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Late winter or early spring, just at the end of the dormant season, is the best time to prune summer-bearing red raspberries. Here's how.
If you didn't remove the old canes right after they fruited last summer, take those out first. Then thin the canes that will bear this season's crop. Prune out all the smaller ones, leaving fruiting canes four to six inches apart in a bed that's about a foot wide.
Next, you can shorten the canes that are left, but easy does it! According to Marvin Pritts, a small fruits specialist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the most fruitful portion is the top third of the cane. If you are in the habit of cutting your canes back by half (leaving them about three feet tall) so they will be self-supporting, you are sacrificing half your potential crop.
The top portion of the cane is most fruitful because the buds are spaced more closely there. So the only portion you should remove is the very tip, where the cane becomes thinner or somewhat undersized. Buds that formed there late last season are not strong and often suffer winter damage.
Most varieties should be five or six feet tall after you've finished pruning. For support, fasten the canes to a trellis, which can be as simple as a single strand of wire set slightly lower than the tops of your canes. Later in spring, remove the first flush of new replacement canes when they get six inches tall. Such early cane removal increases the crop by 20 to 50 percent.Jack Ruttle is a former editor at National Gardening.
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Today's Youth Hold the Keys to a Positive Tomorrow.
In conjunction with Apple, i2P is introducing a unique Challenge Based Learning component to support the educational theme of World Health. Challenge Based Learning engages student curiosity & imagination by embracing powerful technologies and real-world context. Students take on a self-directed role and are challenged to creative innovative solutions in solving real-world problems. This is your opportunity to make a real difference in your community.
Lets Get Started!
Challenge: To improve access to healthcare in your community.
Focus: Based on what you've learned from the Themes & Modules, focus on one question from one of the 6 Themes.
Collaborate: You can work in groups, in pairs, or individually. Team up with students & teachers in your classroom & school and interact with the i2P Youth Ambassadors.
Solution: Using the i2P Themes & Modules & your research, create a realistic solution for the Challenge and question you have selected. Remember, there are endless possibilities so be creative and explore your options.
Action: Your biggest challenge will be to actively implement your solution within your community. Conduct classroom activities, interview professionals, and reach out to your community to make a difference.
Connect: We want to share your experience & Solution with the world! Remember to document the process by using technology to take photos, create videos, and write blogs. Send your Solution to Education Team Member Jordan Thoms so we can post it on the Expedition India website.
Reflect: Take the World Health discussion even further and share your solution & what you've learned on our Facebook Page.
Lets Do It!
We are all capable of the extraordinary in our lives. i2P has a mission of educating & inspiring with an end result of EMPOWERING students & teachers to make a difference in the community and world around them. This is your opportunity to complete your own Extraordinary Acts and help i2P do some incredible work that will have life changing qualities. This is your chance to do something truly EXTRAORDINARY!
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Possibly as a result of the coastal area of the city of Vancouver, the surrounding towns within the Greater Vancouver region can have rather damp soil. The unfavorable point relating to this is that the wetness in the soil might affect the foundations of structures in the region. A drain tile for Vancouver residences will accumulate and keep water away from the residence's foundation and into the sump.
Drain tiles were largely used in agriculture to manage soil wetness so it can be suitable for certain crops. It is known that while crops require water to stay alive, some crops need smaller quantities of for them to grow effectively. There are many river and lake systems in Canada that farming needs just a little aid to raise the crops in most farms.
Occasionally, extremely wet soil can compromise the integrity of homes and roadways. High water content can damage concrete and metal rebar, and induce leakages and flooding during heavy rain, an usual occurrence in the Greater Vancouver region. Tile drains can protect the foundation of a home specifically during intense rains.
Homes in lower lying locations in Vancouver often experience basement flooding. By setting up drain tile for Vancouver houses there is less worry concerning flooding due to the fact that water is drained to the sump. The drain tile aids to reduce rainwater that soaks and pools on the ground, and seeps into basement walls and floors.
Drain tile also dubbed a French drain can be set up in the exterior as your home is being built or in the interior parameter of the foundation. It is made from perforated PVC pipe put in a trench and covered with gravel. Water that gets in the pipe is directed away from the residence's foundation by gravity flow or to the sump pump. Drain tiles have generally the exact same function but can be built with different products and pipe shapes, and can have varying placements.
Drain tiles have mutual characteristics and these include the following: they are normally cylindrical in shape but some are rectangular or square; and it's buried in a bed of stone to help with draining to the pipelines. Stone type drain tiles vary but 3/4" gravel promotes optimal water flow. Homeowners are advised to get in touch with drain experts to periodically examine drain tiles. To learn more, visit SIS. AGR. GC. ca/CANSIS/.
Vancouver Drain Tile Services to Keep Your House Dry
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This church traces its roots back to 1812, established near Murfree Spring in what is now the Old City Cemetery on Vine Street. It was used during the Civil War as a hospital, first by Confederates and then by Union forces. The current structure was built in 1867, with major changes over the last 150 years as the church continued to grow.
Tennessee Vacation eGuide
The 2016 eGuide gives you instant access to Tennessee’s irresistible attractions and destinations. Peruse venues online, then put in your order to get a free guide delivered to your doorstep.
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By Cássio Vaquero, Regional Director, Information Management division, for Asia-Pacific and Latin America Kodak Alaris
Even in this digital age of cloud computing and big data, the stacks of paper documents that sit atop your office desk still hold tremendous power. Power that can streamline processes, increase operational efficiency and transform your enterprise into a well-oiled machine.
Unfortunately, most leaders don’t see that value in paper. In fact, even employees are known to have a negative perception of paper-based processes. A study conducted by a reputable software company shows that more than half of the respondents deemed paper to be a hindrance to productivity. The survey also revealed that an overall negative attitude towards these procedures exists amongst those surveyed.
With so much ‘bad press’ around good ol’ paper, it is high time we explore how to intelligently manage your enterprise’s deluge of paper to increase productivity, enhance Customer Relations Management, data analytics operations and disaster recovery procedures.
Understand data sources and raw information
Today’s enterprises face an overwhelming amount of inbound information in the form of structured and unstructured data. Structured data consists of information that can be more easily organized by traditional databases. The problem is the influx of unstructured data tends to outweigh its counterpart. For example, in the healthcare sector, almost 80 percent of medical data is unstructured.
Paper documents such as invoices, faxes and receipts that organizations encounter on a daily basis, are common forms of unstructured data that – when not handled properly – can reduce operational efficiency. Enterprises must understand that since physical documents are a main source of unstructured data, tackling them from the get-go can halt the onset of information management problems arising from paper.
Streamline paper-based workflow processes
Intelligent document capture is key to improving paper-based workflow processes. Ironically, the first step to that is taken by enabling efficient scanning of hardcopy documents. That first step is so straightforward, most people tend to overlook its potential to enhance the speed of their company’s operations. Key factors such as scanning speed, paper size, paper jam detection and quality capturing of image and information are often considerations left out when investing in scanners.
Apart from simply scanning and converting hardcopy materials into softcopy versions, the digitized assets must also become fully searchable electronic documents. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is key for this stage as it allows the digitized assets to have their contents recognized not just by human users, but by artificial intelligence (AI). Enabling AI to ‘read’ digital copies of paper documents streamlines workflow processes and enable various users in the enterprise to effortlessly harness information stored in the original paper files.
Reap the benefits in real-time
Intelligent document capture results in the optimization of paper-based workflow processes and benefits certain departments such as customer service, IT and the data analytics team.
For example, valuable information submitted by a customer through paper forms can now be rapidly archived and integrated to a CRM database. The integration will provide customer service officers with a more holistic view of their company’s interactions with said customer and enable the officers to tailor their responses accordingly.
From a disaster recovery standpoint (DR), IT can also stand to benefit. The irony of most company’s DR strategies is that paper assets – including those that contain mountains of crucial information – tend to neglected during backup. Compared to creating duplicates of digital data, copying paper documents and easily finding the information stored is feat unachievable by most I.T departments. With intelligent document capture, the backing up of paper documents becomes seamless and can be a natural part of DR.
Last but not least, because raw information from disparate paper sources can be easily extracted and converted into useful data, the analytics team of any enterprise will be able to have more fuel to gain actionable insights from.
Time to rethink paper
In essence, paper documents still hold tremendous weight for enterprises today. Leaders should rethink the role of paper and the value of information stored within their hardcopy assets. By leveraging intelligence document capture, enterprises can enhance their information management process by streaming paper-based workflow sequences. Such optimization can benefit the enterprise’s Customer Relations Management, Disaster Recovery and data analytics strategy.
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Anne Li August 6th, 2017 firstname.lastname@example.org
At just 28 years old Dave Sims lost his twin brother Mark, a doctor from Bristol, to skin cancer. By raising awareness of the disease, Mark wanted to make sure that fewer people have to go through what he did. Though he may not be here today, by joining our PEACE study Mark continues to be part of a research journey that could improve the outlook for people like him in the future. Here, Dave tells us the inspiring story of his brother, which is just one of those featured in Cancer Research UK's Annual Review, highlighting the progress they’re making and their aims for the future.
See original article at: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/08/01/finding-peace-and-remembering-my-brother-mark-daves-story/
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Calcutta July 13: The state government has made BEd compulsory for teachers of secondary and higher-secondary schools but offered a two-year window from the day of joining to new recruits without the degree.
The announcement was made today in accordance with the provisions of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, and will come into effect from this year.
Although the government will allow those without BEd to appear for the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) test, “those with the degree will be given priority in selection”, said school education secretary Vikram Sen.
“Those without the degree will be appointed only if there are vacancies after accommodating those who have done BEd,” Sen added.
Recruits without BEd will have to secure the degree through distance learning within two years of the date of joining, the official said.
Those teachers who have joined between March 31, 2001, and 2011 will be given time till 2015 to complete BEd. The relaxation is in keeping with the provisions of the RTE act. The BEd degree will not be compulsory for teachers who had joined before 2001.
A government notification will be issued soon.
Till now, the degree was not a must but candidates with BEd were awarded three grace marks in the SSC exam.
After the formulation of the RTE act in 2009, the Centre had directed all state governments to make the BEd degree mandatory for all schoolteachers from 2010. But the Left government in Bengal had appealed to the Union human resource development ministry for a more flexible approach on the ground that not many candidates knew about the new rule. The state government had also said the number of BEd-qualified candidates was less than the vacancies in the state-run and state-aided schools.
The Centre had permitted the Left government to put the decision on hold for a year. Sources said the previous government had deferred the implementation of the rule “also because it did not want to initiate any move that could make it further unpopular before the Assembly elections”.
The headmaster of a Madhyamik school said 39,000 teachers would be recruited through the SSC this year.
Although the RTE act does not mention if BEd is compulsory for those teaching in higher-secondary schools, the state government has decided to make it mandatory at this level for now. But the government plans to waive the criterion for the higher-secondary teachers after “seeking the opinion of the Centre”, said a school education department official.
School education secretary Sen said recruitment may also be made from among those who clear the Teachers’ Eligibility Test planned by the Centre-run National Council for Teachers’ Education (NCTE).
However, only those NCTE candidates who score a minimum of 50 per cent will be eligible for the BEd degree.
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Camden, N. J (Sep. 25)
(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A long legal fight looms over the $50,000 bequest of the late Aaron Cades, wealthy Atlantic City and Camden, N. J., real estate dealer, for the propagation of atheism. The will left $2,000 yearly for twenty-five years to “the Atheist Society,” or “for the purpose of enlightening the public on atheism.”
Both the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism and the Free Thinkers Association have put in a claim for the money. Lewis Liberman, attorney and Edwin Cades, son of the testator, who are co-executors of the estate, have announced that they will not pay the money to either of the societies except under court order, because of the “vagueness” of the bequest.
Aaron Cades died December 14, 1927. His bequest was a surprise, as he was not known as an atheist. His family is active in Beth-El Synagogue, Camden.
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Plastic crystal scintillator combines the two importantproperties of long attenuation length And fast timing and is thereforeparticularly useful for time-of-flight systems Using scintillators greater thanone meter long. Typical measurements of 4 meter Optical attenuation length areachieved in strips of cast sheet in which a
Representativesize is 2cm x 20cm x 300cm.
The combination of long attenuation length, high light output, and emissionspectrum well matched to the common photomultipliers recommends it as thedetector of choice for many industrial applications such as gauging andenvironmental protection where high sensitivity of signal uniformity arecritical operating requirements.
Physical and Scintillation Constants:
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Is attacked by aromatic solvents, chlorinated solvents, ketones, solvent bonding cements, etc.
It is stable in water, dilute acids and alkalis, lower alcohols and silicone greases. It is safe to use most epoxies and " super glues" with
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It sounds like standard radio chatter between an airplane and ground control, mostly repeating the identifying number of the flight.
But the recording that Malaysian officials played for the first time in public in a Beijing conference room on Tuesday is purportedly the last known words of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before it disappeared on March 8.
"Malaysia three-seven-zero contact Ho Chi Minh 120.9, good night," says a voice identified by Malaysian officials as that of a radar controller in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.
"Good night Malaysian three-seven-zero," answers a male voice believed to be a crew member on the plane.
Malaysian officials released the audio recording more than 50 days after the plane disappeared, in a long-awaited briefing before scores of relatives of the flight's Chinese passengers.
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Endometriosis is a benign condition. it can be very painful and cause many cysts. A sonogram can determine if you have endometriosis Some symptoms are heavy bleeding during your menstrual cycle and also bad debilatating cramps before and after your period. Good Luck ...Gia
Endometriosis occurs when some of the same types of cells that line your uterus somehow find themselves in little clusters in the abdominal cavity. To understand the reasons for your symptoms, it's easy to think of it as having little pin head size uteruses, sometimes larger, stuck in places inside your tummy. So, when your uterus is getting ready for menses as it reacts to the hormones in your body, often times, the endometriosis reacts as well.
If endometriosis is really bad for you, or you are already having some kind of abdominal surgery, talk to your gyn or general surgeon about laser treatments. This can make your quality of life so much better.
Hope you feel better.
endometriosis is usually a benign condition but in rare cases such as mine it can undergo malignant change . If you are experiencing pain and other symptoms then you should visit a gynaecologist and undergo tests to see what is causing your symptoms .
Best wishes Angie xx
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Transcript of Hurricane Wilma
Where did Hurricane Wilma occur and develop?
Hurricane Wilma developed in the Caribbean Sea. October 21st, 2015 was Hurricane Wilma's first land fall which was in Cozumel. October 24th was when it hit the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Florida.
How do Hurricanes form and what happens to them afterwards?
First, you must know that hurricanes form over water at 27°C or even hotter. Next, there must be winds coming together so it could be forced upwards. Then, the winds should flow over the storm to let the winds underneath to rise. Then, the humid air makes clouds. Lastly, the winds on the outside of the hurricane steers it, and lets it grow. It takes time for the hurricane to slowly die down.
When did this happen?
Hurricane Wilma went on for a total of 11 days. From October 15th 2005, when it formed, until October 26th 2005 when it has finally vanished.
What areas were affected?
Hurricane Wilma affected Hispania, Jamica, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Nicaragua, Honduras, Balize, Cozmuel, Yucatan Peninsula, Florida, Bahamas, the East Coast of the United States (mainly in South Florida), Atlantic Canada, and Europe.
How many people were injured? How many died?
How did the area and the people recover from Hurricane Wilma? How long did it take?
In total, 62 people were killed by Hurricane Wilma. 39 people were killed directly from it and the other 23 people that were killed were killed indirectly. At least 540 people were injured.
Arnold, Nick (1997) Volcano, Earthquake, and Hurricane
Zhar, J. Jeffrey "FLORIDA AGENCIES RECOVER FROM HURRICANE WILMA" November 04, 2005
"Millions Begin Recovery in Wilma's Aftermath" October 25th 2005
Woods, Gaby "Cancun gets back on its feet after Wilma" June 25 2006
It takes about 5 years to recover all the plants. In about 24 hours after Wilma dissipated, a few people in Miami regained electricity. “It will be days or weeks before we are back to normal,” Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said. People recovered slowly but managed to recover. "The Department of State actively sought to ensure that U.S. citizens in the region were safe, had access to basic services, and were able to return to the United States as quickly as possible."1.
Here are some photos of the damage that Hurricane Wilma caused.
These are pictures of the route of Hurricane Wilma.
Start of Hurricane
End of Hurricane Wilma
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How to get a cryptocurrency license in Singapore in 2022
Cryptocurrency is legal in Singapore, but ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges require a license. For professional activities, traders must also get a license. In addition to the securities license, there is also a financial advisor license. It must be taken by companies that advise clients on financial transactions with tokens. Read how to get a cryptocurrency license in Singapore 2022 in this article.
Regulation of the crypto business in Singapore
The central bank MAS is responsible for regulating cryptocurrency and blockchain projects in Singapore. The regulator has a positive attitude toward the cryptocurrency itself, trying to neutralize potentially risky activities related to tokens. Not all of its regulations are enforceable, but all are recommended.
The jurisdiction has no law dedicated to cryptocurrency, but tokens are considered securities here. Hence, all projects, including ICOs and crypto exchanges, must comply with the Securities and Futures Act (SFA).
Crypto exchanges in Singapore
A crypto-exchange must obtain a securities management license. The main requirements are to do the following:
- ensure the safety of users' funds;
- prevent money laundering, terrorist financing;
- monitor transactions and report all suspicious transactions to the regulator;
- notify the regulator of any changes related to operations;
- manage risks effectively;
- maintain user and employee confidentiality.
For a crypto-exchange to avoid being fined for failing to comply with anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism requirements, it must develop a customer identification system.
It used to be risky to launch an ICO in Singapore. The regulator did not support such projects, preventing them. With the popularity of cryptocurrency, the position has changed, but there are still some guidelines for ICO regulation. Before it can be launched, one must:
- meet requirements aimed at preventing fraud, protecting customers' money, even if the tokens are not securities;
- obtain a blockchain project license (capital markets license).
How to get a license
If a company wants to launch a cryptocurrency project, it must develop an administrative structure that will include:
- at least 1 shareholder - can be a legal entity, non-resident;
- at least 1 director - natural person, resident of Singapore;
- registered agent.
It is necessary to provide information about beneficiaries (not publicly available), shareholders and directors references to whom are partially available. Physical office in Singapore is required.
Filing of documents
To obtain a cryptolicense in Singapore 2022, the applicant submits to MAS documents in English, certified by a notary, with an apostille:
- copies of the owners' passports;
- proof of residency;
- certificate of no criminal record;
- a certificate from a Singapore bank showing the existence of an account with no claims;
- a detailed resume signed by the applicant;
- 2 letters of recommendation from persons who are engaged in similar professional activities;
- copies of higher education diplomas of the shareholder, director or executive director (confirming that they can hold the position).
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Handmade screenprints i did for my bachelor thesis. 7 different illustration styles, all in b&w. Topic was the evolution within a subcultural context. Especially in Graffiti& Hip Hop Fashion.
Teenager always found them self with other like minded people together and always the elder saw a menace in them and their spiritual heritage endangered.
But the case is that the society as also ongoing socialstructures will profit and grow from these groups.
The Youth isn‘t afraid, no they demand their environment to rethink. Revolution in every generation.
Today the drugs, tomorrow vegan.
To define themself and provoke is the main point here.
The motivation and reasons are most often the same here, they are trying to show that they are no longer addicted to or from their parents or their influence.
No, the propper refuse it.
Alhough there always was a youthculture is the term of the word relatively new one which was created in the beginning of the 20th century.
In the middle of the century there was a dramatically splitting within these culture.
And when im speaking of Youthculture i mean a revolutionary body of thought a new self defining to the authority.
Those who had enough of the emotionless philistinism of their parents.
These became noticeable especially through music and of course fashion.
That what it is looking after a minority group, becuse only 1/4 of all teenagers count themself to one of these subculuturell youthgroups, is since this short development phase since the beginning of the 20th century, one of the most important innovator.
Music and fashion which is dismissed by most or maybe not more as a joke. will be part of the mainstream culture of tomorrow.
The temporary spirit of age which connetcts all of these groups, no matter if it is Punk, Hip Hop, Gothic, Rock etc. is the visual identification.
Allthese groups created themself out of itself.
Mainpoint of all these subcultures was to be independent and individual.
There were no more need of big record labels or fashion brands. All these groups made and distributed their own records. Made their own shirts, created new markets.
Fascinated from their spiritual heritage, because one of these cultures had a major influence on me as a person and what i do now, i try to recreaty these methods to represent my self and my art.
I want to creat a t-shirt collection with black and white illustrations, and want to use the screen print procredure.
I will use A3+ screen print frames to make prints which are big enough to fill most of the shirt front.
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While we have been stuck in our houses for the last month—and will be for the foreseeable future—everything that we had taken for granted has become very apparent. We all miss going out with friends, dining in restaurants, perusing through stores and malls, going to the movies, playing at the park, and hitting the gym. As is the unfortunate case, it’s not until things are taken away from us that their value becomes clear. We are now finally getting a chance to see how much time and energy we wasted prior to lockdown, when the world was our oyster and we were free to go anywhere and do anything we pleased.
For those of us that were fortunate enough to keep our jobs or to have some savings to fall back on, we are mostly suffering from severe boredom. In the grand scheme of life this isn’t such a bad thing, but we have had to find ways to entertain ourselves while we are relegated indoors without our normal workload. But despite all that, what we probably miss the most is being able to go outside and explore nature beyond our backyards. We can feel the call of the great outdoors and its undisturbed, pristine nature far away from the buzzing, flashing, bright, noisy, and busy cities.
In the late seventies, Japan was hit hard with a wave of depression among the working class. Japanese were committing suicide and succumbing to what they named Karoshi—death from overwork—as they could not handle the intense stress and demands of their jobs. This forced the government to begin investing in rigorous research in order to find solutions to this epidemic. They tried various therapies, medications, and experiments to help people reduce stress so they would live longer, healthier, happier lives, despite their intense work environments.
One of the most obvious ways to prevent people from dying of overwork was to instate regulations to reduce the amount of hours citizens were required to work, including the amount of overtime they were allowed to undertake. However, in a world like today, where economy is everything and the grind never really stops, these regulations could only help so much. So, scientists and psychologists began looking for solutions in other places, outside of our cities, where one could feel the uncovered earth beneath their feet and contemplate the world in solitude and silence.
Over the last few decades in Japan and other countries all over the globe, countless studies have been conducted to find out how spending time in nature affects the human psyche and physiology, and how much of it still cannot be replaced or replicated by our seemingly advanced and state-of-the-art technology. Korea—which has had similar problems within its working class—has also been at the forefront of these studies. In both countries, they have found such profound and promising results that physicians have gone as far as prescribing nature to patients instead of medication and creating programs and retreats for people to spend time in nature to recover from stress and depression. (This is currently underway in the U.S. as well). It was so successful that they came up with a new, widely used term for this practice: shinrin yoku—forest bathing. Now more than ever, we are very aware that Japan and Korea aren’t the only countries in the world that have to worry about stress and depression from overwork, overexposure to indoor environments, and a lack of outside leisure time to recharge. And, while it may not be as severe in other places, it is safe to say that solutions to these issues would greatly benefit all of us around the world.
By using an array of different tools and monitors to track heart rate, blood pressure, and neural activity, scientists have actually been able to measure the different ways that forest bathing affects our physiology. For example, they’ve discovered that just smelling the aroma of pine needles alone effectively reduces blood pressure, boosts our immune system, and slows down heartrate, all of which reduces stress. Even diffusing pine oil in your home, such as cypress or any kind of fir tree, will replicate these positive effects.
But the positive effects of spending time in nature go even further than that. It’s really the only place in which all of our senses can be engaged as we smell our surroundings (the wet earth after rain; decaying leaves; aromatic plants and flowers; crisp, fresh air), hear all of the marvelous sounds (the songs of birds, a babbling brook, cracking branches, chirping insects, distant avalanches, the exceptional silence), taste the damp air, fresh water, or whatever snacks we have on hand, touch delicate mosses, soft soil, or hard rocks beneath our feet, and see and admire our surroundings as we enjoy the unrivaled scenery without interruption.
Studies have shown that these singular experiences lower cortisol levels (a chemical that causes stress and inflammation in our bodies), heart rate, blood pressure, and sympathetic nervous activity (the most primitive parts of our brains, where our fight or flight responses are triggered). Our minds and bodies both calm down and relax in synchrony as we fully take in our surroundings. By engaging all of our senses, our brains release balanced amounts of dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins: the quartet of chemicals responsible for our happiness. This causes us to “regain equanimity, cognitive clarity, empathy, and hope” (The Nature Fix). And, forest bathing doesn’t strictly apply to simply being in the forest; deserts, mountains, and coastal landscapes also promise us positive results.
Opposite studies have also been conducted to prove the damage and
negative effects that spending too much time in cities, offices, and indoors
has on us. When shown pictures of nature, test subjects relaxed; their heart
rate and blood pressure dropped and they felt more at ease. When test subjects
from another group were shown densely populated cities and tall buildings, it
triggered their fight or flight response and cortisol levels raised. Their blood
pressure and heartrate also increased in the same manner when they were shown
disturbing images of violence and tragedy. Afterwards, when they were shown
pictures of nature, their responses subsided, and the adrenaline faded
Studies have also been conducted in hospitals with recovering patients. A group of patients recuperating from the same procedure was divided, and half were put into rooms with windows with a pleasant view while the others were placed in rooms without windows. The patients recovering near a window recovered quicker and were more optimistic, while the patients without an outside view lingered significantly longer in their recovery and were more fatalistic and depressed. Afterwards, they did the same study with new patients, but instead of windows, photographs of nature were hung in half the subjects’ rooms. These results were also more positive for those that were surrounded by pictures of calming trees and puffy clouds, than for those whose four white walls were barren.
