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JACKSON – A national movement to promote economic development, designed to grow black businesses and change the economic landscape of urban communities will kick off in Jackson, Mississippi on April 1, featuring a keynote speech by Oscar Joyner, entrepreneur and media executive.
The Partnership for Economic Development (PED) program will be held from 8:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1 at the Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University, 1230 Raymond Road.
Joyner, president of Reach Media Inc. and Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated, “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” will join a group of leaders from all segments of the community, including local businesses, churches, community and civic groups, fraternities, sororities and local and state elected officials.
“We need to wake up this city – and this nation,” said James Covington, author, entrepreneur, and creator of The Partnership for Economic Development. “I’m sick and tired of us waiting around for help when we need to step up and help ourselves. We need to invest in our communities to create new businesses, which, in turn, will create new jobs and transform our communities.”
Participants in the April event will have a chance to become founding partners of the Partnership For Economic Development, which is a national collaboration of African-American organizations and economic engines, including governmental entities, colleges and universities, faith-based institutions, businesses, and non-profits working to stimulate economic development in the African-American community.
PED is designed to complement WhereToTo411.com, an economic development tool that connects black businesses to local and national buyers. WhereToGo411.com was launched by Covington and Kathy Y. Times, an Emmy award-winning journalist and past president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Mississippi’s public universities are among buyers using the online interactive marketplace to reach black businesses. | <urn:uuid:818cfa76-c915-47f1-b907-de571da1e5f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://blackamericaweb.com/2014/03/27/national-movement-to-promote-economic-development-black-businesses-kicks-off-on-april-1st/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941127 | 406 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Barack Obama’s hot date for Valentine’s Day this year was none other than Xi Jinping, the man set to take over as president of China at the end of this year. The White House celebrated his visit with a level of razzamatazz not usually accorded to anyone short of the rank of head of state, or so we read.
The warm welcome should surprise no-one. Much the embarrassment of the free market right and a sizeable chunk of leftist opinion alike, the alliance between US-based multinational capital and Chinese Stalinism constitutes the most important bilateral economic relationship in the world today.
Anyone seeking a contemporary illustration of the notion of a dialectical unity of opposites need look no further; the one model would simply cease to function without the other.
Whatever the antagonisms between Washington and Beijing – and they are ample points of contention in Asia-Pacific international relations – the two sides share a common interest in the super-exploitation of the Chinese working class.
Even as the 19-gun salute was taking place in Washington, technology giant Apple finally announced that it would allow independent inspections of the Chinese factories turning out the gizmos that have made it the most valuable company on the planet.
Months before he died last year, Apple boss Steve Jobs denied that the iPod and iPhone plants operated by its contractor Foxconn could properly be described as sweatshops.
One awaits the findings of the inspectors, of course. But I do note that some Foxconn workers are paid as little as 30p an hour, with only one permitted break per ten hour shift. Since 2009, at least 18 employees have killed themselves.
Numerous health and safety incidents have seen a further four die, and hundreds more injured. Meanwhile, many of Foxconn’s 70,000 workers live in company dormitories, with up to 20 crammed into three-room apartments.
The free market right doesn’t have a problem with this. However brutal such conditions look to us, they must be a step forward for those who flock in from the countryside take up such employment, right? Bad jobs are better than no jobs.
Meanwhile, progressive opinion is split between those who demand protectionist measures and those taken in by the rhetoric of ‘building socialism with Chinese characteristics’.
While the description of what goes on at Foxconn might remind many of the grim descriptions of 1840s Lancashire textile mills contained in volume one of capital, this is somehow excusable because a party calling itself communist is running the show.
The net result is that demands for free trade unionism, freedom of expression and assembly and multiparty democracy the sole preserve of a handful of brave Chinese dissidents and a smallish consistent minority of the western left. They deserve a far wider hearing. | <urn:uuid:27b24973-1be9-4dc4-bd72-2efdb120fba2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.leftfutures.org/2012/02/foxconn-right-and-left-should-stop-apologising-for-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951789 | 570 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Identifying Stuttering using Deep learning
Vedant Tibrewal1, Mohammed Mobasserul Haque2, Aman Pandey3, Manimozhi M4
1Vedant Tibrewal Student of Vellore Institute of Technology, 3rd-year Electronics and Communication Engineering
2Mohammed Mobasserul Haque Student of Vellore Institute of Technology, 3rd-year Electronics and Communication Engineering
3Aman Pandey Student of Vellore Institute of Technology, 3rd-year Electronics and Communication Engineering
4M. Manimozhi, Associate Professor in the department of Control and Automation, VIT University.
Manuscript received on 20 August 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 07 September 2019. | Manuscript published on 30 September 2019. | PP: 1152-1154 | Volume-8 Issue-11, September 2019. | Retrieval Number: J90770881019/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.J9077.0981119
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Abstract: Stuttering is a prevalent neurodevelopmental speech disorder, wherein people suffer from disfluencies in speech production. Speech disorders such as stuttering affect a variety of other communication problems such as hearing and fluency. Common therapies of stuttering involve strategies to minimize stuttering but do not attempt to eliminate stuttering, Researchers have analyzed the root cause of stuttering tends to be neurological roots. Therefore, there needs to be a more generic therapy technique which is more adaptive. This paper proposes a deep learning and neural network-based algorithm for adaptive neurological stuttering by utilizing the potential of mirror neurons.
Keywords: ANN, Audio Feedback, MFCC, Signal Processing,, Stuttered speech diagnostics,
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Global Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Curriculum
The Global MS in Finance is a 30-credit curriculum.
A variety of learning methods are employed throughout the program. Case studies, computer simulations of challenging, competitive business situations, problem-solving discussions, team presentations, individual study, lectures, visual presentations, guest speakers, and assigned readings are regularly used. Students also complete research and analytical studies to develop strategic thinking abilities.
Finance Boot Camp:
Students start the program with a boot camp course. The boot camp designed to provide students with a refresher in quantitative methods, Finance, Accounting and Economics. The boot camp curriculum will cover materials from FIN 6406, ACG 6027 and ECP 6705. The boot camp is required and a passing grade is required for each of the modules below.
The boot camp course is offered at no additional cost and is included in the program’s tuition.
- Financial Accounting Concepts
- Principles applicable to the accounting cycle, financial reporting and basic business taxes
- Economics and Finance
- Micro-economic theories of supply, demand, and the price system; firm and industry organization: Market Forces of Supply and Demand, The Firm and Industry Organization
- Time value of money
- Introduction to financial management concepts; basic financial instruments
- Quantitative Methods
- Basic Algebra, Business Calculus, Basic statistics
- Tools and applications of financial analysis and forecasting.
- Basics of Financial Modeling in Excel (e.g., Solver. etc.)
Global MSF Course List:
Course 1: Financial Statement Analysis (3 credits)
The emphasis of this course is placed on the analysis, interpretation, and reporting of financial accounting data. The use of Bloomberg and other databases will be part of the curriculum.
Course 2: Communication Strategies for Business Professionals (3 credits)
This course links communication skills required in the field of finance to the research and critical thinking skills necessary for a finance professional’s success.
Course 3: Theory of Financial Management (3 credits)
An in-depth study of corporate finance theories related to corporate investment policies, capital structure, cash distribution policies and similar topics. Practical ramification of the theories is examined.
Course 4: Financial Markets (3 credits)
A study of macroeconomic factors affecting interest rates and prices in the money, savings, and capital markets. Attention is given to the institutions in these markets and interrelations among the institutions.
Course 5: Security Analysis (3 credits)
Emphasis on the characteristics of financial assets and on major valuation models to determine intrinsic value. This course focuses on equity and fixed income instruments.
Course 6: Quantitative Methods in Finance (3 credits)
Introduces financial applications of quantitative techniques covered in areas such as probability, Probability Distributions and Descriptive Statistics, Sampling and Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Correlation Analysis and Regression, Optimization, Time-Series Analysis and Simulation Analysis. The course requires a project using statistical software.
Course 7: Financial Modeling (3 credits)
Financial modeling using spreadsheets to conduct financial analysis for managerial decision making; special attention will be given to models in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital, etc. This is a hands-on course that will use the FAU Trading Room and Bloomberg and other databases.
Course 8: Financial Risk Management and Derivatives (3 credits)
This course focuses on financial risk. It deals with its measurement, the derivative instruments used to trade it and the techniques used to manage it. Derivative instruments examined include options, forwards, futures, swaps, and other related derivative instruments.
Course 9: Multinational Finance (3 credits)
Financial management for international companies. Sources of funds, capital structure, investment strategies, monetary exchange problems and governmental constraints on firms operating in more than one nation are discussed.
Course 10: Portfolio Management (3 credits)
An in-depth examination of the selection, construction, and management of portfolios, typically including stocks, bonds and cash, for individuals and/or institutional investors. It also includes portfolio performance measurement and evaluation. | <urn:uuid:a28e100b-7753-4ade-ae3d-1624bde2d900> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://business.fau.edu/masters-phd/finance/curriculum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.878279 | 851 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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White ink tattoos are the most innovative form of tattoo art, which as the name suggests, are inked using UV white ink, which is scarcely visible. These tattoos become visible only when seen in natural sun light. Such tattoos are preferred by fair skinned people, though even those with darker skin tones have also started having them done these days. White ink tattoos are popular in both men and women. The best thing about these tattoos is their subtle nature, making them expressive without being too loud. However, the thing to take care while going for white ink tattoos is to have them done by an expert artist as a badly done tattoo can look really unsightly. Also, the margin of error is minimum, as a small mistake can lead to skin damage, with the ink penetrating into the skin. Sometimes, these tattoos can look like a rash, while they may also fade in some cases. The quality and durability of a white ink tattoo depends, to a large extent, on the quality if ink used as well as the expertise of the tattoo artist. Despite its weak points, this form of tattoo continues to be popular because of its unique look and styling.
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Things You Must Know About White Ink Tattoos
White ink tattoos are preferred by many tattoo lovers who look for an alternative to traditional black or colored tattoos. They can feature geometric patterns like tribal designs and lace, and at the same time look good on more intricate and feminine designs like flowers and butterflies, which makes them very versatile. Also, they look absolutely different than the conventional black and colored tattoos, as they can glow in dark, giving it an altogether new dimension. White ink tattoos can be embellished by making use of black shadings, teamed with vibrant colors for creating an innovative tattoo design. These tattoos are made using a special kind of white paint or ink, which has the ability to glow in the dark. The special feature of this kind of tattoo is that it looks like a scar embossed on the skin of the bearer. The ink is injected under the skin layer and the paler the skin color, the better the effect of the tattoo. This kind of ink needs to be handled with extra care as it is comparatively thicker than the regular black ink, which is why only an expert artist can be trusted for doing a white ink tattoo.
Additionally, one must be careful that the tattooed area is not exposed to direct sunlight for prolonged periods of time as it can lead to fading of the tattoo. Moreover, white ink can react adversely with some skin types, which causes a safety issue for white ink tattoos. Also, white ink tattoos take longer to heal and the skin to get back to its normal texture. The bearer has to take extra precautions in case of this kind of tattoo. Regular application of anesthetic gel may be helpful in case of skin reaction, while one should avoid using cosmetic over the tattooed area altogether.
Choosing A Right White Ink Tattoo Design
As said before, white ink tattoos are delicate as compared with the conventional tattoo and their designs must be chosen with care. The first and foremost thing to keep in mind while choosing a white ink tattoo is to learn about the expertise of the artist who is going to do it for you. Only an expert can give you the right advice regarding having a bit of color added to the white ink, so that the tattoo looks embossed on the skin rather than like a scar. The artist may make use of pale pink, yellow, mauve, ivory or a very light shade of blue, along with the white ink so that the color of the tattoo gels with your skin tone to perfection. A well chosen white ink tattoo design looks like an embellishment for your skin, beautifying it in a very subtle and charming way. The lace like pattern or self design on the skin can be really eye catching and attractive. The job has to be done with great diligence due to the detail and intricacy of the white ink tattoo pattern. For this reason, it can be quite painful to undergo the whole process, which is very time consuming. A lot of research for selecting the tattoo can help you get a design, which is worth the time, money and pain involved in having the tattoo done.
Popularity & Placement of White Ink Tattoos
The popular designs of white ink tattoos are featured on the fingers, wrist, ankles, back, shoulder, arms, thighs, legs and side. They look better on lighter skin color, which is the reason why dark skinned or tanned people are seldom seen with white ink tattoos. The most popular white ink tattoo design is the intricate lace design, which gives a beautiful, embossed look to the skin of the bearer. One can also have several other patterns done in this kind of tattoo, which includes flowers, birds, butterflies, arrows, stars, cross and hearts, to mention just a few. Words, phrases, names and quotes can also be done in white ink tattoos, but they are not as prominent as image designs.
White ink tattoos may be the most attractive form of tattoos, but they are also the most delicate ones. In case you plan to get a white ink tattoo, it is essential to check the credentials as well as work experience of your tattoo artist, because safety should not be compromised at any cost in case of white ink tattoos. Tattoo industry has made several trade regulations in this regard, but it is better to be safe than sorry, as many inadvertent people are still operating in the industry. Such people are bothered little about the safety of the clients and may trap them by making false claims. Therefore, one must go through the profiles of the artists and also make reference check on them before finally hiring them for getting white ink tattoos. | <urn:uuid:31b3f8de-8b0f-454f-aac0-976910a2363a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fabulousdesign.net/white-ink-tattoos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962417 | 1,167 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In celebration of warmer weather, Easter, sump pumps, daffodils, chicks, lambs and everything else wonderful about spring: we're going to put on a concert. We're going to play some banjo music. Yes, us. Any one of you out there that wants to be playing tunes on your porch by the solstice (and you will if you stick with us) can. No experience with instruments needed. I don't care if you never read a sheet of music in your life. We are learning the mountain way to play banjo: which is by ear and tune. And not any of that newfangled bluegrass: but OLD TIME banjo!
Yes darling, Old Time! The banjo music that grew out of the soil of the south. The songs from older Appalachia. The banjo tunes people played at Civil War camps and trapper rendezvous. We're all going to start with our first lesson on the Spring Equinox, right here. On this blog we'll start with the parts of the banjo, the history, and how to get her into tune. We'll cover the basic clawhammer strum, and I'll add my own videos of learning along with Julie Dugan: Grand Banjo Frailer of Cambridge, New York. It'll be fun and easy. You just need to promise to practice with us everyday.
You don't need a banjo to join us yet, but if you want to learn, you'll need to get one soon. You can borrow, buy, or beg for one. I can't say enough good things about Banjohut.com. (They aren't sponsors, so I'm not getting any sort of cash for endorsing them. I just really like them.) They hail from Knoxville, Tennessee and sell affordable banjo starter kits for beginners at affordable prices (under 200 shell cards) and the best part: they come all set up. You don't get a box with strings that need to be attached and tuned. They also come with electronic tuners, and many kits come with the book we'll be using to learn. It's called "Clawhammer Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus" by Wayne Erbsen. This course is 100% FREE. Enjoy it! Share it with friends and family who might want to join. If you can't do it in real time, that's okay, you can always catch up later.
Robert Webb won the CAF Bean Blossom Hobo package giveaway. It's a fine beginner banjo, and if you can swing it, get one or one like it. I play the Morgan Monroe Scoop Neck. You can play any 5-string banjo you can think of, resonator backs are okay too if that's what you got. We aint fancy.
So here's what you need to join up, son:
A 5-string Banjo (open back preferred)
An electric tuner (guitar tuners are cheap and work great)
Wayne Erbsen's Book listed above
Practice time of minimum 15 minutes, twice a day.
Additional Goodies and inspiration to check out!
Songcatcher (movie!) about old-time music
Banjo Camp! by Gene Senyak (amazing beginner book!)
The How and Tao of Old Time Banjo by Patrick Costello
Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch - DVD- Dan Leverson
Homework before starting: Order Erbsen's Book, read pages 1-22 with CD to listen to as you go. Get a banjo and tuner too. Check back on the Equinox to see our first group lesson: holding, tuning, frailing 101.
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1.1 This test method covers the measurement of the skid resistance of a pavement or other trafficked surface using the continuous reading, fixed-slip technique.
1.2 This test method covers braked wheel measurements obtained with less than 100 % slip. It does not cover side force measurements.
1.3 This test method provides a record of the skid resistance along the whole length of one track of the test surface and enables averages to be obtained for specified test segments.
1.4 This test method is used to measure skid resistance on a wide variety of surfaces in a wide variety of circumstances. Consequently, there are many different designs of continuous reading, fixed-slip measuring equipment (CFME) and as many different test procedures governing their use.
1.5 This test method does not attempt to detail these different equipments and procedures but does set out the essential common principles.
1.6 CFMEs function by creating and measuring a frictional force between a test tire operating at a selected slip and the test surface. Different types of CFME do not necessarily create the same frictional force between their particular test tire and a common test surface and do not necessarily use the same method to measure this frictional force.
1.7 CFME measurements are obtained at a selected steady test speed. This speed may vary according to the application.
1.8 The test surface may be contaminated or clean and dry. If it is clean and dry, a measured amount of water is normally deposited on the surface just in front of the test wheel.
1.9 The measuring apparatus may be built into a vehicle, built into a trailer that is towed by a vehicle, or built into a device that is manually pushed.
1.10 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each system shall be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in non-conformance with the standard.
1.11 This standard may involve hazardous materials, operations, and equipment. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Safety precautionary information is contained in Section .
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Pollutants are emitted into the air every minute of the day and can be detrimental to our health.
A chemistry forum on “Chemical Approaches to Air Pollution Mitigation” took place Nov. 19 at Hale ‘Imiloa and featured speaker Godwin Severa, who has a doctorate in chemistry and a masters in business administration. Severa is also an assistant researcher at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute at the UH-Mānoa.
The forum was co-sponsored by WCC and the American Chemical Society-Hawai‘i Section.
“Primary pollutants are really pollutants that are emitted from the source so those are the ones that are, for example, emitted from industrial plants into the air or from your automobile into the air whereas secondary pollutants are a result from reactions that involve primary pollutants,” Severa said.
Primary pollutants include gases like nitrogen oxides, nitrogen dioxides, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, as well as flue gas, which comes out of the tailpipes of industrial plants. These gases can cause health problems like serious lung complications and even death if high concentrations are inhaled.
Acid rain, which is formed by sulfuric and nitric acid, is an air pollutant that Severa said endangers marine life. When acid rain comes in contact with water, it is known to cause fish to die as it affects their respiration.
Severa said that some air pollution comes from natural sources like the vog from volcanic emissions. Mitigation for this type of pollution is limited. But we can do something about the air pollution that originates from anthropogenic activities like the use of pesticides.
“For agriculture, you could grow organic crops so you’re not using any pesticides,” Severa said. “For industrial plants, you can try to find efficient ways to clean out those bad gases before those flue gases emit into the atmosphere. For automobiles, it’s really efficient filtration of the gases or better engines.”
Severa said that “there are a lot of original materials that are under study so the future is still bright especially with students like you. You can take it to the next step …”
Other chemistry forums are scheduled at WCC throughout the year and are usually open to all students. For more information, contact Leticia Colmenares at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The numbers in the back of the 2004 Budget documents project that the budget year that began when Clinton was still President will be America’s last surplus year, ever. The policies proposed in the 2004 Budget are projected to see the deficit widen steadily to 17.5 percent of GDP by 2050. By that date debt held by the public is projected to be 229.4 percent of GDP–a debt and deficit level that no economy could possibly sustain.
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Chapter 37: Hospital accreditation and medical tourism
AbstractHospital accreditation began almost 100 years ago as an assessment scheme for surgical training in the USA. It developed as a broader, professionally driven institutional assessment and improvement system and is now established in more than 50 countries. Since the turn of the century several international programmes have become available across national borders. Most accreditation programmes assess compliance with published standards across an entire hospital, but some offer certification of specific services. ISO certification commonly uses standard 9004 to assess quality management systems (not specific to healthcare), or 15189 which is specific to medical laboratories. DNV accreditation is based on ISO 9004 adapted to the healthcare setting. Several countries have regulatory systems for compliance with mandatory national standards which are comparable to voluntary accreditation programmes. The value to medical tourism of accreditation and similar external assessment systems lies in reliable independent verification of a hospital’s compliance with validated organisational standards. The criteria, procedures and level of detail in published findings vary between programmes, but are more consistent within programmes which are themselves accredited by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, ISQua.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar has died
November 16, 1902
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar died early this morning at his home on Portland Place, in London, reports the New York Times. He was 79 years old.
He suffered from an attack by appendicitis several days ago and "succumbed to congestion of the kidneys," which further compromised the Prince's frail health.
Prince Edward was born at Bushy Park, 1823 on October 11, 1823., and had lived "nearly all of his life in England, and "served with distinction in the British Army. During his life, he served as a Privy Councilor, a Field Marshall, Colonel of the First Life Guards, and he also received numerous British decorations.
He was the eldest son of Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, daughter of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
Prince Edward and his family maintained a close relationship with members of the British royal family. Princess Ida was the sister of Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.
In 1851, Prince Edward married Lady Augusta Catherine Gordon-Lennox, the daughter of the 5th Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Although the marriage was considered morganatic, according to the Saxe-Weimar house laws, Queen Victoria granted Lady Augusta the title of Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar in England in 1886. In Germany, Augusta was known as the Countess of Dornburg, which was created for her by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar on the day before her wedding.
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Some people when they visit a new community look for the typical "touristy" kinds of things. Others wonder if there´s a casino nearby. I study the local ads.
This week I´ve traveled through four major southern cities. As you might expect, I have some advertising observations to share.Example Number One:
Earlier this week I dropped in to visit a radio station because I´m a friend of the program director and morning disc jockey.
While we were catching up, he played an ad for me that had a strong character espousing the client. The character was hammering away the copy points in a way that was nearly impossible to ignore.
The client wants it re-done with a "regular announcer."
I told him that it was too bad that the client was intent on making the ad less attention getting and less memorable.
When clients insist on making an ad sound like or look like an ad (ie. "professional") they are effectively insisting that their ad be just like all the others.
Estimates are that Americans ignore nearly 3,500 advertising impressions a day. Shouldn´t we be working to make our ads less like everyone elses?
And please note that I´m not suggesting being different for the sake of difference. As the great jazz bassist and composer Charlie Mingus said "Anybody can play weird; that´s easy. What´s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that´s creativity."
Example Number Two:
Ads that have attorneys screaming, "I´ll FIGHT for YOU. I´ll get you the money you deserve for your pain and suffering." are probably running in most markets across the country. Does the same guy produce them all? They all appear to have the same script.
This is transactional marketing taken to an extreme.
Sobering thought: these ads must be producing results for the lawyers to keep running them in prime time.
Example Number Three:
You can´t build a positive image by piggybacking on someone else´s slogan. In a single community over the last thirty days I´ve witnessed "Got Insurance?" "Got Real Estate?" "Got Teeth?"
Honestly, what do you think of these variations on "Got Milk?"
Are you driven to do business with them?
Do you get the feeling that these various businesses are able to solve your problems?
Or do you suspect that they have nothing to offer, and are trying to cash in on someone else´s notoriety?
Example Number Four:
Why do the graphic artists who compose yellow pages ads insist on putting the client´s logo as the headline? I have the Memphis Bell South yellow pages open in front of me as I write this. I´m looking under landscaping.
Here are the headlines.
Bob Hollandsworth Landscape
Complete Lawn & Landscaping Service
Designscapes By D
Growth Spurts Landscape And Irrigation
Landscape Creations, Inc.
Tee Time Landscape
Total Yards Landscaping
Yes, I’m aware that these are the names of the businesses. That’s the point.
It appears each of these companies is proud of their name. Unfortunately, as a shopper, I want to know what they can do for me. I´ll fix "em for making me do all the work. I´ll ignore "em.
Now, among all of these easily-forgettable ads are two that hint at the ability to help me.
When Skies Are Blue, We Rain — Blue Skies Irrigation
From Concept To Completion, Your One-Source Solution For A Beautiful Landscape — Pugh´s Landscaping.
Better, but I still have to think about them in order to see the advantage to me, the buyer.
Therefore, the winner is clearly:
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In December 1990, President George Bush Sr travelled through South America to sell the continent on a bold new dream: "A free trade system that links all of the Americas." Addressing the Argentine Congress, he said that the plan, later to be named the Free Trade Area of the Americas, would be "our hemisphere's new declaration of interdependence the brilliant new dawn of a splendid new world."
Last week, Bush's two sons joined forces to try to usher in that new world by holding the FTAA negotiations in Florida. This is the state that Governor Jeb Bush vowed to "deliver" to his brother during the 2000 presidential elections, even if that meant keeping many African-Americans from exercising their right to vote. Now Jeb was vowing to hand his brother the coveted trade deal, even if that meant keeping thousands from exercising their right to protest.
Despite the brothers' best efforts, the dream of a hemisphere united into a single free-market economy died last week - killed not by demonstrators in Miami but by the populations of Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, who let their politicians know that if they sign away more power to foreign multinationals, they may as well not come home.
The Brazilians brokered a compromise that makes the agreement a pick-and-choose affair, allowing governments to sign on to the parts they like and refuse the ones they don't. Washington will continue to bully countries into sweeping trade contracts on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but there will be no single, unified deal.
Inside the Inter-Continental hotel, it was being called "FTAA lite". Outside, we experienced something heavier: "War lite". The more control the US trade representatives lost at the negotiating table, the more raw power the police exerted on the streets.
Small, peaceful demonstrations were attacked with extreme force; organisations were infiltrated by undercover officers who used stun guns; buses of union members were prevented from joining permitted marches; people were beaten with batons; activists had guns pointed at their heads at checkpoints.
Police violence outside trade summits is not new; what was striking about Miami was how divorced the security response was from anything resembling an actual threat. From an activist perspective, the protests were small and obedient, an understandable response to weeks of police intimidation.
The FTAA Summit in Miami represents the official homecoming of the "war on terror". The latest techniques honed in Iraq - from a Hollywoodised military to a militarised media - have now been used on a grand scale in a major US city. "This should be a model for homeland defence," the Miami mayor, Manny Diaz, said of the security operation that brought together over 40 law-enforcement agencies, from the FBI to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
For the Miami model to work, the police had to establish a connection between legitimate activists and dangerous terrorists. Enter the Miami police chief, John Timoney, an avowed enemy of activist "punks", who classified FTAA opponents as "outsiders coming in to terrorise and vandalise our city".
With the activists recast as dangerous aliens, Miami became eligible for the open tap of public money irrigating the "war on terror". In fact, $8.5m spent on security during the FTAA meeting came out of the $87bn Bush extracted from Congress for Iraq last month.
But more was borrowed from the Iraq war than just money. Miami police also invited reporters to "embed" with them in armoured vehicles and helicopters. As in Iraq, most reporters embraced their role as pseudo soldiers with zeal, suiting up in combat helmets and flak jackets.
The resulting media coverage was the familiar wartime combination of dramatic images and non-information. We know, thanks to an "embed" from the Miami Herald, that Timoney was working so hard hunting down troublemakers that by 3:30pm on Thursday "he had eaten only a banana and a cookie since 6am".
Local TV stations didn't cover the protests so much as hover over them. Their helicopters showed images of confrontations, but instead of hearing the voices on the streets - voices pleading with police to stop shooting and clearly following orders to disperse - we heard only from police officials and perky news anchors commiserating with the boys on the front line.
Meanwhile, independent journalists who dared to do their jobs and film the police violence up close were actively targeted. "She's not with us," one officer told another as they grabbed Ana Nogueira, a correspondent with Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! who was covering a peaceful protest outside the Miami-Dade county jail. When the police established that Nogueira was "not with us" (ie neither an embedded reporter nor undercover cop) she was hauled away and charged.
The Miami model of dealing with domestic dissent reaches far beyond a single meeting. On Sunday, the New York Times reported on a leaked FBI bulletin revealing "a coordinated, nationwide effort to collect intelligence" on the anti-war movement. The memorandum singles out lawful protest activities. Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the document revealed that "the FBI is targeting Americans who are engaged in lawful protest. The line between terrorism and legitimate civil disobedience is blurred."
We can expect more of these tactics on the homeland front. Just as civil liberties violations escalated when Washington lost control over the FTAA process, so will repression increase as Bush faces the ultimate threat: losing control over the White House.
Already, Jim Wilkinson, director of strategic communications at US Central Command in Doha, Qatar (the operation that gave the world the Jessica Lynch rescue), has moved to New York to head up media operations for the Republican National Convention. "We're looking at embedding reporters," he told the New York Observer of his plans to use some of the Iraq tricks during the convention. "We're looking at new and interesting camera angles."
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Bank Management: Text and Casesby George H. Hempel, Donald G. Simonson, Alan B. Coleman
Divided into four sections it begins with an introduction to bank management, followed by an examination of basic asset, liability and capital management decisions. Part three covers the lending function of commercial banks detailing such topics as credit analysis, loan pricing and structuring a loan. Lastly, it emphasizes integrative management techniques including a description of the use of new financial products and methods of pricing in bank management. Features 27, up-to-date cases.
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Weighing only four pounds and standing seven inches tall, Smoky is just a toy dog by today’s standards. Surprisingly, this legendary Yorkshire Terrier turned out to be one of the most decorated WWII canine heroes.
This is her incredible story.
A Perfect Match.
In 1944, Cleveland native Bill Wynne was stationed with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Nadzab, New Guinea. One day, his tent mate recovered a small, scrawny dog from an abandoned foxhole on the side of the road. The dog–whose breed was relatively unknown at that time–was tied to a truck tire and appeared to be wet and sick.
Growing up a dog person, Bill couldn’t resist the little animal who excitedly jumped up and down at the sight of him. In the end, he bought the dog from the soldier for two Australian pounds ($6.44 U.S.). He then shortened the dog’s name from the original “Smokums” into “Smoky”–in reference to its gray and brown fur which reminded Bill of Cleveland’s industrial smoke.
Together, they survived typhoons, limited food supply, and fatal diseases such as malaria during their numerous combat missions.
More than a companion, Smoky learned a lot of tricks to please her master. And then came one of the highlights in Smoky’s career: She was named the best mascot in the Southwest Pacific by Yank Down Under Magazine on July 14, 1944. In the said magazine, she was photographed in her now-iconic pose: sitting in Bill’s WWII helmet.
World’s First Therapy Dog.
Adorable, eager to please her owner, and receptive to new tricks, Smoky began her pioneering work as a therapy dog at the 233rd Station Hospital in New Guinea. Bill was then staying at this hospital after being diagnosed with dengue fever.
Amused by the dog, the nurses brought Smoky with them during patient rounds, lightening up the mood of several soldiers wounded in the Biak Island invasion.
After being granted two weeks’ recuperative leave in Australia, Bill and Smoky visited two military hospitals in Brisbane. There, Smoky performed different tricks–from riding a scooter to walking a tightrope while blindfolded. Smoky once again showed her charm effortlessly, much to the delight of sick and wounded soldiers.
“There’s a complete change when we came into the room,” said Bill in an interview. “They all smiled; they all loved her.”
Nonetheless, Smoky’s 12-year career as a therapy dog pales in comparison to her other role which she has been best known for: a WWII dog hero.
A Heroine in the Philippines.
In January of 1945, Bill Wynne–then a 22-year old aerial photographer in the Army Air Forces 26th Photo Recon Squadron–landed at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, along with the rest of the American forces.
Bringing Smoky ashore was very challenging yet Bill pulled it off, thanks to the dog’s diminutive size. According to his accounts, he “carried my barracks bag on one shoulder, my rolled-up cot on my other shoulder and my rifle in my hands. Smoky sat on the cot.”
In my email correspondence with Bill, he shared specific details of their arrival in the Philippines:
“We waded ashore from LST 706 at Lingayen Gulf at 3:00am Jan.12, ’45. Smoky and I hid among the palm trees near the beach until dawn when the main part of our 26th Photo Recon Sq disembarked from LTS 729 and we were taken through Dagupan by trucks and on to Lingayen where we set up in homes of natives temporarily then set up tents between the homes. The U.S. Army rented the homes.
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On arrival we found the people were starving as Japanese periodically raided the villages taking all the food they could gather. We shared our 30 day supply of food we brought with us for 350 men. Our Sq. hired 45 Filipinos to do building around the area and our men had additional house boys cleaning up our tents so we could get American Pesos into their hands. At that time Japanese Invasion money became worthless.”
Their stay in the Philippines was very tough indeed. Japanese attacks on the Allied airfield at Lingayen Gulf was always a possibility, and the need to establish strong communication lines was imperative.
The initial plan was to run communication wires through a 70-foot culvert (an underground pipe designed to drain water from above) from the base to the three squadrons. The design would enable Wynne’s photo-reconnaissance unit to contact the headquarters if they needed reinforcements.
But here’s the problem: they lacked the equipment and a safe environment to complete such task. Their combat engineers had recently moved to Baguio, bringing all their equipment with them. They could manually install the telephone lines by digging a trench, but doing so would be time-consuming and would also expose their men as well as their 40 war planes (which had to be moved from sheltered area) to enemy attacks.
Sgt. Bob Gapp had an idea. He suggested that given Smoky’s small size (the dog was 7-inch tall, while the culvert was 8 inches in diameter), she could be the best choice to do the job. So Bill tied a kite string to Smoky’s collar, hoping that she would pull a feeder line under the airfield. He then left the dog with Gapp, moved to the other end of the culvert, and coaxed Smoky towards the pipe.
The pipe was very narrow and with sand piling up between each 4-foot section, Smoky had a very high risk of getting trapped.
But trust between Bill and his furry friend prevailed: Smoky hesitated at first, but she kept moving forward in search of her master. Bill finally breathed a sigh of relief when Smoky reached the finish line and jumped straight to his arms. The communication wires were established while Smoky, as a reward for her heroic effort, got a steak for dinner.
Smoky, the dog who was almost abandoned in the middle of the jungle, completed in two minutes a vital task that was supposed to be done by 70 men in 3 days. And she did it all because she was asked to.
After the war, Bill and Smoky continued their tour of different hospitals to cheer up sick, wounded, and lonely patients. Bill then briefly worked as a dog trainer in Hollywood before being hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) as a flight photographer.
Smoky retired in 1955, and peacefully died in her sleep on February 21, 1957 at the age of 14.
- As of this writing, Smoky has a total of 6 memorials in the U.S. and another 3 in Australia.
- Smoky was credited for popularizing Yorkshire Terriers. In fact, Joan Gordon, a breed historian for the Yorkshire Terrier Club of America, said that “Smoky was the dog that brought an unexpected interest to the then obscure Yorkshire Terrier breed with news stories from the far Pacific Theatre in 1945.”
- Smoky’s incredible story has been told in more than 50 books. The Animal Planet also produced two episodes about her life.
