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Competitors in the Tour de France tracked by satellite
A new experience of satellite navigation for the European Space Agency during the 5th stage of the Tour de France between Chambord and Montargis.
Receivers were carried by a number of cyclists, making it possible to determine their exact position and speed along the 183 kilometre-long stage by means of EGNOS, the European navigation service that operates using geostationary satellites.
The system provides vital information which, when fully operational, will give the organisers an instant, complete overview of the competition and which will help team managers to coordinate the efforts of their cyclists and refine their strategies. Eventually, spectators will be able to follow live the competitors’ positions and the progress of the race.
This was the second set of trials for EGNOS at the Tour de France. During the ‘against the clock’ stage at Alpe d’Huez in 2004, receivers were positioned in vehicles following behind the race. The receivers used this year weighed just 200 grams and the processing of data was also enhanced after the learning experience of the previous year.
The aim of this project is, two years from now, to be able to track all competitors in real time. In the context of the Tour, a moving city if ever there was one, there are numerous connection problems, for example when retrieving data and then re-transmitting it after being processed to make sure it is accessible and comprehensible. This is a task that takes this already highly satisfactory new space technology one step further. In addition to the several trials which will be needed, the cyclists themselves will also have to become familiar with this new way of experiencing the Tour de France, which could potentially be used in other sports.
EGNOS, which is currently in pre-operational service, is Europe’s first step in satellite navigation as it prepares for Galileo, which will be the first fully operational civilian navigation system with a network of 30 satellites.
EGNOS, a joint project of the ESA, the European Commission and Eurocontrol, consists of a network of around 40 ground stations scattered throughout Europe designed to record, adjust and improve data from the American system GPS. The modified signals are relayed by geostationary satellites to the receivers of system users. In contrast to the 15-20 metre accuracy offered by GPS, the European system is accurate to less than two metres, and unlike GPS (a military system), the European version offers guaranteed signal quality.
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No parent ever wants to imagine their child being faced with a terrifying scenario. Yet, as kids grow up, it’s inevitable that they will spend less time under your protection and more time on their own. This is a part of life, and the only way to keep kids safe is to educate them.
Whether a child is on the playground at school, riding bikes in the neighborhood, or at a sleepover with friends, being aware of basic safety rules will go a long way in keeping him or her protected. However, the aim should be to empower kids, not make them afraid of the world around them. Teaching them to avoid bullies and be wary of child predators simply isn’t enough. They also need to know how to physically defend themselves.
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"Stamp Organizations" include any clubs whose members are devoted to the appreciation of stamp collecting.
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American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors
Group enables collectors to share and discuss ideas and techniques for preparing and judging philatelic exhibits.
American Philatelic Congress
Publishes an annual book of scholarly philatelic articles.
American Philatelic Society
National stamp collecting organization's website provides information about membership, expertizing services, sales circuits, and local clubs.
APS Writers Unit #30
Writers, editors, and publishers are members of this group, which is dedicated to advancing philatelic writing.
Australian Philatelic Society
National organization of Australia promotes philately and stamp collecting, publishing a quarterly journal and holding bimonthly meetings for collectors in the Melbourne, Victoria, area.
eBay User's Stamp Club
Group's membership is comprised of registered eBay users who are interested in stamp collecting.
Fédération Internationale de Philatélie
International organization establishes guidelines for competitions and provides information about major stamp exhibitions.
International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors
General interest group manages swap and sales circuits and publishes a regular newsletter for members.
Israel Philately Federation
National organization coordinates the activities of local clubs in Israel and publishes a bimonthly magazine.
Malta Philatelic Society
Promotes the study of Malta's stamps and postal history, and stamp collecting in general.
Peshawar Stamp Society
Pakistani association organizes national stamp exhibitions and provides information about the stamps of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and related territories on its website.
Philatelic Congress of India
The Philatelic Congress of India (PCI) is the Indian National Federation of Philatelic Societies. It was formed on 29th December 1975 during the National Philatelic Exhibition INPEX-1975. It is a registered body under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860.
Philatelic Federation of Southern Africa
National stamp society hosts an annual convention and publishes reference books dealing with South African philately.
Philatelic Webmasters Organization
Internet-based group supports the efforts of webmasters operating sites dealing with stamp collecting, and provides a list of active members.
The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada
National society publishes a bimonthly magazine, manages sales circuits, and supports the efforts of local clubs across Canada.
Stamp Collectors Against Dodgy Sellers
International group works to reduce sales of fraudulent or misdescribed stamps and to inform inexperienced collectors about what to avoid.
Maintained by the World Internet Exchange Club, this site enables collectors to contact others to trade stamps, covers, coins, banknotes, and postcards.
Virtual Stamp Club
Internet-based organization offers news, articles, and a forum.
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A member of the World Bank Group, IFC and Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Renewable Energy Development have released a roadmap study that outlines pathways for achieving the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target of producing 42 percent of the country’s power by renewable energy resources in 2030.
“Unlocking Private Investment: A Roadmap to achieve Côte d’Ivoire’s 42 percent renewable energy target by 2030” results from substantive dialogue among more than 100 energy sector stakeholders, including the country’s public, private, civil society, and development finance sectors. It captures a variety of challenges and proposes solutions that, with the support of government and other actors, will help Côte d’Ivoire reach its NDC target.
A recent study by IFC showed that these NDCs represent an estimated $23 trillion in global investment potential. Côte d’Ivoire aims to be an economic engine for West Africa as well as a trailblazer for scaling renewable energy technologies and is the first country to analyze its own commitments with the goal of identifying private sector investment opportunities.
IFC Director and Global Head of IFC Climate Business, Alzbeta Klein reiterated that “Côte d’Ivoire aims to be an economic engine for West Africa as well as a trailblazer for scaling renewable energy. With the right government policies in place, achieving the renewable energy target in full can create a $9 billion investment opportunity by 2030.”
The plan also focuses on Côte d’Ivoire’s goal of achieving near-universal energy access by 2020. The Roadmap’s next steps include developing a platform for continued engagement among stakeholders. IFC will continue to work with private sector, government of Côte d’Ivoire and other development partners to facilitate continuing dialogue.
International Finance Cooperation plays a key role in advancing private sector climate solutions. In FY18, IFC invested more than $3.8 billion with an additional $3.2 billion in core mobilization in long-term financing in climate-smart industries ranging from renewable power generation to energy efficiency, climate-smart agribusiness, green finance, and green buildings. | <urn:uuid:ae6c3259-69fa-436f-a4e1-c6a0a3693c29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk/cote-divoire-and-international-finance-cooperation-to-promote-renewable-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.919263 | 482 | 1.9375 | 2 |
"Black Beauty" zucchini (Cucurbita pepo) is an heirloom summer squash prized for its crisp, white flesh and dark green skin. This early-maturing zucchini is ready to harvest in just 48 days and produces an abundance of slender fruit. While it is traditionally grown in the vegetable garden, it can be grown in containers as long as it receives adequate light, moisture and nutrients. This warm-season veggie cannot withstand frost and must be planted after all danger of frost has passed in your area.
Select a container for your "Black Beauty" zucchini plants with a depth of at least 16 to 18 inches. This gives the roots room to grow and holds enough soil to provide the moisture and nutrients the plants need. Wide containers with straight sides are better able to support the weight of growing plants and resist tipping in the wind. Look for a container that is at least 18 inches wide to balance the weight of your "Black Beauty" zucchini plant.
Check that the container has drainage holes in the bottom and that they are free of debris. Good drainage is necessary to prevent soggy soil, which can lead to root rot. If your container does not have drainage holes, drill three or four 1/2 holes evenly spaced in the bottom of the pot.
Wash the container with a solution of 1 part household bleach to 9 parts water. Scrub the inside and rim of the pot with a scrub brush to remove soil and residue. This is important for used pots as they may contain plant pathogens, but is also important for recycled containers as they may contain other harmful organisms. The bleach solution kills bacteria, leaving your container ready for planting. Rinse away and residue and allow the pot to air dry.
Move the container to its permanent location, where it will receive six to eight hours of direct sunlight a day. Place a piece of landscape fabric or screen in the bottom of the container to prevent soil from leaching through the holes. Fill the container to within 3 or 4 inches of the top with a mixture of equal parts peat moss, potting soil and perlite. Garden soil or heavy potting soil mixes are not suitable for growing "Black Beauty" zucchini in containers as they compact easily from frequent watering and may pose problems with drainage.
Make a hole in the soil twice the size of the root ball of your "Black Beauty" zucchini seedling. Position the roots of the seedling into the hole and fill in around the roots with fresh soil. Firm the soil down with your hands to secure the plant and remove air pockets around the roots.
Water the container thoroughly until water runs freely through the bottom of the container. This ensures that all the soil in the container is moist. Water again when the soil feels dry 1-inch below the surface. "Black Beauty" zucchinis generally prefer 1 to 2 inches of rain a week, but, soil in containers tends to dry quickly. Your zucchini plants may require daily watering during hot, dry spells or during periods of active growth. Use the health of your plants and the moisture level in the soil as your guide to develop a watering routine. Remember soil should be moist, but never soggy.
Apply water-soluble fertilizer designed for vegetables, such as 24-8-16, mixed to a rate of 1/2 tablespoon per gallon of water every two weeks, beginning when the plants are 2 to 4 weeks old. This solution is a half-strength solution recommended by the University of Arizona Extension. It notes that nutrients leach through the soil in containers with repeated watering and need to be replaced often.
Things You Will Need
- Scrub brush
- Drill, 1/2-inch bit
- Landscape fabric/screen
- Potting mix
- Water-soluble fertilizer
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Simple 2SK163 amp...
I have 4 pcs of 2SK163 from an old Luxman amp and I would like to use them in a simple linestage with approx. 6dB gain. The problem is that I am missing data....
I have made a small test, measuring the IDSS with gate and source shortes and with 10V supply:
The first stage will be a grounded source with 2SK163 and the second stage an emitterfollower (BJT). Supply is 40V to second stage and 35V to first stage (R-C filter).
I have simulated with good results with a J109 fet with 1k source resistor and 2k4 drain resistor.
But what will be the right values with 2SK163?
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Domestic policy are administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation's borders. It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways a government advances its interests in world politics. Domestic policy covers a wide range of areas, including business, education, energy, healthcare, law enforcement, money and taxes, natural resources, social welfare, and personal rights and freedoms.
Many domestic policy debates concern the appropriate level of government involvement in economic and social affairs. Traditionally, conservatives believe that the government should not play a major role in regulating business and managing the economy. Most conservatives also believe that government action cannot solve the problems of poverty and economic inequality. Most liberals, however, support government programs that seek to provide economic security, ease human suffering, and reduce inequality. Many liberals also believe that the government should regulate businesses to ensure safe and fair working conditions and to limit environmental pollution.
Certain domestic policy issues are especially controversial among people of different cultures, religions, and personal beliefs. Examples of such issues include abortion rights, the rights of homosexuals, the role of religion in public life, and the place of cultural diversity in education and employment.
Shaping and implementing domestic policy
A nation's form of government largely determines how its domestic policy is formed and implemented. Under authoritarian governments, a ruling group may pursue its domestic policy goals without the input or consent of the people being governed. But in democratic societies, the will of the people has a much greater influence.
In a democracy, the formal design of domestic policy is chiefly the responsibility of elected leaders, lawmaking bodies, and specialized government agencies. But a number of other factors also play a role in the process. Voters, for instance, determine which individuals and political parties have the power to determine policy. The mass media distribute, and opine, information about domestic issues and influence the beliefs and opinions of the people. Lobbyists, activist groups, and other organizations also work to influence policy through a variety of methods. Such methods may include monetary donations, promises of support, advertising campaigns, or demonstrations and protests. How many people do we personally know that are involved with domestic policy creation?
The effectiveness of domestic policy depends on the government bureaucracy (system of agencies) that puts laws and programs into action. In some cases, bureaucracies act slowly or inefficiently, or fail to apply policies as they were originally intended. Domestic policy may also face challenges in the courts. In many countries, courts have the power of judicial review, which allows them to strike down any legislative or executive action that they find in violation of the nation's constitution. | <urn:uuid:63dfc829-928c-49d1-8048-528f64d73cb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954959 | 551 | 3.90625 | 4 |
SAMUEL BAR ASHER:
Martyr; lived at Neuss, Rhenish Prussia, in the eleventh century. According to Salomon ben Simeon, he, with his two sons, was murdered on St. John's Day (June 24), 1096. Samuel and one of his sons were buried on the river-bank, while the body of the other son was hanged to the door of his father's house, exposed to general derision. According to another report, by Eliezer ben Nathan, the body of neither son was buried, but both were smeared with dirt and hanged.
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The httpd.conf file is a configuration file used by the Apache webserver. It contains information about settings and functions by this webserver. The file can be located in various places; this depends on the version of Apache and/or the operating system used. It can be commonly found here: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
You can then edit this file with this command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
However, in case this file can not be found on the location indicated as above, you can perform this command:
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Meeting the challenges thrown up by logistics has been like one of those “final frontiers” for Flipkart. To fulfil this endeavour, Flipkart is collaborating with dPronto, a start-up that specialises in last mile delivery space, to not only meet these challenges but also empower the youth in the rural areas on India.
Flipkart believes that its partnership with dPronto will benefit the youth from the lower strata of society and raise employment opportunities for them. dPronto and its group company, Empower Pragati will also be a beneficiary in this partnership.
Empower Pragati will provide the door way through which unemployed youth can seek a better lease of life through Flipkart’s extended support. Empower Pragati will channelize the youth and provide Flipkart with freshly trained and motivated logistics staff across 600 towns of India.
In a press release, the company stated that “dPronto tie-up also meets a real business need, of collecting packages from Flipkart’s Fulfilment Centres or from Sellers directly, who constitutes a significant number on Flipkart’s huge marketplace, and delivering them to customers.”
The partnership will largely aid Flipkart as the e-commerce company will get to increase its logistics network to meet the ever growing demands of supply chain. Empower Pragati has even tied up with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), to impart training to the unemployed youth.
“Since its inception in 2010, Empower Pragati has skilled over 100,000 underprivileged people. The organization holds a target to train 20,000 in the next 3 years for jobs in the Logistics sector alone,” stated dPronto.
The rise of e-commerce sector has left a large scope for creating employment in the logistics sector. The e-commerce logistics sector is expected to reach $5.1 billion by 2020. Last mile logistics has been a critical barrier for Flipkart to expand into newer territories.
As most of the population in India resides in rural areas, Flipkart had to figure out a strategy to meet their demands as swiftly as it does for urban pockets. As dPronto is focused in last mile logistics, Flipkart would be able to reach out to its untapped customer base. According to dPronto last mile logistics comprises 40% of e-commerce logistics and is expected to reach $2.1 billion by 2020.
Neeraj Agarwal, Senior Director at Flipkart’s Delivery Operations said that
Flipkart is committed in its social objective of transforming lives of less privileged youth through respectable job roles. This tie up with dPronto gives us access to Empower Pragati’s vast network of 600 centres across the entire country that trains and supplies logistics staff, who can support Flipkart in its last mile delivery.
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When talking about higher education in the United States, it is undoubtedly labeled as the best amongst the best. Universities offer graduate-level programs with unmatched and high quality of education. The home of the globally recognized institutions makes the United States the top choice for international students.
The country is wide open for international students pursuing their graduate studies. It can be overwhelming to student aspirants as there is a lot of information ranging from location, specialized master’s programs, funding, living costs, scholarships, etc. Here are some comprehensive guidelines that would aid every student aspirant looking for their best option in pursuing their graduate studies in the USA!
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Application Requirements for Applying Master’s in the United States of America
There are numerous premier universities offering master’s programs in all disciplines in the United States. The application requirements for master’s programs may differ for every institution. It is always best to consult your chosen university about the specific documents required for admission. Although, in general, here are the following entry requirements every international student must prepare.
Aside from the undergraduate degree diploma, universities in the United States require student aspirants to present their transcript of records. This academic record shows the complete and detailed courses and grades the student has undertaken during their undergraduate studies.
Another essential requirement to prepare is a duly accomplished Personal data form. Students must completely and correctly fill up all necessary information needed in the application form. Instructions must be strictly followed in the application process, as the admission committee will also evaluate this.
A Statement of Purpose is necessary when applying for a master’s program. This personal statement is an opportunity to show the admissions committee your capabilities, strengths, work experiences, and other important information that would prove that you are qualified to take up a master’s program in their institution. It is important to keep your statement clear, detailed, and concise.
International students who wish to obtain a master’s degree in the USA are also required to submit Recommendation letters. These letters are typically written by former professors, employers, and mentors affirming that a student possesses exemplary qualities and is suitable for the program they are applying for.
Master’s Degree Language Requirements for the United States of America
English is the medium of instruction at all levels when studying in the United States. Students from non-native English-speaking countries must submit proof of English language proficiency before admission. Students who failed to pass the minimum score required explicitly in their chosen program are advised to take up an Intensive English Program. This program aims to improve and acquire the desired level of English proficiency needed for the student’s master’s program. This program may either be taken before pursuing the master’s program or while taking up the master’s program, depending on the institution.
International students applying for a master’s program in the USA at Princeton University must prove that they possess an excellent command of the English language, both verbal and written. Students must take one of the two recognized English language proficiency tests accepted by the university: TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System). The minimum score for admission will depend on the specific requirement of the study program. While the university has not set a standard minimum score, students admitted that have scored below 27 in TOEFL or below 8.0 in IELTS on the speaking section is required to take an English placement test. If a student is unsuccessful in passing the test, the university will require the student to enroll in the school’s English Language Program course.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) accepts English language tests from TOEFL or IELTS, although the university prefers the latter. Students taking TOEFL must attain a minimum score of 90 or higher depending on the department the student is applying for. On the other hand, the IELTS minimum score will be evaluated and decided by the department. The university conducts an English Evaluation Test a week before Registration Day for all admitted students from non-native English-speaking countries. The exam will determine if a particular student will still need to take additional English classes to improve their language proficiency.
How to Apply for Master’s Programs in the United States of America
1. Research on the master’s study program of choice
The United States is the home of many globally recognized universities, and international students are primarily drawn to applying to the most prestigious schools in the country. However, it is strongly recommended that students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the USA must thoroughly research and find a university that would best suit their academic goals and personal preferences.
2. Learn about Financial Aid, Tuition Fees, & Living Expenses
Studying master’s degree in the United States involves early planning and adequate knowledge in assessing the overall costs and spendings throughout your stay in the country. The tuition fees in most universities usually increase by 6 – 10 % yearly, so students need to know how to budget their education costs and living expenses while pursuing their master’s degree program.
While universities offer financial aid and scholarships, granting such is limited to graduate students. Some financial support or scholarships offered in graduate schools would only pay part of the student’s tuition and living expenses. It is still best to plan and save for your education as early as possible.
3. Completion of Application Process
The general entry requirements in applying for a master’s program in the USA include Transcript of Records, Statement of Purpose, Personal data form, and Recommendation Letters.
Aside from the basic requirements, part of the application process is to take standardized tests. Admission tests in the graduate study programs vary per university. Students are advised to consult the Admissions Office on what particular admission test must be taken. In addition, international students from non-English speaking countries must submit their English proficiency test results.
Upon submission of the application, all requirements will be evaluated. The Admission Committee of the university will administer the assessment. Once the student is admitted to the study program, a notification will be sent via email.
4. Applying for a Student Visa
International students who want to study for a master’s program in the USA must first ensure that the institution they were admitted to is certified by the Student Exchange and Visitor Program (SEVP). A SEVP certified institution will provide a Form 1-20 or DS-2019 for students who have been accepted and admitted to the master’s program in their graduate school. The said document is part of the basic requirements when applying for a student visa. The university’s International Office committee gives assistance and guidelines concerning visa processing and other additional immigration information.
5. Plan your Arrival in the United States
As a general rule, all incoming international graduate students who will enroll for a master’s in the USA are obliged to inform the university’s International Office of their expected arrival at the university. This is crucial, and all information sent to the office must be accurate to avoid inconsistencies. Also, before traveling to the United States, students must attend a pre-departure orientation in their home country to prepare students to adjust to the environment. They also provide other important information about living abroad.
Yale University offers a wide range of master’s study programs at The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for international students. Students must submit all the basic requirements and additional documents requested by the department of their preferred study program when applying. Always make sure to complete all documents specified on the program’s website. Students must check the deadlines of their chosen program to set a timeframe to complete the documents needed. It is also crucial to take all the necessary standardized testing ahead of time to ensure that the administrator has submitted the results before the application deadline. Once the application is submitted, students will have to wait for the admission decisions of the university. Results are usually released bet February and early March.
Stanford University offers an extensive list of master’s programs. Students can search and select a program of their choice on the university’s website. A student can only be allowed to submit one application per year. To apply, student aspirants must create an account to start the application process. During the application process, students are mainly required to upload application documents, pay for the application fee of 125 $, and take standardized exams required by the department. The department committee will assess all application materials submitted. They are the deciding body of whether a student will be admitted to their department.
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OSLO: The world’s largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered, officials said Sunday.
With just 5,000 Eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei) left on Earth, the majestic species now faces the risk of disappearing completely, officials said at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s global conference in Honolulu.
Four out of six of the Earth’s great apes are now critically endangered, “only one step away from going extinct,” including the Eastern Gorilla, Western Gorilla, Bornean Orangutan and Sumatran Orangutan, said the IUCN in an update to its Red List, the world’s most comprehensive inventory of plant and animal species.
Chimpanzees and bonobos are listed as endangered.
“Today is a sad day because the IUCN Red List shows we are wiping out some of our closest relatives,” Inger Andersen, IUCN director general, told reporters.
War, hunting and loss of land to refugees in the past 20 years have led to a “devastating population decline of more than 70 percent,” for the Eastern gorilla, said the IUCN’s update.
One of the two subspecies of Eastern gorilla, known as Grauer’s gorilla (G. b. graueri), has drastically declined since 1994 when there were 16,900 individuals, to just 3,800 in 2015.
Even though killing these apes is against the law, hunting is their greatest threat, experts said.
The second subspecies of Eastern gorilla the Mountain gorilla (G. b. beringei) has seen a small rebound in its numbers, and totals around 880 individuals.
According to John Robinson, a primatologist and chief conservation officer at the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Rwandan genocide sparked a disastrous series of events that impacted gorillas, too.
“The genocide pushed a lot of people out of Rwanda, a lot of refugees into eastern DRC, who moved into areas which were relatively unoccupied by human beings,” he told AFP.
“It was a situation that kind of unraveled,” he said.
Some people hunted gorillas for bushmeat, while activities like mining and charcoal production and human settlement also infringed on gorillas’ habitat.
“The people that moved into that part of DRC saw gorillas as a delicacy,” Robinson said.
The IUCN Red List includes 82,954 species both plants and animals and undergoes a major update every four years.
Almost one third 23,928 are threatened with extinction, it said.
Compared with previous years, even more species are under threat.
Carlo Rondinini, mammal assessment coordinator at Sapienza University of Rome, said almost 28 percent of mammals are threatened with extinction, three percentage points more than in the previous mammal assessment in 2008.
“A takeaway point we would like to emphasize is we are not journeying in the right direction with respect to species conservation,” said Andersen.
“We are losing species at a faster pace than we have ever done.”
There was good news for pandas, whose status changed from “endangered” to “vulnerable” due to intensive conservation efforts by China.
The Tibetan Antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) has also improved, after protections helped it move from “endangered” to “near threatened” following a spate of commercial poaching for its valuable underfur, or shahtoosh, which is used to make shawls.
But the situation deteriorated for others, including the Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) which has been increasingly hunted for bushmeat and skins, and has moved from a species of “least concern” to “near threatened.”
“The population has reduced by 24 percent in the past 14 years from around 660,000 to a current estimate of just over 500,000 animals,” the IUCN said.
Illegal hunting and habitat loss also pushed three species of antelope found in Africa to “near threatened” status, including Bay Duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis), White-bellied Duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster) and Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor).
Among plants, the Red List highlighted the growing extinction threat to Hawaiian plants posed by invasive species, including pigs, goats, rats, slugs and non-native plants.
Some 38 of the 415 Hawaiian plant species were listed as extinct and four other species listed as extinct in the wild, meaning they only occur in cultivation.
A full 87 percent of native Hawaiian plants are threatened with extinction, it said.
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Opening a coffee shop can be extremely profitable if you do it the right way. Pass by any busy coffee shop and it will likely be full of customers enjoying coffee, espresso, lattes, teas, and a variety of delicacies. With almost 68% of coffee consumers, considering a coffee-centric startup, especially a café, isn’t a bad idea that is expected to fetch excellent returns, if initiated properly.
If you love coffee and are looking for a business opportunity, this is your guide to starting a coffee shop and making it a success.
Step 1: Start with a potent business plan
Every business, including a café, needs a proper business plan to thrive. However, when it comes to a coffee shop, it is necessary to calculate the profitability quotient, prospective customer base, growth plans, and spread of competitors before moving ahead with the setup. The best thing about a business plan is that having one in place allows cafes to troubleshoot strategies and work towards perfecting the same for achieving goals in the long run.
Creating an effective business plan also signifies taking a lean planning path to start the proceedings i.e. the route that has minimum chances of incurring losses. Moreover, it is always in the best interest of the cafe or a restaurant to compare sample plans before going ahead with the project.
Step 2: Start looking for the right shop, kiosk, or building
When it comes to starting a local business, the location plays a significant role. Needless to say, the positioning of the shop or the building can make or break the business and therefore, it is necessary to be very selective regarding the building where the shop is being setup. A café needs to be started in an area which is frequented by youngsters and therefore it is necessary to look for a place that’s engulfed within the hustle-and-bustle of city life.
Step 3: Create a productive floor plan
Once the location is fixed, it is necessary to make most of the available space by strategizing the interior architecture, especially the floor plan. A café needs to be an interactive space and should have elements of casual dining space. Therefore, it is important to manage the space in the best possible manner. While making coffee, it is necessary to keep certain items in proximity and therefore the floor plan must include the structural, logistical, and even architectural aspects of the shop.
Step 4: Make room for an accountant
When it comes to starting a café, it is necessary to prepare for keeping a track of the expenses and earnings. Moreover, any business that concerns food and beverage must initially make way for an accountant who can keep a track of the finances, right from the beginning. That said, having a person to handle the account means that the business owner can concentrate on other aspects of the business besides chalking out plans for its growth and success.
Step 5: Invest in a good coffee machine
There is a lot to consider when purchasing a coffee maker, but most decisions have to deal with preference, cost, and convenience. Consider the special features of the coffee machine. Think about how easy it is to access and clean.
Step 6: Look for investment or local funding
There are times when you might envision a plan and stop midway due to fund shortage. This is where local investment or local funding comes into the scheme of things. While in most cases family members are contacted, friends and other interested parties can also pitch in at times, provided the business plan looks lucrative.
Step 7: Be accountable
Starting a café means that you would be in need of food items, high-quality coffee beans, relevant coffee machines, and a host of other necessary items. Therefore, it is important to be calculative and connect with suppliers who can provide the same at the lowest possible costs. When it comes to purchasing food, furniture, and other items for the café, it is necessary to compare prices and make the final call based on affordability, provided quality checks have already been conducted. Lastly, while there are many coffee machines retailing across the globe, it is always advisable to purchase from the most potent ones including Kaapi Machines and other relevant coffee-shop inclusions.
Step 8: Hire the right talent
A great cup of coffee is the result of the precision and sophistication of the machine as well as the skills. Hire people who are well trained, punctual, sincere and smart at their work, as the entire business also depends upon the aura, hygiene and behavior of the waiters, as well as the food and beverages, served. Kaapi Machines, one of the leading coffee machines distributors also offer extensive training for new café owners, café staff, coffee aficionados, baristas and anyone who wants to learn the art of making a good cup of coffee.
Step 9: Market your brand with innovative strategies
In order to make the café a grand success, it is necessary to start marketing initiatives way before you open it for the public. While this might include social media marketing, free advertising, offering free coffee samples, sending out direct mail campaigns, or calling out the listed database names, it is always important to opt for innovative marketing strategies at the very beginning.
Step 10: Opening your Cafe
Opening your café is an incredible achievement and will mark the beginning of an exciting new adventure. After months or years of planning, preparation, and hiring the best staff possible, your ‘grand opening’ is a chance to show off your hard work. It’s also a great opportunity to start building long-lasting relationships with your customers. Consider having a ‘soft opening’ which allows you to learn the basics before you open fully to the public. This is a great way to test staff, workflow, and the atmosphere of your coffee shop.
All these steps, if followed in the given sequence, can help a person start a cafe with much ease. However, the success of the venture would eventually depend on the quality of coffee which is being served at the outlet. This aspect, therefore, takes us to the concept of coffee-machines and it is no secret that most of the successful cafes in the market have already resorted to buying from Kaapi Machines for getting the job done. | <urn:uuid:221ae608-d7fe-426f-a087-edfbfca97389> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kaapimachines.com/open-a-successful-cafe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.946719 | 1,272 | 1.8125 | 2 |
By: Alon Ben-Meir
Somalilandsun- Turkey’s President Erdogan has claimed that military operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will continue until “the very last rebel is killed.” What is puzzling about this statement is that after more than 30 years of violence that has claimed the lives of over 40,000 Turks and Kurds, Erdogan still believes he can solve the conflict through brutal force. However, he is fundamentally mistaken, as the Kurds’ long historical struggle is embedded in their psyche and provides the momentum for their quest for semi-autonomy that will endure until a mutually accepted solution is found through peaceful negotiations.
To understand the Kurds’ mindset, Erdogan will do well to revisit, however cursorily, their history and the hardship they have experienced since the end of World War I.
An independent Kingdom of Kurdistan lasted less than two years (1922-1924) before it was parceled out between what became Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria, regardless of ethnicity or geographic relevance. Nevertheless, they have clung to their cultural heritage, the rejection of which by Turkey remains at the core of their grievances today.
From the time Kurdistan was dismantled, and despite the discrimination against the Kurds and the precarious environment in which they found themselves, they remained relentless in preserving their way of life, fearing that otherwise their national/ethnic identity and language will gradually fade away.
In Iraq, there are seven million Kurds (roughly 15 percent of the population). Since 1991, they have consolidated autonomous rule under American protection and now enjoy all the markers of an independent state.
In Syria, the two million Kurds (about 9 percent) have been largely politically inactive under the Assad regimes. In the past five years, they took advantage of the civil war and established a semi-autonomous region which Erdogan vehemently opposes, fearing that it could prompt Turkish Kurds to seek autonomy of their own à la the Iraqi Kurds.