It’s become common knowledge that sunlight is also good for us, as studies have shown that a greater number of inhabitants of cloudier places with less sunlight suffer from anxiety and depression. It’s been proven that vitamin D improves our mood and mental health, as well as our immune systems. Sunlight also helps our brains to manage levels of melatonin which makes us more alert during the day and helps us to fall asleep and get a good rest at night. The best place to soak up the sun is in the company of wild nature!
Spending time in nature is undoubtedly good for us; this isn’t surprising, especially for those of us that already have outdoor habits, enjoy camping, and find excitement in the outdoors. And, both its physiological and spiritual benefits extend far beyond what has been shared here. Even still, it is encouraging that these statistics are materializing in our modern world and the results can be shared in convincing data. Now more than ever, we are learning to appreciate nature. It’s important for your health to get outside each day, feel some sunlight on your skin, breathe fresh air, calm down, and engage all of your senses.
What is even more important, however, is to work together to protect and preserve the little wilderness we still have left. Science and medicine is proving its importance, the extent to which we really depend on it, and the reality that it is impossible to find a substitute or replacement. We are not the only lifeforms that depend on nature, of course, as we share this planet with billions of other living, breathing, feeling, sentient beings. These creatures are now facing habitat displacement and possible extinction at unprecedented rates (150-200 species of plants, insects, birds, and mammals go extinct every day).
There is immense value in keeping undisturbed nature intact and enjoying its inherent gifts. We need to soak it all in while we can, while also working hard to preserve the practice of shinrin yoku for the next generation.
If you would like to know more about this topic, check out The Nature Fix by Florence Williams, The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, and The Story of More by Hope Jahren. Eric is a full-time wilderness advocate who portrays the beauty and value of nature through his artwork. His gallery of nature photographs can be seen here, along with additional articles about nature, photography, and life: www.bennettfilm.com
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September 14, 2010
In the last century we’ve increased our longevity by thirty years. In 1900 folks lived an average of 47 years; by the year 2000 that number had jumped to 78. Although I am far from retirement age, I follow the conversation of the changing retirement laws in Germany because it fascinates me that people are forced to stop working when they hit that ‘magic number’. While they want to raise it from 65 to age 67, there have been protests in France because they just jacked retirement up to age 60.
That’s where Peter Cappelli and Bill Novelli, co-authors of the newly released book, Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order, come in. They make a strong case for retaining talent and conducting smart knowledge management. After all, older folks are living longer, have more experience and, according to the authors, are motivated by different interests than their eager, younger colleagues. Dangling a promotion in front of their noses isn’t nearly as effective as giving them an interesting assignment that keeps them as a team player.
While I was slightly disappointed that the book didn’t delve into how younger managers can actually go about managing older workers, they did make a strong case for why older workers are so valuable. In a nutshell, they are:
- more knowledgeable (no mystery there);
- more flexible (most of them have their child-rearing days behind them; however flexibility for elder care remains an issue as their own parents’ failing health impacts their ability to maintain a regular schedule);
- more loyal and conscientious;
- just as costly (or not, depending on how the company views overall employee benefits).
In other words, older workers’ value in terms of knowledge and willingness to learn new things (thereby debunking the myth that people over forty somehow can’t or won’t ‘get with the program’) far outweighs any insurance cost, etc. Also notable is the fact that older workers are much less likeyl to have costly dependents so while their insurance premiums may be slightly higher, they are actually less costly in the overall scheme of things.
I thought of this today as I stood in line, waiting with one hundred other warm bodies, to buy my daughter’s last-minute school supplies. In high school, they like to tell the kids what they will need for class on the first day of school, leaving no time to prepare over a series of weeks. That means good ole Mom gets to push her way through the crowds for those ‘extra’ items she couldn’t foresee.
But back to my point: there were two lines. One had an elderly gentleman and a middle-aged woman working the cash register. The other had a younger team. One called out the price; the other typed it into the register. I couldn’t help but notice my line with the older team wasn’t moving as fast. Despite my ownership of the power of slow principles, I felt myself getting hot under the collar (literally ~all those people in such a small space!). When it was finally my turn, the woman advised me that I was buying the wrong pens. She kindly went back into the throng to get the right ones for me. She may have been slower, but imagine the amount of time she actually saved me in getting me the right pens the first time! That’s the very conscientiousness and customer care Cappelli and Novelli praised in the older worker. Amazing!
I smiled as the power of slow found its way back into my heart…and the right school supplies into my bag. Thanks to Managing the Older Worker, I will continue to view more experienced employees as the harbingers of slow because, as we all know by now, it’s faster anyway!
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August 11, 2010
It doesn’t take much, but it does take something to live a healthy lifestyle. According to a recent report by the German health insurance company DKV and the Cologne University for Sports Studies, one in seven Germans lives an unhealthy lifestyle, which is defined as having too little movement and too little nutritional care.
Thirty minutes of exercise a day would take care of more than our share of health issues (whether in the United States, Germany or elsewhere). According to the Mayo Clinic web site, aerobic exercise can not only increase your stamina, reduce your stress and strengthen your heart, it can also ward off viral illnesses, keep excess weight off and keep your mind sharp.
In essence, movement keeps you young. Eating what I like to call ‘things from outside’, that is foods in their original state, can also contribute to your longevity.
Tell that to the younger set. According to the German report, people under 30 were the worst in terms of healthy habits with only 7.4% living a healthy lifestyle (defined as exercising 30 minutes five times a week and eating fruits and vegetables every day).
When I asked my wise eleven-year-old daughter why she thinks that is, she immediately pointed to all the high tech gadgets that keep kids distracted, and tethered, to them. In response, I handed her an apple to offset the Nutella she had just breakfasted and suggested that thirty minutes of housecleaning could replace a walk outside.
She grinned, then plopped herself in front of her computer for a half-hour.
Healthy habits start at home. It looks like we have some work to do in our own, but we’re on our way. Now where did I put that mop…?
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Is there life on different planets? One of many oldest and hottest query everybody asks at any time when a dialogue occur round astronomy. Though we usually concentrate on discussing about chance of extra-terrestrial clever life, discovering simply ‘life’ or simply their traces (like fossils), is extra reasonable in close to future. Discovering alien fossils or martian microbial lifeforms deep inside polar capes of Mars is actually extra possible then Curiosity encountering a bipedal inexperienced martian.
Wikipedia defines life as – a attribute that distinguishes bodily entities which have organic processes, comparable to signaling and autonomous processes, from these that don’t, both as a result of such features have ceased or as a result of they by no means had such features and are categorised as inanimate. Numerous types of life exit, comparable to crops, animals, fungi and micro organism.
As our understanding of ‘life’ singularly relies upon upon varied ‘identified’ life-forms discovered on Earth, can we even acknowledge a life-form that’s alien to us?
In our seek for life on different planets, we would encounter a sure life-form which could not seem to us as a residing entity. One attention-grabbing instance of such life-form which is often mistaken for non-living issues are Corals.
As soon as we have now outlined ‘life’, we must always transfer on how and the place to search out one?
Complicated life comparable to animals, crops and so forth. take a lot time to evolve. Finest guess could be on microbial – they’re one of many first to be fashioned and a few of them also can survive in harsh circumstances – that are fairly widespread to be discovered within the universe.
Listed here are some main progress in recent times, in our seek for life on different planets:
Seek for Biosignatures
Biosignature is any substance that gives scientific proof of previous or current life. A biosignature can present proof for residing organisms exterior the Earth and may be straight or not directly detected by looking for their distinctive byproducts.
Seek for biosignatures from Earth based mostly telescopes: James Webb Area Telescope is designed partially to research exoplanets like gasoline giants and tremendous Earths, by observing distant planet’s mirrored mild to detect the signatures potential life.
Discovery of phosphine in environment of Venus: In 2020, scientists detected phosphine in environment of Venus. Phosphine is produced by micro organism thriving in oxygen-starved environments, indicating that microbes might inhabit the planet. Venus could be very comparable in measurement and construction to Earth, though a lot hotter at 471 levels Celsius and lined in poisonous gasoline.
Cassini detected traces of methane in Enceladus’s plumes: An earthbound microbe, referred to as methanogenic archaeon, survives with out oxygen by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide (each noticed in Enceladus’s environment) and emitting methane as a waste product.
Seek for Further-terrestrial Fossils
On the Pink Planet, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is looking for fossils and traces of aliens in Jezero Crater, an historic lake mattress thought to have as soon as been liveable for microbial life. Perseverance is tasked with looking for indicators that microbial life could have lived on Mars billions of years in the past. It should gather rock core samples and future missions would return these samples to Earth for additional examine.
Microbial fossil in a Martian meteorite: In 1996, a staff of scientists led by David McKay of NASA’s Johnson Area Flight Heart introduced that they’d found proof for microscopic fossil life in a meteorite from Mars. Martian meteorite ALH84001, recovered in Antarctica. Some scientists have instructed that bodily and chemical options on this meteorite present proof for microscopic fossil life on Mars.
Microorganisms might exist past Earth, and there are plans to seek for indicators of them on Mars and a few of Saturn and Jupiter’s moons. Such organisms is perhaps based mostly on completely different amino acids (key constructing blocks of all life) than lifeforms on Earth. It’s sure that our first contact will not be going to be thrilling one.
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Flexibility and automation: the development trend of food and packaging machinery in the first three years of the tenth five year plan, China's food industry developed rapidly, with a growth rate of 18%-21%. In 2003, the dairy industry, fruit 9, must operate according to the procedures specified in the instructions when using, and the juice and beverage industry reached a growth rate of 30%. In 2003, the annual sales volume of the food industry reached 2233billion yuan, but the sales volume of food and packaging machinery was only 46billion yuan, far from meeting the needs of the domestic market. In the same period, the total import of food and packaging machinery was USD 2.294 billion, while the total domestic market demand was about RMB 65billion. In recent years, the imported equipment can not be manufactured in China or the manufacturing level is far from it, which also shows our gap. At present, food safety has been increasingly concerned by the Chinese people. If left unchecked, it will affect people's health, reduce people's living standards, and have a serious negative impact on social stability, the food industry and even the entire economic development. Therefore, during the "Eleventh Five Year Plan" period when we cooperate with major cosmetics brands in the world, we should improve the level of science and technology and equipment in the whole field of food safety experiments, whether static or dynamic, develop technologies and equipment for rapid and accurate identification of hazardous factors in food, and further develop preventive technologies and storage technologies and equipment such as pathogen resistance and pathogen control. Food and packaging machinery have been an industry for only 20 years. Compared with the food industry, it is a new industry. The past 20 years have witnessed the fastest development of advanced technologies in the world. New technologies and technologies have been continuously applied in the food and packaging machinery industry. However, the image packaging machinery industry in China, which can move food and bags to narrow the aperture, has a weak foundation, insufficient technology and scientific research strength, and its development is relatively lagging behind, delaying the development of the food and packaging industry to some extent. Although the overall development of the food and packaging machinery industry is fast, the food and packaging industry is developing faster. In 2003, the growth rate of the food industry was 21%, while the growth rate of the food and packaging machinery industry was only 16.75%, which widened the gap. If the annual growth rate is 16%, it is estimated that by the end of 2005, the total output value of the food and packaging machinery industry will be about 62billion yuan, while the domestic market demand will reach 85billion yuan. By 2010, the total output value of domestic food and packaging machinery industry will reach 130billion yuan (current price), and the market demand may reach 200billion yuan. At this time, the market vacancy will be filled by foreign equipment. The goal of the eleventh five year plan is to narrow this gap, so as to make the food industry catch up with the world's advanced level, and to make the big packaging country stride forward to the powerful packaging country, provide advanced technical equipment, and let the imported equipment play a role of picking up the leftovers and filling the gaps in the domestic market. This requires the development speed of domestic food and packaging machinery to exceed 18% per year, and the output value rate of new products to reach 25% (12.97% in 2003).
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Calum Scott built GuitarGlitch. He writes:
The GuitarGlitch project is part of a masters portfolio I’m doing for Glasgow University music department. I’m looking at musical applications of physical computing and HCI – in particular the role of physical objects in digital music.The learning curve was quite high on this project as I had close to no electronics experience before starting. The solenoids are all 12v (from rs-online.com) and are connected to an Arduino Duemilanove board (arduino.cc) and the power supplies with a TIP120 transistor circuit similar to this. The leds are on the same pins as the solenoids. The code running on the Arduino is SimpleMessageSystem which is then controlled from Max/Msp. There are also 2 6v dc motors on the headsocks which are from a mechano set and are controlled by a Miditron board (eroktronix.com)..
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Skin cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in the United States. The appearance of a new mole or changes in an existing one are the most common signs of the disease. A new study has revealed that counting the number of moles on a person's right arm could indicate vulnerability to skin cancer, with 11 or more moles being a 'strong predictor' of melanoma.
The study findings suggested that the greater the total number of moles on the body, the higher the risk from melanoma, or skin cancer. Scientists at King's College London said, "The findings could help doctors more easily identify patients at risk, by using the arm as a 'proxy' area."
AdvertisementFor the research, researchers studied 3,594 female Caucasian twins, using data collected over an eight-year period, with each person undergoing a mole count on 17 body areas. This exercise was then repeated on a group of around 400 men and women with melanoma.
The researchers said, "Women with more than 11 moles on their right arm were more likely to have over 100 moles on their body in total, which was a 'strong predictor' of melanoma."
Lead author Simone Ribero, of the department of twin research and genetic epidemiology at King's College, said, "The findings could have a 'significant impact', allowing doctors to more accurately estimate the total number of moles in a patient extremely quickly via an easily accessible body part. This would mean that more patients at risk of melanoma can be identified and monitored."
The study is published in the British Journal of Dermatology.
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Summer is here! Summer is a time for relaxation, trips to the beach, and vacations. Summer also brings a new set of challenges to your backyard chickens. The heat can truly take it out of your birds! Here’s what you should know.
Heat Causes Lots of Problems
As the temperature climbs, your chickens’ productivity drops. Egg laying decreases or stops altogether. Broilers stop gaining weight. Chickens get lethargic. Given too much heat, chickens die. Heat is a serious issue for backyard farmers, especially in hot climates.
Some Breeds Fare Better than Others
Did you know that birds without combs are more susceptible to the heat? Certain breeds, such as the white leghorn, do better with heat. Large, heavily feathered birds are more susceptible to heat than their smaller, thinner counterparts. Males tend to fare better than females and non-laying chickens do better with heat than layers.
Other heat-tolerant breeds include the Ancona, the Plymouth Rock, the Catalana, Golden Campines, Blue Andalusians, and the Rhode Island breeds. Avoid large, heavily feathered breeds.
Summer-Proofing Your Coop
Before you construct your coop, keep in mind how the sun will fall on it. Use wide overhangs, put windows and the open side of the coop from the east to the west, and consider evaporative coolers and fans to keep air moving. The best spot for your coop is somewhere with adequate shade and plenty of ventilation. Windows are your friends!
Keep a ready supply of cool water available for your birds and remove much of the coop’s litter. A mister can keep your birds cool too. Provide them with shade and try to keep the chickens out of direct sunlight as much as possible. Keep a lookout for panting and signs of lethargy and avoid feeding your birds corn or scratch during the summer months because your chickens will create body heat trying to digest these things. Fruit and vegetable scraps are a much better option. Add ice to that water to keep it cool on the hottest days.
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What exactly happened 62 years ago?
Two self governing countries legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947. 14 August, 1947, saw the birth of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan. At midnight the next day India won its freedom from colonial rule, ending nearly 350 years of British presence in India. The British left India divid ed in two. The two countries were founded on the basis of religion, with Pakistan as an Islamic state and India as a secular one.
India’s Independence Day is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is celebrated all over the country and by a growing diaspora around the world. Pakistan became independent on the previous day. What is sometimes forgotten is that the period signifies the single largest human migration of people in modern history. Till today, there is no institutional memory of Partition: the State has not seen fit to construct any memorials, to mark any particular places – as has been done, say, in the case of Holocaust memorials, or memorials for the Vietnam War.
There is nothing at the border that marks it as a place where millions of people crossed, no plaque or memorial at any of the sites of the camps, nothing that marks a particular spot as a place where Partition memories are collected.
Between 12-14 million people who had homes that their families had occupied for decades (often centuries) became ‘political’ refugees to take up residence across the border. Estimates of how many people died vary immensely, hovering in the half to one-half million ranges. Most scholars and observers round it to a million for convenience.
Partition was the dark side of independence: the question then is, how can it be memorialized by the State without the State recognizing its own complicity?
It is true that hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of Partition. A half century later, you might well be able to read them as martyrs to the cause of forging a new nation. But alongside, there is also the other, inescapable reality that millions of people were killed and in many families where there were deaths, there were probably also murders.
How do you memorialize such a history? What do you commemorate? For people, for the State, what is at stake in remembering? To what do you have to be true in order to remember?
Picture taken by BBC during the partition shows a street filled with dead bodies, where vultures having their feast. Looking at the tragic scene Bourke-White’s biographer Vicki Goldberg, writes “The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead.
It was not only that people killed those of the “other” religion, but in hundreds of instances, they killed people of their own families; it was not only that men of one religion raped women of the other, but in hundreds of instances, men raped women of the same religion.
What can you do to mark such a history as anything other than a history of shame? No matter how much Indian politicians, members of the Congress, tried to see themselves as reluctant players in the game, they could not escape the knowledge that they accepted Partition as the cost of freedom. Such histories are not easily memorialized.
In many countries in the world today, there are memorials to moments of conflict and upheaval. Either with State support or otherwise, scholars have painstakingly built up meticulous archives of people’s testimonies, of photographs, letters, documents, memoirs, books in which such historical moments are represented.
Very little of this exists for Partition. Until recently, little attempt has been made even to collect people’s accounts. Visual representations of Partition – despite the rich archive of photographs that must exist in many newspapers and magazines – remain limited, and while a half century of Indian independence has called for all manner of celebratory events, little has been done to mark this important event in the history of India.
We dedicate new website http://www.PunjabPartition.com to keep our young history alive.
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After I built my baby boy a swing, I realised I had enough scrap materials to make another one that will last him into his teenage years. Bonus: It’s big enough that my wife and I can use it too! It’s now my favourite thing to head out to the backyard and all swing together until the sun goes down. Here’s a super simple DIY tree swing that you can make in no time at all.
Disclaimer: Mumtastic and Totally Her, LLC hold no liability if you create a swing according to these instructions. It is up to you to make sure your knots are tied correctly and your swing is hung properly. Only you can be responsible for you and your child’s safety, so please be careful and proceed with caution.
- 1.5 metres of 26 x 20 mm wood planks
- 25 mm wooden beads
- 6 metres t of 10 mm braided nylon rope
- 10 mm drill bit
- 2 metal rings
- polyurethane sealer (optional)
- tree swing hanging apparatus of your choosing
Step 1: Start by cutting your wood down to the proper sizes. You will need eight pieces of wood cut to 17 mm in length. Then, using your sandpaper, sand all the hard edges down to rounded corners.
Step 2: Drill 10 mm holes in the wood as illustrated in the above image. The holes should be 19 mm in from the outside edge of the planks. Depending on the wooden beads you can find, you may need to drill their holes to be 10 mm as well. The best way to accomplish this is to put them in a clamp and then drill the hole. You will need fourteen beads in total.
Step 3: Cut your rope into two 3 metre lengths. You want a nylon rope that is rated to carry a large amount of weight, and one that won’t unravel when being threaded through these holes. When you cut the rope, wrap the ends in masking tape to hold the outer layer together—you will burn the ends to seal them when the swing is complete.
Step 4: Do the same on the other side.
Step 5: Pull each side of the rope through so there is about a foot of rope sticking out on the opposite corners of the swing. Tie the short end of your rope to the long end of your rope, forming a triangle, using an anchor bend knot. The knot will be slightly adjustable before it is tightened, so position the swing how you like it and leave the amount of rope you want between the knot and the planks before pulling it tight on both sides.
Step 6: With that, your swing is complete! All that is left is to adjust the length of rope to the height you need, and attach the metal rings using the same anchor bend knots. Optionally, you can seal your wooden swing with some polyurethane to protect it from the elements and give the wood a fine smooth finish. Then you can hang the swing from your tree using appropriate hanging equipment.
Please remember to be safe and properly test all of your knots and connections before placing a child in the swing. Be sure to use properly rated weight-bearing products and only use the swing under direct adult supervision. If you tie your knots correctly and use the right rope and connectors, your swing should be able to support up to 90 kg. Be safe and have fun!
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Survival of Bacillus subtilis var. globigii in a simulated Martian environment was demonstrated. Previous contact with the simulated Martian soil or atmosphere reduced germination or outgrowth of unheated spores, or both. Inoculation into simulated Martian soil and then flushing with a simulated Martian atmosphere were lethal to both vegetative cells and spores. After one diurnal temperature cycle (26 to -60 C), the majority of of cells present were spores. No further effect of the diurnal cycle on survival was noted in any of the experimental samples.
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U.S. households hold the least municipal debt since 2008, and are instead stockpiling the most cash in at least four years, offering a cushion for the $3.7 trillion market as yields reach an 11-month high.
Individuals buying local debt directly through brokers, instead of using vehicles such as mutual funds, cut municipal assets to $1.68 trillion at year-end, Federal Reserve data show. While that’s still the single biggest chunk of the local market, it’s the lowest since March 2008. Holdings fell as local yields dropped in 2012 to levels unseen since the 1960s.
With the U.S. jobless rate at a four-year low and the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting a record high, 10-year Treasury yields will rise about a half-percentage point to 2.5 percent in a year, according to the median forecast of 61 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. An increase of that size will draw investors back to tax-exempt borrowings, said George Friedlander, head of muni research at Citigroup Inc. in New York.
The cash pile “provides a real cushion for the municipal market, specifically in a rising-rate environment,” said Friedlander. “Any significant increase in yields, and you will get a bounce in direct retail demand.”
Even as the Fed keeps its benchmark rate near zero, where it has been since 2008, money in foreign deposits, checking and savings accounts and money-market funds tallied $10 trillion at the end of 2012, the most since at least 2008, Fed data show.
“There is this massive pool of uninvested retail-investor funds which will support the municipal market at some point, if rates go back up,” said Friedlander, whose firm is the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets.
Buyers started shying away from tax-exempts in December as yields fell to 47-year lows. Treasuries led a fixed-income rally last year as investors sought a haven from global credit concerns. Both markets have lost money this month, with munis declining 0.7 percent and Treasuries 0.6 percent, Bank of America Merrill Lynch data show.
Yields on 10-year benchmark munis rose to 2.07 percent yesterday, the highest since April, Bloomberg Valuation data show. Benchmark Treasury notes maturing in 2023 yielded about 2.02 percent.
The tax-exempt benefit of munis will help the securities compete against federal debt, corporate bonds and other fixed-income securities, Mark Maroney, global head of munis and securitized products at RBC Capital Markets LLC in New York, said in an interview.
Increased tax rates provide another incentive for individual investors. For those in the highest tax bracket, 39.6 percent, the benchmark 10-year muni yield equals 3.43 percent on a taxable basis, Bloomberg data show.
“In a rising rate environment, it will be munis that will rebound quicker as assets start to make their way back to fixed-income product,” Maroney said.
Combined muni holdings of investors subject to individual tax rates, or households, mutual funds and money-market funds accounted for 71.2 percent of the tax-exempt market in 2012, down from 74.5 percent in 2008, Peter DeGroot, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, wrote in a March 8 report.
“Retail investors do engage more aggressively in the municipal-bond market at higher yield levels,” he said in an interview. “Should rates rise materially in the future, that would be additive to demand from the retail sector of the market.”
About 77 percent of U.S. households face higher taxes after Congress in January ended a payroll tax cut and boosted income-tax rates on households earning $450,000 or more to 39.6 percent from 35 percent, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
The higher the tax rate, the more individuals will seek munis for their exempt status, DeGroot said.
“Increases in taxes at the federal level, as well as state and local level, will definitely over time increase the proportional ownership of municipal securities by investors who are subject to those individual tax rates,” DeGroot said.
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Built in 1892, this Romanesque Revival is both a city and national historic landmark, designed by Brooklyn’s prolific Frank Freeman. The fortress-like archway was designed for fire trucks to enter – possibly the city’s most impressive garage door. Firehouse operations ceased when the building was registered as a historic landmark in 1972, but the building sat mostly empty until 1987. In hopes to alleviate displacement from developing nearby MetroTech center, the city approved it as affordable housing. A 2015 renovation has restored much of its former glory, after 20 years of neglect.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The American Red Cross is closing the emergency shelter that opened for victims of the deadly tornado that struck north Minneapolis on May 22.
The shelter is scheduled to close Sunday. CEO Phil Hansen of the American Red Cross Minneapolis Region says all shelter residents will be moving to transitional or long-term housing before then.
The Red Cross has used the North Commons Recreation Center as an emergency shelter since May 27.
Red Cross caseworkers are meeting one-on-one with people affected by the tornado to determine their needs, identify resources and help develop recovery plans.
Since the tornado struck Minneapolis, the Red Cross has served more than 150,000 meals and snacks, hosted more than 1,300 overnight shelter stays, and provided disaster mental health services to more than 1,000 people.
(© Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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In A.S. Byatt's Possession, two literary scholars, Maud Bailey and Roland Michell, investigate the relationship of the Victorian poets they study, respectively, Christabel Lamotte and Randolph Ash. After discovering the correspondence of the two poets and making several connections between their works, Maud and Roland are excited by the possibility that Lamotte secretly accompanied Ash on his famous walking tour of Yorkshire.
