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Recycling of Solid Waste for Biofuels and Bio-chemicals (Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes) by Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan
English | 25 July 2016 | ISBN: 9811001480 | 438 Pages | EPUB (True) | 4.18 MB
This book presents the latest advances in and current research perspectives on the field of urban/industrial solid waste recycling for bio-energy and bio-fuel recovery.
It chiefly focuses on five main thematic areas, namely bioreactor landfills coupled with energy and nutrient recovery; microbial insights into anaerobic digestion; greenhouse emission assessment; pyrolysis techniques for special waste treatment; and industrial waste stabilization options. In addition, it compiles the results of case studies and solid waste management perspectives from different countries.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians on the COVID-19 situation from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on March 23, 2020.
Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
The Liberal government announced late Monday that it has agreed to change draft legislation that proposed to grant itself wide-reaching new powers to tax and spend without parliamentary approval until Dec. 31, 2021, through an emergency spending bill.
Thirty-two MPs, divided proportionally based on party standing, will be in Ottawa to debate the bill being tabled on Tuesday. It includes sections aimed at adopting some of the fiscal measures announced last week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
But a draft version of the bill goes well beyond those measures and includes provisions that would give the minority government the power to act unilaterally for 21 months.
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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer issued a statement late Monday announcing the Official Opposition will not support a bill that gives the government unlimited powers to raise taxes without a parliamentary vote.
“In a crisis, broad, all-party agreement is essential, especially when the government has a minority in the House of Commons,” he said. “We will authorize whatever spending measures are justified to respond to the situation, but we will not sign a blank cheque.”
Just after 11 p.m. Eastern, Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez announced that changes would be made to the bill.
“We consulted with the opposition and will bring changes to the draft legislation,” he wrote on Twitter. “We will always work collaboratively and respect the fundamental role of Parliament.”
The statement did not clarify what sections will be changed.
The Globe and Mail has reviewed a copy of the draft bill.
One section would grant cabinet the power to change taxation levels through regulation, rather than through legislation approved by Parliament. It states that cabinet would have this power during the period “before 2022.”
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“For greater certainty, a regulation made under this section may contain provisions that have the effect of repealing or imposing a tax, decreasing or increasing a rate or an amount of tax or otherwise changing the incidence of tax,” the bill states.
The bill contains similar language and timelines regarding government borrowing.
Government officials shared a draft copy of the bill with some opposition MPs Monday in confidence until the legislation is tabled in the House of Commons. Discussions between parties were taking place Monday evening, meaning the final version could potentially be different from the draft.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux, who has reviewed a draft version of the bill, said the new powers would be “unprecedented."
“The draft legislation would provide powers that go well beyond the initial response to COVID-19 announced last week,” Mr. Giroux told The Globe. “It seeks to circumvent Parliament, for both spending and tax, by granting extraordinary powers to cabinet and individual ministers.”
A senior government official said earlier Monday that the legislation is meant to increase benefits as reasonably needed. The official is not being identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The official said the bill is subject to negotiations with Mr. Rodriguez and his opposition counterparts.
Mr. Rodriguez’s senior communications adviser would not comment on the bill or the impasse with the opposition parties.
Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a spokesperson for Mr. Morneau, also declined to comment on the contents of the bill because it has not yet been made public.
“I cannot comment on the content of a bill before it is introduced in the House,” he said in a statement. “All parties are working together to ensure that Canadians can get rapid access to the financial support they need.”
The bill has 44 numbered pages and is divided into 19 parts. The first part would implement the measures announced last week, including expanded Canada Child Benefit payments and GST credits.
Part 2 contains the new taxation powers for cabinet. Part 6 would amend the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act to allow the government to increase the Crown agency’s capital.
Part 8 would amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act to allow Ottawa to book increased transfers to the provinces and territories in the fiscal year that ends on March 31.
Other sections contain changes to the Food and Drugs Act, the Canadian Labour Code, the National Housing Act, the Patent Act, the Canada Student Loans Act and the Financial Administration Act, among other legislative moves.
The government's plan is for MPs to pass the bill through all stages Tuesday and for the Senate to do the same on Wednesday.
However, without all-party support, passing legislation quickly becomes more challenging procedurally.
Meanwhile, a report released Monday warns of the economic consequences if mitigation measures such as social distancing and travel bans stay in effect until the end of August. The Conference Board of Canada’s forecast said the country’s real GDP could fall 1.1 per cent in 2020.
“These are extraordinary times. Canadian leaders, business owners and households are facing unprecedented uncertainty," said Pedro Antunes, the Conference Board’s chief economist. “If this scenario holds true, we can expect a deeper and longer-lasting hit to the Canadian economy. Still, governments have acted swiftly to mitigate health and economic impacts," he added. “Once COVID-19 is contained, the economy will rebound.”
The Conference Board estimates that in that end-of-August scenario, the economy could shed 330,000 jobs over the second and third quarters and the jobless rate could climb to 7.7 per cent. The resource sector, tourism and household services will be hit the hardest, the board said, warning they could suffer double-digit drops.
Two former senior Finance Department officials, Scott Clark and Peter DeVries, said Canadians should expect a government deficit of $93.9-billion for 2020-21 – but warned it could be even larger if the pandemic persists into the second half of the fiscal year.
“This could add another $55-billion to the deficit. A deficit of $150-billion (6 per cent of GDP) or higher is very possible,” they wrote in an online post. “But this is a manageable deficit. It is a cyclical deficit, not a structural deficit."
In a letter to the Prime Minister Monday, Canadian Chamber of Commerce president Perrin Beatty urged Ottawa and the provinces to significantly boost aid to small businesses.
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Buick is jumping the gun on rear-view camera tech, making a reversing camera standard-fit kit on all of its 2015 cars, despite NHTSA legislation not demanding it until 2018. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ruled back in March that all new cars, sold from mid-2018 onwards, must beam a view from behind the car to the dashboard display, as part of an attempt to cut accidents where careless reversing runs over pedestrians or causes vehicle collisions.
The NHTSA’s guidelines call for a 10 x 20 foot area to be visible behind the car, with the camera automatically turning on when reverse gear is engaged. While there’s no specific demand around screen size – in the Buick Regal, for instance, the display measures 8-inches – there are minimum requirements for how large on-screen objects must be.
Although familiar from high-end luxury cars and SUVs, reversing cameras will be standard across the board on models from May 1st, 2018 in the US.
Buick’s decision is likely to be followed by other car firms, looking to catch a jump on the regulations and continue to position a reversing camera system as a high-end perk rather than a government-mandated minimum.
What remains to be seen, however, is how quickly more mainstream vehicles – such as those from Buick’s GM stablemate Chevrolet – will adopt rear-view cameras by default.
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Friction can be defined as a resistance force formed from the rubbing between two surfaces. Friction is a form of force that slows down motion and dampens energy. There are two types of friction:
- Static Friction.
- Sliding/Dynamic(moving) Friction.
Static friction is the friction caused between objects that are not moving relative to each other.
Limiting Friction is the maximum value of static friction just before the object begins moving. Therefore it can also be concluded that the value of the required force to just begin moving the object is equal to the Limiting Friction.
Sliding (Dynamic) Friction
Sliding friction is the friction formed between objects that are moving relative to each other. It is important to note that static friction is always greater than sliding/dynamic friction.
Laws of Friction
- The frictional force between two surfaces opposes their relative or attempted motion in other words friction is a resistance force.
- Frictional forces are independent of the area of contact of the surfaces.
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Virtual Learning on Steroids.
Increased costs in the face of massive budget cuts means that the already difficult task of re-opening school buildings becomes even more complicated. “It’s overwhelming,” says Vincent Romano, principal of Malverne High School in Nassau County, New York.
In this episode of ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times, Romano and Sergio Garcia, principal of Artesia High School in Los Angeles County, California, walk through some of the complications of re-opening, from providing masks and social distancing to installing sinks and barriers between urinals.
“There are all kinds of problems we are not equipped to deal with at this point,” says Garcia.
Garcia’s district, ABC Unified, is looking at several plans for re-opening in the fall, but he is doubtful that they can bring students back into the buildings before a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is available. He says it is better to work on making sure that teachers understand how to build relationships virtually. “It’s about positive relationships. Kids are going to be there listening to you sitting in front of a video camera with you if you have a positive relationship.”
Romano agrees that “just coming back to school in the fall — that’s not happening.” Teachers will have to do “virtual learning on steroids.” Even with that, however, in order to build the relationships that Malverne High School’s culture is built on, “we have to get back in the building.” His district’s task force is considering having an a.m. session and a p.m. session so that only 11 or 12 students will be in a classroom. They are thinking through questions like how to take everyone’s temperature every day and ensuring social distancing. “There are so many complexities and obstacles to what we know work in teaching and learning.” | <urn:uuid:c2d95bf2-8105-4fb8-81b7-ffc28d6093e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edunometry.com/the-equity-line/virtual-learning-on-steroids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.9669 | 413 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The GOP has become the CEOs of prior behemoth companies that refused to accept and adapt to change and ultimately bankrupted their companies. Republican outrage over gay marriage is the most recent example as to why the GOP will become the equivalent of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party if they don’t change quickly.
In regard to gay marriage, in 1990 seven in eight Americans opposed homosexual relationships (not to even mention the gay marriage question). In 2004, only one in three Americans supported same-sex marriage. In 2008, the presidential nominees of both major parties publicly opposed gay marriage. Yet, today a strong majority of Americans support gay marriage, and nearly 70% openly embrace gay family members and friends.
Positive views towards homosexuality are rapidly changing, especially among the following groups: men and women ages 18-34; suburban women; women ages 18-49; independents; Midwestern whites; moderates; and Hispanics. Where the views are not changing is among the older generation Republicans, who simply cannot deal with or accept change.
Like the CEOs of the past who failed to change, and whose company logo is now a tombstone, the same will happen to the GOP if they don’t smarten up.
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We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.
If we cannot deny the archetypes or otherwise neutralize them, we are confronted, at every new stage in the differentiation of consciousness to which civilization attains, with the task of finding a new interpretation appropriate to this stage, in order to connect the life of the past that still exists in us with the life of the present, which threatens to slip away from it.
If this link-up does not take place, a kind of rootless consciousness comes into being no longer oriented to the past, a consciousness which succumbs helplessly to all matters of suggestion, and in practice, is susceptible to psychic epidemics.
With the loss of the past, now become insignificant, devalued, and incapable of re-evaluation, the savior is lost too, for the savior is either the insignificant thing itself, or arises out of it.
Over and over again, in the “metamorphosis of the gods” he rises up as the prophet, or first-born of a new generation, and appears unexpectedly in the unlikeliest of places (sprung from a stone, tree, furrow, water, etc.) and in ambiguous form (Tom Thumb, dwarf, child,a animal and so on).
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A forklift safety checklist will ensure its safe condition. It will help you identify any potential problem with the forklift. Having a forklift safety checklist is essential.
A safety checklist should be completed with a "Yes or No" complete with a comment for "No" answers.
General information should be provided:
Name of workplace
- Running location
- Identification of forklift
- Work description (brief)
- Is the operating area completely separated from walkers?
- Are there clear and adequate safety signs warning walkers against forklift traffic?
- Are walker pathways and zebra crossings marked?
- Are workers warned about crossing forklift pathways?
- Are convex safety mirrors present at blind spots?
- Does the forklift specification meet the operating requirement?
- Is a clear forklift load chart provided?
- Is a seat belt provided?
- Is there a speed controller?
- Do the horn, reversing beeper, proximity indicator and flashing light function properly?
- Is there a protective structure provided on the forklift to prevent injuries during roll=overs or from falling objects?
- Is the maintenance performed regularly?
- Are forklift maintenance and repair records maintained?
- Is there enough fuel inside forklift?
- Is forklift battery charged?
- Are the forklift tires fully inflated?
- Are the tires pressure enough and safe?
- Are the tires in good conditions?
- Do the forklift brakes work?
- Is the steering functioning correctly?
- Does the gear shift work?
- Are the left and right mirrors available and clear?
- Do all indicators and gauges function properly?
- Are there any liquid leaks from the forklift?
- Are fuel, oil, hydraulic fluid and coolant levels full?
- Is there a portable fire extinguisher fitted on the forklift?
- Are hard hats required for forklift operators?
- Is personal protective equipment such as eye goggles, ear plugs and safety shoes available to operators?
- Are forklift operators or drivers certified?
- Does the driver understand the load chart?
- Is appropriate training provided?
- Have forklift drivers been given adequate training?
- Are the drivers familiar with the workplace layout in the plant site?
- Do forklift drivers follow the pathways correctly?
- Are forklift drivers or operators in good health?
- Does the forklift driver know the maximum speed?
- Are there speed limits for powered equipment on site?
- Are there appropriate traffic management plans at the plant site to prevent collision of forklifts with people and other mobile equipment by separating them in time or space?
- Are all safety procedures related to forklift inspection, operation, clean up and maintenance established, maintained and communicated to operators?
- Is there a monitoring and supervision system for ensuring all safety procedures work?
- Are work schedules adequate to move materials without operating the forklift at excessive speeds?
- Are only certified drivers allowed to operate a forklift?
- Is load checking always performed for load stability?
- Is load weight always checked before loading to avoid overloading?
- Is the load always lowered prior to the forklift being in motion?
- Are safe distances provided from the edge of ramps, docks, drains, gutters, floor openings and any other opening and obstacles established to prevent forklift accident?
- Are all ramp or dock edges safeguarded and visibly marked?
- Is the forklift allowed to lift workers using forklift to do certain job?
- Is the forklift allowed to be used for doing other jobs instead of lifting?
- Is the procedure for the safe battery charging or fuel filling established?
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Lukman Nulhakiem is a chemical engineer who has experience in hazard recognition and hazard control studies. Visit his blog at cemicalplantsafety.net to learn more about safety in chemical plant and workplaces in general.
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THE MISSION OF THE CLUB
The mission of a Toastmasters club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.
THE MISSION OF TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL
Toastmasters International is the leading movement devoted to making effective oral communication a worldwide reality.
Through its member clubs, Toastmasters International helps men and women learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking – vital skills that promote self-actualization, enhance leadership potential, foster human understanding, and contribute to the betterment of mankind.
It is basic to this mission that Toastmasters International continually expand its worldwide network of member clubs, thereby offering ever-greater numbers of people the opportunity to benefit from its program.
Toastmasters International empowers people to achieve their full potential and realize their dreams. Through our member clubs, people throughout the world can improve their communication and leadership skills, and find the courage to change.
Toastmasters International’s core values are integrity, dedication to excellence, service to the member, and respect for the individual. These are values worthy of a great organization, and we believe we should incorporate them as anchor points in every decision we make. Our core values provide us with a means of not only guiding but also evaluating our operations, our planning, and our vision for the future.
Being a Toastmaster means more than simply making a commitment to self-development. Everyone who joins a Toastmasters club is making a commitment to the club, to its members, and to the organization
as a whole.
A Toastmaster’s Promise
As a member of Toastmasters International and my club, I promise . . .
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Meditation is not a process of learning, But it is to get awaken to the mind and self …… and be aware of the working of mind and self…..which brings an understanding which cannot be conveyed through…. words.
Zen became popular in Japan and is a product of Buddhism .
Most Zen master rather that giving teachings and discourses, would create conditions or use absurd looking techniques to awaken the disciple.
Zen stories are not the fiction. These stories are the incidents which really happened with the Enlightened beings and the Zen Masters, who worked or answered the disciples in order to point to bring the awakening in the self.
These short story can have a profound effect on the readers as they did to the listener, or might just pass away as an amusing, entertaining story, or even a meaningless story for some.
here is a wonderful simple Zen Story, hidden with profound meaning .
Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across.
One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.
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As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out. “Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!”
“Brother,” the second monk replied, “I set her down on the other side, while you are still carrying her.”
one monk is living in present and other is still in past ……
many time friends ask why it is dificult to live in present so many time explain them with the example of a coin standing …… coin has head , tail and thin edge ……
head is future …..tail is past and both sides has flat surfaces and a coin can stay without balance on flat side so it is easy to remain in past or future as both are horizontal dimension of time and need no balance of mind …….
thin edge is present and it is a vertical dimension of timelessness and need balance of mind ……
to remain on this thin edge of present with perfect balance of mind in the middle of duality of past and future is enlightenment : conversations with God.
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OBITUARY NOTES. Gen. James C. Lane, who died of pneumonia at his office in the Alpine Buildings at midnight Wednesday, was born in this city July 23, 1823. After being graduated at Poultney, Vt., in 1841, he made a specialty of of architecture and of civil engineering, which he carried on until 1851. He aided in the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad. Later he entered the United States Coast Survey at Washington and was afterward engaged in mineralogical surveys in San Domingo, Porto Rico, and Cuba. He entered the civil was as Major of the One Hundred and Second Regiment of New-York Volunteers and was in 16 battles, ser- ving with distinction in the battles of Cedar and Lookout Mountains and Missionary Ridge and many of the principle battles constituting the Georgia campaign. Since the close of the war he he has been engaged mineralogical surveys in Cali- fornia, Arizona, Nevada, and Lower California, as well as in topographical surveys in Palestine. He was also engaged as chief engineer of the South Side and of the New-York, Woodhaven and Rock- away Railroads of Long Island, and at the time of his death had just completed his duties as chief engineer of the new parks of Westchester County. He leaves a widow and four children. | <urn:uuid:a4b88fe2-1fe4-4ccc-8d60-91f8e1ef669a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://localhistory.morrisville.edu/sites/unitinfo/lane-102.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981619 | 274 | 2.1875 | 2 |
COHEN STUDENT HEALTH CENTER
Getting sick when you're away at college doesn't have to be a frightening experience for you or a big worry for your parents. The Cohen Student Health Center is located on Briggs Avenue next to the Mercyhurst Bookstore. It is staffed by doctor(s) and registered nurses. The Student Health Center provides primary care for ordinary illnesses. Available services include: assessment and treatment of common illnesses, specialist’s referral, as indicated, blood pressure screening, nutritional guidance, flu vaccinations (in season), administer allergy shots, and skin care review.
The services of the Health Center are free of charge and available to all registered students who have completed health forms on file in the Health Center office.
The mission of the Cohen Student Health Center is to enhance the academic success of our students by providing high quality, accessible health care in a non-judgmental atmosphere that values diversity and respects individuality.
We address each student encounter as an opportunity to empower students to make informed decisions about health-related concerns, prevention and risk reduction to promote life-long choices. The Center upholds the confidentiality of the individual student in a manner respectful of privacy and consistent with professional ethics and community laws. We collaborate with faculty, administration, students and others on initiatives and events that work toward our collective goal of maintaining a safe and healthy campus.
MU brings in Pet Companion(s) periodically through partnerships with local organizations and individuals. These companions can appear at various on campus locations, including but not limited to:
- Counseling Sessions
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Pet companion(s) aid in:
- Physiological relief from academic and personal stress,
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- Promote well being,
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- Provide a safe, temporary diversion when dealing with emotionally intense issues.
The Relaxation Room is a calm space to sit, reflect, and relax. This space has been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is designed to help students explore various resources for improving their emotional and physical health.
The Relaxation Room contains information and guided exercises on:
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Modern medicine has come on leaps and bounds over the years, and this can make looking back at medicine’s past both alarming and terrifying. Many legitimate treatments from the past are, by today’s standards, completely barbaric and controversial, and it truly makes you value being alive today where treatments are more humane (but often still intimidating). Today we are taking a trip back in time to look at some of the most insane things that used to be legitimate medical treatments, so just keep these in mind the next time you complain about having to take a course of antibiotics.
10. Electrotherapeutics for Impotence
It is understandable that a man will try almost anything to cure impotence or infertility, but it was surely obvious that jolting your private region with electricity like Frankenstein’s monster was never going to work. This is what doctors believed back in the 1800s, however, when “electrotherapeutics” were seen as the cure to all kinds of health issues. There were kits sold, most famously the “Heidelberg Electric Belt,” which promised to bring back youth and vigor in men through the use of a belt with a constant electrical current passing through it. One medical historian, David Reynolds, stated “it is especially in the genital organs that electricity is truly marvelous. Impotence disappears, strength and desire of youth return, and the man, old before his time, whether by excess or privations, with the aid of electrical fustigation, can become 15 years younger.”http://shirlandyou.com/2011/09/26/its-shocking/ Source: Shirlandyou.com | <urn:uuid:4bf53ff7-335a-4da0-a3f7-55fc2e6fb999> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://admin.www.goliath.com/random/10-insane-things-that-used-to-be-legit-medical-treatments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.968518 | 345 | 2.03125 | 2 |
- GETTING STARTED
CLIPSeqTools::Tutorial::Introduction - An introduction to CLIPSeqTools
CLIPSeqTools is a collection of command line applications used for the analysis of CLIP-Seq datasets. CLIP-Seq stands for UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput sequencing.
CLIPSeqTools offers applications for a wide range of analyses that will give an in depth view of the analysed dataset. Examples of such analyses are: genome read coverage, motif enrichment, relative positioning of reads of two datasets, etc).
CLIPSeqTools is grouped in 4 toolboxes each of which performs a specific set of analyses:
Application to analyse a single CLIP-Seq library.
Application to compare two CLIP-Seq libraries. (Can be used after
clipseqtoolsis run on each dataset).
Helper application to create plots for the output of
clipseqtools-compare. (Note: Usually the plotting functions are called from the analysis scripts themselves using the
Application to process a FastQ file into files that are compatible with
clipseqtools. (Among other things, it aligns the reads on the reference genome, annotate the alignments with genic, repeat masker and phastCons conservation information).
CLIPSeqTools relies on a few external programs for things like the alignment and the plotting functionality. To successfully install and use CLIPSeqTools you will need to have the following tools installed and available in the users path:
Language for statistical computing. To download R statistical package and for installation instructions refer to http://www.r-project.org/
For the alignment of reads on a reference genome (only if you use clipseqtools-preprocess). To download STAR and for installation instructions refer to https://code.google.com/p/rna-star/
To remove 5' end adaptor sequence from reads (only if you use clipseq-tools preprocess). To download cutadapt and for installation instructions refer to https://code.google.com/p/cutadapt/
CLIPSeqTools is a Perl module and should be compatible with any Unix style operating system with the Perl programming language installed. Chances are that if you are working on a Mac or a Linux operating system you already have Perl installed.
The simplest way to install CLIPSeqTools is to use CPAN which is the a package manager for Perl modules. If you are the system administrator and want to install the module system-wide, you need to switch to your root user.
To fire up the CPAN module, just get to your terminal (Command Line) and run the following command:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
If this is the first time you've run CPAN, it's going to ask you a series of questions - in most cases the default answer is fine.
Once you find yourself staring at the
cpan> command prompt type:
CPAN should take it from there and install CLIPSeqTools.
CLIPSeqTools relies on certain data and annotation files to function properly. For the user's convenience, we provide the required files for 3 species - human (assembly: hg19), mouse (assembly: mm9) and fly (assembly: dme3) on our public server.
You may access these file at http://mourelatos03.med.upenn.edu/clipseqtools/
To keep things simle, in the following we assume you are using a working directory named
clip and that you work for human (hg19) species.
- 1. Create a new directory named
This creates the path
- 3. Put the downloaded file into the new directory
clip/data/and unzip it.
This creates the path
clip/data/hg19/To save disk space you can now remove file hg19.tgz
- 3. Assuming your CLIP-Seq data are for proteinA, create a new directory named
This creates the path
- 4. Move/Copy the FastQ file with the CLIP-Seq reads into
clip/proteinA/and rename it to reads.fastq.
Important: Unzip it, if it is zipped.
- 6. List all directories and files with the following command.
You should have a working directory that looks like this:
clip/ clip/data/ clip/data/hg19/ clip/proteinA/ clip/proteinA/reads.fastq
Verify that everything is in place.
To process the fastq file, align the reads on the reference genome, annotate the alignments with genic, repeat masker and phastCons conservation information run the following command substituting <PLACEHOLDER> with the appropriate information.
If you are running on a machine with more than 32GB RAM.
clipseqtools-preprocess all \ --adaptor <5_END_ADAPTOR> \ --fastq proteinA/reads.fastq \ --gtf data/hg19/annotation/UCSC_gene_parts_genename.gtf \ --rmsk data/hg19/annotation/rmsk.bed \ --star_genome data/hg19/STAR/index/ \ --phyloP_dir data/hg19/phyloP/ \ --rname_sizes data/hg19/chrom.sizes \ --o_prefix clip/proteinA/ \ -v
If you are running on a machine with more than 16GB RAM.
clipseqtools-preprocess all \ --adaptor <5_END_ADAPTOR> \ --fastq proteinA/reads.fastq \ --gtf data/hg19/annotation/UCSC_gene_parts_genename.gtf \ --rmsk data/hg19/annotation/rmsk.bed \ --star_genome data/hg19/STAR/index-sparsed2/ \ --phyloP_dir data/hg19/phyloP/ \ --rname_sizes data/hg19/chrom.sizes \ --o_prefix clip/proteinA/ \ -v
If you are running on a machine with less than 16GB RAM.
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The command above is doing a lot of things and it's going to take quite some time. Most likely it will take at least a few hours, so be patient and do NOT close the terminal. When it finishes you will find all files required to run
clipseqtools in the next step under
clipseqtools all \ --database proteinA/reads.adtrim.star_Aligned.out.single.sorted.db \ --gtf data/hg19/annotation/UCSC_gene_parts_genename.gtf \ --rname_sizes data/hg19/chrom.sizes \ --o_prefix clip/proteinA/ \ --plot \ -v
The command above is doing many things and is going to take some time, probably a few hours so be patient and do NOT close the terminal. When it finishes you will find the result files (tables and figures) in
To view the table files (those with .tab extension) you can open them with a spreadsheet program like MS Excel or copy & paste their content directly into a spreadsheet.
Assuming you have two libraries on which you have previously run
clipseqtools you can now use
clipseqtools-compare to compare their results. For simplicity, we assume the two directories containing the
clipseqtools results for these two libraries are
clip/proteinB/. To compare the results for the two libraries run the following command.
clipseqtools-compare all \ --database clip/proteinA/reads.adtrim.star_Aligned.out.single.sorted.db \ --res_prefix clip/proteinA/ \ --r_database clip/proteinB/reads.adtrim.star_Aligned.out.single.sorted.db \ --r_res_prefix clip/proteinB/ \ --rname_sizes data/hg19/chrom.sizes \ --o_prefix clip/proteinA_vs_B/ \ --plot \ -v
Note that with the above command we are comparing library proteinA against the reference library proteinB.
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I will collect here what I know about medieval hand sewing and how it applies to sewing Venetian clothes. Sometimes I am quoting, rewriting or adding to my class handout on hand sewing. NB! The handout is in Adobe Acrobat format.
The sources I have given are on the web for easy access. They are all based on books on extant material.
i. Threads and needles
In our period there were three kinds of thread used: linen, wool and silk. Seams on wool fabric could have been sewn with any thread, but silk was sewn only with silk thread. Linen could be sewn either with linen or silk.
Extant needles* are relatively thick and long, made from copper alloys, iron or bone. For ease of sewing I use many kinds of modern needles: millinery, cross stitch, darning, embroidery and beading needles. If you sew a lot, the comfort and needle suitability for the seam at hand becomes really important. The rule of the thumb is: if you can do more than one stitch at a time, use long needle; one stitch at a time – short needle.
* The extant needles I have seen range from Viking age to 16th century. None of them are specifically Venetian.
Is the easiest and fastest stitch. Can be used as the main seam stitch, for decorative top stitching or the first seam stitch in flat felled seams. Needle: long and thin (millinery, darning or beading needle).
Is used to make a larger piece of fabric fit to a smaller one. Work two lines of running stitches close to the edge of the fabric, pull on the threads (gathering the edge) until it fits the given measurement. Needle: long and thin (millinery, darning or beading needle).
Overcast stitch aka whipstitch
Can be used as the main seam stitch, both seam stitches in flat felled seams or for overcasting the seam allowances. Needle: short and sharp for linen, dull for wool.
Can be used as the main seam stitch in stress areas or the first seam stitch in flat felled seams for extra strength. Needle: short and sharp for linen, dull for wool.
Hem stitch is a variant of overcast stitch. Used to tack an edge down. Needle: short and sharp for linen, dull for wool.
Pad-stitch is a variant of overcast stitch. Used to tack together more than one layer of fabric. Needle: short and sharp for linen, dull for wool.
Flat felled seam (running+overcast)
Useful for fabric that frays like thin wool, thick silk or linen.
Right sides together, running stitch 1 cm from edge. Cut one selvedge to half and fold both selvedges to that side. Fold wider selvedge under the narrow one and overcast the edge.
Double fold and hem stitch
Used on thin wool, thick silk or linen. The double fold protects the fabric edge from fraying.
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First Committee Member
Gail Sammons, Chair
Number of Pages
The material for this paper centers on the Steamboat Ski Resort Corp. The ski resort was chosen for this study because of its need for a management retention plan. Steamboat was ranked as a top 10 international ski resort in North America by Snow Country Magazine (“Top 50 ski resorts,” 1997). It has maintained this distinction for many years. It has been noted for its idealistic “champion power” and its unpopulated vast terrain. In particular, it has always scored high in the customer experience categories for exceptional down-home friendly people. A chart, prepared by Net promoters.com, on customer and employee satisfaction which collaborates with the Snow Country ratings may be viewed in the Appendix.
Executives; Labor turnover; Ski resorts – Management
Hospitality Administration and Management | Work, Economy and Organizations
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Gumbiner, Michael D., "Manager retention and the Steamboat Ski Resort" (2007). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 481.
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Mediastinal (Substernal) Parathyroid Adenoma in minimally invasive radioguided parathyroidectomy (MIRP)
This patient presented withhyperparathyroidism. A positive Technetium 99m-Sestamibiscan showed a right inferior parathyroid adenoma in the mediastinum, behind the upper sternum. The Neoprobe was used to confirm the location. In addition, to make the adenoma more visible, an intravenous infusion of methylene blue was administered. This dye stains the parathyroids with a deep blue color. A small 3 cm-incision was made just above the right clavicle. The parathyroid adenoma was very easily identified in the upper mediastinum because its blue color contrasted sharply with the surrounding fat and adjacent thymus.
