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Back in 2010, I declared that Olga Stefou was a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the Greek welfare state.
She was one of the protesters and – if the story captured her thoughts accurately – she displayed an unlimited entitlement mentality. Sort of helps one understand why this cartoon is so accurate.
Now we have an American version of Olga. Her name is Julia, and she is just as much of a moocher.
The good news, though, is that Julia is only a make-believe leech. She’s been created by the Obama campaign to show how big government can provide cradle-to-grave handouts.
The full series can be found at this link, and here’s a screenshot of the handouts that Julia might take at age 31.
Poor Julia is getting mercilessly mocked as everything from a deadbeat to a New Soviet Woman. But I realize my circle of friends, acquaintances, and contacts are not a representative sample.
So I do wonder whether this new gimmick from the Obama campaign will be successful. If it does work, it will show that this Chuck Asay cartoon was depressingly prescient. Heck, this cartoon about government as Santa Claus also will be accurate. | <urn:uuid:f62aedfe-2f8e-45eb-8eba-845f99953b69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/olga-and-julia-moochers-of-the-world-unite/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963036 | 255 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Funding for a programme of prestigious studentships has been awarded to St George’s in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
The award of this programme recognises the quality of the long standing research collaborations between St George's and the UK’s largest school of public health.
The London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), will provide high-quality PhD training across the spectrum of biomedical and public health research.
Students will benefit from funding for a period of three and a half years, with opportunities for interdisciplinary training and professional internships during their studies.
Professor Jenny Higham, Principal at St George's, welcomed the announcement.
She said: “I am absolutely delighted that the university has a key role in the development of academic practice and this programme is a brilliant springboard for students and researchers who wish to develop their careers."
Professor Eleanor Riley, Director of the Partnership, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, added: “This award will provide at least 10 studentships each year to train the research leaders of the future in crucial areas of global health including infectious diseases, causal inference from large data sets and evaluation of complex health interventions, and to support them as they develop their professional networks and initiate their research careers”.
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Imagine pulling over at a highway rest stop to take a break, and seeing a convict planting flowers. It could happen someday soon in Virginia.
Bills allowing inmates to maintain Virginia's rest stops cleared both chambers Wednesday, but not without debate that doing so could hurt public safety and Virginia's image.
Many Democrats oppose the measure, which was first proposed by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell last year when he reopened 19 rest stops statewide.
Inmates are already allowed to work along highways and at other jobs, including maintenance at the state Capitol.
"I would suggest there's a big difference in driving at 65 mph past a crew of convicts picking up trash on the shoulder of the highway and sharing your picnic lunch with them at a rest stop," said Del. Robert Brink, D-Arlington.
Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Augusta, argued that allowing inmates to work at rest stops could save the state significant money. The state currently contracts with private companies to provide the labor. If it employed inmates, it would pay the Department of Corrections $1.50 per hour.
Nothing in the bill would prohibit violent criminals or sex offenders from doing the work, which was a concern of some legislators. But the Department of Corrections only allows low security, nonviolent offenders to serve on work crews. An armed guard and a transportation worker trained to work with inmates would supervise the crews. Sen. Hanger also said the inmates would wear “distinguishable” attire, but not orange jumpsuits.
Legislators are also worried the move could hurt tourism, an important moneymaker for the state.
"I think we're being penny-wise and pound-foolish if we risk harm to our tourism industry," said Sen. Henry Marsh, D-Richmond.
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Published June 3, 2013
Asma, 25, knew that she was dying after her heart operation last year resulted in an infection. She lived in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where, on her own, she cared for her younger brother and sister. But the medical treatment she needed was impossible to come by. A serious-minded young woman, she preferred to speak and to smile only with close friends and family. To support her brother and sister, she worked at WADAN, The Welfare Association of the Development of Afghanistan, a non-governmental organization that runs drug treatment centers for heroin and opium addicts all over the country. She also was brave enough to work as a budding translator.
Early in the spring of 2012, before she knew that she was sick, she traveled with photographer Seamus Murphy and me to report a story for The New York Times Magazine, on a grant from the Pulitzer Center. To safeguard her honor, her uncle traveled with us as her escort. Together, we examined the risks to the lives of Afghan women who write poetry. Tireless and gentle, Asma proved invaluable: she coaxed young, frightened girls to meet with us and she spent countless hours sitting on a frigid winter floor in Afghanistan painstakingly translating folk poems called landays from Pashto into English.
Landays are two-line poems of 22 syllables (nine in the first line; thirteen in the second) which belong to the forty million Pashtuns who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. An oral tradition, which morphs like rap music does over time, they are passed among Pashtun women, many of whom are illiterate. These poems take as their subject love, war, grief, separation, and love of homeland, the five most enduring themes of Pashtun culture. For millions of Pashtuns, driven from their rural villages by war and the need to find work, the concept of homeland is paramount to a tenuous sense of identity and belonging. Such was the case for Asma, who grew up longing to return to a place she barely knew. This was the final wish she shared with her sister.
“Before Asma died on October 4, 2012, she told her sister that she wanted her body to be buried in her grandfather’s village,” her father, Ihsanullah, told me not long ago when we met in eastern Afghanistan. This was a tough request to make, one that would require him to risk his life carrying her shrouded body in a taxi hundreds of miles over rocky paths in the absence of roads and through hostile territory controlled by the Taliban in the dangerous, northeastern province of Kunar. Along with Nangarhar, Nuristan, and Laghman, Kunar belongs to the four most remote and rugged provinces along the Afghanistan Pakistan border. Over the past several years, Kunar has become a major battleground in the fight between international forces and Taliban insurgents. For Asma, however, Kunar had an entirely different value: it was her family’s homeland and her connection to Afghanistan, a country to which she’d only recently returned after the U.S. military invasion began on October 7, 2001. Her family name is a tribal name and her grandfather was a famous tribal leader among the Pashtuns.
Although his friends and family had warned him not to go, Ihsanullah decided to make the journey. “This is my daughter’s last request,” he said. “I will go.”
Just after she died, he loaded her body into a taxi and began the trip. He was afraid that the Taliban would kidnap or kill him before he reached the village. Upon arrival, he went directly to the graveyard to bury his daughter. A group of militants appeared at Asma’s graveside. Her father worried as to why they’d come. He also feared that the gathering would attract the lethal eye of one of the armed drones that operate strikes from the skies above Kunar. But the funeral passed without incident. Relieved and moved by the militants who’d showed up to honor his daughter, Ihsanullah decided to pay his respects to a notorious Taliban commander, who had lost eight members of his village in a U.S. drone strike two months earlier. It was a very dangerous thing to do, but Ihsanullah felt that his daughter would have wanted him to make the effort to speak of peace on her behalf.
“I didn’t come here to talk,” he told the commander. “I came to pay my respects to the dead.” He did, however, have three questions, which he asked the Taliban leader in his daughter’s name. “I am against foreign occupation,” he told the commander. “You are against foreign occupation. If we came together to support our military and our own Afghan government and called for an end to foreign occupation together, would you want that?”
“No,” the militant commander replied.
Ihsanullah went on, “If you could establish a government that worked alongside the Afghan government, so you had the same rights that they did, would you want that?
“No,” he replied.
Frustrated, he asked his third and last question: “Why plant bombs in the road? They kill our own people.”
For this, the commander had no answer.
Ihsanullah wept as he told this story in the eastern city of Jalalabad. In his lap, he cradled his daughter’s computer, which he’d brought along in case there might be some landays she hadn’t yet translated hidden among its files. Until she died, she was planning on undertaking a second trip with Murphy and me to collect and translate the landays published in this month’s Poetry Magazine. This project, which will be published as a book by FSG in 2014, and the following are dedicated to her.
The day your heart failed in an Afghan cab,
I was in one elsewhere vomiting
my foreign guts out half a block from home,
my taxi stopped mid-street, breakfast splattered
on my feet and undigested pride.
You, stuck in Kabul’s wartime boomtown traffic,
leaned against your little brother and died.
Months later, in Jalalabad, your dad
mourned you ferociously, weeping the loss
of dignity and daughter
in front of me, an unmarried woman.
He’d carried your dead body by taxi,
sewn into your shroud, your last request,
home to his father’s father’s village,
to lay below the enervated ground.
Your final wish might have killed your father
by Taliban or drone. You were his son,
a martyred daughter, who offered her life,
as he has, for a country come undone.
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Caves on Hills Questions from the FAQ (Comment / Question)
Q. When a Japanese Infantry unit wants to move between cave hexes, can it move anywhere on the board or can it only move to adjacent caves? A. A Japanese Infantry unit can move from one cave to any other empty cave hex on the board; they do not have to be adjacent.
Q. After moving through a cave network, can a Japanese Infantry unit Take Ground after a successful Close Assault? A. Yes
Q. Only the Japanese units benefit from the defense of caves, but if an Allied unit is on a cave hex do they enjoy the defensive benefit of the underlying terrain? A. Yes. Allied units receive the battle benefit from the underlying hill (-1 from below) or mountain (-2).
Q. After reading the rule book and Summary Cards, Im not clear on what the battle die reductions are. A. The statement at the bottom of these cards has caused some confusion. The correct rules are: Armor and Infantry will battle at -2 when attacking a Japanese Infantry unit on any cave hex, regardless of elevation. Armor and Infantry will battle at -1 when attacking a non Japanese Infantry unit on a caves on hills hex from below (just like normal hills). | <urn:uuid:72bbebe6-c1b5-4add-9c47-3a8173f6c3ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44/en/content/cards_compendium/?id=terrain_52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00498-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919942 | 254 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Twitter is neck deep in water in India . The social network and the ultra-nationalist government of Narendra Modi have been immersed for months in a confrontation over content moderation that has intensified this week and that is jeopardizing freedom of expression in the most populated democracy in the world.
The conflict stems from a new law that gives New Delhi more powers to control what is said on the Internet , singled out by digital activists as a danger.
The regulation , approved in February but which came into effect on May 25, obliges technology companies to restrict the publication of certain topics, to comply with government orders on the removal of content and to identify the authors of “malicious information ”. If they refuse to do so, the employees of these platforms are exposed as criminally responsible.
Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accused Twitter of having chosen “the path of deliberate defiance” for refusing to implement some government orders. Those orders called for the blocking of up to 500 accounts, including those of journalists , activists and opposition politicians. Several reporters were arrested and charged with sedition in February for reporting on a massive mobilization of farmers critical of the country’s agricultural laws that caused episodes of violence.
The escalation of tension took a new leap this Wednesday. The “unintended consequences” with which the Modi government had threatened Twitter for refusing to follow its orders materialized in the announcement that Twitter had been stripped of its status as a platform, making it criminally liable for the published content there.
Thus, Indian law breaks against one of the fundamental principles of the internet : these digital spaces are not media, but platforms, which means that they are not responsible for what is shared on them. This pillar, specified in section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of the United States of 1996, has allowed the growth of social networks , since it protects them from lawsuits. Something that New Delhi seeks to reverse.
The government accuses Twitter of breaking the law. Twitter points out that this order comes from a ministry, not the courts, so the executive’s law may be violating basic principles of the Indian rule of law such as freedom of expression.
In recent months, Twitter has taken steps to adapt to the new law, which gives it a 36-hour window to remove content reported by a legal or administrative order. The social network has blocked critical accounts with land reform as the rapper Jazzy B . However, the refusal to silence journalists and activists has doomed the platform. “It’s a very difficult balance to draw,” Vijaya Gadde , Twitter’s chief legal officer , said last week .
The social network asked the Indian executive for three months of margin to be able to comply with the new regulations, but the day before its application, police officers searched their offices. The reason? Find out why Twitter had labeled a tweet from a member of the Government party about the coronavirus as “manipulated information” .
“We are concerned about the possible threat to the freedom of expression of the people we serve (…) and the use of intimidation tactics by the police,” the social network tweeted. Indian journalistic associations also denounced the government’s attack on free expression.
Free expression, in check
India’s government has spent months trying to control the information posted on social networks in relation to the pandemic of covid-19 , especially virulent in the country .
In April, the Modi men threatened Twitter, Facebook and Instagram workers with prison terms if they did not follow their orders. Twitter then blocked more than 500 accounts . WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against New Delhi claiming that the law was illegal and opened the door to ” mass surveillance .”
Although the denunciations of the technology companies may be ironic, critics and legal experts from multiple countries have pointed out that Indian legislation can violate the digital rights of users, restrict their freedom of expression and force them not to speak out on social networks for fear of reprisals .
For years India has been an attractive country for US tech giants that have been deployed in the territory, something that the new legislation is reversing. The Indian Constitution prohibits expressions that threaten “the sovereignty and integrity of India, state security, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, decency or morals, or in connection with contempt of court, defamation or incitement to a crime “. | <urn:uuid:c5d2aad5-5646-4120-b713-ee5910e486cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.columnist24.com/social-media/728/barca-reaches-400-million-fans-on-social-networks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.955051 | 907 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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ANNVER - Why was the garden of Eden called after the name Eden? but not called the garden of Adam and Eve or after any other special name? what is so special about 'Eden'
Of course I don't know the mind of God or why He does a lot of the things He does, including deciding on names for things, but the name "Eden" originates from a similar Hebrew word that means "finery, luxury, delight, pleasantness". The same Hebrew word shows up in the following scriptures.
"Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other "delights", who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel."
(2 Samuel 1:24)
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy "pleasures". (Psalm 36:8)
"Eden" is believed to be more closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful, well-watered".
These adjectives are a pretty good description of the Terrestrial environment found within the beautiful Garden, where there was no disease or death. Perhaps that is why God decided on Eden for the name; a place where "out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;" (Gen 2: 9)
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This book is a practical guide to safe and effective physical therapy methods that can be applied in patients with diverse skin ailments, including scars, decubitus ulcers, burns, frostbite, photosensitivity disorders, inflammatory skin disease, skin cancers, obesity-related conditions, psoriasis, herpes zoster, tineapedis, and vitiligo. For each condition, physical therapy interventions- therapeutic exercises, manual physical therapies, and therapeutic modalities employed in rehabilitation- are described in detail. In addition, information is provided on symptoms and complications, examination and evaluation, medical interventions, and prevention and management methods. In the case of obesity-related skin problems, management is discussed from the point of view of Eastern as well as Western medicine. The text is complemented by more than 300 color photographs and illustrations. Integumentary Physical Therapy will help the reader to obtain optimal therapeutic results when treating patients with skin ailments. It will be of value for both practicing physical therapists and students in physical therapy.show more
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Vaidya Sanganna (ವೈದ್ಯ ಸಂಗಣ್ಣ)
|Full Name:||Vaidya Sanganna|
|Pen Name (Vachana Signature):||Marulashaukarapriya Siddharameshwara|
|Kayaka (Occupation):||Practiced medicine|
WOne utterance only for the devotee,
one bunch only for the plantain tree.
If the ascetic touches again what is rejected
it is like the stench of a dead dog;
if the one who walks the virtuous path
breaks the daily ritual and goes astray
then paying fine to the masters of the devotees
and comes to resolve
if you see such brahmins made of clay
I will not unite. [Vachana No.2029]
Vaidya Sanganna practiced medicine. 21 of his vachanas have been traced with the signature Marulashaukarapriya Siddharameshwara. Most of them preach philosophy employing the terms of medicine.
"VACHANA" English Version Translation by: O.L. Nagabhushana Swamy, ISBN: 978-93-81457-12-2, 2012, Pub: Basava Samithi, Basava Bhavana Benguluru 560001.
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Juneteenth is an American holiday celebrated on June 19 which commemorates the day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation — the federal order ending slavery in the United States — was read to enslaved African Americans in Texas.
On that day, Union troops led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Texas, where he announced the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery nationwide. The war had ended just two months earlier, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865; and it had been two years and nearly six months since the proclamation ending slavery was signed by President Abraham Lincoln, on Jan. 1, 1863.
However, Confederate states that were still in open rebellion against the federal government in 1863 didn't recognize President Lincoln's authority, and many slaveholders didn't comply with the order until Union troops arrived to enforce it, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
After learning they were free, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas adopted June 19, nicknamed Juneteenth, as a day to celebrate freedom. In the following decades, the holiday — also known as Emancipation Day and Black Independence Day — was embraced by African American people across the country, the NMAAHC says.
As of June 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill making Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday, with the House of Representatives following suit on June 16. The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 17, 2021. According to NPR, "The recognition of Juneteenth as a legal holiday comes amid a broader national reckoning on race and the racism that helped shape America."
How Juneteenth began
On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Granger read from Lincoln's General Order Number Three to people in Galveston, Texas, one of the busiest port cities in the U.S. at the time. The document declared that "the people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them became that between employer and free laborer," according to the Obama White House Archives.
It's likely that many Texan slaveholders and enslaved people already knew about Lincoln's order when it became a law two years earlier, but without Union troops to enforce it, slave ownership in Texas "was business as usual" into 1865, said Michael Hurd, director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas.
During that two-year window, "Texas was considered a safe haven to practice slavery," and slaves who were brought to Texas from other states helped to spread the word among enslaved African Americans about emancipation elsewhere in the failing Confederacy, Hurd told Live Science.
"I think a lot of people, Black and White, knew about the emancipation," Hurd said. "But the people in power — slave owners — made no effort to free their slaves until they absolutely had to, when the Union troops came through."(opens in new tab)
The first Juneteenth celebrations
The first Juneteenth celebrations took place in 1866 throughout East Texas — from Texarkana in the northeast down to Houston — because that's where the majority of the state's African Americans settled after emancipation, Hurd said. Churches often hosted Juneteenth celebrations, and as African Americans became landowners, they donated and dedicated land for Juneteenth festivities, according to Juneteenth.com, a web portal for Juneteenth information and history.
Some formerly enslaved people who left Texas for Mexico after the Civil War brought the holiday with them, where it is still observed today, said Kelly Navies, a Museum Specialist in Oral History for the NMAAHC.
"You will find it celebrated on June 19th in some parts of northern Mexico, as el Día de los Negros," Navies told Live Science.
African Americans observed Juneteenth with feasting, music, pageants and parades, with many dressing in fine clothes — a luxury denied when they were enslaved. But the holiday was also an opportunity to hold political rallies so that newly freed African Americans could learn about voting rights, according to the Texas State Historical Association.(opens in new tab)
A newspaper article from Austin, Texas, in 1869 described that year's Juneteenth celebration, mentioning a procession led by a parade marshal through local barbecue grounds, said Daina Ramey Berry, a Radkey Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
"They had drummers; a flag bearer; they were holding the Stars and Stripes. Many of the men on horses were decorated with bright-colored ribbons," Berry told Live Science. The article went on to say that participants "felt the importance and knew the day they celebrated was one to be held in remembrance by them and their children," she said.
Many of the first Juneteenth celebrations were also oral history events during which speakers would talk about the institution of slavery and how African Americans survived, Berry explained.
"In the early festivals in the 1860s and 1870s, when you had formerly enslaved people still alive, those elders would speak at these ceremonies and educate the young generations," she said. "It's like a public oral history lesson, where the community is learning about a difficult part of our history, but it is a part of our history that needs to be acknowledged."
And unlike the Fourth of July, America's national celebration of independence from British rule, Juneteenth commemorates freedom for all in America, Berry said. Frederick Douglass, the renowned African American writer and orator, delivered a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration in 1852, now known as "What to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" (it was formerly titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"). In it, Douglass called out the hypocrisy of declaring a holiday devoted to freedom, in a land where approximately 4 million African Americans were not free.
From the perspective of enslaved people, "your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless," Douglass wrote. For African Americans who embraced Juneteenth, the holiday "represents the Independence Day that they want to honor and celebrate," said Berry.(opens in new tab)
Celebrating Juneteenth today
During the 1920s and the decades that followed, millions of African Americans left the South and moved to cities in northern and western states, in what is known as the Great Migration — and the celebration of Juneteenth traveled with them. "Because of that, you started to see those celebrations grow in communities around the country," Hurd said.
Interest in Juneteenth surged again in the 1950s and 1960s, spurred by the activism of the Civil Rights movement. One event in particular, the Poor People's Campaign of 1968, brought a diverse group of activists from across the country to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the rights of the poor, Navies explained. On the last day of the event — June 19 — the activists celebrated Juneteenth together.
"And from there, when the activists returned home, a lot of them took the idea of Juneteenth home with them, and we do see it gaining a lot of interest after that date," Navies said.
In 1979, the state of Texas passed a bill declaring June 19, "Emancipation Day in Texas," making it a legal state holiday starting in 1980, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Other states followed, and today, Juneteenth is recognized in 47 states and the District of Columbia (exceptions are Hawaii, North Dakota and South Dakota, according to a report issued June 3, 2020 by the Congressional Research Service).
Then, in 2018, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to establish "Juneteenth Independence Day" as a national holiday; the resolution had not yet received approval from the House of Representatives, CNN reported in 2019.
On June 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed another resolution meant to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The House of Representatives followed suit on June 16, 2021, and on June 17 President Biden signed the legislation that officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday, reported the New York Times.
Gaining federal recognition for Juneteenth "would mean that we're starting to come to terms with some of the important lessons of that time period of slavery and reconstruction that we've had a hard time as a nation confronting," Navies said in an earlier interview.
"Juneteenth forces you to look at what the meaning of enslavement was, and what the meaning of being free means to African Americans today, and to 4 million African Americans at that time," she said. "It's a day where you're not just celebrating — you're reflecting on what's happened since the year 1865. If we collectively as a nation were to acknowledge that, I think it would really be a step in the right direction toward healing."
However, some saw the move to make Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday as a hollow action. Nneka D. Dennie, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University, was one such critic. In an article for Slate, she pointed out that other holidays, like Martin Luther King Jr. Day, were once rooted in Black history but have become disconnected from that past.
"Given the ways that Dr. King’s lifework and MLK Day have been distorted," Dennie wrote, "it seems valid to fear that making Juneteenth a federal holiday has the potential to diminish its significance, instead of generating further inquiry into the history of American slavery and emancipation."
In context, according to Dennie, the recognition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday came at the same time as 21 states introduced bills to ban discussion of race and critical race theory in public schools, and while legislators worked to restrict voting access. "Any attempt to commemorate the end of slavery must be accompanied by tangible changes that seek to undo its effects," said Dennie.
- Listen to an interview with Clint Smith about why Juneteenth is important for kids to learn about in schools on WBUR.
- Read President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation here (opens in new tab).
- Find a timeline of slavery in America from History.com (opens in new tab).
- Watch a brief documentary about the history of Juneteenth, from the Minnesota Historical Society (opens in new tab).
This article was updated on June 18, 2021 by Live Science contributor Vicky Stein.
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-- "An extensive study released Wednesday in the journal Business and Politics found that the investments of members of the House of Representatives outperformed those of the average investor by 55 basis points per month, or 6 percent annually, suggesting that lawmakers are taking advantage of inside information to fatten their stock portfolios.
To the frustration of open-government advocates, lawmakers and their staff members largely have immunity from laws barring trading on insider knowledge that have sent many a private corporate chieftain to prison.
Strict laws ban corporate executives from trading on their insider knowledge, but no restrictions exist for members of Congress. Lawmakers are permitted to keep their holdings and trade shares on the market, as well as vote on legislation that could affect their portfolio values."
HT: Mike LaFaive
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Manufacturing starts for ITER’s massive cranes and high tech cargo lift
From left to right: Professor Henrik Bindslev, Director of Fusion for Energy, congratulating Mr. Phillipp Frantz, Managing Director of REEL S.A.S
Fusion for Energy, has signed a contract with the NKMNOELL-REEL consortium formed by NKMNoell Special Cranes GmbH (Germany) and REEL S.A.S. (France) part of Groupe REEL, for the the design, certification, manufacturing, testing, installation and commissioning of the four cranes that will be used to assemble the Tokamak machine and the Tokamak cargo lift which will move the casks containing components of the machine. The budget of the contract is in the range of 31 million EUR and it is expected to run for five years.
The cranes will be located within the Tokamak building and the Assembly Hall building and will operate like a pair of safe hands moving the heavy components between the two areas and positioning them during assembly with extreme precision. The consortium will deliver two 750 tonne cranes that in tandem will lift up to 1,500 tonnes of the ITER components during its assembly stage, two 50 tonne auxiliary cranes and the Tokamak cargo lift. Sophisticated engineering combined with advanced safety lifting and remote handling technologies are some of the elements that describe the nature of the work undertaken by the two companies.
The assembly process of the Tokamak machine
How will the cranes work?
The four electric overhead travelling cranes will be moving between the key buildings of the ITER project: the Assembly Hall and the Tokamak building, which is divided in two areas housing the Tokamak machine and a crane hall above the machine.
The major heavy lifting requirements shall be met by the two 750 tonne cranes. Each of them will be equipped with two trolleys, each carrying a single 375 tonne hoist. In total, the four 375 tonne hoists will provide a maximum lifting capacity of 1500 tonnes, which is the weight of 187 London double-decker buses in total. The cranes shall be capable of working in tandem to provide a fully synchronised lift and precise positioning. Two auxiliary cranes of 50 tonnes capacity each, will be used for other lifting activities working independently of each other.
What components will the cranes carry?
The principal purpose of the Tokamak crane system is to lift and receive heavy components, support the assembly operations, move the cryostat components and transport the assembled vacuum vessel sectors and other major components. When the Tokamak machine becomes operational there will be no further planned use for the cranes. The 750 tonne cranes will remain parked and electrically isolated while the 50 tonne cranes will continue to be used in the Assembly Hall.
How will the Tokamak cargo lift work?
The Tokamak cargo lift shaft will be located in the Tokamak building with connecting doors into the Hot Cell building. The lift will carry the casks that contain components of the machine. The cask is 3,7 metres high by 2,7 metres wide and 8,5 metres long. When empty, its total mass is roughly 60 tonnes. The size of a cask is the size of a London double-decker bus. Automated transfer systems and high tech remote handling systems will be deployed to transfer the casks. The transfer process involves the transfer and return of empty and full casks between various levels of the Tokamak building and the Hot Cell building by remote control. Therefore, all components involved in the transfer need to be integrated in a seamless manner.
Press Release: Manufacturing of ITER’s massive cranes and high tech cargo lift starts (EN), (FR), (DE)
MEMO: Manufacturing of ITER’s massive cranes and high tech cargo lift starts (EN), (FR), (DE)
View the different stages of the ITER Tokamak cryostat assembly:
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved in a big way in India over the years and since the CSR law came into effect on April 1, 2014, the entire scenario in this country has changed much faster for the better. Vodafone, the world's leading international mobile telecommunications company, with equity interests in 27 countries and partner markets in more than 40 countries is a key CSR player in our country. With the establishment of the Vodafone Foundation in India in 2007, it confirmed then and keeps up even today with the group's commitment to invest socially in the countries where it does business. Vodafone believes in 'Mobilising the community, mobilising social change.' The Vodafone Foundation in India harnesses the power of mobile technology to deal with some of our most pressing challenges relating to education, health, equality and access. They focus on 4 areas - m-women, m-education, m-health and m-agriculture, and tie up with charities, development agencies and the community to drive social change. ‘World of Difference’ is their unique employee engagement programme that focuses on disaster relief and implements.