In the passage below, Maud and Roland spontaneously decide to recreate Ash and Lamotte's trip to Yorkshire. By doing so, they "follow the path" of the Victorian poets in three ways. They retrace the steps of Ash and Lamotte's trip, intentionally, and, when they visit a place called Boggle Hole, unintentionally. They continue along the trail of clues that suggests an affair between the poets. And Maud and Ronald move closer to a romance as brash as that between Ash and Lamotte.
While deciding to sneak away to Yorkshre, Maud and Roland discuss their shared obsession with the Ash/Lamotte connection. They feel driven to pursue their study, even while alienating their colleagues and lovers. Their conversations raise several questions about revisiting old lives and texts, and the role of the literary scholar.
"Which came first? His line or her line? There are problems about dating Ask to Embla--which we're obviously on the way to solving, among other things. It reads like a classic literary clue. She was a clever and hinting sort of woman. Look at those dolls."
"Literary critics make natural detectives," said Maud. "You know the theory that the classic detective story arose with the classic adultery novel--everyone wanted to know who was the Father, what was the origin, what is the secret?"...
"I want to--to--follow the--path. I feel taken over by this. I want to know what happened, and I want it to be me that finds out. I thought you were mad, when you came to Lincoln with your piece of stolen letter. Now I feel the same. It isn't professional greed. It's something more primitive."
"Partly." [pp. 258-259]
1. How believable is Maud's theory that Christabel left clues for the benefit of future biographical and literary scholars? To what extent should a writer's personal life be considered when studying his or her literary works? How does Maud's and Roland's opinion on this subject change throughout the novel?
2. How does the attempt by Maud and Roland to recreate the lives of Ash and Lamotte compare to the attempt by A.S. Byatt to recreate the themes and style of Victorian works such as Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh?
3. What is the significance of the link between scholarly obsession and madness in the novel?
4. How does Byatt play with the forms of the "classic detective story" and the "classic adultery novel" in Possession?"
5. If not "professional greed" and not quite "narrative curiosity," what is it that drives Maud and Roland to continue their fanatical study of Lamotte and Ash?
Byatt, A.S. Possession: A Romance. New York: Vintage International, 1990.
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Task analysis is the process of breaking a learning task down into its component parts and teaching each part as a distinct skill. It is often used by sports instructions in teaching such activities as tennis, golf and skiing. The premise that a hierarchy of sub-skills underlies master of a learning task is the pedagogical foundation. By arranging skills in a hierarchy, each skills builds on the next. Task analysis is a sequenced, systematic approach to teaching, which provides opportunities for evaluation of each sub-skill. When using task analysis the teacher will need to:
* Write a behavioral statement about the learning task (e.g. student will be able to divide three digit numbers with 90 percent accuracy) * Design an outline of the learning task broken down into a hierarchy of sub-skills. * Evaluate the student's abilities in relationship to each of the sub-skills before instruction. * Select materials and procedures for teaching each sub-skills. * Provide feedback to students about sub-skills development. * Evaluate acquisition of each sub-skill through systematic monitoring.
Students generally have some prior knowledge and skills when they begin instruction. Teachers who use task analysis define the task that the student will perform, state the condition under which the task will occur, and show the criterion measurement required for mastery. Task analysis identifies a sequence of skills needed to perform a tasks successfully. Criterion measurements identify whether the student possesses the necessary skills or knowledge for that task. The level of performance that is acceptable is the "criterion level", and it is often specified on the student's individualized education plan (IEP).
Through task analysis, the teacher can plan learning activities in the order in which they need to be learned to reach mastery as indicated on the student's IEP. The criterion set for determining mastery of the behavioral objective can be measured by using criterion-referenced testing, or some other informal, curriculum-based type of assessment.
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cedric.jeanneret at camptocamp.com
Tue May 11 10:37:19 MSD 2010
I'm currently developping a really tiny app using OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap.
As I was testing it, I saw that sometimes tiles don't come. I guess this is caused by server load at OSM. So I was thinking about caching some tiles so that it won't overload OSM, and my app will work nicely.
Has anybody ever tried it ? if so, how can we do it ?
If no one has tested/tried it, any hints/ideas ?
I guess I should configure a special vhost like "tiles.domain.ltd", proxy-ing tiles.openstreetmap.org, with some caching, and tell OpenLayers to use OSM tiles through this proxy. Right ?
Thank you for your answers.
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A new Annex 38 in the Heat Pump Programme of the International Energy Agency started in 2010 and will last until end of 2013. “Solar and heat pump systems” Annex aims at understanding the best combinations of a heat pump and solar collectors for a one family house. The heat pump can be of any type. Several countries participate in this Annex and bring their experience and projects together to get the most of the international collaborative work.
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There is a wonderful app called Silent Film Studio which lets you shoot video clips on the iPad, add title cards (in that wonderful art deco style) and converts it all into a shakey, scratchy silent movie with an era-approriate piano jingle to go with it. It’s easy and a lot of fun to use.
I showed the students a couple of examples of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, so they got the idea of slapstick. You can appreciate how the 6-8 year olds really loved seeing movies of people fake slapping each other and falling about everywhere. The only thing they loved more than watching the movies was making them.
This short video I’ve done explains how you can quickly make a silent movie using the app.
I spent two sessions on this. The first was the introduction to the genre and the app, with some time for the kids to play around with it. The second session was for them to start from scratch and make their movies.
I didn’t worry much about title cards for the Prep-Gr 1s, but I did insist the Gr 2s put some thought into what should go on them. We discussed how they were used for dialoague, in place of sound, and occassionally for setting the scene.
Here is a student example.
A fun activity that taught the kids about movie making from yesteryear, but one that the kids were highly engaged in making.
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The Tevatron Collider
in Batavia, IL was opened in 1983 in hopes of smashing subatomic particles into the smallest pieces possible, giving America the distinction of being the country to make the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson. However, it was defunded and closed in 2011.
However, Scientific American
has released a report saying that new findings announced at the Moriond Conference in La Thuile, Italy show that the Tevatron data matches the CERN data collected from their Higgs experiments.
At CERN, data suggested that a standard model Higgs particle would have a mass around 125 GeV (gigaelectron volt
). In the Tevatron's data, events involving proton and antiproton collisions showed possible Higgs particles with masses between 117 GeV and 131 GeV, which backs up CERN's results.
The Higgs boson
is theorized to be the physical manifestation of the Higgs field, which defines why particles like quarks and electrons have mass, while other particles, like the photon, do not. The existence of the Higgs boson is predicted in the Standard Model
of particle physics, which deals with the nuclear interactions of the electromagnetic, strong, and weak forces. The Higgs theory was first proposed in 1964.
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As the leader of a non-profit, or as a non-profit marketer or donor officer, you know that the community holds immense power when it comes to fundraising. Once you have the community on your side, your funding battle is almost won as the community can be the most stable donor you will ever have.
With this knowledge, you have probably tried all sorts of methods and techniques to win the community over to your side. But have you tried giving promotional gifts?
Promotional gifts can be so easily overlooked by a non-profit because unlike a business, a non-profit has to work with a very specific budget that often doesn’t make allowances for marketing. But if you are a non-profit that is able to set money aside for promotional gifts, you are going to be giving your organisation the opportunity to truly stand out from all other similar organisations looking for donations. But the success of a campaign that includes promotional items lies with the non-profit making a few wise decisions regarding the items that they choose.
Top tips for non-profits looking to use promotional items
Know who your audience is
Certain age groups like to receive certain gifts, for instance, the younger generation might prefer to receive something electronic rather than stationary. This is one thing to consider when you start your research into promotional gifts. You should also consider the income groups of those who you will be giving the promotional items to. You want your promotional items to bring in some funding so targeting children with your products might not yield the results you need. Once you understand your audience and what types of items they would like to receive, you can start looking around.
Keep the purpose of the item in mind
Promotional items are used to build a brand and to ultimately encourage people to support your non-profit in all sorts of ways. Promotional gifts can be given to donors, fellow non-profits and supporters, to say thank you and to build your brand. Promotional items can also be given during campaigns, outreaches and community meetings.
You don’t have to give away the same gift at every event so your promotional items can change from event to event and serve a different purpose at each event.
Keep your vision, your mission and your non-profits values in mind
At the foundation of every non-profit, you will find the vision, the mission and the values of the organisation. These factors usually form the reasons why the non-profit was founded in the first place. The promotional items that you give should be in line with your vision, mission and values as well as be in line with the values of your supporters. This will drive home and reinforce your organisations need for support and commitment to the work that it does.
Be creative with the items you choose to give
To truly stand out you need to be creative and not give the usual, more common gifts unless you absolutely have no choice. Instead of stickers, badges and t-shirts, think about giving out awareness bracelets. One of the nicest, and most useful gift to give is a USB bracelet.
Your non-profit can really take marketing to the next level when you decide to use promotional gifts. To save money but still make an impact on your marketing, you should look for affordable promotional gifts.
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Distance from Pastaza to Ipiales
Distance from Pastaza to Ipiales is 282 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 175 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Pastaza and Ipiales is 282 km= 175 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Pastaza to Ipiales, It takes 0.31 hours to arrive.
Pastaza is located in Ecuador.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||1° 37´ 59.5200'' S |
77° 0´ 37.3680'' W
Pastaza Distances to Cities
|Distance from Pastaza to Ipiales||282 km|
|Distance from Pastaza to Pasto||316 km|
|Distance from Pastaza to Mocoa||310 km|
|Distance from Pastaza to Cienaga||1,431 km|
|Distance from Pastaza to Tumaco||429 km|
Ipiales is located in Colombia.
|GPS Coordinates||0° 49´ 48.6480'' N |
77° 38´ 58.5240'' W
Ipiales Distances to Cities
|Distance from Ipiales to Quito||152 km|
|Distance from Ipiales to Atuntaqui||83 km|
|Distance from Ipiales to Ventanas||322 km|
|Distance from Ipiales to Manta||394 km|
|Distance from Ipiales to Chone||320 km|
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What the Bible Says About Being Saved
It is difficult to imagine a more important question than the one that forms the title of this article. While concerns in this life dominate most people's attention we ought to be more concerned about the life to come. Are we saved? How do we know we are saved? What does the Bible say one does to be saved? This article will attempt to answer these crucial questions.
Perhaps no place in scripture can answer these questions quite like Acts 2:38. Acts 2 is an ideal place to study salvation for several reasons. To begin with, it is the first place that God's complete plan of salvation is announced. Second, it contains the preaching of an inspired apostle, Peter, who spoke exactly what the Holy Spirit told him to say. Third, and most important to our study, Acts 2 begins with unsaved people and ends with saved people. What happens to them in this chapter that moves them from a state of being lost to a state of being saved is of primary importance.
Space does not allow a full analysis of Peter's sermon, but we need to note the key components in this very first gospel sermon. After the Apostles were anointed with the Holy Spirit they began to speak in foreign languages and tongues of flame like fire sat on them (2:1-12). All of this, coupled with the sound of a mighty windstorm, caused many people to come see what was happening. Peter seized the opportunity and began to proclaim the gospel. Repeatedly drawing on Old Testament prophecies to prove his points, Peter taught the people that the rejected Jesus was the Messiah and Savior of the world. In verse 36 he forcefully closes his sermon by stating, "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." What a bombshell! The Messiah the Jews had been anxiously awaiting for centuries had come, Peter said, and instead of being received with joy was viciously murdered! Peter's sermon convicted the audience of the crime of murdering the Son of God. Has there ever been people any more lost than those on that day? Their pitiful cry in verse 37 ("Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?") brings us to the verse we wish to study. What the Bible says about salvation can well be answered by considering what Peter said next.
Peter's reply was simple: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38). Allow me to make several observations from this significant passage. First, do you see that Peter told the people to do something? The idea that man does nothing to receive salvation is wholly defeated right here. Such teaching has been done out of wrong concept of works and a failure to understand God's grace. Certainly all are saved by grace, and nothing can be done to earn that favor (Ephesians 2:8-9). It is impossible to work one's way into heaven, to do special deeds that catch God's eye and cause Him to bless one with salvation, or to do anything in any way that merits or deserves the priceless free gift of salvation. However, eliminating works that earn grace does not eliminate every kind of human activity. God has been showering His grace upon people for centuries, but this has never meant that people were not required to obey Him and do as He instructs. Genesis 6:8 tells us that Noah "found grace in the eyes of the Lord." Hebrews 11:7 furthers our understanding of Noah's salvation when it says "By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household. . . ." Notice that Noah was saved by grace and by faith, but neither of those eliminated his need to "prepare an ark." In other words, Noah's salvation came about as his faith led him to obey God.
Isn't this exactly what Peter is telling the people in Acts 2? That they have faith is evident (more about this in a moment). Peter's command "to repent and be baptized" did not nullify grace, nor exterminate their salvation by faith. He simply urged, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that these people take the action steps necessary to demonstrate their obedient hearts. James brings these thoughts together perfectly when he writes, "But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works . . . You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." (James 2:18, 24). Peter told the people in Acts 2 they needed to do something to be justified (saved). Those actions did not earn salvation, but were clearly necessary if they wanted to accept the gracious gift of salvation. Second, do you see that not everyone will be saved? The universalist says that everyone will be saved, despite their life, faith, or deeds. How can this be in light of Acts 2:38? Peter did not say, "Do nothing because God is going to save you all." Further, we might note that Peter did not say "Do nothing because God has predestined some of you to be saved and has predestined the rest to be lost and nothing you can do can change that." This isn't the teaching of Peter by any stretch of the text. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 makes it clear that Jesus will take vengeance "on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." How can anyone doubt the necessity of obedience, or that obedience can and does affect one's eternal destiny?
Third, do you see that Peter did not say "You will be saved by faith only?" Peter did not tell the crowd "Ask Jesus into your heart," or "Pray this little prayer to be saved." So many today offer a plan of salvation that is incomplete and insufficient. They tell people to believe in Christ, but they do not tell people what Peter told them: repent and be baptized. That the people of Acts 2 had faith is certain because the scriptures say the message "pricked their heart." They would not have asked Peter what to do if they did not believe the message. They had the essential quality of faith that every person wanting to be saved must have (John 8:24). But nowhere in scripture do we read that faith alone can save. Indeed, the passage in James says exactly the opposite: "You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." (James 2:24). This is the only place in scripture where the phrase "faith only" occurs and it is preceded by the word "not!" Peter did not teach faith only — why should we teach or believe it today?
Let's turn our attention to what Peter did tell these people to do. What does it mean to "repent?" Repent is a word that means to change, to turn one's life around. Repentance is essential salvation. Jesus says, "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3). One who repents has a marked change in his or her life, a quality called "fruits of repentance" (Matthew 3:8). It is inconceivable that one could be a sinner, separated from God, ask to be saved from those sins and then gladly continue in them! Those who come to God decide to leave behind sin, and that is repentance. It is the reversal of life, from sin and darkness toward righteousness and light. This doesn't mean that a Christian is perfect, but it does mean that a Christian is trying to do God's will and live righteously.
The second command Peter gave was to "be baptized." What does this mean? The term in the original Greek just means to immerse or plunge under water. Peter is clear that baptism is not an outward symbol that we have already been saved. Instead baptism is the point of salvation because it is here that one's sins are forgiven. Isn't that what Peter said? "Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. . . ." Remission of sins is another term for forgiveness. We could well translate Acts 2:38 "be baptized for the forgiveness of sins." Another passage in Acts makes this connection even stronger. When Saul of Tarsus was praying and fasting, after seeing the vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus, he was told "And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'" (Acts 22:16). Read those verses again carefully and see if you can answer the following question: What does baptism do (what is its purpose)? If you answered to "forgive sin" or "wash away sin" you are absolutely correct, because this is what the word of God says. Please realize as well that baptism is important because it is in baptism that one is placed into the Body of Christ. "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." (Galatians 3:27). Occasionally I meet someone teaching that one can be saved without being baptized. All I do is ask if they believe they can be saved outside Christ? No one has ever said "yes," yet many resist the Bible's plain teaching that baptism puts one into Christ. For these reasons we can say that baptism is the culmination of the human activity needed to please God, demonstrate humble obedience and accept the free gift of salvation. Again, none of these things earn salvation any more than unwrapping a birthday gift earns the present. God is the hero here, not humans with their religious works. But we must do as God says, and there can be no question what God, through His inspired apostle, directed people to do to be saved.
Peter's instructions were clear, simple and direct. What did the people in the crowd do when Peter told them these things? If we read further in Acts 2 we do not read that someone challenged God's plan of salvation with their own, or that some quibbled that baptism was a "work" and so would nullify grace, or that anyone said "baptism seems silly." What we do read is that three thousand were baptized that day and that the Lord added those saved people to His church (verses 41, 47). That is what those people did when an inspired man answered their question, "What shall we do to be saved?" In short, unsaved people heard Peter's sermon, did what Peter told them to do, and were saved that very day. Surely we can do the very same with the very same result. May God bless us to have the courage to do so.
By Mark Roberts
From Expository Files 2.4; April, 1995
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In Massachusetts, farm shares offer local produce without the labor
SUDBURY (AP) >> With its rocky soil, freezing cold winters and expensive acreage, New England isn't exactly a farmer's paradise.
Despite the obstacles, it's possible to gather a bounty from the soil here.
"At first glance it's hard to see how one can eat locally from a New England vegetable farm on a year-round basis, said Chris Kurth, owner of Siena Farms which grows crops in Concord and Sudbury. "And that was our own assumption for many years, but as we started to target that as a goal for our production, we have found more and more ways to achieve that."
This past winter was a gift after last year's record-breaking winter when farmers were constantly challenged, clearing off plastic hoop greenhouses and dealing with losing many more substantial structures that collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. This year, Kurth said, he was able to sow the first seeds an entire month earlier than usual.
"It's a great swing from last year's spring which ended up a couple weeks late from first planting and first seeding dates," said Kurth.
That's good news for clients of local farms that offer Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm shares. Their land will be full of fresh spring greens that much sooner.
CSA shareholders pay farmers up front or on a weekly or monthly basis and in return receive part of the farm's bounty of products. Often it is vegetables, but shares sometimes include flowers, fruit, herbs, or meat and milk products. Massachusetts is sixth in the nation in the number of CSA farms with 421 as of the 2012 USDA Census, according to the state Department of Agricultural Resources website.
And for community-supported agriculture, the loyalty of those farm share customers can be crucial, said Jason Hill, general manager for the Charles River portfolio of the nonprofit group Trustees of Reservations which manages the 131-acre Chestnut Hill Farm and many other historic properties.
For Chestnut Hill Farm, the relatively new farm share operation is less about supporting the land than the message.
"There's always been sort of a historical significance for us to support the agricultural protection of land," Hill said.
Last season, Chestnut Hill started its farm share program with just 50 shares, about 90 percent of which were from Southborough, Hill estimates. This year, they're hoping to get 200 shareholders, and perhaps grow an additional 100 to 150 shares over the next five years, although nothing is concrete yet.
That sort of growth is a pattern across local CSA farms.
In 2012, Laura Davis and her husband, Don, began their first CSA share program at Hopkinton's Long Life Farm with 25 families. Now, they have about 85 who buy shares of the farm's bounty.
"We kind of dove right in," said Laura Davis, who became a farmer almost by accident.
"I decided I was going to try and find a way to increase my yields in my front garden," Davis recalled. "I started going to some soil chemistry classes to learn how to make my soil more fertile."
She met a farmer looking for volunteers in Barre and was "immediately hooked."
Increasing the number of shares means increasing land or land use and extending the season. It can be tricky with unpredictable weather and the possibility of leased land being sold, as has happened to Davis.
Kurth credits the partnership with his wife, chef Ana Sortun, as a launching point for ways to expand their harvest. For instance, he said, at first the farm just grew bulbs of garlic that were cured after harvesting. But later, Sorun pointed out other uses for garlic, such as using it fresh and cooked down like leeks, garlic scapes made with the flower of the plant that is cooked like green beans, or fresh-pulled bulbs that have an extra sweet onion flavor.
"We are considering having a fall/winter share this coming season since we've just put up an additional greenhouse," said David. "That has enabled us to stretch the season to a little bit closer to Christmas."
Root vegetables that store easily, locally sourced preserves, and animal products can all be part of the CSA shares, too. Some farms cater to specific crops offering shares of tomatoes, for instance. Others might cater to smaller families, offering half-shares. Each farm has its own way of sharing its bounty.
Some farms include work shares as a requirement for participation or a way to decrease the cost of their shares. And CSA farms often attract folks who want to lend a hand.
"They all wanted to learn how to grow their own food— they're really now part of the crew," Davis said of her volunteer shareholders.
Regardless of size or season, that passion for locally grown food unites the farmers who offer CSAs. Some farms offer food-related activities and events, like farm-to-table dinners, maple sugaring or foraging walks.
"We've created these farms where it's sort of one part production, but the part two being the engagement piece," Hill said.
The more the community gets to experience the fields and the farmers, the better they understand "why it's important to have a local food system," Hill added.
Information from: MetroWest Daily News (Framingham), http://www.metrowestdailynews.com
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Louisiana’s Culinary Heritage
George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts 2013 Scholarship Art Contest
Exhibition Dates: September 6–October 19, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6-8pm
The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) 2013 Scholarship Art Contest exhibition features 15 finalists chosen from over 600 entries and over 120 cities from across Louisiana. High school juniors and seniors were invited to create a work of art based on the theme “Louisiana’s Culinary Heritage,” representing our state’s unique culinary heritage while honoring its festivals, dishes and local ingredients. Louisiana is an international culinary melting pot. For centuries our food reflects a cultural history of adventurous cuisine. Statewide we boast excellent restaurants, festivals and food-focused events. Uniquely, Louisiana yields seafood, wild game and produce, providing home cooks and chefs with a wide variety of fresh local ingredients. These indigenous resources complement Louisiana’s cultural “gumbo” of French, Spanish, African, Italian and German flavors, influencing the food we “live to eat.”
Our beloved Creole and Cajun culinary traditions encourage a vibrant restaurant industry, impacting our state’s economy with jobs and tourism. GRFA’s 2013 Scholarship Art Contest commemorates these qualities. This year’s finalists showcase the best of Louisiana’s most popular asset, its cuisine, tempting GRFA’s guest judges with each artwork’s originality, theme and design.
College scholarships and art supplies were awarded to ten high school seniors and five juniors. In partnership with the Louisiana Restaurant Association’s Education Foundation (LRAEF), winning entries will be used in a new Louisiana Cookbook. The Fall 2013 cookbook will showcase 100 recipes from Louisiana’s greatest chefs, with proceeds benefiting GRFA and LRAEF programs.
Museum Hours, Admission & Contact Information:
Alexandria Museum of Art, 933 2nd Street, Alexandria, LA 71301 / 318-443-3458
Museum Hours: Tue–Fri 10–5, Sat 10–4
FREE admission every 2nd Saturday! Regular Admission: $4 Adults, $3 Seniors/Students/Military, $2 Youth age 4-13, Free for Children 4 & under
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You’ve made it through four or more years of dorm life, and now you’re ready to spread your wings. All you need now is to find a place to land. Finding a suitable apartment can be a challenge depending on where you live. With the added stress of relocating for a new job, it can feel overwhelming. Here are some tips on how to find your new home quickly and affordably.
Figuring Out Your Finances
There are several factors to consider in order to determine what you can afford to spend on rent. Post-grad salaries aren’t usually stellar, and your job may be located in a city with a high cost of living. In order to stay afloat financially, you should spend no more than about 30% of your monthly income on rent. To qualify for a lease in some larger cities, your annual income may need to be as much as four times the amount of your monthly rent. You will also be required to give a renter’s deposit which may be as much as two month’s rent, in addition to your first month’s lease or rent payment.
Janet M. Nast provides additional financial advice in her book, Shifting to the Business of Life, A Survival Guide for Young Adults. She reminds young people to start building their credit history long before they graduate from college. Without an established and positive credit record, most property managers will not accept you as a renter and utility companies may require a hefty deposit to accept you as a customer. A cell phone payment or car payment in your own name can accomplish this, but making your payments on time, every time, is crucial to keeping your credit record a positive and not a negative strike against you.
If you need financial help or have not established that positive credit record, there are still some options available to you:
Dorm life has already provided you experience in sharing living quarters. Having a roommate, or several, can even help you adjust to the stress and loneliness of life in a new city. Pooling your finances together will not only aid in getting a better apartment, it will allow more room in your budget for other living expenses.
If a family member can provide their signature and be a guarantor, you can qualify for a better apartment than you could afford on your own. You may not gain more spending money from your income with this option, but you won’t have to screen for viable candidates or argue about whose turn it is to do the dishes either.
Stay with Family
This alternative may not be an option if your job has taken you away from family, but it’s an ideal arrangement to help you get started if it’s available to you. You’ll benefit from having time to get settled in your new job before having to deal with looking for an apartment.
Hire a Realtor
A realtor can not only help you find an apartment, but can negotiate a cheaper rent and help you through the leasing process. It may cost you a fee – which can be waived in some instances – but the advantages would more than offset the cost.
Read the Rental Agreement Before You Sign
In her book Nast also stresses the importance of reading and understanding the terms of your rental agreement or lease to avoid costly surprises. Here are some of the items to look for in these documents:
– Are deposits required (cleaning or pet or “security”) and how much?
– What are the requirements to get your deposits back when you move out?
– What is the requirement for giving notice when you want to move? Is it thirty days or sixty days? Does it have to be in writing?
– How many people can live in this apartment with you?
– What are the parking rules and regulations?
