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1. Accept that you don’t do things exactly the way everyone else does. Embrace that. Accept that sometimes life is too hard. Just cry, and move through it. Don’t accept things that aren’t yours, like misdirected shame and blame. Accept everything you are and nothing you are not.
2. Ease your way out into the world; don’t thrust into it. Ease into a new job; ease into a new relationship. Learn to let things take their natural course. When you see someone struggling, offer to ease her way. When you see that you are struggling, remember to ease up on yourself.
3. Walk in the morning so you’ll start your day on the right foot. Walk to solve any problem, answer any questions. Walk barefoot whenever you can. Walk on the grass instead of the side-walk. Walk tall. When he won’t listen, walk away. When someone criticizes the people or things that matter to you most, walk out. Walk to the store, walk to the movies, walk to work. Walk where you usually drive, and notice all the things you’ve missed seeing.
4. Guess if you don’t know. Filling out some insignificant form? Just guess. Throw away your scale and guess your weight. Guess within 10 or 20 pounds and leave it at that. When the officer asks, “Do you know how fast you were going?” guess low. When your boss asks, “How much of a raise do you think you deserve?” guess high.
5. Treasure the value of everything that really matters to you. Treasure your time, and take care not to kill it. Treasure the friend who never judges you and who always carries you in her heart. Treasure your health, and do whatever you can to polish it up to a dazzling glow.
6. Change something about your life. Make a big change or a small one. Change into someone entirely new. Strip yourself of old, tired patterns, Change the route you take to work. Change the color of your hair. Change the way you’ve arranged those pictures on the shelf. Be brave enough to change your view. And when those around you cry, “Change back!” just refuse to change your tune.
7. Insist when you have to. Insist that you be given the opportunity to speak. Insist that others be given the same. Insist that they listen. Insist that the people around you be civil and respectful. Insist on a square deal. Insist that people look at you when they talk to you. Insist on nothing less from yourself. When polite isn’t quite enough and demanding seems over the top, insist.
8. Decline graciously, gratefully, steadily. Decline when you are over committed, when it’s the wrong thing at the wrong time or when you just don’t want to. Decline the invitation without telling the whole long story. Learn to say no. It gets easier every time. Thanks. No. Sorry, I simply must decline.
9. Renew your passion for being alive. Renew your spirit. Take a long walk, a short trip, a week’s retreat. Renew friendships. Renew your vows, the promises you’ve made to yourself and others.
10. Balance when you find yourself teetering in one direction in your life. Balance your work time with playtime. Balance your social life with quiet, uninterrupted periods of solitude. Balance your diet. If you’ve been giving too much, let everyone know you’re ready to receive. When you feel you’ve been balancing too many things for too long, put some down.
11. Mend things when they are frayed and torn. Mend yourself when you’ve come apart at the seams. Sit down with that basket of clothes and mend them. Bring our your threads and needles and buttons. Put your pieces back together with a steady stitch. Mend your broken heart. Piece together all the beautiful squares and circles and diamonds that you are. Find how your mothering self and your child self. your business self and your artistic self, can all fit together in a colorful, integrated whole, like a patchwork quilt. Make amends. Mend that hole where you have let parts of yourself be sucked away.
12. Befriend someone you don’t know. Strike up a conversation, and go where it leads you. Befriend a child, an older person, befriend a friendly dog. Befriend a person who seems more lost that you can ever imagine being.
13. Be absolutely every bit of everything you are. Be tough, be soft, be dramatic, be subdued. Be a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Be happy when you feel like it, and be sad when you’re down. Be who you are - not who they told you should be. Be willing to be yourself. Be ready to drop your protective armor. Be in the moment.
14. Appreciate your friends. Appreciate that a friend listens when you need to talk, need to be heard, need to cry. When friends are in short supply, appreciate being with yourself. Appreciate having a job where you don’t have to wear killer heels.
15. Observe everything around you. Just watch. Don’t try to figure out exactly why or how a bee drinks sweet nectar from a lilac. Just observe. Don’t stare, observe. Watch with the keen eyes of a stalking feline. Keep watching, and learn to see the invisible. Watch a swan move across a lake. Observe how effortless it seems - and remember that she’s swimming like crazy the whole time, just below the surface.
16. Forgive injuries or insults, and mean it. Learn the power of forgiveness. Forgive him for breaking your heart. Forgive her for telling everyone your deepest secret. Stop holding grudges, and forgive. Forgive yourself for being human, for not knowing all the answers all the time. Let the sweet and simple rain of forgiveness wash over you.
17. Learn more this year than you learned last year. Learn something different. As soon as you learn something, start teaching it to someone else.
18. Smile for no reason except that it will make you a happier person. Smile at a perfect stranger, at your beloved, at a child whose adults are too busy to smile. Smile broadly, shyly, mysteriously. Smile from ear to ear. Like a Cheshire cat’s, your smile will remain long after you are gone.
19. Whisper a lot. Discover how powerful this soft sound can be. When everyone else is shouting for attention, whisper. Whisper into a nearby ear. Say “I think you’re wonderful” or “You have chocolate smeared across your shirt.” Whisper in the morning, in the dark. Bend down and whisper to something much smaller than you. Once you learn to whisper, you may never need to shout again.
20. Reach a little further every day. Reach for a star, then reach for the moon. If you can’t quite reach your goal, move it a bit closer. Consider asking someone for a boost. Reach over and help someone who is struggling. When you think you’ve reached the end, reach out and touch a brand new beginning.
21. Yearn unashamedly for what you want. Yearn so much it hurts. Want it bad! See it everywhere you look, in your dreams and awake. Yearn for the touch of your beloved’s hand. Yearn for a beloved. Yearn to be alone, to be together. Yearn to be so entirely who you are that you’ll hardly recognize yourself. | <urn:uuid:7ad67a86-7105-44d0-89e2-1c618b7f4f69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oklhdan-musingsamiddleagedwoman.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941378 | 1,655 | 2.125 | 2 |
Doodling Shake Bot DIY STEM Kit
Posted on: Feb 25, 2004
Producing a material that is harder than natural diamond has been a goal of materials science for decades. Now a group* headed by scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has produced gem-sized diamonds that are harder than any other crystals. Further, the researchers grew these diamonds directly from a gas mixture at a rate that is up to 100 times faster than other methods used to date.
"We believe these results are major breakthroughs in our field," said Chih-shiue Yan, lead author of the study published in the February 20, online Physica Status Solidi. "Not only were the diamonds so hard that they broke the measuring equipment, we were able to grow gem-sized crystals in about a day."
The researches grew the crystals using a special high-growth rate chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process that they developed. They then subjected the crystals to high-pressure, high-temperature treatment to further harden the material. In the CVD process, hydrogen gas and methane are bombarded with charged particles, or plasma, in a chamber. The plasma prompts a complex chemical reaction that results in a "carbon rain" that falls on a seed crystal in the chamber. Once on the seed, the carbon atoms arrange themselves in the same crystalline structure as the seed. In this case, the seed was a type 1b synthetic diamond plate. They have grown single crystals of diamonds up to 10 millimeters across and up to 4.5 millimeters in thickness by this method.
The crystals produced by CVD are very tough. "We noticed this when we tried to polish them into brilliant cuts," said Yan. "They were much harder to polish than conventional diamond crystals produced at high pressure and high temperature." The researchers then subjected the tough CVD crystals to high-temperature and high-pressure conditions. The diamonds were heated to 2000° C and put under pressures between 50,000 and 70,000 times atmospheric pressure (5-7 GPa) for ten minutes. This final process resulted in the ultrahard material, which was at least 50% harder than the conventional diamonds as shown by direct measurements carried out in collaboration with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"Making diamonds has not been the primary goal of our research," remarked Russell Hemley of Carnegie. "Our group is interested in the behavior of materials at extreme pressures and temperatures. We need large, perfect diamond crystals to create new classes of high-pressure devices for our research and decided to explore whether we could make these crystals by CVD processes. We found that we could, and at a very high growth rate. This has opened up an entirely new way of producing diamond crystals for a variety of applications, such as the next generation diamond-based electronics devices and cutting tools. Our new finding that the diamonds can be supertough and/or superhard was a surprise and will greatly benefit many of these applications." | <urn:uuid:dbb73c54-8f6e-47d4-b82a-91dcbb62cca8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physlink.com/News/022504CVDDiamonds.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958625 | 626 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Sydney, April 21: Kiwi fans of Lord of the Rings have lost their bid to have local landmarks named after place names from the country''s Oscar-winning trilogy.
Fiordland motorcamp operator Aaron Nicholson had proposed that a two-kilometre stretch of the Waiau River between Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau be renamed Anduin Reach.
The area doubled as the Anduin River in Fellowship of the Ring, with cast members floating downstream in elfin boats.
However, in a letter sent to Nicholson from the Geographic Board, assistant adviser Jill Remnant said the proposed name was declined.
“In the case of Anduin Reach, the board noted that Lord of the Rings place names have been declined in the past, and that there is no geographic basis for the area having a name," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Remnant as saying.
Rings fan website The One Ring expressed disappointment at the rejection.
"I am afraid the geographic board are no fun when it comes to Tolkien," it stated.
Nicholson was even more frustrated, insisting he felt New Zealand politicians had a ‘strangely negative attitude’ towards the Rings movies.
"These movies were a massive success for New Zealand, the director Peter Jackson is still a massive success and we''ve still got tourists coming here to see where the movies were filmed," Nicholson said.
"We should be encouraging it, making a fuss about it, and stop being precious about historic relevance," Nicholson added. (ANI)
- Scientists say death of a partner may cause an actual ‘heartbreak’
- Trump Criticizes Ford’s Move of Building a New Assembly Plant in Mexico
- Reportedly Pfizer and Allergan Plan to End Merger Deal with New Stricter Tax Rules
- Dollar Close to Its Seventeen Month Low Against the Yen
- Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns after Panama Paper Leak | <urn:uuid:449e9eec-8604-4fc9-b292-3688d16d8b4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.topnews.in/lord-rings-can-t-lord-over-kiwi-landmarks-2154605 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00023-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956356 | 402 | 1.601563 | 2 |
This activity intends an optimized control strategy for interior permanent-magnet (IPM) synchronous machines.
More in detail this paper suggests a control strategy to keep control of the electrical machine at high speed when a fast torque setpoint variations occurs (such as during braking operations).
Two different traditional control schemes for flux weakening strategies were modified to tackle the fast torque setpoint variation at high speeds.
The proposed control schemes were validated both via Matlab/Simulink simulations on a lumped-parameter model of the powertrain and via extensive tests on a dedicated test bench.
Activity results show that the modified control strategies allowed to improve control robustness and repeatability in case of unexpected braking condition. | <urn:uuid:05c353dc-d9fa-417a-a39a-477da2b1d2b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rawpowergroup.it/portfolio/improvement-of-control-strategies-for-traction-electric-vehicles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905704 | 143 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Q: I can pay my tuition bills of a few thousand dollars a year on my American Express card and get "Reward Points," but it costs 2 percent extra to pay the tuition this way.
A: You get one point for every dollar you put on the card, and over the past year, I've accumulated about 5,000 points.
Is this worth the 2 percent fee?
You're probably not making anything. As a rule of thumb, credit-card rewards are worth 1 percent to 2 percent of the amount charged. So the rewards you accumulate probably are not worth more than the 2 percent fee you must pay the college for using the card.
You're being charged this fee because the college does not want to pay the fee card issuers charge merchants. The federal government has the same policy for people who use credit to pay tax bills.
Since most ordinary merchants don't pass these fees on, card users can, indeed, benefit from rewards programs, if they're careful.
Some cards offer extra reward points based on the balance in the user's account. This is never a good deal; interest charges on unpaid card debts are certain to cost more than the points are worth.
Also be aware of annual membership fees charged by cards offering points. If you don't use the card very much, you may not accumulate enough points to justify paying the fee. You'd be better off with a no-fee card.
Generally, rewards programs are best for heavy card users who pay their card bills in full every month. | <urn:uuid:27f53ea3-b82b-4c05-a969-52bd953d95ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/oct/15/be_careful_credit_card_rewards_programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968969 | 312 | 1.84375 | 2 |
From Thomas William Ballendine
Dumfries [Va.] the 9th of March 1792
Under expectation that appointments are now going on of Officers for the war against the Indians I offer myself for such an one as it may be judged I am capable of doing justice to my active Service as a Soldier is yet to learn, and as an Officer too but as I apprehend the Duty of a Captain to one desirous of being taught is but little more difficult than that of an Ensign, a Captain I would wish to be appointed & one either in the Foot or Cavalry—It has been my Lott to get the little of my hardly earned Knowledge by Experience & that I may know how to value justly the Worth of Soldiers fighting for their Country it seems to me best to know what it is to do so. If others recruit their men with the Bounty allowed I can do it either in this or the Back Country. Your Most humble Servant
Thos Wm Ballendine
Thomas William Ballendine, who had attended the College of William and Mary in 1779 and 1780 and had been a member of Phi Beta Kappa, apparently did not receive a military appointment from GW. | <urn:uuid:78a79dd2-34ad-4245-8512-1bd85a718b02> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0037 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00211-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983957 | 245 | 1.757813 | 2 |
October 26, 2010
Decoding The Disease That Perplexes: Salk Scientists Discover New Target For MS
Scientists are closer to solving one of the many mysteries of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases, thanks to a recent study conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The research revealed a previously unknown connection between two ion channels, which, when misaligned, can cause the many bizarre symptoms that characterize the condition.
The findings, reported in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provide fresh insights into the mechanisms underlying MS and suggest a novel target for therapeutic intervention."Our findings offer an avenue of hope for the many millions of MS patients," explains Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Terrence J. Sejnowski, professor and head of the Salk Institute's Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, who led the study. "We've discovered a new target that could be efficacious. This particular pathway or ion channel is a key player in this disease, and we think that manipulating it could have a huge benefit for people suffering from MS."
Multiple sclerosis affects an estimated 400,000 Americans and more than 2.5 million people worldwide. A chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system, it is responsible for a baffling range of neurological symptoms, including numbness, tingling, muscle weakness, paralysis, and vision loss.
It is thought to result when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath that insulates axons, the nerve fibers that conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain and between neurons within the brain. Ordinarily, the myelin speeds up the signals the axons transmit, called action potentials.
When axons lose their insulation, however, either signal conduction fails because the demyelinated axons are unable to generate an impulse, resulting in a loss of sensation, weakness, or blindness, or the axons become hyperexcitable and overcompensate by firing even in the absence of an input, causing twitching.
The first computer model of axonal transmission, developed in the 1950s for the giant axon of the squid, which lacks myelin, tracked positively charged sodium and potassium ions, whose movements across the neuronal membrane generate the necessary electrical signals. Building on that model, Sejnowski and his team included myelin in their own model, then demyelinated one of the sections and incorporated all the changes known to take place as a result.
"It's been known for a long time that the two most important ions in the axon are sodium and potassium," says Sejnowski. "What we did was use a program that can model every part of the axon by breaking it into little segments so we could we keep track of the ions going in and out of each segment. And what we found really surprised us."
The vast majority of prior clinical studies had focused on the sodium channel, which is responsible for initiating the action potential, and many of the targets for MS drugs likewise focus on the sodium channel. While enhancing the sodium current did boost the signal in Sejnowki's model, to everyone's amazement, it was the ratio of densities between the sodium channel and a previously ignored but ubiquitous voltage-insensitive potassium current called the leak current, which sets the ground state of the neuron, that determines whether neurons can fire properly.
If the sodium level drops, an accompanying drop in the leak current will maintain the signal, whereas if the sodium drops but the leak current doesn't, signal transmission may fail. Conversely, if the sodium level is too high and the leak current doesn't increase, a patient may experience twitching. The "safe" zone lies between the two limits.
"Trying to influence the balance between the two ion channels is a completely new approach, and drugs that target leak currents could be as important as those targeting the sodium current," adds Sejnowski. "I think we have a good chance at some point to help MS patients. The first step is to understand what's going on."
"Our model offers a novel explanation for many of the peculiar and intermittent symptoms that MS patients experience," says first author Jay S. Coggan, who had studied leak channels in previous work. "The injured axon is continually struggling to maintain order within a functional range. There is danger to the right and left. A variety of perturbations can nudge the axon one way or the other. It makes sense that leak channels might participate in these changes."
In some instances, for example, their symptoms worsen if they are too warm, but improve if they are cooled off-a phenomenon that correlates to the fact that these channels are temperature-dependent. "If a patient is near one of the boundaries and only marginally 'safe,' heating up could cause him or her to cross into the failure zone," Coggan adds. Temperature, therefore, hints at which boundary the patient is approaching.
Beyond MS and demyelinating diseases, insights into the sodium/leak current have applications to intractable pain-a field that Sejnowski's group will be investigating next.
In addition to Sejnowski, Coggan and Thomas Bartol of the Salk Institute, Steve Prescott, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh contributed to the study.
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Librarian Jurica has N shelves in his library, and each shelf can contain M books. Jurica is a good librarian so he decided to make an inventory in the library and, if it’s necessary, return the books that aren’t in their place to their right place. He moves the books in the following way:
Careful Jurica can’t move books if he has a book in his hands. Additionally, he can’t take more than one book at once.
Jurica has been having back pains ever since he had to move all the volumes of the printed edition of Wikipedia from the first to the second floor so now he wants to put all the books in place with as little lifting as possible because his back is hurting. What is the minimal number of lifting he needs?
The first line of input contains the integers N and M (1 ≤ N ≤ 1 000, 1 ≤ M ≤ 1 000).
Each of the following N lines contains M integers, the ith line describing the current state of the ith shelf.
Number 0 denotes an empty place on the shelf, and a number different than 0 denotes that there is a book in that place denoted with that number. All books are denoted with different numbers from 1 to K, where K is the total number of books on the shelves. After that, an additional N lines follow, each containing M integers, the ith line describing the wanted state of the ith shelf.
In the initial and final state of the shelves, the same books will appear.
The first and only line of output must contain the required minimal number of lifting or -1 if it is impossible to arrange the books in the aforementioned way.
2 4 1 0 2 0 3 5 4 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 4 5
3 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 4 2 3 6 5 1 0 7 8
2 2 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 1
Clarification of the first example: Jurica will move book 1 one place to the right, then lift book 2 and move it over to the first place of the first shelf. He lifts book 5 and places it on the fourth place on the second shelf. | <urn:uuid:d5565ccf-626d-45ba-827a-292701dbc798> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/10743 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00435-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944524 | 545 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Posted on July 31, 2009
Who runs Critical Mass? No one
Is Critical Mass an organized harassment campaign against motorists? Or just a scheduled group ride that is getting unmanageably large? Or is it a peaceful celebration by people with sincere interests in promoting health, community and sustainability?
An e-mail from SFU psychology professor and cyclist Michael Schmitt offers this insight based on his research, an ethnographic study of Critical Mass that began three months ago and is ongoing:
“I share your concerns about the rising antagonism between cyclists and car drivers, and for unsafe driving practices by each.
“On the whole I think we all try to be safe on the road, but for sure some cyclists and motorists are careless. Of course, when it is motorists who are careless, the consequences are more injurious and too often deadly.
“I also share your concerns about the safety issues surrounding Critical Mass. Fortunately, many Critical Mass regulars are working very hard to encourage participating cyclists to behave in a peaceful and safe manner.
“You should know that Critical Mass in Vancouver has no organizers. There have been a number of individuals who have worked to promote the ride and shape its culture, but these are only participants acting of their own free will. There is no Critical Mass organization in Vancouver, only participants.
“When you talk about the Mayor’s and police department’s attempts to set up meetings with the organizers, most people active in Critical Mass will either take this as a sign of ignorance about how Critical Mass works in Vancouver, or worse, as a disingenuous political strategy to make Critical Mass look bad and unwilling to cooperate.
“Such a message may play well among motorists who feel that their right to the road is threatened, but will likely turn off Critical Mass participants, making them angry and less willing to cooperate with police and other figures in authority. I don’t mention this to criticize you, but to be helpful.
“There are many discussion within people who participate in Critical Mass about what kinds of behaviours are approriate during the ride. Many folks are trying to persuade other to take an approach that is less antagonistic, more considerate of cars, and more safe and sedate more generally. Those who are engaged in those attempts have a more difficult time when they see people in power as working against them.
“Lastly, there is one issue that I hardly ever see mentioned in this debate — public health. Car exhaust is one of the major sources of air pollutiln in our city, and negatively affects the health of many of our residents.
“I myself have been having trouble with asthma this summer, for the first time in many years, and both my doctor and I attribute this to the increase in air pollution. Just one more reason why the city needs to make the reduction of cars on the road a major priority.” | <urn:uuid:87e94ac9-2c10-48ed-a99d-5cdccf9cf0a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.geoffmeggs.ca/2009/07/31/who-runs-critical-mass-no-one/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971893 | 595 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Mural Painting and the Ancient Americas
In this seminar we will study the wall paintings of palaces, temples, and tombs from pre-Hispanic Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru with an emphasis on the early periods prior to the Aztec and Inca empires. Secondarily, we will examine colonial, modern, and contemporary legacies of indigenous painting in Latin America and the United States. Readings will come from art historical and archaeological literature, as well as critical sources on space and proxemics, the built environment, and embodiment and subjectivity. Discussion topics will include: artistic techniques and materials, iconography, text and image, narrative and ornament, style and ethnicity, courtly culture and religious practice. We will also discuss the pragmatics of conservation and illustration and the politics and ethics of the discovery, collection, and exportation of cultural patrimony.
This seminar is supported by the Digital Humanities at Berkeley program, which will allow us to experiment with new technologies for imaging murals within their ancient contexts and to digitally record our seminar’s site visits to murals in the Bay Area. We will make visits as a class to see the Teotihuacan mural fragments at the de Young Museum, Diego Rivera’s 1940 Pan-American Unity mural at City College of San Francisco, and the small Rivera mural in Stern Hall on this campus.
Prior knowledge of Pre-Columbian and/or Latin American art history is useful, but not required. Spanish reading ability is also useful, but all required reading will be in English.
The seminar is open to graduate enrollment, subject to instructor approval.
This course fulfills the following Major requirements: Geographical areas (C) and Chronological period (I) or (III). | <urn:uuid:44c93566-23b5-45d0-8f88-fac2d7483ff9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/courses/undergraduate-graduate-seminar-mural-painting-and-the-ancient-americas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.91816 | 366 | 2.125 | 2 |
The Newberry operated without Internet for more than one hundred years, but 2020 marks the first time we’ve operated without physical access to our collections or reading rooms. Luckily, our librarians had some practice.
“Each year we answer thousands of questions from researchers around the world who can’t make it to the Newberry in person, so we had a lot of experience with answering questions by email and voicemail already.” That’s Will Hansen, the Newberry’s Director of Reader Services and Curator of Americana. Since our building closed in March, he and the Newberry’s reference team have answered more than 450 inquiries submitted from around the world.
Of course, answering questions without access to the library’s physical collections has been a challenge – some questions still require fuller exploration in the building – but Hansen explains that the team has used this time working-from-home to sharpen their digital reference skills.
From familiarizing themselves with the thousands of items the Newberry makes available digitally, to exploring the thousands of other research resources available online, Hansen and his team are quickly patching gaps in their knowledge. They’re also using Zoom to share their expertise with colleagues. For example, reference and reading room staff got a crash course in using digitized newspapers during a Zoom instructional session led by General Collections Services Librarian Maggie Cusick.
The number of online research resources has exploded in recent years, but those resources aren’t always easily navigated or even accessible unless researchers are affiliated with particular institutions or able to pay a fee. For many researchers, these restrictions have become even more of a burden during lockdown, but Newberry reference librarians are here to help.
Thanks to Newberry’s membership in the Center for Research Libraries, which has provided expanded digital access during the pandemic, our librarians were able to access a wider range of subscription databases between April and June 2020 than ever before. This access allowed them to thoroughly answer inquiries despite the limitations of working from home, locate digitized primary sources online, and point researchers in the right direction – hopefully one free of fees.
But where online resources aren’t enough, reference librarians can turn to their Newberry colleagues. Curators and research center staff have specialized expertise, meaning that the reference team can often forward questions their way rather than wait for the building to reopen. And when they can’t find a particular digitized image, the Digital Initiatives and Services (DIS) team is excellent at tracking it down.
“Reference is often a team sport,” jokes Hansen.
When asked about his favorite reference question of the past few months, Hansen demurs, “We try our best not to play favorites with reference questions – they’re each important to the researcher, or they wouldn’t be contacting us.”
“That being said,” he continues, “there have been some very interesting ones in the past few months. They range from a question about newspaper articles on Julia Lyons, a.k.a. ‘Slick Julia’ or ‘Flu Julia,’ who posed as a nurse during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, to questions about family history and the histories of specific Chicago buildings, and from an inquiry about a 15th-century Belgian manuscript of the Gospels, to questions about postcards of cowboys in the early 20th century.”
Even as the Newberry begins to return to “normal” operations, Collections and Library Services staff is dedicated to finding new ways to serve people in the Newberry community and beyond. Curators and librarians have taken to Twitter and Instagram to discuss specific collection items via livestreams that have received more than 16,000 views. These videos are archived on our site, so you can watch them anytime.
Plus, the department launched in collaboration with DIS a new crowdsourcing initiative called Postcard Tag that lets online volunteers help make the Newberry’s postcard collection digitally searchable, as well as a more user-friendly interface for Newberry Transcribe.
Speaking of Newberry Transcribe, its popularity has skyrocketed. In the first two weeks of March, the website was visited just 1,400 times. Then our building closed due to COVID. In the following two weeks, pageviews jumped to 119,000! (You can read more about Newberry Transcribe in the previous edition of Donor Digest.)
All of these adaptations and innovations are made possible by your support, which lets us provide these services at zero cost to users. Thanks to you, readers have been able to continue their research, interact with staff experts, and engage with the archive – all from home.
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|Centuries:||18th century – 19th century – 20th century|
|Decades:||1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s|
|Years:||1875 1876 1877 – 1878 – 1879 1880 1881|
Year 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1878
January - March
- January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London
- January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy
- January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV
- January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv
- January 23 - Benjamin Disraeli orders British fleet to the Dardanelles
- January 24 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
- January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
- January 31 - Turkey agrees to armistice at Adrianople
- February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
- February 8 - British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Istanbul - Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul but does not carry out the threat
- February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico
- February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison
- February 20 - Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.
- February 24 - Anti-Russian demonstrations in Hyde Park, London
- February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)
- March 3
- March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
- March 25 - Russia rejects British proposal to lay San Stefano treaty before European congress
- March 27 - In anticipation with war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta
April - June
- April 20 - The Stawell Gift is run for the first time.
- May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established
- June 4 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- June 10 - League of Prizren is established
- June 12 - July 12 - Congress of Berlin about the Ottoman Empire
- June 22 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.
July - September
- July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro and Romania completely independent
- July 26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself " Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
- September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- September 20 - The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, is founded.
- September 30 - The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878-1913).
October - December
- October 1 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
- October 14 - The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield
- October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- November 17 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- November 21 - Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass.
- The Buchan School, Isle of Man.
- Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club, the team that would become Manchester United
- Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo
- Yellow fever in Mississippi Valley - over 13,000 dead
- US arbitration rejects Argentinean claims to Paraguay's part of Chaco region
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.
- Grimsby Town FC then known as Grimsby Pelham
|Ab urbe condita||2631|
|British Regnal year||41 Vict. 1 – 42 Vict. 1|
|Chinese calendar|| 丁丑年十一月廿八日
— to —戊寅年十二月初八日
|- Vikram Samvat||1934–1935|
|- Shaka Samvat||1800–1801|
|- Kali Yuga||4979–4980|
|- Ǹrí Ìgbò||878–879|
|Japanese calendar|| Meiji 11
|Juche calendar||N/A (before 1912)|
|Julian calendar||Gregorian minus 12 days|
|Minguo calendar||34 before ROC
|Thai solar calendar||2421|
January - June
- January 6 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
- January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, author (d. 1952)
- January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
- February 1 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. 1944)
- February 2 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)
- February 5 - André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935)
- February 8 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d. 1965)
- February 14 - Hirota Koki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- February 21 - The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville in India (d. 1973)
- February 26 - Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d. 1930)
- February 28 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
- March 4
- March 16 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1946)
- March 22 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919)
- March 31 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
- April 6 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
- April 24 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
- April 28
- May 3 - Cruz Hernandez, Oldest Living Person (disputed) (d. 2007)
- May 10 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)
- May 25 - Bill Robinson, Tap Dancer (d. 1949)
- May 26 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
- May 28 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
- June 1 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist (d. 1967)
- June 3 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (d. 1946)
- June 5 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
July - December
- July 4 - George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d. 1942)
- July 24 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (d. 1957)
- August 10 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
- August 28 - George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
- August 31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
- September 5 - Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (d. 1913)
- September 13 - Matilde Moisant, American pilot (d. 1964)
- September 20 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
- September 22 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- September 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
- October 1 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
- October 16 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
- November 1 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
- November 14 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
- Julie Manet - French painter (d. 1966)
- November 17 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d. 1939)
- December 18 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d. 1953)
- December 25
- December 28 - Nikolai Bryukhanov, Soviet statesman and political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finances (d.1938)
- December 31 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1966)
- December 31 - Horacio Quiroga, Argentina's writer was born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1937)
January - June
- January 8 - Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
- January 9 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
- January 18 - Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (b. 1788)
- February 7 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
- February 11 - Gideon Welles, American politician (b. 1802)
- February 19 - Charles-Francois Daubigny, French painter (b. 1817)
- February 26 - Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1818)
- March 8 - Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (b. 1802)
- April 8 - Henrietta Treffz, soprano, first wife of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
- April 12 - William Marcy Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
- April 25 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
- May 28 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
- June 6
- June 12
July - December
- July 1 - Catherine Winkworth, translator of hymns (b. 1827)
- July 17 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
- July 23 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist, philosopher and politician (b. 1804)
- August 30 - James Geiss, English businessman (b. 1820)
- November 16 - Princess Marie of Hesse dies aged for of diptheria. A disease which at the time the majority of her family suffered, and which her mother Alice of the United Kingdom succumbed to a month later.
- November 20 - William Thomas (Islwyn), Welsh poet (b. 1832)
- November 28 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
- December 10 - Henry Wells, American businessman (b. 1805)
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The trend of increased intimidation can seriously damage our democracy. That is why we will be consulting on recommendations made by the Committee on Standards in Public Life to undertake legislative changes, for example, to remove candidates’ addresses from ballot papers and create an electoral offence of intimidating candidates. An electoral offence will reflect our view that elections and candidates need to be better protected.
I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. He will be aware of incidents designed to intimidate people from being involved in public life, including a recent incident where a brick was thrown through a Conservative candidate’s window in Liverpool. Does he agree that it is vital that all involved in public life seek to encourage a culture of respect and tackle those who seek to intimidate people?
Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes a very good point. That was a shocking incident, which I hope all of us on both sides of the House would find abhorrent. The candidate had her one-year-old daughter in the room when the brick was thrown. That is a salutary lesson to us all. Such conduct deters people from participating in politics. That is why we have to look at removing the requirement on local addresses, but we also need leadership from the top. That is why we have introduced a respect code, which I hope the Labour party will eventually follow.
As I have said in the House in the past, we should all be prepared to have good, strong and robust debate, but it should and must be done with respect.
In a single sentence, David Evennett.
Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that the increasing intolerance and intimidation of people who put themselves forward for public office is deterring many people from doing so?
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 1.
Description: Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The third series, according to the preface in Series 1, Volume 1 contains "the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of the Union authorities (embracing their correspondence with the Confederate officials) not relating specially to the subjects of the first and second series. It will set forth the annual and special reports of the Secretary of War, of the General-in-Chief, and of the chiefs of the several staff corps and departments; the calls for troops, and the correspondence between the National and the several State authorities" (p. iv). Index starts on page 971.
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More funds for student loans in 'no frills' Budget
New funds have been set aside for government-backed student loans in the latest federal Budget.
As part of a new skills drive by the government, $243 has been allocated to vocational education and training programs during the next four years, which includes funds for student loans and benchmarks to improve teacher quality.
While it may be a positive step for Aussies looking to compare student loans and secure better student finances, the Budget has also been slammed by lobby groups for its limited benefits for the needy.
Frank Quinlan, executive director of Catholic Social Services Australia, said the Budget had achieved economic balance "but possibly at the price of social imbalance", adding that there was little evidence of a serious investment in tackling social inequality.
In addition to more training and student financing, the Budget allocated an additional $2.2 billion to the health sector.
Meanwhile, the Westside News recently reported that the financial worries of bright, final-year student at the University of Queensland have been eased after he won the prestigious Frank Finn Scholarship.
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As a journalist, I come across controversial topics on a regular basis–but none have captivated me like human trafficking has. I’m passionate about raising awareness about the criminal activity that claims an estimated 300,000 minors each year within the United States (and countless more in countries around the world, including Honduras). As much as I love researching and writing, though, I’m starting to realize talking isn’t enough. So I’ve decided to do something.
I’m going to run TraffickFree’s 5K in downtown Chicago this Saturday, September 7th.
But how does putting myself through a 5k help men, women, and children being sold into forced labor and sexual slavery?
First of all, the money ($35 entrance fee) goes toward a good cause: the race is sponsored by Traffick Free, a nonprofit organization in Chicago dedicated to raising awareness for the injustice of human trafficking in Chicago. According to the Illinois Rescue and Restore Coalition, upwards of 25,000 women and girls are victims of commercial sexual exploitation in Chicago every year, and an estimated 27 million people are enslaved around the world – more slaves than spanned the entire 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade.
I’m all about contributing my money and prayers to an effort to set captives free.
In addition to celebrating innovative legislation (like the Illinois Safe Children Act that immediately recognizes all those found engaged in commercial sexual exploitation under the age of 18 as victims) and fostering progressive collaboration like the weekly Law Enforcement Working Group that engages prosecutors, officers, and social workers to ensure that all cases are victim-centered and not victim-driven, Traffick Free also has long-term goals to run around-the-clock social services and continued increase of trauma-informed services across the Chicagoland area, including the establishment of safe houses for women recovering from exploitation.
According to the organization, proceeds from the 5K will support their current education and awareness initiatives to provide the greater metropolitan area of Chicago with tools and sustainable programs to combat human trafficking and transform the lives of victims, perpetrators and communities. Registration is now open for only $35 and includes a takeaway gift participants can wear every day to remind themselves what they have accomplished and use as a conversation-starter to engage others in the issue. The 5k Run Against Traffick, born simply from the knowledge that we needed to engage a larger Chicago community, began in 2011 with only 500 participants. With the 5k almost doubled in size last year and continues to grow–will you sign up to take on the fight?
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You’ve applied for countless jobs and gone on numerous interviews but still no potential job prospects in sight . . .You’ve studied for weeks for a final test, but do not receive the high grade that you were hoping for . . .
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
Dealing with rejection is never easy and can be difficult for anyone to handle. Let’s face it, nobody likes to be told “No”. Oftentimes, we blame ourselves for our defeats and fault ourselves for doing something wrong. We think to ourselves, “if only we could have studied a little bit longer or answered the questions more clearly on that interview…”
This is the #1 mistake that most people make when it comes to rejection – blaming their selves! Don’t worry you are not alone, here are some tips that will help you learn to overcome and embrace the emotion of rejection!
Tip #1: Rejection Is Not Always About You.
Oftentimes, we tend to blame ourselves for the cause of the rejection. But sometimes we fail to realize the source of the rejection:
- Maybe that employer was not looking for your skillset at the time
- Maybe that director had you in mind for another role
- Maybe it was not your time to for that job opportunity
The list goes on and on. Because you may never fully understand why someone, rejected you, the best thing to do is not to think about it.
Focus on things that are in your control!
Tip #2: Turn that frown upside down.
So, you didn’t get that potential job you were hoping for . . . No worries! Remember that the sadness that you are feeling is a temporary emotion and will not last forever. There will be more jobs, more interviews, more opportunities to succeed it. Think of all the countless things that you have overcome throughout your life – keep going!
Tip #3 Look At Rejection As A Learning Opportunity.
Look at your rejection, as a chance to learn from your rejection and figure out areas where you could improve. Every rejection that we face in life, teaches us a lesson.
Don’t let being turned down, be a stumbling block to your success. Be confident and keep going and do not be defeated in the face of adversity.
I know that this process is much easier said than done. But you can do it! Think of the all the great leaders of our time. These leaders did not become great overnight and the certainly faced their share of adversity, obstacles, and rejections. Sometimes the key is to face your obstacle head on! Face the fear, feel the fear and go for it! Remember that the emotions that you are feeling are just temporary. Use the emotion that you are feeling and challenge yourself.
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If you have been assigned to do the essay on Romeo and Juliet, here are a few tips that will help you ace it. Try your best to incorporate these points into your work.
Make sure that you do several drafts before turning in your work. The last thing that you want is to turn in something that isn’t up-to-par quality or even worse, turned in late! Also, make sure to proofread the piece thoroughly for grammar errors and typos.
Use quotations. Quoting lines directly from Shakespeare’s play is one of the most important things that you need to do for this essay. Whatever you quote will be used as evidence that supports your argument, so make sure that it is strong.
Keep in mind the points that the lecturer emphasized during his or her discussion of Shakespeare’s play. In order to see if students can figure out what it eventually means or how it fits into the overall narrative, examiners frequently highlight key events in the play and pay particular attention to them during lectures.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, but even tragedies have comedic relief time interspersed throughout to calm down from all of the intensity that happens throughout the storyline. You can incorporate moments like these into your dialogue in order to lighten the mood of your writing piece.