- Bill Wynne wrote a book about the life and heroism of Smoky. His work, entitled “Yorkie Doodle Dandy,” was released in 1996. Best-selling novelist Amy Tan considers it as her favorite dog book.
- A bronze statue showing Smoky nestled in Wynne’s WWII helmet can be found in the Rocky River Reservation, just south of the Detroit Avenue Bridge on Valley Parkway. Installed during Veterans Day 2005, this serves as a memorial to Smoky and “dogs of all wars.”
Want more amazing Pinoy trivia?
Frankel, R. (2014). Dogs at War: Smoky, a Healing Presence for Wounded WWII Soldiers. National Geographic. Retrieved 11 May 2015, from http://goo.gl/SFjqNs
Jedick, P. (2007). Smoky The Wonder Dog. Cleveland Magazine. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/XTD6pj
Smoky War Dog,. Smoky. Retrieved 11 May 2015, from http://goo.gl/2JUJ1J
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This Tuesday, for the first time ever, PRINT THE LEGEND, my Hector Lassiter novel about the death of Ernest Hemingway and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover's very real war on authors, returns for its first trade paperback and first reasonably priced eBook publication via the wonderful Betimes Books.
(After this, just two novels and a short story collection remain in the series to appear.)
To prepare for Tuesday's release, a flashback essay penned in 2011 for the hardcover release of PTL. This one originally appeared in Mystery Scene Magazine....
Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.” It’s possible Hemingway’s 1961 death by shotgun blast was something other than the suicide history records.
My new novel, Print the Legend, explores Hemingway’s demise: one of the most infamous of American authors’ deaths. Given its violent circumstances, it may also be the most unjustly under-investigated.
If Papa’s fourth wife, Mary Welsh, had actually set out to cast suspicion upon herself in relation to her famous husband’s death, she could hardly have done a better job.
When Ernest’s apparent self-destructive impulses first manifested themselves, Mary took some efforts to protect Hemingway from himself.
But on his first night back from his last round of electroshock treatments administered at the Mayo Clinic — shock treatments approved by Mary for a man who had sustained innumerable concussions and therefore was not a prospect for such radical treatment — Mary reversed course.
Mary locked away her husband’s extensive cache of guns. But she left the key to their hiding place on a shelf above the kitchen sink. She left them there in plain sight the night of July 1, 1961 — the eve of her widowhood.
|Hemingway and Mary,|
on their ill-fated African safari.
When confronted about virtually handing her husband the means to kill himself, Mary argued nobody had a right to deprive a man “his possessions.”
Papa’s last wife was alone with her husband in their Ketchum, Idaho home that bloody morning.
By her own account, Mary didn’t immediately respond to the sound of the twin shotgun blasts — despite the fact the fatal shots were fired directly under her bedroom.
She had vaguely heard, she said, what sounded like “drawers slamming shut.” She claimed to find the carnage later in the morning.
Within a few hours of Ernest’s death, Mary was working the phones — calling friends and family…syndicated columnists. She was engaging in deft spin-doctoring decades before the term was invented.
One of those who received one of the strange, morning-of calls from the newly minted widow was Hemingway friend, William Walton. Many years after that bloody July morning, when confronted by scholar Rose Marie Burwell’s belief Mary wanted her husband dead, Walton confided, “Now that you’ve said it, I will say what I have never said before, but have known since Mary called a few hours after Ernest’s death: yes, she did.”
Mary claimed Papa’s death was a gun-cleaning accident. The physician of record advanced that story, though he also noted there was no evidence of gun-cleaning materials found at the death scene.
The widow Hemingway was also an active participant in an ad hoc committee to determine whether there should be an inquest. Mary carried the day — no official inquiry was made.
Family cleaned up the death scene; the shotgun was destroyed — either by a family friend, or the Hemingway sons — accounts vary.
In the wake of Ernest’s death, Mary became Papa’s literary executrix — revising his manuscripts, re-titling his books…designing his dust jackets and reaping huge financial rewards.
Did Mary murder Hemingway?
Could, perhaps, she have played some other role in his passing?
In Print the Legend, I supply my own theory regarding Hemingway’s death — something other than the one that history records.
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|Building Projects by Manifest First [message #554011]
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Registered: August 2010
currently we have a number of projects in eclipse to build osgi bundles.
Some projects are have java sourcecode, and some are just wrapper projects created by "File -> Import -> Plug-Ins and Fragments" and contain a single .jar file with binary .classes.
The binary jars imported are already osgi bundles, containing a manifest.mf.
I'm not sure if this is the right way to set up the dependencies in eclipse, but it works just with the eclipse build, and the dependencies are resolved fine.
Now, when i use tycho to generate pom files with:
mvn org.sonatype.tycho:maven-tycho-plugin:generate-poms -DgroupId=net.domain -Dtycho.targetPlatform=/home/me/eclipse
and then run
mvn clean install -Dtycho.targetPlatform=/home/me/eclipse
the build starts and resolves all the dependencies according to the eclipse setup, but then fails when compiling the first source project.
The reason for this is the following:
The source project imports packages from one binary project. Fine.
But the jar file produced in the target folde within the binary project is missing the classes from the imported jar file. There is only the Manifest inside the generated jar.
So when building the binary projects, there is a difference between tycho and eclipse.
Eclipse includes the classes folder in the jar, and tycho drops it.
Can someone help in understanding if this is a bug in tycho, or if this approach to build with tycho is wrong?
Thanks a lot!
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In the scorching summer sun, we reach out for our sunscreens and hide in the closest glimpse of shade to avoid its wrath. But is the sun our enemy and the direct cause of cancer?
It might be the contrary. Many researchers has found that most sunscreens on the market actually speed up your risk of skin cancer, as opposed to protecting you, due to their ingredients.
This is no longer seen as alternative news or conspiracy, as independent health research has been saying this for years and it is now considered mainstream. Although they can protect against sunburns, what is the health related cost of using them? And are we getting the vitamin D from the sun that our bodies need if we use sunscreen?
Despite the great abundance of sunlight all year long round, the Gulf region has more prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency.
According to research by Zayed University, 90 percent of women and 70 percent of men are extremely Vitamin D deficient in the UAE. We have been so concerned about protecting ourselves against the sun’s rays that our efforts have had adverse effects in the long term.
Research done the American Cancer Society also has shown that there isn’t a clear link between sun exposure and where melanoma appears. And The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) found that there isn’t a link between skin cancer and countries closer to the equator where sun exposure would be grater.
Only 10 percent of all cancer cases are attributed to all forms of radiation, and UV is a very small part of that. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, rates of cancer have gone up 1800 percent in the past 30 years, but is the sun and depleted ozone to blame?
Of course burning your skin is not healthy and can lead to DNA damage which in turn invites the production of cancer to those areas, but there are a number of factors involved, including nutrition and vitamin intake that play a huge role.
A vitamin D deficiency, for example, is a breeding ground for any health issue and so getting enough sun is important. Here are some quick pointers to how you can secure your vitamin D dosage without being at risk of overexposing yourself:
Protect yourself naturally: Look for sunscreens that contain zinc and titanium minerals and use them only when absolutely necessary. It is not necessary that you wear sunscreen every time you are out in the sun. Sunscreen blocks your body’s ability to absorb any vitamin D from sunlight. So if you plan on being outside for a short period of time, skip the sunscreen and feed your body the vitamin D that will keep it healthy.
Avoid toxic chemicals: The two active ingredients to avoid are Retinyl Palmitate and Oxybenzone. Retinyl Palmitate is a form of topical vitamin A used in sunscreens. However, when exposed to sunlight for long periods of time, it has been found to increase the development of skin lesions and tumors. While Oxybenzone is a chemical that can cause hormone disruption and cell damage.
Mother Nature’s solution: Coconut oil has been shown to provide a sun protection factor (SPF) of about 8 when it comes to sun protection. So although its protection isn’t very high, it’s the purest form of protection that can be applied directly to your skin. If you were to apply it often, it would not only offer sun protection, but it would also hydrate the skin making it less susceptible to burning. You may want to try combining natural sunscreens with coconut oil for protection.
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A second death for mice and men
By Adam Tatelman, Arts Editor
From Huxley’s Brave New World to Orwell’s 1984, much political fiction has been written about the utopia’s potential to become a dystopian nightmare. Such stories are not mere entertainment. They are based in contemporary societal realities, often predicting the future by asking “if this goes on, what shall happen?” In the case of the stories above, the answers are less than comforting. Something rotten festers within the utopian ideal, perhaps within all of western civilization, and its full horror can be glimpsed even in the smallest of worlds.
John B. Calhoun (1917–1995) was an ethologist and behavioural researcher who conducted a series of experiments on rats and mice to determine the effects of overpopulation within what he called a “Mortality Inhibiting Environment;” essentially, a utopia for rodents.
His first experiment took place in 1947. Calhoun discovered that a colony of Norway rats, when given a 10,000 square foot outdoor terrarium, began to willingly segregate themselves into clans of roughly 12 rats as their population increased. Larger groups of rats appeared to be incapable of social maintenance, and subsequently disbanded. Curiously, the colony’s population never rose above 200 rats during the 28-month research period, despite the surplus of space and fertile females.
Calhoun continued to add variables to subsequent versions of his rat utopia, such as building in separate living spaces for the rat clans. In 1968, Calhoun repeated the experiment with a more refined set of circumstances. Using property and specimens secured by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Calhoun introduced four breeding pairs of mice into his Mouse Universe, a nine-square-foot pen lined with mesh tunnels, simulating walk-up apartments. There were 256 mouse apartments in total, each containing food, water, and nesting scraps, i.e. all the necessities of life. There were no illnesses or predators to contend with; only the lack of space.
Theoretically, the Mouse Universe would have adequately sustained just over 3,800 mice, but it never had to. Every time Calhoun ran the experiment, the mouse colony exhibited identical patterns of social breakdown, which he described as “behavioural sink.” The pattern ran its course through four distinct phases, the first of which Calhoun called “strive.”
During the strive phase, the first eight mice spent 104 days adjusting to their new environment and nesting. Following this, the exploit phase saw the mouse population double every 55 days—impressive even by mouse standards. The equilibrium phase was reached at day 560, when the mouse population peaked at 2,200—not yet truly overcrowded from a purely spatial perspective, but full to bursting in terms of social space.
In the months leading up to day 560, the mice began to display increasingly anti-social behavior. Adolescent mice were rejected from social territories with increasingly greater frequency, causing them to become passive and reclusive. This phenomenon grew with each passing generation, leading to the persecution of passive males by roving mouse gangs, including uncharacteristically aggressive and violent females. The social hierarchy began to disintegrate, with the breeding males slowly losing interest in their territory, females, and young. Some mice began to mount others regardless of gender. A few others displayed cannibalism.
With each passing generation, the birth-rate declined due to male disinterest in mating. The females seemed to lose interest in their own young, abandoning or killing them. Most disturbingly, the females also lost the ability to carry their young to term. According to Calhoun, “infant mortality ran as high as 96 per cent among the most disoriented groups in the population.”
In the final phase, the “decline,” the mice stopped fighting and breeding altogether. The final generation sequestered themselves entirely, grooming constantly, emerging to feed only when the other mice were asleep. Calhoun rescued a few of them and attempted to re-integrate them into another mice society, but their behavior did not change. They were physically perfect specimens, but they had lost all social and reproductive motivation, choosing to simply wait for the end. Calhoun named them “The Beautiful Ones.”
The final successful birth took place on day 600. The population continued to decline, but the mice never bred again, nor did they partake in any typical mouse behaviour. Calhoun characterized this as the “first death,” an existential despair that causes paralysis of the mind in anticipation of the “second death,” or death of the body.
At first glance, these mice had everything they needed to ensure prosperity, yet the condensation of the population rendered the mice incapable of passing on the basic knowledge necessary for reproduction. As Calhoun put it, “For an animal so simple as a mouse, the most complex behaviours involve the interrelated set of courtship, maternal care, territorial defense, and hierarchical intra-group and inter-group social organization. When behaviours related to these functions fail to mature, there is no development of social organization and no reproduction […]”
Calhoun’s experiment has since become an icon of social pessimism. His ideas are reflected in films like Soylent Green and A Clockwork Orange, as well as a large body of scientific literature. As Calhoun ominously noted in his 1962 paper Population Density and Social Pathology, “For an animal so complex as man, there is no logical reason why a comparable sequence of events should not also lead to species extinction.”
If that sounds alarmist, consider that within the last decade, a number of phenomena have emerged that closely mirror the four stages of the behavioural sink seen in the Mouse Universe.
Population condensation is always the first cause. Just as in the Mouse Universe, humans tend to congregate in certain areas and abandon others. As such, populated areas become gradually more condensed. Cities like Rio de Janeiro squeeze a whopping six-million people into a mere 1,221 square kilometres of space, and, fascinatingly, it is not even among the most densely populated cities in the world. Compare this to Mumbai in India, where 22-million people reside within 603 square kilometres. For perspective, that’s nearly 25,000 people per square kilometre.
The lack of physical and social space in these urban centres leads to a stressed environment, causing social unrest and violence. This phenomenon can be observed in major cities like Mexico City and New York, especially in crowded inner-city areas where crime is most prevalent.
Another phenomenon that can be observed in densely-populated areas is the breakdown of the family. The U.S. Census Bureau shows that one in four American children lives in a fatherless household—17.4 million children in total. Forty-five per cent of such families are considered poor. Along with the social difficulties faced by food-insecure families, the children of these households lack strong role models to help socialize them, much in the same way that Calhoun’s mice failed to uphold social organization when the fathers left the nest.
Failure to reach a replacement birth rate is the next logical phase. The global average fertility rate has declined steadily for the past 50 years in nearly all parts of the world, especially in urban centres like Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is a natural adaptation made by apex predators with high infant survival rates; to avoid overpopulation, the species reproduces more slowly. It may not yet be a problem, but that merely indicates the only significant difference between our world and the Mouse Universe: scale.
Even the Beautiful Ones have an analog in humanity. The Japan Times reported that 20.3 per cent of Japanese men aged 25–29 have no interest in pursuing sex or relationships with women, preferring instead to live solitary lives. These Sohsoku kei Danshi, or “herbivore men,” often avoid social interaction and refuse to be a part of consumer culture. Similar groups of men have begun to appear in the UK, US, and Canada over the last few years, identifying themselves as “Men Going Their Own Way,” or MGTOW for short.
Whether or not this was his intent, Calhoun’s work and the human reflections thereof handily explain the problem with utopias. That is, they make all their inhabitants redundant. All the important roles have been filled by a system which provides a standard of comfort to its citizens. Although this setup might appeal to one’s inner idealist, it carries with it unforeseen consequences. The moment there are more people than there are roles to fill, the population becomes restless, aimless, and even suicidal, often without realizing why.
It would be nihilistic to say that humankind’s extinction is certain, yet it seems we have mistakenly adopted the very conditions which could speed our demise as a species. We are animals, and we respond to input the same way other animals do, so it is foolhardy to disregard Calhoun’s warning. Yet, unlike Orwell and Huxley, it is not enough for us to merely ask “if this goes on, what shall happen?” We must find a way to change the answer.
To strive is the natural instinct of all living beings. When this personal responsibility is taken away, the subject loses its sense of self. Fortunately for us, we have two things that Calhoun’s mice did not—opposable thumbs and measurable I.Q. scores. It falls to each of us to put those things to use; to assert our independence from the natural order, and create motivation for ourselves on the individual and societal levels. Averting the first death requires us to change the rules of the experiment.
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Siev-X MemorialPrint Page
A Tree of life planted in 2004 by Australian champion Betty Cuthbert commemorates the loss of 353 men, women and children refugees who drowned in 2001 while trying to reach the safety of Australian soil on Christmas Island.
A memorial stone with a bronze inscription plaque is set beside the tree.
The SIEV-X refers to a dilapidated Indonesian fishing boat that was en-route from Sumatra to Christmas Island carrying over 400 asylum seekers. It sank in international waters on 19 October 2001, just south of the Indonesian island of Java, killing 353 people. The tragedy was politically controversial in Australia, as it occurred during an election campaign at a time when asylum seekers and border protection were major issues.
|Address:||Jalan Patai Road, Smith Point, Tai Jin House, Christmas Island, 6798|
|GPS Coordinates:||Lat: -10.428664|
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
|Actual Event STart Date:||19-October-2001|
|Actual Event End Date:||19-October-2001|
|Actual Monument Dedication Date:||Sunday 21st November, 2004|
19th October 2001
In memory of the 146 children,
142 women and 65 men who drowned on
their way to Christmas Island in search
of freedom and a better life.
As You Read This Please Remember All Asylum Seekers
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by Irwin Block
Sir Martin Gilbert is a most prolific historian with more than 50 books to his credit, an established and popular writer whose work is crafted for and marketed to the general reader.
Ishmael’s House, A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (McLelland & Stewart, 424 p., $35) has a Canadian angle in its genesis, since the idea, Gilbert says, came from the late Izzy Asper and research supported by the Asper Family Foundation in Winnipeg.
Published in 2010, it is topical because the fate of 850,000 Jews who were forced or felt compelled to leave Arab and Muslim lands is often forgotten in discussions of the estimated 725,000 Arabs who became refugees as a result of Israel’s creation in 1948.
One tragedy does not justify another, but there is a direct relationship, in time if not in cause and effect, and if there is to be a final settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the issue of the Jewish refugees, most of whom came to settle in Israel, cannot be ignored.
The wandering Jews were better off under Muslim rule than under Christian suzerainty. This was best exemplified in what became known as the Golden Era, where Jews for the most part thrived in Spain until, with Jewish financial support, Isabella and Ferdinand achieved final victory over the remaining Muslim rulers in Granada in 1492. She then ordered the expulsion of Jews who refused to convert to Christianity.
As critics have pointed out, the most balanced portrayal remains Jews of Islam (1984) by Bernard Lewis, but for a survey of their plight, country by country, Gilbert’s book is must reading.
For example, there were 120,000 Jews living in Iraq prior to the Second World War and they flourished, with 24 synagogues in Baghdad, the 1,400-year-old Great Synagogue dating back to 100 years before Islam. Since 629, when Mohammed had defeated his Jewish infidel enemies, Jews were subjected to dhimmi status, a state of subjugation and fealty, usually including the payment of a substantial jizya poll tax. It was described then by Caliph al-Amior as not merely a source of income, but a means of discrimination and humiliation, Gilbert reports.
Jews’ second-class status continued in the 20th century. Iraqi-born Mordechai Ben Porat remembered that “A Moslem’s right to harass a Jew was taken for granted. It would not have occurred to the victim to react or report the matter to the police.” Iraqi-born Yitzhak Bezalel remembers that pious Jews would not wear leather on the Day of Atonement and that “Arab hooligans, who knew that on this day Jews would walk barefoot, would spread broken glass on the streets, and many Jews would come to the synagogue with bloody feet.”
The upsurge in Zionist fervour after the war sparked anti-Jewish riots in Egypt, since for the Muslim world, Palestine was considered an Arab country and “part of the Muslim patrimony” in which Jews could live only as a subject people. In Tripoli Jews were tortured and killed, including 40 of the 120 Jews of Zanzur, their bodies burned.
In Yemen, Jews were forbidden to work in agriculture, write in Arabic or have firearms. Yemeni Jews could make shoes for Muslims, but were not allowed to wear them.
The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 sparked pogroms in Baghdad, Tripoli, Cairo and Tangier, replete with the revival of the ancient bogus accusation that Jews use the blood of Muslims for their rituals. The Suez crisis of 1956 and the Six Day War of 1967 exacerbated anti-Jewish hatred and sparked the departure of most Jews who remained.
In 1968, I visited the Jewish Quarter in Marrakech, where coppersmiths could be seen at work, a look of sadness on their faces. One Berber friend, realizing I was Jewish, told me in French: “It’s not very nice what you have done to the Arabs.”
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Study: 1,700 Americans could catch swine flu
As people around the world anxiously refresh Internet maps showing new locations of suspected swine flu infections, a Northwestern University professor has already mapped out the worst case scenario for the outbreak.
In four weeks, around 1,700 Americans could be infected with the disease, according to a model programmed by Dirk Brockmann, associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at Northwestern. About 100 of those cases would be in Chicago, Brockmann said.
But Brockmann said his model, based on direct and indirect measures of human mobility, predicts the spread of the disease as if no interventions are put in place to slow its spread.
Given the worldwide attention on the disease by public health organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, he would expect actual numbers to be much lower.
Even the worst case scenario of 1,700 infections is a relatively low number given the media attention, Brockmann said, though he understands the growing fear.
"When people get this information, they immediately see themselves as one of the 1,700, not part of the other 299 million," Brockmann said.
Brockmann began creating computer models of pandemics in 2004 after the SARS scare in China, using data on air travel and the movement of dollar bills as measures of how humans move around the world and potentially carry disease. The models present a new analogy of how disease travels in our interconnected world, Brockmann said.
"If everyone traveled like they did in the 14th century, everything would spread like forest fires," Brockmann said. "But when modern travel is involved, the spatial-temporal pattern is much more complex. It's sort of like exploding stars."
Thus travel hubs like New York, Miami and Chicago should see the first cases of the disease, and Brockmann said he was not surprised to hear about the first suspected case in Chicago this morning. He reserved his surprise for the fact that his model agreed with a separate model from Indiana University researchers predicting the spread using completely different data.
"We were very happy that the modeling approach works," Brockmann said. "Of course in this context, saying we're very happy is weird."
Follow Brockmann's model at http://rocs.northwestern.edu/projects/swine_flu/.
For information on what regular people can do about the swine flu, read the Triage blog at chicagotribune.com.
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More than 1,100 people have died since last July due to the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Report with reference to RIA Novosti.
"The situation as of Friday, May 10, 2019: a total of 1,649 cases (infections - ed.) - 1561 confirmed and 88 possible, 1105 deceased and 444 cured," the country's health ministry said on Twitter.
The Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2015 and mainly affected three countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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From June 11 to June 15, 2017, students of the Executive MBA of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management spent their International Week at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) in Israel. The course is designed for students who wish to broaden and deepen their knowledge about entrepreneurship and the creative but focused process of setting up their own Start-up. Dr Markus Maedler, Programme Director Degree Programmes & Executive Education at Frankfurt School, accompanied the students during their five-day trip to Israel.
On the first day, visiting IDC Herzliya, the group received an introduction in the Zell Entrepreneurship Programme of the school – funded by entrepreneur Sam Zell. The programme is designed for outstanding undergraduates in their final year at IDC who aspire to work in an entrepreneurial organisation or to start their own business.
On that same day, the executive students started a Venture Creation Crash Course at IDC. Within five days Dr Yossi Maaravi, member of the Faculty at IDC, led the participants through the concepts and process of developing a business idea from scratch to a convincing investor pitch. The first day started with the challenge to come up with nine different ideas for an innovative Start-up venture by the next morning. During the second day the participants narrowed down the ideas and developed the business model canvas for their ideas within different teams. To improve the concepts, several validation and adjustment rounds followed, the participants researched many academic papers and contacted their professional networks. Through the whole process Dr Yossi Maaravi coached the students and also reached out to his personal network for feedback. Finally, the participants presented their ideas to the class and the senior faculty from the IDC.
In addition to their academic programme, the group visited the FinTech accelerator “The Floor” in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to gain insights in to an Israeli Start-up. Also, the students enjoyed some time off during a sunset sail boat tour and a visit to Jerusalem.
“The trip to Israel was a great opportunity to gain knowledge and enjoy the cultural richness of Israel. The course was very intense, but it helped to build entrepreneurial mind- and skillsets. Now we are able to turn a business idea into reality rather quickly”, says Boris Marovic, who is an EMBA student at Frankfurt School. | <urn:uuid:b4152372-3b09-4c09-870c-7d1f1225d1dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frankfurt-school.de/en/home/newsroom/news/2017/juli/international-week-israel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.961545 | 504 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Flash Gun Troubleshooting & Repair
One of the first gadgets that Theatre Effects manufactured, the Electronic Flash Gun, remains one of our top-selling items and one of my favorites. It's not hard to understand why, either. The Flash Gun is a beautifully simple device that creates a visually stunning effect. Although the instructions for use are pretty clear, I'd like to offer a few hints to help you when things don't work as planned.
Sometimes we hear from first-time users of the Flash Gun that the flash paper is being ejected from the barrel without igniting. Nothing's more embarrassing that setting up an effect, only to have a wadded-up piece of paper flop onto the stage floor. Using too much flash cotton is the typical cause of this sort of misfire.
Many people mistakenly assume that the flash cotton acts as a "lift charge" to shoot the paper out of the barrel of the gun, but this is not the case! The flash paper is propelled from the barrel by the gasses that build up as the paper itself starts to burn. Flash cotton is only used as a primer to get the paper to ignite faster. Too much cotton will shoot the paper out of the barrel before it's had time to ignite, resulting in a "dud" shot.
So, how much cotton should you be using? The answer is "as little as possible, yet enough to cover the glo-plug coil at the bottom of the barrel." A piece of cotton the size of a frozen pea should work fine; however, you'll find that the best way to determine how much cotton you need is through practice. If at all possible, you should order your effects in time to allow several rehearsals before your performance. Not only will this help you determine the best load for your effect, but it will also make you (or your performers) more comfortable with the device, creating a better overall performance.
Another comment we occasionally get from users is that they can't get the device to fire consistently, or at all. There are a few possible causes of this problem, but the most common is a weak or dead battery. I can't stress enough the importance of using a fresh battery for every performance. Some people balk at using a brand-new battery for every show, but I think it's worth the expense. Think about how much an AA battery costs you; now think about the cost to your show should your effect not work perfectly. I think you'll agree that it's worth the cost of a battery to guarantee a good show. I'm not suggesting that you throw out that battery; use it in your camera, GameBoy(tm) or in your Walkman(tm), just don't use it in the Flash Gun again.
Another possibility when the device refuses to fire is that the glo-plug has had it and needs to be replaced. (Although a glo-plug will last you a good, long time, it won't last forever. Always keep a spare on hand.)
Replacing a glo-plug is not at all difficult. First, find a comfortable place to work and spread out a dark-colored towel -- you'll see why in a moment. Pull off the power connector at the rear of the barrel being careful not to lose the small white washer on the glo-plug -- this is where the dark-colored towel comes in handy! That washer is necessary for the operation of the Flash Gun but if you lose it, don't worry, there's a new one in the package of every replacement glo-plug. Carefully remove the washer and set it aside. If this is the first time you've removed the glo-plug from this device, it will be very reluctant to come out. The method I've found that works best is to grasp the barrel of the gun with a pair of pliers, and the glo-plug with another pair of pliers or a socket wrench. Once you've removed the glo-plug, simply screw in the new plug, replace the white washer and re-connect the power connector. Put a fresh battery in the device and (making sure it's not loaded first) look into the barrel of the gun. With the red button depressed, you should see the glo-plug glowing brightly. This is the sign of a happy device ready to provide you with more spectacular effects!
Finally, we do occasionally hear about problems that turn out to be the result of damp flash cotton or paper. These products are shipped wet for safety, and they must be allowed to dry completely before they'll work. I mean absolutely dry. Bone dry. Dry as the desert. You know . . . dry. You may be tempted to fire up your Flash Gun while your flash paper still has just a hint of dampness, but resist!! A few more hours will make all the difference!
The vast majority of our customers do not experience any problems at all with our Flash Guns, and now you're certain to be among them since, after reading this article, I now certify you "flash gun savvy." Fire away with confidence! (This does not exonerate you from the need to practice. There's no Get Out Of Practice Free cards given away here.)
[After this went to press, a customer reminded us that we'd left out one thing - that after multiple uses, flash paper residue can build up on the inside of the barrel, reducing the travel distance. This can be resolved by removing the glo-plug and cleaning the inside of the barrel with a stiff brush, or with a cotton swab dipped in acetone or nail polish remover. Thanks to Jerry West for noticing this omission.]
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Design a low-cost, high-performance LED driver
A controlled brightness requires driving the LED with a constant current, which must be maintained regardless of input voltage. Quite often, LEDs have a dimming requirement. For instance, it may be desirable to dim a display or architectural lights. There are two ways to accomplish this: either vary the LED current, or use pulse width modulation (PWM). The least effective way is varying the current because the light output isn't completely linear with current and the LED color spectrum tends to shift at currents below full rating.
It's important to remember that human perception of brightness is exponential, requiring a large percentage change in current for full dimming. This has a profound impact on the circuit design as a 3% regulation error at full current can become a 30% or more error at 10% load due to circuit tolerances. Dimming current waveform through PWM is more accurate, although the response speed becomes an issue. In lighting and displays, it's desirable to PWM above 100 Hz so the human eye doesn't perceive flicker.
Figure 1 shows a very simple, low-cost, buck regulator driving a single LED that implements a very fast dimming feature. This is based on a MC33063 which has an internal switch, a current-limit comparator, an oscillator, and an internal reference. A disable function is provided by the pin that's usually used for voltage regulation. In this scenario, a voltage greater than 1.25 V disables the supply while a lower voltage enables it. With the circuit enabled, the controller operates in a current limit/hysteretic mode, because voltage feedback has been eliminated.
1. This MC33063 forms the heart of a low-cost led driver.
The oscillator generates a start pulse that causes the power switch to be turned on. This puts the input voltage across the current sense resistor, LED, and inductor. The current-limit comparator senses when the current reaches about 350 mA and turns off the power switch. The inductor voltage reverses and flies above the input voltage, causing the freewheeling diode to conduct. The inductor and LED current continue to circulate until the switch turns on at the next switching cycle. This circuit is very adaptable for a wide range of applications. Using a switching regulator with a voltage rating of 40 V and a current rating of 1.5 A is useful in handheld portable devices, white goods, and automotive applications where simplicity and low cost are desirable. The basic topology could be adapted for a wider range of applications although it may be a challenge to implement the hysteretic control and enable functions so simply.
2. As shown, the hysteretic current control provides rapid PWM response. In the images, the green represents the output current, while the blue represents the PWM signal. The top image shows 500 us/div, while the bottom image shows 10 us/div.
The circuit of Figure 1 has been built and tested. Figure 2 shows the disable command and the resulting LED current waveform. The LED can easily be PWM dimmed at 500 Hz. Rise time and fall time of the current waveform is less than 100 μs. If higher ripple current could be tolerated in the LED, the inductor could be made a smaller value and the rise time and fall times could be improved. However, 500-Hz PWM is suitable for most applications.
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Hall of Famer Vin Scully, whose sweet tones provided the summer soundtrack as he entertained and informed Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night, the staff said. He was 94 years old.
Scully died at her home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles, according to staff, who spoke with family members.
As the oldest single-team broadcaster in the history of professional sports, Scully saw it all and called it all. It started in the 1950s with Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, in the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, in the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and in the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela. In the 1990s it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Clayton Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.
The Dodgers changed players, managers, executives, owners – and even their backs – but Scully and her calming, insightful style remained a constant for fans.
He opened the broadcasts with the familiar greeting: “Hello everyone, and a very pleasant good night to you wherever you are.”
Always graceful both in person and on air, Scully considered herself just a conduit between the game and the fans.
Although he was paid by the Dodgers, Scully wasn’t afraid to criticize a bad play or a manager’s decision, or praise an opponent while telling stories against a backdrop of routine plays and remarkable achievements. He always said he wanted to see things with his eyes, not his heart.
Vincent Edward Scully was born on November 29, 1927, in the Bronx. He was the son of a silk salesman who died of pneumonia when Scully was 7 years old. His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where blue-eyed redhead Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.
As a child, Scully would take a pillow, place it under the family’s four-legged radio, and lay her head directly under the speaker to listen to whatever college football game was on the air. With a snack of crackers and a glass of milk nearby, the boy was transfixed by the roar of the crowd that sent shivers down. He thought he’d like to call the action himself.
Scully, who played for two years on the Fordham University baseball team, began her career working on baseball, football, and basketball games for the university’s radio station.
At age 22, he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C.
He was soon joined by the Red Barber and Connie Desmond Hall of Fame in the radio and television booths of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands.
He moved west with the Dodgers in 1958. Scully called three perfect games – Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991 – and 18 no-hitters.
He was also on the air when Don Drysdale set his streak of goalless innings to 58 2/3 innings in 1968 and again when Hershiser broke the record with 59 consecutive goalless innings 20 years later.
When Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run to break Babe Ruth’s record in 1974, it was against the Dodgers and, of course, Scully called.
“A black man is getting a standing ovation in the far south for breaking the record for an all-time baseball idol,” Scully told listeners. “What a wonderful moment for baseball.”
Scully credited the birth of the transistor radio as “the biggest success” of her career. Fans had a hard time recognizing the smaller players during the Dodgers’ first four years at the vast Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
“They were about 70 rows away from the action,” he said in 2016. “They brought the radio in to find out about all the other players and see what they were trying to see on the field.”
That habit continued when the team moved to Dodger Stadium in 1962. Fans held radios to their ears, and those not present listened from home or car, allowing Scully to connect generations of families with her words.
He used to say it was better to describe a big piece quickly and then be quiet so the fans could hear the pandemonium. After Koufax’s perfect game in 1965, Scully was silent for 38 seconds before speaking again. He was similarly silent for a while after Kirk Gibson’s home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year, and also had the stadium press box named for him in 2001. The street leading to the main gate of Dodger Stadium was named in his honor in 2016.
That same year, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
“God has been so good to me in allowing me to do what I’m doing,” said Scully, a devout Catholic who attended Sunday Mass before heading to the stadium before retiring. “A childhood dream that came true and then gave me 67 years to enjoy every minute of it. This is a big Thanksgiving day for me.”
In addition to being the voice of the Dodgers, Scully has called play-by-play for NFL games and PGA Tour events, in addition to calling 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games. He was NBC’s top baseball announcer from 1983 to 1989.
Despite being one of the most listened to stations in the country, Scully was an intensely private man. As soon as the baseball season was over, he would disappear. He rarely made personal appearances or sports talk shows. He preferred to spend time with his family.
In 1972, his first wife, Joan, died of an accidental drug overdose. She was left with three small children. Two years later, he met the woman who would become his second wife, Sandra, secretary for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. She had two young children from a previous marriage, and they combined their families into what Scully once called “my own Brady Bunch.”
He said he realized that time was the most precious thing in the world and that he wanted to use his time to spend with his loved ones. In the early 1960s, Scully quit smoking with the help of her family. In the shirt pocket where he kept a pack of cigarettes, Scully tucked a family photo. Whenever he felt like he needed to smoke, he would take the picture to remind him why he had quit. Eight months later, Scully has never smoked again.
After retiring in 2016, Scully only made a few appearances at Dodger Stadium and her sweet voice was heard narrating an occasional video played during games. Mostly, he was content to stay close to home.
“I just want to be remembered as a good, honest man who lived up to his own beliefs,” he said in 2016.
In 2020, Scully auctioned off years of her personal memorabilia, which raised more than $2 million. A portion of it was donated to UCLA for ALS research.
