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Meiosis is the second important kind of nuclear division. It resembles mitosis in many ways but the consequences of meiotic divisions are very different from those of mitotic divisions. While mitotic division may occur in almost any living cell of an organism, meiosis occurs only in special cells. In animals, meiosis is restricted to cells that form gametes (eggs and sperm). Each species has a characteristic number of chromosomes per somatic cell. Fruit flies have 8; normal humans have 46. They exist as homologous pairs (partners) that are similar in size and shape and carry the same kinds of genes. Thus humans have 23 homologous pairs. The full complement of 46 chromosomes is referred to as the diploid number (referring to the fact that each kind of chromosome is represented twice). In higher organisms when an egg is fertilized the egg and sperm fuse to form a single cell called a zygote which develops into a new organism. If the egg and sperm were both diploid (46 chromosomes each in the case of humans) then the resulting zygote would be tetraploid. This would be an intolerable situation, so a mechanism has evolved to insure that each gamete (egg or sperm) contains only one representative of each homologous pair (or half the diploid number). This is referred to as the haploid number. The mechanism that makes this possible is meiosis. Meiosis consists of two divisions, Meiosis I and Meiosis II, and can potentially result in the production of four cells. However the DNA is only synthesized once (prior to Meiosis I). The subdivisions of meiosis are named like the subdivisions of mitosis (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) but as we shall see the events are somewhat different. To understand the physical processes involved in meiosis, we will use pipe cleaners as models of chromosomes. The first step will be to determine the types of chromosomes that exist and the genotype and phenotype of the cell. We will then manipulate the chromosomes to stimulate Meiosis I (Prophase I, Metaphase I, Anaphase I, Telophase I and Cytokinesis). At the end of Meiosis I we will determine the genotypes carried by each daughter cell produced. Then we will stimulate Meiosis II (Prophase II, Metaphase II, Anaphase II Telophase II and Cytokinesis). At the end of Meiosis II we will stimulate fertilization by trading gametes with other lab groups and fusing two gamete nuclei to form diploid offspring. After fertilization, we will determine the genotype and phenotype of our new offspring. Each lab group will receive a “nucleus” (plastic bag) with 8 duplicated chromosomes (pipe cleaners). Each chromosome consists of two identical chromatids. Except for the two sex chromosomes, each chromosome is marked to show the location of certain genes. Since we are stimulating a diploid organism, each nucleus has two homologous chromosomes of each type. There are four types, long (A), medium (B), short (C) and sex. We will then use the chart below to interpret our chromosomes.
The Chromosomal Traits are as follows:
Long ChromosomeIA (red)IB (orange)i (Green)
Blood Type:Type A*Type B*Type O
Medium ChromosomeB (brown)b (yellow)
Short Chromosomec (pink)C (white)
Sex ChromosomeX Chromosome (black)Y Chromosome (blue)
Black/Black = Female
Blue/Black = Male
NOTE: * Indicates the dominate allele
Determine Your Phenotype
We will then determine our chromosomes and list the characteristics of our individual. We will conclude the genotype and phenotype of as follows: blood type, insulin, eye color, Hair color, Hair style, Hemoglobin, and Sex. Hypothesis:
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The NHL and its players often haven’t seen eye to eye on myriad issues, especially how the game is played and its economics, but it looks like they finally, and thankfully, share the same vision on . . . vision.
The sides agreed last week to make eye-protecting shields mandatory, pending approval by the Board of Governors. The American Hockey League, Canadian junior leagues, and US college hockey made it mandatory years ago, and with a rubber stamp here in the weeks ahead, the Lords of the Boards once and for all are expected to have logic playing on their side, too.
The NHL made helmets mandatory 34 years ago, hand in hand with the World Hockey Association’s folding/merger. Similar to the helmet rule, the change to eye protection, if approved, will be grandfathered. All first-time NHLers will be forced to wear visors, while any player with 26 or more games of NHL experience will be allowed the luxury (stretch in terms) to make his own decision.
Ex-Bruins forward Craig MacTavish, recently named the Oilers’ general manager, was the last NHLer to suit up without a helmet as a member of the Blues in the spring of ’97.
Why did it take an additional 30-something years for visors to be mandated? There is no reasonable, prudent, logical answer to that one. No NHLer for decades has suited up without a protective cup. It took until ’79 for players to adopt mandatory helmet use. The vision thing fell behind testicles and brains on the game’s safety punch list. Interpret that as you will.
Like a lot of NHL things, particularly on the business side, the slow acceptance of eye protection traces back to Original Six practices, how the game has always been played. But with so little of the game today resembling what once was, and with gruesome eye injuries such as the one sustained by the Rangers’ Marc Staal this season as what might be remembered as a signature moment, the change was inevitable, painfully overdue. Commissioner Gary Bettman has long been an advocate of visors. Ditto for Paul Kelly, the former executive director of the Players Association.
Overall, Bettman, the Lords, and a conga line of PA directors for the most part quietly acquiesced on the issue, leaving it to the players to decide for themselves.
Truth is, much of the working help didn’t care, even while an increasing percentage of them entered the league the last 10-20 years with visors in place from their playing days elsewhere.
Some of those new arrivals, though few in recent years, couldn’t wait to shed the visors, treating them as if they were restrictive training wheels.
Essentially, time won out on this one, with 100 percent of league newbies already weaned on visor wear, and some three-quarters of NHLers already equipped with visors this season.
The move to approve last week was monumental, but by and large incremental. Common sense simply prevailed.
Hard to believe now, but in the ’70s, prior to helmets being adopted, there was a stigma attached to head protection in the NHL. Many old-timers initially viewed helmet wearers as cowardly.
The fact that most newly arriving European players wore them only fueled the disdain for helmets among some NHL vets, as well as many print and broadcast commentators. The Europeans were generically referred to as “Chicken Swedes’’ for playing the game with a helmet, and similar pejoratives greeted those who later came along with visors.
Again, thankfully, it’s a league that has matured immensely vis a vis player health and safety, and last week’s decision should prove a lasting growth ring.
Bruins coach Claude Julien, who nearly lost an eye to injury during his AHL playing days, sounded relieved last week when he noted emphatically “there is no stigma’’ attached to visors in today’s game, adding that he encourages his players to wear them.
“I’m one of those guys that really believes that when a younger player comes up . . . why take it off?” said Julien. “I know there’s been some accidents with the visor, but there’s been more things, incidents saved by the visor, than there has been from the other side of it — like a seatbelt in a car. How many lives does it save?
“I think it’s a good thing that they’re encouraging the visor and that it’s going to be grandfathered in. I believe in it and I’m on that side.’’
New rules may be on the way
Eye protection wasn’t the only change player and league reps agreed to adopt last week when they met in Toronto. Again, pending approval by the Board of Governors, some of what we could see in the 2013-14 season, which, by the way, kicks off in a little less than four months:
■ A slimmed-down net. The opening will remain the standard 24 square feet, but the base will be trimmed, tucking in the bow shape at the side of the net, and pulling the rear of the net’s base closer to the goal line. In theory, attacking players should find more room to wheel behind the net for playmaking and stuff attempts. In short, Gretzky’s office gets bigger.
■ Hybrid icing, long a talking point, will be tested in the AHL and could be adopted quickly in the NHL. Rather than players dashing in a footrace all the way to the goal line for “touchups,’’ linesmen will judge which player is first to cross an imaginary line traced horizontally across and through the right and left faceoff circles. Dangerous rearwall collisions should be a thing of the past. It’s a compromise between big wipeouts and automatic “no-touch’’ icing.
■ Slimmed-down goalie equipment (pause now while your eyes roll). No specifics on this one, but both sides want a subcommittee to scrutinize goalie gear, as well as the gear worn by the skaters. Look, we all know goalies especially should be asked to shed inches and pounds. But like visors, it won’t happen until players get serious about it. Without question, overequipped goalies, in tandem with their elite skill, are stripping the game of offense. It should not be so difficult to score goals. League vice president Colin Campbell: “We hope to really supply some teeth to the goaltending situation now.’’
Bench boss not in range
No smoke, blue or otherwise, from the Madison Square Garden chimney to signify who’ll replace John Tortorella as Rangers coach. Both Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, the latter of whom is general manager Glen Sather’s heir apparent, have evinced interest. Alain Vigneault, fired inVancouver shortly after the Canucks were again eliminated in the first round, is believed to have his hat in the ring. If Messier shifts gears to coach, that could mean greater responsibility for assistant GM Jeff Gorton, who held the GM job on Causeway Street in the days after Mike O’Connell was fired and Peter Chiarelli hired. Hard to read how the coaching gig comes together. Gretzky and Messier have the star power that plays well with the Broadway Blueshirts. And if Messier really wants the job, how does he respond if Sather and Gorton opt for someone else? Could be Mess-y.
The Stars, with a new owner (Tom Gaglardi) in place and five years of postseason DNQs in the books, last week rebranded the franchise look with a new uniform. The color scheme ties together victory green, white, and a prominent silver star logo. Victory green? Not something you should ask a color-blind puck chronicler to describe. A much bigger issue in Big D is how new GM Jim Nill recasts a popgun offense and overall roster depth that went 22-22-4 this season and missed a No. 8 seed by seven points. To start, Nill must name a coach to replace the fired Glen Gulutzan. Nill said during the rebranding news conference that he is “very close’’ to naming the new bench boss, with the names Vigneault and Lindy Ruff, ex-Sabres, prominently in the chatterline there, too.
Forty-eight hours after the Cup is awarded, NHL clubs are allowed to go into “buyout’’ mode, sending players packing (generally with a one-third salary reduction) up until the start of free agency — this year bumped from July 1 to 5. The Bruins, though fairly tight to the salary cap (reduced to $64.3 million) are not expected to cashier anyone. The biggest names being bandied about for possible sendoffs: Brad Richards (Rangers), Vincent Lecavalier (Lightning), and Ilya Bryzgalov (Flyers). All three are on huge money deals. From the buyout’s “fait accompli’’ file: old friend Tomas Kaberle, who has one year left ($4.5 million) with the Canadiens in the contract they inherited from the Hurricanes. Kaberle will be paid $3 million, split evenly over two years, not to wear the CH. Another ex-Bruin defenseman, Steve Montador, has $4.1 million and two years left on his deal with the Blackhawks. His retirement package will be roughly $700,000 for each of the next four years.
Bill Zito, agent for Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, attended ex-Yale coach Tim Taylor’s memorial service at Harvard June 1. Former Boston University coach Jack Parker gave the eulogy, which Zito described as “poignant, respectful, funny, and gracious . . . just beautiful . . . he did a very nice thing for his friend.’’ Zito, a 1987 Yale grad, played for three seasons at Yale and later became an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin while in Madison for law school. “Tim was a second dad to me, really, a great guy. I am still heartbroken,’’ said Zito. “Such a kind, gentle, thoughtful man. He helped me get the job at Wisconsin, and then, when I got into this [agent] business, he helped me make all the first connections that are so important.’’ Many of Taylor’s pals were at the draft combine last weekend and unable to attend the service, noted Zito, and a more casual ceremony will be held this summer, be it at a local hotel or golf club.
Gregory Campbell’s last stand, his gritty performance in the seconds after Evgeni Malkin’s shot broke his leg in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals at the Garden Wednesday night, rekindled memories of hard-hitting Maple Leafs blue liner Bobby Baun. Nearly 50 years ago (April 24, 1964) Baun broke a leg in Game 6 of the Cup Final against the Red Wings. With teeth gritted, he returned in overtime and banged in the game-winner to tie the series, 3-3. The Leafs won the series in Game 7, for what was their third Cup in as many seasons. They won again in ’67 and have yet to win since.
Zito, also the agent for Tim Thomas, said he knows of no plans the 39-year-old ex-Bruin might have for returning to play in Europe next season. Rumors last weekend had Thomas, currently property of the Islanders, contemplating another tour overseas. The two-time Vezina winner played in Finland and Sweden for years before he finally cracked the Black and Gold lineup at age 32 midway through the 2005-06 season . . . The Bruins will bring their top kids to Wilmington again this summer for their annual development camp. Sessions will run July 5-9 at Ristuccia Arena and will be open to the public free of charge . . . And this from the your-best-players-must-be-your-best-players department: Headed into Game 4 of the Los Angeles-Chicago series, key Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane stood a meager 0-2—2 over his last seven games. But he responded with one goal and a beefy seven shots on net Thursday in a 3-2 win that gave Chicago a commanding 3-1 series lead . . . Ex-Bruin Brandon Bochenski is back in Minnesota for the summer, after posting 20-20—40 in 48 games in his third season with Astana Barys (KHL) . . . The last time two Original Six clubs met in the Cup final? Canadiens vs. Rangers in 1979. Bruins assistant coach Doug Jarvis and NBC commentator Brian Engblom were among the Habs who wrapped it up in five games . . . Makes little sense for the Penguins to hold on to Marc-Andre Fleury after figuring he wasn’t up to the task to face the Bruins in Game 3. Only 27 years and with a Cup (’09) on his résumé, he should be fairly easy to move — even with a salary of $5.75 million . . . Fleury’s wage, by the way, is the low end of what Rask is expected to receive in his upcoming free agent (restricted) talks with the Bruins. The guess here is four years for a total payout in the $25 million-$28 million range . . . Ex-Bruins coach Rick Bowness, tossed aside after one year to bring in Brian Sutter, last week was named associate coach in Tampa Bay, where his 24 years of coaching experience should be an immense help to NHL rookie bench boss Jon Cooper. Good guy, “Bones.” He served seven years as an assistant in Vancouver, following a seven-year hitch in Phoenix . . . Looks like point man Mark Streit will not re-sign with the Islanders. Ditto for ex-Bruins forward Brad Boyes. Streit has been the Isles’ captain, which means his ‘C’ now likely will go to his close pal, superstar-to-be John Tavares. During the lockout, Tavares went to Bern, Switzerland, to play on the same team as the Swiss-born Streit . . . Late-blooming Bryan Bickell, lighting it up with the Blackhawks in the postseason, will cash in big as an unrestricted free agent. The 6-foot-4-inch, 235-pound winger is only 27 and could see at least a four-fold increase over his current payout of $600,000 a year.Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report. | <urn:uuid:6dced888-4f3a-4fb7-a321-cda100f8e0af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/06/08/nhl-and-its-players-finally-seeing-things-clearly/O5Y47ULBsh2Ft8EF1X60CL/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962424 | 3,184 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Back in February we mentioned Extension Signing Coming Later in 2015. Recently the Mozilla Add-ons Blog posted a follow up The Case for Extension Signing. There is a lot of interesting information in this article, including this very shocking statistic which puts into prospective just how badly broken the current Mozilla Firefox add-on system is:
The Web experienced by tech-savvy developers, however, is not the Web experienced by most people. While only fourteen add-ons hosted on our addons.mozilla.org site have more than a million users, and only two of those have more than 3 million, many tens of millions of users have non-hosted add-ons that were installed without their informed consent. Users run the risk of picking up unwanted extra add-ons and other software every time they download software over the Internet. Even updates of software that many users find indispensable or software from download sites run by trusted news organizations come bundled with these unwanted extras. Their Internet experience is being shaped by these third party add-ons in ways they did not choose and that benefit third parties and not the user. Most of these unwanted add-ons are advertising related in some way, tracking user actions and altering content. These add-ons are not created with user security in mind and can break fundamental browser security. These violate another of Mozilla’s basic principles: Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.
Many of the complaints I see at Go Firefox! are about these unwanted advertising/tracking add-ons (extensions/toolbars). The users can’t understand how these add-ons get installed. In almost every case it was something else they were installing which secretly added the add-on. Most of these software developers bury the option (usually under Custom Install) to install or not install the add-on. Then they try to protect themselves by disclosing (usually buried) in their End User License Agreement (EULA) or their Terms of Service about this optional (in that you need to choose NOT to install it) extension. Worse yet though are the updates for Anti-Virus programs, content plugins such as Flash and Java almost always are trying to sneak some type of add-on into Firefox. In the case of Adobe Flash, the option to opt-out is in plain site, but many users just keep clicking ‘next’ and not paying attention to the prompts.
This is not the first time Mozilla has tried to get a handle on the installation of unwanted add-ons. Almost three and half years ago in November 2011 with Firefox 8, Mozilla had introduced a couple add-on control features. One of these features was to ensure that an add-on installed outside of Firefox, would only be enabled if the user choose to do so. The user would get a pop-up message the next time they started Firefox following the installation of the add-on asking if they wished to authorize this add-on. It looks like that mechanism is still there, but I guessing like so many other safe-guard systems Mozilla as added over the years, it has been circumvented by these malicious developers.
Many developers have asked why we can’t make this a runtime option or preference. There is nowhere we could store that choice on the user’s machine that these greyware apps couldn’t change and plausibly claim they were acting on behalf of the user’s “choice” not to opt-out of the light grey checkbox on page 43 of their EULA. This is not a concern about hypotheticals, we have many documented cases of add-ons disabling the mechanisms through which we inform users and give them control over their add-ons.
While the Extension Signing may put a developers who don’t host their add-ons on AMO, I think it is one of the better options. Some extension developers have asked about getting their own (code-signing) certificates.
The other common question is why developers can’t have their own certificates and sign their own add-ons. This would require Mozilla to function as a Certificate Authority which is currently not in our expertise. It also means we would not be able to run security scans on the add-on code. The only thing preventing a malicious add-on in that case would be the strength of our contracts requiring non-malicious code and our ability to bring legal action should those contracts be breached. This approach would favor established companies in jurisdictions where we have offices and would be extremely unfair to individual developers, especially those outside those regions. We feel the community would be better off if we put our resources into the review and scanning process that can treat everyone equally rather than setting up a certificate issuing infrastructure.
Two problems I see with this scenario right off the bat. First a code-signing certificate runs about $200 USD per year per extension. For many of these extension developers it is a side project. They saw something that could be changed with Firefox they felt would be beneficial to the users. Developers are already burdened with the costs of the space as well as the bandwidth for hosting their extension(s). Most developers don’t charge for their extensions, simply they ask for a donation. So to add another $200 per year (again per extension) would make it too costly for these developers to self-host their extensions (though I not sure of their reasoning for not hosting through AMO). Second and more importantly, Mozilla (unlike Microsoft and Google) is a non-profit organization. I could foresee Mozilla taking “legal actions” as a major burden on their finances which could result in them having to cut or even stop funding on other projects. | <urn:uuid:68189876-004e-4bfa-a7d1-28085b51f591> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2015/04/16/more-about-extension-signing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00073-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956124 | 1,170 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Applications of artificial neural-networks for energy systems
Artificial neural networks offer an alternative way to tackle complex and ill-defined problems. They can learn from examples, are fault tolerant in the sense that they are able to handle noisy and incomplete data, are able to deal with non-linear problems, and once trained can perform predictions and generalisations at high speed. They have been used in diverse applications in control, robotics, pattern recognition, forecasting, medicine, power systems, manufacturing, optimisation, signal processing, and social/psychological sciences. They are particularly useful in system modelling, such as in implementing complex mapping and system identification. This paper presents various applications of neural networks in energy problems in a thematic rather than a chronological or any other way. Artificial neural networks have been used by the author in the field of solar energy; for modelling and design of a solar steam generating plant, for the estimation of a parabolic-trough collector's intercept factor and local concentration ratio and for the modelling and performance prediction of solar water-heating systems. They have also been used for the estimation of heating-loads of buildings, for the prediction of air flows in a naturally ventilated test room and for the prediction of the energy consumption of a passive solar building. In all such models, a multiple hidden-layer architecture has been used. Errors reported when using these models are well within acceptable limits, which clearly suggests that artificial neural-networks can be used for modelling in other fields of energy production and use. The work of other researchers in the field of energy is also reported. This includes the use of artificial neural-networks in heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems, solar radiation, modelling and control of power-generation systems, load-forecasting and refrigeration.
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Governor Nixon Disputes Argument That Tax Failed Because Of His Decision
While in St. Louis Saturday to give the commencement address for the Missouri branch of the online school Western Governors University, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon refused to take responsibility for last week’s failure of Amendment 7. The ballot measure would have raised sales taxes by three-quarters of a percent for ten years in order to raise money for bridges, roads and public transportation.
“The people spoke,” said Nixon. “When you have numbers that large (voting against the tax) and you have people speak in that dramatic a fashion that represents a clear reflection of Missouri’s position on that issue right now.”
Sixty percent of around a million voters voted against the amendment.
Both Missouri State University political scientist George Connor and Republican State Senator Mike Kehoe credit the defeat of the tax to its placement on the August ballot. It’s the governor’s role to decide when amendments are placed on the ballot.
According to Connor, Republicans who vote in primaries are the least likely to vote for tax increases.
Prior to the August primary, Nixon spoke against the ballot measure, saying that it wasn’t right to raise the sales tax while there are tax loopholes.
“It just didn’t seem fair to me to say let’s give breaks to power companies, let’s give breaks to fast food restaurants but then let’s put that burden on the backs of working folks,” said Nixon, who added that transportation in Missouri was traditionally funded by user fees.
He also spoke against an exemption for truckers.
“By leaving out trucks, you put a situation in which the folks who were using the roads the most were paying nothing. And I say Missourians saw that as not a good solid step forward,” said Nixon.
Saturday was the first commencement ceremony since Western Governors University opened in Missouri last year. Nixon has been a strong supporter of the online college from the start, touting it as a way to boost the number of Missourians with college degrees.
The school caters to working adults who have some college credit already. About 200 Missourians have received degrees from WGU-Missouri so far, with about 80 gathering at the University of Missouri—St. Louis campus on Saturday for the graduation ceremony.
Four graduates spoke during the commencement, each one telling stories about wanting to go back to school, but needing to work.
St. Louisan Roy Shonda also spoke highly of the faculty mentor program. He said that he was out of work and depressed two years ago, spending his days drinking. The encouragement of his mentor and his brother gave him the strength to get his personal life in order and complete a Master’s degree in Information Security and Assurance.
“These are real live stories to deal with some of the over 700,000 Missourians that have college hours but no degree. This non-traditional learning method is a way that they can compete in the workforce,” said Nixon of the graduates.
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The Child Development Center sits in a quiet and secluded 5.4 acre corner of the De Anza College campus. The grounds are buffered from their surroundings by a natural wood fence and trees.
The outside grounds consist of two separate large open spaces. The toddler area has a gentle hill, garden, and play spaces appropriate for young children. The toddler's space also has an enclosed play yard for the youngest toddlers. Both share a bike yard with a bike path that winds around it.
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Teacher beliefs play a fundamental role in the education landscape. Nevertheless, most educational researchers only allude to teacher beliefs as part of a study on other subjects. This book fills a necessary gap by identifying the importance of research on teacher beliefs and providing a comprehensive overview of the topic. It provides novices and experts alike a single volume with which to understand a complex research landscape. Including a review of the historical foundations of the field, this book identifies current research trends, and summarizes the current knowledge base regarding teachers' specific beliefs about content, instruction, students, and learning. For its innumerable applications within the field, this handbook is a necessity for anyone interested in educational research.
Helenrose Fives, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Teacher Education at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Michele Gregoire Gill, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Central Florida.
Chapter 1. Introduction. Section One. Foundations of Teachers' Beliefs Research. Chapter 2. The Promises, Problems, and Prospects of Research on Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 3. Historical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives of Research on Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 4. The Development of Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 5. The Relationship between Teachers' Beliefs and Teachers' Practices. Section Two. Studying Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 6. Assessing Teachers' Beliefs: Challenges and Solutions. Chapter 7. Measuring Teachers' Beliefs: For What Purpose? Chapter 8. Qualitative Approaches to Studying Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 9. Methods for Studying Beliefs: Teacher Writing, Scenarios, and Metaphor Analysis. Section Three. Teachers' Identity, Motivation, and Affect. Chapter 10. The Intersection of Identity, Beliefs, and Politics in Conceptualizing 'Teacher Identity'. Chapter 11. A Motivational Analysis of Teacher Beliefs. Chapter 12. The Career Development of Preservice and Inservice Teachers: Why Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs Matter. Chapter 13. A "Hot" Mess: Unpacking the Relation between Teachers' Beliefs and Emotions. Section Four. Contexts and Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 14. Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching (and Learning). Chapter 15. Teachers' Instructional Beliefs and the Classroom Climate: Connections and Conundrums. Chapter 16. Teachers' Beliefs about Assessment. Chapter 17. Context Matters: The Influence of Collective Beliefs and Shared Norms. Section 5. Teachers' Beliefs about Knowing and Teaching within Academic Domains. Chapter 18. Personal Epistemologies and Teaching. Chapter 19. The Individual, the Context and Practice: A Review of the Research on Teachers' Beliefs Related to Mathematics. Chapter 20. Beliefs about Reading, Text, and Learning from Text. Chapter 21. Science Teachers' Beliefs: Perceptions of Efficacy and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge and Knowing. Chapter 22. Teachers' Beliefs about Social Studies. Chapter 23. Teacher Beliefs and Uses of Technology to Support 21st Century Teaching and Learning. Section Six. Teachers' Beliefs about Learners. Chapter 24. Preschool Teachers' Ideas about How Children Learn Best: An Examination of Beliefs about the Principles of Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Chapter 25. Teachers' Beliefs about Cultural Diversity: Problems and Possibilities. Chapter 26. Teachers' Beliefs about English Language Learners. Chapter 27. Teachers' Beliefs about Students with Special Needs and Inclusion.
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Prairies East Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Inc.
Located in Arborg (MB) with sites in Beausejour, PESAI conducts applied research and technology transfer in annual forages, grains, oilseeds and water management (tile drainage and excess moisture). Specialty areas of applied research include forage adaptation testing, new cropping opportunities, intercropping and cover crops, water management (e.g. tile drainage research site with some irrigation capacity) and fertility issues in watersheds.
Située à Arborg (MB) avec des sites à Beausejour, PESAI fait des recherches appliquées et du transfert de technologie sur les plantes fourragères annuelles, céréales, oléagineux, et gestion de l’eau (drainage sous-terrain et surplus d’eau). Les domaines de recherche spécialisés comprennent des essais sur l’adaptation des plantes fourragères, les nouvelles cultures, la culture intercalaire et les cultures de couverture, la gestion de l’eau (tels que la recherche sur tuyaux de drainage à capacité limitée pour l’irrigation), et les questions de fertilité de sols aux bassins versants.
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Brian Kurbis (Chair) Beausejour
Wayne Foubert (Vice Chair) Ste Anne
Linda Loewen Riverton
Andy Buehlmann Arborg
Scott Duguid Arnes
Gary Naurocki Tyndall
David King Arborg
Garry Wasylowski Fraserwood
Paul Grenier Woodridge
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We need heliport for landing and charging of drone.
We should design to consider that recognition process of picture pattern, colors of heliport and
finding precise position.
Below picture is very very rougly designed heliport before sometimes.
* Risk 1
Basically, the process of drone landing has below sequence.
1. Movement using GPS information
2. Movement using Beacon information
3. Movement using image processing for precise landing
While drone is landing, landing position can have error between drone posigion and charging position
of heliport. To overcome this error and charging drone without a problem, we should design the point
of contact as well as possible.
* Risk 2
Charging drone should be possible while drone is working.
In other words, without disconnecting of power supply, the batter should be rechargerable.
In case of this, we already checked that there was no problem when we arranged power supply line and
charger line parallely, We are going to test this.
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December 24, 2008 1:22:45 am
To identify and intercept alien boats along India’s coastline, the Centre plans to put into service Inshore Patrol Vessels while making it mandatory on coastal states to register all boats, including dhows and dinghies, with their registration numbers prominently displayed.
The Defence Ministry, jolted into action after the November 26 attacks by 10 Pak terrorists who seized an Indian fishing trawler to land in Mumbai, also exhumed last year’s proposal to purchase 16 more interceptor vessels with surface-search radars for the Coast Guards.
The proposal, expedited after the attack, proposes to the Cabinet Committee on Security that while some of these IPVs could be made at its Garden Reach Shipyard, some could be purchased off the shelf. It seeks permission to acquire these vessels for about Rs 1,000 crore.
India has a 7,516-km coastline, touching nine states and four union territories, for which it currently deploys 13 IPVs.
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In a separate move, the Agriculture Ministry has sent out a missive to state governments asking them to enforce the model Marine Fisheries Regulation Act — fisheries being a state subject, the Centre can only provide a “model” Act — which stipulates the registration of each fishing vessel with a specified authority. Under this Act, each state has to ensure that each boat prominently displays the registration number on the boat, obtains license for fishing, informs and sticks to a port of operation and submits voyage report within a stipulated time.
The letter, dated December 3, has asked states to “intimate the status of registration of fishing vessels” in the state as there were “reports that a large number of these vessels were not registered or were undertaking fishing activities without a licence”.
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Galileo Antenna Demonstrator
Figure 2. GALANT receiver with reduced size
Future navigation services provided by upcoming satellite systems like Galileo will require corresponding improvements of the receiving systems. Particularly, interference and multipath signals may cause a significant degradation of the performance and thus make it impossible, to obtain exact and reliable positioning data. These restrictions and uncertainties cannot be tolerated for Safety-of-Life (SoL) applications e.g. in aeronautics and shipping. In order to overcome this problem, adaptively steered antenna arrays are employed, which enable the use of new beamforming and signal processing algorithms. They provide a more exact and reliable navigation solution, by suppressing interferences and multipath signals and improving the reception of the information signal from the direction of the satellite.
For the development and the test of these algorithms as well as for the demonstration of new ranges of application the Institute of Communications and Navigation develops a complete GNSS receiver demonstrator. New techniques of antenna array processing are employed to suppress interference and multipath signals. The goal is the development of a complete, robust SoL receiving system including antenna array, RF front end, digital signal processing, navigation solution, integrity assessment and the inclusion of inertial sensor information.
