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The value of an Everett piano ranges from $3,000 to $10,000 as of 2014, depending on several variables. The type of piano, its size and its finish are all determining factors of its value.Continue Reading
The most valuable Everett piano is the EV-185. This model is a grand piano and the largest Everett piano at 6 feet, 1 inch long. It boasts a polished ebony finish. The next most valuable Everett piano is the EV-165, which is also a grand piano. It is 5 feet, 5 inches long with a polished ebony finish. The EV-152 is a 5-foot grand piano, and the EV-146 is a 4-foot, 9-inch grand piano. Both have polished ebony finishes.
The vertical pianos are less valuable than the grand pianos. The EV-121 and EV-113 have polished ebony finishes. The 48-inch EV-121 is the most valuable of the vertical pianos; the 45-inch EV-113 comes in second. The EV-112 is the smallest piano, at 44 inches long, and has a continental finish.
The Everett Piano Company was founded in 1883 and was owned by Yamaha for a time. Many notable composers used these pianos for their work. Although the company produced both grand pianos and small pianos, the growing demand for more affordable vertical pianos caused the company to stop producing grands entirely, focusing instead on the smaller instruments.Learn more about Musical Instruments
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Adam is called the Son of God (Luke 3:38), and Jesus is named the Firstborn of all Creation (Colossians 1:15). An obvious question to ask is, was Jesus Adam? The usual interpretation of Jesus being the Firstborn of All Creation is that Jesus already existed with God, even before Creation, and therefore, he was not Adam. The words Firstborn of All Creation suggest that there may be more to it. Jesus could be Adam, and Adam may have been born. A fuller explanation requires an investigation into Jewish and Christian theology, which is the topic of a separate post:
Paul compared Jesus to Adam. In Romans, he writes, โJust as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.โ (Romans 5:19) And in 1 Corinthians, he says, โAs in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive.โ Jesus became the redeemer for Adamโs transgressions. An obvious question is what could have motivated Jesus to sacrifice himself for Adamโs mistakes? His actions are better understood if he believed himself to be Adam. That may be why Paul called Jesus the Last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Christianity teaches that Jesus existed before Creation, but that may not be what early Christians believed. The likeness of Jesus to Adam in Paulโs early letters may point to an earlier doctrine still prevalent around 55 AD, which could be that Jesus was Adam.
The Quran strengthens the idea that Jesus could be Adam. Jesus was like Adam in the way he was created (Quran 3:59). More importantly, several Quran verses state that God ordered the angels to prostrate before Adam (Quran 2:34, 7:11, 15:28-29, 17:61, 18:50, 20:116, 38:71-74). It is remarkable because angels are higher beings than humans. Satan refused because he did not want to bow for a creature made from dust. The Quran stresses it several times so that it could be significant. As Christians believe that Jesus is the Lord who will command humankind, this suggests that Jesus could be Adam. The Quran also claims that Jesus will return (Quran 43:61).
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Just when they tell me chocolate is good for a person, they turn right around and yank the rug away by adding that chocolate is, unfortunately, full of fat and calories.
They, in this case, is Camilla Saulsbury, a freelance food writer and recipe developer and, and, and - she's got a huge long list of reasons why someone should believe what she says.
She's written 10 cookbooks, but the one I like is "Enlightened Chocolate," which starts out: "Eat more chocolate - it's good for you."
That's a mandate anyone can sink her teeth into.
Saulsbury writes: "Clinical research over the past decade increasingly indicates that consumption of antioxidant-rich chocolate and cocoa is associated with health benefits from improved cardiovascular function to reduced bad cholesterol levels to increased alertness."
I'm kind of confused with the part that says "to reduced bad cholesterol levels to increased alertness," but I'm thinking that's just a typo somewhere. The important thing to remember is to eat more chocolate because it's good for you.
To marry the two ideas, Saulsbury pulled together more than 200 recipes that allow chocolate lovers to have their chocolate, but in an enlightened way. Catch that? An enlightened way, hence the name "Enlightened Chocolate." Oh, I do so love it when an idea works, and her idea works.
One of the reasons she says chocolate is good for a body is that it actually lowers blood pressure.
Well, of course it does. Anyone with a big mouthful of chocolate is too mellow to have high blood pressure.
With this cookbook, Saulsbury includes nutritional information for each serving made. A piece of Brownie Bliss Cake, for instance, is 210 calories. A piece of Creme Caramel is 253 calories, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of Chocolate Raspberry Sauce is just 72 calories.
You could easily drizzle the sauce over the cake for an even better blood pressure lowering and not add too many extra calories.
OK, so maybe that's not the intent, but doggone it, it could work.
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Too bad you didn't know about "Enlightened Chocolate" earlier so you could have put a big splash on your party table with those recipes.
Speaking of your party table - when your table is full of empty cans and bottles, there's a community service you can provide. Fill a big plastic bag with those cans and bottles, tie it with a pink ribbon and call Nick Pyle to come pick it up.
Pyle, you might remember, is collecting cans and bottles in a "Cans for Cures" effort to raise money for the cancer foundation at Trinity.
He's also looking for a spot somewhere to park a collection trailer or put up a collection bin and promises there would be no mess.
If you have cans and bottles to donate, call Pyle at 227-8831 and he'll put you on a pickup list for Monday.
These pickups will become a monthly thing, he said. That's a good way to get rid of cans and a perfect way to give back to the community.
But, if you somehow have a chocolate can, call me. Chocolate is good for you, doncha know.
So long friends, until the next time when we're together.
Contact Sandy Mickelson at (515) 573-2141 or email@example.com
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I was asked in the comments to last weekโs blog post if I could provide some feedback about the results of Season 4. If you felt like you were seeing a lot of โnothing hereโ images, youโre right: of the 158,098 unique capture events we showed you, 70% were classified as having no animals in them. That left 47,320 with animals in them to classify, and the vast majority of these (94%) contained just one species. Hereโs the breakdown of what was in all those images:
Maybe it wonโt surprise you that Season 4 covered 2012โs wet season, when over a million wildebeest, zebra, and Thomsonโs gazelle migrate through our study area. I find it interesting that hartebeest are also pretty numerous, but I wonder if itโs because of that one hartebeest that stood in front of the camera for hours on end.
This pie chart is based on the number of what we call โcapture events,โ which is the set of 1 or 3 pictures you see every time you make a classification. Once a camera has taken a set of pictures, we delay it from triggering again for about a minute. That way we donโt fill up the cameraโs memory card with too many repeats of the same animals before we have a chance to replace them. But a minute isnโt a very long time for an animal that has decided to camp out in front of a camera, and so we frequently get sequences of many capture events that are all of the same animal. One of the things weโll have to do in turning your classifications into valid research results is to figure out how to find these sequences in the data automatically.
Hereโs a sequence of an elephant family hanging out around our camera for the night about a year ago. (Hat tip to dms246 who put together a collection of most of these images to answer the concerned question of some classifiers who saw just one image out of the whole sequence: is that elephant dead or just sleeping?)
If youโre interested in how I made the above pie chart, keep reading. But weโre going to get technical here, so if algorithms donโt interest you, feel free to stop.
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Pregnancy is an overwhelming responsibility, but there are things that you can do to make it less difficult. There are various ways to get information, and you can start by perusing the helpful tips below.
Eat healthy to keep you and your babyโs body.If fast food was a staple in your diet, then you need to make large adjustments.
Try using full-service gas when pregnant. Your baby can be affected by gasoline fumes at gas stations. Itโs better idea to ask for help than to take that risk.
Your doctor will likely recommend a prenatal vitamin if you are pregnant. Make sure you take them daily.
Cleaning solutions with harmful chemicals are a huge hazard in the home, so try to use natural brands when possible. After you have your child, try keeping them out of your house to make it safer for them.
Pregnant women must take care when it comes to sun like everyone else. A pregnant womanโs skin is a lot more sensitive than before pregnancy; therefore, a sunburn can cause extreme problems down the road, which can lead to even more serious potential problems such as skin cancer.
Take a home pregnancy test as soon as you think you are pregnant. If you wait to find out if you are pregnant, you may miss the opportunity to receive important prenatal care or experience preventable complications.
Keep a log of all the food diary during pregnancy. This will help you are meeting nutritional requirements and avoiding junk food and overeating. You can also take it to the doctorโs office to look over with your appointments.
If you are forced to travel during pregnancy, make sure you will easily have access to good medical care. You need to have access to a doctor during your entire pregnancy so as to avoid any complications. If youโre traveling, ensure you have a cell phone available at all times.
Swimming is a great idea as you reach later stages of pregnancy. Swimming regularly is an excellent exercise that will help you stay active throughout your entire pregnancy because it helps get those aches and pains out. The weightlessness you feel in the water is very relaxing.
Act like youโre pregnant before you conceive. Stop smoking, get a better diet, adjust your diet, and work out. It could take over a year to conceive, so you need to practice a more healthy lifestyle as soon as possible.
Take time to write up a birth plan. This plan should also include tasks for other people to do on your behalf while you are at the child. Make sure that you pack a bag for your overnight stay that will include your insurance ID, a camera, necessary documentation, and the clothes that your new baby will wear.
Human skin does have room to stretch thanks to elasticity, but only so far. Hot water is not good for the natural oils out of your skin which are needed to keep it healthy.Use a heavy moisturizer, such as petroleum jelly, or shea butter. Wear clothes that fit loosely, and avoid scratching!
The additional responsibility of pregnancy requires a whole different level of self-care than when you arenโt pregnant. This information can help you face these responsibilities and help you have a wonderful experience with your baby prior to that big day.
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The rest, such as the examples below, look like traditional medallion quilts with different fabric choices. One, Zen Medallion (on the bookโs cover,) is made in wedges. I like it, but it certainly doesnโt use the usual medallion quilt construction methods.
-Iโm inspired by the half circle outer border on Oviedo (the quilt shown on the bookโs cover.) Accuracy would be crucial to ensure matched corners.
-In the special techniques section (piecing curves, flying geese, half square triangles, paper piecing) I have issues with the curved piecing technique shown (too many pins,) and the paper piecing section leaves out some helpful trimming steps. Freezer paper piecing, which would be a good technique to use for the bookโs patterns, isnโt mentioned. Thereโs lots of detail offered for different ways to make flying geese, but only one way to make half square triangles.
-The 6 pages on designing your own medallion quilt seem OK until you try to use the formulas given on pages 112 and 114 for adding, subtracting, or resizing blocks to fit; or for adding filler borders. As was pointed out to me, they are WRONG. The reader is told to multiply, when the correct mathematical operation is to divide. I suspect that somehow the wrong sign got inserted, and copy editors/proof readers never caught the error.
-I think the quilts need a degree of difficulty rating. Some involve intense paper piecing. The Migration Medallion has you piece 48 1 1/4 inch by 2 inch flying geese. Thatโs tiny.
-Thereโs no resources section or tip of the hat to the long history of medallion quilts โ and books about them. I think a case could be made that many โoldโ medallion quilts are modern.
What do I consider a modern medallion quilt? Iโll let Gwen Marston speak for me.
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The study in question, an international, multicentre, randomised, 3-arm trial is being conducted by the Breast International Group (BIG) in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Roche AG, manufacturers of Herceptin. In total, 5,090 early breast cancer patients have been enrolled into this trial by the 478 participating institutions from Europe, Canada, South Africa, Israel, the Asia Pacific Region, Japan and Latin America. All women accrued had HER-2 positive breast cancer (either node negative or positive) and had completed at least four cycles of an acceptable (neo) adjuvant chemotherapy regimen. For women with hormone receptor positive disease, adjuvant endocrine therapy (most commonly tamoxifen) followed chemotherapy. The average age of study participants is 49 years.
The aim of this trial is to compare the effect of 1 year of Herceptin infusions, given every 3 weeks, with one year of simple observation, on survival primarily DFS but also overall survival (OS), relapse-free survival (RFS) and distant disease free survival (DDFS), as well as comparable assessment of overall and cardiac safety. The study also consists of a 2-year arm where 2 years of 3-weekly Herceptin is being compared with observation.
Results from the 1-year arm of the study, showcased at ECCO 13, show that Herceptin is associated with a significant improvement in DFS in this group of patients. The difference in Herceptin treated women was 85.8% compared to 77.4% of women on observati
Contact: Kirsten Mason
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Listening Lesson: Protest Music
LISTEN Audio Instructions
Target age range: Grades 2-6
A protest is when people gather to express disapproval of something that is happening. Listen to music that was written to protest and the unequal treatment of black people.
Here are some questions to think about:
โข What do you do when you don't agree with something?
โข What issues are important to you?
โข When you don't agree with something, how do you express those feelings?
Tens of thousands of people around the world have protested the unequal treatment of black people. This issue is often referred to as "civil rights" or "human rights." Protesters are demanding equal treatment for everyone, regardless of the color of their skin.
In addition to attending protest gatherings, some people express their thoughts and feelings through art, including through songwriting and music.
There is a long tradition of protest songs, or songs that were written to protest a certain topic or issue.
Listen to and sing a few songs that were written in protest of police brutality and racial discrimination.
1. Listen to What's Goin' On, with lyrics by Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, and Al Cleveland. This song was composed after one of the songwriters witnessed some police brutality.
2. Next, try singing this song, called I Lift My Voice, by Andrea Ramsey. As you read and sing the words, think about how you might use your voice to make a difference about issues you care about.
3. Here is another song you can sing along with. It's called Ella's Song, and it's performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock and VocalEssence. In the introduction, one of the musicians explains a little background about the song.
4. Sometimes protest music doesn't have words. In response to recent events, Clarinetist Anthony McGill decided to perform this rendition of American the Beautiful. He made some changes to the melody to make it mournful. Notice happens at the end. Why do you think McGill chose to end the piece this way?
5. Finally, watch this choir sing a mash-up of two songs: a traditional spiritual called Amen, and a famous civil rights anthem, We Shall Overcome.
6. This is just a small sample of protest music. Many others have used music to protest many issues throughout history. Do a little research on an issue that's important to you. Try to find any protest music that has been written in response to that issue.
7. Want some kid-friendly resources to help with conversations about racism, current events, and social justice? Here is a short list to help you get started:
โข The Brains On! podcast has an episode about understanding the emotions behind protest and injustice.
โข Talking to Kids about George Floyd, from the Child Mind Institute
โข How to talk about race, justice, and equality with your children from Time Out
A special thanks to contributors to this lesson: Ahmed Anzaldua, Rachel Bearinger, Karen Benson, John Birge, Emily Condon, Melissa Dundis, Tamara Gonzalez, Jodi Gustafson, Theo Jodzio, Vaughn Ormseth, Steve Staruch, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu.
Have a question or suggestion? Contact Katie Condon, music education specialist.
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A loophole in the Constitution made it possible for the winner of the popular majority in 1876, Tilden, to lose to Hayes in the electoral college amid bitterness, fraud, and chicanery. It could happen again
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The author of the book: A L Dawn French
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 272 KB
Date of issue: 29 September 2013
Description of the book "Careers: Surveyors":This book is part of a series of books with a simple twofold objective: The first aim is to expose young people to the fact that there are many careers out there. Some that you may not have considered, others you may have thought about but have rejected for various reasons. We are here to tell you that once you approach your career choice in a professional, logical and business manner there is no reason why you should not pursue your dream. The second aim is: Get educated!!!! If you are in school; stay in school. The longer you can PDF stay in school and get a formal education the easier it will be to market yourself. Make no mistake the level of your education: primary, secondary, college or university will decide the level of the job that you end up with. Finally, this book like all the others I have written is in plain, ole, simple English so that we can all understand. So I present you the reader with the age old question.... What do you want to be when you grow up?
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At some point in your life, there is a chance you may have Xeroxed a document, or possibly Hoovered your carpet. You may even have Photoshopped an image, or Facebooked an old friend or acquaintance.
This week, though, itโs the action of Googling that is coming under scrutiny, with the companyโs executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, to face a Senate antitrust panel that will question whether the search giant is unfairly taking advantage of its market dominance.
Google handles around two thirds of searches in the US and up to 80% in some European countries. Competitors say Googleโs search bots give preference to businesses Google owns. Google says its algorithms are tailored for its users, and if people donโt find its searches useful they have plenty of other options, including rival search sites such as Microsoftโs Bing, product- and location-specific search sites, and social networks.
The antitrust investigation is reminiscent of the scrutiny Microsoft was placed under in the late 1990s. Former chief executive Bill Gates faced his own hearing in 1998.
Google has at least 25 lobbying and communications firms working on keeping the company on-side with the US government, according to the Wall Street Journal. In one small victory, Google has reportedly arranged for Schmidt to face the panel alone, rather than flanked by competitors as Gates was during his hearing.
The hearing is set for this Wednesday.
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Pipe sizes, inside and outside diameters, wall thickness, schedules , weight and weight of pipe filled with water โ Metric Units. The steel pipe data chart below can be used to find pipe sizes, diameters, wall thickness, working pressures and. STEEL PIPES โ PIPE SCHEDULE CHART.
Available in commercial and nuclear. Data given in based on the NPS Tables given by ANSI B36.
Schedule Schedule Schedule Schedule Schedule. Stainless Steel Seamless and Welded Pipe. Dimensions, weight and thickness of pipes schedule 40. UPPER FIGURES โ Wall Thickness,. This then sets the outside pipe diameter, the wall thickness (and hence the internal diameter).
A Table of the Most Common Standard Pipe Sizes. European (DIN) system which uses metric units. Pipe schedules โ diameters โ wall thickness โ weights.
To find the actual OD for each NPS value, refer to the tables below. Some specifications use pipe schedules called standard wall (STD), extra . The numbers in this table indicate the wall thickness of the pipe in mm. Conversion Factors โ Imperial To Metric (Approx.) pipe. ANSI PIPE SCHEDULES WITH FULL METRIC CONVERSION.
Figures based on austenitic steel. ANSI Pipe Chart โ Complete listing of ANSI pipe schedules. Wall thicknesses are listed in blue. This article provides characteristics for NPS piping in metric units. Weight per foot is listed in black.
For the following tables in Imperial units please refer to here . API Pipe dimension table for schedules to XXS. Saginaw Pipe , steel pipe chart inch to 1inch, structurals, schedule 4 and more, in stock, structural square and rectangular tube, oil field tubulars, . Pipe cross sectional sizes do not change. Fittings, flanges, couplings. Note that all whole-number inch designations on the following chart convert to .
Commercial pipe schedule charts for stainless steel pipe from Vita Needle Company. Confused about wall thickness and pipe schedules ? Please use the following ANSI pipe dimension weight chart. For your convenience STANDARD schedules.
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Katihar is a town situated at an altitude of 20 meters in Katihar District in the Indian State of Bihar. Katihar was formed as a District in 1973. The coordinates of Katihar are 25.53?N 87.58?E and Katihar District covers an area of 3057 sq. km.
Angika is a widely spoken language in Katihar District and also the natives speak Surjapuri and Bengali along with Angika. The rivers flowing through Katihar includes Mahananda, Ganges, Koshi and Righa.
Katihar shares borders with Sahebganj District of Jharkhand in the South, Bhagalpur District towards Southwest, Purnia District in the Northwest, Malda District and North Dinajpur District of West Bengal to the Southeast and Northeast respectively.
In recent years, some major developments has taken place in the industrial sector of Katihar District. Also Katihar houses several famous educational institutions along with eminent hospitals.
Connectivity to Katihar:-
Katihar is located about 302 km West to state capital Patna. One can board buses easily from Katihar Bus Stand and other local bus terminals to reach Patna, Muzzafarpur, Gaya, Arrah, and Bhojpur. Due to the presence of more than 5 railway stations in Katihar District, there is no problem traveling by trains to main cities of the state and nearby states. Katihar Railway Station is situated 1.5 km away from the heart of Katihar Town. The distance between Katihar and Purnia Airport is about 46 kms.
Landmarks in Katihar:-
Sri Anukulchandra Thakur Satsang Ashram
Thyrocare Collection Centre
Narayan Guru Academy
Food Corporation of India
Driver Tola Chowk
Educational Institutions located in and around Katihar:-
Hari Shankar Nayak High School
Bethel Mission School
Bijendra Public School
Mahatma Gandhi High School
St. Stephans School
Rockford Public School
K.B. Jha College
Katihar Medical College
D S College
M J M Mahila College
Hospitals in and around Katihar:-
Y F A Hospital & Research Centre
Ranjana Jha Hospital
Katihar Railway Hospital
Katihar Medical College Hospital
Katihar Sewa Sadan
Jivan Deep Nursing Home
Raiganj District Hospital
Real Estate in Katihar:-
Katihar is one of the gradually developing towns in Bihar in all the main sectors like education, real estate, commercial and industrialization. Due to the recent developments in the Katihar real estate sector, several real estate companies are aiming Katihar to develop upcoming residential and commercial ventures. The prominent apartments present near Katihar are as follows:
To know latest news about real estate in Katihar in Bihar, please click on www.propertykhazana.com.
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Question;1. How long does it take $1,000 to quadruple in value if you have an 11% annual return? Assume annual compounding, and express your answer in years (to two decimals).2. Assume the following spot and forward rates for the euro ($/euro).Spot rate = $1.627730-day forward rate = 1.633090-day forward rate = 1.6353120-day forward rate = 1.6387A) What is the dollar value of one euro in the spot market?B) Suppose you issued a 120-day forward contract to exchange 200,000 euros into Canadian dollars. How many dollars are involved?C) How many euros can you get for one dollar in the spot market?D) What is the 120-day forward premium?3. The MacHardee Plumbing Company has common stock outstanding. The stock paid a dividend of $2.00 per share last year, but the company expects that earnings and dividends will grow by 25% for the next two years before dropping to a constant 9% growth rate afterward. The required rate of return on similar common stocks is 13%.What is the per-share value of the company's common stock?
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Four refuse trucks have been donated to the Kinondoni district in Dar es Salaam by an environmental agency. The vehicles are worth $300,000 and were a gift from the Ecology Protection Company (ECO).
The trucks have the capacity to haul 27 tonnes of garbage and are adapted to differentiate garbage types.
Kinondoni is the northernmost of three districts in Dar es Salaam and the most upmarket. The other two are Temeke to the far south-east, and Ilala in downtown Dar es Salaam.
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Academic Support from the ASE Team
- It can take a while to get used to studying at university. You will have classes from a leading expert in your subject. But you wonโt have a teacher telling you what to do, when and how, in the way you had at school.
- So you will need a new set of skills. The Academic Skills Enhancement team โ ASE for short! โ are โlearning advisorsโ who provide 1-2-1 and small group support for all new students throughout the first year. You and the people you study with can book tutorials to help develop a range of skills including:
- Academic writing
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Originally published 02/17/2014
A new research consortium begins a conservation phase that might add an important piece to the puzzle of what happened to the submarine.
Originally published 12/03/2013
The I-400, an aircraft carrier sub designed to attack the Panama Canal, has been found off of Hawaii.
Originally published 01/29/2013
For nearly 150 years, the story of the Hunleyโs attack on the USS Housatonic has been Civil War legend.And it has been wrong.Scientists have discovered a piece of the Confederate submarineโs torpedo still attached to its spar, debunking eyewitness accounts that the Hunley was nearly 100 feet away from the explosion that sent a Union blockade ship to the bottom of the sea off Charleston in 1864....
- German Vice Chancellor Condemns Populist's Holocaust Remarks
- Arizona scuttles bill that took aim at whiteness studies
- Maine governor offers John Lewis an erroneous history lesson
- How Trump's Inauguration Compares to Inaugurations Past
- The Fake News Pioneer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Jack Rakove tells League of Women Voters Electoral College needs to be abolished
- Juan Cole says Chelsea Manningโs leaks contributed to the revolution in Tunisia
- Bacevich and Mearsheimer on Obamaโs Legacy
- Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes
- GW history department targeted by conservative media after curriculum change was announced
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Iceland has woken up to the fact that it has a magnificent array of natural wonders and is welcoming others to share them
Iceland in winter? The very name of the country seems calculated to sends shivers down the spine. And anyway, isnโt that the place with the erupting volcanoes that buried itself under a blanket of falling ash and ruined everyoneโs proper holidays to sensible places at the same time?
It doesnโt help that Icelanders have a hard-won reputation as one of the rudest communities on earth.
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28 Mar Feedback for high performance: six things you need to know
There are so many things a manager has to be on top of, so many important things! If youโre a manager, you may need to manage budgets, roster staff, organise promotions, put out communications, attend meetings, deal with problem staff, and meet with clients. Itโs an endless list of โimportant thingsโ. Add to that list, providing employees with direction and feedback. Now hereโs the thing. We all know that providing employees with performance feedback is important, but itโs an important thing to do amongst an endless list of important things to do. I think thatโs the reason providing feedback is a neglected and weakly developed skill for most managers. And, mostly, in my experience, it doesnโt get done well or often enough.
Sure, thereโs the obligatory (for many organisations) annual performance appraisal process, resisted by many managers, where they have to be endlessly harassed by HR people to get them done. Appraisals are good and important, but just like goals, as I explained in my article about goal-setting, performance feedback doesnโt have to be written. In fact, I think some of the most powerful feedback comes in the form of the quick interactions we have as managers, the many golden opportunities that present themselves every day. It doesnโt take a lot of planning, written notes, or meetings. Hell, you can make it up as you go about your day.
