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A pack of hyenas killed two people over a span of 24 hours in a village just 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Kenya's capital Nairobi, police said Tuesday.
The hyenas, numbering about 20, mauled a man on Monday in the village of Kamuthi near the industrial town of Thika as he was returning from his job at a quarry, police said.
A second man accompanying the victim "narrowly escaped by the skin of his teeth," police said on Twitter.
Barely 24 hours after the first attack, the hyenas struck again with residents finding a fresh human skull in one of the village farms.
"Police and Kenya Wildlife Service officers visited the scene and confirmed the incident, where a skull, scattered bones and torn bloodstained clothes were found," the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said, adding that hyena footprints were found at the site.
Reports of wildlife straying into human habitats in Kenya have increased in recent years as the animals come under growing pressure from cities expanding into ancient migration and hunting grounds.
A leopard wandered into a house in southeastern Kenya on December 17 after straying from its home in Tsavo National Park before rangers rescued it.
In another incident, a lion caused panic in July after straying from its habitat in Nairobi National Park into a crowded neighbourhood south of the city.
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|February 27, 2005
By Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
By all rights, the past seven days should have been another typically quiet mid-February week in New York. Instead, we saw the close of an historic event in our economic history… and the beginning – we hope – of another.
Last week was the last day of “The Gates” – Christo and Jean Claude’s monumental work of art – more than 26 years in the making – which has so far drawn more than a million visitors to New York over the course of its appearance in Central Park. While there will undoubtedly be hundreds of thousands of opinions about “The Gates,” the economic impact is undeniable: Millions of dollars have been generated for our city.
Last week, members of the International Olympic Committee also came to town to evaluate New York’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. By all measure, it was a great visit. Having the Summer Games here would trigger a tremendous celebration of the diversity and spirit that defines our great city. It would also pump nearly $12 billion into our local economy… produce 135,000 new jobs… and galvanize an unprecedented era of construction – new parks, new housing on the East River in Queens, new transportation links, a new pool at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and other world-class sports facilities for our youth.
Big events in New York – like the Olympic Games and The Gates – will always be incredible opportunities to create jobs and boost our tax revenues… but maintaining steady economic growth depends on sticking to our five-borough strategy of making every community more livable… more business friendly… and more economically diverse.
Making our city more livable means ensuring that everyone has access to housing that is clean, comfortable, safe, and affordable. So last week, with our help, former Mets first baseman Mo Vaughn launched the renovation of two neglected developments in Mott Haven that provide housing for 300 low-income families in the Bronx. This project is part of our commitment to build or rehabilitate 65,000 units of affordable housing for 200,000 New Yorkers by 2008.
Last week our city also took a step towards greater economic diversity as we strengthened New York’s position as a world-class entertainment production center. At Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, for instance, there are currently five exciting television pilots being filmed. These productions, which are contributing more than $15 million to our local economy, decided to shoot in New York largely because of an innovative, business-friendly incentives program that we recently rolled out called “Made in New York.”
Attracting new film and television productions – like our efforts to create new industrial zones and expand our tourism industry – is a vital part of our effort to reduce our economy’s reliance on Wall Street. And that’s really crucial to our city’s long-term prosperity and our ability to provide opportunity to New Yorkers in every borough.
Five new television pilots… Three hundreds renovated units of affordable housing… The 2012 Olympics…And 7,500 gates… Well, so much for a quiet week in February!
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Vitamin B12: All vitamins are necessary to keep the body healthy. Due to the deficiency of any one vitamin, the body starts becoming weak and diseases related to it start to arise. One such essential vitamin to make the body healthy is B12. If there is a deficiency of vitamin B12 in the body, then it also affects immunity. Vitamin B12 is essential for keeping your brain healthy, building red blood cells and DNA in the body. Vitamin B12 is also necessary to overcome neurological diseases. Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause problems like weakness and anemia. In such a situation, you can meet the deficiency of vitamin B12 with some foods.
Main Sources of Vitamin B12
1- If you eat non-veg which are many sources of vitamin B12 for you. You can get B vitamins from chicken, meat and fish.
2- A good amount of vitamin B12 is found in eggs. Eggs are rich in Vitamin B2 and B12. If you eat two eggs a day, then it meets 46 percent of the daily requirement.
3- Vitamin B12 is also found in animal products. For this you can eat dairy products like milk, curd and cheese.
4- To overcome the deficiency of Vitamin B12, you should consume almonds, cashews, oats and coconut milk in the diet.
5- Soybean is also a good source of vitamin B12 deficiency for vegetarians. Vitamin B12 is found in abundance in soybeans. You can eat soy milk, tofu or soybean curry.
Disclaimer: The method, methods and claims mentioned in this article are not confirmed by ABP News. Take these only as suggestions. Before following any such treatment/medication/diet, please consult a doctor.
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Business operations are complicated and thoughtful risk management allows companies to best meet their financial potential. But risk management is not a one-and-done task that companies can check off a to-do list—it’s a constantly evolving process that needs regular evaluation and revision. The right risk management solution should anticipate and respond to risks that can cause financial or administrative disruption to your business.
Risk Management at Lyons Companies
What is Risk Management?
Risk management is the process of identifying possible risks, measuring their impacts, and making important decisions on how to best manage those risks. Risk management helps organizations recognize, quantify, process and address potential exposures and challenges within their operations.
Proper planning and nimble pivots can increase operating efficiencies, reduce expenses, reduce the uncertainty of potential loss, attract and retain a higher quality workforce, and create an environment for profitable growth.
The Importance of Risk Management
The risks facing a business are much broader than what insurance can cover. Attention to a risk management framework allows businesses to respond with a variety of strategies, including preventing, mitigating, transferring, financing and assuming the risks facing their business.
Risk management can also be an effective roadmap for how to calculate exposure to risk as businesses grow.
Types of Risk
There are different types of risk facing businesses and each one can affect a specific aspect of a business. The following are a few main examples.
Hazard Risk – Risks or threats that include a physical loss. Examples are property damage, vehicle damage, and injury or illness to an employee or third party.
Business Risk – Risks impacting the business’ activities and day-to-day operations These include compliance, turnover, employee engagement, training, education, and communication.
Reputation Risk – Risks impacting the value of the organization, like culture, brand, competition, and loss of a key employee.
Key Components of a Risk Management Program
In establishing a risk management framework, company leaders need to think about how the business can reach benchmarks while responding to challenges and controlling costs. The following are key components of a successful risk management program:
Discover. Start with a comprehensive policy audit and risk profile assessment to learn about your business operations, culture and objectives. Identify potential exposures that would cause financial or operative business disruption.
Create options and strategies. Evaluate the most cost effective and comprehensive strategies to manage those risks.
Execute plans and policies. Prioritize and systematically implement customized strategies specific to the needs of the organization.
Track and adjust plan performance. Since risk management is an ongoing process, it’s important to continually monitor and modify programs. Regular communication and analysis will guarantee your business needs are met effectively.
The Benefits of Hiring a Risk Management Advisor
Working in partnership with a risk management advisor provides a business with ongoing and expert support, including detailed advice, products and services that extend beyond the purchase of insurance. Advisors will perform risk assessment procedures and provide recommendations to better protect your business from trouble spots.
Conscientious risk management representatives will take the time to understand a business’ culture and its goals. They will address threats inherent to specific industries and tailor risk management solutions to help businesses control costs.
There is no one-size-fits all way to provide risk management service, and working with a partner like Lyons ensures that businesses receive personalized attention and ongoing support.
Risk Management: The Lyons Advantage
If you’re looking for assistance with risk management solutions, Lyons Companies can steer you in the right direction. We provide large-firm capabilities and independent-firm responsiveness. We’ll create and implement a risk management framework that is designed specifically for your company and its business objectives.
We advocate a collaborative approach. The stability of our private ownership and our commitment to long-term growth allow Lyons to put our clients’ interests before our own. We focus on developing clear policies and procedures, investing in continuous training and education, and conducting regular assessments in order to make ongoing improvements that benefit our clients’ businesses.
Partnering with Lyons Companies puts our experience to work managing your risk. That will allow you to get you back to doing whatever it is that your business does best.
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Federal law prohibits the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition by persons who have been convicted in any court of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” and/or who are subject to certain domestic violence protective orders.1
Federal law defines a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” as an offense that is a federal, state or tribal law misdemeanor and has the use or attempted use of physical force or threatened use of a deadly weapon as an element.2 In addition, the offender must:
- Be a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim;
- Share a child in common with the victim;
- Be a current or former cohabitant with the victim as a spouse, parent or guardian; or
- Be similarly situated to a spouse, parent or guardian of the victim.3
Note also that a conviction requires that the offender was represented by counsel or waived the right to counsel and was tried by a jury or waived the right to a jury, if the offense entitled the offender to a jury trial.
The federal law prohibiting subjects of protective orders from purchasing or possessing firearms and ammunition applies only if the protective order was issued after notice to the abuser and a hearing, and only if the order protects an “intimate partner” of the abuser or a child of the abuser or intimate partner.4 An “intimate partner” includes a current or former spouse, a parent of a child in common with the abuser, or an individual with whom the abuser does or has cohabited.5 The order must also contain a finding that the person presents a credible threat to the victim and must restrain him or her from certain specified conduct.6 Most state laws require these elements for the issuance of a protective order.
These federal prohibitions have significant limitations. First, domestic violence affects persons in relationships that fall outside the protections of federal law. For example, dating partners are not within the federal prohibitions unless the partners are/were cohabitating as spouses and/or have a child in common. The risk of domestic violence being committed by a dating partner is well-documented. Between 1990 and 2005, individuals killed by current dating partners made up almost half of all spouse and current dating partner homicides.7 In a recent study of applicants for domestic violence restraining orders in Los Angeles, the most common relationship between the victim and abuser was a dating relationship, and applications for protective orders were more likely to mention firearms when the parties had not lived together and were not married.8 Many states have addressed this gap in federal law by enacting laws that expand the relationships subject to firearm purchaser prohibitions for domestic abusers.
Effective enforcement of the federal prohibitions on firearm possession by domestic abusers depends largely on state and local law enforcement. Background checks at the point of transfer can prevent the purchase of firearms by domestic abusers, but cannot facilitate the removal of firearms that are already in possession of an abuser. State laws requiring removal of firearms directly from abusers can help ensure that abusers will not have continued access to firearms to threaten or harm their victims.
In addition, background checks conducted by federally licensed firearms dealers at the time of transfer of a firearm rely on state and local authorities collecting and submitting to state and federal databases complete records on misdemeanor convictions and protective orders. For a discussion of the lack of participation by some states in entering domestic violence protective order information into the National Crime Information Center database see, e.g., Julissa Jose, Disarming Domestic Violence Abusers 3 (Sept. 2003).
Click here to view additional information about domestic violence and firearms, including background information and state and local laws on the topic.
- 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), (9). ⤴︎
- 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33). ⤴︎
- Id. ⤴︎
- 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8). ⤴︎
- 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(32). ⤴︎
- 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8). ⤴︎
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Homicide Trends in the U.S.: Intimate Homicide (July 2007). ⤴︎
- Katherine A. Vittes et al., Are Temporary Restraining Orders More Likely to be Issued When Applications Mention Firearms?, 30 Evaluation Rev. 266, 271, 275 (2006). ⤴︎
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To the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wabash and Illinois Indians
Philadelphia 7th May 1793
Chiefs and Warriors of the Tribes of Indians residi⟨ng⟩ on the Wabash and Illinois Rivers.
As you are now about to return to your own Country, I take you by the hand and wish you a pleasant Journey.
When you arrived here I was glad to see you, because I believed your undertaking so long a Journey, was a Strong assurance of your disposition to Cultivate peace and friendship with the United States.1
You have now been with us Several Moons during which time you have experienced various marks of friendship from us. These, I trust, have made an impression on your minds favourable to t⟨he⟩ United States—I hope on your return to your coun⟨mutilated⟩u will communicate your good dispositions to your friends, and to all with whom you may have influence.
Most of you have been a long Journey to the Eastward, where you have seen the numbers and Strength of a part of the United States. But you have only seen a part. The States which lay to the Southward of this, contain as many people as those you have seen—Judge then, what the bad Indians may expect in the end if they will not hearken to the voice of peace!
From what you experienced and seen among us, you must be convinced that we wish to live in peace with the Red people; but that we do not wish for peace, because we are not able to Carry on war—We wish for peace because it is for the happiness of all Men and pleasing to the great Spirit.
We have lately sent some of our beloved men, as Comm⟨is⟩sioners to meet the hostile Indians at the Lower Sandusky, to endeavour to Settle all disputes, and form a treaty of friends⟨hip⟩ with them—The Indians must believe what these Commiss⟨ioners⟩ say; for they will tell them the truth, and they will spea⟨k⟩ the sentiments of all the white people in the United S⟨tates⟩.2
I wish when you return home that you would ⟨mutilated⟩ all your people and all other Indians with whom you may have any influence to listen to what our Commissio⟨ners⟩ Shall say; for they will only desire what is right and jus⟨t⟩ and for the happiness of the Red, as well as the white people to agree to, If we fail in this attempt to restore peace, we shall believe that the Indians never mean to live in friendship with us—and in that Case it will be for our Interest to Carry on the War with mo⟨mutilated⟩r than ever, and the bl⟨ood⟩ which may be shed will ⟨b⟩e on ⟨the⟩ heads of the I⟨mutilated⟩.
The Secretary of War has, by my directions furnished you with Such presents for your Selves, your families, and the friends of your brothers who have died since you left home, as I hope are satisfactory—and will be considered as an evidence of our desire to keep the Chain of friendship between us bright.3
as a further token of my regard for you, I present each with a Medal, which you must wear as a sign of your attachme⟨n⟩t to the United States.
I also give you a parchment for each of your Tribe⟨s⟩ on which is written the wishes and Views of the United States with respect to them; and assurances of the protection of the United States. These are signed by me, and have the Seal of the United States affixed to them.4
I bid you farewell. I hope the great Spirit will preserve you through your Journey, and restore you in Safety to your families and friends.
DS, CSmH. GW titled this document “To the Soldier.” A clerk’s docket reads: “To Chief ‘Soldier,’ of the Mianas, ‘She-moc-ah-nes-yah.’ ” Shamekunnesah was an Eel River chief.
1. The delegation of Wabash and Illinois Indians had arrived at Philadelphia in December 1792 to discuss with GW and other U.S. officials the treaty negotiated with Gen. Rufus Putnam at Vincennes on 27 Sept. 1792 (GW to Henry Knox, 3 Sept. [first letter], and note 3, George Clendinen to GW, 11 Nov., and note 3, and Knox to GW, 7 Nov. 1792, and note 1; see also GW to U.S. Senate, 13 Feb. 1793).
2. For the appointment of Benjamin Lincoln, Timothy Pickering, and Beverley Randolph as the commissioners for this treaty, see GW’s second letter to the U.S. Senate of 1 March. On the commissioners’ instructions, see Knox to GW, 16 Feb., and notes 1–2.
3. A written directive to this effect from GW to Knox has not been found.
4. The parchment containing extracts from American laws regulating trade with Indians has not been identified (JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 130). For the letter of protection of 7 May, see the following attachment.
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- Posted March 31, 2014 by
This iReport is part of an assignment:
How To Text From Computer To Mobile Phone.
Text messaging and cell phones are as ubiquitous these days as paparazzi outside a movie star's home. They are everywhere. And with tens of millions
sold every year, we are going to be up to our ears in them.
SMS (Short Message Service) has been a game changer in man's ability to communicate with each other all over the globe.
I'm convinced that they are (along with email, computers and the internet), the main reasons why the post office is now on such hard times these days. (Why send letters by snail mail these days, when you can enjoy instant
But did you know that's it's now possible to send text messages by your computer now?
That's right. Just locate a hotspot or your company's wifi, and free text messaging can be your's. (Just imagine.....no more phone cards).
"But HOW?!!", I hear you eagerly ask. Like so.....
The key ingredients are 1)Your email client, and 2) Knowing which carrier the person that you want to send the text to is using. (Which may be daunting if it's a complete stranger that you want to contact. Or even a
friend or family member who's plan you're not aware of).
But if you are privy to that information, then this should work for you 9 times out of ten. (Remember, this is computer to mobile we are referring to here. It's not specifically designed for this purpose like mobile to
mobile. But it usually does the trick.
Besides, it's nice to have an alternative option when your not receiving any signals in some mountainous area, or have no minutes left. (Works in a pinch).
So here are the steps....Open up your email client, and start a new message. In the 'To' field, (this is where it gets kind of tricky, so read this section carefully, and follow it to the letter. I never said this was simple). Here
you will enter the person's 10 digit number WITHOUT the dashes in between the digits. (839-289-2941 is now entered as 8392892941).
After the digits, you enter '@', followed by the carrier's messaging domain name.
So if the person that I wanted to text was on Nextel at the above number, I would enter in firstname.lastname@example.org in the 'To' field of my email client.
You can either go directly to the carrier's website to get their messaging domain information, or just phone and ask, or just Google it.
Keep in mind. In the body of the message that you send, there still has to be the appropriate amount of letters and digits as in a text message. (In other words, pretend that it's a regular text message). If you want to include your email address or cell phone number that's fine, but it will
make up the total content. So keep that it mind.
Special Note:- The only downside to this technique is that you more than likely will not receive a reply to the text that you send to the recipient to your computer. (But a simple solution is to tell them to reply to your cell phone).
Finally, send your message.
Want to learn another cool trick about cell phones that you probably didn't already know? Check this out....
If the link is not live, copy and paste it into your browser. (You should
find this very interesting).
Businessman Working And Talking On Cell Phone Stock Photo
By stockimages, published on 16 November 2012 Stock Photo - image ID: 100113745
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The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science
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BeschreibungAn in-depth look at the theories behind the most intriguing puzzles in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and astronomy
In The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, authors Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn discussed science's most important current ideas. Now, they tackle the questions that science has been unable to answer-so far. Choosing one unsolved problem from each discipline, they explore the current scientific thinking behind these questions: How are particle masses determined? How did simple atoms first combine to form complex molecules? What role does the genome play in the development of life? Why is it so difficult to predict the weather? And what is the future of the universe? Featuring cartoons by Sidney Harris, the book includes discussions of recent theories such as the God particle, string theory, "brane" theories, and the Theory of Everything and also explores other science questions.
Arthur W. Wiggins (Farmington Hills, MI) is a Professor of Physics at Oakland Community College in Michigan. Charles M. Wynn (Willimantic, CT) is a Professor of Chemistry at Eastern Connecticut State College. They collaborated on The Five Biggest Ideas in Science (0-471-13812-6).
1. Science in Perspective.
2. Physics: Why Do Some Particles Have Mass while Others Have None?
3. Chemistry: By What Series of Chemical Reactions Did Atoms Form the First Living Things?
4. Biology: What Is the Complete Structure and Function of the Proteome?
5. Geology: Is Accurate Long-range Weather Forecasting Possible?
6. Astronomy: Why Is the Universe Expanding Faster and Faster?
Resources for Digging Deeper.
PortraitARTHUR W. WIGGINS is a professor of physics at Oakland Community College in Michigan.
CHARLES M. WYNN is a professor of chemistry at Eastern Connecticut State University. Each has received several "Best Teacher" awards, and they have written science books and journal articles. The two coauthored The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, also available from Wiley, which has been translated into seven languages.
Pressestimmen"This is an immensely readable book..." (Good Book Guide, April 2004) "... easy to understand, enjoyable and interesting. I am very impressed..." (M2 Best Books, 11 March 2004)
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
Erscheinungsdatum: September 2003
Seitenanzahl: 234 Seiten
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Human impacts on natural systems is topic of National Science Foundation forum
Fifth annual mini-symposium on long-term ecological research addresses emerging science themesOn Thursday, March 9, 2006, the National Science Foundation will hold its fifth annual mini-symposium on Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER). This year's forum focuses on understanding how humans have shaped urban, rural and natural ecosystems at every level from local to global.
The symposium will feature overviews of such topics as: land use history and patterns of biodiversity in southern Appalachian forests; climate warming and threshold changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems; human impacts on land cover change in arid lands; ecosystem responses to hydrologic change in the Everglades; and combining archaeology and ecology in desert grasslands.
The LTER network comprises 26 field sites located primarily in the United States, but with a geographic span from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics. The sites represent Earth's major ecosystems, and include deserts, grasslands, forests, tundra, urban areas, agricultural systems, freshwater lakes, coastal estuaries and salt marshes, coral reefs and coastal ocean zones.
James Collins, NSF Assistant Director for Biological Sciences
Henry Gholz, NSF Program Director for Long-Term Ecological Research
LTER Scientists (Please see list on link to detailed agenda)
Mini-symposium on results of Long-Term Ecological Research
Thursday, March 9, 2005, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22230
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of nearly $5.47 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 40,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes about 11,000 new funding awards. The NSF also awards over $200 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
Receive official NSF news electronically through the e-mail delivery and notification system, MyNSF (formerly the Custom News Service). To subscribe, visit http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/ and fill in the information under "new users".
Useful NSF Web Sites:
NSF Home Page: http://www.nsf.gov
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For the News Media: http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsroom.jsp
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Awards Searches: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 30 Apr 2016
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
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The Reverend Jacob Channing is a man on a mission: To abolish the practice of slavery once and for all. To that end, he leads a settlement of the Kansas Territory, but so does a prominent slave-holding Missourian. As John Brown's raid sets everyone on edge, the battle for Kansas turns bloody. Download this FREE e-book today!
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History of biology, medicine, and anthropology since 1945; scientific expeditions, biomedical ethics, human subjects research, collections, and laboratories; history of global health; biomedical technology
Joanna Radin received her PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the social and technical conditions of possibility for the systems of biomedicine and biotechnology that we live with today. She has particular interests in the history of biomedical technology, scientific collections, anthropology, public health, humanism, and research ethics.
- B.S., Cornell University, 2002
- M.S., Cornell University, 2004
- M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012
- Joanna Radin. “Latent Life: Concepts and Practices of Tissue Preservation in the International Biological Program.” Forthcoming (2013) in Social Studies of Science as part of special issue, “Indigenous Body Parts, Mutating Temporalities, and the Half-Lives of Postcolonial Technoscience,” co-edited with Emma Kowal and Amy Hinterberger.
- “Studying Mandela’s children: human biology in post-Apartheid South Africa” An interview with Noel Cameron, by Joanna Radin. (2012) For special issue, “The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles and International Networks” Current Anthropology, 53 (S5).
- Sarah Kaplan & Joanna Radin. (2011) “Bounding an Emerging Technology: Deconstructing the Drexler-Smalley Debate about Nanotechnology.” Social Studies of Science. 41(4) 457–485. (authors listed alphabetically).
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App store turns almost 20 in 2017!
When Steve Jobs launched iPhone in 2007, he assured developers a stipulated framework for every piece of code they write for an app. The idea of an app store though seemed ludicrous to developers at first, but the very next moment they found themselves insanely glued to making their app idea a success.
But everything evolves, and gone are the days when people felt a benign supremacy launching an app in the market. Today every tech-savvy individual whether it’s a high school kid or a developer already, is probably thinking of an app idea.
The problem isn’t coming up with an idea. The catch lies in the choice of platform. Say if you choose Android, would the rest 700 million people on iOS be denied access to your app?
Well, if you have these questions in your mind, you’re not alone.
Your lucrative desires probably stem from the current disruption that app usage is causing among people. Here is a snapshot that’ll illustrate how much people rely on the iOS and Android apps for their chores.
Having seen the current situation, let’s move on to the next prospective:
Another pretty frequent and ruminating dilemma in mobile development is whether it’s beneficial to create applications that are coded directly for a native Operating System or to build applications on mixed technologies that make app work on both.
And there is an immediate exigency that demands an effective solution to the question. After all, the mobile experience is driven entirely by apps.
There is an app for every category you can ever imagine! Have a look:
Apple’s iOS platform earns its developers over $5,000 per month. Sixteen percent of Android app developers earn over $5,000 per month in revenue. Source
But sadly, not every app contributes to this large income. It is possible that users find your app to be a clone of another app they are already using, or they’re unimpressed by the poor user interface your app provides.
So what is going to decide the success level of your app?
Usability answers the question, “Can the users make most out of your app?”
Android and iOS, both being strong contenders on their part, have paved the way for a unique approach that lets the app work on both.
So technology evolved once again, succumbing to desperate needs of the tech-savvy and ambitious developers, giving rise to two app approaches that you can choose from, Hybrid App or Native App, and that will directly affect your app’s success.
If we could picture this dilemma, it would probably look like this:
Before we dig into the discussion of what’s Native and what’s Hybrid app, let’s have an insight to some stats, a recent survey claims that about 88% of smartphone users use Android OS and 11% rather pick iOS. Source
Although, if you do the market analysis, it is likely that your customers may be more on iOS platform.
So people would want iOS as their target segment.
There are some apps today that work on both the platforms but some people would still choose a single platform for their app. There is a whole long story to it.
We will get there! But the bottom line is that before you choose any of the market product make sure you’re certain about its consequences. You should also have an idea about your consumer behaviour as well, regarding app usage.
Sometimes it may be better to go for something that makes your app work on both, and sometimes it may not be so.
In this article, you will have your biggest doubts regarding choosing a Native app or Hybrid App for your business cleared. So brace yourselves and read on!
Before putting my perspective, let’s first look at the widely acknowledged definition of the two.
A native app is the one that is coded in only one programming language for each of the two available platforms.
A native app is one that is created to be ‘native’ to a particular platform: Apple’s iOS, Android, Windows or BlackBerry OS.
A native app tends to optimise the user experience. How?
There are a couple of arguments for this.First, a Native app will work faster as it’s been designed specifically for that platform.
The Geo-location tagging feature enables you to alter your promotional and consumer opportunities based on your requirements.
Consumers can get alerts when they are in physical stores or can avail some geographical discounts.
Second, in Native Apps, analytics about a user’s actions can be easily channelled and analysed, making it simpler to judge the productivity of app features or promotions. Here is a list of languages that a Native App tends to use:
But what’s the catch?
Well, certain drawbacks to Native apps will leave you confused about choosing them:
They are more expensive to develop, especially for companies that want/need the app on multiple OS platforms.
Here is a snapshot that compares HTML and native technologies by cost and the performance factor:
Native apps have to be approved by the individual app store, increasing the marketing costs as well. Also, Native apps tend to increase the total overhead cost of your development procedure, as clear by the snapshot above.
But, do you think to build Hybrid apps will do away with all your problems? Here, our next sections talk about Hybrid App development. Let’s find out.
Hybrid apps are cross-platform apps, implying they can be developed or written in one programming language, and then good to be packaged for and launched on two different platforms. Sounds straightforward and easy?
Back when we were working on a survey questionnaire app for our client CSDS, we went through a lot of discussions, research and market analysis on finding out which platform would go best for the app. Here is what we found:
The two devices Android and iOS, are utterly different from one another!
Talking about the two platforms, both have some stark differences between the two devices that your app needs to account for. Android has a way different navigation mechanism as compared to iOS.
Android devices have a back key, so there’s no need to put one on display. The extra buttons on Android phones also make having a bottom menu or toolbars cumbersome, and accidental clicks are standard. Here is a snapshot that gives us an insight:
So, going native allows you to handle these peculiarities efficiently and tailor the look & feel, navigation, and gestures of the app as the platform requires.
It could be a pain sometimes!
It has led us to a situation where we have to take code from, say, iOS to Android and then to Windows Phone.
Here is a snapshot for the same:
Any jumps between platforms need re-engineering. If you require building a hybrid app, you should just be equipped to get away with writing it once and repackaging the entire code for other platforms. That’s a big win.
Since the Hybrid approach started finding its place in the market, some companies started using it. But in 2013, all those companies, except for the Financial Times, gave up using Hybrid technology and built new native apps despite it requiring starting from the bottom.
The reason being the poor user experience that wasn’t as fast, reliable, or smooth as native apps. It posed a problem for Facebook then, which required so many images downloading and displaying. It had to change its content more often. And such was not the case with Financial Times’ so they decided to keep their HTML5 app.
I think you might have already got a slight idea of why the two apps won’t work the same way yielding entirely similar profits to the corporate world. Find the complete checklist for mobile app development here.
Let’s bolster your perspective in the next section:
Developers need good tools to attain success! The hybrid toolset is way different and less efficient than what the platform’s engineers envision so that it naturally turns out to become a bad tooling.
It all can be narrowed down to the fact that you’re deliberately trying to make the system do something that it is not created for.
Every single thing you look at or try to use is done differently than how the platform’s engineers expect the platform to be used. As a result, every single thing you do is difficult and will only land you in a huge pile of a trash several times.
Apache Cordova and PhoneGap, the two widely available hybrid app frameworks, do an outstanding job of supporting, maintaining, and developing the platform.
It’s just that they’re working so hard just to make things even more complicated when the simpler alternative is available. But there are certain times; the Hybrid app can work wonders for you, saving you a lot of costs.
The points you should consider using a hybrid web app:
- If you have fewer than four months to develop an app, and you want to test a limited private market on the feasibility of your app, then use Hybrid. If the test works, then go to native asap and show it to the world. If it doesn’t, whoa… then you’ve saved a whole lot of time and money.
- If an executive pushes to do a web app for big reasons, make sure they’re aware of the trade-offs.
Well, that must be too much information for someone who might be a rookie in app development. So if all of above information was hard to digest, I have a gift to fulfil your purpose!
What exactly should you as an entrepreneur do to find out which app would work for you? Check out my next section!
What to ask yourself while choosing a platform for yourself?
Do you want your app to be ubiquitous compromising with its overall functionality and user experience?
The biggest confusion that people have is that their company’s app needs to be available on both Android and iOS immediately.
Ask yourself again, is it really what the users want? Or it’s just a paranoia about being not being simultaneously available in two different places at the same time.
Also, ask intrigue yourself a little more as per this snapshot:
Well, that’s how nature works, and if we try to mould it out of greed, it’s going have some repercussions.
The debate about the two never stops. The thing here to understand here is that both technologies have enormous potential.
Facebook, to say, for example, has hundreds of developers on its iOS and hundred others on its Android.
Whereas apps like Instagram works just fine on the Hybrid Technology.
Still, for most types of mobile apps, the Hybrid technology isn’t delivering on that potential yet. But, if your app involves content, then choosing a hybrid technology will work wonders for you saving you both time and money.
Hope this little piece of work helps you with your doubts. Eagerly wishing to bump into your phenomenal app browsing through my app store, feeling glad about writing this article.
Let us know how you liked the article in the comment section!
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In Abortion and Social Justice, Dennis Horan, J.D. et alii argue "The Legal Case For the Unborn Child":
Abortion is not a private matter. The destruction of human life, even 'incipient' or developing human life in the womb, can never be considered a private matter under our law. The contention that it is a private matter would be too ludicrous and absurd to even argue were it not so often put forth under such intellectually impeccable auspices. Would those civil libertarians who argue that abortion is a private matter, argue that the exercise of civil rights is purely a private matter between the Black man and the man that thwarts them? Certainly not. Just as the civil right to vote must be protected by law, so too the most fundamental and basic of all civil rights - the Right to Life - must be protected by law.(105)
In her book, Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law, Ruth Colker explains why Roe v. Wade is considered an "activist" decision:
Second, it [Roe v. Wade]set the tone for how activist the Court would be in our lives. Rather than simply rule for the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, thereby invalidating the challenged Texas abortion statute, the Court outlined the parameters of a constitutional abortion statute. In other words, the Court drafted a model statute rather than simply striking down the Texas statute. Such judicial involvement in legislative activity is considered to be highly activist because the Court, in a sense, is displacing the legislature's role in society. Such activisim is often criticized for interfering with legislative dialogue, because the judiciary, an undemocratic institution, has substituted its judgment for that of the legislature. (102)
Former president Ronald Reagan in his book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, states how the Roe v. Wade decision is a violation of the Constitution:
Make no mistake, aboriton-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious...
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Interior Delists Gray Wolf
On Thursday, the Department of the Interior announced it has removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list, signaling a successful recovery under the Endangered Species Act. The gray wolf spent more than four decades on the endangered species list, and federal officials say the population is now thriving in the lower 48 states. With Thursday’s decision, state and tribal wildlife management agencies will now be responsible for the management and protection of the gray wolf.
“Oregon’s wolf population grew over 15% last year, and meanwhile, wolves continue to kill livestock in the area under federal management, with little recourse for local ranchers," said eastern Oregon representative Greg Walden. "Today’s action by the Trump Administration to officially delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List is long overdue. This move will allow our state wildlife officials to manage the wolves more effectively by allowing for a single management plan under local control."
“The gray wolf is an Endangered Species Act success story,” said Central Washington Representative Dan Newhouse. “By empowering states to manage gray wolf populations, the federal government is recognizing the effectiveness of locally-led conservation efforts, basing management decisions on sound science – instead of politics, and providing certainty to families, farmers, and rural communities in Central Washington and throughout the country. This action is one of the many steps the Trump Administration is taking to modernize the Endangered Species Act and protect American wildlife, and I look forward to continuing to build upon these efforts in Congress.”
“WCA applauds today’s Department of the Interior announcement regarding the removal of all gray wolves from the list of ESA-protected species,” said Ashley House, Executive Vice President of Washington Cattlemen’s Association. “We have tremendous confidence in the science that informed this important decision and thank Secretary Bernhardt for his leadership on this matter… We would especially like to extend sincere gratitude to Congressman Dan Newhouse for all his efforts that were undoubtedly instrumental in bringing forth the delisting and for his continued support of ESA reform. We are hopeful that this decision will guide our Washington state policy and policymakers towards a similar statewide decision towards management of the gray wolf population here locally. As ranchers, we remain optimistic that we will be able to protect our livelihoods and ability to produce a safe, affordable, domestic food supply while working in tandem with wildlife managers for balanced management and realized success. We commend the administration for this terrific work.”
“This is great news for Washington state where our wolf population has reached recoverable levels,” said Mike LaPlant, President of the Washington Farm Bureau. “We are very thankful for the work of President Trump, Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Director Aurelia Skipwith, and Congressman Newhouse for all their work to make this happen. It’s time to end the federal/state split management of wolves in Washington and allow our state wildlife managers to manage wolves in conjunction with all other species.”
“This is an Endangered Species Act success story,” said American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall. “The gray wolf joins more than 50 other animals, including the bald eagle, as an example of how careful management and partnerships between federal and state agencies can result in the successful recovery of a once-threatened species. The gray wolf population is now thriving so it is appropriate to turn management over to the states, which can oversee the species in a way that is most appropriate for each region.”
Over 1,600 species remain on the federal threatened and endangered list.
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The rule is to set aside 100 people you’re interested in, swipe left on the first 37, then choose the next person you come across that beats all the previous ones.
It’s crude or calculated, depending on your perspective.
But with 91 million people around the world using dating websites and apps, many think that using maths to improve your odds is simply smart.
“I know, just as well as all of you do, that love doesn’t really work like that,” said mathematician and lecturer Hannah Fry in her 2014 Tedx talk.
“Human emotion isn’t neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. But I also know that that doesn’t mean that mathematics hasn’t got something that it can offer us because, love, as with most of life, is full of patterns and mathematics is, ultimately, all about the study of patterns.”
Psychologist and dating expert Melanie Schilling is inclined to agree.
“The idea of using maths and science to predict love may be hard to swallow, especially if you are one … who believe[s] ‘the one’ is going to come into their life serendipitously,” Schilling said.
“But there is a touch of both art and science in the quest for love and maybe it’s time to try something different?”
One mathematical trick to maximise your chances of finding long-term love is the “37 per cent rule”.
Basically, set aside 100 people you’re interested in, swipe left on the first 37, then choose the next person you come across that you think beats all the previous ones.
The idea is that – from a statistical perspective – if you shoot too early, you could miss a better match later on, while if you wait too long, you’ll miss the goodies.
BBC presenter Dr Xand van Tulleken tried it out on Tinder and his verdict was lukewarm.
“I won’t lie – it wasn’t easy rejecting 37 women, some of whom looked pretty great,” he said. “But I stuck to the rules and made contact with the next best one. And we had a nice date.”
Not quite lightning bolts. But, he added: “If I applied this theory to all my dates or relationships, I can start to see it makes a lot of sense.”
Perhaps, but it’s not without its problems.
“Now unfortunately, I have to tell you that this method does come with some risks,” Fry said.
“For instance, imagine if your perfect partner appeared during your first 37 per cent. Now, unfortunately, you’d have to reject them. Now, if you’re following the maths, I’m afraid no one else comes along that’s better than anyone you’ve seen before, so you have to go on rejecting everyone and die alone. Probably surrounded by cats nibbling at your remains.”
Risk of being a cat lady/gent aside, van Tulleken still thinks it’s worth a shot and says that it’s given him food for thought while looking for the one.
“The maths of this is spectacularly complicated, but we’ve probably evolved to apply a similar kind of principle ourselves,” he said. “Have fun and learn things with roughly the first third of the potential relationships you could ever embark on. Then, when you have a fairly good idea of what’s out there and what you’re after, settle down with the next best person to come along.”
Besides, it pays to have a plan.
“You don’t leave your career or health to chance – you set goals, strategies and tactics to ensure you get results – so why not apply this to your love life?” Schilling suggested. “Whilst I’m no mathematician, as a psychologist I encourage my clients to apply a strategic approach to dating.
