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- The IPCA reached 0,01% in June, the lowest rate in 2019, and is sustaining an annual rate below the government’s goals
- Lower prices in food products and gas
Good news for Brazilians, inflation in the country, regulated by the National Index of Pricing to the General Consumer (IPCA), reached its lowest rate of the year in June, at 0,01%, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). It was the lowest rate registered in June since 2017, when the inflation was at -0,23%.
In the first semester of 2019, the inflation registered in the country reached 2,23%, achieving a better result from what was projected as the annual rate by the government (4,25%).
The sectors which had the biggest influence were the food and transportation industries. Together, these two segments set up a deflection of 0,25% and 0,31% in the last month, and they are so important that they directly impacted the general outcome because they represent 43% of the Brazilians expenses.
As a result, buying fruits, food, and fuel is cheaper for Brazilians and, at least for now, reducing these fundamental costs can make a huge difference in their purchasing power by the end of the month. | <urn:uuid:56d522cd-5244-44c2-948e-eed23cecbacd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://labsnews.com/en/news/economy/brazil-registered-the-lowest-inflation-rate-of-2019-in-june/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.974098 | 264 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Kent County Council has been criticised for refusing to overturn a ban on the promotion in schools of homosexual relationships.
County Hall in Maidstone was the focus of a protest by students
Section 28, the legislation which has prevented intentional promotion of such relationships in schools, is being abolished across England and Wales on Tuesday.
But in Kent, the county council will retain the ban in a move which, it claims, has the backing of schools and parents.
But gay rights groups have criticised the authority, accusing it of taking a confusing and old-fashioned stance.
The removal of Section 28 was given the go-ahead in September when the Local Government Bill was given Royal Assent.
The House of Lords had previously attempted to block the government's attempts to repeal the legislation.
Kent County Council's policy, which effectively retains the legislation by still preventing pupils from being taught about homosexuality as an alternative to heterosexual relationships, was introduced in 2000.
A spokesperson told the BBC: "We have had tremendous backing from schools and parents across the county, who, while wanting to encourage tolerance, are also clear they want to see family, Christian and other religious and traditional values emphasised."
But the council's stance has attracted criticism from gay rights groups and from some of the county's teachers.
Sue Sanders from the group Schools Out, an organisation for gay, lesbian and bisexual teachers, said: "I would argue what will happen with Kent is teachers will not feel confident, they will not know what to do and they will turn a blind eye, they will ignore stuff.
"And when you don't tackle the issue you are colluding with it, you are enabling it to happen."
A number of students gathered outside County Hall in Maidstone at the weekend to protest against Kent's stance.
Mac Ames, of the Queer Youth Alliance, said: "When the suicide rate amongst young gay men is higher than ever before, it's imperative that our teachers are able to talk to their pupils confidently and impartially about sexuality and choices." | <urn:uuid:8003e190-1f85-460f-ac8f-33fbc1127906> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3277499.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725470.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975823 | 414 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Article advertising, which is the act of placing articles on websites and article directories, is getting more popular all the time because it is a cheap way to promote other online ventures. It is possible to generate commission-based income by placing written content describing a product or service, which then causes a visitor to make a purchase through your link. This article contains many suggestions on how to effectively utilize marketing on your website.
Set aside rigid AP style guides in favor of a conversational tone. You can create better content this way. If you do not hew closely to these rules, your articles will be ranked more highly by the search engines.
Always include “no follow” links within comments on your site. When a user posts spam on your site, web crawlers get alerted not to follow that link. Links to spam sites will influence the quality of your site.
A blog is a great, generally free, tool that you can use to promote your industry leadership. Regularly update your blog with interesting, compelling articles that showcase your insight and leadership skills. By focusing your articles on the latest trends and developments in your industry, your visitors will know that you are competent, knowledgeable and diligent.
The urge to flood indexes with copies of the same article must be resisted. As part of the article submission strategy, there are numerous article indexes that can be capitalized on. That makes it tempting to take one article and submit it everywhere. Avoid doing this since search engines can discount your rankings.
Submitting lots of articles is key. Be sure that you are publishing articles regularly if you belong to a blog network. Focusing on a single keyword will require several articles built around that keyword. If the keyword you are using is competitive, submit a minimum of five articles to directories and at least ten to blog networks. Follow that up with at least fifty posts to private blogs to improve your ranking further.
Article submission offers success because you can promote exactly what it is you want to promote. If your article syndication is part of an affiliate marketing program, you can make even more money if people buy an item linked from your article. Use the advice given to you here to be successful in article promotion. | <urn:uuid:7dccce16-4701-414f-adc6-c73c1f9a791b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://problog.dk/strengthen-your-article-submission-with-these-great-ideas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.941073 | 445 | 1.796875 | 2 |
King-Smith wrote his first book, The Fox Busters, when he was in his 50s. He is best known for penning the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, which inspired the 1995 Oscar-winner Babe. His 1990 story The Water Horse was also adapted into a 2007 feature film.
In addition, the prolific author wrote more than 100 other books, which have sold over 15 million copies around the world. Animals and pigs, in particular, were the writer's favorite subject.
Queen Elizabeth II honored King-Smith with an OBE for his work in children's literature last year.
King-Smith is survived by his second wife Zona, three children, 14 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. | <urn:uuid:cb6a4946-2c60-4682-a962-dc9aeac0d30d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tainted-archive.blogspot.com/2011/01/babe-author-passes-away.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990406 | 154 | 1.78125 | 2 |
C Attorney General Richard M. Blumenthal on Thursday announced that Connecticut would join New York in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal law requiring states to dispose of their own radioactive waste.
"While the federal government has the authority to establish a regulatory system for handling low-level radioactive waste, it does not have the power to force the states to either solve the disposal dilemma or take title to the waste produced in the private sector," Blumenthal said Thursday.
Ellington, South Windsor and East Windsor were chosen as possible sites for a state low-level radioactive-waste dump on June 10. Since then, residents in the three towns have organized to fight the proposal and have asked local, state and federal officials to find a way not to have dump sites in Connecticut.
Blumenthal's announcement does not affect the towns directly, but does support residents' efforts to keep low-level radioactive waste out of state, not just out of their back yards.
"For a while, our communities were feeling very isolated from other communities in the state, and now that's changed," said state Rep. Kevin F. Rennie, R-South Windsor.
The quasi-state agency responsible for choosing a dump site, the Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service, announced earlier this month that it was temporarily halting the site selection process to check for flaws. The agency is not expected to resume the process for another four or five months.
Blumenthal said he will file a "friend of the court" brief once New York files its Supreme Court petition. Ohio also has said it will join New York's suit.
The law being challenged by New York says that a state must either build its own site for low-level radioactive waste, or join other states in a compact and agree on a mutual site. The federal law also makes states liable for radioactive waste generated within their borders by Jan. 1, 1993.
Connecticut and New Jersey formed a compact, but neither wanted to accept the other's radioactive waste, so each decided to build its own dump.
New York state and its two counties targeted as potential dump sites, Allegany and Cortland, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Albany, charging that the federal law is unconstitutional because it usurps states' right to determine how to dispose of their own waste.
New York lost that case and appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling, and New York decided last week to petition the Supreme Court.
Blumenthal said that the two lower court decisions against New York were drawbacks to joining in the Supreme Court petition, but that "extraordinary legal and public policy issues" outweighed them.
"One reason we decided to go ahead was the importance of this issue to the citizens of Connecticut -- not only to those who live in these towns that have been affected, but to all the citizens in our state," Blumenthal said.
"Also, there is the importance of the legal precepts at stake -- our state's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment," he said.
The New York attorney general's office said Connecticut's decision to join New York would strengthen the chances that the Supreme Court would agree to hear the case.
"New York is, of course, very interested in having the support of the other states," said Nancy Connell, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office."We believe that the case merits the support of all states, and are very pleased that Connecticut is joining in this way." The attorney general's offices in Connecticut and New York have been speaking with attorneys general throughout the country. Texas, Michigan, Illinois and California are considering joining the suit.
Local officials in the towns targeted for the dump were delighted with Blumenthal's decision.
"It's tremendous, absolutely tremendous," said South Windsor Mayor Lincoln Streeter.
"The federal government will have to revisit this issue because it just hasn't been properly handled," said Ellington First Selectman Donald Landmann. "Plunking [a dump] down in a little town, on prime farmland, is not properly handling the waste," he said. | <urn:uuid:df782c7d-12cb-4b2a-869d-1a580a09bf98> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.courant.com/1991-08-30/news/0000212608_1_radioactive-waste-waste-site-law-lower-court | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00366-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969558 | 851 | 1.945313 | 2 |
For small business owners, SBA loans can be a real lifeline, allowing them to purchase real estate, repair critical machinery, refinance debt, or pay employee salaries. SBA loans come in several different types, some are short-term while others are paid off over 25 years, but each involves applying for the loan with the SBA and a lender.
Many borrowers wonder, “Can you pay off SBA loans early?” If business is booming and you have the money to pay it off, shouldn’t you?
Not necessarily. We’re going to explain why that is and the specific situations where it might be good to pay these loans off early.
When You Should Not Pay Off SBA Loans Early
SBA loan terms are usually quite favorable to business owners. They’re backed by the government, so lenders aren’t as worried about businesses defaulting and the government wants businesses to succeed as that grows the tax base. For most business owners, paying off an SBA loan early is not beneficial, for reasons listed below.
You Need a Tax Deduction
Interest on a loan is considered tax-deductible, which makes paying the loan off early a bad idea for most businesses. You’ll burn through your working capital quicker getting it paid off and will owe more at tax time. See your Tax advisor for additional details.
You Don’t Want To Pay a Penalty
You might assume that lenders want you to pay back your loan as soon as possible, but that’s actually not true –– lenders want you to pay interest (which is tax-deductible). Paying off a loan early eliminates those interest payments, and your lender still wants to make money off this transaction.
Therefore, some SBA loans are set up so that you owe a penalty percentage if you pay them off early. There are ways around this, with many lenders only charging the penalty if the loan is paid off in the first three years. It pays to read the fine print as you can save a lot of money in interest payments if you pay off the loan strategically.
You’re Trying To Build Up Your Business’s Credit
Your business’s credit score increases with each instance of on-time payment, which means if you pay it off early, you’re missing out on payment months. Having an open loan also improves your credit score, as it shows that other lenders have decided that extending credit to you is a safe bet.
Once these loans are closed, they won’t benefit your score as much. It’s counter-intuitive that your creditworthiness is penalized for fully paying off your debt, but that is the credit score system we have.
When You Should Pay Off SBA Loans Early
Every business is different, and in a minority of cases, paying off an SBA loan can be beneficial. It’s a decision that should be carefully considered though, as the terms are usually set to favor businesses that pay off the loan on the approved schedule. Here are a couple of cases where you might want to pay it off early though.
You Want To Eliminate Interest Charges
While you can save thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars, on interest charges by paying back your loan early, it doesn’t really save money in the long run. Interest payments are tax-deductible, so those payments probably aren’t hurting your bottom line. Some businesses could benefit from eliminating their interest payments, but those circumstances are unique, especially since many SBA loans are structured so there is a significant penalty for early repayment.
You Want To Qualify for Another Loan
Assuming there is no prepayment penalty, paying off an SBA loan early is actually quite beneficial. By wiping away that debt, you’ll have a much easier time qualifying for a new loan. Your credit score might not be as good as it was with the outstanding loan, but lenders also don’t want to extend credit to someone who’s already in debt to someone else.
You Hate Being in Debt
Don’t we all? Many small business owners, particularly those who’ve used their own savings for initial capital, despise having outstanding loans when they don’t need to. For many, the peace of mind that comes with being debt-free is worth the financial costs that come with paying off the loan early.
Paying Off a Small Business Loan With LendThrive
If you’ve considered an SBA loan and are worried about whether you can pay off SBA loans early, LendThrive gives you options. Unlike SBA loans, LendThrive doesn’t charge prepayment penalties, making it one of the most flexible choices for small business owners.
LendThrive is a part of the AVANA Family of Companies and offers fixed rate business loans of up to $150K. | <urn:uuid:e049cc70-7efc-4b7c-a65d-a378906ee827> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lendthrive.com/blog/paying-off-sba-loan-early | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968785 | 1,022 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Dispatch Crisis Negotiations | 10/12/2022
This course is designed to provide the student with a better understanding of identifying a crisis negotiation situation, as well as understanding the principles of crisis negotiations.
The student will receive information on the various roles and responsibilites of a dispatcher, responding field units, and the crisis negotiation team. The course will discuss several techniques on how to combat stress during and after a crisis negotiation incident. The course will cover the importance of participating in a critical incident de-briefing.
If you wish to enroll in this course, please e-mail course coordinator Felicia Bowens.
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|Event End Date||10-12-2022 5:00 pm|
|Cut off date||09-28-2022|
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of or pertaining to capuchins
- n. capuchin monkey, primate of the genus Cebus
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or characteristic of the monkeys of the family Cebidæ, which includes the larger species of America; cebian: contrasted with *pithecine.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
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How to play a chord of F Minor on piano
F Minor is a three-note piano chord made up of F, Ab and C. It can be written as either “F Minor”, or abbreviated to just “Fm”. The key signature of F Minor consists of four black notes – Bb, Eb, Ab and Db – and its relative major is Ab Major.
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Discover what matters most to God.
We serve a holy God. And as His children, God longs for us to pursue a life that is pleasing to Him. But what does this look like? The book of Leviticus provides the answer. Originally written for the ancient Israelites, Leviticus continues to offer timeless principles for living that remain relevant to believers today. This study examines those principles, and explores how we can cultivate holiness in our daily lives.
Part of Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe's best-selling "BE" commentary series, BE Holy has now been updated with study questions and a new introduction by Ken Baugh. A respected pastor and Bible teacher, Dr. Wiersbe shares that personal purity matters a great deal to God. You'll find a fresh appreciation for the holiness of God, and be challenged to continually grow into the likeness of our Savior. | <urn:uuid:11405b17-c04f-47af-8f45-b8e73e9b9e7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=1034766 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932951 | 183 | 1.53125 | 2 |
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top secret spaceplane made a picture perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. To those unfamiliar with the vehicle, it might have looked roughly similar to the US space shuttle, the manned spacecraft that shuttled astronauts into space for three decades.
But this spaceplane, called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is very different. While it looks like a plane, is launched on a rocket, has a cargo bay and uses some of the same technology as the shuttle, such as thermal shielding to protect it during reentry, it is smaller and unmanned. It is designed to stay in orbit for months on end and can automatically land back on Earth. Perhaps more crucially, the Boeing-designed plane is operated by the US Air Force and its mission is a closely held secret, prompting a slew of speculation about its true purpose.
Since the first X-37B was launched in 2010, amateur satellite spotters have carefully followed the robotic spacecraft’s orbit, while those unconnected with the program have speculated that the plane could be anything from an anti-satellite weapon to so-called “on demand reconnaissance,” shorthand for a spy satellite that can be placed over any country in the world. Compounding the mystery was the launch of a second vehicle in 2011, which stayed in orbit for 469 days, long exceeding the Air Force’s stated maximum requirement of 270 days for the spaceplane.
Now, a third launch is slated for 11 December, according to an Air Force spokesperson, once again ramping up the rumour mill. So, what do we actually know about the plane?
Early reports focused on the X-37B’s seeming resemblance, at least in size and weight, to the X-20 Dynasoar (short for Dynamic Soarer), a 1950s-era hypersonic vehicle that was envisioned for a variety of military missions, including bombing and sabotaging enemy satellites. However, experts familiar with the X-37B programme emphasized that its technology is actually closer to the recently retired space shuttle (a fact reinforced by Boeings’ proposal for a crewed version of the vehicle known as the X-37C). The Air Force blandly described the role of the X-37B in a factsheet given to media as a “reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform”.
The Air Force also says the mini-shuttle has two objectives: testing “reusable spacecraft technologies” and conducting “experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth”. Again, this is similar to the stated aims of the space shuttle. But many forget that earlier craft also had a secret military role. Although ostensibly a civilian program, it conducted a series of missions from 1982-1992 on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office, carrying a series of classified spy satellites.
Similarly, most outside experts now agree that it’s likely the robotic space plane is being used for some sort of secret reconnaissance. “I think the guess that makes most sense is quick-response tactical imaging, meaning hours to a couple of days from request to delivery,” says Allen Thomson, a former CIA analyst. | <urn:uuid:1c856435-5e23-4549-8ab4-c3b54952c3cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://coolinterestingstuff.com/x-37b-secrets-of-the-us-military-spaceplane | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95724 | 668 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Gooseberry Gardens & Farms
Strategically planted areas of exotic trees and winding paths guide you round to unveil amazing lake vistas.
The deerpark walks, with bridges, follies and seemingly undiscovered waterfalls are a stunning reminder of this type of naturalistic garden.
Walk along the tranquil park and hear the sounds of silence, laced with the chirpings of Cavan’s thriving birdlife, it feels unspoilt and will leave you wondering how this part of Ireland has remained such a well-hidden and undiscovered secret for so long.
From its inception the Lodge was a botanical marvel created from Lord Headfort’s personal collection of plants and trees from around the globe.
Lord Headfort was a major contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society with seedlings cultivated in Ireland and added to the Botanical Collection in Kew Gardens in London. The fourth Marquis became president of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland from 1915-45.
In November 30th 1939 the crown awarded the Marquis of Headfort, the prestigious ‘Victoria Medal of Honour’ for his contributions, to horticulture.
The kitchen gardens have been lovingly brought back to life by a team of Ireland’s finest gardeners and as one would suspect a lot of good, old fashioned graft, Nature is very fair with all and there is no getting around the hard work on the land before reaping any rewards.
Our walled garden with the assistance of polytunnels will produce enough food to maintain the house and also supply our London restaurants with produce such as vegetables, soft fruits, herbs and spices.
We are improving and nurturing the kitchen gardens with composting & manure, ensuring abundance from the land whilst protecting & maintaining a healthy rich soil. We utilise herb gardens, cutting gardens & polytunnels to extend the seasons making the garden productive all year round.
Within the grounds expect to find:
• Pleasure gardens
• Apple orchards
• Walled garden bearing muscat grapes
• Parterre gardens
• Woodlands and meadows
• A stable block
We invite guests to explore the gardens and polytunnels to discover the fresh produce used in your meals at the Lodge. | <urn:uuid:2e270f06-cab0-4074-87a1-b8755a5b8e69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.virginiaparklodge.com/gooseberry-garden-and-farms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.927147 | 460 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library exists to provide access to the news and history of Florida. All of the over 2 million pages of historic through current Florida newspapers in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library are openly and freely available with zoomable page images and full text. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library builds on the work done in microfilm within the Florida Newspaper Project.
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library includes:
- Current Florida newspapers, digitized from 2005 - present
- Digital Military Newspaper Library - an ongoing project for military journals and newspapers published in Florida and the Caribbean
- Historic Florida newspapers
- Historic News Accounts of Florida
With the exception of the East-Florida Gazette in the 1780s and a small press at Fernandina in 1817, Florida had no colonial newspapers. Even in the immediate aftermath of cession in 1821, only a few newspapers served Florida. Historic News Accounts of Florida consists of stories and reports about Florida gathered together by the Goza and Mickler families and donated to the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History. All are from non-Florida newpapers and cover events in Florida from 1762 - 1885. The articles pre-dating the Territorial Period help to "fill in" the journalistic record at a time when there was no Florida press, while the articles from after 1821 both complement and supplement news published in Florida.
- Also, see the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library in the Digital Library of the Caribbean
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24 January 2011, Berlin, Wien – LGC Genomics, the genomics division of LGC, is pleased to announce that it has completed the sequencing of the whole transcriptome of the different developmental stages of Jatropha curcas seeds on behalf of the Austrian Bioplant R&D, Vienna and the PBU, Department of Biotechnology, VIBT-BOKU, Vienna.
LGC Genomics used a novel proprietary method and the cutting-edge Roche/454 Titanium sequencing technology to analyse the full-length, optimised, normalised cDNA library of Jatropha curcas. Approximately 12,000 full-length transcripts, assembled with an average 25 fold sequence coverage were obtained.
The species Jatropha of the family Euphorbiaceae has gained global attention as an alternative bioenergy plant. It grows in tropical and subtropical areas and is currently being successfully processed for the production of biodiesel. Jatropha can be planted on poor, contaminated soils which are not suitable for food production and is used in plantations of hedges and barriers to protect vulnerable areas against soil erosion. Jatropha is also used as source of fuel wood, for the production of lamp oil, soap, colours and smear oils and for some medicinal applications.
Steffen Krueger LGC Genomics’ General Manager commented: "LGC Genomics and its partners can be extremely proud of their achievement in the sequencing of this increasingly important fuel alternative. The sequencing of the Jatropha species will not only enable biofuel scientists to understand the plant’s genetic make-up, so aiding in its processing, but will help farmers increase their yields and contribute to the exploration for a genuine alternative to fossil fuels.”
Margit Laimer (PBU, BOKU) / Karin Gruber (Bioplant R & D): “Bioplant R & D and PBU are considering the sequencing of the transcriptome of Jatropha curcas an important milestone in our efforts to develop elite-cultivars in order to improve global access to and production of green energy”. Bioplant`s improved plant material is expected to reach the market within the next years. The efforts for the “Production of elite plant material of Jatropha curcas“by Bioplant R&D and PBU, Vienna, are supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
About LGC Genomics
LGC Genomics is a new division of the international science-based LGC Group and was established in April 2010 as part of a strategic reorganisation of LGC’s operational structure. LGC Genomics combines the strengths of the LGC Group’s former AGOWA genomics business – based in Berlin - with LGC’s ambitions for growth in the rapidly expanding international genomics market.
LGC Genomics delivers:
- Next generation sequencing services
- DNA sequencing
- Genomic services
- Nucleic acid extraction services
- DNA extraction products
LGC is an international science-based company and market leader in analytical, forensic and diagnostic services and reference standards (www.lgc.co.uk).
LGC operates internationally through four divisions - LGC Forensics, LGC Genomics, LGC Standards and LGC Science & Technology. The LGC Group employs over 1,400 staff in 27 laboratories and centres across Europe as well as in India and China.
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Marketing / PR Coordinator
LGC Genomics GmbH
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The genus Leionema comprises 22 species which were previously part of the genus Phebalium. All are endemic to Australia and occur in the eastern half of the continent. Most are small shrubs with very aromatic foliage and produce clusters of small, star-like flowers in the cream to bright yellow range.
Leionema viridiflorum is a small shrub, usually less than 1 metre in height which occurs in fairly dry situations in open forests or woodlands in the Warrumbungle and Mt. Kaputar ranges in northern New South Wales. It has oblong to elliptic leaves up to 40 mm long and 8 mm wide. Together with a few other members of the genus, L.carruthersii is unusual in that it has flowers with prominent stamens which project well beyond the length of the floral tube. In most other species the stamens are shorter and more spreading to give a starry appearance to the flowers. The small flower cluster consist of 6-12 pale yellow-green flowers. Flowering occurs in late winter – spring.
Because of its rarity, L.viridiflorum is rarely seen in cultivation but it would make an interesting small shrub for sunny, well drained positions.
In common with most members of the Rutaceae, propagation from seed is difficult but cuttings usually strike readily.
* EPBC Act = Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;
ROTAP = Rare or Threatened Australian Plants (Briggs and Leigh, 1988)
For further information refer the Australian Plants at Risk page
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Android Call Parameters
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July 12, 2011
Drug could Help Lower Malaria Transmission
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Killing over 780,000 people each year, malaria is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Finding a cure has been the goal of scientists for many years. Now a cheap and common medication used to treat lice in children and heartworm in pets, could add malaria to the list of diseases it helps control.
According to the World Health Organization, new approaches to combat malaria are in constant demand. Current methods of avoiding transmission rely mainly on sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and spraying indoors with mosquito poisons. Scientists from Senegal and Colorado State University found that transmission of malaria parasites by mosquitoes fell substantially over two weeks among people living in several Senegalese villages who took the drug ivermectin. The drug appeared to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes that fed on the blood of the villagers."There is no silver bullet for malaria control," Brian D. Foy, Ph.D., a vector biologist at Colorado State University and the article's senior author, was quoted saying. "But this could be an important tool that would also contribute to the fight against other neglected diseases. It's clearly a multipurpose drug."
Ivermectin is currently used to treat river blindness in Africa. It is also effective against variety of parasitic worms including those that cause elephantiasis. It can help prevent heartworm in animals and kills insects that commonly affect children, like lice.
"If using ivermectin works to reduce transmission, people will have a drug circulating in their blood that could kill mosquitoes anywhere and at any time of day," Dr. Foy said.
Researchers collected mosquitoes from villages where people were taking Ivermectin and compared them to collections gathered at the same time from villages where people were not taking the drug. In locations where people were taking ivermectin, two weeks after the drug was administered there was a 79 percent decline in mosquitoes carrying Plasmodium falciparum"”the world's most deadly malaria parasite. In villages where ivermectin was not in use, malaria-bearing mosquitoes increased by 246 percent over the same period.
The study suggests it might be possible to use the drug to reduce malaria transmission during epidemics or in well defined transmission seasons. Larger, longer studies will be needed to show weather more frequent doses of ivermectin during malaria season have an important impact on the disease.
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The First Iditarod shares the history of the first running of The Last Great Race, and most of the book is comprised of the verbatim words of mushers who made that first journey to Nome in 1973, captured through recorded and videotaped interviews conducted over a span of several years.
The book also delves into the history of the trail itself, and includes the colorful histories of mail carriers on the Iditarod Trail, the First Annual Iditarod Sweepstakes Race in 1910, the glory days of the trail when hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold traveled over it, the 1925 Serum Run to Nome on the northern section of the trail, the trail’s fall into disuse, the reclaiming of the trail by Joe Redington Sr. and the U.S. Army, and how Joe and Vi Redington helped the Iditarod Trail became a part of the National Historic Trails system.
Published in March, 2015 by Northern Light Media. 154 pages. ISBN-13 978-0-9843977-6-1 Format 6″ x 9″ perfect bound, text only, no photos. $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling to U.S. addresses only. Additional postage required for foreign orders.
Available at Amazon, eBay, and your local independent bookstores.
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IV (Intravenous) sedation
Ideal for nervous patients and long treatment sessions.
A single drug (Midazolam) is given intravenously and works within a couple of minutes.You have dental injections after the sedation is given and the dental procedure is carried out as normal.
Our sedation team are trained to a high standard to monitor you throughout the procedure.
There are many advantages to using intravenous sedation
- IV sedation induces a state of deep relaxation and a feeling of not being bothered by what’s going on.
- The drug used for IV sedation produce either partial or full memory loss (amnesia) for the period of time when the drug first kicks in until it wears off. As a result, time will appear to pass very quickly and you will not recall much of what has happened. Many people remember nothing at all. So it may, indeed, appear as if you were asleep during the procedure.
- Ideal for patients who;
- Have fear of dental treatment
- History of traumatic dental experiences
- Difficulty going numb
- Have a bad gag reflex or difficulty opening their mouths
- Extremely sensitive teeth
- Medical conditions potentially aggravated by stress
Patients who are not suitable;
- Certain medical conditions including allergies
- If you are pregnant
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Last week, the Department of Education announced huge changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a troubled federal student loan forgiveness program.
Through systematic reforms, the Biden administration will temporarily ease requirements that had limited PSLF eligibility to only certain types of federal student loans and certain repayment programs. Once the changes are implemented, the PSLF program will effectively be temporarily expanded by including more types of federal student loans (such as FFEL loans and federal Perkins loans) and most types of payments made under any available repayment plan. The result will be a major expansion of the program that could ultimately benefit nearly 600,000 student loan borrowers, according to the Department of Education.
But despite the significance of the Biden administration’s actions, a number of borrowers and student loans will still be excluded from the PSLF changes. Here’s an overview.
Parent PLUS Loans Excluded From New PSLF Relief
Parent PLUS loans are a type of federal student loan issued to the parent of an undergraduate student. While the loan benefits the student (the child), the borrower is the parent. Parent PLUS loans generally have higher interest rates and fewer repayment plan options as compared to other types of federal student loans.
Parent PLUS loans can be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness if consolidated into a federal Direct consolidation loan and repaid under an Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) plan (it should be noted that this is not the optimal move for all Parent PLUS borrowers). However, while Biden’s new PSLF changes will allow payments made prior to Direct loan consolidation to potentially qualify for PSLF, Parent PLUS loans are expressly excluded from this new reform. As a result, payments made on non-consolidated federal Parent PLUS loans will continue to not count towards PSLF.