In terms of people management, providing feedback is a critically important skill. I canโt see how you can lead a team and achieve high levels of performance without being skilled at it.
Have you ever thought about the fact that behaviourism, which dominated psychology for decades, was basically all about feedback? Behaviourism has taught us that the behaviours I will see tomorrow (for example in a workplace), are determined by the consequences that follow the behaviours that occur today. In other words, the feedback I get about how I performed today, will influence how I will perform tomorrow. Or to put it another way, how hard I will try to achieve excellence tomorrow, will be a product of the feedback I receive about how hard I tried today.
Itโs a good idea to trust the science when thinking about how to improve the performance of a work team, or a sports team for that matter. Sports psychologists draw on these same concepts when working with elite sports teams.
So what are some of the key aspects of behavioural science that managers can draw on if they are trying to improve the performance of a work team?
1. Be clear about the performance you expect
If you are not seeing the performance you want to see, first focus on ensuring that people are clear about what you want them to achieve. Talk to them about the behaviours you are wanting to see in a matter-of-fact way. Your aim should be that they walk away from that conversation feeling good, thinking about what they need to do, and not feeling like theyโve just been given a โserveโ.
2. If you are trying to develop performance, most of your feedback should be positive
Thinking about what the science tells us, I like the analogy of a garden. The plants you want to grow are like the behaviours or levels of performance you are trying to develop (e.g. I want to see more awareness and attentiveness of customers). Like plants, new behaviours donโt grow when they are poisoned. It would be the equivalent of giving an employee negative feedback because (despite the fact that they improved) their performance wasnโt good enough. That happens a lot in organisations and itโs poison to performance. Poison the weeds (the unproductive behaviours). Donโt poison growth. In other words, negative feedback is not good at growing behaviours or developing the levels of performance you are striving for. Negative feedback is important and its good for other things, but itโs not good for that.
Positive feedback is good for building new behaviours, developing performance levels, going from not seeing a behaviour (like attentive customer service) to regularly seeing that behaviour. Positive feedback works well for achieving that.
3. Donโt wait for perfect performance: reward improvements
In the book, The One Minute Manager, one of the pieces of advice is, โcatch someone doing something rightโ and thatโs a great piece of advice! A similar message to that is, catch someone who has improved at something, anything! Become a manager that has their antennas out, searching, searching, for any form of improvement, and when you see an improvement, you โhitโ the person with some positive feedback: โthatโs really good. I noticed that you just did that. I really liked the way you did thatโ.
I believe one of the biggest mistakes managers make with feedback is that they fail to acknowledge and reward improvements. They are not tuned in to the improvements people might be making, and the improvements are gold, because they represent growth. Unfortunately a common mindset is, โwhy should I reward performance that I know is not at the level I expect it to be?โ My answer to this is, because the science tells us so. Do you want to build performance or do you want it to break down? And, importantly, rewarding an improvement is not the equivalent of saying, โyou donโt need to do any better than thisโ.
4. Reward successively higher levels of performance
In behavioural science thereโs a term called โshaping behaviourโ. In an organisation, you can think of it as shaping performance. Thereโs a mountain of research evidence to support this concept and itโs especially important for driving performance improvements towards a standard. It means that, after receiving some positive feedback today, I will need to achieve more to get the next bit of positive feedback. In this way, your use of feedback is able to continually drive improvements. Itโs about rewarding successively higher and higher levels of performance, until the performance is at the standard you want it to be at.
5. Become a pokie machine
If you ever wondered why so many people are addicted to pokie machines, thereโs a psychology to it. Regular but unpredictable rewards are really good at locking in behaviours. If you want to know how often you should be providing feedback, think about the pokie machine analogy. Positive feedback should be regular, but unpredictable. The research shows that this type of feedback is the strongest when it comes to reinforcing behaviours.
6. Keep it brief and informal
Thereโs nothing wrong with formal or detailed feedback (such as in the form of performance appraisals), but feedback is too important and too powerful for driving performance to leave it to these occasions. There are too many day-to-day opportunities that present themselves, so why wait for an appraisal meeting that you probably donโt even want to be part of? Positive feedback can be as simple as a quick passing comment, such as โwell doneโ, or โthat looks really goodโ or to be more specific, โI really liked the way you served that customerโ, โIโm really pleased that you took it upon yourself to doโฆ..โ
There are many important things we do as managers, but whatโs more important than managing people? Do it well and you can multiply your effectiveness and your organisationโs productivity. Giving feedbackโin the right way, at the right time, and of the right typeโis one of the key skills that can help you to do that.
Itโs also something I teach in my Soft Skills for Hard Results training program.
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The Humid Pampa is an extensive region of flat, fertile grassland of loessic origin in Argentina. It has a precipitation average of 900 mm per year, compared to the Dry Pampas towards the west, which average less than 700 mm.
Similar to the Pampas in general, the regionโs terrain is mostly hilly and of a temperate climate, though rich mollisols are more abundant here than to the west, where the soils are loessic origin are more common.
This area is characterized by four distinct seasons. The weather is generally temperate and humid and snowfalls are rare. The summer can be extremely hot and humid. The natural vegetation is made up of meadows of high grass with isolated forests of algarrobos, talas, and chanares, which were formerly common in the areas nearby the main rivers but have been mostly cut down during the 20th century. The weather in this area is much like that of European areas with natural dense forest of deciduous trees, which is, however, missing from the Humid Pampa because the soil is too compacted and not airy enough to favor the growth of large trees.
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Franklin County's data is consistent with a report released last month by American Farmland Trust, a private nonprofit farmland conservation organization based in Washington, D.C. That report rated the Northern Piedmont area, spanning parts of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as the second most threatened agricultural region in the nation.
The conservation organization reports that "urban sprawl" from major metropolitan regions such as Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, are encroaching on the area's most fertile farmland.
"Acre by acre, mid-Atlantic farmland is being overrun and destroyed by scattershot suburban development," said Jill Schwartz, the organization's mid-Atlantic field director. "This kind of rapid, ill-planned development is costly agriculturally, economically, environmentally and socially,"
The statistics, in a state that ranks among the top 10 producers per acre of farmland in the country, have prompted officials at all level of government to make saving farmland a priority.
Programs such as Pennsylvania State Farm Land Preservation and the designation of agricultural security districts are aimed at securing the land by giving farmers incentives to keep it for agricultural use.
The preservation program works by offering to purchase the development rights - at no more than $10,000 an acre - from the owner of the agricultural property.
So far, 12 Franklin County farms totaling 1,600 acres are included in the farmland preservation program, which prevents any kind of development on the land.
Four farms, containing another 400 acres, are under sales agreements for farmland preservation and 50 other farms, totaling approximately 8,500 acres, are on file with county Planning Director Phil Tarquino for future consideration.
"If we don't do it now . . . In future years we'll be sad that we didn't preserve this land," said Franklin County Commissioner G. Warren Elliott.
This year, the county budgeted $91,000 as its contribution to the preservation program, almost double the amount budgeted in previous years, Elliott said.
The state matches the county's contribution.
Approximately 90,000 acres of county farmland are registered in agriculture security areas that exempt the property owners from nuisance ordinances.
"Even at that we're still losing ground," Elliott said.
Take a drive through Franklin County, which ranks second in dairy, peach and apple production in the state, and it's not difficult to spot housing developments on land where fields of corn used to grow, Reagan said.
"Once it starts, it's hard to stop," Reagan said of development.
Some of the best farmland in the county, located around Greencastle, Pa., Marion, Pa., Chambersburg and Shippensburg, Pa., contains fertile limestone soil that runs right along I-81, Reagan said.
Acres of "good ag" land are constantly threatened by development originating from the interstate, he said.
"We've put a lot of pressure on our best soil," Reagan said.
State and county officials blame unlimited and mismanaged residential growth as the primary reason for the loss of farmland.
"I've been saying it for 40 years," Reagan said. "We need better planning and better land use."
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The Web address of this article is http://sfhelp.org/flyer.htm
April 11, 2015
I have been interested in people and relationships
as long as I can remember. This led me to become a professional
family-systems therapist in 1981. Since then, I have spent over 18,000 hours
working with over 1,000 average adults and some of their kids, trying to
assist them with a wide range of personal and family problems. I also have
learned much from the writings of well over 40 other experienced clinicians,
who share my interest in understanding and improving "the human condition."
Five decades of study, meditation, observation, and discussion have led me
to form the ideas offered in this non-profit Web site. I now believe that
most personal, family, and social problems are caused by a lethal [wounds +
that is silently spreading
and weakening our society. I have never found another person who proposes
this unverified idea. Most people whom I explain it to say "this makes
I want to alert people to this cycle
and motivate them to
- i.e. to protect future generations from inheriting it. My attempt to alert people has evolved into
seven-lesson online self-improvement
here. Before this course evolved, I tried to capture the essence of my
learnings in the books below.
are shelves of books on self-improvement, relationships, parenting, and
families. The books below are unique because they propose that most personal and social
caused by early-childhood abuse, neglect and/or abandonment (Lesson 1);
widespread personal and
societal unawareness of...
effective-communication basics and
skills (Lesson 2), and...
healthy grieving basics (Lesson 3);
effective relationship + parenting +
family basics (Lessons 4 thru 6); and for some...
stepfamily realities, problems, and
solutions. (Lesson 7)
glimpse how unaware you are,
and see what you learn.
will help readers understand these factors, what they mean,
and how to reduce them. The first two guidebooks are for
anyone - specially adults from
low-nurturance childhoods (
or GWCs). The other books pertain to typical stepfamilies. Most of their
content applies to all families.
five titles are available
from the publisher (Xlibris.com),
and other online book sellers.
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The LDT can be used to locate leaks in
- pneumatic systems
- vacuum equipment
- valves and fittings
- steam pipes
- oxygen sockets in hospitals
- air conditioning systems in automotive vehicles
- Door and window seals of cars, pressurized containers, ships, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes etc.
- Detect leaks larger than 0.1 mm โ
- Optional Parabolic Reflector for long-range sensing of 5-20 meters (15 - 60 ft)
- Fast and Easy to use
- Reduces running costs and consumption of compressed air
- Increases the reliability of pneumatic systems
- Optional Parabolic Reflector (p/n 55006H) For detecting leaks in the range 5-20 meters (15 - 60 ft), supplied with Laser Pointer to identify source of leak
- Attach probe to LDT.
- Plug in and put on the headphones.
- Press power button.
- Adjust volume until you hear some hissing in the head phones. The first yellow LED will light up.
- Direct the sensor to the area of equipment that needs to be checked. These areas are normally tubes, fittings and screws. For longer distances, the laserpointer inside the parabolic dish is a helpful direction finder.
- A leak has been detected if the audio signal increases and the LED signal changes into the red area.
55001H - Long Gooseneck Probe, 260mm
55003H - Ultrasonic Transmitter for leakage checks inside sealed compartments
55004H - 9V rechargeable battery with charger
55005H - Standard Gooseneck Probe, 110mm
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Since Plymouth is a 'long-running process' wrt the boot and since it is attaching to the console (a shared device), I really don't think it should be making any assumptions -- particularly before requesting a password: it should set a 'secure' terminal environment immediately before prompting. On my test system, over 1500 processes were created between plymouthd starting in the initramfs and my test plymouth client Upstart job running which gives huge scope for a process to tweak the
terminal settings after plymouth initially sets them.
We could make Upstart perform more intelligent bit-twiddling but there are a _lot_ of options (atleast 47) and Upstart cannot really know which bits it should be twiddling in all scenarios as -- for example -- /dev/console might be attached to a serial line.
Upstart cannot make assumptions about the state the console is left in since either something running in the initramfs may have disturbed sane defaults, or as mentioned, there may be no initramfs so a reset generally makes perfect sense I think. The reset it is doing is similar to "stty sane" (which also includes 'ECHO') which gives a 'normal' console setup.
Details of when Scott changed the console handling in Upstart (both in Upstream and Ubuntu) are:
committer: Scott James Remnant <email address hidden>
branch nick: upstart
timestamp: Thu 2011-08-11 13:30:15 -0700
* init/main.c: Deal with failure to setup the system console by
falling back to /dev/null, so we don't end up without default fds
and castrate the process.
We need input from Scott as to the precise retionale for this change since simply undoing it might cause equally bad problems in other parts of the system. I wonder if he implemented it for bug 880049 and just forgot to update that bug?
> I don't think the latter part is right, because plymouth is still running at
> the end of the job and still owns the console
I'm not sure any process owns the console. If we impose policy to state that plymouth does, which plymouth do we mean? The one that runs from the initramfs or the one started as an Upstart job? What about PID 1? What about 'console owner' Upstart jobs? I think the point here is that plymouthd doesn't have awareness of whether it is running in the initramfs or via an Upstart job and Upstart doesn't have an awareness of whether it was started directly or from an initramfs, neither does it
know about the existing plymouthd process if that was started from the initramfs.
> Also this job has no 'console' line, so the stty command
> would have to have its stdin attached to the console somehow... so it's
> really not worth trying to deploy a quick fix here.
The workaround I outlined wasn't necessarily intended to be included in Ubuntu directly, but was more for users affected by this issue since they could add those two commands relatively easily to restore expected behaviour. I appreciate there is no 'console' stanza, but it doesn't need one - the job runs the plymouth client that asks plymouthd to request a password from the user, and plymouthd is connected to /dev/console.
I've checked the latest Plymouth code and it seems there is an attractive compromise for Quantal: plymouth now locks the terminal before resetting it to its chosen defaults. This means that for Quantal (which would include the newer Plymouth) we could change Upstart to only reset the terminal attributes *if the tty in question is not already locked* (we could also add '--force-console-reset' and '--no-console-reset' options to Upstart too for flexibility). This co-operative method for
handling console access is in fact how systemd currently attempts to work with Plymouth on Fedora (although it appears the systemd implementation is broken).
Whatever approach we take, it might still possible for a job that specifies 'console output' or 'console owner' (including all SysV
services) to tweak the attributes underneath Plymouth so the safest approach I feel is for plymouth to also be modified to ensure it requests passwords in a more secure manner.
To summarise my thoughts:
- For Precise
- Fix plymouthd to disable echoing at the point a password is prompted for.
- Potentially revert the Upstart change
(once we understand the rationale for change and full implications of reverting).
- For Quantal
- Pull in latest plymouth that locks the terminal attributes.
- Stop Upstart resetting the terminal attributes if they are already locked.
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By holding the Budget before the Assembly polls, the BJP government has shown scant regard for Parliament.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection on Monday adopted its report, on which it had been deliberating since 2019. But the committee chose to retain some highly controversial clauses, which provide the government with unbridled and sweeping powers.
Young India, this is your democracy. This is your parliament. These are your farmers. This is your future.
With every session, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is brazenly rewriting the rules of Parliament. Cancel Question Hour, so the Opposition isnโt given a chance to hold the government accountable. Slash Zero Hour time by half, from 60 minutes to 30 minutes, to deprive the Opposition of raising issues of importance. Misuse a constitutional tool such as an ordinance to mock Parliament, in a way it hasnโt been done in 70 years.
Scrapping of the Question Hour in parliament for the upcoming monsoon session is not the only parliamentary convention that the BJP-led government at the centre is subverting. They have set yet another dubious record. We are 450 days into the 17th Lok Sabha and the post for the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha is still vacant. This is the longest by far ever taken by a union government to fill up the post. What makes it all the more curious is that the BJP and the NDA have a comfortable majority in the Lower House.
As parliament is set to meet after a 6-month COVID-induced break, the session is likely to have many firsts. We have seen media reports citing government sources that say there will be large display screens, audio consoles, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, and working weekends. Judging by the feelers being sent out by senior ministers, one suspects that the government will use this pandemic to muzzle voices of the opposition in parliament.
Now is different than before. How long will now last? Is now here to stay? Till Puja? Or Diwali? Or Christmas and beyond? Did we think now would be like this? A world in which we would have to learn a whole new range of skill sets. A whole new way of living. An unfamiliar now. Thatโs taught us new ways to do things. New ways to work. New ways to communicate. New ways to even grieve. New techniques to master. New words to learn.
Rather than stand up for good journalism and take editorial positions on principles or policies, media companies and TV channels have mortgaged their channels to the ruling party and the government.
The point is simple. The forces that are seeking to displace Trinamool donโt just want to win an election, they want to fundamentally destabilise Bengalโs social harmony and tear apart its fabric. The inclusive and shared history of Bengalโs people is under threat from those who are โoutsideโ of this culture. And this genuinely worries Mamata Banerjee. This is what makes the third great struggle of Didiโs political journey her most crucial. The years 2021 (assembly election) and then 2024 (Lok Sabha election) will write the future of Bengal. And Mother Courage herself is leading from the front.
India is in the midst of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)โs decade of governance. The previous time one party dominated for nearly 10 years was four decades ago, when the Congress had brute majorities between 1980 and 1989. In that period, the tussle for the rights of States was focused on Article 356. Using pliant Governors, regional party governments were politically destabilised. There was lip service paid to the report of the Justice R.S. Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State relations, but its spirit was twisted.
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Female often fearless in defense of eggs or young, standing her ground when approached closely. The species ranges from sun-baked bitterbrush steppe to the twisted โkrummholzโ trees of frigid mountaintops, somehow managing to thrive on a simple diet of plants and insects. Interesting Facts. The dusky grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America. Dusky Grouse Female. There are 4 recognized subspecies for the Dusky grouse, which inhabits mixed forests in mountainous regions of western North America, from south-eastern Alaska and Yukon south to New Mexico. This large grouse lives in mountain forests of ponderosa and lodgepole pine, aspen, and fir. Dusky Grouse are numerous but inconspicuous for most of the year. Dusky Grouse by Chris Wood | Macaulay Library. While female dusky grouse will aggressively defend their young by hissing and flapping their wings, there are still some very effective natural predators. 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Itโs closely related to the Sooty Grouse and both species were previously considered as two subspecies for a single species under the name of the โBlue Grouseโ. While female Spruce Grouse have white underparts with conspicuous black barring, unlike female Dusky Grouse that are bluish-grey beneath. The dusky grouse and the sooty grouse were first identified separately by Lewis and Clark in the 1800s. Notes: Black background FEATHER SCAN DATA. On the rear side of their tail fan, they also have light gray โฆ Young can make short flights at age of 8-9 days, are full-grown at about 13 weeks. For this reason, your best chance to see them comes in early spring, when displaying males become both conspicuous and quite fearless, often easily approached. The two species do sometimes hybridize in a small zone of contact in interior British Colombia. This has ceased to be the case, and each is a separate species. 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"CAS SciFinderโฟ speeds the process of finding relevant, actionable insights. Featuring the renowned CAS Content Collection, CAS SciFinderโฟ produces better research in less time."
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Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design
Vine spacing is an important design consideration for new vineyards - and can profoundly affect management for the life of the vineyard. Jim Wolpert, UC Davis, outlines how vine spacing and shoot number affect vine growth.
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Agewell โ Sandwell Primary Care Trust
Sandwell Primary Care Trust provides NHS primary care for people in Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich.The trust employs 1,269 people, 24% of whom are aged 50 or over.
Agewell is the community development side of the business, undertaking consultation work with older people about issues of interest to them in Sandwell and helping them get their views across.
Between 2001 and 2003, Sandwell ran the largest of eight national pre-retirement healthcheck pilots, targeting people aged 50 to 65. The pilots showed that conventional pre-retirement initiatives were not appropriate and were often delivered too late to be able to make any significant changes. Agewell started its Midlife Planning initiative to target people at an age when they can still make changes and take control of their future.
Stuart Munger is Agewellโs Midlife Planning co-ordinator. Once the pilot scheme had shown the flaw in pre-retirement provisions, he and his colleagues investigated what companies were offering their staff. The results were not encouraging โ companies were targeting people just two to five years before retirement, providing information on post-retirement finance, but very little else.
โHealth didnโt seem to be an issue,โ says Munger.
The Midlife Planning team spoke to a number of people about their needs. Most said they wanted information before it was too late โ ideally when they were aged between 45 and 50 โ across four categories: finance, health, leisure and relationships.
Munger says the area of relationships hadnโt been picked up on before.
โPeople were saying: โWhen I retire, Iโll have to spend 24 hours a day with my partnerโ, whereas before they tended to spend most of their time with their colleagues.โ
Leisure was another less obvious area โ people without hobbies suddenly had to think of ways to fill their time. Munger says: โItโs not retirement, itโs just another stage of lifeโ.
Having originally focused on the NHS, today Midlife Planning can provide pre-retirement courses for any kind of business, anywhere in the country. It now generates income, and any revenue made gets fed back into its budget.
It recently ran a pre-retirement course for a local housing association thatwanted all its staff, regardless of age, to attend. Munger says: โThe two sessions were packed, with more than 40 people turning up. There were quite a few people in their 20s, who were there partly to pick up information to feed back to their parents.โ
Midlife Planningโs next step is to deliver a series of courses in conjunction with its mental health team, which has recognised the benefits of the courses in terms of the mental wellbeing of people who are retiring. And, given the state of the economy, Munger is also keen that the courses focus on financial elements.
With 95,000 staff in the UK, BT has long considered itself an age-neutral organisation, but new legislationmade the company re-examine its approach to retirement.
It traditionally had a retirement age of 60, but BT now allows its employees to retire when they want to, as long as there is a role for them, and their performance and health are satisfactory.
Dennis Gissing, head of diversity practice,says: โWe did retain the legal ability to retire people at 65, but we havenโt actually done this yet.
โWeโve found that, as our organisation has aged, weโve not become less efficient, but have retained a lot of knowledge and experience. All that has happened is that our age demographic has changed in line with the working population.โ
BT has worked to ensure that all of its policies and practices are age-neutral. While it is legally obliged to do so, the company has seen this as an extremely positive process, which has reinforced to staff that opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of age. BT has also lifted the age restrictions on its graduate scheme, and has at least one graduate in their 50s.
โWhat you should be clear on as an employer is the need to open up all opportunities. Make sure, for instance, that training and development are available for all ages โ not just focused early on in peopleโs careers,โ says Gissing.
BT offers a wide variety of flexible work arrangements through its Achieving the Balance portfolio, which can be hugely beneficial to older employees making a transition from full-time employment to retirement.
The Career Life Planning Tool assists employees in developing their careers at every stage, accounting for changes that may emerge during employment.
Classified data delivery team member Sandra Done, 63, has benefited from this flexibility.
By working nine days out of every 10, she has been able to cope with the limitations caused by her osteoporosis, and has stayed at BT beyond the traditional retirement age. The company helped her to move into a role better suited to her level of mobility and, in turn, has benefited from her experience.
โOne of our principles around the business case for diversity is that our employeebase should match our customerbase,โ says Gissing.
โThe better we understand the communities we work with, the better able we are to deliver what they need, and understand the issues.โ
Energy provider Centrica, which owns British Gas, was an early advocate of the need for an age-diverse workforce, recognising the value of older workers, particularly in an industry where staff visit customers in their own homes.
The Employersโ Forum on Age (EFA) undertook research across Centricaโs business units, and found two main issues. First, there was a slight age imbalance in some businesses. For instance, at British Gasthere were more older workers than at British Gas Business. Second, staff were still having to deal with myths and stereotypes surrounding older and younger workers.
On the back of these findings, Centrica introduced a range of initiatives. Key among these is its Age Action Group, which encourages managers from across the business to deliver an action planaccommodating the companyโs ageing workforce, and its age awareness e-learning package.
Melanie Flogdell, head of HR policy at Centrica, pulled together the Age Action Group, which scrutinised the companyโs policies and practices to try to identify changes, so they would meet or go beyond compliance with the legislation โ โage-proofingโ the organisation.
Flogdell explains: โWe had already taken age off application and monitoring forms, but we also reviewed our recruitment materialto ensure we were using age-diverse images. We reviewed the wording of our ads, too, to make sure we werenโt using phrases such as โlooking for a young, dynamic team memberโ.โ
Centrica then actively recruited older workers into the businesses with a younger age profile, and younger workers into its engineering academy.
Centrica provides online diversity and inclusion training for all staff. The first component, which is 15 minutes long, is compulsory. Itconsists of a briefing onage legislation; defines direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and bullying;and gives examples of what could be deemed an act of bullying, and so on. It also includes demographics about the ageing population.
The secondcomponent is 30 minutes long and is aimed at line managers, HR managers, and those involved in recruitment, selection and training. It outlines how the age legislation could affect recruitment, training, promotion and retirement.
Both modules end with a quiz and staff who do not meet the minimum required score must retake the training. Flogdell says feedback from staff has been good.
โMost people felt they had learnt something, and felt more confident raising age issues with their colleagues or line managers,โ she says.
โAfterwards, a lot of people phoned me to ask whether something could constitute, for example, bullying. For me, this demonstrates that the training had an impact on people, and that they will think twice before acting in future.โ
Domestic appliance insurer Domestic & General (D&G) has 712 employees, 9% of whom are aged 50 or over (the workforce ranges in age from 16 to 71). The company actively seeks to attract and retain older workers.
HR manager Tracy Burrell believes that what sets D&Gโs age-positive recruitment process apart is its practice of conducting initial interviews by telephone. โThis means there is no way of knowing how old that person is,โ she says.