– Can you have pets (what kind and how many)?
– Are you required to obtain renter’s insurance?
– What type of amenities or utilities are included in the rent such as use of laundry facilities, a pool, tennis courts, cost of water, trash, Internet/Wi-Fi, cable TV, etc.?
– Do you need separate keys or door codes to access any of the facilities?
– Is there a charge for lost keys? If so, what is it?
There Is More to Life Than Rent
The other financial advice provided in Nast’s book relates to calculating the other living expenses that go beyond your monthly rent payment. Be careful not to under estimate what those ongoing living costs will be in each of these areas:
- Utilities (water, electric, gas, trash pickup)
- Renters insurance
- Phone and internet
- Cable TV
- Transportation (Car payment, insurance, fuel)
- Student loan payments
Renting your first apartment after college can be an exciting adventure or a disappointing and costly fiasco. Financial preparation and some knowledge about pitfalls to avoid will go a long way towards making it the former rather than the latter.
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When your biological and holistic dentist in Wilmington is educating patients like you about what it takes to have optimal oral health, we’ll chat with you about your diet and hygiene habits. We also want to know about what else you’re facing in life. Do you exercise regularly? Are you a smoker? Are you experiencing chronic stress? All of these things will affect your oral health — and believe it or not — you can add sleep or lack thereof to this list. Let’s explore more!
A 2017 study out of Korea showed 8300 adults who slept less than five hours each night showed more signs of tooth decay and disease. Their oral health was compared to other adults who averaged a minimum of seven hours every night. Another large study later published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology found a “novel, direct and independent association between sleep duration and the prevalence of periodontitis.” As your biological and holistic dentists in Wilmington, we educate patients on the prevalence of sleep apnea and sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBDs), where human studies have shown a link between sleep disorders – sleep apnea, for instance, or insomnia – and periodontal problems.
At our Wilmington holistic and biological dental office, we want you to live your best, most healthiest life possible in terms of both your oral and overall health. We thought it might be a good time to talk about tips for improving your sleep. Here are some things you can do:
1. Keep it Regular – Try to climb into bed around the same time every night — even on the weekends.
2. No More Technology – Keep your smartphone and tablets out of bed, along with other electronic devices that emit blue light that can excite your senses instead of helping you ease into sleep.
3. Avoid These Things – Try to avoid caffeine after about 7 PM, along with alcoholic drinks that can help you get to sleep but also hinder your ability to get the right amount of rest.
4. Try Some Supplements – Your holistic and biological Wilmington dentists always tell you to consult your primary care doctor before taking any supplements. However, there are some variations available that can promote more restful sleep, including:
Do you have questions about your periodontal or dental health? November is the perfect time to call our biological and holistic dental office in Wilmington to schedule your custom consultation. We are always welcoming new patients into our family and we look forward to partnering with you down the path to total body wellness.
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At the conference yesterday, Sony unveiled its upcoming Move/Augmented Reality game accessory called the Wonderbook, with the promise that it will bring our favorite stories to life. The first announced title to use this was also the device’s showcase software, entitled ‘Book of Spells,’ which is written by J.K. Rowling herself. Of course, to make it all come to life, the guys at London Studio (who created the EyeToy and the Eye Pet) are behind this device.
Here’s an excerpt from the Official Blog about the game itself:
From the world of Harry Potter, Book of Spells is an enchanted textbook written over 200 years ago by Miranda Goshawk. Open the book and you are immediately transported to the Hogwarts library, where your lessons will begin. Chapter by chapter, you will be able to read about and practice 20 spells, picking up valuable experiences and lessons along the way – as well as house points – just like a student at Hogwarts.
This could very well appease to the younger Harry Potter fans for sure, but I think they’ll get the most out of it using a big screen TV, because there are a lot of small details and the text seems relatively small for being aimed at children who might be new to the whole reading thing.
For core gamers like myself, this doesn’t seem at all like something worth purchasing, but for gaming parents who want something to entertain the kids and, potentially, encourage them to learn? This thing has potential. We just have to see if Sony can capitalize on it (maybe a publishing deal with LeapFrog, or other early learning companies, perhaps?).
Written by: Jay
- Community Manager / Editor-In-Chief
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Caste census has its advantages
The recent Supreme Court order striking down a Madras High Court directive to the authorities to hold a caste-wise census has caused consternation in Tamil Nadu where the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) launched in 2011 is in progress and is expected to be completed soon.
A file photo of the agitation by Jats in 2011 to be included in the OBC category (Photo: Indian Photo Agency)
The last time a caste count was taken was almost eight decades ago and it formed an important part of census operation under the British colonial rule. The current compilation of data takes the form of a socio-economic survey rather than a full blown census.
The demand for a caste census has been strong in Tamil Nadu where 69 per cent reservation, 30 per cent for the BCs, 20 per cent for the MBCs, and 19 per cent for the SCs and the STs, is in vogue as against the ceiling of 50 per cent fixed by the Supreme Court. But it has the constitutional protection under the 9th Schedule.
Colonial civil servants like HH Risley and JH Hutton, both census commissioners in their time, were not above using caste-based census data to reinforce divisions in Indian society to facilitate colonial administration. National leaders from Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Motilal Nehru and CR Das to Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad believed in looking beyond the divisions of caste and community to create a nation of citizens. That is why the first government after Independence did away with enumerating caste in the 1951 census and stuck to it ever since.
However, within a year of the Constitution coming into force, the government encountered certain difficulties by judicial decisions and pronouncements, particularly by the Madras High Court, resulting in the First Amendment which enables States to make any special provision for the advancement of socially and educationally backward classes of citizens.
A caste census with socio-economic data is expected to yield quantifiable data that could be used for reservation in education and employment. The Supreme Court order could not be taken as invalidation of SECC because it only held that it was a policy matter of the executive. The court itself wanted to know in the past the basis on which reservation was fixed as no precise data was available.
In the Indira Sawhney case, the court ruled that higher levels of caste-based reservation should be based on verifiable socio-economic data. SECC is neither a concession to retrograde forces as made out by some nor return to the colonial practice of enumeration.
The Mandal Commission used a sample survey to gather data at the national level, but in the absence of its inclusion in the census process made it unverifiable. The Madras High Court order is intended to gather data only and is in no way against the government’s policy of ushering in a casteless society.
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It would have been near-impossible to predict that a Chicago South Side girl, the granddaughter of slaves, would end up firing pointed questions at U.S. presidents, serving as a critical information conduit for Black newspaper readership, and opening doors for Black and female journalists. Ethel Payne followed her passion for writing and storytelling from her high school English classes, into her job as a social director at a military base in post–World War II Japan, and onto a permanent position with the venerable African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender. There her coveted White House press pass put her face to face with chief executives, many of whom found themselves cornered by her questions about civil rights policies (“Ethel wrote the stories that the mainstream media refused to. It was her questions to presidents that finally made readers of all races pay attention to the plight of African Americans”). Parra’s stylized acrylic paintings place figures with the knife-edged crispness of paper collage against the textured surfaces of illustration board, and intersperse well-placed vignettes that suggest the length and breadth of Payne’s long career. This is a solid treatment of an important but little-known figure, and it may prompt kids to think about the role and composition of a free press. An author’s note expands information, and source credits, a brief adult bibliography, and a list for further reading are included. EB
– BCCB, December 1, 2019
Chances were few for young women of color around the Great Depression, but when Ethel L. Payne’s (1911–1991) Chicago high school wouldn’t let a black student work on its newspaper, she got it to publish her first story; then, during college, she took writing classes at a local school that offered free tuition. After organizing locally during WWII, she seized the opportunity to become a correspondent in Tokyo and found herself with sudden global influence: “One of Ethel’s articles about black soldiers stationed in Japan had made its way across the seas.” After several years writing for the Chicago Defender, a black newspaper, she was issued White House press credentials and served through four administrations. “I’ve had a box seat on history,” she said, “and that’s a rare thing.” Folk-style portraits by Parra couple maturing images of Payne with historical emblems, and Cline-Ransome tells her story with economy and drive. “Somebody had to do the fighting,” she quotes Payne saying, “somebody had to speak up.” An author’s note and bibliography conclude. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)
– Publishers Weekly, November 18, 2019
CLINE-RANSOME, Lesa. The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne. illus. by John Parra. 48p. S. & S./Paula Wiseman Bks. Jan. 2020. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781481462891.
Gr 2-5–African American journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911–91) “collected the stories of people who followed a path paved with dreams.” Her interest in oral histories started at an early age—her grandparents shared their experiences laboring in the cotton fields under slavery, and her parents told stories of their sharecropping days. Payne may have grown up poor, but her childhood was rich in language and love. Every Saturday, Payne’s mother took her daughter and her five siblings to the libraries on the white side of town. Payne’s English teacher encouraged her to write, and, eventually, the all-white school newspaper published her first story. Payne lost her father at an early age and endured bigotry and discrimination. But none of these hardships stopped her from pursuing her dreams. She went to college, fought racism, and shattered barriers to become the only black female journalist in the White House briefing room. She fearlessly asked tough questions of the elected officials and helped to enact change in the country. In Payne’s quest for civil rights, she became known as the “First Lady of the Black Press.” Told in a matter-of-fact style, accompanied by rich acrylics, Payne’s biography is brought to life for young students who may not know about the impact she made for journalists of color. VERDICT A strong addition to an elementary library biography collection.–Annette Herbert, F. E. Smith Elementary School, Cortland, NY
– School Library Journal, January 2020
Ethel L. Payne grew up on the South Side of Chicago surrounded by stories from her parents and from her grandparents, who had been enslaved. These stories, weekly trips to the library, and encouragement from teachers and family helped Payne become a strong writer. Believing that “somebody had to do the fighting, somebody had to speak up,” Payne became a journalist and used her work as a tool for action and activism throughout her life. She captured the stories of Black soldiers stationed in post–WWII Japan, which led to a job with the Chicago Defender. She began covering the presidency, “one of only three black journalists issued a White House press pass,” and worked through the Carter administration, becoming known as “The First Lady of the Black Press.” The moments from Payne’s life that Cline-Ransome chooses to highlight, paired with Parra’s textured, iconographic acrylic paintings, create a powerful story that demonstrates the ways someone with a gift for writing can use it as a tool for fighting injustice. In an author’s note, Cline-Ransome discusses her own attempts at being a journalist and the fearlessness it takes to be an effective one. A bibliography and further reading list are appended.
– Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2020
This picture book biography of Ethel L. Payne, one of the first African American press correspondents for the White House, is a comprehensive look at the life of a journalism pioneer. From integrating a Chicago school during her childhood, through her reporting on Black soldiers in Japan, to her coverage of the White House during the Civil Rights era and beyond, Payne's life was full of important evens, and Cline-Ransome (Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams, 2018) presents the story with clarity and purpose. Parra’s (Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos, 2017) distinctive, folk-art-style acrylic paintings in bold colors are an appealing complement to Cline-Ransome's text . . . A solid account of a lesser-known figure and a worthy addition to children’s biography collections.
– Booklist, February 7, 2020
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What does it feel like to have autism?
You may know someone who has it. You may raise a child who is autistic. You may teach children with autism all day long. But unless you actually have it, you will never know how it feels. And one of the most frustrating characteristics of this disease is that it can be very hard — if not downright impossible — for those who suffer from it to describe their symptoms. But a new book, "The Reason I Jump," by Naoki Higashida might just change that. In "Jump," Naoki, a very charming boy with autism, lets us inside the autistic mind, describing how the world looks and feels to a child with the disease.
Unable to speak, Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct his words and thoughts. In the book, he answers 58 questions that he thought people might be curious about, such as “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” "Why do you like spinning?" “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” "Would you like to be 'normal'?" and “What’s the reason you jump?”
(Naoki’s answer to that last question: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”)
Naoki was 13 when he wrote the book back in 2007. It was widely popular in Japan, where it was published. But it has only now been introduced to an American audience through the efforts of translator David Mitchell, the author of "Cloud Atlas" and father of an autistic child.
With disarming honesty and moving insights, Naoki shares in "Jump" what it feels like to have autism. It is a quick-read, and a must-read for anyone who ever wanted a closer look into the autistic mind.
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HOUDINI HIVE SIGGRAPH'17
Humans, are great pattern recognition machines, who face astonishing amount of complexity on a daily basis. We are so good at dealing with it, that we do not directly register how exactly this happens, yet when something is off, we immediately ‘feel’ it. Procedural modelling is, in a way, like painting, where complexity emerges from the interaction of simple rules. Thus, we can achieve great intricacy and believability from layering the simplest rules if we analyse correctly our own thought patterns.
In "Believability in Procedural Modeling: Layering of Simple Rules" I discuss my approach to procedural modelling on the examples of 2 project - Procedural Lake Houses and Realistic Tree R&D as well as dive into practical application and algorithms inside of a scene I created for the talk.
The scene file is available on Gumroad!
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While much has been written regarding the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, with too much of it being either totally false or complete fol-de-rol (the “orange blossom myth,” a total and absolute fable being the most glaring of those, with more of that myth and its origins and debunking to be discussed in our next column) it is important that, with this year (2021) being the 125th anniversary of both the City of Miami and the railroad which built and brought the city to national prominence also celebrating its 125th year under the same name, it is now important that we begin to investigate the conditions in and of the region and what life must have been—and likely was—like prior to the railroad’s arrival.
That story begins in the Paleo-Indian era, the period before recorded time, during which several groups of native Americans roamed freely through the area, if not the region
Before we proceed with that discussion, however, we ask that the reader finally begin to realize and understand that the names of the groups of native-Americans, which may or may not have been formal “tribes,” are, like the names of the planets and celestial bodies, totally artificial monikers. Simply put, it is doubtful that those groups even thought of themselves as named entities, simply living their day to day lives in what, even then, was, for the most part, a tropical paradise.
Think of it this way: if we were ever able to land on a planet in this solar system with a manned (or womaned) space vehicle, or, for that matter, on any celestial body anywhere in the Milky Way galaxy (let’s start with one of the planets of Alpha Centuri, supposedly the closest star to us in said galaxy), do you really think or believe that there would be a sign reading welcome to Horsefeathers or Schmeggey or any other name? Of course not! And why? Because, like the original native American groups, the names given to every star and every heavenly body in the universe, are artificial names, names given by the astronomers and scientists on earth, simply as an identification mechanism, but, truly, with no real clue—none at all—as to, if that place has life, what the inhabitants—if senscient—call themselves. The point, obviously, is to get our readers to understand that, in Florida, with the exception of the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes of Indians, all of the names of the previous groups of native Americans are made up and were given by researchers and/or historians simply as a method of identifying which group or groups existed during a particular time period.
Once that fact is established we can move on to stating which groups preceded today’s two named tribes, those noted in the preceding paragraph.
While there were no few other groups in what was to become north Florida, our focus, of necessity, must be related to Southeast Florida in order to avoid attempting to name other groups which, it appears, did not venture this far south (referring to the area from approximately today’s Martin County, the seat of which is Stuart to the Florida Keys.)
Before noting the names of the three main groups, a fourth should be mentioned because the Caribe Indians apparently ventured into East Florida beginning in the 14th century, and they or their descendants continued to do so until, approximately, the late 1600s or very early 1700s. That group never settled here, but, rather, would, as flesh eaters (yes, seriously, also known as “cannibals”) on occasion, canoe (or whatever the type of vessel they used) across from someplace in the group of islands today known as the Bahamas, the most likely spot for embarkation probably today’s Bimini, given its relative proximity to the South Florida mainland, coming across to wherever it would be that they would come ashore.
They would come across, stealthily “invade,” pick out, pick off and pick up a young buck or squaw or maiden or whatever the proper terms are, bind them securely and immediately return to the island from whence they came, that young individual becoming lunch and or dinner over the next several days.
Preceding, or, possibly, concurrently with the Caribe were the Timucuan, about whom, as with the Caribe, very little is known, other than that they appear to have existed prior to the coming of the next two pre-current day tribes or groups, the Calusa and the Tequesta.
About a year ago, maybe a bit more, a letter appeared in the Miami Herald, written by my friend, Annette, claiming that Tequesta were the first inhabitants, which was complete incorrect and a few days later that paper printed my lengthy correction letter, which explained that, indeed, Tequesta came after several other groups had held the stage. Both Calusa and Tequesta, unlike the previous tribes or groups, did leave their marks, not in writings but in drawings which have been preserved by archaeologists, hence their existence was factual.
Before closing, one fact must be noted: none of those groups, just as with the humanoids known as cro-magnon man or neanderthal, simply disappeared, with another group suddenly taking its place, rather, as science has now proven, one group—the weaker—would be subsumed into the stronger, and that is what occurred with the Florida groups.
This, then, brings us to the conclusion of this “episode,” for next time we will examine the two main areas of pre- and early colonial years, with the importance of what would later become Arch Creek as well as the Miami River being the focus of that discussion.
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Have you ever run across someone that seems to have so many negative “issues” going on, i.e. cancer, caught in an unhealthy job, ailing parents or kids are in trouble, yet, they seem to be taking it in stride with a positive attitude? What mindset do they have that we can all learn from? They are all drinking from the fountain of optimism that truly does have scientifically based healing properties AND leads to higher self-esteem which guides us to success in life. I’m asking you to indulge yourself for the next couple of minutes while reading this and pretend you have that pitcher of optimism right at your fingertips, ready to drink at any opportune moment:
Now, just for fun, I’d like you to look at these three pictures to see if you lean to the “O” side (optimist) or the “P” side (pessimist):
Which of these responses do you tend to lean to? :
I. Optimist vs. Pessimist Analysis
A. Sky –
Optimist- What a beautiful sunny day with some clouds!
Pessimist- I see a cloudy day with the sun just barely showing.
B. Lawn & Garden –
Optimist- What a beautifully manicured garden and lawn!
Pessimist- That must take hours of work to make the lawn and garden look like that!
C. Snow Swimmers-
Optimist- That snow swim looks exhilarating!
Pessimist-Are those guy crazy? What are they thinking?
Got the “O” and “P” picture for yourself?
II. Now to some real life optimist models we all can learn from:
A. Joan Lunden- Famed host of Good Morning America for decades, mother of 3 grown girls and two sets of tween-age twins, has just reached her 1 year cancer-free checkpoint. She was diagnosed in June of 2014, at the age of 63, with triple negative breast cancer. This is a diagnosis that is routinely a death sentence. The treatment involved 9 months of aggressive treatment: radiation, a lumpectomy and 16 rounds of chemotherapy. However, her sunny disposition still remains, now vowing that she wants to empower other women fighting breast cancer. When she was recently asked in the current edition of Prevention magazine about her “glass-half-full kind of girl” outlook on life, specifically if she felt victimized by the disease, she answered “Never”. She also answered those criticizing her sunny attitude on social media regarding her cancer fight:
“A positive attitude will certainly make the time you’re here on Earth more palatable and will certainly keep the fight in you to keep fighting to live until maybe we even find a better treatment. It will keep that fight stronger.”
B. Captain Phillips- Randy and I had the pleasure of seeing Captain Phillips speak at a conference this past fall. The now famous Captain Phillips had the distinct honor of having his cargo ship come under attack by Somali Pirates in the Northwest Indian Ocean in 2009. I say distinct honor because he is the first U.S. captain since the 1800s to come under siege.
After many hours of captivity on the ship, he smartly convinced the pirates to leave the ship in a lifeboat, holding him as the ransom. That opportunity ultimately was the death knell for the pirates, as the navy seals ended the pirates’ lives with their expert marksmanship. His quick on his feet thinking under obvious duress saved the ship, his crew and ultimately his life. But at the true core of his actions was his optimistic outlook on life:
“These aren’t easy times. They’re tough, they’re challenging and they’re changing. Yet, I have faith in you. See, I know from experience that you are stronger than you even know, and if you commit yourself to see it through, to not surrender in the face of adversary, to join your colleagues as a dedicated team, you too can overcome almost any problem you face.”
C. Ronald Reagan- Reagan entered the race for the presidency in 1980 in the face of fierce voter pessimism and a troubled economy (sound familiar)? He saw himself as a beacon of optimism in troubled times:
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. The time is now, my fellow Americans, to recapture our destiny, to take it into our own hands.
The U.S., in 1980, was the unwilling beneficiary of 17 years of malaise. Beginning with the assassination of JFK in 1963, Nixon’s Watergate debacle and subsequent resignation, a failed presidency with Lyndon Johnson, a first-time U.S. loss of war (Vietnam) and the subsequent cultural and economic decline in the 1970s. And American polls portrayed this lost hope for the future.
Reagan’s campaign theme and his presidency was to restore America’s optimistic morale, and he did! But first, HE was an optimist to the core!
So you might be saying, so what? Those people you pointed out are bigger than life, what does that have to do with little old me? I can’t be like them! I say, yes you can, but first, another reason to turn in your pessimist car keys for the souped up optimist model:
III. The Healing Health and Success Benefits of Optimism-
The science is rock solid behind the health and success benefits of optimism. Here is the “O” and the “P” columns of positive and negative attributes of both. I’ll let you make the choice:
Recover better from bypass surgery
Have stronger immune systems
Fare better when suffering from cancer, heart disease and kidney failure (Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, June 2000)
77% less likely to die from heart disease (Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Dec. 1994)
Catch fewer diseases
Have higher self-esteem
Lower blood pressure
Recover faster from illness
Have lower baseline levels of the stress hormone cortisol (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 85, Oct 2003)
More barriers to professional success
Less likely to experience pleasure
More likely to endure challenges in relationships
More likely to get sick (Learned Optimism)
More likely to suffer from depression
Peruse Dr. Lissa Rankin’s book, Mind Over Medicine for a more in-depth discussion.
So are you convinced??? If so, let’s get to work…..
IV. Cracking the Optimism Code- Dr. Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism is truly the father of learning how to switch your automatic pessimist response into an optimistic one. It does take a little work on your part, but as I’ve already shown you, it’s worth it! First, you need to understand the concept of explanatory styles:
A. Explanatory style is what we tell ourselves after a particular event has occurred and how we process it, be it positive or negative. There are three styles: Permanent, Pervasive and Personal. Here is how the “O” and “P” process each style when an negative event arises:
1) Permanent-“This was only temporary or only specific to an event. It won’t happen again.”
2) Pervasive-“This just happened once, I’ll lookout for it next time to make sure I did everything I could though.”
3) Personal- “This was a one time event. If I’m the one that caused it then I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
1) Permanent- “This will always happen, it’s always going to be bad!”
2) Pervasive- “This event will have an impact on everything I do from now on!”
3) Personal-“I can’t do anything right! Why do I try?”
So do you think it’s hopeless for you to learn optimism if you recognized your responses in the “Pessimist” column? NO, I SAY! Dr. Martin Seligman (Learned Optimism) and Dr. Michael Roizen (This is Your Do-Over) have some tried and true tips to make that switch;
V. Tips for Drinking from the Optimism Pitcher:
A. Keep an ABC journal- ABC stands for Adversity, Belief and Consequences. So when the negative occurrences in life “happen” (adversity), you can track your response (belief) and then the outcome of your response (consequences). According to Dr. Seligman you keep this journal “to tap into your inner dialogue and identify beliefs that arise in the face of adversity.”
Okay, now you understand what pessimistic “knee-jerk” reactions you have, your next step:
B. Distract or Dispute- You can distract yourself by interrupting your normal pattern of habitual pessimism, i.e. pinch yourself OR tell yourself you’ll think about it later in the day. But, Dr. Seligman prefers the dispute method, actually arguing with yourself when that nasty old “head of the dragon” pessimistic thought crosses your mind. This reminds me of the same scenario of breaking out of a habit. I’m talking any bad habit we suffer from here folks! That is the habitual cue, response, reward gerbil wheel known as behavioral chunking (for more about breaking bad habits see Strategies For Changing Health Into a Habit). In this case, continually arguing with yourself when that automatic pessimistic thought crosses your mind is a sure-fire way to break the pessimistic habit (gerbil wheel) because you will eventually see how non-logical and senseless your pessimistic thought processes really are!
C. Are you a “but” or an “and” person? – Dr. Michael Roizen, our recent guest on radio show “Healthy U” points out that the frequent usage of the word “but” is a sure sign of your pessimistic tendencies, whereas the “and” people tend to be more creative, inspiring and yes, more optimistic. So watch that verbage!!!
D. Live a Healthy Lifestyle- Your frame of mind, be it good or bad, also has an enormous amount to do with how you feel. The BEST Rx for feeling on top of your game is by following a healthy lifestyle. THEN you will be ready to learn more optimistic responses (for ideas see A Perfect Day in Game of Life).
RECAP OF “DRINK FROM THE HEALING PITCHER OF OPTIMISM”:
I. First analyze what type of person you are: “O” or “P.
II. Real life optimist models we all can learn from are Joan Lunden, Captain Phillips and Ronald Reagan.
III. Optimism has numerous healing health and success benefits.
IV. Cracking the Optimism Code Requires Knowledge of Explanatory Styles: Permanence, Pervasiveness and Personal.
V. You can learn optimism with simple tips like keeping a journal, distracting or disputing your responses, watch your use of the word “but” and following a healthy lifestyle.
I have to end this with a dedication to my Dad. He’s shortly going to be 86 years old. His mother died when he was 10 of colon cancer and both his brother and sister died of chronic diseases decades ago. My Dad is the last one standing of his immediate family and I’m sure it has a lot to do with his effervescent optimism, even in the face of adversity. He’s still working full-time as an attorney and always has a song on his lips.
Here’s to you Dad!!! Btw, please don’t tell my Dad he’s sharing the same space as Ronald Reagan, he would be (politically) mortified!!!! LOL!