He was preceded in death by his second wife, Sandra. She died of complications from ALS at age 76 in 2021. The couple, who had been married for 47 years, had daughter Catherine together.
Scully’s other children are Kelly, Erin, Todd and Kevin. One son, Michael, died in a helicopter crash in 1994.
Former Associated Press employee Stan Miller contributed biographical information for this report.
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The Green Party intend to tell the public which party they could work with after the election.
Speaking after the party’s election campaign launch today, Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said the party would set out a list of policy criteria by the end of the week against which it would compare other parties’ policies and programmes.
“We will tell you before the election which parties we could work with and under what kind of arrangements,” Fitzsimons told reporters.
After the last election, the Greens were devastated to be shut out of government as Labour made deals with United Future and New Zealand First.
Fitzsimons admits there is the potential to be taken for granted by stating their position.
“I think you have to do what is honest and you have to act with some integrity, and if people take you for granted well, there’s nothing really you can do about that.”
However, she said the party acted independently and Labour had not got an easy ride. The Greens committed themselves to Labour before the 2005 election regardless of whether or not it had more seats than National.
She said the public could trust the Greens to do what they said they would.
“I trust Labour and National to do whatever they need to do to get into power. My job is to make as much policy on social justice and environmental sustainability in that process. They’ll work with whoever they’ve got to work with.”
Fellow co-leader Russel Norman said the Greens did want to be in Cabinet, but the focus was on policy gains.
“I think that it’s fair to say that the Greens always wanted to be there to have as much power as possible to change things for the better.”
Norman said it would be “extremely difficult” for the Greens to go into government with New Zealand First unless inquiries cleared the party which is currently being looked at over donations.
The MPs talked about achievements over the last term in office ranging from securing home insulation funding to waste minimisation legislation.
Fitzsimons said the party needed 10-12 MPs to do the Green work load and wanted about 10 percent party vote support. On NZPA’s average of published polls, the Greens ranked 5.8 percent.
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Conventional adaptive antenna array processing employing gradient descent requires access to signals on all the antenna array elements. The processing can be carried out at the radio frequency stage, an intermediate frequency stage, and in some cases at baseband. In all cases coherence of the array element signals must be maintained. For situations where access to all the array channels is not possible or not economical, a new technique for adaptively controlling the array weights has been developed. The technique requires access to the controllable weights and the beam-former output. Detailed analysis of the performance of the technique has been carried out. A number of possible structures which can be used are briefly reviewed, and the results of analysis of the performance achievable with some of these structures are presented. A detailed comparison of the performance of the new technique with that of a system in which all signals are available is given. Ways of optimizing the performance of the new technique are considered. Results of computer studies of the performance of the new technique are presented. | <urn:uuid:c8a30025-5a33-4f12-828f-ecec610c26c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/analysis-of-the-performance-of-adaptive-beamforming-using-perturb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.931349 | 202 | 1.835938 | 2 |
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- NASA will launch its Cold Atom Laboratory in 2016 aboard the International Space Station, to study the behavior of ultra-cold gases, a feat that would be impossible on Earth.
The Cold Atom Laboratory will observe the behavior of gases at temperatures unheard of -- 100 pico-Kelvin above absolute zero. Pico denotes one-trillionth and absolute zero is the temperature at which it is believed that all subatomic motion comes to a stop. The equivalent of absolute zero on the Fahrenheit scale is -459.67 °F.
"We're going to explore temperatures far below anything found naturally," said the JPL's Rob Thompson.
The lab will work with dilute gases called Einstein-Bose Condensates, which are believed to show macro-quantum effects at absolute zero. When two such gases are mixed at absolute zero, instead of mixing they interfere with each other like waves. This behavior is unexplained and the experiment will provide scientists the opportunity to understand this bewildering phenomenon.
When gases expand they cool, and this will be replicated on the ISS using magnetic traps that will expand gases until they reach the desired temperature. These traps are low-power and will not affect the other functions or cooling systems of the ISS.
Cosmic background radiation, thought to be left over from the Big Bang, can get as cold as 3 Kelvin, or -455°F. The only place known to have such low temperatures is the Boomerang Nebula, with recorded temperatures of -458°F, making it the coldest place in the universe.
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Winner of the Better Society 2021 Built Environment Award, this project uses a brand-new technology that has potential to transform sustainable construction in Malawi, Africa, and beyond. Traditional clay bricks are fired for 24 hours, using vast quantities of firewood and contributing to deforestation in Malawi. However, DURABRIC blocks are mechanically compressed bricks made of local earth, sand, cement and water, and most importantly, they do not require firing.
These bricks can be made on any construction site with machines that compress the raw materials into a brick, rather than baking them, which significantly cuts emissions and saves 14 trees for every house built. By providing on-site training, the project helps ensure local manufacturers and builders adopt and use the new technology. In addition to cutting carbon emissions, this project improves the quality and standard of house building – making homes safer for families in Malawi.
These innovative brick walls cost 20% less than traditional woodfired brick walls thanks to their material efficiency.
In addition to delivering emissions reductions to take climate action (SDG 13), the project delivers additional benefits. The SDG contributions have been indicatively measured, but need to be confirmed:
- Life on Land: Each home built saves 14 trees on average, reducing the demand for wood and therefore reducing local deforestation and conserving habitats.
- Decent Work and Economic Growth: This project is creating skilled manufacturing jobs in rural communities, providing training and new source of income.
- Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: These stronger, more resilient construction materials help create more sustainable homes, schools, and hospitals in Malawi.
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According to the Fernandez administration, debt service will occur once Argentina has reached fiscal balance, increased its monetary reserves, and lower the exchange rate.
Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez announced the preparation of the “Multi-year Economic Program for Sustainable Development” (MEPSD) bill, a fiscal policy instrument that will include new payment conditions for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans contracted by President Mauricio Macri (2015 -2019).
“The program contemplates the results of the negotiations between our government and the IMF, which did not renounce to the principles of economic growth and social inclusion,” Fernandez said and announced that his bill will be presented to Congress in December.
Although not all the details of the program have been made public, it is known that his administration hopes to reach an agreement with the IMF to begin paying the multilateral debt by 2026.
Debt service will occur once Argentina has reached fiscal balance, increased its monetary reserves, and lower the exchange rate.
To achieve all this, Fernandez must reach a broad consensus within Congress, where opposition parties such as "Together for Change" have numerous lawmakers. His multi-year economic program, however, is already supported by the “Front for All” party, the Lower House President Sergio Massa, and Vice President Cristina Fernandez.
The debt operations carried out by former President Macri, which have been disastrous for the Argentine economy, are plagued with illegalities and irregularities.
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Al-Jazeera TV, 1 January 2007. Interview with Iraqi writer Dr Walid al-Zubaydi.
Commenting on the possible "ramifications" of executing Saddam Husayn, Al-Zubaydi says: "Undoubtedly, the US occupation in Iraq wanted the last moment of the execution to drag the Iraqis into what is worse after the failure to carry out the most dangerous conspiracy against the Iraqi people; namely, sectarian sedition."
He adds that the last footage of the execution was leaked to the media "according to a US plan that depends on the effects of the psychological war and propaganda that aim at achieving a clearly known objective."
Al-Zubaydi says: "Obviously, the last footage was taken wilfully and carefully. In order to avert any legal responsibility concerning the media, they fabricated things to show that the footage was taken stealthily. Everybody knows that the Americans surround the chamber [of execution ], and cameras cannot be allowed in. So they invented the idea of using mobile phones although no violations can take place. However, this is a play designed to foment sedition. They prepared some people to arouse a certain sect to show that the execution was implemented on sectarian grounds.
He continues to say: "I believe that this is the last attempt by the administration of the occupation to penetrate the Iraqi society."
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In this issue of American Family Physician, Kiraly and colleagues highlight common medical comorbidities and potential medication interactions in patients with serious mental illness.1 Primary care physicians commonly care for patients with serious mental illness, who often have comorbid medical illnesses that are untreated, under-treated, or undiagnosed. Although persons with serious mental illness have a greater chronic disease burden than the general population, they receive primary care treatment much less often. Only one half of persons with serious mental illness report seeing a regular physician or nurse practitioner for health care.2
Many aspects of serious mental illness can contribute to inadequate medical care. Symptoms from mental illness can impair the person's ability to recognize and interpret important medical symptoms and communicate concerns to a physician. Cognitive problems can make it difficult for patients to remember medical recommendations and plan for future health care needs.3–5 Economic barriers also present significant challenges for this population. One third to one half of persons with serious mental illness are at or near the federal poverty level, and nearly 80 percent of these persons are unemployed.5–9 Difficulty finding transportation, attending medical appointments, and paying for medications can also make receiving optimal care more challenging.
Kiraly and colleagues note that lack of health insurance, decreased access to care, and cost are important barriers to adequate health care in patients with serious mental illness.1 In addition, high rates of nonadherence to treatment can inhibit health care in this population. More than one half of patients with serious mental illness report that they do not take their psychiatric and other medications regularly and that they have difficulty keeping appointments and recognizing symptoms.5,10 Patients sometimes avoid medical care because of negative past experiences or a fear of hospitalization.11 Others report delaying care because they do not think their symptoms will be taken seriously.12
Resources or referrals to help patients with serious mental illness access medication assistance programs, health insurance, or disability support may decrease the economic difficulties that these patients face.3,11 In addition, when prescribing medications for homeless patients with serious mental illness, physicians should inquire about whether the patient will be able to store the medications properly. Physicians should also pay attention to adverse effects such as sedation and impaired alertness, which can affect the patient's safety.13 Table 1 presents strategies for addressing potential barriers to adequate primary care.
As new research has highlighted the medical risks associated with serious mental illness and the psychiatric medications used for treatment, physicians have debated who is best suited to oversee the medical care of these patients. The American Psychiatric Association recommends that physicians work with psychiatrists to manage medical issues, but that psychiatrists also maintain basic skills for screening and monitoring medical diseases common in these patients (e.g., cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes).14
If working independently, physicians and psychiatrists may lack important health information about the patient; therefore, a growing number of organizations have called for better collaboration between primary care and mental health professionals.3,9 This may involve seeking patient permission for health care professionals to share notes, lists of medications, and hospitalization data as well as joint contact with caregivers to share ideas and information. If the locations of medical services are close, coordinating patient appointments may be helpful.
Kiraly and colleagues outline important elements of medical care for patients with serious mental illness.1 Although it may require extra effort to ensure high-quality care in these patients, primary care physicians who recognize the challenges and work with patients to encourage ongoing relationships can have a significant impact on the morbidity and mortality in this under-served population.
|High rate of chronic disease||Screen regularly|
|Medication adverse effects||Monitor medications and laboratory testing results|
|High rate of tobacco use||Urge tobacco cessation as a key health intervention|
|Unhealthy behaviors (e.g., poor diet, lack of exercise, lack of safe sexual practices)||Offer preventive care to all patients|
|Medical visits typically occur only for acute care instead of for chronic conditions||Encourage follow-up appointments for chronic disease and preventive care|
|Disparities in care in some settings||Monitor quality of care and services provided|
|Lack of coordination between mental health professionals and primary care physicians||Collaborate with mental health professionals when possible; document names and agencies|
|Poverty, lack of health insurance, unemployment||Connect patients with needed social services when possible; be aware of economic barriers|
|Homelessness||Consider medication storage needs; limit the use of sedating medications|
|Lack of transportation||Be aware of external barriers that may affect adherence to the care plan|
|Cognitive impairment||Recognize the risk of deficits in memory, recall, and understanding; encourage caretaker participation, if appropriate|
|Fear that the physician will not take symptoms seriously||Take patient concerns seriously, especially because these patients are more likely to delay care|
|Physician stereotypes of patients with mental illness||Treat patients respectfully; include patient in medical care decision making|
|Difficulty expressing urgency||Provide options for urgent visits|
|Psychiatric symptoms||Recognize symptoms that interfere with care; understand that patients may not have control over depression, anxiety, avolition, or delusions|
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The aim of this paper is to defend a type of pluralistic philosophical theory that addresses the specific characteristics of Latin American religious diversity. In order to do this, I will first try to show how, from a Latin American perspective, the discussion of religious diversity necessarily imposes the concept of syncretism and how this concept can be understood within the debate about diversity. After that, I will defend an understanding of religiosity that takes syncretism as somethingdoi:10.1515/opth-2018-0017 fatcat:vmi34ewwana5tnsi636ybu5qpi | <urn:uuid:51e87d60-c2a8-4a88-94a4-56904c5ace16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.archive.org/work/tlixdcjojzhwbdokihntqg4kby | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.922209 | 175 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Just a few days ago, we covered a cross-platform task manager named Conqu, which allows you to manage the tasks by providing a comprehensive set of features, including Quick Add, Tags, Dates etc. Today, we stumbled across an open source application called RedNotebook. It is not exactly a task manager, but more of a journal where you can record just about anything you want. You can write pending tasks, note down important events or use it as an everyday e-diary. It includes calendar, customizable templates, save and export options and a word cloud. You can manage the entries via tag feature, which helps you quickly search the journal entry you want to view or edit. More on RedNotebook after the break.
The main interface is divided into four sections; Calendar and Word Cloud in the left, middle pane is for viewing and editing text, while tag editor is available in the right pane.
You can, either create a new template for noting down the new tasks, or load and edit an existing template. Each template can be saved with a different name, such as Family, Work, Meeting, Call etc., which allows you to easily differentiate between each type of entry. The Format drop-down menu has simple editing options, such as Bold, Italics, Underline and Strikethrough, while the Insert menu lets you add text items with Picture, File, Link, Horizontal Line (splitter), Date and Time Stamps etc.
RedNotebook gives you detailed statistics about the document that is currently being edited. The statistics include total number of words, lines, letters, distinct words, edited days, letter and a lot more. These statistics can be viewed from the Journal menu. To work in a distraction-free environment, just enable the built-in Full-Screen mode by pressing F11 on your keyboard.
The Preferences dialog box can be accessed from the Edit menu. It lets you to specify the default Font Size, Date/Time Format and specify words that you want to include or exclude from Word Cloud.
The applications contains a lot of noteworthy features including:
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I am not exactly an expert when it comes to woodwork, so I have a
question. I have been using MEK to help me remove wood glue. Does
anyone use anything else that doesn't cause cancer. I'm looking at a
short life expectancy here.
There's always water when the glue is wet (although nobody's proved
that water DOESN'T cause cancer...), or a chisel once the glue has
just started to dry. If you have a lot of squeeze-out, you should
probably use less glue in the first place.
Or are you talking about removing glue that's already cured from
inside joints? For dissembly/restoration, I've heard that either
moist heat or vinegar can help.
There's also a product called waxilit that can be spread on bare wood
near your glue joint, so squeeze-out won't stick to the wood. The wax
can then be removed with alcohol, and it won't interfere with
finishing (or so they advertise - I haven't tried it).
I use a scraper or slightly dull chisel or plane iron while the glue
is still "snot" consistency.
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wander in and post:
<snip>. I have been using MEK to help me remove wood glue. <snip>
Why? Sounds more like a troll then a valisd post to me - too many
details left out.
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I'd use anything else besides MEK!!!! I try to get it off right away with a
moist paper towel. I've had to sand also. MEK is one of the first chemicals
the Air force tried to get rid of starting back in the early 80s very nasty
stuff cancer, birth defects etc.
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
This is a pointer to the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for MEK. The
stuff is flammable, the vapor makes you woozy, it dissolves the fat out
of your skin causing irritation, drinking it is bad for you, but it is
not a cancer risk. From the description it doesn't sound any more
dangerous than gasoline. I don't keep gasoline indoors and I don't use
it for cleaning stuff 'cause of the fire hazard. MEK doesn't vaporize
quite as readily as gasoline, but it does vaporize and the vapors are
heavier than air, which means they build up in a room rather than
floating away into the air.
MEK dissolves plastics, floor tile, some paints, linoleum, Krylon,
and more, so a spill of even a small container can make quite a mess.
They still sell it in ordinary hardware stores around here, so it isn't
a sudden death kind of chemical.
The solvents no longer sold are the older chlorinated solvents like
carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane.
You are correct in all but one point. MEK is highly
evaporative. If you stick your hand into a bucket of MEK,
when you pull it out, it will be completely dry in less than
15 seconds. I know, I have done it many times. If you leave
a pan or bucket of MEK uncovered, it will be gone in less than
12 hours. This indicates to me that it evaporates much more
quickly than gasoline.
FWIW, don't clean your glasses with MEK if you have plastic
lenses, unless you just want to get new glasses.
So will a weak household ammonia solution, and probably rubbing alcohol
and hydrogen peroxide, with way less potential side effects.
All you're doing is removing the PI oils that irritate the skin. There
is a commercial product, Technu, that does the same.
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The best harp for kids will be the correct size, priced within your budget, and play well. There are many cheap and toy versions of harps available, but the best harp for kids will be the same quality as a professional, adult-sized harp but scaled down so that a child can easily play it. Not many brick and mortar music stores have harps for kids, so you will probably have to shop through online retailers or through catalogs to find a child-sized harp.
Before you begin shopping, think about how much you are willing to spend on a harp for kids. Many adults, when faced with a child who wants to learn to play a certain instrument, make the mistake of purchasing the cheapest instrument available. The argument is that the child may become bored with the instrument, and this keeps the adult from wasting too much money.
The problem with cheap instruments is that they are cheaply made. A harp for kids that is inexpensive is also typically harder to play and to keep in tune and has poor sound quality, which discourages even the most enthusiastic students. It is better to buy the best quality instrument you can afford.
If a high quality instrument is out of your budget, consider renting for the first three months, and then talk to the supplier about a monthly payment plan. Many retailers will deduct the cost of the previous month's rent from the total cost of the instrument if you decide to buy. A high quality lap harp is another option, since these instruments are much cheaper than their larger cousins, the lever harps.
A lap harp typically has 20-30 strings. It rests in the musician's lap while playing. Complex music can still be played on these instruments, but since they are small, the pitch of the strings is not very low. All strings must be tuned individually, so it is not possible to quickly change from one musical mode to the next. The advantage of this style is that it is very inexpensive and portable.
A lever harp has 30-48 strings and sits on the floor. The musician sits on a chair or low stool to play the harp. The lever harp has a greater range of sound than the lap harp with a good high and low end. Most lever harps can adjust the pitch one or two half steps, allowing the musician to play in various musical modes. They are shaped more like an orchestra harp, or full-sized harp, and students should have little trouble transitioning to a larger size when they outgrow the lever harp.
When you're shopping for a harp, the best way to determine quality is to play the instrument or to have someone play it for you. If you're not a harpist yourself, consider asking a harp teacher to accompany you and to help you decide on the best quality instrument. If nothing else, you can pluck the strings, listening for clear treble strings and full bass strings.
The wood should be just that: wood. Particle board or pressed wood is typically a sign of poor quality. There are some hybrids which use laminate or plywood, but the best harps for kids are made from woods like maple, birch, or spruce. Harps typically come in a variety of finishes, which have little effect on the sound.
Some harps are decorated with artistic carvings. Be careful that you are not overcome with the beauty of the instrument and forget to check it for its practical qualities. A lovely instrument must still play well and be within your budget. True enjoyment will be found not from looking at the instrument but from playing it, so a plain instrument with an excellent sound is better than a beautiful instrument with a mediocre sound.
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Loft Labs Introduces Vcluster, a Kubernetes Virtual Cluster Innovation
Loft Labs provides a solution for the complexity of multi cluster creation.
Software Studio, Loft Labs, on March 13, 2021, launched a virtual Kubernetes cluster (Vclusters), an innovative panacea for the heavy workload on Kubernetes. It is now freely available on Github.
The project is launched under the popular Apache 2.0 source code allowing indiscriminate access.
Virtual clusters run a unique cluster creation mechanism compared to real clusters.
The Vclusters support software multi-tenancy.
Multiple cluster creation and management have always been tricky subjects. Anyone could draw containers up, use the contents, and shut them down, easily. That is not the case when dealing with multiple containers. In this case, working with or on dozens to thousands of containers needs to employ a platform equipped with the automated operational ability to run containerized workloads and services, a container orchestrator, the most popular being Kubernetes.
However, the adoption of this container service does not suddenly make it a walk in the park. Loft Labs came up with an answer to one of the most persistent questions in Kubernetes container orchestration; cluster creation. Creating multiple clusters means a lot of hands-on-deck, a lot of time needed, a lot of money and infrastructure consumed with no end—a 2019 startup dedicated to creating open source tools and virtual cluster technology. Loft Labs says DevOps teams can create lightweight, fast virtual clusters with far fewer demands than real clusters with Vclusters. Synced with Kubernetes, each Vcluster works with a designated Kubernetes cluster.
Vcluster is the first actually working virtualization technology for Kubernetes,
Fabian Kramm, CTO of Loft Labs, had a few to say,
There are other similar solutions being developed; however, Vcluster is the only one that is already being used in production by a variety of companies.
Another difference between real clusters and virtual clusters is how they rely on apportioning workloads inside the underlying Kubernetes cluster, maintaining their control plane.
As characteristic of virtual clusters, Vclusters operate as a single pod of two containers.
A data store, by default, SQLite, an API server, and a controller manager of lightweight K3s, a certified and recognized Kubernetes distribution in the sandbox level of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project ranks, are the major constituents of the Control Plane.
Virtual clusters do not have schedulers, they have syncers instead. Scheduling is done by the host cluster after the pods that need scheduling have been copied by the syncer, after which the Vcluster enforces the synchronization of the Vcluster pod and host cluster pod.
The idea is, instead of creating a heavyweight, resource-hungry, isolated clusters, they should create something accessible, light, and easy to use.
This means the financial strain along with the infrastructure needed to create Vclusters is much lesser compared to infinitely creating heavyweight real clusters.
Vclusters do not only offer financially affordable alternatives than real clusters, they support multiple independent operations in a shared environment, multitenancy. Subscribers can also use Vclusters for practice or illustrations without fear of the main clusters being affected.
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Winning at Trial with a Dynamic PowerPoint Presentation
Applies to: PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003
Author: Robert Lane and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn
Date Created: July 1st 2009
Last Updated: June 14th 2012
The Need for Flexibility
The change of perspective came while experimenting with PowerPoint’s built-in interactivity tools. By combining shapes, pictures, and hyperlinks, Bruce created what are known as navigation styles—simple hyperlinking strategies that allow random movement within, and between, slide shows. Before long, and using nothing more than standard PowerPoint software, he could approach jurors with a highly flexible, interlinked collection of about 200 slides. Any topic was displayable within seconds, in any order. Plus, content could be reviewed at a later time, or skipped altogether.
Bruce: “It felt a little strange at first. Interactive delivery is quite different from plowing through a fixed sequence of slides. You need to know your content well and get in the habit of asking yourself, ‘Do I have a slide that can help me make this point or answer that question?’ I had to give up the robotic dependency on PowerPoint to spoon-feed me the next topic every time. The next topic was whatever I wanted it to be. It was a liberating. My presentation style gradually began taking on a more conversational, spontaneous feel—which was fun.
“Here’s an example of how the process works, something you can do with your presentation materials, as well. Let’s say hypothetically I am representing a client in an automobile accident injury case. Certain kinds of pictures might be very helpful, right?
“I probably will want pictures of the vehicles involved: close-ups, full-views, various angles, inside and outside perspectives. I need pictures of the accident scene: skid marks, damage to plants or signs, security camera captures, if available, and so forth. Pictures of the environment might be helpful: shadows, the sun angle, anything that might be distracting to motorists at that intersection.
“Eventually, I end up with quite a few images. Certainly I could throw them all into a long, linear slide show like everyone else, but there’s a better strategy. I want to have instant, individual control over which of these pictures are shown, at the right time. That’s how I, and you, will simulate that CSI Effect mentioned earlier.”
A Look at Showcase Navigation
“One of the simplest, yet effective, navigation styles I might choose for this kind of content is a back and forth process Robert calls Showcase navigation. Here’s how it works. We’ll use the same three categories of pictures mentioned above and turn them into an interactive PowerPoint presentation as shown in Figure 4.
“Assume we have 8
pictures per category—24 in all. That means our PowerPoint presentation
must have a total of 25 slides. We need one slide for each picture, and
then one additional special slide at the beginning of the show called
a switchboard. That first slide
(Figure 5) contains small thumbnail representations
of the full-sized pictures appearing on the show’s remaining 24 slides.
The thumbnails, not surprisingly, link directly to their respective picture
slides, allowing the speaker to quickly find and display any full-sized
Note: In evidentiary situations where showing the switchboard’s thumbnails might be inappropriate, use PowerPoint’s screen blackout feature to temporarily hide the display while making a selection.
“Of course, once a particular picture is displayed that’s not the end of the story. The speaker must be able to immediately return to the switchboard slide for additional choices. So, the trick of how Showcase navigation works is to also link all the full-sized pictures back to slide 1. That action completes the loop. While performing, a presenter first clicks a thumbnail to display its picture content full-screen, and then clicks that picture to again access the switchboard. The process can be repeated over and over again with as many pictures as desired.
“Notice, too, that the thumbnails in Figure 1 are arranged on the slide in groups, according to their focus. If a vehicle picture is needed, for example, the speaker can completely ignore the other two categories while searching. Such grouping strategies improve the efficiency of interactive presentation methods, reducing time spent moving between topics.”
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2008 : The year of wine hoaxes and winning blends
"We taste with both our tongues and our minds, and it's easy to lead minds astray" warns Edward Dolnick, author of "The Forger's Spell". I stumbled across a fascinating leader page article on infamous food and wine hoaxes in the International Herald Tribune
(3 September 2008). The author warns, "Experts make the best victims of
fraud because they jump to unwarranted conclusions .
An expert on the psychology of fraud and forgery, Dolnick believes that overconfidence is the fraudster's best ally - helped by a high price-tag. He's fond of quoting magicians who believe "When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool" - and enjoy "finding smart people who bring a lot to the table - cultural experience, shared expectations, pre-conceptions. The more they bring, the more there is to work with."
The review analyses well-publicised hoaxes perpetrated on a gullible public in 2008 like the creation of a fictitious wine list and restaurant by wine critic Robert Goldstein which won a Wine Spectator "award of excellence" in 2008 - and the great fish forgery in New York where fancy restaurants passed off tilapia as tuna. In another recent hoax, psychologists fooled volunteers invited to a "strawberry yoghurt tasting" who were then given chocolate yoghurt - two-thirds praised the strawberry flavour.
Dolnick also draws on the legendary wine hoax of 2002 - where a French researcher fooled every expert at a tasting by adding a tasteless, odourless red additive to white wine. Brochet concluded, "About 2 or 3% of people detect the white wine flavour but invariably they have little experience of wine culture. Connoisseurs tend to fail to do so. The more training they have, the more mistakes they make." Dolnick concludes, "For the experts, the term 'red wine' carries countless associations. The amateurs' ignorance keeps them from exploring subtle byways; they can't wander too far."
Stanley Fish, columnist for the New York Times, offers a second opinion on fooling the experts, "Fooled but not foiled". "The moral is that a hoax that is sufficiently and painstakingly elaborated can deceive anyone if conditions are favourable. The success of a hoax reflects on the skill of the hoaxer and says nothing about the substantive views of those who were fooled by it." Food (and wine) for thought indeed.
There are many ways of looking at wine - whether tasting sighted or unsighted. Expectations and cultural preconceptions play a huge role. I saw wine from a different perspective at a recent Bouchard Finlayson tasting at The Roundhouse in Camps Bay.
The wine steward serving our table - a young black graduate of the innovative Let's Sell Lobster Bush Logic course - expertly demonstrated his new wine knowledge and training. While pouring decanted vintages of Galpin Peak Pinot Noir, he compared the variety "which can be like a red wine and a white wine to the hippopotamus which also can't make up its mind whether it wants to live on land or water"; and a line-up of (wooded) Bouchard Finlayson Chardonnay to the distinctive cry of the fish eagle which lives in the trees. We weren't drinking Cabernet - but in case you're wondering, it's the elephant - big-structured, thick-skinned and with great longevity.
The Italian varieties in the new Hannibal 2006 - an eclectic blend of Sangiovese, Nebbiolo and Barbera with Shiraz, Mourvedre and Pinot Noir - are the winemaker's tribute to the African general who crossed the Alps by elephant. I've also enjoyed sampling Morgenster's new Italian collection - Nabucco 2006 (made from Nebbiolo grapes) inspired by Verdi's story of love, passion and exile in a Babylonian court; and Morgenster Tosca 2006, a blend of Sangiovese with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
At a seminar on new trends in blends at Cape Wine 2008, I tasted an intriguing line-up of new flavours which cross the frontiers of traditional Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone assemblages - and may fool many an expert. Are new world blends the way forward for redefining brand South Africa? Coming on-stream, exciting newer varieties (think Mourvedre, Grenache and Italian) are adding diversity to red blends - and encouraging winemakers to develop individualistic signature wines. At the seminar, we tasted Waterford's 2004 Mediterranean mix of Syrah, Mourvedre, Petit Verdot and Barbera; Ken Forrester's Gypsy 2004 (Shiraz and Grenache); Idiom SMV, Fairview Caldera and Adi Badenhorst's innovative blends of rare white/red varieties.
Co-chair Ginette du Fleuriot, Cape wine master, concluded, "These are early days for the use of different varieties and terroir in new blends. Cape winemakers and viticulturalists are in an experimental phase. Vergelegen started the trend in white wine towards coastal blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon (epitomised by Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2006 which initially won Duncan Savage 2008 Diners Club Winemaker of the Year). Gone are the days of over-oaked white wine. Chenin Blanc and Viognier are the other pivotal varieties in new world blends" - like the superb Vondeling Babiana, Lammershoek Roulette and De Grendel Winifred we tasted.
Is the super-premium category of blends primarily there to create a halo effect for top-end cellars? At the lower end, are the cheap-and-cheerful blends driving the bigger-volume export brands moving consumers away from varietal wines and encouraging consumers to try the emerging new flavours in South African wine? Dave Hughes, chairman of the Diner's Club panel, comments on the top dry white blend category, "The standing of white blends in the marketplace has been transformed in the last ten years thanks to exciting releases from high-quality cellars like Cape Point Vineyards".
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Govindghat: Hundreds of flies buzzed busily around uncollected garbage strewn along the main road. Home and shop owners seemed to have had just enough time to lock their homes and leave their town in an eerie silence. The ground under the helipad - belonging to a company that ferried rich pilgrims to Hemkund Sahib and right near the banks of the Alaknanda - had swept away.
The smell of death and destruction is nauseating enough to send us in a tizzy. Govindghat is now a ghost town.
Travelling from Dehradun to Joshimath, the carnage the flash floods had caused in several parts of Uttarakhand was obvious to us. The river had changed its course dramatically at many places, gobbling all that came in its way. Homes, guest houses, roads, vehicles, dams and people, nothing was spared.
But the destruction at Govindghat was altogether at another level. Gut-wrenching and almost unbelievable. The road leading to the town abruptly ended into open space as nearly 500 metres had vanished along with a large chunk of the mountain side.
"There were lodges and shops all along the road. In a moment they disappeared into the angry waters. Nothing much also remains of the Gurudwara," Mushtaq Mohammed, a khachchar (mule owner) and local tells us shooing away flies that irritate him. "There was also a car park with over 200 vehicles. They now belong to the river."
There were no remains of these vehicles anywhere. No one had any idea as to how many drivers and locals had been killed here. But what remains here are multi-storeyed hotels that collapsed, one floor sandwiched on another. And concrete pillars that once supported a happy structure, lie in the muddy river waters.
"These hotels were at least 30 feet above the river level. The water rose by another 20 feet. So that's a total of 50 feet of extra water moving at a very high speed. Forget me, no one has ever seen something like this," Mushtaq continued.
Govindghat is the last common halt for pilgrims heading to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib. But it is more important for Sikhs as this is where the motorable road end to Hemkund ends. Pilgrims then have to walk 18 km or hop on a mule.
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What they don't understand is the logistical difficulty of such an exercise. But their demand is certainly legitimate as their livelihoods depend on these animals. "They need food. There are about 700 mules just across the river and they are all waiting to cross over. Two have died. Plus they have eaten all the grass that's around. What do we feed them?" one of them asked claiming no "rations" had been supplied by the government for the mules.
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Afghanistan's first football Premier League, a six-week tournament pitting eight teams from the across the nation against each other, has been a huge success.
Football has always been dear to the Afghan people. In decades past, the national team travelled across the Asian continent in international matches, but the new league is the first series of organised matches pitting local teams against each other.
With 65 per cent of the population under 25, organisers see young people as the driving force behind the league's resounding success.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Kabul where Herat's Toofan Harirod beat Mazar-e-Sharif's Simorgh Alborz to become league champions.
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Although its space industry employs about 11,500 people, Australia is one of the few major developed countries to not have a space agency. But that’s about to change after a domestic industry review called for a dedicated body to be established.
Industry Minister Michaelia Cash said it was “crucial” that Australia capitalized on the growth of the global space industry.
“The agency will be the anchor for our domestic coordination and the front door for our international engagement,” said Cash.
The government is expected to announce further details at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide.
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Educational and skills-based interventions are often used to prevent relationship and dating violence among young people.
To assess the efficacy of educational and skills-based interventions designed to prevent relationship and dating violence in adolescents and young adults.
We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, six other databases and a trials register on 7 May 2012. We handsearched the references lists of key articles and two journals (Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Child Abuse and Neglect). We also contacted researchers in the field.
Randomised, cluster-randomised and quasi-randomised studies comparing an educational or skills-based intervention to prevent relationship or dating violence among adolescents and young adults with a control.
Data collection and analysis:
Two review authors independently assessed study eligibility and risk of bias. For each study included in the meta-analysis, data were extracted independently by GF and one other review author (either CH, JN, SH or DS). We conducted meta-analyses for the following outcomes: episodes of relationship violence, behaviours, attitudes, knowledge and skills.
We included 38 studies (15,903 participants) in this review, 18 of which were cluster-randomised trials (11,995 participants) and two were quasi-randomised trials (399 participants). We included 33 studies in the meta-analyses. We included eight studies (3405 participants) in the meta-analysis assessing episodes of relationship violence. There was substantial heterogeneity (I2 = 57%) for this outcome. The risk ratio was 0.77 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.53 to 1.13). We included 22 studies (5256 participants) in the meta-analysis assessing attitudes towards relationship violence. The standardised mean difference (SMD) was 0.06 (95% CI -0.01 to 0.15). We included four studies (887 participants) in the meta-analysis assessing behaviour related to relationship violence; the SMD was -0.07 (95% CI -0.31 to 0.16). We included 10 studies (6206 participants) in the meta-analysis assessing knowledge related to relationship violence; the results showed an increase in knowledge in favour of the intervention (SMD 0.44, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.60) but there was substantial heterogeneity (I2 = 52%). We included seven studies (1369 participants) in the meta-analysis assessing skills related to relationship violence. The SMD was 0.03 (95% CI -0.11 to 0.17). None of the included studies assessed physical health, psychosocial health or adverse outcomes. Subgroup analyses showed no statistically significant differences by intervention setting or type of participants. The quality of evidence for all outcomes included in our meta-analysis was moderate due to an unclear risk of selection and detection bias and a high risk of performance bias in most studies.