Spousal FFEL Consolidation Loans Excluded from PSLF Changes
One of the signature elements of the new expansion of the PSLF program is that payments made on FFEL-program loans (an older type of federal student loan issued by commercial lenders) can now qualify for student loan forgiveness. That was not the case under the original eligibility rules. However, FFEL borrowers must still consolidate their FFEL loans via the federal Direct consolidation loan program before October 31, 2022 to qualify for the new benefit.
One type of FFEL student loan is a Joint or Spousal consolidation loan — a now-defunct program that allowed two spouses to combine their individual federal student loan balances into a single loan, with both spouses jointly responsible for its repayment. The program was discontinued, but some borrowers — including those who have since divorced — are stuck with these types of loans. Joint Spousal FFEL Consolidation loans cannot be re-consolidated into a federal Direct consolidation loan under current federal policy, and therefore cannot qualify for PSLF. It may take an act of Congress to address this problem.
Payments Made Prior To October 2007 Don’t Count Towards PSLF
The PSLF program was enacted in October of 2007, and no payments made prior to the creation of the program can count towards the program’s student loan forgiveness term. The Biden administration’s new PSLF changes do not (and cannot, legally speaking) amend this rule. As a result, payments made before the creation of Public Service Loan Forgiveness in October of 2007 will continue to be excluded.
Private Student Loans Excluded from PSLF Changes
Private student loans are not covered by the administration’s new changes to PSLF. That is because PSLF is a federal student loan program, and Biden’s legal authority is limited to actions under federal law. The Biden administration relied on the HEROES Act of 2003 to enact the sweeping changes to the PSLF program, but this statute only governs federal student loan programs. It does not empower Biden to provide any relief for private student loan borrowers, and federal law does not allow private student loans to be consolidated into a federal loan.
Borrowers Who Already Paid Off Their Student Loans Will Not Benefit From PSLF Changes
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WATCH ABOVE: A New Brunswick woman says Canada must revisit its travel restrictions on visitors from western Africa after her and her partner from Sierra Leone were denied entry into Canada. Global’s Alex Abdelwahab reports.
MONCTON – A Canadian woman, originally from New Brunswick, is upset her partner was not able to join her and their daughter this summer in Canada.
Rachael Borlase, who now lives in the UK, said her partner, Amara Bangura, was told his visitor visa to Canada would not be processed because he had recently been to Sierra Leone.
Borlase, who is visiting her parents in Pointe-du-Chene, NB, said the plan had been for Bangura to join them Thursday evening for her brother’s “typically East Coast” wedding this weekend.
“We’re going on a lobster boat, and then out for dinner,” Borlase said. “Then having a massive, about 100-person, pig roast tomorrow, as part of the whole wedding weekend.”
Borlase and Bangura live together with their daughter, six-month-old Ruby Borlase Bangura, in Norwich, England, where Bangura is completing his Master’s at the University of East Anglia.
But Bangura has a Sierra Leone passport, which means he requires a visa to visit Canada.
After submitting his application for a three-week travel visa, he received a letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada that said his “application [was] not eligible for processing and will not be processed,” because he had been to Sierra Leone for two weeks in May.
“It’s a real kick to the gut, if I’m honest,” Borlase said.
“I mean it’s always going to be a struggle for African passport holders to get in and out of Canada if they don’t have permanent status here, but we just could never have imagined that he would be denied this visitor’s visa.”
Borlase said her partner had been to Canada several times and they had lived together in Toronto when he studied at the University of Toronto.
She said she especially didn’t understand CIC’s decision given that Bangura had included a medical certificate from Public Health England that declared him Ebola-free.
The certificate, signed by a doctor in Norwich, states, “There is no known exposure to the Ebola Virus, so there is no reason to restrict activities. There is no public health reason to prevent a return to normal duties.”
Bangura travelled to Sierra Leone in May as part of his thesis work, which is focusing on how local media can react to international health challenges like Ebola. As part of his trip, he was training local journalists on how they can better report the facts of Ebola and keep their community safe.
According to the most recent WHO situation report, as of July 29, there were three reported cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Borlase and her family believe it’s time Canada lift the ban, saying it’s too late for Bangura to attend the wedding, but they hope their story can help other people.
In an e-mail to Global News, Citizen and Immigration Canada said it couldn’t comment on specific cases, but said it maintained a regular dialogue with the WHO on the state of the outbreak.
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It seems like all the manufacturers are adding Superfoods to their ingredient lists. Why? Because people want them in their diet. They have discovered how these foods are amazing for you and want to incorporate them into their daily life.
Look at the topics you’ll get:
- The 5 Health Benefits of Almonds – (429 words)
- Reasons to Eat Avocado Every Day – (499 words)
- 10 Health Benefits of Kale – (710 words)
- 7 Health Benefits of Pineapple – (518 words)
- 5 Reasons to Drink More Coconut Milk – (559 words)
- 8 Reasons You Should Be Eating Quinoa – (730 words)
- How to Incorporate These 7 Superfoods into Your Diet – (696 words)
- 5 Reasons to Start Eating More Strawberries Today – (480 words)
- 5 Foods You Didn’t Know Were Superfoods – (518 words)
- Ways to Include More Barley in Your Diet – (446 words)
Use engaging articles to teach your audience all about superfoods.
Load these up into your blog content calendar, then make to link to other related Superfoods topics to help your customers find the articles they want to read.
Or you could take a couple of these and make an ultimate blog post.
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Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.
Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.
So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
—2 Corinthians 4:1-18, NIV
Recently I’ve been contemplating the phrase “quality of life.” Here are some of the definitions of quality of life, also referred to as QOL:
- Wikipedia: is the general well-being of individuals and societies. QOL has a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, politics and employment. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income. Instead, standard indicators of the quality of life include not only wealth and employment but also the built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, and social belonging.
- The Free Dictionary: Noun, quality of life- your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort); “the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life” gratification, satisfaction – state of being gratified or satisfied; “dull repetitious work gives no gratification”; “to my immense gratification he arrived on time” [Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.]
- Medicinet.com: The patient’s ability to enjoy normal life activities. Quality of life is an important consideration in medical care. Some medical treatments can seriously impair quality of life without providing appreciable benefit, whereas others greatly enhance quality of life.
- BusinessDictionary.com: Dailyliving enhanced by wholesome food and clean air and water, enjoyment of unfettered open spaces and bodies of water, conservation of wildlife and natural resources, security from crime, and protection from radiation and toxic substances. It may also be used as a measure of the energy and power a person is endowed with that enable him or her to enjoy life and prevail over life’s challenges irrespective of the handicaps he or she may have.
As you can see, there are differing opinions on what quality of life actually means. Some people use it as a measurement of how happy and fulfilled a person is. Others think of it as a way to gauge how someone can enjoy life in spite of physical handicaps or limitations. And many others consider it to be an indication of how much people have overcome in order to enjoy their life no matter what obstacles they face.
Where is God in all of this?
“The world is filled with people trying to adjust to the pain, trying to deal with life without total collapse, break down, burn out, hopelessness, fear, apathy or just giving up. And all of that really is a matter of learning how to endure. And that’s our key word this morning because the passage in front of us gives us the secrets to endurance…the secrets to endurance. How can we endure the pain of life? The profound difficulty of life? The great disappointments, broken dreams, broken bodies, broken homes, broken lives, broken relationships? How can we handle all of that? How can we face life like the Apostle Paul did who said back in verse 8 of this chapter, “We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed”? How can we live like that? How can we be so triumphant?” —John MacArthur, GraceToYou.org
So, how can we think more like Paul? Is it possible to be afflicted and still be triumphant? I have shared with you before that I live with several chronic pain illnesses. Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic migraine plague me every single day. Some days are worse than others, but I can honestly count on one hand the number of pain-free days I have had in the last 5 or 6 years and still have fingers left over. And yet I still have more joy than I ever thought possible.
What is true joy? Charles Spurgeon describes it this way:
“The JOY OF HOPE—who shall measure it? Those who are strangers to it are certainly strangers to the SWEETEST MATTER in spiritual life. With the exception of present communion with Christ, the JOY of a believer in this present state must be mainly the JOY OF HOPE. “It does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He is (OUR HOPE).” (1John 3:2) We thank God that we shall be satisfied when we wake up (from the sleep of death) in the likeness of Jesus! This ANTICIPATION (HOPE) of Heaven makes (the hurt of) earth become endurable! And the sorrows of time lose their weight when we think of the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory (Our future HOPE). (2Corinthians 4:17)”
the hope of joy = the joy of hope.
I do not think we can have one without the other because each produces the other. For example, I can have the hope of joy because . . .
I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth and after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes— I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
And I can also have the joy of hope because . . .
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
—Romans 15:5-6, 13
Beloved, don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what is happening in our lives as long as we continue to hang our hope on our Savior. That thought alone produces so much joy that it is impossible to stay down or depressed about our circumstances for long.
Choose joy. Yes, joy is a choice that we make every single day. If we have invited Jesus Christ into our hearts as our Savior and Lord, then we have the certain hope of everlasting life in heaven with Him. And if we have that certain hope, how can we be anything but joyful no matter what our circumstances?
My Redeemer lives!
Please enjoy this video of Nicole C. Mullin singing one of my favorite and comforting songs, “My Redeemer Lives.” I know it will fill you with as much hope and joy as it does me!
If for any reason you cannot view the video, read the lyrics here.
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The UN Children's Fund is leading a campaign to get thousands of
children displaced by the war in Georgia back to school. UNICEF says
getting children, who are traumatized by war back into a structured
school program, will help them regain their sense of normalcy and well
being. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.
Because of the
crisis in Georgia, the start of school this year has been delayed.
School now will begin on September 15. And, communications officer for
the U.N. Children's Fund, Robert Cohen, says UNICEF would like some
35,000 children displaced by the war to be in the classroom when school
"UNICEF views the return to school in September as a
golden opportunity to help children begin to recover from the trauma of
war and restore their hope in the future," he said. "And, we are
concerned, along with the rest of the humanitarian community, that not
all children will be able to return to classes on time."
says there are logistical problems. He notes many of the people who
fled their homes during the fighting between Georgia and Russia are
living in schools and kindergartens. He says alternative facilities
will have to be found either to house these IDPs or to act as temporary
schools for the children.
He says the reluctance on the part of
some parents to send their children to school is another problem that
needs to be overcome.
"Our office and other agencies have heard
concerns on the part of parents that they want to send their children
to school," said Cohen. "They want to send them to schools in safe and
hygienic conditions. We have also been working our water and
sanitation and hygiene teams to disinfect and clean up schools that
were used as IDP shelters."
Cohen says there are problems of
overcrowding in the collective centers and the tent camps in areas
North of the Georgian town of Gori and in Gori itself.
says displaced people are being registered and protection measures are
being put in place to allay these concerns. He says it is important to
ensure that families are in safe and appropriate conditions.
preparation for the start of the school year, UNICEF has distributed
over 100,000 so-called school-in-a-box kits. This includes enough
learning materials and tools for 80,000 children.
UNICEF also has distributed hundreds of recreation kits and has begun
mine awareness projects to educate children about the dangers of
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Emergency Alert can send text messages based on both the registered service address of a mobile phone and the last known location of the handset at the time of the emergency. This includes visitors and people travelling in the area.
The location based service relies on each carrier to detect and locate every mobile phone with a last known location within the warning area set by the emergency services.
Since January 2014, Telstra has provided the location based service across its networks, including 4G.
Previously, this was only available on Optus and Vodafone’s 2G / 3G networks however, both networks now provide the service on their 4G networks.
This includes Telstra, Optus and Vodafone’s wholesale partners who resell the carriers’ 4G networks.
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The Norwegian company is abandoning 66 leases in the Chukchi Sea
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Another major oil company is abandoning its plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean off the northwest coast of Alaska.
Statoil announced it’s giving up 16 of its company-operated leases in the Chukchi (chuk-CHEE’) Sea.
The Norwegian company is also abandoning its stake in 50 Chukchi leases operated by ConocoPhillips. The leases are due to expire in 2020.
The announcement comes on the heels of a Sept. 28 decision by Royal Dutch Shell PLC to abandon drilling in U.S. Arctic waters “for the foreseeable future.”
Shell cited disappointing results from an exploratory well and a challenging and unpredictable federal regulatory environment in offshore Alaska.
Statoil had not drilled exploratory wells on any of its leases.
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Calling this is a ride, is like calling a rock a toy.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjEsWj369rc?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
The Sky Tower at the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Denmark is an anti-ride. There are no rails. No safety bar. And no rope.
The “ride” begins when the operator suspends the rider on their back, 100 feet up in the air by a large cable. Without warning, the cable holding up the rider, disconnects and the rider plummets, back first, toward through ground at speeds approaching 55 miles per hour. Within seconds, the rider crashes into a large net of the kind that protects trapeze artist and circus performers.
Rides cost about ten dollars, in addition to the park admission.
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Jan 17, 2018 If you have more than one iOS device using the same Apple ID, let's say an iPhone and an iPhone, you may have noticed that if you download
This button is located below the app name in the upper-right corner of the app page. It will start downloading Aug 29, 2019 Parental Controls to Stop Downloading. If you've set up a separate Google account on your phone for each kid or if they're old enough to have You can easily prevent or stop the automatic downloads on your smartphone! To Know more visit: Apps are automatically installed on my phone. What should I May 9, 2018 Education First. To start with, take the time to educate them about viruses and how they invade, and how the “Skinner boxes” of mobile games Dec 6, 2014 Configure your iPhone so that it stops automatically downloading apps to your device that were purchased on other devices. It will stop all downloading applications. In Setting > App > Running app > Download manager , click the Clear cache button. The download process will stop. May 6, 2012 Usually if you long press on the downloading item in download manager there's an option to delete it, thus stopping the download. If this doesn't work you Settings -> Apps -> All Tab -> Download Manager. Here press force
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5 Jul 2013 An iPad Basics tip on how stop apps, music, iBooks from downloading automatically and how to use the Automatic Downloads feature in iOS. Resolve app installation errors in Google Play Store. You might receive an error that Open the app details and tap the Force stop button. Tap the Clear cache 10 Apr 2018 This method should work to prevent any user-installed app from updating on the Play Store, but it won't work for pre-installed apps unless 8 Aug 2018 So, without any further delay, let's find out how to stop unwanted apps from automatically downloading on android phone or tablet: 18 Feb 2019 Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected 4 Dec 2019 On the Google Play Store, select My Apps. Select Downloading. Select an app. Select Cancel or select the stop icon. Perform Clear Data and | <urn:uuid:556133c3-243e-4064-bce8-a1d0f2c609be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://netdocsfjob.web.app/how-stop-downloading-apps-656.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.89268 | 1,017 | 1.742188 | 2 |
A new way to burn a hole in your wallet
IoT technology as a payment method? The way the IoT (Internet of Things) is expanding it seems only a matter of time. IoT devices are communicating with garages, homes and cars so why not monetary transactions? Say for example you pull up to gas station. Instead of swiping your debit/credit card at the pump or paying the guy behind the counter you tap an in-dash device or your app.
FTD’s (Financial Transaction Devices)
According to an eMarketer article, research think-tanks Cognizant, Marketforce and Pegasystems surveyed 500 senior banking and insurance executives. Some 20.4% of respondents said that wearables will become common financial transaction methods within the next 12 months.
Cost versus use
It’s easy to see that the IoT has a wide-ranging impact across a variety of categories be it healthcare, travel or even real estate.
But the cost of such devices may initially prove to be prohibitive or at least somewhat discouraging. Recent studies have shown that although protection is a huge concern for many, the cost of IoT devices is what the public is having a hard time wrapping themselves around.
Welcome to the IoFT (Internet of Financial Things)
Recent studies have focused on grassroots-level useage: a wearable device that allows you to pull up your bank account. A television that allows you to look for and purchase goods and services. But a recent article on Co-opthink points out that IoT technology regarding finances has more tangible applications. Many that we are already seeing or soon will be:
Real-time payments – P2P is already a given, but in the IoT universe, electronic payments should transact instantaneously.
Alerts and more alerts – Just as a health monitor provides instant feedback, so should triggers on one’s accounts. Apps like CardNav, which send spending or security alerts to a user’s mobile device based on real-time data, create a sense of constant connectivity.
Alternative ATM access – As mobile payments take root, mobile-based ATM access seems inevitable.
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Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped eight more girls from Borno State on Sunday, three weeks after the group seized more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok, also in Borno State.
The abducted girls, aged 12 to 15, were taken from the village of Warabe Sunday night, but the news took days to emerge due to poor communications in the area, reports say.
Warabe is close to the notorious Sambisa forest where the girls taken earlier from Chibok are believed to be held.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the Chibok abductions on Monday amid growing international anger. In a video released Monday, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, threatened to sell off the abducted girls.
The Nigerian government’s handling of the kidnapping in Chibok has fuelled public fury.
The United States said on Monday the abductions by Boko Haram was an “outrage”. The United Kingdom has offered what it called “practical help” to help rescue the Chibok girls.
Foreign Minister, William Hague, did not give details of the offer being made to the Nigerian government.
“We are offering practical help,” Mr. Hague said Tuesday. “What has happened here… the actions of Boko Haram to use girls as the spoils of war, the spoils of terrorism, is disgusting. It is immoral,” he said.
There are conflicting figures of the exact number of girls taken from Chibok with some officials saying as much as 276 remain missing.
One resident of Warabe quoted by Reuters news agency said armed men in military fatigues attacked the village late at night Sunday. He said the attackers were entering houses and ordering people out.
The militants made away with the girls along with looted animals and food, the report says.
Meanwhile the United Nations has warned the extremist Islamist Boko Haram against selling the girls they took from Chibok, saying there will be consequences.
“We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law. These can under certain circumstances constitute crimes against humanity,” U.N. human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, said at a news briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
“That means anyone responsible can be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future. So just because they think they are safe now, they won’t necessarily be in two years, five years or 10 years time,” he said.
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Some years ago, a new form of peroxide was developed called Carbamide peroxide. It is most often used in the form of a gel, placed into a special tray that is custom–fitted to your teeth, and worn in the mouth for anywhere from one to four hours a day. When in contact with the teeth, the carbamide peroxide releases oxygen, and that is what releases the stain on your teeth. This safe and gentle process has proven to be very effective.
Teeth tend to change shades, usually yellow, with age. This and other stains can be eliminated with the whitening processes. Whitening may not change the color of existing fillings, so whitening combined with tooth bonding is a popular choice. When the whitening is completed, new tooth–colored fillings are placed to match the whitened teeth.
At home, bleaching methods do work, but more slowly so you need a little patience. Some people start to see results in just a few days, but normal treatment time is anywhere from three to six weeks. Darker stains may require a longer treatment time. Each person is different and results will vary according to stain type, how deep the stains are imbedded into the tooth, and your particular tooth structure.
Carbamide peroxide of 10% to 22% is used in a custom–fitted tray. The tray is worn twice a day for one hour or once a day for two to three hours, depending on the particular system being used. This system is more cost–effective than the following techniques because the bleaching is not done in the dental office.
Custom–made, mouth–formed and ready–made trays are professionally designed by your dentist from a cast model of your teeth. Because they are designed to cover all back teeth and cushion the entire jaw, they can prevent concussions caused by blows to the chin. Custom guards may be slightly more expensive than commercially produced mouthpieces, but they offer the best possible fit and protection. They are more secure in the mouth and do not interfere with speech or breathing.
Ready–made, commercial mouth guards can be purchased at most sporting goods stores and are made of rubber or polyvinyl. They are the least expensive but also the least effective. Keep your mouth guard in top shape by rinsing it with water or mouthwash after each use and allowing it to air–dry. With proper care, it should last the length of a season or longer.
Finally, the whitening agent is activated by directing a high–intensity light or laser on your teeth. The entire process takes only one or two hours.
The estimated cost of the procedure is anything between INR 2500 – INR 5000. Power bleaching is the oldest form of whitening that is used today. This method uses the highest concentration of peroxide, about 30% to 50%, and is used to treat severe discolorations or for those who want immediate results. The dentist carefully applies the peroxide to your teeth, and a heat or a light source is used to activate and accelerate the whitening process.
However, if your teeth have lost their original color due to an injury to the teeth in childhood or maybe even recently then it is suggested that you take professional advice for the same as you may require to undergo a Root Canal Treatment (RCT) prior to the bleaching procedure. After the R.C.T. is over it may either be necessary to crown the tooth or go in for a more conservative method which will mask the discolored portion of the tooth using ceramic veneers. Ceramic crowns are the most aesthetic option especially if it is a front tooth that is weak and discolored. | <urn:uuid:2cc167a7-fe2f-42b7-ad7c-ef96314a2a09> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.aarogya.com/specialties/dentistry/tooth-whitening-process-or-bleaching.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00499-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956773 | 753 | 2.0625 | 2 |
You can do almost anything with your smart phone these days. You can video call a friend in China, order pizza with the click of a button, and even see in the dark! So, if your smart phone can help you do these and an almost infinitely large number of other things, then why can’t you use it to study for the MCAT? In this article, I am going to show you that you not only can, but should use your smart phone to study for the MCAT. Here are 5 ways that you can start using your iPhone to study for the MCAT right now:
The Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (or CARS) section of the MCAT is occasionally placed on the backburner by prospective medical students who are focused on learning (and relearning) the information necessary for success on the science-based portions of the test. What some individuals realize too close to their exam date, however, is that the CARS section is anything but a buffer score for results in “more difficult” sections of the MCAT.
It’s not surprising that one of the questions we’re asked most frequently is, “When should … Read more
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[en] A granular material is a complex system which exhibits non-trivial transitions between the static, the quasi-static and the dynamical states. Indeed, an assembly of grains can behave like a solid or a fluid according to the applied stress. In between solid and fluid granular states, very slow dynamics are observed. When a complete macroscopic characterization of a powder is needed, all these granular states have to be precisely analyzed. In this paper, we show how three measurement techniques can be used to measure the physical properties of a powder. The measurements are based on classical tests modified to meet the recent fundamental researches on granular materials. The static properties of the powder are analyzed through the shape of a heap. The quasi-static behavior is studied with the analysis of the compaction dynamics. Finally, the dynamical regime is monitored through the flow in a rotating drum. In order to illustrate how these measurements can be used in practical cases, analyses are performed with three types of granular materials: silicon carbide abrasives, flours and rice. These selected materials allow to show the influence of the different parameters (grain size, grain size distribution, grain shape) on the macroscopic properties of the assembly. Moreover, these studies show the pertinence of the parameters obtained with the proposed techniques for the rheological characterization of powders and grains. | <urn:uuid:67517fd2-2bfd-4f73-9fd6-7d10973ea188> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/119083 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912614 | 278 | 3.046875 | 3 |
|William Penn. (16441718). Fruits of Solitude.|
The Harvard Classics. 190914.
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They saw this coming, and still, abortion rights activists are stunned that the protections Roe v. Wade provided women were taken away.
“All I can feel is anger, anger that our rights have been ripped away once again," said one demonstrator Friday in downtown Miami, hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Like many women in Florida, I’m sick to my stomach because our right to choose is in the hands of Florida, which has attacked our right to freedom already. We can only fear for the worst,” said Emma Collum, founder of Engaged Communities.
ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED
Florida’s new abortion law takes effect July 1 with abortions mainly banned after 15 weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape or incest.
Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion advocates and activists hosted rallies in South Florida, speaking out about how they say this will hurt women and families.
“Make no mistake this decision, which in one way or another will affect us all, is deeply intertwined with the patriarchy and racism,” said Laurie Scop, a sexual violence survivor.
One of the biggest concerns is how this decision could disproportionately affect minority communities.
“They will find an unsafe way to do it. Which is the point, abortions should be safe, people shouldn’t have to go do it in a way that is unsafe and these laws will create harm for people who want to do something with their body that is really their choice and none of our business,” said Nicky Dawkins, the President of Period Miami.
Those protesting in downtown Miami Friday say they’re saddened but focused on what’s next. They’re committed to educating women and connecting them to the healthcare services they still need.
“What we are going to start seeing is people need support and help to go to more abortion secure states like Maryland, I think a lot of our work will be getting our communities, especially our disadvantaged communities to those states safely and back home safely,” said Tifanny Burks, an abortion advocate. | <urn:uuid:9c1a215f-20c2-4527-bcc5-0435e3d1fe93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/abortion-rights-advocates-take-to-south-florida-streets-to-protest-overturning-roe-v-wade/2791861/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.963396 | 453 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Wessex Water has responded to both proven and potential contaminants at a development site for a Morrisons distribution centre in Bridgwater by specifying Protecta-Line barrier pipe from GPS PE Pipe Systems.
Explains Bob Wood from Wessex Water: “While stringent controls and operational best practice limit the contaminants from the factory now, historically they have been varied and significant. Trial holes were tested across the site to ascertain the level of contamination and, while the contaminants were not found over a large proportion of the site, the high water table caused by the tidal nature of the River Parret local to the site does present the risk of migration of contaminants across a wider area.”
It was these concerns over the potential for contaminants to be carried to ‘safe’ soil areas by tidal waters on the flood plain site that prompted Wessex Water to specify 355mm Protecta-Line pipe for a new main running across the distribution centre site, including the footprint of the building and access roads. Around 1,200m of Protecta-Line was used in SDR17, providing up to 10 bar pressure capability which allows for additional capacity to be factored into the installation.
Wessex Water installed the pipe into open trenches, incorporating T-joints to allow take-offs of supply to be added at a future date. All joints were made by butt-fusion and the installation team prepared the pipes using the Protecta-Line Surprep tool to scrape away the outer layers. Wessex Water continued its practice of wrapping the joints using aluminium foil and Denso tape throughout the Protecta-Line installation. Away from the Protecta-Line spine main, the site is not at risk of contamination so ordinary HPPE pipe was used with steel mechanical fittings to create the joints between the two materials.
Bob adds: “Even a small risk of contaminant migration makes it prudent to specify an effective barrier pipe. Protecta- | <urn:uuid:295fae40-c3cd-46b3-b5ef-3107b1bc52ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.prlog.org/11747274-protecta-line-provides-peace-of-mind-for-wessex-water.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00197-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905334 | 424 | 1.5 | 2 |
Ammi Phillips’ Peter Guernsey, the Eye Doctor takes…well, some getting used to. Guernsey’s blue eyes hold our own gazes so steadily that it might be several seconds before we notice that there’s a disembodied face at the right edge of the picture, and several more before we realize that that in fact there are three people here: the doctor, his patient, (who, in case you’re wondering, is facing cataract removal without the aid of anesthesia), and a third person, pressing the patient’s eyelids wide open.
GAH! WHY WOULD ANYONE MAKE THIS?? That’s many people’s reaction, anyway. But at the time, a portrait like this would have been good for Guernsey’s reputation and status in Amenia, New York, the tiny rural town where he practiced. Unlike today, the social status of an early nineteenth-century doctor was flexible, to say the least. There were licensing standards in Europe, but any man in the United States could be a doctor simply by calling himself one. One nineteenth-century traveler wrote of visiting a town where residents had
stiled [the local shoemaker] doctor…happening two years agoe to cure an old woman of a pestilential mortal disease, he thereby acquired the character of a physitian, was applied to from all quarters, and [found] the practice of physick a more profitable business than cobling…
This was pretty terrifying to a lot of people then (not just to us now), so it’s unsurprising that medical men like Guernsey had something to prove with their public images. But what a country doctor needed to prove, and to whom, was very different from what we see in his urban counterparts.
Phillips bluntly depicts Guernsey’s professional practice in a way that just didn’t happen in the medical portraiture of the urban elite, as you can see from John Neagle’s portrait of Dr. William Potts Dewees, who was professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania. His hair tousled just so, the doctor is accompanied not by forceps or anatomical models, but a large classical column and his extensive art collection. In an urban setting where education and expensive taste were primary factors in determining status, Dewees aspired to be accepted by elite politicians, shipping magnates, and independently wealthy gentlemen.
Guernsey, on the other hand, is successful but practical, comfortable but not extravagant. This is a man who eats well but isn’t about to come down with a case of gout. Even the clear, linear style associated with itinerant painters is suited to someone striving for the “middling” rural ideal that many people in the Jacksonian era admired. Guernsey seems to have understood that his social status and his value to the community he served lay not in Old Master paintings or fine furniture, but in whether or not he could successfully remove his neighbors’ cataracts and set their broken bones. Even the most well-to-do residents of Amenia would have been farmers and craftsmen who, from time to time, desperately needed Guernsey’s services to be able to do their jobs.