Two hours after the administration of Tc 99 Sestamibi, the parathyroid scan shows an elongated "hot" density in the upper mediastinum, below the right thyroid lobe, indicating the presence of a parathyroid adenoma.
The parathyroid adenoma was readily visible because of the methylene blue uptake. It was pulled out of the mediastinum and removed from a small cervical skin incision.
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Since 2014 I have been based at the Royal Courts of Justice (London, UK) and I have had the privilege of seeing and hearing some of the best advocates in the country. I also work with Law students to organise monthly moots/mock trials.
Whenever I speak to a current LLB/GDL student, I always get asked the same question:
"What makes a good Advocate?"
My advice may vary depending on what type of student I am addressing, but here are five simple tips I have learnt from my days in Court:
1.Introductions are everything.
The first person to stand up in Court (Counsel for the Claimant or Counsel for the Prosecution) should always introduce himself or herself to the Court. There is nothing worse than not knowing who is addressing the Court. An introduction should be concise and convey each person's identity clearly.
An example would be:
"May it please Your Honour, in this matter I appear on behalf of the Prosecution, with my learned friend Mr Bloggs, alongside Ms Bloggs..."
2. Divide your roles.
This is a tip for law students or anyone participating in mooting or a mock trial. During one of my moots, the Defence seem undecided on who would be doing the closing statement, and two students ended up addressing the Court!
This is not advisable. When working as part of a team, ensure that each member of the team has a role and there is no overlap. Divide the roles between the team members but do not tell the Court who is doing what - this should be clear from your delivery.
3. Your opponent is ALWAYS your 'Learned Friend'. (See point one)
Advocacy is intellectual theatre. Remember the formalities involved and do not break from the obligatory phrases.
4. Always have a sit down line.
It can be a little difficult closing your speech after speaking for a long period of time. Whether it is opening submissions or closing submissions, always have a sit down line - something that follows on naturally from your statement but allows you to rest.
An example would be:
“Unless your honour has something I can assist with, those are my submissions."
5. Be aware of your volume.
This cannot be emphasised enough. Regardless of which Court you are before, or even if you are doing a moot, the courtroom is going to be quite large. Depending on Courtroom, you may have the luxury of microphones and audio equipment, but always project. You should also be aware of those listening to your submissions. You do not know whether the Judge or any of the parties have hearing impediments, so ensure that you are clear.
Whether you are already in practice, or training to become a Barrister/Solicitor Advocate, you should be constantly perfecting your courtroom craft. Of course there are numerous things you can do to be a better lawyer, but here are just five simple tips which if practiced, will improve your presentation in Court.
Part 2 coming soon!
About the Author:
Stephanie Solomon is a Law Graduate from London, UK. She read her Law (LLB) and a Masters in Law (Criminal Law and Criminal Justice) at the University of Sussex, and currently works for the Ministry of Justice. Her interests include youth studies, crime theories, law reform, and diversity within the law. She writes, teaches and presents legal issues online and in person. For more information, please check out her LinkedIn page: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-solomon-52449270
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The Office of Digital Innovation (ODI) launched and managed covid19.ca.gov. It’s been California’s official COVID-19 response website for over 2 years. This post is part of a series about the work we did and lessons we learned during that project.
California’s COVID-19 website has a lot of information. At the height of the pandemic, it had 50 pages with almost 200 million pageviews. People needed this complex information to make decisions in their daily lives. Content design was critical to making sure they could understand it.
But what is content design? Here’s our answer.
Content design is about people
Content design uses research to identify what people really need. Then you create content to help them get that without struggle.
For us, it’s about the experience of Californians. We ask questions like:
- Who are we talking to?
- What do they need to do here?
- What could get in their way?
We also think about including all Californians. For example, not every Californian reads English well. But every Californian needs to know how to protect themselves from COVID-19. That’s why we used plain language, which was easier to understand. It’s also easier to translate.
We worked with user researchers and data analysts to understand how people used the site. This informed how we wrote. For example, over 80% of our visitors used a mobile device. That meant we had to write content that was easy to view on small screens.
More than just editing
Because content design is about people’s needs, it usually requires more than just improving a draft. We often have to go deep in a policy or process to find the most important things and surface them.
We spent a lot of time learning about the state’s COVID-19 response. Details mattered. But we also had to express this nuance clearly and concisely.
When we got information for the website, we identified the most important points and put them first. Then we looked for things that could be difficult for people to understand. We moved things around, used different words, and explored new formats. The final draft often looked much different, even though the information was the same.
Partnering with experts
Even though we learned a lot, we still weren’t the experts. Those were people in departments across the state.
We needed subject matter experts to join us in the content design. Our best work happened when we engaged in close conversations with them. They brought in-depth knowledge. We helped find the best words to convey it.
One of these partnerships resulted in the webpage Tracking COVID-19 in California. We worked with data experts from the Department of Public Health to create it. They explained what data was important for Californians to know. We found a concise, clear way to communicate that information. We even collaborated on the best way to provide notes about the data.
This partnership created one of covid19.ca.gov’s top pages. Tracking COVID-19 in California has over 12 million views. It’s the #5 page of all time on the site. We take this as a sign of success!
Everyone is a content designer
The great thing about content design is that anyone can do it. It might take a little bit of work, but if you’re already writing, you’re halfway there.
ODI has seven content design principles that you can use to get started. They represent what we’ve learned on all our projects, including the COVID-19 website. Each principle includes practical advice on how to apply it in your writing.
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Viewers of government broadcaster SBS Television will see news reports created with the help of the open source Linux operating system following a system upgrade last month.
The iNews newsroom system aggregates news feeds from various sources, including journalists and media outlets like AAP and Reuters, and converts them into scripts for the news and current affairs presenters.
SBS information systems manager Greg Koen said the information is transferred into a database and is written to the appropriate script for the news readers depending on where the raw material comes from.
iNews is an Avid application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
"The ultimate outcome is the scripts and autocues," Koen said, adding that the database is proprietary to Avid.
The project has been in the works for the last three months and the new system replaces the previous version of Avid which ran on an SGI Irix machine. "It went from four SGI servers to two Linux [on Intel] servers," Koen said. "It was clear Avid wanted to head that way [to Linux]."
Although SBS does use freely available Linux distributions, including Fedora, the decision to invest in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and a Red Hat Network subscription was clear because of the business-critical nature of the system.
"We're very big on open source and Linux," Koen said. "We built a shot list library to describe what's on tape. The idea is to have a search engine where you can ask in lots of different ways what is on the tape and the smarts are in the text search."
The shot list database is based on LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP - application environment, a favourite at SBS.
"We run Sun servers with Apache, MySQL, and PHP (for sbs.com.au) and internally there is Linux on Intel with the LAMP," he said. "MySQL is efficient and very good and using a Web-based interface means we don't have to write fat, Win32 apps."
SBS has also written a workflow application with open source software, Linux is also used for print serving, and open source powered the "swingometer" at the last election.
"We used Linux to create graphics during the last election," Koen said. "Scripts were used to collect data from the electoral commission which was then fed into MySQL and passed to Macromedia Flash and then on to broadcast."
Koen will now investigate OpenLDAP in an effort to rationalize Microsoft licences, but believes he is paying for a lot of applications the vendors will never port to Linux.
For example, there are a lot of Win32 client applications used by SBS so there is no easy opportunity for Linux on the desktop, according to Koen.
Linux Australia president Jonathan Oxer said the move is indicative of the acceptance of Linux as "the new mainstream Unix".
"For a long time Unix was considered the platform for high-end, mission-critical applications and Linux a hobbyist operating system," Oxer said. "Now Linux has become mainstream and is capable of operating in mission-critical environments."
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EU, Turkey Cautiously Eye Improved Ties After Tough 2020
The European Union and Turkey pressed each other on Thursday to take concrete steps to improve relations long strained by disagreements over energy, migration and Ankara’s human rights record.
Turkey, which remains an official candidate for EU membership despite the tensions, is facing the threat of EU economic sanctions over a hydrocarbons dispute with Greece in the eastern Mediterranean, but the mood music between Brussels and Ankara has improved since the new year.
“We have seen an improvement in the overall atmosphere,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as he welcomed Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu for talks, describing 2020 as complicated.
“Intentions and announcements need to be translated into actions,” Borrell said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who will meet Cavusoglu on Friday, also noted “a more positive atmosphere”, telling reporters by video conference there was “an opportunity to really make some progress to address the differences”.
The improved tone follows a video conference between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Jan. 9 in which both stressed the importance of the bilateral relationship.
Cavusoglu said he hoped von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the head of the European Council which represents the 27 EU member states, would visit Turkey after an invitation from Erdogan.
“It is of course important for there to be a positive atmosphere in Turkey-EU ties, but in order for this to be sustainable, we must take concrete steps,” Cavusoglu added.
2020 proved particularly difficult for relations between Turkey and the EU, especially France, with Erdogan expressing publicly his hope that protests in French cities would topple President Emmanuel Macron.
Greece and Cyprus, strongly backed by France, want to punish Turkey for what they see as provocative oil and gas exploration by Turkish vessels in disputed waters, but Germany and Italy are reluctant to go ahead with any sanctions on Ankara.
Turkey has now withdrawn the vessels and is set to restart talks with Greece, although the EU has accused Ankara of playing “cat and mouse” in a pattern of provocation and reconciliation.
EU leaders will decide in March whether to impose sanctions.
Brussels also accuses Erdogan of undermining the economy, eroding democracy and destroying independent courts and media, leaving Turkey‘s bid to join the EU further away than ever.
“We remain concerned about the (human rights) situation in Turkey,” Borrell said on Thursday.
The European Parliament on Thursday backed a resolution calling for the release of Selahattin Demirtas, a leading Kurdish politician jailed in 2016 on terrorism-related charges.
But Turkey remains a big destination for EU trade and investment and also hosts some 4 million Syrian refugees. The EU aims to agree fresh funds for the refugees from 2022 to discourage them from coming into the bloc.
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The money will be used to develop U.S. high-speed rail lines
U.S. President Barack Obama will announce Thursday a plan to award $8 billion in stimulus funds to develop U.S. high-speed rail lines.
President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will announce grants for building the rail lines at a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida. The event will be the president's first public appearance after his speech to the nation Wednesday.
Mr. Obama is expected to promote the grants to state governments as way to create thousands of jobs.
At an event last April, the president said U.S. high-speed rail service will save energy, reduce pollution and relieve highway and airport congestion.
Florida and California are among the states that have proposed high-speed rail corridors.
The $8 billion investment is part of Mr. Obama's $787 billion recovery act.
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Asked by Jane Coles, Virginia
I was recently diagnosed with polyps on my ovaries. Is this a serious condition? What are the risks and how concerned should I be about potential problems?
Living Well Expert
Dr. Jennifer Shu
Children's Medical Group
Thanks for your question. In general, masses on the ovary are called cysts while growths on the cervix or uterus tend to be called polyps. Ovarian cysts are fairly common in women and often do not cause any symptoms at all, however, they sometimes can cause pain or pressure in the pelvic area. These cysts typically do not affect menstrual bleeding.
For more information about your specific condition and whether you can expect any serious problems, I encourage you to talk more with your doctor. To describe pelvic masses in general, I consulted with Dr. Jennifer Gunter, an OB-gyn at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco, California, and author of the forthcoming book "The Preemie Primer: A Complete Guide for Parents of Premature Babies -- from Birth through the Toddler Years and Beyond." She shared the following information:
The expected course of ovarian cysts varies with a woman's age, the size of the cyst, whether there is a family history of ovarian cysts, and whether the cyst is fluid-filled, appears to be a solid mass of tissue, or has both fluid and solid components. Small fluid-filled cysts are part of the normal functioning of the ovary. A developing egg looks like a small cyst and after ovulation the corpus luteum that is left behind can also look like a cyst. Women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome may have many small cysts at one time.
On the other hand, cervical or uterine polyps are overgrowths of tissue. Cervical polyps can usually be seen during a pelvic exam (they typically have no symptoms, but can sometimes cause spotting between periods). Cervical polyps are almost always harmless, with the risk of cancer being less than 1 percent. Cervical polyps are typically removed only if they are large, causing irregular bleeding, or if there is an abnormal Pap smear or a persistently positive HPV (human papillomavirus) test. Removing a cervical polyp is a relatively simple procedure that can be performed in the office.
A uterine polyp is an overgrowth of the lining of the uterine cavity (called the endometrium). They can cause irregular spotting between periods or they may be asymptomatic. Endometrial polyps are typically identified during the evaluation of abnormal bleeding and may be found either on ultrasound or by endometrial biopsy, an office procedure that samples the lining of the uterus. Endometrial polyps are removed to treat the abnormal bleeding but also because of the potential risk of cancer. For women between the age of 25 and 45 this risk is less than 5 percent; between the ages of 45 and 65 the risk that an endometrial polyp will contain a cancer is about 9 percent and over the age of 65, 32 percent of endometrial polyps will be cancerous.
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Brent crude oil is trading at $36 a barrel, down 20%, after OPEC and Russia broke off negotiations on Friday to try and cut the supply by 1.5 million barrels a day. At these levels, it completely breaks through the level indicated by the sector as break even, namely 45-55 dollars. An analysis by Banco Sabadell of the sensitivity of the stocks they cover to variations in crude prices shows that ±1 dollar of crude has an impact of ±2.1% on Repsol’s valuation (-1.9% in adjusted EBIT/ -2.4% in EPS), -2.4% in ENI (-2.1% in adjusted EBIT, -3.4% in EPS) and -2.2% in Total (-1.3% in adjusted EBIT, -2.1% in EPS).
The analysts’ first conclusion is that Repsol, falling by 13%, discounts a perpetual crude oil price of 39 dollars (vs. 45 for ENI and 46 for Total). So it can be said that it is being over-punished, at least in relation to the other stocks.
Despite the “perfect storm” affecting the sector (the lack of agreement on production cuts plus the coronavirus and fears of a recession) Banco Sabadell rules out price scenarios below break even to value the sector. This is because companies would put in place contingency plans that would lead them to stop investing completely and stop producing in the wells with the highest extraction costs. As this would be generalized at a sector level, the price of crude would rebound. And although currently the market will not consider this because the impact is longer term, it is important to keep in mind that the lower the price of crude, the greater the refining margin due to lower energy cost. A rough estimate for a company like Repsol, with its particular EBIT mix (~50% is refining) is that -5 dollars of Brent has an impact of +0.35 dollars on the refining margin. Thus, if -5 dollars of Brent has an impact on Repsol’s valuation of -9.5%, the higher refining margin would contribute +3.3% in valuation. This would reduce the negative impact to a net of -6.2% in valuation vs -10% without netting (-6.8% in EBIT, -8.2% in EPS vs -10% and -12% respectively without netting).
Measuring the impact of a temporary shock is complicated. If the stocks promptly discounted levels of 36 dollars per barrel on their capitalisation, the theoretical falls would be 38% for Repsol, 37% for ENI and 32% for Total. So the drop in share prices today indicate that the market would be giving a 37% probability that these levels would be maintained in the long term (35% for Repsol, 43% for ENI and 34% in Total). Banco Sabadell’s forecast is that crude prices will return to reasonable levels (55-60 dollars) towards the end of the year, while it would be expected that the coronavirus would decrease in terms of the number of short-term infections. An OPEC production cut and/or the imminent announcement of fiscal policies in the US and Europe could lead to a much more intense, short-term rebound in the price of crude.
The most relevant issue is the effect on the companies’ cash flow and dividends, which is outlined below. (The valuation is not being revised due to lack of visibility. That said, the analysts recognize the potentials now seem outdated, maintain their recommendations and see opportunities to BUY in their top picks, Repsol and Total.)
–For Repsol: If the break even before dividends is at average levels of 45/55 dollars for crude, prices of 36/barrel would imply a cash destruction for the company of 540 M euros per year. This would be compensated with less investment (3.800 Bn euros per year). If this shock lasted three months at most, the company would not have to cut dividends given its favourable financial situation (<1x NFD/EBITDA). (Makes a payment of 60% in scrip, although it buys back shares, a yield of 12% at these prices to which can be added a repurchase of 5% of capital).
–For ENI: The price of 36 dollars/barrel (about 19 dollars below its break even) would imply a cash destruction of – 2.850 Bn euros per year (-9% on the capitalization and 25% of the NFD). Given that ENI has a pay out of 107% and NFD/Equity of 0.26x (vs 0.2x-0.25x target), it is the stock where there is more risk of DPS reduction. To cover the dividend, it would have to cut investments by about 36%, which is not reasonable and would force it to divest assets. So it could cut the dividend by about 24% (DPS’19 0.86 euros/acc; 10% yield) in a transitional scenario of Brent at current prices (36 dollars/barrel), provided the average price of 50 dollars/b remains in place.
-For Total (with a break-even of around 48 dollars/barrel) it would imply a cash destruction of -3.960 Bn euros per year (-16% on the annual cash flow, -4% on the capitalization and 12% of NFD). By 2020, the implementation of the divestment programme could result in about 3 billion dollars in cash (c. 50% of the 2020 dividend). Total has a pay-out of 69% and NFD/Equity of 20.7% (vs <20% target), and in a ’20 scenario of the average Brent price at c. 50 dollars/b, we think it would not have to cut the dividend. | <urn:uuid:e7bc224e-18eb-43e0-8d15-7a47b741a0ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecorner.eu/news-the-world/world-economy/the-oil-sector-below-the-break-even-only-enis-dpa-would-be-in-danger-total-and-repsol-would-not-have-to-cut-dividends/84708/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.953408 | 1,224 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Reads and writes TIFF format images and returns them as a pixmap object. Because the resulting object can be very large for even modestly sized TIFF images, images can be reduced as they are read for improved performance. This package is a wrapper around libtiff (www.libtiff.org), on which it depends (i.e. the libtiff shared library must be on your PATH for the binary to work, and tiffio.h must be on your system to build the package from source). By using libtiff's highlevel TIFFReadRGBAImage function, this package inherently supports a wide range of image formats and compression schemes. This package also provides an implementation of the Ridler Autothresholding algorithm for easy generation of binary masks.
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autoThreshold: Suggests threshold levels to use in binarizing an image...
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University of Montana Uses Campus Alert System to Warn Students of Danger [AUDIO]
After a young woman was attacked outside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house on Tuesday night, November 19, it wasn’t long before the entire university community was made aware of the issue through the campus alert system.
Vice President for Integrated Communications at the University of Montana Peggy Kuhr said the alerts are delivered primarily by email, but may also be in the form of a text message.
“The way the alert system works is that we deliver them via email, but as you know, not everyone regularly checks email these days,” Kuhr said. “Now we have a text messaging system that students and campus personnel can sign up for, so if you have a cellphone and want to receive emergency or warning texts from the university, you can opt in to be able to receive those messages.”
Kuhr said she, or another university official, will compose the text alerts.
“I or someone else on campus will write a short text and we always refer people to their email account for additional information,” Kuhr said. “So, ideally, people would sign up to receive a text alert, and they would also automatically get an email alert.”
Kuhr said the campus alert system has already been used three times in this fall semester.
“We had one early in this semester in which there were two reports that an individual was meeting female students in the university center and then going to their rooms and touching them inappropriately,” Kuhr said. “The second one was in early November where we had a man touching a student in a stairwell in one of the campus buildings. The third alert, of course, was last night with the attack outside the sorority house.”
Kuhr said the university also has a legal obligation to inform students when there is danger on campus through the Clery Act.
“Through federal law, we have the Clery notification procedure, where any campus needs to notify students of any instance where there may be an ongoing threat regarding safety,” Kuhr said.
The law was named for Jeanne Clery, a 19 year-old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her campus residence hall in 1986.
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How much should a Chihuahua/Pug mix puppy eat per day? My Chug, as they're called, is 6 weeks old (too young, but things happen) and I'm worried about her overeating, as Pugs tend to do. On January 15th, she was 5 weeks 4 days old and weighed 1 pound 4.2 ounces. Today, January 19th, she weighs 1 pound 9.6 ounces and her belly looks a bit fat to me. Currently, I give her as much dry puppy food (soaked in water) as she'll eat 4 times in a 24-hour period. But 5.4 ounces seems like a lot of weight gain in four days. I've never had a puppy this young before. Any advice or tips on what to do?
When puppies are this young, they will not overeat. Everything in them says 'grow, grow, grow'. Being a small breed, your dog will reach her adult size by roughly 6-8 months. Then you can use the information on the side of your dog food container to figure how much food to feed. We have small dogs and use their optimum weight as a guideline, figure the amt, then feed half in the AM and half in the PM. Best wishes with you new puppy!
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Let the puzzlist beware: Mathematical Bafflers
will disappoint those seeking the simple, straightforward, drudge-rewarding problem: it will delight those who have despaired of a truly challenging collection of mind-teasers. Beginners are advised to look elsewhere — the 158 conundrums offered here were designed by experts for experts — and many experts were, simply, baffled.Mathematical Bafflers
gathers the prime problems from twelve years of the esteemed weekly Problematical Recreations
which appeared in Aviation Week
and Electronic News
— periodicals read by mathematicians, engineers, computer programmers, and over the years, by serious puzzlists who heard about the special section. To keep the quality at a peak, Angela Dunn and a team of mathematicians invented their own puzzles and gleaned the best submissions from an enormous reader response. Criteria were conceptual originality, ingenuity of approach, elegance of solution, with preference given to the kind of puzzle more vulnerable to a flash of inspiration than mere persistence. Categories include algebra, geometry, diophantine equations, logic and deduction, probability, insight, and number theory. Each chapter provides solutions to all problems plus a selection of correspondence with readers containing complaints, pleas, commentary, and further speculation. Original woodcut illustrations add to the charm.
Advanced mathematical skills are only sporadically required — the majority of problems are accessible to anyone wanting the challenge. Those mentally fit enough to find 1,000 consecutive nonprime numbers (page 164) or discover on what days of the week the first day of a new century can fall (page 210), apply within; all others enjoy the bafflement anyway.
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How to Speak Senior Executive Lingo: A Guide for Supply Chain Professionals
Leading firms now see the supply chain functional leader as the necessary executive to coordinate the end-to-end supply chain process, even though he or she does not control it all.
Editor’s Note: This contribution is authored by J. Paul Dittmann, PhD, Executive Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute,
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It is the first of a six-part series put together by UT.
Ten to 20 years ago, the supply chain leader in most companies held a title such as “vice president of logistics.” It was a largely functional role that relied on technical proficiency in discrete areas: knowledge of shipping routes, familiarity with warehousing equipment and distribution-center locations and footprints, and a solid grasp of freight rates and fuel costs. (S)he reported to the chief operating officer or chief financial officer, had few prospects of advancing further, and had no exposure to the executive committee. The way companies need to think of the modern supply chain executive has changed dramatically.
Today, the Need Goes Well Beyond Functional Expertise.
Supply chain professionals still need to be experts at managing supply chain functions such as transportation, warehousing, inventory management, and production planning. But the supply chain process extends end-to-end and even outside the firm, including the relationships with suppliers and customers on a global basis. Leading firms now see the supply chain functional leader as the necessary executive to coordinate the end-to-end supply chain process, even though he or she does not control it all.
Because of that added dimension of cross-function, cross-company coordination, senior supply chain executives must possess a number of unique characteristics, which we describe in detail below. In our interactions, we find many firms have not yet come to grips with that realization. And, in a Gartner study, 60 percent of companies still do not have an executive officer who manages even the normal set of supply chain functions. Further, in our experience, of the 40 percent who do have such a position, the vast majority still have not tasked that executive with full authority to coordinate the end-to-end process.
Supply Chain Leaders Must be Business People First
Supply chain leaders must be business people first and supply chain specialists second. Their foremost focus must be on enhancing economic profit and shareholder value, not simply on cost-cutting. Supply chains enhance economic profit by looking at everything from asset productivity to revenue generation. As one senior supply chain executive told us: “In manufacturing or sales, the cause/effect of cost or sales performance is often clearer, and even intuitively understood. But in a cross-functional supply chain, you have to essentially model a series of complex interdependencies to understand which button to push.”
Supply chain leaders must be able to speak the language of senior executives as easily as they can talk about fleet-truck efficiencies or demand forecasting. Terms such as EBITDA, ROIC, and economic profit should be part of their everyday parlance, and supply chain leaders should be as comfortable discussing cash flow with the treasurer’s office as they are with talking about delivery schedules with suppliers. Supply chain issues are often the least understood by the board and the CEO, and must be explained in their language.
Analytical thinking is an essential component of the business skills mix ― meaning that the supply chain leader must be driven far more by facts than by gut feel; and that he or she must be able to quickly find useful patterns in data, communicate them clearly and act on the findings ― in short, to be able to turn information into insight. Supply chain leaders who have worked as consultants often have a good grounding in such approaches.
One CEO shared with us his recent experience in interviewing several candidates for chief supply chain officer. One stood far above the others mainly due to her ability to discuss overall business strategy with the CEO. She peppered him with queries about the customers, the marketing and brand strategies, the nature of the board of directors; and she wanted to understand in detail the CEOs own objectives, the ones that really drove his bonus. As the CEO later said, “She had a real feel for the entire business and has become an invaluable member of my executive team.”
Supply Chain Leaders Must Address the Top Topics on the Minds of CEOs Today
In our discussions with senior executives across industry, there are six topics that are always top of mind for CEOs. Supply chain professionals would be well-served to make sure they address the six topics below. In the coming months, the University of Tennessee series of articles will address the following issues:
How do we find, acquire, develop, and retain the top talent necessary to win in the increasingly competitive global environment. This topic is always the number one concern when we survey senior executives.
Perhaps it’s the high profile natural disasters like the Japanese tsunami and earthquake that have brought this topic front and center. Senior executives rightly ask their supply chain leaders if they have robust plans in place to identify, prioritize, and mitigate risk in the supply chain.
CEO’s tell us that’s “it’s either grow or die.” The company’s supply chain needs to be viewed as a critical engine for growth and not simply a way to cut cost.
Almost all companies have a significant global component. Either their customers or suppliers or both cover the world. Global supply chain excellence is a must.
This is not your father’s environment anymore. Companies need a plan to protect the environment, and often the supply chain finds itself at the tip of the spear since it generates most of the emissions.
This timely problem has plagued business since the dawn and has many dimensions. One executive was heard to lament, “How can we manage horizontally when we are organized vertically?”
Watch for articles dealing with these six topics in the months to come.
About the AuthorPatrick Burnson, Executive Editor Patrick Burnson is executive editor for Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review magazines and web sites. Patrick is a widely-published writer and editor who has spent most of his career covering international trade, global logistics, and supply chain management. He lives and works in San Francisco, providing readers with a Pacific Rim perspective on industry trends and forecasts. You can reach him directly at [email protected]
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced the launch of a re-engineered and re-designed version of Grolier Online from Scholastic Library Publishing with new content and digital research tools to meet the needs of 21st Century learners and educators.
Grolier Online now includes separate portals for elementary, middle and high school students, adult public library patrons, and librarians and educators. The Grolier Online experience is tailored for each user with an enhanced search engine that delivers articles, maps, and videos adjustable to a wide range of reading levels for students, and a dashboard for librarians and educators filled with professional development tools, lesson plans and other resources.
The new Grolier Online continues its history of bringing the most up-to-date and authoritative content to students and educators in the formats they prefer. Grolier was one of the first comprehensive reference sources in the educational market to go completely digital in 1997. The latest upgrade continues to expand on the program's robust bank of multimedia content that is updated daily by a team of Scholastic editors, and provides students of all ages with the most comprehensive and compelling content and current events from around the world.
With the new Grolier Online, students in grades 3 and up get even more help with school assignments and projects with:
- An updated selection of more than 120,000 articles, arranged by reading level and aligned to national and state standards, as well as alignments to the Common Core standards – coming this summer.
- More than 340,000 web links vetted by editors.
- A revamped search engine that allows users to search for content according to Lexile® or reading level.
- A database of 1,100+ international newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries.
- More than 1,200 clickable maps connected to in-depth articles from the most remote regions in the world.
- A collection of debate questions and current event topics to help build critical thinking skills.
The backbone of the new Grolier Online is its enhanced search capabilities, which provide access to users from eight databases: three general reference encyclopedias (The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, and Encyclopedia Americana), four specialty encyclopedias (Amazing Animals of the World, The New Book of Popular Science, and America the Beautiful, Lands & Peoples), and one Spanish language encyclopedia (La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre). The search tool pulls articles, videos, maps, and other multimedia depending upon your custom collection.
"The new Grolier Online has been customized and reformatted to provide each user with age-appropriate content that is tailored to their unique needs," said Hugh Roome, President of Scholastic Library Publishing. "In today's ever-changing world with the 24 hour news cycle, it's critical that children, adults, librarians and teachers have access to the most relevant and up-to-date news from around the world. With thousands of new articles arranged by reading level, educational video, and teaching material, the new Grolier Online will provide them with limitless resources for endless exploration."
Scholastic Library Publishing is a leading provider of digital and print products for public and school libraries – delivering content and learning solutions that are proven to help raise achievement. Scholastic Library Publishing offers a suite of digital tools, including BookFlix for young readers, TrueFlix, which helps students build content-area knowledge in science and social studies, and Grolier Online, America's premier online reference source. Scholastic Library Publishing also offers high-interest non-fiction from the classic Franklin Watts and Children's Press imprints.
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During World War II Gareth “Gary” Wean served as a Gunner’s Mate in the United States Navy.
After the war, in February 1946, Gary Wean joined the Los Angeles Police Department. As a LAPD police
officer, Gary Wean worked a variety of assignments, including traffic enforcement, patrol and detectives.
to Wade Frazier, In 1947, Gary Wean “was pursuing an armed robber through the streets of Los Angeles on a high-speed
chase. The suspect crashed his car as it barreled along at ninety miles an hour through LA’s streets.
He tried escaping on foot, and Gary cornered him in the dark. The suspect begged for his life.