The eight million Kurds in Iran (nearly 10 percent) officially enjoy political representation but have historically experienced socio-political discrimination, which emboldened the militant wing of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran (KDPI) to turn to violence, making the Iranian Revolutionary Guard their main target.
Turkey houses the largest Kurdish community (15 million, approximately 18 percent). Although they are largely Sunnis like their Turkish counterparts, their national aspirations for autonomy and cultural distinction trumps their religious beliefs.
Prior to the formation of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan and his followers raised awareness about the Kurds’ plight in Turkey through political activism throughout the 1970s. However, after becoming the target of a government crackdown, they moved toward guerilla warfare, forming the PKK in 1978 and launching its insurgency in 1984 during the premiership of Turgut Özal.
In 1999, Öcalan was arrested and sentenced to death, but under European pressure and due to the prospect of EU membership, Turkey abolished the death penalty and Öcalan’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The fact that he was not executed allowed him to continue his role as a leader and assume a moderate voice, which remains essential for future negotiations.
In 2006, the imprisoned leader called for peaceful negotiations to end the conflict. His call was not heeded by Erdogan, who was unwilling to grant the Kurds any significant concessions that would allow them to enjoy their cultural tradition, including the use of the Kurdish language in their public schools and universities, and be permitted to run some of their internal affairs.
He partially relented in 2013 and granted the Kurds small concessions by increasing Kurdish-language education (only in private schools), allowing Kurdish town names, and lowering the parliamentary threshold to allow Kurdish and other smaller parties to enter parliament.
During scores of conversations I had with many Kurdish MPs and academics who have firsthand knowledge about the Kurdish problem, no one suggested that the Kurds want independence, but rather certain socio-economic and political freedoms consistent with Turkish democracy.
Conversely, Erdogan insists that the Kurds already enjoy full Turkish citizenship in a ‘democratic Turkey’ and are full-fledged Turkish nationals. He proudly points to the fact that the People’s Democratic Party (pro-Kurdish party) has 59 seats in the parliament and is part and parcel of the legislative body.
His parading of Turkish democracy, however, was nothing but empty rhetoric. In May 2016, he pushed his AK Party-controlled parliament to approve a bill to amend the constitution to strip parliamentary immunity from lawmakers, clearly aimed at Erdogan’s chief enemies, Gulenists and Kurds, paving the way for trials of pro-Kurdish legislators.
Under EU pressure, peace talks took place in late 2012, but by July 2015, the negotiations collapsed and full scale hostilities resumed between Turkish forces and the PKK, each side blaming the other for the failure of the negotiations.
This failure, though, was almost a given. The parliament was deliberately left out, the public was kept in the dark, the military had no clue about the negotiating process, and the negotiations were reduced to concerns over terrorism rather than the substance of Kurdish demands, ensuring deniability as to which side was to blame for the inevitable collapse of the negotiations.
Moreover, being that the prospect of EU membership was all but dead, Erdogan ultimately aborted the negotiations, fearing that if he provided any opening, it would encourage the Kurds to seek full autonomy as they would be emboldened by their counterparts in Syria and in particular Iraq, where they enjoy full autonomy.
In the wake of the failed military coup in July, Erdogan wasted no time in rounding up tens of thousands of people from the military, academia, think tanks, and teachers connected to the Gulen movement. He then moved on to the Kurds, believing that in so doing he will put an end once and for all to the Kurdish problem.
Only recently in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced that around 14,000 Kurdish teachers would be suspended for having ties with the PKK.
Erdogan’s rampage against the Kurds continued in spite of the US’ and EU’s call to stop his heavy-handed approach that was arbitrary at best and an outright violation of basic human rights.
Öcalan’s recent call to engage in peace negotiations for the third time, and the PKK’s willingness to abide by his call as they have in the past, provided another opportunity to end the violence, but Erdogan refuses to heed Öcalan’s call.
Violence, however, regardless of the reason, is not acceptable, even though Erdogan is using equivalent violent measures. Regardless of how legitimate the Kurds’ grievances are, civil disobedience will ultimately be far more effective in achieving their political goals, as well as engendering international sympathy, instead of resorting to violent resistance which plays directly into Erdogan’s hand.
Even his erstwhile ally, former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, recognized the need for Turkey to return to the peace process, but was rebuffed by Erdogan, whose national fanaticism overshadows the future stability and well-being of the country that he presumably wants to secure.
After 30 years of bloodletting, none of the prerequisites to end the conflict are present. Neither side has reached a point of exhaustion, both expect to improve their position over time, and no catastrophic event has occurred to change the dynamic of the conflict, leaving both sides fighting a protracted war that neither can win.
Erdogan will be wise to remember a popular Turkish proverb that says, “No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.” Indeed, unless Erdogan finds a solution through negotiations, and heeds Öcalan’s renewed call for talks, the conflict will continue to fester and would doubtless outlast him as it has outlasted his predecessors.
Erdogan will not succeed in killing every PKK fighter—not only because of the nature of guerilla warfare, but primarily because of the Kurds’ determination to realize some form of semi-autonomous rule and preserve their rich culture and language that no people would sacrifice, regardless of how much pain and suffering they endure.
It is time for Erdogan to accept the reality that the solution to the Kurdish problem rests solely on peace negotiations. Anything short of that will only lead to ever more death and destruction on both sides, with no end in sight.
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for
Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and
Middle Eastern studies.
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There is a tendency in a crisis to declare that one has been right all along—that the crisis proves one’s previously existing ideology and preferred set of policy solutions. The capital-R Right has been good at this for a while. Naomi Klein dubbed it the Shock Doctrine, this tendency for politicians to push through a set of neoliberal reforms in the period of shock that hits after a disaster, manmade or “natural.”
The people demonized by Trump are part of a vast, low-wage social reproduction workforce.
There must be quotation marks around “natural” because, as the coronavirus is showing us, some disasters may come from nature but are structured and made worse by human society. By taking immediate action, South Korea and Vietnam have managed to contain the pandemic, while in the United Kingdom and the United States, infection rates are spiking and governments are flailing.
The left hasn’t been very good, though, at having its own version of the shock doctrine. Let’s call it disaster collectivism, a counter to disaster capitalism. In 2008, with the financial system in meltdown, mild Keynesianism prevailed despite bigger demands floating around. The banks were bailed out and, as the protest chant went, working people got sold out. I’ve written extensively about that moment elsewhere, and the weakness of social movements of the left precisely when they were needed.
It would be a lie to say those movements are at a moment of historical strength right now. They are still far weaker than they need to be. Just three months ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a landslide election in the United Kingdom. More recently, the Democratic Party consolidated behind Joe Biden, a candidate so entirely unsuited to this moment that any attempt to sum it up in a sentence just sounds laughable.
Yet, the left has been the one with the new ideas lately. Even as its candidates lose ground, our ideas prove not just popular but necessary. What better proof is there of the need for a strong, well-funded public health care system than a fast-spreading, often asymptomatic virus?
While President Donald Trump attempts to double down on his favorite policy solutions—closing borders and deporting people—the reality is that the virus came in via airplane from wealthy world travelers, not Central and South American migrants who are doing the necessary, dangerous, and low-paid work that, as it turns out, is what keeps us all alive.
The people demonized by Trump are part of a vast, low-wage social reproduction workforce: The cleaning workers who come in unseen to keep hospitals, airplanes, offices, and grocery stores sanitized, often without any job security, paid sick time, or health care; the food delivery workers who bring groceries and takeout to the work-from-home brigades or to the exhausted nurses and doctors on the frontlines; the farmworkers who harvest everything we eat; and the Amazon warehouse workers who are packing our panic-ordered wet wipes and toilet paper.
On March 23, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced the shutdown of all “non-life-sustaining” businesses to prevent the spread of the virus. But what’s a life-sustaining business? Whose work matters now?
Wolf’s list covered farming, the postal service, takeout, healthcare, and news publishing (thanks, Governor), while real estate, securities trading and coal mining were all shut down. The United Kingdom created a similar list of “key workers,” which included those working in food distribution, nursery staff, and other care workers—exactly the workforces that fall below Boris Johnson’s new threshold for immigration, which prioritizes high salaries and speaking English.
In this crisis, we are seeing what “essential work” looks like, and it is precisely the work we have systematically undervalued for centuries. It is caring work, reproductive work, logistics work.
Now that the factories in the West have shuttered and moved elsewhere (including to countries that handled their coronavirus outbreaks earlier), our economies are built on the backs of low-wage workers, and the profits are centralized in the hands of a few. This is unlikely to be news, in theory, to most people reading this article.
But at this moment, we are feeling this reality in a way that we perhaps never have before, as many of us are isolated in our homes and others are working twice as hard (to the health care workers, the food service workers, the carers reading this: Thank you).
The coronavirus shock will not be like the financial shock of 2008, economist James Meadway correctly warns us. It is, instead, “a profound dislocation of the essential components of economic and social life itself.” Rather than ramping up “wartime” production, we need to “demobilise much of the economy.”
Work, for us non-essential workers, is the last thing we need to be doing. For those of us long spreading the gospel of shorter hours, this is our shock doctrine moment. It’s revealing that Mitt Romney and other GOP senators have proposed some form of direct cash payments, even if those plans fall far short of a real UBI.
Whether we like it or not, we are about to learn just how much of this thing we call “the economy” we can live without, because the choice is that or our lives and those of our loved ones. Despite the hand-waving of Lloyd Blankfein and his fellow plutocrats, that is not a choice we are willing to make. Though economists like Dean Baker proposed a shorter workday after the 2008 crisis, we now have to experiment on a much grander scale. We can neither work nor consume the way we used to: What does a world without such processes look like?
It looks, in part, like the mutual aid networks forming in neighborhoods in the networks created by the post-2008 social movements; it looks like Occupy Sandy but in higher gear, and on a global level; it looks like staying home as an act of care.
When this crisis abates, we will live in a different world—hopefully, one where we have learned how quickly we can adapt to a life that doesn’t revolve around work and consumption but, instead, around taking care of one another. It could be a world that has had to prove it can address a global catastrophe, and one in which we have no excuse left for failing to tackle climate change.
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Family In Mali Eats French President's Camel
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Good morning. I'm David Greene. The government of Mali was grateful for France's help in repelling al-Qaida militants from their country. When French President Francois Hollande came for a visit, Mali's government gave him a camel. Unable to transport the camel home, Hollande left it with a local family who then ate it. Embarrassed officials have promised Hollande a new camel, saying it will be bigger and better looking and, hopefully for the camel, slightly less appetizing. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:e50b5cdf-3e13-4c48-b21b-2987df2933a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://wfit.org/post/family-mali-eats-french-presidents-camel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948866 | 132 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Financial support for this research was provided by the Research Unit of the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Land use -- Planning -- Oregon, Transportation planning -- Oregon, Roads -- Interchanges and intersections -- Planning
1 online resource (20 pages)
In this paper we examine the effects of amendments to local comprehensive plans on interchange performance. Plan amendments over a 15-year period in Oregon resulting in changes to industrial or commercial land use were reviewed to identify those that occurred within one mile of an interchange. Regression analysis was then performed to estimate the impact of nearby plan amendments on subsequent interchange ADT. Plan amendments were found to have a substantial ADT effect on rural interchanges, but their incidence was very limited. In urban core areas, the estimated effect of plan amendments was negligible, possibly due to interchange congestion or effective land use planning. In urban fringe areas, plan amendments were estimated to account for about 5 percent of the subsequent interchange ADT, equivalent to about two years of the design life of these facilities.
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Experimental investigation of the current diffusion in tokamak discharges
This paper investigates a scaling law to describe the effect of external discharge parameters such as current pulse shape, particle density, toroidal magnetic field and plasma contamination on the current diffusion processes in the TEXTOR tokamak. In all discharges under investigation, the simple Ohm's law with neoclassical resistivity is approximately valid during current diffusion. A model formed on the basis of the current diffusion equation and the electron energy conservation equation is used to provide a physical interpretation of the scaling law.
Bibliographic Reference: Report: Jül-2258 DE (1989) 99 pp.
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Knitting has fans of all ages and both sexes who will tell you that the handicraft calms the mind and helps with stress relief.
By Diana Louise Carter
I was home from work on a sick day when I got a call from the head of human resources: After 27 years with my company, I was being “downsized.”
I spent most of the next few days at my sewing machine, completing at least half a dozen Christmas gifts and a baby present. I tried not to think about the layoff except when friends called or stopped by to check on how I was doing. Between times, I was in the sewing zone, enhanced by reruns of Merlin playing on a tablet set up next to my machine.
Now I’ve learned that I was employing a great strategy for coping with stress and worry. Neuroscientists and art therapists say there’s something about working with your hands on creative projects that engages and focuses the brain, lifts mood, and counters negative thoughts.
“Hands light up much of the brain in the meta-sensory cortex. …When you are deeply engaged with your hands, there is deep brain stimulation,” says psychiatrist Carrie Barron, MD, co-author of The Creativity Cure: A Do- It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness. “When you create an object through strands and pieces and parts and this idea and that idea, it has a psychological parallel process.”
One study, published in the Spring 2011 issue of Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, even found that elderly people who pursued hands-on hobbies such as quilting or knitting saw less cognitive decline than those who listened to music or participated in group activities.
Speak to people who do handicrafts and they’ll often reveal an emotional benefit from doing what they do. Whether dealing with a troubling setback as I was or facing the routine stresses of life, they find that working with yarn, fabric, wood and so on is helpful—sometimes even necessary—for their mental well-being.
When you are deeply engaged with your hands, there is deep brain stimulation.
When Abby is knitting, she says, “It shuts down all the stresses and everything that’s going on in my head.”
Abby, 26, first picked up knitting needles two years ago when an injury kept her out of work and she needed something to occupy herself. She found how-to-knit videos on YouTube and soon was making toys, scarves and rugs. Now the New York resident knits for pleasure, has a new job working in a craft store that sells her knitted objects, and goes to craft fairs as a vendor.
Abby is among the estimated 38 million knitters in America, according to the Craft Yarn Council, a trade organization. The Council’s 2014 survey showed that baby boomers make up the largest demographic of people who enjoy knitting and crochet. Not surprised? How about this: Instead of a steady decline in interest as age drops, the data show an uptick in the 18- to-34-year-old group. What’s more, the survey found that more than half of knitters ages 18 to 34 knit daily.
It’s not just young women who are taking up needles and yarn. Manhattan shops Knitty City and Lion Brand Yarn Studio both started men’s-only nights to accommodate a growing number of male knitters. One man told the Wall Street Journal that he prefers knitting to video games because he has a tangible product to show for his leisure-time efforts.
That resonates with Valeri S. of Mitchell, Ontario, who describes a sense of reward that comes from completing a project or just mastering a new skill.
“Whether embroidery, crochet, or quilting, I feel I’m expressing myself,” says Valeri, 61, who looks for challenges that will stretch her abilities: “If I choose a project outside the box, I get gratification knowing that yeah, I can do that.”
A full-time office manager, Valeri makes time every day to sit down with some sort of craft project.
it kind of is my happy place to go to… It just kind of helps me unwind and become even again.
“It kind of is my happy place to go to.… Sometimes there’s stress at work. You come home worked up, or family is not going smoothly. It just kind of helps me unwind and become even again,” she says.
That kind of stress relief may have something to do with an inadvertent mindfulness practice that takes place when you’re focused on your stitches, sanding with the grain or what have you.
“Focusing is really about bringing mindful awareness in the present moment into the body sense. It’s kind of listening to what’s inside,” says Laury Rappaport, PhD, of Santa Rosa, California, a psychotherapist who has taught expressive arts therapy for 35 years.
Lisa B., executive artistic director and founder of the Workman Arts Center in Toronto, explains that arts and crafts enhance mind-body connection by engaging our awareness through physical activities. That helps keep the mind from dwelling in unproductive places.
“As human beings, we have a lot of chatter in our heads. When we’re painting, that helps us refocus and turns the chatter down,” says Brown, a former psychiatric nurse.
Go With the Flow
Another word for that sense of escape from your own thoughts is “flow”— a state in which you’re so engaged with something that you lose awareness of your self, time passes unnoticed, and your troubles seem to disappear. The concept of flow was articulated by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD, founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University in California.
Decades of Csikszentmihalyi’s work (and his TED talk) support this conclusion: If you want to be happy, spend time making something.
Quiltmaker Linda H. of Boscobel, Wisconsin, often has several projects going at once. She says quilting helps keep her content and opens up mental channels: “I tend to solve a problem on one project when I’m working on another one. The solution to my problem pops up when I’m not expecting it.”
She finds that taking on commissions also spurs her imagination: “I get more creative when the deadline gets tighter and I get more focused,” says Linda.
Linda also teaches quilting and embroidery. She sees more and more women asking for quilting retreats—using the craft as a way to pamper themselves or have down time from their busy lives.
[Knitting] shuts down all the stresses and everything that’s going on in my head.
Taking craft classes or joining a more informal knitting or quilting circle can provide a whole new social network and social connections, of course, are an acknowledged element in well-being. Yet for the most part, making crafts is a solitary endeavor. For some people, that can open the door to rumination rather than relief.
“We’re creative people, so the brain kind of keeps going anyway,” says CharterBeest Kudla of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Because Kudla has turned crafting fabric purses into a home business, she makes the same item over and over to sell at craft fairs. That repetition leaves her mind free to wander—for better or worse.
“I find if I don’t have someone talking to me, like the radio, then I start overthinking everything in my life,” the 65-year-old says.
For Ethan C., however, the repetition of making familiar objects can be balm in itself.
Ethan, 32, is a pastor with a college campus ministry in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Before he graduated from divinity school in May 2015, Ethan was juggling full-time ministry work, coursework for his master’s degree, and child-care duties for two young children alongside his wife, who also works.
One way he deals with life’s pressures is to retire to his workshop at 10 p.m. and use his lathe to turn pieces of wood or colorful acrylic into pens and sewing tools that he markets online through Etsy. He often works late into the night, absorbed in some “me time.”
While he was still in school, he’d strap on headphones and listen to audio versions of his textbooks. These days he uses the time to think over readings or discussions for his ministry work.
“I’m able to focus better when I’m doing two things at once,” says Ethan, who has attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder.
Process, Not Product
In his younger days, Ethan used a circular handheld loom called a Knifty Knitter to churn out hats and keep himself from fidgeting. He says he appreciated the sense of accomplishment that comes from producing a physical object.
What about when there’s no finished object to take pride in? Beating yourself up because a project is stalled halfway or doesn’t turn out the way you wanted may end up adding stress to your life. When that happens, reframing your expectations might be in order.
Linda advises students to “recognize that just because I start a quilt doesn’t mean I have to finish it. Once you’ve learned that project, you’re under no obligation to complete the project … When people let go of that, it really helps.”
Another recommendation: Appreciate the process of making something rather than obsessing over the final product.
“We have to be very tolerant about what we don’t finish,” says Barron, the Creativity Cure co-author. “It’s a process. We have to understand it. We have to respect it. It can be a problem because it creates shame: ‘I’m knitting and I’m just going to give up.’ I hear this a lot.
“Make it very private. Make it about you.”
Ready, Set, Knit
Getting started in knitting can be as simple as visiting a store that sells yarn. (Ditto for quilting and fabric stores, et cetera.)
Whether large chain stores or independent shops, merchants who cater to crafters typically offer classes so you can learn how to use the materials they sell. Look for a beginner class or a workshop for a simple project, such as a knitted hat.
Typically there’s a fee for classes, though you often get a discount on supplies you’ll need to complete the project. (Instructors will provide a list of required materials and equipment.)
For a no-fee option, ask about regular gatherings at the store where people share advice and inspiration while working on their individual projects. Or you may be in one of the hundreds of cities with a Meetup knitting group.
Local libraries, continuing education programs and cooperative extensions are also worth checking out for classes. Libraries may carry how-to videos and magazines on the craft of your choice (or you can spend some time browsing the magazine section at a well-stocked bookstore).
Of course, you could just jump on the Internet for a wealth of “learn to” demos and DIY advice.
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Shifting hand-in-hand with the normal inventory market, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market noticed a fall in worth as investor urge for food for threat property receded but once more on rising fears about an financial downturn. The worth of the most important cryptocurrency by market capitalisation had hit a Tuesday excessive of $21,620 within the night earlier than slipping to across the $20,000 (roughly Rs. 15.3 lakh) ranges on early Wednesday. As issues stand, BTC’s worth is hovering across the $20,300 (roughly Rs. 15.9 lakh) mark throughout international exchanges whereas Indian change CoinSwitch Kuber values Bitcoin at $21,482 (roughly Rs. 16.8 lakh), down by 1.23 % prior to now 24 hours.
On international exchanges like CoinMarketCap, Coinbase, and Binance, the value of Bitcoin stands at $20,301 (roughly Rs. 15.86 lakh) whereas CoinGeckoexhibits that BTC’s worth is at the moment within the crimson by 8.4 % week-to-day.
Whereas Bitcoin continues to hover across the $20,000 (roughly Rs. 15.5 lakh) mark,continued to slide decrease. On the time of publishing, Ether is valued at $1,160 (roughly Rs. 91,000) on CoinSwitch Kuber whereas values on international exchanges see the crypto’s worth at $1,098 (roughly Rs. 86,000), the place the cryptocurrency has misplaced 2.14 % over the previous 24 hours.
Ether’s slide over the previous 24 hours sees the cryptocurrency’s worth stay within the crimsonwhen in comparison with final week’s worth, as per CoinGecko knowledge.
IHNS’sreveals an analogous story for many main altcoins too — as the worldwide crypto market capitalisation misplaced 0.75 % within the final 24 hours. , , , , and see themselves within the crimson, whereas , , and [TRON}( ) managed to swim against the tide.
Memecoins Shiba Inu and Dogecoin swam against the tide too through Tuesday. is currently valued at $0.06 (roughly Rs. 5.3) after gaining more than 5.83 percent in value over the last 24 hours, while, is valued at $0.00001 (roughly Rs. 0.000807), up by 18 percent over the past day.
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Dec 17, 2010
Those Christmas-colored snack chips and store-bought cookies may look festive, but watch out: Eating them may cause side effects such as hyperactivity, especially in children. That’s because nearly all Christmas-colored foods achieve their colors through the use of artificial coloring chemicals, including Red #40.
These artificial coloring chemicals are derived from coal tars. They’re synthesized in chemical reactions in laboratories, then shipped to food manufacturers to be dripped into commercial food recipes. Nearly all “guacamole” products sold at the grocery stores — such as guacamole chips and dips — use artificial green coloring chemicals in order to trick consumers into thinking they’re buying products made with real avocados.
The problem with all this is that scientific studies have linked artificial food coloring chemicals to behavioral disorders in children that can be diagnosed as ADHD (http://www.naturalnews.com/artifici…). This means food coloring chemicals alter human brain function. When combined with the other refined sugars and wheat ingredients typically used in holiday treats and sweets, artificial colors can cause both children and adults to become hyperactive, moody and highly emotional. (Sounds just like Christmas with the family, doesn’t it?)
If you really want peace on Earth this holiday season, avoid buying (or consuming) Christmas-colored snack chips, cookies, treats or other manufactured food items. They are almost all made with artificial red and green food coloring chemicals.
And while you’re at it, remember to avoid Christmas meat gifts because virtually all processed meat is made with sodium nitrite to make it appear red (the sodium nitrite acts sort of like a chemical color preservative and enhancer). What’s wrong with that? Sodium nitrite sharply increases the risk of colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain cancer and leukemia (http://naturalnews.com/sodium_nitri…).
Please share this story with friends and family members so they can also avoid consuming coal tar chemicals in their holiday foods this year.
Have a wonderful (and healthy) holiday season! And please avoid the Christmas-colored poisons in the food supply.
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Why do diamonds sparkle: A diamond without any proper cut, looks like a normal stone. It is brought into a shape by cutting it in the proper manner, such that light enters into the diamond and gets reflected by creating patterns. Diamond has two sections, the upper section is called crown and the lower section is called pavilion.
Did you know that a round brilliant cut diamond (i.e.57 facet) can create a kaleidoscope effect which makes most beautiful patterns. We will get to know how this is formed.
When a light incident on the crown of a diamond, it gets refracted as the light enters from rarer to denser medium and gets dispersed. In refraction the light travels from one medium to another medium, when the light travels from rarer medium to denser medium, the speed of light decreases.
In a diamond, the speed of light is reduced by 2.42 times than its actual speed in vacuum. The light gets dispersed inside a diamond due to high refractive index, and in dispersion the light splits into seven different colors. The dispersed light incidents on the surface and gets reflected back as the angle of incidence of light is greater than the critical angle.
The light gets reflected inside the diamond multiple times till it achieves the minimum angle to escape from the diamond (i.e., 24 degrees). So, jewelers cut the diamond facets in a very peculiar manner so that the maximum amount of incident light can enter the diamond at an angle greater than critical angle and undergo multiple reflections and make the diamond sparkle. Due to these multiple reflection diamond sparkle.
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This paper presents the preliminary results of a project undertaken in 1994 to investigate the astronomical potential of the axial-stone circles (ASCs) of seven or more stones in Counties Cork and Kerry, south-west Ireland. This group of sites is of particular interest in that the monuments in the group bear a striking resemblance to the recumbent stone circles (RSCs) of Aberdeenshire, eastern Scotland, which appear to exhibit a strong pattern of alignment in relation to prominent hilltop summits and the rising and setting position of the moon. The first indications from the Irish data are that similar patterns of alignment are not evident in the Irish ASCs. The Irish sites show no preference for orientation upon prominent hilltops and no clear astronomical trends.
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Our hand-picked collection of the best education WordPress themes for schools and online course websites.
Note: The value of the educational industry in the US alone is $1.1 trillion and is expected to grow to $2.3 trillion by 2028.
You can now get a piece of that – starting with a professional website.
We spent 12 months thoroughly testing 50+ themes to ensure all inclusions are the most reliable.
It only comes down to finding the one that resonates with you best – all the rest is easy and quick.
The themes support one-click installation and come with extensive documentation, video tutorials, and support to start immediately (even as a beginner!).
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Best WordPress Themes for Education Websites
Divi is the most popular WordPress education theme with 1M+ users worldwide.
When creating an education website, you must make it aesthetically pleasing, engaging, and informative.
Divi is a WordPress theme that can accomplish all objectives. It has an extensive roster of versatile features and a fully responsive layout. Students can catch up on their reading while on the move, given that Divi is compatible with any operating system, device, or web browser.
Divi turns site elements into visual building blocks, making it easier to customize your web page. No coding or web development knowledge is required, as the process is highly intuitive.
If you are looking for a theme that handles everything, we recommend choosing Divi.More info / Download Demo
WPLMS is by far the most advanced education WordPress theme ever created. It’s a fully functional Learning Management System that allows you to manage and sell online courses and even create quizzes.
Track student performance, receive and make payments, sell goods and create new online learning material.
This theme won’t be the right fit for regular school and university websites, but this theme is here to become the next Codecademy, Coursera, Code School, or Treehouse.
The good thing about WPLMS is that you don’t need to touch a single line of code unless you want to.More info / Download Demo
Jevelin is one of the best online courses and education WordPress themes you can use today. Not only does it have a new demo exclusive to education websites, but Jevelin is also packed with fantastic features and assets.
Launching a page for your school, university, online courses, or other learning pages has never been easier.
Jevelin is here to take care of all the technical parts while enjoying playing around with the goodies, organizing and refining the web design. By the way, you do not need to be a skilled programmer.
You don’t need to know a single line of code to work with Jevelin and build your dream website – quickly!More info / Download Demo
As its names suggest, Education WP is an education WordPress theme for online courses and universities.
It incorporates an extensive roster of premium features, which you get for free.
This theme uses LearnPress, one of the most popular learning management systems on WordPress. It is both user-friendly and highly customizable.
Your website will feature modern search boxes that allow students to find blog posts or courses in seconds. You can also benefit from a drag and drop curriculum management tool.
Education WP can easily showcase different sections, courses, and quizzes. Check the theme’s live preview and see it in full effect!More info / Download Demo
Ed School is a kids and adolescents education WordPress theme. It suits elementary, middle, and high schools.
Ed School is revolutionary within its kind with heaps of easy-to-use features. It uses a WPBakery page builder integrated with a fantastic mega menu. You can also access documentation and video tutorials to ease the building process.
Additionally, Ed School is a great interactive way to teach kids with a modern look and dynamic interface. Set up class events with a calendar and personalize ambiance with unlimited colors.
WooCommerce integration is also available for selling all types of items directly from your website.
This theme thinks about your needs as a user and the needs of your future apprentice.More info / Download Demo
Eikra is a powerful and mobile-friendly education-oriented WordPress theme. It is built to support an SEO-friendly platform and a powerful admin panel.
Eikra is ready to display information with Layer Slider and 20+ header variations. Special helpful teaching additions include 3 courses and 3 research layouts to customize. You can translate the entire website for international students with WPML.
Eikra is fully documented, offers permanent (free) updates and support.More info / Download Demo
Kingster is surely one of the best education WordPress themes you can currently find on the market.
It comes with 7 demos and several internal pages to complete your website creation quickly and efficiently.
You barely need to do any work if you dig the look, edit it with your content, and you are good to go.
Some of the great features of Kingster are exclusive course post type with a filter for courses search, color picker, 19 headers, powerful admin panel, and Slider Revolution.
Whatever you would like to craft and create, do things to attract new students – with Kingster.More info / Download Demo
Once you gain access to the spectacular Webify, you will notice how much you can do with a single tool. Meaning, you can establish remarkable web spaces even when it comes to education, schools, and online courses.
There’s no need to have any experience due to how newbie-friendly Webify is. In other words, you need to have zero contact with web development and still succeed at it.
The predefined layouts and elements and drag & drop page builder get you going regardless of your skills.
Webify also includes tons of headers and footers, elements, modules, and blocks for you to mix and match. You can positively impact all your knowledge-craving students with a unique education website.More info / Download Demo
Kalium is a robust and reliable education WordPress theme. This theme is an intuitive framework for the fast and flexible development of attractive, purposeful educational websites.
Kalium is suitable to handle the needs of professionals from all specialties and walks of life. It easily showcases professional achievements and accomplishments with ease and smoothness, packing numerous handy demo websites and page templates.
With ample choice for layout customization and portfolio styling presentation, Kalium is the ideal framework for presenting yourself, your educational plans and packages, and your success stories to the world.
Natively mobile-friendly and responsive, Kalium broadens your audience and drives your traffic through the roof.More info / Download Demo
Skilled is a robust and reliable framework for everyone to craft functional educational websites. Enter the market with a customized Skilled website shortly.