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This landmark volume, which remains influential today, is the result of an interdisciplinary, two-week international symposium on principles of sensory communication hosted by MIT in July 1959. This symposium brought together prominent neuroscientists, life scientists, physical scientists, and engineers who, in Walter Rosenblith’s words, "were willing to listen to neurophysiologists expound up-to-date neurophysiology, or psychophysicists talk about contemporary psychophysics, without being satisfied with their own version of the other man's science." The work presented forms the basis of much of the contemporary research in vision and perceptual science. First published by the MIT Press in 1961, Sensory Communication has been out of print and extremely difficult to obtain for many years. This reprint makes this valuable resource available again.
S. S. Stevens, Gösta Ekman, J. C. R. Licklider, Frank A. Geldard, Irwin Pollack, Colin Cherry, Hallowell Davis, Lloyd M. Beidler, Hessel de Vries, Minze Stuiver, W. A. H. Rushton, Floyd Ratliff, Yngve Zotterman, H. B. Barlow, Clinton N. Woolsey, William D. Neff, Jerzy E. Rose, Leonard I. Malis, Charles P. Baker, Werner Reichardt, Wolf D. Keidel, Ursula O. Keidel, Malte E. Wigand, D. M. MacKay, Timothy H. Goldsmith, M. A. Bauman, Vernon B. Mountcastle, Sven Landgren, Carl Pfaffmann, R. P. Erickson, G. P. Frommer, B. P. Halpern, Patrick D. Wall, Raúl Hernández-Peón, Geoffrey B. Arden, Ulf Söderberg, Kenneth D. Roeder, Asher E. Treat, Yasuji Katsuki, A. Fessard, P. Buser, M. Imbert, Richard Jung, F. Bremer, Mary A. B. Brazier, Keith F. Killam, A. James Hance, Theodore H. Bullock, Burton S. Rosner, Robert M. Boynton, J. Y. Lettvin, H. R. Maturana, W. H. Pitts, W. S. McCulloch
About the Editor
Walter A. Rosenblith (1913–2002) was Institute Professor, Chair of the Faculty, and Provost at MIT.
—Tomaso Poggio, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute, and CSAIL, MIT
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Learn to Play Hockey Program will provide age-appropriate instruction and certified coaching, led by NHL Alumni, Jan Ludvig, in a fun and exciting, safe learning environment. This program will teach skaters the fundamentals of Ice Hockey. Areas of focus will include, puck control, shooting, and passing by incorporating a series of specially designed drills, personalized instruction, and small area games.
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Financial oversight in the security sector is a key instrument for ensuring that public funds allocated by the state for the security of the people are spent in a transparent and accountable manner. However, the financial management of security sector institutions is often characterised by opacity rather than transparency. Even in established democracies, the budgets and financial operations of law-enforcement, military and intelligence organisations are often concealed from public scrutiny and sometimes even from formal external oversight by parliament or audit institutions. Furthermore, in many developing countries, disproportionate security expenditures prevent the use of public funds for socio-economic development.
Why this Toolkit?
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This publication has been made possible by the generous support of the European Union.The toolkit can be downloaded in its entirety in the following languages: English, Arabic
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OCTOBER 5TH, 2021
Many employers and employees saw Health Savings Accounts (HSA) as a way to help transition into high-deductible health plans (HDHP). The idea was that by withholding pre-tax dollars from their paychecks, employees could cover their deductibles and get a tax break at the same time.
As long as the amount of money contributed every year was more than they needed to cover medical expenses, their account would grow over time. Those accounts would eventually reach the point where employees could be sure they had enough money to cover major out-of-pocket medical expenses.
Unfortunately, HSAs have not helped as much as many thought they would. Some employees who have high-deductible health plans cannot afford to contribute money to an HSA account, so they are not able to get the intended benefits. Others are able to contribute funds, but not enough to cover all their out-of-pocket medical expenses so their HSAs do not accumulate money and do not grow over time.
There are other ways employers can help employees cover the costs of high-deductible health plans. That’s why employers should understand how HSAs work, where they fall short, and what else they can do to help their employees.
HSAs are a type of savings account that lets people put aside pre-tax money to use during the year to pay for qualified medical expenses. Consumers with HSAs can lower their overall healthcare expenses by using untaxed income to pay for deductibles, copays, and other costs not covered by their health plan.
Not everyone qualifies to have an HSA. According to the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS), only consumers who meet the following conditions can contribute to an account:
They must have a high-deductible health plan.
They can’t be covered by any other health plan except workers compensation, long-term care, vision, dental, or other specific plans.
They cannot be enrolled in Medicare.
No one else can claim them as a dependent on their tax return.
According to the IRS, high-deductible health plans have deductibles of $1,400 to $7,000 for one person and $2,800 to $14,000 for a family. High-deductible health plans have become more common in recent years because they lower premiums and help employers lower the cost of providing health insurance. However, employers can take steps to make HDHPs a good choice for their employees.
Annual contributions to an HSA are limited too. Employees can contribute a maximum of $3,600 for an individual and $7,200 for a family in 2021. It’s easy to see that HSAs will not cover the deductible for some employees even if they made the maximum contribution every year.
In fact, the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) says that 80-percent of employees in high-deductible health plans do not have enough money in their HSAs to cover a year of out-of-pocket medical expenses.
One of the benefits of an HSA is that when an employee makes annual contributions, the amount in their account can grow over time. But when their annual out-of-pocket costs are more than they can contribute, they are not able to take advantage of their HSA.
The financial gap between health plan deductibles and the amount in an employee’s HSA could force them to choose between their physical or financial wellbeing. That’s a choice that could increase an employer’s overall cost for health insurance because working to ensure an employee’s physical wellbeing helps them avoid costly medical care.
In fact, 32 percent of American families have put off medical care because of the cost, according to a recent survey by Bankrate. Others may withdraw money from retirement accounts or use high-interest credit cards to pay for medical treatment. Any of those choices could create stress at home and work that impacts their job performance. Businesses can help employees avoid those extra pressures by providing benefits that support employees in all parts of their lives.
There are other ways employers can help when their employees can’t meet their deductibles. One way is through an employer-sponsored, interest-free payment plan, such as Paytient. Paytient can be used alongside HSAs and allow employees to pay for out-of-pocket expenses through payroll deductions. Allowing their HSA to grow over time for potential large claim risk in the future, saving for retirement, or keep more cash on hand in case of an emergency.
Paytient works alongside any health plan. When an employee uses a Paytient card to pay for their out-of-pocket medical expenses, Paytient pays the doctor, hospital, or pharmacy in full. Employees are then able to create a payment plan that fits their budget, through payroll deductions.
Health Savings Accounts can be good for employees covered by high-deductible health plans to save money for significant medical expenses. Employers must understand the limitations of HSAs, and why their employees need another option to pay their out-of-pocket medical expenses to get the care they need and be free from the financial stress that could affect their personal lives and job performance.
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Choose from Three Options
- $50 for one month of unlimited Junior Boots classes ($160 value)
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- See the schedule.
Kids aged 6–13 participate in Junior Boots classes, which starts with a name-memorization game to break the ice and then transitions into a mission-based workout. Kids are engaged throughout the mission, which includes a warm-up, obstacle-course elements, and martial-arts exercises.
ForceFit consists of one-hour military-style fitness classes led by “drill sergeants” who motivate exercisers and train alongside them. It also features an indoor obstacle course combined with fitness drills.
Building Muscle: Cells on the Move
Read on to learn exactly how fitness classes leave you with more muscle or better tone.
Bulky upper-body muscles might have hindered early humans who had to chase their prey across the plains, but it could help those who often had to climb trees to adjust their satellite dishes. That’s why the body builds muscle according mostly to use: do enough curls, and the biceps expand. As anyone who has experienced post-workout soreness could intuit, those curls are actually a form of controlled damage, making thousands of minuscule tears to the muscle tissue that beckon autoimmune cells to show up alongside testosterone and other hormones. The white blood cells help switch on satellite cells, which are similar to stem cells. Before they’re activated, satellite cells aren’t doing much—instead, they lie dormant around muscle fibers until they’re called into action to repair torn tissue.
This isn’t the only kind of cellular transformation at work in growing muscles. Long muscle cells, which contain several nuclei, can also begin to change type after a workout. Certain kinds of muscle fibers are equipped to handle brief bursts of effort but will quickly become tired if asked to do more intense work. These are the first to disappear as someone starts an exercise routine, as they’re converted into fibers with more endurance. This principle is so dramatic that a sports scientist can generally tell whether someone is a professional athlete or a professional mattress model by examining a minute sample of muscle tissue.
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There is a farm that produces 14 Halal-certified milk, yogurt, ice cream, butter, and honey products. This farm, called Nakahora Farm, is located in the Kitakami Mountains of Iwate Prefecture at an altitude of 700 to 850m. Here, dairy farming is carried out using “mountain dairy farming” techniques.
Cattle at Nakahora Farm freely roam the mountains throughout the year eating leaves and grass grown naturally under the sun, moon, and rain, rather than being cooped up in narrow barns eating an imported formula feed primarily consisting of GMO corn.
Grazing cattle are provided with grass and leaves＊. In addition, our cattle are allowed to “mate naturally, and give birth naturally”, and calves are breast-fed for the first month after birth. This is because we believe maintaining the feeding habits and actions of the animals are important in helping to foster healthy livestock.
Here, the cattle, people, mountains, and forests enjoy a calm harmonious existence, without too much milking of cattle and cutting down of trees.
Nakahara Farm can be considered an ideal dairy farm not only for persons who demand Halal-certified products, but also for persons who want “original food offering peace of mind” and are concerned about “animal welfare”.
The biggest feature of this farm is that it does not use pesticide, chemical fertilizer, and chemical additives. So, the milk and other dairy products such as ice cream and yogurt are produced without the use of chemical components, and are enjoyed by consumers seeking food they can eat with peace of mind.
The herbivorous cattle are raised in grass and natural pastures so there is no stress on the mother cows. This fact coupled with the pasteurized non-homo milk from the Jersey cattle results in healthy and delicious milk and dairy products.
As the milk is pasteurized non-homo milk, it is said to mature in the refrigerator where the taste deepens for around two weeks following production. Having said that, you should probably avoid drinking any milk with a strange odor.
Nakahora Farm products are sold in the Matsuya Ginza first basement floor, the JR Nagoya Station Takashimaya center block second basement floor, and the Tobu Department Store / Ikebukuro Plaza Museum second basement floor lot #8.
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... as well as a few that give glimpses into weird scientific/social history, such as this seemingly too-good-to-be-true advert for the "Liverpool" Virus rodent killer. Investigations reveals a decades-long wrong turning in the field of rodent pest control.
A Boon to Horticulturalists!
RATS Exterminated by
without danger to other animals and without smell from dead bodies. In tins ready prepared with bait. Virus for rats 2/6 & 6/-; for Mice, 1/6.
OF ALL CHEMISTS
Write for particulars to
EVANS SONS LESCHER & WEBB, Ltd.,
56 Hanover Street, LIVERPOOL
It was being advertised in The Times from 1909 to the start of World War 2 (see a 1921 display ad, left) and the makers made some strong claims: that it was completely specific to rats and mice, and that stricken rodents would be affected with "wanderlust" and leave the area (hence the "without smell from dead bodies" part). It was also declared to be "made in England, by English scientists".
It wasn't actually a virus in the modern sense, but an unspecified bacterial culture, and in the late 19th and early 20th century, there were various similar products that used bacterial pathogens, such as "Ready Rat Relief" and "Ratin", and "virus Pasteur" and "virus Danysz" on the Continent.
The safety of these first came under scrutiny in 1908 with an account of an outbreak of a food poisoning: Account of an epidemic of enteritis caused by the "Liverpool virus" rat poison (Lionel Handson and Herbert Williams, British Medical Journal. 1908 November 21; 2(2499): 1547–1550). Twelve people came down with severe enteritis in a house where the product had been used, and stool cultures showed they'd been infected with whatever bacterium was in the "Liverpool virus". A later account - An outbreak of food poisoning probably due to "Rat Virus" (Robb Spalding Spray, JAMA, 1926;86(2):109-111) told of a larger incident, with 140 students affected who had eaten at a single meal session in a West Virginia University student hall.
It was only in the 1940s that any kind of external view of these pathogens became available, when reports by the University of Oxford Bureau of Animal Population and PH Leslie in the Journal of Hygiene showed that they contained various strains of enteritis-causing Salmonella. The food poisoning outbreaks were, in hindsight, unsurprising; and furthermore, rats proved to be capable of being carriers of the disease. The use of bacterial rodenticides carried on until the late 1950s; not long after, a 1967 FAO/WHO report concluded:
In connexion with salmonellosis in rodents it should be re-emphasized that salrnonellas should under no circumstances be used as rodenticides. Rodents rapidly develop resistance to Salmonella serotypes; thus, this method has little practical value. Moreover, it has been shown in different countries that such practices are a public health hazard because the serotypes used are dangerous to man.- Ray
- Prospects for biological control of rodent populations, Kazimierz Wodzicki, Bull.World Health Organ., v.48(4); 1973, PMC2481104
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the...
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited...
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each...
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may...
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when...
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the...
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness...
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine...
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come...
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
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Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has tested positive for covid-19 infection, she announced on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Sheinbaum wrote on Twitter that she was informed of the test result on the night of Monday, Oct. 26, and said that she would work remotely under medical supervision, although she added that she felt “well” and “strong.”
In a videoconference, Sheinbaum explained that she takes a covid-19 test every 15 days.
“It even surprised me, honestly, that it was positive, because I feel very well,” she said, noting that several local officials with whom she recently had contact will also quarantine themselves.
The Mexican capital has reported the highest number of confirmed cases of covid-19 in the country, with 155,899 cases registered to date, according to the health authorities.
Also announcing Tuesday that he has tested positive for covid-19 was Yucatan Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal.
Meanwhile, the spread of the disease in Mexico continues to surge, with the total number of confirmed cases nationwide surpassed 900,000 as of Wednesday, Oct. 28, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
With the total covid cases in the country reaching 901,268, Mexico’s novel coronavirus death toll has risen to 89,814 as of Wednesday, the CSSE data showed.
“In the past day, 643 new deaths and 5,942 new cases of covid-19 have been registered in the system,” José Luis Alomia, general director of epidemiology at Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat, said at a press conference broadcast on his agency’s Twitter.
Due to the pandemic, Mexico, the second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil, is facing a historic economic decline of 9 percent for 2020, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
…Oct. 28, 2020
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People often talk of the world getting smaller because it is easy to travel from one place to another. As the world seemingly shrinks, it is much easier for people to spread out. This is happening in the enterprise, as more companies open multiple small branch offices instead of dealing with the heavy real estate and overhead costs associated with maintaining a large office space.
As this trend continues, organizations often have to find ways to keep their workforce connected in more intuitive ways. Enterprise video programs are emerging as a popular method to achieve this goal.
To understand the potential offered by video, particularly webcasting solutions, look no farther than the funeral industry. According to a recent report from Foster’s Daily Democrat, the Wiggin-Purdy-McCooey-Dion Funeral Home in Dover, New Hampshire will webcast funerals to help connect families who are separated by geographical distance.
“So, what if there is a college student who is in the middle of exams that just can’t make it to grandma’s funeral? At least she can be a part of it at the college campus and see it live,” Stephen Purdy, funeral director for the Purdy Funeral Service, told the news source. “And, if she can’t see it live, she can click on grandma’s obituary on our website and watch it recorded over and over and over again.”
Businesses can use similar webcasting technology to connect workers to important meetings and events. If an employee has to attend an industry conference during the week when a series of town hall meetings is being held, that worker can still experience the events, even though he or she is away from the office. In an era where geographical boundaries are becoming easier to surmount webcasting can overcome the realities of distance in corporate environments.
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Topeka, KS – As part of its ongoing initiative to interpret the civil rights story in Topeka, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site will provide free Civil War to Civil Rights bus tours during the next three Saturdays. “From Brown to Brown: Topeka’s Civil Rights Story” bus tours will travel to locations in the city linked to local and national struggles for freedom and equality. Bus tour times for Saturday, May 18 are 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 2:30 pm; tour times for May 25 are 10:30 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm; and on June 1 there will be one tour at 11 am. Seating is limited. To reserve a seat on the bus, call 785-354-4273. Remaining tickets will be distributed on-site the day of the tour on a first-come, first-served basis.
To help share the unique history of Topeka and Kansas, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, with the help of other partners in the community, is distributing a self-guided driving tour brochure. The brochure, which is titled “From Brown to Brown: Topeka’s Civil Rights Story,” features a map directing drivers to 16 city sites such as the Statehouse, Constitution Hall, Great Overland Station, Topeka Cemetery, Kansas History Museum, and the U.S. Post Office (former federal building) on Kansas Avenue where Brown v. Board of Education was first argued in 1951. To supplement the experience, visitors can dial 785-338-4041 on their cell phones and listen to audio recordings describing each site.
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Copenhagen, Denmark-based photographer Lukas Renlund recently came up with a neat way of drumming up some excitement over his photographs. He held a public photo exhibition called “Steal My Photograph!” that turned out to be possibly the world’s shortest show. After hanging up 40 framed photographs on a wall outdoors, Renlund invited passersby to take any single photograph they desired, with one condition: they had to hang it up, photograph it, and then email the photo and description to Renlund.
Here’s what the printed instructions looked like (it was placed on the wall next to the photos):
The show was a hit. Every photograph was ripped off the wall within 30 seconds of the show’s “opening”:
Even babies got in on the action. After all, you can never be too young to appreciate art, right?
You can find more photos shot during the event in this Facebook album. Here’s a short video that shows the thievery going down:
Pretty soon, the email responses began rolling in from satisfied thieves who are now enjoying the fruits of their crime. Here’s a sampling:
You can find the entire collection of robber responses so far in this Facebook album.
The concept of “free photographs” has been popping up quite a lot as of late. However, most of the ones we’ve seen in the past have involved leaving photos out in random public areas for passers-by to take, rather than holding a live photo exhibition to give them away.
P.S. Imagine what this concept would be like if it were a world-famous photographer giving away free prints. We’re guessing it’d look something like this.
Image credits: Photographs by Lars Helsinghof
[via PetaPixel][via PetaPixel]
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Here is my latest blog post for Huffington Post. You can also read it here.
Holiday tip: mini-size it!
Mini-size it! A great way—perhaps the best way—to cut calories is to trim your portion sizes. Especially of foods that are high in calories. That would include many treats you would find at holiday parties and events such as eggnog, specialty hot chocolates, fancy chocolates, and cakes. The good news about using portion control as a way to trim calories is that you do not have to entirely ban your favorite treats and traditional holiday foods. The key to success, especially during the holiday season is “moderation.” If you crave a fattening food, it is ok to treat yourself to a small serving.
A few healthy holiday tips:
- If you are baking a pie for guests, try cutting it into 10-12 slices instead of 8 slices.
- If you are baking holiday cookies, bake smaller ones.
- Buy mini muffin pans so you have them handy so that you can bake mini muffins.
- If you are cooking potato latkes for Chanukah, make smaller ones, and use less oil.
- Eat off of smaller plates.
- Drink out of smaller glasses. Sip wine, for example, out of a smaller wine glass when possible (if entertaining at home, for example) and limit refills. Liquid calories add up quickly.
- Eyeball serving sizes using common visuals. Three ounces of meat look like a deck of cards, 1/4 cup nuts looks like a golf ball, and two tablespoons of salad dressing fills a shot glass.
- Use your hand as a guide. Stick with a portion of meat the size of your palm and your starch (potato or rice) should be around the size of your fist. (Of course healthy veggies, without dressing, can be consumed in generous portions.)
As the quote goes: “If you can half-it, you can have it.” Or, as I write in my book, The Portion Teller Plan, “What kind of sandwich isn’t fattening?: The answer: “a half sandwich.”
Enjoy family, friends, and of course moderate portions of your favorite foods.
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|Trần Đức Minh (right) patrols forest. – Photo khuyennongvn.gov.vn|
Viet Nam News QUẢNG NGÃI — The 65-year-old war veteran Trần Đức Minh has never forgotten the moment he stumbled on a tree trunk while chasing poachers in Nhàn mountain, leaving his feet bleeding.
Falling is merely one of many risks forest rangers face daily. Minh has volunteered to protect Nhàn Mountain in Tịnh Sơn Commune, Sơn Tịnh District, central Quảng Ngãi Province for nearly 40 years.
Some 40 years ago, the 36ha primeval forest, located close to Highway24B, was his and fellow volunteers’ base. Every tree, every rock used to be their hiding places. His life has been spent in this forest. In 1978, when the war ended, the veteran returned to his hometown and has been living in a Ngô village on the foot of Nhàn Mountain since.
Living next to the mountain, every day, Minh hated hearing the sound of axes chopping down trees. Seeing the forest “bleeding” day by day, Minh wondered why “this forest was not damaged by bombs and bullets in the war but was destroyed during peace”.
Prompted by this thought, Minh decided to chase forest destroyers out.
Minh remembers that years ago, locals went into the forest to cut trees to build houses and to burn.
“I came to each house to ask residents to keep forest to maintain long-term livelihoods. Forest resources will run out. When water runs out, how will we plant rice?” Minh told the locals.
Gradually, local awareness has been raised. When strangers climb up Nhàn Mountain, locals report them to Minh.
“Thanks to Minh’s efforts, although acacia prices have risen, no one chops down trees,” Nguyễn Thanh Sơn, chairman of Tịnh Sơn Commune’s People’s Committee said.
“Minh takes a piece of rock or a tree trunk as a mark to split residents’ production forest and primeval forest to make sure no land is lost,” Sơn added.
The reputation of the forest ranger has spread far. No poachers dare to venture into the forest. However, his biggest fear now is people from ethnic minority groups from Sơn Hà District. They come into the forest to poach animals and to find bees.
Minh said that when they identify weasels on trees, they chop down a vast area of trees to spread a net on the other side and cut trees on this side to frighten the animal.
Bee burning for hunting can easily cause forest fire. During bee seasons, Minh and other forest rangers sleep in the forest to remind people not to drop ashes on dry layers of leaves to avoid flames.
“When I remind them, they immediately listen to me,” Minh said.
When asked how much he is paid every month, he said “Don’t mention the wages when talking about forest protection. No wages are equal to conscience”
Each year his forest protection team of three members receives only VNĐ1 million (US$45).
On average, each person receives less than VNĐ1,000 per day besides a portion of 1,000sq.m of land for rice cultivation they did receive at when embarking on the job.
Minh said that his health has recently declined. He is trying to find young people to pass the baton to. — VNS
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Vigneron Paul Sloan spends a lot of time walking up and down his vineyards.
He walks every vineyard that he farms once week -- all 14 of them. He sometimes walks them 2-3 times a week depending on how critical decisions are. Those are issues like irrigation leaks, color variation, or pests like nematodes.
Sloan, a winemaker and viticulturist at Small Vines Wines, still intends to walk through his vineyards, but he now aims to walk with more intention.
By using a drone manufactured by 3D Robotics, Sloan can use aerial images captured by a camera mounted to the drone which pinpoint areas in his vineyard that need more attention.
"If you flew before you walked, you could use that image to take you to specific places that could be of concern," he said. "This might be able to help us show where the hot spots are, where the critical areas are."
Those critical areas are places where water pressure isn't high enough or irrigation lines are broken. Sloan can spot where those issues are with aerial images based on color difference, growth patterns or size.
"More yellowish leaves versus bright green leaves would give you bigger variation," Sloan said. "Less vigorous would tend to be more yellow in color -- you could tell it has less nitrogen."
From looking at the images, Sloan could physically walk those targeted areas to decide what the issue is.
"It's not going to prevent you from being in your vineyard," he said. "It's just going to give you a more targeted reason for being in your vineyard."
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Australian walnut farmers will now be able to sell into the Indian market following the signing of a market access agreement between the two countries.
Federal agriculture minister David Littleproud said he was thrilled Australia’s walnut growers now had access to India and its 1.4 billion people.
“Many Australians don’t realise a scientific market access agreement is often the hardest part of getting access to a new market,” Littleproud said.
“Getting scientists from two countries to agree on how to stop any threat of diseases or pests being exported from one country to another can be very difficult.”
Littleproud said that the government spoke to industry through the Hort Innovation Australia prioritisation process. Walnut market access was nominated as a key priority.
“Since then our agriculture counsellor in India has worked with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the walnut industry to get this access,” Littleproud said.
“Agricultural counsellors win trade outcomes and that is why we boosted the number of counsellors we have in key markets in the 2017-18 budget.”
The minister said that, with India already a large export market for Australian almonds, there was huge potential for our other nuts to be exported there also. Australia exported over $22.5 million worth of walnuts around the world in 2017-18.
“Around 1.4 billion people live in India – more than 50 times the number of people in Australia – so it’s a huge market we’ve accessed for our walnut growers.”
Trade can formally commence once the import conditions are officially gazetted by India. In the interim, 10 trial shipments of walnuts can be sent to India.
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Commercial Fire Alarm Systems
Fire detection is a critical part of protecting your place of business.
Fire sprinklers are required to be monitored 24-hours per day. The automatic fire sprinklers, smoke and heat detectors are an automatic fire dispatch 24-hours per day.
These systems need periodic testing which is a service provided by Knight Security.
Systems can include:
Smoke and heat detectors.
Carbon monoxide detectors.
Strobes and sounders.
PIV and OS&Y tamper sensors.
Fire evacuation system integration.
Fire inspection service also available.