I shared with you in an earlier blog post how Vodafone foundation as part of its commitment to the national movement ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’, has partnered with Educate Girls to send over 120,000 girls back to school in Rajasthan and here's more on it. In 2012, India was ranked as the worst of the G20 countries to be a woman in, and 4th worst in the world. Estimates showed that on average a girl in India receives less than 4 years of education in her lifetime. As a result, India is home to the largest number of illiterate women in the world (over 200 million) with almost 3 million eligible yet out-of-school girls, and Rajasthan is the worst hit state with more then 60% of out of school children being girls. It is the state with the highest number of child marriages and child brides, with almost 50% of the girls being married off before the legal age of 18. Established in 2007, Educate Girls is a non-profit that leverages the government’s existing investment in schools to deliver measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries at an extremely low cost.Their tie up with the Vodafone foundation is a boon to so many young girls and here is how it is making a difference.
Meet Manju :)
Meet Seema :)
Meet Suhani :)
While the initiative is targeted at Pali, Jalore, Sirohi, Ajmer, Bundi and Rajsamand districts, Bundi has been the core focus area where they have sent over 60,000 girls back to school and here is how. Giving Championships is Vodafone India Limited’s internal fundraising drive where various circles compete to raise monies for a social cause and this year, through the campaign, the organisation aimed to raise INR 1.5 crore to improve the quality of education for 60,000 girls in Bundi, Rajasthan by tying up with Educate girls. The campaign successfully surpassed its set target and Vodafone India Limited employees managed to raise INR 1,55,39,996 to ensure improved education for 62,159 girls for another year and contribute towards alleviating the educational issues of women of Bundi district.
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[Cython] Build module script
cb at mit.edu
Thu Apr 21 15:59:49 CEST 2011
>>> On 21 April 2011 08:57, Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I mean simple script that run cython compiler and then build shared
>> python module.
>> It's much better then manually run cython then gcc or write makefile for this.
>Ah, I see. Yeah that might be convenient. Although there is always pyximport.
I have a script I can contribute called pycc that might be a bit more
pycc [-c] [pyrexc|cython opts] [-- C-compiler opts] <FILE.pyx> [Clink opts]
pycc -c foo.pyx
to produce foo.so in the simple case, or maybe, just as an example
pycc -c -- -fmudflap foo.pyx -lmudflap
if you had gcc as a compiler and wanted to turn on mudflap.
The script itself is a Python script which uses an
exec(file(os.environ["HOME"] + "/.pyccrc").read())
to configure things in the Python language itself for what C compiler and
what default compile flags, C & Python include paths, libraries, etc.
It only works on Unix right now. I'm not sure how hard it would be
to adapt it to work on both Unix and Windows.
It actually also works for "programs" rather than "modules" if you
drop the -c as in
pycc -- -I/usr/include/X11 whatever.pyx -lX11
to produce a --embed generated program called "whatever". In all,
it makes for a pycc that behaves a bit more like traditional compiler
front ends such as 'gcc' that take source all the way to a variety
of outputs usable by the host OS. It works well in traditional
Makefiles or just from the command line as one-off invocations as
you're doing initial writing and testing or even "just seeing"
if Cython works/helps in some isolated situation with some module
There's also some complexity that dates to pre-embed days, but
which I personally find useful (or Pyrex users might find useful
since I believe Pyrex does not have --embed). If you do not have
the "-c" and you do have a ##MAIN## comment in the source file,
it will indent all code after ##MAIN## into a "Main()" function
called at startup. If there's no special comment it falls back
to --embed. (we could spell this some other way if anyone wants
more like the compiler option comment syntax "# cython: MAIN").
The upside of this feature is that with almost no mucking about
with your Python script other than adding a comment, it makes
variables local to Main() which allows optimizations in the main
script logic that potentially make things much faster. I see 2X
speed-ups in a few of my own speed critical programs. It probably
would speed up CPython interpretation, too, but not nearly as much
as the Cython operation in my various experiments.
The downside of the feature is that does fiddle with global/local
scope or mixed statements + defines + statments + defines. Those
are all "very uncommon" patterns in my usage. Also, it does have a
big ##MAIN## warning marker to let a reader know something special
might be going on semantics-wise. And, hey, 2X speed for a 1-line
So, you can probably see why I keep that feature around, but I could
also see if people didn't want an auto-functionizing-of-Main feature.
Having it around also doesn't seem harmful if the spelling of the
comment marker is nigh impossible to occur by accident. If you
wanted me to delete that from the script before submission, I could,
but it'd require a bit work and testing. Let me know if you want it.
An entirely alternate proposal that might be better, but would also be
more involved would be to make the "cython" program grow functionality
to make it more like a traditional compiler front end. As things stand,
"cython" (inheriting use-concept from Pyrex) works more like "cc -E"
where output needs to fed to another stage to be compiled/linked.
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India’s armed forces successfully test launched a BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile, developed jointly with Russia, from the country’s newest warship INS Kolkata, the PTI news agency reported Monday quoting Indian defense officials.
The missile-launch took place earlier this morning off the west coast of India near the Karwar military base in Karnataka. During the test all the requirements were met, the officials said.
The missile was created by the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace founded in 1998 by the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization and Russian rocket design bureau Mashinostroyeniya. The venture was named after two rivers, the Brahmaputra in India and Russia’s Moskva.
Deliveries of BrahMos missiles to the Indian Armed Forces started in 2005. BrahMos, which is the world’s fastest cruise missile in operation, can travel at speeds of up to Mach 3. The missile has a maximum range of 290 km and can carry a warhead of up to 300 kg.
Ground and sea trials of the missile have already been successful. The BrahMos is expected to be deployed with Su-30MKI fighter-bombers jointly developed by Russia’s Sukhoi Design Bureau and India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for the Indian Air Force. | <urn:uuid:33d732b3-de53-454e-a330-de6db7d32e4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.defencetalk.com/india-russia-missile-successfully-test-fired-from-indian-warship-59828/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942381 | 279 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Recycle Plastic Containers to Make a Hummingbird Feeder
by Jane Lake
It’s been many years since I first posted this simple recipe for hummingbird food, and my interest in these charming little birds grows with each summer season. I’ve learned how to feed the hummingbirds by hand, and also how to make my own hummingbird feeders from recycled materials.
On this page, I’ll show you how I make my own feeders and also provide a video tutorial for a similar feeder with a simple knotted string holder. Hopefully, you’ll be inspired to make one or two DIY feeders yourself, for virtually no cost.
Backyard hummingbird feeders contribute to the health of the hummingbird population and make it possible for them to thrive throughout the range of their extensive and migratory feeding grounds. You can help by setting out one or more feeders of your own.
Homemade Hummingbird Feeder
This feeder is made entirely of recycled materials and the hummingbirds love it. The reservoir holds plenty of nectar and it is easy to take apart and clean.
You Will Need:
- small plastic container with a tight-fitting, flexible plastic lid
- plastic bottle with lid
- strong rubber band or zip tie
- hummingbird food
- paper hole punch
- awl, drill or exacto knife
- optional: plastic flowers with a hollow stem and a plastic lid with a raised rim that is about two inches larger in diameter than the container
1. Make four holes in the container lid, using a paper punch, awl, knife or drill. These will be the hummingbird feeding ports.
If you like, insert a plastic flower with a short hollow stem into each hole (or glue fake flowers around the holes) to attract the birds to the feeding ports. For my first feeder, I reused yellow flowers from a broken hummingbird feeder, but I didn’t use anything for the next one and the birds were happy either way.
2. Remove the bottle cap. Set the top of the bottle in the center of the container lid. Trace around it with a pen. Cut out the circle with sharp scissors or exacto knife, being very careful to cut inside the line. You want the bottle neck to fit snugly through this hole.
3. Now make a good-sized hole, or several smaller holes, in the top of the bottle cap. An awl, drill or even a hammer and a nail can be used for this. This opening allows the nectar to flow from the bottle into the tub below.
4. Fill the bottle with hummingbird food.
4. Push the neck of the bottle through the hole that you made in the center of the container lid. Now screw the bottle cap in place, so the the lid is trapped between the rim of the bottle and the bottle cap.
5. Turn the container upside down and fit it onto its lid. Carefully turn the hummingbird feeder the right way up. The nectar will flow into the container, automatically stopping when it reaches the opening in the bottle lid.
6. Loosely fasten a zip tie around the upper part of the bottle. Tie the ends of a loop of string on opposite sides of the zip tie. Tighten up the zip tie to secure the string.
7. Hang the hummingbird feeder by the string where you can easily watch the hummingbirds come in to feed.
8. Optional: For an additional perch, you can use a plastic lid larger than the container by an inch or so all around with a slightly raised rim.
Place the container in the middle of the lid and trace around it with a pen. Cut the hole out, being careful to only inside the line, creating a doughnut-shaped plastic circle. Push the bottom of the margarine tub through the hole, until the plastic circle fits just below the lid of the margarine tub itself. If the fit is tight enough, the plastic circle will stay in place, supporting several hummingbirds as they stop for nectar.
With this method, you may also recycle a plastic hanger from a flower basket to hold the hummingbird feeder. These hangers usually consist of a clothes-hanger type hook above three plastic lines with molded ends that grip the rim of a planter basket. Try attaching the ends to equally spaced spots on the rim of the plastic circle around your hummingbird feeder. You can see from the photo at right that this recycled hanger can work very well and doesn’t bother the hummingbirds at all.
Another Cheap Hummingbird Feeder
Short video tutorial on making a hummingbird feeder from a pop bottle and plastic container, by Will Hill.
This is very similar to my design, with the addition of an interesting knotted string holder.
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A module containing a monad transformer for performing while loops. There is nothing here that can't be built using if-then-else, but it can allow you to express control more succinctly.
For example, here is a loop that executes until a certain time is reached:
loop $ do lift performAction t <- lift getTime while (t < endTime)
This would commonly be called a do-while loop in other languages. But the while statement does not have to be at the end of the loop:
loop $ do lift performAction t <- lift getTime while (t < endTime) lift $ putStrLn ("Cur Time: " ++ show t)
This is sometimes known as do-while-do. Note that like other monad transformers, you'll either need to explicitly lift the actions from the transformed monad, or use an mtl-style type-class to do so.
Continues executing the loop if the given value is True. If the value
is False, the loop is broken immediately, and control returns to the
caller of the
loop statement. Thus you can build pre-condition,
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235 Of The Best Signs From Women’s Marches Around The World
How can you display your dissatisfaction about the quality of life, when nobody's listening to you? Grab a sister, a protest sign and go out in the streets! That's exactly what the women in Washington, D.C. did to show their disapproval with current politics in their anti-Trump protest. While the Women's March was initially centered around Washington, it soon became a record-breaking worldwide protest to promote gender equality, LGBTQ rights and equal rights for all human beings.
There were 408 marches reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries. It is estimated that the march drew around 500,000 to D.C. alone, and 2.9 million people in the U.S. Actually, there were so many people protesting with their snarky yet funny posters, that stores were running out of cardboard.
"The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women's equality is human equality," says their official website. The message was loud and clear as you can see from the funny signs below.
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Date of this Version
PLoS ONE 7(1): e30750
A comparative analysis of genome-scale transcriptomic data of two types of skin cancers, melanoma and basal cell carcinoma in comparison with other cancer types, was conducted with the aim of identifying key regulatory factors that either cause or contribute to the aggressiveness of melanoma, while basal cell carcinoma generally remains a mild disease. Multiple cancer-related pathways such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, cell invasion and metastasis, are considered, but our focus is on energy metabolism, cell invasion and metastasis pathways. Our findings include the following. (a) Both types of skin cancers use both glycolysis and increased oxidative phosphorylation (electron transfer chain) for their energy supply. (b) Advanced melanoma shows substantial up-regulation of key genes involved in fatty acid metabolism (b-oxidation) and oxidative phosphorylation, with aerobic metabolism being far more efficient than anaerobic glycolysis, providing a source of the energetics necessary to support the rapid growth of this cancer. (c) While advanced melanoma is similar to pancreatic cancer in terms of the activity level of genes involved in promoting cell invasion and metastasis, the main metastatic form of basal cell carcinoma is substantially reduced in this activity, partially explaining why this cancer type has been considered as far less aggressive. Our method of using comparative analyses of transcriptomic data of multiple cancer types focused on specific pathways provides a novel and highly effective approach to cancer studies in general. | <urn:uuid:2fd34998-c9bb-4215-b1ae-9a89c677a655> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/csearticles/173/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.906385 | 325 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Sweat Reduction Injections
(Anti-sweat injections/ Underarm Botox®)
How do sweat reduction injections work?
Sweat reduction treatment works by injecting Botulinum Toxin (Botox®) into the skin under the arms. Within the skin Botox® works to block signals sent to sweat glands that trigger them to release sweat. Studies have shown that on average Botox® injections reduce sweating by 82-87% and in some can temporarily stop underarm sweating completely.
What to expect
Sweat reduction treatment involves multiple small injections into the underarms, using a very fine needle. Topical numbing cream is applied prior to injections and most people report only minimal discomfort during the procedure.
The injections take 2 - 5 days to start working, and reach maximum efficacy 14 days after treatment. Treatment can be expected to last 6 - 12 months. | <urn:uuid:c6628fcd-923c-41f6-a10b-c51728aa5dc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kvmedicalaesthetics.co.uk/sweat-reduction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.921111 | 179 | 1.625 | 2 |
Lake County voters will be asked to in November whether the school superintendent should stand for election or be appointed by the school board, provided that county commissioners agree to put the question on the ballot.
For this exercise, let's forget that Freddie Garner is Lake County's superintendent. No matter what the results of the referendum, he will serve the four-year term to which he was elected in 1984.
If voters decide Lake County's school superintendent should be appointed rather than elected, the only effect on Garner would be in 1988, when his term expires. At that point, he could not run for re-election, but he could be among the contenders for appointment to the job.
With that out of the way, let me share with you the results of a survey of school officials in four nearby counties with elected and appointed superintendents -- and the opinion of a former superintendent who has served under both systems.
My survey wasn't scientific. I was looking for school board members, administrators and superintendents who could provide a picture of the advantages and disadvantages of both systems without becoming embroiled in local politics.
The sentiment seemed to be for the appointive system.
I began with Orange County, which has had an appointed superintendent for 20 years.
''We either have to have an elected board and an appointed superintendent or an elected superintendent and an appointed board,'' said Ray Bassett, who has served on the Orange County School Board for 20 years. ''If both are responsible to the public, the superintendent is running for office all the time.''
The way Bassett sees it, the major advantage of the appointive system is that the ''superintendent is looking to his employer, the school board, for support. He doesn't continually have to go out into the community to do politically astute moves to keep his job.''
The disadvantage he sees for members of the community is that they have less direct control over the superintendent. However, the citizens do have control over the board members who appoint the superintendent and they can register any dissatisfaction through them, he notes.
In Orange County, the superintendent's performance is reviewed annually by the school board. He is required to give the board reports twice a year, one stating his goals and the other assessing how well he met those goals. The board determines his salary.
In Pinellas County, where the superintendent has been appointed for more than 25 years, Executive Assistant Superintendent Donald Van Fleet prefers that system. He has been employed in the school system there since 1955.
''I don't think you can knock the appointive system,'' Van Fleet said. ''I know there are those people who say the superintendent is more accountable if he is elected and has to run for office. But if you really look at what I consider to be the outstanding educational leaders in Florida, many are appointed superintendents.''
Van Fleet contends that a school district can go shopping for a superintendent anywhere in the United States under the appointive system, ensuring that it will get qualified candidates. The board also has the power to write the qualifications a potential superintendent must have, he said. In Pinellas County, all of the appointed superintendents have held doctoral degrees in education administration.
Under the elective system, ''a successful coach or ag teacher, who is forced to have contact with parents, can be elected superintendent,'' he said. Van Fleet took care not to criticize superintendents who have found their way to office in that manner, but he says educational credentials are important. Those with credible doctor ate degrees must have backgrounds in finance, research and curriculum.
''I don't think anyone can be a good superintendent without a good foundation in those areas, particularly with so many changes going on in Florida now,'' he said. ''You have to stay current, you have to know what's going on or you can't be a leader.''
In Marion County, where the superintendent is elected, school board member Betty Cluster speaks highly of the incumbent, Skip Archibald. But she favors the appointive system.
In discussing pros and cons of the elected system, she pointed to disadvantages with both.
''If we didn't have a good superintendent, other than filing lawsuits, our hands would be tied,'' she said of the elective system in Marion County.
On the other hand, she points to the dissension that can be created among school board members when a minority wants to fire an appointed superintendent.
''I don't think in Marion County it would pass,'' she said. ''You have to experience the system yourself to know why the appointed system is best. You have to be in there and see the workings every day. Under the appointed system, I could go in and say, 'You mishandled this. You straighten it up or we'll talk.' ''
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Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 9 > Chapter 8 - Uniform Mediation Act
- Access to video service: means the capability of a video service provider to provide video service at a household address irrespective of whether a subscriber has ordered the service or whether the service is actually provided at the address. See Idaho Code 50-3002
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- base assessment roll: means the equalized assessment rolls, for all classes of taxable property, on January 1 of the year in which the local governing body of an authorized municipality passes an ordinance adopting or modifying an urban renewal plan containing a revenue allocation financing provision, except that the base assessment roll shall be adjusted as follows: the equalized assessment valuation of the taxable property in a revenue allocation area as shown upon the base assessment roll shall be reduced by the amount by which the equalized assessed valuation as shown on the base assessment roll exceeds the current equalized assessed valuation of any taxable property located in the revenue allocation area, and by the equalized assessed valuation of taxable property in such revenue allocation area that becomes exempt from taxation subsequent to the date of the base assessment roll. See Idaho Code 50-2903
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Board of directors: means the board of directors of a public corporation. See Idaho Code 50-2702
- Budget: means an annual estimate of revenues and expenses for the following fiscal year of the agency. See Idaho Code 50-2903
- Business: means all types of business, including vacant structures, common areas, and lots within the district, and including professions. See Idaho Code 50-2602
- Cable service: has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U. See Idaho Code 50-3002
- Certificate of franchise authority: means a certificate issued by the Idaho secretary of state to a video service provider pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Idaho Code 50-3002
- Chapter: means chapter 30, title 50, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 50-3002
- Clerk: means the clerk of the municipality. See Idaho Code 50-2903
- Communication service: means the transmission of intelligence by electrical means, including, but not limited to telephone, telegraph, messenger-call, clock, police, fire alarm and traffic control circuits or the transmission of standard television or radio signals. See Idaho Code 50-2502
- Competitively disadvantaged border community area: means a parcel of land consisting of at least forty (40) acres which is situated within the jurisdiction of a county or an incorporated city and within twenty-five (25) miles of a state or international border, which the governing body of such county or incorporated city has determined by ordinance is disadvantaged in its ability to attract business, private investment, or commercial development, as a result of a competitive advantage in the adjacent state or nation resulting from inequities or disparities in comparative sales taxes, income taxes, property taxes, population or unique geographic features. See Idaho Code 50-2903
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- construct: means construction and acquisition, whether by devise, purchase, gift, lease or otherwise. See Idaho Code 50-2702
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- conversion: means the removal of all or any part of any existing overhead electric or communications facilities and the replacement thereof with underground electric or communication facilities constructed at the same or different locations. See Idaho Code 50-2502
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Deteriorated area: means :
Idaho Code 50-2903
Devise: To gift property by will. Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Facilities: means land, rights in land, buildings, structures, machinery, landscaping, extension of utility services, approaches, roadways and parking, handling and storage areas, and similar auxiliary and related facilities. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it. Felony: A crime carrying a penalty of more than a year in prison. Financing document: means a lease, sublease, installment sale agreement, conditional sale agreement, loan agreement, mortgage, deed of trust guaranty agreement or other agreement for the purpose of providing funds to pay or secure, debt service on revenue bonds. See Idaho Code 50-2702 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC Franchise: has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Franchising entity: means the state of Idaho or a city or county within the state of Idaho authorized by state or federal law to grant a franchise. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Governing body: means the board of county commissioners or mayor and council or board of directors as may be appropriate depending on whether the improvement district is located in a county or within a city. See Idaho Code 50-2502 Governing body: means the city council or the board of county commissioners of a political subdivision. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Improvement: means reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, extension, and enlargement, and "to improve" means to reconstruct, to remodel, to rehabilitate, to extend, and to enlarge. See Idaho Code 50-2702 Increment value: means the total value calculated by summing the differences between the current equalized value of each taxable property in the revenue allocation area and that property’s current base value on the base assessment roll, provided such difference is a positive value. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Incumbent cable service provider: means a person who provides cable service and holds a franchise issued by a franchising entity prior to July 1, 2012. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes. Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers. Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together. Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Legislative authority: means the legislative authority of any city. See Idaho Code 50-2602 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Local governing body: means the city council or board of county commissioners of a municipality. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Local unit of government: means a city, county, highway district or other governmental entity of the state of Idaho having maintenance and operation responsibility over the public rights-of-way within a geographical area for which a franchise or certificate of franchise authority has been issued by a franchising entity. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Misdemeanor: Usually a petty offense, a less serious crime than a felony, punishable by less than a year of confinement. Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Idaho Code 73-114 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Municipality: means a city or county of this state. See Idaho Code 50-2702 municipality: means any county or incorporated city which has established an urban renewal agency, or by ordinance has identified and created a competitively disadvantaged border community. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Nonincumbent video service provider: means :
Idaho Code 50-3002
Oath: A promise to tell the truth. Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Ordinance: shall be construed to mean resolution where the governing body properly acts by resolution and vice versa. See Idaho Code 50-2502 Ordinance: means any appropriate method of taking official action or adopting a legislative decision by any municipality, whether known as a resolution, ordinance or otherwise. See Idaho Code 50-2702 Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, evidences of debt and general intangibles as defined in the uniform commercial code — secured transactions. See Idaho Code 73-114 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer. Political subdivision: means a city or county of the state of Idaho. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Project costs: includes , but is not limited to:
Idaho Code 50-2903
Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114 Public rights-of-way: means the area on, below or above a public roadway, highway, street, public sidewalk, alley, waterway or utility easement dedicated for compatible uses. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Public utility: means any one or more, public or private persons or corporations that provide electric or communication service to the public by means of electric or communication facilities and shall include any city, special district, or public corporation that provides electric or communication service to the public by means of electric or communication facilities. See Idaho Code 50-2502 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Revenue allocation area: means that portion of an urban renewal area or competitively disadvantaged border community area where the equalized assessed valuation (as shown by the taxable property assessment rolls) of which the local governing body has determined, on and as a part of an urban renewal plan, is likely to increase as a result of the initiation of an urban renewal project or competitively disadvantaged border community area. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Revenue bond: means a nonrecourse revenue bond, nonrecourse revenue note or other nonrecourse revenue obligation issued for the purpose of financing an industrial development facility on an interim or permanent basis. See Idaho Code 50-2702 seal: includes an impression of such seal upon the paper, alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed thereto; or, alternatively, the seal may be the mark of a rubber stamp providing substantially the same information as the impression. See Idaho Code 73-111 Service area: means contiguous geographical territory in the state of Idaho within which territory a video service provider is authorized to provide video service pursuant to a certificate of franchise authority. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Service tier: means a category of video service provided by a video service provider to a subscriber and for which a separate rate is charged by the video service provider. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114 State: means the state of Idaho. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Subscriber: means any person in this state who purchases video service. See Idaho Code 50-3002 System operator: means any person or group of persons who provide video service and directly, or through one (1) or more affiliates, own a significant interest in the system or facilities through which the video service is provided and which person has been issued a certificate of franchise authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Taxable property: means taxable real property, personal property, operating property, or any other tangible or intangible property included on the equalized assessment rolls. See Idaho Code 50-2903 taxes: means all property tax levies upon taxable property. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Taxing district: means a taxing district as defined in section 63-201, Idaho Code, as that section now exists or may hereafter be amended. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Termination date: means a specific date no later than twenty (20) years from the effective date of an urban renewal plan or as described in section 50-2904, Idaho Code, on which date the plan shall terminate. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. this act: means this revenue allocation act. See Idaho Code 50-2903 Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC urban renewal agency: means a public body created pursuant to section 50-2006, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 50-2903 urban renewal plan: means a plan, as it exists or may from time to time be amended, prepared and approved pursuant to sections 50-2008 and 50-2905, Idaho Code, and any method or methods of financing such plan, which methods may include revenue allocation financing provisions. See Idaho Code 50-2903 User: means any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, investor-owned utility, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns acting as lessee, purchaser, mortgagor or borrower under a financing document and may include a party who transfers the right of use and occupancy to another party by lease, sublease or otherwise. See Idaho Code 50-2702 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Video service: means the delivery of video programming to subscribers, which programming is generally considered comparable to video programming delivered to viewers by a television broadcast station, cable service or digital television service, without regard to the technology used to deliver the video service, and which service is provided primarily through equipment or facilities located in whole or in part in, on, under or over any public rights-of-way. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Video service provider: means a provider of video service, and includes an incumbent cable or multichannel video service provider, a nonincumbent video service provider or a system operator, unless the context in which the term is used indicates otherwise. See Idaho Code 50-3002 Video service provider fee: means the amount paid by a system operator to a political subdivision pursuant to section 50-3007, Idaho Code. 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Collection of materials created by and for
the Zamorano Club, including primarily printed books, pamphlets, and
other ephemera from meetings, talks, and dinners. Also includes minutes
from meetings, meeting announcements, and other club functional
The Zamorano Club is a Southern Californian organization for
bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. It was founded in 1928, and
sponsors lectures and publications on book-related topics. The Club was
named in honor of Agustín V. Zamorano (1798-1842), a provisional
governor of Alta California and the state's first printer. It is club
tradition to present keepsakes to Club members at meetings, resulting in
a variety of printed mementos ranging from pamphlets to small books;
sometimes the items are reproductions of historical documents.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained.
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Mashable: On Saturday, the Egyptian army unveiled a “miraculous” device it claims will detect and cure AIDS and Hepatitis. But the device, named C-Fast, looks eerily similar to a fake bomb detector sold by a British company to Iraq in the late 2000s.
That device, codenamed ADE 651, was later found to be a scam. One that reportedly cost the Iraqi government as much as $85 million dollars, and perhaps hundreds of lives. Its creator, James McCormick, was indicted and later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The possible link between the C-Fast and the fake bomb detector, named ADE 651, was first spotted by the Libyan Youth Movement, a citizen organization born after the Egyptian revolution of 2011. The group posted a picture of the two devices on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:ff894158-b98e-4f28-9f9d-f467567b3e11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://warincontext.org/2014/02/27/egypts-aids-curing-device-may-be-a-fake-bomb-detector/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.969223 | 176 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Empathy is sine qua non-ability of nurses and the positive effects of empathy on clinical management have been documented. In addition, its positive effects have also been reported in oncology practice. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictors of empathy skills and attitude towards cancer patients and association between nurses’ empathy skills on attitudes towards patients with cancer.