As Gary approached, the man stuck his pistol (which had already killed somebody during the robbery) into Gary’s
abdomen and fired. He fired a second shot that hit Gary in his hand. Gary then emptied
his pistol into the man, while his partner also fired, killing the robber instantly. Gary’s partner
rushed him to the hospital. Although Gary’s abdomen was in great pain, he did not want to unbuckle
his Sam Brown belt (a wide leather belt which held his firearm and other police equipment) as they rushed to the hospital,
because he thought it might be all that was holding him together. When Gary finally took off his belt,
his partner saw that the bullet hit the belt and did not penetrate Gary’s skin.” In 1952, Gary Wean resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department
but continued his career in law enforcement as a Detective Sergeant for the Ventura Police Department (California); an investigator
for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Bureau of Investigation; and, finally, in 1966, as the Chief
Investigator for the Ventura County Public Defender. He retired from his law enforcement career in 1970.
is also the author of There's a Fish in the Courthouse. According to one reader/reviewer, Gary
Wean’s books is “a very sad but true tale of corruption in Ventura County, California. Based
on sprawl growth from Los Angeles and the artificially created energy crisis, petroleum rich Ventura County was a necessary
plum for the picking by corrupt interest. But, only if controlled by the "right" people and entities. Billions of
dollars have been made and are yet to be made as real estate development continues to replace farmland and petroleum is extracted
from the Los Padres National Forest. The result has been necessary control by any means for a minimum of
40 years. This control has resulted in corruption is all levels of government, including elected local, state and national
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China has reported the world’s first case of a human infected with the H10N3 bird flu, which is usually found in poultry. Health authorities said the risk of a large-scale outbreak is “extremely low.”
The patient is a 41-year-old man from Zhenjiang, a city in the eastern coastal Jiangsu province, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Tuesday. The man was originally hospitalized on April 28 after having fever and other symptoms.
“No human cases of H10N3 have been reported in the world, and the H10N3 virus among poultry is low pathogenic,” the NHC said, adding that the risk of large-scale spread of the infection among the human population is “extremely low.”
The NHC said the man became infected from poultry but did not provide any details regarding how it happened. The patient’s condition is stable, and he is ready to be discharged from the hospital, the health agency said.
H10N3 is a subtype of the avian influenza virus, which is lethal to wild birds and poultry, and can spread by air among animals through breathing just like the normal flu.
There are several strains of the bird flu of varying contagiousness that lead to sporadic outbreaks and usually affect poultry workers.
A major infection of humans by avian viruses in China was last observed during outbreaks of the H7N9 strain in 2013 and 2016-17. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 616 people have died from H7N9 since early 2013.
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Year 4's Midsummer Night's Dream
Thursday, 23 June 2016
To celebrate William Shakespeare’s work and his 400 year legacy, Year 4 pupils presented two assemblies based on one of his most famous comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The pupils have been studying the play as part of their English and Drama learning. Working together in small groups, they challenged their thinking and interpretive skills to produce short devised scripts based on different scenes from the play. They considered the key points in each scene and how they could adapt these and bring in elements of comedy while also using Shakespeare’s original language. They came up with costumes and props to complete their efforts ready for their assembly performances. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the creative process and the learning experiences that came with it.
Both assemblies began with a brief summary of the plot before pupils presented their sketches. In just six short scenes, the girls managed to pack in most of the dramatic action from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
They showed the Mechanicals, a group of tradesmen who perform a play within the play; the origins of the feud between Oberon and Titania; the various hilarious and dramatic effects of the flower ‘love-in-idleness’, from causing Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has the head of an ass, to causing both Lysander and Demetrius to love Helena; Puck’s trickery and his attempts to solve the problems he has inadvertently created; and finally, the resolution at the end of the play.
On both days, the performance ended with Puck reciting the famous lines: “If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.”
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The paper presents an action theory to analyse adaptation to climate change. It provides hypotheses on barriers to adaptation and a framework to analyse them. It clarifies what is meant by „adaptation measures“ and critically reflects on established concepts. Currently, many observers indicate substantial barriers to cope with the impacts of climate change. However, the often incoherent use of terms like autonomous and planned adaptation seems to be of little help here. There are no established methods that enable for operationalizing research on human or social adaptation. The action theory of adaptation intends to allow for rigorously clarifying the notion of adaptation in each specific research context, and delivers a template for hypothesizing on adaptation. The argument is developed by framing adaptation as an individual or collective action, and by building on established analyses of (social) action. To represent the bio-physical counterpart of adaptation, concepts from the DPSIR framework are used. The exposition of the concepts is underpinned by case examples. We conclude that basic components of the theory are (collective) actors, means and ends of adaptation. Ends may be targeted at socio-economic or bio-physical units that are exposed to climate change, but also at other receptors. The theory highlights that climate change affects many actors in different ways, and that their reactions are strongly interlinked. Actions tend to come in means-ends-chains. For understanding adaptation, it is necessary to address these interlinkages. Important barriers are caused by (1) a mismatch of the means that are necessary for an adaptation, that are available, and that are actually employed; (2) externalities and high transaction costs due to the interlinked actors, receptors and units that are exposed to climate change.
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10 Tips For A Successful Betta Splendens Reproduction
by: Laurentiu Craciunas
Betta splendens is one of the most wanted fish in everyone's aquarium. Breeding Bettas is not hard, though you might face problems at spawning them. They are oviparous fish, the male builds a nest in which the eggs/fry are kept for few days under the strict care of the Betta male. If you follow the next advices, you have big chances to get nice results of your Betta fish spawning.
1. Reproduction tank equipment: volume of 15-20 liters, a heater, a thermometer and air pomp connected to an air rock which will spread small bubbles. You need small bubbles because the fry are very sensitive to water movements and you don't want them to suffer.
2. The aquarium water must have a temperature of 28-29° C, a higher temperature will hurry the eggs hatching and the fry won't be fully developed. Keep the temperature constant using the heater and check it with the thermometer to make sure it is at the right level.
3. The water depth mustn't excel 10-15 cm because the Betta eggs are denser than water and they fall down from the nest. The male picks them up in its mouth and brings them back in the bubble nest, but a water column over 15 cm will tire it after few repetitions.
4. Cover the reproduction aquarium with a lid in order to keep the same temperature for the air inside the aquarium. The fry develop their labyrinth after about 30 days and they are very sensitive to temperature changes. The lid also protects against air flow which could ruin the bubble nest.
5. Select a compatible pair of Bettas. At first attempts you'll only want to get some fry and you won't be interested in colors/fins, but after some successful spawns you'll be more pretentious. So you'll chose same colored Bettas or even more, you'll look for developing some nice fins (double tails, crown tails, half moons, etc) but this is another discussion...
6. Introduce the male in the evening and only next morning introduce the female, considering that the male has already built the bubble nest. During the night keep the female in a jar near the aquarium and assure some light in order to make eye contact between the male and female; this will stimulate the bubble nest building.
7. The next day, after introducing the female, the Betta male will brutally chase her. That's why you have to put some plants in the corners of the aquarium in order to assure hiding places for the female. Also make sure you add some floating plants in order to help the bubble nest building.
8. After the first successful egg evacuation, the male (sometimes the female too) will take them (in the mouth) from the bottom of the aquarium and bring up in the bubble nest. You don't have to panic because this is a natural thing, so don't take the fish out thinking they eat their eggs ;)
9. A good pair of Bettas can spawn up to 400-500 eggs, after which the female has to be taken out from the aquarium because the male will brutalize her in order to protect the nest. Put the female, for a few hours, in a jar with water where you added some metilen blue in order to prevent eventually infections caused by the wounds.
10. After about 48 hours the fry will hatch and the Betta male will assure they stay together in the bubble nest. After another 2-3 days the fry will swim free. Now it's time to take out the male and start feeding them with Paramecium and/or Artemia salina (Baby Brine Shrimp).
This is it ;) 10 tips for a successful Betta splendens reproduction. You can find advanced information on specialized websites, books, etc, but following this article should familiarize you with the Betta splendens reproduction needs.
About The Author
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Examples of Good and Bad Cold Emails
January 2016 (assistant professor)
A good cold email is something that I can respond to within one minute. Here is an example I just received:
This student told me who he was, what he wanted from me, and why I should care (he received a rare A+ grade in my class). Then he laid out his schedule so that I could see if it fit with mine. I responded almost immediately. Great cold-email!
Contrast this with the following not-so-good cold email:
This email is short, which is great! But a bit too short. This student hasn't told me who he is or why I should care. I receive far too many of these generic emails that I cannot respond to them all. It turns out that this student also got an A+ in my class last semester! But he neglected to mention this key fact that would've made me instantly take notice. (I vaguely remembered his name, so I looked up his grade in my old spreadsheet and saw that he got an A+. But that took extra effort, which I probably wouldn't have expended if I were busier at the moment.)
Both students came from the exact same context: they took my class last semester, got an A+, and wanted to now discuss research opportunities. Who made the better first impression, based solely on their cold email? Definitely the first one.
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Electroluminescent material emits light of bright colour when current is passed through it. The material is usually produced from a semiconductor or an insulating element. The speciality of electroluminescent wire or EL Wire is that the light it produces is cool, devoid of heat. Low power consumption compared to fluorescent lamps combined with the thinness and lightness of the materials makes EL Wire so popular for industrial usage.
Electroluminescent wire is used for different purposes – building decoration, creating advertising signs and boards, and for public and vehicle safety and others.
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Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. (Mark 16:14)
So here’s the resurrected Creator Son of God, freshly back from kicking hell and death in the teeth, sitting down with the eleven survivors of his intense 3-year training. Functionally, this is their graduation ceremony: he’s just about to commission them to go into all the world and represent him. So what does he say to them?
He rebukes them! And he rebukes them, not for what they’ve done, but for what they’ve not done. So what is this big sin that they’ve done, big enough that it needs to take center stage at their graduation? It’s not believing the testimony of others who had seen him.
The previous verse is one example: the apostles didn’t believe the boys who had encountered Jesus on the Emmaus Road: two guys have an experience of Jesus that is both outside the apostles’ control and outside of their understanding of how Jesus does things. Naturally, they’re cautious about a couple of country bumpkins stumbling in well after dark, shouting, “I seen ‘im!”
They had already rejected the testimony of the ex-prostitute who first discovered his empty tomb. And after they had rejected these testimonies, Jesus appeared to them personally. Their reaction was marked by fear and unbelief.
I do not say this to my credit: I understand why the apostles didn’t believe. I know that place of emotional weariness, where I really don’t want one more strange person telling me one more strange experience; I just want to process the grief I’m overwhelmed with. And I know that place of pastoral caution, where I’m thinking violent thoughts about the next freak that feeds my sheep lousy food based on screwball experiences, and I’m about ready to pull an Indiana Jones on the guy. I understand why they didn’t receive the testimonies.
Jesus, however, is not so patient. He clearly expects better of them. He rebuked them for not believing the bumpkins and the ex-hooker.
Our translation doesn’t do justice to the Greek word “oneidizo,” which is being translated “rebuked” in this verse. Here are some of the definitions for the Greek word:
- to reproach someone, with the implication of that individual being evidently to blame.
- to speak disparagingly of a person in a manner which is not justified - 'to insult.'
- to upbraid, to throw it in one’s teeth.
- In a more literal translation, the same word is variously translated, denounce, insult, insulting, reproach, reproached, reviled.
If Jesus is that serious about it, I probably ought to be. I observe a couple of principles from this verse:
- The Head of the Church expects me to believe the testimony of experiences with God from disreputable people. Since Jesus’ birth was announced to shepherds and foreign astrologers, I guess we should not be surprised that he continues to use freaks and outsiders to tell his story.
- But freaks and outsiders have other stories to tell than just God’s story. There is nothing in this verse – or in the rest of Scripture, as far as I can tell – that suggests that we need to believe every story. We still need to discern. We still need to eat the meat and spit out the bones.
- I don’t like this one: If I reject the (true) testimony of freaks, then I’ll not recognize him and his work when it’s my turn for a powerful experience with him. The boys rejected Mary’s testimony, rejected the bumpkins’ testimony; it’s my opinion that this rejection led to their unbelief and fear when Jesus interrupts their grief-filled dinner party later.
- But Jesus doesn’t leave them in that cold, scary place. He breaks into the party and corrects their mistake, which leads to:
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Women who suffer from a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may benefit from taking a low-dose contraceptive pill, scientists believe.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) are carrying out a clinical trial to find out if the Pill could provide a more effective treatment for women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
The disorder affects women's ability to function for several days out of every month, causing severe bloating, low energy, heart palpitations and joint or muscle pain.
Previous research has suggested that changes in reproductive hormones trigger depression in women with PMDD, rather than the actual levels of the hormones.
Dr David Rubinow, professor and chair of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine, commented: 'This study will potentially demonstrate that it is the regimen of administration of birth control pills rather than their specific formulation that results in successful treatment of PMDD.
'If we can eliminate the hormone cycling, we should eliminate the PMDD symptoms.'
The trial will involve three groups of 27 women over a three-month period and could lead to new treatments for the disorder.
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Behavioral and neurological effects of mercury. Terminal progress report.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981 Jan; :1-7
Epidemiological studies of the behavioral and neurological effects of mercury (7439976) (Hg) were conducted. A total of 147 workers in chloralkali factories were administered a memory scanning test at selected intervals. Monthly urine specimens were analyzed for Hg over a 12 month period. The 12 month average urinary Hg concentration was 0.0 to 0.41 milligrams per liter (mg/l). A statistically significant trend toward slowed memory scanning was correlated with increasing Hg exposure. The data was treated by regression analysis and showed an increase in memory scanning time of 4.9 milliseconds per item for each 0.1mg/l increase in urinary Hg. Sixty workers were administered the 50 percent threshold test and their urinary Hg concentrations were determined monthly for 12 months. The 12 month average of urinary Hg was 0 to 0.258mg/l. A significant reduction in the 50 percent threshold span occurred which was correlated with urinary Hg concentrations. Some 138 workers who had average urinary Hg concentrations of 0.15mg/l were given neurological and nerve conduction examinations. Mild sensory neuropathy was observed in most of these workers. The author notes that effects on short term memory function could occur at concentrations below 0.25mg/l Hg.
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Developing a beauty product line is not an easy task. A lot of detail goes into planning and creating the perfect product. It’s hard to see that after a lot of hard work in selecting and sourcing ingredients and crafting the perfect recipe, there’s still a lot of work left to do. The makeup, lotion or lip balm of the new business must be put in the correct packaging before the product marketing process begins.
Choosing the right glass bottle for packaging is much more difficult than choosing the cheapest or prettiest. Even seemingly random design elements, such as different materials and colours, have a real and decisive effect on the products they store.
Therefore, there are many important reasons for using amber glass for cosmetic packaging. Some of these reasons are closely related to why chemically delicate essential oils are best stored in glass. Moreover, some of the same factors have led to packaging of medicines and most alcoholic beverages in amber glass.
Before studying the different reasons to use amber glass for packaging beauty products, let’s have a brief look at how the amber glass is made .
- A mixture of sand, soda ash and limestone is heated to very high temperatures.
- While the mixture is melting, other materials are added to give it different colours and properties.
- Operators and machines shape the liquid glass into bottles, cups or other shapes.
- Glass hardens into a new shape as it cools.
Amber glass manufacturers add iron, Sulphur and carbon to this molten mixture of sand, soda ash and limestone. These components give amber glass its beautiful brown colour.
Here are the main five reasons why amber glass should be used for the packaging of beauty products:
1. Amber Glass Is Inert
Glass is virtually inert, which means the products that come in contact with it will not change or react with it chemically, making it an ideal packaging material for a wide range of products.
Amber glass can protect the product stored inside it from damages like:
- Packaging may break and contaminate contents
- Sun damage
- Damage in transit
Amber glass containers offer ultimate protection against all these damages as they are strong, durable and as we’re going to read further, they are UV resistant as well
The amber glass bottle offers excellent protection against all three types of damage. They are strong, durable, and as we will see, they are UV resistant.
Amber glass is inert and impermeable, so there is no need to add additives to the product to prevent spoilage. Glass bottle suppliers can provide consumers with natural products and make sure they arrive in good condition by using amber glass containers
In the modern world, many people are understanding the hazards of using plastic for packaging and avoiding its use for the same reason. Therefore, glass is an amazing alternative.
2. Protection From UV Rays and Blue Light
Clear glass and some other forms of coloured glass provide little or no protection against the harmful UV rays and Blue light. UV rays are harmful for the products (like beauty products) as they can possibly cause unwanted changes in the products.
Amber glass containers are helpful in saving the products from these hazardous lights as they absorb most of the wavelengths that are shorter than 450 nm. Hence, it provides almost complete protection from UV rays.
3. Increases The Value Of The Products
Glass containers add value to the products. They are visually appealing and look very aesthetic unlike plastic. Not just that, their quality is unparalleled. They look great on the shelf as well.
Amber glass containers in particular are even more visually appealing than any other clear glass containers. Especially for pharmaceutical, personal care and cosmetic products.
Glass jar and bottles for packaging is great as it is reassuringly solid and has a glossy surface which makes it extremely tactile and the feeling one gets by holding a product in hand is exceptional.
Amber glass bottles are also an affordable option as they are made out of materials that are widely available and are also easy to supply in bulk.
4. Extremely Versatile
Amber bottles are extremely versatile as they can be used for a vast range of products. One can choose amber glass bottles for almost all types of cosmetic products as they prevent photo-oxidation occurring in alcohol-based products.
The shape of amber bottles is round and it has straight sides which makes these bottles easy for labelling and makes it visually aesthetic for branding purposes.
5. Amber Bottles Are Sustainable
In recent years, people have become more conscious about sustainability of products. They have become highly considerate about how they will dispose of the packaging of the products that they use. The manufacturing of glass bottles for consumer products matters more than ever.
Amber glass is an ideal product for sustainability-conscious customers. It is easy and widely recycled. They don’t need to make any special trips to get rid of it. Many people also love to store and use glass bottles at home. The Internet is full of ideas for decorating your home with amber glass! Many people love to collect these items to make part of their fall displays.
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Amber glass bottles are one of the few packaging materials on the market that bridges the future with the past. Consumers can feel familiar and at ease. They are environmentally friendly and suitable for a wide range of products.
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Action Team is the racial justice arm of the Nauset Interfaith Association (NIA) working in partnership with the people of Cape Cod. Our mission is to address systemic racial injustice by educating ourselves and others and building transformative relationships. Through conversations that raise awareness, community organizing, cultural events, and educational programs, we move toward more deeply integrated, racially diverse communities on Cape Cod.
New & Exciting…
Here we’ll post news & activities that the MLK Action Team wants to share with our neighbors
Congratulations to Angelina Chilaka, MLK Action Team Member and Education Task Force Co-Chair, for being awarded Barnstable County’s Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year Award. Angie was selected for this honor for her many years of public service which included decades of dedicated to teaching in the Harwich and Monomoy school systems, her role in the creation of and continuing work with the Harwich Fund, her volunteer efforts with the American Red Cross and the Harwich Council on Aging, and of course her leadership within the MLK Action Team as the co-chair of it’s Education Task Force. “The Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year Award was established in 2002 to annually recognize a woman who exemplifies the trairts of leadership in the community and who has made a significant contribution to the arts, education, business or commuity involvement, and volunterrism while embracing the ideals of patriotism.”
Celebrating the Mosaic: Sites of Historic and Cultural Significance for the Many People Who Call (and Have Called) Cape Cod Home, a fun, self-paced, (virtual or in person) educational scavenger hunt for people of all ages. Use this link: Sites of Historic and Cultural Significance
From Mississippi Today
Fascinating article about conservative white law student in Mississippi who discovers positive truth about CRT, “Inside Mississippi’s only class on critical race theory”.
I would like to introduce Belonging Books, a community space and bookstore that centers on and celebrates the voices, stories and work of Black, Indigenous and other underrepresented communities on Cape Cod. Belonging Books strives to create a space for joy, celebration, safety and belonging through programs and events.
Learn more at www.belongingbookscapecod.com.
Erica Tso Haidas
Founder & Owner
This “Meet …” is a new feature of the MLK Action Team web page to introduce you to people of color, from across Cape Cod and across the country, from both contemporary times or from times long past, who we think history should have given more attention.
Meet Army Sgt. William H. Carney, the first black recipient of the award U.S. Medal of Honor who earned it for protecting the American flag during a ferocious battle for Fort Wagner.
Wm. Carney was born into slavery in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1840. His family was eventually granted freedom and moved to Massachusetts. Carney had wanted to pursue a career in the church, but when the Civil War broke out, he decided the best way he could serve God was by serving in the military to help free the oppressed. In March 1863, Carney joined the Union Army and was attached to Company C, 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment, the first official black unit recruited for the Union in the north. Forty other black men served with him, including two of Frederick Douglass’ sons.
On July 18, 1863, the soldiers of Carney’s regiment led the charge on Fort Wagner. During the battle, the unit’s color guard was shot and Carney scrambled to catch the falling flag.
Despite suffering several serious gunshot wounds himself, Carney kept the symbol of the Union held high as he crawled up the hill to the walls of Fort Wagner, urging his fellow troops to follow him. He planted the flag in the sand at the base of the fort and held it upright until his near-lifeless body was rescued.
Carney lost a lot of blood and nearly lost his life, but not once did he allow the flag to touch the ground. His heroics inspired other soldiers that day and were crucial to the North securing victory at Fort Wagner. Carney was promoted to the rank of sergeant for his actions.
For his bravery, Carney was awarded the Medal of Honor on May 23, 1900.
NOW AVAILABLE: Celebrating the Mosaic: Sites of Historic and Cultural Significance for the Many People Who Call ( & Have Called) Cape Cod Home, a fun, self-paced, (virtual or in person) educational scavenger hunt activity for people of all ages. Use this link: https://nausetinterfaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Celebrating-the-Mosaic_-Sites-of-Historic-and-Cultural-Significance-for-the-Many-People-Who-Have-Called-Cape-Cod-Home-2.pdf
Film Viewing and Panel Discussion: The MLK Action Team and other Cape Cod racial justice organizations hosted a showing of film “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America”. It was followed by a panel discussion with Leo Blandford, Ayanna Parrent, Tara Vargas Wallace and Jeanne Morrison who shared their reflections on the film with the theater audience. Event was held on Monday, June 20 at the Cape Cinema in Dennis.
Amplify POC Founder and MLK Action Team Member, Tara Vargas Wallace gave a TedX Talk about the racial wealth gap in the US. If possible, we will have a link to the talk on this website when it becomes available. Please check back in a week or two.
Jeanne Morrison, MLK Action Team member wears many social and racial justice hats – she is co-president of the League of Women Voters Cape Cod, and an active member of the Barnstable Human Rights Commission and Barnstable No Place for Hate. To recognize and honor Juneteenth, she organized an event for the Falmouth Arts Festival which included a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by Representative Viera in a Union Army uniform as well as readings by students representing a number of little known black civil war heros. It was an inspring event.
MLK Executive Committee and Task Force Chairpersons
Pancheta Peterson, Co-Convener
Karen Boujoukos, Co-Convener
Ken Campbell, Treasurer
Reverend Wesley Williams
Task Force Chairpersons
Chair, Conversations With Police
Chair, Criminal Justice Reform
Chair, MLK Breakfast Task Force
Chair, Health Equity Task Force
In the News
Fascinating article about conservative white law student in Mississippi who discovers positive truth about CRT.
A powerful example of banning books in schools as a way to silence authors and themes important to people of color. Article from Popular Information Newsletter by Judd Legum.
Editorial Written By A High School Student Regarding Education and CRT from the Wall Street Journal
Amplify POC Cape Cod co-sponsors panel discussion on racism on the Cape. Watch Here
NYT Article Regarding Wealth Gap and Financial Advisors and Influencers of Color Helping to Bridge the Gap
Racial Justice Resources
Here you can learn, learn, learn and become more aware of actions you can take to be an active antiracist. (Remember – ally is a verb!)
Annotated Racial Justice Bibliography
Annotated African-American Classics: An Essential Library
On the Topic of Being an Ally:
How to Have Tough Holiday Conversations from ARD Anti-Racism Daily written by author and ARD founder, Nicole Cardoza
Education Task Force
The mission of the MLK Education Task Force is to help our communities reflect deeply on the way that race and other identifiers negatively impact education through thoughtful and thought-provoking learning opportunities. Our goal is to help to create safe, kind, and equitable educational communities by offering collaborative, value-added solutions to deficits in our educational systems and by providing BIPOC residents of Cape Cod, with a particular focus on educators and students, with social and professional support.
- Community Book Drive to bring literature featuring children and families from a variety of cultures and ethnicities into our local classrooms successfully concluded with approximately 40 new books going to each Nauset and Monomoy School District 3rd grade classroom library
- Educator Mentorship Network to match newly hired educators of color with current and retired educators of color to help navigate their early career years. See flyer in “Upcoming Events” section above.
- Celebrating the Mosaic: Sites of Historic and Cultural Significance for the Many People Who Call ( & Have Called) Cape Cod Home, a fun, self-paced, (virtual or in person) educational scavenger hunt activity for people of all ages. (COMING SOON)
- Black History of Boston Tour Travel with MLK Action for a day of cultural and educational programming in Boston. Day will include transportation, visits to the African American Museum and the Royal House with a lunch* stop at a Black owned, southern soul food restaurant. Watch this site for detailed information soon. (*lunch cost not included in price of tour). To be rescheduled for fall.
Criminal Justice Task Force
We are a non-partisan group working in alliance with others to advance racial impartiality in the Cape Cod and Islands justice system with an emphasis on:
Educating the public regarding the role and responsibilities of the District Attorney, Sheriff, Governor’s Council; and Encouraging open community discussion with candidates for and those who hold these offices; and Advocating for all persons a more just and equal application of the law.
- COMING SOON: Know Your Sheriff: Public Education Forum, Tuesday, May 24 6 pm in partnership with ACLU MA, Cape Cod Media Center, League of Women Voters Cape Cod, NAACP Cape Cod, Cape Cod Coalition for Safe Communities and MA Women of Color Coalition (MAWOCC).
- What A Difference A DA Makes Wednesday, January 26, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
A Virtual Public Education Webinar Presentation by Whitney Taylor, ACLU of MA Political Director
NEW: Full Video presentation on our partner, League of Women Voters’ website with this link (scroll down to What a difference a DA Makes).
- Several slides regarding public perception of our criminal justice system from the presentation can be seen in our photo gallery below.
- To view a brief summary of the What A Difference A DA Makes project launched by the ACLU of MA to highlight the key role that the Commonwealth’s district attorneys play in determining the effectiveness and fairness of the criminal legal system, view this short video.
- Take Action Today!
Keep Them Home Project of Color of Change
At the height of the pandemic, thousands of people – many of whom are elderly or immunocompromised – were released from federal prison to finish their sentences on home confinement in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, which we know runs rampant in prisons and jails that lack adequate health and safety services. Show Your Support
LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL STUDY GROUPS
Most Americans are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King’s ” I Have A Dream,” moving address; however, fewer than 10% have read and studied his ” Letter From Birmingham Jail,” considered by most scholars as his most important work.
Conversations With Police Task Force
The mission of the Conversations with Police Task Force is to ensure a healthy relationship between the local police and communities of color. It is our intention — through discussion, education, and advocacy — to promote mutual trust and understanding between those pledged to serve and protect and all members of the community equally.
Educating ALL Cape Cod Students – Celebrating the Mosaic
Here are videos and resources from this Virtual Educator Conference that was held July 19 – 20, 2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Build your understanding of what it means to create an equitable and inclusive classroom by We Schools, a free program for teachers across America, providing resources and training to support them in addressing critical social issues with their students.
From Education Week, “How Do You Teach Black History Without Breaking the Law. Advice From a Teacher“
2022 10th Annual MLK Breakfast
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01-27-2011, 04:40 AM
I have a userform set up which allows the user to choose some headers and footers, and apply them to either the active worksheet or to all worksheets in the workbook (using a simple radio button). What I would like to do is add a third option, "Let me select certain worksheets".
I anticipate that this could then be followed by another userform, populated by the list of worksheets with a check box next to each. This is the first thing I cannot work out.
Then, after the user has selected the worksheets, I'm not sure how to apply my headers and footers to only those that were checked.
For the "all worksheets" option, I have something like this:
Dim WS As Worksheet
For Each WS In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
Followed by the headers and footers code. I assume I could adapt this in some way, but I'm not exactly sure how.
Could anyone help at all?
Thanks a lot.
01-27-2011, 07:51 AM
This sounds like a fun project, I'm intrigued.
Anyway, the first issue can be resolved using a control called ListView. The ListView control is similar to a ListBox in terms of appearance, but it is much more powerful. When the user selects the third option, say "Selected Worksheets" the second form you mention could pop-up modally. During it's intialization process it could load all the worksheets of the current workbook. You can set the ListView to display checkboxes, meaning the user would be able to select the worksheets he/she wishes to add a header/footer to. Once the user is finished, you could store selected sheets in a public list to be accessed by the code when the header/footer is being created.
That's issue 1. The second 1 is much more simple. You would basically take the code you ahve just now for assigning headers and footers, and instead of using the current sheet, you would loop through each of the selected sheets.
Post some sample code if you want me to go into it further. Failing that, google the ListView control and you'll find how to work it and hopefully you should be able to do the needful from that.
01-27-2011, 08:22 AM
Thanks a lot for this - I'll let you know how I get on!
01-27-2011, 11:07 AM
Hm, I'm having some problems with this. Do you think you could point me towards an example ListView in Excel? I'm not even sure how to implement one at the moment, and googling isn't helping.
I also found this (http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/excel-prog/50033/Creating-Temporary-Userform-with-checkboxes) (which isn't a listview as far as I can tell), which seems to do something similar, though I can't work out how to adapt it.
Thanks for your help.
01-27-2011, 11:36 AM
Sorry I'm just running away from work although I will pick up later when I get home. But just quickly, if you create a blank excel workbook just for test purposes, create a userform called frmTest, create a command button called cmdDone and a ListView control called lvwWS and copy the following code:
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
' This code runs when the form is first initialized.
Dim ws As Worksheet
' Loop through each worksheet in the active workbook and add to the listvoew (lvwWS)
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
Private Sub cmdDone_Click()
' Now the user has selected what worksheets they require, we can store their names in the
' wsList array for retrieval later
Dim li As ListItem
Dim i As Integer
' First redim the wsList array to clear previous data and ensure it is ready to receive data
' Loop through all worksheets in the listview (lvwWS) and add the selected ones to wsList
For Each li In lvwWS.ListItems
If li.Checked Then
ReDim Preserve wsList(UBound(wsList) + 1)
wsList(UBound(wsList)) = li.Text
' We have successfully stored all the data. Dump to Immediate window and close the form.
