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Members of Canberra's Islamic community have panned talk of a burqa ban at Parliament House as discriminatory and said the garment shouldn't be drawn into a debate about national security.
But they say a push by Coalition backbenchers to have the face-covering garment banned from the building would only affect the small number of women who chose to wear it in the capital.
The suggestion of a ban has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups, who say the government would need to prove the garments posed a real risk to security before those who wore them were shut out.
Canberra Islamic Centre president Azra Khan said women made a personal choice to wear the burqa and public debate over a ban on the garment had been brought in "where it really didn't fit".
"My view is that Parliament House is obviously a very important place to all Australians and to exclude entry on the basis of dress is very discriminatory, so I think we're getting into dangerous territory here," she said.
She had only ever observed a handful of women wearing the garment in the ACT.
That observation was echoed by Diana Abdel-Rahman, from Australian Muslim Voice Radio, who had never seen a burqa in the capital.
"There is a huge difference between the niqab and the burqa, and I have never seen one in Canberra."
The Australian National University's Raihan Ismail, who is an associate lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, said she had only seen a woman wearing the niqab once or twice since she moved to Canberra seven years ago.
"Isn't it funny they're making such a fuss of it when there aren't many women in Canberra who wear the niqab?" she said.
Former chairman of the ACT Muslim Advisory Council Ikebal Patel said the current debate, in the midst of a heightened terrorist alert, was unhelpful.
"You don't need to be a rocket scientist to realise the timing of this to realise it's perpetuating the idea of terrorism," he said.
He suggested any woman who wore a burqa in the building and needed to be identified could be taken into a booth and identified by a female security officer.
Civil Liberties Australia vice president Tim Vines said any move to ban the burqa would need to be backed by evidence the garment, or those who wore them, posed a security threat.
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In his Q&A session with priests of the Diocese of Rome, the Holy Father discusses an interesting point, the term of an associate pastor. The pope has been on a theme of priest as teacher, hence the reference plunked in this quote.
The first question is much harder for me — the question is also [addressed] to Your Eminence [the vicar, Cardinal Agostino Vallini] — namely, the permanence of the young priest to give guidance to young people. Undoubtedly, a personal relationship with the teacher is important and must also have the possibility of a certain period to get to know each other. And, in this sense, I can agree that the priest, point of orientation for young people, cannot change every day, because in this way, in fact, he loses this orientation.
In my previous diocese, young priests were moved fairly frequently. In my parish, the last two young associates were assigned for twelve months and three months respectively before moving on to pastorates. I knew a guy or two who went right from seminary to heading a parish.
On the other hand, the young priest must also have different experiences in different cultural contexts, precisely to obtain, in the end, the cultural equipment necessary to be, as pastor, the point of reference for a long time in the parish.
If bishops are disinclined or unable to leave newly minted clergy in a parish for a few years of stability, it would seem the seminary years would need to provide the “different experiences.” I wonder if the recent US visitation touched on that point.
This observation on young people is also interesting, with ramifications beyond just the ministry of priests:
And I would say that in the life of the young person, the dimensions of time are different from those of the life of the adult. The three years, from 16 to 19, are at least as long and as important as the years between 40 and 50. Precisely here is where the personality is formed: It is an interior journey of great importance, of great existential extent.
If the late adolescent years are so vital, why then, do so many parishes neglect youth ministry? When the pope or others who have influence offer thoughts like this, it’s sad that they just sort of sit there as nice sentiments apart from actual policy or priority. For bishops, Pope Benedict offers this thought:
In this sense, I would say that three years for an assistant pastor is a good period of time to form a generation of young people; and in this way, moreover, he can also know other contexts, learn about other situations in other parishes, enrich his human knowledge. The time is not that brief in order to give a certain continuity, an educational path of the common experience, to learn to be a man. On the other hand, as I have said, for youth three years is a decisive and very long time, because the future personality is really being formed. It seems to me, therefore, that both needs can be reconciled: on one hand, that the young priest have the possibility of different experiences to enrich his store of human experience; and on the other, the need to stay for a determined period of time with the young people to really introduce them to life, to teach them to be human persons. In this sense, I think that both aspects can be reconciled: different experiences for a young priest, continuity in the accompaniment of the young people in order to guide them in life.
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With a new set of nominations just out, and the usual grumblings about unfair snubs just beginning (how could they possibly pass up “Happy-Go-Lucky’s” Sally Hawkins?!), it’s instructive to read a paper entitled “I’d Like to Thank the Academy, Complementary Productivity and Social Networks.” In the study, published online in December 2006, sociologists Nicole Esparza (then at Princeton, now at Harvard) and Gabriel Rossman of the University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed all 1,349 Oscar nominations for actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress from 1927 to 2005.
Their analysis concluded that working with “high-quality peers” greatly increases the chances of an actor getting nominated. After controlling for various other factors, “Prior Academy nominations of a film’s cast, writer and director all significantly affect an actor’s likelihood of being nominated.”
“It is interesting that the skill of the writer(s) and the director has an even greater influence on one’s prospects than does the skill of one’s co-stars,” they write. “Good writers and directors provide more of a spillover effect than do good co-stars.”
The sociologists are on somewhat thin ground in automatically equating Academy Award nominations with high-quality work. Film critics, whose top-10 lists often vary greatly from the Oscar nominations, equate them with a certain type of artistry that appeals to the Academy’s membership, which tends to be older and aesthetically conservative.
Nevertheless, this data provides a timely reminder that, for all the adulation film actors receive, cinema is very much a collaborative art form. Great performances are not created in a vacuum; even the best actors need a solid script and sensitive director.
“Most likely there is a preferential attachment of high-skilled workers to one another, and thus spillover effects form a powerful mechanism for cumulative advantage,” the researchers conclude. “In other words, there is a very good reason that Academy Award acceptance speeches are so long – they should be, because the actor’s collaborators are largely responsible for his achievement.” | <urn:uuid:efab0e75-c77b-4e7a-9421-fa9697f00dea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psmag.com/social-justice/oscar-nominees-should-thank-their-collaborators-3994 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.954878 | 469 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Kickstarters give people a sense of belonging
“The Internet is this incredibly cluttered space,” says Deborah Small, “and advertisers are spending tons of money to capture the attention of consumers.” Like Ethan, Deborah is a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research areas focus on marketing and psychology.
Then along comes this random guy “with a silly campaign,” Deborah says. “We know that unusual things grab attention — and humor is part of that.”
Deborah also attributes the odder crowdfunded successes to a sense of wanting to belong. “It’s like how people wear certain clothes to fit in with certain groups,” she says. “It’s kind of ironic, because usually we think of conformity as being normal or mainstream, and yet these people are conforming to this strange phenomenon.”
Remember the Pet Rock?
Ellen Langer, a social psychologist and professor at Harvard University, studies mindfulness and decision making. She says there’s a long history of society funding offbeat ideas, such as the Pet Rock.
Stones packed in boxes like live animals, Pet Rocks were conceived in the 1970s by advertising executive Gary Dahl. They became all the rage, and the fad made Dahl a millionaire.
Ellen believes the same thing is happening with some Kickstarter campaigns. They could be the Pet Rocks of this decade.
She suggests several different motivations for this type of financial sponsorship.
“Sometimes it’s a lark,” Ellen says. “People see it as a small amount of money for enjoyment it could bring.”
Read the whole story: NPR
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The Model 2253 from Sensoray is a compact USB audio/video codec with a low power consumption well suited for embedded applications. In the encoding mode model 2253 outputs an uncompressed low latency video stream along with the compressed video stream to facilitate previewing and real time image processing functions. Up to 80 characters of overlay text may be added to the video.
The board can also perform as a decoder, converting the compressed audio/video stream into standard analog video and audio signals. The board is powered through the USB port and does not require any additional power supplies. Each unit has a unique serial number in its flash memory and on a bar coded label. The serial number can be read using the software API.
Other features include two concurrent output video streams either uncompressed or at different resolutions, text overlay capability and three general-purpose digital I/O signals.
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Documents are rarely developed by one person in an organization. Instead, this activity is frequently a collaborative process. One of Microsoft's new .NET servers, SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (formerly code-named Tahoe), facilitates this collaborative process. The sidebar "What Does SharePoint Portal Server Do?" describes the server's functions and product-specific terminology.
During the development of a document, you want to ensure that only those users working on the document, and not the larger user community, can see it. You also want a document-approval mechanism appropriate for your organization that you can invoke before you make a document available (or publish it) to the user community. Let's look at these two SharePoint Portal Server collaborative functions: publishing and approving documents.
Roles in SharePoint Portal Server
To implement the publishing, approval, and other collaborative functions securely, SharePoint Portal Server provides three security roles—Coordinator, Author, and Reader—that you can assign to users by folder or workspace. Each role has a permission set that you can't modify. If a user holds more than one role on a folder or workspace, the most restrictive permission applies. For instance, if the Everyone security group has the Reader role on the Corporate folder and Tom, a user in the domain, has the Author role on the Corporate folder, Tom will enjoy Author role's permissions on the folder and all the documents therein, unless he's specifically excluded on one or more documents inside that folder.
The Coordinator role carries permission to manage the entire workspace or folder. A user with the Coordinator role can perform workspacewide functions (e.g., customizing the digital dashboard), manage indexes, and configure content sources. At the folder level, this person can add, delete, and modify folders and documents. The Coordinator also decides whether to require an approval process and configures that process folder by folder.
The Author role encompasses permissions to add, edit, delete, and read documents in a folder. In an enhanced folder, this role also has permission to publish a document. An Author can create, delete, and modify folders but can't change a folder's permissions or approval policies.
The Reader role has permission to search for and read documents. By default, all users (i.e., the Everyone security group) have this role.
Each workspace provides permission inheritance, which means that permissions set on one object in the hierarchy are, by default, inherited by all the objects at a lower level (i.e., child objects). You can block permission inheritance by configuring the child object to not use its parent's security settings. Moreover, you can configure security settings on one object to apply to all subfolders and documents.
The Publishing Process
Team members who have the Author role on the parent folder can collaborate on a document. Those team members can use SharePoint Portal Server's check-out and check-in features, which let them check a document out of the workspace, make changes, then check in the document for other team members' consideration. A checked-out document is a copy of the most recent version of the document; the team members save the checked-out version on their local hard disk or home directory while making their modifications. The checked-in copy becomes a new version of the master document on the server. You can't overwrite checked-in or published documents without first checking out the document.
To clarify: Publishing a document is different from checking it in or out. Publishing makes the document available to the public, which is defined as all the users who can access your SharePoint Portal Server machine, whether from within your organization or over the Internet. Although users can modify their local copy of a document, Authors and Coordinators can still publish the most recent version of that document on the SharePoint Portal Server machine. Users with the Author or Coordinator role can view a checked-in document, whereas users with the Reader role can view only published documents.
SharePoint Portal Server lets users with appropriate permissions publish a document after it has been checked in or during the check-in process. Let's look at two ways of publishing a document: publishing with an approval process and publishing without an approval process.
Publishing Documents with an Approval Process
Many organizations require that certain people approve documents before publication. For example, before a human resources (HR) department distributes a benefits manual to all employees, the HR manager must approve the manual's contents. If the HR team developed the manual in SharePoint Portal Server, you can give the HR manager the Approver role to require the manager to approve the document before you publish it and make it available to all the users in the company.
Approvers don't need to have the Author or Coordinator role. Being an Approver is a separate function that's specific to the folder and its documents. Unlike the Author, Coordinator, and Reader roles, the Approver role doesn't have an associated permission set (although the Approver role grants that user Reader access to the document during the approval process). For users to be Approvers, the user's account must reside in the same domain as the SharePoint Portal Server computer or in a trusted domain. Only a Coordinator can list users as Approvers. A Coordinator can override the approval process and publish or not publish a document, regardless of what the Approver or Approvers do.
To set up an approval process, the Coordinator must configure the approval requirement on the top-level Documents folder, which is installed by default when you create the workspace. To configure the approval process, the Coordinator follows these steps:
- Configure the folder's properties to require approval by right-clicking the folder, selecting Properties, then clicking the Approval tab.
- Enter the names of Approvers for the folder's documents.
- Enter the email addresses of the Approvers.
- Configure a notification message for the Approvers.
- Select either parallel- or serial-routing topology.
As Figure 1 shows, you can list one or more users as Approvers, and you can specify that the document go to the Approvers all at once (i.e., parallel routing) or one at a time (i.e., serial routing). Further, you can configure the parallel process to require that all Approvers or only one Approver approve the document for publication. The example in Figure 1 requires a parallel process and only one approval.
SharePoint Portal Server's approval process is limited. For instance, you can't require approval by a majority of Approvers or by certain Approvers. Therefore, if your organization requires a more complex approval process than SharePoint Portal Server's one-or-all configuration, a developer must write customized code.
If a document requires approval, SharePoint Portal Server automatically sends an email message to the Approvers when a document is ready to be published. Approvers click the link to the document, review the document, and approve it when they're ready. An Approver can approve a document from the email message that SharePoint Portal Server automatically generates, from the workspace, or from the dashboard site. While the document is awaiting approval, its status shows in the workspace as Pending your approval. After the reviewers approve the document, its status changes to Published.
Publishing Documents Without an Approval Process
If the Coordinator hasn't configured the folder to require approval, an Author or the Coordinator can publish the document at any time. To eliminate the approval requirement, you clear the Documents must be approved before publishing check box in the folder's Properties dialog box, which Figure 1 shows.
You can publish documents from several places:
- The digital dashboard site
- A Microsoft Office application (Office 2000 or later)
- A Web view during the check-in process
To publish documents individually, use the dashboard. However, if you want to check in a group of documents that you're migrating from another server, use the Web view, which lets you check in documents in bulk. For a bulk check-in, select all the documents in the Web view, right-click those documents, and select Check In from the context menu.
The following examples demonstrate the three ways in which you can publish documents in SharePoint Portal Server. The sample document "Why our Company is going to use SharePoint Portal Server" resides in the IT folder. The sample IT folder doesn't require approval, so you can create a document, then publish it immediately.
Publishing from the digital dashboard. To publish the document from the digital dashboard, you first create the document in Microsoft Word 2000 or later, then save it to your local hard disk. To publish the document, navigate to the IT folder on the adminworkspace workspace, click Add Document, and enter this document and its path in the Document file name input box, as Figure 2 shows. Selecting Publish the document tells SharePoint Portal Server to publish the document as soon as you add it to the folder. If you don't want to publish the document immediately, select Check in the document. That action lets Authors and Coordinators continue to have access to the document to make any necessary changes before publishing the document.
Publishing from an Office application. Let's say you want to create a second document, "Benefits of using SharePoint Portal Server," and publish this document directly from the Office application Word. First, create the document in Word, then click Save and select the workspace in which you want to save the document. (To learn how to create a Web folder to make the workspace appear in Word, see the section "Publishing from a Web view.") Drill down in the workspace to the correct folder (the IT folder, in this example), then click Save. In the Document profile box, enter the appropriate information about the document (e.g., title, author, keywords, description). All documents saved in SharePoint Portal Server have a profile, which provides metadata that SharePoint Portal Server can categorize and search for fast document retrieval.
Now, here's the tricky part. If you choose to save your document but not close it, SharePoint Portal Server returns you to the document in Word. If you choose to close your document, SharePoint Portal Server asks you to either check in the changes or keep the document checked out. If you choose to save but not close your document, SharePoint Portal Server displays the same Check In dialog box when you finally close the document or exit Word. In the Check In dialog box, you can modify the document's profile or select a new profile. In addition, you can enter version comments and select a check box to publish the document after you check it in. If you choose to publish the document after check-in, SharePoint Portal Server publishes the document directly from Word.
Publishing from a Web view. To publish documents from the Web view, you must first create a shortcut to the workspace on the Web server. A shortcut to a Web server is called a Web folder. To create a Web folder, double-click My Network Places on your desktop, then double-click Add Network Place to invoke the Welcome to the Add Network Place Wizard. In the location input box, enter the URL of your workspace. In most environments, you probably will enter a full URL (e.g., http://hostname.domainname.com/workspacename).
In the next screen, the wizard lets you give the Web folder a unique name in the form virtualdirectoryname on servername. In this example, the default name is adminworkspace on testserver1. Marnie Hutcheson, "Web Folders in Office 2000," http://www.iisadministrator.com, InstantDoc ID 8504, describes Web-folder creation in more detail.
After you create the Web folder, you open a Web view by double-clicking the Web folder in My Network Places. Then, drill down to the document you want to publish, right-click the document, and select Publish. The document must be checked in, and you must have either Author or Coordinator permission to publish a document in this way.
After a document is published, it remains published until you remove it from the workspace; it automatically appears in the index and is viewable by all users. SharePoint Portal Server doesn't let you set expiration dates for published documents. If you must have time limits on published documents, you must either have a developer write code to remove documents or track documents and remove them manually. About the only way to eliminate published documents without writing code is to limit the number of published versions of a document that SharePoint Portal Server will retain in the workspace. (By default, this value is unlimited.) You can configure this number on the General tab of the workspace Properties dialog box.
If you have several documents that require approval, checking in, or publishing in bulk, you can use the Web view to accomplish this task. Hold down the Ctrl key and select the documents that you want to check in, approve, or publish; then right-click and make your selection from the context menu. You can check in and publish at the same time, but you must perform bulk approvals in a separate administrative act.
A First Step
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A plain and profitable exposition of, and enlargement upon, the church-catechism by way of questions and answers for the more ample instruction of the more adult children and other elderly persons that need it, and divided into so many parts as there are Lords-days in each year ... together with the scheme of a shorter catechism annexed for the benefit of the younger sort of catechumens /
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Research indicates that parental involvement at school is associated with positive outcomes for children, including better grades, lower dropout rates and fewer behavior problems. Such findings have led school districts to spend substantial time and resources promoting parent involvement, even though it is not clear that these programs achieve the same effects as naturally occurring involvement.
In fact, among the few programs that have been rigorously evaluated, most do not appear to increase positive outcomes in children. Gail L. Zellman, RAND Corporation, and Jill M. Waterman, University of California/Los Angeles, state that there is much to learn about how to promote parent involvement and how to maximize its effects.
Using data from a study of 193 second- and fifth-grade children and their mothers, Zellman and Waterman attempted to confirm the relationship between parental involvement and child outcomes, and to determine what underlies it. Their results revealed that parental enthusiasm and a positive parenting style may be the keys. If this is true, parent-involvement programs might produce more significant and long-lasting effects on children if they focused more clearly on improving parenting skills.
Identifying parent behaviors that produce positive outcomes
All parents want their children to succeed at school, but some parents are more successful than others in promoting their children’s academic success. In an attempt to find out why, these researchers studied an even number of boys and girls from two public schools and one private school in urban Los Angeles. The children were ethnically and economically diverse.
The majority of the children came from intact families with both a mother and a father. In approximately one third of the families, there was no male adult in the home. One-third of the families were Latino, one third were white, 17 percent were African American, and the remainder were Asian or of mixed ethnicity. About 29 percent of the mother interviews, and 18 percent of the child interviews were conducted in Spanish at the subjects’ request.
Mothers and children were interviewed separately and then each mother-and-child pair participated in a 10-minute conflict-resolution task that was videotaped. They were asked to discuss an issue that both of them separately had rated as problematic and to come to a solution. Common issues included chores, homework and relationships with siblings. In addition, the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test was administered to each child, and classroom teachers filled out a rating scale that described the child’s strengths as well as any behavior or learning problems. Interviewers talking with mothers assessed parental enthusiasm (measured by breastfeeding and the mother’s views on the rewards of parenthood and her own effectiveness as a parent), involvement with homework and involvement at school. School involvement was measured by attendance at school events, volunteering in the classroom and being on a school governance committee.
Factors predicting parental involvement
Single mothers and African American and Latino mothers were less involved overall at school; in particular, they volunteered less often in the classroom. But there were no ethnic differences in the frequency with which mothers reported
attending school events or being involved in school governance. A child’s IQ was a significant predictor of a mother’s involvement with homework. Mothers of high-IQ children were less involved. Involvement in homework appeared to be a problem-solving behavior designed to help children who needed it. Child IQ was unrelated to parents’ school involvement.
Parenting factors, including parental enthusiasm and a positive parenting style, contributed significantly to the prediction of involvement in school. Al though family composition and ethnicity seemed, at first, to be important predictors of parent school involvement, they were far less important than parenting style. When parenting factors were taken into account, family composition and ethnicity were no longer significant predictors of school involvement.
In fact, a positive parenting style was the only significant predictor of positive outcomes in children. Positive parenting is defined as a high level of warmth and low negativity. Other styles — authoritarian (high clarity, high negativity); indifferent (low clarity, low warmth low negativity); crazy-making (low clarity, high negativity, high emotionality); and unclear (low clarity, low warmth, high negativity and low emotionality) — did not predict child outcomes.
Positive parenting predictor of reading scores
Parenting style was a better predictor of children’s reading scores than parental involvement at school. A positive parenting style was associated with markedly higher scores and significantly fewer reports of learning problems. Positive parenting appears to be the most fundamental factor in increasing student achievement, indicating that programs that bring parents to school to work on parenting skills may lead to positive student outcomes.
Because parental involvement has been associated with positive outcomes in children, most parent-involvement programs are designed to make parents feel more comfortable at school, to help them ask the right questions about their child’s school progress, and to inform them about school curriculum, rules or governance.
These goals are important, but if the ultimate goal is to improve student achievement, programs might be focused more productively on the fundamentals of parenting — what being a good parent is all about, what constitutes an appropriate parenting role, and how to relate to your child in ways that enhance cognitive
and emotional development.
The independence of parenting factors from family-background factors suggests that parenting style is not enmeshed in the social context defined by poverty, wealth or ethnic background. This is encouraging, and it suggests that parenting style may be changeable and, therefore, teachable.
These researchers urge educators to examine their parent-involvement programs, focusing them more clearly on improving parenting skills to produce more significant, longer-lasting benefits for children.
“Understanding the Impact of Parent School Involvement on Children’s Educational Outcomes” The Journal of Educational Research, Volume 9, Number 6, July/August 1998, pp. 370-381.
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When you think about a “green” building, you probably don’t picture a centuries-old National Historic Landmark that’s lined with columns and made of thousands of tons of granite.
Well, maybe that’s about to change. I'm pleased to announce that the Treasury Building – which dates back to the 19th century and is located right next door to the White House – received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) at a ceremony today in our historic Grant Room.
According to the USGBC, the Treasury Building is believed to be the oldest building in the world to receive LEED certification. The fact that the home of much our nation’s financial history has achieved this distinction for environmental leadership really adds new meaning to the term ‘green’ building.
LEED is a leading international standard for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings. The Treasury Building received its LEED Gold certification based on a number of green construction and operation features, including:
- Increasing the use of natural day lighting to reduce energy consumption;
- Establishing sustainable cleaning and landscape programs;
- Developing and implementing advanced control and management of the heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems;
- Conducting waste stream audits to benchmark recycling programs and identify opportunities to maximize material conservation;
- Creating a green procurement program for materials, equipment and services purchased
- Increasing occupant space utilization;
- Augmenting alternate transportation means; and
- Establishing enhanced utility metering for improved systems management
These improvements are paying big dividends. Not just for the environment, but also for the Department’s bottom line – because going green saves green for taxpayers. Project results, which are producing an estimated $3.5 million in energy and lease cost savings annually, include:
- A 43 percent decrease in the use of potable water
- A 7 percent decrease in electrical usage
- A 53 percent decrease in the use of steam
- The addition of 164 additional workstations within the building
The fact that we’ve been able to achieve those types of results is particularly significant given the unique historical and architectural features of the Treasury Building.
The Treasury Building is more than two city blocks long and was constructed over a period of 33 years between 1836 and 1869. The east and center wings – which comprise the oldest portion of the structure – were designed by Robert Mills, architect of the Washington Monument, and were built between 1836 to 1842. It’s the third-oldest federal building in Washington D.C., after the White House and the U.S. Capitol, and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1972.
We’re proud of the improvements we’ve made around the Treasury Building – both big and small – to help reduce our environmental footprint and save taxpayer dollars. They’re part of a broader Administration-wide effort, which includes President Obama’s recent $2 billion commitment to energy upgrades of federal buildings using long term energy savings to pay for up-front costs, at no cost to taxpayers.
But Treasury’s environmental initiatives represent just a few of the steps we’ve taken to cut waste and improve efficiency.
- We’re continuing to transition to electronic payments for federal beneficiaries and retirees, which will save more than $500 million over the first five years. That also has a significant environmental benefit by converting approximately 135 million paper check payments to electronic payments per year.
- Last week, Vice President Biden and Secretary Geithner announced that the United States Mint is suspending production of surplus Presidential $1 Coins for circulation, which will save at least $50 million annually over the next several years.
- The Department’s work to increase e-filing of tax returns will save more than $100 million over five years.
- A set of projects we’re implementing to consolidate IT services will save an estimated $125 million over five years.
- Earlier this year, Treasury received “green” ratings across-the-board on its energy and sustainability scorecard from the Office of Management and Budget and White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Of course, we’re not satisfied with those initiatives alone. And, moving forward, we’ll continue to work to identify additional ways to save money for taxpayers and improve our Department’s environmental efficiency. (As you might be able to tell, we’re pretty competitive when it comes to our environmental sustainability efforts here at Treasury.)
For now, though, receiving LEED GOLD certification is a certainly welcome achievement and represents the culmination of a lot of hard work by a number of dedicated public servants here at the Department.
At Treasury, green is our favorite color – but we’ll take gold!
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07/18/2013 (press release: danielmathers)
Igor Purlantov has announced that recent research reveals exactly how elephants communicate. Scientists have long believed that elephants communicate in a manner similar to cats who purr by twitching their vocal folds rhythmically because their folds are too short to make low pitched noises.
According to animal rights advocate Igor Purlantov, a new study in the research journal Science reveals that elephants rumble the same way that humans talk or sing. Elephants make their rumbling communication possible by blowing air past their long vocal folds and letting them vibrate.
This new discovery runs counter to the original belief that elephant communication was the result of their vocal folds twitching says Igor Purlantov. This research provides an illustration of the longest example of vocal folds being able to make such sounds in the animal kingdom.
Igor Purlantov says that researchers have long known that elephants rumble as means of communication that covers very long distances. By rumbling, elephants are able to send vibrations across their environments which are picked up by the feet of other elephants.
Igor Purlantov says that research into elephant communication has also shown that elephants are very intelligent, emotional and social creatures that are known to mourn the death of loved ones just as humans do. Unfortunately, until now the exact means of how elephants communicate was unknown as some scientist speculated that these rumbling sounds were produced by the twitching of vocal folds.
Igor Purlantov says that despite the large size of elephant vocal folds, the core pitches of many elephant rumbles are too low for human ears to detect. Humans are only able to hear the higher overtones. Humans can however sometimes feel the lower vibration of powerful elephant rumbles in their chest if they stand close enough.
This recent discovery shows that amazingly just as humans talk and sing and cow’s moo and bats echolocate, so are elephants able to rumble using a similar physiological process. It is quiet a remarkable discovery as scientists now have a theory for explaining such a diverse range of sounds and communications between such a large variety of animals says Igor Purlantov.
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Holidaymakers who book cheap flights to Rhodes with Jet2.com may soon be able to add lighthouses to the range of accommodation on offer.
This idea has been put forward by Dimitris Elefsiniotis, the Greek Deputy Defence Minister, who wants to redefine the regulations governing the country’s network of 120 traditional lighthouses, many of which are in a poor state or have been abandoned.
At present, they are managed by the Hydrographic and Lighthouses Services of the Greek Navy. The new regulations will enable private people to take on the job of maintaining, repairing and enhancing these historic structures – some of which are 200 years old – while also allowing the public free access. The new scheme will relax the uses to which they can be put, potentially allowing them to be let out as holiday homes.
A Beacon of Hope
This is not the first time such a programme has been suggested. The HLS, along with the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), of which it is a founder member, has been tireless in its efforts to conserve and find new uses for the lighthouses. Back in 2000, it ran an experiment in which 50 naval officers stayed in the buildings to see if they were a viable proposition as holiday homes. So far however, the idea has only extended as far as the Boy Scout Movement.
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Chassis Number: 716882
Engine Number: A3994-7
Head number: LB 8353-8
Registration Number: JUN 563
When the XK120 saw the daylight in 1948, only aluminium was available to construct these gracious automobiles during the after days of WWII. It was never suspected that those fine sports cars were such a success which led to ordering tooling for the steel sheets to cope with the ever growing orders. 240 'alloy' bodied 120's were made and almost all of them found their way to some sort of racing circuit due it's very light bodywork and nimble character. Jaguar reacted accordingly and decided to develop a specially made track-built version of these lightweight 120's: The C-type.
These C-types set the course for the 7 overall wins at Le Mans for Jaguar when in 1951 they won Le Mans for the first time and did it again in 1953 with their updated version. D-types continued this winning-streak and the rest is well-known history.
The car we present you is a recreation of one of Jaguars most famous cars. It has been made by World renowned C-type expert David Brown in New Zealand to the highest detail you can think off. The car is constructed to the original drawings provided by friend, and well-known classic car dealer, Ian Cummings in Sydney, these being based on an original C-type located in his shop. David Brown constructed this C-type to very high standards and using as much original parts as possible. The car is constructed on a tubular frame where a full aluminium coach built bodywork was expertly crafted. A 1953 Jaguar Mark VII donated its basic parts and 3.4 litre engine block for this car. (although completely rebuilt to C Type spec) With a 83mm bore and 106mm stroke, the specifications are exactly the same to the original C-type. A Jaguar MKII provided the head fitted on this bespoke machine which gives you the correct bigger valve diameters to give that extra bit of 'oomph' to the already powerful lump. The original C-type gave you 203BHP which was easily achieved by this setup. Double overhead cams, original double twin “Sand Cast” H8 cast SU carburettors, four-wheel original type drum brakes and detailed independent front suspension proving it very very close to the original example in their workshop. The gearbox is the famous Jaguar four-speed Moss box as fitted to all C-types, all the instruments are correct as are the Brooklands type windscreens and even the cold air intake box for the carburettors. Every stitch, every rivet and every bolt were fitted with the C-type in mind. Even the wiring looms are made out of braded cotton wire and with wonderful detail. What more can we say, the attention to detail is absolutely stunning.
It is believed that the few existing “David Brown C-types” are so good that distinguishing them from the originals is very tricky even for Jaguar specialists. These are renowned for being the best of the best. Therefore it is more than logical that these “Post production” C-types as standard FIA recreations, are FIA applicable and are being raced among their full blood brothers in major events around the World.
This car comes with 1953 V5C British registration papers, original “JUN 563” number plate and is therefore eligible to race in the FIA vintage series.
The current owner bought the car from 'The old Racing Car Company' in the UK who acquired it directly from David Brown as his UK demo vehicle. If you like C-types and don't want to spend multi millions (literally) on your dream car, this example will be perfect for you. Made to the highest standards and driving like a thoroughbred sports car, although is handles easily in normal traffic as well, this car is the pinnacle of early 50's motorsport. It is stunning in every aspect. | <urn:uuid:9069936c-11a2-4126-a121-eecd87df4131> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oldtimers-te-koop.be/oldtimer-autos/jaguar-c-type-by-david-brown_256825.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00425-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967618 | 817 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Peace and Democracy Conference at the Democracy Convention, August 2-6, 2017, Minneapolis
Democracy Convention is a multi-issue convention seeking to build a more unified movement. World Beyond War is organizing the Peace and Democracy Conference portion of it, which will run along with 9 other conferences August 2-6, 2017.
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August 2 afternoon: Do People Want Peace? The State of Public Opinion, the Peace Movement, and Governance.
Leah Bolger, Norman Solomon, Kathy Kelly, ______.
August 2 evening: Peace Media.
Maya Schenwar, Bob Koehler, ______.
