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Advancing Maths for AQA: Mechanics 2 : 2 Paperback
Part of the AQA Advancing Maths series
Mechanics 2 was written to provide thorough preparation for the revised 2004 specification.
Based on the first editions, this series helps you to prepare for the new exams.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
- Publication Date: 15/11/2004
- Category: Mathematics
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Truth in our time appears to be a receding rather than an approaching star. There is no end to the philosophical systems offered for our acceptance. To which, then, should we incline? If we are not to abandon speculation, all thought upon the matter, shrug our shoulders at the tilts and tournaments going on everywhere around us, and end where we began, the only course is to accept, till intellect and imagination amend it, that way of thought which seems to leave the fewest difficulties upon our hands, and to account for the greatest number of our experiences. We do well constantly to remind ourselves that we are learning merely the alphabet of reality, and can only proceed with ‘a kind of hesitating confidence’, as Plato described it, in our reason.
And for the favourite model of the universe, which thinks of it as a single substance, the Absolute, eternally making and remaking itself, a solitary Being, exhibiting now these, now other appearances for no ascertainable reason, we may substitute—I would myself substitute—a scene of action, wherein innumerable entities or selves, real and enduring agents, are at work, to whose interactions, meetings, partings, attractions and repulsions we owe the parti-coloured arena we call the world. Against neither model, for they are no more than adumbrations or fancy sketches, has logic anything final or decisive to say. And for my part I prefer the latter, since it seems in closer correspondence with the state of the universe as known to us in observation and reflection alike. I adhere to the model which is in accord with universal experience and takes account of the intermingled order and disorder, the negations and affirmations everywhere open and patent throughout organic and inorganic nature. This model takes account of time as we must ourselves in daily life take account of it, and accepts existence as a becoming. It contradicts none of the positive findings of science. It rejects the suspicion that the world is in any sense a machine, incapable of expansion, or that we and the other agencies at work within the world are propelled by mechanical motions. It provides for all a certain measure of freedom, and a field of purposes, not wholly illusory. The agents within it are not utterly deceived in supposing themselves agents in a real process. I prefer it to the theory of a machine dead from the first, which has never in any of its parts, or in any true sense, come alive, which could not, indeed, come alive, since it was in effect at an end from the beginning, in which nothing ever happens, for its changes are no more than repetitions of pre-ordained movements. In this notion of the world as a machine, a sort of island, unrelated to time and yet occupying such and such an amount of space, in this notion, which has for long so captivated the human mind, we have, perhaps, its palmary obsession, the most pitiful and beggarly of the concepts with which mankind has approached the interpretation of the great mystery. That men should have supposed a concept derived from their own petty contrivances applicable to the mighty sum of things, to the Cosmos itself, undermines faith in human reason beyond all the arguments adduced to demonstrate its utter pauperdom. To this child-like conception anything is to be preferred. ‘The most irrational theory of all’, as said Plotinus, ‘is that elements without intelligence should produce intelligence.’
What then is to be substituted? For the painful struggle, ‘for the immortal conflict going on’ around us, as ‘if God had let go the helm of the universe’, Plato perceived it necessary to assign a cause. To him it appeared a dramatic contest between good and evil—a notion also too simple for our acceptance to-day. For all goods have their attendant ills, and all ills their attendant goods. Good leads to evil and evil to good. Within our frame of reference, and we cannot go beyond it, good and evil are not found unalloyed or in isolation, but interwrought in a pattern or network, which is the world, and without which no world could be. To account for the irregularities and confusions, the defects and disorders, opposed, as Plato assumed, to the Creator’s will, he found himself wholly at a loss. On such an assumption these discords could only be attributed to a maleficent soul or souls, later personified in Christian theology as Satan, the Adversary of God; an adversary unhappily so powerful, if we are to judge by the murky shadows the world displays, as to challenge the omnipotence of God, its creator. For the illogicalities and accidents of life, its casual encounters, its hazards, mischances, eccentricities and humours, some other explanation is required. And the pluralistic model finds in these no invincible difficulties: since, though the Many seek good and only good, evil as well as good is to be expected in the world of their making, in their diverse designs and conflicting ideals. Were its source a perfect Absolute no room had been left for errors or absurdities; and in the abounding errors and absurdities, in the human comedy—and I would not myself, if I could, banish them as indefensibly disgusting—we have, it seems to me, an irrefutable argument for a multiplicity of entities, at numerous levels and of many kinds. The world, as I see it, is hardly less a comedy than a tragedy, ‘a comedy to the intellect, a tragedy to the heart,’ and certainly includes both, as components of the pattern which arises from the multifarious aims and circumstances among the innumerable agencies there engaged.
If now we prefer this model and accept the world as a process, and a growing or becoming, how shall we describe these agencies to whose activities it owes its confused and complicated character? Manifestly they are, to begin with, of many varieties. There are self-conscious entities like ourselves; there are creatures with organisms not unlike our own, sensitive and intelligent, as are the higher animals. There are others again whose consciousness appears dim, indeed; and others in whom it can hardly, if at all, be discerned. And finally below the plants we reach entities which appear to be actuated entirely by forces external to themselves, to whom it seems altogether absurd to ascribe individual existence in or for themselves in any sense—the elements, and their minute particles or atomic components, as described by the physicists. And these, the inorganic constituents of this planet, not to speak of the universe, are by comparison with its living things so vast in quantity, and in the space they occupy, that life in any or all its forms appears beside them a negligible nothing, the merest shimmer on the surface of a stupendous mass of dead, insensate matter; not so much by comparison, so far as science can report, as a single nautilus afloat on the Pacific Ocean, or a butterfly adrift, if that could be, in stellar space.
To claim, therefore, within the material universe a place for life or mind at all, to think of either as more than a petty accident, a passing shadow in the everlasting procession of physical events, has seemed to many philosophers the merest lunacy. Yet mind does more than matter can, since it includes all things within the survey of its intelligence, seeks after the invisible to be discerned only by its visionary aid, and so takes the whole Cosmos within its ken. Accepting its unparalleled transcendence and priority, can we find any trace of mind’s mysterious powers at the lower levels of sentience, or follow it into the inorganic realm? Impossible, you think. And certainly life and mind vanish utterly from our sight when we reach the lowest levels of that realm, when we study its simplest denizens and attempt to pass beyond them into microscopic lands. We draw, and feel compelled to draw the sharpest distinction between the animate and inanimate fields, and can discern no connecting bridge. Yet the failure may well be in us, in our discernment and imagination; and to dictate to nature is dangerous. She drops, moreover, hints it were best not to overlook. The metals themselves, as dead, we think, as dead can be, none the less display, like living things, fatigue, and can like them be excited or poisoned. They have a primitive mode of being, a hidden life of their own, an unimaginable sensitivity. And the very electrons and protons, to which we are introduced by science as the minutest of nature’s creations, strangely repeat in their simpler attractions and repulsions our own emotional reactions. They, too, are very much alive, though their mode or way of existence differs from that of the plants, from that of the mosses and the lichens, for example, as theirs from ours. And everywhere the presence of energy argues the presence of life, and the presence of life argues the presence of will, and at least nascent intelligence. And ‘this account’, in the words of Plotinus, ‘allows grades of living within the whole, grades to some of which we deny life only because they are not perceptibly self-moved. In truth, all these have a hidden life; the thing whose life is patent to sense is made up of things which do not patently live, but, none the less, confer upon their resultant total wonderful powers towards living.’
One crucial difference there seems, indeed, to be, between the inanimate and animate realms as we are accustomed to conceive them, a distinction which carries us into the heart of a metaphysical problem of the first order, the problem of motion. Does anything in fact ever move at all? A preposterous question, you may think it. Yet it has been debated by some of the acutest minds that ever pondered the great enigmas. It was maintained by Parmenides, a philosopher held in the highest veneration by the Greeks, both as a man and a thinker, that motion and change, beginnings and endings, were all illusions of our mortal minds, mere opinions, a doctrine supported by his disciple Zeno in a series of ingenious puzzles, the most famous riddles of the world, among them the riddles of Achilles and the Tortoise, and the Flying Arrow. Achilles, you remember, could not overtake the tortoise, nor could the arrow fly. Motion was an illusion. There was no such thing. Since the nature of both space and time are here involved, the elucidation of these riddles, even were I equal to it, lies beyond our present scope. Let us be brief, and say that, in common opinion, to living things only belongs the power of movement, of moving and of producing motion, a power denied to material things, which cannot move, we believe, save as the result of a communicated impulse from some other object, already itself in motion, as when one billiard ball strikes another. Impelled, pushed or pulled they may be, but of themselves to initiate or give rise to motions they are incapable.
Can this supposed crucial difference, say between ourselves and the elements, be eliminated or surmounted, and if surmounted will it not lead to the result that we are ourselves as devoid of freedom as they—like lifeless things unable to produce motion, being ourselves also merely parts of a great machine—rather than to the result that lifeless things resemble us in the power of creating movements ab initio? Are we not in their category in this respect, rather than they in ours, like them impelled by external forces, blown as dust is blown by the winds, and our belief that we have power within ourselves to act and change the course of natural events, like so many of our fancies, a curious hallucination? To prove it an hallucination many thinkers have laboured and many arguments have been to that end evolved. Proved, however, it has not been. I wish to write a letter. Who or what is this ‘I’? And how does this unseen entity, this ‘I’ set my hand going? Before these questions the mechanical philosophers recoil in dread. We know, as positively as can be known, if there be in the word knowledge any meaning whatever, that as Lucretius, the supreme, indeed the only poet of note among the materialists, allowed, the beginning of motion comes from the heart or will, and is thence transmitted to the body and the external world. Can this apparent freedom, this spontaneity, this genius be found in the material elements; can they be supposed, in any intelligible sense, alive? Can we, in short, allow nature to be a continuous system, without breaks or barriers, animated in some fashion and degree throughout, a society, as Bruno and Leibniz maintained, of intelligent monads?
Well, let us first ask ourselves, ‘Can there be such a thing as a motiveless movement?’ How can science, or how can we, account for mere random motions or undirected energy? To suppose it, is, of course, to quit the field of reason in despair. There can be no such energy. Matter in motion, whatever matter may be, is active and energetic either as the result of some previous motion, or from some hidden and to us unknown inner impulse. From which then? There can be no doubt, you answer. Since the dawn of physical science all movements throughout the universe, it has been held, are the result of previous movements. To this opinion La Place gave expression in his classic statement that every event in nature flowed by the strictest necessity from previous events, and that a supreme intelligence with a complete knowledge of the universe at any given moment could infallibly foretell all its future states till the end of time. Here are his words—‘A spirit who knew at a given moment all the forces existing in nature, and the relative position of all existing things or elements composing it, would, if he were able to submit all these data to mathematical analysis, be able to comprehend in a single formula the motion of the greatest heavenly body and of the lightest atom: nothing would be uncertain for him, and future as well as past would be open before his eyes.’ You are familiar with the statement of this creed in the poetic version of Omar Khayyám—
With Earth’s first Clay they did the last Man’s knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed;
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
The universe, in brief, was a clock, wound up once and for all at some unspecified moment in the past, and nothing occurs in the revolutions of its wheels that might not from that moment have been predicted.
That age-long opinion is not, however, the modern doctrine. For it appears that the electrons and protons of which matter is supposed to consist, the centres of electric energy, are entities whose fluctuations cannot be traced to any previous movements; and where prevision ends, science, by her own confession, has reached its terminus. To the embarrassment of the mechanical philosophers, who think of the world as a rigid and lifeless system of springs and levers, science has arrived at a point in its history of momentous significance, perhaps the most momentous since its day began. The ‘Sir Absolutes’, the determinists, no longer appeal to science for support. If you care to assert, however astonishing may seem the declaration, that every particle of matter moves, when it does move, from an inner and free impulse of its own, the new physics is not prepared to contradict you. For some reason, no doubt, the particles move, but you are free to imagine, if you like, that each is an elementary mode of life, and to regard its movement as the evidence of that life, an action as spontaneous as any of your own. ‘How has our physical world picture changed in the last twenty years?’ asks Planck, one of the most brilliant contributors to the new picture. ‘Each of us knows’, he tells us, ‘that the transformation which has occurred is one of the most profound which has ever taken place in the development of science.’ Many of our most ancient and most desperate problems now present a different countenance, among them that most teasing conundrum, our oldest friend, the pivot upon which all others turn, the relation of the body to the mind. A new possibility in respect of their relations has emerged. For it is no longer forbidden us to think of nature as a grand society, a hierarchy, and to say that everywhere mind acts not upon dead matter, but at all times directly upon mind.
Look now a little more closely into this famous affair of causation. What can be simpler? The whole edifice of our knowledge is supported by it. We trace habitually events to their causes. Day and night we think in terms of causation. The idea of cause is the great central pillar not only of scientific thought but of all thought. If it trembles the whole building of our knowledge trembles. Fortunately, we think, it cannot tremble, for it is based upon the eternal granite. Of this you are sure. But listen to this—‘The word cause’, wrote William James, ‘is an altar to an unknown God: an empty pedestal still marking the place of a hoped-for statue.’ Or this saying of Planck—‘The problem of causality, the roots of which have certainly not been reached hitherto’.
What is the meaning of this? Into what wood of error, what dark forest of bewilderment have we strayed? Nearly a hundred years ago a Scotsman, David Hume, threw a bombshell into the camp of the philosophers in his startling analysis of the causality concept. He asserted, which was nothing, but boldly proceeded to prove, that to find anywhere or at any time throughout nature the effect in its supposed cause was impossible. You observed, certainly, that one event was succeeded by another, that, for example, the impact of a moving billiard ball upon a second ball was followed somehow by the movement of the second ball. But no connecting link between the two motions could actually be observed, beyond the fact that the one movement followed the other. Nor could you, save through previous experience, predict by any process of reasoning what exact effect upon the second ball the impact of the first would in fact produce. No logic could tell you what would happen. The result, as far as unaided human thought could say, might have been to bring both balls to a standstill, or the first might have rebounded in a straight line from the second. How then do we know what to expect in nature? Only previous observation can tell us. No one, as Hume pointed out, could have discovered, or could now discover by pure thinking, that the crystal is the result of heat, or ice of cold, without previous experience of these qualities. Throughout nature all events are separate events, and between them no logical or necessary nexus can be discovered. The link or bond is established in our minds by our expectation, by our previous observations of such a conjunction. Though the first million men you examine have their hearts on the left side of their bodies, you are not entitled to conclude that it is invariably so. The next may have it, as occasionally happens, on the right side.
Hume’s reasoning has never been met. So deeply and firmly, none the less, is the idea of causation seated in the human mind that his destructive analysis of the concept made little or no impression either upon plain men or men of science. It appeared a piece of metaphysical jugglery, clever but unimportant. Before Hume causality had all the force of a divine law. It spanned the whole heaven of human thought, since without it the regularity and uniformity of nature could not, it was supposed, be accounted for, and would be endangered. Therein lay the sting of Hume’s analysis. To maintain the idea of physical causation everywhere operative throughout the universe was an imperative necessity if the scheme of things as an iron-bound mechanism were to be preserved from ruin. Not till yesterday did science arrive by a strangely different route at the conclusion Hume had reached. The relation of cause and effect, as Schrödinger recently expressed it, ‘is not something we find in nature but is rather a characteristic of the way in which we regard nature.’
So much for the idea of cause, which it is not our present business to examine. We are concerned only with the findings of modern physics, and their bearing upon our special problem. The law, as it seemed, of nature and of the mind, that every event throughout the physical universe is strictly determined, is now seen to be an assumption, a thing taken for granted, a habit or prejudice of our thought.
Look again at the situation. At the base of all accounts of physical nature lies the atomic theory. All that the universe contains is, on that theory, made up of atoms, and all movements are the movements of atoms. If you carry your analysis further you come to particles of which the atom is composed, and to their movements. What moves these lesser particles? Here yawns the gulf. No one knows; no cause can be ascertained for the motions of the electrons composing the atom. An atom in a radio-active substance disintegrates, but when it will do so, or why it does so science is ignorant. Its waywardness, like human waywardness, is its unique quality. For all that physics can tell, the constituents of the atom, the electrons, may be mental entities, moving on their own initiative when they feel so inclined. But if, you object, there be such freedom in the realm of nature how can we be sure what will happen next, be certain that the sun will rise tomorrow, or water at freezing-point turn to ice, or that the regular routine of events, upon whose uniformity our lives are built, may not at any moment be thrown into utter confusion and disorder? You need not be disturbed, replies our latest physics. For though nature’s movements may not be governed by the law of strict causation, they are controlled by laws equally efficacious. Her order and uniformity are preserved by statistical laws. Just as in a given community the number of births, deaths or marriages can be foretold beforehand, although no single and particular death or marriage can be predicted, so the fluctuations of particles, as, for example, in the Brownian movement, or the emission of energy from radioactive substances, can be quite well accounted for without reference to the supposed law of causation, for which, as a matter of fact, we can find no evidence in our investigations. A high degree of expectation meets all our requirements.
You may, indeed, once more object that the difficulty physics has encountered in discovering the cause of the atomic fluctuations is merely a practical difficulty—the unfortunate limitations of our powers of observation. Were these extended or increased we could find the cause of every movement of every particle, the push or pull that mechanics requires. You may argue that ignorance of the cause is no ground for denying its existence. No, but also, you must allow, no ground for asserting its existence, more especially when not called for by the facts. Quantum mechanics, asserts Heisenberg, ‘definitely proves the invalidity of the causal law.’ According to the Heisenberg ‘principle of Indeterminacy’ the behaviour of the particles, of which the physical world consists, is not causally controlled. Science has reached the unexpected and perplexing conclusion that identical conditions do not necessarily lead to identical results, that the same state of things may give rise to different consequences, and since various events may follow, what will actually take place cannot be foretold. Note, also, that colours, for example, which are similar to the eye, are not in every case similar in respect of their originating causes. For us, that is to say, different causes may produce the same result. Moreover, to predict the movements of particles you must know their initial velocities, and velocity involves units or moments of time, which cannot be correlated with defined positions in space. We have also to bear in mind that the measurement of physical movements involves a smooth continuity of motion on the initial trajectory, a continuity which is by Quantum mechanics expressly denied. So that the motion of particles is not merely unpredictable; it is discontinuous and therefore not uniform.
This is a pretty pass. Say what you please, the indeterminacy in nature cannot be eliminated. The mechanical world, the darling of the materialists, has been shattered beyond repair, and we have to conclude, with Weyl, ‘that in nature itself, as physics constructs it theoretically, the dualism of object and subject, of law and freedom, is already most distinctly predesigned.’
We may sum up in Schrödinger’s words: ‘All chemical transformations, the velocity of chemical reactions, the processes of melting and evaporation, the laws of vapour pressure, everything, in short, with the possible exception of gravitation, is governed by laws of this kind’—statistical laws—‘and all the predictions derived from these laws are of a statistical nature, and are true only within limits.’ Or we may take the words of Sir Arthur Eddington—‘The result of our analysis of physical phenomena up to the present is that we have nowhere found any evidence of the existence of deterministic law.’
From the immovable determinists, like Professor Einstein, distress and vexation with this strange conclusion were to be expected. Even men of science desire nature to conform to their pet conceptions of her ways and structure. They must be left to look after themselves. And yet one may enquire why all this outcry and astonishment, the annoyance which has followed the failure of physics to establish mechanical causation in the atomic realm? Everyone is aware, or should be aware, that the idea of force is derived from ourselves, from our personal experience that we can act in some measure upon the outside world, and produce effects in it when we so desire; from the simple knowledge that a living entity does, in fact, introduce changes in the course of natural events, for we ourselves act in order that such changes may be brought about. How it was possible, Kant confessed, he could not indeed imagine. How his will moved his arm was as incomprehensible to him as the notion that his arm could hold back the moon. Incomprehensible, no doubt. Indeed a natural miracle. We are, however, surrounded with miracles, with God’s language of fundamental facts, which we can neither deny nor understand. And among them, as I believe, is the fact that everything that comes about, all that happens, is the result of will in some shape or form. And as all human history is simply the edifice erected by the aims and desires of mankind, of the individuals born into the world, so the universe itself has taken its present structure, and will take throughout time to come whatever aspects it may assume, from the wills of its innumerable and constituent beings, at once its creatures and the creators of its history. All the energy, will, intelligence, purpose displayed throughout the universe is the energy, will, intelligence, purpose of real individual beings of which in its entirety it consists.
I would ask you to observe that this conclusion does not deny the principle of causation, that events have their causes. It does not abandon nature to the rule of chance, of random happenings. It assigns events to the activity of individual entities, to their unpredictable impulses. In their desiring or willing you must seek the causes of these events. Limited in power as individuals indeed they are, as are we ourselves, to make their wills effective in a world of multiform purposes and designs; yet ultimately it is to will that all events in the universe must be assigned. Just as men create the arts, adding to the flower-garden of the world new species, we may read the story of the universe as a story of creation, it may be without end—for which at least no term or finality can be foretold—ever advancing towards unimaginable diversity.
Consciousness and mind need not then any longer be thought of, after the impossible fashion of an earlier day, as a kind of rootless flower grafted upon an engine, where none could grow, since between them a natural relationship there was none. Rather we may adopt the language of Kant, that if we could know ‘ourselves and other things as they really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our connection with which did not begin at our birth, and will not cease with the destruction of the body.’
What bearing has all this—the indeterminism of modern physics—upon the problem of human freedom, so hotly debated from century to century by churchmen and philosophers alike? Some will answer ‘the closest’, others that it has ‘none at all’. When Spinoza declared that a stone thrown into the air, if it possessed consciousness would suppose itself to fall to the ground of its own free will, how did he know this? He did not know it. He merely made the assertion. He desired to discredit and deride the notion of human freedom. How does the matter stand to-day? Exactly as it did, save in a single but important particular. If physics cannot account for the activities within the atom, still less can it account for the activities of the organism. If determinism be set aside as unproven in the realm of nature, where evidence for it appeared overwhelming, where is warrant for it to be found in the more difficult region of the soul? If it be discarded in physics, it can hardly in the absence of evidence be adduced to buttress determinism in psychology, where it is in opposition the most flagrant to the universal, never-questioned conviction of the natural man. Denials of human freedom will no longer serve, save to betray the naked prejudice which gave the dogma birth. Something more will now be required of its adherents than pious opinion. The foundations of the doctrine have been undermined. The onus of proof lies with the determinists, for their cherished fancy has, one fears, and in the house of its quondam friends, received its death-wound.
And one may, perhaps, be allowed the hope that we have heard the last of this tiresome and unprofitable controversy, this spider’s web of dialectic, and are permitted a return to common sense. The strictest determinists act as if they possessed the freedom they deny, and cling to it in practice as the pivot of human intercourse. And what is the point of asking men to mend their ways, and live better lives, if you at the same time insist that they are tethered animals, and all they do, or can do has been fore-ordained since the beginning of the world? Or will you issue to them a metaphysical manual which explains that, none the less, for all their actions they are responsible? We must continue to believe that the soul or self is not a piece upon the chessboard of time, moved as a wheel or lever is moved. Our thoughts are our own, mine mine, yours yours, and if our thoughts, then also our acts. The soul stands for itself, and is in its own nature a purposive mover, however limited and conditioned a factor in the origination and passage of events. The individual self, the finite centre of impulse is, as Nietzsche held, both determined and free, limited by the presence of the other individuals, in itself free and creative. It is related of Diogenes that when he heard arguments against motion his manner of refutation was not by means of words. He contented himself by doing what had been declared impossible—moving by walking away. In this workaday world there is at times something to be said for this fashion of refutation.
If now we have found inacceptable the doctrine that individual existences are illusory, mere modes or passing appearances of the One or Absolute, a single subject—a doctrine which Nietzsche also thought unnecessary—and found it inacceptable since that doctrine commits us to ‘the view of Spinoza’, as Leibniz expressed it, ‘and of other similar authors, that there is only one substance, that is to say, God, who thinks, believes and wills one thing in me, and who thinks, believes and wills quite the opposite in some one else’, and since it commits us also to the doctrine of time’s unreality, and denies Becoming, the production, that is to say, of unique, unpredictable events, the emergence, for example, of new species, and of historical events and persons never exactly repeated, the Caesars and Luthers, the pyramids and the Reformations—if we set aside this opinion, we may turn to the other doctrine, which regards individual entities as metaphysical units, as monads, each in some degree a self or soul, and views the world as their scene of interaction.
This world of ours has a history, whose recent chapters, as in astronomy and geology, may in part be read. What may we believe of its earlier and missing chapters, of which we have no record? We may say with confidence that though impenetrable by us, an observer, had he been present, would have found in that history no actual hiatus, no impassable gap or gulf. What went before, we must believe, made possible what now is. A continuity of some kind, could we follow it, runs through the whole creation, and it is without doubt a spiritual continuity. For, and this is indisputable, a certain aspect of our existence, of things as they now are, cannot be explained, or even coherently imagined in any physical terms at all—that aspect which includes consciousness, thought, will, meanings and purposes. These cannot by any gymnastic be reduced to such terms, or conceived as material in origin or nature. Thinking, remembering, believing, feeling, willing are not electro-magnetic or spatial processes. Nerve movements cannot give rise to them, nor can the brain recognise itself as a brain, ask itself how it came to think, or examine its logical prejudices. Brain movements remain brain movements, physical movements not less than those of leaves moving in the wind or ripples on a stream, and to conjure them into thoughts, desires and feelings is a babble of rhetoric. And since the principle, whatever it be, underlying all life certainly contained the possibility of such activities, and permitted of them, reason refuses to accept them, to accept, that is, consciousness, thought and volition as arising out of electromagnetic fields, or as the aggregations of particles, particles of matter which somehow got together, and having got together explained to themselves how the thing was done. It is asking too much of us. For to think of the willing, aspiring and feeling soul as made up of many powers and parts is to invert the truth, that the soul provides the unity and is itself the bearer of its thoughts and feelings, its own unique experiences.
If then in the attempt to account for things as they are I have to choose between atoms and living monads, I have not a moment’s hesitation. I choose the latter. Let us say, then, that the realm of nature may be better understood or comprehended if interpreted in terms of such will and purpose as we actually experience in ourselves, and of which we can form no intelligible conception save as belonging to individual selves or souls of a like nature. They do not belong, the monads, to the corporeal world, and are themselves, indeed, transcendent and unrepresentable as entities, or substances occupying space, in which region they are but partially represented. Their relations to space and time, like that of the electron to space and time, are obscure and unknown to us, but are there, in that region, similarly represented by their activities. We know them to be present where their influence is felt, or in evidence. A single soul or self sums up—since no two are alike, as no two flowers in nature are alike, and since their mode of existence is hidden from us—the whole unfathomed mystery of things. We may conclude, then, that mind is ultimate, and the cosmic system a manifestation of many minds.
But what is here meant by mind? Not the intellect taken by itself, ‘the Euclidean understanding’, but those faculties in us of which the self is the sole possessor. Let us recollect that the intellect is not the deepest thing in us, and the soul does more than think. It feels, desires and wills. The soul or ‘I’ is something for itself, a quintessence of primordial being beyond analysis, deeper sunk in reality than the intelligence or understanding, which within itself it brings to birth. Nor does the mind appear first in man, though it is there we have certain knowledge of it. We have no mirror in which we can view our souls as we do our bodies. We may, however, use the term mind in default of a better, agreeing with Hume, that ‘the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence’, and agreeing further with Green that ‘will is indistinguishably desire and thought’, and with Coleridge that ‘the will is the synonym of the word “I”, or the intelligence itself. We may use the term mind, where all terms are inadequate, as synoptic, and regard it as the soul’s representative, the ambassador of its volition, feeling and thought at their various levels in nature, as exhibited in living things, and extending to the unsearchable and, as it seems to us, inanimate world, with which living things are so intimately and so inseparably associated and interwoven. As light itself cannot be seen, and is never seen, for we see only the objects illuminated by its unseen ray, so the monads or selves are invisible save in their doings, are revealed to us in the public world of space, the theatre of their action. For even we ourselves know ourselves only as we appear to ourselves—what in reality we are we do not know—just as the scene presented to us in the outside world is also imperfectly and indirectly known as the mesh or network woven by the interactions among other selves. And it is exceedingly probable, if not certain, that all we perceive, either of ourselves or of the things of sense, are the shadows cast by the things behind the veil that truly are; projections upon the spatial screen, a Mercator’s distorted map of the veritable world.
Let us be clear and positive upon this, that the body or organism with which the self is in our experience associated, is not and cannot be identified with the individual, since it is merely that individual’s representative in the material world; Nor are the mental activities and faculties of the true self limited by the body or the brain, but extend, as we have abundant evidence, far beyond the range of the senses. Not only does the self direct and control the organism, but wholly transcends it in respect of its innate powers and capacities. As the pictures on a moving film represent living actors, not to be found in that time or place, and no examination of the film itself will lead to any further knowledge of these actors, exhibit more than a few hours of their lives, or tell you where now they are, or what they are, so we may say their corporeal bodies represent only the activities of the living spirits on the space-time screen during a single episode in their careers, and are no more their true and complete selves than the moving pictures in the theatre are the actual actors. Nor will study the most minute and exhaustive of the body and its parts, any more than of a figure in the moving picture, reveal in his whole nature the agent which produced its motions. For as the plant has a life in its roots below the soil, and a life above it in the sunlight, so also the soul or self. If we perceived in plants not their external shapes, their leaves and flowers but the internal processes and principles at work within them, if we saw their souls, how different they would appear. And how different would our fellow creatures appear if you could shut off your physical senses and, endowed with other eyes, for example, opened them not on your neighbours’ forms and faces, but upon their thoughts and motives, loves and hates. You would then behold things not less real than their shapes and movements, but much more real, their very roots and springs, the forces and the principles at work, as completely hidden from corporeal sight as are the energies in magnetic or electric fields, discoverable only in their issue and effects.
And now consider further the society of selves or monads we have pictured, of which the entire hierarchy consists. It is composed of lesser societies or partnerships, the communities or associations of sympathetic entities. Monads of the same level congregate or draw together. They seek and find, as in the elements, their natural homes, forming throughout the realm of nature, as in minerals, plants and animals, a great variety of groups and federations, such as animate nature displays in flocks and herds, in tribes and races; groups which arise out of the native sympathies of their constituent members, or at the lower levels from their corresponding and simpler attractions. The monads at the lowest levels, constituting the inorganic world, are, we might say, ‘filter passers’, in which the presence of life and intelligence in its most rudimentary forms cannot by our present measures or methods be detected. Yet there, as elsewhere, no monad is attracted to another monad, no soul loves another soul, unless there is already a bond between them. Life takes in them all the myriad forms we see. For what is matter? It is, physics tells us, simply energy. And what is energy? It is the expression of will or Being. It is action, which is just life itself. We can go no further. And whence is our idea of energy which gives rise to action derived? From ourselves, who can produce it by willing. Personality is, in its final analysis, simply will or cause. And since the soul is in our experience a unity which is also a multiplicity, the particles in the inorganic or apparently inanimate world represent in their various aggregations the activity of souls, whose organ is the diffuse system of the group, and whose life is mirrored in its loose association.
A species, as Aristotle divined, might be the body or organism of a single and directing soul. As among bees and ants the whole hive or colony is a close-knit bunch or cluster spatially separated in respect of its individual members, yet animated throughout by a common co-ordinated life, by a strange, inexplicable inner sympathy of aims, the soul of the swarm, so the particles or atoms of the physical or inorganic world in their respective assemblies have a joint or common base, are held together by a guiding principle, of which the entire assembly is the organism or body, the reflection in space and time of its inward life.
And if, as we may well believe, the universe is everywhere and in all its parts alive, the first act in the cosmic drama provided—in the manifestation of these monadic souls, which to us appears as the material world—the earliest and most numerous of its many federations, and became the ground upon which the more closely knit organisms, informed by later or succeeding monads, took their stand; the later life waves flowing through and mounting on the earlier. The laws of nature would then be their consolidated behaviour, their simple, automatic habits. The succeeding organisms, which in cosmic history represent and mirror monads in more complete control of their activities, are less the slaves of custom. They too, however, have a long journey before them, advancing towards intenser life, an awakened consciousness and intelligence, which may, indeed, take strange forms, and under the superintendence of time create worlds to come and natural kingdoms unlike our own. For we must think of souls or selves as continually becoming more than they already are, having within them a principle of growth. Nor can consciousness ever reach a saturation point, since it contains possibilities without end—through gathered experience and its fructifying seeds—of expansion within the Cosmos; through which the soul, its possessor, is alone equipped to travel, and to which, of necessity, it belongs. It appears, the conscious soul, when with time and the process of time conditions are such that it can associate with others and have relations with others.
You recall Wordsworth’s creed:
‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes—
a poetic faith, perhaps not so wide of scientific truth. For nature appears to have at heart, and as end in view, intenser life and universal consciousness throughout her myriad modes of being, in their individual forms. And the organisms we see around us, what are they? They are, we may say, the sounding boards of the souls in action, or instruments in tune with them, as one tuning-fork is with another. The body or organism associated with the individual self, through which its inner life is partially manifested, is, in the common world of all existences, at once its means of communication with other selves and its protection against the bewildering extent and multiplicity of their activities. The body is a kind of sorting place or telephone exchange. No listener could deal with the million messages passing at the same moment through such an exchange, and no finite being could sustain the impact of all the cosmic activities simultaneously discharged upon it. It would be overwhelmed in the cataract. ‘Nature’, as Professor Kemp Smith expressed it, ‘must be adjusted to the dimensions of the animal and human consciousness.’ So we may think of the body as a screen or resistance coil, which diminishes the pressure of these activities, or lowers their tension to the point at which they can be in some degree supported, and in some degree apprehended. The world, that is, by our bodies is scaled down or reduced to the measure of our powers. Within its immensity we can keep our feet, and hold our own. We can select and order our experiences.