For i = 1 To UBound(wsList)
Then create a standard module called modData and copy this code:
' Public variable used to store selected worksheets list
Public wsList() As String
Now if you run the macro, you will see a form populate with all the sheets within the current workbook - usually Sheet1, Sheet2 and Sheet3 for blank workbooks. When you hit done, it will print the names of the sheets you selected to the Immediate Debug Window. If you can't see this, press Ctrl + G when you're in Microsoft Visual Basic Editor.
Hopefully that shows how easy it is to get the sheet from the current workbook and also pass them to other parts of the program.
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(photo description: a bouquet of rainbow coloured flowers)
It was time. Early on, in Pride Week, we make a point of visiting Ron's marker in front of Ron's tree. When Ron passed away, his 'loving companion,' George Hislop had the city plant a tree in Ron's memory. Originally the tree was planted behind the 519 Community Centre but was moved to the George Hislop Parkette, one of the cities small urban parks downtown. We go by the tree often, and we always stop, but once or twice a year, we like to spend a little more time with Ron, and we like to bring flowers as a gift to Ron and as a means of saying to anyone who passes - 'this man is still loved and still remembered.'
(photo description: The maker in front of the memorial tree. It reads: Dedicated to the memory of Ronald Shearer July 6, 1932 - April 15, 1985 Loving Companion of George Hislop.)
We were close friends of George and Ron for many years. I had first seen them in the Star Weekly magazine when they did an early, and controversial, interview about their lives as a 'homosexual couple.' I read that article over and over and over and over and over again. I was barely 16, just months from meeting and falling head over heals with Joe, and that article gave me hope. Hope that I, one day, might be loved, might be less alone, might be happy. Until that article I had pictured a bleak life ahead for me. I kept the magazine article until it fell apart.
Meeting Ron and George for the first time was a remarkable moment. I wasted no time, telling them, stumbling over my words as I spoke, about the effect that their courage had in my life. How they had rescued me from despair and from hopelessness. We were well aware, by then, of the work that George had done in the gay community through advocacy and through the sheer force of his personality and his conviction. We saw something else too. We saw that Ron had a pivotal role in the work that George did, always quietly in the background but with a strong hand on the helm. Ron kept George focused and Ron mapped out strategy and helped with every speech, every word, that was to be said. He, like George, had an iron will when it came to gay liberation. He, unlike George, would never receive public recognition of his work. But he didn't care, George knew, and he loved George, so that's all that mattered.
Joe and I, like many young people those days, had no idea how to be 'gay' ... how to establish ourselves in a hostile world ... how to simply be comfortable in our own skins. This was work that Ron took on. Over time he came to understand that he was a mentor in our lives, he took the role seriously. He was interested in my career, he encouraged me to use my voice and to develop an intolerance for injustice. He felt that too many people gave in to the temptation to a 'selfishness' when it came to activism. 'I protect me and mine, to hell with you and yours.' Ron abhorred the idea of the silent acceptance of the oppression of anyone. When I would tell him of an outrage I'd seen in my work, his response was an immediate 'Well, what did you do?'
(The bouquet of flowers, on the marker, in front of the tree.)
But it certainly wasn't always deep conversations and heady discussions of social justice. Mostly, we simply had fun together. Ron and Joe and I would sit laughing and chatting at a bar table while George was off, being George, chatting up everyone in the bar. When George would return, we'd all spend the evening just enjoying being out together. George, like Ron, was interested in our lives and the two of them became a little more than simply mentors, they became really good friends.
I had the honour of speaking at Ron's funeral. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. We were with him throughout his illness and there with him, sharing strawberries, the night before he died.
I can still hear him laugh.
I can still hear him try to tell a joke - he never could.
I can still feel the touch of his hand on my arm.
I can still see his arm resting over Joe's shoulders.
And so, because I believe that remembering people is part of the job we have as those who yet live. We, yesterday, took flowers to Ron's marker, in George's parkette, and left flowers. There were a few people in the park who watched with curiosity. But we didn't care. While the gay community owes Ron and George and permanent place in the history of the movement, we owe them a personal place in our history as people.
From the moment I met them in the paper to the moment I met them in person to the moment we placed the flowers on the marker these men have always been part of the man we are, as the couple we became. They opened their hearts to us, they bade us welcome. We had been so unused to welcome. So very unused to welcome. That it felt, finally, as if we'd come home.
Flowers are such a small gift.
But our gift wasn't the flowers, they were only the symbol.
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che trasforma Venezia in un mondo magico
On April 25, Venice celebrates the city's patron saint, St Mark.
The ancient legend tells that the two merchants, Rustico da Torcello and Buono da Malamocco, stole the relics of St. Mark in Alexandria and then transported that to Venice in 828.
The relic of the saint was welcomed with great joy in Venice. The Venetian history tells that the evangelist Mark evangelized the Venetian people, getting its patron. San Marco became the emblem of the city taking the form of a winged lion wielding a sword and holds in paws an open book that reads: Peace to you or Mark my evangelist.
On 25 April, the date of the death of St. Mark's, still today Venice celebrates the commemoration with a procession in the Basilica of St Mark, which brings together the religious and civil authorities of the city.
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How To Use Blob Brush Tool In Illustrator Tutorial | Graphicxtras
The Illustrator blob brush tool can be found beneath the paintbrush. Or access using shift+B as a shortcut.
Go to the paintbrush and select the second entry 'blob brush' and set the color of the fill. The color can be a solid color. The color can be a gradient. Double click the icon to display the options or press return. Apply stroke to the art-board. Instead of stroke, it applies as a vector fill. Select the vector design, the design is made up of multiple points. The result can be manipulated using the other features of the application, such as changing the opacity, changing the blending mode, adding additional points, removing points from the path etc
Access the settings by double-clicking the icon. You can also press return. The panel offers 'Keep selected', 'Merge Only', fidelity, size, angle, and roundness, along with randomness and pressure settings. It is similar to the eraser. It is also similar to the basic Photoshop stroke settings.
Check box settings
Two check-boxes are available. To keep the path selected, check the Keep Selected button. If not, you can always select the path manually. If merge only is turned off, any new strokes are added as new paths. If merge only is on, all strokes are combined. You can always use the pathfinder panel to unite the vector paths. Fidelity allows for more accuracy but adds more points. Smoothness is less accurate but fewer points. Set the size, it can be a thin line or a big bold stroke. Set the roundness to less than 100% to create an elliptical stroke, more akin to a calligraphic stroke. With roundness less than 100%, you can also angle the stroke.
There are also a few additional options such as having a fixed size or introduce randomization and variation for the size (as well as angle and roundness) as well as settings for an art pad and pen combination. Click OK. It should be noted that the randomization is per stroke and not sadly during the actual application of each stroke. The randomization is limited to the size so if you set it to 20pt then the randomization will be limited to the 20pt as well (which I must admit I find quite frustrating). Same for angle and roundness. It would be great if there was a randomization of color available as well but there is not though you always just change the color via the fill color as you add the artwork. You can also randomize the result by using the color guide.
The generated path can be filled with solid colors such as yellow and red. Use a gradient for a special touch. Or a pattern. Color effects can also be added. The color can be changed at any time. Additional fills can be added via the Appearance panel
Shift / straight line and zigzags
Hold down the shift key to apply it in a straight line. You can create multiple straight lines. Zigzags also, angle your strokes at forty-five degrees. Squares and rectangles, angle your strokes at ninety degrees. Many combinations of shapes such as lattices can also be created.
Adding strokes to the stroke
As you add the artwork, you will only see the fill being added but you can always add a stroke on completion as well as other effects such as live effects / blurs / additional fills etc via the appearance panel. You can also then add width profiles to the path. You can also add effects such as as offsets You can also add loads of new fills and add transformation effects to move the fill to a different position or simply use blending modes to blend the colors as well as the strokes etc. Apply it and select the created path and set a stroke color such as black as well as a stroke width / weight and then go to the width profiles and add one or use the width feature to manipulate the stroke.
Merge with other paths
You can also merge it with existing paths. Double click the icon and set the merge to ON and keep selected ON and then go select a path such as circle or square and then apply it to that and instead of create a new path, it will be added to the existing path. If you select multiple paths and they are different colors then this will not work. It will only work if it a single color path. If you have 10 paths and they are all separate and they are all orange and then you apply it, all will be merged into a single path with the path connecting between all the shapes. If one of the paths is blue and not orange, it will be ignored.
A major issue with this is that it does have tendency to create a lot of extra points especially around slight creases in the stroke, so if you create a perfectly straight line with it then you won't get too many points but the slightest move away from that at the corners of the stroke and you will see a bunch of lots of additional points. You can use the applications' simplify feature but often that seems to end up making it worse. My favourite is the smart removal from Astute Graphics and that will get rid of a lot of the excess points and also keep the design looking much the same as before.
Use as symbols etc
You can use the strokes to create other presets such as symbols as well as swatches Simply add a path and drag to the symbol panel and select item in the symbol panel and use with the sprayer. You can also do the same with the swatches if you wish to create a tile and you can use it in the pattern editor.
The result can still be added to using the same features of the tool to merge the fill. With the latest release, if you add the artwork as a symbol preset then you can also now add it as a dynamic or static item and if added as a dynamic then you can use the artwork as a master and add color and strokes etc to the instances added to the art board.
You can also use it with the repeat feature that has been added to the recent release of Adobe Illustrator. You can use it with the radial option as well as grid and also mirror to create all kinds of amazing designs. You can increase the number of instances, you can change the distance of the strokes from the center, and much more. The spots are still live. You can edit them by double-clicking the repeat object. Change the size, angle, color, etc of the design. Select 'Exit Selection Mode' to leave.
Personally, not sure why it is not on the same grouping as the eraser as it is basically the same just inverted. The eraser can be added across the applied brush stroke and break the art into new individual paths which can then be added to by additional strokes.
Once you have added the artwork (and you can add them as actual spots or in one continuous stroke) you can add effects such as tweak or roughen or offset or glow etc and you can then expand the appearance via the object menu. Or add graphic styles
The paths can be filled with nil, the stroke set to black and a quick transform applied to create a lovely zoom transform effect. Sadly, you can't add to the artwork once you have added the appearance. Create the design and then apply the effect. Use the shift key to control / constrain the angle to create zigzags etc. Effects can be added such as offsets to create all kinds of unique designs from a single stroke | <urn:uuid:0c367ea2-c9b5-4771-820c-893042c84cd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graphicxtras.com/blob-brushes-illustrator.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.943371 | 1,573 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Cleaning a pentair salt generator is simple and can be done by following these steps:
- Unplug the pentair salt generator from the power source.
- Remove any debris that may have accumulated on the unit over time.
- Wipe down all surfaces with a damp cloth or sponge.
- Rinse off the surface clean with water and dry off completely before re-installing the unit onto your power source.
What is the best way to clean my pentair salt generator?
There are many ways to clean a pentair salt generator. Some people use vinegar and water, while others use a degreaser. You can also soak the generator in a cleaning solution for several hours. Make sure to read the instructions that came with your machine before cleaning it.
How often should I clean my pentair salt generator?
How to clean pentair salt generator:
The Pentair salt generator should be cleaned every 3 months. The easiest way to do this is to empty and clean the water tank, then pour a gallon of fresh water into the tank. Turn on the machine and let it run for 10 minutes while stirring the water with a stick. Pour out the dirty water and refill with fresh water. After running the machine, pour out any remaining dirty water and rinse all parts thoroughly with fresh water. Finally, wipe down all surfaces with a cloth dampened in vinegar or lemon juice. Allow the machine to dry before storing it away.
What will happen if I don't clean my pentair salt generator?
If you don't clean your pentair salt generator, it will eventually become clogged with sediment and debris. This can lead to decreased efficiency and performance, as well as potential damage to the machine. In extreme cases, a clogged pentair salt generator may even require professional repair or replacement. Therefore, it is important to take care of your machine by regularly cleaning it. Here are some tips on how to clean a pentair salt generator:
- Disconnect the power cord from the unit before beginning any cleaning procedures. This will prevent any accidental damage that could occur while cleaning is underway.
- Use a vacuum cleaner with a hose attachment to remove all of the debris and sediment from inside the unit. Be sure to focus on the areas around the filter and impeller blades. If these areas are not cleaned properly, they can become clogged over time and cause reduced performance or even mechanical failure of the machine.
- Once all of the debris has been removed, use a mild soap solution (such as dishwashing soap) to wash all of the surfaces inside and outside of the unit. Be sure to rinse everything off thoroughly before reconnecting power to your pentair salt generator.
Is there anything special I need to do when cleaning my pentair salt generator?
There is no specific cleaning procedure for pentair salt generators, as they are generally easy to clean. However, it is important to remember to keep the generator and all its parts free from dust and dirt, as this can lead to decreased efficiency. Additionally, it is recommended that you empty and clean the water tank every few months in order to maintain optimal performance. Finally, be sure to store your pentair salt generator in a dry place when not in use.
How can I tell if my pentair salt generator needs to be cleaned?
How to clean pentair salt generator:
- Check the water level – If the water level is low, it means that the salt needs to be cleaned. Add more water and turn on the machine.
- Remove all of the salt from around the impeller – Use a brush or your hands to remove all of the salt. Be careful not to get any on yourself!
- Rinse off the impeller – Pour a pot of hot water onto the impeller and let it run over it for several minutes. Be sure to rinse off all of the soap residue before putting everything back together.
- Cleaning kit – If you have a cleaning kit, use it to clean all of the parts of your pentair salt generator.
Why is it important to keep my pentair salt generator clean?
Keeping your pentair salt generator clean is important for a few reasons. First, it will help to prevent build-up of sediment and other debris that can reduce the efficiency of the unit. Second, dirty generators produce more heat than clean ones, which can increase your energy bill. Finally, keeping your generator clean will also make it easier to maintain overall hygiene in your home kitchen. Here are some tips on how to keep your pentair salt generator clean:
- Regularly check the water level and top off as needed. If the water level gets too low or if there is any sign of water leakage, replace the filter cartridge immediately.
- Always use fresh water when cleaning the unit. Tap water may contain chemicals that could damage the unit.
- Use a soft cloth or sponge to wipe down all surfaces of the machine including sides and bottom plates. Do not use harsh chemicals or abrasives – these could damage the machine’s finish.
- Empty and rinse out any collected sediment once a month using cold running water (at least 50 degrees Fahrenheit). Be sure to empty and rinse out all drain pans before replacing them with fresh ones each month as well!
- Keep all electrical cords away from moving parts such as blades or fan blades – they can become entangled in this area and cause damage.
What are some common problems that occur when people don't clean their pentair salt generators?
Some common problems that occur when people don't clean their pentair salt generators are that the salt will not work, the generator will overheat, and it will be difficult to clean. It is important to keep your pentair salt generator clean so that it can function properly and prevent any of these problems from occurring. Here are some tips on how to clean your pentair salt generator:
It is important to check the filter on your pentair salt generator regularly in order to ensure that it is functioning properly. If there are any clumps or debris on the filter, it may need to be replaced. Additionally, if there is water leaking from anywhere on the machine, this too may need to be fixed as soon as possible.
It is also important to keep all parts of your pentair salt generator clean - including the motor, gears, and blades - in order for them to function properly. Use a soft cloth or a brush designed specifically for cleaning machines like this one in order to avoid damaging them. Be sure also to rinse off all of the soap after cleaning in order to avoid leaving any residue behind which could cause further issues down the road.
Once all parts have been cleaned and inspected for damage, it is time for a final check before using your pentair salt generator again: make sure all switches and buttons work correctly by pressing them down firmly with your finger or thumb (don't try turning them by hand).
- Check the Filter
- Clean All Parts Regularly
- Inspect All Components for Damage
Can cleaning my pentair salt generator myself void the warranty?
There is no clear answer, as it depends on the specific model of salt generator. However, generally speaking, most manufacturers do not warranty units that have been cleaned by the owner themselves. If you are concerned about this issue, it may be best to speak with a Pentair representative before attempting to clean your unit yourself.
Where can I find instructions on how to properly clean my pentair salt generator?
There are a few different ways to clean your pentair salt generator. The most common way is to use a garden hose and bucket. Pour water into the bucket until it is half full. Add enough soap to make a sudsy mixture, and scrub the machine with the bristles of the brush. Rinse off the machine with fresh water, and let it dry before using it again. You can also use a vacuum cleaner with a hose attachment to clean the machine. Make sure to wear gloves and avoid getting any liquid on your skin or clothes. Finally, you can use an enzyme cleaner to clean the machine. Follow the instructions that come with the product, and be sure to rinse off all of the cleaning agents afterwards.
Who should I contact if I have questions about cleaning my pentair salt generator?
If you have questions about cleaning your pentair salt generator, you should contact the manufacturer. Pentair also has a support line that can help you with your specific unit.
Are there any products that I should avoid using when cleaning my pent air salt genertor?13?
There are a few products that you should avoid using when cleaning your pentair salt generator. Some of these products can damage the machine and may not be safe for use.
Some of the products that you should avoid using when cleaning your pentair salt generator include: harsh chemicals, abrasive cleaners, scouring pads, bleach, and ammonia.
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Join us—remotely—for a day of fun and FREE online music classes for kids ages 4-14.
Don't miss out... It's the last School's Out Party of the season!!
10:00am MiniKeys with Kai (Ages 4-5)
11:00am Jam Band 101 with Jason (Ages 6-8)
12:00pm Club Keyboard with Ben (Ages 6-8)
1:00pm Advanced Rock Write Record Band with Kaitlin (Ages 11-14)
“I just want to say again how much I appreciate all of you at Brooklyn Music Factory. You are doing a phenomenal job in making this all work for the kids. My mother in law, who is a retired preschool teacher, sat in on our daughter’s last lesson with Lena, and she was blown away. Thank you!”
10:00am - MiniKeys with Kai (Ages 4-5)
11:00am - Jam Band 101 with Jason (Ages 6-8)
12:00pm - Club Keyboard with Ben (Ages 6-8)
1:00pm - Advanced Band with Kaitlin (Ages 11-14)
All classes are 45 minutes long.
What: Creativity, music making, songwriting, game playing and all around fun.
Who: Especially for kids ages 4-14
When: Monday, October 12 (See below for full schedule!)
Why: Because school is out... and also...
Because we all feel better when we get together to share and make music!! :)
Cost: It’s totally free, all online via Zoom!
Space is limited, so be sure to reserve your spots.
About the Classes:
Our School's Out Party classes are taught by a live BMF teacher on Zoom! Each class is 45 minutes and is chock full of fun activities, songwriting, learning music fundamentals and connecting with others. Don't have an instrument? No problem!*
Our teachers will direct you how to make music and participate whether you're playing on a snare drum, or a pot with a wooden spoon! :)
Older students will work on songwriting together, and will come away with some new ways to write songs on their own at home.
Scroll down to learn more about the classes.
(*Except for Club Keyboard)
(You are welcome to book more than one!)
Want to try out MiniKeys for kids ages 4-5? Join Kai for some magic and music at 10am! No instrument needed. Just bring your imagination!
Jason is rocking an exploratory Jam Band 101 class at 11am. What does that mean? It means kids ages 6-8 get together to write original songs and create music together! (Exploratory bands are perfect for kids that are still interested in trying out different instruments.) Learn more in this special video from Jason!
Curious about our group piano class, Club Keyboard? Join Ben this Monday at 12pm! (And you can hear more about the class in this awesome video!)
Last but not least, for our older students - do not miss hanging out with Kaitlin at our 1pm Rock Write Record band class for kids 11-14. Kaitlin is our Director of Advanced Bands at BMF, and she's also very cool. :)
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Curiously, the Queensland government appears keener to get Adani’s $10 billion thermal coal mine up and running than Adani itself.
There are no earthworks happening at Carmichael, no engineers being hired by the dozen, no site preparation by the Indian conglomerate and not a whiff of a bank to provide project finance.
Yet the Queensland government shoved a little favour through for Adani last Wednesday as the world’s attention was rivetted to the US elections.
What is going on?
The 26 or so people working in Adani’s office are mostly PRs, lawyers and admin people. The engineers have been sacked. To be fair dinkum about a project the size of Carmichael, Adani would have to hire 100 engineers just to start. There are no signs of it.
Ironically, the Indians are moving ahead with a suite of solar projects here, as well as the subcontinent. Adani unveiled at a mining conference in May the first of four projects solar portfolio (two solar projects totalling 250MW in Queensland and two totalling 400MW in South Australia – one, Whyalla, is reported to be progressing quickly).
In India and elsewhere the company is ramping up its renewable projects. It remains in coal-fired power plants but its expansion into clean energy – in line with India’s proactive energy policy, is aggressive.
In the past year the price of coal has doubled, something which would make a Carmichael mine more competitive, perhaps even almost viable at current spot prices. But there is a hitch; Adani is selling to itself to fuel its power stations in India.
The rally in the price of coal therefore makes it simply uneconomic to import coal. The cost of imported coal-fired power generation in India has gone through the roof. It is now almost two times the cost of solar at $US4 per kilowatt hour versus $US7/KH. That is the deal killer. That is why Carmichael won’t happen.
Already, electricity is heavily subsidised by government; the retail price of power averages one rupiah per kilowatt hour whereas the landed cost of new imported coal-fired power generation is 7 rupiah/KW hour. Solar is cheaper. Importing coal doesn’t stack up. Nor will it.
Not that it would ever generate much income for Australia anyway. Adani Mining in Australia is owned by an Adani company in Singapore which is owned by an Adani company in the tax haven of Mauritius.
Meanwhile though, back in Brisbane, as the project shows no signs of life, the government of Annastacia Palaszczuk is devoutly giving it mouth to mouth with this latest mates’ deal on water rights.
In the absence of a better conspiracy theory, the only valid explanation can be that both parties are so loath to be framed by the other as “anti-jobs” they would rather suffer criticism for damaging the environment and backing a project with no commercial chance of success.
The government is so shamelessly political, so desperate not to be wedged as anti-business and anti-jobs, it would rather risk blowing up billions in taxpayer funds.
That is what is at stake as, the federal government won’t disclose it but Adani has its hands out for a subsidy from the $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF). It is a good bet the Indians are telling the feds they will start digging the big hole if they get a billion dollars.
So, in India, imported coal prices have jumped 60 per cent between April and October this year as renewables have become ever more efficient.
But the rally in the coal price is likely to be short-lived. This is evinced in the contrast between futures and spot prices. The futures markets have thermal coal priced at $US79 a tonne for 2022 while the spot price is $US110.
That lower futures price is commodity markets saying the price of thermal coal is in structural, not cyclical, decline.
Michael West established michaelwest.com.au to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. Formerly a journalist and editor at Fairfax newspapers and a columnist at News Corp, West was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences. | <urn:uuid:b65c2645-f0e0-4bc8-ab9b-badaeb10cdfb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://michaelwest.com.au/why-adanis-carmichael-doesnt-stack-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.956514 | 905 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Home Health is the Bridge between Patients, Hospitals, and Physicians
Raj Kaushal MD, Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President of Almost Family, recently spoke to us about the growing importance of home health within the healthcare continuum, and especially about Almost Family’s commitment to learning, training, and education. This is an excerpt from our conversation.
Q. How do you see the home health/ personal care industry’s role in overall improvement of the quality of care?
For decades, the focus in U.S. healthcare has been on hospitals and episodic care. In this model, patients came to the hospital for a procedure or emergency—and then they were discharged. Follow-ups were done by physicians. As healthcare evolved, industry realized that our focus only had been on acute care. Because we did not have the most robust post-acute care methodology in place to take care of patients, outcomes were not in sync with costs. Quality, measured in outcomes, was not what people expected from a system heavily invested in large hospitals. We don’t see home health’s role as just providing care in the home; we start with care transitions, from the doorstep of the hospital to safe landing of the patient at home and everything in between. It is important to oversee settling the patient at home and to continue to follow-up for a limited or longer period of time, as necessary.
Q. In an ideal world, how should the healthcare system begin to work across the continuum of care?
Home health plays a pivotal role in building a bridge between the patient, the hospital, and the physician. Almost Family makes a difference in the total outcome for the patient, with services that include ambulation, bathing, and transfer, with a significant impact on patient satisfaction, timely provision of the care, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations, and reducing emergent care. We serve as the eyes and ears for an attending physician; he or she can achieve better outcomes through the benefit of this individual delivery system. Home health has evolved to play a pivotal role in the care continuum. Payers have realized that home care is a cheaper alternative to both re-hospitalization and emergent care. Home healthcare is not only a quality alternative, but it is a cost-effective option for the provision of care. Physicians are realizing that cross-utilization of their team members, whether they are doctors, nurses, or therapists, is lessening the divide between acute care and post-acute care. Using education and training to enhance the competency of care team staff further improves the ability to manage the patient across the care continuum.
Q. What is the role of home care to increase patients’ access to care and make the process easier?
What home care does very well is develop the relationship between the patient and caregiver, becoming almost part of the extended family. Clinicians visit patient homes, they are familiar with the environment; and they know the challenges a patient is facing—including physical challenges, social challenges, and possibly economic challenges. They become part of a holistic solution for the patient; they are not just providing a visit or a modality but rather helping the patient meet economic, social, physical, and environmental needs in a very personalized way. We always say in home care that healthcare is only a phone call away and to call us first. Bringing care to the home and providing access to the patient becomes pivotal in building that continuum of care outcome for the patient, the family, and the payer. More patients served in a less costly environment—with stronger bonding, increased patient satisfaction, improved access, and integration of the acute care provider, physician, and the patient into a continuum of care—becomes the model which we have followed successfully for several years.
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The British public heads to the polls on Thursday to cast votes which will influence the nature of Brexit and whether it happens at all.
On British Overseas Territory Gibraltar, 96% of people voted for the UK to remain part of the European Union (EU).
More than 34,000 live on the peninsula which is self-governing, except for defence and foreign policy.
Gibraltarians are British citizens, but will not vote on 12 December, so just how closely are they following the election?
Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, told Forces News all UK general elections are important to the people there and that they will be watching very closely.
"We are lucky because we have developed a very close working relationship with all the political parties across the spectrum in the United Kingdom," he said.
"In this particular case, there is the extra dimension of Brexit and the direction that Brexit takes in the future will be determined by who wins the election.
"That outcome will have a bearing on the future that Gibraltar faces in relation to our departure from the European Union."
However, one Gibraltarian woman said she would be paying less attention to the election.
"I've kind of tuned out, I think we've all got Brexit fatigue," she said.
"It's one of those things, I'm looking forward to Christmas and I don't really want to think too much about what's going on over there."
"Gibraltar's quite small and I think people can have very passionate views on politics and Brexit and other politics can be very divisive," said another local.
"On the whole, the circles that I move in, people are just trying to avoid it [Brexit] and just not muck up any relationships or cause debates and disagreements."
The territory has been under British rule since 1713 and its border with Spain is just over a mile long, although the Spanish insist they have a claim to sovereignty.
Dr Garcia said: "I think historically, Spain has always used the border as a political weapon against Gibraltar and that is why people here are very wary as to what may happen going forward.
"I need to say that Spain has also said that they do not want to cause any difficulties at the border for citizens on either side so we'll need to see what happens."
In the sea, there is also a boundary - half of the Strait of Gibraltar is constantly patrolled by the Royal Gibraltar Police Marine Section.
They carry out rescues, as well as tackling smuggling, trafficking and national security issues.
Sergeant Sean Reyes, Royal Gibraltar Police, said: "We do have a good relationship with them [Spain] at most times.
"Obviously, we're all here to fight one thing and we assist them with chasers that come into our waters."
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I’m absolutely amazed that The Cornerstone had over 2.1 million page views in 2012!! (On top of that, The Cornerstone For Teachers Facebook page is about to surpass 20,000 followers.) Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much for reading, commenting on, and sharing my resources. I know that teachers’ time is short, and I’m honored that you chose to spend some of that time here on this site.
Here’s a round up of the most popular stuff from the past year, in case you’d like to do some reading over your holiday break:
Most Popular Classroom Management Pages of 2012
- Math Games and Center Ideas
- Creating a Cozy Classroom
- Fun Free Stuff to Print
- Job Interview Tips
- Ending the School Year
- Classroom Jobs/Helpers
- Individual Behavior Plans & Charts
- The World’s Easiest Token System
- Math Journals
- Bulletin Board Solutions
- Class Meetings/Morning Meetings
Most Popular Blog Posts of 2012
I’m counting only posts that were written in 2012, and I’m not mentioning the freebie posts each time they appear in the list, since they’d be on here multiple times:
- How to work a 40 hour week as a teacher
- Top 10 free educational game websites for kids
- Why I quit my teaching job mid-year
- What to buy for your classroom (and what not to)
- September’s best teacher freebies (here are the best teacher freebie posts from every month)
- Classroom arrangement ideas
- How to get a job as a teacher
- Classroom organization tips to help kids with ADHD
- Simple and meaningful activities for early finishers
- Pinterest 101 for teachers
- The clean desk diagram
- Show us your classroom photos
And in case you’re interested, the next online Bible study for teachers is starting the first week in January! I hope to connect with many of you in the group.
Happy New Year! Wishing you, your family, and your students all the best in 2013. I’m looking forward to another wonderful year of sharing ideas and resources.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who died last month, will be buried at sea by his family in a still-undisclosed location.
According to NASA spokesperson Bob Jacobs, Armstrong's family is still working out some of the details, but the burial will be conducted in accordance with the astronaut's wishes, the New York Daily News reported.
AdvertisementArmstrong, who landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, was also a Navy veteran who flew nearly 80 combat missions in the Korean War before becoming an astronaut.
"It is fairly common for current and former Navy personnel to be interred at sea," Jacobs said.
Armstrong passed away due to complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
A public memorial will be held for Armstrong on September 13 at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC at 10 am.
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A biography is a publication that outlines the life of a person, and typically the focus gets on one facet of that individual’s life. It normally entails the study of several sources and analyzing the topic’s perspective. Simply put, it is an account of the life of a genuine person. The term biography is also made use of to explain a work of fiction, as it is the story of a fictional personality’s life.