In order to deploy digital beamforming and array processing the signal of each antenna element passes through a complete RF front end, IF circuit and AD converter before the antenna pattern is generated by processing the data from all elements in real-time mode.
The SoL receiver demonstrator comprises a 2x2 active antenna array and allows for the reception of GPS and Galileo signals. Thus, the antenna elements and the front end are designed to operate in the L1/E1 and E5a frequency bands. A very broad beam characteristic is essential to obtain good scanning capabilities down to the horizon. The directions-of-arrival of satellite signals and interferers are estimated by suitable algorithms and digital signal processing. Adaptive beamforming is then used to suppress interfering and multipath signals.
The GALANT receiver was successfully tested in the Galileo Test Environment (GATE) in Berchtesgaden in mobile operation and in real time under realistic conditions.
The technical data of the receiver demonstrator are
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The design of an instrument to measure vertically averaged oceanic currents using geomagnetic electric fields
Poranski, Peter Frank
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A bottom mounted electromagnetic current meter measures the vertically-averaged conductivity-weighted velocity. This measurement complements free-fall relative velocity profiles and is valuable for transport determination and dynamics studies. Such an instrument has been designed to measure the three components of the electric field, Ex, Ey, and Ez. Salt bridges used with switched electrodes permit the induced e1ectromotive forces to be measured with only a short baseline; eight foot arms are planned. The first part of this report covers the theory behind the bottom mounted electric field meter. The second part discusses the design of the instrument as well as a brief description of the prototype bottom mounted electric field meter.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Ocean Engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Master of Science in Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology August, 1972
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Chicken and Eggs
“I only eat chicken and eggs”. For years before I went vegan I said this to people, as if a chicken was an inferior animal. Chickens are undoubtedly the most mistreated animal on the planet. Farm animals in general have very few rights, but even the most basic rights afforded to them in the United States often do not apply to chickens. The Humane Slaughter Act, The Animal Welfare Act and the Twenty-Eight Hour Law all exclude chickens. In fact there are no laws that regulate the breeding, sale, rearing, transport or slaughter of chickens.
The Humane Slaughter Act was designed to minimize the suffering of animals during slaughter at USDA inspected slaughter plants, requiring that they are stunned or sedated before being killed to minimize their pain. The Animal Welfare Act is the only Federal Law that regulates treatment of animals with minimum standards of care. The Twenty-Eight Hour Law requires that animals be provided water, food and rest after twenty eight hours during transport to slaughter. All of these laws exclude chickens from their protections.
Each year approximately 9.5 billion chickens are killed in the US for their meat. Almost all meat chickens, called “broilers”, are raised on factory farms, where they are housed in large sheds of 20,000 chickens or more. The chickens live crammed together on the shed floor in their own waste where the high ammonia levels irritate and burn their eyes, throats and skin. Factory-farmed broilers grow unnaturally fast and disproportionately large due to genetic modification, excessive feeding, hormones and inadequate exercise. Their breasts grow abnormally large while their skeletons and other organs lag behind. Most have trouble breathing while many others suffer heart failure, leg weakness and chronic pain. Many cannot support their own weight and their legs break under the weight of their bodies.
Hens used for egg production and raised for meat are horrifically abused their entire lives. Because male chickens (roosters) born in egg production hatcheries don’t lay eggs and are not used in the meat industry (usually genetically modified ‘broiler’ chickens are used for chicken meat), they are killed the day they are born. Within hours of their birth, they are ground up, electrocuted, or gassed to death. Over 250 million male chicks are killed in the United States every year. The vast majority of female chicks, on the other hand, spend their entire lives in tiny wire ‘battery’ cages, never once stepping outside or feeling the earth beneath their feet. Battery cages commonly hold 5–10 chickens, with each hen given minimal space in the encaged area to live her entire life. Because the lack of stimulation and cramped conditions of the cages create tension and stress between the hens, they are debeaked at a young age before entering the cage. A portion of their beaks is seared off with a burning hot blade so they will not injure the other hens or themselves. The hens live their entire lives standing on a wire floor and rubbing against the cage, causing severe feather loss and debilitating bruises and abrasions. Because the cages are organized in rows placed on top of one another, the waste of the chickens continually falls on the chickens below. The facilities are filled with the putrid smell of urine and excrement. Despite her natural life-span being ten years or more, as soon as a hen in a factory farm begins to decrease her egg-laying output she is killed. This normally happens between one or two years of age.
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In order to circumvent nagging peer reviewers, South Korean scientist Hyung-In Moon created an elaborate network of fake email addresses and nonexistent experts in his field. Unsurprisingly, all these fake researchers confirmed the perfection of his research. He got away with it for awhile, but now he's been caught and a huge cache of his research has been retracted.
Here's how Moon's scheme worked, according to a post on Retraction Watch, a website that offers "a window into the scientific process." When he sent in his papers for peer review, he suggested a list of qualified potential reviewers. Some of them were real scientists from legitimate universities, but Moon also set up fake email accounts for them—email accounts that only he and his closest colleagues had access to. Other names he made up entirely, creating experts out of thin air.
Moon—a professor at the College of Nature Resources and Life Science of Dong-A University, in Busan, Korea—isn't the first genius to hatch a fake email address racket. Just last month Retraction Watch detailed the case of Guang-Zhi He, a Chinese scientist who got caught faking peer review emails for his research on mini pig cloning. The authors of a paper retracted from Cancer Biology & Therapy in 2010 also tried tampering with email to cover up their work's flaws. And then there's "Computer application in mathematics," a retracted paper which lists one of its co-author's email addresses as firstname.lastname@example.org.
In his own defense, Moon tells Retraction Watch that this whole mess could've been avoided if the editors of International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition and Pharmaceutical Biology performed their roles with more scrutiny. "There is nothing wrong with soliciting reviewers from authors, as long as there are some checks," he says. "Of course, authors will ask for their friends, but Editors are supposed to check they are not from the same institution or coauthors on previous papers." Which is all true, and it's worth noting that the editors share some responsibility for this fiasco, but still, the obvious conclusion here is that researchers shouldn't fool periodicals by concocting bogus peer reviewers.
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On 25 April 2013, Digital Muse will be celebrating International Girls in ICT Day in a BIG way by sharing in a host of activities promoting girls in ICT in Brussels! As part of the fun, and with thanks to the terrific people at Intel, DigitalMuse.org will organize several hands-on workshops on “The Tech Behind Digital Music,” teaching hundreds of teenage girls the skills behind DJ-ing and digital music-making! Find out how to register for the event here, and to get in on the excitement be sure to like the “Every Girl Digital” Facebook page and join our event online to show your support for digital muses everywhere!
In the lead up to Girls in ICT Day, DigitalMuse.org parent organization, Zen Digital Europe has been selected by the European Commission to run a social media campaign to help build interest in Girls in ICT Day, and to broadly promote the message of Ms. Neelie Kroes, Vice President for the European Commission, about getting more girls and women digital.
Zen Digital is running a campaign to crowd-source the text of Vice President Kroes’s speech at the European Parliament on 25 April. So anyone interested in collaborating is encouragaged to join our EU Women LinkedIn group and get in on the discussion. Zen Digital sister-initiative, Women2020, will also host a breakfast on the day, on the topic of getting more women into ICT (information and communication technologies) studies and careers.
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Culture, transnational education and thinking : case studies in global schooling
- Niranjan Casinader.
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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- xix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Routledge research in international and comparative education.
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- Casinader, Niranjan, author.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Exploring the 'Other' in Thinking 2. Culture, Education, Thinking and Transnationalism 3. The New Globalisers of Thinking Education 4. A Question of Balance: The Researching of Cross-Culturalism 5. Ways of the World: Nest of Thinking Cultures 6. Cultural Dispositions of Thinking 7. The Trinity of Culture-Thinking-Education: Implications for Global Schooling 8. Cultural Metaphors of Thinking: Can You Tell Me Where My Country Lies?
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- The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated this diffusion of thinking skills, curriculum and pedagogy in a cultural context. This book will help to redress such an imbalance in its critical assessment of the cross-cultural validity of transplanting thinking skills programs from one educational system to another on an international scale. Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking provides an international comparative study of the intersection of three educational concepts: culture, education and thinking. Drawing on case studies from Malaysia, South Africa and Australia/USA for the purposes of comparative analysis, the book employs the context of an international school program in the teaching of thinking skills, Future Problem Solving Program International. The book explores the associations between Future Problem Solving educators, their cultural background, and their approaches to thinking, evaluating the relevance of transferring thinking skills programs derived in one cultural framework into another. The book also discusses the wider implications of these cross-cultural comparisons to curriculum and pedagogy within schools and higher education, with a particular emphasis on the teaching of multicultural school-based classes and cross-cultural understandings in teacher education and professional development. This book will be of relevance to academics and higher education students who have an interest in the fields of cross-cultural and intercultural understanding, comparative studies in education, and theories and practices of cognition, as well as the development of tertiary and secondary curricula and associated pedagogies that specifically acknowledge the cultural diversities of both teacher and learner.
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Lesson 63: A Successful Man Who Failed With God (Genesis 36:1-43)Related Media
Near my boyhood home there was a small cemetery that had been there since before the turn of the century. Sometimes I would go there and walk along the rows, reading the inscriptions on the tombstones. The most fascinating one was an old, weathered, wooden tombstone which read, “Injun Joe,” and listed his death in the 1850’s.
Most of the tombstones had a brief description of the person, such as “Beloved Mother” or “Dear Father,” plus the dates they lived. I used to try to imagine what those people had been like. I wondered what they had done with their lives. The people buried there had meant much to their families and friends in their day, but now they were gone and unknown, except for this gravestone and the memories they left behind in the minds of their loved ones.
While I haven’t spent much time walking through cemeteries and reading tombstones, it isn’t a bad idea, now and then, to do that. It makes me stop and think about the fact that, unless the Lord returns, someday soon there will be a grave with my name on it, the years I lived, and a brief inscription. How do I want to be remembered? What do I want to accomplish in my brief years on earth? Am I living for the things that really count? The clock in the game of life is always running‑‑there are no time outs!
Even if you read your Bible, I’ll bet that Genesis 36 is a chapter you don’t spend much time thinking about. It’s one of those chapters that makes you wonder, if you’re honest, why it’s in the Bible. There are a bunch of names which mean nothing to us and about whom we can learn almost nothing. They lived and died almost 4,000 years ago, linked together with the common thread of being Esau’s descendants. But pondering this chapter can be like a walk through a cemetery: It can make us stop and think about the meaning of life and success.
Esau, the man whose generations are listed here, was a most successful man by worldly standards. He was the founder of a dynasty and a nation, the father of rulers and kings. He enjoyed financial prosperity. He had good-looking women in his harem. He had political power. He was a famous man in his time and for hundreds of years after. And he was a nice guy, the kind who would make a great neighbor or friend. But Esau lived for this world, and in so doing, he failed miserably where it matters most--with God. He was a successful man who went to hell.
This chapter is in the Bible for at least two reasons. First, Moses was writing to people who were about to conquer the land of Canaan. The Edomites, Esau’s descendants, lived on the borders of that land. When Israel had sought to pass over their land en route to Canaan, the Edomite king refused, even though Moses promised to pay for any food or water they consumed (Num. 20:14‑21). Perhaps once Israel was established in the land, someone would say, “Let’s teach those Edomites a lesson!” But God commanded Israel not to provoke Edom and said that He would not give Israel any of their land (Deut. 2:2‑5). So Israel needed to know who these people were so that they would treat them as the Lord had commanded.
A second reason for this chapter is to make Israel and us consider the outcome of Esau’s profane life, especially as contrasted with Jacob’s life. There is an obvious contrast between chapter 36, which outlines the wealth, success and power of Esau and his descendants and 37:1, which says with understatement, “Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.” While Esau was out conquering the land of Edom, founding a nation, fathering kings, and making a great worldly success of himself, Jacob was quietly living in a land he didn’t even own, the land where his fathers had sojourned. While Esau’s descendants were mighty chieftains, famous in their day, Jacob’s descendants were down in Egypt, enslaved to Pharaoh.
So the chapter in its context portrays two roads set before us all: The road to earthly success, fame, and power, which can bring quick, visible results; and, the road of obedience to the will of God, which is much slower and less visible in terms of the payoff. The worldly road focuses on the things which are seen, which, from God’s perspective, are destined to perish; God’s road focuses on the things which are not seen, but which are eternal and cannot be taken from us (see 2 Cor. 4:18). So the chapter teaches:
If we succeed by worldly standards, but fail with God, we fail where it really matters.
The text reveals four areas where Esau and his descendants succeeded in this world, but failed terribly in light of eternity:
1. A beautiful family by the world’s standards does not equal a family blessed by God.
Esau’s turn away from God is seen in that he took his wives from the daughters of Canaan (36:2). Esau’s grandfather, Abraham, had made his servant swear by the Lord that he would not take a wife for Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites (24:3). But Esau shrugged off the strong warning of his godly grandfather and chose his wives from the Canaanites (26:34). Later, still lacking spiritual discernment, he took a wife from the descendants of Ishmael (28:9).
It’s significant that there is no mention of barren wives when it comes to Esau’s line. Abraham had God’s promise of many descendants, but his wife Sarah was barren. Isaac had the same promises, but Rebekah could not conceive for the first twenty years of their marriage. Jacob’s favored wife, Rachel, was barren for a long time. But Esau’s wives bore him five sons and a number of daughters with no trouble (36:4‑6).
Esau represents the natural man‑‑strong, capable, independent, able to cope with life’s problems with his own resources. Who needs to depend on God for things when you can take care of it yourself? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their barren wives, represent God’s way of working. He humbles our pride by shutting us up with problems we are incapable of solving‑‑ problems like barren wives in the face of promises to make us into a great nation. Then, when we call on Him, He proves Himself mighty to save.
Esau had a beautiful family by the world’s standards. He was the founder of a dynasty. To be one of Esau’s descendants in that culture was like being a Ford, Rockefeller, or Kennedy in our day. Esau’s sons and grandsons became chiefs and kings. Esau’s wives were no doubt beautiful women, as their names indicate. Their names present a problem, in that the names given in earlier chapters do not correspond with the names listed here. In 26:34, it is said that Esau married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. In 28:9 it reports that he added Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nabaioth. But in 36:2‑3, different daughters’ names are connected with each father.
The best solution to this problem is that the wives probably took different names, either when they moved from Canaan to Edom, or with changes in them over time (a common practice; Esau became known as “Red” [“Edom”] over the incident with the red stew which he traded for his birthright.) Names weren’t given just because they sounded nice‑‑they had meaning. So, perhaps, Basemath (“the perfumed one”) later took on the name Adah (“ornament,” “the adorned one”), as her focus shifted from perfume to jewelry and clothes. Mahalath (“the musical one”) took over as the perfume queen and changed her name to Basemath when she developed a formula for homemade Chanel No. 5. Judith (“the praised one”), a young teenager when Esau married her, grew tall and became known as Oholibamah (“tent height,” i.e., “tall, stately”). Note that each of their names focuses on some outward feature of beauty or sensuality.
There is another problem: In 26:34, Judith’s father is called Beeri the Hittite. Beeri means “well‑man.” In 36:2 he is called Anah. But it is mentioned that he is the Anah who found the hot springs (hence, he could easily be nicknamed Beeri, “well‑man”). Also, Anah (Beeri) is called a Hittite (26:34); a Hivite (36:2); and a Horite (36:20). Hittite is a broad term, roughly equivalent to Canaanite. Hivite is a branch of the Hittites, and Horite means “cave‑dweller.” So the terms are not contradictory, but explanatory in a more particular sense, much as we might refer to the same man as an American, an Arizonan, and a Phoenician (resident of Phoenix).
While the precise meaning of many of these names is uncertain, it’s interesting that most of the names are not spiritual, but rather reflect the natural surroundings (H. C. Leupold, Exposition of Genesis [Baker], 2:932-933; James Boice, Genesis [Zondervan], 2:356). I’ve already mentioned this in reference to Esau’s wives. Eliphaz (36:4) means “pure gold.” Zerah (36:13) means “rising” or “east.” Dishon (36:21) means “gazelle.” Only two names out of 81 may hint at a belief in the true God: Reuel (36:10), Esau’s son by Basemath, means “friend of God”; Jeush (36:14), Oholibamah’s son, means “The Lord helps.” But even these may have been connected with idolatry. One later king has a name of a false god, Baal‑hanan (36:38).
The point is, Esau’s family was outwardly attractive. His wives were beautiful women who bore him children. His kids were born leaders, talented and strong. Esau was a likable, popular man. He was a skilled outdoorsman, a man who loved the taste of game, a man caught up with the enjoyment of the good life. But there was one big problem: God was not a part of this family. Esau, the grandson of the godly Abraham, the favorite son of peaceful Isaac, was a thoroughly secular man who lived for the pleasure of the here and now. He was a successful man whose sons and grandsons after him were successful men, by worldly standards. But they all failed at what matters most because they left God out of their lives.
The most important thing you can impart to your kids is not how to be a worldly success. It’s easy to encourage our kids to succeed in the wrong ways. They may make the football team or be the homecoming queen. They may score well on the SAT and go to the best colleges and get the best paying jobs. But if they fail with God, all that stuff doesn’t matter at all. We need to instill in our kids what it means to succeed with God.
There’s a second lesson we can learn by strolling through Esau’s family cemetery:
2. Material prosperity does not equal spiritual prosperity.
Esau moved east because he was too prosperous to stay near Jacob (36:6‑8). This took place before Jacob returned. Esau realized that the inheritance was going to Jacob, so he looked for a new place to live. It was nice of Esau to be so agreeable. But, sadly, he had no vision for God’s promises to Abraham concerning Canaan. Ever since God called Abraham, He repeatedly emphasized Canaan as the land He would give to Abraham’s descendants. But for Esau, any nice land would do. He had no spiritual vision. He was living for himself, not for God’s purpose. He was materially rich, but spiritually poor.
To his credit, Esau was not greedy. When he saw Jacob after their twenty years apart, he declined Jacob’s gift by saying, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep your things.” But it’s possible to be generous, contented people, but still to be living for material things, not for God. The danger is that our material prosperity dulls our senses with regard to our desperate need for God. The Lord warned the church in Laodicea, “... you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Rev. 3:17). We American Christians, who have been so blessed materially, need to be careful to become rich toward God by laying up treasures in heaven (Luke 12:13‑34).
These tombstones reveal a third lesson about God’s perspective on success and failure:
3. Political power does not equal power with God.
Esau and his descendants were men of great political power. They are called chiefs (36:15 ff.; 40 ff.) and kings (36:31 ff.). It is pointedly stated that these men reigned as kings in Edom before any king reigned in Israel (36:31). Critics leap upon this verse as proof that Genesis must have been written after the beginning of the monarchy, some 300 years after Moses. But in the previous chapter God had prophesied to Jacob that kings would come forth from him (35:11), a promise which had also been made to Abraham (17:6, 16).
Clearly, the point of 36:31 is to show that Esau’s sons, who walked away from God, had the distinction of being kings long before Jacob’s sons to whom it was promised. Jacob’s sons were a nation of slaves at the same time that Esau’s sons were kings. Esau’s sons could have looked at Jacob’s sons and scoffed, “Where is your God and His promises?”
Isn’t that how it often seems‑‑that the world is winning, while God’s people are losing? We’ll reign with Christ someday, but meanwhile the church is often persecuted and disregarded by powerful political leaders who laugh at God. But we need to remember that political power and power with God are two different things. The world may boast now in its political power, but He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord scoffs at them (Ps. 2:4). It is the Lord who “removes kings and establishes kings” (Dan. 2:21). While it is fine for Christian people to be involved in politics, we need to keep things in perspective. Political power is always subject to Him who is “ruler over the realm of mankind,” who “bestows it on whom He wishes” (Dan. 4:17). True power is having power with God.
Esau’s kingdom, Edom, later caused great trouble to Israel. There were frequent wars between the two nations. Edom cheered those who attacked God’s people (Ps. 137:7; Obadiah). Amalek, Esau’s grandson (36:12), became the founder of a people who were a perennial enemy of Israel (Exod. 17:8‑16). There is a repeated emphasis in Genesis 36, that Esau is Edom (36:1, 8, 9, 19, and 43; also, the name Edom and its synonym, Seir, are used frequently). The significance of this otherwise unnecessary repetition seems to be that God wanted His people to see what results when a man lives apart from Him. From this one man, Esau, an outwardly good man, a likable man, a successful man from the world’s perspective, came the godless nation Edom, which often plagued the people of God. So God says, “Remember: Esau is Edom!”
There’s a final lesson we can learn about success and failure from our stroll through Esau’s cemetery:
4. Temporal fame does not equal eternal recognition by God.
In their day, Esau was more famous than Jacob. At the end of their lives, Jacob had about 70 descendants living under Pharaoh’s umbrella. Esau had conquered Edom and established a dynasty there. By Moses’s day (over 400 years later), Israel was a fledgling nation of slaves, recently escaped from Egypt, owning no land of their own. Edom was an established kingdom which had the power to refuse Israel passage over their land.
But this tour through the graveyard of Genesis 36 shows us that God, not man, writes the final chapter of history. These once‑ famous names don’t mean a thing to our world today, but Israel’s name is in the news almost daily. These men, successful by the world’s measure, passed off the scene and were soon forgotten as others clamored to take their place. Today we don’t know anything more about them than is written here. Fame is a fleeting thing.
The Edomite race endured until the time of Christ, when they were known as Idumeans. They disappeared from history in A.D. 70, when Jerusalem was destroyed. But before that, some famous Idumeans, descendants of Esau, ruled over Israel: Herod the Great and his successor, Herod Antipas. They were wealthy, power‑hungry, cruel despots. Herod the Great slaughtered the infants of Bethlehem in his attempt to kill the newborn King of the Jews. Herod Antipas had John the Baptist beheaded and mocked Jesus just prior to the crucifixion.
In a way it was a replay of history, when Esau’s descendant, Herod, who at that time had far more worldly prosperity, power, and fame, and Jacob’s descendant, Jesus, faced each other. God’s side didn’t seem to be winning. Jacob’s descendant went to the cross, while Esau’s descendant relaxed in his luxurious palace. But God would write the final chapter on that part of history as well. The great Herod, like his ancestor Esau, was a successful man who went to hell. Jesus Christ, the descendant of Jacob, was raised from the dead and is coming again to reign in power and glory.
What really matters is recognition by God, not by this world. We live in a culture that worships fame. If a famous person becomes a Christian, we rush his life story into print and hustle him onto the TV talk shows. The guy may be a babe in Christ, who doesn’t know anything about the Bible, but we listen to his every word as if he’s a spiritual authority.
But the recognition that counts will come soon, when we stand before the Lord Jesus Christ and hear Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your master.” The most awful thing would be to be famous on this earth‑‑even famous as a Christian‑‑and to stand before the Lord and say, “Lord, Lord, I’ve done all these things in Your name,” but to hear Him say, “Depart from Me; I never knew you.”
On the Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland, a man spent five years and a lifetime of savings building a 62‑foot steel yacht that weighed 126 tons. On the day of its launching, he invited a local band to play and the whole town turned out to help him celebrate. He planned a voyage around the world as soon as the boat was launched. The band played, the bottle of champagne was smashed across the bow, and the ship was lowered into the water. But it sank to the bottom of the harbor! What good is a beautiful boat that doesn’t float? That man wasted five years and a lot of money building a useless thing‑‑a boat that didn’t float. What good is a successful life that ends, whether in 25 or 85 years, if the person is not ready for eternity? “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Our tour through Esau’s cemetery is over. I hope it’s made you think about the question, “What am I living for?” While we still live, we all have a choice: To join Jacob and his descendants in waiting patiently for God to fulfill His covenant promises to us, as we labor for His coming kingdom. Or, to look over at Esau, prospering in the world, and join him in the pursuit of secular success. If we succeed by worldly standards, but fail with God, we have failed where it really matters. Whether we fail or succeed by worldly standards, if we succeed with God, we will have true and lasting success.
- How can we train our kids to aim for spiritual, not worldly, success? Should we encourage them toward worldly success?
- Is financial success an unmitigated blessing, a mixed blessing, or a curse? Give biblical support.
- Are Christians wasting their time to run for political office or to work for political causes? Why/why not?
- Why does the Christian world give such high esteem to famous people who profess faith in Christ? What is the root of such adulation? What are some of its results?
Copyright 1997, Steven J. Cole, All Rights Reserved.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
The Great Bustard which nested at the first release site is doing a grand job as a first time mother. Young Great Bustards are not always considered likely to rear chicks successfully – it often takes a few years of trying to make it work. This first time breeder has endured some pretty cold and wet weather when the chick was small, and it now looks big enough to tolerate any further poor weather.
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“Gods always behave like the people who make them”
Zora Neale Hurston
I stumbled upon this quote while fretting over MFA decisions, I am currently stumbling around like an early nineties technophile who is obsessed with the idea of electronic mail and has to check it every few minutes, just in case it happens, that there's been contact from the outside world since I last logged in moments ago. Maybe more like a marooned shipwreck victim that is awaiting a message from anyone at this point, the problem being that all the bottles that wash ashore are letting me know how to meet singles in my area. As I check my email and the graduate forum to see who has been plucked from the wandering masses to be given that sweet, sweet relief from anxiety, I form a sort of jealous hatred for that lucky soul who has escaped from the ranks of those awaiting responses to their program. And I wait seemingly forgotten about.
I scrambled to make that quote stick in my brain. Trying to get it into that grey gelatinous mass that has turned even more transparent and jelly like in the past weeks due to the stress and anxiety of my looming life decisions. When Something magical happened, a moment of clarity erased all the worry, completely dismantling my self created and self imposed mental defense system, not even like chink in my minds armor, a complete and total disintegration of the walls I have put up named anxiety and despair suddenly came crashing down, and although my spirit animal is not David Hasslehoff he might as well have been singing from on top of the remains.
I think we worry (I do) about the artists we think we need to be in order to be successful, even on a more basic level, we think ourselves out of becoming good artists or creating meaningful art because we have these limitations that we have put on ourselves, limitations that if we can just muscle our way through will PROVE that we are a real artist. I think then I need to change the quote a little bit.
Art always behaves like the people who make it.
What I mean is if you have the mindset that art is supposed to be hard and near impossible to accomplish then it becomes that type of obstacle. I believe, truly believe that art needs to have blood sweat and tears in it to become something amazing, and I think what I can safely say is that I am completely wrong. (Not saying it won't take a long time before I can figure out how to change that, but I think I might have at least started on the path of recovery) Art sometimes is the product of those (bodily fluids? (see above)), but it also arise out of joy and out of solutions and tears (the other kind, the happy ones). Art should come from the sum of your experience, I think of Whistler telling the courts (mind you this is paraphrased like crazy) that you are not simply buying the paint on the canvas, you are buying years of toil and failure and years of success, the painting that is in front of you is a culmination of all the paintings before it, all the experiences before it. Art does not come from a narrow path you decided it had to originate from, art is found in all the ways you choose to live your life. All the paths converge and you know deep in your core of being that you have arrived at something special. All the art you create has hints and maybe even small portions of the puzzle hidden inside, it is up to us to allow ourselves to explore and discover the paths that take us to the art that we are destined to create. Creating honest art that makes us vulnerable pieces that allow us to disregard the lofty notions and stories we have heard about what a true artist is. (usually from people who do not create art, just critique it) I think you would be blown away by the amount of satisfied happy artists that you have probably never heard of, but that make amazing art. The people who dedicate their time and energy searching for the convergence of the path. You can feel it to, as the viewer, you also know the goal as well as the artist when you see it. You may not know all the details or the trials that happened in the process that allowed the artist to arrive there, that information isn't important to the viewer, but you know when you see it.
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The 1st India International Science Festival was held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi in December, 2015. The mega S&T expo attracted more than 3 Lakh people. VIBHA has become the Guinness Book World Record Holder for the successful conduct of the ‘Largest Practical Science Lesson’ by 2000 students from prestigious schools of Delhi. Indeed, the event was a great success with the participation of more than 3000 young scientists across the country.
The 2nd IISF was held at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in December, 2016 with a view to improve their scientific understanding, temperament and appreciation for various feats in science & technology by showcasing Indian achievements.
The 3rd series of IISF was held on 13-16 October 2017, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The 4th series of India International Science Festival is being organized by Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences in association with Vijnana Bharati at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow during 5-8 October, 2018
- Foreign Science & Technology Ministers’ Conclave
- Global Indian Science & Technology Stakeholders Meet (GIST)
- International Science Literature & Film Festival
- Young Scientists’ Conference (YSC)
- Green Good Deeds
- Clean Air Campaign
- Agriculture Conclave
- Health Conclave
- Industry Academia Meet
- Women Scientists’ & Entrepreneur Conclave (WSE)
- National Social Organisation & Institution Meet (NSOIM)
- National Science Teachers’ Congress (NSTC)
- Science & Technology for Harnessing Innovations (SAATHI)
- Students Science Village: Reaching the Unreached
- Science and Technology mission: A key Stakeholders & Partners Summit
For the complete list of activities, visit here.
For registration, visit here.
For any queries, contact
IISF-2018 Secretariat, Room No- 10,
Ministry of Earth Sciences,
Prithvi Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003.