And not only is the self thus brought by the body into simpler and working relations with the rest of the universe; it is provided also with a spiritual perspective. As the eye deals only with a certain limited series of wave-lengths, the body measures for the self the relations and intensities with which, gauging their respective values, the self is specially concerned, and has in its own immediate interests to deal. Not all reality but a simplified edition of its fundamental features is open to us. And the world of space and time thus resembles an artist’s picture. There a part of the boundless and unrepresentable landscape of reality is reduced and separated from the whole and framed for our contemplation. All these, it may be said, are dreams. But they are dreams which reflect, as I think, the truth. And not less dreams were the myths of the divine Plato, or the visions of Plotinus, the eagle soaring, as it was said, above that master’s tomb. The practical philosophers no doubt would have us abandon them, and cultivate our gardens.
Return, they cry, ere yet your day
Set and the sky grow stern:
Return, strayed souls, while yet ye may Return.
But heavens above us yearn;
Yea, heights of heaven above the sway
Of stars that eyes discern.
The soul whose wings from shoreward stray
Makes towards her viewless bourne
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Recently the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset was officially announced at an event in Hawaii. It is safe to assume that the chipset is expected to find its way into many a flagship smartphone in 2018, like the LG G7 and Samsung Galaxy S9, but it seems that there could be another potential use for the Snapdragon 845 as well.
According to the folks at XDA, it seems that two commits have recently been discovered that seems to suggest that a Chromebook device powered by the Snapdragon 845 could be in the works. Note that this would not be the first time that we’re seeing ARM-based chips used in a Chromebook before, but given how powerful the Snapdragon 845 is (at least on paper), it would no doubt be rather interesting to see such a device.
That being said, Chromebooks might not be the only devices in the future that could be powered by the Snapdragon 845. Recently there have been reports to suggest that Xiaomi could be working on a Snapdragon-powered Windows PC, and earlier this year it was confirmed that other companies like Lenovo, HP, and ASUS would be making ARM-powered Windows computers as well.
Interestingly enough the idea of an ARM-powered laptop/PC isn’t new. We have heard rumors in the past that Apple could be thinking of using its A-series of chipsets to power MacBooks in the future. | <urn:uuid:a1c970ad-0c5e-4e24-b360-2e8b865b4e38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ubergizmo.com/2017/12/chromebook-snapdragon-845-in-the-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97967 | 280 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Want to live a longer, healthier life? Chill out, and stop lying. For the same reason. Stress is really, really bad for your health.
Chronic stress is bad for your health in a lot of ways. (“Chronic” means the kind you don’t get used to—like the hassles of daily commuting—and the kind that bothers you for longer than a couple weeks.) Biochemically, stress means you are in a mini fight-or-flight mode, and the bodily systems you need to protect yourself are turned up while the systems you don’t need are turned down. That’s fine in the short term, but those systems aren’t designed to stay turned up or turned down, and if they do, things get out of whack in harmful ways. Elevated blood pressure contributes to cardiovascular damage. Depressed immune function makes you more vulnerable to infectious disease. Higher than normal levels of stress impair long-term memory, fertility, bone formation, the health of your digestive system, and dramatically increase the likelihood of adult-onset (Type 2) diabetes and clinical depression. (For much more on this, read the delightful Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky.)
But stress eats away at us in an even more insidious way, a frighteningly literal way. The ends of our chromosomes (coiled sections of DNA that contain several genes, each cell has 23 pairs) are made of sections called telomeres. These telomere "caps" keep the chromosomes from unraveling at their ends and separate one chromosome from another. (A common analogy for telomeres is the plastic caps on the ends of shoelaces.) As cells divide, those pairs of chromosomes split up. One strand of each chromosome goes off to the new daughter cell, while another stays home in the parent cell. Each cell then makes a new copy of each single chromosome strand it has, which pairs back up with the strand from the original set. Telomeres form to cap the ends of these new pairs. But each time this happens the telomeres get shorter, and when the telomeres are gone, the cell dies. This is aging down at the cellular level, and quite natural. But unless you want to live a shorter life, it’s not a process you want to speed up. Stress does.
A 2004 study of 20- to 50-year-old mothers, half with healthy kids and half with chronically ill children, found that the moms of the sick kids had significantly shorter telomeres than the moms of healthy kids. The subjects also filled out a questionnaire about how stressed they felt, and the moms who perceived more stress—whether they had healthy kids or chronically sick ones—had shorter telomeres than the moms who did not feel as stressed. The most stressed moms’ telomeres were so much shorter that, in effect, their cells were 10 years older than moms of similar age who didn’t feel stressed!
The damage is believed to be caused by higher levels of stress hormones, glucocorticoids, in the moms who perceived their lives as more stressful. But what’s important here is that it was how stressed the moms felt that mattered, not the reality of having to take care of chronically ill kids. Moms with sick kids who didn’t feel stressed, no matter how stressful their lives might seem, did not suffer as much of this damage.
So, in the name of your own health and longevity, chill! And one way to do that is to stop lying. When you lie, and you are subconscious or consciously afraid you'll get caught, it creates stress. Lie detectors depend on this. They work by sensing the changes in skin electricity and pulse and breathing rate, even the pitch of your voice from slightly tightened vocal cords, produced by the chemical reactions you’re undergoing when you’re stressed. (Glucocorticoids are the triggering hormones behind these reactions.)
Anita Kelly and LiJuan Wang of Notre Dame recruited a group of 110 people, from 18 to 71 years old, and told them that once a week for 10 weeks they’d have to come in and, in a lie detector machine, report how many times in the previous week they had lied. But the group was divided in half. Explicit instructions on how to avoid lying were given to 55 of them. (They could avoid telling the truth, or not answer, just not out-and-out confabulate.) The other group got no instructions, just the request to come in once a week and tell the truth about how many times they had lied last week.
Everybody lied less. But the group that had gotten advice on how to avoid lying reduced their fabrications far more. And in questionnaires, those who had lied less reported better mental and physical health. They reported improvements in their relationships, less trouble sleeping, less tension, fewer headaches, and fewer sore throats. (The results haven’t been published yet. They were reported at a professional meeting.)
The authors and their psychologist colleagues explain this behaviorally. They say this proves what happens when you are honest. Life gets better because you feel good about yourself. But ... fewer sore throats and headaches? The improved physical health of the subjects certainly adds to the evidence that persistent stress does real biochemical things to us, and harms our physical as well as our mental health.
In my book and this space I write about The Perception Gap, the harm that arises when, because of the subjective way we assess and respond to risk, we worry too much about some lesser risks and not enough about some bigger ones. Getting risk wrong in either direction can lead to dangerous behaviors. But the worrying-too-much part of The Perception Gap can also trigger all sorts of health damage from stress.
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Why does the name of my TEMP directory keep changing?
A customer liaison contacted the shell team with the following request:
Subject: Support case: 069314718055994
On two of my customer’s machines, he’s finding that if he opens %TEMP% from the Start menu, it opens C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\1, C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\2, and so on. Each time the user logs off and back on, the number increments. The number resets after each reboot. Why are we seeing these folders being created under Temp? This does not appear to be the default behavior. What would cause the operating system to create these folders?
The customer rebuilt one of the affected machines, and the behavior went away. However, the customer claims that both machines were working fine before, and then this problem suddenly started. Therefore, the customer is afraid that the problem will come back in the future. Any pointers in solving this mystery would be very much appreciated.
It’s not clear why this question was directed at the shell team, since Explorer doesn’t set your TEMP directory. (In general, a lot of random questions come to the shell team not because they are shell questions but because people don’t know where else to turn. Since the shell presents the desktop, and the desktop is on the screen when the problem occurs, maybe it’s a shell issue!) The question was redirected to the Remote Desktop team, since it is Remote Desktop that creates these subdirectories off the TEMP directory. And from there, psychic powers predicted that the problem lay in the Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Temporary folders group policy. If you don’t select Do not use temporary folders per session, then these TEMP subdirectories are created. (Yet another of those crazy negative checkboxes.) There is also a knowledge base article describing the registry keys behind these group policies.
The customer liaison responded cryptically,
Thanks. I tested the policies and it is the one that creates the folder.
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What is the best food to give a diabetic cat? Freeze-dried chicken, beef, salmon, tuna, and liver are all excellent choices since they are rich in protein and low in carbs, much like the diets advised for diabetic cats. Put treats away if they are interfering with your cat’s appetite at normal mealtimes.
Can cats that are not diabetic consume Purina DM? Owing to the fact that this is a prescription meal developed to fulfill particular dietary requirements associated with recognized health problems, it should not be offered to any other animal than the one recommended due to the limitation of certain nutrients.
What is the carbohydrate content of Purina DM cat food? This formula contains 15.79 percent carbohydrate on an as fed basis and 17.14 percent carbohydrate on a dry matter basis. Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets DM Dietetic Management Formula Canned Cat Food contains 1.78 percent carbohydrates as fed and 7.27 percent carbohydrates on a dry matter basis.
Are There Differences In Diabetic Cat Food By Purina – RELATED QUESTIONS
Is it true that diabetic cats are always hungry?
Increased appetite is a frequent symptom of diabetes, since food cannot be utilized as energy. Typically, other early indicators include increased urination, thirst, and weight loss. If left untreated, cats might develop vomiting and lethargy, as well as become quite ill.
What is a cat’s normal blood glucose level?
The typical glucose level in the blood is between 80 and 120 mg/dl (4.4 and 6.6 mmol/L).
Is it OK to feed my diabetic cat more than twice daily?
Diabetic animals should not be given free access to food. Feed them twice a day, on average. While it is OK for your cat to munch during the day, it is not acceptable at night. The reason for this is because we need the cat to consume food constantly throughout insulin time. When the time comes to inject insulin, feed your pet first.
What happens if a diabetic cat is not vaccinated?
If a dosage is missed, wait until the next time insulin is scheduled to be administered and then deliver the usual quantity. Avoid the temptation to administer a dosage (full or partial) during this time period, as this will result in increased instability. If your cat feels ill, vomits, or refuses to eat, DO NOT IMMEDIATELY administer insulin.
Is grain-free cat food beneficial to diabetic cats?
Diabetic Cat Nutrition Cats’ diets do not need veggies or grains. Indeed, excessive amounts of these components might be hazardous, particularly if they are heavy in carbs. Low-carbohydrate diets are beneficial for all cats, but they are particularly critical for diabetic cats.
What kind of dry food should I give my diabetic cat?
If your overweight or diabetic cat would only eat dry food, Dr. Craig suggests EVO Herring and Salmon Dry food (recommended) or EVO Turkey and Chicken Cat and Kitten food. These diets are around 50% protein and 10% carbohydrate.
How often should I feed my diabetic cat every day?
Typically, you’ll feed your cat twice daily and deliver insulin immediately after those feedings. Frostig gives his cat half a can of high-protein, low-carb cat food in the morning and half a can at night, with a dose of insulin after each meal.
Why is my diabetic cat using such large amounts of water?
Without the insulin/glucose team, fueling the body is inefficient, and the cat loses weight while eating more. Meanwhile, the glucose that accumulates in the bloodstream is excreted in the urine. The cat urinates more often, which increases his thirst, and he consumes more water.
Why is it that my diabetic cat consumes so much food?
“Diabetic cats display indicators of increased hunger as a result of their inability to break down and utilise glucose for energy,” she explains. “Insulin is the sole hormone in the body that enables glucose (i.e. sugar) to be absorbed from meals and transported into cells where it may be broken down into useful energy.
How long does it take for a diabetic cat to stabilize?
Initially, follow-up visits every 5–7 days are necessary to check improvement. A month or more may be required to obtain adequate regulation. If difficulties emerge, the financial investment may be substantial. We will collaborate with you to ensure uniform control, although some cats are notoriously tough to regulate.
How many insulin units do cats require?
A typical beginning dosage for cats is 1 to 2 units given twice day through subcutaneous (SC) injection.
Can I administer insulin to my cat one hour after eating?
If you’re only giving the cat one dose per day, it’s most likely a long-acting basal insulin such as lantus (glargine) or levemir (detemir); these can be dosed at ANY TIME, regardless of meal time, as long as it’s the SAME TIME EVERY DAY; they are 24-hour insulins that begin working within about an hour and last approximately 24 hours.
Temptations snacks are suitable for diabetic cats.
No. He should not be on treats at all and should be on a prescription diet, m/d, specifically formulated for diabetic cats. If you really must feed him food, limit yourself to a little slice of cooked chicken or tuna once a day. All commercial treats are high in carbohydrates and lipids, which are the worst foods for diabetics to consume.
Is it necessary to provide insulin precisely 12 hours apart?
Attempt to keep your schedules as close to 11-12 hours apart as possible. If a shot must be given sooner or later than the +/- 1 hour interval, it is preferable to forego that dosage entirely. I’d prefer your pet have elevated blood sugar (not a big problem) as a result of skipping an insulin treatment than risk him going too low (very terrible!)
Where should insulin be injected into a cat?
Insulin should be injected slightly under the skin. When administered around one to two inches from the centre of the back, near the shoulder blade or hip bone, many cats take the injections well. To prevent pain, switch the injection site each time.
How much food should a cat consume before insulin is administered?
Your cat might easily consume the whole food supply in one sitting. In these cases, increase your food intake to two equal portions each day prior to insulin shots.
Is Cravings canned cat food suitable for diabetic cats?
CRAVE Grain-Free Wet Cat Food with a High Protein Content If you’re searching for a diabetic-friendly wet cat food alternative for your cat, CRAVE has you covered. Their grain-free, high-protein cat food begins with genuine chicken. And this makes me quite pleased.
Is canned Friskies food OK for diabetic cats?
Fancy Feast Fish and Shrimp Feast is a low-cost diabetic cat food. There are various varieties of Friskies designed specifically for diabetic cats. Friskies Senior Turkey and Giblets Dinner, Friskies Canned Cat Beef and Liver Dinner, and Friskies Canned Cat Turkey and Giblets Dinner are just a few examples.
Can I give cooked chicken to my diabetic cat?
Yes, if you steam, vake, or boil it without spices and remove the skin. Additionally, when you chop the chicken into little chunks for your fat, add the broth. She need more hydration or fluids. Diabetes, whether in people or animals, necessitates excessive water consumption.
How long does it take to control an insulin-dependent cat?
When administered correctly, daily insulin injections may assist in maintaining your cat’s blood glucose levels throughout the day. It may take a month or more for your cat’s diabetes symptoms to improve while your veterinarian adjusts the insulin dosage to control blood glucose levels.
What caused my cat to get diabetes?
It is often seen in overweight and/or senior cats. As with people, cats have a pancreas that is supposed to create insulin in order to manage the amount of sugar (glucose) in their bodies as a result of their food. Diabetes develops when a cat’s body is unable to maintain a healthy balance of sugar in their circulation.
Do diabetic cats suffer?
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It is understood that childrens’ emotions in school are connected to their learning and academic achievement. The evolution of concepts such as emotional intelligence explain why the ability to recognise, use, express and manage one’s emotions makes a huge difference to success in later life. As the American author and philosopher Walker Percy said, “You can get all As and still flunk life.”
Schools wishing to teach students these non-cognitive skills, such as self-awareness, self-control, empathy, decision making and coping, have turned to social and emotional learning (SEL) programmes. In the US, UK and Ireland, these are recommended as ways for schools to teach these “soft skills”.
Teaching social and emotional competence
But there are a large and growing number of SEL programmes offered to schools. Typically, these programmes concentrate on managing emotions, setting positive goals, and increasing social and self-awareness. Relationship skills and decision making may also be included. While they vary in scope, the programmes tend to include both elements for developing teachers’ professional competencies and classroom-based activities for students. But do they work?
With funding from the Jacobs Foundation, my team and I conducted a systematic review of research looking at SEL programmes, drawing upon studies conducted over 50 years and including children from pre-school to grade 12 (around age 17-18). The review analysed the effects of social and emotional learning programmes in schools on achievement in three subjects: reading (57,755 pupils), mathematics (61,360 pupils), and science (16,380 pupils), selecting only the 40 most methodologically rigorous studies.
While we found evidence that the SEL programmes improved the children’s performance in these subjects, the effects of the different approaches varied widely. There was great disparity in the quality of the studies, and it appears that different study designs may produce different results – for example when comparing quasi-experimental studies to randomised controlled studies. There is also evidence that some of the approaches to teaching SEL that have become popular over the last few decades might not be as effective as policymakers and schools may believe.
Using a similar approach proposed by education psychologist Robert Slavin of Johns Hopkins University, programmes were ranked according to the strength of evidence of effectiveness, balancing for factors such as the studies’ methodological quality. In the table below, we’ve rated the evidence strong (3), limited (2), insufficient (1), or that no studies qualified for this review (0). Two programmes used composite, cross-subject scores.
Based on our review, it’s clear that Positive Action delivers strong results. Averaged across the five evaluations of Positive Action on reading, involving 11,370 students, the mean effect size – a measure to determine how well a programme works – was +0.78. The current What Works Clearinghouse guidelines in the US describe an effect size larger than +/-0.25 as “substantively important”. Averaged across the four evaluations of Positive Action on mathematics involving 10,380 students, the mean effect size for mathematics was +0.45. Positive Action also delivered promising improvements in science achievement – one of only a handful to do so – with a mean effect size of +0.26. However, this was based on only one large study.
Developed at the University of Houston, Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline (CMCD) also scored well. Averaging across the two studies of CMCD that involved 1,287 students, the mean effect size was +0.43 for reading and +0.46 for mathematics.
Other programmes also rated strongly for mathematics. The four included evaluations of Student Success Skills, involving 1,248 students, had a mean effect size of +0.30 for mathematics and +0.12 for reading. The two included evaluations of the Comers School Development programme, developed at Yale University, had a +0.27 mean effect size from 14,083 students.
The worse performers were the Social Skills Improvement System Classwide Intervention Program and Tribes. Perhaps surprisingly, in these cases large, randomised studies found small negative effects for both mathematics and reading.
A number of programmes were not included in our review, such as Lions Quests, Incredible Years, Open Circle and FRIENDS, because all the studies of these programmes contained methodological limitations such as a lack of control group or detailed academic outcomes. Their absence is not evidence that they don’t work, but considering how widely used these programmes are in schools throughout Europe and the US, the lack of high quality research to ascertain their effectiveness in improving academic achievement is surprising.
The effects of poverty on learning
I have studied schools in areas of high poverty in an effort to better understand how to improve students’ reading, mathematics and science achievement. Despite the challenges that high-needs pupils face many did achieve good academic results, and they were led to believe that it was effort, instead of ability, that determined their success. They tended to have developed grit and self-control. These children learned how to manage their emotions, and so did their teachers. However, more high quality research is needed to understand the SEL interventions that work best – particularly for students from low-income and minority families, and based on schools outside the US, where the majority of these studies were conducted.
Many of the studies we came across focused on using social and emotional learning for non-academic aims – for example, to reduce bullying among students – and this is an area that we will be looking at in our next review. But what’s clear from the current review is that teaching these cognitive “soft skills” shouldn’t be seen as something beyond academic achievement, but in fact a technique that may provide both a boost to academic results at school, and the important social and emotional literacy required to succeed in adulthood.
If we can agree that these programmes lead to benefits, then the next stage is to ensure that there is enough evidence-based research to identify which approaches to teaching SEL work, in order to help schools choose the best programmes for their students. | <urn:uuid:a25dfc8f-13be-4979-b9d1-9955a4d3a9d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/children-benefit-when-taught-social-and-emotional-skills-but-some-methods-are-better-than-others-90984 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.967283 | 1,260 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Chalcoparia singalensis (J.F. Gmelin, 1789) – Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
This is also known as the Rubycheek.
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Anonymous. 2022. Chalcoparia singalensis (J.F. Gmelin, 1789) – Ruby-cheeked Sunbird. Satose, V., A. Bayani, V. Ramachandran, P. Roy, and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Birds of India, v. 2.17. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. | <urn:uuid:13dbb94f-5c14-4386-b446-f5a72dae8872> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://birdsofindia.org/sp/1353/Chalcoparia-singalensis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.714986 | 157 | 1.882813 | 2 |
As part of the NYS Assn. of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc.'s 47th Annual Legislative Conference, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes sponsored the "From Prisons to Pot: Marijuana Legalization & Revisioning New York State’s Economy" Workshop with special guest Montel Williams. The workshop addressed the health benefits of medical marijuana and explored legalization through a criminal justice and economic lens.
Senator Montgomery is proud to co-sponsor the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (S. 3040). The bill is sponsored by Senator Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Peoples-Stokes and would regulate marijuana in a manner similar to New York’s current treatment of alcohol.
The legislation would:
- Remove penalties for possession of 2 ounces of marijuana or less;
- Makes 18 the minimum legal age for marijuana possession and consumption;
- Establishes that smoking marijuana in public and possession of marijuana by persons under the age of 18 are violations;
- Allows for home cultivation of up to six marijuana plants;
- Empowers the State Liquor Authority to grant licenses for marijuana production, transport and retail sale;
- Prohibits sale of marijuana to persons under 21;
- Allows communities to opt out of retail sale for off-premises consumption through a referendum process similar to what is now in place for alcohol sales;
- Allows communities to opt in to allow retail sales for on-premises consumption through a vote of the local legislature, in addition to the local community board in the case of New York City;
- Establishes an excise tax of $50.00 per ounce of marijuana, and authorizes localities to charge a sales tax on retail sales; and
- Directs a portion of the state tax revenue collected to be directed to re-entry programs, substance abuse programs, and job training programs in low-income, high-unemployment communities.
In 2014, New York became the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana. Patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord damage, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, neuropathies, Huntington's disease and PTSD are now eligible for medical marijuana.
Senator Montgomery continues her visionary leadership to spotlight issues important to her constituents and to build coalitions to create institutional change in our state. After the passage of “Raise the Age” reform last year, Senator Montgomery now turns the spotlight on the issue of marijuana legalization as a means to end mass incarceration, revitalize the economy in Upstate New York and provide an alternative to the use of opioids for pain relief.
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Rose asked me if we are using Axona and why or why not. We don't use Axona. It costs $100 per month for just one dose a day, is a prescription and Steve is doing well with what we are doing. I have read about some people who feel that the effect of the single dose of Axona wears off after a few hours and they have continued to use MCT oil and/or coconut oil later in the day. I have read that the people who make Axona say they only recommend one dose a day because they only studied one dose a day. We are using MCT oil because Steve's ketone levels were higher with MCT oil than coconut oil, but were also gone twice as fast (by three hours). We kept the coconut oil because the levels last longer (at least 6-7 hours). I figure that by mixing the two he will get the benefit of the higher levels from the MCT oil and the longer lasting levels of the coconut oil. Also, there are several other properties of coconut oil that may be helpful, such as the anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal properties of capric and lauric acid, 2 of the medium chain triglycerides that are not found in Axona. There is some research by Dr. Ruth Itzhaki and others showing that, in certain people, the herpes simplex type I virus that causes fever blisters/cold sores is present in the plaques in the Alzheimer's brain. These two fatty acids kill this type of virus. Steve has a history of frequent and fairly severe fever blisters on his mouth and since we started using coconut oil has had only two very tiny blisters in the past year. The virus lives in the nerve and the nerves to the mouth start deep in the brain near the region affected by Alzheimer's. It seems logical to me that if an outbreak can occur on the lip it could also occur in the brain elsewhere along the path of the nerve. Coconut oil can also help one absorb certain vitamins and other nutrients better from the intestine. Some of the components of coconut oil support the growth of the normal bacteria that are supposed to be in the bowel.
Most of the time now Steve is getting just over 2 tablespoons of a mixture of MCT oil and coconut oil, three times a day, but we also use coconut oil to cook in and sometimes use coconut milk or grated coconut, and depending on how much is in the food, I may subtract a little from the mixture that he takes at that meal. This is not cut in stone. It is just what we arrived at after a lot of experimentation. We found out what the limits of his tolerance were for the oils and when we reached the point that he was having some diarrhea we cut back. Many people cannot handle as much of this as Steve can, so each person will to find their own limit. We push it to the limit to try to maximize how much ketone he will receive - the more medium chain triglyceride in his diet, the more ketones he should have available for his brain. That is how I look at it. | <urn:uuid:d954de30-a802-482f-84df-73f6e2cb8727> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://coconutketones.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-we-are-using-mct-oilcoconut-oil.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98547 | 639 | 1.679688 | 2 |
New York City has some of the best tap water in the world. So good, in fact, the EPA says it doesn’t even require filtration. So how do you get eight million New Yorkers, constantly on the go, to give up the convenience of disposable water bottles and drink from the tap? GreeNYC the branch of Bloomberg’s administration charged with promoting sustainability, came up with a cute mascot–Birdie–and a clever idea: portable drinking fountains that attach to fire hydrants. Read the full story in our current issue. | <urn:uuid:3f988f5f-5acb-4ef2-bfa6-b950772ead78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ediblemanhattan.com/uncategorized/in-our-current-issue-new-yorkers-learn-to-love-tap-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.940597 | 117 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Some Texas residents may already know that there is more to an estate plan than providing for family after death. Estate planning may also be used to plan for how a person will be cared for toward the end of life. This is most often referred to as long-term care.
Many people in Texas have the mistaken impression that Medicare will cover the expenses associated with long-term care. There may be a limited amount of these expenses covered by Medicare now, but it is certainly not enough to be taken care of properly. In addition, there is no guarantee that program will have funding by the time it is needed. Therefore, it will be necessary to explore other options when planning for this eventuality.
To get an idea of the costs associated with long-term care, semi-private to private rooms in nursing homes average between $75,405 and $83,950 per year. It costs an average of $44,479 to have an aide come to a person’s home for the year. Depending on the individual, this type of care could be needed for several years.
There are two primary ways to prepare for long-term care. The first is through long-term care insurance, and the second is to save money for that purpose. It will be up to each individual to decide which option will work best for his or her financial situation, and either approach can be expensive. Through early and diligent estate planning, it is possible to successfully address these long range issues in a manner that takes care of personal needs while also considering the financial impact involved.
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Digital Mammography With Breast Tomosynthesis
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Early detection of this disease through self-examinations and mammograms can help promote a positive outcome. In order to help with early detection, UPMC Bedford Memorial now offers digital mammography with breast tomosynthesis.
This innovative service is an imaging procedure that uses low-energy x-rays to create a 3D image of the breasts. Conventional mammography takes pictures of the breast from two angles — up and down, and left and right — but tomosynthesis takes multiple pictures from several angles. This enables the health care professional to see a clear, 3D image of the breast tissue. Some of the other benefits of using this new technology are:
- Faster than digital mammography
- More comfortable
- More precise treatments and fewer repeat exams
UPMC Bedford Memorial’s digital mammography unit with breast tomosynthesis is the latest, state-of-the-art technology in breast imaging, and is the only unit of its kind between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
If you are a woman who is a breast cancer survivor, are at high risk for breast cancer, have a family history of breast cancer, or have had several false-positive mammograms, talk to your primary care physician (PCP) to see if this new service is right for you.
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Lobbyists, Governments and Public Trust, Volume 3
Implementing the OECD Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying
- 27 Nov 2014
- 9789264214224 (PDF) ;9789264214217(print)
This report takes stock of progress made in implementing the 2010 Recommendation on Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying – the only international instrument addressing major risks in the public decision-making process related to lobbying. The review process found that although there is an emerging consensus on the need for transparency to shed light on lobbying, new regulations are often scandal-driven instead of forward looking.
In countries that have regulations in place, the degree of transparency in lobbying varies considerably across OECD members. Moving forward, it will be essential for countries to focus efforts on the implementation of the Recommendation, in order to strengthen confidence in the public decision-making process and restore trust in government. It will also be crucial to strengthen the implementation of the wider integrity framework, as it is the prime tool for safeguarding transparency and integrity in the decision-making process in general and lobbying practices in particular. | <urn:uuid:173bd59d-bfec-4b19-99ef-037ec8822ea6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/lobbyists-governments-and-public-trust-volume-3_9789264214224-en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900018 | 229 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Little Auk, or Dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, and the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds on islands in the high Arctic. There are two subspecies: A. a. alle which breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Novaya Zemlya and Spitzbergen, and A. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land.
These birds can be found during times of breeding on coastal mountainsides, where they have huge colonies. They nest in crevices or beneath large rocks and normally lay one egg. They migrate south in winter, moving into the north Atlantic. Late autumn storms may carry them south of their normal wintering areas, or into the North Sea.
This is the only Atlantic auk of its size. At half the size of the Atlantic Puffin it measures 19-21 cm in length and has a wingspan of 34-38 cm. Adult birds are black on the head, neck, back and wings with white underparts. The bill is very short and stubby. They have a small rounded black tail. The lower face and fore neck become white in winter.
The flight is direct, with fast whirring wing beats due to the short wings. These birds forage for food like other auks by swimming underwater. Their preferred prey is crustaceans (especially copepods) but they will also dine on other small invertebrates along with small fish. They collect in large swarms before leaving their breeding grounds to head out to sea for food.
Little Auks produce a variety of twitters and cackling calls at the breeding colonies, but are silent at sea.
Large numbers of Little Auks have been killed in several oil-spill incidents. Over-fishing has little effect, because their prey is mainly crustaceans, but climate changes (warming) in Southern Greenland and Iceland seems to be the reason for the decreasing populations there. The Glaucous Gull and the Arctic Fox are the main predators on Little Auks, and in some cases the polar bear has also been reported to feed on their eggs (Kjell Isaksen, Maria V. Gavrilo, 2000). | <urn:uuid:f0943b04-746d-4218-b62c-aa9b66ee56da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redorbit.com/reference/little_auk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00092-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956625 | 455 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Becoming a dog groomer in Alabama is one way in which you can show how much you love these animals.
Additionally, this occupation can be a rewarding one as well as one where you won’t feel you’re working.
- Dog Groomer Job Description and Duties in Alabama
- Dog Groomer Job Requirements in Alabama
- Dog Groomers’ Education and Certification in Alabama
- Dog Groomers’ Employment and Salary in Alabama
- Additional Information for Dog Groomers in Alabama
Dog Groomer Job Description and Duties in Alabama
Your love for dogs as a groomer of this species will help these animals look and feel their best.
Generally speaking, the services you offer are part of the job description and your duties.
- Cutting, clipping, and styling a dog’s coat
- Bathing dogs
- Clipping a dog’s nails
- Interacting with dog owners
- Knowing the hygienic care for each dog breed
- Teeth brushing
- Knowing how to restrain animals
- Calming the dogs
- Identify problem areas
Your duties will also include:
- Cleaning and maintenance of your workplace
- Cleaning and maintaining your tools
- Knowing which tools to use for what task
- Safely operating the tools
- Staying updated with styling trends
- Staying informed on the industry changes
Dog Groomer Job Requirements in Alabama
A very important requirement for this occupation is being a dog lover.
Such a person will have a better understanding of a dog’s behavior and general personality, compared to someone who is more familiar with cats, for instance.
Individuals interested in becoming dog groomers need to also possess a series of skills and personality traits.
As already mentioned, having at the very least good communication skills is also important.
This will help you better explain the care techniques the dog’s owner can perform at home.
You’ll also be able to better understand some of the requests and explain if they’re appropriate or good for that specific animal or not, and why.
Patience is another important trait you should have since working with animals is not always easy.
Dog Groomers’ Education and Certification in Alabama
In Alabama, as in most other states, there are no laws requiring dog groomers to get an education or certification in the field.
As one could expect, by undergoing some training and earning a certification, you’ll be a more valuable candidate when seeking employment.
Dog Groomers’ Education
There are many places across Alabama where you can learn the trade.
The programs for a dog groomer usually cover these topics:
- Introduction to Pet Grooming
- Introduction to Dogs and Cats
- Pre-Grooming Procedures
- Dog Grooming, Part 1
- Dog Grooming, Part 2
- Dog Grooming, Part 3
- Dog Personalities and Behavior
- Cat Grooming
- Business Practices
These programs focus more on the practice aspect, as your eyes and hands are the ones needing training the most.
It’s important to know cat grooming because some employers will expect you to offer your services to cats as well.
Dog Groomers’ Certification
Most of the training programs available will make you sit through an exam.
Those who pass will be issued a certification, and this is all you need to start on your new career path.
If you want to start a dog grooming business, you’ll need to obtain a commercial license.
For this, reading the laws at the federal and state level concerning this topic is the best.
Dog Groomers’ Employment and Salary in Alabama
There are many facilities where you can find a job as a dog groomer.
These places include:
- Dog rescues
- Veterinary clinics
- Pet grooming salons
- Pet shops
- Dog daycare centers
As a dog groomer, you can even start a business by yourself if working for others doesn’t interest you.
Of course, where you’ll work will determine how much you’ll earn.
Even the location you work in will affect this aspect, as you can see from the table below.Annual Salary Range:
Average Salary of Dog Groomers in Alabama
You may choose to perform this job as a secondary source of income, and only work when you have some spare time.
This means your income will be significantly lower than the values shown in the table above.
Additional Information for Dog Groomers in Alabama
When you need more information or news related to this industry, you can check out the following organizations:
- Greater Birmingham Humane Society
- National Dog Groomers Association of America
- Shelby Humane Society
- International Professional Groomers, Inc.
- Montgomery Humane Society
Participating in the workshops organized by these organizations and not only, you can develop other useful skills.
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Fallout for U.S. wheat exports has begun following the USDA’s announcement that unapproved GMO wheat had been discovered growing on a farm in Oregon, with Japan announcing that it will halt all Western wheat imports, and the EU strongly recommending that member states test wheat imports coming from the US.
The GMO wheat found in Oregon is the same strain that was part of a test batch grown by Monsanto between 1996 and 2004. No GMO wheat has been approved for sale in the US, and the question of how the wheat got into the field many years after the test sites were shut down is sounding alarm bells for many.
Japan, a major wheat importer from the US, canceled an order to buy US grain on hearing news of the discovery of the GMO wheat plants. “We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today,” Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters.
Other major Asian customers for US wheat, including South Korea, China, and the Philippines expressed concern and said they were monitoring the situation. Asia imports 40 million tons of wheat per year, and the US is their No. 1 supplier, but most of these countries do not allow GMO grains for human consumption.
On the heels of the announcement from Japan, the European Union issued a statement urging its 27 member states to test incoming shipments of US wheat for GMOs.