“This starts by dating themselves, then building a positive dating mindset, clarifying their personal dating brand and finally, developing an authentic dating strategy. I even have a few formulae and the odd spreadsheet that helps to validate the art side of things.
“It’s all about using the best techniques you have access to, to get the best results possible.”
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FROM THE GROUND UP:
Abortion rate falls during Obama's first year in office: was it because of Obama? (SUSAN MICHELLE TYRRELL, Nov 22, 2012, LifeSiteNews)
Last month news reports told us this:Just this year, 17 states set new limits on abortion; 24 did last year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights nonprofit whose numbers are widely respected. In several states with the most restrictive laws, the number of abortions has fallen slightly, pleasing abortion opponents who say the laws are working.Of 50 states in our nation, 41 of them have passed over 90 new laws supporting LIFE--and now the national CDC statistics prove that we can fight abortion even with a president who doesn't. The report last month continued to note states where abortion rates had fallen (including Texas where pro-life Governor Rick Perry and the Texas legislature have fought to de-fund Planned Parenthood and push through pro-life laws):States within the nation's most restrictive region, the midsection, include North and South Dakota, which each have only one abortion clinic and have seen the number of abortions drop slightly since 2008.And they include Texas, which has the most prescriptive counseling laws -- requiring, among other things, that doctors tell women abortion is linked with breast cancer. A group of scientists convened by the National Cancer Institute in 2003 concluded abortion did not raise the risk of breast cancer.A Texas law passed last year requires women to get an ultrasound and their doctors to describe the fetus. Texas abortions also have dropped every year since 2008.The Associated Press story notes:The decline, detailed on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came in 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available. Both the number of abortions and the abortion rate dropped by the same percentage.[T]he truth is simple: if the new laws didn't effect the abortion rate, Planned Parenthood wouldn't have spent oodles of money fighting these laws since federal law supersedes state law, and federal law hasn't changed. The numbers speak for themselves, and the Associated Press reports says, "Abortions have been dropping slightly over much of the past decade. But before this latest report, they seemed to have pretty much leveled off."Notable facts include the state of Mississippi, with only one abortion facility, which hovers on the verge of being closed. The report says:Mississippi had the lowest abortion rate, at 4 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age. The state also had only a couple of abortion providers and has the nation's highest teen birth rate. New York, second to California in number of abortion providers, had the highest abortion rate, roughly eight times Mississippi's.New York, it should be noted, has fewer abortion restrictions and many abortion facilities.
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Isma’ili Shi’a represent the second most important Shi’ite community after the Twelver (Ithna ‘Ashariyah) Shi'a and are scattered in more than twenty-five countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America. The Isma’ilis have subdivided into a number of factions and groups in the course of their complex history.
The Ismaʿilis take their name from their imam, Ismaʿil b. Jaʿfar al-Sadiq. They branched off from the main group, the Imamiyya, following the death of Jaʿfar al-Sadiq in 148/765 in a dispute regarding the latter’s succession. However, it should be noted that modern scholars who have examined traditional views held by the Shiʿa and compared them with the historical picture have come to the conclusion that the crystallization of the Shiʿa occurred under the sixth imam Jaʿfar al-Sadiq, and that the doctrine of the imamate formulated only in his time and then applied retrospectively to the pre-Jaʿfar period.
Around the second half of the 3rd/9th century, following the occultation of the twelfth Imami imam in 260/874, the Ismaʿilis launched a powerful messianic movement in various parts of the Abbasid Empire, promising the advent of the Mahdi, who will usher in an era of justice and equity prior to the end of time. In 297/909, they succeeded in establishing the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa, and in 358/969 they conquered Egypt and founded the new capital Cairo, ruling from there for another two centuries until they were overthrown by Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in 567/1171. Besides establishing a powerful empire stretching across vast territories, the Ismaʿilis have profoundly influenced Islamic political and intellectual thought.
Imamate[edit | edit source]
The Isma'ilis recognized a line of imams in the progeny of Isma’il, son of Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq (d. 765), hence their designation as Isma’ili. By the 870s, the Isma’ilis had organized a revolutionary movement against the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad. The aim of this religio-political movement, designated as al-da’wa al-hadiya or the "rightly guiding mission," was to install the Isma'ili imam belonging to the prophet Muhammad's family to a new caliphate ruling over the entire Muslim community. The message of the movement was disseminated by a network of da’is or missionaries in many parts of the Muslim world.
Fatimid Dynasty[edit | edit source]
The early success of the Isma'ili movement culminated in the foundation of the Fatimid caliphate in North Africa in 909. `Abdallah al-Mandi (d. 934) and his successors in the Isma'ili imamate ruled as Fatimid caliphs over an important state that soon grew into an empire stretching from North Africa to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. The Fatimid period was the "golden age" of Isma'ilism when Isma'ili thought and literature attained their summit and Isma'ilis made important contributions to Islamic civilization, especially after the seat of the Fatimid caliphate was transferred to Cairo, itself founded in 969 by the Fatimids. The early Isma'ilis developed a distinctive esoteric, gnostic system of religious thought based on a distinction between the exoteric (zahir) and esoteric (batin) aspects of the sacred scriptures as well as religious commandments and prohibitions. They also developed a cyclical view of religious history and a cosmological doctrine. The early doctrines were more fully elaborated in Fatimid times by Isma'ili da’is who were also the scholars and authors of their community. Isma'ili law was codified through the efforts of al-Qadi al-Nu`man (d 974), the foremost jurist of the Fatimid period, and the Fatimid Isma'ilis developed distinctive institutions of learning.
The early Isma'ili movement had been rent by a schism in 899 when a faction of the community, designated as Qarmati, refused to acknowledge continuity in the Isma'ili imamate and retained an earlier belief in the Mahdiship of the seventh Isma'ili imam, Muhammad ibn Isma’il, who was expected to reappear. The Qarmatis, who did not recognize the Fatimid caliphs as their imams, founded a powerful state in Bahrayn, eastern Arabia. The Qarmati state collapsed in 1077.
The Fatimid Isma'ilis themselves experienced a major schism in 1094, on the death of al-Mustansir (1036-1094), the eighth Fatimid caliph and the eighteenth Isma'ili imam. Al-Mustansir's succession was disputed by his sons Nizar (d. 1095), the original heir-designate, and al-Musta’li (1094-1101), who was installed to the Fatimid throne through the machinations of the Fatimid wazir al-Afdal (d. 1121). As a result, the unified Isma'ili da’wa and community were split into rival Nizari and Musta’li factions. The da’wa organization in Cairo as well as the Isma'ili communities of Yaman and Gujarat, in western India, supported the claims of al-Musta’li. The Isma'ilis of Iran and adjacent lands, who were then under the leadership of Hasan Sabbah (d. 1124), upheld Nizar's right to the Isma’ili imamate.
On the death of the Fatimid caliph-imam al-Amir (1101-1130), the Musta’li Isma'ilis themselves subdivided into Hafizi and Tayyibi branches. The Hafizi Isma'ilis who recognized al-Hafiz (1130-1149) and the later Fatimid caliphs as their imams disappeared completely after the Fatimid dynasty was uprooted in 1171 by Saladin, the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who championed the cause of Sunnism. Tayyibi Isma'ilis established their permanent stronghold in the Yemen. By the end of the sixteenth century, the Tayyibi Isma'ilis split into separate Da'udi and Sulaymani branches over the question of the rightful succession to the twenty-sixth da’i mutlaq, Da'ud b. `Ajabshah (1567-1589). By that time, the Tayyibis of India, known locally as Bohras, had greatly outnumbered their Yemeni co-religionists. Da'udi and Sulaymani Tayyibis have followed different lines of da’is. Da'udi Bohras, accounting for the great majority of the Tayyibis, have split into a number of groupings, the largest numbering around 800,000.
Nizari Ismaʿilism[edit | edit source]
Hasan Sabbah's seizure of the mountain fortress of Alamut, in northern Iran, in 1090, marked the effective foundation of what became the Nizari Isma'ili state of Iran and Syria. Thus, Nizaris acquired political prominence under Hasan and his seven successors at Alamut. In 1094, Hasan also founded the independent Nizari da’wa and severed his ties with Fatimid Egypt. The Nizari state was comprised of a network of strongholds and towns in several regions of Iran and Syria, in the midst of the Seljuk sultanate. Hasan's armed revolt against the Seljuk Turks, whose alien rule was detested by the Iranians, did not succeed, nor did the Seljuks succeed in destroying the Nizari fortress communities despite their superior military power. A stalemate, in effect, developed between the Nizaris and their various enemies until their state in Iran was destroyed by the all-conquering Mongols in 1256. The Nizaris of Syria, who had numerous military encounters with the Crusaders, and Saladin, among others, were later subdued by the Mamluks. The Iranian Nizaris elaborated their own teachings and adopted Persian, in preference to Arabic, as their religious language. They also established libraries at Alamut, the headquarters of the Nizari state and da’wa, and other mountain fortresses, also extending their patronage of learning to outside scholars.
The Nizari Isma'ilis survived the destruction of their state. Initially, for about two centuries, they remained disorganized and developed independently in scattered communities, also adopting Sufi guises to safeguard themselves against persecution. During the Anjudan revival in the post-Alamut period of their history, which lasted some two centuries from the middle of the fifteenth century, the Nizari imams emerged at Anjudan, in central Iran, and increasingly established their control over various communities of their followers, also reviving Nizari missionary and literary activities. At the same time, the Nizaris of Iran and adjacent lands retained different taqiyya or precautionary dissimulation practices of disguising themselves under the cloaks of Sufism and Twelver Shi’ism, the official religion of Safavid Iran. The Anjudan revival achieved particular success in Central Asia and South Asia, where large numbers of Hindus were converted in Sind, Gujarat, and elsewhere. The Indian Nizaris became locally known as Khojas and they developed an indigenous tradition, designated as the "Satpanth" or true path. The Nizaris of Badakhshan, now divided between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, have preserved numerous collections of Persian Isma'ili manuscripts. The Nizari Khojas, together with the Tayyibi Bohras, were among the earliest Asian communities to have settled in the nineteenth century in East Africa. In the 1970s and later, many East African Isma'ilis immigrated to the West. Under the leadership of their last two imams, Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III (1885-1957), and Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, who in 1957 succeeded his grandfather as their forty-ninth imam, the Nizari Isma'ilis, who number several million, have entered the modern age as a progressive community with high standards of education and well-being.
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- Daftary, Farhad, ed. Mediaeval Isma’ili History and Thought. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Daftary, Farhad. A Short History of the Isma'ilis. Edinburgh:
- Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
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Jakarta’s Latest Employment Figures Released
Jakarta – Indonesia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased in 2014. Unaffected from the January 2014 revised rate, and up 2.0 percentage points from 9.3 percent a year ago.
The city’s latest rate was the lowest since 2006 when it was 7.0 percent. There were thousands and thousands jobless
Indonesians out of a labor force of almost a billion. The country’s unemployment rate was increased this year.
Jakarta’s unemployment rate was some points lower than the Indonesia rate and was below the national rate for the past month.
Jakarta’s seasonally adjusted total employment was about 8 million this 2014, a decrease of thousand jobs over some months. As compared to last year, the number of jobs in the state was down by at least 200,000, a decrease of some percent. Generally, the number of jobs was down by some percent over the year. Jakarta’s annual job growth rate has declined since last year.
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This ensemble, consisting of seven separately cast pieces, is one of the most elaborate of known surviving Javanese bronzes. The central figure, his hands raised in teaching the dharma, can be identified either as Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha, or as Vairocana, his transcendent manifestation. The lion emerging from the center of the main base refers to the Buddha’s clan name. Seated on the left is Avalokiteshvara, supported by his vehicle the calf-bull Nandin, and on the right is Vajrapani, accompanied by his mount, a makara (mythical crocodile-elephant hybrid). The figures’ slender proportions and angular features mark this triad as a product of the Early Eastern Javanese period.
Genevieve Loanic , Forest Hills, CA (1988 until 2004, sold to Entwistle); ; [ Entwistle Gallery , London, 2004; sold to MMA ]
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You may have seen a delightful pair of viral videos in which group of Kenyan schoolchildren reenact memorable moments in Boston sports history.
The first, a reenactment of Boston’s epic 1986 Game 6 World Series collapse, was posted back in June and has racked up more than 200,000 views on YouTube. The second, posted just last week, shows off a happier moment for Boston: Larry Bird’s famous steal at the end of Game 5 of the 1987 NBA Eastern Conference finals. That’s been seen more than 100,000 times.
Enamored as we were, we tracked down the creator of these videos, Daniel Freiman. How did this come together? Were the kids into it? Are they in on the joke? The videos are part of a $56,000-goal fundraiser to give these awesome kids access to a nearby playing field, but is there more to it than that? And what happens if/when the goal is met? Meet the man behind it all.
HyperVocal: What’s your story, and how did you pull this off?
Daniel Freiman: I am a 26 year old MBA student currently studying at Ryerson University in Toronto. I was born and raised in Toronto and was volunteering this past summer in Kenya at the Grace Care Orphanage. I was there for 6 weeks starting mid-May, and I left at the end of June.
The original baseball video “1986 World Series … in Kenya” was intended to be more of a keepsake than anything for the kids and myself, but I also decided to share with some friends back home. Within a few days it went viral, and I realized that if we made a second re-enactment video with the same level of perfection from the kids we could raise significant funds for the orphanage. I filmed the basketball video during my last week in Kenya.
When I came back to Canada I was able to partner with a Canadian charity, Lift The Children, for this fundraising initiative. Lift The Children is a humanitarian organization focused on helping abandoned African children.
The idea behind this fundraising initiative is to raise enough money for the orphanage to purchase a playing field where the kids can safely play. Currently there are no safe places for them to play, and they have resorted to playing a game called “Bounce” in their spare time. The game is a combination of rock-kicking and hopscotch. That’s the extent of recreation they currently can undertake given the small confines of the orphanage. The targeted field is available for purchase and is just down the block from Grace Centre. We have raised over $7,000 in 5 days, which is very exciting, but we still have a long ways to go.
HV: Who came up with the idea for shot-for-shot recreations of famous Boston sports moments, both good and bad?
DF: I showed the kids the Mets/Sox clip, as well as the Music City Miracle (Bills vs. Titans) on my laptop — they chose the Buckner play for the original movie. They kept laughing at the pile-up at home plate. I chose the Larry Bird steal and dish as the second re-enactment choice.
There’s no denying the rich sports history of the city of Boston, but that was hardly the reason for choosing both of these plays. I was looking to choose plays that were well-known, easy to replicate and had a famous TV/radio call, so people could identify with them. Specifically, for this second video, I wanted to get the entire orphanage involved, and since there are two totally bent out of shape basketball nets at the school, I figured a basketball play would work. It wouldn’t have been feasible to bring 150 kids to a field 3 miles away to film a baseball or football clip.
I wanted to have all of the kids rush the court to finish the video, so the play had to be a game-winning shot. It was between Bird’s steal and Christian Laetner’s buzzer-beater for Duke, but no kid would be able to hit that turn-around fadeaway, nor replicate Grant Hill’s baseball throw down the court. The Bird play was simply a steal and a lay-up.
HV: Are the kids into it? Are they in on the joke?
DF: They totally get it and want to do more!
HV: How many people are producing this? Was it your idea to throw “Future Sports Guy” into the Boston Garden scene?
DF: In respect to crowd control, I had some assistance from some teachers and other volunteers, but I was responsible for the creative. The other volunteers and teachers didn’t really know what I was doing, but they knew enough to let me run with it. Did you know that Simmons sat directly next to the tunnel at the Boston Garden in the 1980s? Exactly where Cyrus Kubesa is standing in the re-enactment.
HV: How long do they take to film and then edit?
DF: We practiced both plays (the block and the steal/basket) the day before a bunch of times until they perfected them. It’s really tough for anyone to hit a lay-up on a net that’s totally deformed, let alone a child that has never been properly taught how to play. It was equally as challenging to have Godfrey bounce the ball perfectly off Benson’s leg and into the wall … or our version of out of bounds (0:42).
The next day after lunch we brought the rest of the school to act as Celtic fans. We taught them when to cheer, boo, go nuts, and rush the court. If you look carefully when the Pistons are being introduced, the hometown 7-year-old Celtic fans are booing them in the background (0:15 – 0:21).
Once the fans knew their roles, we brought the players out to run the plays. They nailed both of them on the 2nd take. The entire process took about an hour to film. When I brought the clips home in July I edited them with the help of my brother Dave and sister Jess. We’ve had it ready for some time, but it took a few months to find a legitimate charity to partner with. Lift The Children has been a terrific match for the project.
HV: Are there plans for any more vids? What’s your next idea?
DF: If we raise enough money to purchase a field I will definitely head back to Kenya at some point in the future and direct another movie. I have some potential really cool ideas for the next play … stay tuned.
HV: Let’s say you get to $56K — what happens next? Big ceremony?
DF: The field is already in place however it is currently privately owned but is available for purchase. Part of the $56k will go towards the labour costs associated with leveling it. It should take 2-3 months to complete. If we get up to $50k, I’ll begin to start thinking about their ceremony.
But until then it’s still a dream …
Click here if you’d like to help these kids realize that dream.
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There is overwhelming evidence that conscientious consumption is on the rise, according to BeCause It Matters, a new study from Havas PR, which found that conscientious consumption is a growing aspiration in markets around the world.
In Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States, consumers were asked to respond to nine statements rating their consumption behavior in the past year, the present and the next 12 months, from whether they have bought ethical brands and researched them ahead of purchase to whether they recommend responsible brands to family, friends and colleagues.
The survey found that women consumers are leading the way and that people in developing economies have strong conscientious aspirations. In general, consumers like the idea of being conscientious but are most likely to engage in conscientious behavior that requires little or no additional cost or effort from them.
"In part, this phenomenon is about people everywhere questioning the assumptions of the financial crisis that started in 2007," says Marian Salzman, CEO of Havas PR North America and chair of the Havas PR Global Collective. "And in part it's about using 21st-century tools to get more information in order to be consumers who are proactive about ethical, responsible, sustainable brands.
“Plus, the transparency trend and so many others are converging to bring us to where we are now: more mindful in both consumption habits and our social and environmental impact."
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For the Wilders, peanuts are a generational endeavor.
Editor’s Note: Since the interviews were conducted for this article but before it could be published, Lynn Wilder passed away. On behalf of The Peanut Grower, our sincere condolences go out to the Wilder family. We appreciate them allowing us to move forward with the article even in their time of bereavement.
No one will argue that farming has been easy the past few years, but there are some corners that just can’t be cut. Balancing the risk versus reward is one of the most complicated decisions a grower will make in the planning process for next year’s crop.
For Littleton Wilder Sr., and sons Littleton Wilder Jr. and Lynn Wilder, 2020 was a bit of a shift in their crop mix. “We had a fairly normal price for peanuts in 2020, so we decided to put more of our acreage in peanuts,” Littleton Wilder Jr. says. “Compared to some of the other options, it just made sense for us.”
Making It Work
The close-knit family has been farming in the Pelham, Georgia, area for four generations. Some of them even live on Wilder Road, which will get to another road that will go somewhere — assuming of course, anyone would want to go somewhere else.
“We love farming, and we love this area,” Littleton Wilder Sr. says. “Sometimes it’s tough, but we do our best to make it work.”
Anticipating pest pressure is one of the most serious considerations the Wilders factor into their crop management long before a crop is ever planted.
“We have one of the best, if not the best, crop consultants in the area who looks after our crops and helps us make decisions long before a seed ever hits the dirt,” Lynn Wilder says. “We knew that moving a lot of our acreage to peanuts would create a problem with thrips. You could say the same thing about cotton. In this part of the world, thrips will just eat you up.”
Some Things Are A Must
Like almost any grower with any crop in any area, cutting costs is a top priority. However, some costs just can’t be cut.
“We believe that early season pest control is the key to making a good peanut crop,” Wilder Jr. says. “You just can’t cut corners on that one.”
The Wilders use AgLogic aldicarb at a rate of 5.5 pounds per acre at planting on all of their peanut acreage. “We do it mostly for thrips control, but I think it probably helps a little bit with nematodes, even at that rate,” he says.
Bypassing foliar sprays for thrips control has additional benefits, according to Wilder Jr. “Obviously, there is the advantage of cutting out foliar applications,” he says. “There are so many things to do early in the season, it’s an incredible hassle to stop everything and go put out a thrips fire. Not only that, but if you go put out a thrips fire with a foliar, you’ll probably end up with another fire.”
Flaring secondary pest problems with foliar sprays is always a concern — especially when cheaper, broad-spectrum sprays are used to control thrips.
“If we can get away without spraying during the early season, or at least minimize our early season sprays, we’re way ahead of the game,” Wilder Jr. says. “In addition, sometimes I think it’s easy to forget how important beneficals are when it comes to controlling thrips. An in-furrow, at-planting material such as AgLogic not only gives us about six weeks of thrips control, but it doesn’t mess with the beneficials that gives us even more control.”
A Crop That Pops
Early stand establishment is also critical in peanuts, according numerous research trials in peanut-growing areas. “It makes sense,” Wilder Jr. says. “When you can get that plant to pop out of the ground with strong, healthy roots and a good canopy, it’s a lot more prepared to take on anything that might hold it back.”
An early, healthy stand of peanuts is always preferable to a spotty stand for obvious reasons, as well as some reasons that aren’t quite as obvious. Disease issues are typically less significant. Root and pod diseases are often typical in early stressed peanuts and then conducive to the onset of tomato spotted wilt virus, particularly when emergence is less than ideal.
In addition, an early developing canopy provides shade that reduces weed pressure. Fast forward to an always uncertain fall, and an earlier harvest can prove quite beneficial in some years.
“You don’t have to ask us what an earlier harvest means,” Wilder Jr. says. “We’ve been through enough terrible years where you wish you had just a week or two of a head start on getting those peanuts out of the field.”
Don’t Get Behind
The Wilders focused more on peanuts in 2020, but they also grow cotton in varying acreage depending on the price outlook. “It was a tough year to commit to cotton due to the price, but it’s always one of our options we consider,” Wilder Jr. says. “That’s another crop where getting off to a good start is extremely important. You definitely don’t want to get behind in pest control before you even get started. Just like thrips control in peanuts, you do not want to play catch-up.”
Even though AgLogic is a more expensive, up-front investment than the wait-and-see approach, the Wilders believe it is well worth it when all is said and done.
“If anything, it’s just peace of mind,” Wilder Jr. says. “We know we’re going to get off to the best start possible. We don’t have to worry so much about what thrips are going to do to the crop in the first few weeks, and I’m pretty sure it makes our consultant happy. That’s always a plus.”
Not Changing Now
The Wilders take everything they can into consideration when making any decision — financial or otherwise.
“You can’t look at the cost of one input without looking at what it contributes to the overall picture,” Wilder Jr. says. “Yeah, maybe nematodes are a factor. It’s very likely an early start to a healthy crop is a factor. It’s hard to put a value on that one.
Maybe we won’t have to spray as much. Maybe a better canopy is a factor in weed control. Maybe it’s something else. The one thing you can bet on year after year is that thrips are going to be a factor.”
Asked if he would cut any more corners for the 2021 season, Wilder Jr. replied, “Everything we can possibly cut, we do, but not the early season, in-furrow pest control. It’s worked for us for years, and we’re not about to change it now.”
Article by Brenda Carol on behalf of AgLogic.
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The art of titling How "how" can target your readers
At the Guardian, David Aaronovitch has been noticing that there are a lot of political books on the shelves. And that most all of them have a subtitle, which, most of the time, starts with "How."
The subtitle told the possible purchaser what side the book was on. So marked was this polarisation that the bookstore had mounted above its display a diagram created by a Chicago social networks analyst, Valdis Krebs. He had analysed book purchases to look for patterns among bookbuyers. He then plotted these purchases, and created two separated clusters, looking something like two testicles - one blue and one red.
What he showed was that there was almost no crossover at all. Liberals read only liberal books and conservatives only conservative ones. Their authors were not just preaching to the converted, they were marketing their works specifically at the converted.
But thinking about it, this is a great business opportunity. If an American publisher is reading this, may I offer them my own forthcoming bestseller: Big Fat Stupid Lying Liars and the Big Fat Stupid Lies They Tell (subtitled: How the Other Side Are Destroying Everything You Hold Dear, Whatever That Is). Open the book one way round and it's a blistering condemnation of Bush and Fox News; open it the other and Hillary and the Washington Post get it in the neck. As ex-CIA chief George Tenet would say, it's a slam dunk and yours for half a million bucks.
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Nigeria’s political landscape continues to be an ever-changing kaleidoscope as politicians align and realign themselves to what they expect to be the winning combination during the 2015 elections. Will incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan run for a second term of office? Will the newly amalgamated All People’s Congress and the New People’s Democratic Party upset the apple cart? Frederick Mordi analyses the unfolding drama.
A politician,” James Clarke, an American political figure once remarked, “thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.”
This appears to be the case in Nigeria as politicians seem to be more preoccupied with preparations for the general elections in 2015 than the country’s centenary itself. Nigeria will mark 100 years of existence on 1st January 2014. The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the main opposition party, the All People’s Congress (APC), are the two leading contenders in the race.
The PDP government has been in power since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic governance. The party has a stronghold in 23 out of 36 states of the federation. This leaves the other major parties with 13 states. The APC is an amalgam of three political parties, namely the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). The merger of the three political parties was consummated in April: it is the opposition’s strategy of challenging the ruling party’s perceived dominance in the nation’s political landscape. The APC, which in July formally received its certificate of registration from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the body charged with the conduct of elections in Nigeria, has started to reach out to stakeholders in other parts of the country with a view to recruiting more members.
Crisis in PDP
But the PDP itself has been embroiled in a prolonged internal wrangling that finally culminated in the emergence of a faction called the ‘New PDP’. Nigeria’s former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, who leads the splinter group, is believed to be nursing a presidential ambition. It is expected that he will use the new party as a platform to relaunch his bid for the presidency in 2015. He had contested previous elections for the presidency and lost. Explaining why he chose to pull off what many political watchers regarded as a ‘coup’ on a day the PDP held its special convention in Abuja, Atiku said: “We are losing the party. We are losing the government. This New PDP would restore the value of the founding fathers of the party.”
Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi, who has been at daggers drawn with President Goodluck Jonathan, and five other governors from the northern states are the founding members of the new party. Before now, the long-standing feud in the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) had divided members into two factions. Amaechi, who leads one of the factions, has been reportedly holding talks with some northern governors on how to checkmate President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged ‘second term’ bid. The NGF is an influential body made up of the 36 state governors in the country.
Mediation by some elder statesmen, including former heads of state in the PDP imbroglio, has so far not yielded much fruit. The formation of a rival faction of the PDP is an indication that the crack in the wall has widened. It is generally believed that this festering crisis may affect the party’s fortunes in 2015 if it is not amicably resolved.
Although President Jonathan has not formally declared his intention to run for a second term in office, the opposition and, indeed, some members of his party itself are not comfortable with his silence, which they believe speaks volumes.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), an influential northern political organisation, in particular, has told Jonathan plainly to forget the idea, insisting that power must shift to the zone in 2015. Jonathan, who was elected president in 2011, following the demise of his boss Umaru Yar’Adua, a northerner, is expected to complete his first term in 2015. Obasanjo, another southerner and Yar’Adua’s successor, did two full terms, from 1999–2007.
For this singular reason, the ACF, which alleged that Jonathan agreed to a pact with northern leaders that he would spend a single term, wants him to respect the deal. The PDP has an alleged rotational presidency deal between the north and the south. The nation’s constitution does not recognise this arrangement.
The Patriots, a group made up of eminent Nigerians, has also added its voice to the debate. Constitutional lawyer and leader of the group, Professor Ben Nwabueze, said Jonathan would become an ‘instant hero’ if he dumped his alleged second term ambition and focused on national transformation.
Nwabueze said: “But it is for him to choose; if I were him, I would choose to become a hero to lead the country into transformation and abandon the ambition of a second term.”
But the Presidency and some powerful PDP chieftains say the purported ‘single-term pact’ is a figment of the imagination. In fact, the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, chief Anthony Anenih, has called for an automatic ticket for Jonathan and first-term governors in 2015 based on what he termed their impressive ‘performance’.
Indeed, the senior special assistant to the President on public affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, is confident that Jonathan would win should he decide to run.
Okupe said: “President Jonathan has not decided and has not told anybody he wants to run. That is the truth. But if he decides to run, nobody can beat him. The calculations are in his favour; the odds are in his favour. The national support is in his favour; the performance index is in his favour.”
APC’s game plan
Meanwhile, the APC has continued to perfect strategies to defeat the ruling party in 2015. While the APC has yet to name its presidential flag-bearer, there are indications that the party may give its vice-presidency slot to the southeast geopolitical zone.
Analysts say this move would help to party gain traction in the region, which is a bastion of the PDP. The APC’s calculation is that zoning the vice-presidency to the southeast could bring the people of the region closer to the number-one seat, which has remained elusive to them for decades. This goes against widely held belief that the southwest zone will produce the vice-president of the party.
From all indications, a northerner is likely to emerge as Presidential candidate of the APC. Pundits have tipped former presidential aspirant Muhammadu Buhari for the ticket, based on his popularity in the north.
Reacting to his likely nomination by the APC, Buhari said: “My decision will be tied to the constitution of the APC. If the party chooses me as its candidate, I will contest. If the members do not consider me, I will not contest but I will still support the party. My decision to run for 2015 will solely be that of the party.”
The interim national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, predicted PDP’s defeat in 2015 during a media parley in Abuja.
Akande said: “The task before our party is clearly cut out, that is, to create a partnership with the people to decisively change both tone and substance of governance in the country.”
Without a doubt, the Nigerian political scene is in a state of flux. Few can guess what will happen next. Given the penchant of politicians for horse trading, it is not unlikely that there will be more surprises in 2015.
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Report: Heroin overdose hospitalizations on rise
Erie County's rate of hospital admissions for opioid overdoses was higher than the state average in 2016, a new report shows.
The report, released Wednesday by the government-funded Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, states that Erie County saw 35 hospitalizations for opioid overdoses, including heroin and opioid painkillers, per 100,000 residents in 2016, putting it above the statewide average of 31.1 overdoses per 100,000 residents.
Hospital admissions for heroin overdoses have increased by 66 percent statewide since 2014, according to the report, and nearly doubled since 2013.
The data includes Pennsylvania residents age 15 and older who were admitted to general acute-care hospitals, according to the report.
Pennsylvania saw a total of 1,524 hospital admissions for heroin overdose and 1,775 hospital admissions for pain medication overdose in 2016, the report states.
The report claims Erie County saw 80 hospitalizations for opioid overdoses in 2016 — 34 for heroin and 46 for pain medication. The report does not provide comparative information from previous years.
The in-hospital mortality rate for heroin overdose patients statewide was 9.4 percent, up from 7.5 percent in 2014, according to the report.
The number of hospital admissions for heroin overdoses was steady from 2003 until 2010, when the number began trending upward, the report states.
Opioid overdose hospitalizations in Pennsylvania have cost an estimated $27 million in insurance payments, according to the report.
The reported increase in overdose hospitalizations aligns with the rise in drug-related deaths the Erie County Coroner's office has identified.
Drug-related deaths in Erie County jumped from 59 in 2015 to 95 in 2016. Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, was involved in 38 of the 2016 drug deaths, and heroin was found in 37 deaths, according to the Erie County Coroner’s Office.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, which published the opioid report, is a research agency that gathers data on the health-care system statewide.
Madeleine O'Neill can be reached at 870-1728 or by email. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNoneill.
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posted on 24th Jun 2022 14:27
The key data of Plasser&Theurer‘s 09-3X track tamping machine are impressive: 80 tonnes net weight, 35 m length, eight axles, and three-sleeper tamping units. To determine the stresses and deformations of the vehicle frame, PJM carried out pressure frame tests according to EN 12663-1. The strength tests were performed at the Plasser&Theurer‘s Linz factory in June 2022.
This has clear advantages for the machine manufacturer: the entire on-site infrastructure is used and any adaptations to the object can be coordinated with the design engineers and immediately implemented. Using PJM’s mobile pressure frame allows the tests to be carried out directly in the factory. Thanks to its modular design, the pressure frame is suitable for every type of vehicle. It has proven its effectiveness in static tests in numerous projects.
As an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory, PJM performs measurements, tests, and analyses in the field of vehicle approval. PJM was the first privately accredited testing laboratory in Austria. It carries out approval tests in the areas of driving technology, strength, braking, aerodynamics, and acoustics for international customers worldwide, among them the suburban rail in Berlin, Chicago, and Riyadh, the metros in Barcelona and Glasgow, the London Underground or the WESTbahn.
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The development of inexpensive but efficient materials that use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen could kickstart a future, sustainable hydrogen economy. Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and their colleagues have discovered a way to exploit tantalum(V) oxide containing nanochannels to generate a photochemically active form of tantalum(V) nitride doped with an alkali metal that splits water under visible light conditions.
Titania has been the focus of much research into the photochemical splitting of water, but it suffers from low efficiency. Tantalum nitrides and oxynitrides are much better placed in this regard because they have much more suitable electronic band gaps for absorbing sunlight and using this energy to directly split water.
- Enhanced water splitting activity of M-doped Ta3N5 (M = Na, K, Rb, Cs),
Yuya Kado, Chong-Yong Lee, Kiyoung Lee, Julian Müller, Matthias Moll, Erdmann Spiecker, Patrik Schmuki,
Chem. Commun. 2012.
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More than 60 influential scientists, including over 40 Nobel laureates, are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for reforms that will protect our health, safety, and environment. They have posted at their web site :>
The Scientific Integrity Program from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Scientific Integrity Update
The 110th Congress is acting to defend science from political interference, holding multiple hearings into UCS reports of scientific censorship and advancing strong whistleblower protections for federal scientists. Thousands of additional scientists have spoken up against the ongoing censorship, manipulation, and distortion of science. More...
FDA Scientists Pressured to Exclude, Alter Findings
The Union of Concerned Scientists released survey results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political influence of science at the FDA.
_________________________The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit advocacy group.
"In disregarding its own scientists' analysis, the EPA is risking the health of Americans ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Concerned_Scientists - 41k
Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon General's Report
Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post report on
Sunday 29 July 2007 edition
A 2006 report urging Americans to help tackle global health problems was kept
from public view largely because it did not promote White House objectives.
The scientific information contained in the EPA libraries is essential to the agency's ability
to make fully informed decisions that carry out its mission of protecting human
health and the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun closing its nationwide
network of scientific libraries, effectively preventing EPA scientists and the public
from accessing vast amounts of data and information on issues from toxicology to
pollution. Several libraries have already been dismantled, with their contents either
destroyed or shipped to repositories where they are uncataloged and inaccessible.
The scientific information contained in the EPA libraries is essential to the agency's ability to make fully informed decisions that carry out its mission of protecting human health and the environment. Members of Congress have asked the EPA to cease and desist. Please call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson at (202) 564-4700 and tell him how much scientists rely on data and literature. Urge him to immediately halt the dismantling of the library system until Congress approves the EPA budget and all materials are readily available online.
Update, 3:00 p.m. EST 12/4: Calls are already flooding in and we've received
reports that the EPA office is making the following arguments:
1. The EPA is not closing any libraries.
2. The EPA is not destroying any documents, only archiving them.
3. It is more effective to call your member of Congress.
The Truth: Five libraries have already closed, with several more having reduced
their hours. Evidence shows that scientific journals have indeed been recycled or
thrown away. And Congress is already aware of this problem; the decision to stop
the closing of libraries and the destruction of documents lies now with Administrator
Johnson. For detailed evidence, click on “Tell me more”.
Visit the Union of Concerned Scientists Action Center ...
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Title of article:
The Other Drug War
The FDA is wasting its time impeding
harmless rice imports while ignoring
what may be the fourth-leading cause of
By Michael Castleman
Mother Jones Magazine, November/December 1998 Issue
Excerpt from the above article:
Last spring (1998), scientists at the
University of Toronto announced the
results of a new study: By their
calculations, the fourth-leading cause
of death in the United States is
prescription drugs. They weren't
talking about drug abuse or overdoses,
but rather, appropriately administered,
FDA-approved drugs. Side effects, they
determined, cause close to 106,000
deaths per year. That's more deaths
than the annual totals for AIDS,
suicide, and homicide combined, and
equal to an astonishing 290 deaths per
End of excerpt from:
With suicide being the 8th leading cause of death, consider this>
Title of article:
An influential mental health nonprofit
finds its 'grassroots' watered by
By Ken Silverstein
Mother Jones Magazine November/December 1999 Issue
POISON FOR PROFIT CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL
- WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz
May 15, 2002 Red Flag Weekly
The huge transnational companies that
produce toxic chemicals found in
pesticides, herbicides and industrial
and household products profit not only
from the sale of these products, but
also from the symptoms and chronic
illnesses that they can trigger.
End of abstract.
The above article is so censored that
it is not even in the Archives Wayback
Machine. It has been re-posted by
numerous advocates, on the web and
copies can be found with this Google
POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz
And that is only the tip of the iceberg.