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Solar Cup is a seven-month program, sponsored by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, in which schools throughout Southern California participate. During the past 18 years over 15,000 students have participated in this program. Students build and race solar-powered boats, learning about conservation of natural resources, electrical and mechanical engineering, problem solving, and much more. Teams are entered and sponsored by Metropolitan member agencies and local water utilities. The Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) co-sponsors with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency one local high school each year. | <urn:uuid:1827de8f-3f26-46b7-b173-bd1a0a0caf2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cvwdwater.com/215/Solar-Cup-Program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.958638 | 115 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Waves theme for the modern woman and wasis the theme of preventing pregnancy. Can not say that for a woman it is not desirable. Just all the time. And the best and quite a convenient tool for this are the modern contraceptive pills (hormonal).
Some time was very popularWestern European commercial saying a lot in terms of not only sexual but also moral education. Mom, watching high school student in the school, kisses his daughter and puts her bag control pills. After all, in 16 years it can happen any longer. Why not do for a child just to avoid abortion!
Our girls, I think, not everything surroundedsuch care. Yes, and they themselves do not tend to reflect on this. Of course, they do not argue that pregnancy "resolve", but certainly sometimes dismiss the thought, "I hope you're lucky - God will save ..." And have to know what God thought out and gave the people the sacrament of this process - the conception and birth of the new man. Therefore, it is bound to happen!
How to choose a contraceptive
What to do? Most buy contraceptives (the word is what!) - But self-medication is dangerous. And in most pharmacies offer to come to him with his mother. Go to the antenatal clinic? By chance you can meet someone from acquaintances. The output is still there - in our cities there are offices of family planning or maternal and child health centers, which will not give up in consultation. And if at the Centre even meet the teacher, you can always refer to the self. As a result, only praise.
Taking contraceptive pills girlcan since its puberty. In the earlier period to do it does not make sense - pregnancy can occur only ripened in the sexual sense of the body. One tablet taken daily at the same time for 21 days or 28 days depending on the type of drug. If the package contains 21 tablets, their intake should start from the 1st day of menstruation till the moment when the package will remain empty. Then a break for 7 days. If the package contains 28 tablets - no need to take a break, and should immediately start taking the drug with a new package. After 21 minutes drunk tablets (that is the end of the cycle) for 7 days, the reaction is observed, such catamenial.
At a young age should start with the receptionpreparations containing hormones in small doses. And best of all, and to use condoms to protect against disease, and even sexually transmitted diseases.
It prevents forgetfulness
With adult women easier - they know wherego visit a doctor, how to take birth control pills. There is another problem - preventing forgetfulness and weak self-organization. The result is an irregular oral contraceptives. What if I forgot to drink contraceptive pill?
The principle of action of the drug is that its concentration in the body to be maintained at the same level, so that its operation is continuously performed.
Note!If time does not take the correct dose,It would be a reduction in its concentration, and the probability of pregnancy is increased. Therefore, additional precautions, eg, use a condom.
Barrier precautions against the backgroundRegular sexual relations are especially needed if the pills was interrupted for 2-3 days and more. And after 5-6 days of receiving renewed sex already permitted and without barrier protection measures.
Missed pills you can drink when youremembered about her, and the next to take on a set schedule, ie, for one day you take two tablets instead of one. this period of time the drug concentration is maintained, because the effect of the tablet is designed for at least 20 hours. It is believed that additional measures to prevent pregnancy is not necessary to take, if the delay was not taking the pill for more than 12 hours.
Skipping oral contraceptives
But there are times when passed 2 or 3tablet (that is, two or three days missed). The doctor in this case advises missed two pills to drink as soon as it becomes possible, and the following method according to the schedule (that is, the next day) to take 2 tablets, too. For example, on Saturday and Sunday was missed reception. So, two tablets must be taken on Monday and Tuesday, two tablets. In such cases, frequent spotting that for you should be a signal to the application of additional protection measures.
Note!If you skipped intake of 3 or more pills, the use of additional measures is inevitable and necessary. Moreover, it should consider replacing this type of contraceptive for another.
Detailed recommendations on how to fixthe situation in the event of discontinuation of contraceptive can be read always in the manual that comes with any package of pills. Still, it never hurts to trust your doctor and consult if you have had a break from the medication.
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From: Saašha Metsärantala
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> Are there big enough semantic differences between the text content of the
> displayForm element and that of the intended etal element to put this text
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<displayForm> does have existing semantics that could possibly conflict with the purpose here, whereas <etal> does not have any pre-existing semantics.
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From Antiquity to AI: A Stoic Renaissance
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It was early November 2018, and the Woolsey Fire hurtled through the Santa Monica Mountains, devouring hundreds of structures with stunning ferocity. As the fire drew closer and gusty winds changed direction unpredictably, David Heinemeier Hansson, known as DHH, imagined his Malibu Hills home going up in flames. It wasn’t a morbid hallucination. Instead, the Danish programmer turned tech darling deliberately envisioned with pixelated precision the flaky ash his home might become; he played out the years of battling insurance adjusters that would inevitably follow. Without regret or yearning, he simply said goodbye to the hazy sunsets and crystalline memories unfulfilled.
Though in this instance the flames were real, it wasn’t the first time the 40-year-old cofounder of Basecamp, a project management software company, had fantasized losing that which is most precious to him. For years, Hansson has been imagining worst-case scenarios as a way to channel the anxieties that come with running a growing business. (He’s also a father, a successful race car driver, and a New York Times best-selling author.) “As I acquire things, I keep in mind these things could be temporary,” says Hansson, who also authored the programming language Ruby on Rails, which powers web apps like Airbnb, Hulu, and Twitch. “Most businesses go out of business. When I can remove the fear that it’s all going to end, the calmer my life is.”
It’s a practice ancient philosophers termed “negative visualization,” which Hansson learned after entrepreneur and author Tim Ferriss recommended he read A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine. Stoics also dabble in self-imposed austerity as a means of honing oneself against the hardships of life. So when Hansson finds himself impatient that his Uber is taking five minutes instead of the quoted two, he takes the bus. He eats cheap cheeseburgers and ventures into the cold underdressed. “This modern life that we’re living is smothering us in comforts,” he says.
Sure enough, now it’s Stoicism that’s catching fire.
A growing number of people, from gilded elites to everyday folk, are shedding the 21st-century accouterments of comfort in exchange for a Hellenistic philosophy born almost 2,300 years ago that extols the virtues of detachment and discipline. Stoicism is the antithesis to the overly accommodating, snowflake culture of recent generations. It urges adherents to identify what is within their control—essentially only personal character—and to let go of worrying about all that is external, whether that be a natural disaster or another’s expectations. Proponents say eudaimonia, the Greek word for prosperity and well-being, can be found in the virtues of courage, justice, and wisdom, rather than worldly success.
Of course, the philosophy does have its critics; some call it outmoded, others a hollow life hack. But advocates point out that today’s modern brand of Stoicism has spread broadly and briskly—from its Silicon Valley adopters to the worlds of sports, military, and media, to name a few. Almost every week a new book is released on the topic. But why, after two millennia, is Stoicism seeing a resurgence now? And does it deliver on its promise of greater purpose?
While today the word “stoic” is most often employed as a lowercase synonym for emotionally aloof, the term originates from the Greek name Stoa Poikil?, which refers to the muraled porch in Athens where the intellectual seeds of Stoicism first germinated. Around 300 BC, in the wake of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates, a philosopher named Zeno of Citium began holding public discourse on the veranda’s steps. Stoicism would go on to spread to Rome as the reigning school of thought for half a millennium, greatly influencing Christianity.
The Stoics taught that virtue is the only good worth striving for and everything else—whether it be health, wealth, or other worldly pleasures—is indifferent. Preferable, perhaps, but not worth chasing. Since outcomes are uncontrollable, the emphasis is placed on intention and action. This may sound familiar if you’ve ever heard the closing prayer recited at 12-step meetings: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity and theology eclipsed Stoicism and philosophy. But throughout the centuries, countless leaders and artists, from George Washington and Bill Clinton to Shakespeare and J.K. Rowling, have returned to its teachings for guidance. While many Greek and Roman philosophies from antiquity remain frozen in the past, this one has proven to be easily adaptable.
Seven years ago, a small group of academics and psychotherapists in London organized the first Stoicon conference in an attempt to bring Stoicism into the modern era. The annual meeting has since traveled to New York, Toronto, and Athens, growing year after year. There are dozens of Stoic Facebook groups, with tens of thousands of members looking for advice on parenting, teaching, dating, and athletic competition. Ryan Holiday, the former marketing director for American Apparel, has published several New York Times best-selling self-help Stoic adaptations, attracting a cult following among society’s highest rungs.
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“Stoicism is roughly one part theory and nine parts practice,” says Massimo Pigliucci, a biologist turned philosophy professor at City University of New York, who earlier this year published A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control. “It’s explicit. You don’t have to have a background in philosophy to incorporate it into your life.”
Without doubt, Stoic-esque techniques circulating Silicon Valley have garnered the most attention, including fasting, cold showers, and silent meditation retreats. For some, these practices can serve a purpose in building resilience; others say they can also amount to little more than virtue-signaling when Instagrammed from a multimillion-dollar Victorian.
Pigliucci started his career studying how genes interact with the environment. He waltzes between the worlds of nature and nurture, which is where Stoicism has come to reside. It’s about controlling base reactions and stripping away external values that put us in conflict with ourselves and others, so that it’s possible to, as the Stoics say, “live in accordance with nature” internally, socially, and physically. To update Stoicism for a contemporary audience, Pigliucci and others simply swap its divine cosmology for evidence-based research.
What Stoics call “turning the obstacle upside-down” and “the view from above” are reframing techniques, which form the foundation of cognitive behavioral therapy, one of the most scientifically proven and widely practiced psychotherapies. So what if I don’t make my numbers? Or if I lose all of my wealth? As Epictetus, the freed slave and notorious Stoic, wrote, “It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them.” The argument is that when we can reframe the minutiae of life in a broader context, it helps to bring into focus what matters most.
When entrepreneur and venture capitalist Brad Feld, cofounder of Foundry Group, a large venture capital firm in Boulder, Colorado, began sinking into a deep depression, he says his life preserver came in the form of Stoicism and therapy. He later sent Holiday’s book The Daily Stoic to all the CEOs in his portfolio. “It completely changed my relationship with what is happening, what I think is happening, and what I want to happen,” Feld wrote in an email.
Executive coaches have also begun incorporating Stoic frameworks into their work with clients, saying it reduces anxiety and makes for more nimble leaders. “The trouble is most people want to change it, control it, avoid it. The last thing they want to do is accept it,” says David Langiulli, who, from his base in Naples, Florida, specializes in nonprofit leadership development. “When you accept, you can take powerful action.”
Not surprisingly, some big names have criticized Stoicism, including Sandy Grant, a University of Cambridge philosopher. “The problem with this attitude is that it can lead us to accept things that we shouldn’t,” she wrote in an op-ed. Others say some of the more well-to-do adherents are simply inauthentic, allowing those at the top to dismiss the impact socioeconomic circumstance has on well-being. It’s one thing to fast for 24 hours, but try telling someone without access to clean water, healthcare, or housing that those are just trivial externals.
Still, scholars say the Stoicism renaissance is understandable if you compare modern times to when the philosophy reigned. In the centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire, there was cultural transformation and distemper that in some way resembles the current zeitgeist. There was uncertainty. Massive inequality. A series of ongoing and controversial wars. Flourishing religious fanaticism and anti-intellectualism.
Whatever the reason, advocates say a form of Stoicism appears to be reaching the very top of corporate structures, especially as the so-called purpose movement expands. An example may be the well-publicized letter that nearly 200 CEOs signed earlier this year that redefined “the purpose of a corporation” away from just shareholder value. Instead, the leaders say companies must have higher guiding principles, such as protecting the environment and treating employees and suppliers with dignity.
Or as Hansson—who in the end didn’t lose his house in the fire—puts it, “If my purpose is simply to make my business as big and profitable as possible, that’s a terrible guiding principle for why I’m on earth. Stoicism helps us answer the question: Why are we here?” | <urn:uuid:876bac58-7442-46cc-9303-9309b5cda128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kornferry.com/insights/briefings-magazine/issue-42/from-antiquity-to-ai-a-stoic-renaissance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.949959 | 2,203 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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The whole truth: Critics say more must be done to ensure that books labeled as nonfiction are just that
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2006, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Publishing-industry veteran Nan Talese was excoriated on television by Oprah Winfrey on Jan. 26 for publishing James Frey's 2003 A Million Little Pieces, a best-selling memoir about the author's struggle to overcome drug dependency that he has since admitted is partly fictitious.
But the next morning, Talese walked into 22nd-floor offices in Midtown Manhattan to a standing ovation from her colleagues. Soon afterward, she received a call of support from Peter Olson, chief executive of Bertelsmann AG's Random House Inc. publishing arm.
''I've gotten more than 500 e-mails over the last few days, and the overwhelming majority have been supportive,'' said Talese, whose imprint, Nan A. Talese, is part of Random House's Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
Indeed, many members of the publishing industry have rallied around Talese and Random House, saying they would have published A Million Little Pieces as well and could have been duped just as easily. Unlike journalists, publishers have never seen it as their purview to verify that the information in nonfiction books is true. Editors and publishers say the profit margins in publishing don't allow for hiring fact-checkers. Instead, they rely on authors to be honest, and on their legal staffs to avoid libel suits. ''An author brings a manuscript saying it represents the truth, and that relationship is one of trust,'' said Talese.
But now there is a growing chorus inside and outside the industry calling for publishers to take more steps to validate the authenticity of works that are marketed as nonfiction. ''This is a breach of ethics, and who addresses that, whether it's the editor, the agent or the publisher's legal counsel, is yet to be determined,'' said Lorraine Shanley, a principal in the industry consulting firm Market Partners International Inc.
On Jan. 27, plaintiff's attorney Marc Bern said he filed a lawsuit against Random House and its Doubleday imprint in U.S. District Court in Manhattan charging that the publishers misrepresented that book as nonfiction. His client, California resident Karen Futernick, alleges in the suit that she purchased A Million Little Pieces on that basis but that the defendants ''failed to conduct a reasonable investigation or inquiry regarding the truthfulness or accuracy'' of the material. Bern said he will seek more than $50 million in damages.
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House, declined to comment on the suit because the company hasn't seen it.
Some publishers say the Million Little Pieces incident may well result in some changes in how books are vetted. ''The entire process will have to be rethought,'' said James Atlas, president of Atlas Books LLC and the author of My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale, a memoir published last year by News Corp.'s HarperCollins imprint. ''Publishers will scrutinize far more closely what they publish, especially in the realm of memoirs. But short of having some kind of honor code, I don't see what can really be done except to exercise far greater vigilance.''
Some do. Jeff Kleinman, an agent with Folio Literary Management, said publishers could add a clause to the author's warranty section in their contracts, stating that to the best of the writer's knowledge the facts in the book are true. ''The point being, if the author's found to egregiously misrepresent the facts, the author could be sued for breach of contract,'' said Kleinman via e-mail. ''Wouldn't that be a lot simpler than asking an agent, or even a publisher, to verify and fact-check every book?''
Some authors note that the opportunity to stretch the truth is far greater in memoirs than in nonfiction books that cover well-known public events and people. ''There's a built-in checking in that kind of business. It's to a certain extent adversarial,'' said Richard Reeves, the author of 11 books and a visiting professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. ''But when somebody is writing about their own life, there is no natural adversary or interested party who will come after them. That's why some of these things happen.''
Other nonfiction authors say the Frey incident illustrates that publishers in general are devoting far more resources to marketing books than editing them. ''There's less editorial process now, dramatically, compared to 25 years ago,'' said David Halberstam, author of The Best and the Brightest and numerous other titles. ''All the money goes into marketing to get books onto television.'' He said publishers' desire to get authors onto broadcasts such as Winfrey's has even changed the type of book that publishers want. ''A fiction writer can't do that, but a memoirist can,'' he said.
A Million Little Pieces, Winfrey's book club selection for October, has more than 3 million copies in print in North America. After the book's veracity was challenged last month, it went back onto hardcover best-seller lists and continues among the top best-selling paperbacks in most retail outlets.
Frey said on ''Larry King Live'' that he and his agent initially shopped A Million Little Pieces to other publishers as a novel and were turned down. In an interview, Talese said she never was told that the book had been offered originally as fiction.
Richard Pine, a partner in the New York literary agency InkWell Management LLC, said presenting the book as fiction to one publisher and nonfiction as another is ''highly questionable ethics.''
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Canberra to become photography mecca in 2008
8 July 2007
The announcement of Vivid, Australia's first ever National Photography Festival, by Jackie Dean, National President of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography will take place at 10.30am on 11 July 2007 in the National Library Theatre.
The Festival, to be held in Canberra in one year's time from 11 July to 12 October 2008, celebrates photography's vital role in Australian life and history. It also highlights the national capital's rich photographic collections through exhibitions, conferences, and events.
Vivid is a ground-breaking collaboration with 28 participating institutions hosting 36 exhibitions. Festival participants comprise the national collecting institutions, many of Canberra's smaller community organisations and galleries, as well as professional photographers and photography students.
The exhibitions range from historical to contemporary work. They include: Asia-Pacific photography from the 19th century to the 1940s at the National Gallery of Australia; provocative work by indigenous photographer, Dianne Jones, at Canberra Contemporary Art Space; images taken by street people shown in a 'Homeless Gallery'; and 'digital story telling' at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
An accompanying events program features image projections onto the external walls of the Australian War Memorial and the National Library and an international conference on photography at the Australian National University. Public lectures and gallery talks in a range of venues and a photographic trade show are incorporated in the program.
The diverse Festival will cater to differing ages and levels of engagement ranging from child-friendly and adult tours of exhibitions to master classes and displays of student and graduate work as well as networking opportunities for professional photographers.
Participation in Vivid is still open. Conference organisers would like to hear from institutions and groups interested in taking part. Requirements for participation are as follows: the exhibition or event must be based on still photography, located in Canberra during the festival dates, and be self-funded.
More information on the Festival at http://www.nla.gov.au/pict/photofestival.html
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SAARISELKA, Finland Finland is prepared to compromise on creating a bigger rescue fund for the euro zone despite scepticism over whether it is needed, Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen said on Saturday.
Euro zone finance ministers will discuss the issue at a meeting in Copenhagen on March 30-31.
While almost all of the currency bloc's 17 member states favour a stronger firewall, Germany and Finland have been reluctant to commit.
"We are ready to find a compromise," Katainen told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a gathering of senior European policy makers in Saariselka, a resort in Finnish Lapland. "What's important is that the firewall is credible."
The firewall is one of the longest-running challenges the euro zone has faced in trying to get on top of the sovereign debt crisis over the past two years.
The hope is that by increasing its size, it will make it easier to handle the fallout if the crisis spreads to bigger economies such as Spain.
German news magazine Spiegel said in a report made available on Saturday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble had dropped their opposition to a larger firewall, citing unnamed government sources. <ID:L6E8EO0JG>
The euro zone currently has a temporary crisis fund, the 440 billion euro EFSF, and from July will also have a permanent mechanism, the 500 billion euro ESM.
The European Commission, in a paper obtained by Reuters, has put forward three options for increasing the size of the firewall, using different methods of combining the resources of the EFSF and ESM.
Of the three, diplomats say the most likely to win backing at the meeting in Copenhagen is one in which the resources left in the EFSF - after its disbursements of around 200 billion euros to Portugal, Ireland and Greece - are combined with the ESM to create a facility of around 750 billion euros.
Finland has been wary of increasing the fund, with public opinion in the country - one of only three triple-A states left in the euro zone - against taking on more liabilities. But Katainen indicated that opposition could be overcome.
While European financial markets have stabilised in recent weeks with the help of 1 trillion euros of three-year loans from the European Central Bank (ECB) and a new bailout fund for Greece, policymakers are under pressure to create a stronger firewall.
They hope that in turn will open the way for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase its crisis-fighting resources, building another layer of protection.
The IMF will meet in Washington on April 20-22.
Olli Rehn, the EU's top economic official, has been pushing for a fund that is big enough to bail out countries such as Italy and Spain should they be cut off from the markets, and said he was confident of a breakthrough in Copenhagen.
"The Commission has prepared a number of options for the Eurogroup," Rehn, also a Finn, told reporters in Saariselka.
"I am confident that we will reach a satisfactory compromise towards the end of next week to reinforce the euro area firewall, which will also help to increase the IMF resources in April in the spring meetings."
Katainen convened the gathering in Saariselka, which also included ECB board member Joerg Asmussen and the head of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, to discuss the longer-term future for the EU and how to stimulate growth.
Katainen said the firewall issue had also been a critical topic of the talks, held in a snowbound log cabin in a village 200 km (125 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
"Firstly, it must be high enough, and secondly, it cannot be too high," Katainen said of the firewall. "Otherwise the liabilities of the member countries would rise too much and it might have a negative impact on the countries' credibility."
He also said the euro zone must be prepared to cut its reliance on the ECB's crisis support measures in a few years, a view seconded by Asmussen.
"We cannot outsource crisis management to the ECB only," Katainen said. "Now we have a couple of years' time to do what's necessary in order to strengthen the growth basis and strengthen the EU's credibility."
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Multiple Strategies for Multi-Digit Multiplication
This past school year, my students have learned many strategies for multi-digit multiplication. I am astounded by their ability to think flexibly and find the best strategy to fit a particular problem. They can compute so much faster and with greater ease and efficiency than I was ever able to do with only one multi-digit multiplication tool. Many times, they can compute mentally because the right strategy makes multiplication easy. This week, we reviewed using 25 x 96. Take a look.
(The sheet below comes from Bridges Grade 5 Second Edition and is used by permission.)
Doubling & Halving
After the review, I gave them a sheet of multi-digit multiplication expressions and let them choose a different problem to illustrate each of the six strategies. They organized their work on these Strategy Support Sheets (questions/ideas modified from Bridges Second Edition) where they had to:
1. show their work using the strategy
2. explain why that strategy was well-suited for that particular problem
3. prove their answer correct by solving with a second strategy.
I heard kids exclaim, "this is FUN!" and saw example after example of high-level mathematical thinking. They GET which strategies are the most efficient for different types of problems. The sheets will be used as reference pages in their math notebooks.
I can't begin to describe how proud I am!
The articles in this 3-part series on Teaching Multi-Digit Multiplication include:
1. Multiple Strategies for Multi-Digit Multiplication (introduction)
2. Choosing the BEST Strategy
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As professional counselors we are well trained in a variety of techniques and theories that can be used to assist you in exploring and understanding the presenting issue, as well as, working through the past connections. Personal counseling can provide assistance with problem solving, goal setting and often leads to symptom relief. By exploring the presenting issue(s) with a non-judgmental therapist in a safe and caring environment; you will find that counseling often leads to personal growth and the development of new life skills. You may find new ways of looking at future situations.
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Morbid is an ability word.
When this happens at this time, if a creature died this turn, do X.
Take Morkut Banshee as an example. It says: "When Morkut Banshee enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn."
Morbid only works when a creature has died. Another example of a morbid creature is Reaper of the Abyss. It says: "At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-demon creature."
You can see that some morbid creatures only trigger when they enter the battlefield, and others trigger at other times. Although most morbid cards are creatures, a few are not. Take Brimstone Volley as an example. It deals 3 damage to a target normally, but if morbid is activated, it will deal 5 damage instead.
If a creature gets exiled, morbid doesn't get turned on. If tokens get killed, morbid gets turned on. With Brimstone Volley, you can cast a removal spell like Doom Blade in response to the Volley. A creature dies and 5 damage is dealt instead of 3.
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Farmers and garden owners know how good it is to grow different plants directly in peat.
“Peat is a pretty large resource in Latvia, but the outlet is not exactly right. We're just exporting it raw. This is a bad approach on the part of the country,” said the researcher Kristīne Irtiševa.
It is not effective to just place peat on the field, so Irtiševa has found another solution. Her developed technology means that peat could be sprayed on the field as a liquid.
“Peat is essentially soil. We will grow more, for example, potatoes, by planting potatoes in good soil,” said Irtiševa.
“We have peat, which is solid mass. Dilute with water. Everything is arranged in certain proportions so that the solution is optimal for future technological processes. In the extraction process, we get a solution containing some more particles, and then the next step is to separate these particles,” the scientist said.
The result is a concentrated peat solution that farmers can use to sprayplants. It is not harmful to the environment and could also be used by organic farms. Currently, studies continue with specialists at the University of Latvia, fluid is given for testing to farmers and for testing at Bulduri Gardening High School. Until such a product appears on store shelves, at least three more years are needed.
“The goal is to grow to a level of scientific evidence that it really works on the field, and then I can safely go into the market,” Irtiševa said. | <urn:uuid:f1480682-f710-4e77-abd7-8b3e7bf24f6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/innovative-peat-based-soil-enhancement-made-in-latvia.a371055/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.960033 | 335 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Corneliu Luca, Ph.D., M.D.
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Dr. Luca is a faculty member in the department of Neurology who specializes in neurological movement disorders.
University of Miami Neurology - Unveils Robert M. and Judith K. Cornfeld Neuroimaging Research Program
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Impairment in walking is common in the setting of both neurological disease and aging in general. Two common neurological disorders, Parkinson disease and Frontal Gait Disorder, lead to impairments in the initiation and maintenance…
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Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate Leucesius, the god of lightning. In another the Arval Brethren placate Mars or Marmar, the god of pestilence and blight (lues rues). The gods are most dreaded at the seasons most important to a primitive people, seed-time, for example, and harvest. The Salii celebrated Mars at seed-time—in the month which bears his name, mensis Martius. The name of the Arval Brethren betrays their relation to the gods who watch the sown fields. The aim of this primitive priestly poetry is to get a particular deity into the power of the worshipper. To do this it is necessary to know his name and to use it. In the Arval hymn the name of the god is reiterated—it is a spell. Even so Jacob wished to know—and to use—the name of the god with whom he wrestled. These priestly litanies are accompanied by wild dances—the Salii are, etymologically, 'the Dancing men'—and by the clashing of shields. They are cast in a metre not unsuited to the dance by which they are accompanied. This is the famous Saturnian metre, which remained the metre of all Latin poetry until the coming of the Greeks. Each verse falls into two halves corresponding to the forward swing and the recoil of the dance. Each half-verse exhibits three rhythmical beats answering to the beat of a three-step dance. The verse is in the main accentual. But the accent is hieratic. The hieratic accent is discovered chiefly in the first half of the verse: where the natural accent of a disyllabic word is neglected and the stress falls constantly on the final syllable.DIVOM templa cante, diuom deo supplicate.ii QVOME tonas, Leucesie, prae tet tremonti. quor libet, Curis, decstumum tonare?iii CONSE, ulod oriese: omnia tuere, adi, Patulci, coi isse: Sancus Ianes Cerus es. Duonus Ianus ueuet po melios, eu, recum.THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD. | <urn:uuid:06eb5992-0a32-47b7-b0b1-a3df8fed727e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://libmir.net/the-oxford-book-of-latin-fb2-rtf-113511.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899208 | 514 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Sonoluminescence¿the physical phenomenon by which sound turns into light¿is as mystifying as a magic trick. Despite 70 years of trying, scientists still cannot fully explain how a bubble of air in water focuses acoustic energy a trillionfold to spit out picosecond bursts of ultraviolet radiation. Initially physicists attributed the flashes to friction. In the late 1980s, though, they came to see that bubbles in a sound wave's path expanded and rapidly collapsed¿heating the gas inside them to temperatures hotter than the sun's surface. This collapse and heat, they determined, created a glowing plasma.
In this week's issue of Physical Review Letters, Gary A. Williams and his colleagues from the University of California at Los Angeles present evidence that lends further support to that theory. The researchers set out to explain earlier observations that the spectra of light from a single bubble lacked an emission line¿for the molecule OH¿seen from multiple bubbles. Because of the discrepancy, some had suggested that different physical mechanisms were at work and that there were, in essence, two kinds of sonoluminescence. But Williams's group proved that isn't the case, creating larger-than-usual single bubbles whose spectra included the missing emission.
Although they don't know why, the researchers say that bubble size alone seems to predict the OH line and suggest that, compared with smaller single bubbles that collapse symmetrically (top right), larger bubbles in multibubble systems are unstable (bottom right). The team further fitted the spectra to a blackbody radiation curve and showed that it corresponded to plasma at a temperature of about 8,000 degrees Kelvin. "It's a nice connecting together of the underlying physical phenomena," Ken Suslick of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign told Physical Review Focus. "And the ability to recognize the OH emission line is pretty cool." | <urn:uuid:7c6cecd3-b954-44f7-b97c-bd6e222dd390> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://refreshingnews99.blogspot.com/2012/07/tiny-bubbles-explain-puzzle-about-light.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.953981 | 387 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Congress Debates Fresh Investigation Of Interrogations
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The legacy of George W. Bush continued to dog President Obama and his administration yesterday, as Congress divided over creating a panel to investigate the harsh interrogation techniques employed under Bush's authorization and the White House tried to contain the controversy over the president's decision to release Justice Department memos justifying and outlining those procedures.
Obama had hoped to put the whole matter behind him, first by banning those interrogation methods early in his presidency and then by releasing the memos last week with the provison that no CIA official who carried out interrogations should be prosecuted.
Instead, the latest decision has stirred controversy on the right and the left. Obama has drawn sharp criticism from former vice president Richard B. Cheney, former CIA directors and Republican elected officials for releasing the memos. Those critics see softness in the commander in chief. He faces equally strong reaction from the left, where there is a desire to punish Bush administration officials for their actions and to conduct a more thorough investigation of what happened.