A structured questionnaire was used to evaluate the nurses’ empathy skills and their attitudes towards to patients with cancer. Jefferson Scale of Empathy(JSE) and Attitudes Towards Cancer Scale (ATCS) were used. The predictors of JSE/ATCS scores and correlation between JSE and ATCS were analyzed.
305 nurses participated in the study (84.2% of all nurses). The median age was 33 (20-52) and most of the nurses were female (82.6%). Most of the participants were married (188,61.6%) and 40.3% of nurses had an job experience more than 10 years. Female sex, being married, having job experience more than 10 years or caring more cancer patients were associated with higher JSE scores. Nurses caring more cancer patients weekly, experience with cancer patients, participation in educational activities about cancer care or presence of relative with a diagnosis of cancer were found to have more positive attitudes towards cancer patients. Spearman correlation analysis showed a positive, weak correlation between JSE and ATCS (r = 0.017, p = 0.38)
Empathy skills are important while caring patients, especially in oncology practice. Although a direct correlation between empathy skills and attitudes towards cancer patients couldn’t be demonstrated, health care workers caring cancer patients should be both evaluated for empathy skills and educated.
Clinical trial identification
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22 July 2010 by Sam
Rebecca Watkin has sent this account of how she helped support a very good cause at the weekend:
“Hello. As a brief introduction my name is Rebecca Watkin and I am curator of transatlantic slavery at the International Slavery Museum. To mark Nelson Mandela Day on 18th July 2010, myself and Jessica Moody, research assistant from our Development Office, travelled down to the British Museum to represent the International Slavery Museum.
As Nelson Mandela is one of the museum’s Black achievers we were passionate about commemorating the 67 years that Mandela has been involved with human rights work. Visitors were invited to pledge 67 minutes of their time to charitable causes to mark this.
The British Museum forecourt was bustling with visitors on what was a vibrant, sunny day. It was a great opportunity to promote forthcoming museum events such as the Slavery Remembrance Day festival from 20th-23rd August and the FIRHM (Federation of International Human Rights Museums) Conference being held at the International Slavery Museum on 15th and 16th September 2010.
As curator it was very interesting to talk to the visitors who had been to the International Slavery Museum and hear their feedback which was very positive. It was also a great opportunity to encourage new visitors to the museum. We were informed that 30,000 visitors attended Nelson Mandela Day and we were the only museum from outside London to be represented.
The BBC World Service were filming and conducting interviews about how people are going to take individual steps to combat climate change. Jessica pledged she would give up tea (but later admitted she couldn’t). I pledged to turn more lights off when not in use. Both being keen drivers, we perhaps could pledge to use public transport more and save on petrol emissions.
The day was celebrated through South African music, dance, amazing food and storytelling. Special thanks goes to the kind man from the South African tourism stall who rescued our museum pop–up banner from the persistent breeze on the forecourt and Gabriella, the kind little girl who offered to help pack our stall away as part of her 67 minutes of her time. Thank you!”
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Palo Alto (/ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ/; Spanish: palo: literally "stick", colloquial: "tree" and alto: "tall"; meaning: "tall tree") is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is named after a redwood tree called El Palo Alto.
The city includes portions of Stanford University and is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies including Hewlett-Packard (HP), VMware, Tesla Motors, Ning, IDEO, Wealthfront and Palantir Technologies. It has served as an incubator to several other high-technology companies such as Apple Inc., Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Pinterest, and PayPal. As of the 2010 census the city had a total population of 64,403 residents. Palo Alto was established by Leland Stanford when he established Stanford University following the death of his son Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive cities in the United States and its residents are among the most educated in the country.
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One story has Jesus visiting Britain. The legend is that his uncle was Joseph of Aramathea, a relative of Mary's. This is not improbable, as the Romans used to allow relatives to collect the bodies of their executed relatives,which Joseph did in Jesus' case. But the case for a British visit is not proven.The story goes that Joseph was a tin trader [no proof of this] and therefore visited Cornwall, taking the young Jesus with him. There is no historical backing to this tale and no church traditions ever recorded it.
An intriguing tale arose in the nineteenth century. Nicolas Rohrich, a Russian traveler, was in Tibet and was discussing religion with a Buddhist abbot, what else do you do with Buddhist abbots? During the conversation Rohrich pointed out that we knew nothing of the hidden years of Jesus, only to be told that Jesus was in Tibet. The abbot produced a document detailing Jesus' time there. To cut a long story short, Novotich, another Russian, translated the document and publicized it in the West. Swami Abidananda then tried to discredit the tale and so went to the monastery of Himis [Hemis] only to find that there really was a document that said what Rohrich said that it did. He became convinced of its veracity.
The tale is that the young Issa [Jesus], aged about thirteen, joined a group of merchants heading eastwards. He went to India where he impressed the Brahmins, who tutored him in heaiing arts.However, he made enemies by opposing the caste system and idolatry. This led to his enemies plotting to kill Jesus, but he was warned and fled to Tibet, where the Buddhist monks took him in. Finally at twenty nine he returned to Israel where he was put to death by Pontius Pilate.
I have read the translation of this manuscript. Some suggest that it was influenced by Nestorian Christians, but I can find no Nestorian theology in it. It begins by saying that the soul of the world detached itself from the One to become incarnate as man in Issa. This statement has no parallel in Christian theology, though it might have some affinity to the Logos doctrine of John's Gospel. However,it does indicate that the writer considered Jesus to be more than human. The manuscript describes Jesus as the new Moses, a well-known Christian theme, but whoever wrote it shows no knowledge of the written gospels, as there is no trace of any gospel material in the manuscript, and there is no knowledge of the resurrection. There is one teaching on the value of women and one on the value of manual work, but the whole text is short on teaching. This limitation leads me to think that as Nestorian Christians are as knowledgeable on scripture as other Christians are, the manuscript did not come from them. There is no evidence that the writer knew any Christian theology at all, for reference to the salvation and the redemptive value of the cross and resurrection are completely missing. This omissions suggest that this document is from a non-Christian source, which reinforces the conclusion that Nestorian Christians were not behind it.
There are said to be several legends about St Issa in Nepal and Tibet, where his memory is cherished, and there is a sect of people who claim to be his followers, who declare that he taught them to oppose the caste system. Interestingly, the name Issa is the Muslim name for Jesus, so there could be some Islamic influence in these tales.
I cannot prove or disprove the veracity of this tale. It would need an expert with knowledge of he language in which the text was written, probably Pali, and a masterly grasp of its scriptography. This expert would have to exhaustively analyse the document to come up with a conclusion and check out any historical references for consistency. | <urn:uuid:ae561381-02c1-4d5a-a5fe-fc9958f49bfb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://wizzley.com/jesus-the-hidden-years-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00149-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97995 | 780 | 2.6875 | 3 |
French tole wine maker’s scoop bucket, c. 1900. Constructed by hand from sheet metal with hand-forged bands, and handles that are all secured with rivets. Wood was used to line the interior base. The handle or grip underneath the bucket, when used in conjunction with the carrying handle at the top, allows for the bucket to function as a scoop. The rich patina turns this bucket into a visually pleasing object that lends itself perfectly to industrial design interiors.
Condition: Very good, antique condition with normal weathering. Not watertight due to minor seperation around the base seam. Structurally good condition otherwise.
Size:9 ¾” height (12” height with the handle). Diameter at the top is 12”.
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As the first DLP brand to incorporate Philips’ ImageCare technology into its projector lamp system, BenQ has taken a further leap, developing its own SmartEco Technology to perfect what DLP can do for energy saving in the 21st century classroom. Built with this brand new invention, the MW516 brings together uncompromised brightness, exquisite picture quality and optimized lamp life through innovative features.
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User Manual CD
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Quick Start Guide
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This process supports thinking through reflection time and sharing with a partner before sharing to a larger group.
- Pose a question or prompt and invite learners to think on their own.
- Then, have learners talk to an elbow partner about their ideas.
- Invite sharing to a small group or to the room.
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The present publication is part of the effort of the Population Division to disseminate the information resulting from its monitoring activities in relation to fertility, contraception and population policies.
Government's views and policies with regard to the use of contraceptives have changed considerably during the second half of the 20th century. At the same time, many developing countries have experienced a transition from high to low fertility with a speed and magnitude that far exceeds the earlier fertility transition in European countries. Government policies on access to contraceptives have played an important role in the shift in reproductive behaviour. Low fertility now prevails in some developing countries, as well as in most developed countries. The use of contraception is currently widespread throughout the world. The highest prevalence rates at present are found in more developed countries and in China. | <urn:uuid:6fb59444-412c-4dd9-b547-250f9ebcfb6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/fertility/contraception-policy.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00419-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962528 | 154 | 2.375 | 2 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — It has begun! That persistent film of pollen that takes over our lives in spring is rearing its head across our communities.
“This year it’s probably about a week early compared to what we’ve seen over the last couple years, but it’s definitely within the normal range of when we start to see the production of pine pollen,” Dr. Robert Bardon of NC State University explains.
He says even with our warm end to winter, pollen this year is pretty much on time, and his estimates say the peak will likely be early to mid-April.
So while you may want to get your allergies meds ready, don’t blame all your sneezes and sniffles on the yellow pine pollen.
“Most of our allergies from a tree pollen standpoint are our hardwood trees and it’s a much smaller grain pollen that’s rough, and it’s an irritant,” Dr. Bardon says. “Where our pine pollen is a much bigger grain and smoother, and it just happens to occur mostly at the same time.”
We complain about it and suffer through our allergies, but we would not have the world as we know it without pollen.
“It’s the way they reproduce, most of our plants reproduce through pollen, and with that we wouldn’t have food or any plant-based industry products,” Dr Bardon explains.
No food is obviously a bad thing, but no pollen would also impact things like office supplies, even our homes, all of which come from a huge industry here in North Carolina.
“Without it we would be impacting a forest product industry that’s almost a $35 billion economic impact in our state.”
We will likely always complain about the pollen here in North Carolina, but our lives would be a lot different without it. | <urn:uuid:550b952d-c27a-490a-9145-48a47cbbbb57> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/pollen-is-a-necessary-nuisance-in-north-carolina/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.953166 | 410 | 2.203125 | 2 |
By ISRAEL TODAY—
Christy Anastas, a young Palestinian Christian woman from Bethlehem, has bravely released a compilation video in which she, in several different venues, confronts the joint lies that Israel is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians and for the flight of fellow Christians from the city of Jesus’ birth.
The Anastas family is no stranger to the media. When Israel decided to erect the “West Bank” security barrier in response to incessant Palestinian suicide bomb attacks, the Anastas house near the outskirts of Bethlehem was unique in that it was surrounded by concrete walls on three sides, inviting constant media coverage.
But in an address to students at Uppsala University this year, Christy was firm in her position that the inconveniences and suffering inflicted on her family and so many others can not ultimately be blamed on Israel.
The Christian population of Bethlehem actually grew during the years it was under “Israeli occupation,” she reminded her audience, putting to rest the falsehood that Israel is engaged in some kind of ethnic cleansing, especially against Christians.
The real culprits were her own people. Anastas described how when the Second Intifada broke out in 2000, she had a front row seat, as her family’s home is located very near to Rachel’s Tomb.
According to Anastas, the Palestinians began attacking the Jewish holy site “day and night,” purposely endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians in the area. But more to blame than those brainwashing the “freedom fighters” was the Palestinian Authority itself, which Anastas reminded had committed itself to maintaining public order and instilling the principles of peace. Instead, she noted, the Palestinian regime actively encouraged young Arabs to take to the streets in violence.
In the midst of this, Anastas said that local Christians in Bethlehem quickly began to realize that the Muslim militias were deliberately launching their attacks against Israel from in the vicinity of Christian houses, so that the Israeli response would damage or destroy those homes. This tactic paid dividends in the public relations campaign, as Christians began fleeing for fear of Israeli counter-attacks.
To further bolster the notion that the Palestinians are their own worst enemy, Anastas recounted that during this time, her uncle decided to stop paying the jizya, the tax non-Muslims must pay for the right to live in a Muslim-dominated society (YES, this still exists in “Palestine”). In response, Palestinian militiamen imprisoned, tortured and eventually executed her uncle.
Anastas said that stories like this, which are by no means uncommon, are never told to the international media for fear of retaliation.
During an earlier Q&A session at Oxford, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was confronted by Anastas, who asked him whether or not he was able to neoutgotiate impartially with the Israelis, despite all the pain inflicted in the course of the conflict.
Erekat was adamant that his pain and frustration only made it more certain that an agreement resulting in a free, open and accountable Palestinian state would be achieved.
Anastas later wondered if the freedom of speech and other liberties Erekat spoke of would be extended to her own family, now that she has publicly supported Israel’s biblical claims to the land. For it certainly hadn’t been before, for instance when her uncle stopped paying the jizya.
“I’d like to ask you, Dr. Saeb, I believe that you are a man of honor, and I believe that you will keep your word and protect my family members,” Anastas said in the opening of her new video compilation.
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The Space Age
The Space Age, generally considered started by the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik, is defined by the events surrounding space exploration and development of space technology. This list maps out major events of the Space Age:
1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
1958 Using the satellite Explorer 1, James Van Allen discovers Earth’s radiation belts (magnetosphere).
1960 Frank Drake begins the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.
1961 Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight.
1963 Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space.
1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Anthony Hewish discover pulsars.
1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon.
1979 Using pictures from Voyager 1, Linda Morabito discovers erupting volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon, Io.
1987 Ian Shelton discovers the first supernova since 1604 plainly visible to the naked eye.
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope launches.
1991 Alexander Wolszczan discovers planets orbiting a pulsar — the first known planets outside the solar system.
1995 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discover 51 Pegasi B, the first planet of a normal star beyond the Sun.
1998 Two astronomer teams discover that the expansion of the universe is getting faster, perhaps due to a mysterious “dark energy” associated with the vacuum of space.
1999 Mars Global Surveyor finds that Mars may have had an ocean at one time.
2003 The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite finds that the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
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Science is a part of our lives in every possible way. It is a part of our physical features, the flavours of our food, the plants we grow and the satellites floating above us.
Understanding science helps us understand our lives, our world, our universe. Sometimes science feels like a foreign language. Too hard to understand.
Sciren will translate that science so YOU can understand your world.
pronounced /ˈsʌɪr(ə)n/ (sigh-ren)
It is believed that in Homer's telling of Odysseus, the siren call held more meaning than simply singing songs to sailors to trick them to fall overboard. On returning to Ithaca from the Trojan War, Circe warns Odysseus to guide his ship past the Island of the Sirens, to avoid catastrophe.
Blocking the eyes and ears of his shipmates, Odysseus can be sure of the safety of him and his crew...but to fulfill his curiosity, he may listen to the two sirens- so long as he is safely bound to the ship. Odysseus heeds the warning, learns of the siren's descriptions of the island he must avoid, and returns home safely...after several more mythology-sized adventures...
PLUS A FEW THOU'
Now it's 2021, and we're two scientists, super keen on telling you the wisdom of this world; saving you by helping you understand it better...well, maybe not saving you. But definitely translating science so you can understand your world.
Delivering our science disguised in fun crafty workshops. Kind of like facts hidden in a Trojan horse...
In fact, one of us even researched in scientific laboratories in Ithaca..New York...
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High Standards for Essential Learning Demand a Mix of Measures: What's not on the test? Teachers, students, and parents are drawing new attention to the vital skills and habits that most state tests ignore and asking for more and richer ways to show what they have learned.Download PDF
What Makes for Powerful Learning? Students Tell Their Own Experiences: Provides seven students' accounts from around the country of powerful learning experiences, which provide clues to such pressing concerns as how teachers might assess and document such learning, how the whole school can help facilitate, and what the common threads between these experiences are. Download PDF
Ten by Ten: Essential Schools That Exemplify the Ten Common Principles: Illuminates how Essential schools interpret the Ten Common Principles in ways that necessarily reflect very different local contexts. As the principles work in concert, moreover, schools often find that one rises to prominence, prompting a press for excellence that illumines and ignites other areas of change as well. | <urn:uuid:f7a270c3-bf75-427d-b0a0-cc2c239a7eaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://essentialschools.org/volume/volume-16-2000/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.92866 | 193 | 2.84375 | 3 |
We all know how I feel about organized labor. It is crucially, crucially important to have strong, functioning labor unions.
Look at the teacher strike in West Virginia. Isn’t it a wonderful, inspiring thing? The teachers refused to be further mistreated and abused. They organized, stuck together, and achieved a victory.
If you have ever done any organizing, you know that it’s not about making a logical argument, showing the numbers, and proving points. What’s a lot more important are human relationships, emotions, trust, feeling comfortable with people in your unit.
It’s a lot harder to organize in an environment of mistrust, suspicion, and mutual dislike between workers. Any collective action requires an enormous amount of trust between participants because getting atomized, alienated consumers to do any collective action at all is ridiculously hard.
The vision of self as an island that is better off outside of any collective process is formed slowly and by means we don’t even notice. Those people who tell me, “I don’t need a union. I can negotiate on my own behalf” or “and how do I know you won’t tell the dean what we’ve been talking about here?” are guided towards this vision of self and others. There’s a million strategies to make workers fear and avoid each other.
All of these microaggressions seminars, ethics trainings, gender parity tutorials – their whole point is to make workers detest each other. We tell ourselves they have no effect on us but that’s delusional and well in line with thinking that an exceptional individual can bootstrap themselves out of ideological and intellectual processes that everybody is subject to.
It does have an effect. All of these exhortations to suspect and fear our fellow worker have an effect. Nobody is an exceptional cookie that can rise above this. This is poisoning the workplace for all of us. This is what we need to resist.
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By Fiona Bridger, Research and Writer, Achieve Australia
We congratulate Nas Campanella, the ABC disability reporter, for recently giving birth to a beautiful baby boy. For most women with a disability, having a baby is out of the question. I know this from first-hand experience.
For me, this was confirmed the other day when I went to see my neurologist. Having children is something that I have always dreamt about. When I asked about the possibility of having children, I knew in my heart it was a no. When I heard it out loud it brought me crashing back to reality. I didn’t want to accept it. I still had a little hope that maybe one day I would be able to, just maybe.
The truth that I don’t often share is, it hurts, it feels like I’m losing something. It feels like losing a child, losing the opportunity, and the doors have officially closed. How can I feel so much grief and pain for something I’ve never had?
If I ignored the doctors and tried to have a baby, I would have to stop all of my medication. Meaning I would have more spasms which could hurt the baby and cause a miscarriage. And even if I defied all the odds and brought a happy healthy baby into this world I would still have to breastfeed. This would mean more time off my medication causing more complications and more spasms again. Would I be able to enjoy the motherhood journey? Or would I be stressed out of my mind worrying about the safety of my child and questioning my abilities? Would I even be able to hold my baby? To cuddle it? Without hurting it? Without squeezing it too tight or dropping it? Someone will need to be there every minute to assist me. Makes me wonder who will the child think is its mother?
Sometimes I wish I could be normal. To live a normal life for at least one day. My best friends have children and I’m very happy for them. But sometimes it reminds me that is something that I will never have. This makes me feel like I’m a failure. I’m an only child and I cannot give my mum grandchildren, what a disappointment.
I would like to raise more awareness about motherhood and disability. This topic is something I feel needs more attention as it is something that is not talked about. I feel like people see someone with a disability and assume that they cannot have children or that they shouldn’t. We need to create safe spaces so that people can share their feelings about having children. I hope by me sharing my story people will better understand what it is like to have a longing for children.
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Fianna Fail politicians are baffled at the party’s decision to oppose giving Irish citizens outside the state the right to vote in referendums.
A motion by Niall Ó Donnghaile, the Sinn Fein senator, to give emigrants voting rights was voted down this week after the main opposition party sided with government plans to stall the proposal.
The 2014 constitutional convention recommended allowing Irish abroad to have a say in constitutional votes. Fianna Fail has strongly supported including those outside the Republic in referendums, particularly citizens in Northern Ireland.
This week, however, the party instructed senators not to support a Sinn Fein motion on the issue and instead back an alternative Fine Gael one designed to delay a possible referendum on voting rights. Fianna Fail senators… | <urn:uuid:9d23db66-c12f-4362-adaf-58e96f46acb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fianna-fail-flip-flops-over-irish-voting-rights-hg72w69s9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953785 | 157 | 1.5 | 2 |
NEW YORK (AP) - One of the biggest suppliers of oil to the United States may shut off the spigot this weekend, pushing crude and gasoline prices higher for Americans.
Nigeria, which supplies 8 percent of U.S. oil imports, could see production halted if striking workers walk off the job Sunday. Workers are demanding the return of a vital government fuel subsidy that has kept gasoline prices low in that impoverished and restive nation of 160 million people.
It's unclear how much of Nigeria's production would be affected. At worst, the country's 20,000 unionized oil workers could take as much as 2.4 million barrels of daily crude production off the market, striking at the heart of Nigeria's oil-dependent economy.
Even if strikers are only partially successful, fears of tightened global supplies could raise oil prices by $5-$10 per barrel on futures markets next week. Gasoline prices would follow, rising by as much as 10 cents per gallon and forcing U.S. drivers to spend an additional $36 million a day at the pump.
Gasoline now costs $3.39 per gallon (89 cents a liter) after rising 11 cents since the start of the year. Experts predict the national average could rise as high as $4.25 per gallon ($1.12 a liter) in 2012.
The Nigerian government already has offered a smaller, temporary fuel subsidy and will meet with union leaders on Saturday. The strike could be called off but protesters have promised to halt production if they don't get the full, $8 billion subsidy restored.
Disruptions would have a long-term impact on Nigeria's economy. Union president Babatunde Ogun said it could take six months to a year to restart oil fields once they're shut down.
"If everything comes to a standstill, the government will budge," Ogun told reporters this week in Lagos.
The threat to shut off oil production is the latest move by protesters after a week of violent, anti-government clashes throughout the country. The strike began Monday to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan's decision to abandon the fuel subsidy.
"It's going to be a showdown this weekend," in Nigeria, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit said. "You can only hope that cooler heads will prevail."
It's hard to predict how effective a national oil worker strike would be.
Oil production facilities are usually automated, allowing them to pump oil out of the ground without anyone at the platform. But if something breaks, if the pressure in the well fluctuates, or if other problems occur that cause an automatic system shutdown, there wouldn't be anyone there to get production running again.
It's likely oil companies operating in the region -Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Total SA and Eni S.P.A. - would simply shutter their platforms and wait for political tensions to subside, Gheit said. Oil companies could still export oil from storage terminals on the coast; that is, if union workers at the terminals stay on the job.
The price of oil already has swung up and down this year because of supply concerns in another oil-rich part of the world, the Persian Gulf. Iran, the world's third-largest crude exporter, is sparring with the U.S. and Europe over its nuclear program.
While Iranian imports are banned in the U.S. because of long-standing tensions, the country supplies 2.2 million barrels per day to the rest of the world, including Europe. Meanwhile, Libya is quickly restarting oil fields that were shut down during the anti-government uprising last year. It has about 1 million barrels per day back online, and it expects to increase production to pre-rebellion levels of 1.6 million barrels per day by mid-year.
Oil prices fell by $2.86 this week to end at $98.70 per barrel in New York. Prices dropped as Europe delayed a decision to ban Iranian imports. But they could snap back up given the variety of geopolitical problems affecting world supplies, including the threat of a Nigerian oil worker strike.
The U.S. government expects the price of oil to average $100.25 per barrel this year.
Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research, said oil could jump by $5-$10 per barrel if the strike begins Sunday. Nigeria ranks behind Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela in oil exports to the U.S. It produces a valuable crude variety that is easier and cheaper to turn into gasoline than others.
Investors, who have been numbed from years of political unrest in Nigeria that included sabotage, thievery, environmental protests and other operating problems, may wait to see how the government works with the union. Nigerian oil always seems to be under a perpetual threat of some kind, Lynch said.
"Though this time seems more serious," he said.
Nigerians have been upset for years as international oil production damaged the environment with little apparent domestic benefits. One of the only visible perks was the fuel subsidy. Removing it forced gasoline prices to jump overnight from $1.70 per gallon to at least $3.50 per gallon - a crippling increase for a nation where most people live on less than $2 a day.
The government still seems determined to have its way, Barclays analyst Helima Croft said, but an oil field strike would be a game changer. If workers can shut down oil production, it's only a matter of time before declining oil revenues will force the government to cave, she said.
"Any disruptions in either oil production or exports would severely constrain government activities and its ability to meet its obligations," Croft said.
Eighty percent of the country's revenue comes from oil.
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Google knows a lot about you. Your search history, the videos you watch on YouTube, the places you find on Google Maps, the apps you open, the emails you send … all that data has to live somewhere.
If you want to know exactly how much there is, Google itself has actually done the work for you by compiling everything it has on you in the My Activity dashboard and Google Takeout. My Activity gives you a list of everything you’ve ever done on a Google service and allows you to navigate through a lot of different data points, while Takeout allows you to look through all this information in the form of HTML, JSON, and CSV files.
If you want to read through your old YouTube comments (or just delete them to save yourself that ordeal) or get a visual representation of your location history, My Activity is the way to go. It’s a bit more user-friendly and visual. If you’re looking for the raw, compact data so you can scroll through more easily or apply some analytics yourself, Takeout has your back. Either way, knowing what to look for is half the battle, so here’s a comprehensive guide to what you can find in your Google data dumps.
The main categories we’ll be looking at are:
- Search history
- YouTube search/watch history
- History of your Android app opens
- Maps/location data
- Everything you’ve ever said to your Google Assistant (with audio!)
- Every Google ad you’ve seen or interacted with
Accessing My Activity and Takeout
To get to your My Activity dashboard, you just need to visit https://myactivity.google.com and sign in with your Google Account. You’ll see several options here, including “Bundle View” and “Item View,” which allow you to switch between seeing your activity types bundled together under each day or seeing each individual item in your history.
The “Filter by date & product” button is especially important, as you can choose which type of data you want to know about rather than combing through every single thing that Google knows about you. You can find some other interesting points by going to “Other Google activity” and sorting through the vast list of categories there to find everything from your device information to your Google Play library.
My Activity also includes a handy “Delete activity by” tool that allows you to search for anything matching a certain filter and delete it, as well as “Activity controls,” which allow you to tell Google which data it can save in the future.
Getting to Takeout requires a few extra steps, but those have already been covered here. After downloading and unzipping your archive, you’ll be confronted with a lot of different folders and files, but don’t worry, this guide will show you where the interesting stuff is hiding.
Your search history
In My Activity you can find your search data by going to either Bundle or Item view and applying the “Search” and “Image search” filters. You can also choose to search within certain date ranges if you’re looking for something in particular.
In the Takeout folder go to “My Activity -> Search,” “My Activity -> Image Search,” or “My Activity -> Video Search” to see the data listed in a more compact HTML format. This makes for a fun data analysis project if you have the skills and time.
The emails you store in your Gmail account can all be downloaded using Google Takeout, which might be a good idea if you want to make sure you don’t accidentally delete or otherwise lose some of your important records. You can find them in “Takeout -> Mail.” They’re stored in the form of .mbox files, though, so you’ll need to use an mbox reader to view them.