This is an especially appropriate method given that the bulk of the people recruited are call centre staff, for whom good telephone skills are vital.
Recruitment and induction processes are adapted according to the target group. โWe did the induction for school leavers in bite-sized chunks, while with mature workers we focused on skills training,โ explains Burrell.
Age ambassadors represent D&G at recruitment fairs, where they discuss their experiences with potential employees, emphasising the benefits of having a balanced workforce.
One such age ambassador joined as a call centre agent, and is now a team leader, says Burrell: โSince joining, she has recommended us to her daughter and granddaughter, who both now work here.โ
The benefits of hiring older workers are clear to Burrell.
โAs a company, we offer domestic appliance cover and deal with technical queries. We find that our mature workers have much more empathy with our customers. They understand the issues that the person at the other end of the telephone is having.
โWhen we speak to our age ambassadors, they tell us how much they enjoy working with younger people. It keeps them young, and gives them a fresh perspective. To have that balance across the call centres is very important to us.โ
D&G is constantly recruiting, as the business is relatively seasonal. The companyโs โrecommend a friendโ system has been especially effective, as have its open days for potential employees.
However, Burrell acknowledges that call centres have a poor reputation as employers. โOne of our big aims this year is to make sure people understand that they can come here and have a career,โ she says.
โWe may have future managers among those who are embracing our training and development. They could be working their way up through the call centres, or could be interested in other jobs around the call centres โ for instance, HR.โ
And D&Gโs older workers are every bit as keen on training as their younger colleagues. In 2008, the firm launched Route to Success, a programme offering staff various โjunctionsโ of training, giving them greater business awareness, and making sure they are geared up for opportunities when they arrive. That has been a real benefit to the companyโs succession planning, says Burrell.
ENTRIES OPEN FOR 2009 AARP AWARDS
Chris Ball, managing director of The Age and Employment Network (TAEN), says: โWe have always been keen to publicise good policies and practice in the employment of older people.
โWe were therefore delighted to work with AARP to promote the first International Innovative Employer Award.
โIt is particularly pleasing to see that four UK companies won recognition for their industry-leading employment policies โ the highest number of awards for a participating country. We will be
working to encourage more employers to apply in 2009.โ
To apply go to www.taen.org.uk/news/AARP.htm
FREE EMPLOYERโS GUIDEWITH PERSONNEL TODAY
Age Isnโt an Issue is a new publication from Age Positive, a Department forWork and Pensions initiative that aims to help employers reap the business benefits of an age-diverse workforce.
The free guide covers the whole cycle of a personโs employment, from recruitment through to retirement, and is filled with practical guidance and tips. It also contains case study examples from a range of businesses that are already successfully tapping into this pool of talent.
See this weekโs issue of Personnel Today for your copy.
To download the guide or request extra copies, visit www.agepositive.gov.uk
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By David Lee and Dietmar Offenhuber
Just like human beings, some bike stations seem to find others more attractive. We identified cases where bikes from one station were "biased" to travel to other stations. We divided actual trips between stations with expected trips (based on overall trip share of start and end points, similar to a Pearson's chi-squared test); the higher this ratio, the more those stations were biased to each other. For instance, the stations at JFK/UMass and at UMass Boston only have eyes for each other, while Brookline Town Hall and South Bay Plaza have an unexpected affinity. Cambridge stations favor Cambridge destinations; Boston stations aren't so picky. And, just like humans, most stations are self-obsessed, with disproportionate numbers of trips ending back where they started.
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Contents I. History of the Manuscript II. Palaeography III. Contents IV. The Problem of the Text V. Date VI. The Text of W and the Early Church Fathers VII. Collation
Henry A. Sanders K. C. Hanson
Henry A. Sanders was a classicist and papyrologist who taught at the University of Michigan. In addition to editing numerous volumes Greek and Latin papyri, he was the editor of Roman Historical Sources and Institutions, and Roman History and Mythology, and co-editor of Latin and Greek in American Education.
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1. Tune into the Sisterhood
Celebrate International Womenโs Day with 18 hours of tracks selected by the female DJs at Provincetownโs WOMR. Sixteen DJs will highlight important milestones for women with Stories from the Sisterhood, Music for Social Justice, Equality in Arts, and music in genres from soul to Broadway musicals. Listen at 92.1 FM or visit womr.org.
In 2015, Black families in Boston had a median net worth of $8 compared with $250,000 for white families. Learn how discriminatory housing policies contributed to this vast inequity, and what can be done. The online panel is moderated by Globe columnist Adrian Walker for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Register at masshist.org. Free. 6. p.m.
3. The Collector of Souls
For Alice Neel (1900-1984), painting was something she had to do. She captured faces โ from high-profile figures like Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg to a porn star and politicians. Her grandson Andrew Neel pieces together her life through archival video and interviews with surviving family members in Alice Neel. Stream the documentary at icaboston.org starting March 12. $8 per household.
4. Folk Music
Rolling Stone called folk vocalist Aoife OโDonovan a โmust listen.โ Now sheโs coming to your screen with mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile for a digital performance from the Celebrity Series of Boston. A live Q&A with the artists follows the pre-recorded sessions from Studio 9 Porches in North Adams. 7:30 p.m. Purchase tickets, $20 each, at celebrityseries.org.
5. โEww!โ to โEureka!โ
Celebrate women in STEM during Virtual Girls Day: Icky Science from MIT Museum. Meet researchers who study everything from insect larvae to, um, poop, and how important those things are to science and society. The free online event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; pop in and out as you like. Register at mitmuseum.mit.edu.
Share your event news. Send information on Boston-area happenings at least three weeks in advance to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Vintage cars were spotted passing through the Crawley area on their way to Brighton.
Participants set off from Londonโs Hyde Park just after 7am.
The event marks the 125th anniversary of a very special milestone in motoring history.
On November 14, 1896, the historic Emancipation Run took place between London to Brighton to celebrate the passing of the Locomotives on Highway Act which increased the speed limit from 4mph to 14mph.
The new government legislation was a defining moment in British transport history, effectively ending centuries of horse drawn transport and giving motorists the freedom of the road.
More than 320 vintage cars left Hyde Park in London at sunrise this morning to make the 60-mile journey from London to Brighton.
The oldest car was a single-cylinder 1894 Benz.
Further information on all the participants entering this yearโs 125th anniversary event, as well as full route and other details, are available on the official website: www.veterancarrun.com.
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Caught Between Work and Family
Do you feel that you are caught between work and family?
Finding a balance between work and family is a challenge, no matter what our current marital status. Whether a two income household, a traditional family with only one paycheck, or a single parent, struggling to make ends meet, there are times when we have to make some difficult choices. How do we go about it in such a way that we don't sacrifice the wrong thing? Is it possible to be and do everything when it comes to work and family? How do we resolve the conflict we feel over this issue?
We work long hours on the job, and then turn around and work long hours at home. In our state of exhaustion and stress, our emotional health ends up in the basement. We get overwhelmed, criticize ourselves for our weaknesses and imperfections, and before we know it, the conflict between us and other family members escalates.
As most of you know, coping with the complex and diverse challenges of everyday life, which is not an easy task, can upset the balance and harmony we seek. Many good people who care a great deal are trying very hard to maintain balance, but they sometimes feel overwhelmed and defeated.โ M. Russell Ballard
Being a parent and working full time is like have two full time jobs, but we can't just stop going to work and spend all our time taking care of our family! We need an income to provide for their needs. Yet, it seems that the demands of running a household are never ending!
Just like the dirty laundry that accumulates, the stress of running a family can be overwhelming. The harder we work, the more exhausted we get. There is so much that needs to be done, and there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day.
If we stop and think about it, any business requires a system to run smoothly. Our homes are no different. Without a management system, we are living from crisis to crisis. The longer we wait, the worse it gets. Now is the time to take action. We can get a handle on it when we use the following steps:
- Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?
Feeling overwhelmed is like having the world on our shoulders. We can't move it because the burden is so heavy, and yet we don't know what to do. The techniques in this hub will help.
1) Pile - Categorize, Sort
Laundry and dishes multiply if we don't deal with them on a daily basis. Stress is no different. Before we can put a batch of clothes in the washer, we divide them by color and weight. Putting our red sweatshirt in with the white underclothes has dire results!
Getting a handle on our stress starts by making a list of all our roles and responsibilities. What is it that we are doing? When does it happen? Where does it happen? Why are we doing it? As we make a list, we grow in our understanding of how things have gotten out of hand. We are able to pinpoint problem areas where conflict is occurring.
Allowing the issues of one role in our lives to spill over into others wreaks havoc with family life. Yes, there will be crisis situations where this happens in spite of our best efforts, but these are the exception rather than the rule. Putting our responsibilities in a table might look like the one below:
Choose songs for choir practice
Maintain computer files
Recruit choir members
Set up and confirm appointments
Direct choir performances
Take care of garden
Record keeping and filing
Prepare meal for family with baby in hospital
Car maintenance and repair
Policies and procedures
Boss and colleague relationships
Plan service project
- Roles and Responsibilities in the Family
There are primary and secondary roles and responsibilities within the family. Primary are biologically based according to male and female; whereas secondary are divided among family members.
2) Prioritize - determine what is most important
Looking at our various roles and responsibilities in black and white helps us to see what we need to accomplish ourselves, and what we can delegate to others. Many times, we see ourselves as a one man or one woman show when it comes to our family responsibilities, thinking that is the way it is "supposed" to be.
Unfortunately, we don't often discuss these expectations with our spouse. We simply plow forward thinking that we know what has to be done. Then when conflict arises and we get over stressed, we make assumptions and blame others that things are not going well.
Stopping regularly to take inventory gives us a chance to determine what is most important, set our priorities, discuss things we can do differently, and make minor course corrections before major catastrophes require them.
Just like sorting through the laundry gives us a chance to spot check the clothes for stains, take things out of the pockets, and put like colors together, sorting through the roles we play and the responsibilities associated with them gives us a chance to combine, cull out the unnecessary, and adjust our daily actions to better fit our priorities.
- Teaching Children Responsibility and Respect
Responsibility and respect go hand in hand. As children learn responsibility, they form better opinions of themselves and others. They are more obedient, and understand what is expected of them.
3) Prepare - put routines and schedules into place
There are certain things that happen in the family on a regular basis. Like clock-work, they come and go daily. We eat, we sleep, we bathe, we get dressed, and we go to our various places. The routines and schedules we put into place are the means by which daily activities happen and our family's needs are met.
When there is no food on the table and people are hungry, they get impatient and frustrated. Conflict increases. Feelings are hurt, and the delicate balance of trust within the family is damaged. The time we take to communicate with one another about who will do what and when is less time we spend later getting upset with one another.
Teaching children to do basic household tasks allows us to instill vital life skills in their portfolio of development, as well as freeing our time for other things. It is much to our advantage when children are young to have them helping at home rather than spending our time taking them to lessons and activities outside the home, and then expecting to do all of the work ourselves.
Parents must resolve that teaching in the home is a most sacred and important responsibility. While other institutions, such as church and school, can assist parents to โtrain up a child in the way he [or she] should goโ (Proverbs 22:6), ultimately this responsibility rests with parents.โ L. Tom Perry
- Setting Boundaries for Ourselves and Our Loved Ones
Setting boundaries is not a cut and dried activity. Every person is unique and requires different techniques to help them make wise choices. Use these guidelines to facilitate the process.
4) Prevent - keep unwanted influences at a minimum
While we teach our children household responsibilities, we also teach the values of love, respect, honesty, and integrity. Children only learn what they experience when they are with us. The time we spend together is less time that they are involved with outside influences that take them away from values we hold dear.
As parents, we set boundaries on the activities we and our family members are involved in, and the people with whom we associate. Our influence is paramount in how our children end up as adults, and we cannot be too careful in this endeavor. Children under the age of 18 thrive under positive parental involvement and the environment in which they reside has a direct bearing on what they become.
Allowing children to do as they please, without thought of the consequences, is a sure ticket to open rebellion, involvement with less than desirable characters, and the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Active parental involvement and instruction is the only available deterrent to these social ills.
- Keeping Your Marriage Strong Through Life's Critical Moments
Life has many critical moments, and most of them affect us as individuals within the family setting. Marriages are strengthened or weakened depending upon how we deal with these moments.
5) Protect - a house of trust
Having a system for the solving of problems within the family provides protection. We build a house of trust around family members, letting them know that we will always be there and they can turn to us for help.
It takes a great deal of commitment and courage to keep the family together through all of the bumps and bruises that come with life. Spending time in spiritual development, the teaching of life skills, and the sharing of love and unity help the family to feel a sense of belonging and protection within the home.
Conflict resolution does not happen overnight, in our marriages or with our children. It is something we work at continually. Couples enter a marriage from different backgrounds blending cultural, religious, educational, economic, and social practices. Conflict will happen. How we deal with it determines the quality of our home life and the trust our family members have in us.
Perhaps the most universal regret dying patients expressed was that they wished they had spent more time with the people they love.โ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- Family, its All that Really Matters!
We don't realize how important our families are to us until a crisis threatens to take them away.
On the surface, we think that it is our work schedules that encroach upon our family life, and we wish we could find a balance between the two, but in reality, no matter our situation, conflict will be present.
There will be times when we have to sacrifice our personal wants and desires for the good of our families. The system we put into place within our family to resolve conflict allows us the opportunity to look at our long range goal of raising children who become contributing members of society.
The time we spend teaching and involving them in household responsibilities pays great dividends in preparation for their future. It will not be long before children are grown and gone, and the time with them at home will be only a distant memory.
When that time comes, they will look back at us and say, "Thank you, Mom," or "Thank you, Dad, for giving me the foundation I needed while I was in your care. Then, we will know that it has been worth it. Take the time with your family today, for your emotional health!
ยฉ2016 by Denise W. Anderson, all rights reserved. For more information on emotional health, see www.denisewa.com.
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We have discussed how playing with a brain injury can be dangerous; more immediately dangerous for the younger athlete. However, continually disturbing the brain while it is recovering only prolongs the issue and is a detriment to long-term brain health. This is the part of sports that gives credence to the awareness and education initiative.
Apparently the NFL, specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers, does not fully grasp everything involved with and around concussions. I would think that of all the teams that should be well versed in the history of concussions and health risks it would be the former employer of Mike Webster. Along with Webster, the Steelers have been on the cutting edge of research, perhaps not the team โ rather those that are associated with them: UPMC (developers of ImPACT) and Dr. Maroon (prominent author and โtrend setterโ for NFL concussions prior to 2008). The once proud franchise in the sports medicine realm has increasingly shown poor management of concussions; using such terms as โconcussion-like symptomsโ to avoid players having to leave the field of play (see Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu).
The most recent case of Polamalu is yet another example of what we are dealing with, the stigma of concussions. After another head injury this past Sunday (could be as many as his seventh), Polamalu is going to play this week;
Troy Polamalu is fine and will play vs. Bengals. He was clear and lucid by halftime but kept out because of league rules.
WHAT ARE WE DOING OUT HERE? Yes I am a bit frustrated. What message are we sending the youth and their parents about concussions? I fully grasp the fact that they are professional athletes, adults and can make informed consent decisions about knowingly creating brain damage. The layman, kids and their over-competitive parents DO NOT!!!
The mixed messages are one of the primary reasons the stigma of concussions continue. It is not going to ruin the sporting world to sit out a few games. Someone, anyone tell me how this is a good thing. And while you are at it get me a meeting with the NFL; you want to whip this issue, put it on be back burner and get people off your ass, I believe I can help.
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LAST Mind Map Seminar 2014
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Mind Maps have infinite applications .Whatever you are doing, you can do better with a Mind Map. Functions that can be improved massively are Investing, Research, Sales, Marketing, Compliance, Negotiations, Training, Recruitment, Planning, Organizing, Presenting, Problem Solving, Communicating, Strategic Thinking, Project Management, Operations, HR Management, Learning, Teaching, Creativity, Memory Enhancement and Revising among other processes. Content ( Subject to change without notice ) :
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Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this century, taking with them cultural traditions from all over the world, as well as linguistic structures that would have improved our understanding of the universality and variability of human language. This book is an accessible introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Why should we care? The book outlines the various causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language 'safe', and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language. Readers will learn about the consequences of losing a language, both for its former speech community and for our understanding of human language. Illustrated with case studies, it describes the various methods of documenting endangered languages, and shows how they can be revitalised.
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If youโre a fan of evergreen shrubs but donโt have the space required for them within your front or back garden, evergreen climbing plants are ideal for you. Given their evergreen nature, you can benefit from the flourishing of evergreen climbing plants all year round, making them a natural choice when it comes to decorating your space.
One of the most popular and commonly known types of evergreen climbing plant is Hedera (Ivy), which is a great hiding place for small birds to nest within, and can cover any dull areas on the outside of your home โ such as a dull brick wall. Thereโs something incredibly homely about ivy cascading down the outside of your home. As itโs evergreen, itโll also be as bright and striking all year round.
For flower lovers, you can find evergreen climbing plants that bloom their own little flowers during the warmer seasons of the month, adding interest. Additionally, said flowers often emit their own scents, allowing you to bask in their welcoming aromas in spring and summer.
If you havenโt much space โ say you have a balcony or patio only โ you can also plant some of our smaller evergreen climbing plants in pots, which could climb up the apartment wall if placed with a trellis. Otherwise, evergreen climbing plants are perfect for low walls and raised beds.
Contact us today here at Imberhorne Lane Nursery and our team will be happy to answer any queries you may have about a particular type of evergreen climbing plant.
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As toys go high-tech, hackers are zeroing in on a particularly vulnerable target โ children.
Troy Hunt, who runs a service that alerts consumers to data breaches, reviewed information provided to the tech-site Motherboard by the alleged hacker and found that it was possible to link the stolen data about kids back to their family's last name and home address. Shares in VTech were suspended from trading early Monday but resumed later in the day.
Privacy advocates warn that the VTech incident may be one of many online breaches that will involve children. Companies are increasingly producing and marketing high-tech toys that link dolls and games to the Internet โ as well as information about the kids playing with them. But the V-tech breach shows this data isn't always being guarded well.
"Toy companies are rushing to cash in on the changing nature of childhood in the Big Data era, where Internet connected toys are linking children to a vast surveillance network," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. "These playthings can monitor their every move, turning what should be innocent and pleasurable experience into something potentially more sinister."
VTech sells popular toys mainly for very young toddlers, including its "Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker," "Baby's Learning Laptop," and "Kidizoom Smartwatch DX." The breach involved data collected by its Learning Lodge app store, where customers could download games and educational programs for some toys. The company took down the Learning Lodge Web site and as of Monday, consumers could only see a message: "Due to a breach of security on our Learning Lodge website, we have temporarily suspended the site."
VTech is hardly the only company going high-tech. This holiday season, Fisher-Price has been hawking its Smart Toy Monkey as an "interactive learning buddy" that "talks, listens and remembers what your child says." The company states on its Web site that "we never send voice data over the Internet." The toy, however, checks a "secure server each day to see if there are new activities for your toy to learn" and remembers how engaged a child is with each activity.
"We take reasonable measures to protect personal information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction," it reads. "Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission that can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse."
All to often, companies are rushing to add connectivity to their products without taking the security and privacy implications into account. Many toys are likely already vulnerable to data breaches, but have gone under the radar because attackers haven't figured out how to make money from hacking them yet, said Tyler Shields, a principal analyst focused on digital security at Forrester Research. He said he expects that to change rapidly.
"The concept of a standalone product is fading away โ even something as simple as a toy is transitioning to the idea of a service where you get an internet connected device," he said. "As we see an explosion in Internet connected device we are going to see an explosion of attacks targeting those devices."
Chester said he alerted the Federal Trade Commission to the VTech incident over the weekend, hoping it will open an investigation into the company for violating the Childrenโs Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA โ a law designed to help protect the privacy of kids under age 12.
The agency declined to weigh in on the specific incident. โFTC investigations are non-public and we do not comment on an investigation or the existence of an investigation," a spokesperson said.
If the agency were to investigate VTech, that investigation may be complicated by the international nature of the breach: The company is based in Hong Kong and it affected consumers from countries across the globe.
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Time, time, time, see whatโs become of Oconomowoc High School.
The nearly 1,500-student high school 30 miles west of Milwaukee attracted a lot of attention a year ago with a transformation plan: Reduce the staff, give most teachers increased workloads and pay, and implement learning approaches that call for more initiative by students and a lot of technology.
As Superintendent Patricia Neudecker (now retired) and high school Principal Joseph Moylan saw it, it was a way to tighten spending while personalizing and improving learning. As critics, including many teachers and students, saw it, it was a way to make things worse.
One year into the new reality, Oconomowoc High still stands. The critics havenโt been proved wrong, but it appears it was a pretty decent year by many measures. Change did not derail the basic flow of a healthy, energetic school and in some ways it helped. But there are signs of the stress the approach is putting on all involved, and change does not come easily.
With a bow to Simon and Garfunkel (โHazy Shade of Winter,โ of course), consider this an update focused on time, time, time.
Teachersโ time: For about a decade, the high school has used a block schedule, which means the school day is built around four longer periods rather than six or seven periods. The conventional teaching load in such a situation is three blocks a day. Many Oconomowoc teachers now teach all four blocks, which means they are in front of students just about all day.
Neudecker said the change was made to reduce staff and save money without reducing offerings to students. โWe havenโt cut one program,โ she said. โWe have not increased our class size.โ
In exchange for the heavier workload, teachers receive an additional $14,000 a year. For those affected, that has raised salaries to $50,000 at the starting level and $70,000 or more for experienced teachers.
Related: May, 2012: Budget Cuts: We Wonโt Be as Bold and Innovative as Oconomowoc, and Thatโs Okay. Indeed. Madison appears to have mastered the art of status quo governance.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
โAnd not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonementโ (Romans 5:11 KJV).
This is the only time the word โatonementโ appears in the King Jamesโ New Testament. The Greek word translated โatonementโ here is usually translated โreconciliation, reconciling, reconciledโ elsewhere (Romans 5:10; 1 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20).
In the Old Testament, once a year, on the Day of Atonement, Israelโs high priest would sprinkle animalsโ blood on the mercy seat, the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, to first cover his sins and then the sins of the nation Israel (Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 16:3-34; Hebrews 9:7). But โit is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sinsโ (Hebrews 10:4). For that reason, โin those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every yearโ (Hebrews 10:3).
The book of Hebrews describes how Jesus Christ shedding His own (sinless) blood has done away with the animal sacrifices. โAnd every priest standeth daily ministering and oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man [Christ Jesus], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;โ (Hebrews 10:11,12).
That word โatonementโโwrongly translated โreconciliationโ in modern Biblesโis needed in Romans 5:11 because it links us with the Old Testament practice of the Day of Atonement. Animalsโ blood could never take away sins, the Bible says, but that blood did serve as a temporary forgiveness. When the blood of Jesus Christ was shed, the shedding of animalsโ blood became null. What God accomplished for Israel at the cross of Calvary, He also accomplished for us (the Church the Body of Christ).
Notice โwe have NOW received the atonementโ (Romans 5:11). As Christians we have our sins blotted out today (Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 2:13). Israel will not receive her national forgiveness until the Second Coming of Christ (Acts 3:19,20; Romans 11:26,27).
Rejoice, saints, โwe have NOW received the atonement!โ Praise ye the Lord!
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I've been around baseball players all my life. I spent a year covering a minor league team, and even coached a few Little League teams, plus a girls' softball team thanks to my pal who had a daughter on the squad. I'm a Yankee fan. That means I'm ambivalent about the Red Sox.
- How Baseball Works
- How Minor League Baseball Teams Work
- How does a perfect game in baseball work?
- How do retractable roofs in convertible stadiums work?
- In baseball, how does a pitcher throw a curveball?
- When a baseball player hits a home run, how do they know how far the ball traveled?
- How do they create patterns in a baseball field?
More Great Links
- Cooley, Andrew Reed. "Revisiting the Impacts of the Designated Hitter on Major League Baseball. A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University." August, 2010. (July 26, 2012) http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1285780297/Cooley_clemson_0050M_10759.pdf
- Bendix, Peter. "The History of the American and National League, Part I. Beyond the Box Score. Nov. 18, 2008. (July 26, 2012) http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/11/18/664028/the-history-of-the-america
- Major League Baseball. "World Series History: Recaps and Results." (July 26, 2012) http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws.jsp?feature=recaps_index
- Schwarz, Alan. "For Pitchers National League Really is an Easier Out." The New York Times. Jan. 14, 2007. (July 26, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/sports/baseball/14score.html
- Treder, Steve. "A Tale of Two Leagues." The Hardball Times. April, 19, 2004. (July 30, 2012) http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/a-tale-of-two-leagues-part-two-1956-2003/
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A month or so, ago, Bernie Kempkinski, made a post in the Yahoo, Civil War Railroadโs and Modeling group. This post had links to images of actual train reports from the City Point and Army Line Railroad during March and early April, 1865. Train reports list the times that trains passed the various stations on the line. Presumably the stations telegraphed trains movements back to City Point as they occurred. Bernie had found these reports in the National Archives.