The controversy moved to Capitol Hill yesterday as lawmakers debated the wisdom of beginning a fresh investigation of the Bush-era practices. Several top Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), withheld judgment, noting that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has begun an inquiry.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), however, endorsed the idea and said witnesses should not be immune from prosecution.
Obama apparently thought he could avoid what is now playing out. In the weeks when he was weighing the release of the memos, a vigorous debate took place within his administration. There was, according to a senior official, considerable support among Obama's advisers for the creation of a 9/11 Commission-style investigation as an alternative to releasing the documents. But the president quashed the concept.
"His concern was that would ratchet the whole thing up," the official said. "His whole thing is: 'I banned all this. This chapter is over. What we don't need now is to become a sort of feeding frenzy where we go back and re-litigate all this.' "
Obama knew he could not stop Congress from doing whatever lawmakers decided to do, but he was reluctant to give a presidential imprimatur to a national commission that would keep the controversy alive for months or years. He had his own agenda and wanted to move on. Putting out the memos seemed to be the cleanest way to accomplish his twin goals of making a break with the previous administration and avoiding a lengthy and partisan debate over his policy vs. Bush's.
That was where things stood when the administration released the information last week. In the subsequent four days, officials did damage control. Obama went to CIA headquarters Monday to defend his decision and to try to boost morale at the agency. Meanwhile, there was a backlash against the administration's seeming posture that no one should be prosecuted for what happened under Bush.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contributed to the perception that this was the administration's position. Speaking on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, he said that neither the CIA officials who carried out the harsh interrogations nor the Justice Department officials who authorized them should be prosecuted. "It's not a time to use our energy and our time in looking back [in] any sense of anger and retribution," he said.
That was contrary to what the administration signaled when the memos were released. At that time, it seemed clear that the authors of the legal justification could face legal jeopardy, depending on a further review by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
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[Use of Computers in Introductory Physics Teaching.]
Merrill, John R.
This paper presents some of the preliminary results of Project COEXIST at Dartmouth College, an NSF sponsored project to investigate ways to use computers in introductory physics and mathematics teaching. Students use the computer in a number of ways on homework, on individual projects, and in the laboratory. Students write their own programs, whenever possible. On occasion, it is more useful to have the student programs written and saved by the teacher. Five areas of work are described: (1) illustrations from a broad range of study areas are introduced to show the versatility of computer-connected graphic display devices such as X-Y plotters and cathode ray terminals; (2) a simple, intuitive approach to the propagation of waves in dispersive media is shown; (3) a program is described which can be used to calculate a large number of interference and diffractive patterns; (4) general methods are given to find a map field patterns for general distribution of charges and current loops; and (5) solutions are found to some simple Schrodinger equations using a computer program. (Author/TS)
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Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH. Dept. of Physics.
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Constructivism is one of the basic theories of international relations. Its central tenet is that most or even all important elements of international politics are the product of specific social circumstances and historical processes, rather than being inevitable consequences of the nature of humans or the nature of politics. This willingness to see international relations as socially constructed sets constructivism apart from traditional approaches to realism and liberalism. Significant authors include Alexander Wendt, John Ruggie, and Martha Finnemore.
The more radical branches of constructivism, involving (for example) poststructuralist and postmodernist analysis of discourse and linguistics, are technically constructivist but must be described separately to appreciate their significance.
The basic observation of constructivism is that human relations are guided more by ideas than by material things. It emerged as an explicit challenge to Kenneth Waltz’s neorealism, which argued that state behaviour was determined by the international system in which states existed and operated. Instead, constructivists note that someone (or rather, many people) must have constructed that system in the first place; in fact, that system is continually being built, modified, and rebuilt as we speak.
Where realist approaches thus assumed that states’ identities and interests were fixed and relatively unproblematic, constructivists assume this is not the case, and look for ways that how states perceive of themselves and their actions have changed. This is not to say that an international system does not exist or that smaller states, in particular, do not often feel pressured by it; instead, it merely points out that international society is, in effect, what human beings make it to be.
The constructivist challenge offers valuable insights into many of the concepts taken for granted by conventional realist, liberal, and to a lesser extent Marxist analysis. The concept of international anarchy, for example, is found to be considerably more flexible than realists imagine. Traditionally, anarchy (the lack of a single overarching power structure defining hierarchical relationships between states) is seen by neorealists as the cause of insecurity and conflict between states. However, this is only one conception of the consequences of anarchy, which most states happen to have adopted as true. Alternatively, international human society could be organized on a cooperative basis rather than a competitive basis.
At the same time, constructivists open themselves to a range of criticisms. Mainstream scholars frequently attack critical and social theories in general as leading to obfuscation and incoherence, ignoring the “reality on the ground” in favour of increasingly cluttered academic theorizing. Certain veins of critical theory, however, go much farther than constructivism in attempting to assert the ethical or moral validity of actual alternative conceptions of international systems. Constructivism as such merely asserts that present social structures are socially constructed; it does not suggest what social constructions are preferable to others, nor does it suggest, except in vague terms, how one might consciously alter the continuing evolution of state identity and interest in the international system.
Although Nicholas Onuf (World of Our Making) first employed the term constructivism in the study of international relations, Alexander Wendt (Social Theory of International Politics) is the best-known constructivist scholar, emerging during the 1990s as a direct challenger to the ascendancy of Kenneth Waltz’s neorealism during the 1980s. Wendt first applied constructivist theory to the problem of anarchy, as described above. Other major constructivist scholars include John Ruggie (Constructing the World Polity) and Martha Finnemore (National Interests in International Society).
More radical departures from constructivism are dealt with in a different fact sheet. However, poststructuralist and linguistic and discourse analyses also emerged from similar assumptions during the 1990s. These scholars include Richard Ashley, Friedrich Kratochwil (Rules, Norms and Decisions), R.B.J. Walker(Inside/Outside), and James Der Derian (Antidiplomacy).
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Our laboratory is interested in the mechanisms of aging. Aging is a chronic process associated with deteriorating physiological functions and increased risk for multiple diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegeneration, and metabolic disorders. Our goals are to understand the biology of aging and to develop new approaches to intervene in diseases of aging. Research topics in the laboratory include autophagy, chromatin and epigenetics, immunology, and metabolism, in the broad scenarios of aging and cancer.
NUCLEAR DEGENERATION IN AGING AND CANCER
The nucleus is a central cellular entity. Our study suggests that the nucleus undergoes profound degeneration during aging and tumorigenesis. Nuclear components, including nuclear lamina and chromatin, can be degraded by autophagy (Dou et al, Nature, 2015). While autophagy is generally viewed as a cytoplasmic recycling mechanism, the degradation of nuclear materials is beginning to unravel. We are particularly interested in asking:
What are nuclear and chromatin substrates of autophagy?
How is nuclear autophagy regulated?
How does nuclear autophagy impact chromatin and the epigenome?
What are the functional roles of nuclear degeneration in aging and cancer?
THE BIOLOGY OF CELLULAR SENESCENCE
Cellular senescence, also referred to as the Hayflick limit, is a stable form of cell cycle arrest. Senescence restricts proliferation of damaged cells, and hence is a tumor suppressive mechanism. However, senescent cells accumulate in aged tissues, contributing to many age-associated diseases. Our study shows that senescent cells generate chromatin fragment in the cytoplasm, which is interpreted by the cell as a “danger signal” and activates the cytosolic DNA sensing cGAS-STING pathway, leading to inflammation (Dou et al, Nature, 2017). The pro-inflammatory feature of senescence triggers immuno-surveillance of oncogenic cells, but contributes to age-associated diseases. We aim to address several fundamental questions of senescence:
How is cytoplasmic chromatin generated and regulated?
What is the interaction between senescent cells and the immune system?
How can we target this pro-inflammatory pathway to treat diseases?
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We recently connected with Terrance Hill and have shared our conversation below.
Terrance, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love for you to start by sharing your thoughts about the pros and cons of family businesses.
Since the inception of the Great Slave Trade in 1619, there has been a huge gap in Wealth Development between African Americans and other races in the USA. The concept of Families building Generational Wealth should be everyone’s ultimate goal. Historically, black-owned companies, like Madam C.J. Walker’s hair-care line and the businesses that formed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, were developed in direct response to racial discrimination. “These segregation patterns then created market opportunities for black entrepreneurs to step in, make money and meet the demands of the black community,” says Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. With few work opportunities and high job instability, many black pioneers took matters into their own hands, building small enterprises that served and employed fellow African-Americans. According to Inc. Magazine below are the 10 things to consider when starting a Family Business: 1. All the traditional rules of business still apply
2. It WILL affect your relationship.
3. Someone has to be in charge.
4. Just because it’s your dream doesn’t mean it’s theirs.
5. Traditional roles (CEO, CFO, COO, etc.) may have loose or unclear boundaries.
6. The learning curve may be huge.
7. You will need time off.
8. Your existing baggage will be magnified in times of stress.
9. Mutual respect and clear communication are critical.
10. It will be fun… and it will also be hard.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
First to tell you a little bit about myself and the company I have started. I learned the art of American Regional BBQ from my dad and uncle at the age of 10. Later I trained at the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School and worked at several top restaurants from Dallas, Texas to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2010 I became a Certified Judge for the Kansas City BBQ Society judging BBQ competitions all around the USA. I have consulted numerous BBQ and other restaurant establishments in creating that one-of-a-kind flavor from Toronto, ON to Dallas, Texas., as well as hosted Pitmaster Bootcamp classes around the country teaching the Art of Authentic Southern BBQ. For The Southern Gentleman’s Table menu, I drew on my family’s Southern African-American heritage to create dishes that have won prizes at cooking competitions and received rave reviews in our taste testing. Together we have come up with a fresh concept, a popular menu, and an ambitious but achievable plan to build it into a thriving new business.
I am most proud of the fact that I have taken a God-Given gift and tried to perfect it every day I have breath in my lungs and I have fun doing it. When you are doing what you love and operating in your purpose most days it doesn’t feel like work at all
Where do you think you get most of your clients from?
Even in 2022 Word of mouth is still the most effective way in building your business. You have to combine that with a good Social Media Strategy, but scheduling calls every day to new potential customers and providing samples of your business products still draws people towards your business.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Every business needs to have a “Social Marketing Strategy”. A social marketing strategy gives you a big-picture view of your social media marketing goals and how you can best achieve those outcomes. I had to learn how to create a Content Calendar, which tells me based on the statistics the optimal engagement times when to create a Social Media Post. For instance, on Mondays, the Stats day at 11:00 AM is the most effective time to create an Instagram Post, and 9 AM for TikTok. Break down your Social Marketing Strategy into 7 areas:
1. Goals: The outcomes you want from your efforts and how you’ll measure them.
2. Target audiences: Researching and defining your easiest customers.
3. Metrics: Creating a data-driven marketing strategy.
4. Content mix: Recurring ideas or post types to include in your social media programming.
5. Channels: The social networks you want to dedicate your time to and what you’ll use them for.
6. Infrastructure: Setting up the process and tools to execute your strategy efficiently.
7. Improvements: Adapting and innovating on your progress during the year.
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Cord Blood Association
The link to the Zoom conversation between Cord Blood Association board members and umbilical cord blood bank representatives in Kyiv:
The EBMT is deeply concerned about the Russian invasion in #Ukraine and the impact that this is having on civilians and #patients in the affected regions. In line with EBMT’s mission, vision and values, and an overwhelming need to help, EBMT is committed to helping Ukraine's patients as part of the EBMT Ukrainian Crisis Assistance Program (UCAP).
The #EBMT Board has unanimously agreed to allocate funding for the UCAP, which will endeavor to support and care for Ukrainian transplant and #cellulartherapy candidates by linking EBMT transplant centres that can treat these patients.
Is your centre willing to volunteer its services and host patients requiring #HSCT and/or cellular therapy? Please get in touch with us ASAP!
Open letter from the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) to condemn the war in Ukraine and to ensure that health services can continue to provide care to all patients in need of a transplant - March 3
Our community believes in collaboration, integration and democracy. Through acts of aggression by Russian military forces, we see these values being threatened and eroded. WMDA calls on all stakeholders to strongly condemn the violence, bombing, killings, and disruption to essential services resulting from this conflict.
WMDA asks that all parties respect international humanitarian law by ensuring swift and safe delivery of cellular products to all patients who need a transplant and to ensure access to care and medicinal products for patients needing complex transplant treatments, such as those with blood cancer.
We stand for our colleagues, friends, families, donors and patients impacted by this tragedy and we continue to support all of our members during this difficult time.
EUPHA statement: Health is at stake in the Ukraine invasion - February 25
EUPHA unreservedly condemns the invasion of Ukraine by armed forces. As a public health organisation, it notes that the invasion poses important threats to health in the immediate future and the longer term:
- a) As set out in the 1986 Ottawa Charter, peace is the first prerequisite for health. The invasion has already led to unnecessary deaths among the Ukrainian people and the invading forces, including an attack on a hospital, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions;
- b) The invasion, with the inevitable displacement of people, destruction of infrastructure, and disruption of trade will have severe economic consequences for the people of Ukraine, many of whom have been living precarious lives, with obvious implications for their health;
- c) The invasion is a clear threat to the democratically elected government of Ukraine. The democratic process is a means by which the health needs of a population can be turned into policies, with clear evidence that it contributes positively to health.
Furthermore, EUPHA notes:
- a) the repeated efforts by the Ukrainian government and by western leaders to prevent this act of unprovoked aggression;
- b) the right, under Article 51 of the UN Charter, of the Ukrainian government to take action in self-defence.
EUPHA calls for:
- a) An immediate cessation of hostilities, followed rapidly by a withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine, supervised by international monitors from either the United Nations or Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Page 2/2
- b) Respect for the Geneva Conventions, and in particular the protection of health workers and facilities;
- c) Full implementation of the Minsk II agreement; and
- d) Respect for the rights of those in the Russian Federation who are calling for peace.
EUPHA further stands in solidarity with its member associations in countries that may also face future threats from external aggression, and especially those in the Baltic states.
Joint Statement on behalf of American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, EBMT and WBMT - March 3
The American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT), European Society for Blood Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), and Worldwide Network for Blood Marrow Transplantation (WBMT) firmly condemns the war started by Russian military forces in Ukraine. In particular, ASTCT, EBMT, and WBMT request that peace negotiations prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable Ukrainian people. Casualties among innocent civilians increase by the minute, including children. Patients with severe conditions, such as those with cancer or undergoing life-saving transplants, are currently affected by lack of medications and medical supplies, limited ability to travel to hospitals, lack of adequate nutrition. Healthcare providers and hospital staff in Kyiv remain in their hospitals to treat the patients in shelters, while bombs continue to hit the city.
ASTCT, EBMT, and WBMT joins the international community and requests that:
a) safe corridors can be established for patients and providers to travel to the hospital;
b) international organizations can be allowed to ship medical supplies;
c) patients whose care cannot be completed in Ukraine at this time may be allowed to travel to foreign countries offering to host them.
ASTCT, EBMT, and WBMT expresses its solidarity to all the Ukrainian healthcare providers, friends and supporters worldwide, and hopes all the states currently engaged in wars will agree on the value of dialogue and peace that should not have borders.
- WHO Office on Ukraine has set up the Incident Management Team and is providing support to the country’s Ministry of Health and leading the international Health Cluster’s work for humanitarian emergencies. See the statement of the Head of WHO Country Office Dr Jarno HABICHT: https://www.facebook.com/WHOEurope/videos/489433626097431
- Radiation and Health Unit at the WHO Headquarters is providing technical support on matters related to radiation safety.
The statement of WHO DG on Ukraine crisis can be read here: https://www.who.int/news/item/24-02-2022-who-director-general-deeply-concerned-over-escalating-health-crisis-in-ukraine
The statement of IAEA DG : https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-director-general-statement-on-the-situation-in-ukraine
How you can help
- Here is the link for donating to UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/conflict-ukraine-pose-immediate-threat-children
- Here is the link for donating to Red Cross Ukraine: https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine
Do you need support to transport cells?
You can reach out to the WMDA International Emergency Task Force, contact them here: https://share.wmda.info/x/PqKbEw
Please find an overview of the contact details of WMDA member organisations below:
Prepare your registry for internet connection failure, and print the list with the contact details of WMDA member organisations. Find the overview here.
Message from the Ukrainian Bone Marrow Registry - March 4
Today russia attacked with bombs the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The largest one in Europe. We refer to all bone marrow registers in the world.
- Appeal to your governments and your people to support Ukraine in the war with Russia.
- Ask which of your transplant centres can take Ukrainian patients (priority children) for free bone marrow transplantation so that we understand where they can go. Ukraine's transplant program has been stopped due to Russia's military attack on Ukraine.
- Help financially, the money will be spent on revitalizing of Ukrainian bone marrow registry after the war, in extreme cases, on humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
- If you see an opportunity to help the Bone Marrow registry in Ukraine with something else, please contact us - we are open and thank you for any help.
Message from DKMS Polska - March 3
Help for oncological children from Ukraine. 🇺🇦 #SolidarnizUkrainą
We supported the initiative of the Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, organizing medical transport for sick children from Ukraine so that they could continue treatment in Poland. Thanks to the great commitment of Professor Wojciech Młynarski, numerous patient organizations from Polish and Ukraine and our foundation, on the night of March 1, two small oncological patients went to the Department of Pediatrics, Oncology, Hematology and Diabetology of the Medical University of Łódź. A disabled 6-year-old girl and her mother, who fled Kharkov before the war, are temporarily accommodated in a private apartment. Two more children with cancer were transported to clinics in Lublin and Krakow yesterday. Further transports for children requiring specialist medical assistance during the border– hospital route are in preparation.
"The current situation in Ukraine required quick action to help small oncological patients and transport them to Polish hospitals where they will receive medical assistance. In cooperation with Professor Wojciech Młynarski, we managed to organize the first medical transports tailored to their needs. Help has no borders – this slogan has been with us since the beginning of our activity, and in recent days it has gained special importance." – says Ewa Magnucka-Bowkiewicz, President of the DKMS Foundation.
The Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology has launched a hotline for doctors and parents from Ukraine (also in Ukrainian) regarding the possibility of treating children in Poland.
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French street artist ROTI’s work has taken a shocking turn in the form of sculpture. In a show of support for the protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, ROTI carved massive blocks of stone into shallow gravesites that have protruding body parts — resembling Han Solo’s unfortunate adventure with carbon-freezing. The pieces are simple yet spellbinding. Each structure is carved from a slab of marble using a chainsaw and other power tools. The sides of the sculptures are clean and flat, with protuberance only on the large, flat surfaces. ROTI crafts human faces, hands, and feet into the topmost portion of the rock, sometimes highlighting the body parts with disappearing ripples, as if the body were emerging from water.
ROTI joined the hundreds of thousands of dissenters already in Kiev for anti-government “Euromaiden” protests. The government’s response to the protesters has started to become violent as clashes with local police forces intensify. The clashes have grown more ferocious since the government passed anti-protest laws, which make public dissention a crime that can carry a jail sentence of up to five years. | <urn:uuid:257c8d93-6882-4ab9-ac71-d830af387648> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.complex.com/style/2014/01/roti-sculpture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.940991 | 247 | 2.03125 | 2 |
A student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock may pursue a concurrent MBA degree with the Bowen School of Law or the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Students may count two relevant elective courses for the MBA and count two relevant MBA courses for the law or medicine programs. Students must be accepted in both programs.
The MBA-JD concurrent degree integrates the study of management and law education, as well as a broad base of knowledge and skills in both areas. Those who earn the Joint MBA-JD degree will develop skills to pursue careers in the business and legal professions and can go on to become an attorney, CEO, investment banker, government regulator, entrepreneur, business policy analyst, estate planner and more.
MBA-JD students must also complete the Declaration of Intent to Pursue Concurrent Degrees and obtain signatures of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the Bowen School of Law and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the UALR College of Business.
MBA-PharmD and MBA-MD
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A RESPECTED rail expert has claimed the controversial HS2 line could revolutionise travel for the people of Coventry and Warwickshire.
It comes after a YouGov poll commissioned by opponents of the £32million project found almost two-thirds of people were now against the non-stop London to Birmingham line.
William Barter is a rail planning consultant who has worked for a host of top firms including Network Rail and Transport for London.
His advice has been sought on the viability of train lines around the world and their impact.
Transport secretary Justine Greening is due to make a decision on whether to recommend the 250mph bullet train to Parliament in a matter of weeks.
Meanwhile, a fierce battle for hearts and minds is taking place between those in favour and those opposed. Mr Barter told the Telegraph HS2 could vastly improve connectivity within the West Midlands.
“The problem with the (existing) West Coast Mainline is it is one railway trying to do two or three different jobs – and not doing any particularly well.
“At peak times priority is given to fast through trains at the expense of local services.
“If you live in Coventry now, there isn’t a train to Milton Keynes.
“HS2 would divert long distance traffic on to the new line so trains would be able to stop at more local stations and serve more local markets.”
The high speed rail plan would cut through Warwickshire and along the western edge of Coventry.
Two out of the three city MPs have joined Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council in fighting it.
Many have raised concerns about Coventry losing its much-valued three fast trains an hour to London.
“Logically, after HS2, I can’t see any way there’s still going to be three trains an hour,” Mr Barter said.
“But there should be two, and there will be more useful services stopping at variety of other places.
“For those who want the faster service to London there’s HS2.
“What Coventry gets out of HS2 is still up for grabs.
“What annoys me is MPs campaigning against it, saying local services might suffer.
“Local services could improve but only if MPs and councils get their act together and put forward the right arguments.
“If they don’t start trying to fight now it will be too late to campaign for these extra local services.”
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Known for its ample amount of seafood, “The Hub”, also known as Boston, Massachusetts is a major trade port of the East Coast. Boston has a rich history as one of the earliest cities in the history of the United States. A lot has changed since the city’s founding in 1630. Boston has since become a major city for innovation and technology. So, how much does a full stack developer in Boston make? Career Karma has the answer!
What is a Full Stack Developer?
Before we hit the numbers, let’s take a look at what a full stack developer does. If you’ve ever heard of backend or front end development, then you’re already halfway there! Full stack developers embody the skills of both of these developers. That means that they not only know several different coding languages, but that they’re also comfortable working with many different aspects of application building. While this may seem daunting to the novice coder, it’s important to note that employers compensate full stack developers very generously for their time.
So, how much does the average full stack developer in Boston make? The answer: A whopping $123,000 per year. Which is 11% higher than the national average full stack developer salary. Keep in mind that these are merely averages and that salaries can vary from as low as $62,000 to as high as $204,000 per year. Salaries can also vary based on experience and prospective employers.
So, if you’re ready to pack your bags for Boston, you may be wondering who’s hiring. Some of the largest companies in Boston include General Electric, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Lose It!, edX, CarGurus, and more. Companies currently hiring full stack developers in the Boston area include Boston Children’s Hospital, SimpliSafe, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Twitter, Harvard University, and more.
How to Get Started
If all the job prospects in Boston have you excited about beginning your career as a full stack developer, you may be wondering where to start. Coding bootcamps are one of the best ways to learn full stack development and prepare for a job in tech. Career Karma can help match you to the best program to help you achieve your goals!
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A well-to-do American Jewish family in 1939 Atlanta is preparing for the annual cotillion at their country club, while slowly awakening to what’s happening at the time in Europe besieged by Hitler’s armies. Loving, humorous, and poignant portrait of a family at a crossroads … winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1997.
As our second offering this season we bring to you Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a loving, humorous, and poignant portrait of a well-to-do Jewish family who find themselves at a crossroads in their lives. It’s December of 1939, Europe is under siege by Hitler’s armies, Gone with the Wind is about to premiere on the silver screen, but the biggest concern of the Freitag and Levy families in Atlanta, Georgia, is Ballyhoo, the lavish annual cotillion for the city’s Jewish socialites – and more precisely the choice of ball gowns, and the marriage prospects, for the family’s two young ladies set make their debuts. As the play unfolds, the author’s serious underlying message on social and political bias is enlivened by sparkling banter and comedic situations.
Uhry, born in 1936 into an upper middle class German-Jewish family in Atlanta, was inspired by childhood memories to compose ‘Ballyhoo’ in the early nineties as a series of vignettes on intra-ethnic prejudice within a setting very familiar to him. Having achieved world-class recognition with the production of his Pulitzer Prize winning Driving Miss Daisy in 1987, Uhry was approached by the Olympic Games’ Cultural Olympiad to compose The Last Night of Ballyhoo for the 1996 Olympics Games held in Atlanta that year. The play, well-received in Atlanta, was produced on Broadway in 1997, enjoying a run of 556 performances and winning the Tony Award for Best Play.
by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Loretta Lucy Miller and Marilyn Yoblick
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A content management system or CMS is a kind of software used to create and edit digital content. There are two types of CMSs. The first one facilitates the workflow in a collaborative environment by integrating document management. The second one is used (both by developers and users) for updating and modifying the content on the websites. There are a lot of different CMSs available on the market. If you’re interested in the web CMSs built on a .NET framework, here is a list of top-5 .NET based content management systems.
This CMS has a simple user interface. It allows you to manage your content without deep knowledge of the technology. With its built-in media library, you can get your photos automatically scaled and make your pictures responsive. It can be integrated with any third-party tool and used as an excellent online marketing tool or e-commerce platform. Umbraco is a great solution for large media sites as well as small projects. One of its major advantages is that it’s an open source CMS. Being designed for developers, it can be not so easy to get started with it.
This all-in-one platform allows customers to create their websites, online stores, and intranets. As a CMS, Kentico helps you deliver an integral customer experience across various channels and devices. It features customizable web parts, support of many languages, media libraries, and device detection. All this saves your time and resources and lets you focus on other important aspects.
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The Sitefinity CMS provides a cutting-edge solution for content authors and marketers. It has a drag-and-drop interface so you can create new content with the help of user-friendly widgets. You can edit those widgets once they are in place. Enhance the relevance of your content by creating separate user segments. A particular part of the content will be automatically demonstrated to them. A centralized interface allows organizations control their different websites. With a rich toolset you shift from the question of how to build to the question of what to build. Tools include solutions for email campaigns, social media, e-commerce, blogs, forums, etc. SEO-friendly URLs are another Sitefinity’s great feature.
This free open-source CMS platform is easy to use, full-featured, and mobile-friendly. It’s also a web application framework written in C# ASP.NET. The source code is well-organized and many people choose mojoPortal as a basic kit for developing advanced websites. No knowledge of HTML is required to create and edit content. You can create accessible and mobile friendly web pages right from your browser.
DNN is another leading open source web CMS platform. Using it you can build quality commercial websites, social intranets, and community portals. More than 750,000 websites are now powered by DNN all over the world. It allows its customers to manage content on their websites without much technical knowledge. Its default functionality can be expanded by many third-party applications. Its skinning architecture is flexible and easy to use. You don’t have to go to a separate administration area to integrate administration tools into the website and make changes. Thousands of helpful modules make DNN a perfect choice for both medium and large organizations.
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It is known as the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is in Western Asia. The education here is centralized with K-12 education being supervised by the ministry of education whereas the higher education is overseen by the ministry of Science and Technology.According to SCImago, Iran could rank fourth in the world in terms of research output by 2018.
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Extract data from Google BigQuery
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Load data into Google BigQuery
You can use the same techniques you would normally use to work with relational databases in the Etlworks Integrator. However, it is important to understand that inserting data into Google BigQuery row by row can be painfully slow.
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Read with Oxford: Stage 5: Biff, Chip and Kipper: The Beehive Fence and Other Stories by Roderick Hunt
In this Read with Oxford: Stage 5: Biff, Chip and Kipper collection, children can read how Biff overcomes his fear of bees, join Chip, Wilf and Nadim on the very first Scout camp, and find out what happens when Kipper trains as a samurai! This collection contains four stories that are ideal for children who are beginning to read independently. There are tips for parents and fun activities throughout the book for you and your child to enjoy together. Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy the dog are the well-loved characters from Oxford Reading Tree, used in 80% of primary schools. With exciting stories, humorous illustrations, tips for parents and after-reading activities, this series is the perfect companion from your child's very first steps in phonics all the way to reading independence. Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence. Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on oxfordowl.co.uk. Let's get them flying! | <urn:uuid:634b2425-5d73-4978-9dca-db336a77c181> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wob.com/en-au/books/roderick-hunt/read-with-oxford-stage-5-biff-chip-and-kipper-the-beehive-fence-and-other-storie/9780192764317 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941265 | 263 | 2.609375 | 3 |
I’ve been getting tons of questions lately in my practice about the benefits of CBD (cannabidiol) oil. Women are interested, but also concerned about how CBD oil might affect their hormones, fertility, and the health of their babies. The good news is that while there are some concerns about THC (found in marijuana products that are commonly smoked, vaped, or consumed—and is the compound in cannabis that creates the “psychoactive high”) when it comes to fertility, conception, and pregnancy, there are a ton of wonderful benefits women can get from a high quality, organic, pure CBD product used topically or internally by way of tinctures, capsules or suppositories.
(Just to be perfectly clear: I don’t recommend that women who are trying to conceive or are pregnant should smoke or vape CBD or THC at all, ever.)
In order to understand the difference between THC and CBD products, and the amazing benefits of CBD, first you’ll need to understand your endocannabinoid system (ECS).
The ECS is the body’s biochemical communication and internal balancing system. It produces its own endocannabinoids—molecules that bind to and activate our cannabinoid receptors and keep a wide range of biological processes in equilibrium. Endocannabinoid receptors are found all throughout our body, including in the brain, organs, connective tissues, glands, and immune cells.