Try to choose a point that you want to make in your essay and then utilize evidence from the play to back up the claim that you are making. This will be easier for you to do if you have several points that you can show within the text. Also, it might be beneficial to go beyond just three or four quotes, but try to use seven or eight lines in order to support your argument so that it is more convincing.
If there are certain moments in the play where Romeo or Juliet are confused about what they are feeling, consider using examples of these moments because confusion over emotions tends to happen during puberty. This may not work out too well if your instructor isn’t a fan of psychoanalyzing the characters, but you could potentially write something about how these moments show that they are still young and kids their age often don’t know what love is yet. This can be used to support your thesis statement in some.
Discuss the part in the play where Romeo’s friends try to convince him not to go see Juliet because it is dangerous for them both. You can incorporate this point into your own work by discussing with your reader all of the ways that Romeo would have been safe if he just stayed behind instead of trying to see Juliet at night when there was danger lurking around every corner.
Throughout Shakespeare’s play, different characters tell each other not to do certain things or else they will experience terrible consequences. Use this advice as your own warning to your reader of how not following some of these rules can lead to danger.
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Gallery tour with the artists, Saturday 21 June 2pm
The SEFT-1 exploration probe will be on display next to the gallery 20–22 June, 11–13 July, 18–20 July and 25–27 July 2014.
SEE IMAGES FROM THE PRIVATE VIEW
Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene (Los Ferronautas) built their striking silver road-rail SEFT-1 vehicle to explore the abandoned passenger railways of Mexico and Ecuador, capturing their journeys in videos, photographs and collected objects. In their first London exhibition, SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe - Modern Ruins 1:220, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and presented in partnership with Furtherfield in their gallery space in the heart of Finsbury Park, the artists explore how the ideology of progress is imprinted onto historic landscapes and reflect on the two poles of the social experience of technology - use and obsolescence.
Between 2010 and 2012, the artists travelled across Mexico and Ecuador in the SEFT-1 (Sonda de Exploración Ferroviaria Tripulada or Manned Railway Exploration Probe). In a transdisciplinary art project, they set out to explore disused railways as a starting point for reflection and research, recording stories and testimonials as well as the landscapes and infrastructure around and between cities. Interviewing people they met, often from communities isolated by Mexico’s passenger railway closures, they shared their findings online, www.seft1.com, where audiences could track the probe’s trajectory, view maps and images and listen to interviews.
The artists’ journeys led them to the notion of modern ruins: places and systems left behind quite recently, not because they weren’t functional, but for a range of political and economical reasons. In the second half of the 19th century, the Mexican government partnered with British companies to built the railway line that would connect Mexico City with the Atlantic Ocean – and beyond to Europe. This iconic railway infrastructure now lies in ruins, much of it abandoned due to the privatisation of the railway system in 1995, when many passenger trains were withdrawn, lines cut off and communities isolated.
For this new exhibition, the artists are inviting British expert model railway constructors to collaborate by creating scale reproductions of specific Mexican railway ruins exactly as they are now. One gallery becomes a space for the process of model ruin construction. The room’s walls will show the pictures, documents, plans and other materials used as reference for the meticulously elaborated ruin construction. With this action a dystopian time tunnel is created.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ivan Puig (born 1977, Guadalajara, MX) has exhibited internationally in Mexico, Germany, Canada, Brazil and the United States. He is the recipient of a number of awards and residencies including the BBVA Bancomer Foundation Grant for the SEFT-1 project (2010-2011) and the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO) Grant in 2010. Puig, a member of the collective TRiodO (with Marcela Armas and Gilberto Esparza), lives and works in Mexico City.
Andrés Padilla Domene (born 1986 in Guadalajara, MX) has exhibited work in various contexts including ISEA 2012 (Albuquerque, New Mexico), The National Museum of Art MUNAL (Mexico City, 2011), 04 Transitio_MX (Mexico, 2011), and EFRC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Qutio, Ecuador, 2012). His video work as director and producer with Camper Media includes documentaries, fiction films and TV shows.
Tuesday 17 June 6.30–9.00pm - artists Ivan Puig & Andrés Padilla Domene will be in conversation with The Arts Catalyst curator Rob La Frenais during London LASER 04 at University of Westminster (book here)
Saturday 21 June 2pm – Gallery tour with the artists, FREE
Saturday 21 June 3–5pm – A de-industrialised estate - Talk with Dr Malcolm Miles and discussion with the artists at Furtherfield Commons - (limited capacity £5, details and online booking here)
Saturday 12 July 11.30am–1.30pm – Drop in to the gallery and meet model railway maker extraordinaire Neville Reid and artist Andrés Padilla Domene, FREE
Saturday 12 July 2–4pm – Death Collapsing Into Life - Guided walk along Parkland abandoned railway with landscape architect, urbanist and writer Tim Waterman (limited capacity £5 and up to two children under 15 free, details and online booking here)
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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
- Ahijah the Shilonite, the Biblical prophet who divided the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
- One of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:7, RV). In AV (KJV) called "Ahiah."
- One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:25).
- Son of Ahitub (1 Sam. 14:3, 18), Ichabod's brother; the same probably as Ahimelech, who was high priest at Nob in the reign of Saul (1 Sam. 22:11). Some, however, suppose that Ahimelech was the brother of Ahijah, and that they both officiated as high priests, Ahijah at Gibeah or Kirjath-jearim, and Ahimelech at Nob.
|High Priest of Israel|| Succeeded by|
- A Pelonite, one of David's heroes (1 Chr. 11:36); called also Eliam (2 Sam. 23:34).
- A Levite having charge of the sacred treasury in the temple (1 Chr. 26:20).
- One of Solomon's secretaries (1 Kings 4:3).
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You can have duplicate images on your computer for three reasons:
- You transferred a set of pictures from the digital camera to your computer but did not erase them from the camera. Thus when you re-connected the camera, they got copied again to your hard drive but in a different location.
- You made some minor edits to a picture – let’s say you cropped it or fixed the rotation – and your image editing program saved the edited image as well as the original picture.
- You may also have images on your computer that are “loose duplicates” of each other. That means the images are mostly identical except for very minor variations – often happens when you capture multiple frames in quick succession.
How to Delete Duplicate Images
If you are only looking to find and remove images that are “exact” duplicates of each other, Google’s Picasa desktop software could be a good solution. Just import all your picture folders into Picasa and then choose Tools –> Experimental –> Show Duplicate Files to see a list of potential duplicates.
While removing duplicate images with Picasa, please remember that the software will list all copies that are found of an image including the original one. You therefore need to keep one of these copies and delete the rest as demonstrated in the above screencast.
Alternatively, create a separate folder that’s not included in Picasa and move all the potential duplicate photographs to that folder instead of deleting them.
Related reading: How to Backup your Photos
Find and Delete Similar Images (not exactly duplicates)
Now Picasa is a good solution for deleting identical duplicates but your disk may also be storing have pictures that look similar visually but may differ as far as pixels or bytes are considered. Such files won’t be recognized by Picasa as duplicates but VisiPic, a tiny utility for Windows, can come really handy here.
To get started, launch the program and click File – > Add Folder to add folder(s) that you want to scan for duplicates. Then slide the Filter to somewhere between “Strict” and “Basic” so that program may group images that are similar or only slightly different. Hit play to begin scanning for duplicates.
To eliminate the duplicates, just move your mouse over the thumbnails and left-click the pictures you want to delete. They’ll be marked with a recycle bin icon and you may then either choose “Delete” or even “Move” to transfer them to a separate folder.
The tool is also smart enough to auto-select images for deletion that either have lower resolution or lower file-size than the original image.
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This pack is filled with engaging math and literacy centers for Pre-K and Kindergarten students with a Valentine theme!
LITERACY CENTERS AND ACTIVITIES:
ABC Clip Cards (2 levels) – Clip the letter that matches the letter shown. (Uppercase to Uppercase matching, and Uppercase to Lowercase matching options).
“Valentine’s Day!” Emergent Reader (2 levels) – print a simple label style version or one with a predictable sentence pattern. Copy two-sided and cut in half for two books!
Alphabet Hearts – Complete the heart alphabet puzzles and record some of your matches! Upper and lowercase options both included (can mix and match also).
Heart Beginning Sounds (2 levels) – Pick a heart card and say the name of the picture. Find and trace the letter of its beginning sound. Upper and lowercase recording sheets included
* One option includes the letter written on the heart cards near each picture for matching.
Colorful Hearts (2 levels) – Match up the heart puzzles to their color words. Then color the hearts to match!
* One option includes matching colors to their like colors as well as color words for support.
Mail the Digraphs (2 levels) – Look at the pictures and mail the Valentines by putting them in the right mailbox! Beginning digraphs sh, ch, th, and wh. * One option includes the digraphs written on the picture cards for matching assistance. Cut and paste recording sheets also included.
Heart CVC Puzzles (2 sets) -Match up the broken hearts by putting the CVC words with their pictures.
* One set includes a picture matching along with words.
Love Letter Sight Words (Editable) – Pick a sight word valentine and read the word. Record some of the words you read!
* Editable version included in the ZIP file.
Valentine’s Write It (Write the Room) – Pick a card (valentine related items). Find and record the word next to its matching picture on the recording sheet.
MATH CENTERS AND ACTIVITIES:
Candy Heart Graphing – Sort your candy hearts on the graph. Color the graph to show how many of each. (To be used with boxed candy hearts – 2 options depending on if your boxes have white or blue hearts).
Candy Heart Roll and Graph – Color the hearts to match the included cut and assemble die. Roll the die. Color a space above the colored candy heart you roll on the graph below. See which one gets to the top first!
* Inserts also included if you use the plastic sleeve dice.
Valen-TEENS (reading teen numbers) – Pick a heart card and read the teen number. Color a 20 frame to match!
Valen-TEENS (adding onto 10 to make a teen) – Pick a heart card and solve the +10 equation to make a teen number. Color a 20 frame to match!
Keys to My Heart (2 levels) – Pick a key card and solve the addition problem. Find and color the heart with the answer.
* 2 options – addition to 5 and addition to 10
Disappearing Valentines – Pick a card and read the subtraction problem. Use a 10 frame to solve it, by filling in squares and crossing them out to show the equation.
A Box of Chocolates (Counting sets to 12) – Pick a card and count the chocolates in the box. Color the heart box that shows the number of chocolates.
A Box of Chocolates (Number Words to 12) – Pick a card and read the number word on the chocolate box. Color the heart box that shows the number.
Candy Heart Pattern Strips – Pattern strips for AB, ABC, AAB, and ABB patterns. Options to copy the patterns and challenges for extending them.
Candy Heart Pattern Activity Sheet – Build your patterns in the rectangle. Record each pattern you build by coloring a row of candy hearts to match. Keep building until you have recorded 4 different patterns!
Candy Heart Counting Cards (10 frames and 20 frames) – You can use these with actual candy hearts or with heart beads, play dough, or any small manipulative!
Candy Heart Addition Cards – Use a dry erase marker and fill in the boxes to create the addition sentence shown by the candy hearts. (laminate the cards or put in a sheet protector).
Candy Heart Make 10 – Use real candy hearts or any small manipulative to add to the hearts already shown on the cards until you reach 10. Fill in the equation to show how many were needed to make 10.
Valentine Spin – Use a paperclip and a pencil to spin each bear spinner. Add the numbers together (use the number line if needed) and color a heart with the sum.
Roll Me a Valentine – Roll 2 dice. Count the dots and find the sum. Color the heart with the total.
Black and White Copies of color items are included at the end of the file.
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New York Genome Center Researchers Create Low-Cost Open Source 3D Printed Device for Single-Cell Analysis
So many of the benefits of 3D printing—and often all of them—allow for innovative strides to be made in a variety of industries today. Some of the most undeniable and significant impacts are being made in the medical field though, as researchers and manufacturers become more interested in manipulating the 3D realm to bioprint, create laboratory and medical devices, and more. As researchers continue to delve deeper on the cellular level, they also continue to become more successful in improving the quality of lives for patients around the world, including work with microfluidic devices.
Now, researchers at both the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and New York University (NYU) have developed a method for more affordable, widespread single-cell analysis, with the creation of a 3D printed microfluidic controller. This portable device, about the size of a tissue box, has already been used to study individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), a leader in RA research and treatment.
“Most commercial microfluidic instruments are very costly; as a result, not every lab has access to exciting technology for single-cell analysis. We designed the instrument to perform droplet microfluidics and in particular Drop-seq, a massively parallel technology for single cell RNA-sequencing,” said William Stephenson PhD, Senior Research Engineer in the NYGC’s Technology Innovation Lab, who led the development of the instrument and is a lead author on the study.
The study, along with an explanation regarding the new device, is outlined fully in a recently published paper, ‘Single-cell RNA-seq of rheumatoid arthritis synovial tissue using low-cost microfluidic instrumentation.’ The researchers were able to sequence a total of 20,387 single cells, resulting in 13 transcriptomically distinct clusters.
“This dataset gave us the opportunity to identify individual subpopulations of cells that could drive the progression of RA, even if they have not been previously characterized,” said Rahul Satija PhD, a Core Faculty Member at NYGC, Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU, and senior author on the study.
The device is not only simple to use but is open source and will work in a range of different experiments using droplet microfluidics.
“The instrument is comprised of electronic and pneumatic components affixed to a 3D printed frame. The entire system is operated through software control using a graphical user interface on a touchscreen. Requiring only a standard wall power outlet, the instrument has an extremely small footprint; small enough to fit on a bench top or in a biocontainment hood,” state the researchers in their paper.
“The total cost of materials to construct an instrument is approximately $575. This represents an approximately 20-fold and 200-fold reduction in cost compared to a research-level, syringe-pump based microfluidic setup, and a commercial microfluidic platform, respectively.”
During the study, the scientists were particularly fascinated by how different the gene expression patterns were displayed in the 13 groups.
“Roughly an hour after surgical excision, individual cells from patient tissues were labeled for single-cell sequencing. From this work, we have classified unrecognized fibroblast subtypes that may prove to be important drug targets for our RA patients,” said Laura Donlin, Co-Director of the HSS Precision Medicine Lab and Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, and a lead author on the study.
With flow cytometry, the team was able to confirm the existence of these new groups, along with realizing that they exhibited ‘distinct localization patterns’ with the joint tissue in RA patients.
As the researchers continue to work on creating a full cell atlas for synovial tissue, they also plan to:
- Collect data from other patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis
- Explore samples displaying conditions like psoriatic arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Use a specialized technique (CITE-seq) to classify cell types by evaluationg surface proteins
- Examine samples such as those indicating infectious disease—taking on research that would be more difficult in a standard lab
“We hope that this instrument lowers the hurdles associated with performing single-cell transcriptome profiling experiments in basic research and clinical settings,” Dr. Stephenson said.
NYGC is a non-profit learning and research institution focused on both biomedical research and clinical care. The goal of the work produced at NYGC is ultimately to use genomic research for creating improved diagnostics, therapeutics, and treatments for diseases found in the human race. Read more about NYGC here.
Further instructions regarding the controller can be found here, along with assembly manuals. Study authors included William Stephenson, Laura T. Donlin, Andrew Butler, Cristina Rozo, Bernadette Bracken, Ali Rashidfarrokhi, Susan M. Goodman, Lionel B. Ivashkiv, Vivian P. Bykerk, Dana E. Orange, Robert B. Darnell, Harold P. Swerdlow and Rahul Satija.
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Claire Voisin, artist of the Abstract
Making algebraic geometry speak “volumes,” Claire Voisin has become a reference for specialists of the Hodge theory. But it is her work on Kodaira's conjecture that won her the Clay Research award in 2008.
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Very quickly, words no longer suffice. Claire Voisin goes to the board, eraser in one hand, chalk in the other, and draws geometrical figures side by side with complicated calculations. Voisin, a senior researcher at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu1
in Paris is a specialist in algebraic geometry. More specifically, she works on the study of the “topology of complex algebraic varieties.”
To introduce her field, she sketches a sphere that she cuts up in three-dimensional triangles with curved edges, as if they had been shaped by the rounded surface. The result is that you can cover a sphere with triangles, which are themselves the “faces” of a pyramid, for example. “Topologically speaking,” Voisin explains, “a sphere and the surface of a pyramid are therefore identical–though saying something like that is an absurdity from the point of view of algebraic geometry,” she immediately points out. According to her, “this is also possible with an inner tube that has one or more holes.” If “triangulated,” the result is a skeleton made up of triangles stuck together along their sides. A metric induced by the ambient space then gives rise to a complex structure, hence to a Riemann surface, which turns out to be a purely algebraic object, a projective curve. And in higher dimensions, the problem becomes even more complex. To get from one figure to the other therefore involves a mathematical trick, the precise details of which are very difficult to grasp for a non-specialist, involving such words as homeomorphism, simplex, Riemann surface, transcendental functions, etc. But the general idea is clear: moving between the “topological,” the “algebraic,” and “complex geometry,” the result is a”multiplicity of perspectives of one and the same object” using different mathematical approaches. “What's exciting about my work is this constant moving back and forth several geometries and several types of tools to prove results in one field or another,” Voisin continues.
She resembles the typical mathematician as we often imagine them, with a particular ability for abstract thinking. In fact, though mathematics came easy to Voisin both at school where she was already boning up on final year courses, then at the École normale supérieure and while doing her PhD, she knows that for all intents and purposes, she speaks a language that is foreign to most ordinary people. It's not easy to follow what she says. That's true even for the students studying for their Masters in mathematics, to whom she teaches a few courses a year, attempting to “explain these superb ideas.” Yet they often drop out, discouraged by the complexity of the field. “It's very frustrating not to be able to get across all the things that mean so much to me in my work and research,” says Voisin regretfully. She remembers the six months during which she was an assistant professor, before she got a CNRS position, as being “hellish.” “Joining CNRS saved my life!” she jokes. Becoming a full time researcher at the age of 24, she could at last devote herself entirely to algebraic geometry, the study of the properties of sets defined by algebraic equation systems, which is at the heart of the most abstract mathematics. “There is creative drive in mathematics, it's all about movement trying to express itself,” Voisin confides. Nothing to do with the “boring, dead, and dry” mathematics taught in secondary school, where the courses go through an endless series of “definitions, properties, and theorems” using a method that is “always under control, as if on tracks,” and which is applied to “simple exercises in logic.”
After her doctoral thesis, she became fascinated by a tool that is well known to topology specialists, Hodge theory, which can also be used to tackle complex algebraic geometry. Published in 2003, her book on the subject has rapidly become a reference. She won a number of prizes and awards, such as the CNRS bronze (1988) and silver (2006) medals, and the Clay Research Award (2008) from the Clay Mathematics Institute,2 for her work on Kodaira's conjecture, another problem in complex algebraic geometry. As an editor of several mathematical journals, she always keeps an eye on the development of her discipline. In her private life, she is also a mother of five, and her eldest daughter started studying mathematics. “But her field is far removed from mine and that of my husband–also a mathematician–so as to avoid any family 'pressure,'” she explains. “In any case,” she adds, “we never talk maths at home!”
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A federal bill mandating proper care and management for concussions suffered by youth athletes took another step forward today as the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the Concussion Treatment and Care Tools (ConTACT) Act.
The legislation will be presented in front of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee next week. If it is approved, it will go to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote.
The ConTACT Act would set federal standards for when an athlete could return to play following a head injury and provide federal grants to middle and high schools to implement neurocognitive baseline testing.
“More and more of my colleagues in Congress are realizing what so many families across the country have realized: A concussion is brain damage, pure and simple, and we need to be prepared with the right protocols and guidelines to help our children when they sustain a concussion as they participate in sports,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.), who sponsored the authored the ConTACT Act, in a press release.
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If you don’t read Japanese, or if you haven’t read Japanese-language histories of manga, then you have only an inkling of just how high a pedestal the first two pages of New Treasure Island (Shin takarajima, 1946-47) have been placed upon. It reaches to the stars.
This is in large part due to good publicity. Tezuka’s acolytes, many of whom themselves are demigods in the manga pantheon, have sung paeans to this spread. Frequently reproduced is the scene in Abiko Motō’s autobiographical Manga Road (Manga michi, 1970-72) showing he and Fujimoto Hiroshi (the other half of the Fujiko Fujio duo) when they first read New Treasure Island in 1947 after swiping it from a local shop (translations rough here and throughout).
New Treasure Island . . . the title’s in English!! Too cool! Tezuka Osamushi . . . Osamushi . . . What a strange name . . . The two boys opened the book that they had taken without asking, and received an awesome shock!!
Stunned, eyes riveted, their faces aglow, and beads of cold sweat trickling down their brows, you would think they had witnessed a nuclear bomb test. Abiko subsequently explains that his and Fujimoto’s first step as cartoonists entailed copying the entire book, all one-hundred-and-ninety pages of it.
In the prose version of Abiko’s autobiography (1975-76), the event was recounted like this.
I will never forget when I first saw the book New Treasure Island when I was a second year middle school student in 1947. . . Looking back at it now, I can see that my destiny was decided by picking up this book.
When I opened to the main text, the shock was so great that I almost blacked out. At the top of the right page of the spread, there was the small title “To the Sea of Adventures,” and beneath it a boy in a cap driving a sports car from right to left. . . . I had never seen such a manga. Two pages with nothing but driving. What was so exciting about it? I felt this biological pleasure as if it was myself in that car speeding toward the wharf. . . . This was of course just cartoons printed and fixed on paper, but still the car was going at such speed. It was like watching a movie!
That’s right, this is a movie. It is a movie drawn on paper. No! Wait a minute. It’s not a movie after all. Then, what is it!?
Abiko was not the first to propound the greatness of New Treasure Island. Ishinomori Shōtarō, his colleague in the legendary Tokiwasō group, also wrote of the manga in his best-selling How to Become a Manga Artist (Shōnen no tame no mangaka nyūmon) of 1965.
Just after the war, to think of it, there was nothing but akahon books with poor quality paper and poor quality printing. Even so my heart would flutter as I read them on my walk home from school and beneath the futon covers at home. . . .
It was just then that Tezuka Osamu published New Treasure Island in Osaka.
It was so fresh it took your breath away. I became a fan at once, and began hunting around for nothing but Tezuka manga.
To think of it, it was my encounter with New Treasure Island that led to me becoming a manga artist.
There are similar anecdotes besides from other famous artists, writers, and critics. Many of them pin the image’s novelty and impact on its opening scene’s “cinematic” qualities. As a result, the one-hundred-and-ninety-one-page manga is basically known as its first two pages.
Other features of Tezuka’s work – characterization, tragedy, science fiction fantasy, narrative scale and complexity, elastic animation of action – had a much greater impact on postwar manga as a whole. Even within Occupation-era akahon, while there are legions of jungle and island adventures made under the influence of New Treasure Island, many of which lift whole scenes from Tezuka and Shichima, Pete’s driving does not seem to have been regarded as singularly captivating. (For one sample, see here.) Though I haven’t done a count, from browsing hundreds of akahon in the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland, the struggle on deck in the storm, the castaway raft sequence, Bowarl’s battle with the shark, and Tarzan’s rescue of Pete and his dog from the waterfall appear to have been copied about as often.
Nonetheless it is these first pages of New Treasure Island that have been ensconced as the most important, the most revolutionary. This has had the unfortunate effect of narrowing analysis of an undoubtedly galvanizing manga almost entirely toward discussion of its “cinematic” effects, a tendency which reflects the rise of gekiga in the 60s as much as the actual shape of Tezuka’s influence. Still, given these pages’ fame, it is worth asking again . . .
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One primary objective of mining the brain is to learn the inner workings of the mind and how external events become internal perceptions. But to mine the brain also means to mine the continuous network of neural signals that transcend across billions of its neurons. Advances in the past several decades in computational neuroscience have provided fundamental clues into understanding brain processes in relation to memory, movement, and sensory perception. We analyze the responses of a population of neurons recorded simultaneously in guinea pig auditory cortex while various sound stimuli are presented in the free field. By mining the responses of auditory neurons in the awake animal to different acoustic stimuli, we hope to address a few key questions. 1) Do the neurons respond in specific ways to particular features of the stimuli? 2) Is there a clear relation between groups of neurons and a specific sound stimulus? 3) How many neurons are needed to decode the stimuli? 4) What are the optimum algorithms to interpret the neural responses? 5) How much pre-processing is necessary to account for missing data, noise, and high levels of variability of neural responses even to similar stimuli? We first introduce techniques that are used to transform the original data set from spike times to identifiable signal waveforms for discrimination analysis. We then demonstrate the level of complexity of the problem by providing results obtained with template matching. Finally, the self-organizing map (SOM) is described as a promising technique that extracts the most relevant information from the complex data set. | <urn:uuid:426c6332-db49-4224-9242-edeb27571b99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.arizona.edu/en/publications/mining-the-neural-code-of-a-guinea-pig-auditory-cortex | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.921121 | 290 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The marine betta is one of those classic marine aquarium fish that was once the bee’s knees, the pride of a fish keeper’s saltwater aquarium. With changing tastes and a whole new zoo of marine fish now available in the average fish store, the marine betta is not as popular as it once but Sustainable Aquatics is about to change all of that.
Thanks to an especially fecund pair of Calloplesiops altivelis, Sustainable Aquatics has succeeded in raising a commercial quantity of captive bred marine bettas which are small, cute, affordable, hardy and surte to reignite the aquarium hobby’s passion for this gorgeous fish. This week SA will begin shipping the baby bettas that they first revealed to the aquarium world about a month ago.
Riding that same wave of reproductive success at SA is the tail-wagging stippled clingfish, Gobiesox punctulatus. The small, greyish stippled clingfish may not be the most eye-catching fish in the menagerie of small aquarium fish but what it lacks in appearance it all but makes up for with really tantalizing behavior.
Falling just short of looking just like the marine equivalent of a bristle nose pleco or an otocinclus, the stippled clingfish’s tadpole shape and suckermouth sets it completely apart from typical aquarium fish fare. Sustainable Aquatics tells us that the stippled clingfish has the peculiar habit of wagging its tail when it is excited. We’re not talking about a casual tail wagging here, but an excited puppy-dog tail wagging that the clingfish exhibits whenever they are fed or interacting with each other – a behavior we can’t wait to see for ourselves.
Sustainable Aquatics is beginning to ship the captive bred marine betta and stippled clingfish this week to their brick n’ mortar customers for very reasonable prices which should allow retailers to price the clingfish for about $20 and the marine bettas for $80. Sustainable Aquatics already makes some very fine looking clownfish species and domestic strains.
When you add the marine betta and clingfish to SA’s availability list of captive bred fish, there is now a very broad catalog of captive bred fish that are available to the aquarium trade, showing the outside world that we really do care about developing a sustainable and balanced marine aquarium trade. | <urn:uuid:7caf971a-1dc5-4f2b-9aaf-2b71752354ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reefbuilders.com/2012/12/18/sustainable-aquatics-captivebred-marine-bettas-stippled-clingfish-trickling-fish-stores/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.926201 | 503 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS SF) – After a rare weekend closure, Yosemite National Park rangers announced Monday that the famed tourist destination will re-open this week, allowing visitors to catch a glimpse of the thunderous display being put on by the park’s famous falls. 472 more words
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (KCBS) – A big storm forecast for this weekend could lead to possible flooding at Yosemite National Park.
Predicted significant rainfall could push the park’s Merced River over its banks. 172 more words
One of Yosemite’s most underrated winter treats is the radiation fog that hugs the valley floor on cold, clear, still mornings. Unlike the advection fog that drapes the San Francisco Bay Area (among other places) when (relatively) warm, saturated air passes over the colder ocean and blows inland, radiation fog forms in place when plummeting overnight temperatures cause airborne water vapor to condense. 634 more words | <urn:uuid:cf16bace-a7e7-4c7a-82a4-4a6b6020ba35> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wordpress.com/tag/merced-river/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862342 | 210 | 1.695313 | 2 |
I get it; Matthew, you’re 16 and, Nina, you’re 14 going on 29, which, by default, means you both already know everything about anything. But as time passes by, you’ll begin to realize that the older you get, the smarter I get.
Funny, yes, but it’s true; I swear.
Keep that in mind because, as a responsible parent, I feel it is my sacred duty to at least try and pass along to you a little fatherly financial foresight.
This time, your dear old Dad is going to share a few pearls of wisdom that will help you save a lot of money when you’re finally ready to start setting out on your own.
Now get your pencils ready, kids, because here we go:
Learn how to cook. Cooking is a basic life skill that everyone should learn. That’s because when you’re just starting out on a tight budget, cooking at home is the perfect recipe for saving money. And, Matthew, keep this in mind: It’s a proven fact that 99.42756% of all females love men who can whip up dinner without the aid of a microwave oven.
Start saving for retirement now. As a teenager, I earned roughly $25,000 working in a grocery store over several years; that’s equivalent to almost $60,000 today. Unfortunately, because I figured old age was an eternity away, I didn’t put a single cent of that money toward my retirement nest egg. If I had invested just $2500 in 1983, that relatively tiny contribution would be worth more than $27,000 today, assuming an annual return of 8%.
Buy a first car that’s dependable, not flashy. When I was 16 your Uncle Kevin was kind enough to give me an old sedan he no longer needed. But even though it was free, it still cost me a bundle in insurance, and operation & maintenance costs. If you truly want to minimize the financial impacts of owning a vehicle, make sure your first car is fuel-efficient, dependable, and at least a few years old. Save the flashy stuff for later.
Learn how to use a spreadsheet. A computer spreadsheet is arguably one of the greatest tools ever invented. Ever since we’ve been married, your mom and I have been using one to efficiently track our spending habits down to the last penny. If you kids intend to keep a budget — and you should — remember this: A spreadsheet will not only help you effectively manage your finances, it will also greatly simplify your life and save you lots of time in the process.
Live at home for as long as possible. I know it’s not good for your social life, but living with Mom and Dad after graduating from high school will save you lots of money in rent, utilities, food and other living expenses that you can use to help cover college, or business start-up expenses — and even give you a head start on your retirement savings. You’re welcome.
Know what you want to do in lifebefore you go to college. College is so much more expensive today than when I went to school. If you expect me to help defray some of your expenses, figure out what you want to do before committing yourself to an expensive university. Otherwise, you risk earning a worthless college degree that’s guaranteed to result in a poor return on your investment. By the way, there’s no need to rush; you can always attend a community college until you get things figured out.
Don’t rush into marriage. Divorce can be an extremely expensive proposition, which is one reason why choosing who to marry is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in life. So take your time; studies show that divorce rates are higher for people who marry at a younger age. And, Nina, don’t fall for the romantic notion that everyone has a one-and-only perfect soul mate; it’s not true. There really are plenty of fish in the sea.
Before you buy a house, rent. Home ownership comes with big risks and responsibilities, which is why it’s not for everyone. There are lots of financial and personal factors involved in choosing whether to ultimately buy or rent. If you aren’t living at home, rent for awhile so you can carefully consider what’s best for you before finally committing.
Hold off awhile before having kids. I’ll keep this short and sweet. Although they’re worth every penny, children are notoriously expensive, so spend a year or two enjoying life with your spouse before you decide to start a family. Besides, kids, I’m really in no hurry to be a grandpa. At least not yet.
Photo Credit: Marcin Wichary
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5 Ways to Stop Perimenopausal Migraines
If you’ve ever felt like the inside of your skull was under attack, with pulsing, throbbing pain, severe nausea, and an intense sensitivity to light that left you crawling to the nearest dark room to curl up in bed- you’ve likely experienced a migraine.
Thanks to fluctuating hormones, women are more likely to experience migraines; 1 in 4 women will suffer through at least one in their lives, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Even worse, most migraines go undiagnosed and untreated with only about 500 certified headache specialists in the U.S.
If you suffer from chronic migraines, know there are preventive treatments available. The key, says Dr. David Lans, D.O., at Integrative Rheumatology of Westchester, New York, is stabilizing hormones.
“For some women, menopause brings relief from migraines as estrogen levels diminish. For others, however, menopause can bring on an increase in migraine frequency,” says Dr. Lans. “Fluctuating levels of hormones, typical in perimenopause and early menopausal states, can actually result in an increase in migraine frequency and intensity.”
Instead of resigning yourself to years of migraine misery in perimenopause, talk to your doctor about these everyday strategies to find relief:
- Consider bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. “One approach is to stabilize hormone levels, since fluctuations in estrogen seem to be responsible for migraines in perimenopausal women,” says Dr. Lans. “This can often be accomplished with bioidentical (natural) hormones, carefully administered, and may be preferable to medications used to treat migraines, which can have side effects.”
- Stay away from oral estrogens. Estrogen replacement can be administered in cream, patch, or pellet form, and Dr. Lans discourages women in his practice from taking oral estrogen: “Oral estrogens can increase blood lipids and clotting factors that impact cardiovascular health, and may also increase migraine frequency.”
- Turn to nutritional supplements. For some women, even bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) can trigger migraine attacks. For these patients, Dr. Lans will make every effort to continue BHRT because of its many benefits, and treat migraines independently. “There are a number of natural strategies we can try before considering pharmaceutical products,” says Dr. Lans. “These include nutritional supplements such as magnesium, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and CoQ10, and botanical remedies feverfew and butterbur.”
- Try acupuncture therapy. Researchers in China found that classical acupuncture may help prevent recurring migraines. This study published in JAMA Internal Medicine reports that properly administered acupuncture reduced the frequency of migraine attacks in participants 18 to 65 years old.
- Consider pharmaceuticals as a last resort. If natural strategies aren’t working, Dr. Lans recommends asking your doctor about beta blockers, antidepressants, calcium channel blockers, and anticonvulsants. Medications used to treat migraines can come with unwanted side effects, but for some women, pharmaceuticals may be necessary to prevent and treat chronic migraines. “Botox injections are often quite effective as well,” he says.
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Epdetect will monitor the movement of the person while the phone is in their pocket or worn on a belt. The software will differentiate the movements associated with epilepsy from normal movement.
When a seizure is detected it will warn the person that it is about to send an SMS message to a carer, in the case of a false alarm the person will be able to cancel the SMS alert. The SMS message contains time, GPS coordinates (if the phone has GPS) and a short message, allowing the carer to raise the alarm and take remedial action or call an ambulance. When the person recovers they press a button to cancel the alarm, which will initiate an end of emergency SMS message.
The Epdetect user interface screens:Detector Active Screen:
- Status Message – A “Seizure Detected – press the clear button for 5 seconds to cancel” message will be displayed.
- Audible Alarm – An audible alarm will sound immediately upon detection of a seizure.
- Count Down Timer – A countdown from 30 seconds will be displayed to enable the user to press the cancel button prior to sending the outgoing SMS alert. The countdown timer is adjustable from 1- 60 seconds.
- Clear Button – A large ‘clear’ button graphic is displayed to allow the user to clear the detector active status, which also cancels any outgoing SMS alert. The ‘clear’ button must be pressed for 5 seconds within 30 seconds to prevent the outgoing SMS message.
- Status Message – A “Seizure In Progress – press the cancel button for 5 seconds to signal the end of a seizure” message is displayed.
- Audible Alarm – A second audible alarm will continue to play until the alarm active status is cleared.
- Cancel Button – A large ‘cancel’ button graphic is displayed to allow the user to clear the alarm status, which also causes an end of seizure SMS message to be sent. The ‘cancel’ button must be pressed for 5 seconds to cancel the alarm active status.
- Additional Message – A message saying “This person may be having an epileptic fit” will be displayed on screen.
- Back-Up Accelerometer Data – Tick box, which if ticked saves the raw accelerometer data that caused the last alarm condition to a file.
- GPS On/Off – Tick box, which if ticked activates the phone’s GPS to generate location information, which is appended to SMS messages.
- Carer No 1 – The mobile phone number of the first carer, this number will receive an SMS message if an alarm condition is active.
- Carer No 2 – Optional, the mobile phone number of the second carer, this number will receive an SMS message if an alarm condition is active.
- Carer No 3 – Optional, the mobile phone number of the third carer, this number will receive an SMS message if an alarm condition is active.
- Alarm Message – The SMS message that will be sent when an alarm is active.
- Cancel Alarm Message – The SMS message that will be sent when an alarm is cleared.
- Detector Active Sound – Selects the warning sound to play when the detector is active.
- Alarm Active Sound – Selects the sound to play when the alarm has not been cancelled (could be an audio file such as; “Help this person is having an epileptic seizure”). | <urn:uuid:308e6543-0e1a-43eb-8b28-10ecc7830e11> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.epdetect.com/epilepsy_mobile_phone_application_features.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00275-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.802704 | 714 | 2.125 | 2 |
- Hong Kong police have seized more than 3,700 mobile phones used by protesters in the last several months of protest, the city’s security chief said during a meeting on Wednesday.
- More than 6,000 people have been arrested since protests against a proposed extradition bill erupted in June.
- Secretary for Security John Lee said during a meeting with lawmakers that a “digital forensic examination” was conducted on the mobile phones only, usually after obtaining a warrant and in accordance with the law.
- But some lawmakers and activists argue that many of these mobile phone examinations are done without public knowledge and have been used by police to install spyware.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
Hong Kong police has seized more than 3,700 mobile phones used by protesters in the last several months of ongoing protests, the city’s security chief said during a meeting.
Secretary for Security John Lee disclosed the information during a Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday. Lawmaker Charles Mok questioned the security chief about possible abuse of power among police and discussed complaints of police inspection of mobile phones without consent.