August 2 evening: Peace Education.
Tony Jenkins, ______.
August 3 morning: Peace Culture and Peace Celebrations: Outgrowing Nationalism, Materialism, Machismo, and Exceptionalism.
Suzanne Al-Kayali, Steve McKeown, Larry Johnson, Kaila Abraham, Timon Jones.
August 3 morning: The Case for War Abolition. Why We Can and Must End Our Greatest Crime.
David Swanson, Medea Benjamin, _______.
August 3 morning: Replacing War Systems with Peace Systems.
Kent Shifferd, Tony Jenkins, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer.
August 3 afternoon: Peacenvironmentalism. One movement, Indivisible.
George Martin, _______.
August 3 afternoon: Overcoming Racism, Militarism, and the Militarized Police
Monique Salhab, ______.
August 3 evening: Hole in the Ground, Dramatic Reading.
Coleen Rowley, _______.
August 4 morning: Divestment from Weapons Dealers.
David Smith, ________.
August 4 afternoon: Counter-Recruitment: Lack of Rights Within the U.S. Military
Pat Elder, Bob Fantina, Dick Foley.
August 4 afternoon: Building Local Power for Peace.
Mary Dean, _______, _______,
August 4 evening: Building Alliances Across Borders.
Ann Wright, Hyun Lee, plus live Skype to Afghanistan, plus recorded videos from abroad.
August 4 evening: Nonviolence Training.
Mary Dean, Kathy Kelly.
August 5 morning, off-site: Flyering and talking about Frank Kellogg on Kellogg Blvd, and at nearby farmers’ market in St. Paul.
August 5 morning: Acting Through Local Governments.
Michael Lynn, Roxane Assaf, David Swanson, _________,
August 5 afternoon: Ending the Nuclear Nightmare.
Marie Braun, Ellen Thomas, Bonnie Urfer, Alice Slater.
August 5 off-site, tea ceremony
August 6, 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. off site, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration at Peace Garden at Lake Harriet
August 6 morning: Law vs. War and Global Governance Beyond Nations.
David Swanson, Ben Manski, _______.
August 6: A Charter.
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Many of us think we’re doing well by our bodies by working out regularly. However, many of us are not exercising properly and in some cases are doing more harm than good. In other cases, our behaviour after our workouts is compromising all the hard work we just put in. Here are a few ways we may be sabotaging our exercise routine.
1. Too Many Exercises
The quest for that perfect body leaves many of us packing our workout with a variety of exercises designed to impact ever single muscle. In actual fact, most lifters would make more progress just by focusing on the basics than doing every chest exercise imaginable. Focus on 4-5 basic techniques.
2. Excessive Cardio
Performing cardio is absolutely essential if you want that perfect physique—but it’s easy to get carried away. Cardio burns calories, but calories build muscle, so adding size will be difficult if your body is fighting a constant calorie deficit. Additionally, going overboard on any type of training can interfere with your recovery and spike the stress hormone cortisol, which can interfere with muscle growth and fat burning.
3. Your Workout Is Too Easy
Some people go to the gym believing that they are automatically healthier just by stepping foot in the gym. You may be working out, but your body may not be doing much to actually get yourself in shape. If you’re not feeling the burn at the end of your 30-minute jog, you might want to consider stepping it up to a run.
4. You’re on Your Phone
This is becoming one of the most common mistakes people make while working out. Your selfie can wait. When your phone is a distraction, this cuts back on time you could be working out. Put your phone on airplane mode so you can still move to your playlist and not be distracted by your friends’ latest Snapchats.
5. You Have a Poor Diet
You can’t have a ripped body without eating well. In addition to exercising, diet is a key part of living a healthy lifestyle. Working out regularly while living on a fast food diet will not only leave you feeling unwell, but it will also compromise the full potential of your workout.
6. You’re Skipping Workouts
Exercise is only effective if you’re doing it regularly. Consistency is key. If your workouts are few and far between, your body is going to reflect that. Skipping workouts is one of the most likely ways for you to fall off your exercise plan. It’s so easy for one missed workout to turn into two, then three, then four.
7. You’re Trying to Copy Other People
If you’re working out with someone who is faster and stronger than you, it’s easy to compare yourself. Just because a workout is right for your friend, it doesn’t mean that it is the perfect fit for you. Try to focus on your personal exercise goals and perform exercises that will help you get there.
8. You Ignore Your Recovery
Recovery should be a crucial part of everyone’s training session and overlooking this is one of the biggest ways you’re sabotaging your workout. Our muscles need to have proper time to rest and repair. Taking 10 minutes after your training session to stretch will loosen up any stiffness and time to prevent injuries from occurring.
9. Poor Playlist
While this may seem trivial, having the right workout music can make the difference between an effective workout and a useless one. Listening to the right music can change your motivation level and encourage you to work harder. Before going to the gym, make sure you have the perfect playlist that you know will keep you going during your whole routine.
10. You’re Not Addressing Your Weaknesses
Sure bench pressing may be more rewarding or even more fun, but you still should be doing your squats! Doing some of the familiar workouts that we enjoy might be our default setting, but this might not actually be helping our fitness levels. Take a serious look at which movements you repeat and ask yourself why this is. Addressing your weaker spots is a great way to improve your body composition.
11. You’re not keeping time
Some of the most overlooked aspects of training are the speed of your lifts and the length of your rest periods. When you lift at certain speeds it allows you to properly complete the lift. This means that you’re keeping muscles under tension for a specific period of time which is critical to delivering the desired effect. Additionally, rest periods should be monitored. If you don’t give yourself enough time to rest, you could be sacrificing some strength. On the flipside, if you wait too long to start your next set, you might be compromising your workout’s metabolic effects.
12. Your technique is terrible
You know the saying “old habits die hard”? If you’ve developed some less-than-ideal workout habits, you’ll have to make an active effort to make sure you rectify these errors or else, at best, you aren’t getting any benefit out of your exercise. At worst, you might actually be making yourself vulnerable to injury—possibly even a permanent one.
13. You’re not fueling pre-workout
You may not be getting the most out of your workout if you’re not eating properly beforehand. Much in the same way a car needs gas to run, your body needs to be properly fuelled in the form of carbohydrates in order to feed your muscles and your brain. Carbs provide you with the amount of energy required to exercise harder and burn more calories in the process. Just be careful—there are some foods you shouldn’t make part of your pre-exercise workout. This means no trips through the drive-thru before hitting the gym!
14. You’re way too stressed
While working out can be a great way to relax, if you’re entering into your workout with too much stress, you might find yourself having a harder time achieving that desired six-pack. Many studies have shown a connection between the stress hormone cortisol and weight-gain, particularly in women. This means no matter how many calories you’re trying to lose, if you remain super stressed, you’re not likely going to achieve your desired weight.
15. Not Hydrating Before Your Workout
We all know that we’re not supposed to exercise without a trusty water bottle, but most likely you’re forgetting to drink water beforehand—especially if you work out in the morning. After a full night’s sleep, you need to replenish your supply of water. How much you drink also depends on the workout you’ll be doing. If you’re strength training, you might want to drink more water than if you’ll be running sprints; otherwise, you’ll have liquid moving around in your stomach. | <urn:uuid:9df35358-47f9-4975-92f6-b03d7910b4f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gofitnesslifestyle.com/10-things-youre-probably-doing-that-ruin-your-workout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939648 | 1,449 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Count What You Eat
Sound nutrition and the right physical exercise determine one's good health. Several non-communicable chronic diseases occur due to faulty diet and sedentary lifestyle. Conditions such as Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary Artery Disease and certain types of cancers are correlated with nutrition and exercise. Several decades of scientific research at the India's premier nutrition research organization, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) located in Hyderabad, India, help coalesce several diet-based approaches to effectively prevent undernutrition as well as early onset of lifestyle diseases. Over the years, the Institute has released several popular publications for easy access to the community. However, in this fast-paced and Tech savvy world, people have grown health conscious and are looking for a reliable source for instant answers to health related questions. In response, the Centre for Bioinformatics, NIN has now created a pathway to healthy life by way of a powerful online platform. We introduce a user-friendly website "Count What You Eat" that has a wealth of information and tools at your disposal. Count What You Eat. Use the wealth of information provided here. It is quite user-friendly and all there at your fingertips.
Nutrition Definition by World Health Organization
Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body's dietary needs. Good nutrition- an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity - is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity | <urn:uuid:4f05772d-b1d5-4fda-b2f1-13bd8eef5565> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://218.248.6.43:8080/CountWhatYouEat/Home.do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00045-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952898 | 317 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Pathways to Astronomy breaks down introductory astronomy into its component parts. The huge and fascinating field of astronomy is divided into 86 units. These units are woven together to flow naturally for the person who wants to read the text like a book, but it is also possible to assign them in different orders, or skip certain units altogether. Professors can customize the units to fit their course needs. They can select individual units for exploration in lecture while assigning easier units for self-study, or they can cover all the units in full depth in a content-rich course. With the short length of units, students can easily digest the material covered in an individual unit before moving onto the next unit. | <urn:uuid:31372b60-a2cb-4d60-9125-862037cbecc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.zookal.com/pathways-to-astronomy-9780073512242/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931796 | 138 | 3 | 3 |
Introduction to Canton, Massachusetts
Canton, Massachusetts, in Norfolk county, is 7 miles NW of Brockton, Massachusetts and 14 miles S of Boston, Massachusetts. The town is located in the Boston metropolitan area. Canton has a population of 20,775.
Canton was originally a part of the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts. It was officially incorporated in 1797. According to some old stories, the town was named because earlier it was believed that Canton, China was located on the exact opposite side of the earth. Joseph Warren Revere established a plastic factory, Emerson Cuming, at Canton, which was recently torn down. In fact, Canton is the birthplace of Elijah Morse's Rising Sun Stove Polish Company.
Canton and nearby Attractions
- Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
- Mildred Morse Allen Wildlife Sanctuary
- Shawmut Industrial Park
- Adams National Historical Park
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
Things To Do In Canton
The town of Canton features a number of scenic trails where you can enjoy hiking and biking. The town also includes a number of restaurants and other entertainment options. The headquarters of Reebok and Baskin-Robbins are also located in Canton.
Air transportation is available from Boston Logan International Airport.
Canton Higher Education
Babson College is nearby. For people who want more options, enrolling in an online institution may interest them. These schools may offer students programs and courses in finance, information technology, human services, and accounting. For people who are interested in probation officer training, some online schools may offer a degree program in criminal justice. | <urn:uuid:f411d068-dcb6-4843-beb4-5b4d6d523d92> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/massachusetts/canton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00446-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959639 | 335 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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The title character of Prometheus Bound, perhaps more than any other hero, serves scholars as a sort of critical mirror. Reformers, for example, consider Prometheus a revolutionary hero, like Satan, a principled rebel who sacrifices himself for others, like Jesus, or an ethical individual who suffers in the face of absolute power, like Job. Authoritarian critics, on the other hand, understand Prometheus's urge to save humanity but condemn his disregard for hierarchical authority in doing so. Freudian and psychoanalytic critics discuss the play's complicated parent-child relations (e.g. Zeus's overthrow of his father, Kronos; Prometheus's connection with his mother). Historical and cultural critics discuss the play in terms of contemporary events, analyzing, for example, Aeschylus' s use of medical terminology in character dialogue and considering what this tells scholars about scientific knowledge at the time.
What may account for the popularity of Prometheus as a character is that fact that all these opinions seem right, if not in Prometheus Bound itself, then in the context of the Prometheia trilogy. Though two of the three plays have been lost, there exist enough fragments and commentary to understand how the story would have been resolved. The result is a rich and complex symbolic narrative of ideas.
Of foremost consideration is what the play tells audiences about Aeschylus' s thinking on the human condition and tragedy. Because Prometheus's intervention to minimize human suffering comes from pity, Normand Berlin saw him as ‘‘a creature of feeling.’’ As Berlin wrote in The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, Prometheus Bound offers ‘‘the tragic condition, here encompassing god and man, macrocosm and microcosm, and brilliantly displaying the contradictory perspective of tragedy, whereby the victorious tyrant is the victim of destiny and his defeated, suffering victim is victorious in possessing knowledge of that destiny—while intelligent mankind victoriously piercing through layer and after layer of ignorance and chaos, progressing in the course of time to mastery of his world, remains helpless beneath the arbitrary and dark control of both Zeus and destiny.’’
On the other hand, some critics believe that present circumstance did play a role in Aeschylus's choice and treatment of subject matter. They discuss the play's exploration of themes like tyranny and revolution in the context of Athens' s evolution from tyranny to democracy which accompanied its defeat of the Persian Empire. As the play opens, Zeus's cosmic government appears as brutal despotism. He acts, according to George Thomson, as a complete tyrant: ruling without laws, contemplating the murder of humanity, seducing female subjects, and suspicious even of his allies. For James Scully, Prometheus's predicament resembles that of any political prisoner being brainwashed; he has been isolated by Zeus, tortured by Hephaistos and Force, and interrogated and brow-beaten by Hermes, an official of the police state. Although Prometheus Bound dramatizes a righteous rebellion against a tyrant, Philo M. Buck, Jr. pointed out that it tells only part of the story. As the first part in a trilogy, much of which has been lost, the viewer must turn to existing fragments of the sequels to learn of Prometheus's ultimate reconciliation with Zeus.
Buck believed that Zeus's actions result from his inexperience as a leader and his unstable grasp on power. Zeus's goal, to establish order after overthrowing the anarchy of the earlier divine rulers, seems laudable, and requires, at least initially, a strong ruler. Zeus must punish the disobedient Prometheus, despite his noble reasons for revolt. Still, according to fragments of the second and third plays in the Prometheia, Zeus later moderates his tyranny and learns mercy, forgiving the Titans and ultimately reconciling himself with Prometheus. Justice, according to Buck, must never be arbitrary but rather human and reasonable. If Prometheus, like Socrates, has been unjustly convicted, ‘‘he must wait for justice to release him. And this was done in the last and lost play, where allegorically the mutual claims of justice and mercy are reconciled in the reign of intelligent law.’’ Prometheus Bound, which explores such themes as justice,"the tyranny of the majority, the caprice of misdirected reformers," conveys an important social message to "Athens, now embarked after the anarchy of the wars and the Tyrants in an effort to build a just constitution and establish human law.’’
Finally, space and time, movement and stasis, memory and history all prove important motifs in Prometheus Bound. Almost no physical action takes place during the play, where the drama focuses on character. Consequently, stasis becomes thematically important. Central to the play are the conversations between Prometheus, doomed to remain trapped on a rock, and Io, a wanderer doomed to wander still farther. She tells Prometheus about her journeys and past, then Prometheus foretells her journeys and future. That prediction includes the story of Hercules, Io's distant relation and avenger, whose life also consists of journeys and sufferings. According to myth, Prometheus aids Hercules by helping him accomplish his labors, after which Hercules kills the eagle which feeds on the Titan's liver.
Zeus has victimized both Prometheus, who remains stationary, and Io, who seems doomed to wander. As Berlin pointed out, Io's experiences ‘‘span the ages, while her wanderings which seem to take in the known world of the time, widen the canvas—so that Aeschylus's Prometheus, having already presented the progress of human consciousness through the years, seems to gather all time and all space to itself, thereby making the mood of fatalism pervasive and extensive.’’ Thus, memory and foreknowledge—movement in time— connect with Io's and Hercules' s journeying—movement in space. Together, their stories (and that of the Promethia) comprise a history that reaches from the rise of human civilization to the fifth century present, and takes in every country from one end of the known world to the other. Memory becomes history, while geography becomes empire.
In the end, regardless of which critic's argument readers find most persuasive, Prometheus Bound remains a moving text that leaves everyone with plenty to think about. And ultimately, its story remains optimistic. As Scully observed in a translation of Prometheus Bound, the ‘‘general drift of the trilogy . . . [is] a universal progress from confusion and torment, at all levels of the universe, toward peace and joy.’’ | <urn:uuid:834435aa-e676-433d-925b-7df583b5c212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/prometheus-bound/critical-essays/critical-overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.951502 | 1,364 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Hamilton's Art Scene: Bermuda National Gallery and Windjammer Gallery
Whether you choose a museum of national treasures and priceless artifacts or a gallery where you can purchase original works of art, visiting the local art scene is a great way to connect with a place. Since 1985, Windjammer Gallery has displayed original paintings, sculpture, and textile art by local professional Bermuda artists. Life-size bronze sculptures can be seen in the garden. Windjammer Gallery is located in the shopping area at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess and has scheduled exhibitions throughout the year. Shipping can be arranged for purchases.
The Bermuda National Gallery is located in the City Hall Arts Centre in Hamilton. It opened in 1992 and is home to Bermuda’s art collection. Permanent and revolving exhibits include African, Bermudian (1680s until today), and European art. Gallery tour guides conduct informative tours of each exhibit. There is another branch of the Bermuda National Gallery in the UNESCO World Heritage site of St. George at Bridge House. Admission is free. | <urn:uuid:3a909806-51ac-4546-aa0b-d761dc89735b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.afar.com/places/hamilton-city-hall-and-arts-centre-pembroke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937957 | 207 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Complaining wasn’t a fair option when our taxi driver dropped us on a street corner, pointed toward our hotel some three blocks away and insisted that we walk the rest of the way.
We had asked for this. After more than 20 trips to the Mexico that attracts so many Minnesotans — the land defined by white sand beaches, palm trees and lazy afternoons — we wanted to see a Mexico defined by vibrant cities, deep history and hip urban street action. Vibrancy? That driver had dropped us in the thick of it when he said it was impossible to drive all the way to our hotel in the historic heart of Mexico City. We had deliberately chosen a hotel on the grand Plaza de la Constitución even though travel sites warned that it would be mobbed for occasions ranging from major festivals to labor strikes.
Mobbed it was on Halloween weekend for the prolonged Day of the Dead celebrations. Clutching suitcases, we plunged into human gridlock, fighting masked revelers for every inch of space we slowly gained toward the hotel.
We had no complaints when we finally stepped into the ornate lobby of the Gran Hotel Cuidad de Mexico. The hotel — with Art Nouveau décor featuring a Tiffany stained-glass ceiling, elaborate ironwork railings and a Louis XV-style chandelier — was a perfect introduction to the aging elegance of old Mexico City.
We dropped our bags in our room and raced upstairs to the rooftop bar and restaurant. Peering over the railing, we got our first good look at Plaza de la Constitución, known to locals as the Zócalo.
Take almost any other public plaza in Latin American and multiply by several factors to visualize this paved expanse. Spreading over more than 14 acres, it is billed as one of the largest public squares in the world.
History books say that the Spaniards laid it out after they demolished the Aztec capital. They likely didn’t envision the modern Metro stop marking one area.
The buildings outlining the plaza — including a mighty cathedral and a massive palace — speak of Europe’s great cities. Even when this was called New Spain, though, it also was the New World with its own character. Now centuries of weathering and renovation have made this place pure Mexico.
No complaints, for sure.
History told in murals
The next morning we set out to do what we often do in cities: wander.
We had checked in advance about the air quality, knowing that pollution in this city of nearly 9 million was so severe during the 1980s that children were kept indoors. Though not perfect, the air is much cleaner now thanks in part to efforts by the government to restrict driving. The weather, on the other hand, was ideal: Higher than Denver, Mexico City is mostly sunny with temperatures in the 70s and 80s.
Our wandering took us to a monster of a building, so big it filled one full side of the massive plaza. Police in riot gear guarded the entrance.
We stepped inside and only then realized we’d happened into the National Palace, the seat of the federal government that houses, among other treasures, works of muralist Diego Rivera. On the walls of a sweeping staircase, Rivera created a provocative portrayal of Mexico’s history.
While modern travel ads show Mexico as an often hedonistic Caribbean resort, Rivera’s politically charged murals from the early 20th century strike populist themes at the root of a nation shaped by revolutionaries like Emiliano Zapata. A lecherous priest and a corpulent monk illustrate the rebels’ anticlerical bent, which never quite triumphed in the devoutly Catholic country.
Another image, U.S. industrialists poring over stock market ticker tape, illustrates the equally complicated relationship between the United States and Mexico, which once was a haven for Communists like Russia’s Leon Trotsky and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
The anti-capitalist theme might seem out of place in modern Mexico’s economy — as its sunny beaches and enterprise zones attract U.S. tourists and manufacturers alike. But Mexico’s proximity to a bigger, more prosperous neighbor creates opportunities for drug trafficking and illegal immigration, an uneasy relationship reflected in a comment attributed to Porfirio Diaz, president in the late 19th and early 20th century: “Poor Mexico. So far from God, and so close to the United States.”
The latest travel warnings issued by the U.S. State Department urge Americans to stay away from several Mexican states, largely along the U.S. border and the West Coast. But there is no advisory in effect for Mexico City.
“Why do we see hardly any American tourists here in Mexico City?” our guide at the National Palace wondered.
The same question struck us, as we shared tourist destinations with Germans and Italians but few of our fellow countrymen. Perhaps most opt for the beach, but those who come to this city in the heart of Mexico will be rewarded with a rich history, urban hipness and fine food rivaling any metropolis in the Western Hemisphere.
Mexico City’s Aztec past is never very far from the surface. In fact, the city is slowly sinking in the soggy soil left by ancient lakes that the Aztecs lived along. One landmark on the plaza — the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, built in stages over centuries — needed new concrete footings in the 1990s to stop it from tilting.
We strolled inside the cool cathedral during mass as wrinkled, gray-haired women stooped to light votive candles and children sat attentively in pews near bloody crucifixion statues so common in Latin America.
But a reminder of Mexico’s pre-Christian roots greeted us as soon as we walked outside the church, where men dressed in Aztec costumes danced on the sidewalk and immersed themselves in burning incense.
We walked a block from the plaza and came upon the most stunning architecture of the Aztec civilization, the ruins of Templo Mayor. The Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés buried the temple and other Aztec religious relics in 1521 after capturing Montezuma II. The Spaniard erected a Catholic cross in their place.
The temple remnants were mostly hidden until electric-company workers unearthed a giant pre-Hispanic monolith in the late 1970s. We strolled along catwalks that were erected so visitors could see the UNESCO World Heritage site without disturbing the still-in-progress recovery work. It felt more than a little eerie to see stone serpent heads, carved toads and other relics emerging from the carefully removed earth and to think that they were just the way the Aztecs left them so long ago. Our guide used the ruins to describe a lost civilization that remains a proud part of the Mexican identity.
The new invaders
Cortés used military power to conquer the Aztecs, but a new breed of invader seems to have transformed the Zona Rosa neighborhood without opposition. Many of the artists’ hangouts and trendy restaurants that lent the neighborhood a Bohemian reputation during the mid-20th century have given way to American fast-food chains and noisy bars. Here is the place where tourists looking for cheap margaritas and taco-type beach fare could be content.
Still, some of the old character endures in the tree-shaded, cosmopolitan side streets where we found outstanding meals.
At Tezka, an elegant restaurant founded 20 years ago in the Hotel Royal Zona Rosa by a Spanish chef, we relished squash blossom soup with corn wonton ravioli stuffed with pheasant. The grilled Dorado with sautéed artichokes and crispy sauce must have come straight from some Aztec heaven.
Throughout Mexico City we found menus with creative offerings. Traditional moles had more depth and spice than the typical versions served in the United States. There were plenty of fish chowders and chalupas, the small tortillas featuring various toppings. One delight was flash-fried parsley dressed with lime juice and salt. On the streets, we could take our corn by the cob, roasted, or else by the kernel, boiled and served in cups with half a lime.
Sun god and jaguars
Our main reason for going through Zona Rosa wasn’t the food, though. It was the nearby National Museum of Anthropology. We had toured ruins of the Maya — an older civilization than the Aztecs — during many previous trips to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. What we hadn’t realized until we saw this splendid collection was that we understood only a small part of pre-Hispanic America. This was the place to fill in the missing parts.
A highlight of the museum was a calendar that the Aztecs carved in a massive stone, some 12 feet across. This Cuauhxicalli Eagle Bowl had been lost for hundreds of years until it was unearthed in 1790 during renovations of the city’s central square. The remarkable piece tells much more than the Aztec understanding of time; it also is a terrible and beautiful portrayal of an ancient cosmology in which the Sun god clutches human hearts, jaguars devour humans and serpents face off.
Never before had we seen the originals of the Eagle Bowl and the other treasures, but we realized standing before them that their images were familiar to us nonetheless from photos and imitations we had seen over the years. This is not the heritage of Mexico alone, but part of the deep history that is shared across the Americas.
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The City of Fredericksburg takes pride in being a green community. In 2022, the City of Fredericksburg adopted the Virginia Plastic Bag Ordinance as a step forward in its commitment to creating a clean, green community. As a part of Fredericksburg, you can do your part by bringing your own bag when you visit a grocery store, pharmacy and convenience store within the City. For those that need assistance with getting a reusable bag or want to know more information, please visit fredericksburgva.gov/BringYourOwnBag.
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May 25, 2009
The Ultimate Yogic Diet
by Melissa Van Orman
My heels arched toward the purple and orange-swirled carpet of the hotel conference center. Pressing against the floor, I lifted my hips higher into a horizon of inverted V's. More than 100 people—once eager to be at this yoga workshop—now groaned deep, long breaths. How much longer would they hold us in downward facing dog?
It takes 16 pounds of grain to make every pound of feedlot beef. Dance club beats interspersed pre-recorded speeches. If Americans cut their meat consumption by 10 percent, which I don't think is unreasonable, we could feed 16,000 people. Think about it.
I knew that yoga teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life were famous for their animal advocacy, but their techno-vibed speech came at a sensitive time. A passionate vegetarian for 13 years, I had begun eating meat again in a last ditch effort to resolve a complicated health problem. I had made an uneasy peace with my diet, until yoga forced me to confront my food choices.
For many Americans, the word yoga evokes images of supernatural mysticism or superhuman flexibility, but yoga is much more than an exotic workout. It is a practical system to integrate physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual awakening—an awakening that takes many a modern yogi by surprise. What often begins as a practice to loosen hamstrings or unwind from a stressful job may unexpectedly blossom into a richer and more meaningful connection with the natural world.
Such was the case for Washington, DC, yoga teacher Chuck Zebrowski. Toward the end of a four-month teacher training, Chuck recalls taking a road trip. Driving next to him were "truck loads of chickens on their way to slaughter." Struck by the helplessness of these creatures, he explains "I remember thinking I didn't want to be part of the animal food industry."
Yogis have a long tradition of eschewing meat, in part because our practice teaches that we are connected to all living beings. The word yoga literally means "yoke" or union. Chuck explains that for him vegetarianism is "part of realizing a connection with the rest of the world and not wanting to do harm if we don't have to."
This concept of non-violence is a central tenant to the yogic ethical principles known as the yamas and niyamas. Yamas (roughly translated as restraints) are practices to prevent harmful behaviors such as lying, violence, theft, greed, or sexual excess, while the niyamas (observances) cultivate positive outcomes like discipline, purity, contentment, self-study, and surrender to God. These ten moral teachings form the base of the classical yogic system outlined thousands of years ago. In this traditional approach, the yamas and niyamas precede the physical exercises, breath work, and meditation—implying that attention to our moral character is a primary imperative of practicing yoga.
As my understanding of these ancient teachings deepened, so too did my introspection. Could I practice compassion (ahimsa) if my lunch resulted from an act of violence?
Was I speaking my truth (satya) if I professed to love animals but continued to eat them?
Could I live without greed (aparigraha) if my fancy dinner caused other creatures to exist in misery?
These questions created discomfort, which Sharon Gannon and David Life amplified during their workshop. But yoga teaches that it is ok for things to be hard.
Anyone who has attempted a headstand or gritted trough a challenging hip opener understands this reality. Yoga requires discipline (tapas) which leads to deeper awareness. It is this commitment—coupled with patience and compassion—that ultimately transforms not just our bodies, but our approach to work, relationships, and—yes—even our diets.
Our diets, in fact, are exceptionally practical expressions of yoga.
The food we eat is a profound way in which we connect with the world. Our choices reflect how we value animals raised for food, the sustainability of our agriculture, and the treatment of farm workers. While many yogis wish they could take class three times a day, such dedication would strain schedules, wallets, and muscles. Food, however, is inescapable and offers a tangible path for spiritual growth. Even if you never unroll a mat, you will lift a fork.
Moving toward a plant-based diet is accessible to everyone. Even forgoing a slice of cheese on a sandwich deepens our interconnectedness and reduces the conflict we create in the world. Yogis are rarely able to hold a new posture the first time they try it—they move into fantastic positions by celebrating small steps.
So celebrate your practice, in whatever form it takes. Sign up for a yoga class. Decrease your consumption of animal products, or eliminate them entirely. Breathe deeply and smile sincerely. Savor the bounty of nourishing plant based foods. Commit to creating peace and cultivating compassion in the simplest of actions.
Melissa Van Orman took her first yoga class in 1993 as a high school student in rural Maine. She now teaches vinyasa flow at Tranquil Space Yoga in Washington, DC.
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Lurkers are the biggest single disenfranchised group on the Net and the Web. Even though there are far more Lurkers than participants in most websites that permit posting and open discussions, they are invisible, sometimes counted but almost never seen or heard.
E-mail from Lurkers is so jarringly different in tone and content than public topic postings that they seems to exist in a parallel universe. In some ways, they do.
A recent survey by a computer consulting firm in Chicago found that 98 per cent of the visitors to large sites with open forums - from AOL and MSN to sites like Slashdot - never submit ideas or articles and never post opinions or participate in arguments.
In my own case, I get anywhere between 100 and 500 e-mails per column, and I'd guess that 98 per cent of it comes from people who never post in public topics - a stunning statistic in an intensely interactive medium like this one.
As a result, the agenda is often set by the smallest, not the largest, group of Netizens, and so is the tone and style of public discussion. Although the public discussions on Slashdot and other websites are often raucous and hostile, e-mail from Lurkers almost never is. Lurker e-mail can be plenty critical and challenging, but the style and tone of people who communicate one on one is radically different from postings on public forums, often dominated by hostile, frequently anonymous, mostly young, overwhelmingly male messagers. For better or worse, flaming is an adolescent geek rite of passage. It will never go away, and shouldn't. Free sites tolerate even obnoxious speech.
Since writing for Slashdot, I've been counting e-mail. Writing about the difficulties of learning Linux, I got more than 1,000 posts in a single week following two columns about how difficult the process was. The overwhelming majority of these posts - 75 per cent - were from people offering help, advice, experience. During that same week, somewhere between 75 and 100 public posts criticized my writing - length, style and content - suggested I shouldn't be here or should be run off. The difference was jarring.
Many of the Lurkers writing me were people who believed I was under continuous and vicious assault because they read the public postings beneath my columns. When I wrote back to say that the response to my writing on Slashdot was overwhelmingly, and from the first, appreciative and generous, and that reading e-mail here was a treat because it was both nice and smart, many people are incredulous.
"I am amazed to hear that you're not continuously under fire," wrote James, a Dayton, Ohio school teacher and father of two who is trying to prepare a class on the politics of OSS but who is uncomfortable about posting after reading some of the uglier flames. "I would have told my class that they were lynching you there."
The point isn't that my writing is or isn't popular, but that perception is so easily skewed and distorted. Most of the people reading, visiting, coming onto the site are never heard from, while a handful of people who post are seen as presenting a dominant voice that is often quite marginal, if equally valid.
Perhaps the most common introduction to e-mail messages that people like me receive, usually in these exact words is: "I don't always agree with you, and I never post comments publicly?" I see this so often I sometimes think it's a heading. Of course, online columnists, writers and posters don't write for agreement. If everybody agreed with me, nobody would have any reason at all to read me. Online, columnists are conversation-starters, not finishers. They don't need to be right, or even to be convinced that they are, just to believe they are correct at the moment they write, and willing to change their minds if the feedback warrants.