“The Commission is following carefully the presence of this non-authorized GM wheat in Oregon in order to ensure that European consumers are protected from any unauthorized GM presence and make sure that the EU zero tolerance for such GM events is implemented,” the EU’s consumer protection office said. The EU imports more than 1.1 million tons of US wheat per year, but has much stricter bans on GMO foods than the US.
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EDITOR'S COMMENTS From Antique Radio Classified for March 2005
(Copyright 1996-2005 by John V. Terrey - For personal use only.)
Once again a reader has given us the opportunity to be the forum for an aspect of radio history that isn't generally known. So it is with Ed Scribner's story about a post wired "broadcasting" system at the Radio Training School at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, during World War II. This story follows the pattern of many past stories we've published recording the histories of places like Radio Row, WLW Cincinnati, or RCA Camden, among others.
Ingenuity is a common thread in these histories, and it is especially evident in the Scribner story. Wartime makes immediate demands on problem solvers. Ed stepped up to the plate and created a system to meet the needs of the Radio School for a public address system that improved efficiency, as well as provided news and entertainment. Making do with whatever was available was the key to the success of this project.
We invite others to share their radio history stories, which reinforce our sense of the importance of preserving old radios. Hats off to Ed, who, at 96, is still making use of his archives to add another chapter to the story of radio.
Ed's direct involvement in the Sioux Falls story illustrates the human interest dimension often present in radio history articles. Similarly, radio novelties, like the radio game shown in Photo Review this month, also broaden the human side of collecting. It's easy to imagine a player, young or not-so-young, trying to get the radio tube-like capsules into the socket holes of this game.
Other sets of note in Photo Review include a Meteor by Radio Shop and a rarely seen Paragon III-A by Adams Morgan. This latter set with its wooden cabinet and doors would look nice in any living room, a contrast to the usual plain black panel sets of the times.
Of course, history is an element even in a article about a particular set. Richard Arnold always adds to our knowledge about his latest find. In this case, it is a Philco 48-460, which he nicknames "the frog." This set seems to have had many variations, including some Canadian sets and others we have found in books and on the Internet. Perhaps you readers will report on more.
Ingenuity is also very much a part of any restoration project. Daniel Schoo, who has written extensively on restoration topics for A.R.C., has commented on Walter Heskes' January 2005 article on fixing IF transformers. Dan offers an alternate method.
And once again resistance line cord or ballast tube replacement is a restoration topic which both Charles Rhodes and Don Borowski addressed within days of each other. Both suggested using a capacitor instead of the diode Ted Rogers proposed in his December 2002 article. Our editorial staff combined the Rhodes and Borowski articles into one, and though some might consider the math challenging, finding a proper capacitor may be more so. We offer one source, but perhaps readers will come up with others.
Every Estes auction is outstanding in some way. Notable in this one was the large amount of Amateur radio gear. Though high-end items were not in abundance, two Atwater Kent breadboards went for $1,500 and $1,750 respectively. A pair of MacIntosh amps sold for $1,000, and a Westinghouse station monitor for $4,200. Ray Chase reports it was a great auction for bargain hunters.
Radio Miscellanea touches on past, present and future: Camp Selby mentioned in an ad in the December '04 issue has prompted another response; a current tube tester manual is reviewed; and the Internet as friend or enemy is addressed. Keep those letters coming.
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Coming Radio Events. Of a total of 37 events listed this month, there are 30 meetings, five meets, and two auctions, one the VRPS auction and the other, the first West Coast Estes auction. Try to ease out of the winter doldrums and get to at least one of these events.
John V. Terrey, Editor
ON THE COVER
Our cover is a line drawing by Victor Turner, an announcer at the Post Broadcasting System (PBS)
at the Army Radio Training School in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, during World War II. The drawing was
originally distributed as a poster around the Army base. It
depicts the control room of the PBS with the studio
shown through the window left rear. Ed Scribner, who
designed the system, sits at the desk left, while the artist stands
at the cabinets right. Seated right is Robert McCarl,
a former civilian radio announcer, while at the studio
window is Rodger Wolfe, who later worked for NBC.
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in excess of the purchase price. The seller is asked
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Chen Tieshi, Li Yongming, Zhao Yuping, Yang Jun, Zhang Yuanming, Tang Yu
(Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China)
AbstractA simple reverse microemulsion approach using Tx-100-SDS as surfactants is utilized to obtain selenium nanocrystals by reducing NaSeO with ascorbic acid at room temperature. The selenium crystals form sphere-like morphology of nano-needle congeries with sharp tips at 0.25M concentration of Tx-100-SDS. The replacement of Tx-100 with OP-10, Tween20, or SP60 causes disappearance of special morphology of selenium. The other surfactants, anionic SDBS, cationic CTMAB or TDMBAC, mixed with Tx-100 give the similar special morphology of selenium nanocrystals as SDS. Tx-100 and its cooperating effect with SDS are the key factors to prepare selenium nano-needles with sharp tips aggregating in sphere-like shapes. Possible mechanism is proposed also.
With a relatively low melting point (~490 K), high photoconducting (~8×10 S cm-1), and low photomelting temperature (~77K)，elemental selenium has been widely applied in the field of rectifiers, solar cells, photographic exposure meters, and xerography[1, 2]. It is now commonly accepted that in order to exert ultimate performance and applications of inorganic materials with nano- and microscale, a key factor is to control their shapes and sizes. Many efforts have given some good results in synthesis of elemental selenium with specific shapes and sizes. The reported morphologies of selenium include nanotube, single-crystalline Se nanotube, submicrotube, microtube, nanorod[7-9], microrod[6, 10], nanobelt and nanowire[9, 11], nanoneedle, and so on. Compared with these successful works, special shapes of selenium, such as feathershape and rose-like Se crystal, are seldom observed and difficult to be formed. Diversified methods, such as hydrothermal routes[3, 6-8], template inducing with surfactants[4-5, 11], small molecule-controlled process, have been applied to synthesize selenium. Of them, surfactants are effective soft template and used widely. In our previous works, multiple different morphologies of calcium carbonate were formed in the reverse microemulsion of Tx-100-SDS surfactants system. In order to further understand the role of surfactants in the process of crystal growth and challenge the special morphology of selenium, the synthesis of selenium was carried out in reverse microemulsion solution of different surfactants in this paper.
Polyoxyethylene nonyl phenyl ether(OP-10), Sorbitan monolaurate(Span-60), p-octyl polyethylene glycol phenyl ether(Tx-100), and tetradecyl dimetyl benzyl ammonium chloride (TDMBAC) were of chemically pure.Sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS)，cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTMAB) and sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonateSDBSand the other reagents were of analytically pure. All chemicals were used without further purification. Double distilled water was employed to prepare aqueous solution.
2.2 Preparation of nano-selenium in reverse micelle solution
The clear reverse micemulsion solutions A or B were prepared by adding 1ml of 0.25M aqueous solution of NaSeO and nonionic surfactants, or 1.0mL of 1.0M aqueous solution of ascorbic acid and surfactant ionic surfactants into 15.5mL of cyclohexane and 2.5mL of n-butanol, respectively. After solution A had been dropped slowly into solution B under stirring at room temperature, the container of solution A was washed by 2mL of cyclohexane. Then this cyclohexane was added to the mixture of solution A and B also. The solution was kept to stir for 3-5mins, and then aged at room temperature for48 hours. The collected precipitates were washed with acetone, distilled water and ethanol, respectively, and then dried at room temperature.
The resulting precipitates of selenium were characterized by SEM (JEOL JSM-T300). The X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement was conducted by MSAL XD-2 powder X-ray diffractometer using Cu Ka radiation of wavelength 1.5406 Å at 40 kV and 20 mA).
3. RESULTS AND DISSCUSSION
3.1 Influence of SDS/Tx-100 concentration on the morphology of nano-selenium
The SEM image (Fig.1a) shows the aggregation of rod-like selenium particles at Tx-100-SDS concentration of 0.05M. Submicron selenium rod with the length ca. 10-15um and diameter ca. 100-300nm could be seen in figure 1b when the surfactant concentration was increased to 0.15M. When the surfactant concentrations are higher to 0.25M or 0.35M, the resulting nano-selenium needles with sharp tips(fig c, length ca. 3-10um and fig d, length ca. 2-8um) aggregate to form the sphere-like morphology. It is more difficult to prepare the nanoneedles because at present few methods are designed to successfully prepare the nanoneedles with sharp tips. Furthermore, the formed morphology by nanoneedles is also difficult to be achieved in seldom reported special morphologies[13,14]
Fig.1 SEM images of selenium paticles prepared at different concentrations of Tx-100-SDS (total concentration of SDS and Tx-100 at molar ratio of 1:1): (a) 0.05M, (b) 0.15M, (c) 0.25M, (d) 0.35 M.
Obviously, the higher concentrations of Tx-100-SDS help to disperse the selenium particles, diminish the size to nano-scale, and form sphere-like morphology of needle congeries. Thus, the results display the important role of Tx-100-SDS concentration in controlling the size and morphology of selenium.
Fig.2 is XRD pattern of nano-selenium prepared at 0.25M concentration of Tx-100-SDS. The sharp diffraction peaks indicate the good crystallization of the products. Those peaks of (100), (101), (110), (012), (200), (201), (003), (013) and (120) were clearly observed, which are right consistent with the values of the hexagonal phase of Se crystal structures(JCPDS File NO 86-2246).
Fig.2 XRD pattern of nano-selenium prepared at 0.25M concentration of Tx-100-SDS
Fig.3 SEM images of selenium particles prepared at 0.25M concentration of SDS(a) or Tx-100(b).
At 0.25M, the concentration of Tx-100-SDS to form the sphere-like nano-selenium of needle congeries, the only SDS or Tx-100 results in aggregation of amorphous selenium particles (Fig. 3). The result points out the interaction of SDS with Tx-100 influences the morphology of nano-selenium very much.
3.2 Influence of other mixed surfactants on the morphology of nano-selenium
Fig.4 SEM images of selenium particles prepared at 0.25M concentration othermixed surfactants for 48h: (a) OP-10-SDS, (b) Span60-SDS, (c) Tween20-SDS, (d) Tx-100-SDBS, (e) Tx-100-CTMAB, (f) Tx-100-TDMBAC
To understand the influence of interaction between SDS and Tx-100 on the morphology of selenium, the other surfactants were employed at the concentration of 0.25M. Firstly, Tx-100 was replaced by other nonionic surfactants, OP-10, Span60 and Tween20, respectively. Tween20 couldn’t dissolve in the reverse micelle solution at 0.25M of Tween20-SDS, thus the concentration was changed to 0.015M. OP-10(Fig. 4a) and Tween20(Fig. 4c) result in dispersed rod like selenium, whereas SP60(Fig. 4b) gives aggregation of amorphous selenium particles. The result could be ascribed to OP-10 and Tween20 bear the similar EO chain with Tx-100 and can dissolve in water, but SP60 is totally different with Tx-100 in the structure and solubility in water. The results reflect that Tx-100 plays an important role in the effect on morphology of selenium. Then SDS was replaced by other ionic surfactants, SDBS, CTMAB and TDMBAC, respectively. Correspondingly, the SEM images show the nano-selenium of needle congeries as cotton-like for SDBS(Fig. 4d, length ca. 7-20um), sphere-likeforCTMAB(Fig. 4e length ca. 1-2um,) and TDMBAC(Fig. 4f, length ca. 3-7um).Unlike replacement of Tx-100, ionic surfactants with different structure cause small morphology variation of selenium. Selenium is formed by reducing NaSeO with ascorbic acid. As negative ion, SeO2- tends to get close to cationic surfactant and far from anionic surfactant. Thus the effects of anionic surfactant on SeO2- would be diminished by electrostatic repulsion. In aqueous solution, the ionic heads of surfactants point out to water in micelles. So, if selenium is formed by reducing SeO2- in water instead of in micelles, different results should be expected for anionic and cationic surfactants. But it is not the fact. On the other hand, the non-polar heads of different surfactants form the similar circumstance of micelle cores. Thus, it is reasonable to speculate on selenium particles are formed by reducing SeO2- with ascorbic acid existing in micelles cores for the sake of like structure with non-polar heads of surfactants. The formation of selenium in micelle will be in favor of surfactants to template the growth of selenium particles.
At the 0.25M concentration of Tx-100-SDS, the prepared nano-selenium needles with sharp tips aggregate to form the sphere-like morphology. Tx-100 is important to prepare selenium crystals with special morphology, while anionic SDBS and cationic CTMAB or TDMBAC give the similar effects on the crystal growth of selenium. Possible mechanism is proposed that selenium particles are formed by reducing SeO2- with ascorbic acid existing in micelles cores for the sake of like structure with non-polar heads of surfactants, and templated to grow by surfactants. | <urn:uuid:d8682984-f099-49cc-a69d-57becf8984d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chemistrymag.org/cji/2009/113013pe.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.875437 | 2,539 | 1.882813 | 2 |
The Impacts of Comparative Anatomy of Electric Rays (Batoidea: Torpediniformes) on their Systematic Hypotheses
The comparative anatomy of the 11 recognized genera within Torpediniformes is described, systematically categorized, and illustrated in a comprehensive photo-atlas. Data are compiled into a character matrix and cladistically analyzed using parsimony to test hypotheses about the previously recognized subfamilies, while reconstructing the possible evolutionary history of Torpediniformes. Results are consistent with the previous rank-based classifications, regardless of the parsimony criteria used to generate the phylogenetic hypothesis, with one notable exception: a monophyletic Narcininae was never recovered. Torpedinoidea (=Hypnos + Torpedo) is supported by the presence of long, slender, flexible jaw cartilages, absence of a large rostral fontanelle, presence of suprascapular antimeres that are each shorter than the scapular process of the scapulocoracoid, antorbital cartilages that articulate on the anterior aspect of the nasal capsules and absence of a frontoparietal fontanelle. Subfamilial names Hypninae and Torpedininae are redundant with the genus names Hypnos and Torpedo and are not adopted here. Narcinoidea (=nontorpedinoid torpediniforms) is supported by unambiguous character transformations to the presence of a divided lower lip, labial cartilages, laterolingually compressed palatoquadrates, bifurcated antorbital cartilages, a rostral fontanelle, ventrally projecting nasal capsules, a dorsal rim of the synarcual mouth posterior to occipital condyle, posteriorly positioned lateral stays, and obtuse anterior margins of lateral stays. Narkidae is supported by unambiguous character transformations to the presence of an uncovered eye that protrudes above dorsal surface, a shared rim between the spiracle and the eye, an anterior nasal turret that projects ventrally, a nasal curtain that covers the upper lip and dentition when the mouth is closed, tab-like prepelvic processes, a mesopterygium that is shorter than propterygium but longer than metapterygium, a slender median rostral cartilage, and a basibranchial cartilage with an anterior margin that is depressed medially and a posterior margin that tapers. J. Morphol. 275:597-612, 2014. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Journal of Morphology
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I love Paris in the Springtime sang the legendary Ella Fitzgerald. And, if you’ve ever visited on a typical spring day when the sun bursts through the clouds to be followed by a downpour you truly get why though it’s certainly a cliché, Paris in the spring really is quite wonderful.
It’s a time to stroll in a park and enjoy the flowers in colourful bloom. Wipe a chair clear of rain drops and survey the sight of Parisians enjoying a spring day. And take some Paris in spring pictures.
Sip a hot chocolate, coffee or a glass of wine at a quaint café and watch the world go by.
Monuments seem cleansed after the seasonal rain and almost glow when the sky is covered with dark spring clouds, and yet somehow a beam of sunlight manages to get through.
Flower beds surround many of the Paris landmarks and in spring they burst forth into brilliant blossom managing to highlight the beauty of the architecture.
Early in Spring, some trees are just showing green tips, others are in full gorgeous spring bloom. Later Paris is awash with colourful flower beds, window boxes and tubs outside homes, shops and businesses.
Rain, sun, rain – it washes and cleanses and makes everything seem to sparkle, Paris in Spring is simply sublime…
5 Of the most romantic places to kiss in Paris
The second-hand book sellers of Paris
The oldest public clock in Paris
10 Incredible facts about Paris – and we bet you didn’t know them all!
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Addition content with the Crop tool in Photoshop
In Photoshop click on the Crop tool. In the Option bar make sure the "Content Aware" box is checked. Instead of cropping or removing some of the image's content I made the crop bigger or increased the image where I wanted to have new content. Click the check box in the Option bar. PS enlarged the image and added content to the new portion.
In this case the content is complex so PS did a poor job with the new content. I used the clone stamp to to make the new content acceptable.
To create the shadow under the headstone I use a exposure adjustment layer to darken the image to where I think the exposure of the shadow should be. I inverted the adjustment layer mask from white to black- click on the layer mask + control/command I. The layer mask turn black and the exposure adjustment is hidden. With the layer mask as the active layer use a brush to paint on the image where I want the shadow it appeared. | <urn:uuid:eb31e9cb-ef60-44bd-8242-2bd5e29e4b4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.coastalcameraclub.org/blog/category/all/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.878895 | 207 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Welcome to Review #4 of a series of reviews being done on "The WeBLOG Handbook", by Rebecca Blood. As has been mentioned in the previous reviews, this book is a great book to read for all the nuts and bolts of blogging. I'm finding it's a BIG help to me now at this point, now that I've done a little blogging as it's easier to understand and grasp the concepts now.
The previous reviews covered:
This review will cover what makes a good blog by helping you "find your voice" to make your blogs yours.
"No one can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it"
- Tallulah Bankhead
I think many of us have struggled with the notion of what to write about once we decided we wanted to jump into blogging. I know I did! I knew I wanted to try this crazy thing called "blogging", but wasn't sure what to do with it.
Your own personality will define your blog - your views, things that interest you, even things that annoy you - all of this goes into creating your points of view, which in turn defines the point of view of your blog. Figure out what the purpose is, or will be, of your blog, even if it's just a loose description to start with, and think about who you'll be writing for. As you write with regularity, your blog's purpose will become more defined.
Typically, there are 4 main purposes for most people to work to maintain a blog:
* Keeping in touch with others
* Information Sharing
* Reputation Buildling
Self-expression allows one to rant and vent, to be goofy, to brag, etc. Self-expression can run the gamut of all kinds of posts - anything you can think of. Every post you make will help you hone your writing skills, and your creativity will shine through. Having to write regularly increases your confidence in your writing, and by doing so, you tend to become more creative.
Blogs allow people to easily stay in touch with others - friends, family, etc. Instead of feeling out of touch, blogs can create a sense of always touching those with whom you want to give regular updates to.
In this day and age, blogs are used for anything one can possibly think of. We do live in the 'information age", and blogs are the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to share information. Regular bloggers are great at sharing whatever it is that interests them most - politics, humor, community events, etc. This is a great way to get to know alot about the writer - they're conveying to the world the things that really interest them.
Building a blog to showcase your area of expertise allows you to build a reputation that people all over the world can read about. By this being your purpose for maintaining your blog, you continually demonstrate your expertise and with that comes being known as an expert in your area and in your profession. Through regular maintenance of your blog, you can go from being completely unknown to being recognized as an expert.
There are some key components to keep in mind when building a 'reputation-building' blog.
* Never publicly complain about clients, co-workers, bosses, etc. - if you wouldn't say it in an interview, DO NOT write about it on your business-related blog. DO NO HARM to anyone.
* Define your audience - think of your blog (and your website) as your calling card to the world.
* Keep your audience in mind - awareness of your audience will force you to keep getting better, both in your writing and in what you choose to write about and in what you choose to link to in your writings.
* Experiment with different writing techniques - this will allow you to build up a variety of ways to express yourself that you're comfortable with.
The MOST important point in this whole chapter talks about your audience and what you should NOT be doing when writing posts for your blog. If you write with the purpose of getting a large audience or lots of comments, you will have lost the focus of your blog and whatever enjoyment you initially got out of maintaining it will be lost. This sentence captures it perfectly, "The surest way to sabotage your enjoyment of your weblog is to start caring how many people a day look at your site." Your main purpose should be to harm no one and to not completely offend anyone.
YOU must be your own intended audience - the "audience of one" is the most important principle of being able to keep your content fresh and interesting, and above all else, compelling. If you add links, are they of interest to YOU? Is the content you're writing of interest to YOU? If it isn't of interest to YOU, chances are it won't be of interest to anyone else either.
"Think as you write, and be willing to rewrite until each sentence of each entry says exactly what you want it to." You have time, and don't be afraid to use a dictionary or a thesaurus. Keep your posts interesting, both for you and your readers. Research what you're going to write on. Search for good links to use - make them interesting for those looking at them. Don't try to be perfect - you can always insert a correction later. And always HAVE FUN!
"The distinguishing characteristic of a successful blogger is not that she is consistently brilliant, but that she consistently updates her site..."
FIND YOUR VOICE and HAVE FUN!!
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
Broker - NH and Maine
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
888-349-5678 x 3839
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Conservation officers in historic towns
There are statutory obligations on local planning authorities to determine applications for planning consent, listed building consent and scheduled monument consent, among others, but no formal requirement to address the heritage interest in whole historic towns and cities. Conservation officers must inevitably prioritise legal requirements, while staff cutbacks limit the chance for engagement in big-picture conservation at the local level. Some of the impacts of this have been identified in a report for English Heritage on The Sustainable Growth of Cathedral Cities and Historic Towns. (Ref Green Balance with David Burton-Pye, The Sustainable Growth of Cathedral Cities and Historic Towns, English Heritage, 2014, downloadable from http://www.greenbalance.co.uk/heritage)
The report focused first on the scale of urban growth within and around a sample of 50 historic towns, where development was both taking place and planned. This showed that there was little relationship between the size of town and the amount of different types of development expected there. Although some historic towns did seem to be overwhelmed, this was not a function of whether or not they were ‘historic’.
Second, the report identified the attention paid to heritage at the whole-town scale in the preparation and implementation of local plans affecting 20 historic towns. In the 18 authorities covering these towns, conservation officers were usually consulted by planning policy colleagues on emerging plan policies. In most cases conservation advice was usually followed by planning policy staff, but in four authorities conservation officers’ views were not taken particularly seriously. Much the same applied to individual development management proposals. In a few cases the conservation officer was the only person in the department who understood heritage issues and was marginalised. Shortage of conservation staff in an authority could result in the conservation officer being insufficiently engaged in the wider planning process, even not being reliably aware how their comments were treated in subsequent decisions.
The research found that councillors generally followed officers’ recommendations on heritage issues, although interviewees suggested occasionally that planning officers did not seem to put forward recommendations to protect heritage buildings if the councillors would be likely to refuse these. Senior staff were unsympathetic to heritage in a few authorities, but the driving force was the attitude of councillors. The economic wellbeing of towns was councillors’ primary concern everywhere, and this was interpreted differently from place to place. Councillors might see heritage either as fostering a town’s distinctiveness, attracting visitors and raising the quality of life (as was the view in Winchester and Woodbridge), or as a cost burden and a drag on investment (the view in Taunton and Wigan).
The observed differences in heritage outcomes were primarily a function of the prevailing local authority cultural attitudes at member level. Broadly speaking, the process reinforced itself, with the relative priority given to heritage by councils reflected in the numbers of conservation staff employed; whether conservation staff were actively engaged in planning major development sites; the amount of proactive work on heritage undertaken; the policies adopted; and the practical decisions taken.
The third strand of the research investigated methodologies which had been used to protect the character and setting of cities at the urban scale, while accommodating growth. This focused on what had been achieved in case studies in eight cities: historic characterisation methods in Lichfield; view cones to protect skylines and the setting of Oxford; height limits and land allocations to protect the setting of Salisbury Cathedral; high-quality design to enable urban intensification in Chester; an urban extension to Winchester; urban intensification outside the historic core in Cambridge; new settlements around Cambridge; urban containment by green belt around Durham; and world heritage site status for the whole city of Bath.
[Image: Urban intensification in Cambridge: the Accordia housing development at 40 dwellings per hectare. (Photo: © Historic England)]
[Image: Mill-style development in Chester: integrating new development into the historic city. (Photo: © Historic England)]
[Image: Salisbury Cathedral from Old Sarum, two miles to the north. The setting of the cathedral has been protected by keeping city centre buildings to below 40ft high and by preventing development on key sites around the edge of the city. (Photo: © Historic England)]
The research found that methodologies alone would not resolve the growth pressures which historic places faced. There were vitally important underlying matters that must be resolved at the same time. There were two essential requirements. One was to foster a favourable climate of support for heritage among local councillors, as previously noted. The other was the need for a properly resourced conservation and design service in local government. Only if there were enough professionals to pursue the objectives would there be any hope of achieving good results. Cutbacks in local government have often affected local heritage interests badly and this needs to be tackled as a priority.
Conservation officer numbers in the eight case study cities were examined. The table shows how few conservation staff were employed even in some of England’s most important historic cities. There have been cutbacks everywhere, particularly severe in Chester at the time of the survey. Interviewees expressed concern in some cases that the loss of even one member of staff had substantially curtailed conservation officer capacity to engage with city-scale heritage issues.
Heritage was represented well enough at senior officer level in most authorities, but there were two cities where supportive structures had been lost in internal reorganisations, so that heritage was now a minor activity in a structural backwater. Conservation officers’ access to councillors also varied.
Local government reorganisation, with the establishment of larger, unitary authorities, had been a particular trigger for reduced conservation staff serving Chester, Durham and Salisbury. In each case the local priority given to protecting these heritage cities was diluted. Cooperative working between local authorities suggests that local government reorganisation may not be over, so conservation bodies need to be more alert in future to establishing reliable operating standards in new authorities.
Some of the cities were nonetheless offering broadly positive messages for conservation. A principal message from growing cities like Cambridge, for example, was to take a very positive attitude to development, expecting it to happen and making it good. High expectations for all aspects of design, clear policies and extensive pre-application discussions with developers helped to achieve good development, but these needed to be supported by staff with the design skills to recognise and require the necessary standards. This means that the process must be properly resourced. Heritage buildings and their surroundings should be planned-in to developments from the outset, not treated as a problem.
There has been a remarkable loss of perspective in some authorities. All the historic cities studied now depend on a significant tourist industry, in some cases underpinning the local economy. This brings in prodigious wealth in some cases, all the more important when the local authority is itself a significant local landowner. This wealth is generated fundamentally by the physical environment and especially the built heritage. The maintenance of this built heritage and the avoidance of direct damage to it or inappropriate change to its context is the task of a tiny group of individual conservation officers in each city, yet their numbers and sometimes their status and ability to do their job are sometimes being undermined. Over time this will put at risk the fabric and especially the atmosphere and enjoyment of historic cities.
The paltry savings on modest salaries seems wholly misplaced in relation to the potential benefits of retaining and augmenting conservation staff. The costs would be barely detectable in relation to the wealth that the historic environment brings to these cities. This is a matter to little thought has been given in historic cities, even in those which realise that heritage is good for the economy. Partly behind this may be an undercurrent of feeling, detectable in many administrations, that historic buildings and their surroundings are simply ‘there’ and look after themselves. Changes on the ground do not register strongly from one year to the next, but over time they do. By then it may be too late, with inappropriate uses allowed in the wrong place, vistas compromised and shoddy materials used, and people with the drive to stem the tide strangely absent.
The report recommends that local authorities responsible for the management of England’s important historic places should ensure that they have access to adequate expert advice in historic environment (building conservation and archaeology), design and place-making. Having sufficient expert advice is the most important practical step that can be taken to reconcile the protection of heritage at the whole-town scale with the needs for urban growth. There is little prospect of other bold initiatives being successful without this recommendation being satisfied first.
Richard Bate is a partner in the planning and environment consultancy Green Balance.
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More Australian 15 year olds feel they are familiar with global issues such as climate change, migration, causes of poverty and equality between men and women than the OECD average.
But only 8% of Australian students say they are learning two or more foreign languages, compared to 50% of students across OECD countries.
These are some of the results of the OECD’s 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which included efforts to measure students’ global competence. It gathered the perceptions of students, teachers and school principals on whether 15 year olds have the skills, knowledge and attributes to thrive in global contexts.
How students were tested
Teachers and students filled out a questionnaire on students’ awareness of global issues and cultures, skills (both cognitive and social) and attitudes, which covered all four dimensions of global competence.
For instance, student awareness of global issues was measured by asking students to indicate how informed they felt they were about:
climate change and global warming
global health (e.g. epidemics)
migration (movement of people)
hunger or malnutrition in different parts of the world
causes of poverty
equality between men and women in different parts of the world.
Students were asked to respond on a four-point scale: I have never heard of this; I have heard about this but I would not be able to explain what it is really about; I know something about this and could explain the general issue; and I am familiar with this and I would be able to explain this well.
Australian students well versed on global issues
On the whole, the data is reassuring. On almost all measures, Australian students were above the OECD average. This included awareness of global issues, respect for people from other cultures, positive attitudes towards immigrants and a greater sense of global mindedness.Screenshot/ACER
This reflects Australian students’ access to global news, and their ability to interact with people from different cultures.
Around two-thirds of Australian students reported having contact with people from other countries in their family, at school and in their circle of friends. Almost half of Australian students reported having contact with people from other countries in their neighbourhood.
Beyond this, Australian students reported more opportunities to participate in intercultural learning practices and to engage in global competence learning activities than the OECD average. These include learning about different cultures at school and learning about the histories of diverse cultural groups that live in our, and other, countries.
But further improvements can be made. Australian students were consistently outperformed by peers in Canada and Singapore in the global competence stakes.
For instance, only 43% of students said “I am often invited by my teachers to give my personal opinion about international news”, which was lower than students in Singapore, Canada, Korea, Poland, Hong Kong (China), Germany and across the OECD.
Male students lagged behind female students, other than for their self-efficacy in explaining global issues. This included asking how students believed they would perform on their own in areas such as discussing the different reasons people become refugees.Screenshot/ACER
Students in Tasmania, in regional areas and those born in Australia trailed their more globally-empowered counterparts. This could partly reflect different concentrations of cultural diversity in different parts of Australia.
Australian students aren’t choosing to learn languages
Despite the positives, the data indicate some clear areas of concern. Australian students reported a greater awareness of intercultural communication than their OECD peers. While being aware of intercultural communication is certainly useful, being able to communicate with people from different countries in their own languages is even better.
Unfortunately, in comparison to their OECD peers, a mere 12% of whom do not learn a foreign language, 64% of 15-year-old Australian students reported language learning was not part of their lives.
This is disheartening. Learning a foreign language is hard. It teaches valuable lessons about vulnerability, compassion for those who struggle to be understood and differences in cultural norms.
Language learning has been shown to enhance cognitive abilities and support improved reading and maths achievement. To achieve mastery, language learning requires determination and resilience — attributes students will need to thrive as adults.
Australian students also reported a low level of interest in learning about other cultures: how people live in different countries, their traditions and how others see the world.
Additionally, just over a third of Australian students felt learning more about the religions of the world was important, compared with half of Singaporean students and significantly higher proportions of students in countries such as New Zealand and Canada. Religious understanding enhances tolerance, peace and mutual respect at home and abroad, so this finding is a concern.
Language learning in Australia is patchy across school and states. Some states have no language policy at all. This needs to change. A key focus should be on ensuring that adequately trained and knowledgeable language teachers are available in all schools.
If Australia is to fulfil its potential on the global stage, particularly in the Asia-Pacific, our students need to gain the skills to equip them to thrive in a world characterised by cultural intermingling. As Kwame Anthony Appiah eloquently suggests, “conversations across boundaries can be delightful, or just vexing: what they mainly are, though, is inevitable”.
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PROTESTERS have been slow to leave the Ambassador Bridge between the US and Canada and police have started clearing the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration that has delayed international trade and halted traffic.
Windsor Police tweeted that people are advised to leave the area immediately and “individuals who are located within the demonstration area are subject to arrest,” but some groups “voted” to stay in place and have been receding gradually.
This comes after President Joe Biden urged the Canadian government to end ongoing trucker protests along the border, as analysts warn the “Freedom Convoy” could impact Super Bowl on Sunday.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he spoke with Biden on Friday about “illegal blockades at the border.”
“I updated him on the situation, and we discussed the American and global influence on the protests,” Trudeau tweeted.
“We agreed that, for the security of people and our economies, these blockades cannot continue.”
A DHS bulletin sent to local and state officials warned that truck drivers planning a convoy in the United States would “potentially begin in California as early as mid-February and arrive in Washington, DC, as late as mid-March.”
Read our trucker protest live blog for the latest news and updates…
Supporters defy rules to supply fuel
In Ottawa, supporters of the “Freedom Convoy” brought cans of fuel to the truck drivers forming the blockades.
On Saturday, an occupation outside of Parliament Hill became an unofficial collection point for cans of fuel.
The rush of support came after providing fuel to the drivers was apparently outlawed.
Three US points of entry blocked
According to The Hill, protesters have blocked three entry points between the United States and Canada.
The Emerson Port of Entry connects Manitoba to North Dakota.
The Ambassador Bridge goes from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Canada.
And finally, Coutts Border Crossing goes from Montana to Alberta, Canada.
The occupations have blocked border crossings for several days.
Teamsters Canada statement, continued
“We firmly believe in the right to protest government policies and voice a wide array of opinions, but what is happening in Ottawa has done more harm to Teamsters members, be they Truck Drivers who were trying to deliver their loads, or hotel, restaurant and healthcare workers who were intimidated, abused or prevented from accessing their workplaces, by several protesters,” the statement continued.
“Teamsters Canada would welcome collaboration with government and employers to address today’s real challenges in the trucking industry to keep the supply chain going and Canada’s economy growing.”
“We join in the calls urging those protesters with legitimate concerns to go back to their own communities and work with local politicians.”
“We are all frustrated and want our lives back, however, let’s ensure we get there respectfully, safely, and protect the health of our most vulnerable first.”
Teamsters Canada disavows convoy
François Laporte, the president of Teamsters Canada, a trade union that represents over 55,000 drivers that include 15,000 long-haul truckers, released a statement about the protests on February 7 on the organization’s website.
“Teamsters Canada is proud to represent over 55,000 professional drivers from diverse industries across the country, approximately 15,000 of which are long haul truck drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated,” the statement began.