Being a member of the rural elite or middle class wasn’t the same as being a fancy urban gentleman. Instead of picturing his subject lounging against a column in front of a plush velvet curtain—decadent by country standards—Phillips paints the doctor as a skilled craftsman, performing honest handiwork that could easily be understood and admired by other skilled workers. Phillips was a successful skilled artisan, too, and would have identified with the doctor and known what provoked the esteem of local clockmakers, jewelers, and smiths. Indeed, Guernsey’s direct gaze and delicate grasp of his cataract knife are awfully similar to the pose of an artist painting a self-portrait. But instead of brushing in the form of his own eyes onto a canvas, he’s about to press a sharp blade into someone’s eyeball.
It was common in pre-Civil War times for rural doctors to be depicted as men of action, in the midst of performing their craft. However, portraits like Jacob Maentel’s (above) that focused on a doctor’s use of medications seem to have gone out of fashion around the 1830s. Why? Probably due to the deepening distrust of doctors who relied on traditional practices like bleeding their patients with leeches and dosing them with “emetics” (solutions that either made patients vomit spectacularly, or caused everything to come out the other end). Also to blame is the scary proliferation of quack medicines—tonics claiming to cure anything and everything. P.T. Barnum, famous for his statement that “there’s a sucker born every minute,” began his career selling Proler’s Bear Grease, which purported to cure baldness but didn’t. Other tonics sold by peddlers made claims for the cure of ague, dropsy, bilious liver, cancer, mortality(!), dysentery, indigestion, and hysteria—sometimes all at once. Not a few patients began to realize that their recoveries might be due less to emetics or tonics than to the healing processes of time. One astute medical writer pointed out how “nature can not build a railway, but she can very often cure a disease.”
Tellingly, critics in the media seem to have directed their anger specifically at the treatment of illness, not at the practice of surgery. Apparently, everyone understood its necessity, in great part because they could see it: any observer could watch a surgery and deduce its truth value on his or her own. Surgery was usually done in the home (often on the kitchen table, where everyone had just eaten their breakfast), and commonly watched by anyone who happened to be present. That’s what we see here. The fingers holding open the eyes of Dr. Guernsey’s patient could as easily belong to Guernsey’s wife, son, or neighbor as they could to a medical apprentice.
Of course, this still doesn’t explain why both doctor and patient seem utterly calm—proud, even. Guernsey is about to cut into the surface of his patient’s eyeball, break up the lens into tiny pieces, and remove it. The patient will be able to feel all of this. Why isn’t everybody freaking out?
Well…this was 1828. There wasn’t any anesthesia beyond a swig of brandy, so surgery in any form was excruciating for a patient. Therefore, a surgeon empathetic to his patients’ pain would have been an ineffective, hysterical mess. Pain was an expected part of life, and steeling oneself to its effects—as a doctor or a patient—was admired as fortitude. One young doctor’s diary emotionally describes how his patients’ cries “would have rent the heart of steel, and shocked the insensibility of the most hardened assassin and the cruelest savage,” but ten years later, his entries describe wounds, symptoms, and parts in a manner so disembodied that they don’t seem to belong to actual people at all.
I began looking into Peter Guernsey, the Eye Doctor simply because it was so baffling and bizarre. What I see now is this: a patient with fortitude and the hope that he will see again; the hand of a neighbor, showing that surgery was a communal endeavor; and an honest man of skill and character who is successful and admired because the results of his practice are, literally, right before his patients’ eyes.
For more on Phillips, see Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (Museum of American Folk Art, 1994) by Stacy C. Hollander. I’d also like to thank Paul D’Ambrosio, President and CEO of the Fenimore Art Museum, whose delightful blog tipped me off to the existence of this painting a while back. | <urn:uuid:4a47cc1a-fcbf-43fe-8cec-22a0d77b5e94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imagesfromamericanhistory.com/a-knife-to-the-eye/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.971905 | 1,715 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Was Augustana the first school to use letter grades?
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Look carefully at the document reproduced at right. It was created by Lars Paul Esbjörn, the first president of the Augustana Seminary, most likely at the end of the school’s first academic year (1860-1861). In this chart, Esbjörn uses the designations a, ab, b, bc, and c to record the performance of twenty Scandinavian students in five subjects of study: Norwegian history, geography, Swedish history, church history, and theology. A scale is written in pencil in the bottom left-hand corner of the chart:
Why is this document so important? It may be the oldest evidence extant in the United States of the evaluation of students using letter grades.
The story that Augustana pioneered the use of letter grades in this country has circulated before. However, this particular Augustana “first” tends not to receive much attention, perhaps because it cannot be firmly proven.
But a 1949 article in the Observer found the possibility compelling enough to declare it with confidence. “Horrible Truth Revealed,” the headline reads. “A, B, C Grading System Began at this . . . Institution.”
The article, which was written by junior Bernard Wickstrom, tells the story of then-President Conrad Bergendoff’s conversation in 1939 with Sir William Craigie and James R. Hulbert, the editors of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938-1944). They informed Bergendoff that they could find no evidence of any school’s having employed letter grades earlier than Augustana.
In Craigie and Hulbert’s published dictionary, their etymological note for the letter A, as used to denote the highest possible mark for a piece of schoolwork, reads as follows:
The system of grading by means of the letters A, B, C, etc., has been used in various institutions (e.g., Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.) since 1883.
Although the entry provides no explanation for its choice of date, the year 1883 most likely comes from the Augustana College and Theological Seminary catalog of 1883-1884. Here, Augustana published for the first time an official policy of evaluating students with letter grades. The catalog explains that students will be assessed at the end of each academic year with respect to their knowledge and ability, diligence, deportment, and attendance. It continues:
The following expressions are employed as testimonies in respect to 1:0) Knowledge and Ability: Superior (A), Excellent (a), Laudable (AB), Commendable (ab), Good (B), Admissible (b), Inadmissible (C); 2:0) Diligence: Very Good (A), Good (B), Ordinary (b), Censurable (C); 3:0) Deportment: Very Good (A), Good (B), Exceptionable (C).
Apparently, this schema was the oldest officially enacted letter-grading system Craigie and Hulbert found in the course of their research, and, because of this, they highlighted Augustana in their entry on letter grades. However, as the wording of the entry demonstrates, they declined to claim that Augustana was the first school to use letter grades, presumably for lack of concrete proof.
A later version of the dictionary, Mitford M. Mathews’s A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951), expands upon the link between Augustana and the earliest use of letter grades:
The faculty minutes of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, for June, 1877, refer to the adoption there of a marking system using the letters A, a, AB, ab, B. Augustana was founded by graduates of the Swedish universities of Upsala and Lund. In at least some of the elementary schools in Sweden letters were used as grade marks certainly as early as 1871, and the system adopted at Augustana apparently reflects earlier Swedish usage. The use of letters in this way at other institutions has not been investigated.
|The first class to earn a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Augustana College, 1877. (Augustana College Special Collections)|
Indeed, the faculty minutes of June 1877 include a grading chart quite similar to Esbjörn’s of 1861, except with more subjects of study and slightly different letter combinations, including capital letters as well as lowercase. Portions of the chart, as well as much of the surrounding text, have been eaten away — most likely by insects or mice—so it is impossible to determine its complete context. But the text that remains, meticulously handwritten in Swedish, suggests that the situation was not quite as the 1951 Dictionary interprets it. Specifically, the faculty minutes of June 1877 do not refer to the adoption of letter grades but, instead, describe letter grades as a system already in existence. In other words, Augustana may well have been using letter grades continuously between 1860 and 1877.
The gap between Esbjörn’s chart of 1861 and the faculty minutes of June 1877 remains a mystery. Former Augustana President Conrad Bergendoff, in Augustana . . . A Profession of Faith (1969), the definitive history of the college’s early years, comments on Esbjorn’s use of letter grades, but he does not say whether the system ever fell out of use in that first decade. Clearly, Craigie & Hulbert and Mathews, in their dictionaries, cited the dates 1883 and 1877 because of the supporting written evidence. But letter grading may well have been, in effect, the “official” Augustana marking system throughout its earliest years.
What none of this answers, of course, is whether Augustana was truly the first school in the United States to use letter grades: Only a thorough comparison with other schools in existence in 1860 would answer that question. What we do know is that Augustana was, if nothing else, among the earliest adopters of letter grades.
Mitford Mathews’s dictionary links letter grades back to Sweden, where, he writes, they were used “as early as 1871.” Bergendoff, on the other hand, implies the system was used in Sweden by the 1850s or earlier: he notes that Esbjorn drew on an existing Swedish marking system when he began evaluating students with letter grades in 1860.
Either way, it would make sense that the first school in the Augustana Synod — a Swedish-Lutheran church body — might have introduced letter grades to the United States. That would make this now-ubiquitous marking system yet another legacy of Augustana’s Swedish heritage.
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This lithograph features an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the well-known features of NGC 3982, a face-on spiral galaxy. The accompanying activity, In Search Of...Spiral Galaxies, is a curriculum support tool designed for use as an introductory inquiry activity. In this activity, students will use the lithograph image and text to generate questions about spiral galaxies, and then research the answers to those questions. Students will then create a presentation to demonstrate their understanding of the material. | <urn:uuid:cd9aa695-bf79-43d4-b833-fcb9a54a70f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nasawavelength.org/resource/nw-000-000-003-829 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00409-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894139 | 108 | 3.375 | 3 |
This is how I first started to program, in 1997 to be exact. It was the year I entered high school. Every students was required to have a TI80 or higher, an entry level programmable graphical calculator. This marvelous little machine cost 100 French Francs at the time, roughly $20 USD or 15 Euros.
I started programming withit as soon as one of my friends showed me how he had created a rock-paper-scissors program on his TI80, and I could never program enough. I programmed before, during and after class - much to the irritation of my teachers (using a calculator in French class is somewhat conspicuous). Like many people who ended up being programmers, I had just found something I loved. My TI80 is dead now, I tore it apart to try and put it back together as soon as I upgraded, the next year.
Programming on the TI80 was, in retrospect, a peculiar experience. The language was TI-BASIC, which was a quirky language to say the least especially, in its TI80 form:
Of course, there were also strong limitations with the hardware. there was only 7Kb of RAM on the calculator and no ROM, so you checked every byte to make sure your program would fit, and could run without hitting “ERR: MEMORY”.
The screen was 2-colors, of course, and a very small screen (76 by 80 if I remember correctly).
There was no data input port. This meant you were limited to TI-BASIC and couldn’t use any Assembly, like other TIs could. This also meant that if you wanted to use a program a friend had or that you found on the Internet, the only way to get it was to retype it entirely.
This led to a number of hacks to get the code running. I wouldn’t put closing parenthesis at the end of my FOR loop definition because the interpreter would add it implicitely. That way I’d gain one byte of memory.
Two dimensionnal matrixes were handled by putting the array[n][m] data at the n*(array_size)+m position in the one dimensionnal list.
Often, I’d go at great length coming up with clever mathematical formulas that today I would do in a separate function, with a bunch of if/else. That would save me a few lines of code as well as making the program flow a little clearer.
When I wanted the program flow to wait a few seconds, I’d make the calculator calculate the hardest operation it could without running out of memory: 69!. If it tried to compute 70!, it crashed.
At the time of course, I didn’t realise that was weird in any way. It was just how you programmed.
Here is an example of a program I wrote. In this programe you would, play a game similar to Invaders, except turn based instead of real time. Enemies would appear randomly at the top, and go down every turn. The player would try to kill them off one by one at each of his turn. Enemies would be one step closer everytime. I advise you not to try to understand this code…
:PLOTSOFF :FNOFF :CLRLIST L1,L2,L3,L4 :1->XMIN :63->XMAX :0->XSCL :1->YMIN :47->YMAX :0->YSCL :CLRDRAW :CLRHOME :DISP "INVADERS :PAUSE :CLRHOME :DISP "","","INITIALIZATION :69! :69! :69! :DISP "ENEMIES TO","DESTROY","SIZE? :LBL F :INPUT "(0<X<95)",W :IF W>94 :GOTO F :IF W<0 :GOTO F :INPUT "LEVEL?",V :PLOT1(**,L3,L4,°) (**= STAT PLOT, TYPE, 1) :5->DIM L3 :5->DIM L4 :FOR(A,1,5 :RANDINT(1,53->L3(A) :47->L4(A) :END :LBL 1 :IF DIM L3=W+5 :GOTO 6 :CLRDRAW :FOR(A,1,DIM L3 :PT-ON(L3(A),L4(A) :END :IF MIN(L4)<=10 :GOTO 9 :TRACE :LINE(1,1,X,10 :LINE(11,1,X,10 :LINE(21,1,X,10 :LINE(33,1,X,10 :LINE(43,1,X,10 :LINE(53,1,X,10 :LINE(63,1,X,10 :FOR(A,10,50,5 :LINE(X,10,X,A :END :FOR(A,1,DIM L3 :IF X=L3(A :GOTO 7 :END :L4-RANDINT(1,V)->L4 :GOTO 1 :LBL 7 :L4-RANDINT(1,V)->L4 :RANDINT(1,53->L3(A) :47->L4(A) :RANDINT(1,53->L3(DIM L3+1 :47->L4(DIM L4+1) :GOTO 1 :LBL 6 :FOR(A,1,DIM L3 :LINE(L3(A),10,L3(A),47 :END :PAUSE :CLRHOME :DISP "WON! :PAUSE :CLRLIST L1,L2,L3,L4 :CLRHOME :STOP :LBL 9 :FOR(A,10,47 :HORIZONTAL A :END :CLRDRAW :PAUSE :CLRHOME :DISP "GAME OVER :PAUSE :CLRHOME :CLRLIST L1,L2,L3,L4 :PLOTSOFF
Edsger W. Dijkstra famously said that those that start to learn programming with Basic become brain damaged. With the hindsight, I can see what he means. Good coding practices were few and far between in the TI-BASIC world. I’m glad to report, though, there seems to be few lasting repercussions on my programming style. At least, I don’t think it is, you’d have to ask the people who maintain my code.
What I mainly programmed was games. I started with some glorified rock-paper-scissors, and went on to more advanced territory. The one I liked the most was Minesweeper. Programming has always seemed more fun to me than actually playing the games I developed, but Minesweeper was one the few games I wrote that I actually used more than a few times.
After that, I tried to do even more advanced games, but the wall that I hit was the calculator’s inability to allow real time interaction. This limited me to turn based games, which often (in my opinion) are no fun. Especially with a low-level game designer like I am. I tried strategy games, but couldn’t come up with a sufficiently advanced AI to make the game any fun to play.
That’s when I tried something else: I actually developed my own version of Sim-City for the TI80. It was very limited, both graphically and in functionality, but it was pretty fun to play. I was somewhat proud of myself for that one.
A friend of mine had started his own website, on a Geocities type service provided by his ISP. He asked me if he could put my programs on his website. I, of course, was okay with it. So he typed the whole source code manually on his computer and put it on his website. In essence, before I had any real idea was open source was, I had released my first open source software.
A few years later, I randomly googled “TI80 games” and found on a website I had never heard of, a list of a few games. (the website is still online today: http://www.ti80.online.fr/jeux.php3 - in french) The last one of the list was Sim-City. The one I had programmed. Apparently, someone had stumbled onto my friend’s page, and copied the game on their calculator, played it, and found it good enough to put on their website. The only part that was slightly annoying was that they had removed my name from the program (pretty easy to do: remove DISP “BY YANNICK” from the code).
I guess I got “pirated” but it was a pretty awesome feeling: somebody, somewhere, was actually playing a game I had created! But the best part was when I found somebody had used the game and liked it so much… they wrote a strategy guide.
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During times of war and peace, the Navy has always had an important role shaping Australia.
Take a look at some pivotal moments in our naval history.
March 1, 1901
Two months after Federation, localised coastal defences comprised of gun batteries and naval forces are brought together to become the Commonwealth Naval Forces.
America's Great White Fleet - 16 battleships and several escort ships - visit Australia as part of its circumnavigation of the globe under the orders of president Theodore Roosevelt.
The Commonwealth's forces are granted the title of Royal Australian Navy, with its role viewed as no longer of just protecting interests at home but also across the region.
June 21, 1913
The battle cruiser HMAS Australia is commissioned into the RAN at Portsmouth in England under the command of Captain Stephen H Radcliffe.
October 4, 1913
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet, led by HMAS Australia, the country's first flagship, sails into Sydney Harbour. The Australia was accompanied by HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Sydney, HMAS Encounter, HMAS Warrego, HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Yarra.
Upon the outbreak of World War I, the RAN is deployed to capture the German-occupied territories of New Britain and New Guinea. It effectively drove the German East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron from local waters.
September 14, 1914
In the RAN's first major tragedy, one of its two submarines, the AE1, goes missing in the seas off New Guinea along with its crew of three officers and 32 sailors. No trace of the AE1 has ever been found.
November 9, 1914
Near the Cocos Islands, HMAS Sydney engages the German light cruiser Emden, which had been causing havoc for Allied shipping in the region. The bigger, faster Sydney registers the RAN's first significant victory at sea. Later in the war, the Sydney, like many of the RAN's ships, operates alongside Britain's Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and North seas.
April 23, 1919
With HMAS Australia anchored in Fremantle after returning from the war, more than 80 crew request further leave time, complaining of monotonous duty and harsh discipline, among their long list of gripes. After the appeals are rejected, stokers on watch leave the boiler rooms in protest meaning the ship could not sail. Charges are pressed against 32 men, with 27 imprisoned in cells on the ship for 90 days. Five others court-martialled for mutiny when the ship arrives in Sydney are jailed for up to two years. The men are released months later after a public outcry.
The Washington Naval Treaty is created by the Allies in an effort to prevent an arms race. The terms of the agreement call for naval strengths to be reduced. To comply with these terms, it is decided that HMAS Australia and its main armament be scuttled. The general public is dismayed with the decision.
April 12, 1924
HMAS Australia is towed about 40 kilometres off Inner South Head in Sydney and sunk with full military honours before the prime minister, senior rear admirals and cruisers from the Royal Navy.
September 3, 1939
When World War II is declared, the RAN has just two heavy cruisers, three modern light cruisers, a light cruiser of 1912 design, five WWI-vintage destroyers and two sloops. Experts say that thanks to the Depression and other global factors, Australia's formidable fleet in 1919 has been reduced to a limited trade protection force 20 years later. But the RAN regains its strength thanks to a rapid wartime expansion and serves in every theatre of operations, from the Pacific to the Russian convoys. At war's end, the RAN is the fifth-largest navy in the world.
April 28, 1941
Despite opposition from some within government and the naval board, 14 women - 12 telegraphists and two cooks - are accepted for service on a trial basis at the RAN Wireless/Transmitting Station in Canberra. A shortage of manpower changes views of women enlisting, and approval to form a Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) is granted in July 1942.
November 19, 1941
The light cruiser HMAS Sydney (II), named in honour of the ship that destroyed the Emden in World War I, encounters the German raider Komoran off the north-west coast of Western Australia. After an engagement that remains the subject of speculation to this day, HMAS Sydney is lost along with all 645 on board.
May 31, 1942
HMAS Kuttabul, a former ferry converted into a depot ship, is torpedoed and sunk during an attack by a Japanese midget submarine in Sydney Harbour.
The RAN loses 2,176 men and women and close to 40 ships during World War II. The peak wartime strength of the Navy, in June 1945, is 39,650 personnel of all ranks, including the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service and the Nursing Services.
December 16, 1948
The war in the Pacific demonstrates that sea battles will increasingly be fought by aircraft, and Australia commissions its first carrier - HMAS Sydney (III). The Sydney later serves in the Korean War and becomes the first dominion carrier sent into action. It also operates as a troop transport during the Vietnam War.
February 10, 1964
The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (II) and the destroyer HMAS Voyager (II) collide while performing manoeuvres at night off Jervis Bay. Voyager breaks in two and sinks, resulting in the loss of 82 crew. A total of 232 people are rescued. Two royal commissions are held into the incident and legal battles involving the sailors and the families of those lost continue for decades.
In April, the federal government announces Australian forces in Vietnam will be reduced. This leads to the withdrawal of the clearance diving team and the destroyer Brisbane returns to Sydney. While the war is not a markedly naval conflict, 13,500 personnel see active service.
December 24, 1974
In the month after Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, the RAN will embark upon its then-largest peacetime disaster relief operation involving 13 ships, 11 aircraft and 3,000 personnel.
Three ships - HMAS Adelaide, HMAS Darwin and HMAS Success - are sent to the Persian Gulf as part of the multi-national fleet assembled for operations ahead of what will become the Gulf War. Australian ships play a crucial role in enforcing sanctions placed against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. The RAN's role in the Middle East continues to this day, with ships being deployed to the region more than 35 times since 1990 for sanction enforcement, military support and anti-piracy operations.
May 20, 1993
HMAS Tobruk and HMAS Jervis Bay sail from Mogadishu, Somalia, on the first homeward leg to Australia following a five-month deployment as part of United Nations peacekeeping operations. The Navy plays a vital role in similar actions in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville, Cambodia and Rwanda.
July 27, 1996
HMAS Collins, the first of six Australian-built diesel-powered submarines, is commissioned into the RAN, 18 months behind schedule. Since then the fleet has been beset by technical problems and a lack personnel to keep them all in operational service.
October 6, 2001
HMAS Adelaide intercepts an asylum seeker boat, dubbed SIEV 4, carrying 223 people. The next day, the federal government says passengers on the SIEV 4 had threatened to throw children overboard. The incident comes less than two months after the MV Tampa affair. To this day, the Navy's personnel continue the often hazardous job of intercepting those coming to Australia on unseaworthy vessels.
December 31, 2004
HMAS Kanimbla sails for Indonesia as part of Operation Sumatra Assist in the wake of the Boxing Day Tsunami.
April 2, 2005
A Sea King helicopter involved in providing aid to people still affected by the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami crashes on the Indonesia island of Nias, killing nine people on board.
March 17, 2008
Research crews locate the remains of HMAS Sydney (II), the whereabouts of which had remained unknown since it sank in 1941. Days earlier they had found the Kormoran, the ship that had fatally wounded the Sydney in their confrontation off Western Australia's north-west coast.
July 18, 2011
A damning report into the repair and management of the Navy's support ships finds longstanding problems and calls for urgent reforms. The government commissioned the report after the Navy was unable to help in the aftermath of Queensland's Cyclone Yasi earlier in the year.
February 9, 2012
Defence releases the third instalment of a report into allegations of misconduct on board HMAS Success when it was deployed to South East Asia in 2009. It looked at claims of inappropriate conduct towards women, bullying and a tribal culture onboard the ship encompassing drunken and disreputable behaviour. A commission of inquiry finds failure by those in the chain of command to take disciplinary action contributed to the problems that arose. Disciplinary action against 55 individuals on board is considered. | <urn:uuid:eeb1d290-c113-45bd-a894-f2f755318138> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/timeline-100-years-of-the-royal-australian-navy/4996150?pfm=sm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00035-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95139 | 1,870 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The Cuban government has continued the dialogue with the European Union in which the speaker-designate, is the Spanish government. They have accepted the rules of the Cuban government and the most significant of these rules is: That the highest Spanish functionaries not dialogue with nonviolent Cuban dissidents.
This exclusion is representative of the contradiction between that dialogue and the most legitimate aspirations of the Cubans. That is why this dialogue is not a facilitator of dialogue among Cubans, or of peaceful change, because it denies a voice to those who expressly and directly go to the root of the problem by demanding rights for Cubans. If there are political prisoners in
The government does not respect the people's right to know, it submerges them into anxiety, misinformation and uncertainty about their lives and their own future and do not even commit to its citizens to make changes and respect their rights. It is not the church that has imprisoned the prisoners, but the government. It is not the church that denies rights to Cubans, but the government. But it is also not fair to the people of Cuba, nor the faithful and suffering Church in Cuba, which is part of people, that some pastors accept the unique role of being sole partners of the government here in Cuba, accepting and practicing the condition of exclusion imposed by the government itself. At the moment that Cubans want change with transparency, rights and that what belongs to the people be respected: Freedom. That which God gives and no one can take away.
From the time of the other dictatorships that scourged Cuba and throughout the tortured history of political imprisonment in this dictatorship, many relatives of political and also common prisoners, as Cubans persecuted and excluded have found in the Church support, comfort and humane support in the midst of poverty, the enormous difficulties and the pain. It has been also and especially after the imprisonment of those we call the Prisoners of the Cuba Spring that are a sign of hope of liberation. The church can be persecuted and criticized by anyone, but when they have no where to go to even those who criticize and persecuted as any other, can go to it and touch its doors and find the loving acceptance of nuns, priests, lay people and also their bishops. Much more a church in
The government neither recognizes us dissidents, nor engages in dialogue with us, because it would have to recognize and respect the rights and freedom of Cubans. In dissent or opposition the movement inside and outside the country peacefully struggles for freedom, reconciliation and human rights in
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Consider using a product that contains minoxidil if you suffer from from hair thinning. Shampoos or hair treatments with this particular drug might be effective against hair thinning in a few people. You’ll have to carry on using it to find out if it will help your problem within the lengthy-term. The amount of effectiveness can differ among differing people, so monitor the way you react to it.
Don’t rub hair. Whenever you work you ought to be sure you do not do it way too hard. Rubbing hair way too hard makes it emerge simpler. It’s also wise to stay away from a hair dryer. Should you choose play one, make certain you apply it to low heat.
Consume a balance diet to assist prevent hair thinning. Your diet plan affects hair too the body. By staying on a diet composed of fruits and vegetables, wholegrain and protein, you’ll be feeding hair the very best diet easy to thrive. Also, vitamins are crucial for healthier hair, with Ascorbic Acid improving scalp circulation and Zinc stimulating hair regrowth.
While you might use lots of hairspray and mousse products, you need to avoid these if you are losing hair. They are able to just be too harsh in your scalp and may ultimately damage hair follicles and cause hair to drop out. Before you can strengthen hair, steer clear of the harsh products.
There are lots of reasons for eyebrow hair thinning, for example too frequent eyebrow plucking and employ of eyebrow pencils, in addition to aging. In case your physician determines that the eyebrow thinning is because aging, you can utilize eyebrow cosmetics to cover your hair loss. Whether it’s brought on by certain health conditions, you should use eyebrow Rogaine to decrease loss.
Avoid strong shampoos and proper hair care products if you wish to prevent hair thinning. If you’re worried about losing hair, think about using the herbal shampoos that are offered for you personally. They will keep your scalp as well as your hair more healthy than these would.
Should you suffer hair thinning, you might want to consider taking anti-androgen medication. This can help stop the endocrine system that have a tendency to cause hair thinning. Just ensure that you talk to your physician before using anti-androgens. Your physician might want to run bloodstream try to make certain their safety that you should take.
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The article The Invasion from Mars Radio Panics America author and source unknown is a review of the Orsen Wellss War of the Worlds phenomena and the first mass communication study researching this event Hadley Cantrils 1940The Invasion from Mars A Study in the Psychology of Panic The event referenced above was a dramatic radio broadcast of a fictional alien invasion The broadcast aired on October 30th 1938 and created wide spread panic among many people who believed it to be a factual news account The phenomenon has been traditionally used to support theories that believe mass communication has a powerful effect on its audience Although the early communication research of this event is generally considered faulty the event itself was believed to cause panic with at least a million people and the research into it was the first of its kind The article first provides us with some background as to the social environment of the audience during this first broadcast Radio Broadcasting in 1938 although it had been around for over two decades had only recently reached critical mass and acceptance among American Society It had replaced the newspaper as the medium of choice for news and information The country itself was coming out of the great depression facing signs of war in Europe and the emergence of both communism and fascism Science Fiction broadcasts were not very common and radio broadcasting had just developed the technique of on the spot reporting The broadcast itself was masterfully written to appear as a music program with emergency news broadcasts interrupting regular programming to tell the story of an alien invasion Although the program was proceeded by a disclaimer many people tuned in during the program and believed it to be a real news broadcast The dramatization included an emergency broadcast by the secretary of the interior interviews with experts in the military and universities and on the spot reporting Despite the fact
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Any event that causes damage to information resources, whether it is a computer virus, natural disaster or system failure could be devastating to an individual (i.e. identity theft), company, its customers, suppliers and shareholders. Failing to do so may threaten the survival of the company itself.