“Under Hong Kong law, law enforcement agencies have the responsibility to prevent and detect crime to protect citizens’ lives and property. Over the course of carrying out their responsibilities, law enforcement agencies may exercise their search and seizure, confirmed by relevant legislation, and seize and examine various objects of suspected offenders, including mobile phones and other similar devices,” Lee told the council in response to Mok’s questioning.
“From June to November 2019, police processed 1,429 cases that involved mobile phones as evidence,” Lee said. “Among those cases, 3,721 mobile phones belonging to arrested persons or suspects were involved, and the relevant cases were all processed with search warrants issued by the court,” he added.
More than 6,000 people have been arrested since protests against a proposed extradition bill erupted in June.
Lee said that generally, police only conduct "digital forensic examination" on mobile phones only after obtaining a warrant, and added that the information obtained would be used in relevant trials.
He declined to reveal which "critical technologies" are used in these types of examinations, calling them "confidential information."
"Disclosing such information may reveal to criminals details of law enforcement agencies operations, thus allowing criminals to take advantage by undermining law enforcement capabilities."
Lee cited an October 2017 ruling which said that police "may seize mobile phones found on an apprehended person or in and about the place in which they were apprehended, and may examine the content of these mobile phones without obtaining a warrant only in exigent circumstances."
Lee said that all inspections are required to be done lawfully.
But lawmakers and activists have raised concerns about illegal searches and hacking by police
Some lawmakers and activists have argued that many of these mobile phone examinations are carried out without public knowledge.
According to Hong Kong Free Press, legislator Eddie Chu Hoi-dick claimed that many of the digital forensic examinations were conducted without the knowledge of the mobile phone owners.
And Mok, the lawmaker who questioned Hong Kong's security chief in the meeting, called the investigations a violation of privacy, saying it would be difficult to know whether phones were infected with spyware after being searched.
"You break into the phones and read the contents, all contents, whether they are related to the cases being investigated or not," he claimed at the meeting on Wednesday. "And no one will even know if the phones will be installed with spyware after being seized by officers."
Last month, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong said in a Twitter thread that police seized his phone when he was arrested on August 30.
He said that before his trial, he "NEVER provided any passwords to police, nor received any notice nor warrant for a search of my mobile device."
But during his trial, he says police submitted evidence which included four text messages sent from his iPhone, evidence that he said was obtained by "state-sponsored hacking."
"Such warrantless search is also a blunt violation of the freedom & privacy of communication enshrined in Basic Law," he said.
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by Noam Chomsky
June 28, 2010
The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. Congress has just strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding its offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacking the Middle East and Central Asia. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by the Sunday Herald Glasgow, the substantial military equipment Obama has dispatched includes 387 “bunker busters” used for blasting hardened underground structures. Planning for these “massive ordnance penetrators,” the most powerful bombs in the arsenal short of nuclear weapons, was initiated in the Bush administration, but languished. On taking office, Obama immediately accelerated the plans, and they are to be deployed several years ahead of schedule, aiming specifically at Iran.
“They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,” according to Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London. “US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours,” he said. “The firepower of US forces has quadrupled since 2003,” accelerating under Obama.
The Arab press reports that an American fleet (with an Israeli vessel) passed through the Suez Canal on the way to the Persian Gulf, where its task is “to implement the sanctions against Iran and supervise the ships going to and from Iran.” British and Israeli media report that Saudi Arabia is providing a corridor for Israeli bombing of Iran (denied by Saudi Arabia). On his return from Afghanistan to reassure NATO allies that the US will stay the course after the replacement of General McChrystal by his superior, General Petraeus, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen visited Israel to meet Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and senior Israeli military staff along with intelligence and planning units, continuing the annual strategic dialogue between Israel and the U.S. in Tel Aviv. The meeting focused “on the preparation by both Israel and the U.S. for the possibility of a nuclear capable Iran,” according to Haaretz, which reports further that Mullen emphasized that “I always try to see challenges from Israeli perspective.” Mullen and Ashkenazi are in regular contact on a secure line. | <urn:uuid:e25ffc9a-aeb7-4f25-b4d8-01e3529d1291> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-iranian-threat-by-noam-chomsky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949195 | 589 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Is Darwin's Theory Essential to . . . Mathematical Statistics?
My Darwinist interlocutor Orac, the surgical oncologist who blogs anonymously to hide his professional identity, but who takes umbrage at my observation that his posts are sometimes unprofessional, repeated his claim recently that Darwin's theory is essential to medicine. That's an odd assertion, even at first glance, given that Darwin's theory isn't taught in medical school and there are no specific requirements that pre-medical students have any grounding in the theory. There are lots of things that medical school admissions and curriculum committees recognize as indispensable to medical practice and research--calculus, physics, chemistry, organic chemistry, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and pathophysiology, to name a few--but Darwin's fundamental assertion--that all natural functional biological complexity arose by non-teleological variation and natural selection--isn't a part of the required curriculum. How can Darwin's actual theory of the non-purposeful origin of all life be indispensable to medicine, but not taught as a part of medical education, nor even required as a part of pre-medical education?
Yet Darwinists have insisted that Darwin's theory is indispensable to medicine in three ways:
- 1) It is indispensable for our understanding of comparative medicine, which is the study of the similarity between humans and other species.
- 2) It is essential to genetics
- 3) It is indispensable to our understanding of population biology, particularly as regards bacterial resistance to antibiotics and the growth of cancer cells
As I have pointed out in several previous posts, the first two claims are nonsense. Darwin's theory isn't the basis for comparative medicine. Comparative medicine antedates Darwin by several millennia. Aristotle developed a system of comparative biology, and Galen, the father of classical medicine before the Enlightenment, used the principles of comparative biology in his dissection of Barbary apes and other animals as the basis for his system of human anatomy. The pioneers in seventeenth and eighteenth century anatomy and physiology, such as William Harvey and William Hunter, based nearly all of their research on extrapolation from animal to human biology, which of course is comparative biology. The father of modern comparative biology--the modern system of classification of species--was Carol Linnaeus, who worked a century before Darwin was born. Most of biological science before Darwin was comparative biology. Darwin offered one particular explanation for the similarities and differences between species, but the similarities and differences were known centuries before he lived. Darwin's theory depends on our understanding of species similarity (and differences), but the converse is not true. Our knowledge of these similarities and differences doesn't depend on Darwin's theory. Comparative medicine depends on the actual study of human and non-human biology, not theories as to how these similarities came about. Darwin's theory depends on the data, but the data for species similarity and differences is independent of Darwin's theory. And it is the data, not the conjecture, that is essential to modern comparative medicine.
Neither does our knowledge of genetics depend on Darwin's theory of non-teleological variation and natural selection. Our knowledge of genetics depends on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, etc. The proposal that biological complexity is non-teleological, which is the cornerstone of Darwin's theory, contributes nothing to the study of genetics. In fact, by definition, virtually all experimental research in genetics involves genetic engineering (design) and artificial selection in the laboratory, both of which are quite purposeful and thus are examples of breeding, not of Darwinian evolution. Advocates for Darwin's theory of course use modern genetics in their work, but the converse is not true. Molecular geneticists gain little or nothing from the assertion that all biological complexity arose by "chance and necessity." Genetic engineering, which is the real basis for most of our progress in molecular genetics, is, in a very real sense, the antithesis of Darwin's theory.
Orac's assertion that Darwin's theory is essential to the understanding of bacterial antibiotic resistance and cancer growth is a bit more subtle, but is no less nonsense than the first two. Darwin's theory has been applied to bacterial antibiotic resistance and cancer growth in two ways:
- 1) Darwin's theory asserts that in a population of cells the traits of surviving bacteria (or cancer cells) will eventually be more common than the traits of non-surviving cells. Colloquially, "survivors will eventually outnumber non-survivors." This trivial observation is obvious--it's essentially a tautology--and Darwin's exposition of this tautology is of no use to physicians or to medical researchers. It's like claiming that the observation that "heat is hot" is indispensable to physicists studying thermodynamics.
- 2) The growth of bacteria and cancer cells can be modeled with mathematical techniques, most prominently, statistical methods and the application of non-linear dynamics (such as Van der Pol oscillations, which can also be used to explain several important phenomena ranging from insect infestations to irregular heartbeats and activity in neural networks). Indeed, several of the pioneers of the application of mathematical statistics to biology, such as Galton, Pearson, and Fisher, were Darwinists. But, obviously, the application of mathematical techniques to biology doesn't depend on Darwin's theory of the non-purposeful origin of all biological complexity. The techniques of mathematical statistics can be applied to many things--economics, sociology, psychology--that are obviously studies of purposeful variation and have nothing to do with Darwin's theory. Modern iterations of Darwin's theory certainly make use of mathematics. Yet mathematics, applied to biology, doesn't depend at all on Darwin's theory. The mathematical methods applied to biology, and spuriously credited to Darwin's theory, are routinely applied to designed systems and owe nothing to Darwin's actual theory. Darwin himself used no mathematics, and his theory contributes nothing to our mathematical understanding of biological systems. Mathematics is the source of our mathematical understanding of biology.
Orac misunderstands the genuinely inconsequential role of Darwin's theory of chance and necessity in medicine. Mathematical methods are certainly important in medicine, but Darwin's theory that all life arose without design contributes nothing to the mathematical methods actually used in research. And Darwinian tautologies (e.g., "unkilled bacterial eventually outnumber killed bacteria") are of no real value to researchers or to practicing physicians.
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The Leader’s Cheerleaders
- BuyThe Cost of Democracy: Party Funding in Modern British Politics by K.D. Ewing
Hart, 279 pp, £30.00, March 2007, ISBN 978 1 84113 716 2
Men are dying daily to bring Western democracy to supposedly less advanced parts of the world. Its export is the chief cause of conflict between the developed and the developing world, in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But how healthy is that democracy? Most people assume that its requirements are met by a periodic visit to a polling booth, but dictators can arrange that. What if ever fewer people vote? What if prosperous modern citizens take the view that their lives are more or less fine, so why bother? In particular, why worry about other things democracy is supposed to entail, like free speech, executive scrutiny, judicial independence and membership of political associations, all in noticeable decline in modern Britain?
A Norwegian ‘millennium’ study went so far as to wonder whether Norway’s democracy, then a hundred years old, was likely to survive the 21st century in anything like its present shape. The authors pointed out that all systems of government evolve, and 20th-century democracy might well have served its purpose in reacting against 19th-century authoritarianism. It had proved expensive and flatulent, and the rolling coalitions brought about by proportional representation bored the electorate. In a globalised world, democracy might soon yield to something else, meritocratic oligarchy perhaps, or multinational bureaucracy.
At the heart of this debate lies that battered and now much tarnished institution, the political party. The decline of democracy is often expressed in terms of the decline in party membership and a related decline in election turnouts. Britain’s political parties are descendants of the political clubs of the 18th century and of the clash of interests and ideologies that steered the age of reform towards the universal franchise. Commentators from Burke to Tocqueville saw such associations as crucial to the democratic glue. They expressed a point of view and answered to the electorate for that point of view. They were thus more than a participative association; they were a running check on public administration. They were also a bridge between elector and elected across which both might pass back and forth.
Since the 1980s and the growth of a political consensus on taxation and welfare reform, British parties have lost their policy (and class) distinctiveness and become more like the electoral machines of their leaders, as is largely the case in America. Tony Blair’s celebrated ‘project’, guided by Philip Gould, dismantled the rambling institutions that formed the Labour coalition and turned Labour into whatever the leader wanted it to be, even, in Blair’s case, a continuance of Thatcherism. In disempowering county and city government, long the power base of the Tories’ electoral strength, Margaret Thatcher did likewise. She told her own party activists that they were not wanted and knocked from under her the support of local power and patronage that was the essence of a mass party. Thus, under leaders of both parties since 1979, the poor bloody infantry of politics has been left to atrophy.
The unspoken assumption of K.D. Ewing’s study of party funding is that this matters. Parties are essential conduits for accountable and representative democracy. They are crucial institutions through which citizens debate and put themselves forward to serve in government. No democracy does without parties. No leader can be elected or re-elected without their support and trust. The political party is the marketplace of political advancement. Yet who is to pay for it?
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Writing the atomic components
Writing the atomic components.
Given the components identified in the previous lesson, let's create the most atomic ones: The
Badge and the
The Badge component#
The Badge is a pretty straightforward component and doesn't contain any variation.
You will find a base template for the component already done for you under
Now it's time to create a stories file for this component! In a previous lesson, we mentioned that the preferred way of organizing files is via colocation, which is the way we will be organizing our files in this course.
Let's create the file
Badge.stories.tsx in the same folder as the component and add a base template to it as well:
You should be able to see the component in Storybook. If you notice, in the addons panel, the controls addon provides the interface for you to tweak with the component properties (in this case, the text), and you can play with it without having to update your code!
You can also toggle the addons panel by pressing
Ain your keyboard.
Now let's add some styles. let's add styled-components and wrap the text in a colored container:
That's it. We have done our first component, directly on Storybook!
The key here is that we didn't have to run the app, and we focused solely on developing the Badge component in isolation. Now this example might be simple, but imagine that the badge component lives on a page that is difficult to access, for example inside the checkout page, only visible for users with a premium membership. By using Storybook and being able to focus on the component itself, we definitely cut lots of time and hassle. Additionally, we also directly make documentation of the component and others will know that the component is reusable.
Now let's do another one: the Review component.
The Review component#
Just like the Badge component, we start with a base template for the Review component, under
Let's create the
Review.stories.tsx file in the same folder as the component, with some base template:
When checking Storybook, we see the component appear:
Adding the business rules#
A "Hello world" however is not really what we want though! The review component should have a business rule that states that given a score, it should present the following texts:
If it doesn't have a rating: No reviews yet
5: ★ Excellent
Between 4 and 5: ★ Very good
Between 2 and 4: ★ Adequate
Lower than 2: ★ Very poor
Let's add that logic to the component:
If you notice the controls panel, the addon already analyzed the
rating arg and inferred it as a number input so that we can play with it, already seeing our component respond to different ratings:
Working with argTypes#
However, we can improve the control UI by defining custom argTypes. ArgTypes let Storybook know exactly the type you want to be used for your args, which affects addon controls and docs, displaying a different UI based on what we want.
By default, Storybook will try to infer the argTypes automatically based on metadata extracted from the component type passed in
ComponentStory. If that type was not there, Storybook wouldn't be able to figure that out!
However, argTypes can also be manually specified. In our case, it would be great to present a nice slider, with values like minimum of 0, maximum of 5, and a step of 0.1. We can achieve that by defining the argType for the
rating args to be of type range:
Which yields a better experience when using the controls panel:
Now, it's much more interesting to play around with the component's property, given that the values are always related to the use cases. You can find more about argTypes and the available types here.
Controls panel vs defining multiple stories#
You might now be asking: If I can reproduce every use case of this component by using the controls panel, should I even create more stories?
Even though we technically can see every use case by playing with the controls, it's important to document the use cases as stories for our component, so anyone accessing our Storybook can easily identify them without having to figure them out from the controls panel.
Every story should reflect an important use case of a component. The Review component has rules for ratings, so let's add a story for every use case:
Great! Now anyone with access to Storybook will quickly see all the scenarios of the Review component. New colleagues in your team don't necessarily have to jump into the code now to get to know that info anymore. How cool is that?
We have now successfully written stories for the
Review components! However, their styles are not really correct. Normally, apps have global styles to be applied across every component, and MealDrop is no different.
In Storybook, these styles are missing! That's why we see that the fonts in those components is incorrect.
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National Geographic Weather Channel Defiant With Climate Change Web Site Makeovers After Paris
Climate change is projected to alter the physical environment in ways that will affect human health globally, regionally and locally. the choices that society makes to respond to climate change also have health implications. the course will explore the scientific evidence to date of the health impacts associated with a changing climate. Cop26 (31 october 12 november 2021, glasgow, united kingdom). at cop26 in glasgow in november 2021, who contributed to mainstreaming health into the negotiations by organizing the 2021 global conference on health and climate change and the un high level side event, producing a cop26 special report on climate change and health, releasing a joint open letter from the health professionals. Climate change could refer to a particular location or the planet as a whole. climate change may cause weather patterns to be less predictable. these unexpected weather patterns can make it difficult to maintain and grow crops in regions that rely on farming because expected temperature and rainfall levels can no longer be relied on. Climate change affects not only our planet, but also how we can all live and work. the potentially deadly impacts of extreme heat on human health are already being felt in parts of the world. our research explores what climate change means to those working in increasingly hot temperatures. we are developing practical interventions to help. A new paper has found that 58% of infectious diseases that researchers tracked were aggravated in some way by climate change related hazards. illustration: jianan liu huffpost. more than half of all human infectious diseases in recorded history — lyme, west nile, hantavirus, typhoid, hiv and influenza, to name a few — have been exacerbated.
Climate Change Causes Classroom Complete Press
The learning, teaching, and practice of geography is central to the challenges presented by global climate change. however, geographers can do much more than present an analysis of these challenges. they also have a vantage point from which they can point to the kinds of thought and action that can deliver a better tomorrow for every person on. “although climate change is often framed as a global problem for all of humanity, the heterogeneity of its manifestations, impacts, and responses has to be carefully considered” (sultana 2014, p. 373). see the aag resources guide on geography and climate change here. and the intergovernmental plan on climate change here. Southern metros will be hit hardest by climate change in the form of coastal property damage and higher mortality, with florida metros like lakeland, tampa , sarasota, and orlando representing.
Climate Change Is Central To Geography Lessons Letter Science The Guardian
How Climate Affects Community Health Full Video
video discusses ways that climate change can impact community health, and things communities can do to prepare. comments climate change can affect human health in many ways, including impacts from wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat. what causes climate change (also known as global warming)? and what are the effects of climate change? learn the human today we're going to talk about climate change which is when there is a change in the average weather patterns in a region over public health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways from alterations in infectious disease transmission to our health and wellbeing is closely linked to the environment we live in, but our climate is rapidly changing. this has climate change has profound impacts on human health. this video discusses the many ways in which our changing climate climate change can affect human health in many ways, including impacts from wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat. climate change isn't something that will happen in the far off future — it's already harming us now. ultimately, climate change will the 2020 report of the lancet countdown on health and climate change read the full report at | <urn:uuid:b002fffb-fc96-46ef-89e0-561172a0c913> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://levaquin500.tk/health-geography-climate-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952052 | 774 | 3.453125 | 3 |
A Day for Water Workers
At my son's elementary school, there is a day to recognize the work of administrative staff, a day to bring flowers to teachers, and even a day to celebrate parent volunteers.
I don't think there is any recognition program for the people who ensure that our drinking water is drinkable. I'm talking about the operators, shift supervisors, and managers. Sure, I pay my water bill (and in the business we all know it is a bargain) but that really is not sufficient. It's not personal. Or even big enough.
These people are in the trenches, and we expect them to do a good job, and I would say (OUT LOUD) that they do. I know the work is good because I can go to the tap, drink the fluid that comes out, and not feel any ill effects.
So, because no good work should go unrewarded, we should consider creating a day to send e-mail notes, cards, maybe even flowers to those unseen people.
That may be part of the problem. We don't see them, don't know who they are. Maybe, if they wouldn't be too embarrassed by the attention, their mugs should be posted on city or department Web sites, and we could get to know them like we know the postal or newspaper carrier or the coffee vendor at the office.
I feel the urge to contact my water treatment plant and schedule a visit. I've been meaning to go on a tour and get acquainted with the staff. Seems like there's no better time than during Drinking Water Week.
Today [May 15] we celebrated the water and wastewater heroes in Boise, ID. We opened the Boise WaterShed Environmental Education Center - the first of it's kind in Idaho! If we want students and citizens to understand the value of water and the hard work conducted every day to provide clean, plentiful water - we need to showcase the people and efforts that make it all happen. The more than $3 million facility and high-tech interactive exhibits at the Boise WaterShed will provide the showcase and educational opportunity. The facility is a unique partnership with the city and a non-profit fund raising organization - receiving grants and donations from all levels -- citizen, foundations, businesses and governmental agencies.
Catherine Chertudi, Boise Public Works
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After extreme cold weekend in Europe we have brought an article with a big photo gallery from regions with extreme snowfall from Alps (France, Switzerland and Italy) /https://mkweather.com/2020/09/27/alps-with-more-than-1-meter-of-snow-a-big-photogallery//.
In lower parts of Italy (and Adriatic), extreme cold weather has brought a severe storms, winds and tornadoes during last days /https://mkweather.com/2020/09/28/italy-scared-a-giant-tornado-napoli-with-100-km-h-storm/; https://mkweather.com/2020/09/28/italy-and-adriatic-region-hit-expected-floods-city-in-the-corsica-4-days-with-wind-126-155-km-h//.
In Alps, the lowest temperatures since 26. March 2020 has been measured (-15,4°C in Switzerland and -15,2°C in Italy) /https://mkweather.com/2020/09/26/alps-154c-4-3f-the-coldest-since-march-2020-and-heavy-snowfall-europe-under-arctic-attack// and areas in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Austria has covered by more than 1 meter of snow.
At last, a blizzard hit Austria, which is located the most eastward from Alpine region, therefore, we are bringing a fresh photos from the Austrian parts of Alps after coldwave Friday-Monday 25.-28. September 2020.
It appears, that in Austrian Alps has fallen even more of snow as in western parts.
Snow has appeared in mountains near Rome, Italian capital too.
Italian media has reported, that Italy has experienced with the coldest September days in 50 years /https://www.wantedinmilan.com/news/italys-coldest-september-in-50-years.html/. According coolwx.com, in Italy really has been overcame all-time temperature records in some regions during last 7 days. In UK, coldest September temperatures in all-time history (Northern Ireland) or since 1997 (Scotland) was measured. /https://mkweather.com/2020/09/29/gulf-stream-the-weakest-for-1600-years-northern-ireland-with-the-coldest-recorded-september-temperature-in-history// | <urn:uuid:fc052bc9-af6d-4b35-b9ab-4982fe97a0a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mkweather.com/austrian-alps-under-the-snow-italy-with-the-coldest-september-days-for-50-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959587 | 550 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Brain calcinosis syndrome (BCS) usually is defined as bilateral calcium accumulation in the brain parenchyma, primarily in the basal ganglia. More than 50 reported clinical conditions have been associated with BCS. We reviewed clinical, radiological, and genetic features of heredofamilial BCS accompanying all conditions associated with calcium accumulation in the brain reported in English between 1962 and 2003 in MEDLINE. The location, extent, and degree of calcification in the brain show diversity not only among the various disorders but also among patients sharing the same condition. The pathogenesis of BCS is uncertain. More complicated mechanisms may be involved when brain calcinosis is present but calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone metabolism abnormalities are absent. We review conditions associated with heredofamilial BCS in which brain calcinosis is nearly uniformly present because such information may be important to the clinician pursuing an investigative strategy. | <urn:uuid:671b0922-9ce5-4d92-b8c1-6656531fd04c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/276778a95eca8e40104674d0a9271a97 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00376-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939302 | 187 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Picture yourself on the starting line of a race. You’re in the blocks. You pull back to create eccentric motion in the lower leg before firing forward to victory. Now imagine yourself being able to shoot off even further. Want to know how? With plyometric training, which is beneficial for all track & field athletes, regardless of the event.
Those instinctive motions you go through before a race directly reflect plyometric training. Plyometric exercises develop a muscle’s stretch-shortening cycle—when the muscle actively relaxes before a more forceful contraction. During the active relaxation phase, energy is stored and then shot off—like snapping a rubber band—to forcefully contract the muscle and tendon group.
The following workout will improve your overall race times.
Before you begin, review these guidelines:
- Each exercise should be done at full speed.
- Give yourself plenty of rest to recover between reps.
- This workout should take 45 minutes, including the warm-up.
- To effectively train plyometrically, limit the amount of time you are on the ground. Try to land and re-jump as quickly as possible.
- Think explosive. These exercises are high impact, so they should not be done for endurance training.
- Limit your ground strikes to no more than 200 in the beginning. Eventually, you can work your way up to 500 touches in a workout.
- The heavier you are, the harder it will be to recover. If you weigh 200 pounds or more, give yourself at least 3 days to recover before your next plyometric training session.
Runner’s Plyometric Workout
Ankle Hops – 3×10 (cumulative foot touches: 30)
- Jump up and down bending only at the ankles
- Keep your knees and hips in with the rest of your body
Knee Tucks – 2×10 (cumulative foot touches: 50)
- Jump up and down, bringing your knees towards your chest at the top of the jump
Bounding- 2×20 (cumulative foot touches: 90)
- Start running, but leap into the air, extend your knees and reach for as long as your stride allows
Dynamic Lunges – 2×10 (cumulative foot touches: 130)
- Start in a lunge position
- Explode up and switch your legs
- Land in a soft position with your knees flexed and out
Depth Jumps – 2×20 (cumulative foot touches: 150)
- Stand on 12- to 16-inch box
- Step off the box and touch ground with both feet together
- Make sure your knees don’t cave in and that you have proper alignment in your knees and hips
- Jump back up onto another box and land in a flexed knee position or a half squat
Kneeling to Standing Explosive Jump – 3×10 (cumulative foot touches: 180)
- Kneel on a pad or on the floor.
- Drop the hips lower and explode upwards
- Flex the knees and the hips and land on your feet in a half-squat position.
Kneeling to Standing Explosive Jump to Sprint – 2×10 (cumulative foot touches: 200)
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In this arthropod learning exercise, students compare and contrast the different animals found in the Phylum Arthropoda: insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. Students complete 8 fill in the blank statements and color illustrations.
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Arthropods, Insects, Arachnids, and Crustaceans
In this biology worksheet, students read about arthropods and some of the different species that fit into this classification. They then answer 13 questions about what they just learned. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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The Windows Lock Pages in Memory privilege is disabled by default. This privilege must be enabled to configure Address Windowing Extensions (AWE). It determines which accounts can use a process to keep data in physical memory, preventing the system from paging the data to virtual memory on disk. On 32-bit operating systems, enabling this privilege when not using AWE can significantly impair system performance. Locking pages in memory is not required on 64-bit operating systems.
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Species diversity in the project area
Numerous fish, aquatic lifeforms and plants will benefit from the project LIFE Network Danube Plus. This should improve the living conditions for the fish fauna of the Danube.
The common nase (Chondrostoma nasus)
The nase (scientific name "Chondrostoma nasus") is a gregarious fish from the large class of cyprinids. Prominent characteristics are the protruding snout and the downward facing, broad mouth with a horny lower lip and sharp edges. The body exhibits a grey-blue to grey-green colour and a light-coloured belly. The fins are reddish, and during the spawning season nase fish have white spots, the so-called spawning tubercles. These disappear again afterwards.
The nase can grow to more than 50 cm in length and weigh more than 2 kg. Nase fish live in flowing waters which for the most part belong to the barbel region (= epipotamal zone). The diet of these bottom-dwelling shoaling fish consists mainly of algae which they graze from rocks, and of the small organisms that live in this algae growth. In the spring, at spawning time, the nase undertakes extended upstream migration over long distances to reach the spawning grounds. The spawning grounds are gravel banks, on the pebbles of which large amounts of the sticky eggs are laid. During the spawning run, hundreds of nase fish collect in groups, and spawning is an impressive natural spectacle during which the fish often slap their tail fins in the shallow water. After spawning, the nase fish return to their original habitats downstream again.
The nase used to be found in large quantities, but now this fish species is greatly endangered. The regulation of rivers and the concurrent loss of gravel banks and deep pools, as well as the interruption of the migratory paths with transverse structures such as weir systems or ground sills, are the major reasons for the sharp decline over the last decades. Many river-related renaturation projects or measures for fish connectivity have been carried out in sections where the nase is present. By re-establishing connectivity in the rivers and creating suitable habitats, it is hoped that the stocks will recover and spread out in their original habitats again.
The striped ruffe (Gymnocephalus schraetser)
The striped ruffe, also called schraetzer, is a so-called groundfish and therefore mainly to be found at the river bottom. It prefers deeper, sandy-gravelly, slow-flowing parts of the barbel and bream zone. Its diet consists of soil-dwelling organisms, and spawning is from April to May. For this, the spawning individuals migrate upstream to seek out deep, overflowed gravel banks. The sticky eggs adhere to stones and submersed branches in broad jelly-like strings (so-called egg-strings). The striped raffe usually grows to 15-25 cm. It belongs to the Percidae family.
The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)
The sterlet belongs to the class of Danube sturgeons and when fully grown is up to about one metre in length. It is not dependent on migration to the Black Sea and lives entirely in the fresh water of the rivers. It is true that the sterlet is not a dominant Danube fish species in the sense of the Water Framework Directive improvement measures, but it is an FFH species and therefore an object of protection in the framework of the LIFE+ project.
Relatively little is known about the sterlet’s mode of life, particularly in respect to the preferred habitats in the river. Gravel banks and rocky structures as well as deep pools are important for spawning and as a habitat. Sterlets still occur in a small population in the Upper Austrian part of the Danube, while there are larger stocks in Slovakia. Over the last years, various initiatives have been founded for the protection of the Danube sturgeons, such as the "Danube Sturgeon Task Force", and in various international EU-sponsored projects, measures for the protection of sturgeons and therefore also the sterlets are being carried out. | <urn:uuid:5884d23b-2bf7-422e-befb-b839c7763bd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.life-network-danube-plus.at/en-at/species-diversity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.940123 | 869 | 3.4375 | 3 |
"Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.”
Not a day goes by when the Cree Indian Prophesy doesn’t become more credible. Many might have stopped believing in God and trusting the media, but Climate Change? It is the irrefutable truth of our age.
Even Catholicism, the most traditional of religions, is taking responsibility and incorporating environmentalism into its teachings.
At the forefront of its efforts is the forward-thinking Father Robert Culat, the Catholic priest for the city’s French-speaking community. He is the Ecclesiastical Environmentalist, a man on a mission to get his concerns and message across to anyone who is concerned about the future of this planet.
Speak to him about the environment, and it’s like you have activated a volcano that has been dormant for centuries.
He rhythmically punctuates his sentences with hand-claps. He is prone to jumping in his seat when excited. When heated, he raises his voice and shouts, loudly. And when exasperated, he slaps his knees, furiously.
Because he is angry. Angry about our choices. His faith in God is strong, but his faith in mankind is in decline.
How do you include your environmental concerns in your preaching?
The environment is now a part of the social teaching of the church. Jean Paul II has written a lot about this in his teachings and the current pope as well.
And very recently the bishops of France wrote a document specifically about that. So in the official teaching of the church, it is something that is considered important.
While I don’t know about the other Catholic countries, the majority of the French Catholic population unfortunately don’t care about the environment. It might now be part of the official teaching of the church, but they don’t really care. Yes, you have faith, you go to mass, you pray, but are you environmentally concerned – no, it’s optional.
So while I preach about it on Sunday in church, it must be in relationship with the readings. It would be very artificial on my behalf to address it every Sunday.
But if there’s a connection, then I take advantage and remind them of the church’s teaching on the subject.
Still, I don’t think preaching is the most effective way to make a specific point like that. A better way could be to have meetings during the week, or in the afternoon or evening. And from this September, I’m offering the French Catholic community a chance to meet me to talk about it. But my fear is that nobody will come – because the people don’t seem to have a great interest.
Is preaching enough?
I think that obviously if we don’t give examples, our teaching has no value. For example, I have heard that in the Vatican the pope has had solar cells installed on the roof. Ha-ha! It makes me happy because it’s a sign that the hierarchy of the church has understood that in our times teachings are okay, but examples are more important. It’s sending out the message that if the church builds a new house for the parish or a new monastery, we must make it in an environmental way or not at all.
Many believe that the world’s population could be heading to an unsustainable level. Is the church’s teaching on not using contraception in any way to blame for this?
I don’t think the problem is demography itself. The problem is global economics. For example, when one country exports agricultural practices to another, it is very bad for the people living in that country’s countryside. Like India, where American genetically-modified cotton was imposed on the farmers as a miracle solution, but it was just a lie. The cotton wasn’t that good or productive, the farmers ended up in debt paying for the seeds etc, and this led to a lot of suicides.
Or Argentina. Using genetically modified agricultural methods, they are growing soya beans, but what are the consequences of that? Obviously, there is the deforestation required to find the land, and then there are the people living there. They are kicked out, but where do they go? To the great cities, and the demographic problems begin, because if you are killing the countryside with your economics and globalisation, then demography becomes a problem.
We end up with monsters like Mexico City: cities that have 20 million inhabitants, many of whom live in great poverty. That’s the problem. But it’s not demography by itself because these people were previously cultivating their portion of Earth, generation after generation. Yes, they had five or six children, but it was a necessity because they were all working in the fields, normally without machines or pesticides. They were part of a local economy, which was healthy for the earth and for the people. So when we want more and more out of the land, we are effectively digging ourselves into a hole, creating more and more poverty.
Obviously, in Europe and the USA, we have less children and are very rich, have welfare states and so on, but we are not ready, really, to share our wealth with others.
How can we make a difference?
We might have fair trade products in our shops – and part of me is happy to buy these products when I can – but when you go to Irma, what’s the percentage of their fair trade products: two percent! But if you reflect deeper, what this really means is that 98 percent of our goods are unfair trade. It’s terrible. It indicates that most of our commercial exchanges are unfair. As long as we continue to not want to pay the right price, there is no hope there could be proper development in those countries. The question is are we ready to pay more for our food or not? And when I say more it is perhaps just 10 kroner more. But that all adds up and makes a huge difference to those countries. Our choice as consumers can make a huge difference.
Find out next week which consumer choice Father Robert Culat believes is our most important.
Factfile | Father Robert Culat Father Robert Culat was born in Marseille in 1968. He was raised in a “not so Catholic family” and only really discovered the church at the age of 13. It was a rapid conversion and he quickly decided he wanted to become a priest. “It was like in my child’s mind I was saying to God that if I should thank you properly for the gift of the faith, I shall become a priest,” he recalled.
Upon his 18th birthday, he embarked on his mission, studying theology at the University of Avignon for two years, taking a year out to complete his military service, and then studying for a further five years at the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana in Rome. He was ordained as a priest in 1993.
After nearly two decades in his home country, Father Robert felt the need for a change, and when the opportunity of resettling in Copenhagen came up in 2010, he jumped at it. Primarily the priest for the French-speaking Catholic community in the city from his base at Sakramentskirken (Nørrebrogade 27C, Cph N), he also conducts services, teaches and provides spiritual guidance in three other languages – English, Spanish and Italian – and speaks several others.
Moving from a Catholic country to one where the religion is a minority one has challenged Father Robert, but he believes it is actually a godsend as “people tend to be more motivated in their faith and perhaps more engaged or conscious of the importance to go to church”.
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You’ve probably heard the name like a million times — steroids! Without getting all technical with the definition, we all know legal anabolic steroids UK are used to boost performance in activities such as athletics and build up muscle. Steroids can also be used for various medical conditions e.g. inflammatory conditions such as myositis, systemic vasculitis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Anabolic Steroids as Drugs
Doctors can prescribe anabolic steroids in order to; stimulate bone growth, promote appetite, reduce effects of cancer, and in some cases induce male puberty. Anabolic steroids can be taken as skin patches, injectable steroids and oral pills.
How they Work
The human body naturally produces health fitness drug hormone testosterone which is the primary male sex hormone. Hormone testosterone is responsible for the development of prostate and testis which are male reproductive tissues. This leads to the growth of body hair, increased muscles and other secondary sexual characteristics. Anabolic steroids are referred to as the synthetically created hormone testosterone and can be used to produce almost the same effect as the naturally produced ones.
When someone consumes steroids either orally or through an injection, it travels through the body to various cells which host androgen receptors. The connection will then signal the person’s DNA to produce various proteins. This leads to creation of growth/anabolic responses. While anabolism is the primary function of steroids, it’s important to note there maybe other effects – some desirable and others undesirable.
Risks Involved with Anabolic Steroids Consumption
Just like with any other steroids for sale 2020 medication, there are various side effects involved with steroid consumption. These may include oily hair and skin, severe acne, kidney disease, altered mood, liver disease and irritability, suicidal tendencies, and depression. In women, steroids can lead to side effects such as enlarged clitoris, voice changes, increased body hair, breast reduction and roughening of skin. In both the men and women, they can lead to skin infection, high blood pressure, mental disturbances, and increased levels of cholesterols.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Steroids
Do Consult your Doctor — Steroids are referred to by the medical community as medicinal drugs and are used to treat illnesses and maladies and shouldn’t be used as fad of the moment. Improper use of steroids can put your health at jeopardy and you are therefore advised to consult a doctor before you begin consumption.
Do Take the Prescribed Dosage — It is important to stick to the prescription if you are to see desirable results. In some cases, people end up taking more medication, especially when there is no significant improvement to report. It is important to consult your doctor for advice if you notice little improvement or experience problems during use. From this point on, your doctor will either adjust the dosage or recommend a different product.
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Do stick to the Doctors Method of Intake – In an effort to maximize the effects, some people end up switching to different methods of intake. For instance, a person who has been advised to take oral pills may feel the need to switch to injectables in order to hasten the process. This usually leads to complications as these anabolic steroid drugs are meant to be taken as the doctor prescribed.
Don’t Miss Your Medication — Just like it is the case with other kinds of medication, you are supposed to stick to the schedule when taking steroids. This is the only way to ensure you reap maximum results and avoid problems.
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VPN Review – Which VPN is Best?