Studies included in this review showed no evidence of effectiveness of interventions on episodes of relationship violence or on attitudes, behaviours and skills related to relationship violence. We found a small increase in knowledge but there was evidence of substantial heterogeneity among studies. Further studies with longer-term follow-up are required, and study authors should use standardised and validated measurement instruments to maximise comparability of results.
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Search for Prehistoric Sites Challenges Archaeologists
Author(s): Martin Stein
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min long: -102.052; min lat: 36.993 ; max long: -94.588; max lat: 40.003 ;
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There are a bunch of musicians (and I am including students, teachers and dilletantes under that heading) who actually READ music and the quality of the music they read can range from 29th generation photocopy to Store bought “no you cant borrow it” pristine to handwritten in ebony black, hand mixed calligraphers ink containg exotic gums and resins from around the world on hand made paper from the finest materials. OK, ok. I am making up the last one, it’s usually a chicken scratch half working biro on the back of a cigarette pack or beer coaster. But you get the point. Now some of the more awake amongst you will be aware of Finale and a bevy of other PC based music writers, and rightfully point out that these programs are available for an amount not dissimilar to putting a small child through the Victorian Education system from kindergarten to the end of university (think LOTS).
“Well spotted” I say except for one teeny tiny objection… they are musicians. THEY HAVE NO MONEY.
Now to redress this the Open Source Community has leapt to the front and made available (for a price even musicians can afford i.e. its free) LilyPond music printing
We will now start the quote from the hype machine…
“LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. Best of all. It is Open Source Software (‘open source’).
Features of LilyPond
Music language input.
The input is done in the form of a textual music language.
Entry may be done with the text editor of your choice, and using the national language of your choice.
The ASCII input language can integrate with TeX, HTML and Texinfo, thus allowing musicological treatises to be written from a single source.
The music and its layout are strictly separated, so score and parts (possibly in different styles and keys) and scores can be generated from the same source, and changes always take effect in both places.
The output can be improved by upgrading the program.
Pieces can be printed in different (typographical) house styles, or according to different notational conventions.”
and as Yul Brynner once wisely observed “Etcetera. Etcetera.”
Now the spiffy thing is that it runs on MacOS X and Linux (lots of flavours, and I believe its included in Ubuntu) and Windows.
It Is seriously well supported with a lot of documentation and you can read all about it at their site.
So why would you stop using your 134th generation pirated copy of Finale? Well for one the moral high ground, you will be able to sneer at those hypocrites in the music industry who decry “pirates” while having a hard drive full of copped material.
The program, as noted above is pretty well OS ecumenical. You dont get tied down to any one machine (some may not see this as a plus… I do).
You put the “commercial” manufacturers on notice to lift their game.
The biggy though is that from the samples I saw, it looks beautiful. The output of Lilypond is really first rate and legible.
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School-Wide Writing Policy
SCHOOL-WIDE WRITING POLICY
Objectives in all disciplines:
Students will be able to:
- Apply acquired vocabulary in context across content areas.
- Choose to write independently and creatively, expressing ideas in a logical and coherent manner.
- Implement writing as a process, which includes pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, proof-reading and publishing.
- See the connection between their reading and their writing in all content areas.
- Transfer major concepts from reading to writing, incorporating facts, details and ideas.
- Use the Library Media Center and the Internet to further enhance research and writing skills.
- Use strategies and skills to create meaning.
- Write in response to a variety of tasks and for different purposes.
- Write “SMART” goals across content areas.
Expectations in all disciplines
- Students will have access to exemplars and rubrics that clearly set expectations for writing and assessment.
- Students will plan and set individual “SMART” goals for each content area.
- Teachers will assess student writing and hold students accountable for writing assignments.
- Teachers will expect students to write at home in response to homework assignments.
- Teachers will identify and teach the writing skills required in each discipline and for Regents/RCT exams and other assessments. These writing skills should be taught as part of the curriculum during the school term and reflected in homework assignments, and classroom and final exams.
- Teachers will model the writing process in all content classes.
- Teachers will provide daily opportunities for students to respond in writing. The written assignment must be challenging and complex, so that students can develop and support their thoughts. Suggested activities include responding to the ‘Do Now,’ in journals, critical thinking questions in the workshop part of the lesson, or summarizing the main ideas of the lesson.
- Teachers will provide opportunities for the teaching of grammar, usage, spelling, and the expansion of vocabulary in context.
- Teachers will use and monitor a variety of writing strategies appropriate for writing tasks in content classes.
- Teachers will use writing as a way for students to discover their ideas. Different ways for students to use writing as a way of discovering ideas include: brainstorming, lists, clustering, free writing, reading journals, double entry notebooks, etc.
- Critical lens, expository, narrative, argumentative and persuasive essays
- I-Search and Research Reports
- Notebooks, journals and literature logs
- Questions for extended response
- Regents writing tasks
- SAT I and II (Essay)
- Are students aware of what is considered an exemplary written response to a task?
- Are students aware of the rubric that will be used to assess their writing?
- Are students aware of their specific goals and how to achieve them?
- Can students analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources as well as charts, graphs, tables, cartoons, and non-fiction articles and integrate this information into their writing?
- Can students analyze and interpret the writing task as to audience and purpose?
- Can students choose to write independently and creatively, expressing ideas in a logical and coherent manner?
- Can students implement writing as a process, which includes pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, proofreading and publishing?
- Can students incorporate expanded vocabulary into written assignments?
- Can students see the connection between their reading and their writing in all content areas?
- Can students take notes of different kinds of oral, visual and printed material and incorporate important information into their writing?
- Can students transfer major concepts from reading to writing, incorporating facts, details and ideas?
- Can students use the Library Media Center and the Internet to further enhance research and writing skills?
- Can students use strategies and skills to create meaning?
- Can students write in response to a variety of tasks and for different purposes?
Writing in Content Classes: Please note that additional or replacement writing assignments may be incorporated to ensure alignment with the Common Core Learning Standards as more information about the CCLS assessments becomes available.
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Although gaining large muscles is generally associated with men, women can also achieve a ripped physique by implementing exercises that effectively develop strength and muscle size. Dumbbells are weighted implements that play an important part in this and can help you build significant muscle mass. Master proper exercise form, and for quick results, lift dumbbells as frequently as possible with each session consisting of high sets and repetitions, while still allowing your muscles to rest.
Split your muscle groups into separate workout sessions throughout the week. Focus on your chest and shoulders on Mondays and Thursdays, your back and legs on Tuesdays and Fridays, and your biceps and triceps on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Allow yourself to rest completely on Sunday. Splitting up your muscle groups will maximize your workout effectiveness, because you’ll be able to complete more exercises for each muscle group.
Complete at least eight sets of exercises that target the muscle groups you’re assigned to develop, according to Dr. Joseph A. Chromiak of National Strength and Conditioning Association. For example, on your chest and shoulders day, complete at least eight sets for your chest and eight sets for your shoulders. You can do this by choosing two exercises for each muscle group, completing four sets of each, or by choosing three exercises for each muscle group and completing three sets of each. Each set should be completed for six to 12 repetitions each.
Complete dumbbell exercises that effectively develop your muscles. Chest dumbbell exercises include chest press, chest flyes and incline chest press. Dumbbell exercises for your shoulders include shoulder press, lateral raises, front raises and upright rows. To develop your back with dumbbells, complete bent over rows rows, single arm rows and heavy pants. For your legs, complete dumbbell squats, lunges, deadlifts and calf raises. For your biceps, complete biceps curls, isolation curls and hammer curls. To target your triceps, complete overhead triceps extensions, kickbacks and lying triceps extensions.
- To thoroughly develop all of your major muscle groups, you’re likely to need a wide array of dumbbell weights. Larger muscles like your chest and legs will require heavier weights, while you’ll need lighter dumbbells for smaller muscles like your triceps. Use an appropriate size of dumbbell for each exercise. You should struggle to complete the final three repetitions. If you’re unable to complete six repetitions, lighten the dumbbell weight. If you complete more than 12 repetitions without an issue, increase the dumbbell weight next time.
- Do not train more often in an attempt to build muscle more quickly. Your muscles need at least 48 hours of rest in between training sessions to allow recovery and healing. According to Dr. Lee E. Brown of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, it's likely to take up to eight weeks to see increases in muscle size.
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What is it about nature that causes us you think deeper about the world? Maybe it’s how miniscule you feel next to a California Redwood, or how gigantic you feel next to a ladybug. Maybe it’s the tenacity you observe in a meandering creek, with water that never stops moving. Or maybe it’s the sweeping panoramic vistas only visible from a mountaintop. Whatever it is, most people agree that there’s something different, something spiritual, about being outside—something that makes you more aware of yourself, the world around you, and your higher power. This Earth Day, take a moment to connect to God through nature.
The “Natural Peace” exercise on the Skylight app is a five-minute mindfulness exercise that can help you have a spiritual experience through nature. You don’t need to drive to your nearest national park or even go far from your home or work; it can be as simple as taking your lunch break outside. The exercise starts with some brief breathing exercises to focus your attention on the present. You’ll learn a few techniques for being mindful outside—describing sounds, recognizing what’s out of the ordinary, and enjoying the feeling of sunshine on your face, to name a few. This contributes to the spiritual purpose of the exercise, which concludes with a thought-provoking question: “What can nature tell me about the higher power in my life?”
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In an interview with Ben Linders from InfoQ, Dan North discussed many key aspects of DevOps, specifically the importance of database DevOps. “In the future I would like database changes to be as simple as code changes,” he said. “…I should be able to make whatever changes I choose to in a development database and then ‘check it in’ like I would with code.” He made many other interesting observations and points as well, regarding various other characteristics of DevOps.
He described the important role of database administrators (DBAs) and how they need to understand the mechanics and each intricate detail of the database itself so that they can be the middleman between the developers writing queries and the operations staff running jobs. Their job covers multiple production environments, development teams, technologies, and stakeholders, forcing them to be involved in everything from turning requests into work, to applying a security patch, to responding to production issues or answering questions from the developers. It’s on them to make sure that the backups and replications are done correctly, that only the appropriate systems and users have access to the right databases, and that any unusual system behavior is successfully troubleshot.
He lamented that as it stands now, too few developers truly understand everything that goes into relational databases. When developers who are used to using C# or Java use mapping layers like Hibernate or Microsoft’s Entity Framework, the internals are hidden. This may make the process easier for them to develop basic applications where the database schema maps onto equivalent OO data structures, but can complicate things by resulting in a desired domain model that is different from the database schema. It also can negatively affect performance, availability, or scaling considerations. For this reason, having an accomplished DBA as part of your development can be extremely helpful.
The DBA is notably helpful to the operations side as well, taking responsibility for implementing a business’s replication or available strategy. While the Ops people monitor the systems, diagnose issues, and generally make sure everything is functioning, the DBAs are monitoring, diagnosing, and handling any database-related issue and defining any database management and maintenance processes that are carried out by the operations team.
He commented on the traditional role that the DBA takes on as a technology silo that functions independently, often with very little context about the needs and constraints of the business or technology. For this reason, a mix of “Production DBAs” and “Development DBAs” can work really well, with the production DBAs working on the production maintenance work and the development DBAs helping the development teams interact with the database correctly, with regards to schema design and querying. When these two teams develop a level of trust, the Production DBAs can be sure that the others will maintain a level of quality in the schema design and database queries, while the Development DBAs trust that the others will take care of the various database instances appropriately.
He concluded by talking about the importance of having DBAs as an integral part of both Development and Operations teams, utilizing DevOps for database to create a better run organization. He stressed the pivotal role DevOps plays in database management and how a well-run database that is well incorporated with the rest of the development team can drastically affect your company. | <urn:uuid:b803a348-09aa-4dbd-8581-34f9e7852383> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://dzone.com/articles/here-is-why-you-need-devops-for-database | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00003-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938916 | 677 | 2.046875 | 2 |
London Dramatic Academy
The LDA Conservatory Acting Program is for Study Abroad students who wish to train as actors in London, UK for one semester. The training is based on the curriculum and practices of the great British Classical training academies. The program has had a connection with RADA for many years and now Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Many of the faculty teach in the best of these schools and are working professionals.
What You’ll Learn
The actors’ mind, body and spirit is their instrument and must be kept in tune. LDA provides classes in Acting (Contemporary & Classical), Physical Theatre, Voice, Speech/Dialects, Period Dance, Alexander Technique, Stage Combat and Movement. Academic classes include Theatre History, Literature and Dramatic Criticism, Space/Place/Time based on regular theatre visits and site visits in and out of London.
What You’ll Achieve
Graduates have gone on to train at some of America’s and Britain’s foremost actor training programs and are pursuing careers both in the theatre and allied professions.
The skills you learn as an actor are useful tools in any walk of life. You will develop your physical and vocal potential and your communication, analytical and team building skills. A good training should last a lifetime, feeding the imagination and your understanding of human psychology.
- Increase your knowledge of poetry, literature and drama. Research in art, music and dance.
- Increase your critical skills. Question habits and assumptions. Take artistic risks in a safe environment.
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West Seattle, Washington
Thanks to Allen for the photos. Along with flowers, someone has left a pictorial memorial at the Alki Statue of Liberty, which became a Seattle gathering place after the 9/11 attacks,
While hundreds gathered there for a 10th-anniversary vigil in 2011, nothing formal is planned today/tonight.
SIDE NOTE: On 9/11/2007, the refurbished statue was unveiled. The plaza surrounding it, with a new pedestal for the statue, was dedicated a year later.
Thanks to the reader who just emailed that photo, reporting that someone has left flowers and a sign at the Alki Statue of Liberty in memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The statue has been a magnet for other civic tributes in the past (as shown in our coverage archive), most notably after 9/11.
Seven years before getting its own plaza, the Alki Statue of Liberty became a gathering point for the community on 9/11. Ten years after the attacks, an anniversary gathering filled the plaza. Other anniversaries are quiet, like today, the 17th:
We stopped by a little while ago and found that lone bouquet at the base of the statue’s pedestal.
(2008 photo by David Hutchinson)
Ten years ago today, the Statue of Liberty Plaza at Alki Beach was dedicated. The reminder is courtesy of Matt Hutchins, a West Seattle-residing architect who donated hundreds of hours of work to the project as one of the plaza’s designers. The plaza was a community-initiated and -funded enhancement to what started as simply a project to recast the statue, which was in bad shape thanks to damage including vandalism over the years. The new statue was installed on the old pedestal in 2007, and a year later it was re-dedicated on its current pedestal as part of the new plaza. You can see before-and-after photos here; our entire coverage archive of the project and other significant events involving the statue is here (in reverse chronological order).
Thanks to DN for the photo: The most-quoted lines of the poem that graces a plaque at the Statue of Liberty have been placed at the base of her little sister on Alki Beach. The poem is “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus; you can read it in full on the Statue of Liberty National Monument website.
While there’s no official observance planned at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza today, we stopped by at midmorning and found tributes already in place, on this 15th anniversary of 9/11. In the hours and days after the attacks, the statue became a focal point for Seattleites’ mourning and memorials, and that continues, to varying degrees each year.
Five years ago, on the 10th anniversary, hundreds gathered for a vigil. So far today, the tributes are quieter – even this small one we spotted:
As mentioned in our morning calendar highlights, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s Log House Museum – less than a block inland from Statue of Liberty Plaza, at 61st SW/SW Stevens – has brought out a 9/11-related display, today only. The museum is open until 4 pm.
P.S. If you are new, a bit more history — the statue itself was recast and returned to the beach in 2007, unveiled on September 11th of that year. One year later, the plaza – the result of a community-led project – was dedicated.
About an hour before sunset at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza tonight, West Seattleite Samuella Samaniego reverently removed the Orlando sympathy sash and banner she had placed on the statue five days earlier.
Hundreds signed what became a two-piece banner after its earlier removal and return; Sam says she will be sending the messages off to Orlando, where six days now have passed since 49 people were killed.
After five (interrupted) days, Samuella Samaniego says she plans to take down the Orlando-solidarity/sympathy sash and banners at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza tonight at 8 pm. She adds, “A bagpipe musician has made himself available for the removal. I realized (that) if I did not do something different (for the removal), it might end up feeling like I was simply taking down a petition that had all the signatures it needed. The people who lost their lives, and/or their loved ones, who now have to find a way to live with the loss, should be honored with something more than cutting the ties that have kept the memorial secured to the Statue.”
We visited this morning to take the photos you see above; the panels are covered in names and messages so there’s not much room to add new ones, but if you want to see them before they’re gone, or to be there this evening as a tribute, now you know.
(WSB photo, this morning)
1:08 PM: Following up on the discovery yesterday afternoon that a Seattle Parks crew had removed the Orlando-sympathy sash and banner from the Alki Statue of Liberty because of “complaints,” less than a day after West Seattleite Sam Samaniego had placed it there:
Yesterday evening, two hours after we first reported on the removal, Parks said it was a mistake and would return it today. However, as noted this morning thanks to a photo tweeted by Heather, only the banner – covered with signatures – was returned. We’ve been waiting to hear back from Parks spokesperson Dewey Potter before publishing a separate followup. Now we have. Her reply starts with something else we had requested, details on the “complaints” cited yesterday as a reason for the removal:
A member of the grounds crew was at the statue yesterday afternoon. A man approached her and identified himself as a veteran. He said he was offended by the way the banner was attached to the statue and asked her to take it down. She tried to reach her crew lead by phone and could not reach him. It was late in (her workday) and she took it down. It is now back up on the statue. The crew chief reports that the sash was not in the truck with the banner.
Good news, though – while we were writing this, Potter e-mailed again to say the sash has been found and that Parks “will have it back up late today or tomorrow.”
In her first e-mail this afternoon, she also included this:
Seattle Parks and Recreation welcomes and supports spontaneous community events whether they are to celebrate a happy event or to mourn and grieve a horrendous one. Parks are gathering places where people come to be with their neighbors, and we welcome the expressions of happiness or grief that come along with those events. We regret that the banner was removed, and hope to identify local groups who may want to make a permanent home for it, as we did after 9/11 when the Southwest Historical Society Log House Museum made a home for the artifacts left at the statue then.
At Cal Anderson Park, we are waiting 30 days before we remove any remembrances, and are trying to identify groups who might have left items they would like to claim. It is our practice to post a sign at a site with items left behind giving a date when items will be removed, to give people an opportunity to collect them.
That was noted in our original report, looking back at several instances of guerrilla art at the plaza a few years ago that had warnings posted before removal – something that did not happen in this case. We will of course be checking back to see when the sash returns (let us know if you see it first!).
5:11 PM: As noted in comments, the sash is back (albeit windblown) – we drove by about 45 minutes ago; Parks says it was put back in place at 3:20 pm.
The Alki Statue of Liberty has long been a place to gather, a place for tributes, and today it becomes that again: Sam Samaniego decided to make a sash for Lady Liberty, as a show of love in the wake of this morning’s Orlando massacre. It’s inscribed ‘From Our Coast to Yours’ and as we write, they’ve added a banner along the base that you’re invited to sign:
Sam says she’ll of course be sending the banner to Florida – but before then, she sees power in the photographs people will take, and hopes that they’re seen in Orlando so people there know people here care:
15 years ago, Alki’s mini Statue of Liberty became a gathering place to mourn the 9/11 victims, and five years ago, it drew hundreds for a tribute on the 10th anniversary of the attack.
Right now, a few floral tributes rest at the base of the Alki Statue of Liberty, simple remembrances of 9/11 on its 12th anniversary, though a shadow of what was there two years ago on the 10th anniversary:
The plaza built around the statue, a touchstone for gatherings of many kinds, has just passed a milestone anniversary of its own: Five years since its dedication on September 6, 2008. If you moved to West Seattle sometime after that, you might not realize the statue was originally on a square concrete base in a sea of asphalt:
Now, it is the centerpiece of a swirling plaza of bricks and benches:
This West Seattle icon was renovated in two stages: The statue itself was replaced and re-dedicated in 2007. By then, a local couple who had met nearby was leading a committee pursuing the vision of something grander to surround it, a new statue pedestal and plaza. Libby and Paul Carr headed up the Seattle Statue of Liberty Plaza Project, a citizens’ committee that made it happen, mostly through private donations. We saw Libby last weekend at another special event nearby and talked about the plaza’s anniversary. She later shared this remembrance:
It was wonderful to see another great example of community support and participation with the celebration of the Harbor Seal Day festivities and dedication of the “Sentinels of the Sound” sculpture just north of the Bathhouse on Alki Beach.
It reminded Paul and I of another picture-perfect day just 5 years ago … and another wonderful community celebration for the long awaited completion of the new Statue of Liberty Plaza. The Seattle Statue of Liberty Plaza Project worked for almost two years to bring this long awaited project to completion, which was overwhelmingly supported by the whole West Seattle and greater Seattle community. In fact, people as far away as Brooklyn, NY, and even further, bought bricks, plaques and benches which raised the money to build this beautifully designed space, designed by architects Matt Hutchins and Chris Ezzell, who so generously donated their work.
Like so many people, we have have often enjoyed strolling on the promenade and then coming to the Statue Plaza to enjoy a slow meditative meandering and reading many of the brick inscriptions and getting glimpses of the meaning and history this place holds for so many.
I am glad that Paul and I and the whole community could participate in building this special space that promises to be here for a long time to come …
Libby Carr, Co-Chair of SSLPP
We were first reminded of the anniversary by one of the architects Libby mentioned in her note, Matt Hutchins of CAST Architecture. We asked for his thoughts, five years later:
For my part, the plaza is more of a success than I had hoped!
When we were working with our neighbors during the community design process, our goal (from my design presentation notes, Sept. 2007) was to:
‘Provide a community landmark with a safer, rejuvenated public space that celebrates not only the symbolism of the Statue, but also the commitment of this community to this part of Alki Beach history. The plaza is designed to inhibit vandalism and reduce the need for City maintenance. ”
Given the nearly three-year struggle to get it approved, funded and build, nothing is more satisfying that to see the Statue and plaza so well used and loved. I’m always filled with pride seeing how many people are hanging out there, meeting friends, doing tai chi, salsa dancing and, yes, even using it for guerrilla-art installations.
It is holding up very well given the environment and the use, and I credit the ongoing efforts by community members, the Parks Department, and the maintenance endowment written into the fundraising campaign.
Your editor here is finishing this story while seated on a bench at the plaza, where in just the past hour or so we’ve seen people stop by to look at the floral 9/11 tribute, to read the statue’s plaques, or just to bask in the sun and sea air on a 90-degree afternoon.
P.S. Stewardship of the plaza, by the way, is now in the hands of the Alki Community Council, since a 2010 agreement.
4:05 PM: Two weeks after the first “guerrilla art” sighting at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza (WSB coverage here and here), and a week and a half after the followup, something new showed up today. Ben Hutchinson shared the photo and observation:
This one looks like an assault rifle. On the front of this work of art, it has written in French, “Ceci nest pa un fusil d’assault”. I put this into Google Translate, which gave me the English translation “This is not an assault rifle”. I’m not sure, but I believe this may have been a protest in response to a number incidents in various places that have been mentioned in the news over the past few months, about kids who were suspended from school or even arrested for simply carrying Nerf guns (shoot foam rubber darts) or other toy guns like squirt guns or cap guns either to school or onto pieces of property (such as a park/playfield) that belongs to a school. Children are often forbidden from doing so under so called “no tolerance” rules involving anything that even looks like a gun (in one such case, a kid was suspended for just pointing his finger in a way that looked like he was pretending it was a gun, while playing, as kids tend to do). I believe the artwork here is a protest against such no-tolerance policies, for how strict (and possibly unfair) they can be in some situations.
We didn’t see Ben’s e-mail in time to check while we were at Alki so we don’t know if it’s still there.
12:43 AM: The “not a rifle” has been moved to Walking on Logs. The sighting was reported by @macjustice on Twitter when we were downtown picking up a family member; checked it out on the way back, and it’s either the same one or a duplicate.
ADDED EARLY MONDAY: We heard on Sunday from Chuck, who identified himself as the artist, but said he is NOT the person responsible for the previous creations left at Liberty Plaza and in The Junction. He says somebody had removed the “not a rifle” from Walking on Logs by 10:30 am Sunday, adding, “I hope that whoever took it returns it. If they don’t, I guess it served its purpose. I had a lot of fun making it.”
… a hatchet:
While we were checking this out at Alki about 45 minutes ago, we spoke with a Parks Department crew member who was working nearby. He didn’t know about it until he saw it; he tried calling the local maintenance office but hadn’t reached anyone by the time he had to move on. So we’re checking on their plans, and also the larger question: Is it illegal to place something in a park?
11:16 AM UPDATE: Sandra DeMeritt from Parks tells WSB, “We posted a sign on the object a little while ago stating we will remove the item tomorrow. We like to give the public some notice. We also will have to bring the truck and front loader in to remove it. We won’t save it at the Parks Headquarters this time as it is so big. We will break it up and take it to the Transfer Station. We will also make sure the paint is cleaned up as well. I assume it is acrylic paint and not enamel (hopefully). One of our crew members is supposed to put some spill pads down to keep any paint from running down to the beach.”
12:42 PM UPDATE: And to the big-picture question, Parks spokesperson Joelle Hammerstad replies:
It is not actually illegal to place guerrilla art in a park, unless you consider it litter…in which case it is illegal. We don’t really consider it litter. We consider it guerrilla art, which is sometimes fun, sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not. What we generally do with guerrilla art is post it to let the artist know they have a certain amount of time to remove it. When that time is up, and if the art is still there, we take it away. Guerrilla art is ephemeral, and the artists know that. They don’t have an expectation that the art will stay for the long term.
In this particular case, the guerrilla art is leaning against legitimate and permanent art. The Alki Community Council and the individual donors who raised money for the Alki Statue of Liberty worked closely with Seattle Parks and Recreation to develop the proposal for the redevelopment of the plaza. They also raised funds ($47,000) for its long-term maintenance. It would be unfair to them to allow the art to remain.
Since the Alki Statue of Liberty has been a touchstone on 9/11 ever since that first night-after in 2001, we visited late this morning to look for tributes. On the side visible from the street, a few bouquets had been placed, plus a small creation from stones; on the water side, a note, and stones arranged in the shape of a heart:
The note is a prayer, reading in part, “Help us to live with love rather than hate. Help us to forgive.” Meantime, we’ll check back this evening. While there was an organized, well-attended vigil last year (WSB coverage here) on the 10th anniversary of the deadly East Coast attacks, we haven’t heard of any official plans this year (please let us know if you have).
ORIGINAL 12:05 PM NOTE: Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word of this – Craig Parsley‘s 5th-grade Shakespeare production from Schmitz Park Elementary is planning a “flash mob”-style performance at Alki by the Statue of Liberty around 12:30 pm. Spectators encouraged!
ADDED 4:00 PM: Photos and video – the troupe did a great job in a tough setting! Here’s the teacher/director with a few of his students just before the (invisible) curtain rose on “Midsummer Night’s Dream”:
We didn’t fire up the video camera fast enough to hear him shout the announcement of the “flash mob,” but here’s some video from the first few moments (as he explained to them on the sideline, lots of “ambient” noise):
No costumes or set – but a few props:
Well, OK, there was ONE bit of costumery:
The play was performed recently at school – one performance for their fellow students, one in the evening for parents/community.
Shakespeare has been a tradition in Mr. Parsley’s classes at Schmitz Park; he’s moving to K-5 STEM at Boren next year and told us recently he was hoping to take the tradition along.
They arranged for last night’s vigil to happen at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza (here’s our as-it-happened coverage) – and this morning, Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum volunteers are literally picking up after it. While the flowers will remain, they’re collecting unretrieved keepsakes/tributes, as the museum is keeping an ongoing collection (including John Loftus‘s 9/11/01 photos) regarding the statue’s role as a touchstone in 9/11 mourning and memorializing. (Regular museum hours are Thursdays-Sundays, noon-4 pm, by the way, if you haven’t been lately.)
ORIGINAL 7:13 PM REPORT: Hundreds have gathered at Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza as the day ends and the 9/11 10th anniversary vigil begins, at the site of so many vigils in the first few weeks after the attacks. Though it’s not dark yet, candles are being lit:
At right, looking at the tributes and memorials that have accumulated at the statue’s base during the day (our earlier report is here), is Vicki Schmitz-Block from Fauntleroy. We’re told there is no formal program – you can just come down to remember and look back, as this solemn anniversary makes way to night. At least two TV stations are here too.
7:24 PM: A round of “America the Beautiful” has broken out – and then applause. This event was organized by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum, whose Clay Eals has been showing their 9/11 memory album to visitors:
And now, they’re singing the national anthem, loudly, proudly. Some are waving small flags. One woman is wrapped in a flag-pattern sweater. … “Amazing Grace” followed, as did other songs, including “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” (update: here’s the video):
7:48 PM: It’s getting dark enough for the candlelight to stand out, ringing the base of the statue (which was recast four years ago and unveiled here on September 11, 2007; the plaza was built around it the following year, and dedicated in September 2008). Rev. Randy Leskovar of West Seattle’s Calvary Chapel offered a prayer. Absent a formal program, people are coming and going, and probably will for a while.
8:10 PM: Still at least 60 or 70 people gathered. More candles, and quiet tributes, and a luminaria bearing a wish:
ADDED LATE SUNDAY NIGHT: More photos:Read More
These first two photos are from September 11th, 2001, when the first night after the 9/11 attacks brought the first gathering at Alki’s Statue of Liberty, and they are by John Loftus. He thinks he might have been the only person to take photos that night.
John tells WSB, “I had an early (2 megapixel) digital camera and was able to shoot discreetly without using flash. The objects left at the Statue of Liberty have been extensively photographed, but I don’t know that there are other photos capturing the images and mood of the people at the shrine that same night it happened. When the Log House Museum did a show on the 1st anniversary, one of my photos was blown up 6 feet long, I recall.” Today, John placed a framed poster at Liberty Plaza, with a collage of his photos. WSB co-publisher Patrick Sand captured an image of it this morning, even before we heard from him about it; we published a wide shot this morning, but here’s a closer view:
He says he visited the Log House Museum 9/11 display this afternoon and that his photos were indeed the only ones in the album from that first night. Meantime, tonight’s vigil, organized by the museum, is coming up at the top of the hour (7 pm).
Tonight, the Alki Statue of Liberty will again be a gathering place, to remember, and to hope, as it was a decade ago. This morning, tributes are already there – including this poem:
As shown here earlier this week, Alki’s Lady Liberty is holding a flag for the occasion. Across the street, a large flag went up this morning:
Tonight’s vigil is at 7 pm, sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum, whose 9/11 exhibit is viewable today from noon till 7, just a block south at 61st/Stevens. (photo added 1:48 pm)
Other West Seattle/White Center commemorations are on this list.
(September 2001 photo by David Hutchinson)
If you were here in September 2001, it is an indelible memory – the gatherings, the tributes, the luminaria at the Alki Statue of Liberty. Right around this time tomorrow, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, a candlelight vigil (organized by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum) will again bring people together to pay tribute, to remember, and to look ahead. But that is not the only West Seattle/White Center event tomorrow commemorating the anniversary; in case you haven’t seen it yet, we wanted to call your attention one more time to the running list we’ve been keeping of all the events we know of, tomorrow morning, afternoon and evening. See the list here; please let us know if you notice something missing, so that we can add it before it’s too late (email@example.com) – thank you.
With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just a few days away, the West Seattle spot that became a regional touchstone is ready for candlelight-vigil visitors on Sunday night. David Hutchinson shares a new photo of the Alki Statue of Liberty, with this update:
The Alki Community Council would like to thank Seattle Parks & Recreation for completing the fall maintenance of the Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza in time for this weekend’s 9/11 10th anniversary memorial. This afternoon, Tiffany Hedrick, of the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, completed cleaning and waxing the statue and hung the flag provided by the SW Seattle Historical Society.
As previously noted, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum is hosting a candlelight vigil at the plaza starting at 7 pm Sunday night. Our partners at the Seattle Times have just published a preview, noting that the museum plans to bring to the plaza, just for the occasion, some of what it collected from the hundreds of tribute/memorial items left there in the days/nights after the attack. Several other tribute/memorial/remembrance events are planned in West Seattle/White Center; we have just added two more to the list (see it here, and please let us know if you have something to add – thank you).
Less than 2 weeks until the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which will bring many more commemorations and remembrances around the country than usual. Last week, we published first word of the Log House Museum‘s tribute plans, focused on the role the Alki Statue of Liberty played as a touchstone in the days after 9/11; Marcy Johnsen from LHM/Southwest Seattle Historical Society sends word the event is now finalized, with Parks‘ permission – full details in our original preview here, which also mentions the tribute during the Holy Family Community Street Fair in White Center (20th/Roxbury) that day. And just added, Providence Mount St. Vincent (4831 35th SW) plans a 1 pm remembrance service in its chapel on Sept. 11th, all welcome; folks at The Mount are making paper cranes in hopes of having 1,000 by then. (Photo by Alki photographer David Hutchinson, taken September 12, 2001)
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Car-sharing service Zipcar is one of various technology-based companies that have faced unexpected government regulation, according to Fox News.
Zipcar and other car-sharing services in Washington, D.C. pay $200 to $400 per space, per month, while residents pay $1.25 per month to park on the street, according to the article. Zipcar said that such policies “penalize” car-sharing providers.
Rob Weisberg, Zipcar’s chief marketing officer, said that members are taxed at the full-day rate, even though the reservation period is usually a few hours. Zipcar said that it has hired a lobbyist to work to change this tax policy.
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A Deputy Minister for Health, Dr Bernard Oko Boye, has said a proper definition has been coined for frontline health workers.
He state that “the definition for frontline workers, as agreed on with all relevant stakeholders is any health worker, who has been involved in the management of a confirmed case of COVID-19”.
Dr Boye said “Mr Speaker, the Ministry of Health and all relevant stakeholders have sat and settled on who qualifies as a frontline worker,” when he was briefing Parliament, in Accra, on Monday on the state of the coronavirus in the country.
Dr Boye’s explanation has finally settled the issue of who a frontline health worker was in the fight against coronavirus.
There has been ‘confusion’ over who a frontline health worker was, following an announcement by government of a 50 per cent salary top-up for such category of health workers.
According to Dr Boye, the list of frontline health workers, which currently stands at approximately 6000, was one that could change depending on the cases confirmed at facilities and the number of people involved in the management.