The endocannabinoid system is involved in regulating a variety of physiological and cognitive processes, including fertility, pregnancy (during pre and postnatal development), appetite, pain-sensation, mood, memory, and mediating the pharmacological effects of cannabis.
There are two major endocannabinoids—anandamide and 2-AG—our body makes on it’s own. Anandamide has been found to reduce inflammation, and is thought to have an anti-anxiety effect. A lack of anandamide has been linked to stress-related mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia and depression, and 2-AG has been found to have a role in human orgasm (!!!).
With its complex actions in virtually all of the body’s organs, endocannabinoids are literally a bridge between body and mind. When functioning properly, they keep our mind, body, stress, and emotions in balance. When out of balance, a slew of health issues can result.
Although a little fluctuation in your ECS is natural, some folks experience consistently lower or higher levels of endocannabinoid molecules—and that fluctuation is tied to your other hormones, and ultimately your fertility (more on that later) and your overall health.
Imbalances in your endocannabinoid system are associated with issues like:
This is where CBD oil comes in.
CBD oil is an oil that contains a plant-based cannabinoid called CBD, or cannabidiol. More than 100 cannabinoids have been identified in the marijuana plant, some more beneficial than others. In multiple randomized trials, CBD has a <10% rate of adverse events. That’s a better safety profile than alcohol: “Extensive preclinical research—much of it sponsored by the U.S. government—indicates that CBD has potent anti-tumoral, antioxidant, anti-spasmodic, anti-psychotic, anti-convulsive, and neuroprotective properties. CBD directly activates serotonin receptors, causing an anti-anxiety effect, as well.”
The cannabinoid you might be more familiar with—THC—is the cannabinoid that gives you the psychoactive feeling of being high. While CBD and THC are both plant-based cannabinoids, they interact with your ECS in very different ways.
First and foremost, both CBD and THC work by mimicking the effects of anandamide and 2-AG. However, there is one major difference between them: even though they have the same chemical formula, the atoms are in a slightly different arrangement.
This tiny variation in atoms means that THC is psychoactive, while CBD is not. Therefore, the effects of THC and CBD you experience are very different. In fact, although there are benefits associated with TCH, many individuals experience difficulty managing the side effects associated with THC, meaning the cost often outweighs the benefits.
The bottom line: we know CBD is a potent anti-inflammatory substance and has many benefits on various organ systems in the human body, and ALSO provides a powerhouse of benefit to the reproductive system. It’s not the same as TCH, and can be a powerful tool you definitely want to consider adding to your reproductive toolkit.
Next week, I’ll cover the nitty gritty benefits of CBD oil in detail.
In the meantime, do you have more questions about how CBD can improve your hormone health and/or fertility? Let’s talk!
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Date: 1895 ca.
Description: Promotional card created to advertize land in northern Wisconsin.
Caption: STREET SCENE IN MEDFORD, TAYLOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN. - This view of one of...
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
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Description: Promotional card advertising the hemlock barn industry in northern Wisconsin. The card features an elevated view of a tannery. Caption: THE HEMLOCK BARK...
Description: The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo...
Description: Bird's-eye map of Medford, before the great fire of May 28, 1885.
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Talk About a Skill that You can Teach Other People- IELTS Cue Card
Talk about a skill that you can teach other people.
You should say:
- What is it?
- How you learned it?
- How can you teach others this skill?
- How do you feel about this skill?
I believe if in the world there is one skill that gets augmented on its dissemination, then it’s undoubtedly teaching. The more you teach, the more you learn. If given a chance, I would love to teach Biology to people. This subject has always been one of my favourite topics to present on and all through my student life, I used to be a top scorer in this subject. I am so inclined towards it that I chose the discipline of Biology in my university as well.
When you are interested in doing something and get engrossed in it thoroughly, you choose different methods to make it even more riveting. I found various ways to make the topics of this subject interesting from a student’s perspective, which makes it an exciting field of study for me. Drawing analogies to real-life situations makes a topic entrancing and stays in my mind for a long time. Hence, I believe that I can teach this subject to its fullest potential to students. I would choose online classes to conduct the teaching as I usually get busy with other activities on a daily basis.
I believe comprehending Biology is vital for everyone irrespective of one’s profession. Knowing our body, anatomy, and morphology is vital to know its structure better. Apart from that, it is crucial to learn about the physiology of our organ system. However, it may not be required to learn about in utmost detail, yet skilled knowledge of how our body functions is essential. Also, learning or teaching biology is a skilled subset to have a clear perspective of how we evolved as organisms or the characteristics of various plants and animals that we encounter in our everyday lives.
Eg.: The burden over him augmented years after he took loans from people.
Eg.: Dissemination of information should always be made after ensuring all the parameters are acceptable.
Meaning: absorbed into something interesting
Eg.: We all were engrossed in his singing, so nobody noticed the fire.
Meaning: point of view
Eg.: My perspective of life changed upon meeting them.
Meaning: changed over the course of evolution.
Eg: Humans evolved from apes and that’s why we bear a resemblance to them.
Part 3 Questions
Should teachers be funny when they teach?
I believe learning becomes incredibly entrancing when it is associated with a tinge of humour and hence, I believe that teachers shouldn’t be monotonous in their way of teaching and should rather keep the class engaged by adding some humour and fun elements in the class.
What qualities should teachers have?
A teacher should have a decent grasp of his/her language skills. They should be able to explicate the most difficult concepts in the easiest way possible. Teachers should be able to understand the psychological attributes of their students and analyse their whereabouts and their learning abilities. Most importantly, teachers should be humble and understanding.
Which do you think are more important: practical skills or academic skills?
Well, practical and academic skills are equally important and work as an accomplice of each other. One can’t perform practicals without having a concrete basis of theory. At the same time, solely relying upon theories wouldn’t help create a robust foundation for learning a subject. In other words, you cannot excel in practical aspects without understanding the basics of a subject and you can’t perform in real life without having a practical knowledge of a domain. Therefore, both of them are indispensable to great learning.
Which age group is the best age for learning?
I believe the best age group that learns faster than others is between 5-8 years. Kids are often considered fast learners because they are pretty novice to everything and hence can learn the most as they do not have any prior information on a particular topic. Plus, their receptive mind is most effective during this age and what we learn during this period of time stays with us all our lives.
Eg.: The final twist made the movie entrancing towards the end.
Eg.: The initial phase of the documentary was quite monotonous.
Eg.: Attributes of a good human being are not limited to a certain set of qualities.
Meaning: having or exhibiting strength
Eg.: The building is too robust to be ravaged.
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It seems that you want to know how to delete the orphaned namespace information \\ourdomain.tld\DFS_Test from the DFS Management console. Meanwhile, you can query the current namespace \\ourdomain.tld\DFS_Prod which is on the production server.
As the domain-based DFS configuration stores in the AD database, every time we launch the DFS management console, it will try to retrieve the DFS information from AD.
There are two nodes in AD which stores the information of the DFS:
Node1. Store the DFS Namespace information which shows under the Namespaces node in DFS management console.
CN=DFS-Configuration, CN=System, DC=Domainname, DC=domainsuffix
Node2. Store the DFS Replication group information which shows under the Replication node in DFS management console.
CN=DFSR-GlobalSettings, CN= System, DC=Domainname, DC=domainsuffix
In this case, you may use ADSIedit.msc to delete the orphaned namespace information \\ourdomain.tld\DFS_Test under the node CN=DFS-Configuration.
1. Launch ADSIedit.msc
2. Connect to „Default naming context“ (the domain partition)
3. Expand and locate to the following node:
CN=Dfs-Configuration, CN=System, DC=ourdomain, DC=tld
4. Check if the orphaned namespace CN=DFS_Test is under it, if so, you may delete this node CN=DFS_Test
Afterwards, please run „repadmin /syncall“ if there is multiple domain controllers in the environment and then run „dfsrdiag pollad“ on all the DFS member servers to manually make them sync the information from AD database.
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Elements Of Drama
This occurs when the outcome of something is the opposite of what is expected.
When the reader/audience knows more about a situation than the characters involved; the reader /audience knows the 'big picture' while the characters only know their point of view.
A humorous scene that occurs after a serious scene to lighten the mood of audience.
A long speech a character says to another character or group of characters.
A long speech a character says alone,directed at the audience, to reveal their thought or advance the plot.
A play on words.
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Publication Date: 2009
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The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses, Revised and UpdatedJohn Ankerberg, John Weldon, Dillon BurroughsHarvest House Publishers / 2008 / Mass Paperback$5.99 Retail:
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Well-known authors and researchers John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs have updated and revised The Facts on the Masonic Lodge, a best-selling title from the popular Facts On Series (more than 1.9 million copies of books from this series sold).
The Facts on the Masonic Lodge is filled with well-documented facts and comprehensive comparisons to biblical truths. Readers learn what Masonry (also known as Freemasonry or "the Lodge") is by discovering when it began, who has been involved, what its teachings are, and how it influences their lives and the Christian church today. The Facts on the Masonic Lodge provides concise, straightforward answers to questions that include:
- Is Masonry a religion?
- What do the Masons teach about Jesus, salvation, and life after death?
- What do Masonic symbols represent?
- Are Masonry and Christianity compatible?
- Why is understanding Masonry important today?
John Ankerberg, host of the award-winning John Ankerberg Show, has three earned degrees: an MA in church history and the philosophy of Christian thought, an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a DMin from Luther Rice Seminary. He has coauthored the 2-million-selling Facts On series of apologetic books, as well as Taking a Stand for the Bible and Israel Under Fire.
John Weldon has authored or coauthored more than 80 books. He has a Ph.D. in comparative religion and a D.Min. with emphasis in contemporary religious movements, as well as master’s degrees in divinity and Christian apologetics. With Dr. John Ankerberg, he has coauthored What Do Mormons Really Believe?, Fast Facts® on Islam, the Facts On” Series of apologetic booklets, and others.
Dillon Burroughs is an activist and the author or coauthor of nearly 30 books on issues of faith and culture, including the groundbreaking Undefending Christianity. Dillon has served among at-risk American youth, constructed housing in Mexico’s barrios, provided aid relief in Haiti, and was most recently nominated for a CNN Hero award for his efforts to fight human trafficking. His written and edited works have been featured by NPR, MSNBC, ABC News, and other media outlets. | <urn:uuid:54d34c2e-c3b8-4b20-b726-1f4ebc293529> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.christianbook.com/the-facts-on-the-masonic-lodge/john-ankerberg/9780736922173/pd/922173?event=1028%7C425023%7C1028 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00318-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911963 | 656 | 2.015625 | 2 |
If you suffer from tinnitus, you know about the discomfort. Take a positive step in not allowing this condition to control your life. This book will educate you on the diseases or conditions which bring about tinnitus, which include:•Ear infection•Potential hearing loss•Exposure to loud sounds•Build up of ear wax•Tumors in the brain or other areas around the ear•Pregnancy•Meniere’s Disease•Overact...
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The city's building division issues permits for the construction, renovation, demolition and certain changes of use of buildings. It also issues permits for the installation, alteration, extension or repair of on-site sewage systems.
Building permits protect the interests of individuals and the community. By reviewing and approving building plans before any work is done, they city can ensure buildings comply with:
Resources provided in this section will help you determine if you need a building permit and, if so, which building permit application requirements are needed for your specific construction project or building demolition. Our building permit process flow chart summarizes the steps involved, including when you need to arrange for a building inspection. You can also visit our frequently asked questions. | <urn:uuid:ea983007-447e-46c6-888b-6182ff422351> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.burlington.ca/en/services-for-you/building-permits.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00037-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932502 | 142 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The NoVo Foundation has awarded $150,000 in grants over three years to support the work of the UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS).
CGRS protects the fundamental human rights of refugee women, children, LGBT individuals, and others who flee persecution in their home countries. The Center provides legal expertise and training; engages in impact litigation, policy development, and research; undertakes in-country fact-finding; and uses international human rights tools to address the root causes of gender-based persecution.
"We depend on the generosity of funders such as the NoVo Foundation to help refugees who have fled violence in their home countries. With the assistance of our supporters, we are able to positively impact the decisions in individual cases, while engaging in national initiatives that allow us to influence the development of the law,” said director Karen Musalo.
The NoVo Foundation has invested in CGRS since 2010. The funding will provide core support for the Center’s work to combat gender-based violence and assist its survivors.
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NoVo Foundation is dedicated to catalyzing a transformation in global society, moving from a culture of domination to one of equality and partnership. They support the development of capacities in people—individually and collectively—to help create a caring and balanced world. They envision a world that operates on the principles of mutual respect, collaboration, and civic participation, thereby reversing the old paradigm predicated on hierarchy, violence, and the subordination of girls and women. | <urn:uuid:8a36c6ef-b05e-49c4-b7a0-85e5b9991c54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uchastings.edu/news/articles/2013/08/cgrs-novo-grant.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00467-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929987 | 309 | 1.78125 | 2 |
FamilySearch Indexing continues to grow. Today Headquarters announced that over 115,000 volunteers have signed up to help index records.
The fruits of the efforts are starting to help people more easily identify their ancestors. The completed projects, with the linked images, are freely available for searching at http://labs.familysearch.org. For example, one of the first indexing projects was the 1900 U.S. federal census. The entire census (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) is now searchable at the labs website.
How good is the index?
I thought I would see if the FamilySearch search engine would find my ancestor, Joshua Marsden BROWN (born 1833 in Pennsylvania). He went by Marsden throughout his life, so I searched for Marsden Brown. Unbelievably, FamilySearch found him! I say unbelievably because the other three indexes I have previously consulted did NOT find him. I used the same criteria in each index: Marsden BROWN for his name. 1833 for the year of birth. And Pennsylvania for the place of birth. Here were the results:
Ancestry.com. No matches.
Heritage Quest. No matches.
Soundex Index (on microfilm). This was the first index I consulted years ago. He was listed under Marden Brown (no 's' in his name). I accidentally found this because it obviously was not alphabetized where I would have thought. I got lucky with this index.
FamilySearch. 1 close match. Marden Brown, born Sep 1833 in Pennsylvania. Even though I typed Marsden (with the 's') Brown in the search field, FamilySearch was the only search engine that returned the right person as a possible match.
Why is the index so good?
Without having any inside information, and not having conducted any comprehensive studies comparing the different services, I suspect that overall the FamilySearch indexes will be more accurate.
Firstly, for the most part, the indexes are created by persons whose native language matches the language of the records being indexed. I understand that many of the indexes produced by the commercial organizations are indexed by persons whose native language is not the language of the records they are indexing.
Secondly, each document (image) is indexed by two separate indexers. If there are any differences in the transcriptions that each creates, a third person, known as an arbitrator, compares the two and makes the final decision.
Thirdly, FamilySearch's Standard Finder is utilized in indexing and searching. This means that if a person searches for Mary, results will not only include index entries for the name Mary, but it will also include entries for common nicknames and spellings of Mary. You are more likely to find who you are looking for if you search for these name variants. FamilySearch does it for you.
What records are being indexed?
FamilySearch Indexing maintains a list of current, upcoming, and completed projects. As of today, these are the current projects:
- Canada - 1871 census
- Germany - Mecklenburg 1819 census
- Ireland - birth indexes 1864-1903
- Ireland - death indexes 1864-1884
- Ireland - marriage indexes 1868-1921
- Mexico - 1930 census
- Nicaragua - Managua civil records
- United States - 1850 census
- United States - Arkansas marriages
- United States - Freedmen Letters
- United States - Indiana marriages, 1790-1905
- United States - Boston state census 1855
- United States - Boston state census 1865
- United States - Ohio tax records
- United States - Salt Lake County births 1908-1915
- United States - veterans buried in Utah
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Washington D.C.'s Metro has 91 stations, has the second highest ridership to only New York, yet still incorporates Harry Weese's 1976 design for the original five stations. This commitment to the design earned D.C. Metro the American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award in 2014.
Weese designed the D.C. metro stations after a tour of the world's mass transit systems. This led him to decide that the stations needed to be "grand in scale and needed to invoke the monumental civic architecture of federal Washington":
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Bukit Merahhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Redhill_town.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Calvin Teo
(GPS: 1.2819, 103.82391) is a place on the southern part of Singapore. It takes its name after the hill there. Bukit Merah means "red hill" in Malay. This is due to the laterite earth in the area. However, there is a Malay legend associated with the hill. In the old times, there was a fishing village in Singapore that was often attacked by swordfish.
One day, a young boy proposed to the ruler that a palisade of banana trunks be built as defense against the swordfish attack. When the palisade was erected, the attacking swordfish were stuck in the banana trunks, saving the village. The villagers paraded the boy as a local hero. However, this stirred the jealousy of the ruler, who ordered that the boy be killed. His blood was said to turn the soil red.
Amenities in Bukit Merah
Schools in Bukit Merah include Bukit Merah Secondary School, Gan Eng Seng Primary School and Henderson Secondary School. Places of worship here include Jamiyah Ar-rabitah Mosque, Kwan Yam Theng Buddhist Temple and Zhen Ren Gong Temple. Public facilities include Bukit Merah Swimming Complex and Bukit Merah Community Library. Retail premises include the IKEA store at neighboring Alexandria.
Redhill MRT Station (EW18) on the East West MRT Line
and Bukit Merah Bus Interchange.
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Letters to the Editor 05/27/2010
NOISE A HEALTH HAZARD
Columnist James Krohe Jr. in his thoughtful article on boom cars and noise [see “Noise about noise,” by James Krohe Jr., May 20] had not emphasized the fact that noise is more than an annoyance – it is a health hazard! The academic literature is replete with studies demonstrating that noise can adversely affect our mental and physical health. Noise is a stressor that can trigger physiological responses – increases in heart rates, blood pressure rises. If noise is continuous, then stress reactions can lead to cardiovascular disorders. Noise can disturb our sleep and impede our next day’s activities. Noise diminishes quality of life which the World Health Organization deems necessary for good health.
Additionally, there are numerous newspaper accounts of police reporting that in stopping loud boom cars, they discovered drivers were engaged in other illegal activities, e.g. drugs and guns were found in the cars. Too often, noisemakers speak of their rights but individuals imposed upon by the noise of others have rights as well. Respecting another’s rights is called responsibility and a civilized society must have both – rights and responsibilities.
Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D.,
New York, N.Y.
NOISE IS BAD NEWS
I am a retired physician with an interest in the medical, social and economic effects of noise pollution. Noise is unquestionably one of the great plagues of modern society -- and it is one that worsens with each passing decade.
The World Health Organization reports that noise produces defense and startle reactions, damages hearing, disturbs communication, disrupts sleep, impairs cardiovascular function, interferes with teaching and learning, reduces productivity, harms relationships, provokes unwanted behaviors, and increases accidents. It is a major source of recurring annoyance, leading to stress which may not be recognized but which degrades the quality of life and adversely affects health.
Nightime noise is one of the major disrupters of sleep. Sleepiness (or reduced alertness) may have been a contributor to the following environmental disasters; Bhopal, Three Mile Island, Exxon Valdez, and the one currently ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico. They all occurred in the late night or early morning hours.
Cardiovascular effects can be detected even while we sleep. Recent reports from the European Union reveal that 3 percent of all fatal heart attacks are caused by environmental noise.
Those city council members who excuse noisemakers are not serving the public or upholding their oath of office. I suspect Frank Edwards may have smoked cigarettes in the ’60s and ’70s but I suspect he may not in 2010. Across the United States, the public is protected from second hand smoke because smoking in public places is illegal.
We know a good deal more about the adverse effects of noise than we did 40 or 50 years ago. Making use of knowledge is one hallmark of an enlightened society. Protecting the rights of citizens is another. Citizens need to be protected from secondhand noise.
Louis Hagler, MD
NOISE ABOUT NOISE
I read with interest the lead editorial in last week’s IT, “Noise about noise.” Some folks have said, “What’s the big deal about having to put up with a loud stereo from a nearby auto for a minute or two waiting for a stoplight to change?” I agree, and while I dislike any excessive noise, I certainly can live with those couple of minutes of unwanted noise.
But that, to me anyway, is not the issue. It would be a different story if I lived near that intersection and had to live with that noise hour after hour day after day. Or, worse yet, if I lived next door or across the street or alley from a household where the residents played their stereos, either from a car parked on the driveway or from inside, so loud that the sounds carried to my ears.
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The great era of German cinema began in 1919 with Robert Wiene's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. It was written by Carl Mayer, who was among the most influential artists working in the German film industry in the 1920s. The films of this era were expressionist in style, paralleling developments in the other arts. Other notable directors, such as G. W. Pabst, F. W. Murnau, Max Ophuls, and Fritz Lang, brought the medium to new heights of imaginative production. A decline set in c.1925 when Hollywood attracted many German directors, technicians, and actors to the United States.
The advent of Hitler drove any remaining top talent abroad, and the industry did not recover its position after the war. Beginning in the early 1970s a group of young filmmakers revitalized the industry, attaining a world audience for their films: Wim Wenders ( Kings of the Road and Wings of Desire ), Werner Herzog ( Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo ) and R. W. Fassbinder (over 40 films, including The Marriage of Maria Braun and Querelle ) led the renaissance.
See R. Manvell and H. Fraenkel, The German Cinema (1971); H. H. Wollenberg, Fifty Years of German Film (1948, repr. 1972); T. Elsaesser, New German Cinema (1989); T. Ginsberg, ed., Perspectives on German Film (1996); S. Allan and J. Sandford, ed., Defa: East German Cinema, 1946–1992 (1999); T. Elsaesser and M. Wedel, ed., The BFI Companion to German Cinema (1999).
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Today Apple announced that its 2013 World Wide Developers Conference will take place on June 10-14 in San Francisco where the company will likely debut new software for later this year.
World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is Apple’s annual event for developers where it gives them a sneak peek at the future of Apple software. One the first day Apple typically shows off previews of new versions of iOS and OS X, and it fills every following day with sessions talking about programming for the new platforms.
The logo for this year’s WWDC looks like a number of colorful iOS apps placed on top of one another. It’s hard to get much meaning out of the design, unless it’s some sort of hint into Apple’s new iOS design language. Otherwise, it looks like just a unique logo for the conference rather than a cryptic hint of the future.
This year Apple will likely use WWDC to debut iOS 7 and OS X 10.9. Apple is on a yearly upgrade cycle for both platforms, and it hasn’t talked about upgrades to either since last year.
In the press release, Apple states that WWDC 2013 activities include, “the latest innovations, features and capabilities of iOS and OS X,” specifically how these relate to app functionality, performance and design.
Some rumors say it will come with a major new design, while others say it will look largely the same. Apple executive Jonathan Ive recently took over the design of iOS following the departure of Scott Forstall over Apple Maps.
With Ive in charge Apple may move away from skeuomorphic designs, changing the parts of the OS that try to mimic real-life analog objects like the bookshelf in iBooks or the stitched leather in Calendar. There’s no hints as to any other changes Ive and his team might implement, though a number of concepts and jailbreak tweaks have a few ideas, mostly concerning the lockscreen and widgets.
Similarly, not much is known about the next version of OS X for the Mac, though it stands to reason that Apple might move away from skeuomorphic designs there as well. OS X 10.9 will also likely bring more iOS features to the Mac as Apple did with Lion and Mountain Lion.
While Apple will likely debut new software at WWDC, don’t expect any new devices until a few months later. | <urn:uuid:44e1a36b-9bf6-41f8-82f6-f181a1e47040> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/04/24/wwdc-2013-set-for-june-10th-with-ios-and-os-x-innovations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00138-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942144 | 491 | 1.539063 | 2 |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Although preeclampsia occurs in about 3 percent of pregnancies, it's still unforeseen in many cases. A report of new research, now in press at the Journal of Reproductive Immunology, documents how two distinct risk factors combine to affect the odds that a first-time mother could develop the sometimes life-threatening pregnancy complication. The findings suggest there could be new ways to plan pregnancy with improved awareness and management of the risk.
For years evidence has mounted that preeclampsia may have its origin in the mother's immune response to pregnancy. For that reason, researchers have been studying the potential role of two risk factors: the level of similarity between the mother and father or mother and fetus in a set of five human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes related to immune system compatibility; and the degree of vaginal exposure the mother has had to the father's semen before becoming pregnant.
The new study, first published online in August, measured both of those risk factors in detail and in combination in 118 women who developed preeclampsia and in 106 similar women who did not. The data set came from SOPHIA, the Study of Pregnancy Hypertension in Iowa maintained by the University of Iowa.
The study's main finding is that women who have had relatively little prior vaginal exposure to the father's semen and who had a high-level of matching of the class I group of three HLA genes had 4.5 times greater odds of developing preeclampsia than women with greater exposure and less gene matching. The analysis accounted for other risk factors, such as Body Mass Index.
"When you have both low seminal fluid exposure and high sharing [of Class I HLA genes], you are at highest risk," said study lead and corresponding author Elizabeth Triche, assistant professor of epidemiology in Brown University's School of Public Health.
The increased odds appear to confirm prior studies that have suggested a higher risk of preeclampsia from a high degree of similarity among HLA genes in the mother and father, and, independently, higher levels of pre-pregnancy semen exposure.
But this study, Triche and co-authors at the University of Iowa wrote, "provides to our knowledge the first examination of the effects of maternal-fetal HLA sharing in the context of history of exposure to seminal fluid."
(Co-author Audrey Saftlas led another study, online Aug. 22 in the journal, showing that increasing degrees of vaginal, but not oral, semen exposure significantly reduced preeclampsia risk among women in the SOPHIA population.)
Different means compatible?
The underlying biology, Triche said, appears to relate to how the mother's immune system comes to view these foreign genes, first as introduced by the father's sperm and then in the fetus.
"At the maternal-fetal interface it appears that for a successful pregnancy to occur it's likely the mother has to recognize it as foreign and develop a tolerance," Triche said.
In other words, unlike a transplanted organ that is most readily accepted if HLA genes are very similar, a fetus will be welcome if it appears genetically distinct. Greater exposure to the father's semen perhaps better primes the mother's immune system to recognize and tolerate that difference.
That said, the study yielded a nuanced secondary finding, which is that similarity between mother and fetus for the Class II gene HLA-DQB1 was associated with a smaller but still significant increase in preeclampsia odds among women who had higher degrees of exposure to semen.
"That is something that has to be looked at in further studies," Triche said. It could be, she said, that those results simply confirm a unique role in preeclampsia for sharing of that particular gene.
Potential for planning
If the higher odds from these particular combinations of maternal-fetal HLA gene similarities and levels of semen exposure are confirmed in further studies, Triche said, that could yield future pregnancy planning strategies.
Couples who want to conceive a baby could, for example, first seek genetic testing to determine the likelihood that a future fetus could have Class I or Class II HLA similarities with the mother. Many couples already elect for genetic testing before pregnancy to determine the risk of potential genetic disease for their future baby.
With the genetic results, a couple that has committed to having a baby could then consider the level of vaginal exposure to paternal semen. For example, pregnancy-committed couples with a high likelihood of Class I HLA similarity between mother and fetus could use a means of birth control, such as the pill, that allows for vaginal exposure to seminal fluid before they are ready to conceive.
Couples not attempting to produce a pregnancy and couples at risk for sexually transmitted infection, however, should always continue to consider "barrier" contraception such as condoms that are designed to fully prevent vaginal exposure to semen, Triche said.
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Here is a wonderfully patriotic American history map that was produced by the National Biscuit Company in 1959 as a cereal premium! It was made as an educational toy -- the complete set of 49 little state flags, each one lithographed in brilliant color on tin, surrounds a large, heavy paper map of the United States. Then-brand new 49th state, Alaska, enjoys individual focus with its flag and a map in the center panel.
This is entitled "Flags Of Our 49 States" and is fully complete with ALL of the little state flags, in bright and beautiful condition. It is authentic and absolutely all original.
Marketed as an American history learning tool as well as a fun collectible, Nabisco included one little flag in each box of its Shredded Wheat cereal for children to collect. The heavy paper map on which to hang their flags was available by mail-order request.
Nobody knows for certain how many complete sets exist. Following Alaska's admission to the Union on January 3, 1959, it was only SEVEN short months later, on August 21, that Hawaii was admitted as No. 50, making them obsolete. And there is no way to know how many children were able to obtain all 49 flags - that is a lot of cereal to eat!
Each flag is printed on the back with information about the state it represents (SEE OUR PICTURES). All the flags have little fold-over tabs at the top, with extensions at the bottom to fit into slots, to keep them in place on the paper map. On the bottom right corner of the paper is printed: Copyright by National Biscuit Co. / Made in U.S.A. The center map is marked: Copyright C. S. Hammond & Co.
SIZE: Outside dimensions of the big map are 16 inches tall by 20 inches wide. It was originally folded into four panels. The central map is approximately 12 inches across. Each little flag fits into a 2-inch box.
CONDITION: Excellent, a very nice display that deserves to be framed. The tin flags are brilliant and accurate. There is no damage to the tin pieces other than a very few light surface scuffs that are nearly impossible to find - NO rust, NO broken tabs, NO bends! The printing on the paper background is sharp and clear. The map is bright and colorful with NO fading. The folds themselves (the way it was made) have become a little more noticeable from age. The only truly noticeable damage is splits at the edge in the folds of the paper. The one at the very top is the worst (SEE OUR PICTURE MARKED with a pink * Asterisk). The paper is age darkening slightly. There are a very few stray marks on the paper but NO handwriting or stains. On the back you can see that half of the paper has darkened more than the other, from light exposure.
This is a hard to find collectible, and it is wonderfully educational. This belonged to either me or my sister and is being offered for the first time ever for sale. We only recently unpacked it from among the items in our mother's estate.