The Gulf War Vets have posted
What you do not know could kill you
Censored information on biological weapons
and the health care industry.
The censored rough draft has been reposted
Reference material reposted at:
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — Fourteen killed and a score wounded the other day, just up the road from here in an artillery barrage on an Afghan refugee center.
Nine dead a few days before in a jet bomber raid on the same sort of target.
And all that on this side--the Pakistani side--of the border with Afghanistan.
The Afghan war, in which at least half a million people have been killed, and in which the major military force is a 120,000-man Soviet army of occupation, now is deep into its seventh year.
And the end is not in sight.
The accepted wisdom, in fact, in this baked and dusty border town in Northwest Frontier province, which has become the de facto headquarters for the Afghan nationalist anti-communist resistance, is that the war is likely to turn even meaner and bloodier.
That is the view expressed generally by leaders of the Afghan resistance, by Western diplomats and by a variety of other experienced observers of the long-running war.
All those involved on this side of the border, and all those interviewed here and in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, tend, of course, to be in sympathy with the resistance, which also has the strong support of the U.S. government.
There also is wide agreement on three other points:
-- The new Soviet-selected leader of the protege communist regime in Afghanistan is bad news for the resistance and for U.S. interests.
-- Neighboring Pakistan, a principal foreign supporter and burden-bearer of the anti-communist resistance`s war effort, may be wearying of its role and looking for a way out.
-- Both sides in the war are taking heavy casualties, neither can really be said to be winning, and neither is prepared to call it quits.
Leaders of the Afghan resistance, called the Mujahedin, are especially jittery right now that both Pakistan and the U.S. might strike a deal with the Soviets and abandon their cause.
But even if the Soviets did decide to cut their losses and go home, it also is widely agreed that the war would go on intramurally among the Afghans themselves.
``We started our resistance against the communist regime in Kabul,`` said Fazel Akbar, a prominent and scholarly figure in resistance circles. ``The Russians weren`t even there then. The resistance will not end when they leave.``
Though casualties have been staggering on both sides, and though the long conflict has generated more than 4 million refugees, the war often has all but faded from American consciousness because it has dragged on now since Christmas, 1979.
Two recent events have again focused attention on the war:
First, the Soviets dumped Babrak Karmal as leader of the Afghan regime in Kabul and replaced him as Communist Party chief with a former head of the secret police who uses only one name, Najibullah, or just Najib.
Second, a United Nations mediator has convened a seventh round of so-called ``proximity talks`` in Geneva involving Pakistan and the Afghan regime in pursuit of a ``political solution`` to the war.
Neither event has produced any great excitement or optimism among those who live with and deal with the war and back the Mujahedin--or ``freedom fighters,`` as President Reagan calls them.
``Najibullah is very good for the Russians and very bad for us,`` said Akbar, who was on duty at Kabul Radio the night the Soviets invaded and shot up the place and who is now associated with the respected Afghan Information and Documentation Center here.
All the Soviets did in ousting Karmal and anointing Najibullah is
``substitute a young and effective s.o.b. for an old and ineffective s.o.b.,`` said a well-placed Western diplomat.
Karmal, 57, allegedly asked to be replaced because he is ailing. Western diplomats, however, say the change was less a matter of Karmal being sick than of the Soviets being sick of him.
``They gave him more than five years to do the work (create a native political-economic apparatus that could survive the departure of the Soviet army) and he didn`t get the job done; it`s that simple,`` one diplomat said.
Najibullah is only 39 and by reputation, among his foes at least, represents a considerably greater problem for the Afghan resistance. He is not only more ruthless and more efficient than Karmal, but he has potential political appeal among the Afghan people.
He is a Pushtun, for one thing, a member of the largest ethnic group, and, according to Akbar, who knew him long ago as a medical student, he has
``close relations with the tribal people`` in what is a tribal society.
``He is a tough Pushtun, a trained killer-type from the secret police,``
said a diplomat, ``and he may bring a possibility of change but probably change in the wrong direction.``
Referring to runaway rumors at the November U.S.-Soviet summit in Geneva that Moscow intended to signal some new willingness for a political solution in Afghanistan, this diplomat added, ``If they wanted to send a positive signal, this (Najibullah) doesn`t do it.``
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The Real Value in Virtualization
Aside from consolidation and overall reduction in hardware costs, can anyone definitively say exactly how virtualization has improved things from purely a data performance perspective?
But aside from consolidation and overall reduction in hardware costs, can anyone definitively say exactly how virtualization has improved things from purely a data performance perspective? Composite Software took a crack at that one recently with an online survey of developers, admins, BI professionals and the odd CIO looking to see where the value proposition of virtualization lies. The survey's 143 respondents are admittedly a small sample, but the insights are telling.
Aside from reducing infrastructure costs and complexity, the top benefits are the improvement of data delivery and access and the ability to make data sources and infrastructure transparent to users. These, in turn, have improved workforces' ability to meet deadlines and service level agreements by enhancing a number of enterprise functions, such as business analytics and intelligence, real-time data-sharing, warehousing and cloud computing. The takeaway here is that virtualization has both short-term and long-term benefits, which makes it one of those rare technologies that has real staying power.
This is evident in the growing number of enterprise-grade tools designed to take advantage of the improved data management opportunities of virtual environments. A company called Queplix, for example, has set out to tap into the technology's ability to provide a single data set for multiple applications through a new metadata server that links data to platforms ranging from SAP and Oracle to online services like Salesforce. Not only does it reduce storage burdens, it provides a consistent data set for all users, vastly improving workforce efficiency.
Another area that is apparently lagging is data protection. According to a recent survey of 500 IT directors by data recovery specialist Veeam Software, full recovery of a backed-up virtual machine takes about five hours, even though actual VM deployments have been reduced to minutes. Nearly half of all recoveries are intended to restore a single file or application item, while nearly two-thirds of organizations encounter problems while attempting a recovery. Still, only about 2 percent of all server and VM backups are tested for recovery.
Clearly, then, enterprises have some issues to work out in the drive toward a fully dynamic virtual/cloud environment. But the good news is that the infrastructure being put in place today provides a robust foundation for the needs of tomorrow.
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The government keeps detailed statistics on its citizens, some of which make headlines but most of which go unnoticed. One statistic recently caught my attention and particularly the number 314.
Why 314? Because there are at least 314 people with Individual Retirement Accounts with balances over $25,000,000. Let that sink in for a moment.
Over 314 people have IRAs with more than $25 million dollars.
You might be asking yourself how someone could have a $25,000,000 IRA when the contribution limits amount to only $275,000 during an average career? Even the more generous contributions under the SEP-IRA can’t explain balances of this size.
Yet, the numbers don’t lie:
Let’s see if we can build an account balance that large. First, let’s imagine that a 1-year-old opens an IRA and makes the maximum contribution through age 80. How much money would they have? Turns out that gets you about $17,641,918 if you get an average market return of 7% each year. Not bad, but also highly unrealistic since you need earned income to be eligible to contribute to an IRA.
Assuming a more realistic scenario, if someone contributed the maximum amount from age 18 until age 70 they would only end up with a paltry $2,574,492. Hardly chump change, but not the $100,000,000 I promised in the headline.
And yet according to the government numbers, these accounts exist.
Real Life Examples of Multi-Million $$ IRAs
One case study we can look at is Peter Thiel. You may know him as the venture capitalist billionaire co-founder of Paypal. Or you may have read about how he funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker. Either way, you probably didn’t know that he is a personal finance genius.
It’s rumored that Peter Thiel, one of the early investors in Facebook, partially funded his investment in Facebook through his Roth IRA. If he put as little as $100,000 into Facebook back in 2004, he could easily have over $25,000,000 in a Roth IRA account by now.
Notice that the government statistics don’t reveal whether the IRAs in question are traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs. I imagine that most of them are traditional IRAs with pre-tax money, if only because you can contribute over $50,000 to a SEP-IRA which makes the high balances more likely.
However, I’m most intrigued at the thought of these megabalances being held in a Roth IRA. If you’re reading this blog and don’t know the tax benefits of Roth IRAs, then I have failed you, but it’s worth a quick recap: you invest with after-tax dollars but the money grows tax-free and is withdrawn tax-free. That means if you have a Roth IRA account with a balance over $25,000,000, all of that money is yours to keep. No more taxes. Talk about a smart investing move, right?
The trick to using your Roth IRA wrapper to invest in alternative investments like real estate, private company stock and intellectual property is to establish a self-directed IRA. Technically speaking, a self-directed IRA is not any different from any other IRA. It’s just that self-directed IRAs have a wider range of available investment options.
Self-directed IRAs have been around since the IRA was created in 1974, but don’t receive the same level of attention as other IRAs because most custodians who offer IRAs (like Vanguard) only allow traditional investments at their firms.
There are some limitations to what you can and can’t do with an IRA. For instance, here’s a list of the basic prohibited transactions:
- You can’t buy or sell property directly from yourself.
- You can’t lend money or borrow money from it.
- You can’t invest in a company you own or control.
- You can’t do business with a company you own or control (e.g. if you have a rental property in your IRA, you can’t have the rental property hire your landscaping company to trim the lawn).
How to Build A $100M Roth IRA
Another famously large IRA balance belongs to Mitt Romney, who purportedly holds over $100,000,000 of his wealth in an IRA. He’s never publicly revealed what investment are inside his IRA, but here’s my best guess.
Mitt Romney is a private equity guy. That means he makes most of his money through carried interest. Carried interest is a tax loophole that everyone promises to close, but nobody does.
Carried interest works like this: a private equity firm finds a company to purchase, say for $100M. Its limited partners put up $99M for the purchase, meanwhile the private equity firm adds the remaining $1M. In exchange for the $1M, the private equity firm enters into an arrangement with the investors where the private equity firm will take 20% of any profits achieved on the sale of the company.
Five years later, the Company is sold for $300M. After returning the original equity to the partners, the private equity firm is left with a $200M profit. Forty million goes to the private equity firm and the remaining $160M is distributed to the limited partners as profits.
The private equity firm may divide up the profit by only a few people. Let’s say it has four partners. Each will get $10M from the sale. If you assumed each paid ordinary income tax on the $10M profit, you’d be mistaken. Instead, they pay capital gains tax rates on their “carried interest” (the 20% cut of any profits).
If Mitt Romney used his IRA to make an investment in the carry vehicle of the private equity fund, any profits he received from the carried interest would fall into the IRA. He could then use the larger balance in the IRA to make more investments in future deals. I imagine this is how he built up such a large IRA balance.
How Can You Use This Strategy?
Most lawyers should be focused on maximizing their retirement accounts and investing in index funds. The surest path to wealth is consistently saving money and getting market returns, which is what I’m currently doing.
But, if you have access to investment opportunities in private companies, it’s worth considering whether your Roth IRA is the right vehicle for such an investment.
Let’s consider an example. A friend of yours has started a niche manufacturing business selling a seasonal product. He has the product manufactured in China, imports it into the United States and then sells it at retail stores and through his own website. He’s looking for investment capital from you of $25,000 to help grow the business in exchange for a 1% ownership stake in the company.
If you think the company is doing well and likely to make a profit, you can make the investment from your taxable account. Any dividends or gains will be taxed at capital gain rates, which are more favorable than ordinary income tax rates but can still be quite steep once you factor in the 3.8% tax for Obamacare and state tax rates for capital gains (usually ordinary income tax).
On the other hand, if you make the investment through your Roth IRA, all dividends and gains will come back to you tax free. Keep in mind that if the company goes bust, you’ll lose everything and won’t be able to contribute the money back into your Roth IRA. This makes it risky since contributions to a Roth IRA can only be made once. However, the upside is also intriguing since you can avoid a large amount of taxes on a investment that does well.
Clearly Peter Thiel and Mitt Romney believed in their investments enough to make them with tax-sheltered money. So, the thing to consider is whether you should put your moonshot investments in a Roth IRA. As far as I can tell, if you’re going to make a risky investment, it’s a reasonable place to consider.
Let’s talk about it. What types of assets are you putting in your Roth IRA?
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Research Paper | Geography | India | Volume 4 Issue 12, December 2015
Demography and Health Characteristics of Hisar City
Abstract: Demographic characteristics of a country provide an overview of its population size, composition territorial distribution, changes therein and the components of changes such as nativity, mortality, and social mobility. This section on demographic indicators has been subdivided into two parts- population statistics and vital statistics. Population statistics include indicators that measure the population size, sex ratio, density and dependency ratio while vital statistics include indicators such as birth rate, death rate, and natural growth rate, life expectancy at birth, mortality and fertility rates. These indicators for the country as well as states will help in identifying areas that need policy and programmed interventions, setting near and far-term goals, and deciding priorities, besides understanding them in an integrated structure.
Keywords: Demography, Health Characteristics, Field Survey, GIS, Census data
Edition: Volume 4 Issue 12, December 2015,
Pages: 90 - 96
How to Cite this Article?
Rajeev, Dr. Satya Prakash Kaushik, "Demography and Health Characteristics of Hisar City", International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 4 Issue 12, December 2015, pp. 90-96, https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=NOV151870
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by Sidney Warburg
- 1. The Federal Reserve Banks must guarantee a minimum rate of exchange on the dollar, applying to French accounts in the U.S.A.;
- 2. The rate of interest for these sums should be raised 4.5%;
- 3. A minimum sum should be determined, that France would leave in the States.
Since the Americans were not immediately prepared to agree to these conditions, the French revealed nonchalantly that even though the agreement they, Lacour-Gayet and Farnier, would make with the Federal Reserve Banks was of great importance, it was only part of a general agreement Laval would be settling a few days later in Washington. They had let the cat out of the bag. It was clear that Laval had to dissuade Hoover from his plans for reparations payments and regulation of debts, and that Laval had to make use of the government funds deposited in the U.S.A. to force the President to give up his plans. No one can say what the result of these negotiations was in New York as well as Washington. The banking world in New York stubbornly resisted the idea of the States selling themselves to French interests on international territory for the sum of 800 million dollars -- the French funds in America. It is a fact, however, that Hoover promised Laval not to undertake anything pertaining to the question of reconstruction and regulation of debts without first consulting the French government. When Wall Street found out about this, Hoover lost the respect of this circle at one blow. Even the subsequent elections were affected -- many believe that Hoover's failure to get reelected can be traced back to the issue. One forgets that Hoover was in the middle of a difficult situation. On one side, the American banking world with the Federal Reserve Banks at the head, who represented the opinion that America could readily dispense with the French deposit if it was misused by France to hold moral influence over the U.S. government in the field of international politics. On the other side stood the Treasury Department, whose leaders would do anything to avoid a dollar panic, pointing to the English precedent.
Our movement is growing rapidly all over Germany, putting large demands on our financial organization. I have used the money you procured for me to build up the party and realize now that I will have to leave the country in a foreseeable amount of time if new revenue is not supplied. I do not have access to huge government financial sources, as do our enemies the Communists and Social Democrats, but am dependent completely on party contributions. There is nothing left of the amount I received. Next month I must begin the last great action that will bring us power in Germany.
A great deal of money is needed. I ask you to report immediately how much I can count on from you.
Two things struck me from this letter. It was the first time Hitler had used the word party with me. His tone in the letter was more one of command than one of a petitioner. Although the letter was dated from Berlin, it arrived in an envelope postmarked in New York with an American stamp. Hitler must already have had supporters in the States, specifically in New York.
The meeting at the offices of Guaranty Trust Co. was fully attended. I can only explain this by the fact that the tense situation of the New York stockmarket required the presence of its leaders, and Carter had reached them all easily. Opinions were divided. Rockefeller, Carter, and McBean were the Hitlerians, if I may call them that, and the others vacillated. First, Montagu Norman had to be informed of the events in 1929. He found the sum of ten million dollars to finance a political movement very high, an opinion not understood by the rest, since it was well known that political parties in England spend huge sums on propaganda. Glean from Royal Dutch shared Montagu Norman's view. He added that there was little aggression against France in the publications of the Hitler movement. He felt that Hitler was a loudmouth and would never act. He also noticed how Hitler had obviously changed his "movement" to a "party," a transformation that would place great importance on his parliamentary efforts. Glean closed his commentary by saying that there had been enough talk, in Germany more than elsewhere, and a man like Hitler would play along with the majority of his followers in the Reichstag without changing anything in the existing situation. Carter and Rockefeller argued against this view, saying that even if Hitler achieved a majority in parliament he could not be dissuaded from the platform binding him to the German people, and was obligated to use what he had written and spoken of as the only method of pulling the country out of difficult times. He would have to go out on the streets with his followers while keeping up parliamentary efforts at the same time, if he didn't want to lose his immense support. It was finally agreed that in principle Hitler should be assisted further, but someone should be directly informed of the situation in Germany and in the Hitler party before the amount was determined. I was asked if I was prepared to take on this assignment and to telegraph the amount to Carter as before, then signing it over to Europe in the same way as in 1929, or whatever way I thought best.
I was not able to free myself immediately from my own affairs, so after ten days I traveled to Europe.
Much had changed in Germany since 1929. The National Socialist movement, whose "Fuhrer" had received me in a beer cellar in 1929, had reached the upper levels of society and had his headquarters in the same city, in one of the most beautiful buildings in the best part of town. The National Socialists had their own houses everywhere, in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Koln, two uniformed watchmen always stood in front of each, day and night as in front of a barracks.
I saw numerous passersby salute the watchmen with an arm movement similar to the fascist greeting, each shouting simultaneously "Heil Hitler." It didn't take much study to see that Hitler's following had increased enormously since 1929. I could cut my trip through Germany short, because I saw the same picture everywhere. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays the majority of the young people in most cities donned their uniforms and marched in formations differing little from military groups. It is true that there were differences between uniforms, but most were brown and black. Swastikas were everywhere, the emblem of the Hitler party. Even women had swastikas on the rims of their purses -- the saleslady in the cigar store in Berlin, where I shopped regularly, wore a huge swastika on a thin necklace. This was no silly decoration, the intent to display conviction was obvious. I had a talk with a bank director in Hamburg whom I had known well in the past. He was quite taken in by Hitler and confessed that earlier he had trusted the German Nationalist Party more, but now he doubted their success because monarchists were in control of it, and the German people had not forgotten the treason of the imperial family in 1918. It was hard for me to take his opinion seriously, because he was a Jew. I needed an explanation, so I asked him how it was possible for him, as a Jew, to be sympathetic to Hitler's party. He laughed. "Hitler is a strong man, and that is what Germany needs. The compromises and vacillations must finally come to an end. The German people are not mature enough for democracy. When the Kaiser ruled the country badly, and he alone was responsible for the administration, not one person objected, everyone fulfilled his tasks, understood his duty. The Germans are quite another story from the English and Americans. They must have someone they can look up to, then they will do whatever is ordered just because the strong man is giving the orders. They have always had basically nothing but contempt for an Ebert, even the Social Democrats, and regarding Hindenburg, they respect him, but regret that he can't act as regent in the true sense of the word. Since 1918 we have had Chancellors who were commoners, who had reached the top of the ladder through politics. No one respected them. A prince of pure blood in opposition to the Kaiser would have made a good Chancellor." I remarked that Hitler also came from low origins.
Two days later I spoke to an industrial magnate. He was also a follower of National Socialism. I also read all the newspapers, and tried to make a coherent summary of the political streams in the German press; I concluded that the National Socialist Party showed the greatest activity, had established its roots in all levels of the population, and that opposition from Communists, Social Democrats and other parties was lukewarm and definitely uncoordinated.
I became more and more convinced that Hitler was not experimenting, but wanted to achieve a clearly defined goal, supported by the majority of the German people. It was now time for me to contact Hitler and I wrote to the Berlin address I had received from him, and took a room in the Hotel Adlon. The next day I was called to the telephone while I was reading newspapers in the hotel lobby. A voice, very likely a woman's, asked me if I would be in my hotel evenings, and referred to a letter I had directed to the "Fuhrer."
I received von Heydt and a newcomer in my room. He was introduced to me as Luetgebrunn. After a short statement from von Heydt, Luetgebrunn began to speak. It was as if he was making a prepared speech, he glanced at a bundle of notes from time to time.
"Our activities with the unemployed have succeeded against all expectation, but do cost a lot of money. Our organization is military and therefore also not cheap. Our houses in various cities are all set up like barracks, our people sleep there, eat there, everything at the cost of the party. We provide uniforms, those who have the money buy them, but the unemployed should not be driven away by the costs of equipment. For that reason we are obligated to donate free uniforms and other equipment to our unemployed members. Some of our transportation vehicles belong to party members, but we have had to provide our own trucks and other transportation in the areas in which we have not much following. There are party members who are not able to lend us their trucks because they are afraid of losing customers. Then there are weapons to think of. We have to buy our weapons from smugglers, and their demands are high. We have our buying posts on the borders of Austria, Holland and Belgium, but often the weapons are confiscated by the authorities, thousands are lost and we have to start over again. We have not established direct contact with weapons factories; the only one we have contact with is the F.N. Fabrik in Belgium, but the amount we have been guaranteed is too small. Our Storm-Detachments are incompletely equipped. We can't buy machine guns. Revolvers and carbines are not sufficient on the streets, streams of unemployed join up in the cities and every new man costs money."
Luetgebrunn continued in this vein for quite a while. Then it was von Heydt's turn, and he informed me that the "Fuhrer" would receive me the next day at eleven in the morning in his house on 28 Fasanenstrasse. I would just have to give my name to the maid. No. 28 Fasanenstrasse is an ordinary family house. I could not tell from the outside that the "Fuhrer" lived here, no brown uniforms, or any other sign. An ordinary visit to an ordinary citizen. Hitler had aged in the two years I had not seen him. Yet I found him less nervous, more dignified, more carefully dressed, I could say he was more self-confident. He seemed pleased to see me again, because he asked me with interest about all sorts of details concerning myself. Then, according to his usual custom, he began with the main issue without introduction.
I wanted to ask here what the foreign policy would be. Hitler stood up and strode with large steps across the room. "Foreign countries will be divided into two camps. Our enemies and our competitors. Our enemies are first of all France, Poland and Russia, our competitors are England, America, Spain, Scandinavia and Holland. We have no score to settle with any of the other countries. The population of the Alsace Lorraine must be brought to revolution, as well as Silesia. That is our first task, as soon as we can get power. If France wants war, then war it will be. We don't recognize the Treaty of Versailles. I want to see Germany and the German people free. If we are not allowed to arm ourselves, then we will do it secretly. All German governments have shown all their cards to France. We won't do this. Our divisions are not regiments, our weapons are not war materials. In two years I will build a German army strong enough to surround France. I will have the chemical industry adapted for war purposes. The situation with our competitors is even simpler. They can't live and work without Germany. I will make demands. Wherever German products are turned down by high import taxes, unlimited production must still be kept up. The German people must be totally self-sufficient, and if it doesn't work with France alone, then I will bring in Russia. The Soviets can't miss our industrial products yet. We will give credit, and if I am not able to deflate France myself, then the Soviets will help me."
I must make a small remark here. When I returned to my hotel I wrote this conversation down word for word. My notes are in front of me, and I am not responsible for their incoherence or incomprehensibility. If you think his views on foreign policy are illogical, it is his fault, not mine. I will continue.
"Stalin has made plans, and he will succeed because he has won over the Russian people. I will also make plans and hold myself strictly to them; what the Russians can do we can do twice as quickly, twice as intensively. After one year of my government there will be no more unemployment in Germany. Jews will be excluded, as well as Communists and Social Democrats; the camps I will lock them up in are already being planned. The Reichswehr is already in our hands to the last man. The government hasn't even noticed this, but I will leave them to their blindness -- I am certain of my control. Goring and Gobbels, Streicher and von Heydt have been to Rome many times and have spoken to Mussolini, Rossi, Dumini, and other fascist leaders about the whole organization there. We are also building up our organization according to our own circumstances. Mussolini and Stalin, the first more than the second, are the only leaders for whom I have any respect. All others are a bunch of old wives. Stalin is a Jew, that is a shame. Did von Heydt tell you how much we need? When your letter came we calculated everything exactly. Have you any idea in America of how many difficulties we have here? If everything followed the usual political channels it would be easy, but there is not one city in Germany where I am not joyfully received. I will certainly achieve a political majority, but the people must be afraid, in case the NSDAP doesn't shrink from using other methods to reach my goals, in case my parliamentary political moves don't succeed. We can only create fear by displaying power. This is only possible with uniforms and weapons. If a couple of Communists should be killed by a group of Brownshirts, that is of the same propagandistic value for the party as a speech of mine. Mussolini has introduced a new period in politics. He is the first one to carry out domestic policy with something other than big words and parliamentary motions. In short, everything we need to display our party as a power to foreign countries and to overawe the people costs money. I wrote you at that time because our time is running short and the moment has arrived to take the situation quickly in hand. In some places we have been obliged to turn away the unemployed. That is regrettable at this point, because everything can be done with the unemployed if we can only give them uniforms and food. Are you familiar with our barracks? I will let you see one of our houses here in Berlin. I don't need anything from wealthier people who fear for their possessions when things get rough. We need the ordinary worker, the proletariat, they, after all, have nothing to lose. Have you also spoken to Luetgebrunn? He is a lawyer, but an intellectual of the good sort. Generally I don't think much of intellectuals. They always bring up science and historic teachings. What have they accomplished with all their knowledge? Nothing. Now it's our turn, now let the fist and sword speak. Work and fight, surely that must be the complete life. Dreams and speeches have never accomplished anything. Do you also have connections with the Reichsbank? There is supposed to be great confusion there. Once I get there I will clean everything up. Schacht seems to me to be the best of the lot, but he is a doctor, and that I don't like. These people have mostly become untrustworthy because of all their fabrications. We must put an end to this studying and dreaming. Young people must work the land and be drilled so they can fight, if it should soon become necessary."
His pacing back and forth in the room was making me nervous. It could also be that his sharp words and the lack of a consistent train of thought in his conversation were making me tired. But Hitler continued, "If I lived in America, then I would have nothing to do with politics; there the people are really free, and it is a privilege to be an American. It has become a disgrace to be a German in the last few years. We will see that it becomes an honor again. Do you know that they won't give me this shameful name? I was born in Austria, so I am not a German. Ridiculous. They will recognize me on their knees, not as one of them, but as one above them. The Communists are beginning to be afraid, the Jews think it won't really go on like this, and the Social Democrats still believe they can save their skins with parliamentary speeches and motions. The best people here in Berlin are Communists, their leaders complain to Moscow of their bad straits and demand help. But they don't realize that Moscow can't help. They have to help themselves, but are too cowardly for that. The most difficult issue now is our relationship with the churches. The Lutheran-German church is giving me trouble, the other Protestant churches will soon adapt themselves. But the Catholics. You must know that I am Catholic. The Center Party is very strong and can accomplish something with the support of Bavarian parties. We must neutralize this party so that we are the strongest. I know well that there are also scoundrels in it, but I will leave them alone for the time being. The Bishops are coming forward against National Socialists in some districts, there are priests who give no absolution to National Socialists and deny them communion. A good beating would change this, but that is not good tactics right now; we have to wait."
"So von Heydt mentioned no sum, nor did Luetgebrunn. No, he couldn't, he didn't know the amount. You will see, we have calculated everything exactly, and will leave the choice up to your backers. There are two possibilities. Either we go out on the streets as soon as our Storm-Detachments are completely organized, which will take three months after we get the money. Or we work persistently with votes and keep our troops in readiness if they should be needed. The first we call the revolution plan, the second we call the "legal takeover" plan. As I said, the first is a question of three months, the second of three years. What do you think of this yourself?"
I could do nothing more than show ignorance by shrugging my shoulders. "Naturally you Americans don't know the situation here, and it is hard to say which is the best method to use. But what do you think your backers will say?"
Again I could give no answer. Hitler continued.
"You see I am not even clear myself, nor are my co-workers, which path we should take. Goring is simply for revolution, the others more for legal takeover, and I am in favor of both. Revolution can put power in our hands in a few days, legal takeover requires long months of preparation, and a lot of underground work. Of course there is a reason why we haven't been able to make a decision, and it is that we don't know how much money we can count on from your backers. If you had been more generous in 1929 things would have been settled long before this, but we were barely able to carry out half our program with ten million dollars. I will itemize our calculations for you. Revolution means we attract people by large donations to the unemployed, buy weapons quickly and organize our Storm-Detachments. Smugglers will take advantage of us and demand prices that will severely cut into our funds. With a lot of money we will certainly succeed in smuggling in machine guns, it makes no sense to open our attack without machine guns."
"Legal takeover on the other hand, when it has finally been completed, after we have forced different elections by obstruction in the Landtags and Reichstag, then the masses will be tired of voting and will be easily bluffed by our clever propaganda. While we take care of our parliamentary work we arm our people and organize the Storm-Detachments. Then a few repeated demonstrations from time to time against the Communists will be enough to give the people an idea of our armed power. In addition we will use the time to penetrate even deeper into the ranks of the Reichswehr. The elections, by giving us an effective majority, achieve the same result as revolution would in three or four months. I would like to have both ways. Everything depends on the money."
Hitler sat down at his table. He took out his little notebook, looked up at me, and continued.
"Revolution costs five hundred million marks, legal takeover cost two hundred million marks. ..." He waited. "What will your backers decide?"
I couldn't answer. I promised to contact New York and report as soon as possible what they had decided. Hitler took up the conversation again and began to ramble.
"You people there in America must be interested in our party coming to power in Germany, otherwise you wouldn't be here and ten million dollars would never have been given to me in 1929. Your motives don't interest me, but if you understand the situation well you will surely realize that I can't get anywhere without financial means. The Communists here get money from Moscow, I know this and can prove it. The Social Democrats are supported by Jewish bankers and other large banks, and have a huge treasury. German-Nationalists get huge sums from large industry, and their leader Hugenberg owns several newspapers that earn big profits. The Center Party gets whatever money it needs from the Catholic Church, which has billions at its disposal, especially in South Germany. When I compare that to the meagre forty million marks I received from your backers in 1929, then I can hardly believe that we could have dared to start our planning with such limited funds. You must have noticed how we have progressed in Germany and here in Berlin since 1929. Aren't you amazed at these results? Should I tell you something else? The Reichswehr is National Socialist through and through. You know that already, but there is not one civil service our party does not have a strong following in, we are especially powerful in the railroads and Post Office, and when our revolutionary slogans are circulated in a few months we can put our hands on these state institutions without too much trouble. When I spoke to you in 1929 I had to admit that the North and Rhineland were still lukewarm. Now that is completely changed. We are well organized even in Frankfurt am Main, where German Nationalists and Communists have a strong following. Party members are sitting in numerous foreign consulates, and will participate actively at the first signal from Berlin. Doesn't all this mean something? Doesn't it prove that those "paltry" forty millions were well invested? But everything now must go well and quickly, and our money is used up. Tell your backers that they should, in their own interests, send the five hundred million marks as quickly as possible, then we will be finished in six months at the latest."
Hitler screamed out these last sentences as if he stood at a political rally, and he assailed me as if I were his worst enemy. I had had enough. I repeated that I would report to New York and let him know as soon as I could. I telegraphed that same day. It took five days to receive an answer from New York. In those five days I had the feeling that I was never alone. Except, of course, during the hours I spent in my hotel. I thought I saw people everywhere who followed me. I still don't know if it was reality or my imagination, but I could think of several different occasions that are strong proof of a continuous control hanging over me in those five days. But I don't want to stir up the detective instincts of my readers. There is, however, one case I would like to relate. The second day after my conversation with Hitler I went on the Kurfurstendamm towards Wilmersdorf. An old friend of my family lived in a small villa there. I wanted to visit him. As I went down the Kurfurstendamm and turned into the street where the villa stood, I clearly saw a man pass in front of me whom I had noticed at least three or four times in front or behind in the last ten minutes. I arrived at the villa and was just about to press the electric doorbell when I saw a small box outside the bushes. Printed in pencil on it was the word: absent. I didn't ring. That evening I telephoned my friend's house from my hotel. I could get no connection, and after waiting several minutes the operator told me that no one was at home. This still seemed very normal and natural in Berlin, but later I had written my friend a letter on my last day in Berlin and said how much I had regretted his absence -- I received an answer from him in New York, in which he said he had not been away from Berlin, and could not understand my statement of his absence. I also didn't understand the story until I learned at the beginning of this year that our old family friend in Berlin was a well-known Social Democrat and had flown to Switzerland. We Americans are generally only mildly interested in the political persuasions of our friends. I had never known earlier that he was a Social Democrat, but now the incident in 1931 is clear, and I believe I was not only being shadowed personally in those five days, but my telephone and hotel room were also under control. We should not forget that in 1931 Hitler was not yet Reichskanzler, just leader of a strong political party.
Carter's answer was unclear. I wired back: "Repeat," and then received a long cablegram:
Suggested amounts are out of the question. We don't want to and cannot. Explain to man that such a transfer to Europe will shatter financial market. Absolutely unknown on international territory. Expect long report, before decision is made. Stay there. Continue investigations. Persuade man of impossible demands. Don't forget to include in report own opinion of possibilities for future of man.
So Carter had no great belief in Hitler's financial capabilities. He would wait for a detailed report from me before making a decision and expected me to convince the Fuhrer of the impossibility of his demands, and to include my own opinion on the chances for success in the report.
I wrote Hitler a short letter and described the content of the telegram. Two days later two men I hadn't met yet, Goring and Streicher, visited me in my hotel. The first was an elegant-looking man, dashing in appearance, very brutal, and the second made a feminine impression on me.
Goring opened the conversation by expressing his amazement that I did not share the opinion of the Fuhrer. It would certainly be difficult as an American to understand the German situation, but the Fuhrer had informed me so well of the plans and platform of the party, that I should be well on top of the situation. I countered immediately that my views were irrelevant, I was not the one with the money, but just a middleman. He didn't seem to believe this, and continued to speak to me in a personal way, denying the fact that I had backers behind me. Streicher entered the conversation with an unctuous tone. I could not stand the man. I preferred Goring's brutality a hundred times over, however unpleasant it was. We couldn't agree. I explained I don't know how many times that I could change none of the circumstances, that I had sent off my report to New York that same day and had to wait for my backers' decision. Goring finally became furious and said literally: "This is all a swindle. We didn't call on you. First you dangle a huge sum of money in front of our eyes, then when we tell you how much we need, it is much too high for you and the gentlemen don't come up with the goods. You are swindlers." This brutality made me mad and I showed Goring the door. He left with Streicher without saying good-bye. I immediately wrote a short letter to Hitler and requested him to deal with me personally in the future and not to send any more representatives, especially not Goring. I related briefly what had happened, and added that I wanted nothing more to do with Goring again. I don't know what transpired between Hitler and Goring, but the next day I received a short letter from Goring offering his apologies and blaming his behavior on the great tension he lived under being a party leader along with Hitler.
The next day, however, two men were announced again. Americans make a grave mistake in Europe. They receive anybody after a simple announcement. In America it makes no difference, everything is accomplished quickly. Superfluous speeches seldom take place in the business world there. I received the two men: von Heydt and a new figure. Introduction: Gregor Strasser. A more refined type than Goring, but equally brutal underneath a cover of formality. Von Heydt opened the conversation. I hardly listened and interrupted him. All this talk about party leaders made no sense at the moment. I had to wait for New York's decision. If Herr Hitler wanted the opportunity to speak to me, I would gladly discuss things with him and attempt to make the position of my backers clear. Strasser intervened. Did I share their point of view? "'I have no point of view in the whole situation. I am carrying out an assignment. The answer they sent me was, however, left in code, and even though I passed it on to Hitler, it might be possible that I could explain certain points further. This is how my statement should be interpreted."
Strasser began to expound on the party platform. I had the impression that his job was mainly to work with the unemployed. He reproached, without being crude, however, the union bosses and the Social Democrats. He listed forty, fifty names one after the other and pointed cold-bloodedly to the wall, saying quietly: "This is where those fellows will be standing with ten sharpshooters in front of them." The coarsest words he used were rascal and dog, but he uttered these as calmly as everything else. I had had enough of this chatter and asked the men to leave me alone, as I had still a number of letters to write. Strasser gave me an invitation to attend a National Socialist parade in Breitenbach the following Sunday.
An overwhelming sight. On a field with gnarled tree stumps stood five Storm-Detachments in formation, listening to the priest who held the field service. I have remembered the following sentences from the priest's sermon. They gave me a much clearer understanding of German National Socialism than all the words of Hitler and his leaders.
"You are fighters for God. Day in, day out the best blood will be spilled because you have heroically put up your lives as bulwarks against Bolshevism, to save 2,000 years of Christian culture from ruin. You, you have inscribed the bitter fight for German nature and race on the red flag of the people with its white field of purity and loyalty and the runic sign of victory, you are satisfying your own consciences as well as God's. Do not let yourselves be led astray, and do not be intimidated."