Your YouTube history
If you’ve ever wanted to go back and get a sample of your musical tastes at different ages, now you can! In My Activity, filter by YouTube to see the videos you watched and add “Video Search” to see what search terms you entered. You can also manage your YouTube comments, likes, dislikes, and purchases from the “Other Google activity” section.
Takeout has all this data, plus your chat messages, subscriptions, playlists, etc. You can find it by going to the YouTube folder in Takeout and clicking through each category. “YouTube -> history” holds your watch and search records.
Every time you’ve opened an Android app
Did you know that Google has been logging your activity every time you open an app on Android? If not, this list is going to come as a surprise. Just go to My Activity and filter by “Android” to see which apps you’re probably opening a little too often.
You can find the same information by going to “Takeout -> My Activity -> Android.” Yes, it’s a bit creepy, but running this through some analytics might help you use your time a bit better.
Your Maps and location history
If you use Google Maps or location services on your Android phone or through your Google Account, a lot of the places you’ve searched for and/or gone have been recorded. To see your Google Maps history, just filter My Activity by Maps.
Your Takeout file includes several folders here: Maps, Maps (your places), Location History, and “My Activity -> Maps.” These contain information like your reviews, places you’ve pinned, GPS coordinates and timestamps, search history, and more. Interestingly, as the picture below shows, your Takeout Location History JSON file even contains fields that estimate the likelihood that you’re walking, still, in a vehicle, exiting a vehicle, on a bike, etc.
Because there’s quite a gold mine of information here, there are actually several tools that help you explore this data in a more visual way, including Google’s Location History tool and a third-party creation that creates a heatmap for you. As you can see in the picture above, Google even included the screenshot I took of my bus ticket when I used Maps to navigate out of the Shannon airport during a layover in Ireland.
Everything you’ve ever said to Google Assistant
All your voice searches and commands are transcribed and stored, just like your other activity, but that’s not all – they also have your voice on file. It’s simultaneously creepy and nostalgic to go back and listen to yourself berating Google for not being miraculous enough to understand you the first time.
To find your searches and audio files, go to My Activity and filter by Assistant and “Voice and Audio.”
In Takeout, go to “My Activity -> Assistant” and “My Activity -> Voice and Audio” to find your logs and MP3 files.
Where and when you’ve seen Google ads
This one is probably more useful for Google than it is for you, but if you want to take a look at where you’ve seen ads and /or interacted with them, you can filter My Activity by Ads or check out the “My Activity -> Ads” folder in Takeout. Possibly the most interesting thing about this category is that your web history isn’t typically saved forever, but the pages and apps where you’ve seen ads certainly are.
Miscellaneous other data
Not everything in your Google data is equally juicy, but depending on your habits, you may find this other data intriguing:
- Your bookmarks
- Your calendar
- Your books, games, movies, music, and app store
- Your Google Pay and Play Store history
- Your Hangouts and Google Voice history (with voicemail recordings and texts)
- Your Google Keep notes
- Your Google News habits
- Your interactions with Google Help
There are also a few interesting points in your “Other Google activity” section, most of which have to do with your preferences.
- Device information
- Management tools for a lot of your YouTube activity
- Google Ads settings (you can see the categories they’ve put you in and manage how you get served ads)
- Your Google News preferences
- Your voice and face match data
What to do with all this data
If you’re okay with Google having all this data, you don’t have to do anything except browse through it and look for interesting insights into your life and habits. If you find yourself getting creeped out, though, Google does allow you to control the data they collect about you, largely through the “Activity controls” tab in My Activity.
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Wytwórnia Sprzętu Komunikacyjnego „PZL-KALISZ S.A. is a company with a long tradition. The origins of the production plant date back to 1941, when the Germans started erecting the “Zollern – WerkeWeserFlug” buildings complex for industrial use. After World War II, in 1946 the manufacture was nationalised, and its name changed into National Car Plant. The new name reflected the work profile. The plant repaired lorries and passenger cars, as well as combustion engines.
Throughout the years the plant changed its name and work profile several times:
- National Car Plant – 1946,
- Car Parts Plant – 1949,
- Kalisz Car Repairing Plant – 1951,
- Communication Equipment Factory „Delta-Kalisz” – 1952
The company got its contemporary name WSK “PZL-KALISZ” S.A. on 17th October 1996. On the basis of Article 17 of the Act of Law of 3rd February 1993 on financial restructuring of companies and banks and changes of some acts of law, the national company was commercialised, which led to creating commercial law company.
The most significant events in the history of the plant, which has changed its activity profile after joining a prestigious group of enterprises representing aviation industry:
2016 – 2020
- The beginning of cooperative works University of Technology, connected with the “OPOS” research programme aiming at development of a flat two-stroke diesel engine PZL-100 innovative construction.
- WSK „PZL-KALISZ” S.A. company joins Polish Armaments Group structure
- Development of a new ecologic piston engine PZL-200 of 200KW power
- Modernisation of ASZ 62IR engine related to development of electronically controlled fuel injection
- WSK „PZL-KALISZ” S.A company joins the group of companies having special significance for Polish national economy, operating for the purpose of country’s safety and defence.
1994 – 1996
- The beginning of international cooperation with companies specialising in aircraft engines production.
- The production launch of nine-cylinder radial engine ASz-62IR of 1000 KM power, used to power AN-2 and M-18 airplanes.
- The production launch of seven-cylinder radial engine WN-3 of 320 KM power, used to power TS-6Bie airplanes.
- The beginning of AI-14R nine-cylinder engine production of 260KM power, used to power airplanes Jak-12, Gawron and Wilga.
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The Science of Multi-INT (SOMI) Workshop brought together hundreds of technologists and government program managers interested in the fusion and exploration of sensor and data. Dr. Anthony Hoogs gave a presentation at the workshop entitled “Concept for Fusing Social Multimedia with Overhead Sensing for Situational Awareness in Denied Areas.” Social media has become a rich source of intelligence as it is readily available in many denied areas, widely used and nearly instantaneous. Overhead sensing and social media are highly complementary, and fusing them would enable the corroboration or refutation of information about the same person, event, or place, or lead to new insights that would not be possible from either on its own. Promising breakthroughs in automated visual content extraction from social multimedia were described, with a framework for fusing them with NTM content to solve hard A2AD problems.
The presentation was well received, and the slides are available upon request. Please contact Dr. Hoogs for further information at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:08771f0e-b9ca-4f0c-a8ad-0e78e06f2123> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kitware.com/kitware-presents-on-social-multimedia-at-science-of-multi-int-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.948798 | 217 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District will slightly decrease Lake Okeechobee releases to the Caloosahatchee beginning Saturday, April 2 to support the ecology of the estuary.
The adjusted releases to the Caloosahatchee Estuary will target a pulse release at a 7-day average of 1,800 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79). This represents a slight reduction from the level of 2,000 cfs that has continued since November of 2021.
“Our west coast scientists and stakeholders report that the conditions in the Caloosahatchee Estuary have been really favorable and within the RECOVER optimal flow regime for 125 days, which is good news,” said Lieutenant Colonel. Todd Polk, Deputy Commander for South Florida. “In addition, they expect fish spawn to be happening soon, followed by oysters in the next month or two, and a reduction in flows soon may help to optimize conditions for those events.”
“East coast scientists also report favorable conditions in the St. Lucie Estuary, including seeing new seagrass beds in areas where they had not previously been found,” said Polk. “Lake Okeechobee is also in a great spot within the ecological envelope this year, and we are seeing an abundance of wading birds.”
In addition, the Jacksonville District plans to help facilitate sediment sampling at the Julian Keen, Jr. Lock and Dam (S-77) on April 5 and 6. as part of an ongoing study by our partners at the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The initial releases are expected to range from 1,000 cfs to 2,500 cfs for short durations of time during operating hours, between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. The releases are not expected to impact the targeted releases at W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79).
Today, the lake stage is at 13.78 feet. The lake has receded 0.74 feet in the past 30 days, is 0.66 feet lower than it was last year and 1.9 feet higher than two years ago.
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The present painting is the second in a sequence of five panels from a dismembered banco (predella) that may have formed part of the same altarpiece. The four others are, in sequence: 1) Saint Barbara (formerly Nathan Ottinger collection, New York), 4) Saint John the Evangelist (formerly Ottinger collection), 3) the Man of Sorrows (Campion Hall, Oxford), and 5) Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Hans Brantschen collection, Monte Carlo, from 1980). The paint surface of the present painting is much abraded, but the picture preserves its original gold ground and part of its engaged frame.
[Tomás Harris, London]; [Adam Paff, New York, d. 1932]; [Joseph Brummer, New York, 1932]; Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Baker (1932–her d. 1946); Walter C. Baker, New York (1946–52)
Chandler Rathfon Post. A History of Spanish Painting. Vol. 7, The Catalan School in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass., 1938, part 1, pp. 230, 234, 236, attributes it to the Sant Quirse Master and refers to it as a panel of a saint, formerly in the collection of Adam Paff, that he has not been able to locate; relates it to four panels from the predella of a retable and a Crucifixion from the pinnacle of the same altarpiece [see Notes]; notes that "it is particularly in the figures of the predella that we observe that the Sant Quirse Master is approaching the easier, broader, and more proficient manner of his maturity. The fresh and maidenly heads of Sts. Barbara and Catherine are spiritualized versions of a type that he often used later for his feminine personages"; describes the trees in the background landscapes as "conventionalized into bits of decoration disproportionately small in size".
Chandler Rathfon Post. A History of Spanish Painting. Vol. 9, The Beginning of the Renaissance in Castile and Leon. Cambridge, Mass., 1947, part 2, p. 852, states that the Crucifixion [formerly Storrs collection, now National Gallery, London] came from the monastery of Saint Martin at Riglos, and therefore the MMA picture and its related predella panels must have as well, "since the well informed dealer who once owned them definitely stated that the Storrs Crucifixion derived from the same altarpiece as they".
José Gudiol Ricart. Ars hispaniae. Vol. 9, Pintura gótica. Madrid, , p. 301, dates the Saint Martin altarpiece at Riglos about 1460 and calls the artist the Master of Riglos, noting that he is distinct from the Master of Sant Quirse.
Neil MacLaren revised and expanded by Allan Braham. National Gallery Catalogues: The Spanish School. London, 1970, pp. 49, 50 n. 7, identifies the artist of the Saint Martin altarpiece as the Master of Riglos, active in the mid 15th century; includes ours as one of the five panels believed to have belonged to the predella of this altarpiece.
José Gudiol. Pintura medieval en Aragón. Saragossa, 1971, p. 47, dates the Saint Martin altarpiece about 1440.
Judith Berg Sobré. The Riglos Riddle: A Panel of the Virgin. 1979, pp. 1–8, finds it "highly unlikely" that this panel or its related predella paintings belonged to the Saint Martin retable since the five panels are all flat and therefore designed for a side rather than high altar, and an altar depicting scenes from the life of the convent's patron saint would not be relegated to a side chapel; characterizes the style of the MMA painting as softer and more delicate than works by the Master of Riglos; compares our painting to a Crucifixion by an anonymous artist (ill. in Ref. Post 1947, fig. 362), most likely from Girona (Catalonia) in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Important Old Master Pictures. Christie's, London. July 11, 1980, p. 41 under no. 19, mention it as part of the same predella as the panel of Saint Catherine [now Hans Brantschen collection, Monte Carlo], attributed to the Master of San Quirse.
Antoni José i Pitarch. Letter to Dulce Román. January 14, 1998, finds this panel less closely related to the Master of Riglos than it is to a small group of works that comes from Girona: the retable of Saint Michael (Museu d'Art, Girona), a documented work by Joan Antigó and Honorat Borrassà; asserts that the treatment of the landscape in our panel, the configuration of the Virgin's head, and the trademark triangular punchmarks are a guarantee that this Virgin comes from a Girona workshop, and in particular, that of Honorat Borassà, about 1435
Antonio Naval Mas. Patrimonio emigrado. Huesca, 1999, pp. 144–46, rejects identification of this painting and the related banco panels with the Saint Martin altarpiece at Riglos; refers to a 1916 photograph of the Riglos altarpiece taken before its panels were dispersed, noting that it contains no evidence supporting an association with this banco.
Francesc Ruiz i Quesada inBernat Martorell i la tardor del gòtic català: El context artístic del retaule de Púbol. Ed. Joan Molina Figueras. Exh. cat., Museu d'Art de Girona. Girona, 2003, pp. 100–101, 278–79, fig. 36 (color), rejects identification of the banco panels (including ours) with the Saint Martin altarpiece by the Master of Riglos; attributes them instead to Joan Antigó and Honorat Borrassà of Girona, noting stylistic similarities to a panel of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Stephen by these artists (1447–53; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
This is the second in a series of five panels that belonged to the banco, or predella, of the same altarpiece. The four others are a Saint Barbara (formerly Nathan Ottinger collection, New York), a Man of Sorrows (Campion Hall, Oxford), Saint John the Evangelist (formerly Ottinger collection), and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Hans Brantschen collection, Monte Carlo, from 1980). Post (1938) first linked these panels to a Crucifixion (National Gallery, London) which, along with four other pictures, were part of an altarpiece from the convent of Saint Martin in Riglos (Aragon). Although the banco panels have long been associated with this altarpiece, attributed to the Master of Riglos, Sobré (1979) and Naval Mas (1999) have questioned this attribution, and Sobré gives them instead to an anonymous Catalan painter from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. More recently, Ruiz i Quesada (2003) attributes the MMA painting to the Catalan artists Joan Antigó and Honorat Borrassà of Girona. | <urn:uuid:faa796c7-6041-4924-8d55-a82fe53f205d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437026 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878565 | 1,563 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Greece debt crisis: Finance Minister Varoufakis resigns
- 6 July 2015
- From the section Europe
Greece's outspoken finance minister has resigned, hours after voters backed his call to reject creditors' demands for more austerity in a referendum.
Yanis Varoufakis said it was felt his departure would be helpful in finding a solution to the country's debt crisis.
Eurozone finance ministers, with whom he repeatedly clashed, had wanted him removed, Mr Varoufakis explained.
Meanwhile, global financial markets have fallen over fears that Greece is heading for an exit from the euro.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is to discuss whether to raise its emergency cash support for Greek banks, which are running out of funds and on the verge of collapse.
Greece's Economy Minister, Georgios Stathakis, told the BBC the ECB had to keep Greek banks alive for seven to 10 days so that negotiations could take place.
But even if the ECB continued to freeze the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) at €89bn (£63bn; $98bn), the current cash withdrawal and transfer restrictions on banks of €60 per day could stay in place until Friday, without any of them collapsing, he said.
BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the 19-nation eurozone's most powerful members, France and Germany are at odds over what to do next, with France taking a softer and Germany a harder line.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris later on Monday, and there will be a summit of eurozone leaders on Tuesday.
The majority of Greeks say they want to stay in the single currency, but their angry "No" vote in Sunday's referendum has made that far harder, our correspondent adds.
Mr Varoufakis announced his resignation on his blog only hours after it emerged that 61.3% of the 6.16 million Greeks who voted had rejected the demands for more austerity from the ECB, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
He said Sunday's referendum would "stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage".
By Mark Lowen, BBC News, Athens
He went with a typical rhetorical flourish: "I shall wear the creditors' loathing with pride," wrote Yanis Varoufakis, known as much for his leather jackets as his flamboyant language - "austerity is like trying to extract milk from a sick cow by whipping it", being just one of his gems. But Greece's outgoing finance minister was an obstacle to an urgent deal with Brussels. Adored by his supporters back home, he was hated by eurozone leaders, whom he accused of "terrorism" towards Greece.
His departure - or removal - is a clear gesture by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that he wants fresh debt talks and a deal as soon as possible. He certainly needs one: Greek banks are so critically low on funds that they could collapse in days without an injection of cash from the European Central Bank. But it will only lend if Greek banks are solvent - which they're not - or Greece is in a bailout scheme - which it isn't. So the door to a eurozone exit inches ever closer.
Greece achieved a political earthquake last night. But the aftershocks could be far greater.
Mr Varoufakis added that he had been "made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my... 'absence' from its meetings".
Prime Minister Tsipras had judged this to be "potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement", he noted.
Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt told VRT radio: "To say that it wasn't nice to hear him more or less saying that his fellow ministers were terrorists is of course an understatement."
As thousands of Greeks took to the streets celebrate the referendum result on Sunday evening, Mr Tsipras said they had "made a very brave choice".
"The mandate you gave me is not the mandate of a rupture with Europe, but a mandate to strengthen our negotiating position to seek a viable solution," he added.
He said that he was willing to go back to the negotiating table on Monday, noting that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment published this week confirmed that restructuring Greece's debt of more than €300bn (£213bn; $331bn) was necessary.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Athens says there is huge scepticism in other capitals and this is a big gamble.
Without some sign that an agreement on longer-term funding is still possible, the ECB could soon be forced to pull the plug, he adds.
Eurozone finance ministers said they expected to hear "new proposals from the Greek authorities" when they meet in Brussels on Tuesday.
"The basis of a dialogue is on the table, but it's up to Greece to show us that it takes the dialogue seriously," French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told Europe 1 radio.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said "conditions to start negotiations on a new aid programme are not met yet".
More European reaction:
- Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup, said the referendum result "doesn't bring us closer to a solution right away"
- European Parliament President Martin Schulz called on Greece's government to make "meaningful and constructive proposals"
- EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini tweeted that the vote meant "painful days for all those that believe in a united Europe"
- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said the eurozone meetings on Tuesday had to "show a definitive way to resolve this emergency"
The European Commission's vice-president for the euro, Valdis Dombrovskis, said the stability of the eurozone was "not in question". But he also stated that the commission had not been given a mandate by member states to negotiate.
In a telephone conversation with Mr Tsipras, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for the people of Greece "as they overcome difficulties", Russian media reported.
Greece had been locked in negotiations with its creditors for months when the Greek government unexpectedly called a referendum on the terms it was being offered.
Greece's last bailout expired on Tuesday and Greece missed a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the IMF.
The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wanted Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.
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Take a moment to think of all the areas of your personal development and professional life you want to improve. Do you want to have a better relationship with your significant other? Learn how to manage your time? Stop stressing so much about things you think you can’t control?
There are easy ways to learn the skills necessary to improve your life in a variety of ways. Try taking an online course. Here are some examples of training courses you might find helpful in pursuing your personal development goals this year.
Do you know someone in your life who has a huge influence over everyone he or she meets on the street? This influence is a combination of different soft skills you will need to learn in order to develop yourself into a more charismatic, assertive and well respected individual. Thankfully, 7 Scientifically Proven Steps to Increase Your Influence is a free online course designed specifically to help you gain more influence over friends, co-workers and just about anyone.
There is no one specific group of people who can benefit from the things this course has to offer in terms of learning. This course is perfect for anyone who wants to improve a variety of areas in their life. You can use the knowledge you will gain from these lessons to improve your romantic relationships, advance your career, earn the respect of people you know as well as people you do not know, and so much more. There is no limit to the amount of things you will be able to accomplish with the amount of influence you will be able to have over the people you interact with after completing this course.
Are you good at focusing on one thing at a time? The answer is most likely “no” – and there are a lot of possible reasons for this. We have been wrongfully taught that multitasking is the best way to get more done in less time, but that is just not true. The more things you try to do at once, the more stressed you become. The more stressed you become, the more difficult you find it is to focus. And the cycle continues.
Replace Stress with Clarity and Focus Now: Mindfulness Blueprint will teach you, among other things, a variety of different techniques you can use to manage your stress and keep your physical and emotional reactions to it in check as you gain control of your stressors. Everyone experiences stress, but it is those who have a solid handle on it that become the most successful people around the world.
Let’s be honest: time management is one of the most important, yet one of the most difficult, skills to master when you are trying to better yourself. If you can’t manage your time, you have next to no hope of managing everything else in your life – meaning your relationships, work, even your own happiness will suffer.
One of the most important things Effective Time Management will teach you is about task management – rather, why managing your tasks is far more important to your productivity and satisfaction than time management. If you can manage your tasks, you can manage your time. You will not regret the time you will spend learning from this online course instructor.
Do you have a creative outlet? Most people do – but not everyone turns to it regularly for comfort and stability. Creativity comes in many forms. It can manifest in the form of writing, drawing, filmmaking and even dance or music. If you know being creative is what inspires you to be your best, but you rarely indulge in your own personal projects, you need to restructure your life to fit creativity into your routine – right now.
Everyone needs to leave room in their life for more creativity. Creative projects do not have to be good; they do not even need to be turned into something you want to sell or put on display for all to see. The point of creativity is to stimulate your mind and keep you motivated to succeed in all areas of your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the best selling author of the well known book Eat, Pray, Love, offers an hour long online course – rather, a creativity workshop in which you will have the chance to rediscover your creative passions and will find the motivation to work on that one thing you have been putting off all this time. Fear and doubt are nothing compared to the regret you will feel if you never get started – so take advantage of this course and give yourself a reason to stop procrastinating and get creative.
Do you constantly find yourself shrugging off negative self talk? Thinking things like, “I can’t do this” or “they were right when they said I wasn’t good enough” can be enough to stop you from ever achieving anything in your life or finding success anywhere down the road. It is time to change your perspective – and there’s a course out there that is meant to help you do just that.
Moving Past Defeating Thoughts is an online course designed for people like you in mind – people who constantly struggle with negativity and thoughts that continuously cast shadows along everything they come in contact with.
You will learn not only what defeating thoughts are, but you will also throughout the hour long course learn how to transform the way you think, and how you respond to the inner dialogue that always tries to bring you down. If you can change the way you think, you can essentially gain the power to change your entire life for the better. Taking this course is only the beginning. You do not want to miss out on all the techniques you will be able to apply to a much more positive, productive life. | <urn:uuid:662f26d1-8b1b-430e-8dc0-501e36a06213> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.selfthrive.com/personal-development-training-courses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965957 | 1,127 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Muslim cleric Ahmed Al-abedulqader is a member of the Islamic Ministry for Da’wah, Guidance and Endowments and he clearly has “issues” with women, particularly when they served in public positions. Recently, women were allowed to serve on the Shura Council, a formal advisory body to the King of 150 members who can propose laws and advise him. It was a significant and commendable act by the King — a hopeful sign of reform for women’s rights. That appears to be the very reason that Al-abedulqader and other clerics unleashed sexist tirades. In Al-abedulqader’s case, he took to Twitter to call the women “prostitutes.” Dr. Saleh al-Sugair, a former teaching assistant at King Saud University, also went public and called the women the “fifth of society” for their historic achievement.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has appointed 30 women to the country’s previously all-male Shura Council in a move that is viewed as part of a careful and slow process of giving women basic rights and opportunities in the Kingdom. This modest reform however has met with a torrent of outrage, though others defended the women and the King. I have met many modern and intelligent Saudis who privately complain about the backward laws of the Kingdom. However, the response to this reform shows the opposition among conservative Islamic figures to the public role of women in society.
Al-abedulqader wrote “They thought they can mock the mufti by giving these ‘prostitutes’ legitimacy to be in power. I am not an imposter, and imposters do not fool me. For how long will the forts of virtues be torn down?” He then attacked those who defended the women as being unfaithful to Islam: “We have heard and read many insults against (God) as well as mockery against the prophet, prayer be upon him, and none of those defending (these female) members was angered.”
Then there was the Saudi academic, Dr. Saleh al-Sugair, who tweeted: “The insolent (women) wearing make-up at the Shura Council represent the society? God, no. They are the filth of society.” He went on to add “The fools of the Shura council, these immodest women represent the society? I swear by God’s name they do not. They are society’s scum, garbage.”
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Until the construction of the Ridge Route in 1915, travelers between Northern and Southern California followed the coastline or traversed the harsh deserts to the east. They did this to avoid the steep and rugged Transverse Ranges, some of the very few mountains in our state that run east to west.
These ranges form a formidable barrier between densely-populated Southern California and our intensely-cultivated valley. If our flat valley simply continued southwards to merge with the coastal plains of the Los Angeles Basin, our state’s history might have been vastly different.
Barely two lanes wide and primitive by today’s standards, the Ridge Route was the first in a series of transportation innovations that began the process of linking the southern and northern parts of the state more closely together. This winding, picturesque and remote road followed a relatively direct path between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. It served travelers until 1933 when the southern part of U.S. 99 was built to replace it.
Today, U.S. 99 is no longer a federal highway and it terminates at I-5 south of Bakersfield. In the 1960’s, the southern parts were completely replaced by I-5. Both the U.S. 99 of 1933 and I-5 of the 1960’s were designed to allow faster travel and required substantial earth-moving. They left the old Ridge Route virtually intact for 36 of its most scenic miles, winding along the ridges, high above the newer, straighter routes.
I lived in Southern California during my college years and enjoyed crossing the Transverse Ranges every time I made a trip home to Merced. During many north-south journeys, I explored what remained of the Ridge Route and old U.S. 99.
The Ridge Route remained open until 2005 when storm damage caused its closure. The preserved but damaged stretch is located in the Angeles National Forest. Beyond the forest boundaries, the mountains continue to the north. Most of this area remained a mystery to me until last year because much of it (270,000 acres) is owned by the Tejon Ranch Company.
Not only is Tejon Ranch the largest privately-owned contiguous property in California, it’s also one of the largest undeveloped regions near any of our nation’s major cities. This great swath of mountains, hills and valleys was originally the home of the Chumash Indians. In the 1840’s, the Mexican government of California distributed it as land grants. . General Beale acquired and combined them in the 1860’s to form Tejon Ranch. As a privately-owned cattle ranch, access was limited to employees, film crews and participants in private hunt trips.
That changed a couple of years ago when the owners of the ranch began to consider plans to develop parts of the ranch for housing. Aware of the long history environmental objections and litigation faced by other development projects throughout the nation, they sought to forge a new path. Bringing representatives of Kern and Los Angeles counties and major environmental organizations to the table, they worked out a mutually-agreeable development plan. The result is that 90 percent of the original ranch property (240,000 acres) has, or will be, placed under conservation easements managed by the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. These parts of the ranch will remain rural and continue to be a part of the state’s agricultural economy through traditional cattle grazing. The remaining 10 percent will gradually be developed for housing.
A surprise benefit for the average Californian is that the Conservancy has been providing public access to the ranch in the form of hikes, wildflower walks and vehicle-based cultural history tours. The Conservancy believes public access will lead to greater appreciation of the ranch’s special features and greater support for the ranch’s conservation plans. Last spring participated in a couple of these events. This year’s tours will be opened to the public within the next month. They are free-of-charge, but tfill up quickly. The best way to get a spot is to register for mailing list on the Conservancy’s website and sign up as soon as the events open (www.tejonconservancy.org). The website also has a lot of detailed information about the conservation plan.