The schism between people who post and those who don't is a significant issue for public websites for all sorts of reasons, ranging from the commercial to free speech.
Obviously people who lurk are less likely to register, join or support sites. If they're not comfortable enough to join in collective discussions, why would they stick around and learn the complexities of Linux?
This enormous disparity between huge numbers of Lurkers and small numbers of public posters skews agendas, distorts arguments, and, worst of all, drives away countless potential contributors. So many Lurkers say in e-mail that they are uncomfortable with the tone and hostility of public forums (this was true on Hotwired from the first) that it increasingly becomes a free speech issue. If government or corporations drove away or silenced as many people as flamers do, Net Libertarians would be rushing to the barricades.
In a culture whose most shared common ideology is the free movement of ideas and information, who exactly fights for or protects the increasingly large numbers of people who are afraid to speak at all?
"I am afraid to post because the incredible arrogance and hostility among some people on sites like this," Julia e-mailed me two weeks ago. "I'd like to learn Linux, but I don't get the feeling that these people would help me. They would jus make me feel stupid." When I told her that I'd received literally hundreds of offers of help from members of Slashdot, including a dozen who invited me to their homes or volunteered to come to mine, she didn't believe me.
Lurkers are often either technologically advanced - "I'm a Webmaster in Austin," wrote Jim, who disagreed with a column I wrote about digital democracy, "and I'm sorry to add to your e-mail, but I just don't have time to trade insults with teenagers," or technologically challenged - "I would never dream of posting this message on Slashdot," "messaged Ann, a Web designer in New York City. "I might say something wrong..."
Newcomers to the Net often e-mail, just to see if anybody's really on the other end, but they wouldn't dream of posting because they feel they don't understand the language or rituals here. Foreigners are reluctant to post publicly, because they don't feel confident enough about their command of English to argue issues. Many women and elderly people often browse sites like this but frequently write that they find much of the content interesting, but have never posted publicly because they don't go online to argue.
Online, Lurkers are a culture all their own. They can cruise from site to site in peaceful anonymity, picking up perspective, information and insight, even though they rarely seem to light permanently.
E-mail from Lurkers is useful and entertaining. It includes personal experience, books and articles read, jokes and recommendations to browse other sites they've lurked. One lurker even guided me a Lurkers anonymous list (he made me promise to keep it a secret) where 200 Lurkers on ICQ chat gather nightly to talk about the sites they've lurked, and the information they've picked up. One of their favorite topics is the verbal violence of online discussions.
It's impossible to generalize about Lurkers, but in the past five years writing for several different websites, I've asked many of them what it would take to get them to come out, stay on a site and publicly post their messages - the lurker posts about digital democracy in the past few weeks were astonishing, and included teachers, academics, voters, public policy geeks, political aides and journalists, most of whom were uncomfortable posting in the open message areas. But their discomfort with public posting is a loss. Their messages shouldn't be stuck in my e-mail queue, but posted publicly so everybody could have read them, talked about them, even argued about them.
About a third of the Lurkers say they just prefer Lurking, that it gives them the best of the Web, which is access to thousands of interesting sites, while by-passing the worst, personal insults and abuse, and what one Web designer called "the raging head-butting of the clueless against the self-righteous. I'll post online when people can disagree without name-calling. Probably not in this life."
One software developer e-mailed last week that "I see that there are many intelligent comments posted on sites like Slashdot, and I feel for the people trying to have rational discussions. But where else in the world would you go out of your way to have anonymous people call you offensive names in public?"
Of the Lurkers who say they would love to post messages on public topics and sites, they almost all say it would take several things to get them to feel comfortable: no anonymous postings, moderated discussions, a ban on personal insults.
"People should take responsibility for their words by putting their name on them," e-mailed Richard H, a graphic designer in Toronto. "If they won't do that, why should I listen to them?"
But efforts to sanitize public discussion areas are complex. Flaming has a tradition and value all it's own. It's a great leveler. Flamers often make thoughtful points even when they don't mean to. They helps prevent a few single voices from dominating sites and discussions as they do in mainstream journalism. If nothing else, public roasting keeps the writer's ego under control. And makes it clear that there are lots of different points of view. If flaming shouldn't be taken too seriously, it shouldn't be dismissed as pointless either.
One of the best things about the Web, as many Lurkers point out, is, in fact, one of the worst - a tolerance for open discussion that makes the Internet the freest culture in the world. For me, this is a fair trade-off.
But that doesn't mean Lurkers can't be lured out.
My own vote? Sites like Slashdot should offer special welcome areas for Lurkers, newcomers and newbies, not to mention immigrants, the elderly, the technically challenged or the shy. I can testify from personal experience that there are hundreds of people on this site who would be happy to help if they were asked, and would warmly greet newcomers.
Established sites like the Well have long provided moderated areas where people can identify themselves, be welcomed, and ask questions about the site, and the different topics and discussion areas. There is no debate or arguments on welcome sites, simply the chance for people to say who they are, why they're here, and what they are interested in, and for the site - usually volunteers -- to help guide them.
The ideal world for truly interactive websites would be for the flamers and head-butters to have at it freely and without restriction, but for the growing numbers of online Lurkers to participate. It's hard to see who would lose in an environment like that.
For Open Source Software sites like this one, this is even more important, since it is in the interest of OSS and free software advocates to spread the message as well as the software that there is a booming new alternative to the greedy and increasingly censorious companies - Microsoft, Disney, AOL - that are seeking to dominate the commercial and cultural life of the Internet. Sooner or later, the Lurkers will light. When they do, it ought to be here, and on places like this, and not on Disney's Go.com.
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Bexarotene (Targretin®), Oral Formulation
About Bexarotene (Targretin®), Oral Formulation
Bexarotene belongs to a class of medications called retinoids. Retinoids are relatives of vitamin A and appear to interfere with genes that control cell growth. The exact way bexarotene works is unknown, but it is believed to inhibit the growth of tumor cells.
How to Take Bexarotene
Bexarotene comes in a capsule form. The actual dose is based on your body size. Bexarotene should be taken with food, preferably at the same time each day, with a glass of water or juice. Do not chew, open, or dissolve the capsules in liquid. If you miss a dose, take the next dose as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose. Do not take two doses at once to make up for the missed dose.
The blood levels of this medication can be affected by certain foods and medications, so they should be avoided. These include: grapefruit, grapefruit juice, itraconazole, erythromycin, gemfibrozil, ketoconazole. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider about all medications and supplements you take.
Safety Considerations When Receiving Bexarotene:
- Vitamin A supplements can worsen the side effects of bexarotene. The manufacturer recommends limiting vitamin A supplementation less than 5,000 IU/day, but you should discuss taking any vitamin supplements with your doctor BEFORE you take them.
- Bexarotene can cause harm to a fetus (unborn baby). Men and women should not become pregnant (or father a child). Two methods of effective contraception are recommended for women of childbearing potential for one month before starting, during therapy, and one month after completing therapy. Discuss with your doctor when you may safely become pregnant after therapy.
- Men should use condoms during sexual activity during therapy and for one month after completing therapy to protect their partner from exposure to the medication and prevent them from becoming pregnant.
Storage and Handling
Store your medication in the original, labeled container at room temperature and in a dry location (unless otherwise directed by your HCP or Pharmacist). Keep containers out of reach of children and pets. Do not expose the medication to humidity or light.
If a caregiver prepares your dose for you, they should consider wearing gloves or dispense the medication directly from their container into a small cup or directly into your hand. They should avoid touching the pills. They should always wash their hands before and after giving you the medication. Pregnant or nursing women should not prepare the dose for you. Ask your oncology team where to return any unused medication for disposal. Do not flush down the toilet or throw in the trash.
Where do I get this medication?
Bexarotene oral formulation is available through retail/mail order pharmacy. Your oncology team will work with your prescription drug plan to identify an in-network retail/mail order pharmacy for medication distribution.
This medication may be covered under your prescription drug plan. Patient assistance may be available to qualifying individuals without prescription drug coverage. A co-pay assistance program which reduces the patient’s co-pay responsibility for eligible, commercially (non-government sponsored) insured patients, may also be available. Your care team can help you find these resources, if they are available.
Possible Side Effects of Bexarotene
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of bexarotene. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
This medication can make your skin more sensitive to the sun, which can result in severe sunburn or rash. Sun sensitivity can last even after chemotherapy is completed. Avoid the sun between 10-2pm, when it is strongest. Wear sunscreen (at least SPF 15) everyday; wear sunglasses, a hat and long sleeves/pants to protect your skin and seek out shade whenever possible.
Increased Triglycerides and Cholesterol
This medication can increase the blood levels of triglycerides and cholesterol. Your healthcare team will routinely monitor you blood levels and treat the elevated levels as needed.
This medication can cause hypothyroidism (under active thyroid).Your doctor will perform blood tests to check the function of your thyroid and treat this side effect if it develops. Symptoms of thyroid problems include: tiredness, feeling hot or cold, change in your voice, weight gain or loss, hair loss and muscle cramps.
This medication can cause pancreatitis, or an inflammation of the pancreas. Symptoms of pancreatitis include nausea, vomiting, and abdominal or back pain. Notify your care team or go to the emergency room if you experience any of these symptoms while taking bexarotene.
Low White Blood Cell Count (Leukopenia or Neutropenia)
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
- Washing hands, both yours and your visitors, is the best way to prevent the spread of infection.
- Avoid large crowds and people who are sick (i.e.: those who have a cold, fever or cough or live with someone with these symptoms).
- When working in your yard, wear protective clothing including long pants and gloves.
- Do not handle pet waste.
- Keep all cuts or scratches clean.
- Shower or bath daily and perform frequent mouth care.
- Do not cut cuticles or ingrown nails. You may wear nail polish, but not fake nails.
- Ask your doctor or nurse before scheduling dental appointments or procedures.
- Ask your doctor or nurse before you, or someone you live with, has any vaccinations.
As mentioned above, exposure of an unborn child to this medication could cause birth defects, so you should not become pregnant or father a child while on this medication. Effective birth control is necessary 1 month before starting therapy, during treatment, and for at least 1 month after treatment. Even if your menstrual cycle stops or you believe you are not producing sperm, you could still be fertile and conceive. You should not breastfeed while taking this medication.
Other Possible Side Effects
Diabetics may find that their blood sugar levels are higher and those patients who require insulin may require higher doses to control their blood sugar.
This medication may increase the risk of developing cataracts. Report any changes in vision to your healthcare provider, including cloudy or blurry vision, difficulty seeing at night, sensitivity to light, seeing "halos" around lights, and/or yellowing of colors. | <urn:uuid:ec3f560b-96a0-47fb-b9dd-a3b0dbf4af90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oncolink.org/cancer-treatment/chemotherapy/oncolink-rx/bexarotene-targretin-r-oral-formulation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00130-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908158 | 1,480 | 1.742188 | 2 |
My kids had to memorize this poem for school. That was the first time I heard it and I thought it was probably one of the most powerful poems I have ever read.
IF - by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! | <urn:uuid:0c14252c-ac23-4408-bef9-33702d1692de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://arubawayne.blogspot.ca/2008_05_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957935 | 399 | 2.28125 | 2 |
To help your move go more smoothly, research your choice of mover, communicate with the company about the move upfront, and know what your rights are if something goes wrong.
There are two basic types of moves and each is regulated differently.
An interstate move is a move from one state to another and is regulated primarily by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. In an interstate move, your mover must provide you with a written estimate of total charges, or a guaranteed total price. If you use a broker and the broker gives you an estimate, the estimate must be in writing.
An intrastate move takes place entirely within the borders of one state. For example, you decide to move from Charlotte to Greensboro. The North Carolina Utilities Commission regulates movers within our state and sets the maximum amounts they can charge. Some intrastate movers can offer lower rates so shopping around may save you some money.
The cost of moves in state and between states are based on mileage, weight, the number of boxes the mover packs for you and any special services you need.
Whether you’re moving across town, across North Carolina or across the country, keep the following tips in mind:
Check out the moving company. Ask friends for recommendations. While most moving companies operate legitimately, some do not. If you have any doubt about a company's credentials, check them out before you do business.
- For between-state moves, ask for the mover’s Motor Carrier number and then check the U.S. Department of Transportation's website www.protectyourmove.gov to see whether the mover is registered and insured. You can also see a record of any complaints that consumers have filed against the mover, and get more tips about interstate moves.
- For moves within North Carolina, ask the moving company for its North Carolina Utilities Commission Certificate number and then call the Utilities Commission's Public Staff at (919) 733-7766 to see if they have complaints on file against the company. For more information, check out Moving 101- A Counsumer’s Guide.
Get a written estimate of costs. Make sure you understand the charges listed and what services are included. Keep in mind that an estimate is not a guarantee and that the actual move may wind up costing you more.
Take inventory. Ask the movers to prepare a written inventory of your shipment, or write down your own inventory. It’s a good idea to take pictures or video of antique or other valuable property prior to the move so you will be better able to prove any damage that occurs during the move.
Ask for a bill of lading. This is a written contract that sets forth the terms and conditions of your move. Your mover is required to provide a bill of lading in all intrastate and interstate moves. Be sure to read it carefully and keep a copy until your move is finished and any disputes with your mover have been resolved.
Set dates. Ask the mover to specify pick up and delivery dates in writing.
Know your liability. Make sure you understand your moving company's policy for items that get lost or damaged in the course of your move.
Get satisfaction. If there are problems with your move, let the company know about them as soon as possible. If necessary, file a written complaint with the company no later than nine months after the delivery. You can also file a complaint with the proper regulating agency.
- For complaints about between-state moves, contact the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Office of Motor Carrier Analysis, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington DC 20290, call 1-888-368-7238, or visit their website. Remember, FMCSA cannot resolve claims. If you are not satisfied with the settlement offered by the mover you have the option of taking the case to court or arbitration.
- For complaints about moves within North Carolina, contact the NC Utilities Commission Public Staff, Transportation Rates Division, 4326 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4326 or call (919) 733-7766.
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Submitted by gjunky on October 20, 2011
I have seen some mention in this forum about Tesla's plans to deploy their own charging stations. I was wondering if anyone actually had more information on this. Where did this information/rumor come from? Was there any mention of when, how many and where these would be? Any speculation on where they should put them?
The obvious answer for me would be to have them along freeways between their retail/service locations with an interval of about 100 miles but that would take a very large number of them.
Could non-Tesla cars charge at these locations? So many questions. They all might become irrelevant if a large public charging network will appear but will either be in time for the Model S reservation holders to use when we get our cars? | <urn:uuid:ad473789-1e85-4a84-bd4b-8ff392d2ae7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/tesla-motors-charging-network?page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985254 | 163 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Low birth weight babies risk developing depression, anxiety in later lifeDecember 5th, 2007 - 12:29 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 5(ANI): A landmark study has revealed that babies born with low weight are more likely to go through depression and anxiety in later life.
The study led by Ian Colman of the University of Albertas School of Public Health suggest that conditions in the womb indeed have an effect on the childs future development.
Colman said that people with symptoms of depression and anxiety were found to have low birth weight.
We found that even people who had just mild or moderate symptoms of depression or anxiety over their life course were smaller babies than those who had better mental health, said Colman.
It suggests a dose-response relationship. As birth weight progressively decreases, its more likely that an individual will suffer from mood disorders later in life.
Researchers analysed the data provided by Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, which is one of the longest-running survey in the world.
It was carried out on more than 4,600 people born in Great Britain in 1946 for symptoms of anxiety and depression over a 40-year period whose symptoms were measured at 13, 15, 36, 43 and 53 years of age.
Another interesting breakthrough was people who had worse mental health throughout their lives had also learnt standing and walking for the first time later in life.
One of the surprising findings from our research, Colman said, was that people who had worse mental health throughout their lives had also reached developmental milestoneslike standing and walking for the first timelater in life than those who had better mental health.
The researchers underlined that not all small babies will experience poor mental health in the future.
Being born small isnt necessarily a problem. It is a problem if you were born small because of adverse conditions in the womband low birth weight is what we looked at in this study because it is considered a marker of stress in the womb, he added.
When a mother is really stressed, blood flow to the uterus is restricted and the foetus gets fewer nutrients, which tends to lead to lower birth weight.
The stress hormones pass through the placenta to the foetus and in turn might affect the foetuss neurodevelopment and stress response as a result the mind of the child does not develop properly.
Under these conditions, the part of the childs brain that deals with stress could be programmed incorrectly in uterothe brain doesnt develop as it would under ideal circumstances. If this theory is correct, you would find that when stressful events occur, the people who were smaller babies would be more likely to become depressed or anxious, Colman said further.
Colman suggests that better care should be taken of pregnant women and the kind of stress that pregnant mothers are under has a significant long-term effect on the developing foetus.
The study is published in the December 2007 issue of Biological Psychiatry (ANI)
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The Beck flowing past business and residential property at risk of flooding in central Pickering
Flood risk in the region
The impact of the 2007 floods was particularly severe in the Yorkshire and Humber Region, with the total damage estimated at £2.1bn. Climate change may increase the frequency of such floods, resulting in a major recurrent cost with significant implications for the regional economy and for affected communities.
The Catchment Flood Management Plans for the region note that the current reliance on engineered flood defences to defend all areas against future flooding is not sustainable. Instead, they identify a need to develop a whole catchment approach to flood risk management.
Land management is recognised as having a significant contribution to make, particularly where engineered flood defences cannot be justified on cost-benefit grounds, but also to improve the effectiveness of existing defences against climate change. It is also consistent with the delivery of an ecosystem services approach to securing a healthy environment.
Why choose Pickering?
The Pickering Beck catchment in North Yorkshire is an ideal, although challenging site to explore how land management practices within an environmentally sensitive area can be modified for flood risk reduction.
Pickering has a long history of flooding and whilst a flood alleviation scheme has been proposed in recent years, it is of too low a priority in terms of cost-benefit to be considered for approval. The town is particularly at risk from summer flash floods due to the steep nature of the catchment.
The project also includes the neighbouring catchment of the River Seven, where the village of Sinnington is similarly at risk from summer floods. This slightly larger catchment has a larger floodplain and an even faster flood response. Its inclusion extends the opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of larger-scale planting of floodplain woodland.
Problems with previous land management practices
Previous land management practices in the catchment are considered to have enhanced the risk of Pickering being flooded by promoting rapid runoff and increasing the delivery of sediment and siltation within Pickering Beck.
There are four principal land uses in the 66 km2 catchment, comprising:
- Arable crops
- Improved grassland
- Heather moorland
- Forestry and woodland.
Inappropriate cultivation of arable soils, overstocking and overgrazing of grassland, excessive moorland and forestry drainage, and poor river management, are all thought to have increased the risk of downstream flooding.
The project seeks to demonstrate the role of best land management practices in correcting past problems and restoring the catchment’s natural flood attenuation capacity. There is also the potential to explore a number of ‘win-wins’, including expected water quality and biodiversity gains associated with better land management.
Diffuse water pollution is another major local issue, with Pickering Beck failing to meet ‘good water status’ as defined by the Water Framework Directive. It has been designated a ‘Priority Catchment’ for improving land management under the England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative (ECSFDI), with additional funding provided for agri-environment schemes.
The project builds on previous regional flood risk management projects:
- The SPROUT Project (Strategic Partnership for the River Ouse and its tributaries), which identified the important contribution of moorland gripping and coarse sediment delivery to local flood risk;
- The Ripon Multi-Objective Project, which highlighted the problems of persuading land owners to implement land management measures and the need to build a partnership that will secure change;
- Regional Forestry and Flooding Initiative, which developed a region-wide approach and opportunity mapping to facilitate targeted woodland creation for flood risk reduction;
- Rural Economy and Land Use Project, which pioneered new ways of incorporating local knowledge into strategic flood risk management and developed new hydrological models to assess the role of land management.
These projects identified a number of priority areas within the Pickering Beck and River Seven catchments where best land management practices are expected to be effective at reducing flood runoff and the delivery of sediment to watercourses. | <urn:uuid:01fca991-94bd-44da-8beb-4775b1b8f6fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/infd-7zuclx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00299-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932453 | 825 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Two years ago or so when I was doing privacy law in the history of urban planning, my friend and fellow Berkeley graduate student David Molnar was feeding me with death-doom scenarios in which everything you carried -- from groceries to library books to *passports* -- could be read at a distance outside your house by any passer-by equipped with a radar.
Think you don't care about whether strangers can access your information? Think your life is an open book? Go read some privacy law history. It starts to be a big deal when somebody takes out a lawsuit or a fatwa against you.
Anyway, the American government is now on the side of the lawsuits, fatwas, and creepy stalkers, says Molnar:
In regulations published Tuesday, the State Department claims it has addressed privacy concerns. The chipped passports 'will not permit 'tracking' of individuals,' the department said. 'It will only permit governmental authorities to know that an individual has arrived at a port of entry--which governmental authorities already know from presentation of non-electronic passports--with greater assurance that the person who presents the passport is the legitimate holder of the passport.'
In a recent paper (PDF here), RSA Laboratories' Ari Juels, and University of California's David Molnar and David Wagner, warned that the design of the encryption keys is insufficiently secure. They said that the use of a "single fixed key" for the lifetime of the e-passport creates a vulnerability.
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The economy is a field with extremely delicate balances. Even when everything seems fine, it can suddenly turn upside down. For example, while the negative effects of the pandemic have almost come to an end all over the world, strangely, we see that inflation has increased at different rates all over the world, especially in our country. Inflation, in its most basic sense, means the decrease in the value of money and the purchasing power of the people.
The actions of the political power that governs the countries, of course, affect the economy and inflation, but the institutions that should control this situation all over the world are the central banks. Even if the citizens do their best, state institutions should intervene in the inflation balance, since a much larger economic structure is mentioned. Bride What is inflation, why is it rising?Let’s take a closer look at the frequently asked questions.
What is inflation, why does it rise, what are its types?
Let’s start with the basics, what is inflation?
In its most basic definition, inflation is is the decrease in the purchasing power of the currency in use in that country. This decline over time is revealed by examining the prices of a basket of certain goods and services. It is expressed as a percentage. An increase in the inflation percentage means that the currency has a much lower purchasing power compared to the previous period.
Inflation is much more than just a price increase for a few products. for people to continue their daily lives. They have some basic needs like food, fuel and so on. Along with these basic needs, there are also different products that affect the service sector. According to the results of an evaluation made on the prices of all these, if the prices are much higher than the previous period and the purchasing power of the people has decreased, here is inflation.
There are many different needs of people such as grain, metal, fuel, electricity, transportation, health and entertainment among the products and services whose prices are examined by adding them to the inflation basket. As the currency in question depreciates public access to these products and services is reduced. As a result, the economic growth of that country and even other countries with which it has economic relations is adversely affected. In other words, inflation is not only the decrease in the purchasing power of the people, but also the slowdown or even stopping of the economic growth of that country.
What are the types of inflation?
- Demand pull inflation
- Cost push inflation
- Internal inflation
Demand pull inflation:
Demand pull inflation, also known as the demand pull effect, is the increase in the money and credit supply in the market. overgrow the economy result arises. Each producer has a certain production capacity and a certain demand of the public. If there is an abundance of money and production grows faster than its economic capacity, price increases will occur.
In other words, just as little money in the market, too much money causes inflation. person with a lot of money positive consumer sentiment with higher spending. As demand increases, prices also increase. Since the supply-demand balance does not occur, a gap occurs. Because the economy does not accept such gaps, price increases occur.
Cost push inflation:
Cost push inflation, also known as cost inflation for short, the imbalance between the basic ingredients of the production process and the profit at the end of production. With the increase in money and credit supply, when all these are channeled into a single commodity, the economy is affected. Economic gaps occur due to the supply – demand imbalance on the commodity in question.
Money is plentiful, everyone wants to buy the same production good, but there are not enough goods. Thus, the price increases. The producer, who buys the goods expensively, has to sell the product expensively. but the consumer does not get it. The most basic example of cost inflation is oil prices. Even if you do not buy oil directly, since oil prices increase, the prices of all products that are remotely related to oil increase.
A form of internal inflation, also called built-in inflation. vicious circle possible to say. In the process of high inflation, people think that this economic situation will always continue in this way, and therefore the manufacturer makes a hike in their products, while the workers demand higher wages.
For the moment, a measure against inflation, to maintain the standard of living. Although it seems like a necessary increase This situation causes inflation to continue and even increase. If everyone has more money, the price of goods and services will increase. This situation, known as the wage-price spiral, constantly triggers each other. This situation, in which the reverse is also true, creates a vicious circle.
Why does inflation rise? Reasons:
- Government printing and distributing money
- Legal depreciation of tender currency
- Borrowing money from banks’ reserves by purchasing government bonds
These are the three most common causes of inflation. Since it’s a bit complicated, let’s summarize, The main cause of inflation is the increase in the money supply. In other words, the more the same currency in the market, the lower the purchasing power of that currency, which causes inflation. It is the monetary authorities of that state that increase the money supply.
How is inflation calculated?
Inflation is found as a percentage as a result of calculating the price index variables by collecting the selected goods and services in a basket at that time. bimonthly, annually or in different periods inflation can be calculated. While calculating inflation, index types such as consumer price index, wholesale price index, producer price index can also be taken as a basis. To give a general formula for calculating inflation;
- Percentage Inflation Rate = ( Final Consumer Price Index Value / Initial Consumer Price Index Value ) x 100
This is the basic methodological formula applied to calculate inflation. You can also find many inflation calculators on the Internet. Of course, this procedure values that are considered correct for the moment done over. If the consumer price index value is as explained, this formula will give correct results.
Advantages and disadvantages of inflation:
Inflation is generally considered a bad economic situation, but there are some exceptions. For example, if you have a property or stock that is priced in your own currency, you may be affected by inflation. You can sell with a much higher profit rate.Inflation is also advantageous for people who speculate in order to make high profits on company shares.
Of course, when we put our hands on our conscience, we should say that inflation is only a disadvantage. Who wants the purchasing power of money to decrease? The fact that product X, which was bought for 10 units a month ago, is 50 units this month does not satisfy either the consumer or the producer. Because even if the consumer’s salary and the producer’s income seem to increase, there is always a loss because the expenditures increase at the same or even higher rate.
It is an economic situation that deeply affects our country and the world. what is inflation, why does it rise, what are its types We answered the frequently asked questions and talked about the details you need to know about the subject. One last sentence; Don’t be hopeless, what we’ve been through. | <urn:uuid:d67b0a7f-f70c-470f-b6d5-c266b99cd10b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abouttechnology.net/decreased-purchasing-power-what-is-inflation-why-does-it-rise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.961985 | 1,494 | 3.375 | 3 |
Background: Since 2006, the authors have explored the option of using septal cartilage as an alar rim graft on the cleft side during primary rhinoplasty to improve nasal symmetry. The aim of this study was to compare the nasal shape with or without rim graft. Methods: A total of 98 patients with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate were included; 39 patients had septal cartilage as the rim graft, and 59 patients did not. Measurements of the nostril height, nostril width, one-fourth medial part of nostril height, nostril area, nasal dome height, and nostril axis were obtained on the cleft and noncleft sides. Ratios of these measurements were calculated. These ratios were then compared between the graft and nongraft groups. The levels of asymmetry were categorized into four levels - less than 5 percent, 5 to 10 percent, 10 to 15 percent, and greater than 15 percent - based on the percentages deviated from perfect symmetry (100 percent). Panel assessment was also performed. Nasolabial angle and tip projection ratio were measured for the comparison of nasal growth. Results: The nostril height, height-to-width ratio, and nasal dome height were higher in the graft group (p = 0.003, p < 0.001, and p < 0.001, respectively). The graft group showed more consistency regarding the nostril shape and axis, and the differences were statistically significant (p < 0.05). The nasolabial angle and tip projection ratio showed no significant difference between the two groups. Conclusion: This preliminary study suggests that the use of a primary septal cartilage graft may offer better support at the alar rim and improve the long-term outcomes. CLINICAL QUESTION/LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic, III.
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Cation exchange capacity
Cation exchange capacity is
the first characteristic you should consider when you get your soil
test results. Cation exchange capacity (CEC for short) is
closely tied to the amount of organic matter and clay you have in
your soil since both provide spots for positively charged ions ---
cations --- to cling to the soil. In contrast, sandy soil without
much organic matter will allow
nutrients to leach away during heavy rains.
You're throwing away your money if you add soil supplements to raise
your calcium, magnesium, or potassium levels without first increasing
your CEC so that these essential nutrients will be held in place.
I've highlighted the one non-garden spot I sampled --- our chicken pasture, which was basically a lawn until we started letting chickens graze there this spring. I also sampled some of my Mom's soil, which has been intensively gardened for decades. Finally, the white columns are four different parts of my own vegetable garden. By comparing these three areas, you can see:
Most organic gardeners believe you can't have too much organic matter in your soil, but soil scientists will roll their eyes at that statement and now I understand why. If your CEC is low but your organic matter levels are high, that means you're doing something wrong and your organic matter isn't being broken down into a stable humus. Maybe you've added too much high carbon material all at once (for example, tilling wood chips into the soil) or have sprayed pesticides that killed off your soil microorganisms. That's why I recommend using CEC rather than organic matter as the most important "grade" on your holistic gardening "report card." As far as I can tell, with CEC, more is always better.
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Green tea, though, was not the only thing produced in the region. Some 130 years ago - the time following the Meiji restoration - Japan tried to produce black tea for export as a governmental policy. Tea scholar and planter - Motokichi Tada - was sent to China and India to learn the black tea trade. The initiative wasn't a success for two reasons: (1) The sheer man-power and technical expertise required as well as demand locally and (2) competition with Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
Regardless of this setback, small farmers in the Mariko region of Shizuoka still practiced the art of black tea (or kocha) production. One such farmer, Niroku Matsumura, has been doing just that since 1953. Den's Tea mentions that Shirakata-Denshiro Shoten have been doing business with Matsumura for quite some time. As part of the 10th Anniversary of their North American "Den", they offered up some of his single estate kocha as a gift for purchases of $30 or more. I was lucky to get my hands on some of it via online tea friends.
It was also mentioned on the Den's site that the leaf cultivar used for the production of this black tea was called "Beni-Fuki" - a hybrid between Darjeeling varietals and the locally-grown Beni-homare, the latter of which was often used for black tea. The unique thing about any black tea production in Japan is the use of varietals usually reserved for green tea. The result is (apparently) a liquor that is smoother and less bitter. I had no prior exposure to attest or contest the claim.
Personally, I wasn't that impressed with the visual presentation. The leaf array ranged from long stems to almost-CTC-cut granules. I even found a leaf piece that looked like a curly French fry; that was unusual. Their aroma also left much to be desired, resembling a typical black tea scent one would find from a Hy-Top teabag - slightly smoky but generic.
Brewing instructions on the sample bag called for 1 teaspoon of leaves per 6oz of boiled water, steeped for three minutes. I wanted a bigger glass than that, so I risked a heaping teaspoon in 8oz. Time and temp were left the same, though. I only had one shot at this.
The liquor brewed an amber-to-brown palette with a common-ish black tea nose. Some nostril-digging turned up a floral note...maybe. Overall, though, it possessed a mild malty aroma with a bit of a nutty characteristic. Nothing special, though. The taste, thankfully, was where this finally showed some shine. Den's was right about the lack of bitterness. Astringency was a little present, but not in a bad way. My favorite aspects were the sense of wood, grapefruit, grass and "sweet"; it was hard to describe. I think the best comparison I can come up with is a Thiashola-grown Nilgiri black tea blended with sencha. Most unusual.
I wouldn't say I'm a raving fan of this. The sheer difficulty in acquiring it isn't justified by the outcome. That said, it is a pleasant enough black tea that had a lot of acerbic character to offer. I purposely didn't supply a rating here because this was more of a reflection than a review. I was finally able to notch a tea off my "WANT" list, and it more-or-less lived up to its promise.
You can read more about this tea here.