The dates of the reports that Bernie found, coincide with the final days of the siege of Petersburg and include March 25th, 1865, the day of the battle of Fort Steadman, and Abraham Lincolnโs visit to the front lines at Petersburg. Having a great interest in what was going during those days at City Point and Petersburg, I had previously purchased a book by Donald Pfanz, โAbraham Lincoln at City Pointโ. This books details Lincolnโs day by day activities during his time at City Point and vicinity during March and early April, 1865.
Of course the first thing I had to do, was to see if the train Lincoln took to see the front on March 25th, was listed in the train report for that day. Pfanzโs book reports that the Lincoln party took a train at around noon. Sure enough, in the report there is a special train arriving at Pitkin Station, the next station up the line from City Point at 12:30 โ that must have been Lincolnโs train.
However this is where things get interesting. Pfanz writes that the Lincoln party went to Patrick Station, and then mounted horses and ambulances to visit Meadeโs HQ. Pfanz writes that they arrived at Meades HQ around 1:00PM. He goes on to write that the party viewed a number of Confederate prisoners from the battle, then went to Fort Wadsworth to see the Sixth Corp take some advanced works in front of Boydon Plank Road.
This story hardly could be the truth. Patrick Station is a mile beyond Warren Station, and Fort Wadsworth is between these two, and all are several miles down the track from Fort Stedman and Meade Station, which I presume was close to Meadeโs HQ. The special train arrived at Warren Station at 2:00PM, long after Lincoln is said to have visited Meadeโs HQ.
I think it is more likely that the Lincoln party changed to ambulance and horse at Meadeโs station, viewing the killed, wounded and prisoners from the battle of Fort Stedman near that location. Then they road down the line to Fort Wadsworth, from which they viewed the attack of the Sixth Corps. Afterward, they could have reboarded the train at Patrick Station for the return trip to City Point.
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It is an irrefutable fact that America's spies are far more innovative than members of our television news media, right. Right?
Doesn't look that way from Pathfinder, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's internal magazine, which reads like a high-school student bulletin, covering such gripping internal developments as new campus fitness centers and hurricane-response drills. In Pathfinderโs 2013 summer issue, thereโs an article thatโs roughly about how television and film sensationalize the banality of intelligence work ("Itโs tedious work, and rarely as glamorous as portrayed") and sort of about how any smart-phoned civilian is nearly as equipped to conduct entry-level geospatial intelligence as our spies ("With GPS, Google Earth and a host of other powerful applications, everyday users can now do on a daily basis what many GEOINT analysts have done for decades"), but also kind of about where the agencyโs analysts find inspiration. The answer isn't very comforting.
From analyst Melissa Dicker, we learn:
The news media is another industry on the forefront of geospatial innovation, said Dicker.
โWhereas a lot of innovation in the past came from film and the arts, I think a lot of innovation nowadays is coming from the news media,โ said Dicker. โIn some areas they may be even more advanced in terms of technical capabilities. Sometimes weโll be sitting in our enclave and weโll see something on one of the news networks and say, โWell, darn. We need to be able to do that.โโ
What's worse: that MSNBC has better technology than our defense department, or that our spies sit in their enclaves and say darn? You're right, it's a tie and we're fucked.
To contact the author of this post, email firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn
Movements (played without pause)
1. Theme: Allegro scherzando - 1 :40
2. Fantasy I: Lo stesso tempo - 2:25
3. Fantasy II: Adagio - 5:10
4. Fantasy III: Allegro, molto spiritoso 3:45
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Percussion (8 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (suspended, crash)
- Snare Drum
- Tubular Bells
None discovered thus far.
This work for band is based on a theme from a composition for piano by Franz Joseph Haydn. The subtly conceived theme, I concluded, offered an opportunity to fantasize in the musical language of today.
The three movements are a constantly varied examination of Haydn's basic idea. The bubbling humor of the first and third fantasies flank a second which is intensely lyric. In the final sense, it is my homage to a composer who will always remain contemporary.
This work was commissioned by the MSBOA and dedicated to Mr. Leonard Falcone, Director of Bands at Michigan State University, upon his retirement, in recognition of devoted service to music, to education, and to his colleagues.
- Program Note by composer
Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn is a set of variations on a theme by the great master of Classical style, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). The short theme, taken from the finale of Haydnโs String Quartet in F major (Op. 74, No. 2), is presented in its entirety by the flutes and low woodwinds shortly after the start of the work. The theme is then broken down into its component parts -- a descending cuckoo-like interval, an ascending scalar passage, a rapid musical turn -- and woven into a continuous, three-movement fantasy.
The first fantasy retains the Classical style and elegance of the theme while carrying the listener through several contrasting variations. Dello Joio cleverly uses short breaks of silence to indicate the end of one variation and the beginning of the next tableaux. The second fantasy, starting with solo flute, uses the theme in several Romantic-style variations. Tension builds as the melody spins upwards and rhythmic complexity increases until the fantasy recedes back to a soft and quite end. The final fantasy feels more twentieth century than its predecessors with aggressive articulations, large leaps, and short melodic fragments. Despite itโs complexity, the third fantasy maintains the elegance and wit of Haydnโs writing with humorous juxtapositions of style, dynamics, and changes in character.
- Program Note compiled by Matthew Boswell for the Florida State University Wind Symphony concert program, 24 September 2021
- Florida: VI
- Texas: V
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Florida State University (Tallahassee) Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor) - 24 September 2021
- East Tennessee State University (Johnson City) Wind Ensemble (Christian Zembower, conductor) - 15 April 2021
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Hindsley Symphonic Band (Anthony Messina, conductor) โ 6 December 2019
- University of South Alabama (Mobile) Wind Ensemble (William Petersen, conductor) โ 21 November 2019
- California State University Northridge Wind Ensemble (Lawrence Stoffel, conductor) โ 19 November 2019
- Sacramento (Calif.) Symphonic Winds (Tim Smith conductor) โ 13 October 2019
- Cincinnati (Ohio) Youth Wind Ensemble โ 29 April 2019
- Capital Region Wind Ensemble (Schenectady, N.Y.) (Brett Wery, conductor) โ 24 March 2019
- Messiah College (Mechanicsburg, Penn.) Wind Ensemble (James Colonna, conductor) โ 28 February 2019
- University of Texas (Austin) Symphony Band (Joshua Gall, conductor) โ 27 February 2019
- State University of New York, Potsdam, Concert Band (Joshua Roach, conductor) โ 14 November 2018
- St. Louis (Mo.) Wind Symphony (Thomas Poshak, conductor) - 11 November 2018
- University of Wisconsin-Parkside Community Band (Laura Rexroth, conductor) โ 18 October 2018
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) โ 16 March 2018
- University of Massachusetts Lowell Wind Ensemble (Dan Lutz, conductor) โ 16 November 2017
- Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (David Holsinger, conductor) โ 10 April 2017
- Penn State University (University Park) Symphonic Band (Dennis Glocke, conductor) โ 2 March 2017
- Indiana University (Bloomington) Concert Band (Jason H. Nam, conductor) โ 7 February 2017
- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Symphony Band (John T. Madden, conductor) โ 1 December 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aria and Roulade (1984)
- Caccia for Band (1975/1978)
- Colonial Ballads
- Concertante (1973)
- Dancing Sergeant, The (1979)
- Fantasies on an Original Theme (1994)
- Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn (1968)
- From Every Horizon (1965)
- Metaphrase (1991)
- Satiric Dances (1975)
- Scenes from "The Louvre" (1966)
- Songs of Abelard (1969)
- Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)
- Fonder, Mark. (2003, September). โThe Haydn Variations endure as Norman Dello Joio turns 90.โ The Instrumentalist 58(2), 19-22, 27-28. [Includes errata]
- Lutch, Mitchell. (2003). "Norman Dello Joio." In: A Composer's Insight, Volume 2. Galesville, Md.: Meredith Music Publications. pp. 16โ38.
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. (2010). Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 1. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 645-650.
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Over the course of the inquiry into the murder of Victoria Climbiรฉ, the various staff and agencies involved in her protection have displayed confusion and misunderstanding about their respective roles and responsibilities.
Social workers, doctors, nurses and police officers have revealed ignorance of and frustration with the different working practices and cultures of each others' organisations - pointing to a breakdown in the multi-agency approach to child protection, established in the wake of the death of Maria Colwell nearly 30 years ago.
This lack of cooperation inevitably led to gaps in Victoria's care, with staff making misguided assumptions about the action other professionals would take and failing to pass on vital information.
The most striking revelation was the apparent perception by Brent social services that a hierarchy of diagnostic opinion on child abuse exists, with the omniscient medical consultant at the top.
Social workers at the London borough unquestioningly took Victoria off the "at risk" list upon learning that Dr Ruby Schwartz, consultant paediatrician at Central Middlesex hospital, had diagnosed the eight-year-old's injuries as the skin condition scabies. Social worker Michelle Hines told the inquiry: "I felt that if Dr Schwartz had seen the child, her diagnosis would have been correct and I could not argue with that."
Yet Dr Schwartz, designated child protection doctor at the hospital, said she expected social workers to further investigate the girl's case and was "stunned and puzzled" when she heard they closed the case.
The lead counsel to the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, observed: "There is a terrible danger here - is there not, doctor - of social services on the one hand and you on the other each expecting the other to do the investigation, with the result that nobody does."
Child protection experts share this concern about buck-passing. The second phase of the Climbiรฉ inquiry, which examined how to prevent further cases of horrific abuse, heard concerns about widespread deference to social services in child protection cases by other agencies.
Denise Platt, chief inspector of the social services inspectorate (SSI), said doctors, police officers and teachers often thought their only responsibility was to help social services, forgetting that they had a distinct role to play.
Mike Leadbetter, president of the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS), went further warning that many directors found health professionals, particularly GPs, were "not engaged in child protection".
"I have example after example of difficulties in getting health professionals engaged, difficulties in getting them to come to case conferences," he said.
Dr Yomi McEwan, a GP tutor at Epping Forest primary care trust, admitted her profession was apathetic towards child protection, noting that only two out of 110 local GPs had undergone training on the issue.
Richard Jones, assistant regional chief inspector of the SSI in the north-west of England, said this apathy made it impossible for GPs to understand their responsibilities in respect to other staff.
However, GP Dr Conlon, director of primary care at the NHS clinical governance support team, said doctors were sometimes reluctant to refer children to social services because of uncertainty about how effectively cases would be dealt with.
The inquiry heard that reforms to social work and medical training should improve interagency working. Richard Banks, principle for standards and quality at the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services, said the new social care codes of conduct, which include duties for staff to take responsibility for their practice and to protect service users from abuse, should prevent social workers from deferring to medical consultants.
Meanwhile, Dr Howard Baderman, emeritus consultant in accident and emergency medicine at University College hospital, London, said the General Medical Council, which regulates doctors, was "very keen" for child protection to be included in medical degrees and speciality qualifications.
Dr Baderman recommended that the issue be made a key component of revalidation, the process to assess a doctor's fitness to practice throughout their career. "That should include not just the doctor's ability to recognise child abuse but their ability at multi-agency working," he said.
But other witnesses have suggested more training alone would not provide the solution, pointing out that joint working was hindered by the different structures, regulations and targets of the various agencies involved in child protection.
Dr Ann York, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in Richmond, Surrey, said: "It is very difficult at times to work together when different agencies have different funding arrangements and different priorities that they are being pressurised to deliver on from above."
There is widespread agreement on strengthening the role of area child protection committees, which coordinate the agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of children at risk, by making them statutory bodies.
The ADSS has also backed inquiry chairman Lord Laming's proposal for virtual child protection teams, which would use the latest information technology to bind together the work of social services departments, police, NHS and other relevant organisations.
But calls to create a separate national child protection service, stripping responsibilities from local government and the NHS, were rejected.
June Thorburn, professor of social work at the University of East Anglia, said that further organisational upheaval would make it more difficult to develop trust between professionals and with the public.
She said: "Every reorganisation we have means that social workers and health visitors and doctors have to get to know another lot of other workers, but so does the family."
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A Particular Account, Given by an Anonymous French Author in His Book of the Origin of Fountains, Printed 1674 at Paris; To Shew, That the Rain and Snow-Waters are Sufficient to Make Fountains and Rivers Run Perpetually
Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)
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There is a wide range of foods to eat at Changi airport. The airport receives travelers from all over the world. The restaurants set up near the airport aim at serving people from different parts of the world. People interested in American cuisine can always get top-quality foods to eat. Some travelers would like to try new foods. They can visit different restaurants where the local Asian-inspired cuisine is served. It is a great way to learn about foods from different cultures. Those who stick to vegan foods can always find something to eat at the restaurant. Some of the Jewel Changi airport being open food to try are:
There are different types of foods inspired by American cuisine. For insurance, people can enjoy barbecue, burger among other types of foods. Those traveling from the American content and who would like to get high-quality foods from the location can always order the foods. They are prepared to meet the highest quality standards. The foods come in different packaging. Those interested in fast foods are free to order enough for them to enjoy before starting the trip.
Those who love rolls, they have a wide range of rolls to choose from. They can go for cinnamon, among others. The world-class restaurants available at the airport serve top-quality food for people to enjoy. They have highly experienced chefs who ensure the food is prepared to meet the highest quality standards. It will be a great idea to order the food from the restaurant.
There are some people interested in eating pastries. They can order them from the restaurant. There are different types of foods inspired by European cuisine that is served near the airport. Travelers from Europe can try Asian-inspired cuisine or stick to the foods they are sued to eat back at home. The foods are prepared to meet the highest quality standards. They are the best people can enjoy as they relax at the airport waiting for the flights.
Those who love cheese can go for sweet cheese or have garlic Onion Cheese. The cheese is prepared to meet the highest quality standards. Always go for the high-quality fools to enjoy every day the trip ahead. Those traveling with kids can work by for them ice-cream among other types of foods they love. The airport restaurants are prepared to serve food to different people interested in trying new foods.
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Blog by Guest Author: Casita.com
Picture thisโฆ The sky bursts with beautiful red sprites as the sun rises over the turquoise sea. Waves crash on the yellow sand. Masses of palm trees lined on the outstanding beach. Birds are singing in the background. This majestic view is perfect for anyone to enjoy while grabbing their cup of coffee and a favourite sandwich and walking alongside the vast ocean. You will have the most enjoyable and memorable moments!
On the other hand, this day is catastrophic for the Earth because the plastic cup of coffee and the sandwich you bought is likely to come wrapped in paper. Plastic and paper contribute towards pollution, deforestation, spread toxins, and threaten wildlife. To reduce waste and help save the ecosystem, consider bringing products or materials with earth-friendly terminology on them to your student accommodation and become an eco-warrior! Here is our guide to earth-friendly terminology that will help you make the best choices and care for the environment.
Shopping can be lots of fun and enjoyed by many. Make the Earth happy too, and consider the following earth-friendly terminology while you are shopping:
If a product is tagged recyclable, the material could be broken down and remade into new products after being thrown away. Recyclable materials can include plastic, paper, cardboard, and metal. However, it is important to remember that not all types of plastic and paper can be recyclable.
A recycled product is made using materials from another product. It helps reduce waste since it gives a product another life.
A reusable product helps reduce waste. It is designed to last for a lengthy period of time and work as an alternative for more harmful single-use products. Many cafes and restaurants now invite you to bring your reusable coffee cups and water bottles and are more than happy to refill those.
Upcycling is the process of reusing materials to create a product of higher quality or value than the original.
A biodegradable product can decompose naturally when coming in contacts with bacteria, fungi or living organisms. This is beneficial to the soil and helps avoid pollution or harm to the environment.
Compostable material turns into nutrient-rich substance for the soil in composting facilities. It biodegrades under specific conditions, leaving no toxicity in the soil.
LED is the abbreviation for Light Emitting Diode. This green/clean technology is more energy-efficient and lasts longer.
- Vegan and Cruelty-Free Products
Vegan means that there are no animal ingredients in the product; however, it might have been tested on animals. On the other hand, cruelty-free indicates that the product or activity wasnโt tested on animals.Products can be either, or both. If you want to protect the environment, it is important to reduce your meat and diary intake and instead choose more products that are vegan and cruelty-free.
Dine with Environment in Mind
One of the most important areas of our life where we need to take the Earth into consideration is our eating habits. Here is some terminology for earth-friendly consumption:
- Free Range
Free-range refers to the method of farming where livestock are kept in natural conditions and can roam freely outdoors. For example, free-range eggs are eggs produced by hens that have freedom of movement. While this may mean that livestock live in better conditions, it still doesnโt guarantee a completely ethical farming, or that environment wasnโt affected by the toxins created by animal farming.
Natural means that something exists or is derived from nature without human intervention. It is usually free from additives and artificial ingredients, but to ensure this it is important to pay close attention to the labels.
- Organic Food
Organic Food is produced by organic farming via natural resources without pesticides or harmful additives.
GMO is the abbreviation of Genetically Modified Organism. Using genetic engineering, the DNA of an organism is artificially modified or altered.
Beauty Starts from Nature
Here is some environment-friendly terminology that is related to beauty and fashion.
- Ethical Fashion
Regarding fashion, ethical fashion is related to the design, production and distribution of clothing. It focuses on benefiting people and communities and reducing the harmful impact on the environment and people who make or distribute these fashion items.
- Slow Fashion
Slow fashion is reducing the consumption of clothing. It favours quality over quantity, recognising that fast fashion contributes to pollution and perpetuates global inequalities
- Fast Fashion
Unlike slow fashion, fast fashion consists of mass-produced clothing that have a low price. It cares about quantity, not quality and is generally produced by poorly paid workers in developing countries, exploiting their labour.
Not All Plastics are the Same!
We can find plastic everywhere in our lives, from takeaway cups, milk bottles, burger boxes, egg cartons, and drink bottles, food containers, food wraps, cling film, and pens, to window and door frames, recycling bins and bin bags.
While it is clear that reducing or completely eliminating plastic from your day to day life is the best for the environment, this may not be possible for everyone. Knowing which type of plastic is recyclable, can help make better choices when you buy! You should be familiar with the abbreviations written on plastic items along with their โresin identification numberโ or โcodeโ. This will make it easier for you to identify and buy items that could be recycled and help reduce waste.
- PET / PETE
PET stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. Its identification number is 1. PET is the most recycled type of plastic.
HDPEโs identification number is 2. It is a thermoplastic polymer made from ethane called High-Density Polyethylene. Sometimes, it is called โalkatheneโ or โpolythene.โ HDPE is widely used since it is recyclable.
Polyvinyl Chloride is abbreviated to PVC and is commonly called vinyl or polyvinyl. It has the resin identification number 3. PVC is very difficult to recycle since it emits very harmful fumes if it is heated.
LDPE stands for Low-Density Polyethylene. Its resin identification number is 4. It is not widely recycled.
Similar to LDPE, PP is not widely recycled. PP stands for Polypropylene and its resin identification number is 5.
Polystyrene is abbreviated to PS and has resin identification number 6. PS is not accepted for recycling and is very difficult to recycle.
Materials that are made of a mixture of plastic types, Polycarbonate, Acrylic Glass, and Nylon fall into this section. Other Plastic which has resin identification number 7 is not recyclable.
Now that you have your guide to earth-friendly terminology, itโs easier than ever to identify products that are better for the environment and make responsible choices. Following all the scientific discoveries of the last couple of decades and the overwhelming evidence of climate change seen in the change all around us, itโs important to do our part to protect and preserve the planet we all love. Be responsible, be an eco-warrior!
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Snowcat to the rescue
|Emery County came to the rescue of two stranded Carbon County employees.|
Carbon County search and rescue member Laurie Bowman goes over a map with Emery County snowcat operator Bret Mills before they take off on a rescue mission on Jan.15. The object was to get the Carbon County snow cat out of a canyon near Star Point where it became stranded. The cat had gone up with two personnel to do some repairs on Carbon's transmitting station but the snow was so heavy that it ran low on fuel by the time it reached the facility and didn't have enough to get back to where it was launched. The two county employees that traveled in the unit stayed in the transmitting station overnight and then met up with search and rescue crews who brought in extra fuel. The machines were all out of the area and down to Mohrland by late Saturday afternoon. Involved in the rescue were members of the Carbon County Search and Rescue, as well as Emery County and state of Utah personnel.
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By Jeanne Sager
MONTICELLO May 11, 2004 Imagine having to make the choice between feeding your children for a week and having your sons broken arm set.
Imagine heading to work with a 104-degree fever because one day off could mean losing your apartment.
For most people, the mere thought is terrifying.
For hundreds of Sullivan County residents, its a reality.
They are the uninsured.
Many of them have jobs, even professional careers.
But they cant afford a visit to the doctor. They havent had a basic dental cleaning in years. Theyre just working to hold their heads above water.
But it doesnt have to be that way.
Thats why several Sullivan County agencies have banded together to get the word out that help is available.
Saturday, they were out in full force at Wal-Mart in Monticello.
There were representatives from Hudson Health Source, a state program that offers health insurance to those who fall under certain income levels; folks from Public Health Nursing who had paperwork on free clinics and vaccinations available to everyone in Sullivan County; a man from Child Health Plus, a program available to any child in New York State whether theyre an American citizen or not; workers from PRASAD which does full dental work on kids from 6 months to 19 years; even a Spanish-speaking representative from Hudson River Community Health who offers help to migrant workers.
Theres no reason you should be at home sick without medications with all these services available, said Al Solorzano of Child Health Plus.
But 44 million Americans still go without health insurance 8.5 million of them are children.
For those families it means paying for medical care out of pocket or not going at all.
Even with dozens of agencies who have the answers, people dont know who to talk to and they dont get any help.
Warren Mastrogiovanni knows the problems firsthand.
A marketing representative with Hudson Health Source, he was helping families Saturday who might have Medicaid but still cant find a doctor to treat them.
State-run Hudson Health is like any insurance company, he said. They have in-network doctors in Sullivan County, a list of pediatricians, gynecologists, dentists, eye doctors, even nurse practitioners and physicians assistants who will accept their patients.
In the seven years Hudson Health has been in Sullivan County, it has helped some 5,000 people get the medical care they need.
Theres a Family Health Plus plan that will allow someone who falls under a certain income guideline to sign up for free.
Theres no co-pay, no deductible.
Then theres a managed plan which can work in concert with Medicaid and open doors to more providers.
With straight Medicaid, its hard finding a doctor, he explained. With us, [providers] will accept them.
Child Health Plus is a tiered system for kids 0 to 19. Based on the familys income, parents can pay nothing or the full premium. Some pay as little as $9 a month. And theres still no co-pay, no deductible.
It covers 100 percent of everything, Mastrogiovanni explained.
The programs are available across Sullivan County. And if you cant make it to the Monticello office to sign up, theyll come to you.
Theyll even provide stamped envelopes to folks to help them make sure they can afford to send out their premium payment each month.
It all sounds so easy. The problem?
Lots of people dont know about us, Mastrogiovanni said. We try to do whatever we need to do to get people on this it comes from the heart.
But theyve got to call us and let us know they need it.
If people arent sure what they qualify for or where they should turn for help, they can always call Public Health Nursing.
Another program run by the state, Public Health is for everyone in Sullivan County. There are services for the poor and the rich, the insured and those who havent been to a doctor in a decade.
If you have a problem and you dont know who to call, you can call Public Health, said Liz Bradfield, program coordinator for the agency. Well direct you to the right agency.
The people at PRASAD are ready to answer any question people have about dental care as well, as long as it means getting one more kid in that chair and saving them from a life of mouth disease and cavities.
They do exams, fillings, extractions, crowns everything a child could need. The only requirement?
They need not to have a dentist or dental insurance, said Office Manager Jean Miller.
Right now, PRASAD is in the schools getting to kids who need dental care. Theyre also open once a week at the main office in Hurleyville.
By the fall, they hope to have a sliding fee scale based on income for parents to bring their kids in for a check-up.
Saturday they were a lifesaver for Cynthia Ellies.
The Monticello mom has Medicaid but no dental insurance. She wanted all three of her children to get a check-up, so she stopped by the mini-health fair at Wal-Mart.
I think its great, she said. It helps people who dont have the funds or insurance.
Ellies got some tips from Mastrogiovanni, and shell be able to look at signing up for one of the Hudson Health programs to help provide her family with options that Medicaid doesnt cover.
In honor of Cover the Uninsured Week, May 10-16, the agencies that showed up in Monticello Saturday will be increasing attempts to get the word out this month.
A forum has been set on the issues, with the Sullivan County legislators invited, for May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Neighborhood Facility in Monticello.
Uninsured folks who want more information on the programs listed should call Public Health Nursing at 292-0100, Hudson Health Plan at 796-3039, Hudson River Health at 794-5596 or PRASAD at 434-0376.
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If you've ever moved abroad or have relatives who have migrated to America, chances are the memories from those first few days after arrival are crystal clear, from finding a place to live, a job โ just navigating life as a newcomer.
Here's what Samip Mallick found when he asked his parents, from India, about their arrival to Chicago.
"My mother talks about coming and what was really fascinating for her were escalators," Mallick said. "She'd never seen an escalator before. So, for her, stairs that move for you, when you don't actually have to walk up the stairs, which was really fascinating. For my parents that was 40 years ago."
Mallick, who heads up the Philadelphia-based South Asian American Digital Archive, is collecting stories like these โ micro-histories โ through the archive's First Days Project. He acknowledges this isn't an Ellis Island-style moment in history, but the South Asian community in the United States is growing fast and he wants to document this particular flood of immigrants.