"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of conflict, against Satan and against his hell. The enemy that Christ wanted to conquer by his crucifixion aspires to rise again right at this moment, the enemy, the eternal Wandering Jew, has decided to take revenge. He endeavors to destroy the holiness of marriage, and to poison the purity of custom and the soul of the people on purpose. Christian brotherly love must be brought into the battle, because the existence or nonexistence of Christianity is at stake. Comrades, our battle is a vital defense, our nationalism is the savior of people and fatherland. Do not listen to the politicians who designate our fanatic nationalism as misdeed, condemning all nationalism. Our nationalism is the same as that of a Pastor Wetterle, as that of a Cardinal Mercier von Mecheln, of Cardinal Dubois in Paris, who with thousands of their priests inflame the French people to a burning love of their country and encourage stamina for victory with glowing enthusiasm. What is good enough for the French and Belgians is equally good for us Germans. In the burning world of 1914 the enemy stood at the German borders, today the enemy rests in the core of our country, subjugating our people and enslaving it. In August 1914 millions, blessed by the church and protected by the prayers of the church, went to the murderous battlefields to save people and fatherland. What was permitted then, even demanded of our priests, should now be forbidden as evil teaching? ... Comrades, that is a lie. So I say to you, to be National Socialist is to be a fighter for a people that is prepared to defend its religious beliefs, its purity of custom, and its honor to the last breath. You are a providence of God, because you want to banish the underworld with its deadly poison of dissension. The blessing of God rests on your battle. And now let us remove our helmets. Let us fold our hands and sing, as the Dutch Geusen did before the last decisive battle, so that it will ring a thousand fold all over the land: Lord make us free. ..."
The prayer of thanks is over. The field service is at an end. Sharp commands ring all over the field. The brown rows line up to march off.
Two policemen in green uniforms watch the Storm-Detachments with interest. The police are all at their posts. They had strict orders to watch all movements of the Storm-Detachments all over Germany, especially in Prussia. Secretary of the Interior Severing spoke last week in the Reichstag about these dangerous preparations for takeover by the NSDAP. Three days later I received a cablegram from New York: "Report received. Prepared to deliver ten, maximum fifteen million dollars. Advise man necessity of aggression against foreign danger."
I wrote to Hitler again to arrange a meeting. I told him that I had received word from New York and that I preferred to inform him of its contents personally. That same evening von Heydt, accompanied by Strasser, visited me. "The Fuhrer is overworked. Upon the advice of his doctors, he must have at least two weeks of rest." They had full powers to act in his name, for which they had proof. Reluctantly I described the contents of the telegram from New York.
Von Heydt said: "Fifteen million dollars" -- he chose the maximum immediately -- "is not much for our massive plans, but I know the Fuhrer will accept it. Now there can be no talk of revolution. It is not as easy as Goring and the others imagine. I would even gladly go out on the barricades myself I have had enough of these conditions. But we can't put foolish ideas in our heads. We would be shot down before we knew what happened. That would be irresponsible to our Fuhrer. Now we must go to Hitler with proposals to organize ourselves more efficiently and to train our people. To have a revolution now would show a lack of soldierly and comradely spirit, provoking sacrifice is a communist idea. We will have nothing to do with that. Sending the Storm Detachments to the barricades now would mean the destruction of our movement, would spill blood, valuable blood for nothing, and the flag of chaos and desperation, the flag of Bolshevism, would be planted on our dead bodies. In the past few weeks we have had an influx of new elements in our party that are even harder to handle, they come from other parties and have other viewpoints, and they have to adapt to our world."
Von Heydt, just like all other leaders of the National Socialist party I have met, seemed to be possessed by a mania to broadcast, either rightly or wrongly, the platform and tactics of the party as if he were at a political rally.
Strasser asked me when I thought the fifteen million dollars could be payed out to Germany. I answered that it was a question of a few days, as soon as I knew that Hitler agreed with the determined amount, but I would only take the necessary measures to sign the amount over to Europe when I had had a discussion with Hitler. Von Heydt explained to me that this was temporarily impossible because Hitler had to have rest. To wait for his return would mean great delay. If I insisted upon it then tomorrow or the next day a meeting of all party leaders could be organized, and I could report there what I wanted to say to Hitler personally. I kept, however, to my demand and said finally that I would do nothing until I had spoken to Hitler personally.
The next day at noon I was called away from lunch in my hotel. A chauffeur awaited me in the hall and gave me a letter. It was written in Hitler's handwriting, and it requested me to come to his house in the automobile waiting there. A quarter of an hour later I sat in his room on the Fasanenstrasse. I noticed neither fatigue or sickness on him, but said nothing of his health, just carried out my assignment directly. Hitler stood up, and while he walked up and down the room he shrieked: "Fifteen million dollars, that is about sixty million marks. How long will it be until it gets here? It is much too little to really tackle the problem. You Americans don't know our plans."
I remarked that fifteen million dollars was the maximum, and he could tell from the copy of the cablegram I showed him that ten million and a maximum of fifteen million were offered. He listened at first attentively. I took the opportunity to refer to the necessity of an aggressive stance towards foreign countries as mentioned in the cablegram. Supposedly America had the impression that his actions in other parts of Europe had not really had effect. I didn't want to go any further. Perhaps he would realize what my backers meant. But Hitler began to shriek again. "Do you think I can perform miracles here with our people? Do you have any idea of the apathy of the Germans? This 'pack of Jews' has imposed a spirit of swindling, acquisitiveness, internationalism, and pacifism. Day in, day out we must fight it: first we must teach the people courage, then we can do something."
"There is no discipline in Germany, and we must start from the very beginning again. Just wait until we are finished with our work on the German people, then we can think about foreign policy. Read our platform. We will not stray from it one inch. Read points 1 through 7. Point 1. Establishment of a unified national state, including everyone of German origin. The explanation of this runs: we will not give up one single German in the Sudentenland, in Alsace-Lorraine, in Poland, in the League of Nations colony of Austria and in the succession states of old Austria. Read the explanation to point 2: we don't want Erzberg's and Stresemann's servility towards foreign powers; soon it will be seen that foreign powers will have much more regard and respect for a strong representation of German interests. The result of our new stance will be consideration and attentiveness to German wishes on foreign and international territory instead of kicks and beatings. Point 3 says: removal of Jews and all non-Germans from all responsible positions of public life. And Point 4? Immigration of Eastern Jews and other inferior foreigners will no longer be permitted. Unwanted foreigners and Jews will be turned away from the country. Read Point 6 again: whoever is not German can only live in the German state as a guest and is subject to laws pertaining to aliens. Point 7: rights and interests of Germans supersedes rights and interests of foreign citizens. Above all we have as our goal the rebirth of Germany in the German spirit for German freedom. What more can you want? We will adhere to this program and will fulfill it to the last letter. I know that I will have France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, maybe also Prussia, Italy and Hungary on my neck because of this. That is irrelevant at this point. We will deal with that once our people are prepared to take on the consequences of German politics in the interest of the German people, with no reservations. The people have become bastardized and foreign customs must be driven out of them." Hitler sat down again and thought. Then he spoke more calmly.
"Good, I will take the fifteen million. We will carry out our program, but our tactics will change. I will choose the slow path, the path of legal takeover, but we will succeed. A change is already coming over President Hindenburg. I will be finished when I have moved the aristocratic clique that surrounds him out of the way. His son thinks nothing of me and incites his father against me. The president is an old man. He lets others influence him. Just give me the fifteen million. Von Heydt will make the arrangements with you as to how I will receive the money."
I explained further that it was possible my backers would send the fifteen million in two installments, one of ten million and later one of five million, and they would wait for information from me before doing anything. I referred once more to the meaning of the conditions in Carter's telegram -- a vigorous foreign policy. This time he didn't preach the standard phrases about his platform, but said directly and quietly: "Just leave it to me. What I have achieved already is proof of what I can do in the future."
The conversation had come to an end, which pleased me very much, a conversation with Hitler is an exhausting thing. He yells and raves at you. Obviously he is so used to speaking at national assemblies, it takes hold of him so, that he can't carry on a normal, quiet conversation.
That same day I wired a detailed report of my conversation with Hitler to New York and referred for the moment only to his plans for foreign policy and his firm promise not to stray an inch from his party platform. I didn't think this would be enough to satisfy Carter and his colleagues regarding an aggressive foreign policy by the National Socialists, and thought the deal would be closed.
Three days later I received an answer from Carter that contradicted my opinion. Fifteen million dollars would be delivered upon my first request to a European bank indicated by me. I promptly gave this answer to Hitler. Von Heydt looked me up and asked me to transfer the money to Europe immediately in the following way: Five million dollars in my name to Mendelsohn & Co., Amsterdam, five million to the Rotterdamsche Bankvereinigung, Rotterdam, and five million to the Banca Italianna in Rome.
I traveled to these three places with von Heydt, Gregor Strasser and Goring, to deposit the amounts. A huge number of checks had to be made out to many different names in large and small locations in Germany. The National Socialist leaders had long lists of names with them. In Rome we were received in the main building of the bank by its President-Commissioner, and while we waited in his office for five minutes two fascists whose uniforms obviously indicated high ranks came in. Introduction: Rossi and Balbo.
Goring opened the conversation. He spoke Italian to the men. I couldn't understand what was said. We were invited to a dinner at Balbo's house. I was the only one not in uniform. The National Socialist leaders wore their brown uniforms and the fascists their black ones. After dinner everyone danced in a huge hall, with open doors looking out on a magnificent garden. The brown uniforms were much preferred by the ladies. An old Italian, a black-shirt with many decorations, sat next to me and watched the dancers. He began speaking in German. "Italy should never have given up its alliance with Germany. Then we would be in a much stronger position against France. But our German friends are on the right path, and when revolution becomes reality then the good old days will come back. There is no better combination possible: Italian culture with German spirit, they will renew and conquer the world." Three days later I traveled on the Savoya from Genoa to New York.
Carter called a full meeting the next day after my return from Europe. Rockefeller asked immediately if I thought Hitler would dare an open battle with Hindenburg. I said that I felt Hitler to be capable of anything if it would further his goals. He was also no dreamer and was very aware of difficulties he faced, he would not experiment if he was not sure of success. I was asked to quote what was said in my dialogues with Hitler literally. I was also questioned on my impressions of conditions in Germany. When I gave the opinion of the Hamburg banker, Glean wanted to know if well-to-do classes in Germany feared Hitler's financial policies and his "breakdown of the enslavement of finance capital" as Hitler called it. I answered by quoting the Berlin industrialist and the feeling of the Hamburg banker, that points can be found in every political platform that are only there to please the masses, and will never be put into practice. I formed the conclusion that the wealthy German classes (according to Hitler's wishes) would not take these aspects of the Hitler program seriously. Carter remarked that the requested amounts I had wired were absurd and proved clearly how little understanding Hitler had of international relations. I added that in my opinion this was not only the case with financial relations, but I had also been amazed at his ignorance in the area of international politics. No one seemed to find this significant -- it is quite common in America. Carter asked me what I thought about Hitler's co-workers. I related the incident with Goring. This seemed to please him especially, and he said flatly that a man of Goring's type would be a fitting partner for a leader like Hitler.
A full year later, in September, after the National Socialist Party in Germany received 107 delegates in the Reichstag on the 14th, Carter wrote me a short letter, recalling my two trips to Germany and the conversations I had had with Hitler. He asked me if I was prepared to go to Germany again to have a meeting with the Fuhrer in case it was necessary. After my last visit to Germany I had received letters regularly from von Heydt, Strasser, and Goring, along with extensive shipment of books, brochures, and daily newspapers. I was now very familiar with National Socialism, and the person of Hitler was no longer as mysterious to me through my contact with him as it was for others in our circles. To see these people again in Europe was not the most pleasant prospect. Neither the people nor their literature or propaganda held much to attract me. Perhaps my German origins have faded into the routine of American life. My grandfather came to America ninety years ago, my father was born there, my mother is pure American. Perhaps for that reason I could not stand the inflated arrogance of the German people, which was the key to Hitler's whole program, and his work and goals were completely alien to me. In fact, I had personally come to the conclusion that my friends were on the wrong path, that Hitler's aggressive foreign policy might well make France more flexible and cooperative, but it was also dangerous for the world. It is always well known where such a dictator begins, but no one ever knows where it all ends. I had told Glean during the course of the year of my viewpoint, and he tried to dissuade me with the information that Mussolini, an equally violent dictator of a large country, had cooled off after having caused anxiety in the world and especially in France with his big mouth and threats, which was very good in his opinion, but when the going began to get rough, (Mussolini) retreated calmly. It would be no different with Hitler, he thought. It was certainly not our intention to cause war between Germany and France, but just to threaten the danger of war, to make France cooperate more in the possible support of England and America in international financial affairs.
I finally made my decision. I informed Carter that I was prepared to travel to Europe again and to deal with Hitler as soon as it was necessary.
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Boy, 11, Saves Up All Year to Surprise His Teachers With a 'Thank You' Dinner
AS a farewell before moving to middle school, the Edmond, Oklahoma, boy surprised teachers and their families with a fancy dinner, and he footed the bill.
While most school kids might rush out the door when the bell rings for summer, 11-year-old Cody Dortch wanted his teachers to know just how much he’d appreciated their hard work over the year.
So as a last goodbye before moving on to middle school, the Edmond, Oklahoma, youngster surprised his teachers and their families with a fancy dinner, and paid for it all using his hard-earned cash.
Ten months ago, Cody started performing extra household chores for his parents and neighbors, babysitting his siblings and asking for donations. He eventually saved up $200 to take seven of his eight teachers to the popular Oklahoma chain Inner Urban.
Dortch’s mom Ashley told InsideEdition.com that Cody was inspired to treat his teachers after one of his best friend’s older brothers was killed last year.
“The boy who was killed always had the motto, ‘I get to do something,’ not ‘I have to do something,’ so Cody was inspired to do something not because he had to, but because he could,” she said.
Cody told InsideEdition.com that he was also motivated by the dedication his teachers have shown him over the years.
“I wanted to take them out to dinner because my dad’s a teacher and I know how much he works and how much he does for other kids so I wanted to say they’re good for what they do,” he said.
“Cody’s dad TJ is an AP chemistry teacher at a local high school and there’s a lot his dad has to miss to teach and tutor other students,” his mom added. “The whole family sees how hard dad works for his students so Cody wanted to say thank you because he knows how hard his teachers have worked for him. Instead of looking at his dad missing things as a downside he saw that as a positive that his teachers also do that.”
When Cody presented the educators with surprise invitations to his dinner in April, they were overwhelmed. Cody’s teacher Marci McVay said they were all touched by his thoughtfulness.
At the end of the dinner Cody presented each of his teachers with a flower and told them: “Dinner is on me.”
“There were a lot of times I wanted to spend my money on the other stuff, but I’m also happy that I got to see how my teachers liked it,” said Cody.
When Cody grows up he wants to be a rollercoaster engineer. As for now, he’s staying humble amid the unexpected attention.
“I’m just proud of myself for seeing it through for so long,” said Cody.
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Oxford University is revealing the identities of more than 20 people whose portraits will be put on display to try to "promote greater diversity".
It wants to redress the balance from the university's walls being lined with pictures of "dead white males" by adding more women and ethnic minorities.
The portraits include broadcasters Dame Esther Rantzen and Reeta Chakrabarti.
Oxford's head of equality Trudy Coe said it was "sending a signal".
This commissioning of portraits is one of the biggest projects by the university to create a more diverse range of people portrayed in its public places - including more women, people from ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians and people with disabilities.
The university faced a high-profile controversy last year over whether a statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed - after claims that the Victorian colonialist's attitudes on race made him an unsuitable figure to be commemorated.
The new pictures on the ancient walls will include scientist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and author Jeanette Winterson. There will also be some men, including film maker Ken Loach.
"We're not taking anyone down - but the portraits have been almost exclusively men and we're just beginning to redress the balance," says Ms Coe, head of the university's equality and diversity unit.
"It will allow students to look up and see people who look like them. It's sending a signal to a wider range of students that they belong here," she says.
Ms Coe says the new pictures will reflect the modern reality of university life - and the people who have been painted or photographed have been nominated by current staff and students.
The people depicted have links with the university - such as being former students or academic staff - with the criteria that they were examples of excellence and widened the range of pictures from the "narrow and traditional" and "challenged stereotypes".
Among the people to be represented will be criminologist and disability rights campaigner, Marie Tidball.
"Symbols are important," she said.
There are millions of people with a disability in the UK, Ms Tidball said, but they have a "lack of visibility in public spaces".
The commissioning of a picture of an academic with a disability was a "very significant" step towards making sure that all kinds of students could feel at home at the university, she said.
"I really hope that this speaks to kids now doing their GCSEs," said Ms Tidball.
And she rejected suggestions of an excess of political correctness as "absolute nonsense".
BBC journalist Reeta Chakrabarti said it was a project which reflected the university's current staff and living alumni.
These are people who are "alive and kicking, a representation of modern day Britain," she said.
"You could just continue to portray the same people, but it wouldn't be a reflection of how the university and society have changed," she said.
"Different ages, different societies celebrate different values."
As a student at Oxford, she said "there weren't many people there who were like me, from my sort of background".
But she had an "overwhelmingly positive experience" and "nothing about Oxford made me feel out of place".
Oxford University has faced questions about whether it is admitting enough poorer students and state-school pupils.
Admissions figures published earlier this year showed that Oxford had one of the lowest proportions of state school pupils of any UK university.
This showed that universities such as Bristol, Durham and Cambridge were admitting a higher proportion of state school pupils than Oxford.
The new portraits:
- Diran Adebayo (novelist)
- Dr Norma Aubertin-Potter (librarian at All Souls College, Oxford)
- Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (astrophysicist)
- Professor Dame Valerie Beral (Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford University)
- Professor Dorothy Bishop (Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at Oxford University)
- Reeta Chakrabarti (BBC journalist)
- Dr Penelope Curtis (arts administrator and former director of Tate Britain)
- Professor Patricia Daley (Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at Oxford University)
- Professor Trisha Greenhalgh (primary health care academic)
- Anne-Marie Imafidon (women in science campaigner)
- Professor Dame Carole Jordan (astrophysicist)
- Professor Aditi Lahiri (Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University)
- Kelsey Leonard (first Native American woman to earn a degree from Oxford University)
- Hilary Lister (first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain)
- Ken Loach (television and film director)
- Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University)
- Jan Morris (historian, author and travel writer)
- Kumi Naidoo (South African human rights activist)
- Dr Henry Odili Nwume (Winter Olympics British bobsledder)
- Dame Esther Rantzen (broadcaster)
- Professor Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History at Oxford University)
- Professor Kathy Sylva (Professor of Educational Psychology at Oxford University)
- Marie Tidball (member of Oxford University's Law Faculty and disability rights campaigner)
- Jeanette Winterson (novelist)
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The Culinary Arts subject is booming, and with a shortage of professional chefs, the opportunities and potentialities for lifetime careers are limitless. Construct culinary skills which can be in demand – name or visit a Lincoln Culinary Institute campus at this time. Cooks spend lengthy hours standing in crowded kitchens that can be harmful, so having physical stamina and taking security precautions are vital to deal with the physical work and forestall accidents.
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Any successful work of science fiction must succeed on two levels. First, it has to be entertaining: Most obviously, it must have enough cool special effects to bring in the kids and the fanboys. But second, it also has to make some interesting or provocative point about some larger issue: That will bring in the adults. That is, a good piece of sci-fi should be thrilling or chilling, and yet, at the same time, it must also be thought-provoking.
And so it is with “X-Men: First Class.” The film is based on a 50-year-old comic, but the SFX are totally 2011. And at the same time, the film brings a sharp eye to present-day issues, most notably the issues of tolerance and quality in a diverse society. Bullying? Intolerance? Prejudice? It’s all there to be noodled on, woven into a tale of mutants stretching from the Holocaust of World War Two to the nuclear fears of the Cold War. And if it’s easy enough to guess where a Hollywood movie comes down on the issue of gay tolerance, the film’s perspective on human evolution might be unnerving to many on the left, as well as the right.
Back in the early 60s, Lee intended “X-Men” to be a parable about racial prejudice in America. The X-Men (and Women) were a minority of mutants, and, as such, they suffered discrimination and alienation. But of course, they had superpowers, and so while they were sometimes shunned for their differentness, they were also feared for their power.
Thus the questions: Should mutants seek to blend in (integration), or should they seek to live by themselves, separate and apart from the larger society (mutant power)? Moreover, should mutants seek to improve society--or should they go to war against it?
Thereby hangs a half-century’s worth of tales--in comic books, cartoons, and, in the last decade, five separate movies. And because there are more than 100 “X-Men” characters--all with different powers--audiences never seemed to grow tired of them.
The new movie, which serves as prequel, tells the tale of how the first “class” of X-ers split into a good-guy faction and a bad-guy faction. And the backdrop of the film is the Cuban Missile Crisis--the actual historical event of 1962--enlivened by a storyline of hitherto unrevealed mutant involvement.
Yet the theme of the film--in between, of course, the stunts and explosions--is tolerance for difference. And so the new “X-Men” becomes a kind of coded meditation on the related themes of bullying and gay rights. Most of the major characters have a moment when they discover, to their visible relief, that they are not alone in their mutant-ness--others are like them.
These are themes similarly explored, to be sure, in the “Harry Potter” series; there, too, special kids must struggle with the realization that they are different, and they must choose whether or not to fit into, or fight, the larger society.
In the new “X-Men,” one mutant has been working as a super-smart nerd in a civilian job--when he is discovered to have feet that are like hands, so that he can grip on to things, upside down, like an arboreal mammal. When his feet-secret is finally revealed, he is asked, how did he get away with it? His answer: “Well, they didn’t ask, and I didn’t tell.” That, of course, is a play on the “don’t ask don’t tell” controversy in the U.S. military.
Perhaps the new film, most of all, is an argument against bullying. Thus “X-Men” picks up a vibe from the hit TV series “Glee”--and also, of course, from Lady Gaga, whose whole career bears witness (among other things) to the understanding and tolerance of difference.
Like a singing version of Oprah, Gaga has sought to “empower” her fans with a sense of their own unique identity; her recent song “Born This Way,” for example, is an ode to the the lonely and disrespected:
Whether life’s disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
‘Cause baby, you were born this way
And then, of course, comes the anthemic pitch for equality of all kinds: “No matter gay, straight or bi/lesbian trans-gendered life/I’m on the right track, baby.” So perhaps while the kids are watching the X-ers zap each other on screen, the adults will be mulling over the film’s commentary on U.S. social policy.
Yet interestingly, over the course of the movie series, the X-ers seem less like underdogs and more and more like overdogs. As X-lore reminds us some 35,000 years ago, Neanderthal Man (homo neandertalensis) was muscled out of existence by Cro-Magnon man (homo sapiens).
“X-Men” imagines the next iteration of evolution: homo superior. And as one of the characters in the new film points out, when different species emerge, the newer species either eclipses--or outright destroys--the older species. In a real-world historical context, of course, such talk can be the stuff of genocide and race war; indeed, film starts off in a Nazi concentration camp.
Nazi murderers aside, human evolution is a touchy subject for many on all sides of the belief spectrum. Even the secular left gets nervous when the subject of human evolution, leading to human difference, comes into play.
Two decades ago, a book that argued that intelligence was partly of a function of genetics, "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, caused a political firestorm. Indeed, those fires still smolder today, flaring up sometimes when issues of school-testing and achievement scores arise.
Today, we know that human beings are indeed changing: We know that they are growing bigger and taller, and that, worldwide, they are getting smarter. Are such changes a function of better nutrition and health? Or is some sort of evolution still occurring? Meanwhile, who doubts that somewhere--in Silicon Valley, Singapore, China--visionaries and/or mad scientists in labs are plotting and scheming the next twist in the evolutionary spiral?
In the near term, scientists are likely to focus on what most folks would judge to be admirable goals for all: improving health, intelligence, and physical performance. Yet even incremental adjustments are likely to disrupt society.
And so what will happen if and when billionaires start getting visibly younger--beyond the capacity of plastic surgery, botox, and maybe human growth hormone? What will happen if genuinely upgraded people--or clones, or whatever--start appearing in our midst? Will we welcome the mutant newcomers? Or, to turn the question around, will the newcomers tolerate us and our continued existence?
Moreover, what will become of treasured notions about equality if we get to the point where genuine differences can be imprinted, demonstrated, even bar-coded? Will equality survive in a brave new world of built-in inequality?
Thus the paradox of the new film, and the whole of the “X-Men” saga. The intended message is harmony amidst difference, but the storyline is always discord, even violence, among visibly different factions. What does that tell us about the future of a speciated humanity?
Beyond the special effects, maybe “X-Men” is a already a hit (number 1 box office movie this past weekend) because it probes our deepest Darwinian feelings--and fears. If science succeeds in updating the definition of “fittest,” the survival of our particular species, in its current form, could be at risk. That’s great for future mutants, but not so great for the rest of us, and our current civilization.
So maybe “X” marks the spot where humans should start worrying.
James P. Pinkerton is a writer, Fox News contributor and the editor/founder of SeriousMedicineStrategy.
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Stop Your Battle with Food!
You struggle with an ongoing struggle with food.
You're obsessed with your body image and perhaps exercise.
You feel stuck and you want it all to change....
If this sounds like you, you might be feeling isolated, defeated and desperate for change. You are likely embarrassed and fed-up with yourself.
You have promised yourself countless times that you would get your eating habits under control.
You have failed each and every time.
You've come to this website because you know it's time to stop your battle with food.
You have come to the right place.
Through counselling, I can help you get your battle with food under control once and for all.
Over-eaters: Do any of these scenarios apply to you?
- you repeatedly follow your diet, and then fall off again
- you cringe when you look in the mirror
- you are obsessed with food, calories and exercise
- you lose weight, only to gain it back again and again
- you eat when you are sad, anxious, worried and mad. You eat, eat and eat
- you are fed up with your inability to stop stuffing yourself with food
Undereaters: Do any of these scenarios apply to you?
- you restrict your food to keep the weight off
- you exercise excessively and can't seem to stop
- you or other are concerned for your health
- you occasionally engage in a binge purge cycle
- you skip meals, always making excuses for not eating"I feel ill," "I just ate with a friend," "I am stressed out," "I'm not hungry."
- you refuse to eat in front of others
If you are an over eater or an under eater, your problems with food are likely to wreak havoc in your entire life.
Problems Related to Under Eating and Over Eating
- Relationship Problems
- Low Self Esteem
- Obsession with Body Image
- Anxiety and Depression
- Trauma and Abuse
It's time to stop your ongoing battle with food.
If you are sick and tired of over eating or under eating, then counselling can help you stop your ongoing battle with food.
You can overcome emotional eating. You can heal your relationship with food. Others have healed their relationship with food through therapy and you can too! You can find your way to feeling good about yourself again.
Benefits of Counselling:
- Rewarding Relationships with others
- Feel Good About Who You Are
- Feel Good About The Way You Look
- Overcome Depression and Anxiety
- Heal Past Trauma or Abuse
Therapy can help you increase self -awareness and provide you with the ability to consciously make healthy choices. Your choices provide you with the enhanced self esteem an enrich your personal relationships. As you begin to feel better about yourself, your struggles with body image and food drop away.
Why choose me as your counsellor you ask?
I can help you beat this battle with food.
I too, have dealt with emotional eating behaviors in my past. Fortunately, through my own healing journey, I now enjoy a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle, which I can help you achieve too.
With more than a decade of counselling experience, I can successfully help you overcome your challenges. By providing you with necessary tools for success, you will overcome self-sabotage and addictive behaviors. I have helped people truly heal from their dysfunctional relationship with food.
If you want change, what are you waiting for? It's time to end this battle once and for all! Call now for a free 15 min consultation.
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Estonia set itself a long-term objective of establishing an embassy in India and in near future is planning to appoint a non-residing ambassador to India, writes Postimees Online/LETA.
“On the basis of Estonia’s interest in increasing its contacts with India, Estonia has started the process of appointing an ambassador who would not reside in this country,” said the minister of foreign affairs Urmas Paet who is on an official visit to India.
“Estonia has a longer-term objective to open its own embassy in India,” said Paet during his meeting with his colleague Pranab Mukherjee.
The ministers of foreign affairs of Estonia and of India also talked about the fight against pirates near the Somalian coast. “Only actions that have international dimension and are well-coordinated would decrease piracy,” said Paet.
When discussing the UN Security Council reform, Paet stated that Estonia supports expanding the council and India’s membership as a permanent member. Estonia also considers it important to add one place among rotating members for Eastern Europe, including Estonia
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Washington :Parents, take note! If you want your kids to do better in math, make them do aerobic exercise.
Scientists have found for the first time that aerobic fitness can enhance math skills in children by aiding the development of brain structures that contribute to mathematics achievement.
The study showed that 9 and 10-year-old children who are aerobically fit tend to have significantly thinner grey matter and do better on math tests than their “low-fit” peers.
“Grey-matter thinning is the sculpting of a fully formed, healthy brain. The theory is that the brain is pruning away unnecessary connections and strengthening useful connections,” said Laura Chaddock-Heyman, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois.
Previous studies have shown that grey-matter thinning is associated with better reasoning and thinking skills, Chaddock-Heyman said.
“We show, for the first time, that aerobic fitness may play a role in this cortical thinning,” she said.
“In particular, we find that higher-fit 9- and 10-year-olds show a decrease in grey-matter thickness in some areas known to change with development, specifically in the frontal, temporal and occipital lobes of the brain,” she said.
The analysis included 48 children, all of whom had completed a maximal oxygen-uptake fitness test on a treadmill.
Half of the children (the higher-fit kids) were at or above the 70th percentile for aerobic fitness, and half (the lower-fit kids) were at or below the 30th percentile.
The researchers imaged the children’s brains using MRI, and tested their math, reading and spelling skills using the Wide Range Achievement Test-3, which correlates closely with academic achievement in these fields.
The team found differences in math skills and cortical brain structure between the higher-fit and lower-fit children.
In particular, thinner grey matter corresponded to better math performance in the higher-fit kids. No significant fitness-associated differences in reading or spelling aptitude were detected.
“These findings arrive at an important time. Physical activity opportunities during the school day are being reduced or eliminated in response to mandates for increased academic time,” said Charles Hillman, professor of kinesiology and community health, at University of Illinois.
“Given that rates of physical inactivity are rising, there is an increased need to promote physical activity,” Hillman said.
“An important next step in this research is to establish a causal relationship between brain changes, changes in physical fitness and changes in cognition and school achievement – something we are currently doing with a longitudinal study of children participating in a physical activity training programme,” said Art Kramer, director of the Beckman Institute for Science and Technology, University of Illinois.
The study was published in the journal PLOS One.
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Scientists have hoped for years that quantum encryption would become an unbeatable method for transmitting encrypted data. The problem has been making it work over long distances. Now that hurdle is showing signs of falling.
For the most part, the cryptographic battlefield has taken place in mathematics, with senders of data trying to create encryption algorithms too complex for the snoopers to crack. Quantum encryption, however, could shift the struggle to the field of physics and lead to encryption that's more secure than the public key cryptography technology often used today.
Quantum encryption's chief impediment has been its inability to send infor- mation great distances. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Albion College in Michigan revealed last month that they generated and transmitted secret quantum keys over 115 miles of fiber-optic cable during an experiment last year--the farthest such information has traveled.
Scientists at NIST, Los Alamos, Northwestern University, and IBM have been trying to solve the same problem for decades. The first experimental quantum encryption prototype, created in 1991, was able to send information a mere 32 centimeters.
With quantum encryption, the sender encodes information on an individual quantum particle, such as a photon or electron. The recipient has information about this quantum particle's characteristics, its size, or level of polarization, which lets the recipient interpret the information. Quantum encryption is resistant to eavesdropping by a third party because, according to the laws of physics, a photon can't be intercepted without changing its quantum state. Any attempt to eavesdrop on encrypted data would be detected immediately.
The technology would resist "all future kinds of attacks," says Carl Williams, coordinator of the NIST quantum information program.
NIST's photonic sensors, developed by NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam, were the key to the experiment's success. The distance light can travel over fiber-optic cable depends on the quality of the glass fibers in the core of the cable. NIST's photon sensors were 45% more efficient than commercial ones.
Still, challenges remain for quantum encryption. It isn't compatible with public key encryption systems. It also still needs to stretch across greater distances in order to be practical for most businesses.
For original story:
http://www.informationweek.com/showArti ... xt=quantum
Other Links to Quantum Cryptography:
Quantum Cryptography Demo is a Security First
AlphaEta - Northwestern University Quantum Crypto Project
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Loitering occurs when an individual lingers in a place, at a time and in a manner for no apparent reason. It can often be viewed as an insignificant offense. However, it could potentially lead to more egregious crimes.
Loitering is a big security concern for shopping centers. In this video, we caught three people hanging out in the dumpster area behind an Arizona retail center.
Around 1:30 in the morning, a Stealth Monitoring security professional saw someone rolling a red suitcase into the dumpster area behind an Arizona shopping center. The subject opened the gate and walked inside the enclosure, then shut the gate behind him. Moments later, two more individuals entered the scene. One was rolling a bike and the other was carrying a few items. The pair walked to the dumpster enclosure and went inside.
Our monitoring operator, still watching the activity, called to dispatch local police. Within minutes, two police SUVs arrived. As one was pulling up to the fence around the dumpster, one of the trespassers could be seen trying to escape by climbing over the retaining wall. The other two suspects started tossing items over the same wall.
The remaining pair was directed by an officer to exit the enclosure, which they did. The couple was then instructed to sit down. After some questioning, the two suspects were put in handcuffs and taken from the property.
Loitering Creates Security Concerns for Shopping Centers
When uninvited visitors loiter at your place of business, it could impact your public image and profitability. For starters, the sight of people camping out around your property could discourage customers who may not feel safe.
Another issue is crime. Even though some people congregating at your retail establishment are just looking for a place to hang out, others may be there for more nefarious reasons including theft and vandalism.
Help Deter Uninvited Visitors with Live Video Monitoring
Live video monitoring can help deter loiterers and other unwanted behavior at your shopping center. Trained security operators use analytics-based cameras to watch your property when you’re not there. When the analytics in the cameras spot something suspicious, they will alert one of our security professionals who can jump in, quickly assess the situation and take action.
In this video, that action meant calling to dispatch local authorities. Stealth has formed strong partnerships with local police forces throughout North America. When they receive a call from us, they know we are watching crimes in progress, so they typically elevate the priority level. This often results in police arriving on the scene while the suspects are still there.
When would-be-thieves and other uninvited guests know the property is being watched, they may be less likely to congregate or cause damage there.
If you would like more information about a proactive security solution like live video monitoring for your property, contact us.
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If you watched a movie of the Earths climate history, you would see the ocean frequently plays the role of leading actor. If you observed sea surface temperature across the entire globe, over a span of years you would begin to detect patterns. Of course, since you cannot see heat, you would have to assign colors to represent temperature. What would become immediately obvious to your eye is that the temperature anomalies of El Niño and La Niña occur roughly every 3 to 7 years. These would appear as vast red and blue spikes, respectively, appearing off the west coast of South America and extending westward along the equator across most of the Pacific Ocean.
Watching the movie a little longer, your eye might pick up the fact that there is a long-distance relationship between the equatorial Pacific and the equatorial Atlantic Oceans. Interestingly, and for reasons scientists dont fully understand, when the southern Pacific is warmer than average the southern Atlantic is cooler than average, and vice versa. These temperature patterns swing back and forth between the two oceans like a pendulum. You might also notice that there is an oscillation in the Northern and Southern Atlantic Ocean, on either side of the equator. One side is cooler than average for a year or two while the other side is warmer than average, then they flip-flop and this pattern continues.
If you watched for a decade or longer, many more recurring patterns would begin to reveal themselves. For instance, you would see that the body of water that extends from the western equatorial Pacific into the eastern Indian Ocean, called the Indo-Pacific warm pool, seems to pulsate. That is, the warm pool expands and contracts in size while its average annual temperatures rise and fall over cycles of about two decades.
The movie has a surprise ending. Perhaps you didnt notice, but there was another actor onscreenon the land. Turn your attention to the continents and you will see green waves of vigorous plant growth and creeping brown hues of drought wax and wane across the landscapes as if the worlds vegetation dances in response to the rhythms of the ocean. How can this be? Is there a connection?
Yes, say a team of scientists at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. Led by Sietse Los, terrestrial biologist, the team recently assembled the first long-term global data set that demonstrates there is a connection between changing patterns of sea surface temperature and patterns of plant growth across the Earths landscapes. The results of their new study appeared in the April 2001 issue of the Journal of Climate (Los et al. 2001).
The above series of images shows changes in sea surface temperature and land plant growth in every January from 1983 to 1989. In the ocean, blue indicates where temperatures are cooler than normal and red is warmer than normal; on land, yellow indicates less vigorous than normal vegetation growth and green shows more vigorous growth than normal. As sea surface temperatures rise and fall, the vegetation in adjacent areas responds. In general, cool ocean water upwind leads to drought and reduced vegetation growth, while warm ocean waters produce excess rainfall and vigorous plant growth. Notice how the vegetation in northern South America responds to water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean. The corresponding animation shows the effect dramatically.
Images courtesy Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC Visualization and Analysis Lab, based on data from Sietse Los, University of Wales.
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Antique Silver Spoons
As the oldest type of flatware, spoons have existed in some form or another since Ancient Rome, at least. In medieval times, spoons were given as baptism presents in wealthy circles. Because inns did not have anything as luxurious as spoons for their guests, innkeepers expected their well-heeled customers to supply their own. Indeed, the phrase “born with a silver spoon in his mouth” actually reveals quite a bit about the time—whether or...