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On delayed payments of the 50 per cent to frontline health workers, Dr Boye, who is also Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, said the accounts of all 6000 beneficiaries had been credited.
“I am happy to mention that the 6000 health workers that were vetted and validated as having been in direct management of confirmed covid cases have had their 50 per cent basic pay for the month of April hit their accounts,” he reported.
On contact tracers, Dr Boye said claims that government had refused to pay contact tracers was untrue, and that it was a narration composed to create the impression that contact tracing had been abandoned.
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Background Bison priscus was the first known bison, not long after it was replaced by the long- horned bison, Bison latifrons. B. latifrons was then replaced 18,000 years ago with Bison antiquus. Bison antiquus died out 10,000 years ago and gave rise to the living species Bison bison. American Buffalo
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America’s War on Sexual Violence, Mass Atrocities & Religious Persecution Should Begin at Home
Without question, the so-called “Islamic State” is an abomination that should be wiped from the face of the earth. However, it is unclear whether America is the right agent to see this through. Part of the trouble relates to the Obama Administration’s strategy, which seems likely to empower ISIS even as it undermines the security and interests of America and its allies—but there is an ethical dimension as well:
While ISIS poses a serious (although likely overstated) threat to the governments of Iraq and Syria, over the last two Administrations, the U.S. has itself forcibly overthrown the governments of Iraq and Libya—both in defiance of international law. And along with ISIS, the U.S. has spent the last three years seeking to undermine the Syrian government. Additionally, they have sheltered Israel from meaningful accountability to the international community, allowing the crisis in Palestine to fester. As a result of these policies, it would not be a stretch to say that the United States is actually a greater threat to peace and stability in the region than ISIS—not least because U.S. actions in Iraq, Libya and Syria have largely paved the way for ISIS’s emergence as a major regional actor.
But perhaps more disturbingly, many of the same behaviors condemned by the Obama Administration and used to justify its most recent campaign into Iraq and Syria are commonly perpetrated by U.S. troops and are ubiquitous in the broader American society. Until these problems are better addressed, the United States’ efforts to undermine ISIS will be akin to using a dirty rag to clean an infected wound.
The initial driver of U.S. involvement was the outrage over ISIS’s capturing thousands of Yazidi women, and the sexual violence subsequently exercised against them—horrors which provided moral credence to the war against ISIS in much the same way that the 2001 U.S. war against the Taliban was justified in part by highlighting the plight of Afghan women living under their rule.
However, over the course of that war, and the subsequent 2003 war in Iraq, U.S. soldiers and contractors repeatedly used rape as a weapon of war, both against prisoners and the local civilian population. Meanwhile, U.S. contractors exploited their diplomatic immunity to set up vast sexual trafficking rings–further immiserating the very populations their invasion was predicated on saving.
But perhaps more disturbing than the crimes committed by U.S. personnel against Iraqis and Afghans were the atrocities committed by servicemen against their fellow soldiers: As many as 1 out of 3 female soldiers are raped over the course of their military careers. Up to 80% of these assaults go unreported, in large part because reported cases rarely result convictions or proportional punishment. In fact, the victims are frequently punished socially and professionally for reporting abuse, and they are barred from suing the government for reparations even when wrongdoing is proven. Nonetheless, there were more than 5,000 reported cases of military sexual violence in 2013 alone. And beyond the assaults, sexism and sexual harassment are deeply ingrained in the military culture.
The stats are not much better in the broader population. As many as one in five women who attend college in America are sexually assaulted over the course of their academic career, often with no justice even when the crimes are reported. This is commensurate with broader trends in the United States—in fact, the rate of sexual assault for non-college women may even be higher.
As in the military, most of these crimes are not reported to the police, and most reported rapes are never prosecuted—let alone resulting in convictions for the perpetrators. And these stats do not even take into account illicit sexual trafficking which, according to the U.N., is so widespread in America that it generates $9.5 billion annually—reflective of a broader cultural problem of commercializing and commodifying sex and sexuality.
If the crimes against thousands of women in Iraq and Syria justify a U.S. mobilization that costs U.S. taxpayers nearly $10 million per day, how much more militant should Americans be about resolving the tens of thousands of cases of sexual violence that go unpunished and largely unnoticed in the U.S. each year?
In addition to sexual violence, there was widespread outrage over ISIS’s uncompromising brutality and the pornographic way they record and broadcast these acts—which include beheadings, crucifixions, and occasional incidences of cannibalism.
Of course, U.S. soldiers and contractors have and continue to torture their enemies, often taking obscene photos to brag about and reminisce upon their acts. The contractors who were implicated in these abuses have never been prosecuted. Instead, the whistleblower who initially exposed these crimes, Bradley Manning, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
There are further reports of U.S. servicemen committing massacres, desecrating the corpses of their enemies, or even hunting the locals for sport while collecting photos, and even body parts, as trophies. And these are just a sampling of the acts which have been picked up by war correspondents and detailed in the media—many more crimes have never received exposure abroad, with crimes committed against Iraqis and Afghans by U.S. servicemen going largely underprosecuted or altogether unprosecuted.
Because these atrocities are not sufficiently dealt with by the United States, the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan have demanded the right to try Americans in their own courts. However, as protecting U.S. politicians and soldiers from international accountability formed the basis of U.S. opposition to establishing or joining the International Criminal Court, the Obama Administration refused to cede anything to these nascent states. As a result, concerns about accountability proved to be the main obstacle in the U.S. reaching a security agreement with Afghanistan—and Iraq’s refusal to grant U.S. soldiers immunity was the reason America ultimately abandoned the pursuit of a status of forces agreement there, contributing significantly to the security vacuum that allowed ISIS to rebuild in Iraq and expand into Syria. That is, ISIS’s crimes were largely enabled by America’s refusal to face up to its own.
Americans should bear this in mind as the Obama Administration loosens its already overly-permissive standards vis a vis collateral damage and targeting civilians in its current campaign. The killing of innocents is not somehow morally superior if committed remotely by a drone or missile rather than the tools at ISIS’ disposal.
Finally, many Westerners have been horrified by ISIS’s persecution of religious minorities (especially crimes against Christians). However, the United States is complicit in this as well: U.S. policies in Iraq helped spark this cycle of sectarian violence.
Meanwhile, its own armed forces were indoctrinated with anti-Muslim propaganda—complete with recommendations for servicemen to resort to “Hiroshima tactics,” in a “total war against Islam,” in which protections for civilians were “no longer relevant.” Reflective of this mentality, the armed forces have been heavily infiltrated by white-supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups who believe and act as though they are engaged in a holy war, which is to begin in the Middle East and then be carried back into America. This institutionalized misrepresentation of Islam and dehumanization of Muslims probably played a significant role in the aforementioned atrocities.
Attempts to rectify these issues have been highly problematic. For instance, the Army reformed its training to include a greater emphasis on culture. But even this material proved to be largely plagiarized from sources which are overtly homophobic and anti-Islam and loaded with unhelpful and misleading stereotypes–leading to the military to recently retract the manual altogether in the face of public scrutiny.
However, this is hardly just an issue in the army. Anti-Muslim discrimination and hate crimes are pervasive in America, from the classroom to the boardroom. In the popular culture, Islamophobia transcends the political spectrum and is fairly mainstream—to the point where pundits and politicians can openly call for Muslim internment camps, or push for laws restricting or altogether banning Muslims from practicing their faith, even as many of these same people work to obliterate the lines between the (Christian) church and state.
Muslim voices which could unapologetically challenge these tropes are largely excluded from the public discourse in favor of “house-Muslims” who will nod their heads in condemnation of terrorism (emphasizing that most Muslims are “moderates”) while uncritically calling for (liberal) reform and revolution in Muslim lands of which they are no longer residents (if they ever were)—and all without voicing much (if any) substantive criticism of the Western countries in which they reside, beyond the narrow concerns about discrimination and persecution.
And yet despite these compliant spokespeople, and the fact that only 6% of terror incidents in the United States have been carried out by Muslims over the last 30 years (and the threat of terrorism is itself overblown), Muslims are frequently subjected to arbitrary surveillance and detention, as well as legal entrapment. All of these practices are considered as crimes against humanity according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.S. ostensibly champions everywhere else in the world…perhaps nowhere more than in Muslim-majority countries– 7 of which the U.S. has bombed in the last 6 years, almost always under the auspices of “humanitarian intervention.”
Authentic Outrage, Authentic Patriotism
Criticisms like these invariably evoke charges of anti-Americanism among reactionary readers—unduly. If one were truly committed to defending America and promoting its values, if sincerely outraged by the sorts of atrocities committed by ISIS—rather than sanctioning condescending and counterproductive incursions in the Middle East, Americans should dedicate much more time and energy to responding to similar problems within the United States and its institutions abroad. In this way, the United States could respond to the ISIS challenge by growing better and stronger, rather than undermining Americans’ interests and freedoms in the name of (and at the expense of) their “security.” | <urn:uuid:8a72b5e3-0292-444d-b4d4-ff2075bde5e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fiatsophia.org/2014/10/13/does-the-us-have-moral-high-ground-over-the-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966174 | 2,087 | 1.9375 | 2 |
MT. OLIVE, W. Va. — In September, there was an attempted jailbreak from the Mount Olive Correctional Complex in West Virginia. In this interview, Jennifer Ballard, director of programs, West Virginia Division of Corrections, highlights the challenges of managing the volume of prisoners in correctional facilities.
“Even though there were rules in place, staff had become complacent and weren’t doing the security checks that needed to be done,” she said. Read on to learn more about the issues within prisons, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of ‘segregation’ of inmates.
Q: Tell us about your history within corrections.
Ballard: I have been with the West Virginia Division of Corrections for a little over 18 years. I started out as a correctional officer at the West Virginia Penitentiary, which was court-ordered closed in 1995, and relocated about four hours away in the more southern part of the state, which is now called the Mount Olive Correctional Complex. While I was at Mount Olive Correctional Complex I served in the roles of correctional counselor, correctional case manager, institutional training officer, director of classification, and associate warden of programs, until I left and did a year and a half with our regional jail authority as director of programs. Then I came back to the Division of Corrections in November of 2007, and now work as the director of programs for the West Virginia Division of Corrections.
As you’re aware, there was an attempted jailbreak at the Mount Olive Complex. Three inmates tried to use dummies in their cells to fool correctional officers. Commissioner Jim Rubenstein, of the West Virginia Department of Corrections, admitted that there might have been some human error on the part of the facility.
Q: What do you think this example highlights about the challenges of managing the volume of prisoners in correctional facilities?
Ballard: Once there was a review of what had occurred there were some pretty amazing things that staff had done to stop this from occurring, but there was also some staff complacency that caused the issue to arise.
What happens when you’re dealing with mostly long-term offenders, are large amounts of prisoners (almost 1,100 long-term offenders) so ‘volume’ is always an issue. Then there is the fact that your staff and inmates work with each other for long periods of time because over half of the population at the long-term facilities — are there for the rest of their lives. So staff and inmates know each other very well and what tends to happen is that your inmates get into a routine, some of your staff gets used to them and not do not realize that the offender, that whole time, is processing a way of possibly escaping.
What we had in this situation was a staff member who, even though there were rules in place, had become complacent and wasn’t doing the security checks that needed to be done. It happened to be in the library, where the offender worked, so he was coming and going — even when he wasn’t scheduled to work. He was able to hide some things in the area and had gotten a couple of inmates to join in at the last moment. It took him two years to come up with this plan. The offender had even done some time in the segregation unit, to see that perspective of the prison and the secure perimeter. He was able to nearly make it out of the facility.
The librarian was a tenured employee who became complacent. She got used to her surroundings, nothing was happening on a regular basis so her guard was down. If by chance a correctional officer had not seen the inmates hiding after hours, it may have ended tragically.
So you had some officers that weren’t adhering to policy with counting prisoners. They just saw what appeared to be people in bed. You’ll see the pictures, very human like dummies, so the officer wasn’t ‘counting the flesh’— wasn’t having them stand out of the bunk — and thank goodness things happened the way they did and we were able to stop them before they made their escape. So as mentioned, staff complacency was the victim here.
Q: Highlight the main challenges of moving inmates throughout the prison. Staff complacency comes into it, as you mentioned, but how can staff assure that everyone is safe during this process and how important is that?
Ballard: I think the key to any safe movement throughout a facility is having a seamless security system. There are four components to that — the first is having the security information systems in place, what I mean by that, is having your information readily available to your staff. Having a computer system where you can pull up the information you need on the offender — things such as photos, disciplinary, tattoos, time and crime, and classification risk; personal information such as eye color, height, and weight. Knowing victims’ names, family members, and previous addresses — knowing information on the offender and having it available to your staff I think is very important for movement.
The physical plant is also very important. When I worked at the penitentiary in the early 1990s it was an old-tier system. It was set up in a way that I don’t think provided safety for the staff. The newer facility breaks the populations down into different housing units, so it helps provide security and safety, just by its physical layout. We have some facilities that still have dorms and as our population increases we’re putting higher-level risk offenders in these dorms. That alone causes issues with movement, so ‘physical plant’ is very important.
Another key piece is the classification of the offender. Corrections is nothing like the jails, to say, I can put high-level offenders at this facility, medium at this facility, low at this facility. Of course that’s going to differ, whatever facility you’re at. If you’re at a maximum-security facility you’re going to know the offender you’re managing needs to be there, so you take the extra precautions necessary because of the level of risk the offender has on you.
If you’re at a medium or a low facility you know those offenders, for the most part, have a history of violence, escaping or causing harm. Classification is key in terms of knowing where your offenders are, and then based upon where they are, what kind of security procedures need to be in place when you’re moving that offender from place to place.
The other piece that’s very important is the human resources piece, because recruitment and hiring qualified employees is a constant challenge for any division of corrections throughout the state. Any state. Then being able to retain those qualified staff. Once you have them make sure you do initial training — and we have a very good corrections academy in the state of West Virginia, I’m very proud of it — and then doing annual trainings; keeping the skill level where it needs to be to manage those offenders.
Q: Have lessons been learned as to the effectiveness of solitary confinement or the segregation of prisoners to ensure safety?
Ballard: Absolutely. Years ago when I was director of classification at a maximum-security prison, part of my responsibility was to meet with the administrative segregation offenders on a monthly basis, because our policy indicated that there wasn’t a limit on the amount of punitive segmentation time that you could give an offender.
If an offender had a really bad day, and assaulted people, you could stack punitive segregation time. Basically, you could have an offender in punitive segregation for years. Many times once the offender got into segregation and litigation would start.
Was this amount of time given to the offender excessive? Is there too much punitive time given based on the incident that occurred? After the offender would do X amount of punitive time, then an administrative segregation committee would review it to see if maybe the warden would want them to stay back a little bit longer based upon their security issues. We were constantly in court.
We had an assistant commissioner at the time that said, “I want to do something different. I want there to be criteria that the offender has to go through, instead of the decision being on us.” So we went to NIC [National Institute of Corrections] to see what Colorado was doing with their high-risk non-offenders, and we came back and totally re-vamped the way we handle our punitive segregation in our administrative long-term segregation offenders.
We went through our disciplinary procedures and reduced the amount of punitive given to 60 days. That was a shock to our tenured employees, because they felt as if the offender would become more violent because he knew that 60 days was as much punitive that could be given. The commissioner went forward and we trained our staff on what we called quality-of-life program, whereby after 60 days the offender is reviewed by a committee and either placed in administrative segregation or released. Once an offender is in that administrative-segregation process, the responsibility falls on him. It takes approximately 18 months to work through the program, and they have to earn their way through it. They have to show appropriate social behavior, they have to communicate appropriately to the staff that come into the unit, such as nurses, education staff, plus the staff in there. A chronological log is written on the offender’s behavior, and the offender can get in trouble and have sanctions immediately brought upon him for inappropriate behavior. For instance, if a nurse came in and an inmate is inappropriate with her an instant report had to be written, a violation report had to be written, a court date had to be figured out on a hearing date, and maybe two weeks after that the offender would get something taken away because of the action.
The way it is now, if a nurse is the victim of inappropriate behavior, the captain of the unit is notified and a sanction can immediately take place. That offender can immediately lose something, whether he’s earned a radio, extra visitation or whatever. The captain of that unit can take it away immediately.
Also, if they don’t do the work assignments of the programming assignments they don’t advance. So when we go to court with these offenders now, the judges say, “Well you know what you need to do to get out of this program. So why aren’t you doing it?” Instead of them, looking at us, and saying: “So what do you look at to get this offender back into main population?”
So our lesson was that more punitive time is not better. Having the offender work their way through the program is better for the State of West Virginia. We get less litigation and more compliance from the offenders because of the way we changed our long-term segregation process.
Q: What other challenges do you face in terms of programs in the prisons and what keeps you up at night?
Ballard: West Virginia has been blessed as far as economy. We have not seen things other states have seen as far as state budgets. A challenge that we do see is finding those budget dollars for the programming aspect that takes place inside of the prisons. Keeping qualified staff — it seems as if the State of West Virginia has a lot of federal prisons, which pay much more than the state prison system. So it seems as if we get qualified people, that are qualified facilitators for programs, and they move on to a more high-paying job.
Due to other staff shortages sometimes staff are pulled in other directions. So the biggest challenge is having qualified staff and having time set-aside for these offenders for programming. | <urn:uuid:6f76d0fb-1d0e-4010-9da0-5c741988e17d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://correctionalnews.com/2012/10/12/the-management-inmates-how-avoid-prison-break/?quicktabs_1=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979347 | 2,410 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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The unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make them a highly interesting and demandable nanocarrier in the field of nanoscience. CNTs facilitate efficient delivery of therapeutics like drugs, proteins, genes, nucleic acids, vitamins and lot more. Even though highly beneficial, the biocompatibility of CNTs is a major issue in their questioning their potential application in targeting drug delivery. Studies confirmed subdued toxicity of CNTs following slight modifications like functionalization, controlled dimensions, purification etc. A well-established mechanism for cellular internalization is an insistent need to attain a more efficient and targeted delivery. Recent patents have been thoroughly discussed in the text below. | <urn:uuid:21a89e25-c69c-454a-93b9-57028a7d9096> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://benthamscience.com/journal/abstracts.php?journalID=rpddf&articleID=119911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00311-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90162 | 163 | 2 | 2 |
New Squeaker Introduction
blake at kingdomrpg.com
Thu Nov 24 00:45:27 UTC 2005
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:52:20 -0800, Jason B Burke
<jason.b.burke at Abbott.com> wrote:
> I'd be happy to give you my perspective on this. The first language I
> learned was
> Basic (it was a sad start, but the only free option on the Apple ][ =).
> I believe that the main issues is the documentation.
One of the main issues, no question. The other main issue, IMO, is that
Squeak, in particular, is a moving target. Code rots faster than it is
replaced. That's why with, for example, Stephane's bot book, he made his
own simple context for learning.
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In the 1970s, a group of students in South Africa were planning a campaign against tobacco. I was one of them. We paid a visit to Rembrandt, the country’s leading cigarette manufacturer, to hear their side of the story.
They showed us shiny floors, introduced us to well-paid employees of all races — a rarity in apartheid South Africa — and proudly described their extensive support for the arts, culture and the environment. We replied that this was great, but it failed to address the core issue: their products killed half their regular users and harmed many more.
So the campaign went ahead. For me, it was the start of decades of battles with tobacco companies that led to strong regulations in South Africa — and culminated in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, now in effect in almost 180 countries.
Along the way, I learnt to distrust every move by tobacco companies and felt fully justified when an inquiry, supported by WHO and the World Bank, declared: ‘Evidence… reveals that tobacco companies have operated for many years with the deliberate purpose of subverting the efforts of WHO to control tobacco use. The attempted subversion has been elaborate, well financed, and usually invisible.’
It’s not surprising that most people in public health strongly endorse the view of Dr Neil Schluger, a lung specialist and professor of medicine at Columbia University, that ‘If there ever was an industry that does not deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to protecting or promoting the public’s health, it is the tobacco industry.’ The industry’s deceptions have included the development of low-tar products and a crafty message suggesting that they did less harm. Years after their launch, however, research showed that low-tar cigarettes had exactly the opposite effect.
Now we have electronic cigarettes. Is this the latest ruse, or is it really an innovation we should welcome?
Let’s review the appalling statistics. There are about 1.3 billion smokers in the world and roughly six million smoking-related deaths every year. In the United Kingdom alone, smoking causes 80,000 deaths. That’s 18 per cent of all deaths. What’s more, for every death there are 20 smokers suffering from tobacco-related diseases, resulting in 450,000 hospital admissions each year. No other single cause of death and disease can so easily be prevented.
The WHO framework convention stresses the value of government-led measures: increasing excise taxes, banning all marketing and advertising, and promoting smoke-free workplaces. Early in its development, we invited tobacco company scientists to provide evidence that their harm-reduction measures were real and not merely marketing ploys. Their responses were unconvincing.
At the same time, the first public evidence emerged that, for decades, tobacco companies had a sophisticated understanding of the role of nicotine. But they had failed to act on this knowledge and separate the harm caused by combusted tobacco from the ‘pleasure’ some people obtain from nicotine.
Let’s take a quick look at another tobacco product — one that’s never caught on in the UK. Snus is smokeless tobacco in a little packet that Swedes tuck against their gum in order to get a nicotine buzz. For many years, the increased use of snus versus regular tobacco has been a major factor in Swedish men having the lowest death rate in the European Union.
Indeed, death rates from all causes among European men are about 2.5 times higher than among Swedish men — thanks, in part, to snus. Also, as snus use has increased, smoking has decreased. Snus was banned in all EU countries except Sweden (and Norway, which isn’t in the EU). In Finland, the ban slowed down the drop in smoking. In Norway, by contrast, snus consumption by adults rose from 4 per cent in 1985 to 28 per cent in 2012 — and overall tobacco use fell by 20 per cent.
What drove these changes? Tobacco advertising (including for snus) has long been banned in all three countries. Public health authorities speak out against all forms of tobacco, including snus. Nonetheless, consumers, influenced by price and information from social networks, have increased their use of snus.
So what has this to do with the emerging e-cigarette debate?
We’ve seen that snus is banned in most of Europe despite overwhelming evidence that it is harm-reducing. And now e-cigs and other innovative ways of delivering nicotine without the dangers created by burning tobacco face the same challenge.
Traditionalists demand more of the same policies that have significantly reduced tobacco use: excise taxes, full implementation of smoke-free workplaces and more effective anti-smoking advertising. Long-term projections say this would reduce smoking in the United States from the current 20 per cent to 10 per cent by 2030. That’s welcome — but it still leaves millions of smokers at risk.
The call for higher excise taxes ignores rising concerns about their regressive impact on poorer and more-addicted smokers. It also ignores advances in the genetics of nicotine use, suggesting that half of all smokers may not respond to tax increases because of their need for nicotine. In other words, our one-size-fits-all approach to tobacco control is doomed to fail.
Action on Smoking and Health estimates that 2.1 million British adults currently use e-cigs. About one third are former smokers, and two thirds are still smokers. Meanwhile, regular use of e-cigarettes by children and adolescents is confined almost entirely to current and former smokers. Users claim that e-cigs help them stop smoking entirely (38 per cent) or reduce the amount they smoke (25 per cent). Robert West, professor of health psychology at University College London, reports that e-cig use by never-smokers is negligible and similar to that of nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT).
In recent years, the increase in the popularity of e-cigs has more than offset a decrease in NRT use. Successful attempts to quit smoking, although escalating, are still low, at between 5 and 7 per cent. E-cigs could play a major role in helping those smokers most addicted to nicotine, who are shifting in increasing numbers from NRT products to ‘vaping’ as their means of quitting the tobacco habit.
Safety concerns were addressed recently. Two analyses reviewed toxicological, laboratory and clinical research on the potential risks. They concluded that e-cigs are by far less harmful than smoking, and that ‘significant health benefits are expected in smokers who switch from tobacco to e-cigs’. Yet governments and the WHO remain unconvinced about the benefits of e-cigs. There is deep distrust of tobacco companies. This is borne out by article 5.3 of the framework convention, which requires that ‘in setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control, parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law’ — i.e., avoid any interaction with tobacco companies. But this policy is impossible to implement in countries where democratic law-making processes require interaction with all stakeholders, or where the government owns a tobacco company.
Moreover, it limits the potential to make use of scientific discoveries by tobacco companies. At a WHO tobacco control conference last October, governments stressed the need to protect tobacco-control activities from all commercial and other interests. That effectively means not talking to researchers developing new and safer products. They also wanted governments to consider prohibiting or regulating e-cigs as tobacco products — which would be a huge boost to the deadly status quo.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already announced its intention to regulate e-cigs as tobacco products. About $2.2 billion was spent on e-cigs in America last year, exceeding the amount spent on NRT but still representing a small part of the $85 billion cigarette market.
At the same time, however, the FDA seems to favour a transition away from lethal combustible products. Mitch Zeller, director of its Centre for Tobacco Products, wants us to look at nicotine differently. People ‘smoke for nicotine but die from tar’, he says, and new products represent a public health opportunity.
The FDA’s measured approach is in contrast to the continued unscientific approach of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, whose director Dr Tom Frieden stated last year that ‘many kids are starting out with e-cigarettes and then going on to smoke conventional cigarettes’. They have yet to produce evidence that this is the case. In November, Penny Woods from the British Lung Foundation said ‘[new] data should again alleviate the fears expressed by some over an e-cig gateway effect’. Let’s spell this out. Unsupported statements are accepted as truth by policymakers and are used as the basis for stringent regulation of e-cigs in many jurisdictions.
This may well end up causing more public health harm than good. The benefits of e-cigs in helping smokers quit or cut down should be weighed against the danger of either recruiting new smokers or creating e-cig addicts. So far, there is no evidence that either of these things is happening. Studies in both Britain and America suggest that, as e-cig use increases, youth cigarette consumption declines.
Why are we in this position? One reason is that governments have become addicted to tobacco excise tax and may fear that, as e-cigs take off, they will lose a valuable source of revenue. Many leading NGOs and academics exert strong influence at WHO, within governments, in the media and among the general public. In the past, they helped bring tobacco control out of the shadows and into the mainstream of health policy. Now, alas, their intransigence threatens more profound progress.
We need clear, unambiguous messages to smokers about the safety and benefits of e-cigs. An example is the March 2014 statement on the Royal College of Physicians website that ‘the main benefit of e-cigarettes is that they provide inhalable nicotine in a formulation that mimics the behavioural components of smoking but has relatively little risk… Switching completely from tobacco to e-cigarettes achieves much the same in health terms as does quitting smoking and all nicotine use completely. Furthermore… risks associated with passive exposure to e-cigarette vapour are far less than those associated with passive exposure to tobacco smoke.’
If influential health officials were to make these points repeatedly, public sentiment towards e-cigs would shift quickly. And this could be done at the same time as strengthening anti-smoking measures.
We should praise ‘good’ e-cig companies who commit to safety, to avoiding youth marketing, and to making smoking obsolete. They need to be explicit about their long-term plans. Are they seriously committed to harm reduction, or introducing new products simply to delay progress and confuse policymakers, as many in public health believe?
From my meetings with major tobacco companies, it’s clear that they are hedging their bets. Some of them have indicated, in private, a long-term goal of moving out of manufacturing harmful tobacco products — but these statements are not enough to inspire trust. Tobacco companies’ intention to change must be stated publicly and backed by action.
Other market sectors need to adapt to the reality of e-cigs as a force for good. Retailers should voluntarily withdraw cigarettes from stores, or at least reduce their prominence, in favour of e-cigs and NRTs. CVS Health has yet to offer e-cigs, despite the fact that they work better than pharmaceutical products. Life insurers still treat e-cig users as regular smokers when they calculate premiums. This is short-sighted and misses a golden opportunity to spell out the benefits of quitting smoking and the positive impact of switching to e-cigs on people’s longevity.
At the moment, it’s estimated that there will be a billion tobacco-related deaths before 2100. That is a dreadful prospect. E-cigs and other nicotine-delivery devices such as vaping pipes offer us the chance to reduce that total. All of us involved in tobacco control need to keep that prize in mind as we redouble efforts to make up for 50 years of ignoring the simple reality that smoking kills and nicotine does not.
A toxic legacy
Evidence that the tobacco companies knew of the importance of nicotine to smokers 50 years ago:
— ‘Nicotine is addictive. We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the release of stress mechanisms.’ 17 July 1963, Brown & Williamson general counsel/vice president Addison Yeaman.
— ‘It is my conviction that nicotine … both helps the body to resist external stress and also can as a result show a pronounced tranquillising effect. … under modern conditions of life people find that they cannot depend just on their subconscious reactions to meet the various environmental strains with which they are confronted. … smoking has considerable psychological advantages and a built-in control against excessive absorption. It is almost impossible to take an overdose of nicotine in the way it is only too easy to do with sleeping pills.’ 29 May 1962, BAT memo ‘The Smoking and Health Problem’
Derek Yach is executive director of the Vitality Institute and previously headed tobacco control at the WHO.
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Women's Health in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe
One of the main effects of ghetto life on individuals was the deterioration in their health. Overcrowded living conditions, malnutrition, poor sanitation, hard labor, along with harsh weather and the absence of any reasonable health and nursing care all contributed to making the ghetto fertile ground for the spread of disease and the decline in the health of the individual.
Isaiah Trunk (Trunk, 1953) states that this was deliberate German policy, meant to bring about the gradual extermination of the Jewish population via the spread of disease. Also, the supposed need to protect the non-Jewish public in occupied areas from the “disease-bearing” Jews gave the occupation authorities a convenient pretext for forcing the Jews into ghettos. Ghetto living conditions, which caused the accelerated spread of disease along with the prejudiced, racist attitude toward the Jews as spreaders of disease, became a self-fulfilling prophecy in the end.
For a description of the health of the ghetto population of Eastern Europe, and for the purpose of this article, the health of the women there, we must rely on several diagnoses that unify specific ghettos and that had ramifications on the Jewish population’s ability to cope with medical problems. Factors such as location of the ghetto, the time it was established, how long it existed, its submissiveness, and its goal had a decisive influence on residents’ lives and their ability to withstand the depredations of that time and place. However, among the findings that will be detailed here, which deal with the physical situation of women in the ghetto, one may state with certainty that no characteristic particular to any one place can blur the general picture common to all the ghettos.
In many Eastern European ghettos, both those set up in countries occupied in 1939 and those set up in 1941 under Russian control, we find that the number of women in the ghetto population was greater than that of the men. In the Warsaw ghetto, for example, there were 211,492 women and 157,410 men (the number of boys and young men aged 0–19 was about four percent higher than that of girls and young women in the same age group). Census data for the Lodz ghetto from June 1940 show that of a population numbering 156,402 Jews, women accounted for 54.4 percent while men accounted for 45.5 percent. The gap between the sexes was greater in the 20–45 age group. According to an internal report of the Ältestenrat (Council of Elders) in the Kovno ghetto, the population of the ghetto during March and April of 1942 was as follows: men—7,469 (forty-three percent); women—9,898 (fifty-seven percent). From a weekly report that the Kovno ghetto’s labor department submitted to the German authorities, covering March 29 through April 4, 1943, the number of people living in the ghetto was 15,888. Of them, 6,936 were men and 8,952 were women. The report indicates that as the age of the population rose, the gap between men and women increased to between forty and sixty percent. The Shavli ghetto in Lithuania contained 4,775 people in 1943, of whom 57.6 percent, 2,754, were women. In Poland, which was occupied in 1939, this phenomenon is due, among other things, to the drafting of many men to the Polish army, their seizure for forced labor and the fact that many Jewish men fled in fear of their lives when the Germans entered the occupied zones. In the areas under Soviet control and those occupied in 1941, it was because Jewish men were among the first targets for mass murder by local nationalists along with the German occupiers.
Yet as time went on, the gap between men and women in the ghettos continued to increase, mainly because of the persistent increase in mortality, which was especially prevalent among men. Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum (1900–1944) described in his journal the great increase in mortality in the Warsaw ghetto, which was especially common among the poor. At the end of August 1941, he noted in his journal: “It often happens that an entire family dies in one day or over a few days. The number of orphans is increasing since the adults die first, especially the men.” In July 1942, the following was written in the chronicles of the Lodz Ghetto: “There is a marked increase in the number of women in relation to that of men. This is because the mortality among men is double that of the women, and because of the labor transports.” Michal Unger says, therefore, that transports to labor camps outside the ghetto continued during the entire period of its existence, and the vast majority of the eleven thousand people forced to move there were men, but along with that was the marked increase in mortality among the men as opposed to the women.
Despite the reservations expressed by researchers concerning the exactitude of the data on mortality in the Warsaw ghetto which, they claim, are apparently higher, it turns out that the mortality rate for women in the Warsaw ghetto was lower than that of the men. Yet among the refugee concentration points (“punkti”) in the ghetto, which ranged between nine thousand five hundred (recorded) to twenty thousand residents, the official data indicate that during the months of November and December 1941 and January 1942, 518 children, 458 men, and 528 women died. This was because of the high percentage of women in the refugee concentration points. In June 1942, for example, the ratio between the sexes in all the “points” in the Warsaw ghetto was as follows: forty-one percent women as opposed to twenty-one percent men and thirty-eight percent children. One of the most extreme cases was the refugee shelter on 14 Ostrovsky Street where, in January 1942, only women and children lived, since the men had died. The reasons for the high mortality rate among the refugees were starvation, tuberculosis and various kinds of typhus, which spread throughout the ghetto and claimed many victims.
In 1942, 264 people (not including all those who died in the ghetto) died in the Vilna ghetto hospital. Of them, 152 (fifty-eight percent) were men and 112 (forty-two percent) were women. Most of the dead were children aged four and under and elderly people over sixty years of age. The highest concentration of deaths occurred during the winter months, with September showing a marked decrease in mortality, which stood at twenty-two Jews: fourteen men and eight women. In November of the same year twenty-eight people died, of whom eighteen were men and ten were women, most of them adults over fourteen years of age. In the Kovno ghetto, 235 people died between November 1, 1941 and May 1, 1942, from among a population of 17,360 people, including 104 women out of a total population of 9,898 women in the ghetto, in contrast with 134 men out of a total population of 7,469 men who lived in the ghetto at the time. The highest mortality rates were among men aged 30–79 and male infants up to one year of age, and among women aged 50–79 and female infants up to one year of age.
It appears, then, that despite the fact that men were a minority in ghetto populations, their relative and nominal proportion among those who died was higher than that of the women. However, it should be pointed out that in the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos, death became a routine matter. The mortality rate in the Lodz ghetto stood at twenty-one percent of the residents and was the highest of all the ghettos in Poland. The mortality rate in the Warsaw ghetto was also high, with an average of seventeen percent. Most of those who died succumbed to starvation and weakness, and could not resist the wave of disease that raged in the ghetto. Naturally, the proportion of women who succumbed was also high. Despite that, mortality rates were lower in the Krakow, Bialystok, Grodno, Vilna, Kovno and Shavli ghettos. In addition to the unusual living conditions, the local Jewish council and medical staff managed to prevent the spread of disease to uncontrollable proportions and stave off death as much as possible.