An information system security breach could result in serious financial losses, the disclosure of protected private information, loss of research and development data or fines by regulatory agencies. Losses due to intrusions into an information system could negatively affect the general public (i.e. power failures). This might result in costly class action lawsuits that could exceed an organization's ability to pay and result in its dissolution. Even an individual might be sued for negligence and be financially ruined.
So how should an organization or person protect its valuable digital processing infrastructure? A business should establish and implement a comprehensive information assurance plan. Individuals should at least address the components of a professional information assurance plan. Doing so is evidence that the infrastructure owners are attempting to practice due diligence.
An information assurance plan for an organization should be formalized and approved in the organization's policies and have the following components: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Accountability and Non-Repudiation.
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Long-billed Curlews are North America’s largest shorebird. In Canada, they breed in southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the interior of British Columbia. Approximately 16% of the Long-billed Curlew’s global breeding range is in Canada. The species is designated by the federal Species at Risk Act as a species of Special Concern. In British Columbia, the curlew is Blue-listed and considered Vulnerable.
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Important events of 4 July
Freedom Day is a government occasion in the United States celebrating the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress pronounced that the thirteen American provinces were not, at this point subject (and subordinate) to the ruler of Britain, King George III, and were presently joined together, free, and autonomous states. The Congress had casted a ballot to pronounce autonomy two days sooner, on July 2, yet it was not proclaimed until July 4.
Freedom Day is usually connected with firecrackers, marches, grills, jubilees, fairs, picnics, shows, ball games, family gatherings, political talks, and functions, notwithstanding different other open and private occasions commending the history, government, and customs of the United States. Freedom Day is the national day of the United States.
362 BC – On 4 July Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, drove by Epaminondas, vanquished the Spartans.
414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields capacity to his more seasoned sister Aelia Pulcheria, who ruled as official and broadcasted herself ruler (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
836 – Pactum Sicardi, a harmony arrangement between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is agreed upon.
993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is sanctified as a holy person.
1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song tradition, Arab, and perhaps Amerindian spectators close to the star Zeta Tauri. For a while it stays sufficiently splendid to be seen during the day. Its leftovers structure the Crab Nebula.
1120 – Jordan II of Capua is blessed as sovereign after his newborn child nephew’s passing.
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin routs Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes massacres Guy of Dampierre.
1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì gives up to the Papal leader Gil de Albornoz.
1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) starts.
1534 – Christian III is chosen King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe show up at Roanoke Island
1610 – The Battle of Klushino is battled between powers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is established in New France (presently Quebec, Canada).
1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, where the Iroquois surrender lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British states, was marked in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are received in the Province of New York, one of numerous fights against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts.
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is embraced constantly Continental Congress.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. powers under George Clark catch Kaskaskia during the Illinois battle.
1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is declared to the U.S. individuals.
1817 – In Rome, New York, development on the Erie Canal starts.
1826 – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, individually the second and third leaders of the United States, kick the bucket that day, on the fiftieth commemoration of the appropriation of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams’ final words were, “Thomas Jefferson endures.”
1827 – Slavery is canceled in the State of New York.
1831 – Samuel Francis Smith states “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 merriments.
1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s initially significant distance railroad, opens among Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 – The Iowa Territory is composed.
1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a little lodge on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s record of his two years there, Walden, will turn into a touchstone of the natural development.
1855 – The primary version of Walt Whitman’s book of sonnets, Leaves of Grass, is distributed In Brooklyn.
1862 – Lewis Carroll recounts to Alice Liddell a story that would develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its continuations.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi gives up to U.S. powers under Ulysses S. Award following 47 days of attack. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate armed force is repelled at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia pulls back from the war zone in the wake of losing the Battle of Gettysburg, flagging a conclusion to the Confederate attack of U.S. region.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is caught by British soldiers and caught fire, finishing the war and compelling King Cetshwayo to escape.
1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway’s previously booked train from Montreal shows up in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, following six days of movement.
1887 – The originator of Pakistan, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to happen twice, bringing about a year with 367 days.
1894 – The brief Republic of Hawaii is declared by Sanford B. Give.
1898 – En course from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne slams into another boat and sinks off the shoreline of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American legislative head of the Philippines.
1903 – The Philippine–American War is formally closed.
1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots happen after African-American fighter Jack Johnson takes out white fighter Jim Jeffries in the fifteenth round. Somewhere in the range of 11 and 26 individuals are murdered and hundreds increasingly harmed.
1911 – A monstrous warmth wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 individuals in eleven days and breaking temperature records in a few urban communities.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson tends to American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914 – The burial service of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his significant other Sophie happens in Vienna, six days after their deaths in Sarajevo.
1918 – Mehmed V passed on at 73 years old and Ottoman king Mehmed VI climbs to the seat.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a fruitful assault by the Australian Corps against German situations close to the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1918 – Bolsheviks murder Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian schedule date).
1927 – First trip of the Lockheed Vega.
1934 – Leo Szilard licenses the chain-response structure that would later be utilized in the nuclear bomb.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, as of late determined to have Amyotrophic horizontal sclerosis, educates a group at Yankee Stadium that he views himself as “The most fortunate man on the substance of the earth”, at that point reports his retirement from significant class baseball.
1941 – Nazi violations against the Polish country: Nazi soldiers slaughter Polish researchers and journalists in the caught Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga gathering places: The Great Choral Synagogue in German involved Riga is ignited with 300 Jews secured in the storm cellar.
1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea closes when the city tumbles to Axis powers.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the biggest full-scale fight in history and the world’s biggest tank fight, starts in the town of Prokhorovka.
1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator plane collides with the ocean in a clear mishap minutes after departure, killing sixteen travelers ready, including general Władysław Sikorski, the president of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government estranged abroad; just the pilot endures.
1946 – The Kielce massacre against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
1946 – After 381 years of close ceaseless frontier rule by different forces, the Philippines accomplishes full freedom from the United States.
1947 – The “Indian Independence Bill” is introduced before the British House of Commons, proposing the autonomy of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign nations: India and Pakistan.
1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first communicates.
1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American writer William N. Oatis to ten years in jail on charges of secret activities.
1951 – William Shockley declares the development of the intersection transistor.
1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day confirmation of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star banner of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, very nearly ten and a half months after the fact (see Flag Acts (United States)).
1961 – On its first journey, the Soviet atomic controlled submarine K-19 endures a total loss of coolant to its reactor. The group can impact fixes, yet 22 of them kick the bucket of radiation harming over the accompanying two years.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The demonstration became effective the following year.
1976 – Israeli commandos assault Entebbe air terminal in Uganda, saving everything except four of the travelers and group of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian psychological oppressors.
1976 – The U.S. commends its Bicentennial.
1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the primary force substation for the Washington state legislative hall in Olympia, in solidarity with a jail strike at the Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
1982 – Three Iranian representatives and a writer are abducted in Lebanon by Phalange powers, and their destiny stays obscure.
1987 – In France, previous Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the “Butcher of Lyon”) is indicted for wrongdoings against mankind and condemned to life detainment.
1994 – Rwandan slaughter: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is caught by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, finishing the destruction in the city.
1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space test lands on the outside of Mars.
1998 – Japan dispatches the Nozomi test to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space investigating country.
2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 accidents on way to deal with Irkutsk Airport slaughtering every one of the 145 individuals on board.
2004 – The foundation of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and gets European Champion for first time in quite a while history.
2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
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People with unicentric Castleman disease often notice no signs or symptoms. The diseased lymph node may be found during screening or treatment for another illness.
If unicentric or multicentric Castleman disease is suspected, your doctor is likely to start with a thorough physical examination of your lymph nodes, to determine their size and consistency.
Your doctor may then recommend:
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- Blood and urine tests, to help rule out other infections or diseases. These tests can also reveal anemia and abnormalities in blood proteins that are sometimes characteristic of Castleman disease.
- Imaging tests, to detect enlarged lymph nodes, liver or spleen. CT scan or MRI of your neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis may be used. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans also may be used to diagnose Castleman disease and to assess whether a treatment is effective.
- Lymph node biopsy, to differentiate Castleman disease from other types of lymphatic tissue disorders, such as lymphoma. A tissue sample from an enlarged lymph node is removed and examined in the laboratory. Depending on the location of the lymph node, the biopsy may be done under local anesthesia or during more extensive surgery.
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- Robinson D, et al. Clinical epidemiology and treatment patterns of patients with multicentric Castleman disease: Results from two US treatment centers. British Journal of Haematology. 2014;165:39.
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It will be decades before big cargo ships link China and northern Europe by taking a shortcut through the Arctic Ocean, a report predicts.
Climate change, retreating summer ice and the prospect of shorter journey times and 40% lower fuel costs has led Russia, European governments and some industries to expect a major ice-free shipping lane to open above Russia, allowing regular, year-long trade between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans within a few years.
But, says the Arctic Institute in a new paper, low bunker fuel prices, a short sailing season and continuing treacherous ice conditions in the Arctic even in summer months means it could be 2040 at the earliest before it is commercially viable for ordinary merchant ships to pass through what is known as the northern sea route.
Until then it will remain cheaper to send trade between Europe and the east via the Suez canal, it says.
The conclusions of the report were backed this month by the powerful Danish Shipowners’ Association, which includes 40 major shipping companies such as Maersk, the world’s largest. Denmark has the eighth largest fleet in the world and would stand to gain the most in Europe if the northern sea route opened.
“We have gone from hyper-optimism to total realism. The world economy was developed on the basis of a high oil price. The northern sea route seemed viable [a few years ago] but now it’s not the case. The route has vast potential but it will take a long time to open up,” said Anne H. Steffensen, director of the association at a meeting of Arctic country ministers and industry in Tromsø.
Russia has tried to open up the Arctic to international traffic by offering icebreaker service and better port facilities. But cargo in transit along the northern sea route dropped from 1.3m tonnes in 2013 to 300,000 tonnes in 2014. Last year only 100,000 tonnes was transported between Asia and Europe on the route. However, there was a big rise in the number of vessels going to and from Russian Arctic ports.
The Arctic Institute report, which compares the costs of building ice-reinforced ships suitable for the northern sea route, to existing costs of using the Suez canal, includes fuel prices, wait times, lengths of journey, canal fees and different sea conditions. It concludes that trade is unlikely to open up the northern route for decades.
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It expects the Arctic sea ice to be too thick and treacherous for many years, requiring expensive ice breakers and strengthened hulls.
“The Arctic navigation season is currently too short and ice conditions are too unpredictable for liner shipping to be feasible. Arctic liner shipping will only become a viable alternative to the contemporary shipping lanes if global warming continues to melt the ice cover along the North-west passage and the Northern sea route.
“It is highly unlikely that large-scale containerised cargo transports will appear in the near future. The question then arises: when, if ever, will the ice conditions allow for continuous and economically feasible container transport along the route?”
The greatest potential for the use of ice-reinforced container ships was found if the speed of global warming increased and the price of fuel is high. But even in this scenario, the cost per container was about 10% higher than going via the Suez canal route.
Scientists have predicted that ordinary vessels would be able travel easily along the northern sea route, and moderately ice-strengthened ships should be able to pass over the pole itself by 2050.
Russian authorities still sees a bright future for shipping along its northern shoreline, but not as a busy international shipping route. “It is 100% sure that the northern sea route will be no alternative to the Suez Canal,” Russia’s deputy minister of transport, Viktor Olersky, told the Arctic Circle 2015 assembly.
Unusually high temperatures in January led to January seeing the lowest recorded extent of sea ice in the satellite record. The ice extent averaged 13.53 million square kilometres (5.2 million square miles), which is 1.04 million sq km (402,000 sq m) below the 1981 to 2010 average, according to the US government’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
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An anthology including the organ arrangements of Walton's works which were made with his authorization, plus new ones by Robert Gower. The varied and idiomatic arrangements in this book are indispensable additions to every organist's library.
Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the entertainment Facade. Less than ten years later, Osbert prepared the text of another masterwork, Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922 to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen. Robert Gower studied at The Royal School of Church Music before graduating from Oxford University with a music degree, subsequently working as Director of Music at Radley College, Oxfordshire and Glenalmond College, Perthshire. As an organist, he has broadcast extensively on BBC radio and performs recitals throughout the UK. His commitment to English twentieth-century repertoire is seen in his work as Chairman of the Gerald Finzi and Percy Whitlock charitable trusts and through his editorship of OUP's Finzi and Walton Organ Albums. He is the compiler of several Oxford organ collections.
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Collaboration and Regional Economic Development: A Comparison of North Country, New York and Four Counties, Ontario
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Encouraging the use of collaboration in regional economic development has been increasingly prevalent over the past few decades by both governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. This push has two origins. First, regional level stakeholders are coming to understand the limits of what they can achieve as individual organizations. This has made collaboration at a regional level attractive. Second, provincial, state and federal levels of government increasingly prefer to interact with only one entity at a regional level, making consolidation of effort through collaboration key. There is an expectation that regional collaborations between multiple cities and counties will help to mobilize more resources, than a single municipality would be able to do alone. This study explores collaborations that connect diverse stakeholders (public officials, private organizations, and non-governmental entities) related to regional agriculture initiatives and regional economic development in the North Country in New York state and Four Counties in Ontario. Both regions have strong agricultural economies, are vast areas geographically, and have low population densities. Thirty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted, focusing on factors key in success or failure; barriers to cooperation between different organizations and communities; and challenges in implementing regional development initiatives. The capacity of the case regions to participate in regional collaboration has been varied. To date, regional collaboration has been more developed in the North Country compared to the Four Counties, primarily due to the state organized regional council process that has given the region structure for its economic development initiatives, as well as a deeply embedded history of acting as a region. Key factors for success in economic development collaboration in these two case study areas included; utilizing communication technology, embracing regional attributes, diverse membership, flexible structure, appropriate use of leadership, and insufficient financial capital. Barriers to collaborating included; communication technology, diverse membership, outlook toward collaboration, insufficient human capital, and insufficient financial capital. Therefore, several factors were seen to be necessary for success, but also barriers depending on the regional context. With the exception of the contradictory role of technology, these findings are supported by the literature. This study also identifies several benefits highlighted by county level stakeholders of not collaborating at a regional scale, such as enhanced relationship building with local producers and lower-tier municipalities, and avoiding unnecessary layers of bureaucracy. This study reveals that regional collaboration is not a universal solution to economic challenges for all jurisdictions. Collaboration at an intra county scale may be more desirable and successful. This study also identifies several characteristics that facilitate collaboration that are not in line with the literature including a vast geography, no urban centre, and insufficient resources. This is significant, as these characteristics are often considered barriers to economic development and collaboration. This study serves to expand the literature on experiences of collaboration in rural regions; enhancing the understanding of disadvantaged regions’ experiences with economic development; and broadening the analysis of collaboration to not only include government actors, but also not-for-profit and for-profit businesses, non- governmental organizations, and civil society organizations.
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Brittany Bruce (2014). Collaboration and Regional Economic Development: A Comparison of North Country, New York and Four Counties, Ontario. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8853 | <urn:uuid:79c07205-561f-4564-aff1-c59f02e0ea6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/8853 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933492 | 666 | 2.1875 | 2 |
State of the State: Our Representation Should Mirror Our Population in its Diversity
The idea that a judicial candidate whose background is counter to the white male majority would bring a different perspective to the bench became a prevalent topic of discussion during the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. But the concept that public servants with different backgrounds strengthen discourse is not new, or without merit. While the nation and the state of Illinois have made great strides in choosing female candidates for positions of power, the statistics are still dismal.
When the diversity of our political representation fails to mirror the diversity of our populace, we all miss out on the benefit of a variety of perspectives that only come from lives walked in different sets of shoes.
An infamous quote from Sotomayor’s past became known in the media as her “wise Latina” statement: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.”
The context of the quote was largely lost in the din of news coverage surrounding her confirmation hearings. Sotomayor made the statement in 2001 as part of a lecture titled, “A Latina Judge’s Voice,” delivered at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law.
Agree or disagree with the sentiment of that one line, her overall speech highlights the disparity in America’s judiciary and makes a strong case for the benefit of having more women and minorities on the bench. If you have not read it, I would recommend taking the time. It was published by the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal and can be found at the New York Times’ website.
Sotomayor said that although it is the duty of judges to strive for impartiality, having judges with varied backgrounds makes our justice system stronger and ultimately fairer. “I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that — it’s an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others. Not all women or people of color, in all or some circumstances or indeed in any particular case or circumstance but enough people of color in enough cases, will make a difference in the process of judging.”
She acknowledges that people can and often do empathize with the needs and views of others who are different from themselves, but she cautions that our own backgrounds create the lenses through which we filter information.
“We should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. … However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Others simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar.”
A few years after giving that speech, Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court justice, joining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the bench as the only two women. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s recent confirmation brings the number of female justices to three out of nine, still far from representational of the ratio of females to males in the greater population. However, the rate at which women are being appointed has greatly accelerated. More than a decade passed between President Ronald Reagan’s appointment of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and President Bill Clinton’s appointment of Ginsburg, compared with less than a year between Sotomayor and Kagan.
In former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin’s book — Pearls, Politics and Power, published in 2008 by Chelsea Green Publishing Co. — she tackles the topic of why groups such as minorities, individuals with lower incomes and women are underrepresented in basically all areas of government. Kunin, the first and only female governor of her state, focuses on women:
“I wonder why we aren’t reaching young women and getting them more involved in elective politics. What is wrong with the political system that participation does not seem worth the effort? And what is wrong with contemporary feminism?” Kunin writes.
She argues that women tend to advocate for issues that men may not push, such as child care, education and environmental policy, and that it is important to have their input when setting a political agenda.
“Many men advocate for so-called women’s issues, but they have not experienced them personally. The difference is intensity, and in politics, intensity matters. Intensity not only changes the agenda; it changes what gets to the top of the agenda. Politics is competitive, not only about who gets elected but also about what gets done.”
According to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, Illinois ranks 16th out of the states for the percentage of women in the legislature, with 27 percent. Not bad in comparison with the rest of the country, but still not representative of our population. Illinois has never had a female governor. There are only four women in our 19-member congressional delegation, and only one woman currently holds a statewide elected office.
Across the country, there are 17 female U.S. senators out of 100 seats and 73 U.S. representatives out of 435 seats. There are six female governors. Women of color constitute less than 5 percent of all state legislators. At press time, eight women have won primaries for U.S. Senate and 87 for the U.S. House, with one race going into a runoff election. Seven female gubernatorial candidates have won primaries, with one candidate in a runoff race.
Kunin makes the point that gender and race bias do not always come from a place of active sexism or racism. “Psychological science has overwhelmingly demonstrated that sexist behaviors, gender bias and discrimination can and do occur without these conscious beliefs or attempts to discriminate.”
An old riddle illustrates that concept as it applies to gender bias: A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies, and the son is rushed to the hospital, where the surgeon says: “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” The person trying to solve the riddle is then asked, “How can this be?” I remember being asked that as a child and being stumped. The problem is that many people do not consider that the surgeon is the boy’s mother because they typically think of a surgeon as a man. It isn’t that they are being actively sexist or thinking a woman cannot be a surgeon. It is just that their mental picture of a surgeon is a man.
Kunin says that is often a view that women extend to themselves. She says women typically have to be asked to run for public office because they do not necessarily see themselves as potential officeholders without some external prompting.
Programs such as Ready to Run, which is conducted by the Center for Women and Politics, help give women the tools and perspective to make a bid for office. The bipartisan training program instructs potential female candidates on everything from fundraising to party politics and includes workshops specifically aimed at minority candidates. The group’s website is: ReadytoRun.
Kunin adds that the idea of not being able to visualize women in certain roles especially needs to be tackled in the executive branch. “We are beginning to know what a congresswoman, female CEO, mayor and college president look like, or more importantly, act like. We don’t yet know what a female commander in chief should look like, or more importantly, act like.”
The way that will happen is when trailblazers start to challenge and then reshape our concepts of a powerful public servant.
Kunin looks to Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, who also ran for president in 1972. Chisholm wrote in her memoir: “I knew I could not become President. But the time had come when persons other than males could run for the presidency of this country. Why couldn’t a woman run? Why couldn’t a black person run? I was angry that everything always, always, rebounded to the benefit of white males.”
Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun from Illinois, the first and only African-American woman to serve in the Senate, told Kunin that she ran for the presidency in 2004 to show girls such as her then-10-year-old niece that they could someday seek the highest office in the country. When asked whether she would have guessed then that in the next Democratic presidential primary, the top candidates would be a woman, Hillary Clinton, and an African-American, Barack Obama, Moseley Braun said she did see the potential for that historic race.
“Uh-huh, I would. I was out there, and I saw how people reacted and listened to what I had to say. The public is way ahead of the political class on a lot of this stuff.”
That is the goal: that our statehouses, courtrooms and governor’s mansions all match the diversity that we see in our everyday lives. Then it will become the norm, and multiple perspectives from many walks of life will flow through debate, just as they do outside those places in our everyday lives.
Kunin says change will require a positive outlook and perhaps a little bit of outrage.
“To arrive at equal representation, we must mobilize both our anger and our optimism: anger at what is wrong in America and optimism that it can be changed for the better.”
The context of [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s] quote was largely lost in the din of news coverage surrounding her confirmation hearings.
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Research and academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, government departments, and more recently, the private sector, all seek innovative ways to foster uptake of knowledge generated from research. The strategies and tools used to achieve uptake may differ but the overall objectives of working to ensure that knowledge from research is communicated, understood and acted upon by stakeholders from across the spectrum of research users to beneficiaries, are commonly shared.
There is good potential for institutions to learn from each other’s experiences in pursuing uptake strategies and developing activities, tools and materials to nurture uptake. There is no ‘right’ way to nurture uptake but by sharing best practices, and examples of successes and challenges, both organizations hope to be able to enhance the efficacy of their uptake efforts.
A research uptake workshop is planned to explore the potential for future partnerships on research uptake activities in South Africa, and more broadly Southern, Africa.
Venue: Lombardy Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa
Date: 12-13 March 2014 (Wednesday and Thursday)
1. Free workshop registration
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In a selfish city with significant infrastructure problems, NIMBYism has been a loud and at times influential force. But not everyone shares the cynicism toward development. Michael Koziol meets the residents and reformers urging on the transformation of Sydney.
From the Norway massacre to the murder of Trayvon Martin, Ben Brooks chronicles the use and misuse of firearms in a world which continues to tolerate their inevitable consequences.
The wind is back in the sails of the protest movement. Tim Scriven and Morgan Gardiner look at student activism around the world, in Australia and at the University of Sydney.
The hunt for scapegoats has seen far-right parties surge in popularity in Europe. While far-right parities have always been a part of European tradition, the emergence of remodelled far- and extreme- right parties in the past decade, and the increasing palatability of these parties, is seen by many as the alarming rise of fascism, writes Jackson Busse.
While the history of Chinese communism is complex, a little polishing makes the parallels with contemporary Australian political life shine through. A few years ago, I was walking down Eastern Avenue with a senior journalist from a major Chinese news organisation when we were approached by a couple of Socialist Alternative (SA) leafleteers. The SA…
They’re the self-appointed guardians of our streets, patrolling the suburbs and fighting crime. Rob Morrison embarks on a journey to become his own real life Superhero and discovers there’s something far greater being represented here than just adults playing dress-up.
It’s a tough time for print media. With the rivers of gold long dried up, digital in a state of flux, and the news cycle more complex than ever, now out newspapers face the threat of further regulation. Nick Rowbotham looks to the future after Finkelstein.
The recent death of a Brazilian student stunned by a Taser has failed to change perspectives on Tasers as non-lethal alternatives to guns, writes Eleanor Gordon-Smith. The question is not whether they quell crime. For guns, too, quell crime. The question is whether they are truthfully a non-lethal alternative to handgun use.
In the battle to absolve the national crisis of education inequality, Tech for Australia picks our best and brightest graduates and sends them to the most disadvantaged schools. There’s just one thing – they’re not teachers. Edwin Zorilla looks at a program that divides as much as it conquers.
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Prof. Kagan Shelly, PHIL 176 Death, Spring 2007, YALE Open Courses: Yale University, Philosophy http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176/lecture-26 Accessed 16/09/2014, License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
The lecture begins by examining the consequences a suicide has on both the person committing it and those around this person. The question is raised, however, whether this factor is the only that counts morally, as utilitarians claim, or whether other factors matter morally as well, as deontologists claim. The moral relevance of a deontological prohibition against harming the innocent is considered. A concluding summary of the course is offered. | <urn:uuid:a81b78b0-7e52-40a2-97fe-c2d57442577b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://coursmos.com/yalecourses/courses/opBnjPvH | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901907 | 149 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Facebook and its social networking compatriot Twitter are jointly taking new steps to help users share information.
Facebook, the top social networking site, this week began testing a new feature that's designed to enable posts on its network to be automatically published on Twitter, Malorie Lucich, a Facebook spokeswoman, confirmed today. She did not disclse when the feature is likely to be officially launched.
Reports have circulated on the Internet that the feature might be released this week, but Lucich wouldn't confirm those reports.
This new move to help users share information comes just a week after Facebook disclosed that it had revamped the social network's privacy settings. That move has moved some users and privacy advocates to criticise Facebook. The critics contended that the changes would push more user data onto the Internet and, in some cases, make it harder for Facebook users to protect their privacy.
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The truncated octahedron is the fourth order permutohedron, and forms constituent cells in higher-order permutohedra. Its vertices represent every combination of the coordinates 1, 2, 3, and 4 in 4-space, in same way that a hexagon can be embedded in 3-space with vertices at every permution of 1, 2, and 3 (i.e., bisecting a cube spanning coordinates 1, 1, 1 to 3, 3, 3). It is also, along with the lowly cube, one of only two space-filling uniform polyhedra, and is one of only five regular-faced convex polyhedra able to do so—along with the aforeementioned cube, the triangular and hexagonal prisms, and the gyrobifastigium, whatever the crap that is.
It was once conjectured that a structure with the same combinatorial properties as the truncated octahedral tessellation (or bitruncated cubic honeycomb) represented the ideal foam of equal-sized bubbles—i.e., it partitions equal volumes of space with the least surface area—but this distinction ultimately went to the uglier and weirder-looking Weaire-Phelan structure.
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Added 11-22-05: In the last 48 hours, a pair of additional facts has emerged:
The 100-percent red screen will appear with extreme fine tuning; that is, from the point of normal color reproduction, the fine tuning control is advance CW to the point of noise, noise, noise. Just at the point that the picture is lost in noise, the screen goes red.
Secondly, I have publicly questioned the efficacy of an NTSC converter/generator found in consumer electronics equipment, and my preference has always been an over-the-air signal when testing and evaluating a CT-100. (The converter/generatorI use is in a late model S-video VCR, fed baseband through an S-Video link from a DVD player.)
Whenever I switch from a channel-4 over-the-air signal to a channel-4 signal from the S-video VCR, the fine tuning of the CT-100 must be readjusted with what amounts to be a major rotation of the fine-tuning knob. Clearly, the f o of the VCR generator is not normally going to be offset enough to account for the difference in fine tuning.
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China’s measures to tighten regulation on the imports of waste materials for recycling have been highlighted by Chinese news agency, Xinhua.
Both foreign waste and the country’s own schemes to encourage recycling featured on the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection’s website today (2 January).
China’s State Council has also detailed rules for the enforcement of an environment protection tax law within China, which took effect on Jan 1, 2018.
The regulation specifies taxation targets, the tax-setting basis, conditions for tax reduction and exemptions as well as tax collection management. The rules also make clear the taxation scope of solid waste.
Under the new law, which targets enterprises and public institutions that discharge listed pollutants directly into the environment, companies will pay taxes for producing noise, air and water pollutants as well as solid waste.
Tackling pollution has been listed as one of “the three tough battles” for China in the next three years, according to the Central Economic Work Conference earlier this month.
In July, noted the Xinhua agency, China issued a plan for banning “foreign garbage”. According to the plan, China will ban imports of 24 types of solid waste, including plastic waste, unsorted paper waste, and crude textile waste by the end of 2017.
Xinhua said: “Importing garbage that can be replaced by domestic resources will be phased out by the end of 2019. The types and amount of garbage imports will be cut down steadily.”
According to Guo Jing, chief of the International Department at China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, “imported garbage” played a part in making up for a domestic shortage of resources in the past, but as the economy and society have developed, the drawbacks of this practice have emerged, including environmental pollution and health threats.