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(君の膵臓を食べたい – 住野 よる）
This story starts with the funeral of a high school girl, so you know it’s going to be depressing from the beginning. However, preparing the reader at the beginning in some way makes it more light-hearted than if Sumino decided to spring it at the end.
Sakura, a buoyant and outgoing high school girl who is terminally ill, meets an introverted boy, who prefers to live out his life engrossed in novels rather than dealing with the world. They form a deep bond over their shared secret about her illness.
I like that the story involves a lot of daily life activities, such as school, eating, and travel. Not living in Japan myself, it is always fun to read about daily life. Also, the story’s focus on normal activities means there is a lot of every day back and forth conversation, which I enjoy even if it’s just because it’s in Japanese.
The best part of the book was the evolution of the relationship between Sakura and the main character, as well as their individual development. He’s not actually a true hikikomori, as Sakura calls him, although he may be on the path to becoming one. While she, on the other hand, is the kind of person that needs to have others around to realize she’s alive. They begin to learn from one another in a relationship that would have never happened under normal circumstances.
On the audiobook side, there were a couple of things about the recording I want to mention. Sakura calls the narrator nakayoshi-kun, meaning something like, “person I’m close to,” and there is always a pause before the kun. It seems like during the first reading an incorrect name was used, then they went and overlayed the correct name. It makes me wonder what they said before. Also, Sakura’s laugh is quite annoying, but maybe it’s supposed to be that way.
The language is simple, with lots of dialogue, and the story is filled with everyday interactions. This is a great candidate if you are looking to get into your first fiction audiobook in Japanese.
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A Big Ratio
July 22, 2022
The ins and outs of credit utilization ratio.
One of the biggest factors impacting your credit score is the credit utilization ratio. This is your total credit used divided by the total credit available to you. Your best strategy when dealing with this ratio is to keep it below 30 percent. If it goes above that number, you could be in trouble.
Your credit utilization ratio is made up of revolving credit — so any lines of credit and credit cards. It does not include loans, like a mortgage or student loan debt. If you have three credit cards with a total of $32,000 credit available, and you have a $5,000 balance on one of the cards, your ratio is 20.83 percent. That’s pretty good. A low ratio indicates to lenders and credit bureaus that you are handling your credit wisely, and not overspending. It’s essential that you keep this percentage low.
Here’s what TransUnion, VantageScore 3.0 considers when coming up with that magical three-digit number:
Payment history (40%)
Amounts owed (23%)
Length of credit history (21%)
Credit mix (11%)
New credit (5%)
“Amounts Owed” is where your ratio comes into play. Keep your credit utilization ratio below 30 percent and your credit score will be higher.
If your ratio goes above 30 or even 50 percent, your credit score could go down by double digit points. When your score goes down by that much, you’ll find it harder to secure loans, you’ll get higher interest rate offers on credit cards and much more.
Keep your credit utilization ratio in mind to maintain healthy finances. Try to make sure you can pay off your credit cards in full each month. If you have a heavy spending month that you know you will blow your ratio, consider paying your bill mid-month to bring it down. Keep cards open that you don’t use (if they don’t have an annual fee) anymore. You can even ask for a credit limit increase on your cards. Keep your ratio low and your finances will be easier to handle.
This article was originally posted on savvymoney.com
The material provided on this page is for informational use only and is not intended for financial, tax or investment advice. VisionBank, PurposeBank and/or its affiliates assume no liability for any loss or damage resulting from one’s reliance on the material provided. Please also note that such material is not updated regularly and that some of the information may not therefore be current. Consult with your own financial professional and tax advisor when making decisions regarding your financial situation.
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Description: A dedication ceremony at the Killeen City Library.
Description: Aerial view of Central Texas College prior to the construction of the new, multi-lane Highway 190. The bell tower and duck pond are visible near the front center of the photo, where a U-shaped drive is clearly seen. In addition to the campus buildings and automobiles in the photograph, a large area of mostly flat, barren land is visible along with a few hills. The The college opened September 19, 1967.
Description: Gathering of people at the Killeen Community Center, probably in the room to the west side of the gymnasium. Children and adults are clearly visible. Flags are mounted to the wall. May be the dedication ceremony of the Community Center.
Description: Photograph taken during the early 1960's depicts the Killeen City Jail. B. W. "Buster" Adams, Chief of Police, appears in the center of the picture. To the left is Don Cannon and to the right is Leon Phillips. The police department, city hall and the jail were located on the NW corner of Gray Street and Avenue D until 1965.
Description: View of exterior of Mayflower Moving & Storage on Hwy. 190, between Harker Heights and Nolanville. Cars can be seen in the parking lot, and the business's sign is visible to the left. Two open loading docks can be seen, one with a wooden container in it.
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WITH REFERENCE TO THE LOVE SONG OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK AND PREDULES DISCUSS HOW TS ELIOT CONVEYS MOOD AND THEMES Both Prufrock and Preludes are based in the same rootless world of sordid tedium In Prufrock Eliot is conveying a theme a strong theme and is based heavily in the Persona of Prufrock himself Preludes is a poem of changing moods some subtle some profound but this time conveyed primarily through diction and repetitionOne theme of Eliots The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is the exposure of the modern individuals inability and refusal to address inadequacies that he sees in both him and his society Two ways Eliot conveys his theme is through the persona of Prufrock and repetition One method used by Eliot to expose this theme is his use of the persona of J Alfred Prufrock Prufrock is in part a shallow conformist 41 My morning coat my collar mounting firmly to the chin42 My necktie rich and modest but asserted by a simple pin-43 They will say But how his arms and legs are thinHowever almost tragically Eliot has Prufrock aware of the shallowness of the society to which he conforms26 There will be time there will be time27 To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meetPrufrock observes his societys ability to totally disregard any question of substance that is the overwhelming questions Yet despite his observations Prufrock is not prepared to confront his society more importantly himself In deeper tragedy Prufrock is defeated by his knowledge of his inadequacies and states quite sincerely And in short I was afraidTwo of the minor themes of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock concern the frustrations felt by the individual towards their society Specifically the individuals insignificance in their society and the individuals inability to express themselves and be understood as an individual within that societyRepetition plays a crucial role in conveying the theme of insignificance The repetition
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"This wellness challenge has helped me a great deal. I was told that I was in the borderline of depression, and was told to take meds, but I got into this challenge with my coworkers and WOW it has been helping me a lot. You keep up the great work.”
It’s no secret that a fit, healthy lifestyle is a powerful anti-depressant. Being physically active is a simple, everyday habit that builds resilience and fosters mental well-being.
Perhaps your company cafeteria has a smoothie bar… now imagine a stationary bike with an attached blender where you can make your own smoothies while pedaling. And occasionally the CEO or plant manager gets on that bike and makes custom smoothies for you. Pretty cool, huh? That’s exactly what you find in a growing number of GE Healthcare’s global cafeterias serving 55,000 employees.
Blender-bikes are only a glimpse at the creativity and innovation that go into GE’s world-class model for the nutrition pillar component of their program. Jason Morgan (Director, Global Health and Wellness) shared his philosophy. “I strive to build our programs on a solid foundation of fitness and nutrition. That means putting in place the necessary resources and policies to support our global network. When we decided to focus on nutrition, our first goal was requiring 75% of all company cafeteria food options to be healthy. Stateside we define ‘healthy’ according to American Dietetic Association and other expert guidelines. Overseas, we take into consideration country-specific guidelines based on how they prepare their native food. For instance, 75% healthy looks a bit different in Singapore than the US.”
You've probably experienced the frustration of attending a presentation or class where the first half covers things you already know before you get to the new material. If so, you know how valuable the triage principle can be.
In medicine, triage is a system designed to produce the greatest benefit from limited treatment resources. In wellness, a triage system focuses resources — so those who need the most help get it, and those who need less receive less. The stages of change model outlined by Prochaska and DeClemente in the early '80s offers a framework for health promotion triage by identifying stages of readiness:
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Developing today’s learners into tomorrow’s leaders
A relatively unique learning environment has been created in the newly formed Scots All Saints College where a progressive educational structure bests support adolescent learners in their critical stage of growth and development.
The concept of Middle School is not new but is a first for the Central West of NSW and many local students from Bathurst and surrounding areas are benefitting from this individual student-centred approach to learning in the critical formative years 5 to 8.
Introduced on All Saints Campus, Bathurst in the foundation year of Scots All Saints College, Head of Campus/ Director of Middle School, Mr Chris Jackman is a firm advocate for the Middle School structure which delivers outstanding results in and outside the classroom.
“Acknowledging that adolescent learners have specific needs, our Middle School has a structure that allows us to implement a quality student wellbeing program in a meaningful context,” Mr Jackman said.
“Middle Schooling focuses on an individual student-centred approach to learning where we are committed to developing todays learners into tomorrow’s leaders who are informed, compassionate and confident men and women of faith, who will flourish as global-minded citizens,” he said.
The overall curriculum is guided by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) for Stage 3 (Year 5 & 6) and Stage 4 (Years 7 & 8). Students study all Key Learning Areas including English, Mathematics, Science, HSIE (Geography and History), Technologies, Personal Development/Health/Physical Education, Creative and Performing Arts.
In addition to this all students participate in a Christian Studies class every week and there is an explicit Student Wellbeing program based on the research of positive psychology to build resilience and equip students with mental fitness and health not only for school but for life.
There are also opportunities for Year 8 students who could easily be ‘lost’ in a larger high school environment, to take on leadership roles as Captains and Prefects and represent their College in the community. In effect, this adequately prepares them before they reach the more senior years of High School. Coming through Junior School to Middle School at Scots All Saints College provides an excellent starting point in the early years of schooling to maximise the opportunities at the College before entering Middle School. Alternatively, entry into Middle School from Year 5 is another popular avenue for many enrolments enabling students to fully embrace the physical, social, emotional and spiritual learning environment.
The new multi-campus structure at Scots All Saints College of Junior (Years K-4), Middle School (Years 5-8) on All Saints Campus and Senior School (Years 9-12) on Scots Campus also encourages students in Years 9-12 to grow in a level of maturity for they can focus on study and learning confident and ready for life after school.
“Essentially, we are building leaders for our future. We are confident, our students will be the influencers in our communities – well-informed, compassionate and confident men and women of faith, who will flourish as independent, responsible young people,” Mr Jackman said.
“It’s a really exciting time to be at the College and to be part of this history-making era of education in regional NSW. Scots All Saints College is a fabulous place that students love to attend. We invite parents to learn more about what we have to offer. Parents and students from Kindergarten through to Year 12 are welcome to come meet the teachers, tour our campuses, mix with the other students and see what we are all about,” Mr Jackman said.
Discover what education should be at our experience days and other events, simply visit our website for further detail – https://scotsallsaints.nsw.edu.au/tryus or call 6331 3911.
The key elements of the Scots All Saints College Middle School advantage includes:
- Progressive, flexible teaching structure – Age appropriate learning, growth and development.
Unlike High School which is structured by a focus on ‘subjects’, Middle school provides flexible academic structures including project work where there are opportunities for staff collaboration and team teaching across multiple subjects
- Child-focused – Emphasis on quality pastoral care and the delivery of research-based Student Wellbeing and Support Services. All students in Years 5 to 8 have a Core teacher who knows students well and looks after their wellbeing.
- Engaging and Rigorous Academic Program – A broad range of academic courses and activities which challenge all students to achieve their personal best. Excellence in teaching and learning practices
- Leadership Opportunities – Year 8 student leaders and Year 6 House Captains
- Co-curricular Program – An extensive range of sporting, music and other co-curricular activities which develop and enrich personal growth.
- Christian Worldview – An understanding of the Christian world view based on the faith of Christ
Background information on Scots All Saints College:
Preserving and building on strong foundations of two longstanding and very successful schools in Bathurst, Central West NSW All Saints’ College and The Scots School, in 2019 Scots All Saints College is emerging as a regional centre for diverse opportunity, educating students to be creative yet critical thinkers, ready for the innovative age.
Scots All Saints College is a premier, independent Christian College owned by the Presbyterian Church in NSW with three campuses: Pre-Kindergarten, Junior School (K – 4) and Middle School (5 – 8) on All Saints Campus; Pre-Kindergarten, Senior School (9 – 12) and Boarding on Scots Campus and Pre-Kindergarten and Junior School (K – 6) on Lithgow Campus. Boarding is available from Year 5 onwards in four boarding houses located on Scots Campus with boarding students in the Middle School transported by bus to and from All Saints Campus every day.
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In "Vanka" by Anton Chekhov, the narrative is interlaced with epistolary passages. An epistolary passage is one in which a character either writes a letter (epistle) or reads a letter. In this case, the epistolary passages comprise a letter being written by Vanka. In an epistle, the point of view is generally first person (unless perhaps the content is of the they said/you said variety). However, when an epistle is embedded in a larger narrative, the epistle takes on the role of a dialogic insertion (dialogic: pertaining to dialogue) and is analysed as any other dialogic passage would be.
Consequently, since dialogue in a narrative doesn't not change the story's point of view, neither does a dialogic epistolary insertion in a narrative change the story's point of view. Therefore, the first person point of view within the the epistle doesn't affect the analysis of the point of view of the story. If you look at the text of "Vanka," you can see that this is true because the epistolary passages are all set off by quotation marks--they are considered and analyzed as dialogue.
The conclusion is that, while the point of view within the dialogic epistolary insertions is first person, the story of "Vanka" is written solely in the third person limited point of view: The narrator sees and conveys the story while looking over the shoulder--if you will--of Vanka while he writes his letter. So even though Vanka's voice intrudes into the narrative, it is spoken, as it were, by the third person limited narratorial voice, a voice that is, so to speak, reading aloud to the story reader from Vanka's private letter. Thus it is incorrect to state that the short story "Vanka" has two points of view: "Vanka" has one point of view (third person limited) and the embedded epistolary dialogue (letter) presents an embedded first person point of view.
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Copper one Penny Surcharged Token, minted by Soho Mint in Birmingham, 1849. Issued by Annand Smith & Co, Family grocers, in Collins Street, Melbourne. This token has been surcharged 'H. G.' Annand Smith & Co issued Australia's first circulating copper tokens, on 20 October 1849. In 1949 the Numismatic Association of Victoria issued a medal to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that token. The partnership between Annand and Smith was over by 1852.
Annand Smith & Co. had two issues of trade tokens, the first were manufactured by the Soho Mint, Birmingham, in 1849 and the second by Heaton & Sons in 1851. The second issue (from which this token is) has the letters H&S added beside the shield (it is a different Britannia die too).
Previous Collections: National Gallery of Victoria
A round copper token (34 mm diameter) giving the name address and business of the issuer: Annand, Smith & Co., Melbourne, family grocers. The token features on the reverse Britannia seated facing left on a rock against which rests a shield decorated with the Union Jack. Britannia extends an olive branch in her right hand and rests a trident from her left. A three-masted sailing ship is on the horizon at left. This token has been cleraned and surcharged H.G. on both sides.
Legend in four lines within a border of 132 beads, ANNAND SMITH & CO / FAMILY / GROCERS / .MELBOURNE. the first and last lines are curved; surcharged H.G.
Britannia seated facing left on a rock against which rests a shield decorated with the Union Jack. Britannia extends an olive branch (with eleven leaves and three berries) in her right hand and rests a trident from her left. A three-masted sailing ship is on the horizon at left; above, BRITANNIA; surcharged H.G.
Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 15/3/1976
Obverse: ANNAND SMITH & CO FAMILY GROCERS MELBOURNE surcharged H.G. Reverse: BRITANNIA surcharged H.G.
Type of item
16.88 g (Weight)
Henderson, R.L., 'Annand, Smith and Co.', in Australian Numismatist, 1988 Special Bicentennial Edition, pp.12 - 16 [photocopy]; Gardner, F.,' Trade tokens and the businesses that issued them', The Australian Storekeepers and Traders Journal, 31 January 1911, pp.13 - 14; Advertisement, Melbourne Commercial Directory, compiled by P.W. Pierce, 1853, unnumbered page at rear of directory. There were two issues of trade tokens made by this company. The first (see NU 3530), in 1849 was manufactured by the Soho Mint, Birmingham sent in three shipments, the first 5 cwt at 27.5 pieces per pound (15,400 tokens) on 23 May 1849 then on 12 October 1849 and 15 January 1850 each of about the same weight. Richard Doty gives the final number of tokens sent as 45,503. This was their last product before being sold. Heaton & Sons purchased much of the equipment at the sale of the Soho mint and their first issue was of trade tokens for Annand Smith & Co. in 1851. The second issue (from which this token) has the letters H&S added beside the shield (it is a different Britannia die too). The first Annand Smith token was the first circulating trade token issued in Australia. John Sharples 18 Oct 2004
[Book] Andrews, Arthur. 1921. Australasian Tokens and Coins., No. 17
[Book] Heyde, Gilbert C. & Skinner, Dion H. 1967. Unofficial Coins of Colonial Australia and New Zealand., No. 14/1
[Article] Sharples, John P. 1993. A Catalogue of the Trade Tokens of Victoria 1848 to 1862. Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. vol.7: p.1-77., V. 48
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This is a classic case, especially for the left wing bloggers of being careful what you wish for…they were all baying for the blood of Murdoch and didn’t focus on what regulation can actually mean.
The same is happening in Australia now…where the scale and scope of “reforms” and “regulation” are actually a direct attack on freedoms we all enjoy.
The Leveson inquiry was set up to address “the culture, practices and ethics of the press, including contacts between the press and politicians and the press and the police” (Comment, 19 March). Our views diverge on whether the outcome of the Leveson process – and the plans for a new regulator – are the best way forward. But where we all agree is that current attempts at regulating blogs and other small independent news websites are critically flawed.
The government has defined a “relevant publisher” for the purposes of press regulation in a way that seeks to draft campaign groups and community-run websites covering neighbourhood planning applications and local council affairs into a regulator designed for the Guardian, Sun and Daily Mail. Even the smallest of websites will be threatened with the stick of punitive “exemplary damages” if they fall foul of a broad range of torts, encompassing everything from libel to “breach of confidence”. The authors of these proposals should reflect on their remarkable achievement of uniting both Tom Watson and Rupert Murdoch in opposition.
This appears to be the outcome of a botched late-night drafting process and complete lack of consultation with bloggers, online journalists and social media users, who may now be caught in regulations which trample on grassroots democratic activity and Britain’s emerging digital economy. Leveson was meant to be focused on the impact of “big media”. In the end it may come to be seen as a damaging attack on Britain’s blogosphere, which rather than being a weakness in British politics, has proved time and time again that it is a real strength.
We will all continue to write, campaign, cajole, amuse and irritate online. But we consider the current proposals a fundamental threat to doing just that.
Mark Ferguson LabourList
Tim Montgomerie ConservativeHome
Stephen Tall LibDemVoice
Laurence Durnan Political Scrapbook
Paul Staines Editor, Guido Fawkes’ Blog
Harry Cole News Editor, Guido Fawkes’ Blog
Alex Wickham Reporter, Guido Fawkes’ Blog
Sunny Hundal Liberal Conspiracy
Jag Singh Messagespace
Neal Lawson Compass
Nick Pickles Director, Big Brother Watch
Jim Killock Executive director, Open Rights Group
Emma Burnell Scarlet Standard
James Bloodworth Left Foot Forward
Jon Lansman Leftfutures
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How to help someone with anorexia nervosa
It can be challenging when you have a loved one that struggles with an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa. Especially, as it is a mental health disorder that also affects the person’s physical health. Fortunately, there are some things that you can do to help. These are discussed below.
Understand anorexia nervosa
It is a good idea to read as much information about anorexia as you can. Understanding anorexia and how it works can help you to recognize the ways that your loved one is affected and the ways you can help.
To read more information about anorexia, you can view our pages on anorexia nervosa and getting help for anorexia nervosa.
Help them to feel supported
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder that can make your loved one feel extremely isolated, because others can have a hard time understanding their difficulties. It is important to make sure that you try to understand how this is a problem for them, so that they feel understood and supported. To do this, you can:
They are most likely struggling with negative and often critical thoughts about themselves. One of the best things you can do is to remind them that they are valued and loved, no matter what.
Separate the person from the disorder
This is very important. It is good to remember that the person is not the disorder. This will allow you to have less feelings of frustration and resentment towards your loved one, because it is not their fault. Your loved one can also recognise that they are not the disorder and can feel less guilty about it.
When supporting a loved one with an eating disorder, it is common for you to receive a lot of resistance. This might happen when you are trying to encourage them towards healthier eating habits or inviting them out to a social event. Try not to feel discouraged and continue to encourage and invite them, even if they refuse.
Help them to find the right support
Encourage them to find support through a GP or therapist. If this involves your young child, you can contact these services. You might:
- Help them to search for a therapist
- Help them to book an appointment with a GP or therapist
- Offer support when they attend appointments (e.g. waiting in the waiting room or attending some sessions if you need to)
- Help them search for support groups or self-help resources
- Encourage them to keep attending sessions and to not give up
Know when to get urgent support
When your loved one is dealing with anorexia nervosa, it is good to keep an eye out for signs of self-harm or suicide. If you suspect that your loved one is at risk of hurting themself, you should get them immediate support.
You should contact a GP or the NHS urgent helpline.
Ask them what they need
They may or may not to tell you what they need, but it is always good to ask. They might let you know other ways that you can help them. This way you won’t have to figure it out on your own.
Support them during mealtimes
Mealtime is the most stressful part of the day for a person with an eating disorder. It will be helpful for them if you find ways to make this time less distressing, without enabling the disorder. For example, you might:
- Plan the meals with them in advance, so that they feel less anxious during mealtime
- Involve other siblings that can help to distract them
- Have neutral conversations that do not involve weight, shape or dieting
- Encourage them to do an enjoyable activity during mealtime (e.g. colouring, watching TV, doing a puzzle)
- Reassure them that you are there for them
Be patient in difficult situations
When supporting a loved one with an eating disorder, it is common for them to respond with resistance by being angry or shutting down. It is important for you to not take this personally and realise that it is the eating disorder that is being challenged. Here are some ways that you can manage these situations:
- Give them some space until they calm down
- Try to resist the urge to respond back in an angry tone
- It is reasonable to express your frustrations, but try to do it while they are absent
- Take some time out to compose yourself during these difficult situations
- Encourage them in a calm way without putting too much pressure on them
- Take the time to come up with creative ways to encourage them
Look after yourself too
It is extremely important for you to look after yourself. Whether you are a parent, family member or a friend, you will be in a better position to give help, as long as you are taking care of your own well-being too.
To read more about looking after yourself, see our page on self-care when helping someone else.
List of useful resources
To read information about helping someone with anorexia nervosa on the MIND website, you can click here to access the link.
Beat eating disorders
To read information about helping someone with an eating disorder on the beat eating disorders website, you can click here to access the link.
To read advice for carers and parents of young people with eating disorder on the Young Minds website, you can click here to access the link.
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Meet Dr. Kelly ChinPulmonary Hypertension Specialist
When pulmonologist Kelly Chin, M.D., started treating patients with pulmonary hypertension, it was a newly treatable disease – only six years before, there were no effective treatment options for most people with the disease.
We offer access to the best treatments for pulmonary hypertension."
Since then, she's witnessed multiple advances in treatment options for patients who suffer from this often fatal disease. The opportunity for her patients to live a better life motivates her.
"After we've started them on therapy, we can see patients get better and really respond in a positive way,” she says. “It's very rewarding as a physician to impact someone's life in that way."
As Director of UT Southwestern Medical Center's Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Dr. Chin has also seen the Program grow quickly. It now ranks among the largest centers in the country, providing access to state-of-the-art treatments.
In addition to clinical care, Dr. Chin spends time researching causes and new treatments for pulmonary hypertension. While experts have identified some risk factors for the disease such as medication exposures and certain genes, there is a need to learn more. Dr. Chin is exploring other potential causes, such as a possible connection between stimulant use and pulmonary hypertension.
Dr. Chin loves seeing the impact new therapies can have on her patients. A pulmonary hypertension diagnosis no longer means a patient is going to die within a few years, she says.
"While it’s still a serious condition, many people improve and feel a lot better,” Dr. Chin notes. “It's certainly treatable. Patients can achieve a significant improvement in quality of life with medication. "
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A full-width image and text overlay can really help alleviate eye strain on readers and help you draw attention to a piece of content. To achieve a full-width layout, you’ll want to use the cover block. Cover blocks allow you to use an image or a single color to break up your content. You can then add some simple text and a heading to the image. Here’s an example of what that can look like:
Let’s get started!
Step 1: Go to your page list and click the title of the page you want to edit
Step 2: Add a Cover Block where you want the full-width image to be
Hover your mouse over the page and find the circle button to “add block.” Click this to open the block choices.
Step 3: Select Cover Block
The easiest and fastest way to find your block is to start typing in the search bar above the choices. Cover blocks are in the Common Blocks category. As soon as you see it, click the option to add the block where you selected.
Step 4: Upload a Photo or Choose a Background Color
Background color choices are an array of the black & white scale with the color choices coming from your site’s branding colors, set within design. If you want to use different colors, you’ll want to choose those within your site’s design. Learn how to update your brand colors here.
Photos should be a .jpg or .png format with a minimum width of 1920 pixels so they do not stretch on computers.
Step 5: Set Alignment to Full-Width *optional*
If you have a sidebar, and want the image or background to stretch across the entire screen, then you will want to hide the sidebar first. If you want to keep the sidebar, you can skip to step 6. If you prefer to have a full-width cover block, please do the following.
Set the document settings to “hide sidebar”
Align the cover block to full-width
Step 6: Add Content to Your Cover Block
Step 7: Select Preferred Content Block *optional*
If you prefer to have a heading, list, or quote block, you’ll want to transform the paragraph block. Select the backward “P” on the top menu and choose the block you want to use instead of a paragraph block.
Step 8: Update Content Block Settings on the Right
Typical Features & Styles include:
- Text Settings – these settings apply to all content within the block
- Font sizes – (small, normal, large, larger)
- Drop Cap toggle is a massive first letter indented with normal text following
- Color Settings – Black, grey, white, and your branding colors are available
- Background color of the block
- Text color of all the text in the block
- Learn how to update colors here
- Advanced Settings – developers use this for custom markup (code)
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Dougco parent Laura Mutton questions how the Douglas County School District plans to pay for a new pay-for-performance system for teachers since a tax measure failed in 2011.
Pay-for-performance, one of Douglas County’s reform initiatives, has created great confusion and concern due to the lack financial transparency and employee support, leaving many within the community asking questions and voicing their frustration with the Board of Education and senior administration.
Pay-for-performance is not new to the Douglas County School District. First implemented in 1993 and supported by 90 percent of employees, Douglas County was one of the first school districts in the nation to implement a pay-for- performance compensation system. The district received national recognition for its pay-for-performance system, which rewarded teachers for individual and/or collaborative achievements. Unfortunately, the program was suspended many years ago when Douglas County, like other local school districts, was required to cut budgets in response to the massive state cuts to education funding.
The current school board, elected in 2009, stated as part of its reform agenda they would implement a new pay-for performance system, with the goal of retaining and attracting high quality employees. In 2011, Douglas County voters voted against a bond and mill levy that was needed to fund pay-for-performance. The district made it clear that pay-for -performance would see a “significant setback to the technology infrastructure needed to appropriately measure the performance of staff”* without this additional funding. It causes great confusion in the community to have heard this statement, suffer major funding cuts to the high schools and then see a new pay-for-performance plan under development less than a year later.
What cuts are coming?
The district needs to be transparent and share with the public the infrastructure and ongoing costs of the new system, including the programs and services that have been or will need to be reduced in order to divert funds to pay for this system. With the lowest per pupil funding in the metro area and average class sizes well above neighboring districts, it is important that parents understand what cuts the district is making to fund the pay-for-performance infrastructure.
It is also unclear how the district can afford to offer the significant teacher raises outlined in the plan without raising any additional funds. Douglas County has historically paid teachers less than teachers in neighboring districts, attracting them to the district with its positive climate and culture. Given there is a limited pot of funds, it is important to understand if some teachers will earn significantly less in order for others to earn more. Or will the number of teachers be reduced overall, thereby increasing class sizes? Perhaps programming for students will be cut or central administration will be greatly reduced?
Finally, where does pay-for-performance fit into other spending priorities that have been voiced by parents, such as increasing classroom support and reducing student fees?
Colorado Senate Bill 10-191 requires that teachers undergo evaluations. Tying teacher compensation to those evaluations is a complex and costly endeavor – one that prompted DCSD to put a bond on the ballot in 2011 to pay for the system’s infrastructure and a mill levy to pay for teacher’s compensation.
Both measures were denied by voters.
District “customers” need facts
The Board of Education often states that its members serve the district parents, which they refer to as “customers.” Yet parents aren’t being informed if pay-for-performance is being funded with cuts to the classroom and prioritized over other desirable programs. The community would like the opportunity to engage in open discussion and learn more about the pay-for-performance system. Unfortunately, the Board of Education has cancelled all community engagement meetings in the current school year and Telephone Town Hall meetings have demonstrated that questions are often not answered or are misunderstood by the administration.
Without first addressing plummeting employee morale, declining parent satisfaction and the growing fund balance, the Board of Education and the senior administration will have difficulty restoring trust in the district. Without trust and without full transparency regarding the infrastructure and ongoing costs of pay-for-performance, the district is unlikely to achieve its goal of retaining and attracting high quality employees and improving student achievement.
About our First Person series:
First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others trying to improve public education. Read our submission guidelines here.
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[This continues yesterday’s blog, updating my thoughts on magic and psychic talents–since I am unfortunately thought to have some expertise about such matters. Sheesh!]
3. You cannot use the arts of the Craft to win fame, fortune, power, or any other sort of material or social advantage.
This is how all the psychic arts work, not just those of the Craft. Why they work thus is another question—that they do work thus is well-known. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that if your major motive for working is (or becomes) a desire for fame, fortune, etc., psychic abilities cannot function; many erstwhile psychics throughout history have lost their abilities and become charlatans, because they did not know this rule. You can (as many people do) make your living by a psychic art, as long as you charge only enough to live comfortably by your society’s standards; it is only going on a “power trip” that would endanger your abilities. Similarly, trying to affect people without their knowledge (or the magician’s favorite project, raising “demons” in order to control them) is another sort of power trip and will have exactly the same effect on your abilities. Another way to state this rule would be, “The arts of the Craft are the gift of the Goddess; if you misuse them, She will take them back.” Do not attempt to control elemental or other spirits; that’s a power trip.
4. You cannot use the arts of the Craft for show, in pretence, but only in earnest, and only in need.
If you work a ritual, it will have effects, whether you think you want it to or not. You cannot “pretend” to throw a hex, for example; the Lady may not recognize pretence. On the other hand, you cannot work the arts successfully just because you want to; the Lady won’t cooperate. You have to need the energy or the information for some real purpose, else you can’t tap into it. Spiritual gifts in general, like a full Awakening, are bestowed only when you need them, not because you merely want them.
5. The arts of the Craft are those that can be worked only in a cast circle with at least one other person.
The arts of the Craft are thus defined as those that will work only under these conditions and therefore can be learned only in circle. Psychic arts that work under other conditions are thus not necessarily part of the Craft and are therefore exempt from some of the restrictions that apply strictly to the “Arts of the Craft.”
[Back about 1971, many were accepting Gardner’s assumption that the two people in the circle had to be of opposite genders. That assumption has long since been jettisoned by almost every Craft Tradition. The rule that a man had to learn the arts of the Craft from a woman, a woman from a man, except between parent and child, may still be a preference, but it is no longer considered a rule.]
6. You must always pay whatever price is asked, without haggling or complaining, when you buy something to be used for the Craft.
The Ardanes provide that the Arts of the Craft can be used to persuade someone to sell something, as long as his asking price is met, but this would violate Law #2. In contrast, this law is a safeguard against using your psychic talents not-quite-consciously to take unfair advantage of someone.
7. You cannot belong to more than one coven at a time.
Any two covens will likely have rather different symbolic systems for their workings, different understandings of Craft Laws, and so on. Trying to work with both would then tend to confuse you, snarl up your communication lines to the Lady, and reduce the efficiency of your learning and working. Of course, if two covens do have identical systems (which could happen only if they shared a common ancestry), they could be considered the same coven for the purposes under discussion here.
In its original context in the Ardanes, this Law seems merely an observation of fact: even if you’re working with two or more covens, your loyalty will be with only one of them, and if there were a parting of the ways, you would stick with it. Obviously, in time of persecution, divided loyalties and disagreements could be a source of great danger and would have to be forbidden. Also, if a High Priestess has final authority in a coven, she might not want a Witch she is trying to train be influenced by another Priestess.
8. None can coven with others they cannot agree with.
Stated this way, this law becomes an etymological tautology, for “coven” means “to agree” (or “to come together”). The more those in a coven can agree on the rules, on the symbolic system used for workings, on the purposes of the workings, the greater the coven’s effectiveness will be. Naturally, minor disagreements will crop up regularly in a group of individualists; they are not what this law concerns. Rather, it applies to disagreements (or bad interpersonal feelings) that are strong enough that they are amplified by the group field, make the meeting unpleasant, and so make it impossible for the coven to work. If unresolvable frictions between members neutralize the workings, the group that is meeting will then not be a coven. For this reason—not, one may hope, out of mere in-group exclusiveness or arbitrariness—a coven must select its members carefully for compatibility. Also, since a coven is necessarily a “small group,” many normal small-group processes will operate in it. These can be powerful and emotionally very heavy, but there’s nothing mysterious about them. Don’t mistake them for something occult; that would lead you up a blind alley.
The original context of this law in the Ardanes makes it clear that a coven can—and often, for its own survival, must—expel a member who, although not violating any other laws, is making it impossible for the coven to function, though only as a very last resort.
[Part III comes tomorrow.]
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LENEXA, Kan. -- Hurricane Matthew made landfall in western Haiti Tuesday morning and caused catastrophic damage, and a local organization decided to step up to send help.
Volunteers spent Tuesday morning assembling hygiene kits at Heart to Heart International in Lenexa, Kan. The kits along with a disaster response team will soon travel to Haiti. Part of the disaster response team left Tuesday.
The plan is to headed to the Dominican Republic and get in a car and head to disaster areas.
The team will join a medical response team already in Haiti in three different communities. Two of them are along the southern coast where there's a lot of damage and unfortunately a lot of people displaced by the storm.
There are two ways people can help. The first is donate money. Heart to Heart International expects to spend a half-million dollars in the first month in Haiti. The other way to help is to donate items for hygiene kits.
It's too soon to know exactly where Hurricane Matthew will be in a few days, or how hard it will hit the United States.
But the storm's latest track shows it making a westward turn toward the US East Coast. And officials in several states in that region say they're not taking any chances.
"We cannot take it lightly. It is absolutely deadly. It's approaching Florida with potentially devastating winds," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said at a news conference Tuesday morning. "Every forecast continues to put Florida more in harm's way. If Matthew directly impacts Florida, there will be massive destruction that we haven't seen in years."
CNN forecasters predict the storm could hit parts of Florida starting Thursday night.
The National Hurricane Center issued advisories for parts of the Florida coast. A hurricane watch extends from Deerfield Beach to the Volusia/Brevard county line, including Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Fort Pierce, Vero Beach and Cape Canaveral.
And a tropical storm watch has been issued from the central Florida Keys northward to Deerfield Beach, including Marathon Key, Miami and the Ft. Lauderdale metropolitan area.
Officials may issue evacuation orders later Tuesday, the governor said.
"If an evacuation order is issued in your area, leave immediately. ... Once the storm comes, we cannot put our first responders in harm's way," Scott said. "You must leave before it's too late. You can rebuild a home. You can rebuild a business. You cannot rebuild a life."
Scott declared a state of emergency for his entire state. And North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency for more than half of the counties in his state.
The potential threat was enough for Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, to fire off a warning to Americans.
"U.S. East Coast: find out today if you live in an evacuation zone," Knabb tweeted. "If so, decide where you'd go, how you'd get there if told to go."
Florida residents will likely see tropical storm and hurricane watches later Tuesday morning, forecasters said.
The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane made landfall in western Haiti Tuesday morning and was heading toward Cuba with winds of 145 mph, according to the hurricane center.
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Flaubert's masterpiece detailing the 'moral history' of his generation. Through Frédéric, a student of moderate means, Flaubert tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a young man's futile infatuation with an older woman. Against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century Paris, the novel is at once a scathing satire of contemporary politics and a paean to the paradox of love.
Original title: Education Sentimental
Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
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SAN FRANCISCO — The epic real estate bust has hit property tax rolls across a wide swath of California, creating additional budget challenges for counties, school districts, and the state itself.
Despite a tax assessment system passed under the state’s famous Prop. 13 that cushions against volatility in assessments, property tax rolls in nine of California’s 12 largest counties declined for 2009.
The overall assessed valuation in those 12 counties was down almost 2%, according to figures reported by the county assessors. Those counties represented more than three-quarters of the state’s total tax roll in 2008, according to California Assessors Association data.
“This cycle was perpetuated by a couple years of unrealistic credit availability,” said Ventura County assessor Dan Goodwin, president of the California Assessors Association. “We should have ran out of gas in ’05. If we’d have run out of gas in ’05 it would have been less steep a decline.”
Ventura County saw a decline of 2.34% — the county’s first recorded decline, Goodwin said.