While this dry year may not be good for wildflowers, there are many other things to enjoy. Tejon Ranch stands at the junction of the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the San Joaquin Valley, the Transverse Ranges and the Coast Ranges. This means that it has one of the most unique combinations of landscapes and habitats in the states. Among oaks, pines, Joshua trees, chaparral, grasslands, high ridges and steep canyons live deer, elk, pronghorn, bear, pigs, coyotes, bobcats and more than 200 bird species – including occasional condors. On my first visit last year we spotted the ranch’s namesake “tejon” (badger). | <urn:uuid:50907fe6-f4c2-4b7d-bdae-0b21ed5ad3e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mercedsunstar.com/sports/outdoors/adam-blauert-column/article3283885.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00313-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950611 | 1,028 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Are you curious about the Great Pyrenees Pitbull Mix? This is a breed that is becoming more and more popular, and for a good reason. They are an adorable mix of two very different dog breeds.
In this article, we will provide you with all the information you need to know about this breed, as well as some pictures of them in action. So read on to learn everything you need to know about the Great Pyrenees Pitbull Mix.
Pitbulls are one of the most controversial dog breeds. Some people see them as loyal and friendly animals, while others see them as dangerous and aggressive.
On the other hand, the Pyrenees are seen as gentle giants that are great with children and make excellent family pets. So what happens when you put these two breeds together?
You get an adorable mixed breed. This dog is sure to be a favorite among families with its gentle nature and playful personality.
The Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix, also known as Pyrs pit or Pitenees, is a cross between the Great Pyrenees and the American Pitbull Terrier.
Combining the fearless, affectionate, and strong-willed personalities of the Great Pyrenees with the loyalty, friendly, and loveable nature of the Pitbull Terrier, we can assume that this dog was created as a companion and guard dog.
- 1 History of the American Pit Bull Terrier Great Pyrenees Mix (Pitenees)
- 2 The Appearance of the Pitenees
- 3 Pitenees Temperament/Personality
- 4 Great Pyrenees Pit Dietary Needs
- 5 Grooming Requirement
- 6 Great Pyrenees Pitbull Exercise Requirement
- 7 Training Requirement
- 8 Great Pyr vs. Pit Bull Terrier Climate Tolerance
- 9 How Much Does A Pitenees Puppy Cost & Where To Get It?
- 10 Pitbull Great Pyrenees Health Problems
- 11 Final Note
History of the American Pit Bull Terrier Great Pyrenees Mix (Pitenees)
The history of this hybrid dog is rather vague since there is no proper documentation. However, we can piece together a rough timeline based on the history of its parent breeds.
Many backyard breeders have been mixing these two breeds for many years now, so it’s hard to say when the first Pyrenees Pit was created.
However, to learn more about this mix, we must first look at the history of its parent breeds – The American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) and the Great Pyrenees.
An Overview And History Of The Great Pyrenees
The Great Pyrenees, also known as Pyrenean Mountain Dog, is a large dog breed originally bred in the Pyrenees Mountains. The breed is known for its thick, white coat, which helps to protect it from the cold weather in its mountainous homeland.
The breed’s coat is double-layered, with a dense inner layer of wool and a longer outer layer of hair. The outer coat is waterproof, making the Great Pyrenees well-suited for cold weather conditions.
The Great Pyrenees are also relatively large dogs, typically weighing between 100 and 120 pounds, the height of 25 to 32 inches tall, and has a lifespan of 10 to 12 years.
In terms of personality, Great Pyrenees are generally calm and gentle dogs. However, they can be protective of their families if they feel threatened.
Regarding exercise, the Great Pyrenees need moderate amounts of daily activity, and they enjoy activities such as hiking and swimming.
The Great Pyrenees are also relatively easy to train, although they can sometimes be stubborn. Overall, the Great Pyrenees is a loyal and loving breed that makes a great family pet. AKC recognized this breed in 1933.
An Overview And History Of The American Pitbull Terrier
The American Pitbull Terrier is a medium-sized, short-coated dog; the coat is glossy, tight, and can be any color. The head is large and square, with a short muzzle.
Pit bulls typically weigh between 30 and 60 pounds, height of 17 to 21 inches tall, and have a lifespan of 12 to 14 years.
The ears are small and may be cropped or left natural. The eyes are dark and almond-shaped. The body is compact and muscular, with well-sprung ribs and powerful hindquarters. The tail is set high and may be docked.
Pitbulls were originally bred in England in the early 1800s from cross-breeding of Bulldogs and Terriers. They were initially used for bull-baiting, a popular spectator sport in which the dogs were pitted against a chained bull.
However, when bull-baiting was outlawed in 1835, Pitbulls were used for dog fighting instead. This cruel practice continued until it was finally banned in the early 1900s.
Fortunately, Pitbulls today are no longer associated with fighting or other aggressive behaviors. They are known to be loving and devoted pets.
They thrive on human companionship and need plenty of exercises to stay happy and healthy. They can be great additions to any family with proper training and socialization.
This breed is yet to be recognized by AKC. However, it is recognized by many other dog associations around the world.
The Appearance of the Pitenees
It is always hard to predict how a mixed breed will look since they can take on the physical traits of either parent. Still, typical Pitenees we have come across are well-built and muscular dogs with broad, deep muzzles and sturdy and wide heads.
However, if your dog takes more genes from the Pitbull parent, it will have a shorter muzzle. It will be stockier in build with a broad head than those that take more after the Great Pyrenees parent.
On the other hand, if your dog takes after the Pyrenean Mountain Dog parent, its head will be more wedge-shaped and have a longer muzzle.
It is very common to see puppies in the same litter that look pretty different from each other in terms of appearance.
Also, your pup can have the triangular ear shape of the Great Pyrenees or the rosebud ears of the Pitbull. Their eyes are either round or almond-shaped and usually come in a dark brown shade.
In all, you should expect your mixed breed dog to be a combination of the Great Pyrenees and the Pitbull in terms of appearance.
The size of individual dogs may vary, with some as large as 30 inches at the shoulder and some smaller than that. But on average, a Great Pyrenees Pitbull Mix is about 23 to 27 inches at the shoulder.
They weigh anywhere from 60 to 100 pounds, with males typically on the larger end of that spectrum and females on the smaller end.
This breed will fall under the large dog size. However, they will likely not be larger than their Great Pyrenees parent. But they will be larger than their Pitbull parent. No matter their size, they’re all incredibly muscular and have large, powerful chests.
Coat Type And Color
Both parent breeds have different coat types and colors. The Great Pyrenees has a double coat, with the top coat being long and thick; it may be slightly wavy or straight.
The Pitbull has a short, single-coated breed; this means that it does not have an undercoat like the Great Pyrenees.
So, your dog can inherit the coat type from either parent breed. It is possible to have a Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix with a double coat, or it is more likely to have a single coat like the Pitbull parent.
As for colors, the Great Pyrenees can be all white, grey, tan, red, or badger. The Pitbull can be black, white, brindle, fawn, grey, red, tan, brown, or blue.
Therefore, the possibilities for coat colors in this mixed breed are endless. You could have a white Pitenees like the Great Pyrenees parent, or it could be black and white like the Pitbull parent.
It could also be any color in between or a combination of colors. The coat color possibilities are endless.
Pyrenees Pit Lifespan
Some factors will affect how long your Pyrenean Mountain Dog Pit mix will live.
The first is whether they take more after the Pyrenees or the Pitbull parent.
The Pyrenees is a large, bulky dog that doesn’t have the longest lifespan.
Pitbulls, on the other hand, are medium-sized and more agile; they don’t have the longest lifespan compared to other smaller dog breeds.
The second factor is how well you take care of your dog. A good diet, plenty of exercise, and regular vet check-ups will ensure your Pitenees lives a long and healthy life.
Environmental factors such as toxins and pollutants can also affect your dog’s lifespan.
As with most mixes, it depends on which parent they take after more and individual dogs.
If they are more Pyrenees, you can expect a lifespan of around 10 to 12 years.
If they are more Pitbull, you can expect a lifespan of around 8 to 15 years.
Either way, you can expect your Pyrenees Pit to live between 8 to 16 years or more.
Dogs’ temperament varies from breed to breed and even from litter to litter. That being said, the Pitenees is a unique mix of two very different breeds.
The Pyrenees is a very strong-willed, affectionate, confident, gentle, patient, and fearless dog.
The Pitbull, on the other hand, is gentle, courageous, loyal, stubborn, intelligent, affectionate, friendly, and clownish. But don’t let the difference in temperaments fool you; these two breeds make the perfect mix.
The Pitenees is the best of both worlds, a strong-willed, gentle, intelligent, and affectionate dog. If you are looking for a loyal, obedient and loving dog, then the Pitenees is the perfect breed.
However, they may be aloof or suspicious of strangers and other animals unless they are properly socialized from an early age. But with the right owner, the Pitenees will be a loving and devoted companion for life.
Great Pyrenees Pit Dietary Needs
They will do well on high-quality dog food, whether homemade or commercially prepared, approved by your vet. Large breeds require more food than smaller breeds, and the Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix is no different.
Puppies need to eat more often than adults, so make sure you give them small meals throughout the day.
These active and high-energy dogs require a diet to support their energy levels and overall health. A great way to ensure that your Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix is getting the nutrients they need is to feed them a high-quality kibble designed for large breeds.
You should also ensure that their diet is rich in protein and healthy fat to help them maintain their muscle mass and energy levels.
Additionally, you may want to consider adding some supplements to their diet to ensure they get all the nutrients they need. Some good options include fish oil, glucosamine, and chondroitin. These supplements can help to support their joints and overall health.
Ensure that any diet you provide for your dog will be appropriate for its age, activity level, and health condition. You do not want to over or underfeed your dog, as this can lead to health problems. If you are unsure about what kind of diet is right for your dog, you should consult with your veterinarian.
These are low-maintenance dogs and only require occasional brushing. If your dog inherits the Pyrs coat, it won’t require a lot of grooming. If your dog has a short coat like the Pit, it will require more frequent brushing.
Regardless of the coat, your Pyrs pit might be a moderate shedder. You’ll find hair everywhere. The best way to reduce the amount of shedding is to brush your dog regularly. A good quality slicker brush or pin brush will remove loose hair and help distribute natural oils in the skin and coat.
It is difficult to know if a dog will be a moderate or heavy shedder, as it will depend on which parent’s genes they inherit. If you are concerned about shedding, you may need to invest in a vacuum machine that is designed to pick up dog hair.
The good news is that the Pyrenees shed moderately while pits do not shed too much because of their short, single coats.
You should also bathe your dog as needed, but be careful not to overdo it. Bathing too often can strip the natural oils from the skin and coat, leading to dryness and irritation. When you bathe your dog, use a mild shampoo designed for dogs.
Ensure you check your pet’s ears regularly and clean them when necessary. If you notice your dog scratching at their ear or shaking its head, this could be a sign of an ear infection.
Brush your dog’s teeth at least once a week to remove plaque and tartar. You can use dog or a child’s toothpaste, as long as it doesn’t contain fluoride. Also, trim its nails when it gets too long.
If you are unsure how to groom your dog properly, you can always take them to a professional groomer.
Great Pyrenees Pitbull Exercise Requirement
These high-energy dogs will need moderate exercise to stay happy and healthy. An excellent way to provide this is by having daily walks or runs, playing fetch in the yard, or going on hikes together. A Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix will be a great match for you if you live an active lifestyle.
A minimum of 30 to 45 minutes of daily exercise is recommended for this breed. If the dog does not get enough exercise, it may become destructive or start to develop behavior problems.
If your dog takes more of the pitbull parentage, it will likely require more exercise than if they take more after the Great Pyrenees. Finding a balance that works for you and your dog is important.
Exercise is not only crucial for the physical health of your dog but also for its mental well-being.
Exercise helps keep your dog healthy and strengthens the bond between you and your pet. So get out there and enjoy quality time with your Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix.
Please, if your dogs inherit the pitbull coat, do not exercise them in extreme heat (hot sun). Short coat dogs can quickly overheat and become ill as they are prone to sunburns or skin cancer.
Early socialization, obedience, and puppy training classes are recommended for all dogs. Because of these breeds’ large size and strength in adulthood, it is important to start training early.
The Pyrenean Mountain Dog Pitbull mixes can be a bit stubborn. Still, with patience and consistency, they will respond well to training.
Take your dog to the park, on walks around the neighborhood, to pet stores, and anywhere else you go frequently. The more socialization they get, the better.
Start teaching your dog basic obedience commands such as sit, stay, come, and down before moving to more advanced training.
Suppose you have never trained a dog before. In that case, hiring a professional trainer or behaviorist is recommended to help you get started with this breed.
These dogs will do well in positive reinforcement-based training classes with an experienced instructor using praise or treats as rewards. Avoid using negative reinforcement such as scolding or punishment, as this can make the dog anxious and difficult to train.
Remember to be patient and consistent and never use physical punishment when training your dog. With the right training, your Great Pyrenees Pitbull mix will be a well-behaved and obedient dog that you can enjoy for many years.
If your dog has more dominant genes of the Pitbulls, it is likely to have a high prey drive, so teach your dog early to “leave it” when it sees a cat or squirrel running by.
If you live on a farm, it is vital to introduce your dogs to livestock early on and teach them that chasing and biting are not allowed.
Great Pyr vs. Pit Bull Terrier Climate Tolerance
If you’re looking for a dog that can withstand extreme weather conditions, you may be wondering if the Great Pyrenees or the Pit Bull Terrier is the better choice.
Both breeds are known for their hearty constitutions, but there are some important differences. The Great Pyrenees is a native of the Alps, and as such, it is well-adapted to cold weather. The thick double coat protects against heat and cold, and the dog’s size makes it less susceptible to wind chill.
On the other hand, the Pit Bull Terrier is more tolerant of warmer climates. However, their short coat cannot tolerate extreme sun, heat, and cold.
So if you’re looking for a dog that can handle the extremes, the Great Pyrenees is the better choice. But if you prefer a moderate warm climate, the Pit Bull Terrier may be a better fit, or you go this the Pitenees.
How Much Does A Pitenees Puppy Cost & Where To Get It?
Pitbull Great Pyrenees Mix puppy prices can range from $800 to $2500 depending o the breeder, availability, and location. You’ll need to factor in food, supplies, grooming, and vet care costs when budgeting for your new pet.
The best way to ensure you’re getting a healthy puppy is to purchase from a reputable breeder. You can also check your local animal shelters or rescue groups for adoptable Pitenees puppies.
When choosing a Pitbull Great Pyrenees Mix puppy, it’s crucial to select a breeder who is knowledgeable about the breed and can provide you with health clearances for the parents.
Pitbull Great Pyrenees Health Problems
Generally, these hybrid dogs are healthy. However, they may inherit some health problems from their parent breeds. The most common health issues that affect both parent breeds include:
The Great Pyrenees is also prone to several health problems, including:
- Hip dysplasia
- Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD)
- Skin problems
- Patellar luxation
While the Pitbull is also prone to several health problems, including:
- Degenerative myelopathy
- Hip dysplasia
- Congenital heart defects
- Skin problems
- Kneecap dislocation
If you are thinking about getting a Pyrenean Mountain Dog Pitbull mix, talk to your veterinarian about ways to prevent or mitigate these health problems.
Ensure you ask the breeder for health insurance clearance to be sure you’re bringing home a healthy pup. Also, make sure you are prepared to handle any health problems that may arise.
The best way to do this is to have a solid understanding of the health problems that can affect your dog and to have a plan for how you will deal with them if they arise.
Also, take your dog to regular medical checkups and do not skip vaccinations or other routine preventive care. This will help you catch any health problems early before they have a chance to become serious.
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A Primer on Options
is the right to buy or sell the underlying currency at a specific price for a specified period of time. You can purchase an option or write an option. For speculative purposes, purchasing is most common.
The right to buy is a call.
You have the right to call
the position away from someone holding the spot equivalent.
The right to sell is a put.
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a spot position to someone.
You purchase a call if you believe the currency price is headed up.
You purchase a put if you believe the currency price is headed down. An option is a contract between a buyer and a seller; the seller is termed the writer,
is the purchaser. The writer captures the cost the purchaser has paid for the option. Writing is generally a means to gain income off a long-term position you are willing to close if the option is called away from you or put to you.
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UC San Diego Researchers Answer Key Alzheimer’s Question
Monday, August 12, 2013
Aired 8/12/13 on KPBS Midday Edition.
Subhojit Roy, Associate Professor Pathology & Neurosciences, UC San Diego
Dr. Maria Carrillo, Vice President, Medical and Scientific Relations for the National Alzheimer's Association
Researchers into Alzheimer's disease have puzzled for some time about why previously healthy brains develop the disease.
As it turns out, we all have the same ingredients in our brains that can lead to the development of Alzheimer's. So why don't we all get it?
A research team at UC San Diego School of Medicine asked that question and their study produced some intriguing results.
Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurosciences at UC San Diego, Subhojit Roy said he discovered a trick of nature in most people that separates a protein from an enzyme that when combined triggers Alzheimer's disease.
"It’s like physically separating gunpowder and match so that the inevitable explosion is avoided,” he said
“Knowing how the gunpowder and match are separated may give us new insights into possibly stopping the disease.”
Roy and his team found that when a protein, called amyloid precursor protein (APP) comes together with an enzyme called beta-secretase or (BACE), they produce beta-amyloid protein, triggering a sequence of events that leads to impaired cell function and death.
But that doesn't happen in people with healthy brains.
“Nature seems to have come up with an interesting trick to separate co-conspirators,” said Roy.
Roy said these results are significant because they can lead to a new approach to fighting Alzheimer's.
“An exciting aspect is that we can perhaps screen for molecules that can physically keep APP and BACE-1 apart,” said Das. “It’s a somewhat unconventional approach.”
Alzheimer's is by far the most common form of dementia. Five million Americans live with the disease and that number is expected to triple by 2050.
Roy and colleagues published their findings in a paper in the August 7 issue of medical journal Neuron.
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23 Jun Drone detector prototype from Panasonic displayed at IFSEC
A prototype of Panasonic’s new drone finder has been on show at IFSEC 2016, the UK’s biggest security tradeshow at Excel London (21st – 23rd June).
The technology provides detection of the drone, which is seen as the starting point in order to control the drone. Using 32 array microphones and a Pan Tilt Zoom CCTV camera, each sensor can detect a drone at distances of up to 300m through a 1500 field of view. The drone finder analyses neighbouring noises to eliminate them from the detection.
Gerard Figols, european product marketing manager for Panasonic, said, “The growth in popularity of drones has been exponential, but little progress has been made on how to protect restricted zones from the potential threat they pose. Our drone finder technology will help deter and detect flying of drones around military or government buildings for example.” | <urn:uuid:c2ca33c5-b5a8-4c66-9115-b5163d06e128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.securitymiddleeastmag.com/drone-detector-prototype-from-panasonic-displayed-at-ifsec/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.932193 | 195 | 1.554688 | 2 |
I keep reading that chapter headings should start around 1/3 of the way down a new page, with space before and after. A new page I can understand, but why 1/3 of the way down? Is it for the reader to make overall notes about the chapter once they've read it? Is it still relevant in a digital age - most formatting advice articles are several years old when posting paper manuscripts was more common? It looks so ugly to me having the random space, and if I understand why I should be doing it I can get over my resistance. | <urn:uuid:8996ce16-fd17-4b4e-847d-06aea01201f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writingforums.org/threads/manuscript-formatting-chapter-headings.142469/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00386-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95624 | 115 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Microsoft has hidden a new downgrade policy within the Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Once you’ve installed it, you’ll only have 10 days to downgrade to an earlier version or build, rather than the 31 days provided before.
Historically, Microsoft had given users a full month to roll back any updates, including upgrades to Windows 10. Supersite for Windows reported this week, however, that it was unable to downgrade to an earlier build after a 10-day limit had expired, though it wasn’t exactly clear what builds the limit applied to.
We asked Microsoft for clarification, and it boils down to this: Applying the Anniversary Update triggers the new policy. According to Microsoft, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8 or Windows 7, or whether you simply updated your PC from an earlier version of Windows 10. Once you’ve installed the Anniversary Update, you have 10 days to back out, not 31, before the AU becomes “permanent.”
“T]his new 10-day behavior is for all upgrades and updates to the Anniversary Update,” the representative said in an email.
Why this matters: Just when you thought Microsoft’s aggressive upgrade practices were over—remember all the nastiness about deceptive upgrade tactics?—it appears Microsoft is stealthily closing the Windows 10 escape hatch. Recent Windows 10 converts need to figure out when they upgraded to Windows 10, and whether they want to keep it, pronto. And if you upgraded to Windows 10 just so you could downgrade again? You may need to act fast.
Vague Windows 10 messaging
The problem is that the new rollback period is not clearly defined by Microsoft’s own messaging within Windows 10. In fact, it’s not defined at all.
In the most recent 14393.10 version of Windows 10 (the Anniversary Update), there's no time limit attached to the option to go back to a previous build (Settings > Update & Security > Recovery). Even after PCWorld rolled back a second PC on July 28, from the Anniversary Update to the older “vanilla” version 10586.494, the Settings menu still shows a month remaining. It’s also not clear whether rolling back from the AU to version 10586 automatically grants more time.
Microsoft’s one-year period to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, free of charge, ended on July 29. That gave new Windows 10 users just days before the Anniversary Updates began on Aug. 2.
Microsoft isn't doing this to be mean, though. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the company's doing this to free up storage space on your PC. Downloading Windows 10, for example, requires about 3GB of space. Some amount of your drive is also used to store recovery files, whether to recover an upgrade or simply roll back to a previous build.
“Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days,” Microsoft said in a statement provided to PCWorld. “As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies.”
The bottom line is this: If you’re an existing Windows 10 user, and not having any issues with the Anniversary Update, you probably don’t need to do anything. We consider it to be a positive step forwardfor Windows 10.If you don’t like it and want to opt out, including going back to a previous version of Windows, it appears that your new deadline is ten days from August 2, or Friday, August 12.
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ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users there is support for Regular Expressions and a PascalScript rule, which lets users program their very own renaming rule.
Program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in a logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded, and managed within the program. In addition, it has an ability to rename folders, process regular expressions, Unicode capable, and supports variety of meta tags, such as: ID3v1, ID3v2, EXIF, OLE, AVI, MD5, CRC32, and SHA1.
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Social and Emotional Learning On-Line: Tips for Maintaining That Important Human Connection with Students and Sustaining Their Engagement Remotely
It feels weird doing online now what we would normally do with students in person every day. Academics can be hard enough in the classroom let alone tackling social and emotional learning remotely too.
Are you wondering, how am I going to have the same impact, make meaningful contact, know if I’m getting through or not if I can’t see my students’ faces? How do I use the technology available to me, make it my own, and really connect with students and parents?
You’re not alone. As an author and professional speaker who travels to schools doing anti-bullying work, I understand why these questions are important.
Below are some tips I hope you’ll find helpful. I’ve also provided some videos with guided practice.
- Find the camera lens on your device and put a small piece of tape next to it or a sticky note with an arrow pointing to it. This will help you maintain eye contact during the lesson.
- Make sure whatever room you’re doing your lesson from is well-lit.
- Before you begin, take a deep breath, hold it for a count of seven, exhale, and remind yourself that you and your students are connected in spirit.
- Always look into the camera lens. Even if you can see your students or a moderator on your screen, speak into the camera lens, otherwise it will appear as if you’re gazing off into the distance.
- Relax, smile, talk with your students as you always do and pretend the camera lens is your window to them. Imagine their faces as you’re giving the lesson, imagine them on the other side of that window, listening and engaging.
- You’re not on TV. You don’t have to be perfect. And even television’s most endearing moments are the bloopers. If you have a blooper moment, smile and keep going. Your students won’t remember the mistake. What they will remember is laughing with you at a time when laughter was more precious than ever.
- If the online teaching experience makes you feel self-conscious, practice just talking into the camera. Make a few videos and find your comfort level. Recite the lyrics of a favorite song or describe the weather outside. Just have fun with it.
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Banana Bunchy Top Outbreak Raging in Malawi
Malawi is still grappling with banana bunchy top, a viral disease that has attacks bananas for close to three years now with solutions nowhere in sight.
Agriculture experts in the Northern region are now concerned that production of bananas has been seriously reduced despite efforts aimed at containing the outbreak.
Mzuzu Agricultural Development Division Office Program Manager, Wellington Phewa, says the raging virus continues to threaten the banana market.
Malawi is, in the meantime, having to import bananas from neighboring Tanzania.
Phewa warns that should the fight on the virus not be won, Malawi bananas could go extinct.
“We’ve lost a lot of banana plantains all over Malawi. Everybody knows. Actually Malawi is eating bananas from Tanzania and Mozambique. It is clear testimony that our resources have gone down. That’s a trend we want to reverse as quickly as possible,” he said.
Echoing the remarks, Vice Chancellor for LUANAR, Professor George Kanyama Phiri, says the institution is currently working on producing clean banana suckers to reverse the situation.
“At LUANAAR, we have labs that are capable of producing tissue culture by technology laboratory which produces clean material and this clean material is the one that we recommend should be used,” said Professor Kanyama-Phiri.
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(WJBK) - Thousands of students across the country are planning to walk out of class today to honor the victims of the Florida school shooting, including students right here in Metro Detroit.
This comes exactly one month after the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead. Students across Michigan and the rest of the nation are planning a walkout at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes - one minute for every student killed in Florida.
- Metro Detroit students joining National School Walkout
- Students protesting in walkout may be part of herd mentality, educator says
- Local Students Participating In National School Walkout
Some students have planned roadside rallies while others are holding demonstrations on football fields or in school gyms. Many are taking aim at lawmakers, planning to rally outside state capitols to demand gun control reform.
FOX 2 will be streaming local and national walkouts on our Facebook page at about 10 a.m., click here.
According to organizers, the walkout is a call to Congress to “pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets, and in our homes and places of worship.”
Can students get in trouble for participating: If you’re wondering if students could get in trouble for the walk out, the answer to that is a little tricky. Some superintendents have said they will suspend students for participating in protests. According to the ACLU, a school is allowed to punish a student for missing class. However, the punishment must be the same is it would be if a student missed class for any other reason--the school can’t punish a student more harshly because the reason they missed class was the walkout. Of course, if students are disorderly beyond just walking out of class, they could get in trouble for that, too.
Could participating affect college admissions: More than 250 colleges and universities have released statements saying that if high school students are disciplined because of the walkout, it will not hurt their college admissions chances.
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Cyber Insurance 101: Why You Need It
Your business is a ship. A fine, sea-hardened vessel with a hard-won reputation for providing safe passage to all aboard and timely delivery of cargo. Pre-digital revolution your greatest worry? Weather and piracy. Now, in this day and age, cyberattacks on your, your employees’ and your clients’ sensitive data are like an infestation of plague rats or termites hollowing the hull. They are unseen from without, festering from within.
Now imagine a ship made of steel with doctors aboard and antibiotics at the ready for the arduous voyage ahead. This is the equivalent of cyber liability insurance. It provides a safety net for the technologically unimaginable. Operating a business, on any scale, without adequate cyber security liability insurance is a mistake from which most do not recover.
Below, we’ll briefly define what cyber liability insurance is, outline what questions you should ask if this is right for your business and how to find the right insurance coverage.
So, How is Cyber Liability Insurance Defined?