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Five Tips to Get Fit this Spring
Don't let COVID-19 stop your outdoor workout
Spring is in the air, even in those parts of the country that have seen freezing winter storms. With warmer weather comes a desire to get outside, get active, and shed some of the weight that might have been gained during time at home thanks to COVID-19.
Exercising alone or only with your partner is still a great way to make good on your fitness goals while enjoying the nice weather.
Get the full effects of fitness
Did you know that exercising regularly affects more than just physical fitness? You might be surprised to discover that exercise makes you more likely to:
- Live longer
- Sleep well at night
- Be in a good mood
- Control your weight
My HealtheVet has five tips to help you put your best foot forward when you're keeping fit in the heat.
1. Warm-up and cool-down
Always include a warm-up and cool-down as a part of your exercise routine. A tough workout can lead to muscle strain and injury if your body does not ease in and out of physical activity. Include stretching after your cool-down routine to increase flexibility. Muscles will still be warm and more flexible, which will allow you to move through a fuller range of motion.
Check out these sample stretches (PDF).
2. Wear proper footwear
You might think that your flip-flops or slippers are the most comfortable shoes you own, but they are not appropriate for working out. For exercising, be sure to have properly fitted athletic shoes with good arch support. The right shoes will prevent too much stress on your feet and knees and will help you from stumbling on obstacles in your path.
Check out this handy guide (PDF) to pick the right pair of shoes.
3. Don't overdo it
For many Veterans, starting a brisk walking program may be more appropriate than running at full speed. Begin by taking it easy on your joints and work your way towards finding the point at which you are challenged. Remember: you're not a new recruit doing physical training in basic training anymore. Get into your workout program step by step to avoid injury and burnout. And keep in mind, if you're training outdoors, you always need to get back home. So be careful to pace yourself and don't go too far in one direction.
Check out How Hard Should I Exercise (YouTube) to know how much is too much.
4. Track progress
Setting concrete goals and tracking your progress in achieving those goals can be a great motivator. Keep the goals realistic. For example, don't start your running program by running long distances. As you keep track of your exercise, you will notice your exercise patterns. With those records, you'll recognize how much progress you're making, or if your success is dropping off.
If you don't already have a My HealtheVet account, register today. Then you can use My HealtheVet's Activity Journal to keep track of how much you are exercising.
5. Drink enough liquids
Working out in the heat and humidity can put you at risk for dehydration, heatstroke, and other heat-related illnesses. The easiest way to avoid heat disorders is to keep your body hydrated. This means drinking liquids before, during, and after your exercise.
Don't drink the kind of soda or fruit juices that will only make you more dehydrated. Choose water or a low-calorie sports drink. Insufficient liquids will not just leave you feeling uncomfortable, but dehydration can lead to fainting or muscle cramps.
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What, I asked in the steadiest voice I could muster, made the client think that its junior administrator was capable of testing the firewall? Instead of a justification of the administrator's technical skills, the client simply reached into a cardboard box and produced a shrink-wrapped package from within it. The package contained firewall testing software, and the sticker on the box proclaimed among other things, that it was 'usable by those with only a basic understanding of firewalls'. It would seem the claim was about to be put to the test. The client informed me the software was the same as that used by an outside security consultant during his last visit. In effect, the client resented paying the fees charged by the security consultant for using the same software that he could buy and operate himself.
As the threats from outside sources have increased in their complexity, the ease with which our security systems, such as firewalls, can be tested has increased also. Packaged software now enables us to test security solutions and determine their effectiveness with ease. But can using a packaged software solution really offer the protection that's available from a dedicated and specialized security provider? To put it another way, does this kind of software literally lure us into a false sense of security?
Competence Cannot Always Be Shrink-Wrapped
In a sense, there is no reason why testing a security solution should not be as simple as point and click. Most of the other things we do on a daily basis are done the same way. Perhaps the bigger issue is that while the software to test our security solutions may be simple and easy to use, are those doing the pointing and clicking able to effectively test, and , just as important, interpret the information produced from such a test? In addition, are they able to act on the information produced from the test to correct the problem? Given that in many cases the person conducting the test is the network or server administrator, you have to wonder whether the task is not more suited to someone who does it for a living.
In IT, as in any other field, but particularly in security, real world experience makes such a difference. In a given year, a system administrator may have to deal with one or two security incidents. A security consultant will most likely deal with more than this on a single day. The knowledge and experiences gained from this intensive exposure allows security consultants to develop finely honed skills in both risk assessment and identification. They are far more able to thoroughly test a security solution than someone who has just read the instruction manual for a software package.
That is not to say that using a security consultant is foolproof. Not all security consultants, or consultancies, are created equal. As much time should be invested in choosing a security consultant as choosing the security solution in the first place. The introduction of certifications programs by a number of the leading security software vendors can lead you to believe that holders of these certifications are competent and knowledgeable, but it is not a guarantee. In the same way that there are inexperienced and 'paper' holders of other certifications, security certifications are no different. The exact skills which are so important in the work environment -- up to date knowledge and hands on experience -- are the two hardest things to incorporate into a certification test.
As mentioned earlier, that is not to say that certified individuals are not competent, but the value of the certification can only be estimated when it is backed up by practical on-the-job experience.
Understanding The Risks
Through this experience, security consultants are able to understand business issues as they relate to security. Understanding the risks is actually a step that comes before any kind of remedial actions, as Allen Vance, Vice President of offer management for Internet Security Systems, a leading provider of security testing software, points out.
"First, customers must understand what kind of business level risks they have," says Vance. "A bank will have different associated risks than, for example, a baker. Next, you have to determine whether you have the appropriate skills to manage the solution in house. In each case, not determining your needs or understanding the requirements fully will most likely prove to be a false economy." Vance has the luxury of providing an impartial view on the subject, as customers of ISS fall into both camps.
If, at the end of the day, you have the skills in-house and understand the risks that you are protecting against, using testing software and performing your own checks may be a valid approach. But if there is any doubt, use a suitably qualified and experienced security consultant. As one veteran security consultant puts it, you could save a few bucks and it could cost you your business.
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In order to properly catalog competing products which is required for monitoring prices, you need a way to properly recognize a tire variant. For this purpose, we have built a list of over 6 100 tire variantswhich we constantly keep up to date. We have also created algorithms which can recognize tires within product names, and product description on a website, which is necessary as sellers use very different ways to describe their products. Our system knows that "CONTINENTAL VANCOFOURSEASON" is the same product as "CONTINENTAL VANCONTACT 4SEASON", and it knows it should not confuse this product with "Continental VANCO CONTACT 2".
In order to precisely recognize a product, you must know the size and speed index. PricePanorama has the capability to recognize the size based on a standard annotation such as 255/30ZR19 91Y but it can also recognize non-standards listings such as 20 R 100/90-19 TT 57M.
Car tires can be enforced. They can be manufactured using Run Flat. Motorcycle tires can be made only for the front, or for the rear. They can require tubes, or run tubeless. They can be certified for different motorcycle brands. Our algorithms know that.
We offer our solution to manufacturers and sellers of new tires, hence in our reports, we omit any data regarding used or retreaded tires. For this purpose, we have created a language analysis algorithm, which verifies a name and description of the given offer and the proportion of price difference.
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) warned that the summer of 2013 could be another summer of tight demand on the state’s electricity-generating resources, and advised consumers to be prepared for energy emergency alerts (EEA) and appeals to reduce energy use during the summer’s warmest weather.
In its seasonal assessment of resource adequacy for the summer, issued March 1, the grid operator said it expected generation reserves to be a little tighter this summer than last, and that the grid operator could see scenarios where the system would have insufficient resources available to serve customer demand.
“By the start of the summer, generation owners will have added about 1,000 MW of new generation resources since last summer,” Warren Lasher, ERCOT’s director of system planning, said during a media briefing. “But our expectation is that, because of population growth in the state and increased economic activity, that our peak loads are likely to grow around 1,200 MW to 1,400 MW.”
Those figures mean the system’s anticipated reserve margin will be 13.2%. ERCOT’s target is 13.75% reserve margin.
If the state experiences a typical summer, the grid operator expects there will be at least a few days where it has to call for customers conservation during the peak hours of the day, from approximately 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. However, if the region experiences a hot spell in August, such as it saw in the summer of 2011, or experiences an outage of one or more large generation units, the grid operator would initiate its energy emergency alert procedures, which could include rotating customer outages.
As with all such predictions, weather is a key factor.
“For the next two seasons, we’ll still forecasting above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation,” Chris Coleman, ERCOT meteorologist, said. “However, there are some exceptions and I don’t see it approaching the extremes of 2011,” when the region experienced prolonged heat waves.
The preliminary summer assessment anticipates a peak demand of 67,998 MW, based on a weather outlook similar to that of 2010 and a slower-growth economic outlook. ERCOT anticipates 73,708 MW of generation capacity before accounting for power plant outages, which typically total about 2,600 MW during an operating day. That generation includes Luminant’s Monticello units 1 and 2, which have a combined generating capacity of 1,070 MW, and which the operator said will be available for the summer season.
One megawatt can serve about 200 Texas homes during peak demand periods, ERCOT said, noting that power demands in its region are highest in summer, primarily due to air conditioning use in homes and businesses.
The report also referred to “more than 1,900 MW of additional capacity” that is currently mothballed, but which could be brought back on-line if necessary, given sufficient lead time. That additional capacity, ERCOT said, could be returned to service in less than four months.
Conditions would be exacerbated if the grid operator experiences a higher than normal number of forced generation outages occur during a period of high demand or if record breaking weather conditions similar to the summer of 2011 lead to even higher than expected peak demands. In such cases, EEA declarations could be followed by a need to institute rotating outages to maintain the integrity of the system as a whole, the grid operator said in its report.
Estimates of available capacity could be revised upward in the near future. Current estimates include wind power at 8.7% of its installed capacity, and ERCOT stakeholders are evaluating whether to recommend increasing that capacity value based on recent performance.
At the same time, ERCOT issued its seasonal assessment of resource adequacy for the spring, in which it said it expected to have sufficient installed generating capacity to serve forecasted peak demands with expected generation outages in the upcoming March through May season. As long as extreme weather well beyond expected conditions does not occur during the early part of the season when power plants are undergoing maintenance to prepare for summer, ERCOT does not anticipate having to issue EEAs during the spring of 2013, it said.
The ERCOT region’s all-time record peak occurred on Aug. 3, 2011, when consumer demand hit 68,305 MW. Although the summer of 2012 was much milder than the record-breaking conditions that marked the previous year, ERCOT still experienced new monthly peaks in June, July and September.
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Bradford College receives £10,000 funding boost to help promote organ donation amongst Black and Asian communities
Bradford College has received a share of £600,000 funding as part of the Government’s commitment to tackle health inequalities in Black and Asian communities.
The college has secured £10,000 for a campaign to encourage students to talk about organ donation with their friends and family. The project aims to tackle myths and enable students to talk openly and freely about what some see as a ‘taboo’ subject.
The project’s theme is “Bradford College – Let’s talk About Organ Donation.” Managing the project at Bradford College is project officer Karen Piotr. Karen is also Chair of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Organ Donation Committee. She said: “We are going to be looking to get students involved in activities and tasks and talk to their families about their organ donation decisions.”
When Karen’s husband Mark died in May 2017, their previous conversations about organ donation empowered Karen to make the decision for Mark to be a donor.
In total, eight people received life-saving organ transplants after Mark’s death. Karen said this was possible as she had already had that important talk with Mark. She said: “I’m very grateful for where this has taken me, that I’m able to raise awareness.”
A series of in-class and online workshops are planned this year, tackling myths around organ donation and offering important information. Students will be encouraged to take part in a Family Conversation Competition where they will talk to their family. Afterwards, they will take a picture with their family using the hashtag #gettalking. Students will then share how the conversation went. They will be encouraged to spread the message in other ways such as through Tik Tok, videos and posters.
Leon Khan, part of the college’s projects team, successfully applied for the funding. He said: “Hopefully by having these conversations we can change common stigmas and attitudes that are associated with organ donation, resulting in positive change within Bradford’s communities. While we are trying to raise awareness and ultimately increase support for organ donation, it is up to each individual to decide for themselves. Our aim is to give them the facts and address the myths so they can make an informed decision.”
Media students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds will record video interviews with faith leaders on the subject. For Freshers Week, staff and students will also create an organ donation stand.
In a content creation competition, students will create their own videos raising awareness around organ donation.
Two BAME student ambassadors will help deliver the project. They will try to gain a greater insight into the common difficulties young people face when talking to their families. Ambassadors will also be seen as “experts by experience” by sharing their own personal experiences with their peers.
It follows the awareness scheme Bradford College launched in February 2020 to break down myths and increase support for people who want to be a donor. At the launch event, staff and students heard from Karen about her experiences, as well as an organ donation recipient, the parents of a child whose life was saved by an organ donor and a surgeon who carries out the operations.
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DENVER – Sleep problems among urban minority children, including resistance to going to bed, shortened sleep duration, and daytime sleepiness are much more common than previously thought, according to a study conducted by researchers in New York.
The results of the study will be presented at the ATS 2011 International Conference in Denver.
“Although studies have shown that children from minority populations take more daytime naps and have shorter nighttime sleep durations than their non-minority peers, no studies to date have focused on sleep patterns and objectively measured sleep duration in early school-aged African-American and Latino children living in urban, economically disadvantaged communities,” said study author Beverley J. Sheares, MD, associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Columbia University. “We studied this high-risk population because at age 5 and 6 years, children are starting school and thus may have less time available for sleep at night or for daytime naps, thereby reducing the amount of sleep at a time when the effect of shortened sleep on learning, behavior and health is critically important.
“The results of this study will be of significance to healthcare providers, researchers, parents and educational professionals, and will have significant public health implications for a highly vulnerable population of early school-aged children,” she said.
Researchers randomly enrolled 160 parents of healthy 5- and 6-year-old children. Data were obtained using parental sleep log records and through face-to-face interviews using the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ), a validated tool commonly used to screen for childhood sleep problems. CHSQ data were used to identify and characterize the nature of the sleep disturbances. In addition, researchers were able to obtain data from 30 children who underwent sleep monitoring at home for five to seven days using actigraphy, an objective method of continuous, direct-motion monitoring used to measure sleep and awake time. The monitors were worn 24-hours a day during the monitoring period.
“To our knowledge, neither the CHSQ nor actigraphy has been used extensively in this population of early school-aged children to examine sleep,” Dr. Sheares noted.
Evaluating the results of the sleep questionnaire, researchers found that 147 of the 160 children, or 92 percent, had scores indicating the presence of a sleep problem. In addition, parents reported the following behaviors were the specific sleep problems for their children: parasomnias, a group of sleep events that includes nightmares, sleepwalking and other events (51 percent); bedtime resistance (50 percent); shortened sleep duration (50 percent); daytime sleepiness (47 percent); night waking (41 percent); sleep-onset delay (27 percent); sleep anxiety (19 percent); and sleep-disordered breathing (11 percent).
All children who completed actigraphy monitoring had shortened sleep duration, with a mean sleep duration of seven hours 45 minutes per night on average, significantly less than the 10 to 11 hours recommended by the National Sleep Foundation for children in this age group.
“We expected to find behavioral sleep problems in this population, but we did not expect over 90 percent of the children in this community sample to have a behavioral sleep problem as indicated by the CSHQ,” Dr. Sheares said. “While studies consistently show that 20 percent to 43 percent of school-aged children experience a range of sleep problems, there is mounting evidence, and our study supports this, suggesting that children from minority groups have significantly shorter sleep durations and increased sleep disruptions.”
“Our study also demonstrates the need to use objective measures of sleep in urban populations of young children,” she said. “While parental reports of children’s sleep behaviors have been widely used in both clinical practice and in pediatric sleep research, our findings suggest that parental reports of sleep duration are not reliable because parents in our study consistently overestimated sleep duration.”
“Although previous studies have shown that parental reports are closely correlated with sleep schedule variables such as bedtime, wake time and sleep duration, they are less sensitive in assessing sleep quality variables such as sleep fragmentation as a result of night awakening,” she explained. “Parents may not have been aware of time spent awake during the night which could have led to an overestimation of sleep duration.”
Dr. Sheares said future studies will focus on developing intervention programs aimed at improving children’s sleep disorders.
“The study’s results may have significant implications for this group of children because while pediatric sleep problems are universal and exist across all cultures, the impact of poor sleep is magnified in vulnerable children,” she said.
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Primrose Bordier (1929 – 1995) was a French designer known for her colourful and innovative home textiles.
She studied at the Atelier Charpentier in Paris.
Between 1949 – 54 she worked as a textile designer.
1954-57, as a stylist at Cosserat.
1958-60, at Au Printemps department store.
During a trip to New York in the early 1960s for Le Printemps, Ms Bordier noted the use of colour in sheets and towels, at the time unknown in Europe.
Paris 1962 set up her own textile design studio CDM (Coleurs Dessins Modéles). Upon starting her company in 1962, she persuaded manufacturers to produce coloured sheets and towels. Her bed-linen collections had delicate, often humorous designs in subtle colour combinations that became classics. Bordier’s reputation was for good design at a reasonable price, who, together with her five associates, specialised in the design of medium-priced furnishing textiles, household linen and wallpapers.
She designed tableware for Descamps.
In 1976, Ms Bordier was the first woman in design to receive the French Legion of Honor.
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Free for All
One of the best ways to sell something is to attach the word “free” to your product or service. This word acts like a magnet and it calls the attention of your prospective market. They need to know what you are selling and the best way to do this is to let the consumer feel what it is like with your product around. How? One of the best ways is to offer a free trial. During this period, you need to create an impression that customers need you MORE than you need them. Many companies today know the importance of this approach – to penetrate the market easily.
But you need to do things right the first time to get the result that you want. Anyone in business who engages in a free trial has one thing in mind –“conversion”. You just don’t give it for free. The people need to pay after the free trial expires and that is where the challenge begins. It’s not about convincing the people to try it out, but rather it’s about convincing them to “buy” your product.
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- There was a failure to manage the customer’s expectation – most of the time the information especially on the price of the product is misleading. This is a big no in marketing. Tell your price upfront and make sure that your product is worth the price the customer will be paying for.
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It is an interesting fact that high-conversion rate does not happen by pure luck nor by accident. It is a combination of skillful execution which starts in the planning stage – how you want the free trial to run, identifying your target market and setting your goals for your conversion. Monitoring must be performed for every trial run. How many signed up for the free trial, how many are still active after one week of trying the service and how many have actually agreed to purchase the product. It is not the money but the kind of service that the end users are after.
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Katya – Fraud is proving to be a trend in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Has the BPS already seen an increase in fraud related investigations due to COVID-19 in Bermuda?
Nick – During the lockdown, we saw the fraud related numbers running about half of what they have been in the last three years. But, what is starting to develop, is usage of the dark web to purchase stolen credit card numbers and using those to purchase goods in Bermuda. The goods are sold onwards for cash to buy drugs and engage in other criminal activities. We are working with the Bermuda Banking Association and the Chamber of Commerce, to close some of the gaps that exist in the online purchasing environment, and the due diligence processes conducted by retailers and other companies in Bermuda. This type of fraud is certainly becoming more sophisticated than what we have seen in the past and we do recognise that this is directly linked to the pandemic.
Ros – If we look at the feedback from the KPMG network and our clients, there certainly seems so to be an increase in cyber fraud, payment fraud, credit card abuse and fraudulent mobile payments linked to the dark web, identity theft, and stealing personal data. With everybody now forced to stay home, online transacting has skyrocketed in terms of volume. The insurance and healthcare sectors have seen an increase in fraudulent claims for support schemes, whether it is work schemes being made available to the staff or benefits from governments. The volume and speed of fraud has increased globally as it is done electronically. This results in a reduction of paper or traditional audit trails and tracking becomes difficult. Businesses have to adjust their forms
Nick – We have seen some evidence and in fact, we do have some cases under investigation relating to house price gouging and in the healthcare sector, so that is certainly something we are looking at. We are also observing increased fraudulent employment opportunities, mystery shopper scams, and high value gift cards. Also, compromised business emails, otherwise known as CEO scams, where official-looking emails are sent out requesting payment transfers. This seems to be a persistent problem in the local environment. Retailers are receiving fake Bermuda notes and investigating this is certainly high on our list. Money laundering continues to be another issue for us. We note greater interest from overseas jurisdictions since the amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act in 2017, which made tax evasion a criminal act.
Ros – It might be a lagging indicator, when the true economic impact starts to hit society, we may see an increase in social/behavioral crimes, whether its vandalism or even more serious crimes, but hopefully we can avoid this situation. I think in terms of risks going forward, financial misconduct might be an increasing problem within the financial services, asset management, insurance, banking or any industry where people are rewarded based on performance. Businesses have to be vigilant in managing their performance-related incentive schemes.
Katya - How do you see the future of financial crime on the back of COVID-19?
Nick – We see a new level of sophistication. With people staying at home, they have time to learn and be creative. People navigate the dark web and use encryption to disguise their identity to engage in criminality. It is a constant battle for us, but thankfully we have invested in a small, but capable Digital Forensics Team and we are also supported by our partners in the US and the UK. They are well equipped to support these types of investigations. We have a budgetary challenge at the moment, and we are working with government to address this. We have responsibility to remain compliant with international standards and be able to deal with these types of cases on behalf of Bermuda.
Katya - Are you aware of any updates to the Bermuda regulation to cover Fraud, in a similar way to the Bribery Act 2016 in Bermuda and the UK Fraud legislation? In the UK, there is a specific Fraud Act that has been in force for more than a decade. Do you know if Bermuda is going to introduce a similar piece of legislature?
Nick – We are currently working on bringing Bermuda into compliance with the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. Some of the offences that will be created will address new means of committing fraud, certainly on the online side.
Regarding the Bribery Act, we have had an increase in the number of bribery offences and due to Covid, a small number of cases went before the court. It is worth noting, that there still seems to be a lack of knowledge of the requirements set out in the Bribery Act.
Ros - In regard to corporate fraud, we are only seeing an increase in fraud prevention reviews, however, is this a true reflection of the actual fraud activity within Bermuda, or is it possible that companies are not reporting these and resolve them internally?
Nick – It might be challenging for smaller business to do regular audits to identify fraud issues like this, and there may well be some reluctance reporting this type of challenge. Unfortunately, many instances do not get reported to the Police. We know that there are unclaimed taxes, which need to be recouped by government and once we see government action on this regard, we may see increased fraud reporting.
Katya - How can businesses, from large organisations to small retailers and service providers, protect themselves from fraudulent activities?
Nick – We recommend the use of professional services to perform regular audits and look at their accounts to identify if actual fraud has taken place. We recommend internal fraud controls for example, people are rotated regularly out of posts. When a person does go on vacation and someone else is doing their job, that is usually a good opportunity to identify anything untoward. Fraud and other types of dishonesty could have been prevented or stopped had managers been more assertive in their management role.
Ros – The traditional approach to preventing and detecting fraud gives management the opportunity to understand what their risks are. Even if they are working with their brother or sister in a small business, it is important to acknowledge that risks exist. We understand that policies and procedures in a smaller environment would not necessarily be sophisticated, but the companies should definitely have documented process flows and authorisations in place. Effective communication can play a big role in the prevention and detection of fraud. Using hotlines or whistleblower lines is a very effective tool in the detection of a fraud incident. In summary, key elements of fraud risk management are making sure that you enforce your policies and procedures, implement some form of investigation, take action and ensure employees have a way to report potential or actual fraud incidents.
Katya - In terms of reporting if someone is aware of or have concerns in relation to tax fraud, how should they report?
Nick – They can report to us, the BPS, but their first port of call should be the Tax Commissioner’s office and an inquiry, on whether or not payments have been made on their behalf. If there is a confirmation that companies have not been making the required payments, then the Tax Commissioner will refer the matter to us for an investigation.
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Nick – If a company reports an issue, it is very important to have the evidence ready, whether it is digital or hard copy evidence. Internal investigations do help, but at the same time, we would like to be notified of the alleged crime as soon as possible, we would not want you to delay reporting something because you were collating and preparing evidence for reporting purposes. Reporting a crime sends a strong message to other people that might be contemplating engaging in similar activities. In terms of anonymity, there are disclosure obligations and when the matter does go to court, that becomes a public record and unless there are compelling circumstances, it is usually very unlikely that a judge is going to allow the proceedings to be sealed.
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Llosa, Mario Vargas
|born on||28 March 1936 at 00:45 (= 12:45 AM )|
|Place||Arequipa, Peru, 16s24, 71w33|
|Timezone||EST h5w (is standard time)|
|Astrology data||07°23' 17°02 Asc. 24°47'|
Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists. He is a prolific writer, a master of dialogue and shifting perspective, whose novels and stories include comedies and tragedies, historical novels, murder mysteries, and political thrillers. He was awarded numerous literary prizes, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.
Several of Vargas Llosa's novels have been adapted as motion pictures, mostly in Spanish.
In 1990 Vargas Llosa lost his bid for the presidency.
He was a close acquaintance of fellow Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but after a famous brawl in 1976 both writers made it clear for decades that they were not on speaking terms.
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with García Márquez, Gabriel (born 6 March 1927)
In the Lima daily La Republica, dated April 13, 1984, Mario's horoscope was published by the poet Rodolfo Hinostroza, where he specifies that Mario was born at 00:45 am.
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- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
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The following principles influence both our standards and our purchasing choices:
RISD Dining is an ingredient guided, self-operated, dining program that prides itself on striving to give the guest an exceptional experience. We support local food interests and provide mentoring to those who wish to reflect our goals of preserving natural resources, supporting community businesses and endeavoring to maintain stewardship of the Earth and all it provides for future generations.
- Menus are created with seasonally inspired foods which are authentic, simple and delicious.
- Foods from local sources (farms, dairies, bakeries, etc.) are given strong consideration.
- We are committed to the use of sustainable and locally sourced/produced products.
- Work to follow NOAA Fish Watch guidelines for choosing sustainably harvested seafood or appropriate alternatives.
- House made foods will be served regularly at all venues.
- When possible we avoid high-fructose corn syrup, trans fat and MSG in purchased products, and completely avoid it in house preparation.
- We are committed to using various ethnic styles for preparing meals.
- We serve ‘naturally’ raised and 100% Angus all beef burgers in our facilities.
- We will continue the process of eliminating meats treated with growth hormones and antibiotics, currently all chicken served is ‘natural’ and antibiotic free.
- We are committed to high quality, flavorful, vegan and vegetarian options.
- Allergens such as gluten, lactose, soy, and fish should be identified through signage in our dining units.
- The use or sales of nuts or nut products are prohibited in The Met and Portfolio Café.
- We will prepare all foods as close to consumption as operationally possible with a preference to just-in-time cooking.
- When possible desserts are prepared, in house, from scratch.
- Serving complex carbohydrates as suites the menu choices will be given preference.
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Naturally raised (ground) beef: no antibiotics, no growth hormone, sustainably raised
All natural chicken: no antibiotics, cage free, vegetarian diet
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All natural canned tomatoes: minimally processed; Stanislaus
Vegan pasta and many filled pastas; local - Carla’s, Connecticut And Joseph’s, Massachusetts
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New sugar for vegan desserts: naturally filtered
Fryer oil: expeller pressed canola - NO trans fats
Local Products: farm fresh - local and sustainably raised beef, pork and seafood, produce, honey and Artisan cheeses; Rhody Fresh - eggs; hand fruit, locally sourced in season
Coffee: Omar (Connecticut). All coffee is Fair Trade and we support the Rainforest Alliance (higher equitability than Fair Trade)
Local soda company: Al’s Soda (Connecticut). Some local production/some naturally sweetened (cane sugar) sodas/naturally flavored waters
Rhody Fresh, local milk co-op (no BGH)
Silk, organic and sustainable soy milk
Florida’s Best, orange juice co-op
‘Native’ water out of the Berkshires, in bio-degradable bottles
List of Locally Grown:
Blossom Trail Orchards, Smithfield RI: Local fresh sliced apples for desserts
Jaswell Farms, Smithfield RI: Fresh apple cider, honey, apples, seasonal vegetables
Barden Orchards, Smithfield RI: Local fruit and seasonal vegetables
Absalona Greenhouse, Foster RI: Local hydroponic greens and herbs
Hill Orchard, Smithfield RI: Local fruit and seasonal vegetables
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Calise Bakery, Lincoln RI: Local baker of breads & rolls
Graziano’s Sausage, Providence, RI: Fresh Italian sausage
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New year brings us the Quandrantids meteor shower. The shower has its maximum on January 3rd and 4th, but some meteors will probably be visible during all the period between January 1st and January 5th as Earth passes through the radiant.
The name Quadrantids comes from Quadrans Muralis, an obsolete constellation that is now part of Boötes. It lies between the end of the handle of the Big Dipper and the quadrilateral of stars marking the head of the constellation Draco.
The Quadrantids are an above average shower, with up to 40 meteors per hour at their peak, but some people have said that they have counted up to 120 per hour in dark sky locations. Of course best viewing will be from a dark location an the time will be after midnight. Look for meteors radiating from the constellation Bootes. | <urn:uuid:d583fa31-2a42-4e2a-902d-b1217b971175> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eaae-astronomy.org/blog/?m=20110101 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.963827 | 178 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Kidneys are a vital organ for filtering out all the toxins you put in every Nerd Nite (and every other day of the year). Most people assume they have two kidneys and they work well, however less than 10% of people with chronic kidney disease are aware they have the condition and currently one in three Australians are at an increased risk of developing kidney issues. In celebration of 5 years since receiving a kidney transplant, the speaker, Danny Ussher, will expound on how your kidneys work and the pathways of renal replacement therapy when they no longer work. He’ll regale you with his experiences and collected anecdotes of the good, the bad and the shit of living beyond death on other people’s spare parts. Be aware he will talk about your urine a lot so take advantage of the break prior.
Danny is a teacher of English to speakers of other languages. He was living overseas but came back to Australia to help a friend open a restaurant. That’s when a kidney test led to a diagnosis of End Stage Renal Failure. Months of poking and prodding couldn’t solve the conundrums of what was wrong, nor how he was still functioning normally, so a new kidney was the best option. Danny only had to spend eleven months on a dialysis machine 9 hours a night every night waiting for that phone call. August 2014 he got lucky from another family’s tragedy. Post-transplant recovery has been long and arduous, but last year he started to run, completing his first half marathon then the full Melbourne Marathon twelve weeks later. As well as continuing to teach English and run beyond what is put in front of him, Danny loves to share his story to encourage people to celebrate life, look after their kidneys and become organ donors. Danny is also a TESOL specialist with Confident English. Watch his lessons here: https://www.youtube.com/l2education. | <urn:uuid:75082b56-72a0-4182-b54c-e54130290180> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nerdnite.com/videos/how-kidney-failure-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.974299 | 393 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Generally I get menstruations cycle before 2-3 days of previous month's period date. Nothing abnormal. Today when I went washroom, I found that I bled. I thought might be period days have come 8-10 days earlier but after it I haven't bled. As if it happened only once. What might be the reason behind this?
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Hello, Don't need to worry about. All you need to do Is wait for one more cycle and If the same thing happens then you.need to consult a gynecologist. It happens of because of the stress and also strain. I there is spotting in between periods along with abdominal pain then you.need to consult gynecologist as soon as possible. Thank you
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The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, honoring the flamboyant entertainer known as much for his glitzy costumes and extravagant performance style as for his piano playing, and who epitomized bling long before it was a household word, is shutting its doors on Sunday.
“In some ways, the museum was the last vestige of an entertainment icon,” said Jeff Koep, chairman of The Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, which runs the museum that exhibits the entertainer’s extensive costumes, cars, pianos, candelabra, and jewelry.