Declining assessed valuations will have several impacts.
In the 12 counties surveyed, the tax roll was down more than $68 billion combined, which translate into at least $680 million in lost tax revenue at the state’s basic 1% tax rate.
Since that basic rate can’t be adjusted, a declining tax roll will impact general fund revenues for cities and counties.
A declining roll has the potential to affect local school districts and governments that have issued or plan to issue general obligation bonds, which are backed by voter-approved property tax pledges above the 1% rate. It could lead to potentially unpopular decisions to increase the tax rates, or to the deferral of issuance that has been authorized by voters.
A tax roll drop would also roll up to the state budget. The state guarantees minimum per-student spending levels for K-12 education that for the vast majority of school districts is higher than their property tax receipts, meaning lower school district tax receipts could increase the state’s funding share.
As with the property bust, and its associated rash of foreclosures and short sales, the impact of declining tax rolls is also uneven.
The worst affects are being felt in inland communities and areas of recent large-scale residential development.
Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, saw assessed value drop 10.5%, the worst of the big Southern California counties, though all reported declines, with the lowest drop in Los Angeles County, at less than a tenth of one percent.
San Diego County was down 2.3%, but the variances within the county highlight the uneven distribution of California’s real estate woes. The wealthy communities of Del Mar and Coronado each saw their tax roll increase more than 5%, while Chula Vista was down more than 10%.
The tax roll declines occurred even though the affects of falling property values are muted by the implementation of California’s 1978 Proposition 13 tax limits. That ballot measure set a 1% basic tax rate, and provides that properties are only reassessed, at market value, when they are sold. A property’s assessment can only go up 2% each year if it is not sold.
In most communities, there are a great many properties that haven’t changed hands for years, when property prices were much lower.
“Because many properties are already assessed at well-below-market prices, if actual selling prices decline, the effect on tax bills will be muted,” according to a report Standard & Poor’s issued in 2007, describing the “Prop. 13 cushion.”
The cushion is even evident in hard-hit jurisdictions like Riverside County, where the 10% decline in the tax roll is much milder than the 37.9% drop in median home sale prices that the California Association of Realtors reported in May.
Among the 12 largest counties, the only three reporting increased tax rolls were in the Bay Area, where San Francisco was expected to post an increase of more than 6%, according to a June budget document, and the assessors in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties reported gains of less than 1% each.
“Silicon Valley may end up being one of only a handful of California counties on the positive side,” Santa Clara County assessor Larry Stone said in a news release.
But it might not stay that way next year. “Next year may be worse, since most of the declines this year are attributed to the soft residential market,” Stone said. “The steepest decline in commercial property values is ahead of us.”
Ventura County’s Goodwin echoed Stone, saying that weakness in office, retail, and commercial space began showing up toward the end of 2008, well behind the downward residential cycle. The tax rolls coming out now reflect values as of Jan. 1.
Even the Bay Area saw regional disparities further away from the coast, where Alameda County was down 2.24% and Contra Costa County was down more than 7%, including three cities where the roll declined more than 20%. Contra Costa’s median home sale price in May was down more than 40% compared to a year earlier, according to the realtors’ association.
While Proposition 13 limits the upward trajectory of property assessments, assessors are required to adjust them downward if the market value of a home drops.
In Los Angeles County, assessor Rick Auerbach reported reviewing 473,000 homes and lowering the assessments for about 334,000.
If property values recover, such temporary reassessments can be recaptured until a property’s assessed value reaches the level it would have if it had gone up 2% each year.
“In a market that changes direction and begins to go up that potential restoration value is in the bank,” Goodwin said.
But when a property is resold at a lower price than an earlier sale, as in the case of so many foreclosure sales, than its assessment is capped at the new market price.
While assessors keep track of how much value is lost to temporary reassessments, they generally don’t have the tools to measure how much is lost to such lower-priced sales, Goodwin said.
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The Rockbund Art Museum will present a major solo exhibition by French artist, Philippe Parreno, his first in China. This exhibition is dedicated to the late Xavier Douroux whose influence on Parreno's career cannot be overstated.
Curated by the Director of the museum, Larys Frogier, Parreno’s first exhibition in China will occupy four of the museum’s six floors, also extending to its seventh floor glass rooftop.
Over the past twenty years, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition going experience by exploring its possibilities as a medium in its own right. Realised in dialogue with the physicality and functionality of the museum’s architecture, the exhibition will alter the building’s current existence through an unexpected use of time, space, light, and sound to become a semi automated puppet, a perpetual motion of events in which Parreno subverts the conventions of the gallery space.
Curator of the exhibition, Larys Frogier, states: “Parreno invites visitors to engage with contradictory notions of the physical, emotional, and conceptual. He blurs the distinction between reality and fiction to create an all-encompassing world of endless possibilities”.
By manipulating light, shadow, and duration, Parreno will guide visitors through a constantly evolving space. The artist will cover various windows of the renovated Art Deco building with blinds that will act as eyelids to the building, opening and closing in different locations, and to variable time sequences – each gallery space shifts from darkness to twilight, and then to full light. Some blinds will be activated using motors, but for the very first time the artist will work with ‘dalang’ performers to operate the remainder. A ‘dalang’ refers to the puppeteer in an Indonesian Wayang performance; traditionally controlling the white screen and lighting that together create the shadow puppets that make up the performance.
On the museum’s glass rooftop, Parreno will install a heliostat that will direct sunlight into the fourth floor space in a carefully choreographed ensemble of natural light that dances in sync with the movement of the blinds.
A vertical plane in line with the building’s own axis, will cut through the spaces of the exhibition, each floor becoming a template of the other. The plane will be visible on the first floor lobby next to a rotating secret bookcase door, on the second floor alongside a large-scale screen that will play a new rendition of Parreno’s 2000 film Anywhere Out Of the World. On the third floor, next to a wall displaying a new series of Parreno’s Fade to Black fluorescent silkscreened posters.
For the new rendition of Parreno’s animated film Anywhere Out Of the World, the 2D manga heroine who featured in the opening series of the artist’s 1999 collaborative project, ‘No Ghost Just A Shell’, will re-appear in stereoscopic 3D, with new narration.
An illuminated glass marquee placed at the 3rd floor of the exhibition will play a tune that resonates throughout the entire building. From the appearance of a film to the disappearance of an image, to a song sung by the dalangs: Parreno will choreograph the Rockbund Art Museum.
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People often feel insecure about the size and shape of their bodies because of society standards.
Since the body positivity movement there has been a great shift from people (especially women) being insecure about their body very confident and positive about their bodies.
Kendra Cherry describes body positivity “as the assertion that all people deserve to have a positive Body Image regardless of how Society and popular culture view ideal shape size and appearance”
The main goals of the body positivity movement include changing how society views the body and accepting each body as different as it is ,it also cocuses on helping people build confidence and being comfortable in their bodies and address is unrealistic society’s standards.
We have been conditioned to believe that a person with a slim body is beautiful and healthy and that a person with a big body is not attractive and often unhealthy which is not always the case.
Some people gain weight due to health reasons and some people stay skinny or rather underweight due to health reasons as well.
Body positivity goes beyond how Society views people based on size and shape but also deals with judgements that are made based on race and other factors.
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A Consumer Fact Sheet
If a medical error occurs, it is often a result of a series of small failures that are individually not big enough to cause an accident, but combined can result in an error. Patients can ensure a safer experience with the health care system by being involved and informed about their treatment. Improving patient safety requires continuous learning and constant communication between caregivers, organizations, and patients. Everyone has a role in patient safety, and everyone will benefit from its successes.
What can consumers do to make sure they have a safer experience with the health care system?
NPSF suggests these steps to help make your health care experience safer:
Become a more informed health care consumer
- Seek information about illnesses or conditions that affect you.
- Research options and possible treatment plans.
- Choose a doctor, clinic, pharmacy, and hospital experienced in the type of care you require.
- Ask questions of your doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or benefits plan coordinator.
- Seek more than one opinion.
Keep track of your history
- Write down your medical history including any medical conditions you have, illnesses, immunizations, allergies, hospitalizations, all medications and dietary supplements you’re taking, and any reactions or sensitivities you’ve experienced.
- Write down the names and phone numbers of your doctors, clinics, and pharmacies for quick and easy reference.
Work with your doctor and other health care professionals as a team
- Share your health history with your care team.
- Share up-to-date information about your care with everyone who’s treating you.
- Make sure you understand the care and treatment you’ll be receiving. Ask questions if you’re not clear on your care.
- Pay attention. If something doesn’t seem right, call it to the attention of your doctor or health care professional.
- Discuss any concerns about your safety with your health care team.
Involve a family member or friend in your care
- If you’re not able to observe or participate fully in your care, ask a family member or friend to assist. They can accompany you on appointments or stay with you, help you ask questions, understand care instructions and suggest your preferences.
Follow the treatment plan agreed upon by you and your doctor
- Be sure you receive all instructions verbally and in writing that you can read and understand. Ask questions about any instructions that are confusing or unclear.
- Take medications exactly as prescribed.
- Use home medical equipment and supplies only as instructed.
- Report anything unusual to your doctor.
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You could argue that I-395's history goes back more than 300 years: it parallels the Mohegan Road, now approximately Route 32 between Norwich and New London, which was laid out in 1670 and became a turnpike in 1792.
However, the first north-south motor highway in the area was Route 12, which was signed around 1923 and originally extended into northern Vermont.
In 1953, state highway Commissioner G. Albert Hill mapped out a ten-year, $400 million expressway plan featuring 12 new roads, including all of Route 12 in the state. He recommended that the expressways, which included familiar routes such as US 7, Route 8, and US 44, be toll highways. The Roads, Rivers and Bridges Committee of the State General Assembly discussed the proposal, and most of it has come to fruition.
I-395 Opening dates
- I-95 to SR 695 (US 6 east cutoff): Jan. 2, 1958. This portion is part of the Connecticut Turnpike, which includes most of I-95 and SR 695.
- SR 695 to Route 101: Oct. 5, 1962. This was planned as "Relocated Route 12", but (I think) never signed that way.
- Route 101 to Massachusetts state line: Sept. 12, 1968.
"The Ribbon of Hope"
In January 1958, the Connecticut Turnpike opened, bringing freeway access to Norwich and as far north as Danielson, by way of a two-lane Danielson Connector between the Turnpike's "elbow" (where it swings east toward Rhode Island) and US 6. Portions of this route were two lanes wide at first, and widened to four lanes toward the end of the year.
The idea of continuing an expressway northward was called a "ribbon of hope" for a sleepy eastern state economy. In 1962, the state incorporated the Danielson Connector into a new four-lane freeway extending to Route 101. This was called "Relocated Route 12" in planning documents, but was not signposted for the first couple of years. On Sept. 15, 1964, the Route 52 designation was applied from I-95 northward.
The Bay State finished its part later, connecting Route 52 to the Massachusetts Turnpike in the mid-1970s. Not that they weren't fans of the route to the north; in hearings for the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973, Massachusetts representatives requested interstate funds for both Route 52 and Route 8, from border to border.
A Good Stopping Point
Connecticut and Rhode Island had planned since the late 1960s to build Interstate 84 from Hartford to Providence; however, concerns over its Scituate Reservoir caused Rhode Island to decline its part in 1982.
Connecticut decided to still extend I-84 anyway, to end at Route 52 in Killingly. If Route 52 were another interstate highway, state officials reasoned that getting federal approval and funding for I-84 would be easier.
In August 1982, Congressman Sam Gejdenson proposed renumbering Route 52 as an extension of I-290, which already existed in Massachusetts. Gov. William O'Neill asked the U.S. Transportation Secretary to consider an interstate designation, calling the route a "logical addition" as it links I-90 and I-95. Route 52 already met the physical standards of an interstate highway – the other main criterion for acceptance.
The interstate designation was approved, but the number was changed from 290 to 395. A Hartford Courant article using the I-290 designation appeared just six days before the state announced on June 20, 1983, that Route 52 was promoted to I-395.
The spur to the Rhode Island border, officially secret route SR 695, was never intended to be I-695; in fact, SR 695 was designated 20 years before I-395 was.
Connecticut vs. Rhode Island
Some of the following is based on fact, and some has not been proven. It concerns why the Connecticut Turnpike was routed by Norwich and Killingly instead of continuing along the shore; and what might have been some consequences decades later.
Reasons for locating the Turnpike northward certainly included helping Norwich and Killingly. State Senator Lawrence Gilman (not the music critic) is said to have favored a highway linking Norwich to the shoreline. The Turnpike's original name is the Greenwich-Killingly Expressway, for the towns at each end.
As the Turnpike was being designed, the allocation of a federal Interstate route along the shore was already well-known. Some say that the Killingly alignment was also intended to secure a longer extent of future Interstate 95 in Connecticut. This would have resulted in fewer miles for Rhode Island, as I-95 would have proceeded straight across to Providence; under Ocean State protest, as the story goes, Interstate 95 was ruled to go closer to the shore.
The final part of the story: In the early 1980s, when Connecticut needed Rhode Island's help to keep the eastern I-84 proposal alive, Rhode Island remembered the Connecticut Turnpike/I-95 attempt and "got revenge" by stuffing I-84.
Again, I've heard this from just a few people, and not seen any sources you could call official. But the story is interesting nonetheless.
I-395 to... Sturbridge?
The (apocryphal?) interstate slapfight above is not the only bit of hard-to-confirm lore surrounding I-395. A page at OldWebster.com asserts that the original plan for the freeway, circa 1958, was to veer northwest from Putnam via Woodstock to meet the Mass. Pike at Sturbridge! On January 31, 1958, the Webster-Dudley Chamber of Commerce sent the following letter to the Mass. Turnpike Authority:
"At a meeting of the Webster-Dudley Chamber of Commerce held on January 28, 1958, it was unanimously voted that our organization urge your consideration of Exit 10 at Auburn and Route 12, 193, 21 and 6 as the suitable connecting links between the Massachusetts and Connecticut Turnpikes. Furthermore, that turnpike maps be revised to show Routes 193 and 21. Those routes are presently omitted. Discussion at our meeting indicated that a saving of 13 miles and approximately 30 minutes would result from the use of these routes, which mainly bypass the business sections of communities between the two highways. Your review of this would be appreciated."
Only through tireless efforts of a "Short Link Committee" and other advocates, says the page, did I-395 pick up the straight north-south alignment it has today.
I have found no other story corroborating this one; and it was odd enough that I wanted it to be true. And I don't mean any ill will to the historians of Webster. However, the I-395 to Sturbridge story has only one source, and looking at a map would show the idea making little sense. If you were starting out in 1958, planning a new highway from Killingly, would you want to connect diagonally to Sturbridge, a small town already served by I-84 heading back to Hartford -- or due north to Worcester, a bigger city and a shorter route to Boston?
I-395 / Route 82 interchange redesign
The 6-ramp interchange at I-395, built in 1958, was redesigned around 50 years later. In late 2002, the state announced a plan to remove the northeast loop ramp from I-395 northbound to Route 82 westbound. The remaining I-395 northbound offramp would serve both directions on Route 82 at a signalized intersection. Both the exit and entrance ramps would be reconstructed for better safety and operations.
Granted, the state was taking away a "free" traffic movement, but the update proposed was sound. The interchange is right next to a shopping center, so the I-395 offramps were already signalized. In the new design, both the ramps would be able to use the same traffic signal.
I-95/395 interchange to be revamped if Route 11 built
The proposed interchange for Route 11, I-95 and I-395 in Waterford. Access to US 1 is thrown in for I-95 and I-395. Note that the 95/395 interchange will still be incomplete, and no access is provided between Route 11 and I-395. However, I-95 and Route 11 will have high-speed access in all directions.
The state proposal to complete Route 11 connects that highway to I-95 where I-395 ends today. If that takes place, the existing 395/95 interchange will be incorporated in the new Route 11 interchange (see above).
The benefits for I-395 include removal of the left exit on I-95 northbound, and direct, no-weaving access to US 1. However, there will still be no access between I-395 and I-95 toward New London; and there will be no access provided between I-395 and Route 11.
In Nov. 2004, as part of I-95 improvement plans, Mohegan Tribe chief of staff Chuck Bunnell advocated adding a ramp to I-395 from I-95 southbound (and presumably the I-395 ramp back to I-95 north). The casino encourages visitors to stay on major highways, but those from points southeast have to use Route 32 from New London. If they miss the Montville Connector to get on I-395, they stay on Route 32, which narrows to two lanes, through Montville. Mayor Joseph Jaskiewicz agreed that this could be a problem, especially if a racetrack further north on I-395 is constructed as proposed.
I-395: last good place for new development?
In 2002, I-395 was seen by some as a good corridor for development, as it was one of the last remaining uncongested freeways in the state. In the words of Plainfield Economic Development Coordinator Michael Saad: "The 395 corridor represents the only reasonable travel left in Connecticut."
Once the secret's out, would I-395 fill up immediately? Probably not. The area's population is still low, many residents don't mind driving longer distances to New London or Worcester (in other words, not demanding development closer to home), and many would like the state's "Quiet Corner" to stay quiet.
I-395 in Waterford is a different story: from 1992 to 2000, traffic there increased 141 percent, because of increased tourism and casino traffic. No widening plans are in the wings, though.
Mileage-based exit numbering planned
When Route 52 was completed to the Massachusetts line, an exit numbering scheme inherited from the Connecticut Turnpike was in place: starting at Exit 77 for Route 85 in Waterford, and continuing sequentially to Exit 100 for Wilsonville Road in Thompson. For 30 years the highest numbered exit in the state has been on I-395.
In 2014, the state plans to replace almost all guide signs along I-395. At this time, exit numbers will be reassigned to comply with a requirement for distance-based numbering in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Instead of each interchange getting a number one higher than the closest one to the south, the new exit numbers will match the closest mile marker to the north. Exit 77 (Route 85) will become Exit 2. Exit 91 (US 6) will become Exit 37.
The state had proposed mileage-based exit numbering for I-91 in 1974, but backed down because of business opposition. For more background, see Exit numbering in Connecticut.
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Internet Safety Rules/Steps
By Pedro Rafael
Step 1: Do Not post Personal Information to your best friends.
Because they could use it to hurt you.
Step 2: Do Not share your Password to Anyone.
They could use it and buy apps or use them to get in trouble.
Step 3: If People send you mean Messages to Don't respond tell .
Because the adult can help you and then you don't have to worry.
Step 4: Do Not talk to people you don't know about your Personal Information .
Because they might track you down and might rob your place.
Step 5: You should have your settings set to friends can only use it.
Never ever ever let anyone use it.
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Hello one and all and welcome to the final blog of summer (well meteorologically speaking at least!) 2015. Apologies for the lack of photos this month I’m having a few technical issues uploading them! As with the previous blogs from the summer we have been run off our feet with the usual tasks of weeding and watering to keep the site ticking over so not to bore you again with the details lets fill you in on what else we have been up to…
As you probably all know the school holidays are now over but we would like to thanks everyone old and young who came and explored the site, bought some trees/plants or just run away scared from the gate! A huge thank you from all of us for choosing to spend your time with us and we hope you enjoyed your visit and hope you come back again soon. It was our first summer in our more public friendly layout and we are ever evolving so you will hopefully see changes next time! We are also a community space so we would welcome input/suggestions into what you want to see or how you could use the space including events or courses you would like us to put on in the future.
Talking of events…we hosting our first one in partnership with the RHS (Royal Horticulture Society) which turned out to be a huge success despite the rather sodden day it turned into! The event was a Family Growing Day with Merryn from RHS where kids could make their own pizza topping pots using herbs, learn how to take cuttings, giving out free seeds, bug hunting and making willow stars. Thank you to everyone who braved the rain, we hope this will be the first of many such family days so look out for future announcements regarding these.
As the summer is drawing to a close we realised it’s high time we started going out on our annual seed collecting hunts to see what we can find and hopefully then grow. At the moment its mainly fruit/berries with the odd bit of wildflower seeds, but we shall be searching more nut type seeds. A group of volunteers first toured round our home of Grimsbury Farm in search of wild and bird cherries then a larger group took a walk along the nearby Cock Road Ridge to see what could be found. So far we have focused on mainly more edible fruits but as you can imagine amongst a group armed with books and internet connections there was many debates about the exact identification of fruits, especially amongst the Prunus genus! If you would like to learn more about the process then why not come along and volunteer where you can come on one of our trips and be there through ever stage of the process.
Finally, a mention for our Grow Wild project which has been very successful this summer with the guys who come along taking away carrier bags full of fresh produce they have grown from seed ever week. There has even been a surplus and for a small donation you can take the produce home with you too, although be quick as the volunteers have their eyes on the food too! All the guys involved have thoroughly enjoyed the process and are now planning what to grow over the winter period in the polytunnel and outside.
We are now running a Forest School project for toddlers to pre-schoolers called Little Acorns ever Wednesday. The group is to provide outdoor stimulated learning in the natural world safely. For more info please click here.
At the beginning of October, Saturday 3rd to be exact, we will be hosting our annual open day for Big Green Weekend. It is also part of the Discover South Gloucestershire Festival so you can expect lots of family friendly events and many of our partner organisations will be there, including launching our involvement in the One Tree Per Child scheme. Keep your eyes peeled on our Facebook and Twitter pages for announcements of events.
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English translation is given at the end.
Following ‘azad’ poem is by one of my favourite writers, Shafiq-ur-Rehman and it comes from his book ‘lehreN’. The poem is actually a satire on modern day poets who write ‘azad’ Urdu poem by using all the ‘azadi’ they can get. The poem describes a situation of fighting cats in a garden. I hope it brings a smile to you just like it has been bringing smiles to me for the past 20 years.
Here is my attempt at an approximate translation for our English readers:
Cats are fighting
May be cats are fighting in garden now
There is the haze of dusk
It is time to rest
And cats are fighting
May be they are 4 in number
or may be 3
But this little doubt has made house in my heart
that the cats are 5 in number
and definitely they cannot be 6
and the night is glowing in moonlight
and the moon is shining bright
and the moonlight is ubiquitous
and this moonlight will only last for a little while
and then there is a pitch dark night ahead
What was i saying?
Aah, it just slipped out of my mind
What happened to my memory?
Only God can fix it
Oh Yes, I just remembered!
the cats are fighting
Cats are probably finghting in the garden now!
Photo Credits: Flickr.com
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> In any instance, an
> enormous amount of energy in a 40 day period. Bert Massie
Although I am what most would consider an "evolutionist", I am also 1000
percent christian, and would be a fool to discount the fact of a
biblical flood. The account in Genesis is just too prominent. It is,
in fact, a rather significant event. I also think it is significant
that so many cultures around the world have a "flood story." Having
said that I have to comment on this asteroid theory....
Bert's comment about "an enormous amount of energy..." seems to me to be
understatement. It seems to me that an event as dramatic as the one
being described would have been recorded in rather graphic detail. We
are talking about fire from the sky kind of stuff. It seems to me the
writer of Genesis would noted this and remembrance of it would have been
passed on from Noah and his son's down through the generations.... Is
this an unreasonable assumption?
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This is the package thmbox. It provides a fancy formatting of theorem-like environments with boxes around them, and a few auxiliary features. To extract the package file, just type latex thmbox.ins which will produce the file thmbox.sty. Once this is done, you can get documentation by compiling the source using latex thmbox.dtx Enjoy! This package is written by Emmanuel Beffara, it released under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (101.3k).
thmbox – Decorate theorem statements
The package defines an environment thmbox that presents theorems, definitions and similar objects in boxes decorated with frames and various aesthetic features. The standard macro \newtheorem may be redefined to use the environment.
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The tropical jackfruit tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is a large evergreen tree that bears edible fruit. It has a relatively fast growth rate, and new trees can start producing fruit within a few years. It’s best planted in the spring. The tree trunk grows fairly straight and has reddish-brown bark. From it extend large branches with glossy green leaves that are around 8 inches long. The tree produces showy green flowers mostly in the fall, though it can bloom sporadically at other points in the year. Its yellow-green, kidney bean-shaped fruits are notoriously huge, maturing on the tree in the midsummer. They average between 10 and 40 pounds, though some fruits have been known to weigh 80 pounds or more. The inner yellow flesh is mildly sweet and has been compared to bananas and pineapples.
|Botanical Name||Artocarpus heterophyllus|
|Common Names||Jackfruit, jack tree|
|Mature Size||30-70 ft. tall, 20-50 ft. wide|
|Soil Type||Loamy, moist, well-drained|
|Soil pH||Acidic, neutral, alkaline|
|Hardiness Zones||10-12 (USDA)|
Jackfruit Tree Care
Jackfruit trees are fairly easy to care for if you have the appropriate climate for them. They require ample light and warmth. When initially planting a tree, choose a young nursery tree with any signs of disease or distress. Aim to find a nursery tree whose roots haven't yet outgrown its container. If a young tree's roots have been cramped, they might not ever grow normally even when planted in the ground, and this can impede the tree's overall growth throughout the course of its life. Select a planting site with some space from other trees and structures, as the jackfruit tree will ultimately grow quite large and generally doesn't take well to being transplanted if you ever needed to move it to a more suitable planting site.
It’s key to keep the soil evenly moist, especially for young trees as they establish their roots. Also, regularly weed around your jackfruit tree to prevent other plants from competing for nutrients and moisture in the soil. Mulch around the tree both can help to suppress weeds and to retain soil moisture. Plus, it can keep the roots warm if the temperatures happen to dip.
The jackfruit tree doesn’t have many serious problems with pests or diseases, though wildlife might be attracted to its fruit. The fruit turns from a green color to a yellowish-green when it is ready for harvesting. Simply cut it off by its stem with loppers.
This tree needs full sunlight to grow well and produce fruit. That means it should get at least six hours of direct sun on most days. A tree grown in conditions that are too shady might never bear fruit.
Jackfruit trees prefer a nutrient-rich soil with excellent drainage. They are not overly picky about soil pH, though they seem to grow best in slightly acidic soil.
As tropical plants, jackfruit trees like consistently moist soil year-round. Water them whenever your soil begins to dry out due to a lack of rainfall or extreme heat. However, be sure the tree roots aren't sitting in pooling water. This can inhibit fruit production and ultimately kill the tree.
Temperature and Humidity
These trees like warm temperatures and are very heat tolerant. However, they are quite sensitive to frost (especially young trees), and temperatures below about 35 degrees Fahrenheit can easily weaken or kill them. Moreover, jackfruit trees prefer humid conditions and don’t tend to thrive in dry climates unless you can keep their soil very well watered.
Fertilize jackfruit trees twice a year in the spring and fall with a slow-release granular fertilizer. It also can be beneficial to mix compost into the soil around the tree annually.
Young jackfruit trees don’t need much in the way of pruning except for removing any diseased, damaged, or dead portions. For mature trees, you can keep them at a manageable height for harvesting fruit by annually pruning off select upright branches. This will encourage more lateral growth, rather than vertical growth. Also, remove some old branches throughout the tree to improve air flow and ensure that sunlight can hit all parts of the tree. But don't remove more than a third of the overall branches. Wait until after your fruit harvest to prune the tree.
Jackfruit Tree Varieties
There are several varieties of jackfruit available, including:
- ‘Black Gold’: This variety produces a high yield of medium-size fruits.
- ‘Gold Nugget’: This tree bears a high yield of relatively small fruits.
- ‘Dang Rasimi’: This tree produces a very high yield of medium to large fruits.
- ‘Kun Wi Chan’: This variety is very vigorous and bears a high yield of large fruits.
- ‘Lemon Gold’: This variety produces an average yield of small to medium fruits.
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In technology class we are making a Media Aid all about yourself. I made the slide like this because I try to be myself and not what others want me to be. I think it would be boring if everyone is normal because we would learn nothing new from each other is we are "normal". The blue bird in the pack of brown birds show that even if the blue bird is different the others don't treat him differently. That is why i wrote "It's okay to be YOUnique." What influenced my decision was that i believe that people try too hard to be something that they are not and i am trying to show them that it is okay to be different.
I tried not to do no text aid on my slide. So i just wrote a small but meaningful quote and I bleed the picture because you could tell that the birds are sitting on a wooden fence. I balanced the mini hearts and the picture so it can look like a real poster and not a poorly photo shopped poster.
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Local districts receive grants to bolster digital learning
Digital learning at MCCSC and R-BB schools will receive a boost thanks to grant funding from the state department of education’s Office of eLearning, the state announced last week.
The two districts were among 48 other school districts to receive Digital Learning Grants for 2019. The grants, ranging from $20,000-$50,000 each, are meant to support districts as they build and strengthen their digital initiatives like computer science curriculum, project-based learning and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) instruction.
A total of 110 districts applied for the grants. The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville was also named a grant recipient, and will also receive just under $50,000 to put toward digital initiatives.
The Monroe County Community School Corp. will use its $50,000 grant to support districtwide computer science curriculum for grades K-6. This is the first school year the district has had such a curriculum, using resources such as Common Sense Media, Code.org and Apple Swift Playground. With the funding, the district will be able to do more, said MCCSC STEM and computer science coach Katy Sparks.
“We would like to expand on this work by introducing robotics as an extension of the coding piece of the computer science curriculum,” Sparks said in an email. “This also will address the computing devices and system standards outlined by the IDOE by introducing new hardware that students can program, debug, and troubleshoot.”
The district plans to purchase a few robots that use block-based coding, a coding language that students are already learning in the district. The robots would be available for classroom teachers to access or for digital learning coaches to introduce into the classrooms.
“We are excited for the opportunity to expand our computer science curriculum to include robots,” Sparks said.
While MCCSC incorporates robots, the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. is turning its attention to Project Lead the Way curriculum, bringing STEM-centric project-based learning modules to each of its kindergarten through second-grade classrooms by the end of the 2020-21 school year.
By doing so, the district hopes to correct a trend in which students fall away from STEM early, leading to an overall lack of diversity in the field.
“Research shows that female and other underrepresented students are ‘giving up’ on STEM and self-select out of STEM fields by the age of 9 — by the end of second grade,” wrote Jaime Miller, R-BB’s STEAM coach and coordinator, in an email. Kids need early exposure to the field, and the tools to make them feel like they can succeed in it, Miller said. “With this project, we will equip classrooms in grades K-2 with curriculum and resources necessary to prevent this trend.”
R-BB will receive $42,530 in grant funding. More than half that amount — $31,500 — will go toward curriculum and supplies such as computer-science based modules from Project Lead the Way and Chromebooks for the K-2 classrooms, where the district aims to have one computer for every four students.
Of the remaining funds, $9,000 will go toward professional development for teachers through Project Lead the Way’s Core Teacher Training and Lead Teacher Training. The teachers who complete the training will bring that expertise back to R-BB to teach other teachers.
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Alessandro Longhi(Venice, Italy, June 12, 1733 - 1813, Venice, Italy)
Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1750
Oil on canvas
34 11/16 x 27 1/16 in. (88.11 x 68.74 cm)
Although the setting of this portrait of a Venetian gentleman is spare and simple, it tells us a great deal about the individual pictured. Clearly, he is a man of some wealth: his clothing--a shoulder-length wig, black velvet jacket, and shirt with lace-trimmed sleeves--appears expensive, as does the high-backed chair, which is gilded and upholstered in red velvet. The book he holds, along with the inkwell and pens on the desk, indicate that he is educated. Relaxed and surrounded by comforts, he meets the viewer's gaze with a look of solemn self-assurance.
Kress Collection (K1265), 1941. Gift of Kress Collection, 1961.
A box of Xrays of the Kress Collection is on Shelf G in the Vault (6/5/2018).
Sarah Allen and Julia Patzelt, Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness (Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2003), 13-14 (illustrated/ color).
This object has the following keywords:
- Sight Dimensions: 34 11/16 x 27 1/16 in. (88.11 x 68.74 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
- Frame Dimensions: 44 1/8 x 36 3/4 in. (112.08 x 93.35 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
This object has the following bibliographic references:
Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness.
Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness
Pomona College Museum of Art.
Claremont, CA, 2003
Page Number: 13-14
This object is a member of the following portfolios:
Your current search criteria is: Bibliography is "Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness" and [Object]Century is "18th c".
For further inquiries, contact Associate Director/Registrar Steve Comba at email@example.com.
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In the January/February issue of The Atlantic, New America Foundation Director of Work and Family Liza Mundy explores paternity leave as a transformational equalizing force that draws men into the domestic sphere while enabling women to excel at work. Building on the article’s insights, and her larger body of work as a bestselling author, Mundy and The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates probed innovative workplace policies and changing social mores, which together have led us to a new paradigm in which families work across generations and gender to balance financial security with caregiving.
Read the full article, and more on the topic, here.
February 18, 2014
600 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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If Our Bodies Could Talk:
A Conversation with James Hamblin & Matt Thompson
We sat down with Atlantic senior editor James Hamblin to discuss his new book, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body, a handbook for tackling life’s most pressing health concerns and curiosities.
We The People
Featuring Bret Baier
and The Atlantic's Steve Clemons
In a series of conversations, The Atlantic will explore civitas, the contract binding all citizens together, and talk to leaders of business, politics and society who are striving to make our Union a little more perfect.
Aspen Ideas Festival 2017
The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation's premier public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to present and discuss the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.
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100th anniversary of Smith-Lever Act marked
Farming practices have undergone many changes during the past century affecting how local food is produced, preserved and prepared — and Penn State Cooperative Extension has been there by providing educational resources and support to Armstrong County farmers and residents alike.
On Tuesday, the Armstrong County Cooperative Extension Association will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Smith-Lever Act, which established the nation's Cooperative Extension system to ensure federal, state and county funding for county extension services.
In Armstrong County, the extension is where families can find out about their local 4-H Club, where nonprofits can learn how to cook for crowds, where individuals can get educated about diabetes or Lyme disease and where farmers and home gardeners can go to find out what's been eating their corn or prized tomato plants.
“People bring in all kinds of strange insects and creepy crawlies,” said Gary Sheppard, district director at Penn State Cooperative Extension.
Experts are on hand to help growers identify and find solutions to any number of issues including diseases, soil deficiencies, invasive weeds and harmful insects, Sheppard said.
The extension started up in Armstrong County in 1916, two years after the Smith-Lever Act took effect. Its original office at the courthouse was moved briefly to a building on Oak Avenue before opening at its current location in 1983 at the Armsdale Building in Rayburn, said Cindy Nichols, office manager.
According to literature provided by the Armstrong County Agricultural Extension Association, one of the first educational outreach efforts in the area involved the selection and distribution of seed corn.
In 1919, a farm product show held in Kittanning showcased homegrown produce, churned butter and baked goods. However, historical records kept by county extension workers note that the show was poorly attended: “In 1919, County Agent (Claude) Yerger reported that there was very bad weather during the show and many country people hesitated to come to town because of Spanish Influenza.”
Back in those early days, folks attended local classes and shows and took correspondence classes through the mail to learn about home economics or new farming techniques, Sheppard said.
“Now we have online webinars so we can spread our expertise across the state,” he said.
Consumer trends have shaped the type of classes offered through the extension.
“A few years ago, there was a spike in food prices and all of a sudden we had a lot of interest in canning — skills that aren't taught in school,” Sheppard said.
But in addition to teaching those time-tested skills, educators at cooperative extensions bring innovative technology and the application of scientific research to local residents.
Alicia Spangler is a field and forage crops educator with the cooperative extension. At a farmer's request, Spangler will use a drone to take aerial pictures and video footage of crop fields to help identify problems. She can adjust the drone's speed, altitude and direction using an iPad to spot areas where crops failed to emerge or where discoloration might signal issues related to nutritional deficiencies.
“Farmers are definitely excited about the technology,” Spangler said. “It's always fun to find new ways to help them.”
And because the 1914 Smith-Lever Act ensures the allocation of funding for the extension's services, farmers are not charged for Spangler's assistance on the field.
It makes for a great relationship between cooperative extension workers and those they serve, Spangler said.
“We help them solve a particular problem and provide education,” she said.
Brigid Beatty is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-543-1303 or email@example.com.
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|2008 Abkhazia bombings|
railway outside Sukhumi, |
Inguri River border crossing,
|Date||June 18, 29 , 30 , July 2, 6 2008|
Georgian Security Service |
Abkhazian criminal groups
In June and July 2008 a series of bombings took place in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, killing 4 and injuring 18 people.
June 18 Sukhumi railway bombings
On June 18, two bombs exploded within 5 minutes of each other on the railway tracks outside Sukhumi. No one was injured as a result, though the tracks sustained minor damage.
June 29 Gagra bombings
On June 29, two bombs exploded within 5 minutes of each other in the centre of Gagra, injuring 6. The first explosion happened close to Gagra's market, the second explosion took place near a supermarket. One 38-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds to her eye and had to be treated in a Sochi hospital. One other woman had to be taken to Gagra hospital with shrapnel wounds.
June 30 Sukhumi bombings
On June 30, two bombs exploded within 5 minutes of each other in the centre of Sukhumi, injuring 6. Both explosions happened close to Sukhumi's market. According to Abkhazian law enforcement officers, the explosive devices did not contain shrapnel-generating objects, suggesting that the aim of the explosions was terrorising the population. Four of the six injured had to be taken to the Sukhumi City Clinical Hospital.