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The Benefits of Hacking Embedded Devices
Today’s IT professional has a plethora of technology tools for solving complex problems. Whether the focus is security, networking, or systems administration, the choices are truly endless: high-end multi-processor, multi-core servers; laptops that run both Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously; endless selections of "live CDs" that allow you to boot Linux in various configurations; and, of course, embedded devices.
Embedded devices come in many different shapes, sizes, platforms, and software configurations. Whether you’re a penetration tester or a network administrator for a small (or large) organization, embedded devices are available to help you solve problems in new and exciting ways. But you probably can’t just buy an off-the-shelf embedded device and expect it to do exactly what you need it to do—you’ll likely have to customize the firmware on the device (called "hacking" the device) to get it to perform the tasks you need. In this article, we’ll explore the advantages of hacking embedded devices, along with some of the hardware and firmware options for the process. | <urn:uuid:9f98fd19-4299-460f-9645-79993f4edef5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1149127 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00468-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921507 | 239 | 2.46875 | 2 |
What if villains were heroes, and heroes were villains?
There once was a girl named Annie Poole
As sweet as a lamb with eyes like jewels.
With her parents she lived in a village far away
Quipped with wide, open land, where it was easy to stray.
A cherubic young soul, and eager for adventure,
Annie’s parents warned her never to venture
To the realms which inhabit outside the village,
Where devil men lurk and monsters pillage.
But worst of all,’ said Annie’s mum, ‘are the creatures with skin
Far darker than night and shriller voices than the wind.’
‘They are beasts from the devil,’ Annie’s dad said, ‘who will lead you to woe,
And for that, my dear child, to those outlands you must never go.’
Annie honored her parents and obeyed this warning.
Never did she stray, all except for one wintry morning.
It was a chilly, biting day as Annie trudged to her classes
When a sudden gust of wind blew her bonnet towards the distant grasses.
In a haste and forgetting her parents’ one rule,
She dashed toward the meadows to get her bonnet back for school.
After a good time passed of scouring and looking,
Annie gave up and headed back, for she was late for her booking.
Yet all during school, her spirits frustrated and head bare,
Annie worried just where her bonnet was out there,
For it was a gift from her mother, and without out it, to home she could never go,
So she planned to search for it, even if the whole field she had to mow.
When her lessons were done, instead of the path leading home,
Annie headed for the outlands and through the fields to roam.
Further and nigh she searched as the sky grew darker,
’Til she fell upon an opening with a dead tree as its marker.
Onward through the opening she plodded to look for her cap
And the deeper she wandered, the more lost became her map.
Staring owls and rowdy ravens stood vigil along the road
And, sensing lurking spirits and eerie monsters, a shiver down her spine followed.
Just as her search for her beloved bonnet was losing hope,
Annie soon spotted two houses near a small hill slope.
Seeing lights in their windows, Annie wondered in her mind,
‘Perhaps the residents can help me, if they would be so kind.’
The closer she drew, the houses became clearer
And to Annie one seemed quaint, but the other much queerer.
The house on her left was grand, with a porch, swings, and flowers,
While the right house seemed gray and decaying, as alone as Rapunzel’s tower.
As conscience would foretell, Annie started for the house with the swing,
When she abruptly halted, for a figure was emerging.
Annie’s heart quickened pace as her eyes widened in fear
As the figure was dark-skinned, with a scowl from ear to ear.
The figure stopped and stared at Annie as she’d forgotten how to run
When she heard a voice behind her shout, ‘And who are you, my sweet hon?’
Turning around, Annie saw a tall, light-skinned gent
With golden hair and a broadened build, smelling of a woodsy scent.
‘My poor dear,’ began the stranger, ‘how frightened you must be!
All lost in these woods, instead of at home with your Mummy.
You best come with me to my humble abode,
And I shall care for you and send for a horse to return you to your household.’
Taking the gentleman’s hand, Annie followed out of fear
That the dark figure should take her lest the gentleman was not near.
For looking into his eyes, Annie felt she was in trustful hands,
And with a last glance at the dark figure, away she was whisked to the gentleman’s right lands.
Days went by, and weeks and months after that
And not a spotting of Annie was evermore seen, neither she nor her hat.
Her parents searched far and wide, but soon their hope was destroyed,
For their little girl was gone for good, and her Real Fate they could not avoid.
Years passed away, when one day, the mourning parents received a guest,
Who withheld some knowledge of their little girl now laid to rest.
‘Far beyond the fields,’ began the guest, ‘is a village so dreary,
With two houses on a slope near the woods, one dwelling a man very eerie.
With skin black as night and eyes haunted and leery,
I believe him to be the cause of death for your little dearie.
‘His neighbor, who is my respected and dear friend
Asked me to help him depart from the next-door house for a land I cannot contend,
And as I helped him carry his large and heavy bags out one day,
A strange feeling I contracted about his neighbor that I could not allay.
‘So I went back to the house and waited for the dark man to leave
Then I snuck up to his window to see what I could perceive.
And on his front-room table, what did I spy
But a little pink lace bonnet right before my very eye.
‘I remembered you two and your grieving tragedy
And knew at once that the dark man must have seduced little Annie.
I reported him at once and had him detained
So his evil, dark-skinned ways may never upon this world stain.’
‘Now I know why my friend moved away so quick,
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This specification covers the physical property requirements of elastomeric seals (gaskets) used to seal the joints of precast concrete structures used in gravity and low head pressure applications. The seals shall be classified as: Class A; Class B; Class C; Class D; and Class E. All gaskets shall be extruded or molded in such a manner that any cross-section will be dense, homogeneous, and free of porosity, blisters, pitting, or other imperfections. The gaskets shall be fabricated from an elastomeric material meeting the appropriate classification physical property requirements. The following test methods shall be performed to conform to the specified requirements: tensile strength and elongation; hardness; compression set; accelerated aging; water absorption; ozone resistance; oil immersion testing; and splice strength classification.
This abstract is a brief summary of the referenced standard. It is informational only and not an official part of the standard; the full text of the standard itself must be referred to for its use and application. ASTM does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents of this abstract are accurate, complete or up to date.
1.1 This specification covers the physical property requirements of elastomeric seals (gaskets) used to seal the joints of precast concrete structures conforming to Specifications C14, C14M, C118, C118M, C361, C361M, C443, C443M, C505, or C505M used in gravity and low head pressure applications.
1.2 Requirements are given for natural or synthetic rubber gaskets, or a combination of both.
1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard.
1.4 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test method portion, Section 8, of this specification. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
C14 Specification for Nonreinforced Concrete Sewer, Storm Drain, and Culvert Pipe
C14M Specification for Nonreinforced Concrete Sewer, Storm Drain, and Culvert Pipe (Metric)
C118 Specification for Concrete Pipe for Irrigation or Drainage
C118M Specification for Concrete Pipe for Irrigation or Drainage (Metric)
C361 Specification for Reinforced Concrete Low-Head Pressure Pipe
C361M Specification for Reinforced Concrete Low-Head Pressure Pipe (Metric)
C443 Specification for Joints for Concrete Pipe and Manholes, Using Rubber Gaskets
C443M Specification for Joints for Concrete Pipe and Manholes, Using Rubber Gaskets (Metric)
C497 Test Methods for Concrete Pipe, Manhole Sections, or Tile
C497M Test Methods for Concrete Pipe, Manhole Sections, or Tile [Metric]
C505 Specification for Nonreinforced Concrete Irrigation Pipe with Rubber Gasket Joints
C505M Specification for Nonreinforced Concrete Irrigation Pipe With Rubber Gasket Joints (Metric)
C822 Terminology Relating to Concrete Pipe and Related Products
D395 Test Methods for Rubber Property--Compression Set
D412 Test Methods for Vulcanized Rubber and Thermoplastic Elastomers--Tension
D471 Test Method for Rubber Property--Effect of Liquids
D573 Test Method for Rubber--Deterioration in an Air Oven
D1149 Test Methods for Rubber Deterioration--Cracking in an Ozone Controlled Environment
D1566 Terminology Relating to Rubber
D2240 Test Method for Rubber Property--Durometer Hardness
D2527 Specification for Rubber Seals--Splice Strength
ICS Number Code 21.140 (Seals, glands)
UNSPSC Code 31400000(Gaskets)
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Teseq Develops Coupling/Decoupling Network for Telecom Surge Testing
Ideal for testing on unshielded symmetrical high speed telecommunication lines
Edison, N.J. December 2012 – Teseq Inc., a leading developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, has designed a new CDN (coupling/decoupling network) for surge testing on unshielded symmetrical high speed telecommunication lines including Ethernet. The CDN HSS-2 enables convenient surge testing with 1.2/50 µs pulses on active telecom lines.
Ideal for use in laboratories, Teseq’s CDN HSS-2 is compliant with IEC 61000-4-5 and is compatible with all industry standard surge generators. It can be used for surge testing on lines with up to 8-wire unshielded twisted pair (UTP), with integrated service digital networks (ISDN) as well as with 10/100 BaseT and 1000 BaseT.
Teseq’s CDN HSS-2 is compact, relatively lightweight and easy-to-use. It features selectable common mode coupling to 1, 2 or 4 pairs depending on the jumper settings on the CDN, and is coupled with 40 Ω in series with a coupling capacitor.
The new network features a maximum surge test voltage of 2 kV with a maximum peak surge test current of up to 50 A and a maximum residual voltage at the auxiliary equipment (AE) of only 65 V.
The device has a maximum operating speed of 1000 BaseT, maximum operating voltage of 100 VDC between pairs and maximum operating current of 1 A that is rated for power over Ethernet (PoE). Additional decoupling elements are not required to protect the AE. The unit’s high decoupling provides the AE independent pulse shape for the EUT.
The new CDN HSS-2 weighs approximately 15 kg (33 lbs) and is 200 mm (7.8”) wide, 200 mm (7.8”) high and 470 mm (18.5”) deep.
Contact Teseq USA directly for pricing or to find out about renting Teseq products.
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A few years ago before I got a bead kiln I wanted to capture the look of dichroic glass with polymer clay…I did not quite get it but I liked the result. It is a quick and easy technique that you can play with this weekend!
You will need polymer clay and metal leaf. Metal leaf comes in books of 25 (or more) and can be made from aluminum, silver, copper, gold, nickel and other metals. It is usually used for illuminating books (fancy old Bibles) or gilding frames. You can get books of copper, aluminum and fake gold for about $5/25 5″x5″ sheets. Gold and copper tones look nice with warm rich colors an silvers look nice with cool colors. For instance I used a cool red with silver (er, aluminum) leaf. Every color can have a warm or a cool undertone, yellow is a warm color but lemon yellow has cool (green) undertones while marigold yellow had warm (orange) undertones.
Here’s how to make your foiled beads:
- Condition your clay and roll it out into a 1/4″ slab.
- Lay a sheet of metal leaf on top then roll over it again until the leaf starts to crackle.
- Cut into squares, rectangles or long tapered triangles that you can roll up int “croissant” shaped beads. You can also put the small squares of foiled clay in a bead roller for cool round, oval and bicone beads!
- Poke bead holes with a needle.
- Bake according to clay package directions.
- Glaze! I pressed my beads on an embossing ink pad, dipped them in UTEE and heated hem with my heat gun for a thick glazed look. You can also paint them with
nail polish*Edit: see Silverleaf’s comment on the use of nail polish on polymer clay in the comments section. Thanks Silverleaf for the heads up! or use the tried and true FFW (Future Floor Wax, it is in the cleaning supply aisle and it is under the brand name Pledge, this stuff is like acrylic varnish and very durable!)
One more thing I want to mention. I also tried coating the beads with Translucent Liquid Sculpey (TLS-a product that completely mystified me as I have never found it useful except to help condition old clay and it is constantly leaking and making a mess of my clay drawer…anyway…) thinking I could get a thick semi transparent coating and it did not work for me. I think if I had baked the beads once then added the TLS and rebaked it might have. I’m no clay expert, obviously 😀
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Time flies just like the migrants that zip through Costa Rica. Although I haven’t listened to the night skies as much as the previous year, the Spring Peeper-like notes of Swainson’s Thrushes have drifted down from the dark on several occasions. Fall migration has been happening here as it usually does- fast and furious. Thousands of Bank, Barn, and Cliff Swallows stream overhead in many parts of the country (how many Cave, Tree, and Violet-greens get missed?). Eastern Kingbirds, Scarlet Tanagers, and Red-eyed Vireos come through in droves. Although I haven’t been lucky enough to connect with cuckoos (can you tell that I’m a birder?), others have seen several Yellow-billed and Black-billed.
Thousands of shorebirds have been foraging in the rich estuarine habitats of the Nicoya Pensinsula since August and raptors are beginning to come through in numbers. Warblers also migrate through the country but we don’t get near as much diversity as the eastern USA and Mexico. Nevertheless, we make up for lesser numbers of warbler species with high numbers of Prothonotary, Blackburnian, Tennessee, and Canada Warblers to name a few. One of the other birds that passes through Costa Rica in fair numbers is that sky-blue rarity known as the Cerulean Warbler. In fact, so many are sighted during migration that Juan Diego Vargas and Ernesto Carman, a couple of young, eager Costa Rican ornithologists, are trying to figure out what the birds need in terms of food and habitat. They are also trying to understand why more Ceruleans seem to show up in a small area on the Caribbean flanks of Turrialba Volcano compared to other sites.
A little more than a month ago, I learned about many of their observations and hypotheses at Costa Rica’s first Biodiversity and Birding Festival. The festival was held at the Maquengue Finca and Hotel in Alegria, Siquirres and included lectures given by the Costa Rican “Don” of ornithology, Julio Sanchez, Juan Diego and Ernesto, guided birding walks at the nearby Las Brisas Reserve, and an excellent herp-focused night walk led by Brian Kubicki, one of Costa Rica’s foremost herpetologists.
The view from the hotel. Great site to watch migrant raptors!
The site of the festival wasn’t picked by chance. It sits smack in the middle of what appears to be a migration hotspot. According to field work carried out by Juan Diego and Ernesto, for whatever reason, the Las Brisas Reserve seems to be especially good for migrants, the Cerulean Warbler included. When they mentioned that it seems to be the best site to see Cerulean Warblers in Costa Rica, I admit that my first thought was “but who is checking other sites at similar elevations in Costa Rica?” However, that silent question was promptly answered when they explained that coordinated counts carried out at the same time in various similar sites have so far, always turned up far fewer Ceruleans than at the Las Brisas Reserve. Even counts on nearby ridges turned up no Ceruleans while several were seen at the Las Brisas Reserve. This isn’t to say that you can’t see Ceruleans elsewhere in the country, just that there seems to be more consistently seen at Las Brisas.
It’s a tough hypothesis to test but one thing is certain. The Las Brisas Reserve is the most guaranteed site for Cerulean Warbler in the country if visiting from the last two weeks in August to the first two weeks in September. The old secondary forests and ponds in the reserve also happen to be excellent birding in general with very impressive mixed flocks, and a healthy array of uncommon species. These be birds such as Uniform Crake, White-tipped Sicklebill, Crested Owl, Royal Flycatcher, Tawny-chested Flycatcher, and a host of other species.
Although I was only able to partake in festival activities on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, here are some of the highlights that I witnessed:
- Mississippi Kites: As in flocks of these graceful raptors flying by at eye level and kettling overhead. I could have sat back and watched their airborne antics for days while trying to pick out vagrant swallow species from the constant stream of Hirundines that zipped by from north to south.
- Ernesto and Juan Diego’s Cerulean Warbler Project talk: How often do you get to hear about the findings of field ornithologists studying Cerulean Warblers as they migrate through Costa Rica? Yeah, like never so this was a real treat! One interesting hypothesis they have is that Ceruleans may be migrating straight from the highlands of Belize and Guatemala to the Las Brisas Reserve in Costa Rica and are using that as an important stop over point. This idea is in part based on only seeing Ceruleans at Las Brisas after 10 AM. Since that mid-morning hour coincides with the amount of time it would take for Ceruleans to fly from Guatemala and Belize, they wonder if the birds may be flying non-stop from those places to the Las Brisas area. Now before you say that the birds are just being inconspicuous, keep in mind that the people making these statements are highly competent field birders (trust me on that!) who have spent hundreds of hours at Las Brisas and elsewhere, nearly always starting their observations at dawn. With that in mind, one does have to wonder why they only see Ceruleans after 10 in the morning.
- The night walk at Las Brisas: The ponds at the reserve make it one of the best sites for frogs in Costa Rica. We saw something like 8 species, a Cat-eyed Snake eating a frog, and heard Tropical Screech, Mottled, and Crested Owls.
A cool Cate-eyed Snake.
- The Cerulean Warbler count of course!: Our little team was tasked with looking for Ceruleans at middle elevations up the road from the hotel. The only one we saw was a female observed at the lower part of our counting area (and which seems to coincide with the upper elevational limits of their range) but we also had birds like Collared Trogon, Spangle-cheeked, Black and Yellow, Tawny-crested, Speckled, and other tanagers, Dark Pewee, several Black-bellied Hummingbirds, White-bellied Mountain-Gem, and Rufous-browed Tyrannulet. Much of the road passes near a forested canyon and the higher parts access good middle elevation forest. I would have loved to have camped out in those forests! Another highlight of the count was meeting a local farming couple who were enthusiastic about and interested in protecting biodiversity. People like them give me hope for the future and when they described having seen a male Lovely Cotinga, we realized that the area has a lot of birding potential!
One of the friendliest Collared Trogons I have ever known.
- The participants: Around 70 people showed up for the festival and all of them were people who reside in Costa Rica.
Some participants of the 2012 festival.
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If you’re taking into consideration marrying a Burmese girl, there are several things should know before proceeding. For starters, you will need to possess your matrimony contract and marriage qualification https://cupidbrides.com/burmese-brides translated into British. If you don’t speak Burmese, you can get a credentialed notary translation. Some embassy’s will accept an avowed notary translation, though a lot of will not. You’ll need to prepare for marriage ceremonies in Burmese, as well.
Burmese women are wholesome. They were elevated in a faith based environment that emphasizes moral values. They can be raised to respect other folks and be supportive of their tourists. They understand what a happy marital relationship appears, and will for no reason show disbelief. Their solid sense of family is vital to their lives. Moreover, they value sittlichkeit values and definitely will not endanger them with regard to a romantic relationship with you.
A second plus pertaining to marrying a Burmese female is that she’s intelligent and speaks very good English. Various Burmese ladies are studying and making money degrees, to help you speak with them with no interpreter. Therefore she’s well-informed, and she just isn’t going to bore you. The same applies to their children. You will be sure that a Burmese star of the event will be a supportive and supporting partner.
The proposed law is directed at crushing religious freedom in Myanmar, where the vast majority of people happen to be Buddhist. In the past, there was anti-Muslim violence and “ethnic cleansing” promotions against the Muslim Rohingya public in the Arakan state. Nonetheless it’s as well as about spiritual freedom — the recommended law will severely infringe upon the rights belonging to the majority of Buddhist women.
Partnerships in Myanmar are not necessarily arranged simply by family members. Burmese women are able to marry designed for absolutely adore, and a person must acquire her parents’ permission to do this. Marriages in Burma don’t take place in a ceremony; they can be conducted by mutual approval and are often monogamous. Typically, marriages in Myanmar were assemble by people based on background and wealth. In urban areas, appreciate matches have grown to be more common.
Burmese women accept their position in public your life. Often , women will treble or dual the value of the family’s building after a husband died. Pre-war Burma was mainly in the hands of foreigners, but after the conflict, the government began giving more freedom towards the Burmese and females began to capitalize on these options. It’s not unusual for women to operate businesses, as well as foreigners are surprised to find out women working businesses.
A Burmese female will most likely want a man who is respectful and can provide for his family. Moreover to dignity, Burmese ladies expect men to treat them with kindness and generosity. You have to discuss your future strategies with your woman. Only severe men can make the effort to marry a Burmese female. A Burmese woman’s culture is not for everyone, but if you show value and kindness towards her, she’ll become delighted to simply accept you. | <urn:uuid:24d5af9f-b5dc-4f65-8a37-f26c4908e97c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eklavyabiotech.com/2022/05/13/marrying-a-burmese-woman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.967699 | 684 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Welcome to the DMC Geology web site!
The Geology Program at Del Mar College (DMC), a part of the Department of Natural Sciences, offers an Associate of Science (AS) degree in Geology. The AS degree is accepted at colleges and universities, for those entering a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree program in Geology.
The Geology Program also provides the introductory courses, “Physical Geology” and “Earth History (Historical Geology),” required for all baccalaureate degrees in Geology. These courses also provide a foundation for environmental science as well as for civil, mechanical, and petroleum engineering degrees.
Students pursuing degrees from any other disciplines often elect to take Geology to fulfill their science requirements. Geology provides an excellent choice for satisfying science requirements in most other DMC Associate of Arts (AA) and AS programs.
Course and Lab Work
Course and laboratory work introduce students to the study of the Earth's composition, structure, natural processes, and history, including the history of life as determined by the fossil record.
Experienced professional geologists/educators conduct both classroom and field study, and emphasize geological processes and environmental concerns of South Texas.
Current geologic theories and investigations are examined using recent a variety of resources and media including scientific literature and designated websites. Students also learn valuable critical-thinking, communication, and teamwork skills.
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BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- A small museum that sits on the banks of the Rock River in southern Wisconsin is a heavenly spot for angel lovers.
The Beloit Angel Museum features more than 7,500 angel statues displayed wing-to-wing in a former Roman Catholic church that was spared destruction so it could house the figures.
They come in an amazing variety. There are angels made of resin, porcelain, drinking straws, pasta, coal, tin, ceramic, wood, papier mache, stained glass, pine cones, cornhusks, wax, clothes pins and seal skin. One was made from a dried apple.
There's a firefighter angel, a hunter, nurse, pilot, doctor, bride and groom. One angel is tipsy, another is a bobble-head doll and some are even posing with devils.
These are two of the more than 7,500 angels of all sizes and shapes at the Angel Museum, housed in the refurbished St. Paul Catholic Church in Beloit, Wis., Oct. 3, 2002.
AP Photo/Morry Gash
Others double as bells, candles, candle holders, vases, smoke alarms, coasters, lipstick holders, pencil sharpeners and salt and pepper shakers.
The display has made the Guinness Book of World Records and includes angels from around the globe: Oprah Winfrey donated a collection of black angels.
In a sense, the angels saved the 98-year-old building where they are housed from being demolished.
''What I believe in my heart is the collection happened, the museum happened and it was something that was supposed to happen,'' said Joyce Berg, 71, who started the collection with her husband, Lowell, in 1976.
Their first two angels came from a Florida antique store.
''As we got involved it snowballed. They just were so sweet and we got caught up in the many, many different kinds there were,'' Joyce Berg said. ''It became a passion and it became our hobby.''
The couple used to take about three vacations a year and would buy angels as souvenirs from angel conventions, antique malls or flee markets. They once came home with 165 angels.
The entire collection originally was displayed in their four-bedroom ranch house in Beloit, about 65 miles southwest of Milwaukee, but that became challenging -- the Bergs had to remove doors and install shelves to display all the figures.
In July 1994, while out driving, they noticed St. Paul Catholic Church along the Rock River.
''When we drove past, the doors were open. ... The sun was shining right on them. It was like they jumped right out because they were so noticeable,'' Joyce Berg said.
The parish was closed in 1988 after the death of its longtime pastor, and the Bergs learned the church was scheduled to be demolished in eight months if it wasn't put to good use.
The Bergs contacted the church's former parishioners, and submitted a museum plan to city officials, who approved it.
The church, now a historical landmark, was renovated with community development block grants, fund-raisers and volunteer help. The city owns the church and charges the museum $1 a year for rent.
The museum opened May 1, 1998, and more than 54,000 visitors have passed through its doors since. The Bergs wouldn't say what the entire display is worth.
The museum actually has four different collections on display -- the Bergs', Oprah's, a memorial collection (angels given by various people in memory of loved ones who passed away) and the museum collection, which includes angels from people who willed or donated their angels. The Bergs' is by far the largest.
Joyce Berg said she didn't start collecting angels because of religious beliefs.
''What I hope (people) get out of it is the pleasure and the peaceful feeling and the enjoyment,'' Berg said. ''But I do know ... for a lot of people it is a religious experience.''
Sandy Rauss, 33, of Black River Falls visited the museum recently with her cousin and took photographs of an angel quilt she donated about a year ago. The quilt names people close to her who have died.
She said she's visited the museum three or four times for religious and spiritual reasons.
''I think it's a great thing they've done,'' she said. ''I've told a lot of people about it.''
The Bergs still collect angels, though not as they use to.
''I guess you reach a point you realize that you can't buy every different angel because they are still making different ones,'' she said.
About 1,000 angels are still displayed at the Bergs' home -- smaller representations of some at the museum, and angels with special meaning -- and 4,000 are in home storage.
The rest of the angels are on permanent loan to the museum.
''As long as there is an angel museum, our collection will be there,'' Berg said.
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Miami Designer Fundraises for First Sustainable, Tsunami-Proof Houseboat
Forget Starbucks sales. One economic indicator that the economy is actually recovering is the number of ambitious, unreasonable, and expensive design projects popping up. Miami has a history of such lofty projects from tropical ski slops and spinning skyscrapers to the recent sovereign floating island.
The ocean must be the new frontier, because we've spied another water-craft project: the world's first sustainable, tsunami-proof houseboat. Deemed the Pearl, it's perfect for anyone simultaneously terrified and protective of Mother Nature.
The open seas living vessel is the brainchild of Miami-based industrial
designer Orhan Cileli
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and his start-up, Rootiment Design. He is currently seeking $24,000 on the micro-funding site Indie GoGo or at least access to a
large wave testing pool.
The houseboat looks like a large fishing bobber with its spherical,
gyroscopic design, which allows the vessel to literally bob through high seas
without capsizing. But Cileli holds it's more luxury home than tsunami life boat.
The top floor will be a greenhouse, which collects rainwater for
irrigation, provides shade, and produces oxygen for the other three
floors. The Pearl will also be lined with solar panels because when
fleeing a natural disaster, the last thing you want to do is add to the
carbon footprint and anger Mother Nature even further.
As Celili relates: "The future is here, and it's in safety,
sustainability, it's in harmony with nature, and it's in beautiful
design. We don't need to be scared of nature, and we certainly don't
need to abuse it. We need to live in it, with it, and better it, for
the good of all."
A the time of this writing, the project had zero funders but 100 days
left in the campaign. According to Celili's updates, he has already had
plenty of attention from yacht companies and is at work on a
As most of the tsunamis over the past 100 years
have struck off the Pacific, Rootiment might want to steer their
engineering efforts toward more East Coast paranoia with hurricane --or at least tornado-- escape
Pros: No construction noise. Cons: You might see Bin Laden's shrouded corpse float by.
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Hi Laurent, VisAD uses: BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0.0,0.0,0.0), 2000000.0); Perhaps this is too small for your application. If you are changing the BoundingSphere, please try changing it to Double.MAX_VALUE. Does this make the problem go away? If so, we might make this the default in VisAD. We might try Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY, but I'd worry that some Java3D implementations might not like that. Thank you, Bill On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Laurent BEIGBEDER wrote: > It seems to be strange: > > If the view is far from a shape, the ambient light reflexion is OK. > If the view is near the shape(zoom), the ambiant light is shown only when > another shape approaches. > Changing the boundingSphere radius change this behavior > I tried directx and opengl runtime, it did not change anything. > > It might be a weird behavior like u said! | <urn:uuid:478363cf-32f7-435c-ae8a-0134a8b9fe5e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/visad/2005/msg00247.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00231-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922509 | 219 | 1.960938 | 2 |
New CMS Project
The current CMS Silva is clunky, slow and end-of-life. It will be replaced with a Drupal implementation that can be used by the Digital Presence team to build websites for a range of organisational units and provide content editors with intuitive tools for building and managing websites.
Various stakeholder groups in UCL were involved in the selection of the CMS and will be invited to participate in shaping it further.
Large organisations with complex web publishing requirements like UCL often use a Content Management System (CMS) to manage and co-ordinate their web presence.
A CMS makes it easy:
- for multiple people to add and manage web content without technical knowledge
- for UCL to create prominent and accessible websites
- for UCL to meet our obligations under equality and information management legislation
UCL’s Digital Presence team (formerly Web & Mobile Services) within ISD offers a website building service, managing almost 900 core UCL websites in the Silva CMS and providing free hosting, training and support for UCL web editors.
- A widely-used solution and should prove a robust and scalable product
- An Open Source product that is being actively developed by a community of over 38,000 developers;
- Flexible enough to meet UCL’s content management needs and provides a fast, intuitive interface for content editors
The CMS project is also an opportunity to introduce standards around website building and content management and help ensure a coherent web presence for UCL.
What does this mean for website owners and editors?
Project timeline and migration schedule
The first UCL pilot sites in Drupal are now live:
The Bartlett website (January 2017) will be the next to launch and four more beta sites will move to Drupal by the end of February 2017:
• School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
• Institute of Opthalmology
• UCL Global
• UCL News
Migrations to the new CMS for all other Silva sites will start from March 2017. While Digital Presence will do all we can to smooth the move to the new system, we will need the help of all staff who manage websites in managing the transition, particularly in ensuring that content currently on sites is accurate, up-to-date, properly structured and well-written for web.
More detailed information on the migration schedule and on archiving web content that is no longer needed will be available in due course.
Note that it will not be possible to migrate existing Drupal sites to the new CMS. This is because Digital Presence are using Drupal modules to create a bespoke CMS tailored to the needs of UCL and it is highly unlikely that sites built in other instances of Drupal will be able to be migrated to the new CMS.