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Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it to the fullest” (John 10:10). The path that leads to “fullness of life” is discipline. There are four major aspects of the human person – physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. When we eat well, exercise often, and sleep regularly, we feel more fully alive physically. When we love, when we give priority to the significant relationships of our lives, when we give of ourselves to help others in their journey, we feel more fully alive emotionally. When we study our vision of our self, God, and the world expands, and we feel more fully alive intellectually. When we take a few moments each day in the classroom of silence to come before God in prayer, openly and honestly, we experience life more fully spiritually. All of these life-giving endeavors require discipline. When are we most fully alive? When we embrace a life of discipline. The human person thrives on discipline.
Are you thriving? Or are you just surviving?
Discipline awakens us from our philosophical stupor and refines every aspect of the human person. Discipline doesn’t enslave or stifle us; rather, it sets us free to soar to unimagined heights. Discipline sharpens the human senses, allowing us to savor the subtler tastes of life’s experiences. Whether those experiences are physical, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual, discipline elevates them to their ultimate reality. Discipline heightens every human experience and increases every human ability. The life and teachings of Jesus Christ invite us to embrace this life-giving discipline.
Many people consider Jesus irrelevant today because he proposes a life of discipline. Is discipline then to be considered the core of Jesus’ philosophy? No. Christ proposes a life of discipline not for its own sake, and certainly not to stifle or control us; rather, he proposes discipline as the key to freedom.
In the midst of the complexities of this modern era, we find ourselves enslaved and imprisoned by a thousand different whims, cravings, addictions, and attachments. We have subscribed to the adolescent notion that freedom is the ability to do whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want, without interference from any authority. Could the insanity of our modern approach to life be any more apparent? Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character and the self-possession to do what is good, true, noble, and right. Therefore, freedom without discipline is impossible. Strength of character is not stumbled upon in life’s moments of need and temptation. Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline. Self-possession is not an unearned right, it is the privilege of the few who build it, defend it, and celebrate it by disciplining themselves.
Is freedom then to be considered the core of Jesus’ philosophy? No. What then, is the core of his philosophy? Well, as it turns out, the people of his own time were curious for an answer to this very question.
One day, while Jesus was teaching a large group of people in the synagogue, a man asked Our Lord a question from his position in the crowd. He was a learned man, one of those doctors of the law who were no longer able to understand the teaching God revealed to Moses because it had become so twisted and entangled in the ways of men. He questioned Jesus, saying, “Teacher, which is the greatest of the Commandments?”
Jesus opened his divine lips slowly, with the calm assurance of somebody who knows what he is talking about and replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole mind, and your whole soul. This is the first and the greatest of the Commandments. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Upon these two rest the whole law and all the prophets” (Matthew 22:34-40).
Love is the core of Jesus’ philosophy. But, in order to love you must be free. For to love is to give your self freely and without reservation. Yet, to give your self – to another person, to an endeavor, or to God – you must first possess your self. This possession of self is freedom. It is a prerequisite for love, and is attained only through discipline.
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On Thursday 10th November, we welcomed history graduate and former Royal Navy Commodore, Mr Rupert Wallace, to Rossall as part of our Speaker Series.
Mr Wallace joined the Royal Navy in 1981, after graduating from Bristol University where he read History. During his service in the Royal Navy, Mr Wallace fought in the Falklands War, spent sixth months in Baghdad and became a specialist in the Middle East and North Africa conflicts. He retired from the Royal Navy in 2014 as a Commodore and has been sharing his Navy experiences ever since.
Mr Wallace spoke to our students about the Arab-Israeli conflict, sharing his knowledge and experience on these complex matters.
Britain was heavily involved in Middle-Eastern conflicts until 1949 when the UN eventually took over. However, the conflict is still going on to this day.
Mr Wallace emphasised how vital it is to learn about the horrors of wars and conflicts, so that we may prevent future ones from occurring.
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What is Aggravated Assault?
When a person is charged with aggravated assault in Virginia, they may face either a misdemeanor or felony conviction depending on the facts of the crime. The punishment will depend upon the seriousness of the assault and who was assaulted.
When you’ve been charged with a first- or second-degree aggravated assault, if convicted, you’ll have a felony record for life. And though a third- or fourth-degree aggravated assault conviction is considered a misdemeanor, the impact on your life and freedom will still be substantial. Whichever degree of aggravated assault you’ve been charged with, it’s imperative that you take it seriously.
Legal Definition Aggravated Assault
The legal definition of a first- and second-degree assault is when a person intended to cause or caused a serious bodily injury on another person involving a deadly weapon. If the assault was committed against a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical provider, or other designated public official, not only is it considered first- and second-degree assault, but if convicted, the penalties and punishment will be more severe.
Virginia Criminal Code § 18.2-57 defines aggravated assault as an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. Usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.”
Legal Examples Of Aggravated Assault
- Assault using a dangerous or deadly weapon.
- Assault with explosives.
- Wounding causing permanent crippling, mutilation or disfigurement.
- Deliberate attempt to inflict disease by biting, spitting, scratching.
- Spiking drinks with date rape drugs.
- Assault causing serious bodily injury.
- Assault with an intent to kill.
Aggravated Assault Category in Virginia
The four categories of aggravated assault are defined as follows:
- Use of a firearm such as a revolver, semi-automatic pistol, shotgun, zip gun, rifle or any other gun used or threatened to use.
- Use of another dangerous weapon which could or does cause serious injury including mace, pepper spray, bat, club, brick, tire iron, explosive, acid, lye, poison, scalding, burning or scalding material.
- Use of a cutting instrument such as a knife, razor, machete, ax, clever, scissor, glass, broken bottles, ice pick, stiletto.
- Use of body parts such as hands, fists, feet or teeth.
Degrees Of Aggravated Assault
In Virginia, the specific circumstances of the offense will dictate how prosecutors proceed, and upon conviction, the type of penalties and punishment.
FIRST DEGREE of Aggravated Assault
When the offense is committed with premeditated malice to intentionally commit serious bodily injury.
SECOND DEGREE of Aggravated Assault
When a serious injury is committed without deliberation or premeditation.
THIRD/FOURTH DEGREE of Aggravated Assault
When the offender attempts to commit significant rather than serious bodily harm usually occurring in fist fights or similar incidents.
Consequences Of An Aggravated Assault Conviction
An aggravated assault conviction when the severe injury was caused to a victim is considered a felony that could lead to a lifetime prison sentence. Lesser penalties, including misdemeanors, are still serious and may cause you to lose your freedom. Even after you’ve served a sentence, you may still suffer the consequences. A criminal record involving a violent crime will make acquiring employment, securing housing, obtaining credit or qualifying for loans difficult and/or may prevent you from being admitted to a college or university. As well, if convicted and sentenced, even when you’ve paid the price to society, your reputation may be permanently damaged and family and social relationships lost or ruined.
Aggravated Assault Lawyers In Manassas, Prince William County, And Surrounding Areas
Whether it’s your first arrest or you already have a criminal record, the attorney team at Manassas Law Group know people make mistakes, and we treat every client respectfully without judgment or preconceived notions. We also know that just because you’ve been charged with a crime doesn’t mean you’ll be found guilty.
It is our goal to aggressively and strategically battle to have your case dismissed or, at the least, your charges reduced. Our legal team will assess your unique situation and analyze the options available for a strong defense on your behalf. As well, if the prosecutor offers you a plea deal rather than proceeding to trial, we’ll advise you on what’s in your best interest.
For generations of Virginians, the Manassas Law Group has provided skilled, effective representation for every type of complex criminal defense matters. With our decades of experience, we’ll guide you through the process and act as your vigilant advocate to resolve your case as fairly as possible with the intention of preserving your freedom.
Experienced Criminal Defense Attorneys in Manassas
When you involve an experienced criminal defense attorney as early in the process as possible, it gives them a chance to build a strong defense. If you wait, the opportunity to negotiate reduced or dismissed charges may be diminished or missed altogether—the sooner you contact the Manassas Law Group, your chance of a fair outcome is heightened.
And remember—just because you’ve been charged with aggravated assault doesn’t mean you will be convicted—in a Virginia criminal court, you are innocent until proven guilty. And the Manassas Law Group will aggressively work towards dismissal or reduction of your charges.
Our team of understanding criminal defense attorneys know being charged with such a serious crime is stressful and troubling. The Manassas Law Group criminal defense attorneys will help you understand your rights and explain how we can defend against the alleged aggravated assault offense for which you were arrested.
Contact The Manassas Law Group Today For A Free, Confidential Consultation
To begin the challenge of building a strong defense, the experienced criminal defense attorney team at the Manassas Law Group will meet with you personally for a free initial confidential consultation to discuss your case and identify your representation needs. Call us today at 703.361.8246 or send a confidential message on our website.
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While walking together to a wedding, three young boys meet an old sailor: the man, curved by his age but with a “glittering eye”, stops one of them and tells him his story. This is the premise of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the poem that opens Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (1798).
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May’st hear the merry din.’
In many of his literary creations, Coleridge works with fantastic, dream-like worlds, where realistic and supernatural events coexist. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner dwells in a rarefied atmosphere but also adopts the solemn tone of a maritime epic, like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. To this day, the interpretations of this ballad are numerous, because of its dense and mysterious symbolism.
The tale of the Mariner
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God’s name.
During a voyage, the Mariner and his crew are hit by a dreadful storm, that conducts the ship inside a maze of ice. Soon enough, an albatross comes flying by, and as he circles around the ship, the ice starts to break. All the sailors welcome the majestic bird as a good omen. Instead, the Mariner kills it with his crossbow. After that, the ship remains stuck, leaving everybody thirsty and hungry. Meanwhile, the water fills with monstrous, slimy creatures. As a punishment, the crew forces the Mariner to wear the corpse of the albatross on his shoulder.
There is a glimpse of hope when another ship approaches. However, it is a ghostly ship, whose only two passengers are Death and Life-in-Death. After a game of dice between the two entities, all the sailors drop dead, except for the Mariner. After spending days alone, unable to die, the Mariner looks at the slimy creatures, and they suddenly appear beautiful at his eyes. He finds himself able to pray, and the albatross falls from his back. Immediately after, a host of spirits enters the dead bodies, who begin to move and perform their old task.
Back at the harbor, the spirits leave the bodies of the crew, and the Mariner encounters a Hermit. He tells him what happened and frees himself from guilt. That sense of guilt, though, returns ciclically and it persists until the Mariner tells his story again.
Looking for the hidden meaning
O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware.
The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
The motives that lead the Mariner to kill the albatross remain unknown. That’s why The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has been object of many interpretations. To many, the ballad is a Christian parable of mankind, that shows the original sin and the following path of repentance. Others focus on the conflict between nature and man, whose own nature is to try to overcome the limits of natural laws. Romantic intellectuals would call it “positive evil” – an attitude that alters nature and creates an imbalance. Recently, another reading seems to link The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to explorations and colonialism. The killing of the albatross would be the signal of the betrayal of native people’s trust, followed by a torturuous sense of guilt.
A sadder and wiser man
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is also a homage to the power of stories. As a matter of fact, the only relief he finds is when he can share his tale. It is a blessing and a curse, and not only to him. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ends with the Wedding Guest:
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Listening to the old man’s parable made him sad, because he shared his pain, but also wiser. This is an allusion to the cathartic power of stories. It is an early topos of Greek literature: “pathèin mathèin”, which means that suffering leads to learning. Listening to other people’s deeds sometimes can be as nurturing as experiencing them firsthand. So, a narration can be equally healing for those who speak and those who listen.
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About the Degree Programmes:
We support the students to acquire Bsc Optometry which is a full-time undergraduate and 4-year degree programme. It has eight semesters of
coursework. Out of these eight semesters, two semesters are training-based and taken in conjunction with Alagappa university, while the remaining six semesters are theory-based and completed in a classroom.
It is ranked as a category-I university by MHRD-UGC and certified by NAAC with an A+ rating (CGPA: 3.64). This programme stands out from others because to its partnership with industry leaders in eye care and a cutting-edge national institute.
Optometry students have the option to specialise in a variety of fields, including paediatrics, learning disabilities, contact lenses, vision therapy, orthotics, and occupational vision. They get the ability to identify refractive error and recommend the proper remedies. They are also engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of a number of ocular issues. In clinics and hospitals, optometrists have a choice of working independently or in tandem with ophthalmologists. They may also work for optical businesses. According to MoHFW, students who complete their optometry programmes in fewer than four years will be regarded as ophthalmic assistants rather than optometrists. Unlike optometrists, who can work on their own, an ophthalmic assistant can only work under the direction of an ophthalmologist. A three-year, full-time curriculum leading to a diploma in optometry covers a variety of courses related to eye health, including retail management in optometry, patient management, and psychology. This diploma programme offers students a variety of employable skills in the medical and healthcare industries.
Students must develop knowledge in both academic and practical disciplines as part of their optometry diploma program's curriculum. These topics include basic optical themes as well as others related to human biology.A student of optometry must have a variety of abilities, such as critical thinking, communication, and a fine grasp of biology and other subjects, in order to practise optometry with the utmost efficiency and accuracy.
About the Department
Optometry is a healthcare profession dealing with eye and vision care. Optometrists are the primary healthcare practitioners whose responsibilities include refraction and dispensing, assisting in detection and management of eye conditions, and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system.There are currently 146 optometry schools and colleges in our country and the count of graduating optometrist is approximately 2,115. The demand is 10,000 Optometrist each year, and hence there is a short-fall of 6500 optometrist per academic year. For a country with 1.3 billion populations, there is a huge shortage of Ophthalmologist & Optometrist. Currently the ratio is 1 Eye care professional to 1,25,000 people. The aim therefore should be at least 1 Ophthalmologist & Optometrist for 10,000 people.
Candidate must have passed +2 / Higher Secondary / Intermediate with Biology or Botany or Zoology.
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Interested candidates can apply online or offline with the required information.
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The latest NSSO data (Surveys done between July and December 2012) shows that slums have actually reduced in Indian cities! Liable to be missed in all the hullabaloo of politics, this is a huge achievement for India. If it is true… For one, comparing the Census, which is an actual count of the people who live in the country, with sample survey data seems a bit strange. How do you explain these differences? Nine million households live in slums in 2012 as per the NSSO as compared to 14 million as identified by the Census 2011. The NSSO counts 13,761 slums while the Census found 37,000! I would take these numbers with many pinches of salt!
The good points
Only 41% of the slums are notified by the local authorities. I am glad the data points this out. Not being recognized or notified often means the denial of services and living in perpetual fear of eviction, as is pointed out repeatedly by the work of several organizations across the country. Transparent Chennai in particular has been vocal about this point (Read their excellent editorial in The Hindu on the India’s invisible population). So while the media is seeing the drop in the number of slums as indicative of the political mainstreaming of India’s urban poor, much remains to be done for those who reside in slums and other unserviced areas in our cities.
It is also heartening to see the improvements in services. The report says that 93.5% of slums have power supply and 71% have access to drinking water. There has also been improvement in drainage, sewerage, garbage disposal, primary education and medical facilities ranges between 15% and 45% compared to the data from five years ago. This does indicate the de-linking of the service provisioning from legality and more integration of the slum into the urban fabric. And perhaps the ability of slum populations to access services outside the slum. We know that slum dwellers are not always poor, but sometime middle class people living in slums owing to negligible affordable housing stock in the formal sector.
One strange point
The majority of survey respondents (70.8%) cites better accommodation as the reason to move out from a slum. The initial analysis seems to point to the success of government schemes like JNNURM and RAY. However, the total number of homes added to the housing stock under these would probably not add up to 5 million, methinks though I have to check on this!
Those of us who work in the sector will wonder about what specific improvements in the attitudes and policies of local and State governments towards existing slums could have brought about such a decrease in number. Evidence from the ground seems to show an ever increasing diversity in the types of squatter settlements and only marginal and isolated instances of positive governmental or collaborative interventions.
More analysis needed
Sure, these are off-the-cuff comments and someone (not me though) would need to analyze the results more thoroughly. It is encouraging to see more data being generated about urban informal habitats though. Slowly, it looks like many gaps in our understanding are getting filled. It is up to us, those who live and breathe this stuff, to overlay the data and the anecdotal evidence and come out with a more nuanced understanding of the situation. Not a mean task, but important and fun too!
Hearing from practitioners, government officials, researchers and funders on their experiences in engaging with informality in cities has been quite invigorating. We have spent the last couple of months gearing up for this workshop at micro Home Solutions, mostly focusing on getting on board the right partners and then figuring out logistics. I must say it has been a most satisfying experience to see it come together well.
Informality was a contested term at the day’s first session where URBZ took the lead. Rahul and Matias took exception to the connotation that everything in the informal realm is sans form,the objected to the dichotomies of formal-informal, urban-rural that we cling to and called for a more nuanced understanding if the terms used. The stance generated a lot of debate and their presentation of their Homegrown Cities project fascinated me, in which the strategy is to support local contractors and crowdfund to support cost of expertise, and thus construct houses in informal areas, ultimately to form a cooperative of homegrown homes and a neighbourhood that sustains itself through self-organisation. Quite an undertaking! Be sure to visit their Facebook page and website to know more and contribute!
Nithya and Vinaya from Transparent Chennai had put together a short exercise for all of us. The task of filling out a form to apply for a water and sewage connection scheme by the Chennai water utility as though we were one of three persons they had profiled! Threw up many points. Complexity of paperwork, hidden costs to avail the scheme, eligibility issues, a huge push towards rent seeking behaviour because of the complexities and loopholes. Ineffective for the common man and certainly excludes slum dwellers who really need these services badly! Complimenting this exercise were comments from Patrick Heller on his research on citizenship with regards to accessing basic services. Julia King’s walk through of providing community based sanitation in Savda Ghevra, a resettlement colony outside Delhi opened the doors for participation by DUSIB (Delhi Shelter improvement Board), which was a great value add and gave the chance for us to ask difficult questions from government officers face to face. I must say all the exchanges were surprisingly respectful and honest.
The concluding session for the day on access to finance saw a micro finance player and National Housing Bank present diametrically opposite approaches to lending for the poor. Lalit Kumar from NHB did a great job of fielding questions from the audience on why schemes like the credit guarantee fund or refinancing for construction of affordable housing are unsuitable for the incremental situation. The takeaway from this was that precious little can be done with formal finance unless govt moves to grant legal titles to slum dwellers. The question of why it is such a no-no to experiment with higher risk when MFIs have has such good experiences with repayment was well taken. Sandeep Farias from Elevar Equity who was moderating the session along with CPR‘s Partha Mukhopadhyay, suggested an ‘incremental’ build up towards finance schemes that incorporate more risk. Quite appropriate, given the day’s discussions
Looking forward to tomorrow’s sessions on building safety and disaster preparedness in incremental communities and a closing panel that discusses ways forward for policy.
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At the moment remaining yr, the web used to be celebrating what used to be was hoping can be a “sizzling vax summer time.” This yr, it is only a undeniable previous sizzling summer time.
Temperatures are hovering around the Northern Hemisphere, with record-setting highs and warmth waves in Europe, North The united states and Asia. Within the Pacific Northwest, public well being officers predict warmth index values to succeed in unhealthy ranges this week as a number of high-temperature information will probably be set. Within the Northeast, a heatwave has led states like New Jersey to set triple-digit temperature records during the last week. Previous this month, it used to be estimated that just about 70 million American citizens had been dealing with a warmth wave or advisory.
In the meantime, in China — the place temperatures were expanding quicker than the worldwide reasonable — 70 towns are these days dealing with a caution that temperatures are anticipated to 104 levels Fahrenheit this week. Europe’s most up-to-date heatwave has reportedly melted roads, and brought about wildfires in Britain.
Local weather exchange researchers have lengthy warned us of the hyperlink between emerging greenhouse-gas emissions and extra widespread, boiling temperatures. The ones temperatures, in flip, have a deleterious impact on human well being — and building up the chance of demise for everybody.
Whilst there are lots of tales about excessive warmth being fatal, and in regards to the demise tolls from warmth, how precisely warmth kills isn’t as ceaselessly mentioned. (Certainly, warmth has been known as the “primary killer.”) Obviously, publicity to warmth and solar can kill: for those who had been to, say, wander during the wasteland in the summertime with out water, demise can be a most probably end result.
However excessive warmth deaths are going down in extremely urbanized spaces, the place safe haven, electrical energy, or even air-con are common. So how does warmth kill in some of these puts?
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“As temperatures get hotter, definitely that is going to be extra of a topic,” Dr. Nicole McCoin, Division Chair for Emergency Drugs at Ochsner Well being, advised Salon. “There is a worry with folks, specifically when they are now not used to the warmth, and they are getting out within the warmth and exerting themselves — there is a massive possibility.”
In different phrases, exertion in a warmth wave can kill. You might are living in an air-conditioned condo block within the city jungle of New York Town, however if you’re already frail and cross out and exert your self all through a warmth wave, you will be hanging your self in peril.
Essentially the most regarding factor about excessive warmth is the way it impacts the cardiovascular machine. An overheated individual may to find that their cardiovascular machine is suffering to control warmth, which leads to warmth stroke.
Retrospectively, researchers are simply starting to perceive the toll that excessive warmth has had on people over the past couple of many years. A contemporary find out about printed within the Magazine of the American Scientific Affiliation discovered that an building up in summer time days the place it felt like a minimum of 90 levels or warmer used to be related to a mean of one,373 additional deaths every yr, in keeping with knowledge from 2008 to 2017. In a separate contemporary find out about, researchers from the College of Southern California printed a paper examining greater than 1.5 million deaths in California between 2014 and 2019. They discovered that the chance of demise higher via six % on days when there used to be excessive warmth, and 21 % on days the place excessive warmth used to be coupled with air air pollution. In different phrases, if any individual is already unwell or frail one way or the other, excessive warmth can push them over the threshold.
In step with the Environmental Coverage Company, warmth waves are going on extra ceaselessly and extra intensely in primary U.S. towns. In particular, their frequency has higher from a mean of 2 warmth waves a yr to 6 from the Nineteen Sixties to 2010s.
In different phrases, excessive warmth and intensely sizzling days are going to turn out to be extra not unusual one day. So what precisely is the chance of extended excessive warmth at the human frame?
“Ultimately, the temperature and/or humidity is simply too excessive for us so to compensate physiologically via sweating and that convective warmth loss, and we are not in a position to handle a solid frame temperature.”
Tony Wolf, a postdoctoral student at Pennsylvania State College’s Noll Lab who research thermoregulation and microvascular body structure, defined to Salon that essentially the most regarding factor about excessive warmth is the way it impacts the cardiovascular machine. The cardiovascular machine is helping control our frame warmth via redistributing warmth between interior organs. An overheated individual may to find that their cardiovascular machine is suffering to try this, which leads to warmth stroke — a situation during which the frame can not keep an eye on its temperature. Warmth stroke is essentially the most critical heat-related sickness.
The best way that our our bodies maintain warmth begins with sweat. Sweat is how the human frame is in a position to handle its core temperature when confronted with excessive warmth.
“We sweat to burn up warmth, and we additionally redistribute blood out to our pores and skin to chill the blood via convection, so air passing over the outside cools the blood simply beneath the outside and that blood then will get delivered again to the core to stay the core temperature rather solid,” Wolf defined. “Ultimately, the temperature and/or humidity is simply too excessive for us so to compensate physiologically via sweating and that convective warmth loss, and we are not in a position to handle a solid frame temperature, and we have now a continuing upward thrust and interior or core temperature.”
When that occurs, the guts has to paintings more difficult to ship blood. And if an individual is not sweating, they’ll lose plasma and blood quantity, as soon as once more inflicting the guts to must paintings even more difficult. Wolf stated because of this once we see higher heat-related deaths, they are “cardiovascular in nature” and ceaselessly impact older populations or folks with heart-related comorbidities who may have weakened cardiovascular programs.
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McCoin defined to Salon that once the core temperature of the frame can not be maintained because of excessive warmth, that is when an individual will begin to revel in organ issues or an altered psychological state.
Sooner than experiencing a warmth stroke, McCoin stated an individual must glance out for indicators that they could be experiencing warmth exhaustion, too.
“Folks will see indicators that their coronary heart price hurries up and their blood drive falls, they in most cases will begin to really feel in point of fact susceptible — some folks turn out to be lightheaded, they are able to have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramping,” McCoin stated. “In the event that they transition into having a warmth stroke, the large distinction there may be that then their psychological standing in point of fact begins to modify they usually begin to get very at a loss for words, they are able to also have seizures, and in order that is the place you get into much more critical territory.”
McCoin stated when folks begin to really feel those signs, if they are able to, you need to take away themselves from the supply of the warmth.
“After which use cool water at the frame,” McCoin stated. “Then if you’ll use that during aggregate with enthusiasts, that is very efficient as a result of then you could have all that evaporative cooling from the enthusiasts on that rainy pores and skin.”
The purpose at which warmth is simply too excessive for the human frame has just lately been debated. Wolf from the Noll Lab has labored on analysis round “rainy bulb temperature,” which, as Peter Reiners wrote in the past in Salon, is a particular dimension of warmth and humidity that “makes it transparent how shut stipulations are to deadly.”
“The nearer rainy bulb temperature will get to our frame temperature, the fewer warmth is misplaced and the nearer we’re to warmth demise,” Reiners, a geosciences professor, writes. Rainy bulb temperature is measured via watching the temperature of a rainy thermometer within the color as water evaporates off of it.
“It’s been identified for greater than a century that rainy bulb temperatures upper than 88 °F (31 °C) make it inconceivable to do bodily hard work, and a rainy bulb temperature of 95 °F (35 °C) kills wholesome people inside of a couple of hours,” Reiners wrote in 2021.
Then again, Wolf’s analysis says that the rainy bulb temperature this is deadly is also less than in the past understood.