“The so-called ‘freedom convoy’ and the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right and shamefully encouraged by elected conservative politicians does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada, nor the vast majority of our members, and in fact has served to delegitimize the real concerns of most truck drivers today.”
Ambassador Bridge sees 10,000 trucks per day
According to the Public Border Operations Association, the Ambassador Bridge carries between 60 and 70 percent of commercial truck traffic in the Detroit/Ontario area.
On an average day, the bridge sees 10,000 trucks.
Convoy convenes in Port Huron, Michigan
On the US side of the border, truckers gathered Saturday underneath the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan.
It’s unclear how many demonstrators have assembled at the site, but footage shared to Twitter shows vehicles honking, protesters with American flags, and plenty of handmade signs decrying Covid safety mandates.
‘Another wrench in the industry’
The protest has reportedly led to some shipping delays as trucks have to travel to other locations to cross the border.
A delay of even five hours, for instance, can cause production disruptions because factories are running low on part supplies with a supply chain that is already dealing with problems, the Associated Press noted, citing Jeff Schuster, president of the LMC Automotive consulting firm in Troy, Michigan.
“Everything is so ‘just-in-time’ these days,” he said.
“We’re still dealing with parts shortages in general and supply chain issues. This is just another wrench in the industry that we’re dealing with right now.”
Protest could impact Super Bowl, continued
“The convoy will potentially begin in California as early as mid-February and arrive in Washington, DC, as late as mid-March, potentially impacting the Super Bowl LVI scheduled for 13 February and the State of the Union Address scheduled for 1 March,” the bulletin said.
The warning states that “the convoy could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement operations through gridlock and potential counterprotests,” Yahoo News reported.
Protest could impact Super Bowl
Trucker protests across the country could impact the biggest day of the year for many Americans – Super Bowl Sunday, which is coming up this weekend.
A DHS bulletin sent to local and state officials warned of “truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among other things, vaccine mandates for truck drivers”, according to Yahoo News.
Trump’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ support, continued
“This is unacceptable and extremely dangerous in any country that values free expression,” Trump added in the statement.
“TruthSocial is announcing today that we are welcoming the Freedom Convoy with open arms to communicate freely on TruthSocial when we launch – coming very soon! TruthSocial will fight back against Big Tech so we can protect our rights to free expression.”
He ended the statement with a jab at Facebook, writing, “Also, on top of everything, it is big news that Facebook daily users went down for the first time ever, people are tired of biased social media like Twitter and Facebook, and it’s showing in their numbers!”
Trump’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ support
Former President Donald Trump released a statement supporting the “Freedom Convoy” on February 4.
“Facebook and Big Tech are seeking to destroy the Freedom Convoy of Truckers,” he began.
“The Freedom Convoy is peacefully protesting the harsh policies of far left lunatic Justin Trudeau who has destroyed Canada with insane Covid mandates.”
“Now, thankfully, the Freedom Convoy could be coming to DC with American Truckers who want to protest Biden’s ridiculous Covid policies.”
He also claimed that Facebook is “canceling” the Freedom Convoy USA accounts, and added in the statement that GoFundMe is “denying access to funds that belong to the Freedom Convoy.”
Ottawa Police establish Integrated Command Centre
The Ottawa Police Service announced an Integrated Command Centre (ICC) in conjunction with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to battle the ongoing Ottawa protester occupation.
“In downtown Ottawa, over 4,000 demonstrators were present throughout the day,” a statement from the Ottawa Police Service read.
“Safety concerns – arising from aggressive, illegal behaviour by many demonstrators – limited police enforcement capabilities.”
Police expect the ICC will result in “a significantly enhanced ability of our police service to respond to the current situation in our city.”
What are the protestors calling for?
Protesters that are part of the “Freedom Convoy” have said they will not leave until all vaccine mandates and Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, according to the Associated Press.
The daily protests put on by the “Freedom Truck Convoy” are centered in Ottawa, Canada.
Some organizers have also been calling for weeks for the removal of Justin Trudeau’s government.
Trudeau: ‘It’s time to go home’
On Friday, Justin Trudeau spoke to the media and addressed protesters.
“The blockades are hurting small businesses and neighborhoods,” Trudeau said.
“The border cannot and will not remain closed. Everything is on the table because this unlawful activity has to end, and it will end.
“We’ve heard your frustration with Covid, with the measures that are there to keep people safe.
“We’ve heard you. It’s time to go home now.”
US protesters plan solidarity movement on Facebook
Some of the protestors for the upcoming demonstrations in the United States are organizing on social media networks like Facebook, according to Politico.
“Our brothers and sisters of the highway succeeded in opening Canadians’ eyes about the unconstitutional mandates and hardships forced onto their people,” organizers of The People’s Convoy event said on their Facebook page.
“Now it’s time for the citizens of the United States of America to unite and demand restoration of our constitutional rights.”
The page has almost 70,000 members.
One convoy planning group refutes Super Bowl rally rumor
While American and Canadian officials have warned the “Freedom Convoy” may impact US commerce and life in the near future, a group of protest organizers tried to refute one rumor.
Justin Ling, an investigative journalist, shared a statement from one convoy planning group.
“It has come to our attention that there is a rumor stating that there will be a rally of some kind at, or around the upcoming Superbowl,” the statement reads.
“To our knowledge, there are NO plans to this affect (sic) and this is simply a rumor,” it continues.
GiveSendGo claims funds aren’t frozen
A court injunction allowed government officials to freeze monetary assets being sent to “Freedom Convoy” protesters through crowd-funding websites like GoFundMe and GiveSendGo.
However, on Saturday, GiveSendGo posted a cryptic statement to Twitter saying that the funds are “not frozen contrary to what you might be hearing on the news.”
The organization claims to be using workarounds to find “the most effective legal ways to continue funds flowing.”
Businesses in Ottawa face protest surges
According to Creeson Agecoutay, a CTV News Parliamentary Correspondent in Ottawa, one local grocery store closed its doors on Saturday because workers feel “uneasy” surrounded by the protests.
Other businesses reportedly face floods of maskless patrons.
Vehicle blockade remains near Emerson
At Emerson, Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are still trying to disperse a border blockade.
The vehicles began arriving Wednesday morning, blocking the entry point into North Dakota.
Protesters party at Parliament Hill
At Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa, the seat of Canada’s federal legislature, protesters set up bouncy castles, hot tubs and stages.
The site has also become a fuel dropoff point, where cans of gas for truckers are being collected despite government orders.
Protestors reportedly attacked, continued
Police noted that the Headingly, Manitoba, resident faces several charges including four for assault with a weapon for the alleged attack.
It’s unclear what the driver’s motive was, but Carver said “He wasn’t really for or against either of the general views.”
“Some comments he made after his arrest suggested that his motivation was not specifically about the underlying causes of the protests or the mandates,” said Carver.
Protesters were reportedly attacked in Canada
Shocking footage captured the moment a driver allegedly plowed into a crowd of Freedom Convoy protesters, injuring four before fleeing the scene.
The 42-year-old was arrested after allegedly driving at speed into demonstrators at the Manitoba Legislature grounds on Friday, February 4, according to Canadian authorities.
“A 42yr old male is facing charges after driving through a group of protesters that were part of the Freedom Convoy at the Legislative grounds,” the Winnipeg Police tweeted on Saturday. “4 adult males were struck.”
The suspect, driving a Jeep Patriot, was chased down by police and arrested after he tried to flee.
“(The vehicle) was moving at a pretty decent clip and it’s pretty miraculous that nobody sustained any serious injuries,” said police spokesperson Rob Carver on Saturday as reported by the Winnipeg Sun.
Three of the injured protesters did not need medical attention, and a fourth was released after being treated at the hospital.
Gov Whitmer calls for end to blockade, continued
“Our communities and automotive, manufacturing, and agriculture businesses are feeling the effects. It’s hitting paychecks and production lines. That is unacceptable,” Gov Whitmer added in the lengthy statement.
“The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest land border crossing in North America, used by tens of thousands of commuters and truck drivers carrying hundreds of millions of dollars of goods every day.”
“Countless Michiganders rely on this daily flow of goods and people to get things done.”
“It is imperative that Canadian local, provincial, and national governments de-escalate this economic blockade. They must take all necessary and appropriate steps to immediately and safely reopen traffic so we can continue growing our economy, supporting good-paying jobs, and lowering costs for families.”
Gov Whitmer calls for end to blockade
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer called on Canadian authorities to shut down the blockade on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in a statement released on Thursday.
“In Michigan, our economy continues to grow because of our hardworking people and innovative small businesses. Now, that momentum is at risk.”
“Commercial traffic is at a standstill at the Ambassador Bridge and heavily backed up at the Blue Water Bridge,” she added. “The blockade is having a significant impact on Michigan’s working families who are just trying to do their jobs.”
Trudeau’s tweets, conclusion
Trudeau also set forth a bipartisan call to take parliamentary action against the blockades.
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Thoroughman, A. L.: Student Files
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Student file of Stephen Reuben, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on September 7, 1890 and departed on June 27, 1893. The file contains a student information card, a report after leaving, correspondence about Reuben's family and work after leaving the school, news clippings with photographs, a financial transaction, a program from the Second Annual Camp Meeting of the M. E. Church South at Lapwai, Idaho in 1912, and former student response postcards. The file indicates Reuben was a farmer in Webb, Idaho in 1916 and living in Webb, Idaho in 1918.
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The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — AAAI's summer conference — has promoted theoretical and applied AI research as well as intellectual interchange among researchers and practitioners. The technical papers presented at the twenty-sixth meeting of this conference feature substantial, original research and practices, with special emphasis on artificial intelligence and the web; cognitive systems; computational sustainability and artificial intelligence; constraints, satisfiability, and search; knowledge-based information systems; knowledge representation and reasoning; machine learning; multiagent systems; multidisciplinary topics; natural language processing; reasoning about plans, processes, and actions; reasoning under uncertainty; and robotics. Special papers on subarea spotlights, doctoral consortium abstracts, and student abstracts are also included.
This proceedings also includes the papers presented at the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. The IAAI conference traditionally consists of case studies of deployed applications with measurable benefits whose value depends on the use of AI technology, as well as emerging applications, which discuss efforts to apply AI tools, techniques, or methods to real world problems. Through the IAAI papers in this proceedings, AI researchers can learn about challenges of real-world domains, the utility of particular AI techniques for specific applications, and the difficulties, successes, and lessons learned in deploying AI applications.
For the third year in a row, the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence will be held in conjunction with AAAI-12 and included in these proceedings. EAAI-12 provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI and using AI in education.
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192.168.100.1 IP Router Password – Login, Admin Details
What is 192.168.100.1
192.168.100.1 is one of the private IP Address from the pool of private IP Addresses assigned for accessing the networking equipments on private networks. They are not unique across the globe and can be repeated in different networks at the same time.
What is a Private IP Address
Early network design, when global end-to-end connectivity was envisioned for communications with all Internet hosts, intended that IP addresses be uniquely assigned to a particular computer or device. However, it was found that this was not always necessary as private networks developed and public address space needed to be conserved.
Computers not connected to the Internet, such as factory machines, routers and other networking rquipments that communicate only with each other via TCP/IP, need not have globally-unique IP addresses. Three ranges of IPv4 addresses for private networks have been reserved. These addresses are not routed on the Internet and thus their use need not be coordinated with an IP address registry.
Today, when needed, such private networks typically connect to the Internet through network address translation (NAT).
|IANA-reserved private IPv4 network ranges|
|Start||End||No. of addresses|
|24-bit Block (/8 prefix, 1 × A)||10.0.0.0||10.255.255.255||16777216|
|20-bit Block (/12 prefix, 16 × B)||172.16.0.0||172.31.255.255||1048576|
|16-bit Block (/16 prefix, 256 × C)||192.168.0.0||192.168.255.255||65536|
192.168.100.1 Router Passwords and Login Details
Many of the manufacturers of broadband routers and modems user 220.127.116.11 as the default IP address during the configuration of their devices. You can access the settings page of these devices through this IP. The default username, passwords and login details of some of the popular routers are as given below. | <urn:uuid:26c6cb31-8cfe-408e-aa2d-d119c5265070> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thepcsecurity.com/1921681001-ip-router-password-login-admin-details/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00044-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920858 | 450 | 2.953125 | 3 |
August 24th dawned with earthquake news. Poseidon had thrust his Trident on August 24, after all.
In Peter Fimrite's "Boats, grapes and Poseidon at Napa quake's epicenter," on Wednesday, August 27, 2014, in the San Francisco Chronicle, the paper shared, in part:
…The epicenter of what is being dubbed "the South Napa earthquake" was smack dab beneath the Napa Valley Marina, a somewhat nondescript boatyard, dry dock and launching spot surrounded by vineyards and farmland with a view of San Pablo Bay about a half-mile away over the wetlands.
The epicenter was found using coordinates provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. Geologists say it is common for the majority of damage to occur at least a concentric mile away from the rupture, which occurred Sunday when two tectonic plates - the North American and Pacific - moved horizontally past each other, causing the Earth's crust to crack where the pressure was the greatest.
Science aside, there is at least circumstantial evidence that the epicenter may have been chosen by a wrathful god, vineyard owner Arpad Molnar said. Molnar, the co-founder of Tricycle Wine Partners, owns Poseidon Vineyard, which was planted next to the marina by his father in 1973.
Molnar, who is also a sailor, questioned whether it was just coincidence that an earthquake would erupt beneath a vineyard named after the Greek god of the sea and often referred to as "the earth-shaker" because of the deity's role in causing quakes.
"The placement of the epicenter, which is literally right underneath the vineyard, is really, really uncanny," he said of the property, which, unlike the marina, sustained several 10- to 15-foot-long cracks.
Molnar, who once bottled a wine called "Shipwreck," said it would be nice if the earthquake actually improved the wine, but far be it for him to suggest such a thing.
"We don't want to make too much of it," he said, in deference to the many people who suffered from the quake. "But I think we'll probably end up doing a little special bottling for the 2014 vintage to commemorate it. ... We thought maybe we'd do a little epicenter wine."
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What is Haste?
Haste is an implementation of the Haskell functional programming language, geared towards web applications. Haste is based on the de facto standard GHC compiler, which means that it supports the full Haskell language, including GHC extensions and produces highly optimized code but comes with an extended set of standard libraries. Haste support modern web technologies such as WebSockets, LocalStorage, Canvas, etc. out of the box. In addition, Haste comes prepackaged with facilities for preemptive multitasking, working with binary data and other niceties.
Haste is developed at Chalmers University of Technology as free software under the three-clause BSD license. If your favorite feature is not yet implemented, why not submit a patch? You might also want to join the Haste mailing list or our IRC channel #haskell-haste @ Freenode. | <urn:uuid:ef0763be-0bd9-4755-8ccf-6db528a7321a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://haste-lang.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905583 | 174 | 2.125 | 2 |
Glowing Globe is a manifestation based on the idea of Media-Scape, an international exhibition and symposia that was held in Zagreb, Novigrad and Rijeka between 1993 and 2014. The main curators and organizers were Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl. http://www.mediascape.info/
Today, inventions of technology inspire many artists to generate visions that reflect anxiety, pointing to critical thinking and a warning of the dangers of global changes. Through various collaborations with scientists and scientific institutions, artworks that have been created are gaining ever greater public interest. It is therefore necessary to redefine positions of the latest media art and to critically discuss the issues and impacts of new technologies for the future and the development of society in general.
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For the second time this year, Anton Tanumihardja, an Indonesian citizen, and his American husband, Brian Andersen, face the terrifying prospect of a deportation that will destroy their marriage. After losing a nine-year legal battle for asylum, Anton was given a “final order of removal” that may be executed on October 7.
Although this administration recently announced a “kinder, gentler” deportation policy with “prosecutorial discretion” guidelines that include same-sex binational couples, Brian & Anton will still wait anxiously for another month to learn whether this policy will be properly applied in Anton’s case.
Brian and Anton's case will be the first real test of the administration's commitment to stop deportations involving same-sex binational couples since the August 18 announcement by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, promising to set-aside low-priority deportation cases. It will also give us a first opportunity to confirm whether individual ICE Deportation Officers implement the LGBT-inclusive prosecutorial discretion guidelines for an individual with a final order of removal.
Unlike the two history-making cases (Henry & Josh, Doug & Alex) in which Stop The Deportations has won “administrative closure” this year, Anton’s case is significantly further along in the legal process. Anton has exhausted all his appeals and recently received a final denial of his last appeal. Because Anton has a “final order of removal” ICE has the power to put him on a plane and deport him at any time.
Will ICE Deportations and Removals Officers apply the prosecutorial discretion guidelines to protect this married gay couple from being torn apart? As part of the Stop The Deportations campaign, Brian and Anton will use every day that remains to ensure that Anton is granted "deferred action" and to ensure that the Obama administration's commitment to same-sex binational couples facing deportation has tangible results.
Just three hours before Anton’s flight to Jakarta was scheduled to take off, ICE finally agreed to postpone the deportation. Anton was put under an order of supervision and was not held in ICE custody. At regular intervals he was required to check in with his Deportation Officer at the local Deportations and Removals Operations office of ICE. Officially, ICE allowed Anton to stay until a final decision was made by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) on a Motion to Reopen that had been filed in 2010. In fact, deportations are routinely carried out even in cases where there such motions are pending, so it seemed likely that ICE was, at least in part, responding to the specific humanitarian circumstances faced by Brian and Anton. This gave them hope that they would have a future together.
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On August 25, Anton went to see his Deportation Officer for his first supervised check-in since the BIA denial prepared to submit a request for "deferred action." It had only been a few days since Secretary Napolitano announced that the administration would review all pending deportation cases, including those with final orders of removal. Still, Brian & Anton could not sleep the night before; they worried that ICE in Philadelphia would not know how to apply the prosecutorial discretion rules to gay couples. Their fears turned out to be well-founded. The officer was kind and co-operative, but he was not sure how to proceed given that these guidelines were new.
After conferring with his supervisor for 45 minutes, the officer returned to tell them that no decision could be made on that day. He instructed Anton to return on October 7 and advised him that there was a strong chance that on that day he would informing him that he deportation would proceed.
Once again, the clock is ticking on Brian and Anton's marriage. It does not have to be this way.
|Anton & Brian on their wedding day|
Brian and Anton should not have to wait until October 7 to learn whether their lives will be torn apart. We urge the administration to make good on their promise to exercise discretion and stop deportations that tear apart LGBT families. The Department of Homeland Security can do this today by directing the Philadelphia ICE office to make a decision on Anton's request for deferred action now. | <urn:uuid:e648fc19-9c98-4563-8111-addbfa9ca860> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://stopthedeportations.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976514 | 879 | 1.664063 | 2 |
On this day 47 years ago, ‘Sesame Street’ made TV history
5 Undefeated ‘Sesame Street’ moments
On Nov. 10, 1969, Sesame Street broke barriers by bringing diversity and inclusion to television through a mixture of actors and relatable puppets.
When the song “Sunny days sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet. Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?” rang throughout households all over the world, children and adults tuned in.
On Thursday, the classic, groundbreaking, educational show turns 47 years old and the show is still going. After a long stint on PBS, Sesame Street can now be seen on HBO. Big Bird still leads the way with a cast of characters, including Bert and Ernie, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, The Count and Grover, who dish out basic learning principles and diversity. Sesame Street can be congratulated for bringing characters of color such as Maria and Gordon into the homes of viewers all over.
Check out five of The Undefeated’s favorite Sesame Street moments.
James Earl Jones presents the alphabet
Destiny’s Child teaches Grover A New Way to Walk
Christopher Reeve and Ernie chop it up.
A pep talk from Kid President and Grover!
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Large-scale M1 microcircuit model with plastic input connections from biological PMd neurons used for prosthetic arm control
BMC Neuroscience volume 16, Article number: P153 (2015)
We have developed a hybrid model of motor control for a brain-machine interface that is based on a large-scale model of primary motor cortex (M1) based on several mammalian studies (Figure 1). The M1 model consisted of 10,000 spiking Izhikevich neurons of four types: regular-firing and bursting pyramidal neurons, and fast-spiking and low-threshold-spiking interneurons. Within the M1 population, cell proportions, locations, connectivity and delays were drawn primarily from mouse experimental data. Properties were based on cell body cortical depth (distance from pia to white matter). Synapses included four different receptors: AMPA, NMDA, GABAA and GABAB. The model exhibited realistic physiological properties, including firing rates and local field potential spectra.
Pyramidal tract-projecting neurons in layer 5B were connected to a descending spinal cord neural population, which provided excitation to the muscles of a realistic virtual musculoskeletal arm. Proprioceptive feedback from the arm was encoded in an ascending spinal cord population which then projected to M1 layer 2/3. The virtual arm movements were also followed by a robotic arm .
An additional population, which reproduced the spiking patterns recorded from 92 neurons of macaque dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during a center-out reaching task, was connected to M1 layer 5A providing a modulatory input .
The network was trained to drive the virtual arm to reach multiple targets, by combining arm exploratory movements with reinforcement learning and spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). Synaptic plasticity occurred between multiple populations, including between the PMd inputs and layer 5A neurons. Tuning of learning metaparameters was achieved by employing parallel evolutionary algorithms in a high-performance computing cluster.
This work moves towards a new generation of neuroprosthetic systems where biological brain circuits interact directly with biomimetic cortical models, and employ co-adaptation and learning to achieve a functional task. Such a multiscale approach, ranging from the cellular to the behavioral level, will provide deeper insights into brain dynamics and have applications for the diagnosis and restoration of brain disorders.
Dura-Bernal S, Chadderdon GL, Neymotin SA, Francis JT, Lytton WW: Towards a real-time interface between a biometic model of sensorimotor cortex and a robotic arm. Pattern Recognition Letters. 2014, 36 (15): 204-212.
Lee G, Matsunaga A, Dura-Bernal S, Zhang W, Lytton WW, Francis JT, Fortes JAB: Towards real-time communication between in vivo neurophysiological data sources and simulator-based brain biomimetic models. Journal of Computational Surgery. 2014, 3: 12-
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Dura-Bernal, S., Kerr, C.C., Neymotin, S.A. et al. Large-scale M1 microcircuit model with plastic input connections from biological PMd neurons used for prosthetic arm control. BMC Neurosci 16, P153 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-16-S1-P153
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March 30, 2013 (SSNA) — This book is an indispensable source of insight into the power of ideas, apprizing one’s historical heritage and how Dr. John Garang—after so many Southern Sudanese luminaries before him failed—managed to identify and channel the ubiquitous malaise in the old Sudan. The book is instrumental in providing an overview into the new Sudans and distinctive attributes the author calls Garangism. In light of current democratization challenges in two new Sudans, the author argues that Garang’s way of thinking and ideas can help the two nations to succeed in overcoming their teething problems. In particular, the book calls upon the young, who make up seventy two percent of South Sudan, to aim higher to create “a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities” (p. 2). The author explains that Dr. John’s approach solves national complex problems through tracing our heritage to historical times, ancient or biblical, and by entreating universal values such as freedom, liberty and human dignity. The book’s first chapter affirms that South Sudan belongs to all, and that the young generation for which the book is written for are well placed to make it a vibrant nation; chapter two considers ten powerful ideas of John Garang; chapter three walks the reader through the concept of the New Sudan Vision; and chapter four concludes the book with brief shining moments of Dr. John as the Sudan’s First Vice President (FVP).
Dr. Lual A. Deng is a distinguished development economist with training at Wisconsin- Madison, and extensive work experience with the World Bank and African Development Bank through the 1990s. In his long record of public service, Dr. Lual was a close economic advisor of John Garang, a state minister of finance, and the minister of petroleum for Sudan’s government from 2005 through 2011. Not only is Dr. Lual now a member of Parliament in South Sudan, he is also a towering giant involved in policy issues of the day and managing director of the Ebony Center for Strategic Studies in South Sudan.
A notable characteristic of The Power of Creative Reasoning is that the author does not mince his words. The book calls a spade a spade. In the introductory chapter, he states “I set out to write this book with the main purpose of providing critical tools of analysis to the young generation of Sudanese (in the now two New Sudans) in their search for self-identity on the one hand and in understanding their historical heritage/legacy(commonwealth) on the other” (p. 2). The book’s forte lies in assembling plenty of tools for analysis, including the following ones:
First, a Venn diagram showcases the five Models in the Conceptual Framework of a New Sudan Project (Chart 3.1, p. 88). A quick glance tells the reader that Model 3 (Sudan as Islamic-Arab State) and Model 4 (hypothetical Sudan as Indigenous Secular African State) are unsustainable. Model 2 is a transitory phase (Sudanese Commonality: two-systems-one-country Model), while Models 1 (Transformed Democratic New Sudan) and 5 (Total Independence Model) of a New Sudan Project are the most stable equilibria. But because the CPA principals failed in making unity attractive, Model 5 became the fallback position, resulting into creation of two New Sudans.
Second, the author’s use of graphical aids proves a powerful tool of analysis. Figure 2.1, for instance, presents a dissection of the public sector spending by level of government (2005-2011), underscoring that for every $100 received; only $26 goes to states and $74 remains in Juba (p. 51). Therefore, “taking towns to rural areas” remains an empty rhetoric under GoSS.
Third, the book uses a policy matrix to drive home the meaning of Garangism, which is defined “as the pursuit of Sudanese commonality with conviction, courage and consistency” (p.2). Table 4.1 presents Dr. John’s Policy Matrix of Targeted Actions in 180 Days (p. 182).In his capacity as the President of GoSS and FVP of Sudan, Garang hoped to deliver water and power stations in each of the ten southern Sudanese states, modernize the SPLA, establish a hundred community resource centers (CRCs) in each state, and rehabilitate fifteen hundred kilometers of priority roads, among other tasks. After reading the book, one comes away with the conclusion that Garang had a vision for transforming south Sudan.
The fourth effective tool of analysis is the narratives and clear-cut examples that emphasize multi-tasking in liberation struggle. While the war was going on, Garang made educating the young a priority (example are the Lost Boys; FACE Foundation, p. 27), established governance structures in the SPLA-administered areas (Civil Authority of New Sudan), built an alliance with the NDA and tapped the power of Seven Front (p. 122). He hoped to turn tools of liberation into governance structures in peacetime. Along the way, the reader gets new information not revealed in other books before: Garang was not only occupied with the communist bloc, he was also strategically thinking and waiting for right time to embrace the West. One illustrative example, which speaks to the Diaspora role, is the recruitment of Commander Awet. The author “informs” the SPLA leadership about Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Awet Akot and Major Al-Tahir Bior Abdalla Ajak who were in the USA for one-year military training. They join the movement after training because “Dr. John felt the two officers risked the Reagan administration arresting and handing them over to the Sudan government if they were to leave suddenly before completing their courses” (p. 124).
Fifth, the reader gets to appreciate the values of Garangism—conviction, courage, creativity, and consistency—in action through this book, and how the 27-year old Garang conceived of the idea of the New Sudan in the 1972 letter written to Joseph Lagu. He never relented before and after his studies. When opportunity struck, Garang took up the responsibility and led his people until his unexpected departure. Meeting John Garang in 1974 and remaining in touch with him throughout their professional lives, Dr. Lual was an exceptionally close advisor of Dr. John. The reader will be spellbound with his account of behind-the-scene-advising and efforts put into governance structure (p.140) and the role of women in the liberation struggle (Table 3.3, p.146).
Sixth, the book does not shy away from highlighting our shortcomings or those of Dr. John’s leadership. His repackaging of message following the failed coup of 1991, the convention of 1994 and acceptance of peace through negotiated settlement indicates that Garang was a savvy politician who read signs and recalibrated when circumstances dictated.
Though the book admirably defends its thesis, many readers, in my view, will still conclude that Garang’s agenda (disarming the Janjaweed, triple objectives of sustained peace, economic growth, & poverty eradication, and constructing one thousand CRCs in South Sudan, among others) was too ambitious to deliver in 180 days. African post-independence nations are replete with many broken promises. How would Garang have prioritized in the face of governing realities? If Garang were alive, would those brief shining moments as FVP have convinced him and the entire nation that Sudan would have been better united than fragmented?
Another issue that leaves a reader with more questions is the assertion that Garang was assassinated, without elaborating or telling “Mabior’s generation” how to find out the culprits (p. 107). Chances of identifying culprits behind his “mysterious death” diminish with time.
Finally, euphoria and expectations were high during independence in South Sudan on 9 July 2011. But with the governing challenges in South Sudan today, the world opinion is unequivocal: South Sudan is becoming a failed state on arrival. The question that comes to reader’s mind is: Did the disciples of Garangism, many of whom filled the current leadership, not internalize the teachings of John Garang, from taking towns to people to fiscal responsibility?
The author witnessed Moses (Dr. John Garang) govern, and as a Member of South Sudan Legislative Assembly, he is currently watching Joshua (President Salva Kiir) govern up close. He provides a very thoughtful account of the New Sudan Project, elucidating complex issues and rich in Sudanese heritage. Therefore, this book will be of particular utility to everyone, including the disciples of John Garang who seem to have forgotten his teachings, those yearning for the power of ideas in shaping our shared destiny, and those wanting to see good governance prevail in South Sudan.
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With millions new of products lining our shelves year by year, product innovation has gone beyond what it used to be. There are products for everything now, from cordless earphones to avocado savers, individuals are identifying consumer needs/wants and creating them into an experiences to share with the world. But how do you know if something YOU need, will be something everyone needs? How can you be confident your product will sell within the market?
Market Research is a definitive point that allows you to look into whether your product has a space in the market. Research can be broken up into stages for product design and can allow you to identify and come to different realisations along the way. From exploratory research before you start design to testing your design with users within the market. Below is a guide to the part research plays within the design of products,
You may have an idea, you’ve found a need for a product, something you need for yourself but ct be confident other would want it too. At this stage in the design process research can allow you to explore the market, define what your product would need to be and allow you to generate more idea around what current consumers need/want. Exploratory research can be completed by interviewing friends around your idea (primary research) or researching the web for current statistics within a given field (secondary research). Once you have the research you need this can help you to begin designing your first prototype.
A definitive second stage of research comes after you have your first design or prototype. Experimental research involves taking your product out into the market to ‘test it’ and receive feedback. This stage of research is fundamental to improving your design/product so that it can adequately meet what your user’s wants/needs. WARNING- This stage could also knock you back and make you realise ‘hey people actually aren’t going to buy this” It may make your realise “it’s time for a redesign” or, maybe “I think its time scrap the project all together”. Although this can be hard to swallow, this stage of research has provided you with an answer earlier on, before you’ve gone done the path of production and thrown away money.
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SEOUL – Secret North Korean military documents revealing missile secrets have been obtained and will be released on June 25, international hacking collective ‘Anonymous’ claims, although experts remain skeptical of the group’s success.
“We will no longer put up with your threats towards world peace and the Republic of Korea,” the South Korean hackers said in a press release late on Wednesday evening, a copy of which was also posted on YouTube.
Anonymous Korea is planning ‘OpNorthKorea’, a coordinated cyber attack on North Korean computer networks it claims will be launched on June 25, the anniversary of the 1950-1953 Korean War.
The group says it has found a way to access North Korea’s internal intranet system, and has posted screenshots on Twitter as ‘proof’. The images, however, are from a 2005 Segye Ilbo article, and have been on the South Korean internet for years. Nevertheless, South Korean media outlets have been covering the story throughout the day.
This is not the first time doubts have been raised about claims that Anonymous-affiliated hackers have managed to access the North Korean intranet. Although the group successfully hacked North Korean social media accounts and released user information from the Chinese-based Uriminzokkiri website, accessing the Kwangmyong requires more high-level access.
“We happily noticed you questioned how we could be inside Kwangmyong, the country-wide intranet of NK, because we think it’s good journalism to doubt and question things,” the group responded to skeptical media reports at the time.
“There was never any further proof coming to validate those claims and answer the skeptics,” NK News tech specialist Martyn Williams said.
“It will be the same this time. Until we see bonafide proof that this has happened, it has to be viewed as an unverified claim,” said Williams, who has written extensively on North Korea’s internal internet.
The group claims that they brought the KCNA to a halt for “two minutes” on May 12 as proof that they are able to access the North Korean intranet. Such an attack, however, is easily achieved with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that saturate a server with so many requests that it slows or crashes. NK News has been the victim of such attacks in the past.
Two Anonymous ‘Hacktivists’ using the pseudonyms “Lee Myung-soo” and “Hwang Yoon-taek” were interviewed by eToday, an online South Korean newspaper, about the planned cyber attacks today. A full NK News translation of the interview is available below this article.
Anonymous has threatened NK News in the past for writing about a North Korean cartoon that suggested the South Korean government was behind the cyberattacks. “Don’t make us angry,” Twitter user @Anonymous_kr (aka Hwang Yoon-taek, below) said, regarding the cartoon.
“If you do that one more time, we will attack your sites for OpNorthKorea.” One of the changes Anonymous is campaigning for in North Korea is a free and open press.
Anonymous will release more information next week, on June 25. If they are able to release information from the Kwangmyong network, it will be the first time a hacker has successfully obtained information from the infamously closed network.
Additional reporting by Shinui Kim in Seoul
FULL TRANSCRIPT OF ANONYMOUS KOREA INTERVIEW:
Hwang Yoon-taek: “We hacked into the KCNA last May”
Q- Is it possible to hack into the Kwangmyong network? It’s closed.
A- There are 3 routes that connect Kwangmyong to the outside world. One server is located in China, and we’ve already hacked it, and got in that way. We’ve done it. There’s nothing North Korea can do to stop it now. We’ve got all the core information we need.
Q- What exactly do you have?
A- Information regarding missiles, their serial numbers, and North Korean high-ranking officials. We won’t release everything, however –– only some things so we can verify the attack. After that, we’ll hand everything over to Wikileaks.
Q- You could be putting yourself at personal risk by attacking North Korea, why do it?
A- Don’t worry. We use at least 7 shared IP addresses that are based overseas. If you try to track it, it will take years [to trace].
Q. Where is the information now? Do you have it saved at home?
A. No way. It’s broken up and dispersed on the internet.
Q. Is there any way to verify that you really hacked the North Korean intranet?
A. On May 12th, the KCNA system stopped for 2 minutes. That was us. We will release missile serial numbers soon so that you can be certain about this.