With the WPBakery and Ultimate Add-ons plus the LayerSlider, Skilled looks as beautiful or as serious as you desire.
The developers of Skilled packaged 9 demo websites inside the theme, making the initial setup process uncomplicated.
WooCommerce online shop capabilities allow you to market your courses directly off your website. At the same time, the Sensei Plugin is fully compatible and supported, rendering Skilled a competent master of all sorts of classes, courses, or seminars online. Plus, your students can keep track of your classes with the Events Calendar.More info / Download Demo
Academist is a modern and easy-to-use web design that you should not miss when you need an education WordPress theme.
Academists are ready for any project with loads of demos from universities and schools to online courses.
Additional goodies of Academist are intuitive internal sections, events calendar, professional courses showcase, and even an online shop.
Academist is mobile-ready, cross-browser compatible, retina screen-friendly, and optimized for speed and search engines. It keeps your education website running smoothly at all times.
You will not need to invest loads of time and energy in bringing the desired platform to the online world with Academist.More info / Download Demo
LeadEngine is an intuitive, modern, and responsive WordPress multipurpose theme.
It’s everything you need to craft engaging end-user experiences for your audience. Start from scratch or use one of 35+ different demos and WPBakery.
Education websites are a great fit for LeadEngine. You’ll get professional-quality work without writing a line of code. With a custom Education demo and over 200 content blocks, the sky’s the limit.
Built-in eCommerce capabilities let you market your educational services without breaking a sweat.
A super customizable blog is perfect for keeping visitors informed about your offerings. Build the educational website of your dreams and boost your business with LeadEngine!More info / Download Demo
Superwise is a powerful and responsive WordPress education and Google classroom website theme.
It’s perfect for preschools, elementary schools, and high schools. Packing 30+ inner pages, Superwise deploys all sorts of nifty features. It integrates Google Drive, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar.
Deliver your Google Classroom content to students in a seamless fashion. Create classes, distribute assignments, quiz your students and offer feedback.
Superwise requires no coding to deliver sharp, professional results. Beautiful Slider Revolution attractively promotes your classes and content.
Over a decade of experience in educational websites guarantees your satisfaction. Get Superwise and boost your school’s profile!More info / Download Demo
Kallyas is an intuitive and creative multipurpose theme. This theme is a pliable platform for creating all sorts of websites.
The visual builder provides you with deep and powerful capabilities to shape your website. Drag and drop your elements and customize them as you see fit.
Amazing demo websites and template pages make your work fast and easy. Education websites will find tons of convenient options for their needs.
Handsome portfolio and gallery widgets let you showcase your services to your audience. Kallyas is a natural salesman with built-in commercial capabilities powered by WooCommerce.
Moreover, the Bootstrap framework provides total cross-compatibility with devices and platforms.More info / Download Demo
Tabula is a versatile education WordPress theme for crafting pages for various needs and intentions. It comes with 3 full demos and 12 home samples, and many other inner layouts to mix and match.
While offering education and knowledge to the end-user, you do not need to be a skilled web developer to win the game and build a solid online presence. Anyone can establish an educational website that will inspire Tabula.
Tabula also supports all the popular plugins, like Contact Form 7, WPML, WooCommerce, and Total Cache, to name a few.
Start your project on the world wide web like a champ with Tabula today.More info / Download Demo
Bright is a modern and responsive WordPress education & LMS website theme. This theme is the ideal platform for putting together functional educational websites.
Building is easy with two homepage styles and dozens of elements and sections. One homepage is perfect for educational institutions, while the other is for LMS.
Bright is compatible with Coursera, Udemy, Lynda, and more. Thus, starting your courses is effortless!
Universities, community colleges, trade schools, and education centers love Bright.
Present educational events and courses with the Event Calendar and market them with WooCommerce.
WPBakery makes customizations easy and coding-free. Let Bright take your educational projects to the 21st century!More info / Download Demo
Enfant is a school and kindergarten WordPress Theme. It is a high-quality product designed with tons of premium extensions and compatibilities. It offers 4 demos that specialize in different educational levels and areas.
Enfant is easily translatable through multilingual files and WPML support. Courses and calendar setups are also available. You can handle all commercial aspects with the WooCommerce plugin integration.
It is a theme for easy and fast responses for all devices and screens! Enfant uses plugins like Slider Revolution and Essential Grid to make appealing posts.
Enfant is versatile and friendly for both students and developers. It has WPBakery with 12 custom elements. It also provides plans for payments and parents’ subscriptions through Contact Form 7.
Get your institution updated to the digital era.More info / Download Demo
MaxCoach is an all-around education WordPress theme that works for just about anything you can think of. From online courses and personal coaching to school and other educational institutions, MaxCoach takes care of them all and then some.
Many samples are available for you to put into practice and start online as quickly as possible.More info / Download Demo
eCademy is an education WordPress theme that aims toward everything online education. It rocks a full-blown LMS and online courses for you to start with confidence, quickly, and with little effort.
As you would guess, there will be no coding necessary when working with eCademy, which is perfect for beginners and convenient for professionals.
In the kit, eCademy treats you to Tutor LMS, LearnDash, private messages, MailChimp, and lazy loading, to name a few.
You can also translate eCademy to any language you want; it even supports RTL. Spread your knowledge with the world and create a general or niche online learning platform with eCademy.More info / Download Demo
EduMall is here to kick-start the educational project you have been cooking behind the scenes. With all the necessary page layouts and multiple features, you can start without a sweat, even if you do not know how to code.
While you can work with out-of-the-box designs, you can also tailor them to your needs with the integration of the Elementor page builder.
Some of the highlights of EduMall are BuddyPress, analytics, certificates, reviews, email notifications, and blog module. You can also monetize your educational platform by offering paid membership plans.More info / Download Demo
Invent is a clean and modern WordPress education theme with a unique look and feel.
The developers optimized this theme to work seamlessly with LearnDash, the popular Learning Management System (LMS) for WordPress.
You can customize this theme with multiple page templates, layout settings, and unlimited color options. You can tweak all of these settings through powerful theme options.
Invent is also SEO-friendly, translation, and multilingual ready, to make your website easily accessible for everyone worldwide. Build custom websites for educational institutions with Invent.More info / Download Demo
Thanks to the predefined designs, you do not need to start with your project from square one. Just stick to the sample that suits your style best and go from there.
Even if you have never worked with code, you will still succeed with DotLife.
You only need to undergo the simple drag and drop page building technique, thanks to the Elementor.
Moreover, DotLife also features course progression, quizzes, tests, 44+ inner page templates, slider layouts and nifty A/B testing. Take things to another degree with DotLife.More info / Download Demo
BeTop is a niche education WordPress theme that is ideal for coaching and speaker intentions. It delivers various index page samples that guarantee a quick-start.
Since every demo is very appealing to the eye, you can freely use it out of the box. On top of that, you can also entirely modify and edit it, using the integrated drag and drop page builder.
The options are numerous with BeTop.
More goodies include custom-made widgets, reservation system, header and footer builder, WooCommerce compatibility, classes schedule and one-click installation.
BeTop is optimized for SEO, speed, mobile devices and web browsers. Lastly, you can flip through documentation or get in touch with support for help and assistance.More info / Download Demo
Masterstudy is a WordPress theme custom-built to e-learning programs and classes. The creators developed this theme to create courses with useful descriptions easily.
It uses the Redux Framework to empower the theme options panel, offering many configuration options.
The theme is fully integrated with WPBakery to create page layouts easily.
Furthermore, Masterstudy enables you to create paid and free courses. Since this theme is compatible with the WooCommerce plugin, setting prices and accepting payment is easy.
Masterstudy also offers an extended teacher profile template to enter the relevant information. It includes a review system feature that allows your students to leave a review on any course.
For more information about this theme, you can read our detailed review here.More info / Download Demo
Clever Course is an awesome WordPress theme, ideal for customers who wish to create an informative and effective education web page.
You may distribute onsite and online courses and even create quizzes to test the learner’s progress. It also makes it easier for users to pay, as Clever Course is compatible with Stripe, PayPal, Authorized.net and PayMill.
In addition, you can translate this theme into multiple languages, as it is WPML-ready. Share your knowledge globally.
Moreover, the layout is highly intuitive and well designed, making it one of the most user-friendly themes.
With the Limitless Page Builder, you can create engaging content for your online students. Using this theme, you can feature every course in specific sections/parts of the site.More info / Download Demo
UOCE is a theme for everyone to create their professional-quality educational websites quickly.
Also, this theme features a design inspired by the classic visual cues of notable higher education centers and renowned universities. Make a professional-looking educational website that users can trust.
Moreover, UOCE comes with a powerful integrated Learning Management System. It’s capable of taking your entire curriculum online or simply managing your offline instructors, students, courses and lesson plans in an online, easy-to-use environment that puts all the power in your hands.
UOCE works smoothly on desktop computers and mobile devices, and is thoroughly responsive.More info / Download Demo
Driveme (Driving School)
Driveme is a visually appealing and responsive WordPress driving school educational website theme.
It’s a very youthful and fresh alternative for webmasters trying to establish an online foothold for their driver’s education or offline school ventures. It is packed with convenient, time-saving, and thoughtful features, shortcodes, plugins, and layouts.
Driveme requires absolutely no coding knowledge to churn out sophisticated, beautiful driving school websites with many features.
3 homepage styles, two header options, 2 predesigned sliders, and different course detail pages and layout styles, on top of an in-house developed PayPal and Stripe plugin, make Driveme the theme to take home.More info / Download Demo
LMS is a useful WordPress theme for Learning Management, allowing users to set up profiles for teachers, online courses, lesson management, video hosting, quizzes, etc.
This theme also includes an amazing page builder, offering you many customization options.
Site owners can establish informative courses, intriguing lessons, and challenging quizzes. (Registration system included.) LMS also supports the incredible Sensei plugin.
In addition, you can create your online shop using the WooCommerce plugin, plus, you can manage events with Events Calendar.
Bring your education online with LMS. The organizer can plan recurring events, save venues, personalize event attributes, etc. Moreover, this theme is compatible with WPML to translate it entirely.More info / Download Demo
This theme is great for online course management. Guru has many unique features such as teacher profile, extended user profiles, lesson management, ranking & rating system, tracking course progress, etc.
This theme is everything you will need to jump into the online course business, which is trending these days.
Finally, developers have made this theme easy to use and customize without touching a code.More info / Download Demo
Academica Pro is a beautiful, clean and classic WordPress theme suited for education-related websites, such as universities, online courses, schools, and other related websites.
Also, the theme is based on the advanced WPZOOM theme framework. It is fully responsive and highly customizable with unlimited homepage variations, featured slider, and 12 custom widgets.
Academica Pro is ready to create an awesome and professional educational website easily and fast.More info / Demo
Which is the best WordPress education theme for you?
There is no one such thing as the best education WordPress theme that would work for everyone. Therefore, I would like to highlight the best one for different use cases.
- Divi – The best for most
- WPLMS – The best for online course websites
- Jevelin – The best schools and universities
- Education WP – The best for multipurpose use
Bonus: Other Education WordPress Themes
We hope that you find the list of best education WordPress themes useful and you found the right theme for your project. Don’t worry if you haven’t found the right theme because we have several more specific education themes for you. Let’s get started.
1. LMS themes – Learning Management System WordPress themes that use various free and premium plugins such as LearnDash, LearnPress, and Sensei LMS.
2. Online course themes – Very similar to LMS themes but with some 3rd-party solutions and tools. However, many themes overlap with LMS themes on the above list.
3. Kindergarten – A huge list of themes for kindergartens and elementary schools. All themes come with drag and drop page builders such as Elementor and WPBakery page builders. | <urn:uuid:7dba8290-75f0-408b-b61a-b9430ae7d095> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://colorlib.com/wp/best-education-wordpress-themes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.906756 | 4,634 | 1.859375 | 2 |
A tiny puppy named Beyonce, not much bigger than a business card, has defied odds by surviving. At a day old, Beyonce could fit in a tablespoon. Now, at a little more than 2 weeks old, she is almost as big as an iPhone.
Beyonce's mother, Casey, a dachshund mix, was abandoned by her owners and living on the streets of San Bernardino, Calif., when she was picked up by Devore Animal Control.
The pregnant Casey was then scheduled to be spayed and have her puppies aborted, as happens with many stray pregnant dogs, when a veterinarian determined she was too far along to end the pregnancy.
Casey was scheduled for euthanasia - with her pups inside her - when the Grace Foundation in Northern California came to the rescue.
"They call us when there is absolutely no other alternative, when these dogs are on death row," Jeanne Warr, the Grace Foundation's director of operations, told ABCNews.com.
An ultrasound showed that Casey was carrying five puppies, one of which was "abnormally small," said Warr."At that point, they didn't even know if she was going to be stillborn or a viable puppy,"
On March 8, Casey delivered all her puppies, and Beyonce came out last.
"She was not breathing. Her heart was not pumping," Warr said. "Dr. Michael Russell did some little chest compressions on her and Beth DeCaprio [the Grace Foundation's executive director], gave her mouth-to-mouth … and she made it."
The foundation reports that Beyonce is "thriving and normal in every way," despite her shaky start.
In about six weeks, Beyonce, the four other pups and mom Casey will all be up for adoption. The foundation has already alerted the Guinness World Records that it might have the world's tiniest dog on its hands.
"It's a remarkable story. You don't expect dogs to survive with that many chances of death," Warr said. "She is just a remarkable little survivor." | <urn:uuid:49bdea55-03de-4ca9-8714-31e091ef92a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/beyonce-might-be-worlds-tiniest-pup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986485 | 429 | 2.015625 | 2 |
in any book, the narrators attitudes are a central part to the story as they are shown inexplicably
Austen structures her book and uses the characters to show her concern for order in society, in terms of rank, correct behaviour, morality or relationships.
The fact that the good people are rewarded (Jane and Bingley, Lizzy and Darcy) and the bad people are punished (The Wickhams) for their behaviour at the end of the book shows us that Austen knows what is morally correct and she punishes people who have been "scandoulous" and rewards the good people
Austen not only inexplicably gives the reader her views (mainly through dramatic irony), but also invites the reader to discriminate and judge contrasting characters and behaviours
The narrator in Austen's novel is the all-knowing. The narrator is the only one who really knows… | <urn:uuid:501e5017-7ddf-4c36-bb25-f0bea624ad4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://getrevising.co.uk/revision-notes/the_narrators_attitudes_are_of_central_importance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970723 | 180 | 3.875 | 4 |
Six area public libraries have been awarded a total of $243,148 in state grants to be used for fighting illiteracy, Illinois Secretary of State Jim Edgar announced Monday. Edgar said $498,538 will be given to 17 libraries throughout the state to help the estimated 2 million Illinois residents who cannot read at a 6th-grade level. The Pilsen Branch of the Chicago Public Library will receive $45,000 to expand its literacy programs in Hispanic neighborhoods, Edgar said. The Chicago Public Library also will get $16,720 to improve reading skills among elderly persons. Other area libraries receiving grants are the Mt. Prospect Public Library, $75,898; Lincolnwood Public Library District, $43,500; the Bridgeview Public Library, $7,000; the Markham Public Library, $3,275; and the Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin, $51,755. | <urn:uuid:e81024a0-dc71-410f-97ff-5493dcfb27c7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-02-26/news/8501110542_1_grants-illinois-secretary-illinois-residents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00533-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947873 | 185 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Students in fifth through 12th grade are invited to learn hands-only CPR and AED training on Tuesday, Feb. 7, beginning at 6 p.m., at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Center, 229 Danbury Road. The free program is offered by the Wilton Volunteer Ambulance and Our Lady of Fatima. Hands-only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse in an \u201cout-of-hospital\u201d setting such as at home, at work or in a park. According to the ambulance corps, most people who experience out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest die because they don't receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. Studies have shown that children as young as 9 can learn and retain CPR skills, and thus help in an emergency situation. If they have the ability to listen and follow directions, they are a good candidate for this class. Registration is required in advance to ensure each student is given adequate time with an instructor. Register online at http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jWbgwA. When registering, there will be an opportunity to make a donation to the ambulance corps, which is a volunteer organization that relies heavily on donations from the community. Questions may be directed to Brian McDermott, WVAC Community Relations and Special Events coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.org or 203-517-7247 or Mara Fleming, coordinator of Youth Ministry at OLF at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:6add0751-e9ce-439e-874c-bbcce8a899dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/social-news/articleComments/Free-CPR-training-for-students-13993019.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.946716 | 325 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Have you ever considered search intent signals before investing in paid search? For those that answered no, you’ve likely wasted money. Despite its importance, it’s often overlooked in favour of a more guestimated approach. Unfortunately, this relaxed attitude can see even the most generously funded PPC campaign fall short.
So, what are search intent signals?
Put simply, search intent can be inferred by those keywords which prospective customers are searching on. Some may have higher intent than others, otherwise known as higher commercial intent. These keywords would suggest a strong desire to make a purchase whether the user is inquiring about a product or making a statement to buy a product – “buy holiday insurance” or “subscribe to Vogue.”
Targeting those keywords with the highest commercial intent – those which can add the most value – is a sure fire way to not only increase traffic, but bring more qualified prospects, generate more leads and drive sales.
The types of search intent signals
Search queries can be defined into one of three categories: navigational, informational, and transactional.
Navigational would be any keywords where the user is seeking to find a specific website e.g. ‘twitter’ or ‘asos login’.
Informational is categorised as the desire to acquire information e.g. ‘cold symptoms’ ‘best bars in Manchester’ ‘smartphone reviews’
Transactional – as the name would suggest – is any search made where the user is intending to make a transaction of some sort. As mentioned above, this covers anything from ‘buy makeup’ to ‘get party event quotes’.
While low intent keywords are either navigational or informational, high intent are always transactional. Think about it – those users looking for information on a topic will be far less likely to make a purchase based on that search.
What’s the advantages?
In the case of online marketing, quality often outweighs quantity. It’s an ethos lost on many marketers who desperately seek to attract as many users as possible in a bid to increase conversions. But this common mistake could be costing money and resources. Say for example, you set up a PPC campaign and fail to consider the keywords with highest intent. Visitors performing informational or navigational searches may be clicking on the ads without any desire to buy anything. You’ll now be charged for that click, but hey, at least you got some visitors, right?!
Wrong. This is quick way to blow your marketing budget without generating any worthwhile results. Instead, by considering those high commercial intent keywords, you may be targeting a much smaller audience, but they’ll be qualified and ready to buy.
Not convinced? Thanks to Google AdWords it couldn’t be easier to target higher intent keywords. There’s heaps of options, few more impressive than ‘Shopping Ads’ which is very lucrative for transactional searches. This from of PPC is guaranteed to be more cost-effective due to the conversion rates and could reduce waste significantly. That said, you’ll want to consider search intent signal before your next campaign. It’s fairly straightforward and the results are likely to impress. | <urn:uuid:47383bb5-9a8a-4865-a80f-0783831e9ead> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.elementarydigital.co.uk/what-are-search-intent-signals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938219 | 677 | 1.5 | 2 |
ZigBee, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Low Energy are often described as comparable network protocols. But aside from running on the the same frequency band, these Personal Area Network (PAN) wireless standards have more differences than similarities. Today we’ll be walking through what they are, which applications are suited for each, and how they differ in a specific use case.
What Is ZigBee?
ZigBee is a mesh network protocol. It is designed to carry small data packets over short distances while maintaining low power consumption. Like its competitor Z-Wave, it runs on a mesh topology network, meaning that information from a single sensor node travels on a web of nodes (each of which act as a data source and a repeater) until the transmission gets to the gateway.
It uses a version of the IEEE (Institute of Electronics and Electronics Engineering) 802.15.4 standard, and as such, is widely used in local area sensor data networks. ZigBee uses the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band—and since this is a global standard, its applications can be used virtually anywhere.
(It’s worth noting that ZigBee has seen some issues with interoperability, because two ZigBee profiles can interfere with one another. This article from The Verge has more information on that topic.)
What Are Bluetooth & Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)?
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard created and used for short-range wireless communication. It was developed in 1994 by telecom giant Ericsson, and it is now managed by the Bluetooth Special Interests Group (SIG).
Bluetooth was created to allow wireless data transmission with very short-range devices. That’s why many people immediately think of a wireless headset or wireless keyboard when they think of this technology. In technical terms, Bluetooth operates within the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band (like ZigBee). Data packets are split and exchanged between one of the 79 designated Bluetooth channels, each of which have 1 MHz in bandwidth.
Bluetooth applications are ideal for device-to-device file transfers, headsets, speakers, and wireless computing additions like keyboards, trackpads, and printers.
Bluetooth Low Energy—abbreviated Bluetooth LE—was originally branded as “Bluetooth 4.0” when it was created in 2011. Its primary benefit (and the difference from “regular” Bluetooth) is its low power consumption. This is ideal for M2M products, because a single battery running Bluetooth LE in a product could last up to five years.
Bluetooth LE operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, like Bluetooth 1.0. That being said, Bluetooth LE has a very short connection time (only a few mS) with a high data rate (1 Mb/s), and then goes into “sleep mode” until a connection is reestablished.
Bluetooth LE applications are ideal for sensor-level technology, public transportation apps, and health and fitness monitoring devices. Compared to Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE is more closely related to ZigBee as far as applications are concerned, because it’s less costly than regular Bluetooth and draws low power.
ZigBee Vs. Bluetooth LE: Vineyard Use Case
To illustrate the difference between ZigBee and Bluetooth Low Energy, we’ve created this comparison chart. Assume that a winemaker wants to wirelessly monitor his vineyards to address environmental conditions, so his next crop of Pinot Noir isn’t flat or lifeless. Below, we’ve broken down the outcomes that said winemaker can expect. Per this example, assume the environmental sensors are on the grapevines, and the antenna is on the roof of the pressing facility.
(We’ve also included Symphony in this chart. Symphony Link is the wireless protocol we implement for clients here at Link Labs.)
|TX Antenna Height (m)||6||6||6|
|TX Power (dBm)||4||18||18|
|TX Antenna Gain (dB)||0||0||0|
|RX Antenna Height (m)||1||1||1|
|RX Antenna Gain (dB)||-6||-6||-6|
|Structure Loss (dB)||11||11||11|
(Note: 11dB structure loss consistent with propagation through an 8″ masonry block wall.)
Based on this side-by-side comparison, you’ll find the Symphony has (by far) the best range. This means that the sensors on the grapevines would be able to run for many years on a single battery and still transmit information over several thousand meters. But between ZigBee and Bluetooth LE, ZigBee comes out on top—it achieves better range for this use case. | <urn:uuid:7d701f9d-31f0-4a45-856c-553786e60075> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.link-labs.com/blog/zigbee-vs-bluetooth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.924923 | 1,075 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint by Jamie Camplin + Maria Ranauro
“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Bringing together more than 100 paintings that include books as part of their subject matter, this lively and companionable survey examines how the book became the single most ubiquitous feature of our cultural lives and, in large measure, of everyday existence.
Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings not only contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts—and all the more so when books are depicted. Such artworks show us how books have been used and valued over time and how the significance and practice of reading have evolved in Western society.
Featuring work by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the 2000-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.
Moderated by Kristina Aaronson.
This monthly discussion is a place to exchange ideas about readings that relate to artworks and the art world, and to learn from and about each other. Books are available at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café for a 10% discount. To add your name to our Discussion Bound mailing list, click here or call 828.253.3227 x133. | <urn:uuid:a7732f28-4153-4420-928b-dffbb33917ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ashevilleart.org/event/art-of-reading/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.927737 | 419 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Intuitive approaches, ones that influence people on an emotional, often unconscious level create additional options for almost any problem, especially if they involve people. Too often though, we look at problems objectively: we solve problems rather than alter how people feel about them.
Customer service is fertile ground for intuitive approaches. In the May 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton write in “Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not So Fast…” that customers will endure waiting “even when what’s shown is merely the appearance of effort.” Examined this way, customer service is theater, even entertainment. People pay to see comedians. Why wouldn’t they feel better about the same old service if it was suddenly more enjoyable?
Once, a quality service group, who had already heard many speakers on the topic, asked for a different approach from me. So, I taught them how to improve customer service without changing one process for doing so.
Here’s the key: don’t assume you improve customer service by providing better service. This doesn’t matter if customers don’t know or don’t feel that you are servicing better. So, communicate better that you are providing better service and influence better how customers feel about the service.
Previously, we saw that changing people’s feelings for you would change how they interpret your message even if you don’t change anything about the message. This principle holds true for customer service: change how they feel about you and you will change how they feel about the service even though you don’t change one thing about the service. We saw the same with management-employee relations.
By thinking of ways to influence people’s feelings about problems, we create more problem-solving options. Customer service is ideal for seeing how effective this can be. | <urn:uuid:672993b8-2206-4e59-8408-04eb14709bbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://omegazadvisors.com/2011/07/07/placebo-service-creating-options/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.941433 | 390 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Social media is a developing, and in many ways still a murky area of the law, particularly in the employment context. Use of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the myriad other social media by employees both at and away from the workplace is rapidly increasing and also beginning to blur the line between personal and professional activities. Faced with potential liability under anti-harassment and discrimination laws as well as FTC guidelines on employee endorsements and testimonials, employers cannot completely ignore employee social media activity. Nonetheless, the line between private and professional social media activity is not always clearly defined in the law, forcing employers to make difficult disciplinary decisions concerning employee social media activity.
The National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") has recently begun to define the contours of permissible employer disciplinary action under the National Labor Relations Act (the "NLRA") for employee social media activity. The Board's Office of the General Counsel published a report on social media cases within the last year that provides insight on the Board's view on social media and the contexts in which issues can arise. Although none of the cases discussed in the report reached the Board level, two recent Administrative Law Judge rulings - Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc. v. Carlos Ortiz, 3-CA-27872 and Karl Knauz Motors, Inc. v. Robert Becker, 13-CA-46452 - provide contrast between protected and unprotected employee speech via social media under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"). An important fact in both decisions is that they concerned non-unionized workplaces, highlighting that the NLRA applies in both the union and non-union context.
Non-Union Employees' Criticisms of a Co-Worker Protected Concerted Activity Under the NLRA
In the first ruling of its kind, Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") Arthur Amchan concluded in Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc. ("HUB"), that HUB - a non-union employer - committed an unfair labor practice when it terminated five employees over postings they made on Facebook that were critical of a co-worker. The facts, as determined by ALJ Amchan, are as follows: The posts at issue began on Saturday, October 9 - not a workday for the employees - by Mariana Cole-Rivera on her Facebook account stating "Lydia Cruz, a coworker feels that we don't help our clients enough at HUB I about had it! My fellow coworkers how do u feel?" This post generated a fair amount of responding posts from HUB employees, which were read by Lydia Cruz-Moore (the subject of the posts). Cruz-Moore contacted HUB Executive Director, Lourdes Iglesias, and suggested that Iglesias should terminate, or at least discipline, the five employees. On Tuesday, October 12, 2010, Iglesias met with the five employees individually about the Facebook posts and fired each of them. Iglesias explained that the Facebook posts constituted bullying and harassment in violation of HUB's policy on harassment. Iglesias also stated that Cruz-Moore suffered a heart attack as a result of the postings and HUB would have to pay her compensation (though the ALJ noted there was no evidence in the record establishing a causal connection between Cruz-Moore's health and the posts).
Carlos Ortiz, one of the five terminated employees, filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Board, alleging that HUB violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA, which makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with employees' rights under Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 provides that "employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."
HUB conceded that the five discriminatees were discharged solely because of the October 9th Facebook postings. Therefore, the ALJ's analysis focused on two main issues: First, whether the terminated employees' Facebook posts were protected concerted activities, and second, whether the posts constituted misconduct so egregious as to lose protection under the NLRA.
ALJ Amchan held that the Facebook communications amongst the five employees were protected concerted activities. The ALJ first found that because the Facebook posts, initiated by Cole-Rivera, sought to enlist the support of fellow employees they were indeed concerted activities. Further, the ALJ noted that HUB "lumped the discriminatees together in terminating them, establish[ing] that [it] viewed the five as a group and that their activity was concerted." ALJ Amchan then went on to conclude that the concerted activities were indeed protected, even though they were not trying to change their working conditions, because the employees "were taking a first step towards taking group action to defend themselves against the accusations they could reasonably believe Cruz-Moore was going to make to management." The ALJ went on to explain that "[e]xplicit or implicit criticism by a co-worker of the manner in which [employees] are performing their jobs is a subject about which employee discussion is protected by Section 7. That is particularly true . . . where at least some of the [employees] had an expectation that Lydia Cruz-Moore might take her criticisms to management."
Because HUB alleged that the employees' Facebook postings violated HUB's employee policy on harassment, the ALJ next considered whether the employees' actions became so opprobrious as to lose protection under the NLRA, based on the factors the Board set out in Atlantic Steel Co., 245 NLRB 814 (1979). ALJ Amchan explained that because (i) the Facebook posts were not made at work or during working hours, (ii) the subject matter concerned a protected communication, i.e., a co-worker's criticism of job performance, and (iii) the discriminatees did not engage in any type of outburst, the employees did not lose protection under the NLRA. Further, ALJ Amchan determined that nothing in the record suggested that the employees violated any company policy or procedure.
Judge Amchan ordered HUB to offer the five discriminatees reinstatement to their former jobs, or a substantially equivalent position, and back pay with interest. Further, any reference to the unlawful discharges must be removed from the five employees' personnel files and the discharges may not be used against them in any way.
Non-Union Employee Lawfully Terminated For Facebook Post Unrelated to Terms and Conditions of Employment
In Knauz BMW, ALJ Joel P. Biblowitz concluded that non-union employer Knauz Motors, Inc. ("Knauz") lawfully terminated employee Robert Becker for a Facebook post about an accident that occurred at a company-owned dealership. At issue in this decision were two series of posts by Becker on his personal Facebook page. According to the decision, in the first series of postings, Becker posted pictures from a sales event hosted by the employer's BMW dealership at which Becker worked, which included comments by Becker that were critical of the food selection at a luxury car sales event. The second set of posts included pictures and commentary regarding an accident at a Land Rover dealership owned by the employer in which a customer's 13-year-old son was allowed to sit behind the wheel of a truck, while the customer was standing beside the truck and the salesperson was in the passenger seat with the door open. Ultimately, the son ran over the customer's foot, drove the truck into a pond, and the salesperson was thrown in the water. The pictures were captioned: "This is your car: This is your car on drugs." Becker then commented, "I love this one...The kid's pulling his hair out...Du, what did I do? Oh no, is Mom gonna give me a time out?" Becker was terminated shortly after the postings. Becker's managers stated the termination was solely based upon the Land Rover postings and that the luxury car sales event "really had no bearing whatever...."