As data breaches and security threats become more and more commonplace, the market for risk management products aimed at protecting a company’s digital assets has grown rapidly in the last two decades. According to the Journal of Cybersecurity,
Cyber insurance is a broad term for insurance policies that address first and third party losses as a result of computer-based attack or malfunction of a firm’s information technology systems.
This insurance product is a relative newcomer, with the first reported product launching in 1998. Adoption of cyber insurance policies has been mostly unenthusiastic and understandably so; pricing policies were opaque and hard to quantify—most believed losses would be covered by their general commercial policy, and few insurers offered services underwriting such assets.
But not any longer. Protecting your digital data is yet another arena businesses must have solid footing to thrive in today’s market. Here are some quick facts as to the current state:
- Three thousand, eight hundred thirteen is the number of reported data breaches through the first half of 2019.
- JPMorgan Chase identified cybersecurity as the “biggest threat to the U.S. financial system.”
- The Equifax hack of 2017 tallied a $700 million settlement price tag.
A digital cornerstone is becoming vital to all businesses, small and large alike. The nefarious, ever-evolving threats to your company’s most private information become more nuanced and persistent year over year. Bearing these truths in mind, enacting an informed, secure cyber infrastructure is in all business owners’ best interests. We’ll detail further how cyber security liability insurance plays a role in that infrastructure.
Does My Business Need It?
You may be asking, what does a cyber liability policy cover and does my business need it? Short answer, yes. We’re living in a technologically transformative age. More services pop up every single day, in every sector, promising some new means of better living through technology. Racing behind this breakneck pace of innovation are the ways these services are protected. That constant mad dash to keep up creates a middle distance that hackers are becoming skilled at exploiting.
Chances are, your business takes advantage of at least one of those services (possibly offers it to others). So why not be protected against it? Per the Insurance Information Institute, here are just a few areas of potential risk:
- Liability – Potential costs incurred by customers (and other third parties) you are deemed responsible for remunerating in the wake of an IT-related or cyber attack.
- System recovery – Restoration of lost or compromised data, recovery of hardware and software, operational costs if your system was shut down or inoperable during an attack.
- Notification expenses – In several states, including California, if you store customers’ data, you are legally required to notify customers in the event of a breach or even just a suspected one.
- Regulatory fines – Both state and federal regulations require businesses and organizations to protect their customers’ personal data. Should a breach occur, your company’s failure to comply with requirements may incur substantial fines.
- Class action lawsuits – Massive breaches have led to class action lawsuits on behalf of those whose privacy and data were violated.
A product to mitigate that risk in the event of an attack, whether to recoup your losses or the losses of your clients, is essential.
What Questions Should I Be Asking?
Answer the following to get a baseline sense of your cybersecurity posture.
- What would happen if all our records were stolen tomorrow?
- Do we have third-party site back-ups?
- Are there any individuals responsible for the collective cybersecurity of the company?
- Of all our assets, have we ranked them from most sensitive (either to our business or to our customers’ privacy) to least?
- Could we function should something happen at each of those privacy levels?
After answering the above honestly, it should give you a realistic picture of your strengths and where there’s room for improvement. Bear in mind, most companies adopt a combination of services. A robust security infrastructure to limit cyberattacks—whether that be external malware protection, email decryption, redundant back-ups, or internally developed technology—that’s your first line of defense. In tandem with that, to cover your business in the unfortunate event of an attack, are appropriate policies aligned with your budget and scope.
Next Steps On A Policy
When you’re ready to start shopping for an insurance policy, there are a few things you should know and do prior to sitting down with an insurer.
Range Of Coverage
Most businesses believe that general commercial liability insurance is what protects them in the event of a cyberattack, however that is not always the case. Given that a cyberattack does not result in bodily harm or physical damage to a company’s assets, there are examples of claims not being fulfilled to cover the losses.
There are two general types of cybersecurity insurance, first and third party. Below is a list of what each type covers.
- First-party coverage – Covers direct financial losses to the business. Examples include:
- Loss of transferred funds
- Lost income due to business interruptions
- PR costs
- Reputation management expenses
- Costs repairing or recovering corrupted or stolen electronic data
- Extortion costs for ransomware attacks
- Cost of repairing software or hardware
- Cost of replacing systems
- Cost of notifying customers
- Third-party coverage – Covers indirect losses that result from third parties being impacted by the cyber breach. Examples include:
- Negligence claims
- Breach of contract claims
- Copyright infringement
- Fines and/or fees from regulatory boards
- Network privacy claims
- Network liability claims
Generally, policies will present themselves through 5 umbrellas of protection. They are:
- Privacy Liability – This is important for businesses that electronically store employee and customer information. A cyber breach might expose their personal data without their permission, which could create both first- and third-party costs. Privacy liability coverage shields you from being on the line for the costs arising from violations of privacy law or cyber incidents.
- Network Security – One of the most fundamentally critical aspects of cyber liability insurance, this covers a business in case of network security failures caused by ransomware, data breach, or malware.
- Media Liability – If you use online, social, or print advertising of your services, media liability covers intellectual property infringement as well as patent infringements caused by advertising.
- Network Business Interruption – If your business is reliant upon technology and digital systems to operate, this is a must-have. An interruption to such operations could result in massive financial losses due to an inability for the enterprise to run as usual, or at all. So, when either your or your provider’s network goes down, you have the opportunity to recover lost profits, extra costs, or fixed expenses incurred from the interruption.
- Some policies come with addendums for 24/7 services where a technical security expert will fix issues within hours of reporting a security incident.
- Errors and Omissions – When you do business, you may enter either a tacit agreement or an outright one to provide your customers with your services in a timely manner. If you are considered to be a consultant and you make “promises” but are unable to keep them, E&O protects you from such failures.
Now that you’re aware of the five tentpoles, here are some tips for securing the best policy.
How To Secure The Best Policy For Your Business
As mentioned above, first you must understand the current state of your cybersecurity defenses. Ask the questions honestly and then, based on what you find, go back and do the following:
- Itemize your digital inventory – Try to price out each asset and what its loss could do to your bottom line. The more specific you can be, the better you’ll know what limits of liability your plan should cover.
- Identify your unique risks – Even after evaluating your cybersecurity as it is, dig into where certain risks could occur within your business model. Are there touchpoints in your pipeline where external parties control access to your assets? Could social engineering extract information at points in the workflow? Be specific.
When you speak with an insurer, they’ll begin by asking you to fill out a questionnaire to determine the current state of your cybersecurity. Answer it truthfully, but don’t be thrown if they assess your posture as weaker than it really is. This is important because it helps your insurer answer your question, what is the average cost of cyber liability going to be?
Being aware of your actual risk gives you a much stronger position when negotiating for adequate coverage options at a decent premium. Be sure to know your liability limits and sub-limits. McGuire Woods states,
Perhaps the most important step a company can take to assess the value of cyber insurance is to compare the anticipated costs associated with a data breach with limits of liability available and the related costs… Estimates vary, but in 2011 the average cost of a breach was $5.5 million, and the cost per lost electronic record was $194.
Other areas to look out for when negotiating a policy are:
- Coverage start date – Make sure you get a policy that covers retroactive attacks. As the adage goes: it is not if you are attacked but when you find out the attack occurred.
- Incident reporting – This is a language clarification. Ensure that your policy covers losses from the moment of attack, not from the moment it is reported. The potential losses to your business could be substantial as most attacks are not discovered until much after the fact.
NOW Insurance as a Solution
After taking the steps noted above, you’re ready to speak to a provider like NOW Insurance. With your exposure in mind and areas of coverage you want, you can find a policy that fulfills your needs without crushing your margins.
Our team is standing by and ready to find the best policy for your coverage needs today.
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- Memphis Business Journal. Why you need cyber insurance and what you should know. https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2019/10/11/why-you-need-cyber-insurance-and-what-you-should.html
- Insurance Journal. As Breaches Rise, So Do Cybersecurity Pros’ Paychecks. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/08/08/535211.htm
- Insurance Information Institute. Cyber liability risks. https://www.iii.org/article/cyber-liability-risks
- McGuireWoods. A Buyer’s Guide to Cyber Insurance. https://www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resources/alerts/2013/10/buyers-guide-to-cyber-insurance.aspx
- Insurance Journal. Cyber Insurance Will Reshape Cybersecurity. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/10/11/545228.htm
- Istituto di Informatica e Telematica. A Survey on Cyber-Insurance. https://www.iit.cnr.it/sites/default/files/TR-17-2015.pdf | <urn:uuid:ef6f6394-69e8-46df-901b-a1f1b881242e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nowinsurance.com/blog/cyber-insurance-101-why-you-need-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.933604 | 2,632 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Today we present some new architectural renderings. This time they belong to the Panamanian museum project of the Caja de Seguro Social (CSS) that will be placed in the new health city in Panama designed by the architectural firm TASH.
The project is located on a promontory of the city being visible from the famous Panama canal. The building wants to become a landmark of the city and will house medical equipment of yesteryear which intends to tell part of the story of the CSS.
It is a building with two floors and sinuous shapes with a central courtyard. “Trencadis”, a common material in the works of Gaudí, is used as a facade material. It is ceramic tiles sliced into similar sizes and placed with a small joint. Thus, it is intended that the facade creates a visual sensation of continuity.
Two exterior architectural renderings of the building were commisioned. The first 3D computer graphics should show the building access. In the second architectural rendering, the client wants to show the building located at the top of the hill.
According to the client’s requirements, the architectural rendering should have been during the day and with a cloudless blue sky that contrastase with the green vegetation of the environment. The client provided photographs of the place that were used to perform the photomontage incorporating our 3D model.
The project is in the design phase so it is possible that in the coming months some changes with respect to the initial idea were expected. We hope to be able to show you the progress of the project. | <urn:uuid:33aa3f36-2785-453a-b488-5bf9c6d192c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://renderingofarchitecture.com/architectural-rendering-museum-panama | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.962835 | 326 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Last week I had the pleasure to spend three days with an amazing man and good friend who lives in Laos. I was fortunate to meet Chipseng in early 2011 through a mutual friend of ours on a community project in Laos (one of the best service projects that I have experienced). After observing Chipseng passionately lead the project and masterfully connect the visiting group and the local community he knows so well together I decided to invite him to Thailand later that year to experience an international school setting and to allow as many of our students and staff to learn from Chipseng as I had done. It was great to be able to get the chance to take my family to Luang Prabang in northern Laos and to meet Chipseng and his family and to find out a lot more about what makes this man such an inspiring community leader and developer of educational partnerships.
Chipseng was born north east of Luang Prabang in the countryside along the Seuang River that flows into the Mekong. He is Hmong, people that traditionally live in the highest mountain areas of Laos and other parts of South East Asia. He moved to Luang Prabang when he was only 7 years old to study because, as he told me, he had the ‘authority’ then to leave his family, even though he was the youngest son and was expected to stay in the village and look after the family. At that time there were no roads and he had to trek and take a boat along the river for two days to get to Luang Prabang.
At that time Chipseng could only speak Hmong. He had to learn the Laos language when he got to school and spent 8 years studying and living at the government school in Luang Prabang. The school was started to give children from the rural areas an opportunity of an education. He then attended high school for three years and met Chan, his wife. They married after high school and Chipseng’s parents came to live with them in Luang Prabang. He wanted to go to university but had to support the family and joined the Laos Army instead for 3 years. During his time in the army he felt there was a lack of opportunity to develop himself and to also support the community so he left the army and went to teacher training college and studied English for 3 years whilst working freelance as a tour guide. He joined Educational Travel Asia 4 years ago after meeting Graham Harper* on a project. Chipseng is now the project manager for ETA Laos.
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Chipseng really loves his job and you can see it. He knows everyone and he has their full trust and loyalty. He is one of those unique people that can connect and bring people together to create mutually beneficial learning outcomes and sustainable partnerships. He repeatedly tells me that he is happy that through his work he has a good opportunity to help and support the local people and his community. He believes it is important to develop international understanding amongst the Laos people but also tourists and international students that visit Laos.
Chipseng is passionate about the partnership of education and tourism and the symbiotic role they should have on one another. He uses a teacher who has not travelled as an example and questions how that person can impart knowledge and understanding effectively without understanding other people and cultures. He wants this for the Laos teachers and is working closely with Graham Harper and ETA to ensure that the communities and the schools along Seuang River benefit directly and in a sustainable manner from the increase in tourism and also from international educational partnerships. A number of international schools and universities already work with Chipseng and visit Seuang River on an annual basis.
Chipseng took my family and I to Pak Xeng, a village about 3 hours from Luang Prabang. We were honoured to have been hosted by a home-stay family (something every international student and educator should experience) and visited the primary and secondary school. We met the students, the teachers and also the headteachers and shared a number of facts about our own schools and experiences. One standout fact is that Pak Xeng Secondary School has 60 – 70 students per class. You could tell the teachers work very hard and do their very best for the students and never complain. Chipseng and the headteachers showed me around some of the classrooms and explained that the next project is to improve the roof (which was falling down) and to replace the broken desks and benches (see photos). I said to them that these classrooms were obviously not being used at present and they quickly replied that there were and that there was nowhere else to teach the students.
Chipseng and ETA are looking for educational partners to support the Pak Xeng School project. The approximate cost to replace the roof and to improve the classrooms is $12,000. If you think your university, your school, your social group, your family or yourself as an individual would like to support this project and/or visit Seuang River as part of a service learning community project then please do contact Chipseng or Graham below:
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By Suzann Paneck Robins
Excerpted from the book, Exploring Intimacy
Brave individuals, who do not feel at home in their own bodies and explore the possibility of changing gender through medical intervention, have raised questions regarding what it means to be a "real" man or woman. There is no clear understanding about the difference between biologically based gender differences and those constructed by learned behavior. Identity, like personality, is eventually self-discovered. Every society, and each family within each culture, has a particular historical background that dictates how boys and girls should be raised, and most express expectations regarding behaviors. For instance, some families still believe girls "should be seen and not heard" and that "a woman's place is in the home." Other families teach that boys must be strong and never cry or show any emotions. Many children receive mixed messages, which leave them confused throughout their entire lives.
Any statement about gender differences is always a generality. All people possess attributes designated as masculine or feminine, but there is a difference in degree and balance regarding how people demonstrate these characteristics. The field of gender studies highlights that there are more similarities in some cases and more differences in others. Examples of this are Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, a dress designer at the turn of the twentieth century, and David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust performance days. As people began to ask about rights and responsibilities in general, they also questioned appearances and privileges that come with simply looking and/or dressing in certain ways. As television and movies became part of everyone's experience, they portrayed an assortment of cultural stereotypes on the subject of what it means to be male or female.
A paradigm shift began when mass media started to portray role models with a variety of qualities for men and women, through both realistic actors and animation. Characters played a broad range of roles beyond what anyone witnessed in his or her own neighborhood. This has meant that since the advent of television in the early 1950s, children have been exposed to a full array of possibilities for observing women and men in various settings, including situation comedies, reality and talk shows, and cartoons. This exposure led to an era of unisex preferences in ways to act and dress. Men and women were striving for equality, and suddenly everyone was wearing tee-shirts, jeans, and sneakers.
Times are Changing
The civil rights activism of the 1960s and simultaneous technological revolution paved the way for consumerism to flourish. During this period, the first oral contraceptives or birth control pills became available. Wives and mothers continued to fight for the right to participate equally in all levels of the work force, and to be equal partners in relationships. Women's willingness to work outside the home benefited the manufacturing of goods. In many households, the wages of both husband and wife were necessary to buy a single-family house with a garage, and soon these homes had more than one car and a television in every room. Women were now able to gain credit in their own names and therefore have greater access to material wealth. The divorce rate soared and women's liberation led to the ideals of feminism, which held that everyone should have equal rights.
The battle of the sexes was in full swing. A great divide became evident between being feminine and becoming a feminist. The struggle for equality increased when a few questioned the accepted paradigm of gender roles. Some people became aware of the detrimental influence that attitudes of inequality had on children's development. Consumerism intended to exploit sexuality continues to drive the market. If we do not drive the right kind of car, use the right skin product, or consume the right beverage, we will not be seen as powerful, sexy, or successful. This kind of advertisement leaves many wondering what it actually means to be a man or a woman.
However, most people never entertain a thought about their gender identity, just as the majority never questions their own sexual orientation, but for the minorities who do, it is important to respect their right to choose. Or is it?
The answer to this question is important in any discussion of self-love. In a perfect world, we would all embrace agape and share love unconditionally. When we love everyone without judgment, we free up energy that would otherwise go toward protection from those we fear, simply because we perceive them as different or wrong. One aspect of gaining full intuitive knowing and emotional intelligence is an open, aware mind that accepts and appreciates differences. In order to love all aspects of ourself, we must fully acknowledge all aspects of others. Hate or prejudice that we hold inside hurts us as much as when we direct it outward.
For instance, Jerry Falwell is a preacher with many judgments; he boldly says he hates gay behavior and teaches that we do not have to approve of another's behavior to be willing to extend love and good will toward them. But he and many other church leaders fight hard against any kind of lesbian or gay rights, including gay marriage. When those in favor of these initiatives fight back, act in a hate-filled manner, and do not project love, then the vicious circle never ends.
Anima meets Animus
By integrating the shadow of our own anima and animus, we begin to observe that men and women are equally capable of tapping into the intuitive knowing of the sixth sense. We are all a part of a universal collective, no matter how rich or poor, large or small, or masculine or feminine we appear. Although we do not always approve of everyone's behavior, we can still extend love and good will. When we are not projecting love, we are often judging and condemning others. Acceptance of difference is one path to peace on earth. Evolving into conscious awareness, both as a universal collective and as individuals, is an aspect of this path. Encounters with other people and their ideas constantly influence our own gender identity and our understanding of sexual attraction.
Fully functioning, mature adults allow for all possible variations of self-actualization and integration. This is something to strive for as we expand our capacity for intimacy through intuition. At the same time, it is also necessary to be aware of our own personal boundaries and the limitations of our tolerance. Only then can we move toward acceptance of those who are different from us and eventually reach the transcendent levels suggested by Maslow and Mikulas, where we recognize that we are all part of the same whole of humanity. This includes the ability to love without judging, and to fill our heart with compassion for those who are different from us.
Exploring Intimacy : Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Insight and Intuition
Creating true intimacy takes work, and many people don't know where to begin. Basing her work on both psychological and social research, Suzann Robins offers a roadmap to the relationship between intuition - our sixth sense - and creating true intimacy. Offering simple mindfulness and reflective exercises, she helps readers learn to integrate ideas from both Eastern and Western approaches into everyday practice that is intended to both open and protect our mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health. | <urn:uuid:7d37be0d-aac3-421e-8a5e-39b52cbe531e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-communication-relationships/robins.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966307 | 1,450 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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50 Leadership Lessons from the Greatest Manager of All Time Today's rapidly changing global business arena has made undaunted leadership as fleeting as yesterday's software. Yet the wisdom of one reluctant leader -- Moses -- has grown more relevant with each passing millennium. In Moses On Management, Rabbi David Baron -- a nationally renowned spiritual leader and successful entrepreneur-draws surprising parallels between the world of Moses and our own. Through Bible passages, amusing anecdotes, interviews with visionary leaders, and his own insights, Rabbi Baron conveys fifty powerful lessons for today's business managers, including: how to bring your staff out of the slave mentality why negotiating face-to-face brings optimum results why symbols of strength inspire extraordinary effort why crises are an open door to change -- and empowerment how to use the willing minority to motivate others ... | <urn:uuid:34449eea-05d8-47a3-bccc-403c654a609b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.libring.ru/books/190961 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00303-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.826705 | 265 | 1.601563 | 2 |
I agree with you. It always amazes me how bad the writing style, grammar and spelling is on forums that are mainly populated by Americans writing in their native tongue. Even such simple things as switching on the spell checker in their browser apparently eludes most people.
English is a foreign language to me, but I often see native speakers make mistakes that I haven't made since I was in my early teens. Things like their/they're/there and similar errors amaze me.
By the way, how do you make the superscripts and foot notes?
D&D 2/3/3.5 veteran + SmallVille fan => Mutants and Masterminds newbie
If I seem to misunderstand you, please know that English is not my first language and I do not live in the USA but in Europe.
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On July 6, 1876, equipped with a hand engine purchased from Sacramento, California and a borrowed hose cart fro Port Gamble, Seattle's first fire fighting organization was established. Known as Seattle Engine No. 1, a volunteer company, made their quarters in a wood frame firehouse on the southwest corner of Columbia Street and 2nd Ave.
Built in 1834, the hand engine "SACRAMENTO" was an adaptation of the original end-stroke pumper developed by William C. Hunneman, an apprentice of Paul Revere and Ephriam Thayer of Massachusetts. Their engines were used extensively throughout New England and Canada. Built originally for the city of Salem, Massachusetts, it came around the "horn" for the city of Sacramento in 1854.
In operating the "Sacramento," eight to twelve men grasped the pumping arms or brakes at each side of the wheels, pushing down as the rocker arm or balance beam brought up the brakes at the other end. Each up and down motion constituted a stroke, and 60 t0 80 strokes could be made every minute. At such speeds, men could last without rest at the brakes for some ten minutes, less if they were under stress to pump faster.
In 1879, the fames hand-drawn "Sacramento" was replaced with Seattle's first steam pumper, a horse drawn Gould 3rd size(550 gpm). In 1882, the "Sacramento" was moved out to Lake Union at Western Mills Company near Terry Ave. N and Republican St. as Engine No. 3 until the paid department was established on October 26th, 1889. It played no part in the Great Seattle Fire. | <urn:uuid:fc0761fe-7f2b-4b5c-9766-f654f03f8d50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.fireengineering.com/photo/photo/show?context=user&id=1219672%3APhoto%3A150273 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.972782 | 352 | 2.609375 | 3 |
AML 341 - Applied Music Lesson 5
Class Hours: 45 min
All full-time matriculated students study a major instrument, voice, or composition with a qualified professional musician under the supervision of a music program chairperson. Juried performance examinations are required at the end of each year of instruction.
Junior and Senior Recitals are required for all performance students in the Bachelor of Music degree program at the end of the sixth and eight semesters of instruction. Recitalists must study with a faculty instructor during the semester in which the recital is given.
Students taking Private Instruction must attend at least 6 performances – 3 recitals and 3 concerts – that will service to refine their musical judgement. Critiques must be submitted to private instructors, demonstrating the ability to describe and evaluate musical performances in writing.
The technical requirements and materials set forth below provide a general guide to the levels of competence that are expected in each area of performance. Special Fee Required.
Course Fee: $1,100.00
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Nayirah Testimony refers to the controversial testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a female who provided only her first name, Nayirah. In her emotional testimony, Nayirah stated that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die. Though reporters did not then have access to Kuwait, her testimony was regarded as credible at the time and was widely publicized. It was cited numerous times by United States senators and the president in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War.Discussion thread at Reddit. In the 1950s Hill & Knowlton was hired by the tobacco industry to counteract findings linking cigarette smoking to cancer. More recently they have been one of several firms hired by the fracking industry.
Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country and found the story of stolen incubators unsubstantiated. However, they did find that a number of people, including babies, died when nurses and doctors fled the country.
In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
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Breaking Edges on Shaker Doors
Easing the edge on a door panel improves finish performance. January 3, 2014
Question (WOODWEB Member) :
After a shaker door comes out of the machine with a square edge, is it required to then further break the edge by hand? Is that a standard practice? Or are the somewhat very square edges acceptable if that is the edge detail requested? I hope I am asking this question correctly. My PM always requires that the guys break the edges on our shaker doors once we receive them from our supplier. This is a time consuming step that I'm wondering is necessary. Any help would be appreciated.
From contributor X:
I break all sharp edges, wherever an edge could be touched (doors, faceframes, trim and etc.),otherwise the finish will wear off on that edge. Plus it feels bad when the edges are sharp.
From contributor B:
I always just slightly break the edges on mine with 120 grit hand sanding. I think it feels a lot nicer, and the sharp corners can be problematic when finishing.
I've been told that if you look at a square edge with a large magnifier (not sure what magnification would be required) you will see the finish has pulled away from the edge. That is why you notice the wear of the finish there first. That is a good reason, besides the sharpness of the edge, to break the edge before finishing to alleviate the early wear of the finish.
From contributor D:
I break all edges using a 1/16" (Shaker, or 3/32") round-over bit in an offset base trim router.
I use the Fastbreak from Fastcap. It does a great job.
From contributor L:
Break all sharp edges. The surface tension in the finish causes it to pull back from them. That and they are less subject to dings when eased.
From contributor P:
Does your supplier offer an outside edge detail of 1/16"? It's worth asking the question, as I know that my supplier does.
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Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
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Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous, noninstitutional, mass action. Mass protests during the Arab Spring showed that established systems of power - in that case, the reciprocal support among Arab dictators and Western democracies - can be interrupted, at least for a short moment in history. These new activist movements often use online media to spread their message. Mass demonstrations from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Taksim Square in Istanbul show the power of networked communication to fuel »performative democracy« - at the center of which stands the global citizen. Art is emerging as a public space in which the individual can claim the promises of constitutional and state democracy. Activism may be the first new art form of the twenty-first century.
global aCtIVISm (the capitalized letters form the Latin word civis, emphasizing the power of citizens) describes and documents politically inspired art - global art practices that draw attention to grievances and demand the transformation of existing conditions through actions, demonstrations, and performances in public space. Essays by leading thinkers - including Noam Chomsky, Antonio Negri, Peter Sloterdijk, and Slavoj Zizek - consider the emerging role of the citizen in the new performative democracy. The essays are followed by images of art objects, illustrations, documents, and other material (first shown in an exhibition at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe) as well as case studies by artists and activists
Reviews"I'm surprised i'm even writing this but Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century has brought back my faith in the perceptivity of the art world. I feel like i've been reading books and visiting exhibition about art and activism almost every week over these past few years. [...]
Global Activism breaks the mold of art's self-complacency and pretend solicitude for the miseries of the world. The publication not only looks at creative interventions that have had a real impact on consciences, media and political status quo, it also gives equal credits to the man on the street' and to the artist for the way they challenge established power systems and express their dissatisfaction with the way governments handle immigration, climate change, corruption, growing social inequality, access to health care and other ongoing issues.
Another outstanding quality of the book is the way it brings together and without any hierarchy the usual art suspects (The Yes Men, Pussy Riot, The Surveillance Camera Players, Adbusters or Oliver Ressler, for example), the big NGOs (Amnesty International or Greenpeace) but also actors who are not so well-known internationally such as Ed Hall and his magnificent protest banners as well as many artists and citizen initiatives from Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East. The African continent remains, as often, under represented though."- Regine, "Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century", March 25, 2015 | <urn:uuid:1ef3b8a6-f882-402d-af9c-3d16d3c8da3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webshop.zkm.de/global-aCtIVISm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.863974 | 807 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Rusted steam engine - Santa Rosalia (Baja California, Mexico)
In 1885 the french mining company "la Compagnie du Boleo" obtained the rights to the copper mining concession of Santa Rosalia from the Mexican government for 99 years.
In 1954 the mines were closed until the Mexican Federal government took over. At the end of the concession the mining operation ceased completely and the mines and large steam-powered smelter plant were abandoned. This narrow-gauge steam engine is rusting near the smelter that you can see in the background, on the left.