July 2 Inguri river border crossing bombing
On July 2, an unidentified vehicle passed the Georgian interior ministry post and approached Russian peacekeepers' post 301. At approximately 300 meter distance, an object was thrown out of the car which subsequently exploded. The vehicle then turned and drove back unhindered past the Georgian interior ministry post. No one was injured as a result of the explosion.
July 6 Gali bombing
On July 6, at 10.58 pm, a bomb exploded in a cafe in Gali, killing 4 and injuring 6. The four people killed were Jansukh Muratia, acting chief of the Abkhazian security service's Gali department, Sukhran Gumba, employee of the border department of the Abkhazian security service, Anzor Lagvilava, interpreter of the UN Mission in Georgia in the Gali district and Iveta Toria, local resident. The six injured were taken to hospitals in Gali and Sukhumi.
The Abkhazian side accused Georgia of being behind all 7 bombings. It described the June 18 bombings as a terrorist attack against the Russian Railway Forces in Abkhazia, who had recently started repairing the Sukhumi-Ochamchira section of the Abkhazian railway, to the detriment of Georgia. The June 29 and 30 bombings were likewise described as terrorist attacks, perpetrated with the aim of destroying the tourism season in Abkhazia. According to Ruslan Kishmaria, special representative of Abkhazian president Sergei Bagapsh to the Gali district:
“I believe the person who ordered these terrorist acts paid well for them and we should look for this person in the security services of Georgia. When Tbilisi pretends to be insulted that the Abkhaz should falsely accuse it, it’s just a game.”
In response to the July 6 Gali bombing, Predident Bagapsh accused Georgia of having chosen the way of state terrorism.
The Georgian side has vehemently denied the Abkhazian accusations, with Defence Minister David Kezerashvili stating that they were "not serious". Official in Tbilisi and Georgian media offered as alternative explanation that the bombings were the result of a power struggle among different criminal groups in Abkhazia. Georgian MP Nika Rurua, a deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for defense and security, said that the blasts were aimed at “terrorizing the local population” in order to increase anti-Georgian sentiment in the region.
On July 7, the Georgian government released a statement in which it condemned the bombings and said:
“Those acts of violence are in the interests of forces hoping to prolong the presence of illegally deployed Russian military forces in Georgia; of forces resisting demilitarization and peace in the region and of those who want to derail Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.”
In reaction to the July 2 bombing near the Russian peacekeepers' post, Aleksander Diordiev, aide to the commander of the peacekeeping troops, accused the Georgian side, saying:
“The actions of the Georgian secret services are of a provocative nature, which aim at destabilizing the situation in the southern part of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone and also at provoking the peacekeepers,”
In response to the Gagra bombings, Tbilisi based political analyst Paata Zakareishvili stated that she thought it unlikely that they were the result of a struggle between criminal groups. According to Zakareishvili it is plausible that the bombings were aimed to disrupt the tourist season:
"This aim was basically achieved. I think that the tourist season in Abkhazia has been wrecked. I don’t subscribe to the theory that it was some kind of business feud. If one businessman blows up another’s business, his own business also suffers, because the tourist season is the main source of revenue there."
At the same time, Zakareishvili considered the Abkhazian decision to close their border with Georgia unwise, because it would only serve to alienate the Gali district population.
Georgian call for an international police force
In its statement made on July 7 after the Gali bombing, the Georgian government renewed its call for an international police force in the Gali and Ochamchira districts. This call found support with the United States Department of State, but was immediately rejected by the Abkhazian side.
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- "Abkhazia Blasts Scare Tourists". Institute for War & Peace Reporting. 2008-07-03. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080708215658/http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=345538&apc_state=henh. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
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The EU is not alone in looking at ways to regulate technology it doesn't approve of: Iran, too, hopes to stem dissenting voices, this time by taking the drastic step of banning high-speed internet connections.
The Guardian reports Iran has 5 million internet users. This worries the country's fundamentalist mullah leadership, who worry that these impressionable young minds are open to the evil influence of western culture. This, they says, "undermines Islamic culture" in young minds.
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Ecotourism, the buzzword today in the travel and tourism industry, is extremely open to interpretation. For some, it’s merely another marketing keyword. To us, it means providing visitors with a unique nature oriented experience, while keeping the impact to the environment and community negligible. In fact, we undertake various projects to improve the environment everyday.
At the Machan, we...
- are 100% off grid and generate all our energy from renewable sources (solar and wind). In 1994, we were the first individuals in Western India to install a 2 KWh photovoltaic array with a battery bank and invertor; today our captive solar capacity has grown to 14 KWh. Our hybrid system also generates 8.5 KWh of energy from wind turbines and this acts as our main stay during the monsoons. Although expensive to install, we believe in renewable energy due to its minimal environmental impact and long term carbon efficiencies
- use only CFLs for all our lighting needs and are increasingly moving towards using LEDs
- cook 50% of our staff meals and 20% of our guest meals on parabolic solar cookers which further reduces our dependency on fossil fuels
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- recycle 80% of all grey water and use this to water plants on the property
- organically grow all the flowers that we use daily, on our own property
- have 4 km of private paths, on which guided trails are conducted to expose our guests to the beautiful flora and fauna of the region
- limit our accommodation so that each guest can have over 1 acre of green space, thus reducing the stress on the forest while providing a private and serene experience
For the forest and wildlife around us, we...
- dedicate 10% of our profits to the flora and fauna of the Western Ghats
- conduct in-depth research studies on the environment and share these with relevant NGOs
- create perennial waterholes with salt licks to aid animals, especially in the summer months
- build earthen bunds to raise the subsoil moisture level, and raise the water table
- treat all our trees for termites annually, leading to only 5% of trees being affected by termites today (as compared to 50% a few years ago)
- prune trees annually (especially during dormancy) to improve health and growth
- heavily patrol the area to prevent hunting, tree cutting and overgrazing
The villagers and local community benefit because...
- we employ around 50% of our staff from the local community
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- buy all our fresh produce directly from local villagers
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And for our staff, we...
- provide paid internships to naturalists, that wish to study the flora/fauna of the Western Ghats
- conduct training in hospitality, as most of our staff have never worked in hospitality before
- support personal development initiatives (one of our own staff is a teacher at the local village school!)
- educate them on relevant environmental matters and encourage them to lead greener lives
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The Aladon Network have trained delegates around the globe in RCM2 course John Moubray’s book called Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCMII) is a. John Moubray , All rights 11 Implementing RCM Recommendations Work which led to the development of RCM2 for industries other than. Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a process to ensure that systems continue to do The late John Moubray, in his book RCM2 characterized reliability-centered maintenance as a process to establish the safe minimum levels of.
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In the early s, with FAA approval the airlines began to conduct a series of intensive engineering studies on in-service aircraft.
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This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can Albus Ruzena Bajcsy Benjamin S. For course registration or more information contact: Requirements engineering Functional specification System integration Verification and validation Design review. Lastly, RCM is kept live throughout the “in-service” life of machinery, where the effectiveness of the maintenance is kept rm2 constant review and adjusted in light of the experience gained.
Reliability-centered Maintenance John Moubray Snippet view – The participant will gain the knowledge and understanding of how RCM2 is applied to physical asset management, but how RCM2 can be applied at your location. The result was the propagation of many methods that called themselves RCM, yet had little in common with the original concepts.
Failures caused by unlikely events, non-predictable acts of nature, etc. Learn mooubray to generate consensus regarding technical problems and their solutions. Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data.
The second part of the analysis is to apply the “RCM logic”, which helps determine the appropriate maintenance tasks for the identified failure modes in the FMECA.
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At this point in time many methods sprung up that took an approach of reducing the rigour of the RCM approach. This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can be applied. Control engineering Computer engineering Industrial engineering Operations research Project management Quality management Risk management Software engineering.
This was one of many astounding discoveries that have revolutionized the managerial discipline of physical asset management and have been at the base of many developments since this seminal work was published. This description echoed statements in the Nowlan and Heap report from United Airlines. This sets out the minimum criteria for what is, and for what is not, able to be defined as RCM.
Some are technical in nature can the proposed task detect the condition it needs to detect?
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Develop facilitation skills in a controlled, coached environment. Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than sites in 32 countries.
Others are goal-oriented is it reasonably likely that the proposed task-and-task-frequency will reduce the risk to a tolerable level? Increased economic pressures and competition, tied with advances in lean thinking and efficiency methods meant that companies often struggled to find the people required to carry out an RCM initiative.
RCM can be used to create a rcm maintenance strategy to address dominant causes of equipment failure.
Although moubrsy voluntary standard, it provides a reference for companies looking to implement RCM to ensure they are getting a process, software package or service that is in line with the original report. The first generation of jet aircraft had a crash rate that would be considered highly alarming today, and both the Federal Aviation Administration FAA and the airlines’ senior management felt strong pressure to improve matters.
Prior to the development of the standard many processes were labeled as RCM even though they were not true to the intentions and the principles in the original report that defined the term publicly. John was also responsible for popularizing the method and for introducing it to much of the industrial community outside of the Aviation industry.
RCM also offers specific criteria to use when selecting a risk management strategy for a system that presents a specific risk when it fails. The criteria are often presented in the form of a decision-logic diagram, though this is not intrinsic to the nature of the process.
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This research explores the design and development of group decision systems, which address the problem of making a decision for a group of individuals who each have their own preferences. These problems are prevalent: e.g., target advertising to a group of users, when a group of friends choose a movie or a restaurant, or selecting economic or health-care policies for a nation. Many applications that deal with user preferences (e.g., recommender systems, advertisement and marketing mechanisms, etc.) have some sort of group decision problem at their core.
One of the main endeavours in any group decision system is learning user preferences upon which decisions are made. This learning aims to reduce the cognitive and communication burden imposed on users, by requiring as little information as possible to make decisions consistent with user preferences. This is essential to the practicality of decision-support systems with the goal of filtering out irrelevant options and information.
We contend that
social networks provide a natural and informative platform for preference learning and consequently group decision problems. Our goal is to advance the understanding and mathematical modelling of preference dynamics and correlations over social networks, then exploits the computational and predictive power of these models for developing efficient algorithms of group decision making, with less required user data, and lower cognitive and communication burden. Specific questions direct our research:
- To what extent are individual preferences correlated in a social network?
- What dynamics dictate how preference correlations form in a social network?
- How should one mathematically model such correlations and dynamics?
- Can such correlations and dynamics be harnessed for more efficient preference learning, and more effective group decision making?
Group Recommendation with Empathetic Preferences on Social Networks
We often modify and express preferences similar to those of our friends or families due to our feelings of empathy. Our research was the first to incorporate the dynamics of empathy into intelligent decision systems. We created an empathetic framework in which user preferences are derived from both their own intrinsic preferences and empathetic preferences (determined by the satisfaction of their acquaintances)—e.g., friends voting on a movie to watch while considering both their own and others’ satisfaction. After studding the theoretical conditions under which empathetic preferences are well-defined (i.e., converge to a fixed-point),
Under this framework, I developed scalable algorithms for group recommendation, which can handle a large-scale population and option space (e.g., millions of users and options). Our framework and algorithms reduce the burden on users dramatically, as users are no longer required to communicate their preferences to each other.
Our theoretical and empirical analyses shed light on how preferences become correlated due to the presence of empathy and confirm that neglecting empathy usually yields sub-optimal group decisions.
Inferring Missing Preferences
Can an intelligent decision system make an efficient decision when faced with missing preferences? Our research shows this is possible, by capturing preference correlations in social networks and exploiting them to infer missing preferences.To capture preference correlations, we introduce a network formation model called ranking networks. Using this model, we develop machine learning algorithms to infer missing individual preferences given known preferences of others in the social network. Intuitively, if I know something about the preferences of your friends or family, I should be able to more accurately predict your preferences. These predictions are leveraged for group decision making when some group members’ preferences are unknown (or even in cases where all group members’ preferences are unknown, but we have observed their connections to individuals outside of the group). Using data from a large-scale social network with millions of users, I demonstrated that incorporating social ties can significantly improve preference predictions and group decision making.
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In early 2006, Tesco plc decided to enter the US market with convenience stores (Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets) to be launched by 2007. Tesco had been studying the American market for two decades and its entry was long time coming. Though the company is not faring that well (currently loss making and is not predicted to break even until the financial year 2012), it hopes to turnaround sooner than later.
The following are some of Tesco’s mistakes in the US market:
The American way of shopping – Car culture and weekly shopping expeditions
Tesco opened stores in California, Nevada and Arizona offering about 4000 fresh products. But US customers do not shop daily, particularly in California where families shopped weekly in cars. Tesco on the other hand wants to cater to shoppers who have less time and want fresh and healthy food.
Competition not only from US super chains
Tesco was also facing tough competition from Japanese owned supermarket chain FamilyMart which had started two premium convenience stores under the banner Famima in California and had big expansion plans. The Japanese store offered a new community lifestyle experience along with services like banking, stationary department and also Japanese delicacies like sushi, noodles etc. Its imported groceries also cost less than Tesco.
No Discount Coupons
The American customer wants to try something before making a final decision on buying. Even discounts or taste samples help in finalizing a deal. But Tesco removed discount coupons.
No Promotional Fliers
There is less loyalty in the US market with the American consumer shifting loyalties based on weekly/daily special promotional offers. Tesco assumed that like British consumers who would not switch loyalties easily, the Americans would follow suit. A focus group found that Tesco was not sending fliers promoting the latest special offers.
Good Effort but No Learning
When Tesco entered US, it did not go unprepared into the American market. It sent around 50 to 60 British executives to live with California families to discover the products they bought and the food they ate. But with Tesco’s dropping profits it seemed they did not learn much into the American way of buying.
Tesco did not partner with a US retailer when entering the US market and also intended to use its own proprietary distribution system.
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Do you suffer from gut problems, fatigue, mood issues, hormone imbalances, skin conditions, or autoimmune disorders? Conventional medicine often dismisses Leaky gut even though it’s a common ailment affected by lifestyle, diet, medications, and environmental factors.
I’m sure you’re wondering, what exactly is leaky gut? Could you have it? If so, how do you fix a leaky gut? If you’ve been experiencing chronic health issues that you can’t seem to get a grip on, keep reading for a deep dive on leaky gut, common symptoms, functional lab tests you can run, and how to heal.
By the end of this blog, you will understand the impact that intestinal permeability can have on your body, what you can do about it, and the steps you can start taking today to fix a leaky gut.
What is Leaky Gut?
The digestive tract is a complex system made up of your mouth, esophagus, stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, liver, small intestine, and large intestine. These organs work together to break down food into smaller molecules that the body is able to absorb and convert into energy for growth, and repair by all of your cells. But not everything we consume will be or should be absorbed.
Did you know the gastrointestinal tract is actually outside of your body? This is because the lumen, the lining of the intestine that absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream, is open to the external environment on both ends. A layer of cells separates the inside of the body from the external environment in order to protect us from harmful substances. Between each cell is a space called a “tight junction”, which makes sure nothing unwanted enters the bloodstream by keeping cells close together to form a cohesive barrier. Tiny openings in the lining of the GI tract act as a selective barrier, letting through water and essential nutrients while keeping toxins and bacteria out. These toxins are then expelled from the body through our regular bathroom visits throughout the day. Check out this resource for more information on Intestinal Permeability from The Institute of Functional Medicine.
Increased intestinal permeability becomes an issue when this barrier is compromised and unable to identify or properly separate unwanted substances from the essential nutrients the body needs. When you have a leaky gut, a partially digested protein, allergen, or pathogen can enter the bloodstream. The body will then elicit a natural response better known as inflammation, which in turn causes a further breakdown of the GI tract and a list of symptoms to follow.
Leaky Gut and Inflammation
Leaky gut happens when inflammation breaks down the gut lining tissue to make sugar for the blood stream, essentially shredding the gut lining. Now, rather than acting as a selective barrier, the lining becomes more like a sieve. During this process the villi in the intestine become damaged and are now unable to properly absorb fat soluble nutrients. Essential fatty acids, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin A, and vitamin K are the main fat-soluble nutrients. They all play integral roles in a multitude of processes in the body. As villi are being destroyed, crypts within the gut lining deepen, hiding parasites and making them difficult to find and treat.
Spaces between tight junctions are enlarged, allowing all types of bacteria, waste particles, and undigested food proteins to “leak” through the barrier and gain access to blood vessels and the lymphatic system. The body is unable to absorb essential nutrients because of damaged villi and is now absorbing harmful things because of leaky gut.
To try and fight these harmful substances, the immune system continues to mount a response creating more inflammation in these areas because the body senses there is something in the bloodstream that does not belong. As you could probably guess, this only damages the gut further.
Pesticides and heavy metals can damage healthy bacteria in the body. This disrupts the delicate balance of the environment in your gut, making room for unhealthy organisms to grow, which further contributes to leaky gut and allows toxins into the bloodstream.
Once a foreign substance enters the bloodstream, it circulates throughout the body setting off an alarm for your immune system, often leading to more inflammation, food allergies/sensitivities, and even autoimmune diseases. While inflammation’s purpose is to keep the body healthy, over time, chronic inflammation can lead to a string of unwanted side effects and may increase your risk of developing a variety of diseases.
Is Leaky Gut a Real Thing?
Leaky gut is often trivialized in chronic health conditions, but healing the gut is one of the main pillars of functional nutrition. There is a lot of ongoing research surrounding the function of the gut barrier and the effects of these perforations in the gut lining. While there is still a lot to be learned about intestinal permeability, researchers are beginning to see the link between gut health and disease prevention. Let’s take a closer look at what current studies support.
It is possible that some people are born with genes that increase the likelihood of leaky gut. Others may develop weakened gut linings through medication or gut infections. Unbalanced diets that are low in fiber and high in sugar and saturated fats may also contribute to weakening the gut lining.
Leaky gut may even be due to your body’s inflammatory response to excess stress. Age may also play a factor; as we age, our cells are more easily damaged and take a longer time to heal. Often, a combination of these factors contribute to the break-down of our gut barrier.
While some leaky gut is normal, in today’s world, most people have increased rates of intestinal permeability. As stated by Dr. Aimee Quinn, the combination of the factors listed above shifts the question from “do I have leaky gut?” to “how bad is my leaky gut?” Knowing how distressed your gut is can help you determine the level of system imbalances you suffer from.
Through nutritional therapeutic interventions, we are able to support the gastrointestinal tract and keep those tight junctions tight. Preventative care is the key to creating a healthy gut and a robust immune system to support you through life.
What Are the Symptoms of Leaky Gut?
Many health professionals fail to recognize and diagnose intestinal permeability for a few reasons. One, the symptoms are similar to other digestive conditions such as food allergies, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Celiac disease. Many of these labels are just a list of symptoms that may actually be directly related to leaky gut and the microbiome. However, some symptoms aren’t “directly” connected to the gut, instead, may manifest as mental, hormonal, or skin issues. The gastrointestinal tract is often not looked at through a functional scope, making these symptoms easier to miss. That being said, here are some indicators that you may have a leaky gut. Are any of them familiar?
Symptoms may include:
- Diarrhea or Constipation
- Abdominal cramping and bloating
- Digestive issues
- Joint pain
- Difficulty concentrating
- Skin conditions (e.g., acne, rashes, eczema)
- Mood disorders (e.g. anxiety and depression)
- Food intolerances
- Nutrient deficiencies
Research surrounding the relationship between leaky gut and other conditions are currently unclear if other gut conditions are the cause of leaky gut or a symptom of it.
Conditions that may be associated with Leaky Gut:
- Crohn’s disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
- Liver disease
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and celiac disease
Gluten and Leaky Gut
Gluten is a protein found in grains such as wheat, barley, and rye, and is made up of the peptides gliadin and glutenin. Gliadin is the part of gluten that some people have a reaction to.
This protein gives bread its airy texture, doughy feel, and is a stabilizing agent in many processed foods. Most people can digest gluten with ease however, others have gluten intolerance, meaning they are sensitive, and some develop a hereditary autoimmune response called Celiac Disease.
In people who are sensitive to gluten (both celiac and non-celiac), the immune system registers gluten as a foreign invader to the body. The body reacts to gluten’s presence through it’s autoimmune response, which leads to inflammation. This reaction to gluten breakdown can lead to symptoms including bloating, diarrhea, and pain.
Zonulin is a protein that regulates tight junctions in the small intestine. When zonulin is released, the tight junctions open slightly to allow larger particles to pass through the intestinal wall. How does this all relate to leaky gut?
Gluten can cause the gut cells to release zonulin which leaves tight junctions in an open position. Chronic activation of zonulin cells can lead to leaky gut as harmful substances are let into the bloodstream. These harmful substances can trigger an immune system response.
Leaky Gut Syndrome Test
A leaky gut can impact your whole system and is often accompanied by food sensitivities and autoimmune diseases. Functional lab testing provides comprehensive data that can help identify the root cause of your gut symptoms and other health conditions.
GI stool tests give us an inside look at your gut health and allow us to gauge what level of leaky gut you may be suffering from. Stool tests can help to pinpoint the exact levels of different microbes (healthy commensal bacteria balance, pathogenic yeasts, and parasites) in your gut. This shares vital information about what your body needs. If you have leaky gut, this test can help determine the level of bacterial overgrowth and dysbiosis in your system.
In addition to pathogens, there is also another marker we are looking for: Secretory IgA. Secretory IgA is a specialized protein called an immunoglobulin which can tell us more information about your immune system. Sometimes our body isn’t making enough stomach acid to effectively break down the proteins that we eat. The undigested proteins can then cause an immune response to occur within the body. This immune response can cause an increase in secretory IgA.
Using this test we can create a plan to help heal several aspects of the gut. Fixing the problem from all sides can help improve the overall functioning of your gut.
Fixing Leaky Gut Syndrome
When determining how to fix a leaky gut, we need to assess your gut microbiome. This helps figure out your overall gut health.
Consider this: your gut is like a garden. Bacterial overgrowth is like weeds, which can take over and make it difficult for your garden to flourish. After clearing out the weeds, it is important to nourish the gut’s good bacteria (the flowers) in order to repair it.
It is important to heal the gut before attempting to detoxify the gut through diet. Detoxing before “clearing out the weeds” may not help resolve the problem!
Foods to Help
If you suspect you may have leaky gut, consider a stool test to identify any pathogen invasions. After a pathogen killing program, you can begin the healing process by adding more gut-friendly foods to your diet.
Adding more foods that are rich in prebiotics and probiotics will help to nourish the good gut bacteria. This leaky gut syndrome diet includes:
- Yogurt or Kefir
- Fruits and vegetables (i.e., berries, oranges, broccoli, cabbage, carrots)
- Nuts and seeds (i.e., almonds, peanuts, cashews, pine nuts)
- Fermented foods (i.e., kimchi, sauerkraut, miso)
- Whole grains (i.e., oats, corn, quinoa)
Reducing the amount of alcohol and processed foods in your diet helps to reduce the inflammation caused by leaky gut. These foods are often high in added sugar and artificial sweeteners.
It is also important to avoid foods you are allergic or sensitive to, as these foods will cause inflammation and make your leaky gut symptoms worse.
Oftentimes, the first step to healing the gut is to support the adrenal glands, which help to regulate metabolism, immune system, blood pressure, and stress response – among many other essential functions in the body.
Along with a leaky gut, you may also be suffering from adrenal dysfunction. The body’s stress response in reaction to the unwanted substances in the blood stream triggers the adrenal glands to produce excess cortisol. Eventually the adrenal glands will not be able to keep up with the demands of the body. When this occurs, adrenal fatigue will set in. This can create a slew of symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, and fogginess.
My 28- day Adrenal Support Cleanse program is designed to jumpstart your path to healing your adrenal system. The Adrenal Support Cleanse is low in sugar and high in healthy fat and protein. It also has various nutrients targeted at nourishing and supporting the adrenal system.
Some people need more support than just diet to reboot their adrenal function. When you work with me and get tested using the Adrenocortex Stress Profile lab test, we are able to get the full picture of the state of your adrenal system and what you need to begin your healing journey.
Lifestyle Changes to Fix a Leaky Gut
Your gut is connected to every aspect of your body. An important connection is between the gut and the brain through afferent fibers called the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve pathway transfers information from the gut to the brain. This helps to convey important information regarding inflammation, regulation of food intake, satiety, and energy homeostasis.
Lifestyle changes such as exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, practicing relaxation techniques, and managing stress are extremely important to the body’s healing process. Reducing stress can improve conditions in the gut and alleviate stress put onto the brain.
Making small changes can help to support your body in it’s healing process as much as possible.
The Bottom Line
In order to properly treat your leaky gut symptoms, it is so important to work with a functional medicine dietitian. Each and every one of us is unique, so your treatment plan should also be unique. Working with me can help determine the root cause of your symptoms so we can figure out what path of treatment is best for you.
Remember, the only way to know exactly how to heal a leaky gut and determine what your gut needs is through the information gathered from labs and stool analysis. From there, we work together to create a plan using meal plans and supplements that are tailored to your individual needs.
If you’re suffering from digestive distress or other leaky gut symptoms, schedule a free call with me to learn how to fix a leaky gut today! Want more individualized results without picking up the phone, try the Digestive Health Appraisal Form to get started!
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Mercury is one of the components of dental amalgam. Amalgam, a mixture consisting primarily of silver, tin, and mercury, has been used as the main type of dental filling for more than 150 years worldwide. The dentistry world has been divided over the use of amalgam from its inception, but due to its cost, longevity and ease of use, it became the preferred filling for both dentists and patients.
In the early ‘90s, a TV program focused public attention on the fact that it was possible that unsafe quantities of mercury from the fillings were leaching into the bodies of people with amalgam fillings. Over the years that followed, this snowballed into a major controversy. There are obvious reasons to be alarmed. Mercury has been known to be highly toxic and has multiple adverse effects on almost all body organs.
However, health agencies across the world have declined to term mercury fillings as a potential threat. In their defense, they claim that the mercury in amalgam is stable and does not corrode into the blood stream, and that amounts of mercury that can be detected in bodies of patients is one-hundredth of the safe limit. However, this has not done much to allay the fears of the general public.
Here are the basic steps that you can protect yourself from the ill effects of mercury that may already have slipped into your system.
1. Remove the source of toxicity
Speak to your dentist about safely removing your amalgam fillings. Though this may be a costly and troublesome process including multiple visits to the clinic, it will remove the source of potential toxicity and give your body and mind the relief it needs.
You must also keep in mind that safe removal of amalgam is very important, since standard methods such as drilling can actually end up releasing more mercury into your system.
2. Replace them with safer alternatives
Resin composites and dental porcelain are two options that you have which are safe. Though these are more expensive and have a shorter life than amalgam, they will not treat your body like a toxic waste dump.
3. Help your body return to normal
Adopting a balanced and healthy diet will help boost your immune system to eliminate the mercury that may have already be in your system. Ensure that your diet contains adequate amounts of B vitamins and vitamin C.
Glutathione, a naturally occurring binding agent in your body that helps eliminate oxidized heavy metals from your bloodstream tends to get depleted with long term exposure to harmful levels of mercury. You may want to consult a physician to determine if you need to take any special supplementation to help you restore your body’s intracellular glutathione level.
4. Increase your body’s ability to eliminate mercury
To eliminate mercury, Chelation is the medical term used for the process of eliminating heavy metals from your body. Apart from special pharmaceutical formulations, there are several natural chelating agents that you can include in your daily diet.
These include cilantro, garlic, liquid zeolite, and foods that are high in vitamin C. Chelating agents tends to deplete other trace mineral nutrients in the process of eliminating mercury, hence you should include foods rich in calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, and selenium while using this protocol.
5. Keep your intestines healthy
The primary route of mercury elimination is through the colon. Mercury poisoning also causes severe damage to the intestines. Most mercury detox protocols will encourage you to move your bowels multiple times a day if possible. Include as much fiber as you can in your diet. Find ways of consuming gut-friendly bacteria by including yogurt in all forms in your diet. Drink as much water as you can. Talk to your physician about supplements such as chlorella or lactobacillus spores which will help in healing your bowels.
Heavy metal detoxification is time consuming and comes with a host of side effects. It will take several months for your body to return to normal. The methods adopted often cause other imbalances which must be addressed and medically managed if necessary. Do not embark on a detox regimen without consulting your physician first. Follow his recommendations closely and diligently.
About the authorAmanda Kidd is a blogger and a writer who takes utmost care while choosing her beauty care stuff as she prefers them to be only organic in nature. The Nature Lover is into green lifestyle and is currently on a look out for organic care for healthy kids.
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Shortcut Cleaner is a utility that will scan your computer for Windows shortcuts that have been hijacked by unwanted or malicious software. When Shortcut Cleaner finds bad shortcuts, it will automatically clean them so that they do not open unwanted programs.
MiniToolBox detects Internet connection issues due to broken or hijacked LSP, proxy settings, and problems with network adapters. It can also be used to detecte search redirections and router hijackings.
Unhide is a program that reverts back the changes made to your files and Windows Registry by the rogue.FakeHDD family of rogue anti-spyware program. This family of malware pretends to be a hard disk repair and system optimization program for Windows. In reality, though, these programs are computer infections that deliberately hide your files and change certain settings in the Windows Registry to make it appear that you have lost data on your hard drive. It will then prompt you to purchase the program to restore the data.
HijackThis is a program that can be used to quickly spot home page hijackers and startup programs that you do not want to start automatically. This program is a not anti-virus program, but rather a enumerator that lists programs that are starting up automatically on your computer as well as other configuration information that is commonly hijacked.
TFC. or Temp File Cleaner, is a small utility that will clean out all the folders on your computer that house temporary files. The temp folders that TFC will clean are the Java, Windows Temp Folder, and the Internet Explorer, Opera, Chrome, and Safari caches. This tool will clean the folders for all accounts on the computer including the Administrator, NetworkService, and LocalService accounts.
Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit is a free program that can be used to search for and remove rootkits from your computer. When started, Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit will scan your computer and allow you to remove any rootkits that it finds.
CCleaner is a program that will scan your computer for temporary files or private browser information and deletes it from your computer. This allows you to keep your computer running efficiently, while protecting your sensitive information.
FixExec is a program that is designed to fix executable file associations for the .bat, .exe, and .com file extensions. If the program detects any of these associations are missing, changed, or hijacked, the settings will be set back to the original Windows defaults. When file associations for batch, executable, or COM files are changed it could cause your executables to no longer start. If you are looking for FixNCR.reg, this file replaces FixNCR with greater functionality.
Autoruns is a free Sysinternals tool from Microsoft that enumerates all the programs that automatically start on a Windows machine. You can then examine this list of programs to see if they should be running or should be disabled. Disabling unnecessary startups allows your computer to run more efficiently by reducing CPU usage and memory consumption.
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Made from precision-carved natural wood. These interlocking bricks aren't just fun - They're friendly to the planet, too!
Stick them together and build, just like any other interlocking brick construction set. Build houses, robots, planes, spaceships, skyscrapers, castles - It even comes with four wheel and axle sets for building all kinds of vehicles.
The possibilities are endless! - And if you're feeling REALLY creative, you can even COLOR your creations.
The smooth, blank wooden surfaces are perfect for personalizing with markers, paint, pens, pencils, or any other crafting media you can imagine!
Durable, beautifully crafted, and even compatible with most of the other major interlocking brick brands (so you don't have to start your whole collection all over again), the Eco-Bricks 145-Piece set is a brilliant alternative to plastic brick construction.
Eco-Bricks - 145 pc
Set of 145 interlocking-brick building blocks made entirely out of high quality wood
Encourages fine motor skills, visual-spatial skills, logic, creativity, environmental awareness
A beautiful alternative to plastic brick construction
Precisely designed, fit together just as well as original interlocking brick sets
Fully compatible with major interlocking-brick brands
Smooth blank wooden surfaces are perfect for personalizing with paint, markers, pens, or any other type of media
Includes 5 - 4 Dot Wooden Covers, 120 - 8 Dot Wooden Bricks , 10 - 8 Dot Wooden Covers, 6 - 16 Dot Wooden Bases, 4 - 16 Dot Axel with Wheels, packaged in laser engraved wooden storage box.
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Note: Eco-bricks are made of wood. If placed in water or very high moisture is present in the air, bricks can loose or alter their function. Do not get them wet. Keep away from water.
WARNING! CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not intended for children under 3 years.
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DENTAL IMPLANT Complications - ALPINE DENTISTRy
HAVING ISSUES WITH YOUR IMPLANT?
Dental implant complications have the power to change the appearance of your smile and improve your oral health. Implants represent a complex dental solution. The dental implant process requires three dental appliances, all placed at different times. You may experience issues with your implants from time to time. But don’t worry, just let the Alpine Dentistry team know. We know how to quickly restore your implants to their working order and relieve you of any discomfort.
We'll Help You Maintain Your Smile & Investment!
You need to take good care of your dental implants. If you don’t take care of them, you might experience issues with the implants. If you are experiencing trouble, please call Alpine Dentistry today! We will do everything we can to fix the problem and help you quickly avoid discomfort, keep your implants in working order, and keep your teeth and jaw in optimal health.
Having Issues With Your Implant?
Dental implants are incredibly reliable. Less than 5% of patients ever experience issues. However, that doesn’t mean you don’t need to watch out for potential dental implant complications. Early detection is essential. It can mean the difference between a hassle-free experience and a long-term nightmare.
Signs Dental Implant Issues Need Attention
Why Some Implants Fail?
Dental implant complications can come from a variety of sources. Dental implant failures are of two types:
- Early failure: Problems that occur within the first 3-4 months after surgery are early shortcomings. Incorrect placement, health risks, poor healing, or an existing infection can cause premature implant failure.
- Long-Term failure: When failure occurs in the first 1-10 years after surgery, this is a long-term failure. Various reasons that range from poor oral hygiene to infection (peri-implantitis) can cause long-term loss.
Peri-implantitis is the official term for an infection around your implant site. Unfortunately, peri-implantitis can sometimes develop through no fault of your own. However, the chances of this happening are minimal.
More commonly, this disease develops because of poor oral hygiene. The best way to keep your implants in good shape is by caring for them like your regular teeth.
In some cases, dental implant failure might not result from peri-implantitis. If a dentist placed your implants incorrectly, they might not heal well. This could lead to further complications if you do not remedy it correctly. Or, if you have a habit of grinding your teeth, this could also cause implant issues.
Regardless of timing or cause, implant problems can become severe. They must be treated immediately. Give us a call as soon as you notice any of the abovementioned symptoms. We want to take care of the issue before it becomes an extensive treatment.
If you have issues with your dental implant, do not wait to reach out. You can trust us to solve them, whatever they are! If something seems wrong with your dental implants, it’s always better to be safe and get them checked. Waiting because you think “the pain might go away” is not a good reason.
We want to make the process as simple for you as possible. Come into Alpine Dentistry in Alpine, Utah, Today to get the help you need! We serve patients in Alpine, Highland, Lehi, Cedar Hills, Draper, and Sandy, Utah. We can diagnose and address your failing dental implants as soon as possible. Our team is more than ready to help relieve pain and restore your smile.
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Putin: Trilateral statement on Karabakh being implemented consistently
The trilateral statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia on Nagorno-Karabakh, signed in November 2020, is being consistently implemented, Russian President Vladimir Putin said via video link at the Davos Agenda Week on Wednesday.
“Moscow has made active mediation efforts to stop the armed conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. As known, in November, a trilateral statement of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia was signed. It is important that, by and large, it is being consistently implemented,” the Russian leader emphasized.
“We managed to stop the bloodshed, and most importantly, to achieve a complete ceasefire and begin the stabilization process,” Putin added.
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28 April 2016
As piracy on the world’s seas continues to fall, new figures from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) highlight growing violence off the coast of West Africa, where 44 seafarers have been captured so far this year.
Worldwide, IMB recorded 37 piracy and armed robbery incidents in the first quarter of 2016, down from 54 in the same period last year. Three vessels were hijacked and 29 boarded, with 26 crew kidnapped for ransom and a further 28 held hostage.
With Nigeria and Ivory Coast accounting for two of the three hijackings recorded globally, and all 28 hostages, the Gulf of Guinea dominates world piracy in terms of numbers and severity. Additionally the region saw 16 crew kidnapped from chemical and product tankers in four separate incidents. Ten attacks were reported off Nigeria alone, all involving guns.
“Reports in the last quarter indicate unacceptable violence against ships and crews in the Gulf of Guinea, particularly around Nigeria. The current increase in kidnappings is a cause for great concern,” said Pottengal Mukundan, Director of IMB, who has monitored world piracy since 1991.
IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) warns all seafarers in the region to stay vigilant, maintain anti-piracy watches and take additional measures to prevent boarding. Armed groups have attacked vessels and their crews along the coast, rivers, anchorages, ports and surrounding waters – as well as up to 110 nautical miles out to sea this quarter. Bulk and vehicle carriers have been targeted as well as vessels associated with the oil industry.
India: armed robbers
IMB noted ten incidents off India in the first quarter of 2016. The seaport Kandla in Western India reported seven of these – more than for the whole of 2015. They were predominantly low-level thefts by groups of armed robbers targeting anchored vessels.
Positive signs in South East Asia
No small product tankers have been hijacked in South East Asia so far in 2016, after a spate of attacks between April 2014 and August 2015. “Actions taken by the Malaysian and Indonesian authorities against pirate gangs in 2015 appear to have had the necessary deterrent effect,” said Captain Mukundan.