What are VPNs? How do they work? This article covers the benefits of using a VPN, what types of companies use them, and free versus paid VPNs. There is also information on which VPN is best. This VPN review will cover the best VPNs and the features that you should be looking for. This article should prove to be useful. And don’t forget to share this article with others! Check out our other articles if you’re interested in learning more about VPNs!
What Types of Companies Use VPNs?
There are many types of VPNs, but one of the most common is a site-to-site VPN, which connects multiple offices. A site-to-site VPN allows team members to securely access corporate files from any location. Many companies use this type of VPN to connect multiple locations, such as offices in different countries. This type of VPN requires specialized equipment, which makes it a popular choice for companies with many remote employees. In general, site-to-site VPNs are divided into two types: extranet VPN and intranet VPN.
What are the types of companies that use VPNs? Some companies use a VPN to protect their employees’ data and privacy. Employees’ privacy is a primary concern, and a VPN can ensure that they don’t lose any sensitive information. Some VPN companies argue that a VPN protects sensitive files, which shouldn’t be sent over unsecured systems or outside of a secure network. In any case, there are several reasons why companies would want to use a VPN.
What are the Advantages of Using a VPN?
Although you can still access websites from the country you are in, the cost may be higher than elsewhere. Geo-restrictions are sometimes used by content providers to block access to certain websites based upon your IP address. If you’re located in a region that has been blacklisted by your country’s government, you won’t be able to access certain websites, or even the ones you want to visit. A VPN can help hide your IP address.
VPN protection is the best method to protect yourself against this type of data theft. Many websites can track your IP address and sell your personal information to marketers. But by using a VPN, your IP address is hidden and your data remains secure. It also prevents ISPs selling your personal information. VPN protection can be installed on your router and prevent ISPs from selling your private data. It protects your privacy and personal information.
Free VPN vs Paid VPN
Although a free VPN may look appealing, it lacks security, speed, and features. You will need to pay to enjoy the benefits of a paid VPN. Paid VPNs don’t have annoying pop-ups or ads and require a monthly or annual subscription fee. They are also more likely to keep your data confidential, which is a plus. And, they are more convenient to use than free VPNs.
Privacy and security are two of the most important aspects when choosing a VPN. Although free VPNs can offer some privacy and security, they do not encrypt web traffic. This puts your personal data at risk. Additionally, free VPN services often have hidden costs that can make them a bad option for business users. If security is your top priority, you should consider a paid service. Here are some things you should consider before making a decision.
While free VPN services are great for streaming movies and downloading music, they are often limited in usage. Free VPN services usually only provide access to 500MB per month. Even if you can watch one long video on their website, you’ll likely be unable to download or view anything. Paid VPNs offer unlimited usage. A paid VPN, on the other hand, will allow you to access websites and services in different countries if you are a business owner.
There are many factors to consider when choosing VPN. You should consider the features you need most. You should consider other options if you are concerned about your privacy. PIA VPN has an excellent Windows client and offers advanced features like split-tunnelling. This service can be installed on multiple devices and blocks malicious domains. It is not recommended if you want to access Netflix in the US via a VPN.
ExpressVPN is a great all-round consumer VPN. It is quick and easy to use, hides you IP address, and supports many devices. It also offers features such as a kill switch, which prevents network data from being leaked and split tunnelling, which allows you to access blocked content in the country you’re connected to. It is generally the best VPN for those on a tight budget. There are many options available in the price range.
Atlas VPN offers both free and paid versions of its VPN software, both of which provide better online safety. Users can choose from three locations to access the internet, and each account can be installed on as many devices as they want. Two gigabytes per day for Windows and Mac, and 10 gigabytes each month for Windows are the data limits offered by free versions. Alternatively, paid versions provide more restrictive data caps. You can also try Atlas VPN’s free trial version to see if you like it.
Atlas VPN is a great choice if you are looking for a 30-day money back guarantee. It supports a variety payment options including PayPal, Google Pay and Bitcoin. It does not support cryptocurrency or cash payments. It also offers discount coupons codes that can be used at the point of purchase. After signing up, users will get a confirmation email and a prompt to download the app. Follow the instructions on the screen to install the app once it has been downloaded.
How to Use a VPN Service
You’re not the only one who is curious about how to use a VPN. Many organizations have their own VPN services, which provide secure access to network resources. After downloading the VPN software, the VPN software allows you to access company resources via a virtual desktop or secure URL. You must adhere to the policies of your company before you can use a VPN. For example, your VPN service may limit the amount of data you can download or the amount of time you can use the service.
A VPN service can provide many benefits, including the ability for you to hide your private data. Online hackers often intercept sensitive information on websites and impersonate users to access it. VPNs offer high-level security, with 256-bit encryption that makes online communications look garbled. That means that hackers cannot intercept your personal information or steal your identity. These private networks are expensive to expand because most businesses only use them for business purposes. VPN servers allow multiple employees to connect to the same network at once. Key applications can also be run in the cloud and accessed via a VPN tunnel.
VPN with a Free Trial
A VPN With Free Trial is a good option if you are concerned about your online security. These free trials can be used to test the reliability and effectiveness of a VPN. These periods are a great way for you to access blocked sites and torrent sites. Here are some things to look for when testing out a VPN. You will hopefully find a VPN with a Free Trial that meets your needs. You can still try these VPNs.
There are many VPN services that offer free trials, regardless of whether you need anonymity or encryption. Try CyberGhost for a day before making your final decision. You can then subscribe to their paid plans to enjoy all of their features. If you are not satisfied with their service, you can cancel your free trial at any time. To ensure your privacy online, you can also take advantage of their 30-day money back guarantee.
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VPNs were initially used by companies to secure employees’ access to corporate networks and resources. However, they are now becoming more popular among privacy-conscious internet users. Whether you’re on public Wi-Fi or on your home computer, VPNs can mask your identity and protect your personal information. You can also unblock social media sites or play games that are geo-restricted. Using a VPN is easy and affordable, and it can also protect your privacy if you’re traveling.
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Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like make, without make‘s wrinkles.
Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant’s original author couldn’t live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like tools are inherently shell-based: they evaluate a set of dependencies, then execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that you are working on; however, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type, such as Unix, that you are working on.
Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. “Is my command not executing because I have a space in front of my tab?!!” said the original author of Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but still have yet another format to use and remember.
Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface.
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Let me state right from the start that evolution driven by natural selection makes a lot more sense than some magical spirit guy started it all and created all the animals and plants.
But what's seldom discussed is some of the amazing holes in the evolutionary evidence. We have ample fossils of some species and none of others.
Case in point: We've all seen at least one chart showing the evolution of man, or of the horse.
I dare you to find one showing the evolution of the cow. I've spent hours and hours on google image search and have nothing to show for it.
Another massive hole: the bat, quite possibly the most prolific type of mammal. Bats seem to have popped out of thin air. There is no record of a creature whose fingers gradually get longer and longer until they are long enough to support a wing made out of skin.
But these are far from the only creatures lacking transitional fossils. This critique of the Darwinian position by Dr. Duane Gish, a prominent creationist, raises a lot of very interesting questions. A quote:
The essence of the neo-Darwinian view is the slow gradual evolution of one plant or animal into another by the gradual accumulation of micromutations through natural selection of favored variants.
If this view of evolution is true, the fossil record should produce an enormous number of transitional forms. Natural history museums should be overflowing with undoubted intermediate forms. About 250,000 fossil species have been collected and classified. These fossils have been collected at random from rocks that are supposed to represent all of the geological periods of earth history. Applying evolution theory and the laws of probability, most of these 250,000 species should represent transitional forms. Thus, if evolution theory is true, there should be no doubt, question, or debate as to the fact of evolution.
Such is not the case at all, however. The fossil record was actually an embarrassment to Darwin, and some paleontologists are willing to admit that it looks even worse from an evolutionary point of view today than it did in Darwin's time.1 Some even appear to admit that there is, in fact, little, if any, evidence for transitional forms in the fossil record. Kitts, for example, states, "Despite the bright promise that paleontology provides a means of 'seeing' evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of 'gaps' in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them." More and more paleontologists seem to be coming to the point where they are now willing to admit that this is indeed the case, and are seeking to devise a mechanism for evolution that will tolerate, even predict, systematic gaps in the fossil record.
Other evolutionists remain steadfastly wedded to neo-Darwinism. They argue that there are examples of transitional forms in the fossil record, and that even if examples of gradual change are few, these few examples eliminate the necessity of seeking mechanisms for evolution other than neo-Darwinism. The examples most often cited are the reptile-to-bird transition (Archaeopteryx is the sole suggested intermediate), the so-called horse series, and the reptile-mammal transition.
Of the latter, Olson has said "The reptilian-mammalian transition has by far the finest record of showing the origin of a new class."2 Others claim that there are forms that stand perfectly on the reptilian-mammalian boundary. In an "Impact" article to be published soon, we will examine in some detail the "mammal-like" reptiles that some paleontologists believe represent transitional forms between reptiles and mammals. In the present article we wish to review the general nature of the evidence related to the origin of mammals.
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I have my own theory regarding at least some of the gaps. Take the absolute absence of bat fossils. Perhaps they evolved in isolation, in a valley or, better, on an island, then after they were mostly evolved into modern day bats and flew away, some natural catastrophe obliterated their fossil history. A tsunami or asteroid.
What is accepted science today will probably change at some point, and I think that's the point, is that while I believe evolution is the best theory going, it is still just a theory (not a gospel, hopefully).
This often begs the question 'Do you think that gravity is just a theory?' As a matter of fact, I do. Gravity does not explain everything (weak atomic bonds, et al).
If science already had an answer for everything, there wouldn't be any need for research, right?
"Just a......." has a pejorative or demeaning connotation Andy. Like saying "he's just a boy" or "it was just a shag" or "it was just a joke" or "that's just your period talking". Likewise when people say "evolution is just a theory" the intent isn't to communicate the infallibility of science but to belittle it as less than credible or as credible as any other pseudo-science or myth. It's not "just a theory". It's an outstanding monumental towering theory.
Only grand theories even purport to explain everything. You know, a "theory of everything" as Einstein and Hawking mean/t the term.
Religious people don't seem to understand that words can have different meanings. On the one hand, a theory can be like a conjecture, hunch, guess, or supposition. This isn't the sense the word is used by science. A theory in science is a organizes data and has implications for further study.
That's true. They say creationism is a theory just like evolution is a theory. That's like saying a paper airplane is an airplane just like a B2 stealth bomber is an airplane. One is a complex integration of systems relying on many different technologies and scientific disciplines, designed and refined over decades; the other is creationism.
One is a complex integration of systems relying on many different technologies and scientific disciplines, designed and refined over decades; the other is creationism.
I like that statement.
My tweak at the end may be like "the other is just... creationism".
Gravity does not explain everything (weak atomic bonds, et al).
Unless I misunderstand, isn't that what the so-called "electroweak" force does?
Anyway, while it's easy to dismiss the absence of fossils of bat ancestors (they are small creatures with tiny and fragile bones), the absence of pre-cattle is a far bigger puzzle.
That isn't a fossil cow, it's a skeleton cow. 10,500 years ago in geological terms is contemporary with some of the oldest human civilizations and hardly qualifies as prehistory. It's no more a "fossil" than a skeleton of a passenger pigeon or Tasmanian Tiger. How about some sort of pre-cow from the paleogene or neogene eras (24-1.8 million years ago)?
How about some fossil of almost-cattle?
I don't think I have ever used the word "dogma" in this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not going to count the aurochs as anything other than an actual cattle species that went extinct. It's not different enough from modern cattle to take seriously as a prehistoric progenitor.
I have provided a long list of experts who aren't totally convinced to varying degrees with the current widely-accepted view of the cause of global warming. They are hardly guilty of "unreasoned questioning."
Suppose I were to hypothetically admit the aurochs in a chart of evolutionary progression. It looks enough like a modern cow to function as the modern example. Where is the rest of the progression. What came before the aurochs that looks enough like it bur enough different from it to function as a step before the aurochs.
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When Eliezer says that he will never be able to forget that first night in Auschwitz because it "murdered" his faith in God, I think that Akiba Drumer's predicament speaks loudest to such a condition. When Akiba loses his faith, it is a moment that there is little redemption in the Holocaust. The source of so much in way of spirituality, Akiba continues to encourage those around him that all they endure is simply a test. Akiba's boundless faith is a faint hope that there can be spiritual redemption and that the Nazis have not succeeded in murdering God. Yet, when he loses faith, and ends up wandering in a daze, caused by a lack of direction and an abdication of spiritual self, it is another confirmation that God is absent for those who suffer in the Holocaust. The "murder" of God is something that is seen with the loss of Akiba's faith. It helps to be reinforce the idea that the horror of the Holocaust is something whose true terror resided in the level of psychological or emotional cruelty that the perpetrators were able to inflict on the victims. The physical violations were on the same level as the internal ones, as demonstrated through the character of Akiba Drumer.
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On the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
1. EVERY deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church, but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross; and knowing this, Paul says, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Christ(1). For wondrous indeed it was, that one who was blind from his birth should receive sight in Siloam(2); but what is this compared with the blind of the whole world? A great thing it was, and passing nature, for Lazarus to rise again on the fourth day; but the grace extended to him alone, and what was it compared with the dead in sins throughout the world? marvelous it was, that five loaves should pour forth food for the five thousand; but what is that to those who are famishing in ignorance through all the world? It was marvelous that she should have been loosed who had been bound by Satan eighteen years: yet what is this to all of us, who were fast bound in the chains of our sins? But the glory of the Cross led those who were blind through ignorance into light, loosed all who were held fast by sin, and ransomed the whole world of mankind.
2. And wonder not that the whole world was ransomed; for it was no mere man, but the only-begotten Son of God, who died on its behalf. Moreover one man's sin, even Adam's, had power to bring death to the world; but if by the trespass of the one death reigned over the world, how shall not life much rather reign by the righteousness of the One(3)? And if because of the tree of food they were then east out of paradise, shall not believers now more easily enter into paradise because of the Tree of Jesus? If the first man formed out of the earth brought in universal death, shall not He who formed him out of the earth bring in eternal life, being Himself the Life? If Phinees, when he waxed zealous and slew the evil-doer, staved the wrath of God, shall not Jesus, who slew not another, but gave up Himself for a ransom(4), put away the wrath which is against mankind?
3. Let us then not be ashamed of the Cross of our Saviour, but rather glory in it. For the word of the Cross is unto Jews a stumbling-block, and unto Gentiles foolishness, but to us salvation: and to them that are perishing it is foolishness, but unto us which are being saved it is the power of God(5). For it was not a mere man who died for us, as I said before, but the Son of God, God made man. Further; if the lamb under Moses drove the destroyer(6) far away, did not much rather the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world(7), deliver us from our sins? The blood of a silly sheep gave salvation; and shall not the Blood of the Only-begotten much rather save? If any disbelieve the power of the Crucified, let him ask the devils; if any believe not words, let him believe what he sees. Many have been crucified throughout the world, but by none of these are the devils scared; but when they see even the Sign of the Cross of Christ, who was crucified for us, they shudder(8). For those men died for their own sins, but Christ for the sins of others; for He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth(9). It is not Peter who says this, for then we might suspect that he was partial to his Teacher; but it is Esaias who says it, who was not indeed present with Him in the flesh, but in the Spirit foresaw His coming in the flesh. Yet why now bring the Prophet only as a witness? take for a witness Pilate himself, who gave sentence upon Him, saying, I find no fault in this Man(1): and when he gave Him up, and had washed his hands, he said, I am innocent of the blood of this just person(2). There is yet another witness of the sinlessness of Jesus,--the robber, the first man admitted into Paradise; who rebuked his fellow, and said, "We receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss(3); for we were present, both thou and I, at His judgment."
4. Jesus then really suffered for all men; for the Cross was no illusion(4), otherwise our redemption is an illusion also. His death was not a mere show(5), for then is our salvation also fabulous. If His death was but a show, they were true who said, We remember that that deceiver said, while He was yet alive, After three days I rise again(6). His Passion then was real: for He was really crucified, and we are not ashamed thereat; He was crucified, and we deny it not, nay, I rather glory to speak of it. For though I should now deny it, here is Golgotha to confute me, near which we are now assembled; the wood of the Cross confutes me, which was afterwards distributed piecemeal from hence to all the world(7). I confess the Cross, because I know of the Resurrection; for if, after being crucified, He had remained as He was, I had not perchance confessed it, for I might have concealed both it and my Master; but now that the Resurrection has followed the Cross, I am not ashamed to declare it.
5. Being then in the flesh like others, He was crucified, but not for the like sins. For He was not led to death for covetousness, since He was a Teacher of poverty; nor was He condemned for concupiscence, for He Himself says plainly, Whosoever shall look upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already(8); not for smiting or striking hastily, for He turned the other cheek also to the stutter: not for despising the Law, for He was the fulfiller of the Law; not for reviling a prophet, for it was Himself who was proclaimed by the Prophets; not for defrauding any of their hire, for He ministered without reward and freely; not for sinning in words, or deeds, or thoughts, He who did no sins, neither was ,guile found in His mouth; who when He was reviled, reviled not again; when Re suffered, threatened not(9); who came to His passion, not unwillingly, but willing; yea, if any dissuading Him say even now, Be it far from Thee, Lord, He will say again, Get thee behind Me, Satan(1).
6. And wouldest thou be persuaded that He came to His passion willingly? others, who foreknow it not, die unwillingly; but He spoke before of His passion: Behold, the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified(2). But knowest thou wherefore this Friend of man shunned not death? It was lest the whole world should perish in its sins. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed, and shall be crucified(3); and again, He steadfastly set His face to Jerusalem(4). And wouldest thou know certainly, that the Cross is a glory to Jesus? Hear His own words, not mine. Judas had become ungrateful to the Master of the house, and was about to betray Him. Having but just now gone forth from the table, and drunk His cup of blessing, in return for that drought of salvation he sought to shed righteous blood. He who did eat of His bread, was lifting up his heel against Him(5); his hands were but lately receiving the blessed gifts(6), and presently for the wages of betrayal he was plotting His death. And being reproved, and having heard that word, Thou hast said(7), he again went out: then said Jesus, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified(8). Seest thou how He knew the Cross to be His proper glory? What then, is Esaias not ashamed of being sawn asunder(9), and shall Christ be ashamed of dying for the world? Now is the Son of man glorified(1). Not that He was without glory before: for He was glorified with the glory which was before the foundation of the world(2). He was ever glorified as God; but now He was to be glorified in wearing the Crown of His patience. He gave not up His life by compulsion, nor was He put to death by murderous violence, but of His own accord. Hear what He says: I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again(3): I yield it of My own choice to My enemies; for unless I chose, this could not be. He came therefore of His own set purpose to His passion, rejoicing in His noble deed, smiling at the crown, cheered by the salvation of mankind; not ashamed of the Cross, for it was to save the world. For it was no common man who suffered, but God in man's nature, striving for the prize of His patience.
36. Let us not then be ashamed to confess the Crucified. Be the Cross our seal made with boldness by our fingers on our brow, and on everything; over the bread we eat, and the cups we drink; in our comings in, and goings out; before our sleep, when we lie down and when we rise up; when we are in the way, and when we are still(6). Great is that preservative; it is without price, for the sake of the poor; without toil, for the sick; since also its grace is from God. It is the Sign of the faithful, and the dread of devils: for He triumphed over them in it, having made a shew of them openly(7); for when they see the Cross they are reminded of the Crucified; they are afraid of Him, who bruised the heads of the dragon(8). Despise not the Seal, because of the freeness of the gift; out for this the rather honour thy Benefactor.
37. And if thou ever fall into disputation and hast not the grounds of proof, yet let Faith remain firm in thee; or rather, become thou well learned, and then silence the Jews out of the prophets, and the Greeks out of their own fables. They themselves worship men who have been thunderstricken(9) but the thunder when it comes from heaven, comes not at random. If they are not ashamed to worship men thunderstricken and abhorred of God, art thou ashamed to worship the beloved Son of God, who was crucified for thee? I am ashamed to tell the tales about their so-called Gods, and I leave them because of time; let those who know, speak. And let all heretics also be silenced. If any say that the Cross is an illusion, turn away from him. Abhor those who say that Christ was crucified to our fancy(1) only; for if so, and if salvation is from the Cross, then is salvation a fancy also. If the Cross is fancy, the Resurrection is fancy also; but if Christ be not risen, we are yet in our sins(2). If the Cross is fancy, the Ascension also is fancy; and if the Ascension is fancy, then is the second coming also fancy, and everything is henceforth unsubstantial.
38. Take therefore first, as an indestructible foundation, the Cross, and build upon it the other articles of the faith. Deny not the Crucified; for, if thou deny Him, thou hast many to arraign thee. Judas the traitor will arraign thee first; for he who betrayed Him knows that He was condemned to death by the chief-priests and elders. The thirty pieces of silver bear witness; Gethsemane bears witness, where the betrayal occurred; I speak not yet of the Mount of Olives, on which they were with Him at night, praying. The moon in the night bears witness; the day bears witness, and the sun which was darkened; for it endured not to look on the crime of the conspirators. The fire will arraign thee, by which Peter stood and warmed himself; if thou deny the Cross, the eternal fire awaits thee. I speak hard words, that thou may not experience hard pains. Remember the swords that came against Him in Gethsemane, that thou feel not the eternal sword. The house of Caiaphas(3) will arraign thee, shewing by its present desolation the power of Him who was erewhile judged there. Yea, Caiaphas himself will rise up against thee in the day of judgment, the very servant will rise up against thee, who smote Jesus with the palm of his hand; they also who bound Him, and they who led Him away. Even Herod shall rise up against thee; and Pilate; as if saying, Why deniest thou Him who was slandered before us by the Jews, and whom we knew to have done no wrong? For I Pilate then washed my hands. The false witnesses shall rise up against thee, and the soldiers who arrayed Him in the purple robe, and set on Him the crown of thorns, and crucified Him in Golgotha, and cast lots for His coat. Simon the Cyrenian will cry out upon thee, who bore the Cross after Jesus.
39. From among the stars there will cry out upon thee, the darkened Sun; among the things upon earth, the Wine mingled with myrrh; among reeds, the Reed; among herbs, the Hyssop; among the things of the sea, the Sponge; among trees, the Wood of the Cross;--the soldiers, too, as I have said, who nailed Him, and cast lots for His vesture; the soldier who pierced His side with the spear; the women who then were present; the veil of the temple then rent asunder; the hall of Pilate, now laid waste by the power of Him who was then crucified; this holy Golgotha, which stands high above us, and shews itself to this day, and displays even yet how because of Christ the rocks were then riven(4); the sepulchre nigh at hand where He was laid; and the stone which was laid on the door, which lies to this day by the tomb; the Angels who were then present; the women who worshipped Him after His resurrection; Peter and John, who ran to the sepulchre; and Thomas, who thrust his hand into His side, and his fingers into the prints of the nails. For it was for our sakes that he so carefully handled Him; and what thou, who wert not there present, wouldest have sought, he being present, by God's Providence, did seek.
40. Thou hast Twelve Apostles, witnesses of the Cross; and the whole earth, and the world of men who believe on Him who hung thereon. Let thy very presence here now persuade thee of the power of the Crucified. For who now brought thee to this assembly? what soldiers? With what bonds wast thou constrained? What sentence held thee fast here now? Nay, it was the Trophy of salvation, the Cross of Jesus that brought you all together. It was this that enslaved the Persians, and tamed the Scythians; this that gave to the Egyptians, for cats and dogs and their manifold errors, the knowledge of God; this, that to this day heals diseases; that to this day drives away devils, and overthrows the juggleries of drugs and charms.
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Book stores halt child porn laws
At least one criminal case has collapsed this year after the Appeal Court ruled that nothing could be done if retailers stocked images
Waterstone’s and Amazon sell books that some argue are child pornography (Jack Hill)
Some of Britain’s biggest book retailers are undermining criminal cases
against alleged paedophiles by selling photographic volumes which are
officially classed as child pornography.
Waterstone’s and Amazon both advertise books containing images labelled as
child porn by police, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and juries.
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Reviews of nonlinear dynamics and complexity
- edited by Heinz Georg Schuster.
- Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2008-
- Physical description
- v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Schuster, Heinz Georg, 1943-
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface. List of Contributors. 1. Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanomechanical and Micromechanical Resonators (Ron Lifshitz and M.C. Cross). 1.1. Nonlinearities in NEMS and MEMS Resonators. 1.2. the Directly-driven Damped Duffing Resonator. 1.3. Parametric Excitation of a Damped Duffing Resonator. 1.4 Parametric Excitation of Arrays of Coupled Duffing Resonators. 1.5. Amplitude Equation Description for Large Arrays. 2. Delay Stabilization of Rotating Waves Without Odd Number Limitation (Bernold Fiedler, Valentin Flunkert, Marc Georgi, Philipp Hovel, and Eckehard Scholl). 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Mechanism of Stabilization. 2.3. S1-Symmetry and Stability of Rotating Waves. 2.4. Conditions on the Feedback Gain. 2.5. Tori. 2.6. Conclusion. 3. Random Boolean Networks (Barbara Drossel). 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Model. 3.3. Annealed Approximation and Phase Diagrams. 3.4 Networks with K=1. 3.5. Critical Networks with K=2. 3.6. Networks with Larger K. 3.7.Outlook. 4. Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Persistent Time Series with Applications to Climate and Seismic Records (Armin Bunde, Jan F. Eichner, Shlomo Havlin, Jan W. Kantelhardt, and Sabine Lennartz). 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Statistics of Return Intervals. 4.3. Statistics of Maxima. 4.4. Long-Term Memory in Earthquakes. 4.5. Conclusions. 5. Factorizable Language: From Dynamics to Biology (Bailin Hao and Huimin Xie). 5.1. Coarse-Graining and Symbolic Description. 5.2. A Brief Introduction to Language Theory. 5.3. Symbolic Dynamics. 5.4. Sequences Generated from Cellular Automata. 5.5. Avoidance Signature of Bacterial Complete Genomes. 5.6. Decomposition and Reconstruction of Protein Sequences. 6. Controlling Collective Synchrony by Feedback (Michael Rosenblum and Arkady Pikovsky). 6.1. What is Collective Synchrony? 6.2. Why to Control? 6.3. Controlling Neural Synchrony. 6.4. Delayed Feedback Control. 6.5. Suppression with a Non-delayed Feedback Loop. 6.6. Determination of Stimulation Parameters by a Test Stimulation. 6.7. Discussion and Outlook. Index.
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- Preface. List of Contributors. 1 Human Mobility and Spatial Disease Dynamics (Dirk Brockmann). 1.1 Introduction and Motivation. 1.2 Quantitative Assessments of Human Mobility. 1.3 Statistical Properties and Scaling Laws in Multi-ScaleMobility Networks. 1.4 Spatially Extended Epidemic Models. 1.5 Spatial Models. 2 Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics (Arne Traulsen and Christoph Hauert). 2.1 Game Theory and Evolution. 2.2 The Replicator Dynamics. 2.3 Evolutionary Games in Finite Populations. 2.4 From Finite to Infinite Populations (and Back Again). 2.5 Applications. 2.5.1 The Prisoner's Dilemma. 2.6 Concluding Remarks. References. 3 Dynamic and Topological Interplay in Adaptive Networks (Bernd Blasius and Thilo Gross). 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Adaptive Networks: A Definition. 3.3 Ubiquity of Adaptive Networks Across Disciplines. 3.4 Robust Self-Organization Toward Criticality in Boolean Networks. 3.5 Adaptive Connection Weights in Coupled Oscillator Networks. 3.6 Cooperation in Games on Adaptive Networks. 3.7 Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Opinion Formation and Epidemics. 3.8 Summary, Synthesis and Outlook. References. 4 Fractal Models of Earthquake Dynamics (Pathikrit Bhattacharya, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Kamal, and Debashis Samanta). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Two-Fractal Overlap Model. 4.3 Comparison with Observations. 4.4 Fiber Bundle Model of Earthquakes. 4.5 Summary and Discussion. C.1 Random Cantor Sets. C.2 Regular Sierpinski Gaskets. C.3 Random Sierpinski Gaskets. C.4 Percolating Clusters in a Square Lattice. References. 5 Epilepsy (Klaus Lehnertz, Stephan Bialonski, Marie-Therese Horstmann, Dieter Krug, Alexander Rothkegel, Matthaus Staniek, and Tobias Wagner). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Computational Models in Epilepsy Research. 5.3 Measuring Interactions in Epileptic Networks. 5.4 Conclusion. References. 6 Structure in Networks (Jorg Reichardt and Stefan Bornholdt). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Multivariate Data Versus Relational Data. 6.3 A New Quality Function for Structure Recognition in Networks. 6.4 Clusters, Modularity and Graph Partitioning. 6.5 Modularity of Random Networks: Replica Method. 6.6 Modularity of Random Networks: Cavity Method. 6.7 Conclusion. References. Index.
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- 1 The Chaos Computing Paradigm (W.L. Ditto, A. Miliotis, K. Murali, and S. Sinha) 2 How Does God Play Dice? (J. Nagler and P.H. Richter) 3 Phase Reduction of Stochastic Limit-Cycle Oscillators (K. Yoshimura) 4 Complex Systems, numbers and Number Theory (L. Lacasa, B. Luque, and O. Miramontes) 5 Wave Localization Transitions in Complex Systems (J.W. Kantelhardt, L. Jahnke, and R. Berkovits) 6 From Deterministic Chaos to Anomalous Diffusion (R. Klages).
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- Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, the review character of this monograph sets it apart from specialized journals. The editor is advised by a first-class board of international scientists, such that the carefully selected and invited contributions represent the latest and most relevant findings. The resulting review enables both researchers and newcomers in life science, physics, and chemistry to access the most important results in this field, using a common language. Volume I covers the following topics: Nonlinear Dynamics Nanomechanical and Micromechanical Resonators; Delay Stabilization of Rotating Waves Without Odd Number Limitation; Random Boolean Networks; Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Persistent Time Series with Applications to Climate and Seismic Records; Factorizable Language: From Dynamics to Biology; and, Controlling Collective Synchrony by Feedback.
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Earlier this year, I started my first container vegetable garden. I have peppers and spinach coming along and some bright red grape tomatoes that I think are ready to pick – or are they? Even though they are red, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time to pick them and add them to a salad just yet. Since I’m a novice gardener, I need to learn (and want to share) tricks for harvesting your vegetable garden at the perfect time. Gardening can be easy, we promise.
Cucumber: If you’re growing fresh slicing cucumbers, wait until they reach about seven to nine inches long and are a bright dark green color. They should be firm and smooth. When you harvest, be sure to leave a short stem on each one. You’ll need to check and pick cucumbers daily when they’re ready.
Leaf Lettuce: Once your plant has grown to about 4 inches in height, harvest the outer leaves, while allowing the inner leaves to grow. You can keep reaping the benefits of your lettuce plants all summer long.
Spinach: When leaves are four to six inches long, cut them off at the base. You want to do this before you see a flower stalk start to shoot up amongst your leaves. After you harvest, new leaves will grow in their place so you’ll have more spinach later.
Eggplant: Eggplant is one fruit that should be harvested when it’s slightly immature – experts say this leads to better flavor. Look for firm, shiny eggplants that are bright purple to black in color. Don’t pull your eggplants off the plant — cut them instead.
Summer Squash: This is one veggie that you want to pick young. Keep a close eye on summer squash, checking it daily even. Test the skin to see if it’s tender enough to poke your fingernail through – that’s a good indication that it’s time to pick. If you’re growing zucchini, ripe ones are typically between four and eight inches long and about 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
Beets: Once you see beet shoulders popping out of the soil line, you can harvest them whenever they look like the size you like to eat.
Tomatoes: Should you pick them when red? Yes, but make sure they’re fully colored and slightly soft. Some green thumbs suggest waiting five to eight days after the tomatoes turn red. If you’re new to gardening, be sure to check their firmness daily. They can become soft quickly if overripe. The best way to pick? Twist and pull from the vine.
Onions: You might think onions are a bigger challenge because they’re hiding beneath the soil. However, they’re relatively easy to harvest. Watch for the top to ripen and fall over. Then, dig them out and allow them to dry in the sun. Be sure to harvest before the frost.
Carrots: These veggies can be tricky since it’s hard to know how long they are when they’re in the ground. Watch for orange tops of the carrots to appear at the soil line. When the diameter looks appropriate for the variety you’re growing, don’t stress about how long it might be, just pull one out of the ground to see if the length is good. If so, go ahead and harvest. But there’s no harm in pulling your carrots out later in the season long after they’re ripe – some experts swear a light frost gives the veggies a sweeter flavor.
Sweet Peppers: Pick your green peppers when they reach full size and feel firm. Red, orange or yellow peppers take an extra two or three weeks. They should remain on the plant until they turn the appropriate color.
Radishes: You don’t want radishes to get over ripe because they’ll get tough and woody – and they mature quickly so watch out! Once you see the tops of the bulbs showing at the soil line, pull them.
Peas: Don’t wait for your peas to develop seeds fully. Pick them when the pods look and feel full? They’ll be sweeter if you harvest them before they plump all the way. Too hard to tell? The best way to determine if you should pick your peas is by tasting one for sweetness.
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Whether you’re a history-buff, culture enthusiast, or a foodie, you’ll never run short of things to do in Hyderabad. A melting pot of Hindu and Muslim cultures, the city is home to multiple heritage structures that take us back in time. Rapidly transforming to a bustling metropolitan, the city is known for its biryanis and kebabs. From the captivating landmarks such as Charminar and Chowmahalla Palace to the impressive hilltop fort, Golconda, Hyderabad is peppered with multiple attractions. We tell you where to go, and what to see when you are in the capital city of Andhra Pradesh.
THINGS TO DO IN HYDERABAD
As the capital of one of the richest princely states in pre-independence India, there are many historical places to visit in Hyderabad. So a heritage trail is must thing to do in Hyderabad. Hyderabad is graced with several palaces, mosques, markets and other royal structures. Visit these six places to discover how the city's past merges with its present in more ways than one. An imposing structure in the heart of Hyderabad’s Old City, Charminar is almost synonymous to Hyderabad. Chowmahalla Palace is an 18th century palace and is an architectural marvel. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is spread across 12 acres of courtyards, gardens, palaces and fountains. Offer prayer at the Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad’s largest and oldest mosque, located next to the Charminar. Another important piece of history is the Purani Haveli, an 18th century mansion located close to the Salar Jung Museum which now houses an educational institution and the Nizam’s Museum.
Thanks to its association with the Nizams who are known for leading lavish lives and a penchant for food, a food trail is a must in Hyderabad. The city is famed for its omnipresent food carts known as bandis, which serve delicious butter dosas, tawa idlis and vadas, with chutney. Each of these has a substantial fan following, with the most popular being Govinds Bandi, Ram Ki Bandi and Lakshman Ki Bandi. For a slice of history, head to Cafe Niloufer for a cup of Irani chai and Osmania biscuits, and to Munshi Naan for freshly baked breads.
Travelling for kids might be tad tiring and boring but if you are having your kids in tow, there are several things to do in Hyderabad to keep them busy. Get in a good mix of adventure, culture, history and entertainment—the city of pearls is a veritable treasure trove waiting to be discovered. Take your kids on a visit to Sudha Car Museum, a quirky museum displaying fully functional cars in unimaginable shapes and forms. Cars in the shape of a burger, a stiletto, a bag, a camera and a computer to name a few! Snow World is another place that your child would love to be. This immense amusement park has plenty of activity for kids. There's a snow play area, merry-go-round, sculptures and a snow fall each session. Take your kids there and they will have a grand time while you will relish your tryst with Hyderabad. | <urn:uuid:5fa755d7-df09-4dbe-9efa-12679c4ba858> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/hyderabad/travel-guide/things-to-do-in-hyderabad/ts25217228.cms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.944021 | 690 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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We started our morning off with our usual free play while friends got dropped off.
AM SNACK: Yogurt with blueberries + strawberries
After each kid finished snack they grabbed a book and sat quietly waiting for their friends to finish up. Morning circle consisted of our song “Who’s here today” and read “It’s Winter” and “A Silly Snowy Day”. After circle we got ready to go outside and play in the snow. The kids ended up staying out alot longer than we thought.
LUNCH: Tuna wrap, peppers, pears, and milk
Nap/Quiet time ended at 3 but many kids got up before then to play with homemade snow and to color quietly.
PM SNACK: Cheese & fruit
End the day with the more freeplay and possibly heading back outside depending on how cold it is
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The Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the Wood Grouse or more specifically Western Capercaillie is the largest member of the grouse family, reaching over 100 cm in length and 4 kg in weight. Found across northern Europe and Asia, it is renowned for its mating display.The Capercaillie is adapted to its original habitats - old coniferous forests with a rich interior structure and dense ground vegetation of Vaccinium species under a light canopy.
The courting season of the Capercaillie starts according to spring weather progress, vegetation development and altitude between March and April and lasts until May or June. Three-quarters of this long courting season is mere territorial competition between neighbouring cocks or cocks on the same courting ground.
At the very beginning of dawn, the tree courting begins on a thick branch of a lookout tree. The cock postures himself with raised and fanned tail feathers, erect neck, beak pointed skywards, wings held out and drooped and starts his typical aria.