Becker filed an unfair labor practice charge, alleging that his termination violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA because it interfered with his rights under Section 7. ALJ Biblowitz assessed both sets of Facebook postings and concluded that the first set, related to the luxury sales event, was protected concerted activity for several reasons. First, Becker and a fellow employee had vocalized their concerns about the food selection at a meeting with superiors prior to the postings, and the subject was further discussed by salespersons after the meeting. Additionally, because the food "inadequacies" could have potentially had an effect upon Becker's compensation should customers have been turned off by the food selection, the postings fell within the realm of protected concerted communications.
With little discussion, the ALJ found that Becker was terminated solely for the second set of postings related to the accident, which the ALJ concluded were far from protected concerted activity. According to ALJ Biblowitz, the pictures and comments about the accident were posted "...as a lark, without any discussion with any other employee of the Respondent [Knauz Motors, Inc.], and had no connection to any of the employees' terms and conditions of employment." Therefore, the ALJ concluded that Knauz did not wrongfully terminate Becker.
The two decisions highlight that employers in both the union and non-union context need to consider protections afforded under the NLRA before taking action against employees for social media activity. Further, New York employers should also consider employee protections under Article 7, Section 201(D) of the New York Labor Laws, often referred to as the "Legal Activities" law, which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or potential employees based upon protected activities that occur away from the employer's place of business and outside of work hours. These protected activities include: political activities, legal recreational activities, legal use of consumable products, and membership or participation in a union. It could be argued that employee social media activity would fall within the sphere of these protections.
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It’s hard to believe that anybody would classify the Germans as a master race after reading this Spiegel article. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett plan have a nutty (but at least non-coercive) plan for rich people to give away big share of their fortunes. The German billionaires are rejecting this plan. But not because they are sensible and want capital in the hands of those who know how to create wealth. Instead, they think private charity intrudes upon the government’s responsibility.
Germany’s super-rich have rejected an invitation by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to join their ‘Giving Pledge’ to give away most of their fortune. The pledge has been criticized in Germany, with millionaires saying donations shouldn’t replace duties that would be better carried out by the state. Last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates attempted to convince billionaires around the world to agree to give away half their money to charity. But in Germany, the “Giving Pledge,” backed by 40 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Gates and Warren Buffet, has met with skepticism, SPIEGEL has learned.
Here’s an actual section of an interview with a rich German. The most astounding comment is when he basically says that private charity is bad because the state should decide how resources are allocated.
SPIEGEL: But doesn’t the money that is donated serve the common good?
Krämer: It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires. So it’s not the state that determines what is good for the people, but rather the rich want to decide. That’s a development that I find really bad. What legitimacy do these people have to decide where massive sums of money will flow?
SPIEGEL: It is their money at the end of the day.
Krämer: In this case, 40 superwealthy people want to decide what their money will be used for. That runs counter to the democratically legitimate state. In the end the billionaires are indulging in hobbies that might be in the common good, but are very personal.
Posted in Big Government, Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, Free Markets, John Stossel, Privatization, Waste, tagged Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, Contracting Out, Government Incompetence, Government waste, John Stossel, Private Sector, Privatization on August 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Using road management as an example, John Stossel explains that government does a worse job than the private sector, even at things that theoretically are a government responsibility. Part of this is because of the profit motive, to be sure, but a big reason is probably because government bureaucracies inevitably are filled with overpaid bureaucrats who understand that job security is best assured by maintaining problems rather than solving them. Stossel makes an excellent point by noting that “contracting out” is not the same thing as genuine free enterprise. But at least it means whatever government is doing (either good things or bad things) will be done for less cost and with more competence.
Free enterprise does everything better. Why? Because if private companies don’t do things efficiently, they lose money and die. Unlike government, they cannot compel payment through the power to tax. Even when a private company operates a public facility under contract to government, it must perform. If it doesn’t, it will be “fired” — its contract won’t be renewed. Government is never fired. Contracting out to private enterprise isn’t the same thing as letting fully competitive free markets operate, but it still works better than government. Roads are one example. Politicians call road management a “public good” that “government must control.” Nonsense. In 1995, a private road company added two lanes in the middle of California Highway 91, right where the median strip used to be. It then used “congestion pricing” to let some drivers pay to speed past rush-hour traffic. Using the principles of supply and demand, road operators charge higher tolls at times of day when demand is high. That encourages those who are most in a hurry to pay for what they need. …for years there was a gap in the ring road surrounding Paris that created huge traffic problems. Then private developers made an unsolicited proposal to build a $2 billion toll tunnel in exchange for a 70-year lease to run it. They built a double-decker tunnel that fits six lanes of traffic in the space usually required for just two. The tunnel’s profit-seeking owners have an incentive to keep traffic moving. They collect tolls based on congestion pricing, and tolls are collected electronically, so cars don’t have to stop. The tunnel operators clear accidents quickly. Most are detected within 10 seconds — thanks to 350 cameras inside the tunnel. The private road has cut a 45-minute trip to 10 minutes. | <urn:uuid:b586369d-3978-4209-8787-b9336021769f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951672 | 1,041 | 1.523438 | 2 |
St. Paul’s Bay
When the layout of the little seaside resort of Clacton on Sea was projected, 150 years ago, no provision was made for a church. By 1874, however, J. H. Page of Thorrowgoods Farm was planning development of his land to the east, as far as Victoria Road; for some time the eastern limit of the Marine Parade. It was in one of these new streets he generously offered a site for the erection of Clacton’s first church. A committee was immediately formed, designs were prepared by G. Gard Pye of Colchester, the architect of some of the town’s earliest buildings, and in August a tender of £88 was accepted.
On 16th June 1875 St. Paul’s was opened for worship, and on 15th August 1878 it was consecrated by the Bishop of St. Albans as Clacton was then in his diocese. It had cost, altogether, £1,250 and was built of concrete; for a time standing alone in the fields. Its dedication no doubt recalled the early association of Clacton with St. Paul’s Cathedral as, in ancient times the kingdom of the East Saxons included London as well as the present county of Essex, and the whole area was in the diocese of London with St. Paul’s as the cathedral church.
The ecclesiastical parish was formed in December 1878 and covered the area likely to be developed. Boundary stones were placed at the north end of Pier Avenue and in Holland Road, opposite Victoria Road but these were later removed although one was later salvaged and preserved in St. Paul’s church. There was repeated criticism, however, that the church was too remote from the town centre, so in 1888 a corrugated iron mission hall was built in the High Street; the hall was destroyed by fire five years later and replaced.
Although enlarged in 1881 the church soon proved too small for the growing town, and even after St. James’s parish was formed in 1907, on the western side of town, it was still inadequate. A new church was proposed and a building fund started but owing to the war and increasing costs it was not until January 1965 that the present St. Paul’s was started.
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Aging is an inevitable factor of life and so is menopause. This passage of life can occur when a woman is between the ages of 35 and 60. The age range is so wide because this natural occurrence is unique to the individual. It is believed that a woman will experience menopause close to the age that her mother went through it. Outside factors like a hysterectomy or radiation treatment can bring about menopause early. This life event can take more than a decade to run its course. There are three stages: perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. When a woman has not had her menstrual cycle for one calendar year, she is said to be menopausal.
Weight gain, particularly about the middle, is common during this time. In addition, weight maintenance can be difficult. Falling estrogen levels, loss of muscle tissue, slow metabolism, inadequate nutrition, lack of exercise, insulin resistance, and stress are factors that contribute to the unwanted spread.
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The thought of having a professional support service for you or your loved one to live safely at home is often brushed off due to the lack of relevant information on what it is really about. Home care is about helping the aged with professional assistance to live independently and helping people with health issues or recovering from a medical setback and people with disabilities by providing professional caregivers. Some of the caregivers tasked with this task include aides, nurses, therapists, and people with special needs.
In-home speech therapy makes a tremendous difference in someone’s quality of life. It’s great for patients suffering from severe cognitive decline, difficulty swallowing, and other afflictions. Speech therapy also helps patients who can no longer pronounce words or struggle to form complete sentences.
Many of us have a loved one who is aging or disabled. Whether they are suffering from a stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or something else, they may require assistance to make it through the day. At first, this assistance may be something you’re able to provide. However, as aging continues and conditions worsen, you may need to seek outside help. Unfortunately, some people won’t accept care assistance at first. Here are some reasons why your loved one may not be open to the idea of receiving additional care from outside the family:
With each year that passes the fear of getting older can creep upon us. Completing regular everyday tasks may start to feel impossible as time goes on. The role of a caregiver is to help you feel like yourself again. While it may be challenging to accept that you need extra help, caregivers can be the perfect support system. Here are three things that caregivers wish you knew about the work that they do.
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ENDLESS WINTER | Snow keeps coming: 'It just hasn't let up'
Image: A man in Evanston takes a walk along frozen and snow-covered Lake Michigan earlier this month.
According to an array of weather statistics compiled by the Illinois state climatologist, it's the third-worst winter in a decade. And weird, besides. "This is SOME OF THE MOST DRAMATIC WINTER WEATHER I HAVE EVER SEEN." Super Bowl Sunday saw several inches of snow on the ground - and thunderstorms. "I have never seen that before and never believed it could happen." "It's bitterly cold, and it's snowed every week since, what, Thanksgiving? It's depressing." As of this weekend, Chicago had gotten 51 inches of snow. That's not quite as bad as the 53.4 inches in 1998-99 and 54.5 inches in 2000-01. But hey, spring is still a few weeks away. "The last couple of winters have been fairly quiet. We haven't seen winters like this in quite some time. It's a little bit more reminiscent of the winters we saw in the late '70s and early '80s." Supplies of ice-melting salt are growing short in some places because of the UNUSAUL number of snowy days. "Right now, it looks like it's just an oddity of this one winter behaving like this."
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The municipality of Aartselaar (14,325 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 1,093 ha) is located just south of the town of Antwerp.
The origin of the name of the town is obscure; the most probable
etymology refers to "Arcelar", a clearing in the woods (laar)
located near a border (archas).
Until the end of the upper Middle Ages, Aartselaar was a hamlet of the domain of Kontich, that spread up to the rivers Scheldt and Rupel, encompassing the municipalities of Aartselaar, Boom, Edegem, Hemiksem, Hove, Kontich, Lint, Mortsel, Niel, Reet, Schelle and Waarloos. Originally belonging to the abbey of Lobbes, the domain of Kontich was then transferred to the famous Berthout of Mechelen.
In 1309, the parish of Aartselaar seceded from the mother parish of Kontich, while a wooden chapel had been built in 1302; the chapel then became a church, that was increased several times. While Aartselaar remained administratively a part of Kontich, the border between the two parishes was later reused as the border between the two towns.
At the end of the Middle Ages, King Philip I of Spain, lacking money,
sold several domains to local lords; Adriaan Sanders (d. 1495), lord
of Cleydael, purchased the hamlet of Aartselaar. In 1557, Knight
Charles Micault, lord of Cleydael, purchased from Philip II of Spain
pieces of lands in the parish of Aartselaar and founded the
independent domain of Aartselaar, which was granted a municipal court
in 1558. In 1644, Pascal François van den Cruyce completely owned the two domains of Aartselaar and Cleydael and transferred them to his
descendants, who kept the two domains until the end of the Ancient
During the reign of Maria-Theresia, a paved road was built through Aartselaar in 1758-1763, linking Boom to Antwerp, therefore the forerunner of the modern A12 road.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 14 June 2008
The municipal flag of Aartselaar is vertically divided yellow-blue,
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel, the flag was adopted by the Municipal Council on 28 February 1985, confirmed by the Executive of Flanders on 1 April 1985 and published in the Belgian official gazette on 8 July 1986. The flag is based on a shield depicted on the former municipal arms of Aartselaar.
The arms granted to Aartselaar by Royal Decree on 29 March 1839 are
shown by Servais as "Azure a St. Leonard or holding dexter a shield or
a cross azure and sinister a shield or three pales azure".
The sinister shield is a wrong representation of the Berthout arms, "Or three pales gules", probably granted "in the national colours" under the Dutch rule and left unchanged after the independence of Belgium.
As reported on the municipal website, the arms of Aaertselar were
eventually corrected by the Municipal Council on 22 October 1992 and
confirmed by the Executive of Flanders on 16 February 1993, as Twee
schilden naast elkaar. 1. in lazuur een ankerkruis van goud. 2. in
goud drie palen van keel. De twee schilden geplaatst voor een Sint
Leonardus van goud ("Two shields placed side by side. 1. Azure a
cross moline or. 2. Or three pales gules. The two shields supported by
a St. Leonard or").
The arms of Berthout are shown in their true colours while the first shield shows the canting arms of the van den Cruyce family. But the flag remained unchanged, showing a or-and-azure banner of the arms of Berthout.
Servais explains the mythical origin of the arms of Berthout as follows:
In the XIIth century, a lord Berthout helped the King of Aragon in his struggle against the Moors. He fought there three times; the first time, he was rewarded with an estate and the title of provincial governor, the second time he was rewarded with the King's daughter, but refused both and went back to Flanders. The third time, the King asked Berthout what he would like as a reward. Berthout asked for the right to bear the arms of Aragon and was granted them with three pales instead of four, celebrating his three victories over the Moors.
The Gelre Armorial shows several Berthout coat of arms:
- Berthout, "Die He. (the Lord) van Mechelen", 809, folio 72v: "Or three pales gules";
- Henri VII Berthout, "Die He. van Duffel", 833, folio 73v: "Or three pales gules (Berthout) a franc canton ermine";
- Jean de Berlaer (Berthout), "Die He. van Helmunt" (Helmont), 838, folio 73v: "Argent three pales gules (Berlaer)",
- Guillaume Berthout de Duffel, "H. Willem v. Duffel", 893, folio 75v; "Or three pales gules a franc canton ermine a crescent sable".
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Failure to cultivate: Why school gardens ARE important
In the latest edition of The Atlantic magazine, Caitlin Flanagan has written a surprisingly harsh critique of the popular and growing movement to include gardens in our public schools. In a nutshell, she states that pursuing this activity over and above the three R’s will turn our children into illiterate sharecroppers. Right from the start, though, she gets it wrong.
She has the reader picture the son of undocumented migrant workers entering his first day at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, home of the well-known Edible Schoolyard project, “where he stoops under the hot sun and begins to pick lettuce.” Her callous disrespect for labor only begins there, but the real problem with her argument lies in her stubborn refusal to accept that a good idea may have sprouted from an ideology other than her own. She goes so far as to describe it as:
…A vacuous if well-meaning ideology that is responsible for robbing an increasing number of American schoolchildren of hours they might other wise have spent reading important books or learning higher math (attaining the cultural achievements, in other words, that have lifted uncounted generations of human beings out of the desperate daily scrabble to wrest sustenance from dirt).
Flanagan has chosen to ignore the core purposes of these gardens, only one of which happens to be cultivating a respect for hard work, and only one other of which is a healthy respect for real food. While she notes that the work of the garden has migrated into each of the classrooms, she ignores the obvious point that this demonstrates: There is nothing taught in schools that cannot be learned in a garden. Math and science to be sure, but also history, civics, logic, art, literature, music, and the birds and the bees both literally and figuratively. Beyond that though, in a garden a student learns responsibility, teamwork, citizenship, sustainability, and respect for nature, for others, and for themselves.
The disdain for the left-of-center viewpoints of those who started the Edible Schoolyard is evidenced in her description of Chez Panisse, the restaurant of Edible Schoolyard’s founder Alice Waters, as “an eatery where the right-on, ‘yes we can,’ ACORN-loving, public-option-supporting man or woman of the people can tuck into a nice table d’hôte menu of scallops, guinea hen, and tarte tatin for a modest 95 clams — wine, tax, and oppressively sanctimonious and relentlessly conversation-busting service not included.” Flanagan’s attempt at snob-bashing populism and appeal toward the sensitivities of those on the right is misplaced, however, because these school garden ideas, while begun in this particular case by those with left-leaning tendencies, actually hold appeal across the political spectrum. They not only encompass a love of nature and the kind of touchy-feely sensitivities that give conservatives the willies, but also the bedrock principles of tradition and ownership and self-reliance that would be equally at home at a hippie commune or a tea party rally.
While it is rightly noted that the grades at the school quickly improved, the contention that “a recipe is much easier to write than a coherent paragraph on The Crucible” is not only insulting to professional chefs and food writers (like, well, me), but also is patently false. There is a world of difference between writing a recipe and writing one well, as anyone who as ever come across the words “but first” in a recipe will attest. The more important point though is the one that Flanagan glosses over: that the passion for learning developed in a garden, driven home by the lightening-bolt of awareness when a kid bites into a vine-ripened tomato she grew herself, is worth essays on ten plays even if Arthur Miller or Shakespeare wrote them all.
Where the argument really goes off the rails though is when Ms Flanagan posits:
Does the immigrant farm worker dream that his child will learn to enjoy manual labor, or that his child will be freed from it? What is the goal of an education, of what we once called “book learning”? These are questions best left unasked when it comes to the gardens.
Not “enjoy,” Ms, Flanagan, respect. This, as I mentioned, is where her disdain for manual labor, something that everyone on the planet (beneath the upper 2 percent or so of income earners) contends with every day, becomes instructive. It is predicated on the idea that labor is something to be freed from, ostensibly through strict adherence to “book learning.” Worse, it perpetuates the misguided dogma of the last several decades that distances us from our food and insists that cooking is a chore, like washing laundry or windows, which should be avoided at all costs as if it were beneath us. This in turn not only makes her seem elitist herself, but also leaves Flanagan’s ideas of education as merely a means to create consumers, rather than citizens.
What follows in the essay is a misuse of statistics that boggles the mind, where she blames a decline in math and English among Latinos at MLK on the gardens. In legal-ese (and Latin) this is referred to as a Post hoc ergo propter hoc argument, “It follows therefore was caused by.” Another example of this would be that since all addicts were once babies, then mother’s milk leads to heroin addiction.
This is followed up by an argument that the rampant increase in childhood obesity and early-onset diabetes is not caused by a lack of access to healthy food nor the prevalence of sugary, fat laden food in schools. Rather she cites, ironically, George Orwell, to argue that it’s because poor people prefer that food. Please. And for the record, her research into two grocery stores in Compton as proof that poverty and food deserts do not go hand-in-hand is blindingly shortsighted.
There are more errors of reason, but let me cut to the chase. Flanagan sums up by saying this:
(W)e become complicit — through our best intentions — in an act of theft that will not only contribute to the creation of a permanent, uneducated underclass but will rob that group of the very force necessary to change its fate. The state, which failed these students as children and adolescents, will have to shoulder them in adulthood, for it will have created not a generation of gentleman farmers but one of intellectual sharecroppers, whose fortunes depend on the largesse or political whim of their educated peers.
The belief that we will create better citizens by teaching to the test (an idea she advocates for repeatedly and vociferously) is one that will lead to a generation of closed-minded automatons incapable of learning, thinking, or fending for themselves. We are far better off with a generation of citizens who understand that sustenance comes not from factories or laboratories but from the soil and from hard working hands, both of which deserve the respect garnered from experience. We need citizens who are healthier than the generation before them; throughout most of human history the rich were fat and the poor were skinny, yet today in America it is quite the opposite. Fixing that requires direct experience and interaction with our food, something no schoolroom lecture can provide.
This is not advocacy for some weird Maoist Great Leap Forward where everyone must leave the cities and go farm. It is knowledge of one of the truest clichés known: You are what you eat. And as one of Flanagan’s carefully-book-taught computer programmers would point out, Garbage In — Garbage Out. | <urn:uuid:70c99cb0-2840-4cbf-bd02-f6e1c6dab8b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://grist.org/article/cultivating-failure-why-school-gardens-are-important/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00220-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963959 | 1,631 | 2.125 | 2 |
August 14th, 2012
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The passing of Helen Gurley Brown and the engagement of America's sweetheart Jennifer Aniston may not seem to be connected, but they are when you think in terms of liberated women.
Gurley Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, literally wrote the book on "Sex and the Single Girl" in 1962. The book focused on single women in an age where they were becoming more independent sexually and financially.
And while Aniston stands for many as the essential "good girl/girl next door" who also happened to snag some pretty hot guys, she, along with Gurley Brown, made us think of other pivotal single gal moments in pop culture.
1. Holly Golightly
The Truman Capote novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was published in 1958, but it was the film starring waif-like Audrey Hepburn in 1961 that solidified the character of this single girl in pop culture.
She was glamorous, she was fun and she had no problem admitting that she was a bit of a gold digger. Gotta love that.
2. Cosmopolitan magazine
Before it was the name of a drink, Cosmo was the single girl's bible.
Originally launched in the late 19th century as a family magazine, Gurley Brown transformed it when she came on board in 1965. Now the headlines on "How To Turn Him On and "50 Tips to Keep Him Coming Back for More" are standard single girl fare.
3. Chick lit
"Bridget Jones's Diary" was released in 1998, and helped take women's literature to a new place beyond romance novels a la Danielle Steele. Not that novels featuring feisty heroine characters more than ready to indulge their sexual fantasies didn't exist before (hello Jacqueline Susann), but books like "Diary" and "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" marked a brand new era in literature for women and by women.
4. "Living Single"
This show doesn't get nearly enough credit.
Many have compared it to NBC's hit show "Friends." The tale of six, single African American friends in New York City was popular for five seasons and offered a different perspective on single women of color.
5. "Sex and the City"
Come on. This list would not at all be complete without Carrie Bradshaw and the gang.
No one, but no one epitomized what Helen Gurley Brown championed more than the HBO series which fans love so much that they can't seem to let it go. Luckily they don't have to thanks to Netflix, a DVD box set, movies and of course the broadcast reruns.
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Because of the great lapse. of time, it seems almost impossible to locate the original seat of the old Ethiopian empire. Bochart thought it was "Happy Araby," that from this central point the Cushite race spread eastward and westward. Some authorities like Gesenius thought it was Africa. The Greeks looked to old Ethiopia and called the Upper Nile the common cradle of mankind. Toward the rich luxurience of this region they looked for the "Garden of Eden." From these people of the Upper Nile arose the oldest traditions and rites and from them sprang the first colonies and arts of antiquity. The Greeks also said that Egyptians derived their civilization and religion from Ethiopia. "Egyptian religion was not an original conception, for three thousand years ago she had lost all true sense of its real meaning among even the priesthood." (Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection--Preface.) Yet Egyptian forms of worship are understood and practiced among the Ethiopians of Nubia today. The common people of Egypt never truly understood their religion, this was why it so easily became debased.
Ptolemaic writers said that Egypt was formed of the mud carried down, from Ethiopia, that
[paragraph continues] Ethiopians were the first men that ever lived, the only truly autochthonous race and the first to institute the worship of the gods and the rites of sacrifice. Egypt itself was a colony of Ethiopia and the laws and script of both lands were naturally the same; but the hieroglyphic script was more widely known to the vulgar in Ethiopia than in Egypt. (Diodorus Siculus, bk. iii, ch. 3.) This knowledge of writing was universal in Ethiopia but was confined to the priestly classes alone in Egypt. This was because the Egyptian priesthood was Ethiopian. The highly developed Merodic inscriptions are not found in Egypt north of the first cataract or in Nubia south of Soba. These are differences we would expect to find between a colony and a parent body. Herodotus (bk. ii, p. 29) says that Meroe was a great city and metropolis, most of its buildings were of red brick. 800 B. C. at Napata, the buildings were of hard stone. (Meroe--Crowfoot, pp. 6, 30.)
The Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature says, "There is every reason to conclude that the separate colonies of priestcraft spread from Meroe into Egypt; and the primeval monuments in Ethiopia strongly confirm the native traditions, reported by Diodorus Siculus, that the worship of Zeus-Ammon originated in Meroe, also the worship of Osiris. This would render highly probable the opinion that commerce, science and art descended into Egypt from the Upper Nile. Herodotus called the Ethiopians "Wisemen occupying the Upper Nile, men of long life, whose manners and customs pertain to the Golden Age,
those virtuous mortals, whose feasts and banquets are honored by Jupiter himself." In Greek times, the Egyptians depicted Ethiopia as an ideal state. The Puranas, the ancient historical books of India, speak of the civilization of Ethiopia as being older than that of Egypt. These Sanskrit books mention the names of old Cushite kings that were worshipped in India and who were adopted and changed to suit the fancy of the later people of Greece and Rome.
The Hindu Puranas speak of the Cushites going to India before they went to Egypt, proving Hindu civilization coeval with that of Chaldea and the country of the Nile. These ancients record that the Egyptians were a colony drawn out from Cusha-Dwipa and that the Palli, another colony that made the Phoenicians followed them from the land of Cush. In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceeded it by many ages; that was called Meru. Lenormant spoke of the first men of the ancient world as "Men of Meru." Sanskrit writers called Indra, chief god of the Hindu, king of Meru. He was deified and became the chief representative of the supreme being. Thus was primitive India settled by colonists from Ethiopia. Early writers said there was very little difference in the color or features of the people of the two countries.
Ancient traditions told of the deeds of Deva Nahusha, another sovereign of Meru, who extended his empire over three worlds. The lost
literature of Asia Minor dealt with this extension of the Ethiopian domain. An old poem "Phrygia," was a history of Dionysus, one of the most celebrated of the old Ethiopians. It was written in a very old language and character. He preceeded Menes by many ages. Baldwin says that the authentic books that would have given us the true history concerning him, perished long before the Hellenes. The Greeks of historical times distorted the story of Dionysus and converted him into their drunken god of wine. "They misconstrued and misused the old Cushite mythology, wherever they failed to understand it, and sought to appropriate it entirely to themselves." One of the poetical versions of the taking of Troy, on the coast of Asia Minor, was entitled "The Æthiops," because the inhabitants of Troy, as we shall prove later, who fought so valiantly in the Trojan war, were Cushite Ethiopians. This version presented the conflict as an Egyptian war.
In those early ages Egypt was under Ethiopian domination. In proof of this fact, the Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature says, "Isaiah often mentions Ethiopia and Egypt in close political relations. In fine the name of Ethiopia chiefly stood as the name of the national and royal family of Egypt. In the beginning Egypt was ruled from Ethiopia. Ethiopia was ruined by her wars with Egypt, which she sometimes subdued and sometimes served." Modern books contain but little information about the country of the Upper Nile, but archaic books were full of the story of the
wonderful Ethiopians. The ancients said that they settled Egypt. Is it possible that we could know more about the origin of this nation than they? Reclus says, "The people occupying the plateau of the Blue Nile, are conscious of a glorious past and proudly call themselves Ethiopians." He calls the whole triangular space between the Nile and the Red Sea, Ethiopia proper. This vast highland constituted a world apart. From it went forth the inspiration and light now bearing its fruit in the life of younger nations.
Heeren thought, that excepting the Egyptians, no aboriginal people of Africa so claim our attention as the Ethiopians. He asks, "To what shall we attribute the renown of this one of the most distant nations of the earth? How did the fame of her name permeate the terrible deserts that surrounded her: and even yet form an insuperable bar to all who approach. A great many nations distant and different from one another are called Ethiopians. Africa contains the greater number of them and a considerable tract in Asia was occupied by this race. The Ethiopians were distinguished from the other races by a very dark or completely black skin. " (Heeren's Historical Researches--Ethiopian Nations. Ch. 1, p. 46) Existing monuments confirm the high antiquity of Meroe. In the Persian period Ethiopia was an important and independent state, which Cambyses vainly attempted to subdue. Rosellini thinks that the right of Sabaco and Tirhakah, Ethiopian kings, who sat upon the throne of Egypt in the latter days, must have been more by right of descent
than by usurpation or force of arms. "This may be judged," he says, "by the respect paid to their monuments by their successors."
The pictures on the Egyptian monuments reveal that Ethiopians were the builders. They, not the Egyptians, were the master-craftsmen of the earlier ages. The first courses of the pyramids were built of Ethiopian stone. The Cushites were a sacerdotal or priestly race. There was a religious and astronomical significance in the position and shape of the pyramids. Dubois points to the fact that in Upper Egypt there were pictured black priests who were conferring upon red Egyptians, the instruments and symbols of priesthood. Ethiopians in very early ages had an original and astounding religion, which included the rite of human sacrifice. It lingered on in the early life of Greece and Home. Dowd explains this rite in this way: "The African offered his nearest and dearest, not from depravity but from a greater love for the supreme being." The priestly caste was more influencial upon the Upper Nile than in Egypt. With the withdrawal of the Ethiopian priesthood from Egypt to Napata, the people of the Lower Nile lost the sense of the real meaning of their religion, which steadily deteriorated with their language after their separation from Ethiopia.
If we visit Nubia, modern Ethiopia today, we can plainly see in the inhabitants their superiority to the common Egyptian type. The Barabra or Nile Nubians are on a footing of perfect equality in Egypt because that was their plane in ancient
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RACE TYPE OF THE EARLY DYNASTIES.
(From Ridpath's History.)
days. Baedecker describes them as strong, muscular, agricultural and more warlike and energetic than Egyptians. Keane says the Nubians excel in moral qualities. They are by his description obviously Negroid, very dark with full lips and dreamy eyes. They have the narrow heads which are the cranial formation of Ethiopia. Race may be told by shape of the skull far better than by color or feature, which are modified by climate. The members of the Tartar race have perfectly rounded skulls. The head of the Ethiopian races is very elongated. Europeans have an intermediate skull. The cranial formation of unmixed races never changes. Keane concludes by saying, "All Barbara have wooly hair with scant beards like the figures of Negroes on the walls of the Egyptian temples." The race of the Old Empire approached closely to this type.
Strabo mentions the Nubians as a great race west of the Nile. They came originally from Kordofan, whence they emigrated two thousand years ago. They have rejected the name Nubas as it has become synonymous with slave. They call themselves Barabra, their ancient race name. Sanskrit historians call the Old Race of the Upper Nile Barabra. These Nubians have become slightly modified but are still plainly Negroid. They look like the Wawa on the Egyptian monuments. The Retu type number one was the ancient Egyptian, the Retu type number two was in feature an intermingling of the Ethiopian and Egyptian types. The Wawa were Cushites and the name occurs in the mural inscriptions five
thousands years ago. Both people were much intermingled six thousand years ago. The faces of the Egyptians of the Old Monarchy are Ethiopian but as the ages went on they altered from the constant intermingling with Asiatic types. Also the intense furnace-like heat of Upper Egypt tended to change the features and darken the skin.