How to explain the gap in mortality between men and women in the ghettos? Even under ordinary circumstances, women’s life expectancy is higher than that of men, as Michal Unger points out, so this would apply even more to ghetto living conditions. Also, men’s work, according to Unger, was in many cases more physically difficult, causing weakened resistance and accelerated mortality. However, in the Kovno ghetto, the proportion of women in forced-labor groups who worked outside the ghetto was not significantly lower than that of the men, even if it was less. Even so, according to journal testimonies written in the ghetto, Unger finds that women’s ability to adapt to the surrounding reality was better, as was their ability to cope with hunger and the changing conditions. As the researcher Felicia Karai (Karai, 2000) found, “Women grasped, more quickly and intuitively, that ‘this was another sort of war,’ and they had to save all whom they could. … Several feminine traits made it easier for them to cope with the difficult situation better than the men: resignation in the face of helplessness, greater adaptability, feminine charms and the ability to develop contacts with their surroundings (sometimes even with the Germans), and all this in addition to their physical advantages: biological strength, more attention to their physical appearance and to cleanliness.” Indeed, a study of the patients’ roster in the Vilna ghetto hospital for December 1942 shows that the number of women admitted is greater than that of men (188:131). During 1942, 3,001 patients were hospitalized in the ghetto, of whom 1,382 were men and 1,619 were women. The mortality rate among male patients was eleven percent, while that among female patients was seven percent. A report submitted by the First Aid organization in the Vilna ghetto shows that from January to March 1942, they treated 321 women and 259 men. The treatment centers for scabies also had a higher number of women patients. One of the conclusions is that in contrast to the mortality rate, the incidence of disease was not lower among women than among men. Moreover, women knew how to make use of the health services that the ghetto’s health department provided to the public.
Two main factors were responsible for the increase in the incidence of disease in the ghetto. One was existence in the ghetto itself, and the other was forced labor. From journals and memoirs written by physicians in the ghetto, we cannot unequivocally determine what specific factor, other than physiological injury, decreased the immune capacities of the ghetto population and rendered them vulnerable to disease. To these factors we must add the unusual living conditions in every ghetto, the makeup of the population and its characteristics, and the conception of productivity as a main component of continued existence. In the Warsaw ghetto, where residents suffered from long-term starvation, mostly among refugees, who made up close to thirty percent of the population, there was a dramatic increase in hunger-related diseases and tuberculosis, which developed as a result of the persistent hunger. This also occurred in the Lodz ghetto. The severe living conditions affected the spread of various kinds of typhus. In the Lublin ghetto in 1941, ten percent of the population contracted typhus. In the Kutno ghetto during 1941, the spread of the disease reached 14.3 percent of the Jewish population. On the other hand, in the Lithuanian ghettos, which contained mostly young people who had survived the aktions of the beginning of the occupation, and whose existence depended on work and manufacture, it happened, except for the sealed ghetto, that the incidence of disease and its factors had different causes. This reality affected the health of the women in these ghettos and on the ways they had developed to cope with the new circumstances and the subsequent change in their physical health.
Dr. Yaakov Nakhimovsky, chairman of the medical committee located near the labor office in the Kovno ghetto, conducted medical observations during 1942 and 1943 among the workers in the ghetto, with emphasis on the relationship between work and the incidence of disease. Nakhimovsky also dealt in his studies with diseases common to women. Because of their light clothing and work in open areas, to which they were not accustomed, women suffered from burns, severe skin infections and high fevers. During the winter, the long marches to and from work in the severe cold, in wet clothing and damp, unsuitable shoes, caused complications due to becoming cold and the absence of the proper nutrition necessary for recovery. Yet despite this, Dr. Nakhimovsky determined that these diseases were not fatal.
The physicians’ surveys show clearly that one of the outstanding physiological effects on the health of women in the ghettos (and afterward in the camps) was amenorrhea, the cessation of menstruation. Nakhimovsky finds that during the first period of time, with the move to the ghettos, most women of child-bearing age suffered from it. Dr. Aharon Peretz, who served as a gynecologist in the Kovno ghetto, claimed that emotional stress, worries and hard labor caused changes in the function of the endocrine systems of women in the ghetto and the cessation of their monthly cycle. Dr. Mark Dworzecki, a physician in the Vilna ghetto, said that the explanation for amenorrhea caused heated arguments among the doctors. Some believed that it was due to emotional experiences, changes in the secretion of hormones and lack of vitamins. Some believed that it was irreversible and stable, while others believed it was temporary. Indeed, Dworzecki found that with improvement in nutrition and a reduction in aktions, incidence of amenorrhea decreased for some women.
From a wide-ranging survey of starvation-related diseases conducted by physicians in the Warsaw ghetto, it appears that during heavy bombardments of the city and the subsequent collapse and system failures, many women ceased to menstruate. According to the physicians, these occurrences were temporary under ordinary conditions, but during an extended period of malnutrition they became permanent. The prevailing belief among the medical staff in the Warsaw ghetto was that lack of vitamin A was responsible for amenorrhea, and studies of young girls in orphanages proved that menstruation returned when vitamin A was administered. Dr. Nakhimovsky determined that over time, menstruation returned to normal for some of the women but was accompanied by pain and other physical ailments because of women’s deteriorating physical health in the ghetto.
Nakhimovsky emphasized that the hormonal disturbances women suffered in the ghetto affected their thyroid gland. The Bazedow condition (a disorder of the thyroid gland), as he called it, was prevalent among them. It was possible to diagnose this condition in all its stages, from light cases to more severe ones, and it persisted all the time the ghetto existed. “The main sufferers were mainly girls and young women. There were irregularities in heart function and the nervous system; hair loss, excessive sweating and high fever, which were caused mainly by emotional shock.” In addition, Nakhimovsky found that there were no few incidences of false pregnancies. Tetanus was prevalent among young girls in the ghetto, though it passed in time. “It is difficult to determine whether it was caused by poor nutrition or by poor functioning of the thyroid gland,” he wrote in his survey. Research on starvation done in the Warsaw ghetto found that starvation harmed the thyroid gland, and this blurred the physiological characteristics of both sexes. Young girls developed hair on their upper lips and cheeks, and the development of their pelvic areas was delayed.
In the Lodz ghetto, starvation and disease also caused amenorrhea in women. In addition, they developed a strong desire not to bear children in such a cruel and unstable world, according to Michal Unger. Because of this, birth rates in the ghetto were extremely low, and while it existed (1940–1944), 2,306 babies were born in the Lodz ghetto. In the ghettos of Vilna, Kovno and Shavli, in the beginning of 1942, the occupation authorities issued a decree prohibiting the birth of children in the ghetto. This order corresponded with statements written in December 1941 by Karl Jäger (1888–arrested in 1959; suicide), commander of the third Einsatzkommando unit. (He was appointed to command the security police and the local SD [Security Service of the SS] when the civil authority in Lithuania came to power.) Regarding the Jewish labor force that remained in Lithuania after the mass murder actions, he wrote: “I believe that we should begin sterilizing male Jews from among the Jewish laborers to prevent future increase. If a Jewish woman should become pregnant, she should be killed.”
The decrees against pregnancy and childbirth, along with the fatalistic attitude in the face of uncertainty, left their mark on gynecology as it was practiced in the ghetto. The gynecological department of the Vilna ghetto operated mainly to terminate pregnancies, according to Dr. Shadowsky. In cases of advanced pregnancy, the women were brought to the hospital forcibly by the ghetto police. Data on the operation of the gynecology department in the Vilna ghetto until its official closing show that in 1942, 429 women were hospitalized there, which accounted for 4.3 percent of all patients. Of these, more than sixty percent were abortion cases. Dr. Moshe Figenberg, a gynecologist in the ghetto, stated in his testimony: “Because the death penalty loomed over any woman who gave birth in the ghetto, the women’s department in the hospital where I worked was loaded down with abortion cases.” Because of the large number of pregnancies, the Vilna ghetto’s health office helped with various forms of birth control. In the beginning, they evaded the decree by means of false records. In time, a campaign began that included lectures by ghetto doctors on various ways to prevent pregnancy. In addition, the health office opened a counseling center for women where they could obtain birth-control devices developed locally by one of the ghetto physicians.
In the Kovno ghetto, the health department arranged the required medical services for terminating pregnancies. In addition, the medical staff was also responsible for public-relations efforts and warning women of what awaited them. Moreover, quite a few women refused to give in to the decree. They went underground in order to evade the prohibition, and with the help of the medical committee located near the ghetto labor department, they were released from their work obligations until they delivered their babies in secret. Dr. Aharon Peretz, one of the gynecologists in the ghetto, said that the widespread incidence of pregnancy was the result of amenorrhea among women who were unaware that they could still conceive. Another reason was the absence of birth-control methods. According to him, because of the intensive abortion work and the shortage of proper hospitalization and treatment supplies in the ghetto, some of the operations were performed in the strangest and most dreadful conditions. Deliveries were performed in secrecy mainly by specially trained midwives, while doctors were called only in cases of severe complications.
In the Shavli ghetto the decree caused much anxiety, and therefore the senior gynecologist of the ghetto, Dr. Josef Luntz, developed a special system for terminating pregnancies and speeding deliveries via “primitive” mechanical means, as he put it, and via special medications. According to Luntz, his methods worked, the women did not become ill and the babies were born without harm. But Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944), a senior physician in the Shavli ghetto, reported in the journal he left behind many incidents where women submitted complaints to the ghetto court about severe complications they suffered as a result of negligence in abortions. Indeed, some of the women of the Shavli ghetto, who testified about their personal experiences following the decree forbidding childbirth, mentioned the terrible conditions they had to endure when they gave birth or terminated their pregnancies.
As time went on, enforcement of the anti-childbirth decree in the Kovno and Shavli ghettos became extremely radical, and women in advanced pregnancy were forced to deliver early. The sources show that many times, ghetto doctors were forced to kill infants just born for fear of the punishment that would fall upon the general public if a live baby was found among them. These wretched episodes happened while the ghetto population was being herded into barracks as part of the process of transforming the Kovno and Shavli ghettos into a sort of concentration camp and their placement under the SS authority.
The state of women’s health in the ghetto was dictated in most cases by the unusual circumstances under which every ghetto existed. The prolonged starvation from which the Warsaw and Lodz ghetto populations suffered, in addition to the hermetic disconnection from the environment outside the Lodz ghetto, left their mark on the general state of health, including that of the women, of whom a sizeable proportion sickened and died following the prolonged weakening of their physical resistance. In ghettos where there was a younger population and nutrition was relatively reasonable, mortality rates were inestimably lower than those in Warsaw and Lodz, and the women’s lower mortality rate stands out as well. A unique and tragic topic was how the women coped with pregnancy and childbirth in extreme deprivation, forced labor, disintegration of the family unit and, in other cases, real risk to their own and their families’ lives if a baby should be born. However, it seems that in comparison with men, women managed to cope better with the adverse circumstances under which they labored, and despite the level of physical harm they endured and their exposure to disease which was not always less than the men’s, we can see that their wise use of the ghetto medical services, by which they maintained their health, contributed significantly to their well-being.
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Named after the ancient god of the sun, Helios is a 20 billion-euro project that aims to produce and export as much as 10 gigawatts of solar power by 2020. Greece aims to use the project?s revenues to reduce government debt by as much as 15 billion euros.
Helios will start with an initial target capacity of 2 gigawatts. As the grid develops, more partners will be brought in to develop the project, according to the statement.
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coondoggie writes to mention that NASA recently captured images of a solar hurricane ripping the tail off Encke's comet. "In a release, NASA said preliminary analysis suggests that the tail was ripped away when magnetic fields bumped together in an explosive process called "magnetic reconnection." Oppositely directed magnetic fields around the comet "bumped into each" by the magnetic fields in the hurricane. Suddenly, these fields linked together--they "reconnected"--releasing a burst of energy that tore off the comet's tail. A similar process takes place in Earth's magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms fueling, among other things, the Northern Lights, NASA said." | <urn:uuid:c1f2cd03-421a-4871-b4a7-8f8709fd79d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://science.slashdot.org/story/07/10/01/2128222/solar-hurricane-rips-off-comets-tail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00094-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944464 | 135 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Grand Rapids Company is Making Medical Masks
A local tool and die shop has begun making medical masks and soon will produce 5000 per day.
According to WOOD, the co-owner of 2K Tool Kevin Smith was looking for a way to help the community and keep some of his staff still working and decided to answer Governor Gretchen Whitmers plea for medical masks.
2K Tool normally make automotive and furniture parts but orders have declined causing Smith to layoff some employees.
Smith was watching the news and that is when he got the idea to flip his plant to making masks.
Smith said, "they (the news) kept talking about shortages of masks, so we figured we had some material laying around and had the capability to turn it around real quick, so we just went ahead and did it."
Smith found a mask design file online from a guy in Montana and HEPA filters from a Grandville vacuum business. He did some tweaking on the designs and began making the items Friday.
2K Tool has made a few dozen masks but soon they will be able to make 5,000 per day and this is just awesome.
Smith said, "if we can get masks reasonably priced, keep our guys working, everybody gets a mask, it's a win-win."
If you know where to locate some elastic since it hard to come by these days, give Smith a shout at 2K Tool because he is looking for material and an alternative if needed.
Smith is hoping the masks will stay close to home. He said, "I figured if we make it, they will come." | <urn:uuid:8d01a4cf-49ed-4508-84d4-53421f139343> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rivergrandrapids.com/grand-rapids-company-is-making-medical-masks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.982987 | 327 | 1.515625 | 2 |
People who work night shifts may be more at risk of breast or prostate cancer because of hormonal changes. Work that involves night shift was previously linked to a raised cancer risk, but the reason for the same was not clear.
Also read: Rotating night shifts can cause cancer
The researchers recruited 75 night and 42 day workers, ages 22 to 64 years, in different working settings and measured their hormone levels in the urine samples.
They found that night workers had higher levels of total progestagens and androgens, compared with day workers, after adjusting for potential confounders.
"We found increased levels of progestagens and androgens as well as delayed peak androgen production in night shift workers compared with day workers," said the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (CEBP).
Also read: Night shift may increase obesity risk: Study
Night workers were found to have significantly higher levels of sex hormones at the wrong time, such as testosterone peaking between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., rather than between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.
"The increase and mistiming of sex hormone production may explain part of the increased risk for hormone-related cancers observed in night shift workers," the study said. | <urn:uuid:c456430d-9a88-4460-a09c-65db025ead71> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oneindia.com/international/night-shifts-increases-cancer-risk-study-1814005.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00134-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961515 | 265 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Models of trust-sharing in Chinese private enterprises
This paper presents two related models of development patterns of Chinese private enterprises. They illustrate incentive-based reasons for ownership arrangements of private enterprises, and highlight how institutional foundations of trust, particularly government and family-based cultural values, play an important role in influencing the development of private enterprises. These models attempt to explain why government and family-based culture are crucial for the ownership structure and management of private enterprises. The main argument in the models is that the structure of family businesses can be viewed, in essence, as a form of trust-sharing (Guanxi-sharing) arrangement within the firm. Furthermore, the increase in the prevalence of family businesses can be seen as a result of family trust replacing government trust in the firm's economic activities.
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Following up on my earlier post today, “Teach Your Children Well,” I wanted to share these two scenes from my memoir manuscript. After talking with my daughter and son about how our words can hurt others and have a lasting impression, I shared these stories with them for the first time. It was an emotional afternoon, but also a healing one. I am so grateful for the opportunity to help instill the importance of kindness and empathy.
From A Girl Named Truth (for “Sally” and “Timmy”):
There were some things I could not hide, like the food I brought for lunch in grade school when we were still vegetarians. In the cafeteria I would look around the table and watch my friends with their saran-wrapped sandwiches made with bread that reminded me of clouds, all soft, white and full of air. Between those perfect slices of bleached wheat, circles of pink baloney, or squares of pink ham floated atop squares of orange cheese. How I wanted to sink my teeth into those sandwiches!
Instead, I would open my lunchbox and pull out my waxed-paper bundle. My friends, in turn, would watch while I unwrapped thick slabs of my mother’s homemade bread. Peeking through the edges of the uneven slices, stems of alfa sprouts curled into tiny green fists.
One day, while I sat with my friends at the cafeteria table, one of them pointed at my sandwich, while wrinkling her nose. “What are those?” she asked, her fingers almost touching the sprouts that looked like they were struggling to grow out of a bed of bread.
“Sprouts,” I mumbled.
“Sprouts? What are sprouts?”
With the question, my face grew hot, as though I was suddenly standing, against my will, too close to an open fire.
“I don’t know,” I whispered looking down at my lunch, wishing by some grace of the universe, that it would disappear. “They’re kind-of like lettuce, only smaller.”
“Well they look like grass. What are you, a cow?”
The rest of the table erupted into giggles and a chant began, “Alethea’s a cow, Alethea’s a cow!”
The fire in my face flamed, while my eyes watered to quench it. My stomach, in turn, had closed to the prospect of taking another bite.
I never threw those sandwiches away. Instead I wrapped their nibbled forms back into their waxed paper packages and handed them shamefully to my mother at the end of the day. She, in turn, would shake her head and ask, “Alethea, why didn’t you eat more of your lunch?”
One spring day, when I was in the first grade, I made my first and only trip to the principal’s office. My victim was Timmy, a chubby boy with light blond hair and blue eyes hidden behind thick glasses. Timmy didn’t have any friends, and that day on the playground he sat, as usual, by himself on a bench while the rest of the school played around him.
I began recess on the swing-set with my best friend of the day, Stacy. As we soared over the ground, we giggled and made faces of disgust, pointing our fingers at Timmy, who studied the brown dirt beside his feet.
When we grew bored and hopped off the swings, Stacy whispered into my ear, “I dare you to go over to Timmy and tell him he’s fat.”
I hesitated, “Only if you go with me.”
So, together Stacy and I ran past Timmy, while crying out in nervous giggles, “Timmy, you’re fat! Timmy, why are you so fat?”
Timmy never lifted his gaze from the ground, and although he acted as though he hadn’t heard us, there was no way he could have missed our words. Even the teacher on playground duty, whom we had failed to notice, caught our words as they skipped through the air.
“Alethea and Stacy,” she called after us, “Please come with me to the principal’s office.”
While I sat with Stacy on the bench outside the office, my stomach churred with guilt and fear. Tears spilled from the corners of my eyes as I contemplated the reprimand that awaited us. I had never before been sent to the principal’s office and all pervious reprimands at school had been for talking in class and passing notes. I felt awful for myself, and deep within my belly, I felt bad for Timmy, who was more like me than I wanted to admit.
I never teased Timmy again for being fat, instead I mostly watched, with the mixed pang of relief and guilt, when a child who wasn’t me suffered the ridicule of being different. I couldn’t, though, resist teasing Sally. It seemed no one could.
No one really liked Sally or wanted to be around her. Sally’s hair often looked unwashed and hung in stringy strands down her back. Sally wore glasses, and without them her eyes crossed. Most days, Sally looked like she needed a bath.
When we played tag, Sally was the one with cooties, and my friends and I would run away whenever she came near. If she touched us, we would have to shower under the hemlock tress until we were cleansed of her germs with an invisible cootie-wash. The boys, in turn, loved to chase Sally with their homemade spitball guns, constructed out of lunchroom straws. Their ammunition was saliva soaked wads of paper, which they would shoot with their breath, hoping to land the dripping pulp on the skin, or even better, the glasses of Sally.
“Got her,” the victorious boy would yell. My friends and I giggled nervously, while we peered over at Sally and the goo that covered the glass over her eye in dripping humiliation.
We stared and waited for Sally to wipe away the trail of slime as it slid down the side of her cheek. Sally, though, never cried. Instead, she held tight her emotions like a seasoned soldier. It took me several years, after I had myself become a victim of almost unbearable humiliation, for me to truly regret my part in Sally’s torment. Only then did I seek her friendship, which although was never close, lasted until we graduated high school and went our separate ways. | <urn:uuid:95c6a301-2813-4d49-bd53-9c97ba5ca0dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thelightbehindthestory.blog/2013/05/24/what-i-shared/?like_comment=282&_wpnonce=f997dd9b9b | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.980363 | 1,425 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Aries and you can Malignant tumors When Aries and Cancer means a friendship, it is a situation away from opposites drawing with the each other. Aries try rash and you will brash, when you find yourself Disease is delicate. Aries can get overwhelm Cancer tumors having an excellent flurry off feelings. Even though Cancers usually wants to devote some time with organization duties, Aries’ whirlwind method should be revitalizing. Aries, on top of that, can find the brand new Cancerian sensitiveness tempting; it is a great harmony to your normal Aries bluntness. At times, although, dilemmas can get arise in the event the Cancer’s moodiness or Aries’ hostility end up being challenging. One another Cues must take time for you to tune in to their pal’s opinion and you may learn these are generally from more information. Cancer ‘s the Indication of household and you may hearth, when you’re Aries is actually an effective soldier meeting every challenge direct-into. Aries is very protective regarding Cancer tumors and you may protects him or her. Inturn, Cancer tumors will bring Aries with a pleasurable, welcoming ecosystem and you may psychological safety. Often Cancer tumors you’ll build a keen idealized image of its Aries friend and certainly will be overbearing. Aries may help because of the comforting its Disease confidante they are called for. Additionally, Aries should pay attention to Disease: The Crab are highly instinctual, in addition to their recommendations will help Aries avoid and work out stupid mistakes and you can rash decisions caused by too little think.
Aries is governed by Entire world Mars, and Cancers is ruled of the Moonlight. Aries has an open, romantic character you to pulls Cancerians, exactly who tend to internalize thoughts and you may ideas. Disease can have serious, feminine time, and Aries might help him or her learn to release this time. Brand new Moonlight regulation tides of your Environment, privately impacting all lifestyle; Malignant tumors really works behind the scenes when you’re Aries rushes into the battle. Malignant tumors is generally sentimental and certainly will show Aries so you can slow off and see the newest better points of existence unlike rushing on to the next thing. Aries is actually a flames Signal, and you may Cancer tumors is a liquids Indication. These two elements is going to be good consolidation if they merge its powers, having fun with bodily action to track down anything done. Disease may help Aries reduce and you can learn how to be soft, if you’re Aries shows Cancer to come out of its shell. Cancer would be mentally manipulative, a lot of Water dampening Aries’ passion. However, continuously Fire may cause Water to dissipate and then leave Cancer tumors stressed-away.
Aries and you will Cancers must talk openly and you may freely to be certain the balance was maintained. Aries and Malignant tumors is actually one another Cardinal Signs. Both household members are initiators, nevertheless they need to work with the intention that the initiative in order to add up to something. At first glance, Aries is the leader, race over to fulfill problems, but Malignant tumors can also be indirectly accountable for something as a consequence of emotional manage in addition to capacity to weighing the situation. Malignant tumors can compromise more easily, when you’re Aries is unyielding, therefore, the Crab might have to deal with offering during the.A knowledgeable facet of the Aries-Disease friendship is that — when they read these are generally for a passing fancy top — the blend of Fire ebonyflirt telefonnà ÄÃslo and you will H2o is effective together. Aries exists delivering interest, and you will Cancer was quietly supporting the back-end. For each pal stability additional out, taking just what for each does not have, making it an equal friendship.
Disease Aries Compatibility
Aries and you may Cancers Whenever Aries and you can Disease collaborate inside good relationship, it’s a case off opposites drawing. Aries are hasty and brash whenever you are Cancers are sensitive and painful and you may psychological. Aries can also be emotional — within the an excellent flaming, impetuous way that normally totally overwhelm Disease. No matter if Cancer usually likes to take time having matchmaking, Aries’s whirlwind strategy can be very stimulating. Aries, on top of that, will discover this new Cancerian susceptibility tempting; it’s a beneficial balance on normal Aries bluntness. Troubles can get occur in the event that Cancer’s mood swings otherwise Aries’s aggression gets hurtful. Each other Signs must take time to tune in to the partner’s requires and you can understand that they truly are from other guidelines in order to meet a beneficial preferred goal. Cancers ‘s the Manifestation of Family if you are Aries is the Sign from Worry about. You to definitely higher vibrant between these is that one another Cues try really defensive of these it like. Cancer uses you to Crab cover to draw around themselves in addition to their family relations and you will partner whenever issues try near, due to the fact Ram uses the energy and bravery, particularly a knight in shining armor. Cancer tumors also offers Aries with a happy residential lives and you may mental security. Sometimes they you will generate an enthusiastic idealized picture of the Aries companion or perhaps very possessive, that extremely grate to your separate Aries.
Aries and you can Malignant tumors Compatibility and you may Like Matches
But not, Aries may help because of the reassuring their Malignant tumors spouse they are loved and you can adored. Aries needs to understand to learn Cancer tumors: the fresh Crab operates on an instinctual top as well as their information can also be help Aries stop and come up with foolish mistakes because of you to definitely normal Aries insufficient believe. Aries was ruled of the Globe Mars and you may Cancer was influenced by the psychological Moonlight. Mars try the fresh God of Combat, and you may Aries try an excellent soldier meeting the problem head-toward. Aries’s unlock, passionate character pulls Cancer tumors, which will internalizes attitude and you can attitude. Malignant tumors might have serious, female opportunity and Aries will help them learn to release they. The fresh new Moonlight regulation tides of one’s Planet, unofficially affecting every lives; similarly, Cancer tumors really works behind the scenes (if you’re Aries rushes towards the competition). Cancers tends to be psychological and can illustrate Aries to help you sluggish down and you will see existence as opposed to usually race about the next thing. Aries is actually a flames Indication and you may Cancer is actually a h2o Signal. These two facets will likely be a great combination once they performs together with her, having fun with one another emotion and step to acquire things done.
Cancer can help Aries slow down and you may discover ways to become smooth, if you are Aries will teach Malignant tumors to recover from its shells. However, Cancers might be mentally manipulative — either there is certainly just a lot of Drinking water dampening Aries’s passion. On the other hand, an excessive amount of Fire can cause Water to help you dissipate, leaving Malignant tumors emotionally raw. Aries and you may Cancers need to talk publicly and you may freely to be certain its harmony try maintained. Aries and you can Cancer is one another Cardinal Cues. Each other Cues are initiators, even so they need discover ways to cooperate. On the surface, Aries is the frontrunner, usually race out to satisfy a problem, however, Malignant tumors is additionally indirectly in charge thanks to psychological handle and the ability to weigh the trouble. Malignant tumors does lose quicker when you are Aries will likely be reluctant so you’re able to yield, so that the Crab may need to deal with providing inside the. What is the ideal facet of the Aries-Cancer tumors dating? After they discover these are generally on the same people, the mixture out-of Flames and you can Liquid is useful together. Aries is out there taking notice and you may Malignant tumors is unofficially support the rear avoid. For each and every lover’s capacity to provide precisely what the other is actually without having helps make theirs an equal matchmaking. | <urn:uuid:246aab47-28f3-4a6a-a09b-5a05e840cd7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://infoenergy.ir/%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%87/16157/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.954904 | 1,760 | 1.8125 | 2 |
U.S. officials said the federal government plans to start distributing 2.9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of this week once the Food and Drug Administration grants emergency clearance for Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine, which could come as early as Thursday or Friday.
Gen. Gustave Perna, who oversees logistics for President Donald Trump’s vaccine program Operation Warp Speed, said an additional 2.9 million doses will be set aside for patients to get their second shot. Pfizer’s vaccine requires two doses administered three weeks apart. The government has also set aside a reserve of 500,000 doses in case of an emergency or manufacturing hiccup, he said.
Setting spare doses aside is “good Army general officer planning,” Perna said Wednesday during a press briefing on Covid vaccine distribution, “so that we make sure that in case we need to react to some situation we had some reserves.”
Eventually, the federal government and states will be more “confident” in the distribution process of the vaccine and a reserve will no longer be necessary, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who is leading Operation Warp Speed, said at the same press briefing. “That is the method that we’re using for the initial distributions,” he added.
The officials said the initial doses would go to 64 jurisdictions as well as five federal agencies – the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Defense, Department of State, Indian Health Service and Veterans Health Administration. The Department of Defense is slated to start distributing its first 44,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine as early as next week, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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Pelosi made history as the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives when the Democrats reclaimed control of the U.S. Congress in last fall's midterm elections, a victory largely due to dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and a scandal-plagued Republican-led Congress. Pelosi is now the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government, the first woman to be third in line to the U.S. presidency. Initially, Pelosi and her fellow Dems attempted an ambitious 100-day legislative agenda. But presidential vetoes, intra-party squabbles, and lack of Republican support have stalled many of the Democrats' legislative initiatives, including a change in Iraq war policy. Immigration reform has floundered, spending is still out of control, and problems with Social Security and Medicare funding loom. A new Gallup poll finds Congress's 18% approval ratings are the lowest since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress in 1974, a level not seen since the energy crisis in 1979. Still, Pelosi battles on, with moves such as backing free trade deals with Peru and Panama. —Tatiana Serafin
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The winner of the BSLS Book Prize 2012, announced at the recent annual conference in Cardiff, is Theresa Kelley for Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins UP).
Congratulations to Professor Kelley on taking this accolade, in a year with a very strong shortlist. Her book is a major contribution to the understanding of Romanticism and nature, synthesising a wide range of literary, scientific and philosophical writing on botany, and blending impressive original readings of writers such as John Clare, Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley with intricate considerations of plants from the perspective of material culture and the circulation of objects, poetic and visual tropes, and European philosophical writing during the Romantic era.
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How many of you watched Katie the Giraffe give birth at the Dallas Zoo? Did you follow along for days and then miss the actual birth? Cuz that’s what happened here. Luckily, Animal Planet shared the giraffe birth highlights on their website. So in the end, we did get to see the birth of the baby girl giraffe, just not in real time. The kids were so excited when we clicked back on to check on Katie and we saw a baby walking around! But after watching the birth, it also led to a lot of questions. “Why did the baby come out of her butt?” “What’s that string thing hanging out of her butt?” “What’s that string thing hanging from the baby?” “I thought the doctor cut baby’s out of their mommy’s bellies?” Clearly it was time to start teaching the kids about sex. In a very, very general sense.
Now I’ve written before about teaching kids about sex, but I haven’t actually done anything more than explain that their pee-pees are actually called a vagina or penis, that women have breasts because some choose to feed their babies the milk that comes out of them after they have a baby, and they also know that a baby is made from part of the mommy and part of the daddy. They don’t know how the baby gets in the mommy’s tummy, and up until Katie the Giraffe, they thought that all baby’s were cut out of their mommy’s tummy (because I delivered the girls via C-section and they’ve seen the scar). These are all words that we use at home, your words or situations may be different. The point here is is that my kids’ knowledge of sex stopped there.
After the giraffe birth (and the kids’ gross-out when watching it), I explained that not all women delivered babies via C-section, that some babies came out of their moms without her getting cut open. I said that our body has a special place that the baby comes out. I have no idea if that was the right thing to say, but I was put on the spot!
And after a little digging around, I had forgotten that I had bought this book called It’s NOT the Stork! which helps you know what you need to when teaching kids about sex. It’s for ages 4 and up, though I think that some of it (like the whole how babies are really made part) is a little too much for my 5 year old girls and 7 year old boy. I could be wrong (probably), but I don’t think there’s any reason for them to know what sex actually is. And? I don’t want them telling all of their cousins and friends either.
But we did go through the first section all about bodies and how they work. I kind of skipped over the part showing the mom and dad in bed making love, and just told them that mommy and daddy’s bodies come together and the mom’s body gets some of the dad’s body to make a baby. They seemed fine with that. Then we skipped to how the baby grew.
Enter the questions about the baby coming out of the giraffe’s butt. I explained to them that that was not her butt, but her vagina and that some babies come out of their moms that way. They seemed grossed out, but didn’t ask any more questions. It’s Not the Stork! was actually very helpful and I’m glad that I had it to help me through!
Teaching Kids About Sex
I mentioned that I shared tips for teaching kids about sex before, and I thought I’d share some tips that my friend Dr. G gave me that were really helpful during the conversation that the kids and I had:
- Dr. G stresses that this is not one conversation, rather several short conversations. Establish that you are there to listen and answer any questions as best you can. This is what I did with the kids, and it worked. I probably made it sound like one conversation, but this actually has taken place over the last week. I answer what they ask, but not with too many details.
- Start Young – Dr. G also recommends that you start talking about your child’s body and privacy as soon as your toddler notices a difference between boy bodies and girl bodies. Make sure to use the body part’s real name; a vagina is a vagina and a penis is a penis. Also make sure to explain what areas of your child’s body are private (anything a bathing suit covers), and that nobody should touch them there without their permission.
- Talk About Sex, But Details May Be Limited Based On Your Child’s Age – I found a great article on Parenting about how much information to give your child about sex based on age. This has helped make the process easier as well.
- It Gets Easier To Talk About. Once we got through the giggling and embarrassment (probably both theirs and mine!), it was much easier to talk with them about vaginas and penises and anuses (I’m sure that those are incorrect spellings on those last two) and birth. I won’t say it was fun, but it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. And they were more interested in how babies grow and eat and sleep and poop in a mom’s body than how the baby got there in the first place.
If you’d like to purchase It’s Not the Stork, click the link below! Of if you would like to read more about teaching kids about sex, you’ll find my original post here.
What tips can you share to make it easier for us first-timers when it’s time to begin teaching kids about sex?
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Walter Isaacson's authorized yet candid biography of Steve Jobs is must reading if you are interested in Steve Jobs (that's obvious); if you care at all, pro or con, about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock; if you care at all about how products are, could be or should be designed and sold; or if you just want to dive into a really great story.
Steve Jobs was, to put it mildly, a very challenging individual as many learned the hard way by trying to share dinner with him (his eating habits were extreme and bizarre), by standing or sitting downwind of him (for much of his youth, he believed his dietary practices dispensed with the need for daily showers or baths), by trying to work with or for him (his idea of a product critique: "It sucks!"), or by having a personal relationship with him (he had a cruel streak and always acknowledged that as an aspect of his personality).
The legend about the two kids (Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak) founding a company a garage belonging to one of the families is a nice entrepreneur story and it happened pretty much the way most of us assume it happened. But neither the difficult personality nor the entrepreneurial spirit are what made Jobs unique. Instead, he stood out by virtue of his exceptional, perhaps savant-like, taste, talent for design, and drive to turn his visions into realities. Those were the over-arching themes of his career from the days in the garage with "Woz," to the latter stages with Johnny Ives (Apple's design guru) and the rest of the Apple team.