Often referred to as “Mr. Showmanship,” Liberace is known for giving his audience what they wanted, with performances that included everything from classical to pop music. He is credited with influencing entertainers from Elvis and Michael Jackson to Elton John and Lady Gaga.Slideshow: End of an era (on this page)
“He was Mr. Las Vegas for almost 40 years, until the year he died,” in 1987, said Darden Asbury Pyron, professor of history at Florida International University in Miami and author of “Liberace: An American Boy.” He set attendance records at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl.
“It was a sell-out house, every time he went on the stage,” Pyron added. “And he was one of the first entertainers to understand the potential of television.”
The museum’s announcement in mid-September that it would end its 31-year run on Oct. 17 was unexpected, said David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and in a city dominated by the casino industry, it is seen as a significant loss. “Las Vegas doesn’t have that many museums, so it’s a pretty big deal. It’s been a good thing for the city.”
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“It’s been a very popular attraction,” said Alicia Malone, a public relations manager for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “It’s been a very unique part of Las Vegas cultural history for 31 years. That’s what visitors to Las Vegas are looking for, a one-of-a-kind experience, something you couldn’t necessarily find in other cities.”
Las Vegas was hard hit by the recession but tourism remained fairly strong. After decades of solid growth the number of visitors to the city dipped slightly after 2007, a record year, but in the last 11 months has either matched or surpassed monthly volume from the previous year, Malone said.
In contrast, Koep said, there has been a steady decline in numbers to the Liberace Museum, from a high of 450,000 annual visitors 15 years ago to about 50,000 annually today.
Waning interest — along with the museum’s real estate problems, mortgage debt and lack of a steady income stream — also factored into the decision to close. The Liberace Foundation owns the strip mall that houses the museum, but 50 percent of the rental units currently are vacant. And while royalty revenue from intellectual property was robust 30 years ago, today selling to a younger generation unfamiliar with Liberace’s music is tough, Koep said.
“We are not closing the book on Liberace or what he stands for,” he added. “We’re trying to regenerate the brand.”
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The foundation recently finalized a deal for a national traveling tour of its Liberace collection and one day hopes to reopen the museum in a more accessible location in Las Vegas. Currently, it is five miles from the Strip.
Being more fiscally prudent also will ensure Liberace’s legacy to continue to fund scholarships. Since 1976, roughly $6 million in music scholarships have been awarded to some 2,700 students.
Several projects are in development that are not affiliated with the foundation but that could help rekindle interest in the performer. They include a musical and a Steven Soderbergh-produced movie, set to star Michael Douglas (as Liberace) and Matt Damon.
The end of an era
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, born in 1919 in Wisconsin to working class Polish-Italian immigrant parents, was a child prodigy who by age 20 had performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. But he cut his classical concert pianist career short for a life in show business, adding more contemporary music to his performances.
“He didn’t find it satisfying,” said Pyron, the professor and author.
Although saddened by the museum’s closing, Pyron said “it is almost impossible for museums to be profitable enterprises.”
For some, the closing signals the end of an era.
“It’s sad. When the museum opened in 1979, there was little competition, but today there are so many other attractions on the Strip,” said Pauline Lachance, a fan since her first of some 50 concerts in 1963, and who over the years ran a couple of Liberace fan clubs, published a fan newsletter, and would decorate Liberace’s dressing room with photos framed in glitter when he came to her native Rhode Island.
“He had this very loyal following. He actually use to have lunch with some of his early fan clubs,” said Lachance, who now works as a historian at the museum. “He never lost sight of who he was, the fact that his audience made him.”
But she is hopeful for the future, noting interest in Liberace’s videos on YouTube. “He’s being discovered by a whole new generation,” she said. “He put the glitz in Las Vegas. He was so ahead of his time.”
Linda Claussen of Davenport, Iowa, a Liberace fan since 1966, said she was shocked when she heard the museum was closing.
“He was a super entertainer — his costumes, his sincerity,” said Claussen, who met Liberace four times and regularly listens to CDs and watches DVDs of his performances. “At the keyboard, there was no other match to him.
“He makes you smile and feel better about things.”
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Chhan Dina is a female sculptor and painter from Phnom Penh. Themes of life and wildlife have captured her imagination over the past twelve years. Dina's latest collection of works entitled "Cages Torn Open"
reminds us of what we share with other living beings, and what we forget and deny. The paintings explode with colour, a confident assertion of the shared liberation theme. Bringing together large clay sculptures and vivid oil paintings; it's her most accomplished body of works to date. This mixed medium exhibition opens on TUESDAY the 13th of May at 6PM.
Cages torn open
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom
- Maya Angelou
We are born free, and everywhere in chains. We are animals in zoos behind bars, we are women and men locked away in our factories and offices. The only difference between animal and human is the hand, which can wave, caress, paint; but also build barriers, construct fences and turn locks. Still, the eyes of humans, eyes of birds, eyes of beasts, all twinkle with the desire for liberty.
In Chhan Dina’s vivid new exhibition, Cages torn open, we are reminded of what we share with other living beings, and what we forget and deny. The paintings explode with colour, a confident assertion of the shared liberation theme. In paint, line and colour blur the distinctions between species, all swimming in the same soup; in fired clay, disparate characteristics are fused into one body.
Faces shine at us, even when grotesque. Open hands reach towards us, into us, prompting a reflection on the nature of humanity: a word we use to describe both our highest ideals and our inevitable imperfections. Are we feeding the animals? Warding off danger? Asking for forgiveness? Giving a warning? Offering a helping hand?
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Since Jul 26, 2000
Modern Art Photography
If we consider the history of creating imagery from primitive to the modern there must be certain timelines that account for how things happened. The ancients in the region recorded their thoughts, left messages and depicted their lives on the canyon walls, in their caves and on any media they found useful. Certainly all cultures found their own way to communicate; the talented few always came forward as their recorders of history. Were these talented few born with the creativity? Or did they develop this talent through intensive training in the technical process?
If we spring forward a thousand years we have the benefit of watching the evolution of the form. Although photography dates back to Leonardo da Vinci's inventions during the Renaissance, the modern camera was invented in the 1830s with daguerreotypes. The first cameras were large and bulky, so people came to the photographer's studio to have their pictures taken. This meant that the main purpose was to record what people looked like, which could be done more quickly and inexpensively than ever before. This has had a profound impact on art, and has prompted many artists to explore new styles. And so, modernism was born.
In painting and printmaking the form evolved into what was called the new art, beginning with the impressionists in about 1870. Photography continued recording the accuracy of what people looked like or to record history as evidenced during the Civil War with Mathew Brady. Here in Utah C.R. Savage was one of the first to record the important history. In southern Utah Jack Hillers accompanied John Wesley Powell in 1872 in the explorations of the Grand Canyon.
The science of the form drove their technique. But was it art? Most imagery was posed and not impromptu as evidenced by E.S Curtis and his circle. Images looked stilted and did not leave much to the imagination. But suddenly we spring forward to the turn of the twentieth century and the group formed in New York by Alfred Stieglitz.
Stieglitz was originally a leading figure in the promotion of the idea that photography harbored the same aesthetic potential as painting. He fostered the progress of artistic photography in this direction by showcasing the work of young photographers who challenged the dominant conception of the medium. Instead of showcasing the use of photography as a tool for documenting or depicting the details of nature, these young photographers attempted to show, primarily through imitation of painterly styles, that photography could attain status as an art form.
This new approach to art photography was inspirational for all that followed the form. They strive to do more than record the images of nature, rather they make a serious effort in creating art; art that is beyond simple imagery. This approach to modernism was introduced to the painter Maynard Dixon in 1920 when he met the young New York photographer Dorothea Lange. Dixon began distilling and simplifying his approach.
This period, 1920-1960, brought Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and several other modernists to these regions for the purpose of making fine art photography. These were the purists with serious bias about their art form in black and white. Much of the art occurred in the darkroom. And then there was the life of photographic paper. The argument was that color would not hold. As color was introduced in the late thirties the art photographers held steady with their beliefs about the power of black and white. Several pioneers broke away from the old beliefs as papers improved with newer coatings and a better lifespan. Eliot Porter and David Muench in particular continued with the science of color as an art form.
And then digital happened. All of the old ideas about the art form changed.
After thirty years of work in all the above, Modern Art Photography was born. Suddenly new converts having found their own voices in this new digital world. The technical side of the problem is conquered with powerful technology from Canon and Nikon. The science is now taken care of and it is only left up to the artist to find his own voice in this brave new world. | <urn:uuid:7512f7aa-a07e-49a8-9c81-958d1f9e8eb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://freerepublic.com/~utahbinger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00199-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977195 | 826 | 3.5 | 4 |
And I don't have anyone else pushing my arm for me. How will Utah lawmakers tackle police reform in 2021? Elder Haight speaks in 1976 after joining the Quorum of the Twelve. Image from lds.org When President Gordon B. Hinckley reached the age of 96 years and 132 days, he officially became the oldest prophet, passing President David O. McKay. In a 1986 profile in the church's Ensign magazine, Elder Ronald E. Poelman of the First Quorum of the Seventy described how both Elder and Ruby Haight went out of their way to be of service to others. Lyman is often noted as the most recent LDS Church apostle to have been excommunicated.In 1943, J. Reuben Clark, the first counselor in the LDS church's First Presidency and the church's de facto leader due to church president Heber J. Mormon Apostle A. Theodore Tuttle also claimed John was a resurrected being when he appeared with Peter and James (Conference Reports, October 1964, pp. Today, Mormon church meetings last three hours and other types of meetings generally have a set amount of time allotted to them. He served as mayor of Palo Alto, Calif., from 1959 to 1963, and resigned that position to serve the church as president of the Scottish Mission. ", Though his death was not unexpected, church leaders mourned his departure, saying, "our hearts reach out to his beloved companion, Ruby, and their children.". All Rights Reserved, Elder Haight dies at 97 as oldest LDS apostle. ", In a voice filled with emotion, he described minute details of the Last Supper, describing "the washing of the dusty feet of each apostle, his breaking and blessing of the loaf of dark bread and blessing of the wine, then his dreadful disclosure that one would betray him.". Even if all three new apostles are as old as the youngest apostle, 63-year-old Bednar, the average age will still come down to 75. Many Latter-day Saints remember Elder Haight best for one particularly poignant sermon given in October 1989 during general conference. Also Known as: Bartholomew Known for: Nathanael has the distinction of being the first recorded person to confess belief in Jesus as the Son of God and Savior.When Nathanael accepted Jesus' call, he became his disciple. LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland in hospital Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland is in the hospital, undergoing diagnostic tests for an unknown illness, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints … Church members were awed by his stamina, warmed by his ready smile and certain of his dedication to God. He's going to be concerned about how you treated people.". He served on USU's national advisory board and received an honorary doctorate degree from BYU in 1998. Melvin Russell Ballard Jr. (born October 8, 1928) is an American businessman and religious leader who is currently the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Brown. "As I held this great man's hand and looked into his face, I knew in my heart and soul that I was in the presence of the Lord's anointed," Elder Haight said afterward. Elder Richard G. Scott, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks at the Sunday afternoon session of … There will be no public viewing, and burial services will be private. Golden Kimball noted later that he was nearly dead when, at four o’clock, they finally called on him to be the last speaker. As a group, the general authorities are often referred to as "the Brethren". The thousands of motorists who pass Junction 2 on the M50, just two miles to the northwest, are totally unaware of its presence. His death of causes incident to age is the second loss of a top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the past 10 days. "He has stirred the hearts of people across the Earth with his declaration of faith and his testimony of the living reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, their home was open to any who needed a place to stay for a night. Lindon man dies in Sunday rollover accident, What to expect from the Utah Legislature’s 2021 session, ‘No pain, no strain’: Utah opens mass-vaccination site as state’s death toll hits 1,500, With candidates winning primaries without majorities, 2 GOP lawmakers eye ranked-choice voting, Convention hotel construction on schedule and already reaping benefits, Rare wolverine discovered at Yellowstone National Park. Civic and business activities included executive positions with ZCMI and positions as district and regional manager in California and Chicago for Montgomery Ward and Co. Elder Haight had also served on the board of directors of Bonneville International, Deseret Management Corp., First Security Corp. and Huntsman Chemical Corp. Their daughter, Karen Huntsman, said, "I could come home from college and never know who would be sleeping in our house, who would be eating around our table. Earlier civic service included work as a Red Cross campaign chairman, blood bank director, Stanford Area Boy Scout Council director, president of the Rotary Club, president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and governor of the San Francisco Bay Area Council of Mayors. The following are the current and previous members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church. The First Presidency and Twelve Apostles are regarded by Latter-day Saints as prophets who receive divine revelation and inspiration to guide the Church. He sat next to the empty seat left by Elder Maxwell, and now leaves his own chair vacant in a group of fellow apostles and. At that time, he said he entered into a "holy presence and atmosphere," where he was "shown a panoramic view of (Christ's) earthly ministry: his baptism, his teaching, his healing the sick and lame, the mock trial, his crucifixion, his resurrection and ascension. That's what marked him" as a great husband and family man. His inspiration went beyond his own family, into civic and church responsibilities. Nelson was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. A new viral ‘Star Wars’ deep fake video shows Millie Bobby Brown taking on the role of Princess Leia. Share This . His service has been long and dedicated. Meanwhile, Henry D. Moyle, the counselor to David O. McKay, retold the story of John’s visitation: “Jesus Christ conferred his priesthood upon the apostles of old. "My concern in embarking on this new assignment is how I can measure up," he said at the time. That day, Elder Haight said, he reiterated the promise he had made to the Lord years before during a sleepless night on military duty in the Pacific: "I am completely committed to serve the Master, wherever I might be called to serve or whatever I might be asked to do. Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, the oldest living apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at 11:30 p.m. Monday at the age of 91. 1. "He always talked about this great love for his wife," Robert Haight says, "and she feels the same way about him. Elder Neal A. Maxwell died July 21. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — David B. Haight became the oldest Mormon apostle or prophet Monday when he turned 97. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a general authority is a member of the highest levels of leadership in the church who has administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church. ", Asked why he believes his father lived so long, Robert Haight doesn't hesitate. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. President Gordon B. Hinckley smiles as Elder David B. Haight waves before leaving the Conference Center during October 2003 conference. Gadfield Elm: The Oldest LDS Chapel in Europe Seven miles southwest of Ledbury, England, stand the gaunt grey walls of a ruined and deserted building. Elder Haight attended Elder Maxwell's funeral on Tuesday, taking his place on the dais with help from fellow apostles. Copyright © 2020 Deseret News Publishing Company. friends. He told of becoming seriously ill several months earlier and, as his wife telephoned for help, pleading that God would spare his life "a while longer to give me a little more time to do his work, if that was His will. Peter referred to himself as an old man when he was in his 60s, about 30 years after walking with Jesus. Reflecting later on that calling, Elder Haight said he didn't have the words to relate the deep spiritual impressions that filled his heart as President Spencer W. Kimball asked him to serve. Gary Evan Stevenson (born August 6, 1955) is an American religious leader and former businessman who is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). "During those days of unconsciousness I was given, by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, a more perfect knowledge of (Christ's) mission," Elder Haight said. The First Presidency of the LDS Church issued a statement saying, "We deeply regret the passing of our beloved friend and associate, Elder David Bruce Haight. Utah Gov. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Quorum of the Twelve, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, or simply the Twelve) is one of the governing bodies in the church hierarchy. Apostles are special witnesses of Jesus Christ, called to teach and testify of Him throughout the world. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. He’s the oldest apostle since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1830, outliving former LDS President David O. McKay and Apostle LeGrand Richards, who tied at 96. How old are the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles? He often told about being on a football team that lost a game by the score of 106 to 6, remembering "what it's like to be on the losing side. Russell Marion Nelson Sr. (born September 9, 1924) is an American religious leader and former surgeon who is the 17th and current president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the oldest and longest-serving Mormon general authority. ", After visiting the home he was born in, Elder Haight spoke to an overflow crowd of Latter-day Saints at a local stake center, then headed to the town park for a picnic, where he was honored as the town's oldest veteran of World War II. ", Elder Haight was known for his good humor and love of people. He married Ruby Olson on Sept. 4, 1930, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, and they have three children: Bruce, Robert and Karen. ", Son-in-law and billionaire industrialist Jon Huntsman said he regarded Elder Haight as a combination of a brother, close friend and father. Aaron Roderick, Steve Clark, Fesi Sitake look to build on the momentum Jeff Grimes helped create. One grueling day, the preaching went on and on, lasting most of the day without a break for lunch. Is it the solution to canyon gridlock? Elder David B. Haight, at 97 the oldest member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve and the oldest apostle in the history of the church, died at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, July 31, 2004, at his home, surrounded by family members. He continued to share that knowledge with church members around the world for the rest of his life. LDS and Science: An Epidemic, a Puzzle, and new Apostle… in 1904 November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 Ben S I recently discovered an article about “the first real confrontation of Mormonism with science” during the Utah smallpox outbreak at the turn of the 19/20th century. J. "He was a fighter. They could just feel a great warmth from him.". Here’s our way out. Elder David B. Haight and his longtime wife, Ruby, enjoy each other's company at their home on Elder Haight's 97th birthday, Sept. 2, 2003. Many took the chance to meet and chat with him, and "he took the time to talk with them and express love to them. After attending Oakley High School and Albion State Normal School in Idaho, he completed his schooling at Utah State University and served as a commander in the Navy during World War II, where he earned a special citation from the Pacific fleet commander. ‘Star Wars’ deepfake shows Millie Bobby Brown as Princess Leia. In the past, they could go any length of time at all. He was 91. Carrie A. Moore Elder David B. Haight, at 97 the oldest member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve and the oldest apostle in the history of the church, died at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, July 31, 2004, at his home, surrounded by family members. Courtesy of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology The … These portraits are now considered to be the oldest known images of Christ’s apostles. David Bruce Haight was born Sept. 2, 1906, in Oakley, Idaho, to Hector C. and Clara Tuttle Haight. EIN Staff. ", As he heard the ambulance in the distance, he lost consciousness and remained unconscious for several days. He has borne that witness on many continents and has been influential in the church he loved. See the footage, Social distance by taking a trip on the loneliest road stretching through Utah, Nevada, 4 ways Hold On To Dear Life has helped Utah’s children, We are living in Dante’s Inferno. Behind-the-scenes look at BYU’s offense — and what makes the ‘Three Amigos’ tick. He is survived by his wife, Ruby, their three children, 19 grandchildren and 78 great-grandchildren. Apostles are charged to serve as "special witnesses" of Jesus Christ throughout the world. The longest-serving apostle has historically served as the President of the Church. The quorum was first organized in 1835 and designated as a body of "traveling councilors". For the rest of his life assistant to the president selects two apostles to serve with him oldest lds apostle. 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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the exception of Witt (1996). Admittedly, during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions the magnitude of the destructive component of innovation was probably small compared to the net value added to employment, NNP or to welfare. However, we conjecture that recently the new technologies are often creating products which are close substitutes for the ones they replace whose value depreciates substantially in the process of destruction. Consequently, the contribution of recent innovations to NNP is likely biased upward. This note calls for a research agenda to estimate innovations into their creative and destructive components in order to provide improved estimates of their contribution to NNP, welfare, and employment.
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India and China have agreed to move ahead pro-actively on outstanding issues between them and reached on a 'important consensus' on resolving the vexed border problem for which their Special Representatives will hold the next round of talks in late February, in India.
The decision on the seventh round of talks on the border issue was reached following Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's meeting with Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, who is also the Chinese Special Representative to the India-China border negotiations, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan told reporters in Beijing.
Saran, who is in China for the second round of India-China Strategic Dialogue - an exercise aimed at enhancing cooperation and coordination in regional and global issues of common concern, told Indian journalists separately that the two countries had agreed to move ahead pro-actively on the outstanding issues.
"We are now working together in the next round to try and evolve a framework for the border settlement. Both sides are committed to seek an early settlement on the basis of the political parameters and guiding principles for settlement of the Indo-China boundary question, which were adopted last year," he said.
"It was reaffirmed in our meetings that what we are looking for is a political settlement adopting a package approach and proceeding from a long-term and strategic perspective of our relationship," Saran said.
Commenting on Saran's meeting with Dai, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong said, "The two sides reached an important consensus that the two governments will proceed from the overall situation of developing friendly relations between us and make positive efforts to promote the process of border talks."
"We have agreed specifically that in late February, in India, we will hold the seventh round of border issue talks between the Special Representatives," he said, adding that the specific agenda will be fixed through diplomatic channels.
The India-China boundary issue has been lingering for many decades, hindering speedy development of bilateral ties.
India claims that China has illegally occupied 43,180 sq km of Jammu and Kashmir, including 5,180 sq km illegally ceded to Beijing by Islamabad under the Sino-Pakistan boundary agreement in 1963. On the other hand, China accuses India of possessing some 90,000 sq km of its territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.
Saran held separate talks with Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Vice Foreign Minister for Asian Affairs Wu Dawei.
"We have found the strategic dialogue a very valuable forum for very friendly and frank exchange of views in terms of the global perspective of our relationship," he said, adding, "It has certainly confirmed that there is a strong consensus on both sides in taking this relationship forward." | <urn:uuid:cfdfaa21-1c38-44e0-8dca-6154cc9d6233> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/10border.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962138 | 553 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Emanuela Campanile & Linda Bordoni - Vatican City
"The project we are sharing with the World Health Organisation in Libya responds to one of the main objectives of our hospital, which is the sharing of knowledge achieved in the fields of clinical and research. The use of the Medtraining platform and distance learning technology helps us to pursue this goal more effectively and quickly". This statement by Mariella Enoc, President of the Vatican's Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, shines light on the significance of the initiative that was launched at the beginning of last year with the aim of promoting and supporting professional updating of health personnel in Libya, especially in the paediatric field.
Present for the public launch of the Medtraining project were Mariella Enoc, the WHO representative in Libya Elizabeth Hoff, Italy's vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, and one of the founders of the Bambino Gesù Hospital, Maria Grazia Salviati.
The Medtraining channel
Originally, the agreement called for doctors and nurses from two paediatric hospitals in Tripoli and Benghazi to come to the Bambino Gesù for a period of between three and six months. However, the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 made it impossible to start the project. That led to the idea of setting up a multilingual platform: the Medtraining distance medical education channel for developing countries, and then expanding it.
The first course involving 156 nurses from eight hospitals in the North African country started a few weeks ago. In addition to Tripoli Children's Hospital and Benghazi Children's Hospital, the Sabha Medical Center (the main hospital in the southern part of Libya), the hospitals of Sirte and Misurata in the Tripolitania region and the Cyrenaica hospital centres of Derna, Al Bayda and Tobrouk, all in the north of the country, are taking part in the "distance" learning.
Five languages for five specialisations
The Medtraining platform offers different training modalities and interfaces in five languages: Italian, English, Arabic, French and Spanish. The courses uploaded on the platform, once translated into the different languages, can be easily replicated and offered to countries with the same training needs.
Intensive care, neonatology, haematology, cardiology and cardiac surgery are the specialities first identified for further training. These are now joined by onco-haematology, palliative medicine and psychosocial support. As soon as the health situation allows, training will also be provided in the presence of some of the health workers involved in the project at the Bambino Gesù in Rome.
WHO honoured to partner the Vatican Hospital
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Elizabeth Hoff, said "it is a a great honour for the WHO to continue the partnerships established 5 years ago with the Vatican and the Bambino Gesù in Syria." She added that the project is now being extended to include Libya and is receiving an enthousiastic response from the nurses working in different Libyan hospitals.
"Already 130 have started and we are expecting many more to enroll," she said.
Hoff went on to reveal that currently discussions are ongoing to establish a partnership for treating children with cancer in Libya and that it will be funded by national and Italian oil companies. Here too, she said, "we would like to work very closely with the Vatican and the Bambino Gesù in building the capacity of the doctors and nurses who are going to treat the children and also establish the psychosocial support aspect linked to this project."
The partnership, she continued, includes a project for palliative care for children that is much needed in Libya: "the important issue here is really to make sure that we work in different aspects, and always with the same spirit of humanity."
Reaching those who are most vulnerable
Hoff noted that the Holy See and the UN have many values in common, including neutrality and impartiality "and making sure that we reached the most vulnerable." This, she said, "is what we are trying to do."
And amongst the most vulnerable are the many migrants and refugees currently hosted in Libya living in very difficult circumstances. "Pope Francis," Hoff said, "has given us all an example that we have to live up to, always bearing in mind the humanity and the love for our neighbour and those who need it the most. So this is what we are striving toward: to make sure that we really meet the needs of those who need it the most."
The WHO representative expressed her hope that soon it will be possible to "have the face-to-face discussions with Libyan doctors and nurses and to have the experts coming from here [the Vatican] to work hand-in-hand in a different way, like we did before," the pandemic. She is confident, she added, that the Libyans will take over when their capacity has been built.
Expanding the project
Currently, Hoff concluded, the partnership is working in Syria and Libya, but she said she has hopes it will one day be extended to Afghanistan and to Yemen, two countries in which the population is so vulnerable, and "we also bear in mind this wonderful visit of Pope Francis to Iraq to see what we can do for the groups there who are in need of support." | <urn:uuid:de635d0d-9298-42b5-af24-3843f7ac7289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-05/bambino-gesu-childrens-hospital-who-elearning-lybia-nurses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.965552 | 1,094 | 2.25 | 2 |
Prague, 25 October 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Great Britain is pressing hard for the European Union to impose a ban on the import of millions of wild birds following the death of a parrot while in quarantine in the United Kingdom. The bird was imported from Surinam in South America, where there is no history of bird flu. But while in quarantine, the parrot came into contact with birds from Taiwan, where the virus is increasingly widespread.
EU spokesman, Philip Tod, speaking today, said Brussels would now seek approval from all EU governments to impose a ban.
"We are proposing to ban all commercial imports of wild birds. So, all the wild birds which are imported for sale in the European Union -- all wild birds which are imported for sale in the European Union, we are proposing to ban those imports. That is the proposal that is being tabled in the standing committee [comprising EU member-state veterinary experts] this afternoon," Tod said.
The extent of the trade in wild birds is not fully known as so much of it is conducted illegally, but Julian Hughes, head of species conservation at Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said it is large-scale.
"There are some estimates of the scale of the trade, which is between 2 and 5 million birds. There's about 10,000 different species, different kinds of birds, in the world and about 2,500 of them have been found in the trade, so about a quarter of all the world's birds [species] are taken from the wild somewhere in the world, stuck into a crate, shipped on a plane and moved to another part of the world as part of the pet trade," Hughes said.
The case of the dead parrot in Britain showed that migration was not the sole way in which the virus was spreading.
"The key word in terms of spreading avian flu has to be bio-security -- that means making sure that all the possible routes for transmission are either closed down or reduced," Hughes continued. "And there are four main routes: One is the migration of wild birds and that migration is at its peak right now and will be coming to an end over the course of the next month. Equally, it is very important that we don't take our eye off the other balls such as the movement of poultry and also the bird trade."
With that in mind, the EU also announced today that it is banning the import of poultry, wild feathered game meat, and unprocessed feathers from Croatia. This followed the deaths there of another 13 swans from the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
All cause for anxiety but not for panic -- according to senior European health officials meeting in Copenhagen. Europe, they said, was in an excellent position to prevent the virus getting a foothold in the human population. The level of cooperation and coordination among EU member states, combined with the EU's wealth and technical expertise, left it well placed to deal with bird flu so long as it took adequate precautions. | <urn:uuid:0620a2c9-190a-408c-9deb-4d7a35612170> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rferl.org/a/1062403.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968923 | 620 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Publication Date: 1993
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Project Pride. Final Evaluation Report 1992-93. OREA Report.
Project PRIDE was an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its fourth year of operation at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn (New York). In the 1992-93 school year, the project served 251 students of limited English proficiency. Participating students received instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language arts (NLA), and the content areas of science, mathematics, and social studies. Multicultural education was an integral part of programming. Staff development included instruction in computer use and tuition reimbursement for college courses. The parent component included ESL classes and development of a Parent Advisory Committee. The project met two ESL objectives and all objectives for NLA, literacy instruction, the content areas, cultural pride, dropout prevention, staff development, parent involvement, and material development. Additional staff development for ESL and NLA teachers and additional support for computer-assisted learning were recommended. Three tables and three appendixes present evaluation findings. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Dropout Prevention, English (Second Language), High School Students, High Schools, Limited English Speaking, Mathematics Instruction, Multicultural Education, Native Language Instruction, Parent Participation, Program Evaluation, Science Instruction, Social Studies, Staff Development, Urban Schools
Office of Educational Research, Board of Education of the City of New York, 110 Livingston Street, Room 732, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment.
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In the United States, we have the SAT exam. In China, there’s the gaokao exam. In other countries, I’m sure they have their own system of determining the aptitude of their students. The difference between the U.S. and China, however, is how we use those exam scores and the headlines this educational system in China has been making in news lately.
The South University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, according to the Huffington Post, has a more American approach to college entry in that students can apply to the college with low to no score on the gaokao.
Typically, the Chinese use the gaokao exam to determine whether the students of China will enter higher education and, if they do, which tier of university their scores can get them into. The system is commonly known to make students resort to extremes in their studying techniques and sacrificing leisure and even physical exercise.
It all sounds pretty harsh, especially if a student’s scores aren’t adequate enough to get them into any of the universities. If that’s the case, they’d have to reconstruct their plans and possibly abandon their dreams by looking for work and finding a new way to build a life for themselves.
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If Scripture didn’t say it, I wouldn’t either. But it’s true. In four places in Scripture we read that Jesus, the Son of God himself, raised his voice in worship.1
Which is immediately confusing on one level. It's not that there's anything wrong with singing, just that I imagine our Savior much better suited as the silent recipient of adoration and worship (Revelation 5:6–14). But he also sings. And the only way to understand why Jesus sings is to briefly walk through all four passages (here split into three categories).
First, Matthew 26:30 and Mark 14:26 are two parallel texts picturing Jesus “singing a song of praise.”
Both passages are brief. We read that Jesus sang a hymn with the disciples at the conclusion of the Lord’s Supper. It was just before he set out to pray on the Mount of Olives. In their fellowship, Jesus lifted up his voice and sang a hymn, a customary finale to a Passover meal together. And that’s it. The biblical writers have little more to say about it.
Very likely this song was some portion of Psalm 114–118, and very likely it was sung antiphonally, meaning Jesus led the men by singing a line, and the disciples responded by singing a “Hallelujah.” Back and forth they responsively marched through a psalm in song.2 Given the profoundly messianic lyrics, and the timing of the meal, I imagine it was a memorable evening of sober theological reflection.
But most of the details about the song and how they sung it are left unsaid.
Jesus sang. We know that much.
Second, Hebrews 2:12 pictures Jesus “singing a song of praise.”
In this next passage we find a New Testament writer quoting a line from a rich messianic psalm, Psalm 22:22. The psalm seems to be used to illustrate the solidarity of the incarnate Christ and believers.
Apparently embedded in Christ's incarnation is his commitment to participate in community worship. And if this is true, it helps to explain his commitment to local synagogues during his ministry. But this may also help explain why Jesus sings with his disciples. At the Lord’s Supper, he raised his voice in worship of his Father, and by this he actively engaged in the disciples’ humanity. He shared their life, participating in their human experience (Hebrews 2:14).
He sang to make possible his unique, substitutionary work on the cross. Christ was not ashamed to stand beside us. He was not ashamed to become our brother (Hebrews 2:11). What inconceivable mercy that he was not ashamed to suffer and die for us! His participation with humanity qualifies him to suffer as our punitive and substitutionary sacrifice (Hebrews 2:10).
Jesus, as the perfect worshipper, sang hymns to the Father. As we will see in a moment, he continues to sing hymns to the Father. But here we need to see that Jesus sang because he is our Brother.
Third, Romans 15:9 pictures Jesus singing and playing an instrument, fulfilling the role as the Church’s chief worship leader.