Indonesia recorded four low-level thefts. This is a noticeable reduction compared to the 21 incidents noted in the first quarter of 2015.
The Philippines was the location of the third hijacking this year, after the two product tankers hijacked off West Africa. Pirates attacked a tug and coal-carrying barge off Omapoy Islands in March. The barge was cast off and ten crew-members kidnapped from the tug. The tug was recovered by the Philippine Police and the still-laden barge recovered a week later by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).
No pirate attacks have been recorded off Somalia. However, as of 31 March 2016, suspected Somali pirates continue to hold 29 crew members for ransom. IMB PRC advises shipmasters to stay vigilant and follow the industry’s Best Management Practices while sailing through these waters especially as the situation onshore in Somalia remains fragile and the threat of Somali piracy has not been eliminated.
Source: The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of pre-Revolutionary France, “We
have physicists, geometers, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians,
and painters in plenty; but no citizens.”
Our goal for the twenty-first century is indeed to have painters,
musicians, poets, astronomers, chemists, geometers, and physicists
in plenty, and—with Rousseau—to create a world of informed and
engaged citizens committed to creative public service.
Whether IMSA students go on to careers in science or not, we count
on you to give thoughtful and enlightened attention to the humane
uses of science, to the risks that attend new knowledge, and to the
responsibilities of scientists and citizens. You must also be able
to assess the power and the limitations of scientific knowledge as
it applies to public policy decisions. Like life itself, science is
organic, tentative; we may not know enough to give a straight
answer; sometimes, Nature can’t be pinned down. In some instances,
scientific knowledge can only provide equivocal answers to
policymakers; and there are important issues—like moral choices—that
science can only inform, not resolve.
The issues of scientific responsibility and integrity are broad and
affirmative—not merely confined to eradicating sloppiness and
misrepresentation. Teaching by example is indispensable, but it
doesn’t exhaust our obligation to create an awareness of issues and
obligations—not only for scientists, but also for the observers,
consumers, and patrons of science.
That is why we have come together this afternoon.
On this springtime afternoon in the year 2003, we are poised on the
cusp of a new millennium. During the millennium just ended, we found
the courage to reject Authority. We learned instead to listen to
Nature by doing experiments—our inheritance from Galileo, Newton,
and others. In fact, Galileo called his experiments cimenti—trials
by ordeal. The seventeenth-century gentlemen who founded the Royal
Society of London took as their motto Nullius in verba—“Don’t take
anyone’s word for anything!” Over three centuries, science has lived
by the principle that experiment is the best test.
Anthony Lewis concluded a millennial essay in the New York Times,
“[T]here has been one transforming change over this thousand years.
It is the adoption of the scientific method: the commitment to
experiment, to test every hypothesis. But it is broader than
science. It is the open mind, the willingness in all aspects of
life to consider possibilities other than the received truth. It is
openness to reason.”
When we are at our best—when we are truest to these ideals—we do our
best science, and we give our greatest gift to society.
The study of science must not be reduced to the veneration of a
corpus of approved knowledge. The strength of science lies in its
provisional nature, its open-mindedness, its capacity for doubt and
uncertainty. Richard Feynman has written of “the scientific spirit
of adventure—the adventure into the unknown, an unknown that must be
recognized as unknown in order to be explored ... To summarize it:
humility of the intellect.”
Knowing what we don’t know is the spirit of Paul Grobstein’s
approach to teaching and living science as “getting it less wrong.”
We might say of Nature as T. S. Eliot did of Shakespeare:
“Shakespeare is so good, it is impossible to get him right . . . but
we must get him wrong in different ways from time to time.”
Perhaps science’s experience with doubt and uncertainty is its great
lesson for humanity. Lawrence Krauss has reminded us that doubt and
uncertainty are in short supply—and we need to bring them back to
the public stage.
Science changes the way we see ourselves, and our world.
The quantum physicist Niels Bohr said that “[t]he goal of science is
the gradual reduction of prejudice.” Progress toward understanding
the genome—the map of life—has exposed the illusion of race,
illuminated our kinship with other species, shown us what we have in
common with a whole range of other living things.
MRC Greenwood’s appeal for diversity, for welcoming into the company
of scientists and the scientifically aware all the members of
society, itself embodies the goal of reducing prejudice. I would add
that for me one of the highest delights of doing science is working
with others—from many places and conditions—who share similar
passions, and similar ideals.
In a call for solidarity with scientists of the developing world,
Kofi Annan has written, “… Peacemaking and peacebuilding should
never be the exclusive preserve of diplomats and politicians.
“There are deep similarities between the ethos of science and the
project of international organization. Both are constructs of
reason, as expressed, for example, in international agreements
addressing global problems. Both are engaged in a struggle against
forces of unreason that have, at times, used scientists and their
research for destructive purposes. We share the experimental method;
the United Nations, after all, is an experiment in human
cooperation. And both strive to give expression to universal truths;
for the United Nations, these include the dignity and worth of the
human person and the understanding that even though the world is
divided by many particulars, we are united as a single human
How can we do more to engage people from all over the world in the
practice and values of science?
The new marketability of biotechnology raises anew a recurring
question for our society: who owns science? Drummond Rennie’s
account of the temptations and intimidations to which clinical
researchers may fall prey is echoed in John Le Carré’s recent novel,
The Constant Gardener. Corporate ghostwriting of research reports in
medical journals—now apparently commonplace—not only puts at risk
the public health and the health-care system, it undermines public
confidence in the credibility and objectivity of university
We in universities and laboratories frequently are exhorted to run
our institutions more like businesses. It is fair to note that not
every business is brilliantly run, but that is not the essence of
why such advice is misguided. A business makes products, sells
services, strives for profit. A university or laboratory exists to
seek truths, test ideas, transmit knowledge and the habits of free
inquiry. Both sets of goals may be noble. They are different!
I’m a little uncomfortable with the notion expressed in our
round-table that the two-cultures divide is grossly tipped, that the
problem is much more with “them” than with “us.” It should not, of
course, be acceptable in educated circles for people to feel no
shame—or even to take perverse pride—in their ignorance of science.
But smug provincialism can be found in many quarters, even within
science. The challenge lies not just between science and the rest of
human endeavor, it lies in the awareness—or purposeful ignorance—of
other cultures. I’d also challenge the assumption that authors,
artists, and film-makers are indifferent to science. In my
experience, creative people—full of their own curiosity and
striving—are our natural allies, and we should be making common
cause with them.
After an afternoon confronting the weighty challenges and
opportunities of scientist’s responsibilities—a citizen’s
responsibilities—I’d like to close by celebrating the privilege of
being a scientist. The freedom to ask any question, the pleasure of
spinning out tales about how Nature might work, the joy of finding
things out, the delight of telling others what you have found: it’s
a wonderful life!
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Throughout this month, the disability community and its allies are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As a second-generation person with a disability, I had the good fortune of literally being born into the disability rights movement. My father ran a Center for Independent Living, and my mother—who was denied tenure early in her teaching career because she could only reach the bottom six inches of a chalkboard—worked in Disability Student Services. Today, my husband and I are raising two children with disabilities.
Here’s the question the disability community and the next generation now face: We got the ADA 25 years ago, so what’s next? The answer you get depends greatly on whom you ask. My answer is likely a bit untraditional: we must protect the civil rights of parents with disabilities.
In 2012, the National Council on Disability released “Rocking the Cradle: Protecting the Civil Rights of Parents with Disabilities.” The report examined the disparate treatment of parents with disabilities in matters of child custody, foster care, adoption, and family law. Right now in 37 states parents with disabilities can have their custodial rights terminated on the basis of having a disability. Additional rights to be an adoptive or foster parent, to have access to reproductive technology, and to be treated fairly in the eyes of the child welfare and family court system are also impacted by discrimination on the basis of a parent’s disability.
“She’s blind, how will she ever read a thermometer to see if her child has a temperature?” “He uses a wheelchair, how will he ever play baseball with his son?” Statements such as these are actual reasons that children have been stripped away from loving homes, according to the testimonies of Carrie Ann Lucas and Kelly Buckland at last week’s quarterly meeting of the National Council on Disability. Lucas is one of only four attorneys in the nation who work on these kinds of cases, and Buckland—the Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living—wrote the first laws to protect civil rights of parents with disabilities in Idaho.
The bias against parents with disabilities is well embedded in the history of the United States. During the first half of the 20th century, the eugenics movement led to more than 30 states passing legislation that permitted the involuntary sterilization of people with disabilities. This legislative trend was based on the belief that people with disabilities and other “socially inadequate” populations would produce offspring who would be a burden on society. The Supreme Court subsequently endorsed this policy, and by 1970 more than 65,000 Americans had been involuntarily sterilized. Even today, 25 years after the passage of the ADA, several states still have some form of involuntary sterilization law on their books.
Parents with disabilities are the only distinct community of Americans who must struggle to retain custody of their children. As we found in Rocking the Cradle, removal rates when parents have a psychiatric disability have been found to be as high as 70 to 80 percent; when the parent has an intellectual disability, 40 to 80 percent. In families in which the parental disability is physical, 13 percent have reported discriminatory treatment in custody cases. Parents who are deaf or blind report extremely high rates of child removal and loss of parental rights. Parents with disabilities are more likely to lose custody of their children after divorce, have more difficulty accessing reproductive health care, and face significant barriers to adopting children.
Parents with disabilities and their children are disproportionately—and often inappropriately— referred to child welfare services. Once involved in the child welfare system, these families are permanently separated at disproportionately high rates for a number of reasons, including: inclusion of disability as grounds for termination of parental rights (TPR) in many state statutes; the disparate impact of certain provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA); perceived limits on the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), especially at the termination phase; bias, speculation, and the “unfit parent” standard; and a lack of training in relevant systems regarding parents with disabilities.
People with disabilities also face significant barriers, and even outright discrimination, that can prevent them from accessing reproductive technology that can enable a person to become a parent, such as assisted reproductive technology (ART). ART providers regularly discriminate against people with disabilities. Additionally, the growing costs of ART, combined with the limited insurance coverage for these treatments, leave many people with disabilities unable to afford the treatment. Half of all women with disabilities are covered by Medicaid and existing federal law allows states to refuse coverage for fertility drugs (but not Viagra.) These discriminatory policies and practices impact all demographics in the disability community including disabled service men and women. For example, in May of this year the Washington Post reported on Holly and Alex Dillmann who were denied access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) via their Veterans Affairs health plan, which up until this year banned the procedure. Their case is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Recent guidance from the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services reiterating these agencies’ legal obligations pursuant to the ADA is an extremely positive development. However, further action is needed at the federal, state, and local levels to give parents with disabilities a level playing field:
- Congress, the Administration, and federal agencies should fund research on parents with disabilities and their families.
- States should eliminate disability from their statutes as grounds for termination of parental rights and enact legislation that ensures the rights of parents with disabilities.
- Congress should address the disparate treatment experienced by parents with disabilities by adding specific protections in the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
- Congress should shift funding priorities at the federal level so that states have a greater incentive to provide services to families while the children are maintained in the home, as research has shown that in-home services are most effective, particularly for people with disabilities.
- HHS and DOJ should collect annual data on parents with disabilities and their interaction with child welfare agencies and dependency courts; and DOJ should include such matters in its enforcement priorities and consider violations of parental rights to be violations of civil rights.
- The HHS Children’s Bureau should collaborate with the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in funding and directing the Institute’s National Center for Parents with Disabilities and Their Families.
Despite a dark history marked by the eugenics movement, increasing numbers of people with disabilities are choosing to become parents. My husband and I knew there was a 50% chance that our children would have dwarfism, and that made the idea of parenthood even more attractive, as we perceive dwarfism as part of our family’s culture. The right to parent without interference is protected by the U.S. Constitution. A child should only be taken from a custodial parent when the disability creates a situation that cannot be alleviated or accommodated.
I dream of a day when removal of a child from a parent with a disability is a rarity, so that in another 25 years the 4 million-plus parents with disabilities will be celebrating the ADA’s 50th Anniversary as grandparents.
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About Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. was born in 1936 in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya and died in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter. All but one of his children live in Britain or the United States. One of the brothers died in 1984. He is buried in the village of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya.3. Stanley Ann DUNHAM was born on 27 November 1942 in Wichita, Kansas and died 7 November 1995 of ovarian cancer.
Barack Obama, Sr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (4 April 1936 − 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist, and the father of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. He is a central subject in his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father.
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kanyadhiang village, Rachuonyo District on the shores of Lake Victoria just outside Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, at the time a colony of the British Empire. He was raised in the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group.
He was a son of Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979), who had at least three wives. Barack Obama Sr. was the son of Habiba Akumu Nyanjango of Karabondi, Kenya, the second wife. However, he was raised by Onyango's third wife, Sarah Ogwel of Kogelo, after Akumu left her family and separated from her husband in 1945. Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Onyango had travelled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein Onyango Obama. Hussein Onyango was jailed by the British for two years in 1949 due to his involvement in the Kenyan independence movement. According to Sarah Onyango Obama, Onyango was subjected to brutal torture.
Although Obama Sr. was born into a Muslim family, he rejected the religion as a young man.
Education and fatherhood
While still living near Kendu Bay, Obama Sr. attended Gendia Primary School and transferred to Ng’iya Intermediate School once his family moved to Siaya District. From 1950 to 1953, he studied at Maseno National School, an exclusive Christian boarding school in Maseno that is run by the Anglican Church of Kenya. (Dreams from my Father, 2004 edition, p. 418). The head teacher, B.L. Bowers, described Obama Sr. in his records as "very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going." In 1954, after attending the Maseno National School, Obama Sr. was married for the first time. At the age of eighteen, he and Kezia Aoko were married in a tribal ceremony. They had Malik and Auma during their marriage and while Obama Sr. was married to his third wife, he and Kezia allegedly had Abo and Bernard.
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students. President Obama said of his father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this country.'" An article by Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post, however, states that the Kennedy family did not become associated with the educational airlift until 1960, a year after Obama Sr. was studying in the United States. Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant son. He had abandoned Islam and become an atheist by the time he moved to the United States. On 2 February 1961, Obama Sr. married fellow student Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii, though she would not find out that her new husband was already married until much later. Obama Sr.'s and Dunham's son, Barack Obama II, was born on August 4, 1961. Dunham quit her studies to care for the baby, while Obama Sr. completed his degree. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962 (and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa), leaving shortly thereafter to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall. Later that summer, Dunham and year-old baby Barack stopped to visit her friends in Mercer Island, Washington, the Seattle suburb where she had grown up, before joining Obama Sr. in Cambridge. However, mother and son soon returned to Seattle, where she enrolled at the University of Washington. Dunham, missing her family, then moved back to Hawaii and filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not contest, and the divorce was granted on March 20, 1964. He visited his son only once, in 1971, when Barack was 10 years old.
While at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand. She followed him to Kenya when he returned there after he received a master's degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in 1965. Nidesand eventually became his third wife and had two sons with him, David and Mark. She divorced Obama Sr. amid allegations of domestic abuse. David died in a motorcycle accident. The second son, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, has written a semi-autobiographical novel.
Obama Sr. subsequently had a son, George Obama, with a woman named Jael.
On his return to his native Kenya in 1965, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Transport and later became a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance.
In 1959 a monograph written by him had been published by the Kenyan Department of Education, entitled Otieno jarieko. Kitabu mar ariyo. 2: Yore mabeyo mag puro puothe. (English: Otieno, the wise man. Book 2: Wise ways of farming.)
In 1965 Obama Sr. published a paper entitled "Problems Facing Our Socialism" in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint for national planning, "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya", which had been produced by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. The article was signed "Barak H. Obama." As his son described it in his memoir, Obama Sr.'s conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career. (Dreams from my Father, pp. 214–216.) The decline began after Tom Mboya's assassination in 1969. Obama Sr. was fired from his job by Jomo Kenyatta, was blacklisted in Kenya, and began to drink. He had a serious car accident, spent almost a year in the hospital, and by the time he visited his son in Hawaii in late 1971, he already had a bad leg. (Dreams from My Father, pp. 64–71, 212-219). Obama Sr.'s life fell into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, Kenyan journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya newspaper The Daily Nation. Obama Sr. later lost both legs in another automobile collision, and subsequently lost his job. He died in 1982, at the age of 46, in a third car crash in Nairobi.
Obama Sr. is buried in his native village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District. His funeral was attended by ministers Robert Ouko, Oloo Aringo and other prominent political figures.
Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr., Ph.D.
Stanley Ann DUNHAM, Ph.D.
Husband: Barack Hussein OBAMA
Birth: 1936, Alego, Kisumu Dist., Nyanza Prov., KEN
Death (car crash): 1982, Nairobi, KEN
Education: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Occupation: Senior Economist, Kenyan Ministry of Finance
Religion (according to son): "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist"
Other Spouses: m1. Helima (no issue); m3. Sarah, who is the woman Barack Jr. refers to as his (paternal) grandmother
Father: Onyango11, a.k.a., Hussein OBAMA (1895-1979) — Obama10, Obiyo9, Okoth8, Obongo7, Otondi6, Ogelo5, Kisodhi4, Owiny3, Sigoma2, Miwiru1
Mother: Akuma / Akumu
Marriage: 1960; Divorce: 1963
Wife: [Stanley] Ann DUNHAM
Birth: 29 Nov 1942, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co., KS
Death: 7 Nov 1995, Honolulu, Oahu, HI
Education: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Oahu, HI; B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Occupation: cultural anthropologist
Religion (according to son): raised by non-religious parents and "detached" from religion
Transhumance: 1967, from Honolulu, HI, to Jakarta, IDN; 1971, son back to Honolulu, HI
Other Spouse: m2. aft. 1963, Lolo SOETORO (2 Jan 1930 - Jan 1987); divorced late 1970s
Other Child: Maya SOETORO, b. 15 Aug 1970, Jakarta, IDN; m. Konrad NG
Father: Stanley Armour DUNHAM
Mother: Madelyn Lee PAYNE
1. Barack Hussein "Barry" OBAMA, Jr., b. 4 Aug 1961, Kapiolani Medical Center, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, HI
[At the time of Barack's birth, both of his parents were students at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Barack's stepfather, Lolo SOETORO, was also a student at the East-West Center.]
Keywords for search engines: Kenya, Indonesia, Java; USA, US, United States, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts
1. Barack Obama's Birth Certificate.
2. William Addams Reitwiesner, compilier. Ancestry of Barack Obama.
3. Anon. 9 Sep 2007. "The Obama Family Tree." Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL (PDF file online at suntimes.com).
4. Photograph: Ann Dunham and Lolo Soetoro, Maya and Barack (online at kansasprairie.net).
5. Photograph: Barack Obama and Half Sister, Maya (online at kansasprairie.net).
6. Miscellaneous sites on the web, including Wikipedia.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr.'s Timeline
April 4, 1936
Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza, Kenya
August 4, 1961
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
November 24, 1982
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I surf and I vote
Australia's next government could be decided in cyberspace, where more Australians are heading for their fix of politics, writes Jacqueline Maley.
Bloody greedy un-Australian Australians. We do a totally nice, generous, caring thing like pork-barrelling to win votes from poor people by paying them $600 for having kids, and now some people who weren't supposed to receive the bribe did anyway, and they won't give it back. John Howard, June 30, 2004.
As Australians wait for an election date to be announced, voters brace themselves for the usual democratic pantomime. Babies will be kissed, blue-collar workers back-slapped, and the blanket television advertising has already begun. But in 2004, a new political battleground has emerged: cyberspace.
The above quote is not really from our Prime Minister. It is from a blog, or web log, johnhoward.blogspot.com, one of the voices in the increasingly noisy rabble of the web.
The internet's immediacy, lack of regulation and popularity among young voters make it an increasingly important campaign tool. A smart website and email campaign can be better targeted and much cheaper than TV or newspaper advertising.
But there is another key difference. Unlike traditional media, the web is two-way. For the first time in history, voters can also campaign.
A recent article in Mother Jones, a US political magazine, reported 13 per cent of Americans regularly got their news on the this year's Democrat primaries from the internet. The web played a pivotal role in the Democrat candidacy race, with the two lead players, Howard Dean and John Kerry, using their websites as key campaign tools. Dean made his website the focal point of his tilt at the candidacy. He collected millions of dollars in donations, mobilised supporters online and kept in touch with them via his web diary, "Blog for America".
Australia does not have the blogging culture of the US, and our political parties are yet to exploit fully the potential of the internet in reaching voters. But the trend is emerging and experts say the political parties ignore it at their peril.
According to Hitwise, a Melbourne-based company specialising in internet analysis, there has been a 50 per cent rise in Australian traffic to political websites over the past year, and a 30 per cent growth in hits to news and print media websites. The company expects this traffic to surge once an election is called.
A Hitwise executive, Tessa Court, says the internet is playing an increasingly significant role in election campaigns, both here and overseas.
"Not only are we seeing political websites used to raise money for political parties, but they also serve as platforms for relaying policies as they are announced," she says. "[The internet] makes all sides of the political spectrum visible to anyone who's interested."
Tom Dawkins, 25, co-ordinates the youth culture and politics website Vibewire.net. He believes the web is the ultimate manifestation of democracy.
"[The internet] is messy and confusing and it contradicts itself constantly, but it also provides plenty of other opportunities for genuine conversation and genuine understanding," he says. "The essence of democracy is for it to be a conversation."
The conversation is fast becoming a cacophony, with other blogs such as nicholascarvan.com/blog/why-john-howard-will-get-us-bombed.html, http://www.baulsupp.com/blog and markl.tblog.com weighing in on the political debate.
The sites offer a frank, often cynical view on the issues that will shape the election, and they operate outside the strictures of the parties' public relations machines.
At this early stage, the two major parties are unwilling to give anything away about their campaign strategies. But both sides admit the internet will play a significant part in their electioneering.
As the Liberal Party's federal director, Brian Loughnane will head the Government's re-election drive and believes the function of the internet in campaigning is revolutionary. "The role in this election is much bigger than in the last election," he says.
Labor's assistant national secretary, Mike Kaiser, is less enthusiastic.
"Every time a new technique pops up you're mad not to access it," he says. "Howard Dean did some really pioneering things in terms of web logs. The amount of money he was able to raise from small amounts over the internet was amazing."
But Kaiser insists the internet will form only one plank of the overall election drive. "I think the traditional media is still where people get most of their information from."
Margo Kingston, the editor of the Web Diary on the Herald's website, asks: "Have you ever seen anything from either major party trying to reach people through the internet? They're still doing the old thing of $10,000 a table for the corporates to come to a fundraiser."
But the Greens and the Australian Democrats, who traditionally have a young support base, will give the internet a central role in their pitch for votes.
The Greens recently launched a new website with a built-in capacity for a blog, in readiness for the election. Andrew Burke, the party's national campaign manager, says the internet has changed the landscape.
"You've got to communicate in a way that [voters] are interested in communicating with you," he says. "[Websites] are interactive, people can post their comments, respond to stories instantly. It allows us to gauge the mood of our supporters very quickly and very cheaply, compared to opinion polling which is expensive."
The Democrats also use the internet to stay close to their constituents.
The party's website features an emotive, one-minute video criticising the Government for sending Australian troops to the Iraq war. The party sends a regular e-newsletter to its supporters and the lead Victorian Democrats candidate for the Senate, 19-year-old Jess Healy, has begun a blog she will keep throughout the election campaign.
The leader of the Democrats, Andrew Bartlett, says the internet is a brilliant way of restoring voters' trust. "People have a cynicism about the way politicians and political messages are communicated through mass media, with spin doctors and political doublespeak," he says.
Last week, the most visited Australian political website was that of Green Left Weekly, the sister site to the far-left newspaper. For such small, alternative opinion-makers, the internet represents a level playing field.
"[The internet] is an immediate mass media that is viral in nature and enables all sorts of interest groups to be publishers - and therefore have credibility," Tessa Court says. "While every group cannot necessarily afford a multimillion-dollar television campaign, most organisations are able to produce a website."
John Croll, the chief executive officer of the media analysts Media Monitors, believes these renegade sites could represent a threat to politics' big players. "They are a great risk for political parties because they don't know what's being said about them, unless they have internet monitoring," he says.
Croll says the internet is particularly useful in engaging young voters, who are likely to take at face value whatever they read on their favourite sites.
Hitwise's statistics also show 32.6 per cent of visitors to Australian political websites are between 25 and 34.
"The younger voters don't buy newspapers and they're not going to be at home watching A Current Affair," Croll says. "The internet is the way [young people] get a lot of their information . . . they're used to searching through different sites to get the information they need for life."
Dawkins also believes the internet is the key to reaching young voters, because they appreciate its informal, conversational tone. "This can create a real sense of empowerment for people. They can create their own opinions and have that respected and responded to," he says.
Kingston's web diary specialises in interactive reportage. She believes "participatory journalism" via the internet is the future of the media.
"The thing that differentiates it is that the journalist is in conversation with the reader," she says. "It's where the journo and the reader work together to get the truth."
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On June 30, landlords could potentially start evicting tenants who are behind on rent as the federal eviction moratorium is set to expire.
During the pandemic, the CDC prohibited evictions to minimize the spread of COVID-19, and the Biden administration extended it in March to the end of this month, but there's no word on another extension.
Robert Goodspeed, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan, said it's difficult to predict how many evictions landlords are waiting to file, and how busy the courts will be.
The moratorium has been in place since September 2020 and extended it twice.
"One of the major developments in the last year has been the creation of the Emergency Rental Assistance Programs," he said.
"The state committed some of the federal funds all the way back last summer to this type of program and most recently the American Rescue Plan Act has $20 billion that'll be coming to the state," he added.
Goodspeed said the funding also helps keep the landlord whole, and property owners get the full amount.
"Once tenants who quality get the assistance, they not only get it for back rent, they get it for some rent going forward. So in general, there's been great concern about especially small landlords about programs not creating undue hardship recognizing that they have their own expenses and financial needs," he said.
"Last year, we had a statewide eviction moratorium that expired in the middle of July and many predicted that there'd be a significant spike in evictions and there wasn't, fortunately," Jim Schaafsma, a housing attorney for the Michigan Poverty Law Program, said.
According to Scaafsma, it's hard to predict what will happen on June 30. He said eviction case filings are below average during the pandemic, but they're still happening at an alarming rate.
"It presents a real public policy challenge for the state. and I think moratorium directly for local governments because they are the ones who are gonna have to be dealing with the fallout of this likely consequence of the lifting of the CDC order," he said.
Goodspeed says the Eviction Diversion Program is a positive to come from the pandemic, and the program provides greater access to legal assistance for those who need it, and he hopes it will stick around.
Before the pandemic, Goodspeed said less than 5% of people facing eviction had an attorney. Now, it's over 30%.
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Nanomedicine, a leading MEDLINE-indexed journal, has published a special focus issue highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of this emerging field, which explores the medical application of nanotechnology to monitor, repair, and control human biological systems at the molecular level. Nanomedicine is published by Future Science Group.
"This special issue brings the different actors of nanomedicine closer together and encourages scientists to better understand the work of others who perform outside their own comfort zone," said Michael Schillmeier, who co-guest-edited the two-volume issue with Robert Luxenhofer and Matthias Barz. "With a rather unique assemblage of input and opinion from scientists, philosophers, clinicians and social scientists, it is the beginning of an experiment in itself to rethink nanomedicine in the making."
Contributing authors to the issue address the historical trajectory of the field, current debates, and future perspectives on nanomedical research. The articles position nanomedicine as not just a biological, chemical, and physical issue, but also a social issue. Of particular note, the articles bring together natural scientists, social scientists, clinicians and philosophers to both critically discuss and also engage with the creation of novel practices, concepts, methods, models and metaphors in nanomedicine. The authors also address the medical and regulatory needs of current nanomedical research and its possible future.
"Over the last decade, nanomedicine has become a field of innovative research and is now seen as having the potential to overcome many of the shortcomings of current disease treatment strategies. However, these exciting scientific advances have been accompanied by a number of issues which touch on the social, ethical and safety aspects of nanomedicine," said Jonathan Wilkinson, Commissioning Editor of Nanomedicine. "This special issue seeks to address this, bringing together carefully selected experts from around the world who discuss the past, present and future of nanomedicine from a range of perspectives. We hope that the readers of the journal find the topics and viewpoints presented in the articles as interesting and thought-provoking as we have."
Nanomedicine is a uniquely medicine-focused journal, addressing the important challenges and advances in medical nanoscale-structured material and devices, biotechnology devices and molecular machine systems and nanorobotics, delivering this essential information in concise, clear and attractive article formats. The journal is a valuable information source for all players in the field - academic, industrial and clinical researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, regulatory authorities and others across the scientific community.
Please find the special focus issues here -
Special Focus Issue Part 1: Quo vadis nanomedicine: past, present and future of nanomedicine
Special Focus Issue Part 2: Quo vadis nanomedicine: past, present and future of nanomedicine
About Future Science Group
Founded in 2001, Future Science Group (FSG) is a progressive publisher focused on breakthrough medical, biotechnological, and scientific research. FSG's portfolio includes two imprints, Future Science and Future Medicine. Both publish eBooks and journals. In addition to this core publishing business FSG develops specialist eCommunities. Key titles and sites includes Bioanalysis Zone, Epigenomics, Nanomedicine and the award-winning Regenerative Medicine.
The aim of FSG is to service the advancement of clinical practice and drug research by enhancing the efficiency of communications among clinicians, researchers and decision-makers, and by providing innovative solutions to their information needs. This is achieved through a customer-centric approach, use of new technologies, products that deliver value-for-money and uncompromisingly high standards. http://www.
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French scientists found that the venom, which black mamba use to paralyze and kill small animals, also contains a potent painkiller.
The findings, published October 3 in the journal Nature, baffled the researchers.
Morphine is an effective painkiller but is also "addictive and causes headaches, difficulty thinking, vomiting and muscle twitching," writes the BBC.
Black mamba venom, on the other hand, contains proteins called mambalgins that block pain through a completely different route and which seems to produce fewer side-effects.
Nicholas Casewell, a snake venom researcher from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, called it "really, really odd" and suggested to the BBC that the pain-reducing effect may work in combination "with other toxins that prevent the prey from getting away" or may affect other animals differently.
Eric Lingueglia, a pain researcher at Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology in France, noted that the way pain works is very similar in mice and people. He said he hoped to eventually develop painkillers that could be used in the clinics because lab tests of mambalgins on human cells showed similar chemical effects.
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More and more people are recognizing the importance of food quality in their daily lives. The freshest, ripest, tastiest and most nutritious food comes from our own gardens or local farmers. But because these high quality fruits and vegetables are seasonal, you have access to them for only a few weeks or months each year.
What do you plan to eat the rest of the year? Will you rely on industrial foods grown by strangers from all over the world and shipped thousands of miles? With increasing interest in healthy eating, sustainable local food supplies and self-reliance, many people are discovering the benefits of a solar food dehydrator.
Solar food drying is more than a curiosity or hobby — it’s an ideal application for solar energy. Solar radiation passes through the clear glass top of a wooden dehydrator box, then the heat trapped by the box dries the food. The dehydrator also may have an absorber plate inside, which indirectly heats your food and creates a convection current of air that enters a vent at the bottom of the dryer (see image gallery). The cool, fresh air that enters the vent heats up, circulates through the dryer, then exits through a vent at the top. As your food dries, moisture is carried away with the hot air. But do solar food dryers work well? Are they practical? Yes, but first let me put this topic in the context of creating a healthy and sustainable food supply.
Eat in Season Year-round
Food preservation is the key to extending the summer’s precious bounty of locally grown produce throughout the year. If you’re like me, you would prefer a method that’s easier and requires less energy than canning.
Freezing is commonly viewed as the most convenient preservation method, but freezers require a constant source of electricity. Your food will be vulnerable to power outages and mechanical failures, and freezer burn will limit the storage life of most foods to about six months.
Drying is an excellent method of food preservation that maintains a high level of flavor and nutrients, while providing a convenient, compact, easy-to-store supply of your favorite produce. Electric food dryers work fine, but I don’t care for the constant noise, heat and odors they add to my house. Electric dryers also take away valuable counter space for weeks on end and can attract ants and other pests. The electricity to run them costs about a dollar a load. The convenience of electricity does not compare to the satisfaction of drying food with free solar energy.
Disenchanted with electric drying, I began experimenting with solar drying. With a background in engineering and solar energy, I soon designed and built my first solar dehydrator. I was delighted to watch the sun quickly dehydrate my organic fruits and veggies. It worked even better than I had hoped, drying large batches of food in one to two days. I dried my entire surplus of garden and orchard produce, leaving nothing to waste. The following year, I grew a larger garden so I could dry even more food.
If you’re wondering whether solar drying could be right for your location, consider that I live in Eugene, Ore., at a latitude equivalent to Bangor, Maine. We receive lots of rain, but fortunately, we also receive enough sunshine during the summer and fall harvest seasons to successfully dry all our crops with solar energy. If you can get two days of sunshine in a row with some regularity, solar food drying will work for you.
But for those times when the sun is hiding, a backup heating system still can help. I added 200-watt light bulbs as heating elements so I could finish drying my produce any time the weather turned cloudy.
A solar food dehydrator can be made in many designs, ranging from the simple to the complex, and from small to large. For the home gardener, a good solar food dehydrator has these qualities:
- It dries food quickly — on par with a good electric food dryer.
- It has venting controls that allow for easy adjustment of drying temperature and airflow.
- It’s easy to load, unload and clean.
- It’s easy to set up and put away, with little or no assembly.
- It’s relatively compact and lightweight for portability.
- It’s weather-resistant and keeps your food dry in the event of rain.
- It has sturdy and durable construction for a long life of outdoor operation.
- It’s pest-proof, and all vent openings are screened.
- The food trays are made from durable, nonstick and food-safe materials.
Now that you know the basics about solar food dryers, where do you go for designs? Surprisingly, you won’t find much useful information on the Internet. If you search, you will find plans for solar dryers made from cardboard and duct tape. Skip these and stick with the handful of high quality dehydrators that meet my criteria. My book The Solar Food Dryer provides information on some of the better designs and includes complete plans for building the SunWorks dehydrator I designed.
The easiest solar food dryer to build is a “hot box,” a design in which the food is enclosed and protected in a box with a clear covering on top. Screened holes should be in the bottom and sides, so warm, moist air can exit the dryer.
To increase airflow and efficiency, you’ll have to modify the simple hot-box design. Many high-performance designs are based on the strategy of separating the two functions of a solar food dryer: gathering heat and drying the food. The New Mexico dehydrator shown below illustrates this approach.
My design, the SunWorks, integrates the solar collector and food drying cabinet into a compact configuration, which uses both direct heating (like the solar hot-box dryer) and indirect heating from the absorber plate. The airflow is optimized for even drying, and ventilation is achieved by natural convection (see image gallery).
How to Use a Solar Dryer
You don’t need to be a solar whiz to operate a solar dehydrator — just place it in a sunny spot oriented to the south and load it with food. If you will be around during the day, you can speed drying by occasionally repositioning the dryer to track the sun as it moves across the sky. Many foods will dry in one day of sunshine. Wet foods such as tomatoes or pears will require a second day. They should be dry enough after the first day to stay in the dehydrator overnight.
Always start with food that is at its peak freshness and ripeness — simply wash, slice to your desired thickness and place in your solar dryer. I get great results without any blanching or pre-treatments. The dried food consistently looks and tastes great. The flavor is better than anything I find in supermarkets, and it’s free of sulfites (a sulfur-based preservative) and other additives found in commercial dried foods.
Most people think about drying food in August, when they can’t keep up with the supply from their gardens. But there is abundant solar energy in the spring for drying. In May or June, you can start capturing early season crops such as peas, blueberries and strawberries. Then you’ll be ready for your summer and fall bumper crops of beans, plums, peaches, apples and squash.
As you think about how much fun you will have with a solar food dryer, consider that by preserving and storing produce, you can expand your garden and grow more of the things you’d like to enjoy year-round, such as tomatoes. A solar food dehydrator is a great way to maintain a nutritious and tasty supply of high quality, locally grown foods all year long. A good dehydrator will produce outstanding results, along with the satisfaction of saving energy and money by harnessing the power of the sun.
Food Drying Favorites
Fruits: apples, apricots, bananas, blueberries, grapes (seedless), peaches, pears, plums and strawberries.
Vegetables: broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, corn, green beans, onions, peas (sweet, in pod), peppers, potatoes, summer tomatoes, zucchini and other squash.
Mushrooms and herbs are excellent, too!
Eben Fodor is the author of The Solar Food Dryer, a "Book for Wiser Living" from New Society Publishers highly recommended by MOTHER EARTH NEWS. He is an avid organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering.
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Future of menhaden fish management up for debate
PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (AP) — Interstate fishing managers are hosting public hearings about the future of the menhaden fishery, which they say is in good shape.
Atlantic menhaden are small fish that swim in large schools and represent a key piece of the ocean's food chain. They are also fished commercially, in part because of their use as a dietary supplement and for use as bait.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission says menhaden are not being overfished and their reproduction is good. The commission is holding a series of hearings about the way it regulates the fishery.
The hearings are set to take place between Nov. 30 and Dec. 20 in cities from Florida to Maine. Regulators are seeking input from fishermen and other stakeholders about how the fishery is managed.
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