Jobs' design passion went way beyond surface appearances. He also obsessed over how insides of products looked, even those with sealed cases that that could not be opened by anyone outside Apple. His reasoning was that one could not love what is seen on the outside if one knows or suspects that the product looks ugly on the inside. Ditto for factories: Walls needed to be white - the precise shade of white Jobs deemed best - regardless of whether white was really suitable for an environment dedicated to making stuff. And this quest for perfection, rather than financial avarice, is what motivated Jobs' quest for complete integration, inside and outside, hardware and software. He believed that outside influences would make the product less perfect, and often cause it to "suck."
Had Jobs pursued the fine arts, it would have be easy to stop right here and unconditionally celebrate his achievements. But his having exercised his talents in the commercial arena, we don't have that luxury and are forced to confront some intriguing contradictions. For starters, reality forced Jobs to deal with outsiders far more often than what would seem consistent with his stated views. Indeed, Isaacson, quoting others who worked with Jobs, often refers to a "reality distortion field" as an ever-present aspect of Job's relationship with the world around him.
Although Jobs spoke passionately about complete control, the reality is that Apple might not have survived but for the company's much sought and highly cherished important collaborations with Microsoft. And had Toshiba engineers not spoken to a Jobs colleague a new 1.8-inch drive with five gigabyte storage capacity laying around their lab with no clear use in sight, Apple might never have solved the drive-problem that was vexing the iPod team and standing in their way of bringing the product into existence.
And, of course, there's the dirty, messy, chaotic, uncontrollable, hyper-democratic internet, without which iPhone and iPad, and even iTunes would not exist: there's a lot to the internet that Jobs and Apple can control, as they do with the App store. But that does not include what users load into the Safari browser or how content gets transmitted over networks. (Much to the chagrin of Apple I assume, I, a non-tekkie, find it easy to buy Kindle books on my iPad outside of iTunes simply by loading Amazon into the Safari browser and then downloading via my Kindle app.)
Jobs also drove home to Isaacson the depth of his care for products per se, with this often being what elevated Apple above the competition. iPod was a perfect example. Jobs explained that Microsoft's competitive gadget, Zune, flopped because the people on the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) team were not music lovers. They just wanted to make money. Jobs and his team, on the other hand, were fanatic music lovers (recall that Jobs had, for a while, dated Joan Baez). Indeed, Jobs' answers when asked by Isaacson what he (Jobs) had stored on his iPod make it clear that Jobs' love of music was very deep and very real. The Apple team didn't just create iPod as a business. They created the product they themselves wanted to own and use.
This sounds trite, but actually, is a major issue throughout the business world. Do not assume a Jobs-like love of product is present elsewhere. (It wasn't even present at Apple during the period of Jobs' exile.) I've personally experienced this battle more times than I care to count in the years before I joined Portfolio123. During the course of my prior employment, I spent many hours in conference rooms arguing over stock-screener design with colleagues whose attitude toward stock investing ranged from apathy to disdain, and was directly chastised for trying to create the sort of screener I actually wanted to use. So when Steve Jobs speaks about having a passion for one's products, I hear him loud and clear. I'm all in, at least in the context of my corner of the universe (and by the way, Portfolio123 and its individual-investor StockScreen123 are exactly the products I not only want to use, but do use). But many aren't.
Interestingly, though, it seems to me that this is another area where Jobs' reality distortion field may have been operational. We know jobs loved iPod, and also iPhone and iPad (actually, iPad was conceived first but Jobs felt pressed to adapt it as he rushed to put out a phone that could handle music before others did, his fears having been stoked by the way camera-phones sliced into demand for digital cameras). Indeed, Apple's recent financials and the stock price show the impact of its having released products Jobs and his team loved and wanted to use.
But was that so in the pre-iPod era? Did Steve Jobs love computers? It's tempting to think he did, but I wonder. I cannot recall one occasion where Isaacson mentions anything from which I can infer that Jobs liked being a full-fledged computer user, as opposed to being a tech-gizmo-designer.
We know Jobs loved music and that he was artistic and he was great at coming up with computers that indulged such passions as handling of music, pictures, videos, fancy fonts, etc. But what about the full range of what computers can do? We don't know. We aren't told. But I'm guessing the answer is "no."
Had the answer been "yes," I cannot imagine that Jobs would have banned cursor keys from the Macintosh. Yes, you can move around on a spreadsheet with just a mouse, but when you have ideas flying around in your head and you want to get them into the spreadsheet while you're they are most top of mind, slowing down to position a mouse is sheer hell. I'm guessing Jobs never used a computer in such a way as to allow him to experience this, or if he did, he didn't care deeply about the work he was doing.
I'm also guessing that Jobs did not use, or enjoy using, computers to create large documents where quickness in editing (implement changes almost as fast as you think of them) was more important than beautiful fonts. I'm guessing Jobs did not use, or enjoy using, computers to create or work with sophisticated databases. I'm guessing Jobs did not use, or enjoy using, computers to create new software applications for other individuals or businesses, or to explore new frontiers of communication; actually, Isaacson is eerily silent about Jobs' reaction to the emergence of the internet, a phenomenon that gradually unfolded over a large portion of his professional life and wound up dramatically changing the way he, Apple and the rest of us work and play.
That was a major problem for Apple back in the days when it lived on computers alone (in contrast to today, when the non-computer products boosted the Apple brand to the point where that alone could induce many to buy its computers).
This presents important food for thought for Apple investors, who have an ongoing stake in the company's future. Anybody who has looked at the company's recent financials or its stock price trends sees evidence that at present, Apple's product excellence is very much in synch with the desires of many users. But it's not in synch with all of them, as evidenced by the rapid rise of Android phones and to a lesser degree so far, tablets and tablet-like devices.
Many outside observers today are certain they know the answers. But for what it's worth, Jobs seemed a bit less certain in his final days. Isaacson writes about an impromptu visit by Bill Gates to Steve Jobs' home near the end of the latter's life. These long-time friendly enemies (frenemies?) talked for more than three hours in a conversation that seemed to harken back to the dynamic correspondence maintained between one-time political rivals John Adams and Thomas Jefferson during their twilight years. And like Adams and Jefferson, Jobs and Gates were quick to acknowledge the virtues of one another while still taking their final digs.
Gates (to Jobs): "I used to believe that the open horizontal model would prevail. But you proved that the integrated model could also be great."
Jobs to Gates: "Your model worked too."
Gates (later, to Isaacson): "The integrated approach works well when Steve is at the helm. But it doesn't mean it will win many rounds in the future."
Jobs (later to Isaacson): "Of course, his fragmented model worked, but it didn't make really great products. It produced crappy products. That was the problem. The big problem. At least over time."
These two-line exchanges summarize the key issue, the balance between product excellence and maximum usability. (It may seem from the quotes that Jobs is being quite definitive. But if you read the entire book and see what Jobs is like when he's really firm in his views, you'll recognize in those exchanges, what for him is a particularly high degree of contemplation.)
In computers, where more users want to work to the best of their own ability rather than limiting themselves to expressing the best of Steve Jobs' abilities, the answer, as backed by the overall sales data, is clear: usability trumps product excellence.
With phones, the jury is still out. On the one hand, users don't expect to do as many things with a phone as with a computer, so the chances that Apple's tastes can remain in synch with those of a large number of users is great. But it's not 100%. (One tiny example: I'm still wrestling with the decision over how to replace my BlackBerry. Given my ownership of an iPod and iPad, purchasing an iPhone might seem to be a no-brainer. But my eyes are not what they were twenty years ago and with reading and news Apps most important to me, I'm finding screen sizes ranging from 4.0" to 4.5" for various Droid models very tempting compared to iPhone's 3.5" screen even to the point where I might be better served by an otherwise "crappy" product. This is just one anecdote. But given Droid's market share there are, obviously, millions of others.)
With tablets and tablet-like devices, the case is still in the early stages of development and won't even get to a jury for a long time. (Speaking again for myself, I use a $79 Kindle for most of my reading but as for other tablet uses, I haven't yet seen a rival that offers enough in terms of usage to offset the iPad's still-extreme quality advantage. But these are still early days. I have no idea what the world will look like when my iPad will need to be replaced.)
It will be interesting to see where current CEO Tim Cook (the guy who provides the critical managerial balance Jobs sought but failed to get when he brought in John Sculley) and John Ives take Apple. But the Isaacson book makes one thing clear: Apple will be different. It will change whether it wants to or not. Jobs was a one-of-a kind person and cannot be replicated.
He had his contradictions. But that's OK. Contrary to the whining about flip-flopping that we'll undoubtedly hear in the media as the 2012 presidential race heats up, all humans, except for the terminally boring, have internal contradictions. So the contradictions do not enhance or detract from Steve Jobs. What makes him is the brilliance he brought to bear in the areas about which he was most passionate.
And by the way, Mr. Isaacson, if you see this, can I persuade you to approach Bill Gates to try to get him to cooperate in a similar project. If Shakespeare were alive today, I have little doubt he'd write a play called "Steve and Bill" (or "Bill and Steve," depending on whether he'd be into Mac or pc). The long-standing connection between the two is the stuff of great literature. But since Shakespeare isn't going to come back to address it, I hope, Mr. Isaacson, that you can at least complete what really is a two-sides-of-the-coin biographical treatment.
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TEL AVIV (IRIN) - Reports published recently by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) paint a grim picture of life in Gaza more than four months after the 23-day Israeli offensive ended on 18 January.
At the end of April 2009, UNRWA and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) completed their assessments of damage caused during the offensive: Some 3,500 houses were totally destroyed or are beyond repair and many others have yet to be repaired. Israel has not allowed cement and building materials into Gaza since June 2007.
Some internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living with family members, while others live in the makeshift tent camps.
Cameras distributed by B’Tselem to IDPs in the makeshift camp of al-Azza, which was set up in the Gaza Strip immediately after the Israeli incursion, reveal harsh conditions. The testimonies have been compiled into a short film. Living on sand dunes in tents provided by international aid agencies, cooking on kerosene burners and using portable toilets, they report a feeling of despair and lack of safety.
To overcome the ban on imports of cement and water pipes, the ICRC is helping recycle local materials and using components manufactured in Gaza. The Rafah recycling plant needs to be repaired, it says.
To mitigate cement shortages, concrete segments of the old Rafah border wall, which lay abandoned after its partial demolition in January 2008, are being salvaged.
Pierre Wettach, ICRC’s head of delegation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, quoted in an ICRC update on 12 May, said: “The water and sanitation infrastructure in the Gaza Strip is in dire need of a comprehensive upgrade. Even if the existing infrastructure were operating at full capacity, it would not meet the needs of the population. To provide Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants with adequate facilities it is absolutely essential that materials such as cement, steel and water pipes be allowed in.”
According to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report on 15 May, raw sewage was back-flowing into homes in Khan Younis due to the deterioration of the sewage and waste-water treatment systems. During April, only three truckloads of plastic pipes for water and wastewater projects for the private sector were allowed into Gaza. There has been a ban on plastic pipe deliveries since late October 2008.
The Israeli Security Cabinet met on 24 May to discuss opening more crossings into Gaza and allowing a regular flow of medical supplies, food and a list of other commodities, including building materials, but no change in Israeli policy has been reported so far.
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Characteristics of Gifted Children, Screening and Evaluation Guidelines:
In compliance with Chapter 16, (Pa. Code 16.21 (b)), the West Perry School District is responsible for locating, identifying, and educating school-aged students who are gifted and require specially-designed programs or services.
Definition of Mentally Gifted-outstanding intellectual and creative ability
which requires specially designed programs or support services, or both,
not ordinarily provided in the regular education program.
Gifted Services and Programming
The identification of a gifted student is dependent upon demonstrated strength in one or more academic areas. Upon identification, a Gifted Individualized Education Plan (GIEP) is developed based on the Gifted Multidisciplinary Team’s evaluation report and recommendations. The GIEP team determines the student’s placement and the instructional environment that provides enrichment or acceleration, or both. In addition, the GIEP team determines appropriate specially designed instruction and support services that are:
· Conducted in an instructional setting
· Provided in an instructional or skill area
· Individualized to meet the educational needs of the student
· Reasonably calculated to yield meaningful benefit and student progress
· Adaptations or modifications included in the general curriculum
· Based on the student’s interest, ability levels, readiness and learning needs
· An integral part of an educational objective
West Perry School District provides Gifted Education at each school and has designated Gifted Teachers who are aware of the unique learning differences and needs of gifted learners. They work in collaboration with the regular education teacher(s) to ensure that the student’s gifted services and specially designed instruction provides benefit to the student’s education program. West Perry School District promotes flexible gifted programming based on the GIEP in order to provide instruction with appropriate level of challenges and allows adjustments to accommodate individual needs.
Parents are integral members of the student’s educational team. West Perry encourages and promotes parent participation in planning and evaluating the learning experiences of their child through the referral, evaluation and GIEP process. Collaboration with the school district is essential when determining enrichment and/or acceleration options and appropriate challenges within a specific grade or subject.
Questions regarding Gifted Education can be directed to Stephanie States, Coordinator of Student Services, at (717) 789-3934.
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The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions.
UPRNs give each address in the country a unique number and can have ‘attached’ to that number the activities and characteristics agents need to know about - for example, planning permission for when the property was first built and subsequent extensions, building regulations, council tax payments, utility providers, EPCs, health and safety checks on rental properties, and more.
Now housing minister Chris Pincher has told a conference: “We know that the current buying and selling process is besieged by long and arduous and byzantine processes and inefficiencies.
“When a buyer is found, old and dusty deeds, half-forgotten documents lying in solicitors’ safes or basements of town halls – they have got to be located, they’ve got to be shared, they’ve got to be pored over by both parties in great detail.”
With UPRNs, he says, “the processes can be streamlined. Information like the number of previous owners, boundaries, that can all be shared digitally at the touch of a key helping to speed the whole house buying process along.”
Last summer the government opened the UPRN system - managed by a firm called GeoPlace, which has Ordnance Survey as its parent company - with the aim of ultimately allowing digital searches for properties producing more comprehensive information than in the past.
And early this year a string of estate agencies, PropTech firms and professional property bodies wrote to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick highlighting the potential benefits of the Unique Property Reference Number concept.
Signatories to the letter included NAEA and ARLA Propertymark, Savills, Foxtons, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Lettings Industry Council, the National Residential Landlords Association, The Property Ombudsman and the Property Redress Scheme.
At that time the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team issued a statement of support saying: “The widespread use of a Unique Property Reference Number has the potential to deliver many benefits across the residential property market. Importantly, a UPRN can offer tenants a greater level of protection against rogue landlords and help to reduce consumer fraud when buying or renting a home.” | <urn:uuid:7145b6a8-ca73-4ffd-93e6-0017ae6df7d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2021/6/unique-property-reference-number-concept-backed-by-government?source=related_articles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.940157 | 478 | 1.539063 | 2 |
We all know about the amazing health benefits of Yoga, but the greatest thing amongst all is that Yoga works on changing our internal make-up.
According to a recent study conducted at the university of elliois at Urbana Champaign, practicing Yoga daily for 20 minutes can improve brain function and actually focus better on the task at hand.
Yoga helped Improve concentration and focus by calming the mind and getting rid of distracting throughs.
Here are 5 easy yet effective Yoga asanas you need to try.
1. Tadasna (Mountain Pose)
Tadasana is like the base or the mother of all asanas, from within the other asanas emerge. It increases the level of oxygen in the spinal cord and frontal part of the brain. It improves concentration and boosts energy.
The word ‘Tada’ is come from the Sanskrit word, which meaning is “MOUNTAIN” and meaning of ‘asana’ is”POSTURE” or ‘SEAL” so this asana is called Tadasana. This is the best exercise of to increase the height too.
2. Vrikshasana (Tree Pose)
Vrikshasana gets its name from Sanskrit word ‘Vriksh’ which means a “TREE”. As per its name, in this asana, you have to pose like the steady trunk of a tree Unlike all other asana, Vrikshasana needs you to keep your eyes open so you can maintain balance. When done regularly, it helps in strengthening your spine and leg muscles.
If you suffer from migraine, high or low blood pressure, do not practice this asana. Avoid practicing Vrikshasana if you suffer insomnia. In the beginning, you may find it difficult to place your leg above the knee, so you can place it below the knees but never place it on the knee.
3. Savasana (Corpse Asana)
This is one my favourite asana and I know this is your favourite too.
So, Savasana relieves physical and mental stress that builds during a workout. Whether you’re doing Push-ups, Swimming or cycling, exercises has a profound effect on the body.
To enter in this asana, the body lies face-up on the ground, with legs comfortably spread and arms relaxed alongside the body, palms facing up. The breath should be natural, and it is important that the body is neutral position in which life force energy can flow freely. When we finally lie down in Savasana our vessels continue to feed our muscles with fresh oxygeneted blood, the heart and breathing begins to slow-down leaving us with this peaceful sensation of having done something wonderful for our bodies
4. Padmasana (Lotus Pose)
Padmasana is as beautiful a rendition of our body as the name implies. Its physical aesthetics are well substantiated by its many benefits to the human body and the human mind. Practicing this posture accurately with the right breath wil prove immensely beneficial to the practitioner. It is a simple asana that must find its space in every practitioner’s routine.
The word Padmasana is a Sanskrit word which means “Lotus flower” so it’s also known as “Lotus Pose”. It is so called because of the lotus like formation which made by our legs during this asana. It is Yogic exercise in which one crosses the legs while maintaining a straight posture. It is a important position for meditation.
5. Bhramari pranayama (Bumblebee Breath)
Bhramari pranayama asana is calming breath practice that can be performed anywhere. Bhramari is derived from Sanskrit term for “BEE”.
This breath practice is named after a type of black Indian bee due to bee-like buzzing sound produced during the exhale. Bhramari breath practice can relieve stress agitation, and anger. It can also help to calm the body and mind before sleep.
If you have hard time meditating or are new to the practice of meditation, Bhramari breath can also be a helpful tool. While practicing this you close your eyes , block your eyes and make an audible humming sound. This can help to block out external distractions and humming can give you something to focus on while also helping to quiet any internal thoughts or mind chatter. | <urn:uuid:3f3fc07e-8172-4933-be1d-a9427950619c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://musclesmaniac.in/yoga-asanas-that-will-help-you-in-concentrate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.942546 | 916 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Seventy-five years ago today, more than 2,000 Americans lost their lives and another 1,000 were injured during a surprise military strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Nearly 20 naval vessels and more than 300 airplanes were destroyed. Among the wreckage was the USS Arizona battleship, which was hit by a 1,800-pound bomb. The vessel exploded and sank with 1,000 men trapped inside.
In his 1997 autobiography, Just As I Am, Billy Graham recalled the thoughts and emotions he experienced when he heard the news that fateful day—while attending school at Wheaton College—and how it later influenced his ministry to the military.
“On Sunday evening, December 7, 1941, someone told me that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. I had no idea where Pearl Harbor was—I had never heard of it. Then, on my way from the Tab [United Gospel Tabernacle Church] back to my room, I heard from a newsboy hawking a special edition of the Chicago Tribune that the United States was at war with Japan.
“I got into my car and drove over to the Lane house. Students and friends who gathered there on Sundays were usually up on all the latest happenings in the world. As I entered the front door, Howard Van Buren met me and told me the grim story of Japan’s surprise attack on our naval base.
“The next morning, Dr. Edman [the president of Wheaton College, nicknamed “Prexy”] called the whole student body together for a special chapel service. Prexy had been a soldier in the trenches in World War I. He knew, as General Sherman had said, that war was hell; he also knew that some of his students would die before it was over.
“My first thought was to volunteer. Not that I felt I would make a good fighting man. Indeed, as a cadet in the Army training program on campus, I had nearly cut one fellow’s head off with my bayonet when I made a sudden wrong turn during a drill. But, as an ordained Baptist minister, I knew there had to be a place in the Chaplains’ Corps for a person like me.”
Graham wrote immediately to the War Department to ask about the possibility of becoming a chaplain. They said he would have to finish college and then take a seminary course.
“In the next three semesters,” Graham recalled, “schoolwork took on a new seriousness, and the pastoral ministry to members of the Tab’s congregation deepened along with the preaching. Life and death were not abstractions to us anymore, and the Wheaton township of seven thousand shared with the rest of the nation the anxiety and pain and grief of war.”
In the next few years, after graduating from Wheaton, getting married, and becoming the pastor at Western Springs Baptist Church in Illinois, Graham was accepted into the Army’s chaplaincy program. “I would have passed my previous physical in Chicago and joined up earlier but for the humiliating fact that I was three pounds underweight. I had requested a couple more months to fatten up. The Army granted the extension.”
Although he soon gained the extra pounds, an extended and severe case of the mumps prevented Graham from going to Harvard, where the chaplaincy school was located. His illness took a great toll, and he describes “desperately needing to regain my strength.” So, Billy and Ruth accepted an invitation to recover in Florida. It was there that Torrey Johnson and Graham formally joined forces to lead Youth for Christ.
A Lifelong Ministry
The Army’s chief of chaplains granted him a discharge, since the end of the war seemed in sight, agreeing with Graham that “I could make a far greater contribution to the spiritual well being of service people by organizing and preaching at youth rallies than I could serving as a chaplain.”
Concern for the military continued to be a hallmark of Graham’s ministry. As just one example, he spent Christmas Day, 1952, with troops on the battlefront in Korea.
Of his experience, Graham said, “I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again. …I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.”
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Pedro Hulsebosch Agricultural Center
Located just an hour away from Santiago, the Pedro Hulsebosch Agricultural Center has been a small teaching farm in Cerro Plata since 2013. The farm grows products that can coexist and grow harmonically. We use organic fertilizers such as biol and solid lombricompost, both produced on the farm.
The farm has an irrigation system and the main water source is just 800 meters away, with a reserve of 100 000 liters of water.
Among its top projects is having the first greenhouse in the Veraguas province, with an area of 500 m2, and the production of fertilizers using worms.
We always care about the environment.
The farm has also a plant nursery were you can buy ornamental, fruits, and medicinal plants.
students have practiced on the farm
At least 500 students of schools in Calobre, Cañazas, El Bale, Divisa have been practicing in the farm.
The farm teaches 7 students in a program called “Education and Work, my second chance” were they learn how to efficiently grow crops in their vacations and weekends. We are also visited by at least a dozen students a week, all from schools in nearby regions.
Our long term projections
We expect to get visitors from groups, associations, students no matter what are they studying or their age.
By teaching to new generations, we expect to be auto-sustainable and start selling our products and fertilizers.
We want to create a regional association of small farmers, where we can create a fair, organic and solidary market that sells directly from producer to the consumer.
In Veraguas, we are the only producers of liquid and solid fertilizers that come from Californian worms, which have proven to be the best organic fertilizer in the world because of its capacity to regenerate the soil and make them more productive.
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Have you ever heard the word syncretism? It means to attempt to fuse or unite different religions or views. It is the concept of mingling two religions together. And it is something that the word of God warns us against.
When I lived in Asia, I saw a great deal of syncretism among Christians. I saw people who were very committed to worship and prayer also bring into their faith elements of Buddhism or Confucianism. Believers who ought to know better would, on a particular holiday, set out dishes of food to nourish long-dead relatives.
The word of God is clear that we do not want to attempt to mingle the true Christian faith with elements of other religions. God is not pleased when people attempt to reshape Christianity with man-made practices.
Galatians 4:9-11 – 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Paul, when writing to the Galatian church saw quite clearly some of the same problems. The Galatians were attempting to blend biblical Christianity with Old Testament Jewish practices and perhaps with elements of the other religions of the day. They wanted to keep the grace of Christ, but to add to the faith standards and practices of faiths that deny him.
All of that is an interesting sort of anthropological study, but the question should arise as to how we might be tempted toward the same thing. Is it possible that we could fall victim to the same sort of God-dishonoring thinking that made Paul fear for the salvation of the Galatian church?
So, let’s simply ask ourselves if our faith, our standards, our beliefs, our worship practices are actually Christian. Are we thinking and acting in accord with faithful, biblical Christianity, or are we at risk of bringing into the faith beliefs and actions and celebrations that are from other religions? How would we know?
The Bible is how we should know. Ask yourself if the things you say, the things you think, the things you practice in worship are in Scripture. So often, things that we will say, that we will accept as truth, are actually diametrically opposed to what is in Scripture. But, since the things we hold to sound true, we assume they must be in the Bible somewhere. We assume that our practices, if we like them, if they make us feel good, they must be acceptable in the worship of the Lord.
But looking at what Paul wrote to the Galatians should cause us all to stop and really test ourselves. Test your doctrine, not against your feelings or against tradition, but against the word of God faithfully taught and applied. Do the same for the practices of your church in worship. Test what you do in a worship service, not against whether it appeals to the body or applies to the lost, but test it against the word of God. Has the Lord called the church to do what you are doing? Has the Lord called the church to value what you are valuing?
The warning from the passage in Galatians should be clear to us. We, when we are not careful, can become complacent. We can assume that our thoughts and actions please
God. We can fail to notice that we have corrupted the faith with worldly thinking and worldly practices or with the doctrines and practices of false religion. May we be careful. May we rethink what we do, all that we do, in the light of Holy Scripture. May we ask, with any doctrine if Scripture really teaches it. May we ask with any part of our worship services if Scripture actually calls us to do it or to do it this way. Do not stop guarding your life and practice with the word of God. If you do, a mingled faith with worldliness or false religion is ready to jump in and change your worship to what dishonors the Lord. And I do not believe that any of us want that.
In Numbers 22-24, we get the story of the pagan prophet Balaam. It is a story made for children’s Sunday School, as Balaam’s donkey is enabled to speak to him and show him the error of his ways.
And Balaam, though wanting to curse the Israelites, is not allowed to do so. Instead, God makes Balaam speak a blessing on Israel.
The story seems to end in chapter 24 with Balaam going home and King Balak being angry with him. Later, we find in Numbers 31:8 that Balaam died when Israel defeated Midian. But this does not tell us the real rest of the story.
Look at the words of Moses speaking about the Midianite women.
Numbers 31:16 – Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.
If you do not know what Moses was talking about, you would have to go back and see Numbers 25. There we see that the nation of Israel, though recently blessed by Balaam, is experiencing the judgment of God. Why? The Israelites are defying the commands of the Lord in several ways. The Midianite women have seduced the Israelite men. The Israelite men are committing sexual immorality with the women of Midian. This also draws the men to participate in the idolatry of the Midianites. And all of this results in God’s judgment on Israel. (This is no longer a good children’s Sunday School idea, by the way.)
Interestingly, in chapter 31, we learn that this happening was not by happenstance. Instead, we learn that this was a scheme of Balaam. Balaam advised Balak to send the women of Midian to tempt the Israelite men into sinning. And the scheme worked. Thus, even though the Lord would not permit Balaam to speak a curse against Israel, Israel earns the curse of God by worshipping idols and committing sexual immorality.
Now, where is a life lesson for the modern Christian? Perhaps it is found in the truth that, when our enemy cannot attack us and defeat us from without, he will move to attack us from within. Israel was shielded against the physical attacks of Midian. But Israel willingly walked into sin and brought about their own hurt.
I wonder how often this is true for churches. How often do we have things go well on the outside only to see ourselves self-destruct internally? How often are our buildings clean, our people well-fed, and our sermons solid even while our hearts, in sin, turn us against the Lord and against one another?
Note as well the specific plan. Balaam used the lusts of the men to bring judgment on them. When nothing would work externally, the enemy attacked the men with the temptation toward sexual immorality.
How many of our men in our churches are outwardly strong, but eaten up inside with sexual sin? How many of our women are in the same boat? How many men are putting on a good outward face, but are watching porn in secret and thinking all is OK? How many of our Christians are turning from the commands of God regarding sex, marriage, gender, and all the rest?
Friends, what God has said to us about sex and marriage is vital to our ability to worship him and serve him. This is not popular today. But you can be assured that, if the devil would use the strategy of sexual immorality and compromise with the neighboring culture in Numbers 31, he will certainly use it against the church today. Accepting sexual immorality was destructive in the days of Moses, and it is destructive today. May we be strengthened by the Lord to withstand these attacks from without and from within.
The story of Balaam in Numbers 22-24 is fascinating, perhaps a little funny. Balak offers Balaam a bribe to get him to speak a curse against Israel. Balaam is willing, though he knows that he is limited to speak only what the Lord will allow. Thus, Balaam would like to be able to say things that have power, but he knows that the words of true prophecy only come from the Lord.
When Balaam sees Israel, and when Balak tells him to let them have it, Balaam opens his mouth. But the only words that come out are words of blessing over Israel. It reminds me, in a sad way, of the movie “Liar Liar,” when the main character wants to lie, but as he speaks, he unwillingly tells the truth.
It is strange, but in the midst of Balaam’s frustration, God allows him to speak an amazing word that points to God’s ultimate plan for Israel and for all the saved.
17 I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near:
a star shall come out of Jacob,
and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the forehead of Moab
and break down all the sons of Sheth.
18 Edom shall be dispossessed;
Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed.
Israel is doing valiantly.
19 And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion
and destroy the survivors of cities!”
Consider those words of prophecy. A star and scepter will come out of Israel. The one to come will crush the enemies of God and rule the world, having dominion (v 19). This is Messiah, the one who will rescue, the promised king sent by God. And Balaam predicts it.
The plan of God is amazing. Nobody can stop it. Balak did not want to hear it. Balaam did not want to speak it. But the Lord told us anyway. He promised a King to come who will reign. Jesus is that King to come.
Human beings are amazing creatures. We can be sacrificial, giving, caring, and creative. We can mirror some of the attributes of God such as love, mercy, and justice. We can harness electricity, predict the weather with a certain degree of accuracy, and send rockets into space.
And yet, if you look at humans, think about what messes us up. Think about what happens to us that just turns us inside-out. People who are otherwise smart, often wise, people who know the consequences of bad choices, willingly make bad choices. You know it will cost you. You know it is going to do you damage. You know, when you are willing to actually think, that the reward is not going to be as great as promised, but you jump in anyway.
This all reminds me of something we see in the book of Numbers. In fact, if you ever want to see folly of humanity, and if you want to get a glimpse as to what messes us up, take a peek at what I am, at least this morning, calling the onion rebellion.
For background, the people of Israel have lived their entire lives as slaves in Egypt. They have been forced to work against their will under the whips of brutal task-masters. The Egyptians even attempted to put to death the male children born to the Israelites in order to slow down their population growth. This people cried out to God for mercy, and God delivered them.
As you know, the Lord led the people up out of Egypt in a miraculous salvation. They crossed the Red Sea, saw the Egyptians crushed by the waves, and began a trek in the desert back to their homeland.
As the Israelites walked in the desert, God did more miracles. God provided for the people supernaturally food to eat every day. God provided water for the people to drink. God provided supernatural, visible guidance to lead the people to where he wanted them to camp. God took care of all their needs.
Numbers 11:4-6 – 4 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
And here is what happened. The people got tired of the healthy, supernaturally provided, perfect food that the lord gave them. They suddenly began to think longingly of their slavery. They wanted the fish, the leeks, and the onions. And so they began to grumble and complain, dishonoring God out of their desire for onions.
What does this make you think of these people? God is there. They should know he is doing amazing things to care for them. They should know that he is giving them what they actually need. He is making sure that they get where they are going. This is an uncomfortable couple of months, to be sure, but it is surely not as bad as slavery.
But all the rabble can think of is, “We want onions!” They are letting a drive, a simple desire, an unimportant flavor lead them to destruction. They are willing to turn their back on God, to disparage his holy name, to damage their actual lives because they want a new taste in their mouths and they just cannot wait for the promises of the Lord to be fulfilled.
And as we want to look down on these people for their folly, we have to ask where we face our own onion rebellion. Where do you turn your back on God for the fulfillment of drives and desires that are actually not worth it? WE do this in so many ways.
Food is one example. We know what is healthy and safe to eat. We know what eating too much unhealthy food does to us. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, back problems, poor self-image, all these can be contributed to by our making foolish choices regarding what we eat. We know this. WE have seen the science. We have had the teachers tell us this in school And yet, when we have a craving, what do many people do? Many throw wisdom and insight out the window and wreck their health for something that gives a brief moment of pleasure.
How about in marriages? Think of the destructive things people do, things they know are wrong, hoping for a flash of pleasure. A husband gives into the temptation to watch porn on the Internet. A wife gives into the pleasure of flirting with a coworker. Neither one, if you sat them down in an honest conversation, would tell you that they really, thoughtfully, truthfully believe that their actions are going to lead to good. They know that their pleasures, their drives, their hungers actually lead them to pain. But they give in anyway.
Friends, Let’s not be onion rebellion kind of people. Let us seek the Lord and plead with him for the ability to take hold of our desires and our drives. There are things that might give us temporary pleasure and lead to our hurt. There are things that might give us temporary pleasure, but lead to our damnation. Pray. Ask God to help you have the strength to say no to your desire for things that mean nothing in the eternal scheme of things. Do not turn your back on God because you want a sexual rush, a moment of telling someone off, the good opinion of someone you barely know, a bit more money, or the taste of food for just a moment. Do not be like the people who walk away from God because they miss the onions in Egypt.
I honestly do not know how to shape things from today’s reading into a single, coherent, devotional thought. Yet there are big thoughts from the Lord to see in Deuteronomy 4.
Deuteronomy 4:2 – You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Verse 2 caught my attention, because it is so very familiar, and yet it is not where I expected to find it. I know that the Proverbs and the book of Revelation have verses that warn against adding to or taking from or changing the word of God. But I had honestly forgotten that the same command happens right here at the end of the ministry of Moses. And because it feels new to me, it helps me to stop and realize the significant point that the Lord is making in his word time-and-time again.
God has given us his word. God has given us his commands. His word is solid and sure. To add to his word, take from his word, change his word, manipulate his word, ignore his word, or battle against his word is to sin against the Lord. His word is how we know him. His word is how we serve him. His word is central to any relationship with God.
So, first, we must ask if we truly understand the unfathomable gift of the word of God. The Bible is God allowing us to know him and to obey him. Do we treasure his word enough? Do we learn it? Do we keep it? O may we not allow our own minds, our own best guesses, our own sinfully tainted hearts develop for us our view of the Lord. Instead, may we keep his word.
Deuteronomy 4:9-13 – 9 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ 11 And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. 12 Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. 13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
As Moses reminds the Israelites of the things they have experienced, the revelation of God at Mt. Sinai 38 years before, he says something that grabs my heart today. The Lord revealed himself to his people and he commands them to remember. The Lord calls on the present generation not to turn up their noses at the things they learned as children, at the things their parents saw as adults, at the things which shook their souls to their core as they realized they stood in the presence of a holy God.
Consider the command of verse 9: keep your soul diligently. God calls on his people to battle to keep our souls. This is no argument against a New Testament doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. Rather, it is the means by which we participate in that doctrine. The Lord keeps his own. But the Lord commands his own to keep their souls.