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punishments from causing them to fall into having prevailed with any of thoir nation, who apostacy.
had embraced Christianity to return to Judaism, This design is apparent, from the illustrious were not satisfied with their abusing it; they character he gives of the Lord Christ, to whom required them to utter blasphemies against the they had devoted themselves by embracing the person of Jesus, and against his mysteries, as Christian religion. He is not a mere man, not appears from the ancient forms of abjuration an ordinary prophet, not an angel; but the Lord which the learned have preserved. of men, and of angels. “For God,” says the All these considerations, and many more, of apostle at the commencement of this epistle, which the subject is susceptible, demonstrate, “who spake in time past unto the fathers by that the grand design of St. Paul, in his Epistle the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to the Hebrews, was to prevent apostacy, and unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed to prompt them to confess the truth amidst the heir of all things, by whom also he made the most cruel torments to which they might be worlds. Who being the brightness of his glory, exposed by the profession. This is the design and the express image of his person, and up- of my text. “Let us run with patience the race holding all things by the word of his power, that is set before us; that is, let neither persewhen he had by himself purged our sins, sat cutions the most severe, nor promises the most down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; specious, be able to induce you to deny Chris being made so much better than the angels, as tianity, nor any consideration deter you from he hath by inheritance obtained a more excel professing it. lent name than they. For unto which of the On this first design of the apostle, we shall angels, said he, at any time, Thou art my Son, merely conjure those, with whom there may this day have I begotten thee?" Heb. i. 1-5. remain some doubt as to the horrors of apos
This design is farther apparent, as the apos- tacy, and the necessity imposed on all Chris tle apprizes the Hebrews concerning the diffi- tians either to leave the places which prohibit culty, and even the impossibility of obtaining the profession of the truth, or endure the semercy after an abjuration accompanied with verest tortures for religion; we shall conjure certain aggravating circumstances, which time them seriously to reflect on what we advance; does not permit me here to enumerate. The not to content themselves with general notions; sense is asserted in these words: “It is impos- to compare the situation of those Hebrews with sible for those, who were once enlightened, and that in which some of the reformed Christians have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made are placed; to compare the abjurations required partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the first, with those required of the latter; the of the good word of God, and the powers of the punishments inflicted on the one, with those world to come, if they fall away to renew them inflicted on the other; and the directions St. again unto repentance,” Heb. vi. 4–6. To Paul gave the faithful of his own time, with "fall away,” here signifies, not the repetition those which are given to us. If, after sober and of a criminal habit we had hoped to reform, serious investigation, we still find casuists who (and who could expect salvation if this were the doubt the doctrine, by affirming, that those of meaning of the apostle?) but professing again our brethren, who still remain in France, ought the errors we had renounced on becoming Chris- to make their choice, between flight and martians, and abjuring Christianity itself.
tyrdom, we will add no more; feeling ourselves This design appears likewise, from the care unable to persuade men, with whom arguments the apostle takes to exalt the Christian econo- so strong are incapable of conviction. my above that of Moses: hence he infers, that Perhaps some of you think, that we insist too if the smallest offences, committed against the often on the same subjects. But we frankly Levitical economy, were punished with rigour, avow, that, so very far from thinking we preach there cannot be punishments too severe for too often, it seems to us we by no means rethose who shall have the baseness to abjure sume them sufficiently. We are also fully reChristianity. “If we sin wilfully after that we solved to insist upon them more powerfully than have received the knowledge of the truth, there we have ever done before. Yes! while we shall remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a cer- see the incendiaries of the Christian world, men, tain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery who under the name of the meek and lowly indignation which shall devour the adversa- Jesus cherish the most ambitious and barbarous ries,” Heb. X. 26, 27. The sin into which we sentiments, holding the reins of government in wilfully fall, does not mean those relapses, of so large a space of Europe, making drunk, if I which we spake just now, as the ancient fathers may use an expression in the Revelation, and believed: whose severity was much more calcu- an expression by no means hyperbolical, lated to precipitate a postates into the abyss king drunk the kings of the earth with the wine from which they wished to save them, than to of their fornication:” while we shall see edicts preserve them from it.
But to sin wilfully, in issued anew, which have so often made to blush this place signifies apostacy; this is the sense of every one who has a vestige of probity in the the words which immediately follow the pas community from which they proceed; while we sage. “He that despised Moses' law, died shall see fresh faggots kindled, new gibbets without mercy, under two or three witnesses; erected, additional galleys equipped against the of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, Protestants; while we see our unhappy brethren shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden invariably negligent to the present period in under foot the Son of God, and counted the which they promised to give glory to God, alblood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanc- leging, as an excuse, the severity of the persetified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite cution, and the fury of the persecutors; that unto the Spirit of grace?” Heb. x. 28, 29. The when peace shall be restored to the churches, whole is descriptive of apostacy. The Jews, I they will return to devotion; while we see
million of men bearing the Christian name, IV. We shall point to the different classes contenting themselves to live without temple, of persons who compose this congregation, the without public worship, without sacraments, various consequences they should draw from without hope of having on their death-beds the this doctrine, and the sentiments with which it aids of ministers of the living God to comfort should actuate their minds. them against that terrific period; while we shall I. We shall remove what is equivocal in see fathers and mothers, so very far from send the term perseverance, and in the expression, ing into the land of liberty the children, whom " let us run with patience the race that is set they have had the weakness to retain in the before us.” We may take the term in a double climates of oppression, have even the laxity, sense; or, to express myself more clearly, there shall I say, or the insanity to recall those who are two ways in which we may consider the have had courage to fly; while we shall see ex- course Jesus Christ prescribed to his disciples. iles looking back with regret to the onions of We will call the first, losing the habit of Chris Egypt, envying the condition of those who tianity; and the second, doing actions incomhave sacrificed the dictates of conscience to patible with its design. By the habit of Chris fortune: while we shall see those lamentable tianity, we mean that disposition of a believer, objects, we will still enforce the doctrine of St. in consequence of which, notwithstanding the Paul in the epistle whence we have selected weakness he may feel in virtue;—the defects the text. We will still enforce the expressions with which he may have cause to reproach of the apostle, and in the sense already given. himself;—and the daily warfare between the “Take heed, lest there be in any of you an flesh and the Spirit, or even some victories evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the which the flesh may obtain over the mind;living God. It is impossible for those who all things considered, he gives God the preferwere once enlightened, and have tasted of the ence to the world and the flesh; and has a heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the consciousness in his own breast, that divine Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the good word love prevails in his heart over every other of God, and the powers of the world to come, love.-We may also turn aside from the course if they fall away, to renew them again to re- prescribed by Jesus Christ to his disciples, by pentance, seeing they crucify to themselves doing things incompatible with the design of afresh the Son of God, and put him to an open Christianity. It would discover a defective shame. Let us hold fast the profession of our knowledge of man to conclude, that he has lost faith without wavering; for if we sin wilfully a habit the moment he does any action conafter that we have received the knowledge of trary to it. One act of dissipation no more the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice constitutes a habit of dissipation, than a single for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of duty of piety constitutes the habit of piety; judgment, and fiery indignation which shall and we have no more reason for inferring, that, devour the adversaries. He that despised because a man has discovered one instance of Moses' law died without mercy under two or attachment to the world, he is really earthly. three witnesses; of how much sorer punish- minded, than we have to say, that, because a ment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, man has discharged a single duty of piety, he who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, is really a pious man. In what sense then, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, does the Holy Spirit exhort us to persevere? wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, Is he wishful to preserve us from doing any and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace.” | thing incompatible with the design of ChrisAnd in our text, “Seeing we also.”. To what tianity? Is he wishful to preserve us from do these words refer? To what the apostle losing the habit? had said a little before respecting the faithful, Doubtless, my brethren, his design is to prowho, for the sake of religion," had been stoned, serve us from doing any thing contrary to the had been sawn asunder, had been killed with object of Christianity; because it is by a repetithe sword:” after enumerating these, he adds, tion of this sort of actions that we lose what “Seeing we also are compassed about with so is called the habit of Christianity: That disgreat a cloud of witnesses, let us run with pa- position of mind, however, which induces a tience the race that is set before us.
Christian to fortify himself against every tempo 2. Enough having been said concerning the tation, is a mean rather to obtain the virtue first sense of the text which regards but few which our Scriptures called perseverance, than Christians, we shall proceed to the second; perseverance itself. When we say, according which concerns the whole body of Christians, to inspired men, that, in order to be saved, we who are still in a world which endeavours to must endure to the end, we do not mean, that detach them from the communion of Jesus we should never in the course of life have Christ. St. Paul exhorts them to “run with committed a single fault; but that, notwithpatience the race that is set before them;" that standing any fault we have committed, we is, to persevere in fellowship with him. Per- must be in the stato just mentioned; that, all severance is a Christian virtue. On this virtue things being considered, we give God the preshall turn the whole of our discourse, which ference over sensible objects, and feel divine shall be comprised under four classes of obser- love in our hearts predominant over every vations.
other love. Where indeed should we be, if I. We shall remove what is equivocal in the we could not be saved without undeviating term perseverance, or running the race. perseverance, without running with patience II. 'We shall enforce the necessity of perse- the race in the rigorous sense, I would say, so
as never to commit an action incompatible III. We shall remove certain systematical with the design of Christianity? Where should notions which excite confusion in this virtue. we be, were God to scrutinize our life with
rigour; if he waited only for the firet offence | his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. we commit, to plunge us into the abyss reserved When I say to the righteous, that he shall for the wicked? Where would be the Jobs, surely live: if he trust to his righteousness, and the Moseses, the Davids, and all those distin- commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not guished offenders, whose memory the Holy be remembered; but for his iniquity that he Spirit has immortalized, to comfort us under hath committed he shall die," Ezek. iii. xviii. our falls: One of the greatest motives to com- xxxiii. 12, 13. Such is the morality of our ply with a law is the lenity of the legislator: I Scriptures. Such is the vocation of the faithwill cite on this subject a passage of Justin ful. It is not enough that we keep, for a few Martyr.* "How could Plato,” says he, "cen- years, the commandments of God; we must sure Homer for ascribing to the Gods placa- continue to keep them. It is not enough that bility by the oblation of victims. Those who we triumph for awhile over the old man, we have this hope, are the very persons who en- must triumph to the end; and if we have wandeavour to recover themselves by repentance dered by weakness for a season, we must steadand reformation: whereas, when they consider fastly return to piety and religion. the Deity as an inexorable being, they abandon 2. Consider on what principle the Scripture the reins to corrupt propensities, having no characters founded their assurance of salvation. expectation of effect from repentance." Was it on some speculative notions? On some
Distinguish then the virtue we enforce from confused systems. No: it has been on the one of the principal means of its acquisition. principle of persevering in the profession of If you ask me what is perseverance? I answer, their religion, and in the practice of virtue. I it is that disposition of mind which enables us, will adduce but one example, which seems to as I have more than once affirmed, and which me above all exception: it is he, who, of all the is still necessary to repeat; it is that disposi- sacred authors, has furnished us with the most tion of mind which enables us, all things con- conclusive arguments on the doctrine of assusidered, to give God the preference over every rance of salvation, and the inamissibility of sensible object, that divine love may predomni- grace; I would say, the example of St. Paul. nate in our heart over every other love. If | He never doubted but that he should always you ask me, what are the surest means of ac- persevere in piety, and in the profession of requiring that disposition? I say, it is to watch ligion. The love of God was so deeply rooted against every temptation to which you may be in the heart of this apostle, as to remove all exposed. I say, in order to preserve the habit scruple on that head. When, however, St. of Christianity, you must use your utmost en- Paul, by abstraction of mind, considered himdeavours never to do any thing incompatible self as having lost the disposition which we with its design.
shall call the habit of Christianity;-when he II. Having removed the ambiguity of the term considered himself as falling under the tempperseverance, we shall prove in the second arti- tations which exposed him to the flesh, to bell, cle that we cannot be saved without this virtue. and the world;—what did he expect consider
1. The passage we have explained is not ing his state in this point of view? What did solitary. It is a passage which coincides with he expect after the acquisition of so much knowmany other texts of Scripture. The truth, re- ledge; after preaching so many excellent sersulting from the sense here given, is not a truth mons; after writing so many excellent and substantiated solely by the text. It is an ex-catholic epistles; after working so many miraplanation which a great number of express cles; after achieving so many labours; after entexts establish beyond the possibility of doubt. countering so many dangers; after enduring so Weigh the following: “Let him that standeth many sufferings to exalt the glory of Christ; take heed lest he fall,” 1 Cor. x. 12. " Thou after setting so high an example to the church standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but What did he expect after all this? Paradise? fear: for if God spared not the natural branches, The crown of righteousness. No: he expected take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold, hell and damnation. Did he expect that his therefore, the goodness and the sererity of God: past virtues would obtain the remission of his on them which fall severity; but towards thee present defects. No: he expected that his past goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: virtues would aggravato his present faults. "I otherwise thou also shalt be cut off,” Rom. xi. count not myself to have apprehended,” Phil. 20—22. “I have heard the voice of the words iii. 13. “But I keep under my body, and of this people, which they have spoken unto bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, thee: they have well said all that they have when I have preached unto others, I myself spoken. O that there were such a heart in should be a cast-away,” i Cor. ix. 27. In what them, that they would fear me, that it might situation did he place himself to lay hold of be well with them, and their children for ever,” | the crown of righteousness, and to obtain the Deut. v. 28, 29. “He that endureth unto the prize? He placed himself at the close of his end shall be saved,” Matt. x. 22. "Hold that course. It was at the termination of life, that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy this athletic man exclaimed, “I have fought a crown,” Rev. jji. 11. “Thou son of man, say good fight, I have finished my course, I have unto the children of thy people, the righteous- kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for ness of the righteous shall not deliver him in ine a crown of righteousness,” 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8. the day of his transgression: as for the wicked- 3. Consider what have been the sentiments ness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in of the most distinguished Scripture characters, the day that he turneth from his wickedness; when they recollect themselves in those awful neither shall the righteous be able to live for moments, in which, after they had so far of
fended against divine love as to suppose the * Ad Græcos exhort. p. 28. Ed. Colon. habit lost, or when their piety was so far eclipsed as to suppose it was vanished. Did the inamissibility of your faith, and sure pledges they oppose their past virtues to their present of your salvation. But, my brethren, was this faults." Hear those holy men: “O Lord, heal indeed the system of those saints of whom we me; for my bones are vexed: my soul is also have spoken They were not more convinced sore vexed," Ps. vi. 2. “Mine iniquities are of this principle, that a sincerely good man gone over my head, as a heavy burden: they cannot fall from grace, than of this which folare too heavy for me," Ps. xxxviii. “ I ac- lows: that a man who cannot fall from grace, knowledge my transgression, and my sin is cannot fall from piety. They have trembled ever before me," Ps. li. 3-11.
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on doing an action contrary to piety; fearing hear joy and gladness, that the bones which lest the habit was lost. thou hast broken may rejoice. Cast me not 5. In a word, our last proof of the necesaway from thy presence; restore me unto the sity of perseverance is founded on the necessity joy of thy salvation. Will tủe Lord cast off of progressive religion. It is a proposition alfor ever? And will he be favourable no more? ready established on other occasions, that there Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his is no precise point of virtue, at which we are promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgot allowed to stop. If a man should take for his ten to be gracious Hath he in anger shut up model one of the faithful, whose piety is least his tender mercies!" Ps. lxx. 8–10. What of all suspected: if a man should propose to ideas do these words excite in your minds? Is himself so fine a model, and there restrict his it the presumptuous confidence which some attainment, saying, I will go so far, and no men, unhappily called Christians, evince after farther: such a one would have mistaken nocommitting the foulest offences? Are these the tions of religion. The Christian model is Jesentiments merely of an individual, who by a sus Christ. Perfection is the sole object of a simple emotion of generosity and gratitude, re- Christian; and, the weaker be feels himself in proaches himself for having insulted his bene- its acquisition, the more should he redouble factor? Or are they sorrows arising in the soul his exertions to approach it. Every period of from the fears of being deprived of those fa- life has its task assigned. The duties of youth vours in future? Magnanimous sentiments, will not dispense with those of riper age; and doubtless are found in the characters of those the duties of riper age will not dispense with distinguished saints. A repentance, founded those of retiring life. “Be ye perfect as your solely on the fear of hell, can never obtain a Father who is in heaven is perfect,” Matt. v. pardon: it may do well enough for a disciple 48. This is the command of Jesus Christ. of Loyola; but not for a disciple of Jesus “ Be perfect,” 2 Cor. xiii. 11. This is the preChrist. It is respect for order; it is the love cept of St. Paul. What do you infer from this of God; it is sorrow for having offended a be- principle! If we are condemned for not having we sincerely love, which is the basis of true ing advanced, what shall we be for having repentance. It is fully apparent that the ex- backslidden? If we are condemned for not pressions you have heard, are the language of having carried virtuous attainments to a more à soul persuaded of this truth, that we cannot eminent degree, what shall we be for having deobtain salvation without persevering till death based them to a degree so far below the standard? in the habit of holiness, which it fears to have III. But a doctrine of our churches seems to lost. They are the language of a soul, which frustrate all our endeavours to prompt you to reproaches itself, not only for a deviation from perseverance, and to warn you that salvation order, but which fears, lest it should have for- is reserved solely for those who do persevere. feited its salvation.
It is this. We fully believe, that the most il4. Consider the absurdities, arising from the lastrious saints were guilty of offences, directopinion we attack. The commencement of a ly opposed to Christianity; but we profess to life,sincerely consecrated to the service of God, I believe, that it was impossible they should lose is a sufficient barrier against all the fears aris- the habit. We conceive indeed the propriety ing from crimes with which it may in the issue of exhorting them not to commit those faults be defiled. The children of God can never which it is impossible they should commit. fall from grace. And none but the children But why exhort them not to lose a habit which of God can be sincerely consecrated to him in they cannot lose? Where is the propriety of the early period of life. On this principle, I alarming them with a destruction on the brink will frame you a system of religion the most of which grace shall make them perfect? This relaxed, accommodating, and easy, even at is the difficulty we wish to solve, and this is the bar of corruption the most obstinate and the design of our third head. inveterate. Consecrate sincerely to God a sin- But I would indeed wish to illustrate the gle hour of life. Distinguish by some virtue subject without reviving the controversies it the sincerity of that carly period. Then write has excited. I would wish conformably to the with a pen of iron on a tablet of marble and views of a Christian (from which especially a brass, that, In such a day, and in such an gospel minister should never deviate.) to assohour, I had the marks of a true child of God. ciate as far as the subject will admit, peace After that, plunge headlong into vice; run un- and truth. If the wish" is not chimerical, we bridled with the children of this world to the cannot, I think, better succeed, than by availsame excess of riot: give yourself no concern ing ourselves of a point unanimously allowed about your passions; if the horrors of this by the divines divided on this subject, in order state should excite any doubts of your salva- to harmonize what seems calculated still to dition, comfort yourself against the anathemas vide them. of legal preachers; comfort yourself against It is a received maxim in every system, I remorse of conscience, by casting your eyes on would say, in every system of those who are this tablet of brass and marble;--monuments of | divided on the doctrine of the inamissibility of per of mind.
grace; that, to preserve the habit of holiness, IV. Three classes of people have consewithout which they unanimously agree, we quences to deduce from the doctrine we have cannot be saved, we must use all the means now advanced. We first address ourselves to prescribed in the sacred Scripture to preserve those who seem least of all interested; I would so valuable a disposition. Divines, whom dif- say, those who have no cause to fear falling ference of opinion has irritated against one from grace; not because they are established, another, reciprocally accuse their brethren of but because they never entertained the sincere weakening this principle; but there is not one resolutions of conversion. If people of this among them who does not sincerely embrace description would pay serious attention to their it, and complain of the reproach, when charged state; if they would read the Scriptures with with having rejected it. Those who exclaim recollection; if they would listen to our seragainst the doctrine of the inamissibility of mons with a real, not a vague and superficial grace, are so far from rejecting it, that they design of reducing them to practice, I think pretend to be the only persons who establish it the doctrine we have delivered would rouse upon a sure foundation; and maintain that it them from their indolence; I think it would cannot exist in systems opposed to the first hinder them from going so intensely into the They say, that the doctrine of the inamissibili- world, on withdrawing from devotion, as not ty of grace is so far from opposing this princi- to hear the voice of their conscience.' What! ple, that it constitutes its foundation. And the people of whom we speak should say, who among the advocates for this doctrine, What! Christians of the first class; what! those ever affirmed that we can preserve the grace distinguished saints who have devoted the of perseverance, if we frequent the haunts of whole of their life to duty; what! those who infarny; if we keep company with persons who have "wrought out their salvation with fear tempt us to adultery and voluptuousness, and and trembling;" can they promise themselves 80 with regard to other virtues? This then is nothing from past efforts? What are all the a principle such as I would seek. It is a prin- sacrifices they have made for Christianity useciple inculcated by every system, that in order less, unless they persevere in piety; and, for to retain the habit of holiness, without which having failed to run only a few steps of their it is impossible to be saved, we must use all course, will they fail of obtaining the prize the means pointed out in the sacred Scriptures promised to those only who finish the whole? for the preservation of such an individual tem- And I, miserable wretch, who am so far from
being the first of saints, that I am the chief of This being granted, it is requisite in every sinners;—1, who am so far from having run system, to represent the calamities we incur the race which Christ has set before his disciby losing the habit of holiness, because it is ples, as to have put it far away;—1, who have the dread of incurring the calamities conse- been so far from working out my salvation, as quent on our fall, which the Scriptures point to have laboured only by slander, by calumny, out as the most usual and powerful preserva- by perjury, by blasphemy, by fornication, by tives from apostacy. Hence they exhort us to adultery, by drunkenness;—1, who have done "work out our salvation with fear and trem- nothing but obstruct the work, yet I am combling.". Hence they make one part of a good posed, I am tranquil! Whence proceeds this man's happiness to consist in fearing always. peace? Does it not proceed solely from this Hence they require us to rejoice with trembling. circumstance, that, my sins having constrained Each of you may collect a variety of parallel the Deity to prepare the sentence of my eterpassages.
nal condemnation, he has (among the calamiOur divines, to illustrate this subject, have ties prepared for me by his justice,) the fatal sometimes employed a comparison, which, in condescension to make me become sensible of my opinion, is well calculated to answer their my misery, lest I should anticipate my condempurpose. It is that of a wise man at the top nation, by the dreadful torments which the of a tower, who has all the necessary means certainty of being damned would excite in my of preserving himself from falling into the soul. Oh, dreadful calm! fatal peace! tranabyss open to his view. We may properly quillity to which despair itself is perferable, if say, it is impossible such a man should fall. there be any thing preferable in despair! Oh! Why? Because, being a prudent man, and rather, thou sword of divine vengeance, branhaving all the necessary means, it is impossi- dish before my eyes all thy terrors! Array ble his prudence should not prompt him to in battle against me all the terrors of the avail himself of their support. But in what mighty God, as in the awful day of judgment; consists one part of this means of safety? It and striking my soul with the greatness of my is the faculty suggested by his prudence, of misery, give me, at least, if there be time, to knowing, and never forgetting the risk he emancipate myself! If there be yet time? And, runs, should he neglect the means of safety. if there be not time, why do you yet breathe Thus fear, so circumstanced, is one part of his Why are there still open to you the gates of safely, and his safety is inseparable from his this temple? Why is the gospel still preached, fear. The application of this comparison is if it is not that you may be recollected; if it easy; every one may make it without difficulty. I is not that you may renounce the principles of It is sufficient, not indeed to remove all the your past folly; if it is not that you may yield difficulties of which the loss of grace is suscepto calls of grace, which publish to you the tible; but to answer the objection I have made consoling declarations of the merciful God? of its being useless, on a supposition of the “When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt impossibility of falling from grace, to warn a surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that real Christian of the calamities he may incur, which is lawful and right; if the wicked re should he lose his habit of piety.
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- To achieve its strategic goals, UMBC realized it needed to become a more data-driven institution by deploying more sophisticated tools and procedures to help staff find and analyze data in a timely way.
- Specifically, the university needed ways that users could develop accurate and easily configurable reports to support operational management and strategic analysis, which a data warehouse made possible.
- Successful implementation of the data warehouse required resolving campus-wide issues with buy-in, IT partnering with IR, governance, and cost.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) knew that in order to achieve our strategic goals, such as increasing student success, we had to become a more data-driven institution with more sophisticated tools and processes for retrieving and interpreting information in a timely manner. Student success was a key driver of our efforts, and many pilot initiatives at the university were exploring how best to support it. Working with the Office of Undergraduate Education, Institutional Research did a thorough research study to help identify initiatives that were making a significant difference. We then focused our efforts on those initiatives that showed the greatest impact: expanding our named scholars programs, increasing First Year Seminars, and introducing programs to increase the student success rate in first-time math courses. This would not of been possible without the data warehouse and the work we had done with campus stakeholders to expand the data elements being captured. Through these efforts, we were able to integrate information that in the past had been hidden in data silos inside admissions, scholarships, and individual program offices. What follows is how we came to this point and where we will go next.
Needed: Accurate and Easily Created Queries
UMBC is a midsized, relatively young (<50 years old) university with strong teaching and research credentials. A decade ago we began implementing the enterprise resource management (ERP) program PeopleSoft, first Finance and HR and then, in 2009, PeopleSoft Student Administration (PSSA). A critical evaluation of what worked, and did not work, the first time around provided a strategic framework for how best to implement PSSA. There was consensus that, as part of that implementation, we needed to approach reporting differently and better support strategic analysis.
This need came to the fore when, in 2005, UMBC's senior leadership met with our sister institution for a demonstration of software designed by a local data warehousing company named iStrategy (now Blackboard Analytics). As they began showing screens of their data warehouse, UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski (a mathematician) began asking a series of questions: show me performance of students in this class by instructor, by placement test score, by high school attended, by grade in this prerequisite course, etc. Each question was answered in a minute or two and spurred further exploration and discussion. The engagement of Dr. Hrabowski and other leaders in this Q&A was evident — they were using their expertise in higher education to ask good questions and using data to dig deeper and deeper in understanding student performance.
Choosing a Solution
Though we investigated building a data warehouse in-house, we concluded it was better to have the benefit of a quick implementation and the vendor support from a purchased solution. We limited our search to companies that had ETL (extract, transform, load) tools available for PeopleSoft. This reduced our choices to two companies, PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse and iStrategy. PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse had licensing restrictions that limited what data could be loaded, and we wanted something that could be extended to load data outside the ERP. For that reason we chose iStrategy.
Facing Multiple Challenges
We knew that long-term success required that the data warehouse had to be accurate, timely, and widely used across campus. One of the first tools we developed was a report that allowed the president to track admission statistics each day and do a comparison with the prior year. . Dr. Hrabowski uses this feature daily and often brings up questions or ideas on student recruitment based on that data, which prompted others to view this report and use the tool. His support clearly speeded buy-in from the rest of the campus.
We also found that it was critical to build a true partnership between IT and institutional research (IR). Past efforts had shown how hard it was for two organizations to share the lead in a project that gave people system-level access rights to all the data. The leadership of both organizations worked hard to define service agreements and demonstrate to all staff that we expected this partnership to work.
Governance required that we first build a culture of data management and strengthen the team of data stewards we had on campus. Without building a campus culture that cared about data quality and accuracy, we knew we could not succeed. The VP of IT/CIO (author Jack Suess) and the Director of IR (author Michael Dillon) co-chair the data management council. The DMC is broken up into subcommittees that focus on data quality, requests for extending the data warehouse with new data elements, report creation, security, and training. Each subcommittee, led by a member of the DMC, involves the appropriate stakeholders for that activity.
Cost was probably the least of our problems. The iStrategy tool was very cost effective in that the license and yearly maintenance costs were reasonable, and the support we got from the vendor meant we had no outside implementation costs for consulting. In addition, our Microsoft license made the end-user business intelligence tools very affordable. As a result, we were able to implement the student warehouse for under $100,000.
A Novel Solution to the Challenges
UMBC did something novel. It installed iStrategy's PeopleSoft SA Solution (rebranded as Report Exchange, or REX) in 2006 using our legacy student information system (SIS) to load the data, three years before going live with PSSA. IT then did a quick (six months) conversion to have this work with our legacy SIS system, thereby populating REX with legacy data. This allowed the associate provost of Enrollment Management (EM; author Yvette Mozie-Ross) to get to data she normally had her IT manager get by querying the legacy system using SQL. This in turn freed up her IT manager to help oversee the "actual" conversion of SIS to PSSA and got an immediate buy-in for REX by many important stakeholders. That buy-in was reinforced by the CIO's declaration that REX was to be used whenever possible for reporting, thereby reducing the consultant cost related to report generation during the conversion to PSSA.
The decision to rely on REX was not just a cost-saving strategy; it was driven by a keen desire not to rely on writing reports from PSSA directly, since that invariably leads to silos of reports that don't talk to one another. Instead we focused on vendor support, along with in-house expertise, to make REX more robust and fulfill the reporting expectations of the campus.
Creating a campus-wide reporting solution requires a high degree of inter-department cooperation. For PSSA this means strengthening IT's ties with EM and IR. With EM the tie was relatively easy; REX provided tangible advantages from the start. For IR the issues were a bit harder to overcome because IR's state, federal, and other reporting required special fields and calculations not available in the delivered product. For example, Maryland's Higher Education Commission has detailed formulas for calculating FTE students. However, with ongoing assistance from IT, expert technical skills in IR, and the transparency of iStrategy's ETL procedures, we modified REX to put IR data directly into it. In turn, IR used what it learned from modifying REX to put 15 years of historical census data directly into REX, thereby allowing for longitudinal analysis of applications, admits, enrolls, student progression, financial aid, etc.
In expanding REX on campus we faced key decisions around management, user support, and governance. Figure 1 highlights the governance structure of data management at UMBC. Weekly management and priority setting is done by the Data Warehouse Team, chaired by the director of IR (Dillon). They analyze requests for new reports and manage changes to the data warehouse. This team works closely with the Setup Tables Team that manages the academic organization structure within the academic affairs unit and the Data Quality Team that creates nightly reports of potential dirty data.
Figure 1. Data Management Committee
To support the campus community we have created a REX Users Group comprised of staff in the various offices on campus that are responsible for functional reporting. This group contains assistant registrars, staff in admissions and financial aid, staff in Continuing and Professional Studies, assistant deans in each college, and staff in the Office of Undergraduate Education. It provides a forum for any user to come and ask questions or share their experience. This allows staff in different colleges and departments to collaborate and share what they know, supported by IR and DoIT technical staff. Related to this group is a training team, which works with the REX Users Group and others to develop documentation and training materials for the campus. Staff in IR and IT provide regular face-to-face training sessions for staff and faculty wishing to get started.
A Campus Systems Executive Committee coordinates administrative initiatives and is co-chaired by the CIO (Suess) and associate provost for EM (Mozie-Ross). Policy changes are reviewed by the IT Steering Committee, chaired by the associate vice president for Academic Affairs (Antonio Moreira) and the CIO.
Looking Forward, the Future Is Bright
The decision we made in 2007 to use the data warehouse as our primary means of end-user reporting seems prescient. In the intervening five years we have built a true community of practice through the data warehouse. REX is used for official institutional reporting, reporting financial data, analysis of tuition revenue, classroom utilization, recruitment and admissions analysis, retention and student success, and analysis of campus support requests. REX has become essential to supporting the colleges and departments in accreditation and academic program reviews.
REX has proved essential to performing a number of analytic studies, such as looking at the effect on graduation of scholar programs that build strong scholarly communities versus simply providing merit aid for recruitment and yield purposes. The finding highlighted the benefits that resulted from scholar programs; as a result we are working to expand the scholar programs and have given them ways to use REX to monitor their progress. Another example is how our academic leadership looks at reports to monitor student performance in courses over time. This report — called the DFW report for tracking those students who earned a grade of D or F, or withdrew from the course — is used to determine if a course has fundamental problems and should be redesigned.
UMBC is actively expanding REX to include residential life, grants management, learning analytics, and financial aid information. We normally find we can add a new functional area in three to six months, depending on the complexity of the data and how much time the functional team can allocate to the project. Adding new modules is transparent to the campus community, and we can control access to each module individually. In this way, as we add new modules, members of the community see them show up in their log-in screen if they have access. The same tools are used for all modules, thus users find it easy to learn how to navigate new REX modules once they become accustomed to one. That said, we do control security for each REX module.
Today, senior administrators carry laptops to meetings and regularly go into REX to answer questions in real time. We have designed custom reports that include analytics and performance indicators that have helped us identify issues and make transformative changes that would not have been made without the data to understand why that change was important. We have indeed moved toward a data-driven culture of decision making using a campus-wide reporting solution.
For Additional Information
UMBC has pulled together a video presentation (22:15 minutes) of the authors (Michael Dillon, Yvette Mozie-Ross, and Jack Suess) and Kevin Joseph of OIR that provides a more detailed discussion on governance and campus outreach and gives examples of a few reports being used.
For more information on how UMBC is using analytics for institutional transformation, we encourage readers to listen to the podcast (35:29 minutes) developed as part of an article for EDUCAUSE Review, facilitated by John Fritz and featuring President Hrabowski, Provost Designate and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip Rous, and CIO Suess.
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Lessons Learned in the Practice of Law: God is a Perfect Judge
[Editor’s Note: The following article was written by A.P. auxiliary staff writer, Kevin Cain, who holds degrees from Freed-Hardeman University (B.S., M.Min.) and the Doctor of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law. A former Briefing Attorney of The First Court of Appeals, his current practice focuses on litigation at the trial and appellate levels in both State and Federal Courts.]
I am an attorney. I make a living studying the law, applying the law, and helping my clients navigate the murky waters of the legal profession. Over the years practicing as an attorney, I have come across cases, legal maxims, rules of law, statutes, and experiences that remind me of subtle lessons that God has long ago passed on to us through His holy Word. It simply reminds me of the great wisdom and superiority of God and His ways. One of these lessons was impressed upon me at a recent hearing.
I do not practice criminal law, but many trial courts have a combined civil and criminal docket—meaning they try both civil and criminal cases. Therefore, when I show up at the courthouse for a hearing on a civil case, I often sit and listen to people in orange jumpsuits plead guilty and beg for the judge’s mercy while I wait for my hearing to be called. Usually the assistant district attorney (ADA) and the defense attorney have reached a deal before the defendant pleads guilty. However, this agreement merely results in a recommendation from the ADA to the judge for purposes of sentencing the defendant. The judge may or may not accept this recommendation. The judge may give the defendant deferred adjudication or probation, or he may sentence the defendant to jail time. Rarely does the judge pass a sentence that is harsher than the sentence recommended by the ADA—rare, but not impossible.
I recently sat in a courthouse and listened to an attorney and the defendant’s mother plead for leniency and mercy on behalf of the defendant, who had just plead guilty to arson. The defense attorney begged for probation, while the ADA recommended 10 years in prison. The judge sentenced the 22-year-old man, with his one year-old daughter in the court room, to 15 years in prison. The defendant wept silently, and his mother wept bitterly as her son was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs to begin his 15 years in prison. I do not envy the judges who have to make life-changing decisions like this.
In this lifetime, on this side of eternity, we will never know perfect judgment, where justice and mercy are perfectly blended together resulting in judgment that is perfectly fair. Judges are faced with pleas for mercy, tears of sympathy, and cries for justice. What is a judge to do? Each judge must ask, “Is this defendant truly sorry and changed, or is he simply regretting that he got caught and sorry he is facing judgment?” While we often hear of judges who appear to have exercised poor judgment in their sentencing, and presume that we could do better, this is not a job I want day in and day out. As a judge stares down his gavel at a defendant pleading for his life, how is a judge to know if that person is truly sorry, sincere, or is simply putting on a show?
The true God we read of in the Bible is a perfect judge. He knows the hearts and minds of men. Our God searches the hearts of men—that is, he knows our every thought (Romans 8:27). God tries our hearts and our minds (Psalm 7:9). “The Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought” (1 Chronicles 28:9). God can look past the external distractions that so often mislead, and He looks directly into our hearts (1 Samuel 16:7). Because of God’s ability to know our thoughts, our motives, and the intents of our hearts, He is a perfect judge who will exact perfect judgment. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25). “And He shall judge the world in righteousness, He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness” (Psalm 9:8). Our God will judge us all with precision, bringing together mercy and wrath perfectly. “But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth: with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked” (Isaiah 11:4). In other words when God judges this world, separating the saved from the lost, we will still be able to say, “He has done all things well” (Mark 7:37). When we pray for forgiveness, only God knows if we are truly sincere, sorry, and changed. God is a perfect judge.
A person can stand before a judge and fool him into leniency based on a purely external show of feigned sorrow. Another person may incur the judge’s wrath even though he is truly heart-broken and penitent. Nevertheless, our God looks beyond the external tears, confessions, pleas, and apologies; and He knows those who truly have torn hearts and those who merely demonstrate an external, superficial show of sorrow (Joel 2:13). “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart’” (1 Samuel 16:7). God is a perfect judge.
Our biases and inconsistencies on this subject are obvious and apparent. When we hear of some person (whom we have never met) who has committed some atrocious crime, we immediately think, “I hope he is punished to the fullest extent of the law, and even beyond that if possible.” However, when it is me or someone I personally know who is facing criminal prosecution, we immediately pray and beg for mercy and understanding from the judge, because we truly are sorry. So, where is the balance, and what is the answer?
