rates of the procedure is a hot topic – the National Institutes of Health held a conference on the issue, ACOG has issued statements guiding its member OB/GYNs, and there has been no shortage of media coverage. In general, there does not appear to be any consensus that there is significant demand from women for c-sections that are not medically indicated, with the NIH calling requests “difficult to quantify.”
Previous results from the Listening to Mothers II national survey of childbearing women found that “Of the 1573 women surveyed, just one mother said that she had had a planned initial cesarean by her own choice with the understanding that there was no medical reason,” and suggested that the NIH panel’s estimate of maternal demand for c-sections may not be accurate:
“…working with a leading polling firm to ask mothers themselves results in an estimate of just 0.2% of all cesareans (1/480) by maternal request in 2005, and suggests that the panel’s reported estimate of 4 to 18% of all cesareans grossly overestimates this phenomenon.”
A small study in the new issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology also attempts to address the question of whether women are truly clamoring for c-sections. Researchers surveyed 314 pregnant women in the Bronx, and 95% of women responded that they did not believe cesarean delivery on maternal request was “a good idea,” and 93% said they preferred to deliver vaginally. Although the authors note that their sample is small and may not be representative of all American women, it’s an interesting start in trying to quantify this supposed trend.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Something offered to allure or attract; an inducement, especially to buy.
- n. Slang A sexual or romantic approach or proposal.
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- n. Something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
- n. A statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest.
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- n. anything that serves as an enticement
- n. qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
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Which conveniently segues to the magic act of that come-on/come-off eye make-up used in the show, that left me so baffled the first time around.
A joke misunderstood, a come-on not reciprocated -- this is not the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission's definition of sexual harassment.
The baker set up a digital shop and promoted it with an arresting come-on: designer shoes made entirely of sugar.
He adjusted his filter as the spammers quickly modified their come-on to evade it.
It's hard to resist the clever come-on refrain of the song I just played, I'd catch a grenade for you.
The only thing anyone was talking about Wednesday night at the reception before the Washington Press Club Foundation's annual congressional dinner was the New York second-termer's Craigslist come-on and abrupt resignation just hours earlier: How could anyone be so clueless?
The only thing anyone was talking about during the reception before the Washington Press Club Foundation's annual congressional dinner Wednesday night was the New York congressman's Craigslist come-on and abrupt resignation just hours earlier: How could anyone be so clueless?
It sounds like a bad come-on Valentine's Day card written by Charlie Sheen's entourage.
He was all over me with compliments and even come-on lines.
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From State Impact: “Our analysis is that there is not additional cost with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.”
This is how Pam Stewart responded to a question about the cost of Common Core. The key word is additional.
Stewart argued Florida is already spending money on testing, and new Common Core-tied tests are not expected to cost significantly more.
State schools already regularly replace textbooks, she said, so there’s no additional cost to purchase textbooks updated for Common Core.
Florida lawmakers have required half of all instruction be delivered digitally by 2015, so Florida school districts would have to add more computers and expand school Internet networks. New Common Core-tied tests will likely be taken online by most students.
Several outside groups have tried to put a price tag on Common Core. The pro-Core Thomas B. Fordham Institute estimated a business-as-usual approach would cost $12.1 billion nationally while a bare bones approach using open-sourced materials would cost $3 billion nationally. The estimate for Florida ranges from $182.9 million to $780 million.
The anti-Core Pioneer Institute estimates Common Core will cost $15.8 billion in one-time costs and seven years of operational costs, nationally. Pioneer estimates Florida would spend $1.2 billion over the same period.
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Answer to relevant QuestionsHow would you describe the distributions of the grades of students who did, and did not, attend class in Figure 3.4? Why would you have expected this kind of distribution even before you saw the data? Make a histogram for the data in Exercise 3.1 using a reasonable number of intervals. In Exercise 3.1 a) Plot a frequency distribution for these data. b) What is the general shape of the distribution? Use LazStats, or MYSTAT, to reproduce display Figure 3.4 as a boxplot instead of back-to-back stem-and-leaf displays. (For instructions on how to enter data into one of these programs by hand, see the relevant Web page on ...In Table 3.1 the reaction-time data are broken down separately according to whether we are looking at the same stimulus or whether the stimuli are mirror images of one another. The data can be found by going this book’s ...A group of 15 rats running a straight-alley maze required the following number of trials to perform to a predetermined criterion. The frequency distribution follows: Calculate the mean and median number of trials to ...
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