In this final text, the Apostle Paul also cites from the Old Testament a line from David and his psalm of thanksgiving (Psalm 18:49). But in the Old Testament language we discover a singer engaged in more than a solo. Here the singing includes an instrument, and David takes a role similar to that of a worship leader (זָמַר). Again, a corporate theme emerges here.
Of course any Jewish worship leader could lead the Jewish nation in worship. But this worship leader has set his sights on something larger, on leading worship among all the Gentile nations. This worship leader will not sing in spite of the Gentiles, but he will sing among the Gentiles.
Paul is speaking about Christ by his reference to Psalm 18:49. The resurrected Christ is a victor and has taken his place as a global worship leader. “According to Paul’s citation, the risen Messiah confesses and praises the divine name among the Gentiles, bringing them salvation,” writes Mark Seifrid, a Bible scholar. “Behind and before the single mouth by which believing Jews and Gentiles glorify God (Romans 15:6) is the mouth of the Messiah, who makes known the name of God to them (Romans 15:9).”3
So Christ fulfills a two-directional ministry as our mediator:
- Jesus mediates our relationship with God (God-to-man).
- Jesus mediates all our worship of God (man-to-God).
This twofold mediating work of Christ is inseparable.
God is worshipped around the globe as a result of the all-sufficient work of the resurrected Christ. In this way, Jesus is the Perfect Worshipper of his Father. And from heaven he fulfills the role of Chief Worship Leader of the global church.
Behind the corporate worship in our local church, and behind the global worship of the nations, is our mediator, our Brother, the Perfect Worshipper, and our perfect Worship Leader. We are united to Christ, and in him all our worship is brought together into one global choir to the praise of the Father.4
Jesus still sings.
Can you hear him?
1 For the technical exegesis behind this conclusion, see Vern Sheridan Poythress, “Ezra 3, Union With Christ, And Exclusive Psalmody,” Westminster Theological Journal, 37/1 (Fall 1974), 73–94.
2 D. A. Carson, “Matthew,” The Expositor's Bible Commentary (Zondervan, 1984), 8:539.
3 In G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker Academic, 2007), 689.
4 The concluding summary paragraphs are largely developed from the writings of John Calvin, Edmond Clowney, and from Reggie Kidd’s book, With One Voice: Discovering Christ’s Song in Our Worship (Baker, 2005).
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Growing up on the Cape Flats in Mitchell's Plain Brandon knows all about hardship but he overcame life's challenges and ultimately became the successful man he is today. 'As a young boy I would look up at the stars and dream about the life I wanted for myself, but I knew that dreaming was only one part of the journey,' remembers Brandon. I needed to map out my future and then systematically do the things that would make my dreams a reality. So many teenagers have no idea of where their lives are headed, and without the proper guidance and support, their dreams will never be realised.
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Live In The Moment
All too often we focus on the past and allow those experiences to impact our lives with debilitating consequences. The future with all its hopes and dreams beckons us to want more, pushing us onward and stealing our focus. The present is where the past begins and where the future is created. That's where our focus should be: in the now.
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Financial crisis shakes up presidential campaign
Barack Obama has the edge on economic issues, but volatile markets could change that.
Washington — The chaos and confusion of the credit crisis have further scrambled the wild presidential race of 2008.
Democrat Barack Obama appears to have gained an electoral edge from his actions over recent days. But “gain,” in this context, is a relative term. Given the volatility of the situation, Senator Obama’s narrow lead among voters on economic issues could disappear with the next plunge of the Dow Jones Average.
For the moment, both Obama and GOP nominee Sen. John McCain are stuck pressing for passage of an unpopular bailout bill only weeks before election day. Voters appear dismayed by losses in retirement funds and predictions of dire economic problems, but they may remain unsure whether Washington’s current course is the right one.
“The complexity of the situation for the average person is just daunting,” says Michael McTeague, a former history professor and acting interim associate dean at Ohio University-Eastern in St. Clairsville.
The collapse of big eastern financial institutions does worry voters around Ohio University-Eastern’s campus, located only 15 miles west of Wheeling W. Va., adds Mr. McTeague. But their biggest concerns remain local.
“We’re looking at whether our little community bank is going to keep working,” he says.
Since the credit crisis escalated two weeks ago with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Obama has opened a narrow lead in general polls. A Gallup daily tracking survey released Sept. 29 had Obama in the lead, 49 to 43 percent.
Within the poll numbers, Obama appears to have been helped by a number of factors. For one, voters generally tend to say they believe Democrats are better at handling the economy than Republicans, and that appears to have happened here. A new Hotline poll shows that over the last week the percentage of respondents who feel McCain is better prepared than Obama to handle the economy fell five percentage points, from 43 to 38 percent.
McCain’s personal performance, from his attempt to cancel the initial presidential debate to his silence in presidential meetings on the bailout, did not gain him new votes, at least in the short term. A USA Today/Gallup poll taken before the bailout failed to pass the House on Monday showed that 53 percent of respondents judged his actions unfavorably.
But neither did voters see the junior Democratic senator from Illinois riding to their rescue. Forty-three percent of respondents viewed Obama’s performance unfavorably, as well.
On Washington’s response to the crisis, there is a lot of blame to go around, and voters are not inclined to cut their leaders any slack, notes Stephen Hess, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
A lame duck president with low approval ratings was unable to rally backbenchers of his own party. Divided government complicated matters, with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi making a pre-vote speech many saw as unnecessarily partisan. A hard-fought presidential election of great significance spilled over into bailout politics, while a national problem of great significance grew worse by the day.
“This was a strange confluence of awfulness,” says Mr. Hess.
Some commentators have gone so far as to bemoan a collapse of American national leadership. Whether that has actually occurred remains to be seen, says Hess, who was a White House staff member in the Nixon and Eisenhower administrations.
Since Franklin Roosevelt, public leadership in the US has “overwhelmingly” become a product of the performance of the chief executive, says Hess. By that, he means both the substance of US public leadership, and the public’s perception of its effectiveness.
In that sense, barring an unforeseen turn for the better, the credit crisis and lingering economic problems may become a make-or-break issue for either McCain or Obama, starting with their first day in the Oval Office.
“They will be handed a problem, and some initial goodwill,” says Hess. “What they do with it is up to them.”
At time of writing, the Senate had not taken its planned Oct. 1 vote on a new bailout plan version.
The Senate’s legislation adds an increase in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. caps on insured bank accounts from $100,000 to $250,000. It also adds some tax cuts intended to appeal to House Republicans, if the bill passes the Senate and then reaches the House.
Campaigning in Missouri on Oct. 1, McCain said that the new bill isn’t perfect but that it is improved over its old version, and its rejection risked making the credit crisis worse.
“If we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt,” said McCain.
McCain, Obama, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden planned to return to Washington and vote for the bailout package.
It would be “catastrophic” if a Washington deal allowing the government to buy distressed financial institution assets is not reached soon, said Obama. “I believe we are unlikely to succeed if we start from scratch or reopen negotiations about the core elements of the agreement,” he said in a statement about the Senate version of the legislation.
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Many of you did the sugar free challenge with me last month. We know that refined sugar can be addicting, could cause depression, and certainly isn’t good for our blood sugar. I recommend using unrefined, traditional sweeteners when you do have a dessert, or, better yet, enjoying fresh fruit. The question I have had recently is how much sugar (even unrefined) is too much? When do sweeteners start effecting us adversely? A teaspoon of sugar? A half of a cup of sugar? Where is the threshold?
Because of this lingering question in my mind, the following paragraph caught my eye in the last Weston A Price Journal, in a great article entitled Zapping the Sugar Cravings (go read it when you have the chance!).
” Becoming sugar-celibate isn’t necessary or appealing to most. We are designed to enjoy sweet foods and, well, they taste good! Nancy Appleton’s extensive research on sugar led her to uncover the fact that, for healthy individuals, the threshold of added sugar is two teaspoons at one time, no more than two to three times a day, totaling two tablespoons altogether. This means any sugar—white table sugar, dehydrated cane sugar juice, maple syrup, honey, dextrose, brown rice syrup, maple sugar or coconut sugar. For unhealthy individuals, no amount of sugar is recommended.”
A few thoughts. First, if you want to follow this advice, then processed foods are out. Even “organic” brands are often high in sugars. I looked up how many grams are in a teaspoon. One teaspoon of white sugar is about 4.2 grams of sugar, so you could have up to 8.4 grams of sugar. The author gave some helpful examples of what this would look like in a real food diet.
• Two teaspoons raw honey in a serving of full-fat, homemade yogurt with berries, ground nuts, and a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
• Two teaspoons maple syrup blended in a fruit sauce to top soaked wholegrain pancakes or waffles
• One tablespoon honey-sweetened preserves on an almond butter sandwich
• A spoonful of ketchup sweetened with evaporated cane juice on your pastured raised, bison burger
• One tablespoon date syrup or paste in an avocado pudding
• A small pour of brown rice syrup in a smoothie with egg yolks, berries and coconut oil
• A muffin recipe made with 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) coconut sugar per dozen (equals 2 teaspoons per muffin)
I actually found it encouraging that if you are healthy that you could have some sweeteners without it throwing your body out of balance! But this amount of sweetener is definitely lower than most of us are used too. I am going to experiment a little with desserts and see what this would look like translated into regular cooking. I am interested in reading more research on this topic to answer further questions (such as whether fruit sugar is included in those sugar grams).
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some, any, no
Some is an unspecified quantity. It could be big or small, we don't know. Normally it is "medium".
Any is also an unspecified quantity. It refers to "one, some or all". So it's a quantity from 1 to infinity (∞).
No is easy! No is ZERO (0).
The general rule is that we use some and no in positive (+) sentences and any in question (?) and negative (-) sentences.
|+||I have some money.||I have $10.|
|I have no money.||I have $0.|
|?||Do you have any money?||Do you have $1 or $10 or $1,000,000?|
|-||I don't have any money.||I don't have $1 and I don't have $10 and I don't have $1,000,000. I have $0.|
Look at these examples:
- He needs some stamps.
- I must go home. I have some homework to do.
- There were no stamps for the letters.
- I have no homework to do so let's go out.
- Does he need any stamps?
- Do you have any homework to do?
- He doesn't need any stamps.
- I can stay. I don't have any homework to do.
We use any in a positive sentence when the real sense is negative.
- I refused to give them any money. (I did not give them any money)
- She finished the test without any difficulty. (she did not have any difficulty)
Sometimes we use some in a question, when we expect a positive YES answer. (We could say that it is not a real question, because we think we know the answer already.)
- Would you like some more tea?
- Could I have some sugar, please?
- I have no money.
I don't have no money.
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This week in Jerusalem the girls explored Sisterhood. We began our meeting by reading a beautiful article that appeared in the New York Times last summer. The article tells the story of a group of Jewish Israeli women who sneak Palestinian Arab women out of the West Bank and take them to Tel Aviv to swim in the sea. It is a story of remarkable courage and unlikely friendships. Themes that resonate for the members of Hand in Hand’s first LitClub.
The girls were astonished by the bravery of the women and inspired by their acts of courage. They were also stunned to read an American article about the Middle East that discussed real human issues and not just politics. The girls asked each other poignant questions, such as: How are we, as women, responsible for each other? What do all women have in common? What can we do to help women around the world? Although we didn’t solve any major world conflicts today, they decided together the best thing they can do is to continue having these important conversations and to be brave enough to continue to hope for a brighter future.
As one of the Arab girls was leaving, she turned back and said to me, “You’re an American Jew and I have more in common with you than I do with most of the men in my family. We talk about real things, things that matter. If that’s not sisterhood I don’t know what is.”
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Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World with Sam Harris speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place – to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer at the 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout the week, they all interacted with an audience of thoughtful people who stepped back from their day-to-day routines to delve deeply into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.
Three Typical Attempts to Mount a Defense of Religion
- A specific religion is true
- Religion is useful… to the point of being necessary.
- Atheism is essentially another religion
- Harris Opening Religion
- Truthfulness of Religion
- Problems with Miracle Stories
- Usefulness of Religion
- History of Slavery
- Unequal Treatment of Women
- Dogma of Atheism
- Misunderstandings of Atheism
- Legacy of History
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High court: Detained immigrants not entitled to hearing
Washington – The Supreme Court says immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren’t entitled by law to a bond hearing after six months in detention and then every six months if they’re still being held.
The justices on Tuesday overturned a decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had said the immigrants were entitled to bond hearings.
Immigrants who’ve spent long periods in custody had brought the class-action lawsuit. The group included some people facing deportation because they’ve committed a crime and others who arrived at the border seeking asylum.
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The containment isolator is part of the process equipment often found in pharmaceutical laboratories. Sterile packaging of potentially harmful pharmaceutical compounds and products cannot be done in an exposed environment. This equipment is. therefore, a practical solution to ensure the safety of operators and products as well as being more economical than setting up a clean room.
What is the Purpose of an Isolator?
The isolator is a hermetically sealed enclosure used to sterilize an environment and confine sterility. It is adapted to the handling and packaging of materials, products and toxic or dangerous active agents in pharmaceutical environments. Thanks to this system, operators do not come into direct contact with the sterile zone, but can still perform their tasks during the process. The target elements are also protected from contamination with the added advantage that contaminants are not likely to escape into the external environment.
In pharmaceutical laboratories, a vacuum containment isolator is most often used. The equipment must comply with Class A, ISO and pharmaceutical industry standards. It forms a physical barrier between the toxic agent and the operator and plays two very important roles
Confining the atmosphere
All isolators are equipped with sterilization and air treatment systems to decontaminate the closed volume and maintain its sterility. The aseptic environment created is suitable for handling and weighing pharmaceutical compounds or active agents, anti-plastic preparations, chemotherapy preparations… Thanks to the containment technology, there is a greatly enhanced level of safety control.
Transferring products or materials
The application of a containment isolator also makes it possible to transfer products and equipment between the sterile enclosure and the external environment. It uses communication systems for the operator to move them in and out without breaking sterility. As the atmosphere is controlled, the risk of contamination is minimized.
Components of a Containment Isolator
A containment isolator typically has translucent walls with covered corners and no seams. Because the area is at negative pressure relative to atmospheric pressure and protected by HEPA or ULPA filters, there is very little risk of contaminants escaping to the external environment during air exchange. These filters provide air treatment and are coupled with sterile gas decontamination systems.
Shoulder-high glove ports are present on the isolator shell. This makes it easier for the operator to intervene in the work area, as these gloves or sleeves are adapted to all sizes and are multi-positional. In addition to the transparency of the walls, the enclosure is illuminated to improve visibility.
The presence of communication systems such as transfer chambers is essential for sterilization, product input and output. The same goes for automatic safety devices and regulation elements to control the machine and prevent the risk of incidents. There are also waste evacuations. The components of an isolator can be configured depending on the needs and constraints of the process by adding various accessories: printer, welding machine, cooling tank, etc. | <urn:uuid:f5429adc-bf77-491c-8208-8f7e87dddb0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.factoryfuture.com/containment-isolator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.940828 | 580 | 2.953125 | 3 |
June 23rd, 2006, 11:26 AM
[RESOLVED] Why ref / value?
Why were the ref / value keywords introduced? I don't see any value they add to the language, they only seem to unnecessary complicate things.
Why can't I inherit a value struct from an other value struct?
June 23rd, 2006, 01:41 PM
Re: Why ref / value?
The CLR has the concept of a reference type and a value-type and we need to expose these concepts in C++/CLI. A reference type lives on the garbage collected heap while a value-type lives on the stack. We did consider (for about 10ms) going the C# route abd having 'struct' mean a value-type but we very quickly decided that this would break too much C++ code.
As value-types are meant to represent small values and as the only live on the stack (if we ignore the thorny issue of boxing) then for performance reasons it makes sense not require that all value-types are sealed. The is a CLR requirment so if C++/CLI wants to run corectly on the CLR we need to follow their rules - and I for one think that this a rule that makes sense. If you find that you need to inherit from a value-type then the changes are that you should really be using a reference-type.
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Friday, January 20, 2017
Pharmacy and Medications
I have been taking Levaquin due to allergies to PCN and other antibiotics. The last time I took Levaquin I had heart attack like symptoms. I need a tooth that is infected removed and I don`t know what to do.
In very rare cases, less than 1%, there have been reports of changes in heart rate (both increased and decreased), chest pain, or changes in how well the heart functions in patients taking Levofloxacin (Levaquin®). It may also be possible that symptoms similar to these may be related to a severe allergic reaction.
If it is possible that the reaction described was due to an allergic response, it would not be recommended to take additional doses of levofloxacin or other antibiotics in the same family such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro) or moxifloxacin (Avelox). Your doctor may need to consider a different antibiotic depending on his/her assessment of the reaction previously experienced with the first use of the levofloxacin. Working closely with your doctor should result in getting the right medication for the right condition with the least potential for side effects.
Submitted by Samantha Colborn, PharmD candidate, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati
Jan Scaglione, MT, PharmD, D.ABAT
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
College of Medicine
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Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, OSW-C Program Manager, Oncology Social Work, Emeritus
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
An Injustice on Top of the Rest
All of us know about the dramatic hair loss that often, too often, accompanies chemotherapy. Not all chemo drugs have this side effect, but many do, and many of us have spent months being bald. For many women (and some men), baldness is the worst part of chemotherapy and cancer. It is a public declaration of something important happening in life, something that you might well prefer to keep private.
I have known a few women who looked beautiful bald and managed to rock it. They proudly added dangly earrings and maybe more makeup or bolder fashion. Personally, I thought I looked alarmingly like my older brother and found nothing attractive about the look. One patient told me that she screamed each time that she passed a mirror and spotted her bald self; it was a shock, over and over and over again. We make do with scarves or hats or wigs, and we eventually grow our hair back. (Note to patients: BIDMC's Windows of Hope shop on Shapiro 9 is a great source of hats, wigs, scarves, styling advice and kindness.)
If there were justice in this world, you would awaken the morning after the final chemo with the hair you had before it all began. It does not work that way. Instead, there is a painfully slow process of growth. Most women feel able to appear hatless in public about three months post treatment. Their hair is very short, but the scalp is covered, and it is possible to consider one’s self to be European chic.
It is usually shocking to see the hair that comes in. After several weeks or close attention to the mirror and running one’s hands over one’s head to try to feel something, there are finally little sprouts. Little sprouts that, if you are over 40, are likely to be white or gray. I tell women to be patient, that it is possible that the new hair will be their previous color (assuming, of course, that their previous color was natural and not purchased). The best explanation, and forgive me if you are not a dog person, is that the first growth is similar to some dogs’ undercoat. It may stay gray and thin while the real hair grows in over it. This real hair, is almost always very curly. For those of us who always had straight hair, it is challenging to learn how to deal with the curls. They do eventually grow out, and most of us end up with more or less the texture of hair that we used to have, but it takes a long time. It took almost three years for my curls to disappear. In the meantime, I became well acquainted with products and eventually appreciated the ease of the hairstyle.
There is a second kind of hair loss that sometimes occurs with chemotherapy or with hormonal treatments (Tamoxifen or the Aromatase Inhibitors). It is thinning, and the most difficult part is that it is impossible to know how thin one’s hair will get. We are aware that post-menopausal women usually have less thick hair than they did when they were younger, but this seems even more dramatic. There are no good suggestions about how to cope with thinning hair. Some shampoos and conditioners advertise that they increase volume, and drug stores sell products that are primarily aimed at men’s balding. They might help a little, but you have to apply them all over your scalp. Dermatologists are the physicians who know the most about this problem, but they don’t seem to have any great solutions.
I have known women who seriously considered stopping the hormonal treatments because of the hair thinning. If you are wondering about this, please talk with your doctor and make sure yu understand the risks. It is better, I think, to be healthy and alive than to have a gloriously full head of hair. In the best world, of course, you could have both!
Remember the lyrics from Hair:
Gimme head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
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S1: x=1.04y insuff, since we do not know y S2: 0.04y=1020 again insuff 'cause we do not know the relationship bet. y and x Together: can find y and therefore x
this is exactly what Kaplan says, but I do not agree with that. choice 2 gives "Country X increased by $1,020" which is amount of increase. I could not calculate the median household amount using information provided. Can you shed more light n this?
Re: D/S tricky one from Kaplan's Quiz [#permalink]
14 Jan 2007, 18:26
From January 1, 2002 to July 1, 2002, the median household income in Country X increased by 2%. What was the median household income in Country X on January 1, 2002?
(1) From July 1, 2001 to January 1, 2002, the median household income in Country X increased by 4%.
(2) From July 1, 2001 to January 1, 2002, the median household income in Country X increased by $1,020.
(1) Right away: not sufficient.
(2) Same as in (1).
(1&2) 1020 = 4%X, X = median household income in July 1, 2001. Thus, we are able to find X and Y = median household income in January 1, 2002. Therefore, we can solve the problem => C.
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Edgar Degas to Mary Cassatt:During the Salon of 1874, Degas admired a painting by a young American artist, Mary Cassett (1845-1926), the daughter of a Philadelphia banker.
Most women paint as though they are trimming hats. Not you.
There, he remarked, is a person who feels as I do.
Befriended and greatly influenced by Edgar Degas, Cassatt participated in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1886, refusing to do so in 1882 when Degas did not.
Her father was of French descent and had a great passion for that country. She began her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then travelled extensively in Europe primarily as a student of masterworks in France and Italy finally settling in Paris in.
A great supporter of the Impressionists she did a lot to establish them by encouraging her bother to collect the works of Édouard Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro This resulted in the practical aspects of financing the struggling group of artists and made her brother the first important collector of Impressionism in the United States.
As a woman her choice of subject matter was limited by the fact that she could not easily frequent the cafés with her male artist friends. That and the fact that she was responsible for the care of her aging parents who had joined her in Paris. Although influenced by Degas' compositional devices and of Japanese prints, Cassatt's design had it's own strength of style and originality. Subjects of her works were primarily women and children whom she portrayed with an intimate combination of objectivity and sentiment. Works like The Bath (c. 1892) display the tender relationship between a mother and child.
Her earliest works are hallmarked by her use of golden lighting and qualities of gentleness and lyrical effulgence. Certainly from a woman's point of view dealing with domestic scenes solid forms are usually oblique and off center, the women and children (a theme common to Japanese prints) in her work are neither clearly Asian nor European appear in the foregound with Impressionism composing the background elements. By the late nineteenth century, not long after the exhibition of Japanese prints held in Paris at her efforts began to show more emphasis as the colors become clearer and more boldly defined. This was the first time so many of these prints had been gathered in one place at one time in France. Cassatt frequently attended the exhibition with both Degas and the painter Berthe Morisot, to whom she wrote:
.....you who want to make color prints you couldn't dream of anything more beautiful. I dream of it and don't think of anything else but color on copper....I saw (James) Tissot there who also is occupied with the problem of making color prints.
Acknowledged as one of the foremost American printmakers of the nineteenth century. She produced over 220 prints during her career. An expatriate from 1874 she lived in France for most of her life, her love of her adopted countrymen did not increase with age, and her latter days were clouded with bitterness. With eyesight failed in 1911 and she stopped working. Fifteen years later she died at the age of eighty-two.
De La Croix, Horst, Richard D. Tansey, and Diane Kirkpatrick.
Art Through the Ages. University of Michigan: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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This research note presents a straightforward and intuitive way to combine projections of bank performance under multiple scenarios to determine the capital required to pass the annual stress test. This approach would both provide a more accurate measurement of bank risk and reduce the unintended and unwanted incentives that lead to increased correlation of bank performance.
The Fed currently projects bank losses under two scenarios—the “severely adverse” scenario and the “adverse” scenario—and requires banks to have enough capital to pass the test that generates the maximum peak-to-trough decline in regulatory capital ratios. The Fed sets the severely adverse scenario to resemble conditions in a severe postwar recession (conditions associated with sharply rising unemployment). Because the adverse scenario would serve no purpose if it were just an easier version of the severely adverse scenario, the Fed uses it to test banks for secondary but still important sources of risk (most frequently rising interest rates). Nevertheless, the projection under the severely adverse scenario almost always generates the maximum decline in peak-to-trough regulatory capital ratios and so determines banks’ capital requirements.
Our results suggest that, by setting capital based on the projection under the severely adverse scenario alone, the Fed is both throwing away useful information and establishing unwanted and unintended incentives. For example, as explained in a previous BPI blog post, the current design could incentivize banks to take on greater interest rate risk.
In this research note, we describe a way that multiple projections can be combined to deliver a near-optimal measure of bank risk under simplifying assumptions. When there are two independent sources of bank risk, a bank’s stress capital buffer should be set equal to the sum of 1) the projected decline in capital ratios under the more important source of risk and 2) a fraction between zero and 40 percent of the projected decline under the less important source.
Such an approach would raise capital requirements if no other adjustments were made. If the Fed wished to follow this procedure but keep the overall stringency about the same as it is now, it should reduce the severity of the severely adverse scenario. Viewed another way, because the Fed is currently ignoring important sources of risk, it is probably calibrating the one source of risk it measures—the risk of a severe recession—too high. This interpretation is consistent with separate BPI research (see here, here, here, here, and here) that finds that the conditions in the severely adverse scenario are much worse than those in the great recession. | <urn:uuid:3ded32a9-8040-4724-8c60-175bcc2a9b42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bpi.com/a-better-way-to-combine-stress-test-results/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.934792 | 501 | 2.125 | 2 |
Develop practical skills to use in the film and television industry and build your confidence and self-esteem as an actor by learning insider’s tips from professional actor Acacia O'Connor..
You’ll experiment with different acting styles and practice performing on camera. Discover more about interpreting scripts, taking direction and working with other actors.
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The move to virtual care is leaving some communities behind. For rural Canadians, especially those in remote and Indigenous communities, there are obstacles to seeing a doctor both in person and online.
The Cowessess First Nation's family care system reunites Indigenous parents with their children, restores cultural connections and helps expectant and new mothers gain labour skills, financial literacy and find housing.
Faced with rampant food insecurity in the Eel Ground First Nation, New Brunswick, one elementary school principal started the Kelulk Mijipjewe food program to provide nutritious meals and teach students about Indigenous food culture.
Once a custom practised mainly by the Lakota Indigenous tribes, sweat lodges are growing in popularity in British Columbia, cropping up on many rural properties and Indigenous lands as group gatherings and tourists promise to return now that the pandemic is receding.
Improving health care must begin by recognizing the interconnected webs of colonization woven into all health-care systems in Canada. A good place to start would be at the beginning – with maternity care and birth.
For the Ford government, midwives' demands for equitable pay are unacceptable. But instead of using tax dollars to fight midwives in court, Ford should recognize gender-based inequities, address the pay gap and invest in rural and northern midwifery programs.
Health advocates are raising alarm that infants in Nunavut, and especially Inuit infants, face grave risks as a potent respiratory virus – deadlier than COVID-19 and influenza – re-emerges after a one-year hiatus. Health officials now fear serious outbreaks in Canada’s North.
Physician John O'Connor received an award honouring the legacy of Peter Bryce, a government doctor who sounded the alarm over the high death toll in residential schools. Who has the courage to be the next?
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Matthew Stein - When Technology Fails, 400 Chernobyls, Super Solar Storms & EMPs
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April 19, 2012
Author, engineer, designer, and green builder, Mat Stein was born and raised in Burlington Vermont. He graduated from MIT in 1978 with a major in Mechanical Engineering. Mat has built hurricane and earthquake resistant, energy efficient, environmentally friendly homes. He has also designed consumer water filtration devices, solar PV roofing panels, medical bacteriological filters, emergency chemical drench systems, computer disk drives, and portable fiberglass buildings. Today, Mat owns and operates Stein Design and Construction, providing product design services, engineering analysis, and green building. He joins us to discuss six major trends he calls, "civilization busters."If these trends don't change soon, it may well be the perfect storm. We'll also talk about shifting to sustainability, the free market, consumer's responsibility and government regulation. | <urn:uuid:92147f20-2972-4d67-b8df-b0a6f206e233> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/04/RIR-120419-hr2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952302 | 193 | 1.59375 | 2 |
There are now more than 114,000 outbreaks of coronavirus worldwide, with total deaths exceeding 4,000.
The mixture of measures to curb coronavirus, together with an oil price war that will reach exporting nations, raises concerns about a much more severe economic impact, with fears rising from a global recession.
COVID-19 threat over markets like Dow Jones
Uncertainty over the magnitude and length of coronavirus epidemic, tearing and spreading all over the globe, affecting almost every industry, especially stock markets.
Financial stocks have dropped dramatically, while investors remain worried about the overall economic effects of coronavirus.
The Index Average of Dow Jones finished at 25,018.16, 1,167.14 points higher, or 4.9 percent. (1) Gains for the Dow throughout Tuesday cut the index’s losses in half from Monday.
USA Prez proposed a new stimulus
Dow Jones futures pared losses as Donald Trump said Tuesday he would negotiate with Congress a payroll tax cut to help mitigate the economic impact of coronavirus.
The payroll tax cut would also be part of a recovery package that includes specialized loans to small firms and paying hourly workers for leave.
Dow Jones Situation
Coronavirus stock market correction is almost a bear market since the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq combined experienced their worst one-day decline since 2008 amid Covid-19 worries and falling crude oil prices.
The industrial average of Dow Jones, for instance, had both its most notable single-day point drop (1,191 on Feb. 27) and it’s most significant gain (1,294 on Monday).
Bull in Dow Jones
Late last week, a rally effort on the stock market showed promise, followed by substantial gains for Wednesday’s main indexes. However, heavy trading yielded.
The industrial average of Dow Jones rose by 1.8 percent over the week, the S&P 500 index by 0.6 percent, and the Nasdaq composite by 0.1 percent thanks to a late Friday rally from intraday lows.
Earlier this week, to alleviate investor interest, the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the US, dropped its benchmark interest rate by 0.5 percentage points to a maximum of 1 to 1.25 percent.
Look Out for Bear
Today’s Dow Jones is fallen 19 percent from its all-time high, just short of the bear market point of 20 percent. Altogether S&P and Nasdaq are 19% down as well.
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Coral Calcium (600mg)
Coral calcium contains the alkaline minerals calcium and magnesium, as well as other essential trace minerals. An initial study on an alkaline mineral blend demonstrated an increase in blood alkalinity (pH) and buffering capacity. Proper alkalinity (pH) of the blood is critical for the overall health of the body. Source Naturals Coral Calcium is eco-friendly: it is harvested in Okinawa, Japan from fossilized (dead) coral and is not harmful to living coral
|Serving Size: 2 Capsules|
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|Vitamin D-3 (as cholecalciferol)||400IU||100|
|Calcium (from coral)||420mg||42|
|Magnesium (from coral)||8mg||2|
| ** Percent Daily Value is based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.|
† Daily Value not established.
Other Ingredients: dibasic calcium phosphate, gelatin (capsule), acacia gum, and magnesium stearate.
Two tablets 1 to 2 times daily.
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DEFINITION of 'ABX index'
A financial benchmark that measures the overall value of mortgages made to borrowers with subprime or weak credit. The ABX index uses credit default swap contracts to come up with an overall value and is made up of 20 bonds that is comprised of groups of subprime mortgages. Using this index, financial institutions are able to determine if the market for these securities are improving or worsening. Also referred to as Asset-Backed Securities Index.
BREAKING DOWN 'ABX index'
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Australian workplaces are playing catch-up with modern families and need family-friendly policies beyond ''mums and bubs''.
A review of workplace policies and practices by the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia found an organisation's culture was the biggest determinant of work-life happiness and availability of family-friendly policies ''does not necessarily lead to their use''.
It warned that policies should not be seen as ''special consideration for working mothers'' and said they meant little if they were not supported by management.
''Part-time work is no longer pin money for housewives - it's actually people's career job,'' researcher Natalie Skinner said.
''No longer are working men the breadwinners. We're going through a period of transition and workplaces have to catch up with the way the population looks now.''