In the United States, we have a legal system that is literally second to none. Many people risk their lives every day around this world defending this nation and our liberties and rights. Among those rights, according to the U.S. Constitution, is the right to a trial by jury. People are dying every day in an effort to enter this country of ours to have access to our legal system that is driven and founded on concepts of liberty, justice, and equity. We have a judicial system where disagreements are settled in a civil manner in the court house, not in the streets at the hands of an angry mob. However, our legal system is far from perfect and has more problems and flaws than most attorneys, judges, and jurists would care to admit. We will never know perfect judgment in this lifetime. And thankfully, I am not called to judge every person to determine where they will spend eternity, much less attempt to exact some form of temporary justice for every wrong that is committed today. Rather, God wants me to present every person with God’s Word (Matthew 28:19-20)—the very text, law, and code that will be the guide by which everyone will someday be judged (Revelation 20:12). God wants me to stand in the gap and warn the world of the righteous judgment to come (Ezekiel 3:17-19; 22:30). God will take care of the judging. My role is not to ensure perfect judgment in my time, but to prepare for perfect judgment in God’s time. God is a perfect judge. | <urn:uuid:2b92d680-e232-40d6-93c5-343fc1a313d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=12&article=3793&topic=314 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00222-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967485 | 1,626 | 1.8125 | 2 |
This page tells you about silica and the risks to construction workers from silica.
Silica is a natural substance found in varying amounts in most rocks, sand and clay. For example, sandstone contains more than 70% silica, whereas granite might contain 15-30%. Silica is also a major constituent of construction materials such as bricks, tiles, concrete and mortar.
You generate dust from these materials during many common construction tasks. These include cutting, drilling, grinding and polishing. Some of this dust is fine enough to get deep into your lungs. The fine dust is known as respirable crystalline silica (RCS) and is too fine to see with normal lighting. It is commonly called silica or silica dust.
Silica is the biggest risk to construction workers after asbestos. Heavy and prolonged exposure to RCS can cause lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases. HSE commissioned estimates it was responsible for the death of over 500 construction workers in 2005. In addition to the risks from lung cancer, silica is also linked to other serious lung diseases:
The amounts needed to cause this damage are not large.The most you should be inhaling during a day after using the right controls is shown next to the penny.
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George Borrow’s book on the Spanish Gypsies.
As Lavengro shows, during his early life George Borrow had become acquainted with various English Gypsies, and had become fluent in Romany (the Gypsy language).
When he obtained a job with the Bible Society in Russia (1833–1835), he built on his Gypsy knowledge by mixing with the Hungarian and Russian Gypsies.
On 13 November 1835, George Borrow arrived at Lisborn, Portugal, for what would turn out to be five years work in Portugal and Spain, during which time worked with many Spanish Gypsies. During this period George Borrow translated the Gospel of St. Luke into Caló (Spanish Gypsy variant of Romany), and published it in Madrid in 1838. George Borrow had originally wanted to publish a Gypsy vocabulary as part of the St. Luke, but the Bible Society refused:
“Resolved that Mr. Borrow be authorized to print 250 copies of the Gospel according to St. Luke in the Rommanee Dialect, without the vocabulary; ...”—Proposed March 13th; confirmed March 20, 1837 [src: Life of George Borrow, Volume 1, p. 272]
The Gypsy vocabulary was to re-appear (reworked) in The Zincali.
By 25 September 1839, George Borrow, nearing the end of his employment with the Bible Society, was in Saville and working on the various Gypsy knowledge he had come across during his life, arranging it for publication. Since the book was mainly to be about the Spanish Gypsies (zincali being the Spanish term for gypsy), it was important that George Borrow used his last few months in the country to research and write. He was never to return to Spain. After a break he resumed the work again (in Seville), in early January 1840, and worked on it steadily until March.
In April 1840 George Borrow returned to England in April, married Mary Clarke, and resumed work on The Zincali at his new home on Oulton Broad, Suffolk. Mary Borrow was co-opted to assist, copying out George Borrow’s manuscript in a fair hand.
In November 1840, George Borrow got his old co-translator to recommend The Zincali to John Murray, the famous London publisher. When George Borrow appeared visited John Murray to hand over the manuscript, he impressed John Murray. As Samuel Smiles, in Memoir and Correspondence of the later John Murray, put it:
Mr. Murray could not fail to be taken at first sight with this extraordinary man. He had a splendid physique, standing six feet two in his stockings, and he had brains as well as muscles, as his works sufficiently show [src: Memoir and Correspondence of the late John Murray, Volume 2, p. 485]
John Murray sent the manuscript to Spanish expert Richard Ford. On Ford’s recommendation the book was accepted, and the acceptance letter was sent to George Borrow on 23 December 1840:
Mr. Murray, having considered what appears to be your wish respecting the publication of your MS on the Gipsies of Spain, begs through me to make you the following proposal. He will print at his own cost and sole risk, an edition of 750 copies of your work, & will divide with you the profits when they are sold. After which the copyright remains yours, to do what you like with it.” [src: George Borrow, A Bibliographic Study, p. 20]
(750 copies was not a very large print run for John Murray and clearly shows caution as to likely sales.)
George Borrow accepted the terms and the book was published by John Murray in 1841. Sales were brisk, 600 copies selling the first week. A second edition of 750 copies appeared in March 1843. A third edition of 750 copies was published in September 1843 and two-thirds of that edition were sold by Christmas 1843. The remaining copies were not exhausted until 1879.
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Monica, only 27 years old, watched as her left breast grew a lump over the course of two years. The entire breast eventually hardened and shriveled and adhered to the chest wall before she finally sought medical care. Unfortunately, Monica is by no means a unique case — her story is standard of cancer stories in developing countries. She knew something was terribly wrong. Most women do. So why did Monica wait so long for treatment despite having an obvious physical disfigurement? What social pressures prevented her from seeking life-saving treatment?
We’ve been doing interviews on radio and television for nearly two years, repeating that early assessment and early treatment saves lives, but still most of our patients still appear in the late stages of disease. In Rwanda we had the same problem. I’ve wondered if women don’t realize the lump in cancerous. Maybe they don’t think that cancer can be cured or they are afraid of having a mastectomy.
Before launching our cancer treatment program in Haiti in June 2013, we performed a small study. It revealed that only 25 percent of Haitian women in the group had ever performed a self-breast exam. Less than half believed cancer was curable, however, more than two-thirds of women could correctly identify a half dozen symptoms of breast cancer. Why, then, do 80 percent of the women in our program only seek medical care once the breast cancer is at advanced stages and physical symptoms are noticeable?
True, a knowledge gap existed that an awareness campaign could address. But more importantly, if awareness exists on a broad basis, then we need to shift the focus to include issues concerning engagement and communication — the way in which information and interaction occurs between individuals, communities, and the healthcare system.
Grace, a friend with significant experience in communications, had heard me complain about how advanced the cases in our program were. She helped me write talking points on breast cancer in Haiti for radio and television interviews. She held my hand when I cried in exasperation as we lost another young woman to late-stage breast cancer. After a few months of reflection, Grace decided to get more directly involved in the program, focusing on the problem of awareness. With university professors, she designed an information gathering project — part focus group, part intent listening and part expressive art class. She pored over the 30-page report from the earlier research. What started out as a simple idea grew into a program on breast cancer awareness, something that will have far-reaching impact.
Grace partnered with a local group, Support Group Against Cancer, to facilitate discussions with three groups. First they spoke with a dozen breast cancer patients, then a group of doctors and nurses who ran the cancer treatment center at Project Medishare, and finally were men with no direct prior experience with breast cancer. The facilitators offered broad topics to start the conversation and recorded participants thoughts and feelings about finances, family support, mastectomy and death. The women also took turns recording their feelings, either in writing or through pictures. The pictures were not just for those who couldn’t read and write — graphic representations demonstrate more fully the complexity of the situation and the depth of their feelings on a particular topic.
I peeked in on the group with the cancer patients and participated in the group of medical staff. I looked through the drawings of both groups, trying to truly appreciate what had been right in front of my nose but never fully understood. I slowly became aware of the complex interplay of the psychosocial and socioeconomic factors. Aware of how little I knew of the patients that I was treating. Aware of how much the treatment program needed to more fully engage with the surrounding community.
The women in the groups loved participating and asked when we would convene for another meeting. The medical staff continued to offer suggestions of how to improve the layout of the cancer ward and make it more appealing for the women receiving chemotherapy. The men we interviewed were empathetic to the plight of women with breast cancer, often describing their feelings as if their wife had been diagnosed with the illness.
What we discovered cannot be easily put into a succinct summary since the results are often pictorial. The slogan that the women chose speaks volumes about the alienation of the process of diagnosis and treatment: La vie avant tout (Life above all). The medical staff came up with a simple targeted screening message as well: Know, Observe, Touch, Act. We learned that we need to communicate about illness at all stages of the disease and treatment process.
The final report on the meetings eloquently lays out the complexity of the issues: “Women in Haiti with this disease face prejudice, abandonment and loss. They experience huge amounts of anxiety that are financial as well as emotional and physical. Women fear disfigurement, their own destitution or that of their children and they fear for their lives. Family members fear the loss of a loved one, their powerlessness in the face of the disease and the huge financial burden to treat what many perceive as an inevitable death-sentence.”
The next step is to dig into the specifics of the research, followed by a nationwide awareness and engagement campaign. The project will support cancer survivors and their family members. It will allow them to talk about cancer in clearer and productive ways, which will result in more effective communication materials, including television and radio advertisements. More importantly, they’ll be the community health workers who help disseminate the materials and information through outreach in their social circles — churches, salons, work or schools.
As for me, I’m now more aware, thanks to the interdisciplinary collaboration. Hopefully, this awareness will lead to more engagement and communication. With more engagement on our side, we hope to engage women with the program at earlier disease stages and increase survival.
Vincent DeGennaro is an internal medicine doctor and a global public health specialist at the University of Florida’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine and works half time in Haiti with the nonprofit Project Medishare. See his An American Doctor in Haiti blogs. | <urn:uuid:a528d3cd-b4a6-4507-b13f-e06baa59c1d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://magazine.nd.edu/news/56577-global-doc-awareness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00406-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967955 | 1,245 | 2.484375 | 2 |
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle summarises parts of his "discussions outside the school concerning the best life". A happy man must have external goods, goods of the body (e.g. health), and goods of the soul (virtue).
"Some think that a very moderate amount of virtue is enough, but set no limit to their desires of wealth, property, power, reputation and the like of external goods. But experience shows that happiness is more often found with those who are most highly cultivated in their mind and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities".
"Let us acknowledge then that each one has just so much of happiness as he has of virtue and wisdom, and of virtuous and wise action. The best life, both for individuals and states, is the life of virtue, when virtue has external goods enough for the performance of good actions.
The word "Politics", to me, is automatically linked to Aristotle. So, I thought I should go through his enlightening e-book of the same title to see if I could draw some similarities between forming a political society and forming a marriage partnership.
Well, if you are able to apply the above findings by Aristotle on forming a new state, you would be able to postulate that people get married for various reasons, depending on what kind of partnership they want to have with another person.
Many tie a knot for all the rights and benefits that come along i.e. intimacy, family and responsibility. Some walk down the aisle for all the desires to own, sit on a throne and to be well known. A few exchange their rings for having someone to spend the rest of their life with. Sadly, rarely one marries another knowing that by being in sanctity of matrimony together, each of them become a better human. May I conclude that people get together in a marriage for reasons they know best.
What prompted me to share this valuable thoughts of Aristotle is the fact that we, outsiders, are making a lot of noise when one Bung-who is said to take an actress as his second wife. We say both of them are being insensitive to his first wife's feelings, that the actress is simply a 'pisau cukur', and that man is just plain 'gatal'.
Please, could we just stop interfering with other people's personal life?
That one Bung-who is well known to make sexist remarks in the August House, which would make us wonder why on earth those voters in Kinabatangan sent him there - fully paid.
Aristotle says, "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies". I just wish that once he's married to one Lithe Young Lady, he would have more respect to women, be more accountable to the responsibilities and start acting like a real gentleman because only when you have found love, only when you know that you are worthy of being loved, only when you are capable of sharing your love, only then you and your sense and sensibility are alive.
Maybe, you want to listen to Bryan Adams' "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman and Shania Twain's "From This Moment On".
I am referring to the actress. Her mother told the media that she's concerned about her status at the age of 31. Indirectly, the mother was saying that the actress doesn't want to be labeled as old maiden. Well, I am so old maiden. So, who do you think would consider me as Lithe Young Lady? If you can answer me correctly, can you tell me the probability of finding one without a wife and children? Thanks but no thanks. I'm not that desperate... | <urn:uuid:e45da353-78f7-423c-93e6-86371d76ce56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fi-sha.blogspot.com/2009/12/politics-of-marriage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00518-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97648 | 843 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Please discribe what you hear in more detail. How loud. How big and what brand are your amps and speakers. if the source is changed, does the sound change. Please be as specific as possible.
The implication is that your speaker drivers are continuously in motion. This could cause premature aging of the speakers' mechanical components. If your speakers are dynamic cones, parts that often fail are (1) the "spider" that keeps the voice coil in proper location, (2) the thin wire that runs from the voice coil to the signal terminal on the basket could break or detach, and (3) the soft surround that attaches the outer edge of the cone to the basket or housing. Normally, these components are designed for years of use and flexing, but they do eventually fail. Some, like the surround, fail more commonly due to age than usage, but continuous usage such as you've described could shave a little time off your speakers' usable lives.
Very efficient speakers and even good amps can have this occur. I had a pair of Klipsch La Scalas (104dB). Pretty much always had a some white noise. I was using a 40 watt class A/B amplifier of good, but not great quality. Will it damage the speakers over time? Very hard to say, and probably very equipment dependent as Richard already pointed out.
Sounds like a power grid upgrade is needed. Try some different power cords or conditioners. Does it quite the sound? That is the sound of power noise, this is what you must listen through to get the music. This is why all the threads on power. You will be amazed to hear your system for the first time when this noise is eliminated. | <urn:uuid:374d4f02-4d30-4dd1-b356-b15e0c328b0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/leaving-your-amps-on | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968935 | 348 | 1.648438 | 2 |
E-Notes Bring Residents Valuable Connections During COVID-19
When the CDC released its COVID-19 guidelines in mid-March, senior care residents were no longer able to have in-person visitors. The Maine Health Care Association (MHCA) took steps to help residents connect with the community, and the result is an innovative Creating Connections: E-Notes for Long Term Care program.
Inspiration for Creating Connections
Program Assistant Ashely Ellis explains that the inspiration for the program came after seeing another initiative established in another state. “As concerns about the spread of COVID-19 began to surface, visitation for nursing home residents was put on pause. At the same time, schools were closing and many children were now home, with parents looking for things for them to do,” she notes.
“We saw an opportunity to connect children at home with seniors unable to visit their loved ones. Over time it became apparent that community members of all ages were interested in sharing notes of encouragement with residents and we broadened our scope beyond just out-of-school children.”
Developing the Initiative
Ellis partnered with Nadine Grosso, Vice President and Director of Communications, to develop the initiative. “When considering how best to coordinate the effort, we wanted to be sure that the process was simple for all users,” she says. “We also wanted to be sure that we didn’t add any burden to nursing home staff during such a challenging time.”
Ellis and Grosso determined that the Activity Director would serve as the best point of contact for the program. That position had shifted dramatically with the reduction in communal activities, and instead, started to provide staff with positive messages they could share in smaller groups or with residents, individually.
“We created a short online submission form where children and families could submit a brief note or message, or attach a photo or artwork. From there we compiled all notes received and created a newsletter format document with the list of notes, which we distribute to the nursing homes directly on a weekly basis,” explains Ellis.
MHCA created a contact list of activity director emails. That list includes nearly 200 MHCA nursing home and assisted living providers, allowing the e-notes to reach residents all over the state.
Word about the initiative spread quickly. MHCA first shared the initiative through its membership contacts and through social media. It was shared with PTO groups and scouting groups, and a feature by WABI TV-5 also significantly helped to spread the word.
“The community response was strong over the months of March, April, and into early May,” says Ellis. “We received notes from all over the country, messages from therapy pets and their owners, children, farmers sharing photos of the signs of spring around them, as well as some funny (albeit charmingly corny) jokes.”
The program has been well-received by both residents and staff. “The feedback we received from the staff was very positive,” explains Ellis.
Activity directors have reported that the residents have enjoyed hearing that people were thinking about them and that people recognized the challenges they were facing while they couldn’t visit their loved ones in person.
You can learn more about Creating Connections: E-Notes for Long Term Care on the MHCA website.
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Eighty three years is a mere blink in history’s eye, but since my birth, October 26, 1930, I’ve watched many technology advances and medical research breakthroughs take place; some that have altered the way we live.
My five siblings and I were raised on a farm in the wilds of Oregon with no electricity and few modern conveniences. Coal oil lamps and kerosene lanterns lit the night. We bathed in a small tub in the kitchen with little privacy, drank water from a hand pump in the back yard, and made bathroom trips to a two-seater outhouse, using Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs for toilet paper.
For entertainment, we gathered around the battery-powered Zenith radio in the living room, listening to programs like The Shadow, Hit Parade, Jack Armstrong, and Richfield Reporter.
In 1938, we were finally connected to the electric grid. We quickly installed an electric water pump and built an inside shower and toilet. My siblings and I were amazed at how electricity had improved our lives.
In 1950, TV arrived in the area providing moving pictures in our home. This represented a game-changing new dimension in communications. Healthcare and medical products could now be presented to the public through programs and commercials; an important factor that many future followers believe was a major force in raising average life expectancy from 50 years in 1930 to nearly 80 by 2013.
Jet travel didn't exist in the 1930s; a five-day ocean trip was the main way to get to Europe. We rode horses and wagons in the early days; then as family finances improved, we were able to purchase a brand new '39 Desoto, which mostly ran on unpaved roads; but compared to our horse-drawn buggy, this was a dream. In contrast, today, we drive cars on superhighways loaded with the latest creature comforts.
After the Stock Market Crash in 1929, President Hoover announced that his stimulus plan of 1931, would save the nation; but he could not have been more wrong. America was about to enter "The Great Depression," which brought about soup lines, 25% unemployment, and an economy that nearly destroyed most working families. Crime, violence, and suicides made headlines almost daily.
In the late 1930s, President Roosevelt, emboldened by his fireside chats, the New Deal legislation, and an improved economy strengthened by the oncoming war in Europe; authorized the Manhattan Project, an aggressive effort to build an atomic bomb and use it to hasten the end of World War II.
Understanding atoms drove our nation's hi-tech prowess, launching the semiconductor industry, which in turn, created the personal computer that spawned the development of Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter, and Facebook, whose products have revolutionized our lives.
America's mastery of the physical world grew exponentially during the last century. Today, PCs, laptops, tablets, and 'smart' phones connected to an information-loaded Internet make intelligence available to everyone, which was a major influence in the recent Arab Spring rebellions against dictators.
So, if technologies have affected lives so drastically over the last 83 years, what might we expect as we trek through the future? The following predictions describe incredible possibilities:
2020s – Stem cell therapies, genetic engineering and bio-printers could replace damaged and aging organs, curing some diseases and adding healthy years to every lifespan. Dr. Anthony Atala explains.
2030s – Nanorobotics could be installed in countertop replicator machines that provide household necessities such as food, medicine, clothing, and appliances with no labor involved and low resource costs. In addition, according to nanotech expert Robert Freitas, tiny intelligent nanorobots could swim through our bodies, inspecting cells, making repairs to faulty DNA, eliminating nearly every disease.
Some say these 'nano miracles' will not just heal our ills; they will actually improve on nature. Bones, muscles, eyes, and ears will become stronger. We will enjoy daily life in bodies that would be considered 'superhuman' by 2013 standards. Green Lantern, Captain America, and The X-Men have arrived.
Moreover, Freitas says, by mid-2030s, nanorobots could eliminate aging and allow older people to recapture their youthful health, strength and beauty and enjoy an extended lifespan.
2050 – By mid-century, we can expect development of non-biological body parts, immune to disease, accidents, and violence. Should a disaster occur, consciousness could be transferred to a new 'housing unit' allowing life to continue. Patients would wake up in their new body not even realizing they had died.
2075 – Forward-thinkers predict that by 2075, nanobots could be launched into the sky to change the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, allowing the weather to be controlled. Say goodbye to dangerous storms and hello to "weather-on-demand." Sunshine and rain can now be directed to fall where needed.
2100 – Now, humanity could achieve what some describe as a Type I Civilization. Society will evolve from separate squabbling cultures into a peaceful global village working as one voice eager to explore the cosmos. We now utilize 100% of the sun's energy that strikes our planet, allowing development of warp-drive spaceships with faster-than-light-speed travel capabilities.
As we begin scattering our populations to the stars, real time forays to other Earth-like planets are now possible. By 2100, more than two billion people live or work offworld.
2150 – As advancing technologies enhance life's comforts and abilities in the high frontier, more people are opting for space life. Biological bodies can be genetically-engineered to adapt to the extreme temperatures, gravity requirements, and atmospheres of different space colonies. Those who have selected non-biological 'housing units,' can easily alter their bodies with voice or thought command.
Five billion people now call space home, leaving four billion on our third rock from the sun. One day, possibly by millennium's end, some predict there may be no humans left on Earth.
Will our world and lives unfold in this futuristic manner? Positive thinkers believe that most of the events suggested in this article could become reality within the time-frames suggested.
And here is the best part: technology breakthroughs predicted for the next three decades could enable nearly everyone alive today to remain in good health and personally experience this remarkable future, all the way through the 21st century and beyond. Anti-aging guru Aubrey de Grey believes the first people to achieve a 1,000 year lifespan are alive today. He could be talking about you. Get ready to be wowed! | <urn:uuid:dc12d7e2-dc88-4867-b8e9-02f91c1d38f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pelletier20131021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00472-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953556 | 1,378 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Study: 55M New Job Openings by 2020June 26, 2013 |
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Due to new jobs and continuing retirements among Baby Boomers, 55 million new job openings will be created between now and 2020, but the economy will fall short 5 million workers with the postsecondary degrees those jobs require.
So says a new study released Wednesday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
“That 5 million person shortage will get filled. People will get hired,” said center director Anthony Carnevale. “Employers will find ways to substitute the people they can get for the people they need, maybe use a little technology and so on.
“But in the end, our bias is the system needs to be more efficient,” Carnevale said of higher education and the speed at which it graduates students.
Others cast doubts on the projections in the study, titled Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements through 2020.
Among the skeptics is Joshua Hall, associate director of the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, which recently found that about 48 percent of employed U.S. college graduates are in jobs that require less than a four-year college education.
Hall said as an economist, he is “very skeptical” of anything that projects a shortfall in something “without very clear reasons why there is a shortfall since, other things equal, people will adjust to meet demand.”
“For example, if more people start eating more kale, do we need to worry that there are not acres devoted to kale?” Hall asked. “No, because farmers have an incentive to change what they plant to meet this change in customer demands.”
Carnevale acknowledged that people eventually find out by word of mouth which jobs require what kind of education and respond accordingly.
“But well-informed word of mouth is better than word of mouth,” Carnevale said, lending his support to the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act, which would create databases that enable people to see how much they are likely to earn if they obtain a certain type of postsecondary degree.
“I think it’s really just primitive that we don’t have this information,” Carnevale said of the act, which he referred to as the “legislative piece” of helping higher education become more efficient.
The new Georgetown study found that, of the 55 million expected job vacancies between now and 2020, 24 million will be for new jobs and 31 million will be due to retirements among Baby Boomers.
The report says 65 percent of job vacancies in the coming decade will require “some postsecondary education and training.”
Within those jobs, the report says:
- 6 million jobs will require a graduate degree.
- 13 million jobs will require a baccalaureate degree.
- 7 million jobs will require an associate degree.
- 5 million jobs will require a postsecondary certificate.
- 10 million jobs will require some college credit.
- 20 million jobs will not require education beyond high school.
In the fastest growing occupations — that is, health care professional and technical, STEM, education and community services — 80 percent of the jobs will require postsecondary education. Healthcare support occupations are the exception, the study says, in that only 59 percent of jobs will require some postsecondary and training.
The report also shows which occupations are growing or declining within each state and what level of education people need to obtain those jobs.
Whereas in a previous Georgetown report, only 19 states were above the national level of 65 percent of jobs that require postsecondary education, in this year’s report, 32 states and the District of Columbia are expected to be at or above that level.
Specifically, the report found that:
- Jobs in the District of Columbia will have the highest concentration of postsecondary education in 2020.
- The highest proportion of bachelor’s degree jobs and graduate degree jobs will be concentrated in the Northeast.
- Jobs for workers with some college or an associate degree will be dispersed throughout the country.
- Jobs for high school graduates or dropouts will be concentrated in the Southern states.
The report also deals with positive growth in manufacturing for the first time in decades, which Carnevale said is largely due to lower energy prices and the benefits of the infrastructure located on American soil.
“When you do calculations and add energy and transportation costs and costs in available infrastructure and so on, in many cases, the U.S. looks like the place to do business,” Carnevale said.
Of the projected jobs growth, he said: “The bottom line is we have a recovery, and whatever was awful before will only be bad now, and whatever was good will be great.”Semantic Tags: Academic Degrees • Advanced Placement • Business • Computing • Deans & Directors • Education • Financial Aid • Graduation rates • Hispanics/Latino • Immigration • International Students | <urn:uuid:dbc97325-d8d9-48fa-9e22-98ef7e4af85e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://diverseeducation.com/article/54222/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950847 | 1,046 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote late Friday on a draft resolution that will call for Syria to give up its chemical weapons arsenal.
The timing of a vote depends on when the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons can adopt a plan for securing and destroying Syria's stockpile. The world's top chemical weapons monitoring group is meeting in The Hague.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told VOA Syria will support the resolution "as long as it is according to our commitment when we joined the agreement." He said the Syrian government is "seriously committed to fulfill our obligations."
The United States and Russia agreed Thursday on the language of the Security Council resolution, following weeks of talks about how to ensure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complies with the disarmament plan.
The draft resolution gives inspectors access to Syria's chemical weapons sites but does not threaten military force.
Russia, an ally of Mr. Assad's government, had opposed the inclusion of military action or sanctions should Syria fail to comply.
On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama called the resolution a "huge victory" for the international community. He said it is a "legally binding" and "verifiable" initiative that threatens consequences if Syria does not adhere to conditions.
The resolution calls for inspections within 30 days at all chemical weapons sites declared by Syria's government. International experts are supposed to begin inspecting Syria's chemical arsenal by Tuesday
The resolution also requires Mr. Assad to give up his chemical weapons by mid-2014.
In violence Friday, activists said a car bomb killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens in the town of Rankus, just north of Damascus. Rankus is a Sunni town in a region mostly under control of rebels trying to overthrow Mr. Assad's government.
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Here’s a nifty little math puzzle I came up with recently.
There are three sets of parallel lines on a 2D surface (plane). Each set contains an infinite number of lines, and each line is infinite.
The parallel lines in each set are spaced a constant perpendicular distance from each other. For the first set (blue), this constant distance is d1. For the second set (green), the distance is d2. For the third set (orange), the distance is d3. Also, the angular orientation of the second and third sets with respect to the first set is given by θ1 and θ2. These variables are shown in the “zoomed” illustration below.
Whenever one line crosses over another line, this is an intersection. When three lines cross at a single point, this is considered three intersections; line 1 intersects line 2, line two intersects line 3, and line 3 intersects line 1.
Note that if θ1 and θ2 equal each other, lines from sets 2 and 3 will be parallel and will either not intersect each other or will intersect each other at every point along their lines. If θ1 and θ2 equal 0° or 180°, their sets will be parallel to set 1, and we will have the same issue. Thus, for the purposes of this puzzle, assume that 0° < θ1 < θ2 < 180°.
Also, assume that d1, d2, d3 ≠ 0.
My puzzle is this:
Find an expression that gives the average number of intersections per some area, A, for all possible cases of d1, d2, d3, θ1, and θ2. In other words, if area (A) is known, I should be able to plug it into the expression to get the average number of points in that area.
A Truth (possibly helpful, possibly not):
For any finite area, A, a finite number of intersections exists. As this area increases, the average number of intersections within that area also increases. When area (and thus the number of intersections) approaches infinity, the ratio of intersections to area converges to the average value of intersections per area. This value is the solution to this puzzle.
If you need clarification, feel free to ask in the comments below.
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late 13c., "to follow with hostile intent," from Anglo-French pursuer and directly from Old French poursuir (Modern French poursuivre), variant of porsivre "to chase, pursue, follow; continue, carry on," from Vulgar Latin *prosequare, from Latin prosequi "follow, accompany, attend; follow after, escort; follow up, pursue," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + sequi "follow" (see sequel). Meaning "to proceed, to follow" (a path, etc.), usually figurative (a course of action, etc.), is from late 14c. This sense also was in Latin. Related: Pursued; pursuing. For sense, cf. prosecute. | <urn:uuid:2aecd38a-1553-4ddf-8eb6-1c6ff316aa31> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pursuable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00538-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931379 | 155 | 2.484375 | 2 |
We all know that doing exercise, singing or dancing in a group environment can be much more fun than going it alone. However, it has also been proven that there are numerous physical and mental health benefits as well. So, if you’re looking for another excuse to get together with friends for some fun and fitness at danceSing, here it is…
Being surrounded by a group of like-minded individuals who are all there for the same reason, can be inspiring and keep you motivated. Whether you’re exercising, dancing or singing with friends, they will keep you going and push you to dig deeper to be the very best version of yourself. At danceSing, our leaders and members are all extremely supportive of one another and you will always feel welcome and supported throughout your danceSing journey.
Not only does exercising in a group provide great physical and mental health benefits, but it also keeps us social. Loneliness and isolation is a growing problem, especially in the older generation, but it shouldn’t be that way. Going along to a group activity that you enjoy, just once or twice a week, can make all the difference and can help you develop lifelong friendships with people who are often going through the same feelings. We encourage our members to meet up for coffee and socialise out with classes too, and we are thrilled to see so many amazing friendships forming through danceSing.
How often have you been close to cancelling last minute because you ‘just don’t feel like it’? It’s easy to do so when you’re going it alone, but when you’re attending with friends there is much more accountability! Nobody likes to let their friends down, so setting a goal to do one to two classes a week with a friend is much more likely to happen than if you’re going solo.
Singing, dancing and doing fitness activity in a group can help to lower stress levels significantly. A number of studies have found that singing in a choir can improve oxytocin levels, the hormone which controls stress and anxiety. Many participants of choirs have also been found to leave the diagnostic category of depression after singing in a group for just a few months. Dancing in a group environment can also make you feel liberated, and relieved of any negative build up whilst significantly boosting endorphins (the feel-good hormone), leaving you feeling fantastic all round.
Singing, dancing and getting fit with friends really can have a positive impact on your life. If you’re feeling inspired, we’d love to welcome you along to a danceSing Taster Week. Find out more and find the perfect class for you here.
Did you know, introducing light exercise/activity in the workplace can boost employee productivity by 21%? Not only this, it also increases motivation, concentration and overall staff morale. We offer bespoke corporate danceSing classes to suit the needs of your staff, no matter how big or small! Get in touch to find out more. | <urn:uuid:ed3450b1-8394-4c91-90bd-25239c502e87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dance-sing.uk/benefits-of-group-activity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.95928 | 618 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Potter Valley Tribe is in line to get several hundred acres of former PG&E property along the Eel River in Mendocino County. The recommendation comes from the Stewardship Council, set up in 2004 as part of a settlement agreement between PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission.
At the May 2 board meeting in Chico, the Council approved the following fee title donee recommendation made by its Watershed Planning Committee to donate approximately 723 acres of PG&E land along the north side of the Eel River, from the lower Eel River Bridge up the river about one and a half miles. The area includes upper forested land and much of the Trout Creek watershed.
The Potter Valley Tribe says it sees the acquisition of land along the Eel River as presenting an opportunity to own land within its ancestral range. It will also, say tribal leaders allow them improve "education and youthelder involvement through development of cultural resource educational facilities; vocational training as camping facilities are expanded, summer environmental camps for all ages of youth; and restoration of the fisheries through cooperation with interested entities." Also, the tribe says it would like to participate with other tribes and community youth programs interested in coordinating efforts to educate the broader community of the unique history and culture of local Native American people.
Chairman Salvador Rosales gave the following statement at the board meeting:
The Potter Valley Tribe is both pleased and honored to have the opportunity to return traditional tribal stewardship to the Eel River watershed land," said tribal Chairman Salvador Rosales. "We look forward to working with the Stewardship Council to develop a partnership for the permanent protection of the watershed lands. We are committed to working with interested partners and the community to protect, manage, and enhance the watershed lands for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Stewardship Council is a private non-profit foundation with a board of 18 members made up of representatives from: state and federal agencies, water districts, tribal and rural interests, forest and farm industry groups, conservation organizations, the California Public Utilities Commission, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
The Stewardship Council was formed as part of a PG&E settlement agreement with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). This agreement establishes that 140,000 acres of PG&E's watershed lands will be donated to qualified entities and conserved in perpetuity for:
? outdoor recreation
? natural resource protection
? sustainable forestry
? open space preservation
? protection of historic and cultural resources
In addition to overseeing the conservation of these watershed lands, the Stewardship Council's job was expanded by the CPUC to include the creation of the Youth Investment Program. This program will provide $30 million in funding over ten years to programs that provide outdoor opportunities for underserved youth or enhance parks and recreation areas.
Indian gaming is not an allowed use for this land, according to the Potter Valley Tribe.
In 1958, Congress passed the first "Rancheria Act," and 41 Rancherias in California were terminated. Throughout California, 7,601 acres of trust lands were terminated, and 1,330 Native people killed. The Potter Valley Rancheria was formally terminated on August 1, 1961. This revoked the Tribe's federal status, excluded members from further assistance as Indians, and distributed land assignments to eligible members. This placed the land in fee simple status, allowing members to live on or dispose of the property ? and be subject to property taxes for the first time in history. One 10 acre parcel purchased in 1892 continued to be occupied by Potter Valley Pomo Indians and their descendants. Properties of the original Rancheria were sold over the years; there are only one or two properties still belonging to the descendants of the Indians who lived there. The Rancheria is still erroneously shown on road maps.
In 1979, tribes throughout northern California counties sued in the United States District Court. The lawsuit alleged that the federal government had illegally terminated 17 Indian tribes. This lawsuit, Tillie Hardwick, et. al. v. United States, U.S. Dist. Court, Northern Dist. of California, No. C-79-1710-SW, has become noteworthy in northern California. The Potter Valley Tribe, and other California tribes, are often referred to as "Tillie Hardwick Tribes."
On March 2, 1993 the Potter Valley Rancheria adopted a constitution and by-laws, establishing a Tribal Council and assuming governmental functions. The Potter Valley Tribe presently has an on-reservation service population of 31 people.
According to Gregg Young, the Tribal Environmental Director, the preparation of a Land Stewardship Plan and approval for donation of the Eel River property is an unprecedented opportunity and exciting challenge.
"The Potter Valley Tribe has a long history of seasonal settlements in the Eel River Planning Unit area, dating back to the pre-contact era," Young said. "The PVT has considerable assets and is uniquely qualified to contribute to the permanent protection of the watershed lands and the preservation and enhancement of the Stewardship Council's Beneficial Public Values associated with these watershed lands. As a federally-recognized Indian tribe, there are unique opportunities and resources available for resource planning and management, training of tribal members in land, water, and resource management, restoration of water and land resources, pollution prevention and cleanup, and assessment or planning activities the tribe is committed to working with land conservation partners, local stakeholders, governmental groups, the County of Mendocino, and the Potter Valley community to protect, manage, and enhance the key beneficial values of the watershed lands for future generations to share." | <urn:uuid:d88a0ef4-185c-41d2-adfa-f4fbe11ef83e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/general-news/20120511/potter-valley-tribe-to-get-700-acres-of-eel-river-property | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952819 | 1,148 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray, , at sacred-texts.com
THE cult was organized in as careful a manner as any other religious community; each district however was independent, and therefore Mather is justified in saying that the witches 'form themselves after the manner of Congregational Churches'.
The Chief or supreme Head of each district was known to the recorders as the 'Devil'. Below him in each district, one or more officers-according to the size of the district-were appointed by the chief. The officers might be either men or women; their duties were to arrange for meetings, to send out notices, to keep the record of work done, to transact the business of the community, and to present new members. Evidently these persons also noted any likely convert, and either themselves entered into negotiations or reported to the Chief, who then took action as opportunity served. At the Esbats the officer appears to have taken command in the absence of the Grand Master; at the Sabbaths the officers were merely heads of their own Covens, and were known as Devils or Spirits, though recognized as greatly inferior to the Chief. The principal officer acted as clerk at the Sabbath and entered the witches' reports in his book; if he were a priest or ordained minister, he often performed part of the religious service; but the Devil himself always celebrated the mass or sacrament. In the absence of all direct information on the subject, it seems likely that the man who acted as principal officer became Grand Master on the death of the previous Chief Occasionally the Devil appointed a personal attendant for himself, who waited upon him on all solemn occasions, but does not appear to have held any official position in the community.
[1. Cotton Mather, p. 160.]
Estebene de Cambrue (1567) said that 'elle a veu au Sabbat vn Notaire qu'elle nomme, lequel a accoustumé de leuer les defauts de celles qui ont manqué de se trouuer au Sabbat.' At the North Berwick meetings (1590), there were several officers, of whom Fian was the chief
'Robert Griersoun being namit, they all ran hirdie-girdie and wer angrie: for it wes promisit he sould be callit "Rot the Comptroller, alias Rob the Rowar," for expreming of his name.--Johnne Fiene wes ewer nerrest to the Devill, att his left elbok; Gray Meill kepit the dur.--The accusation of the saide Geillis Duncane aforesaide, who confessed he [Fian] was their Regester, and that there was not one man suffered to come to the Divels readinges but onelie hee.--[Fian's confession] That at the generall meetinges of those witches, he was always present; that he was clarke to all those that were in subiection to the Divels service, bearing the name of witches; that alway hee did take their oathes for their true service to the Divell; and that he wrote for them such matters as the Divell still pleased to commaund him.'