Up to now, researchers idea the higher restrict for the human frame used to be 95 levels Fahrenheit at 100% humidity, or 115 levels Fahrenheit at 50 % humidity. This will be the restrict to which the human frame can not cool itself via sweating to handle a solid frame core temperature. However Wolf and his colleagues’ analysis has instructed that the higher restrict may well be nearer to 88 levels Fahrenheit with 100% humidity, or 100 levels Fahrenheit at 60% humidity.
Wolf stated he hopes their analysis is helping pressure some coverage exchange as the sector faces a long run with extra widespread, intense warmth waves.
“After we identify those higher limits for a repairs of solid core temperature above which the chance of heat-related diseases begins to extend, we are hoping that the information can be utilized for coverage and pointers to lend a hand get ready you,” Wolf stated. “Whether or not that comes all the way down to expanding availability of cooling facilities, or no matter it can be.”
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Sri Lanka Trips
Part of Sri Lanka's irresistible charm lies in the way it interweaves past and present. Whilst being forward-looking and progressive, this remains an island deeply imbued with a sense of pride in its traditions. Commuters and taxi drivers will stop on busy highways and queue at roadside temples to pay respects to their ancestors; businessmen will swap the comfort of their air-conditioned offices for an exhausting pilgrimage to the island’s most sacred sites; and the timing of even the simplest events is governed by ritual and religion.
It is perhaps not surprising that Sri Lanka's diverse ethnic groups have clung fiercely on to their traditions in the wake of centuries of invasion by foreign powers. The island’s early settlers migrated from India, establishing a 2500 year old Buddhist tradition that survives here as a potent symbol of the national identity, despite having long since faded in its native land. Hinduism, too, made its mark, proudly protected by Tamils across the nation. Arab traders brought Islam, while in later years the colonial powers of Europe fought over the island’s riches. Their legacy survives in the island’s tumble-down forts and creaking railways, tea plantations and passion for cricket.
Sri Lanka’s superb beaches lie all along its coastline and vary greatly in character, with sandy coves and estuaries and long palm-fringed stretches. However, most of Sri Lanka’s most beautiful and interesting sights are away from the coast. By venturing a few hours inland you can explore the island’s phenomenal ‘Cultural Triangle’, which encompasses no fewer than five UNESCO World Heritage Sites. At one point of the triangle is Kandy, the island’s last Buddhist capital and gateway to the highlands, while to the north are the ancient cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.Â
Anuradhapura was the capital for 1500 years, its soaring dagobas (domes containing sacred relics) testament to the lofty ambitions of its kings, while an auspicious meeting at nearby Mihintale sealed the island’s conversion to Buddhism. Repeated invasions from India forced Anuradhapura’s abandonment for the less exposed site of Polonnaruwa, whose city walls today encircle the island’s most rewarding archaeological complex; its unmissable highlight is the serene rock-cut recumbent Buddha at the Gal Vihara. But some of the region’s most inspiring treasures lie outside the ancient capitals: the astonishing Lion’s Rock, atop which lie the remains of a fifth-century playboy’s palace, and the impressive paintings at the cave temple of Dambulla.
Places of interest in Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura is Sri Lanka’s most sacred city. Along with Mihintale – where King Tissa received the Emperor...
Kandy, Sri Lanka’s second largest city and cultural capital, is the home of the Temple of Lord Buddha’s Tooth and...
Polonnaruwa, the island’s medieval capital between the 11th and 13th century, is perhaps the most rewarding of the...
Activities in Sri Lanka
- Hong Kong
- North Korea
- Papua New Guinea
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Protecting Our Community From Toxic Coal Dust
Bring a friend to this free community health event!
Monday, May 9th, 6pm – 8pm, (free Mercury hair testing begins at 5pm)
Pollution from the proposed Wishbone Hill coal strip mine will be harmful to public health in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Come to this public forum to learn about the true costs of this coal mine and the impacts it could have on our health. Local doctors, public health professionals and business owners will share their knowledge and experience dealing with the impacts of coal mining.
Come by the Palmer Depot at 5:00pm to get your hair tested for mercury.
Snacks and coffee will be provided.
610 South Valley Way, Palmer, AK 99645
Sponsored by: Mat Valley Coalition and Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Monday, May 9, 2011
Don't Forget - Breathe Free Today @ 6:00 - Palmer Depot
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Black Abolitionist Archive
Title: Sarah Parker Remond
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech given before an audience in Dublin addressed the issue of slavery in the U.S. and called on Great Britain to aid in the effort to abolish it. The speaker focused on the plight of women caught up in this system.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 765 word document (text and images)
Date published: 1859
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From the DNR
Three hunter education instructors with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are marking their 50th year of service.
Judith Schultz of Verndale, Stuart Anderson of Deer River, and Stanley Heldt of Mayer have donated thousands of hours and taught thousands of students hunting ethics, wildlife conservation, survival and firearms safety.
“These individuals’ commitment to the future of Minnesota’s outdoor recreation heritage serves as example to the more than 4,700 dedicated volunteer DNR safety education instructors throughout the state,” said Capt. Mike Hammer, DNR hunter education program coordinator. “Minnesota’s hunters and motorized recreation enthusiasts owe them a debt of gratitude.”
The agency presented an engraved watch to each instructor to commemorate 50 years of service.
Schultz, Anderson, and Heldt join 611 firearms safety, snowmobile safety, turkey clinic, bow hunter, and advanced hunter education instructors recognized this year for five, 10, 20, 30, and 40 years of service totaling 7,135 years of instruction. DNR’s safety programs train 23,000 students annually.
“Volunteer instructors are the heart and soul of the hunter education program in Minnesota,” Hammer said. “The service of these dedicated men and women has made a significant difference in ensuring safe, ethical, and responsible behavior while enjoying Minnesota’s outdoors. No one knows how many injuries have been prevented and lives saved because of their efforts.”
DNR is always looking for experienced people who want to pass on the tradition of outdoors safety and responsibility to the next generation.
People interested in joining the DNR in this volunteer activity, should call 800-366-8917, ext. 2504 or visit the DNR website at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/instructors/index.html.
Fishing Klinic for Kids set for June 15
All area youth and their parents are welcome to attend the 16th annual Fishing Klinic For Kids Saturday, June 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Sturges Park on Buffalo Lake.
Participants will enjoy fishing, as well as visiting with fishing pros. There will also be demonstrations, vendor booths, food, games, activities, fun, and prizes.
There is something for everyone at this family-friendly event.
This is the largest event of its kind in Minnesota. More than 20,000 youth have participated in this program over the years.
For more information on the organization and events, go to www.fishingklinicforkids.com.
Apply now for Minnesota elk hunt
From the DNR
Hunters have until June 14 to apply for one of 23 elk licenses offered this year by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
The licenses will be available in Kittson County’s central and northeast zones. The Grygla area will be closed to enable that area’s elk population to rebuild to goal levels.
“The number of hunting licenses available reflects the goals of the state’s elk management plan,” said Leslie McInenly, DNR big game program leader. “That plan aims to balance the interest of hunters, landowners and others.”
McInenly said aerial surveys conducted during the winter in the Grygla area identified 28 elk, slightly below the pre-calving goal range of 30-38 animals. She said this year’s closure is likely to return the herd to goal range.
Hunters interested in applying for a license can find maps of the two hunting zones and other pertinent information on the DNR website at www.mndnr.gov/hunting/elk.
This year’s hunt will provide increased opportunities in Kittson County, with two early seasons and two late seasons.
The first season, which will be held in both zones, runs from Saturday, Sept. 14, to Sunday, Sept. 22 (Season A).
The second, third, and fourth seasons will be held only in the Kittson County Central Elk Zone.
They will run from Saturday, Sept. 28, to Sunday, Oct. 6 (Season B), Saturday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 15 (Season C), and Saturday, Jan. 11, to Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 (Season D).
All applications must be filed electronically at any DNR license agent, the DNR License Center at 500 Lafayette Road in St. Paul, www.mndnr.gov or by telephone at 888-665-4236.
Hunters may apply individually or in parties of two.
There is a nonrefundable application fee of $4 per hunter.
License cost is $287.
Landowner licenses will be available in each season in the Kittson County Central Elk Zone but are not available in the Kittson County Northeast Elk Zone.
Turtles now crossing roads to reach nests
From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking people to leave turtles alone as the turtles cross roads to reach nesting areas.
Each year at this time, many female turtles move from lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams to nesting areas, where they deposit their eggs in self-excavated nests.
Unfortunately, many nesting areas are separated from the turtles’ wintering areas by roads they cross as they make their way to nests.
“Many turtles and other species are killed on Minnesota roads each year, especially during the nesting season,” said Carol Hall, DNR herpetologist.
People can help reduce turtle road death in these ways:
• Allow unassisted road crossings. When turtles can safely cross roads unaided due to a lack of oncoming traffic, allow them to do so. Observe from a distance and avoid rapid movements. Doing otherwise may cause turtles to change direction, stop, or seek shelter within their shells.
• Avoid excessive handling. Excessive handling can disrupt normal behavior. Prolonged examination of turtles should be limited to only one or two turtles of each species.
• Maintain travel direction. Always move turtles in the same direction they were traveling when encountered. Turtles should always be moved across roadways in as direct a line as possible.
People who see a turtle or other animal on the road, should slow down, and safely drive around it.
Many people want to help turtles cross the road but the best approach is to let the turtle cross on its own.
There are nine turtle species in the state, some of which are protected.
For more information on Minnesota turtles: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/reptiles_amphibians/turtles/index.html.
Keep birds healthy, avoid moldy birdseed
From the DNR
Moldy birdseed and unclean bird feeders can make birds sick, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said.
In spring and in hot, humid weather it is common for mold to form on wet birdseed.
The mold can cause a fatal avian disease called aspergillosis, which affects the birds’ respiratory systems.
Carrol Henderson, supervisor of the DNR nongame wildlife program, urges people to rake or sweep up any fallen seeds and seed hulls under their feeder to prevent moldy conditions from occurring on the ground. “These seeds can also attract meadow voles, house mice or other rodents, and the growth inhibitor in sunflower hulls can cause problems with grass or flowers near the feeder,” he said.
Salmonella is another disease that affects birds and is associated with unclean feeders.
It is extremely important, Henderson said, to keep a bird feeder clean to minimize the threat of disease.
To clean a feeder, he suggests using a solution of two ounces of bleach with one gallon of water and scrub the entire surface, or 10 parts water to one part bleach.
Always allow the cleaned feeder to dry out in the sun, as the sunlight will help kill bacteria on the feeder.
Hummingbird feeders should be cleaned about every week to 10 days during the summer to keep the sugar water from producing mold.
Keep the feed dry by using a hopper-type feeder or a fly-through feeder and always scrape out old seed that accumulates in the corners.
Tray feeders with a screen bottom will allow seeds to dry out from above and below after a rain shower.
“Remember not to put out too many seeds at once because if the seeds are several inches thick, they can still become moldy in the center of a feeder with a screen bottom,” Henderson said.
More information on attracting and feeding birds is available in “Wild about Birds: The DNR Bird Feeding Guide” and “Landscaping for Wildlife.”
Both books are for sale at Minnesota’s Bookstore in St. Paul.
These books were made possible by the donations to the nongame wildlife fund.
DNR asks for volunteers to help MN’s loon population
From the DNR
Volunteers can help Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists discover the major cause of death of the common loon by collecting dead loon specimens for testing.
This statewide study to find answers about loon mortality is being conducted by the DNR’s nongame wildlife program.
“Small studies have been conducted in the past, but they were limited to looking for high mercury concentrations,” said Kevin Woizschke, DNR nongame wildlife specialist and loon watcher coordinator. “This new statewide effort will help answer the big question of what kills our loons. Minnesota’s loon population is about 12,000 birds and the numbers appear stable, but there are still questions about loon mortality.”
The nongame program is asking for help in collecting loons that recently died with no signs of decomposition or obvious predator trauma.
Visibly rotten loons should not be collected.
To collect a specimen for testing, use disposable gloves to put the dead loon in a plastic bag.
To reduce disease risk, try to avoid bare-handed contact when handling dead animals.
If gloves are not available, turn a plastic shopping bag inside out and scoop up the specimen with the bag.
Place the specimen in a freezer as soon as possible.
If a freezer is not available place the specimen in a cooler, surrounded by ice.
It is important to deliver the specimen as soon as possible to a local DNR office.
All loons need to be labeled with the name of the county, lake, nearest town where it was found and along with person’s name, address and telephone number.
For more information or to locate the nearest DNR officer, call DNR Information Center at (651) 296-6157 or toll-free at 888-646-6367 or Kevin Woizeschke, (218) 833-8729.
Grass carp near Sartell is northernmost find for Asian carp
From the DNR
An angler bowfishing on the Mississippi River north of Sartell last week shot a 25-pound grass carp, an exotic species that previously has been found only much further south in Minnesota, including lower portions of the Mississippi, according to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Because DNR fisheries biologists believe the fish could not have gotten past the dams at Coon Rapids, St. Cloud and Sartell, it likely escaped via flood waters from a private pond, or was released intentionally.
Possession of grass carp is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
It is legal for reporting purposes to possess specimens, as the angler did.
There are state regulations in place to prevent the importation of these species and transfers between lakes.
As a result, the DNR has not seen a lot of invasive fish spread though overland transfer compared to other animals and plants.
“Minnesota has strong laws against introducing exotic species into our public waters because it’s a serious matter,” said Steve Hirsch, director of the DNR’s Ecological and Waters Division. “Invasive species like this can pose a significant threat to our native fisheries, recreational opportunities, and ecosystems.”
While the problems caused by bighead and silver carp are raised more frequently, grass carp is another species that can cause environmental harm.
They are voracious consumers of aquatic vegetation, can grow to 70 pounds, and can cause water quality problems.
Brought to the U.S. from Russia and China in the 1960s to control unwanted vegetation in reservoirs and aquaculture farms, they escaped and are now reproducing in some southern states.
Grass carp previously have been found in southeastern Minnesota, but they are not known to reproduce in Minnesota.
A preliminary examination of the 36-inch female grass carp arrowed near Sartell, however, found what appeared to be viable eggs.
CO weekley reports
From the DNR
• CO Brian Mies (Annandale) last week checked anglers.
CO Mies testified in court on a deer case.
CO Mies gave fur and trapping class at Ney Park.
CO Mies worked on a waters case.
• CO Rick Reller (Buffalo) gave a presentation to a couple hundred 5th graders from Wright County attending a Conservation Day at Ney Park.
Reller also gave a presentation at a Firearms Safety class in Rockford.
Several over limit cases were made with the largest for 70 pan fish over the limit.
Other enforcement action was taken for angling without a license, angling with extra lines and possession of marijuana.
• CO Steve Walter (Waconia) gave a presentation to the Carver County Rotary Club.
Turkey hunters were checked having good luck.
The fishing opener was worked with CO Vang Lee, finding very few fish caught due to the cold and 30 mph wind.
• CO Jackie Glaser (Mound) patrolled Lake Minnetonka and various Carver County lakes for the fishing opener.
She attended an AIS workshop with Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
She participated in a TEP meeting in Stillwater and investigated three separate waters violations in Chanhassen.
Numerous civil citations were issued to boaters transporting zebra mussels and failing to remove drain plugs.
She also met with sheriff’s deputies to discuss the upcoming boating season and enforcement projects.
• CO Jen Mueller (Hutchinson) worked the Hutchinson area lakes on the fishing opener.
Strong winds slowed some of the activity on the lakes but anglers had some luck catching walleyes. 100% compliance was found on AIS issues.
Mueller and a neighboring officer responded to an ATV trespassing complaint in McLeod County.
She also spoke Hector HS for a career class.
• CO Brett Oberg (Hutchinson) worked a very windy fishing opener.
High winds kept down the number of anglers venturing out on area lakes.
Despite the wind anglers were able to land a few fish.
Oberg and CO Mueller checked several nice crappies on an area lake, and several groups of anglers checked managed at least one walleye.
Overall it was the slowest opener Oberg has worked.
Oberg also spent time working ATV and trapping violations.
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Of Ethics Committees, Protocols, and Behaving Ethically in the Field: A Case Study of Research With Elderly Residents in a Nursing Home
Nursing Inquiry. 1996 Sept; 3(3): 130-137.
Aged; Autonomy; Behavioral Research; Caring; Case Studies; Coercion; Competence; Consent Forms; Consent; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Forms; Guidelines; Informed Consent; Institutionalized Persons; Interprofessional Relations; Investigator Subject Relationship; Investigators; Nurse Patient Relationship; Nurses; Nursing Ethics; Nursing Research; Patient Advocacy; Professional Ethics; Research; Research Ethics; Research Subjects; Selection of Subjects;
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The Activity of French Research Ethics Committees and Characteristics of Biomedical Research Protocols Involving Humans: A Retrospective Cohort Study Decullier, Evelyne; Lheritier, Veronique; Chapuis, Francois (2005)
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Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke, Alessandro Talamelli, Luciano Castillo, Michael Hölling
1 Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark2 Meteorology, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark3 Test and Measurements, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark4 Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark
Modeling of the systematic errors in the second-order moments of wind speeds measured by continuous-wave (ZephIR) and pulsed (WindCube) lidars is presented. These lidars use the velocity azimuth display technique to measure the velocity vector. The model is developed for the line-of-sight averaging and the full extent of conical scanning. The predictions are compared with the measurements from the ZephIR, WindCube and sonic anemometers at a flat terrain test site, under different atmospheric stability conditions. It is observed that the systematic errors are up to 90% for the vertical velocity variance, whereas they are up to 70% for the horizontal velocity variances. The systematic errors also vary with atmospheric stability, being lowest for the very unstable conditions. It is concluded that with the current measurement configuration, these lidars cannot be used to measure turbulence precisely.
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Nonfiction — print. Translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Bantam Books, 1993. Originally published 1947. 283 pgs. Purchased.
Although I’ve taken two classes and read more than three dozen books on the subject, I have never read the diary of the most famous victim of the Holocaust. I’ve seen the movie version of her diary several times, and Frank is a constant source of discussion in my two classes. But her diary was never assigned reading for me (unlike most people, it seems), and my professors seem to seek out the journals, diaries, and memoirs of lesser known victims (probably because they assume I have read it).
The diary covers Frank receiving the diary on her thirteenth birthday in June 1942 through their time in hiding in the “Secret Annexe” to August 1, 1944, right before her family and the people hiding with them were betrayed to the Gestapo.
“It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I — nor for that matter anyone else — will be interested in the unbosoming of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.” (pg. 2)
The most surprising aspect of Frank’s diary was the muted role Miep Gies seems to play out in the diary. This is not meant to disparage her role, and we have her to thank for preserving Frank’s diary until her father, Otto, returned. But one particular young woman, Elli Vossen, was a constant source of entertainment and support for Frank while in hiding. Yet, I’ve never even heard of Vossen and she has never taken center stage (in terms of the hiders) in any adaptation of the diary I’ve seen.
There are moments when the reader is reminded that this just a young girl concerned about boys and school work and movie stars, and then there are other moments when she sounds so incredibly mature and insightful. There are also moments that made my stomach clinch. For example, on page 117 in my edition, Frank is discussing the cremation of her pen and remarks that is “just what I want later”. I just felt sick after reading that small sentence. And I wonder, if she had lived, would she cringe at the things she wrote about her family, particularly her mother?
The diary was edited by Otto Frank; pages were removed including ones in which “Anne picks apart her parents’ strained marriage, analyzes her own difficult relations with her mother, Edith, and vows to keep the diary out of her family’s hands as ”none of their business”. The pages have since been added back into the diary, but my edition was published in 1993 and I missed these 2007 additions.
The diary also paints a very atypical existance in hiding, which I think most readers of this diary do not realize. Even those lucky enough to be in hiding were not as luck as Frank’s family when it came to space, food, education, and entertainment. Most families were also unable to hide together unlike the Franks and Van Daans.
Ultimately, though, I did not love Frank’s diary. I really have no great reason why. But I can understand why it is such a widely read account of the Holocaust, and I am glad I read it.
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SEAMAN: An armed Somali pirate
AFTER HAVING spent eight seasons raiding vessels off the east African coast, the Somali pirate commander known as “Big Mouth” has decided to call time on his plundering days.
Mohamed Abdi Hassan, who was labelled “one of the most notorious and influential leaders of the Hobyo-Harardhere Piracy Network” in a 2012 UN monitoring group document, is to understood to have voluntarily turned his back on a life of crime, according to a Somali town chief.
Nicknamed in his native tongue as “Afweyneh” – which directly translates as Big Mouth – Hassan, last Thursday (January 10), told reporters of his decision in the central Somali town of Adado, a location where pirate captives have previously been kept.
Last year saw a significant drop in successful pirate raids on international shipping. One explanation for this, according to analysts, is due to better-concerted efforts between different countries’ naval patrols, and the greater use of private security firms onboard vulnerable ships.
Adado’s administration leader, Mohamed Adan, told BBC Somali service that Big Mouth was not the only influential pirate to renounce the trade and disarm.
“We persuaded them to disarm and hand over whatever they have - boats and weapons,” he said.
REFORMED: Big Mouth has quit being a pirate
“They realised that they cannot function as before with impunity and profits are no longer good,” the town chief added.
AFP news agency quoted Afweyneh from last Wednesday’s news conference in Adado as saying: “After being in piracy for eight years, I have decided to renounce and quit, and from today on I will not be involved in this gang activity.
“I have also been encouraging many of my colleagues to renounce piracy too, and they have done it,” Big Mouth said.
Reportedly the pirate was incentivised to quit, with a former Somali president giving him diplomatic status and a diplomatic passport.
AFP reports point out that in 2009, Big Mouth’s pirating crews were involved in seizing Ukrainian vessel MV Faina – among its cargo were Russian-made tanks and weapons. The ship was released after months of negotiations and a $3.2m (£2m) ransom was paid.
The news agency also attributes Big Mouth’s men playing a part in capturing the Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star in 2008. The tanker, carrying two million barrels of oil was freed after two months of negotiations – a helicopter dropped what was believed to be a $3m ransom on its deck.
British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler spent more than a year in Adado when in 2009 pirates took them hostage from their yacht while they were holidaying off the coast of the Seychelles.
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The Vietnamese Coast Guard have promised tougher measures to deter Chinese vessels from trespassing into Vietnamese waters.
A Coast Guard source told Thanh Nien that violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty by Chinese vessels have recently increased, and from now on there would be fines or seizures based on the level of violation. Until now intruders had been let off with warnings or just chased away.
Border guards in the northern city of Hai Phong reported recently that Chinese vessels repeatedly entered Vietnamese waters in the Tonkin Gulf.
Major Pham Dinh Thanh of the Hai Phong Border Guard told Thanh Nien that for the last several years Chinese fishing boats have been penetrating 10-15 nautical miles into Vietnamese waters in the gulf.
Most of the illegal arrivals were in Bach Long Vi Island. The Chinese boats would take advantage of foggy weather or rough seas to illegally fish in Vietnamese waters, according to Thanh.
When entering Vietnamese waters, they would not fly flags and their crew would not carry personal papers to avoid identification by Vietnamese authorities, he said.
In the second half of March alone the Hai Phong Border Guard had chased away 110 illegal Chinese vessels and made official reports about 20 of the boats with 120 crew members.
In the latest incident the Coast Guard pursued and seized a Chinese vessel carrying more than 100,000 liters of diesel in waters off Bach Long Vi Island Thursday afternoon.
The captain of the vessel and two crew members, all Chinese, admitted that they had intruded deep into Vietnamese waters to refuel five or six Chinese boats fishing there.
According to Coast Guard, the vessel was disguised as a fishing boat with fishing nets hanging on its sides and without flag.
Vietnamese authorities are investigating whether the vessel was involved with a marine oil smuggling gang.
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A logical analysis
Jesus (pbuh) has commanded us to “love the Lord thy God … with all thy mind,” Mark 12:30. We were also taught that “For God is not [the author] of confusion” 1 Corinthians 14:33.
So, if God’s nature is not one of confusion, then it should not be necessary to command us to simply “have faith” in the Trinity because it is a “mystery.” Is this not fair? Is this not what the Bible and Jesus himself say? So let us use our minds and be inquisitive. Let us ask questions so that we may indeed be able to truthfully claim that we have loved God “with all our minds.”
Now, most Christians today are taught that because of Adam, all of humanity has inherited sin.
“Therefore as by the offence of one [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto justification of life.”
This sin was so great that it could not be forgiven by any normal means. This sin was so great that God could not simply say “You are all forgiven.” This sin was so great that even the sacrifice of a sinless mortal would not do. This sin was so great that it was necessary for God Almighty to offer up His only begotten son as the only possible purifying sacrifice for the sins of humanity.
The only possible way for God to forgive humanity this tremendous sin was to have his son delivered to his mortal enemies so that they might beat him, spit on him, whip him, strip him, cut him, humiliate him, hang him up on the cross, and finally kill him. In this manner, God would finally be able to grant us the forgiveness He so wishes to bestow upon us. (1 Corinthians 15:3 “Christ died for our sins”, Romans 5:6 “Christ died for the ungodly” etc.)
However, when we look closely at this picture we find a number of problems. For example, if Jesus (pbuh) is part of a divine Trinity which makes up the essence of God Almighty, and if this God is ONE God and not THREE gods, and if Jesus (pbuh) died on the cross, then what happened to God Almighty?.
Did the Trinity die also, or was a third of the Trinity ripped away from the whole, then tortured, killed, and sent to hell for three days, while the remaining two thirds (of God?) remained in its crippled form a safe distance away?