Ms Skinner said workplace culture was the catalyst for making a difference: ''Managers and supervisors embody and communicate the culture. Their support is what employees really pay attention to.''
Employees' caring responsibilities were a ''major issue'' in the workplace, with the majority of families having two working parents, more fathers becoming primary carers and many people having elderly relatives to look after.
Ms Skinner said organisations need policies that recognise caring responsibilities, including flexible start and finish times, time off during the day, quality part-time work, the ability to work from home and paid parental leave.
''It's really important we move beyond mums and babies,'' Ms Skinner said. ''Managers, supervisors, executives, men and women should have appropriate access to flexibility and leave so it is something that is normal and OK.''
Her research found part-time work can also mean fewer job opportunities and less financial security.
RedBalloon has retail manager Liljana Petkovski's ''undivided loyalty'' because they have been so flexible with her work conditions.
When Ms Petkovski joined the company as a casual, she was four months' pregnant. Before she went on maternity leave, she was guaranteed a permanent role upon her return to work.
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Ensemble Schönbrunn (or Schönbrunn Ensemble) has built an admirable reputation with over 25 years of concerts and CD recordings of chamber music selected by its artistic leader and founding member Marten Root who re-discovered unknown repertoire, ranging from
Frescobaldi to Debussy. The ultimate testimony is their CD series 'Out of the shadow of the masters' which appeared on Globe Records and which includes compositions of contemporaries of Mozart and L.v. Beethoven, such as Friedrich Hartmann Graf, Anton Reicha, Ferdinand Ries and Johann Martin Nisle.
Ensemble Schönbrunn also distinguishes itself by presenting well-known masterpieces from the chamber music repertoire in an innovative way. They specially developed a 'nocturnal event' for the Early Music Festival in Utrecht a performance in which compositions of Debussy were played on historical 19th century instruments, combined with a modern reconstruction of the lost Tableaux Vivants done in cooperation with photographer Marco Borggreve and visual artist Daan Noppen (August 2007). The most recent examples (April 2010) are their concerts with Bach's Musical Offering, performed on (a copy of) the earliest fortepiano, as had been used by Frederic the Great in 1747 at the court of Potsdam.
The size and the combination of instruments of the ensemble varies, depending on the repertoire, from trio to nonet. For the concerts and recording of Mozart's Concertos for flute the ensemble performs as a chamber orchestra without conductor as was often the case in the 18th century.
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DUE DATES: _________________ (to be announced)
PURPOSES : To gain skill in creating vertical forms on a potter's wheel. To gain experience with slip decoration.
1. Throw 5 cylindrical vertical vase forms from no more than 2.5 pounds each.
2. None may be saved until you are able to achieve a 6 inch cylinder from 2.5 pounds. The signature of an assistant or instructor is required to permit keeping forms.
3. It must have a bottom in it. No water in bottom. You must be able to place your hand in it and reach bottom.
4. Decorate, trim, and sign 5 before they are dry.
HINTS: Follow procedures suggested in the demonstration and by Colbeck's book. Refer to the instruction sheet or poster for hand positions. Ask for advice if things aren't going well. Have the instructor or assistant watch you do the part which gives you difficulty so that he/she can suggest possible corrections. Almost everyone benefits from some individual tutoring at this point.
While raising the cylinders: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
1. Don't begin raising until centering and opening is accurately completed.
2. Open the bottom several inches wide and flatten the inside bottom before raising.
3. Do not let the top opening get larger than you need to insert your left hand for raising. Practice using outside pressure only to bring up a cone shaped cylinder with a top smaller than the bottom.
4. Sit very close and brace arms to body to hold them steady while raising. Depend on your body to keep yourself steady, not just your arms, hands and fingers.
6. When you get near the top, always release the inside (left hand) first while the right hand stays steady to even out the top before slowly moving sideways to take the outside hand away (never slide up off the top).
7. When it gets a wobble, wet it and straighten by using a raising motion without raising it. Keep your forearms clamped to your body very close and steady. Don't try to raise it - just straighten it.
8. If the top is uneven, practice trimming with needle. Brace your right arm on the pan of the wheel. Place your left index finger against the inside of the top rim. Lay the side of the needle against the side of the clay cylinder and move it against the bracing finger in the cylinder.
9. With a stick or ruler, measure the height after each raise to see if you are pressing enough to make a difference. Be assertive enough to raise it without tearing it off.
10. When it falls or twists always use the wire to cut it in half to see what you can learn before smashing it.
1. Proportions. Pay attention to size relationship. How tall is it related to how high it is?
2. Consider an important top rim. A rim can make the form look like you intended it to be whatever it is instead of simply running out of clay at the top. A top rim can make it confident looking.
3. Consider design lines. Design lines are well defined edges and changes in contour. A form with definite changes in contour may look more intentional and less accidental - if that is the feeling you are after.
4. Make the decoration relate to the
form in ways which enhance the form. Consider repetition and expressiveness.
Use symbols or abstract marks. Consider the size and shapes of the blanks
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EMS grants: What is a DUNS number?
EMS agencies need a DUNS number – a unique, free identifier – to bid on government contracts or apply for government grants
If you’ve been researching firefighting grants, you’ve probably heard of DUNS. And if you’ve tried to apply for a grant without a DUNS, you know how important they are.
A DUNS number, which stands for Data Universal Numbering System, is a free, unique nine-digit number issued by Dun & Bradstreet to a single business entity.
Your number is yours alone, even if you go out of business. D&B does not reuse or reissue numbers to a second business.
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Wall art plays an essential role in defining your interest. From one area of your house to the next, you can tell where the heart of a person is. Basically, all the artwork that you hang on your walls should tell a story.
How to Design Your Home Using Wall Arts
Here are some of the ways where you can use amazing wall arts designs for your home.
1. Living Room
The living room is the area of your home, which has larger walls. It is also the area that draws the most attention. You need to consider carefully all the kind of wall art you want to install here.
For example, you can choose rustic wall art for this purpose. You can also choose a modern gallery wall for your living room.
Furthermore, choose posters that are both exciting and eye-catching. You can select a mixture of different sizes of a poster that reflect your personality. The best thing about living room spaces is that they offer vast ideas and possibilities.
Wall art can be used to decorate and bring to life your kitchen. You can include posters that have a culinary theme about them. Examples of these themes include posters of mouth-watering, fresh vegetables, or spices. Another idea is to hang a recipe for a cocktail that you love.
We recommend choosing still, soft, and more muted colors for this area of your home. You also need to blend and match with your wall colors.
You need to choose posters that bring a sense of serenity. Your bedroom is the place where you recharge and feel more energized after a long day. The wall arts should be those that induce some level of energy and harmony.
Some examples of wall arts that you can hang are beautiful and impressive inspiring pictures of plants and animals. Other options include a poster of oceans or mountains. Generally, you can use any wall art that has a positive effect on your tranquility and level of calmness.
4. Children’s Room
You should also carefully select the wall art for this part of your home. We suggest putting posters that include those of a playful and lively environment in this room. You can also use large posters of cute animals or even superheroes.
Basically, the wall art in your children’s room area should tell some kind of story. However, you must also consider the changing needs of your children as they grow up. That’s why choosing the wall art that cuts across all young ages is a good idea.
Using wall art is essential in every part of your home. From the living room to the kitchen, the kind of posters you hang says a lot about your personality, dreams, and desires.
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The rated power of Envision EN110-2.3 is 2,30 MW. At a wind speed of 3 m/s, the wind turbine starts its work. the cut-out wind speed is 25 m/s.
The rotor diameter of the Envision EN110-2.3 is 110 m. The rotor area amounts to 9.503 m². The wind turbine is equipped with 3 rotor blades.
In the generator, Envision Energy sets to double fed induction. The manufacturer has used one generator for the EN110-2.3. The voltage amounts to 690 V. At the mains frequency, the EN110-2.3 is at 50 Hz.
In the construction of the tower, the manufacturer uses steel tube. As corrosion protection for the tower Envision focuses on painted outside C5m.
Unfortunately there are no photos available for this wind turbine. There are no models for this wind turbine. Power data for the EN110-2.3 of Envision are not stored in the system.
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Police and activists protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline are in a tense standoff over the activists’ occupation of and reportedly belonging to the pipeline developer.
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) October 27, 2016
So far more then 260 people have been arrested since the larger demonstrations began in August.
More than 125 of the water protectors were arrested over the weekend during multiple nonviolent direct actions aimed at halting construction of the 1,100-mile pipeline which is slated to run through four states.
Armored riot police attacked a march on Saturday with tear gas and arrested 83 people on charges ranging from assault on a peace officer to rioting and criminal trespass. Police also shot down two camera dronesoperated by Native American journalists.
Activists report that harassment, strip searches and beatings at the hands of North Dakota police are becoming commonplace, but the assembled tribes remain determined to block the pipeline, which they say threatens both sacred lands and the water supply for millions of people.
Our friend Derrick Broze for MintPress news reporting from the Standing Rock Reservation just tweeted out that Camps are being removed. Tasers out, pepper spray, guns, riot gear, batons, LRAD. Then after that he him self had been tazed in the conflict.
In a statement issued on Sunday, tribal leaders said:
“This morning, at approximately 8am central, water protectors took back unceded territory affirmed in the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie as sovereign land under the control of the Oceti Sakowin, erecting a frontline camp of several structures and tipis on Dakota Access property, just east of ND state highway 1806. This new established camp is 2.5 miles north of the Cannon Ball River, directly on the proposed path of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This site is directly across the road from where DAPL security dogs attacked water protectors on September 3rd.”
Atsa E’sha Hoferer was live on the scene before the feed was lost.
This is Breaking News We will bring you more information and update this article as it comes in.
Derrick Broze Update: These are the updates I have regarding the Standoff at Standing Rock:
The police bulldozed the front line camp off highway 1806, including teepees and a sweat lodge.
In one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen the Buffalo nation came stampeding over the hill towards the police. They were being driven by native horse riders. The police followed the horse riders on ATVs and with the helicopter. I am hearing that a couple of the riders were arrested while some got away. The police fired on the horses as well, not sure if live rounds or rubber bullets or taser.
At least one construction vehicle was set on fire.
A DAPL employee ignored the water protector blockade and drove straight through nearly hitting people. He was rounded up and taken to the reservation police.
Construction on the pipeline resumed as everyone was pushed back towards Red Warrior Camp.
I will be going back to the front line shortly to see what other information I can gather and how I can help.
Please keep praying and meditating on peace. I tried to tell the officers they were my brothers. One of them said “I am not your brother.” It kinda breaks my heart but these people are being trained to be robots. Still I believe in peaceful resistance and active self defense (more on that later). This is why healing is so necessary. These people are hurt and being manipulated.
One final note: in addition to my phone being taken behind police lines, my zoom audio recorder was taken as well. If anyone is interested in contributing to a fund so I can replace these immediately let me know.
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Some Linguistic Issues of Translating Children’s Literature: A Pragmatic Approach
Qatar, ID LLCE2016-260; This paper seeks to highlight the inseparable link between Pragmatics and translation and its effects on the translational process of Children’s Literature, shedding light on some linguistic phenomena in the translation of the meanings of the global literature. The complicated relationship between words and meanings has intrigued linguists and translators alike. Meaning has no borders. A word may embrace several senses and pragmatic shades of meanings. There is a kind of interaction among words. It resembles the chemical interaction. There are layers of meanings in the spectrum of usage. The nature of the word is inferable. The meaning of a word evaporates in favour of the pragmatic one; this is the collapse of the denotational meaning; the literal meaning demises. This is where semantics meets pragmatics.
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Nurses are highly respected health professionals with a great depth of skill and knowledge. Few professions offer such challenges and rewards. If you’re looking to make a difference as an invaluable part of the healthcare system, then a career in nursing will help you do it.
The University of Tasmania offers exceptional nursing education and training both in the classroom and through strong industry partnerships. Our graduates go on to work as nurses and midwives in a range of areas including chronic disease management, mental health, workplace safety, rural and Indigenous health and emergency medicine.
Our Bachelor of Nursing is offered as a traditional three-year degree in Launceston and as a two- year, fast track degree in Hobart and at our two NSW campuses in Rozelle and Darlinghurst.
We also offer a number of postgraduate nursing programs for registered nurses seeking career development. This includes our popular nursing specialisation programs, enabling registered nurses to select from over twenty different areas of specialisation.
"(The Bachelor of Nursing) is fantastic because it is so flexible and also it’s so broad. You can work in an acute setting, you can work out in the community... I can work in Africa! It’s really emotional work, and it’s in my blood. I don’t know if I could have done this work in Africa, had I not had that base degree."
Nursing is a rewarding career offering flexibility and a range of work options.
Nursing is a professional health career. Upon successful completion of your Bachelor of Nursing, you will have the knowledge and practical skills to register as a nurse in Australia with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
A high-demand career, nursing can give you a huge range of career choices and flexibility once you graduate. You could work in a hospital setting, education, community health, remote or rural areas and even special events like the Falls Festival. You could develop your career into a specialist area of health, and you may end up with a job that offers flexible shift work or Monday to Friday 9-5 business hours.
Edward Davis studied the Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Tasmania. Part of his placement as a third-year Nursing student was in ICU and he now works in the Emergency Department at the Launceston General Hospital.
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The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is currently in the process of studying a Revenue or Tax Intelligence System, that once set up will monitor tax evasions and investigate tax frauds.
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) under MoF has submitted a proposal to the MoF which is looking at it.
A senior MoF official on the condition of anonymity said, “We are definitely going to have such a system which is needed.”
He said that what the MoF was looking at is to start off with what should be the size and what should also be the modality depending on Bhutan’s situation, tax system and tax culture.
He said that there are various models and so MoF would study what is there in the SAARC region and also beyond in more developed countries. The official said that the eventual system adopted should be relevant to Bhutan.
The MoF and DRC feel the need for such a system to be able to not only detect people who avoid paying tax but also keep at pace with an increasingly growing and complicated economy. The official gave the example of various numbers and kinds of businesses like online businesses and even online shopping which required a more intelligent system.
Currently without such a system the DRC is more reliant on the information provided by businesses to collect taxes.
The MoF official said that tax avoidance is there in both the developing and developed worlds but it is more in the developing countries as there is less transparency.
Once the modality and system is finalized then the MoF will approach the Royal Civil Service Commission to come up with the requisite manpower.
Currently the DRC is more reliant on individual businesses keeping proper records and paying taxes. The function of the new system once introduced would be to not only make sure the correct amount of taxes are being paid but also go after businesses that pay no tax at all.
A performance audit on Business Income Tax by the Royal Audit Authority pointed out several areas whereby businesses could avoid paying taxes totally or even under declare their income.
The RAA found business units that were declared as non-operational but they still made huge imports.
It pointed out many informal businesses that are currently on the rise but they are not under the ambit of the tax system except for paying customs duty and sales tax at the point of entry of goods.
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College Board Details New SAT Redesign With Release of Test Specs
After outlining the big-picture redesign of the SAT last month, the College Board filled in the details Wednesday with sample questions and information about the new scoring system.
The New York City-based nonprofit organization that administers the 88-year-old college-entrance exam unveiled a preview of the test specificationsnoting, however, that the materials are subject to change before the new SAT is introduced in spring 2016.
"These draft test specifications and sample items are just thatdrafts. As such, they will systematically evolve over time," and actual items used on the exam will go through extensive reviews and pretesting, according to a letter posted on the College Board website from President David Coleman and Cynthia Schmeiser, chief of assessment.
One of the first things students will notice on the new test is that there are four answers to choose from, rather than five. College Board research found the fifth-answer choice added little to the measurement value of questions and, in some cases, actually detracted from the quality of the question content.
It is estimated the new test will take three hours, with a 50-minute optional essay section. The current SAT is a three-hour, 45-minute exam including a 25-minute required essay. Just who chooses to take the essay will depend on the policies set by individual colleges to require it.
In a move to make the test more straightforward and remove "extraneous test-taking strategies," scores will also only be based on the number of questions test-takers answer correctly without fear of being penalized for making their best guess, according to the College Board materials.
The organization outlined plans for two additional cross-test scores for how students do analyzing history/social studies text and science text, but Schmeiser said the additions are tentative, pending the results of research. Each of the scores would be reported on a scale ranging from 10 to 40.
"Those scores are intended to provide deeper insights about student readiness than ever before ... to convey how well students can apply the essential college-readiness skills across the disciplines," according to Schmeiser.
The composite scores will include two main area scores: 1) evidence-based reading and writing, which will be the sum of the reading-test score and the writing- and language-test score; and 2) math. Each of the two area scores will be reported on a scale ranging from 200 to 800. The scores for the essay will be reported separately. A perfect SAT score will return to 1600.
The redesigned SAT will also report seven subscores. In the reading and writing and language tests, students will receive subscores for: 1) command of evidence, and 2) relevant words in context. The writing and language test will also report two additional subscores for: 1) expression of ideas; and 2) standard English conventions. The math test will report three subscores: 1) Heart of Algebra, 2) problem-solving and data; and 3) passport to advanced math.
"This will be tremendously helpful to start to move the SAT from being a status measure to being learning actionable information," said David Conley, chief executive officer for the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) at the University of Oregon. It can help students know what they need to change or do differently, rather than just a snapshot of where they stand in relationship to everyone else, he said.
"The subscores, if used properly, can be extremely useful as educational tools for teachers and students," to guide course-taking decisions, said Gregg Fleisher, chief academic officer for the National Math and Science Initiative in Dallas. "The hope is that it will also provide better predictive information in terms of college success. Providing more information certainly is not going to hurt."
Others say the subscores will be too late to be used as a diagnostic tool. Mark Schneider, a vice president and fellow at the American Institutes for Research, said low subscores will be more likely to propel a student to take the SAT again than to take a more rigorous course in high school.
Describing College Board officials as "horrified" that only 43 percent of test-takers meet the minimum benchmark to be considered college ready, the College Board's Schmeiser said in a press call Monday that more needs to be done to help prepare students for college and career. While not a complete solution, she said the new achievement test is more "clear and open" and intended to more narrowly focus on what is important for students to know in college and better reflect what they are learning in challenging high school coursework.
The redesigned SAT will require students to cite evidence in support of their understanding of texts in both reading and writing. Students will have to analyze and synthesize words and numbers, using informational graphics.
They will also have to move beyond academic problems to apply knowledge to real-world applications of reading and math. The math section will focus on fewer topics that are critical to college and career success.
David Bressoud, a former president of the Mathematical Association of America who served on the College Board Mathematics Sciences Academic Advisory Committee that reviewed the SAT questions, said the new approach is to have students apply their math knowledge, not just do equations. For example, in one question, students are given a situation and then asked which of the following equations should be used to solve it. "It's not just doing a standard math problem. It's understanding how math is used," said Bressoud.
There was debate within the committee about focusing on just three areas within math for the new SAT. "We finally came to the conclusion that it's better to identify a few critical areas that we know students will absolutely need for college-level work and then to concentrate on those," said Bressoud. "The whole idea behind this is to have an assessment that really gets at the math students' need to be college ready ... changing the focus away from general mathematical aptitude."
'IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION'
Rather than having students try to memorize lists of "SAT words" that are obscure, the new test measures vocabulary knowledge by asking about use of a certain word in the context of a science or social science passage.
The reading test drills down, more specifically, asking students to answer questions based on what is stated and implied in texts across a range of content areas and determine which portion of a text best supports the answer to a given question.
In the writing and language section, test-takers are asked to develop, support, and refine claims in multiparagraph passagessome with accompanying graphicsand to add, revise, or delete information.
Conley said the understanding that students need to show in reading and the expectations to go deeper will have implications for curriculum. "I think there will be a lot of implications for instruction in high school. It's an encouragement for teachers to go deeper and give students time to think," he said. "[The new SAT] will be a more valid reflection of the kinds of things students are expected to know in college."
The essay is no longer open-ended for students to fill in information without support. The redesigned SAT asks students to analyze a passage and explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audience through the use of evidence, reasoning, and/or stylistic and persuasive devices.
The new SAT "hits all the current fads and buzz words: critical thinking, higher-order thinking, 21st-century skills, real-life, authentic," just as the Common Core State Standards, and other achievement measures are doing, said the AIR's Schneider.
It is clear that the College Board wants to drive curriculum and feed Advanced Placement and other products into the curriculum reform, said Schneider. He said the redesign is fueled, in part, by the College Board's concern about a growing number of schools making college-entrance exams optional, the expansion of the ACT, and the assessments of students once in college, such as the College Learning Assessment.
"Clearly, there is a business decision going on here," said Schneider. "A lot of the [College Board's] key products are suffering from market stress. ... This is a serious commitment, but you have to figure the business angle to this too. Your premier product, the SAT, is losing market share."
Jim Rawlins, director of admissions at the University of Oregon in Eugene, anticipates most colleges will continue to focus on the composite score and be skeptical about reading too much into the subscores and cross-scores at first.
A subscore would be just a few questions in the big scheme of the test, said Rawlins, a former president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, said he'd want more evidence before using subscores in a profound way and that takes time.
With just four answers to decide between and right-only scoring, will there be less text anxiety?
"It might make a difference for some students, but whatever the changes are on the test, it will still have a sorting function," said Rawlins. "If you take away all anxiety and got rid of the things people struggle with, what would that really lead to? Everyone would do well on the test and then the test loses its major purpose."
The SAT is a high-stakes test and students will still likely be stressed having to prepare for it. Yet, the results are only one factor in the admissions process and many schools, such as Oregon, give greater weight to grades than college-entrance exams.
"It has never been the main way that colleges determine our admissions decisions. It is a supporting piece of information," he said. "At the end of day, nothing seems to be changing much in their predictive value. ....If they don't change drastically what the test does for us, it's not a big deal."
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One must presume that “Al Zot,” a song written by Nathan Alterman during the height of the War of Independence in 1948, can no longer be taught in Israeli schools as its lyrics criticize the Israel Defense Forces. Not just everyday criticism either, but criticism of IDF conduct during a fierce battle, a desperate battle for survival. Regardless of that criticism, teachers, youth counselors and IDF commanders have been teaching those lyrics to youngsters for generations, so that the lessons can be learned, just like they read the court ruling on Kafr Qasem in order to strictly define what’s legal and what’s not.
It was a different time, a time when Israel had enough self-confidence to allow itself some self-criticism. It was a time when questions of morality and the price of war and occupation were valid topics of discussion. The controversy surrounding the remarks by Kiryat Tivon high-school teacher Adam Verete attests to the changes that have occurred in Israeli society over the last few years, and just how far the line that marks what one can and cannot say has shifted.
In recent decades public discourse has moved far beyond the right’s positions. In other words, those same public stances that fluctuate on the spectrum between the critical, democratic and humane camp to the nationalistic camp where harming another, whether “the enemy,” foreigner or refugee, is fair game and criticism is what’s forbidden.
Israeli society’s great failure is not that there is no peace agreement, but rather that the occupation is taboo, that prolonged violation of another people’s human rights is not a valid topic of conversation, that the ongoing restriction of peoples’ freedom is not considered an ethical issue. In other words, the great victory of the Israeli ideological right is reflected in the fact that democracy, free criticism, defense of human rights, respect for others (especially foreigners), tolerance, open-mindedness, universalism and most importantly, national modesty, are not part of the general outlook − but rather they remain a sectarian world view.
American philosopher John Rawls believed that just like in geometry when circles overlap, such overlaps exist in our moral values as well, but also that a functioning society can exist even if the values held by each and every citizen do not overlap. In Israel, what Rawls called the “overlapping consensus” has shifted toward the ideology of the nationalist right.
Though the Zionist left and the Zionist right agree on the importance of Zionism for Israel’s existence, that’s all they agree on. The question of what is allowed and what is forbidden in the name of national values goes unanswered. Is our nationalism the kind of universal nationalism that also recognizes the rights of other nations, or is it withdrawn and patronizing nationalism that recognizes only itself? Have things become as Herzl envisioned, a nation like any other, following the laws of nations, or do we go by our own code of laws? Israeli society is divided on that question. Thus universal values have been cast off, and humane values, democracy and criticism have been pushed aside as well.
Those who think that Israeli schools shy away from politics are mistaken. Politics always has a presence, like in any other educational system, but politics in Israeli schools now shy away from arguments, leaving room for only one voice. As the right becomes more extreme and racism becomes accepted, the overlapping consensus will continue moving to the right. So teachers whose views once were in the heart of that overlap become pushed out, and remarks criticizing Israel and especially the IDF become expressions of anti-Zionism, when they are actually the ultimate expressions of responsibility and belonging.
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin once said that he was ashamed of Israel’s actions because he felt deep belonging to Israel. He said that no one is more ashamed over the actions of a foreign state rather than the one he belongs to himself, the one his fate is tied to.
The same goes for me. I am ashamed over the persecution going on against teachers who express liberal or critical views, not because I feel estranged from the Israeli education system and its values but because I feel a great sense of belonging to that system and want to see it, as well as Israeli society as a whole, preserve freedom of expression.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Linda Dangoor has salvaged the secrets of a robust and aromatic, but not spicy cuisine: Iraqi-Jewish cooking. Lyn Julius reviews Linda's new book, Flavours of Babylon, for The Sephardi Bulletin:
As the saying goes,"Culture is what remains when everything else has been forgotten." One might add that "food is what remains when all other aspects of culture have been forgotten."
With only seven Jews still living in Iraq, the ancient Babylonian-Jewish community is on the verge of extinction. However, the secret tastes of its food, aromatic but not spicy, can still be savoured in private homes in Israel and the diaspora. But as the exiled generation die out, the links with Iraq-Jewish culture and food will become more and more tenuous, unless they are immortalised in book form, as Linda Dangoor has done in Flavours of Babylon.
Initially, Linda compiled recipes for her interested nephews. The collection spiralled into a full-blown commercial enterprise - researched, written, photographed, laid-out and published using her newly-honed computer skills by this talented ceramicist-come-graphic designer.
Linda was only ten when she left Baghdad. Seventeen members of her family lived together in a house on the Tigris. She still has vivid memories of eating fresh produce from the garden. Food preparation followed the seasons: a huge amount of pickling and preserving fruit and vegetables took place in summer. She remembers picnicking on the small islands which emerged when the water level was down, and counting stars to sleep on the roof.
The cooking of the Iraqi Jews did not differ markedly from that of the local non-Jews. On special occasions stuffed sheep's stomach, Pacha, was eaten by all communities. In Baghdad, the cuisine was heavily rice-based ('A meal without rice is not a meal, it's a snack', the book tells us). The family's cook Gershone, was not especially assiduous preparing rice, and according to Linda, consuming his gritty dishes was like negotiating a minefield.
Meat stews were a staple for the whole region, but Jews often braised their meat (almost always lamb and chicken), making it go further in a sweet and sour tomato sauce, or stuffing it in vegetables. Olive oil was unknown in this part of the Middle East: so as not to violate the laws of Kashrut, Jews cooked in sesame oil, while the height of luxury for Muslims and Christians was to cook with butter. Another dish unique to the Jews was Urugh, a patty made with long-grain rice and fish, or meat. Every Thursday without fail Linda's family would eat the vegetarian rice and red lentil dish Ketchri, a variant of the Indian Kedgeree. But the signature dish of the Iraqi Jewish household was the Shabbat T'beet, chicken and rice flavoured with cardamon and baked on low embers with eggs that turned brown and sweet. They were eaten with umba, mango pickle imported in bottles bearing lots of medals and a ship on the label, a condiment almost as Iraqi as it is Indian, and nowadays popular in Israel.
Moving to England, Linda was at first bewitched by tinned peaches and instant cake mixes (just add water!). The infatuation with processed foods did not last long, and inspired by her Middle Eastern background, Linda was soon not only recreating her family's recipes, but inventing new ones, to which the second part of her book is devoted. "Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means", said the medieval rabbi and physician Maimonides, and this colourful book is nothing if not conducive to healthy eating.
And not just eating - Linda has a section on teas, infusions and other exotic drinks such as her all-time favourite - Hriri, the hot almond drink consumed at the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
Flavours of Babylon is beautifully presented, a feast for the eye and soul, as well as the stomach. It brings welcome reinforcement to efforts to shore up the fragile memory of Iraqi-Jewish food.
* Iraqi-Jewish equivalent of Bon Appetit!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Two Jews* are among the 15 people killed a bomb explosion in the Moroccan town of Marrakesh today, according to Israel National News in Russian.
More than 20 were injured. Almost all the victims are foreign tourists.
At first the authorities announced that the incident was a domestic accident - caused by exploding gas tanks - but soon they were forced to acknowledge that what happened had been a terrorist attack.
The Jewish couple who died arrived in Morocco for Passover to mark the holiday with an elderly parent.
* a third Jew, a travel writer of British nationality, also died.
Read article in full
Update to the update: a man on the run in a cagoule was arrested on 30 April some 80 kilometres from Marrakesh, and his bag of explosives detonated by police. (Source: Dafina)
Update (The Jerusalem Post): The dead were a pregnant Israeli and her Moroccan Jewish husband. Their two-year old son was being cared for by his grandparents in Casablanca.
The blast at the Argana cafe killed 15 people
Article in Lubavitch newspaper
Article in Irish Times
Couple buried in Israel
Oh the injustice. Over at the Jerusalem Post the Palestinian Christian columnist Ray Hanania has been berating the Israelis for treating his family unfairly, by refusing to compensate his family for their land in Jerusalem. Here is an extract of his piece, followed by my comment:
"My family owns 33 dunams – about eight acres – adjacent to Gilo, the Jerusalem “suburb” many around the world consider a settlement, which was founded several years after the 1967 War. That’s about 33,000 sq.m. It’s in a valley that faces Malcha and the sports stadium, surrounded by homes. It’s called the “Tarud” land, and was purchased by my cousin’s grandfather in the 19th century. Most of the brothers and sisters who owned the land have died, and only one cousin remains. He’s given me power of attorney to represent it.
I have tried. Israeli officials know that I own the land as its representative. Yet the government continues to announce plans to develop in that area. They have never contacted me or my cousins. The various reports on expansion have said new construction will take place on land owned by the Jewish National Fund and private land. “Private land?” What does that mean to Israelis? This whole conflict is about how we treat each other. And while Israelis always complain about how Palestinians treat them, only a few care about how they treat us. Jews have been severely mistreated and have had their land and property taken from them in European and Arab countries.
Many have already received compensation from European countries. As part of ending this conflict, perhaps those who fled or were forced out of Arab lands will also be compensated."
Read article in full
My comment: Yes, it is unfair that the Hanania family has not been compensated for land in Jerusalem. And I sympathise with Hanania's efforts to fight for compensation. He is relatively lucky, however: the Israelis are aware of Hanania's claims and he has been free to visit the property he claims is his.
ln what circumstances did he lose this land exactly? Gilo was under Jordanian occupation until 1967. So Hanania's land was not taken over by Israel in 1948. It could have been taken over in 1967, when Jordanian forces launched a second war of aggression.
There is this telling paragraph in Hanania's piece:
The mukhtar [leader] of the village of Sharafat has repeatedly refused to meet with me – an indication of the growing tension between Christians and Muslims in Palestinian territories that we are not supposed to discuss. It seems there’s discrimination from every direction.
Perhaps Hanania is not telling us the full story. Could it be that in the absence of the Hanania clan, like many Palestinian Christians who have for decades been living abroad, Muslim settlers from Sharafat have moved in onto Ray's land?
Be that as it may, there is enormous injustice on both sides of the Israeli-Arab divide.
My family lost two homes with large gardens in a prosperous district of Baghdad, a cafe, an office building, and acres of oil-rich date plantations in the Basra area.
Given that there were once 150,000 Jews in Iraq, multiply these losses many times over. Bear in mind the property lost across 10 Arab countries by almost one million Jews, and you get a devastating picture of mass spoliation.