Elizabeth Southerns, otherwise known as old Mother Demdike (1613), 'was generall agent for the Deuill in all these partes'. The 'eminent warlok' Robert Grieve of Lauder (1649) 'was brought to a Confession of his being the Devils Officer in that Countrey for warning all Satans Vassals to come to the Meetings, where, and whensoever the Devil required. . . . The Devil gave him that charge, to be his Officer to warn all to the meetings; (as was said before,) in which charge he continued for the space of eighteen years and more.' The evidence concerning Isobel Shyrie at Forfar (1661) is too long to quote, but it is clear that she acted as the officer. Isobel Gowdie (1662) says definitely, 'Johne Young, in Mebestowne, is Officer to owr Coeven', and remarks in another part of her confession that 'Johne Yownge in Mebestowne, owr Officer, did drywe the plewghe'. The only indication of a change of personnel, is given by Janet Breadheid, of the same Coven as Isobel Gowdie.
[1. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 123.
2. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 219, 220, 239, 240.
3. Potts, B 2.
4. Sinclair, pp. 46, 47.
5. Kinloch, pp. 124, 129.
6. Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 605.]
'Johne Taylor, my husband, was then Officer, bot Johne Young in Mebestoune, is now Officer to my Coeven. Quhan I cam first ther, the Divell called tham all be thair names, on the book; and my husband, than called thame at the door. . . . Whan we haid Great Meittingis, Walter Ledy, in Penick, my husband, and Alexander Elder, nixt to the Divell, wer Ruleris; and quhan ther wold be but fewar, I my self, the deceassit Jean Suthirland, Bessie Hay, Bessie Wilsone, and Janet Burnet wold rule thaim.'
In Somerset (1664) Anne Bishop appears to have been the chief personage under the Devil, in other words the Officer. At Paisley (1678) Bessie Weir 'was Officer to their several meetings.--Bessie Weir did intimate to him [John Stewart], that there was a meeting to be at his house the next day: And that the Devil under the shape of a black man, Margaret Jackson, Margery Craige, and the said Bessie Weir, were to be present. And that the said Bessie Weir required the Declarant to be there, which he promised.' In New England (1692) it appears that both Bridget Bishop and Martha Carrier held high rank, and were probably Officers.
One duty seems to have been delegated to a particular individual, who might perhaps hold no other office, or who might, on the other hand, be the chief official; this was the manager, often the leader, of the dance. As pace seems to have been an essential in the dance, the leader was necessarily active and generally young. At North Berwick (1590) 'John Fein mussiled led the ring'. In Aberdeen (1596) Thomas Leyis was the chief person in the dance; 'thow the said Thomas was formest and led the ring, and dang the said Kathren Mitchell, becaus scho spillet your dans, and ran nocht so fast about as the rest.' Isobel Cockie of the same Coven was next in importance; 'in the quhilk danse, thow was the ringleader nixt Thomas Leyis.' Mr. Gideon Penman (1678), who had once been minister at Crighton, went to the Sabbaths, where the Devil spoke of him as 'Mr. Gideon, my chaplain'. The witches said that 'ordinarily Mr. Gideon was
[1. Pitcairn, iii, p. 617.
2. Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 139, 147, 148.
3. Id., pt. ii, pp. 291, 293.
4. Pitcairn, i, pt. iii, p. 246.
5. Spalding Club Misc., pp. 97, 98.
6. Ib., p. 115.
7. Fountainhall, i, p. 14.]
in the rear in all their dances, and beat up those that were slow'. This Mr. Gideon seems to be the same person as the 'warlock who formerly had been admitted to the ministrie in the Presbyterian times, and now he turnes a preacher under the devill.--This villan was assisting to Satan in this action' [giving the sacrament]' and in preaching."
The personal attendant of the Devil is rare. At Aberdeen (1596) Issobell Richie was accused that 'at that tyme thow ressauit thy honours fra the Dewyll, thy maister, and wer appoynted be him in all tymes thairefter, his speciall domestick servand and furriour'. John McWilliarn Sclater (1656) was appointed cloak-bearer to the Devil.
The Devil's piper was also an official appointment in Scotland, but does not occur elsewhere. John Douglas of Tranent (1659) was the Devil's piper and so also was a man mentioned by Sinclair: 'A reverend Minister told me, that one who was the Devils Piper, a wizzard confest to him, that at a Ball of dancing, the Foul Spirit taught him a Baudy song to sing and play.'
The Queen of the Sabbath may perhaps be considered as an official during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though in early times she was probably the chief personage in the cult, as Pearson has pointed out. It is not unlikely that she was originally the same as the Queen of Elf hame; in Scotland, however, in the seventeenth century, there is a Maiden of the Coven, which was an important position in the Esbat but entirely distinct from the Queen of Faery, while in other places a woman, not the Queen, is often the officer and holds the highest place after the Grand Master.
Elizabeth Stile of Windsor (1579) said that 'mother Seidre dwelling in the Almeshouse, was the maistres Witche of all the reste'. Marion Grant of Aberdeen (1597) confessed that 'the Devill thy maister causit the dans sindrie tymes with him and with Our Ladye, quha, as thow sayes, was a fine woman, cled in a quhyte walicot'. In France (1609) the
[1. Law p. 145.
2. Spalding Club. Misc., i, p. 142.
3. Spottiswoode Misc., ii, p. 67.
4. Ib., ii, p. 68.
5. Sinclair, p. 219.
6. Pearson, ii, p. 26.
7. Rehearsall, par. 26.
8. Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 171.]
custom seems to have been universal, 'en chasque village trouuer vne Royne du Sabbat', who sat at the Devil's left hand during the celebration of the mass and received the offerings of the faithful. The witches called her both the Grande Maîtresse and the Reine du Sabbat. Isobel Gowdie's confession (1662) shows that the Queen of Elthame was not the same as the chief woman of the Coven, for she saw the Queen only on going into the fairy-howe, while the Maiden of the Coven was at each meeting. 'We doe no great mater without owr Maiden.--Quhan we ar at meat, or in any vther place quhateuir, the Maiden of each Coven sittis abow the rest, nixt the Divell.' In New England (1692) Deliverance Hobbs confessed that 'the said G.B. preached to them, and such a woman was their Deacon'.
The word coven is a derivative of 'convene', and is variously spelt coven, coeven, covine, cuwing, and even covey. The special meaning of the word among the witches is a 'band' or 'company', who were set apart for the practice of the rites of the religion and for the performance of magical ceremonies; in short, a kind of priesthood.
The Coven was composed of men and women, belonging to one district, though not necessarily all from one village, and was ruled by an officer under the command of the Grand Master. The members of the Coven were apparently bound to attend the weekly Esbat; and it was they who were instructed in and practised magical arts, and who performed all the rites and ceremonies of the cult. The rest of the villagers attended the Esbats when they could or when they felt so inclined, but did not necessarily work magic, and they attended the Sabbaths as a matter of course. This view of the organization of the religion is borne out by the common belief in modern France:
'Il est de croyance générale qu'il faut un nombre fixe de sorciers et de sorcières dans chaque canton. Le nouvel initié reprend les vieux papiers de l'ancien.--Les mauvaises
[1. De Lancre, L'Incredulité, p. 36.
2. Id., Tableau, p. 401.
3. Pitcairn, iii, pp. 610, 613.
4 Burr, p. 417.]
gens forment une confrérie qui est dirigée par une sorcière. Celle-ci a la jarretière comme marque de sa dignité. Elles se la transmettent successivement par rang d'ancienneté. Il n'existe que cette différence de rang entre les sorciers et les sorcières. Ceux-là se recrutent aussi bien parmi les gens mariés que chez les célibataires.'
The 'fixed number' among the witches of Great Britain seems to have been thirteen: twelve witches and their officer. The actual numbers can be obtained, as a rule, only when the full record of the trial is available; for when several witches in one district are brought to trial at the same time they will always be found to be members of a Coven, and usually the other members of the Coven are implicated or at least mentioned.
The earliest account of a Coven is in the trial of Bessie Dunlop (1567); when Thom Reid was trying to induce her to join the society, he took her 'to the kill-end, quhair he forbaid her to speik or feir for onye thing sche hard or saw; and quhene thai had gane ane lyfle pece fordwerd, sche saw twelf persounes, aucht wemene and four men: The men wer cled in gentilmennis clething, and the wemene had all plaiddis round about thame and wer verrie semelie lyke to se; and Thom was with thame.' Clearly this was a Coven with Thom as the Officer, and he had brought Bessie to see and be seen. The witches tried at St. Osyth in Essex in 1582 were thirteen in number. At the meeting of the North Berwick witches (1590) to consult on the means to compass the king's death, nine witches stood 'in ane cumpany', and the rest 'to the nowmer of threttie persons in ane vthir cumpany'; in other words, there were thirty-nine persons, or three Covens, present. At Aberdeen (1596-7) sixty-four names of witches occur in the trials; of these, seven were merely mentioned as being known to the accused, though not as taking part in the ceremonies, and five were acquitted; thus leaving fifty-two persons, or four Covens. Out of these fifty-two, one was
[1. Lemoine, La Tradition, 1892, vi, pp. 108, 109. The italics are in the original.
2. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 52.
3. Witches taken at St. Oses.
4. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 245.]
condemned and executed at the assize in 1596 and twelve in 1597, making in all thirteen persons, or one Coven, who were put to death. The great trial of the Lancashire witches in 1613 gives a grand total of fifty-two witches, or four Covens, whose names occur in the record. This includes the three Salmesbury witches mentioned by Grace Sowerbuts, whose evidence was discredited as being the outcome of a 'Popish plot' to destroy the three women as converts to the Reformed Church; but as the record shows that the other accused witches were tried on similar charges and condemned, it may be concluded that other causes occasioned the acquittal. Taking together, however, only those witches who are mentioned, in these trials, as having actually taken part in the ceremonies and practices of witchcraft in the neighbourhood of Pendle, it will be found that there were thirty-nine persons, or three Covens. In Guernsey in 1617 Isabel Becquet confessed that--
'at the Sabbath the Devil used to summon the Wizards and Witches in regular order (she remembered very well having heard him call the old woman Collette the first, in these terms: Madame the Old Woman Becquette): then the woman Fallaise; and afterwards the woman Hardie. Item, he also called Marie, wife of Massy, and daughter of the said Collette. Said that after them she herself was called by the Devil: in these terms: The Little Becquette: she also heard him call there Collas Becquet, son of the said old woman (who [Collas] held her by the hand in dancing, and some one [a woman] whom she did not know, held her by the other hand): there were about six others there she did not know.'
At Queensferry in 1644 thirteen women were tried and seven executed for witchcraft.
At Alloa (1658), though thirteen persons, or one Coven, were brought to trial, the word is used to indicate a smaller number: 'Margret Duchall lykewayis declared that ther was sex women mair besyd hir self that was in thair cuwing' [then follow the names of the six].--'Jonet Blak confessed severall meetings with the abowenamed cuwing.--Kathren Renny being asked quhat meetingis scho
[1. Spalding Club Misc., i, pp. 87 seq.
3. Goldsmid, p. 13. Translated from the French record.
4. Fyfe, p. 87.]
had with the diwell, and the rest of hir cuwing, scho ansuered scho had severall meitingis with all tham abowenamed.' Little Jonet Howat of Forfar (1661) said, 'Ther was thair present with the divell besyd hirselfe, quhom he callit the prettie dauncer, the said Issobell Syrie, Mairie Rynd, Hellen Alexander, Issobell Dorward, and utheris whoise names shoe did not know, to the number of 13 of all.' The trial of Jonet Kerr and Issobell Ramsay at Edinburgh (1661) gives the names of thirteen persons, or one Coven. At Crook of Devon (1662) there 'were tried twelve women and one man, i.e. one Coven. Isobel Gowdie of Auldearne (1662) gives the most detail concerning the Covens: 'Jean Mairten is Maiden of owr Coeven. Johne Younge is Officer to owr Coeven.--Ther ar threttein persons in ilk Coeven.' Her evidence shows that there were several Covens in the district:, The last tyme that owr Coven met, we, and an vther Coven, wer dauncing at the Hill of Earlseat, and befor that we ves beyond the Meikle-burne; and the vther Coven being at the Downie-hillis, we went besyd them.--[She and four others] with the Divell, wer onlie at the making of it [a charm], bot all the multitude of all owr Coevens got notice of it, at the next meitting . . . all my owin Coeven gott notice of it werie schortlie.' She also notes that each member of her Coven 'has an Sprit to wait wpon ws, quhan ve pleas to call wpon him'. Janet Breadheid, of the same Coven as Isobel Gowdie, gives the names of thirty-nine persons, or three Covens, who were present in the Kirk of Nairn when she was admitted into the Society. In Somerset (1664) the number of accused was twenty-six persons, or two Covens. At Newcastle-on-Tyne (1673) Ann Armstrong stated that at the meeting at the 'rideing house in the close on the common' she saw ten men and women whom she knew and 'thre more, whose names she knowes not'. At another meeting 'at Rideing Millne bridg-end she see the said Anne Forster, Anne Dryden, and
[1. Scottish Antiquary, ix, pp. 50-2.
2. Kinloch, p. 114.
3. From the record of the trial in the Edinburgh Justiciary Court.
4. Burns Begg, pp. 219 seq.
5. Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603-17.
6. Glanvil. pt. ii; pp. 140 seq.]
Luce Thompson, and tenne more, unknowne to her.--Att the house of John Newton off the Riding, the said Lucy wished that a boyl'd capon with silver scrues might come down to her and the rest, which were five coveys consisting of thirteen person in every covey. At a large meeting at Allensford, where a great many witches were present, 'every thirteen of them had a divell with them in sundry shapes.' It is also noticeable that Ann Armstrong mentions twenty-six persons by name as having been at various meetings to her knowledge. At Paisley (1692) thirteen persons of high position brought an action for libel against six others for saving that they, the thirteen, had drunk the Devil's health in the house of one of them; the libellers were punished, but the number of persons libelled suggests that the accusation' might have been true."'
An important part of the organization was the system of reporting to the Grand Master everything which had happened since the previous Great Assembly. The chief work of the Covens was the performance of magical rites, either publicly at the Esbats or privately in the houses of the witches and their neighbours. As these rites, especially when performed privately, were more or less in the nature of experiments, the results were reported and when successful were recorded in writing for future use. The book in which the records were made remained in the hands of the Devil, who in this way had always a store of well-tried magical spells and recipes to kill or cure, from which he could instruct his followers as occasion demanded.
The position of the Devil as the instructor of the witches is to be found in most of the trials in Great Britain. Cooper states this plainly: 'He deliuers unto his Proselite, and so to the rest, the Rules of his Art, instructing them in the manner of hurting and helping, and acquainting them with such medicines and poysons as are vsuall herevnto.'. Bessie Dunlop (1567) never attempted to cure any disease without
[1. Surtees Soc., xl, pp. 191, 192; Denham Tracts, ii, pp. 300-2, 304.
2. Hector, i, pp. 51-6.
3. Cooper, Mystery, pp. 90-2.]
first consulting Thom Reid, 'quhen sundrie persounes cam to hir to seik help for thair beist, thair kow or yow, or for ane barne that was tane away with ane evill blast of wind, or elf-grippit, sche gait and sperit at Thom, Quhat mycht help thame?--Sche culd do nathing, quhill sche had first spokin with Thom.' Alison Peirson (1588) learnt her craft from Mr. William Simpson, her mother's brother's son, who lived among the fairy folk; 'the saide Mr Williame tauld hir of ewerie seiknes and quhat herbis scho sould tak to haill thame, and how scho sould vse thame; and gewis hir his directioune att all tymes." Agnes Sampson, the Wise Wife of Keith (1590), always asked the Devil's advice in serious cases; ' she had a familiar spirit, who upon her call, did appear in a visible form, and resolve her of any doubtful matter, especially concerning the life or death of persons lying sick.' Grissel Gairdner of Newburgh (1610) was executed for consulting with the [Devil], and seiking of responssis fra him, at all tymes this fourtene or fyftene 3eir bygane, for effectuating of hir devillisch intentiones'. Elspeth Reoch in Orkney (1616) confessed that the fairy man, whom she met, told her 'he wald lerne her to ken and sie ony thing she wald desyre'. Isobel Haldane of Perth (1623) also obtained all her information as to life and death from the man with the 'grey beird' whom she met among the fairy folk. Jonet Rendall, another Orkney witch (1629), stated that 'the devill apperit to you, Quhom ye called Walliman, claid in quhyt cloathis with ane quhyt head and ane gray beard, And said to you He sould learne yow to win almiss be healling of folk'. Sandie Hunter was only moderately successful in curing cattle till he covenanted with the Devil, who 'came to him in the form of a Mediciner, and said, Sandie, you have too long followed my trade, and never acknowledged me for your Master. You must now take on with me, and be my servant, and I will make you more perfect in your Calling. Whereupon the man gave up himself to the Devil. After this, he grew
[1. Pitcairn, ii, pp. 53, 54.
2. Id., ii, p. 164.
3. Id., ii, p. 230.
4. Id., iii, p. 96.
5. County Folklore, iii, p. 112; Mait. Cl. Misc., ii, p. 188.
6. Pitcairn, ii, p. 537.
7. County Folklore, iii, p. 103.]
very famous throw the Countrey, for his Charming and cureing of diseases in Men and Beasts.' ''Reginald Scot says that the witches were taught by the Devil to make magical ointments, and that he 'supplied their want of powders and roots to intoxicate withal'. It was the Devil who pointed out which graves were to be opened in order to obtain the material for working magic; and when the bodies had been exhumed and dismembered, he told the witches how to use the fragments. It was the Devil who made or baptized the wax and clay images, and who stuck the first thorn or pin into them. It was the Devil who held the mock plough at Auldearne, and taught the witches of that place all the charms they knew. 'We get all this power from the Divell', says Isobell Gowdie. It was the Devil who instigated and superintended the wrecking of the bridge at Cortaquhie, concerning which Helen Guthrie said, 'shee her selfe, Jonnet Stout, and others of them did thrust ther shoulderis againest the bridge', and Isobel Smyth confessed, 'Wee all rewed that meitting, for wee hurt our selves lifting.'
The book in which the magical recipes were recorded must have been of great value to its owner, and one which he would not willingly allow to pass out of his hands. A volume of this kind was known to be extant till the beginning of the last century; it was called the Red Book of Appin. There are two stories as to how it was taken from the Devil, but both stories agree that it was obtained by a trick. It was in manuscript and contained charms for the cure of cattle, and was consulted when cows were bewitched and refused to give milk. It was also supposed to confer magical powers on the owner, who was said to know what the inquiry would be before the inquirer opened his lips; and it was in itself so magical that the owner had to wear a hoop of iron on his head when turning its leaves. Another Devil's-book was carried away, apparently as a joke, by Mr. Williamson of
[1. Sinclair, p. 122.
2. Scot, Bk. III, p. 43.
3. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 211, 2-39, 245-6.
4. Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 293-5.
5. Id., pt. ii, pp. 137-8.
6. Id., pt. ii, pp. 293-5.
7. Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 605 seq.
8. Kinloch, pp. 122, 133.
9. Campbell, pp. 293-4.]
Cardrona, who took it from the witches as they danced on Minchmoor, but they followed him and he returned it.'
The system of reporting everything to the Chief of the community makes it certain that he was supplied with such current information as made his knowledge of public and private affairs appear miraculous to the uninitiated. Even those who supplied that information had firm faith in his supernatural power to kill or cure, and believed with equal ardour in the charms which he taught them to make and use.
In reviewing the evidence it seems clear that the witches of the Covens were bound to exercise their powers in the intervals between the meetings; they were bound to attend those meetings, unless absolutely prevented, in order to learn new methods as well as to make their reports; and they were bound to obey the Grand Master's orders and to treat him with the deference and respect due to his exalted position.
Discipline was maintained by a system of rewards and punishments, enforced or relaxed according to the personal character of the Chief. As a rule only the severer punishments are recorded, but occasionally there are indications of minor chastisements.
The contemporary writers make the system of rewards and punishments very clear:
'Satan calleth them togither into a Diuelish Sinagoge, and that he may also vnderstand of them howe well and diligently they haue fulfilled their office of intoxicating committed vnto them, and whõ they haue slaine.' 'Such as are absent, and have no care to be assoygned, are amerced to this paenalty, so to be beaten on the palms of their feete, to be whipt with iron rods, to be pincht and suckt by their Familiars till their heart blood come, till they repent them of their sloath, and promise more attendance and diligence for the future.' 'Taking account also of the proceedings of his other Schollers, and so approuing or condemning accordingly.' Sometimes at their
[1. Berwickshire Naturalists Club, xi, p. 265. Unfortunately the author of the article gives neither her authority for the statement, nor any indication of the date of the occurrence.
2. Danaeus, ch. iv.
3. Gaule, p, 65.
4. Cooper, p. 91.]
solemn assemblies, the Devil commands, that each tell what wickedness he hath committed, and according to the hainousness and detestableness of it, he is honoured and respected with a general applause. Those on the contrary, that have done no evil, are beaten and punished.'
The usual punishment was beating, which was inflicted for various offences, 'chiefly disrespect or neglect of duty. At Arras in 1460 Jean Tacquet, a rich eschevin, 'had endeavoured to withdraw his allegiance from Satan who had forced him to continue it by beating him cruelly with a bull's pizzle.' In Lorraine (1589) the Grand Master seems to have been peculiarly brutal:
'Jana Gerardina, Catharina Russa, und Francisca Fellaea bezeugten, dass sie mehr als einmal schwerlich mit harten Streichen hätten büssen müssen, wenn sie keinen Schaden oder Unglück angestifft hätten. Und wie Nicolaea Morelia sagt, hat er sie dermassen zerschlagen, dass ihr der Athem davon ausgeblieben, und sie bey nahe gestorben wäre; Uber welches sich dann nicht zu verwundern sey, sintemahl er eiserne Hände habe, mit denen er ihnen so unbarmhertzig die Köpffe zerschlagen, dass sie deren nicht mehr empfinden.'
In the Lyons district (1598) 'les; Sorciers rendent conte à Satan de ce qu'ils ont fait dés la derniere assemblée, estans ceux là les mieux venus qui ont commis le plus de meschancetez. Les autres sont sifflez & mocquez de tous; l'on les fait mettre à l'escart, & sont encor le plus soutient battus & maltraitez de leur Maistre'. According to Bodin, 'chacun Sorcier doit rendre compte du mal qu'il a faict sur peine d'estre bien battu.' De Lancre says, 'Les Sorciers le vont adorer trois nuicts durant. Ceux qui par nonchalance, ou autre petit empeschement ne s'y trouuent, sont foüettez & battus à l'outrance.' Alexander Hamilton (1630) stated that 'thair was ane new tryst appointed be him to be keipit wt thame altogidder within xiii days thereftir upon the cauldbit mure Quhilk meitting was nocht keipit be the said Alexr for the quhilk caus and breking of that tryst the said Alexr was
[1. Pleasant Treatise, pp. 6-7.
2. Lea, iii, p. 525.
3. Remigius, pt. i, cap. xiii. p. 59.
4. Boguet, p. 139.
5. Bodin, p. 189.
6. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 398.]
maist rigorouslie strukin be the devill wt ane battoun at ane meitting keipit betuix thame schortlie thereftir upone gairnetoune hillis'. In France (1652) two sisters were tried for witchcraft: 'Icelle confesse n'avoir faict mourir qu'un vaulx et d'avoir été battu par le diable, deux fois, parce qu'elle ne vouloit faire mourir aultres personnes et bestiault.' The other sister was 'interrogée sy le diable ne luy avoit conseillé de cracher la Sainte Hostie hors de sa bouche, ou bien ne la point recepvoir, dist que non, mais bien que le diable l'at une fois battue fort parce qu'elle l'avoit receu'. The girls at Lille (1661) informed Madame Bourignon that the witches 'are constrained to offer him their Children, or else the Devil would Beat them'. Isobel Gowdie's account is, as usual, very full:
'Som tymis, among owr felwis, we wold be calling him "Blak Johne", or the lyk, and he wold ken it, and heir ws weill aneughe; and he ewin then com to ws, and say, "I ken weill aneughe what 3e wer sayeing of me!" And then he vold beat and buffet ws werie sor. We wold be beattin if ve wer absent any tyme, or neglect any thing that wold be appointit to be done. Allexr Elder, in Earlseat, vold be werie often beattin. He is bot soft, and cowld never defend him self in the leist, bot greitt and cry, quhan he vold be scourging him. Bot Margret Wilson, in Auldearne, wold defend hir selfe fynelie, and cast wp hir handis to keip the stroakis off from hir; and Bessie Wilson would speak crustie with hir townge, and wold be belling again to him stowtlie. He wold be beatting and scurgeing ws all wp and downe with cardis [cords] and vther sharp scurges, like naked gwhastis; and we wold still be cryeing, "Pittie! pittie! Mercie! mercie, owr Lord!" Bot he vold haue neither pittie nor mercie. When he vold be angrie at ws, he wold girne at ws lyk a dowge, as iff he wold swallow ws wp.'
The Swedish witches (1669) also had reason to complain of their Grand-Master's cruelty: 'heretofore it was sufficient to carry but one of their Children [to the meeting] or a strangers Child with them, but now he did plague them and
[1. From the record of the trial in the Edinburgh Justiciary Court.
2 Van Elven, La Tradition, v (1891), p. 215. The names of the witches; and the place are not given.
3. Bourignon, Vie, p. 222 Hale, p. 37.
4. Pitcairn, iii, p. 613.]
whip them if they did not procure him Children.' Among the Northumberland witches (1673):
'All of them who had donne harme gave an accoant thereof to their protector, who made most of them that did most harme, and beate those who had donne no harme.--At the said meeting their particular divell tooke them that did most evill, and danced with them first, and called every of them to an account, and those that did most evill he maid most of.--The devill, in the forme of a little black man and black cloaths, calld of one Isabell Thompson, of Slealy, widdow, by name, and required of her what service she had done him. She replyd she had gott power of the body of one Margarett Teasdale. And after he had danced with her he dismissed her and call'd of one Thomasine, wife of Edward Watson, of Slealy.'
Punishments for minor offences are rarely recorded. At North Berwick (1590), when the witches returned after sinking a ship, 'seeing that they tarried over long, hee at their comming enjoyned them all to a pennance, which was, that they should kisse his buttockes, in sign of duety to him.' At Aberdeen (1597) Christen Mitchell confessed that when the Devil asked her to join, 'thow ansuerit, I will enter in thy band, bot I will nocht byd thairin; and thairefter that the Devill gawe the a wisk, and thow fell on thy face one the dyk of that yaird.' Beigis Tod, who belonged to one of the North Berwick Covens but was not tried till 1608, was late in arriving at a meeting, 'quhair the Deuill appeirit to thame, and reprovet the said Beigis Tod verrie scherplie, for hir long tayreing; to quhome scho maid this ansuer, "Sir, I could wyn na soner."' At Lille if any witch desired to leave the religion, 'the Devil reproves them then more severely, and obligeth them to new Promises.' Occasionally the witches kept discipline among themselves; this seems to have been the case only when the culprit prevented the proper execution of magical performances. At Aberdeen Thomas Leyis 'led the ring, and dang the said Kathren Mitchell, becaus scho spillit your dans, and ran nocht sa fast about as the rest.' At
[1. Horneck, pt. ii, p. 318.
2. Surtees Soc., xl, pp. 191, 195, 197.
3. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 217.
4. Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 165.
5. Pitcairn, ii, p. 542.
6. Bourignon, Vie, p. 223 Hale, p. 38.
7. Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 97.]
Auldearne Isobel Gowdie described how the witches used flint arrow-heads: 'I shot at the Laird of Park, as he ves crossing the Burn of Boath; bot, thankis to God now, that he preserwit him. Bessie Hay gaw me a great cuffe, becaus I missed him.' The former minister of Crighton, Mr. Gideon Penman, acted as the Devil's chaplain; 'ordinarily Mr. Gideon was in the rear in all their dances, and beat up all those that were slow.' But a reasonable excuse for trifling misdemeanours could be accepted: 'The devill asked at Kathrine Moore quhair hir Husband was that he came not she answered there was a young bairne at home and that they could not both come.'
Capital punishment was reserved for traitors, actual and potential. It must have been brought into use only after the cult had fallen upon evil days, and then only when the Chief himself was in danger. Beating to death, hanging, and poison were the usual means of execution.
The earliest instance occurred in 1450, when the Church had begun to use its power systematically against the witches. 'The Inquisitor of Como, Bartolomeo de Homate, the podestà Lorenzo da Carorezzo, and the notary Giovanni da Fossato, either out of curiosity or because they doubted the witches whom they were trying, went to a place of assembly at Mendrisio and witnessed the scene from a hiding-place. The presiding demon pretended not to know their presence, and in due course dismissed the assembly, but suddenly recalled his followers and set them on the officials, who were so beaten that they died within fifteen days.' Alesoun Peirson (1588) was burnt as a witch, having gained her knowledge from the fairies, who threatened that 'gif scho wald speik and tell of thame and thair doingis, thay sould martir hir'. The Lorraine witches (1589) took an oath of silence, 'welchen Eyd sie so hoch und heilig halten, dass wenn sie Eydbrüchig werden, so darffir halten, also ob sie ewig darumb musten verdampt und gestrafft seyn.' Alice Gooderidge, the Derbyshire witch (1597), was tried for witchcraft,
[1. Pitcairn, iii, p, 615.
2. Fountainhall, i, p. 14.
3. Highland Papers, iii, p. 26.
4. Lea, iii, p. 501.
5. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 163.
6. Remigius, ch. xviii, p. 83.]
'she should haue bin executed, but that her spirit killed her in the prison.' Jeannette d'Abadie (1609) was more fortunate than most in that she was not killed, 'elle a esté battue au sabbat reellement & corporelleme[n]t par deux sorcieres qu'elle nomme, par ce qu'elle auoit reuelé les mysteres du sabbat.' John Stewart, the 'juglour' of Irvine (1618)--
'for his better preferring to the day of the assys, was put in ane lockfast buith, quhair no maner of persoun might haif access to him quhil the dounsitting of the justice court, and for avoyding of putting violent handis on himself, was verie strictly gairdit and flitherit be the airms, as us is, and upon that same day of the assys, about half ane hour befoir the doun sitting of the justice court, Mr. David Dickson, minister at Irving; and Mr. George Dunbar, minister of Air, having went to him to exhort him to call on his God for mercie for his bygane wicked and evil lyf and that God wold of his infinite mercie, lowis him out of the handis of the devil quhom he had servit thir mony years by gane. He acquiescit to their prayer and godlie exhortation, and utterit thir wordis--I am so straithe gairdit that it lyis not in my hand to tak off my bonnett, nor to gett bread to my mouth. And immediately after the departing of the two ministers from him, the Juglour being sent for at the desyr of my Lord of Eglintoune, to be confrontit with ane woman of the burgh of Air, callit Janet Bous, quha was apprehendit by the Magistrates of the burghe of Air, for witchcraft, to the burghe of Irvine, purposlie for that effer. He was fund be the burrow officers, quha went about him stranglit and hangit be the cruik of the dur, with ane tait of hemp (or a string maid of hemp, supposed to haif been his garten, or string of his bonnet) not above the length of twa span long, his kneyis not being from the grund half ane span, and was brocht out of the hous, his lyf not being so layt expellit: but notwithstanding of quhatsomever meines usit to the contrair for remeid of his lyf, he revievit not, but so endit his lyf miserable by the help of the devill his maister.'
Rebecca West, a young Essex witch (1645), confessed to Matthew Hopkins that 'if shee should discover any thing, they all told the said Rebecca, shee should endure more torments on earth, then could be in hell: and the said Rebecca
[1. Alse Gooderidge, p. 43.
2. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 91.
3. Trial of Isobel Inch, p. 11.]
told this informant that shee promised to keepe all their secrets; and moreover they all told her, that shee must never confesse any thing, although the rope were about her necke, and shee ready to be hanged'.' In Fifeshire (1640) 'ane Mistres Hendersone (sister to Fordell Hendersone, in the presbytrey of Dumfermling), sometymes lady of Pittahro, being delated by many to be a witch, was apprehended and caried to Edenbroughe, wher she was keiped fast; and after her remaining in prison for a tyme, being in health att night, vpon the morne was founde dead. It was thought, and spoken by many, that she wronged her selfe, either by strangling or by poyson.' The Swedish children (1670) were not spared: 'if the Children did at any time name the Names of those that had carried them away, they were again carried by force either to Blockula, or to the Cross way, and there miserably beaten, insomuch that some of them died of it.' Whether Deliverance Hobbs (1692) was actually beaten, or whether her statement was made from the knowledge of what might happen to her, cannot be certain without reference to the records of the trial itself, as Mather's bias is apt to distort the evidence: 'She now testifi'd, that this Bishop tempted her to Sign the Book again, and to deny what she had confess'd. She affirm'd, that it was the Shape of this Prisoner, which whipped her with Iron Rods, to compel her thereunto.' Elizabeth Anderson in Renfrewshire (1696) went with her father to a witch-meeting, 'severals of them being affraid that the Declarant would Confess, and tell of them as she done formerly on her Grand-mother, they threatened to tear her all in pieces if she did so.' John Reid of the same Coven--
'after his Confession had called out of his prison Window, desiring Baily Scott to keep that old body Angus Forrester, who had been his fellow prisoner, closs and secure; whereupon the company asked John when they were leaving him on Friday night the 21th of May, whether he desired company or
[1. Howell, iv, 842.
2. Lamont, p. 12. For further particulars of this lady, see Ross, Aberdour and Inchcolme, p. 339.
3. Horneck, pt. ii, p. 319.
4. Cotton Mather, p. 131.
5. Narr. Of the Sufferings of a Yong Girle, p. xl.]
would be afraid alone, he said he had no fear of anything: So being left till Saturday in the Forenoon, he was found in this posture, viz. sitting upon a stool which was on the Hearth of the Chimney, with his feet on the floor and his Body straight upward, his shoulders touching the lintel of the Chimney, but his Neck tyed with his own neck-cloath (whereof the knot was behind) to a small stick thrust into a hole above the lintel of the Chimney, upon which the Company, especially John Campbel a Chyrurgeon who was called, thought at first in respect of his being in an ordinary posture of sitting, and the neck-cloath not having any drawn knot (or run loup) but an ordinary one which was not very strait, and the sticke not having the strength to bear the weight of his Body or the struggle, that he had not been quite dead; but finding it otherways, and that he was in such a Situation that he could not have been the Actor thereof himself, concluded that some extraordinary Agent had done it, especially considering that the Door of the Room was secured, and that there was a board set over the Window which was not there the night before when they left him.'
A similar fate befell the warlock Playfair in 1597. He was found strangled in his prison at Dalkeith with the 'point' of his breeches tied round his neck.
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A quarter of the units (600) are in Vancouver alone, making the city a hotbed for the North American expansion of these green buildings that dramatically reduce carbon pollution and energy use, enhance comfort and durability, and boost the clean economy.
“In less than 10 years, near-zero emission homes and buildings will be commonplace in Vancouver and elsewhere. Recent government initiatives — including Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Plan and B.C.’s climate plan — call for new buildings to achieve near-zero emissions by 2030,” said Karen Tam Wu, director of the buildings and urban solutions program, Pembina Institute.
“We expect the federal framework for clean growth and climate change to complement this objective. These forward-looking policies will protect our communities, support job creation, and strengthen our low-carbon economy.”
The report was made possible by a Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Innovation Fund grant from the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, a Greenest City grant from the Vancouver Foundation, and the support of the Real Estate Foundation of B.C.
Its launch coincided with a media tour of The Heights, hosted by the Pembina Institute with representatives of Eighth Avenue Development Group, Peak Construction Group of Companies, Cornerstone Architecture, the City of Vancouver, and Passive House Canada.
Today’s event served as a prelude to open houses scheduled across Canada for International Passive House Days (November 10 to 13). The public is invited to visit The Heights on Saturday (November 12) between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Ultra energy efficient buildings will also be the focus of the Pembina Institute’s upcoming thought leader forum in Vancouver. Pathways to Net-Zero Buildings takes place November 28 and 29.
- Buildings are responsible for nearly one-quarter of Canada’s carbon pollution, and a third of U.S. emissions.
- By the end of 2016, North America will have nearly 2 million square feet of certified Passive House buildings, three times more than in 2015.
- The City of Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Plan calls for a 90% reduction in emissions from new buildings by 2025, and zero emissions for all new buildings by 2030.
- The Heights will use about 80% less energy than a conventional building.
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While we are focused on the budget cuts taking place across the city and state, there’s still one area where spending is actually increasing. In fact, Illinois has spent $2.4 million on one single block in the Austin community. That money did not go to infrastructure improvements, local schools or after-school programs; instead, the $2.4 million is money the state spent on jailing residents of that one block — mainly for minor drug offenses.
Between 2005 and 2009, Illinois spent almost twice as much on incarcerating people from Austin ($550 million) as it did on jailing people from any other neighborhood. In fact, the state committed $1.4 billion for this year alone to the Department of Corrections, despite having $8 billion worth of unpaid bills and no budget for fiscal year 2016.