"So, those who trace their heritage to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Anyone who has emigrated to the United States has a story about their arrival," Mallick said.
To date, Mallick has received about 50 stories, captured on video and over the phone.
Abha Shukla submitted her memories about her first few days at a U.S. high school, after attending a strict, all-girls school in India. She recalled "kids are making out in the hallways. That was a culture shock."
People from congested Indian cities talk about the thrill of zooming down U.S. freeways.
There's also homesickness, says Ali Khataw, from Pakistan.
"You come over and then suddenly it's a different environment and you don't have a single friend. I mean zero, zilch, you're starting with a blank slate. That's the first day. Now, ask me after a month? Oh my God, I was a party animal," Khataw said.
Some arrivals weren't planned for at all. Sadruddin Noorani remembers arriving to San Diego on Dec. 23, 1981. He was 23 years old.
Noorani is from Pakistan and, at the time, was with the Merchant Navy. His ship had anchored off San Diego's shore for an extended stay. Heading onto shore to explore the city was common for the crew. But then one evening, when Noorani and a few fellow sailors returned to the port to head back to his vessel, he discovered that his ship had left.
"My boat was not there," Noorani said. "We did not have any belongings because everything, our passport all the documents and the money, everything was on the boat."
The mishap sent Noorani into an abyss. Remember, this was the early 1980s โ no cell phones, no email. And it was Christmas Eve, so Noorani checked into a hotel.
"I couldn't sleep all night," Noorani said. "I was just flipping on the bed thinking about what's going to happen ... we were going to lose our job, how are we going to get back? We don't have any documents," he said. "I had no interest in living in America at the time. I still had my fiancรฉ back home, my family that I was supporting. I had other plans."
Next, Noorani headed to Chicago, where he could stay with a distant cousin while he figured out his paperwork. In all, the bureaucratic process took more than six months. Meantime, Noorani started getting by in the United States.
"I started doing laymen jobs and going to school," he said. "I got settled and started liking it."
In 1983, he returned to Pakistan, married his fiancรฉ, and returned to Chicago within weeks (his wife followed him in 1984). Noorani, now 55, is something of a big shot in Chicago politics, elected to several local councils and boards โ something he would have considered impossible in his stratified society back home.
You could easily miss American stories like these if nobody was around to collect them.
PRI's The World, inspired by the South Asia Asian American Digital Archive's First Days Project, is looking for your stories about your first days in the United Statesโor those of your parents or grandparents. Share by commenting here, using the hashtag #firstdays on Twitter or Facebook or by recording your story right here by pressing the REC button and speaking into your computer's microphone.
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Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves.
The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancรฉe send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
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While Android could offer real promise in terms of technology and usability โ particularly because it is an open platform โ it is unlikely to single-handedly change the restrictive nature of the mobile industry, said John Poisson, founder of Tiny Pictures, a developer partner of Android.
โCarriers in each market will still control how it gets implemented and on which devices and in which form,โ Poisson said. โAndroid lives and breathes at the pleasure of the operator.โ
Another problem for Android is how to explain what it is to consumers. Unlike the iPhone, which came on the back of Appleโs hugely successful iPod music player, Android is an unknown brand, even though the Google name has plenty of cache.
โPeople forget these things get to customers through the retail channel and marketing,โ said Frank Meehan, the global general manager for handsets and applications for Hong Kong telecommunications conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd
โWe operators struggle with how to market this phone. Thereโs nothing really unique about it and we canโt say itโs a Google phone,โ said Meehan, whose company buys millions of 3G devices year.
How do you then sell an Android phone?
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Clinical Testing for Delayed-Onset Food Sensitivities
Immediate Food Allergy vs. Delayed Food Sensitivities
We live in a world swarming with not only airborne allergens but food allergens. Food and environmental allergens have been implicated in a wide range of medical conditions affecting virtually every part of the body from mildly uncomfortable symptoms such as indigestion and gastritis, to severe illnesses such as celiac disease, arthritis and chronic infection.
A hypersensitive response to food may be the culprit lurking behind a โmysteriousโ set of symptoms which are not readily diagnosable using conventional methods of testing. Testing of food allergens can reveal unsuspected food sensitivities and is one of the ways to uncover foundation causes of illness. Food hypersensitivities can be divided into two major categories: immediate (allergy) and delayed (sensitivity).
Immediate food reaction is a fixed food allergy. The food to which you are allergic will almost always provoke and immune reaction when ingested which makes it easier to identify than a delayed reaction. The body overproduces Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies in an immediate reaction. When immediate food reaction occurs, sufferers may experience symptoms within hours of having ingested the food. Onset of symptoms are rapid and may include tingling of extremities, wheezing, coughing, tightening of the throat, nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and in some cases anaphylaxis can occur.
Symptoms of a delayed food reactions are better known as food sensitivities and can take up to 72 hours to appear. This type of immune response is mediated by the Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody, which is the largest circulation antibody in our immune system and can cross the placenta. IgG antibodies are the most common form of immunologic mediated food responses. Identifying the offending food can be difficult since we ingest so many foods that go through different processes and have many ingredients. Unidentified food sensitivities can contribute to multiple chronic health conditions including: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Headaches, Migraines, ADD/ADHD, Autism, Eczema, Chronic ear infections, Malabsorption, Insomnia and many others.
Elimination of the offending foods can improve many health problems and lead to a better quality of life. A simple blood test is utilized to identify specific food allergies. The IgE or immediate food allergy test is the conventional test ordered by allopathic physicians but the IgG or delayed food sensitivities test is not. If you would like to make an appointment to pinpoint your IgG or delayed food sensitivities and learn about a rotation diet and nutritional treatment plans for food allergies, please call our office at (704) 333-0550 for an appointment.
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2013 has been touted by Gartner as the year when mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
When you think about it, itโs logical, because not all people can afford a computer, but most can a old-school mobile phone or a smartphone.
This shift has not passed unnoticed by scammers, some of which have specialized in targeting mobile device users and are constantly coming up with new ways to trick them.
The danger of picking up mobile malware and spyware posing as a legitimate application on official and unofficial app markets is, of course, always there, but so is that of scams that arrive via SMS.
Mimicking the bogus emails supposedly coming from your bank, an online service or social network you use, or even a contact of yours, phishing text messages more often than not try to create a sense of urgency to make you panic and follow the offered link / call the offered phone number without thinking twice about it.
These phishing messages often say that your banking account or card / service account / social network account has been suspended or compromised, and urges you to contact the bank / organization via a given number or to log into your accounts to โverifyโ them via a given link. Needless to say, the person waiting for your phone call is a scammer, and the page where you enter your login credentials is set to send them to the person behind the scam.
Apart from being vigilant and extra careful when receiving messages like these, there is not much else you can do. โA big part in combating this problem can be addressed by the phone carriers themselves and their ability to block such fake messages,โ explains Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura. โThe bad guys often use free web based services to send SMS text messages in which case it should be easier to flag them as suspicious.โ
Bogus messages that make you inadvertently subscribe to a premium rate service or send a premium rate SMS are also a big problem. More often then not, you will believe that youโre doing something like confirming your age or that you are not a bot by following the instructions, but will actually effect some of the things mentioned above. SMS messages that will cost you $10 to send are not unheard of, and the scammers will not alert you to their true nature or the cost.
โAs a rule of thumb, you should only ever text people you know to avoid nasty surprises,โ Segura advises, and Iโm inclined to agree with him.
Finally, another (hopefully?) not too spread way of getting you into trouble via SMS falls more in the category of prank than scam, and is carried out by sending you a message with illegal content such as child pornography (perhaps accompanied with the text โHere is the photo you asked me to sendโ) and then reporting you to the police for possession of it.
While such a โprankโ can also turn into a blackmail attempt, the solution seems easy: delete the message from your phone. On the other hand, the malicious person can report you to the police for another trumped up crime, and send the message while you and your phone are in police custody. (What can I say? Iโm paranoid.)
If, by any chance, you are targeted by such a person, the best thing to do might be to change your phone number, not register it and give it out only to few of your most trusted people with the instruction not to share it with anyone else or put the information on the Internet โ an hope that something like this doesnโt happen again.
All in all, despite the carriersโ best attempts to block scammy SMS messages, the best thing you can do to prevent falling for any of these scams is to look with a critical eye upon any message you receive. If the message is unsolicited, and the sender unknown, think twice about doing what it says.
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The Get Better Sleep IQ Matrix presents a step-by-step checklist you can use to help improve your sleeping patterns. The mind map provides numerous guidelines on how to improve your sleeping environment, how to cultivate a sleeperโs mindset, the various herbal therapies you can use to improve sleep, the habits to develop before bedtime, nutritional guidelines, and more.
Here is a quick break down of each branch of the Get Better Sleep IQ Matrix:
- Bedroom: Presents tips and guidelines to help you improve your sleeping environment for a better nights sleep.
- Mindset: Cultivate this sleepers mindset and you will sleep more soundly and effectively throughout the night.
- Therapy: Outlines the herbal, medical and natural therapies that will help you get a more restful nights sleep.
- Actions: Explores the ritualistic habits and actions you can take throughout your day, before bed and in bed to improve your sleeping patterns.
- Nutrition: Some effective nutrition tips to help you sleep more soundly throughout the night.
- What to Avoid: Lists the things that you must avoid at all costs if you desire to sleep more soundly throughout the night.
Stick with these principles, memorize them and incorporate them into your sleeping regime, and you will progressively improve your sleeping patterns and will finally get a better night rest.
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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1991-Jun-21
Reference Count: N/A
Northeast Texas Agricultural Literacy Network (A-Lit-NeT: A Rural College Partnership Project). Handbook for Customizing Workplace Literacy to Employer Training Needs.
Problems associated with the poor academic and technical preparation of many workers can be addressed through the use of occupational analysis techniques coupled with the development of curricula based on the results of such analyses. This workplace literacy handbook describes five stages in analyzing business literacy needs and developing relevant curricula. Following a brief introduction, the first section, "Getting Organized," describes the creation of a technical advisory committee (TAC) made up of workplace supervisors, senior-level workers, workplace training directors, a representative from organized labor, and postsecondary instructors, administrators, and career counselors. The next section, "Targeting Industries and Occupations," discusses the collection and analysis of labor market information. Next, "Occupational Analysis" describes the Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) process in which expert workers from a business serve on special panels to assist in identifying job tasks and skills. The fourth section, "Task Analysis (Literacy Audit)," reviews the application of special matrices which list job tasks on the vertical axis, and various mathematical, reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills along the horizontal axis. The final section, "Curriculum Development," discusses the creation and sequencing of course objectives, and the evaluation of student progress. Detailed appendixes provide a sample completed job inventory for poultry production and processing; a sample task analysis matrix; and a sample basic skills taxonomy which reviews and defines the academic skills listed on the task analysis matrix. (PAA)
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Guides, Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Education, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education, Matrices, Occupational Surveys, Rural Areas, School Business Relationship, Skill Development, Task Analysis, Two Year Colleges, Vocational Education, Workplace Literacy
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: Economic Development Administration (DOC), Washington, DC.; National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC.; American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC.; Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville.; Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Northeast Texas Community Coll., Mount Pleasant.
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Tina Hydropower Limited
On January, 31, 2020, The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has issued guarantees that will support the development, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Tina River Hydropower Development Project in the Solomon Islands.
The guarantees, issued to Korea Water Resources Corporation (โK-Waterโ) and Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. (โHECโ) and amounting to US$14.094 million, cover 90 percent of the equity investments and future earnings in the Project for up to 20 years through Tina Hydropower Limited. These guarantees provide protections against Expropriation, Breach of Contract, and War & Civil Disturbance.
The US$240.8 million project, financed primarily through concessional loans and grants from DFIs, consists of a 15-megawatt (MW) hydropower plant and associated 72-meter-high roller-compacted-concrete dam located on the Tina River, about 30 kilometers south-east of Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The Tina River Hydropower Development Project is the first utility-scale hydropower project to be developed in the Solomon Islands.
Once operational in about five years from now, all the electricity generated by the Project will be sold to the state-owned power utility, Solomon Islands Electricity Authority, under a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement.
The project is a category A under MIGAโs Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability. Click here to view the Environmental and Social Review Summary for the project.
When operational, the Project is expected to reduce retail electricity tariffs without increasing greenhouse gas emissions. It is also anticipated to create greater access to electricity by driving down the retail electric tariff. The Project will also generate significant economic flows into the country by displacing diesel generation, resulting in a reduction of 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent over the life of the Project.
Communities across the Solomon Islands have uneven access to grid-connected electricity, with 66 percent of residents in Honiara having access, and less than 10 percent in other regions of the country. The Solomon Islands have also experienced a consistently low rate of foreign private investment. MIGAโs private sector guarantees and the Tina River Hydropower Development Project help to build confidence in large-scale investment projects, subsequently encouraging more foreign equity investing the Solomon Islands.
The Project is MIGAโs first transaction in the Solomon Islands.
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316-2 Multiple gas leak detector
Multiple gas leak detector, Model no. [VAC-316-2]
Methane measurement range: 10 ppm to 4.0 Vol. %
Propane measurement range: 10 ppm to 1.9 Vol. %
Hydrogen measurement range: 10 ppm to 4.0 Vol. %
Reaction time: t90 < 2s
Multiple gas leak detector for gas leak tests
Multiple gas leak detector [VAC-316-2] is capable of detecting the concentration of several types of gases which are leaked from a gas pipe. It has a built-in pump for quick testing and is used for testing of gas pipes heated environments.
It comes with an 18 segment bar display to visualize the measurements. It has flexible probes to measure leakage in difficult places. It is powered by an integrated rechargeable battery and has a battery life of 6 hours. It also has audible and visual alarms to alert the user to in case the measurements are out of limits.
1. It Is used to test leakage of gas pipes in heated environments.
2. It is used for fast testing of gas pipelines for leakages.
3. It is used to test for gas leakage in hard to reach places.
4. It is used to detect gas leakages in flanges and fittings.
5. It is used to detect gas leakage in ducts.
1. It has integrated rechargeable batteries.
2. It has audible and visual alarms when gas concentrations go beyond limits.
3. It has a built-in pump for quick reaction times.
4. It has provision to connect earphones for use in loud surroundings.
5. The 18 segment bar display shows information about the leakage visually.
6. It has a flexible gooseneck probe to carry out measurements in hard to reach places.
7. It can detect leakage of methane, propane and hydrogen.
1. It is ideal to store the instrument between -25 ยฐC and +60 ยฐC.
2. It operates in the humidity range of 20 to 80 %RH.
3. It has a heat-up time of 60 s.
4. It is powered by rechargeable NiMH battery.
5. It can measure methane concentration in the range of 10 ppm to 4.0 Vol. % with a lower response threshold of
6. The first and second alarm limits for methane are 200 ppm and 10000 ppm respectively.
7. It can measure propane concentration in the range of 10 ppm to 1.9 Vol.% with a lower response threshold of 10
ppm, 1 st alarm limit of 100 ppm and 2 nd alarm limit od 5000 ppm.
8. It can detect hydrogen from 10 ppm to 4.0 Vol. % with a lower response threshold of 10 ppm, 1 st alarm limit of
200 ppm and 2 nd alarm limit od 10000 ppm.
9. It is operated between -5 ยฐC and +50 ยฐC.
10. Its t90 reaction time is less than 2 s.
11. It has dimensions of 190 mm X 57 mm X 42 mm without sensors.
12. It has an average battery life of 6 hours.
13. It has an 18 segment bar display.
14. It weighs about 348 g.
We supply these multiple gas leak detectors for leakage detection of gas pipes in heated places in the USA, UK,Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and other European countries. Also, we supply these for testing leakage of valves and fittings in the Middle East and other Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Singapore, etc.
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Our Middle East offices supply these multiple gas leak detectors for testing leakage of gas in ducts in the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Libya, Iraq, Erbil, Jordan, etc.
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California lawmakers break for Twain-inspired jumping-frog contest
By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California lawmakers set aside the business of running the most populous U.S. state on Wednesday to gather on the state capitol lawn to see who could coax a frog to hop the farthest in a contest inspired by Mark Twain's gold-rush tale, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
It was a warm, sunny day, so the amphibious athletes were kept in wet burlap bags in the shade for their own good until the contest got under way.
First up was Republican state Senator Tom Berryhill, also the master of ceremonies, whose district includes Calaveras County, where the Twain story was set and where the county fair for years has included a frog jump of its own.
A volunteer removed a squirming green creature with a speckled underbelly from one of the bags and handed it to Berryhill, who called him Watertight, Jr., which he said was the son of the frog he picked out of the bag last year.
The senator got down on his knees and placed the frog on a starting cushion and encouraged it to hop. The successful strategy involved creating a very loud thump by bringing his hands down on either side of the contestant.
The rules allowed for three hops, after which the volunteer dashed over with a measuring tape to establish that Watertight had traveled 5 feet, 1-1/2 inches.
Throughout the lunch hour and a little beyond, politicians and a few interns standing in as "frog jockeys" clapped, thumped and leapt alongside the heroic hoppers.
Jumping up and down to get some movement out of Collective Bargaining, the frog backed by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, intern Brandon Roberts elicited a gasp from the crowd when it looked as if he might land on the frog. Collective Bargaining covered 9 feet, 6 inches. Continued...
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PHILADELPHIA & HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES) today announced the launch of the PA WindPower Campaign, www.pawindpowercampaign.com, a community-based marketing campaign that rewards Pennsylvania communities in the PECO territory when WGES PA WindPower is purchased. WGES PA WindPower is a new electricity product offered by WGES that is sourced exclusively from Pennsylvania wind.
โWGES PA WindPower is the latest addition to our portfolio of innovative green productsโ
The PA WindPower Campaign will invite 25 pre-selected municipalities to compete for ten 1kW micro-wind turbines. Other municipalities will be offered up to $2,500 in financial incentives. Each municipality that accepts the Campaign challenge and achieves defined program milestones will be recognized as a Pennsylvania WindPower Community. Participating commercial customers who purchase WGES PA WindPower will also have the opportunity to receive financial incentives or help their municipality earn rewards.
To manage the PA WindPower Campaign, WGES has contracted with SmartPower, an organization with a successful track record of promoting clean energy and energy efficiency.
โWGES PA WindPower is the latest addition to our portfolio of innovative green products,โ said Harry Warren, President, Washington Gas Energy Services. โCustomers who choose WGES PA WindPower will improve local air quality while supporting the Pennsylvania economy.โ
The goal of the PA WindPower Campaign is to attract 5,000 Pennsylvania residents, small businesses, municipalities as well as other organizations to sign up for WGES PA WindPower.
When the PA WindPower Campaign reaches its customer goal, it will be the equivalent of:
- Removing 7,000 cars from Pennsylvania roads for one year; or
- Saving 4,000,000 gallons of gasoline; or
- Planting 84,000 trees; or
- Removing nearly 38,000 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
โThe challenge is on,โ said SmartPower President Brian F. Keane. โWeโve seen Pennsylvania lead on clean energy over the past decade. With the launch of the PA WindPower Campaign, we predict that Pennsylvania will continue to lead the country to a clean energy future. Time to sign up now!โ
About Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc.
Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. is one of the largest competitive providers of electricity and natural gas in the mid-Atlantic region and supplies more than 350,000 customers in Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) named WGES the Green Power Supplier of the Year in the non-utility category. Headquartered in Herndon, Va., Washington Gas Energy Services is an affiliate of Washington Gas and a subsidiary of WGL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:WGL). www.wges.com or www.pawindpowercampaign.com.
Overview โ PA WindPower Campaign
Become a PA WindPower Community
The PA WindPower Campaign will help residents, municipalities, civic organizations and other commercial customers realize their mission of cleaner air, carbon reduction and a healthier environment by using power sourced exclusively from Pennsylvania wind.
To qualify as a PA WindPower Community, municipalities will:
- Sign a municipal resolution partnering with the PA WindPower Campaign
- Purchase WGES PA WindPower for at least 50% of their municipal electricity use
- Sign up 5% of the households or 5% of the small businesses in their municipality to purchase 100% WGES PA WindPower
Sign up 10% of the households or 10% of the small businesses in their municipality to purchase 50% WGES PA WindPower
Sign up a combination of 5% and 10% purchases with 100% WGES PA WindPower and 50% WGES PA WindPower
Rules for Participation
- The Pennsylvania WindPower Campaign is from November 30, 2012 to November 29, 2013.
- All purchase contracts must be signed prior to November 29, 2013. Contracts signed after November 29, 2013 will not qualify for the financial rewards or micro-wind turbine (โthe incentivesโ). Customers must be enrolled with WGES PA WindPower for 90 days in order to qualify for and receive the incentives.
- Participating municipalities will be notified by the Campaign when they earn the 1kW micro-wind turbine.
- Installation of the 1kW micro-wind turbine will be paid for by the Campaign.
Each PA WindPower Community will receive a municipal plaque in recognition of their leadership. They will also be eligible for one of two incentives outlined below.
When a municipality, business, non-profit organization or school purchases at least 50% WGES PA WindPower for their electricity use and becomes a partner with the PA WindPower Campaign, each will become eligible for financial rewards of up to $2,500, including:
- $2.50 per customer purchasing the 50% WGES PA WindPower Product
- $5.00 per customer purchasing the 100% WGES PA WindPower Product
Earn a Micro-Wind Turbine
The PA WindPower Campaign will award 1 kW micro-wind turbines to up to ten leading municipalities who become PA WindPower Communities.
The Campaign will invite 25 select municipalities to join the PA WindPower Campaign and earn the chance to win a FREE 1kW micro-wind turbine for their community. Of these communities, the first ten to reach their municipal and customer milestones will receive a 1kW micro wind turbine. The other 15 municipalities will be eligible for the financial rewards described above.
- All municipalities that meet the minimum wind purchase requirements will be recognized as a PA WindPower Community demonstrating their leadership with wind power.
- Once a municipality meets its campaign milestone to qualify for the micro-wind turbine, it will then participate to earn financial rewards.
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Hong, Q.; Zhao, K. H.; Scheer, Hugo
TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN PHYCOERYTHROCYANIN ฮฑ-SUBUNIT.
In: Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 58, Nr. 5: S. 745-747
The photochemical activities of phycoerythrocyanin ฮฑ-subunits from Mastigocladus laminosus separated by isoelectric focusing were tested by irradiating at 500, 550, 577 and 600 nm. Two types of photoreversible photochromic responses have been characterized by absorption and absorption difference spectroscopy. Type I is the well-known absorption shift from 571 to 506 nm. Type II is a new response characterized by a line-broadening of the 570 nm absorption.
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The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the author argues for a genuine democracy beyond the limitations of the free market and the global corporation. Digital arts are identified as having a vital part to play in this process. Written in a balanced and penetrating style, the book both conveniently summarizes a huge literature and sets a new agenda for research and theory.
Chapter 3: Spatial Effects
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific โ and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise
The Trouble with Hubble
It swings across the globe about 380 miles up, clear of the pollution and turbulence of the atmosphere, sensitive to the minutest fractions of light from objects billions of years and trillions of miles away. With instruments of unprecedented resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to capture and analyse light that has travelled 12 billion light years. The craft can hold itself steady for 24 hours at a time, locked on to the tiniest suggestion of light ...
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Celeriac looks like a large, misshapen turnip root but tastes strongly of celery. It is actually a swollen stem that grows above ground. Although it is not as popular in the UK as it is central Europe but it can be found during the winter months. It is used in a similar way to celery. It makes a flavorsome addition to soups and stews and also can be eaten raw in salads.
To prepare celeriac, which is often very knobbly, cut it into thick slices then peel each slice. Stack the slices and cut them into strips then dice. If you are using plenty of celeriac that means use less salt in your recipes. If lemon juice is added to the water it remains white when boiled.
About 8 days in the vegetable compartments of the refrigerator.
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Long-serving Jerusalem mayor Kollek dies at 95
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; 9:00 AM
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Jerusalem mayor Theodor "Teddy" Kollek, a tireless preacher of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence in a holy city of deep religious and nationalist divisions, died on Tuesday aged 95.
"Teddy was Jerusalem and Jerusalem was Teddy," the current mayor, Uri Lupolianski, said after his office reported the death of one of Israel's most famous political figures.
Kollek became mayor of Jewish West Jerusalem in 1965, two years before Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in a Middle East war. He was re-elected five times, serving 28 years, before losing in 1993 to Ehud Olmert, now Israel's prime minister.
"Kollek's name and the glory of Jerusalem will forever remain inseparable," Olmert said in a statement mourning his former political foe, who will be buried on Thursday in a section reserved for Israel's leaders in the city's Mount Herzl cemetery.
Kollek, born in Nagyvazsony in what is now Hungary, and raised in Vienna, launched more ambitious building and restoration projects in Jerusalem than any city father since 16th century Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who built the Old City walls.
Instantly recognizable in his suit and open-necked shirt, Kollek would set out on morning "inspection" walks through Jerusalem's diverse neighborhoods. He publicly listed his home telephone number, saying the mayor should be available to all.
"We proved that Jerusalem is a better city united than divided," Kollek once said in an interview.
Israel annexed East Jerusalem shortly after the 1967 war in a move not recognized internationally. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and have largely boycotted Israeli mayoral elections in the city.