Who was overseeing the heavens and the earth while all of this was happening? A crippled Trinity? No one? If I am made up of heart, mind, and soul, and one of them dies; what happens to the rest of me? Are they ONE or THREE?
If God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are three names for the same being, (definition of the “Trinity” required by Isaiah 43:10-11 and many other verses) and not three separate gods, then the “death of Jesus” is just another way of saying “the death of God the ‘Father’,” which is also another way of saying “the death of the Holy Ghost.”
Some members of the clergy will object that it was not Jesus “per se” who died, but rather it was only “his human form” that died. His “godly” form was not affected.
It is described as one describes someone removing his coat. This leaves us with a dilemma, because it leaves us with one of two cases:
1) Either Jesus (pbuh) “himself” did NOT die, but only shed his earthly body (as it were), and in this case we must ask, where then is the great sacrifice in this shedding of a useless shell? Did we not just agree a few minutes ago that the sacrifice of a sinless mortal was not sufficient in order to erase the sins of all of humanity? Did we not just claim that it must be a sinless “GOD” that must die?
How then is Jesus’ shedding of this useless mortal shell which is not his actual essence an ultimate sacrifice in atonement for all of mankind’s sins? How is it any different than the sacrifice of any normal human being? Did the death of Jesus’ coat atone for the sins of all mankind? Can Jesus not simply make one thousand more human “shells” for himself to inhabit? Is his discarding of one of them an “ultimate sacrifice for the sins of all humanity”?
2) Or, Jesus (pbuh) “himself” died, in which case, since he is claimed to be part of the “Trinity”, and the “Trinity” is claimed to be ONE god, not three (required by Isaiah 43:10-11, Deut. 4:35, 4:39, 1 Kings 8:60, Isaiah 45:5 and many other verses), then God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are all claimed to have died, since they are all “the same essence.” Further, if all three are indeed ONE God then the death of this one God contradicts many verses such as:
“But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king.”
Also, if the giver of life is dead then who shall bring Him back to life? The only way out of this dilemma is to accept the truth, that Jesus (pbuh) was not God but only an elect messenger of God.
Remember when Jesus (pbuh) is alleged to have died?:
“And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost”
When people die they go to their Lord to be judged. If Jesus (pbuh) was, as claimed, a part of a Trinity and the Trinity is only ONE god (as required by the above verses), then Jesus was with God in a Trinity before his death. It was only after his death that he was claimed to have left God, died, and gone down into hell for three days.
However, this verse tells us a completely different story. It claims that Jesus’ essence was somewhere other than already with God while he was on earth (otherwise it would not have to go to Him) and was now going to God. Also read John 17:11: “…I come to thee. Holy Father.” And John 17:13: “And now come I to thee”…etc.
Sadly enough, most Christians are taught to brush off these matters with words like “It is incomprehensible, that is why it must be true,” or “believe blindly or you will lose your soul.”? Have we so soon forgotten “For God is not of confusion” 1 Corinthians 14:33 ? Have we so soon forgotten “thou shalt love the Lord thy God … with all thy mind,” Mark 12:30?.
Many missionaries attempt to prove that God is “three” by drawing analogies between God and His creation. They say: “There are three members in a family, father, mother and children. There are three states for water, ice, water and steam, etc. Don’t you see? God is three!”
Well, if this is the case then we need to notice that “Each person gets only one life. There is only one sun. There is only one earth. Each person only has one heart and one mind, etc.”
Similarly, “We all have only two eyes. We all have only two ears. Days are split into two parts, morning and night, etc.”
As we can see, following such tactics is indeed a frivolous pursuit. Such examples could be extended forever. We could say “There are four seasons in every year. There are five fingers on each hand. The Jews were only allowed by God to work for six days. There are seven days in every week, …” but you get the picture.
Now, God Almighty is claimed to have “begotten” Jesus (pbuh). He is claimed to be the “father” of Jesus. Naturally a father is present before he “begets” his son (no matter how you wish to define “beget”). Before Jesus (pbuh) was “begotten,” was the “Trinity” a “Duality”? Was God complete?
Explain Isaiah 43:10-11. If Jesus (pbuh) was “begotten” then he is not eternal, but the definition of the Trinity which was first put together in 325 C.E. when the Trinity was first officially defined requires the “co-eternity” of God and Jesus (pbuh) (see below).
If Jesus is one face of a “Trinity” and the Trinity is one god not many, then anyone who sees Jesus has seen God, however, John 1:18 says
“No man hath seen God at any time.”
And we have just read in the Athanasian creed (Nicean creed) that “God” is a “Trinity” made up of “the Father,” the “Son,” and the “Holy Ghost.” We also read therein that God is not three gods but one God. If this is the case then anyone who has seen Jesus has seen “God.” But the Bible tells us that this is not the case.
Jesus (pbuh) claims to not even know when “that day” is
“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”
Is he not part of God? Is the “Trinity” not ONE god? The fact that one “personality” of God has knowledge not available to the other “two thirds” is a clear indication that they are distinct and separate beings, and not three faces of one being.
There are many such questions to be raised about this supposed Trinity which defy common sense. When someone loves God “with all thy mind” and they “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” are they not presented with countless contradictions regarding the “Trinity”? I am speaking about the logic of Jesus (pbuh) here and not blind faith. Jesus is beseeching us to use our minds but we would rather follow others who demand blind faith. Jesus (pbuh) tells us
“If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
Sadly, the same people who love him dearly have now been taught that in order to love Jesus they must completely disregard everything he ever taught his followers and must follow others who are better able to explain his message than himself. In effect, his words have been totally abandoned (see below).
“Say: ‘O people of the Book! exceed not in your religion the bounds [of what is proper], trespassing beyond the truth, nor follow the vain desires of people who went astray in times gone by, who misled many, and strayed [themselves] from the straight path.'”
The noble Qur’an, Al-Maida(5):77
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approach to life and appearances
The following is a description of David's basic stance toward life, the way others see him, the way David Walliams comes across, the face he shows to the world. In the page about motivation you will read about the inner David Walliams - his real motivation, which describes the kind of person he is at heart and where his true priorities lie. Study this page and the next one and compare them - there may be significant differences between the two, in which case "the inner David Walliams" may not shine through and others may be in for so a few surprises once they get to know David a little better. This page describes the disguise Walliams wears, his role in life, while the page about motivation talks about the real person beneath the disguise.
He is very strong-willed and proud, but intensely private and not easy to know well. Behind Walliams' quiet exterior lies a great deal of emotional depth, sensitivity, complexity, and also fierce determination. When David Walliams wants something he goes after it rather quietly but insistently and wholeheartedly - and what David Walliams wants, David Walliams usually gets.
He is not a person who lives haphazardly or superficially. David wants to live passionately and intensely and is not averse to challenge, danger, or to facing the darker side of life - human pain and struggle. David Walliams functions well in crisis situations and he often seeks them out, for he enjoys the feeling of living at full capacity.
He is very intuitive about other people and especially about their unspoken feelings and hidden motives. David Walliams usually has strong, immediate gut reactions, either positive or negative, which prove to be correct. Walliams approaches life very instinctively and is not always fully conscious of why he feels or acts the way he does. David Walliams also has a very strong affinity with animals - an acute sensitivity and a nonverbal rapport with them.
In new relationships he is rather cautious, sometimes even suspicious, until he gets to know and trust someone - and trust does not come easily to Walliams. When David Walliams commits himself emotionally to someone, be it friend or lover, he is intensely loyal and devoted to them and he also expects the same kind of unwavering, undying loyalty in return. If he is ever betrayed by someone he cares deeply for, David Walliams is capable of hating and retaliating with as much fervor as he once loved. Nothing is done halfway. In fact, he is intensely involved and often jealously attached to whatever he cares about, be it person, idea, or cause. There is definitely a streak of emotional fanaticism in him.
Because of his natural reserve, others may see David Walliams as something of an enigma. He is quite self-protective and often defensive. David Walliams also has a very magnetic quality, especially to members of the opposite sex.
David Walliams can get by in life almost on his personality alone. There is a radiant, warm, attractive quality about David that others cannot help responding to favorably. Usually he appears confident and clear about who he is, and it is very difficult not to notice him or feel his influence when Walliams is around.
Other people may consider his environment a bit strange and Walliams likes to surround himself with a certain air of mystery. David Walliams tends to be very secretive and is likely to exert his power from behind the scenes.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Sun Sextile Asc.
Asc. Conjunct Neptune/Pluto
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Happy December, Roundtablers! Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for December 11, 2017:
- Sustaining the Software that Preserves Access to Web Archives: on Digital Preservation Day, Andrew Jackson took a look at open source tools that enable access to web archives, and asked us to think about what comes next.
- Speaking of moving forward — how do you move a web archive? On their blog, the National Archives details what went into moving 120 terabytes of data, on seventy drives, from Internet Memory Research’s data centre in Paris, to the Archives site in Kew, and, finally, to the Cloud. (Archived link.)
- For the Digital Preservation Coalition, David S. H. Rosenthal writes about how we might be Losing the Battle to Archive the Web.
- And, at the Atlantic, Alexis C. Madrigal writes that Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay. Today, he notes: ‘there is more data about more people than ever before, however, the cultural institutions dedicated to preserving the memory of what it was to be alive in our time, including our hours on the internet, may actually be capturing less usable information than in previous eras.’ Still, as Nick Seaver says, ‘Is it terrible that not everything that happens right now will be remembered forever? Yeah, that’s crappy, but it’s historically quite the norm.’ (Archived link.)
- Web Archiving Histories and Futures: the International Internet Preservation Consortium has announced its Call for Papers for its annual conference, to be held at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington from November 13-15, 2018. Abstracts should be 300 to 500 words in length, and may touch upon topics related to: building web archives, maintaining web archive content and operations, using and researching web archives, web archive histories and futures, and more. Proposals are due February 28, 2018.
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Listed in: Religion, as RELI-111
Formerly listed as: RELI-11
This course introduces students to the comparative study of religion by exploring two distinct religious traditions. It focuses on the ways that scholars draw on contextual information to understand religious practices, ideas or beliefs, artifacts, institutions, and symbols. The traditions examined vary from year to year. In fall 2017 we will examine a selection of texts from the Christian and Islamic traditions. Defining texts broadly to include written sources as well as photographs, oral histories, videos, and blogs, this course will draw on both classical and modern sources from a variety of geographical locations and cultures. We will engage issues of scriptural interpretation, political duties, attitudes towards higher education and learning, and religious authority. In each case we will draw on several distinct strands of contextual knowledge (for example, biographies of the authors, historical narratives concerning the text’s provenance, or examination of contemporaneous philosophical or political disputes) to help us understand what these texts and authors are trying to accomplish, and to understand their importance within the traditions that we are studying.
Fall semester. Professor Jaffer and Post-doctoral Fellow Barba.
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Hi! I would like do configure a VPN to connect my home PC trough my Linksys AG041 at home and my laptop with Win Xp Prof anywhere (ex friends home). My Linksys AG041 is DHCP enabled My PC at home is forced IP 192.168.1.111 Can you help me? Note: On this site you can see the style of AG041 menu for configuring VPN. http://tstools.co.uk/routers/Linksys AG041/security_VPN.htm Tanks!
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Visiting Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12th, 1809 on a farm outside present day Hodgenville, Kentucky. The farm, owned by Abraham’s father Thomas and mother Nancy Hanks, was called Sinking Spring Farm after the spring that supplied water to the farm. The Lincolns moved about 10 miles northeast to another farm, called Knob Creek Farm, in 1811. The family moved out of Kentucky to Indiana in 1816. Today, the Sinking Spring and Knob Creek farms are units of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park.
Publisher Robert Collier bought the Sinking Spring Farm in 1905 and along with some other heavyweights of the time including author Mark Twain and politician William Jennings Bryan, formed an organization called the Lincoln Farm Association to preserve the site and establish a memorial to the 16th president. The group raised money from people around the country for the memorial, and in 1809, the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the memorial building. Two years later, President William Howard Taft dedicated the memorial. This was the first Lincoln Memorial; the Washington DC Lincoln Memorial was completed and dedicated in 1922. (Coincidentally, William Howard Taft, who by then was the Chief Justice of the United States, also dedicated the DC Lincoln Memorial).
The memorial and Sinking Springs Farm were donated to the Federal Government in 1916. In 2001, the Knob Creek Farm was added as a unit of the Birthplace park. Prior to that, Knob Creek had been privately owned.
The six columned marble and granite memorial building sits on the site where the cabin Lincoln was born in was located. The site is on a hill and the building is reached by climbing a staircase of 56 steps, one for every year of Lincoln’s life. Inside the memorial, a log cabin similar to one Lincoln lived in is present. Originally thought by some to be the actual cabin of Lincoln’s birth, scientific investigation revealed it to be from the 1840s. It is typical of the region from the first half of the 19th century, and is probably quite similar to what Lincoln’s actual cabin was like. A few steps away from the base of the staircase, Sinking Spring still flows as it did when Lincoln was born.
The park visitor center at the memorial has a film about the site as well as museum displays. There is no visitor center at the Knob Creek Farm. Both sites are located on U.S. Highway 31E; the Sinking Spring Farm, memorial, and park headquarters site is about 3 miles south of Hodgenville and the Knob Creek Farm is about 10 miles northeast of the memorial site, or about seven miles northeast of Hodgenville.
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Study reveals how western diet increases your risk of Alzheimer’s
A western diet of sweet and fatty junk food increases your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study warns.
The report of the study as published on Daily Mail revealed that Americans have a higher average risk than most other nationalities of developing the degenerative brain disorder, and have done for years.
That is likely due to their dietary pattern, which drives up cholesterol and Alzheimer’s-influencing proteins that create blockages in the brain.
This is according to Dr William Grant, the lead author of a landmark review of international data tracking Alzheimer’s disease and its causes.
He said: ‘Mounting evidence from ecological and observational studies indicates that the Western dietary pattern—especially the large amount of meat in that diet—is strongly associated with risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
‘Although the traditional Mediterranean diet is associated with about half the risk for Alzheimer’s disease of the Western diet, the traditional diets of countries such as India, Japan, and Nigeria, with very low meat consumption, are associated with an additional 50 per cent reduction in risk of Alzheimer’s disease.’
Dr Grant, of San Francisco’s Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, looked at a host of peer-reviewed studies to draw his conclusion, which is published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
He also conducted an investigation into how changing global diets affected rates of Alzheimer’s disease.
First, he looked at Alzheimer’s disease prevalence from 10 countries (Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, India, Mongolia, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, and the United States).
Then he cross-referenced those findings with official dietary guidelines.
For example, he would see that Japan’s Alzheimer’s rate in 1985 was 1 per cent, then he would look at dietary guidelines five, 10, and 15 years before 1985 to track the influence.
Then he would see that Japan’s Alzheimer’s rate in 2008 was 7 per cent, so he would look at dietary guidelines five, 10 and 15 years before that date.
In every country, a swing towards Western dietary lifestyles coincided with an increased rate in Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr Grant warns that the most important dietary link to Alzheimer’s appears to be meat consumption, with eggs and high-fat dairy also contributing.
Diets high in grains, fruits, vegetables, and fish are associated with reduced risk of the disease.
Higher amounts of vitamin D is also associated with reduced risk of the disease.
But these factors cannot counter the effects of meat, eggs, and high-fat dairy, he warns.
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China decided to once again devalue the yuan on Tuesday August 11 due to disappointing trade figures. The decision will be bad news for the U.S., which is facing down a growing trade deficit with its Asian trading partner. The latest figures on the U.S. – China deficit show a gap of $43.8 billion between exports and imports. The strength of the dollar compared to other world currencies has meant a jump in American consumers buying foreign goods, while U.S. exports have become less competitive. Additionally, the trade deficit is politically sensitive, with the Obama administration criticizing Beijing’s policy to keep the yuan undervalued, saying it gives the second-largest world economy “an unfair trade advantage.”
Economists are divided on how big of an impact the trade deficit will have. Back in December, when the deficit reached $46.6 billion, some economists said it could trim as much as 0.5% from GDP growth, while others simply dismissed its importance completely. The U.S.’s deficit with China is its biggest, followed by the European Union and Mexico. In fat, the deficit with Mexico also increased in June, while the trade balance with Canada moved from a surplus to a deficit of $3.1 billion.
One way of shrinking the trade deficit with China is obviously to increase exports to the country. According to Forbes, the key to this lies with SMEs, or small and medium-sized businesses. SMEs already account for around 34% of U.S. exports, up from 27% at the end of 2009. Importantly, China is the third biggest market for these exports. However, without action, the deficit is set to widen even further. If you think the U.S. should take immediate action to resolve the trade deficit issue with China and other trading partners, please Like & Share this post.
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As a general rule, if you want to check if a number is prime, it turns out that the deterministic solutions are rather slow. In fact, they tend to be too slow for general use. So I figured, while writing Number::Properties that is_prime() should use the Miller-Rabin primality tests. My code had some issues, but I suspect this had something to do with Perl's lack of precision. As a result, and since Perl is a bit slow for work like this, I figured I would write the code in XS. I used the C from Top Coder's primality testing article, but quickly got stuck with the following error:
Error: 'long long' not in typemap in Properties.xs, line 64
Please specify prototyping behavior for Properties.xs (see perlxs manual)
Much googling suggests to me that there's not a simple way around this that's also robust. Damn. I may have to switch back to Perl.
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Market research firm Gartner believes that sales of PCs this year will suffer due to increasing prices. However, it also believes that there will be a change of the next year as companies adjust to the end of support for Windows 7 in 2020.
High component prices are keeping the number of PC sales low. A situation built on a scarcity of DRAM; which affects all electronics makers. Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner, also attributes rising prices to the increasing size of displays and demand for better graphics.
As a result, the PC market is expected to decline by 1.2 percent in 2018.
Not everything is bleak for PC makers. Gartner notes that there will be a shift of purchasing habits in 2019 as Asian companies look to refresh their devices. Official support for Windows 7 ends in 2020, which will force many companies to finally move away from the operating system and embrace the Windows 10 model of Windows as a service.
American and European companies have already begun the migration, and it is expected companies in China and Japan have put off the need to upgrade until 2018/2019.
In either case, this will not be enough to represent positive growth for the PC market; with the forecast for the next two years being extremely flat. On the positive side, it also means that losses should be kept to a minimum.
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Engaging content and a strong focus on grammar and vocabulary combine to make this course a hit with both teachers and students. The Teacher' s Book contains extra photocopiable grammar and communication activities and full pages of teaching tips and ideas specially written by methodology expert, Mario Rinvolucri. A Testmaker Audio CD/CD-ROM which allows teachers to create and edit their own tests is also available separately, as is Classware which integrates the Student' s Book, class audio and video. This revised second edition updates a course which has proven to be a perfect fit for classes the world over.
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The world of real estate investing is full of high potential profits, but if you are just starting out, the whole field can be intimidating at times. In this article, we will give you some tips to help you along the road to success.
You do not need to have a real estate background
Commercial real estate investing can be distilled down to the concept of buying something, cleaning it up, and then selling (or renting) it for a profit. From there, you can build in details, such a leasing agreements, zoning, comps, commercial real estate financing, and everything else.
Find your niche
It is impossible to learn everything about real estate investing. Between all of the books, blogs, and podcasts, a person has only so much time and brain capacity to learn every aspect or real estate investing. This is why many people focus down to very specific types of properties. Some people specialize in flipping houses. Some like the security that comes with having multiple sources of revenue by renting out apartments. Still others focus on office buildings and large health care facilities. Find your niche, and build your real estate investing business on that, instead of trying to learn everything.
Separate business and personal expenses
Everyone knows to keep business and personal life separate, but this also carries over to expenses. Many newcomers to the world of real estate investing are tempted to use personal finances to leverage property, instead of seeking out loans or alternative funding. Using personal finances for real estate investing is a fast way to put your home, family, and personal credit in jeopardy. Always seek out external financing wherever possible.
Talk with other investors
Whether online or in your local market, it is always a wise move to network with other real estate investing professionals. They will give you the best insights to best practices, market trends, and how to get around obstacles that may come your way. Real estate investing is all about relationships, and the person you are meeting for the first time may become a valuable mentor or partner in the future.
Manageable real estate investing
Not everyone starts out by renting out an office high rise to billion dollar companies. Real estate investing should start with something manageable, like flipping a house or renting out a duplex. From there, you can move on to bigger and more profitable properties.
Always do your research
The real estate investing market is a very fluid industry, with new strategies and financing solutions evolving constantly. Always stay abreast of your particular niche to figure out new ways of doing things, or streamlining processes to get you to your profits faster.
Learn the terms
Real estate investing can seem like an alien world to newcomers. Terms like comps, seller carry backs, and mezzanine financing may be confusing at first, but by immersing yourself in the world of real estate investing, the language should become second nature in no time.
Break everything down into simple math
Real estate investing can deal with some fairly large numbers, and even small projects can really add up – especially if you have to renovate or rehab a property before selling or renting it out. Keep a running tally of expenses, and figure out your baseline number on a property. You may get a house for a really low price, but once you figure in materials, supplies, and cost of labor, you may have to sell that house at a little above market price just to make a profit. Luckily, there are numerous resources and free real estate calculators to help figure out costs and accurate pricing.
Hold onto your job
If you’re new to real estate investing, the odds are fairly good that you already have a job. Don’t quit, especially for the first year. That job is going to provide a steady income while you are still getting set up, and most newcomers don’t turn an immediate profit, so money has to come from somewhere. Some people really enjoy real estate investing, and transition away from their jobs as soon as they can. Others use real estate investing as a means to financial freedom, while keeping their regular jobs because they like the people, or they’re invested in a retirement program, or like the benefits.
Getting into the world of real estate investing is not without sacrifices. You may find yourself having to put off your yearly vacation in order to renovate a house. You may have to use a bonus from work to put a down payment on a property. You may find yourself working late at night, in the beginning, just to understand the market. All of those sacrifices pay off in the end.
Learn to be creative
One of the great things about real estate investing is that there is a lot of leeway as far as buying properties. Some sellers deal strictly with banks. Some are open to the idea of creative financing and even barter. Real estate investing is a puzzle, of sorts, and you need to find creative ways to arrive at solutions to buy property and still turn a profit. There is no one right answer real estate investing, but if you find a solution that works, it can lead to major profits.
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I sympathize with Emy Abad's horror at seeing a man die in front of his eyes. There are indeed no words to adequately describe the impact that such a tragedy has on anyone present. I speak from experience, having been present (and involved in the attempt to save the life of the person who passed on), not once, but on three separate occasions over 25 years. I had trouble sleeping for days afterwards each time.
What I found seriously lacking in the writer's expression of disappointment, was any indication that the writer was involved in any way other than as a spectator to the whole incident.
If a citizen is not willing to avail his or herself of basic lifesaving skills, for which instruction is readily available from a variety of groups in our community, what business does said citizen have criticizing those who do?
Emy Abad, anyone would be upset by witnessing a death first hand. Perhaps you should use the agitation this event has obviously caused you to educate yourself about basic life-saving techniques. Perhaps then, if you encounter a similar situation in the future, you won't feel so helpless, and want to blame someone for what happened.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can kill. In the winter months, when people use their heating appliances more frequently, there are often more cases/incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Public Health Agency (PHA) is urging everyone to have their fossil fuel and wood burning appliances, such as boilers, heaters and cookers checked by an appropriately registered engineer, particularly if you haven’t had it serviced in the last year, in order to reduce the risk of CO exposure.
CO poisoning can be fatal and affect anyone. However, children, students, the elderly, pregnant women and anyone with heart or breathing problems are more vulnerable to its effects.
CO is produced when fossil fuels such as gas, coal, oil, wood, petrol and paraffin burn without enough oxygen. It is a colourless, tasteless, odourless gas that is non-irritating, and as a result can be very hard to detect.
Dr Anne Wilson, consultant in Health Protection, PHA, advised: “Carbon monoxide poisoning can be fatal and can also cause long-term health problems if victims are exposed to low doses over a long period of time. The signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are often mistaken for other illnesses, such as food poisoning or flu – the symptoms can be similar to flu but without a raised temperature. Please look out for these signs and symptoms and consider if carbon monoxide poisoning could be the cause.
“Anyone who suspects they may be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning should immediately turn off all appliances, go outside and seek medical help from a qualified healthcare professional. Appliances should not be used again until they have been serviced by a registered engineer.”
The PHA is urging people to be vigilant for the signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, including headaches, nausea and vomiting, exhaustion, drowsiness, dizziness and light-headedness, ‘flu like’ symptom, palpitations (feeling your heart beat oddly), chest pain and losing consciousness.
To minimise the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning the PHA recommends the following:
• sweep chimneys and flues every year if you use solid fuel;
• keep flues, air vents and grilles clear and ensure rooms are well ventilated;
• if you are in rented accommodation that incorporate gas appliances ask your landlord to provide you with an up-to-date gas safety record. This is a requirement by law and is particularly important for students renting houses and flats; and
• install an audible Carbon Monoxide alarm that meets British or European standards (BS Kitemark or EN 50291). These cost as little as £20.00 and can be purchased from large DIY stores and food retail stores.
Alarms however, should not be used as a substitute for regular servicing of appliances.
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) said: “It is vitally important to ensure that new installations are carried out by recognised and established engineers and serviced by competent companies or individuals. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions for boilers, stoves, gas fires and solid fuel room heaters.
The HSENI recommends a service at least once a year depending on the fuel being used.”
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
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BeschreibungWhether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?"Along with a selection from Heaney's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors -- Finders Keepers becomes, as its title heralds, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."
Untertitel: First. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
Erscheinungsdatum: April 2003
Seitenanzahl: 464 Seiten
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