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The vegetarian dishes in the Dominican Republic are lip-licking, and if you are a true vegetarian then you will simply love not only simply preparing the easy vegetarian meals from the cuisine of Dominican Republic, but also enjoy eating them and serving them to your guests. The Dominican vegetarian dishes are tremendously great in their nutritious value and very healthy. Some of the vegetarian dishes are spicy and some of them are mild in taste, the taste of the vegetarian dishes solely depends on the chef. By using the right kinds of herbs and spices in your Dominican vegetarian cuisine will definitely yield some great tasting results. It is recommended to make use of fresh vegetables while preparing your vegetarian cuisine. Most of the traditional vegetarian dishes in the cuisine of Dominican Republic require the traditional vegetables that are grown in the region, but do not be taken aback by this, the vegetables that are used in the preparation of the vegetarian dishes can easily be now found in any food departmental store world over. The vegetarian dishes do not require much skill; all you need to make your Dominican vegetarian meal scrumptious are the right ingredients and utensils that are needed to prepare them.
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National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, is the only civilian aerospace R&D laboratory in India. CSIR-NAL is a high-tech oriented institution focusing on advanced topics in aerospace and related disciplines and has a mandate to develop aerospace technologies with strong science content, design and build small and medium-size civil aircraft and support all national aerospace programmes.
CSIR-NAL has many advanced test facilities (many of them recognized as National Facilities) which are the best in the country and comparable to those outside. Along with these facilities, its globally recognized competence has enabled CSIR-NAL to achieve notable R&D successes, innovative technology developments and advanced testing capabilities. CSIR-NAL has a strength of 1100 with 400 scientists, 460 technical staff and 160 administrative staff. CSIR-NAL has also provided value added inputs to all national aerospace programmes. Its contributions over the last five decades have enabled it to create a niche for itself in the areas of advanced aerospace research and technology development. | <urn:uuid:602be7e7-3b4a-4b2a-8dc1-aab2c7087fe7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nal.res.in/pages/aboutnal.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923062 | 217 | 2.015625 | 2 |
OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Monday to make Oklahoma a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State.”
Senate Bill 631, also known as the “Second Amendment Sanctuary State Act,” says that any federal, state, county or municipal act, law, executive order, administrative order, court order, rule, policy or regulation ordering the buyback, confiscation or surrender of firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition from law-abiding citizens of this state shall be considered an infringement on the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and Article II, Section 26 of the Constitution of Oklahoma.
“As of today, Oklahoma is officially a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary State,” Stitt said in a tweet as a part of a thread showing a collection of bills he’d just signed into law.
The bill takes effect immediately when it’s approved, according to the bill’s language.
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How to Think Like Elon Musk
Model someone who is already successful because success leaves clues
First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for breaking down complicated problems and generating original solutions. It also might be the single best approach to learn how to think for yourself.
The first principles approach has been used by many great thinkers including inventor Johannes Gutenberg, military strategist John Boyd, and the ancient philosopher Aristotle, but no one embodies the philosophy of first principles thinking more effectively than entrepreneur Elon Musk.
In 2002, Musk began his quest to send the first rocket to Mars — an idea that would eventually become the aerospace company SpaceX.
He ran into a major challenge right off the bat. After visiting a number of aerospace manufacturers around the world, Musk discovered the cost of purchasing a rocket was astronomical — up to $65 million. Given the high price, he began to rethink the problem.
“I tend to approach things from a physics framework,” Musk said in an interview. “Physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So I said, okay, let’s look at the first principles. What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around two percent of the typical price.”
Instead of buying a finished rocket for tens of millions, Musk decided to create his own company, purchase the raw materials for cheap, and build the rockets himself. SpaceX was born.
Within a few years, SpaceX had cut the price of launching a rocket by nearly 10x while still making a profit. Musk used first principles thinking to break the situation down to the fundamentals, bypass the high prices of the aerospace industry, and create a more effective solution.
First principles thinking is the act of boiling a process down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there. Let’s discuss how you can utilize first principles thinking in your life and work.
Defining First Principles Thinking
A first principle is a basic assumption that cannot be deduced any further. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle defined a first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.”
First principles thinking is a fancy way of saying “think like a scientist.” Scientists don’t assume anything. They start with questions like, What are we absolutely sure is true? What has been proven?
In theory, first principles thinking requires you to dig deeper and deeper until you are left with only the foundational truths of a situation. Rene Descartes, the French philosopher and scientist, embraced this approach with a method now called Cartesian Doubt in which he would “systematically doubt everything he could possibly doubt until he was left with what he saw as purely indubitable truths.”
In practice, you don’t have to simplify every problem down to the atomic level to get the benefits of first principles thinking. You just need to go one or two levels deeper than most people. Different solutions present themselves at different layers of abstraction. John Boyd, the famous fighter pilot and military strategist, created the following thought experiment which showcases how to use first principles thinking in a practical way.
Imagine you have three things:
- A motorboat with a skier behind it
- A military tank
- A bicycle
Now, let’s break these items down into their constituent parts:
- Motorboat: motor, the hull of a boat, and a pair of skis.
- Tank: metal treads, steel armor plates, and a gun.
- Bicycle: handlebars, wheels, gears, and a seat.
What can you create from these individual parts? One option is to make a snowmobile by combining the handlebars and seat from the bike, the metal treads from the tank, and the motor and skis from the boat.
This is the process of first principles thinking in a nutshell. It is a cycle of breaking a situation down into the core pieces and then putting them all back together in a more effective way. Deconstruct then reconstruct.
How First Principles Drive Innovation
The snowmobile example also highlights another hallmark of first principles thinking, which is the combination of ideas from seemingly unrelated fields. A tank and a bicycle appear to have nothing in common, but pieces of a tank and a bicycle can be combined to develop innovations like a snowmobile.
Many of the most groundbreaking ideas in history have been a result of boiling things down to the first principles and then substituting a more effective solution for one of the key parts.
For instance, Johannes Gutenberg combined the technology of a screw press — a device used for making wine — with movable type, paper, and ink to create the printing press. Movable type had been used for centuries, but Gutenberg was the first person to consider the constituent parts of the process and adapt technology from an entirely different field to make printing far more efficient. The result was a world-changing innovation and the widespread distribution of information for the first time in history.
The best solution is not where everyone is already looking.
First principles thinking helps you to cobble together information from different disciplines to create new ideas and innovations. You start by getting to the facts. Once you have a foundation of facts, you can make a plan to improve each little piece. This process naturally leads to exploring widely for better substitutes.
The Challenge of Reasoning From First Principles
First principles thinking can be easy to describe, but quite difficult to practice. One of the primary obstacles to first principles thinking is our tendency to optimize form rather than function. The story of the suitcase provides a perfect example.
In ancient Rome, soldiers used leather messenger bags and satchels to carry food while riding across the countryside. At the same time, the Romans had many vehicles with wheels like chariots, carriages, and wagons. And yet, for thousands of years, nobody thought to combine the bag and the wheel. The first rolling suitcase wasn’t invented until 1970 when Bernard Sadow was hauling his luggage through an airport and saw a worker rolling a heavy machine on a wheeled skid.
Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, leather bags were specialized for particular uses — backpacks for school, rucksacks for hiking, suitcases for travel. Zippers were added to bags in 1938. Nylon backpacks were first sold in 1967. Despite these improvements, the form of the bag remained largely the same. Innovators spent all of their time making slight iterations on the same theme.
What looks like innovation is often an iteration of previous forms rather than an improvement of the core function. While everyone else was focused on how to build a better bag (form), Sadow considered how to store and move things more efficiently (function).
How to Think for Yourself
The human tendency for imitation is a common roadblock to first principles thinking. When most people envision the future, they project the current form forward rather than projecting the function forward and abandoning the form.
For instance, when criticizing technological progress some people ask, “Where are the flying cars?”
Here’s the thing: We have flying cars. They’re called airplanes. People who ask this question are so focused on form (a flying object that looks like a car) that they overlook the function (transportation by flight). This is what Elon Musk is referring to when he says that people often “live life by analogy.”
Be wary of the ideas you inherit. Old conventions and previous forms are often accepted without question and, once accepted, they set a boundary around creativity.
This difference is one of the key distinctions between continuous improvement and first principles thinking. Continuous improvement tends to occur within the boundary set by the original vision. By comparison, first principles thinking requires you to abandon your allegiance to previous forms and put the function front and center. What are you trying to accomplish? What is the functional outcome you are looking to achieve?
Optimize the function. Ignore the form. This is how you learn to think for yourself.
The Power of First Principles
Ironically, perhaps the best way to develop cutting-edge ideas is to start by breaking things down to the fundamentals. Even if you aren’t trying to develop innovative ideas, understanding the first principles of your field is a smart use of your time. Without a firm grasp of the basics, there is little chance of mastering the details that make the difference at elite levels of competition.
Every innovation, including the most groundbreaking ones, requires a long period of iteration and improvement. The company at the beginning of this article, SpaceX, ran many simulations, made thousands of adjustments, and required multiple trials before they figured out how to build an affordable and reusable rocket.
First principles thinking does not remove the need for continuous improvement, but it does alter the direction of improvement. Without reasoning by first principles, you spend your time making small improvements to a bicycle rather than a snowmobile. First principles thinking sets you on a different trajectory.
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- Another attempt could happen this week, perhaps Thursday
- Felix Baumgartner hopes to be the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle
- Risks include low temperatures, thin atmosphere and a possible loss of consciousness
- Baumgartner will have only a space suit, helmet and chute for the 120,000-foot jump
A skydiver's historic free-fall from the stratosphere was called off Tuesday due to wind gusts that ruined the helium balloon set to hoist him to high altitude for the record-breaking attempt.
Another attempt is not expected before Thursday due to weather conditions.
Felix Baumgartner is aiming to jump from a higher altitude than anyone ever has -- 120,000 feet (about 23 miles), more than three times the cruising altitude of the average airliner -- with nothing but a space suit, helmet and parachute.
He also hopes to be the first person to break the sound barrier in such a dive. At that altitude, the thin air provides so little resistance that after just 40 seconds, he is expected to be free-falling faster than 690 miles an hour.
Organizers initially delayed the balloon launch Tuesday morning because of gusting winds, then tried to make it happen a few hours later at the Roswell launch site.
However, as Baumgartner waited in the capsule to be carried up to high altitude, another wind gust whipped the more than 500-foot-tall white balloon and ruined it for the mission.
Art Thompson, the technical project director for the mission, said only one back-up balloon is now available to carry out the attempt.
"There's a lot riding on that, so the main thing for us is making sure the probability is very high," Thompson said.
Asked how he felt about having to call off the attempt, Thompson replied: "Deflated. No pun intended."
"For Felix, it's a lot of frustration," Thompson added. "A lot of anticipation getting to this point, and then feeling that he's going to have to wait -- it's a lot of anxiety on his part, I'm sure."
Years of preparation and untold costs to the primary sponsor, Red Bull, led to Tuesday's scheduled attempt.
When the launch occurs, Baumgartner expects to spend two or three hours on the ascent in a capsule hanging from the helium balloon. Then he will climb out of the capsule, jump off the step with a bunny hop and form a crouched "delta" position to maximize his speed.
He plans to fall 115,000 feet in less than five minutes, then deploy a parachute for the final 5,000 feet to Earth.
The attempt has serious risks. He and his team have practiced how he can avoid getting trapped in a dangerous "horizontal spin." At temperatures that could hit 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit or lower, and an atmosphere so thin that his blood would vaporize if he were unprotected, his life will depend on the integrity of his pressure suit.
If he loses consciousness during the five-minute plunge, he will survive only if his parachute deploys automatically.
Another unknown: the effects on the body of breaking the sound barrier. While reaching such speeds can cause stress on an aircraft, planners for this jump believe there will be little effect on Baumgartner because he will be at an altitude at which there is so little air that shock waves are barely transmitted.
"I'm not nuts," Baumgartner said when CNN first interviewed him about the project in 2010. "You know, our records are meant to be broken, and I'm a very competitive person. I like the challenge."
On a more serious note, he added, "Of course I'm afraid of dying, because I worked so hard to reach this level. You know, I'm living a good life. I think the most important thing I'm doing is to come back alive."
Baumgartner is an Austrian helicopter pilot and former soldier who has BASE jumped from such landmarks as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. BASE is an acronym for buildings, antennas, spans and Earth -- the four things from which you can jump.
He has been preparing for his latest feat for five years -- both physically and mentally.
"You have to remember all the procedures," he said in an interview during testing for the jump. "You know you're in a really hostile environment. And you cannot think about anything else. You have to be focused. Otherwise, you're gonna die."
The balloon being used is light and translucent. The material is only .0008 of an inch thick, and it will change shape and size as it rises.
The pressurized helmet and suit, which restrict Baumgartner's mobility and together weigh 100 pounds, have been equipped with sensors and recorders to measure everything from his speed to his heart rate. Cameras on the ground and on the capsule will transmit live images of his attempt.
Baumgartner was not doing interviews leading up to the jump, but his performance coach, Andy Walshe, described him as mentally well-prepared.
"He knows that he's rehearsed it and knows what to do," Walshe said Sunday. "We want him in the right state of mind. We ask him to reflect on what he's done, what he's been through and what he's achieving for himself personally, so he can relax and focus."
The record for such a jump is currently held by Col. Joe Kittinger, who in 1960 jumped from 102,800 feet as part of a U.S. Air Force mission. More than 50 years later, Kittinger is a consultant and mentor for Baumgartner's effort.
Kittinger has also been giving Baumgartner advice on what to expect. For example, he described what it feels like to fall through space when there is so little air: "There's no way you can tell how fast you're going, because there's no visual cues."
Kittinger rejects any suggestion that he is jealous that Baumgartner is poised to beat his record.
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Tips for throwing a memorable first birthday party (without going overboard)
Although your baby is not likely to remember anything about her first birthday, it's still a milestone that adults like to commemorate, usually with a party. Follow these tips to keep the celebration simple so you don't overwhelm your little one.
Keep the time in mind Schedule festivities to begin soon after your baby wakes from her morning or afternoon nap, and limit the party to one-and-a-half to two hours.
Downsize the cake Specialty cakes make for great photo ops, but cupcakes are the right size for small hands. Kids tend to prefer simple tastes, so stick with basic vanilla or chocolate (be sure guests don't have chocolate or nut allergies, or plan accordingly).
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Put on your game face The age-1 set is too young to play together, but they may enjoy these activities with some help from adults:
Bubble ring-around-the-rosie Have little ones and adults grab hands and form a circle. Grown-ups can lead the game, while a bubble maker (or willing adult) adds another dimension to ring-around-the-rosie. FYI, nix balloons at the party—deflated or popped, they're a major choking hazard.
Musical peekaboo Place a box of toys on the floor. Play some children's music and encourage babies and parents to explore the toys together, while moving to the beat.
Stuffed animal hide-and-seek Hide animals in a small area and help little ones find them (make sure you put them within reach of crawlers as well as walkers).
Keep gifts under wraps Don't expect your baby to stay awake for gift opening. Save that for after the crowd leaves. If you must open presents during the party, plan to do the unwrapping, oohing and ahhing on your baby's behalf. (And don't forget to write thank-you notes!)
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Welder course: get welding qualifications - practical and concrete
Specialized training in theoretical and practical skills, completed with an exam, allows you to acquire the necessary competences for the profession of welder / welding work. The completion of such training also entitles to obtain new qualifications or to extend the validity period of existing qualifications, in areas such as TIG, MAG and MMA.
What you can gain as our listener
- the necessary certification documents, valid throughout the EU (certificate of completion of training, welding test certificate, welder's book for those obtaining the qualification from scratch, relevant entry in the welder's book),
- sound knowledge and skills,
- a new profession; the opportunity to develop in many industries that use welding techniques, i.e. automotive, aviation, shipbuilding, the wider construction sector,
- new entitlements/renewal of existing entitlements, in an existing profession,
Training and preparation for the examination:
Our staff are well prepared specialists - lecturers, including engineers, who represent substantive knowledge and experience. They explain the issues clearly, support students with practical instructions and answer any questions in the context of both the course and the vocational exam.
Adapted technical facilities
The training takes place in premises dedicated to welding work. We provide safe workplaces, fully equipped with the necessary equipment, tools and materials. Classes take place under the permission of the accreditation body, the Welding Institute, on the basis of the highest standards and current legislation.
Theoretical and practical content of the course
- Electrotechnology - in terms of welding applications,
- Material science and quality of welded joints,
- Principles of technical drawing - reading and drafting,
- Welder's workshop (equipment, tools),
- Welding technology and methods,
- Entitlement to perform the occupation/welding work in the light of Euro-standard EN-287-01,
- The principles of occupational health and safety and fire protection in welding work,
- Practical and technical classes in the chosen welding specialisation (TIG/ MAG/ MMA).
Course participant requirements:
Welding work involves exposure to risks such as high material temperatures, fumes and hazards from the use of equipment. For this reason, there are formal requirements for candidates to take part in the course: they should be of full age, with at least a primary school education and their state of health must be certified by an occupational doctor.
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Maritain's receptive intuition and the benefits of art
Jacques Maritain dealt almost exclusively with the experience and knowledge of the artist, not the work as perceived by the viewer. It is our purpose here to display what a genuinely Thomistic theory of the receptive intuition would look like given Maritain's philosophy. Beauty is said to be "what being seen pleases" and we examine in chapter one, Maritain's own view that there are two beauties and that aesthetic beauty leads the viewer to transcendental beauty. We argue that the objective meaning of the work is somehow both contained within and well beyond its frame. In chapter two, defending Maritain against two of the foremost scholars on Thomas' aesthetics, Francis J. Kovach and Umberto Eco, we argue that the "being seen" or the visio of the experience is primarily non-discursive. While the intellect cannot do without concepts, what is key to the experience is a "defect in truth" and not truth. Thus there is required another way of knowing, a way of a knowledge by connaturality, an intuitive knowledge, and this is what registers the "pleasure." In chapter three, we find that the experience requires not only the intellect but the whole of the person. The work of art presents a defect in truth, and an appeal for our consent. If we give it, it seduces us, and reveals a deeper meaning no longer through concepts but through emotion. What has gone into making the work is, in part, what is revealed. In chapter four, we examine the virtue of art, the idea of imitation as instrument, and his notion of the magical sign to understand how the work of art provokes this intuition. In chapter five, we ask "What's the effect and value of the aesthetic experience?" Using Maritain's phrase, "Beauty is the radiance of all the transcendentals united" as a heuristic, we show that the viewer experiences, "a gathering together" of "being as confronting the power of intelligence, being as confronting the power of desire and being as undivided." The aesthetic experience reveals the harmony among our human powers--often in conflict--and these with the world that surrounds them.
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Research Assistant Professor
B.S. 1980 Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
M.A. 2000 Department of Anthropology, University of Montana
Ph.D. 2006 Department of Geosciences, University of Montana
Faculty member at Stony Brook since 2008
Professors Sperazza’s research interests are related to paleoclimatic change over the Pleistocene and Holocene. His research not only documents the record of climate change but develops and tests methods used in paleoclimate research and examines impact of climate change on civilizations and human evolution.
Ongoing research of Professor Sperazza is broad-based collection of studies focusing on the methodological development and analysis of paleoclimate proxies. Included in this methodological research is the evaluation of proxies derived from grain size, quantitative X-ray Diffraction, magnetic secular variation, and magnetic inclination and declination. The paleoclimatic part of this research is to evaluate a suite of proxies for their connectivity to climatic variation and the robustness of these data in high-latitude, open-montane lake systems.
An additional part of this research has been examining the glacial history of the Flathead Lake basin including the sedimentary and flood depositions associated with glacial Lake Missoula in northwestern Montana and eastern Washington.
Space photo of Flathead Lake, Montana and major geographic features including the mission fault (dashed line).
Dr. Sperazza has recently begun a new research project. It is a collaborative, multidiscipline examination of Pleistocene and Holocene climate change as it relates to human evolution and adaptation in the Turkana Basin. Working with Richard, Meave, and Louise Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute and researchers from Stony Brook University’s departments of Geosciences, Anthropology, and Marine and Atmospheric Science, as well as Rutgers University, he seeks to exam the impacts of climate variation on hominid morphologic change and adaptive behaviors. This research will include climate proxy studies (these proxies will include changes over time for grain size, sediment chemistry, magnetics, carbon species, and biologic changes) from lake sediment cores and surrounding outcrop exposures. The research will also include extensive GIS mapping of the basin using remote sensing and ground-based data. The GIS work will include construction and analyses of databases on hominid localities, geology, and tephrochronology.
Sea Level Rise
Current impacts of climate change are obviously an urgent topic in his discipline, and of particular interest are the strongly affected coastal regions here in the Northeast. Dr. Sperazza also has begun a second research project to examine the history of sea level changes in Shinnecock Bay, New York. This research project is designed to develop a timeline history of sea level change and causal conditions of climate change. Shinnecock Bay is at the confluence of marine and fresh water systems and receives the first impacts from sea level changes. As an embayment, it also should preserve a long record of change in the sediments that can be used to reconstruct the sea level record and the associated climate forcings. As part of this research, he will conduct an assessment of sea level impacts on the communities adjacent (Southampton, Hampton Bays, Quogue, and the Shinnecock Nation) to Shinnecock Bay. This assessment will include economic (impacts on businesses and residents), geographic (changes to the physical landscape), cultural (archaeological and spiritual sites), and hydrologic (impacts on the aquifer, streams, and lakes) assessments.
This project is designed to include field and lab data collection as well as data processing and analysis. A critical component of the research project is as an educational tool to teach students research methods and technologies.
Hofmann, M.H., Hendrix, M.S., Sperazza, M., and Moore, J.N.,
2006 Neotectonic evolution and fault geometry change along a major extensional fault system in the Mission and Flathead Valleys, NW Montana. Journal of Structural Geology v. 28, n. 7, p. 1244-1260.
Hofmann, M.H., Hendrix, M.S., Moore, J.N., and Sperazza, M.
2006 Late Pleistocene and Holocene depositional history of sediments in Flathead Lake, Montana: Evidence from high-resolution seismic reflection interpretation. Sedimentary Geology, v. 184, no. 1-2, p. 111-131.
Sperazza, Michael, Moore, Johnnie N., and Hendrix, Marc S.
2004 High Resolution Particle Size Analysis of Naturally Occurring Fine-grained Sediment through Laser Diffractometry. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, n. 5, p. 736-743.
12/1997-1/98 Sexual Dimorphism in Ainu Cranial Measurements. Internet Journal of Anthropological Studies [Online Journal] vol 1, Issue 1, Article 3. Available: http://www.anthro.umt.edu/archive/ijas/ijasv1i1/TOCv1i1.htm
Papers and Presentations
Sperazza, Michael, Michael H. Hofmann, Marc S. Hendrix, Johnnie N. Moore
2008 Evaluation of Grain Size as a Paleoclimate Proxy for Lake Level Change or Precipitation in a Large Lacustrine System: Flathead Lake, Montana. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6, p. 165.
Hofmann, Michael H., Marc S. Hendrix, Michael Sperazza
2008 The Deglacial History of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet as Recorded in Sediments of Flathead Lake, Montana. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6, p. 165.
Hofmann, Michael H., Michael Sperazza, Marc S. Hendrix
2007 Deglaciation History of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet as Recorded in Lake Sediments of Flathead Lake, Montana: Implications for Climate Change and Sedimentary Processes. Quaternary International, 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia.
Hendrix, Marc S., Michael H. Hofmann, Johnnie N. Moore, Michael Sperazza
2006 Sedimentary Record of syn- and Post-glacial Climate Change Along the Former LGM ice Terminus, Flathead Lake, Montana. Eos Trans. AGU, v. 87, no. 52, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP51C-1147.
Hofmann, Michael H., Marc S. Hendrix, Johnnie N. Moore, Michael Sperazza
2006 Duration and magnitude of Middle Holocene megadrought record from Flathead Lake, Montana and probable link to volcanic forcing. 22nd Pacific Climate Workshop.
Sperazza, Michael, Michael H. Hofmann, Johnnie N. Moore, Marc S. Hendrix
2005 Quantitative Evaluation of a Rapid and Severe Early Holocene Drought in NW-Montana. Eos Trans. AGU, v. 86, no. 52, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP31A-1503.
Hofmann, Michael H., Michael Sperazza, Marc S. Hendrix, Johnnie N. Moore
2005 Rapid late Pleistocene and Holocene climate changes in NW-USA revealed by glacial lobe fluctuations and lake level changes of Flathead Lake, Montana. GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 37, no. 7.
Hofmann, Michael H., Marc S. Hendrix, Michael Sperazza, Johnnie N. Moore
2005 Significant Holocene lake-level changes and late Pleistocene glacial lobe fluctuations and their implication for rapid late Pleistocene and Holocene climate changes in NW-USA: results from Flathead Lake, Montana. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft fuer Geowissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany.
Hofmann, Michael H., Marc S. Hendrix, Johnnie N. Moore, Michael Sperazza, Mark Shapley, Chad Wittkop, and Jeffery Stone
2003 Sedimentary indicators of significant late Pleistocene – early Holocene lake-level fluctuation: preliminary results from Flathead Lake, Montana. Eos Trans. AGU, v. 84, no. 46, 2003, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP32B-0288.
Sperazza, Michael, Thomas Gerber, Marc S. Hendrix, and Johnnie N. Moore
2003 Lacustrine Record of Climatic Transition in Flathead Lake, Montana: Late Pleistocene through Holocene. Poster at International Limnogeology Congress, March 2003.
Sperazza, Michael, Thomas Gerber, Marc S. Hendrix, and Johnnie N. Moore
2002 Record of Late Pleistocene Through Holocene Climate Change in a Regional Lake System: Flathead Lake Basin, Northwestern Montana. Eos Trans. AGU, v. 83, no. 47, p. 941, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP21B-0326.
Sperazza, Michael, Johnnie N. Moore, and Marc S. Hendrix
2002 Methodology for Lacustrine Sediment Grain Size Analysis by Laser Diffraction: A High Resolution Application. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 207.
Hendrix, S. Marc, Michael Sperazza, Johnnie N. Moore, and Thomas Gerber
2001 Record of the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Transition, Flathead Lake, Montana. Eos Trans. AGU, v. 82, no. 47, p. 755, Fall Meet Suppl., Abstract PP22A-0497.
Sears, J.W. Brooks, J.A., Clements, P.S., Hughes, N.D., Priest, B.M., and Sperazza, M.
2000 Thermal Structure and Fracture Strength of the Lewis-Eldorado-Hoadley Thrust Slab, Montana Rocky Mountains. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 5, p. 38.
Skelton, Randall, Michael Sperazza, et al.
1997 Case Coordinator on Forensic Report DSF Case #97-2026. Montana State Medical Examiner.
1997 Case Coordinator on Forensic Report DSF Case #97-3459. Montana State Medical Examiner.
Skelton, Randall, et al.
1999 Forensic Report DSF Case #99-948. Montana State Medical Examiner.
1997 Forensic Report DSF Case #97-3483. Montana State Medical Examiner.
1998 The Geographic Distribution of Molar Cusp Patterns of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Presented at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, April 1998.