Training and support
Drupal is an intuitive and easy-to-use platform so training will be a blend of online and face-to-face. More detail on training for web editors on the new CMS will be available over the coming months.
Find out more about Indigo and Drupal including answers to frequently asked questions on our services pages:
Who is on the team?
- The Digital Presence team (formerly Web & Mobile Services or WAMS)
- Web Technologies within Datacentre Services
- Code Enigma
- Project Board
Please contact email@example.com
Project news / updates
The Digital Presence team will be in touch with CMS users and other stakeholders via the Digital Presence newsletter and other UCL channels.
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It is estimated that the population of human gut microbiome is around 100 trillion bacterial cells. That would mean there are more bacterial cells inside us than our own human cells.
This gut microbiome is considered not only a passive synergistic system but also an active system with its own signaling chemicals that has a positive and protective effect on the human body. To this gut microbiome, broad-spectrum antibiotics, sadly,are nuclear bomb equivalent. So, even though antibiotics can be life-saving, be aware of its effect on our friendly and beneficial gut microbiome. Dictum is to give as narrowest spectrum antibiotics as possible, for the shortest period of time as permitted.
9.1 Esophageal Pathology Based on Location
Part of esophagus
Type of muscle
Skeletal muscles only,which are innervated by somatic (voluntary) nervous system.
Diseases that primarily affect
Skeletal muscles (e.g., myasthenia gravis, myositis syndromes)
Somatic nerves (e.g., motor nerve palsy)
Squamous cell carcinoma usually occurs in upper or middle part of esophagus. Its major risk factors are alcohol, smoking, achalasia, lye ingestion, etc.
Upper part of middle esophagus is mostly skeletal muscles and lower part is mostly smooth muscle cells.
Smooth muscle cells only, which are innervated by autonomic nervous system.
Diseases that primarily affect
Smooth muscles (e.g., scleroderma)
Autonomic nerves (e.g., achalasia cardia)
Adenocarcinoma usually occurs in the lower third. Its major risk factor is chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease.
9.2 Dysphagia (Difficulty in Swallowing)—Mechanical and Neuromuscular
9.2.1 Mechanical Dysphagia
Definition: Dysphagia for solids, progressing on to dysphagia of liquids can be defined as mechanical dysphagia. Patients presenting with such history usually have a structural lesion that is progressively obstructing the lumen of the esophagus. MCC is esophageal stricture.
Workup: In patients with prior hx of conditions that are associated with complex esophageal anatomy (e.g., hx of radiation, caustic injury, surgery for esophageal or laryngeal cancer), do barium swallow prior to endoscopy (It provides a road map for endoscopy and makes it safer.). Otherwise, go directly for upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, a.k.a. esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). If structural lesion is found, do biopsy.
a All causes of chronic dysphagia can result in weight loss, so weight loss does not necessarily point toward malignancy.
9.2.2 Lower Neuromuscular Dysphagia
Definition: It can be defined as difficulty in swallowing both liquids and solids that starts simultaneously. This kind of dysphagia is most likely due to esophageal motility problems.
Etiology: Achalasia-pseudoachalasia (problem with esophageal smooth muscle innervation), scleroderma (esophageal smooth muscle itself is replaced by fibrous tissue), and other esophageal motility disorders (e.g., diffuse esophageal spasm).
Workup: EGD followed by manometry. Manometry is the most accurate test.
9.2.3 Achalasia and Pseudoachalasia
Background: After food ingestion, the autonomic nervous system signals esophageal peristalsis to propel food downward and when food reaches the lower part of esophagus, it signals the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to relax. This relaxation is very important for food to pass into the stomach. Loss of autonomic innervation results in inadequate peristalsis and inability of LES to relax, resulting in dysphagia for both solids and liquids.
Achalasia cardia (idiopathic achalasia)
Pseudoachalasia (a.k.a. secondary achalasia)
Idiopathic destruction of myenteric (Auerbach’s) plexus
Denervation/destruction of myenteric plexus by:
Tumor (esophageal or gastric adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, etc.): presence of hx of long-standing GERD features may point toward adenocarcinoma of lower esophagus
Vagal nerve denervation (e.g., surgical vagotomy)
Infection (e.g., Chagas disease which can cause megaesophagus)
Barium swallow appearance
Smooth distal esophageal narrowing or tapering (called “bird beak’s appearance”). Proximal esophageal dilation signals advanced disease.
Source: In: Michael J, Sircar S, eds. Fundamentals of Medical Physiology. 1st ed. Thieme; 2010.
In malignancy, the tapering is usually NOT smooth; proximal esophagus may or may not be dilated.
Note the irregular proximal contour (arrow) and the distal margin of the stenosis.
EGD and biopsy
Primary destruction of the neural plexus in absence of other pathologic featuresa
Usually reveals the underlying disorder, e.g., lymphoma cells in myenteric plexuses
In low-surgical-risk patients, do pneumatic dilationb or surgeryc (pyloromyotomy)
In patients with high risk of complication with invasive procedures (e.g., advanced age), give botulinum toxin injection into lower esophageal sphincter via EGD. It usually requires retreatment. If it fails, use nitrates and calcium channel blockers
Treat underlying disorder
aNever miss the chance of detecting malignancy in its earliest stage. Endoscopy and biopsy are mandatory even in apparent achalasia cardia.
bPotential complication includes esophageal perforation.
cIn patients younger than 40 years of age who are low risk for surgery, surgical approach may be preferred over pneumatic dilatation, as risk of recurrence in pneumatic dilatation is higher.
9.2.4 Other Esophageal Motility Disorders (Esophageal Spasm)
Intermittent crushing substernal chest pain unrelated to exertion, which is sometimes aggravated by hot or cold liquids.
Intermittent feeling of food (solids or liquids) getting stuck in esophagus.
Intermittent heart burn or food regurgitation.
In patients presenting with chest pain, always do electrocardiogram (EKG) first. In patients with dysphagia, do endoscopy first. In patients with prominent heart burn symptoms, if patient fails high-dose proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy, do esophageal pH and impedance testing to rule out gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
If above test is inconclusive, NSIDx is manometry, which can show typical high-pressure episodic contractions.
If contractions are diffuse, diagnosis is diffuse esophageal spasm.
If contractions are localized to a specific area of esophagus, diagnosis is “nutcracker” esophagus (aka hypertensive peristalsis). (They say the pressure is so high, it can even crack a nut.)
If patient has high LES (lower-esophageal sphincter) resting tone, dx is hypertensive LES.
Rx: Calcium channel blockers (diltiazem, nifedipine) or tricyclic antidepressants such as imipramine (M-antagonist effect). Sublingual nitroglycerin can relieve the pain/spasm.
9.2.5 Esophageal Manometry
Test description: A thin flexible plastic tube is inserted (e.g., a nasogastric feeding tube) and pressures are monitored by this tube while swallowing.
aLES resting pressure is high in achalasia cardia and low in scleroderma.
Both can present as neuromuscular dysphagia.
9.2.6 Upper Neuromuscular Dysphagia
Definition: It refers to difficulty initiating swallowing, nasal regurgitation, and choking or coughing while eating.
and bulbar/pseudobulbar palsy.
9, 10, 11, 12 cranial nerve involvement
Upper motor neuron palsy
Lower motor neuron palsy
Stroke (MCC), multiple sclerosis
Guillain–Barre syndrome, syringobulbia, myasthenia gravis, lower motor neuron disease, etc.
Workup: Videofluoroscopy (modified barium swallow under fluoroscopic surveillance).
Rx: Usually supportive. Address underlying cause.
Type of dysphagia
Steps in diagnosis
Peptic stricture, malignancy, etc.
Dysphagia for solids, progressing on to dysphagia of liquids
EGD (+/- pre-EGD barium swallowa)
Lower neuromuscular dysphagia
Achalasia and pseudoachalasia
Dysphagia with difficulty swallowing both liquids and solids simultaneously
EGD (+/- pre-EGD barium swallowa), followed by manometry
Upper neuromuscular dysphagia (aka oropharyngeal dysphagia)
Dementia and bulbar/ pseudobulbar palsy
Difficulty initiating swallowing, nasal regurgitation, and/or choking or coughing while eating
aIn patients with prior hx of conditions that are associated with complex esophageal anatomy (e.g., hx of radiation, caustic injury, surgery for esophageal or laryngeal cancer), do barium swallow prior to endoscopy.
9.3 Other Esophageal Disorders Related to Dysphagia Disorders
Development of soft mucosal concentric rings in esophagus, therefore, only food with a certain diameter gets stuck
Nonprogressive episodic dysphagia, particularly with larger-size food chunks
Dx is made by barium swallow, or EGD and biopsy.
Rx: EGD with pneumatic dilatation, followed by PPI therapy
Formation of thin mucosal eccentric fold that protrudes into esophageal lumen, which typically occurs in upper cervical area of esophagus
When it occurs with iron deficiency anemia, it is called Plummer-Vinson syndrome. It has higher risk of squamous esophageal carcinoma
Other associated conditions include pemphigus disorders, chronic graft versus host disease, etc.
Can present similar to esophageal rings. Patient complains of difficulty swallowing, particularly in the cervical zone of esophagus. Lab test may reveal iron deficiency anemia
Dx is made by barium swallow, or EGD and biopsy.
For Plummer–Vinson syndrome, NSIM is iron replacement (it may lead to resolution of dysphagia).
In patients with significant symptoms, EGD +/- dilatation might be needed. Usually webs are easily ruptured by the endoscope itself
Motor dysfunction and weakness of esophageal muscles can lead to development of diverticular pouch in the upper part of posterior esophagus.
Dysphagia, foul breath, regurgitation of previously eaten food
NSIDx: barium esophagogram.
Rx: endoscopic or surgical correction
Source: Steffers G, Credner S, eds. General Pathology and Internal Medicine for Physical Therapists. 1st ed. Thieme; 2012.
Drugs: tetracycline, doxycycline, aspirin, NSAIDs, alendronate (bisphosphonates), oral potassium/ iron supplements, etc.
Other causes: infectious esophagitis (candida, CMV, HIV, HSV), eosinophilic esophagitis, etc.
Acute onset painful swallowing (odynophagia) + difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) +/- vague to sharp persistent central chest pain
If dx is not apparent or if severe, NSIDx is EGD
Rx: supportive (may use acid suppression). If medication that caused esophagitis cannot be discontinued, use its liquid formulation, which has less risk.
Abbreviations: CMV, cytomegalovirus; EGD, esophagogastroduodenoscopy; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; HSV, Herpes simplex virus; NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
9.4 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Reflux of gastric contents and acid into esophagus can occur either due to
Increased intra-abdominal pressure
Obesity, pregnancy, delayed stomach emptying (gastroparesis), etc.
Decreased contraction of lower esophageal sphincter
Scleroderma, smoking, etc.
Clinical pathophysiology: Patients can present with various symptoms such as chest pain, “heartburn,” hoarse voice, cough, etc. Physical exam may reveal inflamed pharynx and larynx.
• Avoid smooth muscle relaxants (which can relax the lower esophageal sphincter) such as calcium channel blockers, nitrates, chocolate, peppermint (commonly found in chewing gums).
• Weight loss is recommended in obese patients.
• Elevate head of the bed at night; use more pillows.
is generally added when lifestyle modifications fail to improve symptoms or when symptoms are moderate to severe. In mild GERD, histamine-2 receptor antagonists (e.g., famotidine, ranitidine) can be used.
cIndications for EGD in GERD include presence of any of the following alarm features:
• New-onset dyspepsia at age ≥ 60 years.
• Recurrent or persistent nausea and vomiting.
• Weight loss or anorexia.
• Odynophagia or dysphagia.
• Any evidence of GI bleeding: positive fecal occult blood test, melena (hx of black tarry stool), or microcytic iron deficiency anemia.
• Family hx of gastrointestinal cancer in a first-degree relative.
dEGD findings suggestive of GERD include peptic stricture, reflux esophagitis, and Barrett’s esophagus.
eEsophageal pH and impedance monitoring is a highly sensitive and specific test for GERD, but is a cumbersome study that takes 24 hours to perform. Impedance detects movement of intraluminal contents. Combined with pH monitoring, it can differentiate between acid and nonacid reflux.
Surgical treatment for GERD: Patients who require high doses of PPI to control symptoms can be offered surgery (e.g., Nissen fundoplication), particularly in young patients. Before doing surgery for intractable GERD, multiple tests as given below need to be done to confirm the diagnosis and make sure that the surgery will benefit the patient:
Esophageal pH and impedance monitoring.
Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy (EGD).
Gastric emptying study to make sure that the stomach is emptying properly, and gastroparesis is not contributing to refractory GERD.
9.4.1 Complications of Untreated or Uncontrolled GERD
9.4.2 Management of GERD Complications Depend on EGD Findings
aEndoscopic eradication treatment involves using radiofrequency or cryotherapy to remove dysplastic tissue.
bWhen 1st EGD reveals gross findings suggestive of Barrett’s esophagus, NSIM is to take 4-quadrant biopsies. Once biopsy confirms Barrett’s, do EGD surveillance every 3–5 year. If biopsy reveals low-grade dysplasia or indeterminate for dysplasia manage as shown in the right.
1. A 28-year-old pregnant woman presents to emergency department with new-onset burning substernal chest pain. She does not have any risk factors for atherosclerotic disease. What is the NSIM?
Esophageal pH monitoring
9.5 Dyspepsia (Indigestion)
Definition: Presentation of vague epigastric pain, discomfort, or bloating is known as dyspepsia. Patient may have other symptoms of indigestion such as nausea, excessive flatulence, occasional exacerbation of pain or, in severe cases, diarrhea.
Abbreviations: GI, gastrointestinal; NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
9.5.1 Management Steps of Dyspepsia
aIn patients with history of significant alcohol, aspirin, or NSAIDs use, H. pylori testing may be deferred. Empiric antacid therapy and avoidance of precipitating factor can be tried first.
bStop PPI therapy 1 to 2 weeks before H. pylori testing. PPI, antibiotics, and bismuth can lead to false negative result.
cTriple therapy for H. pylori: PPI + Amoxicillin + Clarithromycin. If patient is penicillin-allergic, use Metronidazole instead of amoxicillin;
dQuadruple therapy = Bismuth subsalicylate + Metronidazole + Tetracycline (or doxycycline) + PPI. Alternative quadruple therapy is PPI + Amoxicillin + Clarithromycin + Metronidazole;
eDuring EGD, rapid urease testing can be done to detect H. pylori, which has urease activity.
fWhen no underlying pathology can be found for dyspeptic symptoms, dx of nonulcer (functional) dyspepsia can be made. As majority of dyspepsia are ultimately classified as nonulcer or functional; it is the most common cause of dyspeptic symptoms. NSIM is trial of PPI.
Serology (i.e., checking serum antibody against H. pylori) has low predictive value and is not recommended.
CAP H. pylori CMP (complete metabolic profile).
MRS MTBP (Master the boards points) Quadruple CAMP.
9.6 Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD)
Definition: Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) refers to gastric and/or duodenal ulcer.
Etiology: Major causes are Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) use. Other causes of PUD include the following:
Empiric PPI or H-2 blocker for ulcer prophylaxis is recommended in these situations.
All gastric ulcers should be biopsied. By contrast, no need for routine biopsy of duodenal ulcer.
Rare causes include MALToma, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and Crohn’s disease
Abbreviation: PPI, proton pump inhibitor.
Presentation: PUD presents with dyspepsia +/- alarm features (as given before in algorithm).
Classic presentation is epigastric pain worsened by eating food. Food stimulates production of gastric acid which irritates the ulcer.
Epigastric pain usually occurs within few hours after eating food, when gastric contents are being emptied into the duodenum. Eating food relieves pain, as this causes the pyloric sphincter to close, keeping the food and gastric acid in the stomach.
9.6.1 Diagnosis Is Based on Endoscopy Findings
aBiopsy of the ulcer itself is not routinely recommended in patients with benign-appearing duodenal ulcer. For gastric ulcers, do biopsy.
9.7 Gastrinoma (Zollinger–Ellison Syndrome)
Background: Gastrinoma is a tumor that autonomously secretes a lot of gastrin. Common location of the tumor is in pancreatic or duodenal area. It can be associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) I syndrome.
Hypergastrinemia stimulates gastric acid production, increases gastric pH and risk for subsequent ulcer formation (usually multiple).
Hypergastrinemia stimulates gastric mucosal cells leading to mucosal hypertrophy and prominent gastric folds. There is an increased risk of gastric carcinoma.
Suspect gastrinoma if any of the following is present:
Multiple peptic ulcers
Ulcer in odd places like second or third part of duodenum or jejunum
Intractable ulcers or recurrent ulcers, particularly in patients with negative H. pylori testing and no hx of NSAIDs use
Occur due to excessive gastric acid entering the duodenum, damaging small intestine mucosae, and inactivating pancreatic enzymes. Diarrhea is also present (mostly osmotic with some secretory component)
Abbreviation: NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
aPPIs decrease gastric acid production that leads to increase in compensatory gastrin secretion. So, PPI use can cause false positive hypergastrinemia.
bAchlorhydria is absence of gastric acid, that is, alkaline (elevated) pH. It leads to compensatory secondary hypergastrinemia. Causes of achlorhydria include atrophic gastritis (pernicious anemia), chronic renal failure, chronic H. pylori infection, surgical vagotomy, etc.
c Mechanism: Normal gastric acid production is inhibited by secretin. In contrast, gastrinoma cells secrete more gastrin in response to secretin hormone.
d1st step is to do an EGD (if not yet done), CT or MRI scan and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (octreotide scan). If these tests are negative for primary tumor, NSIDx is endoscopic ultrasound. (This has greater sensitivity for diagnosing small tumors.)
If gastrinoma is localized and/or with limited or isolated metastasis, NSIM is surgical resection. Do endoscopic ultrasound (US) prior to surgery to ensure proper staging.
If widespread, do medical treatment with large doses of PPIs to block acid secretion.
Hereditary genetic syndrome associated with triad of pancreatic, parathyroid, and pituitary tumors (the board favorite): look for hypercalcemia (parathyroid adenoma), galactorrhoea-amenorrhea syndrome (pituitary adenoma), and features of gastrinoma or other pancreatic or parapancreatic
neuroendocrine tumors, as listed below:
VIPoma (hypersecretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide)
Hypokalemia, Achlorhydria, Diarrhea (secretory type)
Migratory necrolytic erythema, Anemia, Diabetes or glucose intolerance
Hypoglycemia, elevated blood C-peptide and insulin level
9.8 Stomach Cancer
Smoking and alcohol (they are synergistic).
Diet rich in nitrosamines which are found in smoked, salted, or barbequed meat.
Conditions that increase gastrin level: gastrinoma and chronic achlorhydria (due to pernicious anemia, chronic H. pylori infection, etc.).
Presentation: early satiety, weight loss, dyspepsia, upper GI bleeding.
Workup: NSIM is EGD and biopsy. If positive for malignancy, NSIM is CT scan. Depending on CT study results, positron emission tomography (PET)/CT, endoscopic US, or laparoscopy might be indicated for staging.
Rx: Localized disease is treated surgically. In advanced stages, chemotherapy +/- palliative surgery are indicated (e.g., patient has a bulky mass which is causing obstruction or inability to eat any solid food).
9.9 Gastric Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Tumor
Background: It is the MC type of extranodal marginal zone lymphoma and the only type associated with H. Pylori infection. Most MALTomas are of low grade and commonly remain localized.
Presentation: Symptoms or complication of PUD (e.g., upper GI bleeding or dyspepsia).
If positive for H. pylori, start H. pylori eradication therapy; the tumor generally subsides after treatment. This is a unique treatment of this form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
If negative for H. pylori, do radiotherapy for localized disease. Alternative regimen is rituximab.
If positive for H. pylori, start H. pylori eradication therapy.
When symptoms develop, treat with rituximab +/- chemotherapy.
Follow-up: Regular surveillance EGD.
9.10 Malabsorption Syndromes
There are various causes of malabsorption, but all usually share the following common features:
Chronic diarrhea, bloating, flatulence
(Note: acute diarrhea/bloating and flatulence is considered infectious until proven otherwise) Fatty greasy stools that float easily in the toilet (steatorrhea)
Features of malnutrition
Vitamin A deficiency
Follicular hyperkeratosis, squamous metaplasia of cornea (called Bitot’s spot), night blindness, etc.
Vitamin K deficiency
Easy bruising and bleeding with elevated INR
Vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin B12, folate, and/or iron deficiency can present with anemia
Normally free calcium in gut lumen binds with dietary oxalate; calcium oxalate, as a compound, cannot get absorbed through intestinal epithelial cells and gets excreted with stool. In malabsorption, increased fatty acids in stool bind with enteral luminal calcium, which in turn frees up oxalates to be absorbed into the circulation. This leads to hyperoxaluria and increased risk of calcium oxalate stones formation
9.10.1 Diagnostic Workup of Malabsorption
To diagnose malabsorption, do fecal fat quantification test. Spot test can be done for screening, but if negative and when suspicion is high, 72-hour fecal fat testing is recommended which has high sensitivity and specificity to diagnose steatorrhea (malabsorption). Generally, malabsorption should be confirmed before doing invasive procedures such as EGD with biopsy.
9.10.2 Different Etiologies of Malabsorption
In malabsorption, patient’s history generally provides clues to etiology:
Malabsorption + history of the following
Travel to developing countries
Giardia stool antigen or nucleic acid testing.a Also, do stool microscopy for cysts, ova, parasites, and leukocytes. If these tests are negative consider serology to look for other infections such as Strongyloides, Entamoeba histolytica, etc.
If all the above tests are negative, do fecal fat quantification to document malabsorption and celiac sprue testing (which is the major differential dx), prior to doing EGD with small bowel biopsy
If stool antigen or nucleic acid testing is positive for giardia, start treatment.
Rx: depends on age
> 3 yrs of age- tinidazole (single dose)
1-2 yrs of age-nitazoxanide
< 1 year of age -metronidazole
For pregnant patients in their 1st trimester,if treatment is deemed necessary, paromomycin is preferred. In 2nd or 3rd trimester, any of the medication mentioned here can be given.
Tropical sprue (unknown microbiological cause)
If small bowel biopsy reveals blunting of villi/chronic inflammation, celiac sprue testing is negative, and there is positive travel history, preliminary dx is made.
Rx: oral tetracycline for few months
Bowel anatomical issues (e.g., strictures, fistula, anastomosis)
Risk factors for reduced peristalsis (e.g., diabetes, scleroderma, Crohn’s disease)
Small bowel intestinal bacterial overgrowth
Carbohydrate breath test: after oral carbohydrate load, bacteria metabolize it to hydrogen and methane, which gets absorbed into circulation, excreted in breath and can be measured.
Diagnostic test is EGD with jejunal aspirate culture growing > 1,000 CFU of bacteria, but this may not be needed.
Rx: (amoxicillin + clavulanate) or (rifaximin)
Migratory arthralgia, lymphadenopathy +/- skin hyperpigmentationb +/- central nervous system involvement (e.g., memory impairment)
Whipple’s disease (caused by infection with Tropheryma whipplei)
EGD with small bowel biopsy with PAS (periodic acid-Schiff) staining
Rx: IV ceftriaxone or penicillin G, followed by oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (or doxycycline)
a Alternatively, patients with recent hx of travel and acute onset of symptoms suggestive of malabsorption can be empirically treated with metronidazole. If symptoms resolve, it is most likely giardiasis.
bCaution: Looks somewhat similar to hemochromatosis. Hemochromatosis can also present with malabsorption (due to pancreatic insufficiency), joint pain, and skin pigmentation. Presence of lymphadenopathy points toward Whipple’s disease.
Malabsorption + History of the following
Recurrent epigastric pain +/- diabetes mellitus (due to endocrine pancreas deficiency)
Exam CCS may give hx of alcoholism or lab/clinical features suggestive of chronic alcohol use (e.g., macrocytosis, elevated GGT, AST > ALT)
Document presence of the following:
Pancreatic calcification: do either US, CT, or plain X-ray
Presence of ductal pathology: do MRCP
Abnormal pancreatic exocrine function: do either fecal elastase or 72hr fecal fat test
See chronic pancreatitis section for further details
Rx: oral pancreatic enzymes supplements
Epigastric pain: Endoscopy shows multiple ulcers in the stomach +/- duodenum or ulcers in unusual places like second or third part of duodenum or jejunum
Hold PPI and check serum fasting gastrin level after 1 week
Surgical resection if localized disease or with surgically resectable metastasis. If widespread, do medical treatment with large doses of PPIs to block acid secretion
Hx of anxiety or bulimia nervosa
Factitious diarrhea due to laxative abuse
Colonoscopy can reveal dark brown discoloration of colon (melanosis coli)
Rx: cognitive behavioral therapy + nutritional rehabilitation +/- SSRI or olanzapine
Intensely pruritic papulovesicular lesions on the extremities (dermatitis herpetiformis)
Malabsorption without any other history suggestive of abovementioned conditions
See below for diagnostic algorithm
Remove BReWed beer from diet (i.e., Barley, Rye, Wheat, and beer, which is made from barley). These grains contain gluten protein, which when ingested, elicits an immune reaction in susceptible individuals
aPatients with celiac sprue may have increased risk of lymphoma and GI malignancy. Abbreviations: ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; CFU, colony forming unit; EGD, esophagogastroduodenoscopy; GGT, gamma-glutamyl transferase; MRCP, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography; PPI, proton pump inhibitor; SSRI, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
9.10.3 Diagnostic algorithm of celiac disease
aIgA anti-tissue transglutaminase (TTG) antibody. Another antibody that can be checked is IgA antiendomysial antibodies.
bSelective IgA deficiency is common in celiac sprue and can lead to false negative IgA anti-TTG.
cBest test is small bowel biopsy (biopsy of duodenal bulb + other duodenal areas +/- jejunum), which typically shows blunting or loss of villous architecture with increased inflammatory cells. Note: tropical sprue has the same picture. Absence of travel history to tropical countries points toward celiac. Note that in some patients with high probability of celiac (e.g., positive dermatitis herpetiformis or coexistent autoimmune disease such as type I DM, autoimmune hepatitis), we can go directly for EGD along with serology.
dIf patient is already on gluten-free diet, antibody serology testing can be negative. In this instance, we can check HLA DQ2 and DQ8 genotypes. If positive, gluten challenge and repeat serology need to be done.
Even if D-xylose test for malabsorption is not used anymore, the basic science behind it is interesting, hence questions on it are still asked on exam.
D-xylose is a simple sugar that does not need to be digested for absorption.
If D-xylose is not absorbed into the circulation, then there is a problem with the absorptive surface (e.g., celiac sprue, tropical sprue).
If D-xylose is absorbed into the circulation, then we can conclude that malabsorption is not due to problem with the absorptive surface; think of other causes such as chronic pancreatitis.
2. A 45-year-old female presents with long-standing history of symptoms of periodic diarrhea and weight loss. There is no history of travel. EGD with intestinal biopsy reveals blunting of villi. What is the best treatment? Antibiotics or dietary intervention?
9.11 Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
Idiopathic inflammatory process involves
Can involve the whole GI tract, including mouth
Diarrhea, weight loss, fever, abdominal pain, etc.
Disease course is usually remitting-relapsing (periods of acute flare-ups followed by dormant phase).
MC presentation scenarios
Proctitis: abdominal pain, tenesmus, stool urgency, and if severe, bloody diarrhea
Ileitis: right lower quadrant abdominal pain and tenderness
Malabsorption (chronic diarrhea, weight loss, calcium oxalate stones, vitamin B12 deficiency, etc.) can result from:
Both can have extraintestinal manifestations a
Erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, uveitis/iritis, arthritis, etc.
They have increased risk for venous thromboembolism
Look for elevated ESR, leukocytosis, and/or reactive thrombocytosis. (These are important clues to diagnosis, but these can be normal in patients with mild disease or in remission.)
Both UC/CD can have positive fecal occult blood and stool leukocytes
Pathology Both UC/CD are diagnosed with endoscopy and biopsy
Colonoscopy will show superficial inflammation with continuous GI mucosal involvement
Granulomatous transmural inflammation which may lead to
Perforation due to transmural involvement
Fibrosis → stricture formation → intestinal obstruction → perforation
Fistula formation → development of abscess
Granulomatous inflammation is a characteristic feature that differentiates CD from UC
Endoscopy will show skip lesions (lesions are not continuous)
aUC is associated with HLA-B27 related disorders, which include psoriatic arthritis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, ankylosing spondylitis, and reactive arthritis.
Abbreviations: CD, Crohn’s disease; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; GI, gastrointestinal; UC, ulcerative colitis.
COlitis is COntinous Crohn’s DISease is DIScontinous
PAIR of B27 (bombers) where I = inflammatory bowel disease, the UC type
First treatment of choice:
Both are treated with anti-inflammatory 5-ASA derivativesa and immunosuppressive agents such as steroids, 6-mercaptopurine, azathioprine, etc.
Proctitis: suppository Canasa
Proctosigmoiditis: suppository (Canasa) +enema (Rowasa)
Left-sided or diffuse colitis: oral 5-ASA derivatives and enema/suppository
If no response, use oral glucocorticoid. (Budesonide is preferred, as it has high topical GI effect and low systemic effect due to extensive first pass metabolism by liver.)
Mild flare-up with no systemic symptoms:
Oral 5-ASA derivative may be tried first
If not responding, do a trial of oral antibiotics +/- oral steroids (e.g., budesonide). Transmural inflammation and gut bacterial infection more likely play a role in CD
More Severe disease: For example, frequent bloody stools, frequent diarrhea, or signs of systemic toxicity such as fever, tachycardia.