"(Kollek) was a respectable Israeli figure," said Khatem Abdel-Qader, a prominent Palestinian resident of Jerusalem and a leader in President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
"But while it's true Kollek sought coexistence ... he did not believe for a single moment that Palestinians in the city have political rights -- only social rights," Abdel-Qader said.
Through decades of conflict, Kollek advocated religious freedom for all faiths in Jerusalem, while insisting the city Israel regards as its "eternal and indivisible capital" remain under the overall control of the Jewish state.
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Hello and welcome back to The Livinโ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
Today Jimmy shares his conversation with dentist Kevin Boehm, DDS. Dr. Boehm specializes in holistic dentistry, or how the mouth and the rest of the body influence the health of each other. Listen in for facts such as arterial plaque has been found to largely consist of fossilized cells of mouth bacteria, the influence that nutrition-based dentist Weston A. Price had on this subject, the importance of Co-Q-10, and much more!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 364
โ Dr. Kevin Boehm bio
โ Wheaton Family Dentistry
โ โYour Heart Health And Gum Diseaseโ by Dr. Kevin Boehm
โ Find research on gum disease/heart health at American Academy of Periodontology (AAP)
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Al Denyer came here from England, a place celebrated for its paradigmatic topography: hills and dales, lakes and rivers, cliffs and footpaths. Since she departed that small country โ physically for the expanses of Utah and cognitively for even larger landscapes, like the Amazon rain forest โ her art has paid attention to the convoluted relief of drainage networks and erosion patterns. Then she turned to what she calls Borders and Boundaries, though the pandemic interrupted those pursuits. Her early graphite drawings required endless hours spent meticulously transforming elaborate, leaf-like patterns. More recently, acrylic paintings like โTerrain Lawnโ and โStratify 1,โ both of which are on exhibit at Modern Westโs group exhibit Earth, find fulfillment in rhythmically tracing the relief patterns of more deceptively stable landscapes: ones that record the history of endless sedimentation, deposition, upheaval, and cutting away of the lively parts of the only planetary home we have.
Another Utah immigrant, Lenka Konopasek, has built a career on making durable cerebral impressions from paper, a material otherwise thought synonymous with โephemeral.โ Since moving here from Bohemia, a kingdom renowned for the caliber of its arts and crafts schools, Konopasek has inverted the typical trajectory of art by moving from bronze sculpture to oil paintings of fires, storms, and other disasters striking manmade structures, only to focus on lyrical constructions made, in large part, of raw black paper. โSwarm,โ her contribution to Earth, becomes its centerpiece as much by its centripetal power as by virtue of its occupation of the galleryโs main wall. Essentially an all-but-flat bas relief, it consists of some hundreds of crescent shapes, inspired by inverting the spectral lights that form around shadows modified by the sunโs shape during a solar eclipse, graduated in size and arranged to suggest birds in complex flight formation. In places, they produce illusions of clouds or tunnels deep into space. Konopasek seems to know what Jackson Pollock only guessed at: that a flat pattern seen by the eye will generate a third dimension in the mind. Her always superb compositions demonstrate their versatility as they endlessly flip back and forth, in the manner of a gestalt test, between two- and three-dimensions, giving them an irresistible sense of movement and life.
A different kind of immigration is shown by Colour Maisch, who though born and raised until her adolescence in Salt Lake, was then taken away with her family to Southern California, only to return in time for college. Her immigration took the form of her discovery of art at the age of 27, when she was already fully prepared for another lifeโs pursuit. Uprooting young persons during the crucial socializing years spanned by high school is now discouraged, and Maisch admits it was difficult to overcome. It may also have something uncertain to do with her approach to media, which she gives an entirely new and personal dimension to mixing. A series of collages, each called โDetritus Harvest,โ offer a neatly contained presentation of an aesthetic instinct she first demonstrated at a Nox Gallery show where they sprawled over the floorspace in equal parts found and created matter. Many assemblages contain precious, or at least recognizable parts; these appear to be comprised entirely of refuse, but harvested by her eye and its feel for textures and subsequent juxtaposition. Another series, Grass, consists of intricately formed porcelain, stained with ink and redolent of biological sources. More than anything, they recall Asian landscape-stone traditions like gongshi and suiseki, wherein tabletop tableaux become objects of contemplation and meditation.
There are twenty artists in Earth, which was inspired in part by an exhibition, called This Earth, planned for the Southern Utah Museum of Art. None of the works included here offers a 1-to-1 connection to its subject matter in the natural world. For instance, in Woody Shepherdโs โThe Lightning Tree Over Twin Lakesโ and โJardine Hollow,โ which might pass for realistic paintings, the outlines are simplified and the colors punched up until they take over, resulting in an almost hallucinatory visual experience. Shonto Begay, in โSheep Camp Circa 1960s,โ channels Vincent van Gogh into a birdโs- (or Godโs-) eye view of a land that plays a far more vital part in the life of those who dwell on it than asphalt streets and watered lawns can ever do in more familiar places. In Phil Eppโs โBuilding Stormโ the air pressure of a desert thunderstorm becomes visible.
Two contrasting presentations of downed trees are shown by Kiki Gaffney and Nina Elder. In โFallen Trees,โ Gaffney augments graphite drawing with gold leaf and vinyl paint to further defamiliarize foreground objects removed from their contexts. Elder, aware of the arboreal family ties between trees, wood pulp, paper, and charcoal, has reunited them in โRot Pile.โ Itโs arguable that such choices โmeanโ more than they โshow,โ but the differences between media, such as between graphite and charcoal, are clearly visible, and itโs not impossible that what the artist knows she is drawing with alters her results in some real, if subtle way. A possible analog can be seen in Rebecca Campbellโs โBolt 2โ and โBold 3,โ visually dazzling exercises in pure paint that mean to capture the explosive character and spectacular energy of lightning, compared to centuries of dull, traditional, literal images that attempt to freeze the action and end up killing the thrill.
Another transformation that once again demonstrates the power of art, of what the viewer knows, to metamorphose completely, can be found in the bronze tree trunks of Day Christensen, which replicate the surface features of the original boles so perfectly that it becomes impossible to prove to the senses that theyโre not real trees moved indoors. But trees cannot be domesticated, and the more closely they resemble the originals, the greater the cognitive dissonance becomes. This makes for a compelling emotional experience. Christensen is a popular public artist, and the way these copies, presumable cast from actual trees, surpass how a conventional artist might sculpt them from the imagination has much to say about where art is today. To bring trees indoors is impractical, but to bring the idea of them inside, with our individual, personal memories, shows that craft can recall but not replace them. The representation of Earth in the gallery sends us back to nature: threatened, precious, and utterly irreplaceable.
Earth, a group exhibit featuring work by 20 artists, Modern West, Salt Lake City, through Sep. 30.
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What does the tooth fairy do when a little boy sets a trap for her? Read on!
The tooth fairy peeked around the doorway, tip toeing into the little boyโs room, being careful not to make a sound, but when she made it to the bed, not only was there no toothโฆ there was no little boy!
Hmmm. She scratched her head and checked her notes. Yes, there was definitely a tooth lost in this house today. She tip-toed into the next room, and found the youngest little boy sleeping soundly. Nope, he was too young to lose a tooth.
Across the hallway, the sounds of snoring rattled behind a closed door. The tooth fairy carefully grasped the door handle and gently turned it, cringing as the door made a big โpopโ sound. She held her breath, and closed her eyes, not that closing her eyes would keep a little boy from seeing her, but it settled her nerves.
The snoring continued. She tip toed in the room, smiling over the bed of the oldest child. No, he hadnโt lost a tooth either. A small rustle from the other side of room caught the tooth fairyโs attention. She crept around the bed and put her hands on her hips.
Aha! A little boy with a missing tooth!
The middle boy lay wedged in the two-foot space between the bed and the dresser. He slept soundly on a thick fluffy pillow, covered with a full Spiderman comforter. She could feel the tug of the prize tooth nestled below his sweet little head, but how would she get to the pillow?
The tooth fairy scratched her head, wishing she hadnโt left her wings at home. Is she had them, she could fly over the little boy to his pillow, and steal his tooth. But alas, wingless, she needed to find a way to thwart this little boyโs plan to catch her in the act, and still run away with that prized tooth.
She took in a deep breath, and balanced one hand on the bed, and the other on the dresser. Concentrating hard, she slipped her foot along the side of the frame, just beside the little boy.
OOPS! She jumped as she stepped on something hard. The little boyโs arm was under the comforter! Frozen, one hand supporting her on either side, and one foot hovering in the air, the tooth fairy watched as the little boy groaned, and rolled over.
Oh No! When he turned over, he bend his left his knee and pointed it in the airโฆ just a few inches beneath her leg!
Balancing on one foot, she remained silent, waiting for his breathing to relax. Certain heโd fallen back into a blissful slumber; she allowed her foot to touch the ground in the few blessed inches of open carpet beside his shoulder. Using her fairy agility, she jumped over him, and crouched in the few inches of clear space by his pillowโฆ a full grown fairyโฆ in a six by twelve box. Well, sheโd had worse challenges.
Her heart pumped madly, dreaming of the prized tooth she would find beneath his pillow. She slipped her hand under, only to find a long wire. A wire? The cable stretched from under the pillow to a nearby chair filled with toys. Yup. A booby trapโฆ set up in the only possible place she would be able to slip her hand in.
Not to be thwarted, the tooth fairy contorted her body, twisting and mashing her large form in the little space provided, and slipped her other hand (upside down) beneath the pillow. Tapping and feeling, being careful of the wire โฆ she struck gold. But was it gold? No! It was not the prized toothโฆ but a Nintento DS carefully hidden underneath his pillow.
Hmmmm, the tooth fairy thought. She would have to leave a note for his mother letting her know heโd been playing games when she thought he was sleeping.
Having come too far to give up without her prize, the tooth fairy dug her fingers around the rest of the carpeting. A marble, a toy soldierโฆ Where was the stinking tooth!
Her hand touched plastic, and the wonderful sound of a Ziploc bag crinkling excited her ears. She slipped the bag out from beneath the pillowcase. The prize tooth! Slipping her free hand under the pillow, the tooth fairy deposited the required fistful of jingly coins and stood. Prize in hand.
But she could not yet celebrate her victory! Her eyes adjusted to the light, the moon revealing the true intricacy of the booby trap. How she hadnโt tripped it was a blessing in itself. The older boy turned in his bed, covering the one point on his mattress that sheโd used to support herself.
Dangit for forgetting my stinking wings!
She gritted her teeth, and placed one toe on the pillow, shifting the fabric beside the childโs head. With a huge leap, she used her magical fairy powers to sail over the comforter and the booby traps, and landed solidly on the carpet at the edge of the bed.
THOMP. The flooring shook beneath her mass.
A cricket chirped outside.
Both children reacted to the noise by turning in their sleep.
The tooth fairy waited, ever so patiently until theyโd stopped moving. Whew! They remained asleep. Two steps took her from the room, and a now trembling hand eased the door shut.
The tooth fairy rubbed her temple, and smiled at her prize tooth.
I donโt get paid enough for this.
Writing time: 24 minutes. Fresh in my mind since it was last night. J
Yeah, I know thereโs show verses tell and all. Itโs speed storytelling, remember? Give a girl a break.
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written the 31/10/2019
The Congress adopted a report on the use of languages by local and regional authorities on 31 October 2019 in Strasbourg, France, during its 37th Session.
โAs the diversity of Europeโs towns and regions grows, local and regional authorities face more and more language issues, especially when it comes to ensuring access to public services to citizensโ, stated rapporteur Andrew Dawson (United Kingdom, ECR). โWhen local or regional authorities are working on integration, social inclusion and citizen participation issues, it is not always useful to make a distinction between traditional minority languages and migrant languagesโ, he added.
The rapporteur stressed the need to take into account, as far as is reasonably possible, all linguistic diversity, in terms of minority languages, as defined by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, as well as languages spoken by citizens with a migration background. In fact, the Charter does not consider the current demographic profile of the citizens of a given territory, as it only applies to languages which have been present for over a hundred years.
The Congress invites the Council of Europe member States which have not yet done so to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. In addition, local and regional authorities are encouraged to โensure adequate access to public services and democratic bodies to all linguistic minoritiesโ through appropriate measures such as assessing citizensโ language needs, providing language training and interpretation services and recruiting officials competent at the linguistic level.
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How the intestines affect the whole body?
Trillions of bacteria live in the intestines, which interact with all the organs of the body. In recent years, scientists have realized what effect the intestines have on our well-being. It turns out that the digestive system is responsible for the health of many organs โ from the skin to the kidneys. And it looks like it's all about bacteria.
1. The intestines can ruin the skin
Rash, dryness, peeling affect the skin and spoil the appearance. But at the same time, they indicate problems with the digestive system. Like many other organs, the skin can respond to intestinal problems, and a rash โ the most common reaction.
The fact is that eczema, redness and a rash โ it is an immune response to what is in our gut. Most often, certain foods trigger such an allergic response. It is enough to exclude them from the diet so that the rash goes away.
But on acne, contrary to popular belief, the diet has almost no effect.
2. Intestine affects brain function
The brain seems to be independent of the intestines. But actually, these bodies interact.
- Intestinal cells produce the hormone serotonin, which affects many processes, and is best known as mood hormone.
- The intestinal microflora is involved in the production of cytokines โ these are proteins of the immune system that affect, among other things, the brain.
- Microbes in the intestines produce substances that affect the blood-brain barrier. Roughly speaking, this is a filter between the brain and the circulatory system that protects the brain from all the harmful things in the blood.
Research is underway on how gut microbes affect the nervous system. This is a complex process that has not yet been fully studied, but it is already clearly clear: for the head to be clear, you need a healthy intestine. While scientists are looking for how to use this connection with health benefits, we can think about ourselves and still start eating fresh vegetable salads every day so that the intestines work better.
3. The intestines affect immunity
A huge amount of proteins and pathogens alien to us enters the intestines every day with food. โ substances that can cause disease. Therefore, the intestine has adapted to neutralize these very substances as quickly as possible. This microflora lives in it.
A poorly functioning intestine can lead to asthma, migraines, allergies, and even autoimmune diseases (these are diseases in which cells of the immune system attack their own body).
4. Intestine affects the kidneys
The kidneys and large intestine help regulate the water-salt balance in the body. The kidneys also cleanse the body of water-soluble toxins that could enter the bloodstream from the intestines or as a result of the vital activity of bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract.
Therefore, if the intestinal mucosa is damaged, it can harm the kidneys. This happens, for example, after taking certain antibiotics, due to diseases like irritable bowel syndrome. When the mucous membrane does not work well, the amount of harmful substances that enter the bloodstream from the intestines grows, which means that the immune response is enhanced. All this leads to a systemic inflammatory process that affects the kidneys, including the development of chronic renal failure.
5. Intestine affects liver health
Like the kidneys, the liver is responsible for cleansing the body. Everything that enters the bloodstream from the intestines will end up in the liver.
All substances, including hormones, toxins, medications and decay products, pass through the liver to enter the intestines along with bile, from where it is easier to remove. Changes in the normal functioning of the intestine and in the integrity of the intestinal membrane can lead to chronic liver diseases and even a change in its structure, for example, fibrosis, in which normal organ tissue is replaced by inactive connective tissue.
6. Our weight depends on the intestines
It is clear that weight depends on what we eat. But also from bacteria in the intestines, perhaps, too. So that we can gain weight, we need more nutrients. The intestines share food for these substances. Depending on which bacteria there are more in it, it can process more or less food eaten. Therefore, you need to feed not only yourself but also bacteria.
How to help your intestines
The beneficial bacteria discussed above, โ these are probiotics. They live in our intestines by themselves in sufficient quantities. But for them to work well, they need ยซfeedยป. A breeding ground for these bacteria โ prebiotics, products with plant fibers, thanks to which the microbiome remains healthy.
To get both that and another, it is not necessary to attack pharmacy preparations. You need to adjust your diet according to very simple principles:
- Eat more fresh vegetables.
- Snack with natural yogurt and kefir.
- Love fermented snacks: sauerkraut or kimchi.
- And all this โ instead of sugar and refined carbohydrates, such as, for example, in wheat bread.
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Each day brings the potential to encounter stress. For people with atrial fibrillation, or Afib, the most common type of heart arrhythmia, this stress may not only be psychologically taxing, it can also worsen the condition. "Although living a more a stress-free life won't eliminate atrial fibrillation, it may help cut down on the frequency of episodes," explains David Wilber, MD, chair of the department of cardiology, medical director of clinical electrophysiology, and director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. "Although you can't design your life to completely avoid stress, you can control how well you manage it." In addition to following your doctor's advice and taking prescribed medication, here are some suggestions that can help make managing stress and atrial fibrillation easier.
"People called 'hot responders' experience a surge of adrenaline, sweat, and heart palpitations with every life stressor," Dr. Wilber says. One of the easiest ways to cool down this response and help minimize atrial fibrillation symptoms is to turn negative thoughts into positive thoughts. For example, try turning thoughts like "I can't do this," or "I hate when this happens," or "this is just my luck" into positive ones like "It could be worse," or "I can tackle this if I take it one step at a time," or "every problem has a solution." Positive thinking can help reduce stress and head off symptoms of atrial fibrillation.
Exercise is not only good for general heart health, but it's also good for coping with stress. "People with atrial fibrillation should engage in some kind of mild to moderate exercise, such as brisk walking, swimming, or biking, for 30 to 60 minutes most days of the week," says John P. Higgins, MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Texas Medical School, director of exercise physiology at the Memorial Hermann Ironman Sports Medicine Institute, and chief of cardiology at Harris Health System Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston. But be aware that extreme exercise can worsen atrial fibrillation symptoms, although this usually only occurs in athletes who exercise intensely for many hours a week, Dr. Higgins says. Before you start an exercise program, talk with your doctor about any risks you may have or special precautions you should take.
"Sleep deprivation is stressful โ it increases the stress hormone cortisol and prevents you from getting the proper amount of the sleep hormone melatonin, which is important for regulating your sympathetic nervous system and coping with stress," Higgins says. "And if you haven't slept well, you're also more likely to reach for a cup of caffeinated coffee or an energy drink โ proven stimulants for atrial fibrillation," he adds. Aim for seven to nine hours of sleep every night to help keep stress at bay.
"Deep breathing helps reduce adrenaline and other chemicals and hormones that compose the stress response," Wilber says. The American Heart Association recommends practicing deep-breathing exercises at least once a day for managing stress and atrial fibrillation. Here's how: Sit in a comfortable position with your feet on the floor and your hands in your lap, or lie down. Close your eyes. Picture yourself in a peaceful place, such as on the beach. Inhale and exhale slowly and deeply. Continue for 10 minutes or longer.
Feed It Back
Biofeedback helps people gain control over bodily functions, such as the fast heart rate associated with atrial fibrillation, using special monitoring devices. "Biofeedback can help some people achieve a calm response to stress," Wilber says. "Most people can learn these techniques in a few short sessions." Talk to your doctor about using biofeedback to help control stress with atrial fibrillation.
No one knows how stress affects atrial fibrillation symptoms and the other nuances of this condition better than those who live with it. "Atrial fibrillation support groups can offer advice you can't find in textbooks," Higgins says. Having people to talk to who are going through the same things can help reduce the stress involved with having a chronic condition like atrial fibrillation. To find a support group in your area, search online or ask your doctor.
Avoid Bad Ways of Coping With Stress
The first thing some people crave in stressful situations is a drink or a cigarette โ or both. But these are unhealthy and ineffective ways of coping with stress that can actually worsen atrial fibrillation. Nicotine is a stimulant that can trigger the condition, and severe atrial fibrillation symptoms can occur after an episode of binge drinking.
Try structured relaxation techniques, such as sequential body relaxation, where you lie down and contract large muscle groups one at a time. "Relaxation techniques not only help to reduce blood pressure, but help to calm your sympathetic nervous system and lower your resting heart rate and blood pressure," Higgins says. Other forms of stress-relieving relaxation that can make coping with stress and atrial fibrillation easier include yoga, tai chi, and meditation.
Try Something Fun and New
Exploring a new activity is not only good for your physical fitness, it's also empowering, which is good for mental well-being and helps relieve stress. "For example, some people with atrial fibrillation find water aerobics comfortable โ they can do an hour-long session, whereas with other aerobic exercise, they might run out of energy," Higgins says.
Many people find sexual intercourse to be stress relieving. If you're one of them, go for it. Sex poses no increased risk to people with atrial fibrillation, Higgins says. "People often ask me about the risk of having sex with atrial fibrillation, and I tell them to carry on as usual. You're at no increased risk of a heart attack during sex than someone without the condition," he says.
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Companies with complementary strengths sometimes unite for a single, large project. For example, a paving contractor might join forces with an infrastructure design firm to issue a joint bid for a government contract to renovate a deteriorating airport. Such temporary associations rely on teaming agreements, which define the terms of the relationship.
A teaming agreement might be as simple as a letter of intent that indicates separate business entities are willing to work together or as complex as many pages of binding legal documents that outline every last detail of the prospective relationship, according to the book โDesign Professional and Construction Manager Law.โ In either case, consult a law firm experienced in designing teaming agreements to ensure that your business doesn't become trapped in an unprofitable relationship.
The potential for antitrust issues is another compelling reason for working closely with a law firm. For example, if either company could complete the project alone, accusations of anti-competitive behavior might arise, according to โAntitrust Compliance Manuals: A Compendium of State-of-the Art Manuals for Today's Corporations,โ published by the American Bar Association. A law firm can help you navigate the complexities of antitrust law to ensure that the joint effort is legal.
Statement of Purpose
A key part of the teaming agreement is the statement of purpose, which should clearly outline the overall goals of the project and the roles of the companies. Simple teaming agreements might define the purpose as successful completion of the project, while more complex agreements might divide the project into a consecutive series of steps, each with its own set of criteria for successful completion.
Your lawyer will help construct a teaming agreement that is mutually beneficial. Typical topics that a teaming agreement covers are the apportionment of labor and forthcoming revenues, length of the contract, means of termination, and identification of company personnel who will contribute to the project, according to โUnderstanding Government Contract Source Selection,โ by Margaret G. Rumbaugh.
Another major concern is deciding who owns the fruits of the relationship. For example, proprietary information, copyrights and patents might arise from the joint effort. The teaming agreement must clarify which participants retain which rights after the partnership is defunct.
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Living in a city has its perksโeasy transportation and access to city services. You are also near shops and convenient stores. However, what it lacks is ample living space for people, particularly green spaces. Some cities maintain parks and gardens, such as Central Park in New York City. Some households maintain a garden in their yard. However, because of high real estate prices, most people have very limited space to spare for a garden. Here are some ways to gain extra space in your garden:
Alternative gardening styles
It can be difficult to maintain a garden when there is very limited space. Most residential houses in the city are paved with concrete, with very little space for soil or gravel. However, there are many unlikely spaces in the house that can function as a garden. The driveway can function as a garden by adding an island between two strips of concrete where the wheels can drive on.
Another option is to build a vertical garden on a wall or a standalone garden. You can build a wooden column with moss on its sides to grown herbs and other aerial plants. A vacant wall can be lined with hanging pots planted with small herbs or even orchids. Vines can also be planted next to the wall to create a wall of plants. Lastly, in a city apartment, an unutilized rooftop can be used as small city garden.
Garden implements can be utilized as extra garden space. For example, the roof of a shed can be used as extra space to grow herbs and other plants. Just be sure to use weather protection on the shed to keep the shed safe from the elements.
Patio furniture can be likewise utilized as extra space. A dilapidated chair seat can be replaced with a potted plant, leaving the metal feet for stand. A tray filled with different-sized pots can be placed on certain parts of the house. Herbs used for cooking can be placed inside the kitchen or on the kitchen window, for easy access.
A tray of succulents can be placed on the coffee table as centerpiece. An old wooden frame can be used to grow aerial plants or plants that grow even when without soil. Stacked pots of varying sizes can be placed on the deck. The widest pot can be planted with short green plants that can accommodate a smaller pot in the middle, and yet another smaller pot on top of that.
There are many ways to add extra gardening space without investing in prime real estate. You just need to use the space already available. Utilize vertical space, not just horizontal space. Recycle old items that can be used as makeshift pots. Broken vases, used tires, and old glass pitchers make very interesting garden pots.
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Northeastern University Libraries is pleased to announce that the historical records of Sociedad Latina are open for research.
Sociedad Latina de South Boston was founded in 1968 by Jorge Rivera, David Rideout, John Carroll, and Lynn Minna to promote cultural, social, and recreational activities of the small Latino population in the South Boston neighborhood. Volunteers coordinated baseball, basketball, and volleyball leagues, which were sponsored by local businesses and community residents. In 1981, the organization changed its name to Sociedad Latina and moved to Tremont Street in the Mission Hill neighborhood.
Since its inception, Sociedad Latina has worked with Latino youth to promote self-sufficiency, community leadership, and advancement. The collection documents the efforts of Sociedad Latina to strengthen, educate, and empower youth of all ethnicities living in the Mission Hill, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods of Boston. Records date from 1968โ2007 and document topics such as AIDS awareness and prevention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and domestic violence prevention, pregnancy prevention, peer leader training, and tobacco use and its effects.
The types of material found in this collection include proposals, grants and contracts, correspondence, program descriptions, meeting minutes, and strategic and progress reports.