And, Xinhua said despite the strict control, some companies still take risks to make profits by importing foreign garbage illegally.
The General Administration of Customs, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Public Security, and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, have acted together to strengthen regulation and crack down on illicit garbage imports.
From February to December, it is reported that customs across China filed 298 criminal cases against garbage smuggling, investigated and verified 866,800 tons of garbage involved, and detained 421 suspects.
Meanwhile, alongside proposals to restrict imports, China has been incentivising its residential communities to sort their recycling and waste separately.
In March, China issued a plan requiring 46 cities to carry out mandatory garbage sorting by the end of 2020. Under the plan, all public institutions and companies are required to separate hazardous waste, kitchen waste and recyclable materials.
According to Xinhua, by the end of November, 12 cities had adopted laws and regulations on garbage sorting, while 24 had introduced work programs related to the issue.
Beijing’s Tongzhou district has implemented mandatory garbage sorting in public institutions and more than 2,500 restaurants. The restaurants are supposed to separate kitchen waste into a bin.
“A napkin, a chopstick, even a toothpick cannot be mixed into the kitchen waste,” a restaurant employee said. “If the recyclers find other garbage included, we may be fined or punished.”
Xinhua said although the mandatory sorting has mainly been adopted by public institutions, residential communities are also encouraged to follow suit. Some incentives have been used to increase participation by residents.
By the end of October, more than 4 million households in Shanghai had registered to receive reward credits if they throw away garbage in line with recycling requirements. The credits can be used to buy daily necessities.
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WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST
WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST?
Prophecy, especially relating to Jesus' second coming, is a lively subject in today's Christian world. Every now and then a possible new 'antichrist' is identified. Prophecy teachers are busy everywhere, propagating their theories and convincing people of their interpretations. Perhaps the most current and widespread teaching concerns the identity of the antichrist and his role in world affairs in these 'last' days....
From time to time details of their interpretations are modified but there is a consensus among many about the basic premises of their interpretations, i.e. that antichrist will be an evil political figure powerfully operating on the world's stage after the church is secretly raptured. He will rule the world and set the stage for the visible return of Jesus. He will make his appearance during Daniel's 'seventieth week', a period of seven years during which he will unleash terrible trouble on the earth. Interpretation of the details of these prophecies depends on interpretation of the identity of this person.
How do these ideas line up with Scripture?
We first need to examine the word 'antichrist' and its use in Scripture. 'Antichrist' can mean both 'against' or 'in the place of' Christ. The word occurs in the singular or plural only five times in Scripture, and only in the first and second letters of John. The original text does not have the definite article, 'the', in relation to 'antichrist', indicating that John was writing about an attitude rather than an individual. John speaks about antichrist in the singular and plural, conveying the idea that it refers to a group of people rather than a single individual.
"Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour." 1 John 2:18. (NIV).
Secondly, he speaks of antichrist as being already present in the world. John was aware that there were false teachings already circulating in the church.
There were two streams to this antichrist false teaching -- one that denied the true humanity of Jesus, -
"This is how you can recognise the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." 1 John 4:2,3 -
and one that denied the deity of Jesus -
Who is the liar? It is the man that denies that Jesus is the Christ -- He denies the Father and the Son." 1 John 2:22, (NIV).
Thirdly, these false teachings were coming from within the church. According to John, this was not some future political figure who would arise from a world empire but a teaching that was being propagated by people who were in the church but who had left because they were not in true fellowship with the people of God -
"They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that they did not really belong to us." 1 John 2:19.
From these three observations it is clear that John was addressing a current issue in the church and warning believers to beware of those who wanted to lead them astray. This was not only an issue in John's time. It is a very real issue in the church today because there are still sectors of the so-called 'church' - groups that consider them selves part of the body of Christ, that fall into one of these two errors. The true church does not acknowledge them as part of the body of Christ but rather as sects. They can have no union with the Spirit of Christ who is the Spirit of Truth, or with the Body of Christ because fellowship with people is based on faith in the Christ who is both fully God and fully man.
Who is antichrist? Any person who claims to be part of the church of the Lord Jesus but denies that He is either fully God or fully man, is antichrist.
(To be continued)
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How to Talk About What’s in the News: A Lesson Plan
Extend the chart to consist of a column entitled, ” My Ideas for Action.” Here trainees can channel their feelings and establish an action strategy to end up being more informed on the subject, for instance by discovering more information, talking with others, blogging about it, etc. Looking for assistance to continue anti-bias anti-racist operate in your class? Uncertain how to tackle tough topics such as race, gender, politics, religion and sexuality in a developmentally proper way? Weve got 2 great courses that offer the details, resources, and suitable strategies you require to make modification in your classroom and school community..
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PURPOSE: The following lesson gives kids the opportunity to express the things that are on their mind and explore questions they have about their news. The lesson structure is perfect for those days when “the world hands you your curriculum” (@katricequitter) or as a regular, daily/weekly SEL check-in. Analyzing trainees news assists them to process whats taking place in the world around them and to practice important social understanding skills as they listen and dialogue with others..
PREPARATION: Create an area for students to tape-record their news. They can compose in a note pad, on an anchor chart (with or without teacher support), or through a digital platform like Google Slides. Label one side of the page, “What remains in My News?” and the opposite, “My Thinking.”.
These may be as huge as existing occasions and news headlines, or as personal as a household birthday coming up or a trip to the veterinarian with your family pet.
Link to blank Google Slides design template and example.
2. TRAINEES WRITE: Now provide students an opportunity to jot down whats on their mind by asking, “Whats in your news?” This can be done separately, as trainees record on their own papers or as a group, getting in touch with a few students to share aloud..
3. SHARE YOUR NEWS: Whether the regimen is done separately or as a group, be sure to hold space for students to share their news, a connection to the news of others, sensations, wonderings, questions, etc. This can be done utilizing a Turn and Talk structure and/or entire seminar. Keep in mind, you dont need to have responses to students concerns or find services to their difficulties. The lesson is really about examining in with kids and honoring what they observe, hear, see, and feel. It helps everyone see the distinct lived experiences of others and helps to help with understanding throughout distinctions..
EXTENDING THE LESSON:.
Assist in a more informed understanding of present occasions..
When our trainees enter our class, they come with bits and pieces of news from house, their social media feeds, and from conversations with pals. Despite the uncertainty of what to say, its important that we honor our kids news and engage in dialogue that explores their concerns.
For those of you committed to anti-bias anti-racist work “beyond the binary,” were sharing an excellent lesson structure that will:.
” We must keep in mind racial justice and anti-bias work exist beyond a White and black binary. The Asian, Indigenous, and Latinx neighborhoods should be a part of any work labeled diverse, culturally responsive, and anti-racist.”.
Link student news to their personal identity (gender identity, race, ethnic background, culture, religious beliefs, sexual identity/orientation, language, interests, personality, and so on). This assists kids see how their understanding of the world can alter and grow as they see it from various viewpoints.
Move your class from student-centered to socially minded,.
Whats in Our News? Adapted from Being the Change (@SaraKAhmed).
After a year of challenge, there is hope on the horizon. The vaccine is reaching neighborhoods in requirement, schools are making strategies to resume in-person learning, and households are finding higher financial stability. On top of that, the days are getting longer and the sun is shining more! It seems there is much to be enthusiastic for, however as current reports suggest a boost in anti-Asian hate crimes throughout the nation, we are reminded that there is urgent and still important social justice work to be done..
Anti-racist teacher Dena Simmons recently composed in response to the rise in anti-Asian hate criminal offenses,.
When our trainees enter our class, they come with bits and pieces of news from home, their social media feeds, and from discussions with good friends. In spite of the unpredictability of what to say, its important that we honor our kids news and engage in dialogue that explores their questions. PREP: Create an area for students to tape their news. These may be as huge as existing events and news headlines, or as individual as a family birthday coming up or a trip to the veterinarian with your animal. SHARE YOUR NEWS: Whether the routine is done separately or as a group, be sure to hold space for trainees to share their news, a connection to the news of others, feelings, wonderings, questions, and so on.
Allow kids to start the expedition of subjects they care about, and.
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The China sourcing conundrum
In conversations with U.S. and European retailers and brands, ELEVATE – a company formed in 2013 to support corporate social responsibility – finds that apparel buyers rate diversifying away from China as one of their top three sourcing goals.
This is not to suggest that there is a desire to exit China – which currently holds by far the largest share of global apparel trade, at 41 percent – but rather a need to significantly reduce dependence on product from China, owing to rising costs, factory closures, unenthusiastic second generation family ownership, new attitudes about working in factories, and a perception that China wants to move to higher-value manufacturing. Sourcing and procurement organizations feel uncertain, and uncertainty is not a friend of supply chains.
The problem is that for all its uncertainty, China still has a huge base of factories, a well-developed transport infrastructure, and a comprehensive eco-system that supplies cut-and-sew operations, and management that has matured with years of experience. Even if a buyer would like to give another country an opportunity, many corporate risk managers view certain countries or regions as quite challenging for doing business.
South Asia could seize this opportunity by better meeting requirements – besides competitive costs – that are vital to global buyers. These include: (i) quality, which is influenced by the raw materials used, skill level of the sewing machine operator, and thoroughness of the quality control team; (ii) lead time and reliability, which are greatly affected by the efficiency and availability of transportation networks and customs procedures; and (iii) social compliance and sustainability, which has become central to buyers’ sourcing decisions in response to pressure from corporate social responsibility campaigns by non-governmental organizations, compliance-conscious consumers, and, more recently, the increased number of safety incidents in apparel factories.
Surveys of global buyers show that East Asian apparel manufacturers rank well above South Asian firms along these key dimensions, as noted in a new World Bank report on apparel, jobs, trade, and economic development in South Asia, Stitches to Riches (see table). So, what can South Asia, which now accounts for only 12 percent of global apparel trade, do to become a bigger player? An encouraging recent development is that buyers have started collaborating to facilitate new sourcing possibilities – as the case of Bangladesh illustrates. | <urn:uuid:2403f7ab-a692-4bec-ba37-a1cd3a302bab> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/category/topics/private-sector-development?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00211-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962464 | 475 | 1.796875 | 2 |
What Students Want vs. What Students Need
As educators, we must always do our best to assess and accommodate students' needs. Sometimes, of course, what students need clashes with what students want. Examples from previous posts include:
- not grading students' class work ("Why should I do it if you're not going to grade it?")
- requiring students to earn teachers' help by exhausting all other resources ("What do you mean, you won't help me? You're the teacher!")
- assigning students to groups rather than letting them choose their own groups ("I work better with my friends.")
The good news is that gaps between students' classroom needs and wants usually close once students experience the benefits of something they initially rejected. Here are two feedback form comments, about a week apart, from a student who felt put out at first by some of my policies:
Alli Romano's and my experiences remind us to cling to our convictions when we believe they're in students' best interests. And there's no need to be confrontational when students think otherwise. Here's my response to a student who wanted Fridays to be free days in my classroom:I really think that you don't know what you're doing.
Now I get a sense of what you are doing. I realized that you're taking a step forward.
Every day is free for you, but I have thought about charging $5 admission. But seriously, if you have ideas for fun educational activities/games, I will consider them.
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“Continued weakness in the housing market is undoubtedly the biggest factor suppressing relocation. Job seekers who own a home — even if they are open to relocating for a new job — are basically stuck where they are if they are unable or unwilling to sell their homes without incurring a significant loss,” said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of the firm.“Right now, demand for new workers is not at a level that would force companies to bring in talent from outside their region. However, as the local talent pool starts to become depleted as the economy improves, companies will be compelled to cast a wider recruiting net. Unfortunately, the immobility of the workforce may mean that some employers will have to delay expansion plans, thus slowing the recovery,” he said.
For a variety of reasons, talent shortages loom on the horizon. Regions focused on retention strategies will find that they don't have the network capacity to help the economy grow. There is absolutely no gain in trying to discourage outmigration. If anything, regions should encourage leaving.
Facilitating relocation is a tough sell. That's a result of failing to build the capacity to benefit locally from outmigration. The interests of the individual and community are misaligned. The two are often pulling in different directions. Such a dilemma dramatically under-utilizes human capital. In shrinking cities, that's a fatal oversight. Detroit cannot afford to ignore its expatriates because they live hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Distance is no excuse for incompetence or lack of vision.
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As a modern retailer, you know understanding your customers is more important today than ever before. But do you know how Retail Video Analytics can help?
The emerging technology of video analytics looks set to be a game changer for bricks and mortar retail, but what exactly is it and how does it work?
In this article, we’re going to unpack the two most important types of IoT data that will benefit your business the best.
With the continuing rise of e-commerce, the global outlook for bricks and mortar retail has been rockier than ever. In this article, we look at three technology innovations that can help traditional retail businesses navigate this brave new world.
From sensors to smart devices, IoT has created a technological ecosystem that makes our lives easier. How will IoT benefit retail fulfilment centres?
The world of modern retail is changing as we speak, and there is no doubt the digitisation of retail is here to stay. To give you an idea of how much it has changed, we’ve compared the retail industry then vs now.
The retail industry is ripe for disruption, and while e-commerce continues to thrive, the same can’t be said for classic bricks and mortar retail. How can technology help reverse this trend?
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Southern U.S. cities are the most vain, ranking shows
By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With their balmy weather, sandy beaches and aging population, southern U.S. cities, particularly in Florida, are among the vainest in the country, according to a new ranking.
Tampa topped the list and Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando were among the top 20 cities most concerned about appearance in a report in Men's Health magazine that studied what people are willing to do to look their best.
Other southern cities also ranked high including Plano, Texas, which captured the No. 2 spot, followed by Atlanta at No. 3 and Dallas, which came in fifth.
Matt Marion, the executive editor of the magazine, said the weather is a huge factor in explaining why southern cities are so vain.
"In Florida you have some of the highest average temperatures year round and people aren't hiding under sweaters and bulky clothes. Their bodies are on display a lot more often than elsewhere in the country," he said in an interview.
"You are on display, warts and all, and if you can get rid of some of those warts through surgery, all the better."
The magazine looked at a variety of factors to compile the ranking, including the number of cosmetic dentists, plastic surgeons and tanning salons per 100,000 people.
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Buddhism and the Discourse on AIDS in America
Jose Ignacio Cabezon
The discourse on religion and AIDS in America has tended to construct itself in a way that makes the key terms into images of the ideals or anti-ideals of the hegemonic culture. Not terribly surprising. Hence, AIDS becomes, monolithically, a (perhaps the)"gay disease," religion is equated with Christianity, and America is portrayed as the culture of white, straight, married, middle-class men and women. The logic that manipulates the now monolithic terms would make the conclusion seem inevitable: real Americans who have the right religion have nothing to fear. AIDS is the disease of the other. It "happens" to those who are not white (whether there in "darkest Africa" or here in the false, penumbral, America of the shooting gallery, the ghetto, or the barrio).(1) When forced to admit that being white is no guarantor of immunity, it is the "Americanness" or the true religiosity of the victim which is challenged. Gay men and intravenous drug-users, being neither true Americans nor real Christians, thus become susceptible (and in the view of the Christian right, justly susceptible) to the disease. Thus, eschewing the slothful life of the drug addict, having sex only in the context of marriage, in short, leading a "clean, Christian life," becomes the cure, the salvific vaccine- substitute.
In this way AIDS comes to be constructed as the disease of the other. It is something that happens to them, not us. Whether or not this is the best strategy for dealing with the reality of AIDS, it should certainly by now be an understandable one. As Mary Douglas pointed out more than two decades ago: to identify what is foreign to the body with what is foreign as a body is a strategy that is prevalent under certain social conditions, our present one among them.(2)
It is one of the virtues of the present conference that it has attempted to avoid the simplistic logic I have just described. For in actuality, of course, AIDS is not "a gay disease,"
religion in this country is not coterminous with Christianity, and America is less white, monogamously married and middle class than it was a few decades ago, and far less than it will be a few decades hence. The attempt to appropriately complexify issues related to AIDS by awareness of crender, race and class as factors, and by attention to the religious diversity of North America is something to be lauded.
Why should Buddhism be a voice in the present discussion? (1) Simply in terms of the number of adherents, Buddhism ranks as one of the major religious traditions in the United States today, and as the number of Western converts to Buddhism and of East and Southeast Asian immigrants to this country (and their offspring) increase, so too will Buddhism's importance. Increasingly, Buddhist voices will have to be included in any attempt to treat social issues like the HIV/AIDS pandemi in a way that is reflective of the religious diversity of North America.
(1) Consider the etiological discourse that sought to identify Africa as the origin of AIDS (see Patton) or the present-day statistics that show a diminution in the rate of seroconversion in White America, as it increases in Latino and African-American communities, or an overall decrease in the United States and Western Europe as it increases in the developing world. My purpose here is not to challenge the numbers, but only to point out that there are judgments involved in deciding which numbers to report, and that such judgments reflect, just as they are reflected in, the ideology that constructs AIDS in the image of the other.
Buddhists, of course, are as susceptible to HIV infection as anyone else, and given the linguistic and cultural obstacles that impede attempts to educate the immigrant Buddhist communities in the United States, it is clear that many Buddhists are at far greater risk for infection than the population at large.
That religious views affects sexual behavior is arguably an observation so banal as to be hardly worth making. Any systemic attempt to deal with AIDS, therefore, cannot overlook religion, and any morally well-founded approach to religion and AIDS cannot overlook the fact of religious pluralism. If for no other reason than the ones just outlined, it is fitting to invite Buddhist voices into the present conversation.
(2) HIV/AIDS is of course not only a national problem but an international one. What is more, the problem at the national level can be isolated from the international crisis only in theory. The proportion of the problem in Buddhist Asia, especially in Thailand, is by now well known. Hence, Buddhism, as the religion of a vast number of infected and at-risk individuals worldwide, must be considered in any discussion that would attempt to assess the systemic relationship of religion to AIDS, even if that conversation is ostensibly a national rather than a global one.
(3) Finally, despite its penetration into Euro-American society, Buddhism still represents for North America the culturally other. From this vantage point, it can serve the function of mirror in the process of cultural critique. By providing alternative formulations to both questions where there is a concern to protect both (body and society) from foreign influence. The importance of and answers related to HIV/AIDS, it can allow us to gain new perspectives on the issues. For example, making the overly familiar seem less so, it becomes possible, by considering the Buddhist viewpoint, to gain a certain distance from habitual ways of approaching HIV/AIDS, and from this distance, it is possible to glean insights that would not otherwise be possible.
Given that sex is one of the principal modes of transmission of HIV, and given as well that religions have a great deal to say about what constitutes proper and improper sexual conduct, it should not be surprising that sexual ethics will be a major topic for discussion in this gathering. In what remains of this brief paper, I would like to provide you with a very brief overview of one classical Buddhist formulation of what constitutes improper sexual behavior, I would like to relate to you how Buddhist theologians like myself are critically engaging the classical texts to formulate a sexual ethic that is at once Buddhist and relevant to men and women in this country at this point in time, and finally, I will conclude with some remarks concerning the relationship of this work to HIV/AIDS.
Like most premodern traditions, the Buddhist doctrine of what constitutes sexual misconduct (log par gyem pa)(3) for lay men and women(4) seems anachronistic by contemporary standards. First, it presumes men as its sole audience. Women are considered only as potential objects for intercourse (jugpar bya ba), and not as independent subjects, making the doctrine androcentric (5) to the extreme. The doctrine is also infused with
2) More specifically, Douglas (197) has observed that in the condition of what she cal Is "strong group and weak grid" - a condition in which there is a strong sense of group identity vis a vis other groups, but a weak sense of internal structure within the group, a condition which is arguably definitional of American society - there is a prevalence of body-symbolism, where society comes to be equated with the body, and where there is a concern to protect both (body and society) from foreign influence. The importance for Douglas’s work to the discourse of AIDS and religion has yet to be fully realized.
an ethos of homophobia. For example, whereas female prostitutes paid for directly by a male "customer" (6) are considered "suitable (bkrodpar bya ba) objects," no man (skyespa) or hermaphrodite (ma ning)'(7)is considered a suitable sexual partner for a man. Moreover, as regards the actual act of sexual intercourse, only the vagina is considered a suitable "point of entry." This implies that all forms of oral and anal intercourse, as well as masturbation, are proscribed. There are also prohibitions regarding place (e.g., not in public, not on rough ground etc.) and time (e.g., not during certain auspicious days, not during daylight hours, no more than a certain number of times in an evening, etc.). Though exhibiting a good dose of adrocentrism, homophobia and simply seeming anachronistic by today's standards, I do not wish to imply that the Buddhist doctrine of sexual misconduct is without its virtues. For example, the prohibitions against underage sex, against infidelity, and the attempts to create boundaries for sexual activity generally are certainly positive aspects of the doctrine. Equally noteworthy is what is not prohibited. (1) There are no restrictions against sexual relations between consenting unmarried adults; (2) there is no appeal to "nature" or "the natural" in attempts to formulate what constitutes a proper sexual act, and (3) there is no notion that procreation is the sole purpose of sex. The first of these facts implies that from a Buddhist viewpoint premarital sex is permissible, the second that a theoretical construct -the natural - that has been so exploited to condemn alternative sexual practices and lifestyles in the West is never relied upon for similar purposes in the Buddhist sources, and the third that sex simply for pleasure is recognized as ethically valid.
Now the purpose in bringing up the classical doctrine of sexual misconduct is not to rehearse the traditional line, but to point out that this is for Buddhists today the starting point for theological reflection. On June I I of last year His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with a group of gay and lesbian Buddhist leaders to discuss Buddhist sexual morality and its implications for the gay community(8) At this meeting, the Dalai Lama brought up the portion of the text that sanctions prostitution as a way of making the point that a good deal of the classical doctrine may be specific to a certain place and time, and that it may therefore have to be reinterpreted so as to make it relevant to contemporary culture. After stating that the purpose of the doctrine is to lessen attachment, he saw the absurdity in the
tradition that claims that it is permissible for a man and a wife to have sexual intercourse up to five consecutive times in an evening, while prohibiting men and women to have sexual contact of any kind with a person of the same sex even once in their lifetime. The Dalai
Lama stressed that he was not in a position to unilaterally reformulate the doctrine on his own - that in Buddhism this must be done through consensus. Nonetheless, he urged those of us present to work at the scientific, social and theological levels to bring about such change.
(3) My remarks here are based on one of the most complete accounts of the doctrine of sexual misconduct in all of Buddhist literature: that found in the fourteenth century text of the great Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa bLo bzang 'grags pa, the Lam rim chen mo (Mi rigs dpe skrun khang ed., pp. 166-168).
(4) Of course, the Buddhist clerg (monks and nuns) take vows of complete celibacy, so that for them no form of sexual expression is considered permissible.
(5)' On androcentrism in Buddhism see Rita Gross, Buddhism After Patriarchy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993).
(6) As opposed to prostitutes whose services are obtained through an intermediary, e.g., a pimp.
(7) Leonard Zwilling has argued that the category ma ning (sanskrit pandaka) is not coterm inous with that of hermaphrodite, but his argument is based mostly on the Sanskrit sources, and thus applies principally in the context of Indian culture. In a Tibetan context, it seems clear that the term is understood as referring to hermaphrodites. See Zwilling's article in J. 1. Cabez6n ed., Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993)
(8) For a report of this meeting see Eva Herzer, "The Dalai Lama meets with gay and lesbian Buddhists," Shambhala Sun, September, 1997, pp. 11, 13; and Bryan Burch, "Dalai Lama Meets with Gay and Lesbian Leaders," Turning Wheel, Fall 1997, pp. 25, 26, 29.
Speaking personally now, this meeting opened up for me the possibility of doing theology in a new key: one which is ever willing to confront, and in no instance to give way to, the evils of androcentrism and homophobia. There are, I believe, several key principles that must undergird a Buddhist sexual theology, and these are principles that have a direct impact on issues related to HIV and AIDS. These principles are more fundamental than the legalistic, rule-defined formulations found in the classical treatments of proper sexual conduct: more fundamental in that they constitute the very foundations for Buddhist ethics. While responsible Buddhist theologians cannot afford to simply dismiss the traditional textual material, neither can they fail to ask themselves whether, in our present context, the classical proscriptions are consistent with these more fundamental principles. In crafting a Buddhist sexual ethic that is relevant to today's world it is these principles that must serve as the theologian's guide. What are these, and what are their implications to HIV and AIDS?
First is the general Buddhist commitment to confronting reality. A Buddhist sexual ethic must be constructed in response to actual human desires and behaviors, and it must take into account the actual state of the world as the environment in which human action takes place. We live in a world where the vast majority of human beings are sexually active, where sexual desires and acts are as diverse as human beings themselves, and where a virus that can be transmitted during sex can lead to illness and eventually to death. Buddhist sexual ethics must confront these facts. It cannot proceed as if we lived in a world where celibacy - or even heterosexual penilevaginal intercourse - was the norm, nor can it proceed as if we lived in an AIDS-free world. For example, in this age of AIDS it is unconscionable for a contemporary Buddhist theologian to simply tout the traditional line that unprotected penile-vaginal intercourse with prostitutes is permissible. It represents a violation of the first fundamental principle: that we take the reality of human beings and their surroundings into account in ethical reflection. This is especially true when failure to take HIV and AIDS into account in moral decision-making could lead to an even greater evil: the infection of one's sexual partner.
Second, the primary goal of Buddhism is the eradication of suffering, not only for oneself, but for others as well, and the primary purpose of ethics is to minimize the amount of harm we do to ourselves and to others. Attachment or craving is considered one of the major sources of human suffering.. Any pleasurable action breeds attachment, and sex is considered the most pleasurable action in which human beings can engage. Thus, one of the functions of Buddhist ethics is to limit human sexual activity so as to diminish the amount of sexual craving, and therefore the self- and other-harm that we do in the pursuit of such craving.(9) Some men and women, it is clear, are capable of strict vows of celibacy, and this is considered by most Buddhists the most effective means of curbing sexual desire, allowing, monks and nuns an extraordinary foundation on which to make great spiritual progress. But even the Buddha, who was himself a celibate monk, was cognizant of the fact that not everyone would be called to a celibate life. How then can lay Buddhists, who, it is recognized, will not be celibate, diminish sexual attachment? This is clearly one of the chief concerns of lay Buddhist sexual ethics: to allow for sex while seeking to minimize it and the
(9)Thus, the Buddhist position is in contradistinction to that of Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton; who, in with Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality (NY: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 54 believe that "regulating sex is a no-win situation. It is neither easy, nor virtuous, nor likely to win one friends." Buddhism, by contrast, is clearly of the opinion that it is both possible and virtuous to limit sex, and therefore sexual desire. " See my "Meditation on HIV and AIDS," forthcoming in the J. Hopkins festschrift.
attachment that it breeds. How should this be accomplished? Clearly not by proscribing homosexual relationships or by prohibiting certain non-harmful sexual acts. If a person finds sexual fulfillment only with a partner of his or her own sex, or is only sexually fulfilled by engaging in certain types of non-harming sexual acts (e.g., oral or anal intercourse or masturbation) with a consenting partner, then to prohibit such types of sexual expression is to dejacto condemn such a person to involuntary celibacy, which, far from reducing sexual attachment, engenders a frustration that increases both sexual desire and sexual action itself. The negative implications of this to the spread of HIV and AIDS should be obvious.
The true Buddhist solution, then, is not the blanket condemnation of homosexuality or specific forms of sex, but the encouragement of relationships that have the capacity to keep sexuality within bounds, that diminish promiscuity, and that reduce attachment to a minimum. Relationships that, while satisfying sexual desire, help to control it by providing such boundaries, can serve as the basis for human spiritual flourishing. As such, they must be supported, both at the theological and at the institutional level.
The Buddhist principle of ahimsa, or "non-harming," must also be a cornerstone of its sexual ethic. In today's world this requires, as I have argued elsewhere,(10) that in most cases, those of us who are sexually active make ourselves aware of whether or not we are HIV positive, and that in all instances we exhibit a commitment to safer sexual practices.