In the inscriptions relative to the campaigns of Pepi I, Negroes are represented as immediately adjoining the Egyptian frontier. This seems to perplex some authors. They had always been there. This was the Old Race of predynastic Egypt--the primitive Cushite type. This was the aboriginal race of Abyssinia. It was symbolized by the Great Sphinx and the marvelous face of Cheops. Take any book of Egyptian history containing authentic cuts and examine the faces of the first pharaohs, they are distinctively Ethiopian. The "Agu" of the monuments represented this aboriginal race. They were the ancestors of the Nubians. and were the ruling race of Egypt. Petrie in 1892 exhibited before the British Association, some skulls of the Third and Fourth Dynasties, showing distinct Negroid characteristics. They were dolichocephalic or long skulled. The findings of archaeology more and more reveal that Egypt was Cushite in her beginning and that Ethiopians were not a branch of the Japheth race in the sense that they are so represented in the average ethnological classifications of today.
Egyptians said that they and their religion had come from the land of Punt. Punt is generally accepted today to have been Somaliland south of
[paragraph continues] Nubia. On the pictured plates at Deir-el-Baheri, the huts of the people of Punt were like the Toquls of the modern Sudanese, being built on piles approached by ladders. The birds were like a species common among the Somali. The fishes were not like those of Egypt. The wife of the king of Punt appears with a form like the Bongo women with exaggerated organs of maternity. This was a distinctive Ethiopian form. The king had the Cushite profile. The products carried by the wooly haired porters were ebony, piles of elephant tusks, all African products and trays of massive gold rings. Punt is mentioned in the inscriptions as a land of wonders. We find marvelous ruins in southeastern Africa that substantiate these reports. The inscription in the rocky valley of Hammat tells how 2000 B. C. a force gathered in the Thebaid to go on an expedition to Punt to bring back the products that made the costly incense of the ancients. The Stage Temple at Thebes showed in gorgeous pictures another expedition in 1600 B. C. We now know that Somaliland yielded the frankincense of ancient commerce, which was used in the ceremonials of all ancient kingdoms. Punt was called the "Holy Land" by the Egyptians.
In Egypt today, the most effective battalions are those commanded by black Nubians. In ancient ages the Egyptians followed the lead of the Ethiopian to battle and it is instinctive in them to do so today. Cushites were the backbone of the armies in the earliest ages. The Egyptian has no warlike qualities. It was the Cushite
who was the head and brains of the foreign conquests. It was the Cushite element of the Old Empire that extended itself in foreign colonization eastward and westward around the world. Across Arabia and southwestern Asia, even to the central highlands, inscriptions and massive images in stone stand as voiceless witnesses that they were the commanders of the Egyptian armies and that the Ethiopian masses accompanied the soldiers as trusted allies and not as driven slaves. We must remember that in the early ages they were not a subject race but that their power as a great empire was at its zenith.
The Egyptian of today much changed from the ancient whom Herodotus called black, is content to live in a mud hut beside his beloved Nile. He is despised by the prouder Nubian, who saves his earnings to buy a home and piece of ground in his native Ethiopia. Reclus tells us that the dislike between Egyptians and Nubians is carried to such a great extent that the Nubians even in Egypt will not marry an Egyptian woman and that he refuses his daughter in marriage to the Egyptian and Arab. This could have come down alone front an age-old consciousness of superiority. He knows the proud traditions of his race. In books careless of ethnography, we find the Nubian classed with Semitic stock. They have no affinities at all with this race. Nubians are never able to speak the Arabic tongues gramatically. Nubian women are seldom seen in Egypt. They are the most faithful to the manners and customs of the Old Race. The Egyptian of today makes
little showings of ambition or the spirit for great deeds. He squanders his earnings upon trinkets and seems content in the same mud hovel in which the masses of Egyptians primitively lived.
Prichard recognizes two branches of the Nubians, the Nubians of the Nile and those of the Red Sea. In the age of Herodotus, the countries known as Nubia and Senaar were occupied by two different races, one of which he includes under the name Ethiopian; the other was a pastorial race of Semitic decent which led a migratory life. This distinction continues to the present day. The Red Sea nomadic tribes are extremely savage and inhospitable. The Nile Nubas or Barabra are the original Ethiopians. They are agricultural and have the old Hamitic traits. They plant date trees and set up wheels for irrigation. These are the Ethiopians mentioned in chronicles as possessing war chariots. Their allies were the Libyans. Semites at that age of the world had no possession of iron vehicles. Heeren says "that the ancestors of these Ethiopians had long lived in cities and had erected magnificent temples and edifices, that they possessed law and government, and that the fame of their progress in knowledge and the social arts had spread in the earliest ages to a considerable part of the world."
Maurice, that reliable authority on ancient remains, declares, "The ancient Ethiopians were the architectural giants of the past. When the daring Cushite genius was in the full career of its glory, it was the peculiar delight of this enterprising race to erect stupendous edifices, excavate
long subterranean passages in the living rock, form vast lakes and extend over the hollows of adjoining mountains magnificent arches for aqueducts and bridges. It was they who built the tower of Babel or Belus and raised the pyramids or Egypt; it was they who formed the grottoes near the Nile and scooped the caverns of Salsette end Elephante. (These latter are wonders of Hindu architecture.) Their skill in mechanical powers astonishes posterity, who are unable to conceive by what means stones thirty, forty and even sixty feet in length from twelve to twenty in depth could ever be raised to the point of elevation at which they are seen in the ruined temples of Belbec and Thebais. Those comprising the pagodas of India are scarcely less wonderful in point of elevation and magnitude." (Maurice's Ancient History of Hindustan.) | <urn:uuid:45517f70-5819-4797-9ba4-e3046235ea8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/we/we05.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00025-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976233 | 3,774 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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Pay Attention to What Your Mowing
Once you purchase a mower, don’t overuse it. Lawns originated in England, where rainfall was sufficient to keep lawns watered naturally. When Americans adopted the green lawn, we realized that we needed to use lots of water in maintenance. A hose running a sprinkler is estimated to use nine gallons per minute, or 530 gallons per hour. Ways to reduce water waste include planting drought-resistant local grasses, leaving grass clippings on the lawn, using organic fertilizers, and using xeriscaping tricks, such as building zen gardens with rocks and statues. These water tips will help reduce the time you spend mowing.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In 2009, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found that an hour of gas-powered lawn mowing produces as much pollution as four hours of driving a car. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also recognized the alarming amount of pollution generated by lawn mowers. In 2008, the EPA created rules to enforce manufacturers of lawn mowers and weed whackers to cut smog-forming emissions from their products by at least 35 percent starting in 2011.
The EPA’s new rules will help consumers save money. The EPA projects that improved energy efficiency of lawn mowers will reduce demand for gasoline by 190 million gallons annually.
Although lawn mowers are not eligible for the EPA Energy Star label, there are cordless electric models that come equipped with an Energy Star-rated battery charger, which uses 35 percent less energy than standard chargers.
The new rules should also help improve the health of Americans. The agency estimates that five percent of the country’s air pollution originates from the more than 50 million people cutting their grass on any given summer weekend. With the anticipated emission reductions of hydrocarbons (which cause smog), carbon monoxide (a highly toxic gas), carbon dioxide (a major cause of global warming), and particulate matter (which causes breathing trouble for humans), reductions in lung damage, asthma attacks, heart conditions, and premature deaths from exposure to air pollution should occur.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the most deadly threat from lawn mowers is flying debris. Riding mowers cause 95 deaths each year, while walk-behind mowers cause three.
To prevent injuries, wear shoes while mowing. More than 80,000 people are sent to U.S. hospitals each year because of lawn-mowing accidents, mostly because of debris shooting out from the blades. It’s also a good idea to wear glasses, earplugs, and even a face mask.
In rare cases, lawn mowers have been known to spread fatal diseases, as was the bizarre result in 2000 on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a man died after his mower turned tularemia—an infectious disease spread by rabbits, beavers, and other animals—from a carcass in his yard into an aerosol.
And while it is always nice to get kids to understand the importance of a strong work ethic, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes that they should be at least 12 years old before mowing the lawn. Kids should also never ride along while adults are cutting the grass.
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Christian or pagan? Russian Christmastide kicks off
The Orthodox Christmas season is in full swing and there is still plenty of time for the traditional street performances and carol singing.
This traditional pagan festival was once disapproved of by the Church, but was popular among the people. Ethnic songs and dancing, carnivals and games took place at this time.
Svyatki was the time for diverse Christmastide activities like fortune-telling. For example, young maidens melted wax and poured it into cold water or snow. They held molded wax figure shapes in front of the wall or a sheet of white paper and told fortunes by their shadows. By doing so they could tell their fortune about future marriages.
An old legend says that during Svyatki the spirits and ghosts were among the living. And people could ask them all kinds of questions about the future. But for that one had to be completely defenseless. That meant shedding everything that protects you, such as belts and rings. Maidens also had to let their hair down.
To do the shadow fortune telling one had to crumple up an old paper, place it on a plate and set it on fire. The shadow of the ashes reflected on the wall allegedly shows future brides their beloved.
Candle and wax fortunetelling
This ceremony requires a lot of candles. You have to light one of them and after a short while pour the melted wax into a pot filled with water. The fortune telling starts when the wax hardens.
There are certain explanations for the figures formed by the wax. If you see something resembling a house, it means you will get married or acquire some property. If what you see looks like a tree, it all depends upon where its branches are pointing. If they’re pointing down– you are in trouble. But if they are directed upwards – prepare for joy and happiness.
This particular ritual is held outside in the cold. The maidens have to take off one of their thigh boots and throw them in any direction they want. Then they have to jump on one foot to claim them. Legend has it that where the boot’s toe points is where your future husband lives.
There’s always room for fantasy during fortune-telling. One can’t take it too seriously. Besides, most of the symbols and signs are hard to interpret – so it’s up to you to “fill in the gaps.” | <urn:uuid:7a0b1192-2289-4d98-badb-f1aa1ef2ce54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/news/svyatki-christmastide-pagan-feast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00270-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969317 | 504 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The UK economy – what a difference a year makes
This time last year, an imminent sovereign credit rating downgrade and a 1-in-3 chance of a new recession dominated talk on Britain’s economy.
To say 2013 turned out better than expected – at least by the simple yardsticks of economic growth and unemployment – would be an understatement, then, even if tepid wage growth, weak productivity and a rising cost of living still dog the economy.
None of the 63 forecasters polled by Reuters in Jan last year predicted that growth for the 2013 as a whole would hit 1.9 percent, as official data showed on Tuesday.
Back then, the consensus showed the economy would only grow around 1.0 percent, and many flagged some big downside risks even to that outlook.
That pessimism was summed up in the sub-header in the story for that’s month’s poll: “Bumping along the bottom”.
Economists take a lot of flak for missing turning points in major economies, most notably their collective failure to spot the severe recession of 2008-09 until it had already started.
But before dismissing 2013’s larger-than-expected upturn as another “miss”, it should be noted that economists got a lot right about the UK economy this year.
The Reuters poll consensus was spot-on in predicting the each of the Office for National Statistics’ preliminary GDP releases for the last three quarters of 2013, and only slightly undershot first quarter’s reading.
This year, economists reckon growth will hit 2.5 percent.
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What is a cool color scheme?
Cool colors are typified by blue, green, and light purple. They can calm and soothe.
What are some cool color combinations?
- Yellow and Blue: Playful and Authoritative. ...
- Navy and Teal: Soothing or Striking. ...
- Black and Orange: Lively and Powerful. ...
- Maroon and Peach: Elegant and Tranquil. ...
- Deep Purple and Blue: Serene and Dependable. ...
- Navy and Orange: Entertaining yet Credible.
What are the 6 cool colors?
Regardless, the general idea is the warm colors are Red, Orange and Yellow; and the cool colors are Green, Blue and Magenta (Figure 2). Figure 2: The classic color wheel divided into Cool and Warm halves.
What is an example of a cool color scheme?
Warm Versus Cool – “Warm” colors are those that resemble or symbolize heat, while “cool” colors are attributed to ice and cooler temperatures. For example: red, orange, yellow, and red-purple are warm colors, while blue, purple, green and blue-green are cool colors.
How do you darken blue?
To darken a color, add black (or a darker shade of your color). To lighten a color, start with white paint and mix in small amounts of your color. When mixing dark/light paints, you always want to start with the lighter color and add the darker color in small amounts.
What makes the Colour white?
Colors like white and pink are not present in the spectrum because they are the result of our eyes' mixing wavelengths of light. White is what we see when all wavelengths of light are reflected off an object, while pink is a mix of the red and violet wavelengths.
How can I make paint darker without black?
Another way to darken a color is to mix in some of the complementary color (the opposite color on a color wheel - see below). This produces a rich, dark color (richer than just adding black). Some pairs of complementary colors are: blue/orange, green/red, yellow/purple, black/white.
Does 3 coats of paint make it darker?
Adding layers of the same paint won't affect the color or richness of the final product. It will only affect the coverage. Two coats is desirable in most cases. Furthermore, does paint get lighter or darker over time?/span>
What is adding GREY to a color called?
Tints (adding white to a pure hue) Shades (adding black to a pure hue) Tones (adding gray to a pure hue)
Whats the difference between gray and GREY?
As a noun, gray usually refers to the color. It can be used as an adjective when we want to say that the color of something is a shade of gray. ... Grey and gray are two different spellings of the same word. Gray is more common in the U.S., while grey is more common in other English-speaking countries.
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Bay Ridge Library - Local History & Photos
The Bay Ridge Free Library was organized in 1880 by the Bay Ridge Reading Club. A Reading Room was established on Ridge Boulevard near Ovington Avenue. In 1896 a building opened on the site of the present-day branch; in 1901 this building and its collection 6,000 books were incorporated into the Brooklyn Public Library. The Library served a community of 12,000 people representing forty-four different nationalities including Dutch, Germans, Scandinavians and Italians.
In 1958 the old building was demolished to make way for a spacious new building. In the meantime, the branch moved to temporary quarters at 259 Ovington Avenue. It moved into the new two-story building, with its loggia-like double-height entry lobby and decorative transom panels, on May 24, 1960.
Today's Bay Ridge Branch continues to serve a diverse population, now numbering 42,000. In addition to large Irish, Italian and Latino populations, there are still residents with Scandinavian and German heritages. Languages spoken in the neighborhood include Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Korean. Along with its regular services, the Bay Ridge Branch provides many programs, including events for children and older adults, the latter through the Library's Service to the Aging.
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Americans have a love-hate relationship with debt.
They hate their bills when they come in every month. But if consumers don't have any debts, chances are they're dreaming of ways to acquire some, from the perfect home or fairytale wedding to that great new car.
"The usual line, another year older and deeper in debt, applies to most Americans," says David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's.
Savings are at an all-time low. The amount Americans are putting aside in savings each month totals 0.7 percent of their net income, according to April numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's a near record low for the post-World War II era, says Wyss. Debt levels, on the other hand, "keep going up," he says.
Sixty-one percent of Americans shoulder nonmortgage debt, and almost two-thirds of those admit that the load is stressful, according to a recent Bankrate survey.
Bankruptcy rates, which fell dramatically after new legislation took effect in October 2005, have rebounded and are approaching old levels.
But there is a small light at the end of the tunnel. Whether it's because of tougher borrowing rules or consumers' increasing aversion to debt and bills, total borrowing is slowing, says Wyss.
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Individuals infected but undiagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and those individuals diagnosed with HIV but not yet in medical care accounted for more than 90 percent of the estimated 45,000 HIV transmissions in 2009, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Preventing new HIV infections is essential to reducing future illness and death due to HIV infection in the United States. Interventions at each step of the care continuum (diagnosis, retention in medical care, prescription of antiretroviral therapy [ART] and viral suppression) have the potential to reduce HIV transmission. Estimates of the number of HIV transmissions arising at each step of the HIV care continuum are essential for policy makers and programs to maximize the allocation of HIV prevention resources, according to the study background.
Jacek Skarbinski, M.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and coauthors estimated the rate and number of HIV transmissions attributed to people at each of five care continuum steps: infected but undiagnosed, diagnosed but not in medical care, retained in medical care but not prescribed ART, prescribed ART but not virally suppressed, and achieved viral suppression. The authors used national databases to estimate rates and transmission numbers in the HIV-infected population in the United States in 2009.
According to study results, there were more than 1.1 million people living with HIV in 2009. Of those, 207,600 (18.1 percent) were undiagnosed; 519,414 (45.2 percent) knew of their infection but were not in medical care; 47,453 (4.1 percent) were in medical care but not prescribed ART; 82,809 (7.2 percent) were prescribed ART but not virally suppressed; and 290,924 (25.3 percent) had achieved viral suppression.
Those individuals who were infected with HIV but undiagnosed and those individuals who were diagnosed with HIV but not in medical care accounted for 91.5 percent (30.2 percent and 61.3 percent, respectively) of the estimated 45,000 transmission in 2009.
Compared with individuals who were HIV infected but undiagnosed (6.6 transmissions per 100 person-years), individuals diagnosed with HIV and not in medical care were 19 percent less likely to transmit HIV (5.3 transmissions per 100 person-years) and individuals who were virally suppressed were 94 percent less likely to transmit HIV (0.4 transmissions per 100 person-years). Men accounted for the most transmissions (86.5 percent).
“In the United States, persons living with HIV who are retained in medical care and have achieved viral suppression are 94 percent less likely to transmit HIV than HIV-infected undiagnosed persons. Unfortunately, too few persons living with HIV have achieved viral suppression. These estimates of the relative number of transmissions from persons along the HIV care continuum highlight the community-wide prevention benefits of expanding HIV diagnosis and treatment in the United States. Improvements are needed at each step of the continuum to reduce HIV transmission. Through stronger coordination of efforts among individuals, HIV care providers, health departments and government agencies, the United States can realize meaningful gains in the number of persons living with HIV who are aware of their status, linked to and retained in care, receiving ART, and adherent to treatment,” the study concludes.
(JAMA Intern Med. Published online February 23, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.8180. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
Editor’s Note: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides funds to all states and the District of Columbia to conduct the HIV surveillance used in this study and to selected areas to conduct the Medical Monitoring Project and the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
Commentary: The HIV Treatment Cascade – A New Tool in HIV Prevention
In a related commentary, Thomas P. Giordano, M.D., M.P.H., of the DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, writes: “Not surprisingly then, the study demonstrates that the steps of the cascade that propel HIV transmission in the United States are delayed diagnosis and inadequate retention in care. However, what is surprising is the magnitude of the effect of those steps: the authors estimate that more than 90 percent of transmissions in the United States can be attributed to undiagnosed HIV and poor retention in care.”
“Just as there is no single approach to improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy, there likely will be no single approach to improving linkage to and retention in HIV care. Human behavior and the health care system are too complex,” the author continues
“Advancing individuals forward from the beginning to the end of the cascade will place a more challenging population on antiretroviral therapy regimens, and fostering their success might require even more supportive resources. Nonetheless, as demonstrated by Skarbinski et al, the benefits of optimizing treatment to the individual will be magnified on a population basis in preventing new infections,” Giordano concludes.
(JAMA Intern Med. Published online February 23, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.8199. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
Editor’s Note: This work was made possible with help from the Baylor-UTHouston Center for AIDS Research and the resources and facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Harris Health System. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
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Affiliation: Drug Design and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Biotechnology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, E Pasteur Ave., Tehran, Iran 13164.
The antimicrobial peptides represent diverse structures for drug design. They have been looked at as potential sources of new antimicrobial drugs to combat the increasing threat posed by multiple drug resistant microorganisms. Unfortunately, peptides themselves provide inferior drug candidates because of their low oral bioavailability, potential immunogenicity, poor in vivo metabolic stability, high molecular weight and most importantly being exposed by enzymes like proteases. Recent efforts to resolve disadvantageous peptide characteristics, and thus generating practical pharmaceutical therapies, have focused on the creation of non-natural peptide mimetics. Peptidomimetic molecules may have reduced immunogenicity and improved bioavailability relative to peptide analogues. Also the artificial backbone makes most peptidomimetics resistant to degradative enzymes thus increasing the stability of peptidomimetic drugs in the body. In this article, after introducing antifungal peptides, benefits and limitations, and peptidomemetics usage are discussed and applications in drug discovery process and antifungal research will be presented. | <urn:uuid:acfb0e6c-5083-4c15-a93b-c8e3abb65f8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://benthamscience.com/journals/anti-infective-agents/article/70469/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00203-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894458 | 244 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Neuroblastoma, a tumor of peripheral neural crest origin, is a common and lethal tumor of childhood. Amplification of the transcription factor MYCN occurs commonly in children with high-risk disease. We generated a model for high-risk, neuroblastoma by directing expression of a MYCN transgene to the peripheral neural crest of genetically engineered mice, under control of the Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH) promoter. We hypothesize that: 1).Mycn protein plays a central role In high-risk MYCN-ampllfled neuroblastoma. 2). Therapies targeting Mycn will be effective in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma. 3). Mice transgenic for TH-MYCN and deleted forp53 model high-risk, therapy-resistant neuroblastoma In relapsed patients, and wilt respond to small molecule Inhibitors targeting Mycn. In contrast to applications that propose to screen small molecules to identify one that targets a known molecular lesion, we are starting with two potent and selective phosphatidylinositol-3'kinase (PI3K) inhibitors now in clinical trials that appear ideally suited as therapy against neuroblastoma and Mycn protein. We will characterize the mechanism of action for these agents, analyzing interactions between tumor cells and cells that comprise the microenvironment. We will assess destabilization of Mycn protein, and subsequent impact on tumor burden and survival. We also propose to study and chemically modify a clinical inhibitor of Aurora kinase (AURKA) that already shows promise in neuroblastoma, to build in additional activity against both Mycn protein and drug resistant neuroblastoma.
Our aims are:
Aim 1. To test available clinical PI3K and PI3K/mT0R inhibitors for activity against neuroblastoma and Mycn protein. We hypothesize that these compounds will be effective and safe in patients with MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma.
Aim 2. To clarify additional targets and small molecules that cooperate with inhibitors of PI3K to degrade Mycn. We hypothesize 1). That scaffold-dependent and kinase dependent functions of AurkA contribute independently to the activity of this protein In neuroblastoma. 2). That DFG-out and a-C out inhibitors will disrupt both functions and will show efficacy In neuroblastoma.
Successful completion of this proposal establishes a preclinical rationale for trials in children using clinical PI3K inhibitors, and provides insights into mechanisms of action for inhibitors of PI3K and of AURKA in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma.
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Google results for the search term Guantánamo are relatively limited: the US naval base, which has been operating there for more than a century, shapes most of what is said about the province, located in the east of Cuba, the communities there, their people, the colour of their soil, and the way they speak.
To reach the outermost areas of the province, you need to go through at least three checkpoints and even then it’s difficult to get to some dwellings if you haven’t done the journey before.
Nothing gets there. Nobody turns up. And so nobody, except those who live there, have noticed that the grass has stopped growing, that the rivers have dried out, and that the livestock had to find new pastures in the mountain because there’s been “no rain to speak of” for over two years.
Oneida has lived in the Guantanamo community called “El Oasis” for 46 years. Whoever hears that, even round there, thinks it's a joke. There isn't a single crop to be seen. “This land used to provide everything. But seven or eight years ago it started raining less and less. Most people who lived round here had to go to the city, especially the men, leaving the women behind with the children and elderly, to do what we can to survive.”
In Cuba, doing “what we can to survive” means finding alternatives, even if it means going “underground”. Literally. "We dug out a well by hand. It's four or five metres deep. The people weren't totally convinced about doing it because it has failed in the past, but for some reason they followed me. Any problems in the community are also my problem, and I show up, whenever I can, to represent us. It’s now the only well in the area which doesn’t dry out, and the water it provides supplies around 12 houses and the remainder goes to livestock. It also feeds the little crop that’s growing. And that's what we live on".
During 2015, the hottest year in Cuba since 1951, the country experienced the most severe drought it had seen in 115 years. Oxfam brought together Oneida and other Cuban women who are being to forced to adapt to climate change.
“I don't know if it will ever go back to how it was, with adequate rainfall and sufficient crops. I don't think so. But this is our home, we have what we have, and we have to move forward with life here".
"If we are less alone, it’s as though it’s raining again on The Oasis", she jokes.
Oneida, a leader in her community, welcomes everyone with everything she has. Or maybe with just a smile, which sometimes is the same thing.
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After years of vile tirades outside the funerals of fallen soldiers and other uncalled for pickets, Americans are getting their own back on some of the nation’s most disliked people.
When two women and a man from Westboro Baptist church took their stance outside Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio on Tuesday, they found themselves surrounded by 100 counter-demonstrators.
Taking their cue from the fundamentalist church’s protests, the counter-demonstrators brandished brightly colored placards with large slogans printed across the front.
But instead of the offensive “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “God hates you” messages of the Westboro church members, these placards carried positive messages.
One stated simply “God is love!” while another said “God hates bigots.”
They also shouted “Get out,” making it clear that the Westboro protest was not welcome in their town.
Students and local residents also used the Westboro demonstration as an opportunity to show their support for U.S. troops by organizing a bake sale to benefit wounded veterans.
Westboro believes that the death of troops is God’s way of punishing homosexuality in the U.S.
The counter-protesters turned out in force despite the high school advising people to stay away in letters sent out to parents warning them of the protest.
It is not clear why Westboro targeted the high school, but what is certain is that wherever it pickets, counter demonstrations are springing up to drown out their hate chants with proclamations of love.
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In the second week of July of this year, I got an opportunity to participate in the AKVO Flow training jointly organized by SEIU and DWSS, Ministry of Urban Development in Kathmandu. I am Nirmal Adhikari, of Kanchan Nepal from Pokhara. After getting some theoretical as well as practical knowledge about the use of AKVO Flow in collecting the data for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector, I was wondering about its effective use in the field.
I am one of the members of the (Out-put Based Aid) OBA monitoring team reviewing the effectiveness of the execution of OBA activities. I had to collect information from the beneficiaries about the OBA activities. The OBA team and SEIU decided to use AKVO flow techniques for data collection.
Water schemes from three small town projects where OBA is being implemented, were selected; two schemes were chosen from Western region and one from eastern region.
In the first week of November, the OBA team visited Kakarvitta of Jhapa district - which is the border area – and used the Akvo flow for the data collection. Kakarvitta is one of the fastest growing towns in the eastern region; the population demography is heterogeneous and people are mainly working in agriculture and business for their livelihood.
The Small Town Water Supply and Sanitation Project-Kakarvitta is one of largest water supply schemes, which supplies water to more than 2000 households.
The survey was planned in a way that random sampling of 30-40 households is good enough to represent the heterogeneous population.
Before the survey started, we briefed the partners and concerned authorities including water users committee, local NGOs about the methodologies being used for the data collection. The use of Smart Phone in data collection made them very excited, which shows that the people at the ground are ready to adopt new user friendly technologies that will ultimately make their life easier.
Data collection using smart phone is portable & hassle free. You don't need paper/pen and other devices like GPS, Camera, and recorder. Every essential tools are within a single gadget. - Mr. Dipesh Oli, Enumerator
The advantage of using AKVO Flow system is, that it is quite user friendly. A young lady who is used to using Smart Phone can easily use this system and collect the data. Within few minutes of orientation, two young people were ready to work as enumerator for the data collection. During orientation/demonstration enumerators suggested some changes for possible replies and contextualized a bit. The feedback was really helpful to contextualize the questions as I set-up the original questionnaire from Kathmandu, and it was not difficult to change the questions. I just had to logon to the website, which I could do on the spot using 3G on my laptop.
More than 40 households were surveyed within two days with the assistance of two enumerators over the OBA program implemented area.
"The application is user-friendly, handy and less time consuming. I have been using smart phone for some time, for me it's like using apps in my phone and I did enjoy while collecting the data using smart phone."- Mrs. Rubina Shrestha, Enumerator
The initial plan was to collect around 35-40 data sets, but we managed to collect 50 dataset as enumerators enjoyed the whole process of data collection and survey using smart phone.
The data collection for OBA Monitoring in Kakarvitta, was very successful as we accomplished more than we expected.
The local authorities from Small Town Water Supply Project-Kakarvitta did express their interest about AKVO Flow technology.
"We are eagerly looking forward using such type of technology in our small town project, so we could maintain geo-tagged information in our database. Such kind of information will be effective to locate users, coverage of supply and problem identification as water supply provider." Chief, Small Town Water Supply Project- Kakarvitta.
Soon there will further updates from Western region Nepal too.
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On Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australian schools will remain open.
China, Turkey, France, Israel, Greece, Spain, Italy, Japan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, South Korea, Pakistan, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland, are among the countries who have closed all schools and universities to curb the spread of the coronavirus, with many urging people to work from home if possible.
At the time of publication, 156,536 people have tested positive for COVID-19. The death toll currently sits at 5,835. Contrary to the comments you’ve seen popping up on social media in the last few weeks, this is nothing like the flu. It is at least 23 times more deadly.
We will not know for months, perhaps years, the mortality rate of COVID-19. But currently it’s looking like for every 100 people who fall ill, three to four people will die. If, as has been hypothesised by Dr Kerry Chant, New South Wales’ chief health officer, 20 per cent of New South Wales’ population contract COVID-19, then that’s 8,000 people dead. Those estimates are conservative. And that’s also assuming everyone who needs a hospital bed, gets one.
On Friday, the Australian government announced a ban on all non-essential gatherings of over 500 people. These sorts of measures, known as social distancing, have proven to work in places like China and South Korea.
But there’s one kind of social gathering of over 500 people that, apparently, is still permitted.
A school with hundreds or thousands of pupils? Well. You’re still expected to show up.
Over the weekend, Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy said it’s “too early” to close the nation’s schools. He argued that COVID-19 did not appear to be affecting children as badly, stating, “One of the interesting and positive aspects of this virus is that there have been very few reports of symptomatic infection in children. What we don’t know is whether children are getting infected but just don’t get symptoms…”
Some points made by both Murphy and the Australian government are valid and worth considering.
If schools close, health care workers may have to stay home to look after their children, putting additional strain on the medical system.
The other common argument has been: Aren’t children better off in schools as opposed to interacting with the community in other ways? Say inside shopping centres of movie theatres?
This is a strange argument given the virtually uncontested expert advice to practise social distancing, and to stay at home as much as one possibly can. Those arguing that schools should be closed, think children and adolescents should be inside. Not at the movies.
Critically, Murphy acknowledged that it is most likely that while children are not being infected, they are still ‘spreading it’.
What doesn’t appear to be acknowledged in this debate is the health risk posed to teachers.
Teachers who are over the age of 60. Who are living with immunosuppresion. Who have a chronic illness. And who feel an obligation to continue to work, until they receive the directive not to.