Writing a bio about a historical number, in particular, should be based upon valid details and also offer an engaging account of the person’s life. Right here are some techniques that can aid you create a much more intriguing bio. You can try to find examples of biographies with compelling hooks. It’s likewise an excellent idea to consider the individual’s individuality as a whole, and also what made them stick out from others. As an example, if the subject was a renowned musician, it would be a good suggestion to include quotes and also an image of the individual in question.
Bios can be written in numerous designs. The main distinction in between a biographer’s account and also a journalist’s tale is that the former focuses on individual experiences, while the last focuses on business events. It may be challenging to establish the function of a biography, so it’s finest to concentrate on a couple of vital facets of the individual’s life. It ought to be intriguing and focused on their business, yet the very first individual POV ought to be the most suitable choice for a bio.
A biography is meant to be real, however that can imply different things to various people. A bio should be accurate and also in the first-person. The author of a biography should be honest, as well as make use of the first-person point of view when covering the subject. The writer of a bio ought to also be an expert in the subject’s area. The writer ought to prevent discussing his/her own experience unless it helps the viewers to comprehend the subject much better.
When composing a bio, it is essential to be genuine. The topic must have an individual touch. A biography ought to consist of quotes from the person and also an image of the topic. Preferably, the bio must also be short and also concise. If the subject was a famous person, after that it’s finest to stay clear of using the first-person POV in the bio. It will certainly be simpler for readers to associate with the subject if they can see their face in the bio.
A biographer must create a bio in the initial individual. Although the topic’s life is the topic of a bio, the writer is expected to compose from his or her own viewpoint and is unlikely to be objective. The writer of a bio ought to be a specialist in his or her area. Nonetheless, a biographer might likewise comprise details, miss a lot of details, or otherwise have sufficient details regarding the topic.
A biographer must keep the facts of a person’s life real. The writer must communicate valid info in a vibrant as well as fascinating manner. A bio needs to likewise record the rate of interest of the visitor. Generally, biographers utilize the 3rd individual, or the first-person perspective. A bio should have the ability to show the topic’s one-of-a-kind features. A well-written bio needs to be legible and also intriguing. An excellent writer ought to be able to provide information concerning his or her relative.
An excellent biography must be readable as well as well-structured. The writer should make the subject’s life as interesting as possible. An entertaining bio will keep the reader analysis. Furthermore, a bio should consist of quotes from the subject. If possible, the bio must include a picture of the subject. If the topic is renowned for a specific act, he or she need to state it in the bio. Then, a biographer ought to compose a quick description concerning the incident.
A bio ought to include facts concerning the person’s birth and childhood years. It ought to likewise define how the individual match society. The writer must define the role the subject played in society. The subject must be well-liked and appreciated by the visitors. A bio can be written in any kind of category, including the 3rd person. In the case of an autobiographical message, the author needs to be truthful and not try to write about the person’s personal history.
The initial step in composing a bio is to make a timeline of the subject’s life. You can utilize a family member as a practice topic, or select an individual of your selection. You should research the important events because individual’s life and write about them. Afterwards, you can incorporate quotes into your bio. This will certainly aid your readers connect to the individual’s life. It will certainly help them bear in mind the vital events in the topic’s life.
A bio must be well-written. While there are several aspects to take into consideration in creating a biography, it is important to make sure that it is well-written. The subject of the biography need to be fascinating, and also the writer ought to make it a point to consist of appropriate details. It must be exact as well as succinct, as well as the writer must be clear and honest in their writing. You need to be careful not to overemphasize information in the biographical product, as it can skew the definition of the subject.
A biography must focus on the subject’s grown-up life. It needs to highlight the considerable events that formed the individual’s life. For instance, an individual’s childhood years may have teemed with difficulties, yet he was always enthusiastic concerning his job. A well-written biography ought to include his/her life and also his heritage. A biography ought to additionally include essential quotes that were important to the topic. A great biographer should focus on one of the most appropriate information in a subject’s life. Great post to read
In addition to individual comments, a biography must likewise include information concerning the writer’s family as well as childhood years. Dialogue and also quotes are practical in this process. No matter the category, pupils ought to watch out for hidden treasures as well as brand-new inquiries that will fuel the research study process as well as shape the direction of the biography. This will certainly make the project a lot more satisfying as well as readable. If the author wants their readers to appreciate their biography, they should have the ability to develop a remarkable and fascinating account. | <urn:uuid:69a6b0c5-9027-41d7-ab08-795231543ddc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dw3soul.com/2022/04/09/wonderful-biography-that-you-need-to-know-currently/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.969385 | 1,370 | 2.640625 | 3 |
In September 1861, the First Florida Special Battalion entered Confederate service at Fernandina. The unit, initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel P. Holland, served first as heavy artillery before being reorganized as infantry. However, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hopkins then became its commander in May 1862, and he would serve in that position until the end of the war.
In March 1862, after the evacuation of Amelia Island and Fernandina due to the landing of strong Union forces, the battalion served at various points in north Florida during 1862–1863. It participated in the actions at St. Johns Bluff in September–October 1862 where it was forced to retreat, and Jacksonville in March 1863. Various companies also guarded the Apalachicola River from Union attack. In the summer of 1863, the First Battalion was ordered to reinforce the defenses at Savannah, Georgia, but the unit would return to Florida in time to defend the state against the Federal invasion in early 1864.
The First Battalion entered the battle of Olustee with approximately 400 enlisted men and twenty officers. The unit was held in reserve until the latter part of the battle when, according to a participant, it "went to the rescue of General Colquitt." The men "went in double-quik time" and "struck right in the center of the battle." The battalion suffered official casualties of three killed and forty seven wounded.
After the battle, the unit stayed in Florida until the spring of 1864, when it was sent to reinforce the Army of Northern Virginia. In June, the First Battalion, along with four companies from the Second Florida Infantry Battalion, consolidated together into the new Tenth Florida Infantry Regiment. The Tenth fought through the Petersburg Campaign of 1864–1865 and surrendered 154 men at Appomattox.
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We're going to take a look at how some of the best HTML5-centric, cross-platform mobile frameworks are being used to help developers deliver native app experiences on a variety of devices.
This is particularly true for mobile devices. A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. The leading modern mobile platforms — iOS and Android — both use WebKit as their bases. Likewise, BlackBerry and HP/Palm are also using WebKit and Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7.
What this means is that out of the box, modern smartphones and tablets support the bells and whistles that make HTML5 so special. It also means that developers can feel free to use those technologies when creating their applications and not have to worry that the device itself won't support a particular function.
It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets.
Because ScrollMotion has built its underlying app platform in HTML5, porting the content to a non-iOS device, like the Chrome browser, required very little work.
Choosing what mobile platforms to support continues to be a vexing problem for developers both big and small. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well. iPhone and iPad apps can be packaged together, but both require separate experiences and views.
Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Add in the BlackBerry PlayBook, HP's TouchPad and the future devices from Nokia and Microsoft, and it's not difficult for even a large development team to become overwhelmed.
Appcelerator's Titanium platform was designed from the offset to help web developers create mobile and tablet applications with ease. Over the last year, the platform has seen tremendous growth, and new features and devices are added at a fast pace.
Appcelerator recently acquired Aptana, which should ensure that the tools for building its apps continue to improve and evolve over time.
In essence, it enables mobile developers to create an app just as if they were targeting the mobile browser but with the benefit of being able to get into the App Store.
PhoneGap Build is a new service (still in beta) that lets developers quickly and easily create app-store ready versions of their apps for various platforms. It does all the work of compiling the code for various platforms and gives the developer a final build suitable for submission to the app market of their choice.
Ars Technica used PhoneGap to build its iPad app. This is a great example of using web standards to deliver an app that presents existing content in a customized view and experience. Clint Ecker's post about how the app was built is worth a read.
Using various mobile web frameworks alongside an HTML5 platform is a common approach to mobile app development.
Developer Pete Freitag recently gave a presentation on building mobile apps using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. Freitag made the slides available on his website and the presentation offers a nice overview of how to use two emerging web frameworks together.
Feitag's tracking and reimbursement app Mileage Pad was built using PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile.
Or Just Make an HTML5 App
Of course, an increasingly viable option for mobile developers is to just use HTML5 to create a mobile web app.
As HTML5 gets better and browser support of HTML5 improves, the differences between running an HTML5 app in a native wrapper, a la PhoneGap, and accessing an HTML5 web app from an app shortcut on your home screen is going to continue to disappear.
Lots of companies — including Facebook — are looking at HTML5 as the future platform for their apps that target next generation devices.
Earlier this month, 37signals decided to forego building a platform-specific mobile app for its Basecamp product and instead created Basecamp Mobile. This decision initially drew some criticism, with members of the developer community questioning the company's decision to just use HTML5.
With the recent Readability kerfuffle, it's possible that more developers will start considering a mobile web approach for their applications. Readability's Rich Ziade and Dan Benjamin discuss the issue in length, including what it means for mobile developers, on "The Daily Edition."
The Future is Bright
Whether it's through a framework, via an application wrapper or as the basis for a mobile web app, HTML5 is going to continue to be an important driving force for mobile application development.
In fact, as the technology evolves, we wouldn't be surprised to see more HTML5 elements popping up in native desktop applications as well.
Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps? Let us know.
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Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
|Long title||An Act to deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes.|
|Enacted by||the 104th United States Congress|
|Effective||April 24, 1996|
|Public law||Pub.L. 104–132 (text) (PDF)|
|Statutes at Large||110 Stat. 1214|
|Acts amended||Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994|
|Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act|
|United States Supreme Court cases|
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub.L. 104–132 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 1214, enacted April 24, 1996, was introduced to the United States Congress in April 1995 as a Senate Bill (S. 735). The bill was presented by then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and passed with broad bipartisan support by Congress (91–8 in the US Senate, 293–133 in the U.S. House of Representatives) following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Although controversial for its changes to the law of habeas corpus in the United States (Title I), upheld in Felker v. Turpin, 518 U.S. 651 (1997), it also contained a number of provisions to "deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes," in the words of the bill summary.
- providing restitution/assistance for victims of terrorism (Title II),
- designation of foreign terrorist organizations and prohibitions on funding (Title III),
- removal or exclusion of alien terrorists and modifications of asylum procedures (Title IV),
- restrictions on nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (Title V),
- implementation of the plastic explosives convention (Title VI),
- changes to criminal law involving terrorist (or explosives) offenses, including increased penalties and criminal procedures changes (Title VII),
- commissioning a study to determine the constitutionality of restrictions on bomb-making materials (Title VII - A - Sec. 709),
- funding changes and jurisdiction clarifications for law enforcement related to terrorism threats (Title VIII),
- and miscellaneous provisions in Title IX.
AEDPA had a significant impact on the law of habeas corpus. One provision of AEDPA limits the power of federal courts to grant habeas corpus relief to state prisoners, unless the state court's adjudication of the claim resulted in a decision that was
- contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by the US Supreme Court; or
- based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the state court proceeding.
In addition to the modifications that pertain to all habeas corpus cases, AEDPA enacted special review provisions for capital cases from states that enacted quality controls for the performance of counsel in the state courts in the post-conviction phase. States that enacted the quality controls would see strict time limitations enforced against their death-row inmates in federal habeas proceedings coupled with extremely deferential review to the determinations of their courts regarding issues of federal law. As of 2019[update], no states had successfully opted in to this provision, though Arizona and Texas had petitions pending to do so.
Other provisions of AEDPA created entirely new statutory law. For example, the judicially-created abuse-of-the-writ doctrine had restricted the presentation of new claims through subsequent habeas petitions. AEDPA replaced this doctrine with an absolute bar on second or successive petitions.
Petitioners in federal habeas proceedings that have already been decided in a previous habeas petition would find the claims barred. Additionally, petitioners who had already filed a federal habeas petition were required to first secure authorization from the appropriate federal court of appeals. Furthermore, AEDPA took away from the Supreme Court the power to review a court of appeals's denial of that permission, thus placing final authority for the filing of second petitions in the hands of the federal courts of appeals.
Soon after it was enacted, AEDPA endured a critical test in the Supreme Court. The basis of the challenge was that the provisions limiting the ability of persons to file successive habeas petitions violated Article I, Section 9, Clause 2, of the United States Constitution, the Suspension Clause. The Supreme Court held unanimously, in Felker v. Turpin, 518 U.S. 651 (1997), that the limitations did not unconstitutionally suspend the writ.
In 2005, the Ninth Circuit indicated that it was willing to consider a challenge to the constitutionality of AEDPA on separation of powers grounds under City of Boerne v. Flores and Marbury v. Madison, but it has since decided that the issue had been settled by circuit precedent.
While the act has several titles and provisions, the majority of criticism stems from the act's tightening of habeas corpus laws. Those in favor of the bill say that the act prevents those convicted of crimes from being able to "thwart justice and avoid just punishment by filing frivolous appeals for years on end," while critics argue that the inability to make multiple appeals increases the risk of an innocent person being killed.
Other, more recent criticism centers on the deference that the law requires of federal judges in considering habeas petitions. In Sessoms v. Grounds (Ninth Circuit), the majority of the judges believed that the state erred in not throwing out testimony made in the absence of the defendant's attorney after he had requested counsel, but they were forced to overturn his appeal. The dissenting opinion said that federal courts can only grant habeas relief if "there is no possibility fair-minded jurists could disagree that the state court's decision conflicts with [the Supreme] Court's precedents".
In popular culture
On March 6, 2022, in the main segment of his show Last Week Tonight called Wrongful Convictions, John Oliver advocated for the abolition of AEDPA based on how difficult it makes for convicts to appeal, by citing the cases of several wrongfully convicted individuals, most notably, Melissa Lucio (who is on death row in Texas for the murder of one of her children, which she claims was a household accident. She has been granted a stay of execution as the courts examine new evidence.).
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
- Immigration Act of 1990
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
Notes and references
- Lundin, Leigh (June 28, 2009). "Dark Justice". Criminal Brief.
- Holland, Joshua (April 1, 2009). "A Tale of Two Justice Systems". AlterNet. Prison Legal News. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
- John H. Blume (2006). "AEDPA: The "Hype" and the "Bite"". Cornell Law Review. 91: 259–302.
- Alejandra S. Alvarez (2019). "Habeas Mentem: Revisiting Sufficiency-of-Counsel Standards in Post-AEDPA Habeas Corpus Proceedings". Florida Law Review. 41: 1481–1512.
- Denniston, Lyle (May 5, 2005). "Is AEDPA unconstitutional?". SCOTUSblog. Archived from the original on March 20, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- "Irons v. Carey". March 6, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- "NBA Finals' Rookie Coaches: Golden State Warriors' Steve Kerr and Cleveland Cavaliers' David Blatt". ABC News.
- "Divided court rejects death-row prisoner's attempt to gather neurological evidence". SCOTUSblog. June 21, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- "Congressional Record for April 17, 1996, page S3476" (PDF). April 17, 1996. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- Lundin, Leigh (October 2, 2011). "The Crime of Capital Punishment". Death Penalty. Orlando: SleuthSayers.
- Rankin, Bill; Judd, Alan (September 21, 2003). "Witnesses Recant; Law Stymies Death Row Appeal". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Archived from the original on April 23, 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- Peacock, William (September 24, 2014). "5 Judges Issue 3 Dissents From Habeas Grant to Interrogated Teen". FindLaw.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning a 155-acre prescribed burn in the Canadian Top unit adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina.
"One of the goals of the prescribed burn project is to improve elk forage and habitat," stated Great Smoky Wildland Fire Module Leader and Burn Boss, Shane Paxton. This series of burns will reduce the number of fire-sensitive trees and shrubs while increasing regeneration of oak and yellow pines, and increase the cover and diversity of native grasses and wildflowers. Over time, this increase in vegetation on the forest floor will improve forage for elk which graze the nearby meadows.
Roads and trails will remain open to the public. Visitors should expect to see smoke in the area.
For more information on the use of prescribed burns in the Smokies, click here.
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Posted Feb 25, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Have you been called in by the World Bank because of the coronavirus? The rumor is you are advising on this pandemic from a financial crisis perspective. Yes or no? Some say you have a financial interest in not calling this a pandemic. Care to comment?
ANSWER: Yes, we have been called in to do studies and forecasts based on the coronavirus. No, we have no financial interest either way. That makes a really stupid rumor. We do not do such projects on some sort of a contingency basis. I am not at liberty to say by who. However, if there is a pandemic, the World Health Organisation gets to keep money and the bondholders lose. You figure out who would be asking for help.
For those who are not part of the conspiracy networks, this is related to the outstanding World Bank Pandemic Bonds which will come due for expiration this July here in 2020. This will be in the neighborhood of $500 million which is perhaps a structured derivative time bomb that most people have never heard of.
These pandemic bonds were sold to investors as a giant gamble in the global financial casino. The World Bank sold “pandemic bonds” which were a scheme like no other. In 2017, these bonds were sold to private investors on the premise that they would lose their money if any of six deadly pandemics hit. They did not pay out in 2019 when the Ebola virus broke out in Africa. The World Bank announced the creation of these structured bonds in May 2016 at the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Governors meeting in Sendai, Japan.
The World Health Organisation will keep the money and will use it to fight the outbreak. Investors bought the bonds and received regular coupon payments in return, which were substantial in this world of negative interest rates. If there is an outbreak of disease turned into a pandemic, then investors don’t get their initial money back. There are two varieties of debt that are scheduled to mature in July 2020.
The first bond issue raised $225 million and features an interest rate of around 7%! That was substantial. Payout on the bond is to be suspended if there is an outbreak of new influenza viruses or coronavirus. The second type of bond was even riskier which raised $95 million with an interest rate of more than 11%. This second type of bond keeps investors’ money if there is an outbreak of Filovirus, Coronavirus, Lassa Fever, Rift Valley Fever, and/or Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever.
Then the World Bank issued $105 million derivative that works in a similar way.
Obviously, we have cyclical models that also cover disease. It does not take much to figure out that we would be called in to project the risk. It would be in the interest of the World Health Organisation to declare this coronavirus a pandemic. They would benefit from the cash. The bondholders will lose. We have NOT been called in by the World Bank. That much I can say. | <urn:uuid:7f68bbac-cb00-4ca4-90b6-f89a43dd5c7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/half-billion-pandemic-derivatives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.976244 | 645 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Andy Anderson always insisted that General Motors never paid a dime in corporate taxes. Those taxes were paid by ordinary folks who bought Chevy's and Oldsmobiles. It's a bit of an oversimplification but you get the point. Costs of doing business are passed on to consumers whether they are taxes or fenders or wages or bolts. For the record, passing on costs in the form of higher prices isn't nearly as easy in a global economy.
The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform is charged with making specific recommendations on tax reform to the President. The Tax Foundation has weighed in on that question with a new "Fiscal Fact" warning panel members not to repeat several mistakes made during the last major U.S. tax reform in 1986.
As you may be aware, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 substantially reduced income tax rates and broadened tax bases. However, it also increased the tax burden on corporate taxpayers in an effort to fund reductions in the tax burden on individual taxpayers. According to the new analysis by Staff Attorney Chris Atkins, as the President and Congress consider options for reforming the tax code, they should avoid the temptation to use revenue neutrality as an excuse to redistribute the tax burden among Americans as was done during the 1986 reform.
The concern is that the US already has one of the highest combined corporate income tax rates in the civilized world and in an effort to appease individual taxpayers, an ever larger share of the tax burden will be shifted to the corporate level. In a global economy, that's just asking for trouble.
As fomer Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Fred Goldberg Jr. said in testimony to the President’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform, “we cannot, absolutely cannot, hope to compete in a global economy by setting corporate taxes in a vacuum. We will get killed.” Nor can we “hope to compete in a global economy” if Congress once again insists on an individual-corporate tax shift similar to what happened in TRA-86.
This stuff is a huge snore but it's critically important because it affects all of us.
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Live interactive television is a popular medium for delivering educational programs to students in remote areas in Australia. The medium uses television to deliver a live one way video signal and standard telephony to provide two way audio communication between the instructor and students. Much of the potential of this medium is derived from the interactivity between the instructor and students that it supports. Because all interactions are ultimately student initiated, the medium has a number of unique and characteristic features. This paper describes a study that sought to identify different kinds of interactivity employed by instructors and students and to investigate the impact and role of these interactions on the subsequent instructional activities.
Live interactive television (LIT) is commonly used in Western Australia and other states in Australia, in the delivery of educational programs to school students in remote and rural areas This technology appears to provide a cost effective means to deliver educational programs in a variety of formats across vast distances. LIT involves a one way video link between the teacher and student through conventional television delivery and two way audio between teacher and students brought about through standard telephone communications.
The popular use of LIT as a delivery medium among local institutions stems from a variety of reasons. It is a relatively inexpensive delivery medium and uses technologies that are widely available among rural areas (Oliver & Grant 1994). A key component in the choice of this technology is the interactivity that it supports between the instructor and students and the ensuing educational advantages to be derived. This paper describes a study that was undertaken to investigate the form and nature of the interactions that are evident in LIT programs. The purpose of this investigation was to establish the impact of the interactivity provided by the technology in enhancing the quality and form of the instructional programs. The study sought to identify the means by which instructors use the interactive capabilities of the technology and the impact and role of the interactions within the instructional sequences.
A common alternative to a full audio conferencing capability in teleteaching is the use of a telephone communication link initiated by the student. This alternative significantly reduces the cost and equipment infrastructure needed to support the teleteaching program. The system enables students to phone the instructor during a lesson usually on a toll free number. Instructors provide opportunities for students to make the link during the lesson and when students do so, the teacher student discourse contributes to the lesson delivery. Many studies report that optimal use is frequently not made of the interactive capabilities of teleteaching technologies. In such settings, students often express dissatisfaction with the lack of direct communication with their instructors (eg. McCleary and Egan, 1989; Pirrong & Lathen, 1990).
The interactivity that is frequently sought in distance education and open learning is that associated with conversations between the teacher and the student. Whereas conventional interactions between teachers and remote students tend to be asynchronous in nature, classroom conversations tend to be synchronous and in real time. This is the sort of interactivity afforded by such technologies as teleteaching and LIT. Apart from offering support to teacher-student interactions, these technologies also provide scope to include the two other vital forms of interaction into distance education, learner-learner and learner-content (Moore, 1989; Mason, 1994).
Juler (1990) describes interactivity as a principal aspect of conventional face to face teaching that has traditionally been absent from open learning and distance education environments The potential of new technologies to overcome this problem has been met with high levels of enthusiasm by instructional designers and education providers. Interactivity provides a means to motivate and stimulate learners and provides the means for instructors to cause students to consider and reflect on the content and process of learning. Few would dispute the advantages to be derived from the inclusion of interactive elements in teaching and learning and the implicit assumption that interactive environments are superior to others appears to drive much of the activity and development in this field.
Many other technologies, for example, multimedia and computer mediated telecommunications, provide a form of one to one communication and conversation between the teacher and student. Previous research has identified the importance of this teacher-student dialogue if the maximum learning potential of the interaction is to be derived (eg. Laurillard, 1993). Many forms of technology used in distance and open education make the provision of one to one communication and interaction extremely difficult to achieve as a single teacher often needs to communicate with large numbers of external students. Strategies that have been used to overcome this problem include a range of 'off air' communication technologies including facsimile machines, email and telephone (Gunawardena, 1990).
An important question, frequently asked by researchers, is whether the attributes of effective face to face teaching are the same as what constitutes effective interactive television teaching? Gehlauf, Shatz & Frye (1991 ) found that instructors tended to use only a narrow range of instructional strategies and these tended to be based on their conventional teaching practices. There is an acceptance among many researchers that there are new skills that must be developed to effectively teach through interactive television. Chung (1991 ) provides a detailed description of student perceptions of important attributes of telecourses and a large number of the factors described by the students as essential relate directly to instructional strategies employed by the instructors.
Our previous research has demonstrated that LIT is not necessarily inferior to face to face teaching despite the reduced levels of teacher-student discourse that can be achieved (eg. McLoughlin, 1994). In fact minimal amounts of teacher-student interaction are frequently observed in many face to face teaching settings. The instructional design processes that accompany conventional teaching planning appear to make little use of interactions with individual students as a means to develop lesson content. Despite the many different forms and functions for interactions to take, many teacher-student interactions occur for reasons other than providing individualised feedback to aid individual learners (Cazden, 1988).
|Type of interaction||Description||Example|
|social||teacher/student talk establishing and developing rapport||T: Hello Mandy, how are you?|
S: Very well thank you.
T: Great to hear from you, what are you going to do for us?
|procedural||teacher/student dialogue involving information exchange on course requirements and procedures||S: Mr Gray, can you tell me how many pages you want us to write?|
T: I'm looking for about 2 pages in total.
S: Can we use a topic of our own choice?
|expository||student or teacher demonstrating knowledge or skill in response to a direct request from another||T: Can any one tell me the correct name for this animal?|
S: Is it raptorus maximus?
T: No, but it is from the raptorus family.
|explanatory||teacher using student responses to explain knowledge and develop content||T: This is how we place our fingers to play the note A. Can you play an A for me Mandy?|
S: Mandy plays an A.
T: That was good but you have to blow a bit harder and make sure your fingers are covering the holes completely.
|cognitive||teacher providing constructive feedback to a student response causing the student to reflect and to consider an alternative perspective/ reality||T: Can you tell me what you think was the main reason for his actions?|
S: He was angry and wanted to get even.
T: But was that all? What about his wish to improve his position and standing?
S: I suppose but he did but I thought that he would done it differently.
A more recent scheme developed by Henri (1992), based on the findings of cognitive psychology, aims to delve deeper into the different levels of meaning in messages in order to study the complexity of the learning process. Content analysis, as this approach is known, is an analytical approach which highlights the critical dimensions of the learning process: participative, interactive, social, cognitive and rnetacognitive. Content analysis was chosen for the present study because of its potential to provide a multilevel understanding of the learning process. As the original framework was developed by Henri (1992) for computer mediated communication, a modified version of the approach was used to create a framework for our investigation of LIT interactions. The need for students to initiate interactions in LIT has the potential to influences significantly the type and form of interactions which occur. An initial analysis of the videotaped lessons led to the identification of 5 types of communicative interactions evident in LIT teaching environments. Table 1 describes each of these interactions and provides an example and description of each.
All interactions in this series of lessons involved a social dimension as well as some other purpose. The teacher took the time to chat with each student who called, many of whom were known previously to him. The majority of the interactions also served an expository purpose with a child playing a piece on the recorder. In almost all instances, the feedback was positive and general. There was minimal use made of the students' playing to provide feedback that caused reflection or that caused some change in performance or activity. There were a number of instances when the feedback was used to make a general and explanatory point to all students. There were no procedural interactions. The television instruction was designed to supplement a correspondence course framework . Procedural matters were dealt with through independent interactions between the students and their course tutors.
This series of programs proved to be quite interactive. Each program typically received 6 to 8 calls from viewers. There were few social interactions among these. This was brought about by the open nature of the course delivery and the change in expert from program to program. There were only two social interactions observed and these occurred when viewers identified themselves as having called previously and greeted the presenter in a manner that led to a social exchange. The explanatory interactions in the program were brought about through the presenter and expert discussing aspects of the topic. The presenter frequently asked questions and sought clarification in much the same way as face to face students do in normal classrooms. At the same time, the expert often spoke to the presenter and sought feedback as an instructional strategy.
Viewers were frequently reminded of the talkback facility and encouraged to call in with questions. The presenter tended to follow a planned course of instruction and provided little opportunity for student participation other than direct questions. Whereas in other settings, the presenters planned and sought interactions through direct questions, offering incentives and appropriate presentation of content, this course offered a general invitation to callers but did not have an established place for interactions in the lesson design. As a consequence, few interactions resulted and those that did were mainly of an expository nature, being direct questions from students requiring specific answers.
The nature of the lessons from week to week was a discussion of relevant topics inviting responses from the viewers mingled with feedback on materials and work submitted by the students as part of the course requirements. The interactive component within this series of lessons formed a significant part of the teaching and learning. The instructor relied heavily on discussing issues and problems with the students as a means of presenting the course content and causing students to reflect and consider. The lessons were planned with interactions as a critical teaching element. This was a course in which cognitive interactions were evident. The presenter used the cognitive interactions to draw information from students and to cause them to consider responses and to reflect on their own impressions and attitudes.
The form of dialogue that was encouraged saw many of the interactions being of an explanatory form where the teacher encouraged other students to help present course content. These forms of interactions tended to involve many short exchanges between the student and instructor. In this way a considerable part of the teaching in any session was actually as a result of student explanation with the instructor guiding. At times, these explanations became cognitive interactions as the instructor probed and questioned students to further understanding.
This set of lessons revealed a large number of procedural interactions. Students frequently asked questions relating to course requirements when they called. These interactions tended to be handled quickly by the instructor who then took the opportunity to establish a dialogue with the student resulting in forms of exchanges representing other forms of interactivity. Frequently a procedural interaction with a student was followed immediately by an explanatory or expository interaction.
Table 2 shows a comparison of the relative frequency of the different forms of interaction observed across the 5 teaching programs.
The nature of the course and the viewing audience appeared to have a large impact on the forms of interactivity evident in the teaching episodes. in courses where there were enrolled students, for example Child Care and Women in Australian Society, the instructors tended to use the interactions as teaching instruments. Explanatory and cognitive interactions were quite prevalent. In situations where the audience was open and the instruction less focused on a course, for example Computer Applications and Science Matters, the interactions were expository in the main and less linked to a planned instructional program.
|Playing the Recorder||56%||0%||38%||6%||0%|
|Women in Australian Society||32%||0%||0%||29%||39%|
Students were observed to play a major role in the interactive episodes in all the lessons that were observed. In the first instance, the students initiated the interaction and did so with some specific intent. This tends to be quite different from normal teacher-student interactions where the teacher is usually the initiator of the interaction. When the teacher initiates the dialogue, the student usually responds directly to either a question or an imperative. In LIT settings, it is the teacher who initially becomes the respondent, It is only after the student's request has been answered that the teacher can perhaps initiate some further dialogue or communication. In this study, it was clear that many instructors chose not to further the communication after the initial dialogue. This resulted in a large number of exchanges being observed that tended to be short in duration and involving low levels of cognitive activity on the part of teacher and student. It was evident however that cognitive interactions are possible and relatively easy to implement through appropriate instructor led communication and dialogue.