Third, and finally, Mahayana Buddhists believe that they have a responsibility not only not to harm, but also to help others. The Mahayana commitment to love and compassion requires Buddhists to work to eradicate the suffering of others. This means, among other things, working to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and on HIV status. The Mahayana commitment to love requires Buddhists to give others happiness, especially those who are sick and marginalized, e.g., due to AIDS. These dual principles - compassion and love - I see as being the basis for the tremendously important hospice work that is being done by Buddhists chiefly, though not exclusively, in the San Francisco Bay Area.(11)
I have attempted to give a brief overview of the principles that I believe form the foundation for a Buddhist sexual ethic that is relevant to the contemporary world, and I have attempted to give some real examples of their application, especially as regards issues related to HIV and AIDS. Of course it is impossible to deal with such complex matters in the context of a short position-paper like the present one. But it is my hope that at the very least this brief statement will give the reader a sense of the way Buddhists are dealing with the issues, and of the advantages of taking a more religiously and culturally inclusive approach to religion and AIDS in America.
(10) See my :meditation on HIV/AIDS," forthcoming in the J. Hopkins festschrift.
(11) One of the earliest AIDS hospices in the country is the Maitri Project (maitri is the Sanskrit word for love), which is associated with the Hartford Street Zen Center. Another, now more extensive, undertaking started in the same year (1987) is the Zen Hospice Project, which was originally established as a project of the San Francisco Zen Center. | <urn:uuid:f59a0ecd-1048-45c2-a038-14fc0aa399b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.heart-intl.net/HEART/092504/Faith/Buddhismandthediscourseo.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00477-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953004 | 4,103 | 1.929688 | 2 |
It is virtually critical to continuously backup all your data. All information is vulnerable; there is nothing completely safe in a personal computer. There is a high risk of losing valuable information at any time without warning.
There are many ways to cause data loss:
- Viruses and Malware – Many businesses have been affected by cryptolocker, ransomware that encrypts files and demands ransom for the data recovery.
- Files accidentally deleted – People have accidentally updated or deleted documents that are necessary at work causing a slowdown in the workflow.
- Misplacement or Theft – Phones, tablets, and laptops with critical information have been lost or stolen and even though the device can be easily replaced, the data is not so easy to restore.
With a proper backup solution, you can save valuable time and money and continue with the productivity of your business. Everyone is vulnerable, educate yourself and have a plan of action in place for when you’re data is compromised. There are many factors needed to be analyzed as you decide on which backup method you prefer, onsite or offsite. The data size, value, and the growth of your business should be considered when deciding which option is the best for you.
External Hard Drive
Storing of data in external hard discs or USB flash disks, is the most inexpensive, quick and easy way of data backup. The best thing about this backup method is that it is portable. The downside of this method is that it does not continuously backup all your changes. You have to update the backup regularly to make sure that you always have your new files safe. Another challenge is reliability. An external hard disk, just like a normal hard disk, can crash. You are highly advised to evaluate the size and value of your information before backing up your data in an external hard drive. If you are a college student, this method is to apply. If you have a business, this method is probably not recommended since updates on files are more frequent and the data you manage is more critical than a college coursework.
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It’s official: Keith Rabois’s new startup, Opendoor, has closed its first round of funding with $9.95 million.
The news follows a couple months of pre-launch hype. In April, Rabois announced that he would be starting a new venture in the real estate realm to help people sell their houses faster. The company quietly filed a legal document in late May, in the process revealing the company’s name and Rabois’ co-founder, Eric Wu, as VentureBeat first reported.
Now the fledgling startup is confirming its existence and its funding.
“We have to value the home, sight unseen. You can put in your address and we tell you what it’s worth instantly. And we’ll want to buy it from you for that price,” Rabois said to VentureBeat back in April.
The company will analyze loads of data to help home sellers set optimal prices and then sell their homes to the company immediately, in just a few clicks. Opendoor then sells the house to a new homebuyer, presumably pocketing any markup as profit.
The appeal is the instant, hassle-free sale which allows sellers to move on with their lives. By contrast, Opendoor says most home sales typically take more than 90 days.
“The idea is to give sellers some certainty around how much equity they have” from their homes, said cofounder Eric Wu to VentureBeat. “Not everyone wants the speed [we will provide], but they certainly want the equity,” he added. This is especially important for people who are moving to a different area and want to purchase a new home as soon as possible, yet all the capital they would need for a down payment is locked up in their current home. Opendoor is freeing that capital so they can use it to make a new purchase more quickly, according to Wu.
Wu declined to share specifics about the product or the process, however.
According to the previous incarnation of Opendoor’s website, it will “work with sellers directly to purchase home[s],” “work with local partners to rehab, maintain, and improve our portfolio of properties,” and “partner with local brokers and Realtors to market, list on [the multiple listing service], and resell to retail buyers and investors.”
And while the business model should require a tremendous amount of capital in order to purchase homesellers’ houses, and to do so quickly, the money from this round of funding is not intended for that. “We have partners to help with that,” said Wu, in regards to purchasing the homes. These partners, we’d guess, are likely be banks or other financial institutions with vast amounts of capital.
Instead, this round of funding will go towards investing into its data science team, the models it will build for its operation, and other personnel needs.
Wu also declined to share a specific launch date, although he did say that Opendoor is “looking to go live in a few markets very soon,” and they will all be in the U.S., as Rabois originally told VentureBeat in April.
The founding team is comprised of Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois, former Trulia head of geo Eric Wu, former Square data science lead Ian Wong, and former Addepar vice president of product JD Ross.
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Frequency of "Tutoky" Surname in the US
2000 US Census
The surname "Tutoky" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Tutoky" ranked #53,714 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census", US Census Bureau.
"Tutoky" Graves on Histopolis
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Resource Links for "Tutoky"
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Surnames that Sound Like "Tutoky"
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Leicestershire Aero Club can provide pilot training for ex-service personnel via the MOD’s Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme (ELC). This scheme promotes lifelong…
The Leicestershire Aero Club is rich in history. In 2009 to celebrate its 100th year, the club published a booklet detailing that history, which is still available to buy at the airfield. Here you can read the preface and a condensed timeline.
Leicestershire has always been interested in aviation. Even as early as 1826 there had been a balloon ascent from Belgrave Park watched by a crowd of thousands, followed by a rather unfortunate attempt in 1866 when the prominent balloonist, Henry Coxwell, refused to take a member of the crowd aloft and therefore suffered the indignity of the Leicester Foresters forcing him to deflate the balloon, whereupon they shredded it and set fire to the basket! And had Percy Pilcher not been killed in an unfortunate gliding accident at Stanford Hall in 1899, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, could have been the birthplace of powered flight, not Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1895 – Passenger Balloon takes off from Abby Park, Leicester
1909 – Leicestershire Aero Club is formed
1916 – Leicestershire Aero Club & the Imperial Air Command presented a BE 12 aircraft called “The City of Leicester” to the “Aircraft for the Dominions” initiative, this aircraft was sent to Canada.
1929 – After WWI Leicester Aero Club found and rented land in Desford and purchased their first aircraft, a De Havilland Gypsy Moth, christened “The Quorn”.
1930 – The club became a Limited Company.
1931 – They bought land at Braunstone for an airport.
1932 – The Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor), landed at Desford for the first time and was promptly made a Life Member
1935 – Braunstone was licensed by the Air Ministry and the club moved in.
1939 – August 31st all civil flying was banned as the war became inevitable.
1940 – October the RAF requisitioned the airfield
1947 – The club took residence in President Sir Lindsay Everard’s private airfield as the Braunstone land was not released from the RAF
1949 – After the death of Sir Lindsay Everard, the club was forced to find new premises, they were allowed to use the abandoned Leicester East airfield to store their planes but it was not until 1951 that they signed a lease with the air ministry.
1958 – The Queen and Prince Phillip flew into Leicester East, prompting the Leicester City Council to resurface the main runway.
1967 – The flying school was set up by the Club where trainer pilots could earn their private pilots licence, (PPL),
1971 – The Leicestershire Aero Club was awarded the Lennox Boyd Trophy, for the Organisation having achieved the most to further the cause of light civil aviation in this country.
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Wealth management firms are accelerating digitalisation in response to historic trends and events
Even before coronavirus disruption, radical changes had been afoot in the private wealth sector for some time. Recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008 was made more challenging by new regulations aimed at preventing a repeat and all the while new upstarts from a burgeoning fintech sector were able to respond to consumers’ digital expectations faster. The pandemic then amplified the need for digitalisation in the private wealth sector.
Wealth, in itself, has taken on new meaning, driven by the rise of mass affluent segments in developed economies and a growing middle class in emerging markets. Traditional wealth, as defined by high or ultra high net worth, has also seen major changes through a generational transfer of trillions to millennial and post-millennial generations, who are not only digitally native, but also have different views on money than their predecessors.
Deeper understanding of digital
Digital transformation, albeit much hyped, was previously misunderstood and incomplete. The adoption of “point solutions”, which focused primarily on the user experience and at the frontend, did little for integrated, enterprise-wide digital workflows and operational fabric.
True and comprehensive digital transformation affects the highest-level strategy, process design, operations and business models. It radically changes the role of people in front-to-back operations and the way they use technology.
Improving user interfaces or back-office operational efficiency leaves the institutions partly digitalised, but unable to benefit due to disconnects between functions and business units in their levels of digital adoption. Only full, cross-functional, end-to-end digitalisation can ensure return on investment and positive outcomes.
Gaining tangible value from digital change starts by building a reliable, open and consistent digital business data layer, which empowers clients to access their investment information and provides advisers with relevant, real-time and actionable insights to act on.
Secondly, it requires a digital customer experience delivered through the optimal channel mix, enhancing timely and personalised interactions anytime and anywhere. Finally, digital must be a new standard, completing the “open wealth” architecture with digital native business processes.
Digital transformation is a journey, not a destination. There is no end state to the required technological and cultural changes; it is a continuous process of evolving capabilities to meet evolving needs and markets. This makes long-term planning a critical priority, roadmapping phased adoptions and transitions, and optimising resource allocation for maximum outcomes.
Tech vendors must play a valuable collaborative role in this process and Objectway, a digital wealth and asset management technology and services provider, has a track record of assisting wealth managers’ strategic digitalisation plans.
All about the customer
The wealth management sector is rediscovering the imperatives of customer centricity. Traditionally providing tailored experiences in a relationship-based business, firms are now adapting to new client expectations in the digital world.
The early months of the pandemic were a wake-up call that excellent in-person service is no longer enough and even a well-designed website does not meet diverse interaction requirements. This realisation triggered a catch-up rush to innovate customer engagement with digital tools and solutions.
Onboarding new customers is a critical life-cycle event that remains a challenge for most firms and a weakness for many. In a recent news release, Objectway reported a Gartner study in which only 26 per cent of advisers said automated client onboarding was available at their firm and just 14 per cent were actually utilising it.
Despite the low adoption, 87 per cent of advisers using the technology ranked it as effective. Best-practice solutions include process-oriented client life-cycle management with advanced digital onboarding, combined with opti-channel and omni-device portals and native apps for superior user experiences.
Managing wealth remains at the core
While the fundamental objectives of wealth management are unchanged – wealth preservation and growth – the requirements are shifting and increasingly complex. Diminishing returns from traditional investments have increased interest in new and alternative asset classes: from real estate and private equity to cryptocurrencies and tokenised assets.
Sustainability, meanwhile, is no longer a fringe concept. Client interest has placed environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing centre stage, though wealth managers are yet to fully embrace it.
A recent Objectway survey found that only 39 per cent of firms have implemented an ESG policy, another 39 per cent are developing one and 22 per cent have none at all. Nearly 90 per cent of firms said they do not have a risk-aware, vertically integrated platform to manage ESG investments.
A complete solution requires ex-ante analysis of risk and sustainability, validated by ex-post monitoring and relied-on processes that take into account the risk tolerance and characteristics of the end-customer while respecting the sustainability criteria.
Objectway helps wealth managers to achieve higher returns from ESG integration through its end-to-end, risk-aware investment management solution RiskTech.
Wealth and investment management firms are also seeking to move away from decoupled and independent IT systems, and towards a fully integrated wealth ecosystem that handles all business operations.
Such a platform must leverage a total portfolio approach to generate alpha in terms of stronger returns and higher quality of investments. That would typically require a front-to-back open and modular suite providing a digital integrated experience to both wealth management professionals and customers, with a client experience portal, client life-cycle management, artificial intelligence-based portfolio and risk management, and securities accounting.
Objectway’s WealthTech Suite won the XCelent award for Breadth of Functionality and for Client Base. Research and consulting firm Celent also commended Objectway’s portfolio management and advisory solution, adviser and investor portal and mobile apps, as well as its client life-cycle management and onboarding solutions, saying they are “rich with capabilities that ultimately augment adviser–client interaction, drilled-down automated reporting, adviser efficiency and comprehensive key performance indicators”.
Living and operating in ecosystems
Today’s interconnected world is made up of fully integrated technology ecosystems and architectures with flexible modular structure and advanced, broad application programming interface (API) capabilities, which enable and enhance operating models like software as a service and business process as a service. The cloud, public, private or hybrid, is the ultimate ecosystem, with Objectway already supporting more than 100 clients with over €1 trillion of assets under management.
On the business side, partner and other stakeholder ecosystems enable collaborative engagement with other solution providers to maximise the value to client firms and their customers. Tech vendors can act as trusted partners of their clients in digital transformation and the delivery of evolving capabilities. This is one Objectway philosophy and strategy, tested in long-term relationships with some of the most successful players in the industry.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Single Use Plastic
Greta Thunberg UN Speech may have triggered an alarm amongst ordinary people, but there are still many concerning threats that are gulping the clean and green environment. After the Greenhouse gases, comes plastic which is another non-degradable element widely in use all over the world. No doubt, half of the world’s things are either made from plastic or contained in plastic stuff. So what are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Single use Plastic? How can its use be controlled to cause no harm to the environment? Let us have a look at how single-use plastic helps us every day and how it endangers the ecosystem.
The climatic changes are swiftly visible, and so are the concerns of numerous environmentalists. This is the time to decide and act according to what we can save for our future generations. Many would still be wondering what is single-use plastic, and how are we contributing to plastic pollution every day? This single-use plastic is what we use when we buy almost every commodity edible or inedible for our daily use.
But questions are circling on the ban on single-use plastic, including the economic loss to the plastic industry. Is the decision enough to put everyday use to a noteworthy extent? Is limiting the use of single-use plastic an entrance to a greener world? Or is it going to cost us further?
What are the Advantages of Single-Use Plastic?
One can’t deny the applications and benefits of single-use plastic. On the other hand, it is also an undeniable fact that plastic pollution has caused more than expected damage to marine life over the years. How do you use it in everyday life, and how useful plastic is to keep other things safe from external elements is explained in the single-use plastic advantages here.
1. Plastic as a food preservative
Single-use plastic has been widely used in the food industry to package and preserve eateries and beverages from reeking and contamination. Food for thousands of soldiers deployed to remote regions has to rely on packaged food most times. Plastic bags keep the military food preserved even for years, retaining the same freshness and nutrients.
Also See: The dangers of e-cigarettes
2. Plastic in the Medical Industry
Even plastic is widely preferred to keep medicines and fluids to avoid infections and microorganisms. From syringes to Saline water, plastic is the primary carrier of all the vital medical supplies. Some of the aid that is extremely useful in surgical procedures are also kept sterilized in plastic packaging.
3. Plastic is Alternative to Paper
Every piece of paper you see comes at a cost. Several trees get sacrificed every day to produce papers for different uses. Plastic gives a solution to the problem of overuse of paper for our daily needs. Unlike paper, that can be used only once plastic products and items can be redesigned to other purposes without much cost of processing.
The Disadvantages of Single Use Plastic
After many countries raising their concerns and questions about the use of plastic, many governments have already banned single-use plastic items, and many have pledged to prohibit plastic use to 100 per cent in the comings years. All this is because of the following disadvantages of plastic use. These are the leading factors that contribute to the negative effects of plastic on the environment the world is facing at present.
1. Single-Use Plastic is Non-biodegradable
Now have encountered a moment when you were walking along the beachside, and out of nowhere, a plastic bottle came floating to you? This view would undoubtedly pain you as you would not want people to litter their leftovers in one of the most beautiful places of nature. Hard to eyes and ears, but according to Ellen McArthur Foundation, people leak about 32% of plastic packaging into the ecosystem every year, majorly affecting aquatic life.
Therefore, affecting marine life to a more considerable extent, marine mammals and turtles are most affected by the dangers of plastic debris. This debris is produced of plastic and chemical components that are thrown away in the water bodies and consumed by over a million sea creatures.
2. Plastic kills many Terrestrial Animals
Eating plastic, along with food, is the primary cause of numerous deaths of terrestrial animals. This happens mostly in developing countries since the number of stray animals consumes plastic debris in search of food. According to Animal Aid Unlimited, a Foundation for animals based in India, 6137 tonnes of plastic debris remains untreated or unprocessed that is the biggest reason for the death of cows in the country. The second most endangered animals are feral dogs.
3. Plastic Chemicals are Harmful to everyone
The toxic chemicals can affect the endocrine system severely since these toxins can easily reach our bloodstream. The chemicals released by the use of plastic are the cause of cancer, infertility, congenital disabilities, impaired immunity, and many other ailments.
According to a survey report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BPA (Bisphenol A) was found in 93% of urine samples taken from people above the age of six. (This chemical is used to make plastic beverage containers, food cans, toys, dinnerware, and can cause severe ailments.
What comes Next?
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Re: safe way to store passwords in unix OS
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:31:59 +0000
The OPR is also an option by the Spit brothers; opr.sourceforge.net. The issue with both of these approaches is that if you use an autoopen wallet then anyone who has access to the OS account can connect to the database using Oracle's solution or the OPR one.
A good approach is to use a logon trigger to check where/when/what the connection is; also use a secure application role and only enable the role if the connection is the job that should run. Also look at disbaling the shell for the OS account if you can
Tim Hall wrote:
> Hi. > > Secure External Password Store sounds like the safest bet. > > http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/SecureExternalPasswordStore_10gR2.php > > Cheers > > Tim... > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is not exactly an Oracle question, but I am asking it here in case
>> someone has solved this. We have alot of jobs that log into our Oracle
>> databases. Some of them use ops$oracle accounts. In the future we are not
>> allowed to use ops$oracle and need to provide passwords. I am trying to
>> find a method, or program/script that allows us to do the following.
>> 1. store oracle passwords in unix in a lock box
>> 2. only given processes and users can access specific passwords
>> 3. program/process/script has customizable logic that only lets specific
>> jobs access the password.
>> 4. We are mainly using Cron for our jobs, but may be using some other job
>> schedulers in the future that have more features.
>> 5. you cannot access the passwords from a user account
>> basically you give the password to the script/program, etc and tell it
>> which jobs/users can retrieve it. Those jobs call the script/program and
>> the program can accurately decide which job gets which password.
>> This is about all the requirements I have on this. Sorry if this is kind of
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Systematic study of constraints imposed by modified nucleoside triphosphates with protein-like side chains for use in in vitro selection†
Successful selection of modified DNAzymes depends on the potential for modified nucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) to replace their unmodified counterparts in enzyme catalyzed primer extension reactions and, once incorporated, to serve as template bases for information transfer prior to PCR amplification. To date, the most densely modified DNAzymes have been selected from three modified dNTPs: 8-histaminyl-deoxyadenosine (dAimTP), 5-guanidinoallyl-deoxyuridine (dUgaTP), and 5-aminoallyl-deoxycytidine (dCaaTP) to provide several RNA-cleaving DNAzymes with greatly enhanced rate constants compared to unmodified counterparts. Here we report biophysical and enzymatic properties of these three modified nucleosides in the context of specific oligonucleotide sequences to understand how these three modified nucleobases function in combinatorial selection. The base-pairing abilities of oligonucleotides bearing one or three modified nucleosides were investigated by thermal denaturation studies and as templates for enzymatic polymerization with both modified and unmodified dNTPs. While we address certain shortcomings in the use of modified dNTPs, we also provide key evidence of faithful incorporation and enzymatic read-out, which strongly supports their continued use in in vitro selection. | <urn:uuid:a8cecd86-aea0-4874-9576-a2497b2389fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ob/c6ob02335e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.910382 | 317 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - 288 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. JOURNEY TO THE NETHERLANDS IN 1520. Two years after his journey to Augsburg in 1518 Diirer undertook another and a far more important journey to the Netherlands. The object that he had in view in this journey has been very differently stated by his various biographers, most of whom frame elaborate hypotheses to account for that which after all does not need much explanation. Thus most of the early writers on Diirer tell us that he went to the Netherlands to escape from the bitter tongue of his wife, some of them even going so far as to add that he did not let her know where he had gone, and that consequently she wrote moving epistles to Pirkheimer begging him to intercede with her husband, and promising to behave better in the future if he would only return to her. But considering that Diirer himself states, in the very first line of his journal, that he took his wife with him, and that she is repeatedly mentioned throughout it, this imputed reason for his journey is scarcely worthy of much attention, although, strange to say, it met with very general acceptation, and has been repeated by one writer after another since Arend, the author of one of the earliest accounts we have of Diirer, first started the scandal. After it was discovered that Arend was unworthy of credit, critics seem to have been puzzled to find a motive for the visit; some affirming that it was undertaken with a view of selling his works to greater advantage, and others that he had no other object than pleasure. But I think, if we attentively consider the perplexity into which Diirer was thrown at the death of Maximilian by the determined refusal of a "Provident Rath" to pay the money that the deceased Emperor owed him until the new Emperor had confirmed the debt (see p. 151 et sq.), ...
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English in Africa - Volume 42, Issue 3, 2015
Volumes & issues
Volume 42, Issue 3, 2015
Author Tony VossSource: English in Africa 42, pp 7 –8 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.1More Less
In recognition of some closely contemporary anniversaries - the centenary of the Native Lands Act, the 20th anniversary of South Africa's first free and fair elections, the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Charter - contributions were invited to this issue of English in Africa, under the title "[South] Africa: [the] Emancipation Moment[s]," exploring "how the phenomenon of emancipation has been perceived" (Davis) in the texts and other social, cultural and political occasions which fall into or arise from the field of vision of the journal. In the event our contributors, for the most part, have found their matter in three distinct phases of South Africa's late colonial and post-colonial history: segregation, apartheid and democracy.
Author Shane MoranSource: English in Africa 42, pp 9 –42 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.2More Less
As sites of cultural memory's crystallisation the texts of Sol Plaatje are vulnerable to manipulation and appropriation. Where those engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle found in Plaatje resources for resisting racial oppression, post-apartheid readings have detected the presentiment of liberation and reconciliation. Simultaneously Plaatje circulates as a model of principled rectitude with which to admonish the corrupt and a shield vindicating the maligned integrity of the political elite. This essay aims to loosen the bonds of these investments by reframing Plaatje as a tactician of resistance. Mhudi is interpreted against the mutually reinforcing criticism of his naïve appeal to morality and lauding of his unerring sense of justice. The hypothesis is that the literary critical debate around Plaatje's resistance mirrors the complementary idealisms at work in competing diagnoses of the problems of contemporary South Africa.
Author David JohnsonSource: English in Africa 42, pp 43 –69 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.3More Less
The language of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and its leader Clements Kadalie is examined. The article analyses afresh the ICU archive - the articles, manifestoes, speeches, memoirs and letters of Kadalie and his ICU comrades in the 1920s and 1930s. Two questions guide discussion. How did the language of the ICU challenge the religious, literary and political discourses of white South Africa? And, did the ICU leaders generate a distinctive language of freedom? The theoretical insights of inter alia Walter Rodney, James C. Scott and Howard Caygill into the languages of resistance and liberation inform the discussion of the ICU's language. In conclusion, the resonances of the ICU's language of freedom is assessed in relation to the public discourses of post-apartheid South Africa.
Emancipation and "the Great Wheel of Labour" : enduring liminality in Rayda Jacobs's The Slave Book (1988) and a painting of two slave women (1859) by Thomas BainesAuthor Neville SmithSource: English in Africa 42, pp 71 –88 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.4More Less
On this anniversary of the Freedom Charter, we may reflect on the erasure of slavery from the national memory and remind ourselves that freedom is never absolute, always deferred. This paper suggests that by comparing the aesthetic of fragmented and incoherent afterimages of slavery at the Cape, two slave women in Rayda Jacobs's postcolonial narrative The Slave Book (1998) with a Thomas Baines watercolour, we may articulate these multifaceted, unstable and very different structures of subjectivity, memory and history. Jacobs's artistic re-imagining of a subsumed Muslim slave presence becomes the means towards individual self-fashioning, diasporic connection and communal liberation embodied in the transcendence of her 'romantic' protagonists (although their emancipation is deferred). Baines's ethnographic painting of two slave women aboard a ship that symbolized British imperial superiority is examined from a postcolonial vantage point, which problematizes his act of artistic representation and the instability implicit in his role as observer. In order to negotiate mutable identities and multiple realities we may juxtapose contemporary artistic expressions which strive towards communal liberation and individual self-fashioning with fragmented afterimages of slavery and oppression. In this way it becomes possible to acknowledge the "inescapable hybridity and intermixture of ideas" (Gilroy 1993, xi).
Source: English in Africa 42, pp 89 –110 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.5More Less
Even though the theories of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) originally responded to the turbulent Italy of his own times they can be successfully applied to post-apartheid South Africa. All Gramsci's thoughts are impelled by the vision of an ideally transformed state in which what he calls "organic intellectuals" are to play the pivotal roles of guides and organisers of society. This paper argues that the theory of the organic intellectual is relevant not only to the changed and changing political situation in South Africa, but also to this situation as reflected in literary fiction. The paper applies the concept of organic intellectuals to Zakes Mda's novel, The Heart of Redness (2000). Two characters from the contemporary narrative strand of the novel, Camagu and Qukezwa, can be identified as organic intellectuals according to Gramsci's specifications. Both of them become organisers and agents of change in the village of Qolorha-by-Sea, without representing the interests of outsider groups or classes. As Gramsci pinned his hopes upon organic intellectuals in his own milieu, so in our time does Mda appear to maintain faith in men and women of the people such as Camagu and, particularly, Qukezwa, to bring about sustainable improvements in the lives of those South Africans at present excluded from wealth and privilege.
Author Beth WyrillSource: English in Africa 42, pp 111 –135 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.6More Less
This paper asserts that, when it comes to approaching previously silenced South African histories (for example, those personal histories that are written out of the official record by colonial practices of archive and documentary record-keeping), literary attempts at historical reimagining can better gesture towards a felt connection with a lived historical moment. This is precisely because creative literary offerings can take as springboard, rather than boundary, the documentary evidence upon which the discipline of History must rely. Russel Brownlee's novel Garden of the Plagues provides a useful case study in unpacking this premise. The novel adds to a body of South African contemporary re-imaginings of slave histories during the Dutch occupation of the Cape. It can be said to fall into the generic category of 'historiographic metafiction,' meaning, fiction which self-consciously engages and critiques the realist literary foundations of traditional nineteenth-century historiography. Brownlee, by using various postmodern literary devices, is able to foreground the Enlightenment epistemologies informing colonial discourse and so generate the grounds for a useful literary-historical dialogue.
Author Cheryl StobieSource: English in Africa 42, pp 137 –156 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.7More Less
Claire Robertson's 2013 novel, The Spiral House, consists of two alternating South African chronotopes, one a farm in 1794, the other a mission hospital in 1961. The first narrative unfolds shortly before the abolition of slavery. Robertson critiques the ideology of slavery and the effects of Enlightenment scientific experimentation on human subjects. The consequences of social engineering, violence and sexism are shown in the suffering of the characters. The second narrative is set at the time when South Africa becomes a republic. It concerns a white nun who is breaking away from her convent life and acting as a surrogate mother to a young black boy. The novel, which concludes in 1994, requires the reader to contemplate who has been given full subjecthood within the framework of the nation, according to which ideologies. In analysing this novel I employ Leonard Praeg's A Report on Ubuntu (2014). Ubuntu is an African concept of community through an imagined sense of belonging, both material and ethical. Praeg notes: "Ubuntu [...] can only play this role of positing past realities as future possibilities through a perpetual deconstruction of two essential building blocks of Western modernity: a linear conception of time and the binary separation of self and other, being and belonging" (248). I argue that Robertson's novel effectively and movingly exemplifies Ubuntu.