While resources for economic development and services seem to be drying up, spending on incarceration has actually increased in recent years according to a study called “Million Dollar Blocks” launched by the Chicago Justice Project and the School of Social Inclusion at Adler University. The study looks at more than 300,000 criminal records showing what developers called a “conservative estimate” of how much the Illinois Department of Corrections spent on people from each block and neighborhood.
So what do we do with this troubling information? How do we address the issue of mass incarceration and exorbitant spending on punitive measures that have not been proven to decrease crime nor rehabilitate offenders?
First, we must address the blocks themselves. These are our million dollar blocks. For those of us who live in these neighborhoods, we must be willing to stand up to the drug dealers on our corners and create an environment that is not conducive to the sale and purchase of drugs.
On my own block in East Garfield Park, with vigilant neighbors and cooperative landlords, we were able to disperse individuals who attempted to sell drugs on our corner. We did this by approaching the individuals and treating them humanely. But we also made sure law enforcement was notified in case the individuals attempted to return. Also, we’re well aware that there is no substitute for strong family units, mentoring and institutions that impart solid values in young people. Our churches, social service agencies and local families must do their part.
Now, for the policy reforms. Policy reforms must include changes to the criminal justice system, but they must also include changes to public policy that create pathways for productive participation in society. The billions of dollars spent on ineffective punitive measures includes billions that could also be invested into a new generation of individuals who have not yet interacted with the criminal justice system — namely, access to early childhood education and quality schools. Even within those schools, a push for the expansion of restorative justice practices means emphasizing character development, teaching conflict resolution skills and establishing some accountability within the community. These are all preferable to the ‘profile, discipline, and jail’ strategy currently in place and ensures that individuals still have a chance to grow, even if they make mistakes along the way, as most young people do.
I also believe an empowerment model of development that focuses on economic revitalization can address some of the systemic challenges that feed into mass incarceration. Revising and expanding vocational education programs in Chicago Public Schools means that young people have options based upon skills that make them employable in today’s economy; particularly in trades such as advanced manufacturing, electrical, information technology and health care. When they learn the trade, they become employable, which gives them an alternative to illicit activity that can lead to arrest. Their trade skills can also lead them to start a business (instead of working for hire-ups in the drug game and sometimes earning less than minimum wage).
So, expanding entrepreneurship opportunities for youth and adults must be part of the empowerment model. Ownership is the key to wealth-building and expanding small businesses means increased local hiring for those businesses in the neighborhood and, as a result, spurring local development and revitalizing communities. This is also key for those who have been incarcerated. Because of their criminal records, these individuals often struggle to find work. By establishing pathways to business ownership, they can work for themselves and hire others who may have records — putting both employer and employed on the path to contributing productively to the local economy.
We’ll save money in the long-term by putting these long-term economic imperatives in place. But not only will we save money, we’ll begin to revitalize our communities. Hopefully, the $2.4 million the state currently spends on incarcerating that one block in Austin can, at some point, turn into $240 million of economic growth. | <urn:uuid:beea12cf-33e4-4460-96c9-dd6af1b1009c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.austinweeklynews.com/2015/08/03/austins-million-dollar-block/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.964548 | 950 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) observations of shock-loaded mullite ceramics was reported. The XRD pattern of the recovered sample that experienced a pressure below the phase transition pressure is identical to that of the mullite crystal at ambient conditions. The samples recovered from pressures above the phase transition pressure show XRD patterns consisting of weak mullites and a broad amorphous halo centered at 2θ=28.5°. The TEM image of the 29 GPa sample and 49 GPa shows no quantity of amorphous structure but some distortion contrast due to strain induced by plastic deformation. The nanofragmentation of mullite by shock induced amorphization indicate the possibility of controlling dynamic deformation and fragmentation by means of shock-induced phase transformations and careful selection of the initial nanostructure.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Materials Science(all)
- Mechanics of Materials
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Abraham L. Sugarman was convicted for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 in a speech where he suggested a community could resist the government draft for World War I (shown here in 1918). He claimed the judge should have instructed the jury about the First Amendment, but the Court said the jury's opinion made it clear they understood the First Amendment issues. (Image of Secretary of War Newton Baker drawing a number in the second World War I draft via National Archives on Flickr, public domain)
In an appeal brought directly to the Supreme Court from a federal district court in Minnesota, the Court held in Sugarman v. United States, 249 U.S. 182 (1919), that an error had not been made in the proceedings leading to the conviction of Abraham L. Sugarman for violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
Sugarman had been convicted for words spoken at at a Socialist meeting that were found to violate a part of the Espionage Act that said, "Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States . . . shall be punished."
Sugarman argued jury was not given instructions about First Amendment protections
Sugarman had argued that the judge had erred in not giving two specific instructions to the jury: first, the judge had not explained that the First Amendment was in force in wartime as well as in peacetime. And, second, he said the judge had not indicated that the protections of the First Amendment did not exempt individuals from punishment in cases in which they encouraged others to violate the law.
Court said jury understood First Amendment principles
Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote the Court’s unanimous decision denying that the case presented a substantial federal question.
He pointed out that although the lower-court judge had not adopted the specific language that the defendant had requested in instructing the jury, the judge had indicated both that “the Constitution is . . .in force in times of war as well as in times of peace,” and that “ ‘freedom of speech’ does not mean that a man may say whatever he pleases without the possibility of being called to account for it.”
Brandeis concluded that these words “clearly embodied the substance of the two requests made by the defendant.” He further affirmed that the judge was not “obliged to adopt the exact language of the instructions requested.”
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303 pages, colour photos
Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University deals with the type specimens of 734 insect species of Mantodea (Thespidae), Phasmatodae (Phasmatidae), Homoptera (Cicadellidae, Cicadellin, Delphacidae, Ricaniidae, Cixiidae, Dictyopharidae, Achilidae, Tropiduchidae, Issidae, Caliscelidae, Lophopidae) and Diptera (Stratiomydidae), which were established by the entomologists at the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, from 1983 to 2014. The type of each species is illustrated by a set of photographs including body habitus (dorsal and lateral views), face and holotype lables and provided a brief information about type locality and orginal publication. Appendices, reflecting achievements in insect systematics at the institute, include lists of 20 monographs, 535 articles and 49 graduated postgraduates. Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University is an effective way to reveal the real status of the type specimens preserved permanently, and provides a convenient way for checking and identifying species. It is very valuable for scientific and technical workers who study taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of insects, as well as biological diversity.
Systematics monographs by entomologists in Guizhou University
Systematics papers by entomologists in Guizhou University
Systematics postgraduates educated at Guizhou University
Index of Scientific Names
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Oklahoma Physical Therapy is pleased to announce that they now offer vestibular rehabilitation. According to research more than 69 million people have experienced vestibular dysfunction. Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) has been proven to reduce functional disabilities, control symptoms and improve an individual’s quality of life.
What is a vestibular disorder?
The vestibular system involves the inner ear and the brain that is responsible for processing sensory information to help with controlling balance and eye movements. Once one of these processing areas become damaged either from an injury or disease, vestibular disorders can occur.
What are the symptoms of vestibular disease?
Many times, vestibular disorder goes undiagnosed and untreated. The most common symptoms are:
- Impaired postural control
- Positional or persistent vertigo
If untreated many individuals experience a lack of ability to perform regular daily activities and their quality of life might begin to diminish. These issues can create a sedentary lifestyle as a person who Is dealing with vestibular disorder does not want to experience dizziness and imbalance. Decreased flexibility and muscle strength, increased joint stiffness and a reduction in stamina is a direct outcome of the sedentary lifestyle that can occur. Unfortunately, this diminish in quality of life can also contribute to other issues such as anxiety and depression.
How is vestibular disease treated?
Vestibular disease is generally treated with a specialized form of therapy called Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) and helps alleviate any type of problems caused by vestibular disease. VRT is an exercise-based program that is designed to decrease vertigo and dizziness. It can also reduce gaze instability, visual disturbance and/or falls due to lack of balance.
At Oklahoma Physical Therapy, our trained vestibular rehabilitation physical therapists, Jason Manning and Ben Martin, will partner with you to create a customized treatment plan that might include habituation, gaze stabilization and balance training. They will begin with a comprehensive clinical examination to identify the problems related to the vestibular disorder. This will include asking questions and speaking with you to better understand your symptoms and how they impact your daily life. They will also ask you questions concerning medications, vision or hearing problems, history of falls, and activity levels. Tests may be administered to gather as much information to create the best exercise program for you. The exercise program may consist of habituation, gaze stabilization or balance training.
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Sarah Bassin, 99
Sarah Bassin, 99, dies; co-owner of District's first sidewalk cafe
Sarah Bassin, 99, a Washington native who co-owned Bassin's Restaurant, the first District dining establishment to offer sidewalk seating, died June 30 in Naples, Fla. She had Alzheimer's disease.
Mrs. Bassin founded the restaurant with her husband, Max, in 1939 on the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, two blocks from the White House. After raising her children, she managed the restaurant's day-to-day operations.
Her brothers Harry and George Zitelman later became co-owners and helped make the restaurant a local fixture, popular with actors performing at nearby theaters and journalists, including the staff of The Washington Post, whose offices then were steps away.
Led by Harry Zitelman, the restaurant's owners began seeking permission in 1959 to open a sidewalk cafe. The idea met with fierce opposition from residents and city officials, setting off a years-long battle to allow customers to eat and drink in the open air.
City officials argued that sidewalk eateries would expose food to contamination by "windblown foreign matter" and would exacerbate pest problems, The Post reported. A deputy police chief warned that "this type of operation would provide a favorable setting for ladies of easy virtue as they ply their trade up and down the street."
Nevertheless, by late 1961, the city had granted Bassin's Restaurant permission to open a sidewalk cafe.
Business slowed in the wake of the 1968 riots, and Mrs. Bassin left the restaurant in 1970. Her brothers sold Bassin's in 1976. Two years later, it was destroyed in a fire.
Sarah Zitelman was born in Frederick and grew up in Baltimore. She moved to Washington as a young woman and worked for Hahn's shoe store before going into the restaurant business.
In retirement, she played tennis and volunteered with Meals on Wheels. She also worked in the gift shop of the Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington, where in her late 60s she had a bat mitzvah. She lived in the District until moving to Naples five years ago.
Her husband of 46 years died in 1977.
Survivors include two children, Robert Bassin of Naples and Brenda Finci of Boca Raton, Fla.; one brother, George Zitelman of Bethesda; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson.
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Managing finances is a top priority for small and midsized business owners. Bookkeeping is a large part of that. Some bookkeeping tasks need to be done only once per year. Others require your attention more often—daily, weekly, or monthly. Here’s a guide to what bookkeeping tasks you need to do and when to do them.
Bookkeeping Tasks to Do Daily
Check your cash position – Just like you might check your own wallet to see how much cash you have before going out, you should check to make sure your business has enough cash available to get through the day.
Record mileage – If your claim mileage expenses on your taxes, get in the habit of recording your mileage whenever you drive somewhere.
Bookkeeping Tasks to Do Weekly
Do your invoicing – If you don’t have receivables coming in, you won’t be in business very long. Send invoices and follow up on late payments with phone calls or “past due” notices.
Pay invoices you owe – The cost of doing business requires you to pay what you owe. Doing so in a timely manner helps you maintain a good credit rating and keeps you on the good side of vendors and service providers.
File receipts – To avoid any later hassles with the IRS, make sure you file any receipts you need as backup documentation on your taxes.
Log your transactions – Rather than waiting until the end of the month, or longer, try to log your transactions on at least a weekly basis. This includes invoicing, expenses, and payments received and made. Use a spreadsheet or, better yet, bookkeeping or accounting software to sort your transactions into the right buckets.
Pay employees – If you pay your employees on a weekly basis, make sure you sign and distribute checks on a regular timetable.
Bookkeeping Tasks to Do Monthly
Balance your checkbook – Make sure your business checkbook is balanced. Verify against your monthly bank statements.
Review employee payroll – While you might actually pay employees weekly or twice a month, you should also review your payroll each month to make sure adequate employment taxes are being withheld.
Bookkeeping Tasks to Do Quarterly
Submit quarterly payroll reports – Make sure your quarterly payrolls reports are submitted to the IRS or other taxing authorities that require them.
Pay quarterly taxes – Submit any quarterly tax payments, such as federal or state estimated quarterly income tax, state or local payroll taxes, sales taxes, or any other quarterly taxes you are obligated to pay.
Bookkeeping Tasks to Do Annually
Request expense reports – If your employees are turning in expense reports, request that they get any year-end expenses to you in a timely manner so that you can deduct them as business expenses on tax forms.
Close the books – Make sure your books are complete and balanced so that you can prepare tax forms without too much trouble. The last thing you want to do is to be balancing your books at the eleventh hour of tax season.
What If You Can’t Do It All?
All this bookkeeping takes quite a bit of work. Of course, you can cut out a great deal of it by hiring a professional bookkeeper to assist you. Look for an experienced bookkeeper who’s willing to get to know your business from the inside out. It also pays to engage someone who’s up on current technology and can help you automate many of your bookkeeping processes. | <urn:uuid:05ff4a66-c358-44e3-b1ce-a02d8ef79e64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smallbizclub.com/finance/tax-and-accounting/smb-bookkeeping-what-to-do-and-when/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.949707 | 711 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Broadway World review of Alana Valentines Play "Made To Measure" by Jade Kops
BWW REVIEW: Science And Art Come Together in MADE TO MEASURE To Present A Thought Provoking Work On How Society Treats People Of Size
Tuesday 21st May 2019, 6:30pm, Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre
Art can make ideas easier to connect to and Alana Valentine's new work MADE TO MEASURE presents a balance of science and story to prompt the audience to consider their relationship with people living in larger bodies. Commissioned by the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney where Valentine was Writer in Residence in 2018, this work is somewhat unique in that it is informed not only by society and personal experiences gleaned from interviews but also science.
Fresh from her own play A PIECE OF ASH, the fabulous Megan Wilding takes on the central character of Ashleigh, a young woman of larger size looking for a wedding dress. Wilding ensures that the audience are on Ashleigh's side from the first moments as she shows us that Ashleigh is used to a world where strangers judge her due to her size before they even know who she is. She gains sympathy as it quickly becomes clear Ashleigh has built a defensive approach as an automatic response. When bridal couturier Monica (Tracy Mann) doesn't seem to be phased by Ashleigh's appearance, only concerned with if Ashleigh intends for her shape to change between the design phase and the big day, the young woman is somewhat stunned. It seems like a great match after a long list of rejection and judgement but Ashleigh is rightfully skeptical as the veneer slips as we learn that Monica isn't truly accepting of Ashleigh's size which compounds Ashleigh's own inner struggle with accepting her body and blocking out the negative voices, both internal and external that manifest themselves as a judgemental food delivery boy and a disbelief that her fiancé Bryce is really in love with her as she is (both presented by Sam O'Sullivan)
Valentine's note in the program indicates that whilst the characters are fictional, Ashleigh is an amalgam of stories from people living in larger bodies and Monica's bridal store experiences are drawn from Collezione Santina's Santina Porpiglia and other couturiers' anecdotes. Snippets of science facts, gathered from Valentine's colleagues at the Charles Perkins Centre, are woven into the story to present side of the discussion on size that is not often presented, hopefully prompting people to reconsider why they feel that they know everything about weight science and have the right to comment on someone else's body.
Designer Melanie Liertz creates a minimalistic yet luxury expression of Monica's store with sheer drapes, an oversized dressing room and an economic assortment of elegant furniture. The majority of the 90-minute play is presented with relatively casual clothes which prove to be the main indicator of the passage of time. Verity Hampson's lighting design helps shift the work from the real-world interactions to moments where Ashleigh is confronted by her inner demons. The gowns used for the production are provided by Collezione Santina and prove that a "pretty" and "delicate" in a "basically curvy kinda way" is totally achievable if the designer is as skilled as Porpiglia.
MADE TO MEASURE is important in the use of art to open conversations that society needs to have. It balances entertainment with education to give a personal edge to the often dry science. Importantly it presents a broader view of life in larger bodies as it reminds audiences that the traditional judgement that people should seek to be thinner for their health or that larger people should control their appetite isn't always the full story and that science cannot definitively prove that being thinner would prevent someone from chronic illness and that diet isnt the only factor affecting weight. This work provokes thought, challenging audiences to consider how they interact with people living in larger bodies whilst also, hopefully, providing some comfort to people like Ashleigh that the weight shaming in society is being discussed and hopefully this is a move to education and acceptance of people for who they are not what size they are. | <urn:uuid:69f0020e-ce5d-42ba-b57d-4e4fa2074805> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.collezionesantina.com.au/media-release | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.960169 | 858 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Northwest Florida Water Management District
Water Management District
This 41,363-acre area in Washington and Bay counties runs 14 miles along the course of Econfina Creek and also encompasses mile after mile of xeric sandhill uplands with dozens of shallow, clear sand-bottomed lakes. These uplands recharge the springs that feed the creek. Most of the area was planted with commercial stands of non-native sand and slash pine, which are being harvested and restored to longleaf pine and wiregrass habitat. Along the creek hardwood forests and hammocks grow above fern-covered limestone bluffs and outcrops. In the spring, visitors will see blooming dogwoods, red buds, mountain laurel, wild azaleas, Carolina silverbells, Ashe and pyramid magnolias, and Florida anise. Recreational activities available on this area include seasonal hunting (see link at bottom of page), fishing, hiking (a 14 mile segment of the Florida National Scenic Trail traverses the WMA), horseback riding on designated trails (Pine Ridge Equestrian Trail, Wolf Pond Equestrian Trail, and other trails being developed), swimming, primitive and group camping, birding and paddling. Information on primitive camping and group camping is available at Northwest Florida Water Management District or by telephoning (850) 539-5999. Children under the age of 16 are required to wear a helmet when horseback riding on public lands. For more detailed information go to Nicole's Law . All horseback riders must have proof of current negative Coggins Test results for their horses when on state lands. The Econfina is a state designated canoe trail with launches located at Scotts Road (upper creek), Walsingham Bridge (middle creek) and Highway 20 (lower creek). The canoe trail contains numerous "chutes" on the upper creek with springs and limestone rock outcrops occurring on the lower creek between Highway 20 and Highway 388. The upper portion of the creek is especially strenuous and should only be attempted by experienced canoeists. Summer tanagers, warblers, wild turkeys and numerous raptor species, including bald eagles, kestrels, hawks and osprey are common along the Econfina. The short nature trail at Pitt Spring is an excellent spot for bird watching. This area is a site on the Great Florida Birding Trail. Also see the Econfina Fitzhugh-Carter Tract website.
Rules Regarding Dogs
- For purposes other than hunting, dogs are allowed, but must be kept under physical restraint at all times. Dogs are prohibited in areas posted as "Closed to Public Access" by FWC administrative action. No person shall allow any dog to pursue or molest any wildlife during any period in which the taking of wildlife by the use of dogs is prohibited.
- Hunting dogs may be taken onto the WMA after 8 a.m. the day before the opening of a season and shall be removed by 6 p.m. one day after the end of the season. Hunting with dogs, other than bird dogs or retrievers, is prohibited in the designated still hunt, Cat Creek, Fitzhugh Carter and mobility-impaired areas, except dogs may be used to hunt raccoons (except in the mobility-impaired areas). Dogs are prohibited in areas posted as "Closed to Public Access" by FWC administrative action. No person shall allow any dog to pursue or molest any wildlife during any period in which the taking of wildlife by the use of dogs is prohibited. Dogs on leashes may be used for trailing wounded game.
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R. T. P. Allen: The Texas Years, 1857-1865
In 1857, R. T. P. Allen moved from near Frankfort, Kentucky, to Bastrop, Texas, to found the Bastrop Military Institute. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army and in 1862 was named colonel of the 17th Texas Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Milliken's Bend and was then assigned to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas, which was evolving into a prisoner of war camp. He remained there until replaced in May, 1864, when he resigned due to ill health and returned to his Bastrop school. At the end of the war, with all military schools prohibited in previously Confederate states, he moved back to Frankfort and Kentucky Military Institute.
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Doctors nearly unanimously agree that eating foods loaded with saturated fats — such as butter, cream and pork in all its wondrous manifestations — can cause heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Conversely, foods with unsaturated fats, such as olives and salmon, can have the opposite effect.
Yet no one has known why, until perhaps now. As reported in the Sept. 30 issue of the journal Cell, researchers from University of California, San Diego (UCSD), found that saturated fat literally clogs cell membranes at the molecular level, causing abnormal cell signaling that ultimately throws basic metabolism out of whack. [7 Foods Your Heart Will Hate]
If the researchers are right — that is, if their work on mice proves true in humans — then they envision a new class of dietary supplements or pharmaceutical drugs to reverse the effects of a high-fat diet.
Saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature. They contain fatty acids that are saturated, chemically speaking, with hydrogen atoms; the carbon atoms are bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible. Unsaturated fats contain fatty acids with a lower ratio of carbon to hydrogen.
For over a decade researchers have known that saturated fats somehow activate enzymes associated with developing insulin resistance (a precursor to diabetes) and atherosclerosis, or clogged arteries. Unsaturated fats can block these enzymes within our cells. The enzymes, called Jun kinases, work at a subcellular level.
Building on this knowledge, a UCSD team led by Michael Karin speculated that something in cell membranes must be able to differentiate between saturated and unsaturated fats, activating or deactivating Jun kinases. In their new study, the team ultimately identified yet another enzyme, called c-Src, which resides within a cell membrane.
So, saturated fats apparently smother and push c-Src deeper into the cell membrane, to regions that are more rigid. The c-Src accumulates here and turns into an activated form that then triggers Jun kinases to start working — setting into motion the chemical reactions behind insulin resistance and circulatory disease.
Unsaturated fats, in contrast, block c-Src aggregation and thus prevent the whole cascade of troubling chemical signaling.
One pill makes you smaller
For scientists, the findings provide a new model for how cell membrane composition can trigger different signaling cascades. For non-scientists, the findings might mean that you can have your saturated fat and eat it, too.
Consider how polyunsaturated fatty acids such as EPA (also called eicosapentaenoic acid) and omega-3s are available in a pill form, more or less in their natural state. These aren't miracle cures, but they do help some people lower their blood cholesterol (or, blood fat) levels. With a better understanding of why unsaturated fats can have protective effects, doctors might be able to identify more potent EPA-like molecules, Karin said. These molecules, delivered in a pill, could reverse the negative cycle put into effect by diabetes and other chronic disease.
If popping a pill irks you, or if you can't wait a decade for a pill to hit the market, you can always switch to a diet that strives to reduce saturated fats. This means eating less meat and more vegetables and whole grains.
While some doctors recommend eating so-called lean cuts of meat, the very existence of lean meat necessitates the existence of fatty meat, which someone else, someone likely poorer than you, will eat. And that's no way to feed a planet.
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Data-driven, data-dependent: Blockchain in the Mining Industry
What is a mine’s main output? Minerals would be the first, obvious answer: there are mines around the globe producing thousands or even millions of tons of minerals.
So far, so good. But what else? Tailings would be a second response. The Global Tailings Review estimates that there are about 217km³ worth of tailings around the world, which is also a significant output.
However, there is another type of asset that is the basis for it all, determining financial viability, scalability of a mine, and a business advantage over competitors: data.
Mining companies essentially base their entire operations on data; geological and economic data to find out whether the operation is worthwhile in the first place; environmental data to monitor and mitigate impact; and financial data to keep investors up to date. Failure to correctly collect and communicate such data can lead to huge losses of capital, or the detriment of health and safety for workers and neighboring communities. Consequently, it is paramount to have the right technology tools to work with data.
One such tool is blockchain technology.
Blockchain in mining and metals has been mostly associated with tracking and tracing supply chains. It has become increasingly important (and feasible) to credibly demonstrate the provenance of materials. This is in order to ensure minerals are not sourced using child labor, or while violating human rights and environmental regulations in one form or another.
That is not all blockchain is capable of. At the end of the day, blockchain is a way of storing and sharing data; securely, immutably, and — if so desired — transparently.
Last year, Tanya Matveeva, a geologist with more than 20 years of experience, wrote this article about the vast potential blockchain holds for mining companies. In it, she proposes that blockchain can be used in virtually all aspects of operations, from data acquisition, to data management to reporting. It also can be applied to property registration, contract management and finance.
Realizing the potential of blockchain technology for miners, she founded her own consultancy, Kamni Chain, to help mining companies implement blockchain-based solutions. As the mining sector is increasingly digitizing its processes, we called up Tanya to discuss one use case where blockchain can be particularly useful for the mining sector: on-site data management and reporting.
Blockchain’s inherent benefits
Before we dive into this topic, let’s take a step back and remember the core advantages of blockchain technology:
Decentralization: A decentralized blockchain offers very high data security, meaning there is not a single point where data is stored and no one actor has the power to tamper with or even delete data. Note: this is not always the case — depending on the needs of the users, there are varying degrees of decentralization available in blockchain systems.
Immutability: Since data is not stored at a single database but distributed across the network, it is more difficult to tamper with it. Data is also time-stamped, so it shows when exactly it was uploaded. This makes data that has been entered practically immutable. That doesn’t mean data cannot be changed — after all, human errors happen and someone might accidentally upload wrong data — but if it is changed, there will be a digital record of that change.
Transparency: Blockchains (at least public ones) can be searched for information by anyone who cares to do so. And unlike company websites and regular databases, which can be modified, updated, or even deleted, data on the blockchain is there to stay — time-stamped and securely stored. Any changes would be recognized by the network.
Here, a small caveat: of course transparency is not necessarily absolute, after all there are business secrets and other information companies wish to keep confidential. But different levels of encryption in a blockchain system can enable different levels of access — so the right person gets to see the right information at the right time.
Reading those characteristics, it might already become clear how this technology could come in handy for a mine’s day-to-day business.
Blockchain for Data Management
To recap, we’ve established that mining operations are essentially data-driven enterprises. Before any extraction is happening, careful geological analysis will determine whether it is even worthwhile to start digging up the deposit.
From the very beginning of the exploration, throughout the lifetime of a mine, until its closure, mines are collecting data in order to be able to respond to regulatory requirements.
After all, operations always face the risk of damaging the environment and inflicting harm on neighboring communities. Consequently, data on water treatment, tailings and their dams, air quality, exhausts, and many other metrics are collected, processed, and shared with regulators to demonstrate compliance and identify points for improvement.
Depending on the context and scale of operations, those data points are collected manually, or constantly monitored using IoT devices and other sensors.
At the end of the day, mining operations (other than artisanal and small scale mining) are confronted with a wealth of environmental, financial, geological, and other data that needs to be collected, managed, processed, and shared with relevant stakeholders and the wider public.
Usually, much of this work is done with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, software programs that store, analyze and manage data of all business processes and automate processes. Or it’s often simply done with excel sheets, and at regular intervals a third-party is granted access in order to independently audit it.
Needless to say, in the course of this process there is a lot of room for human error, or even fraud, and in the end, the original data reports are not necessarily visible, nor when certain data was collected, and how it has been processed.
The Potential for Fraud
These intransparent intervals between the regular reports open the door for human error and fraud, and examples abound of corrupt data leading to financial loss or environmental damage.
For the purpose of this article let’s focus on the latter, environmental data:
While fraud can occur in any industry, mining might be more affected than others. The 2019/20 Kroll Global Fraud and Risk Report points out that the extractives sector is particularly susceptible to fraud from internal parties and money laundering. And while 80% of respondents working in the extractives sector agree that serious risk management breaches are thoroughly investigated, only 66% of respondents reported that their organizations deal with risk management incidents in a consistent manner.
On the environmental side, studies point out that higher degrees of corruption lead to overall decreased environmental sustainability of mining operations — for example because agencies don’t react to reports indicating shortcomings, or concerning data is brushed over or not reported in the first place. In these situations, fraud or error does not only lead to loss of investments, but potentially the loss of lives: in particular if water or air is contaminated by operations.
Looking at this data, operations should make any possible effort to store data as securely as possible, and make sure it is not being manipulated after being collected. Given the risks at hand, companies should adopt the highest degree of transparency possible when determining how operations are affecting the environment.
Data should be available regularly, ideally in real time, and delivered in a way that reduces the risks of manipulation.
Of course, this alone does not eliminate corruption, fraud, and human error, but it renders companies and regulators more accountable. And that is where blockchain can help.
As with anything, blockchain technology is no silver bullet for these problems, but it can certainly help to better manage and communicate data.
While discussing the benefits of blockchain in accounting, the founders of the Blockchain Research Institute, Don and Alex Tapscott, point out that data recorded on a public ledger has the potential to “bake integrity into the system”.
Their reasoning: if companies enter data on a public blockchain, it will be time-stamped, transparent, and visible at any point. Human error could be identified quicker, and fraud would have to happen on a constant basis in order to be viable. And if it still did, it would be well documented.
In the example of environmental audits, it is quite feasible to either deliberately manipulate, or inadvertently miscalculate the overall analysis of water quality in a yearly report. Any attempt to reproduce the result would have to run over the same time frame. If updates were provided more frequently — time-stamped and tamper-proof — it would be easier to replicate and verify the results. In case of concerning results, either communicated through the company or found out by independent analysis, all stakeholders could react immediately.
Tanya, the geologist-turned-blockchain-consultant, has a clear opinion on this, as geological data, too, is the basis of any mining operation, and has to be collected, processed, and stored, along the highest possible standards:
“What got me interested in blockchain in the first place is data management. As a geologist, you work with data all the time. And blockchain has the potential to store and manage data securely, in a tamper-proof manner, and, where needed, transparently.”
“Environmental data,” Tanya goes on, “should go from an IoT device directly into the blockchain,” so human error is reduced and it becomes visible for everyone who is interested.
This scenario is not far-fetched:
“Every serious investor is looking at such data now, so mining operations have to make that data available anyways. And doing it in this way gives companies a competitive advantage. It’s just that somebody needs to start doing it.”
Numbers underscore this assessment: as one example, exchange-traded funds that based their investment criteria on companies’ ESG records almost tripled their net inflows between 2019 and 2020. Blackrock, the world’s largest investment management corporation, declared that future investment will pivot to sustainability-focused companies. So, with the increasing market pressure for more sustainably produced goods — virtually across all industries — this type of reporting could become the norm, rather than the exception.
So, more regular data has the potential to increase overall trust in an operation’s health and feasibility, providing assurance to neighbors and regulators alike. Since all the data has to be collected and shared anyways, why not do it in the most secure and tamper-proof manner possible?
Increasing trust in the sector
For environmental data, it is hard to come up with a reasonable argument why all stakeholders shouldn’t be kept informed on how a company treats the global commons, and for that information to be stored immutably, transparently, and securely.
In the end, higher degrees of transparency are ultimately beneficial to the mining sector in general: Talking about the mining industry’s role in society, Mark Cutifani, CEO of Anglo American, recently said on a panel:
“Even with all the contributions we make, people tend to see us as an industry that takes more than it gives […] One of the things we don’t do well as an industry is talk about what we do.”
So why not let the data speak?
As deeply data-driven operations, mining companies could massively benefit from secure, time-stamped, and tamper-proof data. Being able to communicate it transparently where desired undoubtedly enhances an operation’s value. While blockchain is gradually becoming recognized as more than simply “the technology behind Bitcoin”, it would be a lost opportunity not to capitalize on its advantages.
The use of blockchain technology can help the mining industry gain more trust from outside stakeholders, and make more secure data available for operations.
He focuses on the implementation of traceability processes and sustainability policies, with a particular interest in local-level human rights & environmental impacts.
He holds a Master’s in International Affairs from the Hertie School of Governance. In his free time, you’ll find him hiking or playing handball.
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Living wall garden sprouts at The B.O.B.
The B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids will soon be home to what could be the largest known “food wall” in America.
What’s a food wall? Let’s start at the beginning.
The food wall idea was first planted at The B.O.B. during ArtPrize 2013 with “Back to Eden,” a vertical garden submission from West Michigan artist Dave MacKenzie, who has been hailed as the inventor of the “LiveWall” system. LiveWall is exactly what it sounds like; quite literally a “living wall” canvas covered with plants. “Back to Eden,” which was named to the international art competition’s Top 25, was filled with more than 2,500 plants of 60 different varieties, and took about three weeks to set up, according to its ArtPrize page.
In May, The B.O.B., 20 Monroe Ave. NW, has plans to turn the 1,400-square-foot living wall into a major “wall-to-table” food initiative. Half of the wall’s perennial plants, which survived one of the worst winters in Michigan history, will be removed and returned for re-use at LiveWall LLC’s parent company, Hortech Inc., the nursery where the perennial plants were first grown. The space on the wall left by the vacated perennials will be filled with more than 1,500 herb and vegetable plants to be used by The B.O.B.’s chefs to create fresh and tasty dishes, according to a written statement.
“As far as I know, this will be the largest ‘food wall’ in North America,” MacKenzie said. “I am ecstatic about this initiative.”
Greg Gilmore, head of the Gilmore Group, which owns The B.O.B., said the initiative fits the organization’s desire to source locally and grow on-site produce.
“In this case, we’re taking locally grown freshness to the next level — to an urban setting. This is a way to optimize our space, control our budget, and to equip our chefs with the very best in flavor and nutritional value,” he said.
“Our chefs are like artists — artists that use food as their medium — and they take tremendous pride in their work. This is a way to support and empower them so they can do their very best work.”
Jared Miller, executive chef at The B.O.B., said the wall would produce a variety of herbs, leafy greens, peppers, tomatoes and some “surprise items” that can be used in dishes and dressings. It’s a concept that has Miller extremely excited, he said.
“When Greg presented me with the idea of growing food on site, I didn’t have to think twice. Herbs and certain vegetables make up a significant part of our budget, and we can save some money, but even more valuable is the freshness,” Miller said. “There is nothing better than freshly harvested flavor. And to be able to harvest and use the product within minutes, I don’t know how you can top that.” | <urn:uuid:4fc9f108-9957-4de2-81bb-79a6449950be> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.grbj.com/articles/79378-living-wall-garden-sprouts-at-the-bob | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96292 | 702 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Years ago, Lamine Sarr risked his life to travel from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands, before making it to Barcelona where he sold counterfeit goods on the street. It’s a common story many people known as “manteros” – or street vendors – experience.
It’s not an easy life. Much of it is on the brink of poverty and constantly looking out for the police. But Sarr’s story did not end there.
He has since helped create the Barcelona Street Vendors Union which works to improve the lives of people in a similar situation. Since its creation, the union has helped around 120 people get their legal papers, including Sarr himself.
And it has now launched a new shoe brand called “Ande Dem,” which means “walking together” in Senegal’s most widely spoken language, Wolof.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech, is a comprehensive university of national and international prominence. With about 25,000 full-time students and the home of groundbreaking research, Virginia Tech produces world-class scholarship in a challenging academic environment.
When Virginia Tech initiated plans to build a supercomputer by clustering hundreds of desktop computers, it had ambitious goals for the performance of the new system and a very aggressive schedule. The final plan involved a cluster of 1,100 64-bit Power Mac G5 dual-processor computers. If successful, this cluster would significantly expand the university’s capabilities and enable it to simulate the behavior of natural or human-engineered systems, rather than relying on observation or physical modeling. But the cluster created significant data center cooling challenges that could not be addressed through traditional approaches.
- Eliminated the need to build a new data center for the supercomputer.
- Optimized energy efficiency and space utilization.
- Fast response from Liebert and other partners enabled the project to stay on an aggressive schedule and qualify as the world’s third-fastest supercomputer.
"It was clear that traditional approaches to cooling would not be sufficient by themselves. Fortunately, Liebert had a solution."
- Kevin Shinpaugh, director of research and cluster computing, Virginia Tech
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Molecular Virology and Microbiology News
Human antibodies block norovirus’ point of entrance into cells Sep 19, 2016 Scientists have determined a mechanism by which human antibodies target and block noroviruses, opening the possibility of developing therapeutic agents against this virus.
Baylor College of Medicine expert says prepare for flu season now Sep 12, 2016 It takes about one to two weeks after receiving the vaccine to have full protection, meaning now is the time to get vaccinated.
Solving a 48-year-old mystery: scientists succeed at growing noroviruses in human intestinal cell cultures in the lab Aug 25, 2016 New development will let researchers explore and develop procedures to prevent and treat norovirus infection.
Complete genome sequenced of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 4 Jun 17, 2016 The complete genome of the disease-causing Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 4 has been sequenced by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Baby elephants need their vaccinations, too Jun 7, 2016 Dr. Paul Ling and his team are raising funds for the design and generation of an effective Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus vaccine by launching a crowdfunding initiative.
DNA coils, uncoils, and writhes to drive cell activity Oct 12, 2015 Using a multidisciplinary approach, researchers, led by those at Baylor College of Medicine, revealed in unprecedented detail the three-dimensional structure of biologically active DNA.
Experts say now is the time to be vaccinated against the flu Sep 16, 2015 Baylor expert says flu vaccination provides direct benefit to those who are vaccinated and starts to provide indirect benefits to those who are not vaccinated but are vulnerable.
Natural killer cell deficit plays role in common genetic disease Jun 16, 2015 Partial DiGeorge syndrome can result from the silencing of a number of genes that are important for controlling both virus-infected and tumor cells, said researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine.
Researchers seek to make mini-guts that mimic life Mar 16, 2015 A five-year, $5.1 million National Institutes of Health grant will help researchers engineer better “mini-guts” that are physiologically active.
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