Lee Myung-soo: “We’ve setup a ‘Ninja Gateway’ so that North Koreans can access the world wide web)”
Q. Tell me about your plans for June 25.
A. I can’t tell you the details, but we’ve done 90% of the preparation work.
Q. A ‘Ninja Gateway’, is that possible?
A. Yes. I have information about the Kwangmyong network.
Q. How do you access a closed intranet, how do you approach this?
A. North Korea uses their own operating system, Red Star OS, that’s based on Linux. We obtained that first, then used it to access the Kwangmyong network. The North Koreans will be able to access the world-wide-web soon.
Q. Who’s going to lead the June 25 attack, and what are the targets?
A. Three Korean hackers, some Argentineans, Brazilians etc. –– 10 people in total. We also have support from the global Anonymous movement.
46 websites are being targeted. North Korean websites with internal hosts are the KCNA, the Rodong, Naenara, Voice of Korea etc, 11 sites in total. Websites with external servers [that we are targeting] are Uriminzokkiri, Rygyongclip etc, –– 16 sites in total. [We are also targeting] Nosotek.com, the company that made the Pyongang Racer game.
Q. Last April, Anonymous released the a Uriminzokkiri membership list. Why ?
A. Originally, we just wanted to put some pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime but it grew bigger than we expected. We only did it to demonstrate that we could do it, and to intimated North Korea, but once it spread on Ilbe [conservative South Korean netizen portal], it became an issue.
Q. Still, You could receive personal threats if you attack North Korea. Are you not worried about this?
A. We redirect our IP addresses every time when we use the internet. I can’t reveal more details, but we sometimes hack from our homes. There is no evidence. nothing remains.
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When you are reaching for a goal, you will find you are striving for higher ground.By: Sally Morgan, 2nd dan
Setting goals is a very important part of life. If you want to be happy and successful, setting goals is the key.
Setting a goal makes your vision of what you want more clear. If you don’t see your end result clearly, you will never get there. You can be very busy in your life, but if you are not clear about what you want, you are probably doing a lot of things that really do not matter to you. When you set a goal, it focuses your energy into the things that really count and matter.
Setting a goal will drive you forward. When you constantly have goals, you stay motivated. It will keep you moving when things get tough.
If you want to increase your focus, setting goals can do just that. They give you a focal point to put your attention to. When you don’t have goals in your life, you tend to “float around randomly,” not really accomplishing anything. You become misguided on what is important. Setting goals keeps you from being swept away by everyday life activities.
Having a goal will give you accountability. You can talk about doing something all day, but until you set a concrete goal, you’ll never take it anywhere. Once you have a goal, you become obligated to achieve it.
What to be the best you can be, create goals. Without goals, you live in a safe world. You become comfortable with life as it is. Being too comfortable can prevent you from growing. When you are reaching for a goal, you will find you are striving for higher ground. You stretch yourself out of your comfort zone. Goals will help you overcome barriers and prevent you from settling for less than what you really desire.
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One of the most frequent questions we get is:
“What’s the deal with the goats?”
The simplest explanation is that Larry Endres liked them and they reminded him of his German-Bavarian heritage. Larry was always on the lookout for new and creative ideas. He decided that the company architecture should reflect his heritage, and at the same time be a welcoming and unique image as you entered town.
Starting in the summer of 1982, Waunakee became host to six very special guests in the little park on the southeast side of the Endres property. They became quite popular with other kids in the village but still caused a bit of a ruckus with some neighbors. There was community controversy and the goats were eventually banned since they were livestock on commercial zoned property.
As anyone who knew Larry would tell you, he was determined and persistent. He decided to throw a “tug-at-your-heartstrings” farewell party where he won over the sympathy of the community through food and drink. As a final farewell, he had a bell tolling as each goat was loaded onto the truck to take them back to their farm.
It was only a matter of time until Larry found a way to bring the goats back. In 1990, after a few years of haggling, the goats returned and Endres hosted a “welcome home” party for the entire community. Their park is filled with bridges, ramps, rocks, their own Bavarian chalet, and the newest addition, a thirty-foot tall spiral goat tower, designed and built by former EMC employee, Bob Ziegler. They love visitors and visitors love them in return. The goats are part of the culture and history of the company and hopefully they will remain for generations to come. | <urn:uuid:e5bbf163-6e31-462c-b1be-34af9cbf9550> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.endresmfg.com/great-goats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.987595 | 373 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Eugene Subbotsky obtained a PhD in Developmental Psychology at Moscow State University. He taught at Moscow State University, Russia (1975-1990), Lancaster University, UK (1991-2013) and was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at Konstanz University, West Germany (1990-1991). He is known internationally for research on children's moral development, the development of children's metaphysical reasoning, and the development of magical thinking and behaviour over life span. He conducted research in Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, USA and Mexico. He published over 100 papers in scientific journals and is the author of 12 books, including those published by Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, and Psychology Press. Eugene is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a BPS charted psychologist, a Member of the BPS Division of Teachers and Researchers in Psychology. | <urn:uuid:8769d6ba-f796-4db6-a54c-5f2d5ad9ab0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.udemy.com/user/eugenesubbotsky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00181-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927277 | 176 | 1.953125 | 2 |
“We are not, obviously, contemplating returning,” he told reporters in Jerusalem. “We’re not contemplating putting boots on the ground. This is their fight, but we’re going to help them in their fight.”
Kerry declined to say specifically how the U.S. would help the Iraqis.
“We’re going to do everything that is possible to help them, and I will not go into the details except to say that we’re in contact with tribal leaders from Anbar province whom we know, who are showing great courage in standing up against this as they reject terrorist groups from their cities,” he said.
“And this is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left Iraq.”
In arguably the worst security crisis since American forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, al-Qaeda fighters last week seized parts of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, as well as nearby Fallujah.
During the war Anbar witnessed the emergence in 2006 of a Sunni tribal campaign against al-Qaeda-linked militants. That “awakening” movement and the “surge” of troop reinforcements sent in by President Bush in 2007 helped to stem the tide of sectarian violence and marked a turning point in the conflict.
During 2011 the U.S. and Iraqi governments held talks about retaining a number of U.S. troops in that country beyond the Dec. 31, 2011 withdrawal deadline laid down in a 2008 agreement. In the end negotiations broke down over the issue of legal jurisdiction, and plans for an ongoing training and counterterrorism force there were scrapped.
(Similar issues dogged U.S. negotiations with the Afghan government last year, and President Hamid Karzai continues to refuse to sign a security agreement providing for a U.S. force remaining there beyond the end of this year.)
After U.S. forces withdrew entirely from Iraq at the end of 2011 security deteriorated, with a dramatic escalation in Sunni-Shi’ite violence last year. Deadly bombings have become commonplace; on Sunday at least 19 people were killed in a fresh wave of bombings in Baghdad.
The group formerly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq renamed itself Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and has become a key player in the Syrian civil war, where they are one of the most effective of the anti-Assad factions.
Kerry said the terrorists “are trying to assert their authority not just in Iraq but in Syria.”
“This is a fight that is bigger than just Iraq,” he said. “This is part of the reason why the Geneva conference is so critical, because the rise of these terrorists in the region and particularly in Syria and through the fighting in Syria is part of what is unleashing this instability in the rest of the region.”
“That’s why everybody has a stake – all of the Gulf states, all of the regional actors, Russia, the United States, and a lot of players elsewhere in the world have a stake in pushing back against violent extremist terrorists who respect no law, who have no goal other than to take over power and disrupt lives by force.”
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As we move forward in our world of technological inspiration and development I’ve seen the explosion of not only social networks, but of internet services, open source software, and powerful content sharing and distribution mechanisms. Services like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Smug Mug and the Suite of Free Google Services and so on are growing at a mind boggling rate. I still remember sitting in a cubicle about two years ago in the Winona State University tech department at my first job trying to design websites to be fast and optimizing each image and layout to be as small as possible so that they would download quickly on a modem. I remember how small my view of the vast amount information and the petty prejudices I would have against various ones, not seeing ahead to the measures that would be taken to distribute and organize that information. I believe the information age is no more and that the information itself has become expected and transparent but the networking and organization of that information has and will continue to surpass it as the primary commodity in the world today. As I’ve moved out of my little world, gone to college Utah, and am now five weeks away from graduation I’ve seen Google go from a small beta company to the biggest and most well known company on the planet, I’ve seen Facebook go from a little personal networking site to one of THE leading social network today in the US (Not sure how the foreign market for social networks is going).
What does it all mean?
I spent most of today re-evaluating MANY of my online priorities and ways of doing things. These last two months has seen me extensively pick up my networking and social skills and apply them in ways I never have before. I’ve spent more time updating, writing, and networking than I ever have in the past, the simple fact that you’ve been seeing blog posts here that are over 200 words on a regular basis is something that I’ve never done before. I’ve moved into the world of Twitter, a micro-blogging and status service and took the leap of getting a pro account at Flickr so that I could integrate large versions of the photos here on this site.
As you look at the conglomeration of things I’ve mashed together, there are several things that I’ve begun to be able to do. The problem is that I have hundreds of people spread over an entire spectrum of networks, locations, and mediums. I have a friends on Flickr, different friends that watch my blog feed, personal friends on Facebook, random followers on Twitter. The trend that I have begun to noticed is the integration of one service with another. With a twitter update I also update my status on Facebook and my blog, with a new post on my blog a new note gets automatically written on Facebook and anyone who watches my feed also gets updated. A new image on Flickr now shows up in my Facebook story feed and is now accessible for me to use on my blog with a link to the Flickr photo for comments and discussion. Not only do I now have all these services at my finger tips, but common users have created links between these applications with whole markets sprouting up around these links because of the efforts of the developers to create easy to use interfaces allowing others to link the services.
I’ve spent the last few days experimenting and working out the kinks in many of these network linkages. About a month ago my twitter account became linked to my Facebook status, about that same time the RSS importer for Facebook allowed me to import my blog posts as notes in Facebook, even pulling thumbnails of the images that are in the posts in. About two weeks ago when I went live with a new design to this site I added my twitter status to the top of my blog. Today I went through, tested out and have begun using even more service links, I redirected all my RSS feeds to FeedBurner for tracking and analytics, I added an application to Facebook to show any new photos in Flickr on my Facebook story feed, I even added a plugin for WordPress (The blogging engine this site runs on) that allows me to now insert photos directly from Flickr into my blog, because the photos are displayed full size by default on my blog they now will link directly to the Flickr photo page allowing for much more commenting and discussion on the images outside of the scope of this blog. Something else I may do is add a Flickr album importer into Facebook so that I will no longer have to upload photos to both Flickr and Facebook simultaneously.
The point is, this environment is changing at a rapidly and exponentially increasing rate, as I’ve grown in my networking savvy I have no longer been turning to the network with the most people or services, but I rather look to see what best allows me to integrate these services with each other and access them simultaneously. I don’t have time to go and browse each location, or to update every place separately. This mix and mash of services is allowing to do one thing once, across multiple platforms simultaneously and update everyone quickly and without hassle. Personally, it’s cool when you realize the sheer scale of things, almost to the point of being scary as to how efficient I can mash up an entire system of services together in a way that suits exactly what I need to do and that allows me to reach hundreds of people, each in their own preferred medium.
With that being said, good luck to you all in your social-network-service-mashup-mix-and-match endeavors and I look forward to hearing the thoughts of others on this.
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The world gospel comes from the Greek and Latin meaning “a reward for bringing good news.” When we walk through life and notice what we experience we are rewarded. It requires a mindful and thoughtful approach noticing the old and the new sharing space with each other; dependent upon each other.
We are dependent on what is there. Thich Nhat Hanh suggested a garden’s weeds enable the growth of new plants. Farmers plow the previous year’s growth under avoiding erosion, adding nutrition to the soil, and helping keep moisture. We do not know whether the news is good until we pause and remember the context behind the news. What did that “bad” news really mean? When we listen more closely, we hear the music of the world singing a different refrain for us.
Philip Levine wrote this wonderful poem. I thought about what it means to receive news. Perhaps that letter in his pocket was not bad news, but, once he was over the pain, he found something new that he had not sensed before.
The new grass rising in the hills,
the cows loitering in the morning chill,
a dozen or more old browns hidden
in the shadows of the cottonwoods
beside the stream bed. I go higher
to where the road gives up and there’s
only a faint path strewn with lupine
between the mountain oaks. I don’t
ask myself what I’m looking for.
I didn’t come for answers
to a place like this, I came to walk
on the earth, still cold, still silent.
Still ungiving, I’ve said to myself,
although it greets me with last year’s
dead thistles and this year’s
hard spines, early blooming
wild onions, the curling remains
of spider’s cloth. What did I bring
to the dance? In my back pocket
a crushed letter from a woman
I’ve never met bearing bad news
I can do nothing about. So I wander
these woods half sightless while
a west wind picks up in the trees
clustered above. The pines make
a music like no other, rising and
falling like a distant surf at night
that calms the darkness before
first light. “Soughing” we call it, from
Old English, no less. How weightless
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The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has increased by more than 150,000 to 2.8 million in the past year, warns Diabetes UK today.
The data, collected from GP practices, also show the nationwide figure of people registered as obese to have risen to over five and half million, an increase of more than 265,000. This now means one in 20 of the population is being treated for diabetes and one in ten for obesity.
Type 2 diabetes most prevalent
Around nine in ten people with diabetes (2.5 million) have Type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to being overweight or obese, leading a sedentary lifestyle and eating an unhealthy diet. In many cases the condition can be prevented by maintaining a healthy weight, taking regular physical activity and eating a balanced diet rich in fruit and vegetables but low in fat, sugar and salt.
“Once again we see a shocking rise in diabetes and obesity rates in the UK," said Simon O’Neill, Diabetes UK Director of Care, Information and Advocacy.
"Many, but not all, people develop Type 2 diabetes because they are overweight or obese - so we must keep up the mantra of ‘five fruit and veg a day’, encourage daily physical activity, and warn of the potentially devastating consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle.
Obesity causing "Type 2 epidemic"
“The obesity-fuelled Type 2 diabetes epidemic is a clear example of where the new coalition government’s rhetoric of tackling health problems through prevention must be turned into action. Failure to act now means a bleak future of spiralling NHS costs and worsening public health.
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LINGUIST List 23.235|
Fri Jan 13 2012
Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/UK
Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee
LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!
1. Razaul Faquire ,
Migration and Its Linguistic Consequences in South Asia
Message 1: Migration and Its Linguistic Consequences in South Asia
From: Razaul Faquire <bangla1999hotmail.com>
Subject: Migration and Its Linguistic Consequences in South Asia
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Full Title: Migration and Its Linguistic Consequences in South Asia
Short Title: MMM15
Date: 05-Aug-2013 - 10-Aug-2013
Location: Manchester City, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Razaul Faquire
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1467
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 13-Jul-2012
The aim of the 17th IUAES2013 session titled 'Issues of Migration and Its Linguistic Consequences in the Different Regions of South Asia throughout the History' is to explore the issues of linguistic consequences, e.g. language shift and creation of lingua francas which occurred due to the immigration and internal migration of various speech communities in the different regions of South Asia throughout the history.
The immigration of various speech communities occurred in South Asia in different phases throughout the history. It frequently occurred with the incidence of conquest and colonization. The immigration of the Aryans and Central Asians, and the colonization by the British (and partly by the Tibetans), shaped the linguistic composition of South Asia. Therefore, the language situation which now persists in South Asia has been gradually created through language contact between the languages of immigrants' speech communities and indigenous communities. The pattern of language contact, however, changed over time with the occurrence of each major flow of migration. Regardless of this pattern, the immigrants' languages always played dominant roles, changing the languages of both immigrant and native speech communities and creating a few lingua francas in the different regions of South Asia. Accordingly, the proposed panel will address the following issues relating to the linguistic consequences of migration in South Asia:
a) Timeline of major events of migration of various speech communities in the language situation of South Asia
b) Linguistic consequences of the immigration of various speech communities in South Asia
c) Process of creation of lingua francas due to the linguistic consequences of migration in South Asia
d) Present trend of language contact due to the migration in the language situation in South Asia
This academic session aims to facilitate communication and exchange of information and experience among the scholars, academics and students who are involved in the study of migration and its linguistic consequences in South Asia and other parts of the world.
2nd Call for Papers:
You are invited to submit a short abstract (under 300 characters including spaces) and a long abstract (the normal 250 words) of your paper via online form from our website (http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1467) on any of the issues of migration and its linguistic consequences in South Asia.
The Organizing Committee of 17th IUAES will offer financial support and favorable policies to a limited number of scholars and students from non-affluent countries. The guidelines on financial support can be found on our website (http://www.iuaes2013.org/index.html).
A formal invitation will be sent to you after the abstract has been reviewed and accepted.
Deadline for submission of abstract: July 13, 2012
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2012
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"It was dark all around,
there was frost in the ground
when the tigers broke free."
"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a Pink Floyd song written by Roger Waters about the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, during World War II. Waters wrote it when he wrote The Wall, intending it to be on the album as part of the central character's narrative. In a 1984 interview, Waters said the rest of the band protested its inclusion on the album because it was taken directly out of Waters's life and would thus imprint too much of his personal experience on the character.
"And no one survived from
the Royal Fusiliers Company C."
The song was, however, included in the film version of The Wall that was released in 1982. Whereas the "Pink" character's father's death was referenced on the album, his ensuing single-parent childhood and relationship with his mother was more prominent. By including the song, and related scenes, in the film the focus shifts somewhat to include the effects of the father's death on the son. In that sense, one might say that the film version was more directly autobiographical of Waters than the album.
"They were all left behind,
most of them dead,
the rest of them dying."
The song was later included on Echoes, the best-of compilation released in 2001. It was not included in the 1990 performance of The Wall at Potsdamer Platz, nor does Waters include it in his more recent tour performances of the album. (He tends to perform it as released, with some minor adjustments.)
The orchestral accompaniment to the song is a far cry from the band's progressive rock stylings. You can give it a listen here. It is haunting and sad, and bitingly critical of the strategic decisions that led to the deaths of the elder Waters's entire company.
But it's mostly a song about a little boy whose father went to war and never came home.
"And that's how the High Command
took my daddy from me."
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The great fort that laid just a few days travel south of the
great city Hahn Nova was going about its usual bustle of activity.
Soldiers, clad in steel armament, patrolled the outer walls
as the shine from their armor flickered in the last rays of
the fading twilight. The hammers of the workers echoed in rhythm
as they continued to reinforce their current outpost to help
keep out the occasional monster. Both solider and civilian alike
performed their duty with great pride, because they were serving
under the world's greatest hero and leader. He was born under
the name Gustave the XII, prince and heir to the throne, but
he had soon earned the more fitting name: Gustave the Steel.
As the history books still and always will tell, at young Gustave's
"Firebrand" ceremony he was found to be without anima, thus
proving him to be unworthy of the throne to his own kingdom.
He was cast out of his own kingdom along with his caring mother
by his father. "Trash", "filth", "good for nothing", Gustave
lived with these insults in his ears for most of his life. Upon
reaching the age of twenty, Gustave, along with a handful of
brave friends, began a campaign to seize his birthright. After
conquering the anima-using armies of his brothers, Gustave underwent
a change. With the help of his companions, Gustave began to
mold into the leader that the people could take pride in following.
After the construction of his first new city, Gustave began
a campaign to expand his empire and to rid the people of the
monster threat. He stationed his forces at the very fort where
this story takes place.
The gates flung open as Gustave returned from his recent journey,
along with his top advisor, carrying a wounded man inside the
fort, who was clutching his side. With a stare as sharp as his
sword, Gustave commanded the nearby soldiers to take the young
man to receive medical attention. As his arms were quickly hosted
over the shoulders of Gustave's men, the young man raised his
head to speak. "I can already see why they follow you." said
Johan. Gustave offered the man a nod. "Just rest and heal for
now, then I'll have to ask what you were doing to get yourself
like this. And I don't take no for an answer either, understand?"
Gustave then left everyone to retreat to the privacy of his
own quarters. The fiery-haired leader then unsheathed his massive
steel blade and gazed into the shining metal. The sword itself
was a legend. Forged by Gustave himself but only known to its
creator, it was tempered more with memories than with strikes
of a blacksmith's hammer. He then placed the weapon in its sheath,
and reached for the chain around his neck. He opened the secret
locket he had placed there, revealing a small picture of a lovely
woman. "Leslie" he whispered mentally. She was the one of the
few who confronted Gustave when he was on his childish rants
as a very young man. Maybe it was admiration of her courage
against the strongest man in the world or the smallest spark
of affection Gustave saw in her whenever she offered that metal
melting smile to him. Dismissing such emotions for about the
hundredth time, he tucked the locket back inside his shirt below
his armor. It was getting late and Dirk had yet to arrive. He
strode out of his room in time to catch the last rays of the
sun. But the day wasn't the only thing that would end.
"Dirk's arrival is late isn't it"? He said to a guard standing
"Yes sir, we haven't heard a word since the message saying
that they had run into a pack of monsters. Our scouts are on
the move as ordered" the man replied.
Gustave thought a moment and spoke. "It's too dangerous to
move now, wait until daybreak". He turned to his lifelong friend,
Flynn, "Relax, Flynn, Dirk is quite accomplished, unlike his
father" with a teasing smirk. Gustave never lost his old habit
of poking fun at his timid friend.
However, dawn never comes.
Gustave was awoken by the shouts of battle and the screams
of his men. Smoked filed his nostrils as he put on his armor
and strapped his sword to his side to investigate. When he opened
the door, the vision was that of hell. Monsters of all types
were coming over the walls in swarms and many of his men lay
dead or dying inside the raging fire. He ran to the middle of
the fort where his advisor Ventarbre and Flynn were waiting.
He ordered them both to escape and was met with the insistence
that they stay beside and fight. He was not about to let their
deaths become an insult to Gustave's teacher, Master Cielmer.
He ordered them again. Again they protested, but the doors nearby
swung open and there appeared the wounded young man. "I will
look out for Master Gustave."
Ventarbre protested, "Johan! What can you do in your weakened
Johan then unsheathed his blast sword and replied, "I'm sure
I can fight far better than you, even in this state". Gustave
then gave the order for the two to flee, and they reluctantly
complied. "Are you sure about this Johan?" He was, both battle-hardened
men knew that he had not long to live with his injuries, and
known only to Johan, the poison that was slowly eating away
his life force. Gustave gave the order. "We will meet again
Johan" and he closed the door behind him, hearing only Johan's
brave and final challenge to the swarm that was soon upon the
slowly dying assassin.
But Gustave had his pride, and would not be spoken of as a
coward. He turned away from the path that would be his escape
and charged a nearby patch of monsters attacking his fort. With
strikes from his great sword they soon fell, yet more came.
Wave after wave, Gustave continued to hack and slice through
the wall of monsters yelling battle cries that would make the
rest of history's conquers seem meek. He fought his way to the
outside, cornering a giant labor ant who made it's biggest mistake
by attacking Gustave from behind. "Weaklings, all of you are
- you'll all go to hell where you were spawned from!" as he
leapt into the air to bring the final killing blow upon the
enemy. But before the blade connected he was intercepted by
a strong blast of anima from behind and fell onto the dirt.
As he fell, his pained eyes saw a second blast fire at his sword,
knocking it into the sky and landing behind the fort walls.
He picked himself up, wiping the crimson from his mouth. "So
who has the courage to strike me from afar and behind?" he shouted
after spiting a goblet of blood to the side.
His answer came as a cackle of an old man who smelled of dirt
and mud and who was suddenly in front of Gustave. "That would
be me. Monsters of this type are simple to control - anima manipulation
is such a thrilling hobby".
Gustave clenched his fist in anger. "Why? Are you one of those
anima cult members? I thought I finished you!"
The old man smiled, and then frowned as if suddenly experiencing
disappointment. "This will not do, for the rumors of you lacking
anima are true. You would never make a sufficient host for me."
Gustave stood ready to lunge at the old man but paused. "Host?
What are you talking about!!??"
The man cackled again, opening his hand to reveal a shiny egg
-shaped object. "For me of course, but a good for nothing like
you would never do for a host, it's a pity being in control
of you would be perfect. Using your name and reputation, I could
go about fulfilling my desires as I pleased. You are strong
- strong enough to almost finish me with your little raid on
the anima cult, but luckily this old man digging for quells
had found me. He's a tad too old but I'll solve that problem
shortly" and the man laughed again.
Gustave growled, "I don't have any idea what you mean, but
you're going to pay for this" and he lunged at the old man in
order to remove a random vital organ with his bare hands.
But the old man lifted the egg before Gustave and released
a concentrated beam at the warrior. "You're strong against anima,
but not invincible," the old man cackled again as the struggling
warrior fought against the attack, walking towards him slowly,
his armor shattering and his skin getting hotter and hotter
with each passing second.
Gustave knew he wasn't going to make it and shouted his final
words "One day...in the future someone using my 'good for nothing
power' is going to send you to HELL!!!!!" Gustave gave no scream
of pain, nor shout of anguish. He opened his arms to welcome
death's embrace as his mortal body dissolved into ash and was
taken to flight by a soft breeze.
The next morning, Gustave's friends returned to the charred
remains of the fort. Shouts for their friend's and great leader's
name filled the morning sky, but to no avail. The great hero
had passed on. Ventarbre, Flynn, and Dirk shifted through the
ruins to find some sign of life. Heavy hearted, Ventarbre looked
to see a shining object imbedded in the ash. He slowly reached
over and yanked this object out, and was humbled by its sheer
weight. Was it the enormous mass of the sword Ventarbre pulled
that made him slightly falter on his feet? Or was it the weight
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May 24, 2019 · Why Canadian heavy oil prices are falling faster than global crude benchmarks As oil price differentials rise, expect railway movements to hit new record … Crude Oil Price Today | WTI OIL PRICE CHART | OIL PRICE ... The price of oil is the most important value on the international commodity markets. Crude oil is the most important commodity and emerging industrial markets such as China, India and Latin Price of oil - Wikipedia The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus and Western Canadian Select (WCS). There is a differential in the price of a barrel of oil based on
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Agricultural education is for students desiring to learn about the science, business, and technology of plant and animal production; preparing students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources systems. Through agricultural education, students are provided opportunities for leadership development, personal growth, and career success. Instruction is delivered through three major components: classroom/laboratory instruction (contextual learning), Supervised Agricultural Experience programs (work-based learning), and the student leadership organization (National FFA Organization).
- Students should be at 9th grade level in reading, writing, math, and science to be successful in all Agriscience program courses.
- All students will develop personal, leadership, and career skills through FFA participation.
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Times are strange! Things are changing around us so quickly, and there is so much uncertainty. So how can you support your mental wellbeing whilst at home. Try out the three steps below.
Set a Routine
I have been quite luckily in that I am still going to work during these challenging times. It has given me a sense of normality and a regular, familiar routine. For those of you at home, it is so important to set out a routine. Even if you have no where to go: get up at a normal time, shower and get dressed, and get productive! On my days off I always feel so much worse if I just laze around all day. I start to feel lethargic and grumpy! So make yourself a schedule and try to stick to it. Make sure to include a little exercise, or some outside time, to keep yourself feeling super healthy. There are plenty of online classes popping up, so you can still get that dance fix and keep your practise up to date.
Having said all that, it's really important that you listen to your own body. Everybody is different, and will be reacting differently to the situation around them. If you need to take a day off from the housework or homework, then do it. And don't feel guilty! If you've had little projects waiting to be completed for months, and you feel able to do them, then great! But don't feel guilty if you just don't feel in the right head space to do them. This is not a competition!
Focus on Self Care
It's when we're most in need of it that we tend to forget about our own self care. Right now, it is even more important than ever. If you know what works for you, then get it in your schedule. It doesn't have to take up loads of your time, but it does need to focus on you and your own wellbeing. If you need some ideas or new things to try, take a look at these simple self care tips.
I don't know about anyone else, but this last week has been an emotional rollercoaster. It's important to know that this is normal, and you are not alone. The situation is going to continue, and our feelings are going to carry on bubbling up to the surface. So a helpful tool to support your mental wellbeing whilst at home would be to start a journal. Note your emotions down, and accept them. It's perfectly ok to feel what you are feeling.
Take a Break
And finally – possibly the most impactful step of all: Take a break from technology. The internet is filled with news, stories and images of the situation unfolding around us. It's important that we know what's going on, but we shouldn't flood ourselves with it. There is a lot of unsupported information out there, and when it is constantly in our feeds it can be extremely overwhelming. So take a break. Decide what news source you trust, and only look at that. Limit your time on social media, or take a break completely.
I hope this helps some of you that are struggling at home right now. It's not easy. I am so thankful for the technology we have right now – being able to video call friends and family, and stay connected is such a valuable thing. Today I feel a little more positive, though who knows what emotions tomorrow may bring. If you really need to talk to someone, please don't hesitate to contact the Samaritans, they are there for just that. I am now off to work on a photography project that I finally feel in the right head space to do – Creativity being another booster for mental wellbeing. Stay safe. | <urn:uuid:54d7e401-0c5f-43cd-a30e-edf133c0a18b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healingfigures.com/3-steps-to-support-your-mental-wellbeing-whilst-at-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.975837 | 756 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Planets and planet candidates are subjected to great investigation in recent years. In this study, we analyse 20 planet and planet-candidate host stars at different evolutionary phases. We construct stellar interiormodels of the host stars with the MESA e.volution code and obtain their fundamental parameters under influence of observational asteroseismic and non-asteroseismic constraints. Model mass range of the host stars is 0.74-1.55 M-circle dot. The mean value of the so-called large separation between oscillation frequencies and its variation about the minima shows the diagnostic potential of asteroseismic properties. Comparison of variations of model and observed large separations versus the oscillation frequencies leads to inference of fundamental parameters of the host stars. Using these parameters, we revise orbital and fundamental parameters of 34 planets and four planet candidates. According to our findings, radius range of the planets is 0.35-16.50 R-circle plus. The maximum difference between the transit and revised radii occurs for Kepler-444b-f is about 25 per cent. | <urn:uuid:1de5c4e7-d704-48e6-b5ed-90843ded3a0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.erciyes.edu.tr/yayin/23a7a473-3ea9-4c48-a1bd-97082ba450a1/asteroseismic-investigation-of-20-planet-and-planet-candidate-host-stars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.824742 | 220 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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- Can you make glazed carrots the day before?
- What are glazed carrots made of?
- How does James Martin cook carrots?
- Can you reheat glazed carrots?
- Can dogs eat carrots?
- How far in advance can you cook carrots?
- How do you store glazed carrots?
- Can you reheat glazed carrots in the oven?
- Do carrots have a lot of sugar?
- Do you boil water before adding carrots?
- How do you make brown sugar?
- How do you make James Martin roast potatoes?
- Can you freeze glazed carrots?
- How do I reheat carrots in the microwave?
- Can you cook vegetables the day before?
- Is banana bad for dogs?
- Do carrots make dogs poop?
- Do carrots clean dogs teeth?
- How do you prepare carrots for next day?
- Can you peel carrots a day before cooking?
- Can you prep carrots and potatoes the night before?
- Can you reheat carrots?
- How do you reheat carrots in the oven?
- Can diabetics eat carrots?
- Will carrots raise blood sugar?
- Are carrots high in carbs and sugar?
- Is it better to boil or steam carrots?
- How long does it take carrots to cook in soup?
- How long does it take for carrots and potatoes to boil?
- Is brown sugar healthier?
- Can I replace brown sugar with regular sugar?
- What’s the difference between light and dark brown sugar?
- How does Jamie Oliver make roast potatoes?
- What oil does Jamie Oliver use for roast potatoes?
Can you make glazed carrots the day before?
Can You Make Honey Glazed Carrots Ahead of Time? Yes! You can make these honey glazed carrots in advance. If you do, I’d recommend boiling them for a minute or two less just so that they don’t become mushy when you reheat them.
What are glazed carrots made of?
These glazed carrots are tender carrot coins simmered in a mixture of brown sugar and butter and topped with a sprinkling of parsley. An easy and inexpensive side dish that’s perfect for a holiday meal or an everyday dinner.
How does James Martin cook carrots?
Peel the carrots and cut off the tops, leaving 5cm of green still attached. Finely chop 2 tablespoons of the carrot tops and reserve. Add the carrots to the pan and boil rapidly for 20 minutes until tender.
Can you reheat glazed carrots?
To reheat, add carrots to a buttered skillet and heat over medium heat just until heated through. If the Glazed Carrots are dry for whatever reason, melt in a little extra butter. You can also reheat in the microwave for one minute then at 30-second intervals until heated through.
Can dogs eat carrots?
Yes, dogs can eat carrots. Carrots are an excellent low-calorie snack that is high in fiber and beta-carotene, which produces vitamin A. Plus, crunching on this orange veggie is great for your dog’s teeth (and fun) and it is included in many dog foods.
How far in advance can you cook carrots?
Can you make oven roasted carrots ahead of time? If you are planning a large meal, you can make these carrots a day before. Cook them, let the cool completely, and then put them in an air tight container in the fridge. To reheat them, place in a medium heated oven just to heat them through.
How do you store glazed carrots?
Once the glazed carrots are complete, transfer them to a plastic bowl or a microwave-safe serving bowl. Cover them with a lid or plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator. Store them for no more than two days before serving them.
Can you reheat glazed carrots in the oven?
they are best served fresh, but still really good reheated. cool and store for up to 24 hours (after that they aren’t as good) reheat in a covered pan at 350°F for 20 minutes.
Do carrots have a lot of sugar?
Unfortunately, they pack more sugar than their equally crunchy counterparts. One medium raw carrot contains nearly 5 grams of sugar and 31 calories, while a stalk of celery provides close to 0 grams (0.4, to be exact) of sugar and 7 calories. Red and green bell peppers contain less sugar than carrots, too.
Do you boil water before adding carrots?
Peel and slice the carrots into 1/4-inch slices on the bias (diagonally). Once the water is boiling, add the carrots and boil for 4 to 5 minutes until just crisp tender (longer if you prefer them to be more tender).
How do you make brown sugar?