Author John KearneySource: English in Africa 42, pp 157 –176 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v42i3.8More Less
This article explores the theme of freedom in Brink's four main slave novels - An Instant in the Wind (1975), A Chain of Voices (1982), The Rights of Desire (2000), and Philida (2012) - all of which portray the actual lives of slaves. The selected areas of concern are: freedom and childhood experience, freedom and commitment in love, and freedom and political or sociocultural liberation. Crucial to the whole discussion is an attempt to resolve the apparent tension between Brink's liberation politics and the realities of the human condition. What the study ultimately seeks to affirm is Brink's own freedom in terms of imaginative sympathy; his recognition of the opportunities for positive agency while at the same time refusing to entertain sentimental possibilities or stereotypes; and in general the rich complexity of his vision regarding the progress of the spirit of activism over generations to achieve the goal of freedom, human equality. | <urn:uuid:052b3a65-5760-4801-8e44-8d2c202226e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://journals.co.za/content/iseaeng/42/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919991 | 2,129 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Curry leaves (Kari putha or Neem) - are small grey-greenish leaves (a bit like bay), relative of the orange. They can be used fresh or dried. Their aroma is released by its heat and moisture. They are sometimes fried in the oil the food is cooked in, and then discarded. They are mainly used as an aromatic and flavoring for most curries and soups.
Curry Leaves– Names in different Indian Languages.
Hindi– Kari Patta , Bengal – karipatta, Gujrati – Mitho Limbo, Punjabi – Kadi patta
Tamil - Karivepillai, Urdu – Karhipata
The essential oils vary based on different varieties. The fresh leaf has about 0.5% to 2.5% essential oil, mostly monoterpenes. Curry leaf has a good amount of vitamin A with calcium,phosphorus,iron), vitamin C and fiber.
Its leaves are used in many dishes in India and neighbouring contries. Often used in curries, the leaves generally go by the name "curry leaves", though they are also called "sweet neem leaves". It is usually fried along with the chopped onion in the first stage of the preparation. . It gives a more intense flavor and crunchiness when it is toasted in oil or ghee, and this mixture is then added to many vegetarian foods. Sometimes it is toasted, ground, or crushed to season or garnish soups, sambars, and curries.
It is an essential spice in South Indian, Sri Lankan, and Malaysian curries, dals, samosas, dosai fillings, chutneys, snacks, sambars, soups, breads, and vegetables. Kari leaf is popularly used in South Indian vegetarian and fish dishes and Sri Lankan meat and chicken curries. Kari leaves par well with mustard seeds, turmeric, ghee, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, dals, ginger, garlic, tomatoes, and yogurt. It provides a certain zest to yogurt-based salad dressings and vegetable dishes, such as fried cabbage, lentils, beans, okra, or eggplant. Curry leaf also provides a distinct spicy flavor to cold dishes and buttermilk..
Curry leaf can be kept frozen or refrigerated in a plastic bag for about two weeks. Freezing better retains its flavor, but its color changes to black. To retain its fresh flavor, it is best not to remove the leaves from its branches until ready to use.
They are also available dried, though the aroma is largely inferior.
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With the world at a standstill and the stock market succumbing to the ill-fated Covid-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are adding on to the cyberthreat landscape and making the most of the ongoing crisis. In recent years, sophisticated cyberattacks have targeted corporate data and assets, as well as those of governments, school systems, utilities, and financial institutions.
A cyber security breach can threaten businesses regardless of their size, but larger companies run the risk of losing a greater proportion of the growth they have worked so hard to build. Therefore, it is no surprise that companies have been on high alert as a result of a growing number of cybersecurity threats. The importance of cyber security risks is now greater than ever, and you need to understand how to protect your business – regardless of its size. Fortunately, precautions can be taken to prevent disaster for your company.
Here are a few of the major cybersecurity risks that founders should be wary of:
Whether individuals, businesses, or organizations, cybersecurity is an issue that anyone who has a device with access to the internet must deal with. It is a breeding ground for malicious software due to the widespread use of technology and its reliance on connectivity.
In one classic example from 2021, 23% of employees opened phishing emails and input data when presented with a form. Consequently, this means that employees are likely to expose their organisation to a cyberattack resulting from a phishing attempt. Research also indicated that 53% of employees opened phishing messages whilst 7% downloaded and opened attachments. However, only 7% reported the simulation to their IT departments.
Despite its alarming nature, phishing can be identified and prevented. Here are a few basic guidelines to follow:
- Stay Informed About Phishing Techniques: Phishing scams are continually being developed. By not staying on top of these new phishing techniques, you could inadvertently fall victim to one. Look out for newly discovered phishing scams. Being aware of them before they ensnare you will lower your risk of getting snared by them. Maintaining security at the forefront of your organization by conducting ongoing security, awareness, training and simulated phishing exercises is highly recommendable for IT administrators.
- Take A Moment To Think Before You Click: Clicking on links on trusted sites is safe. However, clicking on random links in emails and instant messages may not be the smartest move. You can, however, pause before clicking links that you are unsure of. It may look exactly like the official website when you click the link in a phishing email that claims to come from a legitimate company. Your name may not appear in the email when you are asked to fill in the information. Therefore, rather than clicking on a potentially dangerous link, go directly to the source.
- Set Up An Anti-Phishing Toolbar: The anti-phishing toolbars that come with the most popular Internet browsers can be customized. Toolbars like these check your current site against a list of known phishing sites while you are browsing. The toolbar will alert you if you stumble upon a malicious website.
The most common technique used in corporate blackmail is the use of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to force retailers and payment providers into protection rackets. According to this article, “Typical DDoS attacks deluge companies with requests for information that paralyse web sites for up to 24 hours or more. If they don’t pay, they use DDoS to bring online sites to a standstill thus causing huge losses of revenue.”
There have also been cases where false information has been published on rogue websites in order to generate bad publicity for founders and businesses. One such entity indicted in theft, fraud, money laundering, online scams, and worse, is FinTelegram – the financial internet blog that thousands have been tricked to lean on for financial gossip. In several online exposés, it has been revealed that FinTelegram is owned by three convicted criminals: Werner Boehm, Elfriede Sxt, and Alfred Dobias are widely known for piling pressure on their adversaries while manipulating the ongoing cases they are also involved in. Beyond any reasonable doubt, this is the same group convicted in a Canadian court back in 2017, following their illicit attempts to defraud the BirtRush company came to nothing.
Several sources online allege the blog is engaged in financial blackmail and racketeering – removing articles that disparage companies or people in exchange for a hefty fee. There are also consultancy services to remove negative articles from FinTelegram, Fintel.news, etc, typically involving cash or Bitcoin.
Nevertheless, stay hopeful. There are several viable strategies available for business founders who find themselves frequently subjected to corporate blackmail. If you are a victim or often vulnerable to corporate blackmail, here are some actionable steps you may need to take:
- Avoid engaging with the blackmailer;
- Neither negotiate nor pay the ransom;
- Ensure all communications and evidence are preserved;
- Obtain the support of a trustworthy person for documentation;
- Set up your online privacy preferences;
- Configure online alerts;
- Report the crime to law enforcement immediately;
- Get legal advice from an experienced internet attorney.
Beyond severe financial damage, hackers can access systems to obtain sensitive information, steal money or crypto and hold businesses and their leaders to ransom. Meanwhile, businesses are often left in a bind as their confidential data and critical assets fall prey to malicious attacks.
To understand the immense impact of hacking, statistics show that hackers attack a computer with internet access every 11 seconds. Hence, every new business must hire a great head of data security from the outset. Even the smallest efforts can make a difference.
On a positive note, here are some basic tips to help prevent hacking in business:
- Change Passwords Regularly: This is one of your best defences against hackers and bad actors attempting to access confidential information.
- Update Your Software: This can be your content management system platform, cloud-based tool or any other program you use.
- Use Multi-Factor Authentication: This is a great way to thwart hackers since they are unlikely to gain access to the secondary device.
- Limit Employee Access To Sensitive Information: Too often, employees have access to sensitive information that is vulnerable to human error. To reduce the risk of a system breach, ensure that only the most trusted team members are allowed access to sensitive data, and all outgoing employees’ accounts are deleted once they leave the company.
The goal of ransomware is to prevent a user or organization from accessing their computer files. Due to the fact that these malware encrypt files and demand a ransom payment to decrypt them, organizations are put into a position where paying a ransom is the easiest and least expensive way to regain access to their files.
C10p is a notorious hacker group that targeted several high-profile victims since 2019 including three American universities: Stanford University Medical School, the University of Maryland and the University of California, demanding a payment to either maintain their systems or to not publish material they had stolen.
Similarly, FinTelegram turns on former colleagues who have worked with the owners of FinTelegram and refused to cooperate with their criminal ways, accusing them of criminal activity. Their sites are used to systematically lay out false allegations against these colleagues and highlight their involvement in said criminal activities. Allegedly, the blog is engaged in financial blackmail and racketeering – removing articles that disparage companies or people in exchange for a hefty fee.
To prevent ransomware, it’s important to invest in cybersecurity-a program that provides real-time protection against advanced malware attacks such as ransomware. Next, you should regularly create secure backups of your data. You should also keep your system and software up-to-date. And finally, stay informed. Social engineering is one of the most common ways that computers become infected with ransomware. Educate yourself and your employees about how to detect spam, suspicious websites, and other scams.
Cyber security threats are not slowing down. On the contrary, they are only becoming more complex and destructive. As a result, businesses must actively protect their data and networks through holistic measures anchored by a cyber-risk management plan. This means that the biggest risk for every business founder is taking no risks at all. The idea of secure data governance and scalable identity management in the volatile environment should be undertaken, ideally from the get-go. | <urn:uuid:31971d76-e7b6-436e-8889-e793f11761aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestofdailynews.co.uk/business-risks-that-founders-need-to-be-cautious-of.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947227 | 1,737 | 2.609375 | 3 |
For some folks, the idea of using harsh chemicals to clean the kitchen just doesn't make sense. Chemicals can be toxic when not used properly. They can also be bad for the environment. They're expensive, too. In the case of bleach, even though it may be considered natural, it's still a strong chemical. When combined with ammonia (accidentally, of course), bleach produces a poisonous gas. Actually, just the fumes from undiluted bleach can cause respiratory problems. That's not even taking into account the damage bleach can do to clothes, carpeting and other textiles.
If you'd like to try a disinfectant that's a little more planet- and user-friendly than bleach (or many disinfectant products on the market), Susan Sumner, the author of Green Housekeeping, has a suggestion. Disinfect your countertops and other kitchen surfaces with a one-two punch of vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Alone, these natural ingredients are good at killing germs. Together, they're super effective. This is a two-part process:
- Place the contents of a bottle of hydrogen peroxide (3 percent strength) into a dark spray bottle. Light will destroy the peroxide, so the container has to be dark.
- Fill a second spray bottle with white vinegar.
- Wash your countertops with soap and water as you would normally.
- Now spray them with vinegar and follow up immediately with the peroxide.
- That's it. You don't even have to rinse. The vinegar smell will dissipate on its own in a few minutes.
- Don't combine the vinegar and hydrogen peroxide in a single spray bottle, though. The vinegar will convert the peroxide to pure water before it has a chance to do its job. Used separately, this dynamic duo will bubble away germs and leave your countertops clean, disinfected and ready for anything. | <urn:uuid:06af18df-fead-4127-91c3-468c4d2845ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/household-hints-tips/cleaning-organizing/5-tips-for-disinfecting-your-countertops5.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946107 | 389 | 2.28125 | 2 |
(Ed Note: I’ll be posting about the ABA Labor & Employment Conference when I have a more stable internet access.)
Employers and employees alike, in Connecticut will no doubt remember vividly the morning seven years ago.
Indeed, whether it’s because they had employees in lower Manhattan, or simply knew of Connecticut and New York residents that worked down there, many people have their new “JFK” moment that they recall where they were when the terrorists struck.
(My moment was on a plane down that morning to a Miami for a mediation arising from a workplace dispute. I then had lots of “moments” the next two days driving back with a colleague as we commandeered a rental car. )
So, seven years later, are employers in the state better prepared to address a similar emergency should it happen? Perhaps it will be a bird flu outbreak, or a mass blackout, or something else that no one has thought of.
Anecdotally, the answer seems to be yes. Employers have practiced more building evacuation drills, emergency procedures have been put in place, and employees have been given “emergency” kits.
And yet, we also seem to have lost that energy and urgency that have popped up as events seem to occur. (At the ABA conference this morning that I’m attending, we had a brief moment of silence about it but nary another mention). I suppose that’s only natural; it’s difficult to maintain the same urgency over time. And I don’t have a problem that the painful memories are allowed fade, much like they have for prior generations with events like Pearl Harbor.
Yet, for the enterprising employer out there, it also presents an opportunity: Follow the Boy Scout motto and Be Prepared.
Thus, of the many lessons learned from that day, one is simply to be prepared for the unexpected and take the time now to develop it. It’s probably never first on your "to do" list, but you may recover that much quicker when the next crisis hits. | <urn:uuid:70f3d449-baa7-4e5f-8e50-068a7e5c495d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ctemploymentlawblog.com/2008/09/articles/remembering-911/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.969653 | 434 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Students have learned that stars make their own
energy, which is how they produce light. Although the stars are still in the
sky during the day, the light of the Sun prevents us from seeing them. Only
on a clear night can we see the stars. Cloud cover can also prevent the
light from the stars from reaching our eyes.
The stars are long distances from us on Earth. Large,
far away stars seem smaller than they really are. Our Solar System is in a
grouping of stars called the Milky Way Galaxy. Most of the stars we see at
night are from the Milky Way.
However, it is often difficult to tell a star from the
Milky Way from another galaxy in the sky. Far away galaxies may also appear
as single points of light.
Early people grouped many of the bright objects in the
sky as constellations. A constellation is a group of stars that, viewed from
Earth, appear to form a regular pattern. There are 88 recognized
constellations. Many are associated with myths. Constellations are fun, and
help us locate stars and galaxies in the sky. However, they are not a
scientific grouping, because they are mixtures of stars and galaxies, that
may be near or far objects.
- Play the Constellations song with your students. Use the
pictures in the animation so students can visualize how they group
stars.. The ancients saw bulls, twins,
people, and many other images. Use the constellation books to increase
the imagery of your students.
- You may want to find out the Zodiac signs that each student was born
under. The zodiac constellations serve as reference points to astronomers when investigating the Universe. However to astrologers, the zodiac constellations, as well as the motions of the planets, were signs believed to influence the behavior and lives of people (i.e., finances, relationships, moods, friendships). There is no scientific basis for these
interpretations, but they help students remember some of the
AQUARIUS The Water Bearer people are born between January 21 to February 19.
PISCES The Fish people are born between February 20 to March 20.
ARIES The Ram people are born between March 21 to April 20.
TAURUS The Bull people are born between April 21 to May 21.
GEMINI The Twins people are born between May 22 to June 21.
CANCER The Crab people are born between June 22 to July 22.
LEO The Lion people are born between July 23 to August 23.
VIRGO The Virgin people are born between August 24 to September 22.
LIBRA The Balance people are born between September 23 to October 23.
SCORPIO The Scorpion people are born between October 24 to November 22.
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CAPRICORN The Goat people are born between December 22 to January 20.
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Halal meat -- from animals slaughtered according to Islamic law -- isn't just for Muslims. Ranchers raising cows, goats, lambs, and chickens for the halal market don't feed them animal products for fear that they might contain pig parts -- thus avoiding one of the more unsavory elements of today's factory farming practices. Naime Ayyad at Halal Food Market stocks some of the freshest, most diverse selections of meats in the East Bay, from spicy merguez
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Description: Inventory of records of Marion County housed in the Marion County Courthouse as of 1936. Begins with a historical sketch of the county along with information on the housing, care, and accessibility of the records. Describes the records of the Commissioners Court, County Clerk as Recorder, District Court, County Court, Justices of the Peace, Sheriff, Constable, Tax Assessor-Collector, Board of Equalization, County Treasurer, County Board of School Trustees, County School Superintendent, and County Surveyor, along with selected records of the city of Jefferson. References constitutional provisions, declarations, and ordinances of constitutional conventions, and laws specifically applicable to Marion County. Includes a bibliography as well as chronological and subject and entry indexes.
Date: March 1940
Creator: Historical Records Survey. Texas.
Item Type: Book
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A Perspective on Life on Enceladus
Could microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available? To answer that question, we need look no farther than our own planet to find examples of the types of exotic ecosystems that could make life possible on Saturn's geyser moon. The answer appears to be, yes, it could be possible. It is this tantalizing potential that brings us back to Enceladus for further study.
In recent years, life forms have been found on Earth that thrive in places where the sun doesn't shine and oxygen is not present because no photosynthesis takes place. Microbes have been discovered that survive on the energy from the chemical interaction between different kinds of minerals, and others that live off the energy from the radioactive decay in rocks. The ecosystems are completely independent of oxygen or organic material produced by photosynthesis at Earth's surface. These extraordinary microbial ecosystems are models for life that might be present inside Enceladus today.
There are three such ecosystems found on Earth that would conceivably be a basis for life on Enceladus. Two are based on methanogens, which belong to an ancient group related to bacteria, called the archaea -- the rugged survivalists of bacteria that thrive in harsh environments without oxygen. Deep volcanic rocks along the Columbia River and in Idaho Falls host two of these ecosystems, which pull their energy from the chemical interaction of different rocks. The third ecosystem is powered by the energy produced in the radioactive decay in rocks, and was found deep below the surface in a mine in South Africa.
So the evidence points to the feasibility of life in Enceladus. But how would it get its start? A major problem in answering that question is that we don't know how life originated on Earth, nor have we been able to reproduce Earth's first spark of life in the laboratory. But here's the good news: there are a lot of theories for how life originated on Earth. Now the question is -- do they apply to Enceladus?
Two of the theories for the origin of life on Earth do seem to apply to Enceladus--the "primordial soup" theory and the deep sea vent theory.
The Primordial Soup Theory
The theory that the origin of life occurred in a soup of organic material that came together from non-biological sources traces back to Charles Darwin, and was demonstrated in a famous experiment in 1953 when the chemists Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey cooked up a primordial soup of chemicals thought to have been present on early Earth before life began. A spark, simulating lightning, was passed through this highly reduced mixture of methane, ammonia, water vapor and hydrogen. Within two weeks, a few amino acids, some of the building blocks of life, had formed in the soup. While Miller and Urey did not actually create life, they demonstrated that very complex molecules ? amino-acids ? could emerge spontaneously from simpler chemicals.
On Earth, it's possible that the organic ingredients of the soup were produced from existing materials on the early Earth. Another theory is that the right soup mix ingredients arrived as incoming comet material and interplanetary dust.
Organic chemicals were part of the raw material from which Enceladus and Saturn's other moons formed. The origin of Enceladus' heat is less clear, but there are several possibilities that could have given Enceladus a layer of liquid water that persists today. Early on, it could have been heated by decay of short-lived radioactivity in rocks, with the heating prolonged by tidal influences. Or perhaps an earlier oblong orbit could have brought more tidal heating than exists there today. A past tidal relationship with another moon could have caused the heat. Another theory says the heat could have been produced from a process called serpentization, where chemical binding of water and silicate rock could occur at the upper layer of the moon's core. This increases the volume of the rock and creates energy in the form of heat.
Any of these heating mechanisms might have created a liquid subsurface aquifer solution rich in organics, allowing Enceladus to serve up a suitable prebiotic soup.
The Deep Sea Vent Theory
The deep sea vent theory for the origin of life on Earth might apply to Enceladus as well. In this scenario, life on Earth began at the interface where chemically rich fluids, heated by tidal or other mechanisms, emerge from below the sea floor. Chemical energy is derived from the reduced gases, such as hydrogen-sulfide and hydrogen coming out from the vent in contact with a suitable oxidant, such as carbon dioxide. Hot spots on an Enceladus sea floor could be locales for this type of process.
We don't know how long it takes for life to start when the ingredients are there and the environment is suitable, but it appears to have happened quickly on Earth. So maybe it was possible that on Enceladus, life started in a "warm little pond" below the icy surface occurring over the last few tens of millions of years.
For life to persist once it has been established requires an environment of liquid water, the essential elements and nutrients, and an energy source. At Enceladus, we have evidence for liquid water, but we don't know its origin. We have observed simple organic chemicals there, and the March 12 close flyby indicates there are some complex organic chemicals, as well. An energy source of some sort is producing geysers. As Cassini's exploration continues, we're seeking to bring together more pieces of this intriguing puzzle.
The first step toward answering the question of whether life exists inside the subsurface aquifer of Enceladus is to analyze the organic compounds in the plume. Cassini's March 12 passage through the plume provided some measurements that help us move toward an answer, and preliminary plans call for Cassini to fly through the plume again
for more measurements in the future. Ultimately, another mission in the future could conceivably land near the plume or even return plume material to Earth for laboratory analysis.
Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center is an astrobiologist involved in the search for environments on other worlds where life may have evolved.
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Spur leading to passing siding and the Intervale shops
From this photo you can see the amount of effort put into this little railroad. In most places there are 3 grades of crushed stone making up the roadbed. The track varies between scale rail, angle iron and t-shaped iron. Typically, pressure-treated 2x4's have been used as crossties.
Photographed by Jeff Cairns, October 19, 2003.
Added to the photo archive by Jeff Cairns, October 20, 2003.
Railroad: Hartmann's East Branch Railroad.
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Do You Need To View Adobe Photoshop Pictures In Java?
This week recognizes a fascinating addition to our JDeli picture collection. We have now designed our own PSD decoder. In this weblog article I will be explaining: what the PSD information structure is, what it is used for and how you can use it as part of our JDelicollection.
Where have I observed of PSD?
If you have ever used Adobe’s Adobe photoshop software then you will no question have seen this type of information file before. PSD is short for PhotoShop Papers and is Adobe’s padded picture information structure. Photoshop’s reputation indicates that the PSDstructure has pretty much become a conventional in the bitmapped picture world.
PSD information files can have an optimum dimensions of 30,000 p. PSD information file dimensions can are 2GB. Adobe has also required a restrict of no more than 8000 levels (though not many people ever get past the 6000 part mark).
Why would I want to use this format?
This structure was mainly designed to protect several levels of design art in a stored information file. By doing this it resulted in further modifying could be performed later. The maintenance of each part and their declares allows the consumer the capability to modify every part or design item independently. Eventually providing you a lot more control over how to build and modify your pictures over time. PSD information files can also store information regarding used covers, visibility principles, written text, colors used and cutting routes among other modifications for every part.
The attractiveness of having several picture levels allows cases to be designed where things can be shifted, expanded, popped and generally modified without other levels being impacted. On top of that levels can quickly be reordered or designed unseen to fit your needs. PSD also allows for the mixture of both pixel and vector based things, raising the limitation on using either one or the other.
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The Mathematics Behind Support Vector Machine Algorithm (SVM)
This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.
One of the classifiers that we come across while learning about machine learning is Support Vector Machine or SVM. This algorithm is one of the most popular classification algorithms used in machine learning.
In this article, we will learn about the mathematics involved behind the Support Vector Machine for a classification problem, how it classifies the classes and gives a prediction.
Table of Contents
- Gentle Introduction to Support Vector Machine (SVM)
- Few Concepts to know before learning the secret behind the algorithm
- Diving Deep into the sea of mathematics
- 3.1 Where to use SVM / Background of SVM
- 3.1.1 Case 1: Perfect separated binary classified dataset
- 3.1.2 Equation for Perfect separation
- 3.2 Case 2: Imperfect Separation dataset
- 3.2.1 Final Equation to solve for Imperfect separation
- 3.2.2 Primal – Dual – Lagrangian
- 3.2.3 Use of kernelization to obtain final results
- 3.1 Where to use SVM / Background of SVM
- End Points
1. Support Vector Machine
A Support Vector Machine or SVM is a machine learning algorithm that looks at data and sorts it into one of two categories.
Support Vector Machine is a supervised and linear Machine Learning algorithm most commonly used for solving classification problems and is also referred to as Support Vector Classification.
There is also a subset of SVM called SVR which stands for Support Vector Regression which uses the same principles to solve regression problems.
SVM is most commonly used and effective because of the use of the Kernel method which basically helps in solving the non-linearity of the equation in a very easy manner.
P.S. — Since this article is written focusing on the mathematical part. Kindly refer to this article for a complete overview of the working of the algorithm
2. Quintessential Topics for SVM
Support Vector Machine basically helps in sorting the data into two or more categories with the help of a boundary to differentiate similar categories.
So, first let’s revise the formulae for how each data is represented in space, and what is an equation of a line which will help in segregating the similar categories, and lastly the distance formula between a data point and the line (a boundary separating the categories).
2.1 A point in a space
Let’s assume we have some data where we(algorithm of SVM) are asked to differentiate between the males and females based on first studying the characteristics of both the genders and then accurately label the unseen data if someone is a male or a female.
In this example, the characteristics which will help to differentiate the gender are basically called features in machine learning.
Assuming that we are already familiar with the concept of the domain, range, and co-domain while defining a function in real space. (If not, kindly click on the image for understanding the concept with an example)
When we define x in a real space, we understand its domain, and on mapping a function for y = f(x), we get range and co-domain.
So, initially, we are given the data which is to be separated by the algorithm.
The data given for separating/classifying is represented as a unique point in a space where each point is represented by some feature vector x.
x ∊ RD
Note: R^D here is a vector space with D dimension, it isn’t necessary to have a hang of this concept for this algorithm.
We are applying a similar concept of the domain, range, mapping a function for the data points here, instead of real space, we have a vector space for x.
Further, mapping the point on a complex feature space x,
Φ(x) ∊ RM
The transformed feature space for each input feature mapped to a transformed basis vector Φ(x) can be defined as:
2.2 Decision Boundary
So now that we have represented our points visually, our next job is to separate these points using a line and this is where the term decision boundary comes into the picture.
Decision Boundary is the main separator for dividing the points into their respective classes.
(How and why do I say, main separator and not just any separator will we cover while understanding the math)
Equation of Hyperplane :
The equation of the main separator line is called a hyperplane equation.
Let us look at the equation for a straight line with slope m and intercept c.
The equation becomes : mx + c = 0
(To notice: we have fit a straight/linear line which is 1-D in a 2-D space)
The hyperplane equation dividing the points (for classifying) can now easily be written as:
H: wT(x) + b = 0
Here: b = Intercept and bias term of the hyperplane equation
In D dimensional space, the hyperplane would always be D -1 operator.
For example, for 2-D space, a hyperplane is a straight line (1-D).
2.3 Distance Measure
Now that we have seen, how to represent data points, and how to fit a separating line between the points. But, while fitting the separating line, we would obviously want such a line that would be able to segregate the data points in the best possible way having the least mistakes/errors of miss-classification.
So, to have the least errors in the classification of the data points, that concept will require us to first know the distance between a data point and the separating line.
The distance of any line, ax + by + c = 0 from a given point say, (x0 , y0) is given by d.
Similarly, the distance of a hyperplane equation: wTΦ(x) + b = 0 from a given point vector Φ(x0) can be easily written as :
here ||w||2 is the Euclidean norm for the length of w given by :
3. There’s plenty of
fish Mathematics in the sea
We talked about an example of differentiating genders, so such problems are called classification problems. Now a classification problem can have only two (binary) classes for separating or can have more than two too which are known as a multi-class classification problems.
But not all classification predictive models support multi-class classification, algorithms such as the Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machines (SVM) were designed for binary classification and do not natively support classification tasks with more than two classes.
But if someone stills want to use the binary classification algorithms for multi-classification problems, one approach which is widely used is to split the multi-class classification datasets into multiple binary classification datasets and then fit a binary classification model on each.
Two different examples of this approach are the One-vs-Rest and One-vs-One strategies. One can read about the two approaches here.
Moving ahead with the main topic of understanding the math, we will be considering binary-class classification problem for two reasons:
- As already mentioned above, SVM works much better for binary class
- It would be easy to understand the math since our target variable ( variable / unseen data targeted to predict, whether the point is a male or a female)
- Note: This will be a One Vs One approach.
3.1.1 Case 1: (Perfect Separation for Binary Classified data) –
Continuing with our example, if the hyperplane will be able to differentiate between males and females perfectly without doing any miss-classification, then that case of separation is known as Perfect Separation.
Here, in the figure, if males are green and females are red and we can see that the hyperplane which is a line here has perfectly differentiated the two classes.
To generalize, data has two classifications, positive and negative group, and is perfectly separable, meaning that, a hyperplane can accurately separate the *training classes*.
(Training data — Data through which algorithm/model learns the pattern on how to differentiate by looking at the features
Testing data — After the model is trained on training data, the model is asked to predict the values for unseen data where only the features are given, and now the model will tell whether its a male or a female)
Now, there could be many hyperplanes giving 100% accuracy, as seen in the photograph.