We face a hard world full of skeptics, critics, and temptations. It is so very easy for us to let the sinful thoughts and evil practices of the world seep into our souls. Eventually, if we are not diligent, we will find that our thinking is turned away from the Lord. We will find that our hearts grow cold against the Lord. We will find that our desires are no longer those of the Lord. We must fight. Yes, God will keep his own. Yes, God’s Spirit in us will preserve us. Yes, God will move us. But we must pray, repent, love his word, and battle to keep our souls in these evil days.
And, finally in this section, notice the word “commanded” in verse 13. As God leads Moses to point the people to the Ten Commandments, the terms of his covenant with national Israel, God says that he commanded them to keep those words. Please note that God did not grovel to persuade Israel. God did not beg or plead. Instead, God identified himself as the Lord. God showed them he is God, the Creator and Ruler of all. And God commanded the people to obey his word. He commanded repentance. He commanded obedience.
I wonder, in our day, if we are preaching strongly enough that repentance is not simply a persuasive option we are to hold out to others. I wonder if we are spending time trying to get people to like God enough to maybe give him their time. I wonder if we are acting as though God is having a sale and they should at least drop by and check out the prices. No! This is not the way of the Lord. God is God. God is Lord. God commands all people everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30). We are not to turn to God based on emotion or our liking of his offer—though it is great if we do. Rather, we are to bow to our God as Lord and submit to his authority as the God over all.
The tendency in modern churches and modern worship is toward the casual. Churches emphasize their casual, laid-back atmosphere. Groups shape their services not to cause discomfort for those who are outside of the faith. Believers think and speak of God as one might speak of a neighbor or grandpa.
The modern shift toward the casual is understandable in a way, but our actions have grown far from the source. We have learned to reject the notion of requiring a shirt and tie to enter the building. WE have learned to welcome the downtrodden, and that forces a relaxing of dress codes and such. WE have walked away from a false rigidity in how we think of the service so that children are no longer receiving a thump on the ear if they accidentally swing their feet or wiggle in their seat.
But, dear Christian friends, there ought be nothing casual about worship. I’m not here saying that we are to be joyless, but we are not to be casual. God is bigger than all that. God is holier than to deserve our second-rate attentions or our leftover time. God’s holiness demands a reverence that modern folks may no longer know how to give.
Consider Hebrews 12. In that chapter, the author has called his readers to holy living. He called the church to battle sin, to keep marriages pure, to live holy lives in their present world. This is a common message. But watch the way that the author then aims the reader at the holiness of God and our proper response.
Hebrews 12:18-21 – 18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”
First, the author sets the stage. WE have not come to Mount Sinai as did the Israelites in the Exodus. That scene was terrifying, so scary that the people could not handle it. The mountain shook. The cloud descended. The people begged Moses not to let God speak again, for his holy voice shook them to their core. And Moses and the land, and the mountain, and the people quaked at the thought of being near the holy presence of God.
But the author is saying that such a mountain is not what we have come to. If you know the book of Hebrews, you should already be able to anticipate what is next. It will not be a minimizing of the holiness of God. Instead, the comparison from Moses to Jesus is always one of the lesser to the greater.
Hebrews 12:22-24 – 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
And here it is. You have not approached the old covenant at Mount Sinai. We are approaching something greater. Instead of a mountain smoking to conceal the presence of the Lord, we are approaching the real heavenly city. The Father, the Son, the angels are all there.
How should our response to this change? If the modern Christian is right, our response would include less fear, less trembling, less formality, more casualness, more light-heartedness. Is this the way the Scripture speaks?
Hebrews 12:25-29 – 25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
God will shake more than the mountains. He will shake the universe. If Moses trembled, how much more should we? The danger of refusing the will of this God is clear.
But I want us to specifically notice the way that this impacts worship. In verses 28-29, the author tells us, “and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” Reverence and awe are to be what characterizes our worship. That is not a ra-ra rock concert feel under anyone’s definition who is paying attention. Reverence and awe are not the product of light shows, smoke machines, and cheap U2 guitar rip-offs. Nor are reverence and awe the characteristics of services that are shaped to appeal to those who do not know Christ, who do not love the Lord, and whose feelings we do not want to hurt by using too much Scripture. God is a consuming fire, and we would never approach a consuming fire flippantly, casually, or carelessly.
Friends, I believe there is a balance to be had here. I’m not trying to suggest that we not enjoy our time together in our services. We gather as family. Such gatherings should be full of joy, of love, of laughter, of comfort. But I wonder if we moderns are missing the reverence and awe. I wonder if choosing music that sounds just like the stuff on the radio—light-hearted, shallow, simple—music that is no different than our day-to-day, prevents us from the awe that should come from us as we sing the holiness of God. I wonder if the common practices of seeking sermons that give us basic life hacks on parenting, fear, depression, or whatever are just far too shallow when compared to opening the Scripture to present the depths of doctrine and the glories of God.
Ultimately, the word of God calls us to come before our Lord in the freedom and confidence of Christ. But the word also calls us to worship the Lord in holiness, with awe and reverence. The one we approach is not our next-door neighbor. The one we approach is not a politician we do not respect. The one we approach is not our grandpa. Yes, God is our heavenly Father. But we need to remember that our culture no longer understands father as a respected leader as did cultures of the past. God loves us. God welcomes us. But the God who loves us, welcomes us, comforts us, heals us, encourages us, forgives us, that God is holy, pure, a consuming fire. That God is the God who shook the mountain so that the people begged not to hear his terrifying voice. That God is the God in whose presence Isaiah feared he would disintegrate. That God is the God who is so blazing in his glory that angels cover their faces with their wings in respectful adoration. And so we approach that God in love and under grace even as we approach him in reverence and awe.
Christ: The Head of the Church
During the Reformation, there was a crisis of authority.
Who speaks for God: the church or Scripture?
Who is the head of the church?
Rome says it is the Pope.
The authority of heaven, they claim, is invested in the Pope.
The reformers pushed back and called him antichrist.
They argue that the only head of the church is Jesus Christ.
In England, Henry VIII proclaimed himself to be head of the church of England.
English reformers defied the monarch and claimed that Christ is the only head of the church.
The same happened in Scotland.
This is not an incidental matter; it is a fundamental matter.
No Pope is the head of the church.
No hierarchy of men is the head of the church.
No pastor, elder board, or congregational vote is the head of the church.
There is but one head of the church, and he is the one who is seated at the right hand of God the Father and who purchased the church by the shedding of his own blood.
The meaning of Christ’ headship
The ministries of Christ’s headship
The Mandate of Christ’s headship
The meaning of Christ’s headship
Two concepts in Ephesians 1:20-ff
First, Jesus is our ruling head.
Jesus is sovereign, having supreme authority over all matters that transpire in the church.
He is the ruler of the church.
He is of superior authority and rank.
This is somewhat like when we call a person a head of state or the head of a corporation.
God the Father raised Jesus from the dead.
He is a living head.
The Father seated Jesus at his own right hand.
The Father enthroned Jesus and invested in him all authority.
Jesus is far above all other powers or authorities.
This is supremely supreme.
He is above all angels in any hierarchy.
He is above any name that is named.
That includes all worldly rulers.
Not only is this true in this age, but in eternity future.
There are no term limits upon the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He will never step aside.
God the Father put all things in subjection to the Son.
Subjection is a military term for subordinates lining up under a superior.
Everything in the universe is in submission and subordination under the supreme sovereignty of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus is a conquering king.
All things are like a defeated adversary under the victorious king’s feet.
None of us can comprehend just how sovereign Jesus is.
In Revelation 19, Jesus returns with many crowns.
He is sovereign.
Our minds cannot grasp how in control the Lord Jesus is.
Jesus has all authority.
There is no authority outside of Jesus Christ.
The Father has given Jesus as head over all things to the church.
Head means ruling authority.
It is supreme to the extreme.
Jesus’ will is supreme in all matters, his word is final.
Jesus is the head and we are the body.
Jesus is Lord and we are the slaves.
Jesus is King and we are the subjects.
Second, Jesus is the organic head.
He is also the source of all life to the church.
He infuses life and grace into the church.
He gives his wisdom and power and love and peace to the church.
We have no need but that Jesus is all-sufficient to meet that need.
The fullness of him…
Everything he is.
… of him who fills all…
He pours himself into us.
He fills us and lives within us.
He is our ample supply.
He lives within us as we live for him.
He fills all in all.
In all places, all times, he fills all in all.
The meaning of his headship is that he is over us as ruling head and is in us as organic head.
He is lord and life.
He is over us as sovereign and in us as source and supply for all we need.
The ministries’ of Christ’s headship
… all that Jesus began to do and teach…
There is more he will do and teach in the church.
First, as head, he has the authority to choose his leaders.
The head of the church has to supply the replacement for Judas.
They prayed and said to Jesus, “you Lord…”
They pray, looking to Jesus.
Only Jesus knows the hearts of all men.
They ask Jesus to show which man Jesus has chosen.
Jesus controls the casting of the lot into the lap.
The head of the church sovereignly controlled the choice of the replacement.
They do not ask Jesus to confirm their choice.
They humble themselves and ask Jesus to show which one he had chosen.
The head of the church will move to bring leaders into the local church.
God is the one who calls and Christ appoints the leadership in the church.
Second, as head he has the authority to call a people to himself.
Jesus fulfills what he said in Matthew 16:18.
He begins to build his church by his sovereign grace.
Not every person on earth is built into the church.
as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Jesus is the name upon which we call for salvation.
God the Father has made him Lord and Christ.
It is this Lord, in verse 39, who is calling out a people to himself.
This is an effectual call.
The Bible talks about 2 types of calls.
There is the external call.
That comes from all sorts and goes to the ear.
There is the internal call of the Lord Jesus.
This call actually summons subpoenas the one who is called.
When Jesus calls like this, those called come.
Jesus calls his sheep and they come.
Jesus as the ruling head is sovereign over who he calls into the church.
No one comes into the true church except Jesus calls them.
And all he calls will come.
Thus Jesus assures the effectiveness of gospel preaching.
We give the external call.
Jesus gives the internal, effectual call.
The only way we know the Father is because Jesus willed to show us the father.
All whom he calls believe.
Jesus gives them faith to believe.
Acts 3:16, faith is in Jesus and it comes from Jesus.
The faith comes through him.
As Jesus builds his church, he gives people saving faith so that they can exercise faith in him.
He is both the source and the object of saving faith.
Faith that is in Jesus is faith that is through Jesus is a faith that comes from Jesus.
Hebrews calls Jesus the author and perfecter of faith.
It was granted to you to believe.
George Whitfield said that man has free will to go to hell, but no free will to go to heaven.
Spurgeon said that he has heard much about free will, but he has never yet seen it.
As head of the church, he has authority to grant repentance.
We are talking about how Jesus builds his church one soul at a time.
We have no ability to conjure up our own forgiveness.
But there is only one active agent who grants repentance.
The one who gives forgiveness is also the one who gives repentance.
Also in Acts 11, same thing.
God grants the gentiles the repentance that leads to life.
As we proclaim the gospel, God has gone before us and God works with us and he calls out his chosen, gives them faith, and grants them repentance.
This is what Jesus does to build his church.
He has authority to convert his enemies.
Jesus can overcome any and all resistance.
If God can do this with Saul, he can do this with anybody.
Saul was breathing threats and murders against the disciples of the Lord.
He was hunting Christians.
Suddenly Christ appeared.
Saul fell to the ground.
Saul asks, Who are you, Lord?”
He answered the question himself before the end of the sentence.
Jesus brought an enemy to his knees and brought him to a place of self-denial.
This is a prototype of every conversion.
This is what Jesus did in your life if you are actually converted.
He humbled you and brought you low.
Saul is a chosen instrument of Christ’s.
No way could Saul have resisted that mighty call.
When Jesus calls, we come.
As head, he has authority to open closed hearts.
God opened Lydia’s heart to respond to the things spoken…
Her heart had been closed.
God opened it.
Paul gave the external call.
Jesus gave the internal call.
Lydia then responded.
Verse 14, opened.
Verse 26, the same opened is used of the prison doors opened.
The earthquake opened the doors.
God opened Lydia’s heart.
This is how Jesus builds his church.
He blows the doors open in hardened hearts.
He sends spiritual earthquakes to open our hearts.
As head, he has authority to guarantee gospel success.
He has his people who will believe and who will respond.
The Lord tells Paul to keep preaching.
Jesus says that he is with Paul.
Jesus says that he has many people in the city.
This included those who would be saved.
As head, Jesus has authority to purchase and possess the church.
Paul is speaking to the elders in Ephesus.
Speaking of the church,
Which he purchased with his own blood.
Jesus purchased the church of God with his own blood.
The church belongs to him by right of ownership.
As the good shepherd, Jesus laid down his life for the sheep, his sheep.
Jesus did not die in vain.
All for whom he died he calls.
All whom he calls, he gives saving faith.
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Ephesians 5:1, Jesus gave himself up for us.
The mandate of Christ’s headship
None of us are free to reinvent church.
None of us are free to come up with our own way of doing church.
The head of the church has already instructed us how he desires to be worshipped.
He has shown us how he desires the body to function.
This is the regulative principle.
The activities of the church will be regulated by what Jesus says.
He has every right to govern every square inch of our church because he is the head of the church.
The Mission of the Church
What is our primary mission?
We have multiple categories of responsibility.
To the church
To the world
What is the primary task that Christ assigned the church when it comes to the world?
This question has become more clouded over the past century or two.
Liberalism removed a belief in the need for salvation.
Liberal Protestantism believed the church’s mission is the salvation of society, not of individuals.
Fundamentalism knew this was not our goal.
Stott said that mission is the whole Christian lifestyle, including evangelism and social responsibility.
Emergent church tried to combine the social and individual spheres.
Social gospel became social justice, a rebranding of the ethics of liberalism.
Chan, Keller, and N. T. Wright also promote social justice.
As believers, we cannot be indifferent to the needs of those around us.
We ought to do what we can to alleviate the suffering of those whom God brings across our paths.
Is this redefinition of mission a biblical definition?
Is social justice part of, or all of, the primary mission of the church?
What it actually says may be different than what many think it says.
This is our primary mission.
4 crucial truths about our mission in these verses
Truth 1: Its singular importance.
Why do we consider this command to be so important?
Because of Matthew’s placement of it in his gospel
Matthew did not record the ascension or other teachings of that month.
Jesus made this Jesus’ last words he recorded.
Because of Jesus’ emphasis on this particular meeting.
The NT records multiple meetings between the resurrected Jesus and his disciples.
Multiple meetings on Resurrection Sunday.
One meeting 8 days later.
But Matthew focuses on this meeting.
About 9 days after the resurrection, the 11 left for Galilee.
Jesus gave them this command to go to Galilee several times.
The trip would have taken at least 3 days.
7 of them went fishing after they arrived.
After that, Jesus met them on the mountain in Galilee.
Jesus clearly considered this meeting strategic.
Because of the disciples to whom he gave it
Jesus directed this command to the 11.
But he gave it to others as well.
In verse 10 of Mat 28, Jesus’ brethren were told to go to Galilee.
That refers to more than the 11.
Jesus plans to speak to a larger group in Galilee.
In 1 Cor 15, Jesus appeared to more than 500 at once.
Many think this would have been the crowd when the Commission was given.
Most of Jesus’ disciples were in Galilee.
Verse 17 says that some doubted while others worshipped.
The 11 had already come to confidence that Jesus was raised.
It is others, Galilean disciples, who struggled to believe.
Jesus gave the commission to all who had come to believe in him.
Thus, this is for us too.
Because of the deliberate comprehensiveness of this command.
Jesus uses the word all 4 times.
All things I have commanded you
I am with you all the days.
Because of the repetition of the commission
This same basic command is repeated 3 other times.
Luke 24, John 20, Acts 1
Mark 16 in the long ending shows us that the early church knew this was important.
It is impossible to overstate the singular importance of this commission and command outlined here.
Truth 2: Its supreme authority
Jesus makes a great claim.
All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Jesus had always possessed supreme authority.
Jesus had authority on earth even before his death.
Matthew 7:29; 9:6; 10:8; 11:25-ff.
In Matthew 11:25-ff, all things have been handed over to me by my Father.
Everything necessary for Jesus to accomplish his ministry is under his authority.
After the resurrection, the sphere of his authority is absolute.
All authority is his.
The Father seated Jesus in the supreme place of authority.
Philippians 2, Jesus is exalted to the highest place.
Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth.
He rules everything in the universe.
That was prophesied of the messiah.
Jesus had already claimed that passage to himself.
His dominion is everlasting, over all, never destroyed.
Why point this out?
Jesus is about to give his church an audacious mission.
Jesus has supreme authority.
He has the authority to establish the mission of your church.
He has the right to define the mission and the power to carry it out.
Christ will build his church.
Truth 3: Its specific orders
Therefore, because Jesus has the right to rule the church, he gives us our marching orders.
These orders have not changed over 2,000 years.
This is a contrast to the command of chapter 10:5.
Do not go in the way of gentiles in chapter 10.
Now Jesus says to go to the nations.
Go is a participle
Having gone, make disciples.
Is this a command to go?
Yes it is.
This participle is an attendant circumstance.
It ties to the main verb.
It is right for translations to translate the participle as an imperative.
You could not make disciples of the nations if you stayed in Israel.
Of course Jesus intended that some of his disciples were to relocate to carry out the mission.
Peter went to Italy.
Thomas when to India.
The stoning of Stephen sent others out.
Jesus wanted some of those who heard him to leave home and go.
He still expects some of our church members to go too.
We should pray that God will raise up people in our churches and families to go.
We need to challenge our people to go.
We need to consider going ourselves.
But Jesus did not intend that all 500 would relocate.
Many, think James, remained in Israel for the rest of their lives.
All nations included their nation.
We are called to carry out the Great Commission.
We may do so in our neighborhood or around the world.
But we do not get a pass from this Commission.
Every disciple and every church must own the world-wide mission of the church.
Jesus says go.
This is the main verb of the sentence.
It is not optional.
What does it mean?
Carson – disciples are those who hear, understand, and obey Jesus’ teaching.
Acts 11:26 – the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch
To be a Christian is to be a disciple.
The mission is making disciples.
We do not call people to ourselves or to a cause.
We call people to follow a person, our Lord Jesus Christ.
The goal is not decisions, but disciples.
What is the nature of a spiritual relationship with Jesus?
Call Jesus teacher and Lord, John 13.
He is our teacher, we are the students.
We are the slaves, he is the master.
This is not about a simple prayer or momentary faith.
It is not about a simple acceptance of facts.
It is a call to follow Jesus as Master and Teacher.
They preached the gospel and made many disciples.
Acts 13:48 – The ones appointed to eternal life believed.
Preach the gospel, proclaim the word, and that is how you make disciples.
Let us not get so excited in our goals to help people and fix the city that we lose track of what makes Christian mission Christian.
All the nations
Jesus means all nations, including Israel.
Luke 24:47, repentance is proclaimed to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.
Ephesians 3:11, the eternal plan.
Jesus says he came to seek and save the lost.
The theme of the Bible: God is redeeming a people by his Son, for his Son, to his own glory.
What does the command to make disciples of all nations mean?
Some leave and go to other nations.
For others, this command may be a call to take vacation, travel overseas, and help missionaries.
Even if you do not go to the nations, you are responsible for the nations.
Pray, give, care for missionaries.
Do the people in our churches understand that every believer must actively support Christ’s international mission.
What always accompanies true disciple-making?
We baptize into the name (singular) of the one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus puts himself in the middle of the trinity.
Jesus claims deity right here.
Baptize means to dip or plunge under water.
It was often accompanied by the verbal affirmation that Jesus is Lord.
True disciples profess submission to Jesus’ authority.
Baptism is important.
Do not downplay it if Jesus put it right here in the commission.
1 Corinthians 12:13
All believers are baptized into the body of Christ.
Acts 2:41, water baptism serves as a picture of that spiritual reality and as initiation to the church.
Every disciple is to be taught all Jesus has commanded.
There is a demand that preachers have a biblically-centered teaching ministry.
We do not teach our own ideas, we teach all Jesus has commanded.
If you do not teach all Jesus has commanded, you do not fulfill the Great Commission.
Teach them to obey.
Our goal is not information but transformation.
We help saved sinners move toward being sanctified saints.
True disciples practice what they have heard.
The Bible knows nothing of a believer who glories in justification and ignores sanctification.
That Jesus includes baptism and instruction should transform our understanding of the Commission.
This happens in the local church.
The mission is only accomplished when we have made true disciples and when they are baptized and when they are taught the Scriptures and when they are taught to obey.
We send people to make disciples.
Truth 4: Its sustaining promise
I am with you always.
Surely, for certain, I am with you.
The pronoun is included interestingly in the original.
Certainly, I myself am with you.
Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us.
He is still God with us.
Always, in all days, all the time, in the whole of every day
He is with us through the end of every age.
The end of our mission is when He determines human history will end.
The promise is for us.
The Commission is for us.
How inadequate do you feel?
We are never alone.
This is our hope.
Acts 18:9-11 – Jesus told Paul he was with him.
Paul settled there for a year and a half.
Settle down in the ministry and be faithful.
He is with you.
First, commit yourself and your church to this mission.
Pray for global missions and our own missionaries.
Pray for God to raise up missionaries from our own church.
Support generously our missionaries.
Second, don’t let yourself or your church be distracted from the mission that Jesus assigned the church.
Do not give a higher priority to social issues or culture.
Third, Don’t forget or let your church forget that this mission is the main reason that Christ has left us here.
Go and report what great things the Lord has done for you.
We want to be with Jesus, but we are still here.
The Power of the Church – The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
Galatians 4:19; 5:1; 5:13-ff
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is the answer to antinomianism and legalism.
The Spirit sets you free from bondage to sin and the yoke of the Mosaic ceremonial code.
he sets you free to be what God created you to be.
We want Christ formed in the members of the church (4:19)
How does that happen?
By what power are believers remade in the image of God?
The ministry of the Holy Spirit
How often is the power of the HS emphasized?
New heart, new Spirit, causing you to walk in my statutes.
Law of God written on our hearts
The prophets see this as uniquely the work of the Spirit.
Their ministries are ministries of the Spirit.
I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord…
Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord of Hosts.
I will pour out my Spirit…
The later prophets see their ministries in terms of the operative power of the HS.
They look forward to a time to come when the Spirit works in a unique way in the people of God.
The angel comes to tell about John the Baptist.
The angel says, “He is going to be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Zechariah asks the same question as Abraham asked in Genesis 15.
How can I know this is true?
How will you know? I am Gabriel.
Last time we saw Gabriel was Daniel 9.
Gabriel came to tell Daniel what was to come.
Gabriel tells Zechariah that his son will be the forerunner.
Then Gabriel goes to Mary.
How can a virgin have a child?
The HS will come upon you…
Jesus was full of the Spirit.
He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted.
Adam fell in one temptation in a garden of perfection, Jesus in a howling wilderness three times refutes the evil one.
Three times, “It is written…”
Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit.
You will receive power when the HS has come upon you…
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the HS and power…
Christ Jesus was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection…
By the power of the Spirit, you may abound in hope…
By the power of the Spirit, I have fulfilled the ministry…
1 Corinthians 2:4
My ministry was in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power
1 Thessalonians 1:5
Not only in word… power and the HS with full conviction
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is indeed depicted as the power of the church.
All through the canon, this is true.
Why and in what way?
Two things to see:
The pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant is depicted as a fulfillment of a promise that is older than Jeremiah 31.
If Jesus had not rebuked Peter when Peter tried to get in his way to go to the cross, he could never have preached the sermon of Acts 2.
Peter cites Joel 2.
God planned this.
Jesus was not a victim of your designs.
Jesus decides when he is going to die.
And you nailed him to the cross by the hands of sinful men.
Sovereignty and responsibility are together with no questions.
Peter shows that Jesus is the Messiah.
Peter shows what Jesus was doing in the world.
Then, verse 36, Jesus is Lord and Christ.
The people are convicted.
They killed the Messiah.
What do we do?
He died in order that your sins would be forgiven.
The one you killed is your only hope, and his killing is the basis of your hope as you put your trust in him.
Repent, be baptized, you will receive the Spirit.
For the promise is for you
Context is crucial.
Has Luke mentioned the promise before?
Jesus explains things to the disciples.
It is written that the Christ should suffer…
Jesus had already said all of acts 2 in Luke 24:47.
Now I am sending the promise of my Father upon you.
What is that promise?
Wait for what the Father had promised.
You heard of this from me.
John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law…
In Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The ministry of the Spirit is the fulfillment of the promise of God to Abraham.
It is not for super-believers.
It is for all who repent and believe.
The ministry of the Spirit is the proof and the substance that the Abrahamic promises are yours in Christ Jesus.
That is the promise of the Father.
The pouring out of the Spirit is the promise of God to Abraham so that the inheritance of Abraham comes to all who believe, Jew and gentile.
What empowers our ministry is a promise 4,000 years old, fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
What does it do?
The role of the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant ministry is to seal and confirm the promises to the believer and to secure them in the sanctification that those promises entail.
You were sealed in him with the Holy Spirit of promise.
This is a pledge of our inheritance.
The HS assures us of our inheritance in Christ, the fulfillment of the Abrahamic promises.
I will be your God and you will be my people.
… His inheritance in the saints…
In the covenant, you get an inheritance.
But did you know that in the covenant, God gets an inheritance?
What does God get as an inheritance?
The thing that God wants is his blood bought people.
He will be our God, we will be his people.
He will be our inheritance. WE will be his inheritance.
The Spirit seals, marks, confirms, assures us of that.
The Spirit shows us that we are co-heirs with Christ.
We need this for the church.
If we do not know this, we are crippled.
The Holy Spirit empowers our sanctification so that our enjoyment of the Abrahamic blessings is realized.
Comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth
Be filled up to the fullness of God
Four clauses in the passage.
There is a compounding prayer, 4 parts leading in the same direction 16-ff
Be strengthened with power.
Christ would dwell in your hearts through faith.
Know the love of Christ that surpassed knowledge
Be filled up to the fullness of God.
The power of the HS in your life.
You need strength.
You need that strength, because the Christian life is lived at the level of the heart and desires.
We need strength put inside us that comes from outside of us.
That strength comes from the promised HS.
The HS strengthens us so that Christ will take over our desires.
He helps us love what Jesus loves and hate what Jesus hates.
We need this so we are not controlled by the desires of the world, flesh, and devil.
You need the HS so you will know that love that surpasses knowledge.
You should know a love that you cannot actually understand.
Like peace that passes understanding
This fills you up to the fullness of God.
You become what God created and redeemed you to be.
The serpent told Eve that she would become like God.
What should Eve and Adam have said?
What do you mean will become like him?
Look at 1:27
We already are like him.
We are made in his image.
Nothing in the world is more like God than we are; we are his image.
But they took the bait.
And they became less like God.
The image was not erased but it was effaced.
It was not lost, but it was marred.
In salvation we are not only forgiven, but God, by the Spirit, goes about the work of restoring us so that we are finally, again, like our Heavenly Father.
All Paul is doing in 13-26 is working out what we just saw in the prayer or Ephesians 3:14-19.
What does it look like when this works out?
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
Crucifying the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit.
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is the power of the church.
Only the Holy Spirit can do that.
Do you want Christ to be formed in the church?
Preach the Spirit’s word and watch him do the work.
“The Influence of The Church”
In Luke and Acts, the direction of movement changes.
In Luke, the direction of movement is toward Jerusalem.
In Acts, the movement is out from Jerusalem.
The movement will reach to the ends of the earth.
John 17-15 – Jesus prays for himself.
6-19 – Jesus prays for his disciples minus Judas
20-26 – Jesus prays for the church to come.
Jesus prays for his disciples:
Unity – that they may be one
Protection – protect them from the evil one.
An authentic Christianity assumes a meaningful worldliness.
As you sent me, I am sending them.
Jesus said that the Father sanctified him and sent him into the world.
Sanctification is for mission.
Jesus is doing with his disciples what his Father did with him.
Jesus is sending them with authority.
If we intend our people to take these commands seriously, we must see that they must be in the world.
There are a pair of vulnerabilities to watch out for:
Do not gorge on the world.
This is often cloaked in the guise of wanting to win the world.
We become just like the world.
The world’s values, objectives, and attitudes become ours.
Those who seek to become like the world end up like the world, but they are not liked by the world because the world recognizes their hypocrisy.
We are called to be the salt of the earth, not its sugar.
Cultural anorexia is a radical withdrawal from the world.
This is isolating and then insulating.
The church becomes a ghetto.
It is pure, but irrelevant.
When is the last time you shared a meal with an unbeliever in your home?
Parents should be preparing their children to enter the world, not hide from the world.
The people of the world are not the enemy but the victims of the enemy.
We need meaningful engagement with the world for the sake of the gospel.
A meaningful worldliness presupposes a consistent sanctification.
Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
Sanctify is a holiness word.
Sanctified is to be set apart for God, set apart for a sacred duty.
How is this sanctification accomplished?
Sanctification comes with the word of God.
Jesus does not say God’s word is true (using an adjective), but truth (a noun).
He said the Bible was true, we could ask, “What is the standard of measure by which you test the truthfulness of the Scripture?
But if the Bible is truth, we must understand that all other claims of truth are measured against the Scriptures, not the other way round.
Earlier, Jesus said he is the truth (14:6).
The Bible is Christocentric.
WE must recognize that.
The Bible is not a book of virtues.
Don’t preach it that way.
It is not a textbook of systematic theology.
Don’t preach it that way.
It is a book that tells one overarching story centered on one person.
We as a church tend toward a profound biblical illiteracy.
And we wonder why we are not sanctified.
And we wonder why we cannot engage the world.
There is also an implicit means of sanctification.
The Bible is the explicit one in verse 17.
Jesus is talking to the Father.
While sanctification is brought about by the instrumentality of the word, it is still a work that only the Father can produce.
Pastors, if praying is not in your job description, you should see to it that it gets in there, because this is your work.
Samuel told the people,
Far be it from me to sin by not praying for you.
Dozens of times in Psalm 119, David asks God to do in him what only God can do.
The sanctifying work of the Father is accomplished by the work of the Son.
A consistent sanctification requires the self-consecration of the Son.
On the basis of Jesus’ act of self-consecration, he will purchase the grace that he asks the Father to give his followers.
For them I sanctify myself.
Jesus is talking about the disciples.
This is called Jesus’ high priestly prayer.
The high priest would pray for the people and make atonement for the people.
Those for whom he prayed are those for whom he made atonement.
Jesus said he was not praying for the world.
He was praying for his own.
He also made atonement for his own.
For them I sanctify myself.
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The Silk Road is the modern term for a series of interconnected trade routes that facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas in the ancient world. Getting its name from the extremely lucrative trade in Chinese silk that began in the second century BCE, the Silk Road was almost six thousand miles long, connecting Europe to Asia through a series of land and sea routes. As trade prospered, many cities grew into Great Oasis locations, trading sites that also became essential centers for culture and learning.
The Han dynasty of China connected the isolated routes between China and central Asia, creating a centralized trading highway linked to Europe through sea trade. Recent discoveries have rejected the theory that the Silk Road began the movement of ideas, goods, and culture. In some cases, the exchange was already happening for thousands of years. Other discoveries have confirmed what we know about the Silk Road. As a result, archaeologists and historians are redefining the global impact and reach of these trading networks of the ancient world.
Western and Central Asian Technologies Reached China 2,000 Years Before the Opening of the Silk Road
Scholars agree that the spread of ideas and information along the Silk Road contributed to the development of cultures. However, a recent discovery along the Heihe River in China shows that there was already a thriving, sophisticated culture living along the Silk Road 2,000 years before its creation. In 2010, a massive excavation in the Gansu Province discovered that 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, the inhabitants of the area on the Heihe River smelted copper and were agriculturalists.
During the excavation, archaeologists found copper coins and utensils and the earliest recovered copper mill to date, proving that the Heihe River civilization was creating alloys of metals and trading metal materials. The archaeologists also found wheat, barley, and stone tools for crop cultivation, as well as some adobe houses at the Heihe River site. Harvesting barley and wheat and building adobe structures were technologies imported from central and western Asia, so these discoveries are proof that the movement of ideas and technology into China was in place for almost two thousand years before the opening of the Silk Road. | <urn:uuid:0244df49-92a3-45e9-96cc-e1eea5810ce3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historycollection.com/10-crazy-discoveries-will-change-everything-thought-knew-silk-road/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.96395 | 436 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Last name: Farrar
This ancient surname is of pre Christian and Roman origins. Recorded in over seventy spellings from Farrar, Farrah, Pharro and Pharoah, to Ferrara, Ferrari, Varey, Varrow and Ferrarotti, the name derives from the Latin word "ferrum", through in other countries the later French "ferreor" , and the Middle English "Farrier". All originally had the same basic meaning of an iron worker, although over the centuries more specific meanings have been applied. In Britain for instance the term refers to a maker and fitter of horseshoes, whilst just as Hoover means a vacuum cleaner, Ferrari is in the late 20th century, a term for all that is most desireable in a car. The earliest hereditary surname recordings in the world are to be found in England, that country being the first to accept and record surnames. It is from there that the examples of the early recordings are entered here. These include Hugo Farrour, in the Poll Tax returns for the county of Yorkshire in the year 1379, and in 1517 Doctor Pharor is recorded in the register of the guild of Corpus Christi, in the city of York. One of the very first of all landowners recorded in the new American colony of Virginia, was William Farrar. He held a grant of one hundred acres "Uppon Apmatcke River" on the north side of the James River. This grant is dated 1626. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of Thomas le Ferrur, and dated 1275, in the rolls of the county of Yorkshire. This was during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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My mother's maiden name is Farrar. We came over from England to Massachusetts and drifted up to NH. Not sure of English town or area, though. I'm not sure precisely when we came over, either. I'd have to look it up in my mom' s notebooks.
Hi, I would love to join. Please let me know if it is still going. My father is a Farrar, we are from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. As far as I know his origins are English and Irish
Not sure where my family fell into it's spelling.
Now I know where my name came from
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Send Postcards From the Concert
Music can set a mood and tell a story, even when there aren’t any words. In this activity children listen to a musical selection and create a personal response on a postcard to share with a family member or friend. They imagine what they think the composer is trying to tell them through the music and write about their impressions using short phrases or sentences. They then select several short sentences and combine them to create a message for their postcard.
A sentence that contains more than one thought holds more interest for the reader and is a sign of a more mature writer. This activity lets children practice more advanced sentence structures by combining two or more phrases or short sentences. Varied sentences also improve the quality of a longer piece of writing, such as an essay or a report. Once children get the hang of it, they’ll enjoy seeing how many combinations they can create.
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