It would appear that instructors may he under-utilising the potential of LIT as a medium capable of supporting cognitive interactions. Most instructors appear to use the interactive capability in a secondary capacity in their teaching and learning. Using the interactions for other than short exchanges in LIT has its inherent difficulties. As stated earlier, the instructor must wait for the student to call before any form of dialogue is possible. Once a call has been received, the instructor has to take control of the communication in order to initiate interactions of a higher cognitive order than might normally occur. This requires a degree of skill and experience on the part of the instructor and would appear to be a skill that might take some time to develop. At the same time, the instructor needs to be able to incorporate interactive elements into the planned instructional program. In this regard, LIT appears to require particular instructional design considerations that could he explicitly stated as a guide for intending instructors.
It is likely that LIT will continue to be used in the local context as a delivery medium for a range of open learning programs. The outcomes from this research have demonstrated possible shortcomings in current instructional design for this medium. Most instructors appear to make only limited use of the interactive capabilities and there appears to be considerable potential to extend learning outcomes. In our future research we plan to investigate strategies that can be employed in teaching with LIT to increase the level of cognitive interactions while maintaining an environment that is supportive and stimulating for all participants.
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Monday, November 19, 2007 - 02:10
Since DNA diagnostics companies seem to be sprouting like mushrooms after the rain, it seemed like a good time to talk about how DNA testing companies decipher meaning from the tests they perform. Last week, I wrote about interpreting DNA sequence traces and the kind of work that a data analyst or bioinformatics technician does in a DNA diagnostics company. As you might imagine, looking at every single DNA sample by eye gets rather tiring. One of the things that informatics companies (like ours) do, is to try and help people analyze several samples at once so that they can scan fewer individual samples. You might be wondering how we do that. One of the things we do is to give people tools that let them scan several samples at once. The examples below show quality plots for reads. Every quality value for every base in a read is plotted on the y axis and the position within the sequence, on the x axis.
Question: Which read(s):
- 1. contains either a SNP (a single nucleotide polymorphism) or a position where different members of a multi-gene family have a different base?
- 2. doesn't have any DNA?
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This is the first of a multi-part post on competitive intelligence. First we’ll focus on the initial steps in establishing a competitive intelligence practice. Most likely your company is practicing competitive intelligence in some shape or form. Take a look through this list to see if you have all the foundational pieces in place:
1. Establish a Charter
As you will see, the range of competitive intelligence is wide and deep. On-going marketing activities need a charter. A charter will inform people what the competitive intelligence function does, who you do it for, and how does the process work.
2. Define your Audience
There are four targets for competitive intelligence within the organization and each has their own requirements and needs:
- Sales: competitive pre-sales situations need micro, detailed information that includes solution comparisons, gap matrices, product level (feature/function), and capability overview. Sales also needs non-feature information on the competitions’ pricing, sale model, financial (easier if the company is public) and win-loss analysis from head-to-head deals.
- Product management: product management requires competitive intelligence to identify product gaps and steer the product roadmap. This is mostly feature/function oriented.
- Product marketing: auditing the competitors content marketing, social media, website analytics, and SEO cannot be ignored. This provides useful insights into the reach and effectiveness of their inbound marketing strategy. Much of this activity can be generated with digital competitive tools.
- Executives: understanding the risks and opportunities in industry requires the executive team to have a high-level, “big picture” view of the competitive landscape. For example, a “Competitor at a Glance” briefing, a STEP analysis (social, technological, economic, and political), or a SWOT analysis.
As you can see, the span of the knowledge goes beyond feature/function to include sales, pricing, content marketing, website analytics, social media and financial information.
3. Rank the Competition
Sounds simple enough, time is limited and no one can monitor the entire span of the marketplace. This can be as simple as placing your competitors in tiers based on priority. Another way is to have your direct competitors as tier 1, partially direct competitors as tier 2 and niche players as tier 3.
4. Secure your Intelligence
Protecting and securing the competitive intelligence is a double edged sword. Nothing will help the competition more than to get hold of your competitive intelligence, however, sales need to be educated and enabled to handle competitive threats. Not all – if any – competitive intelligence is intended for customer consumption “as is”. In fact, it can be quite harmful to prolong a sales cycle. Some sales representatives, when confronted with competitive threats are all too eager to attach the latest competitive gap matrix and sent it along. The lesson learned is, never answer the unanswered question. You want to enable sales but also protect them from themselves.
5. Establish Processes
Some processes are manual, some can be automated through tools. Here are some things to keep in mind. There is two levels of intelligence:
- Macro – big picture, visuals (quadrants), competitor at a glance, hot news, company overview, quick facts, industry strength, installed base, market share, financials, etc.
- Micro – solution comparison, matrix, product level (feature/function), capability overivew, etc.
Create templates for ease-of-use, standardization and consistency of messaging. It also allows for easier comparison, for example comparing multiple “competitor at a glance” briefings. For intelligence assets that require a comparison, standardize on the list to compare across the board.
Not all competitive intelligence has to be manual. There are many digital competitive intelligence tools out there to automate the analysis of website traffic, search analytics, upstream/downstream reporting, keyword analysis, link popularity, etc.
Do not overlook the customer experience aspect of gathering intelligence. User groups, advisory boards, customer visits are all potential sources for information.
6. Who Owns What?
Data collection may come cross-functionally from different sources, but there can be only one owner. Usually, this is product marketing, product management, or some arrangement where it is shared across the two functions. Having an editorial calendar helps when the ownership spans cross-functionally.
7. Use an Editorial Calendar
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I have agonized for years over why Jesus said to Mary Magdalene in the resurrection garden, “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father” (John 20:17). Where did Mary Magdalene go wrong?
Ironically, I understood this Easter conundrum for the first time last Christmas. While contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation and singing all the wonderful carols, I realized how much the whole story of the Incarnation, not just the royal road of the Cross, has to say about our redemption. I shall never fathom the full meaning of grace and redemption, but my insight last Christmas was that the Magdalene’s honor as the first witness to the Resurrection in John’s Gospel did not simply parallel Moses’ experience of not being able to see God’s face and live (Exod. 33:20) but went beyond it. Mary Magdalene’s experience is a witness to the transformation of eros into agape.
Why shouldn’t Mary Magdalene touch the Risen Lord, the Rabbouni whom she had served all along his journey to Jerusalem?
Patristic wisdom associated the principle of apatheia (variously mistranslated as “dispassion” or “detachment”) with the Desert Fathers’ goal of becoming “all flame.”
Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him: Abba, as much as I am able I practice a small rule, a little fasting, some prayer and meditation, and remain quiet and as much as possible I keep my thoughts clean. What else should I do? Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands toward heaven, and his fingers became like ten torches of flame and he said to him: If you wish, you can become all flame.
We might apply the lesson of this saying in this way: The Magdalene’s natural response in recognizing the Risen Lord was to cling to him, her Savior. She did not yet fully grasp the mystery of Christ’s divinity united to his humanity, nor his approaching Ascension. His words at the Last Supper about keeping the commandments for love’s sake, the Comforter, and abiding in his love made no sense to her, if she had even heard them (John 14:15-17).
Like Mary, my natural temptation is to want to reach out, to hold, and to depend upon those wiser and more loving than I, but I have learned it is a temptation to be “safe” and “comfortable” in an earthly sense, instead of seeking the relationship Christ would give me through grace.
“All flame,” on the other hand, is what it means to be a human being fully alive: made in the image of God that Jesus Christ teaches each of us on the road following him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his marvelous conclusion to The Cost of Discipleship shows how following Christ to our perfect end is possible.
If we regard this way as one we follow in obedience to an external command, if we are afraid of ourselves all the time, it is indeed an impossible way. But if we behold Jesus Christ going on before step by step, if we only look to Him and follow Him, step by step, we shall not go astray. But if we worry about the dangers that beset us, if we gaze at the road instead of at Him who goes before, we are already straying from the path. For He is Himself the way, the narrow way, and the strait gate. He, and He alone, is our journey’s end. When we know that, we are able to proceed along the narrow way through the strait gate of the cross, and on to eternal life, and the very narrowness of the road will increase our certainty.
And, incidentally, isn’t that the true message of God’s admonition to Moses that he could not see his face? When one follows the shepherd, of course we see only his back!
Yes, clinging was the natural response for the Magdalene, but it produces emotional cripples and is not the free “dance” that the persons of the Trinity have in their unity and that the Lord wants with the redeemed sons and daughters of his Father (John 14:20-23). It attempts to merge what ought to be distinct and free, and is the practical result of a Christological heresy, which wishes to see the divine and human natures in Christ merge into one. It does not grasp the genius of the Cappadocian resolution in the Council of Chalcedon, which
preserved the balance between the two Natures [of Christ] with its emphasis upon the Unity of the Godhead and the Manhood by declaring that Jesus Christ is one Person in two Natures without confusion, change, division, or severance, “the difference between the two Natures being in no way abolished because of the union, but rather the perfection of each being preserved, and both concurring into One Person and One Hypostasis.”
Here is our entrance into eternal life. It is what St. Paul also means by being “in Christ” (Rom. 8:1; Eph. 3:17-19).
Ironically, our Western, sexually over-stimulated culture is losing the sensitivity to understand this. I began to learn it many years ago from the priest to whom I owe my awakening to a monastic calling. The wonder of perichoresis, the Trinitarian circumincession, is the preservation of freedom for God and human beings. The relationship, the communion, the forming of community, is a free choice — a wonderful, continual choice — that recognizes the integrity and uniqueness of the Other: no merging, no obliteration, and in due time life eternal through death. Such love and respect is our eternal home and abiding rest.
Mother Miriam is the superior of the Community of St. Mary, Eastern Province, and lives and teaches at St. Mary’s Convent within Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, Greenwich, New York. Her other Covenant posts are here.
The featured image is a detail of Giotto’s “Noli me tangere” (ca. 1305); it is in the public domain.
Y. Nomura, Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers (Image Books, 1988), p. 90.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, translated by R.H. Fuller (The Macmillan Company, 1949), p. 162.
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June 22nd, 2014 § Comments Off on Red Chalk § permalink
Inevitably, talk of red chalk brings up the word blood. In Italian, the word for chalk is matita. It comes from hematite, a mineral and an ore of iron, that traces its name from the Greek word for blood, as in hematology. The French word sanguine, also used in English, comes from the Latin word for blood. Sanguigna is used in Italian, but less commonly than matita rossa. The iron that makes blood red, also makes red chalk red and maybe that’s why the endless testing of the Shroud of Turin never delivers an unequivocal answer. Whatever. Blood turns from anemone-red to a dark brown and the colors of red chalk fall in between.
Hematite is a medium-hard mineral. On the Mohs scale, which rates hardness by one mineral’s ability to scratch another, it comes in at 5-6. The scale is named after its inventor, an Austrian professor of mineralogy, Frederich Mohs (1773 – 1839). It’s a bit like the game of rock-paper-scissors, except that it makes sense and is useful, but it is also less fun. For reference, talc is 1 on the scale; and diamond, the hardest, rates a 10.
Hematite’s outward appearance is more often gray than red. Rock enthusiasts, if they’re in doubt about whether a rock is hematite, will test it by drawing a piece of the mineral across a streak plate, a piece of unglazed porcelain, and if it streaks red, it’s hematite. A piece of hematite, if used for drawing on paper, would do little else but gash the paper. However, it can also be flaky and almost soft. It naturally occurs with other minerals and when it does, it is considerably less hard than its usual 5-6 on the Mohs scale. Red ochre is the umbrella name for earthy pigments that contain hematite. Many of the different names for red ochre are listed in The Pigment Compendium, and include: carnagione [skin tone], sinopia, bol, among others. To this we could add, lapis rosso, which in its most literal sense means red rock. Lapis in modern usage means primarily pencil.
The image below is of a marble slab with the figures done in red ochre. It is usually titled the Knucklebone Players, referring to the girls in the foreground playing a game similar to jacks. Because of the inscriptions on the marble, which includes the name of the artist, Alexandros Athenaios, it’s known that the subject is Niobe pleading with Leto for forgiveness; something that Leto will not give. Niobe’s nervy boast (=hubris) about her having more children than Leto, dooms her children to death. It is from Herculaneum, that together with Pompeii and Stabia, provide the greatest window onto ancient painting. Vesuvius’s eruption created a perfect time capsule of the small cities (combined population of 15-20,000)–the planning, the buildings, the murals, sculpture, and arts of all kinds, as well as documenting the hell-like death of some inhabitants over the course of two days in the late summer of 79 CE.
Alexandros Athenaios – Knucklebone Players [Leto Begged for Forgiveness by Niobe, with Three of Her Daughters] – 1st Century CE – Red ochre on marble – 490 x 420 mm – Museo Archeolgico Nazionale di Napoli – inv. 9526
The ancient Romans used the word rubrica
for both red ochre and red chalk, and hence r
ubrics. There are areas of the Knucklebone Players
that look as if they could have been drawn with a pieces of red chalk, rather than painted in red ochre, but it would be very difficult to know for certain. In its present state it is remarkably similar to modern era drawings. There are also traces of pink, yellow, red and black pigment, but these are visible only with a microscope. The hematite-rich part is remarkably fresh, owing to its permanence, its being on the right support–a coarsely surfaced piece of marble–and because of its being buried for so many years. [One could look back further to the well-known prehistoric cave paintings in Spain and France for earlier use of red ochre; to its use in South Africa
at the Blombos Cave near Capetown, dating back 100,000 years; and by early Neanderthals at Maastricht-Belvédère in the Netherlands
, dating back 200-250,000 years.]
In the medieval period, red chalk was used for writing. Not in the production of the manuscripts themselves (where the red is generally from minium, cinnabar, and vermillion), but for the marginal ticks and notes added by readers. Bernhard Bischoff, who had catalogued thousands of ancient and medieval Latin manuscripts, wrote in his book on Latin palaeography, “Collations, marginal notes by readers, ‘nota’ signs and underlinings with a stylus or red chalk are found nearly everywhere.” Those who used red chalk probably did so because it would stand out from the ink text, making it easier to get back to the annotated section, immeasurably easier than retrieving notes made with a stylus. It might also have been seen as being handier than ink, being quick to pick up and set down, and allowed for reading away from a desk. It was also less permanent than ink and could be rubbed off parchment with pumice. It would be used in much the same way we would annotate in pencil. [Matita, in Italian, in addition to meaning chalk, also means pencil. In fact, if you asked an Italian child what was in their pencil case, they would reply, matite (pl), referring, even if distantly, to the use of chalk as a writing implement more than to the chalk of drawings.]
The earliest drawing I can think of with red chalk is an anonymous Sienese double-sided drawing in the British Museum. They date it to the late 14th, early 15th century. The single biggest group of earlier 15th century drawings using red chalk is in the Louvre. The drawings are by Pisanello (c. 1395 – c. 1455) and his school. The sheet below shows how red chalk is used in the Louvre drawings–as a tint for the general coloring of the paper. The chalk is used in conjunction with pen and ink, but it is the ink part that is dominant. About a third of the 370-odd Pisanello and school drawings in the Louvre are on paper prepared with red chalk. They originally formed what’s called the red album, the pages of which were then incorporated into what’s known as the Codex Vallardi, after its 19th c. owner. The red chalk is not limited to sheets with representations of people, but includes leaves with animals, architecture, and objects. It’s worth looking at these drawings to decide for oneself whether any of the chalk is used to model figures and objects. [Link to Louvre site.]
Antonio Pisanello – Study of the Lower Legs of a Walking Man, Seen from Behind and Two Plant Studies – Black chalk underdrawing, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white chalk heightening on paper irregularly tinted with red chalk wash – 249 x 176 mm – Louvre inv. 2264 recto
Leonardo – Madrid II, f. 141v, f. 142r – Biblioteca Nacional de España
Leonardo (1452-1519) is credited with being the first to use red chalk by itself in a drawing. Its appeal came not only from the color, but also from the fact that very fine and precise lines could be made with a sharpened piece of red chalk. So precise that Leonardo used it for writing, and writing entire pages. Two folios from Madrid Codex II, show that his writing in red chalk comes close to his writing in pen and ink, in terms of fineness and clarity. 141v 142 r. Another opening in the codex shows drawings for the wire caging he would need for the projected, but never realized, casting of the monumental bronze Sforza Horse. The wire lacing, with all its intricacy, captivates in a way which you wouldn’t expect from an industrial or shop drawing–except in the hands of this master. The drawing also shows how red chalk can migrate. This is most clearly visible in the unintended ghost of the caging on the left page, made from the contact with the loose chalk dust of the drawing. It also shows why red chalk is so suitable for the transferral of designs, and for the making of counterproofs.
Leonardo – Studies for Casting of Sforza Horse – Madrid Codex II, f. 156v – f. 157r – Biblioteca Nacional de España
Leonardo used red chalk for representing many subjects. A name for red ochre is carnagione, or skin tone, showing its suitability for anatomical and figure studies in the related red chalk, of which he made many. He also used the material for all manner of machines, including armaments; geometric shapes; horses; maps; for mountains and storm clouds; for decorative knots; and also for unimaginably beautiful plant studies. The drawing below is of a branched bur-reed and it is very like the plant, in a way that Pisanello’s aren’t (they are generic plants, and while he shows interest in varying the leaf types, the flowers are identical on both plants). The detail of the Leonardo drawing below shows how he accentuated areas by using a brush and water. Where the brush and water traced the lines, the color is intensified, almost acting like an ink. (To see the greatest number of red chalks drawings by Leonardo in one place, it is worth visiting the UK Royal Collection.)
Leonardo – A Branched Bur-Reed – c. 1505-1510) – Red chalk, touched with wet brush, on pale red prepared paper – 201 x 143 mm – Royal Collection RC 912430 recto – Windsor
Leonardo – Detail of A Branched Bur-Reed – c. 1505-1510) – Red chalk, touched with wet brush, on pale red prepared paper – 201 x 143 mm – Royal Collection RC 912430 recto – Windsor
How Leonardo thought to use red chalk can only be guessed at. He may have quite spontaneously come up with the idea himself. It might have to do with his also being a fresco painter. Widespread appreciation for sinopia drawings came after the 1966 flood in Florence, when so many frescoes were removed from water-soaked walls, exposing the red ochre underdrawings, but the allure of sinopias must also have been felt by the artists themselves. He may have seen drawings by other artists, which are now lost. Another possibility is that artisans might have used red chalk, say in the transferal of designs where symmetry and repeats in patterns were important. Needlework, such as embroidery, comes to mind. It might also have to do with Leonardo’s father being a notaio. The Italian notai, literally notaries, are more like lawyers elsewhere. Their job is to draw up contracts and wills. If nothing else, Leonardo was born into a family where availability of paper and writing instruments was a given. Whether that included red chalk for making annotations and ticking the key points in long contracts, is something that I should look into. However, in my mind, it is increasingly likely that the first users of red chalk were the makers of stained glass windows and/or iron mine workers. I will write another post or two on why I believe this to be the case.
Other artists soon began using red chalk not only to tint paper, but also to draw with the material. First in Milan, among Leonardo’s students and later throughout Italy, helped by the adoption of the medium by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Correggio. The rapid spread is easily understood from the beautiful colors of red chalk.
Red chalk drawings have an animating affect on people. If you look at a group, for example a group following a museum docent around an exhibition, its members will show little signs of life in front of a red chalk drawing. They’ll straighten up or lean in at the drawing. Even at art history slide shows, red chalk drawings have the ability to lift people out of sleepiness like nothing else.
Next – Cennini, Leonado, Vasari, and Armenini on Hematite and Red Chalk
Note: There’s a video of an extremely interesting lecture by Sally Dormer on medieval Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the drawings they contain. She illustrates a drawing which she believes has a red chalk underdrawing. Link here.
August 14th, 2013 § Comments Off on Stripes § permalink
There are two new wetsuits for surfers that are meant to protect wearers from shark attacks. There was an article and video in the Guardian (18 July 2013) on the suits, and here’s the LINK. One has a wavy camouflage print and the other has bold black and white stripes.
The makers say the camouflage suit will hide you from a shark, while the striped suit will warn a shark to stay away. It’s the striped one that made me think of stripes in art. First, because of Raphael’s Swiss Guards in the Mass at Bolsena fresco in the Vatican. However friendly and fetching the stripes of the Swiss Guard are, I guess they’re not meant to be so. (His Madonna della Seggiola in the Pitti has stripes that bring to mind the ancient Middle East and are more refined.)
Mostly, when I think of stripes I think of Domenico Tiepolo and have posted a number of his drawings below. Most of Domenico Tiepolo’s drawings are wonderful, but when he puts in stripes, they get to be extra wonderful. They’re worn by biblical era characters, entertainers, footmen, ladies and gentlemen, and even donkeys. Details of the stripes are below, and the full drawings are in the gallery.
Domenico Tiepolo – An Encounter During a Country Walk – Detail – Black chalk underdrawing, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa – (inv. ref. 17582)
Domenico Tiepolo – The Captive Birds – Detail – Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – 296 x 421 mm – Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (inv. ref. 75.1984)
Domenico Tiepolo – Supplicants Before Pope Paul IV – Detail – Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – 463 x 362 mm – Princeton University Art Museum – (inv. ref. 1948-1289)
Domenico Tiepolo – The White Horse – Detail – Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – 300 x 420 mm – Comte de Ganay, Paris
Domenico Tiepolo – The Flight into Egypt – Detail – Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (inv. ref. IV,148)
Domenico Tiepolo – Jesus Walking on the Water – Detail – Black chalk underdrawing, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash – 487 x 375 mm – Louvre, Paris (inv. no. RF 1713.BIS, 75)
July 18th, 2013 § § permalink
In Italian the word for inkwell is calamaio, which is very close to the word calamaro, meaning squid, as in the calamari fritti one sees on the menus of seafood restaurants. Looking at a squid, you wouldn’t think that it’s part of the mollusk family, but by eating the chewy rings, you realize it’s pretty close to a clam. It’s a soft bodied mollusk or cephalopod, like cuttlefish or octopus. Unlike a clam, it doesn’t have a hard shell for protection. Instead it has “ink” that it can squirt out to confuse and arrest predators. (Nautilus are the only cephalopods with protective shells.)
As calamaio (inkwell) and calamaro (squid) are so close, it’s natural to want to recognize a calamaio as a receptacle for squid ink. However, this isn’t the case. Squid ink, or any other type of cephalopod ink, was rarely used, largely because of its tendency to fade. For a post on sepia ink, please see below or follow this link.
Workshop of Severo da Ravenna – Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents – c. 1510 – 1520 – Bronze – 21 x 11 x 13 cm – Cleveland Museum of Art – Inv. ref. John L. Severance Fund 1954.798
The Italian word calamaio actually comes from the Latin word calamus (kalamos in Greek) which means cane or reed. Pens, which were made from reeds, were known as calami, as were other objects made from reeds, like flutes and fishing poles. (Pens made from bird feathers or quills came into use only later, in the early Middle Ages.)
What’s fascinating about squid is that they carry not only ink, but also a reed-like pen within them. Just below is a photograph, courtesy of Shannan Muskopf and her site biologycorner.com, of drying pens dissected from squid. The Latin word for squid is lolligo. So it seems then that the Italian word for the sea creature comes from calamus, or reed. In English, “pen and ink fish” is a colloquial name for squid, and it makes good sense.
Squid Pens – Courtesy of Shannan Muskopf and biologycorner.com
To underscore the fact that cephalopod ink was seldom used, there aren’t squid decorated inkwells. Riccio, Severo da Ravenna, and the other crazily imaginative Paduan makers of small bronzes, would have found it irresistible to ornament inkwells with squid or cuttlefish if they were using their ink. Granted, they are not that easily represented, but this wouldn’t have stopped these sculptors.
May 17th, 2013 § § permalink
It’s tempting to try and specify the kind of brown ink that’s been used in the making of an old master drawing. Iron-gall (black, but changes to brown over time) and bister were the two most commonly used inks. Sometimes, people will refer to any brown ink old master drawing as being in sepia. Maybe it’s because they’re so used to hearing that everything is made from petroleum, that the idea of ink coming from a sea creature is quaint and charming. Maybe it has to do with the 19th c. sepia drawings and the chemical approximation of sepia in 19th century photographs. (The continuing appeal of sepia coloration is clear from the photography edit for “sepia effect” on the computer or cellphone.) Instead, sepia was rarely used before the late 18th century.
Sepia (also called cuttlefish), as well as octopus and squid, are soft-bodied mollusks, known as cephalopods (cephalo-head/pod-foot). Most cephalopods produce a dark fluid that they can expel to hide themselves from predators. Its primary component is melanin, related to the pigment that colors our skin and hair. Aristotle, whose accuracy and method continues to surprise biologists, said of the cephalopod ink sac, “All the Cephalopods have this peculiar part but it is the most remarkable in the Sepia, as well as the largest in size. When the Sepia is frightened and in terror, it produces this blackness and muddiness in the water, as it were a shield held in front of the body.” [Aristotle, The History of Animals, Book IV. The translation comes from A.L. Peck & E.S. Forster. Aristotle XII: Parts of Animals Movement of Animals, Progression of Animals, 1937.)
Sepia (sepia officinalis), then, have more ink than other cephalopods. They have eight legs or arms, two tentacles, and are about ten inches long. Just below is a depiction of a cuttlefish from a Pompeian mural.
Pompeii Detached Mural – IV Style (45 AD – 79 AD) – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli – inv. no. 8635
Detail of sepia and clam
Because the mural is more pleasing than accurate, here is a scientific diagram of a cuttlefish.
Cuttlefish or Sepia Officinalis – Encyclopaedia Brittanica (11th) Vol. VII, 674
Aristotle does not say that sepia fluid was used for writing, but there are Roman writers such as Cicero, who did. This link carries to the entry on atramentum, the Latin word for ink, in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), where passages of ancient writers are cited and linked to.
At its simplest, the ink can be used directly from the cephalopod, mixed with a binder. This is probably what the Romans did. The ink may have developed a bad smell, but their tolerance was greater than ours (think of garum, the fermented fish guts they ate, and loved). Sepia is known to be fugitive, and as far as I can tell, no ancient papyri with sepia ink exist.
James Watrous, in his 1957 The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, noted the “powerful fishy odor” of the dried sepia chips and sepia splinters, that he found imported into the US from Italy (1975 edition, 88). Zecchi, the art supply shop in Florence that specializes in old master materials, sells sepia pigment (10 grams for 24 euros and 100 grams for 200 euros) and maybe in the intervening 50+ years since Watrous was writing, a way of deodorizing sepia has been developed. The cost would warrant it.
Zecchi was founded in the 1950s with the idea of furnishing the materials that the 14th century Cennino Cennini details in his Libro dell’Arte. Cennini does not discuss sepia at all. In fact, the expert writers on the subject of old master materials–Joseph Meder, James Watrous, and Carlo James and company–say that sepia ink was hardly used, and written about, before the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Courtesy Google Ngram, here’s a graph of phrases with the word sepia, found in English language books, between 1800 and 2008, which shows that “sepia drawing” was most used around 1910. This takes into account novels, and everything else, so it has to be taken lightly.
Natural sepia drawings are supposed to have a cool, rather than warm, brown color, and a purplish or red cast. It’s known that Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) drew with sepia ink. Just below is a Friedrich drawing at the Albertina, and the image is taken from the Google Cultural Institute. We can assume that they’ve taken some care in getting the color right. The Albertina describes the drawing as being in brown ink. The tendency in museum catalogues, and in museum databases, is to move away from describing the type/origin of ink, and describe it generically as brown ink. This makes a lot of sense, because you can’t get it wrong. However, because of Friedrich’s known use of sepia, and the color of this drawing, it would seem to me that it is in sepia.
Caspar David Friedrich – View of Arkona with Rising Moon – ca. 1805 – Graphite, brush and brown ink – 60.9 x 100 cm – Albertina, Vienna – inv. no. 17298
Scrutinizing and testing every drawing in collections, where there are thousands of sheets, would be an enormous undertaking, and the preference for simple “brown ink” is easily understood. The fact that artists very often combined different types of inks and pigments, makes specificity even more complicated, and less documentable.
However, if one were curious enough, and were able to commission work from a lab, there is a test for sepia ink, which its developers describe as rapid and simple. The 2009 study is entitled Characterization of sepia ink in ancient graphic documents by capillary electrophoresis and is available as a pdf here. Ana López-Montes, Rosario Blanco and others, studied maps and drawings in Granada’s Royal Chancellery Archives. The earliest map was from 1570 and the latest from 1817. Since the maps and drawings related to court cases, as exhibits, the dating is precise. The study is interesting also because its writers discuss taking the ink sac from a cuttlefish, being careful that too much air didn’t come in contact with the ink, and mixing it with gum arabic and water.
Carlo James, Marjorie B. Cohn, and the other authors of the 1997 Old master prints and drawings: a guide to preservation and conservation, spoke of Genova and Venice as being two places where sepia ink was used, before the 19th century. While Granada isn’t on the coast, it isn’t far, at about 20 miles. So, maybe one should keep an open mind about whether old master drawings, and especially those made near the sea, are made with sepia. (You can think sepia, just don’t write it. Plain vanilla. Brown ink. Basta.)
December 4th, 2012 § Comments Off on Canova show at the Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi § permalink
Thanks to Antonio Canova’s half-brother, sole heir of the artist, Bassano del Grappa’s Museo Civico has the largest collection of Canova drawings in the world. Some 79 drawings from the collection’s 1,876 drawings are being shown at the Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi from 5 December 2012 to 7 April 2013.
Antonio Canova | Study of the Medici Venus – Before Conservation | Red chalk | Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa
As you’d expect from the foremost Neoclassical sculptor, many of the drawings are after the antique. Like others in the show, the drawing above has Canova’s notations giving measurements–nice reminders that they inhabit real space. Even subjects of his own invention are strongly influenced by the classical world and very few of the drawings seem to be drawn from life.