“” So to choose the optimal/best hyperplane, place the hyperplane right at the center where the distance is maximum from the closest points and give the least test errors further. “”
To notice: We have to aim at the least TEST errors and NOT TRAINING errors.
So, we have to maximize the distance to give some space to the hyperplane equation which is also the goal / main idea behind SVM.
The goal of the algorithm involved behind SVM:
So now we have to:
Finding a hyperplane with the maximum margin (margin is basically a protected space around hyperplane equation) and algorithm tries to have maximum margin with the closest points (known as support vectors).
In other words, “The goal is to maximize the minimum distance.” for the distance (mentioned earlier in section 2)
, given by:
So, now that the goal is understood. While making the predictions on the training data which were binary classified as positive and negative groups, if the point is substituted from the positive group in the hyperplane equation, we will get a value greater than 0 (zero), Mathematically,
wT(Φ(x)) + b > 0
And predictions from the negative group in the hyperplane equation would give negative value as
wT(Φ(x)) + b < 0.
But here the signs were about training data, which is how we are training our model. That for positive class, give a positive sign and for negative give a negative sign.
But while testing this model on test data, If we predict a positive class (positive sign or greater than zero sign) correctly as positive, then two positives makes positive and hence greater than zero result. The same applies if we correctly predict the negative group since two negatives will again make a positive.
But if the model miss classifies the positive group as a negative group then one plus and one minus makes a minus, hence overall less than zero.
Summing up the above concept:
The product of a predicted and actual label would be greater than 0 (zero) on correct prediction, otherwise less than zero.
For perfectly separable datasets, the optimal hyperplane classifies all the points correctly, further substituting the optimal values in the weight equation.
arg max is an abbreviation for arguments of the maxima which are basically the points of the domain of a function at which function values are maximized.
(For further working of arg max in machine learning, do read here.)
Further, bringing the independent term of weight outside gives:
The inner term (minn yn |wT Φ(x) + b | ) basically represents the minimum distance of a point to the decision boundary and the closest point to the decision boundary H.
Re-scaling the distance of the closest point as 1 i.e. (minn yn |wT Φ(x) + b |) = 1. Here, the vectors remain in the same direction and the hyperplane equation will not change. It is like changing the scale of a picture; the objects expand or shrink, but the directions remain the same, and the image remains unaltered.
Re-scaling of distance is done by substituting,
The equation now becomes (describing that every point is at least 1/||w||2 distance apart from hyperplane) as
This maximization problem is equivalent to the following minimization problem which is multiplied by a constant as they don’t affect the results.
3.1.2 Primal Form of SVM (Perfect Separation) :
The above optimization problem is the Primal formulation since the problem statement has original variables.
3.2 CASE 2 : (Non – Perfect Separation)
But we all know, there is no situation where everything is perfect and something always goes the other way around.
In our example of gender classification, we cannot expect the model to give such a hyperplane equation which will perfectly separate both the genders, there would always be one or more than one point which won’t end up in their category while an optimal hyperplane equation is being fit, known as miss classification. (As described in the image below)
So we can’t expect an ideal/perfect case. Here we become smarter than the model and allow the model to make a few mistakes while classifying the points and therefore,
And hence add a slack variable as a penalty for every miss-classification for each data point represented by β (beta). So, no penalty means the data point is correctly classified, β = 0, and at any miss classification β > 1, as a penalty.
3.2.1 Primal Form of SVM(Non -Perfect Separation):
Here: for β and C
Slack for every variable should be as low as possible and further regularized by hyperparameter C
If C = 0, means less complex boundary as classifier would be not penalized by slack, as a result, the optimum hyperplane can use it anywhere and accept all large misclassifications. And as a result, the decision boundary would be linear and under fitted.
If C = infinitely high, then even small slacks would be highly penalized and the classifier can't afford to misclassify points and therefore overfitting. So parameter C is important.
The above equation is an example of Convex Quadratic Optimization since the objective function is quadratic in W and constraints are linear in W and β.
Solution for Primal form: (Non – perfect separation):
Since we have Φ, which has a complex notation. we would be rewriting the equation.
Concept is basically to get rid of Φ and hence rewrite Primal formulation in Dual Formulation known as the dual form of a problem and to solve the obtained constraint optimization problem with the help of Lagrange Multiplier method.
In other words :
Dual Form: rewrites the same problem using a different set of variables. So the alternate formulation will help in eliminating the dependence on Φ and reducing the effect will be done with Kernelization.
Lagrange Multiplier Method: It is a strategy to find the local minima or maxima of a function subject to the condition that one or more equations have to be satisfied exactly by the chosen values of variables.
Further, the formal definition of Dual Problem can be defined as :
The Lagrangian dual problem is obtained by first forming a Lagrangian of the already obtained minimization problem with the help of a Lagrange Multiplier so that new constraints could be added to the objective function and then would be solved for the primal variable values that minimize the original objective function
This new solution makes the primal variables as functions of the Lagrange multipliers, and are called dual variables so that the new problem is to maximize the objective function for the dual variables with the new derived constraints.
This blog has explained the working of Lagrangian Multipliers in a very good way.
Taking an example of the application of Lagrange multiplier for a better understanding of how to convert a primal formulation using Lagrange multipliers to solve for optimization.
Below x is the original primal variable and to minimize the function f under a set of constraints given by g, and rewriting for a new set of variables called Lagrangian multipliers.
Solving the primal variables by differentiating the unconstrained Lagrange.
And lastly substituting back in the Lagrange equation and rewriting the constraints
Getting back at our Primal form:
Step 1: Obtain Primal and Determine Lagrangian form from primal
Step 2: Obtaining solution by expressing primal in form of duals
Step 3: Substitute obtained values in the Lagrangian form
The final dual form from the above simplification is :
The above dual form still have Φ terms, and here this can be easily solved with the help of Kernelization
The kernel by definition avoids the explicit mapping that is needed to get linear learning algorithms to learn a nonlinear function or decision boundary For all x and x’ in the input space Φ certain functions k(x,x’) can be expressed as an inner product in another space Ψ. The function
is referred to as a Kernel. In short, for machine learning kernel is defined as written in the form of a “feature map”
For a better understanding of kernels, one can refer to this link of quora
The kernel has two properties:
It is symmetric in nature k(xn , xm) = k(xm , xn)
It is Positive semi-definite
To have an intuition of the working of kernels, this link of quora might be useful.
By the definition of the kernel, we can substitute these values
So substituting properties of the kernel and by definition of the kernel in our dual form,
We get The New Equation as :
AND this solution is free from Φ and so much easier to compute. And this was the mathematics involved behind the SVM model.
4. Pointing out all the steps mentioned above.
Finally, we are at the end of the article, and to sum up, all the gibber gabber written above
- Whenever we are given any test feature vector x to predict, mapped to a complex Φ(x) and asked to predict which is basically wTΦ(x)
- Then rewrite it using the duals so that the prediction is completely independent of complex feature basis Φ
- And is further predicted using kernels
- Hence, concludes that we don’t need a complex basis to model non-separable data well, and the kernel does the job.
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However unfathomable it may sound, there were almost as many Croatian puppet films made in the last year as there had been in the past century.
Although there were more films made in 2018, last year was, without doubt, a very successful one for Croatian animation. About ten exciting and excellent productions were made, getting great reactions on national and world festivals alike, delighting audiences and even, more specifically, many juries around the world. It was a year of great variety, in terms of the aesthetics and experimentations as well as directorial approaches, with added refinement to all animation techniques.
Particularly popular were puppets in stop-motion, with three successful titles made, similar in topic, yet quite different in their genesis: Imbued Life (Udahnut život, 12’, Bonobostudio) by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson, Misplaced Memories (Zagubljena sjećanja, 6’, ADU/Zagreb film) by Ivana Radić, and The Unusual Bath of Mister Otmar (Neobična kupka gospodina Otmara, 15’, Croatian Association of Digital Artists – HUDU/ Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, Croatian Association for Psychosocial Help) by Niko Radas.
Furthermore, as yet another evidence of the value of the stop-motion puppet film form, Croatian Film Association published a book titled The Cinema Puppet with support from Croatian Film Directors’ Guild. It was written by author and film theorist Midhat Ajanović, and it traces the history of world puppet animation in all segments of its development.
Starting from the earliest beginnings, dating back to the 17th and 18th century mechanical puppets, Ajanović’s research is all-encompassing, from the stop-motion films made by the British filmmaker and the pioneer of animation, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, all the way to contemporary filmmakers such as Henry Selick and Nick Park. Ajanović discusses important segments in the manufacturing process of dolls, and their acting, also touching upon animated films in general. He does not neglect to mention Croatian authors as well, particularly the puppet animation scene which appeared and blossomed in the past ten years, before becoming one of the most prominent fields in Croatian animation.
Amid the few names mentioned in the book, of people who have left their mark on the film puppetry scene, are—much deservedly—Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson, a directing-animation couple behind some of the most successful puppet films in Croatian cinema to date. There was Simulacra (Bonobostudio) in 2014, a film where labyrinthine mirror hallways are traversed in search of a story, delivered from the point of view of a young man looking for his beginning and his end of ends. The filmmaking duo returned with Imbued Life in 2019. Keeping to the same aesthetics, and with the same opulent sensibility for scenographic details, they elevated their already fine animation and embarked on a forest journey and a story about a young woman’s connection to the nature’s life energy. The return of taxidermal animals into their natural habitat, coupled with surreal moments reflecting the internal state of the protagonist, mesh together in a brooding film which has been acknowledged by many festival selection committees as well as festival juries around the world.
The forestial environment is also the setting in Ivana Radić’s surreal and horror-imbued Misplaced Memories, which was produced as a graduate student film. The filmmaker places her protagonist in a cabin in the woods, far from the real world, to make him face his violent, wild nature, and to show that even rabbits can be brutal and not-at-all the plant-eating creatures we know them to be. The protagonist is well-designed and it is impressive how well it executed the acting specific to roles riddled with mental health issues. Even if a bit confusing and, at its essence, not entirely clear in its intent, Misplaced Memories truly is a memorable puppet animation that keep the suspense going until the very end.
Another remarkable, noteworthy film of puppets, with a very unique origin, is The Unusual Bath of Mister Otmar by filmmaker and art therapist Niko Radas. It is a story about Mister Otmar who is taken to court because he simply does not conform to the imposed social norms, after which he is sent to a psychiatric institution where he should ‘collect his marbles’ and come to a socially acceptable lifestyle. Somewhere in between the protagonist’s defiance to the greying surroundings and his conflict with a society that does not tolerate colours, there is a subtle love story to be told. It motivates and inspires a sense of hope in the individual, with ever clearer possibility to be everything he wants to be, plans to be, and can be, without being fettered and dismissed by other people’s hardened beliefs. The film was made with the patients at the Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče as part of an art therapy workshop, and it was inspired by Otmar P, a fascinating patient at the Hospital, and his texts about the society of that time which were published in the hospital, patient-run magazine Vrapčanska Koreja in the 1950’s.
And as for the previous century, it is worth noting that a total of four puppet films were made; there at the end of the 1950’s and the beginning of the 1960’s, and one in mid-90’s, and that was more or less all there was, where films done in such technique are concerned, until the start of the 21st century. In other words, there were almost as many puppet films made last year as in the previous century as a whole. It may seem unbelievable, but our renowned Zagreb School of Animated Films has always been focused on hand-drawn animation. The reason for this is not necessarily because the filmmakers did not want to try out the technique or because the traditionally hand-drawn films of reduced animation became a staple of Croatian animation. It was rather technological in nature. Still, even today, when the equipment necessary for making such a film is made readily available, filmmakers need more experience and they need to connect more before they can use it well. If anything, these past ten years are a proof of that. | <urn:uuid:2b89f62a-882d-4c5b-ae9a-dc77bfbb717f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zonafilma.com/en/the-rise-of-the-croatian-animated-puppet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.973136 | 1,333 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Looking at books together will help expand your child’s focus and attention. Remember that young children learn through repetition. Therefore, you may find yourself reading the same books over and over. Infants can safely feel and explore cloth books. B.. | <urn:uuid:967eab00-e3f6-492b-ada3-e516091f1054> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abilitypath.org/category/areas-of-development/learning-schools/problem-solving-skills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958965 | 465 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Written by: Robert Alexander
Released: January 19, 2006 by Viking Adult
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Kitchen Boy with the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller and a book club favourite, Robert Alexander returns to revolutionary Russia for the harrowing tale of Rasputin's final days as told by his youthful and bold daughter, Maria. Interrogated by the Provisional Government on the details of her father's death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where Rasputin's powerful influence over the throne is unsettling to all levels of society, and the threats to his life are no secret.
I first read this book while in my first year of university and in need of something to read before I went to sleep that wasn’t a text book. The only reason that I picked up this book was that it caught my attention in the store and I love reading about the Romanov family and what happened before and after the war broke out. There’s just so much mystery surrounding their deaths that it’s always so interesting to read about what could have happened.
This book definitely didn’t disappoint. It was so refreshing and different to read about the events from the perspective of the daughter of the ever-villainized Rasputin. To see the emotions that the main character Maria shows towards her family, but most of all her father, you see conflicting inner turmoil which happens while a young girl is coming into adulthood.
It’s been several years since I’ve read this book and all that I can really remember is that I loved it. I think that since I’m incredibly fuzzy on the details I need to reread this book soon to truly remember why I loved it so much the first time around. I’m giving this book a 9/10. | <urn:uuid:24807518-4552-4867-b9ff-bfe27c3d0dd7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://theladycriticslibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/devils-daughter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972387 | 379 | 1.578125 | 2 |
South Dakota Living Wills Laws
A living will is technically not a will, but a legally binding document in which a person declares how he or she would like to be treated in case of a medical emergency. The term refers to a set of written instructions that explain your wishes regarding end-of-life decisions in the event that you are unable to communicate with your doctor. For instance, you may state in your living will that you do not want to be kept alive through artificial respirators.
Living Wills in South Dakota
Under South Dakota Law, any spoken or written decision or instruction about the health care you want in the future is called an "Advance Directive." You can tell your family your wishes, but it is best to put it in writing.
Who Can Make An Advance Directive?
Anyone living in South Dakota who is 18 years of age or older can complete an advance directive. If you are younger than 18 you may also be able to complete an Advance Directive under certain circumstances.
Is a Living Will the Same As a Durable Power of Attorney?
It is different from a durable power of attorney for health care because it does not cover anything besides your wishes for life sustaining treatment.
See FindLaw's Living Wills section for more information.
|Code Section||34-12D-1, et seq. Living Wills|
|Legal Requirements for Valid Living Will||Any medical procedure or intervention that will serve only to postpone death or maintain person in state of permanent unconsciousness. Does not include comfort care, hygiene and human dignity, oral administration of food and water, or medical procedure to alleviate pain|
|Specific Powers, Life-Prolonging Acts||
|Revocation of Living Will||Revocable at any time in any manner without regard to declarant's physical or mental condition. Effective upon communication to physician or other health care provider|
|Validity from State-to-State||Document is valid if it meets execution requirements of place where executed, place where declarant was a resident, or requirements of the state of South Dakota|
|If Physician Unwilling to Follow Durable Power of Attorney||Unwilling physician must make a reasonable effort to locate and transfer a patient to a physician who will honor the declaration; must continue treatment or care until transfer is effectuated|
|Immunity for Attending Physician||No civil, criminal, or professional liability for giving effect to a declaration|
Note: State laws are constantly changing -- contact a South Dakota estate planning attorney or conduct your own legal research to verify the state law(s) you are researching.
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Last week I wrote an article for O'Reilly News documenting alleged anti-Israel political bias and the posting of false information at Google Earth. Similar charges had been previously made about Google News. The main point of the article was to question the integrity of the data provided by Google and questioning if, in effect, Google was losing the trust of its wider user community by making decisions which suited a specific political agenda.
While the article appeared on Friday, August 29th it was actually sent to Google for comment more than 24 hours earlier. While I received no directly reply an article in the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, August 31st reported changes at Google Earth:
"A new super-layer of geographic information in the popular Google Earth program now requires corroboration before user-generated content can be added to the default map display. The move means that anti-Israel markings placed by a Jenin resident are no longer visible to users when they first open the program.It appears that Google has made changes which do address the concerns of the company's critics on this issue.
Key to the new layer are special algorithms that corroborate information received through one source with the other sources. According to a company statement, this will make 'it easier for users to learn about a given place through photos, videos, and annotations contributed by users around the world.'
But it will also allow Google Earth to automatically corroborate any information received from users before displaying it on the default layer. Only information appearing in more than a single source will be displayed in this layer." | <urn:uuid:a35917c0-bd39-46ee-bafd-6abab2619de9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.oreilly.com/2008/09/change-to-google-earth-require.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950574 | 310 | 2.203125 | 2 |
FED Used to View Internet, TV at Same Time
Have you can ever wished you could see other viewers' reactions and comebacks while watching TV or casually read the latest news and incoming emails in any place?
"Anodos Inc," a venture company engaged in planning, designing, prototyping and consultation concerning information devices, is developing devices that realize these new ways of enjoying TV and the Internet at the same time.
The company is headed by Hideki Mori, who served as evangelist at Microsoft Corp and vice president at Dwango Co Ltd (a Japanese company developing and marketing ringtones and middleware for game consoles).
Internet-dedicated display terminal placed near a TV
Anodos considered an "Internet-dedicated display terminal," which can be placed and viewed alongside of TVs, is necessary to realize those new ways of enjoying TVs and the Internet. Viewers have to move their line of sight much to view both TV screen at a distance of several meters and PC monitor screen as close as 50cm.
"Your eyes and neck would be exhausted and you can't relax and amuse yourself in that way," Mori said. He insisted that if a network display terminal is placed beside a TV, "You can easily watch both TV programs and real time content on the Internet at the same time, without moving your line of sight much."
To give shape to this idea, Anodos has developed the "Anobar," a bar-shaped net-dedicated display terminal measuring 354 (w) x 85.5 (h) x 97mm (d) and weighing about 2kg (live broadcasting of the Anobar).
Users can view text content running from right to left on the 640 x 96 resolution display screen from a distance of 1 to 5m. Anodos assumes that viewers can enjoy reading headlines and summaries of news and blog sites or messages posted on the "Live Thread" of 2channel (a Japanese Internet forum) that are displayed on the Anobar, while watching TVs.
The company employed an FED (field emission display) for the display part. It focused on employing a light-emitting display that can show horizontally running text bars more brightly and clearly without blurring them, compared with LCD panels, Anodos said. The prototype uses a color FED manufactured by Futaba Corp.
To enable viewers to enjoy both TV and Internet content without changing their line of sight, another approach would be to display Internet content on the TV screen. Such technologies include the "acTVila" network service, which delivers content to digital TVs connected with broadband lines, and Sony Corp's "Applicast" Internet content browsing technology found on its digital TVs.
Commenting on these technologies, Mori said, "It's difficult for them to smoothly run text horizontally on the screen due to poor performance of microprocessors used for digital TVs."
Anodos plans to deliver the "Anobar" net-dedicated display terminal to content developers for monitoring from October 2008. To commercialize the technology, "We must lower its price to less than ¥30,000 (≠ US$285)," Mori said.
It cost slightly less than ¥200,000 to manufacture the prototype. As the development was aimed at "giving form to the idea of a net-dedicated display terminal and proposing it to the world, the company hasn't given much thought to the cost," Mori added.
Mori feels that "It's quite possible that we can realize pricing less than ¥30,000 by being selective about what functions to include, as well as cutting component costs." | <urn:uuid:14ccc738-3ba7-4bf2-946e-d7c950d3994a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080717/154971/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00109-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942929 | 733 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Due to inflation, a majority (84 per cent) of U.S. employees believe their money doesn’t go as far as it used to, leaving many to wonder how to prioritize saving for retirement, according to a survey by Voya Financial Inc.
The survey, which polled 1,000 adults aged 18 and up, found three-quarters of millennials (73 per cent) and gen-Xers (74 per cent), as well as more than half of baby boomers (55 per cent) and gen-Zers (62 per cent) agreed or strongly agreed they’re worried about the impact of inflation on their ability to save enough for retirement.
“The results of our latest consumer survey are an important reminder for employers that all generations, particularly those balancing the impact of competing financial priorities today, are feeling the impact inflation has on their ability to save for the future,” said Heather Lavallee, chief executive officer of wealth solutions at Voya, in a press release.
“The past two years have also made it increasingly clear that many Americans will be faced with these competing priorities more than ever before. This could include challenges to building emergency savings, how to manage higher health-care costs or general concerns about what actions to take and not to take when it comes to overall plans for one’s financial future. As a result, it’s important to remind individuals where many can seek support for addressing these challenges — their employer.”
About two-fifths (43 per cent) of survey respondents said they’ve had to tap into finances they previously had set aside for retirement — and the number was even higher among millennials (57 per cent.) Notably, 57 per cent of millennials, who now make up roughly a third of the U.S. labour force, agreed or strongly agreed that because of inflation, they’ll need to delay their planned retirement date.
More than two-thirds (68 per cent) agreed or strongly agreed that, because of inflation, they’re not able to pay down debt as quickly as they want to — and even more (77 per cent) agreed or strongly agreed inflation has made them more aware of the need to save more for emergencies or unexpected events. | <urn:uuid:c59f429e-7cb4-42cc-8ebf-97f29805186a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.benefitscanada.com/pensions/retirement/84-of-u-s-workers-questioning-ability-to-prioritize-retirement-savings-amid-rising-inflation-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.974967 | 462 | 2.046875 | 2 |
hit the nail on the head
Meaning: If you hit the nail on the head, you describe the exact nature of something such as a problem, a solution, or a situation.
- Bernie hit the nail on the head when he said the team's problem is that the players don't have confidence in one another.
- You really hit the nail on the head when you said that Gina needs to stop worrying about making mistakes when she speaks English.
We all thought Karin had hit the nail on the head when she
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Background Although a preventable and treatable disease, tuberculosis causes more than a million deaths each year. As countries work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030, robust assessments of the levels and trends of the burden of tuberculosis are crucial to inform policy and programme decision making. We assessed the levels and trends in the fatal and non-fatal burden of tuberculosis by drug resistance and HIV status for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016. Methods We analysed 15 943 site-years of vital registration data, 1710 site-years of verbal autopsy data, 764 site-years of sample-based vital registration data, and 361 site-years of mortality surveillance data to estimate mortality due to tuberculosis using the Cause of Death Ensemble model. We analysed all available data sources, including annual case notifications, prevalence surveys, population-based tuberculin surveys, and estimated tuberculosis cause-specific mortality to generate internally consistent estimates of incidence, prevalence, and mortality using DisMod-MR 2.1, a Bayesian meta-regression tool. We assessed how the burden of tuberculosis differed from the burden predicted by the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator of income per capita, average years of schooling, and total fertility rate. Findings Globally in 2016, among HIV-negative individuals, the number of incident cases of tuberculosis was 9·02 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 8·05-10·16) and the number of tuberculosis deaths was 1·21 million (1·16-1·27). Among HIV-positive individuals, the number of incident cases was 1·40 million (1·01-1·89) and the number of tuberculosis deaths was 0·24 million (0·16-0·31). Globally, among HIV-negative individuals the agestandardised incidence of tuberculosis decreased annually at a slower rate (-1·3% [-1·5 to -1·2]) than mortality did (-4·5% [-5·0 to -4·1]) from 2006 to 2016. Among HIV-positive individuals during the same period, the rate of change in annualised age-standardised incidence was -4·0% (-4·5 to -3·7) and mortality was -8·9% (-9·5 to -8·4). Several regions had higher rates of age-standardised incidence and mortality than expected on the basis of their SDI levels in 2016. For drug-susceptible tuberculosis, the highest observed-to-expected ratios were in southern sub-Saharan Africa (13·7 for incidence and 14·9 for mortality), and the lowest ratios were in high-income North America (0·4 for incidence) and Oceania (0·3 for mortality). For multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, eastern Europe had the highest observed-to-expected ratios (67·3 for incidence and 73·0 for mortality), and high-income North America had the lowest ratios (0·4 for incidence and 0·5 for mortality). Interpretation If current trends in tuberculosis incidence continue, few countries are likely to meet the SDG target to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. Progress needs to be accelerated by improving the quality of and access to tuberculosis diagnosis and care, by developing new tools, scaling up interventions to prevent risk factors for tuberculosis, and integrating control programmes for tuberculosis and HIV. Funding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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ESA studies the Sun-Earth climate link
Meteorologists can no longer view the Earth as an isolated system. Both long-term climate changes and day-to-day weather show links with the Sun`s activity. Scientists therefore study the nature of those links intensely. With data from ESA`s spaceprobes SOHO, Cluster, and Ulysses, we now have the information we need to solve the mystery of how the Sun`s activity affects the climate here on Earth. This study is the first step in setting up a new type of weather forecast – the space-weather bulletin.
For the Sun to affect the Earth`s weather, the Sun`s behaviour must vary in some way. At visible wavelengths, however, the Sun is remarkably constant. Satellite data show that there are dramatic changes going on beyond this narrow range. For example, the Sun emits a `wind` of charged particles and we know that this wind is variable. The ultraviolet radiation released by the Sun also varies. Studying the interaction between solar variability and the Earth environment is a science known as `space weather`.
This solar variability is caused by the ever-changing magnetic behaviour of the Sun. The Sun`s magnetic behaviour changes on an 11-year cycle, passing from `solar minimum` to `solar maximum`. At the peak of this cycle, one of which occurred last year, the solar wind is stormy because explosions on the Sun`s surface catapult particles outwards with an increased intensity. The energy released during such explosions can be up to one thousand million megatonnes (or 66 thousand million times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb). Such events are also the source of the variable ultraviolet emissions.
ESA`s solar fleet is observing these phenomena very carefully and from several points in space. The joint ESA/NASA spaceprobe, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), is constantly watching the Sun, monitoring this activity. The solar wind gusts buffet the magnetic field of the Earth. ESA`s quartet of satellites, Cluster, monitors these effects close to Earth while Ulysses patrols the Sun in a tilted orbit, well away from the plane of the planets, to get a more `global` view of the solar wind.
These data, linked with meteorological and other data, are an invaluable source of information to study the Sun`s effects on the Earth. “All the data is being archived and made available to the science community,” says Alexi Glover, one of the space-weather team at ESA`s ESTEC organisation in the Netherlands. SOHO has been designed to work for 3 years. “If SOHO keeps going for another four or five years, we`ll have a whole solar cycle`s worth of consistent data. That would be invaluable.”
Scientists are looking at three main mechanisms that may explain this Sun-Earth link for our weather and climate. Firstly, the Sun`s varying ultraviolet emissions affect the production of ozone in the Earth`s atmosphere, changing our ozone layer, and affecting the large-scale circulation of air. Secondly, the solar wind`s gusts affect the electrical properties of the Earth`s upper atmosphere which somehow affects the lower layers of the atmosphere. Thirdly, during the solar minimum, the solar wind is weaker which enables galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) to enter the Earth`s atmosphere more easily. GCRs are particles that are heavier and more energetic than those carried by the solar wind and are accelerated much farther away in space. Scientists believe that the movement of GCRs, which is influenced by the solar wind, generates conditions that promote the formation of low-altitude clouds. The significance of each of these mechanisms is as yet unknown, and scientists also do not know if the mechanisms are interrelated. Every avenue is being explored.
ESA is currently looking at developing a network of space-weather services, which will issue space- weather information. Such information could complement the more conventional weather forecasting. It would include space-weather forecasting, a database of space-weather events, and the development of computer modelling of the physical processes involved.
“We have just issued an announcement of opportunity inviting the community to propose contributions to such a space-weather service.” says Glover. Someday perhaps ESA will be able to help scientists, industry, and commerce understand and exploit the Sun`s effect on our everyday lives.
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Earth Sciences (also referred to as Geosciences), which deals with basic issues surrounding our planet, plays a vital role in the area of energy and raw materials supply.
Earth Sciences comprises subjects such as geology, geography, geological informatics, paleontology, mineralogy, petrography, crystallography, geophysics, geodesy, glaciology, cartography, photogrammetry, meteorology and seismology, early-warning systems, earthquake research and polar research.
Scientists identify novel molecular biomarkers in cells
Studying a deadly type of breast cancer called triple negative, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have identified key molecular differences between cancer cells that cling to an initial tumor… | <urn:uuid:fab6b6c4-8455-4bf0-891d-030958710ec2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.innovations-report.com/earth-sciences/report-12299/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.921164 | 1,073 | 3.71875 | 4 |
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