Because Jews have received compensation from European countries, Hanania suggests that Palestinians should receive compensation from Israel, as if Europe had anything to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict, and as if there is no cost for having instigated wars of aggression in 1948 and 1967.
Hanania rather cavalierly suggests that 'perhaps' Jews from Arab countries will be compensated for property they lost simply for being Jews. But Arab states have not even recognised the legitimacy of Jewish claims many times greater than Palestinian claims, let alone provided any compensation. Hanania's is a very big 'perhaps'. Even though Iraq is now nominally a democracy which respects civil rights, the chances of my family obtaining compensation for our property is, I'll admit, as likely as a snowstorm in August.
So perhaps Hanania and I should call it quits.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
For the first time since the end of the Second World War nearly 70 years ago, thousands of Moroccan Jews will be recognized as Holocaust survivors and receive compensation from the German government. It should be stated that Jews not only suffered under the Vichy 'statut des juifs', but North African Jews living in France were deported to the death camps. Ynet News reports (with thanks: Michelle):
According to the agreement drafted over the last few days between the Claims Conference and the German government they will each receive NIS 13,000 ($3,800) in compensation.
Romanian and Bulgarian Jews who were held during the war will be included to receive the same compensation received by concentration camp survivors.
The Claims Conference estimated that 7,000 new compensation requests will be submitted, half from Bulgarian and Romanian Jews and a third from Jews from North African countries, mainly Morocco.
Those eligible for the compensation are Jews whose freedom of movement was restricted in some way by the Nazis and their allies. Freedom of movement includes entrance to parks, movie theaters, and use of public transportation among others.
At the time World War II broke out, 260,000 Jews were living in Morocco. While Jews from Tunisia, Algeria and Libya were recognized over the passing years as Holocaust survivors and received compensation, Moroccan Jews were never recognized as survivors. So far, only a small number of Moroccan Jews who made aliyah to Israel before 1953 have succeeded in achieving recognition as Holocaust survivors and receiving compensation accordingly.
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Jerusalem Post article
Last week, the Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland (pictured) took the part of the erstwhile Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in a role-play exercise. But the peace agenda discussed was seriously distorted. Writing in The Propagandist, Lyn Julius puts forward an alternative peace plan that addresses the 'right of return', Jewish refugees and democratic change in Arab lands:
For most of last week, the Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland was cast as the erstwhile Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in a role-play exercise , while Palestinians played Israelis.
Apparently, every time such exercises take place, it is the 'Palestinians' who seethe with righteous indignation as the underdog. The 'Israelis' suffered too, the negotiators recognise, but that was 'in the past'.
How has the peace agenda come to be so seriously skewed? The victims of a genocidal project to destroy the Jews in the Middle East have been turned into aggressors, and Jewish suffering downplayed. Who around the negotiating table remembers that it was the Arabs who rejected the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and launched a war of annihilation against Israel in 1948? Who remembers the Arab League secretary-general Azzam Pasha's spine-chilling promise : 'This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades'?
It was a good week, writes Freedland. He negotiated Israel back to the 1967 borders.That was the easy bit, Jonathan. Did the 'Israeli 'negotiators' get the 'Palestinians' renounce their 'right of return' to Israel proper?
The 'right of return': This issue cannot be brushed aside lightly as 'rhetoric'. Not content with getting a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza, even the 'moderates' of the Fatah camp have refused to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. Most recently they again affirmed that their 'right of return' was non-negotiable . Thus Palestinians reserve the right to turn the Jewish state into a second state of Palestine, by overwhelming it with millions of returning refugees. The first act of such a Muslim majority-state would be to repeal Israel's 'Law of Return' which entitles Jews, wherever they may be, to automatic Israeli citizenship.
That's why, in the real negotiating world, Benjamin Netanyahu is right to make Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state the quintessential issue. (The real Erekat has said flippantly that Israel can call itself what it likes - but does the Arab side accept Israel's right to call itself what it likes?) If successive Israeli governments did not insist on this point in the past, it is because Netanyahu has realised that the much vaunted 'two-state solution' leaves room for ambiguity.
To put it bluntly, Arabs need to become Zionists if there is to be peace. They need to accept that the Jews are an indigenous Middle Eastern people with a right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
Refugees: The Palestinian negotiatiors at Freedland's role-play hold 'the moral high ground': the Palestinian refugees are seen as the main victims of an Israeli injustice. But this is another serious distortion.
The Arab refugees are the unintended consequence of a war the Arabs failed to win against the nascent state of Israel in 1948. But it is forgotten that the Arab waged a second war, on their own defenceless Jewish citizens, a war they won easily. This war was not a mere backlash to Israel - it was inspired by totalitarian Arab nationalism and by the rise of Nazism. The Jewish refugees - now comprising half the Israeli population with their descendants - were successfully 'ethnically cleansed'. Now it is the turn of other minorities.
The peace agenda espoused by Freedland and others misses the fact that the single largest group of refugees created by the Arab-Israeli conflict was not Palestinian. Almost a million Jews were expelled, not just from Jerusalem and the West Bank, but Arab lands, and their pre-Islamic communities were destroyed. In terms of lost property, the Jews forfeited land four times greater than Israel itself. As a matter of law, the Jewish refugees too deserve justice. Recognition of their plight and compensation for seized assets many times greater than Palestinian losses must also be included on the peace agenda. Two sets of refugees exchanged places in the Middle East. The parties to peace must recognise that the exchange is irrevocable.
The peace agenda needs to include a humanitarian solution for Palestinian refugees in Arab countries and their four million descendants. They need to be granted full rights in their Arab host countries - including the right to become full citizens in their countries of birth, just as Jewish refugees were granted full rights in Israel and the West. The Palestinian refugee camps, terrorist breeding grounds, need to be drained. The agency perpetuating Palestinians refugee status from generation to generation, UNWRA, must be dismantled and Palestinians allowed to be absorbed in wider Arab society.
Jihad-driven antisemitism: The peace process needs to address the very cause of the Jewish exodus - the same bigotry which drives the Arab and Muslim struggle against a Jewish sovereign state in the Middle East and marginalises minorities. The conflict is not just between Israel and Palestine; it is rooted in the Arab world's cultural and religious prejudice against non-Muslims ; and with the rise of Islamism, it is between western values and Iranian-backed Jihad.
Freedland's peacemaking simply does not address Jihad. Assume that Arab governments are willing to renounce anti-Jewish media- and mosque-driven incitement and violence. Assume they are willing to accept Israel as the state of the Jewish people: how do you deal with the spoilers intent on wrecking the peace? If Israel makes an agreement with the 'moderates' of the Palestinian Authority, what about Hamas? If peace with Hamas, what about Hezbollah? The history of the Middle East is littered with the corpses of moderates murdered by extremists. Make peace with one armed fanatic group, and another pops up elsewhere.
Only if democracy takes root in the Arab world can violent extremists be marginalised. Islamists have only become a powerful force because they control the mosques, the only conduit for popular political expression in failing or non-democratic states. To bring about a lasting peace, we need to adopt the Sharansky solution - incremental financial incentives to encourage liberal democracy, the establishment of civil society with real respect for civil and human rights, independent institutions and the rule of law.
If there is lesson for Israel from the Arab Spring, it is that peace deals with illegitimate dictators are at best tactical truces. Democracies do not need to distract their masses with an external bogeyman. Democracies do not go to war with one another.
Peace negotiators, real or make-believe, need to move on from the tired old cliches of the Oslo years. The issues are broader than conventional wisdom suggests. Would someone please tell Jonathan Freedland?
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Cross-posted at Harry's Place and CiF Watch
A thought-provoking comment by Mettaculture at Harry's Place:
Democracies do not go to war with one another.
mmmmmmm. Well a bit of a sweeping cliché that one. I do not wish to rubbish completely the essence of this cliché, because it is the case that, generally, wars between opposing democratic nation states are defined by their lesser destruction, greater willingness to solve diplomatically and to make reparations (or to simply buy the land being fought over).
Now it is true that many nasty wars have been fought between constitutional Monarchies and Republics where there is a lot of definitional debate about exactly what is a democracy (and of course what constitutes a war vs an invasion or a skirmish, an intervention or a squirmish).
None the less four Anglo-Dutch Wars, the wars between the splintering Bolivarian republics post Nueva Grenada and in central America (Neuva España ) post independence, the Mexican-American War and even the 100 hour football war between El Salvador and Honduras were wars.
But the ‘democracies don’t wage war’ truism is least rue when we consider the really nasty wars, civil wars, revolutions and wars of independence that have consumed so many lives in the last two centuries.
The wars that arise from within a constitutional state either for territorial independence (for some geographically separated colony, province or part of a nation) or within a contiguos territory devided by region, class or ethnicity are often the most brutal wars of all. These wars destroy and disfigure whole civilisations their economic and cultural forms their families and for long decades after their future relationships.
The American Revolution (The American War of independence we Brits call it which indicates that it was British colonists rebelling against lack of local governance),The American Civil War, the first and second Boer Wars, the first and second Balkan war, The Graeco-Turkish War (along with the combined Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocide), The Spanish civil war, The Partition of India The first Kashmir War, The Invasion of Cyprus, and the Yugoslav war have all been ugly wars characterised by civil and ethnic fracture resulting in acts of barbarism between people who had lived previously as communities of part of a greater whole.
These fratricidal/ethnic/national self determination wars are also characterised by some of the most serious crimes against humanity.
All of these wars arose within the context of struggle for national or ethnic self determination where the constitutional (and increasingly violently contested) forms of relatively democratic government were inadequate to the task of resolving long standing societal or even civilisational factionalism.
Indeed what has always been a causative factor in these wars is that representation in governance has always lagged behind rapidly changing economic and social conditions, with the consequence that politically entrenched powerful groups become locked into a scrabble for resources with the newly emergent ‘demotic’ challengers.
Now it seems Lyn Julius is saying to important things (to crudely precis an important contribution) that we need to be place at the heart of the debate in relationship to Israel’s existential struggle for self determination:
First; There has been an exchange of refugee populations in the Middle East in the creation of Israel. This population exchange no matter how it happened (coerced, ethnic cleansing, voluntary) was done along principally confessional lines (but confessional lines that were believed to reflect ethnicity).
This caused terrible hardship for the refugees but it is done. What is more it was done in exactly the same way that modern nation states were carved out Independence movements from within two great Empires; the Ottoman and the British Empire in India (the third of the territory that remained as princely kingdoms and its preceding Mughal Empire).
The Modern state of Israel (and by the exact measure its surrounding sharp lined new post Ottoman Arab nations) therefore is a deeply rooted political fact of the modern global order of Sovereign Nations States, just as are, via exactly the same historical process) the states of Greece and Turkey (Armenia, Bulgaria etc) and Pakistan and India (Burma and Sri Lanka etc).
This is done we should, we must, accept these political facts as unalterable. Doing this allows us to then talk of compensatory payments to refugees (Jews and Palestinians) and their descendants.
I think this is the most important, the most robust, part of Lyn Julius article.
This should have always been the negotiation position. To have conceded the Palestinian refugee question as a self standing issue, irregardless of the entwined fates of the Jewish, Mizrahi, refugees has been to concede an argument and a set of demands that cannot be solved in those terms without undermining the right of Jewish self determination.
Refugees should be compensated and their civil and political rights recognised in the country of their residence and birth.
My Greek friend does not even consider that he has a right of return to the Anatolian Village that all four of his Grandparents were born in. My Palestinian friend (still after this argument) does believe that he should get his Grandmother’s house back in East Jerusalem and that there should be a ‘one state solution’ that allows him that.
He thinks this even though he is unsure of the chain of title for the property before 1948 and even though his grandparents migrated to the economically booming Palestine Mandate in the early 30’s (he came from Damascus where an elderly Christian Aunt still lives and a Jewish great grandmother died).
My Palestinain friend, an urbane and reasonable person (except on this issue) believes this because he has never really been challenged, within his liberal Anglo-Palestinian cultural millieu, to think anything different other than of his casually daily reinforced unproblematically viewed ‘right’.
The second part of Lyn Julius’ argument that is essentially ‘Israel must work with the Arab spring and democracy movements and do no more deals with dictators for short term security, because we all want democracy and democracies do not go to war’ is weaker.
Not because she is not right, ultimately, but because she may well be making a strategic mistake to see this as a prescription for action rather than the desired goal because, well, it can all go pear shaped in the short term.
Democracies are not easy to establish, or rather they are easy to establish utopically in an 1848 way
They can have a tendency to end briefly, up against a cemetery wall though.
Democratic emergence is also characterised by the release, the unleashing of long subdued ethnic, religious and economic tensions.
Power blocks battle for power and democracies, especially those born in independence movements or civil wars tend to be short lived.
Demotic forces are unleashed and democratic institutions (which take decades to build) can easily be undone.
Israel has fought a democracy, Lebanon, in several of its wars, it has invaded it twice.
This is not because Israel hates democracy or would rather do a deal with a dictator like Assad for stability, but because the Lebanese democracy allows for representation of sectarian and military interest groups inimical to Israel’s existence.
Lebanon may not be a perfect democracy, none is, but its’ electoral structure allows for a balancing of powers which is essential for enough stability in a democracy to build genuinely impartial and robustly independent democratic structures.
None of Israel’s wars with its only democratic neighbour have improved the institutional foundation of Lebanese democracy, on the contrary, Israel’s involvement in Lebanon is on a par with Syrias, in its threat to destroy Lebanese democracy, not by intention as with the Syrians, but by default for the simple reason that very few multi ethnic multi religious democracies are strong enough to resist melt down when drawn into wider conflicts.
Democracies do go to war and Israel and Lebanon with almost certainly be engaged in armed conflict, soon.
I still think that Lyn Julius is right in that unless Israel’s neighbouring regimes become zionists then there is little prospect for peace.
The irony is that only a stable democratic country that recognises another’s legitimate sovereign right for self-determination as much as it values its own can have a majority understand the universality of the principle of self determination and see that Israel’s right to this is unremarkable and that zionism (at least in the mature Westphalian sovereign state world legal order we live in) is quite unremarkably enough simply a political expression of Jewish nationalism.
I don’t have any easy suggestions as to how we get these mature Arab democracies surrounding Israel where a majority think ‘oh yeah Israel its just another country in the Eastern Mediterranean like Greece or Turkey’
I am sure, though, that unless the popular political discourse surrounding this issue begins to see Israel as an ultimate political fact, a geo-political consequence of the creation of Modern Nation States out of Old Empires involving unpleasant and never to be repeated population exchanges, just like the creation of Greece and Turkey or Pakistan and India; then we don’t even get to take the first step.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
A group of 'young' Mizrahi descendants of 'Arab Jews' in Israel have written another Open Letter to the Arab world. (Who are they? Israelis with at least one Jewish parent of Middle Eastern or North African origin. Those with one German, Polish or Latin American parent attest to the onward advance of intermarriage in Israeli society).
The signatories are all fired up by the revolutionary fervour sweeping the Arab world, and are begging to be part of the action.
Are they applauding the Arab protesters for wishing to aspire to the values of the only democracy of the region - Israel?
No such luck. The signatories feel they have been torn away from their true 'Arab' culture and language and have been repressed by Israel's domineering 'colonial, European' culture. Like the demonstrators of Tahrir Square, they live under a 'regime'. As leftist radicals they cannot help reverting to the well-worn slogans of 'solidarity' with repressed 'Palestinian-Israelis - a 'workers of the Middle East unite' type of solidarity.
Their ultimate goal reveals itself : an Andalusian model of interfaith coexistence. A 'golden era' revived.
My objections to this Open Letter are very much what they were to the last Open Letter, which this Mizrahi group wrote after President Obama's Cairo speech in 2009.
The letter-writers protest that their cultural past has been erased by Israeli racism, but they are in denial about their historical past - the Arab world's repression and persecution of their own parents. This is, after all, the reason why they are now Israelis. Their unwillingness to come to terms with the brutality and injustice of their past in the Arab world puts them at variance with the vast majority of Israelis who descend from Arab countries. Sharing a culture and language has never protected Jews from being 'ethnically cleansed'.
Next, the signatories commit the very mistake they accuse Israel of doing to them in reverse - they are asking to be taken into the comforting bosom of the dominating Arab, Muslim culture. The Andalusian model assumes thriving Jews and Christians are not equal partners, but under Muslim rule. Moreover, Arab Muslim culture has ruthlessly suppressed indigenous Berber, Kurdish, Coptic, Assyrian culture and language, and imposed dhimmi subjugation on Jews and Christians.
Is this what this tiny misguided group of starry-eyed Israelis really wants?
Here is an excellent comment from E. Eskel, who sums up the argument brilliantly:
Update: look who's now showing interest - card-carrying antisemite Gilad Atzmon.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Tonight two million Israelis will celebrate the Maimouna, a Moroccan Jewish festive meal to celebrate the end of Pesah. This year, according to The Jerusalem Post, the occasion carries a pointed message protesting extremist orthodoxy.
According to historian Yigal Bin-Nun, the Moroccan Jewish Mimouna originated from “a feast day designed to appease a local she-devil.”
But over the years, Bin-Nun wrote in 2007, it adopted Jewish traits – epitomized by the importance of blessings recited over the delicacies consumed – as well as turning into “a symbol of Jewish- Muslim solidarity.
“Because the Jews could not keep hametz (leaven) in their homes during the Pessah holiday, it was customary to give all their flour, yeast and grain to their Muslim neighbors,” who would at the end of the holiday present their Jewish neighbors with flour and leavened goods.
This year, the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry decided that the theme of the celebrations would be the biblical command to “love the convert” in the wake of the recent maelstrom shaking Israeli society and world Jewry over the proposed conversion bill and the shadows of doubt cast over IDF conversions, which were eventually resolved.
Federation head Sam Ben- Chetrit noted that “we will be stressing the divine commandment– which appears in the Bible 45 times in different variations – to love, draw near, help and embrace the convert who wishes to join our people.
“This stands in contrast to the fact that only once are we commanded to love God. This shows the importance of the command [to love converts] for God’s sake.”
Ben-Chetrit also noted the planned “protest against extreme Orthodoxy, while quoting the rulings of North African sages, who taught and ruled in line with tolerance and lenience.”
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Political indigestion from Maimouna pancakes
The beleaguered non-Muslims in the Middle East should recognise that their fate is intertwined with the Jews, argues the Il Foglio journalist Giulio Meotti. For Christians, Israel is a symbol of hope. Article in Ynet News (with thanks: Lily):
This is the saddest Easter in the long epic of Arab Christianity: The cross is near extinction in the lands of it origin. The much-vaunted diversity of the Middle East is going to be reduced to the flat monotony of a single religion, Islam, and to a handful of languages.
In 1919, the Egyptian revolution adopted a green flag with the crescent and the cross. Both Muslims and Christians participated in the nationalist revolution against British colonialism. Now, according to the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, more than 70 Christians a week are asking to leave the country due to Islamist threats.
The numbers are telling. Today there is only one Middle Eastern country where the number of Christians has grown: Israel. As documented in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, the Christian community that numbered 34,000 people in 1949 is now 163,000-strong, and will reach 187,000 in 2020.
In the rest of the Middle East, the drive for Islamic purity is going to banish all traces of pre-Islamic pasts. This has affected not only Christians, but other non-Islamic communities too, such as the Zoroastrians and Baha’is in Iran (the latter also found refuge in Israel, in Haifa.)
The silence of the global forums, the flawed conscience of human rights groups, the self-denial of the media and the Vatican’s appeasement is helping facilitate this Islamist campaign. According to a report on religious freedom compiled by the US Department of State, the number of Christians in Turkey declined from two million to 85,000; in Lebanon they have gone from 55% to 35% of the population; in Syria, from half the population they have been reduced to 4%; in Jordan, from 18% to 2%. In Iraq, they will be exterminated. (...)
In Lebanon, the Maronites, the only Christians to have held political power in the modern Arab world, have been reduced to a minority because of Muslim violence and Hezbollah’s rise. In Saudi Arabia, Christians have been beaten or tortured by religious police. Benjamin Sleiman, archbishop of Baghdad, is talking about “the extinction of Christianity in the Middle East.”
The Christian Egypt was symbolically represented by former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a Christian married to a Jewish woman whose sister was the wife of Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban* (sic). In 1977, Boutros-Ghali, who was then Egypt’s foreign minister, accompanied President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem.
Sadat, who as a child had attended a Christian school, was killed because the treaty his signed with the “Zionists,” among other reasons, and his cold peace is now under attack from the new rulers in Cairo.
In 1948, the Middle East was cleansed of its ancient Jews. Today is the Christians’ turn. Just as Islamist totalitarians have ruthlessly persecuted Christians in the Middle East, they have been waging war for the past 63 years to destroy the Jewish state in their midst. That’s why the fate of Israel is intertwined with the fate of the non-Muslim minorities.
Should the Islamists prevail, the Middle East will be completely green, the colour of Islam. Under atomic and Islamist existential threats, the remnant of the Jewish people risks being liquidated before Israel’s centennial in 2048. It’s time for Christians to recognize that Israel’s survival is also critical and vital for them. During the Holocaust, when most Christians were bystanders or collaborators, the Yellow Star was a symbol of death for the Jews. Today, the white flag with the beautiful six pointed star is a symbol of survival and hope for both Jews and Christians.
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A Happy Easter to Christian readers !
*Boutros-Boutros Ghali married Leia Nadler, a Jewish woman not related to the Ambache sisters, who married Abba Eban and Chaim Herzog.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
DJERBA, Tunisia — As Jews around the world celebrate the Passover holiday this week, which commemorates the Biblical migration of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, some in Tunisia’s Jewish minority are considering their own modern-day exodus.
In the three months since the ouster of former strongman President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s interim government has struggled to reinstate normalcy in this once prosperous Mediterranean nation.
For some in Djerba’s small Jewish community, many of whom work in the tourism industry, the financial uncertainty is becoming too much to bear.
Most European tourists came for the whitewashed, dome-topped bazaars and lavish five-star hotels dotting the desert landscape on this resort island.
And with the conflict worsening next door in Libya — just a short drive from Djerba’s sunny beaches — Tunisia’s already battered tourism sector has largely dried up.
“I have only seen one customer all week long,” said Haddad Sion, the owner of a gold shop in Houmt Souq, the largest city in Djerba. “If business continues as is, I will have no choice but to leave, either to go to Paris or Jerusalem.”
Djerba has long been home to one of the oldest and largest communities of Jews in North Africa.
Their numbers have dwindled to about 1,500 over the past 50 years — only a tiny fraction compared to Tunisia’s nearly 10 million Muslim residents. At its peak in the 1950s, Tunisia's Jewish population numbered about 100,000, according to sociologist Claude Sitbon.
Djerba’s Jews have long coexisted peacefully with their Muslim neighbors, working side-by-side in the narrow alleyways of the old market in Houmt Souq that is now largely deserted.
Today, with secular Ben Ali out of the picture, Tunisia’s once-banned Islamists are making a political comeback – to the dismay of many of Djerba’s Jews.
“Ben Ali was good for the Jewish people,” said Daniel Sayada, a jeweler in Houmt Souq. “Since the revolution, being a Muslim is coming back in fashion. And I’m very uncertain on whether this is a good thing for us.”
The Islamist al-Nahda, or renaissance, movement has registered to form a political party and announced their intentions to compete in parliamentary elections scheduled for later this summer.
Al-Nahda members have argued that freedom and democracy in post-revolution Tunisia means that all political parties should have the chance to compete freely.
Still, some Jews here are fearful that Islamist leadership would drastically alter the laws in the secular North African state.
“We’re definitely scared about the idea of what a takeover by Al-Nahda would look like. I worry that many things here would change,” said Gabriel Attea, who has already moved his family from Djerba to Paris.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Reading Carolina Delburgo's story of her escape from Egypt by ship to Italy in 1956 brought the memories flooding back for Ermoza Bonavida, who left this moving comment on Point of No Return.
"Fifty-three years later now, we did escape the same way, after a night of black-out. At three o'clock in the morning they came to arrest us, and (it is) likely our nextdoor neighbour told them we were not at home. So immediately my father made arrangements with HIAS, and also left in the middle of the night from Cairo to Alexandria, and took the ship Aeolia to Marseille and on to Paris until we got our visas for Los Angeles, California. Thank you HIAS!
"But the memories are still here, and reading your story made me go back to 1958 and I am very emotional about it. I remembered one thing not to forget, my parents did let me take my kitty cat Michmich, and bought her a ticket and (she) came with me on the boat. My boyfriend who loved me so much surprised me and came for me on the boat..surprises happened later and I hope one day to write a great life story - very interesting, From Egypt to America - I am just waiting for encouragement.
"The COJASOR in Paris were very generous with all the refugees from Egypt, helping feed us food-wise and money-wise. We really appreciated these years, waiting almost three years to get our visa. Now I have three great children, nine grandchildren - and am single!!! I live in Beverly Hills, California, but still miss the good times we had in Egypt before the war with so many friends, a big united family celebrating all the holidays together, and now everybody went all over the world.
"But as we celebrate Passover, Jewish history has repeated itself. It's very funny that my grandchildren see me as an Egyptian, and ask me if I wandered the desert for 40 years to escape slavery!"
Happy Passover everyone!
Ermoza Bonavida (School: Mission Laique, Cairo)
A leavened Passover
Friday, April 22, 2011
Remember that old coexistence myth - you know, Jews, Christians and Muslims all living happily together in mutual respect, before Zionism came along? The inestimable Elder of Ziyon shoots it down again:
Whenever I see any Muslim group telling us that Islam was historically tolerant towards Christians and Jews, I feel compelled to dig up a new counterexample.
Today's comes from The encyclopædia of missions: descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical, Volume 1, published in 1891, meant as a reference for Christian missionaries in far-flung places.
It says, in the entry on Alexandria, Egypt:
The Mohammedans have acquired a very bitter feeling toward the Christians and the Jews, and are ever ready to join in any demonstration or insurrection against them, if they have any reason to suppose such a movement agreeable to the rulers of the city. Given a chief of police like the one in office in 1882, and another scene like that of June ll th of that year, with all its barbaric horrors and cruelty, would be enacted, for the elements suitable for such an act are ever ready.Here's what happened then:
On 11 June 1882 a row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggered a riot in the city in which several hundred people were killed, including about 50 foreigners.
Must have been those Zionists.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Jews from Arab countries have found a willing listener for their stories: Professor Henry Green of Miami University, whose Sephardi Voices archive project is building up a head of steam. The Miami Herald reports:
As a boy, Ted Bekhor remembers swimming the Tigris, the ancient river mentioned in the Bible.
The Bal Harbour resident remembers the friendly neighbors – Jews and Muslims – and his family’s sprawling Baghdad estate.
But all that changed after World War II when a restless Middle East and North Africa wanted to break free of European colonists (a gross oversimplification: in fact conditions for the Jews deteriorated in the 1930s with the rise of Nazism - ed).
As tensions mounted, his frightened Jewish parents sent Ted, who was then 8, to a European boarding school in 1949, the year after Israel became a nation.
He never went back to Iraq.
By the late 1960s, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was publicly hanging Jews on trumped-up charges.
Memories of the the terror are still too real to Bekhor’s younger cousin, Gladys Daoud, who remembers Iraqis being invited to picnic on the execution grounds.
“We just left with a suitcase,’’ said Daoud.
Now someone wants to hear their story.
The University of Miami’s Department of Religious Studies is partnering with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sephardi Voices United Kingdom to interview the Middle Eastern and North African Jews who have resettled all over the world. University of Miami professor Henry Green is leading the international effort task to assemble oral histories from the Sephardi Jews who fled North Africa, the Middle East and Iran after World War II.
Researchers began filming survivors in London in 2010. Others will be interviewed in Israel, Canada, France and the United States.
Green calls it the “forgotten exodus.’’
“If we don’t capture their stories, there will not be witnesses and their memories will be lost,’’ he said.
The project is modeled after Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation Institute that has recorded the memories of tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors.
The Sephardi Jewish refugees are grateful for the attention.
“It hurts so much that it is a hidden exodus,’’ said Liliana Zanzuri Leitman of Pembroke Pines whose parents were forced to flee Libya in 1949 when Leitman was still a baby. A relative was killed in Tripoli during a mob frenzy, she said.
Her extended family lost property in both Libya and Tunisia, Leitman added. An office building still exists in the Tunisian capital, Tunis that her extended family owned before they left the Middle East.
“Now we can’t even get in the door,’’ she said.
Once there were thousands of Jews in Libya, Leitman added. Today, she said, “None are left.’’
Leitman appears before any group that will have her to speak about what her family went through.
“People come up to me and say ‘we had no idea,’ ” Leitman said.
The refugees’ story especially resonates this holiday season as Jews celebrate Passover, when Moses led the Jews from bondage in Egypt, said Green, founding director of the Jewish Museum of Florida and former director of UM’s Judaic/Sephardic Studies.
Passover, he said, “is not just a story of the past. It has contemporary meaning.’’
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Palestinians are busy preparing for their Nakba day on 15th May, I understand they will be using the symbol of a huge key to represent their lost Palestinian homes . But what about the greater number of lost Jewish homes in Arab countries? Where is the outcry? When will the plight of the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities be recognised by the international community and by Arab states?
Groove on a Fez doorpost which once housed a mezuzah (Photo: Michelle Huberman)
I grew up in the leafy suburbs of North London where having a mezuzah on the outside of your home is the norm. Everyone displays one the outside and once inside the house you'll find the same on every room barring the kitchen and bathroom. British Jews have been very lucky in the last century, we didn't experience the deportations of WW11 and there are no memories of the occupants of UK homes with a mezuzah being dragged out in the middle of the night. We have all been taught about the holocaust not just from books and documentaries, but from the holocaust survivors that live with us..
Moroccan Jews are fastidious about enclosing the mezuzah in large metal or wooden cases with the letters Shin, Daleth and Yud. However, during World War ll they removed them themselves, to hide their identities. "There are no Jews, only Moroccans," Mohammed V, the wartime king, was said to have proclaimed. Nevertheless, Jews were banned from public office, quotas applied and they were forced back into the Mellahs. The grooves that I have personally seen in doorways across North Africa clearly show Jewish households that have had a fear of announcing their identity to their neighbours.
With the mass immigration of North African Jewish communities to France in the early 1960s all that changed. Despite having experienced persecution and discrimination in their homelands, once on French territory they were happy to display and practise their Judaism openly. A prominent mezuzah on the outside of their homes and businesses was customary along with a High Five and kiss on entry. This was beautifully caricatured in the film La Verité Si Je Mens II: when the Tunisian gangsters rush into a home to beat up their betrayer, they all kiss the mezuzah before the onslaught!
These flamboyant communities have re-energised French Jewry. When I lived in Paris in the 1980s, I noticed that assimilated Ashkenazi families did not have a mezuzah on their outside doorposts. I soon discovered that this was to do with their terrible experiences of being dragged from their homes during WWII. A stroll around the Marais district bore witness to asymmetric nail punctures in the doorposts showing homes where Jews had once lived. I observed a great polarisation between the two communities, the older Ashkenazi community whose bitter experiences caused them to lie low and assimilate, and the newer Sephardi arrivals unafraid to proclaim their Jewishness. Their arrival in France represented freedom from the memory of repression and insecurity in their countries of birth.
Some 80,000 Jews fled Egypt, many of them expelled overnight by Nasser in 1956. Ellis Douek, who left Cairo, told me: "we generally placed mezuzot inside the door, not outside, in order to avoid asking for trouble. Hardly any of our large, successful and vibrant community were observant, so for them, it was no big deal. We just left, most of us in disgust and contempt, rather than anything else." I heard a similar story about the mezuzah inside the door from a friend who fled Iraq in the 70's.
Fleeing Jews were dispossessed of their homes, schools, synagogues, shops and hospitals in virtually every Arab town and city. The World Organisation of Jews from Arab Countries estimates that over 100,000 square kilometers of Jewish-owned land was also seized or abandoned - four times the size of Israel.
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