Most of the works in the show relate to commissions. Canova was a great glorifier of the powerful–Clement XIV, Napoleon, Horatio Nelson, and George Washington among them. With his works, the word monument seems to fit them better than statue or sculpted portrait. Even if monument has a heavy ring to it, there’s something amusing about a work like the Napoleon as Mars the Peacekeeper (heroic nude didn’t appeal to the emperor and he sent it back), or young George Washington in Roman cuirass and pteruges (nowadays this kind of skirt is known as a car wash skirt). Though we might smile at these very Neoclassical portrayals, Canova was dead serious and immensely successful because of them. So successful that he could do things like buy the Giustiniani collection of antiquities and make a gift of them to the Pope. (Canova was also a curator at the Vatican.)
Antonio Canova | Hercules Hurling Lychas into the Sea | Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash | Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa
The exhibition is being held in permanent exhibition rooms, with the Canova works set apart by blue panels. The panels, often freestanding, are used to create rooms that concentrate on one commission. Because the Bassano museum is so rich in Canova, it can provide several drawings for a commission, along with models, and prints (ordered by Canova) of the artist’s finished works.
Antonio Canova | Toilette of Venus | Black chalk | Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa
The drawings are in a range of media: graphite, black chalk, red chalk, charcoal, pen and ink, brush and ink. They are often roughly sketched out or vigorously drawn. Because Canova’s marble works are so refined, snow-white, and polished, the drawings provide relief.
Canova. Il segno della gloria. Disegni, dipinti, e sculture
Curated by Giuliana Ericani, Dir. Museo Biblioteca Archivio di Bassano del Grappa
Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi
Catalogue published by Palombi Editore
November 8th, 2012 § Comments Off on Caricatures § permalink
Caricature, a branch of portraiture, is much more associated with drawing and printmaking than painting and sculpture. Caricatures are humorous in nature, often affectionately playful, but they can also be merciless in their ridicule. They are generally executed rapidly, and some of the best are drawn with the fewest lines.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680) – Caricature of Pope Innocent XI – Pen and brown ink on laid paper – 114 x 182 mm – Leipzig
Very often the portrayed doesn’t know they’re being caricatured, and the artist wishes to keep it that way. Bernini, who was deeply religious, would not have wanted his patron Pope Innocent XI to see his caricature of him. The pope, known as a sickly man, is propped up in bed, and his ant-like head is topped by a tiara, while his bony fingers signal orders. The sheet is small, and is meant for Bernini’s amusement, and for his friends. (The artist sometimes included caricatures in the margins of his letters.)
Bernini’s drawing and a drawing such as Pier Francesco Mola’s, just below,
Pier Francesco Mola (1612 – 1666) – Caricature of a Gentleman Viewing a Painting of a Monkey – Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper – 91 x 189 mm – Louvre
must have been satisfying to do. They must have had a therapeutic effect–there’s not much an artist can overtly do to get back at a powerful and difficult patron, but they could be cut down to size in a caricature.
The brothers Annibale and Agostino Carracci are often considered the first artists to create caricatures. An example of “ritrattini carichi” or small loaded portraits is just below. Annibale Carracci covered the sheet with little heads, some might be exaggerated likeness of real people, while others look like invented comic heads, the product of nervous doodling. As with much caricature, heads are in profile allowing for the nose to be exploited to the fullest. With profile caricature, chins also get important treatment, whether exaggeratedly big or small; while with frontal caricature, the ears and eyes come into their own.
Annibale Carracci (1560 -1609) – A Series of Caricature Heads in Profile – Pen and gray-brown ink – 194 x 135 mm – British Museum
This drawing of Agostino is of mascheroni, or grotesque masks. The Carracci enjoyed crossing human and animal heads, like the ancient artists with their fauns and satyrs. It is both amusing and disquieting. It seems like a particularly good example of grotesque heads since they are studies for gesso sculptures, the descendants of antique stucco work which came to be known as grotesque, from the subterranean grottoes where they were discovered.
Agostino Carracci (1557 – 1602) – Mascherone Studies – Red chalk – 258 x 197 mm – Albertina
The word caricature was first used in print in 1646 and ever since the 17th century, there has been a lot of discussion about what a caricature is, when the practice began, if Leonardo’s testine mostruose are caricatures or grotesques. It’s well worth reading this essay by Gombrich (link to pdf here), which discusses why caricature should be considered an invention of the late 16th century because of the growing self awareness of artists and their place in society. That may be true, but it is certainly easy to find exaggerated and comic representations of people–even real people–earlier in time. Just because we don’t know their names, does not mean they didn’t exist. The twisted, and often funny, damned in representations of the Last Judgement, Romanesque capitals with their leering heads, medieval manuscript margin drawings, and then the graffiti of hated emperors in Roman times. One can only imagine all the caricatures done on wax tablets in antiquity.
It seems logical that prehistoric man would also have found amusement in the warping of features. The sun can play atmospheric tricks making our shadow impossibly long or crushingly squat. A fire or candle’s light is usually flattering, but at the wrong angle it can grotesquely amplify features.
December 11th, 2011 § § permalink
I wanted to read about drawings in India, and found this drawing through a search involving the words India preparatory drawing. It had been in a Christie’s sale a few years ago, and it reminded me more of an underdrawing than a drawing made in preparation of another work. The catalogue didn’t go into detail (relatively low value work with a $2-3,000 estimate), but it looked to me like an early stage of a collaborative effort. The overall design had been roughed out in brush and gray color (looking like graphite) and wonderful color touches were applied in paint. (The cataloguer wrote “transparent and opaque pigments” which seems like a more sensible way of putting it – better than worrying about whether to write watercolor or watercolour and choosing between gouache or bodycolor or tempera.) The touches of color look like they are meant as a guide for the next artist in an assembly line.
India, Kotah, 18th century | Preparatory Drawing of a Seated King | Opaque and transparent pigments on paper | 330 x 277 mm | Christie's NY 20 March 2008, lot 206
After this I was thinking of written notations about color in drawings and there seem to be two main reasons for their inclusion: as memory aids for artists and as guides for collaborators. The drawing below, from an album (now dismantled) at the British Museum, gives both painted indications for color and written indications for color and fabric types for the costume makers who would have to execute the garments.
Stefano della Bella | Ballet Costume Study for a Gardener | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and watercolour, over graphite | 276 x 202 mm | British Museum
As an example of memory aid color notes, I found this completely atypical drawing of Ingres. Atypical because he usually draws in the most controlled way. Instead, here it is all about registering the colors in a cloud formation quickly. Gris, bleu tendre, clair and the other words are dashed off as rapidly as the cloud outlines. M. Ingres was in such a rush that rather than write clair again, he used id.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Cloud Study | Graphite | 202 x 182 mm | Musée Ingres, Montauban
July 9th, 2011 § Comments Off on Two Leonardo Drawings at Windsor for a Salvator Mundi § permalink
Being just as curious as the next guy about the recently attributed panel picture to Leonardo, I thought I’d post images from Windsor of two red chalk preparatory drawings by Leonardo for a Salvator Mundi. Links to the Royal Collection allow for enlargement of the images.
LINK to Leonardo’s Studies of Drapery for a Salvator Mundi at Windsor
LINK to Leonardo’s A Study of Drapery for a Salvator Mundi at Windsor
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | Studies of drapery for a Salvator Mundi | c.1504-8 | Red chalk with pen and ink and white heightening on pale red prepared paper | 164 x 158 mm | Royal Collection | Windsor
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | A study of drapery for a Salvator Mundi | c.1504-8 | Red chalk with touches of white chalk and pen and ink on pale red prepared paper 22 x 139 mm | Royal Collection | Windsor
The picture below has just popped up on the internet, a good deal changed, and more believable than the pre-conservation photo.
Attr. to Leonardo | Salvator Mundi | Oil on walnut panel | 65.6 X 45.4 cm | Robert Simon et al. | NYC
January 17th, 2010 § § permalink
Old master drawings disgorge in museums just as surely as rivers flow into the sea. Collectors donate their collections to museums for mankind, tax deductions, recognition, and to spite their ungrateful children. Once in museums, it’s over for the trade, mostly. Deaccessioning does happen, but is frowned upon and discourages future donations. Without much supply, dealers and collectors (include myself here) are working with what they have, and that means upgrading attributions. Museum curators do this too. There is no way they can make the brilliant acquisitions of past curators because of simple lack of supply and the hideous cost of whatever little there is left. So, art works get reevaluated up, and seldom down, much like Moody’s ratings of instruments in the financial world. (The growing number of Caravaggio pictures, whether in the private realm or museums, is particularly puzzling.)
Newspapers, fed by what seems a PR machine, have been reporting the recent upgrade of an anonymous 19th century drawing to Leonardo. Right out, I am very doubtful. However, it is always wonderful when something that is thought to be late, is instead very early. This was the case of a drawing of peonies, in an auction as anonymous, what seemed like another beautiful botanical illustration, and instead turned out to be a preparatory drawing by Dürer’s idol, Martin Schongauer.
Leonardo ? | Portrait of a Young Woman | Pen and brown ink, bodycolor, and colored chalks on vellum | 330 x 239 mm. | Paris ?
The drawing in question is of a young woman, bust length and in absolute profile to the left. The drawing measures 330 x 239 mm, and is executed in pen and brown ink, brush and bodycolor, and colored chalks on vellum. The names of Bianca Maria Sforza (1472-1510) and Bianca Giovanna Sforza (1482-1496) have been advanced for the sitter, although this is conjecture. (Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, was Leonardo’s patron from 1482 to 1499 and the idea is to keep it in the family.) If it’s Bianca Maria, the hair and eye color, for starters, don’t match up with a portrait in the Washington’s National Gallery of an older Sforza by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis. I haven’t read enough about the Profile to know how this is reconciled by the owner’s expert team. Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis’s portrait of an unknown woman in the Ambrosiana, illustrated below, and which shows a scarily similar hairdo (minus the coazzone, coazzone is the name of the braid in Milanese dialect) and knotted hairnet, was once attributed to Leonardo. It wouldn’t be entirely surprising to me if we start gearing up for an upgrade of this picture back to Leonardo if any trace of left-handed hatching (more about this below) can be found.
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis | Bianca Maria Sforza | Oil on Panel | 51 x 32.5 cm. | National Gallery | Washington
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis | Portrait of a Woman | Tempera and Oil on Panel | 51 x 34 cm. | Ambrosiana | Milan
Martin Kemp and Carlo Pedretti, two towering figures in the Leonardo world, are convinced the drawing is by Leonardo. Kemp’s writing/written a book on the drawing. Nicholas Turner, known for his seriousness and excellent eye, is also convinced of the attribution to Leonardo. His essay, download available here, from the site of Lumiere Technology, a Paris firm involved in high high resolution imaging. Turner writing in 2008, anticipates what critics will find hard to square: that there are no Leonardo drawings on vellum and that the mixture of media–pen and brown ink, bodycolor, and colored chalks, in combination and so highly finished–isn’t found in other drawings of the master. He also carefully ties what Leonardo writes about art, and writes about ideal beauty, to the drawing. Skeptics will say this is being done because the visual evidence–other drawings–is so scanty.
The owner, pushing hard to make the case for his Leonardo, and not wanting to rely solely on connoisseurship, has had the vellum carbon dated to between 1440 and 1650 and had fingerprint analysis done by one Peter Paul Biro. A scientific study of the pigments will also be interesting. In writing this post, I tried to find out about Biro and it seems his reputation in the fingerprint community is not great. Here is a video of a detective and fingerprint expert named Tom Hanley from Long Island poking holes in one of Biro’s prior projects involving Jackson Pollock fingerprints. Hanley in the video is circumspect, but it seems Biro was enhancing and reading into the fingerprints when there was insufficient evidence.
If the vellum is from 1440 – 1650, as one test has shown, the drawing is probably not from the 19th century (it would be worth investigating when forgers started using period paper, vellum, panels etc.). Early paper is easily had from the end papers of books and the drawing forger Eric Hebborn made full use of such paper. Vellum too could be easily recycled from book covers, say account books, which are often not tooled and loosely cover boards. For what it’s worth, it doesn’t look like a Hebborn, at least the ones I remember illustrated in his memoir. Hebborn’s normally draws sheets of studies, often attempting to show the thought process of the artist, and to boost credibility, he includes inscriptions and collection marks. His use of inscriptions was pointed out to me by Konrad Oberhuber, whom Hebborn hated for first identifying his forgeries, and in childish repayment Hebborn misspelled Oberhuber’s name in his memoir–something Oberhuber found very amusing.
Many drawings purported to be by Leonardo, a left-handed artist, have been discounted because of telltale right-handedness, a characteristic most easily seen in shading or hatching. Left-handed draftsmen shade \\\ and right-handed artists like this ///. The draftsman of the Profile is left-handed and this is considered a pivotal point in attributing the drawing to Leonardo. The hatching can be seen just outside the profile. A clear example of Leonardo’s hatching can be seen in this study in Turin.
Leonardo | Study for Angel – Virgin of the Rocks | Metalpoint, brush and white heightening on prepared paper | 181 x 159 mm. | Biblioteca Reale | Turin
None of Leonardo’s followers were left-handed and this makes differentiating Leonardo drawings from those of his followers fairly easy. Only fairly easy because they sometimes copied the left-handed shading, probably by turning the paper upside down. (Followers of Leonardo, and artists ever since, have copied works of the master as part of their training. That there are no copies of the Profile should be taken into account. ) Nowadays, about one in ten people are left-handed, but in the past people were discouraged from writing or drawing with their left, or sinister hand. Still, there have been plenty of left-handed artists (I hope eventually to post a table of these draftsmen). Also, those who were left-handed and adapted to fully using their right hand, might well be considered ambidextrous and be able to shade with either hand.
Some clever people commenting on the blog the Daily Kos have said that the sitter looks like Kirsten Dunst, the American actress. There is a definite resemblance. And this is where the drawing fails to convince me. The sitter conforms much more to a 19th or 20th century ideal of what a Renaissance beauty should look like, rather than a 15th century ideal, and much more to a Northern European than to an Italian ideal. (Yes, what Errol Morris was talking about in his Hans van Meegeren and Vermeer series of articles in the NYT.) At times I feel like I’m looking at Rapunzel. The Louvre’s Leonardo portrait of Isabella d’Este, a cartoon in colored chalks, with anything approaching the finish of the Profile, is very different. Very different. The d’Este portrait, with the body turned out to the viewer, is far more innovative–and what one would expect from Leonardo– than the strict Profile, where the pose looks back to an earlier 15th century type which Pisanello, Piero della Francesca, and the Pollaiolo, had so famously exploited.
Leonardo | Isabella d’Este | Preparatory cartoon in black, red, and ochre chalks, heightened with white, on prepared white paper and pricked for transfer | 610 x 465 mm. | Louvre | Paris
I can’t keep but thinking that draftsman who executed this had seen not only the portraits of Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, but was also informed of Hans Holbein the Younger (left-handed draftsman). What would be interesting is to see the early 19th century German drawings Kate Ganz, a former owner of the drawing, and the experts at Christie’s (OMD NY 30 January 1998, lot 402) based their ideas upon. After some looking, I have to say that I can’t find any similar 19th century portraits. Maybe it is by Leonardo, but it would then be like the Michelangelo painting after Schongauer which recently caused a stir, an anomaly. Another possibility is that an earlier drawing was colored and reworked in the 19th century, the fate of too many drawings, and then everyone could be right at the same time.
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With Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom we can change the color of iron gall ink drawings from brown to black and see, at least vaguely, how the drawings would have originally appeared. When an artist uses iron gall ink it starts out gray, quickly oxidizes to blue-black, and over years changes to brown. It is hard to grasp that so many of the warm brown drawings we know were conceived in black.
Gall Apples on an Oak Tree | Bomarzo
Gall Apple on an Oak Tree | Bomarzo
The color in iron gall ink comes from gall and vitriol–yes, a negative ring. Recipes call for ground wasp’s galls (tannic acid), iron or copper filings (vitriol or sulfuric acid), gum arabic, and water or wine. The photographs of the galls here are on oak trees in Italy. Galls, also called gall apples, are nests built by wasps for their larvae. This kind of ink was made in antiquity and again starting in the 13th century. It was the most commonly used ink until the 19th century. Part of its appeal was that it was indelible, unlike carbon ink. Since it eats into the paper, it could not be altered, a positive attribute for scribes with their official documents.
Most old master drawings in brown ink were created with iron gall ink. The other important brown inks are bister and sepia, both of them more stable. One easy, and unfortunate, way to tell the difference between these inks, is that the iron gall ink bites into the paper, making it look seared or burnt. Some greatly damaged drawings appear lacy with all their holes. In this example by the artist Mola, we can see how the areas with concentrations of ink, especially in the eye and cuff sections, are weakening the paper. This is the action of the acid in the ink.
Pier Francesco Mola (1612 – 1666) | Caricature | Pen and Iron Gall Ink on Cream Laid Paper | 14.7 x 17.8 cm. | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Dr. Sajjad Ahmed Gill followed the crisis closely. As group health advisor for Tullow Oil, a British oil and gas exploration and production company that
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“West Africa has a unique pool of diseases that are not usually present in other parts of the world,” says Gill. “Any company working in such areas should
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Some West African customs pose a major challenge to mitigating the spread of Ebola: according to traditional funeral rites, the dead body is washed prior
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same time Tullow contributed with other international health organizations to public medical treatment.
Similar work is being done by ArcelorMittal, which operates an iron ore mine in Liberia, just across the border from the most affected area in southern
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clinic because it really is the best clinic in the area,” says Quarry. “The medical services in that area are pretty poor, so it was quite likely that if
there were cases, that they would come to our clinic. But it’s not set up to be a public health facility, or a general hospital.”
ISOS brought in educational material, and ArcelorMittal relied on them to train its national staff. An isolation unit was set up at the mine clinic, and
personal protective equipment was brought in for clinic staff and staff at the nearest local hospital – health care workers are some of the most at-risk of
exposure. Most importantly, says Quarry, they also brought in a senior infectious diseases doctor from South Africa, who supervised the modification of the
clinic and the training of its health staff. He travelled to other national hospitals to help establish isolation units and train staff on the use of
personal protective equipment and infectious disease spread, and worked with Guinea’s Department of Health to set up the Ebola containment strategy.
Next: The strike that saved lives
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Elliot Lake wildcat walkout
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Online talk presented May 22, 2020 by Linda Hall Library and the Royal Astronomical Society.
Join the Linda Hall Library and the Royal Astronomical Society for a series exploring connections between our respective collections. Hosted as a four part conversation between the Society’s Librarian, Sian Prosser, and the Library’s Vice President for Special Collections, Jason W. Dean, this series will introduce the two organisations to attendees, and highlight astronomical notable items in our collections.
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Not enough intellectuals in the army? Quelle horreur! At least that seems to be the thinking in some corners of the French military. That's why prizes are being offered to encourage French soldiers to learn to ply the pen.
"In France, where intellectuals enjoy high social esteem and where soldiers dislike the stereotype of gun-toting automatons," reports London's TimesOnline, "the army is looking for thinkers." That's why there's "a campaign to restore the reputation of their troops by encouraging them to get into print."
According to TimesOline, "Prizes, including 4,000 Euros [about $5,000 US] and a vaguely abstract statue of a quill and a sword, were offered for the best book written by a member of the French armed forces since 2003."
In Vietnam, meanwhile, the government is worried that too much of the nation's contemporary literature focuses on urban life. To adjust that imbalance, Vietnamnet reports that the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture is offering prizes for short stories, plays, and life stories from the country's farmers.
The aim is "to help farmers express their feelings about their lives in a changing world."
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Solo exhibition Silbersee by artist Alexandra Navratil (Switzerland/Netherland) will open to public from April 20 until May 20 at the Office gallery of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art. Her work slowly but steadily unveils a story of human impact on the Earth from a lake’s perspective. Exhibition is organized by Riga Photography Biennial 2016 in collaboration with LCCA.
Exhibition opening: April 19, 18:30.
The black and white photographs that replace and overlap each other on the screen were taken in 1998 and 1990 (just before German reunification) by Dr Fred Walkow, a scientist at Agfa-Orwo in Bitterfeld, former East Germany. While conducting research in order to find a substitute for the silver component of film, he became increasingly obsessed with photographing the Silbersee lake. Dr Walkow described it as an overwhelming presence in the lives of the inhabitants surrounding the lake, and held it responsible for his own crisis when he moved to the area. The text on the photographs contemplates the slow violence of chemical contamination.
Alexandra Navratil (born 1978 in Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in Amsterdam. The artist often begins her research in the archives of film or photography, moving from the formal qualities of image towards the narrative and the social, political and economic circumstances that underlie its creation.
She has recently shown at the Frieze, New York; TENT, Rotterdam; de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon) in Spain, among other venues. She has received various prizes for her work, including the Canton of Zurich's Manor Price (2013), the Swiss Art Award (2009 and 2012), and the Prix Mobilière Young Art (2009). She was artist-in-residence at ISCP (International Studio and Curational Program) in New York and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. In 2007 she received her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London. She teaches at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.
The exhibition is opened Monday to Friday 12 noon until 6pm at LCCA Office gallery (Alberta Street 13, 7th floor). Free entrence.
The Riga Photography Biennial (RPB) is a new international contemporary art event, focusing on photography as a fine art practice and prioritising Latvian, Baltic and European regions in particular. It will host a range of exhibitions in different cities of Latvia and a set of educational events - such as symposium, lectures, workshops and artist talks. The Biennial will be held every other year and it will also host a range of events on a regular basis. More information: www.rpbiennial.com
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NPO is a type of diet people are placed on by their medical professionals. A NPO diet is most often seen in a hospital setting. Some patients can be placed on a NPO diet for just a short time while others may have to stay on it for a much longer time. The medical team will give instructions to the patient about what to do and not to do while NPO.
NPO is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase "nil per os," which means nothing by mouth. When you are labeled NPO by your doctor you cannot have anything that would go in your mouth including food, beverages and oftentimes medications. You can be made NPO for a variety of reasons including an upcoming surgery, medical procedure or test. You cannot have anything to eat or drink prior to surgery so honoring the NPO status is very important.
You may be made NPO if you have a gastrointestinal illness or a disease that prevents you from having normal GI function. When you have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that cannot be controlled you may have to be NPO to allow your gastrointestinal tract and bowels to rest. Patients with bowel obstructions are often NPO for the same reason. This makes sense because food cannot continue to go in if it cannot come back out.
You may be placed on NPO status after having a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke. Depending on the severity of the stroke you may not be able to chew and swallow your food safely, so you will need to be NPO until your swallowing abilities return. After a stroke you will be assessed for your swallowing ability. If you fail the initial swallowing screen, you will then be seen by a speech language pathologist who will further assess you and conduct a swallowing study to evaluate your safety for eating and drinking.
If you have trouble swallowing you may be placed on NPO status until it is determined whether you can safely eat and drink. You may have medical reasons for having difficulty swallowing, or you may have lost some swallowing function as a result of aging. You will need to be on an NPO diet while tests are conducted to determine the problem, and then until you recover your normal swallowing abilities.
The length of time for NPO can vary. The most important factor is why you are NPO. If you are NPO for surgery then you will usually be taken off NPO shortly after your surgery has taken place and then your diet will advance to clear liquids, then semi-solid liquids and then solids as tolerated. Of course, this is not true for all surgical patients and the reason for surgery plays a large role in how long a patient must remain NPO.
Sometimes a patient must remain on prolonged NPO because of his medical condition. It is okay for patients to be NPO for awhile, especially when they are under the supervision of medical professionals and are receiving fluids through an IV. However, after a period of time, usually seven to nine days, it is necessary for patients to begin getting solid nutrition again. When it is not okay for a patient to eat by mouth NPO support is considered a safe and appropriate alternative to meet patients' nutritional needs.
- American Academy of Otolaryngology: Insight into tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy: How to prepare for surgery
- The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Second Edition: Intestinal Obstruction
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Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff: But when the kingdom is threatened by rebellious forces, the prince must abandon his reckless ways. Taking arms against a heroic enemy, he begins a great and compelling transformation - from irresponsible reprobate to noble ruler of men.
This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Henry IV, Part One, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
About the Author
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon where his father was a prosperous glover. His early life is obscure, but he married Anne Hathaway in 1682 with whom he had two children. By 1592 he was establishing himself in London, and over the next twenty years he wrote thirty-seven plays-and contributed to many more-was a prolific poet, and was taken up by several influential patrons. His Sonnets were first printed in 1609 by George Eld for Thomas Thorpe. The identity of Mr. W.H. to whom the Sonnets are dedicated remains a mystery, as does the identity of the aristocratic youth in the Sonnets and the enigmatic Dark Lady.
Praise for "William Shakespeare: Complete Works: " "A feast of literary and historical information." "--The Wall Street Journal"
Series: Penguin Shakespeare Ser.
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 9th June 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 18.1 x 11.2 x 1.7
Weight (kg): 18.1
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TH: Beyond hobbyist projects, is 3D printing becoming a more common manufacturing alternative?
SM: "Definitely. Solidoodle is a case in point – we actually use the printer to print some of our own parts. For manufacturing, 3D printing is really a game changer.
"If you imagine – take $10,000 [around £6,600], and it will buy you 20 Solidoodle machines. With those 20 machines, let's say each machine can print out 20 parts a day; 20 times 20, that's 400. With a $10,000 investment, you have a manufacturing system that is capable of printing out 400 parts a day.
"That kind of production was previously attainable only by other processes such as injection molding. With injection molding, for just the mold alone you're going to pay as much as $50,000.
"I think you're going to see it more and more in the home, and also in manufacturing environments. The great thing about it is that it is flexible. For example, if you want to create an iPhone case made with an injection mold, you are going to spend $50,000 on the mold--and then you can't change it. If you want to change the design, you have to scrap the whole mold. With a bank of 20 3D printers, you can simply reprogram the printers, no problem."
SM: "I think you're going to see, in the future, a whole market for 3D content. We've created a platform in much the same way when Apple created the first iPhone. At the time, we didn't know, or could not know, what the end use would be. All that we knew was that we had this amazing new platform.
"Fast-forward to today: We put the 3D printer in the wild. We don't know, or we can't know, what our customers are going to use it for. We do know that we are creating a game changer, and that's really exciting. We're already seeing new uses crop up, apart from the ones I've already mentioned. I think we're definitely going to see different markets for 3D content spring up.
"How can we move constructively forward in a way that allows as many people as possible to take advantage of this new technology, while also putting a regulatory system in place that spurs innovation and protects creativity?"
TH: Would you like to share any future plans for Solidoodle 4, or Solidoodle as a whole?
SM: "At Solidoodle, we stand for two things: The first is 'affordable' and the second is 'easy to use'. With the products we're going to put out in the future, I think you can expect more of the same. We're going to continue to keep the machine affordable and make it even easier to use. That's our goal here.
"As far as the next generation of Solidoodle, I'll let you know when we know. We're still in the process of developing our next product, and a lot of it is determined by our customers. The main thing is, we sell direct to the consumer, so we get customer feedback every single day, and our customers tell us what they want. I see bright things ahead in our future. I wish I could tell you, but we haven't fully figured it out yet.
"What I can say is, we have a really good team here designing these products. We've got a really great team of 60 people right here in Brooklyn, New York, in the USA. Very creative and intelligent minds. And we also have a really good customer base that feeds us information, so I think you should expect really exciting things moving forward. We're just getting warmed up.
TH: Do you have any tips for someone just getting into 3D printing?
SM: "Have fun with it and let your imagination run wild. The possibilities truly are limited only by your imagination. With a 3D printer, you can create nearly everything for your home, your office, or your next million-dollar invention. Don't be shackled by any preconceived notions of what society tells you is possible. This is a hot new technology – have fun with it." | <urn:uuid:a58f4b46-518f-4cfd-a974-f709a64f6e0d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/hacking-maker/interview-solidoodle-founder-on-future-of-3d-printers/?pn=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00210-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97133 | 876 | 2.328125 | 2 |
An important new voice weighs in on the controversy surrounding the proposed mosque in Lower Manhattan today, as historian William Dalrymple contributes an opinion piece, "The Muslims in the Middle," to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.
Dalrymple, the author of several acclaimed books on South Asian history and culture, points out that the mosque's chief proponent, Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative, practices Sufism, "the mystical form of Islam, which in terms of goals and outlook couldn't be farther from the violent Wahhabism of the jihadists." The historian then recounts the ways in which Sufi Islam is increasingly under threat from violent Islamist extremism—particularly in Pakistan, where jihadists have destroyed several key Sufi holy sites.
Dalrymple's conclusion: "Sufism is an entirely indigenous, deeply rooted resistance movement against violent Islamic radicalism. Whether it can be harnessed to a political end is not clear. But the least we can do is to encourage the Sufis in our own societies."
Nine Lives—In Search of the Sacred in Modern South Asia
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Unauthorized Editing of Web Page
How do I prevent unauthorized editing of my webpage. I recently noticed that a few words on my web page had been turned into links to someone else's website. I looked at my markup expecting to see changes made to it but I didn't see
any. Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm not a security expert but I 'm not sure that what you say is possible. Did you search the source code for "<a" or "href" to find every link?
As to unauthorized edits - change you password and make it a more secure one:
- At least 8 characters.
- Use upper case, lower case, numbers and some symbols.
- Consider changing it regularly.
And remember to always keep a clean copy of the site off-line where it cannot be doctored, in case you need tp restore it.
If your website is hosted on a free service, the service is probably inserting advertising into your webpages. That's how they make money.
If your site is hosted on a conventional hosting service that you pay for, then it sounds like your site may have been hacked. Google has just posted a lot of good advice on what to do when your site has been hacked on YouTube and their Webmaster blog. A quick search should get you some good advice.
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Plant species composition and interactions within communities invaded by Persicaria perfoliata (Polygonaceae).
Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-a-Minute Weed), an invasive vine, forms monocultural patches of various sizes within infested landscapes among patches also containing other plants. We compared the species composition of P. perfoliata-dominated patches and adjacent nondominated patches in 2 topographically homogeneous sites using 20 paired plots, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, multi-response permutation procedure, and indicator species analyses. Richness and diversity were lower in the P. perfoliata-dominated patches but both patch types had uncommon native plants present. The patch types differed significantly in composition, and the nondominated patches were dominated by another nonnative invader, Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stiltgrass), or a native weed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Common Ragweed). Documenting potentially interacting native and exotic species within an invaded landscape will help predict likely restoration success in response to targeted nonnative-invasive plant removal. | <urn:uuid:d6b0b990-8c36-46d7-aba0-3b7959ffbc37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cabi.org/isc/abstract/20220037272 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.909145 | 229 | 2.46875 | 2 |
We know that diseases were attributed by the Israelites to malignant demons which they, like the Arabs, identified with serpents.