We also know that many students live with their grandparents. Let’s consider that those grandparents are over the age of 80. The chances of the coronavirus being lethal for them, is, conservatively, about one in six.
And then there’s the bus drivers. The rail workers. The people whose job it is to get hundreds of thousands of kids to and from school everyday. What about their health?
While education is unequivocally one of our greatest social priorities, it defies logic to ban gatherings of over 500 people and keep schools open.
Earlier today I spoke to a primary school teacher who shook his head at the futility of practicing social distancing this weekend.
He didn’t go to the gym or to major shopping centres. He cancelled plans with friends. But on Monday, it will be expected that he shows up to school with hundreds of children, some too young to understand basic hygiene, who cumulatively would have been in contact with hundreds if not thousands of people in the last 48 hours.
Is the plan to wait until someone tests positive? And then they shut the school down? Once the coronavirus has gone home on the school uniforms and in the school bags and on the hands of hundreds of school children, as well as their teachers?
The time to shut down schools and universities in Australia has well and truly arrived.
Let’s hope that when the decision is finally made, it isn’t too late.
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Boy Scout Troop 61
Presbyterian Church of Bloomingdale
Meeting Time: Monday Nights 7:30 – 9:00
Sample Questions for 1st Class Board of Review
On average, how many Troop meetings do you attend each month?
What part of Troop meetings are most rewarding to you?
What is the Scout Slogan? What does it mean for a 1st Class Scout?
Tell us about your last campout with the Troop. Where did you go? How did you help with meal preparation? Did you have a good time? (If "No", why not?)
If you were in charge of planning and preparing a dinner for your next campout, what would you select?
As a 1st Class Scout, what do you think the Star, Life, and Eagle Scouts will expect from you on an outing?
Does your family do any camping? What have you learned in Scouts, that you have been able to share with your family to improve their camping experiences?
Why do you think that swimming is emphasized in Scouting?
Why is it important for you to know how to transport a person who has a broken leg?
Why is it important for you to be able to recognize local plant life?
What did you learn about using a compass while completing the orienteering requirement?
What does it mean to say, "A Scout is Courteous"?
Why are merit badges a part of Scouting?
How frequently do you attend religious services? Does your whole family attend?
What is your most favorite part of Scouting? Least favorite?
How does a Scout fulfill his "Duty to Country"?
How do you define "Scout Spirit"?
What is the Order of the Arrow? What is the primary function of OA?
Who was Lord Baden-Powell?
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After two hugely successful TV series Blue Planet is coming back to TV & this time it’s live!
The time could not be more right with increasing concern and building awareness of the fragility of our marine ecosystem this series can only help to achieve the necessary crescendo of support to make those in charge of building our future take notice.
Blue Planet II, the enormously successful sequel to the 2001 Blue Planet series arrived in 2017/2018 and as well as serving to highlight the majestic beauty of our oceans it also devoted an entire episode to the risks and issues facing this fabulous resource.
Blue Planet Live focuses on the great pressures confronting life in our oceans and investigates the effect human impact has had on our marine ecosystem over a series of 4 episodes.
Please do what you can to encourage everyone you can to watch and help change the way we think about the ocean from a bottomless giant dustbin that we can keep pouring our throwaway convenience rubbish into (until we want to take a nice beach holiday) to a recognition that species extinction & catastrophic global change is on the horizon.
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Ranthambore National Park is one of the popular tiger reserves in India located among the Aravali & Vindhya hill ranges in the state of Rajasthan. The park covers an area of 400 sq.km and comes under the district of Sawai Madhopur. In 1957 the Ranthambore National Park was declared as a wildlife sanctuary and in 1972 it came under the Project Tiger Scheme. It became a National Park in the year 1982. It's the ideal place to spot the tiger. The majestic predators, assured of protection, roam freely during the day time and can be seen at close quarters. | <urn:uuid:3f794514-cc54-46a1-9774-bc43b2e4b0ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.touristlink.com/india/the-sanctuary-resort/overview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955479 | 125 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Now, as some of you know, I am working on a TEOTWAWKI novel. In this novel, a wealthy hobby-survivalist is stuck tending to a group of his friends who are traveling across the CONUS after TEOTWAWKI occurs. Two of the characters have extensive firearms training - the survivalist and an Army veteran, and another one has a limited experience hunting with his father and so forth. The other three people have very limited training, mostly limited to basic gun safety. So, how would you provide those last 3 people with basic gun training after civilization is gone? Assume that before the event, you were rather wealthy and prepared. | <urn:uuid:28b40836-478c-467b-a43b-931a1a579da8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/firearms-training-after-teotwawki.13058/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986382 | 136 | 1.671875 | 2 |
There are many opportunities to explore mathematics outside the classroom at Coe, and we encourage students to take advantage of as many of them as they can!
- Coe has a very active Math Club, funded through the Student Senate and driven by student interest. The Math Club organizes at least one event per month through the academic year, with a wide variety of activities. We've enjoyed surprisingly high participation, with as many as 45 people turning up for speakers and more than a dozen involved in winter break reading projects.
- Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest
- The annual Putnam Mathematical Competition
- The Iowa Section of the MAA's Collegiate Mathematics Competition
- Numerous internship opportunities in the metropolitan area
- Summer research programs both on and off campus
- Off-campus study programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and elsewhere
- Senior honors projects on a wide range of topics
The department is housed in space with technology designed right into all classrooms and work spaces. Smart classrooms, graphing calculators, computer algebra systems like Mathematica and Maple, statistical software like Minitab and SPSS, and up-to-date software development systems such as .NET are all available and used throughout our department. | <urn:uuid:7bdca75d-8cc9-4ea0-9ca0-8f8ece95be75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coe.edu/academics/majors-areas-study/mathematics-computer-science/clubs-organizations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.953737 | 253 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The Ordinance of Secession, 1860. This document marked the conclusion of a movement to declare Southern independence from a national government increasingly controlled by Northerners. It was the beginning of a series of events that would lead to a bloody Civil War. Drawn up by a "Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina," it "dissolve[d] the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled The Constitution of the United States of America." The 170 men who signed the Ordinance--wealthy planters, lawyers, doctors and businessmen--argued that the State of South Carolina had the right to withdraw from the federation they had joined when an earlier "Convention of the People" ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788 (see Delegates To A 1787 Convention In Philadelphia). Feeling their right to own slaves was threatened, they left the Union. Signed with great ceremony in Institute Hall (see Institute Hall and First Baptist Church, Columbia, SC) in Charleston on December 20, 1860, the original Ordinance of Secession was closely guarded during the war. Some of the exact lithographic copies made for the signers were captured by Union soldiers, who mistakenly thought that they had found the "Scroll of Treason." The original, which never left state custody, is in the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the continuities and changes experienced by Americans of various genders, positions, races, and social status during the Civil War.
- This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the continuities and changes of the experiences of marginalized groups such as African Americans, Native Americans and women, as the U.S. expanded westward and grappled with the development of new states.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the debates, heightened by Westward Expansion, over federal and state power concerning slavery, and the government’s role in protecting and securing natural rights.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the changes that served as a catalyst for Reconstruction. The indicator was also designed to promote inquiry into how these actions affected the economic, political, and social conditions in the S...
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O’Bryan, S. J. et al. Progressive Resistance Training for Concomitant Increases in Muscle Strength and Bone Mineral Density in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine 52, 1939–1960 (2022).
Background Older adults experience considerable muscle and bone loss that are closely interconnected. The efficacy of progressive resistance training programs to concurrently reverse/slow the age-related decline in muscle strength and bone mineral density (BMD) in older adults remains unclear.
We aimed to quantify concomitant changes in lower-body muscle strength and BMD in older adults following a progressive resistance training program and to determine how these changes are influenced by mode (resistance only vs. combined resistance and weight-bearing exercises), frequency, volume, load, and program length.
MEDLINE/PubMed and Embase databases were searched for articles published in English before 1 June, 2021. Randomized controlled trials reporting changes in leg press or knee extension one repetition maximum and femur/hip or lumbar spine BMD following progressive resistance training in men and/or women ≥ 65 years of age were included. A random-effects meta-analysis and meta-regression determined the effects of resistance training and the individual training characteristics on the percent change (∆%) in muscle strength (standardized mean difference) and BMD (mean difference). The quality of the evidence was assessed using the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool (version 2.0) and Grading of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria.
Seven hundred and eighty studies were identified and 14 were included. Progressive resistance training increased muscle strength (∆ standardized mean difference = 1.1%; 95% confidence interval 0.73, 1.47; p ≤ 0.001) and femur/hip BMD (∆ mean difference = 2.77%; 95% confidence interval 0.44, 5.10; p = 0.02), but not BMD of the lumbar spine (∆ mean difference = 1.60%; 95% confidence interval − 1.44, 4.63; p = 0.30). The certainty for improvement was greater for muscle strength compared with BMD, evidenced by less heterogeneity (I2 = 78.1% vs 98.6%) and a higher overall quality of evidence. No training characteristic significantly affected both outcomes (p > 0.05), although concomitant increases in strength and BMD were favored by higher training frequencies, increases in strength were favored by resistance only and higher volumes, and increases in BMD were favored by combined resistance plus weight-bearing exercises, lower volumes, and higher loads.
Progressive resistance training programs concomitantly increase lower-limb muscle strength and femur/hip bone mineral density in older adults, with greater certainty for strength improvement. Thus, to maximize the efficacy of progressive resistance training programs to concurrently prevent muscle and bone loss in older adults, it is recommended to incorporate training characteristics more likely to improve BMD. | <urn:uuid:50e83e61-5e98-4058-8d78-11d4fc51b577> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sasma.org.za/articles/progressive-resistance-training-for-concomitant-increases-in-muscle-strength-and-bone-mineral-density-in-older-adults-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.92889 | 632 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Bambino got around.
Even in an era when there were no big league teams west of St. Louis, fans could expect Babe Ruth to turn up anywhere. Fresh documentation of a mid-season trip to St. Paul, MN in 1926 is entering the hobby thanks to the discovery of an old poster in the walls of a nearby home.
The 14×22” poster was used to promote the appearance by Ruth and the Yankees at Lexington Park, home of the St. Paul Saints, during a Yankees off day. However, the exhibition was rained out and fans had to settle for Ruth swatting some long home runs, according to the book Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History by Stew Thornley.
According to the book, earlier that day The Babe had tossed autographed baseballs through the windows of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, a local newspaper.
Ruth and the Yankees had traveled north from Chicago where they had finished a series against the White Sox at Comiskey Park and would then head south for a series with the St. Louis Browns later that week.
The poster is being sold by Heritage Auctions, which says it was discovered by the consignor during demolition of an old home. Mad of thin cardboard, it shows tack holes and has a small tear, but is the first of its kind to ever be uncovered and brought to the marketplace. Bidding stands at $5,000 with a pre-sale estimate of $20,000 and up. Bidding closes next month. | <urn:uuid:7d4d92c0-4035-41a1-9bd9-3bfd494931d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/ruth-poster-discovered-walls-mn-home-fetch-big/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984671 | 312 | 2.15625 | 2 |
WMU center hired to evaluate Louisiana schools
June 27, 2006
KALAMAZOO--Western Michigan University's Evaluation Center has been hired to evaluate the effectiveness of a sweeping education initiative supporting Central Louisiana school districts.
The Evaluation Center is conducting an analysis of the Systemic Initiative in Education in cooperation with the Gordon A. Cain Center at Louisiana State University. The evaluation began last fall and will continue through September 2010, a year after the Systemic Initiative has been completed.
The Rapides Foundation, which sponsors the education initiative, hired the WMU center to assist in the evaluation. In 2004, the foundation unveiled the Systemic Initiative in Education, a $10 million investment over the next five years in schools within nine parishes in Central Louisiana.
Dr. Gary Miron, Evaluation Center chief of staff, serves as director of the Louisiana evaluation effort. Other key staff from the Evaluation Center are Anne Cullen, who serves as project manager, and Dr. Liesel Ritchie, who joined the center at the onset of the project. The team from the Evaluation Center will be responsible for surveying teachers and administrators, as well as analyzing student achievement data, while the team from LSU will be responsible for site visits to schools.
Miron calls the initiative "a bold and comprehensive effort to improve student achievement through professional development and leadership development." He notes the initiative provides resources for districts to develop and nurture new instructional approaches to produce high student achievement.
According to Ritchie, the effort includes a particular emphasis on building and strengthening professional learning communities in the participating schools. The foundation's goal, she notes, is to promote school improvement by producing highly intellectual and challenging work for students, teachers and administrators, as well as developing a district culture that supports high achievement.
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September 25, 2012
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TALLAHASSEE- The Florida Department of Corrections and the Corrections Foundation again are proud to partner to provide computers to non-profit schools, church-based and community-based organizations that serve children’s needs through the Computers for Florida’s Kids program.
Computers can be donated through the Corrections Foundation to Cross City Correctional Institution or through the Department’s Tallahassee Central Office. To coordinate donations outside that area, contact the Corrections Foundation. Donations are eligible for a tax deduction.
Carefully-selected and specially-trained inmates at Cross City Correctional Institution refurbish these computers and load Windows operating systems onto the refurbished computers. The refurbished computers are then ready to be awarded to organizations serving children’s needs.
“This program is important not just because it gives computers to kids who need them for school or to learn technological skills,” said Deputy Secretary Mike Crews. “It gives inmates the opportunity to learn re-entry and job skills that will help them make positive choices and become productive members of their community.”
One partner in this initiative, Creative Recycling Systems, recently donated 50 monitors, 100 keyboards, mice and power cords and strongly believes in the Computers for Florida’s Kids program.
“Giving back to our community is the foundation Creative Recycling Systems was built on," says Jon Yob, CEO at Creative Recycling Systems. "Working together, with other selfless community members, giving back to those less fortunate is one of our strongest pillars."
Computers that will be accepted for donation must meet certain standards – Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with a minimum 512 MB of memory and a CD/DVD drive or Macs –Performa, Centris, Power Mac, or G3 and up. Peripherals in working condition will also be accepted: color monitors, keyboards, mice, power and monitor cables, and CD/DVD drives, network cards, Pentium motherboards, RAM SIMMS, 120+ GB hard drives. Full details on the Computers for Florida’s Kids program, how to donate used computer equipment, can be found on the Corrections Foundation website.
The Computers for Florida’s Kids Program has had great success over the years, refurbishing over 7,000 computers that were then given back to the community.
If you know of a school or organization who would like to request a computer, visit the Florida Corrections Foundation website.
For more information about the Computers for Florida’s Kids program, contact the Corrections Foundation at (850) 717-3714.
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A masters refers to the completion of a graduate study program that prepares students to further their knowledge of a specific subject or advance their careers. The majority of masters are granted by state or public universities.
Accounting is often referred to as the “language of business.” It is a process which measures a business or organization’s financial and economic activity. There are various organizations within the field of accounting that assist with this process. Some of these groups may include standard-setters, professional bodies, and accounting firms.
Education in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under different governments: the UK Government is responsible for England, and the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are responsible for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively.
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See some of the research collected on a History Pin map below.
Arming All Sides questioned what role the arms trade played before, during and after the war, what opposition was mounted to the trade and how the war affected what people thought about making and selling armaments.
The timeline plots our arms trade research alongside key dates from the First World War and interwar era: a key classroom resource. Visit the timeline page here.
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The setting of social and environmental standards in agriculture has continuously increased over the years. Products certified by Fairtrade, Organic, UTZ or Rainforest Alliance are popular with consumers who want to ensure that particular production and processing standards are met. Fairtrade is one of the most well-known certification schemes world-wide. It focuses on improving the working conditions and bargaining power of smalls-scale farmers and plantation workers. Whether Fairtrade actually achieves these objectives is still hotly debated.
So far, research has largely focused on the effects of Fairtrade certification for small farmers – also because historically the Fairtrade movement’s aim was to improve trade conditions for small-scale farmers. Today it is estimated that about 1.5 million small-scale farmers are Fairtrade certified through producer organisations and about 186,000 workers are employed on Fairtrade certified plantations (Fairtrade International, 2018).
But plantation workers are considered one of the most vulnerable groups in the global trade system as they are often exposed to difficult working conditions, low wages and lack of bargaining power. To understand what role certification can play to improve working environments on plantations, Dr. Katharina Krumbiegel and Prof. Dr. Meike Wollni from the DFG-supported Research Training Group ‘GlobalFood’ (RTG 1666) and Prof. Dr. Miet Maertens from KU Leuven, implemented a study in the pineapple sector in Ghana. Primary survey data from 325 randomly sampled workers from eight different export-oriented pineapple companies was collected in 2015. The results of the study were published this year in the journal “World Development”.
To ensure the best comparison across Fairtrade and Non-Fairtrade certified companies, they were matched according to their size, production capacity and foreign management. The interviewed workers were questioned on their household’s socio-economic characteristics as well as their employment conditions, provisions of services by their employer, labour union involvement, and company utilization of the Fairtrade premium. To take into account both worker and company-level information and the possible selection bias, three complimentary econometric approaches are applied to assess whether Fairtrade certification has an effect on both wages and job satisfaction. Using an objective and subjective outcome variable provides a more holistic understanding of the work environment on plantations.
The findings show that both hourly wages and job satisfaction are indeed higher on Fairtrade-certified plantations. In all models hourly wages are more than 30% higher for Fairtrade workers. Job satisfaction is also significantly positively correlated with Fairtrade certification, which can be driven by factors such as higher wages, permanent employment contracts, training opportunities, company services related to health care and paid leave as well as established labour unions supporting worker empowerment. As all exporting pineapple companies in Ghana are GlobalGAP certified, we conclude that Fairtrade is able to provide comparably better working conditions and wages for hired labourers beyond GlobalGAP’s standards through its explicit labour requirements. This shows that market-based approaches that set specific social standards can indeed reduce the vulnerability of workers and foster improved employment opportunities in developing countries.
Originalveröffentlichung: Krumbiegel, K., Maertens, M., Wollni M.: The Role of Fairtrade Certification for Wages and Job Satisfaction of Plantation Workers; in: World Development (102).
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Give Me Shelter
Writer’s note: For three years I have ghostwritten for the Whatcom Humane Society (WHS), an organization on the front lines of animal rescue. The stories of the animals arriving at WHS are repeated in shelters across the U.S. and Canada with only the names and dates changing. The heroes working and volunteering at animal shelters do their best to save these abandoned pets in the face of a staggering overpopulation crisis caused by human irresponsibility.
In their seven years, Brewster and Brandi’s biggest crime was to miss their human guardians too much. Left alone in the backyard most of the time, separation anxiety set in for the Beagle brother and sister. Craving the companionship of the pack, the Beagles bayed in the sharp timbre that earned their breed a history of hunting duty.
Neighbours complained about the howling, and two weeks before Christmas, their owner had enough of their lonely cries. The Beagles were dropped off at the Whatcom Humane Society (WHS) in northern Washington State, and any interest in their care or future was surrendered with a single signature on an intake page.
Like most animals landing at community animal shelters, the details of Brewster and Brandi’s lives are sketchy. In their cement kennel, the two dogs bonded since birth move like shadows of each other. One mature Beagle would be difficult to place, but a bonded pair is nearly impossible. At the WHS front desk, customer service staff member Christa DeLano reports that a Beagle purebred rescue group has been notified about Brewster and Brandi’s arrival, but like animal rescue groups everywhere, they are usually full.
“I never realized until I worked here how many people surrender animals,” says Jessie Pitts, who also works the front desk. “They come in all shapes and sizes.”
Whatcom Humane Society, located near the Bellingham International Airport, has animal control contracts with local governments to serve a population of about 85,000 people, but the shelter will accept animals surrendered from owners living anywhere. In 2006, almost 3,300 animals were accepted into the tiny, dilapidated facility staffed by 16 people. The non-profit organization is assisted by 75 volunteers. The kennels have no access to sunshine or fresh air, and barking dogs blast out a cacophony of noise. Areas for exercising and socializing animals are nearly non-existent. Most animal shelters (including WHS) receive no government funding with the exception of what amounts to break-even animal control contracts. They depend entirely on donations to survive.
WHS is an open-door shelter accepting every animal without considering his or her age, health, physical condition, and temperament. The agency’s space limitations also aren’t a factor. That means making hard choices: euthanize animals, or risk warehousing them indefinitely.
“We put people in solitary confinement for murder,” says WHS executive director Penny Cistaro. “How can you call that humane treatment for an animal?”
The harsh reality is that there is a drastic shortage of homes for unwanted companion animals. Statistics aren’t reliably compiled and tabulated, but animal welfare groups estimate the number of animals euthanized annually to be as many as nine million.
Animals are surrendered to shelters for a variety of mostly trivial reasons; at WHS, moving is the most popular reason cited. Like swinging by to drop an old couch at the garbage dump, dogs, cats, and other pets are left at the shelter on the way to the next destination. A minor requirement such as paying a pet damage deposit might motivate a citizen to relinquish a companion animal. Not having enough time for a pet is also a popular excuse, even for those turning over cats requiring little more than food and shelter, DeLano says.
“There’s a constant barrage of animals being dumped for various reasons,” says Laura Clark, WHS community outreach and humane education director. “It’s not getting better.”
Clark, a 10-year veteran of shelter work, remembers feeling shell-shocked after her first interview at a large San Francisco Bay-area shelter. “I cried all the way home, but I knew this was the only thing I wanted to do,” she says.
Director Cistaro, who has worked in animal sheltering for 32 years, says it was the first few animals in severe distress she encountered early in her career as a young field officer that made a stark impression on her. They helped her realize death wasn’t the worst fate that could befall an animal. “I have seen the worst things happen to homeless and stray animals, and I have seen the pain, torture, suffering, and anguish.”
Cistaro says it’s a daily battle for shelters to fight against “hungry puppy syndrome,” referring to the phenomenon of getting so caught up in feeding and caring for an overwhelming and endless torrent of homeless animals that little time is left to dedicate to fundamental community outreach: spaying and neutering, raising money, humane education, and programs teaching children and adults that animals are sentient beings deserving of respect and compassion.
The importance of community outreach programs, particularly the low-cost Spay Neuter Assistance Program, is illustrated by the shelter’s new arrivals. As Christmas descends on WHS, seven Pit Bull-mix eight-week-old puppies are dropped off. The litter is so large—11 in all—that staff name them after Santa’s reindeer: Cupid, Comet, Vixen, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Blitzen.
The pups aren’t socialized. Volunteers like Katy James show great patience and dedication, spending many hours sitting on the floor of their kennel playing, petting, reassuring. In just one week they are clamoring to the front of the cage to get closer to visitors. One by one they are adopted.
Still, staff members and volunteers agree “it’s an emotionally and physically taxing job. There’s not a day you don’t go home mentally and physically exhausted,” Clark says. Salaries are low, and statistics show that the burn-out rate is high, especially within the first one to two years on the job.
Even the volunteers feel the toll at times. “There are days when we all take turns crying,” says Lynn Graham, who spends two days a week volunteering at the shelter.
Difficult decisions are made almost every day. The shelter is already overloaded when the 17th cat comes through the doors carried in a taped-up Home Depot box. Her previous owners apparently sold their house and left her behind three weeks earlier.
The 13-year-old cat doesn’t get checked into a kennel – it would only prolong the inevitable. There are none left anyway, and the reality is that an older cat can’t compete for the few available homes. Potential adopters fear veterinary bills and the prospect of having to say goodbye in only a few short years. Instead she is taken down the hall to a small modest room painted peach, where she is put down. There is nowhere else for her to go.
“She died a very peaceful death,” Clark says of the cat, acknowledging that tough calls like this one are made by shelter workers every day. “Somebody in some shelter somewhere is kneeling over a cat like this right now. Sometimes the only thing we can do is be there at the animal’s final moment.”
Against all odds, however, Beagles Brandi and Brewster are going to make it. Clark took them to Bellingham’s KAFE radio station where the dogs appeared with her on the popular KAFE Kritters spot. For rescued animals, the show is the equivalent of the Holy Grail. KAFE radio personalities Shari Matthews and Dave Walker are animal lovers and avid supporters of the shelter’s efforts, and have taken on Brandi and Brewster’s cause. They will publicize the Beagles’ plight on-air until a listener steps forward to offer them a home together.
It is happy endings and public support such as this that keep the shelter staff going. It’s a job that would defeat many animal lovers, but the successes inspire the workers and volunteers to press on. A call to shelter staff from the family of Pepper, a 115-pound Chow adopted the previous day, proclaims she is thriving in her new home. A picture of Sarah, the large mixed-breed dog adopted recently after spending eight months at the shelter, is posted in the lobby. Sarah’s head is poking out the window and her ears are flying in the wind as she takes off in her new owner’s car. Holiday cards with photographs enclosed from adopters buoy the spirits of the staff who focus on the second chances given to forgotten animals.
And not all visitors are surrendering family pets. One woman stopped by to donate $750 of supplies including beds, food and toys for the animals, causing the staff to marvel at her generosity.
“I find this to be an inspiring place,” Clark says. “I don’t find it to be sad.”
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Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing April 2022
The story in this issue on North Idaho Energy Logs, written by David Abbott, caught my attention at the mention of Pres-to-logs. Much of the Idaho company’s success in wood energy markets is because of its energy logs or fire logs composed of shavings and sawdust, and as the article notes they’re made with the original machines from the 1930s. The article also says the Pres-to-logs trade name is now owned by another company, which is why the Idaho operation calls them North Idaho Energy Logs.
I recalled that Pres-to-logs was a depression-era Potlatch product manufactured at its sawmill operation in Lewiston, Idaho. That’s about all I knew, but upon further research…
The man shown here in the photo, a chief engineer for Potlatch Forests named Bob Bowling, invented Pres-to-logs and the machine with which to make them. This was in 1929. His process revolutionized the wood briquetting industry, relying on high pressures to make the briquette self-binding. The essential parts of the machine that were constantly enhanced over the next few years included the pressing screw, tip forming head, die wheel indexing mechanicsm, and the yielding control pressure mechanism.
Bowling’s first machine, which made 8.5 in. briquettes, cranked up during the 1930-1931 fuel season, until it was rebuilt with the disc to watercool the logs. Potlatch then built two larger machines to make a longer briquette. The original short machine was overhauled and made into two separate machines so that by August 1932 Potlatch was running four machines and its Pres-to-logs business caught fire, so to speak.
It got so hot in fact that Potlatch contracted Willamette Hyster Co. to build a fifth machine, which started up in early 1933. The sales growth of Pres-to-logs, which were actually sold by the Potlatch Forests Fuel Department and transported by raiload, was so strong that it prompted Potlatch to start a business in 1933 called Wood Briquettes, Inc. for the purpose of leasing Pres-to-logs machines to other companies, including to Oregon Lumber in Baker, Ore., Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Rogue River Box Co., Shea Manufacturing in Los Angeles, Setzer Box Co. in Sacramento, Pacific Lumber in Scotia.
Wood Briquettes, Inc. found some interesting applications as it marketed its Pres-to-logs product, such as for fuel in the dining car ranges of all of the Union Pacific trains, in rolling field kitchens of the U.S. Army, as galley fuel on intercoastal vessels, as fuel in CCC camps.
Roy Huffman, general manager of Wood Briquettes, Inc., wrote in the Potlatch newsletter, The Family Tree, in June 1937: “Each year has shown a large gain in the tonnage of Pres-to-logs made and sold, and the increase is more and more pronounced as time goes by. Pres-to-logs are here to stay.”
The patent for the Pres-to-logs machine apparently expired in 1960 and probably none were built after that. Potlatch remained in the Pres-to-logs business into the 1980s before dissolving Wood Briquettes, Inc.
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Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing July 2022 – Do you want to get confused? Let’s go to Diboll, Texas. Here you’ll find the Georgia-Pacific sawmill, which is our cover story this issue as written by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson…
Officials with D.R. Johnson Lumber report the company’s Prairie City, Ore. sawmill was back up and running the second week in July. Prairie Wood Products, a division of D.R. Johnson Lumber Co., had been idled since 2009 due to economic downturn pressures…
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The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.
The NPA was established in 1937 to counteract the rise of the democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The party is generally perceived as centre-right within the Vancouver political spectrum and historically drew its strongest support from the business community and "corporate downtown".
Peter Ladner was the NPA's nominee for mayor in the 2008 Vancouver civic election on November 15, 2008, but lost to Gregor Robertson, the candidate for Vision Vancouver. The NPA's electoral platform suggested that an NPA government would focus on reducing crime, improving housing affordability, leveraging the 2010 Winter Olympics, protecting the environment, advancing the city's arts and culture sector, and working collaboratively with senior levels of government, community groups, and the private sector. The campaign emphasized the importance of experience and fiscal prudence during an economically tumultuous time.
The party, led by Suzanne Anton as the NPA candidate for mayor, once again lost to Robertson and Vision Vancouver in the 2011 Vancouver civic election on November 19, 2011, but elected two members to the city council.
The NPA's name stems from the ideological position that civic governance should not be driven by partisan, or party, politics. The tenets of the NPA's original constitution still stand today:
- To strive to improve civic government in Vancouver.
- To support the election of the most suitable candidates for civic office.
- To oppose the introduction of party politics into the elected boards of the city.
Over the years, these basic themes have been expanded to include the following principles:
- Municipal levels of government should act for the benefit of the people and should allow every individual the freedom of worship, assembly, opportunity and initiative.
- Individuals have the right to enjoy the fruits of their labour, and to own private property, and individual enterprise is generally preferable to government intervention.
- Civic progress and stability can only be achieved by upholding the law, accepting social responsibilities, and accomplishing change by intelligent planning.
- Elected civic representatives should make decisions based on the viewpoint of many individuals and organizations, and not be under obligation to policies or platforms of political parties.
The NPA's first civic election effort was a failure because a member of the executive, Colonel Nelson Spencer, broke away and ran for mayor after the NPA chose George Miller as its candidate instead of Spencer. The result was the right wing vote was split, and socialist Lyle Telford was elected. Telford would only serve one term before Jack Cornett was elected in the 1940 election, beginning the NPAs longstanding dominance of Vancouver's City Hall.
The NPA has often enjoyed electoral success during its history. It has held a majority on Vancouver City Council during many periods since 1941. Its majority on council has been interrupted during periods such as: 1967–70, 1972–78, 1982–86, 2002–05 and 2008–present. Its ability to elect a mayor was interrupted from 1958–1963, from 1973–1986, and since 2009, electing only three of the last eight mayors since 1972. Over the years, its opposition has been The Electors' Action Movement (TEAM) in the 1970s, the left-of-centre Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) in the 1980s, and left-of-centre Vision Vancouver in the 2000s.