To make dark brown sugar from white sugar, increase the molasses to 2 tablespoons per 1 cup of granulated sugar. Stir with a fork and keep in an airtight container. To make dark brown sugar from light brown sugar, add 1 tablespoon of molasses to 1 cup of light brown sugar.
How do you make James Martin roast potatoes?
Melt the lard in a deep flameproof roasting tray on a high heat and fry the potatoes on each side until they begin to brown. Sprinkle with salt and roast for 30 minutes, or until starting to colour. Turn the potatoes and return to the oven for a further 20-30 minutes, or until golden-brown and crisp.
Can you freeze glazed carrots?
Side dishes are often overlooked when it comes to freezer cooking. But having them in the freezer as well will make dinner even easier. These honey maple-glazed carrots can be made ahead and frozen. Doing the work ahead of time, especially if you make several bags of these at one time, makes suppertime so much easier.
How do I reheat carrots in the microwave?
Place carrots into a microwave safe dish, like a pyrex and then add just couple tablespoons of water. Cover the dish with a microwave safe lid or a large plate and microwave on high for 3 minutes. Check for doneness. If carrots are still a little crunchy, continue cooking in 30 second intervals.
Can you cook vegetables the day before?
Don’t forget that most of the veg can be prepared the day before. Peel and trim your carrots and parsnips (keep them submerged in water overnight), peel onions and, to really save you time, don’t just peel your potatoes the day before but you can parboil them, too.
Is banana bad for dogs?
Are bananas safe for my dog to eat? Yes, bananas are a wonderful snack for your dog with many health benefits. Filled with essential vitamins and nutrients, they are tasty as well and most dogs love them!
Do carrots make dogs poop?
Carrots are high in fiber, which aids in digestion and helps maintain regular fecal consistency. If your dog has a mild case of diarrhea, adding carrots to his diet will increase bulk and absorb excess water. Carrots can also be beneficial for your dog’s dental health.
Do carrots clean dogs teeth?
Carrots are a great natural tool to use for your dog’s dental hygiene. Carrots are abrasive and work to clean the plaque and tartar off your dog’s teeth.
How do you prepare carrots for next day?
Carrots: Carrots can be peeled in advance (if roasting them whole) or peeled and chopped, shredded, or grated up to 3 to 4 days in advance. Store in a sealed bag or container with an airtight lid in the refrigerator.
Can you peel carrots a day before cooking?
Some Storage Tips
Storing carrots in water is one way to keep baby carrots or already peeled carrots fresh. You can’t just place peeled carrots in a dish of water and place it in the refrigerator, however. You can peel them the night or the week before you plan to use them.
Can you prep carrots and potatoes the night before?
Prep your veg the night before
Peel potatoes, carrots, parsnips and any other veg you’re having and leave them in pans of cold water overnight. This will save you a lot of faff and additional mess on Christmas morning.
Can you reheat carrots?
Vegetables with High Amounts of Nitrates
If you have spinach or any green leafy vegetables, carrot, turnip or even celery, avoid reheating them in the microwave. These nitrate rich vegetables when heated again can turn toxic, releasing carcinogenic properties, which are generally cancerous in nature.
How do you reheat carrots in the oven?
When you are ready to reheat the carrots, spread them out evenly on a sheet pan. If you want to, you can drizzle them with a little extra honey or some olive oil. Place the pan in an oven preheated to 450 F. and cook the carrots for about 5 minutes.
Can diabetics eat carrots?
Carrots can be a safe choice if you have diabetes and are watching your blood sugar levels. They’re also non-starchy vegetables. So you can even enjoy small amounts of carrots if you’re following the ketogenic, or keto, diet.
Will carrots raise blood sugar?
Both boiled and raw carrots have a low glycemic index score. This means that they are unlikely to trigger a blood sugar spike. The GI index can help people with diabetes understand which foods are likely to raise their blood sugar levels.
Are carrots high in carbs and sugar?
Because carrots are a root, they’re lower in sugar and carbs than tuber vegetables like potatoes. One medium (61-gram) raw carrot provides ( 2 ): Calories: 25. Protein: 1 gram.
Is it better to boil or steam carrots?
Is it better to boil or to steam them? Generally speaking, when cooking vegetables, steaming is preferable to boiling. Steamed vegetables remain separate from the hot water, allowing them to retain more nutrients.
How long does it take carrots to cook in soup?
Stir in carrots. Add water and broth; bring to a lively simmer over high heat. Reduce heat to maintain a lively simmer and cook until very tender, about 25 minutes.
How long does it take for carrots and potatoes to boil?
Add potatoes and carrots to stew (make sure they are submerged) and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until potatoes and carrots are tender, about 40 minutes.
Is brown sugar healthier?
Contrary to common belief, they are nutritionally similar. Brown sugar contains slightly more minerals than white sugar but will not provide any health benefits. In fact, your intake of all types of sugar should be limited for optimal health.
Can I replace brown sugar with regular sugar?
Yes, plain ol’ granulated sugar can replace brown sugar! It’s a straight one-to-one substitute, so for every cup of brown sugar called for, use a cup of granulated sugar. You will notice a difference in the end result. Brown sugar adds moisture to baked goods and gives them lots of chewy softness.
What’s the difference between light and dark brown sugar?
The difference between light and dark brown sugar is simply the amount of molasses each contains. Light brown sugar has less molasses per total volume of sugar (about 3.5% according to Rose Levy Beranbaum) while dark brown sugar has more (6.5%).
How does Jamie Oliver make roast potatoes?
What oil does Jamie Oliver use for roast potatoes?
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Are you convinced you're the strongest person alive and that the emotions a lot of other people experience are nothing but proof that they are weak? Do you constantly find yourself saying, "I'm fine," but not feeling quite as fine as you let on?
Welcome to the world of the emotionally constipated — you're far from alone. Many other adults are also struggling to understand what they're allowed to feel and are putting their own emotions on trial every time an uncomfortable one sprouts up. Unfortunately, judging our feelings, refusing to acknowledge that we have them and turning down all requests by caring people to share them is a surefire way to get so "backed up" with emotions that you'll make yourself sick — literally.
"How we feel and our emotional well being is incredibly important," says Dr. Sanam Hafeez, founder and clinical director of Comprehensive Consultation Psychological Services. "People who harbor resentments can put their health at risk. Bottling up negative emotion is often linked to hypertension, migraine headache, ulcers, insomnia and even cancer."
Here are six signs you may be emotionally constipated.
1. You spend most of your time alone — It's one thing to enjoy taking walks alone or treating yourself to lunch with a good book, and another to actively avoid any and all contact with the outside world. "Pay attention to the amount of human interaction you have in general on a daily basis," Hafeez says. "If you notice most of your time is spent alone — if friends and family are calling and texting asking 'are you OK, where have you been?' you're withdrawing."
2. You feel angry and/or depressed — Maybe so much time has passed since you last spoke about your feelings that you can no longer locate the source of the anger and sadness you feel. If you find yourself feeling more pent-up emotions than usual, Hafeez says this is a sign that you are not communicating and are shutting down.
3. You aren't feeling your physical best — At some point, repressed emotions are going to surface — they may not cause you to have emotional outbursts on your morning commute, but they will create physical pains and discomfort that are difficult to ignore. "It's common to have severe headaches, loss of appetite, a general feeling of being run down, exhaustion or insomnia," Hafeez says. "When emotions go unexpressed, they fester within, which can lead to even more serious illness such as heart disease, digestive disorders and mental health issues such as depression. Not to mention, the loss of relationships, misunderstandings and other social problems that stem from such a withdrawal."
4. You have a difficult time feeling pure joy and happiness — Emotional constipation isn't just about keeping your sadness and anger buried deep inside. The flip side is that by tempering your emotions, you are also depriving yourself of feeling wonderful, unbridled joy and happiness when something exciting happens in your life. It's a lose-lose situation.
5. You have a difficult time empathizing with other people — You have become such a pro at pretending you don't have emotions that you have zero tolerance for people who do express themselves. Maybe you label them as "too sensitive." If your child is emotional, you may find yourself telling him to "stop crying" or "man up." You're actually sending the people you love a message that you don't think their feelings are worthy enough to be considered important — and it's only a matter of time before they begin retreating from and hiding their feelings from you.
6. You bounce around from one partner to another — If your first instinct after a bad breakup is to go out on the prowl and find someone to help you get over your ex, you may be denying yourself the courtesy of feeling your own pain and working through it before moving on. Perhaps you equate being lovesick with being weak, or you "refuse" to give your ex the satisfaction of knowing he hurt you. But the only way to truly get over a breakup and find another connection that better suits you is by feeling the sadness and loss and surviving it before you start again.
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General Writing Sample Task 1 #58
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You are a student at an English language school in Brighton and are
living in private accommodation with other flat mates. You have not had hot
water or heating for some time. The landlordís workmen have tried to fix the
problem but without success.
Write a letter to the landlord. In your letter:
- state your reason for writing
- describe the problems and explain how you feel
- propose a solution and risk the landlord to take action
Write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Dear Mr. Jones,
I am one of the tenants at your property in Upper Lewes Road, and am writing to complain about the fact that we do not have any hot water or heating in our house.
As you know, we have been living in this house since September and have always paid our rent on time. However, we have had no hot water for last two weeks. This is making our lives very difficult, especially as it is now the middle of winter. Last week you said you would send a workman to our house within 3 days, but no one came. After calling many times, the workman eventually arrived at the house 5 days later. Unfortunately, he said he could not fix the problem because the boiler was too old! We are now extremely unhappy about this solution.
We are prepared to continue to rent your house but please arrange for emergency repairs to be made. We also request a 40% discount on our rent for the period we have been without any hot water or heating.
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Ginger Proofreader is a free spelling and grammar checker, intended for both native speakers, and English as a second language (ESL). Ginger Proofreader checks and corrects spelling mistakes, misused words, and grammar mistakes, based on the context of the full sentence. Even when a word is spelled correctly, Ginger Proofreader checks grammar to see whether it makes sense in the sentence, and offers alternatives to the word.
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reſpects grieve them as much as me; ſo that if I do harm, I muſt look to ſuffer, there being no reaſon that others ſhould ſhew greater meaſure of love to me, than they have by me ſhewed unto them; my deſire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature, as much as poſſible may be, impoſeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to them-ward fully the like affection; from which relation of equality between ourſelves and them that are as ourſelves, what ſeveral rules and canons natural reaſon hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant. Eccl. Pol. Lib. 1.
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The “Energy Globe Award”- the Award for Sustainability worldwide - is today the most recognized environmental award worldwide, established by the American agency Arthur D. Little. It is organized by the independent Energy Globe Foundation from Austria and is awarded in four categories: Earth, Fire, Water and Air. The aim of the award is to present innovative and sustainable solutions to the largest possible global audience, and everyone who offers solutions to our environmental problems with their projects, especially in relation to reducing emissions and pollution, can participate.
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Ljubljana Tourism applied the Green Supply Chains project in the "Earth" category, in which the jury was looking for innovative solutions that contribute to nature conservation and sustainable measures. The Green Supply Chains connect local food producers with restaurants and hotels and bring quality, local, tasty and environmentally friendly ingredients to the plates of Ljubljana eaters.
The project was created in 2015 during the preparations for the title Green Capital of Europe 2016 in cooperation between Ljubljana Tourism, the Sector for Rural Development at the Department of Environmental Protection of the City of Ljubljana, the "sustainable tourism factory" GoodPlace and the cooperative Jarina. By 2017, the project had expanded to the entire Ljubljana region and connected Ljubljana and 25 municipalities in the Ljubljana region. Enabling simple and organized purchases of locally or regionally produced food at affordable prices contributes to the richness of the culinary offer in the city, shorter supply chains promote sustainable development and at the same time contribute to the growth of the local economy.
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Knowing how refrigeration works is crucial to finding the right solutions for your foodservice operation, and fortunately, the basics are easy to understand and quite interesting to learn.
Understanding the Refrigeration Cycle
In simple terms, a refrigeration cycle's mission is heat absorption and heat rejection. As we often tell our customers, you can't make cold, you can just remove heat. The refrigeration cycle is a means of routing heat away from the area you want to cool. This is accomplished by manipulating the pressure of the working refrigerant.
The refrigerant starts its journey in the compressor, where it gets pressurized into a hot gas. Yes, it actually starts out very hot!
Next, the refrigerant enters the condenser. The condenser cools the refrigerant by transforming it into its liquid state, though it’s still hot at this stage. It’s important to protect the condenser because it’s highly susceptible to corrosion. Fortunately, RDT treats its condensers with a protective coating.
After the refrigerant has been liquified, the thermostatic expansion valve reduces the refrigerant’s pressure and cools it even more. The sudden drop in pressure and temperature produces a cooling effect.
Finally, the evaporator absorbs heat into the refrigerant from the items in the walk-in. As the refrigerant heats up, the evaporator vaporizes it and pushes it back into the compressor, starting the cycle over again.
How RDT Sizes Refrigeration Systems
There are a lot of factors that determine the size needed for a refrigeration system. Of course we need the dimensions of the walk-in, the external climate, elevation, and proximity to the ocean are just some of the considerations.
For locations within 20 miles of the ocean, the salty air can damage the aluminum fins of the condensers. RDT will evaluate each location and coat the condensers with a proper protective coating, if necessary.
Whether it’s an extremely hot or cold location, RDT project managers will research annual temperatures and size each system based on the external conditions. In hot environments, we will oversize the condensers. In extremely cold environments, it may be necessary to add heat inside the cabinet as the receivers need to be warm enough for the refrigerant to stay liquified within the condensers.
Evaporator coils can run differently depending on the altitude of a location. So, elevation also factors into the size needed for a refrigeration system. RDT can advise on the best options for an exact area.
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The Eco-Cool Series was developed to be an environmentally friendly option with precise temperature control and flexible load matching to replace numerous compressors with a single digital compressor. Of course, with built-in redundancy! Fewer compressors result in a smaller footprint, significant refrigerant reduction, improved energy savings, and a reduction in installation costs.
The Eco-Smart Series is an evaporator controller that eliminates unnecessary defrosts cycles and defrosts only when needed, and can also be monitored and managed remotely. RDT can also upgrade existing equipment with the Eco-Smart Series.
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Trade Facilitation and Country Size
28 Pages Posted: 23 May 2011 Last revised: 11 Nov 2013
Date Written: October 30, 2013
It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the number of documents required to export and import, a measure of trade facilitation. Three important results follow. First, trade facilitation does improve as country size becomes smaller; that is, small countries perform better than large countries in terms of trade facilitation. Second, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation is non-linear, much stronger for the relatively small than the large countries. Third, contrary to what existing studies might suggest, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation does not appear to be driven by the fact that small countries trade more as a proportion of their gross domestic product than the large countries.
Keywords: Country size, Trade facilitation, Openness, Geography, Proximity, Distance, Location
JEL Classification: F10, F13, F14, F15, F50, F55, H10, K00, L5, O20, 024
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The Company History page lists out the major events in chronological order for Britannia Industries Ltd.
|Company History - Britannia Industries Ltd.|
- The Company was Incorporated on 21st March, as a public limited company under the Indian Companies Act, VII of 1913. The Company Manufacture bakery and soyabean products, export of cashew Kernels marine products, general merchandise items and computer software.
- The Company obtained a priority of Certificate and imported new machinery thereby becoming the first biscuit company in India to instal and run a gas oven plant.
- A new factory was established at Kasara Pier Road in Mumbai. In the same year, the Company became a subsidiary of Peek, Frean & Co. Ltd., U.K., a leading biscuit manufacturing company, and further strengthened its position by expanding the factories at Calcutta and Mumbai.
- A large part of the Company's production was diverted to war effort on account of World War II and at times as much as 95% of the total capacity was booked for the production of "Service Biscuit".
- 19,779 Equity shares issued to acquire the Delhi Biscuit Co. Ltd. In August 1,53,234 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 1:1.
- The Calcutta Factory was shifted from Dum Dum to spacious grounds at Taratola Road in the suburbs of Calcutta. During the same year automatic plants were installed there and later in Mumbai in 1954.
- The development of high quality sliced and wrapped bread in India was pioneered by the Company and was first manufactured at Delhi. - 1,53,234 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 1:2.
- Manufacture of bread was started in Mumbai and a new bread bakery was set up at Delhi in 1965.
- 2,29,851 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 1:2.
- In May 1966, 3,06,468 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 4:9.
1968 - On 14th May, 6,64,014 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 2:3.
- 9,96,021 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 3:5.
- Britannia bread was introduced in Calcutta and Chennai.
- 18,59,239 Bonus equity shares issued in the proportion 7:10 in April.
- After the issue of shares to the Indian public, the non-resident holding in the Company was reduced to less than 40%.
- 18,00,000 Equity shares issued at a premium of Rs 5 per share. 4,06,286 shares offered as rights to resident Indian shareholders in proportion 1:5. 43,714 shares offered to the Company's employees; 1,00,000 shares to UTI and 50,000 shares each to LIC and GIC were reserved for allotment and 11,50,000 shares offered to the public during January/February.
- With effect from 3rd October, the name of the Company was changed from the Britannia Biscuit Co., Ltd., to Britannia Industries Ltd.
- The Company signed a 10 year technical collaboration agreement with Nebico Pvt. Ltd., Nepal, for the supply of know-how relating to manufacturing, packaging and marketing of biscuits and selection of plant and machinery.
- 25,26,118 Bonus equity shares issued in proportion 2:5.
- The turnover increased by 19.4% over the the previous year to Rs 192.15 crores. Sales of biscuits, in terms of volume, registered a satisfacotry growth. "Good Day", a new biscuit launched during the year met with good market response.
- Production of bread at Delhi unit was adversely affected due to launched pure refined cooking oil under the brand name of "Vital".
- 35,36,565 Bonus shares issued in proportion 2:5 during July 1987.
- In (16 months), the total sales turnover increased on an annualised basis by 38.7% over the previous year. Increase in sales of bakery and soya products divisions and higher cashew exports helped to realise higher sales. With the introduction of some more brands during the year, the total biscuit brands of the bakery division reached 27. The soya products division introduced a range of extruded products under the brand name "VITAL FEAST".
- The Company launched new brand of biscuit, namely, `CIRCUT'. Another brand "PURE MAGIC" was extended nationally and posta badam was added to "GOOD DAY" range of biscuits. Bread production and affected for some time at Delhi factory due to industrial unrest.
- 61,88,989 Bonus shares issued in proportion 1:2.
- Two new brands of biscuits,"Elaichi Cream"and "Petit Beurre" were launched. Also, a new cashew badam variant of the brand "Milk Bikis" and brand extension of Pure magic biscuit Vanilla cream were launched. Fruit bread was launched in Delhi and was well received.
- The Company launched two new speciality brands viz., Britannia milk bread and Britannia brown bread in Delhi and extended nationally its main brands Petit Beurre and elaichi cream.
- On 17th August, the Company handed over to SM Dychem Ltd, its soya unit at Vidisha, MP.
- The Company proposed to invest in the equity capital of Britco Company Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture with JMRPCO Ltd., Hongkong, for manufacture of beverage bases and essence for Coca Cola, Fanta & Sprite and to export processed snack foods.
- The Company launched a new brand of biscuit, namely `Little Hearts' which carved a niche in the market.
- The Company launched new brand of biscuit, namely, `Fifty-Fifty'. Bread market remained depressed. To revive the market, the Company launched a speciality brand viz. `Premium Bake' in both Delhi and Mumbai. During the year, the company has started exporting Basmati Rice under the name `Britannia Indian Pearl'.
- During the year, the bakery division launched `Bakers Choice' a sweet biscuit and `Thinlite' a light semi-sweet biscuit aimed at fitness concious consumers.
- Under the `Pure Magics' Umbrella, the company launched a new sandwich cream biscuit with two-in-one flavour viz. double cream and this was well received in the market. In the cake market, under the premium segment, the company launched with Groupe Danone's technological input a Swissroll Cake "Mini Roule" which was also met with good response.
- Mariegold biscuits registered quantum growth in volumes and milk bikis milk cream launched during the year was well received. Despite general slow down in the economy the company's profits improved.
- The Biscuit industry has been dereserved which would not only remove restriction on increasing capacity but would also provide opportunities of growth through new products and efficient production systems. The Company undertook to diversify into cheese and dairy whitner.
- The Company launched `Tiger' range of biscuits for mass market category, `Jim-Jam' and ` `Chekkers' in the premium segment. The Company also launched Butter in Delhi during the year.
- Britannia Industries (BIL) is one of the largest bakery in the private sector and a household name in food products.
- Britannia Industries Ltd (BIL) will shortly enter the cheese and milk products market with an alliance proposed between itself and the Mumbai-based Dynamix Dairy Ltd.
- Britannia Industries Ltd is all set to launch a new corporate identity and a total revamp of its product portfolio, with strategic inputs from an international strategic design and brand repositioning company - Shining Strategic Design. 1998
- Food major Britannia Industries Ltd (BIL) has signed a wage agreement with the Maharashtra General Kamgar Union (MGKU), providing an average wage increase for 1,000 workers employed in the biscuit manufacturing unit at Reay Road, Mumbai.
- The company has launched Half/Half, a soft cake filled with cream in two variants, chocolate-vanilla and vanilla-orange. Half/Half comes in a twin-cake pack (Rs.6) and a tray pack containing five cakes.
- Britannia Industries Ltd has launched a festival offer for Britannia Dairy Whitener in Kerala.
- A Ind AAA rating has been signed to the Rs.100-crore secured non-convertible debenture issue from Britannia Industries Limited (BIL).
- Britannia Industries Ltd has rolled out its flavoured milk brand `Zip-Sip' in tetrapaks. Zip-Sip has been launched in Mumbai and some markets in the South. - Britannia Industries, launching the country's first branded flavoured milk is another step towards its goal of becoming a dairy-products giant.
- In a move meant to sharply increase its India-profile, `knowledge major' Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc plans to come out - for the first time - with India and south Asia-specific volumes targeted at school children as well as institutions and the general `knowledge-seeker'.
- Britinnia Industries has launched consumer promotion scheme `Britannia Khao, Cricketer Ban Jao' on May 1st.
- Britannia Industries, in its second coming in the Indian dairy market under the `Milkman' brand, is introducing a range of products many in desi flavours to woo the Indian consumer.
- The Company has launched Vita Mariegold, a semi-sweet biscuit which reportedly has 10 essential vitamins, milk protein and 58 cereals.
- Britannia's Milk Bikis Funland biscuits an innovative extension of the Milk Bikis brand.
- The Industry is set to start bread-manufacturing factories in Kochi, Hyderabad and Chennai to tap the region's market potential.
- The Company has become the first company to take its products to the Net in the form of a video file.
- Britannia Industries has launched Britannia Milkman Butter, a product under the Milkman brand.
- The Company has appointed Tata Energy Research Institute (Teri) for a power audit.
- FITCH rating India Pvt. Ltd has reaffirmed the Ind AAA rating assigned to the Rs 1000 million non convertible debenture program of Britannia Industries Ltd.
- The Company has lauched two new dairy products Milkman Cold Coffee and Milkman Sweet lassi.
- Britannia Industries Ltd. has introduced a new range of traditional namkeens called Britannia Snaz in Mumbai.
- Britannia Industries has launched Britannia Milkman Milk in Delhi.
- Biscuits major Britannia Industries will fund its in-principle agreement to acquire 49 per cent of Kwality Biscuits through internal accruals.
-Britannia Industries Ltd announced on March 26, 2002 that it has entered into a joint venture with the Fonterra Cooperative Group, New Zealand's biggest company and one of the leading diary co-operative groups in the world.
-Britannia's new COO is Nikhil Sen.
- Board of Directors of Britannia Industries Ltd has passed a resolution to terminate the employment of Mr S K Alagh as Managing Director of the company with immediate effect.
- The management of Britannia Industries has roped in John Miller, a Danone representative, as additional director on its board.
-Britannia New Zealand Foods, a joint venture of Britannia Industries and Fonterra Co-operative group of New Zealand has launched "Britannia MilkMan" fresh milk.
-Britannia's Non-convertible Debentures have been rated AAA by Fitch Rating India as "Stable Outlook".
-Britannia Industries has appointed Mr.Nikhil Sen,Chief Operating Officer as the manager of the company.
-Britannia Industries Ltd has informed that pursuant to the approval of the shareholders of the Company at the AGM held on August 08, 2003 and the subsequent application to the Cochin Stock Exchange Ltd., the said stock exchange has delisted the securities of the Company with effect from November 15, 2003.
-Britannia Industries Ltd reviews marketing alliance with the Kolkata-based Thacker Dairy Products Pvt Ltd
-Britannia accorded the status of being a 'Superbrand'
-Volumes cross 3,00,000 tons of biscuits
-Good Day adds a new variant - Choconut - in its range
--Britannia New Zealand launches health drink for adult
-Re-birth of Tiger - 'Swasth Khao, Tiger Ban Jao' becomes the popular chant!
-Britannia launched 'Greetings' range of premium assorted gift packs
-The new plant in Uttaranchal, commissioned ahead of schedule.
-The launch of yet another exciting snacking option - Britannia 50-50 Pepper Chakkar
-Britannia Industries Ltd has forged a strategic alliance with "CCD Daily Bread Pvt Ltd" a Bangalore based Company engaged in manufacturing and retailing of premium breads, cakes and high end ready to eat foods and snacks
-Britannia Industries Ltd has appointed Mr. Stephan Gerlich as a Director.
-Britannia Industries Ltd has informed that Mr. Durgesh Mehta has joined the Company as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with effect from November 16, 2006. -Britannia re-launched NutriChoice Hi-Fibre Digestive biscuits in an international large sized biscuit pack.
-Britannia industries formed a joint venture with the Khimji Ramdas Group and acquired a 70 percent beneficial state in the Dubai-based Strategic Foods International Co. LLC and 65.4% in the Oman-based Al Sallan Food Industries Co. SAOG.
-Britannia NutriChoice SugarOut range introduced - 1st of its kind of biscuits to be be launched in India with "No Added Sugar" (Variants - Chocolate Cream, Orange Cream, and Litetime)
-Britannia NutriChoice 5 Grain biscuits launched - Biscuits with the goodness of 5 health Cereals, and sweetened with Natural honey. Britannia Nutrichoice promised consumers "Bhook Bhagao, Kuch Healthy Khao" -Britannia launched Iron fortified 'Tiger Banana' biscuits, 'Good Day Classic Cookies', Low Fat Dahi and renovated 'MarieGold'.
-Britannia NutriChoice Nature Spice Crackers launched - Your favorite Cream Crackers, now made even more exciting with the addition of "Sabut" Ajwain and Jeera spices. 2010 -Britannia NutriChoice launches a New Year pack - the Health Starter Kit. Created for everyone who makes New Year resolutions and doesnt follow through. The Health Starter Kit contains 1 pack each of NutriChoice Hi-Fiber Digestive, NutriChoice 5 Grain, NutriChoice Nature Spice Cracker bundled together with a Fit Sip Sipper and a fitness chart. All this only for Rs 100.
- Britannia Industries Ltd has appointed Dr. Vijay L. Kelkar as an additional Director on the Board of the Company with effect from May 28, 2010.
- Company has splits its Face value of Shares from Rs 10 to Rs 2
-Britannia received the Most Respected Company Award 2011 from Businessworld.
-Bourbon received the Most Popular Confectionery Product Preferred By Youth (Biscuit) Award.
-Britannia Bread launched its new range of Health Breads in Delhi in November. The range consists of Honey & Oats Bread, Multi-Grain Bread, 100% Whole Wheat Bread and Multi-Fiber Bread.
-BRITANNIA was honoured with `CREATIVE HR PRACTICES AWARD' by Employer Branding Institute, India, on the occasion of 6th Employer Branding Awards ceremony held on the 10th of December 2011 at Hotel Taj Deccan, Hyderabad.
-IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award 2011 was awarded to Britannia Industries Limited.
-The Modern Trade team of Britannia was honoured with Winner-BEST BAKERY SUPPLIER award for the year 2011-12, at the 1st SPENCER'S Best Supplier Awards 2012 on 22nd June.
-Britannia was awarded the Global Performance Excellence Award (GPEA) by Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO)
-Britannia Industries Ltd.-Kolkata was selected the winner of the GOLDEN PEACOCK NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD for the year 2012.
-Britannia bagged the prestigious IWLF Award for 'Solid Waste Management Project' and 'BNF' project at the International Women Leadership Forum held in Mumbai on 25th April 2013.
-Britannia recommends a dividend for the year ended March 31, 2013 at the rate of Rs. 8.50 (Rupees Eight and Paisa Fifty Only) per equity share of Rs. 2/- each to the eligible members.
2014 -Britannia recommends a dividend for the year ended March 31, 2014 at the rate of Rs. 12/- (Rupees Twelve Only) per equity share of Rs. 2/- each to the eligible members.
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Lately there has been controversy in the hospital engineering community concerning the use of isolated power systems and the 2012 changes in the National Fire Protection Association standard, NFPA 99.
Section 3.3.89 of NFPA99 2012 defines an Isolated Power System as "A system comprising an isolation transformer or its equivalent, a line isolation monitor, and its ungrounded circuit conductors."
Section 3.3.9 of NFPA99 2012 defines a Line Isolation Monitor as "A test instrument designed to continually check the balanced and unbalanced impedance from each line of an isolated circuit to ground and equipped with a built-in test circuit to exercise the alarm without adding to the leakage current hazard." In an isolated power circuit, a ground fault would result in an alarm, but power would not be interrupted.
Section 3.3.184 of NFPA99 2012 defines a Wet Procedure Location as "The area in a patient care room where a procedure is performed that is normally subject to wet conditions while patients are present, including standing fluids on the floor or drenching of the work area, either of which condition is intimate to the patient or staff."
Section 184.108.40.206.1.2(C) of NFPA99 2012 addresses isolated power with regard to Critical Care Areas and states "Where used in locations such as critical care areas, isolated power panels shall be permitted in those locations."
Section 220.127.116.11.8 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Wet Procedure Locations.
Section 18.104.22.168.8.1 of NFPA99 2012 states "Wet procedure locations shall be provided with special protection against electric shock."
Section 22.214.171.124.8.4 of NFPA99 2012 states "Operating rooms shall be considered to be a wet procedure location, unless a risk assessment conducted by the health care governing body determines otherwise.
This is the most controversial section. A risk assessment by the health care governing body can in fact deem an operating room not to be a wet procedure location. This would be contingent on interpretation of the mopping of the floor which occurs between cases as "drenching", as defined in Section 3.3.89 above.
Section 126.96.36.199.8.6 of NFPA99 2012 states "The use of an isolated power system (IPS) shall be permitted as a protective means capable of limiting ground-fault current without power interruption. When installed, such a power system shall conform to the requirements of 188.8.131.52."
Section 184.108.40.206.8.7 of NFPA99 2012 states "Operating rooms defined as wet procedure locations shall be protected by either isolated power or ground fault circuit interrupters."
Section 220.127.116.11.9 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Isolated Power
Section 18.104.22.168.9.2 of NFPA99 2012 states "The system shall be permitted to be installed where it conforms to the performance requirements specified in 22.214.171.124.
Section 126.96.36.199.2.2 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Line Isolation Monitors
Section 188.8.131.52.3.2 of NFPA99 2012 states "The monitor shall be designed such that a green signal lamp, conspicuously visible in the area where the line isolation monitor is utilized, remains lighted when the system is adequately isolated from ground; and an adjacent red signal lamp and an audible warning signal (remote if desired) shall be energized when the total hazard current (consisting of possible resistive or capacitive leakage currents) from either isolated conductor to ground reaches a threshold value of 5.0 mA under normal line voltage conditions. The line isolation monitor shall not alarm for a fault hazard current of less than 3.7 mA.
This is interesting, as many of the Line Isolation Monitors still in use are older, often analog units that are set to alarm at only 2 mA. These units must be replaced immediately, as it is a violation of code to use them.
Section 184.108.40.206 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Performance Criteria and Testing for Isolated Power Systems.
Section 220.127.116.11.2 of NFPA99 2012 Line Isolation Monitor Tests states "The line isolation monitor (LIM) circuit shall be tested after installation, and prior to being placed in service, by successively grounding each line of the energized distribution system through a resistor whose value is 200 x V (ohms), where V equals measured line voltage. The visual and alarms shall be activated."
Section 18.104.22.168 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Maintenance and Testing of the Electrical System.
Section 22.214.171.124.4 of NFPA99 2012 states "The LIM circuit shall be tested at intervals of not more than 1 month by actuating the LIM test switch. For a LIM circuit with automated self-test and self-calibration capabilities, this test shall be performed at intervals of not more than 12 months. Actuation of the test switch shall activate both visual and audible alarm indicators.
Section 126.96.36.199 of NFPA99 2012 addresses Record Keeping.
Section 188.8.131.52.1.1 of NFPA99 2012 states "A record shall be maintained of the tests required by this chapter and associated repairs or modification.
Section 184.108.40.206.1.2 of NFPA99 2012 states "At a minimum, the record shall contain the date, the rooms or areas tested, and an indication of which items have met, or have failed to meet, the performance requirements of this chapter.
Section 6.3.4..2.2 of NFPA99 2012 Isolated Power System (Where Installed) states "A permanent record shall be kept of the results of each of the tests.
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Lincoln County was formed 1796 from Wilkes County and in its faraway Court House at Lincolnton, are to be found many items concerning the early settlers of Wilkes. In the old brick Court House the records are better preserved than in many of the up-to-date-fire-proof buidlings, where they are handled oftener and with less care. About half a dozen of the oldest books are kept in a safe while the others are on shelves in the office. The deeds are intact from 1796 to 1812, then two books "G" and "J" are missing. All are recorded in a Duplex Index.
The old wills are in three books, from 1796 to 1869, each having a separate index and the writing is very good.
The first of marriage books, 1806 to 1829, is alphabetical as to names of the men, and later ones are indexed.
|INDEX TO FIRST BOOK OF WILLS AND ESTATES 1796 to 1805.|
Jones, Henry W.
Mitchell, John D.
Walton, Thomas, Sr.