It begins with a psalm (xc.) ascribed in the title to Moses, and seemingly designed to express feelings appropriate to a situation analogous to that of the Israelites when, after the weary march through the wilderness, they stood on the borders of the promised land.
Part of the Jewish ritual was the preservation of the Israelites from the idolatry which at that time prevailed among every other people.
Implies that the Israelites had recovered the position they had lost at the battle of Gilboa.
It was in order to preserve the Israelites from errors and follies of this kind, and to prevent the possibility of such idolatry being established, that the dog was afterwards regarded with utter abhorrence amongst the Jews, and this feeling prevailed during the continuance of the Israelites in Palestine.
It is impossible to regard the warlike expeditions described in this section as supplementary campaigns undertaken after Joshua's death; they are plainly represented as the first efforts of the Israelites to gain a firm footing in the land (at Hebron, Debir, Bethel), in the very cities which Joshua is related to have subdued (Josh.
The story, however, has been combined with the somewhat different account of E, which doubtless covered the same ground, and also with that of P. According to the former, Elohim did not permit the Israelites to take the shorter route to Canaan by the Mediterranean coast, for fear of the Philistines, but led them southwards to the Red Sea, whither they were pursued by the Egyptians (xiii.
That the figures symbolic of Rakab or Hadad were compounded or amalgamated by the Israelites with those symbolic of Nergal (the lion-god) and Ninib (the eagle-god), is not surprising.
The B'nai B'rith society has also co-operated largely with other Jewish philanthropic organizations in succouring distressed Israelites throughout the world.
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Erythrocyte Aging: A More than Superficial Resemblance to Apoptosis?Bosman G.J.C.G.M.1 · Willekens F.L.A.2 · Werre J.M.3
1Department of Biochemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, 2Department of Clinical Chemistry, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, 3Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center Corresponding Author
Dr. G. Bosman, Ph.D.
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In physiological circumstances, erythrocyte aging leads to binding of autologous IgG followed by recognition and removal through phagocytosis, mainly by Kupffer cells in the liver. This process is triggered by the appearance of a senescent erythrocyte-specific antigen. The functional and structural characteristics of senescent erythrocytes strongly suggest that this antigen originates on band 3, probably by calcium-induced proteolysis. Generation of vesicles enriched in denatured hemoglobin is an integral part of the erythrocyte aging process. These versicles are also removed by Kupffer cells, with a major role for exposure of phosphatidylserine. Moreover, senescent erythrocyte-specific antigens are present on vesicles. Thus, vesicles and senescent erythrocytes may be recognized and removed through the same signals. These and other, recent data support the theory that erythrocyte aging is a form of apoptosis that is concentrated in the cell membrane, and provide the context for future studies on initation and regulation of the erythrocyte aging process. Insight into the normal aging mechanism is essential for understanding the fate of erythrocytes in pathological circumstances and the survival of donor erythrocytes after transfusion.
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House on Richmond Hill, up the Parapara River, Tasman district, 1876
Reference Number: 1/2-032616-F
House on Richmond Hill, up the Parapara River, Tasman district, near the silver mine built by the Washbourn's. Photograph taken 1876 by an unidentified photographer.
1 image, related to Parapara, Architecture, Domestic - New Zealand - Tasman Region and Dwellings - New Zealand - Tasman Region.
Gaulter, E M (Mrs) : Photographs of Collingwood, Reference Number PAColl-4799 (4 digitised items)
Extent: 1 b&w copy negative(s)Film negative. Horizontal imageSingle negative
Conditions governing access to original: Not restricted
Other copies available: File print available in Turnbull Library Pictures5. Golden Bay Co. Parapara. Houses. 1876(PFP-033866)
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Borders Are Open! Ecotourism in the New Normal
Andrew Sebastian, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Ecotourism & Conservation Society Malaysia | Gwenda Gui, Vice President, Sabah Tourist Guides Association
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The closure of Malaysia's international borders hit the local tourism industry hard, and almost decimated the ecotourism sector. Now that borders have reopened, we speak to two nature guides and ecotourism operators, Andrew Sebastian, the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of the Ecotourism & Conservation Society Malaysia and Gwenda Gui, the Vice President of the Sabah Tourist Guides Association, about how the industry is preparing for the return of more international travellers, the necessary assistance from both state and federal authorities that would be helpful to ecotourism players to rebuild, and what ecotourism in the new normal might look like, for both local and international travellers.
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Produced by: Juliet Jacobs
Presented by: Juliet Jacobs
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Medical tourism is a complex web of multiple niche markets. The main aim for any country to boost their medical tourism sector is by ensuring that their product and service strengths match the particular needs of the market. Medical tourism will only have a significant impact if there is a seamless collaboration between healthcare providers, travel agencies, five-star hotels, and other hospitality service providers. When international tourists visit a country for medical purposes, it is crucial to ensure their comfort by handling their end-to-end requirements.
In India especially, an investment in technology, security, and translators is more necessary than ever to attract medical tourists and sustain the growth of the medical tourism industry. Engineering a medical travel experience that places the customer at the centre is important for all the key players involved. A continuous assessment of the target markets and a destination’s strengths and weaknesses will help shape the future of medical tourism in India. Official records have shown that the Indian medical tourism industry is growing at 18% CAGR. It is projected to have 20% of the medical tourism market share by 2020.
Here are a few ways that could assist organisations to attract more medical tourists:
1. Understanding the importance of technology and investing in it
Potential customers prioritise world-class healthcare facilities which is why cutting-edge technology must define the medical tourism sector. Investing in best practices and revolutionary facilities will help customers understand that all their needs are being attended to. When it comes to accessibility, apps for hospitals and clinics help the customer make more informed decisions and are also incredibly convenient.
2. Building an impactful online presence
The immense power of social media is an indisputable fact. This is precisely why online marketing is imperative for medical tourism. User-friendly websites and blogs with live chats will reach more customers. Active social media handles that frequently run campaigns will keep potential customers engaged and updated about the latest trends in the market.
3. Collaboration is key
The medical tourism market works seamlessly with multiple industries which is why collaboration is so important. Investing in collaborations with hospitality partners and representatives of international health offices will serve well in the long-run.
4. Quotation and visa assistance
Potential customers might get overwhelmed with the huge amount of research that goes into selecting a medical tourism destination. This is when it is important to provide quotations that cover the entire experience and help customers understand what they’re getting into. Assistance with applying for a medical visa will also help ease customers’ concerns.
5. Accommodation and security needs
Ensuring hospitality partners constantly reinvent their rooms to accommodate the needs of international patients is essential to improving medical tourism. Rooms must be spacious and have all the required facilities for comfort. Security is key so patients can feel secure at their place of stay while they are recovering. Making relevant investments in the area is always important.
A constant emphasis on high quality of care along with a focus on the extended patient journey should be guiding factors in improving medical tourism. Developing a clear, focused medical tourism strategy will reap exceptional benefits and boost a sector that is already performing well.
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Financing Home Access
Home access upgrades and remodels can be pricey. What are some options?
- By David Kopf
- Mar 01, 2012
Financing is a crucial part of home access. While many of the DME products and home upgrades that comprise home access services are essentially retail transactions, rather than funded through Medicare funding or private payor insurance, many home access upgrades can get expensive. Remodeling, retrofitting and reconstruction projects do not come cheap, with construction costs as much as 12 percent higher for an accessible homeas a standard home. Many patients need financing. Fortunately, there are options.
One choice would be a 203(k) loan. The Federal Housing Administration created the 203(k) loan program specifically to help homebuyers rehabilitate homes they wish to purchase to live in, but that are in disrepair. A 203(k) loan lets a qualified borrower not only finance the purchase price of the home, but also include the price of the necessary repairs to the home. And this includes home access upgrades.
There are two types of 203(k) loans, and the one that is right for your intended property depends on how much work needs to be done:
- A “streamlined” 203(k) loan is intended for a home that requires only non-structural repairs.
- A “regular” 203(k) loan is for properties that require structural repair, such as replacing the roof or a load-bearing wall.
A streamlined 203(k) provides up to $35,000 that can be added to the loan to cover the improvements, in addition to the purchase price of the home. For a regular 203(k), the homeowner can borrow the purchase price of the home, plus the price of the improvements, up to 110 percent of the home’s expected value after the improvements.
The money for the improvements is actually put into an escrow account that is used to pay for materials and the companies being contracted to do the home access work, such as the provider and its partners. Construction must begin within 30 days of the close of the loan and your work must be completed within six months. To ensure the patient still has a place to live, borrowers can finance up to six months’ mortgage payments in a 203(k) loan.
Moreover, it is important to note that many patients that need serious home access overhauls do not necessarily have the income to pay for such major projects. According to some studies, as many as one third of disabled patients live at or below the poverty line and might not qualify for home loans. In this case, there are special loan programs and other forms of funding that can help them attain the home access services the need.
The Fannie Mae Community HomeChoice is available to patients living on their own or someone living with a disabled family member to help them purchase an accessible home, or upgrade their existing home for home access. The loan is designed specifically for borrowers with low to moderate incomes, and offers fl exibility in terms of loan-to-value ratios, down payment sources, qualifying ratios and the establishment of credit.
Another option would be state-level loan programs. Nearly every state in the unions has created loan programs to help lower income borrowers with disabilities tap into lending options that offer very agreeable terms at rates and terms well below traditional home loans. Many do this by providing tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds to local lenders, who then work with the patients needing financing. Make sure to study the programs offered by the state housing finance agencies and development agenciesfor the states where you provide services.
Additionally, there are special grants and other programs outside of true financing solutions. For instance, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers its Home Improvement and Structural Alterations and Special Home Adaptations grants for disabled veterans. Many state Medicaid programs offer home and community-based waivers that can help fund accessibility modifications.
Certainly, providers offering home access services should strive to have an inside-and-out knowledge of local, state and national lending programs from commercial and government sources that are geared toward helping patients finance their home access modifications and construction. But they should go the extra step and partner up with local lending professionals who can specialize in helping borrowers in need of home access financing solutions. (Loans such as 203(k) loans require much specialized knowledge, for instance.) These partners will not only help their patients and help generate the funding necessary to drive a home access project, but they can also become key referral partners that will use their marketing resources and their reputation to help drive business back to the provider.
This article originally appeared in the March 2012 issue of HME Business.
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Report NEP-SOC-2013-05-22This is the archive for NEP-SOC, a report on new working papers in the area of Social Norms & Social Capital. Fabio Sabatini issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
The following items were announced in this report:
- Gaël Giraud & Cécile Renouard & Hélène L'Huillier & Raphaële de la Martinière & Camille Sutter, 2012. "Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 12096, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
- Hannes Rusch, 2013. "What niche did human cooperativeness evolve in?," MAGKS Papers on Economics 201327, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
- Erik O. Kimbrough & Alexander Vostroknutov, 2013. "Norms Make Preferences Social," Discussion Papers dp13-01, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
- John V.C. Nye & Grigory Androuschak & Desirée Desierto & Garett Jones & Maria Yudkevich, 2012. "What Determines Trust? Human Capital vs. Social Institutions : Evidence from Manila and Moscow," UP School of Economics Discussion Papers 201219, University of the Philippines School of Economics.
- Stephan Humpert, 2013. "Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation," Working Paper Series in Economics 276, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics.
- M. D. Farjam & M. Faillo & W.F.G. Haselager & I.G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, 2013. "Punishment Mechanisms and their Effect on Cooperation - A Simulation Study," CEEL Working Papers 1302, Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia.
- Van Zant, Alex B. & Kray, Laura J., 2013. ""I Can't Lie to Your Face": Minimal Face-to-Face Interaction Promotes Honestry," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt88f3409v, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
- Erik O. Kimbrough & Jared Rubin, 2013. "Sustaining Group Reputation," Working Papers 13-14, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
- Spring, Eva & Grossmann, Volker, 2013. "Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?," FSES Working Papers 442, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Freiburg/Fribourg Switzerland.
- Vladimir Hyanek & Marie Hladka, 2012. "Philanthropy in a Changing World: An Evolving Attitude to Giving?," Working Papers 01, Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Public Economics, revised Mar 2013.
- Martin , Roman, 2013. "Differentiated Knowledge Bases and the Nature of Innovation Networks," Papers in Innovation Studies 2013/14, Lund University, CIRCLE - Center for Innovation, Research and Competences in the Learning Economy.
- Jirí Navrátil, 2012. "Making sense of “weakness” of post-communist civil society: Individual vs. organized engagement in civil advocacy in the Czech Republic," Working Papers 02, Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Public Economics, revised Mar 2013.
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October 25, 2011
"Lockdown: Technology in America’s Most Notorious Prison"
The title of this post is the headline of this interesting new series at the technology site Gizmodo. Here is how the series is set up:
Do prison inmates surf the Internet? Do they have gadgets? Do they make gadgets? Do they make weapons? Where do they get their porn and booze?
On the outside, we enjoy lives built around the fruits of modernity. But what about prisoners? San Quentin sits on the San Francisco Bay, minutes away from the most technologically famous valley in the world, so we went to jail to find out how much of our 21st-century techno-culture has made it behind bars.
San Quentin State Prison is the stuff of legend. Hell, Johnny Cash wrote a song about it. A lot has changed since The Man in Black visited, but even more striking is what hasn't changed. Recently, Gizmodo had the rare opportunity to get inside this notorious prison. To say that it was enlightening is a serious understatement.
There are a lot of rules when you visit the slam: You can't wear blue, grey, or orange. Not a stitch: Those colors are reserved for inmates only — blue and grey for the full-time residents, and orange for guys who were still being processed and might well end up in a higher security prison. (They kept us far away from the guys in orange.) You also can't bring in a cell phone, a very coveted piece of contraband. And you most definitely cannot bring in anything that could be used as a weapon; not that they're hurting for weapons, as you'll find out tomorrow....
San Quentin houses more than 5,000 inmates, despite being built to accomodate only 3,082. Six hundred condemned men reside on San Quentin's death row — far more than Florida's or Texas'. For all that, there are only 300 officers on duty at peak shifts. We spent most of our time on North Block, which houses approximately 850 men. Around 650 of them carry a life sentence, and roughly 80-percent are there for violent crime. Prisoners are generally housed two men to a small cell that was only intended to house one. That's overcrowding for you. The men refer to their cellmates as "cellies."
For all intents and purposes, San Quentin is designed to be an island. It's very clear that inmates are not meant to be a part of the modern world of technology. They aren't allowed any internet access at all. They can have TVs, but no cable. They can make phone calls, but they absolutely cannot have cellphones. No booze, no way. Yet, despite the levies in place, technology has a way of seeping in. Cellphones can be procured though a number of illegal channels. Booze can be made right in your cell. Permitted devices can be hacked to do things they aren't supposed to do.
Essentially, where there's a will there's a way — even in prison. And these guys have nothing but time on their hands.... By and large the inmates we interviewed were affable and articulate. If you were meeting them under other circumstances, you'd probably think they were nice guys.
Except most of them were in for murder. It was hard to wrap my mind around that. The deeds didn't seem to match the men's personalities, and probably with good reason. Most of the guys we'd talked to had been in jail since the 70's. They were young men who had made big mistakes—mistakes which many would argue are unforgivable — and they were still paying for them. Many had been in prison longer than I'd been alive.
When we left that afternoon, we were acutely aware of how lucky we were to be able to do so. The battery in our car had died. So what. We weren't in jail. Small annoyances were put in their proper places. Our smartphones, which we'd gotten so jaded about, were incredible and magical again. As we ate our dinners, sipped our beers, and occasionally checked our emails that night, we talked about the things we took for granted. We had always enjoyed our freedom, but I don't know that we'd ever had a clearer picture of what life would be without it. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to make sure you are taking advantage of all life has to offer. It's the kind of thing that makes you grateful to go home.
Every day this week we'll be bringing you a new tech story from inside San Quentin, complete with photos and video. Check out today's episode: Prison Hacks.
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"By and large the inmates we interviewed were affable and articulate...you'd probably think they were nice guys...most of them were in for murder. It was hard to wrap my mind around that."
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This reminded me of the fact that for staff who work with these criminals, including yours truly, it is not so hard to get past the charming facades—most often the trait of sexual criminals by the way.
Of course, desensitization or even a "Stockholm Syndrome" ideology can develop with many correctional staff, but much more frequently, it happens with naïve or philosophically generous program providers and visitors, such as the Gizmodo author.
Anytime I recall the victim(s) and the nature of the crime, personally I am disabused of enabling or misplaced "compassionate" impulses. Remember the victims.
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"Drawing from Your Imagination" shows anyone who draws and paints how to successfully tap into a vast resource for their work: the envisaged and remembered scenes that form their own imagination.Renowned illustrator Ron Tiner leads readers through a unique development course, demonstrating how they can access their own imaginations to create engaging and distinctive images.The structured text is accompanied by an inspirational selection of sketches, examples and finished works showcasing the various degrees and endless possibilities of imaginative work.
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Enforcement of Banking Regulation and the Cost of Borrowing
Journal of Banking and Finance,
We show that borrowing firms benefit substantially from important enforcement actions issued on U.S. banks for safety and soundness reasons. Using hand-collected data on such actions from the main three U.S. regulators and syndicated loan deals over the years 1997–2014, we find that enforcement actions decrease the total cost of borrowing by approximately 22 basis points (or $4.6 million interest for the average loan). We attribute our finding to a competition-reputation effect that works over and above the lower risk of punished banks post-enforcement and survives in a number of sensitivity tests. We also find that this effect persists for approximately four years post-enforcement.
Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Fragility: Empirical Evidence from the OECD ...
Private Benefits of Control and Bank Loan Contracts
Journal of Corporate Finance,
This paper investigates whether or not private benefits of control by managers and large shareholders influence the financing cost of firms. Evidence shows that lending banks demand a significantly higher loan spread, higher fees, shorter loan maturity, smaller loan size, stricter covenants, and greater collateral on firms with greater private benefits of control. Results are stronger for firms with weak corporate governance quality, supporting the agency cost viewpoint. Such evidence implies that banks consider higher private benefits of control as a type of agency problem when they make lending decisions.
Sovereign Stress, Banking Stress, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the Euro Area
IWH Discussion Papers,
In this paper, we investigate to what extent sovereign stress and banking stress have contributed to the increase in the level and in the heterogeneity of nonfinancial firms’ refinancing costs in the Euro area during the European debt crisis and how they did affect the monetary transmission mechanism. We identify the increasing effect of government bond yield spreads (sovereign stress) and the share of non-performing loans (banking stress) on firms’ financing costs using an instrumental-variable approach. Moreover, we estimate both sources of stress to have significantly impaired the monetary transmission mechanism during the European debt crisis.
Can Lenders Discern Managerial Ability from Luck? Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts
Journal of Banking & Finance,
We investigate the effect of managerial ability versus luck on bank loan contracting. Borrowers showing a persistently superior managerial ability over previous years (more likely due to ability) enjoy a lower loan spread, while borrowers showing a temporary superior managerial ability (more likely due to luck) do not enjoy any spread reduction. This finding suggests that banks can discern ability from luck when pricing a loan. Firms with high-ability managers are more likely to continue their prior lower loan spread. The spread-reduction effect of managerial ability is stronger for firms with weak governance structures or poor stakeholder relationships, corroborating the notion that better managerial ability alleviates borrowers’ agency and information risks. We also find that well governed banks are better able to price governance into their borrowers’ loans, which helps explain why good governance enhances bank value.
Bank Market Power and Loan Contracts: Empirical Evidence
Using a sample of syndicated loan facilities granted to US corporate borrowers from 1987 to 2013, we directly gauge the lead banks’ market power, and test its effects on both price and non‐price terms in loan contracts. We find that bank market power is positively correlated with loan spreads, and the positive relation holds for both non‐relationship loans and relationship loans. In particular, we report that, for relationship loans, lending banks charge lower loan price for borrowing firms with lower switching cost. We further employ a framework accommodating the joint determination of loan contractual terms, and document that the lead banks’ market power is positively correlated with collateral and negatively correlated with loan maturity. In addition, we report a significant and negative relationship between banking power and the number of covenants in loan contracts, and the negative relationship is stronger for relationship loans.
Mind the Gap: The Difference Between U.S. and European Loan Rates
Review of Financial Studies,
We analyze pricing differences between U.S. and European syndicated loans over the 1992–2014 period. We explicitly distinguish credit lines from term loans. For credit lines, U.S. borrowers pay significantly higher spreads, but lower fees, resulting in similar total costs of borrowing in both markets. Credit line usage is more cyclical in the United States, which provides a rationale for the pricing structure difference. For term loans, we analyze the channels of the cross-country loan price differential and document the importance of: the composition of term loan borrowers and the loan supply by institutional investors and foreign banks.
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The German Economy: Still Robust Despite Sliding Sentiment
The prospects for the German economy are still quite favorable. While sentiment indicators suggest that growth will slow at the end of the year, domestic demand will continue on an upward trend. The German GDP should increase by 1.9% in 2016. For 2017 we expect a lower growth rate of 1.2%“Weaker export volumes and higher growth of imports are the relevant factors for the slowdown”, says Prof Oliver Holtemöller, IWH Vice president. Unemployment will rise a bit as more refugees enter the labor market. Consumer price inflation remains moderate. The general government balance (cyclically ad¬justed as well as unadjusted) will be in surplus in both 2016 and 2017.
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24.09.2015 • 38/2015
German Households Benefit from Low Interest Environment
Calculations of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association show that the average household in Germany has benefited from the low policy rate environment. The average return on their portfolio was higher than in the pre-crisis period while at the same time, they benefited from lower interest on new loans. Households in Germany had a total Euro benefit of more than 364 billion Euro over a five-year period relative to 2003 to 2007. Increases in stock prices and real estate prices over-compensate lower interest rates on savings accounts, despite their relatively low share in households’ portfolios. There are benefits across the income distribution. Households that do not own real estate lost though, but their losses are very small at on average about 100 Euro per year.
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10.08.2015 • 30/2015
Germany Benefited Substantially from the Greek Crisis
The balanced budget in Germany is largely the result of lower interest payments due to the European debt crisis. Research from the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association shows that the debt crisis resulted in a reduction in German bund rates of about 300 basis points (BP), yielding interest savings of more than EUR 100 billion (or more than 3% of gross domestic product, GDP) during the period 2010 to 2015. A significant part of this reduction is directly attributable to the Greek crisis. When discussing the costs to the German tax payer of saving Greece, these benefits should not be overlooked, as they tend to be larger than the expenses, even in a scenario where Greece does not repay any of its debts.
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Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) yesterday declared the National Referral Hospital in Honiara, a "Mother-and-Baby Friendly".It is the first hospital in the Pacific to meet expanded standards for both mother and baby friendliness. Previous accreditations were limited to "baby-friendly" standards.
The award recognises hospitals that have established policies and practices encouraging maternal and child health. The core practice promoted is the protection of breastfeeding as the only source of food and fluid for the baby within the first six months of life. From six months onwards, complementary feeding should be given whilst breastfeeding up to two years.
"This is a big score for Solomon Islands. The National Referral Hospital supervises the delivery of up to 5,000 babies every year. We must ensure that every child is given the best start in life. There is no better way than for a baby to experience the immediate bonding with the mother and to be provided with all the nutrients necessary to ensure a proper foundation in life", said UNICEF Pacific Representative, Dr. Isiye Ndombi.
He added that "Breastfeeding is the precious gift of nature. It helps to prevent a number of diseases in childhood and later in life. It offers protection from infections, allergies and adult-life chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and cancer that rob the national budgets of billions of dollars."
"The economic savings of breastfeeding are critical not only for governments, but also for poor families who spend large parts of their incomes on infant formula," said Dr. Ndombi.
Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Dr Cedric Alependava, said that if proper breastfeeding is practiced and the mother-and-baby friendly steps are sustained and expanded, child mortality in Solomon Islands would come down.
"By doing this we're more likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4 - reducing child deaths) as we have noticed that most of the deaths occur in the early months of life," he added.
In thanking the hospital staff, the Honiara City Council Health Services and UNICEF, Dr. Alependava said that these collaborative "efforts to make the initiative a success shows that commitment, partnership and teamwork can achieve a lot for our health programmes."
Further to the certification of Taro, Gizo and Munda Hospitals in achieving Baby-Friendly status in 2010, the UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) Mother- and Baby Friendly-Hospital Initiative (MBFHI) has rolled out the initiative to the remaining seven hospitals in the Solomon Islands.
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, launched in 1991, is an effort by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure that all maternity facilities, become centers of breastfeeding support.
WHO and UNICEF expanded the criteria in 2009 to include nine steps that require a maternity unit to achieve mother-friendly labour and birthing practices and procedures. A maternity facility or hospital is designated 'Mother and Baby-friendly' when it does not accept free or low-cost breast milk substitutes, feeding bottles or teats, and has implemented 10 specific steps to support successful breastfeeding and safe birthing practices.
UNICEF Representative, Dr. Ndombi encouraged the Ministry that to protect breastfeeding, the government needs to maintain strong legislation against breast milk substitutes.
"Such substitutes should only be given on prescription in situations where the baby cannot be breastfed."
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The biopharmaceutical industry today is facing a multifaceted “value challenge.” It is no longer enough for biopharma companies to create products that are simply safe and effective: they must also develop medications which provide results that are superior to those already on the market. At the same time, companies have to demonstrate this added value to a range of stakeholders if they wish to command prices that are higher than those of existing treatments. These tasks are further complicated by a shift in the balance of power among industry stakeholders, each of which may require different evidence to be convinced of a product’s value. Previously, doctors might have been satisfied with even marginal improvements in efficiency at any price; today, increasingly influential healthcare payers are no longer so easily convinced.
To understand the nature of the value challenge and how the industry is addressing it, his Economist Intelligence Unit study, sponsored by Quintiles, draws on a global survey of 399 senior executives in the life sciences industry and in-depth interviews with experts in the field, corporate leaders from biopharmaceutical companies and senior officials from prominent healthcare organizations. | <urn:uuid:35f3740c-e63a-48a4-90e8-33a3f8508232> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.quintiles.com/library/white-papers/reinventing-biopharma-the-value-challenge | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00469-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957754 | 225 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Hospital officials said Friday damage from burst pipes St. Boniface Hospital is significant, but they are optimistic the facility's 14 operating rooms shut down since Wednesday will be up and running within one to two weeks.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said 130 elective surgeries have been delayed so far, in addition to 20 cardiac procedures.
Officials said all 14 operating rooms will need to be cleaned, and all equipment tested and inspected.
Stephen Cumpsty, St. Boniface's director of capital planning and property management, said the cause of the problem was an air handling system malfunction.
He said the hot water system cooled down and water in the coils froze. That caused the coils to burst.
The WRHA's Dr. Brock Wright said officials are keeping an eye on critical care levels at both the Health Sciences Centre and the Grace, where some patients are being diverted.
He said approximately 30 to 50 surgeries are normally performed at St. Boniface every day, but officials are still assessing the situation on a day-by-day basis before making cancellations.
Nurses being re-deployed as surgeries move
Nurses from St. Boniface Hospital's cardiac unit are following patients to the Health Sciences Centre as surgeries are being re-scheduled.
Sandi Mowat, head of the Manitoba Nurses Union, said Friday it's the same thing nurses did when they were re-deployed to other hospitals during the 1997 flood.
"Obviously they are dedicated to making sure that these patients are getting the emergency surgery they need," she said. "It is a bit of headache to have to go to Health Sciences Centre instead of St. Boniface, [but it's] certainly not something that is a terrible tragedy or anything like that."
Mowat said until the operating rooms are back to normal, other nurses may be also be re-assigned to HSC as surgeries are rescheduled.
"They may have to increase surgery at [HSC's] Women's Hospital," she said "And they may not have the staff capacity there. So everything has to be balanced." | <urn:uuid:baebe727-fe4f-462c-bd28-112710517ef7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/st-boniface-optimistic-ors-in-action-again-in-1-2-weeks-1.2510317 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00310-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97712 | 438 | 1.570313 | 2 |
In the halftime of Super Bowl 51 in 2012, the rapper M.I.A. "flipped the bird" at 114 million viewers. NBC failed to prevent it. But now that she has a new album out, M.I.A. claimed to NPR's David Greene on Tuesday's Morning Edition that this wasn't san attempt at televised profanity.
Instead, it was what she called a "Matangi mudra," a yoga hand gesture. Not even NPR was buying it:
GREENE: I want to ask you about one thing in this song, "Boom Skit," about the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012, which some of us remember, you performed. This was a huge audience, an American audience, and on camera you gave us all the middle-finger. Why did you do that?
M.I.A.: It's the Matangi mudra.
GREENE: What is that? Why does that explain it?
M.I.A.: Well, you know gang signs. You have in America you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
GREENE: So you were not giving America the middle finger? This was the Matangi symbol?
M.I.A.: Yes. Do you like that? (LAUGHTER) It's good, isn't it?
GREENE: Something tells me....that there might have been another meaning in that.
M.I.A.: It's cultural. In my country, it's godly. OK?
GREENE: Now, is the NFL believing that? I know they're suing you for like one and a half million dollars.
M.I.A.: Of course the NFL is not believing that, because the NFL does not believe in any other culture outside of the NFL.
GREENE: Should I believe you or are you winking in the studio there in New York?
M.I.A.: But it's true; you can Wikipedia it. You could just say Matangi and then mudra, and you'll see it's the middle finger.
GREENE: A lot of people describe you as provocative.
GREENE: Is that a fair label?
M.I.A.: I don't know. I don't intentionally go: Ooh, what is provocative, and try to do that. I just do stuff and people go: Ooh, that's provocative. But I think maybe because sometimes I'm super-ignorant, and sometimes they're super-ignorant.
GREENE: M.I.A., this has been a real pleasure. We thank you for the time.
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