Systemic steroids (e.g., prednisone or IV glucocorticoids) + oral and/or rectal ASA derivatives +/- antibiotics
If refractory to steroids, use any of the following: anti-TNF agents (infliximab, adalimumab) or vedolizumab (anti-integrin antibody). Cyclosporine is another option for UC and certolizumab for Crohn’s disease
Long-term treatment for prevention of flare-ups
If steroid dependent or frequent exacerbations, start steroid sparing agents such as 6-mercaptopurine or azathioprine. Other options are biologic agents (e.g., infliximab, adalimumab). Methotrexate is an additional option for CD
After 8–10 years of dx of UC, colonoscopy with multiple blind biopsies should be done to screen for development of colon cancer, followed by serial colonoscopies at 1–3-year intervals.
! Any grade of dysplasia in biopsy warrants colectomy
For active colonic disease or in patients with fistula, ciprofloxacin and metronidazole alone or in combination is commonly used
For CD with fistula, also use immunosuppressive agents. Systemic steroids and ASA derivatives have NOT been shown to induce closure of fistula
Indications for surgery
Toxic megacolon refractory to medical management
Severe flare-up refractory to medical management
Frequent exacerbation of disease despite medical management
After more than a decade of dx of UC prophylactic proctocolectomy might be offered to patients, instead of screening colonoscopy every 1–3 year
Symptoms refractory to medical treatment (e.g., high dose of steroids required to control symptoms) or frequent exacerbation of disease despite adequate medical therapy
Severe fistulating disease
Bowel obstruction refractory to conservative management
a5-ASA derivatives are olsalazine (oral), balsalazide (oral), sulfasalazine (oral), and mesalamine-derived compounds (oral or topical): discussed further in the below table.
Abbreviations: ASA, aminosalicylic acid; CD, Crohn’s disease; GI, gastrointestinal; TNF, tumor necrosis factor; UC, ulcerative colitis.
Asacol is for Colitis.
PENTasa—Pan ENTeric ASA: is effective for both small and large bowel inflammation, so useful in Crohn’s disease.
RowaSa = Rectal enema for rectum + Sigmoid colon involvement.
Topical 5-ASA derivatives
Oral 5-ASA derivatives
Rowasa is a rectal enemaa
Canasa is suppositorya
Pentasa is released in both small and large bowel.a
Asacol is efficacious mostly in ileum and colon.a
Sulfasalazineb is only effective in colon. (Colonic bacteria are required to cleave this drug into 5-ASA which is the active form.)
a Mesalamine-derived ASA compounds are topical Canasa, Rowasa, and oral Asacol, Pentasa.
b sulfasalazine is usually not the first line as it has higher risk of side effects. It can cause GI disturbances, skin rash, hepatitis, pancreatitis, pneumonitis, agranulocytosis, and aplastic anemia.
A man with hx of Crohn’s disease presents with complain of fecal material in his urine. What is the likely dx?
Patient with prior long-standing history of nonspecific GI complaints presents with high fever and abdominal pain. Abdominal exam reveals diffuse tenderness and decreased bowel sounds. Lab tests reveals leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, and elevated lactate.
What is the best NSIDx?
Abdominal X-ray reveals the following. What is the likely dx?
What is the NSIM?
Patient with history of ulcerative colitis presents with few months’ hx of progressive itching and fatigue. Liver function tests (LFTs) reveal ↑ gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) and ↑ alkaline phosphatase (AKP). What is the likely dx?
Source: In: Gunderman R, ed. Essential Radiology. Clinical Presentation, Pathophysiology, Imaging. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2000.
9.12 Lactose Intolerance
Background: Virtually everyone is born with lactase, an intestinal brush border enzyme that splits lactose into glucose and galactose and helps digesting milk. Later during life, people can lose this enzyme either spontaneously (genetically determined
) or due to villous pathology (e.g., giardiasis, celiac sprue).
Pathophysiology: When lactose-containing food is ingested, the undigested lactose remains in the GI lumen, which is then fermented by bacteria producing hydrogen gas (resulting in flatulence, bloating) and osmotically active compound (osmotic diarrhea so stool osmolar gap is typically increased).
Presentation: Explosive diarrhea with flatulence and bloating any time one ingests dairy products. Exam question might not include hx of dairy ingestion. If weight loss is present, think of alternate dx.
Management: Avoid dairy products
and if symptoms resolve dx is made. If patient does not want to avoid lactose and wants to confirm the dx first, do hydrogen breath test after ingesting dairy products. In addition, lactase enzyme supplements can be used.
9.13 Diverticular Disease
Background: It refers to the formation of multiple outpouchings in colon. This is common in older age population. MC location is in sigmoid colon. Risk factors include constipation, obesity, use of NSAIDs/opiates, etc.
Hx of chronic constipation alternating with diarrhea.
Sometimes patients have mild abdominal pain or bloating relieved by defecation.
Chronic lower GI bleeding can lead to iron deficiency anemia.
Acute painless lower GI bleeding.
Management: High fiber diet and stool softeners as needed. Diet low in red meat and total fat can reduce likelihood of symptomatic diverticular disease.
9.14 Acute Diverticulitis
Pathophysiology: Blockage of diverticula by colonic contents that results in peridiverticular inflammatory process.
Presentation: Acute abdominal pain and tenderness +/- signs of sepsis. MC location of abdominal tenderness is in left lower quadrant but it can occur anywhere (e.g., right lower quadrant tenderness due to pericecal diverticulitis).
Mild disease (low-grade fever, mild pain, and able to take PO intake)
Can be treated on an outpatient basis with clear liquid diet and oral antibiotics that cover gram negatives and anaerobes. For example, (amoxicillin-clavulanate) or (cefpodoxime + metronidazole).
CT scan is not necessarily indicated but may be indicated in patients not responding to outpatient therapy.
Severe disease (severe pain, high fever, or high leukocyte count)
NSIM is hospitalization, bowel rest, IV fluids, and IV antibiotics (e.g., ceftriaxone + metronidazole). Then NSIM is CT scan to assess severity.
If patient hasn’t had a recent colonoscopy, NSIM is to schedule colonoscopy after resolution of acute episode.
For recurrent diverticulitis, elective diverticulectomy can be done on a case-by-case basis.
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Surviving sepsis with LECT2December 17, 2012 in Medicine & Health / Medical research
Failure to launch an adequate immune response may be at the root of septic shock, according to a study published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine on December 17th.
Bacterial sepsis is a potentially deadly blood infection that results in massive immune activation and inflammation. Sepsis therapies have traditionally focused on quelling this exaggerated inflammatory response. But a recent study challenged this approach by showing that patients with sepsis had abnormally low levels of an inflammatory protein called LECT2.
The new study by Jiong Chen and colleagues at Ningbo University in China shows that low LECT2 levels are indeed detrimental. Injecting LECT2 into septic mice promoted bacterial clearance by immune cells called macrophages and increased their production of survival-promoting factors. If these findings hold true in humans, boosting immunity with LECT2 may be protective by helping clear the infection.
Lu, X.-J., et al. 2013. J. Exp. Med. doi: 10.1084/jem.20121466
Provided by Rockefeller University
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A couple of years ago I visited a Classic Car Show for the first time, and took a lot of Classic car pictures to use here on Clipartqueen.com.
But mostly I enjoyed looking at all these wonderful old cars.
They were all extremely well maintained, and the owners proudly showed them off. Often lifting the bonnet to show the car engine.
Actually there were all kinds of veteran vehicles, starting
with some old steam tractors and agricultural machinery.
The steam tractors were so heavy in those days that they couldn't be used for driving over the field.
In stead they used two large steam "tractors" with a plow and seed drill running between those two large "tractors"
Well, as you might already have realized I don't know much
about classic cars or tractors, but I find them fascinating
and beautiful and here is a page with lots of cool car pics
and car clipart.
There will soon be another page here with vintage car photos, but on this page I have taken the time to cut the car pictures free from the background - and I think these cool classic cars look fantastic!
You can read a lot more about the history of cars and see more pictures of old cars here on Wikipedia.
Car clipart with transparent background, so easy to use on top of a picture of a landscape or for a logo.
Most of these classic car pictures are in PNG, which means
they have a transparent background and can be placed on any
background color or picture you like.
A few, like some of the tractors, are in JPEG, with a white background.
If you like to read about how to find and how to save my clip art, please go to Homepage, also there you can read the rules about how you can use this clip art of vintage and classic cars.
Next comes some classic and sports car pictures, but below
there will be a lot more clip art of cool classic cars:
Clip art of tractors, old classic cars, drawings of veteran cars and even some steam vehicles.
Car clipart of a Vintage racing cars
Let's start with these wonderful cool car pics made from photos I took at the Classic Car Show: Two Steam Tractors!
And one more car clipart of a steam tractor. Aren't they just amazing.
These well maintained steam tractors were the biggest
attraction on the Classic car show I attended, and with good
They were working with full steam, and it was demonstrated how they worked.
Here comes some clip art of really cool classic cars.
First a classic caravan.
This cool classic car draw a lot of attention, and one in the crowd exclaimed, after having enjoyed the look of it for about half an hour: "Why did they ever make other cars than this!!
As I mentioned at the start of the page, there will soon come a page here on Clipartqueen.com with photos of vintage cars.
I had planned to make them all into cut-outs, because I think
these classic car pictures look fabulous when the stand alone,
with a transparent or a white background.
In this way you can really enjoy the classic look of the car, and as a plus you can use these clip art on any background you choose.
But - to make these car pictures really, really nice, I have
to use a load of time on each photo, so at least for now I
will leave it at this.
Maybe I will make some of the vintage car photos into cut-outs later, when I have more time at hand.
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Desert Giant Extension Activities
Two ideas for writing activities for use with Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus, by Barbara Bash.
- Grades: 3–5
Ideas for Writing
Desert travelogue. Encourage students to imagine themselves as travelers in the desert. Suggest they write and illustrate a travelogue about a day spent among the saguaro cacti. Their travelogue should be written in the first person and based on information in Desert Giant and on any other information they have about the desert. Encourage students to include imagined observations about the animals and people they might encounter during a day among the saguaro. If possible, allow time for students to read aloud their finished travelogues. Afterward, collect them into a book for display in the classroom or school library.
Desert poem. Some students may enjoy selecting one of the subjects in Desert Giant as the basis for a poem. Subjects might include one of the desert animals, the Tohono O'odham Indians, the desert, the cactus at night, the cactus in bloom, the cactus fruit, the cactus in death, or the cactus's life cycle. Encourage students to be creative by suggesting that they might like to illustrate their poems or write them in the shape of a saguaro cactus. When students finish writing, provide time for a poetry reading. Then collect the poems in an anthology or use them to make a bulletin board display. | <urn:uuid:1f9a7919-4a67-49b2-89d4-3179019aa483> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/desert-giant-extension-activities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915602 | 304 | 3.53125 | 4 |
The biggest barrier to e-government is the mindset and rigidity of administrators, according to Erkki Liikanen of the European Commission.
Speaking yesterday at the start of the two-day e-government conference at Lake Como, Italy, the head of the EU Enterprise and Information Society said that changing the way people work rather than wrestling with technology was the big challenge. “Putting the citizen first and creating a culture of service will in many instances mean reforming the public sector,” he warned.
Liikanen went on to call for commitment towards e-government from the highest level: “e-government cannot be led by the IT department. It has to be the highest level, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Mayors who commit themselves and lead by example. Overcoming barriers between government departments and internal resistance requires strong political will.”
He stressed the need for a practical roadmap, starting small and scaling up fast. He talked of his own department’s eEurope 2005 initiative, a roadmap for stimulating effective participation in the information society that emphasises the role broadband communications has to play.
“Content, services and applications in e-government, e-health and e-learning, will stimulate the use of broadband. Better infrastructure, widely available and secure broadband, will stimulate more interesting content, services and applications,” he said.
Earlier in his speech he had defined the three key objectives of e-government: open government made more transparent by the use of information technology; inclusive and personalised services made available to all citizens everywhere, and finally, value for taxpayers’ money. “A more productive public sector means better use of public finance, through higher efficiency,” he said.
Liikanen also took the opportunity to highlight three, newly launched, pan-European services. The first was a one-stop job mobility portal for European-wide job-search, the second a service for dealing with administrative obstacles in cross-border procedures and the third, EURODAC, which allows European authorities to cope more efficiently and fairly with the growing demand of asylum procedures by offering a common fingerprints database search facility.
The conference continues today.
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Unwanted humidity can result in many problems, including mold growth, musty odors, structural issues, and an uncomfortable muggy feeling. That’s why it’s important to control humidity if you plan to improve indoor air quality and home comfort.
The perfect relative humidity level is around 30 to 50 percent. Summer is generally the toughest time of year to stay within this range. Luckily, turning on the air conditioner can help.
After all, air conditioning doesn’t solely cool your home—it also lowers humidity. Here’s details of how this works, alongside with tips to adjust indoor humidity levels.
How Air Conditioning Eliminates Humidity
Contrary to what you might think, your air conditioner doesn’t add cool, dry air in your home—it removes heat and humidity. The process involves refrigerant, which soaks up heat and moisture effectively from the indoor air. Here’s what happens:
- Indoor air moves through the ductwork and travels over the evaporator coil filled with cold refrigerant.
- The refrigerant collects heat, and the moisture in the air collects on the coil.
- The condensation flows into the condensate pan below the evaporator coil and drains out of the system.
- Cooler, dehumidified air flows into your home.
How to Decrease Humidity
Running the air conditioner might be sufficient to lower the relative humidity under 50 percent in dry climates. But if high humidity is still a problem in your home, try these tips.
Run the exhaust fan in the bathroom, kitchen and laundry room when you shower, cook and wash clothes. Detached ventilation eliminates humidity at the source to keep these rooms more comfortable. You can also open a window when it’s more temperate outside to draw in fresh air.
Mop Up Standing Water
Water on shower tiles, kitchen counters and laundry room floors raise indoor humidity and could encourage mold growth. Clean up standing water promptly to avoid these problems.
Install a Dehumidifier
If you grapple with high humidity in the summer, consider installing a whole-house dehumidifier that runs in tandem with your air conditioner to make each room more comfortable. A whole-house unit can even run separately from the AC to remove humidity on mild days without running the air conditioner. This strategy saves you money and avoids that “cool but clammy” feeling.
Adjust the AC Fan to Auto
The condensation that collects on the evaporator coil needs time to build up and flow away. If you run the air conditioning fan continuously, the moisture won't be able to leave your home. That’s why it’s better to set the fan to “auto” so it is only on when the AC compressor starts. You should be able to find this setting easily on your thermostat.
Replace the Air Filter Regularly
An obstructed air filter traps dust and debris and can support mold growth if it becomes wet. This introduces moisture and mold spores into your home each time the AC turns on. Change the air filter every month or as encouraged by the manufacturer to reduce indoor humidity and increase air quality.
Fine Tune the Fan Speed
Refining the fan speed can be tricky. High airflow helps the AC sustain cooling demand on scorching summer days, but this may result in shorter cycles that minimize the chance of effective dehumidification. Work with an HVAC technician to help you choose the best fan speed for your comfort needs.
Clean the Evaporator Coil
A grimy coil can’t cool and dehumidify well. If your AC is having trouble reaching the preferred temperature, get in touch with our HVAC specialists to maintain your cooling system and clean the evaporator coil. Cooling and dehumidifying efficiency should improve as a result.
Check the Refrigerant Charge
Insufficient refrigerant can impede your air conditioner’s ability to perform its job. Left ignored, serious issues including a frozen evaporator coil or compressor failure may happen. Only a qualified HVAC technician can solve refrigerant leaks and replenish the system as required, giving you another reason to schedule an AC tune-up.
Exchange Your Air Conditioner
If your home has constant comfort issues and your air conditioner is getting old, it might be time to look for a new one. Select a new AC system with advanced features, such as a thermal expansion valve (TXV) and variable blower motor. A TXV provides the perfect amount of refrigerant determined by the air temperature, and a variable blower motor adapts the fan speed to satisfy demand. Both features improve cooling and dehumidifying effectiveness.
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Kudmul Ranga Rao’s 157th Birth Anniversary Observed
Mangaluru: The district administration in association with Zilla Panchayat, MCC and the Social Welfare Department observed the 157th Birth Anniversary of Kudmul Ranga Rao at the DC’s office here, on June 29.
The programme began with an invocation. MUDA Chairman Ibrahim Kodijal inaugurated the programme by lighting the traditional lamp along with other dignitaries. Mayor Harinath garlanded the portrait of Kudmul Ranga Rao and showered flower petals.
Addressing the gathering, Mayor Harinath said that Kudmul Ranga Rao was very much concerned about the poor and the marginalized. He was a social reformer and he worked for the welfare of the backward class by providing them education and other basic facilities. He empowered them by giving lands to build houses and also guarded them against exploitation. “He is a great personality who has created history by empowering Dalits. At present, we have named only one road after him but we need to give his name to future major projects so that his name will be etched in history,” he added.
Ibrahim Kodijal said that Kudmul Ranga Rao was a social reformer and a pioneer in the movement of depressed classes. Kudmul Rao saw to it that Dalits received education and provided them with employment. He also guarded Dalits from being exploited by the upper class. Kodijal further said that nowadays, intolerance is seen everywhere and is dangerous to the country. “India has unity in diversity, and all the leaders of this country should work with unity for the development of the country. We should all live in unity and harmony. Every religion teaches peace and harmony. God is only one with different names.”
Retired Motor Vehicle Inspector Mugalavalli Keshava Dharani briefed on the life of Kudmul Ranga Rao and his love for the marginalised sections of society. Keshava said that being an advocate, Ranga Rao was popularly known as a “Poor Man’s Lawyer”. “Ranga Rao also started 20 schools in Mangaluru, Puttur and Udupi for Dalits to pursue their education and started midday meals. He even bathed Dalit kids and used to have food with them. For this reason, his own community threatened him of serious consequences but he never stopped. He also introduced inter-caste marriage by marrying off his daughter. Even Mahatma Gandhi’s son was inspired by Kudmul Ranga Rao and he too married a girl from another caste. Mahatma Gandhi had once said, “I discerned social loyalty from Mr Rangarao. He is an inspiration and a guide for me. He is my teacher when it comes to the upliftment of the untouchables”.”
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I never said "all boats....".actually the opposite, I have continued to point out how people generalize too much. There are those who have "museum piece" boats, which they keep "historically correct" (or at least their interpretation), kept shiny and pretty (and run for cover when anything over 10kts kicks up)....they take them to boat shows sailing on sunny days. My boat was designed 75 years ago, but is not a "museum piece"...the building process included techniques that didn't exist when it was designed (which were improved on later on). The boat was designed as carvel plank, but was built as strip plank, glued and covered with fiberglass (later replaced with fiberglass using epoxy resin), there was alot of lamination and fiberglass work in the construction....not "historically correct". AS well as rig tweaks that differ from the designer's original plan.
I guess most people don't realise technology goes both ways:
Most visitors do not notice, but of the large list, a few inventions "historically correct museum piece" boats have benefited from include:
* Plastic ropes (looks like hemp but isn't - but lasts 100 times longer in the sun)
* "Canvas look" terylene sails (lasts longer than Egyptian Cotton): A tiny aside here is that I know of only two Tall Ships world-wide using traditional sailcloth and neither of those travel the world.. Go ahead, prove me wrong
* Dyneema rigging (looks like gal wire but is heaps stronger, lighter and easier to maintain)
* Modern paints, glues and varnishes..
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Street fashion has been popular for quite some time now. This fashion trend includes oversized T-shirts, jackets, hoodies, beanies, jeans, sweatpants, and shoes from popular streetwear brands such as Nike, Adidas, Superdry, Supreme, and the like.
Streetwear is basically simple and fashionable clothes that we saw in the ’90s and incorporates elements from graffiti, skateboarding, hip-hop, and surfing. What started off as a trend of comfort and self-expression turned into a multi-billion dollar business and nowadays, we see many top-tier brands incorporating streetwear trends into their collections.
This trend targets youths mainly under the age of 25. However, we can see that it is being adopted by those in their 30s as well. The same demographic can be seen in the gaming and esports demography, giving rise to a brand new branch of streetwear that incorporates both gaming and esports.
Brands have quickly noticed this trend and have been incorporating gaming and esports themes into their apparel. Nike was one of the pioneers with the release of its Nike PG-2 Playstation Colourway back in 2018 and last year, the Nike Airmax 97 sneakers inspired by the Nintendo 64.
So, how do these brands bring in their gaming/esports apparel to regions like Southeast Asia? Enter Culture Group, the creative and commercial force behind a number of leading brands that leveraged the power of popular culture, including Riot Games in China and Globe Telecom in Southeast Asia.
We spoke to Michael Patent, the founder and president of Culture Group, who has created a new kind of marketing agency that pairs brands with popular culture.
Gaming was previously something people did to pass the time but has since evolved into a lifestyle. As Patent puts it, “gaming is a thriving passion globally that has moved from cult to culture”.
“Much in the way rock stars and sporting heroes led the way in determining what was cool in the past, games, and esports are now the new platform for creating cultural relevance. Fashion and apparel are an outcome of where fan attention is being paid,” he said.
This is especially true since casual gamers can recognize iconic gaming characters like Mario and Pikachu, thanks to their prevalence in the media and global icon status.
Besides video games, the multi-billion dollar esports industry has also made significant inroads in the fashion industry to cater to the legions of esports fans worldwide.
Recently, Nike announced a gaming collection in conjunction with the League of Legends Worlds Championship. This comes as no surprise as Nike is one of the sponsors of the event and will continue to until 2022. This collection includes a special version of the Air Jordan 1 High Zoom CMFT, which features the colours from the LoL World Championship trophy.
In addition, the collaboration also gave birth to the “Good Game” Nike Blazer Mid ’77 style, the Air Max 90, the low- and high-top versions of the Air Force 1, Air Max 270 React, Air Max 2X, and the Joyride Dual Run 2. There’s also a collection of “Good Game” T-shirts, hoodies, and sweaters as well.
While gamers in the past shied away from their made-up identities in video games, Patent said youth today often viewed games and esports as a primary form of entertainment.
“Professional games are the new global celebrities, oftentimes carrying more cultural cachet than mainstream celebrities.”
So, imagine yourself walking down the street and running into someone wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog T-shirt. The feeling of solidarity between gamers when they see others wearing video games apparel can create an unspoken connection between each other.
These apparel may be expensive, but Patent said streetwear and hype culture have proven that low prices is not a determining factor in the success of apparel drops.
“In fact, the adverse is often true. The higher the price, the more desire is generated.”
It is, therefore, not unusual to see consumers queueing in front of stores at midnight just to be one of the first to purchase a drop here in Southeast Asia.
Thanks to this surge of interest in streetwear, Patent predicts that the intersection of streetwear and esports in massive markets like China will lead to a ‘cultural moment’.
With China being one of the largest markets in the world for streetwear and gaming, it is no surprise that Nike decided to drop the Good Game collection there first. And things are only starting to heat up.
“Games and esports are the new battlegrounds for the hearts and minds of consumers – expect brands to rush to secure the best talent with the biggest commercial impact,” Patent noted.
He said the boom is already underway, and the next phase will see product drops (product releases) of physical items taking place within the games.
“These ‘phygital’ releases will blur the lines of the real and virtual worlds, though with real economic impact to brands and games.”
This concept isn’t entirely new; Samsung ran a similar campaign when they offered a Galaxy skin for Fortnite players who purchased the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone.
So, it’s not too far-fetched an idea for brands to employ a similar method in the future whereby consumers can redeem in-game versions of an actual product they bought. Now wouldn’t that be cool?
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Jennie was a client of Care N Assist. We first met at a nursing home five years ago. She was there due to a hip fracture and what was diagnosed as severe dementia. Her son wanted her to return home, since she had started to “wake up” as he would say. When I asked her what caused her dementia to seemingly reverse she said, “I decided to live again.”
This woman had previously been put on hospice due to her decline in physical as well as mental condition. She had experience loss of mobility and was suffering. Her depression was severe and her forgetful and disconnected behavior led to her being given a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. The truth was, she did not have Alzheimer’s, she was depressed.
We provided in home care for Jennie for the next three years. She had pizza Friday, she ate chocolate at midnight, we took her on day trips to see family, and best of all she spent her last days in the comfort of her home.
In the United States according to a 2006 study, “Depression has been diagnosed by a health care provider for approximately 15.1% of the adult population.” (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey)
Worse than the epidemic of depression is the fact that so many of our elders are written off as “senile” due to forgetful or disconnected behavior. Because of Jennie I no longer call depression dementia. I have a personal mission to relieve the suffering for the clients in our care.
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Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions / Edition 6by Ron Larson, Bruce H. Edwards
Pub. Date: 01/01/2014
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus sequence, Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions offers fully integrated coverage of exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions throughout the first semester, within the hallmark balanced approach of the Larson team. A rich variety of applications encountered earlier in the course prepares students for concurrent physics, chemistry, and engineering courses. This edition features nearly 10,000 diverse and flexible exercises, carefully graded in sets progressing from skill-development problems to more rigorous application and proof problems.
- New! P.S. Problem Solving sections thought-provoking and challenging exercises at the end of each chapter require students to use a variety of problem-solving skills as they work with calculus concepts.
- New! Getting at the Concept exercises, boxed and titled for easy reference, check a student's understanding of the basic concepts of each section.
- Think About It conceptual exercises require students to use their critical-thinking skills and help them develop an intuitive understanding of the underlying theory of the calculus.
- Multi-part Modeling Data questions ask students to find and interpret mathematical models to fit real-life data, often through the use of a graphing utility.
- Section Projects, extended applications at the end of selected exercise sets, can be assigned to individual students or used in a collaborative or peer-assisted learning environment.
- Writing Exercises help students develop reasoning skills and discuss mathematical concepts.
- True or False Exercises in manyexercise sets help students focus on concepts, common errors, and the correct statements of definitions and theorems.
- Revised! Review Exercises, now grouped and correlated by text section, provide students with a more effective study tool, enabling them to target the concepts they need to review.
- Answers to all odd-numbered exercises are included in the back of the text.
- Integrated use of technology (optional and identified by an icon) encourages students to use a graphing utility or computer algebra system as a tool for exploration, discovery, and problem solving.
- Interactive Calculus Early Transcendental Functions 3.0 CD-ROM and Internet Calculus Early Transcendental Functions 2.0 web site, referred to in the text by an IC icon, offer enhanced opportunities for exploration and visualization using the program itself and/or a computer algebra system.
- CAS Examples, also identified in the text by an icon, offer opportunities for interactive exploration using Maple, Mathcad, Mathematica, or Derive.
- Explorations, optional boxed projects, enable students to discover selected concepts on their own, before being exposed to them in the text, making them more likely to remember the results.
- Motivating the Chapter, data-driven, chapter-opening applications, explore the concepts to be covered in the chapter in the context of a real-world setting. Following a short introduction, open-ended questions guide the students through an introduction to the main themes of the chapter.
- More than 1000 examples in the Third Edition enhance the usefulness of the text as a study tool for all types of learners. Each example is titled for easy reference and many offer detailed solutions, often with annotations, presented graphically, analytically, and/or numerically to provide further insight into mathematical concepts.
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Graciano, a resident of Santa Maria, was spending a relaxing Sunday fishing on Costa Fragata when to his great surprise he saw a turtle emerge from the water beside him! The turtle walked along the edge of the water in front of him before heading inland a few meters and proceeding to dig a nest.
Grace was very happy to assist with tagging and measuring the turtle before watching her safely back into the sea. He chose to name the turtle after himself and was presented with a certificate of adoption. Hopefully we will see her nesting again and be able to give more news about her.
Grace was very happy to witness a turtle nesting for the first time and sent us this message:
"Não têm de agradecer, pois fiz aquilo que qualquer pessoa que respeita a natureza teria feito. Proteger tartarugas é um dever de todos. Para mim foi uma glória ter assistido aquilo, pois pela primeira vez tive a oportunidade de ver uma tartaruga a desovar.
Quanto ao nome, pensei em registar-lhe com a minha alcunha - "GRACE", isto porque quando a encontrei disse: - "Esta é a minha tartaruga..."
Um santo dia, e continua com "POWER" neste trabalho que para mim é um gesto nobre para com a natureza."
Don't thank me, I did what any person who respects nature would have done. Protecting turtles is a duty for all. For me it was an honour to have witnessed it, for the first time I had the opportunity to see a turtle lay eggs.
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Tuesday's agreement is similar to the duration that Russia had previously demanded while other member nations had sought a full year.
Twelve of the council's 15 members — including Russia, China and the Security Council's 10 non-permanent members — voted in favour of the measure.
Britain, France and the US abstained because they said the resolution does not go far enough to help the roughly four million Syrians in need of aid.
The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Washington could not back the resolution as it expires in January, in the middle of winter, the very moment humanitarian needs are at their most dire.
"That is the weakness of today’s resolution — it requires another action from the council to confirm what should be automatic," Ms Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement.
"Syrians could be left without blankets or fuel to heat their homes in the dead of winter ... children will freeze. People will starve. Lives hang in the balance."
Ireland and Norway, which sponsored the previously vetoed resolution, circulated a new draft on Monday that provides a six-month extension of deliveries from Turkey into Syria through the Bab Al Hawa crossing until January 10 of next year.
Bab Al Hawa is the only entry into the north-west region of Syria that does not cross government-held territories.
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Russia vetoed a year-long extension last week and the mechanism allowing aid deliveries expired on Sunday.
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