There have been eleven NPA mayors of Vancouver:
- Jack (Jonathan Webster) Cornett (1941–46)
- Gerry McGeer (1947)
- Charles E. Jones (1947–48)
- George Clark Miller (acting) (1948)
- Charles Edwin Thompson (1949–50)
- Frederick Hume (1951–58)
- William Rathie (1963–66)
- Tom Campbell (Independent 1967–70, NPA from 1970–72)
- Gordon Campbell (1986–93)
- Philip Owen (1993–2002)
- Sam Sullivan (2005–08)
- Miller, Fern (1975). "Vancouver Civic Political Parties: Developing a Model of Party-system Change and Stabilization". BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly. Spring 1975 (25): 3–31.
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- 2011 election results | City of Vancouver. Vancouver.ca. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.
- Andrea Barbara Smith (1981). "The Origins of the NPA: A Study in Vancouver Politics 1930-1940". MA thesis. University of British Columbia. | <urn:uuid:c74721e3-b25b-446f-bc08-3e4690b07cc5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Partisan_Association | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928669 | 1,051 | 2 | 2 |
Single-molecule detection has opened vast avenues to investigate aspects of biological systems that are inaccessible by any other technique. However, most of the single-molecule studies have been limited to isolated single protein, RNA, and DNA molecules, yet these molecules do not function in isolation in the cell. To better emulate the cellular environment, we need to study more-complex systems with many components.
Research in my lab is focused on pushing the limits of single-molecule detection methods to study biological systems as a complex. To do this, we develop state-of-the-art techniques (e.g., multicolor fluorescence, superresolution imaging, combined force and fluorescence spectroscopy, vesicular encapsulation, quantitative fluorescence labeling strategies). These techniques are enabling us to test diverse protein–nucleic acid and protein-protein complexes and the mechanistic basis of their interactions and functions – both in vitro and in vivo – at an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.
Conformational Dynamics of Nucleic Acids
The elastic model of DNA duplex dynamics predicts high bending stiffness in DNA polymers less than 150 base pairs (bp) in length. We recently developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based cyclization assay to explain the apparent bendability of DNA <100 bp observed in many cellular processes, such as gene expression regulation, packaging in viral capsids, and nucleosome formation. We can determine the effect of DNA length on the rates and variation of DNA looping. The DNA cyclization assay allows us to see the effect of various DNA modifications, defects, and proteins on DNA flexibility. We are also utilizing three-color FRET strategies and MD-Gō simulations (in collaboration with Sarah Woodson [Johns Hopkins University] and Zaida Luthey-Schulten [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]) to understand the sequential events in ribosome assembly. Our studies of ribosomal protein S4 binding to Escherichia coli 16S rRNA have captured the cooperativity in simultaneous binding and folding events and shed more light on protein-RNA interactions during the ribosome assembly process.
Single-Molecule Study of Nucleic Acid–Binding Proteins
Helicases – the DNA/RNA-unwinding enzymes – and their enzymatic activities are associated with virtually all cellular processes involving nucleic acids and constitute an important aspect of our research. Helicases are found in all three kingdoms of life and are extremely numerous: an estimated 1–2 percent of eukaryotic genes encode helicases. Several severe human genetic diseases have been linked to mutations in these proteins. Using our small-molecule FRET approaches, we have gained insights into the functions of different families of helicases (e.g., Rep, NS3, UvrD, PcrA) and their role during DNA replication (e.g., T7). For example, we discovered that PcrA helicase reels in DNA in single base steps, forming a DNA loop and at the same time efficiently removing other proteins bound to the DNA.
We also discovered that NS3 helicase from a human pathogen, hepatitis C virus, uses a spring-loaded mechanism to unwind DNA. Furthermore, we determined that a "priming loop" formed during double-stranded DNA unwinding by T7 helicase enables coordination of leading- and lagging-strand synthesis during DNA replication. With respect to other DNA-binding proteins, we have used three-color FRET strategy to show that the sliding mechanism of RecA filament is crucial for fast homology search during DNA repair and recombination.
To elucidate the functional behavior of DNA-binding proteins in more detail, we have recently developed a next generation of single-molecule instrumentation combining ultrahigh-resolution optical traps, capable of detecting motions at the subnanometer scale, and single-molecule fluorescence detection. The instrument uses a high-speed interlacing scheme to combine dual optical traps with a confocal fluorescence microscope. This instrument will enable us to make direct correlation, for the first time, between conformational states and unwinding steps of helicases. In addition, we have recently built an instrument combining total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy with optical tweezers (fleezers) so that we can track movements of fluorescently labeled molecules on a stretched single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). This platform will allow us to probe the consequences of an encounter between a helicase and other DNA-bound proteins, which are difficult to probe using FRET alone. Insights into mechanisms of single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) sliding on ssDNA are an example. We are expanding fleezer technology to study nucleosome conformational dynamics, particularly with respect to DNA wrapping and unwrapping on the histone octamers.
Visualizing Protein-Protein and Protein–Nucleic Acid Interactions
While we are taking advantage of single-molecule techniques to study biological molecules in vitro, we are also interested in understanding biological processes in their physiological context. We have developed a single-molecule pull-down (SiMPull) assay that combines the principles of a conventional immunoprecipitation assay with single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to enable direct visualization of individual cellular protein complexes from a variety of sources. We have utilized this method for diverse complex systems to detect rare subpopulations of protein complexes and determine their stoichiometric composition in their cellular environment (in collaborations with Peter Cresswell [HHMI, Yale School of Medicine], Supriya Prasanth [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], and Jie Chen [UIUC]).
For visualization within a cell, we have constructed a two-color three-dimensional (3D) superresolution optical microscope. Because living cells house many nanometer-sized molecules that are densely packed into assemblies and networks, traditional light microscopes, with their low resolving power, are insufficient. Our superresolution fluorescence imaging achieves spatial resolution of 50 nm in all three dimensions; this allows us to spatially localize and rigorously investigate the target search kinetics of regulatory noncoding RNA.
Mechanical Perturbation and Response of Biological Systems
To study force-dependent cellular function, we are developing probes to target a variety of cellular receptors that allow us to sense forces either by FRET sensing or rupture sensing, wherein we observe rupture of a sensor calibrated to rupture at a predefined force. Our fleezers instrument has enabled FRET versus force calibration at a much greater force and distance sensitivity. We have demonstrated FRET-force sensing by inserting an elastic peptide between the TFP-Venus fluorescent protein FRET pair. By placing this sensor in between the Vt and Vh domains of the protein vinculin, we have been able to achieve quantification of real-time focal adhesion formation by vinculin in live cells (in collaboration with Martin Schwartz [University of Virginia], Christopher Chen [University of Pennsylvania], and Stephen Sligar [UIUC]). We are also interested in understanding molecular forces that regulate cell surface receptor activation on the single-cell level. We are applying rupture sensing to study long-term effects due to force intervention in cell–extracellular matrix (ECM) interaction. To understand the collective cell-adhesion process, we are using rupture sensors based on DNA to measure forces experienced by single integrin-RGD complexes for different cell types.
Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation provided partial support for these projects.
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Gert Rietveld, Ernest Houtzager, and Dongsheng Zhao, “Impact of the Ecodesign Directive on Traceability in Power Transformer Loss Measurements”, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2015), Lyon, France, Paper 1538, 15-18 June 2015.
Losses constitute a significant part of the total cost of ownership of power transformers. Since these losses have an impact on the environment as well, the European Union has issued a regulation with regard to losses in power transformers, as part of the sustainable energy policies of the Ecodesign Directive. Already for many years, commercial power transformer loss measurement (TLM) systems are used by power transformer manufacturers for verification of the loss specifications of their products. With the new commission regulation, it is more than ever important to calibrate these TLM systems to assure and demonstrate an independently verified accuracy in the tests. Two approaches can be used in calibrations of TLM systems: a component and a system calibration approach. The latter has the advantage that all influence factors of the complete TLM system are taken into account in the calibration. Using state of the art reference equipment, in both approaches calibration accuracies can be achieved down to 20 parts in 106 in magnitude and 1 m° in phase, at least a factor 5 better than typical TLM system specifications.
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I’m making an app that can record all dental treatment. I have a few questions. Look at the video first:
As you can see, the teeth can be clicked (more than one teeth) and it will be recorded. How should I do it? Upload a picture of teeth? or what? Please help me.
With database + logic + Kodular blocks
What part of the application have you already done?
Nothing yet. I just wondering how to make the teeth image clickable and when clicked, it changes colour. About the database and blocks maybe I can do it.
image clickable and
False Read Write - Designer Blocks
Set the component clickable or not clickable.
I mean, how you can upload the picture?
I want to use this chart, how u want to select only one part of the box (e.g. box 15) or more than one part (e.g. box 14)? Is there any way to upload the boxes?
I want to make the same app like the video I posted above but with different chart. I will be using the boxes chart. Yes, the dentist can mark 4-5 possible areas. So how do you upload and combine the image of one box that consist of 4 or 5 areas. So we can click any area that we want
So the one box contains multiple other boxes with different selection? That is many works to do haha
Do you ahve all images? as png or web images(i mean url)?
I feel you can create more images by using dynamic component extension ,once age group is selected you can set rules to show which category of images…
How to make a list of images as a grid - #23 by Still-learning
That is many works
It was a suggestion… there are others and it depends on the effort and work.
Good quality software and applications are made with hard work.
Or hire a developer.
Yes, the best way is to create a dynamic component. You must learn the basics of components and then make your application
Hi. can you show me how it can be done? Because I have done searching all over the internet and still didn’t know how to do it
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
"What is Truthiness?" The Truth about Wikipedia
Whilst Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" it is only appropriate that in a post-modern age, a post-modern satirist like Stephen Colbert would ask "what is truthiness" and is it enough for us in this day and age-- is a reasonable facsimile of the truth what we are settling for nowadays?
My son the computer whiz sent me this recent article on the standard of 'truth' that Wikipedia uses, namely verifiability from a recognized source. When one couples this with the banning of original research, it leads to real problems, and explains why so many academics do not allow the use of Wikipedia in student papers much less in scholarly work.
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Hoover Institution Press released Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Hoover research fellow Paul Gregory, a profound work that relied heavily on material in the Hoover Archives.
This book encompasses Gregory’s expansive research on the little-known women victims of the Gulag (Stalin’s vast network of forced labor camps and settlements for families) and reveals just how far-reaching and frightening the Gulag was. The volume begins with Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the twentieth century.
In researching the memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women who were victimized in the Gulag, Gregory has stitched together stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply in the literature. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardships that were the hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of these five women–from different social strata and regions–in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag.
“In this carefully researched collection of stories, Paul Gregory portrays a wide range of women Gulag victims, including workers, peasants, intellectuals, even two wives of high officials. His description of their lives–from hard labor and starvation to their search for rehabilitation in later years–leave us with a much fuller picture of what it meant to be female in Stalin’s Soviet Union,” said Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History (2004) and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956 (2012).
“Fascinating, heartbreaking, revelatory and important, Paul Gregory’s Women of the Gulag is filled with new material and impressive scholarship. Written with sensitivity to both intimate family life and the highest power politics and compelling to general readers as well as experts, the book reveals the brutality and heartlessness of the Stalinist system through the stories of its female victims, both elite and ordinary,” said Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2005).
Drawing from the Soviet archives that were opened in the 1990s and from personal, handwritten, and typed accounts that have languished for decades, Gregory reveals the particular punishments reserved for women, such as sexual enslavement and the same hard labor as men, and describes the difficulty the four surviving women had in adjusting to a post-Gulag life. Woven throughout the narratives are accounts of Stalin and his henchmen as they drafted their draconian decrees in his Kremlin office. These firsthand accounts illustrate how the wrong word or the errant father or husband could become a crime against the state.
A documentary on the same subject, Women of the Gulag, to be released in 2014, will include some of the women profiled in the book, as well as original characters. For more information, view the trailer at www.mayfilms.com. The e-book version, also scheduled to be released soon, contains interviews with survivors and their daughters gathered in the process of researching the film. The film will also be profiled on CSPAN Book TV on Saturday, August 17, 2013.
Paul Gregory directs the Hoover Archives Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes at the Hoover Institution, where, as a research fellow, he is able to draw on the world-renowned resources of the Hoover Archives. He is also the Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. The holder of a PhD in economics from Harvard University, Gregory is the author or coauthor of twelve books and more than one hundred articles on Stalin and Stalinism, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and dictatorship.
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AMSTERDAM — A major investigation into whether art hanging in Dutch museums may have once been Nazi loot has yielded an unexpectedly large result: 139 suspect works, including ones by masters like Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky.
The bombshell announcement Tuesday by the museums raises the question of why it has taken them nearly 70 years to examine their collections in a systematic way after World War II — and suggests that even more looted art may emerge from other countries that haven’t yet done so.
“These objects are either thought or known to have been looted, confiscated or sold under duress,” said Siebe Weide, director of the Netherlands Museums Association. He said returning them is “both a moral obligation and one that we have taken upon ourselves.”
The tainted art involved 69 paintings, including French artist Henri Matisse’s 1921 “Odalisque” painting of a half-nude reclining woman, which hangs at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, one of the country’s top tourist draws.
All Dutch museums that hold art from before the war participated in the review. They have identified names of 20 definite looting victims and linked them with 61 of the works. The museums said they are in the process of contacting or seeking the heirs, including those of Jewish art dealer Albert Stern, the deceased owner of the Matisse.
The museum had purchased the Matisse painting from Lieuwe Bangma, Stern’s Dutch representative, in 1941. But Stern was its owner before the war and the Bangma family is known to have given aid to his granddaughters during the war.
Other paintings included works by old Dutch masters such as Jacob Cuyp, Impressionist Isaac Israels and Modernists like Wassily Kandinsky. Other pieces uncovered in the investigation included drawings — one by Paul Klee — sculptures, antiquities and Jewish ceremonial objects.
One painting by Cuyp had been purchased in good faith by the Museum of Dordrecht in 2002. The 1627 painting “Shepherdess with Child in a Landscape” had changed hands multiple times over decades before the latest Dutch investigation revealed it had belonged to a Jewish woman and was sold by a bank known for collaborating with the Nazis during the war.
The Dutch are not the first to undertake such a review in the wake of a 1998 international conference on looted art in Washington that found previous attempts to return looted art didn’t go far enough. Attendees from 44 nations proclaimed the Washington Principles, declaring that “every effort should be made to publicize art that is found to have been confiscated by the Nazis” and have it returned.
Many American and British museums have already conducted thorough investigations that have led to the return of looted art, though nothing has been done on a nationwide basis. In Germany, a government-led, nationwide investigation is underway.
The Dutch investigation was the second in the Netherlands, with the first one in 2006 focusing only on works that were bought and sold during the war.
“We’re not the first with this investigation, but thanks to this investigation we’re not far behind,” said Rudi Ekkart, a professor of art history at the University of Utrecht who headed the investigating commission.
Critics wondered what took so long
“While I applaud the Dutch for doing this, I also have to say: where were you all this time?” said Chris Marinello, a London-based lawyer who assists clients in looted art cases.
He said many countries, including the United States, should be doing more to help recover looted art.
But some countries are less willing than others. Russia rejects the Washington Principles, saying art taken during World War II are its rightful “trophies.” Switzerland endorses the principles in theory, but has not conducted systematic research and turns a blind eye to the possibility of looted art hidden in its bank vaults, Marinello said.
The Dutch Museums Association launched a website Tuesday to publish its findings so far, solicit more information about looted artwork and assist heirs in filing claims. An English translation of the Dutch website is coming in 2014.
Investigator Ekkart acknowledged it’s still possible that more looted artwork will be uncovered in the Netherlands. He said the museum’s research was not exhaustive and new research strategies — such as the website — will lead to new findings. In addition, there are likely pieces still held in individual’s homes that will be eventually detected.
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A collection of Gold Sovereigns that spans 525 years, 15 Monarchs and seven mints, will be offered for sale by London based auctioneers, A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, on Thursday 8th May 2014. The comprehensive date collection of 394 Sovereigns from the earliest hammered examples to modern milled is entitled The Hemisphere Collection and follows hot on the heels of The Bentley Collection of British Gold Sovereigns, sold by Baldwins during 2013 for £3,994,638.
Formed over 10 years from 2003, the current owners fascination with the history of the Sovereign has culminated in the only private collection known to the auction house that contains examples of each and every monarch for the Sovereign denomination.
Steve Hill, Director of British Coins at Baldwins said: We felt 2014 was the year to expand on the success of last years sale of The Bentley Collection. The Hemisphere Collection is the first of its kind to track the Sovereign journey from its inception, circa 1500, to today, offering a new generation of collectors the opportunity to embrace the Sovereign, an integral part of British numismatic history and one of the worlds most respected gold coins.
In comparison to The Bentley Collection, The Hemisphere Collection brings together both handmade hammered and machine made milled coinage to give the fullest outline of the Sovereigns history, offering collectors of both hammered and milled Sovereigns an unprecedented opportunity to celebrate the denomination together.
Amongst the modern milled coins on offer is an extremely rare example from the reign of King Edward VIII, who abdicated from the English throne just 326 days after his accession and an Elizabeth II Gold Proof Sovereign 1953, with an impeccable provenance, examples of which were never issued for private collectors.
The King Edward VIII, Gold Proof Sovereign dated 1937, is a legendary coin of the highest rarity. Never produced as a currency issue, due to the controversial abdication of the King, the sovereign was part of a proposed set, or a proof set, that was to be authorised as new coinage ahead of the Kings Coronation in 1937.
After the death of Edwards father, King George V, in January 1936, Edward ascended the throne and coin proposals were produced carrying the head of the new monarch. Edward refused to follow the tradition established by King Charles II that dictated the portrait of each ascending monarch should face the opposite direction to his, or her, predecessor. The tradition had been followed by every monarch, with the exception of Edward VIII, who preferred his left facing profile and insisted on facing the same way as his father. The coin is estimated at £250,000-300,000.
Edward had a number of affairs with married women before meeting American divorcee Wallis Simpson in the 1930s. Against the wishes of his father he developed a relationship with her and famously abdicated his throne on the 10th December 1936 for the woman he loved so fervently, making him the first British monarch to do so voluntarily. Edward and Wallis Simpson married soon after and Edwards brother George became the next King of England.
A 1953 Elizabeth II, Gold Proof Sovereign is one of the most valuable coins of our current queen, and beside the Edward VIII Sovereign, is the second rarest of the modern Proof Sovereign series. From her coronation year, the proof set was never issued for public sale, instead, a limited number were produced for national institutions to display publicly for the Coronation.
This example belonged to The National Museum of Wales, who sold and dispersed their set, with official permission, sometime after The Royal Mint moved to Wales. This example, appearing at auction for the very first time, has excellent provenance and offers bidders the opportunity to secure a piece of modern history. It is estimated at £250,000-300,000.
Introduced as a political propaganda tool to emphasise the stability and power of the King after the long and bloody War of the Roses, the Sovereign was first presented by King Henry VII in October 1489, with the earliest example in The Hemisphere Collection, a hammered Henry VII, struck circa 1502-1504.
It was the largest coinage in both size and value, with the reverse bearing the double Tudor rose, symbolising the union of the York and Lancaster Houses, and reinforcing its political message. This very well persevered example is an important piece of the denominations history and is estimated at £100,000-120,000.
The Sovereign continued to be issued by the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs until the reign of James I, whereupon it appeared in different later guises termed as Pound, Unite and Laurel for over 200 years until the re-coinage of King George III in 1816-17. From here the history of the Sovereign is revived and The Hemisphere Collection continues, with the rarest London Royal Mint Sovereign, an 1819 George III.
Much smaller in size and weight, the new, redesigned sovereign adopted the iconic and patriotic design depicting St. George slaying the dragon, designed and engraved by Chief Medallist for the Royal Mint, the Italian artist Benedetto Pistrucci.
This Sovereign is one of only eight currency examples known to exist, and has never been offered at public auction before. The only previous record of the coin is as a plate coin in the Royal Mint publication Royal Sovereign 1489-1989, issued for the 500th anniversary of the Gold Sovereign. It is estimated at £50,000-60,000.
The Hemisphere Collection will be offered as a single sale in London on Thursday 8 May 2014. The catalogue will be available to view online at www.baldwin.com
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (Cair) study - the only annual investigation of its kind - outlined 1522 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination or harassment in 2004.
The figure, according to Cair's Unequal Protection report published on Thursday, is 50% higher than an assessment made in 2003.
The rights group said factors contributing to the sharp increase in reported incidents included the lingering impact of post-9/11 fears, increased awareness of civil rights issues in the Muslim community and a general increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Other factors for growth in the number of incidents may also include an increase in local Cair chapters reporting cases and alleged abuses associated with the implementation of national security policies.
Ten states accounted for almost 79% of all incidents reported to Cair in 2004, with the majority of attacks reported in California, followed by New York, Arizona, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey and Illinois.
By far the greatest increase over last year, in both real and proportional terms, occurred in the areas of unreasonable arrests, detentions, searches/seizures, and interrogations.
In 2003, complaints concerning law enforcement agencies accounted for only 7% of all reported incidents. In 2004, however, these reports rose to almost 26% of all cases.
"These disturbing figures come as no surprise given growing Islamophobic sentiments and a general misperception of Islam and Muslims"
Arsalan Iftikhar, Cair legal director and report's author
But not all the news was bad. There were drops in certain categories from the previous year's report.
For example, workplace discrimination complaints constituted nearly 23% of complaints in 2003, but dropped to just under 18% of total complaints in 2004.
Complaints involving governmental agencies decreased from 29% in 2003 to 19% in 2004.
Cair Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar, also the report's author, said the findings "come as no surprise given growing Islamophobic sentiments and a general misperception of Islam and Muslims".
Iftikhar said the phenomenon of Islamophobia would be addressed at a Cair conference, called Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies, to be held on Saturday in Washington DC.
Cair Executive Director Nihad Awad added that the rights watchdog called on "President Bush ... to once again speak out against Islamophobic attitudes".
Awad also called on Congress to hold hearings on the findings of Cair's report.
Cair began documenting anti-Muslim incidents following the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The council is America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, with 31 regional offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. | <urn:uuid:388ad058-383c-482c-b080-d952a1fd9bfc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/05/2008410102621223404.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940057 | 564 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Scope and arrangement
Correspondence (bulk late 1950s) mostly concerns his writings especially his book, Sarah the Divine. It documents his efforts to get published as well as his distribution of the book to prominent individuals including heads of state. Writings are typescript manuscripts of magazine articles on theatrical and other subjects, his book on Sarah Bernhardt, and various unpublished pieces. His notes and notebooks are mostly his reminiscences of his life in the theater and the famous actors he knew and with whom he appeared, preparatory jottings for his book on Sarah Bernhardtand his intended memoirs, never finished. There is also a small amount of material, mostly publicity, pertaining to The Afternoon Theater when under his direction, publicity for his book, clippings of play reviews and some personal biographical material.
The Arthur William Row papers are arranged in seven series:
- 1940-19601 folder
Contains biographical material including publicity, membership cards, a grant application filled out by Row and an interview conducted with him in 1949 when he was appearing in A Streetcar Named Desire.
- 1902-196218 folders
Correspondence, both personal and professional, is mostly incoming letters from Row's later years arranged alphabetically. Much is about his writings, especially his book, Sarah the Divine, including correspondence with publishers and many letters of thanks for copies received. Correspondents include Eva Le Gallienne, Nance O'Neil, Hesketh Pearson and Blanche Yurka. Letters by Row include clippings of some of his letters to the editor on various topics.
Typescripts of his articles primarily on theatrical subjects, some of which were published in magazines are divided into theater and non-theater and then arranged alphabetically by subject name or title. Includes a manuscript with handwritten revisions for his book, Sarah the Divine; other writings about Sarah Bernhardt; brief essays of Row's reminiscences of other actors including the Barrymores, Richard Mansfield, Ellen Terry, and Blanche Yurka; essays on prominent people not connected to the theater such as Mary Baker Eddy and Randolph S. Churchill; and various versions of his "Home As the Root of All Evil". There are also a few mysterious typescripts that came with Row's papers: two long letters addressed to Dear A-- and purportedly written by an Englishwoman who describes the bombing of London during World War II. They appear to have been transcribed by Row for newspaper publication. Also two typescript articles by an anonymous woman newspaper reporter in America, also probably transcribed by Row.
- 3 folders
Handwritten notes are on Sarah Bernhardt, Row's memoirs, and miscellaneous subjects.
- 1923-19619 folders
Notebooks, mostly spiral and composition books, are primarily from Row's later years and contain his notes of reminiscences and drafts of letters. The last two, dated 1960-1961, are titled Mummer's Memories.
- 1922-19321 folder
A small amount of material, mostly publicity and financial papers, for The Afternoon Theatre which Row founded and directed. The Theatre produced plays seldom seen, on afternoons without regularly scheduled matinees, to give actors a chance to try different roles than those they normally performed.
- 1938-19584 folders
Consists of printed publicity for Row's book, Sarah the Divine, clippings of reviews of Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar and A Streetcar Named Desire, two plays in which Row appeared, and other clippings collected by Row. | <urn:uuid:1544823c-5a38-472a-b638-230afa6667d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archives.nypl.org/the/21422 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968249 | 736 | 1.601563 | 2 |
I planted 10 of my Chiltepin seeds today. At Lowes, I picked up some seedling mix, a 11.5" clay dish and a 10" plastic dish insert.
These are chili peppers that are used to dry climates, and several websites I’ve seen suggest the seeds should not be watered too much. To avoid problems with overwatering, I poked holes in the bottom of the plastic dish, filled the clay dish with sand, then put the plastic dish containing the soil on top. The sand will allow water to drain out of the plastic dish, but might let the soil in the dish reabsorb the water if it gets too dry. Also, the sand might hold heat better than just air, and air was the alternative had I placed rocks between the plastic and clay dishes. Only one half of the plastic dish has holes in it, the other side is completely intact. I’ve placed 5 seeds on each side, and if/when they germinate, maybe I can tell whether the holes matter at all.
At about 2PM I put the seeds in the oven set to its lowest setting. The seed packet specified that they should be kept at about 80 F - warmer than my apartment. When the dish had warmed up, I moved it onto my balcony, in the sunlight. A thermometer placed in the dish read about 80F. I lightly watered the soil around 4:30. When the sun went down at 5:30, the thermometer read a little under 80F. I warmed the seeds in the oven again then turned it off, leaving the seeds to stay warm in there overnight. | <urn:uuid:58e01095-6560-4403-8d5c-fd6a38b1f88b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.notmet.net/2009/02/chiltepin-batch-1-day-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.965222 | 336 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Here's how to find out how much clothes you give to charity are worth so you can write off your contribution on your tax return. By Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor December 7, 2006 I plan to donate clothes to a charitable organization such as the Salvation Army. Where can I found out what the fair market value of the clothes -- as well as household items I plan to donate -- so I can write off my donation on my tax return? Does the new tax law change those rules?As you mentioned, you will only be able to deduct the fair market value of the clothes and other items that you give. That's the depreciated value of used goods, such as the price you'd pay in a thrift shop rather than the cost of buying them new. And the new tax law did change the rules a bit. You can only take a charitable deduction for giving away items that are at least "good" condition, unless the item has been appraised at more than $500. The change took effect when the Pension Protection Act was signed into law on August 17. "You can't donate your trash and get a tax deduction," says Christine Bragale, director of media relations for Goodwill, which has to discard about 5% of the clothing contributions received every year because it is in such bad condition. Bragale offers a helpful rule of thumb: "If you would give it to a relative or friend, then it's fit to donate," she says. Many people underestimate the amount they can deduct because they have no idea how to value the items. The Salvation Army has a useful valuation guide to help you determine the deductible value of your items, based on the cost of similar goods in its stores. The site lists low and high values, and it's up to you to decide where your items fit based on condition. Another good tool is TurboTax's It's Deductible software, which gets its figures from research at resale stores and eBay data. It also automatically fills in IRS Form 8283 when your noncash donations exceed $500. Got a question? Ask Kim at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:9c06029d-a116-4ed6-8f5d-5d128c820bef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T056-C001-S001-assessing-donated-items-value.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974819 | 435 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Hi everyone, Luis Preto has been doing some video tips for sword fencing.
His system is based on jogo do pau, the traditional and living staff fencing art that applies easily to sword fencing basics.
I think this is very interesting to anyone studying sword or staff fencing specially of european origins.
Striking Speed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zsbj9ZgxI
This shows how full rotational strikes should be performed from a forward poiting guard. in a effortless and fast way.
Training conditions & combat skillhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiqZdIfWrE
How speed affects the difficulty of doing different parries.
On correct distance and how one should practice striking to get used to distance.
Why one should step back with the front leg.
Managing striking speed in traininghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7NEfPbojM
practicing at a controlled speed and maximum speed and on using protective gear.
Combat against several opponents: First principlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WqNHeRpIk
My favorite, this shows basic principle of fighting against several opponenst when surrounded by both sides. This is probably the oldest stick fencing practice of jogo do pau and is described in historical fencing Iberian manuals from the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) Widening its services, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC) is working with schools and colleges in the eastern metropolis and in east India to design customised tour packages for students.
Going by the positive response to its tailor-made tour for 700 Delhi University students to northeast India in 2014 and its bespoke Delhi-Agra packages for Assam students in 2013, IRCTC (East Zone) has decided to go full-throttle on harnessing the potential in the education sector, officials said.
“We have written to 30 to 40 schools in Kolkata and about 15 have responded regarding tours for summer camps and field trips. The potential is huge and we will arrange for travel, accommodation, security and food for the students during the length of the trip,” IRCTC group general manager, East Zone, Debashis Chandra told the media here at an event on Wednesday.
IRCTC will also ink a deal with Chhattisgarh to launch the ‘Yuva’ programme for the youth.
“Youth from the state will travel to happening places (education-wise) such as Hyderabad and Bengaluru to explore education opportunities in those places,” Chandra said.
In addition, self-help groups from east India will be given a chance to market their products (handicrafts etc) through the IRCTC website, said Kaushik Banerjee, deputy general manager (tourism), at IRCTC’s Kolkata office. | <urn:uuid:47406626-9650-470f-ae4d-86cc4d7bc24c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mangalorean.com/irctc-working-schools-customised-student-tours-official/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00468-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952438 | 329 | 1.53125 | 2 |
MAIL torches expired imported veterinary drugs
A MAIL statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said the 96 types of veterinary drugs included vaccines, pesticides and insecticides.
It said the drugs and insecticides had been collected from nine importing companies and 23 wholesale shops during the past one month.