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ard-playing led directly to gambling with all its attendant evils; theatre-going characterized the conduct of the more disreputable denizens of great cities. Fiction was not absolutely forbidden; but the most lenient regarded it as a great waste of time, and the boy who desired its solace on any large scale was under the frequent necessity of seeking the seclusion of the haymow.
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Violence and the Single Factor
- Tim Laitinen Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2013 15 Jan
Gun violence is tormenting America.
And most of the shooters are single men.
Consider the horror in Newtown, Connecticut, when a young single man killed 27 people, including his own mother.
This past Christmas Eve day, in suburban Rochester, New York, a middle-aged single man killed two firefighters and his own sister, while seven homes burned.
Also on Christmas Eve day, but in suburban Houston, Texas, a young single man killed a police officer and a bystander after he crashed his vehicle while being chased.
Then there’s the guy who shot Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords along with 18 other people, six of whom died, in 2011. Yup, he’s single.
And the guy who burst into the Colorado movie theater last summer, killing 12 people and injuring 59 others? Single.
Scary coincidence, or ominous statistic? Does gender combined with marital status have any role to play in such tragic violence? These are questions we don’t spend much time pondering, because for the most part, being male and single comprise two relatively generic characteristics of these shooters.
Indeed, many people more quickly point to the fact that all of these guys used guns to kill their victims. It’s been the impetus behind renewed calls for more gun control legislation. But no matter what you personally think about guns and gun control, might that debate really be a smokescreen keeping us from seeing the extent to which our sin nature corrupts our society?
What pushes people to kill, regardless of what they use as a weapon? Although it makes us uncomfortable to talk about, how much responsibility do all of us in our society have when it comes to factors that precipitate events like Newtown?
Particularly those of us who likely have more points of contact with singles in our communities?
Some Cultural Norms are Better Than Others
Yes, each of these gunmen is ultimately responsible for their decisions and actions. And mass murderers don’t have to be unmarried males. Yet as we look for answers in these shootings, and seek to prevent violence and preserve human life, are the rest of us ignoring opportunities to model Christ’s love, patience, and peace to people who may not fit our targeted social groups?
Besides their gender and marital status, most of these shooters display another similar characteristic: social disengagement. They were either ostracized from conventional groups, developmentally disabled, intellectually brilliant yet socially inept, or, at least in the Texas tragedy, fathering children out of wedlock. Not exactly guys most church singles groups would welcome with open arms.
As believers in Christ, and churchgoers, perhaps we’re more accustomed than most people in our society to gathering together with other like-minded people on a regular basis. We have been socialized into a “Christianized” culture. And yes, at its best, America’s church culture can provide society with intangible benefits through our patterns of behaviors and expectations. When Paul admonishes us to “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together” he had plenty of good reasons for doing so. And basic, everyday accountability is one of those reasons.
It would be sloppy science to run data on each of these shooters and peg their church attendance – or lack of it – to their crimes. But here’s the point: the more interconnected we are, the more we tend to value our fellow humanity. Even if we’d like to throttle some of them by the neck sometimes, we’d never consider murder!
Granted, church isn’t the only socialization mechanism at our disposal. But as people of faith, we understand that the power of God is available in unique ways, and for divine purposes, within our faith communities. And we’re also held to a higher standard for helping others in our fellowship get involved in serving God.
For example, even though cliques thrive in many churches, we’re supposed to act lovingly towards everyone who seeks our fellowship. At times, of course, this “love” may take the form of wise confrontation, such as when somebody is disruptively interacting with others. Knowing the difference between genuine awkwardness and intentional abuse within one’s fellowship is key to helping everyone integrate well and participate in the church’s mission.
And, speaking of sloppy science, a cursory review of the backgrounds of these shooters paints what appears to be a mixed bag of awkwardness and abuse. Clearly, the willingness and determination to kill another human being involves a pathology most of us are ill-equipped to adequately address on our own. But it’s not as though every unmarried guy who doesn’t fit well into our groups is going to end up murdering first graders or first responders. Most misfits simply need honest friends.
Reaching Beyond Ourselves
After all, doesn’t our faith involve serving as Christ’s hands and feet to not only those we can easily befriend, but also people who require extra work on our part? Look, we spend most of our time in church discussing ways we can improve every other aspect of our faith walk. But do we spend enough time contemplating the social unpleasantries for which Christ’s Gospel also holds hope?
Might the violence shattering our national consciousness be some degree of proof that we’re not?
Does Christ expect us to cloister ourselves in our churches and Bible studies, while we expect gun legislation, more police officers, and less violent Hollywood movies to sufficiently address the evil in our world? Yes, Christ ministered to the marginalized and demon-possessed of His earthly ministry in ways that smack us Westerners today as being too bizarre for our competencies. Yet the Gospel that broke chains binding those people in Bible times is the same Gospel that can break evil’s chains today. We say we believe it when somebody professes faith in Christ, but maybe it’s just easier to believe it when it’s people like us coming into God’s Kingdom.
Meanwhile, all those weirdos out there are somebody else’s problem.
But should they be?
We’ve learned quite a bit about the guys who’ve perpetrated this violence across our country, and generally, they’re guys “normal” people didn’t try very hard to befriend. One reason is that, yes, these guys are hard to befriend, and in our society today, we aren’t used to investing long and hard in relationships that likely won’t benefit us in a reciprocal fashion.
But if we’re heirs of the Hope of the world, shouldn’t we – of all people – be the most willing to at least make honest attempts at befriending those in our midst who aren’t easy to befriend?
Maybe it all sounds too corny to you, thinking that being a friend to somebody in church, or at work, or the gym, or in a college class of yours, could make any impact on the tide of violence washing over our country. But if our national dialog on the subject is going to dwell on institutionalized responses, where’s the one-on-one intervention going to come from? Where will displays of humanity, friendship, and the grace of Christ come from?
You’ll probably never encounter anybody as unstable as a crazed killer. But to whom might you owe that probability? To God, of course, but maybe also somebody who took the time to befriend somebody they thought was a social misfit.
And fit him into their life in such a way that Christ’s love proved irresistible.
From his smorgasboard of church experience, ranging from the Christian and Missionary Alliance to the Presbyterian Church in America, Tim Laitinen brings a range of observations to his perspective on how we Americans worship, fellowship, and minister among our communities of faith. As a one-time employee of a Bible church in suburban Fort Worth, Texas and a former volunteer director of the contemporary Christian music ministry at New York City's legendary Calvary Baptist, he's seen our church culture from the inside out. You can read about his unique viewpoints at o-l-i.blogspot.com.
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"It's time you cheer", announces the YouTube Video (scene from video on right) created to garner support for India's players at the London Olympics.
Indeed, the song, "Aap agar saath hain, zindagi saath hai" the background score sung by Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire, asking Indians to cheer for their stars at the 2012 Games, is very hummable and a great way to show one's support.
Not only at the Olympics, but in Life as well, it's very important to cheer on your family, your spouse, your children, your parents and your friends. While one can manage quite well on one's own, if there's someone standing beside you, noticing your contribution, sharing your passion and your dreams, helping you step over the puddles and mistakes, it's an altogether different feeling.
This holds true for your co-workers as well. Just cheer them on and see the difference. Don't worry, they won't all become soppy and spoilt by praise. Instead, they have one more reason to come to office. And it will be a cascading effect that translates into more happy and contributing workers and better bottomlines.
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China to Focus More on Promoting New Energy Vehicles from Providing Incentives to Carmakers
China switches its focus in promoting new energy vehicles from providing incentives to electric carmakers and buyers when giving out subsidies for the construction and maintenance of charging facilities. Just last week a plan was drafted that was intended to stimulate the extension of electric car charging facilities across the country for the next five years was released for public opinion by government departments including the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance.
The drafted plan makes the local government eligible for up to 200 million yuan in annual rewards from the central government. The draft plan also included provinces and cities are able to receive rewards from top authorities wherein the higher the new energy vehicle sales figures the bigger the rewards. In 2016, areas that meet the minimum requirement of selling more than 30,000 new energy vehicles gets 9,000 yuan for each vehicle sold. Furthermore the central government provides a special bonus of 7.5 million yuan for every 2,500 units of additional sales with a reward ceiling of 120 million yuan. The minimum requirements and incentive ceiling will increase annually.
In 2020, the minimum sales requirement will be at 70,000 units and areas that qualify will get subsidies of 12,600 yuan for each sale. The bonus rule changes to 11 million yuan for every 6,000 units of increased sales and bonus ceiling is at 200 million yuan. the draft plan also calls for all local government to create plans to promote new energy vehicles and charging infrastructure operations and report these plans to drafters by March of next year. The drafted plan states that the reward money will be used in areas related to charging facilities such as operations, upgrades and construction of facilities. The money received will not go to subsidies for purchasing new energy vehicles or operating an electric car business that are the current destination of most incentives.
Buyers of new energy vehicles are attracted by easy to get car registration, big subsidies, and fuel efficiency and tax reductions so the price of new energy vehicles should drop from its current levels to be competitive after the subsidies end. Earlier the Ministry of Finance released a notice that its financial support policy for new energy vehicles from 2016 to 2020 that indicates the incentives for 2017 and 2018 is at 20 percent lower that in 2016 and 40 percent lower in 2019 and 2020. | <urn:uuid:de225b74-5213-4910-adae-ccce5a66cb4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.shenzhen-standard.com/2015/12/21/china-to-focus-more-on-promoting-new-energy-vehicles-from-providing-incentives-to-carmakers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957648 | 461 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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The Warrior Elite
The tip of America's spear
By Steven Martinovich
Who the world's best soldiers are has long been a matter for debate. Britain's Special Air Service, Russia's Spetnaz, the Gurkhas and Taiwan's LARC can legitimately claim that they are among the world's finest soldiers. The best, however, may be the US Navy SEALs, a formidable fighting force that proudly lists as an achievement never having left a man behind. Descendants of the frogman who during World War II suffered heavy casualties when they cleared beaches of obstacles so troop transports could land, the SEALs are today active in every part of the world and undertaking some of the most dangerous missions.
SEAL is an acronym for SEa, Air and Land, the environments that SEALs operate in. Their training gives them proficiency in diving, parachuting, combat swimming, navigation, demolitions, weapons and a laundry list of other skills necessary to complete their missions. In addition to water, where SEALs feel most at home, they are also trained to operate in the desert, the jungle, in cold weather and in urban settings.
It is their training that Dick Couch, SEAL Class 45 and former CIA officer, documents in The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228. Allowed to follow a class of 98 men beginning in October 1997, Couch details the 27 week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) course, a brutal process which takes some of America's finest soldiers and eliminates those without the desire or ability to become the nation's sharpest sword. In the process of following Class 228, one that through the book suffers the steady attrition of men the SEALs are exclusively an all male fraternity who simply quit or are unable to continue for mental or physical reasons, Couch attempts to answer the question of what would make a man volunteer for a brutal lifestyle that forces him to stay awake days at a time and requires that he perform the necessary skills perfectly every time.
BUD/S training is divided into three distinct phases: conditioning, diving and weapons and tactics. Trainees, not surprisingly perhaps, usually identify Phase 1 as the most difficult. There the men go through "calculated mayhem, designed to force each man in the class to reassess his personal commitment" to become a SEAL. For four weeks, their ranks are winnowed each day by what seems to be endless physical training. The first phase is capped off by the ultimate Darwinian test: Hell Week. For five days, the remaining trainees participate in what is essentially around the clock training with only five scheduled hours of sleep. To survive the experience, each man must learn that they simply have to take the physical punishment and not anticipate that which is yet to come.
Phase 2 sees the physical requirements for the survivors toughened once again as they learn the skills needed in the water. Once again, a physically battering training regimen emphasizes long distance underwater dives with the goal of training students to become basic combat divers, using swimming and diving techniques as a means of transportation from their launch point to their combat objective. Couch makes it fairly clear that the nine weeks of Phase 3 may be the most difficult. Again, the physical training is ratcheted upwards as the students learn navigation, small unit tactics how the SEALs operate, patrolling and demolitions with the final four weeks are spent employing all of their skills.
BUD/S training takes a terrible toll on the men of Class 228. Couch's look at their training also functions like constantly diminishing total of men. At the the end of Hell Week, only 19 original members of the incoming class are left standing. Replenished by a constant stream of medical rollbacks and the return of men forced to postpone their training in other classes, Class 228 nevertheless ends its 27th week with only 20 men who will go on to more advanced training. All told, only one man in five was left standing at the end of what is essentially basic training for SEALs.
So what is it that drove the successful men of Class 228? Why would the best of America's sons volunteer for the torture that it takes to become a Navy SEAL? Unfortunately there isn't any one answer, as Couch points out. Some men are driven by their need to prove that they can stand with the best while others simply refuse to quit. Whatever that intangible quality is, America is the better for it. From their predecessors the frogman to the SEALs who struck the Vietcong and NVA in their strongholds to the handful of SEALs who fooled Iraq into thinking that the Gulf War would begin with an amphibious assault and froze elements of two divisions, they have consistently proven that they are the best of the best.
And they are likely proving it right now. Written before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Couch is eerily prescient when he writes that, "The Middle East, with its unique blend of religious fundamentalism, despotism, and petroleum-driven wealth, could quickly draw us into another regional war." It's a safe bet that the tip of the spear is already there, preparing the way for the greater war against terrorism. Whatever powered the men of Class 228 to suffer through the ordeal that creates a SEAL, we can be sure the Taliban and its allies will likely experience it firsthand.
Steven Martinovich is a freelance writer in Sudbury, Ontario.
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The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all set to form the next government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) after winning the legislative assembly elections held there on July 25. AJK is a part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir that is administered by Pakistan.
The election was marred by violence; at least two PTI workers were killed in shooting incidents. The results did not come as a surprise. If anything, the election revealed how the region’s electoral politics remain dominated by political parties based in mainland Pakistan with little or no focus on the region’s future.
The party that rules Pakistan usually wins assembly elections in AJK. Thus, for instance, in the 2016 AJK assembly election, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the then ruling party of Pakistan, won the AJK election with 31 seats, followed by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muslim Conference (MC) with three each, while the Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party (JKPP) and PTI secured one seat each.
In 2021’s election, however, the PTI won 25 of the 45 seats. The PPP won 11 seats, while PML-N could secure only six seats. The two AJK-based parties, MC and JKPP managed to secure one seat each, according to unofficial results.
Over the decades, AJK based parties have virtually lost out to Pakistan’s national parties or those coming from mainland Pakistan. The MC is the oldest political party of the region, but has not been able to singlehandedly win the election for decades. The only time the party won and came to power was through its alliance with ruling parties in power in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.
The election in AJK takes place through a very complicated process, putting to question the transparency of the entire exercise. Out of the 45 general seats in the assembly, 12 are reserved for Kashmiri refugees who live in mainland Pakistan. Analysts say that these refugee seats are one of the biggest obstacles to holding a transparent election in AJK.
“Pakistan’s political parties use their influence and resources to win the polls in AJK through these seats,” Raja Nafees, a political activist in District Bagh told TRT World. This time too, the 12 reserved seats “influenced the overall election and played a major role in the formation of the government in AJK.”
Moreover, new electoral laws of the region bar pro-independence parties from taking part in the electoral process. According to the new electoral rules, a candidate is required to sign a document acknowledging that he or she favors “Pakistan’s ideology, the ideology of annexation of disputed Kashmir region with Pakistan and the integrity and sovereignty of Pakistan.”
However, Pakistan’s government maintains that the people of AJK have the right to form an independent state. Prime Minister Imran Khan has said often that his government would allow a referendum in AJK to offer the people a chance to decide their own political future.
In the wake of the just-concluded election to the AJK assembly, Khan tweeted that “as an ambassador for Kashmir, I will continue to raise my voice on all international forums including the UN to ensure the international community fulfils its commitment of self-determination to the Kashmiri [people] through an UN-sponsored plebiscite.”
It lays bare the fact that there is little clarity in the Pakistani state’s vision for AJK’s political future.
It is important to note that the electoral campaign was largely a contest among Pakistan’s major political parties rather than an opportunity for the AJK people to discuss issues of importance to the region.
There was little significant electoral debate on Pakistan’s border dispute with India over the issue of Kashmir, for example. Not a single party put forward a manifesto to focus on the unresolved political relationship of the Kashmir Valley with Pakistan.
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This activity describes the flow of carbon in the environment and focuses on how much carbon is stored in trees. It goes on to have students analyze data and make calculations about the amount of carbon stored in a set of trees at three sites in a wooded area that were to be cut down to build a college dormitory.
This activity introduces students to global climate patterns by having each student collect information about the climate in a particular region of the globe. After collecting information, students share data through posters in class and consider factors that lead to differences in climate in different parts of the world. Finally, students synthesize the information to see how climate varies around the world.
This short activity provides a way to improve understanding of a frequently-published diagram of global carbon pools and fluxes. Students create a scaled 3-D visual of carbon reservoirs and the movement of carbon between reservoirs.
This short cartoon video uses a simple baseball analogy (steroid use increases probability of hitting home runs) to explain how small increases in greenhouse gases can cause global temperature changes and increase the probability of extreme weather events.
In this activity, learners use the STELLA box modeling software to determine Earth's temperature based on incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation. Starting with a simple black body model, the exercise gradually adds complexity by incorporating albedo, then a 1-layer atmosphere, then a 2-layer atmosphere, and finally a complex atmosphere with latent and sensible heat fluxes. With each step, students compare the modeled surface temperature to Earth's actual surface temperature, thereby providing a check on how well each increasingly complex model captures the physics of the actual system.
In this activity, students analyze data maps of sea surface temperature anomalies for a 14-year interval and create an ENSO time line in a case study format. Based on their findings, students determine the recurrence interval of the ENSO system.
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Theodore Roosevelt once said, “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed”. Greetings ladies and gentlemen, my name is Priscilla Mungati and I am a student of year 11.
The place we call our home can be described as so many things. Pristine, Exquisite, Immaculate. But no one dares to mention the entity that is mother nature. By definition, mother nature is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in form of the mother. We tend to forget that the world we live in is not inherited from our ancestors but borrowed from our children. We disregard the importance of keeping our surrounding ecosystems clean and instead go ahead to destroy them. The earth is the only home we have so we better act and treat it like it deserves to be.
The world we live in is quite precious. As humans, naturally we have a connection to nature, and we may not realise it, but nature is a teacher to us all. Nature teaches us to be truly present and be aware of our surrounding in daily life. It teaches authenticity by giving you opportunities to be alone with yourself in a truly non-judgemental environment. It teaches us to be grateful and appreciate the positive things in life. But instead of taking the time to appreciate nature and all it does for us, we are debasing it. Nature is the solution to unhappiness. As Debasish Mridha once said, “Tranquillity, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity”.
There is so much we can do to protect the earth. We just need to put an initiative. Take time to plant a tree or to care for the habitats of the small creatures in our surrounding. The fact is the little actions we do can actually make a big difference on the earth. We are not destroying for ourselves, but for every other living thing as well. Take time to actually research on the wellbeing of the environment and help save the earth. Nature is our only true connection left to humanity and destroying it really says something about your character. | <urn:uuid:d8dd35e0-b41e-4472-8fd2-17c6f6810ab5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tis.ac.ug/post/the-heart-of-all-that-exists | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.952167 | 496 | 2.78125 | 3 |
What happened after the FairDistricts Amendments were passed?On November 2, 2010 sixty-three percent of the voters changed history by voting YES to put new constitutional limits on the way legislators are permitted to draw Congressional, State House and State Senate lines. Tallahassee politicians had fought long and hard against the FairDistricts Amendments and their opposition to these new restrictions did not end when the votes were counted.
- When it became apparent that the FairDistricts Amendments had passed, in the middle of the night two Members of Congress filed a Federal Court lawsuit claiming that the Amendments were unconstitutional. The Florida House quickly joined that suit. The FairDistricts coalition fought the lawsuit and won at the trial and appellate levels.
- Governor Charlie Crist asked the United States Department of Justice to “pre-clear” the amendments – a process required before the new rules could be implemented. Within two days of taking office, new Governor Rick Scott withdrew the state’s request for pre-clearance. He only reinstated it after the FairDistricts coalition sued to force him to re-submit the request. The Justice Department promptly approved the amendments – ruling that they did not violate the Voting Rights Act.
- Once it was clear that the new rules for redistricting were here to stay, the Legislature hatched a plan to delay the maps and to make it look like they were complying while they ignored the will of the people and drew districts to favor themselves. They held a listening tour with 26 meetings all over the state. They asked citizens to come and tell them what sort of districts they wanted the Legislature to draw. Members of the FairDistricts coalition and scores of other citizens told the legislators: (1) we want you to follow the FairDistricts amendments, (2) we want you to speed up the map drawing process, and (3) we want you to show us your maps so we can have a reasonable opportunity to comment on them.
- But the Legislature did not speed up the process and did not produce any maps for citizen comment (and made no comment themselves) until months after the “listening tour” had concluded. And while making a show of complying with the amendments, the Tallahassee politicians did everything they could to avoid applying the FairDistricts rules.
- Finally, just before the Holidays in 2011, in Tallahassee, at their last committee meetings of the year, legislators revealed the maps they were advancing. And at the end of January 2012, they passed new maps for Congressional districts as well as state House and Senate districts.
Did the maps comply with the FairDistricts rules?While the map for the state House best complied with the FairDistricts amendments, none of the maps were fully compliant. So members of the FairDistricts Coalition challenged the maps in court.
The House and Senate maps were first brought to the Florida Supreme Court for an initial “facial” review. The FairDistricts coalition challenged the maps in that proceeding.
- The House map appeared to be the most compliant of the three maps and the Court upheld it.
- At the urging of the FairDistricts coalition, the Supreme Court found that the Senate map had been drawn to favor incumbents -- it “was rife with improper intent”. The Court ordered the legislature to redraw it.
- The legislature redrew the Senate map but it still does not fully comply with the FairDistricts rules. So although the map was used in the 2012 elections, there is still great opportunity for improvement in 2014 and beyond. Members of the FairDistricts coalition have sued in Tallahassee to bring the Senate districts into compliance. That suit is pending.
The Congressional map did not get an automatic facial review in the Florida Supreme Court. Because that map does not comply with the FairDistricts reforms, the Coalition filed suit to challenge the Congressional map in a Tallahassee state trial court – but as coalition members had predicted, the Legislature ran out the clock and the case did not conclude in time to change the map for the 2012 elections. The coalition is asking the court to redraw the Congressional map and bring it into compliance with the FairDistricts standards. So there is great opportunity to change the map and create more fairness in Congressional districts for 2014 and beyond. | <urn:uuid:fac37ceb-f42f-4ac8-8475-b35a7d98b682> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fairdistrictsnow.org/redistricting/is-it-over | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970421 | 877 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, established in the universal Roman calendar by Pope Urban IV in 1264. The Pope asked the greatest theologian of the time (and our School’s patron), St. Thomas Aquinas, to compose a Mass for the new feast. He composed five hymns, among them the beloved Adoro te devote, the Pange lingua, and the Lauda Sion. Of the five sequences in the Roman Missal, today’s is the longest and perhaps the most lyrical. In its dogmatic precision, it provides an admirable catechesis on the Holy Eucharist in 24 stanzas. It seems almost effusive, but St. Thomas leads us to wonder rather than definition. How can the Church sufficiently describe the Corpus Domini made real at every Mass, and quietly present in every tabernacle? We simply cannot say enough about the Holy Eucharist, the Inaestimabile Donum of our Provident Father. Some excerpts from our Sequence today:
Lauda Sion Salvatórem, Lauda ducem et pastórem, In hymnis et cánticis.
Praise O Zion your Savior, praise your leader and your shepherd, in hymns and canticles.
Dogma datur Christiánis, Quod in carnem transit panis, Et vinum in sánguinem.
To Christians is given this dogma, that bread becomes flesh, and wine blood.
A suménte non concísus, Non confráctus, non divísus: Integer accípitur.
Neither cut nor broken nor divided: the receiver receives Him whole.
Sumit unus, sumunt mille:Quantum isti, tantum ille: Nec sumptus consúmitur.
One receives him, a thousand receive him: as much as one receives, so much do a thousand receive: He is never exhausted.
Ecce panis Angelórum, Factus cibus viatórum: Vere panis filiórum.
Behold the bread of angels, made into bread of pilgrims: truly bread of sons and daughters.
Bone pastor, panis vere, Jesu, nostri miserére: Tu nos pasce, nos tuére, Tu nos bona fac vidére, in terra vivéntium.
Good pastor, true bread, Jesus our mercy: you keep us, you protect us, you will make us to see good things in the land of the living.
In today’s Gospel Jesus feeds five thousand, as he feeds five billion mouths every week throughout the world in the Holy Mass. It is growing late, and the Apostles see five thousand hungry and (potentially angry) men before them. “Dismiss this crowd!” they urge Jesus. Our Lord contests: “No. They are hungry. Feed them.” Jesus commands his first pastors to feed the world, but not with earthly bread. But the apostles reply, “feed them with what? We have only five loaves and two fish.” Jesus instructs them: “Then give them what you have. Give them all you have.” The disciples, thankfully, give everything they have to Jesus. He blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to the disciples, who give it to the people. All ate and were satisfied.
The priest must give what he has to Jesus before he can give it to the people. He cannot offer the Church anything of value without first surrendering it to Christ. It is Christ who consecrates and multiplies what we give, so that it may be sufficient. What have we to offer that will satisfy anyone? Very little, and certainly not enough. Do you ever feel inadequate in trying to meet the needs of your spouse, your children, your friends, or your parishioners? The trick is to offer what we do have to Jesus. Mother Teresa would say, “To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite...”
In the Incarnation, God took what little Our Lady had to offer—her finite human will, her small and imperfect body—and he made it infinite. In Sacred Eucharist, God repeats that miracle. He takes what little we have to offer—a bit of bread and a few drops of wine—an hour of our time, a few dollars thrown into the basket, the little bit of energy we spend in getting to Mass. He takes our little tithe and feeds the world with it. The eternal salvation of every man, woman, and child on earth depends on the Mass, and the Mass depends on us. If we don’t offer the Eucharist, it won’t happen—Jesus entrusted this duty to men, after all. We have to offer what we have, as Abraham offered his little tithe in the first reading. He offered just a tenth of his wealth to the priest-king Melchizidek, who brought out offerings of bread and wine. And the blessing our father Abraham received is sufficient even unto this day.
After Mass we will process behind the Blessed Sacrament. In the words of Blessed John Paul II, the Church “solemnly bears it in procession, publicly proclaiming the sacrifice of Christ for the salvation of the whole world.” The parishes that carry Christ in procession, and enthrone Him in the Blessed Sacrament, are transformed. My last parish had more people at daily Mass, fed more poor people every week, received more money in the Sunday offertory, and sent more men into the seminary than any other parish in the diocese. Asked by our local newspaper why this was so, one of our elderly parishioners replied immediately: it is because we have a perpetual adoration chapel.
Our Procession and Holy Hour
In our Corpus Christi procession today, we will consecrate the entire student body and academic year by bringing the Blessed Sacrament into the residence halls and throughout the campus. Pope Francis himself processed with the Sacrament through the city of Rome on Thursday, and today has just completed a Eucharistic Holy Hour (5-6pm Rome time, or 8-9am Santa Paula time). We join him in our Mass this morning, as we join him in a holy hour after our procession, with benediction at 11:30, just before a nice lunch at the Commons.
In a small work on Corpus Christi Sunday, St. Thomas articulates our own wonder in the Holy Eucharist: “O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value?...In the end, no one can fully express the sweetness of this Sacrament, in which spiritual delight is tasted at its very source….it was the fulfillment of ancient figures and the greatest of his miracles, and for those who were to experience the sorrow of his departure, a unique and abiding consolation.” The Eucharist, the Holy Mass, is our unique and abiding consolation, a divine foretaste of what awaits us in heaven. | <urn:uuid:2707ff5e-7552-48fe-b1b9-5a1e836591c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.frilloblog.com/blog/category/holy%20hour | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00252-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951813 | 1,500 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Right now, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration is only soliciting ideas, but eventually the federal agency hopes to involve the general public in its search for asteroids which might threaten the earth.
“We a large amount of data already associated with asteroids,” says Jason Kessler, a spokesman for the NASA office of the chief technologist. “Are they ways we can creatively bring people in to help?”
NASA used the general public to help analyze pictures taken by the Hubble telescope. That helped resolve the project to classify galaxies much quicker than expected.
“We’ve done a very good job on the big ones (asteroids),” he says, “but it’s the smaller one that do have some potential threat that we have a lot of work to do.”
NASA has put out a Request For Information, basically opening the door to institutions, companies, universities and others to submit ideas on how to make this happen.
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Nonprofit group set to purchase historic Cadillac Hotel
Seattle Times staff reporter
The deal has closed to purchase the Cadillac Hotel, a uniquely historic Pioneer Square building that could tell thousands of stories but needs millions of dollars in repairs.
After the February 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the owner of the hotel announced intentions to demolish the 113-year-old building. But Historic Seattle, a nonprofit group committed to saving the city's architectural past, has stepped in and bought the property for $2 million, $1.5 million of which will be financed by seller Goodman Financial Services.
Although word of an impending sale leaked out last February, the acquisition did not become official until Historic Seattle secured the building's ground-floor and basement tenant — the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, which is run by the National Park Service.
The museum currently operates out of leased space two blocks away.
In a previous life, the hotel provided lodging for prospectors who came to Seattle in hopes of getting rich during the Alaska gold rush.
The Cadillac, one of the first buildings to rise from the ashes of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, has sat forlorn on the corner of Second Avenue South and South Jackson Street ever since the 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the city.
Missing many of its red bricks and cordoned off by a fence, it looked like the end of the line for the Cadillac.
It was one of 25 structures built within six months after the 1889 fire that destroyed much of Seattle's downtown. Only eight of those 25 still stand.
"Before the earthquake hit, the Cadillac had much of its original 1889 fabric intact," said Heather MacIntosh, Historic Seattle's preservation advocate.
The 56-room hotel was typical of inexpensive boarding houses. Many of its residents were single men, unskilled laborers who arrived in Seattle in search of work.
Once renovated, Historic Seattle hopes to lease the upper two floors of the Cadillac as office space, with the Park Service occupying some of it, said Mark Blatter, director of real-estate development.
The lease with the Park Service will include an option to buy the property as part of a long-range plan to develop a Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Pioneer Square, Blatter said.
But first, Historic Seattle has to finance an estimated $5.6 million, on top of the purchase price, to rehabilitate the structure.
Architectural designs are to be completed in February, with construction expected to begin next summer with the relocating the following spring.
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Southwest water experts target lawns to save farms
DENVER – Probably no other plant can inspire more passion here in the West than the humble blade of grass.
For many homeowners, a patch of lawn is a private sanctuary, a place to go barefoot and let the kids run.
And to people like Steve Harris, a Durango water engineer, every new blade of grass represents a drop of water that once was used to water crops.
Harris thinks it’s time Colorado places limits on new lawns, and his idea is getting a close look at the state Capitol.
“If you want to do conservation, limiting grass is how you do it,” he said.
The problem is known as “buy and dry” – farmers selling their water rights to expanding cities and leaving rural economies without farms and jobs. State studies predict Colorado will lose more than half a million acres of agricultural land by the middle of the century because of buy and dry.
Harris thinks the problem could have a relatively simple solution. Starting in 2016, he says, if any new housing development plans to buy agricultural water rights, then its lawns should cover no more than 15 percent of each house’s property.
Lawns are the real water hog in a house, and Harris thinks limiting them will do more good for agriculture than another forthcoming bill to require efficient plumbing fixtures within houses.
“What’s the first thing (cities) do when there’s a drought? They restrict lawn watering. It’s immediate and it’s effective,” Harris said.
Harris took his idea to Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, and they turned it into Senate Bill 17, a bill that is now under scrutiny at the state Capitol.
Roberts rounded up bipartisan sponsors to help her carry the bill – Sen. Mary Hodge, D-Brighton, Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Fort Garland, and Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose. She also has the Colorado River Water Conservation District and water experts in Southwest Colorado on her side.
Roberts and her allies have been presenting the bill to the various groups engaged in Colorado’s long-running water wars – farm and ranch groups, city utilities, home builders – in the hopes of building support before scheduling the bill for its first hearing.
“I’ve been talking with home builders a lot. Being married to one, I don’t want to have any negative effect on home builders as they continue to recover from the recession,” Roberts said.
Home builders, however, question whether the bill will do any good.
The bill limits grass only on private lots, and it excludes parks and open space – the biggest grassy areas in most new developments.
Most of the new suburbs under construction now don’t follow the old pattern of rectangular lots separated by privacy fences. Instead, builders are putting up houses with “postage stamp” lawns that surround large, grassy open space areas, said Amie Mayhew, CEO of the Colorado Association of Home Builders.
“Land is expensive, so what we’re seeing for the most part on the Front Range is smaller lots, bigger homes,” Mayhew said.
Opposition is also coming from local governments.
The bill requires them to enforce the 15 percent lawn limit through their land use codes, and the local government lobby has a long-standing opposition to mandates from Denver. Roberts is usually one of the first senators to side with local governments against the state.
“Personally, it’s a little hard for me, because I am consistently in opposition to mandates,” Roberts said.
But then, this is a water bill, and the usual rules of politics don’t apply.
Water has always been the one issue in Colorado that could overcome party politics, and SB 17 offers further proof. One of Roberts’ main collaborators is Bruce Whitehead, executive director of the Southwestern Water Conservation District. Roberts was elected to the Senate by ousting Whitehead, the incumbent senator, in 2010 during a hard-fought campaign.
Whitehead said it’s been good to work with Roberts.
“I think it’s admirable that Sen. Roberts is willing to carry the bill, because as you know it has some controversy around it,” he said.
To win, Roberts, Whitehead and Harris need to make sure the bill isn’t treated like a West Slope-East Slope fight, because they will be outvoted if Front Range Democrats and Republicans unite against it.
Both Whitehead and Harris point out that the bill would apply statewide. Subdivisions like Lake Durango use converted agricultural water, although current houses there would be grandfathered and would not have to limit lawn sizes.
If nothing else, Whitehead said, the bill is spurring Colorado leaders to get serious about saving water after years of talk.