The Sociedad Latina collection is open for research Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., in the Northeastern University Librariesโ Archives and Special Collections Department, located in 92 Snell Library in Boston, Massachusetts. A guide to the collection is available online at http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m136find.htm.
The collection, which was processed with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, contributes to the University Archives and Special Collection Departmentโs collecting focus on records of private, non-profit, community-based organizations that are concerned with social justice issues.
For a list of the Departmentโs special collections, see: http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/collections/manuscript_collections/.
For more information, please contact Joan Krizack at email@example.com or 617โ373-8318.
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Today sees the East Anglia Transport Museum mark 50 years of opening with a special event to commemorate the occasion. It is also the 50th anniversary of tram operation with a simple service running on that first day back in 1972 although regular trolleybus operation wouldnโt follow until a few years later.
An almost constant over the past 50 years of tramway operation has been Blackpool Standard 159 and, as we saw last week, this tram has recently returned to service after works attention over the winter which included the refitting of its overhauled motors. Its is one of four operational trams currently available to the museum โ the others being Amsterdam 474, Sheffield 513 and London Transport 1858.
Since opening in 1972 the museum has gone from strength to strength and now boasts a tramway into the woods, a trolleybus circuit and the East Suffolk Light Railway. And thatโs not where things will end as recently acquired land adjacent to the current museum site will be developed over the next three years โ and this will include an extended tramway route as well as a new tram depot as well as developments for the trolleybuses and railway.
By the time you probably read this article the 50th anniversary celebration event will be underway and subject to availability it is hoped that three trams will be running. These should be 159, 513 and 1858. In addition there will be trolleybuses, buses and the East Suffolk Light Railway in operation. If youโre in the area and at a loose end why not put down to the museum today (Sunday 29th May) to help the museum celebrate their 50th anniversary.
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โEver since I was a young boy Iโve played the silver ballโฆFrom Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all.โ โ Pete Townshend, The Who
Now that Iโve got โPinball Wizardโ stuck in your head, letโs talk about this classic arcade game. The concept is pretty simple: you use game paddles, or flippers, to manipulate the little metallic balls on the game field inside the glass-covered cabinet, or pinball machine, to score as many points as you can. Itโs so popular that many gaming consoles like the hybrid Nintendo Switch, have their own versions, in case players canโt get themselves to an actual arcadeโdo those even exist anymore?
The Switch can be plugged into a docking system and played on a TV, or used as a mobile gaming device with a touchscreen interface. Naturally, many people have used 3D printing to hack the system, and customize the multi-use JoyCon controllers however they want, which brings us back to pinball. Maker Tommy Williamson is the founder of the Nerds&Makers community, which is exactly what it sounds like โ the members visit the site to โshowcase cool projects, to promote makers, to find inspiration, to teach, to learn and most importantly to connect with other makers and like-minded individuals.โ
Williamson found that playing pinball on the Switch was difficult with the standard JoyCon shoulder buttons, which are decidedly not the typical flipper controls used to play the original game. He did what many a maker has done before, and used 3D printing to create a custom solution. The JoyCon dock he created, which he dubbed the SwitchPin, makes it much easier to play the game. Basically, the controller turns two buttons on the JoyCon into two different buttons for optimal pinballing.
โSometimes two buttons really need to be two other buttons, and in those times we should not let anything get in the way of a creative solution,โ Kotaku writer Mike Fahey wrote about Williamsonโs creation.
The SwitchPin is an ingenious solution. Basically, Williamson modeled two blocks, and fitted them with pinball arcade flipper buttons. Then, he 3D printed the blocks out of black Hatchbox PLA on his Prusa i3 Mk3 3D printer; the buttons were printed in red, and he recommends using the printerโs quality settings due to the tight tolerances of the design. Once the print job was finished, he had to spend some time removing supports from the blocks, and then did a little sanding to, as he wrote on Thingiverse, โtweak things to be just right.โ
He used 3/8โณ x 5/8โณ springs from a Harbor Freight box set to make the flippers work, and assembled the SwitchPin with M3 screws โ no soldering required.
โI recommend drilling and tapping the frames, the center parts use nuts. I used M3 20mm and 25mm,โ Williamson wrote. โTo keep it from sliding around thereโs small wells on the bottom for rubber pads. I used hemispherical ones from this pack.โ
As you can see in the image above, thereโs a slot for a JoyCon controller inside each block, and the controllerโs shoulder buttons line up perfectly with the arcade button actuators. Then, Williamson added enough black plastic in between the two blocks to make the whole thing the length of his TV when on portrait mode. He removed the TV from the wall, set it on a table, placed the 3D printed SwitchPin at the bottom, set the Nintendo Switch to the correct view, and started playing the game the way pinball is meant to be played. Itโs a pretty impressive setup.
You can get the 3D printing files to make your own SwitchPin pinball controller for free on Thingiverse. Take a look at the video below to see Williamsonโs whole building process:
I was curious about what other interesting 3D printable Switch adaptations people have been making, so I searched a few 3D model repositories and found some interesting designs. Mechatronics engineer Julio Vazquez, also known as Vexelius, created these JoyCon adapters that allow disabled gamers to play with just one hand, and also came up with this Accessibility stand โto provide an easy to print and non invasive mod that will help disabled players enjoy a better experience.โ
โThe SL and SR buttons, which are small and difficult to press are now easier to reach, thanks to a couple of extensions; and an optional cross-shaped cover for the buttons will help users that might not have the accuracy to press the small buttons in the Joy-Con,โ Vazquez wrote.
On Cults 3D, I saw this JoyCon Wristband for playing the โJust Danceโ game on the Switch, which has two slot sizes, and I also found two different versions of a Nintendo Switch Joy Con Controller Drink Holder.
(Images courtesy of Nerds&Makers)
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Intranets Help Keep Goodwill of Downsized Employmees
- Cisco, partners push blanket security initiative. McGarvey, Joe // Inter@ctive Week;3/3/97, Vol. 4 Issue 6, p13
Reports on Cisco Systems Inc.'s initiative to provide corporations a framework for securing companywide computer networks in the United States. Reduction of the cost and complexity of intranet computer security; Strategy to support existing technology; Protest from Checkpoint Software Inc.
- Intranet security: The big red idiot button and other myths. Tanner, John C. // Telecom Asia;Jun98, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p62
Discusses several myths about the security issue of the Intranet. Difficulties of implementing network security; Ways to counter security risk; Intranet security used by Cisco Systems.
- A lesson in scaling the web wall. Comaford, Christine // PC Week;9/09/96, Vol. 13 Issue 36, p54
Looks at problems with corporate intranets, focusing on problems at Cisco Systems. Problem of disorganization of the company's Web sites, which causes maintenance troubles; Benefits of the computer software Compendium, from Wallop Software, in solving these problems.
- My Communication: IABC's Newest Member Benefit. // Communication World;Aug/Sep2003, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p6
Beginning in September 2003, IABC members will be able to create and collaborate on communication plans online using a new planning tool, My Communication or "MyComm" for short. MyComm is a web-based communication-planning tool originally developed by Cisco Systems for its corporate intranet....
- Ask Dr. Intranet. Blass, Steve // Network World;09/25/2000, Vol. 17 Issue 39, p89
Offers advice on which files to download from Cisco System Inc.'s Web site. Features of the current intranet; Need to upgrade switches to the version of IOS; Configuration in one place, rather than Hybrid mode.
- Cisco tightens Internet security. Duffy, Jim // Network World;10/27/97, Vol. 14 Issue 43, p33
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- Cisco to cut 4000 jobs in 2014, despite a good growth in FY13. // Express Computer;9/ 1/2013, Vol. 24 Issue 13, p52
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- Number Crunch. // ComputerWorld Hong Kong;Sep2013, p7
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Mooring Buoy Safety
- In adverse conditions, the holding power of the mooring can be increased by lengthening the mooring pennant. This increases the scope of the mooring providing greater holding power.
- A second mooring pennant can be run to the top eye as a safety in case the primary pennant chafes through or fails.
- Shackles should be moused to prevent opening. Electricians plastic tie wraps are an excellent means of securing a shackle.
- Always use chafing gear where mooring lines run through bow chocks or are likely to contact deck hardware. A thimble on the shackled end will prevent chafe at the buoy.
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If you need the money, going back to work or keeping your job makes a lot of sense. But research has also revealed that even retirees of means go back to work. Maybe sheer boredom has them reentering the economy. For some, it will be the 'gig' economy.
Just what is the 'gig' economy? Today, many jobs require folks for a short-term project. Or employment opportunities are offered that allow one to work as many hours as they wish. And for retirees, short truncated work obligations is the perfect solution to not having enough to do.
The 'gig' economy is also looking for folks with skills and experience (usually virtues possessed by retirees). A young company or organization can use the insight and skill-set of an experienced executive or business owner. Nursing skills can find all sorts of opportunities both for pay and for volunteering. A retired truck driver with patience for children can become a part-time bus driver.
The pandemic has challenged our notion of security. Life can become precarious due to a virus likely leaked from a foreign research laboratory. If economic inflation were to become a result, then our nest-egg may need to be adjusted.
If from sheer boredom or from necessity, the 'gig' economy can work well for those of us who want to enjoy a bit of free time.
This article explores a bit deeper how we might take advantage of the 'gig' economy.
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A default feature in Facebookโs mobile app that automatically launches videos in usersโ newsfeeds has been blamed for devouring mobile phone usersโ data and driving up their cellphone bills.
Consumer site MoneySavingExpert.com reported today that it has seen โmany complaintsโ from users who believe a recent increase in data-related charges on their cellphone bills are the result of Facebook's auto-play feature. The default setting for the auto-play feature launches and continues to play videos silently until the user either scrolls past it or clicks on it; if the user does the latter, the video then goes full-screen and activates audio. The silent auto-play occurs regardless of whether users are connected to Wi-Fi, LTE, or 3G.
Although Facebook wouldnโt provide any other information to MoneySavingExpert other than that it began testing the auto-play feature last September, a TechCrunch post suggests that the feature was rolled out to users in December. By March, Facebook had launched the feature for video advertisements, inviting companies to pay for promoted videos that would silently auto-play in usersโ newsfeeds.
One potential cause for a spike in data usage, as the article at MoneySavingExpert.com pointed out, is the recent ice bucket challenge trend, which has led to a deluge of 2.4 million new videos on Facebook since late July, the BBC reported yesterday. Ice bucket challenge videos have generated activity โ from uploading to liking to commenting โ from 28 million users, according to the BBC. That doesn't count the users who have watched the videos without liking, commenting, or uploading their own.
However, some of the complaints at MoneySavingExpert.com claim their cellphone bills explode as early as May, months before the ice bucket challenge had become a trend.
Itโs likely that Facebook isn't entirely to blame for the issue, but rather, with the debut of its auto-play feature, threw gas on an already growing fire of video-sharing services.
Auto-play for video is a default setting on Instagramโs app, although the company refers to it as โpreload." When users open the app, all the videos on their feeds load before they reach them so they can launch once they do. Instagram only introduced video last summer, after the Vine app, a Twitter-backed app that auto-plays and loops six-second videos, started to see significant growth.
In the first half of 2014, Instagram saw a 25% increase in usage, while Vine usage grew by 27%, according to a study released by GlobalWebIndex in May. The mobile app that saw the most growth in usage over that period was Snapchat, which also allows users to send and view videos over 3G and 4G wireless connections; Snapchat usage grew 67% in that period, according to the study.
So while Facebookโs auto-play feature is likely to have a hand in an epidemic of cellphone data overages, itโs just one culprit among many new mobile apps that are embracing video, all of which happen to be popular among teenagers, who aren't likely to know or care about how auto-play video features might affect their parentsโ wallets.
Oh, and if youโre also worried about this, the MoneySavingExpert.com article provides instructions for disabling auto-play on Facebook for both iOS and Android devices. And here are Instagramโs instructions for setting the video preload feature to Wi-Fi-only.
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Warming the World
Humanity is risking the health of the natural environment through a myriad of interventions, including the atmospheric emission of trace gases such as carbon dioxide, the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, the engineering of massive land-use changes, and the destruction of the habitats of many species. It is imperative that we learn to protect our common geophysical and biological resources. Although scientists have studied greenhouse warming for decades, it is only recently that society has begun to consider the economic, political, and institutional aspects of environmental intervention. To do so raises formidable challenges of data modeling, uncertainty, international coordination, and institutional design.Attempts to deal with complex scientific and economic issues have increasingly involved the use of models to help analysts and decision makers understand likely future outcomes as well as the implications of alternative policies. This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. They can help policy makers design better economic and environmental policies.
About the Authors
William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Boyer is an Associate in Research at Yale University.
โRobert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)
โKenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Stanford University, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1972)
โDale W. Jorgenson, Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics, Harvard University
โThomas C. Schelling, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
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My car was in the carpool line awaiting the emergence of my two daughters and two other children from their Jewish day school.
Before the girls came out of the school, one of the schoolโs assistant principals walked up to me with her bright smile and told me to contact a certain teacher, a rabbi in the school, who taught one of my daughters. I asked her why, and she said it was โno big deal,โ and โlet him tell you what itโs all about.โ
When I dropped the children off and took my girls home, I told my daughter about the discussion with the assistant principal. My daughter said she had no idea what was going on.
If you are a parent, you know what this is all about. You canโt move forward in your day until you are reassured that everything is okay. I called the rabbi, and he invited me to his home the next evening.
I showed up at the rabbiโs neat, spotless home. He was one of my daughterโs teachers. His wife taught my other child.
He began by telling me that โseventh grade was an age where girls come to a crossroads in their lives.โ The school and classes like his directed the girls in one direction that he described as being protected like with the walls and ceiling of a โtunnel.โ Those girls who choose the right way, he described as โgiggly girls.โ Not kidding.
The rest of the girls, those who chose another path he described as being โmore worldy.โ
He felt it was his duty and place to warn me that my child was not heading in the โgiggly girlโ direction.
Still in total confusion, I asked finally to get to the point. I was called to his living room, sitting on the plastic slip covers that were beginning to stick to me, because I could feel myself sweating in anger.
The rabbi told me that my child had used the โsโ four-letter word in class, someone had reported it to him, and that is why I was there.
He admitted that he never had heard her say the โsโ word. And finally I asked him what โsโ word he was referring to. He was now upset with me. He asked me what other โsโ word was a curse word.
Hereโs where I peeled my sweaty back off of the plastic sofa slip cover. I told the rabbi that my daughter and her friends had told me that he used an โsโ word quite often in class. He was taken aback by my anger and my words.
I asked him if it was true that he used the word โshvartzeโ to describe African-Americans?
He told me yes, but he added quickly that schvartze was just a Yiddish word to describe black people. There was never any harm on his part.
So I told him that in my house the word schvartze was akin to the โnโ word. I told him that using that line about Yiddish was a terrible explanation. I addedthat if he agreed to work on curtailing his โsโ word, then Iโd have my daughter not say the four-letter โsโ word.
I thought of that story this week after reading about how Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a respected Yeshiva University rabbinic dean warned rabbis of the dangers of reporting child sex abuse allegations to the police. Doing so, he said, could result in a Jew being incarcerated in the same cell as another black inmate. Or as he described it a โschvartzeโ who might want to kill him.
This same rabbi also was reported as saying that a child can lie about a molestation and therefore ruin an innocent manโs life.
I canโt help but remembering the respected Dr. David Pelcovitz tell a packed Baltimore sanctuary that people who step forward about their own molestations are telling the truth 99 percent of the time.
I wish I could say that the rabbiโs use of the word โshvartzeโ was a mistake or something rarely done. But I donโt believe that for a second. Because like many of you, I have heard it used in place of the โnโ word countless times in my life.
You know the word โkikeโ is crossing the line for the Jewish people. And thereโs no mistaking what its harmful intent is.
Shvartze is exactly the same. Please donโt hand me the innocent Yiddish line phrase. You know what youโre talking about when you use the real โsโ word.
At a synagogue I attended in Randallstown, we were all getting ready to sit down for a Kiddush. There were not enough tables. The rabbi, who just addressed the congregation in his sermon covered brotherhood as a theme.
His words to the synagogue president when we needed more tables were, โget a shvartze to do it.โ
I heard it, and I asked him about it. He told me it was just a โYiddishโ word, that I was reading too much into it.
Why couldnโt have he said, โget someone to do it?โ
No, it was the โshvartzeโ because that word is a description of lower class, a second class citizen.
What ever the explanation, Rabbi Schachterโs words fall short of the scholarly reputation he has. What a hateful way to describe anybody.
But few will care. Because this is how many Jews describe black people.
Itโs the real โsโ word.
Rabbi Schachter should be ashamed.
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It is vital that you talk with your children about guns, but this can be a difficult conversation to have. The discussion must be age-appropriate and offer children clear instructions about avoiding guns without adult supervision.
Children are naturally curious, especially when it comes to guns. Make sure your children understand the difference between a toy gun and a real gun, and the difference between pretend and real life.
All parents must take common sense steps to protect children both by talking to them about guns and the dangers of careless handling of any weapon. Gun ownership is a coveted right of Americans guaranteed by our constitution. But with our rights comes our responsibility.
If you keep a gun in your house, make sure you tell your children that this gun is real.
The initial steps of "Stop" and "Donโt Touch" are the most important. To counter the natural impulse to touch a gun, it is imperative that you impress these steps of the safety message upon your child.
In todayโs society, where adult supervision is not always possible, the direction to "Leave the Area" is also essential. Under some circumstances, "area" may be understood to be a room if your child cannot physically leave the apartment or house.
"Tell an Adult" emphasizes that children should seek out a law enforcement officer, trustworthy adult, neighbor, relative, or teacher โ if a parent or guardian is not available.
Gun Owners' Responsibilities-
790.174 Safe Storage of Firearms Required
For more information on Gun laws: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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=> Cisco 7200 Simulator for Linux. If you decided to study for the Cisco certification, this tool may come handy. Howtoforge has detailed tutorial on setting up a Cisco lab on Linux system. Dynagen is a front-end for use with the Dynamips Cisco router emulator. It uses an INI-like configuration file to provision Dynamips emulator networks. It takes care of specifying the right port adapters, generating and matching up those pesky NIO descriptors, specifying bridges, frame-relay, ATM switches, etc. It also provides a management CLI for listing devices, suspending and reloading instances, determining and managing idle-pc values, performing packet captures, etc.
=> You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linuxโs many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.
=> Postfix Daily Quota reportA shell script hack to create daily quota report for a Posfix mail server including file system usage of each e-mail account.
=> The developers of Firefox have unveiled an experimental project, Snowl, designed to gather all your inbound communications, whether theyโre in the form of email, RSS, Twitter, or social network updates.
=> IBM has marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source with an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing. The software is available immediately from a software repository run by the University of Illinoisโs National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
=> Regular nixcraft contributed Ramesh has published a simple 6 steps to secure home wireless router / network
=> LinuxLeak is a new daily destination for all your Linux and Open Source news headlines, updated every 15 minutes.
In this practical introduction to the basics of securing your home wireless network, you will learn how to secure a network of game consoles, phones, and PCs. Following are totally useless security measurements specified in arstechnicaโs guide:
=> MAC filtering
=> Disable DHCP
=> Disable SSID
You need to enable WPA / WPA2 to protect network (donโt use wep). I also recommend disabling Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support. The UPnP protocol does not implement any authentication, so UPnP device implementations must implement their own authentication mechanisms, or implement the Device Security Service. Unfortunately, many UPnP device implementations lack authentication mechanisms, and by default assume local systems and their users are completely trustworthy. Most notably, Routers and firewalls running the UPnP IGD protocol are vulnerable to attack since the framers of the protocol omitted to add any standard authentication method.
- Always use WPA / WPA2 with TKIP or AES encrypting with a strong paraphrase
- Change paraphrase every month
- Disable UPnP
- Disable wireless router remote (public IP based) management and ssh / telnet port features. Only use your local PC for telnet / ssh or router management.
- Turn on firewall, port scan and DoS protection (which is a default for many routers)
- Turn on email notification when DoS or port scan attack detected
- You may find our WPA / WPA2 Linux configuration guide useful
- Additional tips for Windows user โ Use an anti virus, firewall / internet secruity suite. Most important donโt use bloated Norton product. My personal recommendation is NOD32 or kaspersky anti-Virus. Both are extremely light on system resources and detecting viruses. Either is an excellent anti-virus solution. Keep your operating system and virus databases always up to date.
=> Read: The ABCs of securing your wireless network
If you have more security tips, please add them in the comments.
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by Robert Carriker & r & & r & & lt;span class= "dropcap " & "W & lt;/span & e begin to feel some anxiety with rispect to Sergt. Ordway and party who were sent to Lewis's river for salmon, we have received no intelligence of them since they set out." Both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were worried as they penned identical feelings in their journals on June 1, 1806. When they sent Ordway into the field on May 27, they anticipated that he and his men would return the next day. But Ordway did not immediately return to camp. In his search for salmon, Ordway crossed plains, descended steep bluffs and climbed rocky roads that took his party to the Salmon and the Snake rivers. Initially Ordway believed he had encountered two forks of one river -- Lewis's River -- but, on his way back to Long Camp, he better understood that he had, in fact, touched two rivers, one a tributary of the other. Happily, about noon on June 2, Ordway's small party returned to Long Camp near present Kamiah, Idaho.
Ordway had much geographic information to share, but the captains seemed just as interested in the 17 salmon he laid before them. Lewis thought "these fish were as fat as any I ever saw; sufficiently so to cook themselves without the addition of grease; those which were sound were extreemly delicious; their flesh is of a fine rose colour." The Corps of Discovery needed food, and Ordway's success provided hope that the long anticipated spring salmon run on the Clearwater River would soon begin. Lewis lamented, "having exhausted all our merchandize we are obliged to have recourse to every subterfuge in order to prepare in the most ample manner in our power to meet that wretched portion of our journy, the Rocky Mountain, where hungar and cold in their most rigorous forms assail the waried traveller; not any of us have yet forgotten our sufferings in those mountains in September last, and I think it probable we never shall."
Increasingly, as May turned into June, all thoughts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition turned toward the mountains and, beyond that "icy barrier," home. As soon as the snow sufficiently melted to clear the Lolo Trail, they would break camp and resume their eastward march. Clark monitored the increased flow of the Clearwater River. According to the Indians, when the water in the river subsided -- meaning the spring melt was complete -- then the mountains would be passable. Lewis, meantime, chose to measure the rise in air temperature, doing so not only with a thermometer, but also by counting the number of blankets he needed to sleep comfortably. On June 2, he needed "one blanket only," a very good sign. Clark recorded a 15-inch drop in water level on the Clearwater on June 4; the next morning Lewis was equally pleased to find no frost on the ground. The measuring sticks of Lewis and Clark may have been unscientific, but their calculations offered hope to the men of the expedition.
Meantime, Lewis learned on June 3 that "today the Indians dispatched an express over the mountains to travellers rest," a meadow about 10 miles south of today's Missoula. Did this mean the Lolo Trail was open to travel? Certainly, thought Lewis, if the mountains were "practicable for this express we thought it probable that we could also pass." Upon inquiry, however, their Indian informants said no. Several creeks were still too high to by swum by horses, they cautioned, and the road remained slippery in the extreme. Besides, it was too early for grass in higher elevations, and the horses would go hungry for three days. The chiefs, reports Clark, "inform us that we may pass Conveniently in twelve or fourteen days."
Not so, the captains resolved. Together they made plans to wrap things up at Long Camp by June 10 and move closer to the Lolo Trail. After a few days hunting in the vicinity of "quawmash flatts" -- today's Weippe Prairie -- they would "attempt the Mountains about the Middle of this month." Laying in a stock of meat was critical inasmuch as Lewis now admitted that "I begin to lose all hope of any dependance on the Salmon as this river will not fall sufficiently to take them before we shall leave it."
Final preparations for closing Long Camp took many forms. Men built a sturdy corral for the horses -- about 65 of them -- because "many of them have become so wild that we cannot take them without the assistance of the Indians who are extreemly dextrous in throwing a rope and taking them with a noose about the neck." Gradually, Clark closed down his medical practice, though not for Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea's infant son, who suffered from high fever and tonsillitis. Clark also hurriedly quizzed the Nez Perce about their names for rivers east of the Rockies. He wanted to know the depth of Nez Perce geographic knowledge since the expedition would rely on their information when crossing the Lolo Trail.
Next week: The Corps of Discovery relocates to Weippe Prairie.
Robert Carriker has directed eight National Endowment for the Humanities seminars on the Lewis and Clark expedition and is author of Ocian in View! O! the Joy. When he's not out retracing the steps of the Corps of Discovery, he teaches history at Gonzaga University.
The new one is smart and funny and action-packed, and itโs bigger and better and sleeker. And Downey does it again, this time ramping up Starkโs arrogant wisecracking, telling anyone whoโll listen (mostly women) that, via the creation of his powerful Iron Man suit, heโs brought years of uninterrupted peace to the world.
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"PROTECT CONSERVE ENHANCE"
What is a WCO?
Brochure discussing a career as a Waterways Conservation Officer (WCO); what the job entails, requirements to become a WCO, training given, etc.