The ministry during its monitoring identified two companies as importers of fake drugs and referred them to the attorney’s office for investigation.
However, the statement did not provide more details about the accused companies.
The statement said the ministry’s veterinary department always monitored importing companies and wholesales in capital Kabul and provinces to prevent expired or fake drugs from reaching animals.
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AAALAC International relies on Three Primary Standards used by the Council to evaluate programs: the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching (Ag Guide), American Dairy Science Association®, the American Society of Animal Science, and the Poultry Science Association 2020; and the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, Council of Europe (ETS 123). AAALAC has modified its position statements to reflect changes in the 2011 Guide. The following positions will be used by the Council on Accreditation to evaluate and accredit animal care and use programs.
The animal care and use program is the collaborative responsibility of the Institutional Official, the Attending Veterinarian, and the IACUC (or comparable oversight body). The Attending Veterinarian is responsible for the well-being and clinical care of animals used in research, testing, teaching, and production. This responsibility extends to monitoring and promoting animal well-being at all times during animal use, and during all phases of the animal's life. It is expected that the program of veterinary care will uphold the highest standards of care and ethics. Moreover, the veterinarian must have sufficient authority, as provided by the institution, to treat an animal and institute appropriate measures to relieve severe pain or distress, including euthanasia. In fulfilling these duties in a research environment, the Attending Veterinarian should interact collaboratively with the research team (e.g., the Principal Investigator or Study Director) when making critical decisions regarding animal health and welfare. The Attending Veterinarian must have adequate resources to manage the overall program of veterinary care. AAALAC acknowledges that other qualified individuals may assume some of the roles and responsibilities of the Attending Veterinarian, under the oversight of the Attending Veterinarian. Important aspects of the role of the Attending Veterinarian and the program of veterinary care typically include the following:
In addition, the Attending Veterinarian or designee has further responsibilities related to his/her role on the IACUC. For example:
AAALAC International expects accredited institutions to comply with all national or regional regulations, policies and guidelines, as well as conditions of funding. Additionally, AAALAC International considers performance standards paramount when evaluating the space made available in cages or pens for housing animals used for research, testing or teaching. The performance criteria described in the ILAR Guide, Ag Guide, and ETS 123 are used by AAALAC in assessing the adequacy of cage or pen space available to the animal(s). In those countries where regulations or guidelines do not exist or mandate cage or pen dimensions, AAALAC International suggests institutions consider the ILAR Guide's space recommendations as a basis for addressing space needs while always recognizing that performance standards also must be met.
The Guide states that single housing of social species should be the exception. Social housing will be considered by AAALAC International as the default method of housing unless otherwise justified based on social incompatibility resulting from inappropriate behavior, veterinary concerns regarding animal well-being, or scientific necessity approved by the IACUC (or comparable oversight body). When necessary, single housing of social animals should be limited to the minimum period necessary and, where possible, visual, auditory, olfactory and, depending on the species, protected tactile contact with compatible conspecifics should be provided. In the absence of other animals, additional enrichment should be offered, such as safe and positive interaction with the animal care staff, as appropriate to the species of concern; periodic release into larger enclosures; supplemental enrichment items; and/or the addition of a companion animal in the room or housing area. The institution's policy and exceptions for single housing should be reviewed on a regular basis and approved by the IACUC (or comparable oversight body) and/or veterinarian.
AAALAC International recognizes that the biomedical or agricultural research, testing or teaching objectives as well as the health and welfare of the animals will dictate when application of the recommendations of the Ag Guide, ILAR Guide, or ETS 123 is most appropriate. For animals in an agricultural setting, AAALAC International takes the position that, in accredited programs, the housing and care for farm animals should meet the standards that prevail on a high-quality, well-managed farm. The collective professional judgment of the responsible oversight body (i.e., IACUC, Ethics Committee), principal investigator and veterinarian should determine which standard(s) applies best with regard to the care and welfare of agricultural animals, based on a performance approach in the context of the requirements of the study and the species used.* The rationale for making this determination should be documented.
*For institutions that also hold a U.S. Public Health Service Assurance, see additional information regarding this topic at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/faqs.htm#g7.
The safety of walk-in type cage/rack washers and bulk sterilizers must be addressed by the institution. AAALAC International has identified three key factors that must be considered when developing the safety plan for this equipment: 1) ease of egress, 2) a de-energizing* mechanism, and 3) personnel training. The possibility of entrapment must be eliminated, and in the case of cage/rack washers, ideally an emergency shut-off mechanism that is easily accessible from anywhere inside the machine and which de-energizes the washer when activated should be in place. Equipment operators must receive appropriate training so as to minimize their risk and proper instructional signage should be posted. Following risk assessment, other mechanisms and/or procedures, individually or in combination, might be determined to provide the same level of protection and eliminate possible entrapment, such as:
The design of bulk sterilizers precludes the inclusion of an explosion relief door latch or interior emergency mechanism, but other procedures such as the buddy system and/or lock-out system must be considered.
The adequacy of cage/rack washer and bulk sterilizer safety is the responsibility of the institution, typically through cooperative efforts among the animal facility personnel, occupational health and safety personnel, physical plant/facility maintenance personnel, and the IACUC (or comparable oversight body). The institution must provide the Council on Accreditation with sufficient evidence to demonstrate that issues regarding cage/rack washer safety have been addressed and will be periodically reviewed.
*The term “de-energize” indicates immediate flow stoppage of water into the interior of the cage washer, along with termination of the wash cycle such that restart requires deliberate reactivation of the machine. In the case of bulk sterilizers, this would involve immediate termination of the sterilization cycle, allowing immediate opening of the door/hatch and release of the person trapped therein.
An occupational health and safety program must be part of the overall animal care and use program. The basic elements of a program include hazard identification and risk assessment, personnel training and protection, written procedures and policies regarding hazard use and monitoring, and medical evaluation and preventive medicine.
The extent and level of participation of personnel in the program should be based on the hazards posed by the animals and materials used; on the exposure intensity, duration, and frequency; on the susceptibility of the personnel; and on the history of occupational illness and injury in the particular workplace. A health history evaluation is advisable before work assignment to assess potential risks for individual employees. Periodic medical evaluations and appropriate immunization schedules are advisable for some risk categories. Immunization of animal care personnel against tetanus is important.
In accordance with AAALAC's Three Primary Standards, assurance must be provided by an organization that all personnel at risk are appropriately considered under the occupational health and safety program.
In addition to using its AAALAC's Three Primary Standards, AAALAC International also uses "Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research Animals," NRC 1997; "Recommendations for Prevention of and Therapy for Exposure to B Virus (Cercopithecine Herpesvirus 1)," Cohen, et al. (2002), Clinical Infectious Diseases 35:1191-1203; and the report "Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories," 6th Edition (DHHS 2020) as resources for assessing the appropriateness of measures to protect personnel and prevent transmission of Macacine alphaherpesvirus.
As recommended in the designated references above, macaques should be presumed to be harboring Macacine alphaherpesvirus and handled accordingly. Each AAALAC International accredited institution housing macaques, or utilizing tissues or body fluids collected from macaques, must have a protection and prevention program for Macacine alphaherpesvirus as a part of its occupational health and safety program.
The basic elements of the program include standard operating procedures and training for handling macaques and their tissues and dealing with potential exposures; risk assessment and education of all personnel having potential contact with macaques; the presence of supplies for immediate and appropriate patient first aid and animal specimen collection; maintenance of a bite, scratch, and incident log; the required use of appropriate protective equipment, including that necessary for hand and arm as well as for eye and mucous membrane protection; and access to occupational health and safety staff and medical care staff knowledgeable of both exposure risk and acute disease. | <urn:uuid:c03afba0-e0de-4d9b-94a6-4e876a231fb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aaalac.org/accreditation-program/position-statements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.917355 | 1,906 | 2 | 2 |
Dec 27, 2011 Russ Tarby Uncategorized
A century after its origin, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the City that Care Forgot.
And, as documented in a new book about modern-day Crescent City jazzmen, a former Syracuse clarinetist — Jack Maheu — was one of New Orleans leading lights of jazz.
Plenty of books focus on pioneers who turned the sounds of New Orleans into the popular music of the 1920s and beyond, cats like Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. While those men certainly deserve attention and accolades, so do contemporary Crescent City performers who have carried the trad-jazz torch into the 21st century.
Giving credit where it’s due, Indiana University Professor Emeritus Thomas Jacobsen has profiled nearly 20 modern-day musicians in his book “Traditional New Orleans Jazz: Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music” (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge; 244 pages; $22.50/softcover; 2011).
In one chapter, Jacobsen spotlights students of the late Danny Barker including Leroy Jones, Lucien Barbarin, Gregg Stafford and Dr. Michael White. Also featured are performers like trumpeter Lionel Ferbos — the city’s oldest working jazz musician — and 2010 Grammy-winner Irvin Mayfield, leader of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
Central New Yorkers will revel in Chapter 7, which paints a glowing portrait of our own Jack Maheu. Titled “The General” — a nickname Jack picked up at Fritzel’s Pub on Bourbon Street — the 20-page chapter is in the form of a Q&A which Jacobsen conducted with the veteran clarinetist in 1995, five years after Maheu had moved to New Orleans.
Maheu was 65 at the time of the interviews. Since then, he has dealt with business failures, Hurricane Katrina, heart surgery and a stroke. Last year, at age 80, he moved to Ithaca to be with his sons.
But in 1995 Maheu remained at the top of his game, and in his free-wheeling talks with Tom Jacobsen he recalled his troubled childhood in Plattsburgh, his grandparents’ musical gifts and his introduction to reed instruments starting on alto sax in the summer of 1943. Dixieland captivated him in 1949 when he first walked into Eddie Condon’s club in NYC and heard musicians like Pee Wee Russell.
Salt City Six
“They hit ‘At the Jazz Band Ball,’” Jack remembered, “and I almost fainted … I was overcome. I couldn’t imagine anything so good.”
The following year, Maheu matriculated at the Syracuse University School of Music as a clarinet major. Before long, he left his lessons behind and formed the Salt City Five along with trombonist Will Alger. He discusses the group’s debut on the radio broadcasts from Child’s Paramount, recordings such as “The Original Salt City Six Plays ‘The Classics.’”
Maheu has fond memories of Alger, who died in 1992.
“Will Alger was a major player,” Jack told Jacobsen. “If he had ever come down here, he would have caused quite a stir. He had such exuberance in his playing … [and] he was a great ensemble player.”
In 1959, Maheu left Alger and the Salt City Six and joined the Dukes of Dixieland. He returned to CNY in 1962 when trumpeter Wild Bill Davison joined the SC6. “We were scuffling,” Maheu remembered, but so was Davison. “He came to Syracuse with us for $25 a night. Very sad.”
(For more on the Salt City Five and Six, visit saltcity56.com.)
Jack spent the next few decades in Rochester and New York City where he played in Condon’s house band and Florida where he formed the Paradise Jazz Band.
When Jack arrived in the Big Easy in spring 1990, he was near-broke and ready to work menial jobs to get by, but he found his phone ringing off the hook with gig offers. He hooked up with trumpeter Al Hirt —whom he called “Jumbo” — before landing regular jobs at the Fairmount Hotel (now the Roosevelt Hotel) and Fritzel’s. Jack’s city-wide reputation was solidified at those venues. As Jacobsen writes, “Upon settling in New Orleans … Jack Maheu became one of the most respected and frequently called clarinet players in town.”
Toward the end of the interview, Maheu makes the case for trad-jazz.
“It’s a glorious, exciting sound,” he said. “And it should not be made light of or trivialized.
“If people would just take the time to search out these records: the Hot Five, the Hot Seven, even Bunk Johnson, the Lawson-Haggart band, and especially the Condon band with Wild Bill and Pee Wee Russell or Edmond Hall and the Bob Scobey Band. Oh, marvelous! That’s as good as it can get. If we could get people aware of that sound, demanding that sound, [we’d] get it back again on a more consistent basis.”
You could say the same about Jacobsen’s book. Its candid, sometimes comedic conversations document the fervor that continues to fuel the flame of traditional New Orleans jazz. | <urn:uuid:b8f2e6f3-2518-4365-9f0c-afb2733d363f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eaglenewsonline.com/news/2011/dec/27/downtown-after-dark-maheu-made-his-mark-nawlins | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00007-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953598 | 1,200 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Mars Landing - Pictures Historic pictures sent from Mars Mars landing One small step - images from the unmanned Phoenix space probe were sent back to Earth after its successful landing on Mars. Nasa staff had to wait about two hours after the landing for the images which allowed engineers to check for signs of damage. They also showed the rocky landscape of the northern arctic plain where the probe will carry out its work. Correspondents say patterns are similar to what can be found in Earth's permafrost regions. A signal confirming the Phoenix lander had reached the surface of Mars was received at 2353 GMT on 25 May. The Phoenix team reacted with cheers and hugs, although project staff say there will be many more moments of drama. Mtakumbuka biggle two ilipotea na kutokutoa taarifa zozote about four or so many years back. Kudos kwa NASA wamewafunga goli Europeans. | <urn:uuid:145850c6-41e9-4c2f-b415-648fa9964abe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.jamiiforums.com/threads/mars-landing-pictures.13762/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946309 | 190 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Shifting U.S. Demographics Demand New Cross-Racial Coalitions
For reasons more aspirational than rooted in reality, Barack Obama’s election as the United States’ 44th president heralded a brief moment of hope that Americans had moved away from the destructive and weaponized use of race in our public interactions. What else could explain the breathless optimism? Finally, Americans exhaled, seemingly exultant that, at long last, a nation birthed in slavery, reared by “Jim Crow,” and still struggling to recognize (and overcome) institutional racism was free of its past. The misunderstood dream of a “color-blind” electorate seemed to have spoken by electing an African-American as its leader. Finally, so many wanted to shout, “Say it loud! We are post-racial and proud!”
Ah, if only it were true. Anyone who’s read William Faulkner understands perfectly: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Racism in the Era of Obama
As much as we might wish and hope otherwise, the struggle over identity politics didn’t—indeed, it couldn’t—end with President Obama’s election or reelection. Our history won’t allow for such a smooth move away from the deeply embedded attitude that rugged individualism (embodied exclusively by white, privileged, men, whose superiority is still assumed by all too many) is what makes this nation great. With the president and his supporters preoccupied with inaugural celebrations, reactionary strategists met to plot a course that would deny the new elected leader any success. Meanwhile, great waves of deniers pressed their discredited doubts; they sought to refute and impugn any legitimacy bestowed upon a black man who pocketed the keys to the White House.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates made clear in his Atlantic article “Fear of a Black President,” racism has shadowed the Obama administration from the moment it became clear he would be the Democrats’ nominee. No matter how hard Obama has tried to avoid the issue of race, his opponents have not allowed it. The rise of the Tea Party conservatives ensured a continuing focus on this issue. Their early opposition to the new president amounted to open racial hostility, designed to render his every effort unworkable in the minds of white voters.
Still, in the face of constant and unrelenting opposition, President Obama’s elections in 2008 and reelection in 2012 heralded a new day, a moment of reflection and opportunity, in that ongoing struggle to define what—or just as importantly, who—is America. It is, as if, by electing a black president all the issues of identity bubble to the forefront of public awareness in spite of our collective design that they remain beneath the surface. It’s hard to overlook race when the face of the man representing the nation is so different from that of his predecessors.
The Challenge of Coalition-Building
Our collective identities are likely to be the point of contention because the nation is morphing into something new right before our eyes. As journalist Ronald Brownstein has noted, expanded immigration and higher fertility rates among racial and ethnic minority populations have “literally changed the face of America.” In a 2010 National Journal article that analyzed Census projections, Brownstein noted the changes, with some alarm over the generational mismatch between the past and future of the nation’s population.
As recently as 1980, minorities made up about one-fifth of the total population and one-fourth of children under eighteen. Today, the Census Bureau reports, racial minorities represent about 35 percent of the total population and 44 percent of children under eighteen. Whites make up 56 percent of young people and 80 percent of seniors. The 24-point spread between the white percentage of the senior and the youth populations is what noted Brookings Institute demographer William Frey calls the “cultural generation gap.”
As Brownstein warns:
A contrast in needs, attitudes, and priorities is arising between a heavily (and soon majority) nonwhite population of young people and an overwhelmingly white cohort of older people. Like tectonic plates, these slow-moving but irreversible forces may generate enormous turbulence as they grind against each other in the years ahead.
Already, some observers see the tension between the older white and younger nonwhite populations in disputes as varied as Arizona’s controversial immigration law and a California lawsuit that successfully blocked teacher layoffs this year at predominantly minority schools. The 2008 election presented another angle on this dynamic, with young people (especially minorities) strongly preferring Democrat Barack Obama, and seniors (especially whites) breaking solidly for Republican John McCain.
Over time, the major focus in this struggle is likely to be the tension between an aging white population that appears increasingly resistant to taxes and dubious of public spending, and a minority population that overwhelmingly views government education, health, and social-welfare programs as the best ladder of opportunity for its children. “Anything to do with children in the public arena is going to generate a stark competition for resources,” Frey says.
It need not be a divisive, zero-sum competition. Actually, if our never-ending political fights devolve into a fight that pits one group, one generation, or one race against all the multicultural “others,” then we all will surely lose. Obama won by appealing to a broad swath of voters—young, ethnically diverse, non-affluent, and all-in on progressive social change—who typically aren’t a part of the traditional political calculus. But he failed to garner much support among older, whiter Americans. The ongoing political battles that have plagued his administration cleave along this fault line. And, the nation has suffered as a result.
To be sure, there is an alternative. At the Center for American Progress, where I’m employed, a new project seeks to build on the political coalition that proved successful in President Obama and seeks to bring older white votes into the progressive camp. This initiative, the Robert Kennedy Project, borrows its name from the late New York senator who was the last major progressive political figure: Kennedy had attempted in 1968 to forge a coalition that placed white, working-class Americans’ interests cheek-and-jowl with those shared by black and poor Americans. “The goal here is not to just mobilize the Obama coalition but to expand it,” write my colleagues John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira.
Will that work? Or is that more “hope and change,” more aspiration over reality? America has no alternative, save to try and make it reality. Policies that are broad enough to encompass equality and growth are critical to unite a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-class coalition. Sure, we still must press back against the racist notions of white privilege that denies reality. But as political writer Joan Walsh has observed,
Not enough white people recognized the colorless, odorless oxygen of advantage they enjoy due to this country’s grim history of slavery and persistent discrimination. But there are other forms of privilege. Too often, our rhetoric around white privilege suggests to the white poor and working class that their problems aren’t the concern of the movement for social justice.
Walsh speaks true—white working-class concerns are part of the movement for social justice. Our shared nation’s future, if it survives, must become a place where Americans succeed at something we’ve promised, but never delivered. We must learn to live, work, and play without a single, ethnic-majority population dominating our society with its sheer size, political power, and economic clout dictating the unilateral terms of our coexistence. There will be no acceptable alternative. | <urn:uuid:2c19b1d0-807b-4f05-b02b-0f7c86a73458> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/shifting-u-s-demographics-demand-new-cross-racial-coalitions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952372 | 1,612 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Located in a northeastern suburb about five kilometers outside of Kashi (Kashgar), the Apak Khoja Mausoleum is the mausoleum complex of the Khoja family of the Baishan Sect, who ruled this area of Xinjiang, including Khotan, Yarkand, Aksu, Kutcha and Tarim, from the seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century under Qing Chinese suzerainty. This family of religious leaders originally from Bukhara also built the Aitika Mosque in downtown Kashi.
The Apak Khoja Complex was founded in the early seventeenth century with a religious school built by Yusuf Khoja, who later also built himself a mausoleum at the site in 1640. With the subsequent addition of several mosques, the complex now covers almost three hectares. It is the largest Islamic complex in the Xinjiang Province and is a major pilgrimage center. The complex has a slightly irregular rectangular plan with a large central garden surrounded by the High and Low Mosques and the main gate to the south, the Great Mosque to the west, the Small Green Mosque to the north and the Mausoleum to the east. Due to the non-orthogonal layout of the complex that responds to the topography of the landscape, all mosques face Mecca at a slightly different angle.
The complex is entered from a large masonry gateway at the southeast corner of the complex. This imposing edifice, bordered by two thin engaged columns with cupolas, is covered with blue tiles of various designs. A tile panel with an Arabic inscription surmounts the portal. The recessed doorway bears a second inscriptive panel. This gateway has experienced slight damage from repairs in the 1950s that employed cement that is unresponsive to changes in temperature and humidity, and displays additional damage from the 1978 earthquake.
The High and Low Mosques, or the Southern Mosque
Connected to the west of the main gateway are the High and Low Mosques, also referred to together as the Southern Mosque. The portico of the High Mosque is accessed via six steps through a brick portal beside the main gate. This outer, hypostyle section of the High Mosque is three bays deep and defined by rows of carved and painted wooden columns. It was built in 1926 to create shaded space for outdoor use in warm weather. The columns are joined with muqarnas capitals to the rafters, which are adorned with painted scenery and floral motifs. Two towers with cupolas, each ringed with decorative brick patterns, mark the edges created by the stone veranda before the portico. The prayer hall, which is entered through two doors at either end of the portico, is two bays deep and was built in 1873. Its qibla wall has arched niches flanking the central mihrab.
The brick qibla wall of the High Mosque serves as the eastern wall of the older Low Mosque, which dates from the late eighteenth century. Unlike the High Mosque with its open portico, this mosque has a fully enclosed, long, mud-brick anteroom that runs behind the qibla wall of the High Mosque and precedes the square prayer hall of the Low Mosque. The dome that caps the prayer hall has ribs visible from the exterior. Such a mosque ensemble, an open-sided summer mosque complemented by an enclosed winter mosque, is common in Uyghur religious architecture. Directly to the west of the Low Mosque are the madrasa and the scripture hall enclosing a cloister courtyard. To the south of the complex, outside the Low Mosque, is a tree-lined pool.
Mausoleum of Apak Khoja
The tallest and largest building of the complex is the mausoleum built in 1640 by Yusuf Khoja for himself. However, the mausoleum is now named after his son Apak Khoja, who became more famous than his father and who was also buried here in 1693. Locally, it is also called the Tomb of Xinagfei of the Tomb of the Perfumed Concubine, with reference to Mahran Khoja, a daughter of Satuk Boghra Khan, who is said to have been one of the favorite consorts of the Qing Emperor. According to most sources, however, she was actually buried in Beijing in 1788.
Four heavy engaged towers, capped with low cupolas carried on muqarnas cornices, mark the corners of the square mausoleum and a heavy pishtaq frames its western entrance. The columnless hall measures thirty-nine meters on each side and contains numerous tombs. It is covered by a green-tiled dome sixteen meters in diameter and crowned by a lantern at a height of twenty-four meters above ground. The vaults supporting the dome create four iwans inside the burial hall and a peripheral corridor separates the outer walls of the chamber from the walls of the burial hall. The interior is whitewashed while the exterior faces are partitioned into long arched niches punctured by screened windows and decorated with blue, green and white patterned tiles. Due to replacements over time, many of the tiles covering the mausoleum and its minarets do not match, creating a patchwork effect. Four sets of stairs set inside the corner towers lead up to the roof terrace, protected by a crenelated parapet.
The mausoleum is surrounded by a walled graveyard that was in use until quite recently. This cemetery with its vaulted sarcophagi is locally referred to as the "city of the dead".
Small Green Mosque
To the northwest of the mausoleum is the seventeenth-century Small Green Mosque, used by Apak Khoja for the reading of the Quran. Similar to the Southern Mosque, this mosque has both a portico for use in warmer weather and an enclosed prayer hall for winter use. The wooden hypostyle south-facing portico is four bays deep and three bays wide. The dome of the prayer hall is carried on three nested drums, stepping down from a twenty-four sided drum to a twelve-sided drum, and then to an octagonal drum before resting on the square hall. This dome clad with green tiles mimics that of the mausoleum. A high octagonal lantern surmounts it.
On the western side of the complex is the Great Mosque, or the New Western Mosque. This mosque was built in 1873 by Yakub Beg, who served as a general in the Qing army between 1866 and 1877. The Great Mosque has a U-shaped shaped plan. The prayer hall consists of an arcade of low domed bays with heavy squinches that curve around the east-west axis centered on the domed mihrab, similar to the Imin Mosque in Turfan. These three sides embrace the fifteen-bay wide and four bay deep columned portico, with its own exterior central mihrab, decorated with a vibrant polychromatic wood panel. This central hypostyle section bears a flat roof, in contrast to the rhythmic shallow domes of the surrounding prayer hall. The composition is dominated on the exterior by the larger dome marking the mihrab bay and the raised gateways at either end of the arcaded arms.
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Zhang, Jing-qui. "Mosques of Northern China". In MIMAR 3: Architecture in Development. Singapore: Concept Media Ltd, 1982. | <urn:uuid:4f18c08e-1c23-4071-ae36-8476a0b1d2f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archnet.org/sites/3966 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00286-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943001 | 1,785 | 2.625 | 3 |
Plans for reopening Houston area schools for the 2020–2021 school year are still being decided. But no matter how the school year unfolds, the Brighter Bites food program will be there helping families of school children through these times of food insecurity brought on by COVID-19.
Brighter Bites was founded in 2012 to foster healthy communities by providing fresh produce, nutritional education, and recipes to schools in six U.S. cities, including Houston. Normally, the nonprofit organizes parent volunteers from local schools to help sort food into boxes for distribution. The pandemic, however, forced Brighter Bites to adapt to new realities.
Mike Pomeroy, Brighter Bites’ openly gay senior program director, says the non-profit quickly developed distribution plans that can be put into place whether schools reopen with in-person classes, virtual learning, or a combination of both.
And since Brighter Bites serves the Houston, Pasadena, Galena Park, Alief, and Aldine school districts, they had to plan for up to five different reopening scenarios.
Pomeroy notes that Brighter Bites usually distributes produce supplied by the Houston Food Bank during specific weeks of the school year. But because of the pandemic and a new federal nutrition program, food will be distributed every week on school campuses. “It’s a great service to families in need right now,” Pomeroy says.
Under the Department of Agriculture’s new Farmers to Families Food Box Program, a federal initiative was developed to distribute free agricultural products to those in need through the end of 2020. This program has hired workers to replace the volunteers who were coming into the schools to help package food boxes. Through the partnership with the Houston Food Bank, Brighter Bites will continue to supply presorted food boxes to schools in 2021 and potentionally beyond, since parent volunteers won’t be able to gather and sort bulk produce.
Brighter Bites’ nutritional coaching for students and their parents is part of a curriculum that addresses comprehensive health education. A Google platform is now being used to offer that coursework remotely.
Social media will be used to create excitement about food preparation. Facebook groups will allow parents and students to trade recipes and show pictures of their cooking projects. When one mother explained that she did not want to buy vegetables that her children might not eat, Brighter Bites showed her new ways to cook that almost guaranteed satisfaction, such as browning Brussels sprouts.
This fall, a new Brighter Bites smartphone app will help families access a vast library of recipes, tip sheets, and produce how-to’s. It will also allow hands-free check-in for food-distribution events at each school.
Brighter Bites regularly surveys the people it helps, and analyzes the feedback. The program recently reported dramatic increases in meals cooked from scratch, nutrition labels being read,, and fruits and vegetables being consumed. Perhaps most importantly, families also reported a significant decrease in their intake of added sugars.
Pomeroy, who worked with Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign in 2012 before becoming a key player in Brighter Bites’ development, is pleased with the impressive results being reported by so many families in the program.
“Brighter Bites families are among those who have been hit hardest by this pandemic. Because we were able to pivot our operations quickly, we were able to continue serving these families, not only with healthy food, but with connections to other desperately needed resources as well. It’s an honor to be part of an organization that prioritizes serving our families when they need it most, no matter the barrier,” Pomeroy says.
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Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Luther was born in Atlanta USA, where he studied to be a church minister like his father and to preach at his fathers church. He leaves to study at Boston University where he received a doctorate in theology. In 1954 he became minister in his own town of Montgomery in the Southern State of Alabama.
At that time black people were treated badly and Alabama was the worst: they had to attend different schools and even had to sit on different parts of the bus. There was even a white organisation called the Ku Klux Klan who hunted down black people. They wore white cloaks and pointy white hoods.
In 1956 a black woman refused to give her seat to a white person and she was arrested later on that year. Black people then refused to go on buses as a form of non-violent protest lead by Luther.
The police turned high-powered hoses on the demonstrators. The powerful jets of water knocked the people down. The demonstrators then tried to fight back but the police released fierce dogs in the crowd. The next day people from all over USA saw this and were shocked. Then President Kennedy adapted some of the demonstrator's demands. Before the Protest, Luther said: "We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice".
The authorities then fought back and put Luther in jail. There he wrote a letter which said "You may well ask: Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation... | <urn:uuid:915ac461-a1fb-49e5-9101-2703fadce14e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writework.com/essay/martin-luther-king-14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988557 | 354 | 3.578125 | 4 |
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Best time to visit Parkietenbos
The best time to visit Parkietenbos on Aruba is from January through September and November and December. In this period you have a warm temperature and little precipitation. The highest average temperature in Parkietenbos is 29°C in August and the lowest is 27°C in January.
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Parkietenbos has a semi-arid climate. It is warm to hot all year round and trees don't grow here because of the drought. It consists mainly of sand with grasses and sometimes shrubs. The average annual temperature for Parkietenbos is 28° degrees and there is about 453 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 109 days a year with an average humidity of 80% and an UV-index of 7.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Parkietenbos?
Parkietenbos is located in Aruba. It lies in a straight line 14,243 km from New Delhi.
The coordinates of Parkietenbos are:
- Latitude: 12.483333
- Longitude: -69.983333
The GPS coordinates are 12° 28' N, 69° 58' W
How long is the flight to Parkietenbos?
The flight time from Indira Gandhi to Parkietenbos is approximately 17 h. 10 min.
What are the nearest airports to Parkietenbos?
These are the airports closests to Parkietenbos:
- Queen Beatrix International Airport (5 km) in Oranjestad
- Josefa Camejo International Airport (81 km)
- Hato International Airport (116 km) in Willemstad
How big is Parkietenbos?
The surface area of Parkietenbos is 276 km².
What is the currency of Parkietenbos?
In Parkietenbos, the Aruban florin (AWG) is used for payment.
Exchange rates on 18 August 2022
- 1 Indian rupee = 0.024 Aruban florin
- 1 Aruban florin = 41.19 Indian rupee
- 100 Indian rupee = 2.43 Aruban florin
- 100 Aruban florin = 4,119.06 Indian rupee
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