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Gertrude Sortwell loved to sit in this old wing chair and look out the window at her beloved sunken garden across the street. She was so tiny that the family had a platform made to hold the chair high enough so that she could see. The needlework patch on the back and worn arms are evidence of many hours of comfortable and contented use.
The many wool and cotton braided rugs in the house were all made between 1890-1950 by Ross Elwell, the Sortwells’ devoted butler for more than thirty years. Elwell worked for the family in Cambridge before coming with them to Wiscasset in 1899 when they purchased the house. He is even pictured serving dinner in a 1949 McCall’s magazine photo of a Sortwell Thanksgiving.
Portraits of Sophia Augustus Foye and Alvin (Peter) Sortwell
The Sortwell family had roots in Wiscasset long before Alvin and Gertrude Sortwell summered at the Belle Haven and then bought it as their family’s summer home. Alvin’s mother Sophia’s family, the Foyes, settled here in the mid-eighteenth century. These pastel on canvas portraits of Alvin as a young boy and his mother, made between 1860-1870, presided over these front rooms throughout the Sortwells’ time here.
This beautiful mahogany games table, made c. 1790-1820, is representative of the furniture that was in this room when the Nickels family lived here. Even with their eight children to care for, William and Jane Nickels were known for their lavish entertaining and high society fashion.
This figure is a version of the Lincoln Imp, a famous carved image in Lincoln Cathedral in England. The legend is that Satan sent two imps to Lincoln Cathedral to cause trouble. One imp was destroying the Angel Choir when an angel appeared. The imp jumped up onto a pillar and began throwing rocks at the angel. The angel turned the imp to stone, where he remains to this day. Perhaps the Sortwells put this doorknocker on the nanny's room so that the children would think twice about disturbing her when her door was closed. | <urn:uuid:54c9128e-4571-4803-942c-787000725cce> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/nickels-sortwell-house/collections | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974137 | 463 | 1.96875 | 2 |
As parents struggle to juggle work and family commitments, early childhood education experts are encouraging Australians to acknowledge the important role of grandparents as critical caregivers in society.
With an ageing population and challenges with Australia’s childcare system, the University of South Australia’s Emeritus Professor Marjory Ebbeck says strong grandparent-child relationships can deliver reciprocal benefits for Australian families.
Investigating intergenerational relationships in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, a new study led by Prof Ebbeck contrasts cultural differences between family life in Asian and Western societies.
She says while cultural and societal values differ across countries, the wisdom and knowledge that grandparents can share is universal.
“In many Asian cultures, grandparents are very integrated into family life, often living with their children and playing an active role in their grandchildren’s education and development,” Prof Ebbeck says.
“While this immediately suggests benefits for working families – in the form of potential childcare – it also delivers significant value to grandparents by boosting their self-worth, social connections and wellness.
“In return, children enjoy a close and respectful relationship with grandparents, with the opportunity to learn more about their family culture and stories.
“In Singapore and Hong Kong there is still a strong Confucian tradition of filial piety and respect for the elderly, and this respect can lead to grandparents having a stronger sense of identity and purpose. These increased intergenerational interactions also provide more social connections for grandparents.
“In contrast, through necessity, many older Australians spend their later years away from their families with many of them in residential health care facilities.
“As a result, they’re often lonely and less involved with the grandchildren.”
According to the United Nations, one in six people in the world will be over 65 by 2050, up from one in 11 in 2019 – many of them will be grandparents.
Prof Ebbeck says close intergenerational ties could support both Australia’s oldest and youngest citizens.
“The grandparent-grandchild relationship isn’t a new phenomenon, but an increase in women in the workforce, the high cost of childcare and a range of other factors have seen many grandparents become critical caregivers,” Prof Ebbeck says.
“In an ageing society, where more parents are working longer, we must find ways to create synergies across generations.” | <urn:uuid:619a0863-4613-4fc7-98d4-c24cf2f2fe7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getsydney.com.au/2022/05/24/grandparent-child-care-a-win-across-generations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.943117 | 493 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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A G Lias proposed this in the 1920's, when Capablanca suggested that the rules for orthochess be revised.
Pawns can move, but not capture, one square sideways.
These are simple illustrations rather than strong opponents.
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Qualities of a Good Friend:
A good friend is a great blessing of God. It is said that one who does not have any friend, is really a poor man. There should not be a materialistic approach in a real and good friendship. Let us discuss some qualities of a good friend.
Sincere & Good Friend Qualities:
- In the first place, a good friend always help his friend at critical moments of his life. It is a famous proverb that friend in need is a friend indeed. He must always be at the beck and call of his friend. He should never be a selfish man. Rather, he must be a selfish person in his friendship, because a fair weather friend is dislike and condemned by everyone.
- In the second place, a good friend never deceives his friend. He does not have any secret from his real friend. Because secrecy is just like a poison that always destroy lasting friendships.
- Thirdly, a good friend gives confidence to his friend. Only confidence begets confidence. Two good friends never conceal anything from each other. They become helping hands from each other. A good friend always stands by his friend at the moment of crisis.
- Fourthly, he will always welcome his friend whenever he come to meet him/ He greets him with open arms. He treats him with hospitality.
- Fifthly, a true friend is always loyal to his friend in every matter. Especially at the critical moments of his life, he always remain truthful and sincere to his friend. A good friend is never fault-finding one. He points out the deficiencies of his friend and helps him in rectifying them. He never praises his friend to his face. He always takes criticism positively. He takes this criticism as a guideline in rectifying himself. He expects that his friend will point out his faults in a positive way.
By summing up the discussion, we can say that a good friend is helpful, selfless, confident, hospitable, truthful and honest to his friend. He helps his friend molding his personality in well shape.
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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has a gentle presence. Her voice, shaped by an Austrian accent, is soft; her words chosen through a thoughtful, compassionate disposition.
But make no mistake about it: In the world’s highest mountains, this woman is a force of nature. After reaching the top of K2 in 2011—after six summit attempts over four expeditions—she became the second woman to have climbed each of the 14 peaks above 8,000 meters, and the first to have done so without the use of supplemental oxygen.
Before she comes to Olympia to speak at the Washington Center on Friday, February 19, RootsRated had the chance to speak with Kaltenbrunner, 45, about her climbing philosophy, coping with tragedy in the mountains, and the relationships she forms with every peak she climbs. Here’s what she had to say.
At high altitude there is much less oxygen available than at sea level, which makes even the act of putting one foot in front of the other extremely difficult. Because of this, most people who venture to heights above 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet) do so with the aid of supplemental oxygen. Did you ever consider using supplemental oxygen to climb an 8,000-meter peak?
From the very beginning I decided to climb without bottled oxygen or a high-altitude porter. It was always clear to me that had it become impossible for me to continue climbing so high without bottled oxygen, I would have stopped and chosen smaller mountains. However, I was lucky and with my very intense acclimatization it worked and I have been able to scale all 8,000-meter peaks without bottled oxygen—something I am very grateful for.
You also seem to prefer to climb as part of a small team (or sometimes even on your own). Is independence in the mountains important to you?
Climbing in a small team has disadvantages, such as having less manpower to break trail or work together to open the route. However, it also has many advantages. In a small team you are much more flexible; many things are easier to handle, such as making decisions, and it gives me a free and happy feeling.
What do you consider in determining who to climb with?
The most important thing for me is to know your expedition partner very well and to be familiar with his or her strong and weak points. Another important point is to be honest to each other and have a healthy amount of self-responsibility. For me, honesty, trust, friendship, self-responsibility, and self-sufficiency are a good base for a good expedition team.
There are so many wild cards in mountaineering … things like altitude sickness or bad weather can come on very suddenly. How do you plan for the unexpected?
I usually plan my expeditions very carefully, however, one is never prepared for the unexpected—and that is certainly part of an expedition. Despite excellent weather forecast [technology] these days, the weather and the general conditions on the mountain can change very quickly.
It is important to stay calm in situations that sometimes seem hopeless. Spreading panic just wastes precious energy, which is needed on the mountain. So I try to prepare for the unexpected—as far as that is possible. For this reason I always carry a very small light tent and other light equipment. I usually do not set up fixed high camps, as I want to remain flexible. If you set a camp in a certain place, it is difficult to move again. By carrying my own light tent I can set up the camp as I go along. I also carry my gear while acclimatizing up and down the mountain.
How do you maintain that calm? There are so many intense highs and lows in mountaineering—how do you maintain the focus needed to stay safe?
At home it is not always easy to maintain the focus [laughs]. In the mountains, while ascending or climbing in difficult sections, I am naturally completely focused. But before descending after I have reached the top, I always make myself insistently aware to keep again the focus 'till I am safe down at base camp. The summit starts at the highest point of the mountain and ends only once I am back at base camp.
Another important skill needed for mountaineering is having a good gut or instinct, in order to be able distinguish between the discomfort that inevitably comes from pushing your body so hard from something more serious, or to make judgment calls about the weather. How did you develop, and learn to trust in, your instincts in the mountains?
Already in my childhood I often tried to follow my gut feeling. Of course, whenever I climbed with older and more experienced people, I let them make the decisions, as they were in charge. However, I also consulted my own gut feeling and asked myself how I would have decided. It was only later, when I was more experienced, that I had the courage to tell others about my thoughts and feelings. However, at the beginning, these thoughts and feelings were not always accepted.
Later in my life I l also learned that if I stay calm for a moment, without thinking about anything but just listening to my feelings inside, there will be a moment when I get an impulse of what to do next. It comes automatically, with complete inner silence ... and it does not take a long time.
One important thing: Everybody can avoid high altitude sickness when they really listen to their body! Your body knows if something is wrong and usually sends a signal on time. If you experience symptoms like headache, vertigo, then you should act accordingly—meaning to climb or hike down immediately. This is the only solution! Staying at altitude and taking lots of medicines does not solve the problem and will probably end in serious high altitude sickness.
You had a career in nursing before you became a professional mountaineer. Do you think that background has enabled you to be a better climber?
I won't say I am a better mountaineer—every professional mountaineer has his or her strong sides and also weak points. But my nursing career helped me in many points: listening to my body for example, or being patient and working very precisely and focused. However, what has been a great advantage of my medical knowledge is that I have been able to help other people medically on the mountain. I think this is a very nice "left-over" from my career as a nurse, and I would not want to miss it.
In your book, Mountains in my Heart, you briefly discuss how nursing in part shaped your relationship with death—and helped you cope with death when you encountered it the mountains. How so?
Working as a nurse and having to cope with illness and death every day has given me the opportunity to be better prepared for death and what it means to lose someone. During my nursing career, I also visited some special seminars on end-of-life care, which was very helpful and has certainly made it easier for me to cope with death in the mountains. Those experiences and my belief have helped me accept and process mortality. But despite all this preparation, I think losing someone who is close to you is still difficult to cope with.
How did your relationship to mountaineering change after becoming a pro?
I had more time to intensify my training. I could also focus more on my regeneration. So without having to earn my living with a nine-to-five job, I actually had more time for everything. At the beginning I woke up every morning feeling grateful for having turned my life into my passion and to this very day I very much appreciate the opportunities I was given to become a professional mountaineer.
In your book, you also discuss forming a relationship with the mountain—that you need to feel connected to it before you go for the summit. How does that relationship form, and what does that connection feel like to you?
Yes, forming a relationship with the mountain I am about to climb is a very important part of an expedition for me. It starts with the walk to base camp. When trekking to base camp, I get the chance to get to know the area and meet the local people of the region. It is often the case that the mountain means a lot to them and it is good to find out a little bit about it.
Once at base camp I often just sit and observe the mountain—check out the route and familiarize myself with the climb. I look at the difficult sections, plan where I could put the high camps, and try to imagine what it is like to be up there. Before I go for the summit I have usually climbed the mountain in my mind beforehand. This gives me the chance to prepare myself well for the climb.
And yes, I talk to the mountain I am intending to climb. I usually don’t expect an answer, but it gives me the feeling that I am less of an intruder on its slopes. I have to get to know the mountain, and the mountain has to get to know me. We have to work together to be successful. For me it is not about “conquering” a mountain—it is achieving this goal together, and I am always very grateful if the mountain accepts me and allows me to stand on its summit.
Climbing the 14 8,000-meter peaks was a huge part of your life for nearly two decades. You must get the “what’s next” question all the time—how do you respond to it?
Climbing the 14 8,000-meter peaks was for a long time part of my life—but it was not my goal from the very beginning. It happened gradually. At the beginning I went to the high mountains because I enjoyed it and I loved being on expedition. And of course, I noticed that I did well at high altitude, but the desire to stand on top of all 14 8,000 meter-peaks only came later. However, I climbed every mountain for the mountains they are, and it was never a “package” for me.
K2 was the last of my 8,000-meter peaks, however, when I reached the top I did not feel “relieved” that I had finally reached the summit of my 14th 8,000-meter peak. I was so happy to have reached the top of K2. Again, it was not the package but the mountain. K2 meant a lot to me. I made several attempts, and every time the mountain taught me something. When I finally reached the summit I finally felt that we have achieved this together.
Yes, people ask me about my next goal, which has not formed completely yet. I have closed the chapter of the 8,000-meter peaks, but I have some ideas in my head what I would like to do. I have been on some smaller expeditions since I summited K2. For example Nuptse, Denali, and an expedition to Carstenz Pyramid—which was fascinating, especially the wild trek to base camp. But at the moment I enjoy being in the Alps climbing and ski touring—and it is actually nice to spend spring, a season that I love, in Europe. But of course, once you have the travel and expedition bug it is hard to stop, and I am still far from it. | <urn:uuid:59bb6446-ae8f-4aeb-b4a7-00c32944cef5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://rootsrated.com/stories/meet-gerlinde-kaltenbrunner-queen-mountains | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98182 | 2,336 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Definition - What does Proxy Server mean?
A proxy server verifies and forwards incoming client requests to other servers for further communication. A proxy server is located between a client and a server where it acts as an intermediary between the two, such as a Web browser and a Web server. The proxy server's most important role is providing security.
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Network intelligence has advanced with the development of enhanced tools and network services such as the proxy server.
A client initially connects with a proxy server to send a request, such as accessing a file or opening a Web page. The proxy server filters and evaluates each IP address and request. The verified request is forwarded to the relevant server, which requests the service on behalf of the client.
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Okuma Alarm-B 2287 Minus variable limit over
The target point of the designated axis movement command is smaller than the variable limit position in the negative direction.
1->The target point of the designated axis movement command
2->The designated return point of the multi-machining cycle
8->It was commanded over movable range minus limit for X/Y/Z axis in executing G00/G01/G30, when “the touch setter measurement function” was effective and “the stroke end limit”was not effective.
Measures to Take
1)Change the command to a value greater than the variable limit value in the negative direction.
2)Check the zero offset value.
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Two days ago set off a series of tsunamis that were dangerously close to the .
The world knew about the quake and the waves almost immediately thanks to monitors like the U.S. Geological Survey and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. And not long after that, the world learned that there had been damage and loss of life as rudimentary radio and telephone reports trickled out. But here it is, more than 48 hours into the aftermath, and the major news sites are still not much beyond those initial reports. To the outside world (or at least those of us without the patience to synthesize all those tweets), what's happened in Samoa remains, essentially, a mystery.
But it doesn't have to be. The Samoa News has detailed coverage. So does the Samoa Observer. Radio New Zealand has a reporter on the ground and is offering excellent regional roundups, as well. The bottom line: the news is not good — and it's a lot worse than the main news sites are reporting.
What's the big deal? Well, for one, this is a big story, and it needs to be told. And for two, it's an example of the power and necessity of local reporting. I'm less pessimistic than some about the ability of the big news corps to tackle the basics of big, local stories — when they can physically get there to cover them, that is. But they can't always. Remember Katrina? It wasn't the big guys who owned that story, just as they won't own this one. There are simply some events that only the little guys can capture.
Still, I'm sure I speak for us all when I say thanks to CBS for assuring us that the cast of Survivor: Samoa is okay. It's the news we've all been waiting for.
DAVID SIMON: Hard Times for the Local Newspaper
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Eunice has 11,499 residents. It is located in Acadia county.
For Louisiana residents, the average tuition for all Eunice accounting schools for the 2009 - 2010 school year was $2,300.00. For non-residents, the average tuition for Eunice accounting schools was $5,390.00.
Books and supplies for accounting schools in Eunice cost an average of $1,000.00. Students who live on campus while attending a accounting school in Eunice, can expect to pay an average of $8,236.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $3,396.00. Students have a choice of one accounting college in Eunice to attend. Accounting programs in Eunice reportedly graduated 0 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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In temperate countries, celery is grown for its seeds. Actually very small fruit, these “seeds” yield a valuable essential oil that is used in the perfume industry. The oil contains the chemical compound apiole. It is Steam distilled from the fruits of Apium Graveolens cultivated in France, India, Holland, Hungary, China and U.S.A.. tsca definition 2008: extractives and their physically modified derivatives. apium graveolins, umbelliferae.
Celery Seed Essential Oil CAS 8015-90-5
Celery Seed Oil is a pale yellow to orange yellow liquid. Its odor is spicy-warm, sweet and rich, “soup-like”, longlasting and powerful, slightly fatty, typical of the odor of the seed (fruit) but less fresh than the odor of the celery plant. The flavor is equally warm and spicy, somewhat burning and very powerful. Celery seed oil is one of the most diffusive odors and one of the most penetrating flavors. The average use level of this oil in flavors would be somewhere between 0.05 and 0.50 mg%, but the Minimum Perceptible is incredibly low: 0.001 to 0.002 mg%. In other words, the typical celery flavor is perceptible in a dilution of one part of celery seed oil in one hundred million parts of a neutral liquid medium.
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When Ashe Streeter-Jhaveri was born, his light skin color surprised his… (Kurt Streeter / Los Angeles…)
"He's so cute," the woman said. "Whose baby is he?"
The question shocked me.
I was holding my 1-year-old, ambling about downtown with some friends. White friends. She must have thought my boy belonged to one of them.
There's a simple explanation: I'm black but my son, Ashe, is white. At least he looks it.
But things are more complicated than that.
I'm actually half black and half white. It should come as no surprise, though, that even as sophisticated as we've become about people of mixed parentage, I'm pigeonholed as black. If someone asks and I don't have time to go deeper, that's what I call myself.
Ashe is mixed too. His mother, my wife, Vanashree, is half white and half South Asian, with roots in India. She has olive skin, and Ashe is slightly lighter than she is.
This surprised us. When Ashe was born, one of the first things I said to Vanashree was, "Honey, he's so light!" We chuckled, poking fun at our assumptions.
We had thought our newborn would have skin more like mine. We also figured I would teach him the lessons my parents taught me as I grew up in the 1960s and '70s: Be proud of being black; but be ready, because you will always have to find a way around barriers large and small.
My son won't need those lessons.
He'll have what I can only imagine: white privilege.
That means in most of America, most of the world, when he walks into a room filled with strangers, he'll have nothing to prove. He will be assumed to be smart, trustworthy and reasonable.
It's different for me. Take a look at recent studies of our subconscious attitudes about race. (The University of Chicago's Shooter Test or Harvard's Implicit Association Test are two examples.)
We've obviously come a long, long way when it comes to this, but when I meet strangers, most of the time I have to prove myself. Am I smart, trustworthy, reasonable? That's not necessarily assumed. It's the same, I dare say, for all black people.
Here's something else, and it is subtle.
More important than how others see me is how I see myself — and how my son will see himself.
For me, it works this way:
At the level of daily interaction, I view myself as proudly black, proud to feel a connection to a people who have known such a terrible struggle and accomplished so much in spite of it, proud to trace my roots in North America to Venus Streeter, a slave born in South Carolina in the late 1700s.
At the next level, I honor the fact that I'm as much white as black. I honor my mother, my aunt, my cousins and Eleanor McManus, my great-great-great-grandmother, born at the dawn of the 1800s on a voyage to America from Ireland.
Since he'll grow up experiencing the world differently than I do, Ashe will likely flip the importance of these views. And because of his even more varied ancestry, he probably will add to the mix. That's wonderful.
But I want us to end up in the same place: at the final, deepest level. This is where I savor the fact that I am, most important, a human being, a 45-year-old man connected to all others of every race and culture in a way that transcends the divisions that betray us all. It is this identity I feel in my bones when I am at my best.
Sadly, there are times, sometimes long periods, when I forget all about connection and transcendence.
If you are categorized as black, no matter who you are, what you've achieved or where you are from, race is almost impossible to ignore. This can be a gift: the thankfulness I feel for Venus, for example.
But it can also wreak a sort of neurotic havoc on the mind. Uncertainty is a constant. Why didn't I get that apartment? Was it because of my race? Was that why the waitress treated me rudely? Why did a former boss keep confusing me with an African American colleague, someone who looked nothing like me? And what did his confusion mean?
In the last dozen years, I've been accused of shoplifting once and pulled over by police four times.
Shoplifting? The last time I stole anything I pilfered a Three Musketeers bar and was forced by my mother to return it and apologize through tears to the owner of our neighborhood grocery store. I was 5.
As for the police, the only traffic stop that seemed legitimate was for a broken turn-signal light, and I was grateful to be told about it. Still, I couldn't help but notice that the officer pulled me over at virtually the moment I drove into Chino Hills, a suburb with few African Americans.
Why did the police stop me the other three times and never give me a ticket? Why was I accused of shoplifting? If you look like me, you may never know. You go through life doing guesswork, delicate mental calculations that you are sometimes barely aware of, trying to divine the meaning behind glances, insults, insinuations, even praise — and then trying to decide the smart and appropriate responses.
I'm very comfortable with people from all corners. But even for me, the steady drum of silent wondering and guesswork brings too many days when race sits heavily on my shoulders. It causes too many moments when I react with fear or anger or distrust, too many instances when I forget about our common bonds.
During times like these, my son is a gift.
Now all I have to do is hold him tightly.
He jolts me back to my deepest identity and reminds me of the ways in which we are all connected, how we are all basically the same.
What a gift!
Ashe looks like a wavy-haired white kid. He is. Just as he is South Asian, just as he is black, just as he is, above all else, a human being.
Whose baby is he?
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In today's On the News segment: From 2009 to 2010, carbon emissions took the largest one-year jump since the Industrial Revolution started three centuries ago; European summit plans to hash out a solution to the ongoing euro zone debt crisis alters this week; Occupy Wall Street to focus on foreclosed homes today; corporate personhood comes to Los Angeles today; and more.
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
You need to know this. The battle for the health of our planet may be all but lost. According to data released this weekend from the Global Carbon Project – carbon emissions shot up 5.9% between 2009 and 2010 – the largest one-year jump since the Industrial Revolution started three centuries ago. We’re coming off the hottest year – and hottest decade ever recorded – and 2011 has already set the record for the most costly natural disasters in history. Yet – our lawmakers continue to sit on their hands, as we’re the only nation in the developed world that still thinks man-made climate change is up for date. We better wake up soon…and hope it’s not too late to do something about this radically changing planet.
The world economy is screwed. We could be just one week away now from the collapse of the global financial system. Later this week – a European summit is planned to hash out a solution to the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis – and credit rating agency S & P issued a warning yesterday about what might happen if European leaders can’t come up with a plan. According to the New York Times: “S&P said it had told 15 of the 17 eurozone countries, including Germany, France and four others with the top AAA credit rating, that it might downgrade them within 90 days, depending on the outcome of Friday's summit.” Stay tuned…this could end badly.
In the best of the rest of the news…
Occupy Wall Street is going off in a new direction today – occupying foreclosed homes. A day of action is planned today in 25 cities across America – including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago to help Americans hardest hit by foreclosure. Occupy Wall Street patriots will take to the suburbs to stop cops from evicting people from their homes – and they’ll begin “occupying” already foreclosed and vacant homes. According to a press release from the “Occupy Our Homes” movement: “We, the 99%, are standing up to Wall Street banks and demanding they negotiate with homeowners instead of fraudulently foreclosing on them.” The bankster-caused Housing crisis sucked $7.7 trillion in wealth out of the middle class. It’s time to start getting that money back, home-by-home, bank-by-bank.
The fight against corporate personhood comes to Los Angeles today. The City Council is scheduled to hold a vote on a resolution calling on Congress to pass an amendment stripping corporations of their personhood. The resolution cites a 1938 dissenting opinion by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in the case of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, in which he said: “I do not believe the word ‘person’ in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations.” Of course – corporate personhood goes farther back – to 1886 – when a rogue Supreme Court reporter who was in the pocket of the railroads in the case of Southern Pacific Railroad v. Santa Clara County slipped corporate personhood into the headnote commentary despite the fact that no Justice ever ruled on it. Each court since has affirmed this false story of the ruling. It’s time to finally correct this wrong – say once and for all that corporations are not people, and money is not speech – and return our democracy to ACTUAL people. Go to MoveToAmend.org to help.
Wealth inequality isn’t just growing in America – it’s growing all over the world. According to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – inequality is surging in the rest of the world too – with the richest ten percent of the population in OECD nations making on average nine times more than the poorest 10-percent. Looking at the numbers – OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said, “The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries…This study dispels the assumptions that the benefits of economic growth will automatically trickle down to the disadvantaged and that the greater inequality fosters greater social mobility.” Among workers in the United States – wealth inequality has surged 25% since Reagan was elected in 1980. And since the banksters went global around that same time – they took massive wealth inequality with them. However now – with people in the streets all around the world – the backlash is underway.
Dick Cheney’s Halliburton is in trouble after it was alleged that the corporation destroyed evidence showing it was partly responsible for the BP Oil Spill last year. According to court documents filed in New Orleans, “Halliburton destroyed the results of physical slurry testing, and it has, at best, lost the computer modeling outputs that showed no channeling…in part because it wanted to eliminate any risk that this evidence would be used against it at trial.” Why does it seem like everything Dick Cheney touches turns criminal?
NASA scientists have discovered a planet in another solar system that could be inhabitable for humans. Discovered about 600 light years away – Kepler 22-b rests comfortable in what NASA calls the “habitable zone” of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about two-and-a-half times the size of Earth and has an average temperate of a cool 71-degrees. So we’ve found yet another place for Libertarians to set up their Ayn Rand selfish community – far, far away from our planet. Then again – a team of astronomers also found two of the biggest black holes known to exist in the universe – roughly ten billion times the mass of the sun. I think that’s a more suitable location for the Libertarians. Add it to the list.
Crazy Alert! The 99-snakes movement. After the Government Land Registry Office in India failed to approve a land request application submitted by a snake charmer named Hakkal – Hakkal took matters into his own hands. He showed up at the office with three sacks full of snakes – and unleashed the cobras to “occupy” the Registry office. Hakkal told a local news agency, “Having waited patiently for so long, I had no option but to leave all my snakes in this office.” Government workers desperately tried to shoo the snakes away as they slithered around desks and chairs. Luckily – no one was bitten or injured. And according to reports – no snakes were pepper sprayed.
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Lysander loves Helena because of Puck mistaking him as Demetrius, and putting the love potion on Lysander causing Helena to be hurt, and Hermia to be heartbroken. Originally, Lysander loved Hermia, but because of the love potion, he now loves Helena. To Helena, Lysander says, "Not Hermia, but Helena I love / Who will not change a raven for a dove?"
Demetrius changes his love twice: Helena to Hermia, afterward it was Hermia to Helena. Lysander changes his love for Helena to Hermia, and next Hermia from Helena rather quickly too. The way Oberon drugs his wife for selfish reasons and never eventually tells her that she had been drugged, shows how unreliable he is with his love. Oberon would be willing to misuse his power to trick his queen into loving a horrible beast just for obtaining something that he wants He even mocks his queen by saying “there lies your love.” (Act IV,scene, Page 79).
Shakespeare writes, “And even for that do I love you the more.”(Act 2.1 Line 209). In this scene Helena explains how much she loves Lysander. However she is only in love with him, due to the love potion: “And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes and make her full of hateful fantasies” (Act 2.1 Line 265). As this conversation takes place Oberon reveals that he has a plan to sabotage Titania.
(III II 91-92). She compares Romeo’s physique to a “gorgeous palace” but says that inside it, lives “deceit”. Clearly, there is a negative connotation in Juliet’s words, showing that Romeo is not as he seems. His imperfections are not visible to her at first, and her love for him deceives her into thinking he is a really amazing man. As the story progresses, the mirage that love creates starts fading.
‘Prodigy’ in modern times, often refers to a precocious youngster. In Shakespeare’s time, it would refer to something abnormal. Juliet is clearly expressing her love for Romeo but also her hate for love
Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet; neither are born with hate, but both learn it. The couple learn to love, but the deception and misunderstandings lead to catastrophic endings. The relationship that they manifest displays the way they are taught to love, and how hatred interrupts these relationships. In Romeo and Juliet, hatred ironically reinforces the central theme of love.
Romeo falls in love with the beauty of women and doesn 't even get a chance to get to know them. While Juliet doesn 't want to be married, for fear that her marriage will be like her parents, where there 's no love expect for their child. So Romeo and Juliet aren 't model citizens and have their flaws and they both seem to leap before looking. Both Romeo and Juliet seem to act hast in their desertions, which,
His love for Helena causes him to have no control over his behavior which then results in fighting Demetrius. Overall, characters are losing power in their relationships due to their love for another person making them resort to irrational
Not only does he lie, but he comes up with an idea rooted in dishonesty that he perpetuates. It satisfies Juliet, but it devastates the parents--after all, they lost a child! Friar Lawrence’s default to dishonesty and terrible planning skills ultimately cause the lovers’
True love comes in many ways, shapes, and forms. As the reader can see, true love does not run smooth. In, A Midsummer Night’s Dream the lovers and friends face hardships of love for the man and women they love and the friends they love as well. That is why love’s challenges can consist of losing friends, giving up your old life, or even everything you have ever owned. True love is pure a beautiful thing
Importance of Family In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” a valiant soldier-Ulysses-took twenty years to return home from war (Sentence 7a). He had left behind his wife and unborn child. Ulysses overcame a plethora of obstacles throughout his journey.
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February 2022 exhibit : Shin-Hanga expressions of Landscapes
February 4 - February 27
Moonlit Sea Prints of Easthampton MA is presenting its inaugural exhibition, Shin-hanga Expressions of Landscapes, exploring underlying emotions of solitude, wonderment, quietness and reflection through prints by Kawase Hasui, Takashi Ito, Shiro Kasamatsu, Tsuchiya Koitsu, Ito Yuhan and others. February 4th through February 27th; open the first weekend, by appointment the rest of the month.
Japanese woodblock print art (ukiyo-e or “picture[s] of the floating world”), at the end of the 1800s, was a dying art form. Tastes were changing, but following the opening of Japanese culture to Western influences and technology post-Commodore Perry and the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, Japan was undergoing intense modernization. The West was influencing all parts of Japanese culture, from the dress to the art to the technology and everything in between.
Shōzaburō Watanabe was a businessman in the export business who stepped into the dying industry of woodblock print art and created what he termed “New Prints” or shin-hanga. Watanabe created his publishing house, S. Watanabe Color Print Co., and began employing highly skilled carvers and printers, and commissioned artists to design prints that combined traditional Japanese techniques with elements of contemporary Western painting, such as perspective and shadows. Utilizing his export business expertise, and operating from offices in Japan, the US and London, he created a market for Japanese art. From a thematic perspective, he and many of his artists sought to capture the nostalgia of pre-modern Japan but to depict it using the new techniques that they were learning through cross-cultural exchange and experimentation. The results are some of the most breathtaking landscapes created in the medium of woodblock printing, often with the underlying emotions of solitude, wonderment, quietness and reflection.
Friday, February 4th through February 27th.
Opening Friday, February 4th at 5pm to 8pm, Saturday February 5th from noon until 6pm.
Open Monday – Friday, 10am-2pm by appointment only.
Moonlit Sea Prints
116 Pleasant Street, Suite 226
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Philadelphia is the 4th hungriest city in the nation. Studies have demonstrated that children from low income households are twice as likely to be obese than those from middle or high income homes. In Philadelphia, 50% of children 6-12 are obese or overweight, and over 22% of children in Philadelphia are food insecure.1 Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health deems the areas surrounding 14 of our 18 Clubs as “food deserts” due to its low-income and high inaccessibility to walkable fresh food.2 The combination of these factors result in a myriad of obstacles for youth, including health issues such as diabetes and heart disease, aggression, anxiety, passivity, and trouble concentrating.
The Kids Café program targets low-income, at-risk, and food-insecure youth between the ages of 5 and 18 years old. The primary purpose of nutrition and food programs at our Clubs is to provide access to high quality, nutritious meals for our youth, many of whom are food insecure.
We currently operate full-service Kids Cafés at our Wissahickon, Wayne Avenue, and Northeast Frankford Clubs, serving over 300 meals daily to Club members and community youth. Our full-time Chefs prepare meals with fresh ingredients so that the food not only is nutritious, but also tastes good and has the homemade touch to make our kids feel welcome.
The Kids Café will become self-sustaining once initial investment is made; we can certify the program through the CACFP and SFSP program and receive reimbursements at a rate of $.91/snack, $3.31/dinner, and $2.03/breakfast, ensuring that the once initiated the program will remain continuously operational. Most importantly, this program will help us fulfill our mission by ensuring that our kids have all of their basic needs met and can fully participate in programs that help them learn and develop.
- Chicken Fajita Flatbread with Roasted Corn Salsa and Grilled Asparagus
- Hone-Dijon Salmon
Kids Cafe Supporters
Leo & Peggy Pierce Family Foundation
Louis N Cassett Foundation
The Wawa Foundation
WW Smith Charitable Trust
2Mallya, Giridhar “Walkable Access to Healthy Food in Philadelphia, 2010-2012” Philadelphias Department of Public Health, 2013, September 25, 2018
CACFP Program 2021-22
Supper and Snack served daily
328 W Coulter Street
4223 Wayne Avenue
Shane Victorino Nicetown
4001 N Clarissa Street
1709 Kinsey Street
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English. To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; (2) Fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. | <urn:uuid:3a0d80f9-6a88-4cb8-8093-0631ec77c20d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bgcphila.org/kids-cafe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.907883 | 964 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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