24th Class of Waterways Conservation Officers - June 24, 2022 -- Watch NOW
24th - 21st (photos) - 20th - 19th - 18th - 17th - 16th - 15th - 14th
LAW ENFORCEMENT ANNUAL REPORTS
Listed on the agency Annual Reports page.
PA ANGLER & BOATER ARTICLES
LAW ENFORCEMENT AWARDS
Officer of the Year
Presented annually to the Waterways Conservation Officer (WCO) of the year.
Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer (DWCO) of the Year
DWCO selected by the Bureau of Law Enforcement.
Gerald L. Greiner Environmental Protection Award
The Gerald L. Greiner Environmental Protection Award is awarded annually to the Waterways Conservation Officer (WCO) who best exemplifies the ideals of Resource First - the protection, conservation and enhancement of the Commonwealth's water resources in the performance of their daily duties.
Edward W. Manhart Academic Achievement Award
Given to a member of each Waterways Conservation Officer (WCO) graduating class of the H.R. Stackhouse School of Fisheries Conservation and Watercraft Safety who has achieved the highest overall academic average during the course of the training.
Top Gun Award
Recognizes an officer's outstanding effort in detecting and apprehending impaired boaters during the past year.
OFFICERS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY
Raymond L. Schroll
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Genealogy and Local History
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He represented the County in the Assembly in 1874 and 1875. He was an ardent Republican, and one of the founders of the party in his County.
He was extremely social, and when making an after-dinner speech or presiding at a convention, he was in his glory. With no attempt at oratory, which would be futile, his speeches always abounded in telling points and keen wit, or at the worst, good-natured sarcasm. He never wounded a man's feelings unnecessarily.
As a business man, Col. Calkins led a long and useful career in the town in which he lived.
Born in Burlington, Vt., in 1816, removing to Ticonderoga with his father in 1830. He died Nov. 25, 1885.
In 1835, he was enrolled in the 9th regiment, 40th brigade, and 11th division of the militia of the State, and retained as member for about ten years, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding. He rendered great service in raising soldiers for the suppression of the rebellion, and in prosecuting the railroad interests on the west shore of the lake.
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Filipino United Methodists learn about `bright spotsโ
Churches should be focusing on โbright spots,โ two U.S. bishops told Filipino United Methodists during a workshop in Manila about using the concept to establish vital congregations.
Filipino United Methodists are the first outside the United States to use the "bright spots" approach.
Bishop J. Michael Lowry, Fort Worth Episcopal Area in Texas, talked about a congregation in Venus, Texas, which he said was the โcrummiest" place for a church. However, he said a non-seminary trained preacher got the attention of the congregation there by asking, "Anybody, got a 'God-sighting' this week?"
Lowry said that inspired the church members to think about โwhat God had been doing in their lives."
Lowry and Bishop John Schol, New Jersey Episcopal Area, led the workshop at Knox United Methodist Church in September in Manila on behalf of the Council of Bishops and United Methodist Discipleship Ministries.
All three episcopal leaders from the Philippines attended the workshop: Bishop Rodolfo Juan, Manila Episcopal Area; Bishop Ciriaco Q. Franscico, Davao Episcopal Area; and Bishop Pedro Torio Jr., Baguio Episcopal Area. About 35 people attended the workshop on the first day, and more arrived for later sessions.
The bright spots approach applies positive deviance โ the idea that in any community, certain groups or individuals will have uncommon behaviors and strategies that allow them to find better solutions to problems or challenges than their peers. The idea is to figure out actions that yield positive acceptance and consequences that grow congregations; then see if those actions can be adapted elsewhere.
Schol and Lowry said vital congregations in The United Methodist Church are making disciples. โThatโs why we want to have more vital congregations,โ Schol said.
He emphasized the need for participants to be in the driverโs seat as experts in making disciples and establishing vital congregations. He told workshop participants that the approach must be homegrown.
โIt should be about the Philippines, something the churches here can own," Schol said.
He urged the participants from the Philippine conferences to be open to God's love. โGodโs love,โ Schol said, โis going to transform us in this room. God's love heals and transforms people's lives โฆ brings faith, peace and justice.โ
Examples of โbright spotsโ
The three Filipino bishops recounted examples of bright spots stories in their episcopal areas. Juan talked about the ministry of Jesus First United Methodist Church in Baliwag, Bulacan, where laity are involved with care groups.
Francisco said many local churches in the Davao Area struggle to be vital churches. He cited Cathedral United Methodist Church, formerly Central United Methodist Church, in Davao City, which has a growing ministry and has 100 percent paid commitments to its annual conference.
Schol told the group about a recovering alcoholic named Jerry who connected with a local church where he gained his sobriety. "Jerry is my bright spot,โ Schol said.
Lowry said it was easy to have the view that the local church exists for the annual conferences. โBut it's actually the opposite: the annual conference exists for empowering the local church where disciples are made and touch the world."
Teams of two will study and monitor up to 50 vital congregations to assess how they are meeting five parameters of a vital congregation: new professions of faith, attendance in worship, attendance at small groups, engagement in hands-on mission and giving to mission.
They will also document congregations that are doing something other than the distinctives of vital congregations or what they are doing in a lesser degree than how vital congregations do it.
The training focused on showing the need for appropriate skills at objective observation and procedures at monitoring progress and receiving data and analyzing data.
However, Schol insisted on learning what made a vital church in the Philippine churches, as well as how churches in the Philippines would use and develop this approach.
Canlas is a writer in the Philippines.
News media contact: Vicki Brown at (615) 742-5470 or email@example.com.
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In order to identify the viewpoint of Islam with regard to the reality of the self of man we can utilize three types of verses:
First type: Verses related to death. In some verses, the Almighty Allah has compared death to โTawafiโ (taking up). For example:
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And He it is Who takes your souls at night (in sleep), and He knows what you acquire in the day, then He raises you up therein that an appointed term may be fulfilled; then to Him is your return, then He will inform you of what you were doing. And He is the Supreme, above His servants, and He sends keepers over you; until when death comes to one of you, Our messengers cause him to die, and they are not remiss. (6:60-61)
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And they say: What! when we have become lost in the earth, shall we then certainly be in a new creation? Nay! they are disbelievers in the meeting of their Lord. Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back. (32:10-11)
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ู ุชูู
ูุชู ููู ู
ูููุงู
ูููุง ููููู
ูุณููู ุงูููุชูู ููุถูู ุนูููููููุง ุงููู
ูููุชู ููููุฑูุณููู ุงููุฃูุฎูุฑูู ุฅูููู ุฃูุฌููู ู
ููุณูู
ููู ุฅูููู ููู ุฐููููู ููุขููุงุชู ูููููููู
ู ููุชููููููุฑูููู
Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect. (39:42)
In the above verses and other similar ones, death is describes as the taking up of the souls, which is accomplished by the Almighty Allah and the angel of death (Malakul Maut). Thus Raghib Isfahani has stated that โTawaffiโ implies taking up of the reality of a thing completely. In the above mentioned verses, death of man is explained in such a way that when the death of a person approaches his worldly reality is completely taken up through the Almighty Allah and the angel of death and nothing from it is wasted. That which is taken up leaving nothing behind is nothing but the soul of man. If man had been only a body without a soul, nothing would have remained that it should be taken up by the Almighty Allah and the angels, as the body of every man after death will decay and deteriorate. Thus the addressee in these verses is the same abstract soul of man.
Numerous traditions also prove the same point. For example:
Hanan bin Sudair has narrated from his father that he said:
I was with Imam Jaโfar Sadiq (as) when mention was made of a believer and his rights. Thus His Eminence said to me: โO Abul Fadhl, should I not inform you about the position of a believer in the view of Allah?โ
I said: โMay I be your ransom, please do tell me.โ
โWhen the Almighty Allah captures the soul of a believer, the two angels appointed on him ascend to the heavens and plead before the Almighty Allah: โO Lord, Your servant was the best of servants and he obeyed You most readily and refrained from Your disobedience. Then You have taken him to Yourself. Now what do You command us with regard to him?โ The Almighty Allah tells them: โGo back to the earth and remain besides his grave worshipping Me and recite supplications and write their rewards in the scroll of deed of My servant till I raise him up again.โโ1
Second type: Verses which state that after death, man will return to the Almighty Allah. There are a large number of verses of this type:
ูููู ููุญููู ููููู
ููุชู ููุฅููููููู ุชูุฑูุฌูุนูููู
He gives life and causes death, and to Him you shall be brought back. (10:56)
ููููู ููููุณู ุฐูุขุฆูููุฉู ุงููู
ูููุชู ุซูู
ูู ุฅูููููููุง ุชูุฑูุฌูุนูููู
Every soul must taste of death, then to Us you shall be brought back. (29:57)
ุฅูููู ุงูููููู ู
ูุฑูุฌูุนูููู
ู ุฌูู
ููุนุงู ููููููุจููุฆูููู
ุจูู
ูุง ูููุชูู
ู ุชูุนูู
ูููููู
โฆto Allah is your return, of all (of you), so He will inform you of what you did. (5:105)
Such verses show that all human beings will return to the Almighty Allah. It is known that returning can be imagined only when the same person who lived in world, remains and then returns to Allah. If man had been only this material body, which decays after death and if nothing known as soul had existed, return to Allah would have been meaningless as the body of man is not capable of returning.
Third type: Verses revealed about the creation of Adam and the blowing of the sprit of God into him. For example:
ุฅูุฐู ููุงูู ุฑูุจูููู ููููู
ูููุขุฆูููุฉู ุฅููููู ุฎูุงูููู ุจูุดูุฑุงู ู
ููู ุทูููู * ููุฅูุฐูุง ุณููููููุชููู ููููููุฎูุชู ููููู ู
ู ุฑูููุญูู ููููุนููุงู ูููู ุณูุงุฌูุฏูููู
When your Lord said to the angels; Surely I am going to create a mortal from dust: So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down making obeisance to him. (38:71-72)
ุฃูููุฐูู ุฃูุญูุณููู ููููู ุดูููุกู ุฎููููููู ููุจูุฏูุฃู ุฎููููู ุงููุฅูููุณูุงูู ู
ูู ุทูููู * ุซูู
ูู ุฌูุนููู ููุณููููู ู
ูู ุณููุงูููุฉู ู
ููู ู
ููุขุกู ู
ููููููู * ุซูู
ูู ุณููููุงูู ููููููุฎู ููููู ู
ูู ุฑูููุญููู ููุฌูุนููู ููููู
ู ุงูุณููู
ูุนู ููุงููุฃูุจูุตูุงุฑู ูู ุงููุฃูููุฆูุฏูุฉู ููููููุงู ู
ููุง ุชูุดูููุฑูููู
(It is He) Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from dust. Then He made his progeny of an extract of water held in light estimation. Then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks. (32:7-9)
In the above mentioned verses, the blowing of the spirit of God into the body of man is regarded as his excellence, because the angels were asked to prostrate before man and pay obeisance to him. The word of soul is used in many occasions in the Holy Quran and the above verse is one of them. People asked the Messenger of Allah (S) about the reality of the soul and the following verse was revealed in reply:
ููููุณูุฆูููููููู ุนููู ุงูุฑูููุญู ูููู ุงูุฑูููุญู ู
ููู ุฃูู
ูุฑู ุฑูุจููู ููู
ูุข ุฃููุชููุชูู
ู
ูููู ุงููุนูููู
ู ุฅููููุง ููููููุงู
And they ask you about the soul. Say: The soul is one of the commands of my Lord, and you are not given aught of knowledge but a little. (17:85)
In another verse is explained the โcommand of Allahโ as follows:
ุฅููููู
ูุข ุฃูู
ูุฑููู ุฅูุฐูุข ุฃูุฑูุงุฏู ุดูููุฆุงู ุฃูู ููููููู ูููู ููู ููููููููู * ููุณูุจูุญูุงูู ุงูููุฐูู ุจูููุฏููู ู
ููููููุชู ููููู ุดูููุกู ููุฅููููููู ุชูุฑูุฌูุนูููู
His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it: Be, so it is. Therefore glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you shall be brought back. (36:82-83)
This verse mentions the act of creation by the Almighty Allah that is not gradual and timely, but that it is abstract and that He only says: Be and it comes into existence immediately and it simpler words it can be said that the creation of every phenomenon is in fact its existence.
All the phenomena in the world are created by the Almighty Allah. So much so, that we have two types of phenomena and two kinds of creations: material and abstract. The Almighty Allah brings into existence the material phenomena through the medium of cause and effects; this type of creation is called as โCreationโ (Khalq) in the Holy Quran and they are produced in time and in gradual stages. But there are no stages in the creation of abstract phenomena and it is not bound by time.
In such instances, terms like โoriginatingโ and โinitiatingโ is used. Such phenomena are considered to be from the world of command; that is they have come into being merely by the Almighty Allah saying: Be! But to be more accurate, one should say: In creation of material things also there is no graduality from the Almighty Allah and it is only through the command of โBeโ; and if there are stages, they are only in the causes and in the acquisition of capabilities and not in the creation and action of the Almighty Allah as proved by the statement of:
ุจูููุฏููู ู
ููููููุชู ููููู ุดูููุกู
...in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things (23:88)
Kingdoms and unseen parts of all things are under the discretion of the Lord of the worlds and it is created and organized through His innate intention.
One of the implications of abstract things is the soul and spirit of man. But this abstract as opposed to other abstract things has two aspects: physical and material, which is related to his body; that is why the word of โcreationโ is used in its creating. And second is the aspect of abstraction and spirituality, which is mentioned in the phrase of โI blew my soul in himโ and the phrase of โthen We caused it to grow into another creationโ is used in this regard. Pay attention to the following verse:
ููููููุฏู ุฎูููููููุง ุงููุฅูููุณููู ู
ูู ุณูููููุฉู ู
ููู ุทูููู * ุซูู
ูู ุฌูุนููููููู ููุทูููุฉู ููู ููุฑูุงุฑู ู
ููููููู * ุซูู
ูู ุฎูููููููุง ุงููููุทูููุฉู ุนูููููุฉู ููุฎูููููููุง ุงููุนูููููุฉู ู
ูุถูุบูุฉู ููุฎูููููููุง ุงููู
ูุถูุบูุฉู ุนูุธูู
ุงู ููููุณูููููุง ุงููุนูุธูู
ู ููุญูู
ุงู ุซูู
ูู ุฃููุดูุฃููููู ุฎููููุงู ุกูุงุฎูุฑู ููุชูุจูุงุฑููู ุงูููููู ุฃูุญูุณููู ุงููุฎูููููููู
And certainly We created man of an extract of clay. Then We made him a small seed in a firm resting-place. Then We made the seed a clot, then We made the clot a lump of flesh, then We made (in) the lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, then We caused it to grow into another creation, so blessed be Allah, the best of the creators. (23:11-14)
In the first part of this verse are mentioned the initial stages and movements of gaining capability and physical perfections in the creation of man and that is why the word of โcreationโ is used. But when the soul of man is mentioned, the phrase of โthen We caused it to grow into another creationโ is used in order to declare its superiority over other phenomena. It is about this special creation that it is said:
ููุชูุจูุงุฑููู ุงูููููู ุฃูุญูุณููู ุงููุฎูููููููู
Blessed be Allah, the best of the creators.
From what is stated above, it can be concluded that the soul of man in the view of Islam is an existing thing, which is abstract and superior to material matter that does not decay after death. On the contrary it is transferred from this world to the perpetual world of the hereafter so that it may be rewarded or punished according to its good or bad deeds.
- 1. Biharul Anwar, Vol. 6, Pg. 152.
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Example 2: Data Fusion
The following example illustrates the fusion of data from disparate sources to form a global model.
Two data sets are used.
A zonal response surface is created for each data set independently.
The zonal representations are subsequently "fused" using fuzzy logic.
The data sets consist of fictional experimental and numerical data points in three dimensions (independent variables "var1," "var2," and "var3").
The independent variables (horizontal axes) shown in the figures are var1 and var2.
Thus, each plot is for a fixed value (projection) of the variable var3.
Although the independent variables var1 and var2 used in each zone overlap, their ranges do not coincide.
In addition, the uncertainty specified for the "experimental" data set (variable "dq" in the rsd file below) is roughly 3 times that specified for the numerical data.
One data set (the experimental data set (left)) experiences the values var3=12 and var3=10.5.
The other data set (the numerical data set (right)) contains data at var3=12 and var3=14.
The two data sets are fused with user-defined membership functions which govern how the variables are weighted in the regions of data overlap.
UNCERTAINTY = "dq"
INDEPENDENT = "var1", "var2", "var3"
= "0.01", "0.01", "0.00"
= "var1", "var2", "var3", "q", "dq"
ZONE T="First Data Set (Experiment)"
ZONE T="Second Data Set (Analysis)"
Shown below are the two zonal response surfaces in the form of wiremesh plots, experimental (red) and analytical (blue).
Supporting data points, when present for the given value of the var3 projection, are indicated as symbols.
By definition, zonal response surfaces are not affected by data in other zones.
The global response surface is now shown (blue).
This surface is shown with
a value of "var3" equal to 12.0 which is the most probable value of var3 found in the database.
The global response surface shown below is an extrapolation in terms of the third variable ("var3").
While there is only one "numerical" point for this value of var3 (var3=14), it is clear that the surface inherits the trends/curvature imposed by the points located in other planes.
Extrapolating further to var3=20 produces the response surface seen below, where the global analytical prediction is shown (red), plus (blue) and minus (cyan) uncertainty.
Note the "blooming" of the uncertainty away from the data points (var3=20, versus the data range [10.5,14]), particularly for values of var1 and var2 corresponding to the experimental data.
This automatic propagation of uncertainty through the response surface construction process is the result of covariance analysis.
The results convey two important pieces of information:
(1) the confidence in the prediction diminishes as one moves away from the true (supporting) data, and (2) the confidence is less for the range of (var1,var2) where the influence of the experimental data set is dominant, due to the higher data uncertainty in this region.
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Location and success compliment each other
Youโve done it. You have established your business and are planning to expand. But while you may offer your customers the best services in the world, it wonโt help the businessโ success if you are in a location lacking resources. Deciding the location has always been of primary importance to any business. Advanced tools and software such as the retail site selection software, have simplified things for business owners.
When deciding the location of your business, it is much more than just a pin on a map. Several factors must be considered before you set up a business. Location plays a vital role in attracting and retaining the best employees, especially those who look for places where they can optimize their workโlife balance. This is just one of the many aspects where location impacts a businessโs success.
What is a business location?
A business location is where a company provides services or sells its products. For a coffee shop, it is their cafe where people come that qualifies as their business location. The location of a business that is entirely online would be the office or place from where they operate. The location is one of the most important variables for determining the success of a business.
Does location matter for business?
If a boutique with the latest trends is located in a quiet street or a highlyโfunctional grocery store is located on the second floor of a building unapproachable for a walkโin crowd, in both cases, we know that the location of choice is poor. Therefore, businesses need to establish themselves in places where they can generate maximum customer traffic.
The geographical location is one of the first things to consider when settingโup a shop, moving premises, or opening a branch at a new location. All business owners should think twice about the site before making their decision. Furthermore, extensive market research should determine the best location to start a new venture if you are entirely new to the industry.
What are those factors where location impacts a business?
- Talent attraction and retention
Location surely matters when it comes to ensuring that you have the best employees working with you. It is wise to have people from the local area who are skilled enough to know how to run your business. Even when people apply for jobs, the location is the first thing they observe. So, location indirectly impacts a businessโs success through its employees.
- Cost and expenditure
Cost is undoubtedly a driving factor in choosing the location of a business. While cities may be suitable for talent acquisition and accessibility, they also come with a hefty price tag. In addition, the real estate rates are high in the big cities and can make you bankrupt if you are looking to lease an entire building.
Before finalizing the location, you can calculate the overall cost of locating your business in a particular place. You could also rent a shared working space or work virtually until your business is financially strong enough to have an offline presence. Some companies can save costs by not having a physical location at all.
- Proximity to other local businesses
When choosing the location, you need to look out for the other local businesses in the area, specifically for the following reasons:
- Firstly, determine if you can benefit from other local businesses and their foot traffic.
- Second, consider the impact of the other businesses on the quality and culture of your company.
- Finally, ascertain how capable they are of taking away your customers and employees.
- Accessibility of location
The accessibility of a business by its employees and customers can make or break a business. For example, if you are located somewhere where parking isnโt available, it will be a problem for customers and employees. Additionally, if the location doesnโt have public transport, then it is very likely that a handful of customers will visit the store during the week.
The demographic can determine whether the location you have selected is suitable or not. You need to understand the behaviors and the willingness of the people nearby to visit your store. The location should be convenient enough for the customers and better than the competitors.
The competition of businesses with each other can have both positive and negative outcomes. Being near a competitor will not be helpful for small businesses as they may sell products of the same quality at a lower price. On the other hand, if you know that your competitorsโ location is tough to crack, your business will surely do better than them.
- Location perception
The reputation of a location is a crucial business location factor. Get locals around the area to share what they think of the site. This perception of a location works in small cities and towns where people are exposed to preconceived notions about a particular place.
- Tax and regulations
Tax and regulation protocols must be strictly followed depending on the location of your business, especially those in different countries. The tax rate will indeed differ depending upon the location. Companies in the city will definitely have more taxes to pay than those living on the outskirts.
- Foot traffic
For businesses where customers can view and buy products, having proper physical premises becomes all the more important. Therefore, you need to analyze the foot traffic to your shop at a location before establishing a base there. For example, shops on the street corner will not receive as much foot traffic as the shop on a busy street with plenty of passersโby.
What aspects of a businessโs success are related to its location?
Businesses usually study the size of the market and the competition level in the area before establishing themself there. A market that is small or highly competitive will impede sales and profits and not be successful enough.
The business must be located in an appealing area where different forms of transport can be accessed. A business will not be successful if itโs located in another area where the crowd is less. The location will be considered fit as long as the business owner can make profits.
A business located in a desirable area where exposure and foot traffic is higher compared to other neighborhoods will surely be successful. Also, placing a companyโs headquarters at a prime location indicates that the company welcomes more potential customers.
Businesses that provide addโon services essential to customers will see more crowd at their place. People prefer to meet at locations that offer basic amenities, if not more.
- Extra considerations
Businesses opt for those locations where they can enjoy additional tax benefits. The extra saving on the tax money can create a better cash flow for the company.
Location planning for the future
Location planning enables you to futureโproof your companyโs operations and existence. Wherever your business is placed, you should be able to get maximum return on investments and fulfill business objectives. If you are in the initial stages of setting up, take time to decide but donโt take the decision lightly.
Read also: The Ultimate Guide To Business Solutions
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The thing is, though, it's been my experience that many times the very people who write the apps themselves fail to sufficiently understand and internalize just how the attacks will happen. Sure, we've all read about various hacks, but to many people, those are nothing more than abstract thoughts. When it comes to understanding how someone will attack your work, however, it becomes real. So let's consider that a bit.
Which of the following do you think are likely to happen to your app:
- Do you think your attacker will install and run your app to try to learn how it works? Sure, that's a given, right?
- Do you think your attacker will work his/her way through all the views and data fields in your app, and perhaps try various dictionaries of the big bad boys (e.g., SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)) and so on? Sure, that too is a given, right? Even if those attacks aren't in any way relevant to the technologies in your app, they're going to try them anyway.
- Do you think your attacker will look through all the files in your app's sandbox (e.g., its ~/Documents folder), looking for potentially damning information like a user ID, password, or session token in a .plist file? Yup. Plenty of tools make that one real easy too.
- Do you think your attacker will configure a network proxy to intercept all of your app's communications to/from its server(s), looking for login credentials, session tokens, etc.? Oh yeah, still well in the realm of feasibility here.
- Do you think your attacker will use that same network proxy to try to get your app to connect to a server that he configures -- perhaps with a self-signed SSL certificate, or with a signed certificate where the root CA has been installed as a profile on the attacker's iOS device? Ruh roh! (Now I'm starting to hear "They can do that?!")
- Do you think your attacker will examine your app's executable file, doing surface analysis of it to look for strings, symbols, and other telltale info in the binary executable itself? Of course. But executables in the App Store are encrypted, you say? On a jailbroken device, an attacker can use a debugger to access the unencrypted executable commands just fine. (They have to execute, after all...)
- For that matter, do you think an attacker will load your app on a jailbroken device, put it into a debugger, and single step through it, looking for crypto keys and other sensitive data? Ruh roh, indeed!
- Do you think an attacker will try to tamper with the Objective C runtime by intercepting messages to/from the various objects in your app?
- Do you think an attacker will attempt to inject messages into your app in that debugging session, and get your app to misbehave?
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Robert Bresson's acclaimed Au Hasard, Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered through the eyes of a donkey over the course of his long life.
The burro at the film's center begins life peacefully and happily, as the unnamed play-object of some innocent children in bucolic France, but his circumstances change dramatically when he becomes the property of a young woman named Marie - who christens him Balthazar.
As she grows up and encounters tragedy and heartbreak, so does Balthazar; he passes from owner to owner, who treat him in a variety of ways, from compassionately to cruelly. The donkey, of course, lacks the capacity to comprehend the motivations of each individual but accepts whatever treatment (and role) is handed him, nobly and admirably.
Bresson ultimately uses the story as a heart-rending allegorical commentary on human spiritual transcendence.
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