1997 Case Procedures for a Forensic Laboratory. Presented at the Northwest Association of Forensic Scientists Conference, April 1997
1996 Materialism: A Cultural and Historical Perspective. Presented at the annual meeting of the Montana Academy of Science, April 1997.
1996 Sexual Dimorphism in Ainu Cranial Measurements. Presented at the annual meeting of the Montana Academy of Science, April 1997.
News & Announcements
Geosciences Department Newsletter
Melissa Sims chosen to introduce Secretary of Energy at NSLS-II Dedication
Celebrating Robert Cooper Liebermann
Professor Joel Hurowitz named Deputy PI for Mars 2020 Rover Instrument
PhD Student Yuyan (Sara) Zhao selected for Prestigious Dwornik Award
Professor Timothy Glotch to lead NASA funded research team
Professor Martin Schoonen named Chairman of the Environmental Sciences Department at BNL
Professors John Parise and Artem Oganov pursue Materials Genome Initiative
Professor Deanne Rogers finds evidence for past groundwater on Mars
Professor Robert Liebermann accepts Edward A. Flinn Award
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So public speaking is a film about a writer who no longer writes, or at least doesn't write as much as she should.
Zamora encouraged Winick to take on public speaking on HIV and AIDS.
Lebowitz, however, is not afraid of public speaking, which is how she earns her living these days.
One of my next projects is to create an online course in public speaking for introverts.
I've done a lot of public speaking over the last few years, and most the serious writing work was done in those kind of moments.
The sound will, however, carry further if you open the passage again; and in public speaking it is therefore to be recommended.
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She had the rare gift of public speaking, and enjoyed her triumphs.
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The new address a place where cryptocurrency can be sent to and from, in the form of a string of letters and numbers. created by the FBI will be known as the Virtual Assets Exploitation Unit, which will perform various tasks to support the opposite of Resistance, it is a threshold that crypto’s price doesn’t fall below. the agency in investigations of crimes involving the use of digital currencies.
La U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation U, better known by its acronym in English as the FBI, announced the creation of a new unit specifically dedicated to tackling cryptocurrency-related crime.
New unit of the FBI to combat cryptocurrency crime
This was revealed by the FBI in a statement published on the website of the Department of Justice (DoJ), where the announcement was made in the context of the election of a new chairman for the National Cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptographic technologies to secure their operation. Enforcement Team (NCET) which is attached to the aforementioned entity. The organization will be headed by Eun Young Choi, who previously served as chief counsel to the Deputy Attorney General.
The new address created by the FBI will be known as the Virtual Assets Exploitation Unit and according to the press release it is about “a specialized team of experts in the field of cryptocurrencies, who will be dedicated to providing support, analysis and training for the entire FBI, having as their job also to innovate the agency’s digital digital technologies are these electronic tools that have the ability to generate, store or even process data. currency currency is a medium of exchange that defines value. tools to stay ahead of future threats.”
Working hand in hand with NCET
Regarding NCET, the body was set up in October last year and since then has been working with a number of organisations, including the FBI and agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). and others.
At the time of announcing the creation of NCET, Assistant Attorney General Lisa Monaco commented:
“We have already made great strides in the fight against the misuse of cryptocurrency platforms and we have proven it: we will not hesitate to go after those platforms that help criminals legitimize or hide their criminal proceeds. It’s a pretty aggressive landscape full of threats.
- Palantir code the action of coding is to write programming statements for a program. bug allowed FBI to access data of indicted developer Virgil Griffith
- US: FBI recovered part of the ransom payment of USD $4.4 million in Bitcoin the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency in the world. It is a decentralized digital currency that enables users to make trustless peer-to-peer transactions. in Colonial pipeline hacking
- All we know – and the open questions – about the case of the couple arrested for laundering Bitcoin from Bitfinex
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President, Nana Akufo-Addo will soon assent into law the Anti-money Laundering Bill, 2020 following its passage last week Thursday by Parliament.
The law is expected to curb illicit financial inflows, deal with various financial malfeasance as well as enabling Ghana to comply with international best practices once it is fully operational next year.
In effect, people with unexplained wealth, be it in a form of cash, properties among others shall be able to explain the source of their wealth, else they will be charged with money laundering.
An effective money laundering regime is also expected to boost business activities. Indeed, various financial institutions attach great importance to reputation because of brand reputation
“As the market volumes are enormous, brand values are also very high. So they have a lot to lose in a potential disaster. Implementing money laundering regulations can increase brand awareness to enable consumers see the business as safe”.
Companies that have been investigated or fined may not appear trustworthy by customers”, report indicates.
It will be recalled that Ghana and other African countries were blacklisted by the European Union (EU) over money-laundering, putting the country’s financial transactions under greater scrutiny.
Recently, the African Union Commission through the Department of Economic Affairs and various partners including EU), the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ) and GIZ launched a Multi-Donor Action to add to the existing mechanisms to stem the illicit outflows.
This new mechanism was launched during the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration.
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|Developer(s)||Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Foundation|
1.0b4 / May 5, 2010
|License||MPL, GPL, LGPL|
Mozilla Prism (formerly WebRunner) was a project which integrated web applications with the desktop, allowing web applications to be launched from the desktop and configured independently of the default web browser. As of November 2010, Prism is listed as an inactive project at the Mozilla labs website.
Prism is based on a concept called a site-specific browser (SSB). An SSB is designed to work exclusively with one web application. It doesn't have the menus, toolbars and other accoutrements of a traditional web browser.
The preview announcement of Prism was made in October 2007.
On February 1, 2011, Mozilla labs announced it would no longer maintain Prism, its ideas having been subsumed into a newer project called Chromeless. However, the Mozilla Labs mailing list revealed that Chromeless is not in fact a replacement for Prism, and there is currently no Mozilla replacement for the out-of-the-box site-specific browser functionality of Prism, Chromeless instead being a platform for developers rather than users. For a while Prism continued to be maintained under the original name of WebRunner, which then also was discontinued in September 2011.
- "Mozilla Labs - Prism".
- "Mozilla Labs Projects". Mozillalabs.com. 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- "Prism - MDN Docs". Developer.mozilla.org. 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- Douglas Meyer (2008-09-29). "Blog: Brain Dump: Google Gears in Prism". Douglasjmeyer.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- "Mozilla Labs". Labs.mozilla.com. 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- "Prism is Now Chromeless". Mozilla Labs. 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- "Mozilla Labs Google Group". groups.google.com. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- "Discontinuing WebRunner". Salsitasoft.com. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- Official website
- Prism Project at Mozilla Development Center
- Prism extension for Firefox 3.0
- Prism - MozillaWiki
- prism.mozillalabs.com/ via Internet Archive
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The best indoor bonsai are produced from species native to tropical or subtropical regions. Ideally, these trees should be placed outdoors in summer and brought indoors for the rest of the year. Otherwise, they should be kept indoors in a sunny window. In autumn, dormancy is induced by placing them in a cool, brightly lit room.
Proper watering is absolutely crucial. Before watering a plant, touch the surface of the soil with your fingers. If it feels damp, mist the bonsai instead of watering it. If the soil feels dry, add water until it runs out the drainage holes in the bottom of the pot. How frequently you need to water a plant depends on a number of factors, including room temperature, pot size and type of potting mix.
Bonsai need light in order to grow, and this is particularly true of those that bear flowers and fruit. When grown indoors, they should be placed in a south-, east- or west-facing window. The pot should be turned a half turn once a week so that all parts of the tree receive light.
Ideally, all bonsai should be moved outdoors in summer. It is important to acclimatize them, however, so as not to burn their leaves by exposing them to the sun too quickly. For the first few days, it is best to place them in the sun for only a few hours. If it is not feasible to move them outdoors, place them in a window where they will receive fresh air and plenty of sunlight.
Bonsai should be fertilized lightly, once a week, from May to September, at one-quarter to one-half the dosage recommended on the product label. Alter the type of fertilizer you use depending on the season. In spring, apply high-nitrogen fertilizer (28-14-14), in summer, a balanced product (20-20-20) and in fall, a high-potassium mixture (15-15-30). Don't feed a plant when it is dormant or sick. If you keep your bonsai indoors year-round, keep fertilizing until the plant stops growing.
Ambient temperature is very important, particularly from October to April. During this period, tropical bonsai (see Selecting species) require nighttime temperatures from 12°C to 18°C, 20°C to 25°C in daytime. Subtropical bonsai prefer cooler temperatures, 4°C to 10°C at night and 12°C to 16°C during the day. Outdoor bonsai will not survive if kept indoors in a warm room year-round. In winter, they need to be placed in a location where the temperature will remain near freezing.
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This is a collection of pages with protocols and instructions for performing certain tasks in LiceBase. The documentation is structured into several subsections. Documentation is continuously expanded, so keep looking for new pages regularly.
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Patricia Scripko ’05, Jacquie Bachand ’13 and David Scadden ’75, P’11
Dr. David Scadden ’75, P’11 once told The New York Times, “People who take care of cancer patients and also have the research dimension are people who are unsatisfied with how things are but optimistic about how they might be.” He was talking about a colleague, but he might as well have been talking about himself.
Scadden began his medical career intent on being a practicing physician, until his mother was diagnosed with cancer. He was deeply troubled by the limited tools available to help her. He wanted to change “the inevitable death sentence” cancer used to be. And he has. Today he is one of the foremost stem-cell researchers in the world, and his work influences therapies for treating cancer and AIDS patients.
Scadden, who holds a joint appointment at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, is also known for mentoring young doctors and researchers, including many Bucknell graduates and students such as Patricia Scripko ’05 and Jacquie Bachand ’13.
When asked what he looks for when he invites young researchers into his lab, Scadden says, “Grit and energy— people with passions who want to embody those passions. They don’t have to know exactly what they want to do, but they know they are going to commit themselves to it when they figure it out.”
The medical researcher who began his college career as an English major says the seeming trajectory in the lives of others is deceiving. “We can’t see the tremendous complexity of another person’s path, but a great education positions students to test and find and remake the path.”
Envisioning a different future and having the talent, drive and determination to get there is what Bucknell is about. From revolutionizing industries to running global corporations and nonprofits, from creating powerful works of fiction, film and television to students launching dozens of research and service projects that are changing lives for the better—Bucknellians work wonders.
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Globe Theatre Announces 2003 Season
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2003-02-12 19:57
The 2003 Theatre Season for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London will explore
the theme of "Regime Change."
The Globe Theatre in London has announced its 2003 season, which will feature a
theme of "Regime Change," concentrating on the time period between Elizabeth I
and James I. The season will run from May 8 through September 28, 2003. Five
plays will be presented: "Richard II," "Richard III," and the "Taming of the
Shrew" by Shakespeare and "Edward II" and "Dido, Queen of Carthage" by
The new season will also feature a number of innovations including a Women's
Company which will perform "Richard III" and "The Taming of the Shrew." The
Marlowe works will be the first by that playwright to be presented at the Globe,
either in modern times or during Shakespeare's life.
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Water officials are laying out a plan for meeting the growing demands of the Colorado River in the future. The group met yesterday in California. The meeting was prompted by a study out last year. It predicts looming shortages on the River, which supplies water to 40 million people, as well as farmers and ranchers in Western states. Aspen Public Radio’s Marci Krivonen has more.
In December, the Bureau of Reclamation released a study warning drought, climate change and population growth are quickly depleting resources in the Colorado River. The report predicted a grim scenario of rising demands coupled with shrinking supplies in the coming decades.
Jim Pokrandt with the Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River District says Tuesday’s meeting was meant to lay the groundwork for a path forward: "As with any study, does it sit on the shelf and gather dust, and everybody says, ‘atta boy,’ and we move on? Or, does something actually happen? In this case, something may actually happen." The report lays out “next steps” for the seven states that rely on the River. It’s their job to understand what’s working and what’s not, and find solutions. Anne Castle is the U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. She spoke at Tuesday’s meeting in San Diego. She was joined by dozens of stakeholders including representatives for the seven Colorado Basin States and Indian tribal leaders. Castle says the steps forward include a set of committees. "What we’re doing is setting up three different work groups that will look at first, municipal conservation and reuse, second, agricultural conservation and transfers, and the third will look at flows for a healthy environment," she says. The work groups are looking at savings achieved so far through water conservation measures...and, they’ll find out if additional work is needed. Several of the West’s largest water utilities responded to yesterday’s call for action. Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead says cities use a relatively small percentage of Colorado River water, and his organization has already made strides in water efficiency. But, he adds, the conservation work will continue. The work groups are scheduled to finish the first phase of their action plan by the end of 2013, which could be the fourth driest year in the Colorado River basin in the past 100 years. Last year was the fifth driest. | <urn:uuid:fcb7a7a2-ce41-42ed-921b-9252b4eeb9bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/drought-plagues-colorado-river-basin-water-officials-look-answers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00493-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96143 | 494 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Learn how to take care of your gate by checking out the following gate repair tips. Take a few moments to see what you can do to avoid accidents, keep all gate parts in good condition and choose the right new gates. They are written simply and are helpful to anyone who owns a gate
Keep gates free of debris
Cleaning the driveway gate track might be a very frustrating task especially if you live in windy areas. By the time you finish sweeping it, the wind will quickly blow new debris onto your track again. Still, you must never stop taking care of the track. The gate's movement can easily be obstructed by too much debris and leaves. It's also important to keep the opener's control box free of dirt and insects – otherwise, as our specialists explain, you might have trouble with the circuit.
Learn more about gates before getting a new one
Gathering lots of information before investing in a new gate is extremely important. Getting the first cost effective gate you'll find is wrong. It might not be suitable for your house. Consider the local weather conditions, how often you use the gate, the size of your car and what the limits of your property are in terms of size before you get a new gate, clicker, and operator. | <urn:uuid:150f54de-b2c9-472a-95a0-f57dbd5c2e5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.automaticgaterepairbrea.com/tips | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.960546 | 256 | 1.53125 | 2 |
If you need to get certain information that is contained in Montour County, Pennsylvania public records, you can easily get most of what you need without any hassle at all. This was not always the case, and in the past, county records were not available to anyone except for government employees. Now, that has all changed, thanks to the Right to Know law, which was enacted on February 14, 2008 in the State of Pennsylvania. This law makes it so that anyone from the general public can have access to most records, and that the information contained in these records is basically “public knowledge”.
What You Can and Cannot Access
Most of the information contained in Montour County public records is accessible to the general public. If you are looking for marriage records, birth records, death records, and even criminal records, you are allowed to access all of this information for your own use. There is information that you will not be able to access, for obvious reasons. One thing you cannot access is a person's identification number, such as their social security number. There are just way too many cases of identity theft these days to allow this information to be available to the public.
There is other information that will not be available to the general public besides identification numbers. For instance, you will not be able to get addresses or telephone numbers of public officials, judges, or members of law enforcement agencies, for obvious safety reasons. After all, even though these are people whose job it is to uphold the law, there are many people who feel that they have been wronged, and are looking to take their revenge. If they are armed with this type of information, it could end up becoming quite a dangerous situation.
Accessing Public Records
It is really easy to access Montour County public records when you know what you are doing. The easiest way to find out how to access public records is by going online and doing a search. You will find that there are a number of good websites that are devoted to helping people access these public records, and they include links to the websites where public records are found. If you need to get information that may be in Montour County public records, you can request it through the websites, and you will get the information you are seeking. If you are denied access to information that is supposed to be accessible, you can take your case to court. | <urn:uuid:4ad2a8ce-62ed-481e-8a0c-54cdeaba8207> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://recordsproject.com/county/pennsylvania/montour.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00082-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968011 | 483 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true.
What is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected---instantly---in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called it "spooky" and thought that it would lead to the downfall of quantum theory. Yet scientists have since discovered that quantum entanglement, the "God Effect," was one of Einstein's few---and perhaps one of his greatest---mistakes.
What does it mean? The possibilities offered by a fuller understanding of the nature of entanglement read like something out of science fiction: communications devices that could span the stars, codes that cannot be broken, computers that dwarf today's machines in speed and power, teleportation, and more.
In The God Effect, veteran science writer Brian Clegg has written an exceptionally readable and fascinating (and equation-free) account of entanglement, its history, and its application. Fans of Brian Greene and Amir Aczel and those interested in the marvelous possibilities coming down the quantum road will find much to marvel, illuminate, and delight.
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Numbers, feedback, trends and other statistics coming from several areas which lie within and outside an organisation are factored so deeply in User Experience (UX) that they make their gathering, evaluation and the setting of action points an intricate science in and of itself. Indeed, the depth that is involved in the field of User Experience and its growing prevalence that spans through a wide range of industries can make it a daunting task to even decide which statistics are worth gathering and analyzing let alone how to analyse them and decide on what corrective measures to take based on their analysis.
The difficulty lies not only in the ability to cull the important statistics from the more superfluous ones but also on deciding how much is necessary. This is the headache that User Experience experts, and those in other related fields, must contend with on a regular basis. And to make it even worse, there are no set of rules that specifically state which statistics you need to pay attention to. We can depend upon nothing but the learned experience and wisdom of User Experience professionals who have seen enough success and failure in their careers to know what they are talking about.
What pearls of wisdom have these sages to impart, then? What statistics have they time and again seen to matter the most?
Frequently, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) seems to be one of the biggest source of statistics that contains useful values which are closely related to User Experience. More specifically, CRM is composed of at least three statistics – all of which are important for User Experience. This makes Customer Relationship Management the primary factor to watch. The three factors that comprise CRM are the:
- 1. Rate of Questions Asked
- 2. Rate of Problems Reported
- 3. Overall Resolution of the Above Two
Outside of the Customer Relationship Management set, there are three more key User Experience statistics to consider:
- 4. Net Gain of Customers
- 5. Churn Rate
- 6. Overhead
Let us discuss each in more detail:
1. Rate of questions asked
Your service may be failing in usability if many confused customers seem to be contact you to request clarification of aspects you thought were obvious during the design phase. This means that the user experience of the product or service may need to be refined so as to reduce its complexity. At times, it is the perceived complexity that needs to be tackled, that is, the complexity as seen by users before actually experiencing the product. This will involve a revision of the way that product is presented. At the very least, instructions may need to be re-evaluated or implementation of a self-service solution for users, should be assessed.
2. Rate of complaints
No process is infallible nor perfect, and as such, a defective product or a glitch in a service is expected. The more rare this is, the better. If this is becoming a frequent concern, the factor to watch out for is how often the same problems are being reported. This is an issue to then pass on to User Experience design and Marketing teams.
3. Rate of resolution
It is important that problems are resolved and questions are answered. However, if the problems and questions have yet to be addressed on a User Experience design level after observation, then resolutions are not always yet possible. As previously noted, the methodologies behind Customer Relationship Management do bear some factors that consider user experience as well. For instance, long hold times, complicated phone calls, or slow and inefficient help desk systems, cause negative effects on overall user experience.
4. Net gain of customers
If the rate of increase of consumer base declines over time, then there is likely a fault in the user experience in one of two ways. First, the fading of novelty begins to reveal some faults in the product or service, which becomes more visible. After the initial “wow” factor of the product is gone, its flaws become far more visible. It is inevitable, but a solid user experience can overcome these.
The other problem with user experience that may have this symptom involves a competing service or product that has a better UX design. This can unfortunately, call the attention of the customer base away from you. So as to determine which of these is the case, first it is best to look at the CRM set of factors. If these don’t suggest it is a flaw in the experience, then it is best to take a look at the gains of competitors and what they do differently. This can be a useful starting point for more in-depth analysis.
5. Churn Rate
A prevalent software-as-a-service term, churn rate involves the loss of existing customer base over time. Like reduced gain of new customers, it is likely a symptom of one of the two previously mentioned factors. In order to alleviate churn, a similar strategy should be employed to find the root of the problem.
Overhead occurs in any business and is composed of all the expenses incurred in rendering the service or product. This includes everything from facilities, resources, manufacturing/maintenance, employee wages and so on. If an overhead seems to be far heavier than it should be, there is likely to be something that is aimed at facilitating user experience that is causing it. This requires re-assessment of this overhead so as to check whether it really contributes to improving UX or, if it is actually contributing in a proportional ratio to its cost. Very often you will find that it is the proverbial “biting off more than one can chew”, and being overly ambitious in how a user experience is working.
To determine where fat may be trimmed, listen to users and find out what features or functionality they find unnecessary on average. Eliminating these features may lose a small percentage of customers that appreciate them. It will, however, allow you to focus and invest more in those factors that are really contributing in improving user experience. Be sure to factor it in before measuring customer gain or your industry’s equivalent of churn rates, as it will offset the parameters of this to some level.
While further statistics do bear some importance in times of less turmoil, these factors directly bear on the status of an existing user experience. The above statistics have proven time and again, backed by the teachings of many seasoned UX professionals, to be the most important to watch. Keeping a sharp eye on these factors will surely help maintain a positive user experience, if some discretion is included.
Want to learn more?
If you’re interested in the managerial and strategic aspects of UX, then consider to take the online course on UX Management and Strategy. If, on the other hand, you want to brush up on the basics of UX and Usability, then consider to take the online course on User Experience (or another design topic). Good luck on your learning journey!
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I was recently visiting Nancy Kelly Allen’s blog and found some excellent advice on critiquing a manuscript. I must admit however, I was drawn to Nancy’s advice on the main character.
Is the main character active in carrying the plot forward? The main character should be responsible for solving the problem or reaching the goal. Uncle Hamm or an older brother should not step in and save the character that is experiencing the trouble.
This advice I have heard before. I don’t recall which blog I read it on but the author explained that the problem with book 6 or the Harry Potter series was that Harry was spending all of his time trying to win a sporting trophy rather than trying to solve any of his problems. In point of fact, Dumbledore deliberately kept Harry in the dark about what most of those problems were which meant that the reader was cheated out of a possibly more interesting story than the one we were delivered.
The fact that I’ve heard this advice before didn’t stop me from sitting and going ‘oh’. Mostly because it is one of thousands of things that when you think about it should be obvious but sometimes when you are looking at a draft completely eludes you until someone else points it out. It helps to be reminded, often, and it is a really important point.
Linking back to Harry Potter, one of my biggest problems with the series was that Harry was given the starring role in the first book but was almost the least interesting character in it. Hermione solved most of the problems while Ron randomly ran into things that may have helped and occasionally Harry would do something pretty stupid that turned out to be good. Harsh, but at the time that was how I saw it. The second book in the series was even worse as far as establishing Harry as the hero. Even in a coma Hermione was more useful than Harry turned out to be. She gave him the vital clue that made everything in the conclusion possible.
I actually do like the Harry Potter books and I’m not pulling them to pieces, just the main character who was always a little underwhelming to me.
Thanks Nancy for reminding us of this excellent advice.
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The critical problem with the military's scenario planning is that it implicitly assumes an economy strong enough to support the current rate of technological progression and the consequent influences on the Canadian Forces. If you click through some of the links here, or even just consider the generational advances in oh, say fighter aircraft in the past 50 years (the F-35 we are told is 5th generation, the CF-188 fourth, and so on back to 1st generation Sabres and such), you'll note the hegemonic assumption of infinite linear technological progress that underpins so much of civilian modernity. We assume the that in a few months there'll be a newer, more powerful personal computers, flashier smartphones, more efficient cars, etc. The military likewise assumes more hi-tech kit.
However, if you, or the military for that matter, actually looks at what the implications of oil depletion and climate shifts imply for the that sort of technological progress mean for us and them, then we start to see a different picture.
Oil prices and climate change will collapse economies, and that means aside from massive social disruption, the end of the economy that supports the military-industrial complex which permits the continuing development of incredibly expensive and complex weapons and other martial systems. It also means the ability fuel, repair, and maintain existing systems will be under severe strain as subcontractors and suppliers go bankrupt. It may even have an effect on the morale of military personnel who are, like the rest of us, accustomed to high wages and flashy toys. A government attempting navigate climate and oil crises induced economic and social disruption may not have the revenue base to support feeding, arming, and paying the military at rates they've grown accustomed to, let alone deploy them overseas. The idea that Canada might have the economic and public support to meaningfully commit the CF in an international crisis might be as fictional as the Zefra scenario they came up with.
Further, if one looks at the past few years of CF deployment, one can see a distinction between optional deployments and necessary deployments. The optional deployments have been the overseas interventions. Afghanistan, Haiti, etc, while politically expedient, posed no direct challenge to Canada and thus, frankly, did not objectively require Canadian participation. The necessary deployments are those more in keeping with the Canadian Forces primary mission of defending Canada.
Excluding the Arctic sovereignty exercises and routine intercepts of Russian bombers, virtually all of these type of operations have been tactical responses to extreme environmental events of the sort expected of climate change. In the late 1990s we saw troops deployed for Manitoba flood relief. We had the largest mobilisation of the CF since Korea or WW2 in the 1998 Ice Storm in Ontario and Quebec, involving 15 000 regular and reserve troops (I was one of them). There have been forest fires. And this year again there was military flood relief in two provinces. Thus, the defining role of the armed forces in coming years might well be in these sort of operations, termed "aid to the civil power": multiple concurrent natural disaster relief efforts across the country involving anywhere from several hundred to more than ten thousand troops. While they may not be regular rotational operations like UN peace support or the current war in South Asia, they will require significant and random very short notice logistics support.
On the security side, the North American strategic situation bears consideration. If the US were any other country, the boffins might be assessing it in something like the following terms.
Canada borders a militarily and economically superior state entering social and economic crisis. The political environment is paralysed, with the two major parties increasingly unable to reconcile their ideological differences enough to effectively resolve growing socio-economic disparities. Climate change too has become an ideologically divisive issue. Recently, several very right-wing populist-nationalist candidates have emerged as credible presidential contenders. Resource rich Canada presently maintains friendly ties with this country, and is economically dependent on its markets. However, if instability continues and the political environment fails to thaw, the nature of this relationship may change to Canada's detriment.
As a footnote to this last comment, Canadian politics and business includes influential players who appear ideologically beholden to the United States and are actively seeking to deepen Canadian economic and military integration with the US despite the latter's increasing instability. There exists potential for the emergence Canadian nationalist groups that resist integration efforts with violence. Violent resistance groups are not unknown in the Canadian context as similar activity has occurred subnationally in the past with Quebec and Aboriginal armed resistance to federal policies. The nationalist traditions and culture of the Canadian Forces means that these groups could attract membership with military experience. Moreover, depending on the policy approach adopted by Canadian politicians, serious issues may emerge within the CF membership.
In sum then, Canada's armed forces in 2040 may find itself in circumstances very different to the ones envisioned by contemporary planners. The global digital army of the future might well remain in the text and images of commissioned science-fiction and PowerPoint slides. Instead, we might find ourselves with an armed forces that must accommodate acute shortages of materiel, a less than stable and possibly hostile southern border, as well as providing aid where possible to victims of frequent domestic floods, fires, and droughts. | <urn:uuid:500ce946-525c-4fa5-9ddd-6d9d8ed22885> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2011/07/army-2040-in-other-universe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948694 | 1,052 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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